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My View: Some Good News on Graduation Rates (Portland Tribune, June 2019)
Posted on June 20, 2019 in Media Coverage
By Connie Ballmer and Jennifer Blatz
Read the story below and here.
We believe that through efforts like the All Hands Raised Partnership, communities can change not only local headlines, but more importantly, change lives.
Last month's Portland-area headlines about no improvement in Oregon's high school graduation rates were not what anyone wanted to read. Despite these persistent headlines, there is groundbreaking work happening to change outcomes for kids and families in this community.
Eight years ago, local leaders, ignited by the low graduation rates and inspired by the national StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network, created the All Hand Raised Partnership. Its purpose is to transform systems to improve education outcomes for children, youth and young adults. The leaders share a commitment to move from talk to action and ensure the success of children, especially kids of color and kids in poverty. Today, the All Hands Raised Partnership is posting positive results and is a national model for communities across the country.
How do we know this? Because we convene the StriveTogether Network, composed of nearly 70 communities doing collective impact work across 29 states and impacting more than 13 million children. Last year we visited the most promising cradle to career collaboratives. Without a doubt, the All Hands Raised Partnership stood out as an extraordinary example of an effective, results-driven, community-based partnership. All Hands Raised is a weaver organization — rather than creating new programs, the partnership leverages existing community assets and weaves them together to produce better outcomes.
Here's what's happened: High school graduation rates have climbed 20 percentage points, with Latino students by 31 points and African American students 22 points. It's not always easy to see the direct impact of All Hands Raised, but the statistics speak loudly. While we celebrate these gains, there is a lot of work to be done.
Key to this progress is the integration of culturally-specific organizations — such as the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization, Latino Network and REAP — in schools throughout seven districts. It has been key to have these organizations partner equally with the schools' teachers and staff, co-creating and implementing strategies to improve student outcomes with the support of their superintendent leaders. Experience shows that this shared leadership model has created an essential and powerful paradigm shift.
During our visit we met teachers, principals and partners — and we were impressed. The voice we reference most in our national conversations is that of Heidi Lasher, principal at Gresham's Hall Elementary School. She shared how teachers, school staff and partners have addressed the complicated issue of discipline by examining their own implicit bias and creating space for hard discussions. Because of the work of this team, Hall has seen a 26% reduction in discipline referrals this year over last.
The work happening at Hall is just one example of how your region is blazing trails and rich with organizations doing incredible direct service work. Yet, without organizations like All Hands Raised ensuring that systems connect and integrate, change will not happen. This is about taking the longer view to create results through alignment, efficiencies and practices. We believe that through efforts like the All Hands Raised Partnership, communities can change not only local headlines, but more importantly, change lives.
Connie Ballmer is co-founder of Ballmer Group and a StriveTogether board member. Jennifer Blatz is president and CEO of StriveTogether.


It's finally here! 30 Miles From Nowhere, starring Rob Benedict and Carrie Preston, has officially been released today! The film was written by Seana Kofoed, produced by Kelly Demaret, and directed by Caitlin Koller.
You can order it now on Amazon, rent it on Amazon Video and it's also available on iTunes.
You can read our review of the film (spoiler-free) here, and see our coverage from the premiere here.
Let us know in the comments what you think of the film!


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I moved to New York City in 1976 to pursue my career as a professional photographer. My assignment work took me around these United States, and to many foreign countries. Meanwhile, back in New York, I climbed, crawled, and flew all over that city taking pictures. These images are a sampling from that body of work. In 2018 my wife Fabian and I produced a book of my personal work captured during that time. Purchase information for the book is located at the bottom of this page.
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8.5" x 8.5", hardbound, 148 pages of color photographs, with titles, extended captions and essays. West's unique view will appeal to anyone with an interest in New York City's not-so-distant past, and lovers of art photography. From the quirky to the iconic, from every angle and in all kinds of weather, West has captured The City in his personal perspective. First edition, personally signed copy, $35 + $5 shipping and handling.
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Innovative Automation was founded in 2000 by Ursula and Mike Bongiovanni based upon their vision for providing manufacturing engineering services and automation systems. From the beginning, the philosophy of the company was to help make their customers more competitive in their industries. As their customers grew, IA would grow as well. This strategy has proven to be highly effective and is a guiding principle of the company to this day.
The company started at the dining room table of their home and provided Process Engineering Consultation and Controls Engineering services. During this time, the basis of what became the IA Method was established. The IA Method would continue to be developed as a means of coordinating the expertise of Process Engineering and Controls Engineering with Mechanical Engineering. In 2001, Ron Paternoster joined the company and the vision of the IA Method became a reality. Offering engineering expertise in Mechanical, Electrical, and Process Engineering allowed them to provide a wide range of services that could be leveraged to help customers become more competitive. Growth of IA as a full service manufacturing engineering company soon followed and has continued since.
IA quickly outgrew the dining room as well as a subleased space, before settling into a 4,000 square foot build shop. This build shop allowed IA to begin taking on larger equipment; tooling, and development projects. IA was no longer limited to consultations and engineering. Further growth quickly demonstrated that even more space was required to support customer projects. In 2008 a decision was made to move to a 12,000 square foot facility located in Romulus, MI. This building became their new home and continues to serve as IA's headquarters and houses all engineering and development spaces. Recently this was supplemented with the addition of 20,000 square feet extending the footprint in Romulus to 32,000 square feet of engineering, manufacturing, and build capacity.
On May 1, 2018, IA completed the acquisition of Livernois Engineering . This acquisition provides almost 70 years of machinery and tooling development expertise including intellectual property for the extensive globally installed base of Livernois equipment. Key machine tools were also acquired that have significantly increased the machine shop capability in the Romulus facility. With the acquisition of Livernois Engineering, IA can now provide tooling and equipment for both the reciprocated stamped and roll formed heat exchanger technologies.
To further round out the heat exchange offering provided by IA, the acquisition of Tridan International was completed on October 8, 2018. Tridan has been servicing the stamped fin heat exchange industry since 1966. This acquisition makes IA the only North American supplier to meet the demands of all three unique heat exchange manufacturing technologies. The acquisition of Tridan has also allowed IA to move the majority of its detail manufacturing requirements for all of their systems in-house by leveraging the extensive machine shop and engineering capabilities of Tridan's 88,300 square foot facility in Danville, Illinois.
Through the years IA has completed numerous automation projects and many of the first machines produced are still in production. Projects have been completed for a wide variety of manufacturing industries. These have ranged from small fixtures to large scale automation systems. By focusing on unique solutions for unique applications, customers continually rely on IA to provide value based solutions for their most significant manufacturing challenges. IA continuously strives to improve the services and systems that can be provided through partnership with its customers.


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The Gang Of One: Selected poems by Robert Harris
Reviewed by Judith Bishop •
August 2019, no. 413
The Gang Of One: Selected poems
by Robert Harris
Grand Parade Poets, $26.95 pb, 224 pp, 9780994600226
In a letter to a friend, American poet James Wright reflected on the meaning of a Selected Poems for a peer he considered undervalued: 'It shows that defeat, though imminent for all of us, is not inevitable.' He quoted Stanley Kunitz, whose Selected was belatedly in press: 'it would be sweet, I'll grant, after all these years to pop up from underground … The only ones who survive … are those whose ultimate discontent is with themselves. The fiercest hearts are in love with a wild perfection.'
Robert Harris's 'ultimate discontent' and his poetry's survival seem to prove the point. There is a certain irony to the publication of The Gang of One: Selected Poems twenty-six years after Harris's death at the age of forty-two. The attention that the poet gave to other lost voices has come full circle to his own. He was a former Navy seaman who wrote a long poem on the wartime loss of the HMAS Sydney. One of his best-loved and award-winning sequences, the brilliant 'JANE, Interlinear', 'translates' the historically marginal story of Lady Jane Grey, crowned queen of England for nine days. With The Gang of One, Harris's poetry is lifted back into daylight, set again in the hands of the readers who knew him, and those of us who didn't. It takes an uncommon kind of care to memorialise the otherwise lost: a sensitivity and resistance to the injustices done to people and places by time and indifference. Such care is evident in the fact that this publication was assisted by donations from more than ninety people, including a roll-call of Australian poets.
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Judith Bishop lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has studied in the United States and Britain. She is Director of Linguistic Services at a multinational language technology company. Her poems have won many awards, including the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011), an American Academy of Poets University prize (2004) and the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship (2002-2004). Her translations from French poets (Philippe Jaccottet, Gérard Macé) have appeared in Australian and international journals. Her first book, Event (Salt, 2007), won the FAW Anne Elder award and was shortlisted for the CJ Dennis Prize, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the ASAL Mary Gilmore Prize. She has recently published a second collection, Interval (UQP, 2018).
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This 1969 Camaro was fully restored and rebuilt by the team at All Speed Customs, who repaired some rust, applied a custom paint job, carbon fiber body panels, modern suspension and steering, a supercharged LSA V8, Brembo brakes, and an entirely custom interior.
The car underwent a comprehensive body-off disassembly, with each component removed and put into storage.
Rust was repaired, including several new body panels, and the trans tunnel was modified to accept the new upgraded unit.
Our bodywork technicians then prepped using our signature 7-step method, involving coats of show-quality primer in between complete sanding by hand.
The entire body was sprayed with Lamborghini pearl white, leaving two wide strips of the carbon fiber hood and trunk exposed for contrast, plus gold pinstripes and a matte finish clear coat.
Underneath is a Detroit Speed subframe and quadralink rear, a GM supercharged LSA 6.2L engine with several Lingenfelter upgrades and a 6-speed manual, Brembo brakes, VintageAir, and more.
The ASC team created a fully custom interior, including a full length center console with iPad holder, Marquez dash with Dakota Digital gauges, and two-tone upholstery with diamond stitching.


They begin to feed on the tassels and silks until they are large enough to tunnel into the ear and feed extensively on the kernels. This can cause a reduction in pollination, yield and quality of the crop. The ear feeding can also lead to the development of ear rots later in the season. Multiple larvae are able to feed on the same ear.
The larvae begin feeding on the leaves and later move to the pods and seeds once they are bigger. The pod feeding can result in lower quality and yield.
Thick, white stripe at the front of the forewing.
Small spots shaped like a full moon and a boomerang.
No dark spines or stripes on the side.
Dark stripes behind the head.
Laid on the upper leaf surface of the upper 3-4 corn leaves.
Small eggs, laid in clusters of 5-200 eggs.
Eggs begin as a creamy white colour and turn purple as they get ready to hatch over the course of a few days.
Scout 20 plants in five areas of the field from early June to the end of August.
Look for egg masses and young larvae on the upper 3-4 leaves of the corn.
Age of the eggs found is important to know when they will hatch. Insecticide application is most effective when young larvae are active. They are white when newly laid eventually turning purple/black.
Pheromone traps can be used to monitor peak moth flight, which will indicate when to begin scouting.
Scouting for WBC egg masses in dry beans is very difficult. Instead, scout for pod feeding 10-20 days after peak moth flight.
Photo above, left to right: Day 1 (white); Day 2 (light tan); Day 3 (dark tan); Day 4 (purple); Day 5-7 (hatched).
Spray is warranted if 5% of the plants have eggs or small larvae. If the eggs have hatched, spray at 95% tassel emergence or if tassels are already emerged, when most of the eggs are expected to hatch.
If the accumulated catch is between 700 and 1,000 moths, damage risk to beans is moderate and beans must be scouted closely. Check fields for larval feeding 10-20 days after the peak flight, and spray if pod feeding is found. If the catch exceeds 1,000 moths by the peak, risk is high for damage in dry bean and an insecticide application is needed 10-20 days after peak flight. Spray any edible bean field that is neighboring a corn field that has reached threshold as well.
Insecticide application timing is critical, once the larvae have entered the ear control will not be achieved without the use of a systemic product such as Coragen.
Matador and Coragen is registered for western bean cutworm control in corn and dry beans.
Decis and Voliam Xpress are two additional insecticides registered for control in corn only.
Deep tillage can disturb and kill overwintering larvae in the soil.


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Sharp Dressed Man — сингл из альбома Eliminator, семнадцатый сингл американской рок-группы ZZ Top, вышедший в 1984 году на лейбле Warner Bros. Records.

Песня известна своим запоминающимся гитарным риффом и клипом, который значительное время крутился в эфире первых лет музыкального канала MTV. Будучи выпущена в качестве сингла в 1983 году, она достигла второго места в чарте Mainstream Rock. Звучит в компьютерной игре Guitar Hero.

Считается одной из самых известных песен ZZ Top.

Уже в 1984 году на магнитоальбоме советской группы «Земляне» вышла кавер-версия этой песни на русском языке, под названием «Ау…» («Мы здесь не одни»), исполнявшаяся также на концертах коллектива. В 1987 году музыканты группы «Земляне» сделали второй вариант кавер-версии на эту песню, с новым текстом на русском языке под названием «Зло», которая вошла в альбом группы День рождения Земли.

Участники
 Билли Гиббонс — ведущий вокал, соло- и ритм-гитара
 Дасти Хилл — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал
 Фрэнк Бирд — ударные

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Песни 1983 года
Синглы ZZ Top

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All choices develop first from the basic sensory stimuli to which our systems attend, consciously and unconsciously. The cognitive processes which form the basis of decision- making and contextual shifting require attention to both novel and familiar environmental features; from the overwhelming stimulus that assault our senses, we must figure out which environmental features are safe to ignore and those to which we must attend. Separate fast, emotional and slower rational decision processes described by a number of dual-processing theories have found compelling support in neuroscience research examining selective attention gating mechanisms. Indeed, these two systems appear to exert substantial influence over attentional mechanisms; therefore any interplay between these systems is of great interest. Ideally, people need to be able to handle uncertainty and pressure while benefiting from heightened emotional, intuitive quickness, associated with clear survival implications, without losing access to their slower reasoning mechanisms due to overwhelming emotional or environmental stimuli ; that is, if they are to make truly optimal decisions in changing contexts. An increased understanding of how these processing systems influence human attention mechanisms would therefore contribute to efforts to improve decisions, especially quick decisions. Furthermore, a better understanding of how to actively up- and/or down-regulate these systems could prove both informative and valuable. The current behavioral research aimed to test some of the implications of the proposed relationships between several brain areas related to selective attention by examining behavioral evidence of dual-processing. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of cognitive disruption and cognitive dissonance on performance of a simulated gambling task known to elicit both emotional, system-1 processing, as well as rational, system-2 processing. Results failed to support my predictions. Limitations and implications for future research are discussed.


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This golf ball-looking thing-y is actually a set of outdoor furniture. Disassembled, it consists of two chairs and a table, but when it's stacked up, it becomes a piece of sculpture, which would make for a very interesting back yard focal point.
Artist Tom Deininger has found a way to turn those unsightly cigarette butts that litter the globe into some extraordinary artwork. 'Filter Rabbit', pictured above, is made of just that: unraveled filters. Below is 'Shell', which was constructed of butts the artist found in parking lots near a beach in Rhode Island.
Gussying up Parliament buildings in weird ways seems to be a uniquely European pastime, (though I'd love to know if I'm wrong about that). The most recent seat of power to get a funky art treatment is the Flemish Parliament building in Brussels. Artist Arne Quinze has created The Sequence a 80 meter long and 15 meter high sculpture, in Brussels.
The blurb about it says "The symbolic and physical connection between the neighbors, the Flemish Parliament and the House of Flemish Representatives, reflects a possible connection between all people in Brussels. Cross-culture connections, a connection with Europe, its diversity and entity." Which is nice and all, but mostly I was thinking OOOOOOh, pretty red trees.
This mechatronic sculpture from ART+COM is exhibited at the BMW Welt in Munich. The 714 metal balls are suspended by strings that raise and lower the balls creating weightless shapes. Those shapes for this particular installation are BMW's 90 year history of car shapes. Check out the video of this extraordinary creation. (The transitions from one shape to another are particularly amazing.) Via.
Christopher Conte makes artificial limbs for amputees. Combining his interest in human anatomy with his love of sculpture has resulted in some very unique creations that have caught the attention of Wired, Popular Science, Make Magazine, The Discovery Channel and MTV Networks. In 2007, he began making his 'microbotic' pieces available to the public. To see Christopher's on-line portfolio, visit his website. Via.
Again, more proof that anything can be made beautiful! Via.
Third: set your ghost in quiet corner somewhere outdoors and wait for Ghost Hunters to show up.
Artist Chris Gilmour's medium is packaging cardboard and glue and nothing else. No metal or wood support his remarkable reproductions of the mundane. Amazing.
The CD recycling topic keeps on a' rolling! Today's clever installment comes from Sally J. over at The Practical Archivist. She took the above photo of a CD/DVD LP sculpture located in her neighbor's yard. At the height of summer heat, the LP's might get a bit melt-y, but I'm thinking that would only give the sculpture a more organic look.
Bert Lambier is a wing nut and his art–Wing Nut Designs–is just another reason I want to learn how to weld. Will I ever become a master welder like Bert? Probably not. But that's okay. Until then I will marvel at his skill. From elegant kelp–who knew?–to charming robots, Bert's portfolio seems to have something for everybody.
Brenda Griffin-Wagner does some extraordinary things with birch trees. She searches forests for fallen logs and then, after finding the perfect specimens, gently and painstakingly removes their beautiful bark. Out of this skin, she fashions lights. But that is too simple a word. Yes, her creations illuminate, but they are works of art first, lights second.
To inquire about Brenda's work, she welcomes e-mails at Griffin_Canopy@yahoo.com.
Simon is the work of LA and Taipei-based sculptor and installation artist Ya Ya Chou. Read more about Simon here, and then head to the candy store and create one of your own. Where you'll put it...? I don't know, but be careful! I don't imagine the candy or those creepy fingernails will survive the daily pound of your sneakers.


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Implementation of trilingual education in the early years : observations from five kindergartens in Hong Kong
Lee, Pui-ling, Diana李佩鈴
The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong)
Lee, P. D. [李佩鈴]. (2015). Implementation of trilingual education in the early years : observations from five kindergartens in Hong Kong. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5689274
Existing research on trilingual education has typically focused on primary and secondary classrooms, and there is dearth of research on implementation of trilingual education in preschools. The Hong Kong government promotes bi-literacy and a trilingual policy, and the Education Bureau has in 1997 officially endorsed teaching of Cantonese, Putonghua and English to kindergarteners from the age of three, with the transfer of sovereignty from British to Chinese rule. Against this background, this thesis (i) portrays the teaching of Cantonese, Putonghua and English in kindergartens wherein vouchers can and cannot be encashed in Hong Kong; and (ii) examines similarities and differences in teaching practices among language teachers within the same kindergarten, and across "voucher" and "non-voucher" kindergartens. One voucher kindergarten was randomly selected from each of Hong Kong's three regions, and two non-voucher kindergartens were studied as special cases, in order to illustrate the range of prevalent practices. Half-day classes for four- year-olds were chosen for the study. Language lessons across five consecutive school days were video-taped in each kindergarten, and classroom language activities were analyzed using an adapted version of the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) observation scheme. The quality of the classroom environment and literacy curricula were assessed using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) and Curricular Subscales Extension (ECERS-E). Five principals and fourteen language teachers were interviewed on language policies and curriculum, the environment for language teaching, and their teaching practices and beliefs. Curriculum documents and classroom observations suggest that kindergartens attempted to align topics, vocabulary and sentence patterns of the three languages to help children make connections among the languages. Teacher-directed, whole-class teaching was the predominant mode of instruction in all three languages across kindergarten classrooms. Cantonese teachers spent significantly more time on teaching numbers and characters than other teachers, and Putonghua teachers used significantly more time on involving children to present role-play and songs to the class to teach vocabulary and pronunciation. English teachers often used the direct-instruction method to teach phonics and vocabulary. Classroom observations indicate the teaching of Cantonese, Putonghua and English in voucher and non-voucher kindergartens had more similarities than differences although teachers in non-voucher kindergartens provided significantly more lesson time than other teachers for children to give short oral answers, and teachers in voucher-kindergartens used significantly more visual resources than other teachers. Similar language teaching practices were also found among the three groups of language teachers within the same kindergarten, as they were equally affected by similar factors such as curriculum, instruction time, resources, parental demands, and principals' and teachers' beliefs. When rated with ECERS-R and ECERS-E, the quality of the learning environment of the five classrooms ranged from excellent to minimal, and non-voucher kindergartens were not necessarily providing the best environment. Although teachers believed that learning through play and interactions was the best ways to learn language, a scripted curriculum with limited language instruction time, parental pressures for more Chinese writing and English reading and writing, backwash effect of primary schools, large class size, insufficient teacher training and lesson preparation time led to significant gaps between beliefs and practice of the teachers. The findings presented here have implications for government policy and pedagogical practice in Hong Kong.
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I fell for Facebook fake news. Here's why millions of you did, too.
This crazy video is completely fake. Yet it's been watched 14 million times on Facebook — including by me. Here's why fake news is still a thriving business.
This computer-generated video, created by artist Aristomenis Tsirbas, found its way into a Facebook video viewed nearly 14 million times that falsely claimed to show a real plane landing. (MeniThings Productions/MeniThings Productions)
By Geoffrey A. Fowler
Geoffrey A. Fowler
Technology columnist based in San Francisco
Technology columnist
The Facebook video is nuts, but I can't tear my eyes away. A plane, struggling in a huge storm, does a 360-degree flip before safely landing and letting out terrified passengers.
It turns out the video is totally bunk, spliced together from a computer-generated clip and unrelated real news footage. But that didn't stop the Facebook post from arriving in my News Feed via a friend last month. I watched it. Maybe you did, too: It has nearly 14 million views.
Everyone now knows the Web is filled with lies. So then how do fake Facebook posts, YouTube videos and tweets keep making suckers of us?
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To find out, I conducted a forensic investigation of the fake that fooled my social network. I found the original creator of that CG plane clip. I spoke to the Facebook executive charged with curbing misinformation. And I confronted my friend who shared it.
The motives for a crazy plane report may be different from posts misdirecting American voters or fueling genocide in Myanmar. Yet some of the questions are the same: What makes fake news effective? Why did I end up seeing it? And what can we do about it?
Fake news creators "aren't loyal to any one ideology or geography," said Tessa Lyons, the product manager for Facebook's News Feed tasked with reducing misinformation. "They are seizing on whatever the conversation is" — usually to make money.
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This year, Facebook will double the number of humans involved in fighting constantly morphing "integrity" problems on its network, to 20,000. Thanks in part to those efforts, independent fact-checkers and some new technologies, Facebook user interaction with known fake news sites has declined by 50 percent since the 2016 election, according to a study by Stanford and New York University.
But if you think you're immune to this stuff, you're wrong. Detecting what's fake in images and video is only getting harder. Misinformation is part of an online economy that weaponizes social media to profit from our clicks and attention. And with the right tools to stop it still a long way off, we all need to get smarter about it.
Aristomenis Tsirbas, a Los Angeles-based director, made the computer-generated video of a plane doing a 360 that ended up being repurposed as part of a fake news report. (Aristomenis Tsirbas/Aristomenis Tsirbas)
The crazy plane video first appeared Sept. 13 on a Facebook page called Time News International. Its caption reads: "A Capital Airlines Beijing-Macao flight, carrying 166 people's, made an emergency landing in Shenzhen on 28 August 2018, after aborting a landing attempt in Macao due to mechanical failure, the airline said."
No real commercial plane did a 360 roll so close to the ground, but an emergency landing really did happen that August day in Macau.
Four days later, in Los Angeles, film director Aristomenis Tsirbas started getting messages from his friends. A year earlier, the computer graphics whiz had created and posted to YouTube a video he'd made showing a plane doing a 360. Someone had taken his work and used it at the beginning of a fake news report.
"I realized, oh, my God, I'm part of the problem," Tsirbas told me. The artist, who has worked on "Titanic" and "Star Trek," has a hobby in creating realistic but implausible videos, often involving aliens. He posts them on YouTube, he said, in part to demonstrate CG and in part to make a little money from YouTube ads.
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The photorealism of Tsirbas's clip played a big role in making the fake story go viral. And that makes it typical: Misinformation featuring manipulated photos and videos is among the most likely to go viral, Facebook's Lyons said. Sometimes, like in this case, it employs shots from real news reports to make it seem just credible enough. "The really crazy things tend to get less distribution than the things that hit the sweet spot where they could be believable," Lyons said.
Even after decades of Photoshop and CG films, most of us are still not very good about challenging the authenticity of images — or telling the real from the fake. That includes me: In an online test made by software maker Autodesk called Fake or Foto, I correctly identified the authenticity of just 22 percent of their images. (You can test yourself here.)
Another lesson: Fake news often changes the context of photos and videos in ways their creators might never imagine. Tsirbas sees his work as pranks or satire, but he hasn't explicitly labeled them that way. "They are clearly fakes," he said. After we spoke, he wrote to say he'd now add a disclaimer to his CG videos: "This is a narrative work."
Satire, in particular, can lose important context unless it's baked into an image itself. Another doctored fake news image, first posted to Twitter in 2017, appears to show President Trump touring a flooded area of Houston, handing a red hat to a victim. Artist Jessica Savage Broer, a Trump critic, told me she Photoshopped it to make a point about how people need to "use critical thinking skills." But then earlier this year, supporters of the president started sharing it on Facebook — by the hundreds of thousands — as evidence of the president's humanitarian work.
Artist Jessica Savage Broer photoshopped this image to include President Donald Trump. She said she wanted to make the point that people need to "use critical thinking skills." (Jessica Savage Broer/Jessica Savage Broer)
The outrage algorithm
Why would someone turn Tsirbas's airplane video into a fake news report?
There's no clear answer, but there are clues. Time News International, the page that published it, did not respond to requests I sent via Facebook, an email address or a U.K. phone number listed on its page.
Facebook's Lyons said pages posting misinformation most often have an economic motive. They post links to articles on sites with just-believable-enough names that are filled with advertisements or spyware, which might attempt to invade our online privacy.
Lyons's team shared with me a half-dozen samples of fake news. But the links to money aren't always immediately clear. The Time News International page doesn't regularly link to outside articles, though it posts a lot of outrageous photos and videos about topics in the news. That has attracted it a following of 225,000 people on Facebook — a base it could direct to content it might capitalize on in the future.
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Facebook and other social media companies deserve some of the blame. It's easy to grow an audience for outlandish stories when publishing doesn't require vetting, and algorithms are tuned to share the stuff that garners the greatest outrage. I saw that crazy video because Facebook decided I should.
Fake news producers also use our friends to add to their credibility. When I saw the plane video, my suspicions weren't on high alert because it came from my friend, who I trust as a smart guy. He told me he realized later the video was a fake but thought comments on his post would alert his friends. "It's just funny thinking about the steps by which we get duped," he said.
Facebook added a warning label to the video of a spinning plane after fact checkers called it false. (Geoffrey Fowler/The Washington Post)
Stop spreading the news
Facebook's response to the plane video shows how far it's come in the fight with fake news — and how far we have to go.
On Sept. 17, a few days after it was posted, the video was detected by Facebook's machine-learning systems, programs that try to automatically detect fake news. The company won't disclose exactly how those work, but it said the signals include what sorts of comments people leave on posts.
Once detected, Facebook passed the video to its network of independent fact-checkers. After Snopes labeled it as "false," Facebook made it show up less often in News Feeds.
Why does the fake plane video remain up at a time when Facebook is making headlines for taking down other posts? Facebook said deletion is for violations of its community standards, such as pornography. "My job is to prevent misleading and false information from going viral," Lyons said. "Even if something is false, we don't prevent people from sharing it. We give them context."
That comes in the form of a label. Now when the video appears in a News Feed or someone attempts to share it, up pops "Additional Reporting On This," with a link to reports from fact-checking organizations. Facebook said it also notified people who had already shared it, though my friend doesn't recall seeing a warning.
"I wouldn't consider this a success from our side," Lyons said. Typically, posts that Facebook demotes have an 80 percent reduction in the total number of views, so it's possible without Facebook's action, the post could have been seen by hundreds of millions. (Later, Facebook's automated systems also detected duplicates of the video being uploaded by other pages.)
It's also an issue of new media literacy. Facebook and others have produced fliers such as "Tips for spotting false news," but it's hard to change a response that is both human and pretty fundamental to the social media experience. There have always been hoaxes, but perhaps we need time to internalize just how easy they've become to create.
Lyons is already tracking the next generation of CG images dubbed "deep fakes" that don't even require the expertise of a creator like Tsirbas. Instead, they use artificial intelligence to splice together bits from lots of existing videos to create, for example, a fake speech by a president.
Maybe we'll eventually learn to be less trusting of our friends — at least the online ones. The people we count on for important information in the real world aren't always the people who fill our social media feeds.
Or if you want to avoid being that friend: Before you spread the latest outrage online, stop and consider the source.
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Geoffrey A. Fowler Geoffrey A. Fowler is The Washington Post's technology columnist based in San Francisco. He joined The Post in 2017 after 16 years with the Wall Street Journal writing about consumer technology, Silicon Valley, national affairs and China. Follow
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Service: The service is good at Giovanni Pastrami in Waikiki. The bar has very friendly and attentive bartenders/waitstaff are full of smiles and very attentive to your needs. They can also mix up a mean cocktail!
Food: Giovanni Pastrami's menu consists of hot and cold deli sandwiches which are delicious, pizzas, appetizers, pastas, soups, salads, burgers, hot dogs and typical bar food. Another great appeal is that they server breakfast all day until closing at midnight which is always a winner if you are itching for some eggs and bacon. The food is ok for bar food and a perk is that they have a fantastic Happy Hour with free cheese pizza with any alcohol purchase between 3-5pm, $5 appetizers and deals on drinks ($3-4 beers, $4 well drinks, $1 off wine).
Atmosphere: The ambiance is that of a sports bar. They have both table seating and bar seating but both are completely surrounded by flat screen TV's on all the walls which are really distracting if you are trying to eat but perfect for this type of establishment where everyone has their eyes peeled to a sports game of some sort.
Consistency: Giovanni is consistently average. It's the type of place you go to for a happy hour drink or to valet your car and grab a quick validation to go somewhere else for dinner in Waikiki. Its absolutely consistently great for a drink!
Parking: One of the very best things about Giovanni Pastrami is that they have valet parking at the Wyndham hotel right next to the bar. After 6pm its $6 to park for 4 hours but after that jumps up to $3 per a half hour so be careful or you can quickly run up a huge bill. Before 6pm you can park for $3 for a flat rate all day. .
Mon-Sun: 8 a.m. – 12 a.m.
Happy Hour Deals: Mon-Fri 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Service: The service is usually excellent at Mexico restaurant and the food comes out of the kitchen really fast. The best waiter is actually Mexican so if you see him there its worth your while to site in his corner as he can really "work a room." Only one time have we had a really crappy waitress who left our food sitting on the window ledge for a good 10 min before serving it cold and soggy which has pretty disappointing.
Food: The food is average-good. Its not the best Mexican food we have ever had, however, its one of the best in Hawaii for sure. They have all the traditional dishes, tacos, enchiladas, burritos, and a full bar stocked with tequila and a variety of beers. The chips and salsa are really good and they must make them fresh daily so try not to fill up before your huge entree arrives. One thing that is really nice about Mexico Restaurant is that they offer some healthy options including grilled fish tacos & burritos served with salad instead of fried with beans & rice.
Favorite Dishes: Fresh Burrito, Tamale, Mixed Fajitas (Come out sizzling and large enough to share!), Salsa, Chips, Beans & Rice, and ALL the salads (TIP- if you like Crab is da fresh kind!).
Atmosphere: The atmosphere is one of the best things about this restaurant. Its really spacious and themed to perfection. The bar is very quaint and the tables, art and vibe is totally Mexican through and through. It's a nice place to meet with friends or have a bite with your family as its kid friendly and overall very casual.
Consistency: The consistency is good. We have been 4-6 times and its pretty consistent. The food is just average Mexican food and nothing fancy so if your itching for a fixing…. Mexico restaurant is a good place to come even though its a bit out of the way.
Parking: There is free parking at Mexico Restaurant. The lot, however, is super small and can be difficult to park in during lunch or peak dinner time when the place is packed. Most often for dinner they have a valet guy outside to help customers so if you need help it may be available and will need it to get out of that lot in the dark… especially after a margarita or two!
Monday-Sunday: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Service: The service was so so at the Kaimana Beach Hotel. The staff is def union and we had some old timers serving us. They where all very friendly, local and personable, however, they where not very fast or gave good recommendations. That being said they did refund our crappy appetizer which we appreciated.
Food: The food is ok. The fresh fish was good and brought the overall dining experience up. The vegetables where cooked perfectly and the portion size was way above average and I would defiantly go back for the dish.
Atmosphere: The atmosphere is prob the best thing going for this restaurant. Yes the furniture is VERY dated – think 60's – bright pink table clothes that are super run down and rinky-dink tables and chairs. However, the restaurant sites ocean front and is shaded by a beautiful Hau Tree where Robert Louis Stevenson use to sit and write. At one time this restaurant was most likely IN and charming but now it looks like it needs a serious make over! If you visit either look up at the tree or out over the ocean and no where else!
Consistency: We have only been once for dinner so far but once we return promise to update this portion.
Parking: The restaurant is located at the Kaimana Beach Hotel so you can valet the car and get validation. Or you can park at Kaimana Beach park and walk.
The New Otani Kaimana Beach Hotel.
Service: The service was pretty good and the staff was both friendly and attentive. The only negative thing that happened was for Happy Hour when we first sat down our servers shift was ending and it took a while for our new server to take over (at least 20 min!) during which time they lost our initial order which was annoying. That being said, once the change over happened our server was on top of his game.
Food: The food was really disappointing. When you go to a restaurant of this caliber you expect everything to be cooked to perfection but it was not. Throughout the meal we where constantly reminded that if you want a good steak go to Hy's!
Favorite Dishes: Happy Hour: Steak Tartar & Ahi Tartar (both only $5) where the best dishes of the 4 they offer from 5:30-6:30pm. Dinner: Canadian Bacon! Yummy! it's so good you can just go and eat that for dinner, Sauteed Spinach, Ribeye Steak, Apple Strudel (straight out of the Swiss Alps).
Atmosphere: The atmosphere of the restaurant is elegant with dark floors, high ceilings and beautiful views of the Royal Hawaiian lanai area and Waikiki. The restaurant isn't particularly large but they managed to squeezed a ton of tables into the space which makes uncomfortable and the acoustics are terrible. The floor was so incredibly slippery that it was like an ice skating rink, be careful and for god sake hold on!
Consistency: Both times we have gone, the food has been terribly inconsistent and throughout the meal we have had a range of food i.e. Fries that where soggy than crispy, potato chips where stale then burned, sliders and steak which was raw and then totally overcooked.
Parking: Wolfgang is located in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center so its best to park in the mall and make sure to get your ticket validated for free parking or it can cost you a small fortune to park!
12 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Sat-Sunday: Brunch 11 a.m. -3 p.m.


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This course was taught at Chapman University during the fall 2011 semester.
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This comprehensive course on science and skepticism will address the most mysterious, controversial, and contentious issues in science and skepticism from a quarter century of research involving: science and pseudoscience, science and pseudohistory, science and religion, science and morality, the psychology and neuroscience of belief, science and politics, science and economics, evolution and intelligent design creationism, the Baloney Detection Kit, how beliefs can be changed, how science works (and sometimes doesn't work) from the history of science, and many specific examples of the power of belief.
Using numerous examples from three decades of research on this subject, students will learn how to think scientifically and skeptically, and he will show how to be open-minded enough to accept new ideas without being so open-minded that their brains fall out. This course meets once a week for three hours and includes lectures accompanied by in-class demonstrations, videos, magic, illusions, and examples from pop culture, along with rigorous scientific research, plus student discussions and presentations.
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Topics addressed: conspiracy theories • magic • paranormal/supernatural/occult • philosophy of science and scientific method • psychics • ufos/aliens/crop circles
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Sociology of Belief
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This course was taught at Oklahoma City University during the spring 2011 semester.
This critical thinking course interprets extraordinary claims using reason, logic, and skeptical analysis in drawing conclusions. Fringe science, pseudoscientific, and bogus health claims will be evaluated based on available evidence. Health claims, fortune- telling (astrology, psychic predictions, palm reading), alternative medicine, sensory illusions such as magic, faith healing, clairvoyance, telepathy, the lunar effect, and psycho-kinesis will be some of the topics likely covered. The role of the media in covering and reporting such claims will be explored. The course will focus on drawing plausible and logical conclusions based on evaluation of existing evidence. Assignments will include weekly quizzes, class discussions, and a formal project/presentation.
Have a basic knowledge of critical thinking, skeptical thought, and the scientific method.
Discriminate between sound vs. faulty logic in descriptions and observations of pseudoscientific claims.
Demonstrate how to conduct research and/or investigate anomalistic phenomena via a positive working relationship with a team of students.
Evaluate skeptical knowledge of unexplained phenomena, its claim(s), or a central skeptical figure.
Topics addressed: alternative medicine • esp and psi • magic • philosophy of science and scientific method • ufos/aliens/crop circles
Academic discipline: sociology and/or anthropology


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Ragged All Blacks to face revived Springboks in Rugby Champs
AP Sep 15, 2017 at 12:53a ET
For the first time in several years the All Blacks and Springboks will face each other on almost even terms when they meet in the Rugby Championship in Auckland on Saturday.
Both teams are unbeaten midway through the championship and the title, held by New Zealand, will likely be decided by the result of their matches on Saturday and in Cape Town on Oct. 7.
This match finds the teams on opposing trajectories; the Springboks are on the up after a woeful 2016 season while the All Blacks have slipped from the standard they set last year when they won 13 of 14 tests.
The current Springboks bear no resemblance to the team that won only four of 12 tests last season, losing 41-13 and 57-15 to New Zealand in the Rugby Championship.
They are unbeaten in six tests this year and have beaten Argentina twice and drawn with Australia in their three championship matches. Nor are the current All Blacks the equals of the 2016 team which performed at a consistently high standard, despite having to rebuild significantly after winning the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
While they have won five, lost one and drawn one of their seven tests – drawing their mid-year series with the British and Irish Lions – the All Blacks haven't been able to consistently produce the brilliant attacking style they achieved so effortlessly last year.
Injuries have cramped that style, most notably the loss of key backs Ryan Crotty and Ben Smith during the Lions series. But the All Blacks seem to have been beset by a deeper malaise; the rush defenses now routinely used by their rivals and deployed most effectively by the Lions have been successful in disrupting their back play.
Some of the blame has been placed at the feet of flyhalf Beauden Barrett, who was the best player in his position in the world last year but has struggled at times this season to reproduce that form in the face of suffocating defensive pressure.
Barrett admits his option-taking has suffered because of the close attention of defenses which give him little time to act. He feels confident he can overcome that difficulty.
"I just have to have better situational awareness of who is around me and what the best options are for the occasion," Barrett said. "Understand the difference of having a tight forward outside me or inside versus having an outside back.
"I guess it's also about speed of ball. If we have quick ball or slow ball and whether it is front-foot ball versus whether we are going backwards. These are the main cues."
The All Blacks have persisted in their attempts to play an all-out attacking game, despite a mounting error rate and the breakdowns that have occurred around Barrett. There have been times when they might have reverted to a more conservative style, at least to have used tactical kicking to relieve pressure, but they have persisted.
Coach Steve Hansen is happy to see his young players under pressure and forced to make snap decisions.
"In 2016 we had a group of men who had been primed to hit the road running," he said. "In 2017, the game has changed subtly so we're learning to deal with that.
"You're always going to have a tough time as a squad at some period. It would appear this is a year we're having to find out about ourselves, how we are preparing, are we doing it bone-deep or are we just scratching the surface?"
The Springboks have comparatively fewer problems, having fully regained confidence that was shattered in 2016. Coach Allister Coetzee has reshaped his team, building again with new players and that has fully paid off, rewarding the South African Rugby Union for sticking with him after the Springboks' worst ever season.
"We've actually buried 2016 as deep as possible and moved on," Coetzee said. "This is a completely different team environment.
"It's different individuals in terms of why they are Springboks and what they represent. The mindset is completely different."
The result is the teams are again closely matched, and they are likely to add an exciting new chapter to one of rugby's richest rivalries.


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During the last decade, the benefits of exoskeletons for industrial purposes as ergonomics tools have been studied with successful results. They help to reduce fatigue and prevent injuries during lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, and overhead-positions tasks. Also exoskeletons have benefits as a communication tool in smart factories. they could interact with other systems such as automated guided robots in the supply chain, assembly tools, automated machines, and autonomous software, saving time during the assembly process of different products and reducing faults from operators.
HAL® [Hybrid Assistive Limb®] from Cyberdyne Inc., Japan, is the world's first cyborg-type robot, by which a wearer's bodily functions can be improved, supported and enhanced. When a person moves the body, various signals are sent from the brain to muscles through nerves. Those signals leak on the skin surface as "bio-electric signals [BES]". HAL for Medical Use - Lower Limb Model reads the wearer's BES, accordingly compensates muscle power of lower limbs and assists him or her in walking, standing-up and sitting-down with his or her own legs. The brain confirms how the body moved on what sort of signals and becomes able to learn the way to emit necessary signals for walking gradually. This leads to the important first step in walking of a physically challenged person without being assisted by HAL®. Wearing of HAL® leads to a fusion of "man", "machine" and "information".
We will present the fabrication of two types of textile-based soft inflatable actuator which are made of a bladder wrapped by textile and enfolded inside textile parallel channels. The first actuator is made at different sizes to be used in a large range of wearable applications such as soft exosuits. Five actuator were attached to a commercial glove fingers and form a wearable glove, the glove shows different gestures and it is able to lift 9 [kg] weights. With a larger scale, the actuator was able to lift 20 [kg]. The second actuator shows flexible and versatile behaviour by exhibiting a wide range of motions such as bending, expanding, and twisting. Hybrid actuation (cable-driven, and pneumatics) allows online programing of behaviour and therefore a potential use in soft wearable exosuits.
To deal with the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) in physically demanding tasks, research is focusing on the use of exoskeletons. Based on the available evidence underlying the claimed efficiency of exoskeletons in reducing biomechanical strains at work, this communication firstly aims at discussing the benefits and potential musculoskeletal risks associated with using these devices. At the light of the main deficiencies in current knowledge, the research necessary to develop future generations of exoskeletons also are presented. But, even if the potential of exoskeletons to attenuate muscular strains seems promising in laboratory, the ability to determine the value proposition of an exoskeleton in the workplace is difficult due to the variety of methods and metrics used, and the protean character of these technologies. In a second part, this communication presents a standard framework for the evaluation of the human-exoskeleton interaction, with the hope to improve their future integration.
In the talk we will discuss how a probabilistic model can be used to predict complex human movements from observing only a few milliseconds of a subset of all recorded limb trajectories. The model can handle partial observable, missing data and is robust to sensor noise. In a postural control experiment, I demonstrate how this model can be used to predict goal directed right arm motions solely from observing the motion of the trunk or left arm. The model can be also used for active Exoskeleton control, model validation, classification or movement analyses and is as such interesting for a broad range of research approaches working with multi-modal motion data.
This presentation analyses the challenges that are raised by introducing human enhancement technologies to the workplace, for the purpose of making both the individual and the organisations perform better. A typology of approaches to organisational enhancement is described. We show how available technologies match these needs and highlight gaps which can inspire future developments by engineers. Then, we take one step further and question the acceptance and efficiency of such technologies. We show based on empirical data collected in an organization testing wearables for augmentation that resistance to the augmentation practice comes down to how organizations manage the implementation of the technology. It opens questions to how the technology can be designed for more procedural justice and areas for future research collaboration between developers, engineers, and social scientists, to shape the development of the augmentation market.
We tested the effectivity of a passive arm support exoskeleton during different static postures. We compared the moment that was required from the subjects to maintain the arm postures as well as the muscle activity in the with and without exoskeleton conditions. Results: The supportive moment provided by the exoskeleton (0.5-6.1 Nm; up to 56% of the required moment) implied a significant reduction of the shoulder moment to be generated by the subject. The supportive moment as well as muscle activity effects was dependent on the arm posture, particularly on the vertical arm elevation rather than the horizontal abduction. For three muscles, the effects were dependent on the elevation angles. Increased muscle activity was seen in some antagonistic or stabilizing muscles in extreme angles. Conclusion: Our results emphasize the importance of analyzing the task demands, such as working posture, when selecting or designing arm support exoskeletons.
After above-knee amputation, amputees usually go under intense rehabilitation process in order to overcome their disadvantage and successfully reintegrate in the society. Passive prostheses, which are mostly used by amputees, enable performing of various activities such as walking on levelled and inclined ground, and even running, riding a bicycle and as of lately swimming. However, performing high power demanding tasks, such as stair ascent, presents a problem because the lack of muscles makes it impossible to produce required forces. This means, that in order for the prosthesis to be able to perform high demanding power activities it must be powered, primarily in its main joints – knee and ankle. We are presenting hydraulic power system and control system for knee and ankle powered prosthesis which we are developing in order to achieve required kinematics and dynamics of the prosthesis which would enable it to perform high power demanding activities in more natural manner, especially stair ascent.
The conference aims to bring together academia and industries to exchange visions and ideas in the state of the art and practice of exoskeleton and human augmentation technologies. It serves as the best platform allowing scholars, technological researchers and industry from international communities to present their research results and development activities in human augmentation technologies. This is your opportunity to get information on the latest developments, participate in interdisciplinary discussions and profit from expert knowledge and an intensive know how exchange.
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This presentation gives an overview on the special needs for exoskeletons applicable in the aerospace industry. Further, the study shows an example of the development and testing history of one selected exoskeleton. The presentation concludes with a discussion on the potential and challenges of future exoskeletons.
The employment of Exoskeleton in manufacturing represents an innovative technology for handling challenges such as decreasing the employment rate, manual handling of heavy parts and safety and security at workplace. The presentation mainly focuses on modelling methodology for coupling the active and passive Exoskeleton on standard digital humanoid. The current existing methodology could be used for further couplings of the not yet existing Exoskeletons. Before employing an Exoskeleton into the production environment, simulations of "as it is" and of "as it should be" states, need to be performed. The comparison between the simulation results will prove if there exists a real need for the Exoskeleton employment or the workplace should be improved. These simulations reveal the layout constrains, the benefits which the employment of the Exoskeleton brings, and the new ergonomics results for the human workers.
According to the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), musculoskeletal injuries, caused by strain lifting and carrying at work, account for 23 % of sick days in Germany, leading to an estimated annual 10 billion Euro loss in production. Active exoskeletons, like German Bionic´s CRAY X, were created in cooperation with leading work ergonomists specializing in manual hand lifting of goods and tools. Wearing those power suits while lifting heavy loads reduces compression pressure in the lower back area, thereby preventing workplace accidents and musculoskeletal injuries.
To answer the needs of a motility deficient body may refer both to the scientific conception of a technological object conceived to assist the disabled person, for instance exoskeletal device, and its appropriation by the user. Intentionality is one of the parameters focused by engineers in this process. While using qualitative empirical material (engineers and motility experts discourses and narrative interviews with persons using or having used exoskeletons) and relying on the conceptual background of a recent theoretical paradigm, such as enactive phenomenology, it shall be shown what challenges exist while reconceiving motility intentionality in cases of spinal cord injury and cerebrovascular accidents. In a further step, it shall be focused how these challenges are addressed by designers of exoskeletal devices for this category of subjects. The aim is to confront the user's subjective point of view with the point of view of specialists working in rehabilitative robotics.
In the context of the factory of the future scenario, a human-centric work-scene is the focus of such industrial revolution, requiring robotics to assist humans, even physically. In order to improve the ergonomics of tasks, together with productivity and flexibility of production, cooperative and wearable robotics is increasingly demanded. The proposed contribution aims at describe challenges, achievements and perspectives of human operators empowering in the context of Industry 4.0. The discussion is based on two on going projects: H2020 CleanSky 2 EURECA (empowering human operators in aerospace industry) and EFFORTLESS (empowering human operators in automotive industry) projects, describing the designed solutions in terms of both hardware and control and discussing about current TRL. A particular focus is made on human-robot interaction, analyzing different metrics for its evaluation, allowing to improve control performance.
Stroke, together with spinal cord injury (SCI), count up to 52% of the adult-onset disability. Enhancing the process of recovery of cognitive and motor functions after a neurological injury or disease is therefore widely recognized as a priority in healthcare. One of the opportunities in this direction lies in combining traditional approaches with robotic-based neurorehabilitation, thus improving the beneficial effects of the treatment. In this work, we present a novel exoskeleton device and propose its use in neurorehabilitation application scenarios.
Work related injuries are a major problem in the USA and around the world. Back and shoulder injuries are especially problematic and costly. A number of exoskeletons have been developed to address these problems, but do they actually work, and what are the long term user implications? We have tested a number of exoskeletons with various wearable sensors and a standardized functional movement testing approach and would like to share our results.
This talk focuses on the future of exoskeletons, from the vantage point of today while keeping in mind learnings from the past. As we live in a time where such devices will become mainstream, we will discuss needs of real users as well as the subjective nature of this challenge. The main issues while using an exoskeletons in a practical setting will also be discussed, followed by the best strategies to tackle them. There will also be a demonstration of the latest SkelEx prototype - a non powered upper body exoskeleton for working in the front or overhead. Members of the audience will have the opportunity to try the device at the end of the talk. This talk will be interesting for those who want to develop themselves in the field of exoskeletons, or for those who are enthusiastic about modern robotics and their applications.
Motor control is complicated for people with robotic devices (prostheses, orthoses, exosuits, and the like). We propose an innovative and generic methodology for efficient control design in various motion/posture tasks, incl. locomotion. As design criteria we take into consideration motion/posture stability, movement execution time, energy expenditure, and the principle of "assistance-as-needed". For posture stabilization we can design robust feedback controllers usng special design relations. We have developed also a control learning approach that optimizes the performance within a minimum number of test movements. The proposed approach has the necessary mathematical and computation guarantees for its feasibility and optimality.
Giving back full mobility to people with a Spinal Cord Injury to fully participate in daily activities and contributing to the quality of life. That is what Project MARCH is about. In this advanced project, each year a new student team of Technical University Delft commits to the development of the ultimate exoskeleton. For two years, Project MARCH is collaborating with engineering firm Code Product Solutions. Together, the previous models were improved using Finite Element Analyses. This state-of-the-art predictive engineering methodology enables adjusting the design in an early development stage; it saves time and costs in the development process and leads to a higher quality product. And most importantly, by applying a Computer Aided Engineering-driven design, we were able to optimise the strength and weight of various highly complicated parts, which contributes to a very user-friendly exoskeleton. In short: Big steps towards full mobility.
Bioservo is dedicated to becoming world-leading in developing wearable technology and improve quality of life for a lot of people. Bioservo recently launched Ironhand® - the world's first soft robotic muscle strengthening system. Based on their patented SEM™ (Soft Extra Muscle) technology, their bionic glove strengthens the grip and supports lack of endurance to prevent strain injuries. A lightweight glove with a portable unit, where the wearer is in full control provides superior results – creating a sustainable workplace.
This talk will focus on ways in which to both improve worker health and productivity in the manufacturing and construction industries through exoskeleton use. Additionally, through the implementation of field labs, users are able to investigate exoskeleton best practices and identify issues in order to make improvements for a new generation of exoskeletons.
BABYBE is softrobotic prothesis for premature infants that emulate the mothers chest like breathing, heartbeat and voice in critical care NICU situations.


In Miami, May doesn't only bring flowers. It also brings a ton of summer-inspired events! This weekend Kelly Saks, editor of Kelly's Kloset, invited the Orchid Boutique to have a pop-up shop at the Four Seasons in Brickell. Guests had the pleasure of doing a little shopping while sipping on cocktails. After they shopped until they dropped, everyone sat down to discuss fashion dos and don'ts for the summer, headed by Miss Saks herself. They finished the event with a delicious gourmet brunch that had everyone fighting a food coma.
We set up our best spring and summer styles at the event, if I do say so myself ;). From colorful beach cover ups to swimsuits with pops of neon, the selection was getting all of the ladies in the spirit of the season.
Listening in on the styling discussion, I heard some very useful fashion advice: "Don't ever wear jeans and flip flops to a job interview." I almost let out an AMEN in agreement. That's great for a chill summer outing, but has no place for the office. I can't remember ever making a lasting impression in thong-sandals!
What is your summer fashion do/don't? Let me know! And enjoy the photos from the event.


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Pass on the jewelry and the tradition. You had one. Your mother had one. Now it's her turn. Sweetly feminine, this jewelry box is a splendid setting for all her treasured trinkets! A ballerina and ballet slipper design, two drawers and a twirling ballerina mean plenty of storage and dreams of pretty jewelry await.
When I recieved this item it was so cute , I purchased it for my 5 year old granddaughter , I opened it and the ballerina wouldn't spin! Not happy,called hsn customer service and they shipped another out right away, still waiting!! Two weeks after Christmas!!!!


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MMMMMM . . . . SALTED PORK: Okay, we've only seen about half of the first episode, but Jen and I are getting hooked on PBS's new reality series (yes, you read that right) Colonial House.
Imagine the Real World, plus Survivor-level deprivation, plus -- and I know you're not used to this on reality tv -- educational content. Seventeen well-trained people sent to middle-of-nowhere Maine, where they're going to try to replicate 1600s American society, from gender roles to colonial hierarchies (the servants, they are quite indentured) to the provisions available to having to deal with local Passamaquoddy tribe.
From what I can gather, there's four 2-hour episodes, two of which debuted last week, two which debut this week, repeated frequently. Check your local listings, enjoy, and, prithee, get your learning on.
MMMMMM...CHOCOLATE SYRUP AND CASABA MELON: Janet Leigh's death in the shower in "Psycho" (which was so viscerally created using the previously mentioned foodstuffs) has been named the best film death of all time by the British magazine Total Film. The entire list isn't available, but rounding out the top five are: 2. Slim Pickens riding the bomb in "Dr Strangelove"; 3. King Kong taking a great fall in "King Kong"; 4. Alan Rickman plunging to the pavement in "Die Hard"; and 5. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway being riddled with bullets in "Bonnie and Clyde." Also on the list are the deaths of Bambi's Mom, the Wicked Witch of the West, John Hurt having the ultimate upset stomach in "Alien," the corny death in "Witness," and scenes from "The Omen," "The Godfather," and "Reservoir Dogs."
So what is your favorite overlooked movie death scene? The first one that comes to mind for me is Wallace Shawn in "The Princess Bride." Let's hear from you in the comments.
THIS IS IT: The television reunion show we've all been waiting for has finally been announced! Coming next season to CBS, Ms. Romano, Schneider, Julie and Barbara reunite and reminisce about nine (nine?!?) wonderful seasons of taking things "One Day at a Time".
DISASTER AVERTED: It's Fantasia and Diana in the finals.
Just like in Survivor, up until the finals, it's not about being the best each week; it's about not being the worst. Now, assuming a fair vote, it's up to someone to win it.
Assuming an unfair vote, however, because it's Fox/19E, I'll tentatively predict a Diana win, because I think 19E sees Fantasia as being marketable with or without the crown, but that Diana's career prospects would be significantly enhanced with the AI title. You?
BETTER LATE . . . : It may have taken him until the age of 45, but Tom Arnold has finally said something funny:
Could a 30-second film role have saved Kobe Bryant from his rape trial in Colorado? Tom Arnold seems to think so after making his new movie, "Soul Plane," which also stars Snoop Dogg.
He says Bryant was originally offered a cameo that later went to fellow Laker Karl Malone.
Arnold told us, "[Kobe] was considering it, but he called back and said 'I have to be in Colorado that day to get a little bit of surgery.' I swear to God. It is the only time in history that someone could say 'Damn, if I had only been with Snoop Dogg last night, I wouldn't have gotten in trouble.'"
Arnold's next good joke is due in 2049.
YES, BUT WILL THEY BRING BACK TEAM GUIDO? If CBS only promised an Amazing Race 5 for Tuesday nights this summer, it would have been enough for us.
But today comes confirmation that The Amazing Race 6 will follow right afterwards, airing Saturday nights this fall at 9pm on CBS. Wow.
Seriously, dayenu.
LET NO ONE ELSE'S WORK EVADE YOUR EYES: From McSweeney's Internet Tendency, April 28: Create Your Own Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Column: Disorder and Dreams in [Country In The News], by Michael Ward.
From the NY Observer, May 19: Write your own Thomas Friedman column!, by Michael Kubin.
Just saying. Is all. (And Ward's is funnier.)
edited to add: Okay, time for a moment of irony: Low Culture posted this first, but I didn't see their post until after I posted mine.
IDOL CHATTER: I don't watch the show, so I can't really comment on these 10 suggestions for improving "American Idol", but I have a feeling some folks round these parts might have a thing or two to say on the subject.
DEEP DOWN, COLONEL ANGUS IS VERY SWEET: This week's SNL? The Best of Christopher Walken.
If there's one thing that can improve the show, it's more cowbell.
LAKE HURON ROLLS, SUPERIOR SINGS: But that doesn't mean that when you and your friends step up to the mic on karaoke night that you should tackle Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Ftizgerald," or for that matter "Piano Man," "Tears in Heaven," "I Will Survive," or any of the other songs on this list of the worst karaoke songs (reg. req.).
ANNYONG, GOOD TELEVISION: The welcome news from Fox is that appointment-TV Arrested Development has been picked up.
A LIST A DAY FLASHBACK: Back on October 23, I asked:
Who will be the next actor who starred in a late '70s ABC prime-time sitcom to join the growing list of the dearly departed? First there was Robert Urich ("Soap") in April, followed by the recent deaths of John Ritter ("Three's Company") and Fred Berry ("What's Happening"). And now comes the news that character actress Florence Stanley, who played Abe Vigoda's wife, Bernice, on both "Barney Miller" and "Fish" has been cancelled.
And we now have our answer: Tony Randall, who passed away today at the age of 84. Randall, the fastidious half of "Odd Couple," which ran on ABC from 1970-75, also was a favorite guest of David Letterman, so for those of you who like see the occasional human glimpse behind his public facade, tune in tonight.
TAKING A LONG LUNCH: Did you know that a package of ramen noodles contains more than 170 feet of noodle?
All this, and more, at the How Much Is Inside? website. Just how much filling is in one package of Oreos? You'll find out here.
HE DOES HAVE THE BEST UMBRELLA: Affirming Matt's prediction, Jimmy Fallon has left SNL. And good riddance.
Here's a question, though: name a former SNL cast member whose career would be enhanced by returning to the show, as well as our enjoyment thereof. You know, from back when the show was consistently watchable? I'm seriously thinking that Lovitz has nothing better to do, and damnit, I miss the Lying Guy.
(Okay, what I really want is Alec Baldwin to join the cast, but that's me.)
THEY MAKE RUDE REMARKS ABOUT ME: We've only paid intermittent attention to the Liz Phair Sellout Watch since rolling it out last May, but an article in today's NY Post indicates that the war between musical integrity the quest for popularity is over:
This week, she's part of Z100's Zootopia, which hits Madison Square Garden on Friday.
She'll share the stage with bubblehead popster Jessica Simpson, rockers Maroon 5, punk-pop teen Avril Lavigne, hit rap group Black Eyed Peas, J-Kwon and William "She Bangs" Hung.
The night will be hosted by the Backstreet Boys, which is the ironic icing on the teen-pop cake.
Is it really better by far to get paid?
WEAR SUNSCREEN AND PLAY WITH YOURSELF: Jon Stewart's hilarious commencement address to this year's graduating class at his alma mater, William and Mary.
An excerpt:
"Let's talk about the real world for a moment. We had been discussing it earlier, and I…I wanted to bring this up to you earlier about the real world, and this is I guess as good a time as any. I don't really know to put this, so I'll be blunt. We broke it.
Please don't be mad. I know we were supposed to bequeath to the next generation a world better than the one we were handed. So, sorry.
I don't know if you've been following the news lately, but it just kinda got away from us. Somewhere between the gold rush of easy internet profits and an arrogant sense of endless empire, we heard kind of a pinging noise, and uh, then the damn thing just died on us. So I apologize.
But here's the good news. You fix this thing, you're the next greatest generation, people. You do this—and I believe you can—you win this war on terror, and Tom Brokaw's kissing your ass from here to Tikrit, let me tell ya. And even if you don't, you're not gonna have much trouble surpassing my generation. If you end up getting your picture taken next to a naked guy pile of enemy prisoners and don't give the thumbs up you've outdid us.
We declared war on terror. We declared war on terror—it's not even a noun, so, good luck. After we defeat it, I'm sure we'll take on that bastard ennui."
TWO GREAT TASTES THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER: Having recently consumed ny first McRib sandwich, I was pretty sure I had eaten perhaps the worst pork or pork-derived foodstuff on the planet. Then today I went on Amazon to look up how a friend's book was selling following a glowing review in the Orlando Sentinel and was greeted by the recommendation that I might enjoy a nice bag of Pork Chocs--Sugar Free Milk Chocolate Dipped Pork Rinds.
I'M JUST A BILL: From the Corrections in Sunday's New York Times Arts & Leisure section: "A listing last Sunday in Summer Movies for "Thunderbirds," scheduled to open on July 30, misidentified the actor who plays Jeff Tracy. He is Bill Paxton, not Bill Pullman."
Are there any two more interchangeable "name" actors on the planet? I'm talking about actors whose names you actually know, not actors who you know as "that guy." Of the 23 movies listed below, which starred Paxton and which Pullman? I'll post the answers in the comments.
1. "Twister"
2. "Independence Day"
3. "The Last Seduction"
4. "The Last Supper"
5. "Wyatt Earp"
6."Tombstone"
7. "Titanic"
8. "U-571"
9. "Lake Placid"
10. "Lost Highway"
11. "A Simple Plan"
12. "Brokedown Palace"
13. "Apollo 13"
14. "Sleepless in Seattle"
15. "Mighty Joe Young"
16. "Casper"
17. "Boxing Helena"
18. "Singles"
19. "Mr. Wrong"
20. "Spaceballs"
21. "Weird Science"
22. "Brain Dead"
YOU'RE ANNETTE BENING! Seriously, y'all, tonight's Sopranos episode was only missing a backwards-talking dwarf. Pie. Oh. My.
WHO WANTS TO SAFE-SEX DIKEMBE? Former 76er Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo joined U2's Bono in Philadelphia today for a rally to launch a campaign against global AIDS and poverty.
Here's more about what Bono's up to.
WELL, IT'S JOLLY, AND PARTS OF IT ARE "OLDE:" Greetings from an Internet cafe just south of Trafalgar Square in London. A few notes with my previous time (Internet service is nearly 4 bucks an hour):
1. Going nearly 48 hours on two hours sleep is never a good idea, but especially when those two hours have been fitiful "plane" sleep.
2. London loves pizza. Pizza Hut (and there are many locations) is ALWAYS full when I've walked by, as are many other pizza chains.
3. Am I missing the foreign currency exchange locations on every corner in New York and other major American cities, or is this just a pecularity of London?
4. £8.50 will buy you a nice lunch on a real plate. Unfortunately, with the current exchange rate, that's almost $16.
5. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (the musical) will need serious retooling before its U.S. opening--Act 1 needs to be cut in half, and the lead villain role in Act 2 needs to be reworked. Yes, the flying car is amazing, but there's a lot more "stage magic" than theatrical magic in the show.
6. God, my feet hurt. More later.
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YOU'RE ANNETTE BENING! Seriously, y'all, tonight'...
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Q: Winjs List Dispose I am trying to optimise my app for windows 8. I have a WinJS.Binding.List and a page which will display a filtered projection of that list. Every time I access the page the filter will most likely be different so I want to dispose of the list when I leave the page.
Here is my filter:
            filteredListViewItems = Data.items.createFiltered(function (item) {
                if (item.project === certainProject) {
                        return item;
                };
            });

When I leave the page I then call:
           filteredListViewItems.dispose();

However if I put a breakpoint inside the function it still runs every time I add an item.
How can I remove this altogether?

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