Modernizing loyalty is a challenge that hospitality organizations must address. Consumers have less time to spend with brands and as a result, increasingly demand utility from the relationship, meaning that they want it to be easy to do business. They want to be able to interact with favorite brands in the channels where they spend time, which today is social media and mobile.
For Silver Diner (www.silverdiner.com), these trends have led us to embrace a loyalty program that provides utility and rewards to our Eat Well, Do Well! club members for their social actions. We use a loyalty platform from Paytronix (www.paytronix.com) to manage customer wallets over mobile (as well as in-store and online) while using Chirpify (www.chirpify.com) to manage the social engagement program. By pairing these technologies, we are able to reward Silver Diner club members within social and messaging channels for specific behaviors.
After linking a member's number with their social profile(s), Silver Diner customers are rewarded with points for every eligible social action on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. Customers can earn up to five points each month, which translates into $5 off the member's next visit.
Increased participation with the brand. By keeping people in their channel of choice, they are much more likely to participate with us. In addition, social loyalty encourages greater engagement and participation because customers are rewarded for doing so.
Increased earned media. As the most loyal customers share positive experiences over social media, we receive valuable earned media. As customers advocate on our behalf, that message is shared with their network, in turn encouraging a web of people to engage — and become loyal to — Silver Diner, increasing customer acquisition.
Greater customer knowledge. In the process of linking offline and online data about loyal customers, we are gathering important information, which we previously could not access. We are learning which demographics engage most, which campaigns are most successful in these channels, and expect to learn much more, especially as we grow to embrace geo-fencing and other tools that allow us to gate specific campaigns.
Grow revenue and lifetime customer value. Paytronix research has found that loyalty members who are active Facebook users and who are fans of the brand spend upwards of 70% more than the brand's average program member. By applying the data we've collected, we are able to create a more personalized, relevant experience that directly impacts the guest and our business.
milkshakes when I was 14.
Sage Advice: The guest experience is the most important piece. The greatest loyalty program in the world can't make up for poor service or a bad experience. Every decision made should first be concerned with what's best for the guest.


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"To be honest, we were following that same platform," says Tivnan.
them is Robert Herjavec a Magellan jet card holder, jet owner, businessman and media personality on the popular ABC investing show Shark Tank. "He has a Magellan jet card in case his family needs the plane, but he has to travel on business," says Tivnan.But now Tivnan and his fellow co-founder and CEO of Magellan jets, Joshua Hebert, think they have found a way to distinguish themselves from the competitive pack: a customizable jet card that they dub "build-a-card." It allows travelers to mix-and-match amenities that fit their needs.


Springtime offers challenges for both wild, outdoor animals and the pets we live with indoors.
For wild birds in particular, the coming of spring means 'love is in the air' and so are the lovestruck birds – all too often, right into your windows. If a male bird sees his reflection in the glass, he will attack the presumed adversary, and potentially hurt himself. If the bird "sees" the competing suitor from a distance, he may also fly directly into the glass, resulting in severe stunning or even death. If the bird lands on your window sill or deck to take a closer look at the avian challenger, he won't be able to see much above a six inch height, so it would be wise during this Spring Fling season to put up some kind of covering to match that height, so that the bird can't see his reflection.
For those who have outdoor fish, like koi, warmer weather means it's time to start feeding your fish again. Just be sure to use a transitional food which is not too rich.
For your indoor pets, tropical fish and reptiles need their heating elements to remain on; and that includes leaving those elements plugged in even during the coming summer months. Consistent heat is essential for these sensitive creatures. Indoor birds who start begging to be let outside must either have an enclosed area or have their feathers trimmed. The call of the wild when Spring arrives is a powerful invitation to potential harm.
Finally, the arrival of Spring means it's time to "top spot" your cats and dogs for fleas and ticks. Those biters know no season, and your veterinarian is the best authority to recommend the best brand.
Spring should be a time of promise and celebration. It's easy to make sure that the animals in your life are there to celebrate with you.
Tell us about how you and your pets are welcoming Spring! Add your comment below to enter for your chance to win a signed copy of A Man for All Species. Five lucky winners will also receive their choice of one of Marc's other books: Ask the Bird Keeper, Ask the Dog Keeper, Ask the Cat Keeper, or Ask the Fish Keeper. Winners chosen at random. Quantities limited. No purchase necessary.


Fans of golf have a great opportunity to come out and support Make-A-Wish Suffolk County this September. The annual Gail Bigler Memorial Golf Outing takes place Sept. 17 at the Huntington Crescent Club (15 Washington Drive) in Huntington. Activities will fill the day from morning until evening, and all of it will support the great work being done by Make-A-Wish Suffolk County.
Starting at 10:30 a.m., get your game ready on the driving range and putting green. Once you're warmed up, check-in and a full brunch will follow from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. The shotgun start goes off at 12:30, followed by a lunch on the course from 1:30 to 2:30. Later in the day, a reception will take place from 6 until 8.
The reception includes a dinner buffet and a special program featuring stories from Wish Kids. An auction and raffles will also be going on during dinner.
Registration is open now until Sept. 11. With multiple options to participate, you can find the package that's right for you.
Cocktail and dinner reservations only are $150 per person. This includes admittance to the dinner buffet, cocktails and auction portion of the event.
Golfer registration is $850 per person. This includes registration for one golfer, eligibility for awards, plus all meals, beverages, and special gifts throughout the day.
A golf package is $3,500 per foursome. The package includes registration for four people, eligibility for awards, all meals, beverages and gifts, as well as a personalized flag at one of the holes.
The Adopt A Wish Package is $10,000. This package allows you to fully sponsor a wish through Make-A-Wish Suffolk County. It also includes registration for four golfers, all meals, beverages and gifts, a personalized flag at a hole, and a commemorative gift for sponsoring a wish.
To register, please email wishmail@suffolk.wish.org or call 631-585-9474. All of these options are great ways to help Make-A-Wish Suffolk County grant more wishes for kids facing critical illnesses.
If you're looking for other ways to support your local Make-A-Wish Suffolk County, consider making a car donation to Wheels For Wishes. Our car donation program benefits Make-A-Wish Suffolk County, helping them grant more wishes in places like East Hampton, Brookhaven, Bohemia, and all throughout the county.
Donating a car is a great way to make wishes come true. You'll also receive other benefits such as free towing, the maximum possible tax deduction, and help all along the way with any car donation questions you may have. Our representatives will help make your donation experience easy and hassle free, and they'll even handle all the paperwork for you.
To donate your car, please call 1-877-431-9474 or make your donation online with our car donation form.


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Introduction: Frankie, The Song Is You
Reckless Rogue, Sentimental Softy, A Tribute by Gregory Peck
Sinatra, Old and Alone, with Hope and Remembrance
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Right Kind Of Love, The
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Writer(s): T. Faragher / L. Golden / R. Nevil
It's the right kind of love, it's the right kind of night, you're the right kind of girl
Hey, oh yeah, it's the right kind of love, kind of love
Daydreaming about you baby, and it must be love
Girl you make my heart go crazy, high as the heavens above
I hope you're thinking about me girl, because all of my thoughts are with you
My love, there's no reason to doubt me, believe me it's true
Girl I know I can give you the right kind of love, it's the right kind of night
You're the right kind of girl, and we're right on time
Oh now baby, you know we can't go wrong
Why you trying to hold back baby, tell me what you feel
If you're having mixed emotions, I'll show you that I'm for real
What can I do to make you see, there's nobody but you,
And girl, it's not magic or fantasy, it's simple and true
I know I can give you the right kind of love
It's the right kind of night, you're the right kind of girl, I'm the right kind of guy
It's the right kind of love on the right kind of night
There's the right kind of stars in the right kind of sky
Girl- I got a heart that's true, I got the right kind of love
I'm gonna give it to you. and you got me romantic
Can't you see, I'm the right kind of guy for you
And you're the right kind of girl for me, I got a heart that's true
And a soul that's deep, I'll be the right kind of lover
Baby can't you see I'm gonna treat you the right kind of way
You know it, so come on girl stay, I got a love
It's the right kind of love, it's the right kind of night
There's the right kind of stars, in the right kind of sky
Oohh baby, I could do with a girl like you, I could do with a girl like you
I could do with a girl like you.
See what I can do with a girl like you
It's you and me together, it's the right kind of love…
Hilarion "Larry" M. Henares, Jr.
Pride of our Youth
Larry Henares... nationalist and economist ...is truly the Pride of our Youth.
Ferdinand E. Marcos, Rizal Centennial Year 1961
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Henares displays a passion for truth…
Henares' writings clearly indicate the tone and magnitude of his basic philosophy and ideas. Whether it be in economics, or...
Carlos P. Romulo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Henares' writings clearly indicate the tone and magnitude of his basic philosophy and ideas. Whether it be in economics, or in his more intense moments, in matters affecting the dilemma of man himself in this mechanized world, Henares displays a passion for truth and an intelligence capable of assimilating seemingly disparate aspects of culture and presenting them in the coherence of a solid logical structure. Others spend a lifetime climbing up the peak of their careers; Henares leaps from peak to peak in many fields -- from scholar and writer to educator to engineer to economist to businessman to government servant.
https://philippinefolio.com/testimonials/5957/
Highest Paid Cabinet Member
The highest paid cabinet member, Henares wields tremendous economic power and influence, second perhaps only to the President.
Philippine Free Press.
Wave of the Future
In our country, Larry Henares, Jr. represents the Wave of the Future.
Fred Mangahas, Nationalist, Columnist.
Individual initiative, a forward progressive attitude…
Let me tell you about Hilarion Henares, Jr., the young president of the Philippine Chamber of Industries... Why do I...
Sen. Raul S. Manglapus in a speech before the Asian American Assembly, Kuala Lumpur, 10 April 1963
Let me tell you about Hilarion Henares, Jr., the young president of the Philippine Chamber of Industries... Why do I tell you all this? Because you might see in Mr. Henares, in the men and women of such a movement and in the spirit they would excite in the people, the image of America --- individual initiative, a forward progressive attitude...
Fiercely Nationalistic
The Philippines of 1970's, a modern industrial nation, independent, nationalistic and proud, is the result of the struggles of the...
Juan L. Manuel, Secretary of Education.
The Philippines of 1970's, a modern industrial nation, independent, nationalistic and proud, is the result of the struggles of the 1950's and 60's in which Henares and his generation played their part. Fiercely nationalistic, Henares chose as his field of battle the area of economics. There are many milestones that marked our way to economic emancipation and Henares was there first. He was a visionary, gadfly, an achiever whose writings, speeches, TV programs, actuations prodded this country almost against its will to accept the challenge of change in the postwar years.
Sensitive to Encroachments
The youthful chairman of the National Economic Council has always been sensitive to encroachments on the rights and dignities of...
J.V. Cruz, Columnist of the Manila Times.
The youthful chairman of the National Economic Council has always been sensitive to encroachments on the rights and dignities of the Filipino people... Chairman Henares told a high American official that he was meddling in Philippine affairs, practically threw him out of his office, and then filed a protest through the department of foreign affairs, against the American official's presumptuous behaviour.
One of the most brilliant in my cabinet…
One of the most brilliant in my cabinet...Secretary Henares has a sharp intellect and a mighty pen. These and his...
Diosdado Macapagal, Fifth President of the Republic of the Philippines
One of the most brilliant in my cabinet...Secretary Henares has a sharp intellect and a mighty pen. These and his knowledge of economics and healthy nationalism make him one of the truly valuable leaders of our people today.
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The dangers of drones
An image of drones filling the sky from Reva Stone's Falling. (photo from Reva Stone)
Multi-awarding-winning Winnipeg artist Reva Stone researched drones for three years and then began creating art to share some of what she had learned about how the technology affects our lives. The exhibit erasure, which comes from that research, features three works – Falling, Atomic Bomb and Erase. It is on display at the University of Manitoba's School of Art Gallery until April 26.
"I'm very much an observer of what's going on with new technologies, so when I saw the impact that UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] were starting to have – especially with war and changing the nature of war – I applied for and got a Canada Council [for the Arts] grant to do a lot of research and reading about what actually is happening," Stone told the Independent.
She went so far as to get two quadcopters, to understand what they really sounded like, and hoping to use them in her art, which she has.
"I was working on this, and then I started thinking about our skies filling up with these commercial and militarized drones and how they were basically machines … that could fall out of the sky … that could crash into each other, that could bring down an aircraft. We were filling up our skies," she said. "And then, about two years ago, I was reading and realized that we were now targeting not other countries, but targeting humans."
Artist Reva Stone's exhibit erasure warns about the use of drones in our society. (photo from Reva Stone)
Stone ended up making five or six individual pieces that deal with different aspects of the use of drones, but relate to one another. Depending on the exhibition venue, she decides which ones will work best together in a particular space.
Originally, drones were developed for spying purposes for the military. Later versions were outfitted with weapons for protection and assault. More recently, commercial drones have been developed. Now, anyone can buy a drone for as little as $20. This easy accessibility is challenging our society, contends Stone, causing hazards to planes in airports, affecting people at parks and disrupting the peace.
"Drones are becoming these things that fly in the air that have no human controllers … that are almost autonomous," she said.
Stone often uses computers, movies, motors and speakers to help fully immerse visitors in her art pieces.
The work Falling, she said, "is an animated video that I made that has to do with what I see as a very new future, wherein UAVs are ubiquitous, because of civilian, military, commercial and private use.
"It's almost slow motion or balletic on a massive screen," she said. "There's constant falling out of the skies, sometimes flipping as they fall. Sometimes, there's a drone that has exploded in the sky … sometimes, small and far away and, sometimes, they're so big when they fall through the sky that they look almost life-size and you'll have to back away from the screen … that will be the feeling you get. Then, sometimes, there are these little windows that open up and you look through, into another world, and that world is more about what we're fighting about – the fact that we are actually using these to make war. Other than that, some of them are commercial, some are cute, some are scary looking … and it's like a continuous rain coming down."
Atomic Bomb is also a film.
"I started with an early atomic bomb explosion," said Stone. "It was a 30-second film and I made it into an almost 20-minute video. I really slowed it down and altered the time to give the impression that the person in the exhibition space is looking at a still image caught in time. I show this video together with texts that I found speak to the history of the use of radio-controlled airplanes and UAVs, and to longheld ideas about collateral damage – the relationship between … the use of atomic bombs and the use of drones and collateral damage, which, to me, is a huge issue with the use of drones as military."
A single frame from Reva Stone's Atomic Bomb video piece. (photo from Reva Stone)
The first text is from Harry Truman, the American president who made the decision in the Second World War to use the bomb, and it reads: "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished, in this first attack, to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians."
The next one is from John Brennan, Central Intelligence Agency director from 2013 to 2017: "There hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities we've been able to develop."
According to Stone, "This is just bullshit. But this is part of the cleaning up of the media presentation of all these ideas and all these things I've been researching, that I've been noticing going on over time. And, it has actually made me change the name of the work. I was going to call all three of them a totally different name. Recently, maybe a month ago, I changed it to erasure because of the erasure of people, the erasure of a lot of critical dialogue that's been happening since I started researching in 2015 … how we are mediated, what we are presented with as a culture. The info is so mediated by how it's reported, and if it's reported."
Stone wants "her audience to consider how the capabilities of such technology may be turned against citizens and how governments might, and do, get away with employing them in the name of patriotism in ways that ultimately test the ethical and moral values of its citizenry," notes the exhibit description. "With news cycles moving so rapidly, the reports of deadly events quickly fall from memory, seemingly erased from public consciousness."
The third piece, Erase, is interactive. Stone said it is based on what, in her view, the Obama administration practised – the targeting of individuals based on algorithms, mostly guilt by association.
"With this one, I'm actually replicating the procedure," she said. "I have my two quadcopters that are doing the surveillance and capturing people in the exhibition space, unbeknownst to them. Then, they get captured and saved.
"Then, it's a process that goes on, that they get played back. And you begin to realize that you're under surveillance, the people in the space. And, every so often, a target comes up over one of them, one of the captured images. It's really intense and an explosion occurs, and that person actually comes out of my captured list. That person will never show again. They've been erased."
The exhibit erasure opened Feb. 7. For more information about Stone and her work, visit revastone.ca.
Rebeca Kuropatwa is a Winnipeg freelance writer.
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Capturing the elusive cat
Posted on 06/2009 Author sln_g5rd8xCategories Range State Interest, Science and ResearchTags Drass, India, Jammu, Kargil, Kashmir, snow leopard, survey, WWF-IndiaLeave a comment
Ashwin Aghor / DNASunday, June 21, 2009 2:50 ISThttp://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_capturingMumbai: When Aishwarya Maheshwari saw a sudden cloud of dust rising along the slopes of the mountains he was surveying in the Kargil and Drass sector of Jammu & Kashmir, his hands immediately reached for the binoculars. What he saw made him tremble and smile in anticipation.He had spotted the snow leopard, one of the world's most elusive creatures, which was giving chase to a herd of Asiatic Ibex, a species of mountain goats. "Unfortunately the memory of the 1999 conflict has overshadowed the region's rich wildlife. It is here that one of world's most elusive creatures, the snow leopard, roams wild and free," said Maheshwari who is a researcher with WWF-India. During his interaction with locals, Maheshwari also learnt about the tremendous decline in wildlife sightings, post the 1999 war. So much so that even the common resident birds had disappeared."This is the first photographic evidence of snow leopard in Kargil and Drass sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Though locals claim to have seen the animal, there was no evidence of presence of the big cat," said Ameen Ahmed, senior communications manager, WWF-India, adding that there has been no study of wildlife done in this violence hit area. Maheshwari, in fact, is part of the WWF team that's carrying out a base line study of wildlife in Kargil and Drass sectors. On June 13, Maheshwari was observing the hills at Kanji village, located 3850 meter above sea level, and 70 km from Kargil town. He was on my way up with three field assistants. Four km into the trek, they came across a herd of Asiatic Ibex, species of mountain goat and pug marks and scat of what looked like a carnivore."Soon, a huge cloud of dust rose from where the Ibex were grazing. The view through my binoculars suddenly became hazy. All I could see was the wild goats running helter-skelter, in almost every direction. I desperately panned my binoculars in all directions. But, the dust that made it difficult to see anything clearly," Maheshwari recalled.Soon, amidst the confusion, he saw a snow leopard. But after the failed attempt, the snow leopard went to a cliff.The snow leopard stayed put in front of the group for seven minutes. "As it was barely 300-400 meter away, I was tempted to go closer and capture the animal on camera. At the end of the shortest seven minutes of my life, it got up and went to the other side of the hill, out of our sight," Maheshwari said. Early next morning, fresh scat and unclear pug marks were found on the same path. Maheshwari climbed the same hill, which he had ascended the evening before. But the snow leopard had disappeared.


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Rev. Susan Russell, Contributor
Episcopal priest and activist from Pasadena, Calif.
In Defense of Bigotry
Yes, I rise to defend bigotry -- but not to defend acts of bigotry that get in the way of our being that nation "with liberty and justice for all" to which we teach our kids to pledge allegiance. Rather, I rise to defend the naming of those acts as bigotry -- which is critical if we're going to fully become that nation "with liberty and justice for all" to which we teach our kids to pledge allegiance. Because here's the deal.
A nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal can only live up to the high calling of that dedicated proposition by recognizing that all Americans suffer collateral damage when the fundamental rights of any Americans are subject to bigotry-based discrimination.
A case in point is the blog I wrote the week before last calling out Governor Chris Christie for vetoing marriage equality in New Jersey. In it I said that Christie "chose bigotry over equality" and "was standing on 'the Lester Maddox side of history.'" I said it, and I meant it -- and I still do.
And one reader took offense, writing, "I have read your latest post at The Huffington Post and I could not separate your slur on Governor Christie from me. Why must you use Lester Mattox and refer to Governor Christie as a 'bigot?' From my reply:
I did not call Governor Christie "a bigot" ... I said he chose bigotry over equality. It may seem a fine linguistic point but there is an important distinction between critiquing one's behavior and attacking one's personhood. I do not believe that people are ontologically bigots or racists or homophobes or sexists, or ... (the list goes on.)
However, I know that bigotry and racism and homophobia and sexism exist -- and I believe they are on the list of things that keep us from living up to our high calling to love our neighbors as ourselves. And so I believe it is our responsibility to challenge the behavior when we encounter it in order to overcome it.
And when that behavior is bigotry -- which Merriam Webster defines as "obstinately devoted to one's own opinions and prejudices, especially exhibiting intolerance toward those of differing beliefs" -- if we're going to overcome it, we have to name it.
Yes, name it. Even when it hurts. Even when it's hard. Even when it would be easier not to. And even when naming it precipitates questions like this: "Aren't you being just as intolerant by calling people who disagree with you about marriage equality intolerant?" And here's my answer: no. No, we are not. And here's why.
There is a critical difference between feeling discriminated against because you're disagreed with and being discriminated against because of who you are.
And there is a critical difference between people who feel that their marriage is being threatened if the lesbian couple next door can get married and the lesbian couple next door whose marriage is being threatened by ballot initiatives taking away their fundamental right to marriage, by a governor vetoing marriage equality passed by their elected representatives, and by a "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) that denies them 1,138 federally protected rights that their next door neighbors claimed the moment they said "I do."
To be clear: regular or decaf is a choice. Chocolate or vanilla is a choice. Paper or plastic is a choice. Equally protecting all Americans or legislating intolerance against some Americans is not a choice.
In its decision striking down Prop 8 as unconstitutional, the Ninth Circuit Court wrote, "Prop 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples." The Ninth Circuit Court also said, "The people may not employ the initiative power to single out a disfavored group for unequal treatment and strip them, without a legitimate justification, of a right as important as the right to marry." In other words, Prop 8 was ballot-box bigotry -- and ballot-box bigotry is unconstitutional.
As a priest and pastor I am very clear that the First Amendment protects my right to decide for myself whom God blesses or doesn't bless. I am equally clear that it does not protect my right to decide for myself whom the Constitution protects or doesn't protect. And so if we're going to be that nation "with liberty and justice for all" to which we teach our kids to pledge allegiance, we need to get religion-based bias out of the civil marriage debate once and for all. And then we need to work together to become the nation we were conceived in liberty to be -- by overcoming bigotry and by choosing equality.
And to overcome it, we have to name it. The defense rests.
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Featuring celebrity chefs Todd English (PBS' Food Trip with Todd English), Beau MacMillan (Food Network), Damaris Phillips (Food Network) and elite vintners, followed by a special live performance honoring Muhammad Ali.
The Inaugural Culinary Kickoff will be held during Derby week at the Muhammad Ali Center on Thursday, May 4th from 6pm – 2am. Celebrity chefs Todd English, Beau MacMillan, Damaris Phillips, will prepare a four-course meal for an intimate group of food and wine enthusiasts. Wine pairings will be provided by elite vintners AldenAlii, Tuck Beckstoffer, Charles Woodson, and The Withers. Event proceeds will benefit the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, a multicultural center with an award-winning museum dedicated to the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali.
Tickets are available until May 2nd or sell out. All sales are final.


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The Philippines' premier preseason tournament for college basketball has found a new home.
When the 12th edition of the FilOil Flying V Preseason Cup kicks off on April 21, it will have a new television partner. For this season, ESPN5, via T5N and AksyonTV, will broadcast a select number of games plus the entirety of the playoffs.
Here is the game schedule of the upcoming FilOil Flying V Preseason Cup. All games will take place at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan.
All seniors teams of the UAAP and NCAA will participate in the tournament. However, the biggest surprise came when the cadets of the Gilas Pilipinas national team announced that it will join the FilOil Flying V Preseason Cup, with each of its games to be treated as official matches and not mere exhibitions.
This will mark the first time that ESPN5 will cover live Philippine college basketball games since the rebrand last year. Prior to that, the then-Sports5 was home to the NCAA seniors basketball tournament from Seasons 88 to 90 (2012-15); this does not include the 2016 CESAFI which aired on AksyonTV but produced by VIVA.
It will also mark the return of the FilOil Flying V Preseason Cup to Philippine television for the first time since 2016. Last year none of its games were aired on television and were streamed live on Facebook instead.
While the games featuring the Gilas cadets will headline ESPN5's coverage, it will also take a look at the legendary Ateneo-La Salle rivalry that will have new recruits getting their first taste of this long-running saga. In addition, old NCAA rivalries between San Beda and La Salle, and Ateneo and San Beda, will also be aired.
As for non-televised games, these are expected to air on the FilOil Flying V Sports' Facebook page. Highlights of these games will also be featured on SportsCenter Philippines.
The FilOil Flying V Preseason Cup will run from April 21 to June 24.
Barely Recognizable: PBA News Seldom Mentioned in Other Networks
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Hardly mentioned: News surrounding the PBA is a seldom occurrence in ABS-CBN and GMA newscasts. (Photo credit: Philippine Basketball Association)
News surrounding the Philippine Basketball Association is hard to come by these days.
Once one of the Philippines' national pastimes, the league has fallen on hard times in recent years due to a bevy of controversies. Nowadays, the PBA is barely mentioned at all in TV networks outside ESPN5, a byproduct of declining interest that has alarmed the league of late.
One network, in particular, has repeatedly shunned the PBA when it comes to sports news. Enter ABS-CBN and its family of networks.
In ABS-CBN's most recent year-end sports report, there was not even a single mention about the PBA. The network, in particular, failed to account the 50,000 or so crowd that saw Barangay Ginebra San Miguel win Game 7 of the Governors' Cup finals over the Meralco Bolts, or the two championships won by the San Miguel Beermen last season, or the Christian Standhardinger-Chito Narvasa controversy.
It has been a pattern that is constant for the past several years. Instead of the PBA, ABS-CBN's TV newscasts focused more on its sports properties such as the UAAP, NCAA, NBA and ABL, as well as national teams such as the Gilas basketball team and the Azkals football team.
In fairness, ANC's Hardball, DZMM's Fastbreak and ABS-CBN's sports and news websites always make up for the newscasts' oversight by mentioning and even talking about the PBA in greater detail. But even that is not enough to slap some sense in ABS-CBN's mindset.
Now what about GMA? While they also report about the PBA on their news websites, they also do not mention the league's news on their newscasts, and worse, they barely care about the world of sports at all since they do not even have a sports division.
Which leaves us to the only two networks that do take a look at the PBA on a regular basis: PTV-4's 'PTV Sports' and CNN Philippines' 'Sports Desk'. Much like the PBA, they are hardly recognizable in the viewers' consciousness, but at least they are doing their best to cover the league's latest news with consistency and detail.
But for the two network giants in South Triangle, not mentioning the PBA on television is an disgrace to the league. Yes its popularity may have slipped of late due to these internal issues, but the PBA is still an important part of the Filipino sporting landscape and something needs to be done to rekindle the league's interests.
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Dissecting the Filipino Sports News Landscape with Entry of SportsCenter Philippines
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It has been an eventful month so far for sports news programs in the Philippines.
As of this week there are four weekday sports news programs that currently air on Philippine television. These include:
The Score (ABS-CBN S+A) – anchored by TJ Manotoc
Sports Desk (CNN Philippines) – morning edition anchored by Andrei Felix, evening editions anchored by Mico Halili
Gametime (ABS-CBN News Channel) – anchored by Migs Bustos
PTV Sports (People's Television Network) – anchored by Dennis Principe, Meg Siozon, Angel Atienza and Arianne Mallare
On Sunday, December 17, a fifth program will emerge. As part of ESPN's new deal with TV5, the network will officially premiere its version of 'SportsCenter', to be anchored by Aaron Atayde and Lia Cruz.
Before viewers can get excited about 'SportsCenter Philippines', here is a summary of how each current program brings to the table. These are ranked according to quality and depth.
Watch @micohalili now on #CNNPHSportsDesk. Live streaming: https://t.co/CaczwF9CtH pic.twitter.com/lcg6st3nNq
— CNN Philippines (@cnnphilippines) December 13, 2017
A holdover from Solar News Channel era, CNN Philippines' 'Sports Desk' has by far the best content of sports news that is to offer. The program is not shy to tackle all the sports news that people should know, whether it is the UAAP, the PBA or even other local and international sports.
It also helps that it airs three times a day, at 11:00 a.m., 6:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on weekdays. However, with news of Mico Halili potentially departing CNN Philippines for perhaps a full-time role as a commentator with ABS-CBN Sports, can the show continue to deliver with regular substitute Paolo del Rosario?
This program has been in and out of PTV-4's lineup in recent years (remember Snow Badua?), but its latest iteration is simply a straight-up summary of the whole day's worth of sports news. There are a few interviews here and there but other than that, they are more into quick bursts of reports.
However, as PTV-4 is a government station, there is a tendency for the program to be preempted whenever President Rodrigo Duterte makes an appearance on national television. Still, when the show does air, expect plenty of juice extracted in each report.
NOW on ANC: Get ready, it's #GametimeOnANC! Get the biggest news in sports with @migsbustos. pic.twitter.com/P71PNrrLRl
— ABS-CBN News Channel (@ANCALERTS) December 13, 2017
Susunod na makakalaban ng Alab Pilipinas ang reigning ABL Champions na Hong Kong Eastern. Bukas gaganapin ang rematch ng dalawa. Paano makakabawi ang Alab? We'll be talking to ABL analyst and Gametime host, @migsbustos. pic.twitter.com/7bcvoAKpPT
— The Score (@TheScorePH) December 12, 2017
Gametime/The Score
Both shows are currently aired on ABS-CBN sister channels: 'Gametime' on ANC and 'The Score' on S+A. Unfortunately, they do not offer much in terms of sports news as they merely focus on sporting events currently handled by ABS-CBN Sports (e.g. UAAP, NCAA, NBA, ABL), not to mention they do not usually air live.
For those who seek a greater scope into sports news (albeit on a weekly basis), there is 'Hardball' on ANC and 'Fastbreak' on DZMM. It's sad to say that both 'Gametime' and 'The Score' are a disappointment since ABS-CBN treated them like a showbiz news program that is biased towards a particular network's artists.
So what expectations do people have for 'SportsCenter Philippines'? For one, the show will premiere on a Sunday (a weekend no less) and it is assumed that the program will air seven days a week as opposed to a mere weekday airing that other shows do.
Also, with TV5 possibly rebranding into a full-on sports network as ESPN5, the network is expected to highlight 'SportsCenter Philippines' as its centerpiece program with all the sports news that people should know. That said, it will be interesting to see how this new player fares amid a crowd of sports-hungry fans.
Good luck to ESPN5. As for its competitors, there is no way to go but up.
Thoughts on U.S. NCAA College Basketball on ESPN5
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ESPN5 will cover some of the U.S. NCAA intra and interconference games this season, and they will also air March Madness in March 2018. (Photo credit: National Collegiate Athletic Association)
The NBA may still be the most popular global basketball league for Filipinos, but ESPN5 is looking to change that perspective.
When TV5 and ESPN joined forces to establish ESPN5 last month, one of the things that they addressed is the lack of serious attention towards U.S. college basketball in the Philippines. While TV5 has been able to broadcast the March Madness portion of U.S. NCAA basketball in recent years, regular season coverage was only restricted to obscure networks such as All-Sports Network (now Sports Illustrated Asia).
That changed last Wednesday when ESPN5 began to air intra and inter-conference games of the U.S. NCAA Division I basketball season. Weekly doubleheaders are currently aired, live or delayed, starting at 8:00 a.m. on days where the NFL is not aired, and the frequency is expected to increase once the NFL season ends.
Even though the U.S. NCAA is expected to provide a boost to ESPN5, there are still some doubts as to whether or not this league will thrive among Filipino basketball fans. Here are some questions that may test the Filipino's knowledge of the U.S. NCAA.
Do they know some of these up-and-coming U.S. college basketball stars (e.g. Marvin Bagley)?
Do they know top rivalries such as Duke vs. North Carolina and Kentucky vs. Louisville?
Do they know the rules of the U.S. NCAA which is drastically different from the NBA and FIBA?
Do they know each college and university's nicknames, colors, cultures and traditions?
Do they have the patience and time to even care about U.S. college basketball?
That said, it will not be easy for ESPN5 to promote U.S. NCAA basketball despite the Filipinos' love of the game. Much like the NBA, the PBA and even local college hoops such as the UAAP and the NCAA, expect plenty of growing pains before the U.S. NCAA becomes embedded in every Filipino basketball fan.
But does ESPN5 have plenty of time and money to do so? Considering the limits of its licensing deal with TV5, not to mention the network's poor reach, they really need all the time and power in the world to cultivate the U.S. NCAA into a part of Filipino basketball culture.
Oh well. In any case, let's give ESPN5 the best of luck with the U.S. NCAA because it is going to be a rough ride ahead.
Thoughts on the NCAA's Perpetual-Benilde Uniform Fiasco
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The second playdate of NCAA Season 93 kicked off in a rather inauspicious manner.
The first game of last Tuesday's tripleheader pitted the Perpetual Help Altas against the St. Benilde Blazers. However, the game did not get underway until around 12:45 p.m. due to a uniform issue involving the former.
The Altas showed up in their maroon jerseys, when in fact they were assigned to wear their white uniforms. As a result, the NCAA Management Committee (MANCOM) gave the team a technical foul, which the Blazers took advantage at the free throw line.
Although Perpetual won the actual match by a 69-65 score, CSB placed the game under protest. In the end, the NCAA sided with the latter and awarded them the win by forfeit.
While the NCAA stipulates that one team should wear a light uniform (usually white or yellow) to contrast with a team wearing a dark uniform, there is one school that has somewhat defied this rule more often than not. The Letran Knights has had a long-standing uniform tradition in which the school doesn't wear white uniforms but rather only red or navy blue.
In fact, during that same playdate, Letran wore their navy blues (normally their dark uniform) when they faced the Mapua Cardinals (in red jerseys) in the 'Battle of Intramuros'. To cut the long story short, here is how Letran's navy and red uniforms are used in games:
Letran's red jerseys: Assigned as a 'light' jersey in games against the JRU Heavy Bombers (navy blue jerseys), Arellano Chiefs (blue jerseys) and St. Benilde Blazers (green jerseys)
Letran's navy blue jerseys: Assigned as a 'dark' jersey in all games; assigned as a 'light' jersey in games against the EAC Generals, LPU Pirates, Mapua Cardinals, Perpetual Help Altas, San Beda Red Lions, and San Sebastian Stags (red or maroon jerseys).
It is unclear if Letran's uniform 'tradition' is grandfathered before the NCAA strictly enforced the 'light vs. dark' uniform rule. But either way, this loophole is something that the NCAA should have looked at, regardless of how long Letran is doing it.
To be honest, this rule should have been repealed. Most leagues around the world are now allowing both teams to show up in dark colored uniforms (as long as it easily contrasts against each other), and with the growth of high definition television, viewers should easily tell them apart.
The NCAA has a lot of explaining to do when it comes to uniforms. One can only hope that they can enforce this ruling as strictly as possible so that this fiasco will not be repeated, otherwise they can just repeal the rule and let the teams play the game.
Notes: The 'NCAA on Tour' kicks off today with the Arellano Chiefs hosting the San Sebastian Stags at the Arellano University campus. The league will hold their campus tours in most Thursday playdates, along with a live pregame concert and special presentations produced by ABS-CBN Sports.


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Q: Enforce that a Grape Entity always returns an array? How can I enforce that my Grape Entity always returns an array (collection) even if its just a singular object? I have heard that some people create a helper method that gets called inside their endpoint, but I have not found any examples of anyone doing that, online.
The default functionality of an Entity is that it returns an object if only a single document (mongoid object) is returned. If a collection of documents is returned then it returns an array, I dont want my client application having to do a check every time to see if an object or an array got returned from my API.
## Resource (HTTP Endpoint)
desc 'List departments a user can and cannot access'
params do
  requires :user_id
end
get :department_access do
  @user = BACKBONE::User.find(@access_key.user_id)
  requires_admin!
  user = BACKBONE::User.find(params[:user_id])
  can_access = BACKBONE::Department.user_can_access(user)
  no_access = BACKBONE::Department.user_cannot_access(user)
  present_success can_access
  present :can_access, can_access, with: BACKBONE::Entities::DepartmentBase
  present :no_access, no_access, with: BACKBONE::Entities::DepartmentBase
end

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## Entity
module BACKBONE
  module Entities
    class DepartmentBase < BACKBONE::Entities::Mongoid
      expose :name
      expose :prefix
      with_options(format_with: :mongo_id) do
        expose :company_id
      end
    end
  end
end

JSON Response
{
    "status": "success",
    "request_time": 0.009812,
    "records": 1,
    "can_access": {
        "id": "59699d1a78cee4f8d07528fc",
        "created_at": "2017-07-14T21:42:02.666-07:00",
        "updated_at": "2017-07-14T21:42:02.666-07:00",
        "name": "Tenant Improvement",
        "prefix": "CACC",
        "company_id": "596927fb670f6eec21c4f409"
    },
    "no_access": {
        "id": "59699cca78cee4f8d07528fb",
        "created_at": "2017-07-14T21:40:42.005-07:00",
        "updated_at": "2017-07-14T21:40:42.005-07:00",
        "name": "Field Operations",
        "prefix": "CACC",
        "company_id": "596927fb670f6eec21c4f409"
    }
}

A: a coworker and I came up with a solution with a helper, create a helper method that always returns an array:
def present_array(key, data, entity)
  d = (data.class.respond_to? :count) ? [data] : data
  d = [] if d.nil?
  present key, d, entity
end

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Jan Kregel of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, argued that the generally held belief that IMF quotas were sufficient was wrong. By looking at the issue in the aggregate, observers are overlooking the fact that quotas are insufficient for many individual countries. Kregel also pointed out that the terms of the new contingent access line in the IMF strategic review were "not extremely generous" and uncertainty remained over how onerous will be proposed 'pre-screening'. Interesting was Kregel's assertion that regional cooperation arrangements were acting "as equivalents to capital controls".
Brad Setser of Roubini Global Economics outlined what he believed were three strategies employed by the IMF in resolving crises. The key difference he believed was between Brazil and Turkey, where there was little or no debt restructuring since a large proportion of debts were domestically held, and Uruguay and Argentina where there was a rescheduling sovereign debt.
Frank Fernandez of the US Securities Industry Association, recommended four activities for a revitalised Fund. More of the "boring stuff" – article IV consultations, financial sector assessments and credit information; public-private dialogue on a code of conduct for investors; increased surveillance of global financial markets; and reforming itself to stop micro-managing country exposure and encouraging greater development of domestic capital markets.


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Elisabeth Lloyd
American philosopher of biology
Elisabeth Anne Lloyd (born September 3, 1956) is an American philosopher of biology. She currently holds the Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science and is also professor of biology, adjunct professor of philosophy at Indiana University, affiliated faculty scholar at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction and Adjunct Faculty at the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior.
Lloyd was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and earned her BA in science and political theory from University of Colorado, Boulder in 1980, summa cum laude. Lloyd studied under Bas van Fraassen at Princeton University for a PhD in philosophy 1980 – 1984. While a student at Princeton, she spent a year (1983) studying with Richard C. Lewontin at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.[1]
She worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of California, San Diego, 1985–88; and then was assistant professor, then associate professor, then full professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley from 1988 to 1999, before moving to Indiana University. Her 2005 book, The Case of the Female Orgasm, was widely discussed in the scholarly and popular press, including Isis, Nature and The New York Times.[2] The book criticizes what it portrays as anti-scientific biases infecting the many proposed adaptive explanations of female orgasm. Lloyd goes on to argue that the available evidence, such as from sexology studies, is far more supportive of a neutral "byproduct" explanation put forward by Donald Symons, under which female orgasm is the result of orgasm developing as a species trait due to its critical role in males for procreation (akin to explanations for why nipples, which are required for nursing in females, are also present in males). The book received so much attention that it was lampooned on an episode of Saturday Night Live because its title sounds like a racy version of a Hardy Boys novel. Lloyd had been working on the subject for two years, when a discussion with Stephen Jay Gould in 1986 led to her providing the basis for his 1987 essay in Natural History titled 'Freudian Slip',[3] which was reprinted in 1992 as 'Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples.'[4]
The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory, Greenwood Press, 1988 (Reprinted Princeton University Press, 1994 ISBN 0-691-00046-8).
Keywords in Evolutionary Biology (co-edited with Evelyn Fox Keller), Harvard University Press, 1992 (reprinted 1998 ISBN 0-674-50313-9).
The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Harvard University Press, 2005 (new edition, 2006 ISBN 0-674-02246-7).
Science, Politics and Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (ISBN 9780521865708).
Climate Modelling: Philosophical and Conceptual Issues (co-edited with Eric Winsberg) Palgrave MacMillan, 2018
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Sexual selection in human evolution
^ Lloyd, E.A. 1994. The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, p. xi.
^ https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/science/17orga.html?scp=1&sq=elisabeth%20lloyd&st=cse
^ Gould, S.J. (1987). Freudian Slip. Natural History 96 (2): 14-21.
^ Gould, S.J. (1992). Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples. In Bully for Brontosaurus: Further Reflections in Natural History. London: Penguin Books. Pp.124-138.
Elisabeth Lloyd's homepage at Indiana University
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extern "C" void *ospray_getEmbreeDevice();

// Embree helper functions //////////////////////////////////////////////////

inline void createEmbreeScene(
    RTCScene &scene, const DataT<GeometricModel *> &objects, int embreeFlags)
{
  for (auto &&obj : objects) {
    Geometry &geom = obj->geometry();
    rtcAttachGeometry(scene, geom.embreeGeometry);
  }

  rtcSetSceneFlags(scene, static_cast<RTCSceneFlags>(embreeFlags));
}

inline void createEmbreeScene(
    RTCScene &scene, const DataT<VolumetricModel *> &objects, int embreeFlags)
{
  for (auto &&obj : objects) {
    auto geomID = rtcAttachGeometry(scene, obj->embreeGeometryHandle());
    obj->setGeomID(geomID);
  }

  rtcSetSceneFlags(scene, static_cast<RTCSceneFlags>(embreeFlags));
}

static void freeAndNullifyEmbreeScene(RTCScene &scene)
{
  if (scene)
    rtcReleaseScene(scene);

  scene = nullptr;
}

// Group definitions ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Group::Group()
{
  managedObjectType = OSP_GROUP;
  this->ispcEquivalent = ispc::Group_create(this);
}

Group::~Group()
{
  freeAndNullifyEmbreeScene(sceneGeometries);
  freeAndNullifyEmbreeScene(sceneVolumes);
  freeAndNullifyEmbreeScene(sceneClippers);
}

std::string Group::toString() const
{
  return "ospray::Group";
}

void Group::commit()
{
  geometricModels = getParamDataT<GeometricModel *>("geometry");
  volumetricModels = getParamDataT<VolumetricModel *>("volume");
  clipModels = getParamDataT<GeometricModel *>("clippingGeometry");

  size_t numGeometries = geometricModels ? geometricModels->size() : 0;
  size_t numVolumes = volumetricModels ? volumetricModels->size() : 0;
  size_t numClippers = clipModels ? clipModels->size() : 0;

  postStatusMsg(OSP_LOG_DEBUG)
      << "=======================================================\n"
      << "Finalizing instance, which has " << numGeometries << " geometries, "
      << numVolumes << " volumes and " << numClippers << " clipping geometries";

  int sceneFlags = RTC_SCENE_FLAG_NONE;
  sceneFlags |=
      (getParam<bool>("dynamicScene", false) ? RTC_SCENE_FLAG_DYNAMIC : 0);
  sceneFlags |=
      (getParam<bool>("compactMode", false) ? RTC_SCENE_FLAG_COMPACT : 0);
  sceneFlags |=
      (getParam<bool>("robustMode", false) ? RTC_SCENE_FLAG_ROBUST : 0);

  freeAndNullifyEmbreeScene(sceneGeometries);
  freeAndNullifyEmbreeScene(sceneVolumes);
  freeAndNullifyEmbreeScene(sceneClippers);

  geometricModelIEs.clear();
  volumetricModelIEs.clear();
  clipModelIEs.clear();

  RTCDevice embreeDevice = (RTCDevice)ospray_getEmbreeDevice();

  if (numGeometries > 0) {
    sceneGeometries = rtcNewScene(embreeDevice);

    createEmbreeScene(sceneGeometries, *geometricModels, sceneFlags);
    geometricModelIEs = createArrayOfIE(*geometricModels);

    rtcCommitScene(sceneGeometries);
  }

  if (numVolumes > 0) {
    sceneVolumes = rtcNewScene(embreeDevice);

    createEmbreeScene(sceneVolumes, *volumetricModels, sceneFlags);
    volumetricModelIEs = createArrayOfIE(*volumetricModels);

    rtcCommitScene(sceneVolumes);
  }

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        sceneFlags | RTC_SCENE_FLAG_CONTEXT_FILTER_FUNCTION
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      numInvertedClippers += obj->invertedNormals() ? 1 : 0;

    rtcCommitScene(sceneClippers);
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      numGeometries,
      volumetricModels ? volumetricModelIEs.data() : nullptr,
      numVolumes,
      clipModels ? clipModelIEs.data() : nullptr,
      numClippers);
}

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{
  box3f sceneBounds;

  box4f bounds; // NOTE(jda) - Embree expects box4f, NOT box3f...
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    rtcGetSceneBounds(sceneGeometries, (RTCBounds *)&bounds);
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    rtcGetSceneBounds(sceneVolumes, (RTCBounds *)&bounds);
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  return sceneBounds;
}

OSPTYPEFOR_DEFINITION(Group *);

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To help community hospitals, Community Hospital Corporation needed a tool to supply them with guidance and insight to make informed decisions.
New internet and computer use data from the Census ACS, an upcoming webinar on community health, and other data updates, including disaster declarations.
PolicyMap will be sponsoring and participating in NCDE's 2018 MA Summit in Boston. We'll be on hand to show how we can assist in achieving digital equity.
How do practitioners and researchers use data to solve community health issues? This will be the topic of our next Mapchats webinar.
Looking at new life expectancy data and other data updates over the past month.


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Phacelia and oil radish uncovered as soil saviours
Arable Posted 29/11/21
Growing phacelia or oil radish cover crops in vegetable rotations helps to build and stabilise soils - with a new trial revealing it could safeguard future productivity.
The trial – funded by Agri-Tech Cornwall with land provided by Duchy College - found that phacelia and oil radish outperformed 24 other species and varieties of cover crop, including legumes and oats.
Where a break from brassicas is required, phacelia proved to have the best results - whether sown in spring, summer, or autumn – for improving soil organic matter. In contrast, where a break from brassicas is not required, oil radish gave the greatest above ground biomass, improving carbon and nitrogen sequestration.
Factfile
Trial protocol
The trial assessed 26 cover crop species and varieties on objectives like biomass production (residue), carbon nitrogen ratio and sequestration, crop height, ground cover and pest damage. Each of these is valuable in determining production and commercial compatibility.
The cover crops were drilled during the three main vegetable break periods; February to March; mid-August to mid-September; and October. Each had 12 weeks between drilling and destruction, emulating the shortest period possible between rotations.
The trial was independently assessed by Reading University and Duchy College researcher Hannah Jones, with Ian Boase managing the project and assisting in the field.
Each plot was drilled at a standard depth into a randomised plot design at a mid-range seed rate. Every variety was repeated three times, producing 78 plots per period, each measuring 10.57m₂.
At present there is no set date for publication of the full results, but data and experience gained in the initial trials and from further investigations will be used to help inform the market.
So what does this mean for growers?
"With increased industry pressure on sustainable food production and more frequent extremes of weather, growers are seeking more ways to preserve their soils," says Ian Boase, vegetable specialist at Elsoms Seeds, and manager of the independently assessed trial.
"Soil Organic Matter (SOM) plays a crucial role in improving soil structure, health and capacity for carbon, nitrogen, and water storage. An incorporated residue from cover crop biomass is a very effective way of getting organic matter back into soils between cultivations."
In the trial, both phacelia and oil radish produced a lot of biomass, with tangible improvements in terms of nitrogen and carbon sequestration, nutrients in green material, and feed for the following crop.
"At >61 days after March drilling, phacelia and oil radish produced 40t/ha and 35t/ha respectively of above ground biomass – each sequestering around 15t/ha of carbon and 500kg/ha of nitrogen," explains Mr Boase.
He estimates that between one third and half (166kg - 250kg/ha) of that nitrogen could be available to the next crop, but further trials are required to quantify this.
"The fixation of plant available nitrogen from these crops is of particular interest," he says. "Where growers may be inclined to look at legumes like clover for nitrogen fixation, the trial has identified a critical limitation; they simply can't establish quickly enough within a minimum 12-week rotation break."
Another limitation is predation by pests. "Egyptian clover was the worst affected by predation with 80% damage," says Mr Boase. "Phacelia and oil radish were less affected, with recorded damage statistically irrelevant."
The trial also considered ground cover and crop height; the former an indicator of weed suppression efficacy. Here, oil radish triumphed, reliably covering ground across all three sowing windows. The latter, influencing means of crop destruction and residue incorporation, proved a more complicated matter for growers, as oil radish exceeds 20cm in height.
"Single pass systems are increasingly popular, used to reduce soil disturbance and to keep cover crop costs low," he explains. "However, the equipment used in single pass systems is designed to go over cereal stubble, so cover crops with residues higher than 20cm are likely to tangle and be problematic."
As a consequence, growers in these systems will need to favour short cover crops, or ones that are killed over winter for ease of incorporation.
Ultimately, the grower needs to know what they want to achieve with a cover crop, says Mr Boase. This may be increasing soil organic matter and nutrient capture, improving soil structure and crop yields, preventing soil erosion or reducing fertiliser inputs. "Once decided then you can look at your rotations, available cover crops and destruction method."
Keeping costs down is also important, which was reflected in the trial. "We didn't apply any fertiliser, plant protection products, or weed control so it achieved what all growers will be aiming for; low cost."
However, the trial results are not the end of the work. The overarching purpose was to identify which species would be suitable for further data analysis and investigation into commercial viability, particularly for vegetable rotations in South-West England. "In this region land is rented on long term tenancies – we also want to look at whether the new environmental schemes on offer could be applicable," says Mr Boase.
"We can now explore further, like how much the top performing crops could raise SOM levels and what that means for soil structure and water holding capacity. We can also gain a deeper understanding of increases in follow-on crop yields – whether through greater nutrient release or reductions in crop pressures like weeds, pests and disease."
Managing Nitrogen with a realistic eye on yield potential
Spotlight on spring cereal cropping options


Foreign body in ear is a common problem in pediatric population, especially in toddlers. The vast majority of items are lodged in the ear canal. Most cases of foreign bodies in the ear are not serious and can usually wait until the morning or the following day for removal. The object does, however, have to be completely removed quickly and with the least amount of discomfort.
Insects are well known to crawl into the ear, usually when you are asleep. Sleeping on the floor or outdoors would increase the chance of this unpleasant experience. Pain is the most common symptom. If the object is blocking most of the ear canal, you may experience a decrease in hearing on that side.
If an object becomes lodged in the ear it is usually best to have it removed by an ENT doctor who can view the object with proper lighting and instruments.
Having a live insect in your ear can be extremely uncomfortable. People are often desperate to get the bug to stop moving. If you do not have a known hole in your eardrum, it is usually safe to place a few drops of mineral oil into the ear. This will kill the bug and allow you to calmly and safely get to the ENT specialist for removal.
The removal of any foreign body should be done with care, using an operating microscope. If the child is uncooperative, better do it after giving sedation.After removing the object, make sure there is no damage to the ear drum.
If any trauma to the ear canal, appropriate antibiotic ear drops are given.


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The End of Diversity As We Know It: Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed
Preeya Daya
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, vol. 33 no. 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-12-2013-0108
Balancing unity and diversity in a not-for-profit inter-organizational partnership through lateral accountability mechanisms
Jinhua Chen, Graeme Harrison and Lu Jiao
This paper examines how lateral accountability mechanisms may be used to address the unity–diversity tension in a large not-for-profit (NFP) inter-organizational…
This paper examines how lateral accountability mechanisms may be used to address the unity–diversity tension in a large not-for-profit (NFP) inter-organizational partnership governed under a lead organization model.
A case study was conducted in the New South Wales Settlement Partnership comprising 23 NFP organizations providing settlement services for migrants and humanitarian entrants. Multiple data sources included semi-structured interviews, proprietary and publicly available documents and observation.
The paper demonstrates (1) the usefulness of a strength-based approach that the lead organization adopts in enacting lateral accountability mechanisms, which enables a balance between unity and diversity in the partnership; and (2) the capability of the lead organization governance model to address the unity–diversity tension.
The paper (1) identifies the importance of a strength-based approach in implementing lateral accountability mechanisms to address the unity–diversity tension; and (2) challenges prior research that advocates the network administrative organization governance model in addressing the tension.
For practice, the paper identifies a suite of lateral accountability practices designed to address the unity–diversity tension. For policy, it provides confidence for government in promulgating the lead organization governance model in "purchasing" public services.
The paper demonstrates how lateral accountability mechanisms may be used to provide a balance between the objectives of preserving and leveraging the benefits of partner diversity and achieving unity. The strength-based approach (used in enacting the accountability mechanisms), while having a history in psychology and social work research, has not been recognized in prior partnership accountability and governance studies.
Lateral accountability
Unity–diversity tension
Strength-based approach
Partnership governance
Multicultural ethics and diversity discourse
Heather M.L. Wallace, Kristine F. Hoover and Molly B. Pepper
Responses to diversity management have resulted in disappointment to many organizations (Cox, 2001). Previous work has situated rational for diversity in deontological…
Responses to diversity management have resulted in disappointment to many organizations (Cox, 2001). Previous work has situated rational for diversity in deontological ethics by equality scholars, while the business case for diversity has commonly rested on utilitarian ethics (van Dijk et al., 2012). The purpose of this paper is to examine a possible shift in rational for diversity – to explore if and how the ethic of care has been utilized in the diversity statements of companies earning recognition as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" in 2012.
This study utilized visual rhetoric analysis and was designed to examine multiple elements of these diversity statements as published in the company web sites, including presence of the ethic of care, visual communication, and logistics.
Of note are the results of the presence of the ethic of care as a primary or secondary rationale in 70 percent of the statements studied. Statistically significant results were found in the number of images of people from diverse backgrounds, as well as levels pleasantness and activation of the tone of the ethics statements.
This study contributes to a better understanding of identifiable characteristics of these diversity statements at organizations which have been identified by their employees and the Great Place to Work Institute.
Dictionary of affective language
Ethic of care
Visual communication rhetoric
"Dangerous conversations": a case study involving language
Iolo Madoc-Jones, Dawn Jones, Odette Parry and Sarah Dubberley
Drawing on the approach of Bourdieu (1977, 1986), and using language as an exemplar, the purpose of this paper is to engage in a "dangerous conversation" to explore how…
Drawing on the approach of Bourdieu (1977, 1986), and using language as an exemplar, the purpose of this paper is to engage in a "dangerous conversation" to explore how and why issues of diversity were mobilised, ignored and leveraged in one particular service context.
Qualitative research exploring the language choices of 25 service users who had been processed through the criminal Justice System in Wales in the last five years.
The argument is made that in some service contexts, a habitus obtains that renders reflexivity about diversity issues problematic and predicates against the critical reflection necessary to promote anti-oppressive practice.
Small sample size, not generalisable.
The authors intend the paper to encourage greater reflection on instances when diversity issues are raised and to render simplistic any attempt to invalidate claims of discrimination.
Encourage dialogue about claims of discrimination and greater reflection by service providers about the legitimacy of such claims.
Anti-oppressive theorising has, for the most part, constructed minority group members as passive victims within hierarchical power relationships. While acknowledging how power is unequally distributed, the paper challenges hierarchical models which designate minority group members as bereft of power.
Minority language
Publication date: 14 March 2016
Understanding approaches to managing diversity in the workplace: An empirical investigation in Italy
Silvia Ravazzani
– The purpose of this paper is to enhance understanding of why and how companies implement diversity management in practice, and of factors that may explain their approach.
The purpose of this paper is to enhance understanding of why and how companies implement diversity management in practice, and of factors that may explain their approach.
This study takes inspiration from existing typologies depicting organisation-wide perspectives on diversity management, and articulates them in more detail by applying practice-driven indicators and highlighting possible contingent factors at play. The resulting framework is used to investigate diversity management in Italy. Data from a survey conducted among 90 companies and two focus groups with experts and managers are presented.
The most common approach among Italian companies focuses on addressing social expectations, seemingly shaped by isomorphic pressures and the need to secure legitimacy in their environment. Results also point to an understanding and practice of diversity management in Italy that also incorporate compliance and opportunity-oriented aspects, in an interplay between coercion and voluntarism that reflects local perspective and priorities.
This study makes an effort to address the paucity of studies linking approaches to managing diversity with managerial interventions and contextual factors. The research model connecting approaches with practice-driven aspects and explanatory factors shows descriptive and predictive potential, although it should be contextualised to the specific setting under investigation. This study also fills a research gap in Italy, where existing research primarily involves case studies and qualitative approaches and focuses on gender issues. Implications for research and practice drawn from this study can be useful to scholars and practitioners in other countries.
How diversity (that is included) can fuel innovation and engagement – and how sameness can be lethal
Stephen Frost
Conventional wisdom says that diverse organisations perform better. However, this is not always the case. Diverse teams that are not inclusive are unable to leverage their…
Conventional wisdom says that diverse organisations perform better. However, this is not always the case. Diverse teams that are not inclusive are unable to leverage their diversity, and thus will not reap its benefits. The purpose of this paper is to show that organisations that exhibit inclusive behaviour and inclusive leadership can leverage diversity to reap its multiple positive benefits.
This paper draws on various examples from different sectors, including Kodak, the US Armed Forces and NASA, to analyse the effects of sameness on teams. It also draws on the author's own experience and the most recent peer-reviewed research to look at the effects of inclusive management, not just diversity.
This paper shows that there is ample evidence that diverse teams often perform better, and that they only perform better when led inclusively. The combination of diverse teams and inclusive management can lead to increased innovation and productivity and better decision-making.
This important reframing of the value of inclusion and not just diversity is insightful for the CEO and C-suite leaders, as well as essential for human resource managers or anyone who makes decisions about hiring, promotions or team composition.
Strategic HR Review, vol. 17 no. 3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SHR-03-2018-0020
Diversity Climate in Organizations: Current Wisdom and Domains of Uncertainty
Patrick F. McKay and Derek R. Avery
Over the past decade, the U.S. workforce has become increasingly diverse. In response, scholars and practitioners have sought to uncover ways to leverage this increasing…
Over the past decade, the U.S. workforce has become increasingly diverse. In response, scholars and practitioners have sought to uncover ways to leverage this increasing diversity to enhance business performance. To date, research evidence has failed to provide consistent support for the value of diversity to organizational effectiveness. Accordingly, scholars have shifted their attention to diversity management as a means to fully realize the potential benefits of diversity in organizations. The principal aim of this chapter is to review the current wisdom on the study of diversity climate in organizations. Defined as the extent that employees view an organization as utilizing fair personnel practices and socially integrating all personnel into the work environment, diversity climate has been proposed as a catalyst for unlocking the full value of diversity in organizations. During our review, we discuss the existent individual- and aggregate-level research, describe the theoretical foundations of such work, summarize the key research findings and themes gleaned from work in each domain, and note the limitations of diversity climate research. Finally, we highlight the domains of uncertainty regarding diversity climate research, and offer recommendations for future work that can enhance knowledge of diversity climate effects on organizational outcomes.
Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-730120150000033008
diversity climate
leveraging diversity
Cognitive diversity and creativity in teams: the mediating roles of team learning and inclusion
Irene Hau-Siu Chow
This paper aims to identify the mechanisms through which cognitive diversity affects creativity. It explores how and in what ways cognitive diversity affects team members…
This paper aims to identify the mechanisms through which cognitive diversity affects creativity. It explores how and in what ways cognitive diversity affects team members by examining the mediating roles of team learning and inclusion.
Questionnaire survey data were collected from matched supervisor and employee pairs from a direct sales company in the health-care industry in China. The final sample consisted of 216 employees from 48 teams, with a response rate of 90 per cent. Each employee's immediate supervisor rated his or her creativity and in-role performance.
The empirical results indicate that team learning and inclusion mediate the effect of cognitive diversity on creativity.
This study was conducted in a single organisation in China and used subjective self-reported measures.
The results suggest that diversity training reduces the negative consequences of team diversity and offer practical insights into the effectiveness of diversity management and the ways to create a diverse and inclusive workplace. The study should help human resource professionals to identify human resources strategies that stimulate an inclusive environment and leverage the benefits associated with higher levels of diversity.
The findings have significant implications for developing and maintaining social harmony.
The uniqueness of this study is its simultaneous investigation of diversity and inclusion and how they lead to creativity.
Chinese Management Studies, vol. 12 no. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-09-2017-0262
Team cognitive diversity
Publication date: 4 September 2017
Organizational diversity learning framework: going beyond diversity training programs
Yuka Fujimoto and Charmine E.J. Härtel
To overcome the shortcomings of diversity training programs, the purpose of this paper is to conceptualize an organizational diversity-learning framework, which features…
To overcome the shortcomings of diversity training programs, the purpose of this paper is to conceptualize an organizational diversity-learning framework, which features an organizational intervention for employees' joint decision-making process with other employees from different statuses, functions, and identities. Borrowing key principles from the diversity learning (Rainey and Kolb, 1995); integration and learning perspective (Ely and Thomas, 2001; Thomas and Ely, 1996), and the key practices informed by deliberative democratic theories (Thompson, 2008), the authors develop a new organizational diversity learning framework for behavioral, attitudinal, and cognitive learning at workplaces. They conclude with directions for future research.
This paper first presents an overview of key shortcomings of diversity training programs in relation to their group composition, design, content and evaluation. Second, it borrows the key principles of diversity learning (Rainey and Kolb, 1995); integration and learning perspectives (Ely and Thomas, 2001; Thomas and Ely, 1996), and the key practices informed by deliberative democratic theories (Thompson, 2008) to delineate the organizational diversity learning framework. Third, it presents a table of the approach contrasted with the shortcomings of diversity training programs and discusses practical and theoretical contributions, along with directions for future research.
This paper conceptualizes an organizational diversity-learning framework, which features an organizational intervention for employees' joint decision-making process with other employees from different statuses, functions, and identities.
The organizational diversity learning framework developed in this paper provides an inclusive diversity learning paradigm in which diversity learning rests in the experience of the learner. As stated by experiential learning theory, this framework encourages workers to heuristically learn about diverse perspectives in a psychologically safe environment, to reflect on different perspectives, and to create a new awareness about learning from others. As the participants learn to apply new repertoires for interacting with others in their daily work interactions (e.g. listening to different perspectives shared by unfamiliar social group members), it proposes that their behaviors may create a ripple effect, changing other colleagues' attitudes, behaviors, and thinking patterns on working with diverse coworkers.
This paper provides detailed instructions for practitioners to facilitate diversity learning. It highlights a few key practical implications. First, the framework provides a method of organization-wide diversity learning through intersecting networks within the workplace, which is designed to reduce the elitist organizational decision making that mainly occurs at the upper echelon. Second, unlike other stand-alone diversity initiatives, the framework is embedded in the organizational decision-making process, which makes employees' learning applicable to core organizational activities, contributing to both employees' diversity learning and organizational growth. Third, the framework provides a preliminary model for transferring employees' diversity learning in daily work operations, nurturing their behavioral learning to interact with different social groups more frequently at work and inclusive of their colleagues' perspectives, feelings, and attitudes.
Workforces across nations are becoming increasingly diverse, and, simultaneously, the gap and tension between demographic representation in the upper and lower echelons is widening. By joining with other scholars who have advocated for the need to move beyond diversity training programs, the authors developed the organizational diversity learning framework for meaningful co-participation of employees with different statuses, functions, and identities. By inviting minority perspectives into the organizational decision-making process, top managers can explicitly send a message to minority groups that their perspectives matter and that their contributions are highly valued by the organization.
There has not been a conceptual paper that delineates the diversity inclusive decision-making process within a workplace. The authors established the organizational diversity learning framework based on the diversity learning, organizational diversity integration and learning perspectives, and deliberative democracy practices. The proposed framework guides organizations in structural interventions to educate employees on how to learn from multiple perspectives for better organizational decision making.
Personnel Review, vol. 46 no. 6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-09-2015-0254
Diversity learning
Conducting a Diversity Policy as a Management Change Agent: A Key Issue to an Organisation's Performance
Maria Giuseppina Bruna, Jean-François Chanlat and Mathieu Chauvet
The sociological and demographic reality of recent decades has meant that western companies have seen an evolution towards greater diversification among their staff…
The sociological and demographic reality of recent decades has meant that western companies have seen an evolution towards greater diversification among their staff members. The implementing of a diversity policy in a company cannot be reduced to a managerial fashion or fad, to professional rhetoric or to a set of superficial or illusory initiatives, but it can aim at social transformation. That is why, in this chapter, the authors have chosen to portray the deployment of such an approach from the standpoint of an organisation-changing process, which can, at the same time, alter the language, the standards and the practices of the organisation and led them at the end to identify three managerial levers capable of transforming team diversity into performance enhancers.
Management and Diversity
Diversity management organisational performance
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Mt Nebo is reputed to be where Moses stood when he saw the holy land after leaving Egypt. Hardly a mountain by most standards, it is still much taller then the flat planes all around it. A short walk through gardens, brings you to the summit where you can look out, as Moses did on the lands of Jordan and Israel. The view is impressive, in the distance sunlight plays on the surface of the dead sea and on a day clearer than when I was there you can see Jerusalem. There is always a crowd waiting to stand by the stones, but it is a well behaved and polite crowd taking their turns. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
Of rust coloured iron, a statue of a snake twined up into a crucifix. The snake references the bronze serpent Moses created and the crucifix shape obviously references the later crucifixion of Christ.
Interestingly the statues also, deliberately or not calls back to an earlier religion and religious figure, Asclepius and his Rod.
Having been a site of religious significance for centuries there are a number of ruins, starting from the mid 4th century. Most of the ruins are the walls of the monastery and byzantine church.
Built to protect the incredible mosaics that were found in 1933, the church is not merely a building to keep the rain off, but a fully operational church with services run regularly. It was a strangely appropriate place to be on Christmas day.
The mosaics are remarkable and cover various periods of history. There area clear parallels to the mosaic in Madaba as well as the church floors in Philadelphia. That the effort and artistry has been preserved so well, in such a war torn area is wonderful.