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Monteprandone è un comune italiano di  abitanti della provincia di Ascoli Piceno nelle Marche.

Geografia fisica

Centro del Subappennino marchigiano, posto nell'immediato entroterra di San Benedetto del Tronto, a soli 5 km dal mare Adriatico, sulla cresta di una breve dorsale che divide la valle del torrente Ragnola (a nord) da quella del fiume Tronto (a sud).

L'unica frazione del comune, Centobuchi, si trova sulla via Salaria ed è oggetto di una grande espansione demografica legata alla vicinanza con le grandi vie di comunicazione e con l'urbanizzazione di tutto l'asse che dalla periferia di San Benedetto del Tronto porta a quella del capoluogo di provincia Ascoli Piceno, che dista 20 km circa.

Origini del nome
La leggenda vuole che il castello sia stato eretto nel IX secolo da un cavaliere franco a seguito di Carlo Magno. Il suo nome sarebbe stato Brandone o Prandone, da cui il nome del castello e del paese.

Storia
Il primo documento storico riguardante Monteprandone risale al 1039 quando un certo Longino insieme a un tale Guido Massaro fecero dono del borgo e della chiesa di San Nicola di Bari al Monastero di Santa Maria di Farfa nella Sabina, che lo tenne fino al 1292 quando, spontaneamente, la popolazione per motivi di sicurezza decise di passare sotto la protezione di Ascoli.  il tratto di territorio tra il Tronto e il Ragnola, garantendo quello sbocco a mare strategico per gli ascolani e annettendo alla giurisdizione di Monteprandone quel Montecretaccio sotto il quale si sarebbe dovuto costruire il porto suddetto (Porto d'Ascoli).
Il castello di Monteprandone era inidoneo alla qualifica di "città" e come comunità era rimasta sempre nel limbo del contado Ascolano e quindi non poteva far generare "nobiltà civica". Pur tuttavia la nomina del "podestà" era lasciata alla comunità di Monteprandone in una terna di tre nobili ascolani. Le famiglie notabili della comunità di Monteprandone furono: Allegretti, Aloysi, Amedei, Amici, Aureli, Blasocchi, Campanelli, Cappella, Carota, Castellani o Castellani Boccabianca, Corazza, Crocetta, Malfanti, Marozzi, Massi, Merlini, Nicolaj, Pallotta, Parissi, Pellili, Peroni (ora Pirri Salimei), Romandini, Rosati (poi Rosati di Monteprandone de Filippis Delfico) Rossi, Santomi o Santoni, Sari (estinti in un ramo dei Rosati, quello del col. Leopoldo), Serroni, Uriali, Zazza.

Tra il XIV e il XV secolo vennero annessi altri tre colli: Montetinello, Monterone e Monticelli, arrivando così ai cinque colli che vediamo oggi rappresentati nello stemma comunale.

Nel 1935 un decreto regio annette, dopo molti tentativi avvenuti negli anni precedenti, la frazione Porto D'Ascoli, staccandola dal comune di Monteprandone, per motivi di convenienza territoriale in quanto San Benedetto è in piena espansione e necessita di spazio, e su richiesta dei cittadini stessi.

Simboli

Lo stemma di Monteprandone, in uso dal XV secolo, presenta cinque colli riuniti, a rappresentare l'unione dei territori dei castelli Monteprandone, Monterone, Montetinello, Monticello e Montecretaccio.

Il gonfalone è un drappo di bianco.

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse
È ancora intatta parte della cinta muraria dei secoli XIV-XV.

Architetture religiose

Chiesa di San Nicola di Bari

È detta anche Chiesa di San Niccolò. Di origine molto antica, in quanto nell'attuale territorio di Monteprandone esisteva già ai primi secoli dell'era cristiana la pieve di San Donato, testimonianza della presenza viva di una comunità cristiana delle origini, collegata con la vicina Truentum (oggi Martinsicuro).

Nell'alto Medioevo, questo territorio con i suoi castelli di Sculcula e di Monte Cretaccio e le sue chiese fu sottoposto al vescovo di Fermo e all'abbazia di Farfa. L'attuale chiesa parrocchiale, nata "ab immemorabili" dall'antico monastero farfense di San Leonardo, fu elevata a Collegiata nel 1507. Ristrutturata fra il 1639 e il 1658, fu completamente rifatta nei primi anni dell'Ottocento in stile neoclassico su disegno dell'architetto Pietro Maggi e fu riconsacrata da monsignor Bufarini nel 1858.

Al suo interno si conserva un crocifisso ligneo trecentesco e un organo a canne realizzato su disegno del perugino Angelo Morettini nel 1839. Si tratta di uno dei primi organi moderni racchiuso in una cassa di risonanza in legno ad uno scomparto. I Morettini furono una famiglia di costruttori d'organo la cui attività ha poi attraversato tutto il XIX secolo.

Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie

Si trova ad 1,5 km dal centro abitato e fa parte del complesso del convento francescano che fu eretto nel 1449 proprio grazie a San Giacomo della Marca, il più illustre cittadino figlio di questa terra, le cui spoglie sono conservate in questa chiesa. Vi è un trittico del XIV secolo e poi opere di Vincenzo Pagani e Cola d'Amatrice. Da segnalare anche il chiostro cinquecentesco del convento (detto anche convento di San Giacomo).

Cultura

Museo dei codici
Della biblioteca istituita da San Giacomo della Marca, arricchitasi anche dopo la sua morte fino a raggiungere più di 700 pezzi, oggi rimane solo una minima parte. Ma la presenza di un codice del IX-X secolo e di 54 codici del XIV-XV secolo è sufficiente per parlare di un autentico tesoro di inestimabile valore artistico e culturale, tornato al suo splendore dopo il restauro curato fino al 2012 dall'Opificio delle Pietre dure di Firenze.

I manoscritti sono conservati in teche predisposte per proteggerli dagli effetti delle variazioni di illuminazione e di temperatura.
Sono una parte della cosiddetta Libreria di San Giacomo, raccolta nel '400 dal Santo per favorire l'istruzione di confratelli e studiosi.
Sermoni, Laudi, opere di storia e di letteratura, manoscritti risalenti al XIV e al XV secolo e in un caso addirittura al IX secolo. Si tratta di 60 volumi ed è possibile visionare anche una lettera di San Giacomo a San Giovanni da Capestrano, datata Roma 14 dicembre 1455.
Su alcuni codici si legge ancora la dichiarazione con cui San Giacomo rendeva nota la persona che glieli aveva regalati o venduti, il costo ed il luogo di destinazione, che al tempo era il Convento di Santa Maria delle Grazie di Monteprandone.

Dopo essere stati conservati nel convento di Santa Maria delle Grazie, oggi questi codici di proprietà comunale, insieme ad altri libri di importanza storica per Monteprandone e il suo territorio, sono conservati sotto le volte a crociera del piano terra del Palazzo Comunale.

Fra 2011 e 2012, si sono registrati segnali di interessamento ai codici di San Giacomo da parte di studiosi del francescanesimo. Tra questi vi è Antal Molnar, direttore dell'Accademia Culturale Ungherese in Italia, che nel novembre 2011 ha visitato Monteprandone e il museo civico.

A partire dal marzo del 2012 è iniziata una prima ricognizione dei codici da parte dell'Università degli Studi di Bari. Alcuni docenti si sono recati più volte a Monteprandone, acquisendo per la Biblioteca del Dipartimento il catalogo intero dei codici e gli atti degli ultimi due convegni dedicati al Santo.

Società

Evoluzione demografica

Etnie e minoranze straniere
Secondo i dati ISTAT al 31 dicembre 2015 la popolazione straniera residente era di  persone (8,79%). Le nazionalità maggiormente rappresentate in base alla loro percentuale sul totale della popolazione residente erano:

 Albania, 409 (3,23%)
 Cina, 184 (1,45%)
 Romania, 138 (1,09%)

Economia
La tradizionale economia agricola con i tipici prodotti di questa terra come olio di oliva e vino, oggi è una voce secondaria di fronte alla presenza di numerose attività industriali anche di grandi proporzioni site a Centobuchi e sviluppatesi negli ultimi 30 anni. Tra le altre si evidenziano la produzione di elicotteri, quella di mobili per bagno e la trasformazione dei prodotti ortofrutticoli.
Di notevole interesse economico sono anche le svariate attività, sia al dettaglio che all'ingrosso.

Infrastrutture e trasporti

Ferrovie
La località è servita dalla fermata ferroviaria Monteprandone, posta lungo la ferrovia Ascoli Piceno-San Benedetto del Tronto e servita dalle relazioni regionali Trenitalia svolte nell'ambito del contratto di servizio stipulato con la Regione Marche.

Mobilità urbana
Il trasporto pubblico suburbano a Monteprandone è gestito con autocorse svolte dalla società START.

Amministrazione

Gemellaggi

Sport
Hanno sede nel comune le società di calcio a 5 A.S.D. Futsal Prandone e Atletico Centobuchi, militanti in serie C2.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Q: Unscented Kalman filter-negative covariance matrix I have recently started working on the unscented Kalman filter. I coded the numerically stable version (i.e., square root Kalman filter) and used MATLAB for implementing. In the final update step, where we update the state covariance matrix using cholupdate I get an error.
Pk = cholupdate(expected_S,K*Sy,'-')

Basically, expected_S'*expected_S-(K*Sy)*(K*Sy)' is not positive semi-definite (where expected_P=expected_S'*expected_S;) and so cholupdate returns an error.
I cannot understand why this is happening in the square root implementation. (I have checked the derivations and coding didn't seem to find an error.)
PS: I am currently testing linear models on UKF just to check if its optimal for linear models, but I keep getting the above error (for local linear trend model).

A: I also have this problem. However, I realised that depending on the covariance that you fix, it does not happen. If I set an unrealistic covariance matrix, then the error happens. Which makes me think that is perhaps a matter of numerical errors making the covariance matrix non-positive definite.
However, as you say, in the SRUKF in its normal behaviour, this should not happen at all, the covariance matrix is ensured to be symmetric and semi-positive definite.
I would suggest a test. Try to measure the covariance of the data, and then set those values.
I hope it helps!

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Bilişim Hukuku Günlüğü: If the New iPhone Has Fingerprint Authentication, Can It Be Hacked?
When Apple bought AuthenTec for its biometrics technology — reported as one of its most expensive purchases — there was a lot of speculation about how the company would incorporate biometrics in its product line. Many speculate that the new Apple iPhone to be announced tomorrow will come with a fingerprint authentication system, and there are several ways it could work, such as swiping your finger over a slit-sized reader to have the phone recognize you.
Apple would be smart to add biometric technology to the iPhone. Fingerprint authentication is a good balance between convenience and security for a mobile device.
Biometric systems are seductive, but the reality isn't that simple. They have complicated security properties. For example, they are not keys. Your fingerprint isn't a secret; you leave it everywhere you touch.
And fingerprint readers have a long history of vulnerabilities as well. Some are better than others. The simplest ones just check the ridges of a finger; some of those can be fooled with a good photocopy. Others check for pores as well. The better ones verify pulse, or finger temperature. Fooling them with rubber fingers is harder, but often possible. A Japanese researcher had good luck doing this over a decade ago with the gelatin mixture that's used to make Gummi bears.
The best system I've ever seen was at the entry gates of a secure government facility. Maybe you could have fooled it with a fake finger, but a Marine guard with a big gun was making sure you didn't get the opportunity to try. Disney World uses a similar system at its park gates — but without the Marine guards.
There are two ways an authentication system can fail. It can mistakenly allow an unauthorized person access, or it can mistakenly deny access to an authorized person. In any consumer system, the second failure is far worse than the first. Yes, it can be problematic if an iPhone fingerprint system occasionally allows someone else access to your phone. But it's much worse if you can't reliably access your own phone — you'd junk the system after a week.
If it's true that Apple's new iPhone will have biometric security, the designers have presumably erred on the side of ensuring that the user can always get in. Failures will be more common in cold weather, when your shriveled fingers just got out of the shower, and so on. But there will certainly still be the traditional PIN system to fall back on.
So … can biometric authentication be hacked?
Almost certainly. I'm sure that someone with a good enough copy of your fingerprint and some rudimentary materials engineering capability — or maybe just a good enough printer — can authenticate his way into your iPhone. But, honestly, if some bad guy has your iPhone and your fingerprint, you've probably got bigger problems to worry about.
The final problem with biometric systems is the database. If the system is centralized, there will be a large database of biometric information that's vulnerable to hacking. A system by Apple will almost certainly be local — you authenticate yourself to the phone, not to any network — so there's no requirement for a centralized fingerprint database.
Apple's move is likely to bring fingerprint readers into the mainstream. But all applications are not equal. It's fine if your fingers unlock your phone. It's a different matter entirely if your fingerprint is used to authenticate your iCloud account. The centralized database required for that application would create an enormous security risk.


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Q: Kohana 3.2. - How can I use hyphens in URIs Recently I've been doing some research into SEO and how URIs that use hyphens or underscores are treated differently, particularly by Google who view hyphens as separators.
Anyway, eager to adapt my current project to meet this criteria I found that because Kohana uses function names to define pages I was receiving the unexpected '-' warning.
I was wondering whether there was any way to enable the use of URIs in Kohana like:
http://www.mysite.com/controller/function-name

Obviously I could setup a routeHandler for this... but if I was to have user generated content, i.e. news. I'd then have to get all articles from the database, produce the URI, and then do the routing for each one.
Are there any alternative solutions?

A: Note: This is the same approach as in Laurent's answer, just slightly more OOP-wise. Kohana allows one to very easily overload any system class, so we can use it to save us some typing and also to allow for cleaner updates in the future.
We can plug-in into the request flow in Kohana and fix the dashes in the action part of the URL. To do it we will override Request_Client_Internal system class and it's execute_request() method. There we'll check if request->action has dashes, and if so we'll switch them to underscores to allow php to call our method properly.
Step 1. Open your application/bootstrap.php and add this line:
define('URL_WITH_DASHES_ONLY', TRUE);

You use this constant to quickly disable this feature on some requests, if you need underscores in the url.
Step 2. Create a new php file in: application/classes/request/client/internal.php and paste this code:
<?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct script access.');

class Request_Client_Internal extends Kohana_Request_Client_Internal {

    /**
     * We override this method to allow for dashes in the action part of the url
     * (See Kohana_Request_Client_Internal::execute_request() for the details)
     *
     * @param   Request $request
     * @return  Response
     */
    public function execute_request(Request $request)
    {
        // Check the setting for dashes (the one set in bootstrap.php)
        if (defined('URL_WITH_DASHES_ONLY') and URL_WITH_DASHES_ONLY == TRUE)
        {
            // Block URLs with underscore in the action to avoid duplicated content
            if (strpos($request->action(), '_') !== false)
            {
                throw new HTTP_Exception_404('The requested URL :uri was not found on this server.', array(':uri' => $request->uri()));
            }

            // Modify action part of the request: transform all dashes to underscores
            $request->action( strtr($request->action(), '-', '_') );
        }
        // We are done, let the parent method do the heavy lifting
        return parent::execute_request($request);
    }

} // end_class Request_Client_Internal

What this does is simply replacing all the dashes in the $request->action with underscores, thus  if url was /something/foo-bar, Kohana will now happily route it to our action_foo_bar() method.
In the same time we block all the actions with underscores, to avoid the duplicated content problems.

A: No way to directly map a hyphenated string to a PHP function so you will have to do routing.
As far as user generated content, you could do something like Stack Exchange does. Each time user content is saved to the database, generated a slug for it (kohana-3-2-how-can-i-use-hyphens-in-uris) and save it along with the other information. Then when you need to link to it, use the unique id and append the slug to the end (ex:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7404646/kohana-3-2-how-can-i-use-hyphens-in-uris) for readability.

A: You can do this with lambda functions: http://forum.kohanaframework.org/discussion/comment/62581#Comment_62581

A: You could do something like
Route::set('route', '<controller>/<identifier>', array(
    'identifier' => '[a-zA-Z\-]*'
))
->defaults(array(
    'controller' => 'Controller',
    'action'     => 'show',
));

Then receive your content identifier in the function with Request::current()->param('identifier') and parse it manually to find the relating data.

A: After having tried various solutions, I found that the easiest and most reliable way is to override Kohana_Request_Client_Internal::execute_request. To do so, add a file in your application folder in "application\classes\kohana\request\client\internal.php" then set its content to:
<?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct script access.');
class Kohana_Request_Client_Internal extends Request_Client {

    /**
     * @var    array
     */
    protected $_previous_environment;

    /**
     * Processes the request, executing the controller action that handles this
     * request, determined by the [Route].
     *
     * 1. Before the controller action is called, the [Controller::before] method
     * will be called.
     * 2. Next the controller action will be called.
     * 3. After the controller action is called, the [Controller::after] method
     * will be called.
     *
     * By default, the output from the controller is captured and returned, and
     * no headers are sent.
     *
     *     $request->execute();
     *
     * @param   Request $request
     * @return  Response
     * @throws  Kohana_Exception
     * @uses    [Kohana::$profiling]
     * @uses    [Profiler]
     * @deprecated passing $params to controller methods deprecated since version 3.1
     *             will be removed in 3.2
     */
    public function execute_request(Request $request)
    {
        // Create the class prefix
        $prefix = 'controller_';

        // Directory
        $directory = $request->directory();

        // Controller
        $controller = $request->controller();

        if ($directory)
        {
            // Add the directory name to the class prefix
            $prefix .= str_replace(array('\\', '/'), '_', trim($directory, '/')).'_';
        }

        if (Kohana::$profiling)
        {
            // Set the benchmark name
            $benchmark = '"'.$request->uri().'"';

            if ($request !== Request::$initial AND Request::$current)
            {
                // Add the parent request uri
                $benchmark .= ' « "'.Request::$current->uri().'"';
            }

            // Start benchmarking
            $benchmark = Profiler::start('Requests', $benchmark);
        }

        // Store the currently active request
        $previous = Request::$current;

        // Change the current request to this request
        Request::$current = $request;

        // Is this the initial request
        $initial_request = ($request === Request::$initial);

        try
        {
            if ( ! class_exists($prefix.$controller))
            {
                throw new HTTP_Exception_404('The requested URL :uri was not found on this server.',
                                                    array(':uri' => $request->uri()));
            }

            // Load the controller using reflection
            $class = new ReflectionClass($prefix.$controller);

            if ($class->isAbstract())
            {
                throw new Kohana_Exception('Cannot create instances of abstract :controller',
                    array(':controller' => $prefix.$controller));
            }

            // Create a new instance of the controller
            $controller = $class->newInstance($request, $request->response() ? $request->response() : $request->create_response());

            $class->getMethod('before')->invoke($controller);

            // Determine the action to use
            /* ADDED */ if (strpos($request->action(), '_') !== false) throw new HTTP_Exception_404('The requested URL :uri was not found on this server.', array(':uri' => $request->uri()));
            /* MODIFIED */ $action = str_replace('-', '_', $request->action()); /* ORIGINAL: $action = $request->action(); */

            $params = $request->param();

            // If the action doesn't exist, it's a 404
            if ( ! $class->hasMethod('action_'.$action))
            {
                throw new HTTP_Exception_404('The requested URL :uri was not found on this server.',
                                                    array(':uri' => $request->uri()));
            }

            $method = $class->getMethod('action_'.$action);

            $method->invoke($controller);

            // Execute the "after action" method
            $class->getMethod('after')->invoke($controller);
        }
        catch (Exception $e)
        {
            // Restore the previous request
            if ($previous instanceof Request)
            {
                Request::$current = $previous;
            }

            if (isset($benchmark))
            {
                // Delete the benchmark, it is invalid
                Profiler::delete($benchmark);
            }

            // Re-throw the exception
            throw $e;
        }

        // Restore the previous request
        Request::$current = $previous;

        if (isset($benchmark))
        {
            // Stop the benchmark
            Profiler::stop($benchmark);
        }

        // Return the response
        return $request->response();
    }
} // End Kohana_Request_Client_Internal

Then to add an action with hyphens, for example, "controller/my-action", create an action called "my_action()".
This method will also throw an error if the user tries to access "controller/my_action" (to avoid duplicate content).
I know some developers don't like this method but the advantage of it is that it doesn't rename the action, so if you check the current action it will be consistently called "my-action" everywhere. With the Route or lambda function method, the action will sometime be called "my_action", sometime "my-action" (since both methods rename the action).


When you have an essay or two to complete before the end of term, it can be somewhat overwhelming if you don't have a clear plan as to how you will balance your time between your essay and any other homework you may have. Fortunately, taking heed of a few guidelines will ensure you're working without causing yourself stress, and you have a clear idea as to what needs to be done and when it needs to be done.
Ensure that you explain what the arguable question is.
Explain what your response would be.
Exploratory papers need to have an arguable question as a focus point. The following points should be taken into consideration when selecting your topic.
The question has not been solved previously.
The question is not something that has an easily identifiable answer.
It can be tempting to opt for the first topic you see that is of interest, but it's important that you are certain about your subject matter before moving forward.
When going over your paper, everything can start to become a little repetitive. Ensure you have a fresh set of eyes look over your work. While this is done for some constructive criticism, you may also find that your work is better than you gave yourself credit for.
A freelancer more than likely works for different clients doing different jobs, so therefore needs to keep a consistent record. Students should do the same when taking notes to ensure they have everything in hand and nothing important is lost.
Writing a draft may seem like more work initially, but it will assist you in giving your ideas and viewpoints more body when completing your final work.
While words do a more than good enough job of telling readers what they need to know, certain topics may be suitable for the inclusion of relevant images.
Working hard will undoubtedly cause tiredness, so when reading your dissertation or term paper, ensure you read it again after you've rested up to ensure everything is as it should be.
This might be considered as an obvious thing to do, but it relates to the point of rereading your work to ensure that all information can be clearly identified. Such subject matter can become confusing if it's not clear as to what views each person holds.


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Filling the gap: Georgia Baptists open clinic for medically underserved residents
Georgia's The Christian Index
Georgia, Latest News
Wendy West, director of Good Health Ministries, tries her blood pressure cuff on associational missionary Freddy Gardner.
(Courtesy of The Christian Index)
People who earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to purchase medical insurance will now be able to get the health care they need through a ministry launched this month by Tattnall Evans Baptist Association, Claxton, Georgia.
Good Health Ministries — created for people who have fallen through the cracks in the nation's medical system — is the latest in a statewide network of nonprofit ministries attempting to fill the gap.
"Our goal is to provide the primary care that people need so that they don't have to put off treatment until it becomes an emergency and they have to rush to the hospital," said Wendy West, a registered nurse who oversees the clinic that will serve Claxton, Glennville, Reidsville and surrounding communities in Evans and Tattnall counties.
Broad range of services
Good Health Ministries offers a broad range of other services as well, including dental assistance, behavioral counseling, health education, life skills classes and crisis pregnancy counseling. All those services provide opportunities for staff and volunteers to share the gospel with the people they serve.
"What's happening in the Tattnall Evans association will be life saving and life changing for people who fall into the health care gap," said Ricky Thrasher, the Georgia Baptist Mission Board's liaison to the Baptist associations around the state.
"The associational missionary, Freddy Gardner, has championed this project from the very start, and his churches have gotten behind the initiative in a big way," Thrasher said. "This ministry shows what can be accomplished when a group of Baptists work together to meet a critical need."
Gardner secured a $225,000 grant from the Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry Foundation that covered most of the construction costs. Locally, medical professionals have gotten involved, volunteering their time to provide health screenings and treatment to the clinic's patients. And local organizations have donated the clinic's heating and air conditioning system, examination tables and other items, including artwork for the walls.
Gardner's association is made up of about 30 congregations that felt compelled to start the medical clinic as a means to show the love of Christ to the communities it serves.
"We felt like we were doing pretty well in helping to reach our state, nation and world, but we felt like we weren't doing enough to reach our own city," Gardner said. "When we realized that, we began to look for meaningful ways to do ministry here."
It was during a mission trip to Haiti that the seed for Good Health Ministries germinated. Short-term missionaries from the Claxton area were helping patients at a Haitian clinic, providing medical care for people who otherwise would have gone without.
While working in the Haiti clinic, West told some of the other Georgia missionaries, "I sure wish I could do something like this back home."
'Now they have an option'
Now, she is doing it as the clinic's medical director.
The largely agricultural economy in Tattnall and Evans counties has produced a growing number of people in the lower middle class, which is the sector that is most likely to be in need of Good Health Ministries.
"Too many of those people have had to go without medical care," Gardner said. "Now they have an option."
The clinic will celebrate its opening with a ribbon cutting on March 14 at 1:30 p.m.
EDITOR'S NOTE — This story was written by Roger Alford and published by The Christian Index, news service of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board.


What this means in the classroom is that students learn how to better know themselves, how to effectively show kindness and empathy for others, how to express positive emotions, and how to deal with negative emotions. These practices lead to a classroom and school culture of caring and support. SEL brings together cognitive learning with social and emotional learning to teach to the whole student. SEL also casts the educator in the role of a more complete person leading to an enriching school experience for all. SEL can be implemented in concert with Culturally Responsive or Restorative Justice practices and other ethical practices highlighted in these resources. Like Restorative Justice, the research and writing in this field is evolving. Stay tuned, more to come!
Read below for some of the most recommended websites and established organizations in the field of social emotional learning!
What makes CRTWC is special is that they address both the teachers' and the students' social-emotional skills in pre-service teacher education, referred to as social- emotional dimension of teaching and learning (SEDTL). Also, they focus on integrating social-emotional perspectives into the school's curriculum as opposed to adding an SEL program on top of it. Watch several great videos focused on Social Emotional Learning in Pre-Service Teacher Preparation and read up on their collaboration with San Jose State University. Don't forget to check out their institutes, blogs and vast compilation of resources (videos, websites, articles and books) on how to integrate SEL into all aspects of teaching.
One of the most established and highly regarded collaboratives in the field, CASEL has promoted integrated academic, social, and emotional learning for all children preschool-high school for more than 20 years. Their framework offers tools for the district, school, classroom and even home. Learn about what their partner districts are doing across the nation, the latest in research, policy and peruse their library of resources. Be sure to bookmark the site for future reference!
Osher, David, Yael Kidron, Marc Brackett, Allison Dymnicki, Stephanie Jones, and Roger P. Weissberg. "Advancing the Science and Practice of Social and Emotional Learning: Looking Back and Moving Forward" Review of Research in Education. 40:1 (2016) 644 – 681.
Jones, Stephanie, Katharine Brush, Rebecca Bailey, Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Joseph McIntyre, Jennifer Kahn, Bryan Nelson, and Laura Stickle. Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out: Looking Inside and Across 25 Leading SEL Programs: A Practical Resource for Schools and OST Providers (Elementary School Focus). Harvard Graduate School of Ed. (2017).
A recently released in-depth guide to 25 evidence-based programs—aimed at elementary schools and out-of-school-time providers—offers information about curricular content and programmatic features that practitioners can use to make informed choices about their Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) efforts. Practitioners can compare curricula and methods across top SEL programs and read about how programs can be adapted from schools to out-of-school-time settings, such as afterschool and summer programs.
Outcomes for different student populations and settings.
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Scroll through this list of books and articles that have been vetted by experts in the field. We are confident you will find information that informs and inspires!
Beaudoin, M-N. The Skill-ionaire in EVERY Child, Boosting Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Using the Latest in Brain Research. San Francisco. Goshawk Publications. 2010.
By investigating what is right with your students instead what is wrong with them, teachers can learn how to engage their students in "skill-boosting conversations", a cutting-edge method designed to empower students to identify and further enrich the unique problem-solving strategies that work best for them. This is the implementation of social and emotional skills in a relational setting that is supported by current brain research.
This essay analyzes the potential of social and emotional learning (SEL) to foster optimal growth among African-American youth so that ultimately.
Get to know the perspectives of 9 African American youth at risk for academic failure taking part in the Fulfill the Dream (FTD) program, a social and emotional learning curriculum emphasizing social justice and critical consciousness through the utilization of hip-hop culture. Also discussed are information about the collaboration of this research project and recommendations for education professionals working with marginalized youth.
Slaten, C.D., Irby, D.J., Tate, K. A., & Rivera, R. "Towards A Critically Conscious Approach To Social-Emotional Learning In Alternative Education: School Staff Members' Perspectives." Journal of Social Action in Counseling & Psychology 7:1 (2015) 41-62.
Never a one size fits all model, deepen your understanding of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) with this study that examines a predominately African-American urban alternative school's unique approach to reaching students' SEL needs. Utilizing Consensual Qualitative Research (Hill, 2012), researchers interviewed 15 staff members at the school, ranging from teachers to mental health professionals to community educators, to obtain a thorough understanding of the unique approaches to SEL within urban alternative education.
WHAT Social Emotional Learning STANDARDS & EXPECTATIONS DO I ALIGN TO?
CAPE 1: DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION OF A SHARED VISION — Education leaders facilitate the development and implementation of a shared vision of learning and growth of all students.
Explain how school plans, programs, and activities support the school's vision to advance the academic, linguistic, cultural, aesthetic, social-emotional, behavioral, and physical development of each student.
CAPE 4: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT — Education leaders collaborate with families and other stakeholders to address diverse student and community interests and mobilize community resources.
Engage family and community members in accomplishing the school's vision of equitable schooling and continuous improvement that includes the academic, linguistic, cultural, social-emotional, mental and physical health, and/or other supports needed to succeed in school.
Access community programs and services that assist all students, including those who require extra academic, mental health, linguistic, cultural, social-emotional, physical, or other needs to succeed in school.
CAPE 5: ETHICS AND INTEGRITY — Education leaders make decisions, model, and behave in ways that demonstrate professionalism, ethics, integrity, justice, and equity and hold staff to the same standard.
Recognize any possible institutional barriers to student and staff learning and use strategies that overcome barriers that derive from economic, social-emotional, racial, linguistic, cultural, physical, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other sources of educational disadvantage or discrimination.
CPSEL 1A: Student–Centered Vision: Leaders shape a collective vision that uses multiple measures of data and focuses on equitable access, opportunities, and outcomes for all students.
1A-1 Advance support for the academic, linguistic, cultural, social-emotional, behavioral, and physical development of each learner.
CPSEL 3C: Climate: Leaders facilitate safe, fair, and respectful environments that meet the intellectual, linguistic, cultural, social-emotional, and physical needs of each learner.
CPSEL 4C: Community Resources and Services: Leaders leverage and integrate community resources and services to meet the varied needs of all students.
4C-1 Seek out and collaborate with community programs and services that assist students who need academic, mental, linguistic, cultural, social-emotional, physical, or other support to succeed in school.
CPSEL 5A: Reflective Practice: Leaders act upon a personal code of ethics that requires continuous reflection and learning.
5A-1 Examine personal assumptions, values, and beliefs to address students' various academic, linguistic, cultural, social-emotional, physical, and economic assets and needs and promote equitable practices and access appropriate resources.
CPSEL 5B: Ethical Decision-Making: Leaders guide and support personal and collective actions that use relevant evidence and available research to make fair and ethical decisions.
5B-3 Identify personal and institutional biases and remove barriers that derive from economic, social-emotional, racial, linguistic, cultural, physical, gender, or other sources of educational disadvantage or discrimination.
CPSEL 6B: Professional Influence: Leaders use their understanding of social, cultural, economic, legal and political contexts to shape policies that lead to all students to graduate ready for college and career.
6B-1 Advocate for equity and adequacy in providing for students' and families' educational, linguistic, cultural, social-emotional, legal, physical, and economic needs, so every student can meet education expectations and goals.
Apply knowledge of students, including their prior experiences, interests, and social- emotional learning needs, as well as their funds of knowledge and cultural, language, and socioeconomic backgrounds, to engage them in learning.
Beginning teachers understand and value the socioeconomic, cultural, and linguistic background, funds of knowledge, and achievement expectations of students, families, and the community and use these understandings not only within the instructional process but also to establish and maintain positive relationships in and outside the classroom. They use technology as appropriate to communicate with and support students and families.
Promote students' social-emotional growth, development, and individual responsibility using positive interventions and supports, restorative justice, and conflict resolution practices to foster a caring community where each student is treated fairly and respectfully by adults and peers.
Establish, maintain, and monitor inclusive learning environments that are physically, mentally, intellectually, and emotionally healthy and safe to enable all students to learn, and recognize and appropriately address instances of intolerance and harassment among students, such as bullying, racism, and sexism.
Beginning teachers support all students' mental, social-emotional, and physical health needs by fostering a safe and welcoming classroom environment where students feel they belong and feel safe to communicate. Beginning teachers recognize that in addition to individual cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic and academic backgrounds, students come to school with a wide range of life experiences that impact their readiness to learn, including adverse or traumatic childhood experiences, mental health issues, and social-emotional and physical health needs.
A CALL TO ACTION: Be more than a great teacher . . . . Be a champion for education!
Do you want to change the lives of even more students? Not just those in your course, classroom or school, you are more powerful than that! We're talking about improving educator credentialing processes so that those who follow in your footsteps will be equally equipped to join you in serving the next generation of students.
Recommend other educators, coaches and mentors to visit and use this website, it's here to support faculty at schools of education, teachers, administrators and educational leaders like yourself.


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Even Moderate Weight Loss Helps the Heart
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See this week's news report to find out why so many people fail to uphold their New Year's resolutions to lose weight. And learn more about an appetite compound that's natural in humans and is chemically similar to a certain recreational drug. Plus, get more on a new two-year program designed to help 120 families lose weight, and discover a new device that could replace gastric bypass surgery.
Get the latest details on new research, treatments, legislation and social trends related to obesity and check out WLS News now!
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Organizations mentioned in this episode:
EndoBarrier
George Washington University Medical Center
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health
Bariatric Girl
Yvonne's Link of the Week: Fit and Funny
Fitness Success Requires Gradual Changes
Could staying away from the gym help you stick to your weight loss goals this year? One study shows it might.
Researchers at George Washington University Medical Center surveyed more than 1,500 obese men and women. The survey showed that the heaviest respondents had the lowest estimation of their own health, but the reason they chose not to hit the gym, according to survey results, had more to do with emotions. Click on the video player above to learn how they feel.
No Health for Obese Men
Many pro-fat advocacy groups insist that being fat is a social stigma, not a health risk. But a new study shows that's not the case.
A study out of Uppsala University that followed 1,800 Swedish men for 30 years lead scientists to believe that it is not possible to be overweight or obese without exhibiting signs of metabolic syndrome. This syndrome that includes at least three health risk factors, such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, a big waistline or high cholesterol. Click on the video player above to learn more.
Doctors Study Endocannabinoids
Academic researchers from Pennsylvania and Japan have teamed up to examine a compound in humans that's very close to something found in… marijuana. And learning more about it may show doctors how to prevent us from getting the munchies. Click on the video player above to learn what the research has uncovered.
COMPASS Program Tackles Family Obesity
A two-year program in St. Louis, Missouri is recruiting 120 families that have been affected by obesity in hopes of helping them make improvements.
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are embarking on a study called COMPASS, which stands for "Comprehensive Maintenance Program to Achieve Sustained Success." The study will involve 120 families with at least one parent – and at least one child between ages 7 and 11 – who are more than 20 percent heavier than their ideal weight. The COMPASS study will include fitness and nutritional mandates, plus weight management therapy. The program is designed to influence the parent to take action against a weight problem, which, in turn, sets a powerful example for the child. COMPASS will attempt to produce four months of weight loss, followed by eight months of weight maintenance. Then, the researchers will follow up with the families for another year to measure their health status. This two-year study, which will be free for the families who qualify to participate, is made possible by a $4.6 million grant from two national institutes. Click the player above to get more details.
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The Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment (ANSA) is a multi-purpose tool developed for adult's behavioral health services to support decision making, including level of care and service planning, to facilitate quality improvement initiatives, and to allow for the monitoring of outcomes of services. The ANSA is currently used in a number of states and Canada in applications hospitals, emergency departments, psychosocial rehabilitation programs, and ACT programs.
The ANSA was developed from a communication perspective so as to facilitate the linkage between the assessment process and the design of individualized service plans including the application of evidence-based practices. The original version, the Severity of Psychiatric Illness (SPI), was created in the 1990's to study decision-making in psychiatric emergency systems. The ANSA expands on the concepts of the SPI to include a broader description of functioning and include strengths with a recovery focus.
Decision support applications include the development of specific algorithms for levels of care including psychiatric hospitalization and intensive community services, and traditional outpatient care. Algorithms can be localized for sensitivity to varying service delivery systems and cultures.
In terms of quality improvement activities, a number of settings have utilized a fidelity model approach to look at service/treatment/action planning based on the ANSA assessment. A rating of '2' or '3' on a CANS needs suggests that this area must be addressed in the plan. A rating of a '0' or '1' identifies a strength that can be used for strength-based planning and a '2' or '3' a strength that should be the focus on strength-building activities.
Finally, the ANSA can be used to monitor outcomes. This can be accomplished in two ways. First, items that are initially rated a '2' or '3' are monitored over time to determine the percent of youth who move to a rating of '0' or '1' (resolved need, built strength). Or, dimension scores can be generated by summing items within each of the dimensions (Problems, Risk Behaviors, Functioning, etc). These scores can be compared over the course of treatment. ANSA dimension scores have been shown to be valid outcome measures in hospital, partial hospital, psychosocial rehabilitation, and intensive community services.
The ANSA has demonstrated reliability and validity. With training, any one with a bachelor's degree can learn to complete the tool reliably, although some applications require a higher degree. The average reliability of the ANSA is 0.75 with vignettes, 0.86 with case records, and can be above 0.90 with live cases. The ANSA is auditable and audit reliabilities demonstrate that the ANSA is reliable at the item level. Validity is demonstrated with the ANSA relationship to level of care decisions and other similar measures of symptoms, risk behaviors, and functioning.
The ANSA is an open domain tool that is free for anyone to use. There is a community of people who use the ANSA and share experiences and additional items and supplementary tools.


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Did MLK Jr predict the decline of mainline churches?
Kurt Wiesner
[D]mergent believes that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. predicted the Predicted the Decline of the Mainline Church. Perhaps the blog speaks to all churches as all are in decline as the "nones" become the largest faith group:
…Unfortunately, Christianity—because of so many botched attempts at fitting in, at being relevant, at making sure society doesn't think us metaphysical rubes and hayseeds—has domesticated the faith to such an extent that disbelief takes little effort. We have fostered a situation in which it is appallingly easy, as Terry Eagleton says, to reject faith "on the cheap." Faith, in the hands of too many of Jesus' loudest and most unremittingly convinced fans, cannot but feel like the spiritual equivalent of polyester underpants—unflattering, out-of-date, and scratchy in the tenderest places.1
Here's the thing: If the "nones" find disbelief preferable (and Lord knows there are plenty of really good reasons to do so) why not try to give them something interesting in which to disbelieve? My fear is that at the heart of much disbelief sits a reality that I, as a Christian, don't have any stake in believing in either.
If the "nones" are leaving the church (and again, anyone with a little sense and some walking around change admits that there exist arguably compelling grounds for doing so) why not give them a true picture of what is they're leaving? My fear is that they're leaving because they've gotten a taste of a Christianity that many of us have no desire to defend….
Fifty years out, Martin Luther King called it. He said that "the judgment of God is on the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century."
And guess what happened. Over the next fifty years, we have seen those millions cast whatever loyalty to the church they might once have held aside. Looking like a social club apparently just won't get it done….
Read it all here.
Rod Gillis
@ JC Fisher, a good place to look for the connection between mysticism and community/society within a Christian context is in the work of Bernard Lonergan.
In "Method in Theology" Lonergan identifies the ascetic and the mystic as a bearer of just one of a number of expressions of "differentiated" religious conciousness.
In "Insight", commenting on the church as mystical body, ( phrase used by Anglicans)Lonergan notes that the seed of eternal life cannot bear fruit "without effecting a transfiguration of human living and, in turn, that transfiguraiton contians the solution not only to man's individual but also to his social problem of evil." He links, within the context of the mystical body, individual conversion, Catholic action, and collective responsibility.(B. Lonergan. Inisght. pp.742-743. Darton, longman and Todd 1957.)
tgflux
Community OR Mysticism?
Social Justice OR Bliss?
Both/And, PLEASE!!!!
JC Fisher
Re Harriet Babers' 1:31 post, I would agree that the grain of incense/bread from the mouths of the poor is a false dichtomy. So too would much of Catholic, including Anglo-Catholic, tradition.
However, mysticism has been defined variously from mystery religions,to Platonism, gnosticism, etc. However defined for Christians, mysticism cannot be understood in opposstion to the human experience as social and communal experience. The whole Hebrew Christian enterprise is profoundly communal and social.
The article linked in the previous post, regarding mystic experiences being not so rare, does not define mysticism in any susbantive way, makes no attempt to discern the genuine mystical expereince from self-defined subjective "highs".
Love of God and love of neighbor are not opossing phenomena. I'm suspicious that what people often claim as mystical experience is merely what Michael Novak once described as a "service station of the soul" kind of experience.
Just as communal religious life can be lacking in authenticity so to can self-defined, self-created, religious "experiences"–indeed likley more so.
The "flight of the alone to the alone" is fine as long as its a return flight to human community, and as long as its a flight that does not make one a fugitive.
Harriet Baber
Nothing against "community" as such but against the tradition in which we were told that every grain of incense was bread from the mouths of the poor–that religion was "escapist." And more so the endless attempts to promote the "horizontal dimension" in liturgy–from the "we" in the Creed to the Peace to all the attempts to make church services less formal, less impersonal–which suck out every bit of the numinous. Mysticism is "the flight of the alone to the Alone" and sociability destroys it.
Clint Davis
Community for community's sake is not where it's at, and Jesus never promised that. But community grows when people are committed to excellent worship in the beauty of holiness, and committed to dynamic social justice work that really helps and makes a difference, especially tending to needs and wants that are overlooked by other charities and whatever (including giving musicians a place to play and artists a place to show?) Dr. Baber, if you're enjoying a high liturgy, would you pass up the opportunity to play a part in its production? Community happens when you are asked, invited, and say yes. It doesn't happen because you're supposed to be extroverted and all over everyone all the time. Lord knows Episcopalians aren't generally the extroverted type.


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Books by Jules Verne
List of recommended books written by author Jules Verne, with description, links and more.
Book: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Author: Jules Verne
Description: A huge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Arronax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast.
He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Arronax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Arronax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive--20,000 leagues under the sea!
Trapped aboard the fantastic... (keep reading...)
Book: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Description: An impetuous German geologist discovers an encoded manuscript in which a sixteenth-century explorer claims to have found a passageway to the center of the earth.
The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core.
In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the geologist, together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans, discovers an astonishing... (keep reading...)
Book: Michael Strogoff
Description: A classic tale of adventure and intrigue in the Russian Empire.
Someone must warn the Governor-General of Siberia that the fierce Feofar-Khan is pouring his men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion. Only one of the Czar Alexander II couriers, Michael Strogoff, is capable of handling this mission.
Jules Verne presents a narrative about the determination and courage of the protagonist who is sent out to deliver the secret message. He will find almost insurmountable obstacles as he carries it from Moscow to... (keep reading...)
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Rodney Crowell and Mary Karr combine their…
Rodney Crowell and Mary Karr combine their talents for a bracing new album titled "Kin"
By Santa Cruz Sentinel and Wallace Baine |
The relationship between Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell began in 2003 when Crowell, one of the underappreciated heroes of the Americana alt-country movement, recorded a song called "Earthbound" in which he mentioned Karr in a couplet rhyming her with Ringo Starr.
Does this mean that the exhilarating new collaboration between Crowell and Karr, the author of the hugely popular memoir "The Liar"s Club," would have never happened if her name was Mary Kern?
"No, not at all," said Crowell in a phone interview with Karr sitting beside him. "I chose "Ringo Starr" because it rhymed with "Mary Karr" not the other way around."
The result of the rhyme is "Kin," a new album in which Crowell enlisted Karr to co-write the album"s 10 songs. Karr is a celebrated poet and memoirist, a best-selling literary juggernaut and a writing teacher at Harvard, Syracuse and other eminent places. But she is no singer. Thus, "Kin" brings a number of Crowell"s musician friends — Norah Jones, Vince Gill, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams and others — to perform the songs.
Still, she is on tour with Crowell to promote the new album. The two come to the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz June 14.
"The literary portion of the evening will be very succinct," said Karr. "It won"t be the main course at all. It"ll be more like a sprinkling of pepper on the main course, which is the music."
Crowell had read "The Liar"s Club," one of the best-selling non-fiction books of the late 1990s, and was not only moved by Karr"s account of her troubled childhood but struck with the parallels between her background and his own. They both hailed from what Karr called the "East Texas Ringworm Belt."
"It was sobering," said Crowell of his reaction upon reading "The Liar"s Club." "There was the recognition that she was roughly from my neck of the woods. But more than that, the vision was so fully realized and completely enthralling."
Crowell grew up in the rough parts of the east end of Houston. Karr was more of a country girl.
"I was from a place that made Houston look like Vienna," she said of her hometown in the region of southeast Texas known for its swamps and oil refineries. "It had one of the highest suicide rates in the country. I mean, it was comparable to Bhopal or Chernobyl."
Once Crowell reached out to Karr, the two found they had more in common than a Texas childhood. Karr said that the two shared a common sensibility and a common artistic approach. Karr found that Crowell made easier the process of collaboration in songwriting, something she"d never attempted before.
"One of the great things about working with Rodney is that he was a fabulous way of bringing out the best of what you do that is also what he wants from you. He"s just a great coach."
The album"s songs are based largely on Karr"s rough-hewn upbringing with such compelling and edgy country rockers as "I"m a Mess" and "If the Law Don"t Want You (Neither Do I)." While on tour for the album, said Karr, Crowell has been working to convince her to try her hand at singing on a song or two.
"We"ve had an ongoing argument about it. And I do have an ear from harmony. But I"m still a little shy when it comes to that kind of thing. He"s hoping to grind me down though."
Crowell said that Karr has at least stopped saying no to the idea. Could the Santa Cruz date be the one where she finally takes to the stage of singer?
"Well, maybe," she said. "You can say maybe."
{ june 14 7:30 p.m. The Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $22.50 advance; $40 Gold Circle seating. www.riotheatre.com. }
Wallace Baine
Wallace Baine covered the arts scene in Santa Cruz County for the Santa Cruz Sentinel until 2017.


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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in September 2017
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1 One.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.190 0.037 0.105 0.105
2 vXtream Ltd Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.139 0.058 0.118 0.118
3 EveryCity SmartOS 0:00:00 0.000 0.109 0.064 0.296 0.296
4 Netcetera Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.106 0.078 0.158 0.158
5 CWCS Linux 0:00:00 0.009 0.202 0.111 0.186 0.187
6 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.014 0.086 0.059 0.124 0.124
7 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.014 0.118 0.060 0.119 0.119
8 XILO Communications Ltd. Linux 0:00:00 0.014 0.230 0.066 0.131 0.131
9 Pair Networks FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.014 0.238 0.070 0.140 0.140
10 Lightcrest unknown 0:00:00 0.018 0.158 0.011 0.031 0.098
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One.com had the most reliable hosting company website in September 2017, successfully responding to all requests made by Netcraft. One.com, which offers a number of shared hosting packages to clients, has offices across Europe, the USA, and Asia. September is One.com's second month at the top of the chart in 2017, with six appearances in the top ten this year.
Second place was achieved by vXtream, which recently completed its acquisition of Qube Managed Services. vXtream's site successfully responded to all requests made by Netcraft, but with a marginally slower average connect time than One.com. vXtream offers managed hosting, colocation, and cloud-based solutions from data centres in Zurich, London and New York. vXtream has spent eleven of the last twelve months in the top ten, taking the top spot four times.
EveryCity also saw no failed requests, but placed third due to a slightly slower average connect time than vXtream. EveryCity's site has had a 100% uptime record since March 2016, and is making its third appearance in the top ten over the last four months. EveryCity specialises in managed cloud hosting and is based in London.
Linux continues its dominance of the top ten, with seven websites in the list using the operating system. FreeBSD and SmartOS make one appearance each.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around thirty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage. In the event the number of failed requests are equal then sites are ranked by average connection times.
Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.
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Hey, remember 2003? The OC was just beginning. Livestrong bracelets were a thing. And you couldn't swing an Ugg boot without hitting at least eight Juicy Coture sweatsuits. However, the once-huge brand has seen a major falling out over the years. Sure, it's still around, but it's not on everyone's radar in the way it once way.
But all is not lost for Juicy! The original founders, Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, are now looking for an investor so they can buy back their former brand from its current owners, Fifth & Pacific. The pair sold the brand in 2003, but left in 2010 after an alleged conflict. Vogue reports that Skaist-Levy and Nash-Taylor returning to Juicy would "bring a new lease of life to the brand." Just so long as that doesn't mean pastel colored sweatsuits with 'Think Juicy' adorned across our backside.


When we moved to Toronto three years ago, we came thinking only of impermanence. Three years, and then a return to the house and the church and the people we knew. But soon after we came (or if not soon, at the end of our first year here), we began to wish to stay. We considered the idea of making Toronto home. I think a lot about the word. Home. I even wonder if it will be the subject of my next book. So many of my deepest longings and desires find their way here, to home, to the solid things, to permanence and its place. I could wonder why this pull is so strong in me. Or, I could agree that this desire is fundamental to what it means to be human.
On our way home from Washington, D.C. last week, our family was listening to an audio version of Gary Paulsen's, Hatchet. It's a wonderful story, and it opens with Brian Robeson staring out of the window of a small plane. Brian's parents have recently divorced, and he is flying to see his father who works in the Canadian oil fields.
Always it started with a single word.
Yes, that's it. The solid things. That's what I'm longing for, searching for. And the solid things have to do with home and marriage and family (dear God, help me to make good on the promises I've made), but the solid things are certainly more than that. If you are a Christ-follower with any kind sober appraisal of the world, with any kind of willingness to read the Scriptures and interpret your reality through that lens, you will be obligated to see how impermanent the world is, how un-solid today's ground beneath our feet. Hope can't be derived from thinking that solidity can be wrested from a world that, on many days, acts with caprice. Yes, we want the solid things. And we search for them. But they aren't to be found in our place, in our families, in ministry even. And until we settle this, that the solid things aren't things at all, we are restless and wandering, insatiable for security and stability.
The solid things aren't things at all.
I'm reading like a Benedictine these days, starting my days in the Psalms and lingering long over words and phrases. This morning, I opened Psalm 69 and heard the Psalmist's cry for the solid things.
I remembered the discussion I listened to earlier this week from two of our pastors, one of whom has struggled with depression, the other with anxiety. Different though their experiences are, both, however, used the word, "sinking" to describe their darkness.
In search of the solid things.
And this is the Psalmist's predicament as well, and in this psalm as in so many others, he vacillates wildly between hope and despair, between pain and petition. One moment, he's decrying the pain. The next moment, he's commending prayer and praise. Verse 29 shows that tension.
"I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high." (v. 29).
And perhaps this could be said another way.
I'm sinking. Let me stand on the solid things.
If the Psalmist's struggle is meant to teach us anything, we don't find the solid things by accident. They are to be found by prayer, prayer which is tethered to the wildly stubborn hope that, "at an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love, [you will] answer me in your saving faithfulness . . . For your steadfast love is good." (vv. 13, 16).
The solid things aren't things at all. And we learn this somehow by praying, by casting prayers like casting lines into the deep waters of our fear. We pray, we cast, and we hook something solid. Perhaps to our greatest surprise, we bring to the surface song and thanksgiving (v. 30).
Pray, then learn: that the solid things aren't things at all.


Some of you might have guessed it already: The last course is a fluffy baked apple. Stuffed with raisins, pomegranate, plums, apricot, marzipan, almonds and cinnamon and topped with a creamy vanilla sauce. Now that's christmas!


Will we get more than four episodes?
Conversations with A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes hit Netflix last Friday, offering true-crime fans a four-episode look into the mind of one of history's most infamous serial killers. But with just four episodes to watch, viewers are likely wondering when (or if) more is coming. Here's everything we know about The Ted Bundy Tapes Season 2 on Netflix, from a possible release date to where the series might be headed next.
Will there be a Ted Bundy Tapes Season 2* on Netflix?
We don't know, though for the moment you probably shouldn't be too hopeful. The series was never presented as anything more than a limited four-episode experience, though Netflix does list the current episodes as part of "Season 1" for whatever that might be worth.
It's also possible that Season 2 could ditch Bundy and focus on someone else entirely. After all, the full title begins with "Conversations with a Killer." So Season 2 could easily swap in another killer.
Then again, The Ted Bundy Tapes is based on over 100 hours of audio interviews with Bundy. The conversations were recorded by two journalists who spoke with the serial killer from jail in 1980 while he was waiting to receive the death penalty. So there's probably enough material for Season 2, assuming there's enough interest to make it happen.
When is the Ted Bundy Tapes Season 2* release date?
Again, we don't know. Season 1 hit Netflix on January 25, but there's no way to know whether Season 2 will arrive a few months later, a full year later, or never.
Netflix announced The Ted Bundy Tapes in mid-December. So you can probably expect Season 2 to release about a month after it's announced.
Is there a trailer for The Ted Bundy Tapes Season 2?
No, at least not yet. For now, you can watch the trailer for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Trailer, a biopic starring Zac Effron as the killer that's also out now.


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New Challenge For Rebuilding Paradise Residents -- Toxic Drinking WaterThe drinking water in Paradise, where 85 people died in the worst wildfire in state history, is contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical benzene.
Fire-Ravaged Paradise Issues 1st Rebuild PermitsSmall signs of rebuilding the town of Paradise after it was destroyed by the massive Camp Fire last fall are sprouting this spring.
Missing Cat Found Amid Ruins Months After Camp FireMonths after going missing in the Camp Fire, a cat has been rescued and is now ready to reunite with his family, which has since relocated to Missouri.
Judge Revises PG&E Order, Cites 'Dismal' Record In Preventing WildfiresA federal judge has revised a proposed order for PG&E, making it less drastic, but he maintained that the utility has a "dismal" record in preventing wildfires.
PG&E: Company's Equipment May Have Ignited Camp FireThe embattled utility said Thursday it's taking a $10.5 billion charge for claims connected to the Camp Fire in its fourth quarter earnings.
PG&E To Reshape Board In Aftermath Of WildfiresHalf of the board at PG&E is unlikely to stand for re-election at the besieged San Francisco-based utility company that is reeling in the aftermath of last year's deadly California wildfires.
Paradise Residents Living In RVs On Burned Properties May Be Forced To MoveThe town of Paradise could soon lose its FEMA money to rebuild after last year's deadly Camp Fire, if some residents don't move out fast.
Judge Blasts PG&E For Role In Destructive WildfiresA federal judge harshly reprimanded PG&E for violating its probation during a court hearing Wednesday morning, telling the utility's attorneys that safety is clearly not its top priority.
San Francisco Supe Calls For Public Power Amid PG&E BankruptcyAs Pacific Gas & Electric Co. files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a San Francisco supervisor seeks to jumpstart the process of creating a public utility to replace PG&E in the city.
PG&E Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; Estimates $50B In LiabilitySan Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas & Electric Company officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Tuesday morning, amid potential massive liabilities from recent wildfires.
Wells Fargo Donates $3.25 Million for Camp Fire ReliefWells Fargo is donating $3.25 million to help residents and business affected by the deadly wildfire that leveled the Butte County town of Paradise.
Facebook Group Helping Camp Fire Victims Find New HomesTwo months after the Camp Fire in Paradise, some of the victims who lost their homes are moving to the Bay Area and are getting resettled with the help of social media.


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 * @file uORB.cpp
 * A lightweight object broker.
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#include "uORB.h"
#include "uORBManager.hpp"
#include "uORBCommon.hpp"

orb_advert_t orb_advertise(const struct orb_metadata *meta, const void *data)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_advertise(meta, data);
}

orb_advert_t orb_advertise_queue(const struct orb_metadata *meta, const void *data, unsigned int queue_size)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_advertise(meta, data, queue_size);
}

orb_advert_t orb_advertise_multi(const struct orb_metadata *meta, const void *data, int *instance,
				 int priority)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_advertise_multi(meta, data, instance, priority);
}

orb_advert_t orb_advertise_multi_queue(const struct orb_metadata *meta, const void *data, int *instance,
				       int priority, unsigned int queue_size)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_advertise_multi(meta, data, instance, priority, queue_size);
}

int orb_unadvertise(orb_advert_t handle)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_unadvertise(handle);
}

int  orb_publish(const struct orb_metadata *meta, orb_advert_t handle, const void *data)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_publish(meta, handle, data);
}

int  orb_subscribe(const struct orb_metadata *meta)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_subscribe(meta);
}

int  orb_subscribe_multi(const struct orb_metadata *meta, unsigned instance)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_subscribe_multi(meta, instance);
}

int  orb_unsubscribe(int handle)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_unsubscribe(handle);
}

int  orb_copy(const struct orb_metadata *meta, int handle, void *buffer)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_copy(meta, handle, buffer);
}

int  orb_check(int handle, bool *updated)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_check(handle, updated);
}

int  orb_stat(int handle, uint64_t *time)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_stat(handle, time);
}

int  orb_exists(const struct orb_metadata *meta, int instance)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_exists(meta, instance);
}

int  orb_group_count(const struct orb_metadata *meta)
{
	unsigned instance = 0;

	while (uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_exists(meta, instance) == OK) {
		++instance;
	};

	return instance;
}

int  orb_priority(int handle, int32_t *priority)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_priority(handle, priority);
}

int orb_set_interval(int handle, unsigned interval)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_set_interval(handle, interval);
}

int orb_get_interval(int handle, unsigned *interval)
{
	return uORB::Manager::get_instance()->orb_get_interval(handle, interval);
}


The LG G6 was once again teased by LG as the company launched a website prompting consumers to sign up for a dedicated newsletter and be among the first ones who'll find out the official details about its upcoming Android flagship. The website reveals that the LG G6 will feature an all-metal case and a waterproof design, in addition to featuring an allegedly impressive camera and a contemporary fingerprint scanner. The company's new site dedicated to the LG G6 doesn't confirm any more details about the upcoming smartphone, but you can see it for yourself by following the source link below.
Numerous leaks and previous rumors suggest that the LG G6 will feature a 5.7-inch QHD+ display panel with an 18:9 aspect ratio and be powered by the Snapdragon 821 system-on-chip (SoC) and 4GB / 6GB of RAM. The Seoul-based tech giant opted to use Qualcomm's 2016 SoC instead of the Snapdragon 835 as the latter is currently in short supply due to the fact that Samsung is stockpiling it for the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus, recent reports suggest. Seeing how Samsung's rival is adamant to beat the Galaxy S8 to the market with the LG G6, it opted to use the Snapdragon 821 instead of waiting until spring to launch the device. LG believes that timing is one of the main reasons why the LG G5 wasn't a commercial success as industry insiders previously said that the company thinks its modular flagship was late to the market last year. As for other features, the LG G6 will almost certainly run Android Nougat out of the box with the company's UX 6.0 on top.
The South Korean phone maker already confirmed it will unveil its latest and greatest flagship in the run-up to this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) as the firm scheduled a press conference on Sunday, February 26. It remains to be seen whether LG's upcoming flagship will be a hit among consumers, but the company is certainly hoping it will seeing how its mobile division has been bleeding money for several years now and is in dire need of a product that will help it improve its financial performance. In any case, more details on the LG G6 will follow by Sunday.


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"Wildlife" is just plain wonderful, and I'll explain the plain part in a minute. This coming-of-age drama is the directorial debut of the actor Paul Dano; he and Zoe Kazan adapted the screenplay from the novel by Richard Ford. The time is 1960, the place is Montana and the hero, a lonely 14-year-old named Joe Brinson, is trying to understand the ways of the world through his suddenly fractured family. He's played with great tenderness by Ed Oxenbould, who has an open, expectant face that recalls Paul Dano's character in "Little Miss Sunshine," the almost silent brother yearning to be a test pilot.
Joe has no ambitions he can put his finger on. All knows is that he doesn't want to play football, in spite of his father's urgings, and that he wishes his parents would get along—Jake Gyllenhaal is his father, Jerry; Carey Mulligan is his mother, Jeanette.
Why they can't get along is the stuff of classic first films like this one. Midcentury Montana isn't far removed from the America of the 1920s or 1930s, when life was plain—that's reflected beautifully in the film—and people kept a safe distance from their feelings. Jerry is a teaching pro at a small-town golf course, and a Willy Loman of the fairways. He nurses a delusion that his failure to thrive comes from being too well liked. When he goes off to fight a wildfire raging out of control in the mountains, he leaves his son heartbroken, and his wife bitter. "What kind of man leaves his wife and child in such a lonely place?" she asks, as if she doesn't understand that her husband is a beaten man.
The longer Jerry stays away, the more Joe idealizes him as a wise and caring father who'll make things right when he returns. In the here and now, however, the boy can't ignore Jeanette's transformation from his beloved mom, and his dad's determined helpmate, into a quietly fierce woman with a metallic edge to her voice, a sexual creature who'll do whatever she must to survive. Carey Mulligan shows her character no mercy, at least on the surface; her performance is startling, and for the most part unsparing; it's the best thing she's ever done on screen.
Joe is caught between love of his father and loyalty to his mother, and comes to see both of them in a new light. It's the nature of coming-of-age stories, and the camera on the boy's face is like an MRI that reveals his feelings in real time. But another camera figures in the action, one that Joe has learned to use at his part-time job in a portrait studio. That's where people from town come to be photographed with hopeful smiles on their faces, and where this beautiful film finds the shot that defines its stirring subject.
I'm Joe Morgenstern. I'll be back on KCRW next week with more reviews.
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