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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
The academy was previously known as the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia until 2011, when it became affiliated with Drexel University. It was founded by leading Philadelphia naturalists in 1812 and is the oldest natural science and research institution in the Western Hemisphere. It has been in continuous operation for well over 200 years and its current home, located just across the street from Logan Square, was built in 1876. It is now divided into a public natural history museum and world-class research facility.
The 1876 building that now houses the academy viewed from 19th Street.
This full-size T. Rex is over 42 feet long and weighs in at 7.5 tons...when alive that is.
Just a few of the over 17 million specimens that the academy has to choose from are on display here.
A young patron is dwarfed by a bull moose (not named Teddy Roosevelt) in the North American diorama exhibit.
The academy's butterfly garden contains between 60 and 150 of winged gossamers that represent 20 to 40 different species on display at any given time.
Created for "The encouragement and cultivation of the sciences and the advancement of useful learning." the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia grew quickly after its founding in 1812. Its founders sought to gather together fellow naturalists from the area to expand the scope and credibility of American science. It was modeled after natural science societies of Europe and was incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1817. By 1820 it was the leading natural science academy within the U.S. and it opened its doors to the public in 1828. Its earliest members included the likes of Titian Peale, Charles Pickering and Thomas Jefferson who was a corresponding member. It later came to include John Audubon, Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Darwin (another corresponding member) among its members.
As it as grown, so too as its research departments and vast collections. It conducts research in the fields of botany, entomology, and vertebrate paleontology among others. Its Patrick Center for Environmental Research, founded in 1948, is involved with biogeochemistry, fisheries, and phycology. The academy's groundbreaking Center for Systematics and Evolution studies the diversification of living forms and the relationships they develop over time.
As for the academy's public half, its collection of specimens has grown to over 17 million while its library and archives contains hundreds of thousands of journals, volumes, illustrations, and photographs. The academy's museum is perhaps best known for its Dinosaur Hall whose star attraction is a full-size, 42-foot, Tyrannosaurs Rex. The hall also features over 30 other species, of which half are full skeletal mounts, as well as dinosaur eggs, footprints, and murals. It also permits children of various ages to become archaeologists in its Big and Little Digs area.
Other permanent exhibits include its tropical butterfly garden, which contains 20-40 different species at any one time; and its 37 dioramas, most of which were built between the 1930s and 50s and are divided into North American and African and Asian Halls. The academy also contains exhibits devoted to mollusks and its unique What Eats What that examines the food chain and energy flow of a small stream. Its Library Gallery always has on display its double-elephant-sized, original copy of John Audubon's The Birds of America. And its We Wrote the Book exhibit rotates many of its more famous volumes written by prominent academy members. The academy also hosts rotating exhibits and past ones have included Dinosaurs Unearthed, Treasures from the Mineral Vault, and Frogs: A Chorus of Colors.
"History of the Academy." Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Accessed January 5, 2017. http://www.ansp.org/about/academy-history/
White, Matthew. "Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University." The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Accessed January 5, 2017. http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/academy-of-natural-sciences/
Cheney, Jim. "Visiting the Fascinating and Historic Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia." Uncovering PA. May 2, 2013. Accessed January 5, 2017. http://uncoveringpa.com/academy-natural-sciences-philadelphia
Homepage with information on the academy's research and museum.
A New York Times article detailing the academy as it celebrated its bicentennial.
Link to a book entitled A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science.
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New West Virginia law aimed at preventing youth head injuries
On behalf of Warner Law Offices PLLC | Jun 17, 2013 | Brain Injuries
There are thousands of young athletes in West Virginia participating in dozens of different sports almost every day. A large percentage of these events occur with little or no injuries. However, there have been an increasing number of young athletes who suffer head injuries while participating in some of these sports.
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ER's across America treat more than 173,000 thousand sports and recreation brain injuries in youth. A new law set to go into affect in West Virginia in July is taking aim to protect these young athletes from brain injuries. Any athlete that shows signs of a concussion must immediately be removed from the action, according to the law. The law also states that anyone involved in youth athletics be taught the risks of playing with a head injury. Also, if someone does suffer a concussion it must be reported to officials within a month.
Despite these measures, one advocate for brain injury patients says that officials need to do more. He says that coaches and trainers, as well as parents, need to have a better understanding of concussions. Many times kids feel pressure to return to action too quickly while concussion symptoms are still present. This can lead to further problems as well increase risk for suffering another concussion.
It's important for those who oversee youth athletic events to make sure that the necessary precautions are taken to ensure that these young athletes are protected from harm. If someone is injured while playing a sport because of another person's carelessness or negligence, then that person may be entitled to compensation.
Source: West Virginia Gazette, "Concussion law could do more, advocate says," Lori Kersey, June 8, 2013


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Five Colleges, Incorporated is a nonprofit educational corporation established in 1965 to promote the broad educational and cultural objectives of its associated institutions: four private, residential liberal arts colleges and the Amherst campus of the state university. The consortium is an outgrowth of successful collaborations launched in 1914 in educational extension services among nearby colleges and universities and more elaborate collaborations launched in the 1950s among Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in areas of library subscriptions, joint faculty appointments, public radio, history of science and astronomy. It was expanded in 1966 with the addition of Hampshire College.
Five Colleges, Incorporated promotes and administers long-term forms of cooperation that benefit faculty members, staff members and students. These include:
Shared use of educational and cultural resources and facilities, including a joint automated library system, open cross registration, and open theater auditions;
Joint departments and programs;
Inter-campus transportation.
Their proximity to one another in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts favors Five College collaboration, as does their commitment to the liberal arts and to undergraduate education. Five Colleges, Incorporated is a longstanding member of the Association for Consortium Leadership (ACL) www.national-acl.org, a national organization of consortia and consortium leaders.
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Music vs The Web: Have We Reached Social Media's Tipping Point?
This article originally appeared on Drowned In Sound.
Its been a bumper year for Facebook, on paper at least. Recently they announced that year-on-year revenues were up 60%, with advertising revenue up to $1.8bn. Their daily active user count rose 25% to 728 million people. At this point then, you'd think it would be high-fives all round, with Wall Street giving Zuckerberg and co a hearty pat on the back.
Herein lies the problem for Facebook – and indeed any tech company looking to take the IPO path: when advertising is your core product, at some point the balance will tip, driving users – usually starting with the younger ones – away.
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Bilfinger CFO Klaus Patzak leaves
July 6, 2018 exechange
After about two years in the position
Praise, thanks and words of regret for Patzak
Christina Johansson taking over
(exechange) — Mannheim, Germany, July 6, 2018 — Klaus Patzak, finance chief of Bilfinger, leaves — "by best mutual agreement". As announced by Bilfinger SE in a news release on Friday, July 6, 2018, Klaus Patzak, Chief Financial Officer, leaves the civil engineering company after about two years in the role, effective September 30, 2018.
No company wants a CFO to flame out in the first years.
Patzak's duties will be taken over by Christina Johansson, most recently Chief Financial Officer of Bucher Industries Group.
The fact that Patzak's successor is brought in from outside suggests that the board may seek to stimulate change with fresh ideas and new initiatives.
In the months of October and November, CEO Tom Blades will assume additional responsibility for the CFO role.
In the announcement, Bilfinger did not explicitly explain the reason for Patzak's move, leaving room for speculation.
Precise information about Patzak's future plans was not immediately available.
"Request for an early termination of his contract"
Bilfinger said: "Johansson succeeds Dr. Klaus Patzak …, whose request for an early termination of his contract as of September 30, 2018 and to step down from his position as CFO and Member of the Executive Board has been accepted by the Supervisory Board of Bilfinger SE."
The change follows a decline in the share price of Bilfinger SE since March 2014.
Chaired by Eckhard Cordes
Bilfinger SE is chaired by Eckhard Cordes.
Cordes has been Member and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bilfinger SE since 2014.
CEO: Tom Blades
Tom Blades serves as CEO of Bilfinger SE. Blades has been the Chairman of the Executive Board at Bilfinger SE since July 1, 2016 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
Klaus Patzak has been Chief Financial Officer at Bilfinger since October 1, 2016.
Patzak's CV reads as follows:
Born 1965 in Munich, Germany
Bilfinger SE, Mannheim
Member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial officer
Osram Licht AG, Munich
Member of the Executive Board and CFO
Siemens AG, Munich
Corporate Vice President
Chief Accounting Officer & Controller and further management positions in the commercial area
Infineon AG, Munich
CFO of Business Unit Wireline Communication
Various management positions in the commercial area
Promotion (Ph.D.), Dr. oec., Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Diplom-Kaufmann (MBA), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Industriekaufmann IHK.
At the time of Patzak's appointment as Chief Financial Officer at Bilfinger, Eckhard Cordes had said: "Bilfinger has been able to gain an experienced industry manager and capital markets expert in Klaus Patzak. He successfully shaped the initial public offering of Osram and, as Chief Financial Officer, restructured Osram AG and made it viable for the future. He also served in a number of management functions at Siemens AG, most recently as Head of Accounting and Controlling for the entire group. In the Executive Board, Klaus Patzak will make a substantial contribution to the development of Bilfinger as a leading international industrial services provider."
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Brian Alan Glencross OAM (1 May 1941 – 30 December 2022) was an Australian field hockey player and coach.  As a member of the Australian National Men's Hockey Team, he won a bronze medal and a silver medal at consecutive Olympic Games – the bronze at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the silver four years later, when Mexico City hosted the Games. As a player, he represented Australia from 1964 to 1974, playing in 93 games. He coached the Australian women's hockey team from 1980 to 1992.

Glencross died after a long battle with neurological disease on 30 December 2022, at the age of 81.

Coaching results at major tournaments:

1981: 4th – World Cup
1983: 3rd – World Cup
1984: 4th – Los Angeles Olympic Games
1986: 6th – World Cup
1987: 2nd – Champions Trophy
1988: 1st – Seoul Olympic Games
1989: 1st – Champions Trophy
1990: 2nd – World Cup
1991: 1st – Champions Trophy
1992: 5th – Barcelona Olympic Games

Glencross was appointed the inaugural Australian Institute of Sport women's coach in 1984 and held the position to 1995.

Recognition
1968 – WA Sports Federation's Sportsman of the Year
1991 – Medal of the Order of Australia
1991 – inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame
1996 – inducted into the WA Hall of Champions.
2000 – Australian Sports Medal
2001 – Centenary Medal in 2001.
2008 – Hockey Australia Hall of Fame

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Q: Caption/Space problem in tikz/pgf/subcaptionbox I plot 4 Graphs with Tikz and use subcaptionbox. Following badnesses occur:
(1) There is no space between the caption of the upper figure to the figure below.
(2) The second figures (b) caption starts nearly in the caption of the left (a).
See the attached figure for clarity.
Thanks in advance
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A: You can use the spacing commands \hspace and \vspace to get your desired spacing. You can see where I've added them in the code below. Note that I minimized your preamble for this example slightly, and in particular, pgfplots already loads tikz, so loading tikz separately is not necessary.
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Andrzej Ciemniewski herbu Prawdzic – poseł na sejm grodzieński (1793) z ziemi różańskiej.

Syn Jana Ciemniewskiego, sędziego ziemi różańskiej i Marianny Okęckiej. W 1794 ożenił się z Anielą Piotrowską.

Kancelista Departamentu Skarbowego Rady Nieustającej. Drugi kancelista Wydziału Policji Kancelarii Straży Praw.

Był jednym z najwybitniejszych mówców patriotycznych na sejmie grodzieńskim w 1793 roku. Gwałtownie protestował przeciwko podpisaniu traktatu podziałowego z Imperium Rosyjskim. Przeforsował uchwałę sejmową, pozbawiającą pensji przebywających za granicą przywódców konfederacji targowickiej i dygnitarzy, którzy nie wypełniali swych funkcji urzędowych.

W czasie insurekcji kościuszkowskiej był członkiem Rady Zastępczej Tymczasowej w Wydziale Skarbowym i Komisji Porządkowej Księstwa Mazowieckiego.

Bibliografia

 Elżbieta Lutostańska-Widerszalowa, Andrzej Ciemniewski, w: Polski Słownik Biograficzny, t. IV, Kraków 1938, s. 48-49.

Przypisy

Członkowie komisji porządkowych powstania kościuszkowskiego
Członkowie Rady Zastępczej Tymczasowej
Andrzej
Członkowie stanu rycerskiego I Rzeczypospolitej
Posłowie na Sejm Grodzieński 1793
Posłowie na Sejm I Rzeczypospolitej (ziemia różańska)
Urzędnicy Departamentu Skarbowego Rady Nieustającej
Urzędnicy Straży Praw


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When I was told that I needed a knee replacement, I went to my friend who was the head nurse of the orthopedic department at Abbott Northwestern. She recommended Dr. Hunt and that was all the confirmation I needed because I had worked with him as an Operating Room nurse when he was a resident. Although it had been over 18 years I remembered what a nice, kind, caring person he was. I have been so happy with my outcome! The constant pain is gone and I am out doing what I was limited to before. My care at Abbott was wonderful. I would say if you are living in pain go see Dr. Hunt!


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Collaborations don't work, or that's what FFS would have us believe on their debut album. When the seminal Los Angeles duo Sparks and Glasgow-based quartet Franz Ferdinand decided to record together, it was a flawed and potentially disastrous idea, right? Wrong, as FFS is one of the strongest albums of either bands' distinguished career.
Produced by Grammy-award winning John Congleton (St Vincent, David Byrne) at London's RAK Studios, the album FFS took 15 days to complete. Kimono My House-era Sparks fans will recognize how FFS highlights their classic pop rock DNA, and Franz Ferdinand fans won't be disappointed to hear the band at the peak of their powers as they bring their exhilaratingly unique and witty modern rock sound to the collaboration.
So in the right hands, collaborations do indeed work, and beautifully as FFS wholeheartedly attests. The strength of the two bands is bigger than the sum of the parts. 2LP-set pressed on heavyweight 180 gram vinyl with four bonus tracks and an MP3 download.


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Before He Sent the Trail Blazers to the Western Conference Finals, CJ McCollum Recorded a Podcast About It
He stopped short of guaranteeing victory, but he sounded very, very confident.
CJ McCollum beats the Denver Nuggets in the second round of the playoffs on May 11, 2019 at the Pepsi Center. Bruce Ely / Trail Blazers
This afternoon, CJ McCollum shot the Portland Trail Blazers into their first trip to the Western Conference Finals in 19 years.
McCollum scored 37 points, including several game-sealing jumpers, to lead the Blazers' 100-96 victory over the Denver Nuggets. It was another tremendous moment in a giddy playoff run for what has often felt like a snakebit franchise.
It was the biggest game of McCollum's career. How did he prepare? He recorded a podcast about it.
Like most Portlanders, McCollum is a podcaster. The less heralded half of the Blazers backcourt records a weekly show called "Pull Up." (Earlier this month, WW picked the podcast as one of "37 Reasons to Love the Blazers Right Now.")
So when the Blazers won Game 6 of the Denver series on Thursday, McCollum went back into the studio to record a special Game 7 episode. He stopped short of guaranteeing victory, but he sounded very, very confident.
"We've been doubted, a lot of things haven't gone our way," McCollum said. "We've had injuries, we've had the media doubt us, we've had the media doubt our backcourt. And now we're one game away from going to the conference finals. If you would have told me that we would have to go win a game on the road to go conference final before the season started, I would have told you I like our chances."
He backed that up on the court. When Damian Lillard struggled to find his shooting touch in Denver on Sunday, McCollum carried the burden, hitting a variety of circus shots and the crucial fourth-quarter dagger. (He also had an astonishing chase-down block of Jamal Murray, swatting away what looked like an easy fast-break lay-up.)
"I told coach 'flatten it out and I'll get us a bucket." - @CJMcCollum
AND HE DID EXACTLY THAT. pic.twitter.com/fhm3c0zyPw
— Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) May 12, 2019
By essentially pre-taping a victory pod, McCollum brings full circle the story of his podcasting hubris—a saga that started last summer when he invited Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant on the show, and told him the Blazers were not very far from challenging the champs. Durant laughed in his face.
Now the Blazers play the Warriors starting Tuesday in the Western Conference Finals. It's unclear if Durant—who hurt his leg—will play but, either way, it's the Podcast Series. Snakes in the grass, boy, I tell ya.
The podcast feud with Durant was one of McCollum's two public spats last summer, as the Blazers reeled from an embarrassing first-round sweep. The other? A Twitter dust-up with Jennifer Williams, a Warriors fan who told him she wouldn't take him seriously until he won a playoff series.
"I'm trying Jennifer," McCollum replied.
He has succeeded—twice over—and he and Williams have buried the hatchet. In fact, she was cheering for him Sunday.
CJ is trying his a$$ off!!
— Jennifer Williams (@ChocDelight1980) May 12, 2019
CJ McCollum
I'm trying Jennifer


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Nex is a set of utilities needed when developing 3D graphics software. These
utilities include a math library, a small thread pool implementation, and
classes for loading triangle meshes and textures.

## setup
1. Clone the repo: `git clone https://github.com/jlukacs/nex.git`
2. Get the Assimp library: `git submodule update --init`
3. Build Assimp with CMake: `cmake lib/assimp/CMakeLists.txt`
4. Build nex using an environment in the `build` directory.

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This special package will be cruising with local boat and do the overland is certainly a very nice package having a combination of two highlights in Lesser Sunda, they are the Three Color Lake Kelimutu and the world heritage seeing the island inhabited with Komodo dragon. The package will be featuring Labuan Bajo, Komodo or Rinca Island, Ruteng, Bajawa and Maumere.
Include: Lunch and Dinner at Local Restaurant and Accommodation in Labuan Bajo.
Upon arrival in Labuan Bajo – West Flores, our guide will meet and transfer you to your hotel. Labuan Bajo is a little town inhabited by fishermen, lies at the extreme western part of Flores. The town serves as a jumping-off point for the trip to Komodo and near by islands. Lunch will be served at local restaurant, then visiting Batu Cermin Cave – 5 km away from the town. The cave is 75 by 5 m large, and contains stalactites and stalagmites.
Include: Breakfast at Hotel, Lunch on-board house boat, Dinner at Local Restaurant and Accommodation in Labuan Bajo.
After breakfast at 06.00 AM cruise to Komodo Island for about 3 hours by a local wooden boat passing several small islands. Upon arrival in Komodo island, walk for 1.5 miles to Banugulung to see the activities of the giant Monitor Lizard "Komodo Dragon" which was scientifically described in 1912 as VARANUS KOMODOENSIS, which is up to 3 m long and about 150 kg, weight. The total number of these lizards is estimated at 3.500 - 5.000 inhabited in Komodo, Padar and Rinca Island. Return to the based and an opportunity to swim or snorkel on clean and white sandy beaches of Pantai Merah (Pink Beach) where is also considered as the best spot for under water life and corals (snorkel equipment does not supplied).(Rinca is considered closer to Labuan Bajo and has more possibility to see the Komodo dragon. If the tour goes to Rinca, theres is no pink beach). Lunch will be served on boat. Boating back to Labuan Bajo for overnight accommodation.
Include: Breakfast at Hotel, Lunch and Dinner at Local Restaurant, and Accommodation in Ruteng.
Start to explore the distinct tribes in Flores Island (Manggarai, Bajawa, Lio, Sikka etc). Drive overland to Ruteng the capital city of Manggarai Regency where major Manggarainese tribe dwelt. On the way stops will be made at Lembor and Cancar with beautiful panorama of rice fields with lush and dry hills as the back ground. On arrival direct check into your hotel. Onto Ruteng Puu - Manggarainese traditional village to see their unique slander-shaped houses and be with local people.
Include: Breakfast at Hotel, Lunch and Dinner at Local Restaurant, and Accommodation in Bajawa.
Continue drive to the East to Bajawa - another cool and small town as a capital city of Ngada Regency (home of Ngada, Riung and Nagekeo tribes). Stops will be made at "Ranamese" Lake, and snapshot at magnificent peak of Mt. Inerie - an active volcano and Aimere to see the local palm wine process. On arrival at Bajawa you may have lunch at local restaurant.
Explore traditional village of Bajawa tribes. Visit Boloji or Warusoba traditional village to attend dance performance of Bajawanese followed by "Suling" - cluster of Bamboo flute concert music. Proceed to Bena - a megalithic village on the way we will have a stop on the slope of Inerie volcano for taking pictures. Return to Bajawa for lunch at Local Restaurant. Afternoon onto Mengeruda – a natural hot spring water for relaxing and bathing.
Include: Breakfast at Hotel, Lunch and Dinner at Local Restaurant, and Accommodation in Moni.
Continue drive overland for 5 hours to Moni through scenic road where you can enjoy beautiful panorama of mountains, rivers, valley, with sea as the background. Stops will be made at Wogo, another traditional Bajawanese village and Boawae - village of Nagekeo tribes to observe their tradition and culture, Ende for having lunch at a local restaurant, Onekore village - the center of "Ikat" hand-weaving with Endenese typical style and the house of Bung Karno our former President.
Include: Breakfast at Hotel, Lunch and Dinner at Local Restaurant, and Accommodation in Maumere.
Early morning at 05.30 drive up to Kelimutu volcano to see the three colored lakes. Upon arrival walk for 1,5 km and then ascend 163 steps to the top to view Kelimutu's green, blue and black lakes. Descend to Moni village to visit Kowanara village famous for its traditional Lionese houses. Proceed to Maumere with a detour to Sikka to observe their hand weaving and an old Church built in 16 Century. Several stops will be made according to local happenings.
Include: Breakfast at Hotel. Morning will be free at own leisure, until due time for departure we will provide transfer to the airport for flight departure to other onward destination.
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Autism genetics expert Ivan Iossifov breaks down recent research that sheds light on how unaffected parents can pass autism onto their child.
Parents with no history of autism in their families have a child who is diagnosed with the disorder. It's a common and upsetting story.
A quick Google search for "autism causes" is all it takes to learn that scientists believe the disorder has a strong genetic component. So if there's no genetic history in the family, where does a child's autism come from?
Every child has some spontaneous mutations," explains Iossifov. "But in some unlucky children these mutations severely affect the functioning of a particular gene.
A key fact has come to light within the last couple of years: many autism-causing genetic mutations are "spontaneous." They occur in the affected child, but in neither parent. Mutations in this category "are not directly inherited from the parents," explains Assistant Professor Ivan Iossifov, one of several CSHL scientists who has pioneered the study of the role of spontaneous mutations in autism causation.
A child's genome is a patchwork stitched together from the genetic "cloth" contained in the mother's egg and father's sperm. In theory, that means that children are cut from exactly the same cloth as their parents. But in reality, there are virtually always small "factory defects" in that cloth—mutations that spontaneously arise during the sperm or egg's creation.
Spontaneous mutations cause as much as half of all autism in situations in which only one child in the family has autism. This and other analysis comes from a study Iossifov published in 2015. He and his team looked at about 2,500 families with a single affected child and investigated the causal link to spontaneous mutations.
As Iossifov says, all of us have such mutations, and usually they have no effect at all. Humans normally have two copies of every gene, even though only one working copy typically necessary for proper functioning.
"We have two copies of most genes for a reason—it's kind of a buffer," says Iossifov.
This buffer protects us from spontaneous mutations in many of our genes. Iossifov and CSHL collaborator Michael Wigler theorize, however, that autism "risk genes" are particularly vulnerable to mutations. One reason is that for such genes, a person must have two working copies to function normally. As a result, a spontaneous mutation in one of these autism risk genes tends to have devastating effects.
Other major potential explanations for sporadic autism are also actively being studied, Iossifov notes, including other genetic causes and the role of factors in a child's environment.
Read this next: What do autism "risk genes" do?


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Millions Of Pounds Of Extra Pollution Were Released Before Hurricane Laura's Landfall
By Rebecca Hersher
Eric Thayer
Oil refineries in Port Arthur, Texas, on Aug. 27. Hurricane Laura hit an area with dozens of major refineries and petrochemical facilities.
Updated at 11:45 a.m.
Hurricane Laura tore through a region that is home to dozens of major oil refineries, petrochemical plants and plastics facilities. Now, residents could be breathing dangerously polluted air from those sites, public health experts and local advocates say.
The pollution began before the storm even made landfall. In the two days before the storm arrived, facilities in Texas released more than 4 million pounds of extra air pollution, according to reports the companies made to state environmental regulators that were analyzed by the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund for NPR.
The reported pollution includes chemicals such as benzene, a known human carcinogen, as well as substances such as nitrogen oxides that exacerbate respiratory illnesses.
"We go through this every hurricane," says Hilton Kelley, the director of the environmental group Community In-Power and Development Association in Port Arthur, Texas, near where Hurricane Laura made landfall. "Every time there's a major storm, the refineries go into shutdown mode."
When petrochemical plants shut down, they often burn excess fuel and chemicals that can't safely linger in pipes in a process called flaring, which releases extra pollution into the air. Many air monitors that usually track such pollution also shut down when a storm approaches, which means there is little real-time information about what people are breathing.
"I'm hoping that there isn't a repeat of Hurricane Harvey," says Juan Declet-Barreto, a geographer at the Union of Concerned Scientists. In 2017, petrochemical facilities in that storm's path were flooded and released enormous amounts of pollution, including gasoline and other toxic chemicals. Without reliable air monitor information, public health officials weren't sure what was in the air for days after the storm.
"How much toxic pollution were people exposed to? How would you know if you didn't have the information about how many emissions came out? How can you do the modeling to see how much was deposited into the water, into the soil?" Declet-Barreto says. "It became difficult if not impossible to [answer] that accurately, and I fear there's going to be a repeat of that."
A 2019 report by the Environmental Protection Agency inspector general found that state and local authorities failed to adequately monitor air quality during Hurricane Harvey and failed to communicate risks effectively with residents.
When Hurricane Laura approached land, many air monitors went offline once again. The Texas Department of Environmental Quality and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality notified the EPA that they were shutting down air monitors, according to the agency. As of Friday morning more than 25 air monitors in Texas remained offline.
In Westlake, La., a chemical plant that produces chlorine for swimming pools caught fire due to the storm, prompting a shelter-in-place order on Thursday. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality began monitoring the air quality with the help of an EPA plane, and officials said they did not detect chlorine in the air outside the facility.
LDEQ spokesperson Gregory Langley says the agency did not shut down any air monitors, but some monitors stopped worked during the storm. "There are five monitors in Calcasieu Parish and three in northwest Louisiana that lost power as a result of the storm," he said Friday morning. "We are in the process of inspecting those monitors and getting power restored as soon as possible so we can bring them back online."
Meanwhile, the EPA says it also has a mobile air monitoring laboratory it can deploy to monitor air pollution. The laboratory has equipment that can "detect low levels of chemicals in the air," Jennah Durant, a spokesperson for the EPA region that includes Texas and Louisiana, explained in an email to NPR.
But as of Friday morning, the mobile lab was not operating in the areas affected by Hurricane Laura. Durant said the lab will be deployed if the Federal Emergency Management Agency requests it. FEMA said on Thursday afternoon that it had not asked the EPA to monitor the air.
"For many people, this is reliving all the horrors and the trauma of past hurricanes in the Gulf," Declet-Barreto says.
The extra air pollution is particularly worrisome this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The virus is spreading considerably in both Louisiana and Texas.
"Many people in the city of Port Arthur already suffer with preexisting conditions like hypertension, chronic asthma, bronchitis, COPD, liver and kidney disease," says Kelley, many of which make it more likely that a person could suffer a severe case of COVID-19 if they are infected with the coronavirus. "So, in our particular area we are very concerned about these toxic fumes from the refineries and about COVID."
Decades of racist housing, zoning and environmental policies have concentrated industrial facilities, and their pollution, next to homes, schools and parks that mostly serve people of color and poor people. White Americans and wealthy Americans enjoy cleaner air, cleaner water and better access to health care as a direct result.
"We have sacrifice zones across the Gulf Coast," says Mustafa Ali, a longtime EPA official in the agency's Office of Environmental Justice and the current Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization at the National Wildlife Federation. "They are communities of color and lower wealth communities that are often pushed into our most dangerous locations through redlining, through restrictive covenants [and] through zoning practices."


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Learning Community Center celebrates parents learning English, growing with their kids
By: Jessika Eidson
Posted at 10:41 AM, Oct 02, 2021
OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — In the past five years, Patricia Paniagua says she's done so much her children can be proud of through the help of a place she now calls a second home: Learning Community Center of South Omaha.
Having come from Guatemala, she was struggling with her English when she got to Omaha, and was finding it was creating barriers for her to be involved in her children's education.
"I was feeling frustrated for the lack of communication that I was having with people," Paniagua said.
Her daughter's teacher connected her with the learning community center, and now she's not only become fluent in English, but she's gained confidence through the workforce development program.
For two years she's been working at One World Community Health, something she says is possible because of the program.
"I really love my job," Paniagua said. "I feel so blessed. I feel so happy."
Her son Jeremy Gonzalez, who is now in second grade, was going to the programs alongside his mom. This is part of the Learning Community's 2-Gen Model, which they say increases success for children and parents.
Jeremy says he was already happy with his mom and his home, but says:
"Now that I know some stuff, I can be even happy even more."
On Friday, Paniagua was one of several parents graduating from the English as a Second Language program.
Her daughter Allison Gonzalez was in the crowd, cheering on her mom.
"I'm really proud of my mom, because she's learned a lot, and she's just a really great mom," Allison said.
Paniagua is on her next step in the journey and is getting her GED through the center. She recommends the programs to anyone who may be struggling to adapt to an English-speaking community.
"It's amazing," Paniagua said. "I always say, 'you guys are my family, you guys are my second home'. It's been a long journey with them, and I'm still with them. I'm still learning, and I feel so grateful with each one of them."
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El Caballo Lusitano: Poder y nobleza
The Pure Blood Lusitano: Power and nobility
Gustavo Mirabal Castro » Blog » "Le Camargue" and its Centaurs, "Les Gardians"
Ridersmayo 29, 2019
"Le Camargue" and its Centaurs, "Les Gardians"
Traveling the world to find wonderful landscapes full of wild horses is the dream of any passionate equestrian. See horse shows in a land that besides being full of horses has riders to match is a fantasy come true. We find this in a region of France called "Le Camargue". There we find wonderful shows in a land of marshes and coasts full of horses, bulls and flamingos.
Those of us who love horses dream of traveling the world, to find these spectacle. This dream and many others can come true in Le Camargue region of France, a region that is a small independent country run by "Les Gardians" as long as they preserve the cultural heritage of the region and maintain the delicate balance of the ecosystem that there it unfolds.
When we travel to these natural paradises what we are looking for is the place where we can spend our retirement and perhaps die, although we hope that this will never happen. Every time we travel and we meet these wonders we know a little more about ourselves. It is the possibility of seeing our soul through the wonders of our world.
The destinations we choose speak a lot about us and obviously the passion for horses leads us to innumerable destinations full of these precious animals. Turning into reality that adventure that is in our dreams is the purpose of travel.
How is Le Camargue?
Le Camargue has a unique energy, strong and natural, with a mosaic of desolate and swampy landscapes. Le Camargue simple and authentic, without pretensions whose great beauty lies precisely in being absent from "makeup". Filled with nature, with traditions, cultures and friendly people, Le Camargue is a return to the origins.
Le Camargue is located between the Rhone delta and the Mediterranean Sea, in the old Oc language, "Cap marca" means "The one that has no limit".
The green colors of Le Camargue produce a very special state of reverie … But we will also find other colors: the white horses, the black bulls and the pink flamingos. Time seems suspended in these immense humid plains of extraordinary beauty, thousands of acres of marshes, dunes, pastures and salt flats that stand against everything and where time is suspended.
The horse of Le Camargue is strong and intelligent, with a characteristic ability to turn on itself very quickly. Despite its short stature its power is seen when riding alongside the bulls that carry from one point to another through beaches and marshes in their festivals.
Les Saintes Marie de la Mer (The Holy Marys of the Sea)
This population knew how to preserve its soul, behind the backs of the onslaught of the mistral wind. Walk through its cobbled streets, enjoy the sea, participate in the bullfighting shows, in which the animal is not killed and live its great passion, which are horses. Every year on July 14, the most important equestrian fair in France is held here for five days.
It is quite a spectacle in this city the pilgrimage of the gypsies. From the twelfth century they meet here every year on May 24 and 25 to visit their patron saint, Sara La Negra. They arrive from all the places of the world in their caravans and carts. During those days the streets and squares of Saintes Marie are filled with music, dances and multicolored clothes. Many of them have abandoned their nomadic life to settle in these marshy lands.
In the ninth century and before the threat of the Saracens, its fortified church was built with an adarve that surrounds the entire building. We can go through the fortified church, seeing from the heights wonderful views. It houses the reliquaries of the three Marías that are in a crypt built in the choir. That's where the name of the site comes from …
Le Camargue
We arrive at Aigues Mortes by a very quiet local road. This road allows us to enjoy the landscape and make stops to get closer to the herds of horses.
This medieval city is the capital of the Petite Camargue, it was a port in its origin. Currently the city is located inland, eight kilometers from the coast. The town was founded in 1241 and was built in the area of salt marshes, salt lakes and lagoons, that's why its name "Aguas Muertas". The city was fortified in 1272 and wandering through its small and twisted streets means discovering the soul of the Camargue.
Here in the marshes, bulls and horses live in semi-freedom, in herds, which their caretakers, the gardians, watch over. The term gardians comes from the Occitan expression "gardo-besti", which means guardian of the beasts. The name of gardians very suitable for these excellent riders who care for the "manades" of brave bulls on the backs of their white horses, dressed in black hats with wide brim and colorful shirts.
Who governs Le Camargue?
Le Camargue is owned by the gardians with one condition: that they take care that no type of environmental alteration is committed and that they maintain the traditions. If they did not do so, the government of the Camargue would pass into the hands of the French government, because this area is an "independent republic" within France, with its rules, its laws and its way of life.
In the Camargue we can see a spectacle similar to the Spanish encierros. In these shows the black bulls with large and sharp horns run into an enclosure specially closed with talanqueras. Meanwhile, the intrepid gardians, mounted on their camargue horses, direct the herd at great speed with a three-pronged pike called trident.
Behind the barriers installed along the route, spectators applaud this loose bull: the abrivado (in English: Confinement) is an ancient tradition that has now become a spectacle in which riders show off their skills.
Dream of a night in Camargue 2015
A little more about the Abrivado
One of the most important equestrian festivals is the abrivado, which is held every year on November 11 on the beaches of Saintes Maries. It gathers more than a thousand horses from all over Provence and more than 200 gardians.
Along 7 km, the horses, in large herds and with the riders dressed in the traditional style, have to lead the bulls to the fold, between the waves of the sea, the sand of the beach and the festive atmosphere. The abrivado is repeated in many Provencal parties, but here it has the attraction of the beach and the marshes.
The secrets of Le Camargue
They have known how to keep the secrets of these lands. Perhaps it is their horse that is their greatest secret. The equatorial camargue breed lives semi-wild in the swamps for centuries. They are surviving in almost extreme conditions based on hard grass and salt water, which makes them strong and strong. This makes the Camarguean race special, which has hardened through natural selection.
Camargue Horse
Although their coat looks white, they are really "gray" in color. At birth they have black or dark brown fur, which when they become adults becomes a very special and radiant "white".
Of short stature, they are strong and intelligent and naturally possess a very characteristic ability, which is to turn round about themselves very quickly.
The show offered by Le Camargue is very much in keeping with the motto of the French Revolution "Freedom, equality and franternity". Freedom when we see the mares and their foals following the stallion of the herd through the marsh, in a unique show. And to be able to travel this landscape on the back of a white camargue horse. It is an experience that all horse lovers must experience at some time.
A show for horse lovers and lovers of nature in general with a mosaic of landscapes ranging from dunes, beaches to marshes. A spectacle that you can not miss, Le Camargue…
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Gingrich to leave campaign, but not the national spotlight
Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaks at a rally on the night of the New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware primaries in Concord, North Carolina April 24, 2012.Chris Keane / Reuters
April 25, 2012, 2:48 PM UTC
By NBC Politics
Newt Gingrich will suspend his campaign next week, ending his pursuit of the presidency, but almost certainly not his life in the national spotlight.
NBC News learned that Gingrich will suspend his campaign on May 1, and may well endorse Mitt Romney, his nemesis throughout the primary season.
But if one thing seems unassailably true about the end of Newt Gingrich's bid for the presidency, it's that we haven't seen the end of Newt Gingrich.
The former House speaker's career has, if nothing else, been marked by its series of peaks and valleys. Gingrich ends his campaign for the Republican nomination exploring the depths of one such valley: his campaign wracked with debt, his political stature at an all-time low within the GOP, and his private business seriously threatened.
But like a cat with nine lives, throughout his career, Gingrich has shown a penchant for achieving unthinkable political resurrections. While he might have cashed in several lives during this campaign -- and had certainly spent more in his preceding political life -- it seems unthinkable that the public has seen the last of this man.
"We had an avalanche fall on us, and Newt dug himself out. And that's the story of his entire career," said Rick Tyler, the spokesman for a pro-Gingrich super PAC. Tyler was a longtime aide to the former House speaker before having joined a mass resignation of senior staff last June -- a particular low point for the candidate and his campaign.
Those mass resignations came after a rocky rollout for Gingrich, during which he criticized a controversial budget drafted by House Republicans. Gingrich also struggled with the revelation of a six-figure line of credit he'd maintained with the jeweler Tiffany's, and an ill-timed Greek vacation he took with his wife Callista, an omnipresent figure on the campaign trail.
His campaign was considered all but dead after June 9, 2011 -- the day of those resignations. But students of his career could just as easily draw parallels with other scenes from the Gingrich political biography, moments when it also appeared his luck had run out.
"I think there's a little bit of Richard Nixon in Newt Gingrich. His political career was pronounced dead as many times as well," said Craig Shirley, the GOP public affairs veteran with close ties to Gingrich. Shirley, a biographer of Reagan, is currently working on a political biography of Gingrich.
"He likes the high wire in the same way that Nixon did," Shirley said of Gingrich. "They all like the high wire, but there's some who handle it better than others."
There are many instances when, over the last three and a half decades, Gingrich had appeared to fall out of favor with both Republicans and voters at large. There were his failed early bids for Congress in the 1970s and clashes with Republican leaders throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.
His biggest political achievement came in 1994, when Gingrich led Republicans to win back a majority in the House for the first time since 1954. But his tenure was well-documented for its internal and external tumult, and led to an attempted coup toward its end. Gingrich resigned amid growing Republican anger toward his leadership following the elections of 1998 – a dramatic development used to great effect by Mitt Romney's campaign throughout the 2012 primaries.
That resignation might have otherwise meant the end for any other political figure, but the story of Newt Gingrich has always been a story of reinvention and resurrection.
In the more than 10 years since leaving Congress, Gingrich took on the persona of a party elder. He became a commentator on FOX News, a lucrative opportunity, and made millions more through consulting and the establishment of "Newt, Inc.," the consortium of interest groups built in his name that has pervaded Washington.
His brand had been rehabilitated sufficiently enough by 2011 to wage a credible bid for the Republican presidential nomination, but Gingrich's campaign was marked by the same turbulence that had defined his entire career.
Gingrich soldiered on following the June resignations, only to re-emerge in late November 2011 as the top choice of Republicans in the first nominating contest in Iowa, at least according to polls. But his presidential aspirations bottomed out again after suffering an onslaught of negative advertising from the Romney campaign.
Undeterred, Gingrich rebounded again to shock Romney in the South Carolina primary – the first time a candidate had won the influential primary since its inception without continuing to become the eventual Republican nominee.
Then came the Florida primary several days later, where Romney again dispensed with the former House speaker by using a barrage of critical advertisements. It was Gingrich's last true gasp as a candidate. He retreated to Georgia, the state he had served as a member of Congress, and hitched his candidacy to winning that state – and only – on Super Tuesday.
Even in nearby Mississippi and Alabama several weeks later, Gingrich lost those primaries to Rick Santorum. His inability to score a meaningful win fueled perceptions of Gingrich as a kind of "ghost candidate," even though he defiantly vowed to push forward with his campaign through the August convention in Tampa, where he would conceivably challenge Romney in a messy floor fight for the nomination.
His relationship with FOX lies in tatters following the publication of a report in which Gingrich made critical comments of the network before a private crowd. More significantly, the Center for Health Transformation – the crown jewel of Gingrich's personal empire – was forced to file for bankruptcy in the former speaker's absence. His campaign is millions in debt, and CHT's bankruptcy will likely cost Gingrich some personal wealth, too.
Gingrich's path to redemption – again – is steep, possibly steeper than at any previous point in his career.
That path begins with a speech at the Tampa convention this summer meant to unify Republicans behind Romney, despite the personal animosity over time between Romney and Gingrich, said Shirley.
"Newt has the ability to arrest people because he's interesting," said Rick Tyler of the attributes that might help Gingrich accomplish another turnaround. "That didn't translate into people wanting him to be president."
Fans of the former speaker assert that it would be inconceivable for Gingrich, at the least an irrepressible gadfly in Washington, to fade from public view.
When will Americans finally see Gingrich's final act as a public figure?
"I guess when he's getting last rites," Shirley said.
NBC Politics


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LEAHI – LEGO® Enthusiasts Association of Hawaii
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Imagine Rigney: Former LEAHI member becomes Hawaii's first Product Designer at LEGO!
MrBrickly Uncategorized August 6, 2019 March 26, 2020 AFOL, Hawaii LEGO, HawaiiLEGO, Imagine Rigney, LEAHI, LEGO, LEGOart, LEGOHawaii, TFOL, WeAreLEAHI
Imagine Rigney at a LEGO fan convention in 2009.
All his life, Imagine Rigney has always been a huge fan of LEGO, and his dream of what he wanted to do when he grew up was to work for LEGO. Born in Illinois, his family moved to Hawaii in 2002 and he spent his childhood growing up in Waianae, on the island of O'ahu.
Imagine's LEGOLand contest entry in 2005.
Photo: Honolulu Star Bulletin.
At age 10, Imagine was selected to compete in a LEGOLand building contest which was featured in a Star Bulletin article. Although he didn't win, he was the youngest competitor invited to the contest.
Imagine and his mom, Jessica, joined LEAHI (LEGO Enthusiasts Association of Hawaii) in 2007 and contributed to our local events and displays with many awesome LEGO creations over the next few years. Imagine recalls growing up in Hawaii:
"My friends were from many different backgrounds and so it was an international community for me in my neighborhood. I learned to interact with people with many different ways of speaking and living. It helped me learn that it didn't matter where a person was from or how they lived, that we could always find a way to communicate and have some fun. Growing up in Hawaii helped me to just go with the flow. I loved hanging out with my friends in my garage, building with LEGO, lighting off firecrackers on New Year's, beach days, running around in the neighborhood with lightsabers and foam weapons thwacking each other. We all just got to be kids, and everyone's family looked out for all of us. It was really nice. That'll be with me my whole life, that easy, laid-back attitude… Hawaii gave me that."
"Howl's Moving Castle" – A creation by Imagine during his time with LEAHI.
One of Imagine's original LEGO creations while with LEAHI was "Howl's Moving Castle" – based on the Studio Ghibli film of the same name. This was an impressive build for a teen fan of LEGO.
Eventually his family relocated from Hawaii to Colorado, where he became a member of CoWLUG (Colorado & Wyoming LEGO Users Group). Imagine's building skills fully matured in the following years, with freelance builds and his participation in national LEGO fan conventions. Imagine's LEGO creations were later nominated by fans and chosen to be displayed at The LEGO House in Billund, Denmark.
Imagine with Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, former President and CEO of The LEGO Group.
Earlier this year, Imagine applied for a job position as a Product Designer for The LEGO Group, and we are pleased to say that he was recently selected for the role. He has now relocated to Billund to begin his new job, where he will be designing LEGO sets as a career. Imagine credits his time with LEAHI as being one where he was challenged to build and given the opportunities to learn and grow.
Imagine starts at his new workplace: the LEGO Innovation House in Billund, Denmark.
One of the best things about LEAHI is that it serves as a great incubator for creative minds. We value LEGO as being more of a medium for creative expression than as a children's toy. Each LEAHI member has improved their LEGO building skills over time, and this is reflected in their creations.
LEAHI congratulates Imagine Rigney – Hawaii's first Product Designer at LEGO! We are proud to have been a part of your journey, and in helping to make your dream come true. ALOHA!
Photo credits: Imagine Rigney, Jessica Rigney.
See more of Imagine's creation of "Howl's Moving Castle" on MOC-Pages.
Imagine's gallery of LEGO creations can be found on Flickr.
Building Without Instructions
MrBrickly Uncategorized April 3, 2019 March 26, 2020
LEAHI members like to create art with LEGO elements. We find that designing and building our own creations without any instructions is actually quite fun!
Here is a quick example of building without instructions. Several years ago, one of our members built these Capcom® video game characters when he first became a fan of LEGO.
It all starts with the bricks.
Having the right parts available is very helpful, and in this case the LEGO elements have already been procured and sorted. Using images of the characters from the video game, the building process begins.
The process continues…
… and the model quickly comes together.
Guard that purse, Mega Man!
The finishing touches are then applied.
Once the first model is completed, the process is repeated for the next character. Then both creations are ready to display!
The completed models.
If you enjoy creating your own models with LEGO, you may want to consider becoming a member of LEAHI. Please see our About page for more information.
LEAHI celebrates The LEGO Movie 2!
MrBrickly Uncategorized February 24, 2019 March 26, 2020
LEAHI members braved the windy winter weather to celebrate the opening of 'The LEGO Movie 2' at the Waikiki Aquarium. We featured a number of new creations inspired from the film, and had a LEGO play area for the keiki, too.
View entire gallery on Flickr.
Copyright © 2023 LEAHI – LEGO® Enthusiasts Association of Hawaii. All rights reserved.


The Pearson report is intended to help education establishments make better investments in learning technology.
Education company Pearson has released a new international report that aims to help education organisation to select learning technology solutions.
The report, titled 'Alive in the Swamp', is intended to give a practical, evidence-based guide to selecting education technology. The report includes an Index, which allows for systematic evaluation of new digital innovations. Under the Index, learning technologies are assessed along three criteria: the effectiveness of the learning technology's pedagogy; its ability to activate real and lasting system change; and the accessibility and usability of the technology itself.
Pearson said that 'Alive in the Swamp' is particularly relevant to the Gulf region, where investment in education and digital learning is among the highest in the world.
Katelyn Donnelly of Pearson, who co-authored the report with Michael Fullan, commented: "Technology has huge potential for strengthening and deepening what we can learn. However, given the breadth of digital learning products available in the market, it is often difficult to determine which products will have the greatest tangible benefits for schools and students. In a time of unprecedented digital innovation this Index will add clarity to the digital learning field. The Index is accessible and simple to use, allowing educators to employ it to select those digital learning tools that have proven efficacy."
"We are confident that one of the outcomes Alive in the Swamp will be a drive to improve digital education products and how they are delivered. The Index has highlighted where innovation gaps exist, so we are hoping entrepreneurs will take up the challenge of creating new products that fill these holes in the market, and ultimately improve the quality of the learning technology available in the Gulf region and all around the world."


Bondholders who held the mortgages on downtown Dallas' One Main Place office tower lost 70 percent of their investment in the property when it recently sold, according to a new report. The 32-story Main Street skyscraper was just acquired by New Orleans investor KFK Group. The 46-year-old office tower had been threatened with foreclosure since last May. A New York investor that purchased the building in 1998 defaulted on $63.3 million in publicly held debt on the landmark Dallas tower. KFK Group bought the troubled debt on the building for close to $25 million and then took ownership of the property at this month's Dallas County foreclosure auction. Originally the building was valued at $94.5 million when the loans were made in 2005, according to a report from analysts at Trepp LLC. One Main Place is less than 50 percent leased and the new owners plan to renovate the office high-rise.


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Law, Literature, and Legal Paratexts: How Books try to Regulate Readers
Start: 31 January 2019 3:30 pm
End: 31 January 2019 4:30 pm
Venue: Buchanan Tower, Room 323
Categories: News and Events
Tags: Law, Paratext, Visiting Speaker
The Department of English Language & Literatures Visiting Speakers Series presents
PROFESSOR ROBERT SPOO
Chapman Distinguished Chair, University of Tulsa College of Law
31 January 2019, 3:30pm in Buchanan Tower 323
What is the nature of the legal paratext, the expressive presence of law in literary and other texts? How do copyrights, manufacturing details, and other bibliographic codes inform our reading of a work – or the statement "all characters are fictitious?" How do such declarations (and others) attempt to regulate the behavior of readers in accordance with legal and corporate norms?
Professor Spoo, former editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and a member of the Univ. of Tulsa Dept. of English, now teaches copyright law, contracts, and law and literature at the Univ. of Tulsa College of Law. His books include Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing and the Public Doman (2013) and the just published Modernism and the Law (2018). He is co-editor of the new Law & Literature series with Oxford University Press.
ALL INVITED
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Spring 2015 Schedule:
1/15/2015 – Subsurface Imaging with SHARAD and Implications for the Recent Climate History of Mars
Speaker: Than Putzig (SwRI)
Date & Time: 01/15 , 4:00 PM Location: SPSC W120
In the fifty years since the launch of Mariner 4, an armada of missions with progressively more sophisticated instrumentation has transformed our view of Mars, revealing a planet of outsized features with a complex geologic history and extraordinary climatological variations. Despite the wealth of observations, knowledge of the interior has been largely limited to inferences… Read more »
1/16/2015 – Variational Integrators in Plasma Physics; Sewing the Geometric Fabric of Physics into Numerical Models
Speaker: C Leland Ellison (Princeton Univ.)
Date & Time: 1/16 , 1:00 PM Location: SPSC W120
The behavior exhibited by dynamical systems is strongly influenced by the presence or absence of conserved quantities. When numerically modeling these systems, obtaining the correct long-term qualitative behavior requires retaining conservation laws in the numerical update rule. One method for constructing conservative numerical models is to derive the algorithm from a variational principle discretely analogous… Read more »
1/22/2015 – Chemistry and Spectroscopy of Thermospheric Nitric Oxide and the Legacy of Charles A. Barth
Speaker: Justin Yonker (NCAR)
Though often considered a minor species, nitric oxide (NO) plays several key roles in the thermosphere. It terminates the ion-neutral chemistry due to its low ionization potential. Its long lifetime enables it to be transported to the middle atmosphere where it will catalytically destroy ozone. And as the primary heteronuclear species, infrared radiation from vibrationally excited… Read more »
1/29/2015 – Understanding Electron-Hole Instabilities in the Lunar Plasma Wake
Speaker: Ian Hutchinson (MIT)
The moon, like many objects in flowing plasma, gives rise to a rarefied quasineutral plasma wake that attracts ions along the magnetic field giving rise to beam-like ion distributions, known theoretically since the 1960s, and observed by satelites. Recent particle in cell simulations of the wake at realistic mass ratio show ion-disrupting instabilities grow in… Read more »
2/5/2015 – Investigating our Heliospheric Environment: IBEX Observations
Speaker: Harald Kucharek (Univ. of New Hampshire)
Date & Time: 2/5 , 4:00 PM Location: SPSC W120
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) launched in Oct. 2008 and the observations by the Voyager spacecraft provided truly remarkable advances in heliospheric research. While Voyager provided in situ measurements of the plasma conditions on leaving our solar system, IBEX imaged the interactions occurring at the boundary of our heliosphere in all directions in space by… Read more »
2/6/2015 – Rosetta Lander – Philae: First Landing and Operations on a Comet
Speaker: Stephan Ulamec (DLR)
Date & Time: 2/6 , 10:00 AM Location: SPSC W120
Philae is a comet Lander, part of Rosetta which is a Cornerstone Mission of the ESA Horizon 2000 programme. In August 2014 Rosetta did rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (CG) after a 10 year cruise. Both its nucleus and coma have been studied allowing the selection of a landing site for Philae. Philae was separated from the Rosetta… Read more »
2/19/2015 – Did Mars ever have a lively underground scene? New perspectives on the habitability of subsurface environments on Mars and beyond
Speaker: Joe Michalski (PSI)
By the time eukaryotic life or photosynthesis evolved on Earth, the Martian surface had become extremely inhospitable – cold, hyperarid, acidic, oxidizing and bathed in UV radiation. But, the subsurface of Mars could potentially have contained a vast microbial biosphere. Data from recent missions have revealed spectacular views of materials exhumed from the subsurface by… Read more »
2/26/2015 – Space Weathering on Volatile-Rich Asteroids; Or How Rocks Can Make Glass, Iron, and Life
Speaker: Dan Britt (Univ. of Central Florida)
Date & Time: 2/26 , 4:00 PM Location: LSTB A299
Space weathering refers to the alterations suffered by solid materials when directly exposed (i.e. no atmosphere) to the space environment. The classic example is the weathering of the lunar regolith in which common rock-forming minerals decompose into glassy aggregates with nanophase iron. The lunar nanophase iron produces a characteristic spectral red slope. But how do… Read more »
3/5/2015 – Solar and Stellar Winds: Progress, Puzzles, and Prospects
Speaker: Steven Cranmer (LASP)
All stars are believed to possess expanding outer atmospheres known as stellar winds. The continual evaporation of gas from stars has a significant impact on stellar and planetary evolution, and also on the larger-scale evolution of gas and dust in galaxies. Despite more than a half-century of study, though, the basic mechanisms responsible for producing… Read more »
3/12/2015 – LASP at Mercury: The MASCS instrument on the MESSENGER spacecraft
Speaker: Tim Cassidy (LASP)
The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will end its mission at the end of April, crashing into the surface after four years in orbit and over a decade in space. One of its instruments, the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS), was built here at LASP. In this talk I… Read more »
3/19/2015 – Spatiotemporal variability of cirrus cloud properties inferred from MODIS infrared band measurements
Speaker: Hironobu Iwabuchi (Tohoku Univ.)
The present understanding of cirrus cloud microphysics and their radiative effects is limited, which is an important key for improving climate models. An optimal estimation-based algorithm using three infrared bands of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) to retrieve cirrus radiative and microphysical properties has been developed. This IR method is suitable when cloud optical… Read more »
3/24/2015 – Evolution of Ices and Organics in the Solar System: In-Situ Two-Color Laser Ablation and Ionization Mass Spectrometry (2C-LAIMS)
Speaker: Murthy Gudipati (JPL)
Organics and water-ice coexist in many parts of our solar system and in the interstellar medium, particularly where the temperatures are low. Interstellar ice grains, protoplanetary disks, evolved planetary systems consisting of outer planetary icy bodies, and small bodies like Kuiper Belt Objects and Oort Cloud – the birth places of comets, all these icy… Read more »
3/26/2015 – Multimodal Differential Emission Measure in the Solar Corona
Speaker: Richard Frazin (Univ. of Michigan)
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) telescope on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) provides coronal EUV imaging over a broader temperature sensitivity range than the previous generations of instruments (EUVI, EIT, and TRACE). Differential emission measure tomography (DEMT) of the solar corona based on AIA data is presented here for the first time. The main… Read more »
4/16/2015 – Impact craters as a tool for planetary exploration
Speaker: Brian Hynek (LASP)
Impact craters are the most ubiquitous geological process in the solar system. Their uses as tools for understanding solid bodies in our solar system include: (1) age dating of planetary surfaces and geological processes, (2) informants of subsurface stratigraphy and geophysical properties of the crust, and (3) the physics of the impact process. In this… Read more »
4/23/2015 – Early Results from the MAVEN Mission to Mars
Speaker: Bruce Jakosky (LASP)
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission is designed to explore the Mars upper atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun and solar wind. It's goal is to understand the processes controlling the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, to determine the escape rate of gas to space at the present… Read more »
5/14/2015 – Space Weather and the Current Sheet Source Surface (CSSS) Model
Speaker: Bala Poduval (Space Science Institute)
An inverse correlation between the observed solar wind and the rate of expansion of magnetic flux tubes (FTE) within photosphere and inner corona was shown to exist by Levine et al. (1977). Wang and Sheeley, through a series of papers in the 1990s, established an empirical relationship between solar wind speed and FTE, suggesting that… Read more »
5/21/2015 – Saturn Seismology: complex interactions between the planet, the rings, and the moons
Speaker: Jim Fuller (Caltech)
The rich dynamics of the Saturn ring and moon systems offer unique opportunities to study the evolution of the planet and its surrounding bodies. For instance, seismology of Saturn is made possible by the gravitational interaction between Saturn and its rings, in which density waves in the rings are excited by Lindblad resonances with Saturn's… Read more »
5/28/2015 – Reassessing Lunar, Martian, and Solar System History based on In-Situ Radiometric Dating, Chemistry, and Organics analyses using a Laser Ablation Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometer
Speaker: F. Scott Anderson (SwRI)
The geologic history of the Solar System builds on an extensive record of impact flux models, crater counts, and ~270 kg of lunar samples analyzed in terrestrial laboratories. However, estimates of impactor flux may be biased by the fact that most of the dated Apollo samples were only tenuously connected to an assumed geologic context. Moreover, uncertainties… Read more »
6/4/2015 – The polar caps of Mars: a record of recent climate.
Speaker: Isaac Smith
A wealth of information about the climate cycle and ice budget of Mars is recorded within the layers of Martian polar caps. Using primarily subsurface observations with the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument on board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), along with optical observations of the surface, we study the stratigraphic record of the ice caps to… Read more »
6/11/2015 – The Mars discrete aurora: Mars Express observations and modeling
Speaker: Jean-Claude Gerard (Univ. of Liege)
The Mars ultraviolet aurora was discovered in 2005 when observing the nightside limb with the SPICAM UV spectrometer on board ESA's Mars Express (MEx) satellite. It was characterized by the transient presence of the CO Cameron bands between 140 and 180 nm and the CO2+ doublet near 289 nm which are normally absent on the… Read more »
6/18/2015 – The Martian Atmosphere Through Thick and Thin
Speaker: Alejandro Soto (SwRI)
Global energy balance models of the Martian atmosphere have predicted that throughout Martian history, for a range of initial total carbon dioxide inventories, the Martian atmosphere may be unstable relative to surface condensation. This is commonly referred to as atmospheric collapse. Since a collapsed state may limit the amount of time available for physical and… Read more »


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Almost a year ago to this very day, I sent a letter that has changed my life forever.
I remember the day like it was yesterday. I delayed. I took a shower. Read a book. Checked cnn.com. I panicked like a guy whose wife just went into labor. And finally, the moment of truth.
I sealed the letter, and off it went to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Four months later, I packed my bags for the University of Michigan, in some Midwest town, to this place that I knew absolutely nothing about except that it was cold. I didn't even know that the school was split into two campuses, or that people were fanatics about football…and what was all this "Go Blue!" nonsense?
And yet–the longer I'm here, the more I never want to leave. I've caught the Wolverine fever. Although frustrated by the "college bubble" that we reside in, the campus and its neighboring Ann Arbor community has been incredible. Just three months ago (a lifetime, really), in conjunction with MPowered, I'd organized the University of Michigan's first Startup Weekend, and it was one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences I've ever had, and I'm honored to have been a part of it.
But this wasn't the original plan. On March 15th of last year, I thought I was the happiest girl in the world. I'd been accepted to Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, a dream I had long ago given up. By March 16th, I'd all but hopped on a plane to Ithaca.
Why did I do it? Why did I choose a school I'd never laid eyes on, let alone an entire part of the country that I'd never stepped foot in? I could have graduated from the University of Washington at age 19. I could have entered the Ivy League. I could have stayed right at home, right in my comfort zone. And…I could have hated my college experience.
Instead, I embarked an adventure. Sure, I'd miss Seattle, I'd miss the familiarity, the home-cooked food, the friends, and even the rain, but I needed to seek what was beyond my current scope of the world. And I didn't want to limit myself. I didn't want to set barriers early, both academically and socially.
I came thinking I would study Business and English. Today, I'm not so sure. Instead, the incredible faculty and friendships I have found here have taught me to explore. To challenge myself. To be unafraid of uncertainty, or failure, or criticism, or rejection, or most importantly, of compromise.
And today, as I write this on the last night in my dorm room (aka messy hurricane of packing supplies), I don't want to leave. This community of leaders, of explorers, of change agents have impacted me in ways I could have never imagined. In the past four weeks alone with MPowered, with our Center for Entrepreneurship, and with my fellow friends, peers, and risk-takers, I have learned more than ever about leading and building a team, the dynamics of this university, of entrepreneurship education, and much more. But more than anything, I have had to make decisions. As a part of MPowered's exec team, no longer do my decisions only affect myself. My decisions affect programs, projects, and people.
The University of Michigan has provided an environment in which I have learned, thought, and created. It has shown me my fears, my flaws, my failures. It has enabled me to grow as a student, as a thinker, as a leader of an organization. And it has shown me that with a little bit of smart risk-taking, a healthy dose of invention, and a dash of fearlessness, we can lead our very own action revolution.


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