Using ESP8266-12E modules based on the NodeMCU chip layout utilising several GPIO Pins to interface with machines.
This includes monitoring a 5v LED for the current status of the machine, controlling a 240v Solenoid to turn a machine on and off again, and outputting to 2 LEDs to show current status.
We will connect multiple ESP Modules to a Raspberry Pi (acting as a server) to monitor and send messages to the ESP Modules based on control logic.
ESP Modules are cheap-readily available SoC devices that have a full TCP/IP Stack, and have been in production since early 2014. These devices run a 32-bit micro controller running at 80Mhz. This may sound slow when comparing with modern day PC's and Phones (typically in the 1-3Ghz Range), but these devices are more then capable for the simple dedicated OS (Operating System) they run and the custom software that allows them to interact with the world.
The Raspberry Pi is a recent Model 3. It contains a much more powerful 1.5ghz dual core processor, and runs a familiar Linux based GUI. Through this GUI, the use of the Tkinter Python graphics library and an MQTT broker, the ESP Modules will be able to communicate with the Raspberry Pi and update the user to the current and historical status' of the CNC Machines they are monitoring.
This control logic will allow users to view the data that has been collected from the ESP Modules in a meaningful way.
The majority of the work involved in setting up a system like this is in deciding what will be the control logic for the machines. Having the ESP Modules communicate directly with the Server over the WiFi Network allows for seamless deployment of lots of modules across many different CNC machines, and all this information is recorded on the Raspberry Pi. Displaying this data in a useful and meaningful way to the admin staff at Axiom is a challenge that 2excel and Axiom PM are working through together before the developers even start with the Raspberry Pi itself.
The aim for this system is to allow Axiom's management team to increase the up-time of the machines, increasing their efficiency and reducing waste. In a business where time is so vitally important and keeping costs down as much as possible, increasing the use of existing resources is incredibly important.
2excel is well positioned to produce a functional, informative solution for Axiom PM in a timely manner, which will help Axiom PM increase their efficiency.


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The Order: 1886 is releasing in just a month, and Sony Computer Entertainment released a brand new story trailer, giving us a glimpse on the apparently intricate plot behind all that shooting.
Looks like there are a lot more shades of grey behind the Order, and in the end the good guys may not prove to be entirely what we think they are.
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The Order: 1886 Developer Ready At Dawn Acquired By Facebook
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The Canyon View Homeowners Association Board of Directors will meet at 7:00 PM, May 14, 2018 at the Parachute Branch Library, 244 Grand Valley Way, Parachute, CO. The meeting is open to the public and all Association Members are encouraged to attend. For more information on this meeting call the Association Office at 970.285.7482.
For additional details regarding the meeting agenda, please check the Canyon View Agenda and Minutes page a few days prior to the meeting when the final agenda will be posted.
The Association's Annual Meeting of Members is planned for March 14, 2019.
The First Eagles Point Homeowners Association Annual Meeting of Members will be held at 7 PM, February 15, 2018 at the Parachute Branch Library, 244 Cardinal Way, Parachute, CO. The meeting is open to the public and all Eagles Point Members are encouraged to attend. For more information on this meeting call the Association Office at 970.285.7482.
Note: The Members will be electing a Member to the Board of Directors at this meeting. If you are interested in serving on the board, please contact the Association Manager at 970.285.7482.
The Annual Meeting of Members of the Fairway Villas Homeowners Association was held on February 19, 2018 as scheduled. The meeting was held at the Grand Valley Fire Protection District, 124 Stone Quarry Road in Battlement Mesa, CO.
The budget for the fiscal year, 2018.04.01 to 2019.03.31 was ratified by the Members. Quarterly assessments will remain the same at $772.86.
At the meeting, Nanci Brown was elected to replace Dennis Lightbown and Brad Gates was elected as the Fairway Villas Delegate to the Battlement Mesa Service Association Both terms will end in March 2021.
Minutes of the recent Annual Meeting of the Members will not be posted to the website until they are approved at next year's Annual Meeting. Last year's minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Members was approved at this meeting and are now posted on the website.
The Grass Mesa HOA Board of Directors will meet on March 29, 2018 at 6 PM. Board of Director meetings are normally held at the Garfield County Sheriff's Annex, 106 County Road 333-A, Rifle, CO but can change based on meeting room availability so please check the Grass Mesa Agenda and Minutes page prior to the meeting date. The meeting is open to the public and all Association Members are encouraged to attend. For more information on this meeting call the Association office at 970.285.7482.
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The Association's Annual Meeting of the Members is scheduled for June 7, 2018 at 6 PM.
The Knollridge Townhomes Association Board of Directors will meet at noon on September 14, 2018 at 823 Cooper Avenue, Glenwood Springs, CO. The meeting is open to the public and all Association Members are encouraged to attend. For more information on this meeting call the Association Office at 970.285.7482. For additional details regarding the meeting agenda, please check the Knollridge Townhomes Agenda and Minutes page a few days prior to the meeting when the final agenda will be posted.
The Talisman Pointe Townhomes Owner's Association Annual Meeting of Members was held at 5:15 PM, February 20, 2018 at the PLPOA Club House, 230 Port Avenue, Pagosa Springs, CO. At the meeting, Michael Branch was elected to replace Ryan Slingerland who's board of director's term was ending. Ryan, who has served on the board for the past twelve years, chose not to run for re-election. Kandi Meisinger's term also ended at this meeting; however, after some encouragement, she agreed to run for re-election and was elected to another term.
During the Annual Meeting, the Members approved an Amendment to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Talisman Pointe Townhomes which would add Phase III of the development into Talisman Point Townhomes Owner's Association.
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The Valley View Village HOA, Townhomes and Condominiums Boards of Directors will meet on April 10, 2018 at the Grand Valley Fire Protection District, Station #1, 144 Stone Quarry Road, Battlement Mesa, CO. The meeting is open to the public and all Association Members are encouraged to attend. For more information on this meeting call the Association Office at 970.285.7482.
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The Battlement Mesa Service Association Board of Directors held its Annual Meeting of Delegates on January 16, 2018. At this meeting an election was held to elect Board Members to the three officer positions: President, Vice President and Secretary / Treasurer. Laurel Koning was elected President, Bob Arrington was elected Vice President and John Shepherd was elected Secretary / Treasurer.
The BMSA Board of Directors meets monthly on the third Tuesday of the month at 9 AM. The meetings are open to the public and Battlement Mesa owners and residents are encouraged to attend. The BMSA meetings are held at the Grand Valley Recreation Center at 401 Arroyo Drive in Battlement Mesa.
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Sliding Doors. Mirage Enterprises 1998.
Exploring parallel outcomes of a small change in one's life is hardly a unique source of plot, especially since Many Worlds Theory entered popular consciousness. Malcolm in the Middle did an episode on what would happen depending on which parent chaperoned an outing, one of Community's most popular episodes traces seven different continuities, Mister Nobody follows a mind-bending number of possibilities, and Constellations recently began a Broadway engagement, just to name a few, and completely ignoring the countless examples involving time travel. However, there are two films that are always held up as the chief examples of the concept: the German film Run Lola Run, and Sliding Doors, both of which, interestingly, released in the same year. Perhaps that's a part of why they both resonate so strongly.
I encountered Run Lola Run first, so I've always seen this as the English-language derivative. I expect it to be less experimental in technique and so more accessible, but that's dangerously close to snobbishness. This is still an experiment in stepping outside traditional linear story, and highly regarded as such, for reasons I'll now get to experience.
Helen arrives at a meeting at her PR firm to discover she's been fired on inflated charges. Going home early she narrowly misses catching the train, gets mugged and injured, having to get stitches in the hospital and arriving home long after her writer boyfriend Gerry's ex-girlfriend Lydia has left. As the months go on, Helen remains mostly oblivious of Gerry's affair while Lydia fumes about Gerry's indecision between the both of them. With Helen working two menial jobs to support the both of them and Gerry always going to see Lydia, Helen can never quite find the moment to tell Gerry she's pregnant.
Helen arrives at a meeting at her PR firm to discover she's been fired on inflated charges. Going home early she just barely makes it onto the train and is somewhat cheered up by a chatty bloke named James before arriving at home to find her boyfriend Gerry in bed with his ex-girlfriend Lydia. Moving in with her best friend Anna, Helen continually runs into James, starting up her own independent PR firm on his advice, and falling for him despite her best judgment so soon. But Gerry wants her back, James is being evasive about something, and Helen can never quite find the moment to tell James she's pregnant.
In both timelines, Helen is a reactive character, tossed one way or the other by elements in her environment. Even in the track where she takes charge and pulls her life together, she only does so because someone else told her to, and the plot is still about how the other people in her life interact with her. She never makes an unexpected choice or directs the plot in any meaningful way. While this is a story about how things out of our control can shape our lives, I would have found it more satisfying to let her rebel at some point before the two stories collapse.
While her Important Haircut is an easy visual marker of which version of Helen the story is with in the moment, there's also a subtlety to Paltrow's acting that demonstrates the differences in what the character has been through. Perhaps at times not subtle enough, but her lives have wildly diverged and a change is to be expected. John Hannah as James brings all the charm and levity he needs as a romantic comedy love interest, always the most interesting part of any scene he's in. Jeanne Tripplehorn plays Lydia as a pure villain, taking perhaps too much blame off of Gerry, but it leads to some darkly funny moments.
Neither plot track is really strong enough on its own, but aside from the basic concept, what keeps interest is the irony in juxtaposing them. That's the main wrinkle in the film, which may be so concerned with keeping the alternative outcomes notion nonthreatening that nothing else really gets much complexity. The sadder path is a mildly dramatic tragedy, the happier path is a lukewarm romantic comedy. There's some flirting with the idea of Helen getting information from the other path, but perhaps nothing comes of it. This is as mainstream and non-genre as an experiment in non-linear storytelling can get.
I would recommend this movie to people less comfortable with weird genre concepts, and I wouldn't recommend against it to those more familiar. It's not as meaty as I'm accustomed to, but I don't dislike it for that. That fact makes me more likely to come back to it again, rather than wrestling with the ideas for a while and then leaving it forever. It delivers a concept and a mostly engaging narrative, so it's accomplished what it meant to do, and that's all I can ask.
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Forgotten Science Fiction: The Last Starship From Earth by John Boyd
Every year thousands of SF and fantasy books get published, but few are reviewed, not many more become popular, and damn few get remembered. Ten years out, most books are out-of-print and forgotten. How many books can you remember from 2002? And if we're talking fifty years down the timeline, well it's almost a miracle for a book that old to still be read, much less remembered and loved.
I discovered science fiction in the 1960s, in my teens, and like most people reading their first hundred SF titles, they all seemed so damn far out! Now decades later, I doubt my memories of those first impressions. So, when I have a little extra reading time, I order a book from ABE Books based on those dying memories and reread it. I've now reread many of my teenage classics and a majority of them don't hold up.
Most memories are fleeting, and my memory of The Last Starship From Earth was next to nothing. All I remembered was a favorable impact. Just a lingering sense of it being a standout read for 1968 or 1969. To test that memory I recently bought and reread The Last Starship From Earth. Sad to say, it was a discard from the Columbus Public Library, a common practice for books that don't get checked out. Not a good sign. The last English reprint of this novel was in 1978. It's last edition was in French, in 1995.
The Last Starship From Earth is a dystopian novel set in 1968 and 1969, but not the 1968 and 1969 that I remember, or lived through. In the world of this story, Jesus did not die on the cross, but was killed leading an assault on Rome. He was the Messiah that people expected. The government of John Boyd's world is a global government run by Christians along "scientific" lines, where psychologists and sociologists in conjunction with the Church and an AI Pope rule the world. People marry and mate because of their genes, sort of like the film Gattaca, and the hero of our story is Haldane IV, M-5, 138270, 3/10/46, a math student of great promise, being the fourth in line of great mathematicians. Unfortunately Haldane gets the hots for Helix, a mere poet. By law and social custom Haldane is expected to have nothing to do with her, but as you'd expect he falls in love with her.
Haldane concocts a ruse to justify more meetings with Helix by studying Fairweather I, a 19th century mathematician who also wrote poetry. Much of the first half of the book deals with pseudo-academic studies from this alternate history. Boyd is creative in his steady flow of ideas and concepts, but there's little emotion in the story. It's somewhat Heinlein-esque, in it's attitude and world building, but lacks the charm of Heinlein's best prose.
Now, this quick summary is enticing, and I would like to report that The Last Starship From Earth is a forgotten classic, unfortunately, that's probably not true. I enjoyed the book, but only as a quick read.
Surfing the web I've found few other reviews of this novel, and although I've found people who claim it's their favorite book, I also found people that thought it ho-hum. Now, I've got to admit it has a humdinger of an ending, almost as startling as the film The Sixth Sense, but I'm not sure this last minute thrill pays for the reading the whole book.
I found the love affair of Haldane and Helix no more believable than Romeo and Juliet and far less exciting. John Boyd does write well, but the plot is mostly intellectual, about the dystopian society, and its complications. The book is only 182 pages, and the whole tale feels rushed. Boyd staked out a solid gold claim but never mined it.
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The trouble with many SF novels, especially those written back in the 1950s and 1960s, was they were written very fast, and they were about ideas and not characters. John Boyd has actually written a very ambitious novel by creating an alternative history of Jesus, but he never fleshes it out, and most of the story is a setup for the surprised ending. The scope of the book is epic, the line by line writing reasonably entertaining, but the overall feel of the book is thin.
Haldane and Helix are discovered, and the middle part of the book is a trial that allows Boyd to work out the politics and legal system of this alternative reality, however, like the rest of this book, it's rushed. It's padding. That's its downfall. He has a big ending but it's way bigger than the story. To pad the story even more Haldane is sentence to exile on Pluto, which is called Hell. There he meets Fairweather I and is reunited with Helix, who happens to be Fairweather's granddaughter. Fairweather needed a mathematician for his time machine, and Helix was sent to Earth to engineer the exile of a mathematician to pilot an experimental time machine. In a very short time Fairweather makes Haldane immortal, tells him his new name is Judas Iscariot, and his mission is to go back in time to kill Christ.
Now if Boyd had spent a couple hundred pages recreating the Biblical world and shown how Haldane tracks down Jesus, we would have had a much better story. But all of this was summed up in a short epilogue. We are told Haldane captures Jesus and puts him in the time machine and sends him back, and the rest of the epilogue is about how he has relived the two thousand years to return to his own time and meet a girl that's an awful lot like Helix, living in a future that's much more like ours. But did Haldane let Jesus die on the cross, or does he just disappear him from history? Unless Haldane at least engineers a dying on the cross scene for history, we should not expect this timeline to be ours.
How do you plot a riveting novel with great characters based on the idea that Jesus didn't die on the cross and the world became very different? How do you tell the story twice? Boyd really grabs a tiger by the tail and yells, "Look at me!" And I think, "Cool! Far out man! But what are you going to do with him?" He's got to do more than just swing it around. I'll give Boyd a solid C for his world building, but they are only tantalizing sketches.
I really like this ending, but is it good enough to make The Last Starship From Earth a classic SF novel worth reading today? I've linked several references to this book on the net and even though I can find fans of the book, I can find more people who think it sucks. You'd think Boyd Bradfield Upchurch, John Boyd's real name, if he's still alive, would arrange for his books to be reprinted as ebooks. That certainly would make it easier for more readers to decide if The Last Starship From Earth is worth reading.
I'm afraid Boyd falls far short of classic standing. The Last Starship from Earth is a good novel for science fiction historians to read, but it needed to be four or five times longer, more the size of Dune, to get the job done that Boyd outlined. However, I'm not sure how he could have pulled off this big ambitious idea.
And is Boyd saying our history is the better timeline? Why is his first timeline all that evil? Is the freedom to fuck whoever you want the perfect ideal worth rewriting all of history? Isn't the more interesting story about a world where the promise of salvation and eternal life never happened? Isn't Boyd's surprise ending really a cheat?
Time travel machines often ruins more stories than they've ever help.
Boyd has a three part story. Life on Earth in an alternate timeline, life on Pluto, life on Earth in another timeline. The story really isn't about genetic breeding of humans like we see in Gattaca, or in Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon or Huxley's Brave New World. It's about an oppressive government. But does it deserve to be wiped out by time travel?
Here's the thing, our 1968 was a horrible time for America, but should we send a man back in time to wipe it out? Boyd wasn't writing a protest novel like Nineteen Eighty-Four. Nor did he write a novel that truly explored a timeline with a different Christ, which would have been ambitious enough.
Would The Last Starship From Earth been a better novel is it hadn't used the time machine gimmick? Not as it stands, but it potentially could have been. I believe it's a grave mistake for any alternate history novel is have a do-over. Time travel is really a very dangerous concept to use in fiction. Time travel is very hard to pull off. The beauty of an alternative history novel is the alternative history. Don't add time travel. This would take away Boyd's surprise ending, but it would have meant he would have been forced to write a better novel.
I felt cheated when Helix shows up so easily on Pluto, in what at first appears to be a happy romantic ending, but then we're thrown for another loop. Haldane loses her again, only to find her again 2,000 years later. Oh come on man, this horny-at-first-sight love isn't believable. Weren't there no math babes for Haldane? This really is a case of what you can't have makes the heart grow fonder. And neither Haldane nor Helix are all that interesting – if you want a great love story you have to have great lovers.
The powerful driving motive in Gattaca is that Vincent wants to go into space. He wants to prove that he's as good any genetically selected human. The driving force of The Last Starship from Earth is Haldane wants to screw Helix. Boyd doesn't make it believable why his world outlaws sex, nor does he make it believable that Haldane and Helix are in big time love. Hell, even the prosecutors of the story wink at him, and say why didn't you use a condom and just screw her, implying this world does overlooks recreational sex, just not casual genetic mixing. But then Boyd never explains why his world requires genetic fidelity to specialties like mathematics and poetry. In Gattaca we have the justification that their world doesn't want naturals to pass on bad traits, but in Boyd's world there is no reason to breed pure bred mathematicians. Also, how many math geniuses does one world need?
John Boyd wrote just enough alternate history world-building to set up his surprise ending. In essence The Last Starship From Earth is a O'Henry type story, and we now use those type stories as examples as how not to write a story. However, The Last Starship From Earth suggests two possible storylines I'd love to read. First, I'd love to read an alternate history where Christ was the Messiah that everyone was expecting. Second, I'd love to read a time travel story about people having to learn what it takes to live in ancient Israel and track down Jesus. Both would require a tremendous knowledge of real history.
JWH –5/28/12
Author jameswharrisPosted on May 29, 2012 May 29, 2012 Categories Books Reviews, Science FictionTags Alternative history, Jesus
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John G. says:
Thanks for starting this new series. I look forward to learning about some other "classic" science fiction novels that I've never really heard of.
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WCG says:
I haven't read this one, Jim. But I'm reminded of Tony, who often yearns for the short novels of past science fiction, without all the extraneous padding of modern fiction. Just different tastes.
I think I'm in between the two of you. I enjoy the shorter, plot-filled stories of the past, but I like many of the longer, more character-based novels of today, too.
However, as we've both seen, you and I have quite different tastes in many respects. (Obviously, there's nothing wrong with that.) Still, I think I would have enjoyed this book far more when I was young than I would today. We're probably alike in that.
PS. I'm really enjoying this series, Jim, though I haven't been very quick to get to them.
I'm thinking about buying a copy of Monument by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. to reread and review for the series because I think it's a forgotten classic. I'm really surprised that Way Station is so long out of print and hard for the book club members to get. Forgotten SF is just an interesting topic for me.
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Joel Sprenger says:
For me your most salient comment is this one "The trouble with many SF novels, especially those written back in the 1950s and 1960s, was they were written very fast, and they were about ideas and not characters." Personally I like the big idea form of writing however, I agree that a 'what if Jesus became a conqueror' is a bit too big for a short work. That being said, I'm curious enough to want to read the novel. Thanks for the review.
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However, an application for an ordinary work permit can still be made.
Further information on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 2001 can be obtained online or from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). The DHA will not advise individuals on whether or not a specific conviction is considered spent or not but advises that individuals should seek advice from an advocate or the Citizens Advice Bureau in this regard.


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As a parent, if you are wondering what to do if I think my child has ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) or if it has been suggested by school personnel, consider these facts.
Is the child struggling with constant boredom or the ability to stay focused on a task?
Does the child have trouble controlling impulsive behavior?
Does the child have nervous restlessness or the inability to sit still for very long?
Determine when these signs are exhibited during the course of the day, evening, or night. The ADHD child has these issues not only at school or at home, but also elsewhere such as extra-curricular activities or during neighborhood playtime. Forming a time frame at what age these symptoms began to show up alerts the parent to the possibilities that their child may indeed have ADHD. An ADHD child starts exhibiting many of these symptoms before the age of seven.
Seeing a licensed therapist that specializes in ADD/ADHD is the next step if the parent notices all the signs mentioned above. The therapist may require a visit to the family physician first, where the doctor will ask questions and run some routine tests to rule out any underlying illness that masks the same symptoms of ADHD. Once the family physician rules out any physical or other neurological problems, the therapist will run other tests and conduct interviews with the child and the parents. Sometimes, what passes as ADD/ADHD is more a family structure problem than a bona fide disorder. It is vital to be sure which case it is. If the issue is one of a family problem, pursuing family intervention will prove to be the best alternative for everyone in the long run. If the child is truly ADD/ADHD, the doctor's office will have all the information needed for diet changes, medication treatment, and other therapies that are available for parents who have a child diagnosed with ADHD. There are treatment options for every budget, including governmental children's health programs for those families in economic difficulty.
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Michelin-starred Chef José Andrés is opening his first restaurant in Dubai
Say hello to your new favourite restaurant...
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One of the USA's best Spanish restaurants is coming to Dubai next year...
Dubai is set to welcome yet another one of the world's top restaurants to its shores with news emerging this morning that Michelin-starred Chef José Andrés is bringing his famed Jaleo restaurant to the city.
The restaurant, famed for it Spanish cuisine (with a focus on shared plates and tapas), was first opened in Washington D.C. in 1993 and has since expanded to have 31 outposts. The opening in the UAE marks the first restaurant in the Middle East.
The restaurant will be located at the Royal Atlantis Resort & Residences which is set to open its doors to the public next year. Speaking of the new opening in a release, Chef Andrés —who was recently named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People — said, "I am thrilled to be bringing Jaleo to the Royal Atlantis Resort & Residences in Dubai — our first restaurant in the United Arab Emirates and an incredible and majestic destination. Guests will be able to experience Jaleo like they never have before."
Now, find out which other Michelin-starred chef is also opening a restaurant at the hotel when it opens.
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The "Amgen Tour of California" is getting a lot more publicity than usual because superstar cyclists Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis are trying to make comebacks in the race.
Interestingly, though, the tour's website only prominently features Armstrong and not the much more controversial Landis.
The event has a tie-in with cancer support groups, so from that angle it seems to be a good venue for Armstrong, a cancer survivor and activist.
But there's a certain irony that the biotech company that makes EPO, what is by nearly all accounts the most popular performance-enhancing drug among cyclists, is the major sponsor of a bike race featuring one defrocked, steroid-using racer and another one who has long been rumored to juice up. For its part, Amgen says it's taking a hardline stance on doping during the race.
Last year Amgen sold around $2.4 billion worth of EPO (Epogen), down one percent from the year before. The drug is intended for anemic kidney patients. So, the drug combats the fatigue associated with anemia. That's why some long-distance bikers are reportedly fond of the stuff. Epogen is one of the top-selling and most profitable drugs for the California company, which is the world's biggest biotech measured in sales.
Amgen's love affair with cycling apparently isn't confined to the "Tour of California."
My colleague Jane Wellswho lives near AMGN headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California says pedal-pushing company employees wearing jerseys like this one for sale on eBay are a constant (she says sometimes annoying) presence on the streets around those parts. The red dots that look like rose petals or throat lozenges are supposed to be blood platelets.
The "Amgen Tour of California" may be the only corporate-sponsored sporting event where if the company provided participants with goody-bag samples of its product, the athletes would be kicked out.
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Some of the over 30,000 marchers in NYC Israel Day Parade spoke with Arutz Sheva about what brought them to 5th Ave. in the drizzling rain.
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Click or flick across for more photos of the sculpture. A RUSTY wheel rim, stashed with cuts of timber, has given an Albury mother the chance to be part of the world's most famous garden event. The pieces form a sculpture, designed to attract native bees, which will appear in the Australian exhibit at next week's Chelsea Flower Show. Joanne Diver is thrilled her work, Life Bee Inn It, will be seen by thousands of visitors experiencing the garden curated by top Australian designer Phillip Johnson. "It is an enormous privilege to be part of the Australian garden," Mrs Diver said from London. "Phillip Johnson is renowned around the world as an extremely talented designer, as are all of the people on his team. "The garden is enormous in its scale and vision, promoting sustainability and water management to what will be a worldwide audience." Mrs Diver said the wheel rim had come from a pile of junk, with timber pieces including driftwood found at Lake Hume, a red gum slab left by sleeper-cutters and a burnt gum tree added to it. "It reflects the colours and elements of the Australian landscape, fire, flood and drought," Mrs Diver said. "It was a collaborative effort with friends and family supplying bits and pieces and Ralph, who describes himself as a bloke in an East Albury shed, helping me with the engineering of a stand for the show." Mrs Diver met Mr Johnson during a Melbourne garden tour and after discussing his Chelsea exhibit she was invited to contribute her sculpture, but only learnt this week it would definitely be part of the garden. "I'd die happy if this was the only thing I did," Mrs Diver said when asked about the impact of her work being at Chelsea. "I'm basically a mum in the backyard with a part-time job and artistic interests when time allows. "My interest in the environment and conservation and promoting the backyard as a place of productivity, biodiversity and creativity will continue in whatever I do, whether it be artistic or paid employment. "I'm hoping that more people will see insects as a thing of wonder, rather than an opportunity to bring out the Mortein. "We have so many native bees and there is so much research yet to be done, that you just don't know what part that little insect you're about to swat plays within our environment." The Australian garden will be judged on Monday. "I think, well I hope that with all of the effort, passion, belief and resources that have been put into the garden by Phillip and the team, that it will win an award," Mrs Diver said. "Either way I'm sure visitors will be impressed by the beauty of the recreated Australian landscape, its scale, the attention to detail and also hopefully be inspired by the message of sustainability and water conservation that is demonstrated throughout the garden."
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Mum's art to bee in famous flower show
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The Life Bee Inn It sculpture crafted by Albury mother Joanne Diver, which will appear at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Click or flick across for more photos of the sculpture.
A RUSTY wheel rim, stashed with cuts of timber, has given an Albury mother the chance to be part of the world's most famous garden event.
The pieces form a sculpture, designed to attract native bees, which will appear in the Australian exhibit at next week's Chelsea Flower Show.
Joanne Diver is thrilled her work, Life Bee Inn It, will be seen by thousands of visitors experiencing the garden curated by top Australian designer Phillip Johnson.
"It is an enormous privilege to be part of the Australian garden," Mrs Diver said from London.
"Phillip Johnson is renowned around the world as an extremely talented designer, as are all of the people on his team.
"The garden is enormous in its scale and vision, promoting sustainability and water management to what will be a worldwide audience."
Mrs Diver said the wheel rim had come from a pile of junk, with timber pieces including driftwood found at Lake Hume, a red gum slab left by sleeper-cutters and a burnt gum tree added to it.
"It reflects the colours and elements of the Australian landscape, fire, flood and drought," Mrs Diver said.
"It was a collaborative effort with friends and family supplying bits and pieces and Ralph, who describes himself as a bloke in an East Albury shed, helping me with the engineering of a stand for the show."
Mrs Diver met Mr Johnson during a Melbourne garden tour and after discussing his Chelsea exhibit she was invited to contribute her sculpture, but only learnt this week it would definitely be part of the garden.
"I'd die happy if this was the only thing I did," Mrs Diver said when asked about the impact of her work being at Chelsea.
"I'm basically a mum in the backyard with a part-time job and artistic interests when time allows.
"My interest in the environment and conservation and promoting the backyard as a place of productivity, biodiversity and creativity will continue in whatever I do, whether it be artistic or paid employment.
"I'm hoping that more people will see insects as a thing of wonder, rather than an opportunity to bring out the Mortein.
"We have so many native bees and there is so much research yet to be done, that you just don't know what part that little insect you're about to swat plays within our environment."
The Australian garden will be judged on Monday.
"I think, well I hope that with all of the effort, passion, belief and resources that have been put into the garden by Phillip and the team, that it will win an award," Mrs Diver said.
Joanne Diver in London with her sculpture and garden designer Phillip Johnson.
Workers put together Joanne Diver's sculpture at the Chelsea Flower Show.
The sculpture designed by Albury woman Joanne Diver in storage after arriving in Chelsea.
"Either way I'm sure visitors will be impressed by the beauty of the recreated Australian landscape, its scale, the attention to detail and also hopefully be inspired by the message of sustainability and water conservation that is demonstrated throughout the garden."
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Top six still the target for Moycullen Basketball
Galway Advertiser, Thu, Apr 23, 2020
Linley MacKenzie
Moycullen Basketball Club, with neither a home nor a gym in which to train, continues to cherish hopes of making it into the top six in Ireland's Super League.
For some 40 years or more, Moycullen has consistently battled to stake their claim in the top echelons of Irish basketball. Given the club's locality, drawing from the western hinterland of Galway and the city's schools, Moycullen has always punched above its weight. It remains one of the most successful clubs at underage - the U20s won this year's National Cup - but breaking into a tightly-held top six spot is proving more difficult.
This season ended abruptly due to the coronavirus outbreak, and there was something of a sigh of relief. Moycullen finished second bottom of the Super League - level on points with local rivals Maree. And with one remaining fixture, they could have been heading for a relegation play-off.
"Potentially, it saved us from relegation, we could have been in that situation," says coach and long-time Moycullen player John Cunningham. Yet the stats belie what was a solid season for the westerners.
"We played very well and we had a better team, but the league was far more competitive. The two teams that had been promoted, DBS Eanna and Neptune, were leading the league at some stages of the season, and it was a case that every team could beat any other on a given day."
While Moycullen beat the league winners, they still finished second from bottom, lacking consistency.
"It was a great league because every night you had a chance to win. We beat Templeogue, but lost to Lions - we were the only team that did, and they were bottom of the league - but in my opinion we were better than last year."
Raw deal
Like most Super League teams, Moycullen is boosted with US college basketball players. Two shared the court last season, the remainder of the team is "born and bred" in the area, which has always attracted a solid support from the community.
The nature of the game also helps to attract spectators to their current home venue at NUI Galway, but it is like apples and oranges when comparing it to other sports in Galway.
"If we have a couple of euros left in the bank when we finish each season, it's a bonus. For the amount of people playing the game, its promotion of both female and male participants, the opportunity for a high profile, and being an indoor game in winter, we really get a raw deal in a lot of ways in regards to profile, infrastructural support, and that type of thing," Cunningham says.
"We had great crowds this year, the Moycullen support has always been good - built up over the last 40 years - and it is a great spectator game. There was a bunch of one-point games, we beat Star in over-time, and the games are highly entertaining because there is something happening every 24 seconds."
Despite promoting athleticism and fitness in a what is an action-packed and fast game, basketball in Ireland struggles to get a high profile despite being among the top six participant sports in Ireland. Nothing is televised other than the national cup finals, but this year every team was encouraged to stream games on-line.
Particularly important in Galway is the rivalry between Moycullen and Maree which has been developed at youth level.
"It has definitely brought an edge to the Super League for us. That rivalry is there from U10s. We both struggle in the Super League, but at underage level we are both in the top four or five. Over the last 15 years we are both consistently among the top clubs in the country.
"It is nice to have that local derby. A lot of the players would have played together and still play together, say on college teams, so when we compete against each other, there is a real edge."
With both struggling at the top level, there have been calls for the two clubs to merge for the Super League.
"It's not as simple as that," Cunningham says. "There is no great crossover because we are on opposite sides of the city - we are both commuter towns - and it would probably damage the development that we both do at underage level."
Cunningham came through the club's youth system and started playing for the senior team in 1989 when just out of secondary school. He played every season of Super League basketball until retiring in 2009. He is now in his fifth year at the helm and the target remains to make it into the top six and a play-off.
'The first two years we came pretty close - particularly the second year when we got within two games of it," he says.
That was a consistently strong side with players such as James Loughnane and Cian Nihill, whose father Gerry was involved for many years. But like many small clubs, they have to rebuild every few years.
While most of the other teams in the league have one European professional - sometimes two - in addition to a US player, Moycullen relies on the scholarship programme with the US. Eanna brought in four pros to play Super League last season, making it more difficult for teams such as Maree and Moycullen to compete.
However, Cunningham remains both optimistic and goal driven for his bunch of "nomads".
"Our aim always is can we get out of the bottom three or four, and how to scrape into the top six. We always have movement, a lot of flux, so we always end up playing with a very young bunch of guys who are being asked to play a man's game."
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Immunotherapy fails in a significant proportion of cancer patients. But a new study in Cell Death Discovery suggests that blocking the tumor-promoting protein MDM2 could bolster the treatment's effectiveness.
"Immunotherapy has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in biomedical science and medicine of the last two decades," says Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and associate dean for oncologic sciences. "But it has limitations."
Some people's tumors respond to immunotherapy initially and then relapse. Other patients experience pseudoprogression, where tumors appear to grow before eventually shrinking. And a third group—between 5 percent and 29 percent of patients—experience hyperprogression: immunotherapy actually worsens their tumor growth.
El-Deiry hopes that blocking MDM2, either through gene silencing or the MDM2-inhibiting drug AMG-232, could help people with hyperprogression.
Various studies have found that when cells contain too many copies of the MDM2 gene, or when the MDM2 protein is overexpressed because the gene isn't being regulated properly, tumor cells tend to grow more quickly and are more resistant to immunotherapy. MDM2 is also associated with higher levels of the tumor-promoting inflammatory protein interleukin-6 (IL-6).
In their study, El-Deiry and his colleagues treated cell lines of MDM2-overexpressing ovarian cancer cells with AMG-232. Their data show the drug allowed immune cells to kill the tumor cells much more efficiently, and reduced levels of IL-6. This suggests that MDM2 inhibitors combined with immunotherapy could enhance its effectiveness, and El-Deiry hopes this will lead to a clinical trial.
The study was published shortly after the launch of the Cancer Center at Brown, which brings together 150 investigators from across the University and affiliated hospitals who are studying basic biology and disease epidemiology, understanding risk factors, and developing therapies.
The center focuses on cancers with higher rates in Rhode Island, as well as issues of access and affordability. El-Deiry, the center's inaugural director, wants the center to achieve a National Cancer Institute-Cancer Center Support Grant.
"We are working methodically, in a focused way, toward that," he says, "collaborating for the benefit of patients."


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Q: Rot13 and the use of the modulo I've been reading "Think Python" by Allen B. Downey and there's an exercise (8.12) in it where the author asks to create a ROT13 function. I did mine and it partially worked because I was struggling with the uppercases.
Here's a part of the solution provided by the author:
def rotate_letter(letter, n):
"""Rotates a letter by n places.  Does not change other chars.

letter: single-letter string
n: int

Returns: single-letter string
"""
if letter.isupper():
    start = ord('A')
elif letter.islower():
    start = ord('a')
else:
    return letter

c = ord(letter) - start
i = (c + n) % 26 + start
return chr(i)

The use of the modulo here makes the function work for the uppercases but I can't figure why !
It's clear that by using it we restart at the beginning of the ASCII values for uppercase but I can't figure the mechanism behind it.

A: Try breaking it down into steps, and printing out the intermediate numbers. Or, better, running it in an online visualizer.
With, say, the letter 'Q' and the number 13, you'll end up with:
'Q'.isupper() is true
start = ord('A') = 65
c = ord('Q') - start = 81 - 65 = 16
i = (c + n) % 26 + start = (16 + 13) % 26 + 65 = 29 % 26 + 65 = 3 + 65 = 68
chr(i) is 'D'

As you can see, the magic part is that (16 + 13) % 26. So let's try running that on every one of the numbers from 0 (for A) to 25 (for Z) and see what happens:
>>> for i in range(26):
...     print ((i + 13) % 26),
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Adding, then taking the remainder with 26, means that when you get to 26 you go back around to 0. Just like adding 1 hour to 23:00 gets you to 00:00 on a clock (or, if you're an American, adding 1 hour to 12:00 gets you to 1:00).

A: The modulo 26 has nothing to do with uppercase and lowercase per se, it's needed to make the sequence wrap back to the beginning.
Consider a simple "rot 1": treat the letters of the alphabet as numbers from 1 to 26, and add 1. If the input is 'a', you take 1+1=2 and get 'b'; if the input is 'z', you take 26+1=27 - but there's no 27th letter of the alphabet! So you calculate 27 mod 26 = 1, which "rotates" back to 'a'.
The actual trick for upper and lowercase in the implementation above is the definition of start, which turns ASCII positions into numbers 1 to 26 before applying the rotation, then turns the result back using the same offset.

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Thanksgiving 2019 grocery store hours: Here's when stores are open and closed Thursday
If you forgot a key ingredient for your Thanksgiving meal, all hope isn't lost Thursday.
Your mileage may vary on how far you'll have to drive for any forgotten items, but a number of grocery stores are open Nov. 28, although several will have special hours.
Drugstore chains including CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens also will be open on the holiday, but most pharmacies will be closed.
Most large convenience stores, including 7-Eleven, Wawa, Pilot Flying J and Cumberland Farms, will be open, too.
Because of state laws, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island stores will remain closed Thanksgiving. Stores in some areas also have varied hours because of county or municipal laws.
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Hours can vary and not all locations will be open. Check with your closest location to confirm whether the store will be open or check hours online.
Acme Market: Most stores open 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.; all pharmacies closed.
Albertsons: Hours vary greatly, check at www.albertsons.com.
BI-LO: Close early at 4 p.m.
Cub: Most open until 2 p.m.
Earth Fare: Close early at 3 p.m.
Food Lion: Open until 5 p.m.
Fresh Market: 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Fresh Thyme: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Giant Eagle: 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.
goPuff: The digital convenience retailer is open to deliver on Thanksgiving.
Harris Teeter: All stores close 2 p.m.
Harveys Supermarket: Close early at 4 p.m.
H-E-B: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.; pharmacies closed.
Hy-Vee: Some locations close at 2 p.m.
Instacart: The national on-demand grocery delivery platform will be delivering orders nationally from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time.
King Soopers: Varies.
Kroger: Varies. Some locations open regular hours.
Lucky's Market: 7 a.m to 4 p.m.
Meijer: Most locations are open 24 hours or regular hours.
Ralphs: Varies. Many stores open normal hours.
Safeway: Hours vary greatly, check at www.safeway.com.
Save A Lot: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. for corporate locations
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Shipt: Delivery windows vary by retailer store hours and shopper availability.
ShopRite: Varies.
Sprouts Farmer Market: 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Stop & Shop: Connecticut, New Jersey and New York stores are open until 5 p.m. while Massachusetts and Rhode Island stores are closed.
Target: Opens at 5 p.m.
Tops Friendly Markets: Close at 5 p.m.
Walmart: Most stores open all day, with Black Friday sale starting at 6 p.m.
Wegmans: Stores close at 4 p.m.
Weis: Many locations open until 5 p.m.
Whole Foods Market: Varies. Many stores open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
WinCo Foods: Close early at 3 p.m.
Winn-Dixie: Close early at 4 p.m.
More stores: Smaller chains and local stores may also be open Thanksgiving. Some will post special hours on social media.
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Grocery stores closed Thursday
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Absolute Pub Crawl Seoul is once again ready to host a 4 day marathon of crazy Pub Crawls, in order to celebrate the Lunar New Year!
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Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
PG | 1h 48min | Documentary, Music | 29 November 2002 (USA)
Documentary about the Funk Brothers, a group of Detroit musicians who backed up dozens of Motown artists.
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In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era. By the end of their phenomenal run, this unheralded group of musicians had played on more number ones hits than the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined - which makes them the greatest hit machine in the history of popular music. They called themselves the Funk Brothers. Forty-one years after they played their first note on a Motown record and three decades since they were all together, the Funk Brothers reunited back in Detroit to play their music and tell their unforgettable story, with the help of archival footage, still photos, narration, interviews, re-creation scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and twelve new live performances of Motown classics with the Brothers backing up contemporary performers. Written by Anonymous
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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra got the last credit in the film. The orchestra provided strings and other instrumentation for Motown recording sessions. According to Funk Brothers member Dennis Coffey in his book, "Guitars, Bars and Motown Superstars", this included sessions recorded with a Stradivarius violin played by the orchestra's violin concertmaster, Gordon Staples. See more »
Montell Jordan, Chaka Khan: [singing] Baby, there ain't no mountain high enough / Ain't no valley low enough / Ain't no river wide enough to keep me from getting to you.
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I really loved this documentary. Three key points: (1) I applaud the spirit and energy to put the project- long overdue recognition and praise for great musicians- together. I happen to be a fan of the Temptations movie and saw this DVD next to it. Had I not bought it on a whim, I would be so much more empty. (2) James Jamerson-I would love a documentary on him alone. Not because of his quirks, but because of his tortured spirits; a great movie-making project! Also, upon my research of this topic after seeing this film, I came across an extensive web site, bassplayer.com, with a great tribute page to Jamerson. Among the most outrageous discussions that have not been resolved to my knowledge- who played bass on Stevie Wonder's "I Was Made to Love Her"? The majority of folks strongly contend it was James Jamerson, however, a woman named Carol Kaye states she was the actual bass player for the song.
I don't know the truth, but I do know that after never hearing the bass in the song for the 30+ plus that this has been one of my all-time favorite songs, I ONLY hear the bass line. That bass line is so masterful, so exceptional, and so unrelentingly funky, that I believe only a virtuoso could have done it. The fact that that song and bass line were done in 1966/67, amidst so many hundreds of other Motown hits and other songs, tells me that the Funk Brothers and James Jamerson were truly blessed talents.
(3) Chaka Khan's rendition of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" is undoubtedly the very best performance I have ever seen her do and is among the top performances ever recorded. That she won a Grammy for the song is amazing. She actually sang it in 2000; the movie was released in 2002 and won the Grammy in 2003! I get teary every time I hear her singing the song in the movie(I replayed this section at least 10 times when I first saw the movie) and I don't think she will ever have another brilliant performance that would match that intensity. Bottom line: I strongly recommend this movie and subsequent deeper research into other great R&B music roots. Rod Walker
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Home » News » Stress Management » Mindfulness Training via Smartphone Can Improve Social Skills
Mindfulness Training via Smartphone Can Improve Social Skills
While smartphones are often criticized for issues ranging from addictive properties, community seclusion and sleep disturbances, research shows that used in the right way, smartphones may be a vehicle to deliver mindfulness-based training.
In a new study, Carnegie Mellon University investigators discovered smartphone-based mindfulness training may help individuals feel less lonely and motivate them to interact with more people.
The researchers also found acceptance skills training to be a critical active ingredient for improving these social functioning outcomes.
Experts believe smartphones and emerging technology can be used to address loneliness and social isolation, a growing public health concern across age groups. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"When we talk about mindfulness interventions, we talk about two key components," said Dr. J. David Creswell, associate professor of psychology in CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
"The first is learning to use your attention to monitor your present-moment experiences, whether that's noting body sensations, thoughts or images. The second is about learning to adopt an attitude of acceptance toward those experiences — one of openness, curiosity and non-judgment."
For example, someone engaging in meditation might notice pain in his or her knee. Mindfulness training programs instruct participants to mentally note the sensation but not alter their physical state.
In the Carnegie Mellon study, participants receiving training in acceptance skills were encouraged to respond to these uncomfortable experiences by saying "yes" in a gentle tone-of-voice to maintain an open and welcoming state of mind.
"Learning to be more accepting of your experience, even when it's difficult, can have carryover effects on your social relationships. When you are more accepting toward yourself, it opens you up to be more available to others," Creswell said.
In the study, 153 adults were randomly assigned to one of three 14-day smartphone-based interventions. For 20 minutes each day, one mindfulness training group received training in monitoring and acceptance skills, a second mindfulness group received training in monitoring skills only, and a third group received no mindfulness content and instead received guidance in common coping techniques.
In addition, they were instructed to complete brief homework practice lasting no more than 10 minutes daily. For three days before and after the intervention, participants completed periodic assessments throughout the day to measure loneliness and social contact.
Participants that received training in monitoring and acceptance skills saw the greatest benefits: they reduced daily life loneliness by 22 percent and increased social contact by an average of two interactions each day.
The monitoring only mindfulness group, which did not get acceptance skills training, did not show these benefits, suggesting that acceptance skills training may be a critical ingredient for the social benefits of mindfulness training programs.
"Loneliness and social isolation are among the most robust known risk factors for poor health and early death. But so far, few interventions have been effective for reducing loneliness and increasing social contact.
"Our research shows that a 14-day smartphone-based mindfulness program can target both, and that practice in welcoming and opening to all of our inner experiences — good or bad — is the key ingredient for these effects," said Emily Lindsay, Ph.D.
Lindsey led the study as a doctoral student at CMU and is now a research scientist at the University of Pittsburgh.
Source: Carnegie Mellon University
Nauert PhD, R. (2019). Mindfulness Training via Smartphone Can Improve Social Skills. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 18, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/02/13/mindfulness-training-via-smartphone-can-improve-social-skills/142840.html
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21st century techniques for 'talking democracy' with young people
Stella Baynes
Programme Manager for the Young Citizens Make a Difference Challenge Programme. Previously Stella managed our Democracy Ambassadors Programme. She has nearly 20 years of experience working with young people in school and in third sector organisations including UK Youth and the British Red Cross.
Failing to prepare young people for civic life, is preparing society to fail
Since August 2018 over 1,000 young people aged 13 – 16 in England have pledged to 'talk democracy' with their peers as part of the Young Citizens Cabinet Office funded programme, Democracy Ambassadors.
Nearly 70 organisations from both rural and urban areas across England including: youth councils, social action projects, youth groups, creative arts organisations and schools have come together to train the next generation of decision makers in their rights as citizens. Participants have learnt about the issues of democracy and the importance of exercising their right to vote.
Following their training the young people – called 'Democracy Ambassadors' – use a range of techniques online and offline to share what they have learnt with other young people. The programme's intended legacy is that more than 100,000 young people will feel better equipped and more confident in using the language and structures of our democratic systems.
21st century techniques for talking democracy
Forget the image of a teacher stood in front of a class of glazed eyed students, reciting acts of parliament. Imagine instead polls shared on Instagram, 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' style quiz shows, puppet theatre, memes, and YouTube videos. The Democracy Ambassadors programme supports young people to engage with their peers where they're at, talking to them in a common language about the key political issues the younger generation feel impassioned by.
In Woking, three Democracy Ambassadors from the youth council worked together to create a YouTube video entitled 'Democracy: everything you need to know in under three minutes'. In a carefully crafted visual scrapbook the young people unpick key political terms, including explaining the role of parliament and the government, and the importance of registering to vote. It's simple, slick, and had been watched by hundreds of people within the first few weeks of production.
Meanwhile, in the north east of England, Durham City Youth Project Democracy Ambassadors completing a training activity were shocked to learn that England had a civil war in the C17th. In response to this and other key turning points in England's democratic history they created a series of memes which were then shared with other young people via Facebook.
In Staffordshire, Democracy Ambassadors from the Council for Voluntary Youth Services wanted to find out how many of their peers knew who their local MP was, or how to contact them. They created Instagram polls for this purpose – short snapshots which encouraged more than 400 of their followers to engage with the questions. Many continued the conversation offline – including enquiries about the work of the youth council and the possibilities of joining them.
Is it the communication method that doesn't suit younger audiences?
In a digital age the Democracy Ambassadors programme has allowed young people to re-educate their adult facilitators in ways of communicating with the next generation. It is often said that young people 'aren't interested' in politics, but the success of this programme has demonstrated the opposite – is it simply that the methods adults use to communicate no longer match the needs of a younger audience?
In the West Midlands, where Redshaw Gleason CIC have been delivering the Democracy Ambassadors programme in schools for young people with additional needs, a traditional puppet show complete with a wooden spoon Theresa May and Jeremy Corbin in tweeds have made their debut, as young people there seek to explain the different political parties to their peers. So before you tear up all your flash cards and throw the flipchart in the bin - maybe there still is an appetite for some old fashioned face to face chat (and a bit of Punch and Judy).
Stella has been managing the national uptake of the Democracy Ambassadors programme over the past 6 months. Programme funding is due to finish at the end of March 2019, and a full evaluation report will be available in Sept - visit our website again then for the findings.
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Published: 5th March, 2019
Updated: 16th April, 2020
Author: Stella Baynes
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Kentucky Historical Society Now a Smithsonian Affiliate
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The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is now an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. The announcement was made by the Smithsonian Affiliations director, Harold A. Closter, Saturday, June 29, as part of the annual Boone Day celebration in Frankfort. That was followed by a discussion, "New Directions for the Smithsonian and KHS: What do we have in Common?" Participants included Closter; Tim Grove, Chief of Museum Learning, National Air and Space Museum; and Erika Ferrin, Brand Marketing Manager, Smithsonian Institution. WTVQ ABC 36 news anchor, Doug High, served as moderator.
Affiliation is different from being part of the institute's museum and research complex. As an affiliate, KHS will be working in partnership to develop new ways to tell the story of Kentucky history. According to director, Kent Whitworth, the educational programs already in place at KHS, combined with the Smithsonian's extensive resources, "will be a bold new opportunity for Kentucky history."
The historical society will also be able to participate in the exchange of traveling exhibitions. Items on loan from the Smithsonian will be displayed at KHS and vice versa. This will promote local interest and tourism, and help spread the word about the work done by both organizations.
KHS is known for its extensive collections relating to Kentucky. Founded in 1836, it has been committed to sharing the state's history. In keeping with that commitment, the affiliation announcement was made on a day set aside to celebrate frontiersman and explorer, Daniel Boone. He founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky after blazing a trail through the Cumberland Gap. This trail, known as Wilderness Road, was the main pathway west for settlers during the late 18th century.
Three buildings are a part of the historical society, and each building tells history in its own way. The Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History combines over 3,000 artifacts with sight and sound to portray Kentucky from prehistoric times to present day. The Old State Capitol, a National Historic Landmark, houses the paintings and decorative arts of 19th-century Kentuckians. The Kentucky Military History Museum at the State Arsenal displays items and personal stories of veterans from the War of 1812 to recent conflicts.
The Smithsonian established its affiliations' program in 1996 as national outreach designed for long-term partnerships with museums and educational and cultural organizations. This two-way relationship benefits communities all across the country. There are currently 177 Smithsonian affiliates in 42 states, Puerto Rico, and Panama.
Cynthia Collins, Museum Correspondent
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