With trial and error, this seems to offer the higher NPV without violating the capital constraint.
6.2: None of the above.
When comparing projects with different risk levels, it is best to discount each project's cashflows at its own discount rate and then compare the NPVs.
The money you spent acquiring the resource is a sunk cost. The cash flows you will lose in the future by using the asset is an opportunity cost.
Disney has a brand name that is not easily matched. In other words, it is unlikely that Disney will lose the 15% of its market to other competitions entirely but it will lose some.
The synergy benefits accrue completely to the bookstore. If the synergy had been to both, then the cash flows would have to be discounted at different rates.
The value of a real option accrues almost entirely from early exercise. Once the option is exercised, it becomes a regular project.
The value from the option pricing model is a fair value. You would like to buy it for less. In addition, you cannot trade this option easily and arbitrage is not feasible.
Variance increases the value of options, which is what the patents that emerge from the R&D become.
6.10: It may increase or decrease..
6.11: It will increase the return on capital.
When a company buys back stock, the book value will drop more than proportionately (since market value is much higher than book value).


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Q: Selecting specific data based on multiple conditions I need some help constructing a SQL command for a database query. The database has 5 columns:
Date(string)
Name(string)
number(int)

There can be multiple entries for each date, name, and number.
I want to SELECT only one row for each date and name combination. The problem is there are multiple instances of these.  For each date and name combination I want to select the one with the highest number. I would like it ordered by date. For example:
date   |  name  |  number
1/1/1     henry      500
1/1/1     henry      2000
1/1/1     jacob      5
1/1/1     jacob      8
1/2/1     henry      6

The command would return:
1/1/1     henry     2000
1/1/1     jacob     8
1/2/1     henry     6

I have been messing around with some commands but I am a pretty lost. Is this even possible?

A: You can use ROW_NUMBER:
WITH cte
     AS (SELECT date,
                name,
                number,
                rn = Row_number ()
                       OVER(
                         partition BY date, name
                         ORDER BY number DESC)
         FROM   dbo.tablename)
SELECT date,
       name,
       number
FROM CTE
WHERE  rn = 1
ORDER  BY date ASC

DEMO
ROW_NUMBER will always select one record per group. If you want to get all rows with the highest number for a given name(if there are more than one) use DENSE_RANK instead.

A: Try grouping by date and name and then selecting the maximum number.  Like so (exact syntax may vary depending on your version of sql):
select
   date,
   name,
   max(number)
from
   yourtable
group by
   date,
   name
order by
   date asc

A: SELECT date, name, MAX(number)
FROM Table1
GROUP BY date, name
ORDER date, name

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Q: Can i run multiple target at a time in xcode? Can any one help me, i am using  multiple projects in workspace, so i want to run multiple targets at a time, how to add multiple targets and run it? how to do that. please let me know.

A: Select the scheme for the target you want to run and run it,


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Snow Blanket for the Andes
As extreme summer heatwaves deepened droughts and fueled wildfires in the Northern Hemisphere, winter storms brewed south of the equator. In July 2022, back-to-back weather systems eased rainfall deficits in central Chile and added to the snowpack atop the Andes—a critical reserve of water for the coming summer.
The blanket of fresh snow along the mountain range between Chile and Argentina is visible in the image above, acquired on July 16 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite. Heavy rain and snow fell in the area despite La Niña conditions offshore in the Pacific that typically bring dry winters. The precipitation brought at least some temporary relief to an area suffering a decade-long drought.
The storms were the result of a blocking anticyclone atmospheric pattern near the Antarctic Peninsula that steered several extratropical cyclones toward Chile. Two weather systems—on July 9–10 and July 14–15—dumped rain along the coast and snow in mountains. According to news reports, the storms left hundreds of people stranded in a mountain pass, where more than 1 meter (3 feet) of snow accumulated on the roads.
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"Until 10 days ago, north-central Chile was experiencing one of its driest winters," said René Garreaud, a scientist at the University of Chile. The change from dry to wet was swift and visibly striking. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 satellite acquired a view of the same area on July 7 (left), just prior to the storms. Notice the relatively sparse snow cover compared with the July 16 image (right) acquired after the storms.
On July 7, the coastal city of La Serena had a year-to-date rainfall deficit of about 80 percent (compared to the mean from 1990-2020). The storms delivered 8 centimeters (3 inches) of rain, bringing the city to a 64 percent surplus. Farther inland, Santiago's rainfall deficit improved from 70 percent to 27 percent. "These rapid changes are not unusual in arid regions, where the bulk of the annual accumulation is accounted for by a handful of frontal systems," Garreaud said.
As water deficits eased in places, Garreaud said he hopes it will reduce the odds of a water shortage next summer. That depends in part on the state of the mountain snowpack, which is a particularly important water source for drinking, power generation, and agriculture. "This is our savings account for next summer," he said.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Story by Kathryn Hansen.
Back-to-back weather systems in July 2022 eased rainfall deficits in central Chile and added to the snowpack atop the mountain range.
Image of the Day for July 20, 2022
NOAA-20 — VIIRS
Image of the Day Floods Severe Storms Snow and Ice Landslides
2022 Autumn and Winter Extremes in the Southern Hemisphere
Climate change has amplified rainfall and floods, heatwaves, drought, and wildfires.
AccuWeather (2022, July 11) Snowstorm leaves hundreds stranded in Chile, Argentina. Accessed July 18, 2022.
Buenos Aires Times (2022, July 10) Blizzard strands 200, prompts evacuations in Andes near Argentina-Chile border. Accessed July 18, 2022.
NASA Earth Observatory (2022, February 15) Chilean Volcano Low on Snow. Accessed July 18, 2022.
Snow Melts in the Andes
As springtime arrives in the Andes, winter snow melts to provide an important water source for local communities.
Image of the Day Land Snow and Ice
Snow in the Andes
As the end of Southern Hemisphere winter approached, snow painted the Andes Mountains.
Image of the Day Snow and Ice
Winter in the Andes
Every austral winter in the central Andes, fresh snowfall covers and fills the gaps between mountaintops that have more permanent snow and ice.
Mount Fuji's Missing Snow
The lack of snow cover in December left Japan's iconic mountain looking a little different than usual.
Image of the Day Heat Land Severe Storms Snow and Ice Remote Sensing

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In How many grains make a heap? a book review in the London Review of Books, Richard Rorty gives an interesting account of the current state of affairs in analytical philosophy.
Elizabeth Costello is not just a brilliant, moving book, full of ideas. It is also an important book. It questions the power of writing and answers it, in writing.
More than anything De Keyser's paintings celebrate painting and as such life itself. It's just paint on canvas, nothing more, nothing less. There's no ideology, no meaning, no hidden manifesto and no bravura. Just paint on canvas, but sometimes the paint speaks for itself.


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Gandhi himself said, "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Well, one way you can accomplish this is through social work internships. If you have a passion for helping people and making a genuine difference in others' lives, look no further than the field of social work. These positions are incredibly diverse, and can range in their concentration from advocacy, to policy and planning, to research. And internships in social work can take place in settings just as varied, like hospitals or homeless shelters. You can assist in planning and organizing support groups, work with coalition groups, or help with grant writing, just to name a few opportunities. The social worker career is exploding right now, and your internship in social work is a pivotal step toward entering the profession; in fact, often a practical internship is required in order to get there. But don't worry: these positions are widespread, and as a social work intern, you can even choose which population you wish to work with, whether it's children or veterans. When you intern in social work, you can expect to receive plenty of training and guidance from professionals in the field, and your internship could even turn into a full-time position.
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Here at Hotel Pulitzer we support the effort and involvement of our people and planet. Our #PulitzerCommitment is, and always will be, focused on health, sustainability, recycling, social action, and so on.
Commitment to social action, through collaborations with NGOs and institutions such as the Doctor Clavel Foundation, the Sant Joan de Déu social project, the Esperança Foundation, the Tot Raval Foundation, the Portolà Foundation, the Spanish Cancer Association, etc.
Strong support for women, who make up 70% of our workforce, including executive and middle-management posts.
Promotion of local music and culture, with a rich programme of more than 100 events per year.
A growing use of certified food products such as tea, coffee, beer, wine, cava, etc.
A growing use of local food products sourced from sustainable small producers.
A growing use of sustainable technology: LED lights, solar panels, ACS, domestic appliances with an energy rating of A+ or higher, etc.
Getting behind sustainable mobility: bicycles, scooters, eco-taxis, walking tours, etc.
Recycling of all kinds of materials through certified waste-management companies.
The use of recycled or certified paper in stationery, napkins, toilet paper, single-use packaging, etc.
Waste reduction by using dispensers for soap, tissues, etc.
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November 2020 Reading Wrap-Up
December 10, 2020 by Ren Strange
Is this wrap-up late? Yes. Have I fallen behind on other blog posts I want to write? Also yes. My bad. In my defense, I have no defense. November was a wild ride, I guess!
I mean, my country had an election that lasted nearly a week, Destiel went canon but only in Spanish (thus thrusting me back to the days when I watched Supernatural), rumors about Putin stepping down swirled, and a bunch of other things happened that I can't think of right now. None of that explains why I only read four books, but it was really crazy, right?
So yeah, I read four books in total. I read one YA fantasy, one adult fantasy, one adult horror, and one poetry collection. The lowest rating I gave was 4 stars. At least two of these books are definitely favorites of the year.
Unfortunately, I also DNF'd one book. And it was one of my most anticipated of the year. That was a bummer. I had also read part of another book that I set aside to read the last book on this wrap-up, so that book will be on my December wrap-up.
Anyway, here are my thoughts on everything I read in November!
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Summary: A highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls— a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit.
Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever— but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.
Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the "haunted and cursed" Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled— or perhaps just grimly exploited— and soon it's impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.
My Thoughts: This book was a journey and it took work, but it was worth it. I loved the horror (once we finally got to it) and the overwhelming sapphism that drenched this story. It wasn't what I expected, and yet it worked so well. I loved Harper, Audrey, and Merritt, even when I didn't like them. I also loved the relationship that formed between them (was it polyamory? It was certainly something.) While I enjoyed the writing and all the backstory, this book definitely didn't need to be as long as it is. Either way, this is definitely a book I'll be thinking about for a long time.
The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
Summary: Alessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power:
1) Woo the Shadow King.
2) Marry him.
3) Kill him and take his kingdom for herself.
No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King's power. Some say he can command the shadows that swirl around him to do his bidding. Others say they speak to him, whispering the thoughts of his enemies. Regardless, Alessandra knows what she deserves, and she's going to do everything within her power to get it.
But Alessandra's not the only one trying to kill the king. As attempts on his life are made, she finds herself trying to keep him alive long enough for him to make her his queen— all while struggling not to lose her heart. After all, who better for a Shadow King than a cunning, villainous queen?
My Thoughts: This was a whole lot of fun! Could it be a bit anachronistic? Sure. Does it occasionally require a particularly strong suspension of disbelief? Yeah. But there's just something so delicious about watching two villains fall in love. Check out my discussion post featuring this book here!
I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey
Summary: In this debut collection, Halsey bares her soul. Bringing the same artistry found in her lyrics, Halsey's poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, family ties, sexuality, and mental illness. More hand grenades than confessions, these autobiographical poems explore and dismantle conventional notions of what it means to be a feminist in search of power.
Masterful as it is raw, passionate, and profound, I Would Leave Me If I Could signals the arrival of an essential voice.
My Thoughts: This is the kind of book you can read over and over and get something new out of every time. I'm skeptical whenever I pick up a celebrity-written book, but I had high hopes for a poetry collection written by a songwriter like Halsey. I really enjoyed this collection, even the poems that use lyrics from her songs. She does something different with them here, so they feel fresh. Halsey delves into some difficult topics here, so trigger warning for mentions of drug use, abusive relationships, and sexual assault (including CSA). I also love the cover (which was painted by Halsey herself)!
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
Summary: After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.
Despite her losses, Rin hasn't given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much— the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges— and unexpected opportunities. While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation.
Backed by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix's intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it?
My Thoughts: Honestly, I'm still recovering from this one. I loved every second of it, but it destroyed me emotionally. Okay, so I don't love the ending, but I see why Kuang chose to go that way. And damn if it didn't make me sob! For that alone, it's one of the best books of the year.
Beyond the Ruby Veil by Mara Fitzgerald
Summary: Cunning and unapologetic, Emanuela Ragno is a socialite who plays by her own rules. In her most ambitious move yet, she's about to marry Alessandro Morandi, her childhood best friend and the heir to the wealthiest house in Occhia. Emanuela doesn't care that she and her groom are both gay, because she doesn't want a love match. She wants power, and through Ale, she'll have it all.
But Emanuela has a secret that could shatter her plans. In her city of Occhia, the only source of water is the watercrea, a mysterious being who uses magic to make water from blood. When their first bruise-like omen appears on their skin, all Occhians must surrender themselves to the watercrea to be drained of life. Everyone throughout history has obeyed this law for the greater good. Everyone except Emanuela. She's kept the tiny omen on her hip out of sight for years.
When the watercrea exposes Emanuela during her wedding ceremony and takes her to be sacrificed, Emanuela fights back… and kills her. Before everyone in Occhia dies of thirst, Emanuela and Ale must travel through the mysterious, blood-red veil that surrounds their city to uncover the source of the watercrea's power and save their people— no matter what it takes.
My Thoughts: I pretty much DNF'd this book for one reason and one reason only: I could not stand Emanuela. She falls into every pitfall of being a poorly written unlikeable female protagonist. She's not interesting or well-rounded— she's just frivolous and mean. Even to her supposed best friend! I keep hearing nothing but good things about this book though, so maybe I'll give it another chance. We'll see. Check out my discussion post featuring this book here!
What did you read in November? Tell me about it in the comments!
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Posted on October 30, 2018 by Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Rio men pull away from Midway
By Randy Payton - For Ohio Valley Publishing
MIDWAY, Ky. — Harry Reilly scored two of the University of Rio Grande's four second half goals and assisted on another, leading the RedStorm to a 5-0 win over Midway University, Saturday afternoon, in River States Conference men's soccer action at a damp and muddy Midway Soccer Field.
Senior Eduardo Zurita (Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain) added a goal and an assist for the third-ranked RedStorm, who finished their regular season schedule at 16-0 overall and 9-0 in league play.
Rio Grande will have a first round bye in the upcoming RSC Tournament and will next host the survivor of the quarterfinal round matchup between the still-to-be-determined No. 4 and No. 5 seeds on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at a time to be determined.
Midway slipped to 5-11 overall and 4-5 in the conference with the loss.
Rio netted the lone first half goal in the match when freshman Nicolas Cam Orellana (Santiago, Chile) scored his conference-leading 20th goal of the season on a penalty kick with 17:57 left before halftime.
Sophomore Ewan McLauchlan (Aroch, Scotland) extended the lead to 2-0 with 31:22 remaining in the contest with a short chip through the lower right corner of the goal.
The RedStorm's final three goals came in the last 10:09 of the match.
Reilly, a senior from Coventry, England, gathered in a pass from Zurita and booted a shot over the head of Midway keeper Andres Ordonez from 10 yards out.
Just under two minutes later, Zurita took a pass from Reilly and pushed a shot into an open net from five yards out to make it 4-0.
Reilly set the final score with 1:15 left, scoring on a rebound of a shot by senior teammate Mitchell Osmond (Sydney, Australia) which Ordonez saved but failed to hang on to.
Rio finished with a 19-8 edge in shots overall, including a 12-6 advantage in shots on frame.
The RedStorm also had a 10-3 cushion in corner kick chances.
Junior Richard Dearle (Castle Donington, England) recorded six saves in the win for Rio.
Ordonez stopped seven shots in the loss for the Eagles.
By Randy Payton
For Ohio Valley Publishing
Randy Payton is the Sports Information Director at the University of Rio Grande.
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The campaign committee Illinois Gun Owners owes a $50 fine imposed on Nov. 14, 2014, according to Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).
A detailed look reveals the committee owes additional outstanding fines totaling $175 with Nick Provenzano listed as the responsible officer.
ISBE Records dating back to 2003 show 12 area campaign committees owe a combined total of $44,001.35 in pending fines.
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I believe in a job well done. No matter what I put my hand to, I intend to do the best I can. This means continuing education, practice, and dedication. I graduated top of my class from the Columbia-Greene Community College Automotive Technology program and went into the field as an ASE Master Automobile Technician in 2001. It didn't take me long to realize my CMAT needed a lot more practice and experience to back up, but at least the theory was there. Over the next ten years, I built my experience working in used cars, new cars, an independent shop and dealer shops. My favorite experience was working on Lexus vehicles, about six years between two dealerships, New Country Lexus of Latham and Tri-County Lexus of Little Falls.
Since 2012, I've been a Freelance Automotive Writer, putting my knowledge and experience on websites around the world. I've been writing technology explainers, diagnostic guides, how-to articles, and other general automotive topics for automotive companies and enthusiasts like NAPA Auto Parts, ThoughtCo, and BAT Auto Technical.
While I was doing volunteer work in South America, about four years in the highlands of Peru, the sporadic nature of my freelance work was enough to support my family and I, but now that I am back in the States, I'm finding I need something more consistent. This is why I am looking to renew my career in the auto repair sector.
I am familiar with most tools and equipment required to work on modern vehicles, from hand tools and electrical diagnostics to scan tools and shop equipment. I have a little catching-up to do, since there have been some technology changes since 2012, when I left the business. I have basic hand tools, a few power tools, and the knowledge and experience to use them well. I would expect that the shop would provide a dedicated bay and whatever shop specialty tools are required, and I would make up the rest as I go.
I write articles for websites in the automotive field, including automobile dealerships, auto parts stores, enthusiast sites, and automobile repair shops, driving internet traffic to their businesses. I also write and edit e-books, website content, white papers, and print materials.
Using my knowledge and experience in the automotive field, I teach the next generation of automotive technicians the fundamentals of vehicle, maintenance, diagnosis, and repair.
As a Master Automobile Technician, I know and understand every vehicle system. I specialized in electrical and electronic systems diagnosis and repair. Working at Crystal, I came to know several good technicians and it was a pleasure to call a second home.
I am glad to have worked here for the simple fact that it has helped me to continue my affiliation with Lexus. The cars are nice to work on, and Lexus gives me all the tools I need to do my job effectively. Here, I learned how to streamline my tool requirement, helping me to become more organized and efficient.
I will confess without a doubt that working at New Country Lexus was the best experience I have had in the workplace. I combined the knowledge from college with experience gained in other shops and a meticulous work ethic. I am glad to have had the experience of working with people who genuinely cared for the work they were doing and some very talented and knowledgeable technicians. Here, I proved myself with a top brand automaker and helped me to see that my skills and ethics were in demand and appreciated.
I graduated top of my class with an ASE Master certification, but it didn't take me long to realize I needed a lot more experience and training to back those up. In classes, I applied myself as if it were my job, and it paid off. I've kept that same pattern of continuous education ever since.


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Covered 6 Celebrates Their Grand Opening - Welcoming Veterans and the Community
Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce
August 24th was officially designated Covered 6 Day in Moorpark by the City Mayor, Janice Parvin, during the grand opening of the Covered 6 Patriot Center, a 20,000-square-foot state-of-the-art training facility located on Patriot Drive.
More than 500 people, including Veterans and their families, attended the event, where the Moorpark Mayor praised Covered 6 for specializing in Physical Security training, Cyber training and Executive Protection. She gave special recognition to Chris Dunn, CEO, and Founder of Covered 6, for the training techniques and "for finding jobs for our Veterans."
"Chris is an Army veteran and former police detective in Los Angeles," Mayor Parvin told the guests. "He employs Veterans and has helped other companies hire Veterans – about 700 so far." She added that "Chris is an innovator, from his training programs to his tactical products. He has chosen the right town, Moorpark, on the right street, Patriot Drive, to grow his business. We are excited to welcome Chris and Covered 6 into our community."
Special guests at the Open House included United States Congressman Julia Brownley, members of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department and L.A. County Sheriff's Department, MMA legend Bas Rutten, and members of the Ventura SWAT team.
"Defend, Guard, Protect is the motto of Covered 6," Chris Dunn told the audience.
"The world has changed – it's volatile, it's uncertain, it's complex. And the threats have changed, so everyone is involved. Everyone is a First Responder, and everyone can train. The philanthropic vision of what we do with Veterans has now become one of our primary missions. We have been engaged in the longest war in U.S. history; we have people that have come out…and trying to get a job is extremely difficult because those skills don't necessarily apply. Veterans are one of our single greatest resources we have as a corporation."
About Covered 6: Covered 6 is a group of highly trained professionals with backgrounds in law enforcement, the military, and corporate security. These professionals have gained their experience in austere environments, real-life combat scenarios, and significant crisis management, both stateside and abroad. Through a holistic approach, Covered 6 balances courtesy and compliance with specialists that supply a sophisticated, innovative, and collaborative solution for clients seeking protection across the board. These solutions are provided through Physical Security and Cyber Security by protecting communities and executive protection for high net worth individuals, including those who are targets of sophisticated attacks.
 August 29, 2019


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Saturday Crapshoot: Geisha
By Richard Cobbett 29 June 2013
Every week, Richard Cobbett rolls the dice to bring you an obscure slice of gaming history, from lost gems to weapons grade atrocities. This week, an erotic French game that wouldn't have anyone turning Japanese - just turning their heads in confusion that someone thought this was a good idea.
Well, got to give this one a few points for originality at least. Geisha was part of French company Coktel Vision's short-lived quest to sex up adventure gaming, with "Authoress" Muriel Tramis switching from programming missiles to designing games that aimed to be erotic rather than pornographic. One of them was the insane Fascination, which we looked at ages ago. Another was Emmanuelle, based on the answer to the question "What do you read when you can't get your new game working?"
And then there was... ah, this. Your guess is as good as mine.
What a gentleman, helping the lady after she lost her dressing gown cord.
For starters, as you've probably guessed from the weird robot stuff around the lady at the top there, this isn't simply going to be some romance story or historical epic. No, it's much weirder, and not exactly helped by the poor translation. The basic gist though is that you're a secret agent type, on the trail of an fiend called... wait for it... "The Lubricious Dragon", whose partner has been kidnapped by a crazy mad scientist with a PhD in Sexy Evil. His schtick is making gynoid bonk-bots, which means 'lady-android bonk-bots'. Not content to simply make glorified Realdolls though, each one... pause for picture...
Pictured: SCIENCE!
...each one requires him to shoot a naked lady in the crotch to 'draw on the very essence of erotism' and then merge it with his Lego version to create a kind of chimera. This kills the unfortunate lady with pure pleasure, so without Barbarella on hand to out-orgasm it, bad things are in store for Eve.
Your gangster client talks for ages. He must be one of those yakkity-Yakuza.
I think that's what's happening, anyway. If I sound a little confused, it's because the screen where you're told all of this is also the screen where you have to randomly pick up a drink and pour it over a topless bathing woman so that she sits up and shouts and drops an access card that you need later on. You get exactly one shot at this, and just to make it even more difficult, you don't click the drink on her. Instead, you have to wave it over her until it spills. I suppose this could be realistic, if not for the part about picking it up from the other side of the swimming pool like a pervy Mr. Fantastic.
Wait, WHERE WERE YOU KEEPING THAT ACCESS CARD?
With this done, it's back to your hotel room to admire the porny decorations if you like, and jump into a confusing unlabelled mess of switches. Geisha isn't quite sadistic enough to have a 'silently fail the game' button amongst them, but it's close. The opening screen has a code you need, but it's viewed through a camera with only one shot. Take a picture of something like, say, the naked girl in the middle of the screen and you're screwed later on because what you actually needed was the code on the wall in the top left. Later, one vital inventory object is a female cricket that becomes about a one-pixel clickable object when it matters, isn't visible, and runs away if you click on it without putting oil on your hands and having a box ready to capture her. Fail, and it won't be a problem until the end of the game.
But can Geisha at least put the **** into "Oh, **** this?" Not exactly...
Something about that faaaaaaace...
It's split into five different chapters, set in a futuristic world full of things like the Jade Temple Senso Show, in which you "Project your holographic image behind the see-through mirror where your partner is waiting. See and feel everything she does to you." This sounds unnecessary complicated, unless you're living in the Demolition Man future, in which case won't someone think of the children?!
Not up your street? Maybe the White Willow Baths of Desire will help? "Come and relax in the knowing hands of massage experts," it promises, adding "Membership Condition: Hi-Seng Geisha Balls". I Googled this. I recommend you not Google this on a shared computer, at work, or at school - not because it apparently means anything, but because it's one of those times when Google's "Did You Mean..." suggestions has a certain amount of ahem-ing attached to it. Ahem.
Backing slowly away from the adverts, it's onto the first challenge - or as the game has it, CARESS. It involves visiting the Jade Temple, donning a sensation suit - sensation suit not provided - and engaging in the most sensuous and erotic and naughty of all mini-games... Mastermind!
When I said I wanted to push your buttons, this wasn't what I had in mind.
Yes, Mastermind! "Your suit has now recorded the sequence of five movements which when executed by your docile partner will take you to absolute pleasure," the game explains, apparently unaware that it's created the most off-putting erotic encounter this side of playing Strip Poker in a locked meat freezer. You stand there stark naked with a hologram, and have to give it five numbers - to get the obvious out of the way, no, '69' is not one of them. Only getting the right five numbers in the right order produces the exact right rubbing to get a happy ending. The sexiness level does not improve from here. Making this worse, the hint about order is done via an animation, so not available to double check, takes forever, and only gives a rough idea of how close you are to the right code. You also can't use the standard Mastermind trick of repeating the same number. Also, once you're done... no saving!
Geez, talk about trying to get lucky.
On the plus side, could be worse. At least it's not a grunting Magnus Magnusson looking up through a veil of sweat, then diving back down to crotch level with a "I've started, so I'll finish..."
Anyone but Donald is fine. I'm not choosy.
With that over, some Yakuza spontaneously decide that no gaijin gets off on their watch, and declare that it's time for... and I quote... Erotic Battle. All things considered, things could probably be much worse. This is much, much simpler than the last part, but with no ability to save between them, that's a blessed relief. You get to choose a card type that 'trumps' the opponent's in a tie, which offers a major advantage, and then it's really just a case of not playing a dumb one as they fight it out Battlechess style, or Battlechest style in the case of the boob-flashing Geisha cards.
Impressed, the Yakuza declare "You've done well! We will let you live. But we'll see you later!", and head off to what is presumably the bollocking of their lives from the villain. ("Master! We had him in our clutches, but he beat us at a slightly porny card game, so- We're all fired, aren't we?") You go home, and trust me when I say that rarely has a 'save game' button been hit so hard or so enthusiastically.
Well, this is one way to make Ecco the Dolphin more interesting, I guess.
The next chapter, EXCITE, is an action minigame. A woman called Oko offers to help get a black pearl that you need for... uh... reasons, if you can tell her where to find it. With the code, she happily strips naked and jumps into the sea to face off against three lanes of killer fish and her own limited lungs, while you take point with a gun. So, if you squint, it's a bit rude. It's also a little self-defeating, because Oko gets the absolute crap beaten out of her by these fish during her pearl diving, and is barely able to brush up against a couple of them before sinking like a stone - obvious floatation devices or not.
Thankfully, it's still pretty easy, with the main challenge being that it's random whether you get the two black pearls you need or just a load of useless white ones. The longer it goes on, the more likely it is that Oko will just swim right up right into a couple of fish and be all "Oh. I just remembered that these are lethal. Whoopsie!" Sigh. If only air tanks and sensible scuba gear were considered sexy.
Pretty sure prostitution in this universe is limited to playing Cluedo for money.
Chapter the whateverth, UNDRESS, gets slightly back to the whole 'erotic game' thing with a weird spin on Strip Rock Paper Shotgun Scissors. The objects are swords, fans and statues, but that's not the weird part. The weird part is that the girl you're playing against lets you choose her object as well, ripping her clothes off a bit for every victory. It's not quite that easy though, because instead of simply picking the winner, it does a 'no whammies!' routine, auto-cycling through the options at high speed.
Oh, and because this is Geisha, the most unfair erotic game ever, you have to win 7 times out of 15. Ties are effectively losses, because you can only play each object you've got once. Luckily, this is 2013, which means DOSBox and the ability to slow down PC cycles, so... well... hah! The reward is a shuffling dance that says "we meant this to be sexy, but this is Geisha after all..." and then it's on to the next challenge. What's it called? PENETRATE. No kidding. This is a thing that has happened.
Geisha's 'erotic' minigames are getting less subtle by the second, aren't they?
...though it's not quite what you might think. Actually, the task is to 'enter the heart of the city of pleasure through its basements', which is entirely different, because you do it in this mini-game.You're in a submarine, I think, and have to make it through a gauntlet of killer robots and... uh... giant lips? The metaphor is as bizarre as it is un-subtle. Presumably you're the captain of the Naughtylus. Anyway. There are three levels to get through, and one health-bar. Yay. Luckily, it's still very easy, with whoever designed it not having been that bothered about complexity, or limiting pick-ups.
Yes, at this point, the game crashed. And despite three attempts, refused to continue.
Hurm. Hurmy-hurmy-hurm.
Well, no matter. It's not like the story was exactly full of twists and turns. Unfortunately, Geisha is obscure enough that there's not a vast amount of information on what's next - which turns out to be the final chapter. There's only one walkthrough online , which helpfully doesn't tell you to do an essential thing at the start of the game until it's about to explain the endgame - so thanks for that, whoever wrote it. First up is one of those sliding block puzzles that I gather Richard Dawkins keeps in his pocket so that he always has something to whip out at people when he needs to yell "See! NO GOD!" It looks like a dragon. It probably represents the building blocks of a relationship, each piece having to move with consideration for the others to avoid leaving a gaping hole where trust should be, or something.
And the final chapter, to go along with the likes of UNDRESS and EXCITE and SEDUCE?
Ah, the Geisha. Truly, worldwide symbols of refinement and elegance...
You know what? I think I choose to leave instead.
Honestly though, when this is the final showdown, it's a shame not to have seen it just to have an idea of what the heck is going on in this description and how it was presented on screen. Is the villain really taken out by a nut-shot, or is there something sexier going on? Only slightly sexier, mind. This is still Geisha. We can also probably assume that the villain is actually the guy who hired you, since his lady friend had the access card you need to get to the final showdown and I don't remember seeing an explanation of either why or where . That's just a guess though. It may be something interesting instead.
Before you can position the pot of bonsai on the square, you must get rid of a male cricket living in it. First use the Hinoki oil and then the box with the female cricket. While the picture of the box is still on the screen, move your cursor to the male cricket and click. The two insect will run off. Now, bring the pot onto the square with the code that appeared in the photograph. The door will open and you will see Napadmi (the villain of the game, responsible for all kinds of, er, whatever he's doing) . You must quickly position your cursor at his crotch and click it. The scene freezes and the clothes of his crotch uncovers. Keep clicking at all parts of his body until his clothes and mask are fully uncovered.
Huh. Well, not having a picture of any of that, here's what happens if you lose.
He thinks he's an impressive dragon, but nothing can dragon like the Mastermind bit. Grr.
Geisha wasn't the last of Coktel Vision's erotic games, but it was by far the worst of them. Luckily, it wouldn't be long afterwards that the company was absorbed into the Sierra family, told to put its pants back on, and got a chance to make some actually popular games - the Goblins puzzle series, and to a lesser extent, the adventure Lost in Time and whatever-Inca was game Inca - before collapsing in the wake of an interactive movie that was released as Urban Runner but spent most of its development under the hilarious name "Lost In Town". It was almost exactly as good as it sounded, only not.
But those are for other weeks, possibly. For now, it's not hard to see why Geisha languishes in such obscurity, even by early Coktel Vision standards. As an erotic game, it fails miserably. As a collection of minigames designed to represent various sexytime activities, it's just sad. If people had to play Mastermind before foreplay, the human race would be extinct within a generation or three, though at least the final one would be really, really good at code breaking. Still, to be nice, I figure I should think of at least one good thing to say about this game - and luckily, it turns out I have exactly one.
It's still slightly better than Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust.


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Celebrating the Unique Makeup of These Muslim Refugees in Bangladesh
Some young Rohingya refugees – currently living in a camp in southern Bangladesh – are maintaining a strong connection to their roots, by applying traditional makeup.
Swirling and straight lines of yellow paste, a traditional sun protection – called 'thanaka' – which dates back centuries is applied to the faces of the refugees who argue that continuing this ancient practice makes them feel more at home.
Now a Dublin-based photo journalist from Reuters, Clodagh Kilcoyne, has created a series of portraits of girls and women continuing the tradition of wearing this eye-catching makeup.
Thanaka paste is commonly used in Asia for its medicinal properties, but it's also used in some cultures as makeup because of its dazzling colour. It's made from the bark of thanaka trees, which grow in the humid climate of central Myanmar. Culturally a valuable commodity, the bark is ground down into a milky paste which is known as kyauk pyin.
According to the United Nations, around 800,000 Rohingya people have fled Myanmar to avoid torture and death, at the hands of the Myanmar army, in their homeland. There is a long history of conflict between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar's Rakhine state. When the refugees apply the paste to their face, it allows them to maintain a piece of their culture amid the chaos they have found themselves in.
By all accounts, the makeup allows them to still feel connected to their heritage, despite being physically removed from their homeland and often family and friends. Not only that, but it also protects their skin from the strong sun, annoying insects that are fond of sucking human blood and prevents acne. Seems like a win-win-win to us.
To see more work from Clodagh Kilcoyne, check out her website by clicking here.
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Full Circle: The Chaos of Living in Moral Disorder
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ByEllen McWilliams
BookMargaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman
From the "assemblage of lies and alibis" invoked in Lady Oracle (211) to the "series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of the other" of Cat's Eye (3), it has been clearly established that Atwood's work consistently offers vivid metaphors for writing the female Bildungsroman. However, her most recent work, Moral Disorder, seems to mark a new departure in Atwood's imaginative engagement with writing women's lives. In discussions of her work, Atwood frequently uses spatial metaphors to illustrate the shape of a text's narrative – the circle of The Edible Woman and the spiral of Surfacing described by Atwood in a letter to Marge Piercy in 1973 are typically explicit examples of this (MS Coll. 200:2:4). Decades later, Moral Disorder brings something new to the dramatization of growing up female and Canadian in Atwood's fiction and, in terms of its spatialization of experience, it offers a kaleidoscopic reflection of female coming of age.


Using an important new method that can be applied in the study of other psychiatric illnesses, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Washington (UW) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), have identified multiple, individually rare gene mutations in people with schizophrenia that may help explain how that devastating illness is caused.
The team screened for novel deletions and duplications in the genome -- what are called gene copy-number variations, or CNVs. They found that deletions, disruptions and duplications of normal genes, most of them rare, were three to four times more frequent in people with schizophrenia than in controls.
CSHL's contribution to the research effort was led by Assistant Professor Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., and Shane E. McCarthy, Ph.D. Drs. Tom Walsh, Jon McClellan and Mary-Claire King led the UW team, while Drs. Anjene Addington and Judith Rapoport led the researchers at NIMH.
The researchers used a novel method to study their two-cohort sample, which included 418 individuals, 150 of whom had schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Instead of trying to show a statistical correspondence between a large group of people with schizophrenia and irregularities in common versions of genes, the team began by looking for "glitches" or changes in DNA that are likely to disrupt gene function. Then they compared which genes -- with what kinds of functions -- were impaired, both in the healthy subjects and those with schizophrenia.
The results were striking. Rare mutations showed up in only 5 percent of the healthy controls versus 15 percent of those with schizophrenia. The rate of rare mutation was higher still -- 20 percent -- among an "early-onset" subset of patients, who had developed schizophrenia before age 19.
"This part of our findings indicates something we didn't know before: that rare structural mutations in genes, while present in both healthy people and people with schizophrenia, are much more likely to occur among people with the illness. This suggests a previously unknown role for rare mutations in the causation of schizophrenia," said Dr. Sebat.
The second part of the research aimed to answer a key question about the genes discovered to be irregular: What were their functions? Were their functions similar or different in healthy people versus those with schizophrenia?
In a paper that will first appear March 27 in the online edition of Science, the team notes that of 24 rare mutations seen in the schizophrenia group, 11, or 45 percent, affect cellular signaling pathways critical to neuronal cell growth, migration, proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis and synapse formation. Some of the affected pathways have turned up in past studies of schizophrenia, notably those involving signaling in neuregulin, a growth factor, and glutamate, a neurotransmitter.
While the study, as the scientists directly concede in their paper, "does not prove the involvement with the illness of any specific variant, or even the involvement of any specific gene," it does, however, indicate a role for rare mutations that disrupt genes in pathways of neuronal development and regulation.
The results are powerful because they link specific structural variation in genes with specific functions known to be important in the early years of life, during which schizophrenia develops in many patients.
This important result leads the scientists to advocate broad use of the method they employed in the study. Gene discovery in complex psychiatric illnesses "should focus on methods that allow detection of structural mutations" across the genome in affected individuals, the team urges.
Dr. Sebat is currently applying the mutation-screening method in studies involving a greater number of patients and in other illnesses. Among other things, he seeks to determine whether spontaneous mutations play as significant a role in schizophrenia as they do in autism, as revealed by a study he co-authored a year ago with CSHL Professor Michael Wigler.
"Rare Structural Variants Disrupt Multiple Genes in Neurodevelopmental Pathways in Schizophrenia" appears March 27 in Science online:10.1126/science.1155174. Its citation is as follows: Tom Walsh, Jon M. McClellan, Shane E. McCarthy, Anjene M. Addington, Sarah B. Pierce, Greg M. Cooper, Alex S. Nord, Mary Kusenda, Dheeraj Malhotra, Abishek Bhandari, Sunday M. Stray, Caitlin F. Rippey, Patricia Roccanova, Vlad Makarov, B. Lakshmi, Robert L. Findling, Linmarie Sikich, Thomas Stromberg, Barry Merriman, Nitin Gogtay, Philip Butler, Kristen Eckstrand, Laila Noory, Peter Gochman, Robert Long, Zugen Chen, Sean Davis1, Carl Baker, Evan E. Eichler, Paul S. Meltzer, Stanley F. Nelson, Andrew B. Singleton, Ming K. Lee, Judith L. Rapoport, Mary-Claire King, Jonathan Sebat.
The work in this study was supported by the Forrest C. and Frances H. Lattner Foundation, NARSAD, The National Institute of Mental Health and a gift from Ted and Vada Stanley. Just last year, as a result of the Stanleys' support, CSHL established the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genomics.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a private, non-profit research and education institution dedicated to exploring molecular biology and genetics in order to advance the understanding and ability to diagnose and treat cancers, neurological diseases and other causes of human suffering.


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CISNOC pleased with Tokyo 2020 venues
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Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) and other regional NOCs have given their seal of approval for the Tokyo 2020 venues.
They praised the compactness of the venue plan and applauded the pace of construction.
"Seeing the existing and the new, it's a good mix," Owen Lewis, secretary general of CISNOC, told Around the Rings.
"Particularly around the water areas there's lots of new construction. It's got a great backdrop. The Olympic Village is going to be amazing and everything's pretty timely. I'm quite impressed."
"It's up to Cook Islands standards."
About 15 busloads of NOC members left to inspect the venues following the Asian National Olympic Committee General Assembly late last month. The tours lasting more than four hours were mostly drive-by – with only two stops at the Odaiba Marine Park and overlooking the Olympic Village.
Hugh Graham, president of CISNOC, walked to edge of Tokyo Bay to inspect the water during the stop at Odaiba Marine Park, where marathon swimming and triathlon will be held.
"It looks clean, better quality than Rio," he said. "There were a lot of concerns, not just from our sailors, but also from other sailors."
Noting the ducks on the water, he added, "There's wildlife there, so that's a good indicator as well."
Etisone Ed Imo Jr, president of the America Samoa National Olympic Committee, said he appreciated "just knowing where the places are at and they're working on everything. You expect a lot from the Japanese and they're pretty much prepared."
The NOC delegates, international federation officials and media saw 14 venues, including those for most of the biggest sports, as well as the Olympic Village and the Main Press Centre.
They also passed their hotel, the ANA Intercontinental, which brought murmurs of approval from delegates who spotted the Starbucks at street level.
Guides also pointed out the Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo Skytree and the Ginza district as tourist attractions.
"I liked the venues very, very much," said Nelia Demianets, a delegate from Ukraine. "I liked the city very much. It's close together. I think it will be one of the best Games.
"Everywhere it is clean. It's new. It looks very, very nice."
A country known for its cranes in artwork has dozens of cranes hovering over construction that isn't confined to Olympic venues.
"They're well on their way with regard to preparation," Cora Hepburn, who will be chef de mission for the Bahamas, told ATR. "As far as their deadlines, it seems as if it's possible. I was pleased with what I saw."
Especially compared to Rio, venues are much closer together.
"It's a relief," Hepburn said. "Normally at these Games, you have to travel so far to get from one venue to the next venue and I think because of the closer proximity to each other, it should be a much better Olympics."
- ATR
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Nigel Farage has said he will tear the Conservative Party "limb from limb" if Theresa May delays Brexit.
Writing in The Telegraph, the former Ukip leader, now affiliated with the new Brexit Party, said an extension of Article 50 would be seen as a betrayal by millions of voters.
"Any extension of Article 50 will be seen as a betrayal of our nation by millions of angry Conservative voters," he said.
Mrs May today asked the EU to allow the UK's withdrawal date to be delayed to June 30 and threatened to resign as Prime Minister if MPs demand a longer postponement.
Mr Farage added: "I do wonder how Number 10 has got things so wrong. "
Mr Farage said that by applying for an extension to Article 50, Mrs May was doing damage to Britain's global standing as a democratic nation."
"For we are diminished, shredded, and now look something like a banana republic," he said.


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College students document Sharswood's 'resilient voices'
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Vacant property notice of condemnation by eminent domain, Sharswood, February, 2016 | Emma Lee/WHYY
On Oct. 25, 2015, representatives from the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) placed plywood signs reading "Declarations of Taking" in front of 500 properties in Sharswood. This spring, they'll appear on the same blocks—but with a facelift.
Last semester, Temple University undergraduates painted the signs neon green and pink, sticking a "Citizens' Declaration" on each, which read: "we hope to inform those who like so many of us are confused and angered by PHA's proposals and conduct. These signs hope to raise awareness of PHA's plans and activities."
The signs made their debut Tuesday night at a panel discussion entitled "Searching for Sharswood: Resilient Voices from North Philadelphia," which highlighted student projects from Temple, Philadelphia University and the University of Pennsylvania that all focused on Sharswood, a North Philadelphia neighborhood in the midst of a dramatic urban renewal effort led by PHA.
Andrew Hart taught a Temple class focused on making positive change in the neighborhood through projects, like making the aforementioned signs, and moderated the panel discussion.
"The interesting thing, I think, about this amount of students is all the various ways you could go about being a good neighbor," Hart said. "We all find ourselves on that spectrum at one point in our lives where we need to up our neighborly responsibility to one another."
Hart was the project's ringleader. In addition to teaching at Temple, Hart inspired PennDesign professors to focus a preservation class on Sharswood. Hart, who is also an assistant professor at Philadelphia University, helped arrange a student presentation on low-energy households design for Sharswood residents.
YFPA co-chair Lynn Alpert said the organization has been working in the neighborhood since they heard of PHA's ten-phase, $675 million plan to transform Sharswood about two years ago.
"How can we spread our experience in the community and what PHA is doing and what they're planning? How can we get that out to a wider audience?" Alpert said. "Those are the questions we wanted to try and resolve."
For the future, Alpert said she hopes that the conversations started by the project continue and turn into concrete, positive action in the neighborhood.
Not everyone at Tuesday's event shared Alpert's optimism. PennDesign alumna Sonja Lengel has a slightly more dubious outlook. Lengel helped draft the preservation plan for Sharswood, researching the neighborhood's history and sketching designs for housing that would echo the scale and style of the neighborhood's remaining homes.
After the semester, Lengel said she and her team presented their work to PHA representatives, but she doubts that they will implement any of the solutions they formulated.
"PHA's plan for the neighborhood lent us a sense of urgency as we worked," Lengel said. "We felt like we really needed to get something out there as a response."
Darnetta Arce, Brewerytown-Sharswood Community Civic Association director, said there's "nothing wrong" with the students' presence in the neighborhood, but she would like the project's research to be shared with the community and campus tours at each school for Sharswood's children.
Hart, who moved to Sharswood 15 years ago as a Temple undergraduate, said college students in Philadelphia need to understand their responsibilities as citizens and understand the neighborhoods around their campuses.
"Everyone's got a voice," he said. "How can you be a force of positive change for your neighbors in the span of time you're given? I think it's important to continuously ask ourselves that question."
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"This is not a Nascar racing zone," Donna Price, a North Philadelphia block captain, said. "We're going to slow it down and have safety for our children."
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In recent events, our 2013 Mosaic and 2016 Viognier competed in the Loudoun Wine Awards. This year marks the competition's third event, one attended by winemakers, growers, restaurant owners, writers and avid wine drinkers alike. The competition seeks to highlight wines that are distinct in quality and are terroir-driven. The awards are broken down into several categories, with one overall winner at the end known as the Grand Chairman's Award. It also presents individuals in the Loudoun region that are making a special impact on our industry. This awards ceremony proves that Loudoun is marked by high quality and improving winemaking and vineyard growth, passionate industry teams, and a vast following of dedicated supporters.
Upon receiving awards for Best in Class for both the 2016 Viognier and the 2013 Mosaic, as well as the Grand Chairman's Award for the 2016 Viognier, I would like to give a little more insight into these wines.
The 2013 Mosaic is a wine that hopes to demonstrate the best of the vintage, a blend of select barrels from our most successful vineyard sites. The 2013 in particular is 100% Sunset Hills Estate fruit. For those that are familiar with our vineyard sites, the fruit came predominantly from Vineyard #1 and #3. A lighter crop yield than previous years, these vineyards were able to focus on a smaller amount of fruit which led to better concentration, more even ripening, and balanced end product. In the cellar, the wine was treated to about 15% new oak--a combination of French, American, and Hungarian.
The 2016 Viognier, the overall winner of the Loudoun Wine Awards known as the Grand Chairman's Award, was described as "a powerful presentation without lacking elegance, a nice play between acid and fruit, and a lovely pure expression of this wine." This wine I can speak about more personally, as it marks my first vintage here at Sunset Hills and in Loudoun County. This fascination of Viognier was passed on to me by the previous winemaker, Nate Walsh, winner of the Winemaker of the Year. He took the ripening of the fruit very seriously--urging me to wait on the caramel taste in the fruit and to (almost) ignore the chemistry we saw in the lab (see previous blog post for picking decisions). That patience paid off, as the wine developed into a well-balanced yet powerfully expressive Viognier. Aged 100% in neutral oak for about six months, the wine continues to improve with time in bottle.
Overall, it was a great insight into the local industry here. So much buzz surrounding all of the wines showcased that evening. So much talent, passion, verve, and respect. I am so thankful that I have found my way to this community of people, and I hope to continue to take part in this growing industry.
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Plus, Phantom Ganon and Smash Burst Powers.
Koei Tecmo has released first details and screenshots of its newly announced Hyrule Warriors Legends Skull Kid character, Phantom Ganon boss, and Smash Burst Power system.
A Skull Kid that steals the hero's ocarina and places a curse on him in a different world. He is violent and mischievous, but values his friends. He fights alongside his fairy friends Tatl and Tael, and uses an ocarina as his weapon.
The new story for Skull Kid has a picture-story-style presentation.
If you purchase both Hyrule Warriors Legends for 3DS and Hyrule Warriors for Wii U, you'll be able to play as Skull Kid in the Wii U version, as well.
Phantom Ganon, from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, will appear as a new enemy character. He uses a large sword to deliver powerful attacks like heavy blows and magic bullets.
By utilizing the "Player Change" and "Ocarina Warp" systems, and gathering up to four player characters around a giant enemy, beneficial "Smash Burst Power" effects will occur, such as your magic gauge being restored.
A new stage with elements from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker will appear. For example, the "Earth Temple" and "Wind Temple" will appear, as well as Wind Waker's Makar character.
Hyrule Warriors Legends will launch for 3DS in Japan on January 21, and in North America and Europe in Q1 2016.
View the 3DS screenshots here and Wii U screenshots here.


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Hualalai Academy, was a K-12 college preparatory school, it was the first accredited private, independent, K-12 school in the Districts of North and South Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.

School history

Hualalai was founded in 1985 as a K-5 satellite of Hawaii Preparatory Academy in Waimea, by parents who wanted local education for their children, and business owners who needed to draw young professionals to the area.

Educational achievements
Since it became independent in 1996, Hualalai earned accreditation from the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, established a middle school and high school, and built a campus on  that was certified a "Wildlife Habitat" by the National Wildlife Federation in 2007.

With a 9:1 student/teacher ratio, Hualalai students were encouraged to participate in state and national programs and have won recognition and numerous awards for academic achievement, athletic performance and artistic pursuits. Enrollment grew from 52 students in 1996 to about 190 in 2008.

School location
The school was located on the western slope of the Hualālai volcano, from which it gets its name. The campus is located at 74-4966 Kealakaa Street, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740, Coordinates .

School close

It was announced that the school would fold after the 2013–14 school year after filing for bankruptcy. Many contributing factors were attributed to their collapse, the main being the dwindling student body. Initially Kamehameha Schools were interested in the property and had reportedly put in a bid that was under consideration. After a few weeks Kamehameha Schools retracted their bid for unknown reasons. Makua Lani Christian Academy bought the 14-acre property in June 2014 and was able to move from their previous Holualoa campus in time for the 2014–15 academic school year. With the new campus, Makua Lani Christian Academy's enrollment jumped from eighty students to one hundred and twenty, with many being Hualalai Academy transfers.

See also
 Hawaii Preparatory Academy
 Kamehameha Schools
 Kealakehe High School

References

External links

 Hualalai Academy to close from West Hawaii Today
 Kamehameha Schools will buy Hualalai Academy site on Big Island from Pacific Business News
 Posts about Hualalai Academy written by Damon Tucker
 Hualalai Academy: Practical Guide for Developing 21st Century Learning Communities

Private K-12 schools in Hawaii County, Hawaii
Preparatory schools in Hawaii
Educational institutions established in 1985
1985 establishments in Hawaii
Defunct schools in Hawaii

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Q: How to Define Thread-scoped objects with DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator in Spring.NET I want to create a thread-local object (with interceptors) using DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator. I know how to do that using ProxyFactoryObject:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<objects xmlns="http://www.springframework.net">
    <object id="ConsoleLoggingBeforeAdvisor" type="Spring.Aop.Support.DefaultPointcutAdvisor" singleton="false">
        <property name="Advice">
            <object type="Spring.Examples.AopQuickStart.ConsoleLoggingBeforeAdvice"/>
        </property>
    </object>
    <object id="ServiceCommandTargetSource" type="Spring.Aop.Target.ThreadLocalTargetSource">
        <property name="TargetObjectName" value="ServiceCommandTarget"/>
   </object>
    <object id="ServiceCommandTarget" type="Spring.Examples.AopQuickStart.ServiceCommand" singleton="false"/>
    <object name="ServiceCommand" type="Spring.Aop.Framework.ProxyFactoryObject">
        <property name="TargetSource" ref="ServiceCommandTargetSource"/>
        <property name="InterceptorNames">
            <list>
                <value>ConsoleLoggingBeforeAdvisor</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </object>
</objects>

However, I don't know how to get the same effect using DefaultAdvisorAopCreator. Here's what I tried (but didn't work):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<objects xmlns="http://www.springframework.net">
    <object id="ConsoleLoggingBeforeAdvisor" type="Spring.Aop.Support.DefaultPointcutAdvisor" singleton="false">
        <property name="Advice">
            <object type="Spring.Examples.AopQuickStart.ConsoleLoggingBeforeAdvice"/>
        </property>
    </object>
    <object id="ServiceCommand" type="Spring.Examples.AopQuickStart.ServiceCommand" singleton="false"/>
    <object type="Spring.Aop.Framework.AutoProxy.DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator">
        <property name="CustomTargetSourceCreators">
            <list element-type="Spring.Aop.Framework.AutoProxy.ITargetSourceCreator">
                <object id="ThreadLocalTargetSourceCreator" type="Spring.Examples.AopQuickStart.ThreadLocalTargetSourceCreator"/>
            </list>
        </property>
    </object>
</objects>

ThreadLocalTargetSourceCreator is a custom class that unconditionally returns a ThreadLocalTargetSource instance:
namespace Spring.Examples.AopQuickStart {
    public class ThreadLocalTargetSourceCreator : AbstractPrototypeTargetSourceCreator {
        protected override AbstractPrototypeTargetSource CreatePrototypeTargetSource(Type objectType, string name, IObjectFactory factory) {
            return new ThreadLocalTargetSource();
        }
    }
}

So, in summary, when I request ServiceCommand from Spring.NET with the first config (using ProxyFactoryObject), I get only one instance of the object per thread (correct behavior). However, with the second config (DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator), I get a new instance every time (incorrect behavior; expecting one instance per thread).
Any thoughts?

A: Not tested, but try this (or something like that) :
protected override AbstractPrototypeTargetSource CreatePrototypeTargetSource(Type objectType, string name, IObjectFactory factory) {
  ThreadLocalTargetSource ts = new ThreadLocalTargetSource();
  ts.TargetObjectName = name;
  ts.ObjectFactory = factory;
  return ts;
}

A: Ok, I found out why it was not working as expected. Silly as it seems, I was creating and returning a new instance of ThreadLocalTargetSource from AbstractPrototypeTargetSourceCreator.GetTargetSource(). Of course, each new instance of ThreadLocalTargetSource would have no clue of any existing target instances created by its "cousins" before, so it would create a new instance of its target every time an instance was requested.
The resolution was very simple. I just updated my implementation of ITargetSourceCreator to make sure it created a single instance of ThreadLocalTargetSource and returned that instance each time AbstractPrototypeTargetSourceCreator.GetTargetSource() was called:
namespace Spring.Examples.AopQuickStart {
    public class ThreadLocalTargetSourceCreator : AbstractPrototypeTargetSourceCreator {
        private readonly ThreadLocalTargetSource _threadLocalTargetSource;

        public ThreadLocalTargetSourceCreator() {
            _threadLocalTargetSource = new ThreadLocalTargetSource();
        }

        protected override AbstractPrototypeTargetSource CreatePrototypeTargetSource(Type objectType, string name, IObjectFactory factory) {
            return _threadLocalTargetSource;
        }
    }
}

With this code, it works perfectly for me and I get a thread-local life time for my proxied objects.


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CANADA U20 ROSTER ANNOUNCEMENT
The Junior U20 Team Canada Program will be sending 22 players along with staff members to Rovaniemi, Finland to capture the gold.
The Junior Team Canada staff was very busy in 2019 scouting various events. Thorough scouting of High School Tournaments, Provincial Junior Championships and CanAm Junior Championship led to the selections of the team. For the returning players, the players with international experience will be a good foundation in preparing for this high level tournament. The players were selected, not just on high calibre skills, but for their personalities and community backgrounds as well
High Performance Director, Steve Dockerty, who is involved in the restructuring of the international program stated, "our squad will definitely be competing for the gold again. Even though our members were a part of the teams that won gold in 2016 in all three divisions, The NBHAC has been working hard to improve the program. We want players that will be part of the Team Canada family for years to come. The High Performance Program has been established to create continuity consisting of strong individuals across the country with involvement in the various national teams at the adult levels.
Dockerty continued about the coaching staff, we have such a strong group of coaches and all have international experience as coaches and players and all have strong technical backgrounds who will lead these young players.
In addition to these coaches, the program strives to set a standard to bring back and integrate alumni as mentors who will be an extension of the coaching staff.
Commenting on the goal of the 2020 teams Dockerty adds, "we have a Mission Statement - To prepare and assemble a team of junior ball hockey players from Canada to compete for gold at the WJC. To field a team that sets extraordinary standards for competitiveness, sportsmanship and team continuity. To create a 'life experience' for members of JTC and officials." Dockerty added, "that truly is our goal, to compete for gold, but also to set exceptional standards for the players and team officials.
Ball Hockey is an amazing sport and these young men are truly fortunate to have the opportunity to compete with the best in the world and absorb the culture of Eastern European cities." Dockerty concluded with "The ultimate goal is to ensure each player has a life experience that he can take with him for years to come."
Dockerty continued, 'we are pleased with the scouting, selection and acceptance of the players chosen for the team.'
Dockerty has been a part of junior ball hockey for over seventeen years and attended the 2004 and 2006 as a fan and then started working in 2008 with the junior Team Canada Program in 2008, 2010 and 2012 as well as 2016. "It is not only what will take place on the floor for these young individuals, as most will be visiting Finland for the first time in their lives, it will be the culture they will encounter," said Dockerty. "As these young people grow up and have families it won't be the medals that they come home with that will be mostly remembered, it will be the experience of visiting this part of the world, and we as management, coaches, mentors and support staff want to make sure it truly is a trip of a lifetime for them" added Steve.
"Having spoken to all members of the coaching staffs throughout this process, I am confident that the work that they have put in will translate into a highly satisfying trip along with a good showing on the floor." said Dockerty. "In the last three international competitions the staff thought out all the little things and planned accordingly because once you start traveling with this amount of players plus staff in a short period of time through major European cities, it all has to run smoothly from start to finish in order for these players to produce on the floor."
People that tend to be missed in these types of announcements are the local coaches, associations and family members that have helped the players get to this level, along with these individuals all those that scouted for Junior Team Canada at regional and national events should take pride in this team, as they too played a big part in the team composition.
General Manager, Mauro Cugini was very pleased with the composition of the team having been involved with the U-20 program since 2008, 'we have a strong core of players returning from U18 and have upgraded the skill and will be ready'. He continued, "wherever the National Ball Hockey Association of Canada competes, it is understood throughout the sport that it is the best collection of Junior players in the country.'
"On behalf of the National Ball Hockey Association of Canada, I would like to congratulate the players and staff named today, along with their provincial associations, leagues, club teams, families, coaches and officials who have helped them along the way," said Dockerty. With that said, it is with great pride that we present you the 2020 Junior U-20 Team Canada players:
The U20 Team
Goalies: Marco Quiben and Matthew Stradling
Defenseman: Nathan Balkwill, Owen Bell, Jake Deault, Willem Dugas, Braydan Forestell, Mathew Iasenza, Cameron Owens, Clayton Stutt
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#include <Windows.h>
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#include <memory>

#include <D3D11.h>
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//containers
#include <list>
#include <vector>

#include "Anubis.h"

using namespace std;

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Q: What makes C&S Shooting Sports different than other shooting ranges?
A: We are emphasizing more than just target shooting. We want our community to enjoy the full range of shooting-learning about firearms and personal safety, the fun of competition, the enjoyment of being with a group of people who share a common interest that will grow into a passion.
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As revolution turns 40, Iran taunts U.S., vaunts military
Monday, 11 February 2019 14:07 GMT
About our Humanitarian coverage
From major disaster, conflicts and under-reported stories, we shine a light on the world's humanitarian hotspots
* Toppled Shah was closest ally of U.S.
* Iran squeezed by U.S. sanctions
* Curbs cannot break Islamic Republic - Rouhani
* Iran, foes wage Middle East proxy wars (Adds Revolutionary Guards)
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Iranians marched and some burned U.S. flags on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the triumph of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shi'ite cleric who toppled the Shah in an Islamic Revolution that rattles the West to this day.
On Feb 11, 1979, Iran's army declared its neutrality, paving the way for the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the United States' closest ally in the Middle East.
State TV showed crowds defying cold rainy weather and carrying Iranian flags while shouting "Death to Israel, Death to America," trademark chants of the revolution which ousted the United States' most important ally in the Middle East.
"Much to the dismay of America, the revolution has reached its 40th year," read one banner.
Soldiers, students, clerics and black-clad women holding small children thronged streets across Iran, many carrying portraits of Khomeini, who died in 1989, and Iran's current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The large turnout in state-sponsored rallies came as Iranians face mounting economic hardships many blame on the country's clerical leaders.
Last year, Iran cracked down on protests over poor living standards that posed the most serious challenge to its clerical leadership since a 2009 uprising over disputed elections.
Prices of basic foodstuffs, particularly meat, have soared since President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the 2015 nuclear deal last year and reimposed sanctions.
In January, President Hassan Rouhani said Iran was facing its worst economic crisis since the Shah was toppled. But he remained defiant as Iranians recalled the end of a monarch who catered to the rich and unleashed secret police on dissenters.
In a speech at Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) square, Rouhani said U.S. efforts to isolate Iran would fail.
"We will not let America become victorious… Iranian people have and will have some economic difficulties but we will overcome the problems by helping each other," he said.
U.S. AND ISRAELI "DOGS"
Marchers carried cardboard cutouts of dogs. One had the face of Trump and the other the face of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Yadollah Javani, the Revolutionary Guards' deputy head for political affairs, said Iran would demolish cities in Israel to the ground if the United States attacked the Islamic Republic.
"The United States does not have the courage to shoot a single bullet at us despite all its defensive and military assets," he was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
State TV showed a cartoon of the Shah being thrown into the "dustbin of history", wearing clothes in U.S. colours and holding Iranian newspapers headlined "The Shah has left!"
Khomeini returned from exile in France two weeks after the Shah and his wife flew to Aswan, Egypt. He was greeted by millions of supporters in Tehran. Revolutionaries later began executing supporters of the Shah including four top generals.
Washington and the Arab world have viewed Iran with great suspicion since the Islamic Revolution, fearing Khomeini's radical ideology would inspire militants across the Middle East.
Today, the United States and its Arab allies are trying to counter Tehran's growing influence in the Middle East, where it has proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
"The world saw when Iran decided to help people of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen, they achieved victory. The enemies are now confessing to their defeat," said Rouhani.
Some Iranians criticise their leaders for what they say are foreign adventures which squander funds. Iranian leaders say they are protecting national interests.
Tehran was determined to expand its military power despite pressure from hostile states, Rouhani said.
Iran displayed its ballistic missile capabilities during a parade marking the anniversary, including the Zolfaqar, a ground-to-ground missile with a 700 km (435 miles) range and the Qiam, with a range of 800 km, according to Tasnim news agency.
Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the Revolutionary Guards deoputy head, said Tehran would not withdraw forces from the region, dismissing U.S. calls for Iranian clout to be curbed. (Additional reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafeddin in London and Babak Dehghanpisheh; Writing by Michael Georgy, Editing by Andrew Cawthorne, William Maclean)
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Linguistics students at Ohio University are poised to have a significant impact on the Athens educational community during spring semester.
In a recently redesigned partnership between the Linguistics Department and Athens City Schools, both undergraduate and graduate students—who have some teaching experience or a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate—now have the opportunity to intern at area public schools.
The new agreement allows OHIO students to earn credit hours toward their degree at the same time they gain real teaching experience. East Elementary is a popular site for interns since it is close to campus. In addition, the need is highest here due to the influx of Saudi educators participating in the Khbrat Program ("42 Saudi Educators Spending Year at OHIO in School Leadership Immersion Program") who have children enrolled there. However, for those who would prefer working with older English learners, the middle- and high-schools are also open to welcome interns.
The director of the internship program, Gabriela Castaneda-Gleason, is currently accepting applications to intern during the coming spring semester. Contact her for more details at castaned@ohio.edu.
OHIO student Vanessa Torrington, originally from Guyana, is working toward a master's degree in Applied Linguistics in 2020. She is completing her internship now during fall semester. She says her experience teaching at East Elementary has been "amazing!
"I love the children. Most of them really, really want to learn," she continues. "They get so excited [about what we're doing in the classroom] and it motivates me to come every day." Her favorite part of working with the children is making a personal connection with them. She loves it when they call her "Miss Vanessa" and are so glad to see her each day she is there.
She gains "a real sense of satisfaction when a student can say the days of the week or the alphabet" due to her teaching. She also noted how supportive and welcoming the faculty and staff at East have been to her and other interns.
Torrington went on to discuss the idea that her internship has taught her to pay more attention to different varieties of the English language, and to be sensitive to different backgrounds and cultures.
"When first I came to the U.S.," she says, "people were always asking me to repeat myself since I don't have an American accent." At the time, she found it somewhat annoying and even frustrating, but now she feels that her English learner students "can relate to me since I also have a different way of speaking. I think it helps them engage with me and other learners since we have that in common." She reflected that her experiences and newly gained skills will definitely be of benefit in her future career.
Athens City Schools EL Specialist and Program Coordinator Joshua Rowland hopes that more OHIO students will choose to complete the internship program. He noted that several former interns have moved on to teach overseas and internationally; their futures were changed because they could claim teaching experience with the K-12 population. He also says the children at East benefit immensely from their time with OHIO interns, since it allows them to participate in small group work targeted at their proficiency level—something that is much more difficult to achieve in mainstream classrooms.
He outlined three key factors that contribute to success as an intern: flexibility in accommodating scheduling and other changes, an eagerness to try new things, and truly caring about the students.


Watching leaders engaged in leadership training can leave us with wonderful lessons. Seeing how they present their material can make us better trainers.
Jim Kouzes (co-author of the recently released fourth edition of The Leadership Challenge), Roy Pollock (co-author of Fort Hill Company's The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning), and Michael Papay III (vice-president of Fort Hill) were the key presenters this week at Sonoma Learning Systems' Redefining Leadership Development Best Practices Forum in Walnut Creek. Kouzes, in an engaging summary of The Leadership Challenge, told audience members that his research consistently shows family members, teachers, and coaches to be our most important leader role models; that the one quality differentiating leaders from other credible people is being "forward-looking"; and that leadership develops over many years, not in one-day or one-week-long workshops–an obvious point which is often forgotten when students return from training sessions and have no time to digest and think about how to use what they have learned.
Pollock, echoing the theme that "becoming a leader is a life's work," insisted that workshops are only part of the learning process. The preparation a student completes before attending leadership training sessions, and the effort a student makes in a supportive workplace to use what was learned, combine to make leadership workshops effective. Papay, to drive the point home, described Fort Hill's practice augmenting leadership training sessions with brief weekly email follow-ups to trainees and their supervisors for up to three months. The emails and the interactions they inspire increase the likelihood that lessons will be absorbed and applied so leaders-in-training continue developing the skills needed to benefit the organizations they serve.
While conveying the lessons they were attempting to teach this week, all three presenters used simple and effective techniques. They remained engaged with all members of their audience by moving throughout the room rather than remaining tethered to their laptops or a lectern at the front of the room. Their PowerPoint slides added to rather than repeated what they said. The presence of a visual facilitator enhanced the learning experience. And they used one-page handouts containing key questions they would answer: "who are the most important leader role models in our lives?"; "what differentiates highly-effective leadership training programs from less effective ones?"; and several others. By recording the answers which came out of speaker-audience interactions, participants were more likely to remember what they heard, and they were actively involved in creating the printed reminders which they might later use.