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Research impact measurement moves beyond traditional citations
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As research constitutes the progress of science, impact assessment of research publications has been an area of interest for a long time. The communication of research and developments happens through scholarly publications like journal articles, books, monographs, conference proceedings etc. and their impact is continually assessed through models like impact factors which are based on the number of citations received by each publication. Citations have been chiefly used to measure the importance or influence of a journal or a publication for over half a century, with the progress in publishing technologies and growing share of consumption of information on digital formats, the ability of citations to assess the importance of a publication is being scrutinized.
The lifecycle of a published research constitutes of many events, like general consumption by readers, citations by other researchers, tweets on Twitter, shares on LinkedIn and Facebook, grants, clinical trials, patents, policy documents and translation to mass application of the outcome of the research. Citation based assessment takes into account the number of times a paper has been cited by other researchers on their work, which represents only a tiny subset of the lifecycle of the original research, and its impact on science and society as a whole.
Massive amount of research and increased competitiveness is driving the interest in broader evaluation of research impact, also enabled by greater availability of data. Justification of public funds flowing into research is a crucial factor driving this interest. How do we measure the real impact a scientific publication has on research itself, and the world beyond science? How can all the stakeholders like academics, institutions, publishers, librarians, funders and government agencies have a comprehensive insight on the impact of a particular research?
Comprehensive evaluation of interest beyond citation
Digital Science – a technology company serving the needs of scientific and research communities at key points along the full cycle of research – understands the need for this greater evaluation, their tools Altmetric and Dimensions attempt to continually improve research and its assessment. Taking impact assessment beyond citations and impact factors, Altmetric derives data from digital spaces where publications have been mentioned, such as news websites, social media, Wikipedia and patents, this gives a complete picture of the reach and impact of the publications.
Short for alternative metrics, Altmetric offers relevant information about research articles and publications and their impact on wherever the content is consumed, accessed, or referred. Research papers go through great amount of engagement on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, Altmetric derives information from these platforms on the quantity of tweets, shares and mentions, which gives an insight on the attention, usage and impact of the research output.
Evaluating research lifecycle and its impact
The information around research publications has traditionally been limited to index of scholarly articles and citations, Digital Science's another tool Dimensions, offers an interesting sets of data that capture the entire lifecycle of research, and its societal impact. This database offers the most comprehensive collection of linked data in a single platform; from grants, publications, and clinical trials to patents and policy documents. Dimensions allows the stakeholders to follow research from funding through output to impact, the coverage of data reveals interesting results and linkages among different aspects of the research.
What if these advanced tools that help the evolution of scientific research and its impact were integrated into the publishing platform itself… The result would be a universe of scientific publishing where publishing, reviewing, distribution & delivery, analytics, interest assessment and a comprehensive data on the impact and lifecycle of research papers are all in one place. iPC Scholar, an advanced digital publishing platform is one such universe. With its ability to publish and deliver scholarly content in various formats like, journals, ebooks, videos, courses, the platform now gets widgets for Digital Science's tools like Altmetric, Dimensions and Figshare. This makes it the world's most complete platform for digital publishing and impact assessment of scholarly content.
As science progresses and communication technologies advance, to understand the impact of research and publications is far more complex than simply measuring citations. The metrics for comprehensive insight and measurement can be diverse and measurable but the motive and the impact calculated from these metrics are still not clear for everybody, eg, what exactly to derive from the number of shares on social media is unclear. However, the availability of this information gives a broader view of the research, stakeholders can take more informed decisions on future research and investments, it gives end users a new way to discover research and analyse its relevance to them. Technology is transforming the way research is evaluated, discovered, and accessed, and as the complexity increases advanced technologies like big data and artificial intelligence will need to intervene to help humans derive the true meaning of the data in hand.
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Ignacio Medina Moñivas, más conocido como Nacho Medivas (Madrid, 21 de enero de 1983), es un periodista, guionista y escritor español, autor de La Guía oficial de El Internado Laguna Negra.

Biografía
Nacho Medivas (Madrid, 1983) se licencia en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid en 2007. Completa sus estudios con el Máster de Creatividad y Guiones para Televisión de URJC-Globomedia, el Máster de Guion de Cine y Televisión de la Escuela Guion Madrid de Alicia Luna, el Máster de Web, Diseño y Programación de IED Madrid, el Máster en Dirección E-Commerce (MDEC Candidate) del Foro de Economía Digital Business School y el Máster Inbound Marketing y medios sociales de IAB Spain.

Integra el equipo de guion de los programas Sé lo que hicisteis y El Intermedio (la Sexta) y de las series El Internado (Antena 3) y Aída (Telecinco). Es guionista de la gala Plácido y la copa, dirigida por Emilio Aragón para TVE.

En 2009 publicó su primer libro: La Guía oficial de El Internado Laguna Negra, que aborda los entresijos de la producción de misterio de Antena 3.
Como periodista ha trabajado en medios de ocio y cultura como Guía del Ocio, On Madrid de El País, Metrópoli de El Mundo, SalirSalirMadrid, la revista oficial de Física o Química, Star2 y RAGAZZA. Ha llevado la sección de televisión en el portal de Microsoft MSN.es, el departamento de comunicación del teatro Cuarta Pared, información cultural en la agencia Europa Press y los medios sociales del económico Cinco Días de El País.

Con 19 años gana el segundo premio de crítica de cine de Guía del Ocio. Con 29, su cortometraje Turno de mañana recibe el Premio del público en el FastFilmFest y su obra fotográfica Drunk Liz es seleccionada para la galería de arte Mad is mad.

En 2014 es miembro del Jurado del Festival de Cine Getafe IN-Cinema, junto al director de cine José Manuel Carrasco (El diario de Carlota), la productora Puy Oria (No tengas miedo) y el periodista Luis Mariano González Mazarrón.

Ha escrito el guion de los cortometrajes Pasionyté (2011), de Agustín García, para la novena edición del Jameson Notodofilmfest; el guion y la dirección de Olivia (2009), Servicio a domicilio (2017) y el Microteatro Por Dinero La lealtad del estofado (2013).

Véase también
 El Internado
 Física o Química
 Guía del Ocio

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Web oficial de Nacho Medivas
 Nacho Medivas en Cinco Días
  Nacho Medivas, guionista de la gala 'Plácido y la copla'
 Entrevista de Nacho Medivas a Javier Olivares por la serie 'Isabel'

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The Kings And Queens Of England Book
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Kings and Queens of England and Scotland Pamela Egan Illustrator: Tony Smith, Peter Garland, Steve Longden, Roger Courthold, Eric Rowe, Peter Sarson Published: ISBN: Genre: History Contents[show] Description This fascinating, full-colour, fold out book illustrates and describes all the English monarchs since William the Conqueror and all the Scottish monarchs since Robert Author: Pamela Egan.
List Anne had ruled the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Scotland, and the Kingdom of Ireland since 8 March She became monarch of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the political union of England and Scotland on 1 May Her total reign lasted for 12 years and days. For a family tree that shows George I's relationship to Anne, see George I of Great Britain § Family tree. Jun 16, · Wikijunior:Kings and Queens of England/Future monarchs.
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Here in Olympia we are coming out of a week of Snowpocalypse. If you're in my region, you know what I'm talking about! Our region is ill-equipped to deal with a big snow storm, so schools and many businesses were shut down last week. Lots of folks lost power and were snowed in. For our family, it was a stay-cation of sorts. No school, no work, no internet. So, we had lots of family time. We played games, went sledding, walked in the snow, read books, and slept in. After a week of diminished work and school activities, we all felt quite rejuvenated. Despite the obvious discomforts caused by this storm, the week at home was, in many ways, a very pleasurable experience.
The word pleasure or kama, in Sanskrit is a concept I am teaching in my yoga classes this week. According to the Vedic teachings, pleasure or enjoyment is one of the 4 Aims of Life. Kama refers to the pleasure of the senses. It is both an aesthetic enjoyment and also an enjoyment of emotional connection and affection. In Vedic teachings, taking time for enjoyment is considered a responsibility of householders. For me last week, this was taking in the simple pleasure of enjoying the rare (in the Pacific Northwest) winter wonderland with my family. This pleasure involved all my senses. I enjoyed the brightness of the snow, and the clear skies with stars at night, crackling of snow and ice under my feet, and the touch of my warmest, puffiest coat and thickest mittens. Because it was more difficult to prepare food, the simplest meals were more satisfying.
Of course we experienced the discomforts that come with a big storm, like no power which in our neighborhood also means no water! Luckily we were prepared and were able to ride it out. But, the point I want to make is what could have been a negative experience turned into a very positive experience because we chose to make it that way. It was in many ways, all about mindset. Having an attitude of seeking enjoyment and positivity is a skill and a practice that involves the mind and the body.
I am reminded by the teachings of Dr. Rick Hanson. Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist who studies and writes about the inner skills of personal well-being. Scientists believe that humans have a built in "negativity bias." We are hard-wired to look out for negative experiences and to prevent them if possible. This is an evolutionary trait that has in Rick's words made us more apt to dodge sticks than to chase down carrots. Rick says we are "velcro for negativity" and like "teflon for positivity." By this, he means that we are going to be on the look out for anything negative and any negative experience will "stick to our ribs" more than a "positive experience." In the case of the snowstorms, we are wired to be more preoccupied with the hazards and discomforts of a storm than the silver lining of pleasurable time with family and natural beauty.
A big part of my job as a yoga and wellness teacher is to help people's minds and bodies become more resilient by guiding folks realign to what is already good, and build on that. One of my favorite practices that I am teaching this week is Taking in the Good. This is a practice I learned from Dr. Rick Hanson. It is the simple practice of noticing, appreciating and even basking in what is positive, enjoyable and pleasurable in one's life. This basking or soaking in the good involved all of the senses. An example is being outside in the snow or anywhere where you realize you are experiencing something pleasant, and taking the time enjoy the all of the accompanying sights, sounds, feelings, smells and even flavors. By doing so, we begin to slant our mind-body toward more positivity. We can even begin to change our brain! This is neuroplasticity. If we always tilt toward the negative, we become more prone to a negative mindset. Each time, we incline our mind-body toward the positive and pause and appreciate the positive, we build neuro-pathways that incline our lives toward resilience and positivity.
This is a practice you can do anytime and anywhere. When you become aware that whatever you are experiencing has a pleasant quality, bring your awareness to that experience. If it's early morning and you just poured yourself a cup of hot tea. Take a moment and enjoy the warmth of the mug on your skin. Breathe in the aroma of the tea. Pause, soften and breathe. Let your body relax. Exhale again. Even before you take your first sip, anticipate the pleasure of the warmth and taste of the tea in your mouth. Then, when you take your first sip, linger with the flavors and sensation. Don't rush on to the next task of the morning. Soak in the good for just a few more moments. It's that simple. Fill up your cup with what's good and build on that for the rest of the day.
Do you fancy yourself a cook? A foodie? A health enthusiast? A locovore? According to habit change expert, James Clear, every action you take casts a vote for the person you believe you are. Do you go for burgers or go for beets? Do you opt for pop tarts or for parnsips? Do you meal plan or do you default to frozen entrees? When you change your habits, you change your identity. The actions you take daily, weekly, and seasonally in your kitchen cast big votes for the type of body you have now and the kind of body you are going to have in 3 months and in 3 years.
I call myself a cook, a foodie, a health enthusiast and a locovore. It probably started in my teens when I would turn my mom's kitchen upside down experimenting with recipes and food ideas. This identity was solidified in my college years when I worked at the vegetarian collective restaurant name the Che Cafe on the campus of UC San Diego. I made the weekly Indian lunch special, I worked the early AM sandwich shift, and I served food for the Wednesday night All You Can Eat special. Anyone who knows me knows I love to cook and prepare healthy, local food.
In this post, I share with you a lot of habits and ideas about how to make the most out of your time in the kitchen each day, each week and each season. I call this kitchen sadhana. Sadhana is a word from the yoga tradition that translates as a practice aimed at evolution. The habits I do in my kitchen cast votes for my future health and well-being. What I put into my body eventually becomes my tissues, my thoughts and my actions.
Consciousness in action in my kitchen.
The practice of food preparation and nourishment.
Daily, weekly and seasonal habits that up-level my kitchen environment and vibration.
Clear intentions around my food preparation.
Investment in my future body and consciousness.
Save time during the week.
Have a healthier, more vibrant body.
These are tasks to do about every three months.
Purge your fridge and cupboards of anything that is old and devoid of life force (prana).
Arrange your refrigerator and cupboards like you would rooms in your house! Arrange them neatly and nicely for your satisfaction, pleasure and ease. Design your refrigerator and cabinets to emphasize what you want to put into your body.
Organize your bins and jars.
Organize your compost container and system.
Stock your kitchen for the current season.
Assess your kitchen tools. Upgrade if necessary.
Blend spice mixes for the season.
Freeze or can food to eat later in the year.
Prepare herbal tea blends, superfood blends, etc.
Plant a garden or get a CSA subscription.
These are weekly tasks to prepare for good nourishment for the week ahead. These can be customized depending on the season and what you like to eat.
Explore new recipes for the coming week.
Gather your edible weeds for the week.
Arrange fresh produce where you will be enticed to use it.
Clean greens and veggies for easy meal prep.
Make mason jar salads for lunches away from home.
Prepare vegetarian soup stock or bone broth.
Make almond milk or coconut milk from scratch.
Start a batch of sauerkraut.
Make hummus or other bean dips.
Check your meal plan. Adjust if necessary.
Soak any legumes or grains for the next day (chia sees, rice, beans, etc).
Chop and prep ingredients for tomorrow's meal.
Get out lunch containers that you'll need for tomorrow's work lunch.
Invest in you consciousness. Invest in your body.
Follow the prana (life force). Trust your desire!
Make Kitchen Sadhana something you can relax into!
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It's hot. Summer cooking can be a challenge because it's hard to feel like being in the kitchen. In the summer, I want to eat well, but spend a minimum amount of time in the kitchen. Buddha Bowls and salads are my go-to dishes for summer. They are seasonal and they will keep you cool (we don't want to ignite your pitta-heat) and satisfied.
I love to cook, and I'm an improviser. I love to search the web for new ideas and recipes and I love to see photos of tasty new dishes. Basically, I use the recipes as guides, not dogma. In this post, I'll share recipes I've enjoyed from the web and my own ideas around what else you can do to adapt them.
The idea of the "buddha bowl" is a bowl that combines veggies and whole grains (and omit the grains if you don't do grains) and add other sauces and condiments. The sky is the limit with these. Think quinoa, couscous, brown rice, wild rice, millet, etc. as a base. Add greens, sliced raw veggies, sauteed or steamed veggies, Add proteins like tofu, tempeh, garbanzo beans, black beans, hummus, chicken, salmon or egg. Top with flavorful sauces like peanut sauce, tahini sauce, green goddess dressing. etc. Add other goodies like saurkraut, sliced avocados, sesame seeds, nuts, cranberries.
Of course. It's summer. Eat your spinach, lettuce, argula, kale, chicory, dandelions. These all cool, detox and give you light and lively nourishment for summer. Salads are easy to make and the key to a yummy salad is the dressing. If you have a blender, you can blend up several salad dressings on the weekend and enjoy them all week long.
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Don't you hate it when you realize that you've been living life in the fast lane, being too busy, feeling stressed, not eating well and not resting enough, and you wear down on your immune system and you end up sick. Let's not let that happen! Here are some ideas to help you build your immunity this season.
According to Ayurveda, ojas is the life sustaining vitality that promotes immunity in the body. I think of it as your energy reserves and deep immunity. Ojas is responsible for sustaining your physical health, mental clarity and emotional well-being. When you have a lot of ojas, your cup is full. You are a picture of health. Your eyes are bright. You look well-rested and content. You build ojas by good wholesome living. When you are living in the fast lane, you spend your ojas quick. Burning the candle at both ends is a sure way to deplete your energy reserves.
Keep good company. Positive people nourish and uplift the soul.
Rest. So simple, yet so often overlooked! Go to bed early and prioritize rest.
Positive touch and hugs. Practice self-massage and give and receive hugs.
Get fresh air. Go out into nature.
Restorative Yoga is a great way to build immunity and replenish yourself.
I so appreciate how Ayurveda offers guidance for living in sync with the seasons of the year and suggests adjustments for diet and daily activities to stay healthy and balanced.
If we don't live in alignment with the seasons, we can easily fall into imbalance and dis-ease. When we understand the nature of the season and how to adapt, we can weather the changes and thrive.
Ayurveda calls fall a "vata" season. Vata is characterized by the elements of air and either. Autumn weather is changeable, varied, windy at times, cold. Just like this week. Some of the qualities of this season are: light, dry, cold, rough, mobile, subtle and clear.
In the summer, when it was hot, you probably enjoyed your water and drinks on the cooler side and favored lighter foods like melon, cucumber, and salads to stay cool and light. But, now that the weather is cool, dry and light, it's time to enjoy the opposite.
In the fall season, favor warmer, slightly heavier, mushier, and even oilier foods and warm drinks that will nourish you and keep you feeling grounded in this season of change.
On Sundays, I do a kitchen practice I call Kitchen Sadhana, the practice of nourishment. For my Kitchen Sadhana Sunday, I organize my kitchen, shop for the week ahead, make a weekly meal plan and do food prep.
What's in season is what you should be eating.
Think apples, cranberries, fresh brussel sprouts, cauliflower, delicata squash, romanesco broccoli, rutabaga, rainbow carrots, leeks and beets. My garden still has loads of kale and there are still some dandelion greens to be found.
Spiced oatmeal with apples and cranberries.
Need some seasonal recipe ideas? Check out my Vibrant Living Recipes Web page, a collection of curated recipes for healthy eating.
Need reminders for what to do to stay healthy in Autumn? Check out How to Live Vibrantly in Autumn Tip Sheet.
When we got back to Peru, we returned to a garden full of raspberries and weeds. We enjoyed eating the raspberries straight off and bush and adding them to smoothies, but what do I do with all that green stuff? I mean, the dandelions, thistle, plantain, and dock and more. They had three months to grow uninterrupted and were strong and mighty and prolific. A few years ago, I only saw them as ugly invasive weeds and I dug them all up and threw them onto the compost pile right away. That was before I knew about the health power of wild invasives.
Bitter greens like dandelions grow abundantly all summer long and their bitter flavor is exactly what is needed to balance the heat of summer. According to Ayurveda, like increases like, and it's opposite reduces. So, hot salsa will make you feel hotter, but bitter greens like dandelions will actually cool you off.
You can enjoy dandelions all summer long and include them in your breakfast, lunch and dinner.


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The Huawei FreeLace Pro are a fantastic alternative to the FreeBuds Pro
The Huawei FreeLace Pro launched at HDC 2020 alongside a slew of other Huawei products. I enjoyed the Huawei FreeBuds Pro which launched at that event and crowned them as the best TWS earphones I've ever used. Huawei was kind enough to send us a pair of the FreeLace Pro for review just a couple of weeks back, and they sound just as good. Both the FreeLace Pro and the FreeBuds Pro offer 40dB active noise cancellation. At a starting price of €119 in Europe, these are significantly cheaper than the FreeBuds Pro.
About this review: We received the Huawei FreeLace Pro from Huawei UK for review in the middle of November. Huawei had no input on the contents of this review.
Specification Overview
The Huawei FreeLace Pro are quite similar to the Huawei FreeBuds Pro in a lot of ways; but as the naming would imply, the FreeLace Pro have a neckband design while the FreeBuds Pro are truly wireless earbuds. Interestingly, they don't pack the same chipset. In fact, Huawei hasn't specified what chipset is in use here, so it's unlikely to be the Kirin A1 which has made its way not just to the FreeBuds Pro, but to Huawei's latest wearables as well. There's Bluetooth 5.0 (no Bluetooth 5.2 here), a USB-C charging connector that you can plug into your phone, and each earphone is equipped with a 14.2mm driver. The FreeBuds Pro actually only had an 11mm driver, and a larger driver typically means more bass. However, driver design is actually more important than the size, which is why the FreeBuds Pro can achieve similar results despite the smaller size.
The FreeLace Pro feature a neckband design – that is, they wrap around your neck, and the neckband itself is designed to sit on your shoulders. They're light and comfortable to forget that they're even there, which is a design intention as these are more suited to those who may want a pair of wireless earphones for running or other sports activities. These are less likely to fall out and land on the ground somewhere than true wireless earphones, and the eartips themselves sit a lot more snug in my ear than any of the other included tips in the FreeBuds Pro.
On the right side of the neckband are the button controls, while the left side houses the USB-C connector that you can use to charge the earphones. You can charge the earphones through any USB-C port, which includes your smartphone. In fact, connecting the earphones to a Huawei or Honor device will automatically pair them with that device. They charge relatively quickly from your smartphone, though I find the integrated Type-C connector both incredibly convenient and incredibly inconvenient. In the case that you want to charge your earphones when you're out and about, it's super simple. In fact, Huawei says that a 5-minute charge from your smartphone will get you 5 hours of playback. The problem comes when you want to charge them anywhere else, as you'll need to find a USB-C port on another device instead. There is an included USB-C to USB-A adapter in the box so that you can charge them in any normal USB port, but that's an extra cable to carry around for that convenience. Personally, it's not a big deal, but I can understand that may put some people off.
On the same side as the USB-C port are the controls. They're clicky and tactile, though they can be a bit fumbly as they all feel the same. The power button can be double-tapped to connect to the previously connected device as well.
If anything, my biggest gripe with the Huwaei FreeLace Pro is the lack of automatic playback detection. Rather than pausing audio automatically and playing it again when you remove them from your ears and put them back, they'll continue playing until you magnetically reconnect both of the earbuds together. As well, to turn on and off ANC, or to enable transparency mode, you need to hold down on the left earphone only while it's in your ear to cycle through the three modes.
Design and Comfort
The Huawei FreeBuds Pro have an interesting design, as the earpiece itself sticks out more than I've seen from other wireless earphones. The ones that I have are pretty dark green, and if I'm honest, I'm not a huge fan of the color. Aside from personal preference, the shiny metal at the end of each neckband is a nice touch, and the neckband is, as already mentioned, quite comfortable to wear. It's easy to forget that you're wearing it, and the earphones themselves are comfortable to wear in-ear for long periods of time without worrying about making your ears uncomfortable. They're a pretty unique design, which I don't care about but I know that many do. There are other types of tips that come in the box too, so you can mix and match to find your fit if the ones pre-installed don't fit your ears.
Huawei FreeLace Pro – Audio Quality, Active Noise Cancelling
This is the most important section of any audio review, and a lot of this is going to be reiterating the same points that I made in my review of the FreeBuds Pro. For €119 wireless earphones, these are fantastic. You don't get the convenience of true wireless or the benefit of the Kirin A1 which is why these are cheaper, but Huawei certainly hasn't skimped on the audio quality. As I've always said though, a pair of expensive wireless earphones will probably be easily bested by any decently specced pair of wired headphones. Remember when I said driver size doesn't matter? That's not quite true, as a much larger driver (such as the 40mm drivers in my Sony WH-1000XM3) will knock anything significantly smaller out of the park. When we're in the realm of a couple of millimeters though, the driver design certainly matters more.
The Huawei FreeLace Pro are a pretty luxury pair of wireless earphones, and as is always the case with wireless earphones, they have a particular use case. Do you listen to a lot of music on the go, and are you active enough that true wireless earphones can get annoying? The Huawei FreeLace Pro will stay put in your ears, and they sound really good in all situations. These earphones are good enough to serve a day-to-day use, however, when I get home, I'll instantly switch back to my Sony wireless headphones instead. That's not a slight against the FreeLace Pro – that's just to give you an idea of the difference in utility between headphones and earphones.
Comfort, noise cancellation, and audio quality are all exceptional here. If you want to check out the playlist that I've been listening to when testing the Huawei FreeLace Pro, you can check that out here. Songs like The Suburbs and Conductor sound as good as ever, and the bass is strong but clean. Overall, I'm a massive fan of the audio on these.
Just like the FreeBuds Pro, the ANC is brilliant, but it's the same experience in both the good and the bad. For starters, it can be somewhat aggressive in how it cancels surrounding sounds. If you're not familiar with ANC, it's basically a tech that analyzes sounds around you and then creates a "counter" sound that cancels out the sound waves that it's detecting with the microphones. When I'm on a train or in a car, it can become quite violent when it tries to cancel out audio, and the audio "shakes" as a result. I generally leave the noise canceling on "dynamic", which lets the earphones decide which ANC option will work best. I found that changing it from dynamic to "cozy" works fine in situations such as a train or a car, and eliminates most (but not all) of the shaking. I haven't really noticed any differences between the different ANC modes apart from that.
The audio codec is just as important as the hardware though, and on Android and Windows, the Huawei FreeBuds Pro will default to streaming with the SBC audio codec. The lower quality was immediately noticeable, though I was able to switch the codec over to AAC in the Bluetooth settings of my phone. On Windows, you're not going to be able to switch over to AAC, though.
Battery life on the Huawei FreeLace Pro
Huawei says that on a single charge, the FreeLace Pro should last for about 22 hours of music playback. This will obviously differ depending on whether ANC is on or off, and will also differ depending on the volume of the media that you're playing. This rated time for music playback is with ANC switched off, and with it switched on, you're looking at a still respectable playback time of around 12-14 hours from my testing. It's roughly half of the rated battery life, but it's still certainly good enough to get you through the day, especially when you can charge them up quickly from your smartphone. If anything, battery life matters even less here considering you can effectively always charge them quickly in a pinch. USB C ports are commonplace on smartphones now, so you will spend no real time away from your music.
Conclusion – The Huawei FreeLace Pro are great wireless earphones
As I expected going into this review, the Huawei FreeLace Pro are pretty much just as good as their true wireless counterparts. Sure, you lose out on some of the convenience of a set of truly wireless earphones, but Huawei has made up for that with a cheaper price tag and useful features. Being able to charge from your smartphone pretty much anywhere is, 90% of the time, incredibly useful, and the battery life is nothing short of exceptional when compared to the much smaller 3-4 hours on the FreeBuds Pro. I've been really impressed by how good the Huawei FreeLace Pro are, and for €119, they're a stellar choice for anyone who doesn't want to go truly wireless.
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I had a friend who had lasik done here and now can't see. Talk to a few ppl and get a couple of opinions from OPTHAMOLOGISTS before you go to Lasik Today. It is not the Opthamologist's -- rather the evaluation done by the staff and Doctor of Optometry (Are they REALLY Doctors??!!), who states he would rather be surfing. My friend was to have enhancement and now is blind and out of one eye and outta work for more than a month so far. The Director of the Company bears no responsibility of the work performed by their very own staff. NUTS!! Had they done the testing or read them accurately, they would have advised AGAINST Lasik, as two opthamologists said just 6 days later.


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One of the world's most sought-after and respected composers, Craig Armstrong, will perform a very special show at London's Union Chapel on 4th June, showcasing pieces from throughout his diverse career and accompanied by the London Contemporary Orchestra and Conductor Robert Ames.
A Royal Academy of Music graduate, Armstrong's classical commissions during his diverse career are many from the London Sinfonietta, St Martin In The Fields, Organ Reframed, RSNO, Scottish Ensemble and his award winning The Lady From The Sea opera for Scottish Opera in 2012.
Armstrong has scored over 25 movies since 1996, including some of the best loved soundtracks in contemporary film. His work ranges from both independent and Hollywood cinema – from Peter Mullan's directorial debut The Close Trilogy to the BAFTA, Ivor Novello and Golden Globe winning award scores for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge! to the much adored 'Love Actually' score.
As well as his compositions for picture, Craig Armstrong has also released consecutive successful solo albums, 'The Space Between Us', and 2016's 'It's Nearly Tomorrow'. He is also known for his genre defining work with Massive Attack as well as arrangements for Madonna & U2 amongst many other contemporary artists.
Recognised as a pioneer in his art, Armstrong was awarded an O.B.E for services to the music industry in 2010, and in 2016 received the Henry Mancini Award from the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
Music lovers should not miss this rare chance to experience a Craig Armstrong gig in London, with his last being at the Barbican in 2002. He will perform some of his most well known compositions from his solo albums, film, and also new works which will be released later this year.


The Clare Main Street Farm and Arts Market will begin Thursday, May 31.
This farmer's market combines produce and foodstuff with arts and crafts to provide the community with one-stop shopping every week beginning May 31 until the end of the season.
This market is open Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in conjunction with the Clare Summer Concert Series all under the water tower in the Clare City Park.


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Becoming president at Centre College in July 1998 represented my first hands-on experience with NCAA competition at theDivision III level, and I must tell you that I quickly became a strong advocate for the style of athletic competition delivered by Centre and institutions like it. Division III athletics is about the business of building better young men and women–tomorrow's citizen-leaders, as I like to say. I will come back to this, and it will be increasingly clear why I have become such a strong advocate for athletic competition in our Division.
In the spirit of full disclosure, however, you should know that I was one of those high school kids who took sports way too seriously; that I had a wonderful and successful Division I football career at Ohio University, at a time, even in Division I, when I was permitted, encouraged even, to be a superior student and active campus leader; that I coached for five years in Division I at Miami of Ohio, and we were a top-20 team in three of my five years there; that I supervised athletics during my 17-year tenure at the University of Richmond; and that my wife, Susie, and I sent our sons Luke and Mark off to Duke and Northwestern, respectively, as successful scholarship football players who completed their work in four years.
Even more, Susie's maternal grandfather and dad, plus my dad, were successful college athletes before the NCAA even established divisional play. So, it should be clear that my family and I have had a long, established experience with Division I athletics, and I count it a blessing to have had these opportunities, though my attitude has changed radically in the past decade-plus.
I am deeply concerned about where we find our Division I sister institutions, and I am even more concerned about where they are headed. I have said for some years—more than a decade, in fact—that our Division I counterparts are headed toward an unhappy end. The ever-increasing professionalization, the recurring incidence of academic impropriety and off-the-field behaviors that fall somewhere between stupid and criminal, and the seemingly endless escalation of big dollars and expanding seasons have compromised the very notion of what it is to be a student-athlete, what it is to be an amateur competitor, of what it means to use athletics as a meaningful part of the educational experience offered by these colleges and universities.
That said, I urge us not to demonize the athletes who make this choice. They are the innocents here, lured into an "it's my job" approach to college sports. They are modestly paid, willing victims.
And, much as I want to blame the coaches, whose perceived importance and salaries is a distortion of monumental proportions, I cannot. They are simply taking full advantage of the system in which they find themselves. Count most of them as good men and women with a strong dose of opportunism.
No, at day's end the blame will fall to the Division I college and university presidents, to the NCAA leadership, to the leaders in the power conferences, and, of course, to the leaders of the various networks and sponsors who have turned almost every hour of the day into a parade of intercollegiate contests. These men, and a few women, might have taken Division I sports down a very different path, but they did not and they will not and they will get the blame, appropriately, for effectively destroying competitive athletics at these brand-name colleges and universities that we read about each and every day of the week.
It's too bad. It was not inevitable. It could have ended differently, and countless thousands of Division I athletes—women and men—might have enjoyed a decidedly different, student-oriented experience that would have better prepared them for meaningful lives of work and service.
Beating up on Division I was not and is not my goal. I am here to offer praise for Division III athletics, which are played at 450 institutions by more than 190,000 young men and women. And I am confident in stating that our approach to intercollegiate athletics is decidedly stronger and represents best practice at this point in time.
What we have the opportunity to accomplish in the lives of student-athletes is profoundly better. We have kept the balance that at one time was relatively consistent across all divisions—a balance that honors the academic program, seeks to enhance the total student experience, emphasizes broad participation, and, in fact, offers an athletic "product" that is strong and high-quality and fun.
This focus on balance is writ large throughout our core values.
We are a division that expects presidents and chancellors to have the ultimate responsibility and final authority for the conduct of the intercollegiate athletics program at the institutional, conference, and national governance levels.
This not only sounds like balance to me; it sounds like education to me—the kind that builds better young men and women. It sounds like college athletics.
We need to remind ourselves of these core values regularly, as all this is decidedly good for us and good for our students and, I would argue, speaks to the educational value of athletic competition. It is this kind of experience that I believe can play an important role in the development of citizen-leaders who emerge from college and competitive sport fully prepared for their lives of work and service.
But, what we do with our future is not without challenge, and in that spirit I call off three potential developments that represent threats to Division III and the athletic experience we offer to the young men and women who pass our way.
First, it is not impossible to imagine that coaches, athletic directors, faculty representatives and presidents in our division could make the mistake, incrementally, of chasing after our well-intentioned but misguided brothers and sisters in Division I.
During my time in Division III, I have seen this possibility raise its head more than once. There are some among us who believe that more is better: more practices, more contests, more time and greater levels of significance given to alternative seasons for all sports, more coaches and a "facility-chase" that resembles Division I.
Good or bad, we can be sure that many of our students and their families would welcome a competitive experience that is more like what occurs in Division I.
For the record, I am not suggesting that we never consider and make well-considered change or addition, but I am resolute in my belief that the test for such changes must always be measured against whether such modification compromises the student experience and forces our Division III athletes to miss out on other aspects of the college experience that have value and, in fact, do much to prepare them for their lives of work and service.
More is not better and bigger is not better, and we need to be watchful of change that moves us in that direction.
Second, having suggested that our Division I brothers and sisters may be headed toward an unfortunate end, it must be acknowledged that Division I revenues allow Division III to sustain the standard of living to which we have become accustomed.
Mind numbing are the dollars and cents brought into the NCAA largesse—some $989 million in 2014 and in excess of $1 billion in 2015. The portion designated to "sponsoring" Division III activity is large and remarkable—some $28.5 million in 2015-16, though that number represents a mere 3.1 percent of the organization's total revenue.
And make no mistake; this resource would not be easily replaced. This funding fuels the engine for our championships and many of the student-development programs that distinguish our division. I offer up my thanks for the support we receive from the NCAA, but also note that any kind of serious disruption in the NCAA funding model—one that is dependent almost in total by the five to six power conferences and television revenue resulting from men's basketball—would cause those of us in Division III to experience a drop in support that would also be mind numbing.
So, what are we to do—other than wait and pray?
Those of us who find ourselves in Division III need to be thinking and talking about "what if"? We would be required to rethink almost all aspects of our divisional operation, but I am confident that we could make lemonade out of such an occurrence if we were required to do so. I also think we would be smart—wise, even—to begin a conversation about how we would meet such a challenge.
I repeat that I would be pleased to be completely wrong about the end-game for our brothers and sisters in Division I, but I fear that I am right, and I think that the challenge resulting from this watershed moment in the NCAA will come to us sooner rather than later.
Third and last, reminding you that I coached college football for five years—on the offensive side of it, no less—I believe we find ourselves at a point in time when we need to go on the offense in telling the story of what we accomplish with intercollegiate sports and the impact we expect it to have as part of the student-athlete's educational experience. Simply stated, it's time for us to be more intentional about how we tell the story and highlight the outcomes of the students who compete in Division III.
Moreover, we should make no apologies for the quality of play we produce. Having watched our Centre teams in NCAA championship-level competitions in football, cross-country and track & field, in men's and women's basketball, in men's soccer, in field hockey, and, most recently, our women's soccer team's appearance in the 2015 Final Four, I know we deliver an athletic product that is competitive, fast and fun, exciting and high quality. We need to announce more boldly to prospective students and parents alike that the chance for a young person to perform, to compete, to learn and to find great joy in athletic competition is alive and well in Division III.
If my predictions are correct, in another decade or less, Division III may be, in fact, the choice that many students and parents will choose to make instead of signing on to an intercollegiate experience that is increasingly "job like," even more focused on W's and L's (if that's even possible), directed even more by influences outside the academy (if that's even possible), and that makes even less of an attempt to suggest that intercollegiate competition is about building better young men and women (if that's even possible).
We need to claim that our brand is superior, and, then, we need to be sure that we stay true to the philosophy that I spoke of earlier, because doing what's right to protect our brand is not guaranteed. We must be prepared to step up and be sure that our division stays the course, does not allow itself to bend in a direction that steals away the joy, the completeness, and the balance of what we accomplish in Division III athletics.
It will be a fight for sure, but one worthy of our best effort. For those of you prepared to engage in such battle, I wish us Godspeed.
I close with a quote from Teddy Roosevelt, who is credited, appropriately, with having saved intercollegiate athletics—football, in particular—back at the turn of the last century. And I remind you that football in the early 1900's at all levels in America had become an ugly, violent sport that was taking lives by the dozens each fall.
So, what did he say and why might it matter now?
I think the philosophy represented by Division III would meet or exceed President Roosevelt's expectations for athletics. We have stayed the course and have not allowed "athletic proficiency" to become the master of the student-athletes who compete on our campuses across America. Better yet, we are devoted to using competitive experiences as a way to prepare young men and women for their lives of work and service.
In the end, building tomorrow's citizen-leaders in our classrooms and laboratories and practice spaces and athletic facilities is a far better, far more balanced course.
This article originally appeared on Huffington Post and is adapted from President Roush's remarks delivered on January 14 at the 2016 NCAA Convention in San Antonio, Texas.


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Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Gary Partington, Edith Cowan University
Why Indigenous Issues are an Essential Component of Teacher Education Programs
10.14221/ajte.2002v27n2.4
The extensive failure of Indigenous students in school, particularly during adolescence, is a shameful characteristic of Australian education. Students who have most to gain from a successful school experience are the most likely to leave school with minimal skills and qualifications. The situation has shown little improvement over 30 years, as evidenced by the repetitious nature of articles in, for example, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. Government inquiries into Indigenous education, especially those addressing issues such as attendance (Bourke, Rigby & Burden, 2000), identity (Purdy, Tripcony, Boulton-Lewis, Fanshawe & Gunstone, 2000) and achievement (Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, 2000a, 2000b; Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs, 2000b) have resulted in little improvement. The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy (Department of Employment, Education and Training, 1989) identified goals for Indigenous students but, despite considerable effort to achieve these goals, educational inequality for Indigenous students 'remains vast' (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs, 2000b). While a growing number of Indigenous students are successful at school, a significant proportion leave school before completing Year 10, and far fewer complete Year 12 than is the case with non-Indigenous students (Department of Education Western Australia, 2002; Ministerial Council on Education Employment Training and Youth Affairs, 2000a). A cycle develops, by which the poor educational standards of Indigenous students exiting from school results in the inability to supply, from their ranks, the teachers and other professionals needed to provide culturally-appropriate role models in the classroom.
Partington, G. (2002). Why Indigenous Issues are an Essential Component of Teacher Education Programs. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 27(2).
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Over 30,000 runners took part in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival in the nation's capital on 28-29 May. Runners from right across the globe gathered for Scotland's biggest running festival, taking part part in the Marathon, Half Marathon, Team Relay, 10k, 5k and junior races across an action-packed weekend.
Sunny conditions made for perfect running conditions for the elite fields on one of the world's fastest marathon courses, where Kenyan dominance of the event continued in both the male and female races. Boaz Kiprono took a decisive victory in the men's race, breaking clear in the last mile to blow away the opposition in a winning time of 2 hours, 19 minutes and 55 seconds.
Moroccan runner Abdelhadi El Mouaziz took a crowd-pleasing second place in 2 hours, 20 minutes and 14 seconds, followed closely by crowd favourite and star of 'Running with the Kenyans, Japhet Koech with a time of 2 hours 22 minutes and 15 seconds.
The women's race was dominated by Kenyan Eddah Jepkosgei. she led from the gun to a four minute victory in 2 hours, 39 minutes and 53 seconds.
The podium was completed by Hailey Haining, Kilbarchan AAC in 2 hours, 43 minutes and 3 seconds, and Katie White, Garscube Harriers in 2 hours, 47 minutes and 40 seconds.
As if running 26.2 miles wasn't tough enough, Gavin Thomson of Darvel completed the grand slam of marathon, half marathon, 10k and 5k over the weekend. Gavin Thomson was running for MND Scotland in memory of his aunt who passed away from Motor Neurone Disease in December 2013.
It was a particularly heart-thumping day for Daniel Jones from Hertford who proposed to his girlfriend Rebecca Harrison at the marathon finish line. Thankfully she said 'yes'. His new fiance was running the marathon alongside Daniel and was taken by surprise as Daniel bent on one knee at the finish line.
There was a thrilling race at the front of Sunday morning's half marathon as Darrell Hastie of Gala Harriers stormed to victory in the last mile with a winning time of 1 hour, 10 mins and 38 seconds. Sunderland Harrier's Andrew Powell took second place with a time of 1 hour, 10 mins and 48 second, and Spain's Francisco Urbano Sales finished in third with a time of 1 hour, 10 mins and 54 seconds.
It was a cat and mouse race with Sunderland-based Powell pushing the pace in the latter half, but local runner Hastie had the critical finishing kick.
33 year old Hastie said: "It was really good, it's a beautiful course, the weather was fantastic – perfect conditions for running in with next to no wind.
Northumberland's Tracy Millmore was the winner in the women's race which she led from start to finish. The Birtley AC runner was pleased to have topped the podium in her first ever outing at the Edinburgh Marathon Festival.
Max McNeill, 22, from Lothian Running Club claimed the top spot in the EMF 10K race with a winning time of 32 minutes and 7 seconds. Bryan Mackie from Edinburgh AC clinched second place in 32 minutes and 51 seconds and Kevin Stephant, on holiday from France, finished in third place with a time of 34 minutes and 16 seconds.
Around 850 youngsters took part in Saturday's junior races, consisting of the 1.5k for 6-8 year olds and the 2k for 9-12 year olds.
Neil Kilgour, Edinburgh Marathon Festival Director, said: "2016 has been another incredible year for Edinburgh Marathon Festival with record-breaking performances, tens of thousands of participants and millions raised for good causes.
More than 1,500 runners from the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Official Charity, Macmillan Cancer Support, took part and together with hundreds of other charities, are hoping to raise more than £4.5 million.


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Па́вел Дени́сович Па́влов (род. 2 августа 1938) — российский дипломат.

Биография
Окончил Московский государственный институт международных отношений (МГИМО) МИД СССР (1962) и  Дипломатическую академию МИД СССР (1976). Кандидат юридических наук. Владеет английским, французским и немецким языками. На дипломатической работе с 1962 года.
 В 1962—1966 годах — сотрудник Посольства СССР в Лаосе.
 В 1968—1974 годах — сотрудник Секретариата ООН в Нью-Йорке и Женеве.
 В 1980—1987 годах — сотрудник Посольства СССР в США.
 В 1989—1993 годах — советник-посланник Посольства СССР, затем (с 1991 года) России в Намибии.
 В 1993—1994 годах — заместитель начальника Управления Департамента Африки и Ближнего Востока МИД России.
 В 1994—1997 годах — заместитель директора Департамента Африки МИД России.
 С 6 сентября 1997 по 4 апреля 2002 года — чрезвычайный и полномочный посол Российской Федерации в Гане.
 С 6 апреля 1999 по 4 апреля 2002 года — чрезвычайный и полномочный посол Российской Федерации в Либерии по совместительству.

Дипломатический ранг
Чрезвычайный и полномочный посланник 1 класса (6 января 1999)

Семья
Женат, имеет двух дочерей.

Примечания

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Послы Российской Федерации в Гане
Послы Российской Федерации в Либерии


MIPIM 2017's focus on the future peaked today by honouring the industry's hottest property startups.
Day 2 in Cannes culminated in the 2017 MIPIM Startup Competition, which honoured three proptech companies pushing the boundaries of real estate today. Property development search engine Envelope won the City category, for its focus on high-potential projects; Storefront, an interactive platform for pop-up stores, won the Transactions category; and Ravti, which innovates HVAC for REITs owners and property management companies, won the Building category. MetaProp's Aaron Block and BNP Paribas Real Estate's Laurent Pavillon were on hand to give out the awards. Hearty congratulations to all: be sure to check out these new property startups online! And find out more about the MIPIM 2017 Startup Competition here.
Digital currency bitcoin is the most commonly-used example of blockchain technology today. The panel discussed whether its principles could also be applied to deeds and ownership.
Lifthrasir explained how his company is currently testing the use of blockchain in Chicago, with a "deed system without usual paperwork. The idea is to transfer property on a bitcoin blockchain without state intervention. It shows that Blockchain is legal, that it's not scary", he insisted. But will it catch on? "Blockchain will get traction by getting the biggest companies you can to use it. Then a lot of people will follow in line." Especially, he added, if real estate executives can be convinced of the potential savings to be made with such a system.
One usage case in point could be the current strong trend towards local currencies, observed Olivier Selles, of Bouygues Immobilier. "Printing money is expensive and not efficient. RE developers create future neighbourhoods. If we find the currency (like blockchain-based bitcoin) to make these neighbourhoods more efficient, we'll have a competitive advantage," he said.
"Let's not forget that transactions are much quicker on blockchain: they take minutes, versus the weeks they can take in a country like Germany," said Achim Jedelsky, of Daimler Real Estate.
The technology is definitely catching on in more progressive countries, as moderator Paul Wessels of PropertyNL pointed out: the Land Registry in Sweden is now experimenting with blockchain.
Yet for now, as a crowd question pointed out, registering property via blockchain has no legal value. Lifthrasir remains confident that "governments will ultimately put their final stamp on there. In some developing countries, even a blockchain deed is better than what they had before", (i.e. not much).
Meanwhile, in the Market Trends Room, Keynote Speaker Alex Gong, CEO of Fosun Properties, shared the evolutional patterns and motivations of Chinese investments. He explained why the Chinese real estate market is facing challenges: high capital costs, high land costs, high selling prices and and high policy risk. "In 2015, the cost of Chinese tier I and II cities was far higher than the asset value of overseas peers." The key factors driving Chinese into global markets are performance, structural oppoprtunities, diversification & balance, market and cycle. With a tightened regulatory environment, Chinese outbound investors will probably look for new markets and agile investment vehicles.


Team building exercises will be able to run the particular gamut via simple son's or daughter's play with a more complex situation so that you can solve often the challenges. What can be done indoors or out, working day or evening. The accessories used inside all these work outs are inexpensive. Really the only ingredient of most of these exercises you may want to invest some cash with great plus professional agencies. Encountered vendors along with companies crucial towards organize, keep an eye on and take a look at activities. A good poorly properly trained facilitator can certainly turn what precisely should become a productive experience in a complete waste of time. The crucial position about the facilitator will get obvious if examining typically the work outs following.
That is a basic workout is organized to generate self-assurance as well as contact abilities. It again can end up being done in or out in the open and needs basically no unusual software. First of all of almost all you want to do is normally cook typically the minefield. This particular is just a matter involving setting materials on your platform seeing that golf balls or perhaps Styrofoam cups of coffee as well as plates within a so-called "field". Next randomly combine in place workforce members. You may draw brands from a new crown in the event that works to get you. The concept is which will amongst the participants that will loan provider typically the minefield by using eye lids shut about the good reason of the principles of the actual subsequent part. Consequently essentially you then have a squad member who cannot find or converse with be guided by a person who can observe together with speak out, yet ought to not feel or psychologically guide the very several other. The idea is amongst the ideal phone training.
2 . Group JuggleIt is you of the very top exercise within dilemma solving and team assistance. Idyllically, the team must experience six or eight folks, but you can get it larger or more compact to in shape your requirements. Making the particular staff creates some sort of group of friends and then put a further baseball. Clarify the fact that the tennis ball has so that you can be placed to each one human being throughout the range, but no individual can tackle double. Present them often the ball allowing them own at the item. When often the project is normally achieved express the amount of time this took all of them and task them towards get it done sooner. Provide the 2 mins for you to display. Subsequently after the next attempt that will ask them whenever they will go through successfully faster nonetheless and ask them to be able to tell the best way fast you can aquire it undertaken. Allow three minutes for considering. This supplies the very team the ability certainly not only so that you can address a problem, but for predict the way in which fast broaden can carry out. This is certainly a single of the actual significant group building events that firms organize to further improve team style.
3. Improv CircleThis is an easy ice breaker and a excellent work out for newly formed teams. In which whole party forms a new circle in-front. The facilitator explains likely about towards explain to a new story related to an difficulty and the team enhances producing a message at a time. When given the niche, the man preferred for you to start situation returns towards the person upon your right, create eye communicate with and say the first term. That 2nd person will certainly turn appropriate, help to make vision make contact with plus say the subsequently word together with so upon. At the end of the actual story that are fitted with not merely established a little something together, still the peculiar eye call has designed a bit more00 natural.
This unique are generally some with delivering company building exercises and phone training routines that is definitely planned in business.


Somatic Psychology has its roots in the biology of the body. Wilhelm Reich, an early student of Freud's, is considered to be the Father of Somatic Psychology. During his psychoanalytic training with Freud he became most interested in what the "body" of the patient was doing rather than what the patient was talking about. He followed his curiosity and began physically manipulating his patients' bodies as a way of breaking down their armoring and defensive systems. His very direct approach to the human form activated much psycho-emotional suffering that the patient had been holding. It was only after this tremendous discharge of one's held life force could the real therapy begin, according to Reich.


Ok, panic sets in. As of 8:30 am, I am officially starting to freak out!! Not in a bad way at all. It's not like "Oh, GOD, what have I done, there's no way I'm getting on that plane" freaking out. It's more like "I KNOW I have forgotten to do something incredibly important and this time tomorrow I will be in another freakin' country" kind of panic. It's not like I can turn around and come home to fix whatever it is I messed up. Anyway, that's not so bad. I can live with it. It will pass as soon as I am in the airport. Wow. Today is the day.
So by Friday afternoon I will be in my new home city, settling into my hotel for a couple of days, and preparing to apartment hunt to my little heart's content. Nest away, little mama! I'll take lots of pics and post a new album asap. Well, that's me. I'm going to go wake Diedra up so we can go do girl stuff today (manicures & pedicures are in order!) since she's skipping school to see me off (oops, did I say that out loud??). Ok byyyeee!


Scaredy Kat & Her Own Crow: What kind of name is that?????
What kind of name is that?????
What kind of name is Katerpillars no more???? well almost everyone who knows me, knows Im upfront about being in a program of recovery to help me live a life free of substances & alcohol for a long time now...anyone who knows me also cant imagine me being on "anything" that would exaggerate my already in your face, and none to shy personality. although I like to think of these traits as my "passion" for life...for people...for creating art...for always embracing my authentic spirit, and hopefully yours, well whatever we choose to call it... Im not the lost person I was before I surrendered to recovery! . (back to the story) I consider my life then as a caterpillars. They begin rebirthing in a cocoon while they prepare to change & then blossom into the beautiful butterflies they finally become. but not before alot of hard work, & Im sure a spiritual transformation. As uncertain as life may be as a butterfly, one thing is for sure... it can never again go back to being a caterpillar. I wont look back, & I was rewarded w/ becoming free to discover my love for painting, sewing & creating primsical & whimitive art. So Many dolls...so little time.
So since my business name is Scaredy Kat Folkheart...I thought it appropo that I honor my God, the other butterflies who have flown before me w/ my new blog name. I originally applied for "Scaredy Katerpillars no more" but wont know until I publish this post. prior to the cocoon I was a Scardey Kat...but no more! (smile) I am going to soon post pics of some of my designs, and in my efforts creating, hopefully honor other artists by combining their wonderful creativity w/ mine, ( I will always acknowledge these teachers who happen to be fellow artists if I use their patterns.) my friends, family, (who happen to include my adoreable J.R.T "Opie", my overweight mainecoone cat "Mr.O'Malley" & of course the wind beneath my wings... "Ronnie" the hubs!
Im sure as soon as all my support network on the boards learn I have my own blog, (I can hear them clapping now) (for them not me!) they know they wont have to be bored w/ my long winded tales, hopes, and dreams any longer. I have my own blog & Im learning to fly!!!!! Im sure Ill get better at this, so thank all of my creative mentors and muses who encouraged, inspired, and begged me to do this...We are all free!
Hugs Kat~ I wish you the best in Blogonia and I hope that huge doors on tiny hinges keep opening for you and your work. I think you will enjoy this and rock at it!
Tell em now...Tell em how!!!!!


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