(hennemusic) The Ramones are streaming a rough mix of their classic track, "I Wanna Be Sedated", as a preview to the September 21 release of an expanded 40th anniversary reissue of their 1978 album, "Road To Ruin."
The New York band's fourth record saw the introduction of drummer Marky Ramone, who replaced founding member Tommy Ramone after he left to do more producing and writing for the group.
The first project by The Ramones to consciously alter their classic sound in an effort to achieve radio airplay ultimately failed, according to Tommy, as the set peaked at No. 103 on the US Billboard 200 following a No. 49 listing of the previous "Rocket To Russia" album.
Packaged in a 12 x 12 hardcover book featuring rare photos, artwork and essays from some of the people involved in the project, the 2018 "Road To Ruin" 3CD/1LP Deluxe Edition box set reissue presents the record's original mix alongside a new 40th anniversary one by the album's original engineer/mixer, Ed Stasium.
A second disc offers up over twenty unreleased recordings, including rough mixes for every album track, starkly different alternate takes of two songs, and two unreleased outtakes: "I Walk Out" and "S.L.U.G." - unfinished during the original recording sessions in 1978 and completed by Stasium for the anniversary release.
The final disc has a previously unreleased recording of the band's entire 1979 New Year's Eve concert, which was mixed live by Stasium and broadcast on WNEW-FM. Recorded in New York City at The Palladium, with audio sourced from Tommy Ramone's original cassette of the console recording, it features blistering performances of "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Rockaway Beach," and "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker," along with several songs from Road To Ruin: "I Don't Want You," "I Wanna Be Sedated," and "I Wanted Everything." Read more and listen to the song here.


For those of you looking to introduce new fitness goals on January 1, it is important to start off by creating an aerobic base. The more work you are able to perform aerobically, in the presence of oxygen, the more efficient you will be when you begin to train more intensely. Two to four week blocks of exclusive aerobic training improves oxygen transport to the muscles and reduced lactate build up. In addition, your body will learn to rely more so on fat as an energy source even when training at higher intensities. Many think that aerobic training can only be done by hopping on a cardio machine for 30 minutes, but aerobic capacity can be built through strength training as well. The key takeaway to building an aerobic base is to start working between 60-79% of your max heart rate and progress from there. This can be easy to track through our MyZone Heart Rate Monitor!
Follow the following strength training circuit to switch up your aerobic training. All exercises are unilateral movements, meaning spend the entire work duration on one side, rest, and then work the opposite side.
In the New Year, challenge yourself to get your heart rate up through strength exercises!


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Forgiveness is the Guarantee to Life-Long Marriage
REVEREND GORDON WILLIAMS, FEBRUARY 2018
Every year when St. Valentine's day comes around, people ask me about the Roman priest, Valentine. He was a 3rd century Roman saint who performed marriages for Christians despite the strict law back then that forbade Christians from getting married. His refusal to obey the law, and his renegade actions resulted in his arrest, imprisonment, torture, and eventually his own death.
Christian Marriage Explained.
Christian marriage is based upon the love between a man and a woman. Today the number of divorces is about the same for Christians as it is for non-Christians. "Marriage has become more of an individual choice, than a religious one, and some believe that this has made it more acceptable for couples to end a marriage than endure until death" (Cherlin, 2004). The underlying root of the problem stems from the lack of biblical teaching and understanding of the expression of "love" and it's Greek context in scripture.
In the Greek language, there is not only one word for the word "love," but
four! Each one has a different meaning: friendship (philos), family (storge), and God's love (agape). The Greek word "eros" (erotic) although a form of "love", is not found in the New Testament since it was debased, meaning that through time it grew into an uncontrolled sexual love that happened outside of marriage.
The most desired of the loves is God's agape or perfect love. It is agape love that a man and woman in matrimony should build their relationship upon "until death us do part." However, it is impossible to give God's agape love, without a person first receiving it from God.
"For God so loved (agape) the world that he gave his one and only Son (Jesus), that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (Jn 3:16)
Is there a Guarantee to Marriage not ending in Divorce?
Many times I am asked, "Is there a guarantee that my marriage will not result in a divorce?" "Yes there is!" I tell people encouragingly. A successful marriage requires both spouses to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as in the Day of Pentecost, or by prayer with the "laying on of hands from others who have already received" (Acts: 2;4; Acts: 8:17; Mk. 16:17–18). Paul tells us that when we receive the Holy Spirit," God's perfect love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us" (Rom. 5:5).
God's agape love is best described in first Corinthians as:
"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; It is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it keeps no record of wrongs but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, endures all things. Love (agape) never ends" (1 Cor. 13:4–8).
Several years ago, a woman came to me for some counselling. She said, "Both my partner and I have suffered from bad divorces. When we met, we decided that because our divorces ended so badly, either one of us wanted to get married again. We agreed to just live together in a common law relationship. But since then, our relationship has gotten worse than what it was like in our previous marriages! What difference does it make having a marriage certificate on the wall or not?" "All the difference!" I replied. A marriage certificate is an important legal document that will represent your lifelong commitment to one another, and your covenant with God.
Marriage was God's idea from the beginning, and for a successful and happy marriage, He must be involved in it daily! When you get married the way God had intended, it is possible to have a honey-moon marriage for the rest of your life!
The woman listened intently, and then after our meeting, she went home to get her common law partner, and brought him in to see me as well. I suggested to both of them that they needed to take the first step and become born again Christians by accepting Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. They both agreed. The second step was to receive the infilling or Baptism of the Holy Spirit. I laid hands on them, and as we prayed, they received the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues (languages) as outline in the Mark 16:17: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues..." The final step was marriage. I graciously performed their wedding, and they spoke their vows out loud unto each other, their family and friends, and unto God.
Everything went perfectly, but there was just one little wrinkle that the husband told me about afterwards. He said that his boss would fire him if he ever got married again! His previous divorce created so many problems at his work, that if he wanted to keep his job, his boss forbade him to marry again. Knowing this, he decided to keep his marriage a secret from his work entirely!
Things were going well several weeks into the marriage, until one day his boss called him into his office unexpectedly. Fearing that his boss had found out, and that he would be fired, the man reluctantly went in to see him. As he slowly stepped into the office, his boss's face lit up. His boss remarked, "What has happened to you? Your work has greatly improved!" The man was dumbfounded. "Well," he clamored, "to be honest, I'm doing so well 'cause I just got married a few weeks ago! I didn't want to tell you because you told me that if I ever got married again, I'd be fired." Then he went on explaining how he had just become a Christian, and that his life had now changed around for the better.
His boss was silent, and then he revealed his secret, "Well, I guess you should know, I'm a Christian too!" The man couldn't believe his ears! He rejoiced, and then they both praised the Lord for what they had just learned about one another!
Then something amazing happened. The boss presented the man with an opportunity of a lifetime based on the exceptional work that he had done in the past few weeks. He offered him an advancement - a new position as a representative of the company in Hong Kong! The man was ecstatic, and without hesitation, he accepted his boss's offer!
The company had arranged for him and his wife to go live in Hong Kong. While there, they became involved in a church where we shipped them Bibles and Christian material to help them with their ministry.
A few years later, while Christmas shopping in the mall, I spotted the couple walking hand in hand, and still looking very much in love. Turns out that they were here on a visit. My wife and I went over to greet them and they told us that they had discovered the answer to the very question that they originally came to see me about years ago.
The Holy Spirit had revealed to them that by continually forgiving one another regardless of their transgressions, they were able to maintain a successful marriage. It was like having a honeymoon that never ended! They learned that with the Holy Spirit's guidance, the act of forgiveness is the guarantee to a happy, successful, and life-long marriage.
Just how does the Holy Spirit work in a Marriage?
The Holy Spirit gives us the ability to forgive our spouses continually, and just not seven times a day, but four hundred and ninety times a day! (Matt. 18:21–22) The act of forgiveness is the guarantee that our marriage will remain in God's love continually.
Jesus told his disciples not to leave until the promise of the Father came upon them. He knew that they required the Holy Spirit to live a successful spirit-filled life. The Holy Spirit acts as our Counsellor (Jn. 14: 26;16:7–15) and is Jesus' guarantee for our lives, and for our marriages (Rev. 3:13).
If you and your spouse would like to receive the guarantee to a life-long marriage, or if you desire to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and live a spirit-filled Christian life, please come to one of our meetings and/or contact me.
"We love because he first loved us" (1 Jn 4:19)
Yours in Jesus Christ,
Copyright © 2018. The Gordon Williams Evangelistic Association. All rights reserved
God's Perfect Love
While the world sees love as an emotion, God speaks of it as the embodiment of His essence. Perfect love is the unchangeable, unconditional, undying love of God.
"God is agape love (ah-gah-paye)" (1 John 4:8; John 3:16).
There are four words for love in the Greek New Testament language: apape, eros, philos and storge. In English, there is only one word - love.
Perfect love is not eros (erotic love), nor is it philos (brotherly or friendship love), nor is it storge (family love). These kind of loves are imperfect, conditional and can be lost.
God's love is perfect. No one can manufacture agape love apart from God. God is agape love.
Agape is a love that is a remarkable phenomenon. It's exhilarating to meditate on Apostle Paul's definition of God's unconditional love. Why? 'Cause it is the kind of love we are always striving to obtain. Knowing that it is available to each of us through His Holy Spirit, is the foundation for our hope.
Apape love is much more than a fleeting feeling of warmth that overcomes us. It is God's love inside of us; to be set free and poured out on others. The absence of our feelings does not indicate the absence of agape love. In other words, even though we don't always feel it, "God demonstrated his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
However, agape love is not just an ideal. It is God's love with which He loves us and which He gives us to demonstrate to other people by loving them completely; with forgiveness and without any blame. It is the only kind of love that lasts forever and is unconditional.
But in order for us to love unconditionally, we must allow ourselves to be loved unconditionally. For many, this is a relentless task, as the world, (and including ourselves) continue to judge what we say and do. People feel unworthy of God's love.
We can only demonstrate unconditional love when we are "born again" into the family of God, where Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, removes our condemnation (Romans 8:1), and breaks down the walls of self-persecution - he restores us with his unbounding love and grace.
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St. Valentine, Agape Love and Marriage.
What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder" (Matt. 19:4-65; Mk. 10:6–9). Because Valentine ignored the Roman law that forbade Christians to marry, persecution resulted, and death to anyone who did so. He was arrested and while in prison, he healed the jailer's daughter and wrote a letter signing it, "Your Valentine" as a farewell gesture.
Saint Valentine was recognized thereafter, and a day was named after him each year to commemorate his martyrdom. To this day, "St. Valentine's Day" has been celebrated annually on February 14th for centuries, dating back as early as the 5th century.
Today, marriage is often viewed as a contract and not as a Holy Covenant. Many times I am asked why so many marriages today end up in divorce.
Is there a guarantee that a marriage will not end up in a divorce? YES, there is! This guarantee was given to us by Jesus Christ when He said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God" (Jn. 3:5).
"THE FORGOTTEN KEY TO CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE" is God's key to a successful marriage. Gordon's book outlines effective tools for building a happy marriage. Also explains why the divorce rate in the church is the same as in secular society and what to do about it.

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James Stirling is seemingly everywhere in 2011, nineteen years after his death and at the centre of a critical re-evaluation that has seen major exhibitions and publications in the UK and North America seek to confirm his position as one of the world's most important post-war architects. Usually viewed as a post-modernist, Stirling always rejected the label as he sought continually through his career to explore new directions in modernism whilst undoubtedly intending to forge a relationship with older design paradigms. This is the puzzle and the joy of Stirling's work – always, there are a set of references to consider, followed quickly by the pleasure gained from seeing just how they have been integrated into a novel design concept.
The northwest of England contains just one surviving Stirling project, the conversion of one corner of Jesse Hartley's Albert Dock warehouse in Liverpool for the Tate Gallery of the North in 1984, radically remodelled in 1998 as Tate Liverpool, with only vestigial remains of the original design. An early social housing scheme of 1957-59 in Preston, designed with James Gowan, is now demolished, whilst the winning 1992 design for Salford's Lowry arts centre by Stirling and his partner Michael Wilford involved extensive revisions after his death that created what is a largely Wilford building.
One further northwestern project was demolished in stages between 1990 and 1992, the Southgate housing scheme in Runcorn New Town, developed from a design concept in 1967 to a final phase completed in 1976. Here was an apparent failure from the Stirling canon, lapsing quickly into a state of disrepair and disregard to be demolished within fifteen years of completion and never enjoying full approbation from architectural critics even when new, at least in Britain. In typical Stirling fashion, however, the scheme was actually a triumphant concoction of success and failure that still tells us something useful about the experimentation that was possible in public housing before 1979 and about the particular talents of a man who was more concerned with setting an agenda for everyone else to follow than in creating failsafe designs unworthy of controversy.
In historicist terms at least, Stirling's inspiration at Southgate was the urbanity of Georgian Britain with the estate structured around a sequence of squares and recurring design elements on the elevations used rhythmically as in the formal 18th-century terraces of Bath or Edinburgh, underlining an entirely civic approach. This was a natural design response to the brief by the Runcorn Development Corporation that this should be a high density housing development, immediately adjacent (and physically linked by highwalks) to the hub of the new town's services, Runcorn Shopping City. As an inner residential district, Southgate was intended to make a contribution to the idea that the new Runcorn could be a town in the fullest, noblest sense, and not just a patchwork of undistinguished suburban fragments.
With this ideological framework in place, and a commitment to classical planning devices and elevations superficially apparent, Stirling devised a scheme that in fact subverted these historic precedents as well as some contemporary architectural norms. Behind the regular facades of phase one were a mixture of maisonettes and flats over and under-sailing one another across five storeys, the sort of arrangement seen in numerous post-war slab block developments. A system of open deck access was stitched into an estate-wide network of highwalks between blocks, the circulation model established at Sheffield's Park Hill in the late 50s that still had currency in second generation new towns like Runcorn and which Stirling interpreted in a grand manner, providing generously splayed concrete posts which lent the walkways a solid grandeur and, by turns, civic legitimacy. The first phase of the development saw the employment of a system-building approach as demanded by the development corporation in order to minimize costs. Concrete frames cast in-situ were filled with pre-cast concrete panels whilst multi-coloured coloured glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) cladding was used extensively to enliven elevations and introduce a hi-tech note to the scheme, one of the earliest uses of such a material in the UK. The second phase of Southgate acted firstly to correct the perceived planning failings of the first, with a single unit type – larger houses – built in terraces, each with ground floor access and private gardens. These new units were now built entirely with GRP over timber frames, creating uncompromisingly modern forms – colourful, smooth and rectilinear – giving rise to the local sobriquet of 'legoland'.
Other than the neophile use of GRP and the overall impression that this might be housing for new planetary exploration as much as for a new town in the north, Southgate gained distinctiveness from its emphatic, legible geometries, not least in the large circular windows used across both phases. Multiple references are called to mind by this inventive elevational device, from the nautical (not to say cosmonautical) inspiration of the nearby Mersey and the imagined seafaring blood of the new town's overspill population, to a spirited exploration of classical Vitruvian geometrical theory spliced with some Kandinski and the interplay of colour and form.
Failure is too often the focus of our analysis of post-war public housing, but in the case of Southgate the rapidity of its decline is an unavoidable subject. There were a limited number of original design failings, not least the unpopular maisonettes in phase one sandwiched in the middle storeys of the blocks without any private outdoor space, but largely the estate was the victim of an original budget that was far too low to create sufficient quality for such a high-density scheme – poor insulation and a disastrous district heating system being particular issues – and, more significantly, a wrong-headed lettings and management policy that quickly translated limited maintenance problems into vertiginous social decay. Demolition was, by 1989, thought more cost effective than refurbishment, in the context of the New Town Corporation being wound up and seeking to draw a line under its liabilities.
It might also be noted that truly innovative mass housing from its 1970s pomp consistently struggles to find cheerleaders for conservation when even solvable problems arise. Aesthetic timidity is translated very easily to political cowardice, and what remains as a result, effectively, is architecture that is published and analysed rather than built and lived, like far too much of James Stirling's work. The loss of Southgate was a loss not just for Runcorn but for the entire second generation of new towns and to British architecture as a whole. Whilst Milton Keynes contains more surviving (though often very altered) 1970s housing schemes of note and has enjoyed some recent conservation success with its exquisite shopping centre, Runcorn has now become a footnote in this wider story of innovation, little visited or written about. Academic exploration of this period in architectural history is gathering momentum and all 1970s housing has now been eligible for listing for two years – the survival of Southgate would surely have made it one of the major monuments to this significant period and a key site of architectural pilgrimage in northwest England. As James Stirling's reputation has grown rather than diminished in the short period since his death, meanwhile, the loss of one of his key mid-period works is felt all the more keenly, especially in Runcorn where a landmark bridge and the sublimely exciting chemical works are still not sufficient to give the town a solid architectural reputation. The sense of loss over Southgate is one that is sure to swell further over time, contributing much to the conservation debate on public housing from a still under-researched period.


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Seizure Self-Efficacy Scale for Children with Epilepsy: Confirmatory and Exploratory Factor Analysis
Şerife Tutar Güven
Mehmet Ziya Fırat
Ayşegül İşler Dalgıç
In the past few years, the concept of self-efficacy in children with epilepsy has become increasingly important. This study aimed to analyze the psychometric aspects of the Turkish version of the Seizure Self-Efficacy Scale for Children.
This is a cross-sectional survey. The study data were collected using the Seizure Self-Efficacy Scale for Children and Child Introduction Form. The study sample included 166 children who were between 9 and 17 years of age. The authors assessed the reliability and construct validity of the study data using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA).
The original model was not confirmed by the CFA. The analysis tool included 15 items in two factors. Reliability analysis showed that the two factors were acceptable and valid. The tool was valid and reliable for measuring the self-efficacy of epileptic children. The factor structure was derived from and confirmed by the original tool. It was found that the Turkish version of the modified Seizure Self-Efficacy Scale for Children had excellent satisfactory psychometric aspects for a Turkish population.
Health professionals can present a more effective drug process and nursing care by identifying and assessing seizure self-efficacy levels in children with epilepsy, and they can make a positive contribution to disease management and the way the child deals with the disease.
Keywords: Epilepsy,self-efficacy,confirmatory factor analysis,exploratory factor analysis
Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic illnesses of childhood and adolescence (1). It influences roughly 0.5 to 1% of all children up to the age of 16 years. The incidence of epilepsy in developing countries is almost twice as much as in developed countries (2). There are few studies conducted in Turkey aiming to ascertain the incidence and prevalence of epilepsy. Topbaş et al. (3) reported that the prevalence of childhood epilepsy in this country is between 0.8 and 1.7%.
Epilepsy has an important effect on the maintenance of the individual's physical, psychological, and social well-being (4). In contrast to other chronic illnesses, epileptic seizures are unpredictable, which reduces the child's perception of controlling his/her own life remarkably (5). Therefore, there are social restrictions in the daily activities of epileptic children (6). Individuals with epilepsy may have feelings of inadequacy, fear, stigmatization, anger, and desperation, and they may show passive behaviors. These factors reduce the individual's psycho-social functions, self-efficacy, and quality of life, which may lead to self-destruction. Medical treatment and its side effects may also influence self-efficacy, ability to adjust to treatment, and the relationship between the patient and the caretaker (7,8).
Self-efficacy is one of the most frequently used theories to anticipate health behavior, and it is an important equalizer in individuals with chronic illnesses (9). In coping with epilepsy, the patients' perception of self-efficacy is essential to their process of making decisions about their illness. In the management of epileptic seizures, self-efficacy is described as an individual's ability to cope with seizures in an effective way. Successful management of seizures is the principle goal in the course of the treatment of epilepsy (7,10,11).
Individuals with high self-efficacy adjust better to treatment, their quality of life increases, and the frequency of seizures is reduced (7,12). Moreover, high self-efficacy is correlated with a more positive attitude towards epilepsy, fewer depressive symptoms, less anxiety about having seizures, and less stigmatization. In these patients, a positive attitude towards and perception about the illness and self-care behavior facilitate the adjustment to the management and treatment of the illness.
It is necessary to develop certain tools to analyze and measure the levels of self-efficacy in children with epilepsy in order to achieve a better disease management. There are few studies conducted in Turkey on this. The objective of our study was to examine the psychometric aspects of the Turkish version of the Seizure Self-Efficacy Scale for Children (SSES-C).
This is a methodological study. The authors performed the validity analysis of the SSES employing confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses (EFA). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is frequently used in scale development in nursing studies. However, there has been little discussion of its use in scale testing in nursing science research. CFA is a special approach of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). SEM combines factor analysis and regression analysis, allowing the study of the causal relationships between factors using regression analysis. CFA and EFA are included in the family of factor analyses. CFA is different than EFA since EFA is used to ascertain an exploratory factor model without making a prior assumption of the association between variables. EFA investigates the structure of correlation or covariance matrices (13).
Participants and Procedure
The study population included children between the ages of 9 and 17, who were diagnosed with epilepsy, and who visited University of Health Sciences Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Akdeniz University Hospital, and Bursa Dörtçelik Children's Hospital between June 2012 and March 2013. The children had been diagnosed with epilepsy at least six months previously and did not have any other chronic disease (e.g., diabetes or cerebral palsy), or mental retardation. Consent form was filled out by all participants. The study was approved by the Akdeniz University Local Ethics Committee (approval number: B.30.2.AKD.0.20.05.05/39). The authors suggest that five to twenty times of the number of variables in the scale be included to determine the sample size in the validity and reliability analysis (14). This study did not use any sample selection method. In the light of the literature, 166 children who met the inclusion criteria were recruited to the study.
Based on the suggestions of experts, the authors reviewed the whole content of the scale and conducted a pilot study. The authors held interviews with the children in a silent environment in the pediatric neurology polyclinic of the tertiary care hospital where the study was conducted. The information forms were filled out by the authors during the interviews with the children. The pilot study was conducted with 10 children whose data were excluded from the study.
Data in this study were collected using the Child Introduction Form and the SSES-C.
Child Introduction Form: The authors created this form based on the relevant literature (12). It included 28 questions about the socio-economic status and the illness process of the children.
The Seizure Self-Efficacy Scale for Children: This is a 5-point Likert-type scale of 15 items. All items in the scale contained positive statements. The responses to the scale items were enumerated from 1 to 5. The scores for each item ranged between 1 and 5 and were created by dividing the total score on the instrument by the number of questions in the instrument. This instrument was created for the children between 9 and 14 years of age, had had epilepsy for at least six months, and had no other chronic illnesses or intellectual disability. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the instrument was 0.93 which indicates that the scale was quite reliable (12).
The cross-cultural validation of the instruments allows researchers to avoid the early phases of the development of a new questionnaire. This is a big advantage since it is a very long procedure. Moreover, the translation and conversion of an instrument into different languages enables us to employ the questionnaires in comparative multi-national studies. The scale was translated and back-translated to ensure its validity and reliability, along with some other aspects, for the Turkish sample. The translation and cultural conversion of the study were performed at a very initial phase (8). Reliability and validity analysis of the questionnaire were done specifically for this study since the scale did not have a Turkish version. All 15 items in the instrument were translated into Turkish by four authors (S.G., H.T., D.B., and G.M.) and the items were resolved into a completely new translated version. Then, back-translation of the items into English was blindly done, and items were checked by a bilingual Turkish scientist and a native English speaker fluent both in spoken and written Turkish and with a great deal of experience as a medical paper reviewer. Authors and the other experts discussed and agreed on the translation of each item. Moreover, the authors conducted a pilot study with bilingual individuals to determine the linguistic accuracy of the translated scale. The authors also decided that the translation was acceptable and required no revision.
The authors encoded and scored all the items in the scale, encoded and checked all the study data, and finally analyzed it using SPSS 11.0 and statistical analysis system 7.0 statistical programs. All of the required information was collected from the participants and all the forms were completed. To be able to describe the main variables, the authors made use of descriptive statistics including means, skewness and standard deviation.
Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Using CFA, researchers ascertain the goodness of fit indices (GFI) between a model that has previously been created by a different author and the sample data in question. In this study, the authors employed the maximum likelihood estimation method to do CFA in order to confirm the exploratory model which (12) was created. The authors followed the original one-factor model and used the same model specification in this analysis. The factor variances were fixed at 1, which provided the identification of the model.
The authors also calculated a variety of GFI to be able to measure the level of the fit. To many researchers, the standard GFI is 0.90 (15-18). The authors also used some other criteria for this calculation. Initially, the authors determined 0.90 for the GFI and 0.90 for the adjusted GFI. Then, they evaluated how well the new model fit the data using the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) with a 90% confidence interval. An RMSEA value of 0.06 or less indicates an accepted model fit (15). A moderate fit would be indicated by values around 0.08, and poor fit would be shown by values above 0.10 (19). After that the authors administered a GFI chi-square test, which included the best fit where the chi-square was statistically insignificant. Next, the authors used Bentler and Bonett's normed-fit index (NFI). The NFI values varied between 0 and 1, and an acceptable model fit to the data was shown by the 0.90 values (20). Finally, the authors used a comparative fit index (CFI) (21). Researchers usually accept a cutoff value of 0.90 for the CFI as consistent with the moderate model fit (21), and believe that a good model fit is indicated by a cutoff value which is close to 0.95. Since the fit indices values become distorted when the distribution of the scale items is not normal, the study also reported the skewness values.
Exploratory Factor Analysis
When the observed factor structure does not fit with the theoretical structure, then the EFA can be employed to improve the model. In order to describe an applicable factor structure, the authors did an EFA in the second phase of the analysis. They also did an EFA to identify the factor sub-scales of the 15 items in the scale employing a principal component method with varimax rotation. The study determined the number of sub-scales that had Eigen values bigger than 1.0 for retaining the factor. However, the study retained items with factor loads greater than or equal to 0.40 (including the values rounded to 0.40), and also retained those that loaded on only one factor. The authors excluded from the scale items that did not fit these criteria one by one. They did the factor analyses over and over again until they found a solution that made all the scale items meet all of the criteria. Cronbach's alpha was used to evaluate the internal consistency reliability and the structure of the new factors.
Table I illustrates the descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and skewness values of the study sample. The authors evaluated the study data using the skewness values by univariate normality. The table indicates that mean skewness value was -0.976 [(range= -2.386 – (-0.290)], and none of the items was showing a bigger skewness value than the cutoffs of |3| that was suggested (22). The univariate normality of the items were advocated by these findings.
The study tested a one-factor model according to the original conceptualization of SSES-C. The criteria of model fit evaluation are presented in Table II. Some of these criteria were not acceptable for a good fit. However, the others showed an acceptable or nearly acceptable model fit. These points can also be seen in Table II. According to the study data, an adequate model fit was revealed by the CFA, and this model fit was only based on Bentler's CFI criterion (0.9028). There was a moderate fit based on GFI (0.8704), adjusted GFI (0.8271); RMSEA (0.0776) and NFI (0.8249). However, there was only one fit index that indicated poor fit: c2 (90)=179.329, p=0.0001. The authors could not acquire an acceptable fit from any of the fit statistics. There was only one fit statistic that showed a nearly reasonable model fit. Four other fit statistics showed a moderate fit with the model. Thus, the authors determined that since the CFA failed to confirm the original factor structure, it was necessary to improve the fit between the model and the data and to use the EFA to modify the model.
In order to analyze the 15 items in the scale, the authors used the maximum likelihood extraction method and also made use of a varimax rotation. They also identified two factors that had eigenvalues above 1.00. The numbers of factors to be retained and rotated were determined using the scree test. This test also recommended a two-factor solution. The authors examined many other criteria to determine the number of factors. These criteria included Tucker and Lewis's reliability coefficient (TLC) (23), which takes values between 0 and 1.0 with a higher TLC value indicating more acceptable reliability like Akaike's information criterion (AIC) (24); and Schwarz's Bayesian criterion (SBC) (25). It is accepted that the best factor solution is the factor number that produces the smallest value of AIC and SBC or the largest value of TLC. The authors rotated and examined many factor solutions to decide on a right factor solution which is theoretically meaningful and fits the retention rules. In the end, the authors selected the two-factor solution since all three criteria were met by this solution. Compared to the other factor solutions, the four-factor and three-factor solutions in particular, AIC and SBC reached their smallest values in their two common factors, and TLC also reached its highest value (TLC=0.958) in these factors. For this reason, it is certain that the two-factor solution is the best for these data. After the authors decided on the two-factor solution, they arranged the factor loads from the greatest to the smallest. This arrangement is shown in Table III. All of the items were kept in the original 15-item measure of the scale according to the criteria that were determined beforehand. The authors assumed that all items were loaded on one single factor since the factor loads of the items were equal to or below 0.40. In the end, the EFA generated a 15-item measurement which had a two-factor solution. Then, the authors interpreted each item by examining their contents and coefficient patterns. These two factors were respectively classified as "self-management of seizures" and "the influence of the environment in the management of seizure." The authors eventually used Cronbach's alpha coefficient to determine the internal consistency reliability of both scales. There was a scale homogeneity that varied between 0.63 and 0.89. Thus, the subscales that were identified by EFA had internal consistency. Total SSES-C's alpha coefficient was quite high (0.90). This value shows that the internal reliability was excellent since it far exceeded the accepted limit, which was 0.70. This also implies that the questions in the scale were adequate for the Turkish culture.
In the past few years, the context of self-efficacy in individuals with epilepsy has become increasingly important. The perceived self-efficacy of the patient is quite important in the management of epilepsy to be able to understand the process of decision-making. In our study, we aimed to examine the psychometric aspects of the Turkish version of the SSES-C. The ages of the children and adolescents in the sample ranged between 9 and 17. Their average age was 13.46±2.57.
Current research indicates that the factor structure of the SSES-C was examined for the first time in this study with a relatively large Turkish sample that includes children with epilepsy when the CFA did not confirm the original factor structure. In the authors' opinion, this study will make remarkable contributions to the relevant literature when the SSES-C is adapted to Turkish culture. It is essential that the psychometric aspects of the scale be used for measurement and gaining information in terms of understanding the nature of the attitude of individuals with epilepsy towards self-efficacy.
As indicated by the results of the CFA, the factor structure, which was derived from and confirmed by US patients, was not confirmed by the Turkish sample. For this reason, the US and Turkish samples had different dimensionality in their beliefs in self-efficacy, as shown by the findings of the CFA. In this study, the authors employed EFA to gain a new modified factor structure for the Turkish sample. This operation aimed to obtain accurate cross-cultural comparisons. The EFA generated a new factor structure, or model with the two separate dimensions of self-efficacy in Turkish culture. This situation is different from the original one-dimension factor structure, which claims that every factor can be taken into account independently when scoring the SSES-C. It is generally accepted that this model represents the distinctiveness of two dimensions of self-efficacy. The subscale "self-management of seizures" includes the items that explain how a child can control or manage epileptic seizures on his or her own (e.g. "I can manage my seizure condition by selecting my activities correctly"). The other subscale includes the statements that focus on the effect of the environment on seizure management, rather than on the child's individual control (e.g. "I can speak to my physician or a nurse when I have a question about my seizure condition"). The authors established the factor structure of SSES-C for the sample that included children with epilepsy. Then, the internal consistency of the instrument was determined. According to the findings of this study, the modified factor structure of the SSES-C has desired psychometric aspects for the Turkish sample. The study used the Cronbach's alpha coefficient to determine the reliability of the instrument. The estimated alpha of the SSES-C (0.89) was slightly lower than the one reported in the original study, which was conducted with a US sample (0.93) (12), but it was still higher than the result (0.85) of other studies (26). Eventually, the study findings had a strong reliability and a solid internal consistency.
This study had several limitations. In the relevant literature, the SSES-C is the only tool available to examine the self-efficacy of children with epilepsy. However, there are no foreign studies which aimed to validate the SSES-C by the administration of CFA and EFA. Moreover, there are also no other studies conducted in Turkey to examine the self-efficacy of children with epilepsy. Therefore, the authors recommend that further studies be conducted to test the SSES-C with different samples.
In terms of the factor structure of the SSES-C, there are certain differences between the US and Turkish samples. According to the study results, the best and most effective use of the measurement will be performed by summing the subscale scores instead of the total score. This finding is consistent with the theoretical opinion that multi-dimensionality is the best way to conceptualize self-efficacy. This tool was proved to be valid and reliable to measure self-efficacy in children with epilepsy. For this reason, the authors suggest that researchers use the SSES-C when it is necessary to measure the self-efficacy of epileptic children. The children are capable of evaluating their own self-efficacy, which makes it easier to manage the illness and adjust it to the treatment. Moreover, the awareness of health professionals working with children who have epilepsy can be increased by the application of SSES-C. To conclude, this study proves that SSES-C can be applied to make use of the differences between the sub-samples included both in a single structure and in different cultures.
The authors obtained via e-mail, the consent of Joan K. Austin, the creator of the SSES-C, to translate it into Turkish. They also obtained the approval of their Institutional Review Board's Ethics Committee.
The authors would like to thank all participants in this study. This research was supported by the Akdeniz University, Scientific Research Projects Management Unit.
Ethics Committee Approval: The study was approved by the Akdeniz University Local Ethics Committee (approval number: B.30.2.AKD.0.20.05.05/39).
Informed Consent: Written consent was obtained from the children and their parents who participated in the study.
Peer-review: External and internal peer-reviewed.
Concept: Ş.T.G., M.Z.F., A.İ.D., Design: Ş.T.G., M.Z.F., A.İ.D., Data Collection or Processing: Ş.T.G., Analysis or Interpretation: Ş.T.G., M.Z.F., Literature Search: Ş.T.G., M.Z.F., Writing: Ş.T.G., M.Z.F., A.İ.D.
Financial Disclosure: The authors declared that this study received no financial support.
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Voters Clueless in Fifth District
The 5th District candidate debate took place in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.
The primary election to replace Rahm Emanuel in the U.S. Congress is now just two weeks away. And early voting already started yesterday. Voters have plenty of choice in the race. In fact, they probably have too much choice.
In all, there are 23 candidates on the ballot 12 democrats, 6 republicans and 5 green party candidates. But out in the district on Chicago's North Side, if you ask people about the election, the answers are pretty much the same.
VOX: What election are you talking about... I'm tired of politics in general right now.
One would think that given recent events in illinois politics voters would be more engaged than ever not less engaged; more aware of the need to be vigilant and educated in the voting booth. And this is a particularly high profile seat. It was recently vacated by Rahm Emanuel who left to become President Obama's chief of staff. Emanuel's predecessor was the now internationally notorious former governor Rod Blagojevich. So there should be plenty of interest in the crowded field. Nonetheless, Brian Byrne can name only one candidate Pat Quinn. Of course Pat Quinn is not a candidate.
BYRNE: Okay you know what, I'm thinking of... You know I'm sorry, it wasn't Pat Quinn, it was Quigley. What's his name? Mike Quigley?
Byrne is sitting in a lincoln square coffee shop. He's at the end of a long row of people at small round tables working on their laptops. The few tables where there are two people, there are also two computers. Byrne says he got a phone call the other night promoting Quigley, a call that was both annoying and trivial.
BYRNE: Sadly, like, I can sort of feel that call working now though because like, seriously, Quigley is the only person in that race I can think of right now. It's a little disturbing actually.
WILDEBOER: Why?
BYRNE: Cause you know, I don't like to be advertised to really and political ads that much more so and I guess it's, you know I like to think I would go look up the information in advance of the election but you know, my own personal track record has been that that really just doesn't always happen.
GITELSON: My guess is that most voters will go into this nomination process with a relatively limited amount of information. Alan Gitelson teaches political science at Loyola University in Chicago. He guesses that 50 to 70 percent of the voters and maybe even more, will vote for reasons that are not necessarily the most rational. He says people vote based on ethnicity, or on gender, or—and this is a big one—name recognition. That's right, our democracy is often based on people's ability to recognize names.
GITELSON: This is a critical variable for a lot of individuals because if a person feels they know somebody, a candidate for office, even if it is very much in passing, that provides an opportunity really to support that candidate in lieu of not having a lot of other information.
ambi: clapping. Well we have a packed house here. We're happy to see you and thank you very much for coming...
Last night 16 of the congressional candidates stretched across the stage of a Lincoln Park church that was hosting a forum. One late comer was almost out of luck.
ambi: There is no seat for him up here. Would you please get a seat for him please?
There were about a hundred people in the audience but many of them were campaign workers. Others, were with the organizations sponsoring the event but they didn't actually live in the district and won't be voting. And one guy had already voted. Greg Stewart was one of the few undecided voters. He was focusing on the democratic candidates.
STEWART: Seven of them got knocked out of the running tonight. They didn't bring it, you know?
Stewart says there wasn't enough time to really dig into any of the issues but he says he didn't really come for that, he came to read the people, to get a sense of who the individual candidates are.
STEWART: It's more for me to see how some people react to the questions so that I can say some people are a little bit stalwart, or didn't choose their words carefully, or that their physical reaction didn't seem to meet the question or they didn't listen to the question whatsoever in which case you know those people are getting strike marks in my book.
This was the second forum that Stewart has attended. The first led him to visit the offices of a few of the candidates. As he continues to whittle down his list, he says he'll dig into the issues by doing research at home.
Stewart is an exceptionally well educated voter and an exception of sorts to Political Science professor Alan Gitelson's rule that most voters cast irrational ballots. But Gitelson also offers some comfort. He says if irrational voters elect a bad candidate, they can always vote him out of office in the next election.


In the first volume of his memoirs, Danny Baker brings his early years to life as only he knows how. With his trademark humour and eye for a killer anecdote, he takes us all the way from the council house in south-east London that he shared with his mum Betty and dad 'Spud' (played by Peter Kay) to the music-biz excesses of Los Angeles, where he famously interviewed Michael Jackson for the NME. Laugh-out-loud funny, it is also an affectionate but unsentimental hymn to a bygone era.


She has also been working as an instructor and a commissioned choreographer for various dance organizations including Cliff Keuter's New Dance Company, Asian American Dance Collective of San Francisco, Limón West Dance Project, San Jose State University, Chinese-American Association of Minnesota (Dance Theatre), Kaohsiung Lin-Ya Junior High of Taiwan, West Valley Community College, The Colorado College and San Jose City College. In addition to professional and college teaching experiences, she has taught more than a thousand children and adults since she started the Bih-Tau School of Dance in 1986.
Currently, she is a part time assistant professor of the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan.


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Dwayne The Rock Johnson is one of the successful and most globally recognized people on the planet. His recent involvement in the world of MMA has certainly been very welcome by the MMA community and he has been accepted by fans with open arms. The Rock recently made an appearance on Ariel Helwani's show at ESPN. On the show, he was asked about whether he gets depressed or anxious. His response was truly motivating.
The Rock told Ariel that whenever in life he feels depressed there are three essential things that he does, one of which is that he constantly reminds himself everything is going to be fine. Here's what he had to say:
You know I think that when you are in a position like mine and you know the optics of my life is always so forward-facing and it can be at times noisy and loud just by virtue of my job and what I do. Everyone for that matter they see the upside to it, and again the optics of fame and the optics of fortune and I am not complaining because I always say that the alternative to that was going back to the days when nobody knew who I was, go back to the days when I played in the CFL for the Calgary Stampeders for just a few months before I was cut. When I was cut from there Wolly Bono gave me great advice to hang in there.
I always say what helps me with the pressure and anxiety and all these things, just try and remember a few things: 1. Everything's gonna be okay. I try to make the try, it's much easier said than done and everything's gonna be okay. 2. You're not alone and 3. I try to keep in mind that I do not keep the hard times at the forefront of my mind.
You can watch his interview down below:
This was my favorite part of the interview with @therock today. Loved his answer. What an honor it was having him on the show today. Can't thank him enough for taking time out of his incredibly busy day to talk me. I'll never forget this one.
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— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) November 12, 2019
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find a path from a given vertex, sss, to every reachable vertex in the graph.
Before we answer the mysterious question posed above, let's further recall the two types of searches we could use to do the above two things: BFS or DFS.
Are both going to always be correct? Yes. Does one give better results? BFS finds you the shortest paths whereas DFS does not. Is one more efficient than the other, runtime-wise? No. Is one more efficient than the other, space-wise?
DFS is worse for spindly graphs. Imagine a graph with 10000 nodes all spindly. We'll end up making 10000 recursive calls, which is bad for space.
BFS is worse for "bushy" graphs, because our queue gets used a lot.
Did we develop an algorithm to find the shortest path from a given vertex to every other reachable vertex? Well, kind of. We developed an algorithm that works well on graphs with no edge labels. Here's what we did: we developed an algorithm that finds us the shortest (where shortest means the fewest number of edges) paths from a given source vertex.
But that's not always the correct definition of shortest. Sometimes, our graph edges might have 'weights', and A-B is considered farther than A-C if the A-B edge has weight, say, 5 and the A-C edge only has weight, say, 3.
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Zero kinetic energy-pulsed field ionization and resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization photoelectron spectroscopy: Ionization dynamics of Rydberg states in HBr
Wales, N. P. L. and Buma, W. J. and de Lange, C. A. and Lefebvre-Brion, H. and McKoy, V. and Wang, Kwanghsi (1996) Zero kinetic energy-pulsed field ionization and resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization photoelectron spectroscopy: Ionization dynamics of Rydberg states in HBr. Journal of Chemical Physics, 104 (13). pp. 4911-4919. ISSN 0021-9606. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120209-104322348
The results of rotationally resolved resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization photoelectron spectroscopy and zero kinetic energy‐pulsed field ionization studies on HBr via various rotational levels of the F^ 1Δ_2 and f^ 3Δ_2 Rydberg states are reported. These studies lead to an accurate determination of the lowest ionization threshold as 94 098.9±1 cm^(−1). Observed rotational and spin–orbit branching ratios are compared to the results of ab initio calculations. The differences between theory and experiment highlight the dominant role of rotational and spin–orbit interactions for the dynamic properties of the high‐n Rydberg states involved in the pulsed field ionization process.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.471270 DOI Article
http://jcp.aip.org/resource/1/jcpsa6/v104/i13/p4911_s1 Publisher Article
© 1996 American Institute of Physics. Received 11 December 1995; accepted 22 December 1995. N.P.L.W. thanks R. Irrgang for communicating his ZEKE-PFI results prior to publication. The group at the University of Amsterdam gratefully acknowledges the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for equipment grants and for financial support. Calculations performed by H.L.B. have used the French National Computer (CNUSC). The Amsterdam and Pasadena groups gratefully acknowledge NATO for collaborative Grant No. CRG930183. Work at the California Institute of Technology was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Health and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy, and made use of the JPL/Caltech CRAY Y-MP2E/232 computer.
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) UNSPECIFIED
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) CRG930183
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) UNSPECIFIED
Department of Energy (DOE) UNSPECIFIED
Branching Ratio, Hydrobromic Acid, Ionization, Kinetic Energy, Multi-Photon Processes, Orbits, Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Photoionization, Rotation, Rydberg States, Spin
Classification Code:
PACS: 33.80.Rv, 33.60.+q
Zero kinetic energy‐pulsed field ionization and resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization photoelectron spectroscopy: Ionization dynamics of Rydberg states in HBr N. P. L. Wales, W. J. Buma, C. A. de Lange, H. Lefebvre‐Brion, Kwanghsi Wang, and V. McKoy J. Chem. Phys. 104, 4911 (1996); doi:10.1063/1.471270


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Hand bending the heavy quilted mahogany sides for the 12String purple heart the old fashioned way with a pipe and torch.
Rough sketching the concept for a 29String solidbody electric in process.
Making a replacement tailpiece out of a chunk of ebony for my granddad's old 3String upright bass.


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O2.createClass('MANSION.Script.LevHtp', {

	/**
	 * dalle : si la page du necronomicon a été rammassée on lache un fantome
	 */
	pickupNecPage1: function() {
        var oEvent = this._event;
		var g = oEvent.game;
		if (g.playerHasItem('book_sigils')) {
			oEvent.remove = true;
			var oGhost = g.spawnGhost('g_bashed_boy');
			var oDoor = g.getLocator('door_ghost');
			oGhost.data('hold-door', 'door_ghost');
			g.lockDoor(oDoor.x, oDoor.y);
			g.popupMessage(MANSION.STRINGS_DATA.LEVELS['tutorial'].hint_ghost_incoming);
		}
	},

	/**
	 * porte : ouverture de la porte = apparition de spectre
	 * s'active si on est a coté ouest et si on a photographié le sujet
	 * p_skull_monk
	 */
	wraithSkullMonk: function() {
		var oEvent = this._event;
		var g = oEvent.game;
		var oPlayer = g.getPlayer();
		// est-ce qu'on est bien à gauche de la porte ?
		if (oPlayer.xSector < oEvent.x && oPlayer.data('subject-p_skull_monk')) {
			var p = g.getLocator('w_skull_monk');
			var oGhost = g.spawnWraith('w_cowled_skull', p.x, p.y, 0);
			var gt = oGhost.getThinker();
			gt.setLifespan(3000);
			gt.move('n', 1);
			g.unlockSecretBlock('sp_n');
			oEvent.remove = true;
		}
	},

	/**
	 * dalle : apparition de medusa à l'approche de la sortie
	 */
	wraithExit: function() {
        var oEvent = this._event;
		var g = oEvent.game;
		var oPlayer = g.getPlayer();
		var p = g.getLocator('w_exit_boo'); // w_sadako
		var oGhost = g.spawnWraith('w_petrified_medusa', p.x, p.y, 0);
		var gt = oGhost.getThinker();
		gt.setLifespan(2000);
		oEvent.remove = true;
	},

	/**
	 * porte : sortie du niveau
	 */
	endOfLevel: function() {
        var oEvent = this._event;
		var g = oEvent.game;
		var rc = g.oRaycaster;
		var oFade = rc.addGXEffect(O876_Raycaster.GXFade);
		oFade.fadeOut('#000', 1500).neverEnding();
		g.popupMessage('Exiting demonstration level... ... ...');
		setTimeout(function() {
			g.playAmbiance('music/manor');
			g._halt();
			O876_Raycaster.PointerLock.disable();
			var xhr = new O876.XHR();
			xhr.get('resources/ui/screens/end.xml', function(data) {
				document.body.innerHTML = data;
			});
		}, 1700);
	},

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	 * sigil de la derniere pièce
	 * le photographier fait apparaitre un indice
     * @param oEvent
     */
	sigilExit: function() {
        var oEvent = this._event;
		var g = oEvent.game;
		g.takeLocatorPhoto('c_sigil_exit', 'c_sigil_exit_0', 'c_sigil_exit_1');
		oEvent.remove = true;
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Putting the 'challah' in 'Challenge': Food debuts its first ever Hanukkah competition
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Michelle Rose / TV Media
Sharone Hakman, Duff Goldman and Molly Yeh from "Ultimate Hanukkah Challenge"
It's the eight-day holiday that celebrates the rededication of the second Temple of Jerusalem and recalls the miracle of the oil that burned for eight days.
This year, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 22. It's a time of giving and sharing, and for being thankful. It's also a time for eating mounds of mouth-watering fried foods!
Hearty brisket, eggy kugel, jam-filled doughnuts and crispy latkes (don't forget the applesauce) -- these are the traditional staples you'd expect to find on the table when gathering with friends and family. And they will feature prominently in "Ultimate Hanukkah Challenge," which premieres Saturday, Dec. 21, on Food Network.
In the past, the cable network has featured seasonal-themed episodes of its regular series (more on that later). But "Ultimate Hanukkah Challenge" is the very first Food Network competition that focuses solely on the Festival of Lights.
It's a standalone special, meaning you won't be tuning in to weekly elimination rounds that culminate in a grand finale. However, its format is a familiar one, so you can just focus on all the action -- and the food, of course.
Four chefs will be asked to put their own unique spin on some of those aforementioned classics. There are a total of three rounds to this competition (think "Chopped") and the winner gets bragging rights (the free trip to Paris, France, ain't too shabby, either).
Molly Yeh, whose Chinese and Jewish roots have inspired many of the recipes featured on "Girl Meets Farm," will host this Hanukkah special. Duff Goldman and Sharone Hakman will serve as judges.
"Ultimate Hanukkah Challenge" is worth a watch if you're looking for fresh takes on old favorites. But if you're looking for tips on how to make better latkes, you'll want to tune in to "Good Eats" on Sunday, Dec. 15.
The episode is titled "Whole Latke Love," which means Alton Brown will be doling out tricks and techniques for making Bubbe-approved latkes. He'll also dive into the history of the latke, and viewers might be surprised to learn these golden fried potato pancakes were originally made from an Italian cheese. So keep that in mind when tuning in to "Ultimate Hanukkah Challenge" on Dec. 21, or when gathering with loved ones on Dec. 22. Happy Hanukkah!
'Delicious' done well: Kardea Brown's recipes will satisfy your southern cravings
Returning champs: 'Chopped' $50,000 tournament gets underway
Cutting costs: Food Network offers tips, recipes to help you save
Ramsay returns: Fiery chef is back with more restaurant rehab
Cake countdown: Food rolls out new NYE special
'Oh ffffudge!': 'Food Network Challenge' reboot begins with a movie homage
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HomeNewsHow IP video offers next generation learning material
How IP video offers next generation learning material
By Colin Farquhar, CEO at Exterity
Rebecca Paddick
Universities have a natural duty to empower students with quality lectures and hands-on projects that will enable them to become experts in their field. However a university is also a business, and in order to continue attracting new students from all walks of life, universities need to ensure that they offer students pioneering teaching techniques and unparalleled learning opportunities.
Technology, and more specifically IP video solutions, can play a central role in enabling innovative teaching methods to emerge. Increasingly, prospective students view technology as an integral part of their learning experience and universities need to be able to cater to the needs of a mobile generation that expects to be able to view content on any device, anywhere and at any time.
A good example of this multiscreen media revolution in the education space is prestigious City University, London. With multiple locations, diverse faculties and its own broadcast studio, the institution wanted to deliver Internet, TV and video – including Sky Sport, international news channels and live feeds from portable cameras – to multiple devices across its campus. By offering access to a large amount of content, City University aims to increase the amount of teaching material and entertainment readily available for students, professors and staff at any time, on any device.
'Technology, and more specifically IP video solutions, can play a central role in enabling innovative teaching methods to emerge'
Providing high quality content to a large number of screens might appear costly at first. Traditional infrastructure requirements, especially cabling, can easily expend a university budget, preventing investment in new teaching and learning methods. IP video is different. It sits on the university's existing IP network providing a cost-effective, robust solution that is easy to install and maintain. What's more, an IP video system is flexible and scalable, enabling it to fit any size of installation or number of devices. Administrators can also manage and control the system from anywhere on the network
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Antonito é uma cidade localizada no estado americano de Colorado, no Condado de Conejos.

Demografia
Segundo o censo americano de 2000, a sua população era de 873 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 832, um decréscimo de 41 (-4.7%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
1,0 km², dos quais 1,0 km² cobertos por terra e 0,0 km² cobertos por água. Antonito localiza-se a aproximadamente 2405 m acima do nível do mar.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 48 km ao redor de Antonito.

Ligações externas

Cidades do Colorado


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Маја Спенсер (; Сремска Митровица, 3. фебруар 1983), српска је  књижевница, кантаутор и џез певачица.

Биографија

Маја Спенсер је рођена у Сремској Митровици, у Србији. Њена мајка је српско-пољског порекла, а отац српско-македонског. Отац јој је адвокат, а мајка сликарка. Има млађег брата.

У Сремској Митровици је завршила гимназију, а потом се преселила у Београд. Дипломирала је Међународне односе на Факултету политичких наука Универзитета у Београду).

Спенсер је савременик рата у бившој Југославији, као и НАТО бомбардовања СРЈ 1999. Према њеним речима, "Рат је оно најгоре што се може десити држави… Живот у ратној и постратној атмосфери може да уништи човека, оставља трајне ожиљке, али и да га очврсне, и у великој мери преиспита његов морал. Ако не постанете лоша особа после свега тога, онда сигурно нисте и нећете никада ни бити лоши.

Још као студент интересовала се за питања којима су прожете њене књиге. У почетку је била заинтересована за питања безбедности и манипулације, да би се касније све више окретала психопатологији, социологији, психологији.

Спенсер је позната по екстремном приступу истраживањима која врши за своје књиге.

У више наврата изјавила је да није члан ниједне политичке, религиозне или било какве друге групе.

Говори енглески и шпански језик.

Радови и дела

 Непотребна размишљања о потребама. , (Књига Комерц Београд, 2012))
 Хуманоид (–2-0) (Виртуелна библиотека Србије, 2014))
 Something is wrong.  (Амазон, енглески језик, 2016))
 Needless Thinking about Needs.  (Амазон, енглески језик, 2017))
 Beside Yourself, Around Yourself and Back to Yourself.  (Амазон, енглески језик, 2023) )

Музичка каријера

Поред писања Маја Спенсер се бави и РНБ и џез музиком. Сама пише музику, текстове као и аранжмане. Њен стил певања одликује широк распон гласа, као и способност "звиждук регистра" (највиши регистар људског гласа). Аранжман песме "Just a dream" резултат је сарадње са Сонос студиом из Андоре. Песме са оба албума емитоване су на радио станицама широм света, и извођене уживо у европским земљама. У фебруару 2018. године освојила је почасну награду за најинспиративнијег аутора у организацији Обаленд Академије и Едо Реге Фестивала.

Дискографија

Синглови
 Try Harder (2017)
 Indestructible (2017)
 Just a Dream (2017)
 I'm Yours (2018)
 Reality (2019)
 Out of the Dark (2021)
 Plastic Soul (2021)
 Plastic Brain (2022)
 You and I (2022)
 Flirting with Infinity (2020)
 Voleo Lineal (2022)

Албуми
 Indestructible (2017)
 Just a Dream (2017)
 Laughing at Unlaughable Jokes (2022)
 Different Kind of Music (2022)

Референце

Спољашње везе

 Е-капија интервју са Мајом Спенсер

Рођени 1983.
Српске књижевнице
Чланови Српског књижевног друштва
Митровчани (Сремска Митровица)


text:
module Printfection
  class Item < Resource
    extend Actions::Retrieve
    extend Actions::List

    property :id, transform_with: Transforms::Integer
    property :type
    property :name
    property :color
    property :created_at, transform_with: Transforms::Date

    property :product
    coerce_key :product, Product

    property :campaigns
    coerce_key :campaigns, Array[Campaign]

    property :sizes
    coerce_key :sizes, Array[Size]

    property :assets
    coerce_key :assets, Array[Asset]

    def self.uri
      "/items"
    end
  end
end