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Carol Ann Judge (née Anderson; June 7, 1941 – December 7, 2014) was an American healthcare advocate and registered nurse. She served as the First Lady of Montana from 1973 until her divorce from her husband, Governor Thomas Lee Judge in the winter of 1980. Judge, who was 31 years old when she assumed the role of First Lady in 1973, remains the youngest First Lady in Montana's history.

Judge was a longtime advocate for numerous issues, including universal kindergarten, health care reform, and the ratification of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. She worked in nursing and related fields within the healthcare industry for more than 32 years.

During her tenure as First Lady, she successfully lobbied for a new law to require mandatory immunizations for Montana school children, which was signed into law in 1979. She campaigned for improved conditions for patients at Montana's state psychiatric hospitals, including Warm Springs State Hospital and Boulder River School and Hospital (now called the Montana Developmental Center).

Biography

Early life
Judge was born Carol Ann Anderson in Los Angeles, California, on June 7, 1941. Her mother Hazel Anderson, was a homemaker and dietician, and her father,  Kermit Anderson, owned the Anderson Advertising Agency in Los Angeles. Her family, who were originally from Montana, returned to Helena, Montana, when she was 10 years old. She attended Bryant Elementary School and graduated from Helena High School in 1958. She received a degree in nursing with honors in 1962 from Montana State University.

Anderson was assigned to Warm Springs State Hospital, a state-owned psychiatric hospital, as a student nurse in the early 1960s. She was appalled by the poor conditions and lack of staff at Warm Springs. She later took her boyfriend and future husband, then member of the Montana House of Representatives Tom Judge, on what has been described as "a behind-the-scenes, eye-opening tour" of Warm Springs State Hospital to show the lawmaker the substandard conditions within Montana's mental hospitals.

Carol Anderson married Thomas L. Judge in 1966. The couple had two sons, Thomas Warren Judge and Patrick Lane Judge.

In 1966, Carol Judge established the Home Health Agency at St. Peter's Hospital, the first home healthcare and visitation program in Helena, Montana.

First Lady of Montana
Thomas L. Judge, a Democrat, was elected Lieutenant Governor of Montana, in 1968, defeating in 1968. He was elected Governor of Montana in 1972, defeating Ed Smith, a Republican legislator and farmer. Judge took office on January 1, 1973. Carol Judge, who was 31 years old at the time, became the youngest First Lady in the history of Montana, a record she still holds today.

Lawrence K. Pettit, Judge's 1972 campaign manager and former brother-in-law of Carol Judge, later wrote of the Judges, "Tom and Carol were like Montana's Jack and Jackie, handsome, beautiful and always well presented, with the hint of sophistication and urbanity," in his book, If You Live by the Sword: Politics and in the Making and Unmaking of a University President.

First Lady Carol Judge made improvements to the state system of hospitals and psychiatric hospitals a priority during the mid-1970s. She had first encountered poor, substandard conditions at Warm Springs State Hospital as a nursing student during the early 1960s. She visited twelve state hospitals in an effort to call attention to poor living conditions for patients. She wrote and printed a four-page, yellow brochure called "Have a Heart: The Human Side of Boulder River School and Hospital and Warm Springs State Hospital," which she distributed to state lawmakers and other influential individuals throughout Montana. In the brochure, Carol Judge wrote specifically about Warm Springs State Hospital, "Here, as in Boulder, we find a terrible shortage of staff, poor wages and inadequate housing. Patients are overcrowded in decaying buildings, which are impossible to keep clean, and this encourages the spread of disease. The drab and depressing surroundings lack stimulating things to do for learning, therapy and recreation." She included pictures of the hospitals in the publication. Governor Thomas Judge, in response to the First Lady's campaign, proposed sweeping reforms to the state's mental hospitals, which received solid support from state legislators and other groups. Montana lawmakers increased funding to improve living and working conditions at both Warm Springs State Hospital and the Boulder River School and Hospital. The government of Montana also began a deinstitutionalization of some patients, by moving them out of psychiatric hospitals and into local living centers. Opposition to the group homes was often high in local communities. In response, the operators of the group homes would invite Carol Judge, who was popular as First Lady, to their openings and events to speak with neighbors and community leaders.

In the early 1970s, Carol Judge teamed with other U.S. state first ladies to draw attention to low immunization rates among schoolchildren. The campaign became known as "Every Child in '76." In 1979, Governor Judge signed legislation to require that all Montana schoolchildren receive mandatory immunizations for certain diseases.

Carol Judge underwent treatment for alcoholism during her tenure as First Lady. She then led the campaign to legally classify alcoholism as a disease after the American Medical Association revised its own position. Montana changed its state law to reclassify alcoholism as a disease in 1975. In 1977, Carol Judge was appointed to the Liaison Panel on Alcohol Related Problems for the President's Mental Health Commission. She met with U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter in Washington D.C. to discuss alcoholism and mental health issues. In the 1980s, after leaving the position of First Lady, Carol Judge established a state treatment program to treat nurses with substance abuse programs.

Governor Thomas L. Judge and Carol Judge separated during the fall of 1979 and divorced during the winter of 1980, ending Judge's tenure as Montana's first lady. Their divorce has been described as public and "bitter". Her former husband lost his bid for re-election for a third term as governor in 1980, losing the Democratic primary election to his Lieutenant Governor, Ted Schwinden. Schwinden was elected Governor in the 1980 gubernatorial election.

Return to nursing
Carol Judge returned to the nursing and healthcare fields after her divorce from the Governor. She received a master's degree in psychiatric nursing from Montana State University in 1983. She spearheaded the creation of a new state program to treat nurses from substance abuse during the 1980s.

Judge joined the staff of Fort Harrison Veterans Hospital in 1985, where she worked for the next 22-years.

During the 2000s, Judge collaborated with other former First Ladies of Montana and a legislator to advocate for the immunization of children by the time they turn 2-years old. In 2006, Carol Judge traveled to Arizona to care for her former husband, Thomas Lee Judge, as his health deteriorated. Thomas Judge died from pulmonary fibrosis in Chandler, Arizona, on September 8, 2006.

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Q: How do I reduce the play time of a voice mp3 file with sox to 75%? How do I have to call sox to transform an 2 second audio file into being speed up so that the resulting length of the file is 1.5 seconds (75%)? Do I have to pass an argument to do pitch correction?
What arguments do I have to pass that the filesize stays small?

A: Try this (with input.wav as your input file)
sox input.wav output.wav speed 1.33

Taken from this, its example 13.
Regarding pitch correction, if the pitch should stay the same, use this command instead.
sox input.wav output.wav tempo 1.33

Regarding filesize. It depends on the audio format you want to use. If it is compressed, select settings for higher compression. If not, you may want to convert it to mono, reduce the sample rate or bits.

A: I just tried slowing down a typical CD-quality audio file with sox and ffmpeg for a side-by-side comparison of changing tempo without changing pitch.
It appears that sox introduced some stutter that ffmpeg did not. Would recommend ffmpeg, for slowing at least; here at half-tempo:
ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -filter:a "atempo=0.5" file_0.5.mp3

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CROSBY, TX (KTRK) -- All Crosby ISD schools and facilities are on lockdown as police search for a bank robbery suspect.
That lockdown covers 7 schools and the administration building. The Harris County Sheriff's Office and Pct. 3 deputies are searching for an armed suspect they say robbed a Compass Bank on N. Main near Diamondhead.
The search for the suspect has been called off, but the Crosby ISD superintendent is keeping the lockdown in effect until the end of the day.
We're gathering details and will post any new information as we get it.


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MILKMEN FIND TOUGH FOE IN CHICAGO DOGS
by Alison Graettinger
The Milwaukee Milkmen traveled to Rosemont, Illinois in the series opener with the Chicago Dogs, and lost 5-1. The Dogs are in a very highly contested race for the pennant in the North Division. The Milkmen had the lead for a half inning on Garrett Copeland's home run in the first inning. Jordan Kraus got the lead hitter out in the bottom of the first, however, the damage was done by a one out walk and a double to knot the score at 1-1. A single scored the second run in the first and the Dogs never looked back.
Kraus gave up a lone run in the second, and then shut down the Dogs until the seventh inning. It was a very effective start against one of the leading offenses in the league. He gave up 7 hits while yielding 4 runs of which, only 3 were earned.
Luke Westphal, starting pitcher for the Dogs recorded 13 strikeouts in going only five innings. He appeared to suffer an arm injury and was removed as a precautionary measure. Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the Dogs, using only 9 pitches to do so.
The Milkmen's offense was almost non-existent as they only collected 4 hits in the contest, two of which were by Copeland. The second game of the series will be played on Wednesday at 7:05 at Impact Field. It was nice to see several fans from Milwaukee who traveled South to see the game.

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A native of Ohio, Craig was bitten by the theater bug at an early age, and could be found producing short plays with the neighborhood kids. Through annual backyard productions of The Wizard of Oz, he received his earliest exposure to acting, directing, and creating a whole new world through design.
After receiving a fantastic arts education in Plain Local Schools, Craig pursued his Bachelors in English and Theology at Wake Forest University, and then went on to receive a Masters in Directing from Northwestern University. A 13-year sojourn in Chicago and Minneapolis garnered him professional directing and dramaturgical credits with Writers Theatre, White Horse Theatre, Rogue Theatre, and TimeLine Theatre, among others. Contemporaneously, he acted occasionally and wrote several plays and a screenplay. In addition to his theatrical involvement, Craig held a variety of "big boy" jobs in church and educational contexts as a youth pastor, associate pastor, arts educator, and college professor.
A surprise move back home to Ohio in 2009 propelled Craig in some new directions. He founded and was the curator of Translations Art Gallery for 6 years, and served as the Creative Director for two different branding and identity agencies for 7 years. He was also pleasantly surprised to discover the vibrancy of the Northeast Ohio theatre scene, and continued to tell stories on the stage, garnering directing credits with the Players Guild, Weathervane Playhouse, the Canton and Akron symphonies, Playwrights Local, Aurora Theatre, ResonanceWorks, and others. Additionally, Craig has rediscovered a love of acting; now that he's in his forties, he finally has enough life experience to play the roles he's been cast in since he was 18.
The culmination of this theatrical renaissance in Craig's life occurred in 2012, when he founded Seat of the Pants Productions as a way to stage plays that weren't getting produced elsewhere and to experiment with techniques and processes that required a bit more time and energy. Little did he know that his "passion project" would resonate with artists and audiences alike and grow into something bigger.
In addition to his time producing theater, Craig is currently an adjunct theatre professor at both Malone and Mount Union universities, and is studying to become a certified teacher through the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium.
He's endlessly grateful to his friends, family, and the viewing public for their support of the arts.


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Gun crime in Cambridgeshire at highest level for more than 10 years
New figures for gun crimes have been released
Brad Barnes
Offences involving guns in Cambridgeshire are at the highest level for more than 10 years, police figures show.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary investigated 84 offences involving a firearm between April 2017 and March 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics.
That is the highest number in more than a decade. In 2016-17, there were 62 cases.
The incidents counted are offences where a gun has been used. Nationally the most common crime category involving a firearm was violence against the person, followed by robbery.
Across England and Wales, gun offences are at their highest level since 2010-11.
Peter Squires, a criminologist and member of non-profit group the Gun Control Network, said his research showed an "increasing supply of illegal firearms coming in through Europe".
He said guns were getting into the UK "through fast parcel service, internet based orders and regular smuggling coming in through confinements of drugs".
"A particular concern has involved the rising use of antique firearms, being recycled for criminal use, and shotguns being stolen from farms and sawn down and used by criminals," he added.
According to the ONS, the most common firearm used nationally was a handgun.
The figures also show the number of offences involving a knife or sharp object.
In 2017-18, Cambridgeshire Constabulary recorded 535 cases with knives or sharp weapons.
That's more than double the number of incidents four years earlier.
There are 63 knife offences per 100,000 people in Cambridgeshire, lower than the national average which is 69 per 100,000.
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Across England and Wales, the number of fatal stabbings hit the highest level since comparable records began, more than 70 years ago.
Diana Fawcett, chief officer at charity Victim Support, said: "We're now witnessing the highest ever number of knife-related deaths and it's deeply troubling that these rises are being driven by a huge increase in the number of young people whose lives are being lost to this epidemic.
"These figures further highlight the need for all agencies to come together to tackle this increasing crisis which is destroying lives and shattering communities."
The number of homicides in Cambridgeshire dropped last year, from nine cases in 2016-17 to six in the latest period.
A homicide is a murder or manslaughter. Across the East of England, the number of homicides decreased by 8% over the last year, to 54 cases.
Policing and fire minister, Nick Hurd, said: "Tackling the impact of violent crime remains a government priority and it is crucial to stamp this out."
Mr Hurd explained the Serious Violence Strategy targets early intervention against possible offenders.
"We are investing a further £220 million in community early intervention projects and have made clear that all public bodies need to treat serious violence as a priority," he said.
Mr Hurd added that the Government has proposed "the biggest increase in police funding since 2010".
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RCMP in Fort St. John are investigating a trio of suspicious vehicle fires early Friday morning.
Firefighters were called out to the 11100 block of Alaska Road North around 2:15 a.m. to find three vehicles on fire in the back lot behind Fort Motors dealership, according to the Fort St. John Fire Department.
The fires were quickly knocked down, the department said, and are considered suspicious.
Police have taken the lead on the investigation.
Anyone with information can call the detachment at 250-787-8100 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.


Like many young girls, Magan Vernon had a dream of what she wanted to be when she grew up. A clear vision of who she wanted to be in society, how she would be making the world better. It is after all, always about making the world a better place, for most people. Unlike other little girls who wanted to become models and pilots or CEOs at some big companies, Magan Vernon wanted to change the world by creating a form of escape for an audience. Not the kind of escape that is found in movies and stand- up comedy, but a much deeper form of escape through writing. And she did fulfil her dream having writer many book series that create a whole new world for her readers, a world where love triumphs.
Her slogan: "making you fall in love one book boyfriend at a time" give her readers something to look forward to. It guarantees the book will have some romance. Magan Vernon is a new adult and a young adult fictional writer who mostly writes about superhuman beings in love with human people, the perfect kind of romance if you as many people.
As in her books, she too did find her prince charming who swept her off her feet. She fell in love and married her long time sweetheart with whom she has the joy of having two children with. Magan Vernon is the kind of celebrity who prefers to keep her life private and keep her things to herself which is perhaps why she preferred to live in Texas, a small town rather that the big and flashy cities like new York. The cool climate and the lack of city noise, which can be very destructing, are probably the reason she loves writing from her home where she can find inspiration. She has a big number of fans who love her work because of the vividly descriptive language she uses. Her choice of words takes her audience to her world, allowing them to see what she sees, to feel what she feels and to be emerged in the characters as much or more than she is. This is what has allowed here to keep her fan base growing by the day allowing her books to make sales and her name to become the household name for many homes.
According to Magan, the worst thing that can happen to a person is being negative and being a complainer. She made the realization that she too had been complaining a lot and therefore made the decision to see everything from a positive angle. She made the decision to see everything positively whether it is bad or good because she realized that everything happens for a reason.
In her book series "my alien romance", she speaks if two characters, Alex Bianchi, a young woman looking to join the Colombia University. One thing her life is missing is the joy or extracurricular activities. Putting it shortly, her life is too serious and quite frankly boring. To make her life a little bit more fun, she decided to take on an internship at her father's military base circle. The military base she finds out that aliens and humans are working together. This blows her away when she arrives. When she gets to the military base, aliens attack her and this blows her away even more. During her attack, we are introduced to a new character, an alien named Ace who comes to her rescue like a knight and shining armor. Ace is a caltain, which translates to the cool kids in high school.
Because of this and many other physical features Ace has, Alex is naturally drawn to him and even become his working partner at the base. Like all working places relationships between co- workers and especially humans and aliens is prohibited, but there is nothing like forbidden loge to make you want someone, or an alien even more. It becomes serious when the two begin dating and everyone just tries to keep them away from each other. This attempts to make them stay off each other get so serious that it becomes life threatening for both of them and they end up just trying to save each other's lives and stay alive themselves. It is the kind of book that reminds you of the Men in Black and the kind of love that was shared between Romeo and Juliet. The books in this series follow the storyline of these two lovers deciding whether they are going to stay together and weather the storm or they are going to break up and just look for love amongst their own species. Is there love the kind that is strong enough to fight off everything or will it break and leave them tossing in the wind? Are the people and aliens who are trying so hard to separate the going to win and keep them apart or are they going to win at killing one of them? It is the kind of series with the best description of what is happening. It takes the reader to a new world giving them the feeling of wanting to get in the book and slap one of the characters.
Magan Vernon has also found a way of capturing and keeping the attention of her audience locked with the level of action and suspense that she creates. It makes it very difficult for the reader to predict what will happen next which for many book readers is something they want. She makes you want to find out more about what is going on and the fact that you cannot predict and do not know what is happening makes the book all the more interesting. In her own special way she has found a way of ensuring that her readers do not get bored. Her ability to make every series inn her books different without losing the uniqueness of her creativity makes it priceless. Her readers get to enjoy reading a completely different book and storyline each time they take on her books.


I'm trying to hook-up my PS3 to a network switch instead of a linksys router like it was before. Now the system doesn't even recognize that it's connected. I've tried restarting everything. The computers that are hooked up to the switch is working fine, and the patch cord is fine. If I hook up the router through the switch the PS3 sees the router and gets an IP address but won't connect to the internet itself.
Might just happen to be a computer?
Disabling the Wireless adapter in the PS3?
yeah i never enabled it to begin with. the ps3 is set up for a hard wired connection.


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FSB reported on the prevention of terrorist attacks in Moscow, supporters of ISIS
FSB officers detained five members of an extremist group associated with banned terrorist organization "Islamic state" (ISIL), who were preparing terrorist attacks and crimes of an extremist nature on the territory of Ingushetia and in Moscow. On Tuesday, November 15, reported the public relations Center (ATC) of the FSB, reports "Interfax".
In households that housed the detainees, as well as in specially equipped caches seized five firearms and two ready-to-use explosive devices weighing 10 kg of TNT each, added to the FSB.
In addition, the detainees were discovered self-made detonators, components for improvised explosive devices, ammunition for various weapons.
Against detainees prosecuted under part 2 St. 205.5 of the criminal code on the fact of participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation, banned in Russia.
The intelligence Agency also recalled that on 7 October 2016, during the counter-terrorist operation in Nazran and the village of Gazi-Yurt in Ingushetia, was killed the leader of the group — the emissary LIH, Zubairi Saytiev, who arrived from Syria for the resumption of terrorist activities on the territory of the Republic and five of his accomplices.
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Increasing pollution levels due to rapid industrialization and urbanization are now causes of major concern in industrializing countries. Petroleum and chemical processes are responsible for many emissions both into the air. Equipment leaks in chemical and petroleum processing industries are responsible for significant amount of emissions. Even if each individual leak is generally small, it is the largest source of emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from petroleum industries and chemical manufacturing facilities. Styrene and Acrylonitrile are two major components in the streams of ABS plant of Tabriz Petrochemical Complex which is expected to be released to the atmosphere through various sources such as equipment leaks and tank venting. In the first step of this study the major sources of pollutants emission in the ABS plant were identified considering the PDF and PID of the plant. Then the emission rate of each source was estimated using the emission factors presented by USEPA. An emissions factor is a representative value that attempts to relate the quantity of a pollutant released to the atmosphere with an activity associated with the release of that pollutant. Emission factors are powerful tools for policy makers as they can be used to relate emissions and concentrations. In the last step, the estimated emission rates were used as the input of Industrial Source Complex Short-Term Version 3 (ISCST3) model to predict the ground level concentration of Styrene and Acrylonitrile around the ABS plant. The ISCST3 is steady-state Gaussian plume model which can be used to assess pollutant concentrations from a wide variety of sources associated with an industrial complex. The model is generally applicable for near-field (within 10 km) impact assessment of air pollutant in meteorologically and topographically uncomplex conditions. Among the 54 pumps, 23 compressors and other equipments of the plant, 11 pumps, 8 compressors and 6 storage tanks were identified as the emission sources of considered pollutants. The emission rates of pumps and compressors were estimated using the emission factors presented in AP-42 document of USEPA. The emission estimation of Styrene and Acrylonitrile from six storage tanks has been done using USEPA standard regulatory storage tanks emission model (TANKS 4.0.9a). The emission software program TANKS is developed using emission factors presented in AP-42. The results showed that the compressors are the significant sources of considered pollutants which release about 586 g/day Styrene and 2506 g/day Acrylonitrile to the atmosphere. The emission rate of Styrene and Acrylonitrile from pumps were estimated 36 g/day and 94 g/day, respectively. The results of using TANKS model indicated that Styrene and Acrylonitrile emission rates are 7 g/day and 22 g/day, respectively. The estimated emission rates were used as the input of ISCST3 model to find the ground level concentrations of considered pollutants around ABS plant. The results showed that the maximum level of Styrene was 646 µg/m3 which is below the Reference Concentration (Rfc). In the case of Acrylonitrile the maximum level of estimated concentration was 272 µg/m3 which is higher than Rfc. The implementation of a leak detection and repair (LDAR) program or modifying/replacing leaking equipment with "leakless" components were recommended to reduce the emissions from equipment leaks of ABS plant.


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Posted in Jewish HolidaysPurim on December 3, 2017
Here's some interesting trivia you may not know about Purim, one of the most joyous holidays on the Jewish Calendar!
1. Purim celebrations include masquerading with masks and costumes, but no one knows why. Speculation abounds, but some popular theories claim:
a) Jews have had to hide their faith at certain times, just as Esther did from King Xerxes.
b) Because God's name was never included in the story line, a mask is worn to represent His choice to "mask" Himself in the Book of Esther. While His name isn't mentioned, His hand, character and heart are evident throughout.
c) Some have attributed the wearing of masks to the influence of the Roman Catholic carnival (Mardi Gras) tradition that began in the 14th century; it usually coincides with Purim.
2. The Book of Esther was the last book in the Jewish Tanach to be canonized by the Great Assembly of rabbis around 200 BCE.
3. Ever heard of the word "spiel"? It has its origins in Purim. It is a comical, satirical performance that tells the story of Esther. So as long as it's funny, it can be a spiel!
4. Purim is considered more of a minor "national" holiday as opposed to a "religious" one, which is why business transactions take place on this day.
5. The story of Esther, or "The Megillah," is read out loud in its entirety during special synagogue services on the holiday.
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EDITORIAL: That will (not really) teach them
Religion literacy classes are good start to solving intolerance
February 28, 2017 8:45pm | By The Daily Targum
In an atmosphere where flyers promoting a "Muslim-Free America" have been circulating the Rutgers campus, it is safe to say that not everyone in the Rutgers community is as religiously tolerant as one would have thought. This religious intolerance most likely stems from the mere lack of understanding or lack of exposure to Islam, and to other religions in general. The solution to this? Perhaps Rutgers should look to Harvard University for answers.
Six religion professors from the Ivy League university as well as Harvard Divinity School and Wellesley College all came together to create a series of classes that cover world religions and promote literacy of these religions. These online classes are free and even offer a non-audit track where those who want to move forward with their education can work toward a certificate. The religious study that the online course covers focuses on more than just the basic doctrines of each religion. Instead, the course works toward targeting stereotypes head-on with the use of the religious texts in question, and also speaks on the "internal" differences within varied religions.
Harvard has its head in the right place with this online course. But the course — and Rutgers as well — can go the extra mile. This is a tremendous step for Harvard in promoting religious understanding and tolerance but the problem with a free online course is that the people who are most in need of learning about religions, the people who are hateful toward other religions because they don't understand them, are not going to be the people who sign up to take this class. It would be wonderful for Rutgers to implement these types of classes into their own curriculum but in a more effective way.
Perhaps, the same way Rutgers makes it a requirement for incoming students to take a short Alcohol Education class to learn about the dangers of alcohol consumption and the consequences of underage drinking, Rutgers can work to incorporate a religion literacy course that is mandatory for students to take prior to signing up for classes or attending the University. Or perhaps Rutgers can go even further and integrate religion literacy and tolerance classes into its core curriculum. As important as learning about extinction is, in the current political climate, nothing is more relevant or important at the moment as learning about other people's beliefs and how to understand them.
There is no doubt that this would not be popular with every single member of the Rutgers community, and for a variety of reasons. Some people may believe that these classes would be stupid or a waste of time, especially if they have no interest in the topic, as it does not pertain to people who identify as atheist. Others may believe that their devotion to their own religion is so strong that it would be wrongful of them to take a course on learning about the inner details of another religion. And some people may even feel as though they are so against one or some of the religions that would be covered that it would be unbearable for them to take part in such a class.
Learning to obtain literacy in religion and to be more understanding of other religions is beneficial in any situation. For those who want to argue against religions, the first step in debating something is having an extensive knowledge of it. Even if you are against the idea of religion, learning what others believe makes it easier to connect to them. And to those who wouldn't want to learn about a religion aside from their own ... At the core of every religion is the message to spread love and understanding and if you cannot find this aspect in learning about other religions, then you would be rejecting the values of your own.
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Q: fullcalendar not rendering the event I am using full calendar with symfony. However the events not been rendered.  I tried every way.
Controller Code
  /**
 * @Route("/get-booking-to-calendar/{id}", name="booking-to-calendar")
 */
public function BookingCalendarAction($id)
{
    $em=$this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

    $field = $em->getRepository('AppBundle:Field')->find($id);

    $bookings= $em->getRepository('AppBundle:Booking')->findBy(array('field_booking' => $field->getId()));

    foreach($bookings as $booking)
    {
        $booking_array[] = array(
            'id' => $booking->getId(),
            'title' => $booking->getDuration(),
            'start' => $booking->getStartTime(),
            'end' => $booking->getEndTime(),
            'allDay'=>true,
        );

    }
    $response = new Response(json_encode($booking_array));
    $response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/json');
    return $response;

}

Twig
 <script>
    $(document).ready(function() {

        var calendar = $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
            editable: true,
            timeFormat: 'h:mm',
            allDaySlot:false,

            slotDuration : '00:15:00',
            header: {
                left: 'prev,next today',
                center: 'title',
                right: 'month,agendaWeek,agendaDay'
            },

            events: "{{ path ('booking-to-calendar',  {'id':field_id}) }}",
            // Convert the allDay from string to boolean

            eventRender: function(event, element, view) {
                if (event.allDay === 'true') {
                    event.allDay = true;
                } else {
                    event.allDay = true;
                }
            },

        });
    });

</script>

and my json respond is
[{"id":2,"title":4,"start":{"date":"2016-06-18 11:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Europe\/London"},"end":{"date":"2016-06-18 12:00:00.000000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Europe\/London"},"allDay":true}]

it seems eveything is ok. but the events are not coming on the calendar.
here is html render
click to view image

A: Have you tried using the eventDataTransform hook? Populate the event object manually and see if you are still getting a problem. Fullcal wasn't parsing my start/end ISO8901 correctly and I was getting the same problem. I had to parse my JSON start/end data into moment objects before assigning them to the event object's start/end params in eventDataTransform. Best of luck!

A: finally I sort it.
First I create a repository class and add following function.
 public function GetBookings($fieldId)
{
    $sql = "SELECT b.id, b.start_time as start, b.end_time as end, CONCAT( c.first_name,', ', c.last_name) AS title FROM bookings b  LEFT JOIN clients c on b.client_id = c.id WHERE b.field_id=:fieldId ";
    $params = array(
        ':fieldId'=>$fieldId
    );

    return $this->getEntityManager()->getConnection()->executeQuery($sql, $params)->fetchAll();

}

then change my controller
/**
 * @Route("/get-booking-to-calendar/{id}", name="booking-to-calendar")
 */
public function BookingCalendarAction($id)
{
    $em=$this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

    $bookings= $em->getRepository('AppBundle:Booking')->GetBookings($id);
    $response = new Response(json_encode($bookings));
    $response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/json');
    return $response;

}


Two cases argued before the state Supreme Court this week challenge the legal standards for granting new trials to defendants who appeal their convictions.
In both cases the Supreme Court heard, defendants asked the court to allow a jury and not the judge determine what evidence is relevant to the case.
One of the cases turns on whether a defendant can claim that side effects from a prescription drug taken as directed justifies pleading insanity in a murder trial. That's what Doniyil Anderson did when he was charged with the fatal stabbing of his ex -girlfriend and the serious wounding of her new boyfriend in August 2008.
But, Anderson also admitted drinking a few beers that night. The judge in the trial told the jury that voluntarily mixing alcohol and drugs rules out an insanity plea. Anderson's attorney, public defender William Schmaal, asked the court to let jurors decide what role the alcohol played in the murder.
"It just doesn't make sense. It isn't fair to say we're going to disqualify your mental responsibility defense as a matter of law without the jury even considering it because of the small, causal contribution of alcohol," Schmaal said.
In another case, the defendant Jimothy Jenkins, asked the court to grant a new trial so the jury can hear testimony from an eyewitness to the murder that he was convicted of. The judge in the case dismissed the request, ruling that the witness gave investigators several different versions of what she saw, and therefore wasn't credible.
But Jenkins attorney Joseph Redding said the jury should decide what's credible.
"We believe that what the circuit court did here is that it acted as the 13th juror. This jury never got to hear somebody who was at ground zero," Redding said.
A ruling in both these cases is expected before the end of the year.


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If you work in insurance or are a technology entrepreneur looking for the next big thing, Insurance Tech opportunities should be on your mind. The process of buying and selling insurance is one of the most analogue consumer services remaining in existence. The daily grind in commercial and consumer insurance markets still relies on paper documents, a large workforce, and legacy systems.
However, the industry has been investing heavily in innovation. A research report by Celent estimates that insurance IT expenditure topped $175 billion in 2015. But perhaps it is the sheer size of the market that has made the process of business transformation difficult and slow. Insurance as a market in the United States alone is enormous: Premiums from 4 insurance sub-sectors (life, health, property, and casualty) totaled a whopping $1.1 trillion in 2012 (US Dept of the Treasury). That represented an impressive 7% of the US GDP. So as you can imagine, driving this economic engine requires a LOT of manpower. Insurers directly employ approximately 2.3 million people and there are an additional 2.3 million licensed insurance agents and brokers.
The result is a very slow, very costly system that lacks real-time data and insights. The opaqueness of the system means that many opportunities are being missed. And that means that opportunities abound for any innovative companies already within the system or for clever entrepreneurs eyeing the market. In our interviews with industry insiders, we've uncovered areas where innovation has progressed and areas that are open to be "won" by those that smartly re-think the process of how we insure against risk.
To meet the growing expectations and demands of the digital consumer, the most visible area of spending on innovation and technology has been directed towards mobile applications, enabling a better consumer experience.
Having a well-designed, full-featured app that allows customers to submit claims, track balances, and learn more about the benefits available through their plan should be considered table stakes for any insurer operating today — especially when a great share of your consumers are Millennials. Features that must be considered part of the core functionality include touch ID sign in, photo submission of receipts, real-time account balances, digital card, and direct deposit reimbursement.
Those that have not made the necessary changes to effectively sell into digital natives are losing business. One big example of that is life insurance. In 1960, 59% of US adults owned a life insurance policy. Today, that number has shrunk to 36%. And that is a huge difference.
Despite the investments that have been made into driving the industry towards innovation, a large portion of current operations remains people and process heavy. Duplicate processes abound throughout most insurance sectors. Group enrollments, policy quotes, and incident reports still involve the slow and costly process of people scanning or manually entering enormous amounts of information.
The following is a list of 7 areas where the insurance tech opportunities are ripe to reduce costs, increase speed, and win more business.
When a company considers changing their employee benefits plan, it kicks off a process that involves significant paperwork for the employer, their insurance broker, and the 4-8 insurance carriers who usually respond with a quote for the opportunity.
The process starts with employees filling out census data (on paper), then the company provides current plan details, claims history, etc. Next, the brokers and advisors collect, scan, and courier documents to carriers. The insurance carrier then bears the internal cost to quote the sales opportunity, all the while struggling to offer great service and quick turnaround times to their brokers. It is a cumbersome and expensive process for all parties involved.
Digitizing this whole process would vastly improve customer service, greatly reduce the internal cost burden and enable companies to compete on a whole new level.
After going through the process outlined above, many companies often opt to not change health plan providers even though they have received better, more cost-effective options from other carriers. Why? As they contemplate the workload in terms of paperwork and process change required to switch providers, many employers deem the effort simply not worth it — despite the financial and other benefits they might receive.
As a result, the ratio between quotes that carriers work on and the number that actually result in sales is quite low. Digitizing and streamlining this process from quoting to onboarding a new client holds the opportunity to not only save time and expenses, but also to dramatically improve the quote to sale ratio for carriers.
When an employee resigns or is laid off from their job, they are entitled to the option of continuing with their health insurance coverage moving forward. This means that the ex-employee can maintain uninterrupted medical coverage for themselves and their family. This is incredibly important for families that bear the high cost of recurring pharmaceutical needs like, for example, the daily costs to treat diabetes. If the now ex-employee has a hard time landing the next job or decides to go into business on their own and sign up for a family plan, they would have to provide medical evidence and would most certainly be declined.
Sharing information about the conversion privilege is the responsibility of the employer and there is some liability associated with them not doing this. Digitizing this process with proof points showing that the information was delivered would help automate the task and remove liability risks for the employer.
Combining increased awareness of the conversion privilege with a simple opt-in process should eliminate the missed sales opportunity and result in a high conversion rate for insurance carriers.
While cross-selling of products and services is already being done, digital experiences on mobile devices offer a whole world of targeting opportunities for insurance carriers that could be better utilized. Individual travel insurance, house or rental insurance, and auto insurance are obvious areas that would benefit from the targeting options available when mobile, social, and data insights are integrated and analyzed.
Less paper means access to real time data and insights. The value to be mined from the data held by insurers and the opportunities that would arise if that was accessible in real time are enormous. One area of low hanging fruit is the ability to price shop insurable services. For example, the price per pill can vary by as much as 35% from one drugstore to the next. Dispensing fees also differ, as do rates for physiotherapy and other insurable products and services.
Pacific Blue Cross is one company that has caught onto this idea and launched Pharmacy Compass. Access to data like this can save plan members (as many people don't receive 100% coverage) and insurance carriers a significant amount of money.
It's a no-brainer that the ability to submit an insurance claim as soon as an issue arises will speed up the claims process and provide customers with a vastly improved user experience. Leveraging mobile apps to do so will not only streamline the speed, but it will increase the accuracy and quality of data received by the insurer. Submitting auto claims by mobile app, for example, provides the added benefit of leveraging the device's native functionality such as location, time, photos and video. With more robust data submitted at the scene of the incident, time and money is saved by reducing the need for adjusters to visit incident sites in person.
Insurance is an incredibly data rich industry. The fact that many parts of this industry are still being run on paper means that data opportunities are being missed particularly in the areas of risk management and real time insights.
As technology continues to change how we conduct our lives, it opens new risks thus new opportunities for agile insurance carriers. Those that are armed with the best processes, data, and data scientists will be the ones who gain a competitive advantage with new product lines. Insurance for cyber-attacks, drone deliveries, autonomous vehicles, among others, are opportunities on the near-term horizon. And, there are yet to be discovered opportunities in virtual and augmented reality.
While all insurers are aggressively pursuing business transformation initiatives, it will be interesting to see who gains the first mover advantage in some of these and other areas. With the amount of money at play in this industry and the resources being thrown at this endeavour, there will be significant change in the next few years.
Adding fuel to the fire is a flurry of entrepreneurial activity in this space. There is a surge in Insurtech startups hoping to gain their fortunes by being the ones to successfully transform the customer experience, streamline business processes, or mine the vast amounts of data for golden insights. According to Venture Scanner, as of January 2017 there were 1,087 Insurance Technology companies in 14 categories across 54 countries, with a total of $17B in funding.
While the winner remains to be seen, those competing might want to heed Erin Shipley's advice on pursuing insurance tech opportunities – that "more than simply replicating existing human processes, think in terms of a 360-degree view of social media engagement, mobile app interaction, and even be mindful of geo-awareness from IoT sensors". The keys to the future are clearly held by those whose innovation investments in the present will surely leave their competition in the past.


MANILA, Philippines – Bank clients will soon have access to more detailed information about deposit and borrowing rates to help them make better decisions with their finances, the central bank said Thursday.
In a statement, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said its Monetary Board recently approved "enhancements" to the required reports on interest rates on loans and deposits being submitted by universal and commercial banks.
The enhanced structure requires greater granularity on the data reported that is expected to contribute to enhanced monitoring and analysis of the bank regulator as well as provide the public with more information in making decisions.
"These will provide consumers with more valuable information to compare costs and evaluate their needs based on the best loans and deposits products available to them," BSP said.
"The enhanced structure of the report requires universal and commercial banks to disclose interest rates on actual loans granted and deposits generated classified as to product types, maturity period/terms, and size (of deposits) as of a given reference period," the central bank added.
The information generated from these reports provides analytical support for policy decisions as well as assessment of interest rate risk exposure of the industry. Data on bank interest rates on loans and deposits are published on the BSP website on a regular basis.
The central bank said the compilation and publication of bank interest rates on loans and deposits are aligned with the international best practice and likewise supports its thrust to promote greater financial literacy, consumer protection, and market transparency in the industry.


If you liked our Food Pyramid: Nutrition Worksheets for Kids (Grades 1 and 2), you'll certainly enjoy this collection for grades 3 and 4.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has developed these lessons to help you teach kids in grades 3 and 4 about healthy food and nutrition. The lessons feature a graphic developed specifically for elementary students titled MyPyramid for Kids (Nutrition Worksheets For Kids). They are designed to integrate nutrition with math, language arts, music, and art. Physical activity is also emphasized.
Provide information to send home to parents.
Your students will have fun as they learn to eat well and be physically active.
This 16-page collection of nutrition worksheets for kids (The Food Pyramid: Nutrition Worksheets for Kids (Grades 3 and 4) is kindly provided by the US Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, and is also available from their website for free download. Detailed teacher's notes are provided for each lesson.


Today's fall wedding offers so much beauty! From the stunning couple to the gorgeous Tennessee venue, Castleton Farms, this wedding has it all. I especially love that Daniel and Cassidy shared a first look moment before the ceremony. Photographer, Julie Roberts, described it as truly unforgettable. Enjoy the photos below, and make sure to visit the full gallery of images for more pretty!


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Employee Spotlight: Kenneth Graham, Code Enforcement Officer
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Kenneth Graham started his career with the City of Salisbury Public Works Department in 2015 before transitioning to Salisbury Community Planning Services. In his current role as a code enforcement officer, Kenneth issues warnings, official notices and citations to obtain compliance with zoning laws and building ordinances within city limits. This includes communicating with business and property owners concerning violations, responding and addressing code violations and nuisances such as illegal dumping, tall grass, etc., and spreading awareness about code enforcement to residents.
Mayor's Spirit Luncheon recognizes local Luminaries
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Salisbury Mayor Karen Alexander will host the Virtual Mayor's Spirit Luncheon, Monday, August 9, from noon to 1 p.m., live via the City's Facebook page.
Salisbury lands $100,000 Lowe's 100 Hometowns Grant
Funds to benefit the 2021 Blockwork project
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The City of Salisbury is thrilled to be one of the 100 impact projects nationwide that are the cornerstone of 100 Hometowns, an initiative to celebrate Lowe's centennial.
Mayor Alexander Statement on Fame 7-23-21
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After a year of planning, site research and the preparation, Fame is now in her final location, placed in historical context, overlooking the graves of the soldiers for which she was originally created in perpetuity.
City of Salisbury begins downtown road construction next week, July 26
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City of Salisbury will begin nightly road construction, Monday, July 26, in downtown Salisbury in preparation for the Main Street resurfacing project in the fall. The project is expected to take approximately three weeks to complete.
Salisbury Police Detective Receives NC Gang Investigators Association Award
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Salisbury Police Detective J.R. Drakeford has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Special Achievement Award from the North Carolina Gang Investigators Association for his work on statewide gang investigations. He will be honored officially at an awards banquet in August.
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Shannon C. Moore has resigned as finance director with the City of Salisbury. Her last day is Friday, July 30.
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Salisbury Transit resumes normal services 7/12/21
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Washington Post's New Leader, One Year In: Mean Tweets, Internal Battles, Finding Direction
Executive Editor Sally Buzbee took over the famed D.C. publication amid a backdrop of staffing challenges and directing coverage in a post-Trump world.
Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan (R), Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee (L), and New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger (C) arrive with fellow news media executives for a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland at the U.S. Justice Department on June 14, 2021 in Washington, D.C. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
By Max Tani
Updated: 06/20/2022 11:01 AM EDT
Max Tani is a POLITICO reporter covering the White House and the media.
Sally Buzbee has a go-to move when Washington Post staff are getting upset: Call a meeting ASAP.
Last year, after business editor Lori Montgomery tweeted criticism of a column noting a rape allegation about retiring NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger as "completely FoS," Buzbee, the paper's executive editor, held three all-hands meetings to address the issue, according to two people who attended.
They and other staffers say Buzbee followed the same playbook earlier this year, when a group of Metro desk reporters sent her a letter over their exclusion from a project that followed up on the Post's Jan. 6 riot coverage, for which the paper won this year's Pulitzer Prize for public service, journalism's top prize. Almost immediately Buzbee called a meeting to smooth over hurt feelings. Tears were shed, but ultimately some staff left feeling heard by the top leader.
Some staffers thought Buzbee's tactic was working. Until it wasn't.
A year into her tenure, Buzbee's efforts at creating a more inclusive newsroom have been stymied by an environment still reeling from years-old wounds over social media and editorial battles and trying to find its feet after a renewed sense of editorial purpose in the Trump era.
She's lost prominent staff and, like many other national publications, struggled with a significant decline in readership following the end of the Trump presidency. The Post has experienced a slowdown in subscriptions, according to internal emails seen by staffers. Morale has ebbed to a low. In conversations with more than a dozen staffers granted anonymity to speak freely about newsroom dynamics, employees described the events of earlier this month — in which several prominent reporters accused each other of creating hostile work environments and one reporter was fired — as "mayhem" and "chaos."
"What are the wins under Sally Buzbee?" asked one of the Post staffers. "I don't know the answer to that."
Her struggles to steady the newsroom not only reflect the difficulties of an outsider joining a well-established institution but also illustrate the hurdles an editorial leader faces in overseeing a contemporary newsroom immersed by social media and changing social norms.
The Post has more than 1,000 newsroom staffers around the globe, and nearly as many views on Buzbee's tenure. But conversations with many of them exposed some common threads.
Buzbee has earned plaudits inside the Post for being more accessible than her storied predecessor, Marty Baron. The Post grew in size and influence under his watch, with the help of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who bought the paper in 2015 and infused it with cash.
Baron was generally respected by newsroom employees, but his old-school, top-down management style at times frustrated some of the younger staff, leading to public clashes with prominent reporters. Baron declined to comment for this story.
Buzbee has taken a different approach, leaning into conversations with editors and expanding the organization's leadership to include more diverse viewpoints. But some staffers have been less certain about Buzbee's vision for the paper.
She was chosen for the job by Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan over prominent internal candidates, including Cameron Barr and Steven Ginsberg, many of whom had different supporting factions within the newsroom. Buzbee kept both on her leadership team, promoting Ginsberg to managing editor and Barr to senior managing editor.
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Her selection was historic, the first woman to ever serve as executive editor of the Post. But there have been a number of staff departures that raised questions about editorial stability.
High-profile political staffers who left the publication include Robert Costa, who departed earlier this year for CBS News and White House reporter Seung Min Kim, who announced last week that she's joining The Associated Press. Investigative researcher Julie Tate left for the New York Times, as did David Fahrenthold, who won a Pulitzer for his work into Trump business deals.
The recent dustups have led some staff to question whether Buzbee and the paper's management can guide the renowned news organization in an era where the Post's top priorities are less clear than during the later part of Baron's tenure. As evidence of Buzbee's continued attempt to balance internal staff dynamics with the larger newsroom mission, the Post issued new draft social media guidelines this week with directives for her team and held internal listening sessions with staff to hear feedback.
The Post has also become increasingly guarded about staff leaking information. When leadership circulated a new draft of the social media policies, staff were required to use their Washington Post IDs to access the document, and could not download it. The new document also urged staff against revealing internal communications, including email and Slack messages.
According to a copy of the draft guidelines seen by POLITICO, the Post declared that hashtags like "#defundthepolice and #stopthesteal" should be avoided, while others like #blacklivesmatter and #pride are allowed. Posts that "celebrate identity and recognize marginalized people's humanity are not political advocacy," according to the guidelines. But the paper cautioned staff from using similar language in tweets because "they could easily be construed as voicing an opinion and should be avoided."
The paper's policies also urged staff against criticizing colleagues publicly on social media, saying that even when facing online harassment, "these sorts of attacks do not give Post journalists license to violate this policy in retaliation."
Washington Post spokesperson Kristine Coratti Kelly said the document was an early draft of ideas. "It was a document intended to give people a base from which to react, and it made the sessions very productive," she said.
Through Coratti Kelly, Buzbee declined to comment for this story, saying she had already committed to participating in a one-year retrospective on her tenure with another publication.
Buzbee has overseen the expansion of the editing ranks and introduced new coverage of democracy, the environment and other key issues. Her responsiveness to employee input has earned her internal praise. She holds regular internal newsroom Q-and-A's and often responds directly (if at times vaguely) to concerns they have. After joining the Post, she rearranged Baron's old office so the table where he worked faced the door, which symbolically and literally is open most times of the day.
She has also attempted to lower the temperature with the company's editorial union, which regularly clashed with Baron over issues related to newsroom diversity and social media policies, among other issues. Four of the Washington Post staffers said Buzbee proactively communicates with the union about newsroom issues, a shift from the tense relationship the union had with Baron, who often ignored correspondence from its leadership.
Sally Buzbee holds regular internal newsroom Q-and-A's and often responds directly (if at times vaguely) to concerns they have. After joining the Post, she rearranged Baron's old office so her desk faced the door, which symbolically and literally is open most times of the day. | Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP
In a statement, the paper's union leadership credited Buzbee for taking issues like staff diversity seriously, but urged her to help improve the overall newsroom culture.
"Sally has shown that she is willing to listen and consider issues raised by Guild leaders, members and committees. We appreciate her receptiveness to our 2022 Pay and Retention Study and the accompanying testimonials from Black Washington Post staffers, among other efforts," the statement said. "Still, we are eager to see her take action on a host of Guild recommendations that we know will help improve the company's culture and create a better work environment for all of our staff."
Buzbee has also made deliberate restructuring changes that many staff felt were overdue. She has focused on hiring more editors, including elevating those who are nonwhite, and unraveling the job formerly held by managing editor Tracy Grant, a prominent newsroom figure who riled some rank-and-file staffers over the way she enforced standards policies.
In a statement, Coratti Kelly, the Post spokesperson, noted the paper had hired more than three dozen new editors and promoted many existing editors to better address challenges posed by the paper's expansion in recent years.
"Sally came into a newsroom that had outgrown its structure," she said. "Her priority was to execute the necessary structural changes to properly manage The Post's growth."
But others feel that the paper has lost some of the focus it gained under Baron, who helped steer the Post to new levels of journalism prominence through major investigations and a series of scoops under the presidency of Donald Trump, one of the leakiest and most unorthodox administrations in modern history.
Some staff have found Buzbee's moves fairly uninspiring. And as far as many employees can tell, her largest project has been the creation of a section to cover wellness.
The recent public airing of dirty laundry has also embarrassed some staff. Some have also been frustrated by lingering questions about the paper's social media policies, which have been at the root of many Post issues that spilled out into the public. Buzbee told staff shortly after coming on board that the paper would rewrite social media policies last fall. But she then deferred to a new standards editor, Liz Seymour, who was on extended leave until this week, frustrating staff who felt Buzbee let the issue fester for too long.
"It's an absence of leadership," said a second Washington Post reporter.
And then there was the recent termination of political reporter Felicia Sonmez.
The battle started earlier this month when fellow political reporter Dave Weigel retweeted a sexist and homophobic joke. He quickly deleted the tweet and apologized for it. But by then, many colleagues, including Sonmez, publicly criticized the paper over what they saw as inequitable enforcement of social media policies over what reporters can say online.
It quickly spiraled from there. Weigel was suspended for a month without pay, and Sonmez escalated the feud on Twitter, dividing Post staffers in the process. The drama climaxed when the Post fired Sonmez for "misconduct that includes subordination" as well as maligning her coworkers online.
The recent public airing of dirty laundry has also embarrassed some staff. Some have also been frustrated by lingering questions about the paper's social media policies, which have been at the root of many Post issues that spilled out into the public. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo
This time, instead of a meeting, Buzbee issued a newsroom memo calling to "treat each other with respect and kindness." The paper's leadership also limited the ability to send staff-wide emails to management after some employees used the function to criticize higher-ups over decisions related to Sonmez.
This episode, in particular, was a setback for Buzbee. The Post spokesperson confirmed that top editors sent a letter to Sonmez after Baron retired with the intent of repairing the relationship between the paper and the outspoken Post reporter. According to two people with knowledge of the events, Buzbee also attempted to mend fences with Sonmez, including reaching out to Sonmez after Montgomery's Roethlisberger tweet to set up a slate-clearing meeting.
But Sonmez, who declined to comment for this story, had an active lawsuit against the paper for discrimination, filed after she was prohibited from covering sexual harassment and assault, and the meeting never happened (a judge dismissed the lawsuit in March). Further, Sonmez and her allies were dismayed that Buzbee continued to promote many of the editors named in Sonmez's lawsuit, which they saw as a continuation of the status quo.
Even some of Buzbee's wins have been somewhat complicated.
Poaching technology and culture reporter Taylor Lorenz in May from the New York Times, where she was a high-profile figure, was seen as a coup for the Post. Lorenz immediately injected the paper's digital culture coverage with energy, delivering scoops and exclusives on TikTok and the White House's attempts to fight disinformation. One Post staffer said internal emails show Lorenz's pieces are often the top drivers of subscriptions to the paper.
But earlier this month, the paper issued a correction after an Internet content creator who was the subject of a Lorenz article complained the reporter did not reach out for comment as the piece claimed. In a tweet, Lorenz blamed the error on an editor, but the incident gained significant attention among conservative media outlets often critical of Lorenz's work.
Two other people familiar with Buzbee's thinking said she privately expressed frustration over how the incident was handled. The Post stood by Lorenz's comment publicly, despite criticism from the paper's own media columnist Erik Wemple, who wrote that Lorenz violated the paper's correction guidelines prohibiting staff from blaming editors and colleagues for mistakes. The Post spokesperson did not address the issue in a statement, but said the top editor's focus is "on ensuring The Post reports fairly and accurately, and that we are transparent about any necessary corrections."
But the incident prompted a decision to move Lorenz from the Style section and into tech or another section more suited to her beat, said a separate Post staffer. Her stories would then get an edit by Barr, the senior managing editor. The spokesperson for the paper confirmed the move. Lorenz declined to comment.
The fallout had other consequences.
Staff in the Style section sent a strongly worded letter to masthead leaders last week protesting the apparent promotion, and then reversal, of the editor Lorenz called out in the incident. Buzbee quickly called for a meeting with the staff. The contentious gathering came almost immediately after the paper notified Sonmez by email she was fired.
Ultimately, the recent newsroom controversies mean this for Buzbee: More meetings.
Buzbee met privately with multiple reporters at the paper this week and, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO, the Post scheduled multiple meetings this week to hear employee feelings on the recent events. Two other Washington Post staffers said that the top editor and other senior editors held Zoom sessions last Friday and Monday with individual teams at the Post.
On the agenda: Employee concerns over the recent incidents at the Post.
Alex Thompson contributed to this report.
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Thermal imaging has proven itself to be a useful adjunct to physical testing in areas including engineering, health, and agriculture. Until now, however, conventional 3D thermal imaging use has largely been restricted due to the specialized technical knowledge required to operate it and interpret the results. To address this, Australia's CSIRO has developed a prototype tool called HeatWave that is a lightweight, high-resolution 3D scanner that is claimed to be not only easy to carry, but easy to use as well.
The handheld HeatWave scanner uses a 3D camera and infrared thermal sensors to capture images, with SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) technology incorporated to help construct a map of the environment while concurrently keeping track of the machine's location within that environment. This technology, combined with proprietary 3D mapping software, allows the HeatWave device to create spatial data which can be read by an attached laptop to create 3D surface temperature models on site.
There are a number of existing 3D thermal systems on the market, but most are unwieldy, expensive and hard to use. Those that are portable, such as the Flir system for the iPhone, are simply too low resolution for serious scientific and engineering work. The HeatWave tool, on the other hand, is able to capture high-accuracy multi-spectral models but without the need for technical expertise to interpret the results.
Similar to the Lynx 3D modeling camera, the HeatWave generates a 3D model in real time as the user waves the device over an object to be scanned. These multiple views are then combined to show a thermal profile map overlaid onto a 3D model of the area scanned.
As a result, HeatWave produces a high-resolution 3D model that can be viewed in either independent modules or with each layer combined using a software program called Spectra. This program is claimed to be the world's first 3D visualization software of its kind that enables both thermal and color information to be displayed simultaneously as a composite 3D image, rather than as a set of multiple images that must be interpreted separately.
Although the device is currently only at research prototype stage, the CSIRO expects HeatWave to have applications in a variety of industries, including energy, building, manufacturing, construction, emergency services, and health.
The short video below shows the HeatWave in use.


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The Internet: A culture-making machine
Keeley Adams
Society and culture | East Asia
Just like the cool new fifth-grader who's caught the most Pokémon in the playground, the internet is undoubtedly the most popular and powerful new force in mass media. Today, the internet is not only a new social and technological development, but also a culture-making machine, especially in the Asia Pacific.
Throughout the years, mass media has evolved from newspapers, radio and television into what is certainly an era of the internet. Here, you can learn almost anything: from how to tie a shoelace to how to build an igloo. But is the internet capable of forming new cultures entirely? K-pop would certainly indicate so.
Just like the broad definition of culture itself, 'internet culture' is now being used to describe the new ways the internet is connecting people with common beliefs, hobbies and interests all around the world. Today it is far more common for younger generations to spend more time watching content online than on a television screen. With over 4 billion views per day being racked up on YouTube, the internet is certainly the go-to place to spread information to mass audiences.
Take the popular YouTube channel 'Eat Your Kimchi' run by a Canadian couple who have lived in South Korea for over 8 years. The pair often post K-pop (Korean pop music) discussion videos online where their tremendous fan base – over a million subscribers – of both Korean and Western origin can come together and connect. In its beginnings, K-pop appeared as if it would only amount to a national trend. But by 2009, K-pop was quickly forming a new sub-culture in both the United States and many European countries.
An indication of the power of internet culture for countries in the Asia Pacific region was shown by the unexpected phenomenon that was 'Gangnam Style'. Arguably the most famous K-pop song and most viewed video on YouTube to date, there is hardly a Seoul – pardon the pun - in both Asia and the West who hasn't been exposed to the wacky dance moves and aesthetics of the music video. Other K-pop music videos regularly obtain between 10-30 million views, and often you can hear one or two English words sown between the Korean lyrics in order to appeal to their newfound Western audiences.
K-pop is unquestionably a new craze that has been made possible through the power of the internet and its 'culture-making machine'. While K-pop may have been an essential part of modern South Korean culture, the widespread audience online has created a new sub-culture in both Asian and Western countries. Even the Australian National University has a K-pop society and a dance club, with regular meetings and Korean movie nights. These two clubs get together weekly to appreciate and imitate South Korean cinema, dance-styles and cultural attributes that they have learnt through K-pop.
The internet is unpredictable, especially in Asia, and while the current definition of 'internet-culture' is sure to change over time, what is known is that the internet has provided communities of people in both Western and Asian countries with the ability to come together and celebrate their shared love of both old and new cultures from all across the world. K-pop is one of many examples of modern sub-cultures made possible by the internet, with its head-bobbing beat and colourful music videos that many in our own nation have come to identify with.
While the majority of Asian culture has been spread via trade and globalisation, the internet now allows an instantaneous mode of communication that has the ability to inform us of the past and create new, modern sub-cultures that can be viewed and appreciated world-wide.
Without the internet and its culture-making machine, K-pop would never have generated such interest. And no K-pop fan outside South Korea would exist.
'Internet culture' is for everyone, and if you can't find a place within it? Make one.
K-pop certainly did.
Paper cats and uncivilised swimmers
Harrison Rule
Politics | East Asia
Why a Chinese Communist Party newspaper attacked "Paper Cat" Australia and Netizens are trolling an Olympic athlete.
Wiki: The unsuspecting Hawai'ian word
Mitiana Arbon
Society and culture | Pacific
Mitiana Arbon reflects on the origin and adoption of the Hawai'ian word wiki into the English language.
These days it is impossible not to encounter the word wiki in one form or another online. From reading diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks to researching the average life span of Scottish deerhounds on Wikipedia, wiki has unassumingly crept into the global vernacular.
Tokelau: How its internet domain makes it the largest nation online
Mitiana Arbon reflects on how the tiny nation of Tokelau is currently beating the rest of the world on the internet.
Wiki: The unsuspecting Hawai'ian word MITIANA ARBON
Tokelau: How its internet domain makes it the largest nation online MITIANA ARBON
Paper cats and uncivilised swimmers HARRISON RULE
The Internet: A culture-making machine KEELEY ADAMS


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Syfy will conjure up Season 4 of The Magicians at 9 PM Wednesday, January 23, producers announced at New York Comic Con today. In addition to the premiere date, a sneak peek trailer also was unveiled. Check it out above.
The Magicians, based on the best-selling novels by Lev Grossman (who was on the Syfy Wire's Live Stage at NYCC, along with The Magicians co-creators, co-showrunners and executive producers John McNamara and Sera Gamble), follows young Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) and his friends as they discover their magical abilities and ward off evil creatures who threaten to destroy the magical world Quentin and his friends have come to know.
Last season, Quentin and friends embarked on the epic quest of the seven keys to restore lost magic. In the finale, just as the magicians had restored magic by unlocking the fountain at the other end of the Wellspring, the Library, Irene McAllistair and Dean Fogg swooped in to reroute the magic. In exchange, Dean Fogg negotiated the lives of his students, erasing their memories and giving each – except Alice who is now imprisoned by the Library – a new, magic-free identity.
In addition to Jason Ralph, The Magicians stars Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Hale Appleman, Arjun Gupta, Summer Bishil, Rick Worthy, Jade Tailor, Brittany Curran and Trevor Einhorn. The series is executive produced by John McNamara, Sera Gamble, Chris Fisher, Henry Alonso Myers and Groundswell Productions' Michael London and Janice Williams.
Also, in a first for the show, The Magicians cast will participate in a Facebook Live interaction with fans and host Candis Cayne on Thursday, Oct. 18.


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Wynn Resorts Stock Moves on MGM Deal Rumors
Several sources expects MGM to acquire WYNN
April 6, 2018 By William White, InvestorPlace Writer Apr 6, 2018, 11:22 am EST April 6, 2018
Wynn Resorts, Limited (NASDAQ:WYNN) stock was on the move today on talk about a possible acquisition by MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM).
According to a recent report, MGM Resorts International is showing an interest in the company, but talks have yet to officially start. One person close to the matter, says that WYNN CEO Matt Maddox would be willing to sell for the right price. This source says there's a 50% chance that MGM scoops up the company in the next few months.
Several other sources are also saying that they are expecting MGM to make a bid for Wynn Resorts. However, there are others warning that MGM may lose interest in the company and that no deal will take place.
MGM CEO James Murren said back in February that he doesn't have any interest in obtaining Wynn Resorts. Despite this, the rumors persists. That's likely due to a recent change at WYNN. Founder Steve Wynn resigned back in February and has now sold off his entire stake in the gaming company, reports The New York Post.
"I think Wynn might actually be acquired by another casino company now that Steve Wynn has stepped down from his operating role in the wake of those admittedly disturbing sexual misconduct allegations," Jim Cramer told TheStreet.com. "I think it's a natural takeover target for, say, Las Vegas Sands Corp. or even MGM. It doesn't rally 10 bucks in one session idly for nothing."
WYNN stock started out up 1% when the markets opened today, but is now down slightly as of Friday morning. MGM stock is on the move as well and is currently down 2% as of Friday morning.
As of this writing, William White did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2018/04/wynn-resorts-moves-on-mgm-rumors/.


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