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IRCAI Global 2021 Top 100 List
Mental Health | Private Safety Services | Promising | Public Safety | SDG11 | SDG16 | SDG3 | SDG4 | SDG5 | United States
CityAegis Mobile App (www.cityaegis.com, PASSWORD: IRCAIJul31)
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4: Quality Education
SDG 5: Gender Equality
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
Please describe Other
Public Safety, Mental Health, Private Safety Services
2. Project Details
Company or Institution
CityAegis
General description of the AI solution
CityAegis, a personal safety & navigation app, through innovative use of geolocation technology, crime data and social science research, aims to empower individuals to feel safer on the streets, in their communities and personally. Enabling people to take agency over their individual safety is our unique value proposition and the core component of our sustainable strategy.
CityAegis predicts potential and actual risk levels on the streets and displays them to users alongside safety points of interest (police, hospitals, open stores, etc.) by analyzing historical crime and complaint data combined with real time incident reports, and applying Artificial Intelligence (AI). The initial prototype provides navigation features to avoid risk areas, based on where people want to go from point A to B (current or sign posted locations) and keeps speed of response in mind, providing vital real-time information on nearby safe locations.
CityAegis provides a unique opportunity to connect end-users with access to community services of which they might not be aware or even realize they need through user responses, identifying those most at risk for safety health concerns such as anxiety/depression, domestic violence abuse or neighborhood crime vulnerability. As such, CityAegis educates users and supports sustainable communities.
Additional safety features in development:
Customer Satisfaction Rating system for each feature
– Risk perception summaries based on survey feedback and quick access to professional service and community centers
– The ability to share any incident, where and when it happens and alert a user-defined circle of trusted family and friends and/or user linked social media – applications or directly connect to local PSAP (911).
– Data harvesting social media for visualizing risk reports using natural language processing to enable services and NGOs to create long-term solutions to better serve the needs of people in the high-risk areas.
https://www.cityaegis.com
3. Aspects
Excellence and Scientific Quality: Please detail the improvements made by the nominee or the nominees' team or yourself if your applying for the award, and why they have been a success.
CityAegis' Personal Safety AI uniquely combines density based clustering analysis (DBSCAN) and the Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Model (STBM) to recommend the safest route within the user's location range and destination in NYC.
CityAegis is developed using Oracle Application Express and OpenRouteService services on Oracle Cloud with an autonomous database. Leaflet and Folium are used to display interactive maps and enhance data visualization to power the design and its deployment. Python is used to design scripts, create random test incident data, and for unsupervised learning. The STBM will add another layer of AI technology that can improve route prediction accuracy through iterations. The next stage will include incorporating natural language processing (NLP) of social media and sentiment analysis to enhance personalization of relevant safety content and facilitate better community communications (via geotags for ex).
The CityAegis research & technology development plan includes:
– Secondary research of local markets (community organizations, hospitals, NGOs, public safety providers and open source data)
– Primary research interviews with stakeholders & domain experts (public safety, health professionals and community organizations)
– Quantitative surveys of end-users (A/B Testing and customer satisfaction)
– Interpretable and explainable modelling and data analysis using Oracle & Python
– Evaluation of technology readiness levels against predefined parameters of project progress
Currently, CityAegis has completed Stage 1, TRL 3 (Characteristic Proof of Concept) for the Safe Routing feature of the application.
The website is password secured (IRCAIJul31) until approved for release. On the backend, customer and user data are stored in Oracle Cloud infrastructure (e.g., files, documents and databases). CityAegis ensures that users can set up their own multi-factor authentication (MFA). Access to the product systems requires MFA. Oracle Security grants MFA tokens and disables the tokens of inactive members. All access to production systems is logged and the logs are kept for security analysis.
Scaling of impact to SDGs: Please detail how many citizens/communities and/or researchers/businesses this has had or can have a positive impact on, including particular groups where applicable and to what extent.
CityAegis takes a Whole of Society, multi-stakeholder approach to development, addressing SDG Goals 3, 4, 5, 11 and 16 in ways that strengthen -rather replace or substitute- the links between and among individuals, communities and government through the development and use of integrated ML/AI such as clustering, predictive and prescriptive analytics and natural language processing. Our development plans ensure that the application is both scalable and replicable in other cities. Prospective stakeholders include government agencies, private sector services, and partnerships with other applications that lack a personal safety component. This application strongly supports the emergence of personal safety-driven algorithms furthering the SDG ecosystem.
CityAegis will continuously incorporate learnings from each phase of research and development, evaluating the technology and features against the TRL measures and ethical frameworks. Our research and methodology frameworks and use of integrated MLAI using open source and traceable data ensure clarity in our solution and for partner stakeholders.
Relevant customer, marketing, operational and SDG KPIs will be captured and analyzed to ensure sustainable growth and success in solving development problems relevant to each country.
Examples of verifiable indicators for the project will include:
– Customer feedback from end users of application
– Surveys of partner organizations and health professionals on follow up of referrals derived from application and success of community outreach
– Annual surveys and benchmark assessments of new research findings and experiences of domain area experts
In terms of global impact and added value, CityAegis, not only addresses important safety issues such as crimes against women, trafficking and mental health but also provides a way to strengthen the links between and among individuals, communities and local government bodies and institutions and empower individuals rather than governments through the use of AI technologies.
Scaling of AI solution: Please detail what proof of concept or implementations can you show now in terms of its efficacy and how the solution can be scaled to provide a global impact ad how realistic that scaling is.
According to The World's Cities 2018 UN report, by 2030, urban areas are projected to house 60% of people globally, with 1 in 3 people living in cities with at least half a million inhabitants. NYC is the most populous and densely populated city in the US (8.3 million, distributed over about 302.6 square miles (784 km2)). There are currently over 6 billion smartphone users in the world and over 95% of NYC residents own or use a cellphone.
CityAegis' proof of concept is met by our three-layer solutions, including safety issues reported by users, safe-route geo-mapping, and AI/ML safety risk predictions. Early adoption could grow significantly (360,000 pedestrians enter Times Square every day). CityAegis expects to gain traction through its main functionalities as we test the personal safety algorithm. Challenges to future scaling include establishing a real time incident data from users and continuing its deployment using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
CityAegis engages in open-source GDPR to deliver a secure AI solution, following proper data governance. We will supervise the quality of collected data (user incident reporting, historical crime data, other features). In addition, CityAegis will include cybersecurity measures within the Oracle Cloud's survey built-in feature to prevent identity leakage. The secure and open development framework will facilitate ease of access and scalability for future partners and stakeholders at the local country level. Our research methodology and techno-moral virtue ethical standards will also act as best practice guidelines to grow AI implementation and skills in local workforces.
Ethical aspect: Please detail the way the solution addresses any of the main ethical aspects, including trustworthiness, bias, gender issues, etc.
AI algorithms are used in predicting crime to identify and sort through large amounts of historical data on criminal activity in order to determine people or places at risk. While generally well-intentioned, data may be incomplete and biased, with certain areas and criminal populations being over-represented.
CityAegis seeks to better predict crime to empower individual safety, not how law enforcement should respond. CityAegis seeks to use the AI-generated data to create long-term solutions to prevent crime based on effective social policies that will help communities thrive. Some programs have already been implemented and proven successful, such as the annual One Summer program in Chicago. This project provides social resources to young people identified as being at risk to reduce the risk of violence and has shown a 51% reduction in involvement in violence-related arrests.
Nevertheless, CityAegis is aware that model biases (inter alia, sample bias, exclusion bias, prejudice bias and measurement bias) exist. AI or Digital-based decisions are susceptible to inaccuracies, discriminatory, biased, and non-empathetic. CityAegis seeks to build a sustainable, scalable, and dynamic ecosystem with reliable partners, which must be regulated. That's how our solution is a more reliable, safe, ethical and qualified solution to humankind.
CityAegis incorporates Martin's Morality Model Framework, which aims to ensure that the content fed to the user is appropriate, fair and accurate and that any unjust biases that existed in the construction of historical data are addressed.
CityAegis supports individual empowerment through the use of human-centered design, value-sensitive design and global techno-moral virtue ethics.
CityAegis includes a global take on techno-moral framework along the guidelines described by Shannon Vallor's book, Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, and the latest social science research findings to ensure that local customs and values are taken into consideration for each country.
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Long before tragic bus crash, Chattanooga's Woodmore Elementary offered school turnaround lessons for America

Long before tragic bus crash, Chattanooga's Woodmore Elementary offered school turnaround lessons for America

Grace Tatter, Chalkbeat Tennessee
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A decade before grabbing national headlines for a tragic bus crash that killed six of its students last fall, Woodmore Elementary was the rare good-news story, a heralded example of successful school turnaround work.

Along with eight other struggling Chattanooga schools, Woodmore was chosen in 2001 as a laboratory for reforms aimed at improving student literacy. Through an initiative funded mostly by a local corporation, innovations included developing teacher-leaders, hiring instructional coaches, creating space for collaboration, and giving principals autonomy over everything from spending to professional development.

For a while, the reforms seemed to be working. Third-grade reading proficiency climbed from 50 to 75 percent by 2005, drawing the attention of then-U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and garnering profiles in national publications like The Washington Post and Education Week.

But eventually, the initiative's money ran out, and the schools backslid. When the state released its first list of lowest-performing "priority schools" in 2012, Woodmore and four other neighborhood schools from the so-called Benwood Initiative were on it. Today, they still rank in Tennessee's bottom 5 percent, even as federal funding for them increased.

 Those five Chattanooga schools exemplify both the promise and challenge of turnaround work — what can happen when the right ideas and resources are in place, but also how quickly improvements can dissipate without sustained focus and support.

The schools now are the focus of state officials who are weary of promises of locally driven improvements, even as a new superintendent with new ideas has arrived on the scene in Tennessee's fourth largest city. Their future, as well as the future of about 2,300 students, will be decided this fall as state officials prepare to step in with a new turnaround plan, albeit one that they hope will be endorsed and supported by the community.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen says the five schools — Woodmore, Orchard Knob Elementary, Orchard Knob Middle, Dalewood Middle and Brainerd High — are in need of urgent interventions.

"Hamilton County has struggled to turn around these five low-performing priority schools, although most of them have been on the district's radar for at least 15 years," McQueen said recently. "That means a student at Woodmore Elementary in 2002 could have just graduated from Brainerd High and spent his or her entire K-12 education in schools that have not put them on the track for success."

Struggling schools in a battered district

Chattanooga Fire Department
Emergency responders work to remove students from Woodmore Elementary School after a bus crashed on Nov. 21, 2016.

Tucked in Tennessee's southeastern corner, Hamilton County's school system has been battered in recent years by a relentless tempest. The fallout from a rape involving members of a high school basketball team contributed to the abrupt resignation of Superintendent Rick Smith in early 2016. Woodmore's fatal crash occurred later in the year when a speeding school bus careened out of control with 37 students aboard, just before Thanksgiving. This year, the district is being challenged by the possible secession of three schools in Signal Mountain, a mostly white and affluent suburb that would take critical funding with it.

All the while, Hamilton County has grappled with underfunding, low test scores, a large percentage of impoverished students, and stark racial and economic segregation.

Community and civic leaders have joined forces in the last year to seek to turn the trajectory of the city's public schools, initially under the interim leadership of Kirk Kelly and now under a new superintendent, Bryan Johnson.

"Our philosophy was that our kids could not afford for us to wait," said chief academic officer Jill Levine of the most recent local improvement effort. "Whether we're in place for a year or five years, we need to start right away."

Not surprisingly, they turned to some of the strategies that proved successful under the Benwood Initiative.

Turnaround pioneer

The unique initiative kicked off in 2001 in the early days of No Child Left Behind, when the words "school turnaround" first crept into the American vernacular.

Tennessee had just released a statewide list of its lowest-performing schools compiled by an independent researcher, a precursor to its current list of "priority schools" in the state's bottom 5 percent. The community was horrified that nine of the 20 bottom-scoring schools were in Chattanooga — and serving mostly poor and minority students. In response, the Benwood Foundation, created by the estate of a former president of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., donated $5 million in a unique alliance with the school district and Chattanooga's Public Education Foundation, which kicked in another $2.5 million.

Jesse Register was the superintendent at the time of the Hamilton County Department of Education. The future director of Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, he oversaw a targeted plan to improve instruction at the Benwood schools. In a model similar to Tennessee's innovation zones of today, all teachers were required to reapply for their jobs in an effort to weed out the least-committed ones. Then-Mayor Bob Corker, a future U.S. senator, created incentives to attract educators, including tuition-free graduate school and mortgage loans and the potential for raises of up to $5,000 if student test scores went up.

Nearly two-thirds of the original teachers were hired back, suggesting that the quality of the teacher workforce was never the problem. They just needed support, like on-the-job coaching, peer collaboration, and more time and help in the classroom. Researchers think Register's next move was the biggest key to improvement. He greatly increased the number of support staff like instructional coaches.

Hamilton County Department of Education
A teacher works with students at a Chattanooga elementary school.

The goal of the Benwood Initiative was to get all third-graders reading at or above grade-level by 2007. That didn't happen, but the work was successful enough after five years to launch similar changes at eight more schools.

"The important thing we learned is that turnaround can be done," said Dan Challener, longtime leader of the Public Education Fund.

But by the time the next $7 million grant ran out in 2012, Tennessee's public education system looked markedly different than in 2001. The state had switched academic standards twice and was using a more rigorous test to measure student progress. Without a reinfusion of cash and commitment, improvements under the Benwood Initiative fizzled.

Old and new ideas

When Hamilton County leaders set to work reviving their district after Smith's departure, they drew on several Benwood strategies like supporting teachers through coaching and adding support staff.

They also used federal and philanthropic funding to create literacy labs where teachers could get instruction and feedback, matched new teachers with mentors across the district, and created a "teacher think tank" to drive the district's professional development programs.

"The idea is that if teachers see good models of teaching, it will improve their practice more than going to a workshop or reading about it," said Levine, a longtime principal who became chief academic officer in 2016.

School leadership came under a microscope too, with a revamped principal pipeline and a monthly dinner for new principals to share stories and advice.

Hands-on science projects and the arts also have been put back in the curriculum — along with related supplies and teacher training — after being pushed out over the years to accommodate more testing.

Supporting the changes has been Chattanooga 2.0, a coalition of nonprofit organizations, foundations and businesses that are championing learning from early childhood to career technical education. In January, a $1 million gift for middle and high school science labs was announced by Volkswagen, whose auto assembly plant is one of the city's biggest employers.

In the years since the Benwood Initiative, a growing awareness has emerged in the community that it truly does take a village to turn around long-struggling schools — and to sustain those improvements.

"You don't want to build a strategy around one person," said Jared Bigham, who coordinates Chattanooga 2.0. "I think what has made this (latest) movement different is that we have every conceivable group at the table, or at least we've invited anyone who wants to engage."

Doug Strickland/Times Free Press
Bryan Johnson became superintendent of Hamilton County schools in July.

Over the summer, the school board tapped Johnson — the chief academic officer from Clarksville-Montgomery County schools north of Nashville — to be the district's new superintendent. Working against a ticking clock, he has sought to find common ground between state and local leaders.

McQueen has made it clear that, one way or the other, the state will be involved in next steps. Two options are on the table.

The first is to place the five schools in a "partnership zone," which would be the first of its kind in Tennessee. The initiative would be governed jointly by local and state officials, with the state having the biggest say. The plan would essentially create a mini-school district that's freed from local rules to innovate as needed.

"The structure is not the magic bullet, but it creates some autonomy and accountability to move the schools forward," McQueen said.

The second option is taking over some of the schools — and possibly eventually all of them — through the Achievement School District. The state-run district converts struggling schools into charter schools that are run by nonprofit operators. With schools in Memphis and Nashville, the so-called ASD has been Tennessee's primary turnaround vehicle since launching in 2012. In Memphis especially, it's been acknowledged for snapping complacent education leaders into action, even as it's angered local stakeholders and shown less academic progress than locally led initiatives.

Doug Strickland/Times Free Press
Education Commissioner Candice McQueen addresses Hamilton County's school board in May.

If the school board rejects the Partnership Zone option, McQueen says the district is essentially choosing to work with the ASD. The state would immediately begin plans to move Hamilton County's two neediest schools — Orchard Knob Middle and Brainerd High — to the state-run district in the fall of 2018.

But community members are wary of state intervention of any kind. All year, they've packed school board meetings hoping for a third way, and Johnson obliged last month with a plan to create an "Opportunity Zone" for 12 struggling schools, including the five priority schools.

But he left open the door to still partner with the state on the priority school cluster. (Update: The school board voted Sept. 21 to move ahead with a partnership zone.)

Lessons and inspiration

Either way, the Benwood Initiative continues to provide a roadmap for the work ahead by showing what can happen when chronically underperforming schools have the right supports.

"If the work had been sustained, I believe we may not be having this conversation today," McQueen told Chalkbeat. "The Benwood Initiative did a lot of things well that we would hope to implement, but in a more sustainable way and over more schools."

That means targeted, evidence-based investments and interventions — and a community that's willing to pitch in and help its low-income students.

Doug Strickland/Times Free Press
Neighborhood resident Michelle Ingram places a teddy bear in memory of victims at the site of the fatal school bus crash in Chattanooga.

In an ironic way, Woodmore's fatal bus crash has set the stage by galvanizing the community to action. In the months after the tragedy, people from across Hamilton County joined with nonprofit organizations to volunteer and shower the school with resources — an example of what can happen when students, educators and other stakeholders work together.

"Out of tragedy sometimes comes good things," said Levine, "because it brings out the best in people."

Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.
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Long before tragic bus crash, Chattanooga's Woodmore Elementary offered school turnaround lessons for America Grace Tatter, Chalkbeat Tennessee Sep 11, 4:00am CDT A decade before grabbing national headlines for a tragic bus crash that killed six of its students last fall, Woodmore Elementary was the rare good-news story, a heralded example of successful school turnaround work. Along with eight other struggling Chattanooga schools, Woodmore was chosen in 2001 as a laboratory for reforms aimed at improving student literacy. Through an initiative funded mostly by a local corporation, innovations included developing teacher-leaders, hiring instructional coaches, creating space for collaboration, and giving principals autonomy over everything from spending to professional development. For a while, the reforms seemed to be working. Third-grade reading proficiency climbed from 50 to 75 percent by 2005, drawing the attention of then-U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and garnering profiles in national publications like The Washington Post and Education Week. But eventually, the initiative's money ran out, and the schools backslid. When the state released its first list of lowest-performing "priority schools" in 2012, Woodmore and four other neighborhood schools from the so-called Benwood Initiative were on it. Today, they still rank in Tennessee's bottom 5 percent, even as federal funding for them increased. Those five Chattanooga schools exemplify both the promise and challenge of turnaround work — what can happen when the right ideas and resources are in place, but also how quickly improvements can dissipate without sustained focus and support. The schools now are the focus of state officials who are weary of promises of locally driven improvements, even as a new superintendent with new ideas has arrived on the scene in Tennessee's fourth largest city. Their future, as well as the future of about 2,300 students, will be decided this fall as state officials prepare to step in with a new turnaround plan, albeit one that they hope will be endorsed and supported by the community. Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen says the five schools — Woodmore, Orchard Knob Elementary, Orchard Knob Middle, Dalewood Middle and Brainerd High — are in need of urgent interventions. "Hamilton County has struggled to turn around these five low-performing priority schools, although most of them have been on the district's radar for at least 15 years," McQueen said recently. "That means a student at Woodmore Elementary in 2002 could have just graduated from Brainerd High and spent his or her entire K-12 education in schools that have not put them on the track for success." Struggling schools in a battered district [media : https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19839413/Photo_by_Chattanooga_Fire_Department.jpg] Tucked in Tennessee's southeastern corner, Hamilton County's school system has been battered in recent years by a relentless tempest. The fallout from a rape involving members of a high school basketball team contributed to the abrupt resignation of Superintendent Rick Smith in early 2016. Woodmore's fatal crash occurred later in the year when a speeding school bus careened out of control with 37 students aboard, just before Thanksgiving. This year, the district is being challenged by the possible secession of three schools in Signal Mountain, a mostly white and affluent suburb that would take critical funding with it. All the while, Hamilton County has grappled with underfunding, low test scores, a large percentage of impoverished students, and stark racial and economic segregation. Community and civic leaders have joined forces in the last year to seek to turn the trajectory of the city's public schools, initially under the interim leadership of Kirk Kelly and now under a new superintendent, Bryan Johnson. "Our philosophy was that our kids could not afford for us to wait," said chief academic officer Jill Levine of the most recent local improvement effort. "Whether we're in place for a year or five years, we need to start right away." Not surprisingly, they turned to some of the strategies that proved successful under the Benwood Initiative. Turnaround pioneer The unique initiative kicked off in 2001 in the early days of No Child Left Behind, when the words "school turnaround" first crept into the American vernacular. Tennessee had just released a statewide list of its lowest-performing schools compiled by an independent researcher, a precursor to its current list of "priority schools" in the state's bottom 5 percent. The community was horrified that nine of the 20 bottom-scoring schools were in Chattanooga — and serving mostly poor and minority students. In response, the Benwood Foundation, created by the estate of a former president of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., donated $5 million in a unique alliance with the school district and Chattanooga's Public Education Foundation, which kicked in another $2.5 million. Jesse Register was the superintendent at the time of the Hamilton County Department of Education. The future director of Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, he oversaw a targeted plan to improve instruction at the Benwood schools. In a model similar to Tennessee's innovation zones of today, all teachers were required to reapply for their jobs in an effort to weed out the least-committed ones. Then-Mayor Bob Corker, a future U.S. senator, created incentives to attract educators, including tuition-free graduate school and mortgage loans and the potential for raises of up to $5,000 if student test scores went up. Nearly two-thirds of the original teachers were hired back, suggesting that the quality of the teacher workforce was never the problem. They just needed support, like on-the-job coaching, peer collaboration, and more time and help in the classroom. Researchers think Register's next move was the biggest key to improvement. He greatly increased the number of support staff like instructional coaches. [media : https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19839456/IMG_0099.jpg] The goal of the Benwood Initiative was to get all third-graders reading at or above grade-level by 2007. That didn't happen, but the work was successful enough after five years to launch similar changes at eight more schools. "The important thing we learned is that turnaround can be done," said Dan Challener, longtime leader of the Public Education Fund. But by the time the next $7 million grant ran out in 2012, Tennessee's public education system looked markedly different than in 2001. The state had switched academic standards twice and was using a more rigorous test to measure student progress. Without a reinfusion of cash and commitment, improvements under the Benwood Initiative fizzled. Old and new ideas When Hamilton County leaders set to work reviving their district after Smith's departure, they drew on several Benwood strategies like supporting teachers through coaching and adding support staff. They also used federal and philanthropic funding to create literacy labs where teachers could get instruction and feedback, matched new teachers with mentors across the district, and created a "teacher think tank" to drive the district's professional development programs. "The idea is that if teachers see good models of teaching, it will improve their practice more than going to a workshop or reading about it," said Levine, a longtime principal who became chief academic officer in 2016. School leadership came under a microscope too, with a revamped principal pipeline and a monthly dinner for new principals to share stories and advice. Hands-on science projects and the arts also have been put back in the curriculum — along with related supplies and teacher training — after being pushed out over the years to accommodate more testing. Supporting the changes has been Chattanooga 2.0, a coalition of nonprofit organizations, foundations and businesses that are championing learning from early childhood to career technical education. In January, a $1 million gift for middle and high school science labs was announced by Volkswagen, whose auto assembly plant is one of the city's biggest employers. In the years since the Benwood Initiative, a growing awareness has emerged in the community that it truly does take a village to turn around long-struggling schools — and to sustain those improvements. "You don't want to build a strategy around one person," said Jared Bigham, who coordinates Chattanooga 2.0. "I think what has made this (latest) movement different is that we have every conceivable group at the table, or at least we've invited anyone who wants to engage." [media : https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19839471/Bryan_Johnson_by_Doug_Strickland.jpg] Over the summer, the school board tapped Johnson — the chief academic officer from Clarksville-Montgomery County schools north of Nashville — to be the district's new superintendent. Working against a ticking clock, he has sought to find common ground between state and local leaders. McQueen has made it clear that, one way or the other, the state will be involved in next steps. Two options are on the table. The first is to place the five schools in a "partnership zone," which would be the first of its kind in Tennessee. The initiative would be governed jointly by local and state officials, with the state having the biggest say. The plan would essentially create a mini-school district that's freed from local rules to innovate as needed. "The structure is not the magic bullet, but it creates some autonomy and accountability to move the schools forward," McQueen said. The second option is taking over some of the schools — and possibly eventually all of them — through the Achievement School District. The state-run district converts struggling schools into charter schools that are run by nonprofit operators. With schools in Memphis and Nashville, the so-called ASD has been Tennessee's primary turnaround vehicle since launching in 2012. In Memphis especially, it's been acknowledged for snapping complacent education leaders into action, even as it's angered local stakeholders and shown less academic progress than locally led initiatives. [media : https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19839482/McQueen_school_board_by_Doug_Strickland.jpg] If the school board rejects the Partnership Zone option, McQueen says the district is essentially choosing to work with the ASD. The state would immediately begin plans to move Hamilton County's two neediest schools — Orchard Knob Middle and Brainerd High — to the state-run district in the fall of 2018. But community members are wary of state intervention of any kind. All year, they've packed school board meetings hoping for a third way, and Johnson obliged last month with a plan to create an "Opportunity Zone" for 12 struggling schools, including the five priority schools. But he left open the door to still partner with the state on the priority school cluster. (Update: The school board voted Sept. 21 to move ahead with a partnership zone.) Lessons and inspiration Either way, the Benwood Initiative continues to provide a roadmap for the work ahead by showing what can happen when chronically underperforming schools have the right supports. "If the work had been sustained, I believe we may not be having this conversation today," McQueen told Chalkbeat. "The Benwood Initiative did a lot of things well that we would hope to implement, but in a more sustainable way and over more schools." That means targeted, evidence-based investments and interventions — and a community that's willing to pitch in and help its low-income students. [media : https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19839500/Bus_Memorial_by_Doug_Strickland.jpg] In an ironic way, Woodmore's fatal bus crash has set the stage by galvanizing the community to action. In the months after the tragedy, people from across Hamilton County joined with nonprofit organizations to volunteer and shower the school with resources — an example of what can happen when students, educators and other stakeholders work together. "Out of tragedy sometimes comes good things," said Levine, "because it brings out the best in people." Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2017/9/11/21103799/long-before-tragic-bus-crash-chattanooga-s-woodmore-elementary-offered-school-turnaround-lessons-for

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The Monument to the Brothers Calvi is a monument places in Piazza Matteoti in front of Palazzo Frizzoni (now the city hall) in the lower town of Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy. It commemorates the four brothers, who served as Alpini or mountain infantry, who died during or shortly after the First World War. In the decades after the war, the brothers were revered for their exemplary martyrdom for the Italian nation.

Description

The monument is a pentagonal plinth, made with marble Zandobbio. with a flagpole with the Italian flag atop. On the superior register of the plinth are four bronze nude youths symbolizing the four brothers: Natale (1887 – 1920), Attilio (1889 – 1916), Sante (1895 – 1917), and Giannino (1899 – 1919) who died after service to the nation. In 1921, a ceremony honoring them and their mother was attended by the King, Benito Mussolini, and Gabriele D'Annunzio. Above each male statue are bronze eagles. The fifth side has a striding youthful maiden symbolizing Victory. The marble is simply engraved with the phrase AI FRATELLI CALVI. The marble of this middle register has plaques engraved with depictions of battles in which the brothers were involved.

The monument was completed in 1933, designed by the architect Giuseppe Pizzigoni (1901-1967). The reliefs were completed by Giacomo Manzù. Within weeks of completion, the male genitals were covered up with fig leaves.

The idea of a monument to a sibship sacrificed for the country is also celebrated in the Monument to the Cairoli Brothers located on the Pincian Hill in Rome; however, unlike that 1872 Romantic monument, the images of the Calvi monument, are less individualized, and are represented by nonspecific muscular youth subsumed into a national struggle.

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Firstly, you might be fortunate enough to find and make an application for a job posting through your school's career center or an internet job board. If you're asking for work in Sales, bear in mind that content is king. Spending some time for a volunteer before going after a paid job is an excellent means to boost your odds of getting hired. So rather than writing just one resume, it is preferable to tailor each one for a particular assistant medical job.
While the job may entail more income or a greater title, you've got to show up and do that job daily. The job, the business, and the institution proved not the perfect fit for me. Instead, take some time to develop yourself into the finest possible candidate, and spend the opportunity to make sure your resume is doing the very best possible job representing you and your abilities. For instance, if you find yourself with a part-time job for a receptionist in an office, you will be better able to have a job for a receptionist at a hospital, doctor's office or continuing-care center. If you are searching for a well-paid sustainable job in the health care sphere, you ought to think about a good specialized healthcare resume.
Despite no experience, you still ought to show experience. Your experience in different industries is very important, so ensure you highlight how your prior experience may give your new company an edge. Make sure as you're listing experiences to begin with the latest experience and work back from that point. When you have some true experience, you need to have altered that section. Even in the event that you don't have hands-on industry experience, you should have the ability to articulate why you're interested in the business and solving their clients' problems. Furthermore, you must have understanding of testing procedure. In case you have expertise with a particular kind of software, for instance, include it in the experience section.
Pre-employment background checks are now increasingly important, particularly in the allied healthcare field. You should combine the research info about the organization and the work description in developing a convincing resume. The info in your resume should include your present contact info and nursing credentials. Make sure that your LinkedIn is up-to-date and is consistent with the info on your resume. You may have a foundational resume that compellingly articulates the most crucial info, states Heifetz, but you need to alter it for each opportunity.
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For a flawless client experience it is wise to have a great expert communication with each of them so as to coordinate. Based on the allied healthcare position, you might want to think about implementing an in-depth assessment of candidates after the first interview practice. To put it differently, the target of your resume is to obtain an interview. Before you choose to compose your career objective, first make sure you need one at all. An excellent career objective must tell the employer what you can provide them if you're hired rather than that which you expect from them.
Think about it as a teaser to the remainder of your resume, which helps a recruiter quickly observe the main info. Every once in a little while, the phone rings, and it is a recruiter on the opposite end. Make sure that your employers see that! If you're uncertain an employer will see you as competent, it could be smart to drop some appropriate jargon that tells the employer that you're a very capable healthcare professional.
You may use the exact approach to any organization you want to join. Some companies just don't have enough time or resources to supply industry training to new employees. Another important consideration to consider is to relate the way your previous experiences would benefit the target company. Open until the Healthcare Jobsorganization that you apply to that you are prepared to help advance their business enterprise.
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Death by guns has been steadily increasing, from 28,874 in 1999 (79 per day) to 38,658 in 2016 (106 per day) according to ProCon.org. Only in 2004 did the rate dip slightly, from 83 deaths per day to 81. This 18-year period represents 572,537 total gun deaths, an average of 31,808 per year (87 per day).
ProCon did not list data for 2017, but Statista.com listed 39,773 deaths for 2017 (109 per day), so the trend is still upwards. I have not seen any data for 2018.
Suicides represent about 60% of gun deaths while homicides represent about 35%; the remaining 5% are all other causes. On Feb. 27, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill, called the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019. That was 113 days ago (as of June 19). The U.S. Senate has not voted on this bill.
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D) supports this bill, and I have also read that Pat Toomey (R) supports this bill. About 97% of all Americans support universal background checks.
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MACo hosts an annual members-only symposium on a hot topic for county governments. This year, we're focusing on small cells!
As part of the symposium, MACo is proud to host industry leaders as exhibitors. These companies and organizations will be available during the symposium to speak with attendees about opportunities and solutions as we explore small call wireless together.
AT&T Inc. helps millions around the globe connect with leading entertainment, business, mobile and high-speed internet services. They offer the nation's best data network and the best global coverage of any U.S. wireless provider. AT&T is one of the world's largest providers of pay TV. They have TV customers in the U.S. and 11 Latin American countries. Nearly 3.5 million companies, from small to large businesses around the globe, turn to AT&T for their highly secure smart solutions.
Crown Castle is the nation's largest provider of shared communications infrastructure—including cell towers, rooftop antennas, small cell solutions, and fiber optic networks. They work closely with wireless carriers, municipalities, utility companies, and landowners to make sure communities have the infrastructure in place to support the data, technologies, and wireless services they rely on. Crown Castle has a national footprint with a local presence in every major market in the US, helping them to respond to the individual needs of each community they serve.
Montgomery County's leading law firm has combined its efforts in public safety communications with the County's leading trade association representing the wireless interests of government workers to educate and advocate on tower and small cell issues. With a nationwide reach, Shulman Rogers and GWTCA have advocated before the FCC and a variety of states to promote the adoption of legislation to speed the implementation of 5G wireless systems, while at the same time accounting for the reasonable concerns of municipalities.
Smartlink is a national staffing and self-performing services company, supporting site development, technical services, and property services in the communications industry. Smartlink is headquartered in Annapolis, MD. Smartlink focuses on delivering solutions for the development, engineering, and maintenance of new and existing communication infrastructures.
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Q: Why this code didn't work for -m32? #include <stddef.h>

template<size_t N = sizeof(void*)> struct a;

template<> struct a<4> {
    enum { b };
};

template<> struct a<8> {
    template<int> struct b {};
};

enum { c, d };

int main() {
    a<>::b<c>d;
    d;
}

I have a piece of code which succesfully compiles for x64 architecture by gcc. But fails with -m32 with error:
$ g++ -m32 test.cpp
test.cpp: In function 'int main()':
test.cpp:16:12: warning: comparison between 'enum a<4u>::<anonymous>' and 'enum<anonymous>' [-Wenum-compare]
     a<>::b<c>d;
            ^
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

What's wrong with this code?

A: Your code is correct. Clearly, since the warning is just a warning. It points towards the fact that the comparison involves two unrelated enumerations, so perhaps isn't sensible.
In case you're interested in an analysis:
Since you're compiling for x86-32, sizeof(void*) is 4. So a<> refers to a<4>, and subsequently a<4>::b refers to an enumerator.
So the expression-statement
a<>::b<c>d;

is parsed as
(a<>::b < c) > d;

Now the usual arithmetic conversions are performed, during which both operands are promoted to int, using the rules of integral promotion. [expr.rel]/2:

The usual arithmetic conversions are performed on operands of
  arithmetic or enumeration type. […]. After conversions, the operands shall have the same type.

(Note the bold part, which is ensured later on.) [expr]/10:

This pattern is called the usual arithmetic conversions,
  which are defined as follows:

*

*If either operand is of scoped enumeration type (7.2), no conversions are performed; if the other operand does not have the same
  type, the expression is ill-formed.

*[ …Bullet points concerning floating point types… ]

*Otherwise, the integral promotions (4.5) shall be performed on both operands. Then the following rules shall be applied to the
  promoted operands:

*

*If both operands have the same type, no further conversion is needed.

*[…]

Integral promotion for enumerators is covered in [conv.prom]/3:

A prvalue of an unscoped enumeration type whose underlying type is not
  fixed (7.2) can be converted to a prvalue of the first of the
  following types that can represent all the values of the enumeration
  (i.e., the values in the range bmin to bmax as described in 7.2):
  int, unsigned int, long int, unsigned long int, long long int, or
  unsigned long long int.

After both operands were promoted to int, the result of the expression is false (since 0 is not less than 0).
Then the result of this promotion is compared against d - here, d is promoted to int as described above, while the result of the comparison - which is of type bool - is promoted to int as well. [conv.prom]/6:

A prvalue of type bool can be converted to a prvalue of type int, with
  false becoming zero and true becoming one.

So both operands have type int. This second, outer comparison yields true, since false->0 is smaller than 1, the value of d.

A: You code is compiled without errors, the actual error happens at linking. Most probably the linker is unable to find 32-bit versions of runtime libraries. Have you installed them on your system?

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Landscape companies to hire resident gardeners to maintain neighbourhoods
NParks aims to create about 1,000 new and upgraded jobs over the next five years, with many leveraging new technologies as part of a digitalisation push.ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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SINGAPORE - Those with green fingers may soon be employed on a part-time basis to help with landscaping works in neighbourhood gardens.
Such opportunities will be part of about 1,000 new and upgraded jobs which the National Parks Board (NParks) aims to create over the next five years, said Minister for National Development Desmond Lee on Monday (Jan 11).
Many of the jobs, aimed at Singaporeans, will leverage new technologies as part of NParks' digitalisation push for the landscape industry.
To foster greater community ownership of gardens and green spaces, landscape companies will employ residents to care for greenery in their neighbourhoods under the Resident Gardener programme.
The Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council had started a similar initiative in 2015 for the area's residents. But this is the first time it is being rolled out for greenery under NParks' purview.
It will start with a pilot programme in February in Ang Mo Kio, Punggol and Yishun.
NParks will link residents with landscape companies, and also train these gardeners to use mechanised tools when necessary.
"The programme provides an opportunity for residents who are gardening enthusiasts to supplement their income, while engaging in their interests," said Mr Lee.
Meanwhile, a year-long pilot involving the use of new tree and park management technologies will begin this month as part of the Landscape Sector Transformation Plan launched in 2019.
The plan, involving NParks, industry partners and institutes of higher learning, aims to digitalise, mechanise and professionalise the sector over a decade.
The pilot will focus on the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio area, before the use of such technologies is scaled up islandwide from January 2022.
NParks said its digitalisation push will encourage the landscape sector to adopt technology, operate safely with greater efficiency and precision, attract a younger workforce, and enable older workers to continue contributing.
On the choice of Bishan-Ang Mo Kio for the pilot, NParks said the area, which includes Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park, Thomson Nature Park, Lower Peirce Reservoir Park and Windsor Nature Park, is representative of the different terrains managed by NParks.
Mr Lee said the pilot will help familiarise and train the landscape professionals in the use of advanced tools and technologies, before they are rolled out progressively across the country.
He cited the example of the Remote Tree Management System, which uses Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) scans and machine learning to map the locations of individual trees and extract tree measurements.
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This allows NParks' staff and contractors to obtain an overview of trees in a particular area remotely, reducing the need for laborious fieldwork.
Other technologies that will be used include tree tilt sensors, automatic lighting fault reporting systems and cameras with artificial intelligence that help staff monitor and analyse crowd density and visitors' park usage patterns.
Mr Goh Eng Lam, chairman of the Landscape Industry Association (Singapore), said the new technologies will help to reduce reliance on manual work and foreign workers.
He added that digitalisation will give the industry a new profile, and make it more attractive for younger entrants.
Institute of Technical Education student Muhammad Raqiib, 19,said that younger people like himself may not enjoy manual work as much.
But leveraging technology will make the industry more attractive as it cuts down on laborious tasks, added Mr Raqiib, a second-year student pursuing a Higher Nitec course in Landscape Management and Design.
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By Daniel Estrin • Oct 10, 2019
Originally published on October 10, 2019 11:04 am
Alliances in the Syrian civil war are shifting again. Up until this week, U.S. forces were working with Kurdish troops to fight ISIS in Syria. Then President Trump moved U.S. troops out of the border area between Syria and Turkey, essentially clearing the way for Turkey to launch its own offensive on those very same Kurds. Airstrikes began yesterday, and Kurdish activists are reporting casualties and heavy fighting. The U.N. Security Council is meeting today on the matter.
NPR's Daniel Estrin is reporting from Iraq near the border with Syria and joins us now. Daniel, I understand Turkey's President Erdogan has made remarks today defending the attack. What did he say exactly?
DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE: He gave a quite defiant speech, and he warned Europe not to criticize Turkey's military operation. He said, hey, EU, if you try to frame our operation there as an invasion, he said, it will open the doors and send 3.6 million migrants to you. And he's talking about the Syrian refugees living in Turkey.
Erdogan also claimed that more than a hundred, quote, "terrorists" were killed in the Turkish operation so far, although the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that that number is actually much lower. It's reporting around a dozen Kurdish-led forces killed and eight civilians killed, too - at least.
MARTIN: You have been talking to people fleeing the area that's been hardest hit by the fighting. What are they telling you?
ESTRIN: Well, our team of NPR reporters, Lama Al-Arian and Sangar Khaleel, were at the Iraqi border crossing with Syria right at the crossing today. And they met one woman who was lucky enough to come across the border.
She has European residency papers, so she was allowed through. She said she didn't sleep at all during the night from the sounds of the bombing. And she said that she saw hundreds of Kurdish civilians at the border crossing who really wanted to leave, but they're not being allowed to cross.
And many Western aid workers also gathering at the border that she thought we're also trying to cross. And that site of Western aid workers leaving Syria was causing a lot of panic among Kurdish residents. And then we also spoke with a 27 - Kurdish...
UNIDENTIFIED ACTIVIST: I don't know what to (unintelligible). But yeah, a person who is tweeting from, like, thousands of kilometers away from me, deciding about my people, for me, is unacceptable.
ESTRIN: And that's the voice of a 27-year-old Kurdish activist we spoke with. She fled her home in a border area. And she said that she was feeling abandoned by President Trump.
MARTIN: So let's talk about President Trump. He's gotten a lot of criticism, actually, here at home for this decision to move U.S. troops out of this area which then allowed Turkey to move in. His most strident supporters say doing this was a mistake. It's going to embolden ISIS. It's a betrayal of the Kurds. And yet President Trump has not been deterred, right?
ESTRIN: Well, even - yes - yesterday he sent, I think, mixed signals about his position on the Kurds. Trump said the Kurds are fighting for us, yes, meaning that the Kurds have fought with the U.S. against ISIS. But Trump said, but they're fighting for their land, and, hey, they didn't help us in the Second World War, and they didn't help us with Normandy.
MARTIN: Part of the concern about ISIS getting emboldened through this is because the Kurds have been guarding a lot of really high-profile ISIS detainees. And now there are reports that the U.S. has taken custody of these detainees. What more can you tell us about that?
ESTRIN: Well, a big concern here is the jails where ISIS prisoners are kept. Kurdish forces are the prison guards, and Kurdish forces have basically threatened that they may need to abandon these jails in order to go fight Turkey, and that could let ISIS prisoners run free.
So Trump tweeted that in the case - in case that happens - if the Kurds or the Turkey - or Turkey loses control, he said, high-profile detainees, two of them are in U.S. custody. He's talking about two British men, part of a group sort of known as the Beatles, accused of being responsible for beheading American journalists.
MARTIN: Right. Just briefly, do we know what Turkey's end goal is here?
ESTRIN: Turkey says it wants to clear the area of Kurdish forces and set up what it's calling a safe zone. Turkey isn't saying how much land they're trying to seize, how long they intend this operation to last, though.
MARTIN: All right. NPR's Daniel Estrin reporting from on the ground near the Syrian border. Thanks, Daniel.
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Turkey, Pakistan, and Azerbaijan have agreed to formulate a joint strategy to stem the rising wave of Islamophobia in the world, mainly in the West, and curb terrorism, including its state-sponsored form.
The agreement was reached at the Second Trilateral Meeting between the three countries, attended by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, and his Pakistani and Azerbaijani counterparts, Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Jeyhun Bayramov, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry.
The three sides discussed a variety of issues, including trilateral cooperation in the areas of peace and security, trade and investment, science and technology, education, and cultural cooperation.
Expressing concern over "grave" human rights violations in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir, and rising Islamophobia, they agreed to launch joint efforts to defend the Islamic values.
The three foreign ministers, the statement said, also discussed the ongoing Afghan peace process, which aims to bring an end to a 19-year conflict in the war-torn country. Throwing their weight behind the fragile process, the meeting hailed Pakistan's role to facilitate the talks.
The meeting, it added, decided to work out plans to cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Turkey wants 'dynamism'
Later, addressing a joint press conference, Cavusoglu said Ankara wants to bring "dynamism" in its economic relations with Islamabad by increasing the bilateral trade volume.
The current trade volume between the two countries, he said, is a mere $800 million, which does not reflect the true potential of bilateral trade.
"We talked about the importance of developing infrastructure especially in the field of transportation and energy," he said.
He recalled that the first summit was held in Azerbaijan's capital Baku in 2017, adding that the third edition will be held in Turkey.
"Today we have decided to hold meetings in this format more frequently. So we don't have to wait three to four years," he added.
Referring to trade and business agreements signed during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's last visit to Islamabad in February last year, Cavusoglu said the deals would help increase the bilateral trade and investment volume in the days to come.
The two sides, he noted, have increased defense and security cooperation in terms of military hardware.
In July 2018, Pakistan Navy signed a contract for the acquisition of four MILGEM-class ships from Turkey's state-run defense firm ASFAT.
In October 2019, Turkey's President Erdogan had cut the first metal plate of the first MILGEM Ada class corvette during a ceremony in Istanbul.
Ankara has bought 52 Mashahk training aircraft from Pakistan.
Currently, Cavusoglu went on to say, some 100 Turkish companies are operating in Pakistan in different sectors, including health, education, construction, tourism, and services.
Ankara intends to extend its trade and investment with Islamabad, he maintained.
Baku thanks for support
Azerbaijan's Bayramov hailed the support of Turkey and Pakistan in solving the Upper Karabakh conflict and invited Pakistani and Turkish firms to help rebuild the Karabakh region recently liberated from the Armenian occupation.
Pakistan's Qureshi thanked his counterparts for attending the meeting, noting that the top diplomats decided to intensify and deepen the trilateral cooperation.
He thanked Ankara for its consistent support to Islamabad on the Kashmir issue.
Reiterating Islamabad's support to Turkey on [the Turkish Republic of Northern] Cyprus, he said they demand the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue in line with the UN Security Council resolutions.
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A few weeks back a project for Target's RED magazine had us traveling once again down to the Target House in Memphis, TN. No doubt it's a favorite location to spend a few days working, as well as time experiencing this fine slice of southern living. While in Memphis, we were fortunate to secure access and spend an afternoon shooting stills + motion at the legendary Earnestine & Hazel's.
The passage of time leaves its mark on places we inhabit, and in turn upon those who inhabited these spaces. Earnestine and Hazel's at 531 South Main Street in downtown Memphis, TN (having a colorful history as a sundry shop, bar, hotel, and brothel to name a few) is one of these places that has been around long enough to fill volumes with tales of triumph, defeat, jealousy, reconciliation, love won, love lost. It's a breath of old, fresh air that circulates a certain mystique of smells, sounds, and visuals to all who enter the front door - the wealthy, the poor and everyone in between.
The building containing Earnestine & Hazel's speaks for itself and the location made for the perfect setting for the test shoot we put together including two local models and a talented wardrobe stylist. Our talent Kaycee and Cassie were wonderful to work with and fit nicely within our vision of this project. Sona Amroyan brought many options for wardrobe and as a fashion designer herself, pulled a few original pieces from her collection to augment what we already had in mind. The still and motion visuals captured are different from what we have done in the past. We implemented a variety of light modifiers, which added to the overall look and helped us push this project in a new direction. The importance of testing is still paramount for us in an effort to create new looks and try out new ideas. There is no fail in a test only learning and building upon a foundation of the tried and true.
Enjoy a slice of life from a historical venue in Memphis, and be sure to check out the next post when we unveil the long awaited "Of Feather and Brace" a motion based tale of hunting one year in the making.


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We're on a mission to make meaningful change by putting positive impact at the heart of our economy. Our vision is of a sustainable, prosperous and inclusive Aotearoa and world.
At Ākina we work with government, corporates, entrepreneurs and philanthropic partners to create a culture that measures and values the power of enterprises and businesses to deliver positive change for our people and the world we live in.
This change is called 'impact'. When we talk about impact we're talking about the social, environmental and cultural benefits that can flow from purpose-driven business. The positive impact of business can help address the threats posed by challenges like poverty, inequality, waste management, biodiversity loss and climate breakdown.
Ākina is transforming our economy through impact consulting services, social procurement and impact investment advisory services, and by building the capability of enterprises nationwide. We're also working with the Government to create the conditions for a thriving social enterprise sector, into the future.
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After a long wait due to COVID, ADFEST, is delighted to finally reveal the identities of the Fabulous Five up-and-coming directors at ADFEST 2023 on Friday 24 March at 11.50 – 13.00.
Every year, ADFEST invites emerging commercial directors to write a short film as part of its Fabulous Five program – one of the world's most respected platforms for kickstarting the careers of commercial directors. In 2020, directors were challenged to write a five-minute short film script inspired by the theme of ADFEST 2020, Fired Up! The session, Short Films for ADFEST 2020 by the Fabulous Five, was unable to be held because of Covid. The 2020 Fabulous Five will finally debut their films at the Short Films for ADFEST 2020 by the Fabulous Five session this March.
The Fabulous Five New Directors 2020 were chosen by ADFEST 2020's Film Craft Lotus & New Director Lotus Jury from 31 submissions from 9 cities including Bangkok, Chiba, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Melbourne, Shanghai, Singapore with 20 submissions from Tokyo alone.
It has been a difficult wait for these new directors, who worked with such enthusiasm to get their work ready for an ADFEST debut that could not be. ADFEST is intensely proud of their patience and delighted to support their excitement to show what they can do in March.
The Fabulous Five New Directors are:
Apiwat Pattalarungkhan
Freelance Director & Creative Director, TJT Creative Lab, Bangkok
Masashi Fukuda
Director, TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd., Tokyo
Director, Dentsu Creative X Inc., Tokyo
Shay Zhao
Former Writer & Assistant Director, WOWWOWTANK, Hong Kong
Yuriko Minami
Director, FIELD MANAGEMENT EXPAND Inc., Tokyo"It's not easy to make your name as a director, so the Fabulous Five is a much-needed mentoring program to support talented directors who are just embarking on their careers in filmmaking. It was wonderful to see such different perspectives on the theme, Fired Up!, I think the five scripts we've selected are all very promising, and I'm very curious to see the final films," says Michael Ritchie, Jury President of Film Craft Lotus and New Director Lotus at ADFEST 2020.
"Ashes" by Apiwat Pattalarungkhan
Apiwat started his career as a graphic designer but found his true passion in advertising as an art director. Fast forward 15 years, he's now applying his experience to a new challenge, TJT Creative Lab, a creative start-up he co-founded in Bangkok. TJT stands for Tang Jai Tham, which means "working wholeheartedly" – a name that reflects the philosophy of the company. While he is still a Creative Director, he has begun experimenting with scriptwriting and directing. In 2018 and 2019, he produced food documentary content for the China market and a commercial for TJT Creative Lab's client, and had so much fun, he'd like to continue pursuing this new path as a director and scriptwriter.
Apiwat's film, Ashes, is a story about the tragedy of love.
"Tempest" by Masashi Fukuda
Born in 1991, Masashi started his filmmaking career in university and joined TAIYO KIKAKU in 2017. Now he mainly directs TV commercials and web movies. He is always trying to create videos/films with cinematic quality and strong storytelling and hopes that his works will move someone's emotions.
Masashi's film, Tempest is about the powerful and inescapable force of anger.
"Last Message" by Ryo Matsumoto
Born in 1996 in Aichi prefecture, Japan, Ryo has always loved to draw. In middle school, he decided to move to Tokyo to pursue his dream of becoming a professional manga artist. But while studying Graphic Design at university, he discovered the world of advertising. After drawing his first storyboard, he realized that he enjoyed it even more than drawing manga. In 2019, after graduating from university, he joined the Direction Department of production company Dentsu Creative X Inc., where he is mainly involved in the production of TV commercials.
Ryo's film, The Last Message, is a story about communication and legacy that bond you to those you love.
"Crossroad In Jianghu" by Shay Zhao
Shay grew up in Shenzhen along with her Peking-style grandpa, the Chinese four arts were her daily homework. She is a storyteller who always goes to different places to explore new cultures and ways of life. After completing a master's program at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, she started her career as a copywriter at WOWWOWTANK in Hong Kong. Thanks to the owner, Tan Khiang, Shay got the opportunity to become involved in branding projects, advertising campaigns, scriptwriting as well as commercial film production. Since 2019, Shay challenged herself to take the assistant director's position. Her Fabulous Five film, 'Crossroad in Jianghu', will be her directorial debut.
Shay's mythical film, Crossroad in JIanghu, explores the complex role of Jianghu in modern life.
"Escape Lockers" by Yuriko Minami
Director, FIELD MANAGEMENT EXPAND Inc., Tokyo
Born in 1990, Yuriko studied law at Kansai University but longed for the world of design, so she enrolled in school again to study graphic design and photography, later joining advertising production company TYO. In 2019, she started directing in the planning and production department. She likes to make films that are visually graphic and emotional.
Yuriko's film, Escape Lockers, is about acceptance and the struggle to be free to be who you are.
Don't miss the long awaited premiere of Short Films for ADFEST 2020 (at ADFEST2023) by the Fabulous Five on Friday 24 March at 11.50-13.00. Delegates will also get to vote for their favourite short film to determine the Popular Vote winner of the Fabulous Five. The ADFEST 2023 program is now also online with over 30 sessions lined up.
ADFEST 2023 Lotus Awards is still open for entry submissions. The Final Deadline is next Friday 13 January 2023. For more information, visit www.ADFEST.com
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International Legal Materials , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 81 - 111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002078290002708X[Opens in a new window]
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994
* Reproduced from Multilateral Trade Negotiations (The Uruguay Round) Document MTN/FA, Part II, Annex 1C, of December 15, 1993. MTN/FA/Corr. 1 of December 15, 1993, states: "Pursuant to agreement reached on December 15 1993 among the participants in the Uruguay Round negotiations, all references to the 'Multilateral Trade Organizations', or to its abbreviated form 'MTO', should be replaced throughout the Final Act and all its Annexes by the Wording 'World Trade Organization' or 'WTO', respectively." The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Including Trade in Counterfeit Goods is annexed to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization which is itself annexed to the Final Act of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations (The Uruguay Round).]
[The Final Act of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations (The Uruguay Round), together with Introductory Note, appears at 33 I.L.M. 1 (1994). Other documents annexed to the Final Act which are reproduced in this issue of International Legal Materials are: the Agreement Establishing the Multilateral Trade Organization [World Trade Organization] which appears at 33 I.L.M. 13 (1994; the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 and the Uruguay Round Protocol GATT 1994, included under the Agreements on Trade in Goods, which appear at 33 I.L.M. 28 (1994); the Agreement on Trade in Services which appears at 33 I.L.M. 44 (1994); the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes which appears at 33 I.L.M. 112 (1994); and various Ministerial Decisions and Declarations which appear at 33 I.L.M. 136 (1994). Items not reproduced in this issue are so indicated, see 33 I.L.M. 10, 11, 26 and 27 (1994).]
1 When "nationals" are referred to in this Agreement, they shall be deemed, in the case of a separate customs territory Member of the MTO, to mean persons, natural or legal, who are domiciled or who have a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment in that customs territory.
2 In this Agreement, "Paris Convention" refers to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property; "Paris Convention (1967)" refers to the Stockholm Act of this Convention of 14 July 1967. "Berne Convention" refers to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works; "Berne Convention (1971)" refers to the Paris Act of this Convention of 24 July 1971. "Rome Convention" refers to the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations, adopted at Rome on 26 October 1961. "Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits" (IPIC Treaty) refers to the Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits, adopted at Washington on 26 May 1989.
3 For the purposes of Articles 3 and 4 of this Agreement, protection shall include matters affecting the availability, acquisition, scope, maintenance and enforcement of intellectual property rights as well as those matters affecting the use of intellectual property rights specifically addressed in this Agreement.
4 Not withstanding the first sentence of Article 42, Members may, with respect to these obligations, instead provide for enforcement by administrative action.
5 For the purposes of this Article, the terms "inventive step" and "capable of industrial application" may be deemed by a Member to be synonymous with the terms "non-obvious" and "useful" respectively.
6 This right, like all other rights conferred under this Agreement in respect of the use, sale, importation or other distribution of goods, is subject to the provisions of Article 6 above.
7 "Other use" refers to use other than that allowed under Article 30.
8 It is understood that those Members which do not have a system of original grant may provide that the term of protection shall be computed from the filing date in the system of original grant
9 The term "right holder" in this Section shall be understood as having the same meaning as the term "holder of the right" in the IPIC Treaty.
10 For the purpose of this provision, "a manner contrary to honest commercial practices" shall mean at least practices such as breach of contract, breach of confidence and inducement to breach, and includes the acquisition of undisclosed information by third parties who knew, or were grossly negligent in failing to know, that such practices were involved in the acquisition.
11 For the purpose of this Part, the term "right holder" includes federations and associations having legal standing to assert such rights.
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Home / New Releases / Rough Guide To The Best Country Blues You've Never Heard (Vol.2)
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Rough Guide To The Best Country Blues You've Never Heard (Vol.2)
Released 30 July 2021
This collection delves yet deeper into the archives of country blues, uncovering hidden gems by artists shrouded in mystery. From classic renditions of blues standards to intriguing novelty songs, this is a must-listen for any blues connoisseur.
Loosely speaking, country blues is best described as the first flowering of acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, often incorporating elements of ragtime, Gospel, hillbilly and Dixieland jazz. The term also provides a convenient general heading for all the multiple regional styles and variations such as Piedmont, Memphis, Texas & Delta etc. Keeping this in mind, we have tried to touch on its many different facets, including some real hidden oddities like the Gospel parody 'G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again' by T. C. Johnson, Blue Coat Tom Nelson & Porkchop, a bizarre name even by blues standards. In fact, it seems that the deeper you dig into the blues annals the more intriguing the names become, such as "Hi" Henry Brown, whose wonderful opener 'Skin Man Blues' is akin to the playing of other St. Louis-based bluesmen such as Henry Townsend and Charley Jordan.
Although many of the artists won't be familiar, there's certainly a few well-known blues standards in this collection, from Long "Cleve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull's wonderful take on the classic murder ballad 'Stackolee' to the mysterious Tommie Bradley's heartfelt rendition of 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out'. Of particular note is the upbeat instrumental version of 'Careless Love' which highlights the virtuosic harmonica playing of Eddie Mapp, who is joined by fellow East Coast bluesman Slim Barton on guitar. Also from the Eastern states, Bull City Red delivers a great performance of Memphis Minnie's 'Now I'm Talking About You', complete with the nimble guitar accompaniment of Reverend Gary Davis.
Nowhere was the incredible diversity of early blues forms more concentrated than in the city of Memphis, which brought together both rural and urban musical traditions and songs from traveling minstrel and medicine shows. Both Jed Davenport & His Beale Street Jug Band and Minnie Wallace and her Night Hawks give us a taster of this upbeat and vibrant scene from a city whose bright lights had long provided a lure for blues musicians from nearby Mississippi and beyond.
Although the guitar was undoubtedly the chief vehicle of expression for country blues artists, there were many exceptions, as in the case of the mysterious Bogus Ben Covington who accompanied his bawdy songs like the featured 'It's A Fight Like That' with a banjo-mandolin and harmonica on a rack. Similarly, the equally salacious 'Stuff Stomp' sees the singer/guitarist Elijah Jones receive privileged accompaniment by the master of blues mandolin Yank Rachell. Another mandolinist Matthew Prater, along with the help of guitarist Napoleon "Nap" Hayes, recorded the instrumental gem 'Easy Winner' which combined elements of ragtime and blues into a string band format, borrowing freely from Scott Joplin's most famous piece, 'The Entertainer'. Of all the double acts, undoubtedly the most unlikely partnership is the seamless marrying of the clarinet with Will Day's guitar playing and vocals on 'Sunrise Blues', which gives the song a heartfelt intensity unto its own.
Like other more well-known country bluesmen who found a renewed level of popularity in the folk revival of the 1960s, a few of these featured artists also made comebacks of sorts including Walter Vincent, a member of the Mississippi Sheiks and co-writer of the blues standard 'Sitting on Top of the World', as well as John Henry Barbee, whom the great Willie Dixon found working as an ice cream server in Chicago, before bringing him back to the stage in 1964. The Texas bluesman Jesse "Babyface" Thomas, brother of the more well-known Ramblin' Thomas, was another who managed to forge a long musical career spanning eight decades, and his closing track 'No Good Woman Blues' belies the fact that he was only 18 years old when he recorded it.
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If you were on the search for the perfect vegetable to keep your health optima, celery might be it. There are plenty of reasons to love celery. For starters, it is packed with essential vitamins and minerals. Watery, spongy and ultra-hydrating for the body, celery has become a leading food on the market, alongside avocado and garlic.
Packed with magnesium, potassium, as well as vitamin C, B, A and K, celery contributes more to your health than you think. Celery also works as a great antioxidant thanks to its rich content in phytonutrients. These anti-inflammatory agents are in charge of strengthening the immunity and keeping your best health in check.
Celery also contains small amounts of sugar, pantothenic acid, niacin, vitamin E, zinc, phosphorus, iron, and selenium.
Keeps the body safe from inflammation.
Manages the perfect pH balance in the organism.
Helps with losing weight as it is low-calorie, high-fiber.
Encourages digestion and prevents stomach problems.
Protects the urinary tract and keeps you safe of infections.
Relaxes the nerves and promotes better sleep.
Balances cholesterol and blood pressure levels, a result of its phthalide content.
Treats heartburn and acid reflux, because it contains minimum acids.
Promotes better eyes health, due to its high vitamin A levels.
Cleans the teeth naturally, because of its fiber abundance.
Next time you think about celery, think how much it impacts your health, without you even knowing it. There is no time better than the present to start including this marvelous green into your day-to-day menu. Stay fit, stay full, stay healthy!


Whack the moles is a game to dissolve your boredom, either you are tired of your work, or sitting idle, switch on to game and whack the moles.
The moles are the challenging characters that start out slow and then get faster and faster. They can be quicker because five are there in a standard game.
Once the game starts, the moles will begin to pop up from their holes at random. The aim of the game is to push the individual moles back into their holes by hitting them directly on their head with the mallet, thereby adding to the player's score. The more quickly this is done the higher the final score will be.


Not much is known about Sandra Ikeji. Unlike her married sister, Laura, Sandra is known to be reserved and cool-headed. She has a Master's degree in Regional Planning from a prestigious university, and is also the CEO of Blackdove Models, ne of Nigeria's leading commercial Modeling Agency and feature in T.V Commercials, and Print Advertisements i.e. Billboards, Posters, Calendars, etc.
Located at 27A, Salvation Road, Opebi, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria; Blackdove Models also offers ushering services via its gorgeous and well groomed, plus affordable ushers' to help add glamour to your events. The company provides first class ushering services for all event types, including corporate events, Weddings, Concerts, Parties, Private parties, Rallies. Blackdove Models boasts of having over a hundred tall, pretty and well groomed ushers ready to serve and bring a touch of class to your events anywhere in Nigeria.
In 2016, Popular blogger, Linda Ikeji's younger sister, Sandra Ikeji turned a year older and there was a massive celebration as she was joined by family and friends to celebrate the big day.
1). She has over 52k Instagram followers. Her Instagram account name is @sandra_ikeji.
2). She has been featured on the cover page of Life & Times Magazine. According to Sandra, she's extra happy when she plans parties.
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3). Sandra Ikeji is also the CEO of Events By SI, an event planning outfit whose major goal is to make your events worthwhile. Events By SI offers professional event planning services like Event coordination, Event management, Weddings, Social and Corporate events, themed parties and Destination celebrations.
5). Sandra holds a degree from The International School for Hospitality, Nevada, USA.
6). She used to play football as a child, which earned her the nickname "Sandra Papin" from neighbours.
7). She's forever 18 in her mind and that's how she wants to celebrate all her birthdays.