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The Power of Protest and Why it's Important to protest
The Flint Water Crisis, Environmental Racism,Police Brutality
Context: Protesting and using the power of the voices in the community has always been a way to invoke change. There's power in first hand experiences and there's power in hearing what victims have to say. There's also power in resisting and creating a united front to stand up for injustices. Most often it is Black and Brown people who are at the forefront of these protests. We're there demanding justice and fighting for what should be basic rights. Race has a lot to do with why minority groups don't have easy access to things like clean air and water. Race also plays a role in why it is so easy for non people of color to overlook issues that happen within these communities. Once we start overlooking entire communities it opens the door for injustices to happen. With the recent deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd we see now more than ever just how powerful protesting can be and the results that can come from it. The fight for Black lives doesn't just stop at police brutality, it goes beyond this and is a continuous fight.
Just as water is a human right and should be fought for, the right to not be killed by the police is also more than worthy of fighting for.
Goals: Grade Level: 6th-12th
Contextualize recent events in the broader fight for social justice and equity
Think critically about examples of environmental racism
Learn how to use your voice through a narrative
Supplies: Time: 45 minutes
Instructions: Gather your loved ones, watch the following videos, and respond to the questions below all together. Then, read the narrative at the bottom from one of our Green School Coordinators to get a good sense of how to use your voice to write a narrative about your experiences and your beliefs, and to see how to connect those personal experiences to the world outside of you.
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZ1-LAFOTo&t=17s The Dakota Access Pipeline, 2016-17
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iADw1HRTjhU&t=1s Flint Water Crisis, 2014-Present
Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cXgCR_dAzA&t=29s Climate Strikes, 2019
Family Reflections:
Do you believe that water is a basic human right? Should clean, treated water be free? If not, how do you suggest people should pay for their water?
Consider the following definitions of structural and strategic racism. What is the difference between structural racism and strategic racism?
Structural racism includes the institutions and their systems that create different outcomes for people based on their race.
Strategic racism is when someone utilizes these racist structures, for their economic or political gain.
Using these definitions, which form of racism might the following movements be attempting to address?
Police brutality protests
Global Climate Strike
What are the similarities between the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for environmental justice?
What are the similarities between Standing Rock and the Flint water crisis?
Brainstorm with your family some ways you might be able to raise awareness of environmental injustices in your community. If it were up to you to organize a protest what might be some steps you'd need to take to ensure the safety and effectiveness of your protest?
To me Janisa Nelson, someone who was born in Flint, Michigan, water is a basic human right. We all need water to live and should have access to clean water for free. That's my opinion and many may not agree. I however gathered this opinion from my personal experience with the Flint Water Crisis. In April 2014, Flint stopped purchasing already-treated Lake Huron water from Detroit to switch to the Flint River. The decision was planned to save an estimated $5 million over two years while work was completed on the Karegnondi Water Authority pipeline to Lake Huron. The more corrosive water from the Flint River leached lead from the water system pipes, leading to high levels of lead in hundreds of homes. The lead contamination, which could have been prevented with anti-corrosion treatment of the water - became a national political scandal once emails and documents began to emerge showing that Michigan officials tried to play down the problem for months. The question is, why would these officials feel as if it would be okay to downplay something as serious as clean water? How could someone do that? And would this have happened in Grand Blanc, Montrose, or Flushing? All of which are predominantly white suburbs outside of Flint. I being 16 at the time, didn't believe that it would, so after extensive research I stumbled upon the term environmental racism. I've been advocating for environmental justice ever since.
I watched my friends and family suffer and through this experience, I began to question how something like this could happen here, in the 21st century. I then decided that it was time for me to get active and get down to the root cause of it all. I wasn't the only person who felt this way at the time either. While I was fixated on exploring environmental racism, many others protested to let their voices be heard. Protesters came from all over to demand new pipes and clean water for the city. Through the many people who came out and protested, the water crisis was able to get national attention and receive help in the forms of donations and bottled water for water distribution sites.
We see with the many water shutoffs that occur here in the city of Detroit that access to water is still an issue. In 2019, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department cut service to 23,473 homes whose occupants had fallen behind on their bills—a 44 percent increase over the year before. By January of 2020, 9,500 of those homes were still without water. Even after water was shut off, DWSD charged each household $27 a month for being connected to the city sewer system. In Flint, despite the water being unsafe people were still expected to pay for lead laced water. Why should people have to pay for water that they can't even use? Why is it okay for this to happen in our communities? Most importantly, what can we do about it?


We watched our first holiday movie this weekend and my daughter told me she was already tired of the season.
It is good to acknowledge that "get what you really want/all that you want" is not satisfying. And it is nice to talk about the magic of the season, the importance of giving. But giving a few presents isn't a substitution for the widow's mite.
I had a friend once who told me that her childhood church collected items from the congregation for a "poor box." She said she had no idea they were poor until the box was delivered to them on Christmas Eve. It contained old socks and mismatched shoes. The kinds of things second hand stores don't bother to sell.
If we give from our abundance and call it Christmas, we are likely to feel the same disillusionment on December 26 as those who are lost.
But the issue is not the sum or even the gift. Not all needs are met with money. Some require a harder sacrifice–time, dirty hands. When the widow gave all she had, she was either overcome with gratitude or she trusted God, implicitly.
The widow's heart: what beauty.


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What do we do with our records?
This is a question that we hear again and again.
Where are your records at present?
In a box under the table in a damp vestry.
In a cupboard under the stairs.
In the Church Secretary's attic.
In the Church Treasurer's garage.
Download a FREE copy of our leaflet What do we do with our records?
All Minute books for the Trustees, Church and Deacons meetings, Sunday School, Youth organisations, etc.
Copies of Trust Deeds and any other legal documents.
All Account Books beyond the necessary six years which the Charity Commissioners and Inland Revenue demand.
All leaflets and newspaper cuttings of special events.
Photographs of the Church, and its organisations, and special events.
Architects Drawings and Bills of Quantity for new buildings or extensions.
Copies of any history that has been written about the Church.
How should you keep them?
Identify and date (carefully on the back) all photographs if you can.
Remove all paper clips, and staples that are liable to go rusty.
Put loose papers into folders as flat as possible – creases will eventually cause disintegration.
Pack books and folders into archival boxes that can be purchased from good stationers.
Label the folders and boxes so that you can find what you have put in them.
In a cool, dry, and secure place if you are determined to keep them on Church premises.
By far the better arrangement is to hand your Church records over to the local County Record Office for safe keeping. In such a place the conditions are right for preservation, and security. You should make an agreement with the record office that allows access at any time by the Church. The records will also be available for supervised researchers. Before it is signed, make certain that the access described in the agreement is what the Church wants.
The address of your local record office can be found in the telephone directory under the County Council, Metropolitan District or Unitary Authority.
Before you hand the records over, make a list. This is important, as most record offices have a backlog of material to be catalogued, and it helps them if a list is provided.
The Church should keep a copy of the list in the current Church Minute Book, and also send a copy of the list with a note of which Record Office they are deposited in, to the Strict Baptist Historical Society Librarian. Please contact the librarian if you require further specific advice.
The content of this page is based on a leaflet produced by the Baptist Historical Society and is reproduced with their permission.


The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism is the world's leading peer reviewed journal of clinical practice and applied clinical research. Each issue provides fast and in depth coverage of diabetes, reproductive endocrinology, growth hormone therapy, thyroid disease, and other critical areas of clinical endocrinology. Regular features highlight current topics in clinical medicine, such as clinical studies, clinical case seminars, management of endocrine disorders practice management issues, original patient oriented research studies, and other significant new endocrine studies related to human physiology and disease.


Smarsh Archiving & Compliance for Yammer enables organizations to capture, preserve, search, supervise and produce Yammer files and communications in support of e-discovery, compliance and record keeping initiatives. Now organizations can have compliance peace of mind while their employees use Yammer to collaborate, be more productive and update the people, projects and files that they're working with every day.
Within the Web-based Smarsh Management Console, administrators can search, supervise and produce their organization's Yammer content alongside other message types, including email, instant messaging and social media. Organizations can also extend the power of the Smarsh proprietary classification and review engine, the Virtual Compliance Officer, to their Yammer archive. Whether it's streamlining and customizing review processes, focusing search results on the messages that matter most, or automating the classification of communication with custom tags, the VCO offers unmatched efficiency in message review.
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Kathryn McKenney
Kathryn McKenney, MD,MPH
Gynecology, Obstetrics
Labor and Delivery, Minimally Invasive GYN Surgery, Ovulation Induction
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (2015)
McGaw Medical Center - Northwestern University (2019)
Cornell Scott - Hill Health Center
150 Sargent Drive
55 Lock St
Biography - Kathryn McKenney, MD,MPH
Kathryn McKenney, MD, MPH, is an obstetrician-gynecologist who says she always tries to put herself in her patient's shoes.
"I think it's important to imagine what they are going through so that I can be their helper and guide, and find the next steps," she says. "I like to help patients understand their health and sharing decisions so that together we can form plans for testing and treatment that align with their needs and preferences."
Dr. McKenney says she enjoys the diversity of her clinical practice, from the clinic to the labor floor to the emergency and operating rooms—and the variety of ages.
"I love being able to talk to adolescents about birth control, then talk to a woman of more mature age about menopause symptoms, then care for pregnant patients, all in the same clinic session," she says. "I am passionate about helping women understand their bodies, health conditions, and health care. Women play such an important role in society as the centers of their families and I want to help keep them in good health or get them back to it if they are suffering."
Her research interests surround management of abnormal uterine bleeding as well as health-related decision making and informed consent.


I went to this school and the staff treated me brilliantly my friend who has autism was treated just the same as all others and had there own assistant teacher in each lesson. Break times and lunch times are great as there is a 'quiet area' where you can sit on the wooden decking in the summer and read or draw. The fields are huge and there is play equipment everywhere. If you do go to this school you will no that there are only certain times when you are allowed go in for lunch and when you can play on the equipment. This school has treated me well and when I moved to high school I had no friends because I moved house and now I have plenty since the primary schools help, my friends said that at there school there autistic friends were treated completely differently and were never in the classroom, they were taken to somewhere else with other autistic people. I hope you chose this school for your child it has been the best and I miss it so much. Thank you.


GDC Europe 2013 organizers have announced a collection of industry presentations featuring an entire day boot camp covering Google Play Game Services, Cloud, and Mobile App Analytics as well as Havok sessions on its 3D game engine for mobile.
The boot camp is held during the three-day conference to be held August 19th-21st in Cologne, Germany. The event precedes the Gamescom gaming event, which attracts more than 275,000 people.
A Google Developer Day will include presentations on Google's monetization and promotion tools and includes a question and answer session on how to support multi-platform gaming with Google Cloud.
Google staffers will present "Acquiring the Most Valuable Users for Your Game," which will cover strategies on improving the lifetime value of users and how to retain users through a data-driven marketing strategy. Google will also present "Measuring and Optimizing Games" using Google Mobile App Analytics' to demonstrate how the service can enhance gameplay experiences and establish new monetization models.
Havok will present a "Project Anarchy Introduction", discussing the free mobile game engine which was recently introduced for iOS, Android and Tizen.


The home market is definitely getting stronger in parts of Silicon Valley. Tonight at the office, there were over 10 offers on a well-located, obviously well-priced home in the west valley. Also, it seems as if the buyers are calling and there is good activity - activity not seen like this for maybe 6 months. I think a lot of people put their buying decisions on pause since late in the summer last year. Now, there is a higher conforming rate, interest rates are down (maybe not on the 30) and policy changes will affect this R-word time in a positive manner. I keep saying, those who buy in 2008 will do great - only 9 more months to go!


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Traveling from Boulder, head south on CO-93 towards Golden. Passing through Golden, continue onto US-6 East following signs to I-70 West. Traveling West on I-70, take exit 232 and follow US-40 West to the Town of Empire. We are in the second building on your right as you enter the Town of Empire.
*Total trip time should be about 1 hour (depending on traffic conditions). It is important to arrive at our base 15 minutes before your scheduled trip time in order to sign waivers, change clothes, etc. I-70 can have heavy traffic so it is best to check travel conditions when planning your drive.


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Evertel Case Study: Chief Aaron and Mansfield, TX
All across the country, law enforcement agencies have turned to the Evertel app as their reliable, compliant solution for faster communication. The Mansfield, Texas PD was able to be one of the beta testers for the software. And not surprisingly, they've continued to utilize the platform through all of its updates—and even share it with some of their neighboring cities.
Meet Chief Tracy Aaron
Chief Tracy Aaron is based in Mansfield, Texas. He assumed the role of Mansfield Chief of Police in 2014 after serving as Chief Marshall for nearly 6 years. When he first started with the Mansfield PD in 1989, the city's population was 22,000. Today, the city has grown to 72,000 with 106 sworn officers.The suburban city is just south of Arlington and located within the greater Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex area. New neighborhoods are being built all the time. Naturally, the PD has had to keep pace with the developments.Living in the area for decades and working his way through the chain of command has helped inform Chief Aaron of how to strategically build and expand a team along with the population growth. A major component of this is to hire the right employees. Yet he's also someone who always looks out for new ways to get the best tools for the job.That's why the opportunity to beta-test the Evertel software was really appealing to Chief Aaron. He was in a unique position to share crucial, initial feedback on the features that would help make this app even better right out of the gate.
The Evertel Beta Experience
The Evertel app was specifically designed for law enforcement and first responders. The company's President & Co-Founder, Jeff Halstead, is the retired Fort Worth Chief of Police. When he personally reached out to invite Chief Aaron to be part of the original beta-testing for Evertel, there wasn't any hesitation. True to character, Chief Aaron was immediately onboard and ready to learn more. Improving LE communication means faster response times, and that directly translates to saving lives.Chief Aaron's beta-testing process for Mansfield included himself, his supervisors, and the public information team. All in all, it was a great experience. They were able to provide plenty of feedback, and the Evertel developers were all-ears."I feel like I was a valued partner," said Chief Aaron. "And that partnership helped make Evertel even better over time, for sure."This type of collaboration benefits all parties. Following up with real-life app users means the Evertel team will continue to make their software solution even better. Plus, it also gives Chief Aaron the ability to work with a tool that's truly built with public safety professionals in mind."Literally any type of issue that we brought to their attention was addressed," said Chief Aaron.Having a dedicated customer service team with a good response time was yet another great reason to move forward with Evertel permanently. Plus, the onboarding process had also proven to be pretty seamless for his team.
Deploying Evertel
The initial setup with Evertel was easily completed without any problems. Even better, he already has knowledgeable staff members within his agency."We've got good IT people—three absolutely great IT people," said Chief Aaron. "They're dedicated to the police department and take care of the mobile devices. But there's not a whole lot of maintenance with Evertel."Having a point-person to manage the department's issued phones is still critical, though, especially for their specialty units, such as SWAT and negotiators. What's more, his captain over the IT department can have people coming on the app on any given day. They make it a point to get new hires on the Evertel platform right away."When you have new officers they don't have the information for all that's happened, even what started two days ago," said Chief Aaron.But with Evertel, every employee can get brought up-to-speed. Once their account is set up, all they need to do is scroll through the messages. This is similar to texting threads, yet much more organized. The app also has "easy searchability for previous submitted data," said Chief Aaron.Evertel isn't like other communications platforms where it's hard to find the exact content you need. Whenever someone joins the SWAT team, for example, they can go back and review any information that other people had access to days, weeks, or even months ago.
App Communication vs Email
Law enforcement agencies across the country are eager to increase their speed for responding to events. But there's also the struggle of bringing a faster timeline to day-to-day operations too. The traditional way of doing things simply isn't viable anymore."Finding information in email is impossible," said Chief Aaron. "It takes forever."This is a common complaint all across the industry. Email simply isn't well-organized. Then we have the problem of a typical response time with email. Law enforcement professionals aren't able to check their email accounts around the clock, so it isn't realistic for someone to expect an immediate reply, even if the situation is critical. Fortunately, communicating on an app solution makes it easier to respond ASAP."I check Evertel and text messages immediately," said Chief Aaron. "But I've set Evertel on a different tone so I know which messages are coming through. It draws attention a lot quicker."Because the Evertel solution operates similar to public texting apps, it's accessible and intuitive. Keeping our phones within reach is almost second nature. That makes it more convenient to respond quickly to any crisis or question. Moreover, communicating on Evertel keeps all of your case information in one place.
Chatrooms for the Mansfield PD
Every PD knows that it's imperative to protect their intelligence. We also need to keep these records organized because all of it is discoverable in trial.Working within Evertel keeps conversations simple and effective because you can set up different chatrooms by topic or team."My executive staff room and direct reports have a room. And my lieutenants over the night and dayshift have a room to communicate just with the shift," said Chief Aaron.This level of organization in Evertel makes workflow streamlined, secure, and more efficient. The agency's media team is able to extract the necessary information at a moment's notice, and it's easy to assign case numbers to any conversation, include them in their case files, and then close the room. The Evertel platform even saves those records automatically.The Mansfield PD also uses Evertel to plan ahead. Chief Aaron already has a chatroom created in advance for live incidents that stays on the Evertel dashboard. Then whenever a serious event comes along, the team can start communicating right on scene to quickly share the site address and status updates with other officers.This has proven to be much more effective than fielding multiple phone calls to all of the supervisors. Evertel allows everyone to hear of the same information at the same time. A quick look at your phone can get you up-to-speed about what's happening on scene and learn who the point person will be."This also helps if I get a phone call from the press. We have a PIO room that lets the group talk about any live incident going on, so I always have the latest information," said Chief Aaron.Chief Aaron will even run monthly and weekly reports to review activity within the app. This helps confirm that employees are using Evertel as their primary means of communication."Once the people assigned to patrol can get on the app and demo it for themselves, then they're more comfortable with using it and it becomes second-nature when they show up on-scene," said Chief Aaron. "They just send a text instead of an email because everyone gets those messages right away."Chief Aaron also said that a significant change in efficacy came recently when he issued city cell phones to all his sworn personnel. With that update, officers are now able to take quick crime scene pictures in anticipation of the crime unit arriving. The officer can then route the photo to the case file on the Evertel app. They no longer need to have issued cameras and drop such pictures into evidence.The Evertel platform helps his employees to respond to situations as soon as possible, all throughout the city. And every step of the way, the app works to keep all of their conversations and files organized too.
Interoperability on Evertel
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Q: Pandas pd.read_sql_query does not return the datetime/timestamp correctly (missing seconds) Running the following query via pandas:
conn = sqlanydb.connect( userid='xx', password='xx', eng='xx', commlinks='tcpip{host=xx port=xx}' )
query = '''select top 20 log_ts  from my_table'''
sql_output = pd.read_sql_query(query, conn, parse_dates=['log_ts'])

results in  log_ts:  2020-08-28 18:08:00
However the correct format (when checking the database UI) is  2020-08-28 18:08:57.752000
I also tried pd.read_sql_query(query, conn, parse_dates={'log_ts': {'format': '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S']) and couldn't get it worked.
Any hint would be appreciated.

A: You need MySQL v5.6.4+ for fractional seconds support.
Also, you need to not use the default sqlalchemy datetime type, you need to override the argument with the MySQL specific DATETIME type with defined milliseconds.
dtype={'date_time': DATETIME(fsp=6) }

A: Interestingly, when I cast it to TIME only it gives me the seconds (no dates though). But when I cast it to DATETIME it ignores the seconds.
So, I can have the original column (without second) and have another column casted as TIME and merge them in python (post processing). It's not an efficient solution though.

A: Might be your formatting missing the milliseconds. How about something like below.
import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime('2020-08-28 18:08:57.752000', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f' )

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Basil hypatos and protonotarios of the Strymon (ninth century)
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ.|ΔΛ. Wreath border.
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Βασιλείῳ ὑπάτῳ καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ τοῦ Στρωμόνος
DO Seals 1, no. 37.2.
Zacos-Veglery, no. 1772.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Βασιλείῳ ὑπάτῳ καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ τοῦ Στρωμόνος.
Theotokos, help your servant Basil hypatos and protonotarios of the Strymon.
This seal dates before the middle of the ninth century (note the beta with two loops and the presence of a wreath border).
The earliest textual mention of a strategos of the Strymon (also spelled Στρομών, Στρωμών) occurs in the Treatise of Philotheos (899; see Listes, 101, line 25). But we note that DO Seals 1, 37.2-3 definitely date before the mid-ninth century, about the time when the theme of Thessalonica was established (836 or earlier, 824: DO Seals 1, § 18). The theme of Strymon may originate in the late 840s, for, as noted by Lemerle and others, there is no mention of this theme in the Uspenskij Taktikon (842-843; see the discussion in Pertusi, De Thematibus, 166-67). On the upper hand, Serres, which would have served along with Christoupolis as the capital of the theme, was elevated from a bishopric to an archbishopric in the first half of the ninth century, a circumstance that may not be coincidental. In the eighth century, the Strymon was a kleisoura of Macedonia (De Them., chap. 3, line 2), but there was also an archon of the Strymon (DO Seals 1, no. 37.1).
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Fred Dick
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Carey, Daniel and Krishnan, Saloni and Callaghan, M.F. and Sereno, Martin and Dick, Frederic (2017) Functional and quantitative MRI mapping of somatomotor representations of human supralaryngeal vocal tract. Cerebral Cortex , ISSN 1047-3211. (In Press)
Wilson, B. and Kikuchi, Y. and Sun, L. and Hunter, D. and Dick, Frederic and Smith, K. and Thiele, A. and Griffiths, T.D. and Marslen-Wilson, W.D.and Petkov, C.I. (2015) Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans.Nature Communications 6 , p. 8901. ISSN 2041-1723.
Krishnan, Saloni and Leech, Robert and Mercure, Evelyne and Lloyd-Fox, Sarah and Dick, Frederic (2015) Convergent and divergent fMRI responses in children and adults to increasing language production demands. Cerebral Cortex 25 (10), pp. 3261-3277. ISSN 1047-3211.
Dick, Frederic and Cao, L. and Gross, J. (2015) Attention wins over sensory attenuation in a sound detection task. PLoS One 10 (8), e0136585. ISSN 1932-6203.
Dick, Frederic and Murphy, C.F.B. and Moore, D.R. and Schochat, E. (2015) Generalization of auditory sensory and cognitive learning in typically developing children. PLoS One 10 (8), e0135422. ISSN 1932-6203.
Gabay, Y. and Dick, Frederic and Zevin, J.D. and Holt, L.L. (2015) Incidental auditory category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 41 (4), pp. 1124-1138. ISSN 0096-1523.
Carey, Daniel and Rosen, S. and Krishnan, Saloni and Pearce, M.T. and Shepherd, Alex J. and Aydelott, Jennifer and Dick, Frederic (2015)Generality and specificity in the effects of musical expertise on perception and cognition. Cognition 137 , pp. 81-105. ISSN 0010-0277.
Krishnan, Saloni and Bergström, Lina and Alcock, K.J. and Dick, Frederic and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2015) Williams syndrome: a surprising deficit in oromotor praxis in a population with proficient language production. Neuropsychologia 67 , pp. 82-90. ISSN 0028-3932.
Lutti, A. and Dick, Frederic and Sereno, Martin I. and Weiskopf, N. (2014) Using high-resolution quantitative mapping of R1 as an index of cortical myelination. NeuroImage 93 (2), pp. 176-188. ISSN 1053-8119.
Saygin, A.P. and Dick, Frederic (2014) The emergence of mirror-like response properties from domain-general principles in vision and audition.Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (02), p. 219. ISSN 0140-525X.
Knowland, Victoria C.P. and Mercure, E. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Dick, Frederic and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2014) Audio-visual speech perception: a developmental ERP investigation. Developmental Science 17 (1), pp. 110-124. ISSN 1363-755x.
Krishnan, Saloni and Alcock, K.J. and Mercure, E. and Leech, Robert and Barker, Edward D. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Dick, Frederic(2013) Articulating novel words: children's oromotor skills predict non-word repetition abilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 56 , pp. 1800-1812. ISSN 1092-4388.
Sereno, Martin I. and Lutti, A. and Weiskopf, N. and Dick, Frederic (2013) Mapping the human cortical surface by combining quantitative T1 with Retinotopy. Cerebral Cortex 23 (9), pp. 2261-2268. ISSN 1047-3211.
Krishnan, Saloni and Leech, Robert and Aydelott, Jennifer and Dick, Frederic (2013) School-age children's environmental object identification in natural auditory scenes: effects of masking and contextual congruence. Hearing Research 300 , pp. 46-55. ISSN 0378-5955.
Tierney, A. and Dick, Frederic and Deutsch, D. and Sereno, Martin I. (2013) Speech versus song: multiple pitch-sensitive areas revealed by a naturally occurring musical illusion. Cerebral Cortex 23 (2), pp. 249-254. ISSN 1047-3211.
Campbell, T.F. and Dollaghan, C. and Janosky, J. and Rusiewicz, H.L. and Small, S.L. and Dick, Frederic (2013) Consonant accuracy after severe pediatric traumatic brain injury: a prospective cohort study. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 56 (3), pp. 1023-1034. ISSN 1558-9102.
Kadosh, K.C. and Johnson, Mark H. and Dick, Frederic and Kadosh, R.C. and Blakemore, S.-J. (2013) Effects of age, task performance, and structural brain development on face processing. Cerebral Cortex 23 (7), pp. 1630-1642. ISSN 1047-3211.
Fancourt, A. and Dick, Frederic and Stewart, L. (2013) Pitch-change detection and pitch-direction discrimination in children. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain 23 (2), p. 73. ISSN 0275-3987.
Dick, Frederic and Taylor Tierney, A. and Lutti, A. and Josephs, O. and Sereno, Martin I. and Weiskopf, N. (2012) In vivo functional and myeloarchitectonic mapping of human primary auditory areas. Journal of Neuroscience 32 (46), pp. 16095-16105. ISSN 0270-6474.
Kadosh, K.C. and Johnson, Mark H. and Henson, R.N.A. and Dick, Frederic and Blakemore, S.J. (2012) Differential face-network adaptation in children, adolescents and adults. NeuroImage 69 (1), pp. 11-20. ISSN 1053-8119.
Filippi, R. and Leech, R. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Green, D. and Dick, Frederic (2012) A bilingual advantage in controlling language interference during sentence comprehension. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15 (4), pp. 858-872. ISSN 1366-7289.
Filippi, Roberto and Richardson, Fiona M. and Dick, Frederic and Leech, Robert and Green, D.W. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Price, C.J. (2011)The right posterior Paravermis and the control of language interference. Journal of Neuroscience 31 (29), pp. 10732-10740. ISSN 0270-6474.
Dick, Frederic and Lee, H.L. and Nusbaum, H. and Price, C.J. (2011) Auditory-motor expertise alters "speech selectivity" in professional musicians and actors. Cerebral Cortex 21 (4), pp. 938-948. ISSN 1047-3211.
Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin and Cohen Kadosh, R. and Dick, Frederic and Johnson, Mark H. (2011) Developmental changes in effective connectivity in the emerging core face network. Cerebral Cortex 21 (6), pp. 1389-1394. ISSN 1047-3211.
Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin and Henson, R.N.A. and Cohen Kadosh, R. and Johnson, Mark H. and Dick, Frederic (2010) Task-dependent activation of face-sensitive cortex: an fMRI adaptation study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22 (5), pp. 903-917. ISSN 0898-929X.
Saygin, A.P. and Leech, Robert and Dick, Frederic (2010) Nonverbal auditory agnosia with lesion to Wernicke's area. Neuropsychologia 48 (1), pp. 107-113. ISSN 0028-3932.
Leech, Robert and Gygi, B. and Aydelott, Jennifer and Dick, Frederic (2009) Informational factors in identifying environmental sounds in natural auditory scenes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126 (6), pp. 3147-3155. ISSN 0001-4966.
Mercure, Evelyne and Ashwin, E. and Dick, Frederic and Halit, Hanife and Auyeung, B. and Baron-Cohen, S. and Johnson, Mark H. (2009) IQ, fetal testosterone and individual variability in children's functional lateralization. Neuropsychologia 47 (12), pp. 2537-2543. ISSN 0028-3932.
Cummings, A. and Saygin, A.P. and Bates, E. and Dick, Frederic (2009) Infants' recognition of meaningful verbal and nonverbal sounds.Language, Learning and Development 5 (3), pp. 172-190. ISSN 1547-5441.
Leech, Robert and Holt, L.L. and Devlin, J.T. and Dick, Frederic (2009) Expertise with artificial nonspeech sounds recruits speech-sensitive cortical regions. Journal of Neuroscience 29 (16), pp. 5234-5259. ISSN 0270-6474.
Josephs, O. and Dick, Frederic and Sereno, Martin I. and Weiskopf, N. (2009) An isodynamic high fidelity MRI compatible headphone.NeuroImage 47 (S1), S186-S186. ISSN 1053-8119.
Mercure, Evelyne and Dick, Frederic and Halit, Hanife and Kaufman, Jordy and Johnson, Mark H. (2008) Differential lateralization for words and faces: category or psychophysics? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20 (11), pp. 2070-2087. ISSN 0898-929X.
Mercure, Evelyne and Dick, Frederic and Johnson, Mark H. (2008) Featural and configural face processing differentially modulate ERP components. Brain Research 1239 , pp. 162-170. ISSN 0006-8993.
Cummings, A. and Ceponiene, R. and Dick, Frederic and Saygin, A.P. and Townsend, J. (2008) A developmental ERP study of verbal and non-verbal semantic processing. Brain Research 1208 , pp. 137-149. ISSN 0006-8993.
Roland, D. and Dick, Frederic and Elman, J.L. (2007) Frequency of basic English grammatical structures: a corpus analysis. Journal of Memory and Language 57 (3), 348 - 379. ISSN 0749-596X.
Dick, Frederic and Lloyd-Fox, Sarah and Blasi, Anna and Elwell, C. and Mills, D. and Elwell, Clare (2013) Neuroimaging methods. In: Mareschal, Denis and Butterworth, B. and Tolmie, A. (eds.) Educational Neuroscience. Chicester, UK: Wiley, pp. 13-45. ISBN 9781118725894.
Leech, Robert and Dick, Frederic (2010) Language following congenital disorders. In: Whitaker, H. (ed.) Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language. Cambridge, UK: Elsevier, p. 279. ISBN 9780080964980.
Dick, Frederic and Leech, Robert and Richardson, Fiona M. (2008) The neuropsychology of language development. In: Reed, J. and Warner-Rogers, J. (eds.) Child Neuropsychology: Concepts, Theory and Practice. Hoboken, U.S.: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 139-182. ISBN 9781405152662.
Dick, Frederic and Richardson, Fiona M. and Saccuman, M.C. (2008) Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate developmental language disorders. In: Norbury, F.C. and Tomblin, J.B. and Bishop, D.V.M. (eds.) Understanding Developmental Language Disorders: From Theory to Practice. Hove, UK: Psychology Press, pp. 53-66. ISBN 9781841696676.
Dick, Frederic and Leech, Robert and Richardson, Fiona M. (2008) Language development. In: Reed, J. and Warner Rogers, J. (eds.) Child Neuropsychology: Concepts, Theory & Practice. Chicester, UK: Wiley. ISBN 9781405152662.
Arévalo, A.L. and Dick, Frederic and Della Rosa, P. and Dronkers, N.F. and Bates, E.A. and Cappa, S.F. and Perani, D. (2011) Action and object processing across three tasks: an fMRI study of picture-naming, word reading and repetition in Italian. Technical Report. University of California, San Diego, California, USA.


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Fintech's positives for delivering deposits
We're not saying that customers these days are lazy. Really, we're not. But maybe, just maybe, they're feeling a little entitled.
Okay. Maybe a lot entitled.
But really, you can't blame them. As with every other aspect in today's "get-it-now" society, customers want their transactional lives easy as pie: not just any pie, mind you, but one fed to them in a hammock right before a long nap. Turns out businesses are all too happy to oblige, as it puts them in a far better position to succeed.
So if your financial institution wants to increase the amount that customer deposit, and at the same time solicit business from new prospective clients, the best thing you can do is make it simple.
Super simple.
"Banks are in a great spot," says Mike Kerins, founder and CEO of RobustWealth. "They have millions of customers and interact with them every day. And so if I'm sitting in their seat, I want to figure out how to leverage those interactions even more and make sure that someone else doesn't come in and take those customers away."
That involves creating tools that make banks and financial institutions run smoother—and delivering great mobile sites that give customers complete access to their accounts, no matter where they are. And in the age of big data, it also means knowing as much as you can about your customers so you're ready to offer them a product, even before they know they need it.
To that end, fintechs offer a vast array of powerful tools. Banks, credit unions and other financial institutions can now:
gather information about their customers' needs, browsing habits and life events
use it to help customers open accounts, transfer funds, apply for loans and mortgages
provide investment options, and
handle complicated transactions and loans with speed.
"Banking is a data-heavy industry, particularly with loan facilitation," says Trevor Dryer, CEO and co-founder of Mirador Financial. "Banks that implement lengthy, paper-based applications miss out on opportunities for customer engagement. By partnering with lending platforms that utilize predictive analytics algorithms, banks can streamline the constant customer data mining and decisioning processes." And that means faster loan completion, "opening up more time for customer engagement and retention and leading to increased deposits."
Make it seamless as it seems
Kerins believes a good fintech solution offers customers an experience as seamless as when someone orders a new pair of sneakers on Amazon—cited again and again and again as the ecommerce gold standard all banks should aspire to follow. RobustWealth is designed to help banks and investment advisors integrate multiple platforms into one suite that includes billing, account management, investment portfolios and automated rebalancing.
"We enable banks to offer a variety of products digitally including investment solutions to their customers," Kerins says. "It means that a bank can deepen that customer relationship by including investment solutions and financial advice planning—in addition to their traditional banking relationship—so others don't come in and offer investment services instead."
David Wallace, global financial services marketing manager at SAS, says fintech can utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to anticipate what customers need in the digital banking age.
"AI and machine learning can help banks follow customers in their journeys using mobile and web banking apps," Wallace says. "These insights can enrich the banking transaction data banks have traditionally analyzed to provide real-time context and insight into customer needs."
With a 360-degree view of customers and their changing needs, "AI and machine learning can also predict the timing and the content of communications customers will perceive as helpful to their financial well-being, instead of traditional offers for products that the customer either already has or has told the bank they do not want or need," Wallace says.
Happy customers means bigger deposits, Wallace says. "This positive experience makes it more likely that customers will stay with the bank, adopt additional products and services that grow deposits, and less likely they will move to other firms because of dissatisfaction."
Editorial advantages
Even Financial, which focuses on connecting high-wealth customers with its network of clients, uses targeted editorial content on web portals such as The Penny Hoarder, says John Ventura, president of Even Financial. The company is currently testing products to attract depositers in money markets, high-yield accounts and CDs.
"We've been running and integrating our deposit offers with personal financial management platforms and applications," Ventura says. "And in those environments we have the ability, in conjunction with those partners, to detect consumers who have large sums of money and have demonstrated a past need for finding a place to get the best returns."
For Even, apps mean that "we can present that customer with a message that makes it clear they may want to place their money where they can earn higher interest," he says. "And in that case, the customer will tap through and then see a number of different options to do that."
The sweet spot for growing deposits, Kerins says, centers on anytime, anywhere, any-way customer interaction.
"Sometimes customers will log in because they have a financial problem or need investment advice and want to solve it online," he says. "And other times they may want to chat with a banker."
No matter the customer's choice, "Banks are in an interesting spot because they have some things nobody else has," Kerins says. "They have the customers. They have all these branches and offices. All they need is a couple more tools to enhance that relationship."
And, of course, to keep it easy as pie—spoon-fed, bank-baked, anytime, anywhere pie.
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Based in Maryland, Patrick Sanders is an assistant managing editor for U.S. News & World Report and formerly worked as an editor for The Associated Press and at newspapers in West Virginia, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
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Network DVD's first ever Blu-ray title is a special-features laden THE PRISONER THE COMPLETE SERIES (PG) starring Patrick McGoohan. Available to buy as a 6-disc limited edition box set now, RRP £59.99, it is the first Blu-ray version of the series anywhere in the world. The only home entertainment edition of the series to be officially endorsed by McGoohan himself and based on the version of the standard definition DVD which won Best TV DVD at the Home Entertainment Awards in 2008, THE PRISONER THE COMPLETE SERIES BLU-RAY is thought-provoking, revelatory and just plain cool. McGoohan's iconic series is as fresh and dynamic now as it was when first unleashed upon an unsuspecting world in 1967. Containing all seventeen episodes the wealth of special features include: •Dont Knock Yourself Out a feature-length documentary which is the most comprehensive look at the production of The Prisoner, told by those involved in its creation •Restored original edit of Arrival with an optional music-only soundtrack featuring Wilfred Josephs complete and abandoned score •Production Crew audio commentaries on seven episodes •Trailers for all episodes •Archive textless material, including the title sequence with clean themes by Ron Grainer, Wilfred Josephs and Robert Farnon •Commercial Break Bumpers •Behind-the-Scenes footage including much previously unseen •Script and Production Documentation PDFs •Image Galleries with Music Suites •Exclusive book on the making of the series by TV historian Andrew Pixley •5.1 sound mixes on all episodes PLUS MUCH MORE! With its distinctive theme tune by Ron Grainer, special guest appearances from the cream of British stage and screen including Leo McKern, George Baker, Peter Bowles, Donald Sinden, and Anton Rodgers, THE PRISONER THE COMPLETE SERIES BLU-RAY is THE definitive release of the series and a must-have for all fans of high quality dramas.
Featuring acclaimed actress and theatre director Celia Bannerman in the title role, Biddy takes a nostalgic journey into the delicate and loving life of a nursery maid in Victorian England; it is a warm, sometimes poignant film that celebrates the powerful relationships between Biddy and the young children that are placed in her gentle care as they grow into adulthood.
Network DVD will release SPITTING IMAGE THE COMPLETE SEVENTH SERIES (12) on 17th August 2009, RRP £14.99. Broadcast on ITV from 1988, no target was safe as the show lifted satire to a whole new level for over a decade. Voice artists include Chris Barrie, Steve Coogan, Jon Glover, Steve Nallon, Enn Reitel, Kate Robbins and Jessica Martin. BAFTA-nominated many times, Spitting Image won a Bronze medal at the Montreux TV festival in 1984, establishing its success and ultimately running for 18 series in total.
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Clip from LES DAWSON AT ITV - DVD out on 23rd November 2009 http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=1018 Les Dawsons self-deprecating and enduringly bleak humour, coupled with a world-weary delivery honed in the working mens clubs of northern England, made him one of Britains best-loved comedians. Sez Les firmly established Les Dawsons reputation, running for over seven years and bringing his dour, miserablist humour to a wider viewing public. The success of this series enabled him to do a run of 'specials' throughout the 1970s, and this set collects all nine - including two Christmas Specials and all four editions of Dawson and Friends: hour-long specials featuring the trademark mix of rambling monologues, sketches in which special guests appear alongside Less own comic characters, and musical entertainment. Among the stars joining Les and stalwart sideman Roy Barraclough are John Cleese, Humphrey Lyttelton, Lulu, Willie Rushton, Olivia Newton-John, Dennis Waterman, Fred Trueman and Lynsey De Paul. This collection also includes Dawsons Electric Cinema, a nostalgic flashback to the early days of the Silver Screen in which Les revisits his local childhood cinema and portrays a host of characters from the past - including his own father.
A private Video message from me to Network. Since there won't be any Volumes of The Bill in 2015 either this is what I want from 2016. 2016: The Bill Volume 8 DVD set [Michael Runs The Family Now - Grief] 96 episodes in 12 disc set. Then after that please revert back to Series of The Bill? 2017: The Bill rest of Series 7 [The Chase - Breakout] 2018: The Bill Complete Series 8 2019: The Bill Complete Series 9 2020: The Bill Complete Series 10 2021: The Bill Complete Series 11 2022: The Bill Complete Series 12 2023: The Bill Complete Series 13 2024: The Bill Complete Series 14 2025: The Bill Complete Series 15 2026: The Bill Complete Series 16 2027: The Bill Complete Series 17 2028: The Bill Complete Series 18 2029: The Bill Complete Series 19 2030: The Bill Complete Series 20 that way Network can release all 26 Series on DVD. Network if the did that way as what Will suggested then in 2036 Network would release The Bill Series 26 DVD set. Which would be awesome.
On 9th November 2009, Network DVD release WATCHING - THE COMPLETE SERIES, starring Emma Wray, Paul Bown, Liza Tarbuck and Patsy Byrne. This wonderfully offbeat comedy follows the on-again, off-again romance of a mismatched Merseyside couple: fun-loving extrovert Brenda Wilson (Emma Wray True Love, My Wonderful Life) and shy, retiring birdwatcher Malcolm Stoneway (Paul Bown Diamond Geezer, Planespotting). The path of true love is far from smooth and there are tears and break-ups, rows and reconciliations galore, but there is also an inexplicable attraction which brings the pair back together after every stormy parting. A top-rated, British Comedy Award-winning sitcom that also starred Liza Tarbuck (Bleak House, Bonkers), Patsy Byrne (Blackadder, David Copperfield) and Elizabeth Spriggs (Harry Potter), Watching ran for seven series between 1987 and 1993; this complete-series set includes every episode, plus the four Christmas Specials.
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The Objective of Saudi Arabia and the U.S. is the Invasion and Occupation of Yemen
By Alalam
Global Research, March 27, 2015
Theme: US NATO War Agenda
Houthis leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi on Thursday accused the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel of launching a campaign aimed at invading and occupying Yemen.
This move that created a huge turn of events, and to be honest caused a humiliating and unprecedented defeat of those criminals. After committing the ugliest crimes in the Hashoush and Badr mosques in Sanaa, they committed the worst crimes towards the Yemeni military in Aden, and they continue to commit these ugly crimes by targeting a lot of areas via a spreading military hoping for full control", Houthis leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said.
Today the warplanes of the Saudi-led alliance have attacked a popular market in the northwestern Yemeni city of Sa'ada, killing or injuring at least 15 people, according to Yemen's al-Massira TV on Friday.
People listening to Houthis leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi TV address
"If the stupid, arrogant and unfair Saudi regime wagered on America and other regimes… to participate in the aggression towards the people, then our dear Yemeni people are betting on God's support."
The attack occurred as Saudi-led warplanes have pounded the Yemeni capital city of Sana'a for the second consecutive day.
The airstrikes against Sana'a resumed during the early hours of Friday.The planes bombed military and civilian targets in and around the Yemeni capital.
"Today and after this unfair and brutal aggression and after this sinful, ugly, criminal and unjustified targeting (of the Houthis) and after moving in this way, by putting under siege, starving, killing and suffocating 24 million great Yemeni people, they became more determined to defend themselves", he added.
"If the stupid, arrogant and unfair Saudi regime wagered on America and other regimes – which they bought off with some cheap money to participate in the aggression towards the people, one of the most honourable and honest people of the world – then our dear Yemeni people are betting on God's support, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi stressed.
"Our dear Yemeni people are a free people and will not be enslaved to anyone ever. If the stupid and unfair Saudi regime which imagines that the Yemeni people will kneel for him and surrender to him and that he can step over the Yemeni people, then no and a thousand nos, that could never happen. Therefore, I address our great Yemeni people to seriously and responsibly move to face this unfair and ugly aggression through forming two fronts, the first is an internal one which will take care of the situation inside the country and the second is to face and defend against these attacks and try and stop any attempts for occupation", he said.
"Today is the day for all Yemeni people, it is a day for parents, a day for glory, a day for heroism, a day for loyalty and a day that represents every honest, free and loyal man, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a TV address.
Saudi Arabia bombed key installations in Yemen on Thursday, leading a regional coalition in a campaign against the Shiite Houthis who have taken over much of the country and drove out the former president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Thousands of Houthi's supporter.
Thousands of protesters gathered in the Yemeni capital on Thursday to show their support for the Houthi group.
Al-Masirah Television, which is affiliated with the Houthis, broadcast footage of the huge demonstration in Sanaa, which took place after Saudi Arabia's attack.
Hadi, who fled the country Wednesday as the Houthis advanced on his stronghold in the southern port of Aden, reappeared Thursday. He arrived by plane in Saudi Arabia's capital of Riyadh, Saudi state TV reported.
Today Al-Massira television, run by Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah fighters, said anti-aircraft defenses opened fired on the warplanes following the raids.
At least 25 people were killed and dozens of others injured on Thursday during the first day of the Saudi military aggression against Yemen. Sa'ada and the southern city of Ta'izz were also pounded on the same day.
The original source of this article is Alalam
Copyright © Alalam, Alalam, 2015
Articles by: Alalam


Located 32 km (19.88 mi) from the Costa Rican border, Bocas del Toro is an archipelago in Panama that is made up of six islands, several uninhabited islets and two national parks to be enjoyed on a Panama vacation.
Christopher Columbus came to the archipelago during his final voyage in 1502. As gold was not plentiful on the islands, the Spanish did not colonise much of the archipelago. This allowed the area to become a haven for pirates who would use the islands as rest spots to repair their ships. When the French Huguenots arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Spanish sent a militia to remove them devastating the indigenous population with disease as well as fighting.
The 19th century witnessed several aristocrats come to the archipelago with their slaves. However, once slavery was abolished, many of the now freed people decided to make their homes in Bocas del Toro. By the end of the century, the archipelago's banana industry had begun and was quite successful, eventually becoming part of the Chiquita Brands International.
The archipelago is home to Isla Bastimentos National Marine Park, the first marine park in the country hosting a great deal of Caribbean wildlife. Bocas del Toro also shares UNESCO World Heritage listed La Amistad International Park with Costa Rica. The opportunity to see incredible flora and fauna, on trips to Panama whether on land or in water, is incredible making Bocas del Tora one of Panama's most popular tourist destinations.
At Goway we believe that a well-informed traveller is a safer traveller. With this in mind, we have compiled an easy to navigate travel information section dedicated to Panama vacations.