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Talk A Good Game
Talk A Good Game is the fourth studio album by Kelly Rowland. Formerly titled Year of the Woman, the album was released on June 14, 2013.
It will feature guest appearances by Beyonce, Michelle Williams, Wiz Khalifa, Pusha T, The Dream and Kevin Cossom. Production was handled by The Runners, The-Dream, Harmony Samuels, Mike Will Made It and Pharrell Williams as well as others.
In the US, Talk a Good Game debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number four, having sold 68,000 copies in the first week; it became Rowland's third top-ten album, though sold 9,000 copies fewer than Here I Am.
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02. Kisses Down Low
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08. I Remember
09. Red Wine
10. This Is Love
11. Street Life (feat. Pusha T)
12. Stand In Front of Me
13. Sky Walker (feat. The-Dream)
14. Put Your Name On It
15. #1
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Quarantine Cat Film Festival To Help Raise Money For Movie Theaters Affected By COVID-19
By Anastasia Arellano
Movie theaters have closed because of the current pandemic, meaning that a night at the movies now has to take place within the comfort of our own homes. It also means that independent movie theaters have had to close until the foreseeable future. As a result, some cats in quarantine have come together in order to help raise money for independent movie theaters affected by the coronavirus.
The owner and manager of Row House Cinema in Pittsburgh, Brian Mendelssohn, made the announcement that on the 19th of June, the first-ever Quarantine Cat Film Fest will be hosted. It will be virtual, of course, and will feature a compilation of submissions from the public which feature the adorably hilarious antics of cats in quarantine.
As Mendelssohn told USA Today, "It's perfect. Everyone is home, stuck with their cats, and people want to help out movie theaters."
Mendelssohn also shared that it was his wife who suggested the idea, having been inspired by the extra time spent with the couple's own cats, Oliver and Isabella.
"The internet exists because of cats. It's just fun to watch cats do cool things," Mendelssohn shared.
Photo: Row House Cinema
Mendelssohn has already partnered with 37 other independent theater owners throughout North America, as well as placed a call for cat videos – he's already received more than 200 submissions.
Once collected, Mendelssohn shared the next process, saying he will be editing the best submissions together into a "70-minute long compilation [that] will be the most purr-fect, a-meow-zing, and totally fur-tastic cat videos anyone has ever seen!"
Sounds absolutely wonderful!
Mendelssohn said, "Some of these videos are amazing; it's going to take a tremendous amount of editing. We suspect it's going to take two weeks of editing, and one week of post-production work."
All participating theaters will be sell tickets in order to view the movie online. And, according to the festival's website, the participating theaters will receive 50% of the net proceeds.
As the website stated, "With your help, we are hoping cats will help to save independent movie theaters through this unprecedented quarantine."
In addition, there will be cash prizes available to those who submit videos of their pet cats. A panel of judges will gather and give out prizes for cutest cat, funniest cat, bravest cat, and most loving cat.
"There will be a Best of Show award as well. The videos will be judged by cat experts who are very opinionated," the website said. "The cash prize amounts will be determined closer to the film's release."
Mendelssohn has a video submission deadline of May 15th and has encouraged people to film their cats horizontally. In addition, the website outlined that there is a three video limit per household, and each video shouldn't be longer than 30 seconds.
Perfect time to make that cat of yours a star!
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This week the newer team members of Metis and a few clients from different boroughs underwent health and safety training by (IOSH) a chartered health and safety membership organisation.
The team went through the 'Leading Safety' course which focuses on strategic health and safety learning integrated into business management and performance management systems.
The course was chosen for our team so that they not only understand health and safety at work but also become active participants in shaping the health and safety practices in the organisation.


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HomeCardcaptor Sakura/Cardcaptors (Nelvana) Episode 13: Sakura and the Elephant's Test of Strength | Sub/Dub Comparison
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This is a classic! I particularly like the part when Li totally believes the story about the sloths, so funny. Thanks for reminding me of one of my favorite anime!
Li and the sloths was adorable! You're very welcome! 🙂
It is cool to see another episode review of this series. I wasn't aware of some of those changes, but Nelvana did butcher the crap out of CCS.
What I wasn't aware of is, according to what I read recently, Cardcaptors was even more butchered when it was initially broadcast on Kids WB. "The first North American broadcasting of Cardcaptors was by Kids' WB from June 2000 to December 2001. Although all 70 episodes were dubbed, only 39 episodes were aired in America. The episodes were heavily edited and aired in a random order. Reflecting the channel's primarily male-targeted audience, Syaoran's introductory episode was made Episode 1.
The capturing of the Clow Cards became the show's main selling point and focus as at the time of the show's English airing, cartoons revolving around "collecting" were popular, such as Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh." I kinda want to see the Kids WB edit and make a comparison on that, but supposedly it's lost media. I never saw the Kids WB version. The one I saw very briefly as a child was on some random channel I can't even remember and lost after a few weeks. But god, how could they manage to make this WORSE?
I saw this on Kids WB back in the day, but I didn't even know that compared to Nelvana's handling of the series at large. They didn't show all the episodes? Dang! It's just like Escaflowne when it was on Fox Kids! Come to think of it, I remember Never Argue With a Fish saying something like the episode count was different in the UK. That doesn't surprise me about the rearranging of episodes and making Syaoran the "real" main character which I remember being called out by THEM when they lambasted the Nelvana edits while making a separate review for the original Japanese series while mentioning the sexist implications of doing so.
Yu-Gi-Oh! was on Kids WB, so that makes way too much sense and so was Pokemon eventually (it was on UPN of all places at first where I lived before moving to that block). It's frustrating seeing how much anime gets butchered when it ends up on a kid-oriented block or channel. Only after watching some of these shows back and in Japanese made me realize that even more.
It's amazing how good kid anime fans have it now. Like I can't tell you how much I want to "BACK IN MY DAY…" young anime fans when they complain about the tiniest of changes new shows will have.
I initially thought that Nelvana's non-broadcast cut was meant to be more driven towards male audiences when I first read that THEM review way, way back in the day. And, honestly, I still think it is, but I can't imagine how ridiculously sexist the Kids WB cut would up in comparison.
Oh and DUDE, I watched Pokemon on UPN too! I'm like 90% sure that was the channel I watched it on before I was able to watch Kids WB. It was on at like 4:30 or 5 in the morning, and I would have my dad wake me up to watch it before he left for work lol
I'll take your word for it, but then again I'm out of the loop with newer anime in general and I don't actively watch TV. With that said, I've had that similar sentiment by telling younger anime fans how good they have it. I can remember how expensive DVDs were, lack of streaming availabilities, anime merch was hard to find outside of Suncoast, and how anime fans got bullied/fandom shamed way more than right now.
I'm glad you know about that THEM review or just THEM in general. I read a ton of their reviews back in high school and my early college days. It is very concerning with how Nelvana did this and the message it sends to impressionable young audiences back in the day when it aired on TV?
It was on UPN where you're from, too? Awesome! I know that channel has been kaput for years, but people forget what kind of shows were on there in syndication. I swear it was roughly 6-6:30 AM if memory serves me correctly where I'm from, so I had to wake up early before school to see Pokemon. It was also the first place I saw various anime like Teknoman (the first anime I remember watching in my life) and even DBZ when it first came out in America. The latter was on UPN up until the first part of the Frieza Saga, then it was syndicated on Fox AFTER the official Fox Kids block ended (same with WMAC Masters if you remember that show), and then it was on Toonami!
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Laura Papaleo
With a master degree (cum laude) in Computer Science at the University of Catania in 1998 and a thesis on Computational Geometry developed at the CS Department at Stanford University (USA), in 2004 I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Genova on topic related to multi-sensors data fusion.
Over the last 15 years, I have been collaborating with different international research institutions and universities in different successful research national EU and international projects dealing with Semantic Web, Open Data, and the visualization, modeling and structuring of complex digital data.
I am actually the Team Leader and Coordinator of the Economic Development Unit (EDU) for the Metropolitan City of Genova. The EDU is accountable for the planning, organization, coordination, and execution of the Metropolitan City of Genova initiatives in its efforts to identify economic development opportunities for the municipalities and the metropolitan territory and to promote an 'open for business' attitude. In the Metropolitan City of genova, I also cover the role of Data Specialist, Solutions&Innovation Architect, and in this role I am responsible of the design&development of innovation projects related to public Open Data transparency and structuring.
Since 2005, I am an adjunct researcher at the Institute for Data Exploration & Applications at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) within the group led by Prof. James Hendler. Since 2014, I have been involved as invited external expert in the European Community for the evaluation of project proposals and for reviewing ongoing funded projects.
Interests: Semantic Web, Knowledge Modeling, Linked Data, Similarity, Human-Computer Interaction, E-learning, Digital Content Semantic Structuring and Annotation, Visual Computing.
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Teaching children to establish and honor boundaries is not an easy thing! Farmer Frank's Fence is designed to do that very thing. This book will open the door for you to discuss boundary-setting and keeping with the child in your home, classroom or church. Understanding boundaries is empowering to children who have been abused or neglected in the past. Get ready to build some new fences!


Toastmasters International is an organisation which strives for improving your public speaking skills, communication skills and most importantly, your leadership skills. It has member clubs all over the world and if you would like to change your life in a positive way, Toastmasters is one such great platform.
There are member clubs all over the world and you can find one nearest to you on their website.
I recently participated in the qualifiers of Master Orator Championship 2017 – a public speaking competition organised by the Toastmaster clubs of Telangana and Andra Pradesh, two South Indian states.
Master Orator Championship is a hunt for the best orator in the college circuit of the two states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Nagpur and Raipur cities. The students are sieved through multiple rounds of selection starting from qualifiers to the finale where 10 contestants across colleges deliver 5 to 7 minute speeches that are mentored and evaluated by a panel of experienced Toastmasters.
This was my speech for the qualifier round and it got me through 2100 participants to the final 150 for the semi-finals. I later went on to final 10 for the finals.
Every BOLD word illustrates the stress on it.
Before we start, let me ask you ALL (pause) a VERY SIMPLE question.
RAISE your hand as HIGH as you can if you believe (pause) you can be a Master Orator.
Come on, don't be shy. Nobody is gonna punish you.
Can you now raise your hand (pause) a little higher!!
Respected Contest Chair and judges and MY fellow orators (open arms) (pause).
Today I'll share with you a very enlightening experience I recently had.
I LOVE cycling. I am an amateur cyclist and I recently took part in a 200 km brevet.
I had to complete the last 10 km in the last half an hour.
I was completely drained. 0 energy. (Show 0 with hands). And worse, I had run out of both food and water.
Now my mind started playing games with me.
GAUTHAM. You shoudl GIVE UP.
GAUTHAM. This is your LIMIT.
I could have told myself that this is my limit and it's OKAY to give up or (low voice) I could push myself. And I did JUST that.
I pumped myself.(fist pump) I SCREAMED.
People's stares didn't matter to me because I was focused on my goal. My goal of reaching the finish line. And I did finish my goal.
I completed the 200 km but sadly (pause) I was 7 min late. Just 7 minutes.
Maybe, but I learned something from this.
The Human mind (pause) works in funny ways.
Whenever we face a challenge and we hit a rough spot, the brain tricks us into thinking that THIS IS IT. NOT ANY MORE. THIS IS YOUR LIMIT.
we are FAR from our limits. We haven't even reached 40% of what we are capable of.
Think of it. Be it mid way during a marathon or working through a tough coding problem, we ALLL face it.
So what do you DO in these circumstances?
Do you give in to your mind and stay in your comfort zone ?
Only YOU can Define your limits.
And only YOU can Defy your limits.
Define or Defy. Only you can.
I HEARTILY congratulate you ALL for coming out on this Sunday Morning, ALL the way (pause), to speak in front of so many people.
Definitely out of your comfort zone. ( Take a small dramatic step to your right).
A giant leap (pause) for the future you. (extend welcoming arms and extend feet too).
Over to contest chair .
Hey Guys, I hope you enjoyed the speech. The finals will be on August 13th and the venue is ISB Hyderbad. Master Orator Championship 2016 (though I did not participate) completely changed my life. It might change yours too.
Tickets will be available on the website in a short while.
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Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering behind the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is broken into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. The former deals with craft that stay within Earth's atmosphere, and the latter deals with craft that operate outside of Earth's atmosphere. Research areas include aircraft and spacecraft design, aerodynamics, propulsion, turbomachinery, aerospace structures, aeroelasticity, aeroacoustics, jet and rocket engine combustion, vehicle dynamics and control, and computational thermal/fluid dynamic methods.
Improvements in the efficiency of fossil fuel combustion, along with reductions in air pollutants like ultra-fine particulate matter, will be needed for energy generation and transportation. In addition, new energy sources will be required. The Energy and Environment group looks at fossil fuel combustion as well as wind energy, hydrogen and fuel cell systems to answer these challenges.
Research in air pollution involves strong collaborations with colleagues in biology to help in understanding the health impacts of energy use and the ensuing air pollutants, especially ultrafine particles.
Research into biological systems within Mechanical Engineering encompasses studies from the scale of the human down to the scale of the atom or molecule. Bio-sensing makes use of micro-fluidic devices and novel nanoscale materials to detect signatures that arise from diseases, or from toxins and pathogens in our environment. This research area is very multi-disciplinary with collaborations with Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Research on Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nanostructures includes optical nanostructures and optical MEMS, physical sensors, and microfluidic devices. Biomechanics research looks at the human or animal body in terms of mechanical systems and relates those characteristics to normal function, disease processes, performance in sports, or the development of advanced medical devices and/or prostheses for joints and limbs.
Computational sciences (or scientific computing) is the field of study concerned with constructing mathematical models and numerical solution techniques and using computers to analyze and solve scientific, and mechanical and aerospace engineering problems. In practical use, it is typically the application of computer simulations and other forms of computation to problems in various scientific disciplines. Research areas include computational geometry pertaining to computer automated design (CAD), numerical methods for solution to governing equations to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, structures, and thermodynamics, computational grid generation, and related computer sciences issues including parallel computing, data structures, and computing infrastructure.
Control systems are an integral part of most, if not all, the systems that are analyzed and designed by mechanical and aerospace engineers. As the name implies, the ultimate purpose of a control system in mechanical and aerospace applications is to allow a dynamic system to perform the task for which it has been designed safely, efficiently and accurately. Pertinent examples can include such diverse applications as an automatic landing system for a commercial aircraft, a motion control system for a high-precision milling machine, a stability augmentation device for an automobile, and a pump to automatically regulate insulin for diabetics. A typical control system design involves three fundamental and interdependent components associated with sensing, control computation, and actuation. Development of the requisite skills necessary to integrate these components in an effective control system design require a firm grounding in mathematics, fluid mechanics and system dynamics, sub-disciplines which form the core of the curricula in mechanical and aerospace programs.


Politicians of all parties regularly commit themselves to closing the academic-vocational divide or to raising the status of technical education to the level enjoyed by academic programmes.
They are no doubt sincere, but discrimination against the vocational route is so deeply ingrained that, without intending to they constantly act to reinforce it.
Two items of recent news illustrate the indirect discrimination that so often undermines our leaders' fine aspirations.
The first piece of evidence is a rumour circulating in the sector that around 50 FE colleges are in serious financial difficulty.
If it were five colleges the responsibility would, in all probability, lie at the door of local management — for 50 colleges to experience serious problems at the same time, however, suggests a systemic problem.
College management has not suddenly deteriorated in dozens of colleges; something has gone wrong with the strategic leadership of the sector; leadership beyond colleges.
It is not difficult to find the major cause. Many colleges were encouraged by the Skills Funding Agency's predecessor body, the Learning and Skills Council, to take on ambitious capital redevelopment programmes.
The very competitive environment set for the sector has been another spur to invest in improved buildings in order to maintain recruitment.
Since colleges have to finance a major part of their capital development themselves many have high borrowings and now face a 'perfect storm' as funding rates have been repeatedly cut for 16 to 19-year-olds in recent years and funding numbers slashed for adult provision.
It is the very students following the technical and vocational programmes that politicians say they want to promote who will bear the toughest consequences.
The second piece of evidence is that academy schools have been stashing away billions of pounds building up their financial reserves — £2.5bn that could have been spent on education according to the Guardian (Guardian online January 18).
Once again this is not a criticism of individual schools, but a system failure. For a local authority to hold a reserve in case one of its schools faces a catastrophe is prudent policy. For every single school to hold a reserve in case it is the one where the catastrophe happens is a gross waste of resources.
Such waste is of course only possible because of the more generous funding received for pupils under the age of 16 — some £5,600 for 15-year-olds compared to only £4,600 for 16 and 17-year-olds and £3,800 for those aged 18 according to the Association of Colleges.
School budgets are protected by a ring-fence which does not apply to those aged 16 and over and of course schools don't have to contribute to capital development in the same way colleges do.
They also receive favourable VAT treatment denied to sixth form colleges for teaching exactly the same age group.
A common refrain from the political class is that the British public (though not they themselves of course) has a long standing cultural prejudice against the vocational route.
It could of course be that the public takes its cue from the politicians noting where they put their investment and which institutions they starve of resources as an indication of their true values.
Or it could be as simple as a canny preference for sending your children to a school that has cash in the bank rather than a college where the bailiffs are just around the corner.
If politicians and leaders of the skills and education system are genuinely serious about the importance of vocational education, we in FE want to see real evidence of sensible investment, within limited resources, for colleges.
Nothing can justify, other than ideology, billions of pounds effectively being stashed away from the students most in need.
It is hard to understand how boards predicted growth when they knew the birth rate 16 years before their intake enrolled and utilisation in college is a nonsense and ignored by boards (and the SFA). I worked in three FE colleges who all carried out utilisation surveys each year (used to be an SFA requirement). These college boards (and the SFA) knew that all of their campuses were less than 30% utilised. This situation would not be allowed to continue in business.
I would not put the argument in the terms Peter has used but I do agree with his essence of his argument – although I don't agree with his stark solution.
Think that Florida sun might have affected your reasoning Peter… colleges are not all the same and do flex funding to meet local and regional needs.
Some have however been basing their capital requirements on the 'never,never' – a consistent growth in 16-18 numbers when demographics simply don't match those expectations. That is obviously a management issue in those colleges, linked to a capital strategy under the building colleges for the future programme that encouraged large scale 'vanity' projects.
I'm all for competition and freedoms but without the plant driven FE sector the country would be even more unable to meet the STEM requirements, hand in glove with employers of course.
The sector needs to learn from more nimble ptoviders in other sectors but throwaway comments like your last are not overly helpful in the debate. Its like suggesting that post 16 education providers should not make profits?!… but I guess that's a different debate?
There seem to be quite a few issues and nuances here; bottom line (no financial surplus/deficit pun intended) it does seem like there is a growing volume of financially unstable FE Colleges and Independent Training Providers. There are quite a few contributing factors to this, some (I'd suggest) are legacy, some systemic and some due to poor decisions.
1. Classroom/space utilisation. The cost of space is incurred irrespective of its utilisation, to run any business on occupancy levels in their 20/30% has a heavy price on the financial health of any business. If space was planned and utilised with improved efficacy, how much floor space would be needed?
2. Optimising the curriculum offer. How often do providers review their entire offer against demand from business and learners and cost of delivery?
3. Structure learning around pathways to a destination, rather than solely on participation in a qualification. Yes Study Programmes have started to do this and connecting Traineeship through Apprenticeship makes sense, but these are not yet positively affecting the many. Learners would have a clearer purpose of their engagement with their provider, are likely to be retained for longer and institutions can start to manage their resources more strategically than they currently do with the 'stop/start' approach.
As far as capital investment and capacity is concerned, surely the current landscape is going to compound the situation as we see growth in additional UTC's, Colleges and Academies developing federation/governance structures and high volumes of Apprenticeships. Where the learner pool is finite, greater choice available to them will mean that some institutions will lose out.
Funding parity continues to be fraught with issues, there do appear to be some monumental examples of generosity as far as some academies are concerned, however this is not the case for all and national ring fencing doesn't necessarily translate into equal funding within each school itself.
When times are tough, clear leadership, pragmatic tactics and financial prudence will help all providers weather the storm a little better.


We read several books about George and Abe and collected facts about them.
We picked our favorite facts to record in a book about these famous presidents.
I love line drawings/clipart frames of the presidents...great touch!
How cute! Where did you get the lined chart paper?
I got the chart paper at a Dollar General.


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Virat Kohli, KL Rahul had nervous energy while defending the ball: Sachin Tendulkar
Former captain Sachin Tendulkar, while speaking exclusively to India Today, pointed out that Virat Kohli and KL Rahul looked under pressure during the chase against New Zealand.
India crashed out of the World Cup 2019 after their 18-run loss against New Zealand in the first semi-final in Manchester.
India got bowled out for 221 in 49.3 overs in pursuit of 240 after the match was forced into the reserve day following the rain interruption on Tuesday.
India had a horror start to their chase as the former champions were jolted by New Zealand pacers in the first 10 overs.
India lost their batting lynchpins Rohit Sharma (1), KL Rahul (1), Virat Kohli (1) cheaply inside the first 4 overs. Matt Henry and Trent Boult were running riot as the Manchester crowd, filled with a sea of blue, went quiet.
"It would be unfair to pinpoint Rohit, but someone like KL Rahul, who had batted brilliantly in the last match. I just felt there was that slight nervous energy while they were defending also. You could see that in Virat also somewhere. He was eventually trapped by the ball coming in," said Sachin.
"If I have to notice something, the anxiety levels were high. There was pressure and in cricket, you will always be under pressure. Dhoni and Jadeja were going rather well but the pressure was there."
"The strike rotation and running between the wickets with Jadeja was important. He is an experienced campaigner who knows when to push himself and save himself. The run out was for the team. It's fine."
Courtesy : India Today
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Ogilvy Takes Match Play Title
Ogilvy dominated from the start. He was 4-up after nine holes and led by six after 28 holes.
MARANA, Ariz. (AP) -- Geoff Ogilvy won the Accenture Match Play Championship for the second time in four years with a 4-and-3 victory over Paul Casey of England to stake his claim Sunday as the best in the world at match play.
In a relentless performance at Dove Mountain, the 31-year-old Australian did not trail over the final 62 holes of the tournament and did not have a bogey on his card over the last 57 holes.
He took the lead with a 6-foot birdie on the first hole of a 36-hole title match, and never gave Casey a chance. Ogilvy had a 3-up lead after the morning round, then shot 31 on the front nine to pull away.
A tournament that began with so much buzz over the return of Tiger Woods ended with a newfound appreciation for the match-play prowess of Ogilvy, who ran his career record to 18-3 in this fickle format.
"The best thing I can say is I enjoy the format," Ogilvy said. "Generally, when you enjoy something, you do it well."
Ogilvy won his third World Golf Championship -- he will defend his title in two week at Doral in the CA Championship -- the most of any player besides Woods, who has won 15 of these elite events.
And while Woods is a three-time winner of the Match Play Championship, Ogilvy ran his record in this tournament to 17-2. He lost in the championship match two years ago to Henrik Stenson, and lost in the first round last year to Justin Leonard.
Casey, who brought a 16-3-1 record in match play into the final, faced a 3-up deficit after the morning match and knew he had to play well to get back in the game. He birdied three of his next eight holes, and Ogilvy still stretched his lead to 5 up.
"I have no excuses right now," Casey said.
Ogilvy closed him out with a 6-foot birdie on the 15th hole. He won $1.4 million and moves up to No. 4 in the world ranking. He became the first player this year with multiple victories on the PGA Tour, having opened the year with a wire-to-wire win at Kapalua.
This was like a home game.
Ogilvy now has won three times in the Tucson area over the last five years, starting with a victory in the old Tucson Open in 2005, before the Australian was eligible for the 64-man field at the Match Play Championship.
Since then, Ogilvy has won a U.S. Open, three WGCs and the winners-only Mercedes-Benz Championship.
Casey came into the final match having led 79 of the 80 holes he had played in his five previous 18-hole matches.
That amazing mark didn't last long.
Ogilvy made birdie from 6 feet on the first hole, and when Casey failed to match him from 5 feet, it was the first time the Englishman had trailed all week. From there, it only got worse.
Ogilvy had a putt to win on the next eight holes, converting three of them for a 4-up lead at the turn.
The final match is more marathon than sprint, although it was a bad omen for Casey. No one had come back from more than a two-hole deficit all week, and this was no exception.
The lone highlight for Casey came at the par-4 10th, when he his 6-iron from 200 yards landed perfectly against the slope and rolled into the cup for an eagle. But on the next hole, Ogilvy regained control with a spectacular shot of his own.
The par-5 11th was the most entertaining hole at Dove Mountain.
Casey drove into a bunker, so close to the face that he could only advance it far enough to leave him 262 yards to the hole. Despite such a predicament, Ogilvy attempted to reach the green with a 3-wood, only to hook it into the desert. The ball landed in a bed of jumping chollas that had fallen to the ground, and Ogilvy didn't bother removing it to keep from getting pricked by the needles.
The advantage shifted to Casey, who promptly pulled his 4-iron into such a bad spot left of the green that he had no angle to the pin and did well to pitch it 18 feet long. Ogilvy took his penalty drop, still didn't reach the green, then chipped in from 60 feet for par. He won the hole when Casey missed his putt.
Casey had one last chance to gain some momentum. Ogilvy's lead was 3 up when Casey drove to the front of the green on the par-4 15th. Ogilvy had to settle for par, and Casey missed a 6-foot birdie.
Ogilvy birdied the next hole to go back to 4 up, poured in a 12-foot birdie on the 17th after Casey was in tap-in range and wound up taking a 3-up lead to the break.
Casey's only hope was to cut into the lead quickly, but he missed too many putts to stay in the match. The rout was on when Ogilvy made an 8-foot birdie on the seventh, then hit his approach to 4 feet on the par-5 eighth.
It was far different from the last time Ogilvy won this event, in 2006 the last year it was held at La Costa. He had to go extra holes in his first four matches, and 10 times watched his opponent stand over a putt to win the match.
His only close call at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club came in the second round. Shingo Katayama has a 12-foot birdie on the 17th hole to win the match. He missed, and Ogilvy stayed alive by making a 10-footer for par, eventually winning in 19 holes.
The rest of the week, the Australian was at his best.


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Q: How to create custom composite control derived from the FrameworkElement Can you give me an example how to create custom composite control (in Silverlight 4) which derives directly from the FrameworkElement. Here is a mockup:
public sealed class CompositeImage : FrameworkElement
{
    private readonly List<Image> images;

    public CompositeImage()
    {
        images = new List<Image>();
        images.Add(new Image { Source = "..." });
        images.Add(new Image { Source = "..." });
    }

    protected override Size MeasureOverride(Size availableSize)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
    protected override Size ArrangeOverride(Size finalSize)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

A: I'm having trouble imagining any scenerio where doing such thing would be desirable.
Use a UserControl or a templated control.  Its difficult even providing any more of an answer than that without a better understanding of what you want to acheive.

A: I guess it could make sense to inherit from FrameworkElement if you wish to create some sort of "Image-only" panel. It looks from your code example that the list of images would be fixed? Then you could write code in MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride to lay them out. But as AnthonyWJones said, more details on what you're trying to accomplish would help determine the best way to go.

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Nata nel 1965 in Belgio da madre indiana (Sabiha Rumani Malik) e padre belga (Michel Aertsens), si trasferì a Londra nel 1975 prendendo la cittadinanza britannica ed assumendo il cognome del secondo marito della madre (il giornalista Andrew Knight).
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2016 activities and results
Lebanon Trust's 2016 results
Cutting the ribbon at the opening of the new playground at FAID.
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Dear friends and supporters,
we would like to tell you what we did this year with your donations.
We went to Lebanon in October, and stayed at the deaf children's school that we support, the Father Andeweg Institute for the Deaf (FAID). There, we built a brand-new playground for the kids and donated towards the school's operational expenses. About 25% of FAID's pupils are refugees from the Syria war.
The representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Beirut visited us at FAID. This resulted in a very nice video and story, also published here on our own website, Facebook and Twitter.
Watch the video: (© UNHCR)
We also published a beautiful story about two deaf children who used to live in poverty in a Syrian refugee camp, and who are now attending school at FAID thanks to internet crowdfunding, organised by a clever American volunteer.
Like every year, we also visited two refugee camps and donated to their kindergartens, run by our local partner Association Najdeh. Lebanon hosts more than 1 million registered refugees from Syria, on a local population of 4 million (and 450 thousand Palestinian refugees). It's like Ireland had 1.2 million refugees – the real number is 11 thousand – or the UK had 16.3 million – real number 169 thousand (source: UN).
The total amount donated in 2016 slightly exceeded last year's.
Our 2016 activity in eight pictures
(more pictures here)
Before Lebanon Trust's intervention: the area around the gilrs' dormitory at FAID was unused
… and after: the new playground at the girls' dormitory
The children welcomed the new playground with much enthusiasm
Our chairman Christy, justifiably proud of the work done
A warm welcome at the refugee camp of Chatila. We visit and support this kindergarten since 2010.
Kindergarten of the refugee camp of Burj el-Shemali, in South Lebanon. We visit regularly and support this kindergarten since 2012.
Lebanon Trust's donated USD 8000 to FAID
Lebanon Trust donated a total of USD 4000 to two refugee kindergartens
What we did at the Father Andeweg Institute for the Deaf (FAID) in Beirut:
Donation of one year's worth of funding for the school bus, the electricity generator and the classrooms' heating. Total: USD 8000
Maintenance and improvement of FAID's premises. Tools, material and equipment have been purchased by Lebanon Trust, and the work carried out by the volunteers themselves: total USD 2534
Creation of a new playground on a vacant plot outside the girls' dormitory: complete clearance of the area and of its access pathways; complete re-paving; restoration and re-painting of the perimeter fence; purchase, installation of 4 large wooden boards along the perimeter fence to be painted and decorated by the children; construction and installation of a safety door to the generator housing; sourcing, purchase and installation of child safety surface and of high-quality metal playground equipment (slide, swings, merry-go-round, see-saw, etc.; 5 pieces in total); restoration, re-painting and installation of six wooden benches in the area.
Creation of a garden with plants and flower beds (purchased & planted for the purpose) outside the girls' dormitory, to provide the children with a pleasant and safe recreational area.
Purchase and installation of high-quality metal merry-go-round and see-saw for the kindergarten's existing playground.
Installation of a net around the external perimeter of the school's courtyard, to allow the pupils to play football.
Organisation of a visit by a delegation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon, headed by Senior Communication and Public Information Officer Matthew Saltmarsh. The visit included interviews with Lebanon Trust's officers and school staff; visit of the classrooms during school time; visit of the Audiology Department with live demonstrations; illustration of the school academic programme and of the challenges faced by FAID; visit of the playground area being built by us; filming of school activities, speech therapy and interviews.
Organisation of a visit by a delegation from the Symantec Corporation's Beirut office, headed by the Commercial Manager for Egypt and the Levant Region Marcel Nasser. Symantec's Ireland HQ have been supporting us for many years now.
Evaluation of the work done by FAID and discussion of their plans and needs; meetings with their management (Director and Board), with the staff and pupils.
What we did at the refugee kindergartens:
Kindergarten of the Chatila refugee camp in Beirut: on-going financial support for books and educational material, USD 2000; field visit with inspection of classrooms, roof playground and educational material financed by Lebanon Trust, meeting with the teachers, the children and the schoolmaster
Kindergarten of the Burj el Shemali refugee camp in Tyre: on-going financial support for books and educational material, USD 2000; field visit with inspection of new and refurbished classrooms and playground; meetings with pupils, teachers and head teacher; detailed discussion about their needs and plans.
Income: Donations to Lebanon Trust (Euro)
Fundraising events 3171.94
Private donations, collection boxes, sponsorship cards, proceeds from MC Ferraro's latest book 7878.08
Corporate sponsorships 2484.47
Total 13534.49
(Year close Nov 30, 2016; EUR/USD/CHF currency exchange rate: 2016 average)
Expenditure: Donations to the supported institutions, expenses (Euro)
Web hosting & domains 180.00
Hardware & materials, transport, logistics, etc. 2533.30
Contribution to FAID 7520.00
Contribution to Chatila refugee kindergarten 1880.00
Contribution to Burj el Shemali refugee kindergarten 1880.00
Loss –458.81
Accommodation was kindly provided by FAID for free. Flights and local transport have been paid for privately. The volunteers took unpaid leave from their employers.
Fundraising events organised by the volunteers over the year: Christmas swim, street collections, weekly raffles, cake sales, quiz night, virtual flea market, bucket collections.
Our special thanks to these friends, who helped us this year:
Paul's Barber Shop, 123a Old County Road, Crumlin (Dublin, Ireland)
The people of St. Peter's Crescent, Walkinstown (Dublin, Ireland)
McCormack's Cycle Centre, 31a, Dorset Street Lower (Dublin, Ireland)
Eddy McHugh's Shop, Patrick's Road in Greenhills (Dublin, Ireland)
O'Neill's House of Sport, Walkinstown Avenue (Dublin, Ireland)
Paul Reid Dental Laboratories (Dublin, Ireland)
Kelly's Welding & Engineering Supplies Ltd (Dublin, Ireland)
Gerard Kelly (Dublin, Ireland)
Big Mick (Dublin, Ireland)
All the lads in Farleng Engineering Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland)
John Farley, owner, Farleng Engineering Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland)
Dr Maher Kemmoona, Walkinstown (Dublin, Ireland)
Lilliput Stores, 5 Rosemount Terrace, Arbour Hill (Dublin, Ireland)
… and all the many people who sponsored Paul Horace on the sponsor cards
Mark Teahan, Tralee Printing Works (Tralee, Ireland)
Breda Flynn, wife of the late Joe Flynn (Tralee, Ireland)
Danie Linnane, of Linnanes Bar (Tralee, Ireland)
Neill Nolan, of Nolan's Garage (Tralee, Ireland)
Darren O' Sullivan, of The Castle Bar (Tralee, Ireland)
David Keane, Symantec Corp. (Dublin, Ireland)
Mick Halpin, Symantec Corp. (Dublin, Ireland)
Stephanie Derwojed, Symantec Corp. (Dublin, Ireland)
Julie Weber, Symantec Corp. (Dublin, Ireland)
Fam. Pier Ponzano (Arquata Scrivia, Italy)
Catherine & Adrian Poeydomenge-Ruf (Zurich, Switzerland)
Fam. Della Penna (Genoa, Italy)
Fam. Prola-Smith (London, UK)
Ole Vossnack (Zurich, Switzerland)
Rosalba Napolitano (Milan, Italy)
Wolfram Rausch, Symantec Corp. (Dublin, Ireland)
Jayne Delahunt, Symantec Corp. (Dublin, Ireland)
Amanda Davis, Symantec Corp. (Dublin, Ireland)
Louise Hanlon, Symantec Corp. (Dublin, Ireland)
Elaine Curley, Symantec Corp. (Dublin, Ireland)
Staff, Committee and customers at St Peregrines GAA Club, Blanchardstown (Dublin, Ireland)
Matt Saltmarsh, UNHCR (Beirut, Lebanon)
Lisa Abou Khaled, UNHCR (Beirut, Lebanon)
Marcel Nasser and colleagues, Symantec Corp. (Beirut, Lebanon)
Mike Shea (Tralee)
Michael Conway (Tralee)
Chelsea Conway (Tralee)
Maria Cristina Ferraro (Genoa, Italy)
Martina Merkle (Zurich, Switzerland)
Nino e Milda Cocurullo (Genoa, Italy)
Patricia Meade
Enrico e Lilli Bertolotto (Genoa, Italy)
Giovanni Zappavigna & fam (Marina di Massa, Italy)
Alessandro Bertolotto (Genoa, Italy)
Fam. Parodi (Genoa, Italy)
Fam. Vigna-Mori (Savona, Italy)
Alison Hirt-Ferguson (Zurich, Switzerland)
Giovanna Pellegrini (Genoa, Italy)
Giovanni e Lucia Fasanella (Asmara, Eritrea)
Licinio Aquini e Caterina Alberghini (Arquata Scrivia, Italy)
Silvana Falaschini (Livorno, Italy)
Mariapia Porta (Genoa, Italy)
Caterina Pellegrini (Turin, Italy)
Filippo e Laura Peschiera-Casali (Genoa, Italy)
Francesco Devia & fam (Genoa, Italy)
Fabio & Marta Delfante-Cocurullo (Genoa, Italy)
Fam. Ricci (Arquata Scrivia, Italy)
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Q: Oracle JDBC Driver loaded in one class not accessible in another class in same package I am working on an EAR application(deployed on WLS 12c) that has a feature to configure and test jdbc connection for Oracle. So, in my jsp page the user selects the driver as oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver, enter the connectionurl, username and password and clicks on testConnection. And on doing this, the applicaiton gives back an error stating java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for
jdbc:oracle:thin:@XXX-xx:1525/YYYY
A little brief of the architecture used in this application :
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The logic within isDriverRegistered gets an enumeration of all the drivers registered with DriverManager by calling DriverManager.getDrivers and checks if the driverName string passed to it equals driver.getClass.getName.
After the 1st call to JDBCUtil for OracleDriver, any subsequent calls to registerDriver for OracleDriver is expected to skip the class.forName because the isDriverRegistered is expected to return true. But upon adding logs statement and debugging, i noticed that everytime registerDriver->isDriverRegistered is called for OracleDriver, it is always returning false. The enumearation obtained by calling DriverManager getDrivers, never contains OracleDriver.
Secondly, In another class JDBCDS.java, we are calling JDBCUtil.registerDriver("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver") and as expected, in registerDriver function exceute Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver") because isDriverRegistered returns false . In JDBCDS.java, after the call to registerDriver, we call DriverManager.getConnection by passing in the url,usename and password. And this call is throwing SQLException saying NoSuitableDriverFound.
So, as another debug test, i called Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver") in JDBCDS.java and then made a call to DriverManager.getConnection and this time i was able to get a connection successfully.
I have gone through all the question related to NoSuitableDriverFound exception on this forum, but nothing is fitting my issue.
I have tried to call create a new instanc of the driver by calling new oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver() within JDBCDS.java and see if it accepts my url and it does. Moreover, this has also ruled out any classpath problem. The jar is certainly in the classpath. Our classpath includes the following:
com.oracle.db.jdbc7-dms.jar and also weblogic.jar
com.oracle.db.jdbc7-dms.jar internally has a link to ojdbc8dms.jar and weblogic.jar internally has ojdbc8.jar included through the Class-Path attribute of its MANIFEST.MF files in both the cases.
Also, this issue is isolated to only a particular environment. In other environments with the same setup, everything works fine without issues.
From JDBCUtil.java :
static Util Method that is used to register the driver :
public static void registerDriver(String driverName)
{
    // Calls isDriverRegistered,isDriverRegistered returns false, then call Class.forName(driverName)
}

static method to see if driver is alreay registered :
public static boolean isDriverRegistered(String driverName)
{
    //call DriverManager.getDrivers to get all the registered drivers
    if(driver.getClass().getName().equals(driverName))
    {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Code in JDBCDS.java that is used to perform the test connection:
try {
    JDBCUtil.registerDriver(driver);
    DriverManager.setLoginTimeout(300);
    conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password); //This code throws No Suitable Driver Found Exception
} catch (SQLException e) {
    // tried the below as a test

    try
    {
        Class.forName(driver);
    }
    catch(Exception ex)
    {
        Logger.log("Could not load the driver with the current classloader", 4);
        throw e;
    }
    conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);//At this step the connection is successfully obtained
}

Both JDBCUtil.java and JDBCDS.java are in the same package.
Can anybody point me towards what i can do further to resolve this issue?


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A 2 year qualitative study, exploring participant's experiences of kidney transplant failure has just begun in the Faculty of Health, Sport and Science. The research is funded by a grant from the Research Capacity Building Collaboration (RCBC) Wales and is being undertaken by Dr Paul Gill a research fellow in the faculty.
While kidney transplants are successful and efficient, a number of transplants fail every year in the UK and rates of graft failure increase over time. The impact of graft failure for transplant recipients and their families is often profound. However, this area has been subject to little research. It is therefore envisaged that this study will increase understanding in this area and subsequently help to inform the provision of care and support provided to those affected by transplant failure.
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Daniele Borra (born 28 July 1995) is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for  club Virtus Entella.

Club career
He made his Serie C debut for Arezzo on 25 November 2016 in a game against Giana Erminio.

On 6 August 2018, he was signed by Carrarese on loan.

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External links

1995 births
Living people
People from Chivasso
Footballers from Piedmont
Italian footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Serie C players
Serie D players
Valenzana Mado players
Virtus Entella players
Hellas Verona F.C. players
S.S.D. Lucchese 1905 players
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S.S. Arezzo players
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Gustav Adolph Wyneken  fou un filòsof, escriptor i pedagog alemany impulsor de la renovació educativa i de les "comunitats educatives lliures".

Biografia
Nasqué en una família cristiana luterana. Del 1894 al 1897 va estudiar teologia i filologia a Berlín, així com a les universitats de Halle, Greifswald i Göttingen. El 1898 es va doctorar amb una tesi sobre la crítica de Hegel a Kant.

Considerat com un dels pedagogs més originals i creatius, però també controvertit, de la pedagogia idealista alemanya plantejà l'experiència de les "comunitats escolars lliures", com a medi educatiu per a la capacitació de la consciència individual per a la participació en la consciència total de la humanitat. Així, l'escola trencant amb les convencions i els models heretats, ha d'introduir el jovent al servei de l'esperit. L'escola és el lloc on conflueixen l'esperit i la jove humanitat.

Dotat d'una sòlida formació filosòfica fou, al mateix temps, un home d'acció tant el terreny educatiu com en la vida social i política.

El seu treball al costat de Hermann Lietz al Landderziehungsheim li despertà un gran interès per la pedagogia i l'educació. Fins al punt de que Lietz li va encomanar la direcció d'aquella escola nova a ple aire. Però per diferències ideològiques i personals decidí emprendre una proposta escolar pròpia i trencadora el 1906. Així naixia la "Comunitat escolar lliure" de Vickersdorf als boscos de la Turingia.

A la seva escola Wyneken, creà un ambient familiar a la manera de la vida senzilla de les granges dels voltants. El matí es dedicava a l'estudi i a l'aprenentatge de coneixements i a les tardes els nois i noies s'ocupaven i treballaven en tasques agrícoles i en altres treballs manuals. Tot presidit per l'esperit comunitari i amb certs nivells d'autogestió. Creant-se un clima de llibertat i companyonia, que també s'estenia a les relacions entre professors i alumnes. Uns i altres tenien els mateixos drets, en estar units pels mateixos objectius. Però els seus plantejaments trencadors amb la moral i el model de societat li comportaren greus problemes que l'obligaren a abandonar Vickersdorf, el 1910, i confiar la seva comunitat escolar a M. Luscrke.

Wyneken escrivia el 1914 que, enfront de la greu crisi social i vital coetània, fora ridícul creure encara que era necessari una lleu reforma escolar. El que calia era una nova cultura de la joventut o, de fet, una cultura de la joventut, ja que aquesta mai havia existit entre nosaltres.

Amb Revolució de 1918 pogué retornar a Vickersdorf. Rehabilitat va ser nomenat conseller del Ministeri d'Educació de Prússia i fou l'inspirador de la legislació de 1918 sobre comunitats escolars i agrupacions d'alumnes a les escoles públiques tot seguint les seves idees sobre l'autonomia escolar. El 1919, va ser acusat d'abusar sexualment de dos estudiants i va haver de dimitir el 1920. Els fets, que va admetre Wyneken però no pas com abús, li comportà una condemna judicial i l'apartaren de la docència. Per Wyneken era un fet normal i legítim en el marc d'una educació que afirmava l'existència física de l'ésser humà i s'inspirava en l'"Eros pedagògic".

Durant l'època de la dictadura del nazisme, Wyneken va intentar, sense èxit, trobar una nova feina al camp educatiu. En el seu llibre Weltanschauung (Visió del món), publicat el 1940 defensà obertament les posicions racistes. També va fer declaracions antisemites.

Després de la Segona Guerra Mundial, Wyneken va quedar professionalment i social marginat. El 1944 va escriure la seva "Crítica a la infància", un llibre en què tot fent balanç de la seva vida volia justificar les acusacions d'abús viscudes. El text va romandre inèdit fins al 2015. Va morir a Göttingen el 8 de desembre de 1964.

Pensament pedagògic

La pedagogia de Wyneken compren, entre altres, quatre aspectes nuclears als quals hi dedicà les seves publicacions més destacades:

L'idealisme que fonamenta la seva pedagogia seguint les petjades de Hegel, Fichte, Schiller i Schelling que aproparen l'idealisme a la pedagogia.

L'«eros pedagògic» o estima que l'educador ha de tenir envers els seus alumnes, d'on s'extraurien d'entre altres notes el sentit de l'amistat, el clima de confiança, la llibertat, la independència i l'autogestió, etc., que han d'impregnar l'àmbit educatiu i han de ser l'eix de la relació entre educadors i educands.

El concepte de Jugendkultur, o cultura juvenil, amb què Wyneken volia patrocinar una diferenciació específica del jove en referència a l'adult i que, com a conseqüència, tota la seva formació havia de fonamentar-se en aquest fet diferencial.

El sentit comunitari en què s'ha d'incardinar tot el procés educatiu i que, en conseqüència, seria el factor coadjuvant per assolir la cultura juvenil i els valors que la conformen. Com ara la moral, el patriotisme, l'acompliment del deure o el treball. El sentit comunitari ha de presidir tota acció educativa, ja que fora de la comunitat no hi ha educació possible.

Escola i cultura juvenil
Schule und Jugendkultur (Escola i cultura juvenil), un llibre publicat per Wyneken el 1914, és considerada l'obra essencial del pedagog alemany. És una bona mostra del seu paper de dinamitzador i catalitzador de l'ampli moviment dels Vanderwögel (els ocells migrants) que impel·lia a molts joves alemanys a cercar un nou món i una diferent manera de viure. Provant de realitzar una revolució pacífica a través de l'educació en el lleure, del tot oposada de l'autoritarisme i la rigidesa que vivien a l'educació formal o a la família. Tot enllaçant amb l'herència del romanticisme alemany que, des de Goethe, admirava la determinació i les potencialitats juvenils. En el marc de la progressiva extensió de l'escola secundària i la consegüent expulsió dels joves del mercat laboral.

Wyneken hi veu a la vida humana tres etapes. La primera és la a infància, la segona és l'edat escolar i d'humanització. La tercera correspon a la joventut en la qual l'individu passa de ser objecte a ser subjecte d'aquest procés d'humanització i d'ampliació espiritual. És per això que esdevé necessària una nova generació, perquè hi ha alguna cosa nova que ha de ser apresa i adquirida socialment.

El gruix de la monografia s'adreça a reclamar una nova concepció pedagògica que posi en un lloc central el paper actiu de la joventut en el procés del seu propi aprenentatge. Denunciant l'existència d'una educació bàsicament sustentada en una escola ofegadora d'aquesta possibilitat. Enfront d'aquesta vella escola, proposa la "cultura juvenil" (jugendkultur ), que suposa un reconeixement de la capacitat creativa i no merament imitativa dels adolescents i joves. De la qual són un bon exemple els Wandervögel, un moviment que ha assumit la cultura dels joves, però que es troba completament indiferent respecte a l'escola o està en interna oposició amb ella. Per això la jugendkultur ha de tenir en paral·lel una "nova escola" que tingui a la joventut al centre del seu sistema de valors.

Publicacions
 Schule und Jugendkultur. Jena 1913.(Escola i cultura juvenil)
 Die neue Jugend. Ihr Kampf um Freiheit und Wahrheit in Schule und Elternhaus, in Religion und Erotik. München 1914.(La nova joventut. La seva lluita per la llibertat i la veritat a l'escola i a casa, en la religió i l'erotisme).
 Der Kampf für die Jugend. Gesammelte Aufsätze. Jena 1920.(La lluita per la joventut. Assajos recollits)
 Der europäische Geist. Gesammelte Aufsätze über Religion und Kunst. 1921 (L'esperit europeu. Recull d'assajos sobre religió i art)
 Eros. Lauenburg 1921.
 Wickersdorf. Lauenburg (Elbe) 1922.
 (Ed..): Des Laotse Tao Te King. Hannover: Deutsch von F. Fiedler. 1922.
 Weltanschauung. Reinhardt, München 1940.(Visió del món)
 Musikalische Weltanschauung. Munic: Erasmus Verlag, 1948.(Cosmovisió musical)
 Abschied vom Christentum – Religion, Christentum, Bibel, Anfänge und anderes. Munic: 1963. (Adéu al cristianisme: religió, cristianisme, Bíblia, inicis i altres)
 Freie Schulgemeinde Wickersdorf. Kleine Schriften ( Pädagogische Reform in Quellen, Jena:. von Ulrich Herrmann. 2006, (Comunitat escolar gratuïta de Wickersdorf. Petits escrits)
 Gustav Wyneken. Chronik einer großen Freundschaft. Erich Ebermayer, Quellen und Beiträge zur Geschichte der Jugendbewegung. Verlag Dipa, 1969. (Gustav Wyneken. Crònica d'una gran amistat). Erich Ebermayer, fonts i aportacions a la història del moviment juvenil.
 Kritik der Kindheit. Eine Apologie des "pädagogischen Eros" (Quellen und Dokumente zur Geschichte der Erziehung). (Crítica a la infància. Una apologia de l'"Eros pedagògic" (fonts i documents sobre la història de l'educació). Editat i anotat per Petra Moser i Martin Jürgens i amb un pròleg de Jürgen Oelkers. Bad Heilbrunn: 2015,

Referències

Bibliografia
 Ballester, Ll. i Colom Cañellas, A. J. «Juventud y pedagogía (sobre la génesis del pensamiento de Walter Benjamín». Teoria de la Educación, núm. 23, 2001,

 Luzuriaga, Lorenzo, "Introducción" a Wyneken, Gustav. Las comunidades escolares libres. Madrid, Publicaciones de la Revista de Pedagogía.192

Pedagogs alemanys
Escriptors alemanys del segle XIX
Morts a Göttingen
Escriptors de la Baixa Saxònia


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Q: Table Design for Multiple Login Methods I'm facing the normalization dilemma.
Now that OpenID has been declared a failure, I would like to incorporate it into my web site.  I'm also gonna throw in FB Connect while I'm at it.
Clearly this means I will have a 1:many relationship between accounts and logins. That is straightforward.  However, it also means that not all types of login are the same.
This means I need to decide how to store three sets of similar-in-function but different-in-form information pieces.  THAT means that I have to make annoying choices and I'm not sure if there is a winning "best" solution.  This is why I come to you
I see three immediate options.
Option 1: Logins table with rows for each type
- ID
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- Username
- Password
- Facebook ID
- OpenID URL
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Option 2: Logins table with generic rows
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- Generic Field 1
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Option 3: Logins table for each login type
Password Logins
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FB Connect Logins
- ID
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Open ID Logins
- ID
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Having ad hoc rows for each login type in a general logins table (i.e. Option 1) feels dirty and de-normalized.
Having generic rows in a general logins table (i.e. Option 2) feels dirty and highly obfuscated.
Having a separate table for each login type (i.e. Option 3) feels clean/normalized but maybe inefficient and maybe obfuscated.
How would others accomplish this?  Are there other options?  What will have the most negative implications in reality?
Keep in mind that I would like to incorporate additional login types (e.g. Twitter / next big thig / whatever) as they come along.

A: Option 3 is your best, IMHO.
1) Security
More than one table has to get stolen in order for you to lose all of your client security data.  Think about limiting your risk and liability.
1a) Also...
is there any need for you to know which facebook login is associated with which openID login?  Perhaps, but in any case, it sure would be handy for a data thief if you put it all together like that for them (option 1)
2) Table features -- such as triggers, calculated fields, or what have you will probably (?) be used in a unique way for each provider.
3) If you really have to have everything in one table for some odd / ad hoc purpose, you can still accomplish this with a view.
4) Design optimization.Chances are, the data is pretty similar, but still...  Maybe datatypes wouldn't be a motivator, but partitioning / indexing / etc. would be relevant.
5) Unique requirements.Who knows what next big thing may require.  Think scalability without having to re-define your existing structures (quite so much).
I'm sure there are other relevant thoughts on this...but that's off the top of my head, for what it's worth.


Danish edition of "MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY"
In English, the title reads "Charlie Chaplin, his life and career"
Danish edition of the French book "Vie de Charot"
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This book is written by two authors: Peter Cotes and Thelma Niklaus. We listed under the first name listed on the book.


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The exact colors of Joseph and Mary's clothing may vary slightly depending on availability.
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A new report released today reveals almost half of UK consumers (48%) would stop using – or switch – organisations if they were forced to speak to robots over people.
The report, compiled by The Institute of Customer Service found that if customers were denied the choice of speaking to a person first, they would vote with their feet, either refusing to use the organisation (13%) or seeking an alternative provider if one was available (35%). Even amongst customers who prefer to use online chat to interact with an organisation, although 62% stated that they were willing to communicate with an artificial chatbot, 70% would rather deal with a person.
The report, The Heart of Artificial Intelligence, analysed the attitudes of consumers, employees and employers towards the adoption of artificial intelligence, its effect on customer service and trust in organisations.
Despite two-thirds of people (65%) being able to name artificial intelligence (AI) applications, and almost a third (29%) saying they had used a virtual assistant themselves, the report showed inconsistency amongst consumer attitudes towards organisations using AI as a complete alternative to human conversations.
Trust is a defining factor for consumers when it comes to AI, with the majority of individuals stating they believed companies should make it wholly transparent if and when they aren't dealing with real people.
Jo Causon, CEO of The Institute of Customer Service said: "Many people are open to use of artificial intelligence to collate information, detect fraud risk or alert emergency services in a crisis situation. Attitudes are more mixed when it comes to using artificial intelligence to analyse an individual's profile, and many customers are troubled by the prospect of technology that can attempt to interpret their thoughts and feelings.
The report found that attitudes within businesses are less sceptical, though not without conflict. Almost 40% of employees believe that artificial intelligence has improved the customer experience, and over a third (34%) said it had also made their job better.
Evidencing the disparity in employees' experience, more than half said they didn't believe AI had made a difference to customers or their jobs. A quarter (26%) indicated AI had led to job losses, although around the same amount of employees (28%) believe it has also created new job opportunities. A further 40% said they were unsure about the future consequences for their jobs, but over a quarter (29%) of staff in organisations that had introduced AI quite widely were hopeful it would have a positive impact on their future role.
The report concludes that there is a clear role for AI, with research demonstrating that three-fifths (59%) of employees with extensive experience of working alongside AI believe it improves the customer experience. However, The Institute warns there is a clear perception gap between business and consumer appetites for AI use which needs to be addressed by UK businesses.
To download the full report go to https://www.instituteofcustomerservice.com/research-insight/research-library. An executive summary of the report is available here.
'The Heart of Artificial Intelligence' is published by The Institute of Customer Service and sponsored by Capita Customer Management, O2, and UK Power Networks.


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Last week, news broke that Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin were engaged. Hailey, up until this point, has been ultra chill about the relationship on social media. Now that Justin has put a ring on it, though, Hailey has finally taken the relationship Instagram official, with a picture of her and Justin about to board a plane. Her caption was simply: "MANS."
In the photo, Justin is wearing his now-signature slippers. While Hailey made him ditch the mustache, this is one comfy fashion trend he doesn't seem to be giving up.
Earlier this week, Hailey quickly shut down the idea of Justin regrowing any upper lip hair in an Instagram comment.
Paps also seem to have caught the lovebirds jetting off to whichever romantic locale they're heading to next.
Hailey's first post-engagement 'gram was decidedly more low-key.