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GISIG provides a forum among ELT practitioners to stimulate awareness and understanding of global issues to exchange ideas on integrating peace education, human rights education, development education, and environmental education into English language teaching. It is for teachers who see themselves as educators in addition to teaching the language and who are keen to bring real-world issues into the classroom, instil a sense of social responsibility and develop critical thinking skills.
GISIG Activities
We organise a regular Pre-Conference Event at the main IATEFL Conference and are on hand to talk to people about our role in IATEFL. We also join with other special interest groups within IATEFL and local organisations to organise local and online events. Please see our events page for further details.
GISIG attempts to reach out to its members through this website, its Facebook page and Yahoo! groups. Even though it is one of the smallest of IATEFL SIGs, it is committed to sensitise its members to global issues, engage in dialogue with them and help them in their professional development.
If you are a new member, click here!
Find out more about the individual members of the SIG Committee below!
GISIG Committee
Chris Sowton – Joint Coordinator
Chris's experience in ELT / Global Issues began back in 1996, when he went to Nepal as a volunteer teacher. He set up a small NGO, Global Action Nepal (www.globalactionnepal.org). In addition to teaching EFL and ESOL at various times, he worked for several years teaching EAP at King's College London and Cambridge University and has authored several ELT books. In the last couple of years he has gone freelance, working on projects with organisations such as the British Council (Turkey and India), The Tropical Health and Education Trust (Somaliland) and the Times Educational Supplement.
I am passionate about education and the role it can play in mobilising social change. I think the English language has a special responsibility in this regard, so long as it is harnessed properly and correctly for social good, as a tool for emancipation and opportunity. The way it is being used in some countries and by some organisations is not fulfilling this goal. Working with these goals is something I have strived to do all my working life, and something which I would like to do even more in the future. GISIG is, I think, a fantastic vehicle for this, to draw on the skills and knowledge of many skilled practitioners in the field, and something which I would really like to contribute to.
Julietta Schoenmann (UK) – Joint Coordinator
Julietta Schoenmann has been a language teacher and teacher trainer for nearly thirty years, working in state and language schools in China, Eritrea, Turkey, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. She has been training teachers and trainers in countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Serbia, Thailand and Libya and is currently working as Learning and Materials Development Adviser for the Teacher Development Programme in Nigeria (www.tdpnigeria.org). Her educational interests include teacher development in low resourced environments and promoting learner engagement in the classroom. Email: [email protected]
Linda Ruas (UK) – Publications Coordinator
Linda has been teaching and training teachers for many years, in Brazil, Japan and now back home in London. Recently she's worked on short teaching and training projects in São Tomé and Príncipe and in the refugee camp in Calais. She now teaches ESOL and CELTA at Greenwich Community College, London, and, in her spare time, runs the Easier English wiki New Internationalist. Contact: [email protected]
Rose Aylett (UK) Materials/Publications Co-ordinator
Rose Aylett is a freelance teacher, trainer and Celta tutor, based in Liverpool, UK. She has been working in ELT for over twelve years, predominantly across North Africa and the Middle East and is currently working towards an MA in Professional Development in Language Education. Her areas of interest include materials-light teaching, creativity in teacher education and the integration of PARSNIP issues in the classroom. In 2017 she set up 'Pop-up Teacher Training' and now delivers training at conferences and teacher development events worldwide. Find out more about her work via her website: www.pop-uptrainer.com. Email: [email protected]
Julie Pratten (UK / Turkey) Joint Events Coordinator
After three decades teaching general, BE and EAP in 25 countries, I started to think about what I'd like to leave behind as my legacy in ELT. Last year I started to write the course book 'Good Business English', which focuses on ethical and sustainable business. In October I set up a small school in Domiz camp, near Dohuk in Iraq. After raising some start-up funds via crowdfunding, I decided to establish a non-profit organisation and Heart ELT was born. The aim of Heart ELT is to publish crowdsourced resources to raise funds to support teaching refugee children. I joined the GISIG this year and hope to increase its membership via joint events with other active SIGs, such as BESIG. As the incoming joint events coordinator I hope to get to know you all and I impact the GISIG by raising awareness of global issues in other mainstream groups.
Leonor Marin (Peru) Joint Events Coordinator
Hello, My name is Leonor Marin , from Peru ( yes Machupicchu is what you must have heard the most ..) English/Spanish Teacher and Trainer, IATEFL-PERU President and loving what we do, teaching, sharing and learning. I am Global Issues SIG Coordinator in my country, and I can't be prouder of belonging to GIobal Issues SIG IATEFL. One more thing … I love coffee!
Stella Smyth (UK) Newsletter Editor
Stella Smyth MA TESOL, RSA Dip Ed, , MA Shakespeare and Education, MA Creative Leadership/Management Studies
Stella has worked as a materials writer, teacher trainer, consultant and academic manager in schools and universities in Ireland, the UK, China, Japan, India, Chile, Bhutan, Romania and Sri Lanka. She is currently employed as a teaching fellow in the School of Languages Linguistics and Film Studies at Queen Mary University London, where she designs and delivers ESP, EAP, and |Literature courses to home and international students. Email: [email protected]
M. Iqbal (Pakistan) – Discussion List Moderator
Iqbal grew up in a small village in the Punjab. He has been writing poetry since his school days in English as well as several other languages. His children"s poems and songs have been published in a variety of international teaching newsletters. He teaches English, Life Skills and Social Entrepreneurship for Young People in a vocational institute working for poverty alleviation and rehabilitation of the poor in Narowal, Pakistan. He presents at national and international conferences. He is the founder of the Rural English Learners and Teachers Group in the Punjab, Pakistan. Email: [email protected]
Dragana Stegic – Issues Month Coordinator
Dragana was born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina and have been living in Slovenia for the past 12 years. As a language teacher she taught a wide range of learners, from toddlers to adults. She also teaches Croatian and Serbian. Her main fields of interest are critical thinking and global issues as well as how to incorporate them into language teaching and learning. Having experienced war firsthand she was always passionate about spreading tolerance and understanding. Through IATEFL Slovenia she managed to initiate a project which involves enhancing cooperation between the TAs in the Balkan region (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia) which helps teachers look past the borders and imaginary boundaries.
Bill Templer (Bulgaria) - Discussion List Animator
Bill Templer is a Chicago-born educator with research interests in English as a lingua franca, critical pedagogy, minority studies and social justice issues in the EFL classroom. He has taught at universities in the U.S., Ireland, Germany, Iran, Israel, Bulgaria, Nepal, Thailand, Laos and Malaysia. Bill is active on the Editorial Board of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, and within BETA in Bulgaria. He is also a widely published translator from German, especially in the field of Jewish history and culture, and is based as an independent researcher in eastern Bulgaria. E-mail: [email protected]
László Hajba (Hungary) - Online content manager
László Hajba is a freelance teacher and materials writer based in Budapest, Hungary. Besides being a teacher of English and Hungarian as a foreign language he is also interested in using ICT, video games and other digital technologies in education, particularly tablets and smartphones. Contact: [email protected]
Gergő Fekete (Hungary) - Social Media Coordinator
My name is Gergő Fekete and I am happy to be joining the Global Issues SIG committee. I hold a B.A. in English and German Studies and I'm currently pursuing a Masters in English and German language teaching in Budapest. Ever since Margit acquainted me with the SIG, I've been on the lookout for various ways of bringing Global Issues into the English class. Outside the classroom, I like swimming and exploring new places, and my latest hobby seems to be the pursuit of finding time for them. I'm excited about making a contribution to the SIG.
Margit Szesztay (Hungary)
Margit Szesztay is an EFL teacher and teacher trainer working at ELTE University in Budapest and current vice-president of IATEFL. She has been involved in many teacher training workshops and seminars both in Hungary and abroad. Her main areas of interest include community building, the teacher as educator, group dynamics, creativity in language teaching, and language development for non-native speaker teachers.
Wolfgang Ridder (Germany)
Wolfgang Ridder was, until his retirement, the Director of Studies in the Foreign Languages Department of the Volkshochschule Bielefeld, Germany. He has been a member of IATEFL for 30 years and in this time served in various roles within it, including acting as Coordinator of two different special interest groups. He trained as a teacher in the Russian, Polish and English languages. Since April 2011 he is the Vice-Chairperson of English Language Teachers Association – Ostwestfalen-Lippe (ELTA-OWL) in Germany and a freelance teacher of EFL/ESL.
Dennis Newson (Germany)
Dennis Newson began teaching EFL in Ghana in 1961, and subsequently taught in Sierre Leone, London, Qatar (Arabian Gulf), Norway and finally in the University of Osnabrueck, North Germany. He has taught in secondary & middle schools, a teacher training college, a technical and an arts university. Since official retirement he worked for short periods as a trainer/adviser in Kosovo and Sarajevo.


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Q: Definitions of Derivative: $h \to 0$ vs $z \to x$ I have come across two definitions of the derivative. The first is
$$f'(x)= \lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}$$
The second is
$$f'(x) = \lim_{z\to x} \dfrac{f(z)-f(x)}{z-x}$$
I understand the first equation reflects an arbitrary secant getting closer and closer to a specific point of a function (as h approaches 0) to find the "instantaneous rate of change" at that point.
However, I do not understand where the second definition was derived from and what it represents?
Also, I often find that, practically, it's much easier to calculate derivatives from first principles using the second definition, but I don't understand why it works that way, is there some intuition I'm missing about the second definition.

A: In either case, the base point for the tangent line is at the point $(x,f(x))$.
In the first definition of the derivative, the nearby point is $(x+h,f(x+h))$.  This formulation emphasizes the displacement ($h$ from the base point to the nearby point).  As $h\to 0$, the nearby point approaches the base point, and so the slopes approach the slope of the tangent line.
In the second definition of the derivative, the nearby point is $(z,f(z))$.  As $z\to x$, again the nearby point gets closer to the base point, and so again the slopes approach the slope of the tangent line.

A: I think you've noticed that we can write $h$ as $h = z - x$, so $f(x+h)=f(x+z-x)$ therefore equals $f(x)$. And, as we know from geometry, a tangent slope $m$ is definded as $m=\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1}$, and a derivative of a function is also defined as a tangent slope. Therefore, in the context of derivation, $f'(x)=\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1}=\frac{f(z)-f(x)}{z-x}$.

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Home » ABC Entertainment » Gloria Vanderbilt dies at 95 surrounded by loved ones, son Anderson Cooper says
Gloria Vanderbilt dies at 95 surrounded by loved ones, son Anderson Cooper says
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Posted on June 17, 2019 by ABC News
(LOS ANGELES) — Gloria Vanderbilt, mother to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and member of the storied Vanderbilt family, has died at 95 years old.
Cooper confirmed his mother's death on air on CNN, saying she died at home surrounded by family and friends. He said his mother was diagnosed with advanced cancer in her stomach earlier this month, and it had spread.
He also spoke about his bond with his fashion designer mother, describing her as the "strongest person" he's ever met."Her private self, her real self — that was more fascinating and lovely than anything she shared the public," he said.Cooper also described Vanderbilt as a, "visitor from another world … a traveler stranded here who'd come from a distant star that burned out long ago."He added, "Gloria Vanderbilt died as she lived: on her own terms."Vanderbilt's life was often marked with controversy, starting in 1934 when she became the center of a headline-grabbing custody battle between her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Her aunt ultimately won custody of the girl in what was dubbed the "trial of the century.""She had as screwed up a childhood as you could have," Cooper said about his mother while appearing on the 10% Happier podcast with ABC News' Dan Harris in October 2017.The heiress was also known as a fashion and cultural icon throughout her life, creating the extremely successful Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans in 1976, and then expanding into other areas of apparel.Vanderbilt also appeared on Broadway and on television and published multiple novels, including her 2004 book, It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir.She kept famous company and was constantly in the public eye, counting notable names like Frank Sinatra, Diane von Furstenberg and Marlon Brando as friends.
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Steam's Halloween Sale is great for grand strategy
Fraser Brown
27th October 2017 / 5:35PM
With Halloween fast approaching, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about typical spooky things: ghouls and ghosts, vampires and werewolves, marrying off my daughter to an appropriate suitor and the best trade strategy to dominate the Aegean. The Steam Halloween Sale is in full swing until November 1, and thanks to Paradox Interactive, it's full of grand strategy games.
There are plenty of scares to be found in the sale, but for me, nothing is more terrifying than trying to stop my insignificant kingdom from being torn apart by civil war or trying to plan the assassination of my indolent spouse without being caught.
Most of Paradox's catalogue is on sale, including non-grand strategy titles like Cities: Skylines and Pillars of Eternity, but if you're looking for some bang for your buck, here are a few of my personal recommendations:
Crusader Kings 2 – £7.49/$9.99/€9.99
CK2 remains my all-time favourite Paradox romp, and with the Monks & Mystics DLC, which introduces things like witchcraft and Satanism, it's more appropriate for Halloween than you might think. Here's me mucking around in Monks & Mystics.
Europa Universalis 4 – £8.75/$10/€10
Paradox's flagship grand strategy affair is a daunting, elaborate game and, for a lot of people, sets the bar for the genre. It's the most grand strategy thing you could hope to play. It's also a cracking LAN game, as Brendan discovered when he reported on a 40-player game in a Polish castle.
Hearts of Iron 4 – £13.99/$15.99/€15.99
You can make Britain communist.
Age of Wonders 3 – £5.74/$7.49/€7.49
Besiege fortresses with giant holy warmachines and dragons — Age of Wonders was doing it long before Total War: Warhammer. This third game relaunched the series, and what it lacks in empire management, it more than makes up for in fun fantasy exploration and tactical battles. Take a gander at Adam's Age of Wonders 3 review.
Victoria 2 – £3.74/$4.99/€4.99
Victoria 2 is often overshadowed by Paradox Development Studio's more recent grand strategy offerings, but it's still a doozy, tackling the politics, conflicts and colonial concerns of the 19th century. There's a reason that Paradox is always being pestered for a sequel. Our pal Rob Zacny sings its praises in his critique of the 4X genre.
Stellaris – £13.99/$15.99/€15.99
The newest of the bunch, Stellaris combines 4X space shenanigans with grand strategy, with some interesting results. The sci-fi conceit has also allowed Paradox to get pretty creative with storytelling, but the best stories are still the emergent ones. Here's what I thought of its major expansion, Utopia.
Right, that's your lot for now. Enjoy a grand Halloween.
Tagged with Halloween, Paradox Interactive, Steam, Steam Sale, Victoria 2, Age of Wonders 3, Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, Hearts of Iron IV, Stellaris.
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The Apollo 11 spacecraft launched atop a Saturn V rocket. The first two stages of the Saturn V blasted the astronauts into orbit. The third stage was used to throttle the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module to the moon. Once the spacecraft achieved lunar orbit, the two modules separated with two astronauts landing on the lunar surface while the third astronaut continued orbiting the moon in the Command Module.
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Fun Evening Run above Paarl in aid of children with autism
Given the huge increase in childhood autism cases, it's the best time to step up for a jog or walk in aid of the Boland School for Autism. In addition, medals, cash prizes and lucky draws are at stake when the Afrikaans Language Monument's and Paarl Athletics Club's annual Evening Run takes place on Wednesday 6 December 2017 on the picturesque Paarl Mountain. Participants and supporters can also trust the monument to offer the perfect picnic and 'kuiering' places.
The fun 5km Word Race, starting at 18:40, is aimed at the whole family. Even prams are welcome! The entry fee is R20 and participants enter with an original, fun Afrikaans word instead of a number. The 10km Evening Run, presented in accordance with the rules of Athletics South Africa and Boland Athletics, starts at 18:30; it follows an exciting and challenging route on tar and dirt roads. The entry fee is R50 and temporary numbers (for those who are not members of an athletics club) are available for R30. In both cases walkers are also welcome, so there is no excuse not to feel healthy, happy and generous.
Participants can register in three ways: online before 1 December at www.entrytime.com or www.sa-active.co.za (at R6 extra per registration), at the Language Monument (daily from 08:00 to 17:00) as well as on the day of the race itself between 17:00 and 18:15. Access is free for fans. Make a great evening of it: bring a picnic basket or order one at the Volksmond Coffee Shop on 021 863 2800 (R300 for two persons and R400 with basket included). This recently improved and enlarged coffee shop will also offer refreshments for sale.
Boland School for Autism, a registered non-profit organisation, was founded in 2010 and houses tens of learners from as far as Tulbagh, Stellenbosch, Saron and Wellington. The school's team consists of teachers, assistants, occupational and speech therapists, a biokineticist, an educational psychologist and a school manager who all firmly believe that every child has the right to education. Parents cannot always afford all these services, thus the monument offers this opportunity to help raise money.
For inquiries about the 10km race, contact Sybrand du Plessis on 083 770 5107, and for inquiries about the 5km Word Run, contact Jeffrey Pietersen on 021 872 3441 or marketing2@taalmuseum.co.za.


When a team in an organisation decides to do something a bit different (like adopting agile), the rest of the organisation tends to push back and force the team to conform to the normal way of doing things. A team, isolated and on their own, can only resist that pressure for so long until they have to give in. It's like standing outside in a thunderstorm - sooner or later you will get so uncomfortable that you will have to retreat to shelter.
But what if you could take some shelter with you? Something like an umbrella perhaps? It's not exactly comfortable standing under an umbrella in a raging storm but it will let you withstand the elements for longer than you could if you didn't have one. This is what we do in organisations when we start to engage leaders. When the team's leader gets engaged with the change, they can provide some shelter to the team. They become the team's umbrella. But as anyone who has stood outside with an umbrella in a storm will know, the protection they provide is limited at best. We need something better.
Umbrellas are fine if the weather isn't too bad, but as soon as the rain gets too heavy, or worse, if the wind picks up, the umbrella is quickly rendered useless, blown inside out and left a mangled wreck in a bin. It's like this in organisations as well. A manager shielding a team can do fine when things go well. Everyone loves success. But as soon as things start to go less well - a missed release or serious production problem or something like that - the weather can turn very stormy, very quickly, and the team's shelter may vanish just as quickly. Many teams have found their once supportive manager reverting to old behaviour in a crisis. Many teams have found their still supportive manager left as the career equivalent of a mangled wreck in a bin somewhere as a sudden crisis causes the organisation to shuffle people around.
Some really great leaders can withstand more pressure than others. Like one of those huge, well engineered golf umbrellas with the vents to let wind out and special sprung frames to avoid collapse. They can withstand the storm pretty well but even they have their limits. Even if they survive the storm intact, if the weather is bad enough, plenty of rain will blow in sideways and make life pretty miserable for those sheltering underneath.
No, good as they are when the weather is relatively mild, no umbrella will work when the weather gets really bad. To really handle bad weather, we need something better. We need something with some real structure. We need to start building a marquee. A marquee isn't just a giant umbrella. It's a different beast altogether. It has a solid frame, well anchored to the ground to prevent it lifting in the wind. It has sides to prevent weather blowing in. It has structure.
Likewise, what we need in an organisation isn't a really great leader (a giant organisational umbrella), what we need is something with some real structure to it. We need to get beyond one team (or a team of teams) sheltering under a sympathetic management team and start to build a structure.
I don't mean adopt a formal agile framework here BTW. The likes of SAFe and Less aren't what I mean. They tend to be giant umbrellas that work well when the weather is fine but blow away in the first squall. They can be huge, but they tend to be on their own and isolated from the rest of the organisation's giant umbrellas. What I mean is embedding the new process, be it agile or anything else, into the organisation. Not just the IT department or the release train, but into the whole organisation.
We need to reach out and engage with the rest of the organisation. We need to get whatever our change is accepted by the rest of the organisation as a legitimate way of doing things. We need to engage senior leaders and get their support. They will provide the strong poles that hold up the shelter. We need to engage groups that we usually avoid - finance, PMO, audit. We need to bring them on the journey. That will provide our guy ropes and anchoring to prevent things blowing away in bad weather. We need to reach out to groups we work closely with and get them involved. They will provide our walls and protect us from things blowing in sideways. We need to get the whole organisation involved.
We need to be careful when building structure that we end up with a marquee and not a house. Why? A house is far more comfortable and provides much better shelter. Why not aim for a house? Because a house is fixed and static. Once built it is hard to modify (I have been renovating for the better part of 2 decades now...I know how hard houses are to alter). The house we build to suit our needs now will not be the house we need in the future when our needs change. A marquee on the other hand, while not as comfortable, is much easier to change. We can string up an annexe if we need more space, we can open up the walls if the weather is fine. We can even pick the whole thing up and move it to a different site if we need to. It We can adapt it as our needs change.
So let's stop relying on our umbrellas and start building some structure instead. Just not too much structure.


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Here's Why Dre Is MIA on 'Power,' In Case You Forgot
By Anna Quintana
Warning: Power Season 6 spoilers ahead.
During the Season 6 premiere of Power, everyone's focus was seemingly on Angela Valdes' fate and if she survived getting shot by Tommy Egan while protecting James "Ghost" St. Patrick.
However, amid the Ghost and Tommy drama, Tasha asking Ghost for a divorce, and Tariq being Tariq, there was one character noticeably missing from the premiere episode: Andre "Dre" Coleman.
So, what happened to Dre on Power?
Last time we saw Dre (played by Rotimi) on the Starz series, he was jumping (literally) into a government van after agreeing to provide testimony in exchange for protection. In case you need a recap, during Season 5, Dre and Ghost agreed to help each other out — Ghost would kill Diego Jimenez for Dre while Dre would kill Jason Micic for Ghost.
However, Dre is unable to kill Jason since Jason was given a heads up on the plan by Kanan (50 Cent). Fast forward, and Dre is snitching on Alicia Jimenez (Diego's sister and head of the Jimenez cartel), which puts him in danger and in way over his head.
Dre wanted the top spot, but it came at a price. #PowerTV drops August 25. Catch up on the @STARZ App now. #FinalBetrayal
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Along with being targeted by two hitman sent by Alicia, Dre is also involved in a shootout with Tommy and his guys, which lands him in Steve Tampio's van, and signing a form implicating Alicia in Mike's and Lobos's murder — crimes that were, in fact, orchestrated by Ghost and Tommy.
Is Dre in Season 6 of Power?
Since Dre is not dead, fans can expect to see his big return. According to IMDB, Dre is very much a recurring character during Season 6 — and his comeback cannot come soon enough for viewers.
"What happened to Dre on Power? He got out the game??" one fan tweeted before another wrote, "James St. Patrick (Ghost) was just innocent in this show, but everyone just want a piece of him, and where the hell is Dre (snitch)[sic]?"
A third chimed in, "They didn't show Dre on Power last night... I forgot we have to deal with that beef too."
This is going to be Dre's best season, according to Rotimi.
In an interview on The Angie Martinez Show earlier this year, Rotimi revealed that he was excited for fans to see Dre on the final season of Power.
"For me, personally, this is probably my favorite season of [Power] because you get to see the human side of [Dre], you see why he makes the decisions he makes," Rotimi explained. "You find out that all he literally does is for his daughter. So, he's in a lot of bad situations this season, and you see the vulnerability... I was able to get emotional. You meet a whole lot of different characters in Dre's life this year."
As for what happens between Dre and Ghost, as Rotimi put it, they "just don't get along."
"They mirror each other," Rotimi added of Dre and Ghost's dynamic. "He's the younger version of [Ghost]. He does everything that he does."
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1. Joseph Gurney, b. 16 Nov 1711, d. ob.inf.
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Boots and Bar Update - Nighttime Wear Only!
We've successfully transitioned to only nighttime wear of the boots and bar as of March 12! Per the advice of Dr. Segal, we went straight to 12-hour nights, with 12 hours free during the day, and Peter has adjusted extremely well. He loves playing with his feet and it's so fun to watch him!
To make things easier, we put the brace on around 7:00pm, and my husband takes it off right before they leave the house for daycare at 7:00am -- that way our daycare providers don't have to worry about it and we can just leave the brace at home. On weekends, I take it off whenever we get up in the morning, usually between 7am-8am.
Taken on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
He's not wearing the boots & bar in this pic but is still holding his feet in the brace position.
Force of habit, no doubt!
How cool is this? LeVar Burton (a.k.a. Geordi LaForge in Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Dr. Ponseti in the same video! As a huge Star Trek fan, I'm geeking out.
I wish I could have had the opportunity to meet Dr. Ponseti in person. What an amazing man. I'm so grateful for what he's done for Peter, and all the children with clubfoot.


This is a bugfix/maintenance release. It is the first official release since 6.3.0.1.
This version can be downloaded from on the VAOS project on SourceForge.
The only file you need to download to install VAOS 6.3.0.4 is the installer package. This can be used to create a new VAOS 6.3 installation or to update an existing VA5 or VA6 installation to version 6.3.0.4.
The sourcecode snapshot is provided for those who want to build VAOS for themselves, and who don't want to struggle with SourceForge's anonymous CVS access (which can be rather slow at busy times). It's also provided because VAOS is, after all, an Open Source project.
The changes since version 6.3 build 1 are listed here, by component.
Note that the FS#nn IDs refer to entries in the VAOS bug tracker.
Ensure outbasket is saved (or not, as requested) if it is open when VA is closed (FS#20).
Fixed bug whereby URLs containing colons were not recognized (FS#21).
Corrected logic in "send to folder" handling to remove unintended confirmation dialog (FS#27).
ESCape key now works (as "Close") in spellchecker dialog (FS#28).
Improved handling of hyperlinks in CIX messages (FS#29).
Fixed bug whereby a user's overwrite preference was ignored when saving attachments (FS#30).
Fixed bug whereby VA attempted to collect news for a new service when no news server had been configured (FS#31).
Corrected bug in spellchecker led to the word following a misspelt word not being checked (FS#34).
Corrected bug in self-registration code so that new users are recognized in "Network Names" mode (FS#38).
Corrected timing code in macro replay for more consistent playback (FS#40). (Note: Macro functionality does not currently work in Vista or Windows 7 with UAC enabled).
Added code to handle double-click on entry in "send to any folder" dialog (FS#41).
Fixed bug handling text/enriched content type (FS#48).
Fixed bug handling long lines of base-64 encoded data (FS#50).
Fixed pathnames that were missing their terminal backslash in ashmount.ini (FS#54).
Fixed bug that led to some characters being cropped from the start of a message (FS#55).
Fixed bug in which EMail addresses containing certain characters were not displayed as links (FS#56).
Fixes for display of CIX messages.
Fixed bug whereby EMail addresses with short domain names were not displyed as links.
Improved the display of /italic/ message styles in plain text messages.
Added decoding of attachments with content-disposition "inline".
Corrected handling of whitespace lines in message headers.
Corrected a bug whereby VA could be confused by an attachment filename containing more than one dot.


Once there lived a king who did not allow anybody to leave the kingdom and any foreigners in his kingdom. There was only one bridge that connected his empire with the outer world. A guard who was a sharpshooter was specially assigned for a lookout on the bridge. According to the orders, anyone moving outside should be killed and anyone coming to his kingdom should be sent back. To take rest, the guard used to sit inside his hut for 5 minutes and return back on the lookout. The bridge took a minimum of 8 minutes to pass.
Even then, a woman was able to escape the kingdom without incurring any kind of harm to the guard.


So anyway, Norelco contacted me to see if I wanted to get a couple of gadgets they're promoting for hair trimming/shaving. Since I cut my own hair, and have tried a variety of shaving techniques including wet shaving, I knew this was the promotion for me.
What did Norelco want me to try?
I couldn't turn down free stuff, but I warned them my only other experience with an electric razor, about 15 years ago, wasn't good. It left me razor-burned and took too much time. Would this experience, with a razor costing almost $200 ($150 right now on Amazon) be any different? Can it supplant the good old Fusion razor as my preferred shaving instrument? And what about the hair clipper? Why do I need something different than the $40 kit I bought at Kohl's, or even the $20 kits they have at Walmart?
I should add that my beard stubble is extremely thick. It's like I have 2 hairs coming out of every pore or something, and they're double thick compared to anyone else I know. It's crazy and annoying. I seem to have a 5 0'clock shadow at 9am. If I shave against the grain, I might extend it out to 2pm. So, I figured having a portable electric unit would be good, since I may meet with customers in the afternoon and don't want to look like a scruff.
You can watch the videos of the weird British (or Australian?) guy on Amazon to get the full details and how it differs from the 2D, but basically, this is their top-of-the-line shaver that has 3 heads that not only pivot inward, but also outward, can wet-shave (using lotion), has a battery timer and lock feature, a flip-out trimmer and can probably drive you to the nearest barber when needed. You can also get a self-cleaning system if you wanted to go that route, but it doesn't look like you can buy it separately and I didn't get it with my sample.
I'll be blunt. I wasn't expecting magic out of this razor, but I was expecting a quick, clean shave. I got the clean shave, but it took FOREVER! And that's because of my thick stubble. Period. I was able to do a 2-pass razor shave and get better results in less than half the time it took to get all the last hairs shaved off with the Philips. But again, this is a problem between me and all electric shavers. At least I didn't have as bad of razor burn, and when I did a wet shave with shave gel, I didn't have any burn.
In the end, I found out my dad just bought a 2D version and I said return it and try out my 3D. He has much thinner stubble and CAN'T shave with blades (medical stuff), so he had to get an electric razor. I asked him this past weekend how it was going and he said the razor was great. He has a beard, but keeps his neck clean shaven and also uses the pop-out trimmer to keep everything else clean. With the 2D version, it's a different head you need to swap on for the trimmer and the heads don't swivel outwards.
So in the end, I don't think any electric shaver option is right for me, but I did find that the heads bending in AND out really got all the contours of my face nicely, the shaver was very quiet, cleaned easily and was very versatile and modern. How does it compare with the market? I have no idea as I wasn't researching other options before this opportunity, so I'd like to hear your feedback.
When the PR agent told me they were sending me a hair cutting kit, I thought it would be something like the barbershop clippers with the different heads for each length, etc. I've gone through 3 of them in the last 10 years or so, and they seem to work fine until you break the main guard that you use for your entire head. You see, I shave with either a "1" guard or no guard at all. My wife used to style my hair with 1's, 2's a comb, a taper guard, etc., but no more. I just want something quick and easy to cut my hair.
It's rechargeable and battery-powered, so I don't need to have an extra long cord. I like to cut my hair in the tub so cleanup is easy, but that's also dangerous with a wired trimmer!
The head swivels to 5 positions (the one shown, and 90 degrees to either side). This helps when you're cutting your sides or back of your head and can't get your wrist to bend properly. Just swivel the head and no more contortions!
There are 3 guards, plus a trimmer head. Rather than have a case full of guards, you rotate a dial on the head to get the length of guard you want. The first guard is 0-1. The second is 1-5 and the third is 6-9. They slip on and off easily and are washable, as is the head.
How does it stack up against a barber-style trimmer with traditional guards? Well, it's MUCH more convenient without the wires and all the different guards, and the swivel head makes trimming the back of my head much easier. However, keep in mind I trim my hair down to the scalp almost. I did test longer guards first and they worked great as long as you don't push down hard (a habit of mine I got from using barber units).
. You can travel easily with it, dial a guard length, run it on battery and swivel the head. Put it all together, and I think Philips has thought up a great idea.
How do you cut your hair? Do you do it yourself? Think about doing it yourself or having your partner/friend do it? How much do you spend per haircut and how often do you get it cut? I haven't gone to a barber since 2003 right before our wedding.
In the same boat but use the Remington short cut clippers for my head – it's cordless and shaped like a comb. I'm a no guard man myself due to unfortunate genetics and re-shave my head every 3-4 days. Eventually I'll move towards using a razor on my head but for now I'm still hanging with clippers.
@DC, I've shaven my head down to the scalp with my fusion razor, but I let it grow back as it felt just too weird and it would be too much work. I just buzz it down without a guard every few weeks, but it's so easy I can do it weekly if I'd like.


Yes I have had my baby boy on Wednesday last week – what an experience to treasure! What an adrenaline trip and together with sleep deprivation and raging hormones an unbelievable life experience. My mind started to go in a daze and I was most times living in a different reality to how other and most people perceived my life at this moment.
It is difficult to remember any facts as I have hardly any recollection of objective timing and locations and people, I was living totally in Ulla-Land and totally absorbed with the birth.
I love to tell you my whole story so you – and everybody else interested – can take advantage of my positive birth process and prevent any repetition of the negative side-effects of my hospital stay. Unfortunately I might not have the time to go into all the details right now, but I will start off and see how much time I get writing before the lovely new superstar of my life awakes again and wants his intensive growth spurt period of feeding & changing.
In the end I got my water birth – it was perfect. I hardly had a tear, did not need any stitches, only gas and air as pain relief and had a very positive birth experience. The Yoga really helped in ways I would not have even imagined beforehand at all. As did the birth preparation workshop – my partner massaged my back for over about seven to eight hours. During the birth in the pool I had a semi-upright/all four position which meant I could make the best use of gravity whilst still being covered mostly with the soothing warm water. Though the position which is similar to lying over the gym ball unfortunately means the water does not cover the kidney area, which then had to be massaged by my partner.
However the bloody placenta did not want to come out naturally afterwards, and I lost the precious first hour(s) to the afterbirth, rather than bonding with baby. So, if anybody asks me now, take the injection to get it out as fast as possible. Time is too precious at that stage to be lost trying to get the afterbirth out naturally. There was even talk of me having to get induced to get placenta out or to be going into theatre!!!!
In the end, a doctor passed by and removed it manually. Thank God!
But, because of this and the fact that I had made a stormy and dramatic entrance at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with the ambulance after having been sent away from the hospital again only a few hours earlier for not being dilated enough, I had absolutely no stuff with me other than my soiled nightie. So my birth partners had to leave me at this point to fetch stuff from home, like I even had no maternity pads or any clothes for the baby, who was wrapped in some towels looking like Jesus.
So the next challenge arose was breastfeeding, and learning it kept us in hospital for at least four days. The stay in hospital was the worst psychological experience of my life, mainly due to one midwife representing for me the whole institutionalised situation. I felt I had lost total control being in a situation where I had to submit to rules and regulations I did not know, they weren't explained to me or if they did I was not able to have taken these in and to have to fulfill expectations I was not sure about either. There were all these people around me I did not know, many rushing about hectically, – loads of them, visitors, nurses, other patients, cleaners, the Bounty pack lady. I nearly freaked out.
Well, in the end we left the hospital on Sunday afternoon and me and baby are looking forward to going out and about, to go to Motherspace or the postnatal yoga or the Baby Music or the Shiatsu Massage at the Parents and Pregnancy Centre, whom I mainly credit to having had such a rare, good and empowering birth experience.
All three of us are still practising the simplest tasks of our new family life, like how to go out together or even how to wind down to go to sleep. Usually the baby is much better at this than the adults!
Congratulations! Sorry to hear about some less than optimum experiences, but I'm glad your baby is healthy.


"You work for the soul of the business," his father had told him. "If you can nurture the soul of the business, it keeps everybody employed. That's your job."
He borrowed $50,000 from Suburban Bank against the masonry company's receivables to put some cash in the coffers until he could gin up some business.
The company had advantages he could exploit. For one thing, its customer list dated back 40 years.
"The company had a good reputation, but it faltered when it ran out of money. I went to customers personally, with salespeople, and said, 'I'm fixing this thing.' I had to go and tell them the company still existed and they could rely on it."
Reliability is a key tenet to this day: Ernest Maier owns all its delivery trucks so it can ensure its goods reach their destination.
Quinn nosed around his sales team, advising them on which customers were most likely to pay.
"I have a Spidey sense for guys that won't pay and guys that will pay, and when they get in trouble, getting there before others get in there."
He put out an edict, too: No job was too small. Bid, bid, bid.
One contractor ordered 5,000 blocks. Then another order came in. One job at a time.
The company went from $1 million revenue in 1995 to $2.4 million in 1996 and $3.6 million in 1997, when it turned a $130,000 profit.
Quinn eventually bought the business in 2001 for $4.18 million. He paid the Maiers $1 million outright from investors Quinn had rounded up. He then agreed to a "seller's note" of $418,000, which he had to pay the Maiers over the next few years. Finally, Quinn took over $2.7 million of company debt, relieving the Maier trust of any liability.
The company expanded, buying a cinder block business in Delaware for $3 million and building another brick company from the ground up in Charlottesville. By 2007, Ernest Maier was doing $44 million in sales and earning $1.5 million in profit.
Ernest Maier's commercial masonry accounts for half of sales, and outdoor patios 25 percent. The rest is retail and small contractors who come in and fill up their trucks.
The 9 million blocks it makes and sells bring in $13 million a year. The other $27 million is from wholesale and retail products, ranging from bricks to flagstone to sand and drainage supplies.
Ernest Maier employees earn an average of $44,000 a year and receive company health insurance, which costs Quinn $360,000 a year. The company's 125-employee workforce is four times the number Quinn inherited 15 years ago.
The business is such a success that President Obama visited its concrete block plant in October to showcase an industrial firm near Washington.
Maybe Jack Welch is next.


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Guatemalan Deputy Maria Cristina Quinto shares her opinion on a declaration signed by deputies to address critical security challenges within the Northern Triangle subregion of Central America.
More than 15 legislators from the Northern Triangle countries – El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras – met in San Salvador, El Salvador, for a two-day conference to advance a regional legislative agenda on security and human rights. The Northern Triangle region faces the highest homicide rate globally, and transnational criminal networks make collaboration between the three countries a critical element in efforts to improve security.
The legislators who attended the September 24 to 25 forum represented more than eight political parties from across the ideological spectrum. This was the sixth regional interparliamentary forum facilitated by NDI, and it was designed to create an opportunity for legislators to discuss challenges that affect all three countries, including migration, criminal organizations and security.
In 2016, the three countries and the United States formed the Alliance for Prosperity, which set benchmarks for each country in four key areas: security, prosperity, governance and human rights. The benchmarks must be met in order to receive aid through the alliance. The United States has continued its partnership on these topics, hosting leaders of the Northern Triangle countries in Miami in June 2017. The majority of aid has supported the security and judicial sectors of each country. National efforts to develop country-specific plans, such as the Honduras 2020 or Safe El Salvador (El Salvador Seguro), to align domestic institutions to meet benchmarks originated within the executive branches of each country with no clear role for the legislatures. The role of the legislature in advancing the goals of the Alliance for Prosperity was a key question the forum sought to address.
Various efforts exist to align legislative priorities within Central America, including the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), which is made up of legislators from each country in the region. However, these bodies do not focus exclusively on the unique challenges that face the Northern Triangle subregion. Without detracting from broader initiatives, legislators desired a Northern Triangle subregional body to serve as an effective vehicle to advance actions in line with the Plan for Prosperity. Through the NDI-supported interparliamentary forums, legislators are creating official mechanisms to discuss and take action on the plan within their respective legislatures. For example, legislators signed a declaration to create a tri-national commission, as well as national congressional working groups, to develop and advocate for legislation in line with the plan.
With temporary protected status for El Salvadorans and Hondurans set to end in the U.S. in 2019 and 2020, national governments are planning for the reintegration of thousands of citizens from abroad. During the Northern Triangle forum, legislators exchanged experiences on how migration is addressed within each country's national legal framework with the goal of developing regional shared standards and approaches.
efforts to increase budgets for consular services to protect migrants detained abroad.
The declaration demonstrates the commitment of legislators from a multitude of parties within each country to continue to collaborate on the most pressing challenges and serves as guidance for legislative action in each country.
The regional interparliamentary forum is part of a program supported by the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).


GUBBINS is a novel heterodyne interferometer currently under construction in Oxford that will both measure the spectrum of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the brightest galaxy clusters and provide a test-bed for future developments from our new-technology program. The project was fully designed and manufactured in the mechanical group and the use of a modular Newport motors and controllers makes a control system very easy to develop.
The project had a variety of design challenges. To make a good interferometer the mirrors must track across the sky together pointing to an accuracy of 1 arc minute so very rigid drives and careful finite element modelling of deflections were required. The temperature inside the cryostat is below 10K and so great care had to be taken with the insulation and to maintain accurate thermal budgets dominated by radiation which is difficult to model. Controlling the temperature of each component and ensuring good heat transfer within the cryostat was one of the major development challenges. The device was designed to be portable and to be used at very high altitude so it needed be robust (as it will be assembled and disassembled) but light. The system has a complicated optical pathway with 5 parabolic reflecting surfaces and 3 bolometers in each chain both entering and leaving a very low temperature space so a great deal of care was required designing for thermal effects and also providing the adjustment necessary so as not to overspecify the manufacturing tolerances.


An LS Lowry painting which has been hidden from public view for 70 years has sold for £1.5m.
Beach Scene had remained in a private collection in South Africa since it was bought from Lowry's dealer Lefevre Gallery in 1946.
It had never been seen in public before it went under the hammer at Christie's in London.
The pre-sale estimate was £1.3m to £1.8m and it sold for £1,538,000.
Lowry is famous for his industrial landscapes and, although he also painted seascapes, Beach Scene was a rare depiction of water.
A spokesman for Christie's said: "Lowry's cast of holidaymakers appear more determined to enjoy the possibilities of a sunny day... they push babies in prams or walk with dogs, and the girls wear summer dresses and the boys ride bicycles.
The record for Lowry stands at £5.6m, achieved by Piccadilly Circus, London, in 2011.
The most valuable lot in the Christie sale was Henry Moore's Mother and Child, which the sculptor produced in the early 1980s. It sold above estimate for £1.8m.
Recording the post Second World War exuberance felt by the British, Lowry produced a series of works that included bank holiday fairgrounds and summer outings.
Two other of his works were also sold at the same auction.
Harbour Scene, which had an estimate of £400,000 to £600,000 sold for £602,500.
Lancashire Farm, valued at £200,000 to £300,000 went for £242,000.
In November a painting by Lowry of Pendlebury railway station sold for £1.65m.
Manchester City's bosses bought manager Manuel Pellegrini a Lowry as parting gift.
Owner Sheikh Mansour and chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak purchased an original painting as a present for the Chilean, who has been replaced by Pep Guardiola in the summer.
Khaldoon presented the work of art to Pellegrini before the final home game, a 2-2 draw with Arsenal as a show of appreciation of his work for City.


Hebrew was the language of the Jewish people in Biblical times, and most of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew. The language largely dies out over time but is revived in the 1900s. In 1982, it becomes an official language for Israel. Hebrew and Arabic are currently official languages of Israel.


On a recent visit with my goddaughter Piper and her sisters Alden and Reilly, the girls surprised me one morning by making me their favorite version of French toast for breakfast – a "crunchy" French toast coated with corn flakes (actually a Corn flakes like cereal with dried blueberries in it) and baked in the oven.
The three sisters, ages 4, 7, and 9, did everything to prepare this meal, while I sat astounded, watching them, lifting not a finger to help.
Yield: Makes 2 or 3 servings.
1 Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or Silpat.
2 Put the bread pieces on a lined baking sheet into the warming oven (it does not need to be at full temperature) to toast lightly for 5 minutes. Cool the bread completely.
3 Seal the cornflakes in a heavy plastic bag. Crush them with a rolling pin to the size of rolled oats. Pour into a pie pan or a shallow dish. Set aside.
4 In a large bowl, whisk to mix the eggs, milk, flour and vanilla until blended. Be sure there are no lumps of unmixed flour. Pour into a pie pan or shallow dish. In batches, lay the bread pieces in the egg mix. Soak about 1 minute on each side in the egg mixture. Be careful not to rip the bread.
5 Place the bread pieces in the cornflake crumbs. Coat both sides with the crumbs. Place on the lined baking sheet.
6 Bake at 400°F for 10 minutes on one side. Then flip over with tongs or a spatula and bake another 5 to 10 minutes, until the crumbs begin to turn brown. Eat warm with butter and pancake syrup.
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I just wanna say that I have tried several recipes off this site and ALL of them are outstanding. Great job, Elise, thank you for all the fantastic recipes.
I first had crunchy French toast at a restaurant in Seattle. Instead of corn flakes, though, they used Panko bread crumbs (you probably know of it, a very thick heavy Japanese bread crumb). I tried that myself and it worked well. I'll have to try this recipe sometime and see how it works!
So, so good. Thank you for this unique and delicious recipe! I plan to make it for overnight guests this weekend.
I put butter on top of the toasts, and then put back in the oven for a minute to melt. I thought it would be a little hard to spread butter on the crunchy top.
Un bonjour de France à Elise et ses amis!
Sympa et original la recette.
There is a restaurant near me that does this with Captian Crunch. Very yummy.
I love Sunny Side Up in uptown… but Elise's recipe is just as good if not better, and I don't have to drive 20 minutes to get there from Burnsville!
What a killer recipe! Just one question… what kind of bread did you use? It looks like wheat bread in the great photos, how did it taste compaired to its white counterpart?
Yum! I made these this morning and they were fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
I made this for breakfast today for the first time and my boyfriend and I were not disapointed!
We woke up to an urge of eating french toasts.
Then I happened to read this before we made any, and we got ideas to spice up our normal bread-in-egg types. Hehe! Thank you!
I'm not sure how I feel about the cornflakes, but I guess I'm going to find out. Instead of maple syrup though, it will be cinnamon and sugar for me!


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Oscar Martinez resides in Chicago, Illinois. Through the study of science and art at the University of Illinois at Champaign, in 1977, he received a Bachelor of Science in Medical Art from the University of Illinois Medical Center. Mr. Martinez is an accomplished artist who has had numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, and the Southeastern and Midwest regions of the U.S. Among his many credits, his work has been shown in the Museum of Bellas Artes and the National Historical Museum in Mexico, the Desplaines Museum in Illinois, NIU Museum's Gallery in Chicago, the Field Museum of Chicago, the State of Illinois Museum in Springfield and its gallery in Chicago at the State of Illinois Building. Additionally, his work has been featured on various television shows and published in newspapers and magazines.
Martinez was actively involved in the Chicago mural movement and has painted numerous murals throughout the city. Moreover, he was appointed by the Mayor of Chicago to judge the international Design/Build competition for the Chicago Public Library and the selection of the library's art collection. He was also appointed by the Governor of the State of Illinois to the Illinois Arts Council where he served as chair of Media Arts. Furthermore, he has served on various boards and commissions including as President of the Latino Institute of Chicago. He is also the founder of the Latin American Museum of Art. In 2005, he did an Artist in Residency at the University of Illinois at Champaign. He is currently Artist in Residence at the Chicago Grammar School.
My artwork is about creating the appearance of narratives and dramas that are based on reality, dreams and the imagination. This symbolic visual world is based on the illusions that help us give order to an incomprehensible world. I use a personal symbolic vocabulary or metaphors and a complex layering of time and space that are repeated to create a visual memory. This allows me to define my own sense of the metaphysical aspects of life. I use figures, shapes and forms in combination or separately to create a range of possibilities in the visual vocabulary of my artwork.


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//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
// <copyright file="PanelPresenter.cs" company="none">
// Copyright (c) kenny-nelson All Rights Reserved.
// </copyright>
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace Dodai.Panels
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Diagnostics.Contracts;
    using System.Windows.Data;
    using Dodai.Services;
    using Dodai.ViewModels;

    /// <summary>
    /// パネルプレゼンタークラスです。
    /// </summary>
    public class PanelPresenter : Presenter, IPanelPresenter
    {
        private readonly ObservableCollection<ToolViewModel> tools =
            new ObservableCollection<ToolViewModel>();

        private readonly ObservableCollection<DocumentViewModel> documents =
            new ObservableCollection<DocumentViewModel>();

        /// <summary>
        /// コンストラクタです。
        /// </summary>
        public PanelPresenter()
            : base(Enum.GetName(typeof(PresenterKind), PresenterKind.Panel))
        {
            BindingOperations.EnableCollectionSynchronization(this.tools, this.SyncObj);
            BindingOperations.EnableCollectionSynchronization(this.documents, this.SyncObj);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// ツールを取得します。
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>対象のインスタンスを返します。</returns>
        public ICollectionView GetTools()
        {
            return CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(this.tools);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// ドキュメントを取得します。
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>対象のインスタンスを返します。</returns>
        public ICollectionView GetDocuments()
        {
            return CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(this.documents);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// ツールを追加します。
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="tool">追加するツールです。</param>
        public void AddTool(ToolViewModel tool)
        {
            Contract.Assume(tool != null);
            if (!this.tools.Contains(tool))
            {
                this.tools.Add(tool);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// ドキュメントを追加します。
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="document">追加するドキュメントです。</param>
        public void AddDocument(DocumentViewModel document)
        {
            Contract.Assume(document != null);
            if (!this.documents.Contains(document))
            {
                this.documents.Add(document);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// ツールを削除します。
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="tool">削除するツールです。</param>
        public void RemoveTool(ToolViewModel tool)
        {
            Contract.Assume(tool != null);
            if (this.tools.Contains(tool))
            {
                this.tools.Remove(tool);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// ドキュメントを削除します。
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="document">追加するドキュメントです。</param>
        public void RemoveDocument(DocumentViewModel document)
        {
            Contract.Assume(document != null);
            if (this.documents.Contains(document))
            {
                this.documents.Remove(document);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// 指定のツールが含まれているか判定します。
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="tool">判定対象のツールです。</param>
        /// <returns>含まれていれば、真を返します。</returns>
        public bool ContainTool(ToolViewModel tool)
        {
            Contract.Assume(tool != null);
            return this.tools.Contains(tool);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// 指定のドキュメントが含まれているか判定します。
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="document">判定対象のドキュメントです。</param>
        /// <returns>含まれていれば、真を返します。</returns>
        public bool ContainDocument(DocumentViewModel document)
        {
            Contract.Assume(document != null);
            return this.documents.Contains(document);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// 廃棄します。内部処理
        /// </summary>
        protected override void DisposeInternal()
        {
            this.documents.Clear();
            this.tools.Clear();
            BindingOperations.DisableCollectionSynchronization(this.documents);
            BindingOperations.DisableCollectionSynchronization(this.tools);
        }
    }
}

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Controlling robotic arms through intentions. Plus, how designs inspired by nature could improve solar panels and make plane wings more flexible, and Ice loss in Antarctica.
Using thoughts to control robotic limbs via brain implants is something scientists have been developing for years. But up until now the robotic movements have tended to be clunky, or jerky, as the user had to think through the movements need to complete a task step by step. Now, scientists have developed a way of controlling the robotic arm through the power of intention alone. A patient with paralysis has been able to shake hands, drink, and even play rock-paper-scissors using this new method. Richard Andersen from the California Institute of Technology explains this new development.
Nature has been working on the solutions to some of engineering's biggest problems for billions of years. So, rather than reinvent the wheel, scientists are taking a shortcut by studying the ways that animals have already solved human problems. We head to London's Natural History Museum where scientists are uncovering the secrets of an immense collection of insect specimens and have discovered a biological way to improve the efficiency of solar panels. Presenter Jack Stewart also speaks to scientist Dr Sridhar Kota about how nature inspired his design for a Nasa plane with flexible wings. We may only have scratched the surface of the potential that biomimicry holds.
Glacier scientists Jonathan Bamber and Bert Wouters warn us that ice loss is suddenly occurring at an unprecedented rate in a previously stable area of the Antarctic. Jack speaks with BBC Science correspondent Jonathan Amos about what this latest research could mean. Plus, we look at other science news in the last week.
BBC Newsround: Could huge lasers on the ISS be used to zap space junk?


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Q: Mobile links in an Iframe and IOS I was trying today to open a mobile link from one of my webapp that runs in an iframe (same domain).
It looks like these links aren't recognized by apple ?
https://plnkr.co/edit/9Rp87NcVi9Kr4MGDgIwL?p=preview
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        1-888-888-1212

iframe.html

    1-877-877-2323

In the following plunkr i made a little example of that.
My Local computer can recognize those links, both, and so does my multiple android devices. Although when it comes to IOS, nothing to be done about it, it will only work for the link that is not in an Iframe.
Anybody had a simillar problem and or knows a solution to this issue ?

A: By using a script to select the parent document from the iframe, it should work. try this:
edit Adding "target="_parent" to the anchor is the solution for those viewing this answer.
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