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Education group wants Michigan to spend millions to create literacy equity fund
By Koby Levin Dec 18, 2019, 6:54pm EST
A prominent group of education leaders wants the legislature to immediately allocate extra funding to schools with a higher percentage of poor students. It's the first step in what the group says will be a comprehensive plan to reshape how Michigan pays for education.
The first set of recommendations from Launch Michigan, a nonpartisan lobbying group, calls for a system that "funds children based on their needs," echoing the language of experts and politicians who have advocated an overhaul of the state's 25-year-old method of funding schools that mostly doesn't consider the needs of students, regardless of the challenges they face.
The group recommends that the state immediately create an equity fund that would support literacy instruction in districts with more students who live in poverty or attend geographically isolated schools.
The group's eventual goal for the state: to reach the funding benchmarks set by the Michigan Finance Research Collaborative, a group of experts that proposed a sweeping overhaul last year to the funding system that could require a $3.6 billion investment.
As Launch Michigan begins work on transforming its ideas into more specific policy proposals, key questions are still unanswered.
"Where is the money coming from?" asked Craig Thiel, research director for the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, a nonpartisan think tank.
The report acknowledges the need for additional school funding but doesn't specify how that problem should be resolved. It comes in the wake of a fractious budget fight centered on whether the state should raise taxes to pay for education or road repairs. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's budget proposal would have made changes to the education budget that jibe with the Launch Michigan recommendations, but it was shot down by the Republican-controlled legislature.
Raising money for schools for next year's budget could be equally difficult. The state still hasn't figured out how to pay for badly needed road renovations, which is one of Whitmer's top priorities.
"The equity fund is a fine idea; however, it is going to need funding, and we have already seen that the state legislature is unwilling to increase funding for schools in any meaningful way," Michelle Miller-Adams, a senior researcher at the W.E. Upjohn Institute, wrote in an email.
Launch Michigan also calls for a number of changes to the state's education policy, including:
An expanded school accountability system with escalating interventions for chronically failing schools.
A single school rating system that reconciles the existing school rankings with A-F letter grades approved by the legislature last year.
Additional higher-quality teacher training on literacy instruction.
Supporters of Launch Michigan hope that it is a broad enough coalition to convince legislators to give school policy a second look. The group's 20 members include leaders from teachers' unions, education groups, and business associations.
The recommendations are based in part on a survey of 17,000 teachers.
This is not the first group of policy heavyweights to push for changes to Michigan's school system, which has faced stagnant funding and test scores for two decades. Numerous reports — 800 pages' worth — have come to similar conclusions in recent years, arguing that the state needs to change its approach to school funding.
Chris Wigent, president of the Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators and a member of Launch Michigan, is eager to push forward.
He joined the group because "number one, it's to fundamentally change the way we fund schools," he said.
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Responding to news that the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant today for the arrest of Mahmoud el-Wefelli, who is accused of war crimes for actions committed while he was Field Commander of the Special Forces Brigade affiliated to the Libyan National Army, Amnesty International's North Africa Research Director Heba Morayef said:
"Today's decision by the ICC is a significant step towards ending the rampant impunity for war crimes in Libya. Mahmoud al-Werfelli led an army unit that is accused of atrocities, including the extrajudicial executions of unarmed and defenseless captives.
"The Libyan authorities must urgently comply with this arrest warrant and hand Mahmoud al-Werfelli over to the ICC to face his accusers in a fair trial. This warrant sends a clear message that those who commit or order horrendous crimes are not above the law and will not go unpunished.
"By failing to hold to account those responsible for crimes committed in Libya in recent years, the Libyan authorities and the international community have emboldened the parties to this conflict to act with complete disregard to human life and international law. We strongly urge the ICC to expand its investigations in Libya and include other crimes being committed every day throughout the country."
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Q: Incomplete lattice homomorphisms between complete lattices (2) Let $L, K$ be complete lattices. A lattice homomorphism $f: L\to K$ is said to be incomplete if there is an infinite set $S \subseteq L$ such that $f(\bigvee_L S) \neq \bigvee_K f(S).$
Consider the following statement:

If $L$ contains an ideal $J$ such that $\bigvee_L J \notin J$, then there is a complete lattice $K$ and an incomplete lattice homomorphism $f: L\to K$.

Is this true? (The converse is true.)

A: Yes. Suppose that $J$ is an ideal in $L$ such that $\bigvee^{L}J\not\in J$. Let $\mathcal{Id}(L)$ be the set of all ideals of $L$. Then $\mathcal{Id}(L)$ is a complete lattice. Define a mapping $V:L\rightarrow\mathcal{Id}(L)$ by letting $V(x)=\downarrow x$ for each $x\in L$. Then $V$ is a lattice homomorphism. However, since $\bigvee^{X}J\not\in J$, we have $\bigvee V[J]=J$, but $V[\bigvee J]\neq J$, so $V$ is an incomplete lattice homomorphism.

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Best Birthday Ever
By: tommy.oliver74
Martha Ihle's children surprised her for her birthday by cooking her favorite Korean food and baking her a chocolate cake. Will a citywide blackout ruin their plans, or would it add something more to an already awesome evening and turn it into the best birthday ever? Korean food, chocolate cake, an impromptu family camping trip in the backyard, s'mores, ghost stories around a fire.
Rated: Fiction K - English - Family - Words: 1,550 - Published: 12/7/2020 - Status: Complete - id: 3352657
Short Story of the Day
It started out as an ordinary evening in the Ihle household. Sam got off of work at exactly 5:00PM, picked Martha up at her office at 5:30, then drove them home, where the kids were waiting. They'd been home since 3:30PM that afternoon after school. Only the three oldest siblings—Sam Jr., Caitlyn, and Kayla—had house keys. They had the whole house to themselves until their parents came home. Sam Jr. was upstairs in his room doing his homework, Caitlyn and Kayla were in the kitchen getting the table ready for dinner. Tonight was Korean Night and they were having traditional Korean food, which Martha missed so much. It was their little surprise for her. Amy was in her room, tutoring Karina, but Karina would much prefer to talk to her friends about boys. Louie was downstairs in the man cave playing video games, which he very well knew he wasn't supposed to do—not on a school night, anyway. As soon as Sam and Martha pulled into the driveway and honked, Sam Jr. closed his textbooks, ran downstairs, and into the man cave to warn his stubborn little brother and make him turn his Xbox off. Before he could reach the basement, however, all the lights went out. The girls screamed and Sam Jr. swore internally when he almost fell down the basement stairs. Louie screamed and swore out loud in frustration because he hadn't saved his game yet. And because he stubbed his toe against the coffee table.
When Martha and Sam heard the girls screaming, quickly rushed inside, fumbling for their keys and nearly dropping them in their haste to open the door. Sam's hand immediately flew to handle of his pistol, ready to fire at any intruder. Martha flipped the light switch on to no effect. The house remained dark.
"Power outage," Sam said, breathing a sigh of relief and putting his pistol back in his pocket.
"Mom? Dad?" Amy called out from the top of the stairs.
"It's us, sweetheart," Martha answered.
"Oh, thank God," Amy said. "We thought it was an intruder."
"No, baby girl," Sam assured her. "It's just us. We came in as soon as we heard you screaming."
"I think there's a citywide blackout, Dad," Sam Jr. said.
"Yes, something about shutting off the power during fire season," Sam recalled. "That must be it. A little warning would've been nice though."
Sam was right. It was fire season and the mayor of Los Angeles announced that there will be power outages in an attempt "to cool the system" and prevent even more fires. He didn't say when, only that it would happen.
"What are we gonna do with the food, Dad?" Kayla asked.
"We'll eat outside on the patio," Sam suggested. "Sam, Amy, help your sisters bring the food and set the table outside. Louie, Karina, go look for flashlights, candles, and lamps. Go!"
"On it!" Sam Jr. said.
"Roger, roger!" Louie said. "Come on, Karina. Let's go look for those candles."
"And matches too," Sam added. "To light the candles with."
"Got it, Dad," Karina said.
When everything had been gathered, the table set and ready for dinner, and the lamps and candles lit, they all went out to the backyard to eat under the light of the moon and the stars, their food and faces glowing in the light of the flickering candles scattered across the table. They joined hands and Sam said grace.
"Lord, we thank you for this bountiful food that you have blessed us with," Sam prayed. "We thank you for family around us, stars above us, and the rare opportunity to appreciate it. Amen."
"Amen," they all said in chorus.
Sam was right. It was a rare opportunity. Living in LA made it nearly impossible to see the stars every night. All they could see were the city lights. Tonight, however, thanks to blackout, the stars shown brightly down on them.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Sam said, looking up at the stars. "This is a rare sight in LA. But of course, there's nothing or nobody more beautiful than the woman sitting next to me."
"Aaaawww…" the girls cooed in unison. Sam Jr. chuckled.
"Ew," Louie said, making a face. "Gross."
"Just you wait, young man," Martha said with a laugh. "Someday, you'll meet a girl who will change your mind. Then you won't say 'ew'."
"I doubt it," Louie said, rolling his eyes. Everyone at the table laughed.
"Anyway," Martha said. "The food looks wonderful! And it smells wonderful too! How did you guys know I was missing Korean food? Whose idea was this?"
"It was Caitlyn and Karina," Amy pointed out. "Mostly."
"Awww," Martha said. "Thank you, girls. This is lovely!"
"How'd you make the kimchi so perfectly?" Sam asked. "It's so good!"
"I researched how to make them and then instructed Caitlyn and Kayla," Amy answered.
"It was a surprise for mom so we had to ferment it out of sight," Caitlyn said.
"We didn't want you guys to see it until it was time to take it out," Kayla added.
"What did we do to deserve such great children?" Martha asked.
"We're really lucky, aren't we?" Sam said with a smile.
"That we are," Martha said.
They passed the time eating, talking, and laughing, swapping stories of the day's events. After dinner, Sam Jr. got up to go back inside.
"Where are you going?" Sam asked.
"We'll be right back," Sam Jr. said. "We have another surprise for Mom. Girls? Shall we?"
The girls all got up and followed Sam into the kitchen. When they came back out, they were carrying a chocolate cake with sparklers. Around the edges of the cake were seashell and seahorse-shaped chocolates. On the icing was written "생일 축하 해요". Happy birthday. Sam Jr., Caitlyn, Kayla, Amy, Louie, and Karina all sang Happy Birthday in English, then Karina sang it in Korean afterwards. Martha blushed and teared up. She closed her eyes, made a wish, and blew out the sparklers on her cake.
"Happy birthday, Mom!" all the kids said in chorus.
"Happy birthday, nae sarang," Sam said, kissing Martha's forehead.
"You guys are making me cry," Martha said with a shaky laugh, swiping at her wet eyes. "This is quite the throwback. Seashells and seahorses?"
"I told the kids the story of our 3rd grade Christmas party," Sam said. "Remember the gift you gave me?"
"The seashells and seahorses soap set," Martha recalled with a smile. "I was so nervous you wouldn't like it."
"Are you kidding me?" Sam said, kissing Martha. "I loved it!"
"Not to ruin this perfect moment, but…" Kayla interrupted. "Where are we all gonna sleep? It's going to be too hot to sleep tonight, what with the power outage and all."
"Yeah, and we can't leave the windows open," Amy said. "Anyone can just climb up the side of the house and cut the screen up or remove it and come in through the window."
"Tell you what," Sam said, an idea suddenly forming in his head. "Your mom and I will clear the table and do the dishes. The rest of you, take out the tents and sleeping bags from the garage and set up camp. We're having a campout in the backyard tonight."
The kids let out excited whoops and cheers, scrambling to retrieve the necessary gear from the garage, while Sam and Martha did the dishes for them. Sam Jr. delegated the tasks.
"Cait, Kayla, you two take the 4-person tent for the girls to sleep in," Sam Jr. instructed. "Amy, Karina, you guys take the tent Mom and Dad are going to sleep in. Louie and I will take out the other 2-person tent that we'll be sleeping in. We'll also take care of the sleeping bags and the tarps for the ground."
"Aye, aye, Captain!" Karina said.
And off they went, working to set up their campsite in the backyard for their impromptu camping trip. First, Sam Jr. rolled out the three tarps, laying them flat on the ground. This provided a cushion between the ground and the floor of the tent. Next, he taught his siblings how to set up the tent by connecting the poles then raising it. Finally, he taught them how to drive the tent pegs into the ground. When that was done, they set up their sleeping bags inside the tents, then they stepped back to admire their work.
"Now, who's ready for some s'mores?" Sam asked, as he and Marth emerged from the kitchen, carrying trays of ingredients. "How about banana boat s'mores?"
The kids let out another round of delighted cheers. Sam lit the firepit and gathered the children together for s'mores and a round of ghost stories.
"Alright," Sam said, taking his place in the circle. "This story happened in a sleepy little beach town in North Carolina called Sunset Point Harbor…"
As Sam droned on, Martha smiled to herself. Authentic, homemade Korean food, chocolate cake, and impromptu camping trip with her husband and children, s'mores, and ghost stories around the campfire? What more could she ask for? She had everything she could ever want right there in thar Los Angeles backyard.


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With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, brave and experimental writer Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversion of the noir novel and the magical realist genre. The novel takes place in a remote village in south-west Poland where Janina Dusezjko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, describes the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are subsequently found murdered she becomes involved in the investigation.
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VET Chinese language students had the opportunity to hear from one of BSSC's successful graduates today, when former student and scholarship recipient, Caroline Pollock (Class of 2017), returned to the college to share her experiences.
Caroline graduated in 2017 after securing a CSC Scholarship to study at Shanghai Normal University for 12 months.
Her journey with the Chinese language began as a Year 7 student at Weeroona College. Back then she remembers it taking the best part of a year to learn one Chinese character. Now, after a year studying China, she knows more than a thousand and is a confident Chinese speaker.
Caroline says one of the most life-changing aspects of her year in China was the people she met.
"I lived in a dorm with people from all over the world and we became really close," she says. "We studied together; ate together; went out together. By the end of the year we were like family.
And she won't have to wait long. After being back in Australia since January, Caroline is heading back to Shanghai at the end of the week to take up a job teaching drama and English to young Chinese students, and to tutor students in English at an International school.
"I have all kinds of options open to me now because of the connections I've made in China as a result of the scholarship," she says. "I'm not sure where it will all lead, but my next goal is to complete my HSK5 level in Chinese language and eventually become a 'native speaker'.
Caroline urged BSSC's VET Chinese students to seriously consider applying for a scholarship to China and gave some tips for preparing to study overseas.
And though Caroline isn't planning more than six months ahead, she's very excited to be heading back to China.


Michael Masters/Getty ImagesFormer Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
Former foreign minister Julie Bishop is in hot water over a gift of $25,000 Jimmy Choo high heels.
Australian ministers must pay the difference between any gifts received above a $300 threshold, and their true commercial value.
Bishop says she has "complied" with official requirements.
Former foreign minister Julia Bishop's penchant for high fashion may be coming back to haunt her.
According to Fairfax Media the loyal deputy of ousted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull may have skirted over the true, astonishing value of a gift of Jimmy Choo high heels.
Bishop noted in March that she had been given a pair of "Aboriginal print shoes," – which were in fact a limited edition collaboration between top Aboriginal artist Peter Farmer and chic Grand Master Lineage, a new Chinese company connected to Jimmy Choo.
Australian ministers – and perhaps especially our foreign ministers – can accept gifts in their day to day roles, but must go ahead and pay the difference between any gifts received above a $300 threshold, and their true commercial value.
That could be bad news for Bishop, with Fairfax suggesting the shoes could be worth anywhere around $25,000.
Pressed by reporters about the true value of the shoes and any proof of payment, a spokeswoman for Bishop only said the West Australian minister has "complied" with official requirements.
The problem for Bishop here is that recent history has proven the Australian people are in fact totally concerned when a politician gives the slightest impression of wandering off with the chequebook.
It's certainly not a good look for the ex-litigator and prominent Instagrammer who last Christmas caused something of a scandal by flaunting earrings designed by a Liberal party donor, Margot McKinney, reportedly worth more than the average Australian minimum wage.
Bishop has not yet put it on the public record if her various Instagram trinkets are something borrowed, something loaned or something of a more commercial nature.
Australians are particularly touchy about politicians who are seen to be skimming off the top or stealing from under the table.
Ever since Liberal Party ministers Michael McKellar and John Moore got nicked for importing colour televisions on the sly back in 1982, "entitlements" has become a bit of a dirty word in local politics.
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop also caused public outrage when she was called out for spending $5,227 taxpayer dollars on a 15-minute helicopter ride to a party fundraiser in 2015.
But in the current political climate, any perceived pressures or inducements with any hint of a Chinese flavour can be considered political suicide, and could cost Bishop another shot at regaining her old job.
Following four years as the shadow minister for foreign affairs and trade, Bishop became Australia's first female foreign minister in September 2013.
Bishop went to the backbench after the latest Liberal Party leadership spill and the axing of Turnbull in August, although observers did note that she stepped down in a trademark blaze of footwear.


Not a flower or stork motif in sight.
Designer Keren Richter has worked on a lot of projects over the years, but this one is her most personal yet.
Working slowly and intentionally over the course of two years, the creative director and cofounder of design firm White Arrow put together a magical nursery for her 2-year-old daughter, Mira. And it all started with the wallpaper.
Richter and her husband initially kept the space as a guest room, choosing to fill it carefully with things they loved rather than rushing it. She opted for light whites and pinks to balance out the dark floor and injected a fair amount of vintage pieces into the space to add some character. The dresser, which she outfitted with a Peanut Changer to transform into a changing table, is one such piece; the armoire, which she updated with two rods for kids' clothing, is another.
They may not be traditional nursery items, but the unique edge they bring is refreshing. Plus, she notes, steering clear of sticky-sweet clichés for a little girl's nursery also ensures the room's longevity. As Mira grows, the crib becomes a toddler bed and will eventually be replaced by a twin bed, but the timeless vintage furniture and cool wallpaper are things that she'll be able to keep and repurpose.
Richter finished out the space with a few personal touches, including two paintings that she crafted herself for her little one. She nods to some of her favorite brands for chic children's decor (most of them containing an eco-friendly component), like Oeuf, Kalon, Smallable, and Maisonette, that helped her craft a nursery that's both baby-appropriate and a space where Richter herself wants to spend time.
We asked Richter to share some tips on getting the adult-friendly, stylish nursery of your dreams.
I like to source a good variety of brands and keep it eclectic. I often will just use adult furniture and figure out a way to make it work in a kids' space. That rocking chair is not a kids' rocker per se, but I thought the shape was unique. There aren't any rules—you have to feel out your aesthetic and have [everything] relate based on scale and color.
Vintage is great because it's unique and you're reusing and repurposing. Oftentimes we'll repaint vintage pieces and change the knobs or change the feet.
I like to have a space that feels a little calming because kids themselves are so crazy. One of the ways I do that is by grouping all the toys and the clothing and keeping them organized using bins or boxes. Everything has a place. Once you have a calm framework, you can incorporate art that's personal to you or texture and color and interesting pattern, and it can really be the focus because there's not so much clutter diffusing that design vision.
A magic eraser is your friend.
Opt for durable material and use paint that's eco-friendly so you're not worried when they start chewing on things. Do some research on what the materials you're sourcing are.
Think vertically and think about storage. Make sure you're cycling through things; either you're putting it in storage so there's not so much stuff in the space or you're donating it as opposed to trying to hoard things that aren't age-appropriate. It's very Marie Kondo. I recommend her book to a lot of my clients. It's nice after a hectic day to go back to a space where everything has its place.


CalHealth, an Irvine, CA company, has developed a computer mouse with a slide-out sphygmomanometer. The MDMouse is completely powered via its USB connection, and communicates with software installed on the computer to save regular readings for later analysis. Though initially it seems as a silly product idea, it may effectively increase testing compliance in people who spend a lot of time in front of the computer reading Medgadget. A company spokesman tells us that MDMouse should be coming to market sometime in the next few months.
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As cuff pressure continues to be decreased, arterial vessel pulsations will eventually become undetectable through the cuff because of the lack of adequate cuff pressure to sense those pulsations (commonly known as Korotkoff Phase V). The pressure of the cuff at this point will be substantially equal to diastolic blood pressure – the pressure when the heart is at rest. The frequency of pulsations sensed between the systolic and diastolic pressures is measured and is substantially equal to the heartbeat rate or pulse rate of the individual. These two cuff pressures and the pulsation frequency are measured and captured by the MDMouse application software.
The application software installed on the user's PC then utilizes the digital data to create a display of the individual's blood pressure readings and pulse rate. The software also provides additional functions including recording the data and graphically plotting data over a number of parameters such as three day averages. Communication of the data is also handled by the application software, including sending emails to medical personnel or archiving data.


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Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Đức ; born Lâm Văn Tức in 1897 – died June 11, 1963) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on June 11, 1963. Thích Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngô Đình Diệm administration. Photos of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diệm regime. Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of the monk's death, as did David Halberstam for his written account. After his death, his body was re-cremated, but his heart remained intact. This was interpreted as a symbol of compassion and led Buddhists to revere him as a bodhisattva, heightening the impact of his death on the public psyche.
Masakr u Mi Laju u kome je 16. marta 1968. od strane Americhke vojske pogubljeno izmedju 347( rezultati istrage Americhke vlade ) i 504 civila , vecinom zhena i dece , zhrtve su bile starosti od 1 do 82 godine.
mogu se stavljat slike iz zadnjeg rata?
Mozda je bolje ne stavljati slike iz sveze proslosti,zbog mogucih svadja koje se uvek pojave zbog takvih tema.


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La división del homólogo 3 defectuoso es una proteína que en humanos está codificada por el gen PARD3.

Función
Las proteínas PARD, son esenciales para la división celular asimétrica y el crecimiento polarizado, mientras que CDC42 (MIM 116952) media el establecimiento de la polaridad celular. La CDC42 GTPasa, que está controlada por factores de intercambio de nucleótidos (GEFs; ver MIM 606057) y proteínas activadoras de GTPasa (GAP; ver MIM 604980), interactúa con un gran conjunto de proteínas efectoras que típicamente contienen un CDC42 / RAC (MIM 602048) dominio de enlace interactivo (CRIB).

Interacciones
Se ha demostrado que PARD3 interactúa con:

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Referencias

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Jorge Muñiz
Muñiz composes a 21st-century 'Stabat Mater' (March 18, 2012)
Written by Andrew S. Hughes
Published by The South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND — Soon after Jorge Muñiz moved to South Bend, he and Wishart Bell developed the sort of friendship that involves meeting for coffee several times a year.
At one of those coffee get-togethers last year, Bell mentioned that Musical Arts Indiana, the choral and orchestra organization he founded in 1993 as the Vesper Chorale and continues to oversee as its artistic director, wanted to commission a new work from a local composer.
A composer and professor of music at Indiana University South Bend, Muñiz responded the way Bell seemingly hoped he would: Yes, he had a piece that hadn't yet been performed and that he could revise to fit the instrumentation and size of Musical Arts' orchestra.
And now, on March 25, the Vesper Chorale and Vesper Chamber Orchestra will premiere Muñiz's "Stabat Mater" at St. Matthew Cathedral, as the centerpiece of a program that also includes works by Bach, Rachmaninoff and Morten Lauridsen.
Possibly written by Pope Innocent III, the 13th-century "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" poem uses the perspective of a first-person observer to describe Mary's grief as she watches Christ die on the cross and then receive his body.
Dozens of other composers have set the "Stabat Mater" to music, including, most famously, Haydn, Pergolesi and Dvorák — Muñiz, in fact, will conduct a performance by IUSB and South Bend area high school students of Pergolesi's on April 1 at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church as a benefit with the Rotary Club to raise money for polio care.
But, Bell says, Muñiz's "Stabat Mater" adds new dimensions to the tradition that make it a relevant contribution to the setting of the poem.
"Simply put, it's in 21st-century musical language," he says. "Each of those other composers wrote to the best of their ability to capture the text in the musical language of their time, and Jorge's does the same thing."
By describing it as a 21st-century work, however, Bell doesn't mean Muñiz's composition is "experimental," but it is "a very persuasive musical language" that he continues to develop as his own.
"One of his stylistic traits is to start with a thin texture and expand from it," Bell says. "He does that several times in this piece. The 'Stabat Mater' starts and (the first theme) repeats and repeats and repeats as voices are piled onto the sound."
The work, Bell says, also uses a complicated rhythmic structure.
"He has the strings in some places playing on the second 16th note," he says. "It's syncopation. It's another way he piles on sound. He'll have somebody playing on the downbeat and someone else on the second 16th note. … He creates this piling of sound, and it's all descriptive of the pain of the Crucifixion."
Muñiz wrote the "Stabat Mater" in 2001 and he discussed a possible premiere of it with an ensemble in his native Spain, but nothing materialized from it.
For Musical Arts' premiere, he scaled down the orchestration to fit the Vesper Chamber Orchestra's size, and he now sees this version as the "first and original" score.
"I don't consider this a change I did for this concert," he says. "I think it works better now. Because the orchestra is simpler, it made me think more about the harmonic language. This has become the 'Stabat Mater' for me."
The piece has also become a defining moment for him, the first to point to the direction he has since taken as a composer with an emphasis on large-scale and faith-based works. The most prominent of those so far has been his "Requiem for the Innocent," a work Muñiz composed in response to terrorism in general and the Sept. 11, 2001,al-Qaidaattacks on the United States in particular that the South Bend Symphony Orchestra premiered in September 2010. In it, he used Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious texts in an effort to represent the common tenets of the three major monotheistic religions and to provide a basis for hope for a peaceful future.
"(The 'Stabat Mater') helped me to define better my compositional direction in the sense of bringing social issues — terrorism in the case of the Requiem, loss in this case — to bring that within a faith perspective," he says, "but that it's more than that (one religion) and will reach other audiences. … They have a religious setting, they both use classical texts, one from the Requiem Mass and in this case the 'Stabat Mater' text. They both have become texts for Christians and Catholics, specifically, but like the 'Requiem,' I wanted a piece that would go beyond the religious and be transcendental."
Compassion, empathy and reflection
"His thematic structures are designed to describe the text, to describe the emotion of the text," Bell says about the "Stabat Mater." "It's a pretty stark text. There's real pain in this text, and that gets into the music."
With such lines as, "Who is the person who would not weep seeing the Mother of Christ in such agony?" Muñiz says, the "Stabat Mater" conveys compassion and empathy.
"It's us humans, humanity, experiencing that image of the mother and her son Jesus on her arms," he says. "It's that image that us, humanity, watches and how we react to it. We react to it with compassion and grief. … It experiences what she saw when her son was dying, the affliction he felt. The whole poem goes through the different steps in her grief. That's what makes it so powerful to me, that empathy."
But with lines such as, "Lest I burn, set afire by flames, Virgin, may I be defended by you, on the Day of Judgment," Muñiz says, it also conveys contrition.
"An important component is us reflecting on ourselves in what we have done and what we have failed to do," he says. "It's about acknowledging our own sins, our own mistakes, our own shortcomings. I think that sort of reflection is the natural next step after empathy and sorrow."
In addition to his use of a "21st-century musical language," Muñiz puts his own stamp on the "Stabat Mater" by incorporating into the composition the Spanish text from one of the early- and mid-20th-century Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral's "Sonnets of Death" poems as the part sung by the contralto soloist.
"I wanted to include a poem that's closer to our time that reflects on any mother that has lost a child," Muñiz says. "I think she really captured that tragedy in words that are very powerful, very raw in very strong words. I think this piece goes between the human and the transcendental."
In the first-person poem, a mother bewails the death of her son and questions God as to the justness of his death.
The two works, the "Stabat Mater" poem and Mistral's poem, Bell says, make for a complementary contrast in the work.
"It's the poet describing the death of a loved one and how unfair it is," he says. "That sense of loss and grief and even anger goes wonderfully alongside the text of the 'Stabat Mater.' In the case of the 'Stabat Mater,' it's somebody observing this scene. It's not Mary. The poet is speaking her own grief, whereas the narrator is describing Mary's grief."
The choir represents humanity, Muñiz says, while the orchestra represents Christ and the deceased son, and the contralto represents the grieving mother of Mistral's poem.
"This is almost like an opera, because you can imagine the moment the son dies in the hands of Mary and her cry," he says. "This (first Mistral) stanza, she cries, 'Why, why did these hands take you from me?' … I think when the audience listens to the piece, they're going to hear a lot of conflict and drama. The text does explore different sides of grief. Some (stanzas) will be more contemplative, some are very hard and personal."
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Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
I decide to wash my car.
As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table.
I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trash can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote.
I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor.
At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my chequebook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Do me a favour, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.


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AI-Driven Enterprise Search Is Closer Than You Think
One of the biggest challenges of bringing artificial intelligence (AI) into enterprise search is simply getting it in the door.
The people building information management solutions have little interest in conversational applications. The inertia of ongoing projects (and of the new AI snake oil salespeople who promise the world) will siphon all available resources away from approaches requiring a strong knowledge architecture foundation.
Because we have few examples of big successes in this area, executives can break out in a sweat when asked to back something lacking short-term ROI. At the same time, executives are justifiably concerned about being left behind.
Where's the ROI?
To move ahead, executives need to know the limitations and when they are engaging in pure research versus experimenting with innovative approaches and business models.
You will not realize the benefits from AI-enabled search immediately. Not only do the machines need to be trained, but the humans do as well.
It's not just about building a search bot, it's about learning how to interact with these systems. This learning process is a form of discovery, socialization and communication: users need to learn what they can do and this is not as intuitive as the Amazon Echo TV ads would have us believe.
Corporate information is complex, and knowledge work is nuanced. Work is hard, which is why they call it "work." The tools require some degree of training to make the most of them.
ROI metrics can be "hard" and measurable or "soft" and less tangible.
The former could include a significant impact on "time to access information" or "time to complete a process," given accurate baselines and metrics. However, companies rarely measure things like "time-to-information" or "employee efficiency" unless that efficiency is carefully tied to a specific process.
Knowledge workers' gains and losses related to time spent looking for information must be tied to adjacent performance measures. Time-to-market is one measure that ties to business efficiency — again, the key is linkage.
Some organizations see correlations between information system efficiencies and measures such as "rate of voluntary terminations," and "employee satisfaction." While these measures do not always come with hard dollars attached (though high turnover is costly to any business), most companies realize beating the competition to market requires retaining talent and corporate knowledge in order to create a competitive advantage.
Where's the Talent?
AI-enabled search applications requires new thinking and new teams. Your employees who are currently using traditional methods to solve the same business challenges are ideal candidates for this team, the trick is getting them to think in new ways around natural language conversation responses to queries.
Some of the talent required may come from outside the traditional technology department roles. People with backgrounds in the liberal arts, creative writers, authors, theater/performing arts all help here — these people intuitively know the conversational language that occurs across many walks of life. User experience designers interested in a new user interface paradigm — the Conversational User Interface (CUI) — can also be important contributors.
Crafting scripts and responses in conversational language is a new skill set. Is there a "skills gap" to overcome? Demand is higher than the supply of the conversational language programming skillset. Amazon, Microsoft, Google are all hiring storyboard writers right and left, from Pixar and similar companies.
Today's AI Is Tomorrow's 'Search'
We live in an "interrupt world." When we can't find the information we are looking for, we interrupt our colleagues in the hopes that someone knows where to find our data.
This not only interrupts the requester, but also those targeted with the requests, and the impact may domino through several layers of the organization. Large enterprises suffer the most, battling through scattered information repositories and dispersed resources.
AI-enabled search promises to put a dent in this problem. The hype engine promises more than that, but for the purposes of this discussion, let's be realistic and be happy with a dent.
Knowledge is the currency of business today. We've all heard the mantra: "Knowledge is power." But if you don't build knowledge bases related to the "secret sauce" for how you do business, you will not lead … you will lose.
Deciding to rebuild an enterprise search paradigm means taking resources away from how things are done today. It takes strong leadership — maybe even a change agent hired to disrupt — to realize the status quo isn't working and act accordingly.
Finally, realize this: It's AI when it involves knowledge or information previously thought to be only in the realm of humans. But as soon as it's automated, we stop calling it AI. Spell check, grammar checks, then style suggestions were all once considered AI. Now we take them for granted as part of word processing.
So maybe you'll now ask Siri different types of questions or make travel arrangements conversationally. This is today's AI, but soon it will just be regular old mundane "search."
Editor's Note: Be sure to read the previous two installments in this series on the potentials for conversational AI search and the foundation required to deliver it.
This Article originally appeared on CMSWire.
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João Pessoa (), a port city in northeastern Brazil, is the state of Paraíba's capital and largest city, with an estimated population of 817,511 (as of 2020). It is located on the right bank of the Paraíba do Norte river.

The new "Estação Ciência, Cultura e Artes" (Science, Culture and Art Station), located at the most eastern point of the Americas (Ponta do Seixas), is an educational and cultural institution as well as a national landmark. The complex, inaugurated in 2008, was created by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and is one of his final projects.

The capital of Paraíba received the title of Creative City by UNESCO in 2017, appointing João Pessoa as "Brazilian city of handicrafts".

History

The city of João Pessoa was founded on August 5, 1585, during the celebration of the peace pact between the Portuguese represented by the Portuguese João Tavares, and the indigenous people, represented by the Piragibe Indian, chief of the Tabajara , on the banks of the Paraíba River. The french inhabited the locality, and had an alliance with the indigenous tribe of potiguaras. With the alliance of the Portuguese with the Tabajaras (rivals of the Potiguaras), the Portuguese colonists, led by Frutuoso Barbosa, finally managed to expel the french and conquer Paraíba. After the conquest, they built the forts of São Tiago and São Felipe. They brought masons, carpenters, engineers and others to build the City of Nossa Senhora das Neves. With the beginning of the works, they went to Baía da Traição to expel the rest of the french who remained in Paraíba. There was the nomination of João Tavares to be the captain of the Fort.

The Royal City of Nossa Senhora das Neves was the third city to be founded in Brazil, with the signing of an agreement between João Tavares and the chief Piragibe of the Tabajaras. Called "Royal City of Our Lady of the Snows", in honor of the saint of the day it was founded, its first structures were on the banks of the Sanhauá River, a tributary of the Paraíba River, now known as Porto do Varadouro, in the neighborhood of the same name.

In 1588, the city was renamed "Philipeia of Our Lady of the Snows", in honor of King Philip II, who at the time accumulated the thrones of Spain and Portugal.

In 1634, attracted by the sugar wealth of the then-capital of the Paraíba, the Dutch invaded and named it Fredrikstad (Frederick City), in honor of the prince of Orange, Frederick of Orange, was one of the two main cities of New Holland, brought the town a period of great prosperity, the installation of mills on the coast enabled greater efficiency in sugar production, with the main consequence being the guarantee of large profits, but, on the other hand, it required the practice of monoculture that was developed in increasing extensions of land, the latifundia. After the decline of New Holland and with the departure of the Dutch, the city was again dominated by the Portuguese and acquired the name "Parahyba do Norte" in 1654.

The city was renamed João Pessoa in September 1930 in memory of the former governor of Paraíba, João Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, who had been murdered on 26 July that year.

João Pessoa is the third oldest city in Brazil.

Geography

Environment

João Pessoa has  of beachfront.

João Pessoa has many green areas distributed among its avenues, parks, and residential neighborhoods, supporting its claim as "the second greenest city in the world" with more than  of forested land, second only to Paris. This claim is a matter of conjecture, however, originating from a publicity stunt carried out by the city's mayor during an Earth Summit.

Hydrography
In João Pessoa, there are about twelve rivers. The Jaguaribe River is born in the Esplanada complex, crosses the Benjamim Maranhão Botanical Garden, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean on the border with the municipality of Cabedelo. The water to supply the houses is taken from the Gramame-Mumbaba system, from the Paraíba Water and Sewerage Company. In this system, these two rivers take turns to supply the city with water. However, the most historically important river is the Sanhauá River, because it was on its banks that city was born and where the first houses were built.

There is also the Solón de Lucena Park Lagoon in the City Center. The lagoon was the main tourist spot in the city during the time when most of the city was far from the beaches. At the end of 2010, during the Christmas celebrations, the lagoon was revitalized and gained devices such as ambient music.

The capital of Paraíba has a coastline of about 24 kilometers in length, nine beaches in the municipality alone, in addition to the beaches of the Metropolitan Region, such as the city of Cabedelo, the city of Lucena and the District of Jacumã in the municipality of Conde , where the Tambaba Naturist Beach is located. Urban beaches are characterized by white sand beaches and crystal clear waters. Many have preserved the Atlantic Forest, as well as being ideal for bathing thanks to a natural barrier about 6 kilometers from the coast that protects a large part of the Pessoa and Cabedelo coast, allowing children to play in the calm waters. There is the Urban Tartarugas Project, which operates on the beaches of Bessa and Intermares, a spawning area for the hawksbill turtle, a scenario for environmental preservation. Surfing is also practiced in the city.

Among the main beaches, we can mention the Praia de Tambau, about 8 kilometers long, composed of fine, beaten sand, with blue-green waters; the bessa beach is where the caribessa is located, a quiet beach with crystalline waters; also the Praia de Manaíra, a totally urban beach, formed by coral reefs, which makes its waves weak and clear water in summer. It is the point of several kiosks and bars, with sports fields on its edge. The Cabo Branco beach, white sand and warm water; Playa Seixas, which is where the most eastern point of America is located. In addition to Praia da Penha, where the historic Chapel of Our Lady of Penha, built in 1763, where the penha pilgrimage takes place every year, from the historic center to the beach.; The Jacarape beach, where the Poet Ronaldo Cunha Lima Convention Center is located; then Praia do Sol, which is a quiet and airy place; and the barra de gramame beach, which situates the meeting of the river gramme with the sea.

Climate
João Pessoa has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) with very warm to hot temperatures all year long and strong rainfall in most of the months; however, October to December have rather low rainfall.

The city has a Benjamin Maranhão Botanical Garden, which preserves the Atlantic forest, the animals, and opens the visitation, which is the João Pessoa Botanical Garden, considered one of the largest remains of the natural Atlantic Forest in an urban area of Brazil.
It is a excellent opportunity for people to be in contact with pure and crystalline nature. Among these, environmental education is a relevant element, allowing interesting approaches, from knowledge and interest in plants to stimulating curiosity and knowledge of this important space for visitation and research.

There are 18 stations distributed along the Rio and Preguiça trails using as criteria elements mainly related to history, botany and ecology, contributing to knowledge of the environment and the need for its preservation.The area has about 515ha, of which 343ha are home to the Botanical Garden, where the flora is not very soft in the recreational and educational activities promoted on the spot. It includes the largest natural urban Atlantic forest reserve in the country, and an important historical heritage of the capital of Paraiba.

Demographics
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica, or IBGE) report of 2009, João Pessoa had a population of 801,718. Its racial makeup was 45.72% White, 38.72% Pardo (two or more races), 2.77% Black, and 0.25% Asian or Amerindian.

Religion

Source: IBGE 2000.

Transportation

International airport
Joao Pessoa is served by Presidente Castro Pinto International Airport.

Rail system
The João Pessoa Urban Trains System is operated by diesel components on one railway line with a 30 km extension spanning four municipalities, João Pessoa, Cabedelo, Bayeux and Santa Rita, constituted by the Cabedelo stretch, with 10 stations in operation, carrying around 10,100 passengers a day. Composed of three locomotives and 17 passenger cars, the trains form two compositions that conduct 28 trips a day.

Economy
João Pessoa's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was R$ 14,841,805 as of 2010.

The city's per capita income was R$ 19,284 as of 2010.

Tourism

 Picãozinho: One of the city's most significant sights is the São Reef Formation, located about  from Tambaú Beach on the coast of João Pessoa.
 Natural Pools of Seixas Beach: The Seixas Natural Pools, where hundreds of species of fish, seaweed, reptiles (sea turtles), mollusks, crustaceans and other marine organisms are found.

 Penha Beach: This traditional beach's name derives from the symbol of one of the great religious events in Brazil: the Chapel of Our Lady of Penha. For more than 250 years, thousands of faithful have been accompanying the Penha Procession through the streets of João Pessoa.
 Manaira Beach: Joao Pessoa's most economically developed neighborhood. Its sidewalks are commonly used for physical activities and are well frequented by tourists and locals.
 Beach Tambaú: The sands of Praia de Tambaú are one of the busiest in Joao Pessoa.

 Bessa Beach: At the extreme north of João Pessoa, with  of white sand beach beside calm green waters, reefs and coconut trees, Bessa Beach is among the most sought after by tourists.

 Seixas Beach: This beach is situated on the easternmost end of the Americas. Nationally known as the land area closest to the African continent, Praia do Seixas.
 Convention Center Poet Ronaldo Cunha Lima: The convention center of João Pessoa has four main buildings, the Lookout Tower, the Congress and Convention Hall, and the Pedra do Reino Theater.
 Espaço Cultural José Lins do Rego: Built through a project developed by architect Sérgio Bernardes, it includes the Archidy Picado Gallery, Lutheria, Planetarium, José Lins do Rêgo Museum, Anthenor Navarro Music School, Arena Theater, Paulo Pontes Theater.

Museums

Source:
 Museu Sacro e de Arte Popular, within the São Francisco church.
 Espaço Cultural José Lins do Rego. A cultural centre including history and science museums.
 City Museum. The former Casa da Pólvora, an old gunpowder store.
 Museu Fotográfico Walfredo Rodríguez.
 Bica Natural History Museum. Museum Foundation house of Jose Américo.
 Hotel Globo Museum: Formerly a luxury hotel in the city, it consists of two buildings of eclectic style, with its lines influenced by Neo-classical, Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Today it functions as a museum, where it houses the permanent exhibition of part of the Hotel's furniture in addition to a collection of popular art. It is frequently visited for its view of the Sanhauá River and the sunset seen from its garden.

Culture
The Historic Center of João Pessoa, recognized as National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage in December 2007, covers areas in the neighborhoods of the Center, Róger, Jaguaribe, Tambiá and Varadouro. There are listed 37 hectares in area and estimated around 700 buildings, in addition to streets, squares and historic parks that integrate this set, comprising most of the neighborhoods of Varadouro and the Center of the city. Its buildings make up a scenario of different styles and eras full of townhouses, squares, colonial houses and secular churches, being considered the main architectural collection of Paraíba, reporting the various phases of local history, and one of the largest and most important historical sites in Brazil.

The delimited area has assets that represent various periods in the history of João Pessoa, such as the baroque of the Igreja da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco; from the rococo of the Church and Convent of the Third Order of Our Lady of Carmo, Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Snows, João Pessoa; of the Neoclassical architecture of the Church of Saint Peter Gonzalez, Church and Convent of Our Lady of the Rosary (João Pessoa), of the Baroque architecture of the São Francisco Cultural Center, Monastery of St. Benedict (João Pessoa), of the Mannerist style of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy (João Pessoa), all from the 17th century; of the colonial architecture and eclectic architecture of civil houses, in addition to Art Nouveau and Art Deco, from the 20s and 30s decades, predominant in square Antenor Navarro and in the former Hotel Globo, now transformed into a cultural center.

Sports

Stadiums
 José Américo de Almeida Filho Stadium
 Stadium of Grace

Football
The city is home to Auto Esporte, CSP and Botafogo.

American football
João Pessoa Espectros: This football team is regarded as the best football team in the northeastern region of Brazil, having earned a national title, seven regional titles and three state titles.

Kayaking
Bessa Beach offers kayaking, popular among tourists, to reach four beautiful kilometers (2.5 mi) of coral and marine life in the blue sea of the "Caribessa".

Surfing
The Paraíba nurtures great surfers, with athletes winning in many nationally prominent contests in the sport.

Diving
The coastline of João Pessoa includes the Alvarenga shipwreck, an artificial reef for developing marine life.

 Alvarenga Shipwreck : The Alvarenga was a vessel used to transport supplies to ships. It wrecked about 9.6 km from the tip of Bessa's Beach'' and is submerged  deep. It remains whole,  in length by  in beam. It is possible for divers to penetrate the small bow and stern compartments safely. On the prow the winch to hoist the anchor remains in view. It is also common to find large stingrays and shoals of fish, such as the top cock and the hook.

Sister cities
  Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

  Pompano Beach, Florida, United States.

Notable people

Leo Oliveira (born 1980), Brazilian football player

Notes

References

External links

 Official Promotional video of João Pessoa | English

1585 establishments in the Portuguese Empire
Populated places established in 1585
Municipalities in Paraíba


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Telus says Rogers takeover of Shaw would harm competition, urges CRTC to reject
Brad Shaw, right, Chairman and CEO of Shaw Communications chats with Edward Rogers, Chairman of Rogers Communications, centre, as Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri looks on during a break at ther CRTC hearing looking into the merge of the two communication companies in Gatineau, Quebec, on Monday November 22, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand
Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, November 23, 2021 2:57PM EST
A Telus Corp. executive told a CRTC hearing Tuesday that Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. is dangerous for the same reason that Rogers is pursuing it - scale.
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