I have an application which uses several HA Singleton MBeans. It is working well when running as a single node cluster. But when I run it on additional nodes I can't locate the singleton MBeans. It seems that the singleton MBeans are only registered with the MBeanServer on the initial node, and so the components which run on other nodes can't find a MBeanServer which has the singleton Mbeans registered, and hence can't access the required singleton MBean operations. Without these my application is hosed and can't run in a cluster.
Below is example code which is accessing one of my singleton MBeans. It works fine in Servlets and EJBs running on the first node, but not at all on any other nodes.
I put in the search for an MBeanServer where the MBean is registered but it doesn't seem to do any good since the only MBeanServer found is the one available locally and not the total number of MBeanServers available on the cluster, which is what I was after.
How then does one go about this ? Should I do some sort of JNDI registration in the singleton MBeans' startSingleton() methods and lookup the MBeans with JNDI instead of using the MBeanServer.invoke() method of accessing the MBeans' operations ?
I have just discovered a section in the JMX book (Lindfors, et al) about an RMI Connector implementation which looks promising. Is this the solution I should be pursuing ? Any good online references on this topic ?
Yes, you have to use a jmx remote connector. The book you mention is hopelessly out of date. Use the online admin/devel guide.
I can't find any reference to a JMX Remote Connector anywhere in the Admin/Devel 3.2.3 Guide, which I assume is the latest Admin/Devel Guide available. Are you referring to using the InvokerAdaptorService (p. 179) in the same manner as the RMIAdaptor (p. 90) being used in the RMIAdaptor client example (p. 94) ?
Assuming that this is the case I have several questions.
I assume that in a clustered deployment each node will make available a RMIAdaptor (like a MBeanServer) which provides access to its registered MBeans. So only one node in a cluster will be able to provide a RMIAdaptor with access to my HASingleton MBeans, since these are only registered on the master node of the cluster. Is this true, or will a RMIAdaptor only be available from the master node ? If there is one per node then how can you know that the RMIAdaptor that is found from the lookup is the one which allows access to the singleton MBeans registered on the master node ? It's not clear that the lookup will find the correct RMIAdaptor (which must come from the master node) with the MBeanServer with the registered singleton MBeans, so we're still unable to invoke the operations we need fom the singleton MBeans.
Its up to you how the RMIAdaptor is deployed. If you deploy it as a singleton it will only be on the master node. Otherwise its on every node and you have to connect to the jndi service on the singleton node to lookup the correct RMIAdaptor.
So from what you're saying it appears that the solution is to use the RMIAdaptor/InvokerAdaptorService as an HASingleton. This way I will always get an RMIAdaptor which has access to the other HASingleton MBeans as long as I do the lookup of the RMIAdaptor using HAJNDI in my Servlets and EJBs.
I'm not sure how I should go about deploying the service as a singleton. Do I want to move the entire jmx-invoker-adaptor-server.sar to the deploy-hasingleton directory ? Where do I put the HASingletonController mbean entry for the InvokerAdaptorService -- directly in the jboss-service.xml which is in the jmx-invoker-adaptor-server.sar, or in a separate jboss-service.xml in the deploy-hasingleton directory ? Do I use the start and stop lifecycle operations of the InvokerAdaptorService as the TargetStartMethod and TargetStopMethod for the HASingletonController ?
Thanks again for your help with this.
With this configuration I can start JBoss cluster nodes with no errors.
On the master node this works fine, but when I run the Servlet from a second node I get an error because the RMIAdaptor does not have the singleton MBean registered. So the same exact problem as before.
Otherwise its on every node and you have to connect to the jndi service on the singleton node to lookup the correct RMIAdaptor.
How would I determine at run time which node is the master node ? If I don't know this then how could I specify a lookup of an object running on a certain node ? Wouldn't this require me to specify another NamingService port number for the InitialContext, one which matches to the master node ? Are any code examples of this available anywhere ?
The web-console uses the RMIAdaptor as well, so either remove that or deploy a second copy of the jmx-invoker-adaptor-server.sar using a second jndi name and deploy that as the singleton version.
Notice that the original NamingAlias entry was removed, and both the JndiName and name of the JRMPProxyFactory were modified.
It is quite strange because I have used the RMIAdaptor.invoke() method a few lines earlier in this doGet() with no errors using the same number and type of arguments.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening ?
This illegal argment error has mysteriously disappeared. The RMIAdaptor now appears to be working for me as advertised. Hallelujah !


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Parents' attitudes toward consent and data sharing in biobanks: A multisite experimental survey.Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, Kyle B. Brothers, John A. Myers, Yana B. Feygin, Sharon A. Aufox, Murray H. Brilliant, Pat Conway, Stephanie M. Fullerton, Nanibaa' A. Garrison, Carol R. Horowitz, Gail P. Jarvik, Rongling Li, Evette J. Ludman, Catherine A. McCarty, Jennifer B. McCormick, Nathaniel D. Mercaldo, Melanie F. Myers, Saskia C. Sanderson, Martha J. Shrubsole, Jonathan S. Schildcrout, Janet L. Williams, Maureen E. Smith, Ellen Wright Clayton & Ingrid A. Holm - 2018 - AJOB Empirical Bioethics 9 (3):128-142.details
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Family justice and social justice.Sharon A. Lloyd - 1994 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 75 (3-4):353-371.details
Hobbes¿s reply to the foole: a deflationary definitional.Sharon A. Lloyd - 2005 - Hobbes Studies 18 (1):50-73.details
Hobbes: Social and Political Philosophy in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
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Unraveling Natural Utopia.Sharon A. Stanley - 2009 - Political Theory 37 (2):266-289.details
Diderot's Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville has often been read as a Rousseauian condemnation of modern civilization judged against the standard of pure Nature. A cursory reading of the Supplement does appear to present Tahiti as a natural utopia and Europe as a civilized prison. This essay rejects such a reading by demonstrating that the Supplement actually undermines any clear opposition between virtuous nature, represented by Tahiti, and corrupt civilization, represented by Europe. Although Diderot truly does offer a stinging (...) critique of modern Europe, he refuses to offer "nature" as a redemptive alternative. Instead, the Supplement offers an implicit critique of the politics of moralism. (shrink)
Hobbes's moral and political philosophy.Sharon A. Lloyd & Susanne Sreedhar - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.details
The 17th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes is now widely regarded as one of a handful of truly great political philosophers, whose masterwork Leviathan rivals in significance the political writings of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls. Hobbes is famous for his early and elaborate development of what has come to be known as "social contract theory", the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and (...) equal persons. He is infamous for having used the social contract method to arrive at the astonishing conclusion that we ought to submit to the authority of an absolute— undivided and unlimited—sovereign power. While his methodological innovation had a profound constructive impact on subsequent work in political philosophy, his substantive conclusions have served mostly as a foil for the development of more palatable philosophical positions. Hobbes's moral philosophy has been less influential than his political philosophy, in part because that theory is too ambiguous to have garnered any general consensus as to its content. Most scholars have taken Hobbes to have affirmed some sort of personal relativism or subjectivism; but views that Hobbes espoused divine command theory, virtue ethics, rule egoism, or a form of projectivism also find support in Hobbes's texts and among scholars. Because Hobbes held that "the true doctrine of the Lawes of Nature is the true Morall philosophie", differences in interpretation of Hobbes's moral philosophy can be traced to differing understandings of the status and operation of Hobbes's "laws of nature", which laws will be discussed below. The formerly dominant view that Hobbes espoused psychological egoism as the foundation of his moral theory is currently widely rejected, and there has been to date no fully systematic study of Hobbes's moral psychology. (shrink)
History of Political Philosophy in Social and Political Philosophy
Stepping Back.Sharon A. Lloyd - 1992 - Analyse & Kritik 14 (1):72-85.details
Although Rawls insists that his argument for his theory of justice neither addresses nor requires that we settle in advance any of the deep questions of philosophy, there are nonetheless more subtle ways in which his work may bear on such questions. The article explores how Rawls's work may advance our thinking on the general philosophical question of how language affects thought, by enabling us to assess the conceptual consequences of two alternative metaphors for describing our activity when we engage (...) in critical self-reflection. The effects on our thinking of our common use of the metaphor of 'stepping back' to describe this activity are contrasted with those of an alternative metaphor suggested by Rawls's work. The resulting conclusions are then employed to illuminate Rawl's reply to an interesting objection to his theory raised by Michael Sandel. (shrink)
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Sharon A. Suh by Silver Screen Buddha: Buddhism In Asian And Western Film, and: Seeing Like The Buddha: Enlightenment Through Film by Francisca Cho.S. Brent Plate - 2018 - Buddhist-Christian Studies 38 (1):383-385.details
Beyond Joachim of Fiore: Pietro Galatino's Commentaria in Apocalypsim.Sharon A. Leftley - 1998 - Franciscan Studies 55 (1):137-167.details
Medieval Theology in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Sustaining Engineering Codes of Ethics for the Twenty-First Century.Diane Michelfelder & Sharon A. Jones - 2013 - Science and Engineering Ethics 19 (1):237-258.details
How much responsibility ought a professional engineer to have with regard to supporting basic principles of sustainable development? While within the United States, professional engineering societies, as reflected in their codes of ethics, differ in their responses to this question, none of these professional societies has yet to put the engineer's responsibility toward sustainability on a par with commitments to public safety, health, and welfare. In this paper, we aim to suggest that sustainability should be included in the paramountcy clause (...) because it is a necessary condition to ensure the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Part of our justification rests on the fact that to engineer sustainably means among many things to consider social justice, understood as the fair and equitable distribution of social goods, as a design constraint similar to technical, economic, and environmental constraints. This element of social justice is not explicit in the current paramountcy clause. Our argument rests on demonstrating that social justice in terms of both inter- and intra-generational equity is an important dimension of sustainability (and engineering). We also propose that embracing sustainability in the codes while recognizing the role that social justice plays may elevate the status of the engineer as public intellectual and agent of social good. This shift will then need to be incorporated in how we teach undergraduate engineering students about engineering ethics. (shrink)
Engineering Ethics in Applied Ethics
Technology Ethics in Applied Ethics
Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of the American Judiciary.Samantha L. Hernandez & Sharon A. Navarro (eds.) - 2018 - Cambridge University Press.details
The judicial system in a liberal democracy is deemed to be an independent branch of government with judges free from political agendas or societal pressures. In reality, judges are often influenced by their economic and social backgrounds, gender, race, religion, and sexuality. This volume explores the representation of different identities in the judiciary in the United States. The contributors investigate the pipeline, ambition, institutional inclusion, retention, and representation of groups previously excluded from federal, state, and local judiciaries. This study demonstrates (...) how diversity on the bench improves the quality of justice, bolsters confidence in the legitimacy of the courts, and provides a vital voice in decision-making power for formerly disenfranchised populations. (shrink)
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"Ordinary" and "Extraordinary" Vary with the Case.James V. Hickey & Sharon A. Fischer - 1983 - Hastings Center Report 13 (5):43-44.details
Biomedical Ethics in Applied Ethics
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Evaluating the Reporting Quality of Researcher-Developed Alphabet Knowledge Measures: How Transparent and Replicable Is It?Sherri L. Horner & Sharon A. Shaffer - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.details
The American Educational Research Association and American Psychological Association published standards for reporting on research. The transparency of reporting measures and data collection is paramount for interpretability and replicability of research. We analyzed 57 articles that assessed alphabet knowledge using researcher-developed measures. The quality of reporting on different elements of AK measures and data collection was not related to the journal type nor to the impact factor or rank of the journal but rather seemed to depend on the individual author, (...) reviewers, and journal editor. We propose various topics related to effective reporting of measures and data collection methods that we encourage the early childhood and literacy communities to discuss. (shrink)
Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction: An Anthology for Researchers, Policy Makers, and Practitioners.Betty Achinstein, Krista Adams, Steven Z. Athanases, EunJin Bang, Martha Bleeker, Cynthia L. Carver, Yu-Ming Cheng, Renée T. Clift, Nancy Clouse, Kristen A. Corbell, Sarah Dolfin, Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Maida Finch, Jonah Firestone, Steven Glazerman, MariaAssunção Flores, Susan Hanson, Lara Hebert, Richard Holdgreve-Resendez, Erin T. Horne, Leslie Huling, Eric Isenberg, Amy Johnson, Richard Lange, Julie A. Luft, Pearl Mack, Julia Moore, Jennifer Neakrase, Lynn W. Paine, Edward G. Pultorak, Hong Qian, Alan J. Reiman, Virginia Resta, John R. Schwille, Sharon A. Schwille, Thomas M. Smith, Randi Stanulis, Michael Strong, Dina Walker-DeVose, Ann L. Wood & Peter Youngs - 2010 - R&L Education.details
This book's importance is derived from three sources: careful conceptualization of teacher induction from historical, methodological, and international perspectives; systematic reviews of research literature relevant to various aspects of teacher induction including its social, cultural, and political contexts, program components and forms, and the range of its effects; substantial empirical studies on the important issues of teacher induction with different kinds of methodologies that exemplify future directions and approaches to the research in teacher induction.
Creating the World's Deadliest Catch: The Process of Enrolling Stakeholders in an Uncertain Endeavor.Jennifer L. Woolley, Susan L. Young & Sharon A. Alvarez - 2020 - Business and Society 59 (2):287-321.details
There is growing interest in the processes by which entrepreneurial opportunities are cocreated between entrepreneurs and their stakeholders. The longitudinal case study of de novo firm Wakefield Seafoods seeks to understand the underlying dynamics of phenomena that play out over time as stakeholders emerge and their contributions become essential to the opportunity formation process. The king crab data show that under conditions of uncertainty, characterized by incomplete or missing knowledge, entrepreneurial processes of experimentation, failure, and learning were effective in forming (...) and exploiting an opportunity. Moreover, contrary to existing literature that either emphasizes heroic entrepreneurs or downplays their value, this article shows that both the vision of the entrepreneur and the stakeholder contributions are critical. This detailed examination of process data shows that the cumulative actions made by entrepreneurs in concert with their stakeholders formed an opportunity that coalesced into a new market. (shrink)
Acquisition and extinction rates as determinants of age changes in discrimination shift behavior.Donald J. Dickerson, Neil Novik & Sharon A. Gould - 1972 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 95 (1):116.details
Ethics in Value Theory, Miscellaneous
Maternal Interaction With Infants Among Women at Elevated Risk for Postpartum Depression.Sherryl H. Goodman, Maria Muzik, Diana I. Simeonova, Sharon A. Kidd, Margaret Tresch Owen, Bruce Cooper, Christine Y. Kim, Katherine L. Rosenblum & Sandra J. Weiss - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.details
Ample research links mothers' postpartum depression to adverse interactions with their infants. However, most studies relied on general population samples, whereas a substantial number of women are at elevated depression risk. The purpose of this study was to describe mothers' interactions with their 6- and 12-month-old infants among women at elevated risk, although with a range of symptom severity. We also identified higher-order factors that best characterized the interactions and tested longitudinal consistency of these factors from 6 to 12 months (...) of infant age. We leveraged data from eight projects across the United States, using standardized depression measures and an adaptation of the NICHD Mother-Infant Interaction Scales. Overall, these depression-vulnerable mothers showed high levels of sensitivity and positive regard and low levels of intrusiveness, detachment, and negative regard with their infants. Factor analyses of maternal behaviors identified two overarching factors—"positive engagement" and "negative intrusiveness" that were comparable at 6 and 12 months of infant age. Mothers' ability to regulate depressed mood was a key behavior that defined "positive engagement" in factor loadings. An exceptionally strong loading of intrusiveness on the second factor suggested its central importance for women at elevated depression risk. Mothers with severe depressive symptoms had significantly more "negative intrusiveness" and less "positive engagement" with their 6-month-old infants than women with moderate or fewer depressive symptoms, suggesting a potential tipping point at which symptoms may interfere with the quality of care. Results provide the foundation for further research into predictors and moderators of women's interactions with their infant among women at elevated risk for PPD. They also indicate a need for evidence-based interventions that can support more severely depressed women in providing optimal care. (shrink)
Book Review: An Impossible Dream? Racial Integration in the United States, by Sharon A. Stanley. [REVIEW]Inés Valdez - 2019 - Political Theory 47 (4):594-598.details
Philosophy of Race in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
States and Nations, Misc in Social and Political Philosophy
"Ordinary" and "Extraordinary" Vary with the Case.Rev James V. Hickey, Sharon A. Fischer & James Rachels - 1983 - Hastings Center Report 13 (5):43.details
Birdsong and the Neural Regulation of Positive Emotion.Lauren V. Riters, Brandon J. Polzin, Alyse N. Maksimoski, Sharon A. Stevenson & Sarah J. Alger - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.details
Birds are not commonly admired for emotional expression, and when they are, the focus is typically on negative states; yet vocal behavior is considered a direct reflection of an individual's emotional state. Given that over 4000 species of songbird produce learned, complex, context-specific vocalizations, we make the case that songbirds are conspicuously broadcasting distinct positive emotional states and that hearing songs can also induce positive states in other birds. Studies are reviewed that demonstrate that that the production of sexually motivated (...) song reflects an emotional state of anticipatory reward-seeking, while outside the mating context song in gregarious flocks reflects a state of intrinsic reward. Studies are also reviewed that demonstrate that hearing song induces states of positive anticipation and reward. This review brings together numerous studies that highlight a potentially important role for the songbird nucleus accumbens, a region nearly synonymous with reward in mammals, in positive emotional states that underlie singing behavior and responses to song. It is proposed that the nucleus accumbens is part of an evolutionarily conserved circuitry that contributes context-dependently to positive emotional states that motivate and reward singing behavior and responses to song. Neural mechanisms that underlie basic emotions appear to be conserved and similar across vertebrates. Thus, these findings in songbirds have the potential to provide insights into interventions that can restore positive social interactions disrupted by mental health disorders in humans. (shrink)
Endocytosis and autophagy: Shared machinery for degradation.Christopher A. Lamb, Hannah C. Dooley & Sharon A. Tooze - 2013 - Bioessays 35 (1):34-45.details
Biological Sciences in Natural Sciences
A Darwinian dilemma for realist theories of value.Sharon Street - 2006 - Philosophical Studies 127 (1):109-166.details
Contemporary realist theories of value claim to be compatible with natural science. In this paper, I call this claim into question by arguing that Darwinian considerations pose a dilemma for these theories. The main thrust of my argument is this. Evolutionary forces have played a tremendous role in shaping the content of human evaluative attitudes. The challenge for realist theories of value is to explain the relation between these evolutionary influences on our evaluative attitudes, on the one hand, and the (...) independent evaluative truths that realism posits, on the other. Realism, I argue, can give no satisfactory account of this relation. On the one hand, the realist may claim that there is no relation between evolutionary influences on our evaluative attitudes and independent evaluative truths. But this claim leads to the implausible skeptical result that most of our evaluative judgements are off track due to the distorting pressure of Darwinian forces. The realist's other option is to claim that there is a relation between evolutionary influences and independent evaluative truths, namely that natural selection favored ancestors who were able to grasp those truths. But this account, I argue, is unacceptable on scientific grounds. Either way, then, realist theories of value prove unable to accommodate the fact that Darwinian forces have deeply influenced the content of human values. After responding to three objections, the third of which leads me to argue against a realist understanding of the disvalue of pain, I conclude by sketching how antirealism is able to sidestep the dilemma I have presented. Antirealist theories of value are able to offer an alternative account of the relation between evolutionary forces and evaluative facts — an account that allows us to reconcile our understanding of evaluative truth with our understanding of the many non-rational causes that have played a role in shaping our evaluative judgements. (shrink)
Cornell Realism in Meta-Ethics
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Optimal sequencing during category learning: Testing a dual-learning systems perspective.Sharon M. Noh, Veronica X. Yan, Robert A. Bjork & W. Todd Maddox - 2016 - Cognition 155 (C):23-29.details
On Waiting to Exhale: Or What to Do When You're Feeling Black and Blue, a Review of Recent Black Feminist CriticismCodes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our CharacterSkin TradeThe Changing Same: Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and TheoryBlack Women Novelists and the Nationalist AestheticWomen of the Harlem Renaissance. [REVIEW]Sharon P. Holland, Karla F. C. Holloway, Ann duCille, Deborah E. McDowell, Madhu Dubey & Cheryl A. Wall - 2000 - Feminist Studies 26 (1):101.details
A Logical Foundation for Potentialist Set Theory.Sharon Berry - 2022 - Cambridge University Press.details
In many ways set theory lies at the heart of modern mathematics, and it does powerful work both philosophical and mathematical – as a foundation for the subject. However, certain philosophical problems raise serious doubts about our acceptance of the axioms of set theory. In a detailed and original reassessment of these axioms, Sharon Berry uses a potentialist approach to develop a unified determinate conception of set-theoretic truth that vindicates many of our intuitive expectations regarding set theory. Berry further (...) defends her approach against a number of possible objections, and she shows how a notion of logical possibility that is useful in formulating Potentialist set theory connects in important ways with philosophy of language, metametaphysics and philosophy of science. Her book will appeal to readers with interests in the philosophy of set theory, modal logic, and the role of mathematics in the sciences. (shrink)
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The implications of unmet need for future health care use: findings for a sample of disabled Medicaid beneficiaries in New York.Sharon K. Long, Jennifer King & Teresa A. Coughlin - 2005 - Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 42 (4):413-420.details
Medical Ethics in Applied Ethics
A Bayesian framework for word segmentation: Exploring the effects of context.Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths & Mark Johnson - 2009 - Cognition 112 (1):21-54.details
Bayesian Reasoning, Misc in Philosophy of Probability
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections of Genetic Heritage: The Legal, Ethical and Practical Considerations of a Dynamic Consent Approach to Decision Making.Megan Prictor, Sharon Huebner, Harriet J. A. Teare, Luke Burchill & Jane Kaye - 2020 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 48 (1):205-217.details
Dynamic Consent is both a model and a specific web-based tool that enables clear, granular communication and recording of participant consent choices over time. The DC model enables individuals to know and to decide how personal research information is being used and provides a way in which to exercise legal rights provided in privacy and data protection law. The DC tool is flexible and responsive, enabling legal and ethical requirements in research data sharing to be met and for online health (...) information to be maintained. DC has been used in rare diseases and genomics, to enable people to control and express their preferences regarding their own data. However, DC has never been explored in relationship to historical collections of bioscientific and genetic heritage or to contexts involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.In response to the growing interest by First Peoples throughout Australia in genetic and genomic research, and the increasing number of invitations from researchers to participate in community health and wellbeing projects, this article examines the legal and ethical attributes and challenges of DC in these contexts. It also explores opportunities for including First Peoples' cultural perspectives, governance, and leadership as a method for defining DC on cultural terms that engage best practice research and data analysis as well as respect for meaningful and longitudinal individual and family participation. (shrink)
Genetic Ethics in Applied Ethics
Failing a student nurse: A new horizon of moral courage.Sharon Black, Joan Curzio & Louise Terry - 2014 - Nursing Ethics 21 (2):224-238.details
The factors preventing registered nurses from failing students in practice are multifaceted and have attracted much debate over recent years. However, writers rarely focus on what is needed to fail an incompetent pre-registration nursing student in their final placement. This hermeneutic study explored the mentor experience of failing a pre-registration nursing student in their final placement. A total of 19 mentors were recruited from 7 different healthcare organisations in both inner city and rural locations in the southeast of England. Participants (...) took part in individual reflective interviews about their experience of failing a pre-registration nursing student in their final placement. These experiences were interpreted through a hermeneutic discovery of meaning. The new horizon of understanding which developed as a result of this research is framed within the context of moral stress, moral integrity and moral residue with the overall synthesis being that these mentors' stories presented a new horizon of moral courage. (shrink)
Nursing Ethics in Applied Ethics
A Review of:"The Mind and the Brain Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force" Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley, 2002, Harper Collins Publishers, New York: 439 pages, index; hardcover, US 27.50,ISBN:0-060-39355-6;paperback,US 14.95; ISBN: 0-060-98849-7. [REVIEW]Maria Albergato - 2006 - World Futures 62 (5):406-408.details
Seeing like a city: how tech became urban.Sharon Zukin - 2020 - Theory and Society 49 (5-6):941-964.details
The emergence of urban tech economies calls attention to the multidimensional spatiality of ecosystems made up of people and organizations that produce new digital technology. Since the economic crisis of 2008, city governments have aggressively pursued economic growth by nurturing these ecosystems. Elected officials create public-private-nonprofit partnerships to build an "innovation complex" of discursive, organizational, and geographical spaces; they aim not only to jump-start economic growth but to remake the city for a new modernity. But it is difficult to insert (...) tech production space into the complicated urban matrix. Embedded industries and social communities want protection from expanding tech companies and the real estate developers who build for them. City council members, state legislators, and community organizations oppose the city government's attempts to satisfy Big Tech companies. While the city's density magnifies conflicts of interest over land-use and labor issues, the covid-19 pandemic raises serious questions about the city's ability to both oppose Big Tech and keep creating tech jobs. (shrink)
Type A behavior and normal habitual sleep duration.Robert A. Hicks, Robert J. Pellegrini, Sharon Martin, Linda Garbesi, Darlyne Elliott & James Hawkins - 1979 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 14 (3):185-186.details
Dreams in Philosophy of Mind
Mental States and Processes in Philosophy of Mind
'We're the First Port of Call' – Perspectives of Ambulance Staff on Responding to Deaths by Suicide: A Qualitative Study.Pauline A. Nelson, Lis Cordingley, Navneet Kapur, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Jenny Shaw, Shirley Smith, Barry McGale & Sharon McDonnell - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.details
Corporate Social Responsibility as a Dynamic Internal Organizational Process: A Case Study.Sharon C. Bolton, Rebecca Chung-hee Kim & Kevin D. O'Gorman - 2011 - Journal of Business Ethics 101 (1):61-74.details
This article tracks Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as an emergent organizational process that places the employee at its center. Predominantly, research on CSR tends to focus on external pressures and outcomes leading to a neglect of CSR as a dynamic and developing process that relies on the involvement of the employee as a major stakeholder in its co-creation and implementation. Utilizing case study data drawn from a study of a large multinational energy company, we explore how management relies on employees' (...) interaction with CSR as the process of initiation → implementation → maturation develops. Employee involvement grows from a minor element in the CSR initiation stage to a vital contributory factor in CSR's success in the later stages of the process. The article offers new insights into a processual and interactional approach to CSR that accounts for the actions of different actors involved at each stage. Most unusually, it also recognizes the dual impact this has on broader issues concerning the management and involvement of employees through CSR actions, and gaining legitimacy in the eyes of not only external stakeholders but internal too. (shrink)
Business Ethics in Applied Ethics
US–China Rivalry and 'Thucydides' Trap': Why this is a misleading account.Michael A. Peters, Benjamin Green, Chunxiao Mou, Stephanie Hollings, Moses Oladele Ogunniran, Fazal Rizvi, Sharon Rider & Rob Tierney - 2022 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (10):1501-1512.details
In Book 2 of The Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides describes the Plague of Athens which killed an estimated 75,000 people in 430 BC, the second year of the war. Thucydides i...
Philosophy of Education in Philosophy of Social Science
A recurrent 16p12.1 microdeletion supports a two-hit model for severe developmental delay.Santhosh Girirajan, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Gregory M. Cooper, Francesca Antonacci, Priscillia Siswara, Andy Itsara, Laura Vives, Tom Walsh, Shane E. McCarthy, Carl Baker, Heather C. Mefford, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Sharon R. Browning, Brian L. Browning, Diane E. Dickel, Deborah L. Levy, Blake C. Ballif, Kathryn Platky, Darren M. Farber, Gordon C. Gowans, Jessica J. Wetherbee, Alexander Asamoah, David D. Weaver, Paul R. Mark, Jennifer Dickerson, Bhuwan P. Garg, Sara A. Ellingwood, Rosemarie Smith, Valerie C. Banks, Wendy Smith, Marie T. McDonald, Joe J. Hoo, Beatrice N. French, Cindy Hudson, John P. Johnson, Jillian R. Ozmore, John B. Moeschler, Urvashi Surti, Luis F. Escobar, Dima El-Khechen, Jerome L. Gorski, Jennifer Kussmann, Bonnie Salbert, Yves Lacassie, Alisha Biser, Donna M. McDonald-McGinn, Elaine H. Zackai, Matthew A. Deardorff, Tamim H. Shaikh, Eric Haan, Kathryn L. Friend, Marco Fichera, Corrado Romano, Jozef Gécz, Lynn E. DeLisi, Jonathan Sebat, Mary-Claire King, Lisa G. Shaffer & Eic - unknowndetails
We report the identification of a recurrent, 520-kb 16p12.1 microdeletion associated with childhood developmental delay. The microdeletion was detected in 20 of 11,873 cases compared with 2 of 8,540 controls and replicated in a second series of 22 of 9,254 cases compared with 6 of 6,299 controls. Most deletions were inherited, with carrier parents likely to manifest neuropsychiatric phenotypes compared to non-carrier parents. Probands were more likely to carry an additional large copy-number variant when compared to matched controls. The clinical (...) features of individuals with two mutations were distinct from and/or more severe than those of individuals carrying only the co-occurring mutation. Our data support a two-hit model in which the 16p12.1 microdeletion both predisposes to neuropsychiatric phenotypes as a single event and exacerbates neurodevelopmental phenotypes in association with other large deletions or duplications. Analysis of other microdeletions with variable expressivity indicates that this two-hit model might be more generally applicable to neuropsychiatric disease. © 2010 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved. (shrink)
A decade of the new urban sociology.Sharon Zukin - 1980 - Theory and Society 9 (4):575-601.details
Toward a reconciliation of integration and racial solidarity.Sharon Stanley - 2014 - Contemporary Political Theory 13 (1):46-63.details
Both advocates and critics of racial integration have often depicted it as fundamentally hostile to enduring forms of racial identification and racial solidarity. This article questions the presumed antithesis between racial integration and racial solidarity through a sustained engagement with Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative of Integration, which depicts strong forms of racial solidarity as obstacles to integration that citizens must transcend in order to achieve racial justice. Contra Anderson, I argue that, especially under present conditions of racial segregation and inequality, (...) we can and should reconceptualize integration as a process unfolding in time that can incorporate deeply felt racial solidarities without undermining itself. (shrink)
Political Theory in Social and Political Philosophy
A cure for worry? Kierkegaardian faith and the insecurity of human existence.Sharon Krishek & Rick Anthony Furtak - 2012 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 72 (3):157-175.details
Abstract In his discourses on 'the lily of the field and the bird of the air,' Kierkegaard presents faith as the best possible response to our precarious and uncertain condition, and as the ideal way to cope with the insecurities and concerns that his readers will recognize as common features of human existence. Reading these discourses together, we are introduced to the portrait of a potential believer who, like the 'divinely appointed teachers'—the lily and the bird—succeeds in leading a life (...) that is full of care, but free of worry. Such a portrait, we claim, echoes Kierkegaard's portrait of the knight of faith in Fear and Trembling . In this essay we suggest that faith, as characterized in the 'lily and bird' discourses, is a kind of existential trust that would allow us to overcome worry, while remaining wholeheartedly engaged in the finite realm of our cares and concerns. We claim that Kierkegaard's goal in these discourses is not to belittle our earthly cares, but to invite us to develop a modified attitude toward all that we are susceptible to worry about. Content Type Journal Article Category Article Pages 1-19 DOI 10.1007/s11153-011-9322-5 Authors Sharon Krishek, Department of Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Rick Anthony Furtak, Department of Philosophy, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA Journal International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Online ISSN 1572-8684 Print ISSN 0020-7047. (shrink)
Faith in Philosophy of Religion
Mutuality in Sexual Relationships: a Standard of Ethical Sex?Sharon Lamb, Sam Gable & Doret de Ruyter - 2021 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (1):271-284.details
In this paper we challenge the idea that valid consent is the golden standard by which a sexual encounter is deemed ethical. We begin by reviewing the recent public focus on consent as an ethical standard, and then argue for a standard that goes beyond legalistic and contractual foci. This is the standard of mutuality which extends beyond the assurance that all parties engaging in a sexual encounter are informed, autonomous, and otherwise capable of making a valid choice: one must (...) also encounter the other with care and loving attention. We develop this claim using Iris Murdoch's concept of an attitude of "loving attention," which differentiates our view from the duty of due diligence to ensure that each person is a willing participant in sex, that the rights of others have not been violated, as emphasized by Dougherty. We also address three objections to using mutuality as a measure of ethical sex, namely that it is patronizing, that it is a maximalist position that puts too great a burden on individuals and inhibits their freedom, and that it is an ideal rather than a requirement. We then look at three examples that test the construct of mutuality: the typical college hook-up, sex work, and anonymous sex through glory holes and similar set-ups. (shrink)
Minority populations and advance directives: insights from a focus group methodology.Joshua M. Hauser, Sharon F. Kleefield, Troyen A. Brennan & Ruth L. Fischbach - 1997 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (1):58-71.details
Numerous studies have shown almost uniformly positive opinions among patients and physicians regarding the concept of advance directives . Several of these studies have also shown that the actual use of advance directives is significantly lower than this enthusiasm would suggest, but they have not explained the apparent discordance. Nor have researchers explained why members of minority groups are much less likely to complete advance directives than are white patients. In this study, we used a focus group methodology to examine (...) the ways in which diverse populations of patients view the medical, philosophical, and practical issues surrounding advance directives. We were motivated by the significantly lower prevalence of advance directives among African-American and Hispanic patients at one urban teaching hospital . Our premise was that African-American and Hispanic populations, who have had higher rates of morbidity and mortality across numerous disease categories, and historically have had limited access to care and opportunities to discuss health concerns, may be more suspicious about the right of autonomy that an advance directive is designed to ensure. (shrink)
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A Fine Risk To Be Run? The Ambiguity of Eros and Teacher Responsibility.Sharon Todd - 2003 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 22 (1):31-44.details
Teachers are often placed in a space of tensionbetween responding to students as persons andresponding to students through theirinstitutionally-defined roles. Particularlywith respect to eros, which has becomeincreasingly the subject of strictinstitutional legislation and regulation,teachers have little recourse to a language ofresponsibility outside an institutional frame. By studying the significance of communicativeambiguity for responsibility, this paperexplores what is ethically at stake forteachers in erotic forms of communication. Specifically, it is Levinas's own ambiguousunderstanding of the ethical significance oferos, and what we have (...) to learn from it, thatoffers a way of reading the place of eros inresponsibility. I conclude my discussion withsome thoughts on what a renewed understandingof responsibility might mean at the personaland institutional levels. (shrink)
Promoting a just education: Dilemmas of rights, freedom and justice.Sharon Todd - 2007 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 39 (6):592–603.details
This paper identifies and addresses some dilemmas to be faced in promoting educational projects concerned with human rights. Part of the difficulty that human rights education initiatives must cope with is the way in which value has been historically conferred upon particular notions such as freedom and justice. I argue here that a just education must grapple head‐on with the conceptual dilemmas that have been inherited and refuse to shy away from the implications of those dilemmas. To do this I (...) address the fundamental fictions upon which rights are based and view those fictions as nonetheless useful for opening up the ethical terms of human rights education. With reference to the work of Arendt, Lyotard and Levinas, I conclude that the real potential of human rights education lies in its capacity to provoke insights that help youth live with ambiguity and dilemma, where freedom, justice, and responsibility cannot be dictated to them, but rather involve tough decisions that must be made in everyday life. (shrink)
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Rights in Social and Political Philosophy
Varieties of Justice in Social and Political Philosophy
Improving access to health care: A consensus ethical framework to guide proposals for reform.Mark A. Levine, Matthew K. Wynia, Paul M. Schyve, J. Russell Teagarden, David A. Fleming, Sharon King Donohue, Ron J. Anderson, James Sabin & Ezekiel J. Emanuel - 2007 - Hastings Center Report 37 (5):14-19.details
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Numerous studies have shown almost uniformly positive opinions among patients and physicians regarding the concept of advance directives. Several of these studies have also shown that the actual use of advance directives is significantly lower than this enthusiasm would suggest, but they have not explained the apparent discordance. Nor have researchers explained why members of minority groups are much less likely to complete advance directives than are white patients. In this study, we used a focus group methodology to examine the (...) ways in which diverse populations of patients view the medical, philosophical, and practical issues surrounding advance directives. We were motivated by the significantly lower prevalence of advance directives among African-American and Hispanic patients at one urban teaching hospital. Our premise was that African-American and Hispanic populations, who have had higher rates of morbidity and mortality across numerous disease categories, and historically have had limited access to care and opportunities to discuss health concerns, may be more suspicious about the right of autonomy that an advance directive is designed to ensure. (shrink)
Differences in Cortisol Response to Trauma Activation in Individuals with and without Comorbid PTSD and Depression.Sharon Dekel, Tsachi Ein-Dor, Jeffrey B. Rosen & George A. Bonanno - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.details
Introduction: Sharing Data in a Medical Information Commons.Amy L. McGuire, Mary A. Majumder, Angela G. Villanueva, Jessica Bardill, Juli M. Bollinger, Eric Boerwinkle, Tania Bubela, Patricia A. Deverka, Barbara J. Evans, Nanibaa' A. Garrison, David Glazer, Melissa M. Goldstein, Henry T. Greely, Scott D. Kahn, Bartha M. Knoppers, Barbara A. Koenig, J. Mark Lambright, John E. Mattison, Christopher O'Donnell, Arti K. Rai, Laura L. Rodriguez, Tania Simoncelli, Sharon F. Terry, Adrian M. Thorogood, Michael S. Watson, John T. Wilbanks & Robert Cook-Deegan - 2019 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 47 (1):12-20.details
Drawing on a landscape analysis of existing data-sharing initiatives, in-depth interviews with expert stakeholders, and public deliberations with community advisory panels across the U.S., we describe features of the evolving medical information commons. We identify participant-centricity and trustworthiness as the most important features of an MIC and discuss the implications for those seeking to create a sustainable, useful, and widely available collection of linked resources for research and other purposes.
How to Be a Progressive without Looking Like One: History and Knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis.Sharon Achinstein - 1988 - Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 17 (3):249-264.details
Francis Bacon in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour.Sharon Lockyer & Michael Pickering (eds.) - 2005 - Palgrave-Macmillan.details
Humor is pervasive in contemporary culture, and is generally celebrated as a public good. Yet there are times when it is felt to produce intolerance, misunderstanding or even hatred. This book brings together, for the first time, contributions that consider the ethics as well as the aesthetics of humor. The book focuses on the abuses and limits of humor, some of which excite considerable social tension and controversy. Beyond a Joke is an exciting intervention, full of challenging questions and issues.
Humour in Aesthetics
Living in a Dissonant World: Toward an Agonistic Cosmopolitics for Education.Sharon Todd - 2009 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 29 (2):213-228.details
As a flashpoint for specific instances of conflict, Muslim sartorial practices have at times been seen as being antagonistic to "western" ideas of gender equality, secularity, and communicative practices. In light of this, I seek to highlight the ways in which such moments of antagonism actually might be understood on "cosmopolitical" terms, that is, through a framework informed by a critical and political approach to cosmopolitanism itself. Thus, through an "agonistic cosmopolitics" I here argue for a more robust political understanding (...) of what a cosmopolitan orientation to cultural difference can offer education. The paper moves from a focus on harmony to agonism and from cosmopolitanism to the cosmopolitical, and within each I discuss the questions of democracy and universality, respectively. Drawing on, the work of Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler and Bonnie Honig, I discuss the basis upon which our agonistic interactions can inform education in promoting better ways of living together. This requires, in my view, nothing less than a clear understanding of the very difficulties of pluralism and a questioning of some of the ways we often reflect on the political dimension of these difficulties. I offer some reflections on what an agonistic cosmopolitics has to offer the debates surrounding the wearing of various forms of Muslim dress in schools in the conclusion. My overall claim is that cosmopolitanism as a set of ideas that seek more peaceful forms of living together on a global scale is in need of a theoretical framework that faces directly the difficulties of living in a dissonant world. (shrink)
Ariel Sharon: Barıştan mı, Yoksa Savaştan mı Yanaydı?A. Murat Ağdemi̇r - 2015 - Journal of Turkish Studies 10 (Volume 10 Issue 9):9-9.details
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For couples who enjoy a healthy sexual relationship, it can be difficult to image their son choosing "life without a wife." Society would have us believe that celibacy is impossible, or at the very least, unreasonable. The truth is that sexual love is indeed one of God's greatest natural gifts, but that thousands of saints have experienced tremendous joy living the supernatural vocation of celibacy. Today's seminaries offer superb formation in how to live celibately with peace and joy.
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Small rooms can often look overcrowded and claustrophobic. In this article, we give you tips on how to make the most of even the smallest spaces, with some great design and decorating ideas! If you're out of cash and you need a new furniture to refresh your room, check out these amazing promotions with TitanBet in 2018! However, using our styling tricks, you can still enjoy the luxury of your cozy little nook with almost no money spent at all!
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Le HMS Whitehaven (pennant number J121)  est un dragueur de mines de la classe Bangor lancé pour la Royal Navy (RN) et qui a servi pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Conception
Le Whitehaven est commandé dans le cadre du programme de la classe Bangor de 1939-40 le 20 décembre 1939 pour le chantier naval de Philip and Son à Kingswear de Dartmouth dans le comté Devon en Angleterre. La pose de la quille est effectuée le 25 juillet 1940, le Whitehaven est lancé le 25 juin 1941 et mis en service le 8 novembre 1941.

La classe Bangor doit initialement être un modèle réduit de dragueur de mines de la classe Halcyon au service de la Royal Navy. La propulsion de ces navires est assurée par 3 types de motorisation: moteur diesel, moteur à vapeur à pistons double ou triple expansion et turbine à vapeur. Cependant, en raison de la difficulté à se procurer des moteurs diesel, la version diesel a été réalisée en petit nombre.

Les dragueurs de mines de classe Bangor version Royal Navy à turbines déplacent 667 tonnes en charge normale. Afin de pouvoir loger les chaufferies, ce navire possède des dimensions plus grandes que les premières versions à moteur diesel avec une longueur totale de 53 mètres L, une largeur de 8,69 mètres et un tirant d'eau de 3,12 mètres. Ce navire est propulsé par 2 turbines à vapeur alimentées par 2 chaudières à tubes d'eau à 3 tambours Admiralty et entraînant deux arbres d'hélices. Les moteurs développent une puissance de  () et atteignent une vitesse maximale de 16 nœuds (30 km/h). Le dragueur de mines peut transporter un maximum de 163 tonnes de fioul qui lui donne un rayon d'action de  () à 10 nœuds (19 km/h).

Leur manque de taille donne aux navires de cette classe de faibles capacités de manœuvre en mer, qui seraient même pires que celles des corvettes de la classe Flower. Les versions à moteur diesel sont considérées comme ayant de moins bonnes caractéristiques de maniabilité que les variantes à moteur alternatif à faible vitesse. Leur faible tirant d'eau les rend instables et leurs coques courtes ont tendance à enfourner la proue lorsqu'ils sont utilisés en mer de face.

Les navires de la classe Bangor sont également considérés comme exigus pour les membres d'équipage, entassant plus de 60 officiers et matelots dans un navire initialement prévu pour un total de 40 hommes.

Les Bangors équipés de turbine à vapeur sont armés d'un canon anti-aérien de 12 livres 3-inch QF (76,2 mm) et d'un canon AA QF de 2 livres (40 mm). Sur certains navires, le canon de 2 livres est remplacé par un canon AA Oerlikon de 20 mm simple ou double, tandis que la plupart des navires sont équipés de quatre affûts Oerlikon simples supplémentaires au cours de la guerre. Pour les missions d'escortes, leur équipement de dragage de mines peut être échangé contre une quarantaine de grenades sous-marines.

Histoire

Seconde Guerre mondiale

Le Whitehaven est vendu le 14 août 1948 et mis au rebut pour démantèlement à Briton Ferry.

Honneurs de bataille

Participation aux convois
Le Whitehaven a navigué avec les convois suivants au cours de sa carrière:

Commandement
 Commander (Cdr.) Claude Plumer (RN) du  au
 Lieutenant Commander (Lt.Cdr.) George Walter Alexander Thomas Irvine (RNR) du  à mars 1944
 Lieutenant (Lt.) William Eric Halbert (RNR) de mars 1944 au
 T/A/Lieutenant Commander (T/A/Lt.Cdr.) Wilfred John Haughton (RNVR) du  à fin 1945
Notes:RN: Royal NavyRNR: Royal Naval ReserveRNVR: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Voir aussi

Notes et références

Bibliographie
  Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. .
  Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. .
  Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. .
  Warlow, Ben, Lt. Cdr., Royal Navy (2004) Battle Honours of the Royal Navy, Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK

Liens externes
  Le HMS Whitehaven sur uboat.net

Bateau de la Royal Navy de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Dragueur de mines de la Royal Navy
Classe Bangor
Bateau lancé en 1941
Navire démoli en 1948

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Maternal pelvic floor trauma is damage to the muscles, nerves or other tissues of the pelvic floor which affects their funtioning and leads to weakness of the pelvic floor. Forms of trama can be divided into mechanical injury. Injury resulting from the head of a fetus compressing, tearing or forcibly moving the muscle connective tissues of the pelvic floor. Such injuries may also be caused by the forceps when used to perform an operative vaginal delivery.


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Parkland students craft trumpet from bullets to reignite gun violence conversation
April 23, 2019 by Oliver McAteer, Campaign
Publicis New York and nonprofit ShineMSD sent the Instrument of Hope on tour with famed musicians.
"We all fall into the same routine after a tragedy," stressed Matt McKay, executive creative director at Publicis New York. "The outrage fades, the news cycle ends and we go back to our lives."
But the agency and survivors of the Parkland shooting aren't allowing America to move on. Not this time.
Publicis partnered with the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and nonprofit ShineMSD to make a trumpet crafted by bullet casings.
The Instrument of Hope is on a cross-country tour with famed musicians to inject life back into the conversation about gun violence.
McKay continued, "There are those that can't go back to their regular lives. We're honored at Publicis New York to work with the survivors on this great project to keep the conversation around gun violence on the main stage."
The trumpet began its tour in Oakland, California, on February 19. It has since been played by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Keyon Harrold and Brian Newman in New York City and Las Vegas at The Cosmopolitan.
Glen Friedman performed The National Anthem on the trumpet on April 3 to open the Miami Heat vs Boston Celtics NBA game. The latest performance was on April 6 by Amos Lee at the Met Philadelphia.
There is no formal schedule for the tour. The goal is that the trumpet will be passed from artist to artist for the foreseeable future. When the tour does end, the Instrument of Hope will find a permanent home at the ShineMSD organization in Parkland, Florida.
"After writing Shine, its co-writers realized that music could be an expression of remembrance and resilience. They also learned that music could capture the public's attention," said Joe Garrity, president at ShineMSD. "Looking to honor the memory of those lost to gun violence and make a lasting statement against it, the Instrument Of Hope was the perfect project. Forever grateful for the support of all the musicians that have helped to amplify Shine MSD's message of hope and healing through the arts."
This story first appeared on campaignlive.com.
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Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel QC, Henry Witcomb and 1COR door tenant, Duncan Fairgrieve, have intervened in these high profile Supreme Court cases which are considering whether people who have severe learning difficulties and are placed into care are deprived of their liberty under Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Elizabeth-Anne, Henry and Duncan are representing the AIRE Centre which is a charity that promotes awareness of rights under European law and assists marginalised individuals.
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Energy is considered as an important pillar in the establishment of international relations where it plays a heavy role in shaping the relations. In the light of this, an analysis of the Qatar-Japan relations will be studied through the case study of energy security along with the culture and diplomacy spectrum. The research aims to assess the bilateral relationship in terms of the projects and the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) trade and the further development in the energy sector. This will take into consideration the growing interdependence in the projects in different sectors: infrastructure, trade and cultural projects. Also, the direct involvement of the Qatari and Japanese societies in the relationship. The LNG trade along with view on the joint ventures and other types of contracts would be adopted to elaborate over the energy cooperation. The energy plays a significant role in the relationship and classifying it as an economically driven. Further more, the bilateral relationship is classified as complex interdependence approach' that was supported by the theory of soft power.


Barcelona's Sagrada Familia has been a labor of love. Still unfinished over 130 years since construction started, Antoni Gaudi's designs have been given a boost through advanced software more typically used in aeronautical projects. CBS' 60 Minutes took a look at the recent development of the huge church, a building where every detail of its facade attempts to detail the story of the bible. While the architect had crafted elaborate plaster models of the finished designs, these were unfortunately destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. Building continued, but slowed after the second facade was finished, as the construction workers and designers had no idea how to follow the original plans for the rest of the building. This was where architect Mark Burrey and others were brought in to reverse engineer Gaudi's models, which were now piles of shards. Using advanced design software typically used in auto and airplane design, they were able to figure our how to model the advanced shapes and surfaces that Gaudi's avant garde plans demanded and building continued. You can watch the full story of the Sagrada Familia's continued development after the break -- with no extraterrestrial interference.


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Materialise Announces Collaboration with HP, Nikon and Essentium to Support Adoption of 3D Printing
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DETROIT - May 20, 2019 -- Materialise NV (Nasdaq: MTLS), a global leader in 3D printing solutions, has partnered with HP, Nikon and Essentium to bring improved productivity and connectivity to additive manufacturing operations. The partnerships, announced during the 2019 RAPID+TCT Conference in Detroit, will support the adoption of 3D printing by industrial manufacturers. Materialise also announced that it will release a new version of its 3D printing operations management software, Streamics 8 in June 2019.
The development of better machines, materials and software and advanced metal printing increasingly position 3D printing as a complementary technology for the production of final products. These advances have led to growing awareness among industrial manufacturers about the opportunities and competitive advantages it creates.
"To take advantage of large-scale 3D printing in an increasingly cost-competitive environment, manufacturing companies require increased productivity and efficiency and a seamless integration of 3D printing into their existing and proven production processes," says Fried Vancraen, Founder and CEO of Materialise. "Overcoming some of the remaining limitations attributed to 3D printing will require continued innovation and collaboration to create a more open market model with more control, more choice and ultimately lower cost."
At the 2019 Rapid+TCT Conference Materialise announced strategic collaborations and innovations to its flagship software suite that will drive the adoption of 3D printing and allow industrial manufacturers to scale their operations and transform their factory floors.
HP and Materialise collaborate to advance industrial-scale 3D printing
Materialise has expanded its collaboration with HP, developing a new version of its build processor to support the full range of printers in the HP Multi Jet Fusion portfolio, including the Jet Fusion 5200 and Jet Fusion 500/300 Series of 3D printing solutions. This provides customers with a seamless connection between the Materialise Magics 3D Print Suite and HP Jet Fusion printing solutions, enabling advanced data preparation and operation management. In addition, the Materialise HP Build Processor 2.0 allows users to retrieve operational data from the HP machines for better production monitoring. In combination with Materialise Streamics software, it allows users to store relevant build- data for improved traceability. The Materialise HP Build Processor 2.0 will be available in the second half of the year.
Customers who purchase an HP Jet Fusion 500/300 Series printer, will also gain access to the Materialise Magics Essentials software for a period of six months. This will allow customers to benefit from the advanced color and texture handling of Materialise's data preparation software, in combination with the full-spectrum color capabilities of the HP Jet Fusion 500/300 series.
Materialise runs one of the largest 3D print factories in the world and is one of the first to explore new applications and offer manufacturing services based on HP's new Jet Fusion 5200 Series printers. Materialise is also working with customers to develop innovative solutions for HP's new certified thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), ULTRASINT™ developed by BASF, which is ideal for flexible and elastic parts.
HP has gained certification as part of Materialise's program to test and validate 3D printing technology as being fully compatible with Materialise Mimics and Mimics inPrint software. This certification allows medical professionals to use the HP Jet Fusion 580/380 3D printers, in combination with Mimics software technology, to print full-color anatomical models for diagnostic use and surgical planning, delivering broad benefits for patient-specific care.
Materialise was the first company in the world to receive FDA clearance for software intended for 3D printing anatomical models for diagnostic and surgical planning uses and introduced a program for manufacturers to have their printers tested and validated. With this certification, HP joins Formlabs, Stratasys and Ultimaker, bringing the total number of certified printer manufacturers to four.
For more information on Materialise's certification program, please visit http://mtls.me/certification.
Strategic collaborations with Nikon and Essentium
In today's cost-competitive environment, service-bureaus and industrial manufacturers increasingly rely on software and automation to increase productivity and efficiency in the 3D printing process. This is especially the case for metal 3D printing. Materialise collaborates with Nikon, a leading supplier of advanced opto-electronics and precision technologies, to improve insight into the 3D printing build process. These research activities, supported by Materialise software and the Materialise Control Platform, aim to provide users more control and increase productivity through analysis of the building process.
Materialise and Essentium, an innovator of disruptive 3D printing solutions for industrial additive manufacturing, entered into a strategic partnership in November 2018 to jointly advance and scale industrial 3D printing. In a first step towards that goal, the companies have announced the integration of Materialise's Magics Essentials software with the Essentium High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 3D Printing Platform. This creates an open and complete platform for industrial scale 3D manufacturing without the need to compromise accuracy or speed.
Materialise Streamics 8: better connectivity with the industrial factory floor
"Despite increased awareness about the potential of connected, industrial-scale 3D printing, in-house 3D printing production processes are often still isolated hubs," said Stefaan Motte, Vice President and General Manager of the Materialise software division. "With the introduction of Streamics 8, our software tool to manage and streamline 3D printing operations, Materialise wants to transform those isolated hubs into productive and integrated production facilities, by connecting to existing production management systems and adding specific additive manufacturing execution capabilities."
The fully configurable web-portal allows remote design departments to better interact with the production floor for optimized designs and minimized production costs. The web-based API enables easier integration of the 3D Printing production environment with existing business and manufacturing IT systems. This represents an important step towards making 3D printing an integral part of the overall manufacturing process.
Streamics 8 also offers several advanced features to help increase productivity, including automatic nesting across multiple build platforms, for a more efficient build preparation. This allows users to simply drag and drop multiple parts into the build planner, which automatically nests the parts and creates the appropriate number of build operations. This automated nesting process can significantly reduce annual labor cost.
With the introduction of Streamics 8, Materialise paves the way towards Digital Rights Management (DRM) in 3D printing. DRM provides manufacturers a safe and secure way to print high-value end-parts and to scale operations over a global distributed manufacturing network. By enabling the protection of designs, Streamics 8 offers peace of mind to manufacturers who demand a more secure production environment. Materialise is working with partners to establish a true end-to-end, secure 3D printing manufacturing process, allowing users to restrict the printing of a file to a pre-defined printer and guarantee the exact build quality or to limit the number of reprints.
Scaling 3D printing production also requires full traceability of each individual component. Streamics 8 automatically stores all relevant build data, such as serial numbers, process parameters and part revisions, and makes this data available at all times. With Streamics 8, Materialise supports both text labels and Data Matrix Labels. Data Matrix Labels convert the alphanumerical data from standard 3D-printed labels into a data matrix code that can be automatically applied to individual parts. These smart tags are smaller and machine-readable, reducing human error and further automating the post-production process.
With Streamics 8, Materialise announces support for MTConnect, allowing better monitoring for MTConnect-enabled machines, such as select Stratasys 3D printers. In addition, Streamics 8 offers better machine monitoring for Arcam and HP printers through dedicated build processors. Live monitoring of vital machine parameters on the Streamics dashboard, including machine state and elapsed production time, provides operators with more control of the production process and improves overall productivity. Materialise believes open factory standards are important to enable better connectivity and more efficient operations and plans to support other machine communication standards, such as OPC-UA, in the future.
Streamics 8 will be available in June 2019. More information is available via www.materialise.com/en/software/streamics<http://www.materialise.com/en/software/streamics>
Advanced simulation features
In addition, Materialise introduces the second version of its simulation software, which offers significant speed improvements and advanced simulation features. Materialise Simulation 2.0 makes simulation easy to manage and accessible to a wider audience. It allows operators to predict and analyze the behavior of a part during physical production by creating a virtual prototype. This helps to optimize the build preparation and reduces the number of costly reprints and fails.
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History & Growth of Public Relations Explore how the mass media, journalism and propaganda have impacted the history of public relations.
Communication in Public Relations Understand the role of communications in public relations. Additionally, learn about the communication models most frequently used in public relations.
Public Opinion & Attitudes Learn more about public opinion and consumer attitudes. You'll also study persuasion and how it's used in public relations.
Management in Public Relations Find out more about the functions of management and how these apply to public relations.
Ethics in Public Relations Focus on ethical codes and decision making in the realm of public relations.
Law & Public Relations Familiarize yourself with the First Amendment, copyright infringement and communication law.
Research Methods in Public Relations Compare and contrast the various methods for researching in public relations.
Types of Media Increase what you know about the different forms of media that are prevalent today. Ensure that you understand the role the internet plays in communication.
Employee Relations Learn about the methods for communicating with employees.
Government Relations & PR Explore how the government communicates, as well as the manner that the media reports on the government.
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Build your dream home OR expand your existing property by picking up this land. Beautiful vacant lot on city water in a growing area of Port Charlotte. Not in a FLOOD ZONE. Similar lots are listed at nearly double this price! Perfect place for commuters to break ground & build. Nearby schools include Port Charlotte Adventist School, Kingsway Elementary School, and Port Charlotte Middle School. The closest grocery stores are Winn-Dixie, Dollar Tree and Publix Super Market at Peachland Promenade. Nearby coffee shops include Circle K, Moments Cafe and McDonald's.


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Harry Mikael Sommerdahl, född 28 maj 1973 i Stockholm, är en svensk låtskrivare och musikproducent.

Han äger musikstudion Limestone, grundad 1999. Samma år fick han kontrakt med Universal Music Publishing Scandinavia där han nu står skriven som låtskrivare. Under åren har han skrivit låtar för artister och grupper som Katharine McPhee, Paul Stanley  från Kiss, BoA, Robyn och Three Graces.

Bland populära låtar som Sommerdahl har skrivit kan nämnas My Destiny som sjöngs av Katharine McPhee och framfördes på American Idol - Säsong 5 under 2006. Låten släpptes som singel i juni 2006 och hamnade tvåa på USA:s försäljningslista för singlar.

Under 2008 samarbetade han med den amerikanska producenten Desmond Child som producent för det femte albumet av den finländska rockgruppen The Rasmus, Black Roses. Albumet gavs ut i september 2008 och toppade genast Finlands albumlista.

Referenser

Externa länkar
Harry Sommerdahl på MySpace
Harry Sommerdahl på Discogs

Födda 1973
Svenska musikproducenter
Svenska låtskrivare
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Musiker från Stockholm


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Your MSOD class will comprise a cohort of approximately 30 people from all over the world. During each session, students will stay in condominium-style accommodations and meals are taken together to enrich the close-knit learning community and to leverage personal accountability, communication, and resource exchange. The creation of a "learning community" is fundamental to the MSOD experience.
The first session of the program provides an intense focus on personal growth. Through experiential learning, students deepen their knowledge of themselves as instruments of change and clarify needed work in their behavioral style, ethical practices, and values orientation. We believe the true worth of OD practitioners is measured by their ability to produce superior results—not by the skills or techniques they possess. Therefore, the integration of OD knowledge with self-awareness is essential to creating powerful interventions and increased effectiveness.


This is my absolute favorite sesame chicken recipe! The fragrant sesame oil, sweet savory sauce and tender chicken, wonderful served with a bowl of steamy rice. You can adjust the amount of sugar and vinegar depending on how sweet and sour your palette prefers. Either black or white sesame seeds make the dish pretty. Happy May holiday weekend everyone!
Cut the chicken breasts into small bite size pieces. In a mixing bowl, marinade the chicken with 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon rice wine and dust with cornstarch, mix well, let sit for 15 minutes. Deep fry the chicken pieces until lightly-medium golden brown. Fry in batches to ensure they brown evenly and not overly cooked. Drain on paper towel.
In a large skillet or wok, heat the sesame oil until smoking, throw in the garlic, onions, red chilies and fry until your kitchen is filled with the aroma. Carefully pour in the stock, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and bring to a boil. Thicken the sauce with the cornstarch mix while stirring constantly.
Put the chicken pieces in and flip the wok until the chicken pieces are well coated with the sauce. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, chopped scallions and serve immediately.
The vibrant colors, scents and flavors of street hawker fare in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Frankfurt am Main: German carmaker Volkswagen rejected a report that chief executive Herbert Diess knew of the financial risks from the firm's massive diesel cheating earlier than he has so far acknowledged.
Oliver Schmidt, a former VW manager jailed in the US over dieselgate, told the FBI he had briefed Diess and other executives about the cheating and the potential financial consequences on August 25, 2015, German weekly Bild am Sonntag (BamS) reported.
That was almost one month before the group's public admission on September 18 that it installed "defeat devices" — shorthand for a physical or software system that makes a vehicle appear less polluting under test conditions compared with real on-road driving — into 11 million cars worldwide. There have been conflicting reports in German and international media about which executives knew what and when in the hectic final weeks before Volkswagen came clean about diesel cheating.
A clear timeline is vital to legal cases in which shareholders are trying to claw back cash they lost when the group's share price slumped in the days after the scandal broke, as board members have a duty to inform investors of potential financial harm to their company in a timely fashion.
A Volkswagen spokesman on Sunday highlighted its defence in a 9.0-billion-euro ($10.8 billion) German legal case brought by shareholders, in which it "contests" Schmidt's claim to have briefed then-chief executive Martin Winterkorn, Diess and others about looming fines of $18.5 billion on August 25.
"In this meeting, the threat of imminent or concrete fines… was not discussed," the document reads.


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I've been having good results doing design sketches in InDesign or Illustrator. Especially when title labels are involved.
The sketches are allowing me to work out rough color, proportion and content information and communicate it to the customer quickly.
Then I have the components, like the label information, that I can copy to a different document for final design and use as a print file or art for having a die made.
Since the events during the anniversary year will involve many people arriving in a short time period, and the facility wanted to maximize their guest signature capture rate while minimizing the potential bottleneck, I proposed making a ring-binder as the guest book and boards that could serve as additional sign-in stations.
The boards would continue the design theme from the main book, and maintain the facility/event branding elements.
I've started work with the simplest part of this guestbook first. The quarter bound notebook. Here, the leather is down on the cover and drying.
This is the back of the top and bottom decorative strips for the sign-in stations. They will be covered in leather.
The half-round pieces will be the sign-in sheet hold-downs. They're inset into the backs of the strips so everything will assemble flat.
Here's one last check of how the leather fits the decorative strips before I commit to pasting it down.
The leather is now down on the decorative strips and I'm dry-fitting the (now covered) sheet hold-downs before attaching them.
Here are all the decorative strips with their attached sheet hold-downs ready and waiting for the next assembly steps.
I have some new marbled paper made by Alan Pendly. I think it looks nice with the other materials in the project.
I typically cover board in cloth and that was my first thought for these boards. But since this is a writing surface, I didn't think cloth would be ideal.
Even though the cloth is thin and would probably provide a firm enough writing surface, there is a slight texture from the weave. Paper seemed safer.
I had an old-style desk blotter in mind when I first conceived of these sign-in boards. This was the first stage I got to see this idea realized. I like it!
I put the file together for the labels. Here they are being lacquered, a process that makes them very durable and gives them a nice look.
Just about done. The only thing left is the cloth panel that covers and cleans up the back. It's more than cosmetic though. It will also balance the stresses imposed by the paper on the front and bring things back to flat.
Here's where it all comes together. It's always satisfying seeing the reality replace the vision.
Now it's time to move on to the notebook. The exterior materials are down. I need to choose the final location for the label.


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NASCAR's Bubba Wallace Stands by Discredited 'Noose' Incident in New ESPN Documentary
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NASCAR Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace during Cup Series Championship qualifying at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Ariz., November 6, 2021.	 (Mike Dinovo-USA TODAY Sports)
Last year, a member of African-American NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace's team reported that he had happened upon a noose in Wallace's garage ahead of the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.
In the immediate aftermath, Wallace received an outpouring of support for the purportedly racially motivated incident. In the intermediate aftermath, an FBI investigation determined that the "noose" was a pulldown rope that had been in the garage since 2019. NASCAR released a statement professing to be "thankful to learn that this was not an intentional, racist act against Bubba."
Wallace took issue with the the investigation's findings, though, appearing on Don Lemon's CNN show to argue that "people want to call it a garage-pull, and put out old videos and photos of knots, as their evidence, but from the evidence that we have, that I have, it's a straight-up noose."
"Whether tied in 2019 or whatever, it was a noose. So it wasn't directed at me, but somebody tied a noose, that's what I'm saying," continued Wallace.
ESPN, which reported on the FBI's determination at the time ("FBI Says Rope had Been in Talladega Garage Since October; Bubba Wallace Not Victim of Hate Crime"), nevertheless placed the incident at the center of a documentary released Tuesday night — less than a week after actor Jussie Smollett was convicted of staging a fake hate crime against himself — called Fistful of Steel: The Rise of Bubba Wallace, which it promoted using the following tweet, siding with Wallace's interpretation over the bureau's:
Last year, a noose was found in Bubba Wallace's stall at Talladega Superspeedway. The next day, the NASCAR community stood with him in unity.
"I was like, 'Holy s—, it's the whole garage.' … That's when I lost it." pic.twitter.com/Zh5HWumagX
— ESPN (@espn) December 14, 2021
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The documentary, which opens with Wallace telling an anecdote in which he asserts he "could have been another George Floyd incident," also includes the driver's own bit of media criticism. Journalists, he argues are too eager to publish "clickbait" focused on his race.
It also included the moving story of Wallace's cousin, who was shot by police when he reached into his pocket for his cell phone after being asked to keep his hands in the air, as well as a description of the various challenges Wallace faced as he tried to make a name for himself in a sport with few fellow black drivers. Most interesting of all, perhaps, was the interlude about Wendell Scott, the first black driver to win a race in NASCAR's Grand National Series.
But while Wallace's journey to prominence in the world of racing is included, the noose incident serves as the film's climax, and is presented as confirmation of the indictments of America that Wallace lays out as it progresses.
And despite the evidence to the contrary, Wallace and his family continue to believe that a noose was placed in Wallace's garage to send a message. In the documentary, Wallace submits that the fifteen FBI agents sent to investigate got it wrong, offering of the knot, "that took time to do. It's a noose."
His sister, meanwhile, called the investigation "bullsh**," and insisted that "we're never going to find out who did it."
NASCAR president Steve Phelps disagreed, telling ESPN "there wasn't a hate crime, isn't that a good thing? There wasn't a hate crime, thank God there wasn't a hate crime."
"Look at the picture, what's it look like to you? Is that a noose to you?" Wallace asked his interviewer in Fistful of Steel. "You tie your shoes like that?"
"It's so sad that people don't want to take the time to read the facts, and just make a judgment off of B.S.," reflected Wallace.
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