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How To Turn Creativity Into REAL Social Change
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How These Women Turned Creativity into Real Social Change
Emma Banks
Even if you don't know Karen Maine, you probably know her work: She's the filmmaker behind a short film normalizing abortion (which became this beloved 2014 feature) and another, more recent short about a teen discovering female sexual pleasure sans man. Maine makes films that "represent women in realistic ways," but she wasn't always the straightforward writer and director confronting societal taboos. When she arrived in New York City from Iowa to attend The New School in 2004, Maine says she was a "much more shy and insecure" version of herself. Over the course of her undergraduate study, she became better able to form and articulate her unique point of view, in large part due to the seminar teaching style at one of The New School's five distinct colleges: Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, which requires participation and encourages critical thinking.
Maine's experience of learning how to express herself as an artist is not rare; thousands of creatively minded individuals have used what they learned at The New School to design (and, importantly, execute) tangible change. And for students like Maine, school is simply the jumping-off point for a lifetime of problem-solving and civic engagement. Ahead, hear from her and seven other graduates about their experience at The New School, how it affected their current work, and what they're doing to ensure that art, design, and other related forms of creative scholarship can (and will) change the world.
Clarabeth Smith
Clarabeth Smith didn't waste a moment post-grad putting her degree (a master's in fashion studies from the Paris campus of The New School's Parsons School of Design) to work. Almost immediately, she joined the nonprofit Style Her Empowered (S H E), which works to provide new school uniforms; full-tuition scholarships; and year-round training, tutoring, and support to 180 girls in Togo, Africa. Here, she encountered a problem that she knew how to solve: The girls either could not afford the mandatory school uniform or quickly outgrew them, and thus, were consistently missing or dropping out of school. So, Smith designed a uniform that literally grows with each girl — up to six sizes and one foot in length — and also happens to be completely zero waste, a result of the emphasis on sustainability that she encountered at The New School.
"At Parsons Paris, we thoroughly examined fashion systems and cycles of consumption, and we explored the sociological and ecological damages that they incur," Smith says. "We were encouraged to reimagine fashion as a benevolent entity. Our hope at S H E is that we can unleash the potential of circular fashion for good."
From start to finish, Smith's graduate study included experiences beyond the traditional classroom environment, with many lessons occurring outside of the institution: in brand houses, museums, archives, fashion shows, production agencies, and the like. Because much of her schooling occurred in unconventional settings, Smith left with a broadened perspective, something that continues to influence her work at S H E: "We were stretched to think deeper and live with an open mind and critical lens."
Linda Briceño
Linda Briceño pulls double duty as an award-winning music producer for artists in Latin America and a singer-songwriter under the alter-ego Ella Bric. In 2016, she thought she was going to the College of Performing Arts at The New School to study music, but once she arrived, it was clear her education would be much more broad and encompass many different disciplines: "Not only did this inspire me, but I also found myself looking outside the box, wanting to be more than just a musician," she says. "I was able to find a voice where music is the soundtrack of a bigger goal — creating change for a better world."
Briceño's philosophy is rooted in connection: "I believe artists are translators to people's stories, feelings, and needs. Not only do we reflect beauty, but we also have a responsibility to tell the story of those unheard. In a world with many social issues, a complex political climate, and our Earth crying out for help, it is our time to stand and make our voices heard to create change."
Karen Maine
When Karen Maine wrote the short that would eventually become a critically acclaimed 2014 movie normalizing abortion, she gave the protagonist a happy ending — in effect, celebrating the woman who had an abortion instead of villainizing her — as a way to contradict the more commonly circulated narrative.
"I think film is a really important medium to be able to put ideas out into the world that some people might not feel comfortable talking about," she says. "By slowly seeping [those stories] in, hopefully they'll become things not so taboo to discuss, and abortion rights won't be on the brink of destruction like they are now."
Maine didn't always have a penchant for promoting uncomfortable conversations in the name of social progress. She credits her studies at The New School's Eugene Lang College with pushing her out of her shell: "By engaging with other people, you learn how to debate and be critical — even if you're arguing just for argument's sake — which I think is really helpful to understand multiple perspectives on a story or a social issue. Being able to think critically gave me the communication skills to become a director, where you have to communicate with several different people at the same time and make sure everything gets done. It opened my worldview."
Alex McBride
Alex McBride thinks about design differently than most graduates of The New School; in her role as chief resilience officer for the city of Oakland, she's not working on graphics or web design but rather urban infrastructure: "Building a more resilient city is very much about designing or redesigning systems and/or policies with the user (or resident) at the center. The New School's interdisciplinary approach to study lends itself well to the way the city of Oakland thinks about resilience," she says.
McBride's background in environmental justice led her to the graduate program in Environmental Policy & Sustainability Management at The New School, where "an emphasis on solutions that result in equitable impact, and an acknowledgement of the systematic racism and oppression certain 'solutions' have had on marginalized populations historically," resonated. Now, she's interested in breaking down problems and offering realistic, tenable solutions for Oakland residents, employing tools like visioning exercises, storytelling, and design to support her community.
Amanat Anand & Shubham Issar
Amanat Anand and Shubham Issar built their company, SoaPen, to address a lack of accessibility to hygiene products around the world — with a pocket-sized, roller-ball soap dispenser that kids can draw with like a crayon. Notably, for every three purchased, one is donated to a school in a low-income community. It sounds simple, but their invention is helping to solve a global problem that desperately needs attention: Over 500,000 young children die every year due to infectious illnesses that could be prevented by washing their hands with soap. Anand and Issar's design-based solution won them the UNICEF Wearables for Good Challenge, and many of the skills that enabled them to create SoaPen were acquired at The New School's Parsons School of Design.
"The main skills that we learned in the industrial design program were manufacturing processes, rapid prototyping, ideation, and time management," Anand says. "The UNICEF competition felt very similar to our college design briefs in terms of the requirements for the submission and deadlines. One of the most valuable and challenging lessons we learned while at Parsons was time management, and that's been really valuable in our business."
SoaPen is the perfect example of how design can shape the future — in this case, the future of healthcare for millions of people around the world.
Angela Luna
Angela Luna came away from The New School's Parsons School of Design with one very important lesson: "No existing method or system is sacred, and design plays a key role in systems change." As founder and creative director of her own label, ADIFF, Luna is using her design degree to actualize change in two ways: working to alleviate the refugee crisis by employing resettled refugees in ADIFF's Athens sewing factory and combating climate change by using post-consumer fashion "waste" as the raw material for the brand's collections. This is the sort of disruption of fashion-industry norms that is so often dreamt of and rarely implemented.
"With ADIFF, we're literally addressing major global issues through fashion, so it's safe to say that we feel design can create change," she says. "We're able to create awareness and lead crucial conversations among consumers, while also applying systems design to provide actionable solutions to global issues."
Mira Jacob
For Mira Jacob, writing isn't simply a career — it's a window into another dimension of consciousness, where one is able to see the world from a new perspective. "Can you imagine if our experiences were limited to what we did with our waking, physical bodies?" she asks. "Like dreams, stories allow us an alternate life — a way to imagine situations and even one another with a complexity we might not get to otherwise."
Jacob believes this sort of variance in perspective is vital, nowadays, as our day-to-day political and social realities are often less than ideal. Literature helps people cope, but it also allows readers to see outside of themselves and, perhaps most importantly, empathize with each other in a world that rewards self-centeredness and greed. She credits The New School, from which she received her MFA in creative writing in 2001, as key to her success post grad: "It helped me build a sustaining and sustainable writing community. And without that — whew. I wouldn't be able to do anything," she says.
Empathy is central to the author's actual output, too: Jacob was born in New Mexico to parents who moved to the States from India in 1968, and her graphic memoir Good Talk, released earlier this year, considers American identity through the lens of a first-generation immigrant. "I get a lot of letters these days from people who have read Good Talk," she says. "Some of them say, 'This is my story, too,' and others say, 'I had no idea about any of this.' Sometimes, when I'm feeling like absolute shit about the world, I remember how many books are out there doing the exact same thing: helping people see each other just a little bit better."
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MARCH 16--In a quaint presentation, cybercrime prosecutors last year gave fellow Department of Justice officials an introduction to social networking sites and their possible investigative uses.
In detailing the possible value of sites like Twitter and Facebook, lawyers John Lynch and Jenny Ellickson--both with the department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section--noted that information gathered could 'establish crime or criminal enterprise' and 'prove and disprove alibis.' Excerpts from the August 2009 Lynch/Ellickson presentation, released following a Freedom of Information request, can be found at left.
Perhaps to keep investigators alert, the presentation included screen grabs from Demi Moore's Facebook page, the MySpace page of a former 'America's Next Top Model' contestant, and the Twitter feed of Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter.
The presentation also raised the question of whether the federal Privacy Protection Act (PPA) might cover those publishing on social networking sites (the PPA was enacted to protect publishers from law enforcement search and seizures). Since the law defines publisher as a 'person reasonably believed to have a purpose to disseminate to the public a newspaper, book, broadcast, or other similar form of public communication,' Lynch and Ellickson ask whether Facebook or Twitter would be considered a 'similar form of communication.' And, by extension, would the shield law cover a Twitter user like actor Ashton Kutcher. With 4.65 million followers, Kutcher has the largest following on the microblogging service. (17 pages)
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Still awake at 2:40 in the morning unable to reach The Land of Nod, it was impossible yesterday to hit the remote control off buttons for both the television set and laptop online. The ongoing cacophony about the stunning change on the national landscape had me alert.
Around my neighborhood, a light rain was sprinkling. Raindrops in the dark were falling on the window sills. About this time the victorious alleged "demagogue" was coming on to be humbled and presidential and take over the reins of the United States government.
Let's cut to the chase. Mr. Donald J. Trump, introduced by Vice President-Elect Mike Pence, didn't mention it, but he will now have two lovely properties in the Nation's Capital, one the newly completed Trump International Hotel, and the other 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
To the dismay of so many professional talkers on the tube, Mr. Trump won the presidential election. The pundits, bull shooters extraordinaire, pollsters and other amateurs were caught in their ignorance. I don't want to say the posteriors were bare but they were.
This was the first time in years the "sandman" didn't arrive and force my eyelids to close. It was electrifying to Iisten to the blabbers that the supposed "most qualified person to seek the presidency" had been overwhelmingly defeated by the "most unqualified candidate in the history of the nation."
The dialoguing on the teevee was something else. I'm sure lots others were alert, too. It was a remarkable time. The New York hotel public room was jammed and packed. The election's number two "winner," Indiana Governor Pence, was in top form. His perfectly coiffed white hair gleamed. He could pass off as a bishop – or more likely a senior pastor.
After thanking everybody for the privilege and victory, he welcomed the president-elect, who was surrounded by his large, eloquent family and protectors. The "Make America Great Again" crowd was in top form. The only people in "shock and oh" were the media types. I don't like to say it, but they have gone out of their way to make sure the journalism business undergoes an incredible change.
Lots of the commentators have proven uninformed and unknowing about the state and thoughts of the "regular" people around the 50 states. Along with the focus group crowd, that can be described in the "louche" class. This word is pronounced loosh, meaning shady, corrupt, dubious and disreputable.
The campaign over the last year or so has been the ugliest perhaps in history. But, the spectacular result is due to average voters. They've been described as unschooled, hateful, racist and other distasteful words. The reason is that part of the plan to demean hard-working, non-elitist types who don't fit in whatever category the progressives don't like.
This campaign, thankfully, is done. The unexpected 45th president has 70 days before his work begins. National media types – broadcast and print – must get back to the news business. I know the free press is the Fourth Estate.
The nation will have to wait for another time when the first woman becomes president. There's nothing to stop that and shouldn't. On another day in a few years a Madam President will be ensconced in the Oval Office. For the time being, other important elective offices are available, but the future of the nation will undergo broad changes.
Those in the public airways and printed pages need to re-think what they say. Not everybody who wants change is chauvinistic or bigoted; because citizens want peace in their neighborhoods and cities doesn't mean they are ignorant, hateful or misogynists.
Firsts of this and that will continue for the country. At present there is another first where the next commander-in-chief knows how to talk to and reach the hearts and souls and, with apologies perhaps to Teddy Roosevelt, "walk softly and carry a big stick." It's going to be a fun ride. «««««
Salute Our Nation's Real Heroes
Time has now arrived. Jokes and jokers, wisecracks and wiseacres along with the dis-and-misinformation poohbahs can be sent to the woodshed. I want to return to some important matters.
On Friday coming when, with all due respect, the vast majority of the population has been freed and no longer non-plussed by looking down the barrels of the money-grabbers – no, not the TV hucksters – the professional politicians, we can stand and salute those real heroes on Veterans Day.
Some celebrations and parades have already blessed communities. A few more are on tap around Maryland, Virginia and the District. Don't forget the National Cemetery in Arlington.
Lots of flowers and flags will be garnishing the late vets' resting places. This is the perfect time for remembering all who have given their lives and those still with us.
In case someone might not know, Veterans Day was first called Armistice Day. This came at the end of the Great War, World War I. In 1954 the 83rd Congress changed Armistice Day to Veterans Day making it a federal holiday. General of the Army-President Dwight Eisenhower signed the measure into law.
We all probably know this war, the Great One, wasn't the last. Please note, 53,513 Doughboys (Americans for the young people) gave their lives.
In World War II, a total of 292,131 deaths were recorded by the Army, Army Air Corps, Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine and other services. More than 16 million Americans served in Europe and the Pacific.
In the Korean War, 33,652 GIs were killed trying to avert World War III. Don't kid yourself, it was not a police action and not funny.
Let's visit Vietnam. The U.S. military recorded 58,315 killed in action. Thousands were wounded and injured for life.
Since 2001, 6,251 U.S. troops have been killed in action – 4,474 in the Iraq War; 1,695 American soldiers have died in the war in and around Afghanistan as of Oct 7, 2011. I'm sorry to note that these figures do not include those men and women wounded and disabled for life.
The price Americans have paid for freedom around the world can't be counted but must be considered especially on Veterans Day as flags wave, picnic lunches and dinners are enjoyed and war stories shared of the heroic men and women.
We should never forget events from these wars: trench warfare, gassing of troops, Pearl Harbor (the Day of Infamy), the Bataan Death March, Iwo Jimo, saving Britain and Europe, the devastation of concentration camps and the rescue of millions.
Stories abound from Vietnam about the heroes, we know lots of their names, and the Chosin Reservoir soldiers in Korea.
I know there are thousands of wonderful stories from the heroes.
Further, every American, not just those who served and are serving, should be wearing red poppies. The remembrance poppy is an artificial flower used worldwide since 1921 to commemorate military personnel who have died in war, and represents a common or field poppy.
A brief history shows President Woodrow Wilson commemorated the day for first time on November 11, 1919. He proclaimed the day should be "filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory."
The armistice ending WWI was signed at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
Ask yourself, who rescues the world? Thankfully, the men and women of the United States.«««««
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Not All Conservatives Are Nuts Who Favor the Death Penalty
The Blot's Noah Zuss spoke with me recently to discuss the conservative case against the death penalty for a story he was writing. Zuss wrote,
Among coastal liberals, there is the assumption that conservatives all believe in the same things: guns, God and hating the federal government. But on the death penalty, which was once a wedge issue between Democrats and Republicans, over the past decade, there has evolved more bipartisan opposition.
When presenting the argument against capital punishment, I simply said,
"[It's] not pro-life, fiscally responsible or representative of limited government," he said. "It fails to deter crime, harms murder victims' friends and family members."
But the death penalty fails to provide any real benefits, which were outlined in the article:
"I don't think it can be effective as a deterrent or to serve murder victims' friends and family members the way it's run now," Hyden said. "A program designed to kill guilty U.S. citizens, it has to be perfect because there is zero margin for error." He added that those family members are often called to testify multiple times. "That can be very traumatizing because they live some of the worst moments of their lives over and over again."
I did, however, mention how I used to be a death penalty proponent:
"I used to support the death penalty for a long time," Hyden said. "I'm a conservative, and for the longest time, I thought that's what conservatives were supposed to do. Once I started examining it and comparing it to the principles that I hold dear, I found there was no leg to stand on."
Zuss closed by writing,
"The reason people support the death penalty, the No. 1 reason is revenge," Hyden said. "I'm sure you can make a compelling case that perhaps some people deserve to die, but that's not the question we need to be asking ourselves. We need to ask ourselves do we trust the government to exercise this authority fairly and without mistake and with efficiency?"


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this is how far I have come. Since I have 3 selectors the jquery code is weirdly not working how do I achieve this so tabber is activated based on URL? Thanks

A: Look at JQueryUI, they have pre-built components like this.
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Q: How to change navbar list item background color when it is selected? I want to change background color of selected tab or visited page in navbar, I see bootstrap css how they have background color on hover and visited but i am not sure if i should overwrite bootstrap css or add helper class to acheive this task.
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New construction of a 77,000 square foot kindergarten through 12th-grade school, an 8,000 square foot bus garage and maintenance facility as well as new athletic facilities. The exterior walls were built to two-stories using pre-cast as well as insulated concrete with an integral color and brick pattern. Additionally, the school includes a live "green-roof" on top of a circular board room which features native grass and plants.
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The Legacy Traditional School is a two story, 90,050 square foot nonprofit, A-rated charter school located in the Cadence community of Henderson, Nevada. Legacy is built on the principle to build good citizens and lifelong learners by expanding back to basic curriculum. The new facility includes 41 classrooms, state of the art culinary kitchen, piano classroom with headsets to improve learning and retention, indoor artificial turf field, indoor basketball court, two playgrounds and shade structures. The design of the school consists of a concrete masonry unit (CMU) as well as wood framing with brick and stucco facades that will have contrasting colors with wainscoting.
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The North Valley Legacy Traditional School is a two story, 80,717 square foot charter school and was the first campus in Nevada. This facility will be a prototype design that will be used on multiple sites throughout Southern Nevada. The campus includes an indoor gym, multi-purpose room, library, kitchen, classrooms and administrative offices. The design of the school consists of a concrete masonry unit (CMU) and wood framing with brick and stucco facades that will have contrasting colors with wainscoting.


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Crypto: Crypto job openings surge 395% in a year, with Miami, Austin and Denver emerging as new hubs
The crypto space has been experiencing a hiring frenzy, and the trend likely is set to continue.
Crypto-related job postings in the U.S. surged 395% in 2021 from a year before, a sign of the industry's expansion, according to a recent analysis by LinkedIn. Companies that range from tech giants Meta FB, +1.66%, Twitter TWTR, -0.67%, Amazon AMZN, +0.57% to Wall Street firms JP Morgan JPM, -6.15% and Fidelity have all posted open spots for crypto talents in 2021.
The growth rate of crypto hiring has outpaced that of the broad tech industry, which saw a 98% increase in job postings in 2021, according to LinkedIn.
Jason Lau, chief operating officer at crypto exchange Okcoin, told MarketWatch that "we're hiring quite a bit. At last count, I think we had something like 50 open positions."
"And it's going to be continued hiring. I can't understate how we and other companies are still trying to expand in this space," Lau said.
Crypto hubs
San Francisco (Bay Area), Austin, New York City, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, and Denver saw the most crypto job postings in 2021, as a variety of crypto companies settled in such cities, LinkedIn told MarketWatch in a follow up.
Miami, host of the annual bitcoin conference, has its own cryptocurrency MiamiCoin, while Austin boasts a vibrant crypto culture. Eric Adams, the new mayor of New York City and a bitcoin enthusiast, vowed to make big apple "the center of the cryptocurrency industry."
In 2020, the top five areas with most crypto job listings were San Francisco (Bay Area), New York City, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area, Greater Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
Demand in engineering
Companies have been hiring for engineering roles most aggressively, as job titles containing blockchain developer and blockchain engineer take up 15.6% of the total crypto-related job listings, according to LinkedIn's analysis.
Though the majority of the hiring comes in software and finance roles, other sectors, such as accounting, consulting, staffing and computer hardware also saw demands of crypto talent, the study shows.
Developers that are participating in the creation of Web 3, which enthusiasts refer to as the next generation of Internet, reached an all-time high in January, with more than 18,000 monthly active developers committing code in open source crypto and Web 3 projects, according to a report by crypto venture capital firm Electric Capital. 65% of active developers in Web3 joined in 2021, the report shows.
The average base salary for a blockchain developer in the U.S. is $154,550 per year, higher than the average salary for web developer of $75,073 per year, according to ZipRecruiter.
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Peter Webley grew up in the United Kingdom, finishing his PhD in 2003. After completing his PhD, he worked at Kings College, London, traveling to both South and Central America. He then moved to Alaska in early December 2005 to work at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Straight away, he was first involved in the January 2006 volcanic eruption response of Mount Augustine. His work at UAF involves studying volcanoes through satellite data and tracking of volcanic ash clouds. He is part of the remote sensing group at the Alaska Volcano Observatory and is responsible for the Puff model. Also, he was the UAF scientist of the month in January 2007. Recently, Peter has become involved in displaying his data in Google Earth, allowing volcanic ash clouds to be seen in three-dimensional form. Peter has traveled to many countries for his work, including Italy, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile and Argentina.
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On August 13, 2018, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Major-General of the Militia, Navdjuvonov Abdullo Shanbievich, met with the delegation of the Department of Public Security of the Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia at the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China, who visited the Republic of Tajikistan under the leadership of the Deputy Head of the above Department, Mr. Cheng Yingze.
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This is "OUR FIGHT SONG"!
Legends were born to stand out. I recently ran across Hillary's story and felt an unbelievable sense of pride and admiration for her and her family. I also wanted to share some insights about our own story in hopes those encouraging words will "HELP… To Inspire…" SHOW and display Gratitude and Accomplishment.
Every time my daughter is asked what sport she plays I look back and reflect on all those who have walked similar paths. Not only does Samantha have conditions that prevent contact sports but she has endured seven surgeries to her left foot. That's right seven – seven casts in various shapes and sizes … one for each Holiday – red, orange, pink, purple, … her first surgery was just at six months.
Swimming, too, is Sam's passion. We are thankful she was allowed to continue to swim. Today swimming and sports lead the way and like Hillary Sam could have crumbled in the face of adversity. She chose to soar! Just as Kristy writes, "Some people's spirits might crumple and become embittered."
The story below is not terribly different from Samantha's … it's not easy hearing those words … Samantha had no control over her diagnosis or healing process. Our story was a little different … a rare condition prevented Sam from a "normal" and in Louisville, Kentucky we, at the time, did not have a pediatric specialty clinic or orthopedic in town … thankfully a lot has changed since then. Yes, we heard those words … we, too, were told Samantha was a walking, talking cardiac arrest waiting to happen? We were told that Samantha, in 2006, had a kink in her brain stem and needed to find help. Although our medical team locally did not know if surgery would help long term. At that time worrying about playing sports turned in to let's just find a solution to a rare medical diagnosis. Yes, we are truly aware "it is a rare person who can absorb this life-altering news and mold her life into one of outstanding strength, perseverance, and hope." And that's exactly what Samantha and young ladies like Hillary are doing! Living out their dreams because THEY CAN! They fought through and they are what legends are made of!
Sports continue to inspire her passions and successes through sharing stories and successes along the way.
Here's Hillary's story.
Too Much Heart To Swim
Photo Credit: Hillary Glover
By Kristy Kinzer, Swimming World College Intern
Athletic careers can be shattered with one misstep, one break of focus, one freak accident that sidelines elite and rookie athletes alike. Every season, a team's outcome can be defined by those whose potentials cannot be brought to fruition due to accidents and injuries.
But what if you had no control over your diagnosis or healing process? What if you were told you were a walking, talking cardiac arrest waiting to happen? What if, one doctor's appointment later, you're told you cannot compete again in the sport that has become a staple to your daily routine, identity, and social and competitive outlet? Some people's spirits might crumple and become embittered. It is a rare person who can absorb this life-altering news and mold her life into one of outstanding strength, perseverance, and hope.
I'm fortunate enough to be able to put a name to this person- Hillary Glover. She's a recent graduate from Calvin College's accounting department (second to the left pictured below) with plans to become a CPA and work for Plante Moran in Chicago, Illinois. It is in her nature to already have a future plan and steady job lined up.
From the outside looking in, Hillary is not much different from any other athlete on campus. She's strong, fit, determined, driven with schoolwork, and very sociable. She was voted captain of the Calvin swim and dive team and works hard toward her goals. No one would guess that the very heartbeat inside her chest could fail at any given time, especially if it crosses the threshold of 140 beats per minute. Many don't notice the heart rate monitor she's required to wear during every workout or the red box carried to every meet and practice in case she needed defibrillation. It has become a routine part of her life. But dealing with the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is anything but routine. It is terrifying, limiting, and chronic.
Diagnosis Day
HCM is a condition in which the muscle of the heart is excessively thick, particularly in the left ventricle, which pumps blood to the rest of the body. A thickened and stiffened heart wall prevents adequate amounts of blood from nourishing the body's organs. It is the most common cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young people, particularly in athletes, and most do not realize they have the condition until it is too late.
Thanks to the diligence of a high-school nurse's skills in detecting heart murmurs and follow-up with her primary care physician, Hillary was referred to the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital for more thorough testing just to be on the safe side. No one could have prepared her for their findings.
"On June 15, I was sitting in a room on the 10th floor of the Cardiovascular Center in Helen DeVos when I found out." She vividly recalls the doctor's words delivering the the news that his team of doctors were very surprised that nothing cardiac-related had yet happened to her, and that she had to be restricted from all competitive sports.
"I had sat quietly on the bed up until that point. But when those words came out of his mouth I felt like the world had frozen, and suddenly it all came crashing down on me in a billion little pieces. 'No more swimming?' I squeaked out, and then I couldn't hold it in any longer. I broke down and sobbed," Hillary described hearing her diagnosis for the first time. "Everything felt like it was in slow motion and all I could do was replay in my mind: 'No more swimming. No more swimming. No more swimming.'"
Hillary had been captain of her swim team for the previous three years and was a part of the all-conference roster at her high school. "Basically, swimming was where I found my identity." She began competing in the sport at the age of five and couldn't imagine a life without it. When asked what helped her get through this time, Hillary credits her friends and family.
"That senior swim season was far from easy watching from the sidelines. Seeing my spots on relays getting replaced and how much fun the girls were having in the pool made me hurt inside. Each day was a new challenge. But through this all I had the greatest support system imaginable." Though being side-lined didn't get easier, Glover says that she learned more how to accept her new reality as her future was out of her control.
Swimmer to Diver
Meanwhile, mail from recruiting schools continued to pour in, further aggravating the wound of her diagnosis. She dreaded telling each head coach the same story of having to quit swimming but would be interested in team management. But on her visit to Calvin College her senior year of high school, the head coach was unable to meet due to scheduling conflicts, so she met with the dive coach, Aaron Paskvan, instead. After hearing her story, the optimistic coach offered the option of diving. Naturally, Hillary was intrigued by the possibility of competing again.
With very limited experience in diving besides the occasional backyard pool party, Glover admits that her technique was less than optimal. "When I was a competitive swimmer, the only interaction I had with the divers was during my high school team, and at that point, I think we all wanted to be divers, especially during the days when practices were tough," she jokes. From a swimmer's perspective, it seemed as if divers mostly stood under warm showers or a heat lamp.
But with a bit of deliberation, the decision was final. Hillary was not going to let HCM take away her love for participating in a team sport, whether she had experience in it or not. After participating in a summer camp with Coach Paskvan to get a feel for the sport and his coaching, she signed liability waivers and became a college diver.
Adjusting to the New Norm
When asked about the most difficult aspect of transitioning sports, Glover comments: "The team dynamic is a big game changer when it comes to switching from swimming to diving. As a swimmer you're a majority and a diver, minority."
In addition to the new social challenges, Glover faced heightened emotional challenges. "I simultaneously hated and loved my freshman year of diving. I tried not to compare myself to everyone else who has been doing it for years, but as hard as I tried not to, it just happens." She laughs about how often she smacked on an attempted dive, but slowly adjusted to new goals and began focusing on the process rather than results. "Every day I'd go to practice and just try to remind myself to keep a positive attitude because I was fortunate to simply have the opportunity to continue athletics, and that's really what I wanted."
Glover also comments about the physical differences between swimming and diving. "In diving, working hard isn't the same as trying harder. Diving is all about technique, grace, and not trying to speed things up to get the dive done. They're totally different levels of difficult."
Glover competed with great improvements, almost qualifying for DIII NCAA Diving Championships her junior year. But three weeks before her college senior dive season, not only was she informed from her cardiac specialist that her heart condition drastically worsened, but also was told that open-heart surgery was no longer a matter of "if" but a matter of "when." That August, she had an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) placed as a temporary solution until her scheduled open heart surgery during final exam week in December. A few days before this surgery, she met with the coaches to inform them that she would meet the team on winter training trip in Florida two weeks post-surgery, and she would be coming back to finish the season at the conference championships in February.
Our head coach was impressed by her drive but had his doubts about recovery time. But I knew if Hillary set her mind on a goal, she would find a way to accomplish it. After having 16 square centimeters shaved off her heart wall and enduring weeks of physical therapy, Hillary stepped up to the boards to dive for her team one last time, proudly sporting her surgical scars.
Character in Adversity
Now that her college athletic career is behind her, Glover reflects on the bigger picture. "Having a heart condition has made me grow up. It's made me face the possibility of death, which is not something every 21-year-old can say." She also credits her heart condition with an attitude change. "I'm a pretty intense and tough person, so I don't always feel bad for people when they're struggling with things. But dealing with my own heart condition has helped me put difficulties into perspective and has allowed me to empathize with other perspectives too."
Her courage has left a profound impact on those around her and continues to do so. "She is one of the strongest, most resilient people I know, and I'm blessed as a teammate and friend to have been able to witness Hillary's journey," Rachel Devries, high-school teammate and friend, said. Devries credits Glover's positive mental attitude and encouragement as the only reason she joined and continued in the sport of swimming.
Glover encourages athletes recovering from injury or dealing with a debilitating diagnosis to keep an open conversation and dialogue with others to help with the rebuilding process. She also advises to continue an athletic pursuit. "Don't give up. Athletes can't just give up on being athletic. It's a lifestyle and is so important for sanity, health, and everything else."
For Glover, not giving up meant switching sports completely. "It's just a matter of finding what you're able to do and running with it," she urges.
Too Much Heart
Well, there you have it. Quite literally and figuratively, Hillary Glover struggles with having too large of a heart. I've been a witness of her drive, love for teammates, and perseverance through setbacks, and she continues to amaze others with her can-do attitude. She hopes her story inspires others to fight through limitations and find a niche.
May we all follow Glover's example and approach life with a little more heart.
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Via West County Explorers Club: This photo showed up on Facebook a few days ago, apparently. An Australian dad built his son a scaled-down 70-series Land Cruiser, complete with Lightforce spotlight and bull bar. I wonder if the antenna means it has a radio as well.
It occurred to me that a truck like this could totally go on the trail with an adult convoy since trail speeds average about 10 mph. How amazing would that be for a kid out in the wide open country with their own truck and their family their for backup?In a related story, this was told to me the other day. A guy went out with his kids in his FJ80. They were in a big, dry river bed, so he put the truck in low range, got out and let his kids drive it around. They were nine and twelve. "They've been driving go-karts for years, so they know how to drive pretty well." Then after bit he saw his kids stop the truck. "What are they doing?" he thought. Two seconds later they were barreling across the wash.


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Josef Jedlička est un écrivain tchèque né en 1927 à Prague en Tchécoslovaquie (aujourd'hui République tchèque) et mort à Augsbourg en 1990.

Aperçu biographique
Après avoir commencé des études d'esthétique, il est exclu de l'université en 1949 pour avoir critiqué la politique du régime communiste. Il exercera les métiers les plus divers pour faire vivre sa famille, de simple ouvrier à ethnographe. Il se lie d'amitié avec Jan Zábrana, rencontre Václav Havel et Bohumil Hrabal.  En 1953, il part vivre avec sa famille à Litvinov, un centre industriel de la Bohême du nord : ville usine (pétrochimie) et ville minière, au paysage massacré, dont les logements « sociaux » sont d'anciens baraquements concentrationnaires. Il lui faudra attendre 1966 et un début de dégel pour publier à Prague Au milieu du chemin de notre vie, écrit entre 1953 et 1957. Le livre est accueilli comme une révélation, mais l'auteur tombe presque aussitôt dans l'oubli en prenant en 1968 le chemin de l'exil. Il travaillera à la rédaction tchécoslovaque de Radio Free Europe à Munich. La Révolution de velours le fera redécouvrir grâce à la publication posthume de la chronique familiale Le sang n'est pas de l'eau (1991) et de plusieurs volumes d'essais. Il meurt à Augsbourg en 1990.

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 Kde život náš je v půli se svou poutí (Au milieu du chemin de notre vie), publié (partiellement censuré) à Prague 1966, traduit en allemand en 1968 (Unterwegs, chez Surhkamp), deuxième édition avec l'addition de quelques pages d'abord censurées chez Mladá fronta, à Prague, en 1994. Première édition française, complétée d'après le manuscrit original, dans une traduction d'Erika Abrams : Éditions Noir sur Blanc, .
 Bohdan Kopecký, monographie (Liberec, 1968)
 Krev není voda (Le sang n'est pas de l'eau), chronique (Prague 1991, traduction allemande chez DVB en 2004)
 České typy (Types tchèques), essais (Prague, 1992)
 Poznámky ke Kafkovi (Remarques sur Kafka), essais (Prague, 1993)
 Rozptýleno v prostoru a čase (Dispersé dans le temps et l'espace), essais (Brno, 2000)
 Ornament (L'Ornement), essais (Prague, 2006)
 Milý pane Wilde (Cher monsieur Wild), correspondance (Prague, 2006).

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Écrivain tchèque du XXe siècle
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Décès en décembre 1990
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Lords Want Stop To OAP Bus Passes & TV Licences
Unelected Lords
want to axe free bus passes and TV licences for OAPs because they are 'outdated and unfair on young people'. In West Lancashire there are 16,924 over 65s, and 7,371 qualify for free TV licences. And, believe it or not, many of us still pay taxes!
You may recall the case of the Tory peer who was criticised for claiming up to £5,700 a month for walking to "work" from her £4.5million home just 200 yards away from the House of Lords.
a former Tory minister, was accused of exploiting a new tax-free payment of up to £300 a day which those who live in London benefit from the most.
But the 74-year-old former Cadbury Schweppes director, who has taken home £74,400 in parliamentary attendance allowances, has not broken any rules. An analysis by the Daily Mail newspaper found that 124 of the 161 Lords who live in London claimed the daily allowance.
So you will wonder
why these people have said pensioners should be stripped of 'outdated' perks such as free TV licences and bus passes to make Britain fairer for younger people, peers said.
The 'triple lock' on pensions which has seen the state pension "soar" in recent years should also be scrapped, the House of Lords select committee found. I'd like to know where it "soared to" by comparison with council tax bills?
They called on the BBC to phase out free TV licences for the over-75s, with only the poorest households receiving them without payment. The Corporation is consulting on whether to get rid of them and the report could make it easier to do so. The peers said free bus passes and the winter fuel payments should only be available five years after a person reaches state pension age.
They called for better-off elderly people to continue paying National Insurance if they work beyond the state pension age. The report, compiled by the Lords select committee on intergenerational fairness and provision, said these perks were no longer justified when younger people struggle to even get on the housing ladder.
To help younger adults, it called for town halls to be given more power to develop unused land as well as higher funding for vocational training.
Lord True, the committee chairman
said 'We found that intergenerational bonds are still strong. However, there is a risk that those connections could be undermined if the Government does not get a grip on key issues such as access to housing, secure employment and fairness in tax and benefits.
'We are calling for some of the outdated benefits based purely on age to be removed. Policies such as the state pension triple lock and free TV licences for over 75s were justified when pensioner households were at the bottom of the income scale but that is no longer the case.'
The committee said ministers needed to build a fairer society to prepare the country for the coming 100-year lifespan. The report said that while age-based benefits and allowances were justified in the past to tackle pensioner poverty, many pensioner households are now on average better off than many working age households both in terms of income after housing costs and household wealth. Many? How many?
The peers also called on the Treasury to publish a breakdown of the effects of each Budget by generation and said ministers should create 'Intergenerational Impact Assessments' for all draft legislation. Lord True said 'Young people told us they feel short-changed by the housing market, so we are recommending policies to deliver a significant increase in the supply of social and private housing and recommended protections to give renters long-term security.
'We also need to change how we view education and training. Longer working lives mean older workers need support to reskill and continue to contribute in the workplace and younger people, particularly those who do not go to university, need the Government to fund further education and vocational training.'
But charities for the aged did not accept all the committee's recommendations.
Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said 'Young people may need more help but we disagree that this should be at the expense of the older generation. Means-testing, for example, results in significant numbers of very poor older people missing out. 'We reject the notion that helping younger and older people is an 'either/or'; in practice, many at both ends of the age spectrum need our society's support and an advanced economy like the UK is well placed to provide it.'
And now, abolish the unelected House of Lords, hold elections to it, and maybe we might end the tax free ripoff?
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I do not normally respond to other people's articles or statements. However, this time it is different. Now, we have a foreigner who flies in, comment on a local issue regarding which he seems not to know the relevant facts. Since he was described as "a prominent US-based Turkish scholar" and "an award-wining author on contemporary Muslim issues", there is a likelihood that readers will believe what he said and will be misled by it. Besides, there are also groups and individuals who might want to use him to support their agenda.
I refer to the report by Abder Rahman Koya "The caliphate had ICERD too, Turkish scholar reminds Malaysian Muslim groups" in Free Malaysia Today on November 16, 2018 of his interview of Mustafa Akyol. Apparently, Akyol was asked to comment on the opposition by "Muslim groups" to the ratification of ICERD by Malaysia.
Before going any further, the title itself is likely to mislead Muslim readers in Malaysia. First, as they have no means to compare the provisions of ICERD and "the ICERD of the Caliphate", they might think that the two are the same.
Secondly, I believe that the use of the word "Caliphate" instead of the Ottoman Empire by the reporter was done on purpose to make Malaysian Muslims readers think that the Ottoman Empire was more "Islamic" (if not holy) than it really was and since it too had ICERD, so, as Akyol himself asked, "Why should Malaysia stay behind?" Clearly, there was a motive in the choice of the word "Caliphate", indeed even in choosing Akyol to be interviewed on the subject. Note that the word "Caliphate" was not used even once by Akyol in his quoted passages. Instead, he used the term "Ottoman Empire". How "Islamic" was the "Ottoman Empire" is debatable.
"If those who argue against ICERD have Islamic arguments in their mind, there are counter Islamic arguments as well," he added.
So, that is the ICERD of the Ottoman Empire that Aykol wants us to study and adopt. That one paragraph does not justify to be called ICERD. Even the content differs. Has he read the whole convention (ICERD)? Being a Turk, he could be forgiven for being proud of the Ottoman Empire, however, as "a prominent scholar" he should not be saying everything that the world now has, the Ottoman Empire had, if not better. That seems to be the line of thought of Turkish scholars that I have come across.
I wonder whether he has read the Federal (Malaysian) Constitution. There are more provisions there on personal liberty than in the Ottoman Constitution that he reproduced.
It is nice to read the printed words, what more when they are 150 years old. How was it implemented? I admit I do not know. Neither did he tell us. But were there no slaves during the Ottoman Empire? What about harems? Do they have the right to marry men of their own choice?
Of course, in this part of his comments, he was referring to those "who oppose the ICERD on Islamic grounds". Admittedly, in Malaysia there are groups and individuals who oppose on "Islamic grounds." PAS and the muftis are good examples.
But I do not. I object on constitutional grounds as it affects Articles 8(4)(f), 89 and 153. So my ground is not traversed.
We now come to the second part of his statement.
"He said the argument that ICERD would abolish Bumiputera rights was counter-productive in lifting the community economically.
"Relying on an advantageous status granted by the state is actually not beneficial for any group," said Akyol. "It makes members of that group lazy, rather than pushing them to work He gave the analogy of a football match with rules favouring a particular team.
Note that he was merely giving his general personal opinion without referring to the Federal Constitution, particularly, Articles 8(4)(f), 89 and 153. Most probably, he had not even read the Constitution. I am very sure too that he knows nothing about the history of the Malay Peninsular (Semenanjung Tanah Melayu), at least from the time it was colonised by the British (by whatever name you call it) that led to the influx of Chinese and Indian emigrants; the negotiation for independence; the social contract that was written into the Constitution and, now, after six decades, one party to the contract is trying to challenge it. Ratification of ICERD is a means to challenge those constitutional provisions after the ratification.
Comparing the position to a football match merely shows his ignorance of the facts surrounding the issue. The issue is, a party to a social contract the terms of which have been written into the Constitution wants to abolish the said terms through the ratification of ICERD. If he does not know the history of the country, the social contract and provisions of the Constitution, the best thing for him to do is not to make any comment. It is not worth traversing the arguments put forward by him as they are clearly out of context.
"Akyol said the opposition by some Muslim groups to the ICERD could be due to an inability to emerge from the classical Islamic system which divides Muslim and non-Muslim citizens.
He said such a system had been overtaken by historical realities.
"Yes, that was the historical experience of Muslims, but not a divinely ordained blueprint valid for all ages," said Akyol.
He said the Ottoman empire realised this in the middle of the 19th century and abolished the dhimmi system, giving Christians and Jews of the empire equal citizenship with Muslims.
He said it was time that Muslims learnt to accept values that are Islamic even though they originate from the "un-Islamic" West.
He said besides religious texts and traditions, humanity was expected to act with reason and conscience.
Here again we have a "prominent scholar" talking with his feet in the air, not knowing the facts and the context to which the theories are to be applied. What he said is either irrelevant or are already provided for in the Federal Constitution.
The Federal Constitution is more modern than the constitution of the Ottoman Empire. It was written by five common law Judges, three of whom were from England, one from Australia and one from Pakistan. Four of them were Christians and only one, a Muslim.
The dhimmi system is foreign to it. Indeed, it contains the most up-to-date constitutional law principles regarding freedom and equality of all citizens except for some privileges being reserved for the Malays and the natives of Sabah and Sarawak in exchange for the granting of citizenship to the others.
He assumes the reasons why "the Muslim groups" object to ratification of ICERD. His arguments may be valid if those were the reasons for their objection. Since he is an authority on contemporary Muslim issues, I leave it to him and "the Muslim groups" to argue among themselves.


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Q: Rewrite "button.Click += ..." using ICommand in WPF I am using an external SDK.
namespace ProSimSDK
{
    public class ArmedFailure
   {
     ...
     public static event ArmedFailureEventDelegate onNew;
     public void Reset();
     ...
   }
}

namespace ProSimSDK
{
   public delegate void ArmedFailureEventDelegate(ArmedFailure armedFailure);
}

I have some trouble when I try to rewrite some Winform code by WPF. In Winform:
public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    ArmedFailure.onNew += new ArmedFailureEventDelegate(ArmedFailure_onNew);
}

// This function will be called when a new armedFailure is received
void ArmedFailure_onNew(ArmedFailure armedFailure)
{
      //Here is the code I need to rewrite in WPF.
      removeButton.Click += new EventHandler(delegate(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            failure.Reset();
        });
}

In WPF, I use a listbox. With some guide, I am using ListBox Template and Command.
In Window1.xaml:
<DataTemplate x:Key="ListBoxItemTemplate">
    <Grid>
        <TextBlock x:Name="TB" Margin="5,10,5,5" Grid.Column="2" Height="23" Text="{Binding}" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
        <Button HorizontalAlignment="Right" Grid.Column="3" Margin="500,10,5,0" CommandParameter="{Binding}" Command="{Binding ElementName=UC_Failures_Setting, Path=OnClickCommand}" Width="80" Click="Button_Click">remove</Button>
    </Grid>
</DataTemplate>

<ListBox x:Name="listbox" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ListBoxItemTemplate}" Margin="0,661,982,0" SelectionChanged="ListBox_SelectionChanged">

Window1.xaml.cs
public Window1()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    //How to implement the same functionality of "removeButton.Click += new EventHandler(delegate(object sender, EventArgs e) {failure.Reset();});" shown in Winform???
    OnClickCommand = new ActionCommand(x => listbox.Items.Remove(x));
}

ActionCommand.cs:
 public class ActionCommand: ICommand
 {
    private readonly Action<object> Action;
    private readonly Predicate<object> Predicate;

    public ActionCommand(Action<object> action) : this(action, x => true)
    {

    }
    public ActionCommand(Action<object> action, Predicate<object> predicate)
    {
        Action = action;
        Predicate = predicate;
    }

    public bool CanExecute(object parameter)
    {
        return Predicate(parameter);
    }
    public void Execute(object parameter)
    {
        Action(parameter);
    }

    public event EventHandler CanExecuteChanged
    {
        add
        {
            CommandManager.RequerySuggested += value;
        }
        remove
        {
            CommandManager.RequerySuggested -= value;
        }
    }
}

How does the button in my listbox implement the same functionality of
removeButton.Click += new EventHandler(delegate(object sender, EventArgs e)
{ failure.Reset(); });

shown in Winform? In WPF I cannot write it this way. Thanks.

A: if ListBox is populated with ArmedFailure items, then the parameter which command receives, should be ArmedFailure item.
OnClickCommand = new ActionCommand
(
   x =>
   {
       var failure = (ArmedFailure)x;
       failure.Reset();
       listbox.Items.Remove(x);
   }
);

everything that was in Button.Click handler in WinForms becomes part of ICommand.Execute in wpf


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Laurie Sullivan
Nintendo Wii Pre-Orders To Begin Friday
Although purchases are limited to one gaming console per household, not even a deposit guarantees receipt of a system, EB Games and GameStop said.
Nintendo fans willing to wait in long lines outside the retail stores EB Games or GameStop could get a chance to plunk down a $50 deposit to reserve a new Nintendo Wii console. The gaming retailers, which merged in 2005, begin taking preorders on Friday.
"Extremely limited supplies" could cause EB Games and GameStop to reach presale limits quickly -- "most likely in minute," according to a note posted on the Web.
Although purchases are limited to one console per household, not even a deposit guarantees receipt of a system, EB Games and GameStop said. A limited online pre-order program will be announced at a later date, after software and accessory availability details are confirmed.
Stores have been directed to open at normal hours and must give priority to customers that stand in line. Nintendo expects to ship about four million Wii consoles this year.


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AfterDawn > News > Google, Amazon, and others sued for infringing on cloud computing and search patents
Google, Amazon, and others sued for infringing on cloud computing and search patents
Written by Rich Fiscus @ 09 Dec 2011 2:16 User comments (3)
PersonalWeb, a company based in Tyler, Texas, has filed patent infringement suits against a number of large tech companies, including Google, Amazon, VMWare, and NEC.
The company's location is notable only because Tyler, Texas has a reputation as the most friendly court in the US for patent lawsuits.
PersonalWeb is notably different from the typical company setting up an office in the East Texas town. In most cases those companies are non-practicing entities, more commonly referred to as patent trolls, who exist only to sue and produce no products of any kind.
While PersonalWeb has followed a path familiar to patent trolls in buying up patent portfolios from other companies, those patents are used in actual products, including StudyPods, an educational social networking platform currently deployed in Tyler, and an anti-piracy product called Global File System.
In fact, in their statement announcing the lawsuits PersonalWeb makes a point of mentioning both those products, begging the question of whether their sole purpose is to create a facade of legitimacy as a real tech company instead of a patent troll.
The patents PersonalWeb is accusing these companies of violating deal with, "cloud computing, distributed search engine file systems, and content addressable storage." They certainly seem like the typical vague patents you see patent trolls sue over regularly.
That certainly doesn't mean their suits will be unsuccessful, or even that they won't be settled to avoid a potentially costly loss. Keep in mind, they would be argued in the same court where Microsoft was ordered to pay more than $200 million in damages for a minor feature in Word.
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KillerBug
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Google should shut down all their services with a message that says, "Because of PersonalWeb we have disabled this feature"...the PersonalWeb offices would be burned to the ground within a few hours and the management would be hanging by their necks by nightfall.
Bozobub
With today's consumers..? Nah. They'd just complain, then move on. People will swallow just about any corporate misbehavior, it seems.
That is mostly true...but turn off google maps and things would get messy. Then again, without google maps, most people couldn't find the company headquarters in order to burn it to the ground.
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is a Japanese professional golfer.

Tsukada plays on the Japan Golf Tour and the Asian Tour. His best finish on the Japan Golf Tour is a win at the 2013 Token Homemate Cup. His best finish on the Asian Tour is T-2 at the 2009 Queen's Cup. He won two events on the Japan Challenge Tour in 2016 and led the money list.

Professional wins (3)

Japan Golf Tour wins (1)

Japan Challenge Tour wins (2)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the halfway cut
Note: Tsukada never played in the Masters Tournament or the PGA Championship.

References

External links

Japanese male golfers
Japan Golf Tour golfers
Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture
1969 births
Living people


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Der Kohortativ (von ) bezeichnet die ermahnende, ermutigende oder vorschlagende Form eines Verbes. Andere Bezeichnungen sind Exhortativ oder Propositiv. Im Deutschen übernimmt beispielsweise eine Umschreibung mit lassen in Erstposition + Infinitiv diese Funktion: "Lasst uns gehen".

Während im deutschen Beispielsatz das bedeutungstragende Verb im Infinitiv steht, kann in anderen Sprachen, etwa im Koreanischen, der Kohortativ durch eine Modifikation eben des betreffenden Verbs ausgedrückt werden. So könnte das oben genannte deutsche Beispiel im Koreanischen wie folgt lauten: gamnida (갑니다) "(Wir) gehen" wird im Kohortativ modifiziert zu gapsida (갑시다) "Lass(t) uns gehen!".

In der hebräischen Sprache (literarisch bzw. biblisch, findet kaum Anwendung im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch) drückt sich der Kohortativ für die erste Person Singular oder Plural durch das Anhängen eines betonten -a (-ה) an die präformative Form des finiten Verbums aus (Bsp.:  und ).

Siehe auch
 Adhortativ
 Imperativ (Modus)
 Jussiv
 Optativ

Einzelnachweise

Grammatischer Modus

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If you're not averse to waiting in line for up to an hour, you might get a table here in season. The line begins forming early -- there's often a wait at lunch as well. It's as much to do with the size of the joint as its food. It's a small fish shack set in a strip mall. The L-shaped tiki-hut bar takes up a good amount of room, so the wooden tables and bench seating in a sparse space are crushed together, and the volume is sometimes shoutable. (Claustrophobes beware!) But there's another reason for the wait: The fresh sushi and sashimi (signature is a lobster volcano roll), fresh fish dishes, and chowders draw fans in droves. Complimentary edamame comes to the table; then diners must choose from among a list of fresh fish of the day or standard whole snapper (fried and standing up on the plate in an unusual presentation), lobster mashed potatoes, or crab-crusted hogfish. For those who can't wait: Takeout is an option.


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My men and I have been blessed to go on some fabulous vacations. However, of all the trips we have ever taken as a family, an RV road trip has been the most fun and memorable out of all of them.
You may remember we did an RV trip two years ago with Access RV Rentals here in Salt Lake City, UT. Before that trip I was not looking forward to it. The high-maintenance side of me had a pre-judgement that RV-ing was the complete opposite of luxury. I couldn't fathom sitting on an bumpy RV for a week listening to my kids bicker with each other and complain "are we there yet"? To my surprise, they (and I) loved it.
When the opportunity arose to do another Access RV Trip there was no question the answer was "ABSOLUTELY". We picked up the RV in Indiana and started our way back to Salt Lake City, UT in a week's time.
What is great about RV'ing is you can cover a lot of sites in a short amount of time. Plus, kids have much more space to stretch out unlike sitting in a car for a week.
I cannot describe how valuable a week on an RV is for a family.
Seeing pictures in a text book is one thing. Seeing those places first hand is priceless.
Have you ever had your children attend a different religious services other than their own? That one experience alone made a huge impression these three.
These men also learned about the great leaders of our country and what they contributed to society.
The beauty of being on an RV is that all the distractions at home are eliminated and you're forced to spend time together…like it or not.
Let's just say, we never knew 10 rounds of UNO could be so comical.
You never realize how big the world is until you leave home.
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Go versions before 1.5 did not provide any built in method for vendoring packages. The tools that currently exist today (godep, nut and a few others) basically exploit the implementation details of $GOPATH. Go 1.5 however includes a "vendor experiment". With this experiment go commands will attempt to resolve dependencies in vendor/ directories.
If there is a source directory d/vendor, then, when compiling a source file within the subtree rooted at d, import "p" is interpreted as import "d/vendor/p" if that exists.
When there are multiple possible resolutions, the most specific (longest) path wins.
Let's unpack that a little….
main.go imports all three top level dependencies: a, b & c.
Each of those dependencies uses an init function for demonstration purposes. As each init function is executed it prints out its exported variable. When it imports package a it also calls a's exported Inc function so we can observe a side effect.
Package b imports package a and because of the dependency resolution policy of longest path wins (see Russ' comment above) vendor/a is what is used. a.Inc is called, which increments a's internal variable.
Package c also imports a package a, but unlike package b it has its own version of a package a inside of its own vendor directory making the full path to the package a that package c imports being: vendor/c/vendor/a. This new package a has a different value for its internal variable (100) and calling a.Inc updates it to 101.
Showing that the package a used by main is the one in vendor/a, not the one in vendor/c/vendor/a or vice versa.
One interesting side effect of this experimental implementation is that it's recursive in nature, meaning libraries with dependencies can vendor their own dependencies inside their own vendor directory and the go tooling handles it.
Multiple versions of the same library will cause problems. For instance, only a single copy of any database/sql driver can be registered, if you vendor lib/pq and another vendored dep also vendors it and imports it, you'll get a panic. This is a limitation of database/sql, but probably also a sane one. Another issue (hat tip to onetruekarl) comes up when 2 vendored dependencies also vendor their own copies of another depencency with the same name. If any of those sub types bubble out of the libraries that you've vendored you won't be able to tell which vendored package it actually comes from.
Tools like godep, vendor, gb, etc may be called upon to "squash" down recursively vendored packages into a single version in the vendor/ directory. It's not really clear what people's expectations here are though.
There is a strong argument to be made that libraries should not vendor their own dependencies, but as the author of several library / command combo packages that rely extensively on 3rd party libraries I'm not convinced of that blanket assertion.
Determining the proper versions without a bunch of extra metadata around will be hard. This is probably a place where the vendor-spec comes in handy.
In any case I am looking forward to the official support for this.


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Publish Date January 12, 2023
KCd Inferior to Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Multiple Myeloma
Andrea S. Blevins Primeau, PhD, MBA
In this phase 2 study, researchers evaluated whether treatment with a carfilzomib-based regimen and maintenance therapy was noninferior to HSCT in multiple myeloma. Source: Getty Images
Treatment of newly-diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) with a transplant-free regimen of carfilzomib plus cyclophosphamide and dexamethasone (KCd) with carfilzomib maintenance was inferior to autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), according to the results of the phase 2 CARDAMON study published in Lancet Haematology.
Given that HSCT is associated with morbidity and some mortality, the authors evaluated whether treatment with a carfilzomib-based regimen and maintenance therapy without HSCT was noninferior.
The open-label, phase 2 CARDAMON randomly assigned 218 patients with newly-diagnosed MM to receive KCd consolidation or undergo high-dose melphalan consolidation followed by autologous HSCT. All patients received KCd induction and carfilzomib maintenance therapy. The primary endpoint was at least very good partial response (VGPR) and progression-free survival (PFS) at 2 years. The median follow-up was 40.2 months.
There were 57.7% of patients who achieved at least a VGPR after induction, including 3% who achieved a complete response and 5% a stringent complete response. After consolidation, 78.0% and 77.1% of patients achieved at least a VGPR with KCd or HSCT, respectively.
Noninferiority of PFS was not met, with a rate of 68% with KCd and 75% with HSCT at 2 years (hazard ratio, 1.35; 70% CI, 1.11-1.64; P =.11). The 2-year overall survival (OS) was 90.8% in the KCd group compared with 94.4% in the HSCT group. The median OS was not reached.
Grade 3-4 adverse events occurred among 66% of patients during induction, and 5 patients died. Among patients in the KCd group, grade 3-4 AEs occurred among 45% and 45% of patients during consolidation and maintenance, respectively. Among patients in the HSCT group, grade 3-4 AEs occurred among 65% of patients and there was 1 death.
The authors concluded that "KCd did not meet the criteria for noninferiority compared with autologous HSCT."
Disclosures: This study was supported in part by Amgen. Please see the original reference for a full list of disclosures.
Yong K, Wilson W, de Tute RM, et al. Upfront autologous haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation versus carfilzomib–cyclophosphamide–dexamethasone consolidation with carfilzomib maintenance in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma in England and Wales (CARDAMON): a randomised, phase 2, non-inferiority trial. Lancet Haematol. Published online December 15, 2022. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(22)00350-7
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