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Maren Fromm, geb. Brinker, (* 10. Juli 1986 in Wilhelmshaven) ist eine ehemalige deutsche Volleyball-Nationalspielerin.

Karriere

Maren Brinker begann ihre Laufbahn in ihrer Heimatstadt beim Wilhelmshavener SSV. Über den Oldenburger TB kam sie zum Juniorinnen-Team vom VC Olympia Berlin. In der Volleyball-Bundesliga spielte sie seit 2005 beim USC Braunschweig, bei Bayer Leverkusen, USC Münster und smart Allianz Stuttgart. 2007 nahm sie an der Europameisterschaft in Belgien und Luxemburg teil und belegte mit der Nationalmannschaft den sechsten Platz. 2009 belegte sie mit der Nationalmannschaft Platz drei beim Grand Prix und Platz vier bei der Europameisterschaft in Polen. 2010 erreichte sie bei der Weltmeisterschaft in Japan einen guten siebten Platz. 2011 wurde Maren Brinker mit ihrem Verein Smart Allianz Stuttgart DVV-Pokalsieger, danach wechselte sie zum italienischen Erstligisten Robursport Pesaro. Mit der Nationalmannschaft wurde sie im Oktober 2011 Vizeeuropameister. 2012 wechselte Brinker in Italien zu Yamamay Busto Arsizio. 2013 gewann sie die Europaliga und wurde erneut Vizeeuropameister. Danach wechselte sie zum polnischen Spitzenverein Impel Wrocław, mit dem sie 2014 Vizemeister wurde. Anschließend ging Brinker zurück nach Italien zum Erstligaaufsteiger Montichiari Volley. 2015 wurde sie zu Deutschlands Volleyballerin des Jahres gewählt. 2016 ging Brinker in die Türkei zu Trabzon İdmanocağı. Da der türkische Verein überraschend seinen Hauptsponsor verlor und die Spielerinnen nicht mehr bezahlen konnte, wechselte Brinker kurz nach Saisonstart zum Schweriner SC. Im Dezember wurde sie erneut als Volleyballerin des Jahres ausgezeichnet. Im April 2017 gewann sie mit Schwerin erstmals die Deutsche Meisterschaft. Nach ihrer Heirat wechselte Fromm erneut für eine Saison in die Türkei zu Çanakkale Belediyespor. Nach einem elften Platz bei der Weltmeisterschaft in Japan beendete Fromm 2018 ihre Nationalmannschaftskarriere. Am 25. Oktober verkündete der SSC Palmberg Schwerin die interimsmäßige Rückkehr von Maren Fromm nach Schwerin für zwei Monate.

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Fromm ist seit Juni 2017 mit dem Volleyball-Nationalspieler Christian Fromm verheiratet. Die beiden haben seit 2019 eine Tochter.

Weblinks

 Porträt beim DVV
 Nordwest-Zeitung 1. Februar 2011
 Interview 10. März 2011
 Ranglisten: 2008 (PDF; 533 kB) –  – Rangliste 2010 (PDF; 761 kB) – 2011 (PDF; 534 kB)

Einzelnachweise

Volleyballnationalspieler (Deutschland)
Volleyballspieler (VC Olympia Berlin)
Volleyballspieler (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
Volleyballspieler (USC Münster)
Volleyballspieler (Allianz MTV Stuttgart)
Volleyballspieler (Schweriner SC)
Volleyballspieler (Yamamay Busto Arsizio)
Volleyballspieler (Türkei)
Teilnehmer an den Europaspielen (Deutschland)
Teilnehmer der Europaspiele 2015
Deutscher Meister (Volleyball)
Deutscher Pokalsieger (Volleyball)
Deutscher
Geboren 1986
Frau

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use sdl2;
use sdl2::audio::{AudioCallback,AudioDevice,AudioSpecDesired};
use sdl2::event::Event;
use sdl2::pixels::Color::RGB;
use sdl2::rect::Rect;
use sdl2::render::Renderer;
use sdl2::keyboard::Scancode;
use sdl2::Sdl;
use super::{GFX_H,GFX_W,Mode,wav};

const SCALE: usize = 8;

pub struct BeepCallback;

impl BeepCallback {
    fn new() -> Self {
        BeepCallback
    }
}

impl AudioCallback for BeepCallback {
    type Channel = u8;

    fn callback(&mut self, out: &mut [u8]) {
        assert!(out.len() == wav::PLAYBACK_BUFFER.len());
        for i in 0..wav::PLAYBACK_BUFFER.len() {
            out[i] = wav::PLAYBACK_BUFFER[i];
        }
    }

}

pub struct Ui {
    sdl_ctx: Sdl,
    renderer: Renderer<'static>,
    audio: AudioDevice<BeepCallback>,
}

impl Ui {

    pub fn new() -> Self {
        let sdl_ctx = sdl2::init().unwrap();
        let video_subsystem = sdl_ctx.video().unwrap();
        let window = video_subsystem.window("chip8",
                                     (GFX_W * SCALE) as u32,
                                     (GFX_H * SCALE) as u32)
                                    .position_centered()
                                    .build()
                                    .unwrap();

        let renderer = window.renderer().build().unwrap();

        let audio_subsystem = sdl_ctx.audio().unwrap();
        let audio_spec = AudioSpecDesired {
            freq: Some(wav::SAMPLE_RATE_HZ as i32),
            channels: Some(wav::CHANNELS as u8),
            samples: Some(wav::SAMPLES as u16)
        };

        let audio = audio_subsystem.open_playback(None, audio_spec, |_| {
            BeepCallback::new()
        }).unwrap();

        Ui { sdl_ctx: sdl_ctx, renderer: renderer, audio: audio }
    }

    pub fn beep(&self, on: bool) {
        match on {
            true => self.audio.resume(),
            false => self.audio.pause()
        }
    }

    pub fn refresh_gfx(&mut self, mode: Mode, gfx: &[[bool; GFX_H]; GFX_W]) {
        let bg = RGB(0x1c, 0x28, 0x41);
        let fg = RGB(0xff, 0xff, 0xff);
        let projection_factor = match mode {
            //
            // For STANDARD mode, the 64x32 gfx subscreen will be projected
            // to fit the entire viewable area. The excess between 64x32 and
            // 128x64 will be projected offscreen.
            // +-----------------------+-----------------------+
            // |                       |                       |
            // |         64x32         |                       |
            // |                       |                       |
            // +-----------------------+    drawn offscreen    |
            // |                                               |
            // |                                               |
            // |                                               |
            // +-----------------------------------------------+ (128x64)
            Mode::STANDARD => SCALE * 2,
            Mode::SUPER => SCALE,
        };
        for x in 0..GFX_W {
            for y in 0..GFX_H {
                let pix_on = gfx[x][y];
                let color = if pix_on {fg} else {bg};
                let rx = (x * projection_factor) as i32;
                let ry = (y * projection_factor) as i32;
                let rw = projection_factor as u32;
                let rh = projection_factor as u32;
                let rect = Rect::new(rx, ry, rw, rh).unwrap().unwrap();
                self.renderer.set_draw_color(color);
                self.renderer.fill_rect(rect);
            }
        }
        self.renderer.present();
    }

    pub fn poll_event(&self) -> Option<Event> {
        let mut event_pump = self.sdl_ctx.event_pump().unwrap();
        return event_pump.poll_event();
    }

    pub fn get_updated_keys(&self) -> [bool; 16] {
        let event_pump = self.sdl_ctx.event_pump().unwrap();
        let keyboard_state = event_pump.keyboard_state();
        let mut keys = [false; 16];
        keys[0x0] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::X);
        keys[0x1] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::Num1);
        keys[0x2] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::Num2);
        keys[0x3] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::Num3);
        keys[0x4] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::Q);
        keys[0x5] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::W);
        keys[0x6] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::E);
        keys[0x7] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::A);
        keys[0x8] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::S);
        keys[0x9] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::D);
        keys[0xA] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::Z);
        keys[0xB] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::C);
        keys[0xC] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::Num4);
        keys[0xD] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::R);
        keys[0xE] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::F);
        keys[0xF] = keyboard_state.is_scancode_pressed(Scancode::V);
        keys
    }

}

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Pictured are chapter members Joyce Schutt, Linda Talley and Lois Puchta, ARC Steering Committee members of the Archives, and Judy Lerbs, chapter member.
Washington, Mo. – The Valley of the Meramec Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Washington, Mo. recently donated three DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition Books to the Gasconade County Historical Society Archives and Record Center in Hermann, Mo.
Matthew Laune holds an 8 lb bass that was caught in unusual fashion.
New Haven, Mo. – It's every parents dream of having an unexpected moment with their son or daughter that they will share for a lifetime, reminiscing the moment for decades to come.


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Q: LINQ to entities is ignoring my orderby statement I have the following code:
var myCats = _context.Cats.Where(c => c.OwnerId == 1).OrderBy(c => c.Age);

var uniqueCatIds = myCats.Select(c => c.CatId).Distinct();

For some reason, the OrderBy clause is ignored when I examine the output SQL using the profiler. What I want to do is select all the unique cat Ids in the same order as they appear in myCats, and preserve the IQueryable nature of the request.
If I put .ToList() after the OrderBy, the ordering appears in the SQL and it works. However with so many cats it is very slow to do this.
Any ideas why this is happening?

A: You could try with an intermediate projection:
var myCats = _context.Cats.Where(c => c.OwnerId == 1).OrderBy(c => c.Age).Select(c => new { c.Age, c.CatId });

var uniqueCatIds = myCats.Select(c => c.CatId).Distinct();

The query is still fully executed on the DB.
or by using the GroupBy
var uniqueCatIds = myCats.GroupBy(c => c.CatId).Select(c => c.Key);

(this second query both with your myCats and/or my myCats variant)

A: I believe the following code will return the required results:
from c in _context.Cats
where c.OwnerId == 1
group c by c.CatId into grouped
orderby grouped.Min(c => c.Age)
select grouped.Key

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New York, March 12 (IANS) A Sikh community group has asked UNESCO to preserve and manage the ruins of Hondh-Chillar in Haryana, where a mass grave of Sikh victims of 1984 riots was recently found, under the World Heritage Programme.
The demand was made by a delegation of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) which met UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, Thursday to apprise her about the discovery of 'mass grave' of Sikhs in Hondh-Chillar, according to Tejkaran Kaur Bains, Youth Coordinator SFJ.
SFJ has also invited reputable archaeologists from Europe and North America who have worked on Jewish Holocaust sites and Armenian Genocide sites to seek expert guidance in preserving Hondh-Chillar Genocidal site, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal advisor to SFJ said.


Hi! I am Renée Warren. A six-foot-tall, chocolate addict, mom to Irish twins.
One day when I was 17-years-old my mom turned to me and said: "Go get a job!" I tried, but I hated everything I submitted my application to. So I decided to open a restaurant instead. Seemed logical. I mean, entrepreneurs make tons of money and hardly work, right?
70 hour weeks, firing people twice my age, no sleep, and FOMO was a clear punch to the face.
It all worked out in the end, I graduated from my undergrad with no debt and got to travel Australia for a year. It was a good stepping stone to what would become my life's career as an entrepreneur.
From Restaurateur to Agency Owner.
Somewhere along the way, I got a taste of the agency life. I was always interested in marketing and PR, but never thought I would launch a communications company, let alone start and sell another one. My previous agency, Onboardly, a company that worked with funded technology startups from all over the world to help them get media coverage, was my biggest step towards a million dollar venture. It was a heck of a lot of fun, but in the end, after doing some deep deep soul work, I realized it was no longer my mission.
Perhaps it was the PTSD from having two babies within 11 months of each other, or the unhealthy living style, or the sleepless nights, that finally took its toll. Along that journey, I started to become guided by a much brighter light, one that would lead me to launching the Family Academy.
This felt (and still feels) so good. It was my calling. I could tell by the way I spoke about it back then (on a boat at Summit at Sea amongst other incredible world changers) that this was what I needed to do.
He saw my worst and he stayed!
I help entrepreneurs gain more freedom in their lives.
I absolutely love helping entrepreneur families gain more freedom in their lives by building a deeper connection with themselves, their partner and their kids. Feed your body and soul with the right food, people, and experiences and you can move mountains.


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Sara Sampaio Is SI Swimsuit 2014 Rookie Of The Year
The Clinique x Crayola Collaboration Has Fun with Makeup
Hublot Marks Indian GP With F1 King Power India
Watson Unveils Its Exclusive Beauty Range
Watsons, Singapore's leading beauty and health retailer unveiled at a press lounge on February 21, 2013, its brand's revamp, introducing their new and exclusive range of beauty products from cosmetics to hair, skincare and even oral supplements that have made its way here from all over the globe. Feeling the vibrant burst of energy Watsons has to offer, we were greeted with a room filled with colourful balloons and backdrop showcasing the colour scheme and vibe they have decided to take on this spring.
Watsons have also made changes to their font, coming across as a lively, youthful and vibrant brand that only aims to give customers more with every visit. There were different booths for each brand, some of which had new products to introduce whereas some brands were making its way into Singapore for the very first time.
Before we were brought on a tour of their new line of products, a representative of Watsons made us toast with Brand's InnerShine Berry Essence with Grape Seed Extract, one of the many products they will be launching. It was fruity, extremely refreshing and we were quick to finish it as most of us could not wait to see what else they had in store for us.
First up was the GLOW IGNITE 2.0, a great alternative for coffee lovers out there to consider. It combines the powerful fat burning effects of raspberry ketones with patented svetol (decaffeinated green coffee bean extract). They even had a satisfied consumer and coffee addict, Daphne Maia, who lost 8kg in just 4 weeks to explain its benefits and her experience with the product.
Next was Dr Wu's skincare products which are highly popular in Taiwan, namely his signature product, Intensive Renewal Serum with Mandelic Acid. Based on 30 years of clinical experience, Dr Wu has come up with a range of products well suited in tackling various problems commonly found in Asian skin.
Heroine Make set to make every girl feel like a princess was a dream come true when we met prince charming. This Japanese drugstore label was voted No. 1 in Japan for their mascara and has sold over five million Long & Curl Mascara since 2005. Their latest product to look out for is the BB Mineral Loose Powder, which is both smooth and natural. Apart from prince charming, the booth also came equipped with a make up artiste that flew down from Japan to provide makeovers.
As most would have heard of Elite as a modeling agency, they would be thrilled to know that their make up line from Paris has made its way here. They bring in the latest make up trends at an affordable price to remind you that you can 'Be a supermodel in your own way'. The star product of the Elite models make up range is its Fantastic Primer, which is suitable for all skin types and comes with a lovely scent too.
Proud sponsor of the London Fashion week, Toni & Guy introduces Hair Meet Wardrobe where one can create their own style and let their hair do the talking. A stylist from Toni & Guy (Mandarin Gallery) shows us how to achieve volume just by scrunching your hair up with their latest product Texturising Glue. As scary as the word glue may sound, it is surprisingly non-greasy without subtracting the holding effect.
Ending off with a glass of pomegranate martini could not have been a better way to describe the new and improved Pomegranate Antioxidant Series from Pure Beauty. Inspired by nature, this skincare line is created using antioxidant-rich ingredients and is alcohol free of course. It limits free radical damage and slows down the skin ageing process.
Other new brands and products, which are debuting, include CandyDoll, AQUALABLE by Shiseido and Senka. All products are available exclusively at Watsons.
As the Watsons tagline goes: 'Look Good. Feel Great', its time for you to do so by visiting a Watsons store near you!
Poojaa DarshanWatsons
Titan Unveils The Slimmest Watch In The Universe
WTF Valentine's Day Special

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REDS SIGN DEFENDER TOM DALLISON
We are delighted to announce the signing of defender Tom Dallison on an 18-month contract.
This will be Tom's second spell with the Reds. He previously joined us in February 2016, but his loan from Brighton and Hove Albion was cut short on his debut when he broke a toe in a 1-1 draw against Plymouth Argyle.
The 22-year-old left-sided central defender joins having left Scottish Championship side Falkirk by mutual consent on Monday.
Since playing for the Reds, Dallison featured on loan for Cambridge United and Accrington Stanley, before his move to Scotland. He featured 17 times for Falkirk this season and knows the People's Pension Stadium well, having played here several times for Brighton under-23s. He was released by the Seagulls at the end of last season.
Tom in action during his first spell with the club in 2016 when he made one appearance
Director of Football, Selim Gaygusuz said, "Tom was really unfortunate to have had his loan spell with us cut short three years ago but now he's back for a second shot.
"He's played at a very good level in Scotland and played in this league since he left us. He's a quality defender and he's still only young so he has plenty of potential. We are delighted to have him here.
"This is an area of the squad Gaby and I identified as one which needed strengthening. He knows a few of the lads from his brief spell here before and I am sure he will hit the ground running."
Tom has been allocated squad number 17.
Tom is pictured below with Gabriele Cioffi and Director of Football Selim Gaygusuz


A 25-year-old Santa Clarita Valley business owner hand-delivered gifts to homeless children on Skid Row this Christmas holiday.
Santa Clarita native and California State University, Northridge graduate, Alan Campos, 25, owns SCV iRepair, Northridge iRepair and Smarte Fix, and has made a point to give back to his community by donating to the Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry and providing an annual scholarship to CSUN students.
In 2014, Campos was honored as one of the SCV 40 Under Forty and decided to donate Christmas gifts to children in need.
This year, he decided to do the same, but wanted to deliver the gifts in person.
So, Campos and a friend went to Walmart where they bought more than 75 toys and 15 blankets, wrapped each one and brought them to the Union Rescue Mission in Downtown Los Angeles on Christmas.
Wow!!! I don't know many 'older' adult business owners that gives this much! Wonderful, caring human being who is more than a successful business owner!
Why not santa clarita families?
Why not? Perhaps there's a personal reason? He gives generously to our food bank. Scholarships to CSUN. He's 25 years old and wherever he gives back to is awesome and I'm sure appreciated.
SCV iRepair. I remember when you were working out of parents garage and local papers were writing about your work ethic. Job well done!
I love the heart of this young man! He is incredibly generous and such a great person! I'm sure it was such a blessing to those kids and their families!


Dundalk has the highest crime rate in Co Louth, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office and An Garda Síochána.
The data, compiled by The Times of Ireland, shows that the town has a crime rate of 8.1 per 100 of population.
In total there were 2,599 reported crimes in Dundalk up until the year ending June 30th 2015.
The majority of the crimes were theft, with 1,021 incidences reported. There was also 437 burglaries, 413 cases of criminal damage and 250 public order offences. Assaults and harrassments accounted for 199 of the cases, with 59 drug related crimes. A further 220 were classed as other crimes.
This made Dundalk the 19th worst Garda Station in the country when it came to crime levels.
The biggest increase in crimes has been in relation to thefts, which have rocketed from 656 in 2012 to 1,021 this year. Public order offences have fallen from a high of 836 in 2010, however, to 250 this year.
Blackrock was the second worst area of the county for crimes with a crime rate of 7.4 per 100 of population – making it the 23rd worst area in the country.
In total there have been 609 crimes in the seaside village in the last year, the majority being thefts (270), with 82 public order offences, 69 cases of criminal damage, 52 drug related crimes, 48 burglaries, 42 assaults and harrassments and 46 other crimes.
In contrast Collon has the lowest crime rate in the county at 1.2 per 100 of population.
While it recorded 2,396 crimes as of the year ending June 30th, Drogheda had a crime rate of just 5.5.
It was followed by Castlebellingham (4.8/258 crimes), Omeath (4.1/65), Dunleer (3.8/166), Dromad (3.6/115), Ardee (3.1/282), Carlingford (3.0/129), Clogherhead (2.9/129), Louth (2.1/94), Hackballscross (2.0/56) and Collon (1.2/34).
Crimes in Louth by type and station. Map legend: Blue – Assaults/Harrassments, Orange – Burglary, Green – Criminal Damage; Red – Drugs; Pink – Public Order; Grey – Theft – Brown – Other Crimes.


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Bill Bruford: The Autobiography: Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks and More (2009)
'If the British Prime Minister's Cabinet could co-operate on the same level as the great Miles Davis quintets, we'd be experiencing a different form of government altogether.' (page 142)
This is an absolutely brilliant book. It is a rare example of an autobiography by a musician who's got something interesting to say – about making music, about his own feelings and ambitions in music, about the bands he's played with, about the enormous changes he's seen over the past 40 years in the music 'business' and wider society – and who says it with intelligence and dry humour. The only comparisons I can think of are Mile Davis's and Bob Dylan's autobiographies, but Bill's has intelligent and thoughtful points to make about a much wider range of subjects. And he's English (hooray!)
If you're interested in the music of the 70s, if you're interested in progressive rock music, if you're interested in jazz, if you want to know how albums are actually pieced together, how bands behave on the road, how the recording studio works, what managers are like, the cost to a person's private life of being a working musician doing gruelling foreign tours, if you want tips on how to survive in the music business, or if you're just interested in the social, political, cultural and economic history of the last 40 years, then buy this wonderful book!
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography: Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks and More
Bill Bruford, son of a vet from Sevenoaks in Kent, was a teenage prodigy of a drummer, as soon as he could taking the train up to London to see American jazz drummers performing at Ronny Scott's and other Soho jazz clubs in the mid-60s and learning from everyone. By 1968 a series of chance encounters led him to land the gig as drummer in the new progressive band, Yes, his extraordinary technique propelling the band through their first five albums: Yes, Time and A Word, The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971) and their masterpiece, Close To the Edge (1973).
Yes in concert 1971. L-R: Tony Kaye keyboards, Chris Howe on guitar and Bill Bruford on drums
At which point, just as Yes were about to tour the album round the US and go supernova, Bill left the band to join their rival in progressive rock, the far darker and more experimental King Crimson. Led by guitar maestro Robert Fripp, the Crim had had chronic difficulty keeping a stable line-up since their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King back in 1969. Bruford's arrival heralded the third incarnation of the band, much heavier and more guitar-driven and without the pseudo-medieval lyrics and elaborate song structures of Peter Sinfield. This darker sound came to the fore on the albums Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973), Starless And Bible Black (1974), Red (1974) and the umpteen bootlegs and live albums from the time.
Bill Bruford drumming with King Crimson in New York, 1973
At which point Fripp surprised the band by dissolving it, and Bruford embarked on the next 35 years forming his own rock combos, sometimes with former Yes-men, sometimes with a reformed Crim (which Fripp undissolved in 1980), but increasingly moving into the area of jazz which had been his earliest love, forming the groups UK and Earthworks, as well as recording with numerous jazz greats in the US and UK, and a constant schedule of touring across Europe, America and Asia. In 2009, after a long and varied career, Bill announced his retirement and, later the same year, published this, his autobiography.
Format Bill has had the brilliant idea of structuring the book around chapters answering the questions he is most frequently asked at cocktail parties, some of which drive him to distraction: So how did you get started? Why did you leave Yes? What's it like working with Robert Fripp? But what do you do in the daytime? and 15 others. The chapters themselves consist of stories, anecdotes, thoughts and reflections skipping around in time and place but all relating to the central question.
This is a great format because it's so flexible: it allows him to focus on luminous moments or funny anecdotes or challenging ideas rather than being tied to a chronological list of his activity since, as Bill emphasises, the working musician's life often boils down to a pretty boring litany of rehearsals, recording and touring. It is a "best of…" Bill's thoughts and reflections.
Drumming He leaves the details of drumming until well into the book. Personally, I could have done with understanding more how a drummer decides which of all the available rhythms in a piece of music to pick out, and why, and on which drums or percussion instruments? But there is still plenty about the business of drumming, the setting up and the testing, in the studio or before a performance, as well as lots about the business side – attending drumming conferences, fronting ads for specific manufacturers and so on:
'When I first pick up the sticks, I feel stodgy and slow. I need to warm up. Simple, powerful strokes eventually get some blood circulating in wrists and fingers, and soon the strokes come more easily. Drummers usually practice the rudiments, a codified set of sticking patterns with colourful onomatopoeic names such as flamadiddle and ratamacue. There are traditionally some 26 of these, mostly derived from military drumming, and it's like practicing the correct fingering for your piano scales.' (page 294)
There's a wonderful meditation on the physical, musical and philosophical differences between rock drumming and jazz drumming on page 172 which sheds light on the purpose and structure of the two different genres.
Bill with Mark Hodgson (acoustic bass) and Tim Garland (tenor saxophone). Photo: Fernando Aceves
Prog rock Bill has numerous insights into the history and development of the genre music to which he contributed so hugely – after all he worked with the giants of the genre, Yes, King Crimson and, briefly, Genesis. Passages of pure insight like the following are scattered throughout the book:
'Robert Fripp had stopped King Crimson, rather smartly I thought, in 1974, and we were able to leave the scene relatively unsoiled by the excesses that were fast entrapping the unwary… The history of progressive rock since about 1976 can be divided into two distinct periods. From 1976 to 1982, a watered-down, simpler version limped on as American stadium rock and British symphonic pop, but no new ground was being broken and the older bands started to lose commercial viability… The Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, and Pink Floyd groups of 1972 became the lighter, more consistent stadium rockers such as the Journey, Styx or Kansas of 1978… By the time John Wetton's Asia had sold millions of copies of its bland radio-friendly pop in the 80s, the post-hippie extension of the counterculture that was progressive rock, based on the idealistic impulses of the 60s, had finally runs its course. The dream, or illusion, of individual and global enlightenment was over. Progressive rock, like the period that gave rise to it, was essentially optimistic…Perhaps that lasting innocence, a refreshing anecdote to modern times, is where the attraction lies for the remarkably large group of listeners it has managed, over many turbulent years, to retain.' (page 125)
As someone fascinated by the historical context of all types of art, these passages are, for me, pure gold.
Jazz Jazz was always Bruford's first love and the book makes clear that, throughout the 70s, he felt like a jazz drummer masquerading as a rock drummer until he felt confident enough to set up his first jazz group in the 1980s. Having experienced both worlds he is uniquely well-placed to comment on the enormous disparity between the two musics:
'If I threw a party for my greatest 20 musical friends, past and present, the room would divide down the middle with 10 on one side and ten on the other. The ten on my right would be millionaires with salaries so unaccountably large that more time would be spent in charitable dispersal of the stuff than its actual acquisition. The ten on my left would be among the finest jazz musicians in the world, with an average salary approximately equal to that of a supermarket checkout girl. And I would be standing in the middle.' (page 199)
The music biz Bill describes himself and his band mates in Yes as being astonishingly naive about every aspect of the business when they started out. They were on a weekly wage of £25 well into their period of greatest success. He gives vivid vignettes of the band, memorably recalling Jon Anderson in the band's communal flat in Fulham, yelling down the phone at promoters and agents, doing everything necessary to keep the band going. Bill's anecdotes give a good sense of the various managers Yes and King Crimson went through, and an unnerving insight into the chanciness and dodgy dealing which accompanied so many of the 'business' arrangements.
Our hero – older and wiser
But behind the anecdotes about this or that manager, about the constant squabbling over money (and everything else) which characterised Yes, about the hussling for gigs, the sordid contractual realities which lay behind the making of the albums the fans loved and the tours they sold out – it's the confidence with which Bill sets his own story within the much broader context of the day which makes the book so rewarding. He explains key facts such as the music business's turnover tripled each year in the early 70s. Money seemed to be pouring in in uncountable amounts for the successful groups which managed to make it big in America, the platinum albums, the sellout stadium tours, the private jets, the hotel suites which they felt free to trash. The bands, the managers, the promoters and the record companies thought the gravy train (which Pink Floyd sing about with such disgust on 1975's Wish You Were Here) would never stop, but…
I remember seeing The Song Remains the Same, the epic film of Led Zeppelin live, at the Odeon Leicester Square in October 1976 and being blown away; but then I was an impressionable 14 year-old. Led Zeppelin hadn't played in England for two years to avoid paying supertax and most of the other megagroups – Genesis, Yes, Supertramp, Pink Floyd – had become similarly rich and distanced from their 'fans'. Earlier that year a couple of new bands had been touring England creating a grass-roots movement wherever they played. They were The Clash, The Damned and The Sex Pistols. Though they would lumber on into the 80s and increase their turnovers, the era when the prog rockers represented youthful idealism was over. Increasingly they just represented their own need to make money.
New technology Bill's book sheds fascinating light on the way the music industry has changed and evolved not only during the period he's been active, but throughout the entire 20th century. Again he places his own personal story in a much wider context:
'It is an industry for which the constant stream of technical innovations – phonogram, wireless, recording, vinyl, cassette, long-player, multi-track recording, CD – has been both the lifeblood and a constant source of disruption and disturbance that threaten the established ways of exploiting musical materials to yield a profit. If the music industry was all about banging out bits of black vinyl on an assembly line and delivering to a vast number of retail outlets, then its modern replacement, the music business, is about the never-ending war waged by record companies, composers, and publishers to establish and then protect copyrights on their material and collect royalties for its use.' (page 181)
I've rarely read anything so thought-provoking about popular music, its place in all our lives, in our Western culture, and in the vast tentacular capitalist economies which control us. He sees the big picture:
'It's hard to escape the conclusion that there is already enough music in Western society, and Western society tends to point out to the musician through the market – sometimes quite brutally, because the stupid musician doesn't get it – that it doesn't really want any new music, that it's stuffed with the music it's got.' (page 181)
Something I think about all the time. I chatted to a student at Pierrot Lunaire the other day, and she told me about a few gigs she'd been to recently, Lou Reed and Patti Smith. Good God, why them, Lou's first album is nearly 50 years old! People at work are getting excited about a series of gigs we're staging with Paul Weller, Jools Holland, Blondie and the Human League. The biggest selling music tours of last year were Madonna (first single 1982), Bruce Springsteen (first single 1975) and Roger Waters' The Wall (1979). Where's the new stuff?
When everything, all the written and recorded music of the past is immediately available at the flick of a few buttons, anywhere with wifi or 3G, what value does that music have? What meaning? It certainly has lost all ability to shock or subvert or change. I grew up on the Sex Pistols. Ollie Murs doesn't worry me. And with recorded music so ubiquitous how can the new young performing musician compete? With so many avenues of exploration so thoroughly mined, where can the ambitious musician begin to say something new?
These and lots of other issues, ideas, questions and concerns are raised and discussed by someone who has really been there and done it, in this marvellous and marvellously thought-provoking book.
All quotes from 'Bill Bruford: The Autobiography'. Used by permission of the author.
A Postscript from Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp has been lovingly remastering, repackaging and reissuing King Crimson's LPs as well as issuing a host of live recording, and accompanying them with fascinating commentary, on the group and the times. In the notes to 'The Great Deceiver' double live CD (a fascinating record of the group in 1973-74) he makes comments which supplement Bill's and Paul Stump's:
'The record industry in the period 1968-1978 was a seemingly unstoppable growth industry. The early amateurism surrounding the rock business had professionalised by about 1974, although this increased throughout the Seventies and Eighties. Records became 'products' and 'units' which moved, audiences became consumers whose 'behaviour patterns' were charted by 'demographics'. Something went terribly, terribly wrong in our sense of values. Pragmatics replaced Principle. Quantity demonstrated Quality.'
(Sleevenotes to 'The Great Deceiver, volume 1'. Copyright Robert Fripp)
In 1978 when I was buying punk singles and albums I still thought music was some kind of rebellion, had something political to say, and could change things. By 1982 I realised the New Romantic movement was deifying the Triumph of Money and the comprehensive defeat of everything the 60s stood for. In the 1990s I got to be series editor of a TV arts programme, and was quietly appalled that the clever 20-somethings who produced the music items for it made their case for who should be on the show entirely in terms of units sold, gold, platinum records achieved or Mercury or MOBO awards. The entire sector had been comprehensively corporatised. The student I chatted to at Pierrot Lunaire said she'd been to see Radiohead at the O2 last year and was disgusted by the cost and the spectacle and the merchandising and the special lifts to the VIP boxes where bankers and property developers could enjoy this so-called 'subversive' music in luxury.
Not unlike Bill (though as a humble fan, not a premier league performer) I also abandoned rock music in the 80s for more musically interesting jazz – and then progressed on into 20th century classical music, much of which is still so uncommercial and difficult that it resists corporatisation, assimilation and denaturing to fit the infantilised tastes of the ipod age.
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Posted by Simon on February 1, 2013
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Sam explains the QPQ process that makes it work.
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Q: UILabel loses text attributes the second time attributedText is set I am implementing search using the UISearchController API introduced in iOS 8. I have a UITableViewController subclass that serves both as the search results controller and the search results updater. This controller is responsible for displaying the search results in a table view.
Every time the text in the searchBar changes, the search API calls the UISearchControllerUpdating method -updateSearchResultsForSearchController: on my table view controller. In this method, I update the search results based on the new search string, then call [self.tableview reloadData].
I am also attempting to highlight occurrences of the search string in the list of results. I accomplish this by setting the attributedText on my table view cells to an attributed string that contains the highlights.
I'm seeing the following behavior:

*

*After the first keystroke, highlights show correctly

*After the second keystroke, all highlights disappear, EXCEPT

*If a cell has a highlighted region at the beginning of a string, it will show all highlights, even in the rest of the string

After some trial and error, I have discovered that this doesn't seem to have anything to do with table views or cells and has everything to do with UILabel. It seems that the labels always loose the highlights the second time the attributedText property is set. Can I really only set it once?
Some of my code
Table view data source:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    NSString* plainCell = @"plainCell";
    UITableViewCell* cell = [self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:plainCell];

    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:plainCell];
    }

    JFDHelpEntry* entry = searchResults[indexPath.row];
    cell.textLabel.attributedText = [self highlightedString:entry.title withSearchString:currentSearchString];

    return cell;
}

The method that generates the text highlights:
- (NSAttributedString*)highlightedString:(NSString*)string withSearchString:(NSString*)searchString
{
    NSMutableAttributedString* result = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:string];
    NSArray* matchedRanges = [self rangesOfString:searchString inString:string];

    for (NSValue* rangeInABox in matchedRanges) {
        [result addAttribute:NSBackgroundColorAttributeName value:[UIColor yellowColor] range:[rangeInABox rangeValue]];
    }

    return result;
}

The methods that finds the ranges to highlight:
- (NSArray*)rangesOfString:(NSString*)needle inString:(NSString*)haystack
{
    NSMutableArray* result = [NSMutableArray array];
    NSRange searchRange = NSMakeRange(0, haystack.length);
    NSRange foundRange;

    while (foundRange.location != NSNotFound) {
        foundRange = [haystack rangeOfString:needle options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch range:searchRange];

        if (foundRange.location != NSNotFound) {
            [result addObject:[NSValue valueWithRange:foundRange]];

            searchRange.location = foundRange.location + foundRange.length;
        }

        searchRange.length = haystack.length - searchRange.location;
    }

    return result;
}

Any ideas? Thanks!

A: I am now convinced that my issue is being caused by a bug in UIKit, which I have reported. You can see it on openradar.
The workaround is to check if the beginning of the string has a highlight, and if not, add a clear-colored background color attribute from range 0-1.


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The vehicles can cost up to £300,000 (S$580,000) each to buy, yet one-bedroom flats in some parts of the borough are worth as little as £70,000.
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This course will introduce a variety of topics detailing how Python can be used at an advanced level in research settings. Python is a general programming language used in many fields which is easy to learn, yet powerful. Researchers commonly use it for everything from day-to-day scripting to full-blown applications. Because of its popularity, there are many scientific libraries available that solve most of the problems you're likely to encounter in using python in your research. We'll see how to make use of the 3-4 core scientific libraries other people have created to accelerate our own work, as well as covering other advanced topics in python programming.
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Abstract—The widespread availability of mobile devices has made information available to many on the go, making it a valuable tool in everyday life. Their ability to look up information on the fly and assist with a user's information retrieval in a timely fashion make them a natural everyday carry. However, a limitation of these devices is the lack of screen space available to display information, thus presenting a potential problem to this seemingly ideal device. A technique to present a large amount of information, cohesively, is required to make users' search activities more convenient and effective. We present visualization techniques designed for presenting lengthy text-based documents on mobile devices. The system uses two different visualizations, Overview and Detail. The Overview shows the overall profile of search terms in the document(s). The Detail View presents the requested information, clearly displaying to the user what content is available. By utilizing this two step approach, we can assist users' search activities by making them more effective in their search concerning lengthy text contents. A pilot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of these visual interfaces compared to a traditional text-based interface. For a majority of measured items, the testers showed a higher degree of satisfaction using the visualization, that was developed to address the difficulties in exploring text content on a small screen device. Although a larger scale usability test is expected in the near future, our initial study shows the feasibility of using multi-level visual interfaces as a search-supporting tool to review lengthy text documents on mobile devices.
Index Terms—Visual interfaces, visualization, mobile devices, text content search.
The authors are with the Department of Computer Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA (e-mail: welctb01@students.ipfw.edu, shorgd01@students.ipfw.edu, kimb@ipfw.edu).
Cite: Todd Welch, Gregory Short, and Beomjin Kim, "Visual Interfaces Designed for Searching Text Content on Mobile Devices," International Journal of Knowledge Engineering vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 230-235, 2015.


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It will join the Viaggio sedan in China.
Since the Fiat is a clone of our Dodge Dart, this could maybe end up over here as well.
We should see official pictures very soon.
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Saab to restart production on Monday!
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Q: "Permission Denied" using cygwin in Windows Background:
I am trying to write a [.bat] file so I can double click it and a bash script will get invoked.  The bash script will start up a few windows GUI apps to monitor GPU/CPU temperatures.  I just did a fresh install of cygwin v1.7.7-1 (downloaded today) and windows 7.
Code:
monitor-temps.bat:
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe ~/bin/monitor-temps.bash
pause

Code:
monitor-temps.bash:
#!/usr/bin/bash
"/cygdrive/c/Users/michael/Desktop/apps_and_drivers/GPU-Z.0.4.8.exe" &

Output:
After I double click the [.bat] file, I get a:
C:\Users\michael\Desktop>C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe ~/bin/monitor-temps.bash

C:\Users\michael\Desktop>pause
Press any key to continue . . . /home/michael/bin/monitor-temps.bash: line 2: /cygdrive/c/Users/michael/Desktop/apps_and_drivers/GPU-Z.0.4.8.exe: Permission denied

I still get the same permissions error when I cd to the directory and manually execute the application.
Permissions:
From my experience with permission problems in Linux, everything looks good because I am the user I think I am, and the file has the expected permissions:
$ whoami
michael

$ ls -l GPU*
-rwx------+ 1 michael        None 890720 2010-12-01 19:23 GPU-Z.0.4.8.exe

Question:
Does anyone know how to fix this?  Am I missing something?

A: The easiest way to fix this is:

*

*Download Sysinternals ProcMon, start it and let it run for a while.

*Exclude all processes that generate noise.

*When the log becomes less busy, start your file access attempt.

*Search the ProcMon log for "Access Denied" messages.

*Investigate. Should be easy to fix.

A: -rwx------+ might be the problem. Some hidden acl may forbid x for you.
Reset your acl with setfacl then.
$ cat >/tmp/faclx <<EOF
user::rwx
group::r--
mask:rwx
other:r--
EOF
$ setfacl -f /tmp/faclx /cygdrive/c/Users/michael/Desktop/apps_and_drivers/GPU-Z.0.4.8.exe

Or you need elevated permissions:
$ cygstart  --action=runas /cygdrive/c/Users/michael/Desktop/apps_and_drivers/GPU-Z.0.4.8.exe

A: As a Developer, I use a shortcut to provide a command-line interface (CLI) that behaves similar to Linux, in my Windows environment, and ran into the same issue trying to untar a file.
The fix was to set the shortcut to "Run as Administrator".
If you are using this method to access your Cygwin environment, go to the properties of the shortcut, select the Advanced button to get the options to "Run as Administrator", check the box, click Ok. And off you go!!
You can also set your batch file to do this, by making a shortcut to it and doing the above.
Hope that helps!

A: I think you have to change the directory or file permission. If you want to change permission of a file or directory then you have to add full path with the code.
As if you want to change permission on cocos2d-x folder on C:\yourDirectory (I'm on Windows; on Mac it would be / instead of \) write the code on cygwin console:
chmod -R 775 /cygwindrive/c/yourDirectory

Note: If it's in C: drive you have to run it as administrator.

A: *

*Check the mount table with cat /proc/mounts or mount and make sure that every mount point out of /, /usr/bin, /usr/lib has a noacl flag.  If it's missing, correct /etc/fstab and reboot.  (Rebooting synced up the noacl flag of the root mount point for me, and I do not know if the same can be achieved without rebooting).

*Check for a NULL SID record and other strange records in the output of icacls against the file.  They appear added on writing by the POSIX ACL translation layer in Cygwin (using "noacl" in /etc/fstab allows disabling that, but the damage will have already been done).
Resetting the Windows ACL just on the file may not be enough if the containing parents had the NULL SID record.  One has to run
icacls c:\cygwin64 /reset /t /l /c

from Command Prompt to remove the extraneous records from the Windows ACL in each file and directory.
Update
Other commands reset the ownership, remove default ACLs and show ACLs of a known binary before and after the changes:
set croot=c:\cygwin64
icacls %croot%\bin\ls.exe
%croot%\bin\getfacl /bin/ls
takeown /F %croot% /R /D Y > nul
icacls %croot% /reset /T /C /L /Q
icacls %croot%\bin\ls.exe

%croot%\bin\getfacl /bin/setfacl
%croot%\bin\getfacl /bin/find
%croot%\bin\setfacl -bk /bin/find
%croot%\bin\find -P / -xdev -exec /bin/setfacl -bk "{}" +

icacls %croot%\bin\ls.exe
%croot%\bin\getfacl /bin/ls

A: I had this problem, and fixed it by cd to the directory which contains the box I just made (packaged, or, repackaged). Then vagrant box add <file.box> --name <name>. I think the PATHs fvck things up, and cause it to fail. Then double check with vagrant box list. Then I mkdir coolbox; cd coolbox. Then I just vagrant init <name> and it all comes up like magic.

A: git bash, run command like this:  cmd "/C postgresql-10.5-2-windows-x64.exe --unattendedmodeui minimal --mode unattended --servicename 'postgreSQL'"

A: I had a similar issue around tee redirection:
"%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\bash.exe" -c "{ cd ""%PWD:\=/%""; CHERE_INVOKING=. ""%CYGWIN_ROOT:\=/%/bin/bash.exe"" -l -i; } 2>&1 | ""%CYGWIN_ROOT:\=/%/bin/tee.exe"" -a ""%PROJECT_LOG_FILE:\=/%"""

This kind of code is required if you want to run a bash shell with login in a specific directory (cd before call to login shell).
But in mine case it won't work, because of the error: tee: 'standard output': Permission denied
Update:
Found a fix here: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-December/247185.html
In Win7,
1) Start command prompt.
2) Run chcp 65001
3) Change the font of command prompt to raster font.
4) Run c:\cygwin\bin\printf "\xce\b1\n"

This causes the error:
/usr/bin/printf: write error

What weird is that if the font is other than raster font,
this error does not occur.

A raster font triggers the console write error (a permission denied in case of piping) under 65001 code page specifically in the Windows 7.

A: You can follow the instruction found in this link: https://cygwin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install/#install-and-maintain-cygwin
and when it comes to give permissions to the folder on windows use the command:
chmod ugo+x /usr/local/bin/cyg-get
From the Cygwin Terminal , as in this example:
Open Cygwin64 Terminal, and run:
chmod -R 775 /usr/local/bin/

A: just change the mode of the scripts using chmod command to make it executable.
see man chmod for more details.


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The community development sector includes professionals from multiple fields that share a common focus: improving low- and moderate-income communities. They come from real estate, city planning, law, social work, public policy, public health, affordable housing, and finance fields.
How is community development related to health?
The community development sector focuses its efforts on low- and moderate-income communities. Many of the root causes of poverty and poor health are the same.
Neighborhood conditions – factors like housing, community safety, quality education, employment opportunities, and access to healthy foods – play a critical role in the health of a community. By improving well-being in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, community development affects the root causes of poor health.
Working together, community development and health leaders can have a greater impact on low-income neighborhoods and the lives of people living in them.
Community Development and Health
Community development and health are working side by side in the same neighborhoods and often with the same residents but often don't know each other or coordinate efforts.
Harvard School of Public Health, Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America
What can community development professionals do to build healthy communities?
Community development leaders are, by the very nature of what they do, working to build healthy communities.
While the sector includes professionals from multiple fields, some of the key players in this world are:
Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) -- Private financial institutions dedicated to delivering responsible, affordable lending to help people experiencing low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantages join the economic mainstream.
Community Development Corporations (CDCs) -- Neighborhood-level, nonprofit organizations that implement community development projects ranging from the development of affordable housing and community centers to job training and health services.
Affordable housing developers, specifically those that address social determinants of health.
Invest. Investing in low- and moderate-income communities is core to the mission of most who work in community development. Changemakers in the sector invest in communities by developing and financing:
Job-training programs
Services to support children and families
Community development leaders also leverage many types of capital including:
Grantmaker program-related investments
Health care community benefit dollars
Bank Community Reinvestment Act funds
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is a federal law that requires banks to meet the credit needs of the communities they serve, particularly individuals and businesses in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
CRA was developed in response to "redlining" practices in which banks deemed particular neighborhoods—typically low-income or predominantly minority neighborhoods—unfit for investment. CRA compliance is monitored by three bank regulatory agencies: the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
CDFIs serve as the financial intermediaries between low-income communities and commercial banks to ensure that the banks can meet their CRA requirements.
CRA-funded projects have traditionally focused on affordable housing and business development but today include investments like grocery stores, charter schools, health clinics, and other community facilities that address the social determinants of health. In 2011, financial institutions made $209 billion in CRA loans.1
Advocate for policy. Community development professionals are also key decision makers for policies and programs that impact communities in myriad ways. Leaders in the field are working on a variety of approaches related to housing, transportation, building social capital within communities, and creating opportunities for active living and healthy eating.
By addressing root causes of poverty, community development efforts also address the root causes of poor health.
Build and maintain the community. Investments in low-income neighborhoods don't come without risk of displacement. As a neighborhood gentrifies, community development and community leaders need to work to ensure that all voices are at the table to minimize displacement -- both physical and emotional -- which can impact longtime residents.2
Physical displacement: Longtime residents can no longer afford to live in their community.
Emotional displacement: Longtime residents remain, but the fabric of the community has changed. Costs are higher and they have fewer services to meet their needs.
Changemakers have a role to play in making these changes equitable. Strategies that can help communities find the right mix of investment without too much change:
Community building.
Advocating for policies that protect longtime residents. Things like rent control, compensation for displacement, right to return, relocation benefits, or caps on condo conversions can help.
Advocating for policies that ensure affordable housing.
Requiring health impact assessments (HIAs).1
HIAs identify the potential effects of a proposed policy, project, or program. They offer practical options for maximizing health benefits while minimizing health risks.
Measure your impact. MeasureUp, from the Build Healthy Places Network, is a collection of tools that can help you assess health impact in community development efforts.
Play community quarterback. Community development organizations often play the role of "community quarterback" -- bringing people together from multiple sectors to address community issues such as public safety or academic achievement. More and more connections are being made between community development and traditional health partners like health care organizations and public health agencies.
Leading the Field
Look to various thought leaders for effective strategies or innovations in the field such as:
Federal Reserve System: District Banks are a system of 12 Federal Reserve District Banks. Each bank contains a community development function, which promotes fair and informed access to financial markets for communities and individuals.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), also a CDFI, supports neighborhood revitalization by providing financing, technical and management assistance, training opportunities, and policy support.
Low-Income Investment Fund (LIIF), a community development financial institution (CDFI), provides innovative capital solutions that support healthy families and communities.
Opportunity Finance Network is the nation's leading CDFI trade association.
Rural LISC provides a wide range of services, including training, technical assistance, information and financial support, to help rural community developers address the problems rural communities face.
How can you connect with community development?
First, find out who leads community development in your local community. These groups often operate at a sub-county level. Here are a couple helpful places to start:
Build Healthy Places Network's Partner Finder offers a collection of directories to help you find the community development and health organizations nearest to you.
Local city and county planning staff.
What kind of work are they currently doing? Once you've identified organizations involved in community development, start with their website. Look for their priorities and information about existing partnerships.
Look for common ground and common language. As communities work to address root causes, the common ground between community development and health has become more apparent. Issues like housing, community safety, quality education, employment opportunities, and access to healthy foods are ripe for collaboration.
Here are some resources that can help:
Build Healthy Places Network aims to catalyze and support collaboration across the health and community development sectors. Check out their site for curated resources and examples of what works to help partner across sectors.
The Jargon Buster tool, from Build Healthy Places Network, can help community development and health partners speak the same language.
Now that you've got some context, look for a way to connect with a person. Ideally, you've identified one or more key changemakers in the organization. This could be the agency director or the person who heads community outreach.
If you have a mutual partner, ask for a warm introduction. If not, introduce yourself. Community development leaders are often eager to connect with other changemakers who are focused on improving low- and moderate-income communities. As with anyone, it's helpful to start by asking about their efforts and priorities.
Mission. Investing in communities is core to the mission of most who work in community development. Connecting with other changemakers can help to build their network and support the work they already do.
Data. Public health and health care partners often have data that can help drive decisions about where efforts will have the greatest impact.
Build Healthy Places Network. Jargon Buster. www.buildhealthyplaces.org/jargon-buster/. Accessed September 25, 2017.
Ray B. Whose City Is it? The Promise and Peril of Gentrification. Crosswalk Magazine. https://medium.com/bhpn-crosswalk/whose-city-is-it-the-promise-and-peril-of-gentrification-df798dd63735. Published 2016. Accessed September 26, 2017.
2017 RWJF Culture of Health Prize Winner: San Pablo, California
The City of San Pablo, CA tries to remove barriers so as many residents as possible can participate in planning meetings or forums on issues that affect them. It holds events at multiple times and different venues, often offering childcare and food, as well as translators.
"By including every sector of the community, we actively engage our residents and encourage them to be a part of the decision-making process," says Greg Dwyer, the city's director of community services.
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Patrick Surtain Says Dolphins Now Have "Philbin's Personality"
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There are a lot of unsettled people in Miami right now as the Dolphins are reeling and sitting at 1-2 -- "good" for last in the AFC East. There have been issues on both sides of the ball with the team unable to stop opposing offenses or run the ball with any success at all.
Blame has been put on everyone from Ndamukong Suh to defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle, with head coach Joe Philbin being the guy taking the most heat.
Former Dolphins cornerback Patrick Surtain is one of many unhappy with Philbin's tenure in Miami, and believes he's to blame for the Dolphins' issues.
"They're taking on the personality of the head coach right now," Surtain said via the Miami Herald." Something has to change. It has to come from a player in the locker room.
"I don't know if there is a message. What's the message? He's not that vocal guy like a Jim Harbaugh or a guy like that. … Jimmy [Johnson] had us on pins and needles. You had to perform or you were out the door."
Since joining the Dolphins, Philbin has a record of 24-27 and has yet to take the team to the postseason. He's likely on the hot seat with Miami failing to meet expectations once again.
http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/m...n-blame-093015
ONole1
Now? Hell they have had this personality for over almost two years. Philbin made sure anyone with fire was gone. This year is going to SUCK...AT this point don't fire any of the coaches because I don't think there is ONE on this staff that could even do it in an interim basis. I have been looking over the games again and I have come to the point that Lazor is as big of a problem as Coyle. Predictable routes, doesn't allow him QB to audible and horrible blocking assignments. I know the line isn't good, but Lazor is doing them no favors.
London Fish & Chips commented
Editing a comment
Always wondered whether RT could call his own plays, seems like he does better at the 2 min warning....
cuchulainn commented
Agree on both accounts. Lazor's been a huge disappointment as well as Coyles and the defense this season. Especially in the RZ.
Originally posted by ONOle1 View Post
AT this point don't fire any of the coaches because I don't think there is ONE on this staff that could even do it in an interim basis. I have been looking over the games again and I have come to the point that Lazor is as big of a problem as Coyle. Predictable routes, doesn't allow him QB to audible and horrible blocking assignments. I know the line isn't good, but Lazor is doing them no favors.
Kinda like the Dolphins coaching staff is Moe, Larry and Curly.........
HndRkyaBong34
The Philbin syndrome.... symptoms~ Will lose all motivation and you will resemble a Deer in Headlights....
EXACTLY what I've been saying for a long time now!! Bill Lazor is riding on the coat tails of Chip Kelly. Most fans were excited to see "Lazor's" brilliant version of Chip Kelly's offense to Miami. Well, we are still waiting. It never happened because "Lazor" is all hype. He IS just as worthless of a coordinator as Coyle is. V A N I L L A .......AND........P R E D I C T A B L E !!!!!!!
There is probably only one person on this staff who I kind of like, who seems to be getting the short end of the stick, and that is Hickey. He was never given a chance to run the show so we really don't know how good or bad he is at being a GM. Unfortunately, I think this entire coaching staff AND front office must go so that the Dolphins can start fresh with a new head coach and GM, with new bright ideas of how to run this team. It's a great, young team on paper and the players should get interest from good coaches, as long as it's not a partial rebuild and these coaches can't pick their own players. If that's the case the Dolphins will hire a college coach or an ex-NFL coach who is a failure. Shanahan "might" be interested in the job but I am starting to think he might be too smart to take this job especially if he gets advice from his father. "Run like the wind away from Miami" is what Mike will say.
Phintim Menace commented
I know you are right, but do you think any of these guys are handcuffed by Philbin as the players are? He is the boss and may not allow audibles or hurry up offense. Lazor can't over rule Philbin.
DolphinsFreak commented
Philbin is an ex offensive line coach. I can't imagine him handcuffing ALL the coaches by completely micromanaging them so that they can't go off-script. I have no idea if I am correct, maybe he is a total control freak but I am just going off what I have 'read' and what I 'read' when watching the interaction between the coaches. I believe Lazor is all hype who lacks creativity. Again, I could be wrong but there is no way to know unless Lazor gets a chance to be an OC somewhere else. I have heard for YEARS that the Dolphins are going to run the West Coast Offense but I have yet to see it. I hope to see the 80's WCO sometime in the near future but so far all I see is a boring, vanilla offense that most teams should be able to predict what they are going to do.
FTLDOLFAN
I am starting to think we are cursed. It seems like whenever there is a crucial decision to be made concerning the Dolphins future such as hiring a head coach or drafting or signing a QB we always seem to make the wrong decision. In hindsight it was clearly a mistake to hire Philbin and to draft Tannehill. The way we play it certainly looks like the Dolphins have taken on Philbin's personality. I just hope that Ross gets it right when he is searching for our new HC next offseason.
I've always liked Patrick Surtain but i gotta say the guy's a little slow on the uptake if he's just now figuring this out...Maybe he should apply for a job in our Front Office!
Originally posted by FTLDOLFAN View Post
I have believed that we're cursed for a long, long time; even the Marino years were just a tease, watching one of the best ever accomplish so much yet not even come close to winning a title..As you said, every move we make turns out to be the wrong one, thwarted at every single turn - This organization is it's own worst enemy; so mired in mediocrity that i'm not sure we'll ever dig our way out of it...In the immortal words of Jim Morrison; we've been down so Ga-Damn long that it looks like up to us...
Workingman
What personality?
Originally posted by Workingman View Post
lol, touche'!!!
Milquetoast....
Originally posted by Alpha View Post
That's an insult to Milquetoast everywhere!
61finfan
I just don't understand how the entire NFL and Media can see this train wreck, yet Ross???? not so much.


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Designed to assist new freshmen and transfer students make a successful transition to the University of Central Florida. This three-day conference will be held this year at the Rosen Centre on International Drive in Orlando.
Volunteer UCF will be hosting their first large scale event of the Fall semester the week of Pegasus Palooza. We will be working alongside 5 different community partners so volunteers can become aware of various social topics and how to get more involved on campus and off campus.
Several UCF Christian ministries are joining together to host a field day at Lake Claire. Come and enjoy games and activities with current and new UCF students!
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Nurse jailed for £10k payroll fraud
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A senior nurse, Cherith Douglas who defrauded more than £10,000 from the Southern Health and Social Care Trust has been sentenced to 14 months imprisonment. The nurse was also sentenced to a further 9 months imprisonment for the separate offence of obtaining employment in a private nursing home using forged references.
Cherith Douglas entered guilty pleas to a total of 12 offences – eight of fraud by false representation and four of false accounting, all committed on various dates between April 11 2015 and May 5 2017.
The offences related to when Douglas was a senior band seven nurse at Craigavon Area Hospital and then as nursing manager at a nursing home in Lisburn.
An investigation undertaken by the Business Services Organisation's Counter Fraud Service established Douglas was using her position as a senior nurse to facilitate fraud by claiming for duplicate shifts and for hours not worked.
Douglas was suspended by the Trust in May 2017 and subsequently resigned from her position.
Sentencing Douglas to seven months in prison, with a further seven months to be served on licence Judge Patrick Lynch QC told the disgraced former nurse "At a time when the health service has been rightly praised, it's a great pity that a person such as yourself, an experienced and trained clinician, should find yourself before me," said the Craigavon Crown Court judge, "a reputation in tatters, a career in tatters."
Donna Scott, Assistant Director of Counter Fraud Services, Business Services Organisation, said: "The offences committed by this senior nurse show a blatant disregard for the Health Service and the public purse. Fraud in the Northern Ireland Health Service will not be tolerated and I welcome this judgement as it sends a clear message to anyone contemplating fraudulent activity within the Health Service."
1. Cherith Douglas was found guilty of 8 counts of Fraud by False Representation contrary to Section 2 of the Fraud Act (2006) and 4 counts of False Accounting contrary to Section 17 of the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969.
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Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine that uses small, highly diluted doses of natural substances to trigger the bodies own healing abilities.
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On this occasion, the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH) is organizing a 2-day convention in New Delhi.
The council will take stock of the challenges faced and formulate future strategies for the development of Homeopathy in the country.
Theme of the convention : Linking research with education and clinical practice.
Sri Lanka has opened a new railway line.
The 26.75-kilometre railway extension connects the cities of Matara and Beliatta in the southern part of the island nation.
The railway line has been built with Chinese assistance under China's Belt and Road Initiative.
Note : This railway line is the 1st to be constructed since the independence of the country in 1948.
The Election Commission has banned the release of PM Modi's biopic starring Vivek Oberoi till the Lok Sabha elections, a day before its release.
It ordered that any biopic material, which has the potential to disturb the level playing field during the elections, should not be displayed in electronic media including cinematograph during the operation of Model Code of Conduct.
Registration for Kailash Manasarovar Yatra 2019 has begun from today.
External Affairs Ministry said in a release that the Yatra is scheduled from 8th June to 8th September this year.
Adani Enterprises has received the Australian government's approval for Groundwater Management Plan for the controversial Carmichael coal mine.
The project still needs nine further approvals from the Federal and Queensland state governments.
It has led to concerns over destruction of an endangered bird's habitat, potential harm to the Great Barrier Reef and climate change.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut India's growth forecast for 2019-20 from 7.5% to 7.3%, citing loss of momentum.
It has further projected the country to grow at 7.5% in 2020-21, supported by the continued recovery of investment and robust consumption.
Amid heightened tensions with Pakistan, Indian government has cleared the procurement of 464 T-90 tanks from Russia in a deal worth over Rs 13,500 crore.
Scientists have captured the 1st direct image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87, 55 million light-years from the Earth.
Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, to remeasure its height.
Scientists suspect the 2015 earthquake in Nepal may have altered the mountain's height, with a possible shift in its position.
The official height of Mount Everest is 8,848 metres (29,028 feet), which was measured by the Survey of India in 1956.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved proposals of the Department of Financial Services (DFS), providing new postings for various Public Sector Banks (PSBs).
Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to win the Israeli parliamentary elections, securing a possible record 5th term as the Prime Minister after forming a coalition.
Team India captain Virat Kohli has been named as the Wisden Almanack's 'Leading Cricketer of the Year' for the 3rd straight time.
Shot-putter Manpreet Kaur, who won gold in 2017 Asian Championships, has been banned for 4 years by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for failing four dope tests in 2017.


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