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Обратный осмос — процесс, в котором, при определённом давлении, растворитель (обычно вода) проходит через полупроницаемую мембрану из более концентрированного в менее концентрированный раствор, то есть в обратном для осмоса направлении. При этом мембрана пропускает растворитель, но не пропускает некоторые растворённые в нём вещества.

Обратный осмос используют с 1970-х годов при очистке воды, получении питьевой воды из морской воды, получении особо чистой воды для медицины, промышленности и других нужд. С помощью обратного осмоса также можно производить концентраты соков без нагрева.

Применение

Очистка и подготовка воды
Обратный осмос относится к наиболее перспективным и широко применяемым методам очистки и подготовки воды. Установка обратного осмоса способна удалять из воды частицы с размерами 0,001-0,0001 мкм. В этот диапазон попадают соли жёсткости, сульфаты, нитраты, ионы натрия, малые молекулы, красители. Для более эффективной работы рекомендуется применение предварительных ступеней очистки (механическая очистка и микро-, ультра- или нанофильтрация), удаляющих более крупные частицы.

Опреснение морской воды

Для получения пресной воды из морской требуется давление, превышающее создаваемое морской водой осмотическое давление. Эта величина достаточно высока — существующие установки развивают давление в 10—12 атм.

В системах очистки воды обычно используются синтетические полупроницаемые мембраны. Мембрана задерживает высокомолекулярные загрязнители, но пропускает низкомолекулярные вещества, например такие газы, как кислород, хлор, углекислый газ и пр. Некоторые газы могут определять вкус воды. Очищенная вода может иметь слабокислую реакцию (pH < 7) из-за наличия растворённого углекислого газа.

Свойство практически полностью очищать воду от всех примесей лишает её важных микроэлементов (если они в ней были до опреснения). Поэтому добавление необходимых солей в опреснённую воду — следующий шаг в производстве качественной питьевой воды. Вода же для технических нужд, например для полива и мойки, может быть сразу получена на более простых и дешевых мембранах удалением лишь 95 % солей.

В отличие от перегонки, в процессе обратного осмоса вода практически не нагревается, энергия тратится только на работу насоса, который не только перекачивает воду (малая доля энергозатрат), но и преодолевает высокое осмотическое давление (основные энергозатраты).

Очистка сточных вод
Технология очистки сточных вод с применением обратного осмоса принципиально изменилась — на последней стадии просто «отжимают» чистую воду от солей. Лидером технологий на 2012 год является Сингапур, там запущена система . Сточные воды города после очистки возвращаются в оборот как питьевая вода, которая получила более высокую оценку от ВОЗ и USEPA, чем другие источники воды в Сингапуре.

Практически все современные морские суда, нуждающиеся в больших объёмах пресной воды, которые нерационально и просто невозможно брать на борт, имеют опреснительные установки. Например, круизные лайнеры имеют на борту тысячи пассажиров, несколько бассейнов и производят огромное количество сточных вод. Установки на основе обратного осмоса на борту и опресняют воду, и очищают стоки. На некоторых судах сточные воды направляются на вторичное использование.

Пищевая промышленность
Обратный осмос — более экономичный процесс для повышения концентраций пищевых жидкостей, например, фруктовых соков, чем термические процессы. Преимущество заключаются в низкой стоимости эксплуатации и возможности избежать термической обработки, что делает процесс пригодным для термочувствительных веществ, таких как белки и ферменты в большинстве пищевых продуктов.

Обратный осмос широко используется в молочной промышленности для производства порошков сывороточного белка и для концентрации молока — уменьшаются транспортные расходы.

Медицина
Главной особенностью фильтров, в которых используется технология обратного осмоса, является практически полная стерилизация воды. Через фильтр проходит молекула воды (размер 0,3 нм), но не проходит большая часть химических примесей и включений биологического происхождения, в частности микроорганизмов и вирусов (размеры от 20 до 500 нм). Например, фильтр может задержать бактерии холеры или вирусы гепатита.

Влияние на здоровье человека воды, подготовленной с использованием технологии обратного осмоса

Достоинства и недостатки результата подготовки питьевой воды при помощи технологии обратного осмоса определяются особенностями технологии и целями фильтрации, которые зависят в первую очередь от изначального качества воды.

Свойство практически полностью очищать воду от всех примесей трактуется и как достоинство, и как недостаток. Единого мнения на этот счет нет. Сторонники первого подхода считают, что вода выполняет в организме только функцию растворителя, поэтому должна быть максимально чистой. Другие же полагают, что в воде в обязательном порядке должны быть микроэлементы.

Техническая реализация

Промышленная установка обратноосмотического опреснения включает обычно следующее оборудование: фильтр тонкой очистки воды, система реагентной подготовки, насос высокого давления, блок фильтрующих модулей, датчики и приборы управления.

Основной элемент установки обратного осмоса — полупроницаемая обратноосмотическая мембрана, помещённая в корпус. В неё поступает исходная вода, а отводится два потока — очищенная и обессоленная, которая называется пермеатом, и вода с концентрированными примесями, называемая концентратом, которая сливается.  Продавливание воды через мембрану ведётся при высоком давлении, которое создает насос, обычно центробежный многоступенчатый или роторный. Для замедления образования нежелательных отложений на мембранах применяется дозирование ингибитора осадкообразования. Для снятия осадков с поверхности мембран используется система химпромывки. Для контроля качества очистки и pH — проточные измерители солесодержания и рН-метры. Для контроля расхода пермеата и концентрата — проточные расходомеры. Управление системой обратного осмоса можно осуществлять в полуавтоматическом и автоматическом режиме. Проверить качество работы обратноосмотической мембраны можно TDS-метром.

Примером бытовой очистки воды мембраной обратного осмоса может служить фильтр, имеющий 3 картриджа — грубой (механической) очистки, мембрану обратного осмоса, фильтр угольный. Такие фильтры получили широкое применение в Америке, Европе и Азии. Интересны также последние модели компактных фильтров обратного осмоса, имеющих ряд нововведений, а именно, автоматический клапан отключения воды при обнаружении утечек, насос, сменные фильтры с быстроразъёмными фитингами.

(Около 70% прогоняемой воды через систему сливается в дренаж, что не является экономичным, но требуется для очищения фильтра).

См. также
 Аномальный осмос
 Дистилляция
 Осмос

Примечания

Литература

Осмос
Массообмен
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Ireland's Sunday Business Post has reported that "early investors in early investors in Dublin online firm BuildOnline are nursing losses after the firm merged with a US company".
Founded in Ireland, BuildOnline quickly relocated to London during the dot.com boom, and – positioning itself, first, as an e-construction marketplace, then, a provider of construction collaboration technologies (aka: 'extranets') – it then burned its way through around €30 million of funding raised in 2000 and 2001. Late last year, it merged with US firm Citadon to form CTSpace (see post), raising new funds from two American funders, Insight Venture Partners and GRP Partners (see post).
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The investors in that round included Mark Suster, the former chief executive of BuildOnline. The firm said it would use the money to establish US operations, increase research and development activities in India and open new offices in the Middle East and central and southern Europe."
This confirms the sorry picture of BO finances that I described in January, looking at its UK business (see BuildOnline UK position worsened). Assuming 'BuildOnline (Holdings)' is the overall holding company for all BO businesses, we can see that two-thirds of its 2005 turnover originated from the UK business; the latter also accounted for half the group's pre-tax loss. In other words, in the year to March 2005, BO's non-UK operations turned over about £1.4m and made a loss of about £0.5m.
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Иван Кутузов, по прякор Кути, е български художник – карикатурист.

Биография
Учи в Националната художествена гимназия, а през 1986 година завършва Художествената академия. Работи две години като миньор в рудник "Бобов дол" и 14 години като учител. Сътрудничи с карикатури на ежедневния и периодичния печат, като през последните години се изявява на страниците на вестниците "Капитал" и "Дневник".

За творбите си Иван Кутузов е носител на множество национални и международни отличия, сред които:
 2004 – Първа награда на 9-ия международния Салон на карикатурата в Земун, Сърбия,
 2005 – Специална награда на 10-ия международния Салон на карикатурата в Земун,
 2005 – Голямата награда за карикатура на СБХ,
 2005 – Международна награда на конкурса "Майстори на карикатурата", Пловдив,
 2008 – Първа награда на 13-ия международния Салон на карикатурата в Земун.

Външни препратки
 Карикатури на Иван Кутузов в "Капитал"

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Български карикатуристи
Български творци от Македония
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The Samsung Galaxy S20 series that debuted earlier this year is a fantastic phone. While some users are impressed by its features, some are already anticipating the next series. As a result, people are already talking and speculating about the next Galaxy S series flagship. According to Twitter tipster Ice Universe, it's going to be called Samsung Galaxy S21.
Galaxy S21 release date
There is no official confirmation about the Galaxy S21 release date. The Korean electronics heavyweight has typically launched new Galaxy S series phones in February or March. This year's Galaxy S20 series debuted on February 11 at an Unpacked event in San Francisco and started accepting pre-orders immediately after unveiling.
Samsung is going to hold its next Galaxy Unpacked event on January 14 to unveil the Galaxy S21 series. The Korean company has typically unveiled new Galaxy S handsets in February or March. But it has stepped up efforts to bring the next-gen device sooner to the market.
Sources familiar with the matter told SamMobile that Samsung wants to capitalize on the absence of Chinese giant Huawei. Huawei has found itself in a tight spot due to sanctions imposed by the US government.
According to the ever reliable Twitter tipster Jon Prosser, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S21 on January 14. There will be three devices – the Galaxy S21, S21+, and the Galaxy S21 Ultra. Prosser has a pretty good track record. He correctly predicted the iPhone 12 launch dates.
The tipster has learned from his sources that Samsung would start taking pre-orders on January 14 itself. Sales would begin a couple of weeks later on January 29, 2021. The S21 would launch in Gray, Pink, Violet, and White colors. The Galaxy S21+ would be available in either Black or Silver colors while the Ultra model would arrive in Black, Silver and Violet options.
What's more, the upcoming flagship will be manufactured in four different countries – South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Brazil. Samsung appears to be moving its manufacturing away from China.
Prosser added that the next-gen Galaxy Z Flip will not launch alongside the Galaxy S21 series. Samsung could launch it in the summer of 2021.
Another report from The Elect claims that Samsung would start mass production of the Galaxy S21 series in December. The sale would also start "a month sooner than its predecessors." This year's Galaxy S20 series went on sale on March 6th. So, the Galaxy S21 could hit the store shelves in the first half of February 2021.
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Samsung would launch three different models of the Galaxy S21. There will be the standard Galaxy S21, a Galaxy S21+, and a top of the line Galaxy S21 Ultra. According to a new report from tipster Ice Universe, the Galaxy S21 and S21+ will have a flat-screen. The Ultra model is tipped to sport a curved screen.
A render shared by Ice Universe shows off the front display of the Galaxy S21 Ultra. The device features a punch-hole Infinity-O display. The camera hole is placed in the top-center of the screen. It has incredibly slim bezels on all sides and the display is curved on the edges. The volume and power buttons are on the right side of the screen.
Separately, reputed tipster OnLeaks has posted a 360-degree video of the Galaxy S21 Ultra on Voice. The video gives us a detailed look at the Ultra model from all angles. It has an Infinity-O display with curved edges. The bottom of the phone houses a microphone, a USB-C port, and a speaker grille. The SIM tray slot is placed on the top edge. The power button and volume rockers are on the right side.
The Galaxy S21 Ultra has a glossy black finish on the rear panel. It sports four cameras and a flash in a protruding camera housing on the back. The overall design looks stunning.
An exclusive report from 91Mobiles claims that the Galaxy S21 Ultra will be similar to the current S20 Ultra model. Its display size will be marginally reduced to 6.8 inches. The S21 Ultra will have curved display panels while the other two models would sport flat displays. Samsung is also rumored to bump the refresh rate to 144Hz.
According to 91Mobiles, the S21 Ultra would get a 108MP main camera on the back and a huge 40MP selfie camera. Samsung would bring other improvements to differentiate it from the S20 Ultra cameras. Renders shared by 91Mobiles suggest the device will get four cameras on the back, one of which will be a periscope lens.
No charger and headphones in the box
According to a new report coming out of South Korea, the Galaxy S21 series is going to ship without the charger and headphones in the box. Samsung would be following in the footsteps of Apple, which ships the iPhone 12 series without the headphones and charger.
Industry insiders told Korean publication ChosunBiz that Samsung is planning to remove all the in-box accessories except the USB-C cable from the Galaxy S21 box. The company hasn't taken a final call yet. Removal of the charger and headphones will help boost Samsung's profit margins. It will also help reduce the environmental impact.
Rumor mills suggest the Galaxy S21 series would have the same price tag as this year's models. All three models including the Galaxy S21+ and the S21 Ultra would launch without the charger and headphones. Other reports in the past have claimed that Samsung would remove only the headphones, meaning the charger would ship with the phone. But it seems increasingly unlikely.
Ironically, Samsung recently poked fun at Apple for shipping the iPhone 12 series without the bundled EarPods and charger. Users will have to buy the headphones and the charger – both of which are essential – at an additional cost. It's a neat way to suck more money out of the customers' wallets.
Galaxy S21 price
The Galaxy S20 series was a dud, to be frank. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic has hurt its sales in recent months. But the biggest factor behind its low sales volume was the price. The Galaxy S20 series launched with a starting price of $999. It was like Samsung was trying to rob its customers, especially considering most of the competing devices had prices between $600 and $700.
The upcoming Galaxy S21 could be even more expensive than the S20. The main reason will be Qualcomm's Snapdragon 875 processor. According to a Korean message board, the Snapdragon 875 will be integrated with the X60 5G modem. It added that Xiaomi received a $250 per kit quote from Qualcomm for the Snapdragon 875 Mobile Platform, and $130 for a single chip.
By comparison, the Snapdragon 865 kit costs $150 and the single-chip is available at $80. It means the Snapdragon 875 will be more expensive than the Snapdragon 865. If Samsung decides to use the upcoming 875, it will make the Galaxy S21 series more expensive than its predecessor. The ridiculous cost of Snapdragon 875 is one of the reasons why Google chose to make its own chips for Pixel phones.
Cost options
Of course, the S21 launch is still several months away and Samsung hasn't officially confirmed anything yet. The Korean company has a few options on the table to bring down the cost. One way is to use chips made by other vendors such as MediaTek. Another option is to use the Snapdragon 875 only in the Plus/Ultra version of Galaxy S21 and have a lower-price chipset in the regular S21.
A third option is to reduce its profit margins to avoid increasing the cost for consumers. A fourth way would be to use the older Snapdragon 865. It is still blazing fast and capable of offering high-end experiences. According to Twitter tipster @MauriQHD, Samsung is internally discussing whether to use the older 865 in the next-gen Galaxy S21.
There's a rumor that Samsung Galaxy S21 will come with a 150MP rear camera. According to it, the S21 will use the same Nano-cell technology as the 108MP ISOCELL Bright HM1 sensor used on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. If this is true, then it's going to be a huge improvement by Samsung.
The device is unlikely to feature a Time of Flight sensor. The Galaxy Note 20 also launched without a ToF sensor. Samsung is worried that its 'indirect' ToF sensor is not as good as Apple's 'direct' sensor.
According to a report by Clien.net, Samsung is testing two different selfie camera prototypes for the Galaxy S21. One prototype camera has a large 1/2-inch sensor with OIS while another prototype has a slightly smaller 1/2.55-inch sensor with OIS. By comparison, the iPhone 11 Pro's main camera features a 1/2.55-inch sensor.
The bigger selfie camera sensors will allow users to take better photos and videos in low lighting. Larger sensors capture more light. Samsung's rivals – mainly Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and OnePlus – have upped their camera game and Samsung needs to catch up.
Under-screen camera technology
As with the rumors about Galaxy S21, we have our first one from the tweeter influencer Ice Universe. The speculation tipped that Samsung plans to use the under-screen camera technology first on the Galaxy S21, with the expectation of launching it by next year.
Since Samsung are fond of debuting their new and major camera developments first on the Galaxy S series, it would be interesting if S21 can come with this amazing camera technology.
Supply chain rumors suggest the under-screen camera technology has reached close to maturity. It would still take Samsung some time to refine it. So, there is little chance of the under-screen camera appearing in the Galaxy Note 20 series. But the next year's Galaxy S21 could be Samsung's first flagship to boast the under-screen camera technology.
However, it's not always easy to come up and incorporate technologies like that in smartphones. That's because it first requires planning and evaluating the feasibility of the technology. Apart from that, one other issue that needs consideration is insufficient light reaching the sensor. And that requires matching the pixel density with areas where the sensor is placed with the rest of the screen.
Of course, that isn't a big issue if the company has plans to incorporate the camera technology in its next Galaxy S series. Samsung is one of South Korean's chaebols and one of the leading smartphone manufacturers in the world. So, we should be expecting the under-screen camera technology pretty soon.
Samsung Display is the global leader in the OLED display technology. It is rumored to have been testing under-display camera technology for a long time. We wouldn't be surprised if Samsung Display manages to introduce the under-screen camera tech with the Galaxy S21 next year.
A new display supplier for Galaxy S21? No
Last month, there were speculations that Samsung Electronics had approached China's BOE to source OLED panels for the Galaxy S21. Samsung is the world's largest maker of OLED displays. But BOE's screens would have been significantly cheaper, reducing the cost of the Galaxy S21 production. The Korean company was testing BOE's OLED panels.
Twitter tipster Ice Universe reports that Samsung has decided not to use BOE's OLED displays in the Galaxy S21 series. Why? Because BOE panels failed in the very first stage of Samsung's testing process. There is a reason why cheap is synonymous with poor quality. Last month, the Display Supply Chain Consultants had reported that BOE could supply 6.67-inch panels to Samsung. But that's not going to happen now.
Among other things, the Galaxy S21 will use Qualcomm's new in-display fingerprint sensor, which is 17 times bigger than the technology in the Galaxy S20 series. It will also be faster and more reliable.
BOE has also expressed interest in securing OLED panel orders from Apple for the upcoming iPhone 12. But it failed to meet Apple's quality standards. Notably, BOE currently supplies TFT LCD panels for Samsung's Galaxy Book S.
An innovative 16GB RAM technology
Samsung has unveiled a breakthrough technology for RAM in smartphones. And the technology could find a way into the Galaxy S21. The Korean company said in a press release that it has started mass production of a 10nm 16GB LPDDR5 RAM module. The RAM is built using an innovative Extreme Ultraviolet technology.
The new technology makes the LPDDR5 RAM modules 16% faster than the current 12GB RAM chips. It also makes components 30% slimmer than the LPDDR5 modules used in current flagship smartphones. It manages to pack an impressive 16GB RAM in a device as small as smartphones. The extra RAM will be particularly useful to people who multitask on their phones or play demanding games.
Samsung said in its statement that the new RAM chips are so fast that they can transfer up to 51GB of data per second. Considering it has entered mass production, it will highly likely make it to the upcoming Galaxy S21. Samsung could also supply it to other smartphone vendors.
Next-gen Snapdragon and Exynos chips
Snapdragon chip
Apart from the under-screen camera, the rumor has it that Galaxy S21 will use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 875 chipset. Snapdragon is a suite of systems on chip semiconductor products for mobile devices. Just like the 865, Snapdragon 875 will also support 5G and advanced gaming and graphics.
It will be based on TMSC's 5nm technology, meaning that it'll feature over 171 million transistors per square millimeter. An advantage of that is that users will be able to enjoy improved device performance and efficiency.
Folks at 91Mobiles have learned from supply chain sources that the Snapdragon 875 will be equipped with Kryo 685 cores. There will likely be at least eight such cores. The Snapdragon 875 unveiling would take place towards the end of this year.
The Snapdragon 875 will integrate the next-gen X60 5G modem within the chip. Notably, Samsung will be responsible for manufacturing the X60 5G modem for Qualcomm, though the Snapdragon 875 will be fabricated by Taiwan-based TSMC.
Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon processor will have a new GPU called Adreno 660, which would have more than 1250 GFLOPS. Sources told 91Mobiles that the Snapdragon will also include an Adreno 665 vector processing unit, Adreno 1095 data processing unit, Spectra 580 image signal processor, and support for quad-channel PoP high-speed LPDDR5 RAM.
Exynos chip
Samsung's Exynos chips haven't been able to match the performance of Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips. The Korean company is considering a refresh to its Exynos 990 chipset. However, Samsung has joined hands with AMD to step up the game, and the Galaxy S21 could be the first device to benefit from the partnership.
A new Geekbench listing indicates that the Galaxy S21 series will run Samsung's Exynos 2100 chipset. Unconfirmed reports in the past claimed that the device will run an Exynos 1000 processor. Notably, the Exynos 1000 chipset (4250 score) has outperformed the Exynos 2100 (3060 score) on Geekbench.
However, Samsung has partnered with AMD for GPU to ensure that the Exynos-powered Galaxy S21 delivers the same level of graphics performance as the Snapdragon 875-powered version. The new Exynos will be using AMD's custom RDNA GPU technology instead of Mali GPU. The AMD graphics processor will take GPU performance to a whole new level. AMD's chips are insanely popular among gaming enthusiasts.
Just days after the Galaxy Note 20 series launch, the rumor mill has spilled the beans on the upcoming Galaxy S21 flagship.
According to a Weibo post, the Galaxy S21 series recently made its appearance on China's 3C certification site. The devices spotted on 3C include the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, Galaxy S20 Ultra.
The Galaxy S21 with model number SM-G9910 features a 3,880mAh battery. Samsung will likely market it as 4,000mAh. It supports 25W of fast charging. The larger Galaxy S21+ with model number SM-G9960 features a 4,660mAh battery.
The top of the line Galaxy S21 Ultra appeared with 4,800mAh battery, which Samsung could market as 5,000mAh. Its model number is SM-G9980. According to the Weibo post, all three models would support 25W fast charging.
China-based Ningde Amperex Technology will manufacture the S21 Ultra battery. However, having the same capacity doesn't mean the battery life will also be the same. It would vary depending on energy efficiency, screen size, and other factors.
For now, these rumors and speculations should be taken with a pinch of salt. The device is about a year away, and a lot could change between now and then.
This post was updated on 04 November 2020 with the latest information.
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Toward more rational cyber policymaking, through better data?
By Katie Aulenbacher, the CyberWire staff
The Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft team pitches a Bureau of National Cyber Statistics, exploring the what, how, and why.
Almost exactly four hundred years ago, Francis Bacon made the case for overcoming the idols of the cave, the tribe, the marketplace, and the theater—four categories of cognitive pitfalls common to all humans—with something approximating scientific inquiry. Early this week, friends of the Atlantic Council explained why the United States needs a central repository for cyber statistics against which public and private decision makers can test their intuitions and check their biases.
In the Atlantic Council's August 2nd conversation about "Why the US needs a Bureau of Cyber Statistics," Tufts University cybersecurity policy professor Josephine Wolff, Dell Technologies VP Bobbie Stempfley, Atlantic Council Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Trey Herr, and Nick Leiserson, Chief of Staff for Representative Langevin (Democrat, Rhode Island 2nd) maintained that the US operates from a shockingly impoverished cybersecurity knowledge base, grounding major decisions in gut feelings and best guesses.
We can't say, for example, whether or how much NIST standards actually facilitate security. We currently have difficulty making evidence-based statements about either the holistic health of the cyber ecosystem or micro-level security decisions. Cyber insurers struggle to quantify risk and reward productive postures, and instead tie their rates to company size. Past "best practice" recommendations, like updating passwords every ninety days, have proven detrimental. The dearth of data impacts resource allocation and policymaking, from local business decisions about which products merit purchase, to national decisions about where to take the country.
So how would a Bureau of Cyber Statistics (BCS) help?
A national Bureau would, in the Council's words, "provide a central collection, analysis and distribution point for uniform national cyber statistics." Panelists presented slightly differing visions for the Bureau's mission, mechanics, and mandate, as have other thinkers. Broadly, the BCS would benefit a diversity of public and private stakeholders—from Government agencies to academics, investors, customers, vendors, and companies—by providing key statistical and methodological insights with the overarching goal of boosting efficacy and efficiency across the digital ecosystem.
Stempfley stressed that the Bureau would not equate to a threat sharing interface, and would aggregate a variety of cyber statistics beyond data about security controls. She sees as primary aims of the initiative Government and industry alignment around validated risk models and clear measures of programmatic and technical efficacy, observing that good policy flows from good data. Leiserson noted the economic importance of cyber resilience, and argued that the initial efforts of the Bureau should center on immediate, practical questions—like, "Is this the best tool to invest in today?"—with the potential for more general considerations at some later time. Herr would prefer a focus on systemic health and design to evaluations of particular mitigations as the information most beneficial to policymakers. The interactions of rules at higher levels of abstraction, he said, are hardest to puzzle out without better data.
As for a BCS's role in achieving these goals, the panelists reviewed a range of possibilities. Should the Bureau simply collect and disseminate data, or should it organize and analyze findings? While there exists general agreement that the statistics gathered should be made widely available, and that the Bureau has some professional responsibility to present the data in a useful and accessible format (i.e., not in a giant Excel sheet), the panel said, experts disagree on the organization's analytical directive. Herr thinks the Bureau should function as a neutral resource, not as an umpire or a critic, and should strive to work within a narrowly tailored scope against what would surely be many requests to resolve every question.
Logistical issues facing a Bureau of Cyber Statistics.
An even trickier challenge surrounds what data to collect, and how to collect them. Certain sources are already publicly available for free or for purchase, and the Government holds wide-ranging collection capabilities. Beyond these assets, decisions need to be made about mandatory reporting, since voluntary initiatives have failed in the past. As Wolff remarked, businesses do not want to hand over proprietary information, and many layers of lawyers stand in the way of free-flowing data transfers. Significant Government intervention would probably be necessary to help companies escape their prisoner's dilemma, and share mutually beneficial statistics.
The participants disagreed about the best home for BCS. In Herr's opinion, the Department of Homeland Security is already overwhelmed, whereas the Department of Commerce's economic focus is ideal for technology and community-oriented topics. Wolff thinks Commerce would never establish compulsory disclosures given industry's reservations about such regulation, and that Homeland Security's authority over civilian cybersecurity positions it well to assume responsibility for cyber statistics. (Nextgov has also noted this private sector preference for Homeland Security.) The appropriate home depends on BCS's final mandate, Leiserson argued, but whoever is chosen should be an enthusiastic and able partner. Existing agencies like the Bureau of the Census are not up to the task, the panelists said, considering the distinctive quality and technical complexity of BCS's model.
The discussion didn't delve too deeply into thorny issues of liability, costs, and security—such as how to share information broadly with private sector players without also looping in China and Russia. The analysis did touch on privacy concerns, which in the case of companies largely collapse into concerns about liability and trade secrets. Privacy concerns do generate additional legitimate risks and fears. Herr and Stempfley observed that a BCS would have the opportunity to prioritize and design for transparency and privacy from the outset, setting an example of responsibly limited data collection supported by vigorous management protocols and a team of attorneys and privacy staff. On one hand, the Bureau could get a lot of mileage out of narrowly targeted data collection; on the other, privacy protections must be balanced against other values and objectives.
An Inglis cameo, offering a call for unity of effort and purpose.
National Cyber Director Chris Inglis also made an appearance at the event, and spoke in support of the BCS. He warned that enemies of the US leverage data in increasingly sophisticated ways, and remarked that a number of forthcoming Federal policies will require a sturdy bedrock of quality statistics. Relatedly, the goals of the National Cyber Director's office, he said, are fourfold: to advise on resource allocation, bolster resilience, facilitate public-private cooperation, and develop coherence across the Federal Government. Adversaries can't divide and conquer a country marked by "unity of effort and unity of purpose," he concluded, and will have a harder time taking on one characterized by data-driven decision-making.


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Indonesian security forces in the eastern province of Papua are preparing to storm five villages that they say are being held by an armed rebel group, police officials say.
Around 200 police and military personnel have been deployed and are awaiting orders to secure the area, where an armed separatist group linked to the Free Papua Movement (OPM) is preventing about 1000 people from leaving an area near a giant copper mine, operated by the American miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc .
"Today the joint police and military forces have occupied various posts to be able to take action," said Papua police spokesman, Suryadi Diaz.
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McLeish: Wake-up call for Barry
Bannan has not been chosen for Aston Villa's last two matches against Sunderland - for which he was suspended while the club held an internal inquiry - and Norwich. Villa boss McLeish believes Bannan, who earlier this week was charged with four driving offences in total, will have "learnt his lesson" after holding talks with the Scotland international. When asked if a player could behave in the manner of Bannan, McLeish said: "No, not in this day and age. Listen, nobody's going to be too upset if a player has a beer - but at the right times. "In the Premier League this is top-level stuff and you have to be absolutely right physically, and it's a wake-up call for every player, every young player. "I hate to talk to modern players about 'in our day' and say 'we did this, we did that'. It's just changing generations and you have to adapt to the times. "It's probably not the right time to have a big debate about it. Barry is available for selection as he was for the Norwich game. "I'm sure lessons have been learned. He's training really hard and actually looking really impressive in training and has the potential to reach the top level. "We've had loads of one-to-ones, we've had talks with the whole group. We know how we want to go forward." Bannan was also left out of the Scotland squad while the subject of a police investigation before being formally charged. McLeish said: "I'm sure all these things hurt, like getting left out of the Scotland squad. "But life's a big challenge and it's about how you deal with the next episode." McLeish insists any decisions on his selection policy will be down to footballing reasons ahead of Monday's game at Tottenham. He said: "I sat them all down in the dressing room before the Norwich game and said 'may the best man win'. "Look at the size of the squad down here and I can only pick 11 to start, can only pick 18 to be in the actual squad. "It won't be easy to keep all these fellas happy. It is up to individuals that they are up for the challenge when the competition intensifies. "There's a good few youngsters in that squad, like Barry Bannan, who are now trying to establish themselves as Villa players. "Whether Barry makes the 18-man squad at Tottenham we'll wait and see, because last time out the players played a great game."


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Talent by Design... Designing for engagement, one human at a time
When designing the Vista Innovation & Design Academy (VIDA), we sought to gather empathy from students and as a result made a poignant discovery: students, particularly those from poverty, felt that school was irrelevant to their lives. We endeavored to reverse this by design, and we knew that if we created a school that was more about their lives than "just school," we could capture their hearts, and then we could get to their brains. Engagement became our first intervention.
Engagement is not a one-way street: we cannot manifest this in our students if faculty don't experience that same hope. It is nearly impossible for teachers to inspire and support "creativity," "growth mindset," or "risk-taking" in their students when those teachers do not have the self-efficacy in those domains themselves. As we contemplated how teachers can create genuinely-personalized and creative opportunities that will engage and inspire their students if they aren't engaged themselves?
Around the same time in our school transformation, Gallup came out with findings that only 30% of teachers nationally were "engaged" in their work. An "engaged" teacher was defined as "involved with, enthusiastic about, and committed to their work… They know the scope of their jobs and constantly look for new and better ways to achieve outcomes" (Gallup, 2015, para. 2). It leaves one to ponder how And as school leaders, how might we make our own teachers engaged in their craft?
Practically Speaking
A priority for our school transformation then begged the question: how might we best engage teachers? One of the leading mantras for that effort came from a central frame of empathy that sought to honor their humanity. "What have you always wanted to do with students that you have never been able to do?" It is an easy question to ask, but once teachers gave their answers, we had to figure out ways to fully realize those answers. We worked to turn those lost wants into brand-new, specialized elective classes and/or other opportunities on campus to engage the strengths, interests, and values of teachers. School leadership aimed to foster the conditions that would make teachers jump out of bed, put both feet on the ground, and want to run to school each day. The theory of action was that this energy would bleed into the soul of the school and pump into the veins of its students.
Why Talent Development
Our next level of growth around teacher engagement has become Talent Development. It is deeply empathetic work, in part inspired by Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, when he wrote that "even the most optimistic workers will become discouraged if they are not being developed" (Nadella, 2017, p. 118). Often, when we mention Talent Development to school leaders, they default to thinking professional development. To be clear, this is not what we are referring to.
We foster Talent Development through supporting teachers to realize the best future version of themselves. If we have teachers working to achieve this feeling, they will genuinely support students to help achieve the best future version of themselves. We support teachers in first recognizing and defining their identities and then in refining and seeking the best stage for their talents to shine.
How we are working on designing for talent with our faculty
Talent Development is one of the most human concepts we infuse in our work on campus. Teachers seeking their own best version of themselves is contagious for the students they work alongside everyday. This work is about love, hope, and care. It is soul work and deeply human. It is work we tend to daily. An important note to leaders is that this is not something we were just able to dive into. To get to this point was built upon a strong culture of trust between teachers and administration.
Aspirations: Building on work by School ReTool, we asked all teachers to think about what their aspirations for the year are, personally and/or professionally. This was introduced with the principal publicly sharing first. Teacher aspirations were shared privately with the principal. Follow-up took place via cards, emails, check-ins, and conversation points in the hallway. Note: these were not "goal setting" or SMART Goals.
What are your aspirations for the year?
What are the behaviors that would be visible to achieve these?
What will it feel like to see your aspirations come to fruition?
30 Day Journal Challenge (Borrowed from Alex Banayan on MentorBox).
Daily Prompts:
What filled you with energy today?
What drained you today?
What did you learn about yourself today?
Offered up to all teachers & provided Moleskin Cahier journals for each
Did an email check-in three times to see how it was going, share resource(s) if applicable from conversations coming up, etc.
At the end of the 30 days, Staffulty had the opportunity to engage in the following:
Go off campus with other interested participants using a soft-protocol to share learnings, insights, and thoughts.
Meet one-on-one to talk about individuals plans, hopes, realizations, and future planning as well as to devise a path to better align work with strengths, interests and values. This may include personal branding, side-hustle consulting work, and even opportunities outside education.
Forgo meeting and move forward on own.
3. Strengths: All adults take the StrengthsFinder assessment and are encouraged to share their Top Five Strengths via email signature and/or classroom poster, making it part of their functioning as a team on campus. Students take the Thrively Strengths assessment, and we are currently working to make these more prominent in students' awareness and tying them to metacognition and reflection.
4. Interests: All adults take the Strong Interest Inventory to identify their Top Three RIASEC Codes. The follow up conversations have been profound. Everyone spoken to feels very connected to the results, leading to insights such as "I am in the perfect career," "I am not sure why I am in this career," or "I can be doing more within this career." All students have access to the assessment, and like Strengths, we are in the process of better tuning this information into daily experiences. In addition, each year we offer parents the opportunity to take the assessment.
5. Entrepreneurship: This overlays our Design Based pedagogy and is a key component driving discussions and actions around "Identity and Talent." In addition, Entrepreneurship helps develop the sense of craftsmanship for us all. This provides a platform for interested teachers with their own personal branding around "strengths" and "expertise" to provide added value to the organization while they realize and spread their influence as conference presenters, budding consultants, and more.
6. Flatten Hierarchy: Charon et al (2018) shared that "hierarchy can isolate and bury talent" (p. 8) and that cross-functional teams help to triangulate talent development as levers for improvement and growth within an organization. We have two standing leadership teams and a number of other pop up teams and councils. These pop up teams come together to perform a targeted task and then disband when the work is accomplished. This is also an effective way to build trust, allow other to see how the process works, and to create a sense of 'we are all in this together."
Empathy is something we are continually working to hone. It requires us to be vulnerable as users within our own system and to practice humility to not assume that we know all of the answers. We have found, time and time again, that we avoid many pitfalls faced by conventional organizations by being human-centered and designing both for users and alongside users. By being empathetic to others and seeking humility, we are mindful of the assertion in Talent Wins that "talent can never be about the ego fulfillment of leaders" (Charan et al, 2018, p. 166). Our school transformation is now in its fifth year, and like any good innovation, we know our edge is in our ability to continue iteration and evolution. Failure to iterate and evolve would lead to stagnation and mediocrity. Some of the things on our mind as we engage with this work are:
Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey to be able to capture a snapshot of data for how we are doing.
Always seeking new insights and ideas.
Allowing the creative genius within us to help find the new levers to move on.
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Nadella, S. (2017). Hit refresh: the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a
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The Magic of Perspective...
One of the most magical experiences our little family has shared together was a vacation where we spent 3 days exploring The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando. My wife and daughters were already raving fans of the Harry Potter books & subsequent movies, and the enchantment of the park experience made me a fan. It was on this trip that I learned about the Sorting Hat at a special school for training young witches & wizards called Hogwarts. This Sorting Hat divided the students at the school into different Houses based both on what it could sense from a student, and what the student wanted.
These Houses can most quickly be named and described as:
Brave & Adventurous
Loyal & Kind
Intelligent & Introspective
Cunning. (Most "bad" characters are Slytherins, but not all Slytherins are "bad" people).
It was during some silly familial disagreement on that trip that one of our daughters explained to us that if we knew what each other's Hogwarts Houses were, that maybe we could understand why we were bickering. It was a brilliant insight from an 8 year old, and immediately a light went off in my head about an issue I was dealing with 3,000 miles away, back home in San Diego.
The reality of the modern world, especially in schools, is that we work in teams. Teachers may work in grade level teams, PLC's, vertical teams, cross-collaborative teams, and a million other configurations. Administrators also have teams - perhaps at the site level, but also typically across a district. Sometimes these teams gel and they are off to the races moving forward on the work. Sometimes these teams struggle more. Sometimes the beliefs, the personalities, or behaviors within a team can cause strife, frustration, discontent, mistrust, and otherwise slow or derail the work.
A few years ago, I was on a team (not at our school, and the team has since gone away). That team was for the most part dysfunctional. There were five of us, and we had very different views of the world, we had very different views about our work, we had very different understandings about our roles in the work -- we even had different outlooks on what the work actually was. This, sadly, as in many organizations, led to discussions by a few behind the backs of others to air frustrations, discontent, and otherwise unproductive behavior. I was as guilty as anyone else in all of the mess.
In reflection, at the root of the team's issues was that we were unable to have any real discourse with each other. We talked, but there was no understanding amongst us. We lacked perspective. Perhaps we didn't like each other. Perhaps our viewpoints of the world were too different. Perhaps our purposes for doing the work were not aligned. Perhaps the ways we went about any & everything were all totally off from one another.
So, building off the advice of our 8 year old daughter for how to figure out our familial bickering, I did what any well-seasoned & mature person in management would do: I sorted everyone on the team into Hogwarts Houses!
It turns out we had 2 Gryffindors, 1 Ravenclaw, me the Hufflepuff, and a Slytherin. Standing there in line, this insight began to sink in.
Just as in the books & movies the audience was able to expect something from the characters based on the House that they were sorted; so the puzzle of dysfunction was beginning to make sense to me. What if we knew what to expect from someone because of how they are predisposed, or wired, and you allowed that knowledge to provide context for things? What if that context made you more patient? What if that patience allowed you the time & space to be more empathetic? What type of perspectives might be gleaned from that empathy and how might that then change the interactions and functionality of a team? And how would you do all that at scale in an organization?
Sorting us into Hogwarts Houses immediately helped provide me context clues for why our team was in fact dysfunctional. When we returned to work, I let the Gryffindors in on this wild insight of sorting, and eventually everyone knew. It immediately made a huge impact. Suddenly in our interactions: the way we spoke to each other, the framing of questions, the patience to imagine the origin of behaviors, dispositions, and mindsets began to take root. By the time the team disbanded a few years later we had grown in our work and we had actually all become genuine friends. In that time, no one changed who they were. No one caved in on what they stood for. Rather, context led to patience. Patience led to hearing. Hearing led to empathy. Empathy led to grace. Grace led to a willingness to grow from the perspectives of others, and it allowed for the team's thinking to be expanded.
It may seem like a silly scenario, but it was one of the most profound moments and realizations I had had as a leader. Perspective. Before you knew it, I was sorting everyone into Houses: my bosses, our teachers, the students -- it was radical -- and I wondered: How might we purposefully design for perspective-building in our own school culture?
Staffulty Celebrations of Learning (COL's)
When we opened our school, we knew that there was a lot we wanted to do to re-imagine the learning experience for modern learners. This meant assessing what schools "do" and what made sense to continue to do.
One of the issues we wanted to address was "traditional" parent-teacher conferences. What our collective experience as school employees and parents informed us that Parent Conferences essentially meant 1 of 4 main things:
Parents of students doing well were anxious to hear more about how great their kids are (full-disclosure, I personally fall into this group).
Parents who need to come to parent conferences regarding true academic or behavioral concerns would not show up.
Parents of students who need to come to parent conferences regarding true academic or behavioral concerns would show up, but often times they sat there hearing the same message that they had received from the school for years prior.
Parents of students who had concerns, and were actively involved would reach out well before the week before Thanksgiving break for help and support.
Yet, as a new school, we found ourselves still working within an established and larger system that set aside specific dates for "Parent Conferences" with attached Minimum Day bell schedules and Teacher Contract language associated with them.
So we began to ideate. How might we make a more meaningful experience out of Parent Conferences? We started by researching options such as "Student Led Conferences" (SLC's) made popular by different progressive education outlets.
While intrigued by SLC's, we were hesitant because while the onus shifted from teacher to student-talk, it still seemed like an isolated event. Students, instead of their teachers, reported about their successes, struggles and other issues -- but all still in private.
Since Project Based Learning (PBL) is important to us, and an essential element of PBL is "public audience," we prototyped a riff off of SLC's where a student would prepare a presentation about their learning and give this presentation publicly to their family and invited friends, a teacher, and three other families. Students are given a template to help structure their 5-7 minute presentation, but allowed the latitude to tell their story in their way. Students talk about how they are doing academically, where they are exceeding and show evidence for it. Where are they struggling, and what is their plan for improving. Students also talk about their relationship with the core values (GILLS) of the school. What core value have they been challenged by and what is their plan to improve. What core value are they best exemplifying and what is the evidence to prove it? Students also discuss in general about what their challenges are and where they have grown over their time at the school.
These experiences are called "Celebrations of Learning" and we began doing them in the Spring of 2015 (our first year).
When we opened our 4th year of the school, we thought about authenticity a lot. Both in the projects & prototypes students made, but also in what we were asking the students to reach and do. We agreed that it would be meaningful if the adults stepped up and engaged in their own Celebrations of Learning (COL's) in front of our peers. On November 6th, 2017, we did just that. Four members of our Staffulty took about 25 minutes during a meeting and presented to their peers. There were tears, there was vulnerability, there was open-honesty, there was humor; but most of all there was love and appreciation. The Staffulty who gave their COL's gained empathy for what we ask our students to go through on four occasions during their time at our school. The audience gained respect and appreciation for their colleagues stepping well out of the comfort zone. Some of the email comments that followed summed up the experience well:
"I just wanted to thank the brave souls that shared their COL this morning with the staff. Thank you for showing us a side of you that we don't always get to see and being VULNERABLE. I was so impressed. I feel more and more like family here and I'm so grateful to be a part of this great work that we do. I was again inspired by the power of a Celebration of Learning. I can't wait to see what the kids come up with this week."
"This morning's Adult COLs profoundly touched me. The personal reflections were courageous, humorous, and touching. I was also moved by those in the room that listened attentively and supported our colleagues as they shared about themselves."
The Andon Cord...
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When my wife was seven months pregnant with our first child, we moved into my parents' spare bedroom. We had just rented out our house, and we were six weeks away from closing escrow on our new home where we would go on to raise our little family. While we were living in the spare bedroom, we had to quickly adopt some survival skills. This was a great adventure, mainly because of me. I am not only a super-sensitive person, but I also think that I am funnier than I actually am...
To survive this six week adventure, my wife and I quickly realized that we needed a special "stop" signal that either of us could invoke without angering the other. We needed an alert system that, without words or sensationalism, indicated "feelings are about to be hurt." Living in such a small space with so much external stress, we needed to ensure that effective communication and systems were in place to end teasing, nagging, questioning, or eye-rolling before the point of no return. The signal? If one of us were about to experience hurt feelings, we were to extend our arms and close them shut, like the jaws of an alligator. This signal means, without question, hesitation, sarcastic remark, or huffy sounds, that everything was to stop. Immediately.
Almost a decade later while reading the book The Lean StartUp (2011) by Eric Ries, I was fascinated to learn about a mechanism at Toyota that worked in radically the same way. It is called the "Andon Cord." The Andon Cord is a cord that any worker along the assembly line is expected to pull if a problem or concern is seen. Pulling the cord is not something determined by rank or seniority. Pulling the cord illuminates a series of immediate responses by supervisors that may or may not actually stop the entire line of production. Ries (2011) explains that it "allows any worker to ask for help as soon as they notice any problem, such as a defect in a physical part, stopping the entire production line if it cannot be corrected immediately" (p. 187). Without naming it, in How (2011) by Dov Seidman, he explains the power of this concept as "it (quality) became the responsibility of every employee at every level of the task. Power shifted from the top of the hierarchy down to its base; anyone, at any stage of the process, could stop the line" (pp. 211-212).
This is much like what my wife and I had developed to get through our in-between-houses-time, and in fact we still use the signal today. Frankly, much of the success of our marriage has been forged by this strategy that puts the responsibility on both of us for acting and responding appropriately in a predetermined and understood fashion.
I was speaking to a visitor touring our school in the spring of 2017, and he took the story of the Andon Cord as a quality control tool and superimposed it as a strategy for ferreting out instruction that didn't meet "his" standards. In fact, he quite-excitedly gleaned that this proven concept from industry empowered him to be more direct and quicker to make note of low-grade instruction at "his" school.
So bothered by his interpretation, I was inspired to write this post. I told him that I thought the transference of the concept of the Andon Cord from manufacturing to education was more to do about empowering all people in the organization and flattening the hierarchy, aka, culture. It was not immediately about quality control on instruction. I told him that, in fact, I thought the story taken in the context as he processed it was actually damaging. Whether he wanted to hear it or not, I continued that, 'from my perspective, the power of the Andon Cord idea speaks to...'
The value and importance of a flat hierarchy. No title or position makes any one person more insightful, valuable, or responsible for what happens on campus. I believe that schools have souls, and those souls need to be nurtured. We all have that responsibility to say something when and if something doesn't feel right.
The value and importance of empowering all people in the organization. This ties into a flattened hierarchy, except is even broader, because typically even in a "flat hierarchy" there is still a hierarchy.
The value and importance of the right culture. Transferring the concept of the Andon Cord to education is about culture. All schools have culture, but not all schools have "good" or the "right" culture. Yes, it sounds subjective. More specifically, when I say "good culture" in reference to school transformation efforts, I am referring to cultures that are prone to taking risks, and where vulnerability is a mainstay of the work that the majority of the campus is willing to engage in--both adult and student.
The value and importance of people being willing to stand up and say "time out," say, "this needs to stop," share a concern, or interrupt a process. The Andon Cord is a metaphor for a culture agreeing that if we have an issue or concern, we voice it in an appropriate way where it can be addressed. I was greatly impacted by a Keynote I once heard given by Anthony Muhammad (http://newfrontier21.com/consulting/anthony) during which he spoke about "toxic" school cultures. One of the important take aways for me surrounded the idea of "parking lot conversations": the conversations that spread angst, discontent, fear, anger, half-truths, lies, and frustration. These conversations do nothing to solve an issue or offer opportunity for discussion and transparency because they take place in the quiet of a parking lot. The Andon Cord philosophy with school culture says both that "we are safe to signal time out" in public and that when the parking lot or teacher lounge conversations slide to the negative and unproductive, colleagues are empowered to say "time out, did you have the chance to bring this up to... (or) at...?" Pull the cord. Stop production before bigger problems develop later. Let's fix things as we see them, while they are fixable. Let's not wait until issues have sourly festered and are in need of full repair. The responsibility lies on all of our shoulders.
Once our schools empower everyone with the responsibility to "stop production" when a flaw, fluke, issue, or problem is seen, we will realize a stronger school culture. But this requires "leaders" to be vulnerable and open to people pulling that cord. Once we get the right culture in place, we will have a solid footing to develop the protocols, tuning mechanisms, and discussion points for really digging in around weighty elements of school transformation, like instruction. And while it may seem like a long road to get to that "main event," it is an investment that will yield much richer results in the end and speaks to adage of "go slow to go fast."


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Peter Garrett's power and passion is being recognised with the Australian National University awarding him an honorary doctorate. The Midnight Oil frontman, environmental activist and Gillard-era federal minister is being recognised for his exceptional contributions to music, conservation, reconciliation with indigenous Australians and public service. He will be awarded the degree in Canberra on Monday afternoon. Australian Associated Press
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February 11 2019 - 9:28AM
Midnight Oil star gets university honour
Midnight Oil frontman and former environment minister Peter Garrett will receive an honorary degree.
Peter Garrett's power and passion is being recognised with the Australian National University awarding him an honorary doctorate.
The Midnight Oil frontman, environmental activist and Gillard-era federal minister is being recognised for his exceptional contributions to music, conservation, reconciliation with indigenous Australians and public service.
He will be awarded the degree in Canberra on Monday afternoon.
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How can I make rolling partitions in MySql?
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Why Hip-Hop Is Still Going To Be King Of This Decade
January 7, 2021 · by Rae Quigley · in Contributed Post, Music. ·
Hip Hop is subjectively the greatest musical genre, constantly evolving as the months and years go by to reflect the changes in culture and generations. From the charts, to fashion, to sports, and everything in between. Hip-Hop is king, and it's not going anywhere any time soon.
Once upon a time, the king of music was rock n' roll. You had to see the crowds in the 70s and 80s to really see this popularity for yourself. People would climb over each other, just to hear a guitar solo from Hendrix or perhaps the thunder that the Rolling Stones provided. People thought there would never be anything like The Beatles and, to some extent, they were right. But in the era of rock, there were many Beatles-like followings of bands. Everyone loved rock n roll, from the kids to the grandparents. Eventually, in the 90s, a genre that branched from rap, became the dominant force. We are of course, talking about hip-hop. It's been at the top for 3 consecutive decades. So will it stay there for this decade? You bet.
The Younger Generation
In today's social media world, the younger generation feel that hip-hop symbolizes who they are. This is why Vines and not Tik Tok videos featuring well-known songs like Drake's Hotline Bling are still so popular. The songs have been incorporated in different ways, everything from classic hip-hop, to 80s synthesizers and even classical music. Children have been learning hotline bling chords through music sheets that they can easily purchase online. This particular music sheet is allows for interaction, so you can playback and transpose a section, helping you to learn how to play it in a methodical manner.
Incorporation Into Sports
Something that rock and roll perhaps didn't have, was widespread support in sports teams and famous players. However, hip-hop stars regularly attend basketball and football games, as well as other sports. This makes hip-hop music, more relatable and isn't just anti-establishment like rock was, but closer to the normal lives of everyday people. Famous NBA players like Lebron James and the late Kobe, were always smiling and talking with rappers and hip-hop articles that attended the games. We all know and love the sight of Jay-Z and Beyonce at the side of the court for the Lakers. Hip-hop is played during the pauses in many sports, because it gets the crowds fired up. Does anyone see a rock solo having the same effect? Nope!
The Fashion Continues
Just like rock and roll, hip-hop has it's own fashion. The only difference is, it was way ahead of it's time. The studded leather jackets that rockers wore, are long gone. But the jackets, hats, jeans and sneakers that hip-hop artists wore in the 90s, are still going strong! Nowadays we call it streetwear or urban wear. The bomber jacket, mixed with the dark denim and urban sneakers is a style that is known the world over. From London, England, Osaka, Japan, to New York, USA, this fashion has been adopted by successive generations. This is ultimately why the genre continues today. Because it's not just something you hear, but it's something you wear.
What do you guys think? Do you think hip-hop has seen it's golden era, or do you think that no other genre of music or culture has the same sway as hip-hop?
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Use this guide to start our research on topics in the area of religious education.
Ereference
Australian religious education curriculum
A+ Education
Articles and other information about Religious Education with an Australian curriculum focus. Topics covered include: Catholic Schools, Christianity, RE curriculum, best practice, teaching methods, hermeneutics, social justice and spirituality.
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Key database for Education that includes scholarly journals published globally. In the field of Religious Education, topics researched include: Catholic Schools, ethical instruction, spiritual development, values education, beliefs, hermeneutics, teaching and educational methods.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Plus
Key database for Theology that includes scholarly journals published globally. Alongside the education databases, ATLA covers similar topics as well as scholarly essays and critical interpretations of the Scriptures.
ProQuest Religion Database
Covers diverse religious and spiritual studies of general interest from the perspectives of worldwide religions.
British Journal of Religious Education
International Journal of Children's Spirituality
International Studies in Catholic Education
Journal of Catholic Education
Journal of Religious Education
MasterClass in Religious Education by Liam Gearon; Sue Brindley (Series editors)
A comprehensive exploration of the major themes in RE research and pedagogy exploring religious education's role in confronting controversial issues and the implications this has for teaching, learning and research. Topics such as citizenship, human rights, and identity are discussed.
Religious Education by Clive Erricker
This book examines the current debates surrounding RE and puts forward a new approach to teaching the subject that is non-faith based and focused on conceptual enquiry and the development of a clear pedagogy.
International Handbook of Inter-Religious Education by Kath Engebretson, Gloria Durka, Liam Gearon, Marian de Souza (Editors)
An essential aim of inter-religious education is the promotion of understanding and engagement between people of different religions and has great potential to contribute to the common good of the global community.
Global Perspectives on Spirituality and Education by Jacqueline Watson, Ann Trousdale, Marian De Souza (Editors)
The book presents contributions including from Australasia and concludes with highlighting what is common and what is contextually unique about global approaches to spirituality and education.
Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools by Michael T. Buchanan, Adrian-Mario Gellel (Editors)
The edited collection investigates how to pass on a Catholic heritage as a "living tradition" in diversely populated schools and communities. In this way it explores and asserts the proper identity of Catholic Religious Education in dialogue with Catechetics and with the wider discipline of RE.
Religion: Gale Virtual Reference Library
Includes the New Catholic Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Religion.
Religion & Theology: Credo Reference
Topic pages contain overviews, definitions, biographies, images and related topics.
Cambridge Histories: Religion
Includes the New Cambridge History of the Bible.
Oxford Biblical Studies Online
A comprehensive resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion
The latest thinking in a range of major topics in religion. Offering thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource.
Religion & Theology: Wiley Online Library
Topics include Biblical studies, spirituality, contemporary religious thought, religion and issues and religious studies.
Dictionary of the Bible
Provides clear and concise information about all of the important places, people, themes, and doctrines of the Bible.
Vocabulary of the study of religion
An overview of critical terms in the study of religion.
ACT / VIC
NSW / QLD
Catholic Education (Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn)
RESource: an Initiative of Catholic Education Melbourne
Catholic Diocese of Ballarat Education
Catholic Schools Office (Diocese of Armidale)
Catholic Education (Diocese of Bathurst)
Community of Catholic Schools (Diocese of Broken Bay)
Catholic Schools Office (Diocese of Lismore)
Catholic Schools Office (Diocese of Maitland and Newcastle)
Catholic Education (Diocese of Parramatta)
Sydney Catholic Schools: Inspiring Spirits and Minds (RE Online)
Catholic Education (Diocese of Wagga Wagga)
Wilcannia-Forbes Catholic Education Office
Catholic Education: Diocese of Wollongong
From this page, access the Diocesan Resource Centre's webpage with online resources.
Brisbane Catholic Education: Portal of RE curriculum resources
RE and Early Years Support Resources (Catholic Education Archdiocese of Brisbane)
Religion Curriculum P-12 (Catholic Education Archdiocese of Brisbane)
Religious Educators' Toolbox to support Brisbane Catholic Education
Writing Icons to support Brisbane Catholic Education
ResourceLink: Catholic Education Brisbane
A community learning centre that enriches contemporary learning and teaching, evangelisation and religious education for the Archdiocese of Brisbane.
EduTV: Religious Studies
Documentaries, films, current affairs and other programmes broadcast on pay TV channels such as The History Channel, National Geographic, BBC Knowledge and Discovery, the learning area of religious studies is also covered.
Watch, Know, Learn
Free educational videos organised by learning area, grade or educational theme, including Philosophy, Religion and Ethics.
Kanopy: Religion and Philosophy
Films that cover a broad range of disciplines including different beliefs, histories and themes relating to Religion & Philosophy.
TV News: Compass
"Compass explores the interface between religion and life as experienced by individuals and communities - including ordinary Australians, public leaders, religious thinkers and philosophers". ABCTV
Together at One Altar ; Early Childhood
A resource for school aged children in years F-12 in Australia to develop their formation in the Eucharist. Click on the top right to change to Years 4-6, 7-10 and 11-12.
Bible Atlas full text ebook
By the Access Foundation, there is an option available for downloading the ebook.
A download of On Holy Ground: An Ecological Vision for Catholic Education in South Australia.
Healing Earth
Healing Earth addresses select environmental challenges from an integrated scientific, moral, and spiritual perspective. This Living Text, Healing Earth is a curricular resource on environmental studies for teachers and students in institutions of higher education and secondary schools worldwide.
Junior Cycle for Teachers: Religious Education
This Open Educational Resource (OER) aims to develop knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and values to enable young people to come to an understanding of religion and its relevance to life, relationships, society and the wider world.
Story and Religion
This OER contains resources to be used by teachers on the theme Approaching Religion Through Story.
Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences
This OER module offers an accessible introduction to the study of religions, exploring places, practices, texts and experiences. Religious traditions such as Christianity, Hinduism and Islam are explored in diverse geographical, cultural and historical contexts.
Last reviewed: 12 April 2019
URL: https://libguides.acu.edu.au/religious-education
Tags: Bible study and teaching, Catholic schools, education, religious education, Religious education curriculum, social justice, spituality, theology


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Q: Is it possible to re-name crew-members in-game? I know it's possible to re-name your starting crew at the hangar, but I can't seem to find any way to do this once I'm in-game. I prefer to give my crew custom names since it's easier for me to remember the jobs I've assigned each of them (i.e. pilot, shield operator, et cetera).
Is it possible to re-name crew-members outside of the hanger, and if so, how?

A: With the free expansion "Advanced Edition" you're now able to rename any crew member from the crew manifest screen.

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Added in v1.54, the Advanced Edition. Changelog:
Rename mid game: Rename any crewmember from the Crew Manifest screen

According to the FTL website, the coming expansion, FTL: Advanced Edition, will allow renaming of crew mid-game. Coming in "early 2014". Keep your eyes peeled!

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A senior researcher from Pakistan worked at a large pharmaceutical company and didn't know how to talk to his supervisor to ask for a promotion. He felt he wasn't prepared to show why he was worth more money [and recognition] and his resistance and unhappiness were growing each week. He felt he wasn't being valued for his contributions and was getting ready to leave the company.
We wrote many different scenarios in which we acted out him telling his supervisor how he contributed to the team as well as to difficult projects and why he was a valuable contributor for his company. We practiced all the words that were important for his job to make sure he was giving them the right intonation and enunciation – and important for Pakistanis and Indians, also the correct emphasis on syllables.
In addition, we looked at the clothes that the C level executives were wearing in his company. He slowly shifted his wardrobe to the way they were dressed and he felt it reflected a more senior position. Here in Silicon Valley clothes normally don't play a big part, but some companies, especially older, more established ones, still care.
He felt so much better about himself due to his improved communication skills and his new look that he was able to convince his boss a few months later to give him the promotion he deserved. He keeps in touch with me and is still working at the same company.


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Непас () — муніципалітет в Іспанії, у складі автономної спільноти Кастилія-і-Леон, у провінції Сорія. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Муніципалітет розташований на відстані близько 160 км на північний схід від Мадрида, 26 км на південь від Сорії.

Демографія

Посилання

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Il doppio del torneo di tennis Weiden Challenger 1998, facente parte dell'ATP Challenger Series, ha avuto come vincitori Nuno Marques e Nenad Zimonjić che hanno battuto in finale Simon Aspelin e Chris Tontz 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Teste di serie

 Nuno Marques /  Nenad Zimonjić (Campioni)
 Andrew Painter /  Grant Silcock (primo turno)

 Grant Doyle /  James Greenhalgh (semifinali)
 Eduardo Nicolas-Espin /  German Puentes-Alcaniz (quarti di finale)

Tabellone

Collegamenti esterni

Weiden Challenger 1998


I found the phrase "having his lips dripping," to be a very powerful and poetic metaphor that could be used for not only the hate speech and bloodshed of the time, but the power of words in general. The words of Dr. King's speech still resonate with humanity decades later, and continue to elicit peaceful change around the world. I chose to symbolize this imagery with a nod to the pop art movement that was concurrently happening during the same decade as the civil rights movement.


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THE BIGFOOT FILES : Chapter Twelve | 'The Bigfoot Phenomenon'
April 10, 2020 by Lionel Ray Green	in NEWS and tagged Bigfoot phenomenon, chainsaw carvings, Chasing Bigfoot, Cliff Barackman, Quest for Truth
(Editor's note: This review contains major spoilers.)
Episode 3 of Chasing Bigfoot: The Quest for Truth is titled "The Bigfoot Phenomenon" and focuses on how the cryptid became so popular by interviewing investigators, researchers, and people in the business of selling Bigfoot merchandise.
While the first two episodes concentrated more on the actual cryptid, this episode is more about the media that propelled Bigfoot to popularity. You can read my reviews of the first episode here and the second episode here.
While sightings of Bigfoot were first reported in 1811, the phenomenon didn't take off till the latter half of the 20th century.
"When Bigfoot was brought to TV, it really took off," said Cliff Barackman, a researcher and a member of Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot team. "I think that popular television programs have really played a role in kind of getting the subject out there. There was a surge in the 1970s. In the 1970s you had things like In Search Of …, but really the 1980s kind of shut that surge down."
What happened in the 1980s? The tabloids turned Bigfoot into fodder for trashy stories.
"The tabloids would blast on the front page 'Bigfoot ate my baby' … or all those nonsense things, and we all saw them while waiting in line at the grocery store," Barackman said.
Today, many in the Bigfoot "business" feel the cryptid is a legitimate mystery.
"I think Bigfoot moved from tabloid … to something the majority of people think there may be something out there," said Robert Swain, a co-founder of the Arkansas Primate Evidence Society.
Episode 3 mentions TV shows and movies like Bigfoot and Wildboy (1977), The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), The Sasquatch Gang (2006), Fishing Naked (2015), and Willow Creek (2013) for helping popularize the elusive legend.
Of course, with the Internet now, anyone can share an encounter – or a hoax – the moment after it happens.
One of the more interesting parts of Episode 3 is the interviews with the people who have used the phenomenon for business. Consumers can pay to go on Bigfoot hunts, attend conferences, or buy merchandise.
"The number of people interested has grown," said John Pickering, core member of the Olympic Project. "And with that, you have economic things become involved."
In Episode 3, you meet Jim Myers who owns The Sasquatch Outpost in Bailey, Colorado, where you can tour a museum and meet Boomer, a seven-foot-tall Bigfoot figure; and Michael Johnson who's co-founder of Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies and the Bigfoot, Yowie & Yeti store in Denver, Colorado.
"A lot of people come to our store, and they're looking for answers," Johnson said.
Snuffy Destefano, of Pennsylvania, specializes in Bigfoot chainsaw carvings.
"I make a living off carving Bigfoot," said Destefano while at an Ohio Bigfoot Conference where he was trying to sell his work to the more than 2,000 attendees.
The Bigfoot phenomenon has spawned a community of thousands of investigators and researchers, and many are part of organized associations.
"It's become quite a hobby looking for more evidence," Pickering said. "It's becoming more a social affair."
"The Bigfoot community at large is like this big dysfunctional family," said Derek Randles, co-founder of the Olympic Project. "There's a lot of infighting. There are a lot of politics in Bigfoot research. It would shock you."
Whether or not Bigfoot is real, the phenomenon certainly is. There's even a $1 million reward out there for someone who can produce a Bigfoot.
"You're getting more sightings because now Bigfoot's mainstream," said Bigfoot investigator Marc DeWerth of Ohio. "Twenty-five years ago, if you said you saw a Bigfoot, you wouldn't even tell your own family because nobody would believe you. I think the mystery is going to be solved very soon."
Perhaps primatologist Esteban Sarmiento summed up the impetus of the Bigfoot phenomenon best.
"If you live long enough, you've seen things that you can't explain."
NEXT UP: Chapter Thirteen: Chasing Bigfoot: The Quest for Truth. I review Episode 4 in the 2015 documentary series titled "The Bigfoot Adventure Weekend."
Lionel Ray Green is a horror and fantasy writer, an award-winning newspaper journalist, and a U.S. Army gulf war veteran living in Alabama. Lionel writes a column for HorrorAddicts.net titled The Bigfoot Files. His fiction has appeared in more than two dozen anthologies, magazines, and ezines, and his short story "Scarecrow Road" won the WriterWriter 2018 International Halloween Themed Writing Competition All Hallows' Prose.
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Handspring announced today that William (Bill) Slakey, as a new VP and Chief Financial Officer, effective September 30.
Slakey was most recently Chief Financial Officer at WJ Communications, a leading RF semiconductor company. Prior to that, Slakey was CFO at SnapTrack, a QUALCOMM company that pioneered the industry's most advanced GPS-based wireless tracking system for pinpointing wireless phones, PDAs, pagers and other wireless devices. Slakey has over 16 years of experience in financial management, including a senior controller position at 3COM's Palm Computing Division and various financial roles spanning ten years at Apple Computer.
Hopefully Slakey can help turnaround Handspring's low stock price.
I want to also apologize for the lack of VisorCentral content lately. I went on vacation recently and missed all of the excitement, of the, erm -- well sorry about the lack of updates anyway. It's just that there is more news for TreoCentral than VisorCentral lately. I will do better!


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text:
require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/utils"
require 'capistrano'

class ExtensionsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  module CustomExtension
    def do_something(command)
      run(command)
    end
  end

  def setup
    @config = Capistrano::Configuration.new
  end

  def teardown
    Capistrano::EXTENSIONS.keys.each { |e| Capistrano.remove_plugin(e) }
  end

  def test_register_plugin_should_add_instance_method_on_configuration_and_return_true
    assert !@config.respond_to?(:custom_stuff)
    assert Capistrano.plugin(:custom_stuff, CustomExtension)
    assert @config.respond_to?(:custom_stuff)
  end

  def test_register_plugin_that_already_exists_should_return_false
    assert Capistrano.plugin(:custom_stuff, CustomExtension)
    assert !Capistrano.plugin(:custom_stuff, CustomExtension)
  end

  def test_register_plugin_with_public_method_name_should_fail
    method = Capistrano::Configuration.public_instance_methods.first
    assert_not_nil method, "need a public instance method for testing"
    assert_raises(Capistrano::Error) { Capistrano.plugin(method, CustomExtension) }
  end

  def test_register_plugin_with_protected_method_name_should_fail
    method = Capistrano::Configuration.protected_instance_methods.first
    assert_not_nil method, "need a protected instance method for testing"
    assert_raises(Capistrano::Error) { Capistrano.plugin(method, CustomExtension) }
  end

  def test_register_plugin_with_private_method_name_should_fail
    method = Capistrano::Configuration.private_instance_methods.first
    assert_not_nil method, "need a private instance method for testing"
    assert_raises(Capistrano::Error) { Capistrano.plugin(method, CustomExtension) }
  end

  def test_unregister_plugin_that_does_not_exist_should_return_false
    assert !Capistrano.remove_plugin(:custom_stuff)
  end

  def test_unregister_plugin_should_remove_method_and_return_true
    assert Capistrano.plugin(:custom_stuff, CustomExtension)
    assert @config.respond_to?(:custom_stuff)
    assert Capistrano.remove_plugin(:custom_stuff)
    assert !@config.respond_to?(:custom_stuff)
  end

  def test_registered_plugin_proxy_should_return_proxy_object
    Capistrano.plugin(:custom_stuff, CustomExtension)
    assert_instance_of Capistrano::ExtensionProxy, @config.custom_stuff
  end

  def test_proxy_object_should_delegate_to_configuration
    Capistrano.plugin(:custom_stuff, CustomExtension)
    @config.expects(:run).with("hello")
    @config.custom_stuff.do_something("hello")
  end
end