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Telford & Wrekin Council is planning to respond to a House of Commons inquiry into the health of the bus market.
Bus use across the country (outside of London) has declined significantly since the deregulation of buses in the 1980s.
This is reflected in Telford and Wrekin where bus use has declined by 37% since 2006, which equates to 2.3 million less passenger journeys a year.
Councillor Lee Carter, Telford & Wrekin Council's cabinet member for Finance, Commercial Services and Economic Development, said: "We currently provide a financial subsidy to Arriva to continue to run a small number of non-commercial bus routes and we have committed an additional £500,000 to retain these existing routes until 2020.
"However, the outlook continues to be challenging, with passenger numbers declining on top of continued cuts in Government funding for local authorities. In addition, any efforts that the Council may consider making to get a greater foothold into this market are undermined by incoherent Government policy.
"We have been informed by Arriva that they are planning on making further changes to current commercial bus routes particularly where passenger numbers are low.
"Clearly we are very disappointed and unhappy that Arriva is reducing services particularly as we are not in a position to step in and provide further financial support as we just don't have the funding to do so anymore.
"We fully recognise the importance of local bus services to our communitiesand we are working hard behind the scenes to lobby government to see properly subsidised services provided across Telford and Wrekin along with a properly funded concessionary travel scheme.
"At the moment, the Council receives just £40,000 a year from Government to support local bus services but a typical annual running cost for one bus is approximately £100,000 a year.


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HOME SYNOPSIS CREATIVE TEAM SONGS OF THE SHOW HOW IT ALL BEGAN THE AUTHOR ORIGINAL CAST THE GATHERING 2013
SÉAMUS Ó GRIANNA (Author)
Séamus Ó Grianna (1889-1969) wrote the original novel Caisleáin Óir (ISBN 0-85342-461-6) in 1924.
Other novels include Cith is Dealain (1955) and the autobiographical Nuair a bhí mé óg. He used the pseudonym Máire (Irish for Mary), but was also known as Jim Greene (english version of Séamus Ó Grianna) and as Jim Fheilimí (Feilimí's Jimmy) in the Irish-speaking area of Donegal (Tír Chonaill). He mostly wrote short stories.
The following text is taken from the theatre programme of the second production of Caisleáin Óir, and is printed by kind permission of Connie Duffy, Donegal Democrat.
The Life and Times of Seamus Ó Grianna
Seamus Ó Grianna was born in the heart of the Donegal Gaeltacht in 1891. His early education consisted of a spell at the local National School in Ranafast. There he stayed until he was 14-15, but due to conditions and basic poverty, Ó Grianna, like many children of his age, was hired out at a hiring fair in Dungloe to help supplement the family income. He went to the Lagan Valley, but did not find it much to his liking, and, in a remarkable and perhaps single-minded feat, left the keep of his custodian and walked all the way home. This was quite an achievement in those days when one considers there were no signposts and no shoes to ease the trip.
Ó Grianna's next working experience saw him spend approximately three seasons labouring in Scotland with the many thousands of other Donegal men who made the seasonal exodus for 'tattie hoking' duties. These proved very formative times for the Ranafast man, and with the meagre wage he was able to put aside from his toil, he bought books and started reading everything from Shakespeare to trigonometry, and basically set about the process of educating himself. He then sat what was then 'The King's Scholarship' and secured a place at St Patrick's Training College where one of his best friends there turned out to be another Rosses luminary, writer and political activist Peadar O'Donnell. He left there around 1916. By that time he mixed with many activists including one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, Thomas Clarke.
Because of his republican leanings, Ó Grianna soon found himself attracting unwanted attention and this subsequently led to an 18 month spell in Newbridge Jail, along with his brothers Seosamh, Hugh, Donal and Sean Bán. However, despite prison life, the brothers Ó Grianna kept themselves busy with intellectual debate, the teaching of Irish to the other prisoners, and a vast amount of letter writing, particularly to their families.
Like a lot of people at that time, Ó Grianna found himself a little disillusioned after he came out of prison after the Civil War. After a bout of ill health, he left for France, and among an assortment of jobs, he found himself delivering mail in Paris! Of course, he also took the opportunity to immerse himself in French writing and culture, and more often than not was to be found gathering reading material from the book stalls. He became an avid reader of the French classics and ended up speaking the language fluently.
Ó Grianna returned to Ireland in the late 1920s, and took up a number of teaching posts here in Donegal, including Gola Island and Meenawee / Bunawack. He fell into ill health again and spent some time in the Mater Hospital in 1930, where he met his future wife who was working there as a nurse. They got married in 1932.
Down the years of the life and times of Ó Grianna are sketchy. He produced a huge volume of work, a lot using his pen-name 'Máire', but a more detailed study has yet to be carried out. It would be important that the influences and inspiration behind such a gifted scribe be known and understood. That however may come sooner rather than later as his son, Felimy is keen to ensure that such research is initiated.
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I want to see the world. I want to explore the world, to experience new things: Since beginning of 2015 I am cycling eastwards – or just through the world.
For me the bicycle is in the perfect means of transport to travel. One has the perfect pace to get to know the country and its people, one is independent and is direct in the middle of the action. By that I mean, you're right in the nature, feel the weather, the changing seasons, the topography – and you're also close to the people. Personal contact comes easily to you as you're riding a bicycle, you can experience the everyday life of different countries and learn about cultures. Often I avoid touristic places (unless they are really worth a visit), and prefer to get to know a country with all its everyday facets. Because for me, the nicest trips are the ones far away from the tourism industry.
On my big tour I have no geographical goal respectively no final destination, but I want to take enough time to learn about the countries I am visiting. Therefore I plan as little as possible to find my way as flexible as possible. The great thing while traveling by bike and tent is that you have this flexibility: you can spontaneously decide where and when you want to cycle respectively stop, and where you want to stay.
This trip is a great challenge for me, physically and mentally – and with such a project, a small portion of naivety is accompanying me. Nevertheless, I am very excited about being on the road for the next months or years!


one question about this, when you want to do an upgrade on BiCS, is it mandatory to have an external USB HD? Can't you use your laptop for this?
It's not mandatory to use an external USB HD, but it's better because you can save all your virtual machines before upgrade Bics and if you have problems during upgrade you can reload old virtual machines.
But I dont know if you can use a laptop as backup space, I think it's not possible unless you can use the laptop in NFS Server but without prejudice.
Ah...ok got the idea. Thanks!
In newer BiCS versions you are allowed to save the data to network file systems (NFS), too. But if you are coming from 1.x 2.0.x it works with USB only.


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Welcome to "Who the Folk?!" Every week on Monday we feature a new member of our Jewish community. Know someone we should feature? Nominate them by sending an email to [email protected].
Last week we got to know Alex Levin. This week meet Michelle Horovitz! Michelle had so much to say about who she is and what she's doing that this profile is a bit longer than usual. But we think it's worth it. Read on and be inspired!
TC Jewfolk: Are you from the Twin Cities?
Michelle: I was born and raised in the Twin Cities. I grew up in Minnetonka, but my dad's family is from the north side of Minneapolis. My grandmother lived there for 45 years. My parents met at Bernie's Delicatessen, which was run by my great-uncle Bernie Horovitz. It was across the street from the Lincoln Del back in the day. My dad worked behind the counter, my mom was a waitress; she asked him out, and the rest is history! So I feel like I've got Restaurant in my blood, food in my veins, and in my history.
TCJ: Can you talk a little more about that?
Michelle: I've always had a passion for food. I started cooking when I was ten years old, largely because I was a third child, so sometimes I had to fend for myself for dinner. I cooked all through high school and worked at restaurants. I went to the University of Pennsylvania for undergrad, and I worked at White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, which was one of the first farm-to-table restaurants in the country. It's a cooperatively owned restaurant. Judy Wicks is the founder, and she's kind of a pioneer; she's like the grandmother of local food. I got really passionate about food–I wanted to go to culinary school after undergrad, but it wasn't the practical thing to do, so I went to law school at the University of Minnesota instead.
TCJ: Law school?
Michelle: Yeah. I got really drawn to public interest law in law school. I was the director of the criminal defense clinic, and I worked at the Anoka County attorney's office doing criminal appellate work. I went to work at the Miami Public Defenders office after law school, doing indigent criminal defense. There I was really exposed to a lot of racial and social injustice. I call it the criminal INjustice system, because it's not just broken–I really believe it was designed and built to keep down people of color poor–to create sort of an invisible caste system. But after a while, I just got really burnt out–it was emotionally, psychologically, and physically draining.
TCJ: So then what?
Michelle: I took a leave of absence and planned to go to culinary school. But I met Michelle Bernstein days before she went to New York to receive a James Beard Award for Best Chef. She's Jewish, half-Argentinian, and half-American. And her dad grew up in St. Paul. She discouraged me from going to culinary school and invited me to come apprentice with her staff at Michy's in Miami. I worked there as a line cook for almost a year, got pregnant while I was there, had our son down in Miami. Then my husband and I decided to move back to Minneapolis in 2010, and I kind of had an early mid-life crisis.
TCJ: How so?
Michelle: I've always been passionate about social justice, even before I knew what that meant. I grew up in the suburbs but spent time going back to the north side to visit my grandmother, hearing stories about the whole north side, about the old neighborhood, and have always felt really connected to that community. Coming back to Minneapolis, I wanted to figure out how I could combine my passion for racial and social justice with food. I started learning more about the food justice movement–what that means, and how food is at the intersection of health, economic development, jobs, housing. I started teaching cooking classes through a program at the University of Minnesota until I realized I wanted to start something of my own in North Minneapolis in partnership with the community. I met my co-founders, Tasha and Princess, shortly after I started teaching cooking classes, and we created what is now Appetite for Change together.
TCJ: Can you say a little bit more about what it is you do at Appetite for Change?
Michelle: Appetite for Change is a food justice social enterprise in North Minneapolis. Our mission is to use food as a tool for building health, wealth, and social change. Our vision is that, long-term, every child should have the opportunity to grow up healthy in their own community; to have access to fresh, local, affordable, sustainable food; that there are thriving local economies and local food businesses; and that families and communities are strengthened around food. Growing it, cooking it, eating it together.
TCJ: So how do you achieve that?
Michelle: One way is through workshops. We do cooking and gardening workshops with different demographics: preschoolers, youths, and pregnant and new moms. Bringing people together to grow food, cook food, eat food, talk about the issues that are important to them and build community–it's kind of our form of community organizing. Our second branch is urban agriculture. We work with local North Minneapolis urban farmers, mostly African-American–the population we serve is mostly African-American, actually.
TCJ: Is that by design?
Michelle: Yeah. Princess and Tasha are both longtime members of the community. North Minneapolis used to be full of Jews, but especially after the riots in '67/'68, when all the Jews kind of migrated to St. Louis Park–part of white flight in general, but also just part of the Jewish community building their own wealth and wanting to move to a nicer part of town, and have bigger houses and all that–when that happened, a lot of the businesses left North Minneapolis. So there became very few food choices, very few jobs, and just a general lack of resources.
TCJ: So what you're saying is this is all just one big dose of classic Jewish guilt for you?
Michelle: Well, obviously there's more to it than that. I really feel like because of the privilege I had growing up–and my family values, and Jewish community values of giving back and building relationships with people who are different than us–I really felt like food could be a way to build bridges between not only the Jewish community and communities of color, but the white community in general. North Minneapolis is often a place where people from outside the community start non-profits and say, "This is what you need, and we have our white savior hats on." And I did initially have that white savior complex, even though I wasn't intentionally trying to. I just think it's part of the Jewish culture in a way. We want to give back; we want to help those less fortunate. But in doing that we sometimes make assumptions about what people want or need, and think that we have the answers. And what I really learned by partnering with Princess and Tasha, and the folks in the community, is that people in the community really know what they need and what they want. And they may not have the resources to provide the solutions for generational poverty, the solutions for issues that are plaguing the black community, but the leaders and solutions are within the black community. So it was intentional, but how it came about and how we did it was more organic.
TCJ: How else has Appetite for Change been influenced by this "organic development?"
Michelle: We originally had eight workshops in 2012, and we asked 250 people what THEY wanted us to do in the community around food. So all of the decisions that we've made as an organization have been guided by what the community has said they wanted. All of our staff are from the community, and most of our volunteers are from the community. It's great for people outside the community to get involved, but sometimes when you volunteers from outside the community it sets up this conflict of us/them, and we're coming in to teach people what they need to do to be healthy. And what we're really trying to do is bring people from outside the community in to actually learn from the community and partner with the community to have shared knowledge.
TCJ: Do you do other things besides workshops?
Michelle: We aggregate produce from urban farmers and sell it at the West Broadway Farmers Market, and we sell it to other local businesses in North Minneapolis. So that's building wealth among the growers, as well as increasing local food access in the community. We also have a policy piece, where we're doing leadership development, and working with community members that are ready to take their involvement to the next level and get involved in advocacy, policy, and systems change. They're actually advocating for the changes in the food system that they want.
TCJ: And you just opened a café. Correct?
Michelle: In 2014, we moved our headquarters to West Broadway, the heart of North Minneapolis. We took over an existing business called Kindred Kitchen, which is a shared commercial kitchen where food trucks, caterers, and people who are producing food–food entrepreneurs–rent space in that shop and produce their products in that area. And next door to Kindred Kitchen, we just opened Breaking Bread Café. We're building it out as a youth employment and training model. We're already working with youth from the community. They're already doing all the things in the organization that the adults do. And we're expanding that piece to the catering and the café. So it'll be kind of a holistic employment and training program, where youth get to work in all areas of the organization, and build job and life skills in culinary arts, food service management, and a bunch of other transferable skills.
TCJ: Wow. That's really inspiring stuff. And this is a café that anyone can come get lunch, or whatever?
Michelle: Yup! Open to the public. It's a non-profit café–Appetite for Change owns it. We hope to break even, obviously, but any profits made by the café go back into supporting the programs, the workshops, the community engagement, and all the other stuff that we do. Right now it's open Monday-Friday, 7am-3pm. Breakfast all day, and lunch 11-3, and we'll be adding weekends shortly.
TCJ: What's the menu like?
Michelle: It's global comfort foods. So it's traditional soul food recipes with international influence. Globally inspired soul food, basically. So we have a play on shrimp and grits–Caribbean jerk shrimp with cheese grits. We've got, instead of just a pork sausage biscuits and gravy, we have a latino chicken chorizo with poblano pepper gravy. Everything's made from scratch, wholesomely. Lots of salads with vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options as well.
TCJ: OK, real quickly: what is your favorite Jewish holiday?
Michelle: Passover. I love matzah ball soup, and I just love the seder.
TCJ: What's your favorite Jewish food?
Michelle: Hm… probably matzah ball soup!
TCJ: Finally, give us one more reason why you're folking awesome!
Michelle: I'm a certified spinning instructor! I don't do it anymore. I taught when I was in Miami, but now I'm lucky if I get to a class let alone teach one, but I love spinning.
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I have moved, and have taken a faculty position at the newly established Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
And yes, I am looking for graduate students and postdocs!
If you are interested, please contact me at avishay.gal-yam _ at _ weizmann.ac.il, call my office on 972-8-9342063, or drop by (if you're around) - my office is 234 Weismann (Physics).


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Juan Sabbagh Pisano (Santiago, 1951) es un arquitecto chileno, ganador del Premio Nacional de Arquitectura en 2002.

Sus estudios secundarios los realizó en el Colegio San Ignacio. Estudió arquitectura en la Universidad de Chile, donde se tituló en 1975. Actualmente es académico en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de dicha casa de estudios. Es miembro del Directorio del Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile.

Entre sus obras destacan la Escuela de Periodismo de la Universidad de Chile, el Pabellón de Chile en la Expo 2010, y otras construcciones de carácter comercial, como las estaciones de servicios Pronto Copec, y edificios de Correos de Chile, Sony Chile, Embotelladora Andina y Banco HNS.

Además del Premio Nacional de Arquitectura 2002, ha recibido reconocimientos como el Premio Fermín Vivaceta 2001, otorgado por el Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile y el Premio a la Trayectoria del Instituto Latinoamericano del Fierro y el Acero.

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Anne Stiles, Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century
Anne Stiles, Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 274 pp. £55 hb. ISBN 9781107010017.
'What is perhaps most striking about late-nineteenth-century theories about insanity and genius is their persistence in modern culture' (154) writes Anne Stiles, in Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century. Possibly the most pleasurable part of this book is the familiarity of the themes, despite the fact that, according to Stiles, 'no one has yet inquired why the late-Victorian Gothic novel and the romance might be ideal mediums for exploring specifically neurological quandaries' (5). There is something in this exploration to which every reader is bound to relate. In chapter 3, 'Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen,' Stiles writes, '[The main character's] visceral responses to her returning memories occasionally bring to mind later, psychoanalytic discussions of traumatic shock; take, for instance, Breuer's famous patient, Anna O., who also experienced aphasia and amnesia following her father's death' (114).
Brain Science examines Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain, Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism, Wells and the 'mad scientist', Allen and photographic memory, and Corelli and the neuron. The latter two are particularly interesting - though their novels are less well-known, the themes within them are still deeply familiar. Both Stevenson and Stoker, Stiles writes, 'received scientific training and later penned famous Gothic romances that hinged upon specific developments in cerebral localization' (5). But whether or not they had scientific training, Stiles interprets each author's personal take on the science he or she puts to fictional use: critically, as in Stoker's case, or constructively, as in the case of Corelli's purportedly empowering, zeitgeist-hitting novels aimed at a 'nervous' Victorian female readership.
It is largely the fault of the 'Twilight' phenomenon that vampires have most recently been popularised as sexy and hyper-, rather than super-, natural. Brain Science brings us back to the text of Dracula, wherein, 'like late-Victorian cerebral localizationists who argued that brain function was entirely determined by material factors … Dracula threatens to transform his victims into human automata lacking souls or free will' (51). This vampire is mechanistic rather than naturalistic. Stiles places Stoker's work neatly amidst the 'psychological turf wars' (55) of late-Victorian physiological determinist debates. Similarly, she questions previous critical examination of Stevenson: 'One wonders … why Linehan and Danahay did not turn to earlier writers on dual-brain theory whose works might have influenced the composition of [Jekyll & Hyde]. I will do just that' (33). She cites a similar lapse in scholarship on Corelli: 'While recent critics have discussed Corelli's interest in Victorian thermodynamics, psychology, telegraphy, and Edison's electrical discoveries, so far no one has probed her engagement with neurology, despite the innumerable references to brains, brain waves, and brain cells in her fiction' (158). Brain Science sparks these connections so readers need not fear becoming automata themselves.
One criticism of Stiles's style is her repeated (though charming) apologetic asides, particularly regarding Corelli. Chapter 5, 'Marie Corelli and the neuron,' is littered with adjectives such as 'unorthodox' and 'unusua,' (162), phrases such as 'bizarre as these phenomena may seem to the modern reader' (163) and, regarding the Society for Psychical Research, 'Perhaps surprisingly, these outré subjects attracted the interest of many illustrious researchers' (167). It seems unnecessary for Stiles to apologise for facts of history. Corelli's immortal, radioactively-charged heroine is surely no more odd than Stoker's undead, blood-sucking villain. The latter simply made its way into pop culture more permanently than the former. Or, put more simply, isn't it a bit anachronistically unfair to say the Victorians were weird? Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century is, after all, most likely to be read by those familiar with the period.
Chapter 4, 'H. G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist,' makes an excellent case in light of contemporary science. Wells was thoroughly informed about developments in brain science, particularly the cutting-edge neurological work of Bouillard and Broca; he was critical of much of it. The 1876 Anti-Vivisection Act is given the necessary attention throughout the book, including this chapter: 'Although Wells supported the responsible use of vivisection, his attitude towards Moreau's cruel experiments seem ambivalent at best' (140). Stiles is usually careful to consider Victorian practises, such as vivisection, in their time, but there is the tricky question of how necessary it is to address the modern applications of these arguments when Brain Science devotes most of its pages, as it should, to making an excellent case for these novels in late-Victorian scientific culture. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Stiles is most at risk of becoming distracted by present-day application of these ideas when examining Wells, the most futuristic author of the lot.
Towards the end of the chapter, Stiles adds a brief section: 'Have we evolved?' – a necessary nod to the persistence of these ideas in culture today, but I wonder whether the section is too brief. It should be an entire book in itself. Despite her acknowledgement of the present in this small section, Stiles comments (only on the previous page) on the scope of Wells's imagination: 'Later in life, Wells envisioned even broader possibilities for the mental future of humanity. In 1938, he penned a utopian scheme entitled World Brain in which he proposed that "the scientists, technicians and artists, the specialists in all fields, are to be employed in the compilation of a vast, and continually updated world encyclopaedia which will embody the collective wisdom of the world's best brains on every conceivable issue"' (153). It seems Stiles could have moved this quote into the last section, the one looking towards our future, and said that the above idea persists today in the form of the world wide web, particularly as she spends time pointing out Corelli's foresight: 'Corelli's scientific "predictions," in fact, rivalled that of more renowned science fiction writers like H.G. Wells or Jules Verne' (157). It is a difficult line to walk: sticking to the late-Victorian period, or considering these ideas, irresistibly, in the twenty-first century.
Despite the temptation for this reviewer to become distracted by the present-day relevance of nineteenth-century knowledge of the brain, Brain Science does an excellent job of locating late-Victorian scientific developments within its selection of Gothic romances. 'Out of the fire and the air I have absorbed the essence of all beauty and power!' (156). Maybe not as invigorating as Young Diana's bath in radioactive fluid, but an uplifting read nonetheless.
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NHS computer systems blamed for 900 deaths per year
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Experts have said computers could be blamed for nearly 900 patients deaths in the NHS a year.
According to professors at Gresham College "bad and low-quality" computers are embedded across the publicly funded national healthcare system.
Harold Thimbleby, professor emeritus of geometry at Gresham College, said to BT: "Devices in hospitals – which are used for a range of applications from storing patient records and making appointments to systems embedded in devices like MRI scanners and dialysis machines – are unnecessarily buggy and susceptible to cyber attacks."
Keeping the NHS running
Thimbleby and his colleague, Martyn Thomas, estimated the number of deaths a year that could be caused by computer issues in a recent lecture.
Prof Thimbleby said in one of the lectures: "If you go into a hospital there isn't a good word to describe how bad stuff in a hospital is and how unaware people are in hospitals of the low quality: they're stuck with it. They're over-worked, they've got a job to do and understanding the computer systems isn't part of their job so it's understandable.
"There are computers in the sterilisation unit in the basement, there are computers in the MRI scanner, there are computers everywhere keeping the NHS running.
Safety of hospital software
"And we think there are 100 to 900 computer-related deaths per year and we think that is a big underestimate.
"Some recognised disasters in Britain: Piper Alpha had 167 deaths and there was a public inquiry; Ladbroke Grove, the rail crash in Paddington had 31 deaths and there was a public inquiry; Grenfell, the fire last year had 71 years, and there is a public inquiry. Why don't we have a public inquiry into the safety of hospital software?"
He also added that the WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled the NHS last year "could have killed a lot of people".
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Sophie Turner Didn't Expect Diplo to Livestream Her Las Vegas Wedding
He just… did that on his own.
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Earlier this month (yes, it was this month, hard to believe), Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner married in a Las Vegas wedding chapel, officiated by an Elvis impersonator who proceeded to sell a Ring Pop wrapper from their ring exchange on eBay. Country duo Dan + Shay played; Khalid, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, and Danielle and Kevin Jonas were all in attendance.
We know what went down during the wedding in such exquisite detail due to the efforts of one Thomas Wesley Pentz, Jr., alias Diplo, who live-streamed the event after the Billboard Music Awards and before going on to DJ one of the show's afterparties. But, according to Turner, she and Jonas had not actually designated the producer as their official documentarian.
"We didn't choose him to be our wedding photographer," Turner told Graham Norton on The Graham Norton Show this week. "He just kind of decided to live-stream it." (Does this surprise anyone?)
Turner and Jonas will be having a much bigger wedding in Europe later this summer—one that may or may not be attended/DJed/live-streamed by Diplo, but one that will almost certainly involve Maisie Williams, who is reportedly on deck to be Turner's maid of honor. Multiple weddings, it appears, are a Jonas family tradition. When Norton asked if Turner and Jonas's second ceremony would be soon, Turner cagily replied, "Potentially." (Anonymous sources in various tabloids previously indicated they would get married in the summer in France, and since summer is upon us, "potentially" "soon" seems a pretty reasonable assumption.)
"France, 15th of July, just outside Montpellier," Norton guessed, jokingly. Turner, looking only a little alarmed, laughed and replied, "That was a pretty good guess." So… mark your calendars for the middle of July. The second Jonas wedding is coming.


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I had my first experience in the mission field about three years or so after I had begun my earnest walk with God. I was in Cluj, Romania with a team from my church in California (shout out to Community Presbyterian Church, Danville!). During that trip we had delivered food and clothes to poor families, helped paint a church, minister to gypsy families and street kids, encouraged the local pastor(s) and I even had the chance to preach in a little village church (with a translator). During all of these activities there was one thing we never stopped doing….we prayed. The flow was constant. Morning, noon and night we continued to lift everything up in prayer. I remember sitting on the back porch of the house we were staying in and literally feeling spiritually fatigued. If there is such a thing as DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) in the spiritual realm, I most definitely had it. Physically I was fine. Mentally and spiritually it was another story. I had never prayed this much and I distinctly remember thinking that this felt like a "spiritual workout." Looking back I think it was more like a spiritual boot camp…. In this sense, this was my introduction to the grind.
Growing up Roman Catholic, prayer was usually something we tended to do in a formal sense. We would pray before meals or recite words during a Sunday liturgy or sacrament. While often times the words spoken during those prayers were "good," (the "Lord's Prayer" for example) by their repetitive nature, year after year, this type of praying can potentially lack a deep connection to the heart. I see it as akin to learning to swim but never leaving the shallow end of the pool. It lays a good foundation but if that is the extent of our prayer life….it is not where we want to stay without ever going deeper.
Now, you might be thinking "prayer shouldn't be a grind…how could you say that?" The ultimate goal of the grind in this context is not to leave you broken down but to make you better able to do something than you were previously able to do. It's about applying the discipline to an area of your life in order to allow you to be refined, sharpened and ultimately strengthened by God. To become even more fit for His service. Our ultimate example is Jesus Himself….
He wasn't going off to procrastinate. He was going out to spend time and speak with His Father. He was being briefed and prepped for His mission that day.
Much like our busy world today, His world was also teeming with activity. In His wisdom, He recognized the need to separate Himself from the constant flow of activity in order to pray. He built His day around this meeting with the Father. Notice how he departed early to go to a solitary place. This is so counterintuitive for us. We feel that if we're not busy then it means we aren't being productive. As we can see by Jesus' example, this is not the case. The enemy of your soul wants you to stay too busy to pray because he can then move more freely in your life and the life of your family.
As we get started, I would challenge you with this: Wherever you are in your prayer life, ask God to help you grow (be ready as He then gives you things you need to be praying about). If you don't know where to begin, start with finding a quiet (solitary) place, and read the "Lord's Prayer" (found in Matthew 6:9-13) out loud, every day, for a week. Pause after each line in order to let the Holy Spirit help you begin to grasp the depth, concepts and meaning behind the words. Don't allow familiarity to breed indifference.
Also begin to include small, unscripted, conversational moments with God throughout your day. For example, every morning when I would wake up I would say (out loud) some variation of, "Good morning, Lord. I love You." These little habits can start to shape and dig out the deep end of the pool in our spiritual lives.
Just like beginning a new workout routine, this may not feel natural at first and even feel forced. Remember how tough those first two weeks of a workout are? The same applies here. Don't give in. Persevere and rise to the challenge and it will go from something foreign to becoming a habit and ultimately, a lifestyle.
See you in Part 3.
Really encouraging with a fresh perspective on prayer. Thank you.


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Fresenius Medical Care celebrates 40th anniversary of Schweinfurt plant, company's largest for dialysis machines
Fresenius Medical Care, the world's largest provider of dialysis services and products, celebrated today the 40th anniversary of the company's Schweinfurt, Germany plant.
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The Schweinfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce honored the 40th anniversary of the Fresenius Medical Care plant with a certificate.
The plant's history dates back to 1979 and the acquisition of a vacant factory building in a Schweinfurt industrial zone, when 40 employees began producing the first dialysis machine developed by Fresenius.
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Schweinfurt is Fresenius Medical Care's largest development and manufacturing facility for dialysis machines. Over the last 40 years more than 800,000 dialysis machines have been made at the site.
The company is now investing some €20 million in a new, 8,000-square-meter (86,000-square-foot) technology center.
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Fresenius Medical Care, the world's largest provider of dialysis services and products, celebrated today the 40th anniversary of the company's Schweinfurt, Germany plant. Joining employees and their family members for the festivities were numerous business and political representatives, including Schweinfurt Mayor Sebastian Remelé.
Schweinfurt is Fresenius Medical Care's largest development and manufacturing facility for dialysis machines and other medical technology devices. Over the past four decades more than 800,000 dialysis machines have been made at the site, where the company is now investing some €20 million in a new, 8,000-square-meter (86,000-square-foot) technology center. The Schweinfurt facility's workforce now numbers more than 1,200, with about a third of the employees involved in research and development.
"Schweinfurt is a huge success story – not just for Fresenius Medical Care, but even more so for our patients around the world," said Rice Powell, CEO of Fresenius Medical Care. "For 40 years now, we have been developing life-sustaining products here at the very highest level, and we're doing our best to continue writing new chapters in that success story. With the building of the new technology center, we are working to mesh development and production at this site even closer together, so that we can provide even better dialysis machines for our patients in the future."
"I am very proud that Fresenius Medical Care is established in Schweinfurt and from here developed into the world market leader for dialysis machines," said Mayor Remelé. "These dialysis systems are used to treat several hundred thousand patients with chronic kidney failure. In the name of the city of Schweinfurt, and personally, I want to wish Fresenius Medical Care continued great success in this important field."
The plant's history dates back to 1979 and the acquisition of a vacant factory building in a Schweinfurt industrial zone. There, under the business name MTS Medizin-Technische Systeme Schweinfurt GmbH, 40 employees began producing the first dialysis machine developed by Fresenius – the A2008C, which won the gold medal for technical innovation at the Leipzig Trade Fair that same year. By 1984, every second dialysis machine produced in Germany was "Made in Schweinfurt." The A2008C would go on to become the world's leading and best-selling dialysis machine, a position Fresenius Medical Care still holds following the introduction of the A2008C's successor models. Today, more than half of all dialysis machines sold worldwide are made by Fresenius Medical Care.
Dialysis machines, bloodline systems and dialyzers – the latter often dubbed "artificial kidneys" because this is where the blood is cleaned – are the most important products for treating chronic kidney disease. During treatment, the dialysis machine pumps the patient's blood through bloodlines, monitors its circulation through the dialyzer, and adds anti-coagulants. Treatments are generally carried out three times weekly, taking between three and six hours each.
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from flask_babel import lazy_gettext

from ..filters import BaseFilter, BaseFilterConverter

__all__ = [
    "GenericFilterConverter",
    "FilterNotContains",
    "FilterEqual",
    "FilterContains",
    "FilterIContains",
    "FilterNotEqual",
    "FilterGreater",
    "FilterSmaller",
    "FilterStartsWith",
]

class FilterContains(BaseFilter):
    name = lazy_gettext("Contains")

    def apply(self, query, value):
        return query.like(self.column_name, value)

class FilterIContains(BaseFilter):
    """
    case insensitive like
    """

    name = lazy_gettext("Contains (insensitive)")

    def apply(self, query, value):
        return query.ilike(self.column_name, value)

class FilterNotContains(BaseFilter):
    name = lazy_gettext("Not Contains")

    def apply(self, query, value):
        return query.not_like(self.column_name, value)

class FilterEqual(BaseFilter):
    name = lazy_gettext("Equal to")

    def apply(self, query, value):
        return query.equal(self.column_name, value)

class FilterNotEqual(BaseFilter):
    name = lazy_gettext("Not Equal to")

    def apply(self, query, value):
        return query.not_equal(self.column_name, value)

class FilterGreater(BaseFilter):
    name = lazy_gettext("Greater than")

    def apply(self, query, value):
        return query.greater(self.column_name, value)

class FilterSmaller(BaseFilter):
    name = lazy_gettext("Smaller than")

    def apply(self, query, value):
        return query.smaller(self.column_name, value)

class FilterStartsWith(BaseFilter):
    name = lazy_gettext("Start with")

    def apply(self, query, value):
        return query.starts_with(self.column_name, value)

class GenericFilterConverter(BaseFilterConverter):
    """
        Class for converting columns into a supported list of filters
        specific for SQLAlchemy.

    """

    conversion_table = (
        ("is_enum", [FilterEqual, FilterNotEqual]),
        (
            "is_text",
            [
                FilterContains,
                FilterIContains,
                FilterNotContains,
                FilterEqual,
                FilterNotEqual,
                FilterStartsWith,
            ],
        ),
        (
            "is_string",
            [
                FilterContains,
                FilterIContains,
                FilterNotContains,
                FilterEqual,
                FilterNotEqual,
                FilterStartsWith,
            ],
        ),
        ("is_integer", [FilterEqual, FilterNotEqual, FilterGreater, FilterSmaller]),
        ("is_date", [FilterEqual, FilterNotEqual, FilterGreater, FilterSmaller]),
    )

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So wednesday was taken up with mainly travelling. In the morning, while still in Dalian I got to visit a cool beach and harbour and walk around there! That was really cool, I'd never seen sea side China before. Then I got a flight to ZhengZhou and a two hour bus to where Eagles Wings is. You'll see in the previous post that I was met from the bus by two of the boys!! Didn't think I'd see them until the next day.
Thursday was then spent visiting each of the different Eagles Wings homes. There are 8 in total. I started by visiting the baby house. Some of them were a little scared of me at first, they don't see guys very often! But some of them got used to me. I did get to hold WeiTao for a while. He is blind and deaf. He loved feeling my hands and touching my face - thats how he gets used to people.
We then went to visit one of the homes for quite disabled children. There were some kids there too that weren't at school. That was really cool too! I recognised a few kids from camp, and some of them even recognised me! It was great to see how well they were doing.
We then got some lunch and visited the older boys! I got to see one boy Jensen who is ageing out but has a family who will be adopting him in the next few weeks! He was told yesterday that he is being adopted to America. He seemed in a good mood and showed me a ball and necklace his parents had sent him!
Jensen is the one right next to me who will hopefully be brought home in a few weeks!
Zach and Sean being silly as always!
They loved how high that tower got!
I spend a lot of time with kids on my lap!!
He seriously NEVER stops laughing!!
Wendy kept moving back and back, I didn't know where she was going and then she plonked herself on my lap! Isn't she beautiful!
It was a long crazy day. So amazing to be back with all these special kids that I had been waiting to see all year!
Have fun at Eagles Wings! I've never been there, but I've met Donna and her daughters and they are great! I'm sure that it makes your heart so happy to be back with the kids that you love. Soak it in!
That was beautiful! I LOVED the pictures and am itching to be there. I am so pleased for you, and pr.ying for you always. So happy that Jensen has a new home to go to!!!
I can't tell you how my heart is fluttering from seeing those precious faces again! I know you're loving them well, Rob!
The kids are precious! So sweet. I can't wait to get to Eagle's Wings. We're hoping to go next summer/fall.


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Q: php date issue when converting using strtotime, but how to do this properly? Using the following code to try and get 'Y-m-d', and should return 2016-05-10, but it is instead returning 2016-10-05.
// m-d-Y (Month-Day-Year)
$test_date = '05-10-2016';

// Convert to Y-m-d
$convert_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($test_date));

echo $convert_date;

How do I get 'Y-m-d' returned?  Not trying to use explode('-', $test_date).  Is this possible to do using proper time functions?

A: Yes, use DateTime object for this:
$test_date = '05-10-2016';
$DateTime = DateTime::createFromFormat('m-d-Y', $test_date, new DateTimeZone('utc'));
var_dump($DateTime);

OUTPUT
object(DateTime)[8]
  public 'date' => string '2016-05-10 15:08:53.000000' (length=26)
  public 'timezone_type' => int 2
  public 'timezone' => string 'UTC' (length=3)

So
echo $DateTime->format('Y-m-d'); //2016-05-10

A: strtotime assume European formatted dates if they are seperated by - and USA date format if they are seperated by /

Note: from the manual strtotime()
Dates in the m/d/y or d-m-y formats are disambiguated by looking at the separator between the various components: if the separator is a slash (/), then the American m/d/y is assumed; whereas if the separator is a dash (-) or a dot (.), then the European d-m-y format is assumed. If, however, the year is given in a two digit format and the separator is a dash (-, the date string is parsed as y-m-d.
To avoid potential ambiguity, it's best to use ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) dates or DateTime::createFromFormat() when possible.

So you can just str_replace the - for /
// m-d-Y (Month-Day-Year)
$test_date = '05-10-2016';
$test_date = str_replace('-', '/', $test_date);

// Convert to Y-m-d
$convert_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($test_date));

echo $convert_date;

Or better still use the DateTime object

A:
Note: Be aware of dates in the m/d/y or d-m-y formats; if the separator is a slash (/), then the American m/d/y is assumed. If the separator is a dash (-) or a dot (.), then the European d-m-y format is assumed. To avoid potential errors, you should YYYY-MM-DD dates or date_create_from_format() when possible.

Source: w3schools
You have to convert '-' by '/'.
<?php// m-d-Y (Month-Day-Year)
$test_date = str_replace('-', '/', '05-10-2016');

// Convert to Y-m-d
$convert_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($test_date));

echo $convert_date; // 2016-05-10

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Most people work to earn a decent and Halal income. However, if you want to use your work to grow in Iman, you need to change into a higher gear. You need to make your work fit a larger game plan that you strive for – earning a ticket to Jannah, Bi Izn Allah (swt). Don't try to make Islam fit your work. Rather, make your work help achieve Islamic goals. In other words, your employer's mission and vision must be compatible with yours.
Global secularization has caused corporations to define core values for employees, and for professional bodies to establish ethical codes of conduct for its members. The values enshrined in our religion subsume and exceed all ethical principles. Moreover, our intentions for dedicating every action for Allah's (swt) pleasure makes us sincerer than those who follow such values just to comply with policies and codes. Work is an opportunity for us to develop our true Islamic characters, while fulfilling our professional duties. Our Iman grows when we do our work with Ikhlas.
Regular breaks to perform your daily and Friday prayers properly.
No shaking hands with non-Mahrams.
No involvement in shady business practices.
Avoiding long work hours (for it leads to work-life imbalance).
Having a bigger game plan means going an extra mile. People focused on the Akhirah will not complain that they did not get paid enough for their work. They will make every effort to ensure quality and excellence (Ihsan) in their work. They will habitually exceed expectations. They will push for innovation, customer-service, collaboration, and value. They know that they are the role models of Islamic character and, hence, they will be the very best at what they do. In doing their work sincerely for Allah (swt) – not for performance rating, salary increment, promotion, or publicity – their Iman will keep growing.
Successful Muslims incorporate opportunities in their daily schedules for constant spiritual growth. Islamic rituals and duties have inner meanings for them. They help them sharpen their spiritual saws to keep improving and tackling new challenges. They keep learning Islam from its sources, and keep progressing in their professional education. They understand how their work fits with the culture of the company and the industry. They study auxiliary fields along with industrial and research trends. They attend conferences, volunteer professionally, and implement new projects.
How Much Do You Love Allah (swt)?


Our director Oliver Chesher has been busy recently conducting a bit of PR for the agency. He's been interviewed twice in the past two weeks, first by industry hub FeaturesExec, and then by financial services trade magazine MyIntroducer.
In the first interview he talks about life behind the scenes in a PR agency, including its challenges, ups and downs; plus how and why he got into the business in the first place.
In his next feature he makes some comments on the niche field of financial and professional services PR, which is one of his specialities. He looks at how PR in this sector has changed over the years, and shares some observations on how we work with some of our clients.
To hear more of Oliver's insights into the PR industry, drop us a line to register for one of his free workshops or attend one of his regular speeches around the UK.
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Q: How to get container for Autofac for WebAPI2? In Ninject I can get object needed for interface by using class WebContainerManager
Ninject definition:
 var logManager = new LogManagerAdapter();
 container.Bind<ILogManager>().ToConstant(logManager);

Ninject usage:
var log = WebContainerManager.Get<ILogManager>().GetLog(typeof(WebApiApplication));

My question is how to do the same in Autofac, to get needed class for interface?
UPDATE 1: Im using WebAPi 2, not MVC.

A: If you need access to Autofac container from the class that was resolved by Autofac itself, then you can specify dependency on IComponentContext that is automatically provided by Autofac.
Example:
public void SomeComponent(IComponentContext context)
{
   this.context = context;
}
...
// somewhere inside SomeComponent
context.Resolve<ILogManager>();

If your code is running inside ASP.Net environment, then you most probably set its DependencyResolver, thus you can always access it like:
DependencyResolver.Current.GetService<ILogManager>();

but as it is already mentioned in other comments, Service Locator is an anti-pattern that should be avoided.
In order to integrate autofac container with standard MVC dependency resolution mechanism you need to:

*

*install Autofac.Mvc5 nuget package

*set DependencyResolver with the following code
var container = builder.Build();
DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new AutofacDependencyResolver(container));
And in case you don't mind having explicit dependency on Autofac in your application code you can access global Autofac resolver reference the same way you use Ninject WebContainerManager:
var log = AutofacDependencyResolver.Current.Resolve<ILogManager>().GetLog(typeof(WebApiApplication));

A: You can create your builder.
var builder = new ContainerBuilder();

// Usually you're only interested in exposing the type
// via its interface:
builder.RegisterType<SomeType>().As<IService>();

// However, if you want BOTH services (not as common)
// you can say so:
builder.RegisterType<SomeType>().AsSelf().As<IService>();

Then you will be able to build your IoC:
IContainer Container = builder.Build();

And a simple example of How to get resource from container:
// Create the scope, resolve your IService,
// use it, then dispose of the scope.
using (var scope = Container.BeginLifetimeScope())
{
  var writer = scope.Resolve<IService>();
  writer.DoSomething();
}


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Home Human Health and Animal Ethics Home > Ethics Moral Issues > Pet Rescue
Pet Rescue. Adopt a Cat in New York
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Inside Pet Shelters
There are people sentenced to capital punishment, awaiting their fate on death row, who have not committed any crime, not been accused of anything, not stood any trial, not been found guilty by judge or jury.
If these people, biologically, were members of the human species, the outrage at this earth-shattering injustice would reach the sky and beyond, leaping into the stratosphere.
But because the biological status of these persons, who feel and think like you and me, or at least like you and me when we were little children, happens to be a different one from Homo Sapiens, it is considered ethically acceptable to kill them when they are perfectly healthy and young, only because nobody wants them and very few people care about them.
They live in shelters until the moment of their killing arrives, in cages, scared and sad because they are social animals who need affection.
One of them was Jack, the male ginger cat pictured here, who was only 2 years old when he arrived at the Manhattan Animal Care Center in New York, "surrendered" by his owner who gave as the reason a hoarding problem.
Jack was physically in good health, but read his behavior evaluation by the cat shelter: "No change Posture: Tense Greeting: Remains neutral (0) Cage Opens: Remains motionless (0) Extend Hand: Remains motionless (0) Stroke: Retreats (-1) Total Score: 0."
Jack was so depressed at the shelter that he couldn't even lift his head for a photo. He was alone, afraid, sad, another countless victim of a hoarding situation.
Miraculously, given his past living conditions, Jack was only shy with humans, but the cat shelter did not have much hope for his rehoming just because of his introverted personality: that hardly deserves a death sentence.
Yet he was put on the shelter's "To Be Destroyed" list.
We don't know what happened to Jack since.
Pet Rescue: Who Helps
Pets killed at a shelter and put into bins
like rubbish awaiting the incenerator
There are groups of volunteers who do what they can.
Pets on Death Row (PODR) is a network of volunteers involved in pet rescue, working to save the lives of cats and kittens housed in the shelters of the Animal Care & Control of New York City (NYC AC&C).
NYC AC&C is a not-for-profit organization responsible for the city's municipal shelter system, with facilities operating in all the five boroughs of New York.
If no home is found for the cats in the shelters they are killed. PODR, which is not affiliated with NYC ACC, tries to save them every day, with only hours to spare from the time the cats are listed to the moment they are killed.
Pets on Death Row Facebook page publishes a daily list, with photos and descriptions, of cats and kittens that are due to be "euthanized" the next day, to find someone who wishes to adopt them.
Adopting a cat in these circumstances is no more and no less than saving a life.
The work of Pets on Death Row is vital and requires a lot of time and effort.
Please help them in any way you can.
Another worthy pet rescue group is All Sentient Beings, member of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals. They rescue cats condemned to die from New York shelters and keep them for adoption by members of the public.
The widget on the top left of this page is to send them donations. Click on the ChipIn! button.
If you live in the New York area please get in touch with these groups, also through their ChipIn site and All Sentient Beings Facebook Page.
New York Mayor Bloomberg has been involved in this pet rescue issue, agreeing to contribute to free pet spaying services during economic hard times.
A good idea would be to develop a pet rescue project by which the many jobless people who receive unemployment benefits, and whose number has recently increased due to the current economic situation, helped looking after these creatures. It would be good for the unemployed too, by offering them all the emotional benefits that having a pet brings, giving them a sense of purpose, a sense of doing something useful and of giving something back to the community that supports them.
According to the Humane Society of the United States estimates, no less than 6-8 million cats and dogs are taken by animal shelters in the United States alone every year, and of these animals about as many as 3-4 million are "euthanized" in shelters only because there are no homes for them, so due entirely to lack of space, food and carers.
Throughout this article I've used the word "euthanized" in inverted commas because this is not euthanasia at all.
"Euthanasia" derives from the Greek and literally translated it means "good death". It applies to situations when death is, or is considered to be, a better choice than life only for the individual concerned, not for anybody else.
When animals who have all the physical conditions to live a good, healthy life are put to death only because there is no will to devote enough resources to their continued existence, then the choice of death is obviously not the better one for the animal.
Interestingly, according to a recent poll in the States, "7 in 10 pet owners say they believe animal shelters should be allowed to euthanize animals only when they are too sick to be treated or too aggressive to be adopted" and only 1 in 4 participants "said animal shelters should sometimes be allowed to put animals down as a population control measure."
This tragedy is obviously not limited to the USA.
One thing that all of us can do, and it's a very easy thing, is to always adopt animals from pet shelters rather than buying them from pet shops or breeders.
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Participant evaluations of a PD experience can provide important feedback for the teaching artist.
DEFINITION: What is Evaluation in an arts integration PD experience?
Evaluations often take the form of short surveys that participants complete orally or in writing at the end of a PD experience. They may include both quantitative and qualitative portions, can be organized around learning targets, elicit a personal response, and make room for both directed and open-ended reactions. Written evaluations are usually completed anonymously to encourage an honest critique of the PD experience.
PURPOSE: Why is Evaluation important to an arts integration PD experience?
Participant evaluations of a PD experience can provide important feedback for the teaching artist. Although the teaching artist may have an intuitive read of how the classroom teachers responded to the PD experience, these impressions are often subjective and lacking in actionable specifics. They may also be misleading, incomplete or evanescent. Evaluations, on the other hand, give the teaching artist a chance to hear from each participant. They give the participating classroom teachers a chance to communicate what worked and did not work, what resonated, challenged or confused; and they provide a means by which participants can influence both the content and approach of future offerings of the PD experience.
Our PD instructor did a good job giving only positive feedback which helped everyone feel more comfortable and willing to share their thoughts. This was a helpful reminder for me as a teacher to foster an environment where students feel welcomed and are excited to share their ideas.
One of the most helpful parts of the course is the brief online videos that show the instructors facilitating the strategies. I felt confident implementing the strategies after viewing the videos.
IN PRACTICE: How might Evaluation be applied to an arts integration PD experience?
KNOW culturally responsive and culturally sustaining teaching approaches and techniques.
BE ABLE TO integrate art into their teaching.
BE ABLE TO facilitate active -learning strategies.
APPRECIATE and better understand the perspectives of Micronesian students and families.
APPRECIATE their own skills as artists.
These targets are shared with participants at the beginning of the workshop. Classroom teachers then revisit these targets in their end-of-workshop evaluations, where they are asked to rate on a Likert scale (a rating scale in which the respondent indicates the degree to which they agree or disagree with a statement) the extent to which the workshop accomplished each goal. Starting with the learning targets helps clarify the purpose of the workshop for participants, and provides a clear basis for the teaching artist in gauging the success of the experience. Using a Likert scale helps the teaching artist quantify the results and make comparisons of the relative strengths of different aspects of the program.
At the end of a 3-hour PD workshop, participants walk throughout the space until the facilitator prompts them to stand "back-to-back" with a partner. Together, the pair discusses: "What did you learn or discover during this workshop?" They return to their back-to-back positions and develop a full-body pneumonic gesture to reflect something that arose during their talk. They practice that gesture as they walk throughout the space again.
The facilitator calls again, "back-to-back" and each participant stands with a new partner. This time the facilitator asks, "What is something you found difficult or challenging during this workshop?" Again the partners discuss the prompts, return to their back-to-back positions, and develop a full-body pneumonic gesture to reflect what they discussed. They practice their two gestures as they walk throughout the space again.
For a third time, the facilitator calls, "back-to-back" and each participant stands with a new partner. This time the facilitator asks, "What do you plan to use from this workshop when you return to your classroom?" Again the partners discuss the prompts, return to their back-to-back positions, and develop a full-body pneumonic gesture to reflect what they discussed. They practice all three gestures as they walk throughout the space again.
The full group gathers in a large circle, with music playing. The facilitator invites participants to enter the circle at any time, dancing their sequence of three gestures, moving in and then back out to the perimeter.
What did you learn or discover during this workshop?
What is something you found difficult or challenging during this workshop?
What do you plan to use from this workshop when you return to your classroom?
At the conclusion of a three hour PD experience, a short time is set aside for classroom teachers to offer brief answers to the following questions, to help the teaching artist understand the immediate impact of the experience on the participating teachers. They respond within the whole group setting.
Which drama strategy will you attempt first? Which strategy might you not use (and why)?
Which parts of the workshop (e.g. experience, facilitation, assessment discussion) were most helpful in this workshop?
What is something that you would have liked more of?
What are you most concerned about as you consider implementing the strategy?
At the end of the workshop, teachers fill out a Post-Workshop Questionnaire to provide measurable ratings on specific aspects of the workshop experience.
Thoroughness of instruction in strategies.
Any other thoughts are also welcome.
Participants in the PD experience take a few minutes to write their feedback onto post-it notes and then place the post-its onto the larger chart. Afterward, the teaching artist organizes and reflects on the feedback and considers how to adjust design and instruction for the next workshop in a process of continual improvement.
This full-day workshop is intended to help classroom teachers: a) become more familiar and comfortable with the museum; b) develop strategies, aligned with their curriculum, for engaging with art at the museum and in their classrooms; and c) increase their skills in drawing and bolster their confidence as artists.
The end-of-workshop evaluation asks specifically about these goals, but also includes open-ended questions to evoke further explanation. The teaching artist collects the completed forms, summarizes the quantitative data, and continues to experiment with different approaches in order to improve the areas that indicate the highest need.
In addition to written evaluations, an oral debrief during the workshop gives participants an opportunity to elaborate on their impressions and can allow the facilitator to ask follow-up questions. To encourage fuller participation in a whole-group debrief, the facilitator may ask participants first to respond to questions in a pair-share, and then ask if anyone wants to share out with the whole group. This approach provides a more sheltered setting for participants to work through their thoughts initially with a partner, as well as the chance to build on the observations and opinions of others. An oral debrief can be used at the end of a PD experience, or partway through to help the facilitator make adjustments along the way. This combination of written and oral evaluations can give the teaching artist quantifiable, representative and nuanced feedback on the efficacy, clarity and relevance of the professional learning experience.
Analysis: Analysis is critical for extracting meaningful insights from classroom teacher evaluations. For the quantitative section, a first step is calculating the mean score for each question. This will give you a general sense of which parts of your training are hitting the mark and where you might need to make changes for the participants to better achieve the learning goals. In addition to allowing you to compare the relative strengths of a given workshop, calculating the mean for each question also allows you to make comparisons between workshops.
If you have a mean score of 4.4 in one workshop, but a mean of 3.2 in a later workshop, it might be worth considering what variables were responsible for this discrepancy. Are there clues in the written responses about why participants in the later workshop had a more neutral response?
Another helpful measure is to calculate the standard deviation for each question. This will give you a sense of the variation in responses for a given question. If the standard deviation is high, it might be worth exploring why participants responded so differently to the same question.
Three participants commented that the second day of the workshop was too sedentary. This is a problem that I was aware of as I put together the program, but was difficult to avoid given the availability of different presenters. By scheduling presenters further in advance, I should be able to space them out better in the future.
Although this sort of analysis may be time consuming, it can provide a sound basis for improving practice.