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N.C. pet shelters come with crates, pooper scoopers and everything else needed to save animals during storms
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.
Christy Saunders swung open the door of an enclosed trailer revealing folded animal crates, food bowls, leashes, pooper scoopers and massive rolls of plastic sheeting.
The trailer holds all the equipment necessary for temporary pet lodging during a hurricane evacuation, said Saunders, emergency management coordinator for Pasquotank and Camden counties. People and pets can get shelter next to each other.
Volunteers unpack it, wrap a climate-controlled room or hallway in the plastic, lay down a rubber mat in the center and assemble the cages along the sides.
"It's done like this so that it is easy to clean up," she said. "It's a good plan."
Emergency officials deployed dozens of the portable pet shelters during Hurricane Florence last year. Hundreds of animals were temporarily housed, more than during any other storm ever in the state, said Wendy Pulley, interim human services branch manager of the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management.
"No doubt, people appreciated not having to leave their pet behind," she said. "North Carolina has become the gold standard for pet shelters."
After Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, hundreds of animals were left behind. One report of a boy who was not allowed to bring his dog, Snowball, to the shelter became a rallying point for animal activists. Congress passed a law the next year requiring states have evacuation plans for animals. In North Carolina, every county must have a plan.
"Hurricane Katrina showed the world what happens when people refuse to leave their four-legged family members behind during natural disasters — and what happens when people abandon their animals to fend for themselves," PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch said in an email.
After hurricanes Maria, Harvey and Florence, PETA's first responders still found animals stranded in floods, animal shelters overwhelmed with lost and abandoned pets and veterinary clinics overrun with injuries, she said. She did not specify in which states or counties the distressed animals were found.
Since Katrina, about half the 100 counties in North Carolina have used grants and local money to buy pet equipment trailers, Pulley said. Not every county needs them. Coastal counties like Dare and Currituck have vehicles for transporting pets to inland shelters that have animal facilities.
"It makes people more willing to evacuate, and we can save more lives," Pulley said.
The equipment-only trailers cost $16,000, she said. A climate-controlled, self-contained trailer where pets can live inside costs $35,000.
Most people leave and take their pets with them, Saunders said. Typically only 2 percent of the population goes to a shelter during an evacuation. When Florence was coming, one elderly woman with a pet needed help. Saunders was trying to find her a place when a neighbor offered to take her to safety.
"We're going to do everything we can to help somebody," she said. "It might be on a case by case basis."
Volunteers have to get training. It takes about two hours to set up a trailer and about three or four to take down depending on the number of animals. They have to register owners and pets into the shelter. Each pet gets an ID attached to their collar or crate. The owner gets a matching wristband or something similar. Pets should be current on vaccinations. If they are not, a veterinarian at the shelter will examine them.
Staff have to deal with frantic or unruly pets and owners at times. Afterward, the room and the crates have to be cleaned and sanitized.
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Volunteers can be hard to get during local flooding events, Saunders said.
"I understand why people would not want to do it." she said. "It's a tough job."
The state calls on animal rescue groups for help in a major event like Florence, Pulley said. That storm was unique in that threatened the entire state at first, she said.
"We've never had so many evacuations," she said. "At the end of the day, we saved people and animals."
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Daniel M. Flynn, a lifelong resident of Greenwich, passed peacefully in his sleep on Saturday night, January 13, 2018 while at his home on Prospect Street.
Dan, or Danny, as his friends and family referred to him, was born on September 29, 1960 in Cambridge, New York.
He was the son of James A. Flynn and Anna Karp Flynn, both of whom joyfully welcome him to eternal life.
Danny graduated from Greenwich Central School in 1978 and from Siena College, Loudonville, in 1982 with a Bachelor's of Art degree in history. Although the thought of teaching interested him, Dan chose a completely different career path in banking. It began in 1980 while still in college, when he accepted a position with Chemical Bank, later to become Norstar Bank and eventually, Glens Falls National Bank, from where he retired in mid 2014 due to complications from his chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). He was grateful for the 35 years that he spent there and enjoyed the company of many fabulous co-workers and customers, forming friendships with many of them.
Danny's passion was sports, from participation in all of them in his youth, to faithfully watching them his entire life. He was an avid New York Mets and Los Angeles Rams fan and could tell you any statistic about either of them. Danny had a fabulous memory, from sports trivia to songs from the 70's and 80's. His greatest joy, however, came from coaching. He coached JV basketball at Greenwich for 30 unblemished years and as a JV baseball coach, and assistant Varsity baseball coach for as many. Dan was known for his extraordinary knowledge of and expertise in the game, his integrity and fairness, and his ability to interact with players, parents, and rival coaches as well. Dan truly cared about his players, each and every one of them, and afforded each the opportunity to grow as both a player and a human being. In fact, kindness defined Danny to everyone he knew. Like his entire family, Danny was a huge animal lover and had countless cats and dogs for his entire life, including Whiskers, Shumway and Peanut.
Dan was a member of the Men's Auxillary of the Greenwich VFW, Post 7291, the Greenwich Elks Lodge #2223, past president of the Greenwich Athletic Association and one of the founders and president of the Wasaren League summer baseball association, as well as a communicant of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Greenwich.
Dan's immediate family was small but the love he had for them, his extended family and his countless friends was immeasurable. He is survived by his beloved sister, Deborah Flynn Brophy, his special friend and brother-in law, Peter Brophy, his "favorite" niece, Jenna Brophy and her boyfriend Nick Goodman, and his treasured nephew, Jimmy Brophy, his aunt Carol Karp, his honorary aunt, Betty Dixson, as well as by his best friend and cousin, Leo Flynn and his wife MaryBeth, Jake, Tabatha and family, Lindsey, Alex and family, Chris and family and Jason Flynn, as well as many other remarkable, wonderful cousins and friends.
Dan was predeceased by his parents, his aunts and uncles, cousins Edward and Donald Nash, Bud and Jim Kinyon and Kyle Karp as well as numerous friends, the two most recent being Randy Jennings and Ken "Skell" Skellie.
The family would like to extend sincere appreciation to Dr. Edward Liebers, Kathy, Bernie and the rest of his fabulous staff as well as to the staff of the Operating Room and the ICU at Saratoga Hospital, whose care and compassion allowed us four additional years with Danny.
Calling hours will be held on Wednesday, January 17th from 1-3 pm and 5-8 pm at Flynn Brothers. Inc. Funeral Home, 80 Main Street, Greenwich, NY, 12834.
A mass of a Christian burial will be celebrated on Thursday, January 18th at 11:30 am, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Greenwich, with the Reverend Martin Fisher officiating.
Spring burial in the St. Joseph's Cemetery in Greenwich will take place at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, we kindly ask that any donations in Dan's name be made to the SPCA of Upstate New York, 588 Queensbury Avenue, Queensbury, NY 12804.


The fifth and final book in the Stonewylde series is called 'Shaman of Stonewylde'.
The future of Stonewylde teeters on the cliff-edge. The Outside World clamours at the wrought iron gates, and the evil alliance within Stonewylde threatens to destroy everything.
With the new business and their relationship in tatters, Yul and Sylvie find their once-beautiful world has been desecrated by the dark forces. All hope seems lost as the magic appears to have vanished for good.
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ICMRS Scientific Frontier Webinar Series: Dr. X. Edward Guo, Columbia University
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM (EDT)
ICMRS Scientific Frontier Webinar Series
New Insights of Bone Modeling and Remodeling in Response to Mechanical Loading
Presented by X Edward Guo, Ph.D.
Chair and Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Columbia University
When: August 15, 2020 (Saturday) 9:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
August 15, 2020 (Saturday) 8:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
2020年8月16日(星期日)北京时间上午9:00 (中国)
August 16, 2020 (Sunday) 9:00 AM Perth (Australia - Western Australia)
August 16, 2020 (Sunday) 11:00 AM Sydney (Australia - New South Wales)
Where: Please click here to view the recorded webinar.
Short Biography: Dr. X. Edward Guo is Chair and Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Columbia University. Professor Guo directs the Bone Bioengineering Laboratory focusing research on bone mechanics, microstructural analyses of skeleton, and mechanobiology. Professor Guo is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies, and the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering.
Abstract: Bone modeling and remodeling are governed by distinct cellular processes that may hold unique opportunities for optimizing bone mass. Remodeling refers to the coupled resorption and subsequent formation on bone surfaces, while modeling represents uncoupled instances of these events. Mechanical loading is known to be beneficial to maximizing total bone mass, though whether this is achieved through modeling or remodeling (or by some combination) is unclear. In addition, the skeleton consists of compact cortical bone and porous trabecular bone which contributes to different functions in mechanical support of the skeleton. How these two bone compartments bone respond to mechanical loading and their underlying cellular mechanism also remain elusive. In this joint ICMRS-WACBE webinar, an update of recent findings in bone modeling and remodeling response to mechanical loading will be presented.
This webinar will be moderated by Dr. Xiaodu Wang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio.
If you are not able to attend ICMRS webinars, you are welcome to click here for recorded videos from ICMRS Scientific Frontier Webinar Series.
Jean Jiang, PhD
Chair, Education Committee, ICMRS
Professor and Zachry Distinguished University Chair
Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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Website: http://www.talisman-jones.net/
Nomi Talisman is an Academy Award nominated filmmaker and fine artist. She works collaboratively with Dee Hibbert-Jones on film, new media and fine art projects that address critical social issues, politics and personal testimony.
Talisman was awarded the Filmmaker Award with Hibbert-Jones from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke (2015) created to honor and support documentary filmmakers who connect to the power of the documentary tradition and whose works are potential catalysts for education and change. She and Hibbert-Jones were also awarded the Gideon award for support to indigent minorities (2016).
Talisman and Hibbert-Jones' most recent animated documentary film Last Day of Freedom won Best Short Documentary at the International Documentary (IDA) Awards 2015 and was nominated for an 88th Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Last Day of Freedom is a portrait of one man's decision to stand by his brother, a Veteran returning from war, as he faces criminal charges, racism, and ultimately the death penalty, described by Indiewire as "A searing study of our most pressing social issues."
Last Day of Freedom toured festivals internationally and won Best Short Documentary at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; Best Short Documentary at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Outstanding Documentary Short Film at Tall Grass Int. Film Festival, Best Animation at Bar Harbor, Honorary Mention for Best Animated Documentary Short Film, Dok Leipzig, Best Experimental Short Atlanta Docufest, Platinum Award Winner Spotlight Documentary Film Awards and Impact Award at (In) Justice for All International Film Festival. The film was first broadcast on Truly California, KQED, is now broadcast internationally and is available on Netflix.
I-140, an installation of video, photographic prints and hand painted signs, described inequality and civil rights issues in immigration policies towards same sex couples, using Hibbert-Jones and Talisman's own situation as subject. The project sparked interest among diverse audiences reaching beyond fine art and film audiences, to broader political forums. I-140, was exhibited in screenings and galleries at venues including the International Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) in 2012 and featured in Artillery, volume 5, issue 5 (6-7/11), the work circulated internationally on same-sex advocacy sites and was picked up by news blogs internationally.
Talisman and Hibbert-Jones' current project Living Condition is an interactive documentary film and new media project that extends the reach of their animated film Last Day of Freedom. The project explores the crisis in our criminal justice system through the stories of several individuals with a relative on death row.
Talisman is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellow. She is a freelance editor, animator and motion graphics designer. Born in Israel she lives in San Francisco with her partner and their son.
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Should you mail or email magaiznes?
Should you mail or email modeling agencies?
Should you mail or email casting directors?
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Same for magazines. And when submitting to a modeling agency or talent agencies.
I think getting exposure takes more than being on a social network, it take more than just having a compcard and headshot, it takes a lot of persistence, energy and mailing, and promotion. It takes all of these things to manage your self promotion.
I mail. I email. I google!
I have gotten global press on my book and myself by email and using it is a free tool to get in touch and ask questions and find out answers.
It seems Myspace and social sites are even a little over-popular, so why not do something different, than send them again to your Myspace page?
Having an old fashion compcard and headshot printed is not to be looked past.
Sending your photos in the mail the old fashion way is also the norm for casting directors and agencies who receive a TON of mail a day. So..be noticed, be remembered, make an impression, and don't forget the importance of snail mail. Send a letter with it.
Sometimes I wish I could create a full sized photo of myself and send it by mail all folded up like a poster...it would come in a little envelope and then open up to a full size picture of me! Wouldn't THAT be impressive? Mmmm maybe I will pursue this!


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Exploring tangible interactions with radar sensing
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Exploring tangible interactions with radar sensing. / Yeo, Hui Shyong; Minami, Ryosuke; Rodriguez, Kirill; Shaker, George; Quigley, Aaron John.
In: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Vol. 2, No. 4, 200, 27.12.2018.
Yeo, HS, Minami, R, Rodriguez, K, Shaker, G & Quigley, AJ 2018, 'Exploring tangible interactions with radar sensing' Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, vol. 2, no. 4, 200. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287078
Yeo, H. S., Minami, R., Rodriguez, K., Shaker, G., & Quigley, A. J. (2018). Exploring tangible interactions with radar sensing. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2(4), [200]. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287078
Yeo HS, Minami R, Rodriguez K, Shaker G, Quigley AJ. Exploring tangible interactions with radar sensing. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 2018 Dec 27;2(4). 200. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287078
Yeo, Hui Shyong ; Minami, Ryosuke ; Rodriguez, Kirill ; Shaker, George ; Quigley, Aaron John. / Exploring tangible interactions with radar sensing. In: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 2018 ; Vol. 2, No. 4.
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Walkers—encoding multivariate data into human motion sequences
Carson, I., Hinrichs, U. & Quigley, A. J., 5 May 2019.
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Deb8: collaborative fact checking
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RotoSwype: word-gesture typing using a ring
Gupta, A., Ji, C., Yeo, H. S., Quigley, A. J. & Vogel, D., 2 May 2019, Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). New York: ACM, 12 p. 14
SWAG demo: smart watch assisted gesture interaction for mixed reality head-mounted displays
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National Night Out (NNO) is an opportunity to increase our community's strength in crime prevention, police-community partnerships, and neighborhood unity. We know that when the police and the community work together, we can build a safer and stronger community. Project 365 allows us as a community to extend our police-community partnership and our energy throughout the year. Since 2015, the police department and the Celina community have focused on Domestic Violence Awareness. Our goal is to end domestic violence and provide safety for the victims of domestic violence.
During NNO October 2, 2018, we request that all neighborhood block parties donate new needed items to our Domestic Violence Service Provider partner – Hope's Door New Beginning Center. Collection boxes will be available at the block parties and at the police department. By focusing on the issue of domestic violence during NNO, we are beginning the first step in prevention – awareness that domestic violence exists in every community.
Let's work together on our Project 365 to end domestic violence and increase safety for victims!
National Night Out 2018 will be October 2, 2018!
Please join the Celina Police Department in the fight against crime. Below is a list of neighborhoods that are hosting a neighborhood block party for National Night Out. If you do not live in these subdivisions feel free to join us in Downtown Celina!


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Woodsman, please spare those trees | Inquirer Opinion
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Woodsman, please spare those trees
By: Neal H. Cruz - @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 02:34 AM March 28, 2014
What is the Department of Environment and Natural Resources doing?
It is supposed to preserve and protect the environment—meaning, Mother Nature, which includes trees. But why is it allowing the massacre of hundreds of century-old trees in Pangasinan in the guise of widening the MacArthur Highway?
Roads can be widened without massacring trees. In other countries, when road builders come across a big tree, they just go around it. Here, the first reaction is to cut it down. In the United States, when they come across a very big tree, such as a giant redwood tree, they punch a hole through the trunk, big enough for a car to get through; but they do not cut down the tree. Such trees have become tourist attractions. You have seen postcards of them in California.
In the widening of MacArthur Highway, the number of trees being cut down is not just one or two or 10, but hundreds of them. All of them are about a hundred years old, each of which has a trunk that would need two or three men with outstretched arms to encircle.
Imagine, God nurtured them for a hundred years and here comes man, one of His creations, cutting them down. Those poor trees. Their lives would be snuffed out because the road engineers here are not imaginative enough to make the road they are building go around the trees instead of cutting them down.
Curiously, the Department of Public Works and Highways, the government arm spearheading the widening of the MacArthur Highway, has done it before—that is, go around trees to save them.
The big acacia trees lining Katipunan Road, behind the UP Diliman campus, was saved by widening the road on the other side of the line of trees. The tree line has thus become an island, a divider of the wide road. This makes the road safer. Instead of vehicles jostling one another on a single wide road, they are separated by the island of trees. Sometimes vehicles traveling in opposite directions at high speeds, separated only by a thin divider of concrete and grass, jump over the divider and crash into oncoming vehicles head-on.
My own brother was killed in one such accident in Chicago. The car he was driving was bumped from behind by a speeding car. His car jumped over the divider just as another speeding car was coming from the opposite direction. The two cars crashed head-on. My brother died of a fractured skull. If the divider had been a line of trees instead of grass surrounded by a five-inch-high wall of concrete, my brother would still be alive today.
Tree dividers can save lives on provincial highways such as MacArthur where vehicles are traveling at high speed. If a driver loses control of his vehicle, it will not jump to the other side because the trees would block it. The car would crash into the trees but won't jump over the barrier into the path of oncoming vehicles.
DPWH engineers in charge of widening the MacArthur Highway should think about that and be more innovative.
Truckers hauling cargo to and from the Port Area have increased their fees by 50 percent allegedly because the longer turn-around time, due to the truck ban in Manila, has lessened their earnings. Now is the time to revive the trains of the Philippine National Railways to haul cargo to and from the piers.
There are railroad tracks running from the North Harbor and South Harbor to Divisoria and Tutuban to Caloocan and, from there, to north and south Luzon. With these railroad tracks, trains of flatcars hauling container vans can move through the city without disturbing traffic. Instead of trucks with a single container van winding through the narrow streets of Metro Manila and tying up traffic, the trains, carrying much more cargo, will use only the Divisoria tracks at certain hours of the day.
With fixed times for the trains to pass through, the tracks can be cleared of vehicles and vendors when these times approach. After the trains have passed, the vehicles and vendors can occupy the tracks again.
This was already done before. But the truckers, to combat the competition from the trains, lowered their trucking fees and the PNR gave up the service rather than lose money. Now that the truckers have increased their fees by 50 percent, it is time to revive the cargo trains to provide competition to the truckers.
The truckers are now acting like a cartel. Instead of competing with one another, they have banded together to blackmail the importers and exporters, and the City of Manila—demanding higher fees if the city does not lift the truck ban.
Like the jeepney drivers demanding a P5-increase in minimum passenger fare without the approval of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, the truckers have increased their fees without the approval of the Department of Trade and Industry, which has now started an investigation of the illegal hike.
The only way to break the truck cartel is to provide them with competition from the railroad. They either have to lower their fees or see their clients shift to the railroad. Not only will this provide the importers and exporters lower freight costs, it will also relieve the metropolis of traffic jams caused by the giant trucks.
Also, this will allow the PNR to earn more money so that it can improve its services not only to the shippers but also to the city folk using its commuter trains, and to the whole of Luzon when it revives its San Fernando, La Union-Legazpi, Albay line. The plan is to extend the railroad line from Aparri, Cagayan, at the northern tip of Luzon to Sorsogon at its southern tip.
Our transportation officials should be as innovative as the engineers constructing roads.
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In 2002, at the age of 74, Shirley Tross-Jones fed 700 poor, homebound and elderly people at her second annual "Pre-Thanksgiving Luncheon," almost double the number she fed at the inaugural event. Her brainchild, Shirley personally developed, organized and managed the luncheon, which drew many of the people she frequently cooked meals for throughout the year.
It seems like every time Shirley helps one person, she discovers the needs of another. And then another. And then another. She's a whirlwind of activity: delivering meals for organizations that needed a delivery person … tutoring young children at an after-school program … eleven years of caring for an elderly woman with no family … hand sewing lap blankets for nursing home residents (400 and counting). Whew! And you thought you had a busy schedule!
Shirley somehow makes time each week for visiting people who are shut-in, sick or in a nursing home. "We laugh and talk. Everyone needs social interaction – to feel important and connected," she said.
Her advice to anyone who needs a boost … do something for someone in need. That's exactly why Mrs. Shirley Tross-Jones is the game six Tenet Choices Champion.


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Advanced Analytics: A Look Back at 2016 and What's Ahead for 2017
Greater interest (and deployment of) AI, advanced analytics, and open source are among the trends you'll be seeing in 2017.
By Fern Halper
In 2016, advanced analytics maintained its momentum in the enterprise. Technologies such as predictive analytics, geospatial analytics, and text analytics continued to become mainstream. Other technologies such as machine learning and IoT analytics became hot market topics. TDWI expects these technologies to continue to grow in importance. We also anticipate several other potential advanced analytics hotspots in 2017.
The Year of Machine Learning
Machine learning -- the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed -- was, and will continue to be, an extremely hot topic in 2016. Although the technology has been around for decades (think decision trees), it received renewed interest as data volumes continued to increase and organizations looked to machine learning to help in tasks such as predictive analytics. For instance, machine learning can be applied to predict the probability of churn, a part failing, or a patient being readmitted to a hospital. However, machine learning is also being used for voice and image recognition, in gaming, and in self-driving cars. It is an important component of AI (artificial intelligence) that we see as a hot spot in 2017 (see below).
IoT Continued to Develop Momentum
The Internet of Things (IoT) -- a network of connected devices that can send and receive data over the Internet -- continued to interest organizations. The idea behind IoT has also been around for years, but the combination of cheap computing resources, advances in microprocessors, and more advanced software continued to make this a reality. This network is a trend in and of itself, but the analytics that can be performed on IoT-generated data is where the value is. Although only a small percentage of organizations surveyed in our research are utilizing IoT data today (17 percent in our recent TDWI Best Practices Report: Big Data and Data Science) that number is slated to triple in the next few years if users stick to their plans, which is one reason Philip Russom cites this as a hot spot in 2017.
The Citizen Data Scientist Continued to Grow in Popularity
The terms data science and citizen data scientist grew in prominence in 2016. Citizen data scientists are the next generation of statistical explorers, sometimes from nontraditional backgrounds, who are variously self-taught, self-starting, self-sufficient, and self-service in orientation. These are often business users or analysts who may not have formal training in statistics or math but perform advanced analytics using some of the easy-to-use advanced analytics software being marketed by analytics vendors.
In a recent TDWI survey, more than half of respondents stated that they would grow their data science effort internally using these citizen data scientists. There is good and bad here. It is great that tools are so easy to use; they pick the right model and they explain the results. However, it is still incumbent on whomever is building the model to make sure they know what is happening behind the scenes and that controls exist to validate models before they are put into production. Otherwise, we expect to see cases where models end up making big mistakes and data science is targeted as the culprit rather than poor training.
2017 Anticipated Hot Spots
The three trends above will continue to be hot trends in 2017. However, there are other emerging trends that are also worth noting.
The Growth of AI and AI Applications Will Continue
The term artificial intelligence (AI) was first coined by John McCarthy in 1956 during a conference to explore ways to make a machine that could reason like a human. AI declined in popularity but has seen a recent resurgence in interest as data size and diversity continue to grow and the cloud becomes a popular option for scaling compute power and data storage. Today the term AI is defined as the science of creating intelligent computer systems that can form tasks without human interference.
AI and its subcomponents (machine learning and natural language processing are two) are being woven into the analytics arsenal of various departments across industries. New companies are forming around AI. It is being used in marketing for next-best offer and real time customer support. It is used to determine fraud. It is being used in applications -- e.g., to inspect infrastructure, as virtual assistants in casinos, in "farmbots" (robots in farming), and to detect anomalies in X-rays and MRIs in oncology. We expect to hear more about AI and AI embedded in applications in 2017.
Adoption of Real-time Data and Stream Analytics Will Continue to Increase
Real-time streaming analytics, which involves analyzing data in motion, is also poised to grow if users stick to their plans. TDWI is hearing from companies that are looking to analyze streaming data utilizing more sophisticated algorithms, and we expect to hear even more in 2017. Streaming data and real-time analytics often goes hand-in-hand with IoT and we expect those applications to grow. Streaming analytics will also be used in other applications -- for example, in security analytics.
Open Source Will Become Hotter for Analytics
Open source provides a community of innovation for analytics. It has been hot and it is getting hotter. In recent TDWI surveys, we're seeing a lot of interest in R, Spark, and python for data science and big data analytics projects. We expect this to continue to grow.
As-A-Service Analytics Will Gain Momentum
As more organizations look to embed analytics into their application development, we expect more vendors will make "as-a-service" cloud marketplaces available. These marketplaces will provide analytics applications such as fraud-detection-as-a-service or churn-reduction-as-a-service. They will also provide smaller services, such as text sentiment services that can be embedded into applications.
The upshot of these trends? Many organizations are embracing analytics and moving to use newer and more advanced analytics techniques, both for analytics and analytics application development. Those who have not will want to. As organizations mature in their use of analytics, they will also have to become more mature in issues such as data security, data privacy, and data governance. These are some of the topics TDWI will be researching more in 2017.
Fern Halper, Ph.D., is well known in the analytics community, having published hundreds of articles, research reports, speeches, webinars, and more on data mining and information technology over the past 20 years. Halper is also co-author of several "Dummies" books on cloud computing, hybrid cloud, and big data. She is VP and senior research director, advanced analytics at TDWI Research, focusing on predictive analytics, social media analysis, text analytics, cloud computing, and "big data" analytics approaches. She has been a partner at industry analyst firm Hurwitz & Associates and a lead analyst for Bell Labs. Her Ph.D. is from Texas A&M University. You can reach her at [email protected], on Twitter @fhalper, and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/fbhalper.
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Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks but received little recognition during his lifetime.
Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood and tortured genius artist.
About Olive Trees
The writhing brushwork and strident colours contribute to the painting's powerful impact. Van Gogh was fascinated by the gnarled structures and changing colours of olive trees. He was also fully aware of their association with the story of Christ's Passion and the episode of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives. This picture is one of at least fourteen canvases of olive trees Van Gogh painted while in the asylum at Saint-Remy, and its intense character may well reflect the artist's agitated state of mind.
Olive Trees by Vincent Van Gogh. Bring your print to life with three different frame colors. Each framed print comes with equal sized mat that adds a depth perspective to the entire image and a protective glass covering. Our frame prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and shipped within 3 days in "ready to hang" condition with pre-attached mounting points.
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Ма́трес лекціо́ніс (; одн. mater lectionis, калька з  «ем кріа́», буквально «матір читання») — в  консонантній писемності приголосні  літери, використовувані для позначення голосних звуків.

Через відсутність голосних букв однозначне прочитання тексту в консонантній писемності часто буває утруднено. Тому для позначення голосних (переважно довгих) використовуються приголосні букви, що позначають звуки з подібною артикуляцією: [w], [j], [h], [].

Один з варіантів появи Матрес лекціоніс, зафіксований в івриті — контракція дифтонгів [aw] → [o:] і [ay] → [e:], наприклад в словах  «будинок» [bayt]→[bet],  «день» [yawm] → [yom]. Потім букви  вав і  йод, що вживаються в цих словах для позначення приголосного звука зниклого дифтонга, були переосмислені як такі, що позначають голосний звук, який з'явився на його місці. Після цього написання Матрес лекціоніс поширилося на позначення навіть тих голосних, на місці яких ніколи не було дифтонгів.

Матрес лекціоніс зустрічаються вже в угаритській, моавській і фінікійської письменностях, але широко застосовуються лише в єврейському, арамейському, сирійському й арабському письмі.

Пізніше, в мандейскому, авестійському та інших алфавітах, а також у деяких сучасних різновидах арабського письма (напр., алфавіти для перської і новоуйгурської мов) і єврейського письма (алфавіт для мови їдиш) Матрес лекціоніс регулярно позначають всі голосні, фактично перетворюючись на голосні літери.

Голосні букви  грецького і латинського письма, а також кирилиці історично сходять до Матрес лекціоніс: наприклад, буква I утворилась із приголосної букви, позначала звук [j], U — з [w], А — з [  ʔ ], Е — з [h], О — з [  ʕ ]

Див. також
 Консонантна писемність
 Діакритичний знак

Джерела
 Велика радянська енциклопедія
 Garr, W. Randall. 1985. Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000–586 B.C.E. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
 Jensen, Hans. 1970. Sign Symbol and Script. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Transl. of Die Schrift in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften. 1958, as revised by the author.

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MICHAEL G. STEWART is an award winning commercial, architectural and aerial photographer based in the Washington, D.C. area. For over 30 years, his images have appeared in newspapers, print publications and websites worldwide. He is the illustrator of 3 children's books and a guide to the Scottish steel-string harp, as well as a coffee table book documenting the restoration of historic St. Matthew's Cathedral entitled A Landmark Restored.
A noted photographer of musicians and performing artists, with over 300 album & CD covers to his credit for artists as varied as Tommy Emmanuel, Bill Kirchen, The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Eek A Mouse, Gene Bertoncini,Larry Coryell or Tony Trischka, Michael has also been the "go to" photographer for The National Council for the Traditional Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts for almost than 20 years.
Since 2004, Mr. Stewart has been a judge on the Packaging and Design committee for the GRAMMY awards.
Michael's work with the Smithsonian Institution led to his association with Scott Chinery on the historic Blue Guitars project in 1997, as well as his long tenure as photographer in residence at the Smithsonian's Jazz Café. He worked for 2 years documenting the contemporary art of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Michael's studio is now located in Berwyn Heights, Maryland and he welcomes the opportunity to talk to you about YOUR unique imaging project!
More of Michael's work may be seen at www.michaelgstewart.com, or on his Facebook page.


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Сасани́дская оде́жда (среднеперсидское: джамаг или паймог), представленная персами, была «в значительной степени похожим» на одежду, которую носили другие иранские народы. Она была особенно уместна и применима для верховой езды. Наиболее распространёнными первоисточниками для изучения сасанидской одежды являются формы изобразительного искусства, в частности, рельефы. В отношении сасанидской одежды Мэттью Канепа (2018) утверждает:

Согласно Элси Х. Пек (1992), учёным препятствовали в их исследованиях сасанидских женских платьев из-за нехватки сохранившегося материала (то есть репрезентаций) по сравнению с мужской сасанидской одеждой.

См. также

 Парфянская одежда
 Тохарская одежда
 Византийский светский костюм
 Цангион

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Источники

Государство Сасанидов
История одежды


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True Obsessions is the fourth studio album by guitarist Marty Friedman, released on April 17, 1996 through Toshiba EMI (Japan) and October 8, 1996 through Shrapnel Records (United States). It was also the last to feature Nick Menza on drums.

Track listing

Personnel

Marty Friedman – guitar, synthesizer, production
Stanley Rose – vocals
Brian BecVar – keyboard, piano
Nick Menza – drums
Greg Bissonette – drums ("Last September", "Intoxicated", "Hands of Time")
Carmine Appice – drums ("Shine on Me", "Live and Learn)"
Tony Franklin – bass
Jimmy Haslip – bass ("Intoxicated")
Alex Wilkinson – orchestral instrumentation, percussion
Tom Gattis – background vocals
Steve Fontano – engineering, mixing, production
Zach Blackstone – mixing
Mike Tacci – mixing
Ryan Dorn – engineering
Brian Kinkel – engineering
Billy Moss – engineering
Larry Jacobson – engineering
Wally Traugott – mastering

References

External links
Story Behind The Song - True Obsessions at martyfriedman.com
In Review: Marty Friedman "True Obsessions" at Guitar Nine Records

Marty Friedman albums
1996 albums
EMI Records albums
Shrapnel Records albums


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Giulia Niccolai (née à Milan le  et morte dans la même ville le ) est une  photographe, poète, romancière et traductrice italienne.

Biographie
Fille d'un père italien et d'une mère américaine, Giulia Niccolai est née à Milan et a grandi à la fois en Italie et aux États-Unis.

Dans les années 1950, elle commence à travailler comme photojournaliste pour des publications italiennes, européennes et américaines, dont Life, Paris Match et Der Spiegel. À la fin des années 1960, elle abandonne la photographie professionnelle pour  l'écriture. Elle faisait partie  du groupe néo-avant-gardiste d'écrivains connus sous le nom de Gruppo 63. En 1969, elle écrit  en anglais son premier livre de poésie . En 1970, avec Adriano Spatola, elle fonde la revue de poésie Tam Tam.

Giulia Niccolai publie son unique roman  en 1966. En 1974, elle publie Poema Oggetto, une collection de poésie visuelle.

Au cours des années 1980, elle s'intéresse à la philosophie orientale et passe du temps au Japon devenant en 1990 une nonne bouddhiste. En 1994, elle publie une collection de poèmes Frisbees-Poesie da lanciare, qui remporte le prix Feronia.

Elle a également traduit les œuvres d'écrivains américains et anglais en italien.

Œuvres

Poésie
 Greenwich (1971)
 Poema & Oggetto (1974,  édition 2014)
 Substitution (1975) avec Paul Vangelisti, Los Angeles: Red Hill Press.
 Facsimile (1976)
 Russky salad ballads et webster poems (1977)
 Harry's bar e altre poesie, 1969-1980 (1981) introduction  Giorgio Manganelli
 Frisbees. Poesie da Lanciare (1981)
 Orienti/Orients (2004)
 Le due sponde (2006) Archinto Publisher.
 Poemi & Oggetti (2012) ed. by Milli Graffi, introduction by Stefano Bartezzaghi
 Frisbees della vecchiaia (2012) Campanotto Publisher
 Cos'è poesia (2015) Edizioni del Verri.
 Pubblico & Privato (2016) bilingual introduction by Alessandro Giammei
 Foto & Frisbee (2016) Oedipus Publisher

Traductions
 Prosper Mérimée La notte di San Bartolomeo  (1975) avec Adriano Spatola
 Gertrude Stein La storia geografica dell'America, o Il rapporto della natura umana con el mente umana  (1980)
 Dylan Thomas Il mio Natale nel Galles (1981)
 Beatrix Potter Le favole di Ludovico Coniglio (1981)
 Alexander Sutherland Neill La nuvola verte (1981)
 Virginia Woolf La Vedova e il pappagallo: une storia vera (1984)
 Angela Carter Gatto Marino e re Drago (2000)

Autres
 La nave nel prato (The Ship in the Fields) (1972), children's literature
 Esoterico biliardo, Archinto Publisher (2001), Collection Gli aquiloni.  .

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en décembre 1934
Naissance à Milan
Traducteur depuis l'anglais vers l'italien
Romancière italienne
Poétesse italienne
Nonne bouddhique italienne
Décès à 86 ans
Décès à Milan
Décès en juin 2021
Nonne bouddhique du XXe siècle
Nonne bouddhique du XXIe siècle


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Whitetail Deer Hunting
Monster Illinois Buck Scores 220, Almost a County Record
This buck wasn't recently killed, but it's so impressive, we figured we'd tell you the story anyway. Illinois hunter Bob...
By Natalie Krebs | Published Nov 13, 2013 7:43 PM
This buck wasn't recently killed, but it's so impressive, we figured we'd tell you the story anyway. Illinois hunter Bob Weber harvested this monster drop-tine buck in LaSalle County, Ill. on Jan. 19. Weber's buck fell just four inches short of the biggest nontypical ever taken in LaSalle, becoming the county's second largest buck overall. Here's how Weber teamed up with his stepson Jake Benson to take the big late-season bruiser.
Weber, then 44, was battling a cold on the morning of the hunt and didn't plan to go. But Jake, 13, managed to drag him out of bed and out the door for the special CWD season. Although Weber knew the big buck was in the area, the pair had set out in hopes of tracking a doe. They were hunting private property full hardwood flats, big draws, and 200-foot ravines.
Jake chose the setup and opted to sit on the ground. But just as prime sunrise hunting rolled around, he realized nature was calling and it couldn't wait. Jake headed for a remote spot, then set up by a different pine tree. Meanwhile, Weber decided to circle the timber and let the wind carry his scent through the trees, hoping it would push a doe toward Jake. About 100 yards later Weber spotted a group of does moving away from Jake's setup. Two bucks followed behind. The bigger buck of the pair kept glancing back into the woods, and that's when Weber spotted him.
The massive drop-tine buck stood almost 200 yards from Weber. With so many deer in sight, Weber sat tight until they walked away along a nearby ravine. The big bruiser bedded down facing Weber, but eventually rose and browsed toward the same ravine. Whenever the buck moved, Weber crept closer.
"The adrenaline was unbelievable," Weber said. "I ain't gonna lie. But this would be 30-some years I've been hunting. I've got some real nice bucks on the wall, so I could talk myself down and calm down."
Finally, he closed the distance to 60 yards, and the buck stopped broadside. He turned his head and stared right at Weber.
"We looked at each other and I'm thinking this is over," Weber said. "We looked at each other and it seemed like forever. I'm sure it was only 10 to 15 seconds."
Finally the buck looked away and stepped forward, providing a clear shot. With his muzzleloader resting on a tree branch, Weber lined up the crosshairs and fired.
"When the smoke cleared I saw him running and his head literally was dragging on the ground," Weber said. "Just like a plow, just digging up the soil. So I knew I had him pretty good." Jake heard the shot at 7:30 and knew Weber must have seen the buck. The two met up and headed home. A couple hours later Weber returned with two buddies to track the buck. They picked up the blood trail immediately. Just 30 yards over a small hill they found the buck piled up from a double lung shot.
"We were like a bunch of school kids," Weber said. "I probably got a little teary eyed. We were hugging and we all put our hands on him and started taking pictures."
Weber credits Jake with the successful hunt. "He did everything but pull the trigger. I would not have went out, I would not have seen that deer if it wasn't for him," Weber said. "If he didn't have to go to the bathroom we would've sat there and never seen any deer."
A Boone and Crockett Club measurer scored the buck at 220 1/8 inches, making it the second largest nontypical on record in LaSalle County. The county's largest buck scored 224 1/8 inches and was taken in 2003. The current Illinois state record buck scored 304 3/8 inches and ranks as B&C's fifth largest nontypical of all time.
"Once you see something like that — that you've just killed — and I put him in my hands it was just like, 'Well, in my life there's no chance of ever beating him,'" Weber said.
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Bolder, Colorado - The Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded the University of Colorado Boulder $1.8 million to develop an innovative window coating that could significantly improve energy efficiency in buildings.
The team is using liquid crystals, widely known for their technological use in smart phones and flat panel HD televisions, to create a transparent, solid film that is thermally insulating, soundproof and water condensation-proof. The team is led by physics Associate Professor Ivan Smalyukh and mechanical engineering Professor Ronggui Yang.
The liquid crystal-based aerogel - a synthetic, porous and ultralight material - can be created by using rod-like, cellulose nanoparticles, each with a diameter nearly a million times smaller than a grain of sand, said Smalyukh. Derived from food industry waste or glucose with the help of a specific bacteria grown by the team, the rod-like nanoparticles spontaneously self-assemble into a liquid crystal, he said.
A key step in the process is to replace the water in the liquid crystal material with air, transforming it into flexible aerogel film.
The cellulose-based liquid crystals are designed to self-organize and can be "pre-engineered" to assure transparency in the visible light range and high reflectivity in a selected part of the infrared spectrum that keeps the buildings cool or warm as needed. Dubbed AIR FILM by the team, the aerogel material is more than 99 percent air.
Both graduate students and postdoctoral researchers will be involved in the effort, said Smalyukh, also a fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI). RASEI is a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory headquartered in Golden.
The grant is part of the ARPA-E's Single-Pane Insulating Efficient Lucid Design (SHIELD) program. The SHIELD program is expected to accelerate the development of materials that could cut in half the amount of heat lost through single-pane windows without replacing them, said Yang, a faculty affiliate of RASEI.
AIR FILM will have the ability to be laminated on the surface of existing windowpanes. The team aims to produce films that consumers can easily apply, which would decrease costs by eliminating professional installation labor expenses.
The CU-Boulder grant was one of 14 grants totaling $31 million for window-efficient technologies awarded by Energy Department officials. Experts estimate that retrofitting widows rather than replacing them could reduce heat loss and save roughly the amount of electricity needed to power 32 million U.S. homes each year.
In December 2015, the Department of Energy awarded another CU-Boulder research team $4 million over three years to develop an inexpensive, paintable coating to retrofit energy-inefficient windows. The infrared-reflective coating is expected to drastically reduce cooling costs for both residential and commercial structures, helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
RASEI Director Robert McGrath said the new project is a good example of the collaborative energy research happening on campus, including at the new Sustainable Energy and Environmental Complex (SEEC) on the East Campus.


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Have you noticed how much more anxiety teenagers seem to experience today? In years past, teens would become anxious about a test, or worry about relationships in their daily lives. Today's teens, however, seem to be in a constant state of stress.
What over the years has changed? Why are today's teens living in such a state of disarray? Perhaps we need to turn our attention toward the most rapid change over the past several decades: modern technology.
Teenagers and Technology-Fueled Anxiety
"If the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy." This saying applies to many parents today, and this wasn't Christ's intent for the abundant life. Psychologist Dr. Richard Leahy was quoted as saying, "Today's teens are living under the same degree of stress and anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s." What's caused this anxiety-fueled life? Digital technology.
It's so important for us, as parents, to be better models to our kids in the way we use it. Start to cut back on your "busyness" by having a digital curfew each night. It's a small step but could teach your children to be better stewards of their time, drastically reducing their anxiety.
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Cork GAA: Francis Kenneally looking forward to PRO challenge
Kanturk clubman elected to succeed Joseph Blake
New Cork County Board PRO Francis Kenneally of Kanturk
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New Cork County PRO Francis Kenneally says he is "honoured and humbled" to be taking up the role.
The Kanturk clubman was confirmed as the winner of the election on Friday night, beating Cian O'Brien of Glen Rovers by 396 votes to 186. Kenneally succeeds Joseph Blake (Adrigole), against whom he and O'Brien had both run in 2018, and one of his first tasks was attending Páirc Uí Chaoimh for Sunday's Bons Secours Hospital Cork Premier SFC final, in which his club take on Newmarket in a Duhallow derby.
Kenneally runs The Central Stores in Kanturk, which set up by his parents in 1954. He first became involved with the club's juvenile board in 1981 and since then he has served as chairperson, secretary and treasurer of the adult club as well as acting as a delegate to both the Duhallow divisional board and the county board. Away from GAA, he has been secretary of Kanturk Community Council and secretary and treasurer of Kanturk Chamber of Commerce.
"I'm honoured and humbled," he said.
"It's a daunting task, one I hope I am equal to. With the help and support of my wife Marie, and my adult children Aisling, Cathal and Ciara, I hope I can meet the challenges ahead in a good way. My mother Geraldine and late father Andrew were role models for me in the way they both served the community.
"I must thank my club Kanturk and other clubs around the duhallow Division and the county for nominating me. I must also thank fellow Kanturk club officers and members who helped with the canvassing.
"I know going forward I will need a formidable support team around me to do the job and do Cork GAA a service." In congratulating Kenneally, Cian O'Brien expressed thanks for his years of involvement on the communications side of the county board.
"I've two smallies here at home and I'm kind of happy with the result as they get their daddy back," he said.
The other position on the county executive that was contested was Irish and cultural officer. In that election, Ballinora's Donal McSweeney defeated Tony McAuliffe of Lismire by 319 votes to 263.
The role of development officer, currently held by Noel O'Callaghan (Clonakilty), is due to be split in two, planning and training officer and a safety and facilities officer, but that must wait until the special convention in the spring at which motions will be debated – these were postponed when it was determined that convention would be held remotely. There is one nomination for each role – outgoing Irish and cultural officer Richard Murphy (Lyre) for planning and training and O'Callaghan for safety and facilities.
On Saturday night, former chairperson Tracey Kennedy was added to the list of board vice-presidents, proposed by her club colleague Patrick Mulcahy. Chairperson Marc Sheehan acknowledged that this was something that should probably have happened last year on the expiry of her term, as is customary for outgoing chairpersons.
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We're pleased to announce 51 winning entries in the 2020 MarCom Awards. The winners comprise both B2B and B2C companies and organizations, and span industries such as health, financial services, professional services, associations, higher ed, and consumer products.
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How can a small, regional bank stand out among the financial giants these days? Turns out, the tight-knit communities of Western Massachusetts don't want to give their money to a big, impersonal corporation. They want to bank with neighbors who share the same values. Finn Partners' Boston office, Small Army, brought those values to life by showing real people from the community doing honest work in the award-winning Country Bank campaign.
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Tony Abbott: Keeping Reform Alive
The Hon. Tony Abbott, MHR for Warringah, delivered this speech to the Samuel Griffith Society's 2016 Conference in Adelaide in August. He wrote a series of assessments of his government's achievements and failures in the March, April and May issues this year.
My first task tonight is to congratulate the Samuel Griffith Society for its unflinching commitment to upholding our constitution and to safeguarding our legal traditions. You are, if I may say so, a thoroughly conservative body—not in any partisan sense but in your respect for what has shaped us and in your determination to build on the best features of the past.
Although Sir Samuel Griffith led a nineteenth-century Queensland version of the Liberal Party, there were occasions, he believed, when "the comfort of the individual must yield to the good of the public". He had a strong social conscience but no sympathy for those "who endeavour to bring about reforms by crime and violence". He opposed indentured labour, but was more inclined to phase it out than to ban it. And he was, of course, the principal author of the first draft of our Constitution; which has turned out to be a splendidly serviceable rule book for a practical people.
Although he once claimed no inconsistency whatsoever between any of his innumerable speeches on a huge range of topics, he was more pragmatist than ideologue. His was a pragmatism based on values: sympathy for the underdog, respect for institutions that have stood the test of time, and a preference for freedom.
My second task is to confront a regrettable truth: these are vexing times for conservatives—legal conservatives no less than political ones—and we need to ask "Why?" if better times are to come.
Take an issue that's quite rightly exercised many here: section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act that prohibits what might "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate" on racial grounds. This is a troubling law. At its worst, it limits free speech merely to prevent hurt feelings. John Howard opposed it when Paul Keating introduced it, but didn't repeal it in government.
After the successful prosecution of Andrew Bolt, I promised to "repeal it in its current form" but reneged after fierce criticism from Liberal premiers and a wall of opposition in the Senate. As well, I was seeking ways to limit jihadi hate preachers and worried about the appearance of double standards. Perhaps the cause of free speech would have fared better if my government's initial bid had been merely to drop "offend" and "insult" while leaving prohibitions on the more serious harms.
Still, as things stand, there's no real prospect of change—even though several young Queenslanders are now facing official persecution merely for questioning reverse discrimination on social media and the Race Discrimination Commissioner is now itching to prosecute our best-known cartoonist.
The decency and fair-mindedness of the Australian people will always be a better defence against hate speech than a law administered by ideological partisans—yet our parliament prefers to tolerate over-the-top prosecutions than to upset thin-skinned activists.
Take another issue dear to adherents of the Samuel Griffith Society: the restoration of a better-functioning federation—a federation that more faithfully reflects the letter and spirit of our Constitution—by allowing the different levels of government to be more sovereign in their own spheres.
In the 2014 budget, Joe Hockey and I implemented our election pledge to limit the Rudd–Gillard school and hospital cash splash to the 2013 forward estimates. We reduced Commonwealth support for the states from the unsustainable, beyond-the-out-years, pie-in-the-sky promises of the previous government, to CPI plus population growth in the fourth year of the budget projections.
Our idea was the constitutionally correct one: to have the states and territories take more responsibility for funding the public schools and public hospitals. The public would then know better whom to blame when things went wrong. Again led by Liberal premiers, the response was a fusillade of criticism along the lines of "cruel cuts" and "broken promises".
Along with a modest Medicare co-payment for otherwise bulk-billed GP visits, reductions in stay-at-home-mum payments once the youngest child was at school, indexation for pensions based on the consumer price index rather than male total average weekly earnings, and insisting on learning-or-earning for school leavers rather than going straight on the dole, these reductions in the rate of increases to spending were sabotaged in the Senate.
So, as things stand, rather than reform a dysfunctional federation, the states would rather blame federal funding than address the shortcomings in their schools and hospitals; while the Commonwealth won't risk a scare campaign by considering real change.
There's much that my government achieved in two short years: abolishing taxes, stopping the boats, finalising free-trade agreements, boosting small business, starting big projects like Sydney's second airport, keeping our country safe—and not shirking budget repair. Still, I have to take responsibility for our inability to reform section 18C and to deliver the beginnings of federation reform.
Free speech is worth the risk of giving offence. The Commonwealth can't be the states' ATM if our federation is to work. Government can't continue to live beyond its means.
I did make these points but not often enough or persuasively enough to bring about the changes I sought; the changes, I suspect, that you wanted too. Hence the need for all of us to ponder how these good causes and other good causes might better prosper in the future.
You won't be surprised to hear that I have been reflecting on my time as opposition leader, as well as prime minister. Interestingly, while less than 50 per cent of the current government's legislation has passed the parliament, almost 90 per cent of the former Labor government's legislation passed without a division.
I think the Abbott opposition was right not to oppose means-testing family tax benefits and means-testing the private health insurance rebate; because, although these measures hit the aspirational families the Coalition most wanted to help, they also helped to rein in an increasingly out-of-control budget deficit.
Unquestionably, we were right to oppose the carbon tax, which was not just a broken promise but the antithesis of the former government's 2010 election commitment. We were right to oppose the mining tax which destroyed investment, cost jobs, and boosted red tape without raising serious revenue. We were right to oppose the over-priced school halls program, and the combustible roof batts program, and the live cattle ban that threatened Indonesia's food security—because these were all bad policies incompetently implemented.
I wonder, though, about the former government's people swap with Malaysia. The 800 boat people that could have been sent to Malaysia was less than a month's intake, even then. I doubt it would have worked. Still, letting it stand would have been an acknowledgment of the government-of-the-day's mandate to do the best it could, by its own lights, to meet our nation's challenges. It would have been a step back from the hyper-partisanship that now poisons our public life.
In the last parliament, I could invariably count on Bill Shorten's support on national security issues. On deploying the armed forces or strengthening anti-terror laws, there were cabinet ministers harder to persuade than the Leader of the Opposition!
The challenge for the new parliament will be to be as sensible about economic security as the old one was about national security; because we can't keep pretending that economic growth on its own will take care of debt and deficit.
Of course, Labor's instinct is for more tax and the Coalition's preference is for less spending—but if Labor wants spending legacies such as the NDIS to survive, it should be prepared to work with the government in dealing with the spending overhang that it created.
After an election where the government all but lost its majority, yet the opposition recorded its third-worst vote in seventy years, the sensible centre needs to focus even more intently on what really matters to middle-of-the-road voters. All of us need to dwell less on what divides us and more on what unites us, and to have an open mind for good ideas—as the Howard opposition did with the economic reforms of the Hawke government.
We're much more likely to rebuild trust by telling the truth than by running away from hard decisions. We have to keep reform alive because the reforms of today create the prosperity of tomorrow. Budget repair, federation reform, productivity reform and tax reform can't stay in the too-hard basket for the whole term of this parliament.
Of course, all significant change has costs that need to be taken into account. And it's easy to make a bad situation worse with ill-considered change. Yet often enough we must change merely to keep what we have.
We are free because we're strong. We are fair because we can afford to be. But every day we must ask how we can be better, smarter, stronger—and adjust as circumstances require. This isn't ideology; it's common sense. It shouldn't be a crisis that forces parliament to face facts: everything has to be paid for; every dollar government spends comes ultimately from taxpayers; and taxpayers are also voters with a vested interest in getting value for their money.
My job tonight, though, is less to address the challenges of government, than to address the challenges facing those who wish to build incrementally on our constitutional and legal heritage. The main problem is that fewer and fewer people actually know what that heritage is.
Some years ago, after John Howard had questioned the state of history teaching in our schools, I quizzed my teenage daughters about some of the big events in Australia's past. "We haven't been taught that," one responded. Her history study had been ancient Egypt: "pharaohs and stuff", she told me, "and the Rosetta Stone".
If people don't know the Bible and gospel stories; if they haven't read Shakespeare or Dickens; if they haven't heard about ancient Greece and Rome; if they haven't studied the political evolution of England; if they know little of the Great War and the struggles against Nazism and communism—how can they fully appreciate the society they live in, or understand Australian democracy, let alone the subtleties of the relationships between the different branches and levels of government?
With less common knowledge, shared understandings become more difficult. Without moorings and without maps, inevitably, we are adrift and directionless. What's deep and lasting becomes harder to distinguish from the ephemeral, and we end up taking sport more seriously than religion.
A few weeks back, I addressed my old school and spoke briefly about the debt that the modern world owed to Christianity: how democracy rested on an appreciation of the innate dignity of every person; and justice on the imperative to treat others as you'd have them treat you; or to love your neighbour as you love yourself.
The subsequent questions, I have to say, focused on the alleged cruelty of the Abbott government's border protection policies, the inadequacy of its climate change policies, and the insensitivity of its approach to same-sex marriage! And why wouldn't these be students' concerns, given teachers' preoccupations with multiculturalism, reconciliation and global warming? At least the Safe Schools program isn't yet mandatory at Catholic schools in New South Wales.
But there's hope; one Year Nine student I questioned the other day, from a different school, volunteered that our biggest national problem was the budget deficit. It turned out that during the election he'd been exposed to a heavy dose of Sky News!
There wouldn't be a person in this room tonight—not one of you—who would say that our civilisation is more secure today than it was five, ten or twenty years ago. The new tribalism, the loss of civility, and reality-television politics are taking their toll across the Western world. Yet for all our present discontents, there'd hardly be anyone here unconvinced that Western civilisation, especially its English-speaking version, is mankind's greatest achievement.
To be an Australian is to have won first prize in the lottery of life. A culture which welcomes diversity, which values women, which offers respect to everyone; with universal social security, with political and social and economic opportunity; which encourages people to look out for each other, which urges everyone to be his or her best self and which is always looking for ways to improve, deserves to be much better thought of. Yet what's readily extended to other cultures is only grudgingly extended to our own: credit where it's due. An appreciation of our society's strengths, as well as its weaknesses, is missing from the public discourse, making consideration of so many issues so contentious.
I won't try to persuade you that there's never been a better time to be an Australian—for cultural conservatives there are too many frustrations for that—but surely the contention, even now, that there's no better country to live in ought to be self-evident. Cultural self-confidence: that's what's missing; and that's what's required for more of our debates to tilt the right way.
You appreciate what more of us should: that our national story has far more to celebrate than apologise for. The challenge for all of us who seek a better Australia is rarely to throw things out and start again, but to build on the great strengths we have.
Warty – 3rd October 2016
Having taught at a Sydney GPS school for twenty years, I am not at all surprised Tony was asked the questions he was at Riverview. Unfortunately it will get a lot worse, as Years II and 12 will be taught a revisionist form of Aboriginal studies; a Green version of climate change; and a feminist form of feminism. For the Baird Government to condone this Board of Studies social engineering is to acquiesce to several generations of Green government, unless a more conservative 'silent majority' finds a way of intervening . But they can't leave it too late, because the change will be coming sooner than later.
By the same token, I find the last two paragraphs of Tony's speech just a little too complacent, and the irony is that 'there's never been a better time to be an Australian', even though Tony won't persuade us to believe an echo of Malcolm Turnbull's election fizzer clarion call, it seems not a little disheartening that a former PM should look to the past to remind us we have 'far more to celebrate than apologise for', albeit it true.
It is the future we older folk are particularly worried about, particularly when all too many politicians appear to be more concerned about burying their heads in the sand. It has because of a Coalition tendency towards Islamic appeasement and national complacency that a significant number of its voter base abandoned ship at the last election. My question is: what are they prepared to do to try and win them back?
[email protected] – 22nd October 2016
An excellent comment, Warty. The unavoidable answer to your concluding question is "nothing". With only a very few exceptions, the overwhelming majority of our politicians of all persuasions are either too dumb or cowardly, probably both in many cases, to even attempt to remedy the fast deteriorating situation and they are enthusiastically supported in their inane fumblings by the MSM of a complementary quality. Each time Cory Bernardi speaks out, he is ridiculed by all and sundry while Waleed Aly is showered with accolades.
whitelaughter – 25th October 2016
Alas, true.
[email protected] – 6th October 2016
Thank you for your article Tony, please stick around, because although you are in the wilderness now, there may/will come a time when you will be required to make some sort of 'Churchillian' style comeback [although hopefully not in such dire circumstances] and win a 'war'. The war that you/we must fight [and win] however is not so much a military conflict but a 'culture' war. The new divide in politics/society is no longer that between 'left' and 'right', because those terms are now virtually meaningless because they have been altered in true 'Orwellian' fashion by the 'leftist' media. The new 'war' is now between the wealth producing sections of society who live in rural Australia and in some outer suburbs and that of the largely parasitic 'Inner City elites' epitomised by the wealth consuming/controlling bureaucrats dominating the media, judiciary and academia.
Every country's long term standard of living is determined ONLY by its wealth creating activities. No country has ever become prosperous by increasing taxation and bureaucracies. Taxation is the biggest disincentive to wealth creation. Governments cannot create wealth, they can only ever stop wealth creation by taxation and bureaucracy. Governments can best assist wealth creation by getting out of the economy as much as possible, i.e. make markets freer, not more regulated.
Keith Kennelly – 21st October 2016
Well done Tony. It's a sign of courage to be self critical. I know three or four PM's who would envy your record.
[email protected] – 21st October 2016
The old saying, when you're catching flak you're over the target, ought to be a comfort to Tony Abbott. The vicious ad hominem that he and Peta Credlin have received from shrieking harpies in the media tells us all we need to know about his critics and the horses they rode in on. Keep on keeping on, Tony, and thanks for your efforts. Nil carborundum.
Biggles – 21st October 2016
Non illigitima carborundum perhaps? (Still not correct Latin, but at least it includes the subject of the epithet.)
Warty – 21st October 2016
Why on earth is this being recycled?
Jody – 22nd October 2016
Pity Abbott didn't keep "reform alive" by ditching 18C when he had the golden opportunity to do so. I expect he was busy going down his list for Knighthoods.
Philby – 22nd October 2016
The most exciting time to be alive was when Australians threw Labor out of office rejecting the green Marxist ideology rammed down their throats by Gillard and Rudd. Abbott received a huge mandate to correct the wrongs of the Labor/Greens, unfortunately for those who voted the Liberals into power the will to do the job was not there. A huge disappointment to many. Abbots government failed the people on many accounts despite dealing with a couple of big items. His misguided early support of Islamic values despite being warned of the dangers to Australian values showed how weak his government was. As Abetz is now saying the Liberals need to grow a set and basically disrupt the direction that Labor/Greens policies are still taking us. Pauline Hanson One Nation are showing the colours that the Liberals should be flying with strong senators that tell it as it is and denounce Green Marxist rubbish for what it is. Probably it is too late to grow a set Tony but you had it in the palm of your hand and. failed
ianl – 22nd October 2016
> " … reneged after fierce criticism from Liberal premiers …"
Such a depressing fact. Why are these LINO's tolerated ? No, don't tell me Labor is worse: the ALP is funded by the unions, the Libs by the developers. Apart from that, Tweedledum and Tweedledee in nauseating, perpetual disgrace.
Now some idiot will tell me to "cheer up" – without offering the slightest empirical evidence to encourage this.
Classical small-l liberalism, honest scientific methodology, Renaissance-aquired values … oh well.
Don A. Veitch – 23rd October 2016
ianL,
Dont be so impatient, one step at a time.
Sing the Halleluyah Chorus every morning because:
the GOP is doomed, war mongering neo-cons are discredited, Obama has sacked General Allen, John Kerry has now done a deal with Putin, the uni-polar world is ended, Syria is saved from Isis/Daesh, and, and, wait … there's more. A chastened Abbot just might make a comeback (he's an old DLP boy so has good training?). The Liberal Party is a cretins party but get active, keep active – that is good therapy. Good luck and cuddle someone you love.
Salome – 22nd October 2016
Nice article from the man to whom I wrote in disappointment about the about-face on 18C, only to get the Attorney-General to reply.
How glad we were that at last Conservatives had their knight in shining armour to carry their colours into parliamentary battle. We would only have this one chance in decades. Unfortunately like a 'wet' moralistic Premier of tunnel vision, blind and deaf to supporter input, our one chance was lost. Now a growing number of conservatives turn to to the anti-intellectual but common sense One Nation for leadership.
One Nation is holding no grudge for its 20 years of mistreatment and should certainly be given a preference deal with the failing party whose Don Quixote was most instrumental in having her incarcerated.
Warty – 22nd October 2016
Well put, Bran Dee.
Danger! Don't put your faith in one flawed man/women.The Supreme Leader will ALWAYS betray.
Warty – 24th October 2016
Now run along there, Don.
Don A. Veitch – 24th October 2016
That's what my grandmother used to say to me.
Jody – 23rd October 2016
Peter van Onselon wrote well in yesterday's "Weekend Australian" that the rump of the Liberal Party is now controlled by reactionary conservatives and that the 'conservative middle' is where most Australians reside. He said that once upon a time the people trusted the Coalition with the finances but that they are now no better than the ALP. I agree with that, and it's a shocking indictment – but writ large is PVO's view that the Liberals and 'liberalism' is the natural home for Australia; that if it doesn't work that's because there is something wrong with the party. I just couldn't disagree.
PVO's article was little more than an anti conservative rant. The emotive use of language made it a rant. The name calling turned it into a rant and the mainstay of his argument was that a small 'l' Liberal Party should introduce SSM. Anyone who speaks glowingly of Malcolm Fraser and talks of 'fringe-dwelling' reactionaries (instead of 'level-headed conservatives') needs to be consigned to the waste paper basket of looney ideas. The following is part of a response to the wet:
Now, 'reactionary' (don't you love all the name calling)? What is it to be a reactionary? What is in a name that we call a rose? Perchance it is a chance to slander? Whatever it is, the reactionary knows to call a spade a spade, and knows that all things Safe Schools will rot you to the core. And that 'identity politics will send your blood pressure up to no avail. That 'entitlement' will make the budget skip a heart beat and blow out of all proportion. That the Aboriginal industry, as Pauline knows, will do the same. That when Cultural Marxism drips from your eyes, your nose, your ears that you are eligible to become a paid up member of the 'progressive' movement, and enjoy the sort of 'feel good' boost to enable you to give yourself the sort of self-congratulatory pat on the back, commonly witnessed amongst the Green contingents.
[email protected] – 23rd October 2016
Yes Jody, for once in a long time I have found something in that article by P Van O with which I agree. However PVO mostly speaks from a university mindset with a Labor/Green sympathetic line. For instance: 'The same sex marriage debate sees religious conservatives joining forces with reactionary politicians to oppose a change that is essentially harmless'. 'Essentially harmless'? Yes, like Mohammedanism!
The ABC and SBS would soon be legally displaying the intimate 'marriage activities' of 1% of the population more than the other 99%.
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