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The study, undertaken by the Data Unit Wales in 2015, was commissioned to gather a baseline picture of the numbers of Service children in Primary and Secondary education and the level of understanding/provision of support in schools. The report interviewed schools from across Wales and found that there was very little data available with the need for more information and support to enable schools to collect data and access guidance and support.
- There is no formal mechanism at present to log Service children through the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC). Some schools in Wales have informal methods of counting the numbers of Service children in their schools but some schools felt that a solution would be for all local authorities to include a tick box on school admissions forms to record the numbers of Service children as good practice.
- There are service children residing across all 22 local authorities in Wales and potentially more service children living here than previously thought.
- Schools would welcome more information on how to work with Armed Forces Community Covenants and understanding of what the covenant does in their area.
- Schools recognised the importance of not singling out Service children and wanted better communication with Service community and families to ensure they can best support them. Some schools felt that Service children should be regarded as a potentially vulnerable group due to the impacts of mobility and deployment.
"We want to understand more about what the on the ground issues are for schools in providing support. It's clear that in Wales we are at the beginning of understanding the challenge, and the biggest hurdle is getting a handle of the data. As a project we would like to see Service children included on the PLASC as an ongoing commitment of the Armed Forces Package of support in Wales, with all local authorities including a tick box on admissions forms for Service children. This will in the first instance provide more reliable information and then help schools and local authorities to co-ordinate provision or access support.
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Q: converting mysql date and mysql time to VB DateTime I my MySQL database I have a date column and a time column. When using these values I have a lot of Problems with the right Format in VisualBasic. I know that there is plenty of possibilities but I just tried for 5 hours and did'nt find a method that worked for me.
This is the database:
Database
And here is the Vb.net Code:
Imports MySql.Data.MySqlClient

Public Class ShowTermine
    Private Sub ShowTermine_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Activated

    Dim conn As MySqlConnection
    conn = New MySqlConnection("server=server.org;Port=3306; userid=userid; password=password; database=database")
    Try
        Dim command As New MySqlCommand
        Dim sqlquery As String = "SELECT * from bsp_termin WHERE userid =" & Form1.userID(Form1.Select1)
        Dim adapter As New MySqlDataAdapter
        Dim data As MySqlDataReader
        Dim counter As Integer = 0
        Dim mydate As Date

        conn.Open()
        command.CommandText = sqlquery
        command.Connection = conn
        adapter.SelectCommand = command
        data = command.ExecuteReader

        TextBox1.Clear()
        TextBox2.Clear()
        TextBox3.Clear()

        While data.Read

            Me.TextBox1.Text += data(2).ToString("dd//MM//yyyy")
            Me.TextBox1.Text += Environment.NewLine

            Me.TextBox2.Text += data(3).ToString
            Me.TextBox2.Text += Environment.NewLine

            Me.TextBox3.Text += data(4).ToString
            Me.TextBox3.Text += Environment.NewLine

        End While
        data.Close()
        conn.Close()
    Catch ex As Exception
        MsgBox(Err.Number & "    " & Err.Description)
    End Try

End Sub

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    Me.Hide()
    Form2.Show()
    End Sub
End Class

If I use ust the normal strings in TextBox1 the date is displayed as for example 2017-09-03. But I need the dd/mm/yyyy Format for this. So Me.TextBox1.Text += data(2).ToString("dd//MM//yyyy") gives an error. I also tried with CDate, but was not able to find the right Format for it.
How can I display the date Format in ListBox1 as "03.09.2017" and the time field in TextBox3 as "14:30" (hh/mm) ?

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JOSH CHAMOT:	Good morning. I'm Josh Chamot. Welcome to the National Science Foundation. Just a few hours ago, at the E-Defense facility in Miki City, Japan, a little north of Kobe, engineers conducted the world's largest ever shake table test. The engineers' goal--prove that their design for a six-story wood frame condo building can survive the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, amplified to 180 percent of its original intensity. That quake, that shake was larger than any quake that California has experienced in modern time. Let's go ahead and see the tape.
Joining us via telephone from Japan to talk about how to build a condo building that doesn't fall over in an earthquake, is John van de Lindt, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University and the principal investigator for NSF's multiyear NEESWood project; Hidemaru Shimizu, a research collaborator with E-Defense facility in Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention; Hiroshi Isoda, the Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan; and joining us also from Japan is Edward Matsuyama, Director of the American Forest & Paper Association's office in Tokyo, and he's also going to be assisting, as necessary, translating between Japanese and English. And in the studio with me is Joy Pauschke, the director of our NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation program, or NEES, and she has supported the NEESWood effort since its inception in 2005.
Throughout the broadcast, if you'd like to ask a question at any point, just press *1 on your touchtone phone and you'll be placed into a queue. If you'd like to email a question in, just send one in at webcast@nsf.gov. Just note that when you send your request in, if you call, that there is a delay between this webcast and what you'll hear on the phone so you'll want to turn your computer speakers down. One final note, this is being recorded and it will be rebroadcast later in the day.
So, John, that was a impressive test in the sense that the thing did not fall over. Did you get what you expected today?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah. Hi, Josh. Yeah, absolutely. I think we had a very successful test. Basically, there was a 2000 500-year earthquake we subjected the building to and it wound up – basically wound up performing very, very well. We were expecting moderate damage but it turned out that we had very, very light damage to the building, and so in the end, after going in and inspecting, I think we proved exactly what we were set out to prove. We did this with about 300 sensors in and around the building and about 50 optical tracking devices on the outside of the building.
JOSH CHAMOT:	So we don't really expect a building to withstand that kind of shaking and not fall over, especially one made of wood or that tall. Clearly, this is a different way of doing things. What did you guys do exactly and how is this going to impact construction in the future in the United States?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Well, what we did with this building was we, during the NSF project, we developed a philosophy known as Performed-Based Seismic Design. This has been developed for steel and concrete and this is really the first time that there's been any major development in this for wood structures. And so, what I see is I see probably major developments over the next six months to two years in the design code industry within the U.S. will be pushing to have buildings be five, six, even seven stories throughout the Pacific Northwest and all around the U.S. as a result of this project.
JOSH CHAMOT:	You know, and one of the questions we just got in expands that a little bit. It's from Laurie Wiegler in New York. She's a freelance science writer and she's bringing up infrastructure itself. She's mentioned that in the U.S., many bridges are in a state of disrepair. Have similar tests been conducted for bridges and infrastructure and how do the results that you did today apply? And after you're finished, I'll turn to Joy because I know that other NEES projects are addressing this as well.
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah. Well, I think the way that we do research certainly applies the methods and the techniques. You know, what we've done today doesn't – it indirectly applies to bridge structures. I think much of that work is being done at a different NEES site in the University of Reno, at University of Nevada at Reno and maybe I'll pass that to Joy later and let her answer a little bit about some the bridge work that's going on.
JOY PAUSCHKE:	Thanks, John. I'm happy to follow up. NEES funds a number of different types of projects that are investigating seismic design, new designs and retrofit designs for buildings, bridges, support structures. We even look at non-structural systems and with respect to infrastructure, we've used NEES to do research on investigating the performance of bridges. One of the NEES facilities has been used to test bridges has been the NEES facility at the University of Nevada, Reno. That's a very unique site because it has three shake tables. So, recently, they tested a 4-span quarter scale bridge. It's the largest bridge that's been tested to date in a laboratory, and they tested the bridge using really new materials that haven't been incorporated into bridges such as shape memory alloys and Elastomeric bearings. So there's a follow on test that's being funded by the Federal Highway Administration that's going to use the four shake tables that we have at the University of Nevada, Reno and test a curb-span bridge. We also have tested lifelines facilities, pipelines. Those facilities, such as pipelines and conduits that carry water, telecommunications, that you want to maintain operations immediately following an earthquake and the Cornell facility has tested a number of lifeline pipelines up there and they have really produced a very comprehensive database on how pipelines that are subjected to fault rupture can perform during an earthquake. So, that's the NEES facility at Cornell.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. And getting back to the building we're looking at here. One of the questions we have is how did you get the data that you were looking for from the structure? I imagine there are sensors everywhere. I imagine there were a lot of cameras inside. What have you gotten from it and how does that build on what you've been learning through the last four years of this study?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah, that's a great question. We have about 300 sensors inside. These range from, you know, measuring different displacements to measuring strains in, you know, various steel parts that are incorporated into the wood design, and then we have 50 LED sensors on the outside that actually are tracked with high-speed cameras so we can optically track the movement and so actually when we test, the curtains are drawn in the lab, the doors are closed and it's not dark, but it's certainly light enough to see by camera and by eye, but the way we track the movement of that is done with a special software package. Basically, to do all this, to gather all this data, and many, many cameras as well, to gather all this data, we then can use this data to validate our design methods that we've developed over the last few years as well as validate a lot of the software that we've been developing throughout the NSF project.
JOSH CHAMOT:	And this builds on the work from Buffalo and I think we actually have some footage from the Buffalo test. I'm not sure which clip we're going to show, but that test began – I guess the first test ran in 2006, was it, and what did you start the project with? What was the goal here?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	The goal of the project?
JOSH CHAMOT:	Yeah, starting with Buffalo and then to now, but I know there were some differences.
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Sure. The goal of the Buffalo test was – it was called the benchmark test within the project and the objective of the benchmark test was, as the name implies, to kind of benchmark the current state of construction in the U.S. for light-frame wood buildings. We also got to see that we were lacking some details in our current numerical software, and so since that time we've been able to improve on those quite a bit and so now we're able to model these buildings much, much better and I think that contributed to the success of today's test.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. OK. And let me throw a question also to our colleagues who are joining us from Japan as well. I guess this would be for Hiroshi. I know that your expertise involves different building methods between Japan and the United States. I had heard that during construction, there were some starting points where the team had to work with the carpenters to build this structure in an American style. How do the styles differ in Japan and the United States, and are there things that Japan has learned from this test that they can apply to their own structures or are the building types too different to make those comparisons?
EDWARD MATSUYAMA:	Yeah. I'm just waiting for him . The main focus of this test is that two-by-four construction or frame construction can be [inaudible] and with such an earthquake.
JOSH CHAMOT:	So to focus on the height and structure, are there any differences between the approach or what can be applied from this to other structures around the world? Are there differences between codes that become a problem?
EDWARD MATSUYAMA:	What do you mean by codes?
JOSH CHAMOT:	So that there are different ways of building in the United States and in Japan. So, is this applicable in this – the construction methods that were used, are those applicable to the way construction is done in Japan?
EDWARD MATSUYAMA:	Yes. He said that this is definitely applicable to building construction in Japan as well.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. Okay. Thanks. John, let me go ahead and get back to you with a question about what's been developed in terms of the software. You guys have been using all of these tests to gather data points that are actually helping you design new structures and you mentioned as well retrofit existing structures. What is this software? How is this going to be done?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Well, the software itself is basically a – kind of serves a dual purpose. It serves the purpose of a research tool so it has, you know, those complexities that we need for modeling, but then it also has a graspable user interface and has the ability to be available for practitioners. In other words, in certain instances the usage is at the usable level for practitioners rather than as a research tool, and so what we did was we basically gathered industry feedback following the Buffalo test on the software package and put together a workshop in Boise, Idaho, about a year ago , a year and a half ago now and gathered industry feedback as a result of that workshop and then improved on the code from the user perspective. Then from a research tool, of course, we're able to, you know, improve upon that from our own perspective.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. I'd like to remind everybody at this point that if they do wish to ask a question by phone, all you have to do is press *1 and you'll be placed in the queue.
We have a question right now from Ghasan Doudak of the Canada Wood Council. Ghasan, are you on the line?
JOSH CHAMOT:	I'm sorry. I'm having trouble hearing you. Let me see if we can get the sound up. Ghasan, are you there?
JOSH CHAMOT:	I guess we've lost that call. In the meantime, let me go ahead and turn to Joy. I know there have been a lot of projects going on with NEES this year and there are some developments that kind of work together. The NEES network is more than just this one effort and, in fact, involves 15 different facilities in the United States. What are some of the developments that have occurred this year at some of the 15 different facilities here?
JOY PAUSCHKE:	We've been testing – networks has been very busy over this past year. For example, recent tests were done at the University of California, San Diego. They were testing masonry in-filled structures. We've tested bridge structures at University of Nevada, Reno. We're continuing to test, for example, at the University of Illinois, several different types of structures and we have projects coming up at the E-Defense as well.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. OK. And we have another caller on the line. This is James from Structural Engineers. James, can you hear us?
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. Go ahead with your question.
JAMES:	I don't have a question. I'm just listening in.
JOSH CHAMOT:	OK. All right. Thanks. All right. Moving on. John, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about maybe getting back to the question that I'd referred to earlier with Hiroshi. I know that there were some – when you got there, you had to rebuild some of the structure because of some differences in approach, and one of the things that you had told me about was that these findings aren't only applicable to United States, that there ways that even though there are very different construction methods around the world, there are ways the findings can be applied. Can you get into a little bit about that?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah, absolutely. I think – and what I meant by that was that what we've developed in this project is really a design philosophy, and so while the construction methods or the construction techniques around the world might differ from country to country or continent to continent, we still have the ability to, for instance, in this case, it's a Performance-Based Seismic Design but we still have the ability if we can just model whatever type of structure it is, to say we want a particular performance from that building or from that bridge or whatever it is, and to go ahead and then figure out, you know, how we have to get that performance, and so it's kind of an input/output problem. And in doing that, you know, we've demonstrated that we can do that for a very complex structure to model, which is a six-story light-frame wood building and in demonstrating that, I think that that type of approach is certainly applicable to any building around the world.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. And we actually have a related question coming in by email from Gail at Redondo Union High School. She's asking about was a six-story wood frame condo building used fully stocked with items like a real house would be? Was there weight on the upper floors due to furniture and other belongings that would be expected if it was an occupied building? I've also wondered how would the impact of pipes and wires affect the building structure, which is, I know, something that one of the NEES centers focuses on specifically, but is that work into any of the equations at all?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah. That's a great question because that's something we have to deal with when we test buildings. In the case of this structure, it's not very cost advantageous during testing to put all the furniture in and, you know, detailed painting and hang pictures, things like that so what we did was we just basically furnished one small room to see the effect on the furniture, things like that. But what we also do is we then bolt steel plates onto the floor so we had around over 100,000 pounds of steel plates in the building. Those were provided by the E-Defense facility by Hidemaru Shimizu that's on the call also, and those are basically bolted in and those represent the lightweight concrete that you would have on the floor diaphragms which would prevent sound transmission between apartment units, things like that as well as it would represent furniture or other types of weight in there. So, we do have the correct seismic weight, we just don't have the look of a real building inside always.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Sure. And I know that for the Buffalo test that there actually was even furniture and toys in the children's room. I think actually we're running a clip of it right now showing the shaking from inside that children's room and I believe – what was the strength of this test, of the Buffalo test?
JOSH CHAMOT:	The strength of that quake?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Oh, that was a Northridge earthquake also. So, the one you're seeing there was actually a near-fault motion known as the Renaldi recording station, and that's a very large, kind of a high-velocity volt so that's – in the earthquake, you'll see – if you're watching the video, you'll see it vibrate kind of vertically and then one really large horizontal pull that will throw everything and that's kind of characteristic of these near-fault motions.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. And just to clarify because we keep calling it the Buffalo test, that was one of the collaborating universities is Buffalo University and they have their own shake table as part of the NEES project, NEES system, and that's where that test was held. We have another question that came in from Johnny Marks in San Antonio, Texas. This was emailed. He says it certainly went well. Do you foresee residential homes incorporating damper methods in the future here in the U.S.? He says he's been observing for almost four years and he says, "Is it just me or has there been more seismic activity over the past year?" I don't know if we can answer the second part, but in terms of the damper methods and maybe you could get into some real specifics here about what were the technologies that kept this building up.
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah. Sure. You know, I think with a single-family home, it becomes kind of a cost issue. In other words, can you derive as a cost benefit? Can you derive enough benefit or enough reduction in risk to warrant spending the cost up front for dampers or base isolation, things like that, these advanced techniques, and I think in many cases, you can. Certainly with a meterized light-frame building like we tested, I think we could justify that type of system. For the most part, in our building, we didn't actually have dampers or base isolations in the building that was tested today. What we had was we had an anchor tie-down system, which is steel rods that go from the base of the building all of the way up to the roof level and those, they basically – there's a bearing placed at each story and so the rod then – what it does is it basically keeps the shear walls, which deform horizontally, it keeps those from trying to turn over. And so it basically keeps the building from tipping over, I guess you could say, and that's very, very important. The other thing that we had that was, I guess, a technological innovation, so to speak, or maybe a design innovation was the design method itself. This Performance-Based Seismic Design method allowed us to distribute, you know, say, kind of distribute the, or kind of govern the way the building deforms when it starts shaking and that certainly helped quite a bit.
JOSH CHAMOT:	So what usually causes a building to fail in a quake and how are you going to retrofit buildings to address that based on what you learned from today?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah, what usually causes a building to fail is something called a soft story, and what that is is if you think of the Kobe or the Northridge earthquake, what happened was, well usually the bottom story may not be quite as stiff as the stories above it and so the minute it starts to – the minute it takes a little bit more load, it starts to move a little bit more, then it basically deforms more and more, almost like a cumulative effect in a way, and it begins to deform and then the upper stories that are stiffer, they take no loads so the bottom story takes it all and it basically collapses, and this actually, most of the people that died in the Northridge earthquake and certainly in the Kobe earthquake, died as the result of soft story collapses, and so what our design method does is it basically designs the building in such a way that we can avoid the soft story collapse and so we didn't see a soft story at all today in the shake.
JOSH CHAMOT:	That's great. We have actually another line call. Before I get to him, I want to remind everybody, if you do want to ask a question, just press *1 on your touchtone phone. This is Ugo Morelli from FEMA. Ugo, can you hear me?
UGO MORELLI:	I'm retired from FEMA.
JOSH CHAMOT:	And did you have a question?
UGO MORELLI:	I'm no longer active federal employee. I'm retired.
JOSH CHAMOT:	OK. And did you have a question for John?
UGO MORELLI:	I was wondering how I could get the webcast online. I went through all the procedures and all I get is a dark screen with some wording about NSF.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Sure. Just dial into – send an email to webcast@nsf.gov and we'll get somebody to go ahead and fix that for you.
UGO MORELLI:	I'm sorry. I can't hear you.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Send an email to webcast@nsf.gov and we'll get somebody to fix that for you. OK? Thanks.
We have an email question from Andy Paddock. He's a structural engineer in Colorado Springs and he's apparently a graduate of CSU and a practicing structural engineer right now. He said do the provisions of the 2006 IBC, which I guess is a code you'll have to explain here real quick, for the shear calculations, did you use those? Basically he's asking what did you use to calculate your motions and your shear and how do they compare to what was tested? So, how do your models compare to what you actually observed and do you think that the current standards, and in this case he's mentioning IBC, but just overall do you think the standards are accurate? Are they where they need to be?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Well, yeah, that's an excellent question, Andy. What we've done in this test is we actually designed not to the DBE level, but this building was designed to perform very well at the MCE level so that's about 150 percent of what we call the design basis earthquake.
JOSH CHAMOT:	And do you want to quickly just explain what those definitions are?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah. The DBE is the Design Basis Earthquake and that's the kind of, the seismic intensity level that structural engineers use in the United States to design. The MCE level is about 1.5 times that and that's actually typically not used in design. It's basically what we get from geologists and seismologists. They pass that to the engineers and then we typically take a two-thirds factor on that which reduces that. In this case, we didn't reduce that and the idea within the project was to demonstrate that we could design a six-story building at this much, much stronger level, much stronger seismic intensity level. That was really one of the big objectives, and so all in all, what we did then is then we went through and designed a system and so that's really one of the things with this type of design method is we're kind of designing in reverse. We're treating it as a big system level problem, seeing how the system responds and then we go back and check the components or subassemblies. Subassembly might be like a wall or something, whereas in IBC style design, you might design various walls and then you piece them together and assume that the performance would be at least as good as the wall, and that's actually not always the case and so that's one good argument for Performance-Based Seismic Design.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Actually, when you talk about the walls, that relates to a question we just got from Casey Talon, who's an engineer in Brentwood, Texas, talking about the outside of the walls. He mentioned that the test didn't appear to consider siding or stucco on the exterior and he talks about how that would increase the stiffness of the structure. So, did you somehow take that in consideration when you did your modeling?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah, we did, actually. We took that exactly into consideration. In other words, in the Performance-Based Seismic Design approach, we did consider the drywall in the structures. That was accounted for in the design, but we didn't consider stucco, which would – she's absolutely right, would add quite a bit of stiffness. We didn't consider any kind of siding, and so from the perspective of actually validating a design method, which is what we were trying to do at this test, if we didn't consider it in the design, then we're still fine. We certainly would have liked to but I think just, you know, various constraints on the project that that wasn't really a possibility but we, if anything, we can consider the results maybe slightly conservative, which we all know is great from an engineering standpoint.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Sure. Sure. We have another question from a student. This is Bob Okiai at Perdue University and he says that since the test proved to be successful, are you going to move towards developing a material that's close to it? I mean, obviously you wouldn't but maybe testing that, and he said he's unaware of synthetic materials that are close characteristics to wood but he's looking at the possibility of resisting burning and aging and things like that, the problems that wood tend to face. So, there are a couple questions here. One that we talked about before the broadcast, which is fire can be an issue. Some of these things do come up. Are alternate materials that may benefit from the test results that you saw today and regardless of that, is the wood itself something that's a safe structural material to use and why?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah, I think one of the things when we began the process of even writing the proposal and then into the project was that we kind of limited the scope in a way to the structural or the seismic aspects, realizing that, you know, of course, all along the way that fire is an issue for these taller buildings. I think the idea of performance-based design, not even just Performance-Based Seismic Design, but any kind of performance-based design is to really almost try and fuel innovation from industry. And so in laying this out and saying well, we can do the seismic part, we can demonstrate that and now we leave it to the material experts and the fire experts and the developers or we, you know, certainly would work with them but we leave that to them to then come up with a material and, you know, in my experience, you know, just kind of watching as I go through projects, if somebody can develop a material or something that does work and they can profit from it, then certainly industry will do that. And so I think, you know, what he mentioned is probably going to happen, I suspect.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. We have another question that came in from another structural engineer. This is Boyd Zander. He's in Lombard, Illinois. He actually is asking about the shake table itself, which is E-Defense, and he asked if it was developed for this project and it was not and he asked because it was used for light-frame construction, will it also be used to test other types of system, concrete and so on? Edward, can you hear us?
EDWARD MATSUYAMA:	Yes, I can.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Let me go ahead and pass this to you guys. When was E-Defense created and what sorts of structures are tested on there? I imagine there's a range; it's not just wood frame.
EDWARD MATSUYAMA:	E-Defense actually built [in audible] 2005.
JOSH CHAMOT:	OK. And do you do tests on it with more than just wood frame construction, I imagine?
EDWARD MATSUYAMA:	And up until now, six-story concrete, seven-story wood has been tested on it, on this shake table, and also a lot of buildings in addition to this as well.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. And I imagine there was also – I believe there were some houses and smaller structures too?
EDWARD MATSUYAMA:	Yes, obviously some single-family as well.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. And single-family home is obviously what was tested in Buffalo as well. Did you have something to add to that?
JOY PAUSCHKE:	Yeah. Josh, I just wanted to add that the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation was the result of really assessing the experimental capabilities in the United States to do further tests on seismic designs so we don't have to wait for another earthquake in order to learn how to build structures to better withstand earthquakes. So following the 1989 Loma Prieta and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, as a result of those two earthquakes, NEES actually was formed then and became a project that NSF funded construction at 15 facilities around the United States to build these types of testing facilities including shake tables, geotechnical centrifuges, large laboratories that can test all sorts of structures, lifeline structures, soil structure interaction. We have a tsunami wave basin and then we have some mobile shakers that can go out in the field and test structures or do all sorts of site characterization. The same time that 1995 Kobe earthquake happened and so the E-Defense shake table was really built to help Japan really design more earthquake-resistant structures as well. Both NEES and the E-Defense facilities came online roughly within about six months of each other. The U.S. and Japanese researchers have had longstanding collaborations and so now with these two types of facilities online, NEES and E-Defense, this was really a great opportunity to form a partnership so the National Science Foundation and Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology have a memorandum concerning cooperation in the area of disaster prevention that facilitates researchers from both countries to utilize NEES and E-Defense facilities, and this NEESWood project is one that's a result of this memorandum.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. Great. We have another question from Don Petty, who's a senior building official for the District of Saanich. It doesn't say where that is. He said the subject of a building typical of one constructed – he asked if the building was typical of one constructed to some code or standard or did it include significant upgrades or specialty changes in anticipation of the severity of the test? I think the response would be that you guys are intending that this would become part of code, correct?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah. That's exactly right. It was designed, as I mentioned earlier, to the MCE level so it was designed with a more severe or stronger seismic intensity in mind. Probably the two details is that it was designed to only deform laterally a certain amount and then the steel rods, basically called anchor tie-down systems, those were designed to only deform or elongate a certain amount. It was actually exactly a quarter inch per story level, but that accumulates as you go up and so by the time you get to the top story, that rod has effectively elongated an inch and a half, and, so what that means is the wall actually has to deform a full inch and a half – or sorry, excuse me, the uplift is about an inch and a half until the shear wall actually starts resisting and then, of course, if we make that too large, then the building can tip over.
JOHN VAN DE LINDT: But the short answer is yeah, this is certainly intended to go eventually into the code and become an option and it's an option to design to a higher seismic intensity for better performance.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. We now have a question that's more related to the quake itself that would cause the damage. You've just addressed aspects of the construction. This is from David Lintner in Claremont, California, who is addressing aspects of the quake. There are different types of quakes, and I won't get into the details. He mentions strike slip versus dip slip and the different faults cause different quakes and different types of motion. Do different types of shaking cause different results in the building? I noticed that a lot of you guys use Northridge as your standard for a lot of the tests. Is there a reason for that and what other types of quakes might have a different impact on how the buildings respond?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah. Typically, of course, we're not seismologists. We're structural engineers and structural engineering researchers and so usually the seismologists or the structural engineer/seismologist will pass the ground motions to us and there is a difference, certainly. I mean, if we have – but from a structural engineering perspective, we're more concerned with what we call the ordinary records, OGM, Ordinary Ground Motions, or Near-fault Ground Motions and so we have the near field and the far field, and that causes a very different effect and its effect on structures is very different. The type of earthquake itself, when we get into the far field, that I probably – certainly I'm not a seismologist, but we typically, if there's various faults around, we'll typically use suites and ground motion so we account for all those kind of – by analyzing the building to maybe 20 or 30 different ground motions and so some of those might be strike slip, some of those might be dip slip, various fault types. So we do account for them all.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. We have another question that came in from Scott Good. He didn't give his town. He asked about how the performance of the basic type of structure tested today would compare to one that has extra weight and rigidity of drywall and stucco, which actually came up earlier. But I guess this leads to the question of what comes next? What other components do you need to test? What other structures and components do you need to add to the building to get a more realistic test in the future, or are you going to work now on components and focusing on improving those?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	I think the next step for us, I think, is really to go back and, you know, now that we've validated models and we know the design method works is to go back and look at some of the buildings that are actually out there and to see if, you know, what types of tools and methods are available for a retrofit. So, I think a lot of the very fundamental work is done with this project and to look at actually getting research into practice as quick as we can and, you know, by getting this into the code, making it an option and then developing tools to actually retrofit these three, four, five-story wood buildings that are out there with a performance-based approach.
JOY PAUSCHKE:	You know, if I could just follow up Josh.
JOY PAUSCKE:	You know, a key point, I think, is that all of the experiments that have been done using the University of Buffalo, the two-story townhouse that was tested there in 2006 and then this experiment at E-Defense over the last month, all the data from these experiments will be archived in the NEES data repository. So, any of you who have been calling in who are structural engineers who'd like to use the data, will eventually have access to that data. It's a public repository so you can then use this experimental data to do all sorts of simulations and model validations as well.
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	And if I could just add that there's also – on the benchmark test, there's actually about an 800-page report available within that repository that has details, the location of every sensor, tells exactly how it was calibrated and so there's really almost enough to – definitely enough to be able to do your own analysis, do things, and then the software that we've developed is available free on the NEESWood webpage. You can just Google the word "NEESWood" and download the software with a user's manual and try it out and if you have any questions, you know, there's instructions on how to get in touch with us if you would like to get some support, and it's all free.
JOSH CHAMOT:	And getting back to some of the questions. We've been getting a couple more engineering-related ones and these were related. One is from Larry Stevig in Bloomington, Illinois. The other one is from John Lawson from Kramer & Lawson Engineers; doesn't give his location. But both talked about some of the specifics like the maximum amount of motion that you saw in terms of drift and things like that, and what level to match design criteria, which you already addressed, but a lot of people have been asking about the acceleration and how much motion you saw. Were you able to measure that from the sensors you had on the outside of the building?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah, we were, actually. We had about 35 accelerometers in the building and those measure absolute displacement and what we saw was, up at the 7th level where we had the one small furnished room, you know, certainly the chair and tables fell over and the flowers came off, you know, the various things, but really what we saw was we only saw right around maybe 2G of acceleration, and now while that seems high and it's certainly enough to make you fall over or knock you off your feet, for a building of this height and this stiffness, that's actually, you know, very good. I mean, certainly, you know, other types of buildings might have much higher acceleration, and so – and that was taken into account in the design approach. We had to kind of try and – because the stiffer we make a building, the stiffer and stronger, the higher the accelerations and so we had to kind of weigh these competing objectives, I guess, if you will.
JOSH CHAMOT:	And I guess we'll go ahead and just address a last point, which is that the test, obviously, was for a California quake and I know that some of the standards you've been using have been related to California, but what regions of the country are you expecting to be able to apply this study?
JOHN VAN DE LINDT:	Yeah, I think this can actually be applied anywhere. I mean, even beyond the U.S. Certainly in Canada and certainly anywhere that light-frame wood is constructed. But, I think where we'll see this type would be certainly all along the Pacific Northwest all the way up into Oregon, Portland, Seattle and over in the Missouri area in New Madrid fault zone. Basically, any zone of seismicity you can use Performance-Based Seismic Design I think very well and anywhere, like I said, U.S., Canada, maybe down even into Mexico.
JOSH CHAMOT:	Great. All right. Thanks very much, John. I'd like to thank John van de Lindt from Colorado State University and our other guests as well, Hidemaru Shimizu from the E-Defense facility at Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention; Hiroshi Isoda, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan; Edward Matsuyama, Director of the American Forest & Paper Association's office in Tokyo; and joining me here in the studio was Joy Pauschke. Thank-you for joining us. To learn more about what you saw today and to get some background information with additional footage and videos, you can join us at www.nsf.gov/NEESWood. The webcast will be archived there along with footage of the test. If you have additional questions, you can submit them to me at jchamot@nsf.gov. We'll get to as many as we can. If you're a reporter on deadline, let us know that in the subject line. And finally, you can come back on July 29th. My colleague, Bobby Mixon, will be hosting a webcast entitled "'Til Mortgage Do Us Part." His guests will be economists who will discuss neurological and behavioral aspects of our nation's mortgage crisis. Until then, thank you for joining us.


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KHF celebrates 20 years of community foundation partnerships
Media Contact Kristi Zukovich, kzukovich@khf.org, 316-491-8419
The Kansas Health Foundation (KHF) recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its $60 million, multi-phase initiative: Giving Resources to Our World (GROW).
GROW launched in 1999 and was created to help community foundations across Kansas build philanthropic assets in an effort to keep local Kansas dollars local. Funding allowed community foundations to establish matching challenges and to grow assets, create special health and wellness funds and become trained in philanthropic leadership. The initiative helped create a self-sufficient foundation field in Kansas supporting collaboration and idea sharing, as well as preparing foundations for the complexities and challenges awaiting them in the future.
"Twenty years ago, we understood how deeply Kansans cared about their hometowns, and we knew that if we built an infrastructure for people to give back to their communities, they would," said Steve Coen, KHF president and CEO. "GROW created local philanthropic leadership and resources that have made the state of Kansas a better, healthier, more prosperous state."
GROW funding has helped Kansas community foundations build walking trails and bike racks to promote healthy living, supported classroom projects to help students succeed, installed playground equipment to improve children's health and created better access to health care resources.
The 12 community foundations involved in GROW 1 during 2000 to 2009, saw their assets grow from $19 million to $95 million – and awarded more than $33 million in grants. During the second phase, 39 participating community foundations saw their assets increase from $236.5 million in 2009 to nearly $700 million in 2018.
"While these numbers themselves are impressive, we know they can never tell the whole story," Coen said. "It's really about the lives that have been touched, the communities that have been changed and the tangible results that connect directly with our mission to improve the health of all Kansans."
Although the GROW initiative is ending, KHF's support of community foundations will continue. During a recent celebration of GROW, KHF announced the Kansas Community Investment Fund (KCIF).
KCIF is a pilot program to assist Kansas community foundations with impact investing, which will help these communities address critical health issues through small grants and loans.
"We believe this is a logical next step to leverage our investment to advance economic development in local communities, and ultimately to improve the health of all Kansans," Coen said.
More information will be forthcoming about this exciting new initiative.
Learn more about how each community foundation has benefited from GROW.

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Numerious significant historical and cultural sites like deer stone monument, Uguudei Khaan's winter quarters, Khunnu tombs at Zambaga Khairkhan Mountain, the ruins of city with porcelain tiled houses belonging to mid centuries that are found in Saikhan-Ovoo Sum, remains of a homesteads at Yarkh Mountain belonging to late stone age, remains of a bronze age workshop found in Gurvansaikhan Sum, a place where Uguudei Khaan departed this life, autumn quarters of the emperors at Sum Khukh Burd in Adaatsag Sum, petroglyphs at Del Mountain, Buddhist philosophy school and temple in Ulziit Sum, Sangiin Dalai Temple, rectangular and round burial sites of Erdenedalai Sum of Dundgovi aimag, ancient forts gives us an unalterable evidence that human biengs inhabitted the area for thousands and thousands of years.
Also, Dundgovi aimag is well known for its beautifull scienic places. For example interesting fissures like Tsagaan Suvraga known as a White Stupa, Morin Tolgoi which are formed due to the erosion of sedimentary mud in the sea bottom, Uush sand dunes, Ikh Gazaryn Chuluu, Baga Gazaryn Chuluu granite rock mountains, saksaul and elm forests and scenic places as Oldokh, Gurvan Tugrug, Ergeneg, Khaya, Nemnee, Nomgon, Khairkhan, Zagiin Us. Zagiin Us the broad valley with saksaul forest is registered as a state protected area. Over 10 scenic places from above like Ikh Gazaryn Chuluu, Baga Gazaryn Chuluu which are abundant with many rare species, peculiar formations of Uush dunes and Tsagaan Suvraga or White Stupa, cultural and historically significant sites as Sum Khukh Burd, Ongi monastery are listed in the Dundgovi provinces protected area list.


If there's one thing all commuters could use, it's more data to help them plan the most efficient route to work. In places where riders have the luxury of different commuting options—where they can bike or take cabs, for instance—intel on each transportation mode would also come in handy. What's faster, my Schwinn or an Uber?
That's what one data blogger hopes to answer for residents of certain New York City neighborhoods. In a post on Tuesday, software engineer Todd W. Schneider unveiled an interactive map where users can choose their starting neighborhood and time window, and then learn whether a bicycle or a taxicab is more likely to get them to their destination sooner.
This is all based on data from Citi Bike, New York's bike-share system, and the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission. While Schneider didn't factor in trips made via private bicycles or cars (or ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft, for that matter), his findings ought to be fairly representative of biking or driving as a whole—with a few caveats.
Cabbies, often having more on-street experience, may log faster-than-usual travel times than ordinary car commuters or weekend Uber drivers. Citi Bikes, designed to be heavy and durable for less experienced riders, may be a little slower than seasoned cyclists with their own sets of wheels. And the map can't account for variables like crashes or big events closing down certain streets.
Clicking around on his own tool, Schneider made some interesting discoveries. Citi Bike tended to be much faster for east-west trips across Manhattan, as well as for trips made in the middle of the day as opposed to late at night or early in the morning (probably due to less traffic for the cabs to navigate). Bikes beat cabs more than half the time for trips of two miles or less, but only a little more than 20 percent of the time for six-mile trips.
One encouraging sign for cyclists: Taxi trip times have risen since the data was made public in 2009, most likely because of increased congestion and, perhaps, competition in the form of Uber and Lyft. Citi Bikes have only gotten faster since their introduction in 2013.
Schneider made the code for his project available open-source at GitHub. So if you have access to the relevant data, you should be able to make a similar map for your own city.


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On Tuesday 5th December, HIP hosted their Christmas lunch at the Crewe Arms Hotel. The Crewe Arms Hotel has been one of HIP's many supporters over the past year, raising around an amazing £350 for the charity. To hold HIP's Christmas do at this supportive establishment seemed, as such, more than appropriate for the occasion!
HIP members, and supporters, were clad in a variety of Christmas jumpers, hats and scarves making everyone feel instantly more merry! Once everyone had arrived at the venue, the Crewe Arms Hotel staff welcomed the HIP family into one of their event rooms, which was decorated with tinsel, fairy lights and all things Christmassy! The tables were split into the different coffee morning groups, and people were then left to discover where they were to be sat and take their places.
Before the meal, Edie, HIP's Operational Manager, made a short speech and welcomed everyone to the event, which included HIP members, volunteers, supporters and trustees. A special thanks also went out to the Crewe Arms Hotel for hosting the event, and to all the supporters of HIP, including the hotel, over the past year, and their amazing fundraising work, which helps to support HIP as a charity. With warm welcomes and "thank yous" to everyone over, the meal started without too much further ado.
The hotel provided a delicious three-course meal to all the attendees with all the trimmings of a Christmas meal for those who wanted that option, and alternatives for those who were saving themselves for Christmas day for those delicacies! Much chatter and laughter accompanied the meal and was interrupted by two very special events. The first event was the Christmas raffle! Raffle tickets were sold throughout the meal with everyone being within a chance of winning twelve amazing prizes. The raffle raised an amazing £173.00. The lucky twelve winners were able to choose from a selection of wonderful prizes, such as flowers, jam and chutney sets, and a Christmas cake! For those who didn't win a prize, they were not left to feel too disappointed with the arrival of the Funky Choir from South Cheshire. The Funky Choir sung a variety of Christmas songs. The choir leader entertained everyone with an array of funny anecdotes and welcomed people to sing along. With the overwhelming cheer and laughter the choir brought to the room, it was hard not to smile whilst watching the entertainers perform.
After the choir had finished their repertoire, it was sadly time for the HIP family to part ways and make tracks to the mini-busses. However, everyone seemed in good festive spirits, and with high hopes, and plenty of excitement, for Christmas and the New Year.
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Siergiej Władimirowicz Sokołow (ros. Сергей Владимирович Соколов, ur. 29 marca 1962 w miejscowości Koczkor-Ata w Kirgiskiej SRR, zm.  8 marca 2021 w Pryłukach) – radziecki lekkoatleta, sprinter, mistrz Europy z 1982.

Kariera sportowa
Urodził się w Kirgiskiej SRR, ale jako dziecko przyjechał z rodziną do Pryłuków i tam się wychował.

Zdobył srebrne medale w biegu na 200 metrów i w sztafecie 4 × 100 metrów na mistrzostwach Europy juniorów w 1981 w Utrechcie. Na tych mistrzostwach awansował do finału biegu na 100 metrów, lecz w nim nie wystąpił.

Zwyciężył w sztafecie 4 × 100 metrów (która biegła w składzie: Aleksandr Aksinin, Sokołow, Andriej Prokofjew i Nikołaj Sidorow) oraz zajął 8. miejsce w biegu na 200 metrów na mistrzostwach Europy w 1982 w Atenach. Odpadł w półfinale biegu na 200 metrów na mistrzostwach świata w 1983 w Helsinkach.

Na zawodach "Przyjaźń-84" rozgrywanych w Moskwie dla lekkoatletów z państw bojkotujących igrzyska olimpijskie w 1984 w Los Angeles Sokołow zwyciężył w sztafecie 4 × 100 metrów (w składzie: Aleksandr Jewgienjew, Sokołow, Władimir Murawjow i Sidorow) oraz zajął 6. miejsce w biegu na 200 metrów.

Sokołow był mistrzem ZSRR w biegu na 200 metrów w 1982 oraz wicemistrzem na tym dystansie w 1983, a także brązowym medalistą w hali w biegu na 200 metrów w 1983.

Otrzymał tytuł Zasłużonego Mistrza Sportu ZSRR w 1982.

Rekordy życiowe
Siergiej Sokołow miał następujące rekordy życiowe:
 bieg na 100 metrów – 10,47 s (26 lipca 1983, Leningrad)
 bieg na 200 metrów – 20,52 s (23 czerwca 1984, Kijów)

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Induction Step:
Suppose $k$ such that $k!|(a+1)...(a+k)$ is true, $k,a \in \mathbb Z$.
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Isobel Harbison digests a prodigious performance of Ed Atkins's ode to excess
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Nan Goldin at Marian Goodman Gallery, London
'Sirens is not a normal show for Goldin, since it has not been a normal year' – J.J. Charlesworth on the artist and activist's latest show
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Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production
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The Posthuman City at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore
Are we just playing at being 'human'? asks Adeline Chia
Embodiment at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Rahel Aima considers how the works of Pope. L, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Cheyenne Julien and Tschabalala Self engage with identity, ancestry and sociopolitical issues
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Sahej Rahal: The Dekkan Trap at the Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham
The Deccan Traps are one of the world's largest volcanic features, covering some 500,000sq km of west-central India. With visible layers of igneous rock (basalt, to be precise), the 'traps' are so-called for the way their steplike structure shapes the landscape. Situated off the west coast of India lies the Shiva Crater, formed 65 million years ago by an asteroid, the progenitor of the Deccan Traps. Shiva, the 'destroyer of evil', along with Brahma ('the creator') and Vishnu ('the preserver', whose avatar Krishna is known as the 'Trickster'), make up the Hindu trinity, or trimurti, together keeping the world in balance (and to whom several cave temples are carved into the Traps).
Roughly 7,250km west (as the crow flies), six largescale sculptures (all works 2016–18 and untitled) punctuate the rectangular exhibition space of the Midlands Art Centre, five of which look as if, at some point, they were petrified by lava and then dug up to be presented here as fossils or relics. Instead of stone-grey, however, they are postbox-red, black or off-white. Some of them have earth or clay compacted into crevices, while others have more visible components under what is in fact a lumpy covering of resin – a mannequin's leg protrudes from the bottom of one totemlike sculpture, black wig-hair tufts out of another. Together they form a kind of desolate landscape.
Adding to this, the Mumbai-based artist has hung seven large pencil and ink drawings on the walls depicting different scenes and figures, from the gods Kali and Shiva (the latter looming over a set of decks) to industrial cityscapes of unknown places; a collection of smaller unfired clay sculptures; and a video projection. This last opens with a treetop scene and slides into footage of activists singing at the Faslane Peace Camp in Argyll and Bute, near the military site of the Trident nuclear deterrent, reaching its apex at an EDM gig, where the climactic throbbing soundtrack and strobe-lighting seem to signal the end of the world: one has to wonder, is it Shiva the DJ playing the tune of destruction? In a more obvious reference to nuclear warfare, the video ends with a recording of a bomb flying through the air, slowly sinking into its final descent.
Laid down the middle of the floorspace on a white shaggy carpet are what appear to be artefacts recovered from an ancient civilisation. Looking more closely, one can pick out alienlike skulls among bits of debris, and looking at the debris more closely still, one can make out the broken fragments of machine technology: it's impossible to tell whether we are looking at the ancient past or the far future. There are well-defined bones and broken bits of hardware, a small Earth Mother sculpture and a spaceman's helmet; dotted throughout are tattily gold-sprayed clumps of clay that suggest a farcical grandiosity – through these, the entire exhibition's self-knowing fakery is revealed.
While the works are formally intriguing in their own right, there's also a prevailing critique of warmongering and nationalistic supremacism here, looking towards the mythological narratives that facilitate both. One doesn't necessarily need to know all about Shiva or the trimurti, but it's not too much of a leap on seeing Rahel's approximation of an ancient landscape, a tangled conflation of myths and facts, to be reminded of India's far-right nationalists' current penchant for rewriting the country's history and presenting archaeological finds alongside ancient scripture to prove that today's Hindus are directly related to India's first inhabitants. After all, there are gods, and then there are monsters.
Sahej Rahal: The Dekkan Trap at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, 17 February – 22 April
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed at Brooklyn Historical Society, New York
Megan N. Liberty listens to sound art inspired by the society's 'Muslims in Brooklyn' oral history collection
By Megan N. Liberty
Videobrasil at SESC 24 de Maio, São Paulo
Oliver Basciano on the representation of marginalised communities at Brazil's film-festival-turned-art-biennial – through 2 February
Liang Luscombe at Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Rosemary Forde on the artist exploring racial and gendered stereotypes in film
By Rosemary Forde
Marcel Broodthaers at M KHA, Antwerp
Martin Herbert reads through the oeuvre of the late Belgian conceptualist, who dedicated his art to the undoing of constraining systems – through 19 January
Soto. The Fourth Dimension at Guggenheim Bilbao
David Trigg on the kinetics of the late-Venezuelan artist – through 9 February
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Anna Maria Maiolino at Whitechapel Gallery, London
Rosanna Mclaughlin looks back on the elusive Brazilian pioneer's six-decade oeuvre – through 12 January
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Song Dong at Pace Gallery, London
Valentina Bin munches her way through the Chinese artist's edible artwork
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Today we went to my son's school awarding day, It is a day that every parent is like being awarded as well with all the hard work that pays off.
Both my kids Ethan and Elijah was awarded in class and I can't help but be very proud about it.
Elijah received an award of Best in Language and Most Neat in class. I would have to agree with him getting the award of Most Neat because he would literally brush his teeth every after meal, wash his hands, cannot walk barefoot and he just always wants to be neat and clean.
He also received the Certificate of Recognition for winning the second place in Fruit Puzzle game in the Nutrition Month Celebration.
This was actually a surprised because the Ethan we knew was actually very hyper and loud at home but in school, the teacher said he was the most quiet and behaved in class, Though I am so proud that he is such a good boy.
He was supposed to also get the Best in Math because he was indeed very good in Math but due to his absence in school, it would be better luck next school year atleast they are more motivated now that with studying and going to school daily will give them rewards.
With or without awards given to them, I will always be proud of them and they will always be my Pride and Joy.
wow.. congratulations.. same as Ivy during her kindergarten graduation, I couldn't believe that She is going to receive the most behave award,because I knew that when She is at home, She is soo talkative,as in She talks a lot and often times.. Well,We are such a proud Mama,!!
Congratulations to Ethan and Jaja! They will grow handsome and smart guys. Keep up the good work! :) They are blessed to have a lovely and proud parents. :) Congrats again!
Good job Ethan and Elijah, congrats! Ang cute talaga ng kids mo Ms.Rochelle.


Agriculture technology is a growing field and the Forbes Ag-Tech Summit aimed to discover the entrepreneurial companies that were at the forefront of it. Unique in their processing techniques, California Safe Soil (CSS), lead the sustainability charge with their liquid fertilizer made from unsol..
Winner of the Forbes Thrive Accelerator Sustainability Award, California Safe Soil (CSS), uses a process that takes unsold food from grocery stores and through heat, enzymatic digestion and pasteurization creates a unique liquid fertilizer. Lorri Koster, CEO of Mann Packing, mentored CSS through..
H2H increases organic matter and in turn, expands the plant root system. Through this expansion, plants are able to retain more water and nitrogen, which decreases the amount of nitrate runoff and water consumption. CSS has performed numerous trials and research with our product, Harvest-to-Harv..
On Friday, July 10, the 2015 Summit on Water Technology and the California Drought was held in Downtown Sacramento in the EPA building. The Summit was sponsored by Imagine H2O and the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), two formidable leaders at the forefront of discovering methods ..
California Safe Soil is proud to announce that from numerous applicants and 10 finalists, we were presented with the Sustainability Award at the Forbes AgTech Summit event on July 9th, 2015 in Salinas, CA through the Thrive Accelerator Program. Through a zero waste, 3-hour process, California Sa..
Finalists in the Thrive Accelerator program got to make "sales pitches on what they believe what will change the face of agriculture in Salinas and worldwide" at the National Steinbeck Center on March 4, 2015. Our own Dan Morash was featured in an interview on the process of making our H2H ferti..
Monterey County Weekly published an article on the Thrive Accelerator program and the assigned mentor to Dan Morash, Lorrie Koster, Mann Packing Chair/CEO. Her advice to break into the Salinas Valley marketplace for Dan was simple—"Lose the tie." Koster plans to pilot California Safe S..
Dan Morash discussed the Thrive Accelerator program and California Safe Soil's solution to food waste on NPR for the Monterey Bay Area and what it is providing for supermarkets and growers. Cal Safe Soil is one of 10 startups selected for the Thrive Accelerator program, and if selected, the Thri..
West Sac agtech company turns organic trash into fertile treasure. Daniel Morash doesn't like to see bad food go to waste. In 2012, Morash and his brother, Dave, spent millions to launch California Safe Soil with one goal in mind: convert leftover organic material from supermarkets into a n..
California Safe Soil has been chosen as one of the 10 finalists of the Thrive Accelerator program from Silicon Valley Group and Forbes Magazine. The program works with the world's leading agriculture companies and Silicon Valley tech companies to make farming "smart." The Thrive Accelerator Prog..
California Safe Soil is proud to announce Patagonia Works as a new investor within their 20 Million and Change program which helps companies that have the same environmentally friendly values that Patagonia holds. Patagonia Works does one thing—use "business to help solve environment..
We are very proud to have been recognized on March 18th by Imagine H2O as winner of their "Growth-Stage" competition category. This competition identifies and rewards firms that offer entrepreneurial solutions to water challenges. Click here (http://www.imagineh2o.org/) to read more about Imagin..


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I was born in May of 1958 in the northern town of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada. When I was 9 years old, my parents moved from the far north to the city of Victoria, furthest south in the province.
Victoria is the province's capital and boasts Canada's mildest weather. It's a big tourist attraction as well as retirement hot-spot. For it's size, it is uncommonly clean; a garden city with plenty of outdoor attractions and activities. Not coincidentally, Victoria is the setting for my novel, The Space Between Thought.
I was not a very dedicated university student, but my marks in Biology and English have always been impressive. But just to be contrary, I pursued a degree in Physics. I scraped through and managed to attain a B.Sc. from the University of Victoria. I wanted a double degree, but would have had to take another year to get a B.A. in English. I just didn't have enough momentum left for more school, so I entered the workforce.
It had always been my ambition to become a writer but after graduation, my interest in computers led me to managing Victoria's top computer retailer where I sold and marketed some of the first home computers—like the Vic 20, Commodore 64 and Amiga, nostalgia fans.
Unexpectedly, my technical expertise with computers and desktop publishing led to an apprenticeship with the internationally acclaimed Beautiful British Columbia Magazine. Five years later, I left to become the publisher of the now defunct, BC Agriculture Magazine.
After this, I co-art-directed several video and television productions, including Take-Off! an acclaimed Canadian television series.
Since that time, I have been in business for myself as a marketer, project co-ordinator and sandwich man... whatever paid the bills and still allowed me time to write.
In June of 2003 I married Junko. My son, Noah, was born in 2005; my daughter, Rihana, in 2007. Junko is an adept practitioner of the lost art of homemaking who also homeschools our children. Work-wise, I may be retired... haven't yet decided. Currently, I am helping a friend renovate his house which I find very satisfying.
To date, I have written three full-length novels. The Space Between Thought is the first to be published.
My other two novels are much more straight-up sci-fi—along the lines of the short-lived tv series, Intelligence. Had those two books been published anytime within 10 years of being written, they might have been more interesting, but technological advances have rendered much of that original concept passe. I recently realized that to bring it up to date, I could start by replacing my hero's name with the word "smartphone." Still, the characters are interesting, and I do have ideas about a re-write that would inject new life.
I knew that The Space Between Thought was my most polished work and still relevant and I no longer require an agent or publisher to get the story "on the shelf." At the urging of my writer-friend, Dan, I elected to self-publish. Dan made it sound so easy: pay some money, send the text, sit back and wait. I have since discovered that Dan can be full of crap.
Also, I might possibly be retired, so I really appreciate every book that is purchased.


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Nikolai loves lunchables style lunches and I'm guessing that he likes to assemble them at school.:) Lately, he has been asking for Ritz crackers almost daily and according to him, a majority of his friends also pack them for their lunches. Of course, I'm always happy to oblige.
Both of these lunches were packed in his leak-proof Yumbox panino.
In this bento lunch: Main compartment contains nitrate free salami topped with a butterfly shaped smoked Gouda cheese, slices of mozzarella string cheese in our favorite square silicone cup, Ritz crackers and a small pecan pie. His sides were sugar snap peas topped with another slice of butterfly shaped cheese, fruit snacks, and seedless grapes.
I've been using these eye picks a lot lately. It brightens up any simple lunches and they are super adorable.
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Young refugee pursues her dream in Australia
A young student from Syria has been in Australia fewer than 18 months but she's already achieved something many people never do: she's identified her dream and is chasing after it.
Alice Kswani and her family arrived in Australia in June 2015.
Alice Kswani, 24, is working as a design and customer services officer at eyewear manufacturer Dresden Optics, while also undertaking an industrial design course to build experience for when she applies for university next year.
"Australia opened up for me the opportunity to start again and study what I love," she said. "My aim is to study architecture at UTS."
Architecture is a long-held passion of Ms Kswani's; she narrowly missed out on studying it at university in Syria, instead pursuing her second choice of biology.
"When I started university the first semester, everything was fine," she said. "The second semester, the war started and everything changed. We only went to the laboratory classes because they were really important. We studied the lectures at home because we needed to limit the amount of time we were on the roads.
"War is war in any country. It was just something we couldn't imagine happening in our country. When the war started happening in Iraq, we thought it wouldn't happen in Syria. While we knew the whole area was in danger, we didn't think we had those issues in our country. But just like that, everything changed and it was not in our hands."
Ms Kswani and her family eventually fled their home in Damascus, residing in Lebanon for two years before resettling in Australia in June 2015.
The first English conversation Ms Kswani had on arrival was with her SSI case manager, who gave the family local support to settle in Sydney under the Humanitarian Settlement Services (HSS) program.
"It was so cool to start using my English," she said. "I was really worried about my university and my studies, so our case manager started giving me tips for how to start again here. She also went with us to all the banks and to Centrelink. We started to do everything together. We didn't know about any of that before we came here, because it's not the same as in our country."
Ms Kswani soon became an active participant in a number of SSI's youth initiatives, including a pilot employment project from the Youth Collective: Gateway to Your Future.
As part of the project, Ms Kswani and 10 other newly arrived young people received specialised employment training, work experience opportunities, and one-on-one mentoring support to help them identify and achieve their employment goals.
Ms Kswani signalled her interest in pursuing a career in architecture and design so, following a two-week foundational skills training course at TAFE Granville, she began a six-week placement with Dresden Optics.
"It was amazing," she said. "I was so happy and excited, thinking I would love to work there. At the beginning, I was afraid to contact the customers because I was still learning English, but step by step, they encouraged me just to have a go with it."
After the placement finished, Dresden Optics offered Ms Kswani a job, which she happily accepted. She's now waiting to apply for university in the New Year and is undertaking a TAFE Certificate IV in industrial design in the meantime.
Ms Kswani said she had been lucky to find work so quickly after arriving in Australia, which she credits to her involvement in SSI initiatives that extended beyond the support offered under the HSS program.
Just last week, Ms Kswani signed up for Youth@Work – an innovative program that uses mentoring to help young workers from refugee and migrant backgrounds adapt to the Australian workplace and work towards future employment goals.
Ms Kswani will soon start meeting with an experienced architect for regular mentoring sessions that will help her achieve her career aspirations.
"I have a lot of goals," she said. "I don't know if one life will be enough for me. I would like to be someone who gives back to the country. Australia has given me a lot. Hopefully one day I can also go back to my country again and rebuild it. I would like to be able to help my country when I am strong enough."
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