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Executive Compensation at the Alzheimer's Association (2021)
by Anne Paddock
The Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association is commonly referred to as the Alzheimer's Association. A tax-exempt, non-profit 501 (c) 3 whose goal is to eliminate Alzheimers Disease through research but also offer support, information/public awareness, and education on the disease, the Alzheimer's Association raised $405 million in 2021 (compared to $403 million in 2020 and $390 million in 2019), primarily from contributions, gifts, and grants ($377 million including $26 million from the government).
Expenses totaled $366 million (including $4 million in depreciation) representing 90% of revenue (the remaining 10% or $39 million was allocated to the general fund).
The largest expense for the Alzheimer's Association is compensation for the 2,405 employees who received $183 million, which equates to an average compensation of $76,000. 272 employees received more than $100,000 in compensation with the 10 most highly compensated employees reported to be:
$1,020,006: Harry Johns, President and CEO
$ 759,728: Donna McCullough, Chief Field and Development Officer
$ 715,169: Katherine "Joanne" Pike, Chief Strategy Officer
$ 693,396: Richard Hovland, COO and Assistant Treasurer
$ 638,275: Maria Carrillo, Chief Science Officer
$ 623,666: Robert Egge, Chief Public Policy Officer
$ 547,313: Glenda Berry, West Area Leader
$ 542,303: Kenann Cassidy, East Area Leader
$ 428,883: Michelle Helton, CFO
$ 311,610: Christine Foh, Assistant Secretary and VP Legal, and GC
As illustrated above, the 10 most highly compensated employees received $6 million in compensation. 7 of the 10 most highly compensated employees are female while 3 are male. It is also important to point out there are 29 independent directors on the Board of Directors although 35 are listed on the Form 990 (due to timing differences). 21 of the 35 (60%) are male while 14 of the 35 are female.
Harry Johns, the President and CEO was the most highly compensated employee in 2021. Over the past 5 years, Mr Johns received $6.5 million in compensation:
The Alzheimer's Association paid for companion travel. See the Form 990, Schedule J, Part III, Supplemental Information for more details and for information on retirement plan contributions.
Donna McCullough received a $100,000 retention payment in 2020.
107 independent contractors received more than $100,000 in compensation with the five most highly compensated reported to be:
$11.1 million: Navistar Direct Marketing, of Frederick, MD for direct marketing
$ 4.8 million: Haworth Marketing and Media, LLC, of Minneapolis, MN for advertising
$ 4.3 million: Never Without, LLC of Atlanta, GA for advertising
$ 3.5 million: World-Wide Printing and Distribution, of Tulsa OK for direct marketing
$ 2.5 million: Blackbaud, of Atlanta, GA for CRM/Technology
As illustrated above, the largest independent contractors were used for direct marketing and advertising.
To read the IRS Form 990 (2020), click here.
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Applebee's Kicks Off National ESPN Fan Zone Game-Watching Experience
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Football, as any coach knows, is all about timing. Just in time for football season, Applebee's® restaurants has debuted the ESPN Fan Zone at Applebee's, a new venture between the worldwide leader in sports and the world's largest casual dining restaurant chain.
The new environment gives fans across the country a unique destination, created by brands they love, to watch the game with friends.
"ESPN has become synonymous with gameday," said Mike Archer, Applebee's president. "Bringing that viewing experience to Applebee's gives our sports crazed Guests the electric atmosphere of watching the big game on TV with the neighborhood."
ESPN commentator Chris Berman and Archer ceremonially cut a five-foot "Boo Yah! Brew Pretzel" during an event at the new Fisherman's Wharf Applebee's in San Francisco, the world's second-largest Applebee's location, to signal the launch of ESPN Fan Zones at Applebee's restaurants across the country.
Video assets of ceremony available for download at http://www.repinteractive.com/draft/fanzone/ password: fanzone01.
Highlighting the experience is a special, Chris Berman-themed Applebee's Fan Scan smartphone game, accessible only at ESPN Fan Zones at Applebee's, which gives fans the opportunity to win weekly instant prizes and three grand prizes throughout the season, including:
An Ultimate Fan Cave from Anheuser-Busch
An Ultimate Tailgate Vehicle from Miller-Coors, and
A trip to one Guest's favorite team's game outfitted with all the gear they need from Pepsi
"No matter what team's territory you're in, the odds are good an Applebee's restaurant is nearby," said Ed Erhardt, president, ESPN global customer marketing and sales. "At ESPN our mission is to serve fans and The ESPN Fan Zone extends that mission directly into fans' favorite neighborhood bar and grill."
As part of the experience, Guests will also be able to choose from a new Game Time Menu with selections ranging from Boo Yah! Brew Pretzels, to Team Wonton Tacos, and Boom Boom Boneless Buffalo Wings.
About Applebee's International, Inc.
Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar® (www.applebees.com) is the world's largest casual dining chain, with approximately 2,000 locations in 49 states, 15 countries and one U.S. territory. Based in Kansas City, Mo., Applebee's takes pride in providing a welcoming, neighborhood environment where everyone can enjoy the dining experience. Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar® is a DineEquity, Inc. (NYSE: DIN) brand, and is franchised and operated by Applebee's International, Inc. and its affiliates.
About ESPN
ESPN, the world's leading sports entertainment company, features more than 50 assets – seven U.S. television networks, ESPN International, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, and more. ESPN is 80 percent owned by ABC, Inc. (an indirect subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company) and 20 percent by The Hearst Corporation.
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Fold Housing Association is hosting a recruitment day for care setting roles at Spelga Mews Housing with Care Scheme, 6 Old Hospital Road, Banbridge, BT32 at 11am - 3pm, Wednesday 23 March 2016.
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The back to school season can be an intimidating and stressful time for both kids and their parents. Typically children are both out of a "normal" schedule and daily routine as well as out of "learning mode".
On top of that, parents now have the stress and worry of getting them back into that school year routine in addition to managing all of the extra-curricular activities that start back up when school does: sports, music, drama club etc.
We know that kids can thrive with a busy schedule, but they also need something consistent to keep them grounded, steady and confident in their abilities to succeed.
Personally, I think a year round martial arts program is the ideal solution (but I maybe I'm biased 😊).
Such a program would keep them physically active, socially active with both peers and adults, on a regular schedule and in learning mode all summer.
Set your kids' sleep schedules back to "School Time" two weeks before the first day.
Create a family calendar that tracks everyone's travel, activities and commitments.
Refresh your rules about screen (all screens, not just TVs) time for the school year. What's allowed and when?
Arrange playdates with two or three of your kids' friends to rebuild existing social ties.
Model good behavior by doing your own work/projects while your kids do homework and demonstrating your own commitment to a regular routine: wake up, bed time and health.
Prepare for the morning before your go to bed: breakfast table, school bags and gym bags, packed lunches and set out the next day's clothes.


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Parag Khanna
Author and global strategy adviser
Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy adviser, world traveler and bestselling author. He is founder and managing partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario-based strategic advisory firm. Parag has written eight books and co-authored an additional two; his latest, Move: The Forces Uprooting Us (2021), sets forth bold and practical ideas on how to build a sustainable future and survive climate change. He has also advised the U.S. National Intelligence Global Trends program and has been a fellow at two think tanks, Brookings Institution and New America. His honors include being named one of Esquire's "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century" and being featured in WIRED magazine's "Smart List." Parag holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to nearly 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
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Local Artist Prepares For Final Year Running Tulsa Art Hunt
Thursday, December 2nd 2021, 7:46 pm
By: Jordan Tidwell
A local artist says he's getting ready for his annual scavenger hunt throughout Tulsa.
Artist Daniel Gulick says this is something he started just for fun 11 years ago, and now it's become a Christmas tradition for him and so many others in Tulsa.
"So many people, thousands of people have played and every year these families will set up around Tulsa and just wait for me," he said.
Daniel says this year he's created 12 pieces of art, wrapped them all up, and then will hide them all throughout Tulsa, waiting for people to go and find them.
"I post clues on our Facebook page and our Instagram page and it's crazy within a few minutes they're found with the most obscure clues," he said.
But, this year is the last year the Art Hunt will include Daniel's art.
He says he's ready to give the responsibility to other artists and to help shine the spotlight on their art.
"It's hard for me to knock out paintings at the end of the year when so much else is due, and it's time, eleven years is a long run, and I feel like it's good to pass the torch on," he said.
He says one of his favorite things about the Art Hunt is giving back. Every year he picks an organization and asks for donations. He said it can be monetary donations, or coats and jackets, or even gift cards.
This year he's chosen Matriarch, a non-profit that supports Indigenous women.
"I'm proud of the fact we raise money for these organizations and charities especially during the holidays because some of these families have nothing, and a little boost of happiness goes a long way," he said.
The Tulsa Art Hunt will start on December 23rd at 7 pm. Daniel will post clues on The Art Hunt Facebook and Instagram pages. You can drop off donations at Colour Studios at 2016 E. 11th St. Wednesday through Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m. until December 18th.
Jordan Tidwell A local artist says he's getting ready for the annual art scavenger hunt throughout Tulsa. He hides pieces of his art and then will post clues to social media for people to go and find them.


A little kid who was just trying to rehabilitate himself in the next lifetime, you see, and you give him an alarm clock. And he might have been a watchmaker at some time, but that doesn't prevent him from wrecking the alarm flock. His ability to reach the alarm clock is so unaccompanied with any ability to understand the alarm clock, because he can't communicate with it, that it winds up with the destruction of the alarm clock. You got the idea?
Well, below destruction of the alarm clock is no influence of any kind on the alarm clock. He cannot do anything to the alarm clock, not even destroy it and you've got a total withhold from the alarm clock.
All right. Add up all these withholds and all these "can't-reaches," "can't-haves" actually, on the . . all dynamics and you eventually get a person who's totally withdrawn. He's individuated. And he individuates further and further and less and less effectiveness and of course, eventually he can't affect his own mind. Now that's the exact mechanic of it. I don't care how complicated anybody makes it. That is what it is.
Now of course, when he runs "can't-have" on people, he is running the . . a tendency toward unfamiliarity. He's making people less familiar with something, so people are more withdrawn from it and then, because of the overt-motivator effect, naturally this reacts on him and that explains the exact mechanism of how it comes about that he stops reaching and starts withholding.
A "can't-have" results in a "stop reach" and then this results in a further withdraw. And when you get this withdraw up there to a total a hundred percent . . crash, bang, exclamation point . . of course he can't influence anything and you say, "All right. Now, get the idea of disliking cats." He does.
You notice that every time a cat walks in the room he gets a black eye. I mean he sees a cat and his eye goes black, you know and you say, "Well, I'm going to fix this up for this man." And you say, "All right, get the idea of not liking cats. Thank you." And, "Get the idea of not liking cats. Thank you," and so forth and you do this for three hours and nothing happens. Cat walks in the room: he gets a black eye in the other eye.
Well, what exactly has happened? His ability to influence his own mind is so low that no matter how many auditing commands you run on the guy, of course it doesn't wind up with any result. It's his ineffectiveness is what you're Sealing with and when you're going in straight on a games condition, you'll get this ineffectiveness considerably magnified. And of course, it must be a games condition with cats, if all a cat has to do is walk in the room and he gets a black eye, man, you're way down the scale. I knew such a fellow once. His name was L Sprague de Camp, one of the great science-fiction writers.
Anyway, this person, when he registers on the E-Meter needle, when the E-Meter needle registers and when you can get tone arm reaction, your command is affecting his mind and then therefore changing his electrical potential, so this tells you if you're in a zone or area where he is being effective. That's what it tells you most intimately and directly.
Hubbard, L. R. (1961, 20 July). Games Conditions. Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, (6107C20). Lecture conducted from East Grinstead, Sussex.


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Seminar Sessions at RSA 2020 Philadelphia
Seminar paper submissions open: July–August 2019
(concurrent with standard submissions period)
The RSA Program Committee invites proposals for topics for seminar sessions to be held at the RSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on 2–4 April 2020.
Each seminar session will be moderated by one or two conveners and will feature discussion of a set of papers circulated in advance of the conference. Seminar topics may address any theme of relevance to Renaissance studies (1300–1700). Seminars that encourage dialogue across disciplines and/or open up new fields are especially welcome. Seminars should not be proposed with the sole purpose of furthering the research undertaken by existing working groups.
Seminars will be scheduled as stand-alone, regular 90-minute conference sessions. Three to six pre-circulated papers will be discussed in each seminar session. The authors of the papers will be listed as presenters in the conference program, but instead of reading their papers aloud, they will provide five-minute synopses, followed by discussion. Seminars will be open to all registered attendees at the Annual Meeting.
Seminar organizers must be established scholars who hold an advanced degree in their disciplines. The authors of the papers may be established scholars or advanced graduate students, following the same eligibility requirements that pertain to other RSA conference sessions.
Seminars at RSA 2020 Philadelphia
The Affordances of Medieval Culture in Renaissance England
Organizers: Christine Hutchins, Danila Sokolov
"Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquarians, historians, players, poets, and religious and government officials were acutely aware of the affordances of medieval texts and artifacts. They strategically collected, curated, and deployed fragments of medieval culture in hopes of defining a continuous, uniquely English identity in the wake of unsettling discontinuities in religious settlement and monarchic succession. Beginning with the first quarter of the sixteenth century, England witnessed a sustained and vested interest in discovering, at times forging, publicizing, and using the Medieval past, evident in such diverse undertakings as William Thynne's 1532 edition of Chaucer's Works; John Foxe's compilation of historical documents for the 1563 Book of Martyrs; Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury's collection and printing of Old English texts; and Edmund Spenser's persistent adaptation of Medieval literature in poetic works beginning with the 1579 Shepheardes Calender. That the Renaissance was equally aware of the political affordances of the Middle Ages is seen in the vigilant inspection of stage and print versions of Medieval histories; the ongoing suspicion of historian John Stow's work in the Medieval archives; and the disbandment of the unofficial Society of Antiquaries in 1614 when, as Sir Henry Spelman records, "we had notice that his Majesty took a little Mislike of our Society."
This proposed Seminar Session for RSA 2020 in Philadelphia welcomes proposals for papers on any aspect of the use-value of Medieval culture for those hoping to shape present and future England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. All disciplines and areas of inquiry are welcome."
Cross-Dressing and Gender Fluidity in Early-Modern Literature and Culture of Western Europe
Organizer: Sophie Raynard-Leroy
The now-familiar concepts of non-binary, gender fluid, polygender, transgender, etc., in today's conversations on sexual politics seem to be understood as new concepts by the young generation of students as though the realities behind these neologisms were also new or unique to our period. However we, scholars in Renaissance Studies, have always come across these representations of non-traditional gender expressions in early-modern fictions of Western Europe as well as in historical accounts. Cross-dressing in particular is pervasive in the literature we study, and we know that cross-dressed characters abounded on the early-modern stage and were objects of fascination for their contemporary viewers. Today's critics, especially feminists, have been capitalizing on the current interest in gender and sexuality studies and have successfully applied these new definitions to early-modern representations, thus putting these old texts forth onto the trendy scene (just at a time when they were losing ground). With such provoking titles as "Gender Trouble," "The Theatricality of Transformation," "Erotic and Alien," "New Bodies, Old Sins", those studies have encouraged to perceive and receive early-modern cross-dressing representations no longer as individual aberrations or expressions of deviancy, but rather as part of a long cultural tradition of gender non-conformity and political transgression. In this seminar, we invite such scholars to present their current studies on the topics of cross-dressing or gender fluidity in a cultural perspective (showing in what ways and to what extent gender identity can be viewed as a socio-historical construct), thus to add their perspective to the ongoing discussions on sexual politics.
The Fall from Grace: Original Sin, Sexuality, and Toleration
Organizers: Umberto Grassi, Eric Dursteler
Original sin is a core tenet of Christian dogma. The official teachings of the Church have never equated the first fault with sexual misconduct but, from Augustinian writings onward, the urge of sexual drive has been deemed the symbol itself of the frailty of postlapsarian humanity. Moreover, the belief that the consequences of original sin, inherited by each and every single human being, could only be washed away by sacramental baptism led to the conclusion that there was no salvation outside the Church. However, since early Christianity, a plurality of interpretations concerning the nature and consequences of original sin were worked out by individuals and sects that have been deemed heretical. This seminar aims to reflect on these themes, exploring both the formation of orthodoxy and the multiplicity of critical discourses that have pointed out the conundrums of the official teachings of the church, anticipating themes that matter to contemporary discourses like sexual freedom, gender equality, religious toleration and secularism. We welcome papers dealing in particular with: the construction of orthodoxy; orginal sin in the doctrinal controversies of the Reformation era; sexual heresies based on heretical reinterpretations of the original sin; reflections on original sin and natural law; Adamites and Pre-Adamites; past unorthodox reflections on the gendered nature of the first couple (the role of women, women as imago dei, intersexuality); the use of sexual tropes to question the authority of the Church, and institutionalized religions in general, in past heretical re-reading of original sin.
Indigenous Responses to Jesuit Ministries in Overseas Missions
Organizer: Robert A. Maryks
In recent decades, high-level scholarship on Jesuit global missions, especially those in early modern period, has been undoubtedly very prolific. This is due in part to a uniquely large collections of archival material the Jesuits left behind, for the Roman Curia of the Society of Jesus had established a system of regular letter-writing. Parts of their reports were copied, translated, and disseminated around the world. Moreover, the Jesuit missionaries, characterized by high level of mobility, were often avid writers about indigenous cultures and history they explored while living among them and speaking their languages.
In contrast, we do know relatively little about how the indigenous people perceived the encounters with European Jesuit missionaries. The goal of this seminar is to encourage dialogue across disciplines, such as visual arts, architecture, music, linguistics, philosophy, and theology, among others, and open up new fields of scholarly investigation, so that we begin to gain a fuller picture of the encounters between indigenous peoples and Jesuit missionaries and fill the current historiographical lacunae.
Mapping the Page in Early Modern Print
Organizers: Taylor Clement, Deborah Solomon
The purpose of this session is to investigate the topographies, geographies, and spaces of the early modern page. Early modern printers were mapmakers of sorts; from books to broadsides, their design choices influence ways that readers travel across the page. The topography of the page appears on a micro-level: grooves of type bite into soft fibers of the paper, creating indentations and leaving ink marks. Impressed lines of woodcuts create micro-hills and valleys on the page. On a macro level, the verbal text, images, printer's flowers, lines, white space, varying typography, and lines of type to guide the reader through the text.
Readers are mapmakers as well, making turns and leaving traces as they traverse lines of type and printed material. Readers make marks on their journeys through the text, leaving traces of physical presence and ideas on the pages.
We invite papers on the subject of mise-en-page, graphic design, reader interaction, and failed or flourishing layouts on the page. We welcome papers on early modern diagrams, illustrations, decorative printing, moving parts of the page (volvelles, flaps, etc), marginalia and marks of use that predict or mark the reader's journey as a reader and user of the page. Submissions from all disciplines are welcome.
Multilingual Renaissance Studies: New Perspectives from Research and Teaching
Organizers: Sara Miglietti, David A. Lines
"'Multilingual Renaissance Studies' (to borrow Tom Deneire's felicitous phrase) is one of the most exciting and fast-developing areas in our field. A number of recent monographs, collaborative studies, and research projects on language dynamics in the Renaissance have broken new ground, challenging long-standing opinions and building bridges for increased collaboration between Renaissance scholars and contemporary translation theorists (see, e.g., Jan Hokenson and Murcella Munson's 'The Bilingual Text', 2007). Studies such as Philip Ford's 'Judgment of Palaemon' (2013), Tom Deneire's edited collection Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular (2014), and the numerous research outputs of the 'Vernacular Aristotelianism' projects based at the University of Warwick (2010-2014) and the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice (2014-2019) have shed new light on the relationship between Latin and vernacular languages, in literature as well as in philosophy. Similarly, our knowledge of phenomena such as collaborative translation, self-translation, and the production of multilingual printed books has grown exponentially over the last few years, and we can now count on a number of digital tools (such as Warwick's 'Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue' and KCL's 'Early Modern Spanish-English Translations Database 1500–1640') that allow us to navigate the world of Renaissance translation and multilingualism in new ways.
This seminar session will investigate 'multilingual Renaissance Studies' from various perspectives – historical, theoretical, methodological. Topics for discussion include (but are not limited to):
1. recent examples of fruitful interaction between Renaissance Studies and Translation Studies;
2. the multilingual Renaissance in the classroom: perspectives on teaching and training;
3. mapping desiderata in the field: avenues for future research and DH projects.
We welcome proposals from advanced graduate students as well as from established scholars focusing on any language area (also outside Europe).
Renaissance Futures/Renaissance Pasts
Organizers: John Garrison, Marissa Nicosia
Papers in this seminar will explore how Renaissance writers and visual artists imagined the future. In doing so, the essays will explore a range of questions. What can visions of the future tell us about the values of the present? How are early modern visions of the future informed by what has come before? How might we interpret scenes in history plays or chronicles that depict past figures imagining their futures – periods which would be the early modern present or even the recent early modern past? Which models of time - diurnal, cyclical, eschatological - structure Renaissance understandings of the future? How do writers and artists from different cultures, religions, and intellectual traditions imagine possible futures? In taking past visions of the future as our focus, we take inspiration from Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History. He describes the angel of history this way: "His face its turned toward the past. Where we perceive a change of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet." That is, Benjamin's angel of history watches the past unfold, not the future. But we, as scholars of early modernity, can swivel our heads. We can see the future – both the one envisioned by early moderns and the one that came to pass. In doing so, we can decode these visions in order to draw insight into the anxieties, desires, values, and investments of those producing the visions. This seminar thus brings together recent work in literary studies and historical studies that theorize early modern ideas about history and temporality. It draws upon studies of group or cultural memory, and it invites work from across fields and cultures.
Revisiting Milton's Spenser
Organizers: Joshua Reid, Jonathan Sircy
The question of Milton's relationship to Spenser remains a central concern for not only English literary history but also the thorny theoretical concept of intertextuality. When critics have engaged with this intriguing question, they have offered compelling answers that concern Paradise Lost and The Faerie Queene: Maureen Quilligan, Gordon Teskey, John King, and others have powerfully articulated the similarities and differences between Milton and his "original" regarding these authors' two best known works. There are still productive areas to explore with "Milton's Spenser," however, particularly concerning Milton's and Spenser's other works: lyric poetry, prose, translations, minor epics, and drama.
This proposed seminar seeks to explore the relationship between these two totemic poets of the English Renaissance by inviting papers that will address a variety of intersections between Milton and Spenser concerning religion, politics, race, gender, language, environment, and the literary enterprise.
Those intersections could include, but are not limited to, the following:
the material practices and hermeneutic protocols of post-Reformation Christianity
the poetics of empire and political resistance
slavery, colonialism, and race
the materiality of the body
poetics of cognition
historical development of genre and form
translation and interlinguistic composition
disability and disabled authorship
strategies for representing the environment and the nonhuman
canonicity, pedagogy, and curriculum
re-readings of Paradise Lost and/or The Faerie Queene that result from exploring Milton's engagement with Spenser in some other work the triangulated relationship between Spenser, Milton, and shared precursors or other writers of the English Renaissance.


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My experience is that anything other than a real device does not support proper touch gestures, read-all gesture (I have my android set to tap once since the gesture just does not work correctly or reliably) and does not support Android dev tools displaying what Talkback says or does not support VoiceOver or Talkback period anyway. Finally, emulation methods do not support Bluetooth keyboards either.
You can always rent devices, or find testers with their own devices, at least one Android recent OS on phone and tablet and the same for iOS phone and tablet.
Yes, agreed! Thank you for all your valuable feedback.
Right now, with the lack of real devices available for testing, am exploring other options as we have 'browser stack' accounts in our team. Latest, I got response from their support team that they do not support testing with screen readers at this point.
@ Alan, we are testing with JAWS, NVDA on desktops. This is mainly for testing on mobile devices. Your response is great in terms of understanding various perspectives on testing with real devices.
@ Tobias, yes if the browser stack can make the screen reader testing a reality, it is absolutely worth at least for some high level testing.
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Steve's still where we usually live and has been really enjoying the time. He's hosted a couple of great teams as well. The current one from one of our supporting fellowships in the US sent skilled tradesmen who have been giving large portions of FS a face lift with a coat of paint. Because they can work extra quickly they're painting walls in high traffic areas that have never been painted before.
Five new women have recently started training as well!
Change!!! And now she can hold her head up high.
On the flip side Steve says there are more women 'standing in line' on the main road nearby than he's ever seen before.
I've been thinking lately about how in ways life at FS has 'ruined' us----because now there's a lot that we know. I worked before Hannah was born at a jewelry store for a number of years and to this day still notice jewelry without meaning to. After time at FS I notice women that I wouldn't have before. I know who is looking for a 'customer' on the streets even though she's not scantily dressed and there's not a brothel nearby.
That translates to the streets of New Zealand where I am at the moment. I find myself googling the awareness of trafficking here and asking questions about the welfare of women.
Now I know. And with that comes responsibility.
I don't like seeing more darkness than I used to be aware of. There's a lot of shadow in this world. And I don't like wrestling with those 'why' questions that arise.
We all sing things like, "Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for your Kingdom's cause." And we mean it. But that doesn't mean that it's easy to always walk it out.
I love being part of FS because while there's darkness all around it's a place of hope as well!


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The neighborhood is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated on the ship Mary and John, among others and is today sometimes nicknamed "Dot" by its residents.
Dorchester, now covering a geographic area approximately equivalent to nearby Cambridge, was founded in 1630 just a few months before the founding of the city of Boston. It was still a primarily rural town and had a population of 12,000 when it was annexed to Boston in 1870. Railroad and streetcar lines brought rapid growth, increasing the population to 150,000 by 1920. In the 2010 United States Census, the population was 92,115. Dorchester as a separate municipality would rank among the top five Massachusetts cities.
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Alberta's oil sands are the 3rd largest proven oil reserves in the world next to Venezuela (1st) and Saudi Arabia (2nd), with approximately 164 billion barrels (bbl) of the 170 billion total found in Canada
Of the total amount of barrels, about 20 percent is extractable via mining while 80 percent is extractable through in-situ methods
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Approximately 63 percent of Canada's total crude oil production in 2017 was from the oil sands
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About 140,300 people were employed in Alberta's upstream energy sector in 2017
Alberta's oil sands are good for business in other parts of Canada! In 2014 and 2015, over 3,400 companies across the nation in all provinces and territories supplied the oil sands with goods and services.
CERI estimates that over the next two decades, the oil sands industry will contribute about $170 billion to the Canadian economy per year for a total of $1.7 trillion over two decades
CERI also estimates that between 2017 and 2027, the oil sands industry will pay about $25 billion into government coffers every year for a total of $256 billion
CERI found that for every job created in the oil sands industry, 2.5 indirect jobs were created in the rest of Canada as a result
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Prism Economics found that in 2017, the oil sands supported and created about 223,000 direct and indirect jobs across the nation
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A consecutive report from CERI projects that conventional oil and gas in Canada (not including the oil sands) will create approximately $853 billion in economic benefit for Canada between 2019 and 2029
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The Government of Alberta requires that disturbed land used to extract oil sands by energy companies is 100 percent remediated
Canada produces less than 2 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The oil sands accounts for just 0.15 percent of the world's total GHG emissions.
Projects in the oil sands recycle a large amount of the water they use – about 78 to 97 percent of the total amount – according to the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER)
Transport Canada reported in 2016 that oil tankers moving oil off the coast of British Columbia have been operating safely and regularly for about 80 years
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The oil sands industry used about 8 percent of the province's total water allocation in 2016 – only a quarter of which was actually used
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Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) is an alliance comprised of producers in the oil sands who have invested over $1.4 billion collectively to date in order to improve environmental performance through new technologies and innovation.
Only 19 percent of the world's total oil reserves are accessible for investment to the private sector, 52 percent of which is located in Canada's oil sands
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The following is the detailed result of the 2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election.

Detailed result

Result by pre-poll alliance

|-
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Alliance/Party
!style="width:4px" |
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats won
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Change
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Popular vote
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Vote %
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Adj. %‡
|-
! style="background-color:#009900; color:white"|AIADMK+ alliance
! style="background-color: " |
| 203
| +130
| 19,085,762
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 51.9%
|-
|AIADMK
! style="background-color: " |
| 150
| +93
| 14,150,289
| 38.4%
| 53.9%
|-
|DMDK
! style="background-color: #008080" |
| 29
| +28
| 2,903,828
| 7.9%
| 44.8%
|-
|CPI(M)
! style="background-color: #000080" |
| 10
| +1
| 888,364
| 2.4%
| 50.3%
|-
|CPI
! style="background-color: #0000FF" |
| 9
| +3
| 727,394
| 2.0%
| 48.6%
|-
|MNMK
! style="background-color: #FF00FF" |
| 2
| +2
| 181,180
| 0.5%
| 42.4%
|-
|PT
! style="background-color: Black" |
| 2
| +2
| 146,454
| 0.4%
| 54.3%
|-
|AIFB
! style="background-color: #800000" |
| 1
| +1
| 88,253
| 0.2%
| 51.2%
|-
! style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|DMK+ alliance
! style="background-color: Red" |
| 31
| -126
| 14,530,215
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 39.5%
|-
|DMK
! style="background-color: Red" |
| 23
| -77
| 8,249,991
| 22.4%
| 42.1%
|-
|INC
! style="background-color: #00FFFF" |
| 5
| -32
| 3,426,432
| 9.3%
| 35.6%
|-
|PMK
! style="background-color: #800080" |
| 3
| -15
| 1,927,783
| 5.2%
| 39.6%
|-
|VCK
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| -2
| 555,965
| 1.5%
| 34.0%
|-
|KMK
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 370,044
| 1.0%
| 32.5%
|-
! style="background-color:Gray; color:white"|Others
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| -4
| 3,137,137
| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"|8.5%
|-
|BJP
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 819,577
| 2.2%
| 2.6%
|-
|MDMK†
! style="background-color: " |
| –
| -3
| –
| –
| –
|-
|IND and others
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| -1
| 2,120,476
| 5.8%
| N/A
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Total
! style="background-color: " |
| 234
| –
| 36,845,373
| 100%
| –
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" |Valid votes
| align="right" | 36,845,373
| align="right" |99.89
| colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"  |
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" |Invalid votes
| align="right" |40,853
| align="right" |0.11
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" |Votes cast / turnout
| align="right" | 36,886,226
| align="right" | 78.29
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" |Abstentions
| align="right" | 10,229,620
| align="right" |21.71
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" |Registered voters
| align="right" |47,115,846
|colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|}
†: MDMK left the AIADMK alliance due to failed seat sharing talks and boycotted this election.
‡: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the average % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India and Hindu Newspaper

District wise result

Results by constituency

P. Vetrivel resigned on 17 May 2015.

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Orlando City Commissioners adopted an updated version of the picket ordinance Monday afternoon that still has some residents and activists concerned.
If for example, a notorious public figure (think Casey Anthony or George Zimmerman) were staying in his or her private home, and a group of people decided to station themselves outside that residence and protest that figure, it would be illegal according to the ordinance.
The ordinance is one of several older ordinances that Mayor Buddy Dyer asked city staff to update and make sure they were constitutional, Dyer says. However, Commissioner Regina Hill and some commenters had reservations about the ordinance because it did not address "mixed-use" areas of the city, such as businesses that have condos on top.
City Attorney Mayanne Downs said the city is following the language of the U.S. Supreme Court and trying to get the ordinance up to par with the court's rulings.
Although she was against the ordinance at the beginning of the meeting, Hill finally agreed with the majority and voted to adopt the ordinance, but said the council should take another look at parts of the ordinance some residents disagree with.


Some of the handsomest biplanes ever built were British and U.S. end-of-an-era fighters of the 1930s. Gloster Gladiators, Curtiss P-6E Hawks, Bristol Bulldogs, Boeing P-12/F4Bs, the fat-bellied Grumman F3F…but the handsomest of all was the shiny, sharp-nosed Hawker Fury, an open-cockpit biplane that pushed the struts-and-fabric limits hard enough to become the RAF's first airplane able to exceed 200 mph (207 was its top speed) in level flight. Not many were made—a total of 263 Mk. Is and IIs—and only one has survived. Gerald Yagen's Military Aviation Museum, in Virginia Beach, Va., has a Fury replica that last flew in 2003, but the world's only real Fury biplane proudly took to the air in Britain last July after a painstaking restoration that probably should be called a reconstruction.
The Fury is owned by the Historic Aircraft Collection, which displays most of its airplanes, including the Fury, at the Imperial War Museum in Cambridgeshire. HAC's sister company, Retrotec, did the rebuild. Much of the manufacturing of the Furies (and other interwar Hawker biplanes such as the Demon and Hind) was accomplished with archaic devices that no longer exist, so Retrotec had to build not only a biplane but some of the machine tools that originally created it. Much of the metal in the donor Fury's fuselage, scrapped in South Africa in the early 1940s, had terminally corroded and needed to be remanufactured. Unlike typical steel-tube airplanes, the Fury's tubes were not welded but mechanically fastened through squared tubing ends and complex joining plates (facilitating maintenance and repair in remote corners of the British empire, where welding torches were rare).
Like the original Furies, Retrotec's restoration is powered by a rare 700-hp Rolls-Royce Kestrel V12, a progenitor of the Merlin. As a bomber interceptor, the Fury was light and efficient enough that its nearly 2,400-feet-per-minute climb could put it at 20,000 feet just 7½ miles from its takeoff point.
The Fury was truly a transitional airplane. Some of its construction derives from the Sopwith fighters of WWI, yet it was also the direct predecessor of the WWII Hawker Hurricane. The Hurricane had a fuselage that was essentially a Fury's with an enclosed cockpit, though its wing, retractable gear and Merlin engine were all new. While export Furies served with the Iranian air force until 1949, its last combat mission apparently occurred in April 1941, when a squadron of Yugoslav Furies intercepted incoming Messerschmitt Me-109s and -110s. Eleven Furies were quickly massacred; the only Fury victory was scored by a pilot who rammed an Me-110.
Looking back from here, it seems ridiculous that biplanes were still being produced in the 1930's.
You seem to have done a lot of progress 'in the shadow'.
Hello there The Fury moves on by doing a bit everyday and while the glues dries I print planes .
I like the sander. How do you attach the disks?
I used hot glue but you can cut disks out of the large self adhesive disks .


European regulators probing Amazon over antitrust concerns are reportedly asking smaller merchants whether the internet giant has been copying their products and selling them under its own brand.
Bloomberg reported Thursday that EU antitrust enforcers have sent questionnaires to vendors that sell on Amazon's platform asking if the company has been selling products "identical or very similar" to their own and whether they've been hurt by such practices.
Margrethe Vestager, Europe's competition commissioner, revealed last week that her office had opened a preliminary inquiry into Amazon's market dominance.
"We are gathering information on the issue and have sent quite a number of questionnaires to market participants in order to understand this issue in full," Vestager said during a press conference.
She said that her main concern was whether Amazon had an unfair advantage over competing vendors that sell on its platform, noting that the e-commerce giant's wealth of marketplace data could give it an upper hand.
According to Bloomberg, Vestager's office has been asking merchants about their correspondence with Amazon and the exact date of when the company may have started selling rival products.


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, known before as Miki Kawashima, is a Japanese musical composer, singer-songwriter, lyricist under Being Inc. records.

Biography
In 1986, she debuted as Miki Kawashima with the single Silk no Kuchibiru under CBS Sony label. Three years, she debuted as Daria Kawashima with the single Shiny Day under the Zain Records label. Since joining the Being agency, Kawashima has composed and wrote several songs for artists like Zard and Deen. In 1992, she composed Moonlight Densetsu under the alias of Tetsuya Komuro, presumably inspired by the legendary songwriter of the same name. The song would later be used as an opening theme for the popular anime series Sailor Moon. Kawashima also became known as the vocalist and leader of the heavy metal band Feel So Bad. In 2003, she participated in the cover album The Hit Parade, covering Gedō's Hyun Hyun. It was produced by Tak Matsumoto from B'z. In 2016, she made her return as a solo artist with the digital release of her album Life Now.

Some of her music video clips are included in musicvideo DVD series 90s Being Rock Hits.

Discography
During her solo career as Daria Kawashima she released four singles, 2 studio, 1 digital and 1 compilation album.

Singles
Shiny Day (1991)
Don't Look Back (1991)
Get it On (1992)
Kanashiki Jiyuu no Hate ni (悲しき自由の果てに) (1992)

Studio albums
Believin' myself (1991)
Don't Look Back (1992)

Compilation album
complete of Kawashima Daria & FEEL SO BAD at the BEING studio (2003)

Digital album
LIFE=NOW (2016)

List of provided works as a lyricist

Sakurakko Club
Nani ga Nandemo

B.B.Queens
I remember you

Mi-ke
Moon na Kimochi wa Osenchi
Oh My Sweet Heart

Deen
Omoikiri Waratte
Eien wo Azuketekurete
Twelve
Mou Nakanaide

Band-Maid
Freezer
Don't Apply the Brake
Beauty and the Beast

List of provided works as a composer

Zard
Forever (Mou Sagasanai)
Ano Hohoemi wo Wasurenai de, Why Don't You Leave Me Alone, Ai wa Nemutteru, So Together (Hold Me)
Listen to Me (Yureru Omoi)
Stray Love
Take Me to Your Dream
Ready, Go!

Mi-ke
Ano Hi no I Love you

Yumiko Morishita
Tears
Somebody to Believe

Key West Club
Oaetsurae no Destiny
Silent Beach
Yume wa Majorika Senorita

Dali
Moonlight Densetsu

Wands
Kodoku he no Target (Toki no Tobira)
Don't Cry (Little Bit…)

T-Bolan
Heart of Gold

Baad
Dakishimetai Mou Ichido

Twinzer
DON'T FORGET YOU

Noriko Sakai
Here I am: Nakitai toki wa Nakeba ii

Azumi Uehara
Precious Days
Fly Away
Solitude
Mask
Endless World
One's Love, ask me, Deep Black, Clash! Clash! (Mushoku)
Never Free
Song for you
U&I (Ikitakuwanai Bokura)

Hayami Kishimoto
SAY GOOD BYE GLOOMY DAYS
Konya wa Kaeranai
Domino

Sparkling Point
South Point

The Tambourines
Star (My Back Pages)

Rina Aiuchi
Rainbow
NAVY BLUE
Rosemary
I can't stop my love for you♥
crystal pearl
Alright
Rock Steady
Playgirl
Neverending Winter
Thanx

Miki Matsuhashi
Itsumademo Ai wo Tsutumou

U-ka Saegusa in dB
It's for you
Hirari Yume Ichiya

Aiko Kitahara
Sayonara wo Ageta Hi ga Chikasugite (Piece of Love)
Love is blind?! (Message)
Sono Egao yo Eien ni

Aya Kamiki
ShooBidooBiBa, Because I close to you

NMB48
With my soul

List of provided works as both lyricist and composer

Zard
Koi Onna no Yūutsu, Onna de Itai (Good-bye My Loneliness)

Manish
Kirameku Toki ni Torawarete

Aiko Yanagihara
Don't let met down

Keiko Utoku
Kirei da to Ittekureta

T-Bolan
Kanashimi ga Itaiyo

Television appearances
Music Station:
Kanashiki Jiyuu no Hate ni
Baribari Saikyou No.1 (Feel so Bad)

External links
Official site (WebArchived)
BeingGiza profile
Daria Kawashima Twitter
Feel so Bad Official Website
Feel so Bad Official YouTube channel

References

1967 births
20th-century Japanese composers
20th-century Japanese women singers
20th-century Japanese singers
Being Inc. artists
Japanese women composers
Living people
20th-century women composers


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Maya Cohen, 24
Executive director , GlobeMed
Lisa Bertagnoli
THE PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPIST
GlobeMed
A do-gooder trip to Africa over spring break? Maybe for Maya Cohen's classmates at Barnard College, but not for her. "It seemed so cliched," says Ms. Cohen, whose doctor father and midwife mother worked with HIV patients, drug users and pregnant adolescents in the Bronx. In 2008, her sophomore year at Barnard, Ms. Cohen attended a human-rights conference at Northwestern University and discovered GlobeMed, a startup nonprofit that teams American universities with organizations in impoverished countries to help deal with poverty-related health issues.
The long-term partnership approach appealed to Ms. Cohen. The day after graduation, she flew to Uganda to spend three weeks working at GWED-G, one of GlobeMed's Ugandan partners. Upon returning, she became a GlobeMed program director and, in August 2011, its executive director. She has since doubled its operating budget, to $640,000, and aims for a $5 million budget within three to five years. She scored GlobeMed's largest grant, $315,000 from USAID's Global Health Program, which enables students from different socioeconomic backgrounds to participate in GlobeMed.
She helped recruit Henry Bienen, former Northwestern University president, and Reeta Roy, president and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation, to serve on GlobeMed's first advisory council. GlobeMed now has 2,000 students from American universities working in 19 countries; Ms. Cohen wants to expand the program to schools outside the United States, giving students in other countries a chance to help, too. Her life and career mantra: "Health is the foundation of all human rights."


The frontpage of the Music State theme contains a different structure than the rest of the theme, generally it's based on widgets. Widgets Display on Homepage option from Template Options -> Basic is enabled by default, if you want to use standard blog posts on the homepage instead of widget, you have to disable this option.
Widgets on the frontpage can use two width – normal width specified in the template settings as the template width or the 100% width. The 100% width is set by default. You can activate the normal width for the widget using the normal-width widget style.
You should also activate the additional element after the mainbody container on the frontpage – the dark block with image as background – it can be activated by the "Dark bottom on homepage" option from Template Options -> Basic tab.
Please remember that in this case it is important to use the white style in the widget displayed under the mainbody content.
You can enable/disable the navigation between sections of the frontpage – just use the "Navigation on homepage" option from Template Options – Basic tab. The script will create the navigation links automatically.


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Виталий Валерьевич Денисов (род. 27 февраля 1976, ) — российский лыжник.

Выпускник Барнаульского государственного педагогического университета, мастер спорта международного класса. Первые тренеры — А. Ракшин и Б. Глумов.

Бронзовый призёр чемпионата мира (2001) в гонке преследования, серебряный призёр этапа Кубка мира (2001), чемпион России (2001). На Олимпийских играх 2002 года в Солт-Лейк-Сити занял 5 место в комбинированной гонке преследования 10+10 км.

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�There is a gradual improvement. Feelings are sweet and tender.� While I am usually plagued by cryptic and irrelevant fortune-cookie messages, the prediction for the future hidden within my cookie at Tenka Asian Bistro was actually a surprisingly accurate review of my dining experience.
FOOD ??? AMBIENCE ??1/2 SERVICE ???1/2 VALUE???
"There is a gradual improvement.  Feelings are sweet and tender." While I am usually plagued by cryptic and irrelevant fortune-cookie messages, the prediction for the future hidden within my cookie at Tenka Asian Bistro was actually a surprisingly accurate review of my dining experience.  Tucked in next to a Bikram Hot Yoga studio and saddled behind the well-known dine-out joint Harry's Restaurant on Route 9 in Westboro, Tenka can be easy to miss. Nevertheless it is an Asian dining experience that shouldn't be missed – if not for the mostly average hibachi-style food, than for the rousing and entertaining staff.
Our meal started out rocky at Tenka. While our party of three was seated immediately at one of its six hibachi grill tables, it took more than 10 minutes for our server to greet us and take our drink orders.  From then, we waited longer for the drinks to arrive, but were pleased by the sizes and potency of our mostly standard fruity cocktails.  An ice cream-dish-sized bowl of fruity-tasting mixed booze called "The Tidal Wave" ran about $6, and it was more than enough to satiate any drinker's appetite (although I promised myself that I would not say that it swept me away). While the potent drinks were a distraction, we probably waited 30-minutes before our orders were in and our hibachi chef emerged to step behind our grill. Thankfully, once the food started to come out and our chef – who oddly only referred to himself as "Spiderman" – our experience quickly improved.
While the Worcester area has had several Hibachi-style restaurants for some time, for those unaware, diners sit around one or two large grills, orders are placed, and a chef prepares your meal in front of you – usually throwing a few tricks into the preparation and entertaining the crowd.  Spiderman was, without a doubt, the most entertaining server/chef that I have ever had in my entire life.  While he casually berated one of the members of our group (all in good jest), he came prepared with a handful of gags and practical jokes that had us on edge for the entire meal. While the entertainment was great, fortunately, Tenka also served up good Hibachi-style meals at a reasonable price.
Two of us ordered surf and turf, with six well-sized shrimp and perfectly prepared filet mignon, served over a tangy and delightfully eggy fried rice. While the mixed-greens salad was a rather disappointing start to the meal, the hot miso soup that accompanied it was a stark improvement over the bland and unfulfilling salt-water soup that is sometimes served at other hibachi restaurants. While the surf and turf went for about $25, this meal could really be enough for two people, as all of us had plenty of leftovers.  Our third diner ordered a sweet-potato sushi and reported that it was better than you would come to expect for $4 sushi.
While the food and drink at Tenka was good, it was not overly remarkable, but the entertainment provided by the Hibachi chef made the visit standout – we were eager to plan a return with more friends. Tenka is decorated well and also had a large, full menu for a traditional dine-in experience, but we were left asking ourselves, after having such a great time at our hibachi grill, why would you ever experience it any other way?


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Ole Miss, Temple look for a warming trend
Ole Miss couldn't overcome an ice-cold offensive start in its last game.
Temple couldn't overcome an ice-cold cold finish in its last game.
Both teams will try to warm up their shooting and get back on a winning track Saturday when they meet in Oxford, Miss.
The Rebels (7-3) watched UCF score the first 21 points Wednesday night and could never catch up in a 72-61 loss.
Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis blamed the poor start on "an inability to play downhill offensively."
The Rebels climbed within 10 points at halftime and twice got within four in the second half but could get no closer.
"It was too big of a hole," Davis said.
Ole Miss' three losses have come in the past four games and the one against UCF was the second to feature a cold-shooting start.
Two games earlier the Rebels made just two of their first 18 shots, digging a 22-point hole that it couldn't erase at Memphis.
In Temple's most recent game last Saturday, the Owls (6-5) were locked in a tight Big 5 game with Penn when they suddenly went cold. They scored just four points in the final 8:48 and were dismissed 77-57. That ended a four-game Temple winning streak.
The score was tied at 53 before the Quakers outscored Temple 24-4 as the Owls failed to make a field goal the rest of the way. The loss prevented Temple from clinching the Big 5 title of superiority in Philadelphia college hoops.
"I so desperately wanted to outright win (the Big 5) because it makes a statement," Owls head coach Aaron McKie said. "My biggest concern is how we played. Nothing worked."
The Owls (3-1 in Big 5) would still gain a the outright title if St. Joseph's defeats Villanova on Saturday.
Temple forward Jamille Reynolds, who is averaging 11.1 points and 6.3 rebounds, will miss six to eight weeks after undergoing thumb surgery.
Both teams have one more nonleague game (Ole Miss hosts North Alabama, Temple hosts Maryland-Eastern Shore) on Tuesday before taking a week off preceding their conference openers on Dec. 28.


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Q: jquery datepicker gets hidden inside footer I am using jquery datepicker. In a page I have a footer, when the datepicker pops up it gets hidden inside the footer. How can I fix this bug?
Here is my JSFiddle
Here I have tried with footer and datepicker. But the date is hidden.

A: This is happening because your footer's z-index is higher that the date popup
that is why footer is on top of your date popup.
Set your footer's z-index to 0 or less that the date popup and it will work.
Updated Fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/8devrvv8/8/

A: Try this :
Put footer's z-index:0 and background-color of tbody (calendar) to white.
HTML:

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Here is the Updated Fiddle

A: From the documentation (here): call .datepicker() on a div instead of an input to show by default.
Updated fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/8devrvv8/13/
I deleted the form and input, and replaced it with a div:

called .datepicker() on aforementioned div in Javascript:
$('#beautiful-calendar').datepicker()

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I Bought an Air-Quality Monitor and My Life Will Never Be the Same
It all started when my kitten got asthma.
by Cole Kazdin
Dec 13 2019, 3:11pm
Collage by Hunter French | Images via Shutterstock
It never occurred to me to buy a home air purifier until our veterinarian recommended it a little over a year ago. Our new kitten had just been diagnosed with asthma and prescribed an inhaler, which was curious to me because I'd just been prescribed one too for the first time in my life. I was getting over a lingering cold and my doctor recommended I carry one in my purse. She advised me to check the air quality online before I exercise outdoors and to stay inside if the air was bad. It's not just me: Friends who have never had respiratory issues before have been pulling out inhalers at lunch, mentioning periodic problems breathing.
I live in Los Angeles, a city that the American Lung Association has consistently rated for the last 19 years as having the worst ozone pollution in the country in its State of the Air report. But air quality is also worsening all over the U.S., according to the report, exacerbated by climate change leading to spikes in ozone pollution as well as particle pollution caused by the increasing number of wildfires. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University also noted an increase in consumption of natural gas and fuel with more cars on the road since 2016, and decreases in enforcement of the Clean Air Act, according to an October report. The subsequent increase in fine particulate matter, called PM2.5, between 2016 and 2018 has been associated with 9,700 premature deaths in the country in 2018.
The health consequences aren't just respiratory. Air pollution has been linked, over decades of research, to everything from diabetes and obesity to learning disabilities in children to dementia and even brain cancer.
"Once pollutants get into your body, cross the air-blood barrier in your lungs and get into your bloodstream, they potentially can go anywhere your blood goes," said Ed Avol, a University of Southern California professor of clinical preventive medicine and environmental health. The body has mechanisms to defend and detoxify contaminants—still, this defense system isn't perfect. "Some pollutants can mimic (natural) enzymes and trick the body into changing rates at which hormones and other chemicals are released, that interrupts normal body functions. We also see particles and gases getting into the body and doing damage," he said.
So how worried should we be? After the spate of fires across California last year and growing health concerns, my husband bought an in-home monitor that registers the air quality inside our apartment as well as outside. Using the same standard as the EPA app where users can plug in their ZIP code and check air quality, it employs a color-coded system using information gathered from sensors in the area measuring ozone and particulate matter. Green means the air is good, yellow is moderate, orange means unhealthy for sensitive groups and so on. A few weeks ago, the air inside our apartment was clean, due to our air purifier, but outside air was in the red zone, meaning pollution was at unhealthy levels and everyone may begin to experience health effects. There were no wildfires, no haze or murk, not even a bad smog smell. If I hadn't been in the habit of compulsively checking the monitor, I wouldn't have noticed. No one else did. Outdoor cafes were packed, runners were looping around the neighborhood.
While checking air quality to get an idea of what you're breathing on any given day is a good first step, many prominent researchers point out that the current science suggests the EPA standards are overdue for an update. "Particularly under the current administration, this has been a controversial issue," Avol told me. "The science that supports those colored systems is continually evolving and I would have to say the current standards are in fact too lenient." Avol, and many other researchers with whom I spoke, would not commit to a number or range in terms of what level of pollution could be deemed safe for the general public, only that "we know based on the best available science that there are measurable health effects at current levels of air quality which is to say, we are not protecting the public."
"Unfortunately, the current administration seem to have made the decision that they don't want to hear that much from scientists," Avol added. "They rather hear more from industry. So, I think you get a different picture, a different perspective."
But the evidence of pollution's consequences is clear, say researchers. "We look at immune cells and we can see changes very quickly," said Mary Prunicki, a physician and director of air pollution and health research at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford University. Even with seemingly small increases in particulate matter in the air, "you can see increases in hospitalizations and ER visits for cardiac disorders, like heart attacks and strokes," she added.
"These particles and gases aren't always visible to the naked eye," said Avol. And the spikes in pollution are independent of something like a wildfire. "It happens because of cars and trucks and planes and ships and bulldozers and all of the things that go on to make our lives more comfortable," he said. "What we burn, consume and produce, the chemicals and pesticides in our food, on our plants."
"We've got to stop burning stuff where people live," said environmental attorney Adriano Martinez, who goes by LA Smog Guy on Twitter. "In Los Angeles, we have this artificial standard of comparing ourselves to the 70s and 80s," when the smog was much worse, he said. "That's not the standard. The standard is if it's safe to breathe." Regulation is one of the most effective ways to reduce pollution, "and industry has spent decades making 'regulation' a toxic, four-letter word," he added. Rollbacks of EPA regulations under the Trump administration have made pollution worse, which can engender even more feelings of individual powerlessness. What are we supposed to do: not breathe?
So I asked Martinez, as an authority on how bad the air is, how does he go about his day to day life in LA? Does he live in a hermetically sealed apartment? Why doesn't he move to Casper, Wyoming, where the air is measurably cleaner?
"I check the air every morning when I wake up," he told me. "I have a four-year old daughter and my wife has exercise-induced asthma so I do have concerns for my family. If the air pollution is high, I don't have my daughter outside, I minimize exercise outside." He doesn't have an air purifier at home, but has an HVAC which improves indoor air quality, and lives in one of the less polluted parts of LA. "The biggest thing I've been trying to do, is build up the arsenal for fighting for clean air," he said.
In terms of protecting personal health, Prunicki recommends trying to make your home as air tight a home as possible, HEPA filters on air conditioning and heating units, and possibly invest in an air purifier or designate a "clean room" in the house.
Most ordinary people don't do these things, but during the worst of the wildfires last year, the bad air was impossible to ignore. In LA, smoke rolled in from Malibu and even miles away from any flames there was a thick smell of burning. Many people went out and bought the N95 mask, which is meant to be worn for short periods of time. There's also the trendy Vogmask, which come in a variety of colors and patterns, and is a popular Burning Man accessory. Vogmasks are designed to protect from PM2.5, dust, allergens, and mold spores. But masks have to be properly fitted so that no air seeps through gaps against the face. Men with beards, for example, aren't able to wear face masks effectively.
Vogmask co-founder Wendover Brown told me that about half of their customers purchase masks for general wellness, for example lung sensitivity, and the other half buy them in response to a natural disaster or poor air quality. Brown hopes the designs will help make mask-wearing more acceptable. "Beautiful and comfortable masks have a much higher compliance in wearing," she said. "Plus, people look great in them."
I spoke with a handful of people who bought Vogmasks for desert music festivals and they told me the masks are great for keeping out desert dust during wind spells. Others keep them on hand for high air pollution days—one friend with mild asthma told me she feels better wearing it and finds it easier to breathe, even though she admitted she's not completely sure how to fit the mask on her face. "If it doesn't quite fit, you may be deluding yourself to think you're being protected when you're really not," Avol said.
I felt pretty confident about my home air purifier until Avol pointed out that positive effects can be quickly undone by time spent outside, particularly when you're exercising. The more research I do, the less I want to leave my house—which may be good my lungs, but not so healthy mentally. For now, I check the my air quality monitor in the morning. If it's on the high end of yellow or above, I won't exercise outside. I keep an inhaler handy, and a well-fitting N95 mask in my car. I teach part-time at UCLA and recently when air quality went into the orange, I dismissed class early. I had a few students from Beijing who looked at me quizzically when I made the announcement but were happy to get out of class early. I worry about health effects but try not to drive myself or my family too crazy about it, balancing that with fighting feelings of powerlessness that can breed apathy, and for now not moving to Wyoming.


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Q: Devextreme Grid remote grouping Sql Query formation I am evaluating this devextreme grid for its remote grouping feature. However I am unable to get enough idea on how to form my SQL Server query to support remote grouping. There aren't enough demos available that can help me getting the idea o how to prepare my SQL query to support the remote grouping feature on devextreme datagrid. Has anyone ever worked on that scenario?

A: I suggest you to read the documentation section for Remote Grouping, It works when you assign a remote data source to the grid control e.g. OData.

The DataGrid widget allows your end users to shape data as needs
  dictate. In this example, we demonstrate the use of the built-in data
  grouping feature against a remote data source. Data is provided by an
  OData service and grid content is grouped by both Country and City
  columns. Note that this demo uses the DataGrid in a virtual mode and
  loads data on-demand as the grid content is scrolled vertically.

See the reference documentation guide for Data Source Examples.
References:
How to implement a data service for dxDataGrid based on Web API
dxDataGrid - How to display data from WCF OData data service


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