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Chris Pratt asked Arnold's permission to marry…
Chris Pratt asked Arnold Schwarzenegger's permission to marry Katherine Schwarzenegger
The actor also got Maria Shriver's help for the proposal.
This combination of file photos shows Chris Pratt at the MTV Movie and TV Awards on June 16, 2018, in Santa Monica, Calif., left, and Katherine Schwarzenegger at Caruso's Palisades Village opening gala on Sept. 20, 2018, in Los Angeles, right. Pratt posted a photo of the Katherine Schwarzenegger sporting an engagement ring on Instagram Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. He wrote, 'Sweet Katherine, so happy you said yes!' (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Chris Pratt attends the Monster Jam Celebrity Event at Angel Stadium on January 12, 2019 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Ari Perilstein/Ari Perilstein / Getty Images for Feld Entertainment, Inc.)
Christina Schwarzenegger and Katherine Schwarzenegger attend Caruso's Palisades Village Opening Gala at Palisades Village on September 20, 2018 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
Chris Pratt narrates the story of Christmas during Disneyland's annual Candlelight Processional on December 1, 2018 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The tradition of the Candlelight Processional began in 1958 with Walt Disney. (Photo by Joshua Sudock/Disney Resorts via Getty Images)
Katherine Schwarzenegger (R) and Christina Schwarzenegger attends the premiere of Global Road Entertainment's "Midnight Sun" at ArcLight Hollywood on March 15, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
Chris Pratt accepts the Choice Summer Movie Actor award onstage during FOX's Teen Choice Awards at The Forum on August 12, 2018 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
(L-R) Christina Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver and Katherine Schwarzenegger attend the premiere of National Geographic's "The Long Road Home" at Royce Hall on October 30, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)
(L-R) Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Stephanie Beatriz, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Trisha Gum speak onstage at the Warner Bros. theatrical panel during Comic-Con International 2018 at San Diego Convention Center on July 21, 2018 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Author Katherine Schwarzenegger interacts with a young fan during The Grove celebration of Katherine Schwarzenegger's book release of Maverick
Actor Chris Pratt arrives at the premiere of Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment's "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on June 12, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
(L-R) Christine Schwarzenegger, Katherine Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Christopher Schwarzenegger and Lauren Miller Rogen attend the Hilarity for Charity's 5th annual Variety show at the Palladium in Hollywood, on October 15, 2016. (CHRIS DELMAS/AFP/Getty Images)
The cast of 'Avengers: Infinity War' attend the Los Angeles Global Premiere for Marvel Studios? Avengers: Infinity War on April 23, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Disney)
Katherine Schwarzenegger at TJMaxx for the Road To Real Tour on June 12, 2016 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images)
Actors Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Rhetta and Chris Pratt attend the after party for the premiere of Neon's 'Ingrid Goes West' on July 27, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Katherine Schwarzenegger poses during the Look Women Of The Year Awards 2015 at the city hall on November 17, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. (Photo by Monika Fellner/Getty Images)
(L-R) Writer/director James Gunn, actors Chris Pratt, Anna Faris and Jennifer Holland at The World Premiere of Marvel Studios? ?Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.? at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA April 19th, 2017 (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Disney)
Author Katherine Schwarzenegger and Chessy Shriver attend the Casamigos Tequila halloween party at a private residence on October 30, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Casamigos Tequila)
US actors Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt pose during the photocall for their lastest film "Passengers" in Paris on November 29, 2016. (FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images)
Debbie Matenopoulos, Katherine Schwarzenegger, Noreen Fraser and Samantha Harris attend the Stella & Dot and The Noreen Fraser Foundation Breast Cancer Awareness Trunk Show Hosted by Noreen Fraser and Co-Hosts Debbie Matenopoulos, Samantha Harris and Katherine Schwarzenegger on October 5, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Araya Diaz/Getty Images for Stella & Dot)
Actor Chris Pratt attends the photocall for 'The Magnificent Seven' during the 73rd Venice Film Festival at Palazzo del Casino on September 10, 2016 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
Author Katherine Schwarzenegger attends Variety's 5th annual Power of Comedy presented by TBS benefiting the Noreen Fraser Foundation at The Belasco Theater on December 11, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Variety)
(L-R) Actors Michael Rooker, Chris Pratt, and Zoe Saldana attend the Marvel Studios presentation during Comic-Con International 2016 at San Diego Convention Center on July 23, 2016 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Best Buddies Challenge Event Co-Chair Maria Shriver (R) and daughter Katherine Schwarzenegger participate in the Best Buddies Challenge Hearst Castle ride on September 6, 2014 in San Simeon, California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images)
(L-R) Actress Bryce Dallas Howard, Writer/Director Colin Trevorrow and Chris Pratt attend the Universal Pictures' "Jurassic World" premiere at the Dolby Theatre on June 9, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
By Martha Ross | mross@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: January 15, 2019 at 7:09 am | UPDATED: February 12, 2019 at 9:22 am
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Even though Katherine Schwarzenegger is an adult, 21st-century woman, Chris Pratt still thought it would be a sweet, old-fashioned gesture to seek her famous parents' approval before proposing to her, according to a report.
The 39-year-old "Jurassic World" actor approached Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver around Christmas to ask them about marrying Katherine, 29, Us Weekly reported.
"Chris asked for Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger's permission around Christmas," an insider told Us Weekly, adding that Shriver "helped him with the proposal."
Pratt announced his engagement to Katherine Schwarzenegger with an Instagram post Sunday.
"Sweet Katherine, so happy you said yes!" Pratt wrote, along with a photo of him and his new fiancee. "I'm thrilled to be marrying you. Proud to live boldly in faith with you. Here we go!"
Sweet Katherine, so happy you said yes! I'm thrilled to be marrying you. Proud to live boldly in faith with you. Here we go! 💍🙏♥
A post shared by chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) on Jan 13, 2019 at 11:12pm PST
Katherine Schwarzenegger shared the same photo on her Instagram page, with the caption: "My sweet love. Wouldn't want to live this life with anyone but you."
The couple became engaged after a whirlwind romance that first became public in June.
They appeared to be getting serious when Pratt brought Schwarzenegger with him to Napa Valley in September for a visit with his older brother Cully, a Solano County sheriff's deputy. That weekend, Chris Pratt served as an auctioneer at a gala fundraiser for a Fairfield-based nonprofit that Cully is involved in. Chris Pratt and Schwarzenegger also enjoyed some wine-tasting at the Round Pond Estate winery near St. Helena.
Soooooo Chris Pratt and Katherine S. visited Round Pond this past Saturday for a private garden experience… I met them both and they are so warm and gracious! Chris was HILARIOUS and us had all cracking up the whole time. He is just as down-to-earth as you'd think 😊😊😊 He joked with me about "shock wire" like a champ quoted it word for word, bless him! I LOVE MY JOB!! . . #chrispratt #napa #napavalley #roundpondestate
A post shared by Sia (@halcyon_loves) on Sep 10, 2018 at 9:53am PDT
In November, Pratt finalized his divorce from actress Anna Faris, with whom he has a 6-year-old son. Faris filed for divorce in December 2017 after eight years of marriage.
When Faris and Pratt announced their split, the couple said that nothing scandalous led to their estrangement — as in no third party. They appear to enjoy an amicable divorce, with Faris signaling her approval of his new marriage by commenting on his Instagram post: "I'm so happy for you both!! Congratulations!"
There's no word yet on when and where the wedding will take place.
Schwarzenegger is the eldest child of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former action movie star and California governor, and TV journalist Shriver. A lifestyle blogger and author, Katherine Schwarzenegger wrote the children's book "Maverick and Me" in 2017 and the positive self-image book "Rock What You've Got: Secrets to Loving Your Inner and Outer Beauty from Someone Who's Been There and Back" in 2010.
The "Guardians of the Galaxy" star later admitted on Facebook that he and Schwarzenegger wanted to keep their engagement quiet but knew that would be a challenge, Us Weekly reported.
"Ideally we'd have kept this secret for as long as possible," Pratt wrote. "But considering there's paparazzi camped out in the alley behind our house and they document everything whether we like it or not, we'll take the lead here and release this statement."
"Her family really likes him," a source told Us Weekly, when the publication first reported that Schwarzenegger and Pratt were an item this past spring.
"He's great," Katherine's younger brother Patrick told Us Weekly and other reporters at a charity softball game in Malibu on Sunday. Patrick Schwarzenegger was speaking hours before Pratt and his sister went public with their engagement. "He's really great," he added.
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From Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; and Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Note: This study was presented in poster form at the American College of Cardiology 53rd Annual Scientific Session, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2004.
Disclaimer: The contents of this article do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government. The authors assume full responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the ideas presented. This article is a direct result of the Health Care Quality Improvement Program initiated by the Health Care Financing Administration, which has encouraged identification of quality improvement projects derived from analysis of patterns of care.
Acknowledgments: The authors thank Damon Seils for editorial assistance and manuscript preparation. Data were provided by the Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care, Inc., and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, both in Baltimore, Maryland.
Requests for Single Reprints: Trip J. Meine, MD, 877-B West Faris Road, Greenville, SC 29605.
Current Author Addresses: Drs. Meine, Patel, Curtis, Rao, Schulman, and Jollis and Ms. DePuy: Duke Clinical Research Institute, PO Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715.
Dr. Gersh: Mayo Clinic, Cardiovascular Division, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: T.J. Meine, M.R. Patel, S.V. Rao, K.A. Schulman, J.G. Jollis.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: T.J. Meine, M.R. Patel, V. DePuy, L.H. Curtis, S.V. Rao, K.A. Schulman, J.G. Jollis.
Drafting of the article: T.J. Meine, M.R. Patel, B.J. Gersh.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: T.J. Meine, M.R. Patel, V. DePuy, L.H. Curtis, S.V. Rao, B.J. Gersh, K.A. Schulman, J.G. Jollis.
Final approval of the article: T.J. Meine, M.R. Patel, L.H. Curtis, S.V. Rao, B.J. Gersh, K.A. Schulman, J.G. Jollis.
Provision of study materials or patients: L.H. Curtis, S.V. Rao, K.A. Schulman.
Statistical expertise: V. DePuy, L.H. Curtis, J.G. Jollis.
Obtaining of funding: J.G. Jollis.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: M.R. Patel, L.H. Curtis, K.A. Schulman.
Collection and assembly of data: J.G. Jollis.
Previous studies suggest that patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (MI) in December have poor outcomes, and some studies have hypothesized that the cause may be the infrequent use of evidence-based therapies during the December holiday season.
To compare the care and outcomes of patients with acute MI hospitalized in December and patients hospitalized during other months.
Retrospective analysis of data from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project.
Nonfederal, acute care hospitals in the United States.
127 959 Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized between January 1994 and February 1996 with confirmed acute MI.
Use of aspirin, β-blockers, and reperfusion therapy (thrombolytic therapy or percutaneous coronary intervention), and 30-day mortality.
When the authors controlled for patient, hospital, and physician characteristics, the use of evidence-based therapies was not significantly lower but 30-day mortality was higher (21.7% vs. 20.1%; adjusted odds ratio, 1.07 [95% CI, 1.02 to 1.12]) among patients hospitalized in December.
This was a nonrandomized, observational study. Unmeasured characteristics may have contributed to outcome differences.
Thirty-day mortality rates were higher for Medicare patients hospitalized with acute MI in December than in other months, although the use of evidence-based therapies was not significantly lower.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2005;143(7):481-485.


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Unheard stories and sounds from the proto-punk years featuring Toronto's The Scenics
December 1975/JUne 1976, Toronto
All of the songs from Punk Haiku 1-5 are collected and available on the free/by donation album "Proto-Spunk" at Dream Tower Records.
LITTLE JOHNNY JEWEL
Ken and Andy, alone in the basement of Andy's suburban home, bounce this one off the walls while they figure out what a band might sound like. Taking off disguises, October 31, 1976.
IN THE SUMMER
A song of Ken's he played me on the first day we got together- one of the first versions we got on tape, February 1977. Ken's guitar at the end is, as the Toronto Star's Ben Rayner says, "Wayward, jammy, a bit druggy....". Our studio version from 1977 made our SUNSHINE WORLD CD.
I am posting an apology on the first few punk haiku pages for the primitive audio quality. As the Scenics went along, we got a better tape recorder!
PUNK HAIKU CHAPTER 1
And then, unannounced, the next world arrived.
I began hearing a song on Chum FM, in the mornings when I wasn't quite awake. The first few times I may have dreamt it. I couldn't make out the words, even the language. I couldn't find out who it was, like a few years earlier, when early in the morning, half awake before school, a cool voice urged me to "walk on the wild side".
I thought i heard the DJ say it was by Lou Rawls, and I thought OK, way to go
Lou, imagining his smiling, tomming face. It excited me, the way years earlier I had found out who I was by putting on a flannel shirt and Neil Young's"Everybody Knows this is Nowhere" in the autumn. I fell in love with that, like when Kia, a gorgeous exotic blonde with long frizzy hair and a dazed expression would walk portensiously to the front of 11th grade art class and put on Ziggy Stardust, and I fell in love, with Ziggy.
This song began with low toms, saying something as clearly as anything was ever said around a tribal fire, an organ wavering around a handful of notes. A decision to go on. And the voice. "The wall is high, the blood born, the babe in my arms wrapped in swaddling clothes, the unborn soul..." Kimberly by Patti Smith.
Well, this really changed things, and a few weeks later I found a copy of her album "Horses" at Records on Wheels at Yonge and Bloor, still a row of shops with used records on the second floor, a decade before it would be torn apart and forced into being a monolithic High fashion store that people could not afford to shop in, a store with ceilings as high as it's prices.
But on this day it was still Records on Wheels. I bought used copies of Horses and the live three lp "Yessongs" the flotsam and jetsam of my musical life. I brought them home, set Yessongs aside, and started playing Horses. Daily.
At first it was impenetrable. There was the cover to start with, Patti completely vulnerable, yet looking like a bomb that would devestate everything if touched. Her band on the back not looking like rock stars, or even what later became called punks, just too cool to be bothered to be cool. The icy greys and whites and type.
But the music. Has there ever been a better opening line than "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine."
I listened, was stunned by it, hungry for it, but it took me a while to make it all add up. The lack of hard rock sound, but it's intensity. It's gentle, balming songs ("Break it Up" featuring someone named Tom Verlaine on guitar). Patti's feral vocals, and grace, and lack of tuning, and then sweetness. The unheard of shapeless cloud mass of "Birdland" and the unoriginal music to "Free Money".
And at the end, "Land", taking every punk/teenage story of the hunt for danger and/or desire and translating it into a spiritual state, the core of life. I played "Horses" every day, I began to realize that I really dug it.
As I was figuring this out, Patti's show at Massey Hall was announced. Carol and I went at the last moment, picking up a couple of seats in the front of the balcony. It seemed everyone else was settling in as we settled in. There was a buzz going through the hall, looking around, we didn't look like an audience, we all looked like individuals, waiting to find out.
The lights went out and Patti and band came out. They started with no bass, just drums, 2 guitars, piano, and Patti. They started with
"We're going to have a real good time together
We're going to jump and shout and shoot together
Na na na na na na na na na na naaaa"
A Velvet Underground song (I later found out) and they did all of Horses and part of their next album and ended with an encore of "My Generation", drum kit hurled across the stage. They moved together on stage as they explored the music together, making it up as they went along. It seemed very New York, folk cabaret filtered through the down and out.
Soon after I wrote a story about a High School boy seeing a concert by "Queen Bitch" and how, at the end, "the whole idiom lay in shambles." This is what this concert and this album did for me (and many, many others.) Rock and roll in 1976 was not what it used to be. I never believed that the Eagles were outlaws, and Fleetwood Mac were big, and although my eyes light up for "Go Your Own Way", I always knew Hotel California was an abomination, and anyway, that's not the point- there's always room for commercial pop, but in those days, there was nothing else. Even the Stones had gone from Exile on Main Street to Goat's Head Soup, which was not a horrible album, but as Lester Bangs wrote, "It was the first Stones album to be completely meaningless", which was far worse than horrible.
The fact that Rock and Roll had become "entertainment" and nothing more, had made "entertainment" a dirty word for me- I hated the loud subtext of reassurance that coursed through Bob Seger et al. And so I began my retreat from entertainment to a place where nothing was ever safe- The Scenics.
Anyway, I won a young writer's grant for that story on Queen Bitch, and was awarded $250, and bought a pair of speakers with it. David Young, who had led a writer's workshop at Don Mills High in '75 and liked my stuff had gotten me the grant, and was about to get me a job.
But first there was my last Writer's workshop with David Mcfadden, a poet and novelist from Hamilton who taught me more than the others because he showed me that if you pay attention and are open, life becomes art, and can be recorded as such. My favorite poem of his is "Rainy Day Song", five pages of blank verse, an afternoon at home, he intermittently playing with his five year old, and following CFL and NFL games on the radio, back and forth, while a pot roast simmers, and his wife refinishes a chair. It exquisitely covers all the plot and emotion you would ever need. David would take me and a couple other desperate teens to a coffee shop after class, and when I told him about Patti Smith he said he saw my aura, and inscribed a book of his "To Andrew, the perennial passionate student."
David had a child's innocence. He was married to his high-school sweetheart, had been a proofreader at the Hamilton Spectator for numerous years as he began publishing chap books. He had a straight-faced recognition of Hamilton as, literally, the center of the universe. This persona continued into the early eighties as he began a series of books based on trips his family took around the great lakes. A sudden dark undercurrent swept through book number two like blood leaving a body, and by book number three, he was living alone, dressed in black leather, filled with pain. These days he writes a series of celebrated travel books, going to various cities (Glasgow, Athens) and, true to his history, appreciating what crosses his path. A special nod of respect must go his way, when I knew him, he was humorous and open, with an wise and amused face and a salt and pepper mustache.
The writer's workshop wound down, and the final school band concerts passed, friends sizing each other up for goodbyes in the parking lot, fourteen years of school, essentially the same stream of kids year in and year out, the same place, and now that was cracked open forever, by the end of summer we would be spread out across the country, continent, world.
Carol was dutifully preparing to study education at the U of T. Everyone was making plans, and I wasn't planning on doing anything at all. We were assigned projects about going to University in different disciplines. I had asked if I could do my project on "Taking a year off", and that had been ok'd, and I duly researched the topic and that option soon lay on a table in the guidance office alongside Dentistry, Mining, and Hospitality Management.
When I was expelled from the school orbit, it may have looked to the world, and myself, that I had no plans or goal. A year away from school would become ten and then twenty. I did have the job that David Young set me up in, shipping a recently published set of ten "Guides to Teaching Canadian Literature" to high schools across the country. It was full time for about 3 months, and then one or two days a week for the next 3 years or so. My type of job.
But I had something more than a job, or an education, I had a mission, something I was entrusted with. In the last week of High School, in the library, I hand wrote a sign. In bold and shaky print, I issued a series of challenges- "Are you tired of being in bands that aren't doing anything different? Do you want to do something exciting?" At the bottom, a list of names. The Band, and Bowie, and Traffic, and the Steve Miller Band, (remember this is his early 70's stuff, not his AM breakthrough of the late 70's) and Eric Dolphy (a bit of a curve, fishing for a bit of depth) and, among a few others, Patti Smith. I took the TTC down to Long and Mcquade's, Toronto's largest music store, and thumb tacked it up on their bulletin board.
The sign generated one call- luckily, from the right guy.
PUNK HAIKU chapter 2 : " Andy meets Ken". audio features two more very early Scenic songs- "Scenic caves" and Pink Floyd's "See EMily Play"
punk haiku 1 CREDITS
Little Johnny Jewel (Tom Verlaine, Double Exposure Music). ln the basement of Andy's home at 34 Ternhill Crescent. bass/vocals Ken Badger. guitar Andy Meyers.
In the Summer (Ken Badger, Timmy's Music) in rehearsal at Neill Wycik, February, 1977. guitar/vocals Ken Badger. bass/vocals Andy Meyers. drums Mike Cusheon.
drawing by Gareth Gaudin, MAGIC TEETH COMICS
drawing of David Mcfadden by Greg Curnoe
©2010 Dream Tower Productions. All Rights Reserved.
Punk Haiku written by and audio produced by Andy Meyers.
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There's international action for as many as 11 of Southampton's women and girls players across the months of March and April.
Alisha Ware and Ella Morris, who are both currently transitioning into the club's first-team, also have an exciting time ahead with England's Under-17s, on European Championship qualification duty in Hungary.
The pair fly to Győr in the northwest of the country, where they face games against Georgia, hosts Hungary and finally Greece.
Phoebe Williams, who has recently made the step up to Marieanne Spacey-Cale's side, will be away with England's Under-18s in early April, for an international friendly fixture camp north of the border in Edinburgh.
Ruby Burnell has been selected as part of Wales' latest Under-15s squad, but is also on standby for the Under-17s, who, like England's young Lionesses, are involved in a UEFA Elite Round Tournament.
There's also a host of Saints' Under-16s, seven to be exact, who will take part in England's Regional Development Hub. They include; Hermione Cull, Caitlin Smith, Ellie Head, Kelci-Rose Bowers, Freya Jupp, Grace Palmer and Lucia Kendall.
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Rune Bear Deviant
December 11, 2018 June 20, 2019 ·
I've been photoshopping advertisements for Rune Bear's weekly posts. In each image I tried to capture some element of the companion piece while not making a picture that sucks terribly. Some have been not-so-great, as to be expected, but these three below were somewhat successful.
The first is a rune bear mounted on the wall for Amanda Bender's "The Hero and the Hunter." Her piece is part one of an emerging storyline (we'll be posting Part II at a later date). Basically, a failing zoo has to turn to a big game hunter who pursues exotic beasts. But since Rune Bear Weekly features pieces that are under three hundred words, I'll have to be careful summarizing anything, since the synopsis might end up longer than the story.
Look at those pain-sullied eyes. Look at 'em.
The second image is of a bear spying on himself in a sword blade. This was created for T. J. Locustwood's "The Recruitment of Steel." The piece is a cantos that pairs with his upcoming book, Alexander Croft and the Corvian Wrath.
Finally, for Joe Amaral's "We are Seeds," about a village destroyed and its sole vengeful survivor (a little girl with druidic magic), I shopped a rune bear casting a leafy magical curse.
November 17, 2018 June 19, 2019 ·
A feather-fraught Rune Bear by Valeria Rios.
Check out her Twitter and Instagram.
Rune Bear Launch
July 5, 2018 June 20, 2019 ·
Rune Bear completed its launch with a series of flash fiction. Each of the editors published a 300-word piece in their respective domains. J. Motoki, our Strange Editor, wrote something creepy. Stuart, our Speculative Editor, an alt-future that plays around with humanity adapting to a new (radioactive) environment. Alyssa, Supernatural Editor, had some fun with the 'princess turned into a cute forest critter' trope. And I, acting as the judge of all things Surreal, made some kind of weird introduction to someone's siblings. The intent was to showcase the kind of work we're searching for, to present models and examples for future contributors.
Read, enjoy, submit something!
J. Motoki, Strange Editor, "Hydra"
Desmond White, Surreal Editor, "These were my Brothers"
Alyssa Warren, Supernatural Editor, "The Sparrow Queen"
Stuart Warren, Speculative Editor, "Helmets"
June 6, 2018 June 20, 2019 ·
A rune birb, I mean bear, by Birdy Carroll.
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May 23, 2018 June 20, 2019 ·
John Loise Pechon created Rune Bear as a cute girl with blue bear ears!
Check out more of his work on his Deviantart.
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Creating the Logo & Mascot for Rune Bear
Phil Kiner has always been my go-to guy for visual marketing, so when I started Rune Bear, I had constant reassurance that the logo would end up looking awesome. And, indeed, I ended up with this:
But that wasn't the first rune bear that Phil designed. Phil also experimented with configurations based on actual runes, specifically Elder Futhark (c. 150–800 AD).
A futhark is a type of alphabet that starts with some variation of F, U, Þ, A, R, and K, and Elder Futhark is the earliest known form. The alphabet was used by Germanic tribes during the 'Barbarian Invasions' (the Germans have a better word for it—Völkerwanderung while English academics have a more boring description—the 'Migration Period') which may or may not have led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Today, Elder Futhark is often found on old weapons, amulets, tools, and, yes, this is real life, runestones scattered across the European landscape.
Phil sent me three designs based on the futhark.
The first:
While I loved the diamond nose and frumpy grin, the ears, while stylish, gave the bear an undesirable ant-like quality.
The second:
The test market (me) liked the sideburns but thought the bear looked too grumpy.
The third:
#perfection
For a while I had settled on this design for the magazine.
But there was still this itchy inkling (writer's rash?) in the back of my mind. I wanted something that would allow other artists to create their own variations. And something more blue, more realistic. My attempt looked like this:
No, wait, that's something else.
My first design was this:
In his mouth I wanted the futhark word "alu" (ᚨᛚᚢ). The alu's meaning is a contested issue, but some of its definitions hint at a strange, disturbed state created by sorcery or induced by ale (we've all been there). It is usually inscribed on artifacts of magical or mystical import. Other potential meanings include "taboo," "strange," "distraught," and the "world between the living and the dead." (I also considered ᛒᛖᚨᚱ, which is the word "bear" spelled out in futhark letters.)
In the end, Phil drew this:
… and the rest is rune history.
Strange, Surreal, Speculative, and Supernatural
Rune Bear claims to be a digital literary magazine dedicated to the Strange, Surreal, Supernatural, and Speculative.
We ordered the genres like that for the soft soil of sound; a sussuration as subdued as Robert Frost's sound of sense. Sometimes alliteration is an aroma, an allure. But if we wish to sustain submissions, we'll need to suss out exactly what we're looking for.
By Strange, we mean Weird fiction, a subgenre of the speculative encompassing horror and tales of the macabre. Science, myth, and horror blend into stories which estrange the familiar, break the laws of Nature, and bring the reader into contact with madness. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors of the incredible anthology The Weird, add that "With unease and the temporary abolition of science can also come the strangely beautiful intertwined with terror." But Weird fiction is not necessarily terror-inducing. As Jake King explains "Weird Fiction is about things that aren't just unknown, but essentially unknowable to humans. Given that we as humans fear the unknown, we usually assign it as horror, but it doesn't have to be."
By Surreal, we refer to writing that tries to capture the wilds of the unconscious through irrational juxtaposition. André Breton, founder of the literary movement, defines the Surreal as a proposal to "express—verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner—the actual functioning of thought." He adds that it's an assertion of "complete nonconformism." In this way, surrealism is better than realism—a rejection of the refined, a rapture of the raw. The bizarre, unreal, incongruous, paradox, and perverse are elements of Surreal, as well as thirty-six blue rabbit trucks.
By Speculative, we mean fiction of the "what if?" As David Bowling describes, these are worlds "that could have been, or might have been, if only the rules of the universe were altered just a bit." Often the grounding is in the sciences. Innovations or alternatives in psychology, sociology, biology, and technology lead to wild human problems and wilder solutions. In this way, Andy McCann describes, speculative fiction is "preparation for all futures"—an anticipation of infinite destiny. Ultimately, however, Steve Tully writes that the genre is "about you and me" (Lilly). The otherworld, be it magical or mechanical, is a testament to the human imagination, but also human reality.
By Supernatural, we mean fantasy, a genre of imaginative fiction. Sometimes there is a natural world, with the supernatural pressings against its edges. Sometimes the supernatural is the world; the rules of reality re-adapted to make-believe. Tolkien writes that fantasy "touches on or uses Faerie" which "may perhaps most nearly be translated [to] Magic—but it is magic of a peculiar mood and power." Or, as George R.R. Martin writes, "Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab" (Perret). In this genre are epic, urban, high and low fantasy, fable, myth, steampunk, arcanepunk, a whole slew of other punks, and what Tolkien calls "the Perilous Realm." We, of course, take all of the above.
Breton, André. Manifesto of Surrealism (1924). Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press, 1972.
King, Jake. Weird Fiction Discussion Group. Facebook, 26 March 2018.
Lilly, N. E. "What is Speculative Fiction?" Green Tentacles, March 2002.
Perret, Pati. The Faces of Fantasy: Photographs by Pati Perret. New York: TOR, 1996.
Oziewicz, Marek. "Speculative Fiction." Oxford Research Encyclopedias—Literature, March 2017.
Tolkien, J. R. R. Tree and Leaf (1939). New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
VanderMeer, Ann and Jeff. "The Weird: An Introduction." Weird Fiction Review, 6 May 2012.


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A new form of fullerene-capped CdSe nanoparticles (PCBA-capped CdSe NPs), using carboxylate ligands with fullerene capping groups that provides an effective synthetic methodology to attach fullerenes noncovalently to CdSe, is presented for usage in nanotechnology and photoelectric fields. Interestingly, either the internal charge transfer or the energy transfer in the hybrid material contributes to photoluminescence (PL) quenching of the CdSe moieties.
Buckminsterfullerenes, beside their structural attraction, have been extensively researched in materials science due to their unique properties such as the excellent electron affinity as well as the interesting photophysical/photochemical nature [1–5]. A parallel and equally heady progress has also been made toward the development of semiconductor nanoparticles (e.g., CdSe) since the variation of their particle size and shape provides continuous and predictable changes in optical/electronic properties and chemical processability [6–8]. In addition, these nanocrystals behave essentially as a three-dimensional potential well for electrons (i.e., the quantum mechanical 'particle in a box'). It thus comes as no surprise that both the fullerenes and the nanocrystals have been actively investigated for various applications; however, their fields have been largely independent so far and have enjoyed their own remarkable developments in the past [9–11]. For instance, both fullerenes and semiconductor nanocrystals have been blended with conjugated polymers respectively, giving rise to photovoltaic cells with high-power conversion efficiencies [12–22]. Despite given the prominent features of fullerenes and semiconductor nanocrystals, fullerene-based mixed nanocomposites of well-defined composition and stoichiometry have not been adequately studied [23–26]. These points have attracted our attention to chemically combine the two in a single unit so that 'synergy' between the two can enhance and induce their outstanding properties.
To prepare the quantum dots (QDs)-based organic–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials, ligand exchange is a very useful method [27–29]. Even though thiol groups are the most used ligands for capping the QDs, they are unstable against photooxidation, which can lead to aggregation of the QDs [30–32]. Thus, we have turned to the carboxylic acid ligands for fullerene to CdSe nanocrystals. Recently, we reported the synthesis of the well-solubilized carboxylic acid fullerene (PCBA) (see below) for use as n-type materials in hybrid bulk-heterojunction solar cell .
In the current work, through the ligand-exchange reaction, we describe here a route to prepare readily soluble nanocomposite of PCBA-CdSe (Figure 1). The structural and spectroscopic properties of the resulting PCBA-capped CdSe nanoparticles (NPs) are of great interest since such rational design and synthesis can lead potentially to promising protocol for use in optical and photoelectric fields. Either the internal charge transfer or the energy transfer phenomenon between CdSe core and PCBA shell is clearly observed, resulting in the photoluminescence (PL) quenching of CdSe.
Synthesis of PCBA-capped CdSe NPs.
All solvents were purified and freshly distilled prior to use according to literature procedures. The synthesis of 4-(2-Ethylhexyloxy)-[6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBA) , hexadecylamine-capped CdSe (HDA-capped CdSe) [18, 33, 34], and pyridine-capped CdSe (pyridine-capped CdSe)  was adapted from literature procedures. Commercially available materials were used as received unless noted.
To the pyridine-capped CdSe nanocrystals (17 mg) dried with N2 gas, PCBA (66.5 mg, 0.065 mmol) was added along with 10 mL anhydrous THF. The mixture was then sonicated at room temperature for an hour while the nanoparticles gradually became fully soluble in the THF to form an optically clear solution. The exchange procedure was monitored by FT-IR (diminution of the carboxylic acid band at 1705 cm-1), which showed nearly quantitative formation after 3 h. The solution was then dried by bubbling Ar and then stored in glove box.
(6,6)-Phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) is a soluble form of fullerenes as well as the most widely used organic n-type material. The PCBM can be hydrolyzed with a strong acid to the corresponding carboxylic acid PCMA which is a hardly soluble, not processable material. The introduction of a branched side chain as a solubilizer on the phenylene of PCBM (PCBA)  allows the excellent solubility, which enables to study the organic–inorganic hybrid material containing C60.
The hexadecylamine (HDA)-capped CdSe nanoparticles (CdSe NPs) were prepared using the reported procedures [18, 33, 34]. Then, HDA-capped CdSe NPs were successfully transformed to the corresponding pyridine-capped CdSe NPs by the treatment with pyridine under ultrasonication . Subsequently, the ligand exchange with PCBA afforded the PCBA-capped CdSe NPs which is readily soluble in organic solvents (THF, chloroform, toluene, etc.) (Figure 1).
To ensure that the ligand exchanges had successfully gone to completion, the NPs were characterized by FT-IR (Figure 2). On a low-energy region (from 1,800 to 1,500 cm-1), the FT-IR spectrum of the pristine PCBA, displays a strong absorption band at 1,705 cm-1 assigned to the carboxylic acid, which is not present in the pyridine-capped CdSe NPs. In contrast, the PCBA-capped CdSe NPs reveal somewhat similar to the PCBA; however, it appears that the carboxylic acid band is diminished and shifted to lower energy at 1,730 cm-1 with a relatively decrease in intensity. The inspection of FT-IR of the PCBA-capped CdSe NPs such as the disappearance of the carboxylic acid band and new broad bands around 1,570 cm-1 is clearly suggestive that carboxylate binding are formed between PCBA and CdSe through the ligand exchange reaction.
a FT-IR spectra on KBr for dropcast samples of PCBA ( diamond ), CdSe NPs ( asterisk ), PCBA-CdSe NPs ( circle ); b TEM of pyridine-capped CdSe NPs and c PCBA-CdSe NPs.
Figure 2b and 2c depict a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrograph of the NPs (pyridine-capped CdSe and PCBA-capped CdSe). The TEM image of the pyridine-capped CdSe is characteristic of uniformly shaped spheres, with a mean size of 5.0 ± 1 nm (see Figure 2b). In the case of analyzing the PCBA-capped CdSe, the monodispersed spheres are not easily seen in the resolution TEM; however, a nanometer-sized pattern of larger objects is observed. This can be attributed to the nanoagglomerated feature, which is resulted from the interaction between the PCBA attached to the CdSe. In addition, we cannot rule out that more than two CdSe units can be surrounded by PCBA moieties, which probably leads to the roughly spherical form.
The UV–Vis and photoluminescence (PL) properties of all the NPs (HDA-capped CdSe, pyridine-capped CdSe and PCBA-capped CdSe) were investigated in chloroform solution. As shown in Figure 3, the solution optical spectra of both HDA-capped CdSe and pyridine-capped CdSe exhibit broad absorption bands (410–460 nm), arising from exciton absorption peak in CdSe NPs. In the case of PCBA-capped CdSe, the distinguishable band at 330 nm corresponds to the characteristic of C60 not only exhibits but also the absorption feature is almost identical to that of the pristine PCBA. This implies that PCBA is completely binding along the CdSe unit.
a UV–Vis absorption and b PL spectra of HDA-capped CdSe NPs ( diamond ), pyridine-capped CdSe NPs ( asterisk ), and PCBA-capped CdSe NPs ( circle ) in chloroform solution.
In PL spectrum of the pyridine-capped CdSe NPs, the bathochromic shift of the onset of the emission of ca. 60 nm is observed when compared to the HDA-capped CdSe NPs. This low-energy emission can be due to aggregated formation and increased intermolecular interaction in the NPs . In the case of the PCBA-capped CdSe in solution, the PL quenching of the band at 512 nm corresponding to CdSe is clearly observed, and an emission peak centered at 795 nm which stems from the PCBA units becomes dominant. The decrease in PL intensity in CdSe NP is mostly likely caused by the quenching of photoexcited CdSe NP through charge transfer to the electron-accepting PCBA from CdSe NPs. However, we cannot rule out that, through utilization of the carboxylates as a linkage between CdSe with PCBA, it is possible to trigger the energy transfer in the hybrid material since the length scale of domain in PCBA-capped CdSe is smaller than typical values for Förster energy transfer (<10 nm) . To confirm that the PCBA-capped CdSe of the intracomplex quenching is indeed charge injection of a conduction band electron of the photoexcited CdSe NPs to the surface-bound PCBA, we are complementing our studies by time-resolved transient absorption spectroscopic measurements with CdSe NPs and PCBA-capped CdSe.
Both PCBM and CdSe derivatives have been applied as the electron transport materials in the most widely used configuration of the photovoltaic cells [14, 21, 37–39]. Furthermore, the nearly complete quenching of emission from the higher energy CdSe NPs to PCBA may be a significant key in further improving the efficiency of an organic solar cell.
In addressing this fundamental question, we are currently studying the hybrid nanostructures fabricated with conjugated polymers, in that enables to create the positive aspect in the hybrid solar cells and other hybrid materials-based optical and electrooptical applications via the ligand exchange.
In summary, we have demonstrated the preparation of soluble nanoparticle of PCBA-CdSe by directly exchanging the ligands onto the surface of pyridine-capped CdSe, which is fully characterized by FT-IR, UV–Vis absorption, PL spectra, and TEM. The resulting PCBA-capped CdSe in solution shows a dominant emission peak centered at 795 nm, which is originated from the PCBA units. It clearly indicates that either the internal charge transfer or the energy transfer from the CdSe to PCBA moieties in solution occurs, so that the emission band (λmax = 512 nm) from the CdSe units is nearly quenched. We envision that a hybrid-polymeric nanoarchitecture can be utilized for constructing one layer of solar cell to explore the possible optoelectronic device application, which will open up new opportunities for the development of solar cells based on organic–inorganic nanocomposites. This work is currently under investigation.
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0002494) and the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST) (NRF-2009-C1AAA001-2009-0092950).


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Q: CSS change child colors based on math? Alright, I'll admit that title seems a bit cryptic, but here's the situation:
I have a list of actors on a page with photos and short bios, each one is its own <div>.  Let's say that I have seven actors on my page, and I want the text colors in their boxes to change, say, to create a rainbow, so actor 1 would be red, 2 would be orange, 3 would be yellow, and so on.  Can I do this without having to manually specify style="color:rgb(whatever)" on every div?  Let's say I want the color values to change dynamically if I add more people to the list or take them away, so I'd specify a beginning color value of rgb(255,0,0) for red and and end value of rgb(255,0,255) for violet and somehow fill in the rest, so that each subsequent box has a different text color but all together they make a rainbow.
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As booksales go the annual one held in Trinity College is one of the best. Spread over three days there is something for everyone and the 'price is definitely right'. This year is the 29th Annual Trinity Secondhand Booksale and the place will, no doubt, be as busy as ever. All the books are donated during the year by staff and students, and the funds raised are used for the purchase of materials for various college libraries. So, not only are you getting a bargain but helping improve college facilities.
The old Exam Hall, a place steeped in history with wonderful paintings on show, is a splendid venue and worthy of a visit in its own right. There you be surrounded in the steady murmur of book hunters searching for bargains as they shuffle from one stuffed table of books to another. The books are usually laid out under various heads; like History, Sport, Science, Languages, Philosophy, Adventure and many, many more. It's always a treat and you will find oodles to choose from – and at the right price!
As the tables of books are emptied they are just as quickly refilled by volunteers. Many buyers slide cardboard boxes of books from table to table – something that I've not seen anywhere else – as they gather their precious finds. You can get a year's reading here for the price of a couple of new books – and that's what most people tend to do. It's a book lover's heaven – so happy hunting and reading!


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Directed by: Oskar Roehler
Writing credits: Michel Houellebecq, Oskar Roehler
Principal actors: Hermann Beyer, Moritz Bleibtreu, Simon Boer, Tigan Ceesay, Martina Gedeck
Flashbacks reveal the childhoods of two half brothers who live separately with different grandmothers. They are fully unaware of each other until, at about age 15, their flighty mother introduces them. As adults, Michael (Christian Ulmen) is an introverted, highly intelligent researcher in the science of cloning, which, he thinks, is a practical substitute for sex. Bruno (Moritz Bleibtreu) is made of studier stuff on the outside, but is vulnerable on the inside and compensates for his love/hate relationship with his mother by seducing many inappropriate women in spite of being married and a father. He suffers breakdowns and lands in hospital wards, and Michael is his only dependable visitor. We suffer with them as they struggle. They bury their dead mother; Bruno visits his alcoholic, penniless father (Uwe Ochsenknecht who mumbles incoherently); Michael returns to England to finish a research project; Bruno checks into a kind of nudist, free-love colony. Both finally settle down with the right women: Michael with rediscovered childhood friend Annabelle (Franke Potente) and Bruno with Christiane (Martina Gedeck), a dominatrix who takes him to group sex parties. Things are looking up, but not before there is a hospital death scene worthy of Love Story or Million Dollar Baby.
German director Oskar Roehler's grandparents supposedly also raised him, which is perhaps one reason he was drawn to film the best-selling book by Frenchman Michel Houellebecq. Roehler has a history of filming family interaction: for example, Agnes and His Brothers (in this case, three unlike brothers), Der Alte Affe Angst, and Die Unberührbare. This film offers a good chance to see top German actors at their best, especially notable: Ulmen, Gedeck, and Tom Schilling as young Michael, not to forget Bleibtreu who won the best actor award for this role at the 2006 Berlinale. The colors and the photography are beautiful. But, once again, mom is to blame that the boys are a mess. And why does this most European of films have a soundtrack with a collection of English pop songs (although it was fun to hear American Pie again)? Michael says, "The truth is like an elementary particle, split to its lowest denominator." Perhaps you can find symbolic meaning in the title (which translates as The Elementary Particles); otherwise, just enjoy the film as an overly long, well-made German movie. (Becky Tan)


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2017 has seen the dash cam market go from strength to strength – after all, shelling out £100 or so on a dashcam is infinitely preferable to paying thousands of pounds for an accident that wasn't your fault.Some countries – Russia, for one – have seen millions of drivers adopt dash cams in an attempt to stem the rise of crash-for-cash schemes and hit-and-run scammers.These cards aren't expensive, however, as you can get a 32GB card for little more than a tenner, and at 720p resolution and standard bit rates, this should store around seven hours of footage.
Pay more and you can expect higher-quality video, thanks to increased recording bit rates and higher sensor resolutions – basic cameras may offer only middling 720p HD video, whereas the best use 1080p sensors to offer a huge leap in image quality.In short, Chaturbate will never charge you a penny unless you specifically choose to purchase tokens, which cost approximately 8 to 10 cents each. Chaturbate has made it easier than ever to watch their free cam shows.Britain's roads can be a dangerous place, and with the ever-increasing cost of car insurance, video evidence of any scrapes and shunts can help put your mind and wallet at ease.The answer is normally yes – countries who prohibit the use of dash cams due to privacy and data-protection issues, such as Austria, are in the minority – but the laws do vary widely as you cross borders.While you'll get a hefty fine in Austria just for having one installed, there are countries that place less stringent limitations upon their use.


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October 17, 2019 / 7:58 AM / 3 months ago
China says it hopes to reach phased trade pact with U.S. as soon as possible
BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes to reach a phased agreement in a protracted trade dispute with the United States and cancel tariffs as soon as possible, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday, adding that trade wars had no winners.
A phased agreement would help restore market confidence and reduce uncertainty, ministry spokesman Gao Feng told reporters, adding that both sides were maintaining close communication.
"The final goal of both sides' negotiations is to end the trade war and cancel all additional tariffs," Gao said. "This would benefit China, the U.S. and the whole world. We hope that both sides will continue to work together, advance negotiations, and reach a phased agreement as soon as possible."
Chinese premier Li Keqiang said both China and the United States need to resolve the issues through dialogue. He made the comments on Thursday when he met delegates led by Evan Greenberg, chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council.
"China will create an internationalized business environment ruled by law where domestic and foreign firms are treated equally," Li said. "Property and intellectual property rights will be strictly protected."
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow meanwhile said he saw momentum to finalize the initial phase of a trade deal which could be signed at the APEC forum next month in Chile.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 11 outlined the first phase of a deal and suspended a threatened tariff hike, but officials on both sides said much more work needed to be done.
Trump had originally planned to proceed with a rise in tariffs to 30% from 25% on about $250 billion worth of Chinese goods last week. But the U.S. administration has yet to make a decision on how to address planned 10% tariffs on roughly $156 billion of Chinese goods due to take effect on Dec. 15.
U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators are working on nailing down a Phase 1 trade deal text for their presidents to sign next month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.
Mnuchin said the Trump administration's "objective" was for the agreement to be signed between the presidents of the two countries at a Nov. 16-17 summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation countries in Santiago, Chile.
Working-level representatives from both countries were working on specifics of an agreement now, Gao said.
There have been positive signs from China in recent days.
China's securities regulator on Friday unveiled a firm timetable for scrapping foreign ownership limits in futures, securities and mutual fund companies for the first time. Increasing foreign access to the sector is among the U.S. demands at the trade talks.
A day before, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed net sales of 142,172 tonnes of U.S. pork to China in the week ended Oct. 3, the largest weekly sale to the world's top pork market on record.
Trump said China had agreed to make purchases of $40 billion to $50 billion of U.S. agricultural goods. Mnuchin said the purchases would be scaled up to that amount annually.
FILE PHOTO: China's Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Gao Feng attends a news conference in Beijing, China April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
On Wednesday, Li said China would remove business restrictions on foreign banks, brokerages and fund management firms, without giving details.
"Since this year, under the effect of China-U.S. trade frictions, trade and investment between the U.S. and China have fallen," Gao said.
"This fully demonstrates that trade wars have no winners."
Reporting by Gabriel Crossley; Writing by Ryan Woo; Editing by Alex Richardson and Nick Macfie


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Home Stations Opening Epping Station on the suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia
Opening Epping Station on the suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia
The suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia, covers 830 kilometres of track. Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM) is the current franchise holder with an agreement lasting eight years from 2009. MTM is a joint venture of the Hong Kong-based MTR Corporation (60%), John Holland Group (20%) and UGL (20%). It operates 150 six-car train sets which together cover more than 30 million kilometres each year.
The 21kilometre long Epping line was opened in 1889 and runs from the city-centre Flinders Street Station north to Epping. At one time the line went all the way to Whittlesea, but due to a lack of demand it was closed from Thomastown in 1959. The 3.5 kilometres to Epping was restored in the 1960s when the line was electrified.
In 2008 a further development plan was announced to increase the capacity of the existing line by doubling 5 kilometres of line and by extending it by 3.5 kilometres back to South Morang. This South Morang Rail Extension Project is being delivered by an alliance between the Victorian Department of Transport, Metro, VicRoads, John Holland and AECOM.
On 28 November, the new Epping Station, which has been relocated a short distance, opened to passengers as the first trains ran on the newly-commissioned dual track section that took in four stations over 5 kilometres.
The achievement followed an extended four-day occupation [no train services, overhead power isolated] and huge team effort as the alliance project team raced to deliver on time.
The senior project manager from MTM said, "despite a Saturday deluge the concerted approach and detailed planning by all involved parties met its target.
"Station staff were able to finalise their set up in the new building during the weekend while their nearby old structure was being demolished to make way for four new six-car set train stabling roads," said Simon Vaughan.
"Signalling, overhead, track and electrical teams worked tirelessly to put the final touches in place so the test train could run through early on Sunday on the new section of dual track extending 3.5 km to a new terminating station and transport interchange that will open for use by mid-2012," he said.
"That afternoon we had an intensive run of train drivers getting familiar with the new dual track in the existing corridor, ready for passenger services from early Monday.
"An Australian first was the installation, testing and commissioning of the SMARTLock computer-based interlocking (CBI) system designed specifically as a successor to Solid State Interlocking (SSI) for all signalling applications."
Relevant stakeholders within Metro were regularly consulted to ensure designs, construction, operation and maintainability considerations were covered, according to Simon.
"The consultation process with MTM not only included the risk assessment process, but there were also workshops during the design phase to define the design strategy. These covered everything from track and signals and access maintenance to power upgrades.
"We ensured Metro had input to coordinating the delivery of the project, with key internal operational readiness and commissioning committees engaged at 12-weeks, five weeks and three weeks prior to this stage's final commissioning."
Metro Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Lezala, congratulated all who had contributed to a fantastic result in getting the first customer services out of the new Epping Station as scheduled on Monday.
"This has been a terrific project team effort that also has required close dealings with and support from all operational areas of Metro to achieve this goal," Andrew said.
Praise from on high
Victoria's Minister for Public Transport, Terry Mulder, joined the chorus of praise: "It's great to see the newly-duplicated track and two new stations fully operational and delivered ahead of schedule.
"The newly-duplicated track will provide improvements in on-time reliability and performance for the Epping line. The new stations will provide a significant upgrade in facilities for commuters," the minister said.
In the coming months the project team will wrap up the AU$400 million project with the commissioning of the new train stabling roads and completion of the new terminating station at South Morang. Once driver training is completed, Metro plans a timetable change to introduce added services on the line to meet the rising demand for public transport in Melbourne's rapidly-growing north.
South Morang Rail Extension Project
Doubling of track covering 5 km and four stations
3.5 km extension of new dual track to a new premium terminating station (planned to open April 2012) at South Morang with free all-day parking for 450 cars, drop off area, taxi rank, a bus interchange and bike cages
Three new premium station buildings including new relocated Epping Station, new terminating interchange at South Morang, plus a second platform and pedestrian overpass at Thomastown Station
Upgraded road/pedestrian level crossings, new road overpass bridges and new rail bridges
Signal power equipment upgraded from 240 volt to 1000 volt
Signalling system upgraded CBI from SSI to Australian-first SMARTLock
Four new stable sidings constructed at the site of the former Epping Station
Upgraded maintenance facilities for signallers, maintainers and train drivers
Early works commenced March 2010, main construction from October 2010.
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9-Year-Old Finishes Cross-Country Ride
North Carolina boy bikes 2,703 miles, raises more than $25,000 for cancer charity
By Taylor Rojek
Most 9-year-old boys are content to ride their bikes to the corner store and back.
Not C.J. Burford.
On November 22, C.J. finished his first-ever cross-country bike ride. From what we can tell, he is the youngest person ever to accomplish the feat. He started riding in Oceanside, California on September 1st, and has been averaging about 45 miles per day since. By the time he rolled into St. Augustine, Florida, he'd racked up 2,703 miles—pretty impressive for a middle schooler.
C.J. pedaled a Jamis Xenith Comp through the southern US while his family accompanied him—whether by bike, as his dad most often does, or in the 1983 RV that his mother piloted alongside him, with his 19-year-old sister and three brothers, ranging in age from 2 to 6. "This is NOT a vacation," his mom, Katie, said when we spoke to her last week. "It's more like a boys' locker room."
C.J. Burford dipped his tire in the Pacific Ocean on September 1, beginning his ride across the country.
Kenadi Burford
C.J. dipped his tire in the Pacific Ocean on September 1 in Oceanside, CA. (Kenadi Burford)
C.J.'s ride was no vacation, either—he was pedaling to raise money for kids with cancer. Though the final count isn't in yet, he's raised in the neighborhood of $25,000 for The National Children's Cancer Society—a cause that's close to his heart after watching his grandmother go through chemotherapy.
C.J. decided to bike for charity when he heard a song on his local Christian radio station that inspired him to live his life for his faith. Since he loved to ride, he reasoned, he might as well help other people while doing it. He talked it over with his mom, who agreed that he should ride to help others—though she had no idea of the grand scale C.J. was planning. "She thought I meant in the driveway. I did not mean in the driveway," he deadpans.
This isn't the first time C.J. has tackled a super-long ride for charity. Last May, he rode across his home state of North Carolina. The year before, at the ripe old age of 7, he rode down the state's coast, gathering funds to build wells around the world. Over the past two years, he's raised more than $17,000.
When asked what he likes to do to break up the monotony of riding day after day, C.J. is honest. "I like roadkill," he says matter-of-factly. "When I get really bored I take selfies with [dead] rattlesnakes, coral snakes… I had a tarantula once too!" He also recommends a good game of UNO for winding down after a long day in the saddle.
C.J. Burford takes a break in the desert during his cross country ride.
C.J. takes a break in the desert during his transcontinental ride. (Kenadi Burford)
Though he's ridden thousands of miles, he says he really hasn't gotten sore muscles at all. In fact, his mother tells of him riding 102 miles in one day, then hopping off the bike to play football with the neighborhood kids. His only battle scar so far? One small saddle sore—which didn't slow him down for long.
We asked CJ what he has planned after his big ride. His response? "I have no idea what I'm gonna do with my life after this." Knowing what he's done so far, we get the feeling he'll figure it out just fine.
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Q: Circuit analysis with nodal analysis [EDIT] I'm going to give mesh analysis another go, and see where that gets me.
[DOUBLE EDIT] Mesh analysis didn't get me anywhere :(
Im tearing my hair out over this problem, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Im solving the circuit with nodal analysis, and following the steps of:
1: Ground node equation
2: Voltage source and current source equations
3: Equations for each resistor
4: KCL at each node apart from the ground node
5: Substituting resistor equations into the KCL equations and solving for the node voltages
6: Solve for branch currents
7: Find power consumed or supplied
The problem is, i get to step 5, find a node voltage, but apparently it's the wrong answer. It doesn't match any of the answers supplied by the teacher (it's a practice multiple choice exam).
Attached is my working, with a picture of the circuit.
I get to a voltage for node B (circled in red), however, when I sub this in to find the voltage at node A, i get the wrong answer (12.8).
Please please please tell me what I am doing wrong.
Thank you in advance

A: First off, mesh analysis would be simpler because you would only have one unknown (the current in the right mesh).
As you know, in nodal analysis you are summing currents at the nodes.  Current into the nodes positive and current out of the nodes negative.  The way you have defined the problem you should have 3 equations and three unknowns.  Your first equations seems to do this correctly for node B.  It kind of falls apart after that.  For example, node A equation should just be .005 = (Va-Vb)/3000.  You already know that Vc = 16 volts.
So simplifying the node A equation gives you what Andy aka said, then just substitute it back into your node B equation.

A: V(A) must be 15v higher than V(B) because of the 5mA current flowing thru the 3k resistor.
So.... V(A) = V(B) + 15
I don't know if this helps in the way you want it to?

A: you've already obtained one equation relating v(a) and v(b), the other relation between v(a) and v(b) is to be obtained by using ohms law as you already have the knowledge of the current flowing and the resistance between nodes a and b. this way you will have 2 equations 2 variables and you can solve it.
for future problem solving you should avoid writing too much redundant variables (which, by observations can be eliminated)(writing too much variables and equations can also lead to confusion) like here you should've directly wrote 0.005A instead of I(1) and I(4); 16V instead of V(c).

A: WHy did you assume so many currents in the loop for mesh analysis?
Method 1 : Just use only one current that is in the BC branch because the BD branch current will be 5mA +/- BC branch current . So there will be only 1 variable in the 2nd loop.
Method 2 : Take only one node : point B & apply nodal analysis method .There will be only one equation with only one variable.


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Fujisawa (surname)
Fujisawa, Iwate, a former town in Iwate Prefecture, Japan
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Astellas Pharma, formed from the merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
"Fujisawa Loser", a 2008 single of the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation

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Q: How to convert a LocalDateTime date to a particular format? Hi I am having small Java code snippet. I am using Java 8. I have a Java LocalDateTime object and I want to format it. Please see my code below.
String dateUTC = "2021-10-21T10:32:38Z";
Instant i =  Instant.parse(dateUTC);
LocalDateTime ldt = i.atZone(ZoneId.of("Europe/London")).toLocalDateTime();

I want to print the LocalDateTime object ldt as string in the following format:
 Oct 21 2021 11:32:38 AM

How can I achieve that?

A: DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss a");
System.out.println(  ldt.format(dateTimeFormatter));

A: Use a built-in localized format
Can you live with commas in the output?
    DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter
            = DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDateTime(FormatStyle.MEDIUM)
                    .withLocale(Locale.US);
    System.out.println(ldt.format(dateTimeFormatter));

Output:

Oct 21, 2021, 11:32:38 AM

The immediate advantage is that we don't need to fiddle with any format pattern string, which is always an error-prone task. Two further advantages are: 1. users likely will be happier with the built-in format since this is constructed to fit the expectations of the people in the locale (USA in the example); 2. the code trivially lends itself well to localization: just specify a different locale to make people of a different culture happy.


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I've never had very many clothes. I used to think that was because I wore uniform at school and so I didn't need that many other clothes, but that was a long time ago, and although I've had plenty of opportunity to increase my wardrobe size since I often look at my clothes and think that I don't have a lot of choice. I think I'm just a bit lazy about buying new clothes!
Every day I wear jeans and a top - short sleeved in summer, long sleeved when it gets a bit cooler, and something warm and cosy on top for winter. But in my wardrobe I do have a reasonable collection of smart dresses for going out like these that I've picked up over the last few years. We still seem to have quite a few wedding invitations, and also as we are lucky enough to go on a cruise from time to time it's nice to have a few to choose from when you need to dress for dinner every night, but compared to the frequency with which I wear them the number that I have is a bit excessive.
I do find it much easier to find dresses that fit me than trousers. I hardly have any pairs of trousers because it's difficult to find ones that don't gape at the back or aren't too long. I also wear out the knees on my jeans astonishingly quickly, even now I'm well past the 'crawling on the floor with toddlers' stage.
However I only ever wear dresses for special occasions, and I feel really self-conscious when I wear them. Some of them are a little skimpy, but I think that I can pull them off, especially if I'm wearing thick tights, and I really do like wearing them. If I'm going out for dinner with friends I will try and make an effort to wear one, but I always feel over dressed, even if others are dressed up too.
I can't imagine turning up on the school run wearing a dress, even though plenty of the other Mums do, I'd think that everyone was staring at me! I missed an opportunity last September when the children started a new school, I could have re-invented my style completely and no-one would have known!
I do remember making a resolution a few years back as part of my Day Zero Project to wear a dress or a skirt for a week, and even though it was one of the easiest things on the list I never actually got around to doing it! So I've decided that I need to try and make an effort to get more wear out of the dresses in my wardrobe. Maybe not the really fancy ones - I'll save those for the cruise ship - but the simpler, more comfortable ones could easily become more every day wear, especially when the weather is a bit warmer, or perhaps with tights or leggings as we come into autumn and winter.
Are you a fan of dresses, or are you more of a jeans and t-shirt person like me?


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Drops of ink make millions think.
And the story will stink.
I'm just a joke but you follow me.
It's novel that some books can kill.
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How to check if your BRAVIA TV is a Google TV™, Android TV™, or other TV
A Google or Android TV is any TV that uses the Android™ Operating System (OS) from Google Inc. Android TVs have been included as part of Sony's TV line-up since 2015, and Google TVs were introduced beginning in 2021.
You can use the following methods to check whether your TV is a Google TV, an Android TV, or other type TV.
TVs Home Menu screen
TVs remote control
Press the HOME button on the remote control to access Home Menu screen.
Google TVs will display a Home menu screens as shown below:
NOTE: The features of the Home menu screen on a Google TV differ depending on whether or not you have logged in to your Google account.
When you sign in to your TV with your Google account:
There is a Google TV display in the upper left.
There is a Google account icon in the upper right corner, and clicking it will bring up the dashboard.
When you do not sign in to your TV with your Google account:
There is a display about Google TV at the bottom of the screen.
Android TVs will display a Home menu screens as shown below.
NOTE: The Home menu screen on an Android TV is similar to the Google TV Home menu screen, but there is no Google account icon on the upper right corner of the screen. Instead, a Clock or (Settings) icon will be displayed.
NOTE: The display on the upper right of the screen differs depending on the models or settings.
Other Type TV
If your TV does not fall into the above examples, it may be a TV that does not use Android OS. The following are examples of Home menu screens from other type TVs.
NOTE: The Home menu screens may differ depending on the models and apps available.
If the supplied remote control has a Mic button (or Mic icon), the TV is a Google or Android TV.
Even with Google or Android TVs, there may not be a Mic button (or Mic icon) depending on the region and model.
For the xxC Series, the Mic button is on the Touchpad Remote Control.
If Android is listed in the Software — Operating System field on the model Specifications page, then it is an Android TV.
NOTE: For how to find the specifications, refer to the How can I find the specifications of the TV? article.
How to reset the television to the original factory settings. (Other than Google TV™ or Android TV™ models)
BRAVIA TV apps
[VIDEO] How to Perform a Self Diagnostic Check on Your Sony BRAVIA TV
The BRAVIA TV turns on or off automatically.
How to listen to your TV from the Bravia TV and headphones or audio device at the same time.


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Desert ecology
Petersen, David
Cedar Mesa: A Place Where Spirits Dwell
by David Petersen
photographs by Branson Reynolds
Library of Congress Classification F832.S4P47 2002
High on the Colorado Plateau lies a uniquely magical desert place: a land of sandy mesas and slickrock escarpments, an elegant maze of vertical-walled, vertigo-inspiring canyons plunging to darkened depths. Cedar Mesa, Utah, is a place frozen in time. A land that can only be adequately explored on foot or horseback, Cedar Mesa offers adventurous visitors magnificent examples of all the topographic and geologic wonders that define "canyon country" throughout the Southwest: stone arches, natural bridges, and breath-sucking precipices, plus hidden springs, hanging gardens, and a treasure of pre-Columbian Indian ruins. Now a writer and a photographer who have roamed the Mesa for more than twenty years—and know many of its well-guarded secrets—offer an intimate look at a place where solitude and silence go hand in hand. Animated by towering "hoodoos"—sandstone formations eroded to resemble all manner of spooky beings—Cedar Mesa is, in David Petersen's words, "an undulating expanse of erosion-sculpted slickrock like petrified ocean swells." He and Branson Reynolds share insights into the natural and human history of the region; they provide a panoramic overview of the Mesa, then take readers on a personally guided descent into the canyons, where hikers can expect to encounter wildlife, prehistoric ruins, stone sculptures, and hidden pools. While providing details regarding much-visited locales, Petersen and Reynolds are more concerned with conveying an overall sense of the area's mystical beauty—capturing the spirit of ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings but keeping their locations secret so that their magic will not be lost. With its relative lack of roads, campgrounds, and maintained trails, Cedar Mesa is an Eden for personal discovery and hands-on adventure. But "be it known," advises Petersen, "that this is not yet another hand-holding, give-it-all-away, chamber-of-commerce-style 'backcountry' guidebook, of which there are far too many already." He and Reynolds have instead fashioned a book to celebrate and interpret "one of the most palpably spiritual natural places remaining on the American continent"—and to instill in readers the importance of protecting it forever.
David Petersen is the author or editor of twelve books, including Writing Naturally; Heartsblood: Hunting, Spirituality, and Wildness in America; and The Nearby Faraway: A Personal Journey through the Heart of the West. Branson Reynolds' work has appeared in such major publications as Outside, Sierra, Backpacker, and Wilderness and has been exhibited in galleries in Santa Fe, San Francisco, Toronto, and his hometown of Durango, Colorado.
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As of June 1st; Only holdings that are part of the DTC discount plan in the Fidelity accounts will be DRIPped, i.e.; everything held at Fidelity is being DRIPped. I am also DRIPping our joint taxable account at Capital One Investing. So, only the Roth IRA accounts at Capital One Investing are NOT being DRIPped as well as the small Robinhood account I just opened. I am slowly re-setting all Fidelity accounts to hold only DTC-eligible securities. I believe this is the best way to maximize these accounts, at this broker, at this time. The DTC discount plan is not available at Capital One Investing, so a different tactic is being employed where I invest on my schedule, in the holdings I want, as often as I want. The most any of these (AIP) "Automatic Investment Plan" investments will cost is slightly less than $1.00. Sell trades cost $6.95 each. I tried to get them to lower it, but it's only on our joint account that we still have the old "Costco Promotion" pricing of $10/month for Advantage program and $4.95 sell trades. They offered me some trade credits, instead. C'est la vie!
I wanted to buy 100 shares of NCLH, so I made some transfers on the 23rd & 24th.
I transferred $1,000 from our ind-PandA account, $2,000 from my Roth-P account, and $4,000 from my wife's Roth-A account.
I transferred $1,000 into my Robinhood Account on the 23rd, and $5,000 on the 24th.
In our ind-PandA account, I plan to withdraw $436.10 from the account.
In my Roth-P account held at Capital One Investing, I plan to withdraw $1,740.89 from the account.
In my wife's Roth-A account held at Capital One Investing, I plan to withdraw $2,101.47 from the account.
We need to plan for my wife's first MRD withdrawal from her TSA in April of 2018, which should be totally covered by dividends for *at least* the first few years.


My life is at it again.
You would think a child would settle it, make a homebody out of a nomad, fix my feet in the city where family and only some remaining friends were. When my daughter began pre-school two years ago, I thought this was it. We had signed on the dotted line to be Delhi dwellers forever, or at least till she graduated. Then past fifty I would become a farmer and live in the mountains, again. But forever is a tricky thing. It's laughing behind your back as you make plans for love and life.
So here we are, on a 14th floor apartment in chilly (if you're sitting at home) Dubai, overlooking yachts go by in one direction and an unmanned metro crossing buildings that The Jetsons swung their hovercraft around many years ago on the telly. And I've been cooking every single day of the one week we've been here, me of the never-step-in-the-kitchen syndrome. I've already begun an uncertain relationship with the stove. We had our first spat today. It screamed, I shut it down. Soon enough we were okay. I'm also doing the evening slides round with the girl, something we never had time for in the almost four years she's been around.
I couldn't carry everything (except those books of course). Does it matter? Can you really ever pack your life in bags? For the most part just getting up and leaving works too. We can build it here, piece by piece, not in things we buy and hang but memories of that-time-we-lived-here, however long it lasts. My last night in Delhi, I was suddenly overwhelmed by the "Why?" Why were we leaving? Our girl has seen both sets of grandparents around her from the time she was born. And isn't family all that really matters. Why move to another city now. A better job perhaps but is it really. What if I sit on that white desk in the new apartment and can't write at all? What if Delhi is where all the words will be? And then I slept, not fighting it anymore. This is what we're doing right now. This is where we will be. Virtually present with families, physically present in a trio. Learning to live by ourselves, not starting out anew but moving forward.
I went to five different schools growing up. I never have a good enough answer to "Where are you from?" I am from here and everywhere else I've been. I am from the people I've met, the books I've read, the stories I've heard about strangers. I am from the places I've seen and those that mark my dreams. This life can never be packed in enough suitcases and would do just fine without it. It is to be lived and kept in open jars. May it always spill over.


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Research-Practice Partnership Effectiveness: Which Strategies Matter for Impact?
Teaching Profession Opinion
By Urban Education Contributor — September 27, 2018 6 min read
Urban Education Contributor
This week we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to reflect on an important question with increasing relevance to research-practice partnerships (RPPs): The matter of effectiveness. In today's post, Michelle Nayfack (@mnayfack), Associate Director of Research-Practice Partnerships at California Education Partners (@caedpartners) who leads the Stanford-Sequoia K-12 Research Collaborative and Laura Wentworth (@laurawent), Director of Research-Practice Partnerships at California Education Partners, who leads the Stanford University-San Francisco Unified School District Partnership (@StanfordSFUSD), reflect on the need for specific measures of RPP effectiveness.
Today's post offers a real-world perspective from two colleagues working in RPPs on Monday's post: Measuring the Impact of Research-Practice Partnerships in Education
Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) in education are growing in number and scale in the United States. With this enthusiasm comes the responsibility to demonstrate partnership effectiveness and impact (for example, the current IES director's to call for more research on the impacts of these partnerships).
As the field responds to this call for evidence, we think there is one premise researchers and practitioners measuring RPPs should keep in mind — frameworks or constructs guiding the measurement of partnership effectiveness should be specific enough to define not only the partnership's key attributes leading to impact, but also how those attributes interact to produce the desired results.
Currently, the frameworks guiding the measurement of these partnerships are quite broad. Aside from Coburn, Penuel, and Geil's seminal white paper on research-practice partnerships in education, there are a few other frameworks which could also be useful when thinking about the measurement of research-practice partnership effectiveness: Coburn and Farrell's concept of absorptive capacity, Farley-Ripple and colleagues' emphasis on conditions supporting research use, or Russell and colleagues' study of Networked Improvement Communities. Additionally, there are RPPs working to internally study and document their own effectiveness and impacts (for example, Barton and colleagues' brief, Nayfack and colleagues' report, or Henrick, Klafehn and Cobb's book chapter).
Henrick and colleagues come the closest to outlining the specific set of constructs for assessing the effectiveness of research-practice partnerships. Their white paper outlines a set of five dimensions to guide RPPs in their efforts to understand how well they are working. While a helpful first step towards measurement, the framework provides little explanation of how the dimensions interact with each other, making it difficult to know which RPP strategies should be prioritized over time. For example, even across different RPP designs, contexts, and types, we believe partnerships will most likely build trust and cultivate relationships (one of the Henrick et al. dimensions) before they support the practice partner organization in achieving its goals (another dimension).
We advocate for a set of measures similar to the Henrick dimensions, and those that additionally capture some agreed upon, common partnership outcomes or dimensions across a research-practice partnership logic model or theory of action: this would include inputs and activities (actors and strategies) and expected partnership outputs (intermediary outputs like evidence-based decision-making, or longer term outputs like changes in practice, policy or student outcomes).
Our argument for more defined, specific measures of RPPs is premised on three principles.
First, it is possible for the field to agree upon a set of RPP dimensions as well as an understanding for how those dimensions relate to each other, while still having variation in RPP designs, types and contexts. For example, we started the partnership between Stanford University Graduate School of Education (GSE) with San Francisco Unified School District using the theory of action depicted in Figure 1. This theoretical model describes a set of elements in an RPP which we think interact in certain ways to produce a desired result: from L to R — inputs (researchers, practitioners, and intermediaries), activities (doing research together, engagement, and culture), an intermediary output (using research), two longer term outputs/outcomes (changes in policy and practice, and improvements to student outcomes), buoyed by certain conditions and resources. We used this theory of action to design and launch another partnership, the Stanford Sequoia K-12 Research Collaborative where Stanford GSE faculty partners with nine school districts that neighbor Stanford campus, and to advise other universities and school districts in California as they start and sustain their RPPs. While we do not think there is an exact recipe for RPPs, our experience of using one RPP theory of action across multiple contexts gives us confidence that the field could more clearly define not just what the dimensions contributing to effectiveness are, but how these dimensions relate to each other when enacted across RPPs.
Second, when RPPs across the nation have a common set of measures, it will help them grow their collaborations and opportunities to learn from each other. When the leaders of RPPs gather at the NNERPP Annual Forum every summer, we use common frameworks and language to discuss our practice and examine our work. This practice of learning from each other by sharing and comparing our partnerships started early on before NNERPP when Vivian Tseng at the William T. Grant Foundation gathered a working group of RPPs to learn from each other (the effort produced this RPP micro-site with an incredible amount of RPP resources). Thanks to this working group, the Stanford-SFUSD Partnership had the opportunity to partner with Education Northwest and the Baltimore Education Research Consortium to co-design a survey to examine the effectiveness of our RPPs. We wanted to have common measures to look across our partnerships and have common data to help analyze our strengths and challenges together. These discussions led to the development and testing of an internal survey, and some of the items of this survey are still in use today. (See Wentworth, Mazzeo, and Connolly, 2017 for a more thorough description of this work.) As the RPP field advances, we hope the specificity of the measures can allow for greater cross-RPP learning.
Third, the measures of effectiveness will influence the development, design, and impact of the next generation of research-practice partnerships in the education sector. You may have heard of the phrase, "what gets measured, gets done." If we want the next generation of RPPs to be effective and impactful, we need to put a stake in the ground about not just what the RPP dimensions of effectiveness are, but how those dimensions relate to each other across RPPs. For example, IES has funded multiple RPPs through their grant making program, and there is now emerging evidence that these partnerships supported education leaders' use of research in their decision-making. The field could take the opportunity to learn about the how the dimensions of these IES-funded RPPs' work together to support the effectiveness of their partnerships. For example, if IES were to support the development of these RPP measures in collaboration with this cohort of IES-funded RPP grantees, the agency and other foundations could both use the findings to guide the criteria of their next call for proposals for RPP projects and fund more precise, efficacious studies of the next generation of RPPs.
While there is emerging research of RPP effectiveness, there is more work our field can do to measure the effectiveness of RPPs. We hope in the next generation of RPP measures, we can respond to the call for demonstrating RPP effectiveness and impact, and be able to determine what dimensions make RPPs effective as well as how those dimensions interact to make improvements in education.
Figure 1: California Education Partners
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