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U.S.|Georgia County Rejects Plan to Close 7 Polling Places in Majority-Black Area
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Georgia County Rejects Plan to Close 7 Polling Places in Majority-Black Area
As Georgia's secretary of state, Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, has drawn criticism for his stewardship of the state's elections.Credit...Erik S. Lesser/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Richard Fausset
CUTHBERT, Ga. — The consultant, a white man, came to the mainly black Randolph County in rural southern Georgia and recommended that it eliminate seven of its nine polling places. He said the move would save the county money. He said the polling places had disability compliance issues.
But many people in the county assumed a more sinister motive, especially with the state in the midst of a hotly contested election for governor. It pits a Democrat who would be Georgia's first black chief executive against a white Republican who has been called a "master of voter suppression" by his political opponents.
"I think it was an effort to suppress the vote," Bobby Jenkins, 66, a retired Randolph County school superintendent, said after a meeting on Wednesday where local residents complained that African-Americans in poor rural areas would be left having to drive long distances to vote. "This is one typical strategy in the Republican playbooks."
The Randolph County plan was rejected Friday morning on a 2-0 vote by the county's board of elections. The two members, a black woman and a white man, voted hastily and without comment, leaving a press statement that acknowledged the interest from the news media, residents and civil rights groups.
"The interest and concern shown has been overwhelming, and it is an encouraging reminder that protecting the right to vote remains a fundamental American principle," it said.
But some say it may not be the last flash point over voting access in Georgia.
Mistrust and bad blood permeate what is shaping up to be a historic election for governor. In the years leading up to the showdown between Brian Kemp, the Republican secretary of state, and Stacey Abrams, the Democratic former state House minority leader, Georgia has been caught up in one controversy after another, locally and statewide, over election integrity, voting access and race.
The American Civil Liberties Union has been sending its members to observe meetings of other local election commissions across the state, and to watch for similar proposals that could curtail voter access, according to Andrea Young, the executive director of the group's Georgia chapter.
"We sort of anticipated a bit of what's happening in Randolph County, that there might be efforts to close polls ahead of this election," Ms. Young said.
The two candidates, Mr. Kemp and Ms. Abrams, have squared off over voting rights before. As secretary of state, Mr. Kemp has overseen Georgia's elections since 2010. He is a fervent fan of President Trump, who has made numerous baseless claims about voter fraud.
For years, Mr. Kemp's critics in Georgia, including Ms. Abrams, have accused him of supporting policies that adversely affect minority voters and contravene federal law. They also say he has conducted overzealous investigations of voter registration groups, including one founded by Ms. Abrams. The state's Democratic Party has called on him to resign his current office in order to ensure an impartial election.
Mr. Kemp has insisted that he had nothing to do with the plan to close polling places in Randolph County, and wrote to the county advising it not to go ahead with the plan.
Unfettered access to the polls for minority voters is vital to Ms. Abrams's election campaign. She has adopted a strategy that relies less on wooing conservative white Democrats in the countryside, as her party has done in the past, and more on a surge of highly motivated liberals and nonwhite voters, in an increasingly diverse state: By 2030, non-Hispanic whites are expected to make up less than half the population.
For decades, the federal government acted as a referee on voting issues in the Deep South under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But the Supreme Court sharply curtailed federal oversight in a 2013 decision.
Before that ruling, a polling-place consolidation proposal like the one that has rocked Randolph County would almost certainly have been subject to preclearance review by the Justice Department, with the county obliged to show that it would not disproportionately disadvantage minority voters.
Mike Malone, an independent election consultant who recommended the polling-place closings, had been hired by the county earlier this year to help it with voting logistics after the county elections superintendent resigned.
In community meetings last week, Mr. Malone said that the seven polling places were not heavily used — just 12 people voted at one of them in a recent election — and that some did not comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
But when the word got out about his proposal, it struck many as drastic. The civil liberties union wrote to the county that the plan would make it "disproportionately harder" for black voters to cast a ballot. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law threatened to sue, arguing that closing the polling places over accessibility made little sense.
"Forcing elderly, disabled, and other persons with mobility issues to travel lengthy distances to vote is out of place with the purported goal of A.D.A. compliance," its lawyers wrote to the county.
As Friday's vote neared, it became difficult to find anyone, Democrat or Republican, who supported the proposal. On Wednesday, the county attorney sent a letter terminating the county's contract with Mr. Malone.
Suspicion also spread that Mr. Kemp was somehow behind the recommendation — a claim he adamantly denies.
A spokeswoman for the secretary of state's office, Candice Broce, said that an official in her office had recommended Mr. Malone to the county as a qualified election expert, but that he was one of several consultants mentioned.
In public meetings, Mr. Malone has shown a slide saying that a policy of consolidating polling places "has come highly recommended by the secretary of state." But Ms. Broce said that Mr. Kemp's office urged the county to abandon Mr. Malone's plan.
"They need to focus on preparing for a secure, accessible, and fair election in November," she said. "Our position on this issue is crystal clear."
Some black Georgia residents say they are primed to be skeptical of Republican motives, given the repeated efforts by Republican officials to limit voting access in the name of efficiency or fraud prevention.
Republican state lawmakers introduced a bill earlier this year to curtail early voting on Sundays, when many black Christian congregations conduct "Souls to the Polls" voting drives. The legislation died after being opposed by the Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at the Atlanta church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached.
There have been local disputes in counties across the state over polling-place consolidation and other issues. But Mr. Kemp is the public official who has come in for the most criticism from Georgia liberals and voting-rights activists, who say he has been aggressive in trying to suppress minority voting.
In 2014, he was recorded encouraging a Republican group to register like-minded voters, and warning them that Democrats were "working hard" to register "all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines."
Mr. Kemp's supporters maintain that he is a champion of ballot access, noting that record numbers of votes were cast on his watch in 2016 and that the rejection rate for voter registrations that year were ninth-lowest in the country.
"If he's the master of voter suppression, he's doing a terrible job of it," Ms. Broce said.
Even so, civil rights groups have engaged with Mr. Kemp over a number of policies. They forced him to change voter registration deadlines that contravened federal law, and got him to change registration forms that erroneously told new voters that they had to mail in documents proving their name and address.
Mr. Kemp was also sued over a system that begins a process of purging voters from the rolls if they do not vote for three consecutive years, though in June the Supreme Court upheld a similar system in Ohio.
Civil rights groups are currently criticizing Mr. Kemp over a law that they call "no match, no vote," in which voter registrations are flagged as "pending" if a name, address or other information does not exactly match what is in the state drivers' license database or Social Security records, down to the letter. If the voter does not correct the discrepancy, he or she is dropped from the rolls after 26 months.
The Lawyers' Committee said the process has an "extraordinarily high error rate" and that minority voters are heavily affected.
Mr. Kemp said in a statement last month that the state law was legal and that a similar law in Florida was upheld in federal court. "Not a single voter whose status is pending for failure to verify will get rejected this election cycle," he said.
He also suggested that complaints about the law were politically motivated. "Nov. 6, 2018, is right around the corner, which means it's high time for another frivolous lawsuit from liberal activist groups," he said.
His office has also attracted criticism for vigorous investigations of potential voter fraud that some advocates say is overkill. In 2010, in an incident chronicled by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, his office participated in a sweeping investigation in Brooks County, Ga., where black candidates had just won a majority on the local school board after an organized absentee-ballot drive.
A dozen organizers were indicted on various election-law charges. None were convicted: One died before trial, one was tried and acquitted, and the remaining cases were dropped in 2014.
A two-and-a-half-year investigation of an Asian-American rights group's voter registration activities by Mr. Kemp's office ended in 2015 without finding any violations, according to The New Republic. Helen Ho, a lawyer who founded group, said in an interview on Thursday that the whole thing seemed intended to intimidate the group.
In 2014, Mr. Kemp's office began an investigation into a minority-focused voter registration group that Ms. Abrams founded, the New Georgia Project. The inquiry was prompted by complaints from 16 counties that included suspicions that canvassers may have been acting illegally and submitting falsified documents.
The New Georgia Project responded with a lawsuit accusing state and local elections officials of failing to properly process more than 40,000 voter applications, but a Georgia judge dismissed the case one week before the November 2014 elections.
The investigation ended with the discovery of 53 fraudulent voter applications. Fourteen canvassers were referred to the state attorney general's office, where they may face fines as part of what the office calls a "civil administrative matter."
No concrete evidence of ulterior motives has emerged in the Randolph County polling-place controversy. But the Abrams campaign has seized on it as a leading campaign theme just the same. As of Friday morning, a Twitter message about it was pinned at the top of her social media account.
"Efforts to suppress the vote & depress voter turnout are alive & well in Georgia," it read.


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Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com
Jared Bernstein: Yes, Matthew Bishop's Review of Krugman's "End This Depression Now" Was 100% Wrong
Ezra Klein: Why Republicans Used to Support and Now Oppose the Individual Health-Care Mandate
I think that the broad thrust of this article by Ezra Klein is largely wrong. I don't think Republican politicians have convinced themselves that the individual mandate is a bad idea. I do think Republican politicians think it is worth saying that the individual mandate is unconstitutional--because there may be five judges who will say that is is unconstitutional, and if they do, then it is. "Motivated reasoning" plays a much, much, much smaller part in the current mishegas than Ezra Klein thinks it does.
Certainly in private Republicans willing to talk about policy will admit that, yes, if Romney had won the 2008 election, nearly all the Republian politicians now condemning nationwide RomneyCare would be its biggest boosters.
Ezra Klein:
The mandate made its political début in a 1989 Heritage Foundation brief titled "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans," as a counterpoint to the single-payer system and the employer mandate, which were favored in Democratic circles. In the brief, Stuart Butler, the foundation's health-care expert, argued:
Many states now require passengers in automobiles to wear seat-belts for their own protection. Many others require anybody driving a car to have liability insurance. But neither the federal government nor any state requires all households to protect themselves from the potentially catastrophic costs of a serious accident or illness. Under the Heritage plan, there would be such a requirement….
Ten years later, Senator Ron Wyden… began building a proposal around the individual mandate, and tested it out on both Democrats and Republicans. "Between 2004 and 2008, I saw over eighty members of the Senate, and there were very few who objected," Wyden says. In December, 2006, he unveiled the Healthy Americans Act. In May, 2007, Bob Bennett, a Utah Republican, who had been a sponsor of the Chafee bill, joined him. Wyden-Bennett was eventually co-sponsored by eleven Republicans and nine Democrats…. In a June, 2009, interview on "Meet the Press," Mitt Romney, who, as governor of Massachusetts, had signed a universal health-care bill with an individual mandate, said that Wyden-Bennett was a plan "that a number of Republicans think is a very good health-care plan—one that we support."...
Democrats lining up behind the Republican-crafted mandate, and Republicans declaring it not just inappropriate policy but contrary to the wishes of the Founders—shocked Wyden. "I would characterize the Washington, D.C., relationship with the individual mandate as truly schizophrenic," he said. It was not an isolated case. In 2007, both Newt Gingrich and John McCain wanted a cap-and-trade program in order to reduce carbon emissions. Today, neither they nor any other leading Republicans support cap-and-trade. In 2008, the Bush Administration proposed, pushed, and signed the Economic Stimulus Act, a deficit-financed tax cut designed to boost the flagging economy. Today, few Republicans admit that a deficit-financed stimulus can work. Indeed, with the exception of raising taxes on the rich, virtually every major policy currently associated with the Obama Administration was, within the past decade, a Republican idea in good standing….
Orin Kerr says that, in the two years since he gave the individual mandate only a one-per-cent chance of being overturned, three key things have happened. First, congressional Republicans made the argument against the mandate a Republican position. Then it became a standard conservative-media position. "That legitimized the argument in a way we haven't really seen before," Kerr said. "We haven't seen the media pick up a legal argument and make the argument mainstream by virtue of media coverage." Finally, he says, "there were two conservative district judges who agreed with the argument, largely echoing the Republican position and the media coverage. And, once you had all that, it really became a ballgame."
Jack Balkin, a Yale law professor, agrees. "Once Republican politicians say this is unconstitutional, it gets repeated endlessly in the partisan media that's friendly to the Republican Party"—Fox News, conservative talk radio, and the like—"and, because this is now the Republican Party's position, the mainstream media needs to repeatedly explain the claims to their readers. That further moves the arguments from off the wall to on the wall, because, if you're reading articles in the Times describing the case against the mandate, you assume this is a live controversy." Of course, Balkin says, "if the courts didn't buy this, it wouldn't get anywhere."
But the courts are not as distant from the political process as some like to think….
What is notable about the conservative response to the individual mandate is not only the speed with which a legal argument that was considered fringe in 2010 had become mainstream by 2012; it's the implication that the Republicans spent two decades pushing legislation that was in clear violation of the nation's founding document…. In February, 2012, Stuart Butler, the author of the Heritage Foundation brief that first proposed the mandate, wrote an op-ed for USA Today in which he recanted that support. "I've altered my views on many things," he wrote. "The individual mandate in health care is one of them." Senator Orrin Hatch, who had been a co-sponsor of the Chafee bill, emerged as one of the mandate's most implacable opponents in 2010, writing in The Hill that to come to "any other conclusion" than that the mandate is unconstitutional "requires treating the Constitution as the servant, rather than the master, of Congress." Mitt Romney, who had both passed an individual mandate as governor and supported Wyden-Bennett, now calls Obama's law an "unconstitutional power grab from the states," and has promised, if elected, to begin repealing the law "on Day One."
Even Bob Bennett, who was among the most eloquent advocates of the mandate, voted, in 2009, to call it unconstitutional….
All this suggests that the old model of compromise is going to have a very difficult time in today's polarized political climate. Because it's typically not in the minority party's interest to compromise with the majority party on big bills—elections are a zero-sum game, where the majority wins if the public thinks it has been doing a good job—Washington's motivated-reasoning machine is likely to kick into gear on most major issues. "Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go," Haidt warns. "Can you see your way to an individual mandate, if it's a way to fight single payer? Sure. And so, when it was strategically valuable Republicans could believe it was constitutional and good. Then Obama proposes the idea. And then the question becomes not 'Can you believe in this?' but 'Must you believe it?' "
And that means that you can't assume that policy-based compromises that made sense at the beginning will survive to the end, because by that time whichever group has an interest in not compromising will likely have convinced itself that the compromise position is an awful idea…
June 18, 2012 at 07:38 in #economics, #highlighted, #moralresponsibility, #politicaleconomy, #politics, Economics: Health, Obama Administration | Permalink | Comments (6)

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Darien/ Arlene Wahlen, age 74 of Darien, passed away Monday, July 05, 2010 at Holton Manor Nursing Home in Elkhorn. She was born May 9, 1936 in Thorton, IL the daughter of Walter and Bernice (Torringa) Swets. She married Ronald Wheeler and then in 1986 she married Gerald Wahlen. She was a graduate of U.W. Whitewater in Special Education. Arlene was an Instructor at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan. She was a member of the Community Church in Elkhorn.
She is survived by her husband Gerald; 2 daughters, Corinne (Chris) Sanders of Darien and Renee Schmaling of Beloit; 1 son, Trevor Wahlen; 4 grandchildren, Blake Schmaling, Christopher, Cody and Caitlin Sanders; 2 sisters, Judy (Elmer) Visscher of S.D. and Evelyn Lindberg of Delavan; 3 brothers, Walter (Bert) Swets of MI, Ed (Millie) Swets of Delavan, Harold Jr. Swets of Delavan; also nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents and her brother Henry.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00am, Friday, July 10, 2010 at Community Church of Elkhorn. Visitation will be 1 hour prior to service at the Church. Burial will be at the Spring Grove Cemetery in Delavan. Memorials may be made to the Community Church of Elkhorn. MONROE FUNERAL HOME, Delavan, is assisting the family.


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There were four people! Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job, which Everybody was asked to do. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it; Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it! Everybody was displeased, because it was Somebody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody would not do it. Alas, Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
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Preparation of Mustards
Mustards are made in a variety of forms, with various flavours and textures. They can however be divided into two basic categories:
Smooth mustards, which are normally made from finely ground mustard powder ("mustard flour").
Coarse grain or whole grain mustards, which, as the name suggests, consist of partially ground or unmilled mustard seed.
In each case, the mustard would contain vinegar, water or a mixture of the two. A number of other ingredients may be added, including sugar, salt and various flavours such as honey, herbs, spices and colouring such as turmeric. Some products also contain antioxidants and an acidity regulator e.g. citric acid. The starches contained in the mustard seed provide the desired thickening effect, however some recipes may contain additional thickening agents such as wheat flour.
The manufacturing process varies according to the type of mustard being produced.
Normally some form of grinding is required in the preparation process, either to produce the mustard powder from seed, or to break down the seed in order to release the straches and obtain the thickening effect. The process can be summarised as follows:
A smooth mustard is produced by dispersing mustard flour and other ingredients into water, or a mixture of water and vinegar, and mixing until homogeneous.
Coarse grain mustard can be manufactured in several stages. The mustard seed would first be either pre-soaked in the vinegar (typically overnight) or pre-mixed with other dry ingredients before being added to the vinegar. The product is then ground (traditionally in stone mills) to the required consistency.
Coarse grain mustards can also be produced by disintegrating mustard seed into a finished smooth mustard to give a textured product.
There are several limitations in using conventional agitators for this process:
When dispersing mustard flour into water/vinegar, agglomerates can easily form. Agitators do not produce sufficient shear to rapidly break these down.
Maximising the thickening effect of the mustard (and other thickening additives, where used) is difficult to achieve using traditional methods.
Powder addition must be carried out at a controlled rate to reduce agglomerates.
Long mixing times are required to complete dispersion/hydration.
Stone milling is a slow process.
Mustard seed would normally require pre-milling to break it down before being added to a finished smooth mustard, as an agitator cannot disintegrate the seed.
A Silverson mixer can overcome these problems. The high shear mixing action can produce an agglomerate-free dispersion of powders when producing smooth mustards, and can break down and disperse mustard seed in a finished smooth mustard to produce a coarse grain texture. Conventional milling of whole grain or coarse grain mustards can be carried out at a faster rate by pre-processing the mix using a Silverson. Operation is as follows:
The high speed rotation of the rotor creates a powerful suction which draws the liquid and solid/powdered ingredients into the mixing zone. The materials are then subjected to intense shear in the confined area of the workhead.
Mustard seed and any agglomerates in the powdered ingredients are broken down in the gap between the rotor blades and stator wall. The product is forced out of the stator and projected radially back into the mix.
Simultaneously, fresh material is drawn into the workhead, setting up a circulatory mixing pattern which progressively reduces particle size. In a short mixing cycle all the material passes through the workhead, ensuring a uniform product is obtained.
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3
Agglomerate-free mix.
Rapid mixing times.
Varying degrees of particle size reduction can be obtained as required by selection of the appropriate workhead or stator screen.
Pre-processing the mustard with a Silverson prior to milling provides an optimum pre-mix which the conventional mill will process at a much faster rate, reducing the number of passes required.
The batch size, formulation, type of ingredients and the viscosity of the end product dictates which machine from the Silverson product range is suited to individual processing requirements:
High Shear Batch Mixers
Suitable for small batches of up to 200 - 300 litres
Ideal for manufacture of speciality mustards
Can be used on mobile floor stands
Can easily be moved from vessel to vessel
More about this Mixer
High Shear In-Line Mixers
Ideal for larger batches
Easily retrofitted to existing plant
Must be used in conjunction with an efficient in-tank agitator to wet out powder
Aeration free
In-Line mixers will generally need to be pump fed when processing mustards
Can be used to discharge vessel
Ultra Hygienic models available
High Viscosity models available
Silverson Flashmix
Suitable for batches with large volumes of powders
Minimised aeration
Minimised cleaning requirements
Controlled powder addition rate
Suitable for higher viscosity mixes
Suitable for operation at higher temperatures
Minimum operator input required
Flashmix – Powder/Liquid mixer
How to Manufacture Sauces and Dressings
High Viscosity In-Line


A three-day culture-cuisine festival will be held at Van Thanh Tourist Park in HCM City from March 4 to 6.
Chiem Thanh Long, Director of Binh Quoi Tourist Village, the organiser, said Ngay Hoi Que Toi (My Country's Festival) would feature the south's unique culinary culture and popular dishes made by the Khmer and Cham living in the Mekong Delta.
There will be many other regional cultural activities such as performances of don ca tai tu (a traditional music popular in the south), five-tone music of the Khmer living in Soc Trang province, Cham folk music, folk games, a floating market, and classes in making toys from coconut leaves and bamboo.
The annual event attracted 4,500 visitors last year and the number is expected to be higher this year.


Pompe disease (also known as acid maltase deficiency or glycogen storage disease type II) is caused by a mutation in the GAA gene, which encodes for the enzyme acid alpha-glucosidase or acid maltase. This enzyme is necessary for breaking down glycogen, a complex sugar, in the body.
The mutation causes the enzyme not to work as it should, so patients accumulate glycogen, especially in the smooth muscles, skeletal muscles, and heart muscles. As such, muscle weakness is the predominant symptom of Pompe disease.
Symptoms of Pompe disease can manifest shortly after birth, in which case the condition is called classic infantile Pompe disease. They can also appear by the first year of life (non-classic form of Pompe disease) or can begin later in life, anywhere from childhood to adulthood, in which case the disease is called late-onset Pompe.
Generally, symptoms tend to be more severe and the disease tends to run a more aggressive course the earlier the symptoms first start to appear.
Infants with this form of Pompe disease experience rapidly progressing muscle weakness and poor muscle tone (floppy infant syndrome). These infants may never be able to sit up, crawl, or stand. They may have difficulty breathing, as the muscles required for respiration are weak. Heart muscles also are abnormally thick and bulky, leading to a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which can result in heart failure.
Babies with this type of Pompe disease often have difficulties with feeding, and may not be able to grow and gain weight at normal rates (a condition known as failure to thrive). They may also have an unusually large, protruding tongue (macroglossia), hearing problems, and may rest their legs in a "frog position," a characteristic sign of this disease.
If untreated, babies with classic infantile Pompe disease often succumb to heart failure within the first year of life.
This type of Pompe disease is marked by babies not achieving developmental milestones such as rolling over or sitting. Although these babies may have a larger than normal heart, they do not typically develop heart failure. But muscle weakness is also a predominant feature in this form of Pompe disease, and serious breathing problems may develop.
Children with non-classic infantile Pompe often survive until early childhood.
Children and adults with late-onset Pompe experience muscle weakness, primarily affecting muscles such as the shoulder muscles, and the muscles of the upper arms and legs, with the legs being affected more than the arms.
The weakening of the face and throat muscles can cause droopy eyelids and problems with eating and swallowing, leading to a gradual weight loss.
Weak muscles surrounding the spine can also cause abnormal curvature of the spine (scoliosis).
Varying degrees of breathing problems and frequent chest infections may occur due to the weakness of the muscles involved in breathing.
Given the progressive nature of the muscle weakness, it is not uncommon for patients to require a wheelchair or ventilator (a machine that supports breathing).
Patients may also experience profound fatigue as well as muscle pain and cramps. Hearing loss, headaches, and frequent falls are also reported.
Patients with late-onset Pompe usually do not have heart problems as serious as those who have infantile Pompe, but they may develop heart conduction problems that lead to abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias).


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Paradox, by Coronum
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https://twitter.com/ParadoxCoronum/status/1289353395959037952
A town-ruling corporation. Monsters known to no man prior. A.I. who could be friend or foe. The people stuck in the middle. A fight for freedom. Paradox, By Coronum is a broad story, with several twists and heavy player involvement as to where the story goes. Through direct messaging and emails to the characters, participating in polls hosted by the two sides of our story, and piecing together what exactly is going on, what happens to the unfortunate Coronum employees is largely in the hands of those who choose to play.
One day like any other, people began to be reached out to by a newly made Twitter account. Paradox, By Coronum. Describing itself as Coronum's newest branch, yet somehow without a purpose, Paradox's employees set themselves to the task of finding out just exactly why they were there. Little did they know what Coronum had in store for them, or just how much their lives and safety were in other's hands...
To understand the story of the project, the content on three primary twitters must be followed and observed: @ParadoxCoronum, @ByCoronum, and @CoronumFaris. There is also another Twitter account, @ObrielFallsTalk, that will provide some complimentary material as to the setting of the project on their blog-style website. Material on this platform primarily exists to flesh out the characters, and provide more mystery. Much of the conspiracy theory content on this site is to be taken with a grain of salt. There will also be some puzzles spread throughout.
There's four in character twitter accounts, and one Wix website involved with this project.
https://twitter.com/ByCoronum
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https://obrielfallstalks.wixsite.com/coth
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United States: Defendants In Vineyard Vines Trademark Dispute Hit With Liquidated Damages And Attorneys' Fees
by Gourdin W. Sirles
In a recent decision out of the District of Connecticut, defendants MacBeth Collection, L.L.C, its affiliates, and owner found themselves in hot water when Judge Merriam determined they violated a permanent injunction barring the sale of certain products accused of trademark infringement. At issue was defendants' whale-themed merchandise, which Vineyard Vines accused of misappropriating Vineyard Vines' whale logo.
Vineyard Vines, LLC v. MacBeth Collection, L.L.C. et al., No. 14-cv-01096,Dkt. No. 1-2 (Complaint), Ex. E.
About a year after Vineyard Vines filed suit, the parties entered a stipulated settlement agreement and permanent injunction which prohibited defendants from, among other things, selling merchandise with the accused logo or acting in concert with or assisting others in doing the same. The settlement also required defendants to make a series of payments totaling $300,000. According to the settlement agreement, violation of either the injunction or payment terms triggered a liquidated damages clause, under which defendants would owe Vineyard Vines another $500,000. In a 2017 motion for additional relief, Vineyard Vines accused the defendants of violating both the injunction and settlement terms.
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The case is Vineyard Vines, LLC v. MacBeth Collection, L.L.C. et al., No. 14-cv-01096, in the District of Connecticut. A copy of the opinion can be found here.
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Hours of Operation and Visiting Policies
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Children's & Women's Hospital Hours of Operation
General Hospital Visiting Hours: 24 hours daily unless otherwise noted
Parents or spouses are encouraged to stay with their hospitalized child or spouse. Siblings or children are permitted to visit on the general units. Parental/spousal visiting hours are not restricted. Hospital visiting hours are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Family members or friends should visit during regular visiting hours. Due to the size of patient rooms, only four visitors–including parents–should visit at any one time. As space allows, two parents may stay overnight in the patient room.
If at any time visitors disrupt care or disturb any patient, they will be asked to leave. These policies are designed to benefit the hospitalized patient. Visitors who appear visibly ill themselves will be requested to not visit patients in the hospital.
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Visiting Hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The PICU maintains an open visitation policy. Parents and families are encouraged to visit and spend time with their children. Only two visitors per patient are allowed in the unit at one time. After 8:30 p.m., only immediate family members are allowed to visit. Exceptions to this policy may only occur with end-of-life issues and require charge nurse/nurse manager and PICU attending physician permissions.
Visit our PICU page to learn about the specialized care children receive when they need it most.
Visiting Hours: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m.
The NICU allows for parent visitation in the nurseries during designated times. Only two visitors per patient are allowed in the unit at one time. Visitors other than parents must be 18 years of age or older to enter the NICU. The NICU allows parents and designated visitors at any time except during the following times: 6:30 to 8 a.m., 3 to 4 p.m. and 6:30 to 8 p.m. It may be necessary to close the unit at any time due to other circumstances.
Learn more about our Neonatal services.
Labor, Delivery, Recovery (LDR) Rooms
Visiting Hours: 24 hours daily
Family may visit in the LDR rooms as the patient's condition permits. Siblings or children are permitted to visit in the LDR rooms. Children must be accompanied by an adult who is not the patient's birthing coach or significant other. During shift change, emergency situations or special procedures, visitation may be restricted.
Mother Baby Unit
Visiting Hours: 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Family members, siblings or friends may visit during regular visiting hours. Due to the size of patient rooms, only four visitors including parents may visit at any one time. As space allows, up to two caregivers may stay overnight in the patient room. Extenuating circumstances can occur and must be approved by the nurse manager or nurse administrator. Rooms are equipped with an expandable sofa for sleeping. A limited number of recliners are available for a second adult. Additional sleeping furniture or equipment, such as inflatable mattresses, pallets on the floor, camping cots or sleeping bags are not allowed. Visitors who appear visibly ill themselves will be requested to not visit. During periods of community outbreak of infectious diseases, staff responsible for infection prevention will evaluate the need for altering the visiting policy.
High Risk OB-GYN Unit
We encourage children to visit with their mother and newborn sibling. However, for the safety of the mother and infant, we ask that visitors observe these general guidelines. An adult should accompany children at all times. Children should be healthy and free from any communicable disease. Visitors may be asked to leave during nursing care or when physicians are making their rounds. Noise or activity in the halls or in the patient's room should be kept to a minimum. Failure to comply with these guidelines may result in a loss of the visiting privileges for the children.
Learn more about our High-Risk services.
Mitchell Cancer Institute Hours of Operation
Visiting Hours: Monday–Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Any friends or family members accompanying patients for treatment and who appear visibly ill themselves are requested not to enter MCI to prevent putting patients at risk.
University Hospital Hours of Operation
General Hospital Visiting Hours: 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Medical/Surgical Floors
After 9:30 p.m., only one visitor is allowed in a patient's room. The visitor is required to register with security in the Main Lobby to receive a visitor name tag and pass. No children under 12 years old are allowed in rooms or waiting rooms between 9:30 p.m. and 7 a.m. Children should not be left unattended in the hospital at any time. Emergencies, including hurricanes, may require changes in the visitation schedule.
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Visiting Hours: Open visitation except from 6 to 8 a.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.
Intensive and critical care units observe limited visiting periods due to the level of care needed. These hours are posted in the units, waiting rooms and below. Two members of the immediate family are allowed to visit at one time. Occasionally, an emergency or procedure in the unit may delay the start of visitation. Should this occur, every effort will be made to allow visitation as soon as possible. All visits to the unit must be cleared with the nurse to serve the best interests of all patients. No children under age 12 are allowed in the units.
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USA Health Clinics and Physician Offices Hours of Operation
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New Video – Sebastian Bach – Temptation
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Photo credit: Lizzy Gonzalez
Sebastian Bach fans can check out the brand new video for "Temptation" below!
The sinful, hard-hitting video, directed by Patrick Fogarty (Black Veil Brides, Picture Me Broken, The Burning Of Rome), is the first from Bach's forthcoming studio album, GIVE 'EM HELL, and features quintessential rock bassist Duff McKagan on bass. GIVE 'EM HELL is due out in North America on April 22nd via Frontiers Records. Fans who pre-order the album now from iTunes will receive instant gratification tracks of "Temptation" as well as "Hell Inside My Head." The album may also be pre-ordered at Amazon here.
Produced, mixed and recorded by Bob Marlette (Black Sabbath, Shinedown, Alice Cooper) and mastered by Tom Baker (Nine Inch Nails, Rob Zombie, Seether), GIVE 'EM HELL features writing and playing by very special friends and guest stars: Duff McKagan (Velvet Revolver, Guns N' Roses), John 5 (Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie) and Steve Stevens (Billy Idol). Rounding up the lineup on the album are Devin Bronson on guitars and Bobby Jarzombek on drums.
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Thank you kindly for sharing this video, LOVE this song "TEMPTATION".. totally ROCKS… ROCK ON…
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Stowe, VT, a classic New England village on route 100
Stowe, VT, is a famous ski and summer resort, and is also known for its incredible fall foliage. And although it is a busy place, the village of Stowe retains its New England charm, with a towering church in the center of town, a few country stores, excellent lodging and dining options, and a recreation path that starts right in the village. Scenic Drives of America, a feature of the Travel Guide of America Web site, gives information on some of the most beautiful roads in the United States, including Route 100 in Vermont.
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Hippolyte Jacques Coste est un curé et un botaniste français, né le  au mas d'Estioussès près de Balaguier-sur-Rance en Aveyron et mort le  à Saint-Paul-des-Fonts toujours en Aveyron. Il est resté notoire pour sa Flore de France, encore complétée et rééditée au .

Vie et œuvres

Enfance et formation
Fils de paysans, il entre au Petit Séminiaire de Belmont-sur-Rance en 1870. Un léger handicap qui l'empêche de reprendre la ferme familiale l'incite à se diriger vers la prêtrise. En 1878, il entre au Grand Séminaire de Rodez.

Passionné par la nature et particulièrement par les plantes, il herborise depuis longtemps. Il rencontre en 1882, le chanoine Joseph Revel (1811-1887), de Villefranche-de-Rouergue qui le convainc de réaliser un herbier de France. Il est ordonné prêtre le .

Carrière ecclésiastique et scientifique
L'année suivante, Coste devient professeur au collège Saint-Joseph de Villefranche-de-Rouergue, il entre également à la Société botanique de France. En 1886, à sa demande, il devient vicaire à Monclar. Il fait paraître sa première publication scientifique dans le Bulletin de la Société botanique de France. Il refuse la proposition de Gaston Bonnier (1851-1922) de réaliser une flore illustrée de France.

En 1890, après une tentative ratée d'installation à Toulouse, Coste est nommé vicaire à Sainte-Eulalie-de-Cernon puis, en 1894, à Saint-Paul-des-Fonts où sa charge lui laisse moins de temps pour ses occupations botaniques. D'autant qu'au cours de l'année, il devient curé de cette paroisse. Il y demeurera vingt-sept ans. Dès 1894, il se lie d'amitié avec l'abbé Joseph Soulié (1868-1930) avec lequel il va herboriser pendant 30 ans; ils vont aider Eugène Jordan de Puyfol en Auvergne, à corriger l'immense herbier d'Alexis Jordan.

La Flore de France
C'est l'éditeur et botaniste amateur de Genève Paul Klincksieck qui fait appel à Coste. Klincksieck veut s'inspirer de la flore américaine réalisée par Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859-1934) et Addison Brown (1830-1913) sous le titre An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United-States, Canada, and the British Possessions pour réaliser une flore sur le même principe pour la France. C'est par l'intermédiaire de la Société botanique de France que Klincksieck rencontre Coste. Les dessins sont réalisés par différents dessinateurs sur la base des spécimens sélectionnés par Coste. La Flore de France commence à paraître en juin 1900 et s'achève en décembre 1906. Elle est illustrée de 4 800 figures originales d'une grande précision. Elles seront souvent réutilisées dans d'autres ouvrages. Cette flore va être un ouvrage de référence pour de nombreuses générations de botanistes et reste encore aujourd'hui un ouvrage incontournable. Rééditée plusieurs fois, elle est complétée et corrigée par sept suppléments publiés en 1972-1990 par Paul Jovet (1896-1991), Roger de Vilmorin (1905-1980) et Michel Kerguélen (1928-1999).

Décès et postérité
Malade à partir de 1916, il meurt en 1924 dans son presbytère de Saint-Paul-des-Fonts.

Son herbier, grossi des récoltes de l'abbé J. Soulié, est détenu par la Société des lettres, sciences et arts de l'Aveyron et est conservé depuis 1970 aux herbiers MPU à l'Institut de Botanique de l'Université Montpellier 2. Les notes de Coste et celles de P. Fourès ont été reprises par l'abbé J. Terré pour fournir l'essentiel du nouveau Catalogue des plantes de l'Aveyron (1955-1979).

Un buste en bronze, œuvre du sculpteur rouergat Marc Robert (1875-1962), a été érigé en 1927 devant son église à Saint-Paul-des-Fonts.

Un lieu dédié à l'œuvre et la mémoire d'Hippolyte Coste a été aménagé dans le jardin et le presbytère de l'église de Saint-Paul-des-Fonts, l'Espace botanique Hippolyte Coste.

En 1956 une croix en bois est érigée en haut de la falaise du cirque de Saint-Paul-des-Fonts sur le domaine de la Vialette. Le 26 mai 2018 une croix en fer fabriquée par Jean-Luc Combes, pour son oncle Hippolyte Coste, remplace la croix en bois qui s'était cassée.

Distinctions

Principaux ouvrages
 Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906. Klincksieck, Paris, 3 volumes, XXXVI+416/627/VII+807.
 Rééditée en 1937 (Librairie des Sciences et des Arts, Paris), 1985 (Librairie Scientifique et Technique Albert Blanchard, Paris), 1990, 2007.
 Disponible en ligne au format PDF sur Tela Botanica.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Dayrat, Benoît (2003). Les Botanistes et la Flore de France, trois siècles de découvertes, Publication scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 690 p.
 Bernard, Christian (2008). Flore des Causses, , Bulletin de la Société Botanique du Centre-Ouest, Numéro Spécial 31, 784p.

Liens externes

Naissance dans l'Aveyron
Botaniste français
Auteur publié par les éditions Klincksieck
Personnalité liée à l'Aveyron
Naissance en décembre 1858
Décès en novembre 1924
Décès dans l'Aveyron
Décès à 65 ans

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Michelle Tabnick
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Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance presents the New York Premiere of Book of Clouds, June 7-10
by Michelle Tabnick
Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance presents Book of Clouds, a collaborative performance-installation contemplating the sublime sky, June 7 - 10, 2017 at Baryshnikov Arts Center, John Cage and Merce Cunningham Studio, 450 W. 37th Street (near Tenth Avenue), NYC. Performances: Wed-Fri at 7:30pm, with a free family workshop on Sat at 2pm and a performance-installation from 3-9pm. Tickets start at $10 and are available at 1-800-838-3006 or http://bookofcloudsnyc.brownpapertickets.com.
Jody Sperling, artistic director of Time Lapse Dance, collaborates with Vancouver-based visual artist Amy-Claire Huestis, and composer/video artist Omar Zubair on Book of Clouds. The trio create a space for contemplating the skyscape. The work utilizes inventive light technologies, movement, and sonic composition to expand perceptions of time and space. Huestis engineers her own magic-lanterns (analog projection devices) and deploys them with her extraordinary hand-painted slides and slide-wheels depicting her recorded drawings of clouds, sun, moon, and Earth. Zubair designs the sonic environment, shaping rhythms of light and motion, and layering in video systems.
Sperling navigates the site-scape of light and sound, adding a kinetic energy to the images and embodying the act of gazing.
Wednesday, June 7 at 7:30pm: A stellar benefit event including a revival of Time Lapse Dance's Ice Cycle, which transports the Arctic ice-scape to the stage, followed by a champagne sunset reception and the first New York iteration of Book of Clouds.
Tickets: $65 General | $30 Artist Rate | $100 Patron (includes $35 tax-deductible contribution)
Thursday, June 8 at 7:30pm: This evening begins with a panel discussion with climate scientists and communicators on the complex interactions between clouds and climate change which will be followed by a performance of Book of Clouds.
Friday, June 9 at 7:30pm: Performance of Book of Clouds followed by a twilight artist talkback.
Saturday, June 10 at 2pm: Free Family Workshop
Join Time Lapse Dance for a cloud dance workshop. The program is designed for children (ages 5-11) partnered by one parent/caregiver. Adults and children will move together. Capacity limited - advance registration recommended.
Saturday, June 10 beginning at 3pm: Book of Clouds Durational Installation
This extended installation-performance will occur from 3pm-9pm, and attendees are welcome to arrive and experience the work at their own pace. Entry to the installation is $10, and all tickets will be sold the same day. Re-entry for patrons who leave and return within the six hour period will be subject to venue capacity.
Jody Sperling (Artistic Director of Time Lapse Dance/Choreographer/Performer), a dancer-choreographer from New York, is the founder and Artistic Director of Time Lapse Dance (http://timelapsedance.com/). She has created more than 40 dance works and has performed and taught in the US, Bahrain, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Scotland and north of the Arctic Circle. In 2014, Sperling participated in a polar science mission to the Arctic as the first-ever choreographer-in-residence aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker. During the expedition, she researched ice formation processes, danced on sea ice a dozen times, and made the short dance film "Ice Floe," winner of a Creative Climate Award. Out of that experience, Sperling developed the program "Bringing the Arctic Home" a dance-theater work which transports the polar icescape to the stage. In conjunction with performances, the program incorporates outreach on climate literacy including lecture presentations; interdisciplinary panels with artists, scientists and climate educators; family workshops; and audience talkbacks. Sperling's work focuses on combining choreography with climate science and uses dance to promote climate change awareness with a multi-faceted approach.
Sperling is internationally regarded as the leading exponent of the dance style developed by modern dance pioneer and technologist Loi?e Fuller (1862-1928). This style involves expansive silk costuming and extends the body's motion into a larger kinesphere. Years of working in this style have influenced Sperling's acute sensitivity to the moving body's impact on the environment. Sperling was the choreographer, creative consultant, and coach for "La Danseuse" (2016, Dir. Stephanie DiGiusto), a French feature film inspired by Fuller's life, which premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and made its NYC debut at Lincoln Center Film Society's Rendez-vous with French Cinema Festival.
Visual artist Amy-Claire Huestis makes a space to encounter the mysterious and to suspend a state of wonder in her interdisciplinary practice of expanded painting, light, and experimental media. Cultivating communal thought processes and engaging with nature, her soulful and explorative pieces are experience-driven and often collaborative. Her installations, performances, experiential pieces, books, paintings and drawings speak to a broadened conception of time, often involving visual processes of storytelling, slowness, synchronicity, and durational exercises and actions. One of her unique experimental media projects is to pioneer the re-invention of the magic lantern projector. She brings the device and its form forward, fabricating her own projectors using new technologies, and developing her own system of painted and shadow-cut light pictures. With her seeing machines and seeing tools, she casts a historic and mystical perspective on the phenomena of the image. She has shown extensively across Canada and United States, including exhibitions at Young Projects in Los Angeles and Battat Contemporary in Montreal. She has been supported by the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and through numerous awards and fellowships. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University and an MFA in Media Arts from UCLA. Her most recent residencies were the Bothy Project in Scotland and Mildred's Lane in Pennsylvania.
Composer, sound designer and artist Omar Zubair, utilizing the skills developed and continually honed through art practice, scienti?c experimentation, and trans-ethnographic participation, has been focusing on expanding the scope of reality by creating a process of bringing back artifacts from the dream place, catalysing the growth of new sensory organs via confocal synaesthetics, and building placetimes and languages from which multi-species groups can come together into temporary superorganisms. He has created sound for the Wooster Group, Lady Gaga, French perfume commercials, movie trailers, spiritual gatherings, and has been traveling the country for a number of years developing a new national anthem. He has an MA in Philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles. A few highlights from his proli?c career include the following projects. He has collaborated with Amy-Claire Huestis since 2012 with recent showings at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, The Museum of Morbid Anatomy in Brooklyn, and alongside James Turrell's work at Young Projects in LA. As a member of the Canadian experimental performance group Bluemouth Inc. Since early 2009, he has created audio-visual environments in forgotten church attics and all-but-lost subway tunnels. The group was selected to perform as part of the Cultural Olympics at the opening ceremonies during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics; and also created a half-mile underground refugee camp experience in Brooklyn (co-produced by PS 122) as part of the French Alliance's Crossing the Line festival (a small festival with 8 performances that year, including Philip Glass and Ryogi Ikeda). Since 2009, he has collaborated with Andrew Schneider-former video designer for the Wooster Group-to develop a series of wearable-robotics performances exploring the implications on self identity of prosthetic sensory organs. In 2015, they were awarded an OBIE for the production youarenowhere, which then, subsequently, went on a world tour. Since 2013, Zubair has taught a course combining improvisational dance and music at The Juilliard School. In November 2016, his music was presented at both The Whitney Museum in New York and Le Grand Palais in Paris.
Time Lapse Dance (TLD), a 501(c)3 non-profit dance company, was founded by dancer-choreographer Jody Sperling in 2000. The company presents visually alluring kinetic theater that fuses dance, music, lighting and costume design. Since inception, TLD has presented annual seasons in its home base of New York City. Along with performances, the company offers programs such as community engagement on arts and climate, lecture presentations, school and family shows, workshops, and masterclasses. TLD has been in residence at many colleges and universities including, among others, The Ailey School, Brenau University, Hunter College's Mellon-funded Arts Across the Curriculum Initiative, Wesleyan University, Vassar College, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Hofstra University, DeSales University, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Bloomfield College, University of Nebraska, University of Wyoming and Marlboro College. TLD has received commissions from Vermont Performance Lab (VPL), University of Wyoming/NEA American Masterpieces and the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics. The company has received grants from New York City's Department of Cultural Awards, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the American Music Center and the Harkness Dance Foundation.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council.


Should students present alone or with a collaborator?
If one of your objectives is for students to learn to communicate as mathematicians, then consider creating a presentation context that is comparable to those encountered by mathematicians (e.g., conference talk, colloquium talk, poster presentation, lecture to students, informal presentation to collaborators).
If students will do a large project as part of the course, a short talk could be an introduction to what they plan to work on.
Schedule a rehearsal enough in advance for the student to recover once it becomes clear just how challenging presenting will be.
Advise students to plan exactly what they will write on each board. They should review these "board sketches" to ensure that the boards will make sense to anyone who stops listening for a moment to think.
The few students who have particular trouble focusing their speaking may benefit from the exercise of writing out and revising what they plan to say, but they should not memorize this script or use it during the presentation.
In many branches of mathematics (and science in general), it is now expected that talks be given using computer slides projected on a screen. Although preparing the slides requires students to think through the talk ahead of time, students often make the mistakes of including dense mathematics on the slides and rushing through the slides when they present. Consider reviewing a draft of the slides. Again, a rehearsal is very helpful.
There are various issues to consider depending on whether you assign the material to present or students choose their own presentation topics.
Is the source material at a suitable level? How much mathematical maturity is needed to absorb (and then teach) the material presented? Is the exposition in the source material clear, correct, and complete?
Is the amount of material assigned reasonable given the time constraints on the presentation? An important presentation skill is deciding what to present: how much flexibility are you willing to give the students about omitting or restructuring the material? If you are open to them deciding to omit certain portions, make sure they know.
How is the material related to what has been discussed in class already? It may be helpful to speak with the student about what they might need to review and what they can assume the audience knows. If the material foreshadows future material, let the student know so s/he may give the audience this helpful information.
If students choose their own material, many of the issues for assigned topics are still relevant. However, the added complication is that the students may not be able to answer these questions themselves when choosing their material. It may be helpful to require consultation on the subject matter with you well ahead of the presentation.
A capstone project (final paper) in the course is a good opportunity for a final student presentation. Students often enjoy the opportunity to speak on material they have worked on for a while. If most presentations up to this point in your course have been chalk talks, the final presentation is a good time to introduce the students to slides and to talk about how changing the "props" of a talk impacts the style of presentation. The transition from giving chalk talks to giving a slide talk is challenging, so a practice presentation is essential.
It's common for each student to present alone, but an advantage to having students present in pairs or teams is that the students can help each other to present well. Below are some observations from educators who have assigned pair and team presentations.
Scott Carnahan experimented with having students present math in pairs. He assigned a general topic for each presentation, and the students covered some amount of material that seemed reasonable for a 30 minute talk, coming up with their own strategies for presentation.
Scott writes, "In almost all of the pair presentations, the students decided to split the talk roughly in two, and each student talked for about 15 minutes. In some of the cases, one of the students in the pair had a weaker background or less confidence, and just gave some background information while the more confident student presented the "meat" of the talk. I don't know how much time they spent preparing, so I can't tell if this is a just division of labor.
"There were a few attempts at more innovative presentation styles. For one pair, they allocated half of the board space to each student, and took turns talking, where one student introduced the general theory, and the other student wrote examples. It wasn't an exceptionally polished performance (they had some synchronization problems), but it showed some potential.
If the entire presentation is 45 minutes, each student presents for only 15 minutes. It's very difficult for students to judge an appropriate amount of material to try to include in 15 minutes. If the timing isn't flexible, doing a timed practice presentation is essential–usually more than one practice presentation is needed. We schedule a practice presentation with the team mentor and me for a few days before the in-class presentation; then students are encouraged to do at least one more practice presentation on their own.
If the later presenter needs to refer to content presented by an earlier presenter, the presenters need to ensure that the necessary earlier material isn't erased.
Often the presenters aren't prepared for how to transition between presenters.
One of the greatest advantages of presenting in teams is that the teammates can help each other to plan a good presentation–they can point out for each other ways to present information more clearly, and they can together come up with good ideas for how to structure the presentation and how to handle the most challenging parts of the content.
Specify the details of the assignments: content, purpose, timing, format (chalk? slides?), grading, educational objectives. If students don't yet know each other or if you would like students to target an audience other than each other, also indicate how much background knowledge they may assume.
Please contribute additional examples of presentation assignments, along with commentary on the effectiveness of the assignment.


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UAE launches Arab world's 1st mission to Moon
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MBRCS MISSION CONTROL CENTER: The United Arab Emirates' Rashid Rover – the Arab world's first mission to the Moon was launched today.
Emirates Lunar Mission announced the successful launch of the Rashid Rover to the Moon, making it the first Arab mission to the lunar surface.His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum graced the MBRSC Mission Control Centre and was part of the live launch with the Emirate Lunar Mission Team
The world's most compact rover is now on a journey of up to 140 days, with a landing window on the surface of the Moon in April 2023.
Mohammed bin Rashid: "A new stopover for our nation… A new stopover for our cadres and the youth… A new stopover leading to our journey to explore the Moon."
"Rashid Rover is part of the UAE's ambitious space program, which began with Mars, progressed to the Moon, and soon to Venus. Our goal is to increase our knowledge, enhance our capabilities, and leave a scientific legacy in the history of space and humanity."
"Reaching the Moon is a milestone in our ambitious march to progress for our nation and its people, who know no limits. And our next step is bigger and higher."
Key details of the mission:
• Developed 100% by Emirati engineers, the Emirates Lunar Mission is the first Arab mission to the Moon.
• The mission will study different aspects of the lunar surface, including lunar soil, thermal properties of surface structures, and the lunar photoelectron sheath.
• Landing in the unexplored area of the lunar surface, Atlas crater, the mission will take high-resolution pictures and provide novel data.
• The rover will test new technologies, systems and exploration techniques in the Moon's harsh environment.
• The mission will complete seven main milestones.
The United Arab Emirates launched its latest space mission, Rashid Rover, as part of the Emirates Lunar Mission representing a pioneering national endeavor in the space sector and a historic moment that, if successful, will be the first Emirati and Arab mission to land on the surface of the Moon.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, emphasized that the UAE's space ambitions continue to be realized by achieving high levels of accomplishment and empowering space cadres to develop the national space sector and consolidate the country's advanced position in space.
While witnessing the launch of the Rashid Rover from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre's (MBRSC) Mission Control Centre, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid commented: "A new stopover for our nation…
"A new stopover for our cadres and the youth… A new stopover leading to our journey to explore the Moon."
"Rashid Rover is part of the UAE's ambitious space programme, which began with Mars, progressed to the Moon, and soon to Venus.
"Our goal is to increase our knowledge, enhance our capabilities, and leave a scientific legacy in the history of space and humanity.
Accompanying His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid at the MBRSC's Mission Control Centre were His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council; His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
…Deputy Ruler of Dubai, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the UAE; His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Media Council; His Excellency Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs;
…His Excellency Talal Humaid Belhoul Al Falasi, Vice President of the MBRSC; and His Excellency Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the MBRSC.
Rashid Rover will now cruise through space for nearly four months, aiming to land in the Moon's Atlas Crater in April 2023.
The Emirates Lunar Mission is part of the new 2021-2031 strategy launched by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), which includes the development and launch of Rashid, the first Emirati lunar rover named after the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, builder of modern Dubai.
Being referred to as one of the world's most compact rovers, the Rashid Rover was designed and developed by Emirati engineers from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre team.
It aims to pave the way for humanity to make even more qualitative advances in science, technology, communication, and robotics while enabling us to prepare for future missions to the Moon and beyond.
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre has identified a set of scientific goals for the Rashid Rover.
The ambitious mission undertaken by the UAE will study the lunar surface and uncover insights that will catalyze technology development and the future of space exploration.
The mission will study different aspects of the lunar surface, including lunar soil, thermal properties of surface structures, and the lunar photoelectron sheath.
The Emirati lunar rover will land on an area of the Moon's surface that previous lunar exploration missions have not explored.
Therefore, it will provide novel and highly valued data, images, and insights. During its mission, the lunar rover will collect scientific data on matters relating to the origin of the solar system, our planet and life.
Successfully lifted off on 11 December at 11.38 AM UAE Time from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force, Florida, the Rashid Rover was integrated into iSpace M1 lander that was loaded atop the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The mission will go through seven major milestones: Launch and Early Orbit, Cruise Phase, Landing phase, Deployment, Commissioning and Drive Off phase and Nominal Surface Operations.
The mission will conclude with the last two phases of Hibernation and the Last Decommissioning phase.
Once the lander reaches the surface, the unexplored areas of Atlas Crater safely, the rover will spend one lunar day — nearly 10 to 12 Earth days — exploring the properties of lunar soil, the petrography and geology of the Moon, dust movement, and study surface plasma conditions and the Moon's photoelectron sheath.
Following the Hope Probe to Mars, the world had been waiting for the UAE's next ambitious space mission.
After the launch, His Excellency Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, Chairman of MBRSC, said: "With the Emirates Lunar Mission's successful launch, the UAE space industry is entering a new era and is on course to go down in the history of lunar missions.
"The ELM embodies the spirit of the UAE's innovation and scientific progress in accordance with the vision of its wise leadership, which encourages scientific ambition and achievement.
"And as it followed the 51st UAE National Day, there was no better way to honor this momentous national accomplishment."
Commenting on the launch, His Excellency Salem AlMarri, Director General of MBRSC, said: "We have made history with the launch, and what an incredible sight to watch the first Emirati mission to the Moon take off.
" It's taken a lot to get here, and I congratulate everyone who was behind the mission.
"We now look forward to the landing on the Moon's surface and completing the Emirates Lunar Mission, which will contribute to future explorations and beyond."
The Rover's design and features
Rashid Rover will be one of the world's most compact rovers to traverse and explore the Moon's surface with a unique configuration.
As for the technical configuration of Rashid Rover, it will work based on solar panels, which are mounted at a certain angle to maximise the collection of solar energy.
It will carry four cameras, including two main cameras, a microscopic and a thermal imaging camera, in addition to sensors and systems equipped to characterise the soil, dust, radioactive and electrical activities, and rocks on the Moon's surface.
The rover will perform numerous scientific experiments to measure the effectiveness of some materials on the lunar surface, such as the efficiency of adhesion of the rover wheels to the lunar surface, and to facilitate the process of overcoming natural challenges.
Supporting the communication system, Rashid Rover has two in-built communication channels.
The primary communications channel allows high-speed bandwidth that transfers information from the rover through the lander and then to the ground station.
The secondary communication channel is used for direct communication between the Rashid Rover and the ground station at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre.
The secondary channel will be activated in the event of a malfunction in the main communication channel and during the lunar night recovery phase.
This ambitious mission undertaken by the UAE to study the surface of the Moon is considered a gateway for future exploration of other planets, especially for Mars under the Mars 2117 program.
NEVER been so proud as today … 🇦🇪 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/SH9RmiPm0F
— حسن سجواني 🇦🇪 Hassan Sajwani (@HSajwanization) December 11, 2022
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Zoilo Mercado Galang (July 27, 1895 – 1959) was a Filipino writer from Pampanga. He is credited as one of the pioneering Filipino writers who worked with the English language. He is the author of the first Philippine novel written in the English language, A Child of Sorrow, published in 1921.

Early life and education
Galang was born on July 27, 1895 in the town of Bacolor, Pampanga to Santiago Galang and Vicenta Mercado during the later years of the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines and was influenced by both Spanish and American culture in his youth. He finished studies at the Pampanga High School. He initially worked as a stenographer working in both Spanish and English languages. Galang also pursued studies to pursue a career as a lawyer but there are no records to indicate if he did finish his law studies.

Career
He became known for his publications written in English. He is known for being responsible for the first publication of several Philippine works in English:

A Child of Sorrow (1921) – first Philippine novel in English
Tales of the Philippines (1921) – first volume of Philippine legends and folk tales written in English
Life and Success (1921) – first volume of Philippine essays in English
The Box of Ashes and Other Stories (1924) – first volume of Philippine short stories in English

His essays were also published in The Best Thing in the World and Master of Destiny (both published in 1924):

He also worked to get 20 volumes of encyclopedia featuring Philippine-related subjects in 1957. The publication of such collection was hindered due to its manuscript being burned during World War II yet they were successfully able to publish the 3rd edition after the fires. Copies of the volumes are found throughout the world in major libraries to this day. He also worked as a writer of history publications for use of elementary students such as Leaders of the Philippines (1932), Important Characters in Philippine History (1939), Mario and Minda (1940), Hero of Tirad Pass and Others (1949), Mr. Perez, Teacher (1950) atHome, School and Community (1950).

References

Kapampangan people
Filipino novelists
Writers from Pampanga
Filipino male writers
English-language writers from the Philippines
Filipino essayists
20th-century Filipino historians
1895 births
1959 deaths


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A site which will help you to get your DALF C1.
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You can also find French DELF-DALF books.


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June 2nd - Festa della Repubblica Italiana
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Today here it's a day of Festa Nazionale or as you say a bank holiday. That must be the reason my daughter felt the compelling need to wake me up at 6am . Anyway this year's Festa della Repubblica is particularly felt because it marks 70 years since we got rid of the Savoia, elected a committee to write our Constitution and Italian women finally perused their right to vote. With this voting sheet we closed forever a chapter of our history not many are proud of. It was bilingual to accommodate Südtiroler German speaking citizens. 70 years ago started the process that in 1948 gave us a new Constitution, a new government and a new National symbol: the Star of Italy, a symbol strictly linked to our Risorgimento, the olive branch symbol of peace, the oak branch symbol of the unity of Italian people and the gearwheel symbol of the work of the people that is the foundation of our State as explicated by the first article of the Constitution. Honestly I am not much of a patriot, for many reasons, but I think that that day of 70 years ago our people did something right. I am quite proud of the first part of our Constitution, that deals with the principles of our State. And I am proud that five women were very vocal members of the Constitutional Committee, their names: Maria Federici, Angela Gotelli, Nilde Jotti, Teresa Noce, Lina Merlin, are probably unknown internationally but are easily recognisable to Italian citizens because of some very important laws that were named after the women who proposed them and in particular Nilde Jotti was the first woman President of the Camera dei Deputati the third highest rank in our State, position currently held by Laura Boldrini. Sadly it's still the highest position ever held by women in our Establishment. Reading FJ made me research more about USA Constitution and history. Today I wanted to reciprocate the pleasure for whoever may be interested. Here is the original writing of Italian Constitution as was approved by the Constitutional Committee in 1947 translated in English. It's under spoiler because it's composed by screenshots. Changes have been made over time ie Military Service isn't compulsory anymore. But the parts I am proud of are still unaltered. This is only the first part of the document as you can see from the Table of Contents. The second part designs the structure, the power balance and the functions of the different parts of the State. It was crafted carefully doing everything to prevent the possibility of another dictatorship in the future. Unfortunately this requirement makes for an extremely bureaucratic State that in hindsight is the principal cause of the political mess and stagnation of the last 70 years. But that's another very very long story for another day.