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Spring Vine
18k Amethyst Peridot Garnet Topaz Carnelian Dangle Earrings, 'Spring Vine'
Thai artisan Saranarat creates a veritable garden of gemstones in these stunning dangle earrings. Featuring amethyst, peridot, garnet, topaz, chalcedony, carnelian and apatite, each earring has a line of brightly colored oval and round gemstones secured within an ellipse of 18k gold plated sterling silver, evoking a vine in full bloom. Each earring dangles from an 18k gold plated sterling silver hook.
18k gold plated 925 silver, amethyst, peridot, garnet, blue topaz, chalcedony, carnelian, apatite
Color(s) may vary slightly
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Earring size: 6 cm L x 2.5 cm W
Earring size: 2.4" L x 1" W
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"I love and enjoy making jewelry. I am lost in concentration whenever I'm designing jewelry. I never feel bored even though it may take a very long time to complete a piece."
"I have been fascinated with the charm of natural gemstones since I was young. Each stone has its own beauty and uniqueness. Even cuts from the same stone, they each have a different character, their own charm. I started collecting gemstones little by little, as well as learning about them from books.
"I'm Saranarat Ratanaporn, born in Bangkok and a graduated of Chiang Mai University with a bachelor's degree from the Humanities faculty. Right after my graduation, I started to work in Bangkok in interior design for a while, until making jewelry took up all of my time.
"In olden days, gemstone jewelry was regarded as expensive, elegant fine jewelry. The stone was perfectly cut into shape, so it was not suitable for everyday wear. However I like the natural look of the stone, or with very little enhancements.
"I started to make jewelry for myself by knitting, tie and threading. I highlighted the charm and the beauty of the stone as much as possible. People loved my jewelry so much so, that they often asked to buy it. So I started making jewelry on the side, creating original designs different from the fine jewelry others were already wearing.
"Once, I made a special necklace design for a competition organized by OTOP - One Tambon One Product - an entrepreneurship stimulus program aimed at supporting locally made and marketed products of each Thai tambon (subdistrict). My necklace got awarded five-stars!
"A year later, I made bag from coconut shell. I knitted the shoulder bag with beautiful gemstones. I received the award again. During that time I received a lot of attention from several types of media, including TV and magazines, who came to interview me. Since then I quit my job as an interior designer, and started to design and work with jewelry full time. I also enrolled in a gemstone institute in order to enhance my knowledge.
"I love and enjoy making jewelry. I am lost in concentration whenever I'm designing jewelry. I never feel bored even though it may take a very long time to complete a piece. Some pieces have a lot details and require more complexity in the knitting or bending wire. But it's always fun to do. Some pairs of earrings could take up to one day to finish. I feel encouraged every time my customers show their appreciation toward my products.
"I currently work with a team of 20 women who play an important role in the crafting of my jewelry designs. Every piece has different details. Some of the pieces may require bending wire over 100 times, which can take several days. The women are happy to work with beautiful designs, they feel refreshed and excited every time they take on a new design. They are constantly practicing and working to ensure top quality in their work. I think that to have a good colleague is extremely good luck.
"I always follow fashion trends in order to design jewelry that is up to date.
"When I feel discouraged or feel tired of work, I usually look at my gemstone collection, such as the Buddha image carved from natural stone and I always feel better and relaxed. It inspires me.
"I am glad that my work will be featured on Novica's website and I look forward to receiving your support, thanks very much."
This item was handmade in Thailand. UNICEF helped thousands of children across Thailand keep learning after the 2004 tsunami destroyed their schools.


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Four Norfolk schools closed due to Covid-19
Published: 8:03 AM November 16, 2020 Updated: 7:08 PM November 22, 2020
Hemblington Primary School at Blofield Heath has closed due to Covid cases, with the children having to isolate. Picture: Denise Bradley - Credit: Copyright: Archant 2020
Four schools in Norfolk have closed and pupils have been told to self-isolate due to coronavirus.
Hemblington Primary School at Blofield Heath which has closed due to Covid cases, with the children having to isolate. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY - Credit: Copyright: Archant 2020
The closures of Norfolk schools Cliff Park Ormiston Academy in Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, Hemblington Primary School at Blofield Heath, John Grant School, Caister-on-sea and Kenninghall Primary School are all caused by coronavirus cases, Norfolk County Council has confirmed.
At John Grant School at Caister there have been six positive cases in two weeks while several people are awaiting test results.
As a result the school says they have taken the decision to close for a week and will keep in contact with the Norfolk Outbreak Management Centre on planning next steps to keep everyone safe.
Hemblington Primary the school is closed due to two confirmed cases of COVID-19 among staff.
Pupils and staff are self isolating following Public Health England Advice.
As previously reported, pupils at Hemblington Primary School had been sent home for an unspecified period while a plan is put in place to deal with the outbreak.
In a letter to parents on Friday, November 6 the village school, which has 162 pupils and is run by the Yare Education Trust, said it had been informed of two confirmed positive cases, adding "for this reason we will need to close the school".
Parents were asked to collect children on Friday morning following the closure. Those who had been in close contact with the people who tested positive have been told to self-isolate for 14-days.
The school, on Mill Lane in Blofield Heath, serves the village and a small surrounding area.
A message on Cliff Park Ormiston Academy website states: "Until further notice, the academy is CLOSED – we will only be operating an Emergency Child Care Facility. If anything changes, you will be informed by text message, email and website updates."
Kenninghall Primary School is fully closed until Monday November 22.
Anyone who needs to contact the school should call the school office on 01953 887286 between 8.15am and 4pm.
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Should press be gagged when reporting parliament?
BY JUDITH TOWNEND
The position of the media reporting parliamentary injunction breaches is "astonishingly unclear" says Lord Neuberger. Judith Townend reports
A committee investigating the growth of super injunctions and anonymised privacy injunctions has emphasised the need for open justice and public hearings.
Lord Neuberger, Master of the Rolls, formed the committee in April 2010 in response to widespread concern about secret injunctions whose very existence could not be reported.
The committee, which reported its findings at the Royal Courts of Justice on Friday, has made a number of procedural recommendations, such as the creation of a secure database tracking injunctions, and has drafted guidance for injunction applications.
The new procedure, the committee said, would enable the media to be informed about applications in advance.
The committee made a distinction between secret super injunctions, such as those protecting the oil trader Trafigura and the footballer John Terry, and anonymous privacy injunctions for which judgments are publicly available.
While the committee only identified two of the former category since footballer John Terry , the number of anonymised privacy injunctions has increased.
"Injunctions have until early 2010 been granted perhaps a bit too readily," Lord Neuberger told the assembled media.
Neuberger said the committee was "obviously anxious that hearings take place as much as possible in public".
Sensitive information could be dealt with by reference to a private document, he said.
Lord Neuberger found the law relating to contempt of court for reporting parliament as "astonishingly unclear".
Questions were raised following the use of parliamentary privilege to challenge recent privacy injunctions.
On Thursday, the High Court varied the details of a privacy injunction involving the former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, Sir Fred Goodwin, after Lord Stoneham used parliamentary privilege to reveal more details about the injunction to House of Lords peers.
In regards to journalists circumventing injunctions by reporting a breach of an injunction in parliament, Lord Neuberger said:
"…I would not to like to pontificate about what the law is a) it does appear to be unclear and b) in due course as a judge I might be asked to rule on what it is and therefore I can't express a view to you. "
"It is very unsatisfactory," he continued. "People should know where they are."
"Historically the courts and parliament have mutually respected each others' territory and have worked very well together.
"I have every expectation and certainly every faith that this will continue in relation to this particular topic."
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, suggested that the internet might be further regulated for injunction breaches in future:
"I'm not giving up on the possibility that people who, in effect, peddle lies about others through using modern technology may one day be brought under control, maybe through damages, very substantial damages, maybe even through injunctions to prevent the peddling of lies."
Since the committee hearing took place, Bloomberg Businessweek has reported that lawyers acting for a claimant known as "CTB" have filed papers against Twitter in the High Court in London.
While the document gave no details of the claim, according to Bloomberg, CTB is the set of intials used in CTB v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Anor, involving a footballer and the reality television star Imogen Thomas.
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BERLIN: Germany's automaker BMW AG said on Friday it was the biggest U.S. automotive exporter by value for the fifth consecutive year, with exports totaling over $8.4 billion in 2018.
The company said it exported 234,689 units of its X model sport utility vehicles and coupes from its Spartanburg, South Carolina, plant during 2018.
"Despite…the ongoing uncertainty regarding trade and tariffs, plant Spartanburg is still positively contributing to the U.S. balance of trade," said Knudt Flor, president and CEO of BMW Manufacturing Co LLC.
BMW's U.S. export report comes at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to saddle imported cars and auto parts with steep tariffs of up to 25 percent.
Automakers, however, warn that such tariff on imported cars and parts would add thousands of dollars to vehicle costs and potentially devastate the U.S. economy as auto companies cut jobs to maintain profits.
"The remarkable partnership between BMW and South Carolina continues to thrive, and this is evident by the fact that our state remains the nation's leader in the export sales of completed passenger vehicles," South Carolina Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt said.


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'Spectacular' artefacts found as Norway ice patch melts
Discoveries exposed by retreating ice include snowshoe for horses and bronze age ski
A horse snowshoe found during 2019 fieldwork at Lendbreen. Photograph: Espen Finstad/secretsoftheice.com
Esther Addley
Thu 16 Apr 2020 02.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 25 Aug 2021 09.46 EDT
The retreat of a Norwegian mountain ice patch, which is melting because of climate change, has revealed a lost Viking-era mountain pass scattered with "spectacular" and perfectly preserved artefacts that had been dropped by the side of the road.
The pass, at Lendbreen in Norway's mountainous central region, first came to the attention of local archaeologists in 2011, after a woollen tunic was discovered that was later dated to the third or fourth century AD. The ice has retreated significantly in the years since, exposing a wealth of artefacts including knitted mittens, leather shoes and arrows still with their feathers attached.
Though carbon dating of the finds reveals the pass was in use by farmers and travellers for a thousand years, from the Nordic iron age, around AD200-300, until it fell out of use after the Black Death in the 14th century, the bulk of the finds date from the period around AD1000, during the Viking era, when trade and mobility in the region were at their zenith.
Distaff made from birch, radiocarbon-dated to about AD800. Photograph: Espen Finstad/secretsoftheice.com
Described as a "dream discovery" by glacial archaeologists, the finding was also a "poignant and evocative reminder of climate change", said James Barrett, a medieval and environmental archaeologist at the University of Cambridge, who has been working with Norwegian archaeologists on the project since 2011.
Object believed to be a locking device found in the Lendbreen pass area. Photograph: Espen Finstad/secretsoftheice.com
"One is talking about artefacts that were put in the deep freeze 1,000 years ago, and later and earlier, and were taken out when we found them. So a textile is almost perfectly preserved, one might find arrows with the fletching perfectly preserved, with the sinew still in place, the glue that glued the feathers to the shaft. These are quite remarkable finds."
Of the hundreds of discoveries exposed by the retreating ice, some are structural, such as stone-built cairns that would have guided travellers through the fog, or the remains of a small shelter. Other finds are products that were being transported by local farmers to and from their summer pastures, such as dairy products and fodder, or by traders potentially carrying them much further afield, including reindeer pelts and antlers.
Among them are delicate wooden items such as a small, wood-turned bit for a lamb or goat and a carved distaff for spinning wool - even a Bronze Age ski. Last summer's melt exposed an item that archaeologists have identified as a snowshoe for horses - "a quite remarkable object in its own right", according to Barrett.
While the objects are frequently "extraordinary", he said, "what is really important archaeologically about them isn't the individual objects, it's the story that putting together all of the objects can tell you" about the pass and the people who travelled it.
Thanks to large-scale melting in 2019, most of the Lendbreen ice has retreated, meaning soon there will be nothing left to discover, said Barrett. "On the other hand, there are a lot of ice patches in the high elevations in [this part of Norway], so there will always be another - for the time being."
The team's discoveries are published in the journal Antiquity.


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Goalkeeper David Stockdale would rather reach the Premier League with Brighton than be called up by England.
With Stoke's Jack Butland out with a broken ankle, Burnley goalkeeper Tom Heaton is in line to be included in the national squad for Euro 2016.
Stockdale, 30, was named in several England squads during Fabio Capello's reign but remains uncapped.
"It is always nice but I would take promotion this season over an England call-up any day," he told BBC Sussex.
Both Heaton and Stockdale have been ever-presents in the Championship this season, with Heaton keeping 17 clean sheets for the Clarets compared to Stockdale's 15 for the Seagulls.
Brighton are third in the Championship table and Stockdale is prioritising his club commitments, despite having the ambition of playing internationally.
"It is always something you work for," he said. "You don't really set goals and say 'I want to be in the England squad' because sometimes you can be unrealistic.
"I know there are very good goalkeepers and I am not saying I am better than anyone. I will just do what I can do for Brighton."
Albion started the campaign with a 21-match unbeaten run in the league and are now two points off the automatic promotion places, which are currently occupied by Middlesbrough and Burnley.
However, with the top two facing each other next Tuesday and Brighton travelling to Middlesbrough on the final day, the Seagulls know wins in their final five games of the season will see them return to the top flight for the first time since 1983.
"It is brilliant to think that we have five games and just have to look after our own business," said Stockdale. "It is a strange feeling to be this close but yet so far away.
"Everyone sees the team spirit we have put together over the last few weeks. We are in a good place and all we can do is play our games."


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Lynn Nottage's Next Act
The playwright revisits the town that inspired her award-winning play "Sweat" in "This is Reading"
by Laura Collins-Hughes
Johanna Day as Tracey and Carlo Albán as Oscar in Lynn Nottage's Sweat at the Public Theater in 2016
Reading, Pennsylvania, isn't that far from Brooklyn — about two and a half hours by car, and a lot of the drive is pretty. The playwright Lynn Nottage first made the trip back in 2011, after a story in the news caught her attention. The census figures were in, and Reading, which had long ago tied its fortunes to its factories, was the poorest city in the United States. Of its 88,000 people, 41.3 percent were living in poverty.
But numbers and newspaper articles can only tell you so much. When Nottage was working on her Pulitzer Prize–winning play Ruined (200), set amid civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she traveled to Africa to conduct her own interviews with Congolese women. Now she wanted to write a play about Reading, and she spent two years asking people there to tell her their stories.
Those interviews were raw material for Sweat, whose characters, reeling from deindustrialization, have been viewed as emblematic of a significant swath of America, shut off from the nation's bounty. The play racked up accolades, transferred this spring from the Public Theater to Broadway, then won Nottage a second Pulitzer (and third Obie). In Reading, though, she found a little more that she wanted to achieve.
"We did the play, but it felt like our artistic engagement was not complete," Nottage explains by phone. "We didn't want to feel like carpetbaggers: people that sort of go in, take stories and then leave."
Thus an auxiliary project called "This Is Reading," which Nottage intends as an optimistic tribute, a kind of repayment for the city's generosity. A large-scale multimedia installation with live performances featuring local artists, it's free public art that will take over an elegant old train station in downtown Reading for three weekends in July. It is an unabashed work of artistic activism, and a large part of its goal is to bring the disparate populations of Reading together, reflect the beauty of their city back to them, and stoke some empathy.
"It's a city that's really divided, and I know that people don't like me to say that, but it's true," she says, articulating a perspective evident in Sweat, whose characters — black, white, Latino, employed and not — eye one another with increasing clannishness as jobs evaporate. "It's a city that's sort of hopelessly fractured along racial and economic lines. When you're there, you feel it."
Kate Whoriskey, the director of Sweat, was back in Reading one rainy recent Saturday, crisscrossing the town in a rented Honda, scouting local performers for the installation: a young but disciplined salsa team, a hip-hop dance group for children, a succession of acting hopefuls delivering monologues from the play. She rode shotgun next to Jennifer Moeller, the Sweat costume designer, who had piloted the two of them and "This Is Reading" scenic designer Deb O to Pennsylvania from Brooklyn that morning.
Whoriskey, who is also directing "This Is Reading," was particularly moved by a stunningly beautiful woman who performed for her in a converted factory, now an arts center. This dancer was someone with talent and aspirations — but also two tiny kids, no money, no car. "She said, 'I want to be in entertainment, but I'm in Reading, and I can't get out,' " Whoriskey said, her mind turning to artist compensation. "We've got to pay everyone decently."
Moeller had never been to Reading before. The city was nicer than she'd expected, she told Whoriskey, who didn't dispute its good points. "The problem is that there are no opportunities," Whoriskey said.
Nottage hadn't come to town that day, but her filmmaker husband, Tony Gerber, was there, documenting the visit with the help of Andrew Pochan, a Reading artist serving as the project's production coordinator. Film will be a major component of "This Is Reading." There will be movement theater pieces, too; a lyrical portrait of the city compiled from drone footage and projected onto the ceiling of the station; and huge portraits of residents projected onto the station's exterior walls. Inside, Deb O envisions turning a small room into a library stocked with books of blackout poetry: verse created by obscuring all but a chosen handful of words on a page covered with text — in this case, Nottage's interview transcripts, transformed by local artists.
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In those interviews, Nottage said, many of her subjects framed their narratives in the wistful past tense, with the phrase "Reading was." The installation aims to challenge that nostalgia, looking forward instead. Yet it was important to Nottage and her team that "This Is Reading" occupy a space rooted in the history of the city — a place haunted with memories. A disused factory was one possibility, a grand old shuttered bank on the main drag another, but Franklin Street Station won out. It was built in 1929, with tall, arched windows beneath a high, beamed ceiling, but trains haven't stopped there since 1981. A $5 million renovation unveiled in 2013 by the local transportation authority has left it gleaming and poised, but empty.
"So what do they use it for now? Weddings?" Moeller asked as she walked in.
"Nothing," Pochan replied.
To Gerber, who hopes to commandeer the station's security cameras to feed live video into the installation, the echoey space has the feeling of a stage set — beautiful, but with the layers of time diligently scrubbed away. "It's pristine," he said. "But it's also in some ways too pristine. It doesn't have the ghosts of what it was. One of our goals, on almost a spiritual level, is to bring the ghosts back."
Nottage, in her plays, has often been drawn to portraying lives that go mostly unnoticed in the larger culture. Even so, there is something inherently fraught about a bunch of New York artists traveling to a small, impoverished city and presuming, as outsiders, to create a portrait of the people there. Issues of class and geographic privilege inevitably arise.
Yet Nottage views "This Is Reading" as a way of using the tools of art to help people see their own community through one another's eyes, prompting "a dialogue that might then lead to healing." She would like to be able to replicate the project's model elsewhere. "We could be invited to do this in Newburgh, New York, or in Camden, New Jersey, another city that's struggling with its narrative," she says.
But first Reading will see itself again presented through Nottage's lens, this time a in a more documentary form.
"Whenever you sit down and ask someone to share a story, it's really asking that there be a certain level of trust," she says. "So I hope that the people of Reading trust that we will take good care of their stories."


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American Jobs Center Helps Job Seekers
Current Events Apr 20, 2022 Editor MRE
A small office in Oak Ridge provides a place for job seekers to get internet access, go to hiring events and find specialized job seeking services.
The American Job Center is located in Suite 102 of a white office building at 136 South Illinois Ave.. It's open 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Desktop computers and a fax machine are available to all job seekers there. The organization is a nonprofit with ties to state and federal programs and grants.
Richard Bennett, veterans' outreach program specialist, and April Batey, lead career specialist, spoke to The Oak Ridger about the location's services.
They said the job center, while open to everyone, specializes in services to help veterans, young people, workers from recently laid off or outsourced positions, previously incarcerated people and people who are receiving public assistance such as Supplemental Nutrition Assurance Program (SNAP) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). These groups can get special help with job searching and issues pertaining to purchasing work supplies or connections to other services, which might be barriers to people finding work.
"If you're a job seeker, there generally is some way we can help if they qualify," Bennett said.
He shared more details about the services that have allowed him to help veterans.
"Really everybody's different," Bennett said regarding the veterans he helps. Some, he said, need help with child support, preparing resumes, transportation or mental healthcare. He said he refers veterans to U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) for health, as well as Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties (ADFAC) and Trinity Out-Reach Center for Homeless (TORCH) on housing. He also listed training programs and help getting clothes for interviews.
"I would compare it to a puzzle," he said regarding finding help for these unemployed veterans.
Bennett said "quite the spectrum" of people come through the office, from homeless people to people with doctorate degrees, but that most of those seeking employment are blue collar workers. He said during the earlier part of the COVID-19 pandemic few people came to the center, but people are starting to come more often now.
"We could serve a lot more people," he said. "A lot of people don't know we're here."
He also encouraged employers to reach out to the center as well.
"Everybody who has hiring needs and wants to work with me, I can work for them," he said.
The Job Center will also host a hiring event every Tuesday in April, May and June from noon until 4 p.m. Applebee's restaurant will be there on April 19, and Harrison Construction on April 26. Bennett also promoted an upcoming hiring event for Powder Cote II Inc. located at 193 Frank L. Diggs Drive in Clinton Thursday, April 14, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Bennett said the center plans to do a job fair for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-related jobs at the American Museum of Science and Energy in July.
For more information, call (865) 455-6656 or email Richard.Bennett@tn.gov.
Source: https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/2022/04/14/american-jobs-center-offers-help-people-seeking-work/7272784001/
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The 15-year-old son of Aime Alvarado Salinas allegedly killed his mother on Friday and later confessed to Texas police. Police are investigating the crime and trying to figure out a motive for the tragic killing. According to reports, the boy has not been officially charged, but police tend on charging him with capital murder. (Credit: Shutterstock.com)
Aime Alvarado Salinas Allegedly Killed by Her 15-Year-Old Son, Texas Police are Investigating a Potential Motive
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The 15-year-old son of Aime Alvarado Salinas allegedly killed his mother on Friday and later confessed to Texas police. Police are investigating the crime and trying to figure out a motive for the tragic killing. According to reports, the boy has not been officially charged yet.
Texas police were called to a home on Lynnacre Drive in Dallas, Tx. after they received reports of an abandoned child. Alvardo Salina's two-year-old granddaughter had been left on the steps of her great-grandparents' home by an unknown individual, according to police reports.
The elderly parents became concerned about their daughter's well-being and asked police to do a welfare check. According to them, she wouldn't have dropped off her granddaughter without telling them. When officers arrived at the Texas home, they found Aime Alvarado Salinas with a gunshot wound to her head.
Aime Alvarado Salinas was killed by her 15-year-old son. The boy confessed to Dallas police that he shot his mother in the head. Officers continue to look for a motive. (Credit: GoFundMe)
During the course of their investigation, Dallas police determined that the suspect was Alvarado Salinas' 15-year-old son. Officers were able to track down the young boy and later arrest him for the crime.
"Through the course of the investigation, it was determined that the victim's 15-year-old juvenile son had shot and killed her and took the child to the great-grandparent's home after committing the offense," said a report by the Dallas Police Department.
After allegedly shooting his mother, the young boy drove his mother's vehicle to a friend's house where he was later picked up by police. Dallas police officers said that the boy didn't put up a fight and later confessed to the killing.
Officers have not released the boy's name, since he is a minor, and they have not released his relationship with Aime Alvarado Salinas' granddaughter. Dallas police continue to look for a motive.
The family of Aime Alvarado Salinas mourn her death as they wonder why the 47-year-old mother was involved in a shooting. (Credit: Facebook)
Since her death, friends and family of Aime Alvarado Salinas have taken to social media to mourn their loved one. Many have written touching messages on Facebook about her.
One nephew wrote, "You will always be my Aunt Mimi." You will always be in our hearts. Per our last conversation, you were and will always be backbone of our extended family. You always kept us connected during get-togethers or holidays. I strongly feel you will still work your magic from Heaven. You were by my side when I lost my daughter. In my hardest time, your words gave me strength that I needed."
Her brother-in-law said she would always give him relationship advice when he was in his 20s and how he loved going on trips with her and his brother to meet Salinas' side of the family.
Many of her family members are asking for support and prayers during this difficult time. Aime Alvarado Salinas is survived, by her husband, Mario Salinas, Sr, son, two daughters, a granddaughter, her parents and siblings.
Her daughter, Clarissa Salinas, took to Facebook and said, "It's with a heavy heart to say that our beloved Aime was tragically taken away from us. We ask for love and support in this hard time. She will be deeply missed. We are lost of words and wish we could have another moment with her. Please keep her in your hearts and prayers."
A GoFundMe page has been set up for the family of the 47-year-old. So far, it has raised over $5,000 of a $10,000 goal.
A funeral for the Texas woman is set for Dec. 2. Police continue to investigate her sudden death.
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Rachel Marble is a writer for Breaking News Daily. She graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a degree in Creative Writing and Journalism. She has interned at The Literary Review and The Baltimore Review. Based in Massachusetts, she enjoys reading, cross stitching and playing with her dogs in her spare time.


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Governor defends move to restore voting rights to freed felons
Governor Tom Vilsack today (Tuesday) defended his decision to grant voting rights to felons who've completed their probation and parole. "We're doing this for the right reasons because it's the right thing to do," Vilsack told statehouse reporters. "We join 44 other states (that) have done this."Republican legislators have criticized the move. House Speaker Christopher Rants, a Republican from Sioux City, says Vilsack's move means felons who've been released but have not paid their court fines or their victim restitution will be able to vote. Vilsack himself responded publicly to the charges for the first time, and cited Republican President George Bush's actions. "President Bush when he was Governor of Texas signed a law similar to this," Vilsack says. "As president, in his 2004 State of the Union address, he called America 'a nation of second chances' and he is right about that." Other critics say the move was politically motivated to gain more Democrat voters. Vilsack read reporters an e-mail he received from a woman from Weaver, Iowa, who is married to an ex-felon.The woman thanked Vilsack for making a "dream come true" for her husband. Vilsack said he didn't know if that man would register as a Democrat or as a Republican, but he will be "reconnected" to his community by the act of voting "and that's important."
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I'll start this off by saying that in addition to hosting my models as I finish them, I think I'm going to start using this for some more 'bloggy' purposes on whatever I'm thinking, most likely thoughts on toys as I'm posting them to other sites, or any other related things that come to mind. It won't become a stream of conscious blather, but it is going to expand a bit.
For those who do not know, Shogun Warriors was a line of toys released in the States by Mattel using a number of Popy super robot toys, including some of the early Chogokins and early Jumbo Machinders, two foot tall polyethylene giants with various child-disabling launching mechanisms. Gaiking is among the SW Jumbo Machinder line, but when Mattel brought Gaiking over from the Popy line, they made some significant changes… the entire torso is an original sculpt, simplifying the multipart dragon face of the original, as well as making the Counter Cross weapons part of the shin mold instead of removable weapons. Like some of the other Mattel Jumbo Machinders, a shooting fist was added, adding a jointed elbow and asymmetry of the arms as well. The addition of the jointed elbow and firing fist (the fists are ENORMOUS for a firing projectile) are awesome, but the asymmetry and other lost features make the toy goofy looking. I found this oddball Gaiking on ebay by change, listed as a rare variant from Latin America, but more likely just a hack job done from parts by a collector that had two fists (and therfore two jointed elbows): I was sold… even with the goofy simplified torso, the two launching fists and jointed elbows make the a normally static looking figure into a fun dynamic behemoth. This is my first Jumbo Machinder, and I couldn't be happier… I'll definitely get more JMs in the future, but unfortunately have significantly more love for the later blockier design JMs, which are substantially more expensive, and therefore long-term goals.


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Virtual reality tool designed at USC corrects errors in brain scan data
The Virtual Brain Segmenter turns a tedious step in the scientific process into an immersive experience
BY Zara Greenbaum
The Virtual Brain Segmenter could increase the efficiency of brain scan analysis. (Image/Courtesy of Dominique Duncan)
In recent years, virtual reality technology has begun proving its worth outside the world of gaming, with applications in education, health care, military training and beyond. Now researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are exploring a new frontier: VR as a tool for processing brain scan data.
"This project is particularly exciting because not much has been done with VR in the field of neuroscience," said Arthur Toga, provost professor and director of the neuroimaging and informatics institute.
The new tool, Virtual Brain Segmenter (VBS), transforms a tedious step in the scientific process into an immersive experience. And a new study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging in July suggests that the tool significantly increases the efficiency of brain scan analysis.
Let the processing stage begin
After researchers collect MRI data from study participants, the processing stage begins. During automatic processing, one step, called segmentation, separates the brain into labeled regions to facilitate close examination of various structures. But the automation isn't perfect, and researchers must manually correct errors before moving forward with analysis.
The time-consuming work requires a trained hand, so most labs hire undergraduate research assistants to correct segmentation errors. But with the vast amount of data being collected, studies still tend to hit a bottleneck during the processing stage. And many labs experience a high turnover of research assistants, who tire of the repetitive task, amounting to wasted time and resources spent training new workers.
"We wondered: How can we make this process more efficient and intuitive? Is there a way to correct segmentation errors that requires less training?" said Dominique Duncan, assistant professor of neurology at INI and lead author of the paper.
Experimental trial
With this in mind, Duncan, Toga and Assistant Professor Tyler Ard launched an experimental trial to test the efficacy of VR in brain segmentation. They teamed with RareFaction Interactive, which programmed VBS and assisted with its design, and secured a Vive VR headset from the consumer electronics company HTC. Duncan also received a research grant from the USC Postdoctoral Association to fund the trial.
The experiment tested 30 participants, all new to brain segmentation, on two tasks: using a MacBook to perform a minor error correction in the classic data cleanup program FreeSurfer, and completing the same task in VBS, armed with the HTC Vive headset and two controllers.
On average, participants finished the correction 68 seconds faster using VBS compared with FreeSurfer, a highly significant time savings considering the task rarely took more than three minutes to complete.
"Our main goal is to put this tool in the hands of researchers around the world," Toga said. "We see that as a way to continue driving discovery in the field."
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Assistant Professor Sook-Lei Liew explores new brain-computer interfaces that connect stroke survivors to the worlds of tech and medicine. (Photo/Nate Jensen)
Using virtual reality — and mom's sewing machine — for stroke rehab
Sook-Lei Liew builds a prototype with a laptop, an off-the-shelf VR rig, a $9 swim cap and a brain-computer interface system.
An EngX participant gets a taste of virtual reality. (Photo/Valentina Suarez)
Youngsters get their hands on virtual reality, cellphone microscopes and other engineering marvels
USC Viterbi-hosted EngX attracts students who want to be engineers.
A storm surge caused by a hurricane in the Houston area is one scenario that USC students explored in their VR journalism class. (Photo/Jovrnalism USC Annenberg)
USC Annenberg team uses virtual reality to tell a potentially disastrous story
The advanced techniques help to create a VR experience based on an investigative project in Houston.
James Hu, assistant professor of medicine, watches a USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center patient experience a new virtual reality treatment. (Photo/Courtesy of Springbok Cares)
New virtual reality program for young cancer patients aims to lift their spirit
The initiative intends to offer an emotional benefit that can't be achieved through medicine alone.


Gerald Green (sore right ankle) is questionable to play on Monday.
Green would see extra playing time if Chris Paul had to sit out but is only a stream for scoring and threes. He's tough to trust but you never know when he'll pop off for a big night. If Green missed this game it would lead to a lot of new looks for the Rockets, who only used nine players — two of them playing under five minutes — on Saturday.


Colston Hall turned 150 years old in 2017 and quite frankly it looks its age. There has been no major refurbishment for the last 60 years. Indeed, it is the only major concert hall in the UK not to have been redeveloped in recent times. Doing nothing is therefore not an option.
So we are doing something about it. We need your help to achieve our ambitious plans to #transformthehall – turning our iconic building into something that we can all be proud of, as a city, region and nation.
The transformation will form Phase Two of Bristol's biggest ever redevelopment programme in the arts sector. The first stage involved the construction of the £20 million foyer space, which opened in 2009. Phase Two is planned to start in 2018 and be completed by 2020.
In September 2014 we launched our appeal, which set a target to raise £48.8 million to transform Colston Hall into an international standard concert facility and a National Centre for Entertainment, Education and Enterprise across the arts – including music, comedy, theatre, dance and the visual arts.
So far, over £40 million has been raised, thanks to financial commitments that include £10 million from Bristol City Council, £5 million from HM Treasury, £10 million from Arts Council England (the largest single capital award made by ACE in the South West), £4.75 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and £5 million from the West of England Combined Joint Committee.
This is a great start and with your help we can get even closer.
Now is your moment to transform the Hall. Click here to find out how you can help secure the next 150 years of live performance at Colston Hall.
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Tihomišje (ili Tihomišlje) je bivše samostalno naselje s područja današnje općine Uskoplje, Federacija BiH, BiH.

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Tihomišlje se spominje u izvješću fra Marijana Šunjića, apostolskog administratora Bosanskog vikarijata iz 1858. godine kada je ovdje živjelo 5 katoličkih obitelji s ukupno 54 duše.

Na austro-ugarskim popisima stanovništva iz 1879., 1885., 1895. i 1910. godine Tihomišlje je zabilježeno kao samostalno naselje. Na posljednjem popisu iz 1910. Tihomišlje je bila seoska općina pod koju su spadala i naselja Dražev Dolac, Duratbegović Dolac, Pernice i Tihomišlje.

Za vrijeme socijalističke BiH ovo je naselje pripojeno naselju Duratbegović Dolac.

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Naselja u županiji Središnja Bosna
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#include "authenticatoropenike.h"

namespace openikev2 {

    AuthVerifierPsk::AuthVerifierPsk( auto_ptr<ByteArray> psk ) {
        this->psk = psk;
    }

    AuthVerifierPsk::AuthVerifierPsk( string psk ) {
        this->psk.reset ( new ByteArray( psk.data(), psk.size() ) );
    }

    AuthVerifierPsk::~AuthVerifierPsk() {}

    auto_ptr< AuthVerifier > AuthVerifierPsk::clone() const {
        return auto_ptr<AuthVerifier> ( new AuthVerifierPsk( this->psk->clone() ) );
    }

    AutoVector< Payload_CERT_REQ > AuthVerifierPsk::generateCertificateRequestPayloads( const IkeSa& ike_sa ) {
        AutoVector<Payload_CERT_REQ> result;
        return result;
    }

    vector<Enums::AUTH_METHOD> AuthVerifierPsk::getSupportedMethods( ) const {
        vector<Enums::AUTH_METHOD> result;

        result.push_back( Enums::AUTH_METHOD_PSK );

        return result;
    }

    bool AuthVerifierPsk::verifyAuthPayload( const Message& received_message, const IkeSa& ike_sa ) {
        // Obtains the payload AUTH
        Payload_AUTH& payload_auth = ( Payload_AUTH& ) received_message.getUniquePayloadByType( Payload::PAYLOAD_AUTH );

        // Obtains the payload ID
        Payload_ID& payload_id = ike_sa.is_initiator ? ( Payload_ID& ) received_message.getUniquePayloadByType( Payload::PAYLOAD_IDr ) : ( Payload_ID& ) received_message.getUniquePayloadByType( Payload::PAYLOAD_IDi );

        // The Message to be checked
        Message& message_to_check = ike_sa.is_initiator ? *ike_sa.ike_sa_init_res : *ike_sa.ike_sa_init_req;

        // The PRF key
        ByteArray & prf_key = ike_sa.is_initiator ? *ike_sa.key_ring->sk_pr : *ike_sa.key_ring->sk_pi;

        // Generate the AUTH field
        auto_ptr<ByteArray> auth_field = AuthenticatorOpenIKE::generatePskAuthField(
                                            message_to_check.getBinaryRepresentation( ike_sa.receive_cipher.get() ),
                                            *ike_sa.my_nonce,
                                            *payload_id.id,
                                            *ike_sa.prf,
                                            prf_key,
                                            *this->psk
                                        );

        return ( *auth_field == payload_auth.getAuthField() );
    }

    string AuthVerifierPsk::toStringTab( uint8_t tabs ) const {
        ostringstream oss;

        oss << Printable::generateTabs( tabs ) << "<AUTH_VERIFIER_PSK> {\n";

        oss << Printable::generateTabs( tabs + 1 ) << "psk=" << this->psk->toStringTab( tabs + 2 ) << "\n";

        oss << Printable::generateTabs( tabs ) << "}\n";

        return oss.str();
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Took a walk, trying to clear my head so I can focus. That helps sometimes. I grabbed the camera when I left because I heard a bunch of turkey running by. Never saw them, but found these mushrooms on the path and had to take a few pictures.
I think I can concentrate on some sewing now. I hate to waste a day when I have so much free time and end up at night with nothing to show for it. No, relaxing doesn't count. I'll be happy when I'm productive. I have Halloween ideas in my head, but it's funny how I want to see these projects done, but not sure I want to be the one to make them. I'll work on it, or at least write them down and then try to move on.


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Income Generation for Local Government
This policy briefing contains presentations from experts who share their experience of innovative income generation techniques.
Headline Speakers
Phil Halsall
Chief Executive of Lancashire County Cou...
Katherine Kerswell
Former Managing Director Kent County Cou...
Local government is well rehearsed in the need to increase efficiency and reduce spend, but during these well documented periods of austerity, it is important to look to new measures of income generation.
Generating income is about more than increasing congestion, waste and parking charges. It is about restructuring service models to make use of assets, mutuals, social enterprises, co-payments and trading to ensure that local government can survive hardship to emerge leaner.
This policy briefing explores new and innovative ideas from entrepreneurial councils demonstrating the delivery of new service models, the management of assets and the opportunities available in revenue generation. This briefing will keep your council at the cutting edge of best practice, whilst developing new income streams to enable you to provide better services for your area.
Learning outcomes. Users will:
Look to the future of service models in income generation through the devolution of power and finance autonomy
Analyse the role of new fiscal measures and potential revenue streams
Assess the potential for local government revenue
Explore the value of utilising local government assets for revenue generation
Look to ways in which social enterprises and mutuals can play a role in sourcing new revenue streams
Explore the role of outsourcing in incentivising markets to generate income
Assess the value of co-payments in generating income
Benefit from video presentations demonstrating best practice examples on private-public partnerships in generating vast income and reducing expenditure
Understand the legalities in generating new revenue streams
Presentation 1: Catherine Staite, Director, Institute for Local Government (INLOGOV) A cultural shift to commerciality
Exploration of issues underlying the development of commerciality in local government including the limitations, competition and fairness. It provides an analysis of the available evidence on how local government should be coping with current financial constraints.
Biography: Catherine Staite
Presentation 2: Alison Scott, Director, Local Government, CIPFA The future of local government finance and the power to charge
A recount of the traditional sources of income for local government and a look at the new model of a 'self-financing authority'.
Biography: Alison Scott
Presentation 3: Phil Halsall, Chief Executive, Lancashire County Council Joint ventures in revenue generation: Lancashire's projected £10m income generation
How joint ventures can be used to achieve revenue generation and a case study of Lancashire's work with BT to increase efficiency, generate savings and produce significant additional revenue.
Biography: Phil Halsall
Presentation 4: Mike More, Chief Executive, Westminster City Council Trading and sharing: Westminster's trading company and shared borough services
What is the most efficient and innovative income generation route for your council: commissioning services, sharing services or perhaps creating a trading company? This comprehensive case study of Westminster City Council's trading arm (Westco) and shared borough service provides a summary of Westco's services and success and highlights the opportunities for local councils looking to venture into this mode of delivery.
Biography: Mike More
Presentation 5: Katherine Kerswell, Group Managing Director, Kent County Council Kent's Commercial services: a new strategic commissioning framework
Kent County Council has successfully generated £74m in cash savings over the last four years. Wth a need to generate a further £95M in savings this year alone, Kent demonstrate how an assessment of their commissioning framework and commercial activity resulted in significant financial benefits as well as meeting wider social, economic and environmental responsibilities.
Biography: Katherine Kerswell
Presentation 6: John Tizard, Director, Centre for Public Service Partnerships Generating income through co-payments and bonds
Exploration of the role co-payments and bonds can pay to generate income for local government. Issues of accountability, capacity of the third sector, and equity are raised and examined in the context of changing the way local government work with service providers and the citizen.
Biography: John Tizard
Presentation 7: Nathan Holden, Partner, Head of Local Government, Mills & Reeve LLP The legalities of new revenue streams
Analysis of existing and new powers for local government to generate income. A look to the limitations including the duty to act properly and act in the best interest of the tax payers.
Research Index Contents: Research Index, Media Index, Professional Associations, Useful Links
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While we seem to be getting closer and closer to a life on Mars, one studio imagines our future dwellings on the Red Planet. The Open x Xiaomi Mars Case House is a compact, net-zero living pod. Assuming we'll only be able to take the essentials, all of the service components will be inflatable allowing the entire 2.4m x 2.4m x 2m module to be folded for easy transportation. Resources will likely be minimal making recycling heat, energy, and water crucial. Each module will be fitted with an integrated ecosystem that will self-circulate, reusing everything from exhaust to condensation. The project is a collaboration between Open Architecture and electronics company Xiaomi in an effort to combine design and technology in a way that will accommodate the future lifestyles.
Built into a hillside in Alentejo, Portugal, the Cercal House is a modern addition to the rolling terrain. The dwelling takes the form of a traditional gabled structure while a sleek white facade and clean lines create a contemporary context. Its minimalist aesthetic continues on the interior where the presence of natural light creates a bright, airy atmosphere. The main living area occupies the center of the home. Fitted with a pair of sliding doors, the entire wall opens, removing all boundaries between the interior and the landscape and expanding the room out to a poolside terrace.


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The Great Bank Robbery: Carbanak cybergang steals $1B from 100 financial institutions worldwide
Posted by Adrian Patrick Gemora February 17, 2015
Kaspersky Lab, INTERPOL, Europol and authorities from different countries have combined efforts to uncover the criminal plot behind an unprecedented cyberrobbery. Up to one billion American dollars was stolen in about two years from financial institutions worldwide. The experts report that responsibility for the robbery rests with a multinational gang of cybercriminals from Russia, Ukraine and other parts of Europe, as well as from China.
The Carbanak criminal gang responsible for the cyberrobbery used techniques drawn from the arsenal of targeted attacks.
The plot marks the beginning of a new stage in the evolution of cybercriminal activity, where malicious users steal money directly from banks, and avoid targeting end users.
Since 2013, the criminals have attempted to attack up to 100 banks, e-payment systems and other financial institutions in around 30 countries.
The attacks remain active. According to Kaspersky Lab data, the Carbanak targets included financial organizations in Russia, USA, Germany, China, Ukraine, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Romania, France, Spain, Norway, India, the UK, Poland, Pakistan, Nepal, Morocco, Iceland, Ireland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Brazil, Bulgaria, and Australia.
It is estimated that the largest sums were grabbed by hacking into banks and stealing up to ten million dollars in each raid.
On average, each bank robbery took between two and four months, from infecting the first computer at the bank's corporate network to making off with the stolen money.
The cybercriminals began by gaining entry into an employee's computer through spear phishing, infecting the victim with the Carbanak malware.
They were then able to jump into the internal network and track down administrators' computers for video surveillance. This allowed them to see and record everything that happened on the screens of staff who serviced the cash transfer systems.
In this way the fraudsters got to know every last detail of the bank clerks' work and were able to mimic staff activity in order to transfer money and cash out.
How the money was stolen
When the time came to cash in on their activities, the fraudsters used online banking or international e-payment systems to transfer money from the banks' accounts to their own. In the second case the stolen money was deposited with banks in China or America. The experts do not rule out the possibility that other banks in other countries were used as receivers.
In other cases cybercriminals penetrated right into the very heart of the accounting systems, inflating account balances before pocketing the extra funds via a fraudulent transaction. For example: if an account has 1,000 dollars, the criminals change its value so it has 10,000 dollars and then transfer 9,000 to themselves. The account holder doesn't suspect a problem because the original 1,000 dollars are still there.
In addition, the cyberthieves seized control of banks' ATMs and ordered them to dispense cash at a pre-determined time. When the payment was due, one of the gang's henchmen was waiting beside the machine to collect the 'voluntary' payment.
"These bank heists were surprising because it made no difference to the criminals what software the banks were using. So, even if its software is unique, a bank cannot get complacent. The attackers didn't even need to hack into the banks' services: once they got into the network, they learned how to hide their malicious plot behind legitimate actions. It was a very slick and professional cyber-robbery," said Sergey Golovanov, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team.
"These attacks again underline the fact that criminals will exploit any vulnerability in any system. It also highlights the fact that no sector can consider itself immune to attack and must constantly address their security procedures. Identifying new trends in cybercrime is one of the key areas where INTERPOL works with Kaspersky Lab in order to help both the public and private sectors better protect themselves from these evolving threats," said Sanjay Virmani, Director of the INTERPOL Digital Crime Centre.
Kaspersky Lab urges all financial organizations to carefully scan their networks for the presence of Carbanak and, if detected, report the intrusion to law enforcement.


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Home Technology Education Apple's Classy iPad Adds Everyone Can Create Curriculum
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Apple's Classy iPad Adds Everyone Can Create Curriculum
By Chris Knight
Chicago, US, March 27, 2018 — While the tech press feigns excitement over the modest upgrade to the latest low-cost (ho ho) iPad. The real news is in the unveiling of the Everyone Can Create app and features that make the tablet more a part of the creative classroom.
Everyone Can Create is a new, free curriculum for schools. It helps make drawing, music, filmmaking or photography part of any subject (assuming the teacher is into the technology). If schools buy into the concept, then it can help with all these projects and drive creativity.
Schools can buy the new A10-powered tablet for $299, so it remains far from a low-cost solution, with the now-compatible Pencil an extra $89. Anyone else can buy the new iPad for $329, which is pretty feeble as most retailers have current models at $300 and the improvements in the latest model are negligible for most. Also, if the iPad was really designed for any class I've visited, a cheap plastic snot-proof and easily replaceable screen, and germ-destroying coating would be essential parts of any design.
"Creativity sparks a deeper level of engagement in students, and we're excited to help teachers bring out that creativity in the classroom," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "When you combine the power of iPad, the creativity of Apple Pencil, over a million iPad apps in the App Store, the rich curriculum in Everyone Can Code and Everyone Can Create, and unique Classroom and Schoolwork apps that support students and help schools manage technology in the classroom, we believe we can amplify learning and creativity in a way that only Apple can."
Apple Announces Schoolwork for Mac and iPad
Apple also announced Schoolwork, allowing teachers to create assignments, monitor student progress and so on. Will schools really ditch their current methods for this? That's an interesting question that only time will tell on. Either way, it looks like Apple's new play for education will see plenty more schools arguing over budget, utility, and lock-in, with the usual amount of press fuss when any school goes iPad, Chromebook or plain old Windows.
Everyone Can Create is a follow up to Apple's Everyone Can Code initiative, while Schoolwork goes alongside the Classroom features, all of which rounds out Apple's offering, but is it really going to shake up the market. Perhaps the best marketing angle is that any kid can now demand an iPad going "but it's for school, mom!" Like we used to when we needed a computer for endless game playing back in the day!
YouTube: iPad — Homework (Full Version) — Apple
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CINAHL® with Full Text is rich collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 610 journals indexed in CINAHL®. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981. (Available through Ebsco)
AltHealth Watch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. This database features indexing and abstracts going as far back as 1984, with full text going back as far as 1990. (Available through Ebsco)
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Also from the American Psychological Association (APA), this is a definitive soruce of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals-50 published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF)--as well as 13 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. (Available through Ebsco)
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All Nurses.com
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National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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National Library of Medicine Gateway
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The Cochrane Library
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