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The Practitioner Council of the Hoover Education Success Initiative is comprised of 15-20 leading education policy voices from across the country. Collectively they serve as brain trust from which HESI members and authors draw insight and inspiration. Each member occupies a unique space in the education system—sitting inside Governors' offices and state legislatures, leading state education agencies and educational non-profits, convening other systems leaders on university campuses and in membership organizations. Members provide input and guidance as pressure-testers of policy proposals, distributors of policy recommendations, identifiers of early adapters and connectors to potential partners. Each member commits to an 18-month term of service, and participates in the annual HESI Symposium. They serve an important role in the HESI network of collaborators.
PRACTITIONER COUNCIL
Melanie D. Barton has served since September 2019 as senior education advisor for the governor of South Carolina. She is responsible for advising the governor on policy and finance issues related to early childhood education, public education, and higher education. She previously served as the executive director of the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee (EOC), an independent nonpartisan committee composed of eighteen educators, business leaders, and elected officials, appointed by the South Carolina General Assembly and governor to oversee enactment of the state's accountability system for K–12 education. During her eighteen years working for the EOC and the general assembly, Barton directed the evaluation of the state's full-day 4K program and assisted the general assembly in developing public education finance policies. Since 2012 she has represented South Carolina on the Southern Regional Education Board, serving on several commissions, including Early Childhood, Computer Science, Teacher Preparation, and Dual Enrollment. She earned her master's degree in public-policy analysis from Duke University and her undergraduate degrees in history and political science from Furman University.
State Rep. Bob Behning has served in the Indiana House of Representatives since 1992 and represents House District 91, which includes portions of Marion and Hendricks counties. He was born and raised in Indianapolis and has been a proud Hoosier his entire life. In 1976, he received a BS degree from Indiana University. Throughout his tenure as a representative, he has advocated for education reform in Indiana. As chair of the House Education Committee, he led a multiyear effort to successfully pass the most comprehensive education reform package in the United States. Behning believes that all parents deserve the right to choose the school that best meets their child's needs. In 2011, he authored legislation creating the School Choice Scholarship program, providing scholarships or vouchers to families who do not have the financial means to pay private school tuition. Indiana has the largest school voucher program in the United States. Behning currently works at Marian University as the director of external affairs for the Educators College.
Dr. Holly Boffy is the vice president of the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She was re-elected to serve a third term in 2019. Boffy founded EdTalents to support schools, districts, and organizations in building educator talent systems to attract, hire, place, develop, leverage, and retain strong teachers and leaders. Previously, Boffy spent six years with the Council of Chief State School Officers, supporting state education agencies with teacher and leader initiatives. She taught middle school for ten years, earned National Board Certification in 2006, and served as an adjunct instructor for the University of Louisiana–Lafayette. Boffy is the 2010 Louisiana State Teacher of the Year. She earned three degrees from Louisiana State University, including a bachelor of science, master of education, and education specialist in curriculum and instruction. She earned her doctorate from Walden University with a study on the implementation of student standards, Progression of Elementary Teachers in Implementing Language Arts Common Core State Standards.
Stephen Bowen serves as the deputy executive director for state leadership at the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). In his role, he directs the activities of the membership services, leadership academy, and data and information services teams. Bowen oversees the development and implementation of programs and services designed to support the leaders and staff of state education agencies. At CCSSO, Bowen previously served as a senior advisor, working directly with chiefs and their senior staffs in collaboration with the Leadership Academy and other council teams to improve the performance and effectiveness of their state agencies; and as the strategic initiative director for innovation, where he worked to worked to improve the leadership capacity and capabilities of state agencies and to support states as they advanced promising innovations to improve student outcomes. Bowen is also a former state chief, having served as Maine's commissioner of education from 2011 to 2013, a former state legislator, and a middle and high school social studies educator. Bowen holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Drew University and a master's degree in education from George Mason University.
State Rep. Ashton Wheeler Clemmons has always had a passion for serving the people of North Carolina, the state she proudly calls home. After graduating from University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, she taught as a NC Teaching Fellow in Durham and Guilford counties and later earned her Master's degree in school leadership from Harvard University and her Doctorate of Education from University of North Carolina–Greensboro. As principal of schools in Rockingham and Guilford counties, she led the turnaround of one of the state's lowest-performing schools. While serving as assistant superintendent of the Thomasville City Schools, Clemmons was selected one of the Triad Business Journal's "40 Leaders under 40" and was also honored by the United Way with its Human Rights Advocate award. In 2018, Clemmons was elected to serve in North Carolina's 57th House District and has been appointed to the Commerce, Education K–12, Education-Universities, and Finance Committees. She also serves as the House Democratic Freshman Caucus cochair. Clemmons is an energetic and passionate advocate for better schools and job training programs, as well as policies that protect our health care, environment, and voting rights.
Mike Cohen is a nationally-recognized leader in education policy and standards-based reform. He became President of Achieve in 2003. Created in 1996 by the nation's governors and corporate leaders, Achieve is an independent, bipartisan, non-profit education reform organization based in Washington, DC that helps states raise academic standards and high school graduation requirement, improve assessments and strengthen accountability so all students graduate ready for college, work and citizenship. Under Mike's leadership, Achieve launched the American Diploma Project Network, formed the Partnership for the Assessment of College and Career Readiness (PARCC) - one of two multi-state consortia developing common assessments - and helped develop the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. Cohen has held several key roles in education during the past 20+ years, including Director of Education Policy at the National Governors Association (1985-90) and Director of Planning and Policy Development at the National Association of State Boards of Education (1983-1985). During the Clinton Administration he served as Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Special Assistant to President Clinton for Education Policy, and Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley.
State Sen. Manny Diaz Jr. a native of Hialeah, Florida, has worked with the youth of his community as a teacher, coach and administrator over his entire career, including as assistant principal at Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High and as founding partner of the Beyond the Bell Learning Center in Miami Springs. Diaz earned a bachelor's degree in human resources and education from St. Thomas University and a master's degree in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern, and completed the prestigious Harvard Graduate School of Education Principal's Summer Institute in 2006. Manny was first elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2012 and was re-elected in 2014 and 2016. He chaired the Choice and Innovation and the PreK–12 Education Appropriations Subcommittees and sat on the Education Committee as well as the K–12, Education Appropriation, and the Health Innovation Subcommittees. In 2018, Diaz was elected as state senator for District 36, and he currently serves as chair of the Education Committee as well as on several committees and subcommittees.
Jon Husted is the 66th and current lieutenant governor of Ohio. In this role, he primarily focuses on economic development, which is complimented by his posts as director of both the Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation and the newly-formed InnovateOhio as well as overseeing the regulation-watchdog office, the Common Sense Initiative. Husted earned a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in communications, both from the University of Dayton, where he was an All-American defensive back for the Dayton Flyers and a member of the 1989 National Championship Football Team. Having started his life in a foster home before being adopted by his parents, Husted has long been a passionate advocate for pairing children with loving parents and families as well as delivering greater opportunity to all Ohio children through access to a quality education.
Johnny Key began serving as the commissioner of the Arkansas Department of Education in 2015. In May 2019, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced Key as the department's secretary as part of his plan to transform state government. Key now serves in both capacities. Key helps guide the agency in transforming Arkansas to lead the nation in student-focused education; and in providing leadership, support, and service to schools, districts, and communities so that every student graduates prepared for college, career, and community engagement. Key began his public service career in the Baxter County Quorum Court as a justice of the peace. Afterward, he was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives and Arkansas Senate. During his state senate tenure, Key served on the Education Committee and served as chair for one term. Key graduated from University of Arkansas–Fayetteville in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering.
Patricia Levesque is the chief executive officer of the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), a leading education policy organization founded by former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Working in more than 30 states across the nation, ExcelinEd develops customized student-centered solutions for policy makers seeking to transform education systems. Patricia is also executive director of ExcelinEd in Action, a national advocacy organization dedicated to turning bold, proven education reforms into reality. Levesque currently serves on the board of the Policy Innovators in Education Network and on the Florida Charter School Alliance, the External Advisory Committee for the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard, the Workforce Readiness Working Group for the Florida Talent and Development Council, and the Florida Government Efficiency Task Force. She previously served on the Florida Constitution Revision Commission (2018), the Florida Taxation and Budget Commission (2007–08), and the Florida Government Efficiency Task Force (2007), and was a Fellow Cohort 7 of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship. Levesque has held leadership positions in education policy, including serving for nearly a decade in the Florida legislature and the executive office of the governor.
Dr. Wayne D. Lewis Jr. has led the Kentucky Department of Education since April 2018. His resume includes experience in public school districts, postsecondary institutions, and state government. He has worked as a classroom teacher, teacher educator, postsecondary faculty member, program administrator at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and executive administrator in state government. Prior to assuming appointments in state government, he was associate professor with tenure in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. His published research and writing over the last decade has been in the areas of education policy and politics, school-family-community engagement, and school choice in American and international contexts. Lewis completed undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans. He earned a master's degree in urban studies with a concentration in public administration at the University of Akron, completed a post-baccalaureate teacher preparation program in special education at the University of New Orleans, and earned a PhD in educational research and policy analysis with a cognate in public administration at North Carolina State University.
Mike Magee is chief executive officer of Chiefs for Change, a nonprofit network of diverse state and district education leaders dedicated to preparing all students for tomorrow's world. He previously cofounded and was chief executive officer of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies (RIMA), where he worked with a statewide coalition of mayors to enact sweeping changes to state education policy and to build a statewide network of regional, diverse-by-design charter schools. Before starting RIMA, Magee taught American literature and philosophy at Haverford College, Wheaton College, and the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2004, his book Emancipating Pragmatism won the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Studies. He is a 2013 Pahara Aspen Education Fellow and Pahara Fellowship moderator. Mike holds a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor's degree in political science and English from the College of the Holy Cross.
Dr. Candice McQueen has been chief executive officer of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) since January 2019. NIET is a national nonprofit with 20 years of evidence-based work in building educator excellence to ensure all students have the opportunity for success. Prior to joining NIET, she was Tennessee's commissioner of education. She led the creation of a strategic plan, Tennessee Succeeds, which outlines strategies to increase college and career readiness for Tennessee's one million students. Today, students are posting record-high ACT scores and graduation rates, and a 2018 state assessment found that students in historically underserved student groups often outpaced their peers in growth. McQueen has long advocated for focusing on human capital as the primary lever for change. In 2018, researchers at Georgetown University pointed to Tennessee's teacher evaluation and professional development model as leading to career-long improvement in teachers and gains in student achievement. Prior to being commissioner, McQueen was dean of the college of education at Lipscomb University. She started her career as a classroom teacher, teaching in elementary and middle schools in Tennessee and Texas.
Angelika Schroeder represents Colorado's 2nd Congressional District on the Colorado State Board of Education. Appointed in January 2009 and re-elected three times, she was named chair in 2017. Schroeder earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and an MBA and PhD in accounting from the University of Colorado–Boulder. She is a former tax CPA and college professor of accounting. For the past 35 years she has also been active in education issues at the local, state, and national levels. She was appointed in 1995 by then governor Roy Romer to Colorado's Teacher and Special Services Professional Standards Board, and from 1999 to 2008 was a member of the Boulder Valley School Board, serving as treasurer and vice president. She has also served on the Colorado Association of School Boards and the Alliance for Quality Teaching. She is currently on the Education Leadership Council, a board member of the Colorado Public Education and Business Coalition, a recent Gates Foundation Fellow, and treasurer/secretary of the board of the National Association of State Boards of Education.
Dr. David Steiner is executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and professor of education at Johns Hopkins University. He currently serves as a member of the Maryland State Board of Education and the Maryland Commission for Innovation and Excellence in Education. Additionally, he serves on the boards of Core Knowledge Foundation and Relay Graduate School of Education. He previously served as commissioner of education for New York State, as the Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean at the Hunter College School of Education, and as director of education at the National Endowment for the Arts. As commissioner, Steiner took a lead role in the state's successful $700 million Race to the Top application to support the redesign of state standards, assessments, and teacher certification requirements. Steiner consults regularly with the federal government, state education leaders, educational reform organizations, and universities. He has addressed audiences on both side of the Atlantic, and authored books, book chapters, and more than fifty articles. He holds degrees from Balliol College, Oxford University (BA and MA), and Harvard University (PhD in political science).
Jenn Vranek is an expert in district, state, and federal education policy, politics, and advocacy. Over the last 20 years, she has worked with K–12 and postsecondary school educators, policy makers, and philanthropists in more than 30 states. She has advised many national foundations and education organizations such as the Aspen Institute, Achieve, American Federation of Teachers, Council of Chief State School Officers, Data Quality Campaign, Educators 4 Excellence, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Teach Plus, and the US Department of Education. Before starting Education First, Jenn made advocacy grants at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, led and lobbied state legislators for Washington State's Partnership for Learning, cofounded the Washington, DC, office of Achieve, and researched academic standards at the American Federation of Teachers. Honored as one of Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 under 40" in 2010, she also volunteers as vice chair of the Danielson Group board of directors and as an advisory board and PAC board member for Washington's Stand for Children. Jenn earned her MPP from Georgetown University and her AB from the College of William & Mary.
Dr. Carey M. Wright became the state superintendent of education for Mississippi in 2013. Under her leadership, Mississippi has initiated aggressive education reforms that have increased literacy skills in pre-K through 3rd grade, pushed student achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress to a faster improvement rate than that of most other states, and increased the graduation rate to an all-time high of 84 percent. Wright spearheaded initiatives in Mississippi that nearly doubled the Advancement Placement participation and success rate, resulted in significant annual gains in English language arts and mathematics proficiency, and earned Mississippi annual recognition from the National Institute for Early Education Research as one of only seven states meeting all or most quality standards for early childhood education. Wright is a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, past president of the board of directors of the Council of Chief State School Officers, and a Chiefs for Change board member. She also serves on the Reagan Institute Summit on Education steering committee and is a Broad Academy alumnus.


"Janet And Michael" conforms to its title, as this sixth episode (or Chapter 20 of the series, as the title card marks it) follows up on the impending crisis that Janet told Michael about last week. This not-so-Good Place is only held together by Janet's limitless reality-shaping powers, and it's crumbling. Well, not so much crumbling as suffering spasms of absurdity, whether in the form of floating, disembodied thumbs, mouth frogs, or the rumbling of an earthquake. And, tonight, a shower of projectile coin-vomit and an expertly timed falling 6-foot party sub. The episode looks prepared to pick up right where it left off, as we see an impassive Janet staring blankly into one of those formless voids she's told us she resides in. That it's a fake-out back to Michael and Janet's first meeting (you know, the one where he stole her from the "neutral pocket dimension beneath a shapeless time void" where blank Janets are stored) signals that "Janet And Michael" is going to find the solution to Janet's perilous glitching in the relationship of these two decidedly inhuman beings.
And it does, as the pair eventually comes to the conclusion we've already reached that Janet has not only learned to lie, but that her residual memories of her time as Mrs. Jason Mendoza also amplify the hiccups in her control. That this is one of the few times we've been a step ahead of The Good Place's characters isn't that much of a worry—the narrative and comedic bar set by this show is so deliriously high that taking a little longer to make a leap doesn't devalue either character in our eyes. For one thing, they're not human, and all this messy, stupid human ambiguity is hard enough to handle even with a lifetime of stupid human practice. If there's a concern to be rooted out of this undeniably hilarious and affecting episode, it's that Michael's realization that he truly cares for Janet (and therefore can't permanently kill her by turning her into an inert marble floating through space) hints that The Good Place is in danger of getting too nice.
This is almost completely Ted Danson and D'Arcy Carden's episode, a swerve expertly lampshaded by how well the script (by Kate Gersten) deploys the four other main characters for huge laughs, and then cuts them loose. When Jason and Tahani come looking for Janet to make them a plate of Jason's beloved jalapeño poppers, or when Michael calls on Eleanor ("our most problematic human") to advise Janet on her world-imperiling jealousy, or—best of all—when Chidi shows up bristling like a desperately calm porcupine from Vicky's unimaginative acupuncture needle torture, the briefness of their appearances is a huge part of the joke. (Seriously, William Jackson Harper attempting to maintain his wonted politeness while hundreds of needles vibrate at his underplayed "Don't mean to be a nudge…" is simply stunning.) The Good Place has used its flashbacks to illustrate what brought people to this not-at-all-Good Place, but Michael and Janet's story is a whole lot more alien and complicated, what with one immortal duping another into creating an entire evil torture world and all. That "Janet And Michael"'s journey comes down to Michael realizing that Janet is his "oldest, truest, most loyal friend" is, in Danson's and Carden's enduringly tricky performances, deeply, strangely sweet. If it teeters right on the edge of too-sweet without toppling over, it's a testament to the actors and Gersten's handle on the characters' essential weirdness. But it does teeter there.
Still, the backstory of how this unlikeliest of teams got together is pure comedy, with Carden and Danson building on their cross-purposes chemistry the more we see them together. Michael's inwardly sweaty desperation as he attempts to realize his crazy demonic dream of a new and better hellscape continues to bat our sympathies back and forth. Dreamers are heroes, or so we're conditioned to think, and Danson makes his eternally put-upon Bad Place functionary a twisted version of every beleaguered, frustrated artistic visionary we've ever seen on screen. It helps that he has Marc Evan Jackson's peerlessly arch and dismissive Shawn as a boss. When Michael demonstrates in flashback why a Bad Place Janet (Carden, of course, having even more fun, if possible) would be useless in the phony Good Place, Jackson raises his eyebrow just enough to punctuate Bad Janet's head-melting niceness meltdown with a huge laugh. And, naturally, with Danson driving—and the memory of his indelibly endearing season one Michael still smarting in his loss—Michael is intensely sympathetic, demon or no.
Carden's Janet is an even harder role to calibrate, both in performance and in our responses. Not that Janet's ever anything but delightful—the joke that she is programmed to deliver even the most unpleasant facts in an unstintingly chipper tone is never not funny. (Here, she makes a point of swapping in a more dramatic line reading after her bright-eyed "You have to kill me, Michael" doesn't get the job done.) As she and Michael ferret out the idea that Janet's hundreds of reboots have "mutated" her beyond all other Janets (and her own design), Carden has to let self-awareness seep into her affect only so far, and no further. And she is, unsurprisingly, great at it, her objection to Michael's Jason theory ("No! That's impossible.") carrying just the right level of knee-jerk desperation to suggest both personal and operational denial. Plus, Janet's just becoming more delightfully weird, her enthusiastic tics (like her "Kill me" chant to get Michael psyched for the task tonight) edging out of a robot's idea of human motivational manipulation and more into the realm of genuine eccentricity. After Michael, his logical gambits failing to dissuade Janet from her self-destruct course, blurts out the halting syntax of, "The reason is… friends!" Janet's rumination on their new intimacy sees Carden modulating Janet's robotic chumminess into something like confusion, and yearning.
In the end, the two settle on a plan. Keep up the charade with the nosy but not-too-bright Vicky, watch what Janet says around Jason, and hope for the best as they all try to find a way out of this mess. Oh, and taking Eleanor's advice, Janet creates a rebound guy for herself. Michael, shocked, can only sputter out that Janet can't do that, but there stands Derek.
Oh, Derek. The Good Place continues to exhibit impeccable casting instincts, and Jason Mantzoukas joins Jackson, Adam Scott, Tiya Sircar, Steve Berg, Bambadjan Bamba, Seth Morris, Joe Mande, and other recurring actors whose comic alertness fills out the show's world with unpredictable energy. Mantzoukas is one of the funniest anywhere at playing excitable and slightly unhinged, and his Derek is as enthusiastically clueless as only a just-born artificial boyfriend created on the first try by another artificial life-form struggling with emerging sentience would be. Introducing himself to Michael's lamp and office plants and walking into his own reflection, Mantzoukas injects "Janet And Michael"'s ending with such an infusion of loony comic electricity that the twist allays some of the suspicions that The Good Place is becoming ordinary.
After finding out previously that early Janets used to be operated by click wheel, the "stick a paper clip in a tiny hole" self-destruct method here continues to suggest that the afterlife runs on Apple products.
Deactivated Janet marbles can be enjoyed as a snack, which is very high in potassium.
D'Arcy Carden is outstanding throughout at maintaining Janet's beaming impassivity while people are doing weird things to her nose and face.
We find out that Janet's core temperature is somewhere around 99 trillion degrees (Fahrenheit?), and that, when you shine an otoscope into her ear, it emerges as a prism on the other side. Also, no blood.
Janet was the one who helped Michael come up with the perfect Good Place food "that people think they enjoy that's also sort of a bummer." Goodbye, flan. Hello, frozen yogurt.
Michael and Eleanor, at different times in the episode, refer to the absent Jason as a "ding-dong." Fair.
Jason Mantzoukas exclaiming happily, "What's going on right now?!" is the biggest laugh in an episode filled with big laughs. Welcome aboard.


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Apple Is Having Another Event Today. Here's What to Expect.
Updated November 10, 2020 / Original November 2, 2020
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Apple will hold a virtual product launch event Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. PST. It's is widely expected to be focused on the company's new line of ARM-processor based Mac computers.
This will be the third significant Apple (ticker: AAPL) product launch event in less than two months. On Sept. 15, Apple held a virtual event to launch Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch SE, new iPads and the Fitness+ service. On Oct. 13, the company unveiled the long-awaited iPhone 12 lineup, along with the HomePod Mini. Apple has given no indication of the topic of the event, but Apple trade press widely expects that the event will focus on the Mac.
Apple first disclosed plans to switch from Intel processors to home-grown chips based on ARM designs at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Softbank Group is in the process of selling ARM to Nvidia (NVDA).
The invitation for the event includes the line "One more thing," an allusion to Apple events hosted by the late Steve Jobs in which he'd surprise the crowd in a final announcement with some surprise product launch or other unexpected event.
Apple last week reported that Mac sales in the September quarter surged 29% year over year to a record $9 billion, driven by growth demand from a widespread shift to working from home as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Apple on Tuesday was effectively flat, at $116.50.
Apple will hold a virtual product launch event Tuesday, Nov.

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BitScope In Education | Electronics and programming for the real world.
We would like to see to priority given to the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in school education.
We believe it's vital to equip the next generation with the skills they need to master a world dominated by technology and enable them to address the challenges they will face during their working lives.
Our particular focus and expertise is in programming and electronics.
BitScope has long been involved in the education sector with mixed signal test, measurement and data acquisition solutions for use in universities for students, researchers and educators.
With BitScope Ed we seek to broaden this to include resources for primary and secondary school education.
We have been impressed with the rise of the "maker culture" where an increasing number of people have become empowered to engage in home grown engineering inspired projects in the fields of electronics, robotics and bespoke manufacture such as 3-D printing among many other creative pursuits.
Maker culture puts the focus on creative and collaborative problem solving, computer programming, shared design and open source hardware and software solutions.
We believe these are just the characteristics required for effective education, especially in STEM fields. Our contribution to this movement for changes in education is focused on electronics and programming for the physical world.
An education in electronics and programming can be very engaging and a lot of fun with low cost systems like Raspberry Pi or Arduino, some simple electronic components, prototyping boards and BitScope.
This is the platform idea behind BitScope Ed.
We've established the BitScope Blog for general information about BitScope and we've added the Education Blog where we are posting updates we hope will be of interest to students and educators.
We started the Raspberry Blog for makers working with embedded computers, robotics, electronics, sensors & servos and we've used ideas from this to build a low cost electronic projects lab to host some educational tutorials based on Breadboard One.
If you're a teacher looking to set up a practical electronics course or a student wanting to see how your circuits actually work, a low cost all-in-one setup like this can save a lot of time and effort.
We believe learning to program should be a part of every student's education. Seymour Papert first coined Computational Thinking as the name for a new approach to problem solving and learning. Google and others are building on the idea in educational contexts.
At BitScope Ed we are working with others to develop learning platforms and curriculum resources that combine programming with project based electronic systems. We've seen first hand just how engaging some similar educational programs can be for students of all ages and the huge response from parents, students and educators to our recent exhibit at the Sydney Mini Maker Faire reinforced this idea.
We see (computer) programming as an effective way to develop good problem solving skills.
Computers are everywhere. We use them every day, from mobile phones and tablets to PCs, TVs our cars, homes and work but few people actually know how to bend them to their will, i.e. how to program them. Fewer still know how to solve complex problems to build and program practical and scalable solutions.
We believe this is because these skills are not part of most students' education in many countries including Australia.
In recent years Raspberry Pi and Arduino have done great job lifting the veil on what computers are and what one can actually build with them. They are effective low cost platforms for learning programming and electronics. In the context of project based learning with BitScope they become very powerful because students can see inside their projects and understand how they work, or why they don't work as expected!
Project based learning where problem solving skills are developed through learning how to program "real computers", build actual electronic projects and see how they work is the key motivation for BitScope Ed. We can't do it alone of course! We'd like to combine this with shared online and interractive curriculum resources and integrated remote and local access to the lessons and projects. We welcome all feedback, ideas and suggestions for collaboration!
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Crashes and Disasters
4 still hospitalized, including 1 critically injured, following bus crash south of Pueblo that killed 2
Seminarian Jason Paul Marshall, 53, and driver Anthony Padilla, 36, ID'd as victims in Sunday's crash
Sgt. Blake White, Colorado State Patrol via AP
This Sunday, June 23, 2019 photo, provided by the Colorado State Patrol shows a charter bus involved in a crash along Interstate 25 north of Pueblo, Colo., that killed 2 people and injured at least 13.
By Saja Hindi | shindi@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
Four passengers remained hospitalized — including one in critical condition — on Monday, a day after their charter bus crashed along Interstate 25 north of Pueblo, killing the driver and a seminarian who was onboard.
The bus, operated by Follow the Sun Inc., was carrying nine youth-group members and six adults back to Albuquerque from Denver on Sunday afternoon when it crashed on I-25 between Colorado Springs and Pueblo, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
Officials at the University of New Mexico and the Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe on Monday identified the two men who died in the crash as seminarian Jason Paul Marshall, 53, and driver Anthony Padilla.
CSP officials on Sunday had identified the driver, who was ejected from the bus, as a 22-year-old. But Gil Rudawsky, a spokesman for Follow the Sun, said Padilla was 36. He had worked for Follow the Sun for the last year, and had six years' experience driving buses, Rudawsky said.
In addition to the two fatalities, 13 passengers were transported to local hospitals following the crash, according to the state patrol. Five of them — four adults and a juvenile — were described as suffering serious injuries in the crash.
On Monday, one passenger remained in critical condition at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs. Three others remained hospitalized at Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo. It wasn't known whether the patient in critical condition was an adult or juvenile.
The Aquinas Newman Center at the University of New Mexico, where the high school youth group is based, was hosting a mass and prayer Monday and another Mass of Healing on Wednesday for the victims of the crash.
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe Seminarians also shared a statement about Marshall on Facebook, asking for prayers for Marshall and his family.
Marshall was a "splendid and exemplary seminarian" and "a humble man who deeply cared for others," Archbishop John C. Wester said in a news release from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
"He always brightened our spirits and had a positive outlook on life," he wrote. "We will miss him very, very much. May he rest in peace."
Marshall was a member of Our Lady of the Annunciation parish in Albuquerque, according to the release. He was born in New York and was in his second year in theology at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio.
The youth group was leaving a conference and retreat in Denver hosted by the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Mark Haas, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Denver, said in an email. The charter bus veered off the right side of I-25, hit part of a bridge embankment and then crashed into a ditch, authorities said previously.
The retreat was hosted in different regions across the country and attracted 2,500 people from 12 states, Haas said. The event is aimed at helping teens "encounter the love of Christ every summer" by "evangelizing, equipping and empowering God's children to become radical and joyful disciples," according to the Steubenville of the Rockies website.
"We offer our prayers for everyone involved in the tragic bus accident Sunday afternoon near Pueblo. We especially send our prayers and deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who were killed, and our prayers for healing and comfort for those who were injured," the archdiocese said in a statement.
Colorado State Patrol officials have not released any more information about the cause of the crash, but previously said the driver may have suffered a seizure based on witness statements. However, police said this was not yet confirmed.
The bus operator, Follow the Sun, is cooperating with the investigation, CSP officials said.
The company released a statement Monday evening saying its team was devastated by the crash.
"We are actively working with CSP as they conduct their investigation to determine all the facts," Follow the Sun said. "It is very important that we understand exactly what happened in case there is anything we or the transportation industry as a whole can learn from it.
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Two eastbound lanes of U.S. 36 opened for Tuesday rush hour
One dead after vehicle crashes into Clear Creek Canyon
Motorcyclist killed in crash on eastbound 6th Avenue
"We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of both the driver and the passenger. Our prayers are also with those who were injured."
Father Dave Pivonka, president of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, released a statement offering prayers for the victims of the crash.
"Our hearts and prayers go out to the families and friends of the victims of this tragic accident, and we pray for the repose of the souls of those who died," he said. "We also pray for God's blessing and healing for all those who were injured."
The Denver Post's Kieran Nicholson contributed to this report.
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The Colorado Department of Transportation reopened two lanes of traffic on the highway between Boulder and Denver in time for Tuesday's rush hour by diverting two lanes of eastbound U.S. 36 onto the westbound lanes.
One person died in Clear Creek after a vehicle plummeted into the water in Clear Creek Canyon.


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Q: Angular ngFor not displaying changed array in my application I have a Dashboard where the user can add and delete widgets. To do so I am using angular-gridster2. This works well, but when I am adding or deleting a widget from the dashboard first no widgets are displayed anymore and then only after a refresh the correct changes occur. My Widget list the ngFor directive is iterating through is build from an observable. These values change correctly.
This is my html:

<gridster #dashboardgrid [options]="options" class="widget-container">
    <gridster-item *ngFor="let widget of widgetList()" (mouseup)="setCurrentWidgetId(widget.id)" [item]="widget.position" class="gridster-design drag-handler">
      <!-- some stuff-->
    </gridster-item>
</gridster>

In my ngOnInit I am subscribing from the observable:
    this.dataService.currentDashboardId.subscribe(dashboardId => this.currentDashboardId = dashboardId);
    this.dataService.currentSheetId.subscribe(sheetId => this.currentSheetId = sheetId);
    this.dataService.projectData
      .subscribe((project: Project) => {
        this.project = project;
  });

And this is the method returning the list of widgets which should be displayed:
    widgetList(): Array<Widget> {
    return this.project.dashboards
      .find(x => x.id === this.currentDashboardId).sheets
      .find(x => x.id === this.currentSheetId).widgets;
  }

I really can't find the reason for this behaviour so if anybody does I appreciate that. Thanks in advance.

A: Did you try to debug it?
Try to change the foreach loop to a list, instead of a function
*ngFor="let widget of widgetList()"

*ngFor="let widget of list"

and in your ngOnInit:

this.list = this.widgetList()

this way you can debug it and see if your list contains any items. If it does, then I would look deeper into your gridster-item component and make sure that the
[item]="widget.position" has value according to the component logic

A: store the array in some variable let say widgetList
widgetList : any;
widgetList(): Array<Widget> {
return this.widgetList = this.project.dashboards
  .find(x => x.id === this.currentDashboardId).sheets
  .find(x => x.id === this.currentSheetId).widgets;
}

and use ngfor in html like this
*ngFor="let widget of widgetList"

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#include "tensorflow/core/kernels/cast_op_impl.h"

namespace tensorflow {

typedef Eigen::ThreadPoolDevice CPUDevice;
typedef Eigen::GpuDevice GPUDevice;

std::function<void(OpKernelContext*, const Tensor&, Tensor*)>
GetCpuCastFromBool(DataType dst_dtype) {
  CURRY_TYPES3(CAST_CASE, CPUDevice, bool);
  return nullptr;
}

#if GOOGLE_CUDA
std::function<void(OpKernelContext*, const Tensor&, Tensor*)>
GetGpuCastFromBool(DataType dst_dtype) {
  CURRY_TYPES3(CAST_CASE, GPUDevice, bool);
  return nullptr;
}
#endif  // GOOGLE_CUDA

}  // namespace tensorflow

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Area Information for Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ
Fulham Road is in the London region of England. The postcode is within the Stanley ward/electoral division, which is in the constituency of Chelsea and Fulham. This page combines information for the address Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ, and the neighbourhood in which it resides. If you wish, you can also view information for the whole of SW10 here. For more details on the exact area these statistics cover, please see the map below and click "Show Census Area Covered" immediately below the map.
Local Authority Kensington and Chelsea
Ward Stanley
Constituency Chelsea and Fulham
Region London
Our information is available for almost all UK postcodes. Why not take a look at some of these other postcodes in the immediate vicinity of Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ:
Fulham Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW10 9QH
Fulham Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW10 9QL
Fulham Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW10 9PR
Cavaye Place, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW10 9PT
Fulham Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW10 9QR
Gilston Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW10 9SL
Alternatively, click here to view demographic information about SW10 as a whole.
The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2011. They are performed once every 10 years. Please note: census information may include figures for adjacent streets and postcodes. The figures are therefore representative of the local area, not a specific street address or row of houses. The census collection is designed so that each group of postcodes should contain at least 100 people (50 in Scotland). This is done to preserve the anonymity of the people in that area, as some postcodes cover a very small area, sometimes a single building. You can see the area covered by the census statistics by clicking "Show Census Area Covered" below the map above.
The area containing Fulham Road, London consists predominantly of flats, which is common in inner cities, student neighbourhoods and poorer suburban settings. Please note that the figures may include adjacent streets - see the Summary tab for an explanation and map of the area that these figures cover.
Detached 0
Semi-Detached 0
Flat (Converted) 50
Residence in Commercial Building 17
The area containing Fulham Road, London contains a higher than average level of rented housing (excluding social housing) - 54% of household spaces. This contrasts with the national average of just over 16%.
Rented: From Council 17
Rented: Other Social inc. charities and housing associations 0
DE - Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers; those on state benefit/unemployed, & lowest grade workers 6
Across the UK as a whole, the gender split is roughly 49% male, 51% female. This part of the Stanley ward however contains significantly more women than average (57%). This can be caused by a number of factors, but amongst the most common are large establishments such as boarding schools and convents, and areas with older populations.
Females on average live longer than males, so are more likely to be found in retirement areas. In general, as people age they move away from city centre addresses to suburbs, smaller towns and rural locations, so these areas often show a greater number of females, with inner city areas showing the opposite trend.
In the immediate vicinity of SW10 9QJ there is a large concentration of residents that are single - 55% of the resident population. On average, around 35% of census respondents were single. Areas with large single populations are often in built-up areas, with good entertainment facilities. It is also common to see a younger population in these areas.
Single 142
Widowed 7
This area is fit as a fiddle, with over 91% of the population reporting themselves as being in Good or Very Good health at this address.
Fulham Road and surrounding area has a larger than average concentration of residents that are degree educated or similar - 66% of the resident population. On average, around 27.1% of census respondents fall in to this category.
Degree or Similar e.g. professional qualification (accountancy etc) 152
1-4 GCSEs or Equivalent 5
No GCSEs or Equivalent 5
Mixed Ethnicity 12
Bangladeshi 1
Black African 8
In this area (Fulham Road, London), only 43% of the residents were born in England, so the majority of the residents of this area were not born in England.
Note that an individual may hold one or more passports. The data may include people living in adjacent addresses to SW10 9QJ
Europe (including European Union) 62
Middle East or Asia 13
North America or Caribbean 23
This address within the Stanley ward had a larger than average concentration of residents that were in full-time employment - 52% of the resident population. On average, around 38.4% of census respondents were in full-time employment.
Full-Time Employee 118
Full-Time Student (with or without job) 12
Long-Term Sick or Disabled 6
AgricultureInc. Forestry and Fishing 1
RetailInc. Wholesale 7
Financial ServicesInc. Insurance 40
Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ is within the Stanley policing neighbourhood, under the Metropolitan Police Service force area. For non-urgent queries, contact 101. For emergency assistance, please contact 999.
View Latest Crime in SW10 9QJ
Crime: Click here to view crimes committed near Fulham Road
Neighbourhood Team Address Stanley
Website: http://www.met.police.uk/a/your-area/met/kensington-and-chelsea/stanley/
Key: Tube Station DLR Station Railway Station Hospital GP Dentist Optician Primary School Secondary School
Below are the details of the closest services to SW10 9QJ. All distances are straightline distances, please consult the map of the facility to check the exact location. You can also view these details on our interactive services map for SW10 9QJ.
Listed here are the 20 closest railway stations to Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ. The nearest railway station is West Brompton, approximately 0.7 miles away.
West Brompton 0.7 miles
Imperial Wharf 0.9 miles
Kensington Olympia 1.5 miles
Battersea Park 1.5 miles
Clapham Junction 1.6 miles
London Victoria 1.6 miles
Queenstown Road (Battersea) 1.6 miles
Wandsworth Town 1.8 miles
London Paddington 2.1 miles
Shepherd's Bush 2.1 miles
Wandsworth Road 2.1 miles
Putney 2.4 miles
Vauxhall 2.4 miles
Clapham High Street 2.5 miles
London Marylebone 2.6 miles
London Charing Cross 2.8 miles
Wandsworth Common 2.9 miles
Barnes 3 miles
London Waterloo 3.1 miles
Earlsfield 3.1 miles
Nearest Tube/DLR Stations
Listed here are the 20 closest Tube and Docklands Light Railway stations to Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ. The nearest Tube station is Gloucester Road, approximately 0.6 miles away.
Gloucester Road Tube Station 0.6 miles
South Kensington Tube Station 0.6 miles
West Brompton Overground Station 0.7 miles
West Brompton Tube Station 0.7 miles
Earl's Court Tube Station 0.7 miles
Imperial Wharf Overground Station 0.8 miles
Fulham Broadway Tube Station 0.8 miles
Sloane Square Tube Station 1.1 miles
High Street Kensington Tube Station 1.2 miles
West Kensington Tube Station 1.2 miles
Parsons Green Tube Station 1.2 miles
Knightsbridge Tube Station 1.3 miles
Barons Court Tube Station 1.5 miles
Kensington (Olympia) Tube Station 1.5 miles
Kensington (Olympia) Overground Station 1.5 miles
Clapham Junction Overground Station 1.6 miles
Hyde Park Corner Tube Station 1.6 miles
Battersea Power Station Tube Station 1.7 miles
Queensway Tube Station 1.7 miles
Victoria Tube Station 1.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest primary schools to Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ. The nearest is Park Walk Primary School, approximately 320 yards away.
Park Walk Primary School 320 yards
Servite RC Primary School 370 yards
Ashburnham Community School 630 yards
Bousfield Primary School 680 yards
Our Lady of Victories RC Primary School 770 yards
Oratory Roman Catholic Primary School 870 yards
St Cuthbert with St Matthias CofE Primary School 0.6 miles
Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.7 miles
Westbridge Academy 0.7 miles
Marlborough Primary School 0.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest secondary schools to Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ. The nearest is Chelsea Academy, approximately 0.6 miles away.
Chelsea Academy 0.6 miles
The London Oratory School 0.7 miles
Saint Thomas More Language College 0.9 miles
Saint John Bosco College 0.9 miles
Ormiston Courtyard Academy 1 mile
The Fulham Boys School 1 mile
Lady Margaret School 1.2 miles
Harris Academy Battersea 1.3 miles
Sir Simon Milton Westminster University Technical College 1.4 miles
The Hurlingham Academy 1.5 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest GPs (General Practitioners) to Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ. The nearest is The Good Practice, approximately 470 yards away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
The Good Practice 470 yards
The Redcliffe Surgery 710 yards
Chelsea Medical Services 730 yards
Kings Road Medical Centre 860 yards
Brompton Medical Centre 870 yards
The Chelsea Practice 0.5 miles
Earls Court Surgery 0.6 miles
Stanhope Mews Surgery 0.6 miles
Earls Court Medical Centre 0.7 miles
Earls Court Health and Wellbeing Centre 0.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest dentists to Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ. The nearest is Bupa Dental Care, Chelsea, approximately 330 yards away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
Bupa Dental Care, Chelsea 330 yards
The Dental Clinic 490 yards
Dr T.C Yeoh & Associates Dental Practice 620 yards
Violet Melchett Dental Clinic 0.5 miles
Mr G P Smith 0.7 miles
NHS Dentist - Earls Court 0.7 miles
Earls Court Dental Practice 0.8 miles
Earls Court Dental Clinic 0.8 miles
New Kings Rd Dental Practice 0.9 miles
Fulham Dental Centre 0.9 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest hospitals to Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ. The nearest is Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, approximately 320 yards away.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 320 yards
Gosh Inpatients At Chelsea And Westminster Hospital 320 yards
The Royal Marsden Hospital (London) 720 yards
Royal Brompton Hospital 770 yards
Bupa Cromwell Hospital 0.8 miles
Cromwell Hospital 0.8 miles
Lister Hospital 1.2 miles
The Lister Hospital 1.2 miles
Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health Unit 1.6 miles
Charing Cross Hospital 1.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest opticians to Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ. The nearest is Thomas H Collison Ltd, approximately 320 yards away.
Thomas H Collison Ltd 320 yards
David Clulow Opticians 820 yards
The Eye Establishment 870 yards
Zafash Opticians 870 yards
Isis Opticians 0.5 miles
Joy Optical 0.5 miles
Auerbach & Steele 0.6 miles
Abbot Opticians 0.6 miles
Chelsea Eye Centre 0.6 miles
Kensington Cromwell Road Specsavers Ltd 0.7 miles

Local Area Information About Fulham Road, London, SW10 9QJ


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Algerian Diary: Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News
Frank Kearns was the go-to guy at CBS News for danger- ous stories in Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s. By his own account, he was nearly killed 114 times. He took stories that nobody else wanted to cover and was challenged to get them on the air when nobody cared about this part of the world. But his stories were warning shots for conflicts th Frank Kearns was the go-to guy at CBS News for danger- ous stories in Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s. By his own account, he was nearly killed 114 times. He took stories that nobody else wanted to cover and was challenged to get them on the air when nobody cared about this part of the world. But his stories were warning shots for conflicts that play out in the headlines today. In 1957, Senator John Kennedy described America's view of the Algerian war for independence as the Eisenhower Administration's "head in the sand policy." So CBS News decided to find out what was really happening there and to determine where Algeria's war for independence fit into the game plan for the Cold War. They sent Frank Kearns to find out. Kearns took with him cameraman Yousef ("Joe") Masraff and 400 pounds of gear, some of which they shed, and they hiked with FLN escorts from Tunisia, across a wide "no-man's land," and into the Aures Mountains of eastern Algeria, where the war was bloodiest. They carried no passports or visas. They dressed as Algerians. They refused to bear weapons. And they knew that if captured, they would be executed and left in unmarked graves. But their job as journalists was to seek the truth whatever it might turn out to be. This is Frank Kearns's diary.
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Adair – Oct 05, 2017
Good read about a very brave journalist in the early days of TV journalism. Historically informative as to how the French behaved in Algeria after WWII and about the Algerian people themselves about whom I knew nothing.
Stephanie – Jul 11, 2018
Why have I not heard of this guy? Oh wait, it appears that he was a reporter/spy. So bad ass.
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (n. 15 ianuarie 1812 - d. 5 ianuarie 1885) a fost scriitor și savant norvegian.
Scrierile și studiile sale folcloristice au avut un rol important în evoluția limbii literare norvegiene, în variantele sale: Bokmål și Nynorsk.

Opera
 1841 - 1844: Povestiri populare norvegiene ("Norske Folkeeventyr") (împreună cu Jørgen Moe);
 1845 - 1848: Povestiri și legende populare norvegiene despre duhurile pădurii ("Norske Huldreeventyr og Folkesagn").

Bibliografie
 Danțiș, Gabriela - Scriitori străini, Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică București, 1981

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VA Hospital 'Star' Ratings Measure Improvement, Not Overall Quality
New Hampshire Public Radio | By Peter Biello
Published July 18, 2017 at 4:31 PM EDT
Peter Biello
NHPR
Since the Boston Globe's report on unsanitary and dangerous conditions at the VA Medical Center in Manchester appeared over the weekend, attention has turned in part to the hospital's "four-star" rating.
Four out of five stars is usually a good thing, so how did the Manchester VA earn those stars?
"It's a misnomer to think that this is a four-star quality VA medical center," says Howie Howe, a veterans advocate. "That's not true. It means in the previous year that they did so much improvement, they rated four stars."
He says Manchester fixed enough problems to earn four stars, but that doesn't mean other problems don't exist.
The rating system's official name is kind of a mouthful: Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning, or SAIL. Each year, VA hospitals look at access, quality, employee perception, nursing turnover, efficiency, and other metrics. The ratings that result are based on improvement.
It's different from the way star systems typically work. Dave Kenney is chairman of the State Veterans Advisory Committee.
"I understand that they gotta come up with some kind of rating system, but this three, four, five star thing? It's not like you're trying to rate a hotel," he says.
In theory, under this system, a high-performing VA hospital could get a rating of one-star, and a hospital with problems like the ones in Manchester could end up getting four. It's a relative rating system. Five stars isn't like getting an 'A' in school.
Al Montoya, who is now charged with leading the Manchester VA, says that's part of the problem with these SAIL ratings. I spoke with him at a town hall meeting in Colebrook last year.
"For one organization to go up, another one has to go down in the VA. So that's the unfortunate part about that metric," Montoya says.
Montoya is coming to Manchester from the VA in White River Junction, Vt., which received three stars last year—which, if you don't know any better, may make White River seem worse than Manchester.
Investigators arrived at the Manchester VA Medical Center Monday to look into the recently revealed issues there.
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Peter Biello is the host of All Things Considered and Writers on a New England Stage at New Hampshire Public Radio. He has served as a producer/announcer/host of Weekend Edition Saturday at Vermont Public Radio and as a reporter/host of Morning Edition at WHQR in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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HomeNetworkingBrocadeApple Working Hard to Improve Siri?
Apple Working Hard to Improve Siri?
September 22, 2014 John Herbert Brocade, Networking, NFD8, Ramblings, Software, Tech Field Day 0
That's right, in the face of strong competition from "Google Now" (home of "Ok Google") and Microsoft's Cortana, Apple's software developers are working hard to add features and improve Siri's capabilities and responses. After all, with Microsoft running commercials recently where Cortana attempts to shame Siri by demonstrating all the cool things it can do that Siri cannot, there's clearly work to be done to ensure that Siri does not become just another "also ran" in the voice controlled world.
The challenge Apple faces in keeping Siri relevant and feature rich is demonstrated in a rather worrying way by the fact that some of the original creators of Siri have left Apple and as reported by Wired, have started up their own company (Viv Labs) to build what they believe is the next generation of voice controlled personal assistant with Artificial Intelligence because they feel Siri is at the end of its capabilities:
At first Siri, endowed with a female voice, seemed almost human in the way she understood what you said to her and responded, an advance in artificial intelligence that seemed to place us on a fast track to the Singularity. […]
Over the next few months, however, Siri's limitations became apparent. Ask her to book a plane trip and she would point to travel websites—but she wouldn't give flight options, let alone secure you a seat. Ask her to buy a copy of Lee Child's new book and she would draw a blank, despite the fact that Apple sells it. Though Apple has since extended Siri's powers—to make an OpenTable restaurant reservation, for example—she still can't do something as simple as booking a table on the next available night in your schedule. She knows how to check your calendar and she knows how to use OpenTable. But putting those things together is, at the moment, beyond her.
Sounds like a problem for Siri, and even Google Now comes under fire from Viv for being unable to dynamically put information together. Again from the Wired article:
[Google Now] may have the data for both these components, but it has no ability to put them together, either to answer a query or to make a smart suggestion. Like Siri, it can't do anything that coders haven't explicitly programmed it to do.
Viv breaks through those constraints by generating its own code on the fly, no programmers required. Take a complicated command like "Give me a flight to Dallas with a seat that Shaq could fit in." Viv will parse the sentence and then it will perform its best trick: automatically generating a quick, efficient program to link third-party sources of information together—say, Kayak, SeatGuru, and the NBA media guide—so it can identify available flights with lots of legroom. And it can do all of this in a fraction of a second.
Sounds pretty groovy, right? So here comes the next generation of AI, and Siri, Google Now and Cortana are all under fire for being inadequate. That said, both Google Now and Cortana are doing smarter things than Siri by all accounts. For example, both try to look ahead at where you are supposed to be (based on your calendar) and by checking traffic they can let you know when you will need to leave to make it there on time (a point drilled home by the Cortana advert I linked to earlier). Cortana also tries to learn about the user and their preferences and habits, leading to this example given by Microsoft:
If [Cortana's] user asks about outside temperatures every afternoon before leaving the office, Cortana will learn to offer that information without being asked.
Siri surely does not do this yet.
We Get It. Siri is Behind The Curve. So What's Your Point?
Point The First – Siri Features
I rarely have one; but in this case, I am leading towards two things. The first is that I was amused today (September 19th) that Siri informed me, and I forget the exact wording but roughly, that "Avast! It's Talk Like A Pirate Day!" And so it is. It turns out that you can actually ask Siri to talk like a Pirate and he/she/it will do so, with somewhat amusing results. For example:
HILARIOUS, etc. But this is all just a gimmick; it's not really smart learning, it's not really a technological development, it's all just keyword-triggered gimmickery that I laugh at for a moment and then think "Wait, you wasted your time on this rather than improving everything else?" It's as pointless as the Google Doodle, only the Google Doodle has the advantage of not being a functional impediment to the use of Google itself, whereas Siri is effectively part of the iPhone UI.
I've written something similar to an IRC bot before, that tries to have comical conversations with users. It's amusing in its own way, but you know that the responses are canned, and you know it's all based on triggering keywords. Yes, I added some smarts in terms of being able to ask a question of a user and act based on how that particular user responds, but it's all still very mechanical, and definitely only met the "Artificial" part of Artificial Intelligence:
john 'hi interact'
interact 'Hiya'
john 'what are you, interact?'
interact 'Who, me?'
john 'yes, you.'
interact 'I am a mere script, written in perl, and lovingly crafted
from the finest polyvinyl.'
john 'how old are you?'
interact 'Are we talking age in programming hours, or actual time
elapsed?'
john 'programming hours'
interact 'Probably a few hundred hours in those terms.'
john 'I'd like to use a magic eightball'
interact 'ENTERING MAGIC EIGHTBALL MODE FOR john! ASK THY QUESTION!'
john 'Should I learn Python?'
interact 'john> It's a possibility.'
john 'Dang.'
john 'I could use a beer'
interact wouldn't say no to a quick pint
john kicks interact
interact looks hurt
john burps
interact holds his nose
john 'I wonder how long it'll take me to get home tonight?'
interact 'What do you think?'
john 'I think it will suck'
interact nods
john 'tell me a joke'
interact 'Oh I don't know any really funny jokes.'
interact 'A man walks into a bar.'
interact 'ouch.'
My bot was therefore not entirely dissimilar, though insulting to claim any relation, to the ubiquitous ELIZA program. Side note – if you ask Siri about ELIZA, she knows all about it. For example:
But I digress, and not for the first time. My point is that keyword-based responses, and some basic interactivity with specific pieces of software are a dead end functionality, and that people are expecting progressively more in the future. And, on that note, while Siri's comical little responses are amusing, it gives the impression of a company hung up on frivolity rather than one that is seriously trying to improve the product itself. I should note to be fair that Cortana has a bucketload of absurd responses too, and it wouldn't shock me to discover that Google had done the same. But then, those two solutions aren't currently in third place, are they?
Point The Second – Machine Learning
This is where the rubber meets the proverbial road. That thing I mentioned above where Cortana tries to learn your habits is a form of Machine Learning (ML). You can't pre-program the behavior, or at least if you can you'll only be able to identify a narrow set of behaviors and respond to them, just as happens with Siri today. We're talking with ML about systems that learn dynamically and thus improve and adapt over time; it's a constant feedback loop. Viv Labs' solution is being developed using machine learning to improve the intelligence and ability to interpret inputs and map to data sources to generate the correct output. And this is where things gets weird.
When we visited Brocade at Networking Field Day 8, we had a presentation from the ever-intellectual David Meyer, CTO and Chief Architect at Brocade, Board Member for OpenDaylight, long-term IAB/IETF and NANOG participant/chair, and all around smart guy. His presentations at NFD are usually fun and cerebrally challenging as he shares whatever is on his mind at the time, but even with that expectation in mind I think this particular presentation took us in an unexpected and delightful direction when he described what he's calling "Software Defined Intelligence" (SDI). Ok, I know, it's another Software Defined Banana thing. Still, let's hold our disbelief and cynicism for a moment and see what David has to say about it.
David describes SDI as "a new interdisciplinary approach that integrates Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Energy, and IoT (and I'm sure many more) with Machine Learning. […] It is the combination of machine learning with networking which creates a new discipline and which is novel here."
David's presentation was mind-numbing in the best of ways, for anybody who hasn't considered the concepts of machine learning. He began by presenting this image which compares traditional programming with machine learning:
So data and output feed into some kind of algorithm and create a Program? That sounds awfully like what Viv Labs were describing, doesn't it? Generating a program on the fly based on the query submitted. Hmm.
David posits that "SDI is a framework that is designed to do just this: it takes advantage of the programmability and software orientation of technologies like SDN and combines it with Machine Learning to enable powerful new class of intelligent networks." That sounds good doesn't it?
I'm not smart enough to recap what David said, so instead I'm going to link to the video of him talking at NFD8 and recommend you watch it directly; it'll make far more sense, because I would hate to misrepresent the artificial neurons:
Maybe there's a place for machine learning in the modern network. And maybe even in Siri too?
David Meyer has started a(nother?) blog called Random Musings. Suffice it to say that I have added it to my RSS feed, but also note that you can go there and read an abbreviated version of his thoughts on machine learning as part of Software Defined Intelligence. You can also find him at @dmm613 on Twitter, in case you are that way inclined.
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Dr. Rachel D Moloney is a Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University College Cork.
She received a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry from UCC in 2009 after which she received an M.Sc. in Neuropharmacology from National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). Dr. Moloney completed her Ph.D. in the Dept of Psychiatry and Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience, UCC in 2014. She then worked as a lab manager at APC Microbiome Ireland before pursuing post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA and the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Dr. Moloney was awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2019-2021) from the Brain and Behavior Research foundation (USA).
Dr. Moloney's current research is focused on understanding the role of traumatic stress on brain circuitry and its impact on fear and social behaviours, particularly in the context of PTSD, anxiety and depression. Her lab focuses on stress neurobiology across the lifespan, utilizing cutting edge tools such as DREADDs to manipulate neuro-circuitry and to unravel these corticolimbic circuits. Dr. Moloney is also interested in the role of the brain-gut microbiome axis in stress-related illnesses as well as the impact of stress on pain sensitivity and spinal circuitry.
NARSAD Young Investigator Award Other: Not Listed €70,000.00
(2019) 'Braking the Prefrontal Cortex: The Role of Glucocorticoids and Interneurons in Stress Adaptation and Pathology'
McKlveen, J. M. and Moloney, R. D. and Scheimann, J. R. and Myers, B. and Herman, J. P. (2019) 'Braking the Prefrontal Cortex: The Role of Glucocorticoids and Interneurons in Stress Adaptation and Pathology'. Biological Psychiatry, 86 (9):669-681 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Conditional deletion of glucocorticoid receptors in rat brain results in sex-specific deficits in fear and coping behaviors'
Scheimann, J. R. and Moloney, R. D. and Mahbod, P. and Moreno, R. L. and Fitzgerald, M. and Hoskins, O. and Packard, B. A. and Cotella, E. M. and Hu, Y. C. and Herman, J. P. (2019) 'Conditional deletion of glucocorticoid receptors in rat brain results in sex-specific deficits in fear and coping behaviors'. Elife, 8 [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'Targeting the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: Prebiotics Have Anxiolytic and Antidepressant-like Effects and Reverse the Impact of Chronic Stress in Mice'
Burokas, A. and Arboleya, S. and Moloney, R. D. and Peterson, V. L. and Murphy, K. and Clarke, G. and Stanton, C. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2017) 'Targeting the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: Prebiotics Have Anxiolytic and Antidepressant-like Effects and Reverse the Impact of Chronic Stress in Mice'. Biological Psychiatry, 82 (7):472-487 [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'Microbial regulation of microRNA expression in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex'
Hoban, A. E. and Stilling, R. M. and Moloney, G. M. and Moloney, R. D. and Shanahan, F. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. and Clarke, G. (2017) 'Microbial regulation of microRNA expression in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex'. Microbiome, 5 [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'BEHAVIOURAL AND NEUROCHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHRONIC GUT MICROBIOTA DEPLETION DURING ADULTHOOD IN THE RAT (vol 339, pg 463, 2016)'
Hoban, A. E. and Moloney, R. D. and Golubeva, A. V. and Neufeld, K. A. M. and O'Sullivan, O. and Patterson, E. and Stanton, C. and Dinan, T. G. and Clarke, G. and Cryan, J. F. (2017) 'BEHAVIOURAL AND NEUROCHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHRONIC GUT MICROBIOTA DEPLETION DURING ADULTHOOD IN THE RAT (vol 339, pg 463, 2016)'. Neuroscience, 344 :418-418 [DOI] [Details]
(2016) 'Mechanisms of Stress-Induced Visceral Pain: Implications in Irritable Bowel Syndrome'
Greenwood-Van Meerveld, B. and Moloney, R. D. and Johnson, A. C. and Vicario, M. (2016) 'Mechanisms of Stress-Induced Visceral Pain: Implications in Irritable Bowel Syndrome'. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 28 (8) [DOI] [Details]
(2016) 'Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in Central Nervous System Diseases'
Golubeva, A. V. and Moloney, R. D. and O'Connor, R. M. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2016) 'Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in Central Nervous System Diseases'. Current Drug Targets, 17 (5):538-616 [DOI] [Details]
(2016) 'Targeting Epigenetic Mechanisms for Chronic Pain: A Valid Approach for the Development of Novel Therapeutics'
Ligon, C. O. and Moloney, R. D. and Greenwood-Van Meerveld, B. (2016) 'Targeting Epigenetic Mechanisms for Chronic Pain: A Valid Approach for the Development of Novel Therapeutics'. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 357 (1):84-93 [DOI] [Details]
(2016) 'Stress and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Visceral Pain: Relevance to Irritable Bowel Syndrome'
Moloney, R. D. and Johnson, A. C. and O'Mahony, S. M. and Dinan, T. G. and Meerveld, B. G. V. and Cryan, J. F. (2016) 'Stress and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Visceral Pain: Relevance to Irritable Bowel Syndrome'. Cns Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 22 (2):102-117 [DOI] [Details]
(2016) 'Estrous cycle influences excitatory amino acid transport and visceral pain sensitivity in the rat: effects of early-life stress'
Moloney, R. D. and Sajjad, J. and Foley, T. and Felice, V. D. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. and O'Mahony, S. M. (2016) 'Estrous cycle influences excitatory amino acid transport and visceral pain sensitivity in the rat: effects of early-life stress'. Biology of Sex Differences, 7 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'Prenatal stress-induced alterations in major physiological systems correlate with gut microbiota composition in adulthood'
Golubeva, A. V. and Crampton, S. and Desbonnet, L. and Edge, D. and O'Sullivan, O. and Lomasney, K. W. and Zhdanov, A. V. and Crispie, F. and Moloney, R. D. and Borre, Y. E. and Cotter, P. D. and Hyland, N. P. and O'Halloran, K. D. and Dinan, T. G. and O'Keeffe, G. W. and Cryan, J. F. (2015) 'Prenatal stress-induced alterations in major physiological systems correlate with gut microbiota composition in adulthood'. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 60 :58-74 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'Gut microbiota depletion from early adolescence in mice: Implications for brain and behaviour'
Desbonnet, L. and Clarke, G. and Traplin, A. and O'Sullivan, O. and Crispie, F. and Moloney, R. D. and Cotter, P. D. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2015) 'Gut microbiota depletion from early adolescence in mice: Implications for brain and behaviour'. Brain Behavior and Immunity, 48 :165-173 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'Negative allosteric modulation of the mGlu7 receptor reduces visceral hypersensitivity in a stress-sensitive rat strain'
Moloney, R. D. and Golubeva, A. V. and O'Connor, R. M. and Kalinichev, M. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2015) 'Negative allosteric modulation of the mGlu7 receptor reduces visceral hypersensitivity in a stress-sensitive rat strain'. Neurobiology of Stress, 2 :28-33 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'Stress-induced visceral pain: toward animal models of irritable-bowel syndrome and associated comorbidities'
Moloney, R. D. and O'Mahony, S. M. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2015) 'Stress-induced visceral pain: toward animal models of irritable-bowel syndrome and associated comorbidities'. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 6 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'Enhancing glutamatergic transmission during adolescence reverses early-life stress-induced deficits in the rewarding effects of cocaine in rats'
O'Connor, R. M. and Moloney, R. D. and Glennon, J. and Vlachou, S. and Cryan, J. F. (2015) 'Enhancing glutamatergic transmission during adolescence reverses early-life stress-induced deficits in the rewarding effects of cocaine in rats'. Neuropharmacology, 99 :168-176 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'Strain-dependent variations in visceral sensitivity: relationship to stress, anxiety and spinal glutamate transporter expression'
Moloney, R. D. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2015) 'Strain-dependent variations in visceral sensitivity: relationship to stress, anxiety and spinal glutamate transporter expression'. Genes Brain and Behavior, 14 (4):319-329 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'Early-life stress-induced visceral hypersensitivity and anxiety behavior is reversed by histone deacetylase inhibition'
Moloney, R. D. and Stilling, R. M. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2015) 'Early-life stress-induced visceral hypersensitivity and anxiety behavior is reversed by histone deacetylase inhibition'. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 27 (12):1831-1836 [DOI] [Details]
(2014) 'Toll-Like Receptor 4 Regulates Chronic Stress-Induced Visceral Pain in Mice'
Tramullas, M. and Finger, B. C. and Moloney, R. D. and Golubeva, A. V. and Moloney, G. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2014) 'Toll-Like Receptor 4 Regulates Chronic Stress-Induced Visceral Pain in Mice'. Biological Psychiatry, 76 (4):340-348 [DOI] [Details]
(2014) 'Negative Allosteric Modulation of the mGlu7 Receptor Reduces Visceral Ypersensitivity in a Sress-Sensitive Rat Strain'
Moloney, R. D. and O'Connor, R. M. and Kalinichev, M. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2014) 'Negative Allosteric Modulation of the mGlu7 Receptor Reduces Visceral Ypersensitivity in a Sress-Sensitive Rat Strain'. Current Neuropharmacology, 12 :42-43 [Details]
(2014) 'The microbiome: stress, health and disease'
Moloney, R. D. and Desbonnet, L. and Clarke, G. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2014) 'The microbiome: stress, health and disease'. Mammalian Genome, 25 (1-2):49-74 [DOI] [Details]
(2013) 'The microbiome-gut-brain axis during early life regulates the hippocampal serotonergic system in a sex-dependent manner'
Clarke, G. and Grenham, S. and Scully, P. and Fitzgerald, P. and Moloney, R. D. and Shanahan, F. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2013) 'The microbiome-gut-brain axis during early life regulates the hippocampal serotonergic system in a sex-dependent manner'. Molecular Psychiatry, 18 (6):666-673 [DOI] [Details]
(2012) 'Early-life stress induces visceral hypersensitivity in mice'
Moloney, R. D. and O'Leary, O. F. and Felice, D. and Bettler, B. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2012) 'Early-life stress induces visceral hypersensitivity in mice'. Neuroscience Letters, 512 (2):99-102 [DOI] [Details]
(2016) 'Epigenetics of Pain Management'
Greenwood-Van Meerveld, B. and Prusator, D. K. and Ligon, C. O. and Johnson, A. C. and Moloney, R. D. (2016) 'Epigenetics of Pain Management' In: Medical Epigenetics. London: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'Microbiota Regulation of the Mammalian Gut-Brain Axis'
Burokas, A. ;Moloney, R. D. ;Dinan, T. G. ;Cryan, J. F. (2015) 'Microbiota Regulation of the Mammalian Gut-Brain Axis' In: Advances in Applied Microbiology. San Diego: ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS INC. [Details]
(2015) 'Visceral pain and psychiatric disorders'
Felice V.;Moloney R.;Cryan J.;Dinan T.;O'Mahony S. (2015) 'Visceral pain and psychiatric disorders' In: Modern Trends in Pharmacopsychiatry. Basel: Karger. [DOI] [Details]
(2014) 'The Impact of Microbiota on Brain and Behavior: Mechanisms & Therapeutic Potential'
Borre, Y. E. ;Moloney, R. D. ;Clarke, G. ;Dinan, T. G. ;Cryan, J. F. (2014) 'The Impact of Microbiota on Brain and Behavior: Mechanisms & Therapeutic Potential' In: Microbial Endocrinology: the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Health and Disease. New York: SPRINGER. [Details]
(2016) Targeting the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors in the central amygdala for the treatment of stress-induced pain; implications for irritable bowel syndrome
Moloney, R. D. and Johnson, A. C. and Ligon, C. O. and Greenwood-Van Meerveld, B. (2016) Targeting the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors in the central amygdala for the treatment of stress-induced pain; implications for irritable bowel syndrome Targeting the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors in the central amygdala for the treatment of stress-induced pain; implications for irritable bowel syndrome , pp.98-98 [Details]
(2015) ISPNE
Moloney, R. D. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2015) Stress & the microbiota-gut-brain axis in visceral pain ISPNE , pp.8-8 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) Group III mGlu receptors in the brain and periphery: Implications for visceral pain
Golubeva, A. V. and Moloney, R. D. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2015) Group III mGlu receptors in the brain and periphery: Implications for visceral pain Group III mGlu receptors in the brain and periphery: Implications for visceral pain , pp.6-7 [DOI] [Details]
(2012) The microbiome-gut-brain axis as a regulator of serotonergic neurotransmission and behaviour
Clarke, G;Grenham, S;Scully, P;Fitzgerald, P;Moloney, R;Shanahan, F;Dinan, T;Cryan, J (2012) The microbiome-gut-brain axis as a regulator of serotonergic neurotransmission and behaviour The microbiome-gut-brain axis as a regulator of serotonergic neurotransmission and behaviour , pp.149-149 [Details]
(2012) Strain differences in visceral nociception, anxiety and depression-like behaviour: Responses of 12 mouse strains
Moloney, R. D. and Dinan, T. G. and Cryan, J. F. (2012) Strain differences in visceral nociception, anxiety and depression-like behaviour: Responses of 12 mouse strains Strain differences in visceral nociception, anxiety and depression-like behaviour: Responses of 12 mouse strains , pp.145-145 [Details]
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Хольм Хансен Мюнте (; 1 января 1848 — 23 мая 1898) — норвежский архитектор, работавший в драгестиле.

Биография

Хольм Мюнте родился в семье государственного деятеля, министра обороны Норвегии (трижды с перерывами 1877—1879, 1880—1881 и 1881—1884 годах) , и его супруги Эмилии Карен, урождённой Хансен. Он родственник норвежского художника Герхарда Мюнте.

Путь становления Хольма Мюнте как архитектора был типичным для Норвегии того времени. В начале 1870-х годов Мюнте работал подмастерьем в архитектурной мастерской, он также учился в Королевской школе рисования (Tegneskolen) у немецко-норвежского архитектора и графика . В 1872—1877 годах обучался в Ганноверском университете (Polytechnische Institut) в Германии, и до 1878 года был подмастерьем у архитектора из Хильдесхайма Конрада Вильгельма Хасе.

По возвращении в Норвегию Мюнте имел совместную архитектурную практику с  в 1878—1885 годах. В основном они занимались возведением церквей, когда к ним обратился заказчик Ингебригт Хольм. Ингебригт Хольм был врачом из Ларвика, в окрестностях минерального озера , и популяризатором бальнеотерапии. В 1881—1883 годах по договору были построены два объекта. В Вике, пригород Осло, был построен купальный комплекс «Христиания Бад», снесён в начале 1930-х. В Ларвике был построен санаторий «Ларвик Бад», включающий купальни, спа-салон, столовую, музыкальный зал, библиотеку, бильярдную. «Ларвик Бад» был выполнен с национальными особенностями и стал прелюдией к развитию так называемого драгестиля, дословно стиль дракона. Это здание тоже утрачено.

В 1883 году Мюнте выполнил ещё одну работу оказавшую развитие драгестиля. По заказу компании «Saugbrugsforeningen», крупнейшего на тот момент предприятия занимающегося лесозаготовками, были построены ворота, служившие проходом на выставку искусства и промышленности на территории Королевского дворца в Осло. Впоследствии они получили название ворота Короля Оскара II, поскольку были перенесены в личную королевскую коллекцию национального деревянного зодчества. Эта коллекция послужила основой для , сами ворота одно время использовались как вход в музей под открытым небом.

Тем временем дела Ингебригта Хольма пошли в гору. В 1887 году он обратился к Мюнте с идеей воплощения своих замыслов в области рекреационного туризма. В 1889 году были построены два объекта в Хольменколлене — гостевой дом «Пейсестуэн» у пруда для лодочных прогулок. И спортивно-оздоровительный комплекс «Хольменколлен Туристхотел», пользовавшийся популярностью летом и зимой. В зимний сезон, в не последнюю очередь, из-за возведения в 1892 году в Хольменколлене лыжного трамплина. В 1895 году в ночь на 31 марта «Хольменколлен Туристхотел» был практически полностью уничтожен огнём, из-за пожара, возникшего в результате небрежного использования восковых свечей, осталось только здание ресторана. В 1894 в Хольменколлене был построен «Хольменколлен Санаториум», ныне  по проекту Бальтазара Ланге, он частично заменил уничтоженное огнём. В 1896 году по проекту архитектора Уле Сверре там же был построен «Хольменколлен Туристхотел II», который погиб в огне в 1909 году.

В 1890—1891 годах по инициативе муниципальных властей Осло были созданы ещё два творения в стиле дракона по проектам Хольма Мюнте. Оба здания имели функциональное значение ресторанов расположенных в местах, где всегда было много туристов и местных жителей.

Первый объект «Ресторан Санкт-Хансхёуген», был расположен в одноимённом парке, давшем название одному из  Осло. Здание погибло в огне в 1936 году.

Второй объект «Ресторан Фрогнерсетерен» был построен в одноимённой местности в окрестностях Осло. Это здание является наиболее известным произведением Хольма Мюнте. Оно сохранилось до наших дней, но не в первоначальном виде. В 1909 году, уже после смерти Хольма Мюнте, здание было частично перестроено и увеличена его площадь при участии Бальтазара Ланге.

В 1890 году Хольменколлен, во время государственного визита в Осло, посетил Прусский Кайзер Вильгельм II. Он был тронут увиденным, и отдал распоряжение на строительство в Пруссии зданий в том же стиле.

Так, в 1891—1895 годах по проекту Хольма Мюнте, в окрестностях Потсдама на берегу реки Хафель была построена  для речных прогулок. Она состояла из апартаментов Вильгельма II и нескольких зданий для обслуживающего персонала. Большая часть строений погибла во время Второй мировой войны.

Второй комплекс зданий был построен в Роминтенской пуще, ныне в окрестностях посёлка Радужное (Роминты), Калининградская область. В этом месте раньше находились охотничьи угодья правящих особ. Вильгельм II распорядился построить здесь охотничью усадьбу. Архитекторами были Хольм Мюнте и Уле Сверре. Здания были собраны в Норвегии, затем разобраны и погружены на корабли и переправлены через Балтийское море в Кёнигсберг. Дальнейшая доставка осуществлялась железнодорожным транспортом. Работы по строительству были завершены в 1893 году. Усадьба также сильно пострадала в годы войны.

С 1885 года Мюнте преподавал в Королевской школе рисования (Tegneskolen). Мюнте был председателем союза инженеров и архитекторов Норвегии, а также членом правления Норвежского музея архитектуры. В 1898 году Хольм Мюнте был назначен главным архитектором Осло, но он умер, так и не вступив в должность, в возрасте 50 лет. В этом году он закончил постройку в Осло двух школ из красного кирпича. На посту главного архитектора его заменил соратник Бальтазар Ланге. Бальтазар Ланге и Олле Сверре, которые работали в Хольменколлене считаются учениками и последователями Мюнте в стиле дракона, но они также были успешны в других архитектурных стилях. Ещё один ученик Мюнте успешно работавший в драгестиле Карл Мартин Норум.

Галерея

См. также

Бальтазар Конрад Ланге
Ингебригт Кристиан Хольм

Примечания

Ссылки
Norsk biografisk leksikon:Holm Munthe
Holm Hansen Munthe (1848—1898)

Архитекторы Норвегии
Архитекторы Осло
Архитекторы XIX века
Выпускники Ганноверского университета
Похороненные на Спасском кладбище (Осло)