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Regional/Rural Entrepreneurship Project Lead
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Contract Type:Fixed Term position
Full-time, Fixed Term position until December 2025
Salary Level HEW 9 + 17% Superannuation with Flexible Working Arrangements
Based at the Melbourne City campus, with frequent travel to regional/rural project locations across South-Western Victoria
About the Policy, Strategy & Impact Portfolio and RMIT Activator
The Policy, Strategy and Impact (PSI) Portfolio provides focus and momentum for the projects and priorities that have been identified in Knowledge with Action: RMIT's Strategic Plan to 2030.
It provides support for the implementation of the RMIT Strategy with a particular focus on delivering impact through public policy and government engagement, innovative practice in organisational capability and skills development, innovation and entrepreneurship and the development of new collaborations and partnerships. PSI has been a focal point for the development of significant investment projects and precincts which focus on urban innovation for the future of Melbourne such as the Melbourne Innovation Districts partnership between the City of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne and RMIT and the Cremorne Digital Hub.
RMIT Activator activates knowledge and generates impact through entrepreneurship. Our mission is to empower founders, ventures and communities to deliver global impact, at scale, ensuring sustainability of people and planet into the future. We do this through a suite of entrepreneurial skills and venture support programs and services and large-scale impact projects and partnerships.
RMIT Activator is a partner on a number of collaborative, externally funded projects with public and private partners seeking to drive sustainable economic impact and empowerment across a diverse range of communities and contexts. RMIT Activator provides entrepreneurship as a platform to achieve these aims, designing and delivering a range of entrepreneurial engagements and programs to uplift entrepreneurial capability and activity and generate sustainable impact and outcomes.
https: // rmitactivator.edu.au
As the Regional/Rural Entrepreneurship Project Lead, you will champion RMIT Activator through a mix of exciting projects with a focus on regional/rural entrepreneurship and sustainable community impact programs in South-West Victoria. Through this practical, people-centered role, you will engage and connect with key stakeholders (i.e., schools, voluntary groups, local councils, business, and farming communities); implement and manage projects; develop and deliver programs and contribute to strategy and business development.
You will be an adaptive, curious and action-oriented professional, with a passion for sustainable community development and positive community impact through entrepreneurship and innovation. Ideally, you will draw on your skills and experience across sustainable, regional and rural entrepreneurship, emerging tech, circular economy, systems thinking or other relevant domains.
To be successful in this position, you'll have as a minimum:
Demonstrated experience working with regional/rural/remote and marginalised communities, their needs, challenges and opportunities. Any regional networks within the Corangamite/Golden Plains catchment areas will be advantageous.
Familiarity with the entrepreneurial ecosystem and with practice-based tools and methods of entrepreneurship and sustainable community development. Personal entrepreneurial/start-up experience a plus.
Proven ability to work independently and in a team, whilst managing multiple and competing workstreams, deadlines and budges in a dynamic, ambiguous and fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated project management skills including the ability to utilise lean and iterative approaches to project management to deliver client and participant outcomes.
Proven ability to connect and collaborate with and influence stakeholders across industry, government, education and community.
Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children and National Police Check.
Please submit your CV and covering letter addressing your suitability for this position by clicking on the ' ' link below.
For further information about this position, please see Position Description below or contact Madeline Rigg – Talent Acquisition Advisor via email [email protected]
Position Description: Regional/Rural Entrepreneurship Project Lead
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6 Feb 2023 11.59 pm
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Business Rules Solutions: What is Data Science, Really?
December 6, 2021 , By Ron Ross
Data science is hot stuff these days. You hear and read the term all the time. But what does it really mean? I heard one cynical professional say that data science is simply what consultants push after they fail to provide feasible use cases for block chain or big data or AI. Is that really all there is to it? Is it simply about burnishing resumes?
Let's face it though, the term 'data science' is indeed catchy. I think it's that word 'science'. We do believe in science, right? Well, I do – and I hope you do too. But a science of data? I mean where the data is literally about anything?! Really?! Clearly, we should take a closer look and nail down the underlying meaning (if any!). I give it a shot in this month's column.
Not too long ago I attended a conference on data analytics and machine learning. I listened to one innovative and exciting session after another. The term 'data science' was sprinkled generously throughout. But were they all talking about the same thing? Or was it simply a code word offering membership in an imagined community?
Indeed, 'data science' could simply be a term of convenience for a broad and enticing new marketing space. The industry loves that sort of thing. And broad indeed! Consider the following statement from Wikipedia (and pardon a nit about 'business' coming last):
"Data science…incorporates skills from computer science, statistics, information science, mathematics, information visualization, data integration, graphic design, complex systems, communication and business."
I asked several times at the conference for a definition (which I admit, is a habit of mine – good or bad, depending on your point of view). I was consistently disappointed. Perhaps 'data science' is a discipline that doesn't admit semantics(!?). That's a very interesting question, but I'll not digress.
The best response I got was something like, "It's more than statistics. More than business analytics. More than machine learning." To which was added, "You can't get an MBA to become a data scientist. Or get a degree in math. Or computer science."
Not an adequate definition at all! Not even a definition(!). Shared understanding does not arise from saying what something is not, or explaining how you can't become one. Shared understanding arises from expressing what something is. And no, you're not allowed to say, 'I know it when I see it'. I might look at the very same thing and not see what you see.
Wikipedia does give lots of good insights, but in my view falls short of a solid definition. It says:
"Data science…uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from data in various forms, both structured and unstructured."
Some observations:
It seems rather obvious that something called a 'science' would have to use 'scientific methods.' What's the real point there?
The phrase "uses processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from data in various forms" could also be applied to 'data analytics' or 'statistical analysis.' What's the differentiation? It could also probably be applied to 'learning' (as in machine learning). What characteristic specifically makes data science a new, different thing of its own that can be clearly differentiated from similar and/or pre-existing things?
Wikipedia also says:
"The field encompasses preparing data for analysis, formulating data science problems, analyzing data, developing data-driven solutions, and presenting findings to inform high-level decisions in a broad range of application domains."
It's certainly true that we are seeing all kinds of new 'formulations' these days to develop 'data-driven solutions.' But that's sort of cherry-picking. What's the essence of the concept?
On social media, William Brooks suggested this definition:
data science: the application of the scientific method and experimental design to the statistical analysis of data
Much better! He went on to say:
"This definition differentiates data science from most of the data analysis that goes on in business today." (Yes, true, but correctly not part of the definition.)
"Much in the same way that an Erlenmeyer flask might be used for scientific inquiry – or as a convenient vessel for a beer – machine learning uses tools of statistical analysis that may be used in data science or in other ways."
That second point provides an excellent insight. A good 'essence' definition might therefore be:
data science: the application of the scientific method in using the tools of data analysis
That leaves one additional question. Can you really have a science of data? Has the world now become so digital that you can have a science of data about literally anything?
I suppose the answer depends on your definition of science. I hate to say it, but definitions provided by standard dictionaries support you either way. So, in the end (as always), the meaning is whatever the community says it is. I just wish the community would say it more clearly.
Ronald G. Ross is Co-Founder and Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (www.BRSolutions.com). BRS provides workshops, consulting services, publications, and methodology supporting business analysis, business rules, business vocabulary, and rule management. His popular public seminars on business rules and business analysis, the first on business rules (starting in 1996) and the longest-running in the industry, are given through AttainingEdge (www.AttainingEdge.com). At BRS, Mr. Ross co-develops Proteus®, its landmark business analysis and business rules methodology, which features numerous innovative techniques including the popular RuleSpeak® (available free through www.BRCommunity.com). These are the latest offerings in a 30-year career that has consistently featured creative, business-driven solutions. Mr. Ross also serves as Executive Editor of http://www.BRCommunity.com and its flagship on-line publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a regular columnist for the Journal's Commentary section which also features John Zachman, Chris Date, Terry Halpin, and Roger Burlton. BRCommunity.com, hosted and sponsored by BRS, is a vertical community for professionals working with business rules and related areas. Mr. Ross was formerly Editor of the Data Base Newsletter from 1977 to 1998.
Latest posts by Ron Ross (see all)
Business Rules Solutions: What is Data Science, Really? - December 6, 2021
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Business Rules Solutions: Concept Models: Who Are They For? - July 6, 2021
Business Rule Solutions: Empowering People with Core Business Knowledge: Concept Models - October 5, 2020
Business Rule Solutions: Getting the Knowledge Payload of Processes—Concept Models - July 6, 2020
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Вентсвиллер () — коммуна на северо-востоке Франции в регионе Гранд-Эст (бывший Эльзас — Шампань — Арденны — Лотарингия), департамент Верхний Рейн, округ Мюлуз, кантон Сен-Луи. До марта 2015 года коммуна административно входила в состав упразднённого кантона Юненг (округ Мюлуз).

Площадь коммуны — 4,71 км², население — 678 человек (2006) с тенденцией к росту: 696 человек (2012), плотность населения — 147,8 чел/км².

Население
Численность населения коммуны в 2011 году составляла 708 человек, а в 2012 году — 696 человек.

Динамика населения:

Экономика
В 2010 году из 451 человек трудоспособного возраста (от 15 до 64 лет) 344 были экономически активными, 107 — неактивными (показатель активности 76,3 %, в 1999 году — 71,4 %). Из 344 активных трудоспособных жителей работали 322 человека (188 мужчин и 134 женщины), 22 числились безработными (четверо мужчин и 18 женщин). Среди 107 трудоспособных неактивных граждан 23 были учениками либо студентами, 39 — пенсионерами, а ещё 45 — были неактивны в силу других причин.

На протяжении 2011 года в коммуне числилось 298 облагаемых налогом домохозяйств, в которых проживало 701,5 человек. При этом медиана доходов составила 33418 евро на одного налогоплательщика.

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These past few months, were just wonderful and I really liked your drawings that you have shared to the class and my family.
You are a great person, to get along with and cared for. Albert, is a great brother along with my other James. Cassandra, is a fun person to play with and especially to get along with as well. Grace, is a shy person but, she warms up first to meet new people.
I really appreciated your help with my homework, and I start to improve well on my school work. Laura, is a great teacher and, she also appreciated our teamwork together in school.
The Spring dance contest is coming shortly, would you like to take me? I hope you write me back.
Thank you, for your kind words of your letter. Yes, I will take you to the Spring dance contest, and we would walk out as winners!
You are a beautiful person, and I love the braids on ya which are outta sight. You have a fantastic family, and your Pa is great and, your Ma is a great cook.
Sometime, I would invite you to my Ma and Pa for supper if it's ok with your parents.


The class is called Sprite is a custom class with an FBox (only a box for now) and an Animation (also a custom class). By custom I mean it's not part of the Processing language or any library, it shows up as a tab in Processing and you need to have it in the same folder as the main sketch along with animation.
Assets: at this point Processing will try to load 9 images named "triangle_animated_0000.png" to "triangle_animated_0008.png" make sure you prepare the assets and name them properly.
Proper game frameworks use spritesheets usually created with specialized applications or plugins. I'll avoid them for now, I figure it's easier to produce a series of images.
You can use the Animation class independently from Sprite and Fisica and/or control it independently within the sprite (access it by yourSpriteName.animation).


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Tina Louise Booth Smith, 57, never took the back seat to her life
By Valeria Olivares, Staff writer
Published 8:00 am CDT, Thursday, July 4, 2019
Tina Louise Booth Smith, 57, died June 30, 2019.
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Tina Louise Booth Smith was an adventurous, outgoing woman who was not afraid to do what she set her mind to.
Booth, 57, died June 30 due to complications with her cancer, but the disease that had stalked her for the past 10 years never weighed her down, family members said.
About five years ago, her daughter, Nicole Langston, convinced Booth to become a marathon runner along with her.
Not being one to back down from a challenge, Booth began to train. According to her family, she ran up to 25 miles a week and went on to complete more than 10 half-marathons across Texas and in other states.
A radiation specialist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston told Booth she was the first patient he had seen who was an active runner during treatment.
Her free-willed spirit and determination to get things done were characteristics that Booth possessed since she was young. Born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia to an Air Force family, she moved from city to city before her father retired and decided to settle in San Antonio.
Booth, who was 16 at the time, met her husband, Rick Smith, through the citizens band or CB radio craze of the late 1970s that allowed motorists to talk across short distances from their vehicles.
They went to different high schools and, for some time, only knew the sound of each other's voices.
"At that time, it was like Facebook," Smith said. "People just chatted on the radio."
After talking for some time, Booth took it upon herself to finally meet Smith in person and decided to ride Gypsy, her horse, to meet him.
Smith said Booth didn't tell him she was coming, and he remembers being shocked and speechless.
Through the years, Smith learned more about Booth's love for the outdoors.
In 1981, after graduating from high school and with some convincing from Smith, they decided to tackle college together at the University of Texas at Austin as a married couple.
"She was one of those who said she was never going to get married," her husband said. "We lived in married student housing with all the other couples who were just as broke as we were."
Tina Louise Booth Smith
Born: Sept. 15, 1961, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Died: June 30, 2019, San Antonio
Preceded by: Her father, Harry J. Booth.
Survived by: Her mother, Sarah Cheney Booth; husband Rick Smith; a daughter, Nicole Langstonher, two sisters, Lydia and Marta Booth, and a brother, Marcus Booth.
Services: A memorial service will be held at Porter Loring Mortuary North on Saturday at noon. Portraits and other pieces created by Booth will be on display.
After graduating, Booth went on to work in advertising in San Antonio with Lionel Sosa, SeaWorld and the United Services Automobile Association.
The couple and their daughter enjoyed offshore fishing on the Texas Gulf coast. Smith was familiar with the sport but Booth wasn't sure she had the patience for it. She grew passionate about the activity because it brought her family together and took them into the vast, open ocean.
"We were at the coast, enjoying the time out there right until we had to leave," Smith said.
Whether it was sailfish, wahoo or mahi mahi, the entire family found it hard to stop after the first big catch. One of Booth's proudest catches was a billfish, which took some research to land.
What annoyed Booth the most were the big ones that escaped her hook before they were able to learn what it was, Smith said.
Booth was not only innately curious and fascinated by nature, but also by art. Having graduated with a minor in art history, she had a love for painting, which served as her main creative outlet.
She learned to paint in middle school, eventually taught summer classes at a craft school and enjoyed creating portraits of her own family and of complete strangers.
Before going on a trip to France and Italy, her daughter recalled, Booth spent hours poring over information regarding the various museums that they would be able to visit. She then spent considerably more hours at the museums themselves.
Booth is remembered fondly by her family as an energetic woman who looked at the world around her with great enthusiasm.
"She was very to the point, she was very clear, didn't beat around the bush," Smith said. "She was a fighter, stubborn … she would not give up on anything."
Valeria Olivares is a reporter covering San Antonio and Bexar County. Read him on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | valeria.olivares@express-news.net | Twitter: @ValeriaOliEsc


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The Buloke Shire Council owns five separate kindergarten facilities (one each in Birchip, Charlton, Donald, Sea Lake and Wycheproof).
Mallee Track Health and Community Services is currently the approved Service Provider of the 4 Year Old Kindergarten Program operating at the Sea Lake Kindergarten and the YMCA of Ballarat operates the 4 Year Old Kindergarten programs held at the Donald, Birchip, Charlton, and Wycheproof Kindergartens.
The Buloke Shire Council, Mallee Track Health and Community Services and the YMCA of Ballarat are committed to the implementation of universal access to early childhood education (15 hours of funded 4 year old kindergarten in the year before school) and have implemented that philosophy since the start of 2013.
Further information on the kindergarten services provided in the Buloke Shire are available by contacting Council's Community Services Department on 1300 520 520.


It's not necessary to have ambition. It's just unusual when leaders don't have it.
You're better off acknowledging ambition than pretending you're above it.
I know a leader who lost an opportunity because he had too much ambition. He spoke more of his desire for advancement than his desire to succeed in the position for which he applied.
Others see in us what we hide from ourselves.
Hiding from ambition allows it to infect your perspective.
You might imagine that titles don't matter, but earning Director, VP, or CEO feels pretty darn good. Pretending it doesn't, suggests lack of self-awareness.
If you can't acknowledge ambition, perhaps it already has you.
Desired honor eclipses received honor.
Drive to win turns to manipulation, anger, or unethical behavior.
Resentment produces negative judgement about the motives and success of others.
Tearing down becomes a method of getting ahead.
Service and gratitude answer the defilement of ambition.
Talk less about getting ahead and more about serving.
When ambition makes you ungrateful, turn to gratitude. Express gratitude for opportunities, talented teammates, and imperfect steps forward.
Always use the term 'earn' when expressing ambition.
Talk privately and infrequently about desires for advancement.
Never make yourself look good by neglecting to mention the contribution of others.
Stay connected with those who can't advance your career.
Share what you're learning. Unhealthy ambition has to know-it-all.
Never lie or bend the rules to get ahead.
Take on nagging problems that others avoid.
Reject the trappings of position.
Walk into every room intending to be useful to others.
Concentrate on adding value and earning opportunity.
What dangers do you see in ambition? What benefits?
How might leaders navigate the dangers of ambition?
While I don't think ambition is wrong at all, it can be a double edged sword as you suggest. Your post reminded me of the words of my very first boss out of college. He said "I will have been successful if I work for you someday." Over the years I learned that he actually meant that and was more concerned about projecting others forward than himself.
Personally, I've never had a huge amount of "ambition". I think I've had more passion than ambition. I've truly felt that my "career" was in God's hands and no one could stop me from getting somewhere He wanted me to go and I couldn't go anywhere He didn't want me to if I was regularly seeking and accepting His direction. From that mindset, I found that I was under no pressure to advance while many around me were scrambling for position. This made me very comfortable around anyone in the company from the owner to the line worker and everywhere in between. There was no pressure to calculate my words or strategize my "moves". Ironically, it seems that God moved me forward without the "ambition" while those fueled by "ambition" didn't move as readily.
Again, I don't think ambition is wrong, it just plays out differently in all of us. As a Christian, I do have an "ambition" to die to self and to be a living sacrifice, both of which run a bit counter to "standard" or "personal" ambition. I fail at these goals often but I'm a work in progress and God is a fabulous potter!
Thanks for making me think every day!
Thanks Solid. I'm glad to see you share how faith impacts ambition. It seems that trust turned ambition to passion in you. That feels powerful to me.
Personally, I think ambition can go wrong pretty quickly. Although, I see it in myself. Today's post, especially the parts about the danger of ambition, are a self-reflection on ambition going wrong in my own experience.
You seem to have a sense of freedom about this. Congratulations.
Thank you – love this post, particularly the statement " I've had more passion than ambition" – how inspiring.
Many organizations have value statements that guide interactions at all levels. The US Army has one that is very useful using the acronym LDRSHIP – Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage. The order of these values forms a convenient way to remember them but I would argue that the one a leader should start with is selfless service.
Yesterday's post addressed the concept of pushback. If we link the concepts of constructive pushback with ambition, focusing on the '10 ways to express healthy ambition' above, we can build a system and culture that allows us as leaders to detect when we have ambition blind spots in the organization before they become serious problems.
I propose an 11th way to express healthy ambition, though perhaps it's a subset of #10 – focus on the team. The best way a leader can showcase success or market the organization is to give the critical action agent great credit for success and highlight that to more senior leaders. If a project fails, it is incumbent upon the leader to humbly accept responsibility without throwing the team or subordinate individuals under the bus.
Aspiring to be the servant leader is the greatest thing. People will WANT you to be at the helm.


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This represents a major milestone in computer Go, and is also, evidence that the Monte Carlo tree search algorithm is a viable search technique that works in high branching factor domains. In my honest opinion, the budding graduate student in computer games research can easily find applications of this technique in emerging problems which are unsolvable by traditional techniques.
Think RTS, think war games, think huge risk mitigation situations like epidemic simulations. sigh I had a research proposal rejected a year ago based on this concept, and, as a result, made me switch from academic research to industry.
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Family Medicine: Mark Cardinal, M.D. • Kimberly Donohue, M.D. • Paul Ebbert, M.D. • Garth Reber, D.O.
Pediatrics: Richard Barnes, M.D. ▪ Jacqueline Nelson, M.D.
Internal Medicine: Clint McMahill, M.D. • Gentian Scheer, M.D.
Surgery: Tony Lowham, M.D. ▪ Orthopedic Surgery: John Whipp, M.D.
Clinic: The student would see patients with an assigned physician at both IHS clinics and physician practices in Lander. During the rotation the student would be expected to see the patient and independently provide assessment and care of the patient. Over the course of the rotation they would be able to follow the development of newborns and manage a wide variety of disease processes. Depending on the student they could do home visits, function as a part of group visits and contribute to the chronic health care clinic. There is the opportunity to go on home visits with the social worker and/or public health nurses on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
Hospital: Lander SageWest opened in its present location in 1983. It is a progressive medical facility catering to a sophisticated market. Many factors contribute to making Lander SageWest stands out among other similar-sized hospitals: a dedicated staff that serves a number of specialized units including a full-time Level II emergency room, Level II nursery and a behavioral health program; state-of-the-art medical equipment such as a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) unit and a Stereotactic Breast Biopsy unit; and a remarkable number of physician specialists including neurologist, otorhinolarygologist (ENT's), and a general surgeon. The 81-bed facility is part of Life Point Hospitals, Inc., a nationwide provider of healthcare services. The hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, is licensed by the State of Wyoming, and is approved for acceptance of Medicare patients.
Lander Regional Hospital is the first hospital in the state to be approved as a provider under the Wyoming Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. This program allows persons who would ordinarily not have access to screening and diagnostic testing the opportunity to take advantage of these services at little or not cost.
Nursing Home: Westward Heights Care Center is located at 150 Caring Way, Lander, WY. This is a non-profit 60-bed facility; Morning Star Manor is at 4 North Fork Road in Ft. Washakie: 50-bed facility.
Recommend flying in and out of Casper, WY.
The City of Lander, Wyoming would like to welcome you to Lander and the surrounding areas. There is a wide range of recreational opportunities including Sinks Canyon State Park that is located within seven miles of Lander offering beautiful scenery and the mystery of seeing a river disappear into the side of the mountain. You will find the historical South Pass City and Atlantic City thirty miles south of Lander and reminisce about the late 1800's and the gold rush. Lander, WY is a blend of the Old West and the New West surrounded by the foothills of the eastern slopes of the Wind River Mountains. Rodeo as a spectator sport was born in Lander. Over 109 years ago the first paid rodeo in the world was staged in Lander, and continues today. Lander Pioneer Days is one of Wyoming's biggest 4th of July events. There are frequent powwows and religious sundances during the summer on the Wind River Reservation. If you are looking for recreation, reliving history, entertainment, relaxation and scenic beauty or just plain fun, Lander has it all.
Lander, Wyoming (WY) is located at the base of the Wind River Mountains, 5,300 feet above sea level. Between 250-300 days of brilliant blue skies and illumination from the sun is the benefit from such a high elevation. During the summer months, residents and visitors enjoy warm, dry days with cool nights for comfortable sleeping.


I got a call from a friend of mine whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a shock to him; he thought that his wife was very healthy. He wanted to do whatever it took to get her the necessary help. When our loved ones are involved, we will go any length to make things happen. How many of you can agree to that? We all have lost loved ones to cancer; it's painful for those who are ill and those of us who are caregivers.
I know when my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer, I was shocked and the first thought that came to my mind was my dad needs my help. I talked to his doctors, those doing the tests; I felt that I had to control the situation. My dad wasn't helpless at all. He was a Colonel in the army, fought in World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam. He was a highly decorated war hero. He didn't need me to be meddling in his business. I wanted to help; I wanted to be involved with his care. He took care of my mother who had cancer as well. She needed a great deal of care and he was there for her every step of the way!
I asked my dad, what I could do to help him. He said he didn't know, and that made matters worse for me. Not knowing what was going on. I fought to get answers from all of his doctors. I was told several scenarios for his out come. I never let him know all I was doing behind the scenes. I didn't want to worry him whatsoever. Then it hit me, was I intruding and causing him undo stress by my actions?
I know many times he had to calm me down, and believe me it was adding stress to his situation. I listened to his concerns. I listened as to how he was going to fight this lung cancer. I listened to his fears, and how he would do whatever it took to save his life. He was in the most serious fight of his life. He had his game face on when speaking with his docs. Behind the game face, was a man who taught his kids to go the distance in whatever you do. My dad was doing just that.
I had to figure out a new game plan for me. How could I support my dad? How could I be an encouragement to my dad and mother? I didn't want to get in the way. I wanted to make their lives easier; I could take my dad to his appointments, no problem there. I could make sure he understood what the docs were saying and what his treatment would consist of. I could let him know the effects of his meds and how to deal with them. I could make sure that he was eating good healthy foods and that his diet would be helping him with the side effects of chemo and radiation treatments.
So, that's the game plan that I worked out for my dad with his approval of course. My mom was in the know, but her cancer had kept her very ill. She couldn't really do very much, but give thumbs up for all we did for dad.
His surgery went well; he had the best care from the docs and the hospital staff. I made sure that everything was set up at home, home health care, medical supplies (oxygen tanks), home therapy, and meals on wheels for the one meal we didn't have to worry about. The other meals were very nutritious and I had a friend help make those meals.
My dad was very thankful that I could help and take the pressure off of my mom. When something like this happens, you need the whole family involved, the way it used to be. Now its dump our loved one off at the hospital, let them deal with it. Anyone that is critically ill wants to know that the entire family will roll up their sleeves and help. This cannot be just one family member. Friends would want to be involved as well. They can offer some relief when needed, but have to be asked well in advance. You can also talk with your pastor, and see if the church has people to help. Many are just waiting to be asked and the pastor can give you some contact names.
Make sure that the person, who is ill, is involved in the entire process. You can't have them guessing from day to day what is happening with doctors' visits. This will add stress to them. Select one person from the family or close friend who will coordinate meals, rides to appointments, and visits from family and friends. I am available to help you, just call.
If you need coaching in helping friends or family coping with cancer you can contact Dr. Mike by phone or his website. Here are some questions that might help you decide if you need additional coaching. Do you need help in setting up a plan for taking care of a loved one with cancer? Do you need to find a support group and want help? Do you want help in finding someone to be the spokesman for your loved one? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should call for an appointment.


We're pleased to welcome Devang Panchigar of StorageNerve into the community with this guest post on storage spending.
We all buy storage, either in the SMB Space or at an Enterprise level. We use storage to run our business, to store structured and unstructured data. Data means everything these days. Without data we won't necessarily be able to do business.
But have we thought about the economics associated with storage? As consumers, we tend to consume more than necessary at times if we want to have enough buffer, or if we anticipate projected growth, business requirements, customer requirements, technology improvements, and the list goes on.
Lets stop for a minute and try to figure out what can we do to potentially keep up with all the use cases above, but not grow the data storage as rapidly. Rather, let's figure out means to compress, consolidate, and reduce footprint with our data.
I am in no way suggesting not to buy storage, but if a customer walks up to me and says, "We are growing our storage at 70% a year," but when I look at their balance sheet and the numbers don't reflect that growth, I will not buy into those storage growth numbers. Those are probably coming in from a vendor that is trying to push more products into the storage environment.
There are several aspects one should consider related to Storage Economics, how your shrinking IT budgets can still meet up with your growing business requirements, and what you can do to keep a balance between both.
It's important to know what storage do you have and where you have it.
Try to move away from fat provisioning to thin provisioning.
Front-end storage virtualization using standard storage arrays in the back end.
Run non-vendor specific SRM (Storage Resource Management) tools for storage optimization and storage management.
Having a storage management tool is a must. You can still perform your daily task using various element managers.
Industry standard average storage utilization numbers range between 35 to 45%. If you can push your storage utilization number up to 75 to 80%, it will help you drive the cost down phenomenally.
Implement deduplication; verify your storage array supports deduplication natively. If not, it should be implemented in various parts of your storage like backup, unstructured data, etc.
Run a heterogeneous environment with multiple vendors in it to keep balance relating to price structures.
Though ILM is a forgotten word these days, make sure you run tiering within your storage environment that can help you move your data from higher SLA tiers to lower SLA tiers for cost containment purposes.
Consider after warranty support for your storage hardware to independent service providers rather than manufactures.
Look at extending the life of your storage arrays from a typical between 2.5 years and 3 years to 6 years.
Implement technologies like automated storage tiering, storage deduplication, storage compression and many more in the market today.
Storage environments have gotten very complex over the years with new storage technologies and switching technologies. At the end of the day, invest into a technology that benefits your organization, your infrastructure, your business model and your requirements.
Leverage the use of outsourced computing models including Cloud technologies available in the market today. Could be private clouds or public clouds or really a mesh of these clouds technologies and offerings.
Budget for your storage requirements and try to live by those even if you have to take drastic measures to keep it under budget.
Try to gain more operational efficiencies within the storage environment.
Understand the TCO with any new storage purchase, as cost of new storage could include several aspects of implementation including migration, consulting, downtime, missed SLA's, Training, etc.
Try to reclaim your data or storage as old systems are retired or migrated.
Check for inconsistencies in your Storage environment as those could result in missed SLA's, downtime and penalties.
Do not over provision and do not over budget. Its just storage, if you need more you can buy more, but having storage sitting there doing nothing for years in anticipation of being used one day will cause your efficiencies to slip heavily.
Do not create unnecessary storage management tasks and processes for your storage environment.
Having backups and good working backups is very important, but do not tie down your storage with numerous copies of snaps, clones, mirrors, BCV's, etc for a rainy day, rather have a DR plan and copy a single instance of data remotely for DR purposes.
Plot trends for your storage environment. See if trends can help you budget, forecast and provision your storage accurately.
Remember the larger storage footprint you have, the larger your backup footprints will be, causing more storage space, more backup time windows, more network traffic, slower response times, more tapes, more offsite backups, more backup management cost and possibly more licensing cost.
Get away from managing islands of storage; rather move to a more centralized storage management, long-term effects are amazing.
Try to reduce licensing cost around storage software. The less storage you deploy, the less licensing per TB cost that you will pay.
There are numerous areas of storage management that the customers can try to bring in efficiencies that will help them better manage storage, reduce footprint, and reduce CAPEX and OPEX. It starts as a small practice within organizations and the value it creates grips the rest of the IT management teams.
So take this opportunity and plant the seeds for your Storage Economics practice now.


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Yes, we have waterfronts in Arizona.
Using the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service® IDX listings real-time database, you can see for yourself that waterfront homes for sale (though not as common as we'd probably like) actually do exist here in Arizona. From Arizona mansions for sale, to Scottsdale luxury homes, to Paradise Valley executive homes and beautiful lake homes for sale in Phoenix, Mesa, Gilbert and throughout Arizona. Waterfront homes are indeed among those that you can find. Lake subdivisions or waterfront lots, you'll find houses on the riverfronts, lakeside or just near lakes in your search of Arizona homes for sale. Don't expect to find oceanfront property in Arizona though, unless perhaps if the "big one" hits California.


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Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital is the only hospital in the south-central United States offering intra-arterial chemotherapy as a routine service for the treatment of retinoblastoma, a rare pediatric eye malignancy that affects only 250 to 350 new patients each year.
The treatment requires a large multispecialty team that involves close collaboration between endovascular neurosurgery, ocular oncology and medical neuro-oncology.
"Having the capability to inject chemotherapy directly into the arteries that feed the eye eliminates the side effects of systemic chemotherapy and maximizes the therapeutic dose to the eye," says endovascular neurosurgeon Mark Dannenbaum, M.D., an expert on cerebrovascular surgery and neurointerventional techniques and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at UTHealth Medical School.
To initiate the procedure, Dr. Dannenbaum places a microcatheter into the ophthalmic artery using a neuroendovascular technique. He collaborates with Amy Schefler, M.D., an ocular oncologist and retina specialist affiliated with Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, who infuses a high concentration of chemotherapy directly into the tumor bed.


Last fall, I discovered the simple way to paint a picture: use a paper plate!
At the time, we were doing a preschool art program at our community center. Two of the four projects used paper plate circles. One circle became a pumpkin, and the other a moon. The plate was both the canvas and the image.
If you look up paper-plate art projects, there are dozens or hundreds of ways to use a paper plate (or some similar circle): add triangles for ears and paint an animal, add strings and make a hot-air balloon, or add cotton balls to the center to create a flower.
I've created a relatively simple project that combines this circle art with some easy scissor practice. We started with the basic circle, and then cut it into sections, gluing the sections together to create a fish.
You can keep things simple by using a paper plate. I traced a circle onto painting paper, partly to add some extra scissor practice to our project.


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The visit of His Excellency, Rinchen Kuentsyl the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
His Excellency, Rinchen Kuentsyl the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the People's Republic of Bangladesh visited the University of Peradeniya on 13th November 2022. His Excellency was accompanied by Mr. Sherab Dorji, the Second Secretary, Ambassy of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
The Ambassador was welcomed by Prof. M.D. Lamawansa, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Peradeniya. Prof. T. Madujith, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Peradeniya, Prof. V. Pinto, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Prof. C.N.R.A. Alles, Director, International Relations Office. Vice-Chancellor discussed the close relationship between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the University of Peradeniya. Possible future collaborations including research and academic exchange were discussed at the brief meeting. His Excellency, Rinchen Kuentsyl conveyed his greetings to the University of Peradeniya. Further, His Excellency expressed his interest in students' welfare and consolidating strong collaborations with the university. His Excellency pointed out the cultural similarities between the Kingdom of Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Followed by His Excellency visited the Faculty of Medicine to meet the Bhutan students who are studying at the faculty.


Throw your guidebook away because all you need to remember is the word Gödör Hungarian for pothole, when you're visiting Budapest.
You'll find this diverse and inspiring space underneath a park rattling with keen skateboarders; just follow the welcoming steps into a crater of Budapest cool.
Quite the chameleon, Gödör Club offers all manner of events, guaranteed to draw in an equally varied crowd. How many places do you know where can you down a pint of beer while pondering over an art exhibition to a backdrop of live rock music?
However, it could have been so different. This quirky abyss of cultural delight was once earmarked to be a car park.
To wallow in unabashed romanticism, take your beloved to the pleasantly potty Hundred House Hotel near Bridgnorth, Shropshire.


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Massive Snowstorm Hammering New York, With One Spot Getting 77 Inches
By David Wetzel
New York (Knewz) — A massive snowstorm is battering parts in the Northeast, and it's hit especially hard in Buffalo, New York.
Video shared to Twitter by Denis Kreze showed stormy skies over water and snow covering all of the ground as a massive snowstorm swept through.
According to the Buffalo News, a massive snowstorm has left 77 inches of snow in Orchard Park, 73.7 inches in Northern Hamburg and 65 inches in Southwest Blasdell.
As WIVB noted, Ochard Park, where the NFL's Buffalo Bills play — though this week's game scheduled for there has been moved to Detroit's dome stadium, Ford Field — got 77 inches, which is the same height as Bills star quarterback Josh Allen.
The bizarre weather takes place when cold air, often coming from Canada, moves across the Great Lakes. "As the cold air passes over the unfrozen and relatively warm waters of the Great Lakes, warmth and moisture are transferred into the lowest portion of the atmosphere. The air rises, clouds form and grow into narrow band that produces 2 to 3 inches of snow per hour or more," The Weather Channel explains on its website.
According to The Weather Channel, a strange combination can occur during such weather conditions. Heavy snow can be falling in one area while the sun could be shining just a mile or two away.
The Weather Channel notes that the physical geography of the land and water is an important factor in determining whether or not lake-effect snow will take place.
According to the Buffalo News, a massive snowstorm will last into the weekend in some areas. Driving bans have been lifted in some areas, though they remain in effect in other areas.
TMX contributed to this report.
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David Wetzel A news editor and writer, David Wetzel has eclipsed 20 years in journalism. He has worked in sports, news, features and breaking news roles over two decades and has won awards in sports, news, features and headline writing.
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One should not misunderstand Rath yatra as a mere traditional celebration. Almost all religious festivals, especially in India, have historical significance. Rath yatra is celebrated in memory of the day when Lord Krishna, along with His eternal associates, was lovingly pulled in a chariot from Kurukshetra to Vrindavan by His wonderful devotees, the gopis of Vraj, more than 5000 years ago. It is the joy of bringing our beloved Lord home.
It has always been a weekful of joyous devotional activities around the world for those who understand who Lord Jagannath is! Knowing that not all are fortunate enough to participate in regularly held religious festivals, and knowing that not all are intelligent enough to visit Temples, on this particular day, called the Rath yatra day, Sri Jagannath (meaning the Master of the Universe), along with His elder brother Sri Balaram and sister Srimati Subhadra Devi, and His invincible weapon, the Sudarshan Chakra, mercifully comes out in a grand manner to give His audience to literally millions of people during a week-long festival in Sri Jagannath Puri and many other holy places in India.
Not only in India, by the mercy of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, after the founder-acharya of ISKCON, more commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, introduced Ratha yatra in the west in 1968, this festival has become a common site for the citizens of all six continents today.
Historians know how, while ruling India, the British officers were baffled when they saw a massive human gathering, emerging practically from nowhere, pull the three gorgeous chariots in perfect harmony! More intriguing was the fact that in those days there were no communication devices that we see today. How and why they congregated in such a large number was the scaring question in their mind.
Lord Jagannath is an amazing person! To His devotees and to those sincerely seeking spiritual perfection, He is very easy to approach. Brahma-samhita confirms- vedeshu durlabham adurlabham atma bhakto govindam adi purusham tamaham bhajami- the Lord is extremely difficult to be approached by even the most learned persons but very easily available to His devotees. This is His causeless mercy.
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Argentina's 2018 World Cup squad: Who joins Aguero and Messi in Russia?
That's true (it is a dangerous game), said Guardiola. We knew it from weeks ago, how it would be between these important games and Tottenham in the Champions League.
They are feeling better but I don't know if they are fit for Sunday, Guardiola said.
He can say whatever he wants, Guardiola said. I like when they express what they believe, but it's happened many times in my career in specific games when they lost a little control.
We knew it weeks ago, how crucial it would be, between these important games, said Guardiola.


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Snap Inc. Shares Hit All Time Low on New Spectacles
By Shoshanna Delventhal
Updated Sep 5, 2018
Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. (SNAP) is taking another stab at camera glasses with the release of two new stylish designs for its Spectacles line on Wednesday -- but investors still aren't buying it. Shares of the social media company fell to all-time lows on the news, reflecting larger concerns on the Street that Snap has little hope in regaining ground against Facebook Inc.'s (FB) Instagram and monetizing its photo and video sharing platform.
Trading down 4.2% on Wednesday at $10.15, SNAP reflects a 30.5% decline year-to-date (YTD), sharply underperforming its high-flying tech peers and the broader S&P 500, up 8% over the same period.
Snap Struggles to Boost User Engagement
Snap's new Spectacle 2 glasses, named Veronica and Nico, look more like traditional sunglasses than prior styles, and contain all of the same features and recording quality improvements as the first model launched in April. The main difference in the glasses is their style, as well as the addition of polarized lenses. Spectacles 2 start selling today at a price of $199 in "limited quantities" and will debut at select Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus stores in the US and Europe this fall.
Snap's Spectacles reflect the company's larger goal of boosting engagement on its mobile application. The company indicates that users on average post 40% more photos and videos captured with the glasses. Snapchat has also made an effort to facilitate sharing on other platforms by adding automatic camera roll sales and allowing video exports to the conventional square and horizontal formats. This fall, a new feature will automatically curate the Spectacle highlights of the day and create a 24-hour story.
(See also: Can Amazon Help Snap Beat Instagram?)
The Venice, California-based company has attempted to diversify its business as digital ad dollars continue to flow towards Instagram and other competitors. Instagram's rival Stories platform now boasts twice the number of users and is growing six times faster than Snapchat. Meanwhile, a report from Cowen earlier this year showed Snap's daily engagement down 7% over last year, while the platform ranked the lowest in a survey of ad buyers.
In July, rumors surfaced that Snap was working with Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) to add a feature which would allow users to identify products, songs, and item barcodes and link them to product listings. The social media company is also reportedly mapping its expansion into the red-hot gaming industry and has doubled down on its internal Lens Studio to develop software for specialized augmented reality (AR) filters.
(See also: Snap Inc. to Launch Gaming Platform This Fall.)
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St. Andrew's is proud to be a bilingual community, celebrating the diversity of cultures we find in Pacific Beach and beyond. Every Sunday at 12pm, we have a bilingual service in Spanish and English. Our vision is to build a multicultural community, celebrating life and faith together.
Join us as we celebrate diversity here in Pacific Beach.
The service is followed each week by a complimentary lunch.
!Todos bienvenidos!
St. Andrew's is a church community which celebrates all.
Una Iglesia con misas, bautizos, santa comunión, Quinceañeras, bodas y funerales en español con lonche después de cada misa dominical.
¡No hay qué endomingarse, ven tal como eres!
Come as you are!
Meet Padre Alex
As Priest Associate for Latino Ministries Alex brings a wealth of experience to St. Andrew's. Alex's first priestly assignment in 1969 was to a parish in San Antonio, TX, where 4,998 people out of 5,000 were Latino. Weekly, there were 15 Eucharists in Spanish and one in English. His PhD/STD dissertation, Presbyters and Chicanos: Towards Full Partnership in Liberation, was the first doctoral dissertation in Europe on Liberation Theology. Alex was also very much involved in the creation and first years of the Mexican-American Cultural Center in San Antonio. While serving as co-rector with his wife, The Rev. Nancy, from 2001-08 in Borrego Springs, CA, they introduced a Saturday afternoon Eucharist in Spanish. As Priest Associate at St. Andrew's, Alex leads ministry among the surrounding Latino community including a bilingual worship service at 12pm on Sundays.
Email Padre Alex: padrealex.standrewspb@gmail.com
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Clara Hale Babcock
The daughter of a Methodist minister, Clara Celestia Hale Babcock was ordained in 1888. The first woman ordained in the Christian Churches, she held pastorates in four churches, conducted numerous evangelistic meetings and personally baptized at least 1,500 people.
In her obituary in the Christian-Evangelist, it was remembered that "her converts and acquaintances esteemed her highly for her strong intellect, clear presentation of the scriptures and effective appeal on behalf of Christ."
William Barber
Keynote Sermon at the Tulsa DCHS Kirkpatrick Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC_b31dS3HI&t=1324
Lisa Barnett
Lisa Barnett is an Assistant Professor of American Religious History at Phillips Theological Seminary (Tulsa, OK), arriving in the fall of 2018. Lisa earned her PhD in U.S. History at TCU in May of 2017. She earned a Master of Theology in American religious history from Brite Divinity School (Fort Worth) in 2012 and a Master of Divinity degree from Brite in 2008. She is also an ordained minister with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
The son of Robert and Kay, David Bell is the Minister for Indigenous Justice at the Center for Indigenous Ministries (DOC) and Yakama Christian Mission. In this role, David has helped guide the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to recognize its settler-colonist roots, repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, become more honest with its racist origins, and engage in action-based Indigenous justice.
Presentation at Tulsa Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeIDnx5F-lA&t=4538
Sarah Lue Bostick
Sarah Lue Bostick was among the first African American women ordained to the Christian ministry in the late 19th century. She labored as a field worker for the Christian Woman's Board of Missions and the National Christian Missionary Society among African American congregations in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. She carried on her successful work for over 40 years, until her retirement in 1938.
Raymond Brown
Raymond Brown held a variety of positions at the general church level including serving as the first Vice Moderator of the Christian Church. During his four year presidency at National Christian Missionary Convention he became instrumental in merging the predominantly African American organization with the General Convention.
Lawrence Burnley
Presentation at the Tulsa DCHS Kirkpatrick Conference
Reflections on Education in and beyond the Church through an Anti-Racist Lens: Toward an Epistemology of Inclusion and Reconciliation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyu5IBSdCZI&t=3180
Alexander Campbell
Alexander Campbell was an early leader in the Second Great Awakening of the religious movement that has been referred to as the Restoration Movement, or Stone-Campbell Movement. The Campbell wing of the movement was said to begin with his father Thomas Campbell's publication in 1809 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, of The Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington.
Thomas Campbell was a Presbyterian minister important in the Second Great Awakening of the United States. Born in County Down, northern Ireland, he began a religious reform movement on the American frontier. He was joined in the work by his son Alexander Campbell. Their movement, known as the "Disciples of Christ", merged in 1832 with the similar movement led by Barton W. Stone to form what is now described as the American Restoration Movement (also known as the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement).
Mendell Diness
Most Disciples know that James T. Barclay was the first missionary of the Stone-Campbell heritage - sent by the American Christian Missionary Society to carry out the Biblical injunction "to preach the gospel first in Jerusalem." We now have information on a man who was one of Barclay's early converts - Mendell Diness.
Isaac Errett
Known primarily as a writer, Errett served as editor of the Christian Standard. His weekly editorials and articles charted a moderately progressive course for the movement in the second half of the nineteenth century. A champion for the work of missionary societies, he helped organize the Christian Woman's Board of Missions and served as the first president of the Foreign Christian Missionary Society.
Douglas A. Foster
Douglas A. Foster serves as Scholar in Residence in the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University. He served as a General Editor for The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement and The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History. He is also the author of A Life of Alexander Campbell (Eerdmans, 2020). His current research focuses on the history of race and racism in universities affiliated with Churches of Christ.
Yvonne Gilmore
Presentation at the Tulsa DCHS Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjpU6acHsDo&t=3388
James Gorman
James L. Gorman is Professor of History at Johnson University in Knoxville, TN. His teaching, research, and writing engages the history of Christianity, Stone-Campbell Movement history, race and Christianity, and the history of Bible interpretation.
Leah Gunning Francis
Presentation at Tulsa DCHS Kirkpatrick Conference
Introduction to Stories of Resistance and New Possibility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjpU6acHsDo&t=980
Nicholas Brodie Hardeman
As teacher and administrator, N. B. Hardeman deeply influenced generations of students and future ministers at two Henderson, Tennessee schools: Georgie Robertson Christian College and National Teachers' Normal and Business College (later renamed Freed-Hardeman University).
Jeu Hawk
Jeu Hawk pioneered Disciples missions among Asian-Americans in Portland Oregon in 1892. By the turn of the twentieth century, the Stone-Campbell movement had a presence in India, Japan, China, Tibet, and Burma.
Terri Hord Owens
Presentation at the Tulsa DCHS Kirkpatrick Conference:
Concluding Thoughts and Call to Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Vr1s1XEzs&t=3166
Rev. Hord Owens was elected as the General Minister and President on July 9, 2017. A Disciple since young adulthood, Hord Owens was dean of students at the University of Chicago Divinity School and pastor of First Christian Church of Downers Grove, IL prior to her election.
Sandhya Jha
From the Tulsa DCHS Kirkpatrick Conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHche-yWPvE7&t=2518
April Johnson
Introduction to the DCHS Kirkpatrick Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHche-yWPvE&t=1563
Timothy S. Lee
Timothy S. Lee is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at Brite Divinity School (Texas Christian University) and directs Brite's Asian/ Asian American Pacific Islander Church Studies. He has a wide-ranging interest in the history of Christianity, particularly in Asia and Asian-America. He has published books and articles on Korean Christianity, Asian American Christian communities, and North American Pacific/Asian Disciples (NAPAD).
David Lipscomb
Among Southern Disciples, no one was more influential in the latter half of the nineteenth century than Nashville editor and teacher David Lipscomb. Born into a Baptist family with leanings toward the Campbells' reform, Lipscomb claimed to have read everything Alexander Campbell wrote.
Rick Lowery
Santiago Piñon
Still Here: Resisting Marginalization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyu5IBSdCZI&t=665
Nancy Pittman
From the Tulsa DCHS Kirkpatrick Conference
Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
Introduction to Disciples/Christians and Indigenous Nations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeIDnx5F-lA&t=442
Edward Robinson
Preston Taylor
Walter Scott was one of the four key early leaders in the Restoration Movement, along with Barton W. Stone, Thomas Campbell and Thomas' son Alexander Campbell. He was a successful evangelist and helped to stabilize the Campbell movement as it was separating from the Baptists.
Joshua Shawnee
The Rev. Joshua Shawnee is the Pastor of the Parish Church of St. Jerome in Tulsa, OK and the Vicar General of the Society of Mercy. Joshua holds degrees in theology and archival science and is in the final semester of the MTS program at Phillip Seminary. The primary focus of Joshua's research is the indigenous experience of Christianization and the suppression and reemergence of Two Spirit identities in contemporary North America. Fr. Joshua comes from the Shawnee and Delaware peoples and is an enrolled member of the Shawnee Tribe.
Barton Stone
Barton Warren Stone was an important preacher during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. He was first ordained a Presbyterian minister, then was expelled from the church after the Cane Ridge, Kentucky revival for his stated beliefs in faith as the sole prerequisite for salvation.
Lori Tapia
Hispanic/Latinx Disciples History and Experience: Obra Hispana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-pI3DgfqM&t=3052
Rev. Preston Taylor was a Disciples of Christ pastor, educator, and entrepreneur who was one of the most influential leaders of the black community in Middle Tennessee and of black Disciples nationwide in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He was one of the founders of the National Christian Missionary Convention, the precursor of the National Convocation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
FRANK A. THOMAS, PHD, currently serves as the Director of the PhD Program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric and the Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Homiletics at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana. Thomas is the author of The God of the Dangerous Sermon (Fall, 2021), Surviving a Dangerous Sermon, How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon and Introduction to the Practice of African American Preaching, released by Abingdon Press respectively, April 2020, February, 2018, and November 2016.
Emily Tubman
The life of Emily Thomas Tubman reads like a fairy tale. How could a beautiful southern belle in a time when women had no vote and limited rights become administrator of a large Georgia plantation and later an even greater financial empire? Why would a woman of such wealth make it her life's vocation to invest her resources carefully in a wide range of educational, churchly and community projects?
Minnie Vautrin
Remembered as the "Goddess of Nanking", Minnie Vautrin devoted her career to her students in China, first at Luchowfu Girls' School and then at Ginling College in Nanking. She served Ginling College as faculty member, dean of education and as president for two years.
Newell Williams
A Conversation about Campbell and Stone (with an emphasis on Stone)
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In 2021, average Americans will lose $ 90,748 before maximizing their Social Security benefits
By Cathie D. Chambers on	 December 18, 2021 Bad Credit
Earning the maximum Social Security benefit can leave you with a generous monthly income. In 2022, for example, the maximum monthly check, $ 4,194, will earn $ 50,328.
But the vast majority of Americans earn much less than it takes to get the maximum benefit from the Social Security Administration when they retire. In 2021, the annual salary of a typical worker is expected to be $ 90,748 less than what is needed to get the biggest Social Security checks.
Why Americans Fail to Maximize Social Security
To earn the maximum benefit from Social Security, someone has to do two things:
Earn the maximum taxable income for at least 35 years. Social Security sets a maximum taxable income, called the basic salary ceiling. This limit exists because benefits are based on the average salary over your top 35 years. Yes all incomes were included in the calculation of this average, people with very high incomes would end up with huge benefit checks. Instead, only income up to that basic salary limit counts, and you don't pay Social Security taxes on income above.
Apply for benefits from age 70, even if you become eligible at age 62. Benefits can be maximized alone if you are earning as many deferred retirement bonuses as possible. This means waiting until 70 years.
It is this first requirement that so many people fail to meet in 2021.
Most people will earn much less than the basic salary limit in 2021
In 2021, the basic salary limit is $ 142,800. If you earn this or more, you are subject to maximum Social Security tax and receive credit for the maximum amount of wages possible.
But most people will fall short of making $ 142,800 this year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the average annual salary was $ 52,052 in the third quarter of 2021. This means that the average American will earn $ 90,748 less than the salary needed to meet the basic salary limit.
Earning the maximum taxable salary for at least 35 years of your career is a prerequisite for obtaining the most important benefit. Short of any 35 years taken into account in calculating your benefits means that you will not have the highest possible average salary and therefore will not be able to receive the highest possible benefits. With a typical American earning almost $ 100,000 less than that magic number, this helps explain why the medium the retirement benefit in 2022 will be only $ 1,657, less than half of the maximum.
You could always maximize your future benefits, even if you earn less than $ 142,800 this year. But for that to happen, you need to make sure that 2021 doesn't count among the 35 years that determine your average salary. To do this, you must work at least 36 years in total, earning the maximum taxable income during the remaining 35. And the maximum taxable income increases every year. In 2022, for example, you will need to earn $ 147,000 to reach the goal.
If you were one of those who made a lot less than $ 142,800 in 2021, don't count on the highest Social Security checks you can get unless it's a bad year and your income is usually a lot. higher. You can use the mySocialSecurity.gov website to estimate your likely future earnings to get a more realistic idea of what Social Security will actually pay you in retirement, allowing you to plan and save accordingly.
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Q: Increasing ember server build times While running ember server locally during development sessions I see increasing build times with successive changes. The build times get to a point where I have to kill ember server with 'kill -9' (as 'ctrl-c' seems to be ignored) because the server daemon no longer reacts to file changes or responds to http requests. I've been limping along like this, but I can't imagine this is expect behavior since its slows the development process significantly.
Here are my environment details:

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*OSX 10.10.4

*Ember 1.13.6

*Node 0.12.7

*Watchman: 3.3.0

*Hardware: 2.2Ghz intel core i7, 16GB RAM

My application currently consists of:

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*8 js files, totaling 600 lines of code

*5 hbs templates, totaling 150 lines of handlebars markup

*1 scss stylesheet, totaling 64 lines of sass markup

Changes to the style sheet and template files appear to have the most significant impact on the builds times.
What follows is an example of the build times that I'm seeing:
Build successful - 11516ms.

Slowest Trees                                 | Total
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Concat: Test Support CSS                      | 2321ms
Concat: Vendor Styles                         | 2044ms
Concat: Test Support JS                       | 1865ms
Concat: Vendor                                | 1864ms
SassCompiler                                  | 1836ms
Funnel: App JS Files                          | 905ms

Slowest Trees (cumulative)                    | Total (avg)
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Concat: Test Support CSS (1)                  | 2321ms
Concat: Vendor Styles (1)                     | 2044ms
Concat: Test Support JS (1)                   | 1865ms
Concat: Vendor (1)                            | 1864ms
SassCompiler (1)                              | 1836ms
Funnel: App JS Files (1)                      | 905ms

file changed controllers/signin.js

Build successful - 13390ms.

Slowest Trees                                 | Total
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Concat: Test Support CSS                      | 2656ms
Concat: Vendor Styles                         | 2330ms
Concat: Vendor                                | 2185ms
SassCompiler                                  | 2103ms
Concat: Test Support JS                       | 1817ms
Funnel: App JS Files                          | 1649ms

Slowest Trees (cumulative)                    | Total (avg)
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Concat: Test Support CSS (1)                  | 2656ms
Concat: Vendor Styles (1)                     | 2330ms
Concat: Vendor (1)                            | 2185ms
SassCompiler (1)                              | 2103ms
Concat: Test Support JS (1)                   | 1817ms
Funnel: App JS Files (1)                      | 1649ms

file changed templates/signin.hbs

Build successful - 12833ms.

Slowest Trees                                 | Total
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Concat: Vendor                                | 2779ms
SassCompiler                                  | 2442ms
Concat: Test Support JS                       | 2225ms
Concat: Test Support CSS                      | 2036ms
Concat: Vendor Styles                         | 1661ms
Funnel: App JS Files                          | 1064ms

Slowest Trees (cumulative)                    | Total (avg)
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Concat: Vendor (1)                            | 2779ms
SassCompiler (1)                              | 2442ms
Concat: Test Support JS (1)                   | 2225ms
Concat: Test Support CSS (1)                  | 2036ms
Concat: Vendor Styles (1)                     | 1661ms
Funnel: App JS Files (1)                      | 1064ms

file changed controllers/signin.js

Build successful - 15537ms.

Slowest Trees                                 | Total
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Concat: Test Support JS                       | 2893ms
Concat: Test Support CSS                      | 2844ms
Concat: Vendor                                | 2700ms
SassCompiler                                  | 2653ms
Concat: Vendor Styles                         | 2282ms
Funnel: App JS Files                          | 1203ms

Slowest Trees (cumulative)                    | Total (avg)
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Concat: Test Support JS (1)                   | 2893ms
Concat: Test Support CSS (1)                  | 2844ms
Concat: Vendor (1)                            | 2700ms
SassCompiler (1)                              | 2653ms
Concat: Vendor Styles (1)                     | 2282ms
Funnel: App JS Files (1)                      | 1203ms

file changed controllers/signin.js

Build successful - 17364ms.

Slowest Trees                                 | Total
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SassCompiler                                  | 3667ms
Concat: Test Support CSS                      | 3643ms
Concat: Vendor                                | 3262ms
Concat: Test Support JS                       | 2437ms
Concat: Vendor Styles                         | 2408ms
Funnel: App JS Files                          | 999ms

Slowest Trees (cumulative)                    | Total (avg)
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SassCompiler (1)                              | 3667ms
Concat: Test Support CSS (1)                  | 3643ms
Concat: Vendor (1)                            | 3262ms
Concat: Test Support JS (1)                   | 2437ms
Concat: Vendor Styles (1)                     | 2408ms
Funnel: App JS Files (1)

                  | 999ms

A: It turns out that the issue I was experiencing was resolved in the most recent version of ember-cli.  Upgrading to ember-cli 1.13.8, following the instructions here yielded an order of magnitude speed up in builds with consistent build times across successive edits.


What a challenging statement! Am I more focused on what I am doing in my life or in who I am becoming? If I am honest, it is much easier to focus on the doing. The things I do are evident and easier to check off of a list.
The becoming, however, is not so easy. Am I becoming a better husband, father, wife, mother, etc, than I was last year? These things are not as easy to measure. At the same time, these are the things that really count.
Even in the Christian life, if I am not careful, I can be more concerned about my gifts than about my fruit. Our spiritual gifts are important and they are the tools that God often uses to minister through us. At the same time, though, it is the fruits of the Holy Spirit that reveals our spiritual maturity, or lack thereof.
By all means, let's develop the gifts that God has placed inside of us. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 14, "Earnestly desire spiritual gifts..." At the same time, let's ask the Holy Spirit to develop his fruit in our lives. Galatians 5:22-23 lists these as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
May God help us to become the people that reflect his image well!
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