This is a hand crank "Little Modiste" sewing machine, complete with the table clamp.
It is in great condition, the little wooden knob on the wheel looks hardly used.
The box contains pins - hair and two colors of straight pins.
Each pin was individually inserted into the paper roll which was then rolled with the black pins in the center.
The hair pins are in four sizes, the smallest size is empty.
We also went to Taos, New Mexico.
Definitely a place to get back to for a longer trip.
There are beautiful art galleries filled with woven rugs, pottery, jewelry and paintings.
Not too many quilts. One of the galleries with Henri Matisse works also had an Amish wool doll quilt. Thinking back, I wish I had asked to see it closer...next time.
It is a dish served in the area for celebrations.
Roasted poblano pepper stuffed with beef, apple, raisins, onion, tomato and seasoning. The sauce is brandy cream sauce with pecans, garnished with pomegranate seeds and cilantro.
Since we were celebrating of course we had to order it!
June was a great month shared with friends near and far - hope your is too.
I hope your week is filled with big blue skies.
Part of my June travels included a stop at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.
Sue Nickels & Pat Holly"
It was a beautiful exhibit of old and new quilts. The new quilts by Sue and Pat, the old quilts are pieces from collection of vintage and antique quilts.
The museum does a wonderful job including other items of interest, in this example - antique sewing machines.
The quilts were fascinating to see up close.
They are machine appliqued in a decorative stitch.
The machine quilting is a diagonal grid 1"apart, over the red fabric and the border. Two rows of free motion echo quilting are inside the plume and around the red center star.
The borders are quilt as you go.
The pattern company, Mountain Mist, suggested making a second quilt with the opposite color arrangement.
This was one of several red/green applique examples.
All applique is done with tiny machine stitches using white thread. Hand Quilted, pencil lines are still visible in some areas.
This is a detail of the machine applique flower and stem.
You can also see some of the hand quilted feathers surrounding the machine work.
One of the walls included several of Nickels/Holly contemporary small quilts.
This picture shows the quantity of pieces, and gives you an idea of how small they are compared to the size of the brick.
Oh, how I would enjoy an exposed brick wall to display quilts on.
it. If you have ever white gloved you know how badly people want to touch the quilts! This is such a good idea to have available.
Fabulously soft with a lovely 'drape'.
The tag doesn't say but I think it was silk with a silk batting.
This example has hand applique, reverse applique and machine quilting.
I took too many pictures to post here, so if there is something you want to see more of just let me know. There are also many more pictures on the RMQM website.
The exhibit runs through July 27, 2013. When you are in the Denver area it's just a short janut to Golden and the RMQM.
We also shopped the repro fabrics in the gift shop.
As promised here are some of the June antique quilt purchases.
This is one of several my friend bought. She gave me permission to share this one. Sorry for the wrinkles, but every time a quilt comes out my dog thinks it is her job to lay on it and help. Since it isn't my quilt I was in a hurry...I think the quilt is about 80 something by seventy. All hand pieced and quilted.
The blocks are probably older, and were set and finished at a later time.
Of course you need to see a closeup of the fabrics.
I think the stars are about 7" finished.
Some prints repeated in the pieced blocks.
A few stars are three prints, some are four or more.
Love the blue - kind of a lily of the valley print.
Dots, plaids and checks - all belong together.
This is a lovely combination - Madder stripe, double pink with the red check alternate block.
Just looking at this again makes me want to stitch a star or two. How about you?
So what did I buy? Not as much as some people who will remain nameless... What happens shopping stays with the shoppers!!
The binding is a little worn, but how about the print?
It is all hand pieced and hand quilted. Even the binding is all hand applied. In a place where the binding is loose I can see the basting stitches holding the piping in place.
The pattern is a single chain.
The indigo squares are 1"
The border triangles are 1.5" long.
It is a very large quilt at 116" x 120"
Then sticking to what appeared to be a blue theme that day - I also picked up this sweet nine patch.
It too appears to be hand pieced and quilted. The binding is hand applied and finished. It is perhaps the softest quilt I have ever seen.
The ivory spots are not stains. It is fabric of a more muslin color that the white sashing.
What a great theme - All blue stripes.
6" Nine patches, 2"x6" sashing strips with 2" sashing corners. and a scrappy 2" stripe border.
A fun variety of blues, with a few non-stripes thrown into the stripe theme for good measure.
Add some texture and a sprinkle of red.
This square has it all: stripes, texture, red, multiple blues...all packed in a 2" square.
Note the texture in the whites as well.
Hand quilting on the diagonal.
Extra suitcases were purchased and filled!
Which of the three quilts speak to you?
At one point this spring I thought I might finish the hand quilting on Calico Paradise - as luck would have it - life had other GREAT plans for me. June flew by in the BEST way!!
Here is my Calico Paradise in the frame - with most of the outline quilting done. That leaves me the option to roll back and do the filler quilting in the frame - or - move to a hoop.
Nancy at Tattered Garden Quilting just posted about her start on Calico Paradise HERE. I enjoyed seeing her wonderful stack of fabrics for the project. She also shares her methods. My applique choice is back basting and needle turn. I love it as we can all use our own comfortable methods and enjoy our projects!!
ENJOY being the key word. Stop by and cheer Nancy on.
As I said June flew by filled with the best times with the best of friends!
So much so I need a separate post or two to share all the fabric and antique shopping as well as travels near and far. I hope I can remember all the details - I can tell you new extra large suitcases had to be purchased!
I hope you are enjoying a bit of paradise this week.
I've been busy and doing some travel but wanted to pop in and say hello. For those of you celebrating July 4, have a fabulous Independence Day holiday.
This is a quilt pattern page (10" x 6.5") from Peterson's Magazine, July 1861.
"Stars and Stripes" illustrates half the quilt in color. A maker only had this to go by - the size, yardage etc. were open for interpretation.
This is the cover of the issue.
All of the pages are in tact in my copy.
You can read the entire issue using the link below.
In 1861 a one year subscription cost $2.
This is one of the fashion plates.
The latest and greatest in the summer of 1861.
"Fanny" is a template for marking.
The dark image from the reverse page is the image of fashionable head gear.
Earlier in 1861 (January/February) the south seceded and created the Confederate Constitution.
Have a great July 4th holiday - be safe and have fun!!


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Published on Thursday, April 16, 2015
By: Ruth Cummins at 601-984-1104 or ricummins@umc.edu.
Published in News Stories on April 16, 2015
When a patient hits his buzzer on University Hospital's 5 North, a staff member dedicated to answering calls for help bustles to his bedside.
It's just one facet of a program instituted in September 2014 by 5 North nurse manager Cissy Bailey as she collected data for a project requirement in her quest to earn a doctor of nursing practice degree. Her mission: Gather information on when patients fall the most and why, and come up with a solution.
"When I checked the data that I was collecting, I saw that a very high percentage of patient falls happen between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., with a peak time of 4 a.m.," Bailey said. "I thought, why is this?"
Bailey instituted a program in which her nursing team increased the "rounding," or nurse visits to patient rooms. And, she went a step further, pulling one person from that shift and dedicating them to immediately responding to patients who call for assistance.
"When a patient falls, immediate assistance is needed," Bailey said. "When the call light rings, the assistant pulled from staffing doesn't wait to be notified. They immediately respond to that patient's need. Otherwise, the person might not wait for help, get up without assistance, and fall."
Her team's aggressive effort to stop patient falls before they happen is getting national notice. UMMC is one of only two hospital systems in the country awarded a 2015 Stand Up for Patient Safety Management Award from the National Patient Safety Foundation. New York-based North Shore/LIJ Heath System is receiving the same award, in its case for developing a system-wide effort to ensure accurate patient identification.
Bailey's nursing team changed its approach, adding patient care technicians and nursing assistants to those performing both routine and variable rounds, with variable visits occurring more frequently. During the last four months of 2014, the rate of falls on the unit declined from 6.2 falls per 1,000 patient days to 1.19 falls per 1,000 patient days.
Falls are classified under hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), or reasonably preventable conditions that patients didn't have upon admission, but instead occurred during their stay. It's an area in which the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has cracked down, levying financial penalties in December to more than 700 hospitals nationwide, including UMMC.
Bailey found that patients tended to fall more in the predawn hours because their sleep is disrupted by routine care activities in their rooms - for example, vital signs are scheduled to be checked at 4 a.m. "That was our ah-ha moment," Bailey said.
"The patient wakes up, and they're groggy," Bailey said. "They think they can get up by themselves, and they don't call for help. They get up and they fall. People often overestimate their ability to walk alone."
Her nursing team is averting that by rounding more frequently and answering buzzers as soon as they sound. "It immediately started making a difference," Bailey said of the new approach.
When Medical Center nurses round by a room, they assess the chance of a fall by checking the four Ps: personal items, potty, pain and positioning. That can involve making sure the most direct path from a patient's bed to the bathroom is free from obstructions or slip hazards, and making sure a patient's personal items such as glasses or cell phone are within easy reach.
"We have found that patients are now more likely to wait for the rounder than try to get up by themselves, knowing how frequently the rounders visit and how quickly they respond," Bailey said.
Fall prevention remains a top concern at UMMC, where the 900-plus nurses dedicated to adult patients take a variety of precautions to keep them out of harm's way. That includes assessing all patients for fall risk when they are admitted, posting signs in their rooms urging them to ask for help, and making their families part of that conversation.
Delia Shirley of Jackson listens as patient affairs advocate Allan Boteler explains brochures and flyers that contain tips on how patients can have a safe stay and be engaged in their own care.
In early March, nurses began using a falls prevention care plan developed and validated at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. A nurse details patient information such as age, physical or mental disabilities, or medications that can cause confusion or dizziness to produce an individualized care plan for the patient that predicts the chance of falls.
UMMC's patient safety officer, Amber Arnold, led the Medical Center's March 8-14 observance of National Patient Safety Awareness Week. It focuses on the relationship between medical staff, patients and patient families, and encouraging health-care providers to include patients and families in their own care to better keep the patient from suffering harm such as falls.
The Stand Up for Patient Safety Management Awards will be presented at the annual NPSF Patient Safety Congress April 29-May 1 in Austin, Texas.
"One of the best parts of our annual meeting is the opportunity to publicly recognize these important initiatives," said Tejal K. Gandhi, the foundation's president and CEO. "Members of the Stand Up for Patient Safety program at NPSF are leading the way in patient safety, and we are pleased to be able to celebrate successful efforts such as these."
Bailey hopes that dedicating a staffer to answering patients' buzzers can be initiated on other Medical Center hospital floors. "When I would have more falls, it seemed to be most frequent when I had to pull that (designated) person back into staffing because we were short-staffed. That one extra person can make a big difference."
Bailey said she's humbled to receive the award on behalf of 5 North staff and the Medical Center.
"The success of this project is due to all the support and dedication of all involved," she said. "I by no means made this journey alone.

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A rare opportunity to acquire a deceptively spacious detached residence situated on one of the most prestigious roads in Tanworth in Arden. The property is discretely positioned behind a large driveway and set within lovingly cared for landscaped gardens. The total plot extends to 0.41 acres.
The property briefly comprises three double bedrooms, three reception rooms, two bathrooms, breakfast kitchen and utility. Further benefiting from dual aspect views to the landscaped gardens beyond with great potential for development/ improvement (STPP) Offering versatile accommodation with one of the reception rooms having potential to be converted into a separate granny annex / business / consulting room.
Located just a short distance away from neighbouring villages and towns including Henley-in-Arden, Hockley Heath and Solihull and a commutable distance to Stratford Upon Avon, Birmingham international Airport and Railway Station and the Midland motorway network.
Discretely positioned behind a five bar timber gate giving access to the large taramacadam driveway with parking for multiple vehicles. The property is situated amongst beautiful landscaped gardens with a wide range of plants, flower beds, shrubs and trees. The laid to lawn fore-garden has a variety of features including a rockery, lamp post and a range of mature trees providing seclusion and privacy. Security flood lighting surrounds the exterior of the property.
A paved step leads to the front door with obscure double glazed matching side panels, exterior wall light.
Obscure glazed panels and door to the dining room, open alcove to the sun lounge, radiator.
Radiator, Oak panelled staircase rising to the first floor, secret door to the cloakroom.
A light and airy triple aspect sun room with three double glazed windows viewing the beautiful landscaped gardens, radiator, double glazed patio doors to the rear garden.
Cleverly hidden away off the dining room, the secret door leads to a cloakroom and W.C. With two obscure double glazed windows to the side, low level W.C, vanity unit with inset wash hand basin, tiling to splash backs, storage area for cloaks.
A delightful dual aspect lounge with a feature double glazed bow window to the front, double glazed window to the side, feature brick fireplace with electric fire and oak beam mantel over, coving to the ceiling, double radiator.
A useful storage area with power and lighting.
Obscure window to the side, airing cupboard housing the hot water cylinder with shelving above, radiator, hatch giving access to a partly boarded loft space, doors to all bedrooms and bathroom.
A large En-Suite bathroom comprising a four piece suite to include, bath with mixer taps, low level W.C, bidet and shower cubicle. Complemented by a vanity unit with inset wash hand basin, cabinet to the side and storage cupboards below, dual aspect with obscure windows to the side and rear, recessed spot lights, partly tiled, two radiators and feature ceiling coving.
A further dual aspect double bedroom with double glazed windows to the front and side, built in wardrobe, drawers and dressing table, radiator.
Another light and airy dual aspect bedroom with double glazed windows to the side and rear, built in wardrobe, radiator.
A dual aspect fully tiled family bathroom with obscure windows to the side and rear, pedestal wash hand basin, low level W.C, bidet, bath with mixer taps, shower over and glass shower screen, radiator.
A spectacular wrap around garden with a wide range of mature trees, hedges, plants and shrubbery. A raised paved sun terrace offers an excellent seating area with steps down to the lawn. Further complimented by a side terrace with water feature and access to the sun lounge. In addition there is a greenhouse, timber shed with power and lighting, alarmed timber workshop with lights and power, a further timber shed and treehouse. There is a paved side passage leading to the front of the property, access to the studio/office and a brick building for the oil storage tank.
Mains electricity, water and drainage are connected to the property. Oil central heating.
The property is freehold. Vacant possession will be given upon completion of the sale.
All those items mentioned in these particulars will be included in the sale, others, if any, are specifically excluded.
Double Glazing where stated is part of a sealed unit Double Glazed system.
Strictly by prior appointment with John Earle (01564 794343).


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Tonight Show's Jay Leno bids adieu after 22 years
Jay Leno (left) will be replaced by Jimmy Fallon as host of The Tonight ShowLong-time US television host Jay Leno has taped his final episode of The Tonight Show, with help from a few celebrity guests.Leno, 63, appeared emotional as he thanked viewers for their loyalty after his 22 years as host.He was joined by high-profile guests including Billy Crystal, Oprah Winfrey and Garth Brooks.Fellow comedian and late-night host Jimmy Fallon, 39, takes over the programme on 17 February in New York.Leno was briefly replaced on The Tonight Show by comedian Conan O'Brien in 2009, but returned to the show in 2010.US President Barack Obama was one of many to send in taped goodbyes, offering to make Leno an ambassador to Antarctica."I hope you've got a warm coat, funny man," Mr Obama joked.Other celebrity guests on Thursday night's show included Jack Black and Kim Kardashian.Country singer Brooks closed the programme by performing his hit song, Friends in Low Places.
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Q: OpenLayers: Utility getSource().on to wait one second to load or reload TileLayer I am using OpenLayers5.
I'm working with Tile Layers in my project, but I need that when I move to the map, the layer will load with one second delay to no call many times to server.
My code is
app.controller("MainController", [
  function () {
    const map = new ol.Map({
      target: "map",
      layers: [
        new ol.layer.Tile({
          source: new ol.source.OSM(),
        }),
        new ol.layer.Tile({
          id: "positions",
          visible: true,
          source: new ol.source.TileWMS({
            refresh: {
              force: true,
            },
            visible: true,
            projections: ["EPSG:4326"],
            url: "http://localhost:9000/getMap",
          }),
        }),
      ],
      view: new ol.View({
        center: [0, 0],
        zoom: 0,
      }),
    });
  },
]);

I saw in OpenLayers the following three functions:
getSource().on("tileloadstart", function () {
   // While loading the layer
   console.log("tileloadstart");
});

getSource().on("tileloadend", function () {
   // At the end of the layer loading
   console.log("tileloadend");
});

getSource().on("tileloaderror", function () {
   //If throw error while loading
   console.log("tileloaderror");
});

I need to wait a second while I move the map or zoom so as not to overload the server calls

A: Your problem is more likely related to the TileWMS not being correctly specified.  It must have a params option specifying the WMS LAYERS, and projection should be singular.
A simple one second delay could be included in a tile load function
  tileLoadFunction: function (imageTile, src) {
    setTimeout(function() {
      imageTile.getImage().src = src;
    }, 1000);
  }

but that will NOT reduce totals calls to the server, it will simply delay all calls by the same interval, giving a very poor user experience, then you will get the same server problem one second later.
To reduce simultaneous calls to the server you should experiment with the map's maxTilesLoading option and if using TileWMS try using a larger tile size - a single call for a 512px tile is four calls when using 256px tiles.

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Safe and efficient access and egress from your event is crucial for the safety of your visitors and often the success of the event itself.
Our ramp system is fully adjustable and can be specified in any width, gradient, length and shape to suit the nature of its intended use and location.
Ramps are available in a range of surface finishes and with numerous cladding and handrail options, the appearance of the structures can be tailored to complement the design and appearance of the environment in which they are located.
They are also fully compliant with public access legislation.


Repealing Obamacare has been something Trump has worked upon right from the beginning of his presidency. According to him, Obamacare has been a 'fiscal burden' on the country. Obamacare was something many people were in support of. It supported and provided subsidised health insurance to more than 20 million people including those who live in difficult financial conditions.
This was a recent happening where Donald Trump out of the blue tweeted towards the end of July about the ban of transgender in the military because of the costs and expenses for transgender in the military. However, this remains only a tweet because there is no formal policy that has been executed. Higher ups in the military personnel have also stated that Trump's tweet will not affect transgenders currently serving in the army. The tweet and announcement seemed to have come out of the blue from the President without discussing with the US military because they revealed that they found out about it only from his tweet. We do not know if this policy will come into existence, but Trump seems to be in favour of this.Even though it is not a policy currently, the President's tweets haves created a big uproar in the country.
Donald Trump gave a yes to installing pipelines in Dakota. This created a big uproar among people especially those who live in that area because drilling pipelines would mean the destruction of important places including homes and heritage sites. People living there were also extremely concerned about the pollution it would lead to.
It came to a big surprise when Trump fired the FBI director James Comey. US presidents in the pasts have never done this besides Clinton, and that was because the director was caught in ethical violation (click site). This was very surprising and raised questions because he was fired after it was announced by Comey that he and his team were investigating if Russia was involved in Trump'swin. According to Trump, the reason for firing him was because he believed that Comey did not handle Hillary Clinton's email investigation poorly.
Trump's presidency has ignited tension and complicated relationships with statements he made about China and Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Another change was that under Obama, the TPP was seen as a great policy for international trade relationships. Trump signed for withdrawal of the TPP – more info.


The publisher told Eurogamer this afternoon that "Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has not been announced on PC", and that "Ghost Recon Online is the PC equivalent".
However, Future Soldier was announced for PC in 2010, albeit partially - specific details were to follow (but never did).
An official forum for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on PC supplies further evidence that a multi-platform release was once Ubisoft's intention.
Ghost Recon Online senior producer Sebastien Arnoult, to PC Gamer, explained: "When we started Ghost Recon Online we were thinking about Ghost Recon: Future Solider; having something ported in the classical way without any deep development, because we know that 95 per cent of our consumers will pirate the game.
"So we said okay, we have to change our mind.
"We have to adapt, we have to embrace this instead of pushing it away. That's the main reflection behind Ghost Recon Online and the choice we've made to go in this direction."
"To the users that are traditionally playing the game by getting it through Pirate Bay, we said, 'Okay, go ahead guys. This is what you're asking for. We've listened to you."
He added: "We are giving away most of the content for free because there's no barrier to entry. To the users that are traditionally playing the game by getting it through Pirate Bay, we said, 'Okay, go ahead guys. This is what you're asking for. We've listened to you - we're giving you this experience. It's easy to download, there's no DRM that will pollute your experience.'"
Ubisoft Singapore is making Ghost Recon Online. The PC game doesn't look dissimilar to Future Soldier on PS3 and 360 but won't, by the looks of things, feature a single-player campaign.
"I don't like to compare PC and Xbox boxed products because they have a model on that platform that is clearly meant to be €60's worth of super-Hollywood content," said Arnoult.
"On PC, we're adapting our model to the demand."
Ghost Recon Online is in closed beta in Germany and France. The closed UK beta test is schedule for the next few months, reported PC Gamer. You can apply for the Ghost Recon Online beta on the game's website.
Ubisoft is a publisher synonymous with problems regarding piracy on PC. The publisher tried to combat piracy with DRM, but ended up alienating legitimate PC game buyers in the process. Those legitimate buyers tussling with restrictive DRM had to wait weeks after console release for their port, too.
The result was angry backlash for Ubisoft. And things seem to have come to a head with downloadable XBLA and PSN game I Am Alive, which isn't being offered on PC at all. Can we presume that Ubisoft has had enough?
"Perhaps it will only take 12 guys three months to port the game to PC, it's not a massive cost but it's still a cost. If only 50,000 people buy the game then it's not worth it," I Am Alive creative director Stanislas Mettra explained this week.
Tom Clancy's Incredible Gun Collection.


The highly anticipated QT Melbourne opened its doors to host a mix of Australia's industry movers and shakers, who experienced a launch event like no other seen in Melbourne before.
Located in the heart of the Melbourne CBD near the exclusive Collins Street precinct, QT Melbourne is inspired by the 1920's rag traders from which the local 'Paris end' of Melbourne draws much of its flair and flavour. Transforming its Russell Street address, QT Melbourne brings a chic new designer landmark to the city's cultural heartland with distinctly creative edge and eclectic experiences through its 188 rooms and newly inspired drinking and dining establishments.
In true QT style, guests at the launch were immersed in the exploration of art and design, with contemporary artists performing live throughout the duration of the event, hosted in the new QT Melbourne guest rooms.
The performance pieces were hand-picked by Specialist Art Curator Amanda Love, director of LoveART, an international Art Advisory based in Sydney and New York, specialising, in the commissioning, acquisition, display, cataloguing, valuation and collection management of the best contemporary art from all over the world.


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INCUBATION PROGRAM
CURRENT COHORT
ENTREPRENEUR PARTNERS
Rajshree Doshi
Rajshree Doshi has a world of experience in various different spaces in the education sector. She started working in SPJ Sadhna School in 1986 where she joined as a volunteer and continued to work as a teacher, as well as lead workshops. 10 years later she joined The Akanksha Foundation where she again joined as a volunteer and went on to run her own centre for 8 years. Since 2009 she has been with Teach For India. She joined as a Program Manager for the first two years and then as a support to Program teams across cities. Since 2016 she has been working on creating TFIx and spearheading it with love and belief ever since. She is an avid reader, traveller and loves to explore nature.
Vrinda Madan
Vrinda has worked at a Financial Institution in Singapore for 4 years. Following that she decided to take up a real challenge, and moved back to India to do the Teach For India Fellowship. She joined the TFIx team right after her Fellowship. She works towards finding the right Entrepreneurs for the program, identifying the right staff for the team and developing them. Her skills play a key role in finding the right supporters to ensure the success of the program. She enjoys yoga, music and travelling.
SR. MANAGER, ENABLERS TEAM
Nikita Bansal
Nikita leads the strategy and design of the Incubation program at TFIx. She started her career as an IT consultant supporting multinational clients with their ERP processes before finding her calling in the Teach For India Fellowship in 2016. Post the Fellowship, she worked with Teach for India Program team, where she coached and managed a group of Fellows for three years. With immense belief in the collective power and potential of each and every individual, she strongly believes that change is possible and is committed to reaching out to the last child. She holds an MBA degree from Welingkar Institute of Management, and a B.Tech from Manipal Institute of Technology. She loves spending time with the family and binge-watching the latest shows when not working.
LEAD, PROGRAM AND ALUMNI
Ankita is the powerhouse of our team. Always ready to help and high on grit. In TFIx, she designs and executes the incubation year. She is an Engineer graduate with a brief experience in Corporate as a technical recruiter. She joined the Teach For India Fellowship in 2016 and taught in a low income private school for 2 years. Post her Fellowship, she joined the TFIx team. She is a music enthusiast and loves listening to music.
Ankita Thakur
MANAGER, PROGRAM AND ALUMNI
Hitanshi works towards creating a cohort of passionate entrepreneurs who want to drive change in the education space. Her incubation year starts with a lot of research and site visits to various parts of India to understand their context and check for alignment with TFIx. Another part of her role is HR which involves a wide range of responsibilities from creating policies to hiring for open positions. She comes with an experience of 2.5 years as an HR professional. Hitanshi joined the TFIx team in 2018 post her Teach For India Fellowship. She is an animal lover and enjoys watching Animal Planet or Nat Geo in her free time.
Hitanshi Gandhi
MANAGER, HR, RECRUITMENT AND SELECTIONS
Divya Dhingra
Divya works towards TFIx's continuous visibility and growth. She is a literature graduate from Delhi University and joined Teach For India's Fellowship Programme right after college. She taught 267 students across two years in low-income schools in Delhi. She joined TFIx to juxtapose her passion for social reform with her learnings from the Communications field for the cause of human rights, expression, and development. She's an avid reader, traveler and loves to paint.
ASSOCIATE, COMMUNICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT
Rahul directly supports Education Entrepreneurs in the regions of Maharashtra and MP in designing and launching their own contextual Fellowship Programs. Before TFIx, he taught in a low-income Government school in Worli, Mumbai, for two years during his Fellowship (2015-2017) at TFI, post which he continued in the Org as a Program Manager for five years, where he guided TFI Mumbai Fellows toward being excellent teachers and future leaders through coaching and training. He is passionate about education and developing people across ages, an avid reader, and loves to explore diverse experiences, cultures, and places. He also enjoys yoga, meditation, journaling, and art.
Radhika Gulati
Radhika joined the Teach For India Fellowship in 2016. Post fellowship she worked with Teach For India as a Program Manager for 3 years. She is a Commerce graduate and postgraduate. She joined TFIx team to get a deeper understanding of the education landscape in India. She is working closely with Entrepreneurs in rural and urban Maharashtra, rural Uttar Pradesh, and the Pulwama district in Kashmir. Radhika gains energy from nature and finds peace in traveling. She also likes exploring spiritual practices like mindfulness, Buddhism, and healing to explore more about life.
Saket Dhawal
Saket was a 2018 Teach For India Fellow and taught 91 grade 9 and 10 boys in the Mehrauli community in Delhi. Post his Fellowship, he joined the Hyderabad team as a Program Manager leading 20 odd Fellows. Working with children in two different contexts made him wonder about the contextual needs of children pan India; hence, he joined TFIx to explore the complexities of the problem. Currently, he is working with Entrepreneurs from Bihar, Jaipur, and Delhi supporting them in launching their own contextualized Fellowships. He is extremely passionate about visual arts, especially theatre. He loves exploring concepts of leadership and talking to people who challenge his perspectives.
Aayushi Gaur
Aayushi designs the incubation year program for Entrepreneurs by bringing experts from the Teach For India network to mentor Entrepreneurs to help them design and launch a contextualized teaching Fellowship. Before TFIx, she taught in a low-income Government school in Delhi for two years during her Fellowship at Teach For India. She is passionate about education and designing human-centered programs to cater to the needs of people. She also enjoys traveling, chasing stories, and writing.
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Terrorist attacks have been carried out by people of all ethnicities. What police need to look for is strange behavior, not dark skin.
By anyone's standard, Anne-Marie Murphy didn't look like a terrorist threat. In 1986, Murphy was a 32-year-old hotel chambermaid from Dublin, Ireland, who was six months pregnant and on her way to marry her fiancé in Israel. Authorities discovered a bomb in her carry-on bag as she boarded a plane in London on her way to Tel Aviv.
Kozo Okamoto didn't fit the profile of a terrorist, either. In 1972, he and two other Japanese passengers had just arrived in Tel Aviv on a flight from Puerto Rico when they retrieved guns from their checked bags and opened fire in the arrival terminal at Ben Gurion International Airport, killing more than two dozen people and injuring nearly 80.
Nor did Patrick Arguello seem like a state enemy in 1970 before he tried to hijack an Israeli El Al plane flying from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to New York. Arguello, who was killed by Israeli sky marshals as he tried to carry out his attempt, was a Nicaraguan who had attended high school in Los Angeles.
Enemies, Israel has learned, don't always look like the known enemy. Terrorists, both willing and unwilling (such as Murphy, who was unwittingly used by her Palestinian fiancé as a carrier for his bomb), come in many guises, including color, ethnicity and gender.
Which is why racial profiling (in which authorities target people of certain races or ethnicities) has never worked very well in any environment, including Israel.
That racial profiling can be a tricky tactic is something Americans should understand by observing the diversity of some of the terrorists who have operated on domestic soil or against Americans -- Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma City bomber), Eric Rudolph (the abortion clinic bomber), Richard Reid (the ponytailed British-Jamaican who tried to bring down an American Airlines jet with his shoe) and the Arab hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers.
Yet last month, when Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a program to randomly search New York subway passengers after the London tube bombings, two city politicians called for racial profiling instead. They insisted that the enemy's face is an easy one to spot and that authorities shouldn't waste time randomly searching, say, Norwegian grandmothers when the real threat comes from Middle Eastern and Asian men.
New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat, plans to introduce a bill that would roll back anti-racial-profiling legislation and allow police to stop whomever they want to stop in their efforts to prevent terrorism. Councilman James Oddo, a Staten Island Republican, promises to introduce a similar resolution in the City Council.
"I thought [Hikind] was courageous to say publicly what many New Yorkers felt privately," Oddo tells Salon.
Although Bloomberg denounced the proposals immediately, Oddo says he got e-mails from more than 80 people outside New York who expressed overwhelming support for his proposal. They included a military major serving in Iraq and the relative of a victim killed in the Oklahoma City bombing. But many Manhattanites called him un-American and racist. And Oddo's fellow council members vowed to introduce their own resolution to express support for current laws that prohibit profiling based on race, ethnicity or religion.
Oddo, who voted for the anti-racial-profiling laws, says that he and Hikind aren't calling for racial profiling, a loaded term that conjures up disturbing images. They simply don't want police to fear that if they stop "an inordinate number of people who look a particular way," someone will accuse them of violating the individuals' rights.
"Racial profiling is when you stop people because they look a certain way, without cause, and you're trolling to find trouble," Oddo says. "We never said, 'Stop only Arab [or] Muslim men, and don't stop whites.' We just said, 'If you're going to engage in these searches, do it in a manner that's more efficient and more effective."
Being more effective, he explains, means recognizing that the bombings of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the USS Cole in Yemen, and the World Trade Center in New York all had something in common. "The common denominator is that every jihadi who is engaged in international terrorism has been a young fundamentalist," Oddo says. "We shouldn't try to couch that reality in some politically correct terms."
Some people do consider racial profiling unethical, but there are plenty of other reasons to reject racial profiling, even aside from its violation of equal protection rights.
David Harris, professor of law and values at the University of Toledo College of Law in Ohio, says that focusing on specific ethnic groups alienates the very people authorities need to help them catch terrorists. "By the time the threat is at the subway or airport, we're down to the last line of defense," Harris says. "You really want to catch these people before they go to the subway."
That can be accomplished only by gathering information from people who live in the communities where sleeper cells reside and can tell authorities who's new in a neighborhood and who seems to have income without holding a job.
But the most important reason to oppose racial profiling, says Harris, the author of "Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work," is that, as the title of his book suggests, it simply doesn't work.
Harris says that when police use race or ethnic appearance as a factor in law enforcement, their accuracy in catching criminals decreases. Even worse, it can lead to accidental deaths, such as the fatal shooting by London police of an innocent Brazilian man after the bombings there.
Harris points to a study of New York's "stop and frisk" campaign in the late 1990s, when police were stopping people in the streets on a regular basis in an effort to confiscate illegal weapons and reduce crime. The campaign created tension between the police and minority communities, who thought they were being unfairly targeted for frisks. It turned out they were right.
After Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, was killed during a stop, New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer ordered a study of 175,000 "stop and frisk" records and found that although African-Americans composed only 25 percent of New York City's population at the time, they made up 50 percent of the people who were stopped. Latinos were roughly 23 percent of the population and 33 percent of those stopped, while whites were 43 percent of the population and 13 percent of those stopped.
Those findings interested Harris less than what the statistics indicated about the results: Police were going to a lot of trouble for little reward, especially when the people they stopped were African-Americans.
Harris looked at what he called "hit rates" -- the percentage of stops in which the police found drugs, a gun or something else that led to an arrest -- and noted that the number of hits in general was very low for the number of stops that police made. But more interesting was that the rate for African-Americans was much lower than the rate for Caucasians. Police had a hit rate of 12.6 percent when they stopped Caucasians and only 10.5 percent when they stopped African-Americans. The hit rate for Latinos was 11.5 percent.
"You might say that we have a difference of 2.1 percent between blacks and whites. But it's actually a difference of 20 percent when you do the math right," Harris says. And "the difference between whites and Latinos is about 10 percent."
Essentially, police were stopping more African-Americans than Caucasians but finding fewer criminals among the former. Why? Not because blacks commit proportionately fewer crimes than whites do (the data vary according to the type of crime and other factors) but because police were looking at the wrong factors when they stopped people, Harris says.
"They're focusing on appearance when they should be focusing on behavior," he says. "When they're not distracted by race, they're actually doing a more accurate job" of picking out the right people.
Focusing on appearance produces a lot of false positives. And "every time you introduce a false positive, you take resources away from your ability to focus on people who are really of interest -- those who are behaving suspiciously," Harris says. "If it's a question of finding a needle in a haystack ... don't put more hay on the top."
What does work in preventing terrorism, Harris says, is behavior profiling. "If you're going to catch people who mean to put bombs on your subway trains or in airplanes, you don't actually care [if they're] young Muslim men ... You care about [keeping] anyone from boarding the airplane who is going to behave like a terrorist."
Yuval Bezherano agrees. Bezherano is the executive vice president of New Age Security Solutions, a company that teaches people how to identify behaviors that indicate a person is concealing something and could be a security risk. The technique is called behavior pattern recognition and is modeled after methods used in Israel. NASS's president, Rafi Ron, is a former security chief at Ben Gurion Airport. The company has trained authorities at Boston's Logan International Airport as well as personnel at the Statue of Liberty. Recently the company trained about 100 employees of New York's subway and bus system.
The signs to watch for can be as obvious as someone acting nervous and sweating profusely on a cold day or as subtle as someone walking awkwardly in a way that indicates the person could be wearing a belt of explosives.
"It's always the unusual, the thing that doesn't fit," Bezherano says. "If you know your environment and what is usual for the environment, you know what to look for."
Depending on the situation, the next step might be to engage the person in a targeted conversation to determine whether he or she should be elevated to a higher level of risk or cleared from consideration.
It was this kind of screening that caught Anne-Marie Murphy, who initially raised interest among El Al's security staff because she was a pregnant woman traveling a long distance alone, something that Bezherano says is unusual behavior. She'd already cleared three security checkpoints at London's Heathrow Airport before an El Al "profiler" asked her where she'd be staying in Israel. Murphy's fiancé had warned her not to tell authorities about him because they would interrogate her if they knew she had an Arab boyfriend, so she told the profiler she'd be staying at the Hilton Hotel in Bethlehem. The profiler knew there were only two Hiltons and that neither was in Bethlehem. When authorities searched Murphy's bag, they discovered several pounds of plastic explosives concealed in a false bottom and a microchip detonator hidden in a pocket calculator.
Behavior profiling is much more effective than racial profiling, Bezherano says, because it's not unusual for terrorist groups to outsource their operations to individuals or groups who don't fit the expected racial or ethnic profile.
Patrick Arguello was a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front when he posed as the husband of a woman who was an operative for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to help her hijack the El Al plane.
Kozo Okamoto was a member of the Japanese Red Army, which attacked Ben Gurion Airport; the group shared the Marxist ideologies of the PFLP.
Bezherano says there's no reason to believe that al-Qaida won't, or doesn't, farm out some of its tasks to other groups. "The philosophy of terrorist organizations is that the enemy of your enemy is your friend," Bezherano says. "Even though al-Qaida is very extreme, [its members] will collaborate with others as long it as it serves their cause."
If those working to prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil engage in racial or ethnic profiling, they're merely playing into terrorists' hands -- and are likely to miss some of the enemies right in front of their eyes.


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EXTRA RACE ADDED TO THE 2020 MotoGP SEASON
Team Suzuki Press Office – August 4.
A new round has been added to the 2020 MotoGP™ season and will take place in Europe on November 22nd.
The FIM, IRTA and Dorna Sports will announce the venue for the new season finale next week, August 10th, but have also confirmed this week that the previously 'postponed' Gran Premio Motul de la Republica Argentina, OR Thailand Grand Prix and Shell Malaysia Motorcycle Grand Prix are all officially cancelled due to the ongoing Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and resulting complications in those countries.
In addition, a new agreement has been reached with the promoters of the Thai GP that confirms Chang International Circuit will remain on the FIM MotoGP™ World Championship calendar until at least 2026.
Dorna has already started working with the Promoters of the Argentina and Malaysian GPs to define possible dates to propose to the FIM for the events in 2021, with plans in place to welcome fans back to the Autodromo Termas de Rio Hondo and Sepang International Circuit.
The Autodromo Termas de Rio Hondo first joined the MotoGP™ calendar in 2014 and has put on a vibrant Grand Prix every year since. Sepang International Circuit is the longest serving venue of the three and first hosted MotoGP™ in 1999. A true world leader then as now, the track is one of the longest and most challenging of the season, staging some all-time classic races.
Said FIM President Jorge Viegas: "I would like to thank Dorna, all the teams, the national federations and local organisers for enabling us to get back on track. In doing so, we adapt every day and we will have a very complete and competitive FIM MotoGP World Championship in 2020. The location of the 15th Grand Prix will be announced soon, and we will be back stronger than ever!"
Dorna Sports CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the cancellation of the Argentina, Thailand and Malaysian Grands Prix this season, and they will be very much missed on the 2020 calendar. The passion of the fans who often travel across continents to enjoy MotoGP with us in Termas de Rio Hondo, Buriram and Sepang is incredible, creating as they do such an incredible atmosphere and welcome for the sport. However, we are delighted to add another Grand Prix in Europe to the 2020 calendar and reveal our new agreement that will see MotoGP racing in Thailand and Buriram until at least 2026. We are very much looking forward to returning to Thailand, Argentina and Malaysia next year and as always, I would like to thank the fans for their patience and understanding."


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The Westport Country Lodge makes the perfect base to explore the Greenway as it sits perfectly between the majestic Croagh Patrick mountain and is only five minutes from the start of the Mayo Greenway.
Surrounded by the most stunning scenery that Westport and the West of Ireland has to show, you can escape the bustle of urban life and venture out on the 42km Great Western Greenway, the longest off-road walking and cycling trail in Ireland. The World Class Great Western Greenway is a traffic free cycling and walking trail which follows the route of the renowned Westport to Achill railway which closed in 1937.
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Home Italy Monaco star would be interested in Napoli move
Monaco star would be interested in Napoli move
The 29-year-old joined Monaco on a free transfer from Real Madrid in January on a short-term deal that expires in the summer.
Diarra's agent Frederic Guerra told Radio CRC: "Diarra would be very interested in playing for Napoli, because he knows it is an important arena in Italian football.
"I have not yet spoken to Napoli about signing the player, but Diarra is a free agent. Real Madrid paid €6m for him five years ago."
He continued: "He will turn 30 on May 18 and is a player who will sign a contract of at least three or four years with a new club.
"It would be a great deal for Napoli, who'd have a world-class player free of charge and one who always puts the effort in. He brings an incredible sense of determination to his teammates.
"Diarra would very much like to play for Napoli, as he considers them an important club with ample room for growth."
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