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Skyward Help Center
Building an Operation
Exploring the Operations List
Custom Risk Assessment Builder
How to Log Flights
Flight Insights
Program Insights
Planning an Operation
Planning a successful operation requires effective use of the map and flight areas. For primers on either of those topics, click here for documentation on the map, or here for information about using flight areas.
To get started with operations planning, from the Map use either the New Operation function from the airspace cards at lower-left, or the '+' sign on an existing area of operation in the Flight Area Library:
Once the flight area has been defined and you've used one of the methods above to attach that area to an Operation, you'll notice that the screen will redirect you to the Operations tab.
You'll notice that the flight area designated on the previous screen populates the flight area box at right, and that there are a number of fields on the left that need to be completed so that the Operation can be documented accurately.
Start by adding the Date(s) and Time(s) of the operation using the fields toward the top of the screen. Please note that if using LAANC as a part of this operation, the longest window that you can use in these fields is 12 hours. Additionally, if requesting LAANC, the operation must occur during daylight hours.
Next, select the Pilot in Command and Crew for this operation. These drop-downs are populated from the list of personnel in the Personnel setup menu.
Once you've added a crew member, boxes will appear to add additional crew if necessary.
Following Crew, add the Aircraft, Batteries, and Payload(s) needed to accomplish the operation. Batteries and Aircraft pull from the preconfigured list of your inventory, which can be viewed in the Manage tab.
Payloads are a free-text field and can be added as needed.
Once those items are done, you can also use the operations planning screen to add Internal Notes, if applicable. Often, these are used for concrete operational details that go beyond the drop-downs, or to detail safety risks or hazards for your team.
The weather can also be viewed once a date, time, and flight area have been populated. This will give an approximation of the weather three days in advance, day of, and three days after your Operation. Please review the actual on-site weather in addition to referencing Skyward.
If flying in an area where LAANC facility grids overlap your flight area, you'll see the pane for requesting a LAANC authorization in the lower-right of the screen, just below the mini-map. If you have further questions about the LAANC authorization process, please visit our LAANC Airspace article.
Operation Actions and Checklists
Now that the basics of the Operation have been configured, you can start to focus on preparing to be on-site and flying. Skyward has a number of tools to help manage the changing conditions of operations, and to ensure that you're as prepared as possible when on-site.
First, let's review a few options in the Actions menu at the top-right of an Operation.
The Log Operation button changes the status of the operation to indicate that the operation has been completed and the information in the operation shouldn't be changed. Logging an operation does remove the ability to add and remove flights from the operation.
The Submit NOTAM button will generate a NOTAM to be filed with the local ATC as a means of alerting other air traffic in the area.
Note that generally NOTAMs are only really necessary for complex operations in controlled airspace and urban environments. Not all operations warrant a NOTAM.
NOTAMs are only available to Skyward's Business and Enterprise subscribers.
Notify Crew allows for email notifications to be sent to those that are listed as crew on the Operation. More on this feature will follow below.
Download Report allows for a .txt of the operational details to be generated. This can be a useful tool if flights need to be approved by external stakeholders, or if you need documentation in an environment with limited internet access.
Duplicate Operation allows for a copy of this operation to be made. This is a great tool if flying the same job sites over a standard interval (e.g. progress photos once a week at a construction site).
Delete Operation allows you to delete the operation if it was a duplicate or is no longer a viable mission.
Notifying Crew of Operational Changes
If important changes to an operation take place, Skyward gives a mechanism to notify those involved of the changes via the Notify Crew button in the Actions menu. Selecting Notify Crew will allow for an email to be composed directly from Skyward that the operator can use to convey important information, without the need to go back to their inbox.
Simply enter the information necessary in the Body box, and then select those attached to the operation at the left that should receive the email. Please note that All Organization Admins, and anyone listed as Crew in an operation will appear in this list.
Some general uses for this feature may be:
As a pilot, asking a flight dispatcher for approval to fly that Operation
Notifying those on your team of changes in weather at the job site
Clarifying the safety case for the operation ahead of going out into the field
Changing the location or canceling the job
If multiple notifications are used in the Operation, you'll be able to see the complete list in the Notification History List, available from the upper-left corner, which includes the Date, Sender, Message, and Personnel that the message was sent to. This is a perfect way to view an audit of communication relative to that operation. Once done reviewing the notifications list, select Close to return to the Operation.
Once an operation has been created and saved, you may also add and/or complete Checklists associated with the operation. You'll see the Checklists icon at the top-right of the operation.
If the icon is orange, that means that there are checklists already assigned to the Operation that need to be completed. Clicking the checklists icon will reveal the list of checklists assigned. Any already completed checklists will show with a green checkmark to the left. Otherwise, you can see the status bar that measures checklist progress.
Click on the checklist to review the items associated with it and complete any associated pre-flight or pre-operational checks.
Additionally, if there are other checklists not added to your Operation by default, they can always be added using the Add Checklist option at the bottom of the checklists pane. This will take you to a list of available checklists that can be added to the operation for completion.
For general information about creating, editing, and assigning checklists, please click here.
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Masks now mandatory at all health-care facilities
Thanks to a generous donation from Parrish & Heimbecker, Ltd., one of Canada's leading agribusinesses, the Health Sciences Centre Foundation has produced 15,000 reusable, non-medical masks for distribution to visitors to HSC Winnipeg.
The Province of Manitoba now requires that all visitors to health-care facilities wear masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The HSC Foundation mask initiative ensures that visitors can still see their loved ones or attend appointments, even if they have forgotten to bring a mask or do not own one.
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Best Buy (BBY) Hikes Dividend 12% to $0.19
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Best Buy (BBY) announced today that it will raise its quarterly dividend to 19 cents a share from 17 cents, an increase worth 12%/$0.76 annualized.
The change will be reflected in the quarterly dividend, payable October 2, 2014 to Best Buy shareholders of record as of September 11, 2014.
"Our decision to increase the amount of cash we are returning to shareholders is indicative of our improved cash position and our confidence in the cash-generating power of our multi-channel business model," Best Buy president and CEO Hubert Joly said in a press release Tuesday morning.
This is the first dividend hike for Best Buy in two years.
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Mirjana Roksandic is an esteemed biological anthropologist. She is a professor in the anthropology department, and coordinator of the interdisciplinary program in bioanthropology at The University of Winnipeg. She is also biology graduate from the U. of W. and adjunct graduate faculty in anthropology at the University of Manitoba. Her expertise, extensive field experience, and commitment to her students' success make Roksandic a respected educator.
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SPREAD Synopsis
SPREAD is a fresh, funny, and racy look at the trials and tribulations of sleeping your way to a life of privilege in Los Angeles. Comic and karmic, the film is an "immorality tale" about a gorgeous guy who gives women what they want in order to live exactly as he likes.
In SPREAD, Nikki (Ashton Kutcher) isn't a gigolo. He's a sexual grifter, a fun-loving, freeloading hipster who understands his greatest assets are his looks and sexual prowess, which he uses to charm his way into the hearts of the city's richest women and enjoy their lifestyle. Nikki gets a free place to live, fantastic gifts, A-list access, and plenty of sex. The women get to feel young, beautiful… and utterly fulfilled in the bedroom. It's a mutually beneficial set-up.
Nikki's latest conquest is Samantha (Anne Heche), a stunning middle-aged lawyer who gives him more than he's ever had before. But then he meets a gorgeous waitress his own age named Heather (Margarita Levieva). She comes to visit Nikki at Samantha's house while Samantha is out of town, sees what an incredible place it is… and comes to the mistaken conclusion it's his. Unbeknownst to Nikki, Heather lives by playing the same game.
When Samantha comes home, she discovers Nikki's infidelity and he's put out on the street. With nowhere else to turn, Nikki pulls out all the stops to win Heather over and they begin to form their own kind of bond. Sexually charged by a game of one-upsmanship, each shows the other their best grifts, and they unexpectedly begin falling in love – the one thing they can't do in the life they lead. Soon, the truth of their unfolding relationship forces a choice between love and money, and Nikki has to decide whether he can live on his own once and for all in the hopes of finding something real.
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Sources of Islamic Law, Primary and Secondary Sources of Islamic Law
Sources of Islamic Law
Islamic law is a code of basic principles which determine the relationship between man and God on one hand and among the individuals themselves. It prescribes the limits to do or not do certain things. It is derived from the following sources
Types of Islamic Law
Following are the main sources of Islamic law
Primary sources of Law which includes Quran and Sunnah
Secondary Sources of Law which includes Ijma, Ijtehad, Qiyas and Urf etc.
Primary Sources of Law
Following are some primary sources of law. Click to View in Detail the Primary Sources Islamic of Law
Quran is one of the primary sources of Islamic law. It includes many commandments, rules and principles for the behavior and relations of individuals in the society. Most of its principles are general in nature though some of them are well defined. The words of Quran are final and no one can change its text.
The Sunnah
Equally important The Sunnah secondary source of Islamic law is the Sunnah or path or way of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The Sunnah consists of the sayings, deeds and words of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) which are not revelations of the Quran. In order to understand the teachings of Quran, the understanding of Sunnah is compulsory.
Secondary Sources of Law
Below are the secondary sources of law. Click to View in Detail the Secondary Sources Islamic of Law
Ijma
Ijma means the consensus among Islamic jurists on matters within the limits of Quran and Sunnah. For example, the institution of khilafat is established on the basis of ijma among the Islamic jurists.
Ijtihad
Ijtihad is the secondary source of Islamic law. It is the interpretation of principles and provisions of Quran and hadith by faqeeh or imam. In this regard we can find four imams who formed different school of thought by interpreting the Quran and Sunnah by study and research. One school of thought believes that Ijtihad ended with the four pious caliphs while others believe that it is not ended.
Qiyas
Qiyas is also one of the secondary sources. It means to conclude general principle from Quraan and Sunnah to generalize the Versus or Hadith. For example from wine, the jurists concluded and generalized that all things causing unconsciousness are prohibited by Islam.
Urf is also a secondary source of islamic law. Urf is the common practice among the Muslims as their common habit or a'ada.
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Lest anyone doubt my word on the matter, I have a graph for you. In fact, two. Note the high temperatures during September (nineteen days over 75°F) and the sudden steep plunge at the end of the mont– a plunge, I may note, that has not been reversed as we move into October. (Please see the second graph.) Rumor (a.k.a. the weather report) has it that we may see entire twenty-four-hour periods above freezing at the end of this week, and indeed today, with temperatures in the mid fifties, felt downright balmy.
If you refer (pointer please, Oscar) to the dates near the end of September, you may note that the last really warm day was the 29th. I got on a plane for Minneapolis and Toronto on the 28th, when it was still summer here. By the time I came back on the 4th, it had been snowing almost daily for a week. We got close to six inches several days ago.
We saw the change coming, and the week before leaving I scrambled around madly, trying to prepare the garden for the coming change. Of course I didn't manage it, and my poor spouse was left to cover the big greenhouse himself. The beans, squash, and tomatoes there weathered the freezing temperatures quite well, but when lows dipped into the single digits (double negatives, in Celsius), they gave up the struggle, went limp, and died. I can't say as I blame them. Weather like this is really more than a vegetable can be expected to put up with.
7 Responses to Whatever happened to autumn?
Kate, It sounds like your weather is right on par with mine! Crazy to see the funnies mother nature plays on us!
I like your scientific approach! And yes, it's a very unusual year. This summer was long and very good for us in the Pacific NW.
Well, Heather, since you're just over the border in Idaho, it's not too surprising that you've seen similar weather. I've thought of going on strike, but I'm not sure anyone in charge of the weather would notice.
Greetings, Tatyana. After glancing at your blog's many and recent pictures of flowers, I feel it's clear that we live in very different regions, if not on different planets! Glad it was a good year for you.
Mine's got two layers of plastic, with air from the greenhouse blown in between the two. It went down to 0.6C (33F) this morning in there, so the plants are definitely living on borrowed time!
Ouch! I live for fall. After two years of drought, we're enjoyed a rare rainy spell mid-September which resulted in a glorious month afterward. Maybe we'll go straight from fall to spring like we did last year. Of course, last year we couldn't enjoy the warm temperatures because we were parched for water. From a gardener's standpoint, it's always something.
Amanda, I just discovered that I never replied to this comment–probably because I was so jealous. Two layers, with warm air blown between them! I'm going to have to look back at your blog and see what this costs you.
Zanthan Gardens, embarrassingly belated greetings to you as well. I see you've already got spring growth in your garden, while mine's covered in snow. Well, it's a big country.


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Portland restaurateur Reo Varnado, Snoop Dogg's uncle, dies
Officials arrest DUII driver who struck ClackCo. patrol car
by: Hailey Dunn
Posted: Dec 10, 2021 / 10:26 AM PST / Updated: Dec 10, 2021 / 12:16 PM PST
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A suspected drunk driver rear-ended a Clackamas County Sheriff's patrol car on Interstate 205 shortly after midnight on Friday, according to officials.
Jose Pahua Fernandez was speeding down I-205 heading south when he hit a CCSO sergeant, according to Oregon State Police.
Pahua Fernandez was taken into custody for DUII-Alcohol after refusing to take a sobriety test. Officials said Pahua Fernandez was cited after they prepared a search warrant for a blood sample while he was in the hospital.
CCSO said the sergeant was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and has since been released.
A CCSO sergeant's patrol car was struck on December 10, 2021 (Courtesy: CCSO)
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Reo Varnado, a well known Portland restaurateur who also built a national reputation for food and entertainment, died Friday night, multiple sources reported.
In a Facebook post, his brother Ricky Varnado, said Reo died around 10:30 p.m. Friday:


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Farewell to Belfast
June 29, 2017 by Liz Leave a Comment
Next month, almost 13 years to the day that my parents moved their lives across the Irish Sea, they will return to the island of their birth. For the first time since I was 22, I will live on the same land mass as my parents.
It's been quite a decade-and-a-bit. When they left, I was wrapping up my History MA in London and my sister was finishing her 2nd year of uni. Now, she's been married nearly a decade; and I've completed another two degrees and got ordained along the way. While they were away, we both became something akin to "proper adults".
Dad's face ready to adorn the college wall.
This past weekend was their leaving do at the college where Dad has been principal. Mim and I went along, both because we were invited, and because we wanted an opportunity to say a decent goodbye to a city that wasn't our home but did feel almost like one.
As something of a surprise to my parents, Mim was asked to sing grace and I was asked to make a speech. We conferred, and decided that our mission was to embody the episode of Friends where Monica desperately tries to make her parents cry during a toast at their wedding anniversary; while Ross barely needs to try for it to happen. [We are cruel, cruel daughters who know their mother very well!] With her reference to our 1991 sojourn in Massachusetts in choosing grace, Mim scored immediately. Evidence [make up stained serviettes] would suggest I was similarly successful!
I think my words to the community of Edgehill & beyond are worth sharing here, because I meant them and they say a lot about what Belfast became for us as a family. [This isn't exactly what I said, as I didn't use my notes, but this is what I *meant* to say…]
"Thirteen years ago, we weren't really sure what our parents were letting themselves in for. For the first time in our family's life, we weren't going to be coming with them on this move and we weren't sure what 'family' would look like for them here. But what Mim and I would like to thank you all for is the way in which you have been family to our parents during their time here. In fact, not just them, but us too. Every time we've visited, we've been touched by the way in which we've been welcomed by people that we see barely once a year!
Nothing demonstrates the "family" more than the way in which people responded to Dad's accident last week. [There was a cyclist V cyclist incident that left him with a few broken fingers…] That the President drove him to hospital despite it being Conference. That Brendan sat with him for hour after hour waiting for his op. That meals were provided while Mum was away this week. We need never have worried!
And Belfast has become a family home to us too. Despite never having lived here, we have our favourite places to have tea; eat breakfast; drink cocktails; and walks on the beach. I've worked on essays in the deserted college library during Christmas holidays, waiting for a signal from the dining room window to say that food is ready.
I was reflecting two weeks ago that one of the best things our family's time at Edgehill has given me is obscure knowledge about Northern Irish politics – which suddenly became very useful in the aftermath of the general election! While other English people were being berated for suddenly acting like experts on this part of the world, we could claim a vested interest in the topic for over a decade!
So thank you. Thank you for being 'home' for thirteen years – the longest this family has been based in my parent's entire marriage!
To conclude, I felt it only appropriate to include a quote from one of Dad's favourite theologians: Karl Barth. (In fact, when I was at college, I made a point of including a Barth quote in every assignment – it became a fun challenge. I am my father's daughter!) "Joy is the simplest form of gratitude." [Church Dogmatics III]
There is much joy in this place, and for that we are truly thankful."
Final Belfast meal at The Dock Café in the Titanic Quarter. An excellent place to say goodbye!
On Monday, as we prepared to head to the airport for the final time, our parents asked us what our favourite Belfast memories would be. I'm not sure that we really did justice to their question – partly because we'd had a running joke that our favourite things about Belfast were all food related – but also because there's an awful lot to consider given 13 years of a relationship with a place. But I've had a think, so Mum & Dad, here's my answer:
Food. We joked, but honestly, the land of tray-bakes, the Ulster Fry, wheaten bread, potato farls, pancakes… I could go on. We walked around the AMAZING St George's Market on Saturday morning practically drooling over all sorts of goodies. I now need to learn how to make Fifteens and Mint Aero bars. And wheaten. And where to find buttermilk locally.
The beach. When have we ever lived 20mins from the beach?? Crawfordsburn was a favourite (with the bonus of spring bluebells too), but the walk at Holywood filled a need over the weekend.
The culture. Northern Ireland is a very different place to England – not least because of the impact of the Troubles. Understanding a bit more of that culture is one long-term result, and I strongly recommend that you visit Belfast and NI if you haven't been before, if only to try and get a handle on just how different it is and why we need to *not* ignore it.
The people. See above! It was always fun hanging out at the college (not least because of the scones that used to be found at morning tea), but it was also lovely to feel a part – albeit a very distant part – of Belfast Central Mission, to which our parents belonged.
Farewell Belfast. You will be missed, and I may be back. Thanks for everything!
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April 20, 2016 by Liz Leave a Comment
Oh the double-edged sword of the Guardian news alert. Sometimes helpful, sometimes intriguing [recently a night out dancing was enhanced by "Iain Duncan-Smith resigns" flashing up and generating much speculation], and at times just utterly heart breaking.
The latter mostly includes their death announcements – which is how I've heard of the passing of several idols and inspirations in recent years: Mandela, Rickman and today, Victoria Wood. Victoria flipping Wood. The woman who categorically shaped comedy in the household in which I grew up. Red cabbage can't be mentioned without a cry of "how much?" rising up from at least one person. Soup can't be served without a shaky "one soup…two soup". And nothing – I repeat nothing – featuring Wood would ever be skipped should it be on TV.
Twitter is ablaze at the moment, obviously; and I have a lot of thoughts, obviously. So I thought I'd get them all down now, cathartic fashion. But can I do Victoria Wood justice, can I buffalo!
1. I saw Victoria Wood in real life once. (That it was only once is probably surprising as she did live locally). It was the early 90s, and I had been taken shoe shopping in the children's shoe shop in Muswell Hill. The shop was crowded (it sold Start Rite, Muswell Hill mums love Start Rite) and we were reaching the end of the shoe trying-on ordeal when my mum hissed "Don't look, but Victoria Wood's just walked in." As one, my sister and I looked. Come on! She was our comedy idol! We proceeded to watch her child try on sandals. It was thrilling.
2. In the early 1990s, our church's annual harvest supper had to be rescheduled because a large group of women had booked tickets to see Wood at the Royal Albert Hall. I think if Wood had known that, it could have sowed the seed for an exceptionally brilliant sketch. (I believe my sister and I were rather peeved that we weren't allowed to go!)
3. There's the fact that, despite its possibly questionable content, the tape featuring The Ballad of Barry and Freda was regularly played on long car journeys when I was definitely under 11. I didn't get it, but I knew it was funny. That cassette later came my way via CD and is still an album that I go back to in iTunes. Saturday Night would be a particular favourite.
4. Even her serious (or more serious stuff) caused comedic moments. Over Christmas 2014, when the TV version of her play The Day We Sang aired, barely a few hours would pass before you heard a parent chirp "Nymphs and shepherds ru-un away, run away, run away…" in varying degrees of tunefulness (directly proportional to the amount of prosecco that had been consumed).
5. She was a funny woman who talked about real life. Actual real life, not aspirational real life. True, as a softy southerner not all of it made sense, but a lot of it did. Like the Sacherelle sketch… [Incidentally, I'm convinced that in this clip, you can spot Victoria Coren with her father at 1:16]
6. Very recently, I had the joy of discovering on YouTube a whole series of Victoria Wood programmes I'd never seen before – We'd Like to Apologise – which was a feast of 90's nostalgia, classic Wood co-stars, and brilliant comedy. Episode three, 'Over to Pam', in which Julie Walters plays daytime TV host Pam and where Victoria plays a version of herself, is sheer genius.
7. Everyone loved her. Including the best celebrities, who seemed to be queuing up around the block to be in one of her sketches. I think I got to the series mentioned above thanks to a bit of Rickman YouTubing. Rickman acting Woods' scripts. Too, too much.
Or, as one sketch had it, Alan Dickman…
8. She has ensured that I never ever take Ann Widdecombe seriously.
9. She brought Julie Walters into my life. In fact, as a child, I was convinced that Walters was an old woman – I was very confused when I saw her on TV as herself. Mrs Overall and the assortment of other elderly ladies Wood wrote for Walters are utterly fabulous, but I do love the occasions when she was allowed to play her own age, or younger. Like the hairdresser no one would ever want near their hair.
10. When she appeared on Comic Relief Bake Off last year, her showstopper was a beret – a nod to her brilliant sketch in which Kimberley is continually sought by her beret wearing chum. "She's really really tall and really really wide…" I've spent ages hunting for this clip this evening, having discovered a previous sharing of it had been removed by ITV. But thankfully, minutes ago, someone reposted it. It says a huge amount about Wood's brilliance that her most famous character is someone we never ever see!
Oh goodness. Too, too soon. It says a lot of our love for Victoria Wood that my Dad has emailed from Samoa to check that the women of the family are ok. Like many, we're mourning all that should have been to come: more plays, more sketches, more catchphrases. But no. At least there's plenty to re-watch. I'm spending the evening watching her 2010 BAFTA tribute and enjoying the fact that at least it wasn't an obituary when it was made.
Filed Under: UK Tagged With: Comedy, death, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood
A Political Post Mortem
May 18, 2015 by LizC 2 Comments
I blame 1997. For those of us whose first experience of political engagement was the biggest landslide victory of post-war Britain, every election following was going to be an anti-climax. It was the last election in which I could not vote, but the first election in which I stuck a Labour poster in my bedroom window. It was the election I was forbidden from staying up for, thanks to pesky GCSE exams. And, it was the election that resulted in a hastily opened bottle of bubbly staining our kitchen ceiling, in the frenzy of celebrating the demise of Michael Portillo in Enfield South. 1997 is legend and few elections will ever live up to it. Far from things can only get better, it was more a case of things can only get worse…
…and worse…
…and worser.
Like many, this election's unexpected result has depressed me. Expletives were uttered into my pillows as I watched good, committed and hard working politicians fall, one after another. The morning after's non-alcohol induced hangover featured realisation after realisation of what the world was going to be like FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEARS. The NHS. Welfare. Education. Oh, education! At the end of the next five years, how many of my teaching friends will still be in their jobs? Does Britain really not care about these things??
But, within a couple of hours, I'd decided to take hold of the situation in the only way I know how: getting involved. A week on, and I'm convinced that this is the only way to approach the next five years (and beyond). Don't sit at home whining on Facebook, do something!!
By lunch time I'd rejoined the Labour Party – something I'm pretty sure I'd meant to do five years ago, but had never quite got around to it. This election was the first in which friends of mine (actual friends, not just random acquaintances) ran for office. Several friends stood for selection; a few made it to parliamentary candidate; and one was elected as a local councillor. These friends are activists, they've joined parties, made a commitment and that's one of the ways in which they engage with the system. It's a far more positive way to engage than party-bashing on social media! [Other political parties are available, obviously.]
Ed speaking to the Citizens Assembly.
If you're not particularly partisan and simply want to act justly, get involved in Citizens UK. My first introduction to their work was at a college seminar last year, but recently I've been offered the option of doing their training in 'organising' and getting involved in the local network in London. It's not yet present in every part of the country, but if you don't have a network near you, perhaps you could help start one? On the Monday before the election, I found myself at their national assembly (thanks to a last minute ticket) and was stunned by the diversity of the 2,000+ gathering. Vicars sat alongside Imams and Rabbis; the rich impact of immigration upon our society was demonstrated; and people seeking to make a real impact upon society. (My friend Alexandra was one of the vicars present and she wrote a brilliant reflection on the event.) The three main party leaders had been invited to speak (although Cameron dropped out at the last minute) and it was a brilliant example of parties engaging with genuine activism.
My local Foodbank was my polling station – and the election forced the postponement of that week's session.
Or, if you just want to help on a really basic, local level, find your nearest Foodbank and support them – provide food, volunteer or both! Unfortunately, it looks like they may be even more necessary in future years. A friend of mine was so stirred up that Friday morning that she and some Twitter friends created #FoodbankFriday. Not only are they going to support their local Foodbank every week, they're going to make a noise about it – so that they can protest about why these services are needed in the first place. A brilliant idea that takes little effort (she's also committed to using her supermarket loyalty vouchers to buy food too), and can make a big difference in people's lives. In amongst all the stories of woe I've heard and read about in the last five years, it's the stories of those using Foodbanks that have touched me most. We're a modern country, people should not be going hungry – end of story.
Finally, if you're of a churchy persuasion, it could also be worth looking up The Centre for Theology and Community. Their most recent resource is the 'Seeing Change' course, which we've been using at church over the last few Sundays. [I've actually only made one of the sessions, but it was jolly good and this recommendation also acts as a note to self to use it in the future.] A series of four videos and group discussions, it puts some of the big issues of today into a theological context and then encourages people to get involved.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, if you're upset at the way the election turned out, please don't just moan about it – do something. Unless you do, there's no chance of anything changing in the future. Politics isn't something that happens in a fancy building in Westminster, it's interactions between human beings on the most basic of levels.
Filed Under: Church, UK Tagged With: Citizens UK, CTC, Foodbanks, GE2015, Labour Party, politics
The quirks of regional programming
September 9, 2014 by Liz Leave a Comment
[Another brilliant example of my ability to completely forget to publish something, even though it's finished. Pretend this was published a week ago, it'll work much better…]
The UK comprises many parts – as we are increasingly aware as September 17th and the Scottish referendum approaches – but it can be the most mundane things that highlight that it is not simply one, monochrome whole. Travel into Wales and immediately road signs are twice the size and only half as comprehensible. Go north of the border or over the Irish Sea and the currency stays the same, but the notes change colour. Even within the entity that is 'England', things are different – try buying the humble bread roll in 5 different counties and you'll probably need 5 different words in order to manage it. [Bap, barm, cobb, bun, muffin…]
As a child, one of the most obvious differences whenever away from home was on the TV. Regional news bulletins involved unfamiliar accents and places I'd never heard of. Holidays in Llandudno provided The Smurfs and Superted in Welsh, which was rather disconcerting to a 6 year old. When we moved to Gloucester, we discovered that our house (thanks to an aerial on a building over the road) was alone amongst our friends in that it picked up BBC South West and HTV as opposed to Midlands Today and Central. [It might not seem like much of difference, but it did mean that we got classic NZ hospital soap Shortland Street, which wasn't shown on Central – it's the little things!]
Fast forward to 2004 and my parents' move to Belfast. Move to another province within the UK and things change considerably. Many Brits of my generation will remember with fondness the Broom Cupboard of CBBC which was the lynch-pin of weekday evening TV. A daily feature, before that day's Neighbours was shown (an essential part of 1980's/90's TV viewing), was the presenter bidding Northern Irish viewers goodbye several minutes before Neighbours started. I didn't give it much thought at the time (I was more concerned with what Brad had been up to in Erinsbrough), but once subjected to TV in Northern Ireland on a regular basis, I wondered what they were watching when we were indulging in Ozzie high jinks…
[I've just Googled it. According to this interview with Andi Peters, they had Neighbours an hour later than us. At 5.30pm they had local news instead. Who knows why!]
There are a lot of differences in the scheduling of TV in Northern Ireland. It becomes a bit of an issue at Christmas, when the rest of the country is watching something significant – one year it was the Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special – and instead, viewers in NI are treated to a local comedy like The Folks on the Hill. (That's not to say that this satirical cartoon isn't quality entertainment – it is – it's just that I'd rather have been watching a keenly awaited show that everyone else was enjoying!) Regularly, Mock the Week is shown over an hour later in the province, a fact that led my mother to inadvertently tweet a celebrity for the first time. [Chris Addison had tweeted something witty about the time of that night's episode, which I had retweeted. My mother (thinking that the 'Chris' in question was my friend Christopher, not an award-winning actor/comedian) tweeted back: "…except in Northern Ireland, when it's on at 10.40pm – it takes longer for the boat with the tape to get here".]
I've been over in Belfast for most of the last week and spotted a trailer for some interesting looking drama on BBC1 (it's got Olivia Colman in it, so it's got to be good) but noticed that they were being shown at 10.40pm. Lauded new dramas are not broadcast at that time of night – they're on at 9pm. What was Northern Ireland getting instead? On Monday night, I experienced the schedule shift for myself. While the rest of the country was (potentially) enjoying New Tricks (can't see the point myself), we settled down to a BBC documentary commemorating the 20th anniversary of the IRA ceasefire.
I was rather surprised that such a programme wasn't on the national schedule. [You can catch up with it on iPlayer – there's a dedicated Northern Ireland section there.] When I was growing up, and for decades before that, the Troubles were usually the top item on the news. Living in London, I experienced at first hand some of the effects of the IRA's actions – feeling the tremors of a controlled explosion of a bomb in John Lewis Oxford St during my first term at secondary school; being prevented from taking my usual route to school because of overnight bombs; the secret service protection of a neighbour who worked in the NI Office; not to mention the shock and horror everyone felt at the atrocities carried out by both sides over the years. Without the ceasefires, the Good Friday Agreement and everything else that has paved the road to peace, I wouldn't now be travelling to Belfast on a semi-regular basis.
The Troubles were not solely a Northern Ireland issue, they were a national issue – an international one in fact. This documentary was an important reminder of how far things have progressed in a comparatively short space of time and thoroughly deserved a national airing. But as I watched, I realised that it was far more detailed than most of the programmes I've ever previously seen on the conflict. It was made with those who had lived in and with it year after year after year in mind. For a population where everyone knows someone who has been directly affected by it. Maybe it wouldn't have made much sense to the typical 9pm BBC1 audience?
As a result, I've been somewhat reconciled to the peculiarities of regional scheduling. Clearly, Northern Ireland deserves programmes that cater to their knowledge and experiences, that would probably go over the heads of many people in England, Scotland and Wales. They deserve to watch them at a sensible hour and on a 'normal' channel. But, we need to be careful not to exclude the rest of the nation. What happens in one province doesn't leave the others unaffected. We are – for now – a United Kingdom.
Filed Under: UK Tagged With: BBC, Belfast, childhood, Northern Ireland, politics, TV


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Tuscaloosa, Alabama Ranks High in Something Other Than Football
Mary K Published: August 16, 2022
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama is known for The University of Alabama plus everything sports-related, especially football. Our wonderful town is nearly centered around the wildly successful Crimson Tide football program.
Just recently Bama football regained the top spot in recruiting rankings. As reported by Tide 100.9, "Alabama is sitting at No. 1 with 293.66 points, while the Fighting Irish is No. 2 with 292.03 points. Texas, Ohio State, and Georgia finish off the top five."
But what else?
I was excited to find out from SmartAsset that football isn't the only great thing about Tuscaloosa. They reviewed "data for the largest 200 metro areas across nine metrics on topics such as employment, earnings, housing costs and access to career guidance."
From this information, they have determined key findings for the "best places for career opportunities." There were some very interesting results within the top ten results.
Best Places for Career Opportunities
#10 Toledo, Ohio
#9 Fort Wayne, Indiana
#8 Salt Lake City, Utah
#7 Dayton, Ohio
#6 Cedar Rapids, Iowa
#5 Atlanta – Sandy Springs – Roswell, Georgia
#4 Tuscaloosa, Alabama
#3 Buffalo – Cheektowaga – Niagara Falls, New York
#2 Huntsville, Alabama
#1 Lafayette – West Lafayette, Indiana
How wild is that two cities from Alabama made the top ten? Let's give major kudos to Huntsville and Tuscaloosa for this accomplishment.
Why is Tuscaloosa, Alabama #4?
SmartAsset said that "Tuscaloosa, Alabama ranks in the top fifth of metro areas for its May 2022 unemployment rate (2.5%) and one-year change in total employment (4.10%). Additionally, Tuscaloosa has the 27th-lowest annual housing costs ($10,152). For professional guidance, workers have access to roughly three career counselors for every 1,000 workers (ranking 24th-highest)."
Huntsville is #2
Huntsville was recognized by SmartAsset and "ranks in the top 10 metro areas for two metrics. It has the fifth-lowest May 2022 unemployment rate (1.9%) and ranks seventh-highest for income growth between professionals aged 25 to 44 and those aged 45 to 64 (25.85%). Additionally, overall median earnings for workers in the metro area increased by roughly 15% over a two-year period ending in 2021."
It's great to know that even though football reigns supreme but career opportunities are flourishing in Tuscaloosa and Huntsville.
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Source: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Ranks High in Something Other Than Football


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Q: How to assign a permission group name in Android Here's a part of my manifest file:
<permission-group
    android:name="groupPerm"
    android:description="@string/perm_get_desc"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/perm_label" />

<permission
    android:name="bla.bla.GET_PHOTOS"
    android:description="@string/perm_get_desc"
    android:label="Access photos"
    android:permissionGroup="groupPerm"
    android:protectionLevel="dangerous" />
<permission
    android:name="bla.bla.DELETE_PHOTOS"
    android:description="@string/perm_delete_desc"
    android:label="Delete photos"
    android:permissionGroup="groupPerm"
    android:protectionLevel="dangerous" />

This doesn't give me any error. However, when I find in the Application manager this application and I go to Permissions, the two custom permissions show in the group Default, instead of the group I just declared above. Does anyone see what I am doing wrong?

A: So here is the solution to my own question.
<permission-group
    android:name="bla.bla.groupPerm"
    android:description="@string/perm_get_desc"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/perm_label" />

<permission
    android:name="bla.bla.GET_PHOTOS"
    android:description="@string/perm_get_desc"
    android:label="Access photos"
    android:permissionGroup="bla.bla.groupPerm"
    android:protectionLevel="dangerous" />
<permission
    android:name="bla.bla.DELETE_PHOTOS"
    android:description="@string/perm_delete_desc"
    android:label="Delete photos"
    android:permissionGroup="bla.bla.groupPerm"
    android:protectionLevel="dangerous" />

Apparently, the permission group name should contain the package name also and not just the permission name, as in my previous example: groupPerm. I.e., the correct name should be: bla.bla.groupPerm, where bla.bla is the namespace. If you don't do this, the permissions will show under Default group and would be listed: bla.bla.DELETE_PHOTOS and bla.bla.GET_PHOTOS.

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St George's Day celebrations: How to celebrate in the West Midlands
THE West Midlands will celebrate England's patron saint with a host of events and parades throughout the region to commemorate St George's Day.
Karl Ude-Martinez as St George in the 2011 celebrations in Birmingham
Although the official celebration is on Monday, festivities begin in Birmingham on Saturday, April 20.
Thousands of people are expected to welcome St George in the city on his trusty steed and visitors can enjoy traditional English food and local ale from 11am to 5pm in the area around Victoria Square and Chamberlain Square.
The Knights of Middle England will display their great swordsmanship skills and traditional musical acts, court jesters and Morris dancers, from the Jockey Men's Morris Club, Earlsdon Morris Men and Glorishears of Brummage, will provide entertainment.
Sharon Lea, strategic director for environment and culture at Birmingham City Council, said: "The free family-friendly activities and events complemented by the traditional markets and entertainment will present a wonderful opportunity for the city's residents to join together to celebrate England's fantastic heritage."
Dave Ward, chairman of the Birmingham St George's Day Association, added: "I am very proud to be the chairman of the Birmingham St George's Day Association. Every year Birmingham stages the best St George's day celebration in the whole of England.
"The children of Birmingham are now aware of their English identity whatever their ethnic background."
The daytime celebrations will be enhanced by a Celebrating England concert in Symphony Hall.
Further information about the show is available on 0121 303 3008.
For more details about Birmingham's St George's Day celebrations, go to www.birmingham.gov.uk/st-george. Details of how the rest of the region is celebrating are included below.
Go the the next page for more information>>>
Sandwell's medieval Manor House Museum will host a traditional St George's Day celebration tomorrow with music, dancing, falconry and craft activities. People can also meet a huge dragon and have a go on a 'human wrecking ball'.
Entry is free to the event, which will run from 12 noon to 4pm at the Manor House Museum, Hall Green Road, West Bromwich. There may be a small charge for some activities.
There is also a St George's Day concert, supported by Sandwell Council, taking place at the Salvation Army, in Meredith Street, Cradley Heath, tomorrow from 7pm with funds going to buy musical instruments for young people.
>>> More on Sandwell St George's Day celebrations
Drivers and residents are being advised of possible delays in parts of West Bromwich when a number of roads are closed as part of the planned St George's Day Parade on Sunday. More than 25,000 attended the parade from the Stone Cross area to the town's Dartmouth Park last year, making the event the UK's largest celebration of England's patron saint.
The temporary closures will take place between 9.30am and 1pm. The roads will not be closed for the entire period and will reopen once the parade has successfully passed by.
>>> More on West Bromwich road closures for St George's Day
Bikers, cars, scooters, trikes, trucks and vans flying the Cross of St George will be the highlight of a parade in Solihull on Sunday from 6.15pm.
Proceeds raised from the event will be donated to the Troop Aid charity
More than 300 bikes and 100 other vehicles are expected to travel through the area's streets to mark the celebration.
Organisers of all the events are keen to stress that it is a family celebration and has no political motivation.
>>>More on Solihull's 'unofficial' St George's Day Parade
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Biathlon Sprint @lillehammer results: Morton gives scoreboard a shake while Mahon savours sportsmanship
February 15, 2016 · by Australian Biathlon
Retrans from Australian Olympic Committee: BIATHLON: It is unusual to see the Australian flag near the top of the leaderboard in an Olympic sport dominated by nations where people ski to commute. However that is what Darcie Morton did at the Youth Olympic Games in the 6km biathlon sprint on Sunday.
The 16-year-old only missed one shot at the range and skied strongly to be sitting in third place when she crossed the finish line. This brought a big smile to her face and the pain in the legs seemed to fade away.
"I'm really happy with my result. I finished the race and saw that I was third and it blew my mind I just couldn't believe it," Morton said.
However, out of the 49 person field she was skier number 10, so her eventual placing was 16th. To be only 20 seconds off the top 10 though is still very impressive against the world's best juniors.
Morton has been based in Italy training for several months and studying by distance education with the hard work and preparation paying off.
"Being in Europe for so long and training with Luca, the other Italians and Australians at Lavinio (Italy) has been a really good prep."
Australian Youth Coach Luca Bormolini was very pleased with the result and full of praise for Morton.
"Darcie did a very great race and everyone should be proud of her," Bormolini said. "Darcie's too easy to coach. She's perfect. She doesn't complain, she always trains hard and I think if she continues like this the future is in her hands."
She was cheered on today but her mum and aunty, while her Olympian father Cameron (Torino 2006) was back home in Australia working. Her brother Damon is also a top biathlete.
The last time an Australian woman did reach the top 10 of an Olympic event was in fact at Lillehammer in 1994 when Kerryn Rim finished 8th in the individual event, Australia's best ever result.
Sportsmanship the highlight of Mahon's international debut
It was a competition placing that Darcie Morton's teammate, Jethro Mahon, may care to forget. But he will not forget the act of kindness from a fellow biathlete and the magnitude of competing at the Youth Olympic Games.
Not long after the first shoot – one-third of the way into the 7.5km race – Mahon had lost his balance and ended up breaking the binding in his ski, which could have ended his race.
Pic courtesy of Vegard Anders Skorpen, IOC Young Reporters
"I was falling and I miss-timed it and ended up putting my pole in between my skis and I tripped over it," Mahon explained.
"I broke my binding on the top and luckily an Estonian biathlete came and gave me a spare ski which was really nice of them.
"It's the ultimate gesture of sportsmanship. I still can't believe what he did. It was a fully race prepared ski as well which is quite time consuming to do."
It was still no easy ride for the 17-year-old from Melbourne in his first major international competition.
"It was a different length ski and a different brand of ski so it was really awkward at first and it was hard on my morale as well. After my fall and I realised me ski was broken I thought what do I do? Do I give up or not? It's good that I finished the race but it wasn't a good race I must say".
Tomorrow is another day and Mahon will contest the Pursuit event on Monday in Lillehammer.
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CIM Pierre Boulez Tribute: "Boulez the Modernist II" (Oct. 26)
November 10, 2016 by Daniel Hathaway
The CIM faculty recital on October 26 in Mixon Hall featured members of Ars Futura and guests in a program of music by Pierre Boulez and others, all related in some way to the career of the late, great French composer and conductor. The performance was the fourth of five concerts created by CIM composition head Keith Fitch to celebrate "The Boulez Legacy," and the second to explore "Boulez the Modernist." [Read more…]
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Benjamin Chen, Cleveland Institute of Music, Daniel Pereira, Eric Wong, Keith Fitch, Madeline Lucas Tolliver, Pablo Devigo, Pierre Boulez, Shuai Wang, Thomas Sherwood, Yun-Ting Lee
Boulez Legacy Series at CIM concludes with CIM new Music Ensemble (Oct. 30)
November 1, 2016 by Timothy Robson
by Timothy Robson
"Boulez the Advocate and Mentor," the last of five concerts at CIM honoring the late Pierre Boulez, took place on October 30 at Mixon Hall. Appropriately, the CIM New Music Ensemble, directed by Keith Fitch, was joined by soloist Joshua Smith (CIM faculty member and Cleveland Orchestra principal flute), who performed many times under Boulez's direction. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Augusta Read Thomas, CIM New Music Ensemble, Cleveland Institute of Music, Joshua Smith, Keith Fitch, Pierre Boulez
Boulez Legacy continues at CIM with Ars Futura program October 26
October 21, 2016 by Mike Telin
by Mike Telin
The Boulez Legacy will continue on Wednesday, October 26 at 8:00 pm in Mixon Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music with a faculty recital featuring the new music ensemble Ars Futura. The program, titled "Boulez the Modernist II," will feature works by Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Mario Davidovsky, György Ligeti, and Olivier Messiaen.
"I'm honored to be a part of this series, and I learned a lot about Boulez when choosing this repertoire, pianist Shuai Wang said during a recent conference call that included flutist Madeline Lucas Tolliver. "I remember hearing a concert Boulez conducted with The Cleveland Orchestra when I first came to CIM to study — it was amazing," Wang said. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Previews Tagged With: Ars Futura, Boulez Legacy, Cleveland Institute of Music, Madeline Lucas Toliver, Pierre Boulez, Shuai Wang
Boulez tribute at CIM continues with "Boulez the Conductor" on October 5
October 4, 2016 by Mike Telin
Pierre Boulez conducted The Cleveland Orchestra over a span of nearly fifty years. After making his American professional conducting debut with the Orchestra in 1965, he led them in more than 220 concerts. He was appointed the Orchestra's first Principal Guest Conductor in 1969 and served as Musical Advisor for two seasons beginning shortly after George Szell's death in 1970.
On Wednesday, October 5 at 8:00 pm in Kulas Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Steven Smith will lead the CIM Orchestra in a program titled "Boulez the Conductor" as part of CIM's series celebrating "The Boulez Legacy." The evening will feature Stravinsky's Le Chant du Rossignol, Mahler's "Adagio" from Symphony No. 10, and Messiaen's Sept Haïkaï: Esquisses japonaises with Cleveland Orchestra principal keyboard and CIM faculty member Joela Jones as soloist.
Filed Under: Previews Tagged With: Cleveland Institute of Music, Joela Jones, Pierre Boulez, Steven Smith
CIM: "Boulez the Friend and Teacher" with Carolyn Warner & Friends (Sept. 28)
October 4, 2016 by Robert Rollin
by Robert Rollin
On September 28 in Mixon Hall, the Cleveland Institute of Music presented the second Boulez Legacy concert, subtitled "Boulez the Friend and Teacher," featuring Carolyn Warner and Friends in a program of French, German, and Russian duos and trios that reflected Boulez's musical interests. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Ari Michael Warner, Brian Thornton, Carolyn Warner, Cleveland Institute of Music, Daniel Shapiro, Franklin Cohen, James Umble, Mari Sato, Pierre Boulez, Victor Beyen
Boulez tribute at CIM continues with "Boulez the Friend and Teacher"
September 27, 2016 by Mike Telin
On Wednesday, September 28 at 8:00 pm in Mixon Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music, pianists Carolyn Warner and Daniel Shapiro will join clarinetist Franklin Cohen, saxophonist James Umble, violinists Stephen Warner and Mari Sato, and cellist Brian Thornton in a program titled "Boulez the Friend and Teacher." The concert is part of CIM's series celebrating "The Boulez Legacy."
"This concert completely lives up to its title," program curator Carolyn Warner said during a recent telephone conversation. Warner, who joined the violin and keyboard sections of The Cleveland Orchestra in 1979 and serves on the CIM faculty, noted that deciding to include the two works by Ravel was a no-brainer. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Previews Tagged With: Brian Thornton, Carolyn Warner, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Orchestra, Daniel Shapiro, Franklin Cohen, James Umble, Mari Sato, Pierre Boulez, Stephen Warner
The Boulez Legacy: Boulez the Modernist I at Mixon Hall, CIM (September 25)
September 27, 2016 by Timothy Robson
On Sunday afternoon, September 25th, The Cleveland Institute of Music began a series of seven concerts celebrating the musical legacy of French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, whose relationship with The Cleveland Orchestra and other Cleveland musical institutions spanned almost 50 years. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Barrick Stees, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Orchestra, Devin Hinzo, Frank Rosenwein, Keith Fitch, Mark Popkin, Mary Kay Fink, Pierre Boulez, Richard King, Robert Woolfrey, Terry Orcutt
Cleveland Institute of Music to celebrate the legacy of composer/conductor Pierre Boulez
First in a series of articles.
French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez passed away on January 5, 2016, at the age of 90. In his obituary the following day, The Guardian (London) wrote:
Pierre Boulez was arguably the single dominant figure of the classical musical world through the second half of the 20th century and beyond. Without his compositions, his legacy of recordings as a conductor, his writings on music, and his administrative skill and drive, the musical scene today would be of a quite different order."
On Sunday, September 25 at 4:00 pm in Mixon Hall, the Cleveland Institute of Music will present the first of seven events celebrating "The Boulez Legacy." [Read more…]
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Kurtág (pictured above in 2007), who worked with Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris from 1999-2001, wrote Petite musique solennelle to honor Boulez on his 90th birthday, a landmark that was also observed by The Cleveland Orchestra in a special concert in January of 2015. (Boulez died almost exactly one year later.)
In an interview for a preview of that event on ClevelandClassical.com, TCO principal keyboardist Joela Jones said, "To me it's amazing that somebody who was so great, so brilliant, and so gifted, could also be so humble and modest. He just made you feel comfortable, like you were his equal, which of course you were not. And, if you had enough intelligence you knew that." [Read more…]
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Fondation CHU Teh-Chun celebrates the Centenary of the artist's birth
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A major figure in lyrical abstraction modernist art, born on 24 October 1920, Franco-Chinese artist CHU Teh-Chun would have been 100 years old this year, and to mark the occasion, the foundation has created a documentary that invites viewers to discover the story and remarkable work of this prolific artist. This exceptional journey through the visual symphony of CHU's work will be open to the public at the Shanghai Grand Theatre on 6 December 2020.
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Acclaimed for integrating traditional Chinese painting with Western abstract art in his own unique style, CHU pushed the boundaries between the real and the unreal in an exquisite blend of painting, music and poetry. In 1997, he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris, the first French citizen of Chinese descent to be chosen for the honour. "He is the only painter of his generation to have reached so far in his search to create a symbiosis of his two cultures" said François Cheng, poet, essayist, novelist and a friend of CHU.
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Thomas Cyril "Cy" White (1915 – August 4, 1979) was a Canadian curler. He was the second on the Billy Walsh rink that won the Brier Championship for Manitoba 1956. He was a post office employee in Winnipeg. He was married to Winnifred and had three children.

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Talkin' Bout Education, Oprah & Superman
27 Sep 2010 Author: Jill Tubman (Cheryl Contee)
The prez was on the Today Show this am talkin' bout education in America with Matt Lauer. He sounded committed to improving education in this country, especially the lowest performing 5% of schools. He also touched on some high profile gifts to schools recently. From USA Today:
"Money without reform will not fix the problems," Obama said.
The president also called for longer school years, saying that U.S. competitors keep their children in schools for an an average of a month longer. "That month makes a difference," Obama said, though he added "that's going to cost some money … That would be money well spent."
As the child of educators, I am glad to hear it. A lot of politicians pay lip service to education but because reform is difficult, shy away from the challenge of actual change. Yet we know what makes good schools: small classes, teachers with the freedom and creativity to teach, high standards, healthy lunches, good books, art/science/music/sports and safety.
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook gave $100 million to Cory Booker and the public schools of Newark. Cory Booker, it is rumored, used to date Oprah's BFF Gayle King.
Perhaps it's a coincidence but Oprah has also given $100 million to 6 American schools. Here's education blog Get Schooled:
On September 20th, The Oprah Winfrey Show took on education in America. Oprah devoted most of the show to showing Waiting for "Superman�, the new education documentary by Davis Guggenheim that shows American kids' desperate need for better schools.
The show audience's reaction to the film was stark: "sad,� "outraged,� "distressed,� "unfair,� and even "I can't believe this is happening in America.� However, Oprah ended on a high note by giving $1,000,000 each to the principals of six leading charter schools across the country that are changing the life trajectories of their students.
These six schools were:
Aspire Public Schools (California)
Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST)
LEARN Charter School Network (Chicago, IL)
Mastery Charter Schools (Philadelphia, PA)
New Orleans Charter Science and Math Academy – Sci Academy
YES Prep Public Schools (Houston, TX)
The Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) was one of our six finalists in the Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge. President Obama gave a commencement speech to students at the winning school. When they were named as a finalist, the principal reacted, "I can't tell you how exciting this is.�
DSST, a public college prep school with open enrollment, graduated 100% of its first senior class. Overall, 45% of its students are economically disadvantaged, 60% are Hispanic or African-American, and 50% are first generation college bound. Most enter the school at least a grade level behind in math and English.
DSST and the other 5 schools above are just a sampling of schools across the country doing great things for their students. How will you step up and help your local school do the same?
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Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's commutation of former President Alberto Fujimori's prison sentence – in exchange for some fujimorista support against his impeachment by Congress on corruption charges – has thrown the country's politics into a tailspin and increased the prospects of prolonged national crisis.
PPK was accused of involvement in corrupt deals with Peruvian and Brazilian construction companies – part of the massive Brazil-based Lava Jato scandal – while he was Minister of Economy and Prime Minister under President Alejandro Toledo (2001-06). By ordering Fujimori's release, he rewarded Kenji Fujimori and dissident Fuerza Popular MPs, who'd already split with party leader and sister Keiko over her wavering commitment to get their father out of jail at all cost, for their votes against the impeachment. After emphatically denying he would do so, PPK granted Fujimori a humanitarian pardon on medical grounds, after which the former President experienced a recovery robust enough to resume political activism just days later.
The Fujimori indulto has aggravated deep and longstanding tensions within and among the country's parties and civil society. After the impeachment proceedings collapsed, three of PPK`s MPs and three of his ministers resigned in protest, and even the lawyer who defended him against impeachment has denounced his actions as a political scam. PPK's popular approval has sunk to 20 percent, and reliable polls show that more than half of the population rejects the indulto. Protests are growing. Some 30,000 to 40,000 people marched through Lima on January 11, condemning the collusion of corrupt elites to protect each other, and more demonstrations are planned.
Longtime observers in Lima say that the pro-Fujimori Fuerza Popular remains deeply divided as siblings Kenji and Keiko are at each other's throats over the control of the party and relations with the PPK administration. Even if Alberto and Kenji Fujimori continue to support PPK for a while, open wounds from the close presidential race between PPK and Keiko in 2016 complicate cooperation and in fact may deepen the riff as Keiko's close collaborators now accuse the PPK camp causing the Fuerza Popular crisis, even denouncing that fujimorista votes were paid for. Informed speculation is that Keiko will fan the flames of scandal enveloping PPK (even though she reportedly has her own liabilities in Lava Jato) pushing for his fall in hopes of securing early elections rather than waiting until 2021.
The left, centrist sectors, and even some conservatives such as Nobel Prize novelist Mario Vargas Llosa have given up any pretense of coexisting with PPK. Human rights organizations and trade unions are demanding Alberto Fujimori be sent back to prison; denouncing the "corrupt alliance" between PPK, the Fujimoris, and the business elites; and insisting that ongoing investigations be pursued no matter who they bring down. In some sectors, the leftist call for a new Constitution breaking the bond between the state and big business is gaining support.
PPK is a lame duck president with general elections still four years away. In Congress, which is presided over by a forceful opponent – Luis Galarreta – his base has shrunk to 15 MPs, and he depends heavily on the support of fair-weather friends like Alberto and Kenji Fujimori. The economy grew 2.7 percent last year, according to the Central Bank, but fell short of targets. Lava Jato – which has already landed former President Ollanta Humala in jail and prompted extradition proceedings against former President Toledo (living in the United States) – is not going away, with new information expected soon from Brazil. Popular rejection of the political class, which is seen as corrupt and cynical, will deepen. Talk in Lima isn't about if PPK will go, but when. His fate at this moment appears to depend less on his own cunning and more on the political calculations and unstable relations between the two Fujimori factions and the rest of the parties in Congress and on the strength of street protests.


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Melinda Kenneway, Founder & CEO of Kudos
Melinda Kenneway is the founder and CEO of Kudos, a platform which enables researchers to share their research outside of the academic sphere. The platform is now used by around 375000 researchers worldwide, with organisational customers that include leading publishers and universities. She additionally was a founder of the marketing and consulting firm TIB communications. With a wealth of experience in the world of academia and research from her initial grounding in the industry at Oxford University Press, Melinda's decision to venture into the world of setting up her own companies enabled her to find greater creative freedom, as well as tackle the gap in the market between the world of academia and how such knowledge is conveyed to the wider world. The work which Kudos does not only provides products and services but also seeks to readdresses the process of reward and recognition in academia, creating generational, long term change.
What is your background? What made you decide to get involved in supporting entrepreneurs?
After graduating I got a job working in sales for Mercantile Credit Financing, which was Oxford -based – a key criteria as I'd come to love the city after three years of study here. Over three years this role taught me some invaluable commercial and influencing skills, but the financial world in the early 90s was challenging and I was eventually made redundant. A friend suggested publishing to me, and after a few interviews, I landed a marketing role at Oxford University Press – a side of selling which I was becoming ever-more interested in, in a positive way – how good marketing could be used to inspire customers and influence people in ways that could be beneficial for them and the company. I quickly advanced my career at OUP, but after 13 years of working in one company I decided that I wanted the opportunity to gain broader experience, and without the constraints of working for an established company with established ways of doing things. I set up TBI communications, a marketing and consulting company which worked with publishers, universities and others in the research sector, helping me get a rounded understanding of the many parties with a stake in how academia works. One critical gap I kept seeing was how research is communicated to audiences outside of academia – there seemed a huge gap between the technical documents that served academic readership so well, and those that could put that knowledge into practice – policy makers, educators, industry, the media and public. After many years of talking about this I decided to do something about it, so Kudos was launched, with the help of my two co-founders – Charlie Rapple and David Sommer.
What is your definition of entrepreneurship?
For me entrepreneurship is about successful problem solving. It is about encountering a problem and finding a solution which gets used – it may or may not be a commercial success, but individuals and society more generally benefit.
How and when did you know your idea was good enough to develop it?
There were clear ways of measuring this! Initially we pitched the idea for Kudos to four or five publishers, who provided us with money to run a prototype site which we then invited researchers to use by creating profiles of their publications explaining the relevance and importance of their research. In this initial stage, we had around 5000 researchers participate. This was an amazing moment, and led to us getting further investment afterwards.
What would you say are the top 3 skills that needed to be a successful entrepreneur? Why?
Vision- because entrepreneurship is not just about creating a solution, it is about taking people with you and persuading others that your vision will work.
Resilience, because starting up your own business is harder than you ever expect. And also persistence, because you don't get instant rewards and are not always immediately successful, you have to keep trying and trying.
What is your favourite part of being an entrepreneur?
Creativity and having the freedom and opportunity to make something of value that was not there before.
What individual, company or organization inspires you most? Why?
My mother, who was the first in her family over many generations to go to university, achieving a first at Reading University in Landscape Design and Horticulture. She had a deep and natural belief in the abilities of women and what could be achieved if you tried hard enough. She was my guiding light in the early and most difficult days of founding Kudos, with her motto: "just keeping putting one foot in front of the other" something I think about every day and for every challenge I face.
If you had 5 minutes with the above individual/ company/organization, what would you want to ask or discuss?
Whilst she is no longer with me today, I still keep in my mind the advice which she would give to me in my head; she would tell me to keep believing in myself and keep doing my best.
What has been your most satisfying or successful moment in business?
When Kudos won the ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) award for publishing innovation. This was a long but rewarding process: we had to apply, give a competitive pitch, undergo peer evaluation and undergo comparison against every other new idea within the sector. When our company was announced as winner, it felt amazing, because this was real acknowledgement of our achievements from our peers.
What would you say have been some of your mistakes, failures or lessons learned as an entrepreneur?
There have been lots of mistakes and lessons learned along the way! The nature of my career has meant I have had to learn on the job, making mistakes as I go. I have learned that mistakes themselves are not generally a problem – they can help you learn really fast. The trick is not to repeat them or ignore them by
How have you funded your ideas?
Unusually, our initial funding came from customers! After our initial success however, the company has been on an investment journey: we have done several rounds of angel investment: with OION in Oxford and the Enterprise 100 angel at London Business School. More recently we have received more substantial investment from a London-based growth investment fund.
Are there any sector-specific awards/grants/competitions that have helped you?
Not sector specific, but we have taken advantage of the Innovate UK government funding.
What is good about being an entrepreneur in Oxfordshire? Bad?
Oxford is an inspiring place: a seat of international research, progress and thinking. It is a strong base to create international links.
If a new entrepreneur or startup came to you looking for entrepreneurship resources, where would you send them?
OION can help you tap into the angel network, and I know there is a wealth of resources for start-ups at the Said Business School.
Have you faced any challenges as a woman entrepreneur? If so, how have you overcome them?
In the early days of Kudos, I remember going to an entrepreneurship event which was almost exclusively male. I attended with my two other founders, one of whom is male, and it seemed that everyone wanted to talk to him. I think the way I overcome things like this is by not letting it bother me, asserting myself and just doing my best, challenging the culture by doing rather than saying.
What resources would you recommend for other women?
Not a specific resource, but I would definitely say don't let other people's attitudes be an obstacle for you. Believe in yourself and build a network for support and advice.
How could institutions such as the University of Oxford better support women entrepreneurs?
Oxford sends people into the world with many of the skills they need to be successful entrepreneurs. That in itself is a gift. More peer networking and mentoring support might be helpful.
Do you have any advice specifically for other women who want to be entrepreneurs?
Be ready to adapt you style, using your skills to influence, even if you feel like you do not have the natural confidence, through suggestion and inspiration you have the capacity to move things forward.
Any last words of advice?
Don't overthink things: if you have an idea, just try it, you succeed and learn by making mistakes. Many people have ideas but most don't act on them. Take that first step.


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Q: Understanding the syntax for Column vs Row indexing in R I'm a bit confused on the filtering scheme on an R data frame.
For example, let's say we have the following data frame titled dframe:
> str(dframe)
'data.frame':   143 obs. of  3 variables:
 $ Year     : int  1999 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2005 2006 2007 2008 ...
 $ Name     : Factor w/ 18 levels "AADAM","AADEN",..: 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 ...
 $ Frequency: int  5 6 10 34 38 12 10 6 10 5 ...

Now if I want to filter dframe where the values of Name is of "AADAM", the proper filter is:
dframe[dframe$Name=="AADAM",]
The part where I'm confused is why the comma doesn't come first. Why isn't it this: dframe[,dframe$Name=="AARUSH"]

A: UPDATE: You clarified your question is really "Please give examples of what sort of logical expressions are valid for filtering columns?"
I agree with you the syntax appears weird initially, but it has the following logic.
The bottom line is that column-filter expressions are typically less rich and expressive than row-filtering expressions, and in particular you can't chain logical indexing the way you do with rows.
Best way is to think of indexing expressions as the general form:
dframe[<row-index-expression>,<col-index-expression>]

where either index-expression is optional, so you can just do one and we (crucially!) need the comma to disambiguate whether it's row- or column-indexing:
dframe[<row-index-expression>,] # such as dframe[dframe$Name=="ADAM",]

dframe[,<col-index-expression>]

Before we look at examples of col-index-expression and what's valid (and invalid) to include in one, let's review and discuss how R does indexing - I had the same confusion when I started with it.
In this example, you have three columns. You can refer to them by their string names 'Year','Name','Frequency'. You can also refer to them by column indices 1,2,3 where the numbers 1,2,3 correspond to the entries colnames(dframe). R does indexing using the '[' operator, also the '[[' operator. Here are some valid examples of ways to index column-indexing:
dframe[,2]       # column 2 / Name
dframe[,'Name']  # column 2 / Name
dframe[,c('Name','Frequency')]  # string vector - very common
dframe[,c(2,3)]                 # integer vector - also very common
dframe[,c(F,T,T)]               # logical vector - very rarely seen, and a pain in the butt to compute

Now, if you choose to use a logical expression for the column-index, it must be a valid expression without using column names - inside a column it doesn't know their own names.
Suppose you wanted to dynamically filter "give me only the factor columns from dframe".
Something like:
unlist(apply(dframe[1,1:3], 2, is.factor), use.names=F) # except I can't seem to remove the colnames

For more help and examples on indexing look at the '[' operator help-page:
Type ?'['
dframe[,dframe$Name=="ADAM"] is invalid attempt at column-indexing because the columns know nothing about Name=="ADAM"
Addendum: code to generate example dataframe (because you didn't dump us a dput output)
set.seed(123)
N = 10
randomName <- function() { cat(sample(letters, size=runif(1)*6+2, replace=T), sep='') }
dframe = data.frame(Year=round(runif(N,1980,2014)),
                    Name = as.factor(replicate(N, randomName())),
                    Frequency=round(runif(N, 2,40)))

A: You have to remember that when you're sub-setting, the part before the comma is specifying which rows you want, and the part after the comma is specifying which columns you want. ie:
dframe[rowsyouwant, columnsyouwant]

You're filtering based on columns, but you want all of the columns in your result, so the space after the comma is blank. You want some sub-set of rows, so your filtering specification goes before the comma, where the rows you want are specified.

A: As others have indicated, requesting a certain subset of a data frame requires the syntax [rows, columns]. Since dframe[has 143 rows, has 3 columns], any request for some part of dframe should be of the form
dframe[which of the 143 rows do I want?, which of the 3 columns do I want?].

Because dframe$Name is a vector of length 143, the comparison dframe$Name=='AADAM' is a vector of T/F values that also has length 143. So,
dframe[dframe$Name=='AADAM',]

is like saying
dframe[of the 143 rows I want these ones, I want all columns]

whereas
dframe[,dframe$Name=='AADAM']

generates an error because it's like saying
dframe[I want all rows, of the 143 columns I want these ones]

On a side note, you may want to look into the subset() function if you're not already familiar with it. You could get the same result by writing subset(dframe, Name=='AADAM')

A: As others have said, the structure within brackets is row, then column.
One way I think of the syntax of selecting data from a data.frame using:
dframe[dframe$Name=="AADAM",]

is to think of a noun, then a verb where:
dframe[] is the noun.  It is the object on which you want to perform an action
and
[dframe$Name=="AADAM",] is the verb.  It is the action you want to perform.
I have a silly way of expressing this to myself, but it keeps things straight in my mind:
Hey, you!  dframe!  I am going to...  ...in this case, select all of your rows in which Name is equal to AADAM!
By keeping the column portion of [dframe$Name=="AADAM",] blank you are saying you want to keep all columns.
Sometimes it can be a little difficult to remember that you have to write dframe both inside and outside the brackets.
As for exactly why row comes first and column comes second, I do not know, but row had to be either first or second.
dframe <- read.table(text = '
     Year Name Frequency
       1  ADAM     4
       3  BOB     10
       7  SALLY    5
       2  ADAM    12
       4  JIM      3
      12  ADAM     7
', header = TRUE)

dframe[,dframe$Name=="ADAM"]

# Error in `[.data.frame`(dframe, , dframe$Name == "ADAM") :
#   undefined columns selected

dframe[dframe$Name=="ADAM",]

#   Year Name Frequency
# 1    1 ADAM         4
# 4    2 ADAM        12
# 6   12 ADAM         7

dframe[,'Name']

# [1] ADAM  BOB   SALLY ADAM  JIM   ADAM
# Levels: ADAM BOB JIM SALLY

dframe[dframe$Name=="ADAM",'Name']

# [1] ADAM ADAM ADAM
# Levels: ADAM BOB JIM SALLY