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Identity crisis and its negative effects on individual and familial integration in Sam Shepard's Buried Child
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Title Identity crisis and its negative effects on individual and familial integration in Sam Shepard's Buried Child
Creator ,Dr. Nilofer Moin Shakir, Khalil Al-Rashedi
Description From the ancient nation's literature to the modern world literature, identity crisis has been one of the outstanding themes in literature.The post World War II era is considered by critics as the era ofunspoken classifications, festering clashes, and hidden kinds of dissatisfaction and revolution.When the World War II ended many American soldiers rejoined their society while suffering frompsychic pain. Modern American drama, especially "Absurd Theater", considerably covers identity crisis and its effects on both individual and social levels. When American society became increasingly fragmented in the post war years it was mirrored in a fragmented theatre by an increasingly introspective and highly ambiguous drama. Americans' identity crisis is widely depicted in Sam Shepard's dramaturgy. This paper explores identity crisis in Shepard'sBuried Child. It illustrates how Shepard dramatically portrays postmodern American's dilemma with the paradox of American identity crisis and how the characters' identity problematic issues contribute to the familial disintegration and dissonance of the postmodern American family.
Publisher Smart Moves
Identifier https://ijellh.com/OJS/index.php/OJS/article/view/4963
Source SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ; Volume 6, Issue 9, September 2018; 12
Relation https://ijellh.com/OJS/index.php/OJS/article/view/4963/4286
Rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0


How can geologists, production engineers, reservoir engineers and well engineers best collaborate?
Is it possible to find ways to improve production without investing in more wells, intervention or offshore work, just from analysing the data we have, to help make better decisions?
This is what we explored in our half day Digital Energy Journal / Finding Petroleum forum in Aberdeen on September 29, "Using Analytics to Improve Production."
Scottish Enterprise's aim is to stimulate Scotland's economic ambition - creating an innovative, high-wage and highly productive economy with a competitive, international market presence and a focus on high value opportunities.
To maximise production we need to integrate different areas of technical expertise. We need to involve all levels in the organisation, equity partners and customers too.
Integrated activity planning, rolling production forecasting and asset management must be aligned. For credible production forecasting, we have to reach a balanced view of uncertainties.
How can we enable such cooperation across organisations and locations?
Integrated Operations Centres are not the whole answer. People, Process, Technology and Organisation all need yet more attention to deliver improved workflows.
A case-study of optimising gas-lift for many wells will show the benefits of cooperation for understanding the reservoir, production and facilities all brought together with insights from Operations.
- Case study - using an efficient and cost effective tool to analyse post simulation results, for data management and production forecasting.
- Using powerful 3D visualisation to view, analyse and make quick decision from post simulation results.
EnginSoft is a premier consulting firm in the field of Simulation Based Engineering Science (SBES) with a global presence. It was founded in 1984, but its founder and initial employees had been working in SBES since the mid '70s. Throughout its long history it has been at the forefront of technological innovation and remains a catalyst for change in the way SBES and CAE technologies in general are applied to solve even the most complex industrial problems with a high degree of reliability.
Today, EnginSoft is comprised of groups of highly qualified engineers, with expertise in a variety of engineering simulation technologies including FEM Analysis and CFD, working in synergic companies across the globe. We are present in Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Turkey and the U.S.A. and have a close partnership with synergetic companies located in Greece, Spain, Israel, Portugal, Brazil, Japan and the U.S.A.
We work across a broad range of industries that include the automotive, aerospace, defense, energy, civil engineering, consumer goods and biomechanics industries to help them get the most out of existing engineering simulation technologies.
The Data Lab enables industry, public sector and world-class university researchers to innovate and develop new data science capabilities in a collaborative environment. Its core mission is to generate significant economic, social and scientific value from big data.
For the last ten or fifteen years (at least) the O&G industry has seen the rise (and in some cases the fall as well) of concepts like Digital Oilfield, Integrated Operations, Digital Asset, SmartFields, iField, Field of the Future,… While the huge swings in crude oil price have not provided a stable decision making framework for companies to fully adopt these concepts, there is now renewed interest since the current situation is forcing radical action and, as existing producing assets are being subjected to renewed focus and attention, O&G producers are turning their attention back to techniques that promise to bring improved operational performance, in terms of increased production, reduced production cost, etc. Experience is that four areas are key for ensuring the success of these initiatives: data, models, workflows and change management. A case study around staged implementation of production workflows will illustrate how these four areas can be made to co-operate to deliver substantially increased operational performance.
Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. With approximately 50,000 employees representing 140 nationalities, and operations in approximately 70 countries, the company serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir - from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction, completion and production optimization. Visit the company's website at www.halliburton.com. Connect with Halliburton on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
GreyCloud is focused on the delivery of analytics and insights for continuous improvement, by adding value into the implementation and deployment of applications, business processes and related information technology.
For organisations that design, build, maintain and operate revenue producing assets we can help to deliver your vision of the future perfect, compressing business processes and cycles, providing the big picture of operations performance, with integrated planning, strategic asset management, mobile working and key performance indicators.
We can help build a consensus and understanding within the business of how to move from the 'current state' to 'best practice' and ultimately over time deliver lowest total cost of operations and lowest total cost of ownership.


Japan: before and after the tsunami and earthquake.
You have to feel sorry for the people of Japan. It's rare that a place suffers one natural disaster, but Japan has been hit with two natural disasters in a row, much like Indonesia was. In Japan's case, it was a massive earthquake followed by a massive tsunami, then more earthquakes. It's looking to be pretty bad for the Japanese people, but if you want to see how bad things are, the Washington Post has a great set of satellite images of Japan before and after the disasters. Experts say that the Japanese disaster is the worst thing to happen to Japan since World War II, and I'd believe it.
When you see the damage right there on the screen, it's stunning. Between the power of the earth and the power of the damaged nuclear plants threatening to explode, there's a lot of unpleasant stuff in the future for Japan. Still, if any country can recover from disaster, it's Japan. I lived with Japanese kids in college, and if they can handle flying across the world and spending a few years going to college in America, they can do pretty much anything.


83rd Annual Gathering is Fast Approaching!
Watch for the March 22nd live internet broadcast of the draws to determine the orders of play for Open and Grade 1 Piping and Side Drumming events, including the combined B&C Piobaireachd event, as well as the band events.
The Annual Gathering will be held on Friday and Saturday April 3rd and 4th, 2015 at Clayton Heights Secondary School, 7003 188 Street, Surrey, BC, V4N 3G6. We are looking forward to seeing you then.


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"He has no integrity!" Philipp Lahm slams FIFA President Gianni Infantino
You can't even disagree with Lahm here.
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As the former captain of both Bayern Munich and Germany, Philipp Lahm knows a thing or two about football. He's currently helping the DFB prepare for the next edition of the Euros in 2024, but in the meantime, he had some choice words for FIFA President Gianni Infantino and his handling of the beautiful game.
"FIFA has lost further credibility thanks to its top representative," wrote Lahm in his column for RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (via Sport1). "One gets the impression more and more that Gianni Infantino is not looking for the best solution in the interests of soccer and that he simply lacks integrity."
"Infantino doesn't give the impression that he wants to change anything about it," wrote Lahm. "He's taking advantage of the game. That's the problem of FIFA, an institution based in Europe, not soccer. And the only way to change that is to finally focus on a sensible, transparent award procedure in the future."
In this case, the "award procedure" refers to how the World Cup gets handed out to host nations. There has always been some kind of shady business regarding the hosting of the World Cup, and the last two hosts — Russia and Qatar — have been ... controversial, to say the least.
At EURO 2024, Lahm says he wants to, "to bring our values back to the fore, and above all the game. In a democratic country — and I think people want that."
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Ohio is the nation's second-largest producer of steel, but the state has still been bleeding jobs from the industry. Can President Donald Trump's tariff on imported steel help reverse the trend?
The 25-percent steel tariff, as well as a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports, was signed by Trump on March 8 as an act his administration said could protect domestic production from unfair trade practices.
There is no doubt Ohio's steel producers could use some relief. That relief is expected to come on Friday when the tariff on steel imports goes into effect, giving domestic producers a competitive advantage in the market.
John Willoughby, executive director of the Ohio Steel Council, said the tariff will put an end to unfair trade practices and hopefully directly benefit some Ohio communities.
"If the announcements that have been made concerning restarting idled steel production come to fruition; steel employment, steel processing and steel-connected communities should all benefit," he said in an email.
However, industries that rely on steel production vastly outnumber steel producers in Ohio. A benefit to steel producers can still be a detriment to the state if it is harmful to steel consumers.
That's what Ned Hill, an Ohio State professor in public administration and city and regional planning, expects to happen.
Hill said the competitive advantage given to domestic steel producers will do little to create steel-working jobs and comes at a cost to much larger Ohio industries that use steel in the manufacturing of their products.
The price of steel is roughly $200 per ton more expensive in the United States than in Europe, Hill said. Tariffs will help reduce that margin, but the added expense will be paid by consumers.
He said other Ohio industries — especially agriculture — that don't rely on steel or aluminum also would be harmed if a trade war erupts.
Brazil is the second-largest exporter of steel into the U.S. and is one of the country's main agricultural competitors. Because of this, countries might be tempted to trade more frequently with Brazil in retaliation to a tariff, Hill explained.
Hill said the exemptions given to Canada and Mexico were a display of "sanity in the middle of making up the rules as we go along," but also will make strategic and diplomatic allies question why they were not exempted.
Even countries that export insignificant amounts of steel to the U.S. reacted strongly to the tariffs, Hill said.
"I was just on a radio show in Britain this afternoon where they bounced off the walls, and they supply less than 1 percent of U.S. steel," he said.
The employment losses in Ohio's steel industry, which at one point employed nearly 14,000 people in Northeast Ohio alone,were not caused by unfair trade practices, Hill said.
"Steel demand now in the United States is lower than it was in the '60s," he said.
Many makers of products that once relied on steel — like automobiles and home appliances — have turned to cheaper and more durable alternatives like plastic, Hill said. Regarding construction, he said an example of how builders turned to cheaper alternatives can be seen in the new apartments being built around Ohio State.
"The trusses are all composite wood. In the old days that'd have steel. So, what's happened is a bunch of glued-together woodchips are as strong as a steel high beam," he said.
Midwestern producers have also suffered because much demand for steel has moved to the South, Hill said.
"Steel is heavy to ship. So therefore, new steel mills which are closer to where the construction activities are taking place are gaining market shares," he said.
The last time steel tariffs were imposed by the United States was 2002 by George W. Bush's administration. Hill said it's difficult to know what effect they had because they were implemented during a recession, but noted employment dropped and plants closed.
Much like the current tariffs, those in 2002 were designed to protect the steel industry from unfair trade practices, Hill said, but the problems producers faced were homegrown.
"It was blamed on dumping when really there was too much supply and not enough demand," he said.
Historically, the best way to help domestic steel producers without disrupting other industries has been investing in infrastructure, Hill said. Similar investments today would be a much wiser approach than tariffs, he said.
To that end, Trump announced an infrastructure plan in February, calling for $1.5 trillion to be invested, including $200 billion in federal funds.


Our city councilors are again wearing their micro-managing hats.
After canceling Aquafest and saving $95,000, it seems they are having debate after discussion over what to do with this huge budget allocation.
Pay down our debt? Use it for tax reduction? Buy a bunch of calendars?
Let me put this into perspective.
The Corporation of The City of Hamilton is a one billion dollar a year company. The money saved from canceling Aquafest is one ten-thousandth of the annual budget. To further put this into perspective, this is like a person that earns $50,000 a year worrying over what to do with five bucks.
Hold on a minute while I call a family meeting. We need to discuss what to do with our five bucks for the next year. Should we put it toward our mortgage or buy a dozen donuts?
Why can't the city find another sponsor to replace RBC? The benefits of a successful event like Aquafest, in the middle of summer on our waterfront, far outweigh any savings $95,000 can offer when applied to tax reduction.
But get ready for a fierce debate from council. This could either lower every household's tax bill by less than a dollar or invest in an event that shows off Hamilton's waterfront and provides free fun for the families of Hamilton in the summer.
The City is planning to take the money from Aquafest and put it towards Port Days that will run around August.


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After 120 years of service, the Michigan Ladder Company in Ypsilanti has closed. Owner Tom Harrison announced the closure of the longtime ladder manufacturer in a Facebook post on April 8. The business struggled with the twists and turns of the COVID pandemic. From state-ordered closures to supply chain struggles, the local business decided it was time to close.
Bookbound Bookstore will also be permanently closing this summer, most likely in late June or early July. The bookstore on Plymouth Road has been considering closing the doors for a few years. The decision was made for personal reasons and has nothing to do with their lease or the pandemic. The family-owned business is looking forward to focusing on their family, friends, and everything else they've set aside to share their love of books with the community.
Optimum Fitness Training has opened its doors at 4477 Jackson Road. The latest gym in the area offers personal training of all ages, boxing classes, weight loss training, strength training, and more. A new membership package is set to launch sometime in May, so be sure to keep your eyes open! 4477 Jackson Rd, Ann Arbor. 734-210-0951. optimumfitnesstraining.com.
Indian/Asian fusion restaurant, Qmin, is scheduled to open in early June. This restaurant will be serving flavors that bring together the tastes of Indian cuisine and popular flavors from across Asia. You'll be able to enjoy Thai, Korean, and Chinese spices and ingredients throughout the menu. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for when this delicious restaurant opens up. 619 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor. 734-263-2142. qminfusion.com.
Looking for a good ceramic art studio? Yourist Studio Gallery will soon be moving to Jackson Road! They'll be leaving Lowertown, where they have been offering pottery classes, workspaces for ceramic artists, a ceramics tool shop, and a gallery exhibiting the works of potters and other outstanding artists. Summer art classes will be debuting at the new studio on Saturday, June 5. 6087 Jackson Rd. Suite 200, Ann Arbor. 734-662-4914. youristpottery.com.
Local consignment clothing shop Top Drawer is under new management. The store briefly closed at the end of February but reopened in mid-April with new owners, Alicia Frenette and Brittany Tobias. The store plans to carry the same brands as before, but there will be more of a focus on business-casual and activewear clothing, which has become popular during the pandemic.1960 S. Industrial Hwy., Ann Arbor. 734-994-4646. topdrawera2.com.
Greg Wilson and his wife, Sheena Wilson, will be taking over local nursery Lodi Farms. Greg, who started his career as a landscape contractor, will be combining his landscaping business with the nursery. Extensive updates have been made to the property to address the latest change of hands. The business plans to be open for six Sundays in May and June to accommodate the height of spring planting. 2880 S. Wagner RD., Ann Arbor. 734-665-5651. lodifarms.com.
Michigan's first outdoor beer garden, Bill's Beer Garden, has changed management. The transition was finalized in mid-March, and the business is now run by Scot Greig. Public records indicate Greig is also the owner of Necto, a local dance club in Downtown Ann Arbor. At this time, no major changes are planned for Bill's Beer Garden. 218 S. Ashley St., Ann Arbor. 734-369-8001. billsbeergarden.com.
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Cummings v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico
Case No. D-202-CV-2001-00579
Second Judicial District Court State of New Mexico
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A $38 Million class action settlement has been reached on behalf of beneficiaries of deceased pediatric cancer patients who received treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (also known as "ALL") at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center or Hospital between January 1, 1977 and March 31, 1997. A detailed definition of the Class is available below.
Certain beneficiaries of deceased pediatric cancer patients such as parents, siblings, spouses, children, or other family members may be entitled to compensation under the Settlement.
The Settlement covers pediatric cancer patients who died as recently as December 1, 2019.
NOTE: This Settlement only applies to beneficiaries of pediatric cancer patients who received treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center or Hospital and does NOT apply to patients who received treatment for any other type of cancer.
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The Claim Form in this matter is not yet available. Please Click HERE to register to receive updates on the case, and you will receive a notification when the Claim Form becomes available.
You must file a Claim Form if you want to participate in the Settlement. If you do not file a Claim Form, you will not receive any compensation, even if you are eligible.
If you do not agree with any part of this settlement, including the plan to distribute money to class members, the requested award of attorneys' fees and expenses, or the service awards for the named Decedent Class Plaintiffs, and you want your objection heard, you must write to the Court about why you don't like the proposed Settlement.
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You are not required to enter an appearance in the lawsuit in order to participate in the proposed Settlement, but you may enter an appearance on your own or through your lawyer if you do not opt-out and wish to appear at the Final Approval Hearing on July 6, 2020.
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You do not need to do anything to stay in the class. But if you want money from the settlement you must file a claim form.
If you do not exclude yourself from the Decedent Class, you cannot be part of any other lawsuit against Defendants and other Released Parties listed in the Settlement Agreement for released conduct. You will be bound by the Release.
Decedent Class: The Settlement creates the following Settlement Class (referred to throughout as the Decedent Class):
(1) Statutory beneficiaries, as defined in the New Mexico Wrongful Death Statute, NMSA 1978, §41-2- 3 for (2) all pediatric cancer patients with a diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia who presented for treatment at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center from January 1, 1977 through March 31, 1997, and (3) who, by December 1, 2019, were deceased.
Excluded are individuals with whom UNM previously reached settlements or those individuals who received only temporary treatment at UNM Health Sciences Center and whose treatment protocols were principally administered or designed elsewhere and who did not receive initial or relapse induction treatment in New Mexico.
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Ex-PIC head Dan Matjila will continue his testimony before the commission of inquiry led by Justice Lex Mpati. This is Matjila's fourth consecutive day appearing before the commission.
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Marcus asks Matjila about managing conflict of interest.
Matjila says the PIC is seen as a training ground- creating new enterprises (black enterprises) and supporting them. This should be across all sectors, and mainly the financial sector where the PIC is a main player.
He says when it comes to advisory services, the PIC did not see why they should not create those out of employees, to move out of the PIC and become bigger without the constraint of the PIC.
But the PIC is constantly attacked for having a conflict of interest – but in the private sector this is common.
Some of the biggest entities were created as spinoffs of other larger entities.
Matjila finds the treatment of the PIC to be unfair.
Marcus says the PIC is not prohibited from doing this- the process must just be transparent.
Marcus says the form is there- but is the substance there?
"You can have all the checks and balances about signing the declaration but the practice is different."
She asks if there is a difference between the forms and practice.
Matjila responds that it has been a challenge to deal with this aspect of conflict.
"From management side, the investment process we put in place we believe has been effective," he says.
Investments are screened and go through rigorous due diligence. before they get to any committee – they are presented because they are believed to be clear.
Lediga asks about the GEPF – if the pension fund has a surplus of money – why isn't government taking some of its funds to boost the economy. He asks for Matjila's views.
Matjila says this can be handled better- on a voluntary process or as a mandate as opposed to just being forcefully expropriated from the GEPF.
Almost half of the GEPF members will retire in 15 years and the other half will retire beyond 15 years.
There is an opportunity to stricture a different strategic asset allocation, Matjila says.
Cosatu responds
Meanwhile Cosatu's Parliamentary Coordinator Matthew Parks has issued a formal statement responding to Matjila's testimony.
The trade union federation has rejected claims that it had a hand in Matjila's resignation from the PIC.
Cosatu said it became involved in the Edcon deal in late January 2019 – after Matjila's resignation.
"Our mandate was and remains clear. It is to do everything possible (and within the parameters of the law) to save the 40 000 direct jobs in the Edcon group and the 100 000 indirect jobs at factories and companies supplying Edcon. Those are COSATU members and workers," Parks said.
"The Edcon intervention was a tripartite collective effort of the lenders, landlords and workers (through the UIF). Its goal was to save 140 000 workers' jobs," he added.
"Unfortunately Dr Matjila has still failed to provide any substance or evidence for this allegation. His sole basis for this little diversionary fairy tale is an email sent to the then Deputy Minister of Finance, Mondli Gungubele, requesting the PIC's support for the Edcon rescue package a whole three months after Dr. Matjila's resignation!
"Without bothering to indulge Dr. Matjila's chronological fantasies, it is difficult for a sober person to comprehend why someone would resign in November 2018 because of an email that would only be written three months later!" Parks said.
Parks explained that the intervention to save Edcon by Cosatu was an act of "worker solidarity". He reiterated that Cosatu intended to protect workers' jobs. Parks said it was irrelevant that the Edcon deal was wrapped ahead of elections – Matjila had pointed it out in his testimony. "There are always pending elections in a democracy."


Welcome to Marrakech for the 2018 IOC Advanced Team Physician Course.
Sharing this knowledge and establishing concrete measures will be the main focus of this 10th edition of the IOC Advanced Team Physician Course. This course is geared towards the practical issues of working with high-level athletes in a team sports setting.
You will learn some new things from the best! Together we will address controversial topics and present new evidence on diagnosis and treatment. Together we will challenge existing dogma.
I look forward to your active participation and the discussions, and to seeing you all in Marrakech in September 2018.


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Celtic Connections: Festival chief Donald Shaw on 30 years of Glasgow's ever-expanding music festival
It the long-running musical extravaganza that confounded the sceptics over the wisdom of attempting to stage a festival in the depths of winter in Glasgow.
Thirty years later, Donald Shaw is overseeing the preparation for a landmark edition of a festival that has proved such a success story it has almost outgrown the city's music venues.
Ahead of the first full-scale festival since 2020, Shaw is reporting ticket sales are in line with what they were three years ago, with numerous sell-outs across the 18-day event.
With more than 1,200 musicians due to appear in around 300 events at 25 venues across Glasgow, the festival is a far cry from the inaugural edition in 1994. Launched by the Royal Concert Hall to help fill one of the quietest periods in its schedules, the first event featured just 66 events, all within the one venue.
Within three years, the number of concerts had almost trebled, its audience had almost doubled and musicians were performing on 11 different stages.
Shaw, whose band Capercaillie were one of the biggest trad music acts in Scotland at the time, admits he was one of the original doubters. He says: "I definitely thought the idea was ambitious and was worried that there would be half-full halls. I definitely thought that.
"At that time, people like Dick Gaughan were playing in folk clubs to 200 people. People were really elevated through Celtic Connections.
"The thing my predecessor, Colin Hynd, was very clever about was when he brought in a band not really knowing how the audience would react, when he saw the reaction he'd book them straight away to come back the next year.
Glasgow's iconic Barrowland Ballroom has been used regularly for the Celtic Connectins festival. Picture: Gaelle Beri
"The festival has really provided opportunities for musicians to be seen by bigger audiences over the years. Generally speaking, a band would probably now expect to top up an audience by 30 per cent playing Celtic Connections compared to another time of year.
"In many ways, the value of Celtic Connections for the scene now is not so much about the headliner, it's about the support act. The audiences come at 7:30pm, they want to know who the support is and that's where they learn about them."
Shaw, who has led the festival's programming since 2007, has overseen a huge expansion of the breadth of music showcased and venues deployed.
This year's edition features Glasgow-based soul-funk outfit Tom McGuire & The Brassholes at the Barrowland Ballroom, American bluegrass stars Nickel Creek at the City Halls, reformed Scottish pop legends The Bluebells at Oran Mor, Highland fiddler Duncan Chishom in the Kelvingrove museum, and award-winning jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie at the Mackintosh Church.
Celtic Connections has been based at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow since the festival was launched in 1994. Picture: Gaelle Beri
The opening gala on Thursday is one of many advance sell-outs at Celtic Connections, which appears to be benefiting from a strategy to peg ticket prices as low as possible to woo audiences back.
Shaw says: "We look at our ticket sales pretty carefully every day. At the moment, we're literally on a par exactly with 2020. We're in a good place and selling well.
"We've tried to be really careful about holding back our ticket prices this year. In terms of inflation and the cost of everything, we probably should have put an extra fiver on every ticket.
"But we have to balance that with wanting to see full houses and also wanting to support the public by saying 'we know things are not easy at the moment'. We're still trying to encourage people to try to come to three or four events in the festival.
Piper Brighde Chaimbeul will be appearing at this year's Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.
"I was a bit worried about ticket sales. I know throughout the last year, some people have had not quite the same returns and some things have been selling late. We've not seen that.
"In some ways I'm surprised, but in other ways I'm not, because there is a genuine impetus and momentum around traditional and folk music in this country, the quality of music that's shining through and the appetite for it.
"I think it's fantastic that we've got someone like Siobhan Miller playing out a sold-out stand-up show at St Luke's who performs songs that she learned from Dick Gaughan 30 years ago. Bands like Talisk, who sold out their show at SWG3 before Christmas, are really channelling the crossover of Scottish and Irish music. And younger bands like Imar and Elephant Sessions have also really learned how to work social media and build an audience."
Shaw admits he would be open to the festival returning occasionally in future to the Hydro arena, which hosted the new "Hoolie at the Hydro" event before Christmas and is due to return there this December.
However, he suggests the scale of Celtic Connections meant it was now constrained by a shortage of medium-sized venues with availability during the festival.
"The difficulty we have is getting access to the venues that we really want," he says. "We can only get the City Halls on certain nights and I'd use the Theatre Royal more if I could. There are not a lot of reasonably-sized seated venues in Glasgow.
Singer-songwriter Siobhan Miller is performing at Celtic Connections. Picture: Euan Robertson
"The Old Fruitmarket is a special venue for Celtic Connections, but we don't have access to it every night. We can't clash if there are orchestras playing [in the neighbouring City Halls].
"Our Transatlantic Sessions shows would probably sell out the Hydro with the right artists, but I'm not sure it's the right show to put in there for the public."
Shaw says the festival appears to be benefiting from a growing appetite among younger audiences for alternatives to "mediocre" mainstream pop and rock.
"If that medium of music is not interesting enough, young people will move onto something else," he says. "Over the last few years, the new generation of music buyers are moving further and further away from the mainstream, and finding artists that speak to them. That's a good thing for us and a good thing for music generally."
Singer-songwriter Beth Malcom and fiddler Eric Linklater helped launch the Celtic Connections programme at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. Picture: Craig Foy/SNS Group.
Donald Shaw is the creative producer of Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival.
The Old Fruitmarket is one of the most popular venues used for the Celtic Connections music festival. Picture: Gaelle Beri
Musician Anna Meredith is performing at Celtic Connections this year. Picture: Gem Harris
Singer-songwriter Dean Owens is performing at Celtic Connections this year. Picture: Gaelle Beri
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Jaipur is mostly known for its historic forts and palaces. However, if you are seeking an off-beat experience of the city, the hikes and treks near Jaipur are the city's hidden gems. These trails will lead you away from the hustle and bustle of the cities into the lap of nature with the most rewarding views of beautiful landscapes. We've listed a few below:
Hathni Kund Trek
Hathni Kund trek is also referred to as the Water Valley trek. Jaipur is dotted with several trails to hike on, and Hathni Kund is the most popular one. The trail winds through the thick vegetation of the Aravalli Ranges and some fascinating ancient ruins of temples and forts before you reach the highest point where you can relish the refreshing views of the ranges and the forests. The starting point of this trek is at Charan Mandir near Nahargarh Fort. While on the trail during monsoons, the beautiful flowers of the sickle bush tree are hard to miss. The most awaited sight of this trail is the waterfall at Hathni Kund which flows down in its full glory during the monsoon months.
Bhuteshwar Nath Mahadev Trek
Bhuteshwar Nath Mahadev Trek is one of the oldest treks near Jaipur. The hike starts at Amer from either Mahadev Shiv Mandir or Jati Balaji Temple. You can drive up to either of the starting points and park your car before embarking on an enchanting journey. The rugged path of the hiking trail will take you through rough terrains of the Aravallis wherein you can observe the natural flora comprising shrubberies and trees. There are some ruins on the way where you can catch your breath while basking in the historic aesthetic of these points. The short trek usually takes 40-60 minutes on the way up and hence is perfect for all travelers who are willing to walk the distance.
Nahargarh Fort Trek
Nahargarh Fort trek is also a very popular trek undertaken by trekking groups in Jaipur. However, you can also choose to explore the trail by yourself. The hike includes a characteristic cobbled path. The trail originates from Purani Basti or Garh Ganesh Temple. You should ideally start for the fort early in the morning at about 7 am, or if you prefer an evening walk, 4 pm is the perfect time to start. You will witness the natural beauty of the water streams dotting the path surrounded by natural greenery. The destination of the trek, Nahargarh Fort, is a fine example of ancient Indian architecture. You might recognise certain spots in the fort where a few scenes of the Bollywood film, Rang De Basanti were filmed.
Chulgiri
Chulgiri hiking trail is a tad bit more difficult than the treks mentioned above owing to the rustic, naturally carved path that courses through the forests. A steady climb will take you to the Digamber Jain temples in Jaipur. There's also an option of taking a winding staircase that leads you up to the temples. Either of the paths comes with promising panoramic views of the surrounding hills. Once you reach the top you will be enthralled by the bird's eye view of the landscape below.
The Neemrana Fort- Palace, a 15th-century heritage hotel in Rajasthan is among the most popular resorts near Delhi for weekend breaks and is ideal to invent your own past at the dream site of history. Check here to know more about the Neemrana Fort Palace on the Delhi-Jaipur Highway.
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Leonardo Da Vinci discovered that the human brain cannot deliberately concentrate on two separate objects or ideas, no matter how dissimilar, without eventually forming a connection between them. No two inputs can remain separate in your mind no matter how remote they are from each other.
In tetherball, a ball is fastened to a slender cord suspended from the top of a pole. Players bat the ball around the pole, attempting to wind its cord around the pole above a certain point. Obviously, a tethered ball on a long string is able to move in many different directions, but it cannot get away from the pole. If you whack at it long enough, eventually you will wind the cord around the pole. This is a closed system. Like the tetherball, if you focus on two subjects for a period of time, you will see relationships and connections that will trigger new ideas and thoughts that you cannot get using your usual way of thinking.
Da Vinci's knack to make remote connections was certainly at the basis of Leonardo's genius to form analogies between totally different systems. He associated the movement of water with the movement of human hair, thus becoming the first person to illustrate in extraordinary detail the many invisible subtleties of water in motion. His observations led to the discovery of a fact of nature which came to be called the Law of Continuity. When you make a connection between two unrelated subjects, your imagination will leap to fill the gaps and form a whole in order to make sense of it.
Suppose you are watching a mime impersonating a man taking his dog out for a walk. The mime's arm is outstretched as though holding the dog's leash. As the mime's arm is jerked back and forth, you "see" the dog straining at the leash to sniff this or that. The dog and the leash become the most real part of the scene even though there is no dog or leash. In the same way, when you make connections between your subject and something that is totally unrelated, your imagination fills in the gaps to create new ideas. It is this willingness to use your imagination to fill in the gaps that produces the unpredictable idea. This is why Einstein claimed that imagination is more important than knowledge.
Conceptual blending is central to human thought and imagination, and evidence of this can be found in human language, art, science, industry and in a wide range of human activities. Think about the connections, if any, between a beehive and de-icing power lines during ice storms. How can a beehive be the clue to a solution? Engineers working for a power company in the northwest were struggling with the problem of how to de-ice power lines during ice storms so they don't collapse from the weight of the ice.
The conventional approaches to the problem were proving to be very expensive and inefficient. It is not possible to think unpredictably by looking harder and longer in the same direction. When your attention is focused on a subject, a few patterns are highly activated in your brain and dominate your thinking. These patterns produce only predictable ideas no matter how hard you try. In fact, the harder you try, the stronger the same patterns become. If, however, you change your focus and think about something that is not related, different, unusual patterns are activated. If one of these newer patterns relates to one of the first patterns, a connection will be made. This connection will lead to the discovery of an original idea or thought. This is what some people call "divine" inspiration.
Bees colonize and live in beehives.
Beehives are used to store honey and pollen.
Honey is a sweet food.
Ancient Egyptians used honey to embalm corpses.
Beehives are a favorite food of bears.
Bears will climb trees to get the hive or shake the tree to make it fall. Vibrations make them fall. Bees communicate with each other with vibrating wings. The associations with beehives and vibrating wings and bears vibrating trees got them all interested in the principle of vibrational motion as the answer. Vibrate the ice off the power lines. But how?
How can we use vibration to help solve the problem? In addition, bears retrieve beehives by shaking trees or by climbing them. Shaking would cause the power lines to vibrate and shake off the ice. A bear climbing a power pole would shake the pole and vibrate power lines as well. Vibration became the principle they focused on. How can they vibrate the power lines economically? One engineer remarked that bees can hover like helicopters. That reminded him of the powerful downwash from a helicopter's blades. The answer is to hover choppers over the lines and the downwash will vibrate the ice off the lines. This proved to be the most efficient and economical solution to the problem.


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A specimen validity test is available in one option ensuring the integrity of the specimen by checking the specific gravity, pH levels, and oxidants; This makes sure the urine sample hasn't been compromised.
Both of the 5 panel dip drug test kits mentioned above have cut-off levels that comply with NIDA recommendations ensuring accurate testing. The cut-off level is the point where the donor's test result is deemed to be either positive or negative.
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Polish Shale Gas Law Update – Tax-Free Opportunities!
After years of anticipation and delay, the Polish government has finally taken significant steps forward in opening up the shale gas industry in Poland. Either fortuitously or intentionally, this comes just in time. The E.U. countries, especially in Eastern Europe, expeditiously need to find alternative sources of natural gas to counter Russia's dominant position. One obvious source is to tap into the shale gas reserves in Poland. So, given that North American companies have the most experience and technical expertise in shale gas production and hydraulic fracturing techniques, it is logical that companies will find opportunities in Poland.
Shale gas reserves were discovered in Poland several years ago, and are estimated to be the third largest in Europe (after Norway and the Netherlands). But no meaningful production or drilling has yet occurred in Poland due to a non-existent regulatory and legal structure as well as an uncertain tax regime for shale gas. On March 11, 2014, the Polish government announced it had adopted draft bills to establish a favorable tax scheme for shale gas production and to amend Poland's Geological and Mining Law. Although the final wording of these drafts still need to be worked out and enacted by the Polish Sejm (Parliament), they finally provide much of the legal and tax framework that was needed to encourage commercial drilling and production operations.
Clarification to Concession Process
Significantly, the draft legislation breaks from the past paradigm as well as a common E.U. scheme of requiring a state-controlled, "national operator" to be involved in each concession. This model was strongly criticized by potential investors and energy companies, and the Polish Government paid attention to them. Accordingly, pursuant to the draft legislation, shale gas projects and operations will not be required to include a state-owned enterprise in their investments, and no such state-owned entity will be created.
Second, the old law required separate concessions for the researching, prospecting/exploration stages and for the production stage. Under the draft bills, a single, joint concession can be applied for and obtained (pursuant to a transparent tender process) to conduct all these activities, thereby making the process more certain and less bureaucratic. Existing owners of concessions would be entitled to apply for additional concessions based on current conditions, and would also be entitled to apply to convert their existing concessions into one joint concession. The joint concession would be granted for 10-30 years, rather than for 3-50 years as is presently the case. Concessions would also be possible for joint venture applicants.
The new bills contemplate that conducting and submitting an environmental impact study on shale gas projects would be required at the time before drilling begins. Currently such environmental assessments are required at the beginning of the process, i.e., even before an exploration concession is granted. This should significantly alleviate the need to undertake costly and often unnecessary environmental studies, as the concessionaire would only be required to focus on the area actually drilled in, rather than the entire area of the concession.
At the same time, on March 12, 2014, the European Parliament adopted changes to the directive on environment impact assessment procedures. These changes eliminated the requirement to conduct comprehensive environmental impact studies in the prospective stage. However, certain new procedures were added to the environmental studies (assessment of health risks caused by the contaminated water, water and soil usage, quality and regeneration capabilities of underground water). Once these changes come into force, Poland would need to add them to its regulatory scheme as well.
The most anticipated changes introduced by the draft legislation deal with the favorable tax scheme for natural gas production activities. The Polish Prime Minister announced that shale gas production would be exempt from any special taxation until 2020, in order to promote and intensify shale gas exploration and production as soon as possible.
After that year, shale gas production will be taxed at two levels. First, a royalty equal to 1.5% of the value on each cubic meter of gas extracted will be assessed (3.0% in the case of shale oil), regardless of extraction costs. Second, a "hydrocarbons tax" ranging from 0-25% of the net profit generated in a specific deposit would be assessed. Additionally, regular corporate income taxes will be assessed on companies engaged in the activity. However, most significantly, the Polish Government also announced that it will seek to limit the cumulative burden of these taxes so they would not exceed 40% of the income of the production companies.
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Q: How have Enter as leader? I would like to have Enter as my leader in Vim.
When I set
let mapleader = '<Enter>' or let mapleader = '<CR>', both options didn't worked for me.
For example, let mapleader = '/<Space>' just worked. On the web, I couldn't find nothing.
When I do Ctrl-V in command line, to see my Enter, I get ^M. When I do  as my leader, it didn't worked either.
How could I configure Enter as my leader in Vim?
Thanks in advance for your reply.

A: For any odd leader character, you can use nr2char()
:let mapleader=nr2char(13)
:nnoremap <leader>x :put='Do something fancy here'<cr>

which will use <enter> as the mapleader.

A: See comment of Peter Ricker.
The solution is let mapleader = "\<cr>" :-)
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But on a second though, yesterday I decided to write a C# class which would resize the XML files and split them into chunks of 150Mb each.
The development took about 1 hour – I used C# and an online compiler http://compilr.com/.
With my current computing power (dual core desktop with a single hard disk) it took about 10 minutes per file to be sliced into chunks.
The bottom line is that now I have about 250 files with size of 150 Mb each.
The next step is to import all of them into the WikiDB database.
In my previous blog post I had set up a script to manually insert the files, but since the number of files is no longer 27 but it is 250, I needed to automate the import.
I wrote a SSIS package which does precisely that – imports the XML files, cleans up the reference, and turns the articles into one-article-per-row in the prod table.
So far so good – I have the files, I have the SSIS package, let's import.
Not so fast, not so fast!
The first file took 12 minutes to be inserted, and I noticed some serious disk activity.
A minute later I realized that I had forgotten to change the default settings of the database file size in SQL Server – it was set to grow 1 Mb at a time (why did Microsoft leave these silly default settings even in SQL 2012?!).
Anyhow, I pre-grew the database to 100 Gb and set the growth to be 100 Mb at a time after that.
I also added my SQL Server service account to the 'Perform volume maintenance tasks' security policy. This makes the allocated space NOT to be zeroed out, i.e. it is not recommended for security reasons since if the pages are not zeroed out someone can read what was on the disk before the database was created. But since this is my own desktop and I have nothing to hide from myself, then I can not zero out the pages and the file can grow from 50 to 110 Gb in a few seconds.
Note to self: I really wonder how this security vs. performance issue is solved in SQL Azure. After all, Windows Azure is a shared environment and no one knows what disks are used and how they are shared. So there are two options: either everything is zeroed out every time a database is created and every time it is grown, OR the pages are not zeroed out. In the first case, there would be a performance penalty, in the second case there will be a serious security issue.
Does anyone want to share their Azure account with me so I can test this?
Anyhow, I can now import 150 Mb file with XML data in about 4 minutes.
And right now my database is 55 Gb, but by tonight I am expecting the database to be over 100 Gb.
Big data, eh? Or not so big?
Stay tuned for the next blog post when I will be explaining how to setup the Full Text search and the indexing for the database.


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Battle Bears Gold is a third-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by SkyVu, a company based in Omaha, Nebraska. It was first released on May 24, 2013 on the App Store and Google Play. The game was later released for Android on June 3, 2013 and Windows through the Windows Store later that year. It features 11 different 'classes' battling in 5 different game modes. It was a popular game available on different app stores.
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She isn't even in office yet, and Ayanna Pressley is becoming a voice in Washington that's impossible to ignore. The Boston City Councilor who has enjoyed a very big spotlight after besting incumbent Democrat Michael Capuano this year, delivered some strong words for donors in a closed-door Democratic National Committee fundraising meeting.
According to Buzzfeed, which got its hands on a recording of her speech, Pressley said she wasn't afraid of making fellow Dems uncomfortable in a push to transform the party, raising questions about a perceived lack of support offered for female candidates of color, urging Democrats to make their staffs more diverse, and, as the 2020 election inches closer, making a case for focusing more on issues, and less on Donald Trump.
She also repeated what was apparently a message she heard from a young person at a listening session held at Boston City Hall on Monday that touched on gun violence: "Do black lives only matter in election years when our votes are at stake?" The 10-minute speech reportedly got mixed reviews from the audience, with some cheering and others remaining seated and looking stern.
Pressley has, of course, made similar comments following her primary win, including in an interview with the Dorchester Reporter. But a direct confrontation with powerful donors is yet another example during her transition period of attempts to challenge the status quo. Last week, she walked out of an "orientation" for newly elected officials held at Harvard, joining fellow progressive rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a demonstration outside the training session, which has become a traditional welcome for new members of Congress over the last several decades. Both said they did so because of the disproportionate influence of corporate lobbyists and the former CEO of Goldman Sachs at the meeting, and not enough representation from labor and community groups. "I was not sent to Washington to play nice," Pressley said.


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Teen Blogger Takes on Philippine Political Clan
By James Hookway
March 6, 2009 12:01 am ET
An 18-year-old blogger named Bambee de la Paz has caused cyber-space to crackle in the Philippines. Normally, Ms. De la Paz doesn't blog very much. Mostly she posts about her golf scholarship at the University of Cincinnati or being pestered by boys for a date. She likes rock bands Incubus and Dashboard Confessional and lists "The Da Vinci Code" and "Lord of the Rings" among her favorite reads.
But on the day after Christmas, back home with her family in Manila for the holidays and a few rounds of golf, Ms. De la Paz started tapping out something different.
"I just had the worst day of my life," she began. Then she accused a cabinet secretary in the Philippine government of standing by as his two sons -- one of them a town mayor -- "beat my defenseless 56-year-old dad and my 14-year-old brother to a pulp because of some stupid misunderstanding on the golf course."
She struck a chord with Filipinos who see some political leaders as arrogant. She also triggered a libel suit and a debate about golf etiquette. Her story passed from blogs and emails to instant messenger services, prompting hundreds to make posts on Ms. De la Paz's Web page in support.
On Jan. 2, the cabinet member she wrote about, Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman Sr., was interviewed by the Philippines' vice president -- who doubles as the country's leading radio newscaster. The cabinet member, who disputes Ms. De la Paz's account of what happened, asked bloggers to lay off his sons, provincial mayor Nasser Pangandaman Jr., 27 years old, and Hussein Pangandaman, 30, as well as their gun-wielding bodyguards.


The focus of this study was to prove for the first time in children that CO2 insufflation during endoscopy is better and associated with less discomfort than air insufflation. It was never done before in children. If we can change the guidelines regarding colonoscopy procedure, children will have less abdominal pain after colonoscopy.
The results confirmed that air insufflation is connected with more side effects in comparison to CO2 insufflation. A similar study should be performed with percutaneous gastrostomy and all other endoscopic procedures of longer duration.


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Q: Combining two Date instance to create date-time using Joda I have two java.util.Date instances which is contain date value and time value. now I want to combine these values to create single java.util.Date instance representing the date and time.
here some example to make clear what I'd want :
      Date date = 2015-06-01;
      Date time = 22:30;

combine into :
     Date dateTime = 2015-06-01 22:30;

I do some search and I found this question
Combining java.util.Dates to create a date-time
which is similar with my current issue. But the chosen answer on that question is deprecated.

A: You can do it without JODA, by using Calendar
However, as you asked about JODA, here is the way to do in JODA:
// you want the date part from it
Date d = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss").parse("2013-01-02 03:04:05");

// you want to time part from it
Date t = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss").parse("2014-02-03 04:05:06");

LocalDate datePart = new LocalDate(d);
LocalTime timePart = new LocalTime(t);
LocalDateTime dateTime = datePart.toLocalDateTime(timePart);
Date result = dateTime.toDate();

// Or shrink the above 4 lines into one, as follow
// Date result = new LocalDate(d).toLocalDateTime(new LocalTime(t)).toDate();

System.out.println("result " + result);
// print out result Wed Jan 02 04:05:06 CST 2013

A: Use a Calendar instead?
In particular, set(int year,
                      int month,
                      int date,
                      int hourOfDay,
                      int minute) and
if you want a Date, use getTime() ?
or convert the Date object to a Calendar object using the setTime(Date ..) function from the Calendar class, extract the values (day, hours, minute) using functions from the Calendar class?


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Why is Obama, who declined meeting with Bibi in DC as to not "meddle," connected to campaign to defeat Likud?
On March 14th, Fox News quoted a source revealing a bipartisan U.S. Senate committee with subpoena powers is investigating the possibility the Obama administration may have aided OneVoice's efforts to defeat Benjamin Netanyahu via grants from the State Department. OneVoice received a State Department grant for $350,000. (Read more from Aaron Klein at WND)
Anti-Netanyahu election group admits to American funding
U.S. money, Obama campaigners team up to swing Israeli election by Aaron Klein in WND.com
Jeremy Bird of V15 organizes campaigns against Bibi (Photo:Ofer Vaknin)
One Voice is a US.-U.K. non-profit sponsoring V15, a new Israeli political action group leading a get-out-the-vote-organizing drive aimed at replacing Netanyahu's government with a center-left coalition. OneVoice's offices in Tel Aviv are being used as the campaign headquarters for V15′s anti-Netanyahu effort, as WND first reported.
It was OneVoice that reportedly hired 270 Strategies, a consulting firm whose senior leadership is comprised mostly of former top staffers for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. 270 Strategies has been consulting in V15′s campaign. Read more at WND.com
Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute comments at CPAC on Netanyahu's obligation to expose Obama's selling Israel out.
Uri Wollman, V15′s spokesman, told WND that his organization's ballooning infrastructure is funded primarily by three private philanthropists:
S. Daniel Abraham, the billionaire founder of the Slim Fast food line. Abraham is a major donor to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Foundation. Abraham's financing of V15 was until now unconfirmed.
S. Daniel Abraham, American founder of Slim Fast
The Palm Beach billionaire is a known contributor to leftist political parties in Israel. He is also a backer of the so-called Two State solution through the Washington-based Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation, which he co-founded.
KIND snacks' Daniel Lubetzky facilitates OneVoice campaign
Daniel Lubetzky, a social entrepreneur whose OneVoice Movement is partnered with V15. Lubetzky is the CEO and Founder of KIND Healthy Snacks and the KIND Movement. He is also founder of PeaceWorks Inc. and the PeaceWorks Foundation's OneVoice Movement. Lubetzky's involvement in financing V15 is unsurprising since his OneVoice movement is openly partnered with V15, while V15 is utilizing OneVoice's Tel Aviv office space as its headquarters, as WND reported.
Alon and dad Yehoshua Kastiel (Photo:Asaf Einy in Haaretz)
Alon Kastiel, 33, a Tel Aviv-based businessman and owner of multiple local venues, including bars, clubs and hotels.
The admission confirms charges by Netanyahu's Likud Party, which earlier called on Israel's Central Elections Committee to outlaw V15′s activities to "ensure the integrity of the election." The Likud Party accused V15 of violating campaign finance law by accepting foreign contributions, with Likud lawyer David Shimron claiming Abraham and Lubetzky were behind the group's funding. The OneVoice movement is openly partnered with V15, while V15 is utilizing OneVoice's Tel Aviv office space as its headquarters, as WND reported.
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NDSU wins border battle and advances to FCS semifinals
North Dakota State won the border battle with a 36-10 victory on Saturday.
Declan Goff
The North Dakota State Bison are advancing to the national semifinals of the FCS as they defeated the South Dakota State Jackrabbits 36-10 on Saturday.
The win is sweet revenge too considering the Bison's lone loss in the regular season was to the Jackrabbits.
Although SDSU jumped out to a 10-0 lead, North Dakota State responded with 36 unanswered points cruising to victory. NDSU's defense held their neighbors to the south to just 192 yards of offense.
The Bison used their running game with King Frazier, Lance Dunn and quarterback Easton Stick combining for 282 yards of rushing.
Maybe the only highlight for South Dakota State today was this trick play they pulled that led to a touchdown.
Something straight out of "Little Giants"! This is how South Dakota St. just scored on NDSU...???????????? #Jackrabbits#Bisonpic.twitter.com/Bl9bJPU5GP
— Hobie Artigue (@HobieFOX9) December 10, 2016
It's the sixth year in a row NDSU is in the national semifinals, as they are in search of their sixth-straight national title.
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Liriano retires: Remembering his meteoric rise as a rookie
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The end of an era: NDSU falls to James Madison in FCS playoffs
For the first time since 2010, there will be a new champion in the FCS.
The biggest border battle of the year is happening Saturday
There isn't a border rivalry in the country bigger this weekend than Saturday's NDSU-SDSU playoff game.
FCS bracket has top seed NDSU in line for a potential rematch with SDSU
NDSU is again a No. 1 seed in the college football playoffs and they could be in line for a rematch with SDSU.
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This will be the first time in 80 years a sitting president has visited Cuba, and the trip is part of Obama's overall push to hug it out with the communist country, including opening direct flight travel between the two countries and allowing U.S. businesses to engage with Cuba.
In related news, the U.S and Cuba recently sanctioned the first U.S. business since the revolution -- a tractor company -- to be built on Cuban soil. The business is slated to open in early 2017.
"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," said Pope Francis about Donald Trump's immigration policy on wall-building and such on a return trip from Mexico, igniting a verbal smackdown from Trump who was in South Carolina rallying support before the primary.
This could be Trump's way of saying he doesn't need the Pope's approval to win the Feb. 20 primary.
"If someone had told me a few years ago that we'd be serving our food on an airline, I would have said over my dead body," said Shake Shack CEO Danny Meyer to the New York Times.
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James Richardson and Robbie Coleman respond to feedback on the EEF's Marking Review
Following the publication of the EEF's marking review, A Marked Improvement?, last month it has attracted a substantial amount of web traffic and media coverage and lots of discussion on social media. In addition, a number of bloggers, including David Didau and Ben White, have provided reflections and comments on how the report may (or may not) be useful in schools.
Given the prominence of the report and the topic (Readers who wish to view this post in green font may click here) it feels right to respond to some of that feedback.
Three reflections:
1. The key finding
We would be very happy if people took the current lack of evidence on marking as the key finding of the report. David Didau in his blog expresses a hope that this should be the main takeaway for readers, particularly if burdensome marking policies are being considered or reviewed. As far as we are aware, the EEF's report is the first to state this finding so clearly, so far from being an "admission", if this point is widely understood by both schools and researchers it feels like it would be an excellent outcome.
2. What to do when evidence is weak
There is a difference of opinions about what to do after identifying that overall the evidence base is weak. One option would have been to stop completely and say no more. Another option, which we took, was to identify some areas of promise where future research could be done, and provide some information for schools to consider when devising and developing marking policies in the meantime.
We think taking the former course would have been a mistake for two reasons. First, and perhaps most importantly, it would have wasted valuable time. Given the dearth of evidence on marking, there is collective agreement that more research is needed, and alongside the publication of the report the EEF announced that £2million has been ring-fenced for exactly this purpose. Identifying those areas where there is promise – even if the promise is based on evidence that is relatively weak or that comes from related fields – will help ensure that we get the research we need as quickly as possible.
Second, it would have underestimated the ability of schools to deal with imperfect information. The overall weakness of the evidence base is referred to prominently throughout the report. It would be a step backwards to conclude that readers are unable to deal with information about both the security of evidence and the possible promise or impact on learning related of a particular policy or aspect of marking. We firmly believe that schools considering reviewing their marking policy would find it useful to consider the early findings about mistakes vs. errors, the evidence from related fields about target-setting and the existing evidence about grading. Clearly, the findings are not strong enough to make decisive contributions or to undermine particular policies that schools have carefully considered and believe work well. But it does not follow from this that time spent engaging with the existing evidence-base is a waste of time.
3. Thanks for reading
If the researchers and schools are to have a productive relationship – and at the EEF we firmly believe that they can do – then communication between them must be open and honest. It's extremely helpful to get feedback – positive and negative – on our work and we look forward to receiving applications for trialling different marking approaches from teachers when the next funding round opens in June.
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Increasing Competence and Confidence in Algebra and Multiplicative Structures (ICCAMS)
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Testing the use of diagnostic assessments and digitally recorded verbal feedback in maths for primary school pupils
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