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Reppe (deutsch früher Rispach) ist eine französische Gemeinde im Département Territoire de Belfort in der Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Geographie
Reppe liegt auf 362 m, etwa 13 Kilometer ostnordöstlich der Stadt Belfort (Luftlinie). Das ehemalige Straßenzeilendorf erstreckt sich in der Burgundischen Pforte, auf dem Plateau im Vorland der Vogesen, in der weiten Talmulde östlich des Baches Loutre (im weiteren Verlauf auch Reppe genannt).

Die Fläche des  km² großen Gemeindegebiets umfasst einen Abschnitt der nur schwach reliefierten Landschaft im Bereich der Burgundischen Pforte (Trouée de Belfort). Der zentrale Teil des Gebietes wird in Nord-Süd-Richtung von der Talebene der Loutre durchquert, die eine Breite von rund einem Kilometer aufweist. Der Bach entwässert das Gebiet über die Bourbeuse zur Allaine. Die Ebene im Vogesenvorland liegt auf durchschnittlich 360 m. Sie ist überwiegend mit Acker- und Wiesland bedeckt, zeigt aber auch einige Waldflächen. Nach Osten steigt das Gelände leicht an zum bewaldeten Plateau des Haut-Bois, auf dem mit 399 m die höchste Erhebung von Reppe erreicht wird. Im Südosten erstreckt sich das Gemeindeareal bis an den Rand des Bois de l'Épine.

Nachbargemeinden von Reppe sind Vauthiermont und Saint-Cosme im Norden, Bréchaumont im Osten, Chavannes-sur-l'Étang im Süden sowie Fontaine im Westen.

Geschichte
Erstmals urkundlich erwähnt wird Reppe im Jahr 1331 unter dem Namen Riespach. Es gehörte damals zur Herrschaft Thann. Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts gelangte Reppe unter die Oberhoheit der Habsburger. Zusammen mit dem Sundgau kam das Dorf mit dem Westfälischen Frieden 1648 an die französische Krone. Seit 1793 gehörte Reppe zum Département Haut-Rhin, verblieb jedoch 1871 als Teil des Territoire de Belfort im Gegensatz zum restlichen Elsass bei Frankreich. Seit 1997 war Reppe zunächst mit 12 anderen Gemeinden zum Gemeindeverband Communauté de communes du Tilleul zusammengeschlossen, der 2017 in der Communauté d'agglomération Grand Belfort aufging.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
Die Kirche St. Blasius (Église Saint-Blaise) wurde 1777 errichtet. Ein typisches Beispiel der Architektur des 19. Jahrhunderts ist die Mairie-École (Gemeinde- und Schulhaus), die 1846 aus rotem Sandstein aus den Vogesen erbaut wurde. Aus dem 19. Jahrhundert stammt auch die Kapelle Notre-Dame de Bellefontaine.

Siehe auch: Liste der Monuments historiques in Reppe

Bevölkerung

Mit  Einwohnern () gehört Reppe zu den kleinen Gemeinden des Départements Territoire de Belfort. Nachdem die Einwohnerzahl in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts abgenommen hatte (1896 wurden noch 291 Personen gezählt), wurde seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre wieder ein Bevölkerungswachstum verzeichnet.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur
Reppe war bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein ein vorwiegend durch die Landwirtschaft (Ackerbau, Obstbau und Viehzucht) und die Forstwirtschaft geprägtes Dorf. Heute gibt es einige Betriebe des lokalen Kleingewerbes und ein Unternehmen des Landmaschinenbaus. Auf dem Gemeindeboden befand sich ein Teil der Pistenanlagen des 1986 stillgelegten Flugplatzes Belfort-Fontaine. Hier entsteht seit 1992 der Aéroparc, eine große Gewerbe- und Industriezone. Mittlerweile hat sich das Dorf zu einer Wohngemeinde gewandelt. Viele Erwerbstätige sind auch Wegpendler, die in den Agglomerationen Belfort und Mülhausen ihrer Arbeit nachgehen.

Die Ortschaft liegt abseits der größeren Straßenverbindungen an einer Departementsstraße, die von Foussemagne nach Vauthiermont führt. Der nächste Anschluss an die Autobahn A36 befindet sich in einer Entfernung von ungefähr fünf Kilometern. Weitere Straßenverbindungen bestehen mit Fontaine, Bréchaumont und Elbach.

Literatur
 Le Patrimoine des Communes du Territoire de Belfort. Flohic Editions, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-037-X, S. 160–161.

Weblinks

 Informationen über die Gemeinde Reppe (französisch)

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Brain Confidence: How Our Neurons Make Decisions
John Cookson
Confidence is a trait typically cast as a higher-order function in the brain. It's at once the act of making a decision, recognizing the decision as thought, and measuring the degree to which that decision makes sense. An impartial judge it's not, prophet even less, yet confidence surely requires self-awareness, a metacognition unmatched in the animal kingdom. Right?
Research from Adam Kepecs and his fellow neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory says otherwise. Their work with rats suggests that confidence estimates—tracking one's confidence while making a decision and anticipating a result—are at work even in rodent brains. Moreover, his studies suggest "confidence estimation may be a fundamental and ubiquitous component of decision-making."
Kepecs says his research seeks to understand the mechanisms of how confidence works at the level of the neuron. The goal is to "understand how their connections, how their architecture and how the dynamics that run on that architecture allows us or allows mammals in general to make decisions to compute confidence about decisions."
His work centers on rats, though its implications stretch out across a broader set of mammals. "From an evolutionary perspective, rats are not that different from us," he says. "Some of the fundamental brain architecture is really common and that really allows us to tap into a system that is simpler ... that is a great advantage."
The neurology of decision-making has been the focus of a number of studies on both humans and other animals which have sought to map experiences ranging from mental deliberation to the processing of the resulting reward or regret.
Researchers in one human-based study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track brain activity in the lead up to a decision by gradually revealing a photograph. Before the participants recognized the image—before the decision was made about what the picture showed—a network of brain activity registered across the brain. Yet, parts of the brain remained at lower-level activity until the very moment of recognition, at which point activity spiked and the regions lit up on the scans. The researchers concluded such findings begin to outline a hierarchy of neural pathways at play in decision-making in which the "eureka" moment is tracked in specific parts of the brain.
Such research has also allowed neuroscience to locate specific cells and brain regions critical to decision-making, such as the von Economo neurons and the striatum. Von Economo neurons, also called spindle neurons, are unique in big-brained mammals, including whales, dolphins and elephants. In humans, these neurons are thought to facilitate complex thinking and are found in limited areas of the cingulate cortex, the area just above the corpus callosum that connects the left and right brain hemispheres.
As well, research links the striatum, a cluster of neurons in the basal ganglia at the base of the forebrain, with both flexible and stimulus-response decision-making. Researchers can even pinpoint which parts of the striatum are at work in each type of decision, with the interior, side part of the striatum favoring stimulus-response strategies and the front and interior-middle favoring goal-directed strategies. Even with this pinpoint research that identifies specific regions as important to decision-making, the process itself plays out across the brain. This includes regions of the brain that evolved earlier and, in some form, are mirrored in the brain evolution of other mammals.
Similar neural architecture among mammals led Kepecs and his team to focus on rats. While rodent decision-making is of course not anywhere near as complex as that of humans, decision-making and access to the reward-based expectations created by confidence is, to some degree, innate to these animals, says Kepecs.
Kepecs and his team test for confidence estimations by training the rodents to perform a simple task involving the choice between options. With a correct option, and one that is correct all the time, confidence comes easily. The real test comes when the difficulty is ramped up, when the same actions don't produce the same results, and when a delay is introduced between performing the action and the reward—in other words, when there is plenty of opportunity for confidence to drop as it comes in friction with results.
Performing tests hundreds and hundreds of times a day with varied difficulty, Kepecs says, allows researchers "to calibrate [the rats'] confidence in these simple decisions and it also allow us from a neurobiological perspective to actually look into their brain and what happens in their brains when they're doing this task."
"In some ways we feel that rodents have all the components that make them function, that make them able to decide, and it's going to be easier for us to understand," he says.
Neuroscience research is revealing how the chemistry and architecture of the brain make decisions for us, and how the brain's reaction to decision-making is based on confidence. Researchers has shown that a networked, hierarchical process is strung out across the brain to achieve these functions, even while specific neuron clusters are more active than others in helping us make decisions.
While human-focused research uses leading-edge brain scans, some scientists are studying the neurology of decision-making in rodents because their brains are evolutionarily similar to those of humans.
—Wheeler, M., et al., "Accumulation and the Moment of Recognition: Dissociating Perceptual Recognition Processes Using fMRI."
—Allman, JM., "The von Economo neurons in frontoinsular and anterior cingulate cortex in great apes and humans."
—Johnson, A., et al. "Integrating hippocampus and striatum in decision-making."
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Steph Curry Speaks on How He Is Raising His Daughters to Be Empowered
"I want our girls to grow up knowing that there are no boundaries that can be placed on their futures, period."
By Raz Robinson
Aug 27 2018, 4:47 PM
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When NBA superstar Steph Curry isn't embarrassing your favorite basketball player or effortlessly winning another NBA championship, he's actually quite the family man. Curry, now a father of three, just hosted his first annual basketball camp for girls and as his two eldest daughters get older, the idea of raising them to feel like empowered women has been on his mind. That is why he decided to write a powerful open letter for The Players Tribune, where he broke down exactly what he and his wife are doing to ensure their daughters have the confidence to believe in themselves and chase their dreams.
Curry began by talking about his own wife and mother and how being around the two of them has made him the type of man who is 100 percent aware of a woman's ability to be independently successful in business and in life. But as his daughter Riley begins to express interest in cooking and basketball, two male-dominated fields, he expressed some fear that she might be cast aside because she's a woman.
"I want our girls to grow up knowing that there are no boundaries that can be placed on their futures, period. I want them to grow up in a world where their gender does not feel like a rulebook for what they should think, or be, or do," Curry wrote. "And I want them to grow up believing that they can dream big, and strive for careers where they'll be treated fairly."
In the spirit of using his status as a world-famous basketball player to help give young girls an equal shot at greatness, he invited 200 of them to a special camp where they could do more than just work on their basketball skills. Curry also invited world famous businesswomen and athletes to give the girls insights about how to make it in fields that have historically been dominated by men. As he said, "You're not world class if you're not actively about inclusion."
"I think it was also the sort of thing that can help to shift people's perspectives. So that when someone sees an NBA player is hosting a camp, now, you know — maybe they won't automatically assume it's for boys." Curry wrote. "Eventually we can get to a place where the women's game, it isn't 'women's basketball.' It's just basketball. Played by women, and celebrated by everyone."
Even though it was the presence of women in his life, and more specifically, becoming a father to two daughters that got Curry thinking about all of this, he doesn't want it to stop there. For him, it's an everyday struggle that we all need to spend time dealing with and changing.
"I think it's important that we all come together to figure out how we can make that possible, as soon as possible. Not just as "fathers of daughters," or for those sorts of reasons. And not just on Women's Equality Day. Every day — that's when we need to be working to close the pay gap in this country," he wrote. "Because every day is when the pay gap is affecting women. And every day is when the pay gap is sending the wrong message to women about who they are, and how they're valued, and what they can or cannot become."
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Nunes, J. P., Bijeljic, B. and Blunt, M. J. "Simulating carbonate dissolution with digital rock physics." In Third EAGE/SBGf Workshop 6-7 April, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016).
T Sochi and M J Blunt, "Pore-scale network modeling of Ellis and Herschel–Bulkley fluids," Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 60, 105-124 (2008) [PDF].
V S Suicmez, M Piri and M J Blunt, "Effects of wettability and pore-level displacement on hydrocarbon trapping," Advances in Water Resources 31, 503–512 (2008) [PDF].
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Chaetodon mesoleucos, the white-faced butterflyfish, is a species off marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish, belonging to the family Chaetodontidae. It is found in the north western Indian Ocean.

Description
Chaetodon mesoleucos has a bluish white anterior part of the body with a vertical black band running through the eye. The rest of the body is pale grey in colour marked with numerous vertical black lines. The caudal fin is black with a white on the inner margin near the caudal peduncle. This species attains a maximum total length of , although  is more common.

Distribution
Chaetodon mesoleucos is found in the northwestern Indian Ocean. It occurs from the central Red Sea, into the Gulf of Aden and around Socotra.

Habitat and biology
Chaetodon mesoleucos occurs at depths between , inhabiting coral reefs where they occur in pairs. They are thought to feed mainly on coral polyps but will eat a variety of benthic invertebrates. Little is known about the biology of this species.

Systematics
Chaetodon mesoleucos was first formally described in 1775 by the Swedish-speaking Finnish explorer, orientalist, naturalist Peter Forsskål (1732-1763), his description was published in 1775 by his companion on his expedition to Yemen, the orientalist and mathematician Carsten Niebuhr. The type locality was given as Al-Mukhā in Yemen. It belongs to the large subgenus Rabdophorus which might warrant recognition as a distinct genus.

Utilsation
Chaetodon mesoleucos is uncommon in the aquarium trade. However, it is not a difficult species to keep in captivity.

References

mesoleucos
Fish described in 1775
Taxa named by Peter Forsskål

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Result: IC of GB 11.5 – 1.5 Bradfield College
Venue: Bradfield College
The International Club produced a team of 6 men and 4 ladies for the only fixture we have against a school side in the UK, following in the footsteps of famous names from the IC of GB namely Gorringe, Billington and Stotesbury. Tim and Tony Billington were there to provide loyal support to the team despite the enticement of the All England golf afternoon which clashed and robbed us of one of our stalwarts. Thanks must go to a number of guests who helped complete the teams after some last minute injury withdrawals and business clashes.
This is the blue riband fixture in the season for Bradfield College and the IC is treated extremely well. The quality of tennis was up to its usual high standard although the experience, guile and artistry of the IC teams on the doubles court was too strong for the pupils. Despite the apparent one-sided scoreline there were some close games and the match was played in a tremendous spirit and the pupils were a credit to Bradfield College.
Special mention needs to go to IC member Andrew Smith who had answered the last minute call up flying in from Italy where only 48 hours previously he had cycled 423 kms from Florence to Rome, and then recuperated watching the first day's play from the Rome Masters. The plan was that Adrian Blackman would do the majority of running in this partnership but with him also curtailed by an injury Tufty was surprisingly agile having spent "so much time in the saddle" over the previous days.
The ladies team won reasonably easily and we were grateful to some friends of the IC for helping make up the numbers for a midweek fixture which obviously is difficult for many. Ladies can expect an early rallying call next year.
Bradfield treated the team to a wonderful dinner in the Wardens Room, with the Headmaster also making an appearance illustrating the importance of the fixture to the College. Speeches were made by Damian Fuller, The Director of Tennis at Bradfield, and Andy Creighton, who made special mention of Tony Billington's contribution to Bradfield tennis and his fund raising exploits and drive to complete the building of the new clay courts.
Next year's fixture will be a couple of weeks earlier to avoid the start of external exams at the College to ensure they are at full strength and I already have a few names inked on the team sheet which is great and reflects the enjoyment of the fixture for all those who have participated past and present.
Although we were hoping to play the match on the pristine artificial clay courts being laid adjacent to the three indoor courts at Bradfield College, the fixture came 3 weeks too early, so this pleasure will have to wait until next year's fixture.
Men's Results (IC of GB players listed first):
J. Tassell & C. Jenkins
beat J. Davis & F. Briggs 6-1 6-1
beat B. McAtee & F. Baker 6-0
beat J. Hodgkinson & C. Edwards 6-0
A. Blackman & A. Smith
beat J. Davis & F. Briggs 6-4
drew against B. McAtee & F. Baker 6-4 4-6
A. Creighton & B. Keenes
lost to J. Hodgkinson & C. Edwards 6-2 6-1
Ladies Results (IC of GB players listed first):
C. Moore & C. Deller
beat I. Lowe & E. Lenon 6-3 6-3
beat L. Lee-Smith & A. Miles 6-1 6-4
B. Wright & F. Kipling
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October 03, 2018 national wildlife refuges wisconsin
How to Visit Horicon National Wildlife Refuge
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are eight federal national wildlife refuges in the state of Wisconsin.
Vast open amounts of land restored and protected for thousands of specifies (threatened, endangered and non-protective status) of birds, fish, land animals, trees and plants to name just a few. Places you can easily access, explore, learn and gain an even greater appreciation for the outdoors.
The closest national wildlife refuge to my door is the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge and it's one of my favorite places in Wisconsin. Located in Mayville, a total of more than 33,000 acres (14 miles tall, by 3-6 miles wide) set aside for pure conservation and recreation by joint efforts between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The upper larger portion (about 22,000 acres) of the marsh area is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where as the 11,000 or so acres below sits as a designated State Wildlife Area. The federal batch of protected land was officially established and named in 1941 in an effort to create a safe harbor for migrating birds and waterfowl and also a place for people to indulge in various hobbies and recreational activities that revolve around the outdoors.
The area as a whole was carved out, like most of Wisconsin's diverse terrain, by glaciers. Fun fact, part of the Niagara Escarpment, a rocky layer that stretches some 230 miles across the state of Wisconsin is the reason for some of the rolling hills in parts of the refuge. This is the largest, freshwater marsh in the country. Miles of hiking trails, boardwalks, an driving loop, picnic areas, endless spots to take pictures and plenty of opportunities for interpretation activities at the visitor centers. Serene forests, calm rivers, thick marshes and flowing prairie fields of wildflowers join with hundreds of species of wildlife in one spot. Muskrats, snakes, redhead ducks, fish, monarch butterflies, bumble bees busy pollinating, deer, American white pelicans, black-crowned night-herons, egrets, yellow legs, tundra swans, snowy owls, coots, sandhill cranes and tons of snapping and painted turtles and Canada geese. You'll see everything. Horicon Marsh is a migratory bird hot spot for geese, ducks, and other waterfowl that migrate south from Canada's Hudson Bay in the fall, and vice-versa in the spring. For a complete, detailed history of the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, click here.
Plan to spend an entire day exploring here. Check-in at the main visitor center and federal refuge office on Headquarters Road to pick up a map, see cool exhibits, pick up a souvenir at the giftshop, and stroll on their observation deck out back for a expansive view of the refuge. Then, head north on County Z, following it along until you go left onto highway 49. This perfectly-straight strip of road will take you right through the upper portion of the marsh towards Waupun (where the nearest gas station is). Watch out for wildlife trying to cross this busy highway. If you see a turtle struggling to quickly make it to the other side, pull over and help the little fellow out. I'd also recommend stopping to get out and see huge broad views looking south on the marsh.
Head towards the Auto Tour and trail parking area on 49, located near the west branch of the Rock River. The 2.7 mile Auto Tour is enjoyable and you will see wildlife, but go and actually hike the land. Start on the Redhead Trail (2.5 miles) but continue on to the Red Fox Trail (1 mile) which leads you to the Egret (.7 mile) and Boardwalk (.3 mile) trails. I spent a little over 3 hours hiking around, stopping to take pictures and get a more up-close look at a few things I found on the trail. Make sure you've got a big memory card for your camera too. The Redhead Trail was great as it takes you through all the different aspects of terrain you'd find here at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge.... and see tons of wildlife!
Then, get in your car and either go east or westward around the marsh until you find Main Dike Road, a gravel, road surrounded by cat tails and marsh grass. It does get pretty bumpy and wet in some places so make sure your car is capable. Minutes later You'll come to a scenic dead end at the base of the Rock River. It's almost as if time freezes here because it's just so peaceful and uninterrupted. Finish off the day by doing the whole, Horicon Marsh Auto Route around the entire area which will tack on 36 well-worth it miles on to your odometer.
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Reemploying Workers Impacted by COVID-19: Lessons from the Maricopa County Community College District
March 19, 2021 • Zach Neumann
This blog post builds on initial research published in the Future of Work Initiative's report, Building A Lifelong Learning System: A Roadmap for Cities, and is part of a series of blogs highlighting new and innovative ideas emerging from lifelong learning systems in cities. The Future of Work Initiative is grateful to the Cognizant U.S. Foundation for providing financial support for this project and publication.
When COVID-19 arrived last year, Phoenix, like cities around the world, faced devastating health and economic consequences. As businesses temporarily closed and social distancing requirements were implemented to save lives, hundreds of thousands of workers were displaced, creating economic hardship and instability for families across the metro area. At the peak of the health and economic crisis, unemployment in Phoenix reached 12.5 percent, with workers in the leisure and hospitality industry facing the most significant and long lasting cuts. As was the case in most large U.S. cities, unemployment above 10 percent created immediate concerns about the ability of displaced workers to afford healthcare, food, and housing. And looking to the future, the city's workforce and training system faced historic challenges.
Potentially permanent cutbacks in the leisure and hospitality industry raised a critical question for workers across Phoenix: how to retrain and employ tens of thousands of hospitality workers whose jobs may not exist after the pandemic. This would not be easy. Any retraining program would have to be remote, affordable, and flexible enough that workers managing family responsibilities from home could participate. Further, it would need to ensure that workers with limited broadband, lack of access to particular devices, or other technological hurdles could engage.
An effective retraining program for hospitality workers would also need to be efficient. Workers impacted by COVID-19 could not afford to undertake a lengthy training as they temporarily or permanently changed roles; once it was safe to do so, getting back into the workforce was an urgent priority. To make informed decisions, these workers deserved a sense of prospective wage levels, job availability, and the level of COVID-risk in new roles. Without visibility into where different training pathways led, workers would be understandably reluctant to undertake training in the midst of a pandemic.
Leadership at Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) went looking for answers. For Darcy Renfro, Chief Workforce and Economic Development Officer, Daniel Barajas, District Deputy Chief Director for Workforce and Economic Development, and Ignacio Molina, District Director of Research and Analytics, this was an opportunity to build on prior work undertaken across the Maricopa System. As they had in the past, the team at MCCCD wanted to build short, accessible pathways between current and future roles for hospitality workers impacted by COVID-19.
To do this, Barajas and Molina began searching for roles that hospitality workers could fill that would exist both during and after COVID-19 and that offered wages at (or ideally above) their current levels. Their goal was to identify high-demand, well-paying jobs in the Phoenix Metro Area that required skills prevalent in the hospitality sector.
Data and analytics played a key role in their search. Molina, a data scientist, used information from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, Burning Glass Technologies, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and viability studies conducted within the Maricopa System to develop a real-time picture of skill transferability and labor demand in the Phoenix Metro Area, alongside prevailing wage data. While Molina developed the data, Barajas and Renfro used their network in the community to add context and detail to what Molina was seeing in the numbers. With the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity, the Maricopa Association of Governments, and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, Barajas identified a group of organizations that could provide feedback on employer demand and the long-term needs of local companies.
Having identified roles that displaced hospitality workers could potentially fill, the MCCCD team needed a strategy to effectively prepare and place these workers. They started by getting a sense of the skills, by role, of impacted hospitality workers and the skills they would need when moving into a new position. To do this, they built a series of translation matrices that compared current skills by role to required skills by future role. For Barajas, this was "an opportunity to find the shortest and most efficient path to get service and hospitality workers into secure jobs during the pandemic."
Building a large set of well defined skill matrices (capturing 200 occupations and 740 skills) allowed MCCCD to quickly break down the skills displaced hospitality workers were likely to have by role, project these skills onto a new target role, understand what the worker would need to learn to succeed in this new job, and develop customized training programs to facilitate that learning. According to Ignacio Molina, development of robust skills matrices made it possible to "analyze the skills workers have and correlate them with alternative occupations, creating a 'percent match' for each occupation." Skills match data was then compared with information on labor demand and prevailing wages, suggesting possible pathways to new opportunities.
The initial skills translation matrices developed by Barajas and Molina sought to establish a skills percentage match with in-demand roles in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. These matrices sought to break out the new skills that workers would need to learn to transition to new jobs. Click here to enlarge.
Armed with a general sense of the skills that hospitality and service workers could apply to new roles, Barajas and Molina developed a process to test the skills of these workers while also giving them a sense of their options. Former service and hospitality workers in search of new opportunities took a simple skills evaluation that tested various personal and professional dimensions. At the end of this assessment, they were shown pathways to new careers that included the cost of training, location of training, time to completion, and prospective wages in the targeted role. Depending on their needs, workers were able to sign up for shorter or longer training through an arm of the Maricopa Community College System, with data forthcoming on program completion and post-training placement.
MCCCD established a short, navigable process to understand the skills of incoming workers, develop effective academic interventions, and place them in new careers. Click here to enlarge.
Workers who selected a program were connected with a community college training provider within the Maricopa system to enroll and apply for various forms of tuition support to offset some or all of the costs of training. Upon completion of their selected programs, these workers will receive job placement assistance and counseling to complete the transition from their previous role.
Maricopa's efforts to rapidly retrain and place workers in Phoenix points to a future where mid-career workers are able to make rapid transitions between different roles and industries through training and career guidance programs that specifically target required skills. As the pandemic has shown us, our economy can change rapidly; America's community college system and other training providers are in a position to develop short-term, targeted training programs that can help workers bridge to new industries and careers in a limited amount of time.
Based on their work during COVID-19, the MCCCD team has developed a process that they hope will guide workers in making training decisions for years to come. Their objective is to create, develop, and market short, affordable credit programs that will help workers quickly identify and add more skills and certifications that can help advance their careers.
Drawing on their work at the beginning of the pandemic, MCCCD has continued to refine its skills matching tool. Prospective students now have access to an online database that uses the skills needed in their current role to offer a percentage match with potential new roles that have stable or growing demand, potential wages, and a specific list of the skills that can be applied to the new role (categorized by type).
Workers looking to change careers can use the tool to explore options, understand training requirements, and make decisions with far greater transparency than they have had in the past. Further, this process allows MCCCD to capture changing skill needs across Phoenix and adapt their offerings accordingly. Already, the district has seen a 10 percent increase in certificates issued across the system as workers update skills and transition into new roles.
MCCCD's goal is to scale this tool to serve all workers who have not obtained an advanced degree. Visibility into how the labor market is changing can help prevent workers from experiencing unexpected or prolonged interruptions in their careers—something that will be especially important as technology evolves and we face unplanned disruptions to the economy. For Daniel Barajas, this is a chance to give students something they've never had before: "the opportunity to see where their time and money is taking them, and the ability to make real decisions about their futures."
Too often, training programs are not connected to meaningful job opportunities and real career pathways. They provide skills that are dated, not connected to local labor demand, or unrelated to the previous work and life experience of the trainee. As a result, participants are often unable to complete the full program or do not see an increase in wages upon graduation. MCCCD's efforts to use existing data to connect workers with real, local jobs, and the training they need to do them, points to a future where public, post-secondary educational institutions offer short, customized courses that help workers quickly transition into new careers.
The Economic Opportunities Program is excited to be partnering with the Center for the Future of Arizona to sponsor a Workforce Leadership Academy this year, which will convene and connect workforce development leaders from the greater Phoenix area to collaborate solutions to common challenges. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more information later this spring.
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Mercedes-Benz has corrected its initial range estimate for its electric EQC 400 crossover from 200 to 279 miles.
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Oscar Nominated Japanese Animator Wins Lifetime Achievement Award In Slovakia
The Japanese animator, Koji Yamamura, won a Lifetime Achievement Award during the 16th Biennial Of Animation Bratislava function in Slovakia. The award states "A significant personality whose works perfectly connect artistic and film qualities and reach children's viewers ".
The award itself is titled as Prix Klingsor.
The award function was held from October 3 to October 9. Koji was previously awarded in 2008 by the Beinnial of Animation Bratislava the award "Albin Brunovsky Honorary Model". It is given to filmmakers for their overwhelmingly artistic and distinguished contribution in the field of animation.
Furthermore, Koji's Dozens Of Norths (Ikuta No Kita) anime movie won the Contrechamp Award at this years Annecy International Film Festival. It also won the Grand Prize for Feature Animation at Ottawa International Film Festival.
Koji's other award-winning and nominated shorts include "Muybridge's Strings," "A Country Doctor," "Satie's Parade," and "Notes on Monstropedia." Yamamura himself received the Kawakita Award in 2012.
He was nominated for the Academy Awards in the director's category for an anime short film called Atma-Yama in 2003.
In his initial days of career he even provided Background art to globally famous anime called Saint Seiya.
The Biennial of Animation is the longest running festival of animated films in Slovakia. The committee was formed in 1985 and in 1991, it received an international film festival status.
The Biennial Of Animation worked closely with UNICEF since its inception and is part of ECFA (European Children's Film Association) since 2018.
Their main aim is to promote animated movies along with educating the viewers about this art through their content and forum.
Source: Biennial of Animation Bratislava's website
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Abstract : [en] We introduce a novel meshfree Galerkin method for the solution of Reissner-Mindlin plate problems that is written in terms of the primitive variables only (i.e., rotations and transverse displacement) and is devoid of shear-locking. The proposed approach uses linear maximum-entropy approximations and is built variationally on a two-field potential energy functional wherein the shear strain, written in terms of the primitive variables, is computed via a volume-averaged nodal projection operator that is constructed from the Kirchhoff constraint of the three-field mixed weak form. The stability of the method is rendered by adding bubble-like enrichment to the rotation degrees of freedom. Some benchmark problems are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and performance of the proposed method for a wide range of plate thicknesses.


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6 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide in[a] man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years." 4 The Nephilim[b] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh,[c] for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.[d] Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits,[e] its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. 16 Make a roof[f] for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 20 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive. 21 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them." 22 Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
7 Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals,[g] the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs[h] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing[i] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground." 5 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
17 The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits[j] deep. 21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.


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The Relationship between Identity and Acculturation in International Students in Turkey
Ebru BOYNUEGRI1, Tulin SENER2
1TED University, TURKEY.
2Ankara University, TURKEY.
DOI: 10.14689/ejer.2021.92.15
Purpose: This study aimed to discover identity statuses and acculturation strategies of international students in Turkey, as well as revealing the relationship between these concepts.
Research Methods: To investigate the relationship, a correlational research design was used. Turkish version of Acculturation Questionnaire and Turkish version of Ego-Identity Process Questionnaire were administered to 156 international students in Turkey.
Findings: The findings showed that the most common acculturation strategy was assimilation and the most seen identity statuses were achievement and diffusion. High rates of assimilation and identity diffusion were remarkable results as they can be threatening both for immigrants and the receiving society. There was a significant relationship between identity statuses and acculturation strategies showing that achieved identity development provides more integrated acculturation. Finally, there was a significant difference between genders concerning acculturation strategies which can be interpreted by conservatism and risk-taking behaviors, as well as socialization.
Implications for Research and Practice: Acculturation is related to identity development; thus, embracing differences and providing support for immigrants would help their healthy identity development. It will, in return, contribute to the receiving society's well-being. Further research using different identity models, with higher number of participants and adopting triangulation would provide a deeper insight into the issue.
Keywords: immigrants, emerging adulthood, cultural adaptation, identity development, ethnic identity.
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Q: can you show example for this? Show that if $X$ is a well-ordered set, then $A=X \times [0,1)$ in the dictionary order is a linear continuum
solution link
https://onesidey.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/munkres-24/
and I wonder $\pi_1(A)$ doesn't have a maximum element
can you show example???

A: For $A$ to be a linear continuum, it needs to have two properties:

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*Every bounded set needs a least upper bound

*For all $x,y\in A$ with $x<y$, there exists $z\in A$ with $x<z<y$.

For the first property, let $B\subseteq A$ be a bounded set. Let $n$ be the the smalles element of $X$ such that $\{n\}\times[0,1)\cap B\neq\emptyset$. Then, since $\{n\}\times[0,1)$ is homeomorphic to $[0,1)$, there exists a least upper bound for $\{n\}\times[0,1)\cap B\neq\emptyset$ which is also a least upper bound for $B$.
For the second property, let $x,y\in A$ with $x<y$. Then $x=a\times s$ and $y=b\times t$. If $a<b$, let $s<r<1$. Then $x<a\times r<y$. Otherwise, let $s<r<t$. Then the same result follows.
Of course this is not what you asked. I got ahead of myself. You want an example. Let $X$ be the natural numbers. then we get $A=\mathbb N\times [0,1)$ which is homeomorphic to the nonnegative reals.

A: Here's an example of what I think you're asking for. Let
$$\begin{align*}
X&=\left\{1-\frac1{2^n}:n\in\Bbb N\right\}\cup\left\{2-\frac1{2^n}:n\in\Bbb N\right\}\\\\
&=\left\{0,\frac12,\frac34,\frac78,\frac{15}{16},\ldots,1,\frac32,\frac74\frac{15}8,\frac{31}{16},\ldots\right\}\;;
\end{align*}$$
$X$ is a well-ordered subset of $\Bbb R$.
Let $Y=X\times[0,1)$ ordered lexicographically, and let
$$A=\left\{\left\langle 1-\frac1{2^n},\frac12\right\rangle:n\in\Bbb N\right\}\;.$$
(I recommend drawing a picture at this point. $Y$ should look like a bunch of vertical line segments, one for each $x\in X$, closed at the bottom and open at the top. $A$ consists of the midpoint of each of the segments with $x$-coordinate less than $1$.)
Now
$$\pi_1[A]=\left\{1-\frac1{2^n}:n\in\Bbb N\right\}=\left\{0,\frac12,\frac34,\frac78,\frac{15}{16},\ldots\right\}\;;$$
and this set clearly does not have a maximum element. However,
$$X\setminus\pi_1[A]=\left\{1,\frac32,\frac74\frac{15}8,\frac{31}{16},\ldots\right\}\;,$$
whose least element is $1$, so $\left\langle 1,\frac12\right\rangle$ is the least upper bound of $A$ in $Y$.

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Eagle Eye says Idaho potato crop showing high quality but smaller sizing
Eagle Eye says Idaho potato crop showing high quality but smaller sizing.
Eagle Eye Produce had been harvesting new crop potatoes for several weeks before beginning harvest for its storage supplies the week after Labor Day. While it is still too early to know the overall projection for the crop, early indications are for high-quality spuds with smaller overall sizing and a bit lower yield.
Coleman Oswald, director of sales for Eagle Eye, based in Idaho Falls, ID, said that in a typical season, harvest for new crop supplies begins in early August and runs for around 45 days. Then, harvest for storage supplies takes over mid-September and runs until the first week of October.
This year, however, growers started harvest around two weeks late, which put added pressure on the market since storage supplies from the previous year were all but tapped out.
As a result, prices spiked amid strong demand, with 10-pound bags of russets commanding up to USD 12.99 at retail. Oswald said the main culprit behind the late start was a cold and wet spring, which delayed the growing cycle.
Coleman Oswald:
"Plants took a bit longer to get started but once the heat kicked in, the growing conditions were excellent and plant health looks to be great."
That cold and wet spring also resulted in the smaller sizing profile for this year's Idaho potato crop, again due to the delayed growing cycle.
"The spuds didn't have time to bulk up and that also is contributing to a lower yield"
Oswald admitted that the overall picture of the crop would not be clear for another four weeks or so, when harvest of the storage crop winds down.
"The large majority of potatoes for the year is harvested in a four-week period, and at this point, they are still in the ground."
The upside to what he is seeing, however, is that there won't be a glut of potatoes, and markets should remain very active with favorable pricing.
"Overall, there were around 8-10 percent fewer acres planted in the state [of Idaho] this year due to water restrictions and the high input costs. Basically, growers were being more cautious about how much they planted this year, which is a good thing."
Eagle Eye didn't cut acreage this year, however, and in fact increased acreage on its yellow and red potatoes due to consumer demand, according to Oswald.
"We're very much looking forward to another strong year for our colored potato program. Demand on yellows has really picked up the last few years, and we have also noticed a bit of an increase on the reds as well."
Eagle Eye is also very active in the export market, and Mexico is one country that offers tantalizing potential, especially this year.
"For one thing, we now have the ability to ship beyond the 26-kilometer border zone into the interior of the country, so we are super excited to expand our shipments to Mexico."
"Additionally, unlike the United States, there is a lot of demand for smaller sizes in Mexico, so that works well with our crop profile this year, especially since we are only permitted to ship 20-pound units or smaller."
Overall, Oswald said he is looking forward to a return to normalcy with the potato market.
"We're coming through a very chaotic time with markets at an all-time high. We were a bit surprised that supplies were so short so late, with growing conditions playing a major role in that."
"We hope that the industry can manage this new crop in a manner that allows more consistent product for our customers throughout the year and do the best that we can with what Mother Nature deals us."
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Wildwood, a southern New Jersey city on the Atlantic coast, plays host to the semi-annual Beach Jam event for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts at Morey's Piers. The event gives Girl Scouts the opportunity to camp on the sand, participate in scheduled events and explore the pier's attractions. For troops seeking a more traditional camping experience, the local Girl Scout council maintains several campgrounds within 2.5 hours of Wildwood.
Troops pitch their tents on the sand overlooking the Atlantic Ocean for a weekend of fun at the pier. Girl Scouts are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to donate to the United Way Food Pantry with them to the event. Because the event is held rain or shine, girls should pack appropriately for all weather, though Morey's Piers may cancel or reschedule the event due to dangerous weather.
The fall and spring Beach Jam events each feature live entertainment, a bonfire on the beach, tram transportation around the boardwalk, a non-denominational worship service on Sunday morning and the opportunity to purchase Beach Jam souvenirs at the event's information booth. A swap tent is also set up at each event, allowing Girl Scouts to swap items such as scouting pins and buttons or homemade crafts. A sand-castle-building contest is held during the spring event, and the fall event gives scouts the opportunity to explore the pier's Ghost Ship attraction.
Girl Scout troops attending a Beach Jam event are able to choose from three event packages to best suit their needs, with all packages including two nights of beach camping and tram transportation. The Complete Package includes admission to the pier's rides as well as a barbecue dinner on Saturday night and breakfast on Saturday and Sunday. The Camp and Play Package provides all of those amenities except for the meals, and the Camp and Dine Package provides scouts with the three meals but excludes access to the pier's attractions.
Girl Scout troops in Wildwood, New Jersey have access to four Garden State campgrounds, each located less than 2.5 hours of Wildwood. Camp Sacajawea in Newfield, Camp Inawendiwin in Tabernacle, Camp Kettle Run in Medford and Oak Spring Camp in Somerset all are maintained by the Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey Council (gscsnj.org). Campground facilities include tent and cabin camping, kitchens, bonfire pits and lodges. Girls are able to participate in special activities such as geocaching, archery and hay rides at most camp locations.
Titus, Mandi. "Camping at Wildwood, New Jersey for Girl Scouts." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/camping-wildwood-new-jersey-girl-scouts-100740.html. Accessed 23 April 2019.


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Hailed as a conductor who conducts with "vigor" and "commitment" by the Charlotte Observer and for bringing a "fresh view to classical music" by The Republic, Roger Kalia is currently in his second season as the Assistant Conductor of Pacific Symphony as well as the Music Director of Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra. Previously, he served for two seasons as Assistant Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony, where he conducted the orchestra in a variety of performances and invigorated the orchestra's engagement with the community. Kalia also serves as Co-Founder and Music Director of the Lake George Music Festival in upstate New York, the premier musical arts festival in the region. He has also held Music Director positions with both the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra of Los Angeles and Columbus (IN) Symphony Orchestra, the oldest orchestra in the state and only its fourth music director. Kalia recently led the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra on a highly successful tour of China, which marked the orchestra's second international tour and its first to Asia. The orchestra performed sold-out concerts in Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall and Shanghai's Oriental Arts Centre as well as a cultural exchange concert with the Shanghai Nanyang Model School Orchestra, which was broadcasted worldwide on International Channel Shanghai (ICS).
In 2010 Kalia studied under Robert Spano at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen. He was also a fellow at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in 2011, chosen by Marin Alsop.
That same year David Zinman invited him to conduct the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich in his international conducting masterclass at the Zurich Festspiele. In 2013 Kalia worked with Kurt Masur at his annual Conducting Seminar at the Manhattan School of Music. Passionate about teaching the next generation of musicians, Kalia maintains a regular teaching relationship with the Colburn School and Cal State Fullerton, and he has been invited to serve as conductor of the 2018 Missouri All-State Orchestra.
A native of New York, Kalia received his Doctorate from Indiana University, where he served as an Associate Instructor and Assistant Conductor of the IU Opera Theater and New Music Ensemble.
His primary mentors include David Effron, Arthur Fagen, and Franz Anton Krager.


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November 30 in history
On November 30:
1554 Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer, was born.
1667 Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist, was born.
1786 Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgated a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty.
1810 Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith, was born.
1872 The first-ever international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1835 Mark Twain, American writer, was born.
1874 Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate,was born.
1886 The Folies Bergère staged its first revue.
1934 The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman became the first to officially exceed 100mph.
1936 The Crystal Palace, London. was destroyed by fire.
1940 Lucille Ball married Desi Arnaz.
1949 the first National government was elected in New Zealand, led by Sidney Holland.
1953 June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters), was born.
1955 Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad), British musician, was born.
1965 Ben Stiller, American actor, was born.
1966 Barbados became independent
1967 The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent.
1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
2005 John Sentamu became the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
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In addition to the fun, camaraderie and satisfaction that comes with volunteering, Down and Dirty Work Day volunteers who put in a specified number of hours and master necessary skills may be eligible to participate in Tomten's People Project where you choose a project animal to work with one-on-one a few days per week.
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COMING SOON! Are you a dedicated volunteer in Tomten's Down and Dirty Workdays program? If so, the answer to this could be "YES! I have a reservation!" Imagine waking up to a chorus of Tomten Farm and Sanctuary animals as your alarm clock! We hope to be able to offer simple bunkhouse-style overnights in our new barn for some of our loyal road-warrior volunteers. Stay tuned for exciting details!!!
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