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Sudan Refugee Succeeds as Accountant and Grad Student at Point Park
Sudan Refugee Succeeds as Accountant and Grad Student at Point Park Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Panther Bior, an accounting analyst for The Bank of New York Mellon, is currently pursuing a master's degree at Point Park in organizational leadership. He also earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Point Park.
At 30 years old, accounting analyst and Point Park M.A. organizational leadership graduate student Panther Garang Bior has already gone through more hardships in his life than many people will face in their lifetime.
At age six, Bior was forced to escape to the jungle when the Muslim Sudanese Government attacked his village in southern Sudan. He became part of a mass exodus of 27,000 boys who are now known internationally as the "Lost Boys of Sudan."
Bior spent the next five years hiking more than 1,000 miles barefoot throughout Kenya and Ethiopia, seeking refuge from genocide, disease and starvation. Finally, he made it to a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya, where he stayed until 2001. He was then granted asylum by the United States and chose to live in Pittsburgh.
Within two months of arriving to Pittsburgh, Bior landed a full-time job and enrolled at the Community College of Allegheny County, where he earned an Associate of Science degree in accounting. He then traveled back to Africa to marry his girlfriend, Nyanthiec.
After the wedding, he returned to the United States to fill out the necessary paperwork to bring his wife to the United States. To meet financial challenges, Bior worked at night while pursuing a bachelor's degree in accounting at Point Park during the day.
"Panther lives his life with honor and dignity and truly knows what sacrifice means," said Cheryl Clark, associate professor of accounting, who served as Bior's undergraduate academic advisor.
For several years in a row, Bior can remember sleeping for only three or four hours a night. "I remember being so tired in class one day and Professor Clark telling me, 'Hang in there. The hard work now will pay off in the future.'"
In 2008, Bior earned his bachelor's degree in accounting and soon landed a job as an accounting analyst for The Bank of New York Mellon. His Point Park journey did not end there. With the desire to eventually lead a nonprofit organization, Bior decided to enroll in the University's master's degree program for organizational leadership.
"Competent leaders are needed in today's challenging business world," explained Bior, when asked why he chose to study organizational leadership. He chose Point Park again for several reasons. "Point Park is my community. I like it because of its small class sizes and close location to my job. Students are likely to get all of their questions answered by professors."
Helena Knörr, Ph.D., assistant professor of organizational leadership, stresses to her students the importance of looking at leadership from a global perspective.
"Panther's collaborative leadership style has a way of encouraging everyone to get to the finish line," said Knörr. "He speaks from the heart and brings so much value to the classroom."
Bior lives in Castle Shannon with his wife and two children. His journey as a "Lost Boy" was featured in the 2006 National Geographic award-winning documentary, God Grew Tired of Us, produced by Brad Pitt and narrated by Nicole Kidman.
"Panther never complained and just kept working toward his goals. Now he has a family, is working on his master's degree and is holding down a full-time accounting position," said Clark. "What a success story."
Although it has been several years since Bior escaped Sudan, he has not forgotten about the children still suffering there. He is fundraising to have a school built for the 2,700 children in his home village who currently meet under a tree for schooling. To learn more about the nonprofit organization he supports, visit www.iwashungry.org.
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Gabriel Barcia-Colombo is a mixed media artist whose work focuses on collections, memorialization and the act of leaving one's digital imprint for the next generation. His work takes the form of video sculptures, immersive performances, augmented reality, large scale projections and vending machines that sell human DNA.
Gabriel was commissioned to be the first digital artist to show work at the New Fulton Terminal Stop with the MTA Arts & Design program in New York City. His work has been featured in the Volta, Scope, and Art Mrkt art fairs, Victoria & Albert Museum as well as Grand Central Terminal and the New York Public Library. He received an Art and Technology grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where he created "The Hereafter Institute," a company that questions the future of death rituals and memorials and their relationship to technology. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Gabriel served as a member of the artist advisory board at the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as the education committee member at the Museum of Art and Design. In 2012 Gabriel was given a TED Fellowship and gave a TED talk entitled "Capturing Memories in Video Art." In 2014 he gave another entitled "My DNA Vending Machine" and was awarded a Senior TED fellowship.
In 2016 Gabe founded Bunker.nyc a pop up gallery showcasing emerging art made with technology. Bunker became the first pop up digital art gallery to open in the Sotheby's Auction House in New York Summer 2017. In 2019 Gabe was an Adobe Augmented Reality Artist in Residence. He has worked with Bose, LG, Spotify, Brookfield Properties, Infinite Objects, Adobe and Hugo Boss. Gabe is a New York Foundation for the Arts grant awardee, a 2021 recipient of the Brown Institute Fellowship at Columbia University, and most recently the artist in residence at The Neon Museum in Las Vegas.

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The NHS, Gawd Bless it!
An NHS worker is being investigated by police and social services over allegedly feeding her two toddlers turpentine to cure 'parasites' that she believes are infecting their bodies.
The mother, who is not being named for legal reasons, is believed to work in healthcare and was formerly an employee of Hull Royal Infirmary.
She was reported to police after posting in a private Facebook group appearing to confess to giving her two children aged under five the dangerous substance by 'tricking' them and disguising it in juice.
*speechless*
Emma, from London, has campaigned for autism rights for more than four years and has previously spoken out on the use of bleach enemas on autistic children by their parents.
Two weeks ago, social services were forced to take safeguarding measures against one mother who had allegedly used bleach as a 'cure' for her son's severe autism.
What the hell..?
A spokesperson from Hull Royal Infirmary confirmed the mother was a former employee but is no longer an employee of the trust.
But might be working at a hospital near you. Somewhere.
Labels: NHS, What the hell is wrong with people?, wtaf?
stengle said...
It's reasonable to assume these appointed 'health staff' had not listened to any real 'health advice' because they, um, don't really speaka da Inglis much. No point in them reading text books and attending lectures because, well, diversity on the wards is everything and merely sitting watching a slide show is a bit pointless. Nothing to do with them, hey?
(By diversity on the wards I mean those who can help the healing the process and those sort of less likely. Just a lottery which ones you get in the new, super NHS)
Sounds like something a superstitious, 3rd world, Whitchurch doctor would do.
Oi you said...
It's definitely rather Victorian, along with dosing your spouse with arsenic...
Charlie Gard, another grand knuckle dragging, politics over potential treatment, NHS achievement that should make 'em proud too. Long live NHS, like the proverbial foot that stomps on the face. Forever.
"Just a lottery which ones you get in the new, super NHS"
I think the game's rigged!
"Sounds like something a superstitious, 3rd world, Whitchurch doctor would do."
It does sound very diverse, doesn't it?
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LUCOM hosts Southeast Regional Student American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine Conference
Asa Keimig | LUCOM Marketing | Apr 1, 2019
Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) hosted the 2019 Southeast Regional Student American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine (SAOASM) conference this past weekend at the Center for Medical and Health Sciences (CMHS) on the campus of Liberty University (LU).
LUCOM-SAOASM hosted the conference and provided four lectures during the morning. Registered attendees heard from Bradley Haupricht, MD, a sports medicine physician for Liberty University's Athletic Department, who spoke on overuse conditions of the upper extremity; David A. Titcomb, PT, DPT, EP-C, director of the Undergraduate Exercise Science Program at Liberty University Department of Health Professions, who spoke on bridging the gap between physicians and physical therapists; and Del Bolin, MD, PhD, a professor of Family Medicine, OMM, and Sports Medicine at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM), who spoke on Osteopathic considerations of common running problems.
"As a medical student interested in sports medicine, this conference was an opportunity to get more exposure in sports medicine on an interprofessional level," said Graham Mann, Class of 2020. "Not only were Liberty University team doctors present today, but we got to hear from a doctor in physical therapy on how we can bridge the gap between injury and recovery; there was a joint injections lab and an OMT lab. Overall, this experience was just to invaluable to miss."
During his first year of medical school in 2016, Mann was the OMS-I representative for this club in its first year of existence and then as an OMS-II he was elected president. It was during that time; the group applied for and was accepted by the AOASM as a national chapter. "This year I have watched this club expand to new heights under Megan Boyer's leadership. Having the regional conference here at LUCOM demonstrates how far this club has come, and with no ceiling in sight we can only predict the unfathomable heights we will reach," he said.
Mann plans to pursue a specialty in family medicine followed by a sports medicine fellowship. "The great thing about sports medicine is that it encompasses exactly what LUCOM has trained me to do in the last three years," he added. "I have been taught and trained to encompass the mind, body, and spirit of a patient into my care. Being able to incorporate holistic healthcare as a doctor is important to me, and I feel like sports medicine is the best place I get to do that."
After lunch, the conference afternoon sessions included lab activities. Attendees were able to participate in shoulder evaluation and basic injections (physical exam and ultrasound) led by Mark E. Rolfs, DO, PharmD, assistant professor of family medicine at LUCOM. They also learned practical hands-on osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) for athletes from Saunora Prom, DO, CAQSM, and Joseph Amalfitano, DO.
"Being a new osteopathic medical school can be tough when your name hasn't been around long enough for many people to have heard of it," said Megan Boyer, Class of 2021. "By hosting conferences for national organizations and opening our doors to other osteopathic students from across the region, we can show that though the school may not have been around long, we are staffed with an incredibly knowledgeable and caring faculty, equipped with cutting edge technology, and filled with students who are invested in lifelong learning."
Boyer currently serves as the Southeast Regional representative for SAOASM which includes osteopathic medical schools such as LUCOM, VCOM, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine-Bradenton, and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine-Georgia. When the national organization was looking for a school to host the conference, she offered LUCOM because she felt it would be a great opportunity for LUCOM-SAOASM to showcase sports medicine and the physicians at LU/LUCOM who work in the athletics department.
"My hope was that students were able to gain a greater appreciation of the impact that they can have on patients' lives through their medical practice. I also hope that students who were able to participate in the hands-on labs we had in the afternoon take away a few new skills and confidence in their abilities to assess and treat patients using them," Boyer said.
Participants in the 2019 Southeast Regional SAOASM Conference included LUCOM medical students, VCOM medical students, and graduate students from Liberty University.


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What more iconic American street rods are there than the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger? These two land rockets have been lighting up the black asphalt of American highways and city streets for over a half-century.
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Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
Dans La Famille
Ryan Goldberg profiles the remarkable Criquette Head-Maarek:
… as far back as the age of 5, Head-Maarek said, she told her father she wanted to be a trainer. "One day he said to me, 'You marry a trainer, but you won't be a trainer because there are no women trainers,"' she recalled.
But in 1978, after four years as her father's assistant, Head-Maarek was granted a training license by the French racing authorities, the first for a woman. Her father gave her 35 of his own horses, and success quickly followed. Owners such as Prince Khalid bin Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the late emir of Dubai, sent her horses. She remains the only woman to train an Arc winner.
This part of her story reminds me a bit of trainer Linda Rice:
A proud "my father's daughter," she's the youngest of trainer Clyde Rice's four children and the only girl. She began helping at her dad's stable in grammar school. She walked horses, then exercised them. At 17, as they drove back from a Keeneland horse sale, a major accident blocked their route for hours.
That's when Rice revealed her career path. She turned to her dad and confessed, "I want to be a trainer, just like you."
Clyde Rice measured his response before speaking it. He told her, "That career would be a lot easier if you were one of my sons."
Rice won the Easy Goer Stakes with Kid Cruz, eighth in the Preakness Stakes and a former $50K claimer, on Belmont Stakes day.
More Head-Maarek in the Guardian: "We'll take my Rolls-Royce …"
6/10/15 Addendum: Gai Waterhouse, daughter of Australian trainer T.J. Smith, shares a similar story as Head-Maarek and Rice about going out on her own:
Over the next 10 years I saw the likes of Kingston Town and Red Anchor come and go from my father's stable, Tulloch Lodge, and eventually I decided I could take the next step and become a horse trainer in my own right. TJ was very reserved about me becoming a trainer; he felt it would be too hard for me to obtain owners, purchase yearlings and make my mark. My father thought I would be much better off working under him for the time being as his PR girl and trackwork supervisor. But like most young people, I could not be swayed. I had an idea in my head and I could not be stopped. TJ was telling the truth, and he knew it would be an uphill battle for me to forge a career on my own.
She has succeeded.
Related: Miss Mary, Licensed Trainer (7/8/10).
Posted in Racing on June 14, 2014 / Tagged Australia, Criquette Head-Maarek, Fathers and Daughters, France, Gai Waterhouse, International, Linda Rice, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Trainers, Treve, Women in Racing
This is how good Treve was winning the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe:
An RPR of 130 is bang on average for an Arc winner, but, if we factor in her 1.5kg (3.3lb) fillies' allowance, it would have taken a 134+ performance from a colt to have beaten her on Sunday — and the last Arc winner to achieve that sort of figure was six-length winner Sakhee back in 2001.
Posted in Racing on October 11, 2013 / Tagged International, Longchamp, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Rankings, Treve
Clash of the Champions(hips)
There is something absurd about the plethora of top class turf events in the month that begins with the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and ends with the Breeders' Cup, now that Champions Day is part of the international calendar. But is a meta championship really the answer?
Posted in Racing on October 11, 2012 / Tagged Breeders' Cup, Champions Day, International, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Turf
An International Triple Crown
Greg Wood commenting on his column re: the Arc or America dilemma:
For as long as Champions Day sits between Paris and America, it will force owners to send a horse to two out of three, and the benefit of extra time to recover means that will, in many cases, be the events on either side of Ascot.
It's just stupid that they should need to choose at all. Put Champions Day in the right place and you have the makings of a modern Triple Crown, on offer to a horse that can win at Ascot, Longchamp and then in America. What an achievement that would be.
Indeed! It's hard not to like a proposed schedule that makes the Breeders' Cup the culmination of a top-tier international season, but there's a disjunction between audiences that weakens the likelihood of such a set-up, even if the BHA succeeded in finessing the scheduling issues involved — the BC dirt races don't stir Euro passion, and the turf races are secondary to Americans. On this side of the Atlantic, whether Champions Day is in September or October is all the same to many fans. On the other side, the question is why bother?
Posted in Racing on August 28, 2012 / Tagged Breeders' Cup, Champions Day, International, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, UK
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A systematic review of the evidence on integration of targeted health interventions into health systems
Health Policy Plan. 2010 Jan;25(1):1-14. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czp053. Epub 2009 Dec 2.
Rifat Atun 1 , Thyra de Jongh, Federica Secci, Kelechi Ohiri, Olusoji Adeyi
1 Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, London SW7, UK. r.atun@imperial.ac.uk
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czp053
A longstanding debate on health systems organization relates to benefits of integrating health programmes that emphasize specific interventions into mainstream health systems to increase access and improve health outcomes. This debate has long been characterized by polarization of views and ideologies, with protagonists for and against integration arguing the relative merits of each approach. However, all too frequently these arguments have not been based on hard evidence. The presence of both integrated and non-integrated programmes in many countries suggests there may be benefits to either approach, but the relative merits of integration in various contexts and for different interventions have not been systematically analysed and documented. In this paper we present findings of a systematic review that explores a broad range of evidence on: (i) the extent and nature of the integration of targeted health programmes that emphasize specific interventions into critical health systems functions, (ii) how the integration or non-integration of health programmes into critical health systems functions in different contexts has influenced programme success, (iii) how contextual factors have affected the extent to which these programmes were integrated into critical health systems functions. Our analysis shows few instances where there is full integration of a health intervention or where an intervention is completely non-integrated. Instead, there exists a highly heterogeneous picture both for the nature and also for the extent of integration. Health systems combine both non-integrated and integrated interventions, but the balance of these interventions varies considerably.
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Do Not F@%! With the Olympics Logo
Elise Craig
Everyone's got Olympics fever -- even The Gap. To commemorate the 30th Olympiad, the American retailer found inspiration in the Games' vintage logos, pulling iconic images from designs commemorating host cities from Barcelona to Lake Placid to Seoul.
Don't try this at home: The Gap has cashed in on Olympics fever by licensing old mascots and logos. The International Olympic Committee is highly protective of its trademarks.Photos courtesy of the Gap
"We selected designs we thought would resonate with customers and represented a diverse range of cities around the world," said The Gap's Kimberly Terry. The company produced 18 different styles, and skipped over some of the more controversial years, like the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin under Hitler. The retailer stayed true to the imagery and stuck to the original colors, adding only gold foil to the girls' tees for a little flair and a few furry mascots to appeal to tots. Otherwise, the shirts look just like the ones you might have bought in Los Angeles in '32 -- though wearing tees was tantamount to being caught in public in your underwear back then.
If these retro-cool logos inspire you to silkscreen your own Olympics memorabilia, a word of warning: Without a license, you could face some serious trouble.
The modern Olympics have been going since 1896, but the IOC didn't get a licensing agent or start selling rights to its emblem until the Munich Games in 1972. (That was the first year a mascot came into play, too).
>Inspired to silkscreen your own Olympics memorabilia? A word of warning: Without a license, you could face some serious trouble.
Forty years later, the rules have gotten a lot more complicated. All of the symbols related to the Olympics -- those multicolored rings, the symbol of the United States Olympic Committee, and the symbols of the Paralympic committee are trademarked under U.S. law.
But it doesn't end there. Use any of these words and phrases and you've just stepped in it: "United States Olympic Committee"; "Olympic," "Olympiad" and "Citius Altius Fortius," and "Paralympic," "Paralympiad," "Pan-American" and "America Espirito Sport Fraternite." Really anything that could falsely create some sort of connection between a good or service and the Olympics is forbidden, and could end in a civil suit, unless you have acquired legal permission to use them.
The organizing committee for each Olympics licenses its logos and symbols to specific manufacturers and partners. In the Gap's case, they partnered with another company to license the graphics, And while a specific dollar figure for the cost of licensing is elusive, you can bet it's out of your budget. In 2008's Beijing Olympics, 68 licensees brought the organizing committee $163 million.
Even Wired got caught in the fray. For our Olympics coverage, our designer created a graphic of interlocking gears that referenced the rings. But fearing we'd run afoul of the IOC, our lawyers thought the better of it, and had him change both the graphic's shape and its palette. Check out the before and after, below:
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In the fertile forests of Australia's South West lies Omega Walnuts, WA's first large scale grower of walnuts. We operate two orchards, each dedicated to attaining the highest quality and freshness in its produce. Our fully certified organic orchard is located in Nannup and the other, a traditionally managed farm, in Manjimup. Both orchards are maintained in accordance with our ethos of producing the highest quality nut, both in taste and content.
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Our focus on quality is consistent throughout the entire process from the earth to the shelf. Regular soil and leaf tests are conducted throughout the year to ensure the health of our land, from the microscopic ecosystem in the soil to the nuts on the tree. Using sustainable, farming methods, wherever we can to ensure quality in our current and future produce.
Our packaging system is designed to maintain the freshness of our produce once it is out of the shell. The oils that make walnuts so healthy are perishable so care must be taken to minimise the rate of oxidation. Damaged or oxidised walnuts can develop an unappealing bitter taste.
Western Australia is fortunate in that in does not currently have coddling moth, but this does mean that all imported walnuts in-shell are treated with Methyl Bromide at our borders. Other than for quarantine purposes and other critical applications, Methyl Bromide has been prohibited. Walnuts grown in Western Australia can be transported locally and interstate without treatment… Just one more reason to buy Omega.
Nannup – Where it all began
The orchard in Nannup is not only where Omega grows its organically certified produce, it is also where we began. Almost 15 years ago the Nannup orchard was only 2 hectares with little more than a simple home converted from a barn. Quietly surveying the property from on top of the hill, it served as an ideal country retreat/hobby farm for the Williams family.
After extensively researching exactly what to grow on our little property we stumbled across walnuts and the studies that were being conducted on the various health benefits associated with them. After realising the enormous potential of walnuts we set off and planted out first trees in 2002. With that began our first walnut orchard. Over the years we expanded our land, knowledge and plantings, slowly evolving the property into the beautiful green hilled orchard it is today.
Nannup is now 5 hectares of established and developing walnut trees and is a fully certified producer of organic walnuts It is also still our much loved country home.
Southern Forest Food Council and Omega Walnuts
Manjimup is the true home of Omega and where the Omega Premium walnuts are grown. With more than 20,000 trees over 55 hectares, it is the largest producer of walnuts in Western Australia. It is also where we process, package and conduct research and development.
Our packaging and processing facility is a combination of our own in-house designed and developed drying system and internationally sourced complimentary equipment. All this is designed to preserve and protect the quality of our produce as well as possible. It is also a fully certified organic processing facility.
Over a fifth of the Manjimup property is dedicated to researching and developing new methods of growing and managing a walnut orchard. Omega's research & development, regular soil and leaf tests, nut quality checks and use of expert consultants, are a testament to our desire to continually improve and maintain the highest quality produce possible, and will continue to be a part of Omega throughout the life of the farm.
Omega is proud to be part of the Southern Forests Food Council (SFFC) an organisation whose passion for quality produce aligned with our own.
The Southern Forests Food Council was founded in 2010 by a group of passionate local producers who recognised that the wealth and abundance of produce grown in the region made it perfect for food tourism. Its role was formalised in 2012 after receiving a $5 million investment under the State Government's Super Towns initiative. The investment is part of a $7 million Royalties for Regions allocation to the Shire of Manjimup for its Agricultural Expansion Project.
Nine local producers who between them, have hundreds of years' experience in the industry, currently sit on the Council's Committee of Management.
The Food Council is committed to unifying the area's world-class and diverse producers to strengthen the region's economy, attract investment and export opportunities, promote regional pride, and create sustainable jobs. It represents local producers, culinary and agri-tourism operators who live and work in what is WA's premier food bowl, aiming to ultimately establish the Southern Forests region as an internationally-recognised top culinary tourism destination.
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2018-2019 is a new school year for all of us! I am very excited to work with currrent and new students, teachers, parents, and administration! I am asking that everyone will reach out to me about ESL requirements and concerns. Not everyone knows what ESL is or why students qualifiy for English as a Second Language (ESL), So I want to be able to answer all your questions. Students have enrolled or are in the process of enrolling at Pennsville Public School. ESL students do not necessary start at the beginning of the year. Some can start in the middle of the year or towards the end of the year. Nevertheless, students who speak another language besides English get screened in order to obtain valuable information of the individual's language skills. Not every student goes into a classroom with the same language skills. Hence, we must check to see what kind support is available in the four language domains: Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing. Our goal is to provide support for ESL students in order that they grow in the their second language and develop academically and socially in the classroom, at school, and society. Being an ESL teacher, I recognize that there are variety supports for ESL students. Therefore, I know it is my job to work with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and staff in order to provide the best positive approaches in helping ELLs (English Language Learners) find success in the classroom, while supporting their development of English as a second language. As I said earlier, I am enthusiastic about my job and look forward to working with everyone this year! Please, reach out to me about any questions you have. I will have this website available for resources. In addition, our school uses Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Classroom for assignments, tests, quizzes, and Gmail for specific events, or to contact familiy, teachers, and administrations. Therefore, I have my email posted so that I can communicate with everyone. I will be sending invitations by phone and emails. So please respond as soon as possible. We will be planning community events for parents of ESL students. In the past we've done it and we loved it! I look forward to seeing parents, teacher, and staff during our special events! Thank you.


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Gas line that caused fatal Sun Prairie explosion not properly marked before drilling began
Molly Beck
MADISON - Contractors failed to properly mark a natural gas line before construction workers began drilling near it, ultimately causing an explosion that destroyed a city block of Sun Prairie and claimed a firefighter's life.
A gas line was punctured by workers laying fiber optic cable lines for Verizon Wireless on July 10 after an Indiana-based company hired to identify utility lines marked a spot 25 feet away from where the actual line was, according to a Dane County search warrant unsealed recently.
The search warrant was executed as part of a criminal investigation into whether the crime of second-degree reckless homicide was committed when the explosion killed Sun Prairie firefighter Cory Barr. The warrant provides for the first time details about what exactly caused the blast and who was involved.
But whether anyone will be charged with a crime is still unclear. Sun Prairie Police Lt. Kevin Konopacki said Thursday the investigation continues.
"The information revealed in the search warrant is a component of the investigation and is not conclusive in itself," he said in a statement.
State law requires workers and homeowners planning to dig underground to notify a state hotline, which triggers a process during which owners of utilities mark where their lines are with spray paint. Natural gas lines, for example, are marked yellow.
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Valentin Cociuba, a contractor who was hired by a subcontractor of Verizon known as Bear Communications, told police he and other workers began drilling after Bear Communications officials said the gas line had been identified by U.S. Infrastructure Company, a nationwide firm that specializes in identifying underground utility lines.
But the firm marked a spot where no lines existed and Cociuba's workers struck a 4-inch pipe carrying natural gas underneath downtown Sun Prairie just before the explosion killed Barr and leveled a block of downtown Sun Prairie, including a tavern Barr owned with his wife.
According to the court records, Cociuba unearthed a small portion of roadway to visibly confirm where the underground utility lines were — a basic safety precaution underground construction workers use to confirm utility markings on pavement — but USIC's markings did not identify the pipe that was ultimately hit.
It's unclear what method or map USIC used to make its markings, according to the unsealed warrant. Company officials wouldn't talk to police investigators and referred them to an attorney. And officials with We Energies, which owns the gas line, provided police with a utility map that identifies the correct location of the damaged line.
An attorney for USIC did not return a phone call.
A Columbia County-based employee for USIC suspected by police of having marked the lines would not speak to police, saying he "took an oath."
The worker, who has not been charged with a crime, did not return a phone call.
In the four months since the explosion, nearly $320,000 has been raised to help Barr's wife and twin daughters and for others who were affected by the blast.
Abby Barr, Cory Barr's wife, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that "the community's support continues to be great and most appreciated."
The Wisconsin State Journal was first to report on the warrant's findings.


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Q: Cannot find module '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome When i build my project i got error: Cannot find module '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome'. Did you mean to set the 'moduleResolution' option to 'node', or to add aliases to the 'paths' option?
Packages was installed with yarn as shown here https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-web/using-with/react
Import in script:
import * as React from 'react';
import Select from 'react-select';
import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';

webpack.config.js
var path = require('path');
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')

module.exports = {
  mode: 'development',

  entry: {
    task_creator: "./src/service.tsx"
  },

  output: {
    filename: '[name].js'
  },
  resolve: {
    modules:[
      path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
      'node_modules',
    ],
    extensions: ['.ts', '.tsx', '.js'],
  },
  module: {
      rules: [
        {
          test: /\.tsx$/, loader: 'ts-loader'
        },
        {
          test: /\.css$/,
          use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader']
        },
        {
          test: /\.(png|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)$/,
          loader: 'url-loader'
        }
      ]
  },

  plugins: [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      title: 'service',
      filename: 'service.html',
      template: 'templates/service.html'
    })
  ]
};

package.json
{
  "name": "service",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "description": "Task assistant service web UI",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "webpack",
    "dev:watch": "webpack --watch",
    "dist": "webpack --mode production",
    "lint": "node node_modules/eslint/bin/eslint src --ext ts,tsx"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "17.0.2",
    "react-dom": "17.0.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core": "1.2.35",
    "@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons": "5.15.3",
    "@fortawesome/react-fontawesome": "0.1.14",
    "@types/react": "17.0.3",
    "@types/react-dom": "17.0.3",
    "@types/react-select": "4.0.14",
    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "4.21.0",
    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "4.21.0",
    "css-loader": "5.2.0",
    "eslint": "7.23.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "2.22.1",
    "eslint-plugin-promise": "4.3.1",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "7.23.1",
    "html-webpack-plugin": "5.3.1",
    "normalize.css": "8.0.1",
    "react-select": "4.3.0",
    "style-loader": "2.0.0",
    "ts-loader": "8.1.0",
    "typescript": "4.2.3",
    "url-loader": "^4.1.1",
    "webpack": "5.30.0",
    "webpack-cli": "4.6.0"
  }
}

tsconfig.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es6",
    "removeComments": false,
    "jsx": "react"
  },
  "include": [
    "src"
  ]
}

A: Correct tsconfig.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es6",
    "removeComments": false,
    "jsx": "react",
    "moduleResolution": "node"
  },
  "include": [
    "src"
  ]
}

A: The error provides a hint.
You need to set moduleResolution to "node" in your tsconfig.json file so that the scoped modules can be resolved.
This property defaults to "classic" unless module is set to "commonjs".

A: Try this is
npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons @fortawesome/react-fontawesome

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NUMUS: its beginnings
by Peter Hatch (2020)
Published in Kitchener's "The Music Times"
Kitchener-Waterloo's NUMUS is one of Canada's longest standing new music series: it has presented a continuous series of concerts, annually, for 35 years. For this reason, it is an important resource not just locally, but also nationally and internationally. Not based on either a set ensemble or set venue, it has been shaped by its seven artistic directors over its history (Peter Hatch, Michael J. Baker, Anne-Marie Donovan, Jeremy Bell, Jesse Stewart, Glenn Buhr, and Kathryn Ladano), with each artistic director expressing her/his vision of what is new and at the cutting edge of music. Battling its natural pull to be a cultural suburb of Toronto, NUMUS has been instrumental in helping Kitchener-Waterloo forge a unique cultural identity.
NUMUS features work from a field which has gone by various names: contemporary music, new music, experimental music, "actual music" ("musique actuelle"): it is music for ears that want to hear something that perhaps is unlike what they, or perhaps anyone else, has heard before. It is not as much for those interested in new interpretations of, or variations on, music they know (although they can include this.) Like stepping into a contemporary art gallery, NUMUS' events can surprise and challenge in ways that open up new avenues of thought, connecting to the cutting edge of present day thinking in ways that even words can't express. It is the 'research lab' of contemporary musical ideas.
Breaking ranks with both the prevailing classical and rock/pop cultures prevalent in the 1980s, and embracing the recently evolved post-modern musical aesthetic, the music NUMUS presents is neither high-brow nor low-brow, but has the potential to appeal to just about anyone with curious ears, representing the cutting edge of what is going on musically: a place where electric guitars and drum-kits are found comfortably on stage next to violins, celli and accordions. The size of the audience doesn't matter as much as it is openness, engagement and commitment to new sounds (although "the more the merrier," for sure).
Since "world premieres" (new and unknown work) are at the heart of its activity, new music concerts are not "guaranteed" to all. New pieces can be disappointing, even fail, but they can also offer the life-changing experience of hearing something radically unlike anything one has heard before. It is an adventure worth pursuing.
NUMUS audiences tend not to be classical music concert-goers, except for the most adventurous; instead, they, like most new music audiences are people already equipped with a open, exploratory mind-set, including visual artists, philosophers, those at the cutting edge of new technology, of theoretical physics and other disciplines (one research project on new music audience noted the high prevalence of post-graduate degrees amongst its audiences) as well as, of course, its own practitioners.
As NUMUS' "Dad" (or maybe great-great-great-grand-dad?), it has been hugely rewarding for me to watch the other artistic directors bring their personal touches to NUMUS. I highly recommend starting something and then completely handing over the reigns – I've been able to enjoy years of great music concerts since by just buying a ticket!
When I moved to Kitchener-Waterloo in 1984, I felt the need for a public connection to the more experimental music/sound world I so loved. The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony had an "Eight Decades" concert series that played chamber music from the 20th century at a high level. The Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society (which continues its miracles to this day) had occasional new chamber music and, of course, Wilfrid Laurier University had its new music offerings. There was a jazz scene and a vibrant underground band scene but in general, everything tended less towards the experimental music of the past century, music that was central to my interests.
In the winter of 1984-5 I convened a group of fellow composers and new-music performers to discuss creating some new kind of series, and in order to ensure our discussions came to fruition, I decided to take the bull by the horns and do something myself. I had heard about some small fixed amount grants ($500) available from Canada Council to present music events in "alternative" venues (ie not traditional concert venues). To start things off in order to apply, I charged into putting on a concert, sourcing out Kitchener's "stArt gallery" as a potential location.
Kitchener at that time was a slightly depressed post-industrial city - the furniture, textiles and auto parts factories that made up its core slowly were shutting down one by one, as were retail outlets downtown; this was in contrast to "uptown" Waterloo, whose insurance companies and universities were thriving. The stART gallery was a small, artist-run parallel gallery (located in downtown Kitchener behind Zappers video arcade.) An artist-run space, it was dedicated to new and emerging work for some of Kitchener's more experimental artists – a great fit for the music I wanted to present. stArt Gallery's president, Mary Catherine Newcomb, greeted the idea with enthusiasm, and we proceeded.
For the September 27, 1985 first concert, I set up a simple sound system (borrowed from WLU) and advertised a concert of 'Electro-acoustic Tape Music' at the stARt gallery, with works by Francis Dhomont, Gilles Gobeil, John Oswald, Chan Ka Nin and Denis Smalley. The sound system was half decent and the sounds of 'musique concrete' and its extensions probably new to the thirty or so people who came - a mix of adventurous souls from the universities "up north", local visual artists and the just-plain-curious. Following this concert, and armed with the $500 grants, I then presented both soloists (including Kitchener-born enfant terrible John Oswald) and small ensembles to slowly growing audiences. The following two concerts featured local composers and performers, including future AD Glenn Buhr, Boyd McDonald (a NUMUS mainstay and legend!), Carol Weaver, Michael Purves-Smith and David Huron. As part of one concert, a group of these local composers presented a performance of Steve Reich's "Four Organs" (see press pic).
From the beginning, certain aspects common to NUMUS were set in place: ad hoc groups of local performers as well as visiting artists; a variety of presenting venues; the encouragement of emerging artists as well as some of the most established; experimental music both composed and improvised, with ventures into the world of sound art and electroacoustic music. My models were primarily public concert series found in the cities I had lived in earlier: Toronto had organizations like "New Music Concerts" and "Arraymusic;" Vancouver had "Vancouver New Music."
It was not elegant - with no budget and a crew of one (me), things were very informal and I began decades of stacking and unstacking chairs for whatever audience could be lured out. I have a memory of composer/recorder virtuoso Peter Hannan carrying a case of beer up to his own dress rehearsal and I carried the sound system.
Five concerts were held in the 1985-86 season, four in the 1986-7 season and five in the 1987-8 season, featuring a huge range of offerings from the music of John Cage (led by Terry Kroetsch) and a concert of new music for old instruments (which included a work by Linda Smith), to a concert of multi-media held for the first time at the Princess Cinema with the gracious support of John Tutt. In this period a NUMUS board was formed, and the NUMUS Concerts Ensemble (an ad hoc collective of local new music performers) gave its first concert.
A breakthrough event occurred at the Princess Cinema in March of 1988 in a concert called 'Percussion!'. We sold out this show with 175 people that crossed the gamut – I have vivid memories of people wearing leather and chains next to those in three-piece suits – in a concert which featured, among other things, a performance of Frank Zappa's "Black Page."
By the 1988-89 season, we were truly grown up – an increase in funding allowed for larger productions – and included reappearances at the Princess Cinema, including the debut (and final concert as it turns out) of the rag-tag NUMUS Marching Band, whose wonky marches by Mauricio Kagel were accompanied by a lurching band members stepping forwards, backwards and sideways in semi-formation.
This season was capped off with the adventurous "5th Stream Festival of Canadian New Music. With its mandate of
"celebratingcanada'smodernpostafterindustrialneoromaticpreavantegardeuptownmidtowndowntowncrossover pluralism" this four-day event was a joint venture between NUMUS, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, WLU's Faculty of Music and the Canadian League of Composers. It featured five concerts and two days of panel sessions with presentations by composers from throughout Canada, all recorded by CBC Radio and later immortalized in a publication by University of Toronto press, with myself and John Beckwith as editors. Included in the festival was a performance by "Les Granules" - Jean Derome and Rene Lussier – in a rare appearance outside of Quebec.
Through 1992-3, programming continued to become more connected to the other performing arts, with contemporary dance and film increasingly integrated with live music. The New Art Quartet (Terry Kroetsch, Beth-Ann DeSousa, Carol Bauman, Lori West) appeared in what would become a set of regular appearances, as did the new-in-town Penderecki Quartet, which started what became an almost-annual appearance at NUMUS. I spent 1991-92 overseas as part of a sabbatical – during this season, the late Michael Baker took over as acting artistic director for a year – a wonderful presence who fit in seamlessly with the local scene. The connection to the other arts reached a kind of fruition with the first "Art Thing", held in June of 1993 at Victoria Park Pavilion and featuring local dancers, theatre performers, poets, jazz musicians and NUMUS' core performers in a celebration of all performing arts in Kitchener. At this time, Kitchener was still a small to mid-sized city, and events such as this were revelatory to see what your next-door neighbours were up to in the arts. For me, it was a fitting closing event to my tenure at NUMUS – I felt it was time for both me and the organization to move on to new things. Attendance was good, finances solid, quality high – what better time to leave?
The handoff to Anne-Marie Donovan was seamless – we had been working very intensively together on my full evening instrumental theatre piece "Mounting Picasso" -- she was a member of Blue Rider Ensemble who were performing it-- which was presented by NUMUS both in Kitchener and Toronto in the fall of 1993. The final NUMUS concert of that season and my tenure was a performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen's 'Stimmung", performed by Mirror Image (led by Anne-Marie) in London, Ontario.
I did return once more for the 1996-97 season (my ninth season as NUMUS AD) while Anne-Marie was on maternity leave and with the assistance again of Michael J. Baker. A highlight of that final season to me was a visit from composer John Luther Adams, not quite yet the superstar he has become. We used yet another new venue – the Seagram Museum, now the home of Shopify – to present the thundering percussive sounds of his "Earth and the Great Weather". With NUMUS back in the very capable hands of Anne-Marie Donovan I was to move on to other things, most notably the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, which I founded (in conjunction with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony) in 1998. I could look forward to another decade of attending NUMUS concerts before I finally moved out west.
In today's social-media world it is hard to describe the kind of social cohesion that was created by having far fewer media resources available – the local paper frequently included reviews of our concerts; local radio station (UW's CKWR) frequently previewed and reviewed music from our concerts; and CBC radio, Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star provided national coverage. CBC Radio, and in particular the show "Two New Hours", with producer David Jaeger, was what kept new music practitioners in Canada (and the world) connected pre-internet.
It's hard for me to think of the early days of NUMUS without thinking of the involvement of Mark Connolly – our brilliant graphic artist. Mark and I had many meetings honing the public image of NUMUS. Mark is now a highly respected senior member of Waterloo's tech sector and still an active advocate for contemporary music - he serves on the board of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound and is co-director of his own festival/conference - Fluxible - in which he places adventurous musical sets amongst other presentations more directly connected to the "user-interface" theme of the conference.
One of my favourite campaigns with Mark was 1992-3: the Year of the Moose (as in "New-Moose" / NUMUS). Its logo "Escape from the Middle of the Road" was found on a poster which depicted a moose crossing sign with the moose breaking out from its borders. We loved this image and many moose crossing signs were found scattered throughout the city that year.
Board, GMs, Volunteers
A great amount of work by many individuals goes on to create these magical events – from intensive research into new and unknown music, to the many grant applications to find money to produce concerts, to the organization of performers, composers, venues, board members, volunteers, etc - all of which need to be put into alignment to make things go. The core of NUMUS has always been two people ('employees' is a bit of an exaggeration given the extremely modest stipends involved) who make things happen – an artistic director and a general manager. NUMUS has been blessed not just with visionary, hard working artistic directors, but also fantastically talented general managers – in my tenure these included Tilly Kooyman, Todd Harrop, Kevin Bradshaw and Anne-Marie Donovan, who was to become NUMUS' next artistic director. Volunteer duties could extend into performance: one of the greatest early volunteer efforts was shown with a presentation we did in 1989 of Erik Satie's Vexations, an 18 hour long piece for piano performed by a tag team of 45 pianists, with a custom made counter counting off iterations of a small, quixotic piece that was played 800 times.


The term 'Drishti' comes from a Sanskrit term meaning 'sight.' It usually refers to the gazing technique often practiced when holding a particular yoga pose, though it can also be used during meditation to aid in the withdrawal of senses, and the improvement of focus.
It is used to refer to the fifth limb of yoga, 'pratyahara,' as well as dharana, the sixth limb which focuses on concentration. It can work as a method of developing concentrated intention, helping the practitioner work with mantras and intentions more efficiently, as well as aiming for that higher level of concentration and consciousness.
There are both physical and mental benefits to the practice of drishti. It can be instrumental in checking and improving alignment within the postures and helps the individual to focus more closely on achieving the shape.
Perhaps more important are the mental benefits to the concept; it can help to improve clarity and focus during the practice, by encouraging the practitioner to look further, looking beyond the obvious and into a higher level of awareness and consciousness.
For this reason, it can also be useful in meditation, particularly those which focus on breathing. The emphasis on sight, and what is seen and not seen, is essential in the study and practice of yoga.


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È noto per la sua opera Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF).

Biografia
Nauck nacque ad Auerstedt, ora chiamata Turingia. Studiò presso l'Università di Halle come studente di Gottfried Bernhardy e Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. Nel 1853 successe ad Augustus Meineke presso il Ginnasio di Berlino.

Dopo un po' di tempo trascorso ad insegnare presso il Grauen Kloster (1858), si trasferì a San Pietroburgo, dove nel 1869 fu nominato professore di lingua greca presso l'istituto storico-filologico.

Opere principali
Le sue più importanti opere e traduzioni, che riguardano la lingua greca e la letteratura (in particolare le tragedie), sono le seguenti:
 Aristofane di Bisanzio (1848).
 Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta; ex recensione Augusti Nauckii, (1854). (Euripide)
 Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1856, prossima edizione, 1983), (Fragmenta comicorum graecorum).
 Edizione rivista di Sofocle annotata da Schneidewin (1856, etc.)
 Porfirio (1860, 2ª ed., 1886); "Porphyrii philosophi Platonici opuscula selecta".
 Lexikon Vindobonense (1867).
 Testo di Omero, Odissea (1874) e Iliade (1877–1879); pubblicato con il nome Homerica carmina (volume I. Ilias; volume II. Odyssea).
 Giamblico, De Vita Pythagorica (1884).

Note

Bibliografia

 Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta recensuit Augustus Nauck, Lipsiae sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri, 1856.
 Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta recensuit Augustus Nauck, editio secunda, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1889.
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Field Hockey Playoffs: Glenelg 5, Poolesville 1
Poolesville goalkeeper Madison Lamanna played well on Saturday, but it wasn't enough against the talented two-time defending champions.
CHESTERTOWN, Md. — The Poolesville High School field hockey team took an early lead but couldn't hold on against the relentless offense of Glenelg, suffering a 5-1 loss in the MPSSAA Class 2A Championship game at Washington College on Saturday.
Megan Taylor and Dannielle Baker each had a goal and two assists to lead the Gladiators to their third consecutive state title.
"I thought we gave it everything we had," Poolesville coach Regina Grubb said. "I thought our defense played well. My goalkeeper [Madison Lamanna], it's her first year at the varsity level and this is probably the best team that we've faced all year. I thought she had the stops, we just couldn't clear the ball out at times."
After Lamanna stoned Taylor on a breakaway early in the first half to keep the game scoreless, Sarah Onderko scored to give Poolesville a 1-0 lead. Glenelg had not trailed in any of its previous three playoff games this year.
"I tell the kids when we get this far there are no bad teams," Glenelg coach Ginger Kincaid said. "So people are going to score on you. The object is to score more than them. So you didn't see them panic, they didn't get down, they just went to business."
The Falcons' lead lasted only five minutes, as Ivy Meissner beat Lamanna off a pass from Taylor with 18:17 left in the first half to tie the game at 1.
Nine minutes later the Gladiators took their first lead of the game on a goal by Baker, with Taylor picking up her second assist of the day.
Poolesville mounted their best sustained attack of the game as the first half wound down, getting two penalty corner opportunities 30 seconds apart with less than two minutes to play. But they could not put the ball behind Glenelg goalie Amanda Hoyt, and only a strong save by Lamanna on a shot by Stephanie Asher with 10 seconds left in the half kept the score 2-1 at the break.
The Gladiators dominated play in the second half, getting three goals and nine penalty corners to build to a 5-1 lead with 9:15 remaining.
"They knew that if they were going to take the trophy today one goal wasn't going to do it," Kincaid said. "They just needed to put some more in, and that's what they did."
Prior to Saturday's game, Poolesville's defense had allowed only 10 goals in their 15 games played and had recorded eight shutouts. Their only previous loss this year had been to 4A West champion Walter Johnson on October 10th. In the championship game, though, Glenelg demonstrated the speed and talent that has set them apart from the rest of Class 2A in recent years.
The Gladiators defeated the Falcons in last year's championship game, 3-0, and Poolesville has now lost in the state finals five times since their lone championship in 2002. But for Grubb, their was nothing disappointing about the effort her team put in on Saturday.
"They did well," she said. "I'm proud of them."
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Tags: Ginger Kincaid, Glenelg High School, Madison Lamanna, Megan Taylor, Poolesville High School, Regina Grubb


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Students' experiences of undertaking a work-based learning module as part of a Diploma/BSc (Hons) in Healthcare Practice 2009-2011
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Sussex Doctoral Conference 2012
Melvin, J., Jun 2012.
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System Design of a Gas Phase Synthesis System of nanoparticles
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Teaching Black British Women's Writing
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The dichotomic tension of experimental typography
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The Domestic Academics: Finding the time to write and care. Storying the gendered inequalities of academic research in the global pandemic.
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The effect of carbon dioxide content-natural gas on the performance characteristics of engines: A review
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Wasiu, A. B., Aziz, A. R. A. & Heikal, M. R., 1 Jan 2014.
The effect of operating conditions on post-injection fuel discharge in an optical engine
Turner, J., Stetsyuk, V., Crua, C., Gold, M. & Pearson, R., 23 Aug 2015, p. 1-8.
The Effect of Reservoir Sedimentation on Coastal Erosion: the Case of Nestos River, Greece
Andredaki, M., Georgoulas, A., Hrissanthou, V. & Kotsovinos, N., 16 Nov 2012, p. 806-815. 10 p.
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Maasri, Z., 14 Oct 2020.
The Ethics of Apprenticing with Youth Swimmers
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The Limits of Subsumption: Disability Politics, Institutional Power, and the Locality of Bio-oppression
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The Loss of the Informal
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The New Sincerity of Inauthentic Poetry in Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station and Nicolson Baker's The Anthologist
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Theory of Autistic Mind: Unpicking Assumptions in Autistic Language Use Research
Williams, G., 2018.
The Politics of Comedy - how has adult animation used satire as a vehicle for feminist cultural commentary?
Jessop, K., 28 Feb 2017.
The pyrolysis behavior of evolved species from date palm seeds
Babiker, M. E., Aziz, A. R. A., Heikal, M. & Yusup, S., 1 Jan 2014.
The Qualities of Water: Perception and Enskilled Movement in Swimming
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Thermoreversible hydrogel-coated microneedles for dermal drug delivery
Hill-Tout, J., Covill, D., Lau, W. M. & Ng, K. W., 11 Sep 2019. 1 p.
The Task of the Translator in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Francis, M. A., 1 May 2014.
The Use of Dispossession and the Dispossession of Use: Perspective for nanopolitical experimentation
Marmont, G., 2018.
Three thoughts on practice-based research
Francis, M. A., 2015.
Time-Frequency Analysis of a Thermally Induced Pulsating Slug Flow
Perna, R., Mameli, M., Pietrasanta, L., Marengo, M. & Filippeschi, S., 19 May 2019.
Touched, a penumbra keyboard projection
Sermon, P., 22 Jun 2019, (Accepted/In press).
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Pantelidis, I. S., 9 Feb 2021, p. 1-3. 3 p.
Towards a Digital Hybrid Pedagogy for Youth Work
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Transitions in higher education: the relationship between the thoughts and aspirations of students entering higher education in art and craft areas and the opportunities awaiting them at graduation
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Ultrafine particles in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Leicester and London
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Understanding the effects of Precursor Loading Factors on the Premixed Flame Synthesis of Titanium Oxide Nanoparticles
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Liking your 'pack' just as much these years on, Have to say, though, I'm a bit disappointed you didn't contact me before rehoming Vienna cos, as I said when I spotted her as a pup, I would have loved to have matched her up with Keela (ex Pheobe): what a striking pair they might have made. Opportunity missed, alas.
However, these 5 and a bit years on, Keela continues to receive much attention because of her looks and her intense interest in everything that goes on around her. Everyone loves her for that: when we come across other Paps, even their owners coo!
Thank you again for my Keela and may all your future Paps be as lovely as.
Hi just looked at your puppys,very nice,good luck with them in the show ring.
Just to say happy christmas to you all, Archie,Pansy and Dylan all doing well and keeping us fit. Have you changed you email address.
Hi Susie,I live in ont Canada and I am looking for a new show prospect dosent matter male or female,I have shown paps for others to there championships and now would like one of my own,if you can help please contact me.
I have really enjoyd my time on your website with so many beautiful Papillons!!!
Good luck with your young hopefuls.
Just looked at your web site the dogs look wonderful, can we have more photo's on the site? Pansy and Archie doing well, Good luck with all the shows this year, Always welcome at our new home.
Just popped by your site and wanted to say your dogs look lovely.
Very nice home page and realy greate dogs!! I love the english Papillons!
Hope you are both well? Lovely to see your doggies on the website, nice to see that Dudley has some relatives doing well out there. Hope you have a great xmas and a successful new year.
Enjoyd visiting your site, looking good.
Hope to see you all at the shows next year.


Having a beautiful living room fall ceiling is a dream for everyone who wants to get the best house design ideas that will make their live joy because of the good arrangement of interior house. Living room is part of the house that has vital role because of its function to talk with the guest or to gather with the family that it needs comfortable place. So that living room is important to be decor as well.
There are many things that you can do to make simple false ceiling designs for living room seems beautiful in simple ways. First decide the theme of the room that you want to design. If you type of the people that like vintage nuance you can choose soft color as the dominated color to be applied on the ceiling that will add impressive touch inside. You can also add some stairs phosphor on the ceiling that will make it nice.
Creativity is really needed to create the best ceiling design living room and one of the things that needed is by select the appropriate furniture that will be applied on the house. Elegant rattan materials can be an option in decor interior living because it has elegant design with many variations. White is best color that can be applied for ceiling color that will make you easy to decor it because white is neutral color.


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It's time for unions to collect their own dues
Written by Catrin Wigfall
in Unions
"How is it that my employer takes union dues out of my paycheck unless they are told by the union to stop?" I get this question from public employees often, so I think it is important to write about.
Public employees had their constitutional right to not financially support a union restored in June 2018 (under the Janus v. AFSCME decision). For fair-share payers, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling automatically gave them a pay raise—states that were affected by the ruling ordered public employers to stop deducting fair-share fees from non-member paychecks. But these states were silent about union members who had previously signed union cards authorizing the deduction of dues, mostly because they are under the sway of government unions. So, employers continue to automatically deduct union dues from public employees' paychecks even though the union dues authorization cards employers are relying on do not meet the Court's requirement of "affirmative consent."
This will most likely need to either get worked out in the courts or through legislation, so expect union bosses to continue pushing back on fully complying with the Janus ruling and demanding that employers continue to deduct dues until they say otherwise. Which is ridiculous, because the government should not be playing a role in helping union labor officials collect their money. Unions, like other non-charitable organizations, need to be responsible for collecting their own dues. Not only does this give them a position of authority over public employers, but it also removes the accountability unions should have with the members they are supposed to serve. Unions should have to earn revenue from public employees by developing a customer-type relationship that explains why their services are worth paying for.
The Center mailed letters to all of Minnesota's public employers, informing them they are out of compliance with the Janus decision and are undermining public employees' First Amendment rights. It is unfortunate Governor Walz has not gotten involved, but it is not surprising. There is a cozy relationship that has developed between government and unions. Just look at the role public-sector unions play in determining who runs for office and who wins.
Legislators have an opportunity to stand up for public employees' rights and eliminate the special privileges government unions have. There are state-level reforms that would make this possible.
Until those reforms happen, lawsuits across the country are challenging dues deductions and other areas of union membership, such as unconstitutional resignation "windows" that limit when public employees can exercise their First Amendment right to not be in or financially support a government union. If unions are not happy with states' efforts to comply with the Janus ruling, they ought to carefully consider collecting dues from their members themselves. Keeping the state involved in these transactions means the state must comply with the First Amendment and have clear and compelling evidence of the employee's choice to be in and pay money to a union—which, post-Janus, they don't.
Governor Walz, you have a legal obligation as governor to fully restore public employees' First Amendment rights in Minnesota. Call on public-sector unions to collect new dues authorization cards that comply with the Supreme Court's ruling and tell employers to stop deducting dues until these authorizations are obtained. It's time for our state to fully respect the voice and choice of our civil servants.


What happened: Two hundred firefighters from 10 fire stations (estimated) responded to reports of a structure fire at the iconic Plasco building Thursday morning in Tehran, Iran. The 17-story Plasco building was constructed in the 1960s and was once Tehran's tallest structure. It was designed as a multipurpose structure providing retail, commercial and residential space.
Initial reports state that the fire began on the ninth floor and spread rapidly. Firefighters were confronted initially with significant life safety challenges in evacuating the occupants while battling the rapidly expanding fire.
After several hours of firefighting and rescue efforts, the north wall of the structure was compromised and the upper floors collapsed. This appears to have been a pancake collapse and the ensuing collapse zone was relatively contained to the immediate building footprint with minimal to moderate damage to adjacent areas.
Tragically, an estimated 30 to 45 firefighters were in the structure at the time of the collapse with an unknown number of civilians. According to some news reports, occupants were breaching the established barricades and making their way back into the structure during the blaze to retrieve possessions. This makes accurate accountability of potential victims unknown at this time.
Currently, rescue efforts are underway to access potentially trapped victims and confirmations through text messages have been received from firefighters who are reportedly trapped in the basement.
Initial crews reportedly established barricades and evacuated surrounding areas while attacking the fire with transitional approaches and conducting interior search and rescue operations. Aerial operations were initiated and water supply appeared to be deployed as expected.
"We had repeatedly warned the building managers about the lack of safety of the building," fire brigade spokesman Jalal Malekias said, adding that it lacked fire extinguishers.
"Even in the stairwells, a lot of clothing is stored and this is against safety standards. The managers didn't pay attention to the warnings," he said.
Firefighters are trained to be dedicated students of building construction and have a heightened sense of awareness and knowledge about the impact that fire has on structural integrity. Here are three questions about the risk factors for structural collapse.
1. Was building design compromised?
The Plasco building had a steel frame with lightweight steel integration. Due to the mixed occupancy classification, it is possible that the loads applied to the upper floors may have been in excess of the building's design. The upper floors reportedly housed much of the commercial or manufacturing occupancies. Excessive loads may cause flooring systems to be compromised prematurely when weakened by fire involvement.
2. Was the fire load excessive?
Additionally, the fire load caused by cluttered stairwells and common areas could have contributed to rapid fire growth and limited access or deployment for fire crews. All of these hazards were known, to some degree, by the firefighters prior to the event through pre-planning and previous events. This information should play a serious role in tactical decision making. However, saving lives always drives us to take necessary risks because it is our job. The challenge is always calculating those risks and reducing them as much as possible while still attempting to save lives and property.
3. Was the building in compliance with codes?
As the event unfolded and the time of fire exposure increased, the potential for collapse increased exponentially. In the United States, we have the luxury of stringent building codes and requirements for fire-rated materials. We have regulatory processes in place that help ensure compliance. This affords us the luxury of time and reasonable predictability.
It is unclear at this time what measures were in place regarding Plasco building fire resistance and code compliance. The Iranian government has launched a preliminary investigation into analyzing this tragic event and all of the contributing factors associated with the outcome.
Constant evaluation of the building and the fire conditions are paramount in these incidents. Knowing the building's construction and applying predictive assumptions to the structure's reaction to fire is imperative.
Structural inadequacy, poor construction, illegal or non-engineered renovations.
Fire size and location, and conditions on arrival.
Fire load to structural members.
Engineered lumber, truss joists, nail plates.
Load increase as a result of water load.
Cutting structural members during venting operations.
Cracks or bulges in walls.
Water or smoke that pushes through what appears to be a solid masonry wall.
Unusual noises coming from building or dwelling.
Truck operations notice soft or spongy footing.
Be aware of the signs of potential collapse and be aggressive about pulling personnel out of the building and the collapse zone to re-evaluate. Establish perimeters that are appropriate collapse zones. We cannot save lives when the rescuers become the victims.


Arsenal, Wolverhampton Wanderers looking to sign Porto's Hector Herrera?
Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers are reportedly keen to secure the signing of Porto midfielder Hector Herrera, who has just six months left on his contract.
Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers have reportedly joined the race to sign Porto midfielder Hector Herrera.
The 28-year-old is currently in his sixth season with the Portuguese giants, but the Mexico international has just six months remaining on his contract.
According to Tuttomercatoweb, that has resulted in widespread interest in the player, with both Arsenal and Wolves monitoring the situation.
The Gunners will eventually require a replacement for Aaron Ramsey, while Wolves are likely to be looking to add more international experience to their squad over the next two transfer windows.
However, the report suggests that Inter Milan, Roma, Sevilla and Atletico Madrid are also admirers of Herrera and are expected to make an approach.
Herrera have scored three times in 22 outings in Portugal's top flight and the Champions League this season.