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For decades, St. Paul's Dick Huss has been known as one of the most accomplished glass artists in Minnesota, His work is distinguished by his adventurous sense of color – in both translucent and opaque glass – and by the use of metals, primarily gold and silver leaf, in many of his pieces.
"I take risks all the time and try to always have fun," he states. "I've learned to appreciate failure because it's really the only way to measure success. My philosophy on life is 'always rebel.' Don't do it in a way that conflicts with others but in a way that keeps you actively questioning what's right and wrong. Otherwise you become complacent and that creativity you want leaves you."
The artist, who holds a degree from Mankato State University, has studied with glass masters Lino Tagliapietra, Dante Marioni and Richard Marquis and has served as an instructor at the University of Minnesota and at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. He has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation. Over the years, he has completed many commissions for public and private spaces. Dick's work can be found in collections worldwide, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corning Museum of Glass in New York.

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Auckland University of Technology
Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 55 Wellesley Street East, Auckland City, New Zealand
www.aut.ac.nz
About Auckland University of Technology:
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) is a university in New Zealand, formed on 1 January 2000 when a former technical college (originally established in 1895) was granted university status. It has five faculties across three campuses in Auckland: City, North, and South campuses, and an additional three specialist locations: AUT Millennium, Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory and AUT Centre for Refugee Education. AUT enrolled more than 29,000 students in 2016, including 4,194 international students from 94 countries and 2,417 postgraduate students. AUT's student population is diverse with a range of ethnic backgrounds including New Zealand European, Asian, Maori and Pasifika. Students also represent a wide age range with 22% being aged 25–39 years and 10% being 40 or older.
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Climate Hysteria CULT: Fear monger "Greta" proclaimed the "successor" to Jesus Christ by the Church of Sweden
The official "Church of Sweden" has proclaimed climate eco-fascist Greta Thunberg to be the "successor" to Jesus Christ, proving once again that climate fanatics are members of a religious cult that worships the planet as a "god."
Towards the end of last year, the Church of Limhamn tweeted a bizarre "Announcement!" about young Greta, blasphemously declaring that "Jesus of Nazareth has now appointed one of his successors, Greta Thunberg," to spread the gospel of global warming throughout all the land – except in China, though, because the world's biggest polluter is completely off-limits.
This disturbing tweet reemerged recently after Greta made her infamous appearance at the United Nations, where she looked everyone in the eye and said that her "message" to the world is simple: "We'll be watching you."
Before announcing her belief that the world is in the beginning stages of "a mass extinction," Greta nastily yelled to the crowd, "How dare you!" referring to her delusion that adult leaders have somehow "come to us young people for hope."
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I'm one of the lucky ones," an angry Greta went on to scream as if she was demon-possessed – just like Jesus did, apparently…
For more related news about the climate hoax that's now being spread by children like Greta Thunberg, visit Climate.news.
Church of Sweden says its earlier reference to Greta Thunberg being a type of Second Coming of Christ was "misinterpreted"
Now that this tweet has resurfaced and gained global attention, the Church of Sweden is trying to play damage control by claiming that it didn't actually mean what it said. According to this government-religious institution, the word "successor," in this context, could mean other things.
"Shortly after, the entire account was abandoned, with a sign-off message that defended the original celebration of Thunberg and suggested everyone has a right to interpret Jesus in their own way," the Church of Sweden said in a statement, obviously responding to critics who were quick to point out the blasphemy of likening Greta Thunberg to Jesus Christ.
The Church of Sweden went on to apologize, adding that "if we have hurt someone … it has never been our meaning. Our meaning has been to talk about Jesus Christ in our own way. Now we leave the arena. Thank you for your commitment, joy and debate. God bless you!"
Greta herself has not responded to the controversy, nor have either of her parents, whom we reported are both aligned with the domestic terrorist group known as Antifa (anti-fascists).
Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to worship Greta as if she really was Jesus in the flesh, noting that the 16-year-old climate fanatic is in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize.
According to the Nobel Committee, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the person or organization that has "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Apparently Greta's grandstanding at the U.N. with her prepared speech, followed by total confusion and silence when off-script, constitutes an act of "peace" in the eyes of the Nobel Prize committee these days.
"While the Lord Jesus Christ spoke the entire universe into existence, this poor little girl parroted a bunch of leftist brainwashing one-liners," wrote one commenter at The Gateway Pundit.
"Mind control by the leftist controlled MSM (mainstream media) is a very powerful thing as can be illustrated by the demonic look on this little girl's face."
Tagged Under: Anti Christ, blasphemy, Child abuse, Church of Sweden, climate cult, climate hysteria, cult, Greta, greta thunberg, idolatry, insanity, Jesus Christ, left cult, lunatics, psychological terrorism, satanism, successor, Twisted
Oak Park trustee Susan Buchanan: "You are a white male! Shut up!"
AOC nods in agreement after woman at town hall suggests that people need to eat their babies to save the planet
Pro-abortion students chant "f**k you," spit & throw soda on pro-life group
The time has come for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and put down the lawless, left-wing insurrection against America
10/11/2019 / By Mike Adams
Joe Biden demands media declare total obedience to Democrats and blacklist all dissenting voices
China is killing ethnic minorities in order to harvest their organs, but globalists say America is bad for using plastic straws
10/09/2019 / By Vicki Batts
Kamala Harris implies that only Democrats should be allowed to speak online… NO SPEECH for conservatives
Trump impeachment scam being run like typical intelligence community operation, warns former CIA officer
The collapse of Wall Street lunacy: WeWork company founded by delusional hype artist may soon have to file for bankruptcy
10/09/2019 / By Lance D Johnson
NBA exposed as a communist China propaganda machine that implicitly supports organ harvesting, slavery and the torture of political prisoners… it's time to BOYCOTT THE NBA
Why isn't Greta Thunberg concerned about child victims who are having their childhoods stolen due to death from transgender puberty-blocking drugs?
Gender-confused children being doped up with the same chemical castration drug forced onto sex offenders
Woman at Ocasio-Cortez town hall demands that everyone "eat the babies" – while AOC nods along
The Left is now openly abusing mentally disabled children to push climate change propaganda
Engineering school lowers entry requirements for women, guaranteeing the future collapse of buildings that are engineered by people who couldn't make the cut
The Greta Thunberg phenomenon is nothing but a money-making scheme set up by her handlers to profit from climate hysteria
MUST READ: Greta Thunberg pushed to prominence by ANTIFA parents and Soros connections
Must see mini documentary: "Los Angeles has fallen" – highlighting the failures of decades of liberal policies
More children are dying from gender-bending pharmaceuticals than from guns, but leftists couldn't care less


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There are billions, maybe even trillions, of different routes that an oil molecule can travel through a production facility. Take BP's vast North Sea business, for example, where, every day, enough oil to fill around 200,000 barrels flows from the rocks beneath the waves through thousands of miles of wellbores and risers into a complex web of pipelines and processing infrastructure.
At the heart of these operations are BP's petroleum engineers, making daily choices that require intricate calculations that determine which valves to open, what pressures to apply and how much water to inject – all in the name of safely optimizing production.
Decision making can be complex and lengthy but vital to continually improve performance and increase production.
Engineers have always relied on their own skills and experience, but now they have a twin to call on. Not a human clone, but a digital one – a highly-sophisticated simulation and surveillance system that recreates every element of a real-world plant in digital form. BP's North Sea business has been at the forefront of this digital development, and the APEX system it has helped to shape is now being rolled out to all of BP's production systems around the world.
And, it added 30,000 barrels of production globally last year.
Picture a digital twin of the human body – but instead of arteries, veins and organs, APEX is programmed with data about each one of BP's wells, their flow regimes and pressures, and is underpinned by physics-based hydraulic models.
And, like the human body, it's fast and responsive. With APEX, production engineers can run simulations that used to take hours in just a few minutes, making optimization continuous.Gulf of Mexico petroleum engineer Carlos Stewart says: "Engineering time has been the biggest payback – a system optimization could take 24-30 hours. In APEX, it takes 20 minutes.
"It can also be used to safely test 'what if' scenarios. By pairing the model with the actual data, irregularities can be detected hourly and the impact of procedures can be simulated to show engineers how they can tweak flow rates, pressures and other parameters to safely optimize production.
As some of BP's most complex production systems are found in the North Sea, APEX was piloted on a number of fields there first. Today, the team, including Tizzano, provides expert advice globally as new regions take up APEX and start benefiting from its incredible power to pinpoint where efficiency can be improved and also to predict where problems are likely to occur.
The response from production teams has been positive: BP Alaska optimization engineer Amy Adkison says: "We weren't sure we could use APEX on the North Slope because of the sheer scale of routing options, but we've had great support incorporating that complexity. We're excited to be able to collaborate with the other regions on the same technology platform.
"Each one has solved a puzzle for their region and we're eager to share learnings to boost optimization here in Alaska. It's meant that we have deployed in months instead of years," she says.
BP's Trinidad and Tobago system optimization lead, Shaun Hosein, explains: "There is always some kind of activity in such a large system – wells starting up, valve testing, pipeline inspections, and so on. Using this new tool, we can now quickly simulate what will happen, so we can optimize production.
APEX delivered 30,000 barrels of additional oil and gas production a day during 2017 across BP's global portfolio, with more expected in 2018, proving that the digital twin is more than just a virtual phenomenon, but a very welcome new member of the BP family.
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James Richard Walsh is a former water polo representative from New Zealand.

At the 1950 British Empire Games, Walsh won the silver medal as goalkeeper of the New Zealand men's water polo team.

References
http://www.olympic.org.nz/nzolympic/athlete/jim-walsh

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
New Zealand male water polo players
Water polo players at the 1950 British Empire Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand

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Somerville Company Faces Nearly $50,000 in Fines after Hand Crushing Work Accident in Massachusetts
A Someville company received a number of safety hazard violations from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a Massachusetts work injury.
A workplace injury at Royal Institutional Services Inc., a commercial laundry located at 30 Innerbelt Road, resulted in four separate violations. One of the company's mechanics sustained a crushing hand injury earlier this year while he was lubricating the chain of an ironer machine that was running. The company now faces fines of nearly $50,000.
Following the accident, OSHA administered an inspection and found that the machine had not first been de-energized and had its power source locked out before maintenance was performed. This safety precaution is required by the agency's hazardous energy control or "lockout/tagout" standard. Our Boston workers' compensation attorneys understand that these standards are in place to protect workers from potential injuries. When a company is discovered to neglect to protect workers, fines, fees and potential shutdown can result.
In addition to that initial violation, OSHA also discovered that employees that were authorized to perform maintenance were not effectively trained to safely perform these types of activities. They were also not evaluated to ensure that they understood and had been correctly demonstrating adequate energy control procedures.
"It's not enough for an employer to have a hazardous energy control program in place. It must be effective, and authorized employees must be effectively trained so they will understand and safely utilize proper procedures," said Jeffrey A. Erskine, OSHA's area director for Middlesex and Essex counties in Massachusetts. "Failure to do so can result in serious injury, such as occurred here."
The company received a repeat violation for the lack of energy control procedures. They also received two serious violations for the lack of effective training and evaluation for employees and one other-than-serious violation for a lack of documented lockout procedures for a machine. The repeat violation cost the company $35,000 while the two serious violations came with a $14,000 fine.
Companies will receive a repeat violation when an employer had been previously cited for the same violation within the last five years and has failed to make the proper changes to make the workplace safer. Royal Institutional Services Inc. received their initial violation in March of 2006.
A company will receive a serious violation when they expose their employees to a substantial probability of serious injury or death from a hazard that an employer either already knew about or should have known about.
Employers are required to provide safe work conditions for all employers. If an accident happens on the job and an injury results, employers can be required to provide the necessary compensation to the employees for pain, suffering and lost wages.
"Employers should be aware that the Department of Labor will actively pursue appropriate legal measures to protect the lives and well-being of America's workers when their employers fail to do so," said Michael Felsen, the Labor Department's regional solicitor for New England.
If you have been injured at work in the Boston area, contact Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Attorney Jeffrey S. Glassman for a free and confidential appointment to discuss your rights. Call 1-877-617-5333.
OSHA Releases New Compliance to Prevent Work Accidents in Massachusetts and Elsewhere, Massachusetts Workers Compensation Lawyers Blog, June 3, 2011
Folan Waterproofing and Construction Co. Receives Nine Citation for an Unsafe Work Site in Massachusetts, Massachusetts Workers Compensation Lawyers Blog, May 19, 2011
OSHA Revamps Their Scaffold Regulation to help Prevent Work Accidents in Boston and Elsewhere, Massachusetts Workers Compensation Lawyers Blog, July 2, 2011
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Updated: July 6, 2011 5:00 pm


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Prime Minister Rajoy said that the government will defend Spanish interests in the process that has begun, now that the United Kingdom has officially announced its decision to leave the EU. He also advocated continued progress by the other 27 Member States on the European integration process.
Mr Rajoy met in Valletta with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Malta and rotating president of the Council of the European Union, Joseph Muscat, to discuss the United Kingdom's departure from the EU, among other issues.
At the joint press conference given by the two leaders following their meeting, Mariano Rajoy referred to the official announcement by the British Government of its intention to withdraw from the European Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. "I respect the decision but am very sorry it has taken place. I don't think it is good for the United Kingdom in particular, but then nor do I think it is good for the EU as a whole", he said.
He explained that the negotiation process that began last on Wednesday must conclude within two years; in other words, by 29 March 2019. On the following day, the treaties of the EU will no longer apply to the United Kingdom unless all Member States unanimously decide to extend the negotiations.
Mariano Rajoy stressed that "the Government of Spain and all other European institutions are ready for these negotiations". In this regard, he recalled that an inter-ministerial commission was set up which has been working for some time and which met on Wednesday morning to study the document presented by the United Kingdom.
Furthermore, he issued a message of "calm, confidence and serenity to all Spanish citizens living in the United Kingdom, as well as the British citizens living in Spain", as well as to those Spanish companies investing or trading in the UK and those British companies doing likewise in Spain.
The Prime Minister said that his greatest priority during the negotiations will be "to minimise the uncertainty created by the United Kingdom's decision for our citizens, companies and Member States".
Mariano Rajoy reiterated that the Government of Spain will defend Spanish interests in these negotiations. "We want a balanced agreement but we also want – and we said this in Rome – the 27 Member States to continue making progress in the European integration process that has, without question, been one of the most important political operations undertaken on our continent in centuries".
Furthermore, he said that Spain will work "closely" with The European Union's lead Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier. "We will maintain unity among the 27 during the negotiations", he said.
The President of the Government also said that he wishes to "maintain the closest, most beneficial and fruitful relations possible between Spain and the United Kingdom in the best interests of all citizens".


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मध्यप्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह चौहान के गृह जिले सीहोर का नसरुल्लागंज भी ST/SC एक्ट के विरोध में बंद रहा. यहां एक भी दुकान नहीं खुली. देखिए रिपोर्ट.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan's home district Sehore was also closed in protest against the ST-SC Act. There is not a single store open here. View report.
Sehore was also closed in Bharat Bandh Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan's home district Sehore was also closed in protest against the ST-SC Act. There is not a single store open here. View report.


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package org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.dbo.persistence.discussion;

import static org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.query.jdo.SqlConstants.COL_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW_THREAD_ID;
import static org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.query.jdo.SqlConstants.COL_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW_USER_ID;
import static org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.query.jdo.SqlConstants.DDL_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW;
import static org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.query.jdo.SqlConstants.TABLE_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW;

import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.List;

import org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.dbo.FieldColumn;
import org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.dbo.MigratableDatabaseObject;
import org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.dbo.TableMapping;
import org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.dbo.migration.BasicMigratableTableTranslation;
import org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.dbo.migration.MigratableTableTranslation;
import org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.migration.MigrationType;

public class DBODiscussionThreadView implements MigratableDatabaseObject<DBODiscussionThreadView, DBODiscussionThreadView>{

	private static final FieldColumn[] FIELDS = new FieldColumn[] {
		new FieldColumn("threadId", COL_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW_THREAD_ID, true).withIsBackupId(true),
		new FieldColumn("userId", COL_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW_USER_ID, true),
	};

	private Long threadId;
	private Long userId;

	@Override
	public int hashCode() {
		final int prime = 31;
		int result = 1;
		result = prime * result + ((threadId == null) ? 0 : threadId.hashCode());
		result = prime * result + ((userId == null) ? 0 : userId.hashCode());
		return result;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean equals(Object obj) {
		if (this == obj)
			return true;
		if (obj == null)
			return false;
		if (getClass() != obj.getClass())
			return false;
		DBODiscussionThreadView other = (DBODiscussionThreadView) obj;
		if (threadId == null) {
			if (other.threadId != null)
				return false;
		} else if (!threadId.equals(other.threadId))
			return false;
		if (userId == null) {
			if (other.userId != null)
				return false;
		} else if (!userId.equals(other.userId))
			return false;
		return true;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "DBODiscussionThreadView [threadId=" + threadId + ", userId=" + userId + "]";
	}

	public Long getThreadId() {
		return threadId;
	}

	public void setThreadId(Long threadId) {
		this.threadId = threadId;
	}

	public Long getUserId() {
		return userId;
	}

	public void setUserId(Long userId) {
		this.userId = userId;
	}

	@Override
	public TableMapping<DBODiscussionThreadView> getTableMapping() {
		return new TableMapping<DBODiscussionThreadView>() {

			@Override
			public DBODiscussionThreadView mapRow(ResultSet rs, int rowNum)
					throws SQLException {
				DBODiscussionThreadView dbo = new DBODiscussionThreadView();
				dbo.setThreadId(rs.getLong(COL_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW_THREAD_ID));
				dbo.setUserId(rs.getLong(COL_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW_USER_ID));
				return dbo;
			}

			@Override
			public String getTableName() {
				return TABLE_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW;
			}

			@Override
			public String getDDLFileName() {
				return DDL_DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW;
			}

			@Override
			public FieldColumn[] getFieldColumns() {
				return FIELDS;
			}

			@Override
			public Class<? extends DBODiscussionThreadView> getDBOClass() {
				return DBODiscussionThreadView.class;
			}
		};
	}

	@Override
	public MigrationType getMigratableTableType() {
		return MigrationType.DISCUSSION_THREAD_VIEW;
	}

	@Override
	public MigratableTableTranslation<DBODiscussionThreadView, DBODiscussionThreadView> getTranslator() {
		return new BasicMigratableTableTranslation<DBODiscussionThreadView>();
	}

	@Override
	public Class<? extends DBODiscussionThreadView> getBackupClass() {
		return DBODiscussionThreadView.class;
	}

	@Override
	public Class<? extends DBODiscussionThreadView> getDatabaseObjectClass() {
		return DBODiscussionThreadView.class;
	}

	@Override
	public List<MigratableDatabaseObject<?, ?>> getSecondaryTypes() {
		return null;
	}

}

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A couple of years after achieving the American dream of owning a big house, I had the overwhelming desire for less. I was tired of stressing over the high utility bills, the time cleaning, and the piles of stuff. I found myself longing for the simple, quaint small houses we lived in when we were first married.
When a relocation presented itself, we decided to make the dive into living smaller. We purchased a 1940's, 920 square-foot house in the historic district of Folsom, California. We have been infusing our own personality into the house but the limited space has not been without challenges!
I have been married to John since 1987. Together we have three grown children, two of whom are married and three grandchildren.
After working 25 years in sales management, I now run an Etsy Shop, Pen and Paperie. I love organizing, homemaking, gardening, and watercolor. John and I travel North American in our Airstream named Roswell. All of the national parks in the United States are on our bucket list. It is a bold goal, but we are making a good dent in it!
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I have been hired to design for new construction, remodel projects, color consultation, and home staging. I previously owned and operated Rustchic–furniture and home decor that had been repurposed or upcycled. I have achieved numerous sales awards, taught training on a national level, and provided public speaking on various topics.
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Q: Scroll View is not scrolling I have designed my app for 4inch devices using xcode 5 and storyboard builder. Since the 3.5inch screen is a little bit smaller, I want to make my view scrollable.
This is what I have done: I added a ScrollView using interface builder and added my View (that contains all elements) as a subview of it.

I start the app using the 4inch simulator and it does not scroll - exactly what I want. But when I open it with the 3.5inch simulator my content gets cut and scrolling is not possible. Why? And how can I activate it?

A: have you implement the UIScrollViewDelegate Protocol

A: Do you use Autolayout?
You also want to make sure your scrollview's contentSize is set to your view's size.

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US President Donald Trump said he had turned down a request to Mexico's President Enrique Benia Nieto on the border wall.
Trump said on Saturday the Mexican president had asked him to say Mexico would not pay for the proposed US-proposed border wall.
At a campaign rally for a Republican candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania, Trump revealed some details of a phone call with Benia Nieto last month that delayed the Mexican leader's plans to make his first White House visit.
Trump said Benya Nieto was "a really nice man" who gave his request respectfully.
"Mr. President, I want you to say that Mexico will not pay for the wall," Trump said.
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In what used to be my favourite episode of The Simpsons , Moe, the bartender at Homer's sordid, beer-swilling local dive, makes an epiphanic journey back to his alma mater. At Swigmore College he learnt his true trade: cocktail mixing and atmosphere creation. In a delicious skit on American campus movies, he rediscovers his vocation amid autumn colours and ivy-covered halls. What made me love the show was the absurdity of it all. Swigmore College! A bartenders' university!
In the US, we have institutions of higher learning for almost everything. "Ability to handle heavy weights and a bachelors degree required" is a typical job ad. There are schools that call themselves universities for accountants, restaurateurs, osteopaths and sports coaches.
Apart, perhaps, from prostitution, the one profession so widely reviled that you would never expect to find it hallowed by academe is the supply of intoxicating liquor. That, at least, is what I thought. I have spent this morning reading about bartending schools on the web. I no longer think Moe's adventures funny: they are too realistic for satire.
I was astonished to find that on the campus of Harvard University students can do a weekend "mixology" course to equip them to shake cocktails in local bars or, as the course promotion says, prepare for "three better years of partying" in their freshman year. At Columbia University, a "School of Mixology" offers five-week training in the same arts. The syllabus of Bartending University in North Carolina - "committed to excellence" - covers "alcohol law, etiquette, service standards, glassware selections and liquor labels". At Bartending Academy - Arizona's only state-certified bartending school - you learn that "bartending goes back to the days of the Romans".
What makes this weird is that universities hate or affect to hate drink.
The legacies of puritanism and Prohibition are still strong here. One of President Ronald Reagan's more stupid laws was to forbid people under the age of 21 to have so much as a glass of wine with their meals, which pretty much ensures that teen drinking takes the form of clandestine abuse.
Universities have to appear to enforce the law because if a student were to get drunk and cause trouble or inflict harm, the school would get a big bill for damages. The first note I received during my first experience as a visiting professor in the US did not say, as I expected, "Welcome to Brown University", but warned me not to give a drink to a student under the age of 21. I grew anxious, because experience suggested that no student could get through an hour of my company unfortified by a glass of sherry. I have been to fundraising meals on US campuses at which no drink was served. The idea that benefactors would sign cheques without lubrication left me staggering, though sober. In the faculty dining room at the university where I work, you can't get a drink at lunchtime, so I entertain guests elsewhere.
The other day at a club in Washington DC I met a scholar who has a huge government research grant at a big university. Her objective is to find ways to discourage students from drinking. "Wouldn't it be more sensible,"
I asked, "to encourage them to drink responsibly? And wouldn't the most helpful step be a reform of the law and a revolution in the culture to allow young people to grow up with knowledge and experience of alcohol?"
She responded with a common technique: conceding the point while making it abundantly clear that she proposed to ignore it. I endured a lecture on the evils of demon drink - its association with accidents, crimes and domestic violence. "But," I said, when she paused for breath and a sip of limpid water, "isn't a lot of that the result of the way the law and the culture demonise drink?" She agreed perfunctorily, and resumed the lecture. I swigged my wine.
US attitudes to alcohol are riven with paradox. Young people are prevented from enjoying a health-giving glass with meals, yet encouraged in flatulence or obesity with bubbly, sugary soda pops. Drink is virtually banned in workplaces, and if you take a glass of wine in working hours - as I do daily pour épater les bourgeois - people stare at you with eyes darkened by anxiety at this evidence of incipient alcoholism. Yet, in the evening, when the dangers of corporate responsibility disperse, my guests think nothing of downing three or four Martinis, a different wine with every course and a liqueur or two before driving home. The law is ferocious with sober teenagers who take a drink but lax with grown-up drunks in charge of deadly vehicles.
I daren't let my students drink, but at least I now know I can write testimonials for them for bartending schools. Meanwhile, if God spares my liver, I shall make it my mission to acclimatise my neighbours and colleagues to wine at lunchtime.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is Prince of Asturias professor of history at Tufts University in the US.
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Panel at University City Library Discusses Race, Reunion and Redemption Project
November 05, 2019 | General news, Project news
When an acquaintance contacted Judy Gladney to see whether she would be attending their fiftieth high school reunion, she blew him off. Why bother, she thought. The only other University City High School reunion she went to wasn't an experience she wanted to revisit.
She barely knew anyone there, and almost no other African American alumni attended. "I always felt like an outsider at U. City," she said. "I didn't fit in with the white kids, I didn't quite fit in with most of the black kids. You've got all this teenage angst, you're trying to find your niche, and where was my niche?"
You won't find her name in the history books, but Judy, now 67, had been in the first phalanx of African Americans to integrate U. City schools in the mid-1960s. Fifty years later Judy decided to attend her reunion. But she is doing so much more than that. She is sharing her experiences at a public forum at the University City Public Library.
Judy shared her story during a panel discussion alongside her daughter, Erica Vickers Cage, and Dr. Sharonica L. Hardin-Bartley, the superintendent for the School District of University City. The rest of the panel consisted of Pulitzer Center grantees including Sylvester Brown, a native St. Louisan journalist who founded Take Five Magazine and "The Sweet Potato Project," and Ellen Futterman, who spent 25 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is now the editor at the St. Louis Jewish Light.
Race, Reunion, and Redemption
Richard Weiss
Richard Weiss is an award-winning writer, editor, and writing coach with more than three decades of experience at newspapers, much of it at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. After leaving the...
Ellen Futterman
A native New Yorker, Ellen joined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1982 and spent 25 years there. Among her many jobs at the Post, Ellen was a news reporter, feature writer, columnist, Arts and...
Sylvester Brown
A native St. Louisan, Sylvester has been a journalist and social justice advocate since 1987 when he started Take Five Magazine, a pro-active, community-based, investigative publication. In 2001, the...
Intern, Pulitzer Center staff
Katie Brown is a general intern at the Pulitzer Center who recently received her master's degree in Science Communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She also has a degree in...
Conflict, Culture, Education
General news, Project news
Judy Gladney: Among the First to Integrate U. City Schools
How One Family Helped To Integrate University City High School
She Was Among the First to Integrate U. City Schools — and the Memories Are Bittersweet
Conflict and Peace Building
Bringing Stories Home


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Burmese pythons on the move to California.
I'm impressed that an article with this much of a tongue-in-cheek tone made it into a major metropolitan newspaper, what with lines like, "There are few free-roaming African lions and tigers between Florida and San Francisco, the geological survey said." Darned lack of lions! Well, maybe by 2020, when the article says the pythons will hit the Bay area, the tiger population of the southwestern United States will have surged. Keep a happy thought.
As we were taking our daughter to school this morning, the weather was cold and the sky was gray. The school is less than a mile from our house, but with weather this cold, we were definitely going to drive.
About halfway there, something amazing happened. It suddenly started to snow! This wasn't in the forecast.
It wasn't enough for a snow day, of course, so onward to school she went, mildly flummoxed by the weather. On the way back home, we didn't get more than 100 yards from the school before the snow tapered away. In the rear view mirror, though, a steady snow. It's like a little pocket of happiness, entirely localized on my daughter's school.
My husband suggested I take a walk up that way. "Now if only you could find some kind of knitted thing to wear to keep you warm…" Wise guy.
I think I'll take his advice and walk to the school. And then drink some hot cocoa.
ETA: Opened the door for a walk, and the snow is at the house! YAY!
How'd that space Brownie meeting go?
I'm caught up on Jayne hats, by which I mean I'm working on hats ordered eight weeks ago with an eight week delivery time. The next few up are from Dec. 27-28, and I'm starting in on those tomorrow. But today, I decided to knit a little on non-paid projects.
So tonight, I screwed up the heel turn on my second Fuzzyfoot and mangled the decorative edging I chose for my daughter's doll's dress.
I should just not knit anything but Jayne hats ever again. Sigh.
In cute daughter news, I apparently haven't been keeping up with the personal lives of the stars. I had no idea that Lucy Liu had a little sister named Contessa Liu who had two children named Tiarra Liu and Bennet Liu. The children apparently each have a pet – one has an armadillo, and the other has an opossum. There's artwork which I wish I could show you. Come home to mama, digital camera!
The furnace busted late yesterday. It didn't seem so bad at the time, since it was in the high sixties, but today… today, not so much. Emily got up and went into the den to lie on the couch and kind of ease into the day. While she was in the bathroom, I tossed the couch blanket into the dryer to warm up for a few minutes. Then I fixed her breakfast and asked her if she wanted her hot water bottle. She said no. So I took one of Steve's clean sweatsocks, poured in some uncooked rice, knotted it, and threw it in the microwave for about 30 seconds. Made a great heat pack even if it smelled a little like rice. Now I want some of my husband's chicken teriyaki.
The rice socks retain heat for at least a half an hour. She said it was too hot, and she didn't want it anyway. That's okay, it felt fine to me and saved me from making one of my own! This kid routinely wants to wear miniskirts in the winter, so probably she really was okay in her flannel PJs.
The furnace guys can come out tomorrow morning to fix it. And we've got a kerosene heater that we can fire up to heat things up before bed, so at least we'll have a better temperature to cool down from. I think we're good for now. We may head out elsewhere later – or else just I may head out elsewhere later. My husband and my daughter are both hot-blooded Italians. I'm a WASP with chilly feet.
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My Jayne hat not authentic enough for ya? Come September, you can bid on the original!


This spear head is forged of carbon steel and ready to affix to the pole of your choice. Socket is 1'' Across. The spear socket is split along its body, allowing it to slightly expand to accomodate a wider spear shaft.


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Sea breezes, ocean, sunset, city lights views from living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom & patios, lush greenery, stroll to Promenade shopping, Peninsula Center, excellent Cornerstone Elementary & Peninsula High Schools - the quintessential PV home on The Hill- bright, open, airy, near the border of PV Estates/Rancho PV, corner cul-de-sac elevated lot. Remodeled with the finest finishes- luxurious large-format marble floors, marble countertops, marble/travertine fireplace, elegant crown moldings, recessed lighting with dimmers, dual-pane windows & French doors, renovated kitchen with stainless steel appliances, 3 well-sized bedrooms, 2 updated baths with deep soaking tub, central heating & AC, upgraded plumbing & electrical, security system, large finished attached 2-car garage/bonus room, 2 covered patios, 20+ fruit trees w/ orange, apple, peach, pomegranate, persimmon, mulberries & more! Feel the way living in PV should be!
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But that's not working...

A: You can use $("#ct option[value='7,8,1']").val("-1");

$("#ct option[value='7,8,1']").val("-1");
console.log($("#ct").val());
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A: If I understand correctly you are need something like:
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This way you pass on your option items and set the value of the selected ones

A: You have used getElementsByTagName('options') in your code and no tag available with name options. Instead you should use correct tag name option.


Hotel Reykjavik Centrum is located in Reykjavik, close to Parliament House, Reykjavik City Hall, and National Museum of Iceland. Nearby points of interest also include Hallgrimskyrka and Perlan.
Dining options at Hotel Reykjavik Centrum include a restaurant and a coffee shop/cafe. A bar/lounge is open for drinks. Room service is available 24 hours a day. The hotel serves Hot and cold buffet breakfasts (surcharges apply). This 4 star property has a business center and offers small meeting rooms, a meeting/conference room, and business services. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) is available in public areas. The property offers a roundtrip airport shuttle (surcharge).
Concierge services and tour assistance are available. Additional property amenities include multilingual staff and laundry facilities. This is a smoke free property.
All guestrooms at Hotel Reykjavik Centrum feature minibars and coffee/tea makers. Bathrooms feature handheld showerheads, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. Wireless Internet access is available. In addition to complimentary newspapers and safes, guestrooms offer direct dial phones. Televisions have satellite channels and pay movies. Also included are windows that open and blackout drapes/curtains. Guests may request hypo allergenic bedding, extra towels/bedding, and wake up calls. Housekeeping is available daily. Guestrooms are all non smoking.
Some properties have extra fees for amenities or services that may apply even if you do not use them. Government fees or taxes also may be charged to you when you check in or check out. This property told us they will charge you for the following: A tax is imposed by the city: ISK 107 per accommodation, per night We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


Facing a decade of debt, financial analyst turned blogger Michelle Schroeder-Gardner of Making Sense of Cents got to work, side-hustling like her financial freedom depended on it- because it did.
I would go to the mall and test out the makeup counter, or I would go to a car dealership and test their customer service, and it didn't pay a ton of money, but I got a lot of things for free that I probably would've used anyways.
You're listening to Financial Grownup. With me, certified financial planner, Bobbi Rebell, author of How To Be a Financial Grownup. You know what? Being a grownup is really hard, especially when it comes to money. It's okay, we're going to get there together. I'm going to bring you one money story from a financial grownup, one lesson, and then my take on how you can make it your own. We got this.
Hey, friends. Okay, let's have a little honesty here. How much time do you think you spend watching TV, Netflix, YouTube, social media, and so on? Now, let's be real and double that number. I'm right there with you. Focusing on cutting out stuff like excess media helped get Michelle Schroeder-Gardner on the road to paying off her debt and allowed her to hit the road. She now makes six figures a month while traveling around the country, and actually, she's got some international trips under her belt as well, but she's mainly in an RV. I am such a fan of Michelle and her blog, Making Sense of Cents, and I'm excited for all of you to learn exactly how she turned around a boatload of student debt, and created the life that she always wanted and you would probably want too. It's pretty cool. Listen closely and then think about whether you want it bad enough to do it the easy way, and that'll make sense once you hear this, just like Michelle. Here is Michelle Schroeder-Gardner.
Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, you're a financial grownup. Welcome to the podcast.
You are, of course, the brains behind Making Sense of Cents. Congratulations on all the success around that. Just tell us briefly about your blog.
Yeah, so I started Making Sense of Cents back in August of 2011. It was all just a hobby. I didn't know that blogs could make money or anything like that. It was just so that I could talk about my student loan issue that I was having, and living paycheck-to-paycheck, and stuff like that. Soon after I realized that I could make money with my blog and I started making an income from it. Two years after I started it, I actually left my day job as a financial analyst to blog full-time and I will be going on five years of blogging full-time this fall.
Amazing. You live in an RV and you're in beautiful Tucson right now, which is amazing.
Yeah. We've been RVing for almost three years now and it's really great.
Awesome. All right. You brought with you a money story, which sort of ties into your whole blog, or your whole existence right now. You had quite a bit of student debt, but you had a plan. Tell us your money story.
I had around $40,000 in student loans. It all started when I of course went to school, went to college for my undergraduate degrees.
Webster University in Saint Louis, it's just a small college there.
Okay, but a private school?
Yep, a private school. I went there and I had two undergraduate degrees, business and management. I just didn't really think anything of student loan debt. I just thought the average person has 30 to $40,000 in student loans and if everyone else is doing it, then I would be fine with it too. I just continued to take out student loans, even though I was working full-time, I probably could've paid it down, I probably could've left school with no student loan debt, but I just wasn't smart about it. When I graduated I had around $35,000 in debt, and then I worked for a little bit as a financial analyst, and at the same time I went to school again for my finance MBA, and then I gathered a little bit more student loan debt. This time not as much, but after that I had around $40,000 in student loan debt.
Was there a moment where you sort of ... Where you looked at the bill and you kind of decided, "Oh, maybe I need to do something proactive?"
It was actually when I received the bill. I received my first student loan bill and it wasn't like an actual bill, it was just telling me, "Six months from now you're going to owe this amount of money each month." I can't remember the exact amount. It was like $750 or $1,000 a month and it was for the next 10 years or something. I just thought, "That is an insane amount of money to pay for the next almost decade." I definitely did not want that debt hanging over my head for that long, so that bill is exactly what got me into ... It's what got me motivated to pay it off.
Okay, so what was the plan?
I decided I was going to pay off my student loans as quickly as I could. My plan was actually to pay it off within six months, but I actually paid it off within seven months.
Still a great amount of time, of course. Yeah, so I'm not upset at all. Yeah, I just decided I was going to pay it off as quickly as I could through mainly side hustling and cutting down my budget as well.
Specifically, what did you cut and what did you increase your income through side hustling?
We lessened the amount of times that we ate out, we got rid of our gym memberships, and we negotiated all of our bills, our cellphone bill, insurance, and stuff like that. It was mainly side hustling that helped me improve or be able to pay off my debt a lot quicker.
What side hustles did you do?
I did a ton of different things. My biggest one was definitely blogging on Making Sense of Cents, but then I did a lot of others things that anyone can do. I mystery shopped. The company I used is called BestMark, but I would go to the mall and test out the makeup counter, or I would go to a car dealership and test their customer service, and it didn't pay a ton of money, but I got a lot of things for free that I probably would've used anyways. Like an oil change, or makeup that I already used, or a dinner out. Then I did a lot of other things, like I took part in research studies online or phone call research studies. I also sold items around my home on eBay and other places online. I staff wrote for other websites. I managed social media for other companies. I just did a lot of different things and I was working 40 hours a week on top of my day job as a financial analyst just side hustling.
Wow, so it was really not a side hustle. It was a double hustle.
What is your lesson for people to take away from that story? Because a lot of people might say, "Yeah, she could do that, but I'm really busy, or I'm so tired when I get home from work, I just can't do it, oh."
I hear that a lot and I always like to point out, I probably say this in every single interview that I'm in, is that the average person watches over 30 hours of TV a week. You're probably thinking, "Oh, I don't watch that much TV a week." I mean, if you just watched a couple hours after work every day, I mean, that's easily going to equal over 30 hours a week. Even if you could just take back half of those hours, or maybe a majority of those hours, I mean that's all time that you could put towards your side hustling. That's just cutting down how much you're watching TV. There's tons of other areas where you could cut down your hours. I mean, it's all about time management. If you want to pay off your debt, I mean, you'll find ways to find that time. Everyone says that they're busy. Trust me, I thought I was super busy and people thought I was crazy, but I found the time to side hustle or double hustle like crazy.
Exactly. It's okay if you're not caught up on the latest TV show or whatever, people understand.
Yeah, no one's going to judge you.
Well, I want you to give us a money tip and it's sort of related to all of this, because you want to talk about side hustling. What are some specific ways that people, for your money tip, that people can earn that extra side hustle money?
Definitely the top money tip is analyze where you're wasting time and side hustle. My other big tip is if you want to side hustle, especially side hustle a ton like I did, find things that bring you joy. I really liked finding items to sell. I loved mystery shopping. I really love blogging, and managing social media, and stuff like that. If you are able to find joy in the way that you're side hustling, that'll make the time pass much more quickly, because it seems more like a hobby than instead of you taking on a second full-time job or something like that. Definitely find the passion in your side hustle.
It's a good way to leverage whatever you're passionate about. I mean, if you love shopping, then being a mystery shopper is a perfect way to merge the two, because you're not even spending your own money really. You're getting free whatever. You're getting reimbursed for whatever just to give your opinion and you still have a lot of the feeling and the thrill of shopping.
Yeah, exactly. That's why I really loved mystery shopping, because I was still shopping and still just buying products that I would normally buy.
Exactly. All right. Where can people find you, learn more about you, and get in touch?
I mean, the best way would just be to go to makingsenseofcents.com. I also have a Facebook community, Making Sense of Cents Facebook community, and then if you want to follow my RV travels, I definitely recommend going to my Instagram account, which is Instagram.com/MichelleSchro.
Travel ideas, especially when you were in the Islands. I definitely have my eye on some of those trips.
A lot of what Michelle had to say made so much sense, especially when we are really honest about how we're spending our time and whether we're really intentional and focused when we have goals like paying down debt. Financial Grownup tip number one, you have to work for it, but you don't have to do the things that will make you miserable. I love Michelle's great attitude about her side hustles. It sounds like she might even do them now, maybe not, because she's busy on her RV traveling the world, but they were fun for her and key, they paid, and it was all good. When looking for side hustles, try to figure out things that make sense in your life and in your lifestyle, where you want to be, what you want to be doing. Things that you might be doing anyway, just like Michelle did. She did put in a lot of hours, but she had a good time with it.
Financial Grownup tip number two, talking about your life on a blog can both motivate you to accomplish your goals and it can create income. Making money blogging is not a given. It is hard work, but people that focus and do the hard work, like Michelle, do pull it off. You may not get to six figures a month like Michelle does with Making Sense of Cents, but that doesn't mean you won't see a payoff in other ways. I'm going to leave some links in the show notes for you so you can learn more about what Michelle does and maybe get some tips directly from Michelle from her courses. Thank you everyone for listening to this episode of Financial Grownup. If you haven't already subscribed, hit that button for me. I want to make sure you don't miss any upcoming episodes and reviews are great. I know that they take time, but if you have the time they are appreciated and they really help let other people know what's going on with the show and maybe they can discover it and enjoy what we're doing here as well.
You can follow me on Twitter @BobbiRebell, on Instagram @BobbiRebell1, and of course, learn more about the show and catch up with other episodes at BobbiRebell.com/financialgrownuppodcast. I hope you enjoyed this episode with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner and that we all got one step closer to being financial grownups. Financial Grownups with Bobbi Rebell is edited and produced by Steve Stewart and is a BRK Media production.


When a Finnish farmer in the 1930s is violently transported across the border into the USSR, he is forced by Soviet intelligence to infiltrate a farm collective and inform his handlers of any suspicious anti-communist activity in this epic story of one man's struggle to survive.
When the Great Depression destroyed the Western world's economy, thousands of American and Canadian citizens came to the Soviet Union under Stalin's promise of building a true worker's paradise. But Jussi Ketola (Tommi Korpela, The Other Side of Hope) and his family have chosen to return from America to his homeland of Finland, a country currently embroiled in a bloody civil war that has divided its citizens into Reds and Whites. One night, a group of men break into Jussi's farm, accuse him of being a socialist, and violently transport him over the border. Now trapped in Petrozavodsk in the Soviet Union, Jussi is accused of being a Finnish spy and told that, should he wish to remain alive, he must assume a new identity, infiltrate a farm collective, and inform his handlers of any suspicious activity. Now, with his family back home thinking him dead, Jussi begrudgingly accepts his missions and finds solace in an American widow named Sara (Sidse Babett Knudsen, "Westworld"). But as the increasingly paranoid communist regime takes hold of Europe, Julli discovers that any semblance of happiness can be ripped away at any moment. Winner of Best Film at the 2018 Jussi Awards, Finland's equivalent to the Academy Awards®, The Eternal Road is an epic story of one man's struggle to survive.
Finnish director, screenwriter, and actor AJ Annila is celebrated for original and unique content that is often so outside of the conventional box that it is considered polarizing to audiences. Though he is praised for masterfully incorporating unexpected elements to create a palpable atmosphere in his work.


It's no surprise that organizations are looking for more efficient ways to train and retrain their employees. With companies investing heavily into their training and development programs in order to fill their skills gaps and reach their full capacity, organizations are looking for the best ways to spend their training budgets.
AT&T, for example, notified 100,000 of their employees that their job roles wouldn't be relevant in ten years and created the Workforce 2020 initiative, with over $1 billion invested, to help upskill their employee base.
How has Virtual Reality (VR) become a reality?
One promising technology Virtual Reality (VR), has the potential to train like nothing else in the corporate world. A year ago, UPS announced that it would start training their delivery drivers to spot and identify road hazards using VR headsets that vividly simulate the experience of driving on city streets. As the global leaders in shipping and logistics, UPS saw this new corporate training tactic as a more effective, memorable way to teach a lesson to their employees.
IT experts at UPS created the VR training modules that users see and hear inside VR headsets. Learners using the modules must verbally identify potential road hazards such as pedestrians, parked cars and oncoming traffic. The 360-degree view inside the headset is realistic down to its finest details.
VR provides engaging, immersive, and highly interactive experiences and for this reason, it's received well-deserved attention as an innovative, effective training technology.
With headset and motion tracking, VR lets you look around a virtual space as if you're actually there. It's also been a promising technology for decades that's never truly caught on. That's changing with the current wave of VR products that are becoming affordable.
The device that is most commonly used for VR training is a VR headset. The most common VR headsets in 2018 are: Sony PlayStation VR, HTC vive, Oculus Rift, Google Daydream View. The amazing fact is that the average price of a VR headset had dramatically dropped down to around $300. This makes VR a feasible technology for training.
Walmart, BMW, VISA, Bank of America, Google, Verizon, ABC are also among the organizations using VR for employee training—and the list is growing every day.
Photo: UPS VR corporate training in action.
Some companies are using another technology for VR training, called "Digital Cave." This system consists of five 300-degree screens, like a wrap-around cave. Trackers follow the participants as the floor is wired for sound and vibration. For security training, VR without a head-mounted display is much more realistic, because that's the way it is in real life. One of the leading providers of digital caves is Virtra.
From a learning effectiveness point of view VR is a very promising training technology.
United Rentals, for example, cut their training time down by 40%. Fidelity increased customer satisfaction by 10%. Training experts envision that VR will play a major role as a learning technology and will be widely used by the year 2020.
As important as it is to create training that's engaging, it's equally important to measure the effectiveness of your corporate training programs by using next-generation training solutions. With real-time reporting like T2K BI, the trainer can seamlessly compare skill levels of those attending a training session, allowing the trainer to correlate it with existing data, and identify new opportunities to enable growth.
Photo: Actionable insights on a learners' progress and performance with T2K Echo BI.
Training executive should not wait for the future because it's already here, and any organization could be reaping the benefits right now. Virtual Reality is not a dream anymore–it has officially become a reality and with close, effective monitoring, we can see the full picture of the positive effects VR has on the learner.


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Actor, Playwright, Long-Distance Walker
This Evil Thing
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"WELL-KNOWN actor and playwright Michael Mears brings his one-man play, This Evil Thing, about conscientious objectors in the First World War to Stratford's Kempe Studio this Sunday. The play marks 100 years since conscription was bought in in 1916, here Michael tells Herald arts about the play and his inspiration for writing it." The Stratford upon Avon Herald .interview 12th January 2017.
'For God's sake! This protest of yours – is it really worth losing your lives over?'
January 1916: Bert Brocklesby is a young schoolteacher, and preacher at his local Methodist church; Bertrand Russell is one of the greatest mathematicians of his time. With the advent of military conscription their worlds are about to be turned upside down.
THIS EVIL THING is the compelling, shocking and inspiring story of the men who said no to war; a rarely told story involving a dizzying journey from a chapel in Yorkshire to the House of Commons; from an English country garden to a quarry in Aberdeen; from a cell in Richmond Castle to a firing squad in France.
'18? You're too young to have a conscience!'
With military conscription still in force in many countries today, and prisoners of conscience still languishing in jails, the questions posed by THIS EVIL THING are as relevant and urgent as they were one hundred years ago.
Michael Mears – 'The Fringe-First Award winning master of the one-man show' The List (on Soup) –portrays a gallery of characters from conscientious objectors to army generals, from Prime Ministers to world-famous mathematicians, with breath-taking physical and vocal dexterity. This highly original piece of storytelling uses verbatim testimonies, a multi-layered sound landscape and vivid visual imagery.
Rosamunde Hutt has just directed the critically acclaimed LOVE, BOMBS AND APPLES (Turtle Key Arts/AIK Productions) at the Arcola Theatre, London and on a UK tour.
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Baltimore Orioles, Adam Jones Nearing Extension
By SB Nation MLB News Updated May 25, 2012, 10:54am EDT
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May 18, 2012; Washington, DC, USA; Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones (10) hits an RBI single against the Washington Nationals during the first inning at Nationals Park. Mandatory Credit: Brad Mills-US PRESSWIRE
Update: Ken Rosenthal is reporting the deal will be six years and in the "$85 million range."
Sources tell me and @jonmorosi that Adam Jones deal with #Orioles will be six years in $85 million range.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) May 25, 2012
First-place O's Set to Extend Their Best Player
The Baltimore Orioles are nearing a long-term extension with center fielder Adam Jones, according to Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports:
BREAKING: Sources tell me and @jonmorosi that #Orioles are close to signing Adam Jones to a long-term extension.
Per several tweets from Rosenthal, Jones completed a physical yesterday and now the two sides are hammering out the final details of the contract. According to his sources, the deal is "well north" of Miguel Tejeda's six-year, $72 million free agent deal and Nick Markakis' six-year, $66 million extension.
He's earning $6.15 million this season as a second time arbitration eligible player, and any extension would buy out the rest of his arbitration eligibility -- as well as making him the highest paid player in Orioles history.
Jones, 26, is hitting .311/.357/.601 on the season, something of a breakout from his career .278/.322/.449.