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Banner Makes Metal Its Mission in Warsaw
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The exacting specifications of an orthopedic implant are mind boggling, and that requires the main ingredient—the metal it consists of—to be trustworthy. A company says it has long been providing that high-quality material, but will now do it within a much closer proximity to the "Orthopedic Capital of the World." Illinois-based Banner Medical already has 35 customers in Warsaw, but aims to grow that number—and its overall business—by building a $6.3 million facility in the orthopedic hotbed.
"There are material suppliers all around Warsaw, but there's nobody in Warsaw," says Banner Medical Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Dan Stoettner. "We've outgrown our current facility, and we need to add new equipment and processes. A great majority of our business is done in Warsaw, so when we said 'Where are we going to locate?,' there's no better option than Warsaw with the high density of medical device manufacturers."
A subsidiary of Banner Service Corporation, Banner Medical "started out small" when it launched in 2008. Stoettner says business grew "much more rapidly than we even hoped," and it now serves the biggest names in Warsaw, including Zimmer Biomet, DePuy Orthopaedics and Medtronic, as well as many contract manufacturers. Titanium and cobalt chrome, which are used to make implants, and stainless steel—mostly for making surgical instruments—are the company's areas of expertise.
"When we started the company, no one was really providing that one-stop shop approach for the OEMs and the contract manufacturers," says Stoettner. "It became very easy for them to do business with us when they could by four, five or 10 different grades [of metal] from one supplier."
Banner Medical believes the new facility will attract even more business from Warsaw orthopedic companies. The state-of-the-art operation at the Warsaw Technology Park is expected to create up to 76 jobs by 2019. Stoettner says the facility will process 12-foot bars of medical grade raw metal, grinding and polishing it to "very exacting tolerances."
But he notes the company is more than just a distributor, because it provides a long list of value-added services before metal is shipped out its door, including precision straightening, precision grinding and high-tech testing.
"We'll be doing non-destructive testing on the material…where we can inspect the micro-structure and chemistry of the material to make sure it all conforms. That's something a little different we do that most folks don't do," says Stoettner. "It ensures that there are no cracks in the material; the worst thing that could possibly happen is for the material to fracture in a surgery."
Banner Medical believes another key benefit to locating in the orthopedic hub is helping companies shorten their lead times.
"They carry a certain amount of inventory on their floor, because they can't run out and shut down a surgery or a customer," says Stoettner. "They've been able to reduce their inventories over the years, but they need to go further."
Banner Medical leaders say they'll help companies meet their inventory goals by working closely with them and "taking the inventory off their floor and putting it on our floor."
"We're literally five minutes across town; they can have that comfort level that they're not running out of material. They can visit us, take a look at their inventory and know it's not six hours or half a world away," says Stoettner. "We want to help them move faster, reduce their inventories and invest more in downstream machining and design."
The company expects to open the new operation in early 2016; it will also be within close proximity to Ivy Tech Community College's Warsaw campus, where Banner Medical hopes to develop training programs.
"We're excited about getting closer to our customers," says Stoettner. "Once we get into town, we're very confident we're going to help meet their needs and be able to grow with them."
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#ifndef __itkComposeImageFilter_h
#define __itkComposeImageFilter_h

#include "itkImageToImageFilter.h"
#include "itkVectorImage.h"
#include "itkImageRegionConstIterator.h"
#include <vector>

namespace itk
{
/** \class ComposeImageFilter
 * \brief ComposeImageFilter combine several scalar images into a multicomponent image
 *
 * ComposeImageFilter combine several scalar images into an itk::Image of
 * vector pixel (itk::Vector, itk::RGBPixel, ...), of std::complex pixel,
 * or in an itk::VectorImage.
 *
 * \par Inputs and Usage
 * \code
 *    filter->SetInput( 0, image0 );
 *    filter->SetInput( 1, image1 );
 *    ...
 *    filter->Update();
 *    itk::VectorImage< PixelType, dimension >::Pointer = filter->GetOutput();
 * \endcode
 * All input images are expected to have the same template parameters and have
 * the same size and origin.
 *
 * \sa VectorImage
 * \sa VectorIndexSelectionCastImageFilter
 * \ingroup ITKImageCompose
 *
 * \wiki
 * \wikiexample{VectorImages/ImageToVectorImageFilter,Create a vector image from a collection of scalar images}
 * \wikiexample{ImageProcessing/Compose3DCovariantVectorImageFilter,Compose a vector image (with 3 components) from three scalar images}
 * \wikiexample{SpectralAnalysis/RealAndImaginaryToComplexImageFilter,Convert a real image and an imaginary image to a complex image}
 * \endwiki
 */

template< typename TInputImage, typename TOutputImage=VectorImage<typename TInputImage::PixelType, TInputImage::ImageDimension> >
class ComposeImageFilter:
  public ImageToImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage >
{
public:

  typedef ComposeImageFilter                               Self;
  typedef SmartPointer< Self >                             Pointer;
  typedef SmartPointer< const Self >                       ConstPointer;
  typedef ImageToImageFilter< TInputImage, TOutputImage >  Superclass;
  itkNewMacro(Self);
  itkTypeMacro(ComposeImageFilter, ImageToImageFilter);

  itkStaticConstMacro(Dimension, unsigned int, TInputImage::ImageDimension);

  typedef TInputImage                          InputImageType;
  typedef TOutputImage                         OutputImageType;
  typedef typename InputImageType::PixelType   InputPixelType;
  typedef typename OutputImageType::PixelType  OutputPixelType;
  typedef typename InputImageType::RegionType  RegionType;

  void SetInput1(const InputImageType *image1);
  void SetInput2(const InputImageType *image2);
  void SetInput3(const InputImageType *image3);

#ifdef ITK_USE_CONCEPT_CHECKING
  // Begin concept checking
  itkConceptMacro( InputCovertibleToOutputCheck,
                   ( Concept::Convertible< InputPixelType, typename NumericTraits<OutputPixelType>::ValueType > ) );
  // End concept checking
#endif

protected:
  ComposeImageFilter();

  virtual void GenerateOutputInformation(void);

  virtual void BeforeThreadedGenerateData();

  virtual void ThreadedGenerateData(const RegionType & outputRegionForThread, ThreadIdType);

private:
  ComposeImageFilter(const Self &); //purposely not implemented
  void operator=(const Self &);           //purposely not implemented

  // we have to specialize the code for complex, because it provides no operator[]
  // method
  typedef ImageRegionConstIterator< InputImageType > InputIteratorType;
  typedef std::vector< InputIteratorType >           InputIteratorContainerType;

  template<typename T>
  void ComputeOutputPixel(std::complex<T> & pix, InputIteratorContainerType & inputItContainer )
    {
    pix = std::complex<T>(inputItContainer[0].Get(), inputItContainer[1].Get());
    ++( inputItContainer[0] );
    ++( inputItContainer[1] );
    }
  template<typename TPixel>
  void ComputeOutputPixel(TPixel & pix, InputIteratorContainerType & inputItContainer)
    {
    for ( unsigned int i = 0; i < this->GetNumberOfInputs(); i++ )
      {
      pix[i] = static_cast<typename NumericTraits<OutputPixelType>::ValueType >(inputItContainer[i].Get());
      ++( inputItContainer[i] );
      }
    }
};
}

#ifndef ITK_MANUAL_INSTANTIATION
#include "itkComposeImageFilter.hxx"
#endif

#endif

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Das Schatt war eine Masseneinheit für Honig um  Lüneburg.
 1 Schatt = 1/32 Tonne etwa 9,38 Pfund
 1 Tonne Honig = 300 Pfund

Literatur
 Pierer's Universal-Lexikon. Band 15. Altenburg 1862, S. 97.
 Adelung: Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart. Band 3. Leipzig 1798, S. 1370.

Einzelnachweise

Altes Maß oder Gewicht (Deutschland)
Masseneinheit
Imkerei
Maßeinheit (Landwirtschaft)

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O galito (Alectrurus tricolor) é uma espécie de ave da família Tyrannidae.

Pode ser encontrada nos seguintes países: Argentina, Bolívia, Brasil, Uruguai e Paraguai.

Os seus habitats naturais são: campos de gramíneas subtropicais ou tropicais secos de baixa altitude e campos de gramíneas de baixa altitude subtropicais ou tropicais sazonalmente húmidos ou inundados.

Está ameaçada por perda de habitat.

Referências

Alectrurus
Aves descritas em 1816


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I woke up in a great mood until I looked at my email. There is one of Wrangler's co-workers who has made his life he'll. He sent me a message on Facebook last night trying to start something. Well he pissed Wrangler and I off. This harrasement has to stop. I am ready for Wrangler to switch jobs because this is beyond old between this guy and the boss.
Wish I was at the lake on this extremely humid and hot day.
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Joey Bosa ends ugly stalemate with Chargers, signs four-year deal
The ugly stalemate between the San Diego Chargers and and Joey Bosa has finally come to an end. The Chargers announced on Monday that they've signed their third-overall pick to a four-year deal that will include a team option for a fifth year.
The signing ends a 31-day holdout that got testy last week after the Chargers publicly shamed Bosa during negotiations, claiming that he had turned down one of the best offers ever given to a rookie in San Diego.
"Anquan said it this morning [that Kaepernick had the right to do it], and I was kind of mad that he said it, because I was like, 'God, if Anquan says it, I've got to go with it,' because Anquan was such a leader, and he's a smart guy. He gets it," Boone said, via ESPN.com. "But at the same time, I was upset with his choice to do that and kind of disrespect the flag."
Boldin, who played for the 49ers from 2013-15, said that he has no issue with the fact that Kaepernick was protesting the national anthem because living in America gives them that right.
Although the Chargers ended up selecting Manning, he never played for San Diego because he was traded to the Giants on draft day.
Anyway, when the Chargers took negotiations public last week, it ended up making both sides look bad. Many Chargers fans thought Bosa was being greedy because he was going to get the entire $17 million signing bonus in his contract whether it was paid out in 2016 or 2017.
On the other hand, many fans thought the Chargers were just being cheapskates due to the team's long history of dealing with rookie holdouts.
It was clear in the preseason that Lynch owns by far the most talent of any Broncos quarterback, he just needs seasoning. Lynch has a huge arm — one of the strongest in the entire NFL — and unique athleticism. He can be a difference maker in Kubiaks offense in time. If Siemian stumbles, will Kubiak have confidence Lynch's talent will outweigh his inexperience?
Lynch is the future in Denver. We've thought all offseason the first-round pick could play at some point this year, the question will be how early will he get a shot?
James Koh – DeSean Jackson, WR, Washington Redskins: Contract year. I'm not sure we need more analysis but if you do here you go: Washington's backfield has been decimated by injuries meaning this will encourage coach Jay Gruden to throw even more than they did last year, which was not a little. If he's healthy, D-Jax will see 110-plus targets and blow away his Round 8 to 10 value.
Matt Franciscovich – Jared Cook, TE, Green Bay Packers: You can pick up Cook, who presents top-five upside at his position, in the last round of your draft so you should probably do that in all of your leagues. Rodgers finally has the speedy tight end he's been lacking for years and Green Bay's No. 3 receiver competition is irrelevant due to Cook's presence. I'm calling 10-plus touchdowns for the former Ram.
Tags: Green Bay Packers, Joey Bosa, San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins
Brandon Marshall's first impression of Jets QB Ryan Fitzpatrick: Uh, oh
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — A year later, the truth comes out.
Reflecting on the 2015 offseason, New York Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall admitted he didn't think much of Ryan Fitzpatrick when they first started practicing together. We all know how the season turned out — they became a highly productive tandem — but there were some rough moments in the beginning.
"From all of us who know Keanu, you know he's going to put a thousand percent into all the rehab to get ready," Quinn said Friday. "We know kind of what he stands for and the toughness, so I'd expect the shorter-term [amount of time being out] with him. He's kind of just built that way."
This is the second injury this preseason for Neal, who also missed the preseason opener against Washington with a "trunk" injury.
The Falcons already were down one strong safety with Neal's backup, Kemal Ishmael, sidelined with a shoulder injury. Quinn said Ishmael is expected to return to practice in a limited role Sunday. The other players in Atlanta's strong safety rotation are Damian Parms and rookie Sharrod Neasman.
Quinn also said Friday that the Falcons will potentially sign a veteran free-agent safety but that the team is not considering bringing back William Moore, who was released earlier this year.
Moore, who told ESPN earlier Friday that he would "absolutely" come back to the Falcons, didn't fit well in Quinn's scheme last season.
Neal is expected to have a significant impact on the defense upon his return. He is known for his hard-hitting style, and coaches say he's already mature beyond his years.
Surprise player who impressed: Safety Kelcie McCray. To say it's a surprise is probably a stretch because McCray has been playing well all summer. But he showed up in a big way vs. Dallas, finishing with seven tackles and a pass breakup. McCray will enter the season as the top backup at both safety spots.
When it was starters vs. starters, the Seahawks looked…: Sharp. As mentioned above, the offense scored four times (two touchdowns, two field goals) on six possessions.
Tags: Brandon Marshall, Kemal Ishmael, New York Jets, Ryan Fitzpatrick
Former Raiders QB Todd Marinovich found naked, booked for drugs
Former USC Trojans and Los Angeles Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich was found naked with marijuana and possibly methamphetamine in a residential area of Irvine, California.
In 2000, he attempted to revive his career with the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League, but he was arrested on suspicion of heroin possession and cut eight months later.
Ebron was not spotted doing much during the limited viewing period of individual drills at the team's practice facility, but it is another step in the right direction for the tight end. He was spotted jogging to the Jugs machine and then catching passes on it last week.
The No. 10 pick in the 2014 draft was carted off the field during that mock game, frustration clear on his face. He hasn't spoken to the media since the injury, declining multiple requests for comment. A source told ESPN Insider Adam Caplan on Tuesday morning that Ebron will play Week 1 against Indianapolis.
His return to practice Tuesday would be another strong indicator of that.
Ebron is slated to be Detroit's top tight end this fall. He had been having a strong camp leading up to the injury. Now entering his third season, he called this year a "make it or break it" year for him. He caught 47 passes for 537 yards and five touchdowns in 14 games last season.
The Lions need him back at tight end as Brandon Pettigrew (ACL) remains on the PUP list and Tim Wright (ACL) is out for the season on injured reserve.
The 47-year-old Marinovich was cited for trespassing, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana, Hallinan told the Orange County Register on Monday.
Hallinan said Marinovich, an Irvine resident, was in a backyard of a home and had been seen naked on a neighborhood jogging path.
"He was carrying the items in a brown bag," Hallinan said.
Marinovich's problems with drugs have been well documented since rising to stardom as a freshman USC quarterback in the 1989 season, culminating with a Trojans victory in the Rose Bowl over Michigan.
Tags: Adam Caplan, Los Angeles Raiders, Todd Marinovich
NFL players should fight 'Al-Jazeera suspensions' like crazy
Brady will serve a four-game suspension to start this season because the NFL determined he was "more likely than not" involved in a scheme to deflate footballs in the 2014 AFC Championship Game. The league's final report, of course, carried not a shred of direct and verified evidence that Brady was involved — or even that the balls themselves were artificially deflated. It focused heavily on Brady's refusal to provide his mobile phone, even though he said he provided all the information the league requested from it.
Hargrove, meanwhile, essentially lost his career in 2012 when the NFL pinned much of its Bountygate investigation on him telling his New Orleans Saints teammates to "pay me my money" after a hit on then-Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre. Hargrove adamantly denied saying it, and the NFL concluded he was not being truthful in his deposition. Later, an NFL Films video confirmed Hargrove's account. The NFL quietly acknowledged it.
The point, of course, is that Peppers, Matthews, Neal and Harrison have been smart in approaching the latest investigation with extreme caution. One wrong move, or one perceived to be uncooperative by the league, and they'll forever be stained by NFL discipline.
The NFL already has a PEDs policy, to which all four players have been subject. The policy's testing procedure should be the source of any allegation. Unless one or more of them have tested positive, they are innocent under the terms of the agreed NFL-NFLPA policy. The policy does allow for discipline if violations are found through "sufficient credible documented evidence," but unless the NFL has uncovered something more than Al-Jazeera did from a now-discredited source, it's difficult to imagine what that might be.
In this case, the NFL is asking the players to step outside the policy and answer to the allegation anyway. Ask Brady and Hargrove, both of whom denied their respective accusations from the start, how that worked out for them.
In truth, this really isn't about PEDs. Again, the NFL has a policy for that. This is another maneuver in the now-ubiquitous power struggle between the league and its players. The NFL is emboldened by its legal victory over Brady and is using the same broad authority — as written in Article 46 of the collective bargaining agreement — to compel participation in an otherwise out-of-policy investigation.
If you celebrated Brady's discipline, surely you realized that your team could be next. You did realize that, right?
At the moment, it's difficult to imagine the limits of the league's power. Even in a union environment, with a legal CBA in place, we might finally have reached the moment when players are subject to discipline whenever they don't do what the NFL asks of them. If you thought the relationship between the two sides was icy and too litigious already, wait until you see what's next.
The NFL is begging the NFLPA to fight back over the Al Jazeera case.
The NFL said if Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison, Green Bay Packers linebackers Julius Peppers and Clay Matthews and free-agent defensive lineman Mike Neal — the four active players publicly accused in an Al Jazeera America report last year for performance-enhancing drug use — don't interview with the league by August 25, the NFL will suspend them indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the league. That's according to multiple reports, including Pro Football Talk, which published the NFL's letter to the union outlining the many times they have been stonewalled on their interview requests.
Now it gets interesting.
The NFLPA seems to have long ago understood this is how the situation would play out, from the moment it sent the NFL an affidavit on Harrison's behalf, in which Harrison said he has never taken any PEDs and his affidavit would be his only statement to the NFL on the matter. The other players also sent affidavits, via the NFLPA. The NFL rejected them.
The implied message with that seemed to be the players would not let NFL commissioner Roger Goodell have his way in this case. This wouldn't be like the Tom Brady/deflate-gate fiasco. Goodell has to feel emboldened by the court rulings in his favor in the Brady and Adrian Peterson cases. The union has to feel like it needs something to rally around if it ever wants to battle back over the broad powers Goodell has under Article 46 of the collective-bargaining agreement.
Tags: Green Bay Packers, James Harrison, Julius Peppers, Pittsburgh Steelers
Angry fans at the Hall of Fame Game felt misled as they bought souvenirs, food
Before announcing to the fans that there would be no game, Baker was on the field talking to NFL Network about how things had gotten to this point.
"It was a difficult decision to make, but we will have a refund policy in the next several days that all of our fans here can turn to on our website," he said. "But in some respects, it was an easy, ethical decision. I had a son that played in the league for seven years himself (former Falcons offensive lineman Sam Baker), and if he was on a field like this today I'd want someone to make the same decision."
Fair enough, but there's still the issue of keeping fans in the dark — while they spent money on concessions and souvenirs because they were expecting to watch a football game.
Later, Colts owner Jim Irsay made it clear that having a game canceled because of poor field conditions is unacceptable:
"This shouldn't happen. It's not difficult," he told reporters. "Obviously, everyone out there says, 'You're a $12 billion league. How can you have a field not ready to go?' Well, the Hall of Fame is sort of separate and gets run a little different from the league. … We'll have to get it right so it never happens again. … Yes, we're upset. … We have to make it right to our fans and also get to the bottom of exactly who got this paint job done and why was there incompetence."
No one disputes the incompetence, but ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert calls out Irsay for trying to pass the buck.
"While technically accurate, Irsay's explanation was weak and a cop-out of the worst kind," Seifert writes. "Surely it won't register with most fans who don't care about the corporate distinction between the NFL and the independent Pro Football Hall of Fame. This was an NFL preseason game to be played by two NFL teams, Irsay's Colts and the Green Bay Packers, between players employed by the NFL and to be televised via the NFL's contract with ESPN. The league must own this preseason game as it does all others."
Whether they will is another matter.
In the meantime, we'll keep an eye on the NFL Operations Twitter feed for updates.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Jabrill Peppers may be on the field for up to 100 plays a game this season for Michigan.
On defense, Peppers will move closer to the line at times as a linebacker and he'll be a defensive back on some snaps. He will play in the slot, in the backfield and might even take some snaps on offense.
And when the Wolverines need a boost on special teams, they will lean on Peppers to return punts and kickoffs.
Peppers is game for all of it.
"Whatever we got to do to win," he said Sunday, a day before the team's first practice.
If someone asks what position Peppers plays, what would he say?
"I just say, 'I'm an athlete,"' he said.
Coach Jim Harbaugh said Peppers won't be the only three-way player on the team, expecting cornerback Jourdan Lewis to spend some time on offense along with his usual duties on special teams.
"I don't know why they haven't been letting Jourdan play both plays," Peppers said. "Jourdan is one of the craziest athletes I've ever seen. … I hope they give him a shot."
With Peppers, the Wolverines will attempt to find the right balance between taking advantage of his versatile talent and not wearing him out.
Tags: Green Bay Packers, Jabrill Peppers, Pro Football Hall of Fame
Josh Norman on Patrick Peterson: 'He shouldn't be trolling me'
Peterson's tweet didn't sit well with Jackson, who tweeted his displeasure and said Thursday: "I'm just wondering why this dude was speaking on me and bringing me up in conversation. … Both of them guys are two of the great corners in this league and they've definitely earned the respect, but just try to keep guys names out of your mouth. Just go out there and play ball."
Norman said he and Jackson talked about it Thursday morning.
"It's like, why are you trolling people?" Norman said. "You should be worried about practicing and don't worry about talking about other players. Some people want the spotlight and some don't. Some people really want to get to where we're at and it's sad… Dude, you're a first-round pick, why are you worried about me?
"We get to play them guys and when the time comes we'll see what DeSean do to him in a regular season game because he already did it."
The Redskins and Cardinals play Dec. 4. It'll certainly lead to another buildup for a game involving Norman and another player; New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr., has taken jabs at Norman, too.
PHILADELPHIA — The quarterback room could have been a disaster area for the Philadelphia Eagles. Instead, everything seems fine as the team passed the 10-day mark of training camp Thursday.
Three months ago, Sam Bradford was upset that the team traded up for the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft just months after signing him to a two-year, $34 million contract. Bradford walked out of OTAs before the draft, which saw the Eagles use that No. 2 pick on North Dakota State's Carson Wentz.
Bradford returned after missing about 10 days. Head coach Doug Pederson welcomed him back with little public fuss. Wentz arrived, and a potentially awkward and acrimonious relationship has been mollified by the personalities of the men involved.
"I like Carson a lot," center Jason Kelce said. "I think he has the right mentality. A lot of times, top picks come in with a little prima donna attitude, like they've already earned something.
"That's not Carson at all. I think that's helped out Sam too — that approach. (Wentz) is definitely a competitive guy, definitely wants to be on the field. I think at the same time, he understands that you have to earn everything in life."
It helps that the attitude comes to Wentz naturally.
"That's just my personality," Wentz said. "I don't feel like I'm bigger or better than anyone else. I'm just out here trying to make this team better. That's always been how I've carried myself. I don't expect myself to get more credit than I deserve."
Tags: Carson Wentz, NFL draft, Philadelphia Eagles
Carroll tosses Michael Bennett out of 'Hawks practice
"(The team's passion is) translating into sometimes we lose a little bit of the poise that we need," Carroll said after practice. "We can't play like that. You get in a skirmish, you get thrown out. That's what happens. So that happened today. And that's just the way you do it, the way we do it."
Preseason jawing is completely normal, and in some cases acceptable as a team-building exercise. But for the oldest coach in the league, Bennett's yapping — on and off the field — had gone on long enough without repercussions.
Josh McCown has heard the whispers.
With the Dallas Cowboys on the prowl for a quarterback, the veteran Browns passer acknowledged Thursday that the Cleveland brass have spoken with him about a potential trade.
"Just leave it like that," McCown said, per Tony Grossi of ESPNCleveland.com. "We're on the same page."
Coach Hue Jackson shot down McCown-to-Dallas rumblings during his Thursday presser, saying "There is nothing to it as far as we're concerned. I've heard about it, obviously I have, but I feel good that he's here. He's a Cleveland Brown and I know nothing else about the other part of it."
The Browns have given all their first-team camp snaps to Robert Griffin III, leaving McCown as a possible trade candidate for Dallas, who lost backup passer Kellen Moore this week to a broken ankle.
The trade makes sense on another level: McCown is from Texas and acknowledged that if he were to go anywhere, Dallas would be his pick. The 37-year-old journeyman went out of his way to note that he wears No. 12 as a tribute to Roger Staubach.
None of that is wholly damning on its own, but Bennett and the Seahawks have not been on the same page completely for some time now. It's certainly possible they could seek to trade him if he makes even more noise — it has been going on for two years now — about contract talks continuing to stalemate. Bennett is scheduled to make $7 million this season and $9.5 million in 2017 but wants to be paid like a top defensive end, which is more north of $10 million per year.
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Box Office: 'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Tracking for Big $150M-Plus Holiday Bow
June 13, 2019 8:25am by Mia Galuppo
The second film in the Jon Watts-directed series will open with a six-day holiday run.
Spider-Man will be swinging back into theaters over the July Fourth holiday, and the film is eyeing a big opening.
Far From Home, which will hit theaters July 2, is tracking for a bow in the $150 million to $160 million range at the North American box office over its Tuesday through Sunday run, according to those with access to early surveys, with the studio's early tracking prediction placing the film's opening at $154 million.
While estimates will likely increase as Sony makes its final marketing push, some industry experts already have the superhero movie reaching as high as $180 million in its first six days.
Far From Home is looking to surpass opening earnings of Spider-Man: Homecoming, which bowed to $117 million over its three-day 2017 opening and went on to earn $880 million globally.
The second film in the latest iteration of Sony's web-slinging series is the end of the MCU's phase three and picks up where Avengers: Endgame left off, with the Earth's mightiest heroes having defeated Thanos.
The movie will see the return of Tom Holland as Peter Parker, who goes on a vacation in Europe with his friends only to be enlisted by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to help save the world. Jon Watts is back in the the director's chair for the feature, in which Jake Gyllenhaal joins the franchise as Mysterio.
While Far From Home is already looking to have a successful run, the summer box office has been filled with highs and lows for superheroes. Endgame kicked off the season with a record-breaking run that currently has the movie with $2.7 billion, but recent release Dark Phoenix fell flat in North America with a $33 million opening.
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Indian Railways launches first private rail service, welcomes passengers with colourful folk performances
The train has 20 coaches including 1st, 2nd and 3rd class AC and sleeper coaches.
By: Trends Desk
Updated: June 16, 2022 09:24 IST
The train will start its journey from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and conclude in Shirdi in Maharashtra.
India's first private train, aimed at promoting domestic tourism, under the Bharat Gaurav scheme has been flagged off from Coimbatore. The train will make stops at Tiruppur, Erode, Salem, Yelahanka, Dharmavaram, Mantralayam Road, and Wadi before ending its journey in the holy town of Shirdi in Maharashtra.
B Guganesan, the Chief Public Relations Officer of Southern Railway, told ANI, "Railway has leased this train to a service provider for a period of 2 years. The service provider has refurbished the coach seats. At least three trips will be done per month. It has a total of 20 coaches including 1st, 2nd & 3rd class AC coaches and sleeper coaches."
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On Tuesday, as the first batch of passengers boarded the train, they were welcomed with a presentation of India's traditional dances at the railway station.
The photographs and videos of the train's inaugural run are going viral on social media.
While tweeting a video of the newly refurbished train, the Ministry of Tourism wrote, "First ever Bharat Gaurav Train has been flagged off on Coimbatore North to Sainagar Shirdi route today at 6:00 PM! The train will cover several historical destinations on the route while giving the passengers an insight into the cultural heritage of the country."
While several people expressed their excitement over the newly-launched train, many people criticised the government's move to collaborate with a private company for this endeavour.
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On Thursday, January 10th, 2008, Professor Robert Mendelsohn, Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, shared his thoughts at this World Bank event on climate change impacts and adaptation.
Professor Mendelsohn is a leading authority on the economics of climate change and policy. Over the last decade, he has developed insightful techniques for measuring the impacts from climate change that capture adaptation. Results of his research have been used to calibrate global impact models that predict the consequences of various climate scenarios. This research finds that climate change will hit low latitude countries especially hard but the net harmful effects of climate change will only become evident in the second half of this century.
Event discussants included Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development; Shanta Devarajan, Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank; and Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings Institution.
The discussion was moderated by Apurva Sanghi, Senior Economist, World Bank.
This event will serve as an opportunity to discuss and celebrate the launch of a special supplement to the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that reports on nine new contributions on the impact of malaria control interventions. Specifically, the articles document the success of various malaria control efforts (including the causal link between malaria intervention scale-up and reductions in malaria morbidity and mortality) and new methods for evaluating the impact of large-scale malaria control programs. Taken together, the articles represent a conceptual and practical framework for planning and executing a new generation of impact evaluations, with possible applications to other health conditions in low-resource settings.
Effectiveness sounds dull. But what if an extra dollar or rupee in a budget could feed ten people instead of one? Or if $100,000 of international aid spending could be tweaked so it would save ten times as many lives? When the stakes are this high, efficiency in spending becomes a moral imperative. Moreover, unlike debates over ideology or religion, debates over efficiency can actually get somewhere, because there is a straightforward mechanism for resolving them: compare the predictable costs and benefits of different courses of action and see which yields more bang for the buck.
With plans for a redesign of the State Department and United States Agency for International Development well under way, this is a critical moment for an informed discussion of the latest reforms proposals that will make US foreign assistance more effective and efficient. Please join us for a bipartisan debate featuring authors of four recent reports that outline options for reform and reorganization of US global development functions. The event will bring to light key areas of consensus and divergence among experts, and will aim to highlight emerging organizing principles for the future of US foreign assistance, potential structural changes to the US global development architecture, and opportunities for building momentum in a fluid political and legislative environment.
In 2014, unprecedented numbers of children and families began crossing the southern border of the United States, sparking an ongoing debate on what was driving them and how the U.S. should respond. Using data provided by the Department of Homeland Security, new research by Michael Clemens finds the flow of unaccompanied child migrants to the United States has been driven by a complex mix of violence and economic forces. How do these elements interact, and how can foreign policy be a form of migration policy?
Strengthening institutions is a foremost priority in fragile states and building fiscal capacity is especially important in the effort to exit fragility. In its recent paper Building Fiscal Capacity in Fragile States, the IMF draws on analysis of 39 fragile states and eight country case studies to describe its approach to fiscal reforms in fragile states and to draw lessons going forward. Participants will bring both advisory and policymaker perspectives to the panel discussion.
In The Shadow List, State Department crisis expert Judd Ryker is chasing an American banker who's disappeared after falling for a Nigerian scam. Meanwhile, his CIA wife Jessica is hunting a notorious Russian mob boss. Little do they know, they're pulling on opposite ends of the same dangerous thread. Throw in Chinese oil companies under attack, corrupt American politicians, a kidnapped NBA star, and an undercover FBI sting operation and it's the latest diplomatic thriller ripped from the headlines by CGD senior fellow Todd Moss.
Policymakers in rich and poor countries interested in boosting growth increasingly view women entrepreneurs as an underutilized asset. The launch of the Women's Entrepreneurship Facility (We-Fi) at the G20 Summit is one example of a major initiative to mobilize more than $1 billion to help women start and grow businesses. But, beyond the scale of resources, important questions about how they are allocated need to be addressed.
Please join a panel of distinguished thought and practice leaders from the World Bank, WeConnect, and the Global Banking Alliance for Women for a discussion of how to formulate a holistic approach to this set of challenges. What does the evidence tell us about the most effective ways to support access to finance, access to skills and networks, and access to markets? And how can interventions best be combined?
The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic broke out and affected thousands of people at a time when there were no medicines approved to treat or prevent Ebola. Poor infrastructure, capacity gaps, widespread mistrust, and disagreements over the design and ethical nature of any clinical trials complicated efforts to conduct research on investigational drugs and vaccines. In the wake of the outbreak, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine tasked a committee with analyzing the clinical trials carried out during the outbreak and developing recommendations to improve the implementation of such trials in the future. In this session, committee members Gerald Keusch and David Peters will discuss findings from the committee's recently released report and the kind of governance structures that need to be in place for effective international coordination and collaboration.


Shared Living Solutions, why rent?
A young couple starting out together, will pay approximately $228,920 in rent over ten years, based on $350 per week at 5% per year.
This is lost to landlords and produces no return for them!
It would make much more sense to pool their resources with another couple and use the rent money to pay off a Shared Living house instead.
Not only will this give them a foothold in the property market and a home of their own, but it will also give them substantial capital gain within a few years.
NB - These are general equation and not a guarantee. Figures are based on information available at the time and are an indication only.
On a mortgage of $400,000 at 6%, each couple could satisfy all the lending conditions by paying $660.50 per fortnight or $330.25 per week on the mortgage. Or looking at it another way $165.12 per week x 4.
At the same time, each couple will gain equity growth on half the value of the house - $500,000.00 divided by 2 = $250,000.00.
That is asset growth of over $85,023.91 in six years, or an average of $14,170.00 per year.


I bought my copy of Annie Proulx's The Shipping News in a bookstore in New Orleans' French Quarter ('ol' E. Annie,' the owner called her), right before I had to leave for the airport. I don't remember what drew me to the book (I had not heard of 'ol E. Annie, nor seen the film version of Brokeback Mountain, her most famous short story), but I do remember spending the flight in the sort of white-out immersion I'd experienced often as a child (The Long Winter! Anne of Green Gables! Vols 1-5 of Harry Potter!), and rarely thereafter. I finished The Shipping News right as the flight touched down, greedily, with a full-body gnaw, and have wanted to go to Newfoundland ever since.
The Shipping News, if you haven't read it (go read it!), is about a blundering, down-and-out newspaperman who finds luck and love in a hopeless place Newfoundland, his ancestral homeland. It's a classic underdog tale, set in an unorthodox — but very underdog-friendly! — location, and the language takes its cue from the setting: the descriptions are rough and pummelling; the dialogue terse, and salty. It's not that the picture ol E. Annie paints of Newfoundland is inviting, exactly — it's all freeze and fog, squid burgers and pocked skin and fearsome winds — but it latched onto me. I feel a pull towards cold, remote places that are still, somehow, inhabited, and what is more remote than a hunk of rock so far east it has its own time zone, so generally inhospitable that its denizens still speak in the heavy brogues of their great, great, great grandparents?
For years, I kept my interest in Newfoundland confined to Google image searches and the occasional travel blog, and that's likely where it would have stayed if my husband hadn't bought bought us two tickets to St. John's for my birthday this year. In preparation, I read The Shipping News for the fifth time and went through all of the wonderful Edible Roadtrip coverage of the island and watched Youtube videos of Newfoundlanders screeching tourists and explaining choice Newfie phrases. Last Friday night, we set out, last Saturday morning we set out again, this time successfully, and went on to spend three nights in St. John's, and one night up the coast in Trinity. The trip was a heady whirlwind of fog and sun, seeping quiet and spilling hubbub, foods fried and foods fresh, and excellent '90s rock.
1. In Newfoundland, July can feel a lot like April, thanks to the glacial current coming from near(ish)by Labrador. It was 45 degrees when we landed, and then vaulted up to 72 on our third day. While the summer clothes I packed didn't go entirely unused, I mostly wore leggings and a puffer. This was not a problem, sartorially, as Newfoundland dress code is casual in the extreme.
2. The landscape, in the summer, is mostly greys and greens: fog, rock, ocean; spruce, bracken, moss. In the towns, sturdy box and row houses in jewel and Easter and popsicle hues cut through the mist, but on the highways and byways, you'd be forgiven for wondering if you'd somehow tumbled into some land before time, primordial and raw and huge.
3. But then the sun comes out (maybe! If you're very lucky!), and the grey scatters and the greens go emerald and the ocean and lakes turn sapphire and the landscape seems less primordial than majestic, luxuriating in the drama of its sweeping cliffs and shaggy hills and endless waters.
4. The water — good lord, there is so much of it. Lakes and rivers (here, called "ponds" and "brooks", no matter their girth) dot the Trans-Canada like pearls, and the coastline's many bights mean that miles inland, you are never too far from a cove or an inlet. Even the land can be amphibious; on the sunniest of days, the footpaths squelch beneath your shoes; step off one onto the fluffy moss and you'll sink a full foot.
5. Outside of St. John's, this north-east temple of Neptune is mostly empty, apart from the occasional long-haul trucker on the road, the bright-red trawler in the distance. On the lakes, there are lily pads but no frogs; at the beaches, there are gulls, swooping and preening, but no swimmers.
6. The wind is a crouching tiger, hidden dragon. By which I mean that, while mild in the summertime, its effects are everywhere, from the worn-away karsts at the edge of the sea to the drunken, sparse bent of the trees. While the fastest gust ever recorded was on Mount Washington, Newfoundland's aptly named "Wreckhouse" region regularly sees speeds above 100km/hour (they're called "Wreckhouse Winds"), and the island in general is known as the windiest province in Canada.
7. The people, too, are wind-beaten — and white. Canada's reputation for ethnic diversity does not extend to this island of Anglo-Saxons. Most of the current population is of Irish, western-English, or Scottish descent. A small percentage hails from France, and a much smaller one is indigenous (there were originally two tribes on the island, but settlers wiped out the Beothuk people and their language; today, only the Mi'kmaq remain). You rarely see a face that isn't ruddy, pink, cream, freckled.
8. The accent is generally closest to Irish, though occasionally you'll get a stream of Queen's English, fine — and brittle — as china. The dialect, though, is a lovely hodgepodge, part preservation ('ye' for you, 'me' for my/mine), phonetic borrowing (as in hangashore, 'layabout,' from the Gaelic ainniseoir, and bakeapple, from the French baie qu'appelle, 'that berry'), part elision (n'arn, for 'nary a thing,' and b'y, which is technically 'boy', but is used more like 'bub', or 'bud'), part fun with prepositions ('where ya 'longs to?'), and part pure sonic joy (a tickle is a channel, a scruncheon, a fatty morsel, a tuckamore, a low clump of trees).
9. The food goes beyond fish and chips and seal flipper pie. In St. John's, it felt like every touton-and-baked bean action had an equal and opposite squid vindaloo reaction. The pubs and casual places tend to offer up the more traditional, rib-sticking, scurvy-inducing fare, which is definitely worth trying (check out the Christmas-light-decked, poorly-named Bagel Cafe for a bevy of options), while newer spots like the Adelaide Oyster House and Mallard Cottage offer up inventive takes on local ingredients, such as the aforementioned squid vindaloo and a spicy, zingy vermicelli salad at the former and glorious hunks of salt-baked turnip and whole flounder, simply broiled with herbs and lemon, at the latter.
10. This stuff will set you back a pretty penny. Newfoundland is not a budget travel destination; most of the tourists are around or past retirement age, and the establishments, particularly outside of St. John's, reflect this: lots of twee gift shoppes and very small-scale artisan stores (in tiny Trinity, we saw stores offering speciality chocolate, seal-skin slippers and hats, landscape paintings, and yoga (Tuesday and Thursday afternoons)), along with a handful of whale, puffin, and iceberg tour outfits.
In the high season, expect to spend at least $150/night for a room at a B&B in a small town and $200+ in St. John's. In nice restaurants, prices are on par with New York's — low teens for appetizers, mid-twenties for entries (yes I've already converted from Canadian).
11. That said, there is one wonderful free activity available all over Newfoundland: hiking! There are well-maintained trails all over Newfoundland's coast, including the East Coast Trail, a continuous 540km stretch along the Avalon Peninsula. In St. John's itself, we hiked the switchbacks up to Signal Hill (so called because it is the site of the first successful transatlantic wireless transmission, aka the beginning of our addiction to all things wireless and the reason I can publish this today!). It was really more of a walk than a hike, and it wended through cozy streets full of neat, cheery row houses and at the top in addition to views of the sea and of St. John's spread (or really, dotted) out before us, we saw six humpback whales! Six! They were close enough to see with the naked eye, but a nice man gave us an up-close look through his enormous tripod binoculars. They had massive white fins that appeared aqua in the water, and the knack all vast creatures have for making quick movements seem slow and languid. Outside of St. John's, we hiked first outside in Bulls Bay in an attempt to see puffins (unsuccessful in that regard but the trail was very Gandalfian in its shrouds of mist and craggy rock, and utterly empty). In Port Rexton, we hiked the famous Skerwink in Trinity Bight. It's not called the one of the best coastal trails in Canada for nothing: the views — of the cliffs and karsts and sea and inlets and, towards the end, a squat, lonely lighthouse — are staggering, and the lovely Canadian Parks Service built hundreds of wooden steps to facilitate the taking in of them, and the rough-hewn charm of the steps strung along the lush moss and tuckamore (new word!) gives the whole thing a serious woodland faerie vibe.
In both instances, there was absolutely nothing but our own senses to keep us from going over the cliffs, which made us feel very adventurous and also slightly worried, as we hail from the land of guardrails stay back keep away single file please!


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Yin Yoga is a fusion of both Indian and Chinese healing modalities. It is literally the yin (opposite) to the yang muscular practises like Hot Flow and Hot Yoga.
Yin is all about slowing down. Holding poses for 1-10 minutes allows the body to release tension in the muscles and the fascia tissue while the mind can find rest and stillness.
Yin Yoga is an unheated class, and suitable for all levels of students.


I've broken down the Pose Library into categories—Forward Bends, Backbends, Sidebends, Twists, Hip Openers, Balance Poses, Core Strengtheners, Restorative Poses, and Advanced. If you click on the image, you'll find a video tutorial, difficulty level, benefits, instructions, contraindications, modifications and variations.
Camel pose is an advanced backbend that improves spine and shoulder mobility, stretches the hip flexors, abs and chest, and strengthens the glutes.
Cobra pose is a key backbend that increases spinal mobility, opens up the chest, stretches the abs and improves posture.
Dancer pose is an advanced balancing, hip opener that stretches the quads, hip flexors, abs, chest and shoulders, and strengthens the hips.
Fish pose is an advanced backbend that opens up the chest, increases spinal mobility, strengthens the abs, and alleviates pain in the thoracic.
Flying Locust is an advanced pose that increases spinal mobility and stretches the abs, hip flexors and quads. It's awkward so take it easy.
Locust is key for mountain bikers to activate and strengthen the posterior chain—to alleviate low back pain and pain in between the shoulder blades.
One-Handed Tiger challenges your balance, stretches the quads, hip flexors and shoulders, and increases spinal mobility.
Puppy pose is a key restorative counterpose for mountain bikers that targets the thoracic and releases tension at the lower back.
Reverse Warrior is a tricky pose that strengthens the quads and hips and stretches the side of the body as well as the calves and hamstrings.
Snake pose is a great counterpose for mountain bikers to strengthen the mid back, lower back and glutes and open up the shoulders.
Sphinx pose is a beginner level backbend that increases spinal mobility, improves posture and can help to alleviate lower and upper back pain.
Upward Facing Dog is an advanced backbend—similar to Cobra pose that is practiced mostly as part of Sun Salutation A and B.
Wheel pose is an advanced backbend that stretches the front of the body and strengthens the back of the body. Please be careful in this pose.
Wild Thing is an advanced backbend that improves spinal mobility, challenges your balance and strengthens the chest and shoulders.
Child's pose is the ultimate restorative pose. It relaxes the front of the body and passively stretches the lower and upper back.
Folded Butterfly stretches the lower back, opens up the hips, releases tension in the neck and shoulders, and calms the mind.
Head-To-Knee pose stretches the ankles, calves, hamstrings, groin and lower back, and opens up the hips. You can use a strap.
Knees-To-Chest is essentially Child's pose on your back. It's great for releasing tension at the lower back and neutralising the spine.
Revolved Downward Dog is a twisting forward bend that stretches the calves and hamstrings, increases spinal mobility, and strengthens the shoulders.
Wide-Leg Forward Bend releases tension at the lower back and stretches the ankles, calves and hamstrings.
Extended Side Angle strengthens the knees, quads and hips, opens up the hips, stretches the side body and increases lung capacity.
Reclining Sidebend is a restorative pose that stretches the entire length of the side body—especially the obliques and shoulders.
Seated Sidebend is a beginner pose that opens up the hips, increases spinal mobility, and stretches the obliques, lats and shoulders.
Standing Sidebend is a warm up pose that can increase spinal mobility, stretch the shoulders and alleviate pain in between the shoulder blades.
Triangle pose is a sidebend that stretches the side of the body as well as the ankles, calves and hamstrings. It's harder than it looks.
Revolved Half Moon is an advanced pose that stretches the calves and hamstrings, increases spinal mobility, and challenges your balance.
Revolved Side Angle is an advanced twisting hip opener that increases spinal mobility and stretches the calves and hamstrings.
Seated Spinal Twist stretches the outer hips, abs, obliques, back, chest, shoulders and neck and increases spinal mobility.
Sitting cross-legged opens up the hips, stretches the ankles, knees, hamstrings and groin, and improves posture.
Balancing Half Moon is an advanced posture that challenges your balance, strengthens the hips, stretches the groin and improves concentration.
Hero pose stretches the feet, ankles, knees and quads. It's harder than it looks, so take a modification if you need to.
High Lunge stretches the ankles, calves, hamstrings and hip flexors, strengthens the hips, and can help to alleviate knee and lower back pain.
Lizard pose is a key hip opener that stretches the hip flexors, hamstrings, glutes and groin, and can help to alleviate lower back pain.
Low Lunge is crucial for mountain bikers, to stretch the hip flexors and act as a counterpose to the riding position. Practice this pose a lot.
Reclining Butterfly is a restorative hip opener that focuses on stretching the groin and releasing tension at the lower back.
Runners Lunge strengthens the knees, quads, glutes and hips and stretches the ankles, calves, hamstrings, hip flexors and groin.
Side Lunge is a great pose for mountain bikers to stretch the groin, calves and hamstrings, loosen up the hips and increase ankle mobility.
Silver Surfer is a great pose to open up and strengthen the hips, stretch the backs of the legs, and open up the shoulders.
Tree pose is an intermediate hip-opening balance pose that improves proprioception, coordination, posture, focus, and concentration.
Warrior 3 is a fun balancing pose that challenges proprioception, coordination, focus and concentration, and strengthens the hips.
Boat pose is a core strengthener that targets the abs, obliques, lower back, hip flexors, adductors, quads, upper back and neck.
Plank pose strengthens the abs, obliques and lower back and is a key pose for alleviating lower back pain and stabilising your posture on the bike.
Upward Facing Plank is a great counterpose for mountain bikers to open up the chest and strengthen the muscles that support the shoulder blades.
Corpse or Final Resting pose usually comes at the end of a session. It is designed to allow your body to rest so that the benefits can integrate.
Wind-Relieving pose is a crucial pose for mountain bikers to relieve tension at the lower back and stretch the hip flexors—especially post-ride.


Is your company or agency pushing for more employee involvement on Twitter or Instagram? Try these techniques to spur some real enthusiasm.
While those all sound extremely fun and exciting from an employee perspective (can you sense my sarcasm?), there are a number of creative ways companies could rally the troops when it comes to social media involvement on the company's behalf.
We just don't hear about it that often.
They're generally not that helpful because they're not specific enough.
With that in mind, consider these five creative and specific ideas for companies to consider when they think about "activating" employees from a social media perspective.
Have fun with selfies at company events.
Mock selfies all you want. They're the most popular form of self-expression on the Internet. Why wouldn't companies take advantage of that?
At our recent PRSA Classics banquet here in Minneapolis, I remember a contest during the show in which people were encouraged to take selfies using a certain hashtag for a chance to win a prize (a ride home in a limo, I believe). I was astounded how many people participated. For your next company event, could you use selfies as a fun way to get employees involved socially? Maybe it's for a community event where employees are volunteering? Perhaps you could "regram" employee selfies from your corporate Instagram account. Regardless, just have fun with it.
What about assigning one day a week or month where you allow one employee to take over your corporate Twitter handle? Scary, perhaps, but imagine how it would open up trust among the masses. With a simple set of guidelines in place (since you already have your social media policy to "protect" you), employees would tweet about their experiences during the day working for your company.
It would give followers a whole new perspective into your company. Don't underestimate the good will this would build with employees.
Use Instagram video to capture community service.
In the summer, many companies offer summer Friday hours. So, why not ask employees to share how they're using their time away from the office to recharge and refresh? Consider aggregating all this content on your site or regramming through Instagram.
Ask employees to write handwritten notes to customers and take photos.
Don't underestimate the power of a handwritten note. We hear that more and more in today's digital environment. Ask five employees to write one personal note per week to customers. Ask them to send the notes, but also ask them to take photos of their notes, blurring or hiding customer names, and post through your social channels. This way, you share with a wider audience and you also get one-on-one, intimate communication with your customers.
What creative and specific ways have you encouraged your employees to become more active in social media on your company's behalf?


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Complaints Stream In Against Embattled Broker Of Medical Rides; Patients Stranded, Rides Missed
By Josh Kovner
Attorney Bonnie Roswig of the Center for Children's Advocacy describes a pattern of problems with Veyo, the state's Medicaid transportation broker. (Sabrina Herrera)
A diabetes patient stranded for hours after a doctor's appointment; a child with asthma missing a medication adjustment; wheelchair users denied transportation for want of a wheelchair van, while a squadron of vans sit idle.
The stream of complaints against Veyo, the state's Medicaid transportation broker, continued unfettered at a legislative meeting Wednesday, as it has for seven months, with health professionals saying they are spending hours each week trying to assure that patients get to and from appointments, often without success.
Meanwhile, Veyo continues to be paid. The San Diego-based vendor receives a $24 million administrative fee and is entrusted with the state's Medicaid transportation funds — about $140 million over three years — to arrange nonemergency rides for the state's poorest, sickest patients, including thousands of children. There are 800,000 Medicaid patients in the state, taking four million medical rides a year. Veyo sets the rates it pays the transportation companies and can keep the money it doesn't spend, to reinvest in the program.
"It's very difficult to defend ourselves against a story," Veyo regional director Dave Coppock said after four speakers — a children's rights attorney and three health professionals — had testified about missed rides, cancelled trips, patients stranded for hours, sedans arriving instead of requested wheelchair vans — all issues that they said have jeopardized patient's health.
Coppock said Veyo investigates complaints when the company is provided with enough specific details.
The speakers, attorney Bonnie Roswig of the Center for Children's Advocacy; Susie Jones-Szoldra, lead social worker for Davita Dialysis Centers in Connecticut; Amy Greika, program manger of High Chase Residential Care Home in Willington; and Jennifer Muggeo, a supervisor at New London's Ledge Light Health District — said they have conveyed dates, times and other details to Veyo when making complaints. In other meetings, advocates and health providers have testified about keeping logs or diaries of missed or delayed rides.
And Karen Buckley, a vice president of the Connecticut Hospital Association and a member of the panel that hosted Wednesday's meeting, said she has sent in detailed complaints on behalf of hospitals and still has gotten no response from Veyo.
"There has to be a problem in the call center," said Buckley, searching for a reason why Veyo has not been responsive. "I can see it, and I'm only getting a fraction of the cases."
Buckley also said that at one point, it appears the providers of wheelchair vans were not being paid, which made it very difficult for patients in wheelchairs to get to their medical appointments.
Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, D-Westport, said the "pattern and volume" of complaints at this juncture, seven months into Veyo's three-year contract, begs for a sweeping overhaul.
"How can this still be happening at this point?" Steinberg asked Coppock. "These are all systemic issues, they are not anecdotal."
Questions have also been mounting about the quality of oversight by the Department of Social Services.
When Veyo has been sanctioned, the fines have amounted to several thousand dollars.
"And a problem can be fixed one day, but then it is not sustained," Jones-Szoldra said.
Coppock insisted that Veyo does not deny or cancel rides. He said a missed ride is more likely a mistake by the taxi, van or livery company.
That assertion seemed to bother Rep. Cathy Abercrombie, D-Meriden and co-chair of the panel.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm a little confused by that response," Abercrombie said. "If a person requests a wheelchair van and a livery shows up, you're not providing the transportation they expected. That's your responsibility."
There was no sign that Veyo would soon face losing the contract. Roderick Winstead, an official with the Department of Social Services, said the agency meets continuously with Veyo and is trying to solve the recurring problems.


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Study Flags Drawbacks in Growth Models for AYP
Experts see disconnect between 'rhetoric' and pilot-program findings
By Sarah D. Sparks
April 1, 2011 | Includes updates and/or revisions.
Amid battles over teacher quality and school restructuring, there's one thing everyone seems to want in the next version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: an accountability system that measures student growth.
Yet the results of the U.S. Department of Education's growth-model pilot program, whose final evaluation was released earlier this year, suggest lawmakers may have to do some heavy lifting to include growth in accountability. Not only do state growth models vary considerably, but they also play out in ways that can run counter to the aims of providing greater transparency and better accountability for all students, not just those "on the bubble," or just below passing rates for their state exams.
"It seems to me there is a serious disconnect between the rhetoric supporting growth models and the incentives and structures they end up creating," said Andrew D. Ho, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a co-author of the federal growth-model pilot program evaluation.
Daria Hall, the director of K-12 policy development for the Education Trust, a Washington research and advocacy group, and one of the original peer reviewers for state growth-model proposals, agreed that some of the rhetoric in favor the concept has not been supported by the data.
"While there are certainly students who are not proficient but are making big learning gains, there's not nearly enough of them and not nearly as many as folks hoped or assumed that there were," Ms. Hall said, "and that's a real problem."
Department's Plan
More than half of states are already using or developing their own growth models, and incorporating growth into the next federal accountability system has become one of the most often-requested changes to the ESEA, whose current edition, the No Child Left Behind Act, was signed into law in 2002. Proposals to use growth models have the support of 15 national education organizations, including groups representing state schools chiefs, legislatures, governors, and school boards, as well as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
Testing Out Growth Models
When the U.S. Department of Education undertook a pilot project to evaluate growth models for judging whether schools are meeting their performance targets under the federal No Child Left Behind law, most of the participating states saw gains.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development
Growth-based accountability is also a centerpiece of the Education Department's vision for the ESEA reauthorization. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told House education committee members at a hearing last month: "[W]e mean a system of accountability based on individual student growth—one that recognizes and rewards success and holds us all accountable for the quality of education we provide to every single student in America."
"This is a sea change from the current law—which simply allows every state to set an arbitrary bar for proficiency—and measures only whether students are above or below the bar," he added.
Growth models have gained popularity because supporters say they provide that more nuanced picture of how students are progressing academically and what schools contribute to their learning.
"Simply counting the percent proficient is not a very good way to evaluate a school," said Peter G. Goldschmidt, a senior researcher at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at the University of California Los Angeles, who has studied growth models. "You want to see how schools are facilitating learning, for which you need to look at individual kids."
Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings started allowing states to experiment with growth models in 2005, via a pilot initially limited to 10 states. Each state had to tie growth to the existing annual proficiency targets for math and reading under NCLB, rather than setting different expectations for students based on their backgrounds or their schools' characteristics.
Ohio an Outlier
The Education Department evaluated only the states in the original pilot: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee. Of those, only Ohio has shown the growth model to make a big difference in the number of schools that made adequate yearly progress: More than twice as many Ohio schools made AYP via showing their students grew academically than by increasing the percentages of students who hit proficiency targets in 2007-08. Evaluators found, however, that Ohio uses a much more inclusive definition of students' being on track than other states. For the rest of the pilot states, growth alone accounted for a mere 4 percent of schools making AYP.
"It's not surprising then that the growth model didn't have much effect," Mr. Goldschmidt said. "There were a whole slew of adjustments … and when you took all of these, the growth model really became just another adjustment to how you count the percentage [of students] proficient."
Aside from Delaware, states do not use growth as a primary accountability measure for all students, the evaluation shows. Instead, schools are judged first on the basic proficiency status of each student group, and then through the use of those other "adjustments," such as a confidence interval to correct for changes in group size from year to year, or the federal law's "safe harbor" provision, which credits a school for improving by 10 percent or more from the previous year.
The pilot evaluation found more than 83 percent of schools made AYP by one of those standard measures, meaning growth didn't figure much into the accountability picture.
Moreover, growth models in most cases didn't hold schools accountable for high-achieving students found to be falling off track. Some states, like Colorado and Tennessee, require schools to base growth accountability only on the students who are on track to meet their ultimate target, regardless of their current performance. Most states base growth accountability only on the students who are not on grade level now, which can obscure future problems, Mr. Goldschmidt said.
'Rube Goldberg' Models
Damian W. Betebenner, an architect of the Colorado model and an associate at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, in Dover, N.H., agreed: "In my original forays into this, the [status] accountability system was often indistinguishable from the growth model. It could be a Rube Goldberg machine that kind of led you to the 'yes AYP/no AYP' decision, but there was nothing else in it."
Colorado's growth model, which has become a model for at least 15 other states, reports growth and status measures for all students and is the only state to allow parents as well as educators to use its database to look at a student's predicted achievement over various time frames, to understand how quickly the student will need to advance.
"You have some students starting 500 miles away from the destination and expect them to get to the destination in two hours; we can calculate that out and know they aren't going to get to the destination by driving," Mr. Betebenner said. "So we need to look at other ways to get them to the destination, or we need to consider that it will take them more time to get there."
Yet the implementation differences between states may make it harder for policymakers to glean best practices to include growth measures in the next ESEA.
"Even if we all had the same growth model, we could very well end up in a case where one state sees vast differences [in the number of schools making progress] and other states do not," Mr. Ho said.
Growth models have become popular in spite of the pilot's lackluster results. The Education Department opened the pilot to all states in 2007, and by 2010, according to a study by the Council of Chief State School Officers, 17 states had implemented a growth model and another 13 were developing one.
Not Value-Added
While they can at times rely on the same testing and other data, state growth models differ from the "value added" models that have attracted attention as a tool for evaluating teachers.
State growth models have myriad permutations, but they fall into three basic categories:
• The trajectory model, used by Colorado and Tennessee, among other states, is what most people think of when they envision growth: It takes the gap between the student's base test score and the proficiency target, usually three or four years out, to calculate how much the student must progress each year. A student who isn't on grade level this year, but whose prior test scores show he or she will reach proficiency within the allowed time frame, would be considered on track.
• A few states, such as Delaware, use a transition matrix. Rather than using test-score gaps, it measures how students achieve on a matrix of performance benchmarks, such as moving from the below-basic to the basic level.
• States like Ohio use a regression model, a statistical formula that predicts a student's likely achievement by comparing his or her test scores over several years with those of a representative cohort of students and then projecting the result out to the proficiency target. It can feel counterintuitive to teachers, Mr. Ho said, because it gives no weight to increasing test scores. "It basically says, if you have high scores now, but most of your scores are low, [the high score] is an anomaly," he said.
Mr. Ho and other researchers have found the regression model, also called a projection model, is the most accurate at predicting which students will actually be proficient at the end of the time frame.
Yet that model can send a grim message to struggling students. "It's even harder to demonstrate progress than [with] a status model," Mr. Ho said.
"You have to score really, really high, sometimes almost impossibly high, to demonstrate progress, so this is actually raising the standards on the lowest students."
In the end, Mr. Ho said, "none of [the growth models] has the perfect combination of transparency and incentives and rhetoric."
Published in Print: April 6, 2011, as Study Flags Challenges in Growth Accountability Models
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Thomas is Lecturer in Japanese Studies and the Department MRes Director.
Thomas is the Faculty Representative for the ECR Network.
Thomas joined the Department of International Studies in 2017. He holds a PhD and a BA(Hons, first class) in Japanese Studies from Monash University.
To date, Thomas' research has utilized the methodologies of cultural anthropology and has focused upon young men's participation in Japan's gay sub-cultural spaces and their consumption of media. Thomas has a particular interest in the role that mediated images of masculinity and sexual desire play in influencing young Japanese gay men's understandings of their desires and identities. His current projects include the ethnographic study of the Japanese gay media landscape and a study of the globalisation of queer Japanese popular culture, including Boys Love (yaoi) manga throughout the Asia-Pacific. Recently, Thomas has begun investigating Korean popular culture fandom in Japan and Australia, with a particular interest in ethnographic study of K-pop fandom amongst queer individuals.
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Recent projects supervised to completion include:
"K-pop: Its Social and Spatial Influence on the Tokyo Cityscape" (Masters of Research, 2018, primary)
Thomas is Secretary of the Society for Queer Asian Studies, an affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies.
Thomas is an Associate Member for the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University.
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Creative Misreading: Dislocating Japanese queer popular culture throughout the Asia-Pacific
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Investigating the inter-relationships of Japanese and Korean pop-culture fandom in Australia and Japan
East Asian Pornographies and Online Porn Cultures
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Regimes of desire: Young gay men and media in Japan
Aspirations for 'Japanese gay masculinity': comparing Chinese and Japanese men's consumption of porn star Koh Masaki
Baudinette, T., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Porn Studies.
Japanese Queer Men's Experiences of Gender
Baudinette, T., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Routledge companion to gender and Japanese culture. Coates, J., Fraser, L. & Pendleton, M. (eds.). Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Bachelor Japanists: Japanese aesthetics and Western masculinities
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Lovesick, The Series: adapting Japanese 'Boys Love' to Thailand and the creation of a new genre of queer media
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