The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) named 2018 MLA graduates Kate Jirasiritham and Sarah Toth winners of ASLA 2018 Student Awards. Their exemplary work was selected out of 332 entries representing 17 schools for two of only 27 awards.
Professors Catherine Seavitt Nordenson and Matthew Seibert were advisors for the two projects, which were completed in spring 2018.
Awards will be presented at the ASLA 2018 Annual Meeting and EXPO in Philadelphia on Monday, October 22. The September issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) also features the award-winning projects and can be viewed here. Toth's project is also published in a round-up in LAM online.


Mamma Mia! It's the Official Opening Night!
Mamma Mia! is terrific fun.
Perhaps the single most ecstatic musical to open on Broadway since A Chorus Line. Mamma Mia! leaves you uplifted, enraptured and feeling like a number one!
Mamma Mia! is a mega-hit that has audiences dancing in the aisles.
This feel-good musical is a phenomenon! Audiences seeking escapist fun are returning night after night to relive the thrill!
The most fun on Broadway! Audiences are going wild!
For a third consecutive year, Jessie Inman, CEO Confederation Centre of the Arts, has been named one the region's top corporate managers. At a gala dinner in Moncton last week, Atlantic Business Magazine announced Inman as one of the 'Top 50 Atlantic Canadian CEOs' and will feature her in the May/June issue.
Inman was one of only two Island business leaders named this year, the other being John Griffin, president and general manager of W.P. Griffin Inc. who was also named CEO Innovator of the Year by Atlantic Business. W.P. Griffin Inc. is a recognized leader in producing, packaging and marketing P.E.I. potatoes locally and internationally.
Wayne Hambly, Chairman of the Board of Confederation Centre – or the Fathers of Confederation Buildings Trust – acknowledged the notable achievements of both Ms. Inman and Mr. Griffin.
Inman became CEO of Canada's national living memorial to the Fathers of Confederation in November 2011. Originally from St. Catherine's, P.E.I., she has worked all over the world but was thrilled to have been able to return to her roots and contribute to her province and country. She now lives in Charlottetown with her husband Allan.
Noel Peirce Coward, whose play "Blithe Spirit" is at the Watermark Theatre all summer, was born on December 16, 1899, receiving his first name because Christmas was just days away. From an early age, Noel was intelligent, temperamental, and an instinctive performer, making his first stage appearances in amateur concerts at age seven. He loved to sing and dance at any excuse and threw frightful tantrums if he was not summoned to perform for guests.
With his mother's encouragement, he launched his professional acting career at the age of 12, making his London debut as Prince Mussel in a children's show called The Goldfish. He appeared in several West End productions, including the "lost boy" Slightly in two West End editions of Peter Pan.
In the early 1900s, England was a very class-conscious society. A boy actor born to poor parents would have been snubbed by the upper classes. However, Coward's extraordinary determination and charm won him an entree into the chicest circles. His professional and social ambitions were insatiable.
I Leave It To You (1920) was Coward's first full length play produced in the West End, with Noel playing a leading role – quite an accomplishment for a lad of 21. The brief run brought encouraging reviews, whetting Coward's appetite for more.
The London production of his play The Young Idea (1923) was a mild success, with Noel playing one of the lead roles. That same year, producer Andre Charlot featured several of Coward's songs in the hit revue London Calling. While all this was happening, Noel put the finishing touches on a daring drama that would change his career – and his life – forever.
He wrote, directed and starred in The Vortex (1924), a searing look at sexual vanity and drug abuse among the upper classes. When most producers refused to consider such a lurid project, the small Everyman Theatre in suburban London agreed to take it on.
On opening night, the audience was both shocked and fascinated by The Vortex. The combination of fiery acting and scandalous subject matter made The Vortex the talk of London. Other plays had depicted drug abuse, but not among the rich. Demand was such that the production soon moved to a larger West End theatre for an extended run, making Coward a sensation.
With the sudden success of The Vortex, Coward was in demand. Over the two years he starred in the London and New York productions, as well as an American tour. Coward also wrote the hilarious comedy Hay Fever (1925), which triumphed in London, and the hit West End revue On With The Dance (1925). He also turned out Fallen Angels (1925), Easy Virtue (1925), The Queen Was in the Parlour (1926) and The Rat Trap (1926). Most of these plays were at least partially successful, but he was working at a punishing pace.
Coward prospered through the worst of the Great Depression, enjoying a lifestyle most people could only dream about. A dedicated traveler, he went on a series of extended journeys to escape the pressures of show business. During one 1929 stay in Singapore, he finished the first draft of Private Lives (1930), which proved to be a highlight of his career. Coward co-starred with a then unknown Laurence Olivier, playing to packed houses in both London and New York.
Coward then wrote and directed Cavalcade (1931). Acclaimed on the London stage, the film version won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1933.
In 1942, he turned out a trio of hit plays, including the semi-autobiographical comedy Present Laughter (1942) and the cockney drama This Happy Breed (1942). His biggest wartime hit was Blithe Spirit (1942). The play proved one of Coward's most popular successes, with character actress Margaret Rutherford winning stardom as the eccentric medium Madame Arcati. She repeated her role in a superb film version three years later.
The years following the war were difficult for Coward. Other than the London revue Sigh No More (1945), most of his new works met with commercial failure. Coward knew instinctively that his writing was better than ever, but it seemed that the public's tastes had changed.
A 1963 revival of Private Lives took London by storm, sparking renewed interest in Coward's plays on both sides of the Atlantic. Revivals and TV productions of his works followed and continue to this day.
In January of 1973, Noel visited New York for a gala performance of the off-Broadway revue Oh Coward! He arrived with longtime friend Marlene Dietrich on his arm. Bent with age and illness, he remained the personification of elegance. Friends sensed that he was declining, but no one realized that his would be his last public appearance. In the early morning hours of Monday, March 26, 1973, Noel Coward suffered a stroke at his home in Jamaica.
Tennessee Williams wrote "The Glass Menagerie" – on this summer at the Watermark Theatre! Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama.
Tennessee was born on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi, the second of Cornelius and Edwina Williams' three children. Williams described his childhood in Mississippi as pleasant and happy. But life changed for him when his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri. The carefree nature of his boyhood was stripped in his new urban home, and as a result Williams turned inward and started to write.
His parent's marriage certainly didn't help. Often strained, the Williams home could be a tense place to live. "It was just a wrong marriage," Williams later wrote. The family situation, however, did offer fuel for the playwright's art. His mother became the model for the foolish but strong Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, while his father represented the aggressive, driving Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
When he was 28, Williams moved to New Orleans, where he changed his name (he landed on Tennessee because his father hailed from there) and revamped his lifestyle, soaking up the city life that would inspire his work, most notably the later play, A Streetcar Named Desire.
In 1940 Williams' play, Battle of Angels, debuted in Boston. It quickly flopped, but the hardworking Williams revised it and brought it back as Orpheus Descending, which later was made into the movie, The Fugitive Kind, starring Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani.
Other work followed, including a gig writing scripts for MGM. But Williams' mind was never far from the stage. On March 31, 1945, a play he'd been working for some years, The Glass Menagerie, opened on Broadway.
Critics and audiences alike lauded the play, about a declassed Southern family living in a tenement, forever changing Williams' life and fortunes. Two years later, A Streetcar Named Desire opened, surpassing his previous success and cementing his status as one of the country's best playwrights. The play also earned Williams a Drama Critics' Award and his first Pulitzer Prize.
His subsequent work brought more praise. The hits from this period included Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth.
The 1960s were a difficult time for Williams. His work received poor reviews and increasingly the playwright turned to alcohol and drugs as coping mechanisms. In 1969 his brother hospitalized him. Upon his release, Williams got right back to work. He churned out several new plays as well as Memoirs in 1975, which told the story of his life and his afflictions.
But he never fully escaped his demons. Surrounded by bottles of wine and pills, Williams died in a New York City hotel room on February 25, 1983.
Festival Completes Casting of Mamma Mia!
It's an early start to the season for the cast and crew of The Charlottetown Festival. Rehearsals kicked off last week for the P.E.I. theatre event of the year — Mamma Mia!, opening June 1 in the Homburg Theatre.
McGrath), and British banker Harry Bright (Cam MacDuffee).
Local audiences are acquainted with all three, with Guy-McGrath appearing as the fiddle-playing René in last fall's Evangeline and Cournoyer playing the villainous Hampson in that show as well as the White King in Alice Through the Looking-Glass. MacDuffee starred in Ring of Fire and Dear Johnny Deere, and toured with Cournoyer for the Centre's 2015 production, The Founding Father.
Sophie's husband-to-be, the loyal and handsome Sky, played by David Cotton (Baptiste in the world premiere of Evangeline), while Donna's two best friends are brought to life by Jan Alexandra Smith and Nicola Dawn Brook. For the full Mamma Mia! cast list, see addendum.
For a limited time only, the Festival is offering 20% off performances in the month of June. Use promo code ABBA when contacting the box office online, in person, or via phone. This offer runs from May 21 to 28, applies to Tier-1 and 2 seating only, and is not valid with any other promotion.
"I have seen a lot of theatre in my short 41 years," says Artistic Director, Adam Brazier. "Never have I seen a party and celebration the likes of Mamma Mia! This show redefined the modern musical and set in motion the success of other jukebox hits like Jersey Boys, We Will Rock You, and Ring of Fire. This pop fable leaves the audience laughing and dancing in the aisles. Somewhere in the crowd there's you. Join us on a nostalgic journey through the guiltiest pleasure of the summer." Brazier is joined by Bob Foster, musical director, and Kerry Gage, choreographer.
Mamma Mia! opens June 1 and plays until September 3.
Luisa Marshall is "Simply The Best" and her Canada-wide PTSD Awareness Tour HOPE BEYOND THUNDERDOME TOUR 2016 comes to the Harbourfront Theatre on Thursday, May 26th at 7:30 pm.
Years ago, Luisa performed for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in a grueling show tour that included war-torn Bosnia, Sarajevo and later the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in Israel and Egypt. The most requested song on both tours was 'We Don't Need Another Hero'. Marshall wanted to add meaning to her tour so she chose her passion concerning the PTSD concerns with the Canadian Military and Firemen.
Luisa Marshall has appeared on Oprah twice and recently made a special appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show to a 25-second standing ovation.
Join us for an evening of Tina Turner classics and help bring awareness for Military and Firemen living with PTSD.


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World|Iran Holds Taliban Responsible for 9 Diplomats' Deaths
Iran Holds Taliban Responsible for 9 Diplomats' Deaths
By Douglas Jehl
September 11, 1998, Section A, Page 3Buy Reprints
An angry Iran said tonight that it would hold the militant Taliban movement responsible for the deaths of nine Iranian diplomats whose bodies were recovered by the Taliban today in northern Afghanistan.
The Taliban, who control most of Afghanistan, said the Iranians had been killed by renegade forces who had acted without orders. But Iran, which had responded to the diplomats' disappearance with a major military buildup along the Afghan border, appeared in no mood for swift forgiveness.
A Foreign Ministry statement broadcast on Iranian state television said today that Iran reserved ''the right to defend the security of its citizens'' and that ''the consequences of the Taliban action is on the shoulders of the Taliban and their supporters.''
The dead diplomats were among 11 Iranians working at a consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, a northern town that was the headquarters of an Iranian-backed rebel alliance until it was overrun by the Taliban on Aug. 8. Iranian officials had accused Taliban leaders of ordering that the consulate be captured, but had held out hope that all of the missing diplomats might still be alive.
With some 70,000 Iranian troops already posted near the Afghan border, and plans announced earlier today for more military exercises to be carried out there over the weekend, Teheran-based diplomats said tonight that tensions could turn explosive.
Taliban fighters were reported today to be advancing on Bamiyan, the sole remaining base for two Shiite factions that have benefited from Iranian support.
In an apparent attempt to appease Iran and its Shiite Muslim leadership, the Taliban commander, Mullah Mohammad Omar, issued a statement tonight urging his forces to treat any prisoners of war well and ''according to the principles of Islam.'' But that seemed unlikely to quell the deep misgivings felt within the Iranian leadership toward the Taliban, who follow a purist strain of Islam's dominant Sunni faith that has shown little tolerance even for fellow Muslims.
Throughout the crisis, officials of the Taliban have repeatedly denied responsibility for the Iranians' fate. By the time their forces reached the center of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Taliban officials have said, the Iranian consulate was empty.
In announcing tonight that the diplomats' bodies had been found, a Taliban spokesman quoted by the Afghan Islamic Press said they had been recovered at a mountain near Mazar-i-Sharif, which remains in Taliban control.
[A Taliban commission set up to investigate the disappearance of the Iranian diplomats is to issue a full report within a week, said Abdul Hakim Mujahid, the Taliban's Ambassador to Pakistan, who has been designated as their representative at the United Nations, where the opposition still holds a seat.
[In a telephone interview from Islamabad, Mr. Mujahid said that after the Taliban found the bodies, it asked Pakistan and the United Nations to intercede with the Iranians and ask them to send a team to Mazar-i-Sharif so they could see for themselves the circumstances under which the diplomats had died.
[At the United Nations in New York, Iran asked the Security Council today to take ''urgent and necessary measures'' in response to the killing of its diplomats.]
The Foreign Ministry statement broadcast tonight on Iranian state television referred to the dead diplomats as martyrs, and compared them to Iranians who had died ''defending the borders of this great country during eight years of holy defense'' during Iran's 1980-88 war with Iraq.
The statement called on the Taliban to return the bodies of the dead Iranians immediately to Iran, and to arrest those who carried out the attack. And in addition to the Taliban forces, it said it held the Government of Pakistan, which has close ties to the Taliban, partly responsible.
On the day of the attack, Pakistani diplomats had relayed to Teheran an assurance from the Taliban that the safety of the Iranian consulates and diplomats in Mazar-i-Sharif would be guaranteed.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry statement also called on the Taliban to hand over Iranian ''hostages'' who it said were still being held in Afghanistan. That was an apparent reference to the remaining two Iranian diplomats and a journalist from the Islamic Republic News Agency, whose fate the Taliban has said it has been unable to determine, as well as to nearly three dozen other Iranians whom Taliban officials have said may well be in Taliban custody.
For the last month, Iran has cast its tough stance toward the Taliban as motivated primarily by concern about several dozen Iranians missing in Afghanistan, including the 11 diplomats. But some Teheran-based diplomats have said that the scale of Iran's military posturing has suggested that its concern runs deeper than the missing Iranians' fate -- and might not be resolved even if questions about them were resolved.
The diplomats have said that Iran, as a Shiite Muslim state, is plainly troubled at the prospect that such an ideological rival could soon sit unchallenged on its borders.
It was unclear tonight whether Iran had decided to dispatch additional forces to the border area. A report in the influential Teheran Times newspaper this morning quoted an unnamed senior military official as saying several divisions from Iran's regular army would soon be moved to the region to join the 70,000 troops from Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
But today's announcement on Iranian state television said only that war games involving ''commandos, special forces, armored artillery, and mechanized units backed by the air force and the army's air corps'' would begin soon along the Afghan border. It did not say whether the exercises would involve fresh contingents of Iranian troops.
-------------------- New Gains for the Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 10 (Agence France-Presse) -- Taliban fighters have made gains on a key opposition stronghold in central Afghanistan as well as the strategic Shebar Pass, officials said today.
The Taliban, which controls about three-quarters of the country, captured the central Saighan district late Wednesday and were advancing on the Shebar Pass, east of the opposition stronghold at Bamiyan, they said.
''These gains have enabled our soldiers to bring the Bamiyan airport within artillery range,'' a Taliban official said.
Bamiyan is the last stronghold of part of an anti-Taliban alliance based in northern Afghanistan that has suffered heavy losses since last month.
Earlier, the Afghan Islamic Press said Taliban fighters had begun a major offensive and captured several vital bases in Bamiyan province, in the heart of the country. The militia fighters had closed to within 15 miles of Bamiyan city, it said.
The news agency said at least 18 rival soldiers were killed and many wounded in the fighting. The Taliban put its own toll at three dead.
Taliban troops captured at least 48 soldiers, a spokesman said, adding that the morale of opposition forces was low and that it appeared the city could fall to the Taliban.

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An Om/core.async implementation of naughts and crosses.
To get it set up for yourself, you'll need Leiningen installed (and a SASS processor of your choice to compile style.scss). Clone the repository, do lein cljsbuild once, and start a web-server at the top-level directory (I use python -m SimpleHTTPServer).
Point your browser the server you just started (if you're using the Python suggestion, that's localhost:8000 by default), and you should see a page like the demo.
The demo is compiled with advanced optimizations, so it may be a little different than what's shown here.


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Hungry Hound: Beer and cheese curd Polish, smoked meats, poke bowls at Milwaukee Bucks' Fiserv Forum
MILWAUKEE (WLS) -- With the NBA playoffs starting this weekend, it's another bitter reminder for Chicago Bulls fans the season is over. But there's another NBA team just up the road that's planning on a long post-season.
The Milwaukee Bucks have plenty to be excited about: a new arena with a new food service program. It's so good, it's beginning to draw fans from the North Shore.
EXTRA COURSE: Candy Lab at Fiserv Forum
In Steve's Extra Course Video, he visits the Candy Lab, tucked away in the upper corner of the arena.
Few expenses are being spared in Milwaukee these days. There's superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo's contract; he is, in fact, the main reason fans are turning out in droves these days. The other is the Bucks' new home, the $524 million Fiserv Forum.
Chicago's own Levy Restaurants is behind the food service here. Like other stadium deals, they've reached out to the local community.
"We have some local partners that we're using their recipes and working close with the ownership to emulate their food that would be served in their restaurant, and bringing it into this sports and entertainment environment," said David Zakroczymski, executive chef at the Fiserv Forum.
Locals like Iron Grate Barbecue, serving a pulled chicken sandwich or their brisket burnt ends. They're a lot better than they probably need to be for arena eating.
"We smoke all of our meats in-house. We have a great big smoker in the main kitchen," Zakroczymski said.
Klement's Sausage is providing the wurst here. Brats are a given.
"We have a beer curd - beer and cheese curd Polish - that we offer as well. That is only here in the arena, nowhere else in the city," he said.
Klement's also provides the meat stick that arrives in your bloody mary. El Rey hails from the city's Southwest Side. They're selling loaded nachos with vibrant salsas and pickled jalapenos.
Way up on the upper level, an area usually forgotten by vendors, there is the Southside Market. It's a sort of food hall, with a number of great options. Pulled pork-topped mac and cheese anyone?
"There's a gyro stand, a grilled cheese and macaroni stand. But there's also Fresh Fin Poke. Great, fresh, sushi-grade products with rice bowls; very unique to this arena and this environment," Zakroczymski said.
As the team continues playing into the post-season, the kitchen has a chance to get even more creative, offering new specials all of the time.
"We have a great opportunity to showcase even more of our partners as we go into the post-season," Zakroczymski said.
You can obviously get brats and loaded nachos any time. But the fact that they've offered these other new items, like the poke bowls, show they've really raised the game here at Fiserv Forum. The way the Bucks are playing, they could be serving food well into May.
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The Division 2 Doesn't Divide Critics: Except Variety
By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Well, that's why they call it Variety...
Have you read Matt Paprocki's review on Variety.com of Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's The Division 2? Well, it's quite... interesting. You won't learn much about The Division 2 (rather unfortunate, since it's the first The Division 2 review I've actually read), but you will learn about how frustrated Mr. Paprocki is about Fox News host Tucker Carlson being on TV and defending conservative values and gun rights.
It's a kooky review, but Variety is culturally important (I didn't know they wrote about games—though games are part of the culture, so it makes sense) in the United States. And, importantly for the videogame industry, they have a seat as a Metacritic-approved reviewer.
The scores are positive for almost everyone... and Variety is the only negative one.
For a game about division, that's pretty good.
That means it's worth giving some attention to this review, since it affects the industry.
The reason for the review's... unorthodox style, according to the writer, Matt Paprocki:
You can find a near infinite number of reviews that treat games as products and break them down into a general format. Variety's approach is to treat them as pieces of culture, and with that, what games reflect.
— Matt Paprocki (@Matt_Paprocki) March 22, 2019
Mr. Paprocki also expands on his reviewing philosophy in his résumé as "offering insight into the medium's social growth and artistic merit." Essentially, Variety and Paprocki give variety to the game-reviewing part of the industry by focusing on the kinds of critical cultural aspects that other game reviewers don't do.
I do believe that has its place. I mean, of course I should say that. KoopaTV, this very website, does that all of the time. I just did that as recently as this week, taking the gameplay mechanics of character-to-character socialisation and comparing them to real-life college students' networking habits. However, we don't go and call those reviews. We have other article categories for that.
Our Reviews category is sparsely populated, but they contain the commentary that you'd expect from a review. Details about mechanics, fun, music, whatever. Answering the question of if the game is worth your money based on if it was worth ours. (A key question since we don't get review copies from publishers.)
The cultural and political things we leave for the rest of the site. Not that we're on Metacritic anyway, but that's the best thing to do when you consider the responsibility that a writer wields when using their authoritative voice to influence discussion and sales.
It's not very good writing, either. Matt Paprocki goes way too much into his clear dislike of Tucker Carlson, but doesn't even back up his anti-Tucker blatherings with evidence. It's not the most apt comparison to a conservative talking head he could make. Tucker Carlson's pet issue isn't even guns!
Paprocki characterises the feedback loop of looter shooters—cycling through more powerful weaponry as you progress through the game while fighting more powerful enemies, which is a feedback loop in games dating back many decades and even millennia for literature—as a result of a recent American Second Amendment-related concept. That doesn't make sense. It's clear that the reviewer isn't a fan of the loop and finds the whole thing pointless—and it's the fault of the game for not making it interesting (though I don't think he played the game in good faith)—but it's dumb to judge it based on his personal political preferences than in gameplay terms.
Game reviews should be different than other mediums' reviews, because games are fundamentally different than other mediums.
While I like Tucker's show, that doesn't affect my opinion that this review was a disaster. (If he bashed Rachel Maddow, I'd have the same opinion.) It could've been written for really any shooting game, and isn't specific to The Division 2, leading many to wonder in the comments section what Paprocki was doing during the 15 hours he alleged to have played the game. Perhaps he just needed to vent against the right-wing boogeyman of Tucker Carlson that day.
He didn't review The Division 2 as a cultural artifact. He just projected his half-baked hateful thoughts swirling in his inner monologue. And I review his review as a poor review.
KoopaTV hopes to have a lot more content around Tom Clancy's The Division 2 in the future that's more related to the game! Since this article is categorised as a Review, you're free to review Ludwig's review of The Division 2 review. Reviews! (Don't expect a KoopaTV review of The Division 2, unless you want to lobby Kamek or Wendy to do that.)
Ludwig believes that readers have stopped putting trust in what the critics have to say.
At least when IGN got their Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn review totally wrong, they still talked in gaming terms.
At least The Division 2 is more well-received than the first The Division.
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Beating up on Obamacare is the easy part.
But eventually, many Republicans acknowledge, the website will be fixed, new enrollees will spike, cancellation letters will cease, and the sting of the Affordable Care Act's ugly implementation will fade.
At some point, Republicans will have to address the one Democratic rebuttal that cuts deepest: What is the Republican alternative?
"I've always believed that we need to have a positive, principled solution as an alternative," said Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., a leading conservative and medical doctor. "We remain the minority party in Washington, and that's part of the role of the minority--not just to hold the other side to account, but to provide that contrast from a policy standpoint."
Indeed, many House Republicans have grown wary of the "party of no" label and are anxious to appear proactive on the health care front. But they have yet to coalesce around a plan.
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, recently introduced the "Keep Your Health Plan Act," which would narrowly address the epidemic of cancellation notices from insurers in recent weeks.
There also are broader proposals being pushed within the House GOP. Earlier this year, Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., chairman of the Republican Study Committee, commissioned a working group to craft an Obamacare replacement package. That panel, led by Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., unveiled the "American Health Care Reform Act" in September.
Months earlier, Price, a former RSC chairman who assisted that working group, introduced a third iteration of his "Empowering Patients First Act."
Solutions are on the table. The dilemma, GOP lawmakers say, is uncertainty over when--if ever--these ideas will be advanced by House Republican leadership. Speaker John Boehner informed members during a mid-October conference meeting to expect movement on health care legislation in the near future. But according to members in attendance, nobody understood quite what he meant.
"No idea," said Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., a member of the RSC working group, after the meeting. "The speaker didn't get into specifics."
According to top Republican aides, Boehner was purposely vague to allow some flexibility on timing. House Republicans have voiced a wide range of opinions on how to approach health care legislation moving forward, and the speaker understands that building consensus within the conference won't happen quickly.
"There are a lot of options on the table, but no decisions have been made," said a GOP leadership aide.
Of course, Boehner isn't in any rush. His leadership team welcomed this week away from Washington, betting that Obamacare's implosion would speak louder than any Republican criticism. In fact, because of the Affordable Care Act's rocky rollout, Boehner is expected to steer clear of any comprehensive GOP proposal that could distract from Obamacare's afflictions and let Democrats off the hook.
"I think the concern leadership has is, instead of talking about all the blemishes and pimples and hiccups of the Affordable Care Act, they'll be talking about what our bill doesn't do," Roe said.
Still, the time and organization necessary to push a broader health care replacement package may not exist. That's why Republican lawmakers and aides acknowledge that Upton's bill, which aims to narrowly blunt the impact of Obamacare in one area, is the logical choice for leadership to rally behind. If successful, Upton's bill could spawn other GOP measures targeting specific deficiencies of the Affordable Care Act.
This approach, lawmakers say, would allow House Republicans to attempt their incremental dismantling of Obamacare while continuing to denounce the law in broad rhetorical strokes.
"If we put a man on the moon 40 years ago, we ought to be able to build a Web page, for God's sake," Roe said, shaking his head.
Republicans pushing a comprehensive approach acknowledge that major health care legislation is highly unlikely to pass Congress in an election year. Still, they emphasize the importance of starting the conversation now, while some Democrats are running away from Obamacare, in hopes of building bipartisan support for an alternative proposal.
"The more we hear from Democrats who are frustrated and anxious about Obamacare ... that may be a greater opening and opportunity for some larger deal to move forward. It will take bipartisan activity," Price said, adding, "The last thing we need is another absolutely partisan bill."


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Abrasive waterjet is one of the most rapidly improving technologal methods of cutting materials. AWJ represents cold, precise, computer controlled shape cutting without any strain. These attributes pose this technology to the position of permanent use in the future. In the monograph the optical methods are used for the investigation of the surface structure cutting of areas with the aim to propose the surface geometric parameters for advanced quality control of AWJ cutting process.


Vince Gill & Daughters Sing Anthem At Predators Playoff!
Vince Gill is a massive Nashville Predators fan so it only made sense for him to sing the national anthem at one of their Stanley Cup Playoff game. Vince brought his daughters, Jenny and Corrina, along to sing with him and they were amazing!


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Q: What is the best approach in mimicking a flash based application on iPad? http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index_embed.shtml
This application at hand is flash based. Can this be accomplished on an iPad possibly via cocos2d? Or is the better approach just trying to do it in jQuery and using a WebView?

A: I personally would go with JS to do this. It shouldnt be that hard. The zooming in animation would be the hardest part. jQuery would be good, and I'd use canvas also. Canvas will allow you to do a lot better animations and it'll run a lot faster. Hell, they run a multiplayer Quake game in canvas. I'm not sure what your team is like and what their skillsets are but that's what I'd suggest. Also, you could use SVG. Either canvas or SVG with jQuery you can make some slick applications. Here are some links for ya:
jQuery like SVG library: http://raphaeljs.com/
jQuery's creator John Resig made this Cavnas library: http://processingjs.org/
Last One I suggest is Fabric.js. Haven't tried it, but looks great:
http://www.slideshare.net/kangax/fabricjs-building-acanvaslibrarybk
Great demo of it with link to downlad: http://kangax.github.com/fabric.js/test/demo/

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The Volvo Trucks Drivers' Fuel Challenge is an international competition that challenges and rewards truck drivers for their fuel-efficient driving skills. The award was designed to increase awareness of how driver behaviour directly impacts fuel efficiency. The clear benefits – reduced fuel consumption and better environmental outcomes. This year's event was held on the Gold Coast at Mt Cotton.
Caltex is proud to announce that Cameron Simpson, from I & M Simpsons in Alexandra Victoria, won the off road section. In addition Kerri Connor, who drives for Caltas in Tasmania, won the highly competitive two day on-road section.
Contestants were required to drive a pre-selected Volvo truck with I-Shift on a pre-defined route. They are accompanied by a Volvo Driver Trainer, who provided guidance along the way.
The winner was determined by a combination of safe driving, low fuel consumption while completing the route within an allotted time. Time is taken by a referee with the clocking starting the moment the engine is turned on until the engine is turned off.
After fierce competition on the Thursday, Cameron set up his victory with a tremendous drive in the off road session. The best 9 drivers from Thursday's on-road session then progressed to the Friday final. Kerri set a strong pace, recording the best score in the Friday finals morning session and held onto win after completion of the second round. Both Kerri and Cameron will now compete in the finals in Gothenburg Sweden later this year. Kerri and Cameron were also recognised during a gala ceremony for this year's winners.
The 2017 Volvo Trucks Drivers' Fuel Challenge was a huge success for Caltex. Special thanks needs to go to Fiona Lapsley (Caltex Business Development Manager – Automotive) and Grant Perris (Caltex Head of Fuels Product Management) who worked tirelessly to achieve the best result for Caltex. Great work every one!


W-S Feeds' namesake comes from company founders Doug Spencer and Earl Wideman, who with Glenn Wideman incorporated the company in 1975. Today, W-S Feeds offers a complete line of quality feeds for dairy, beef, swine, poultry, horse and companion animal feed, pet food and animal health products, custom nutritional programs, grain banking, and feed and forage sampling services.
The company is focused on developing critical customer relationships in Canada—where new clientele is limited and the company faces steep competition.
Ward says that this challenge, a limited clientele, is not a new problem in the feeds industry, and the company has developed strategies to keep their customers loyal throughout the years. "We have an over-capacity of milling in Ontario and a shrinking clientele," he explains, "so you're never garnering a lot of new business." He says that the agricultural sector is one of those fundamental industries in Canada that still relies on a phone call and a handshake to move business forward. This is not a coincidence—the business grew from originally servicing the local Mennonite population in southwestern Ontario, a customer base that relies on person-to-person service and communication.
As the company grows it continues to strive for the best in customer service. Their service area continues to expand, currently serving farmers in Waterloo, Wellington, Grey Bruce, Oxford, Middlesex, Huron and Perth counties. "That is where our core business is, although we have offshoots of our core all over and some specialty accounts further away [such as a group that recently moved to Cochrane]," Ward says.
W-S Feeds is able to service such a wide area because of their strategic locations. The company has its main office in Conestogo, and then a plant in Mount Forest that manufactures poultry and swine feeds exclusively, as well as a plant in Tavistock that produces all the textured and bagged fees for all W-S Feeds operations, and also pellet and mash feeds for ruminants.
Ward knows from his experience that one of the key elements of the company's success is its people (W-S Feeds currently employs 50+ staff). "The relationships that we have internally and the core values that we have as individuals employed at the company mirror the core values of our clientele," he says. The business has relied on the success of the people that make it up, and the commitment the company has to the unique needs of the farming population in its regions.
For 2011, the company plans to address upcoming changes in the markets they serve with the same gusto that has made them successful, in 2011. "We can see changes in the dairy area in 2011, and we're going to continue to expand our influence in poultry and swine, and put more of a concentration in beef," Ward explains.
In Canada, the agriculture business has been concentrating itself into two poles, says Ward: the smaller farmer and the larger more progressive farmer. Each segment takes a different approach to business, but W-S Feeds has begun to address the company's customer needs on the smaller scale, addressing the most minute formulation change.
There is a demand for both genetically modified products and those considered to be "organic". However, Ward says that W-S Feeds is not quite ready to tackle the organic market. "Whether to make your manufacturing sites natural or organic can create challenges—do you make one truly natural? We haven't taken that step, we're not sure yet." W-S Feeds concentrates on addressing the value-creation for the customer, which includes creating all kinds of specialized feeds.
"Being able to manufacture our own products, that is an extremely competitive aspect for us. We make our own priority formulations which are backed by research we get from relationships within the industry," Ward comments. Everything the company makes, however, is carefully monitored and their business is governed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). "We can do a completely customized feed or do supplemental feeds," he continues. The company also can customize based on veterinarian requests.
Regardless of the formulation, the company is committed to investing in the latest technology to manufacture their products. "While some of our formulations are archaic, the mechanisms producing them are ultra-modern. We're trying to improve that all the time," Ward says.
W-S Feeds operates a sound, safe operation, governed by the CFIA, WHMIS, and HAACP. The company gets "very good health and safety reviews" and maintains strict controls over their products.
Ward says that the company will continue to shift and adapt to a changing market, with the "tight-knit" group of the company's customers in mind. With any luck, and a steady focus on building relationships in the agricultural sector (where trade secrets can make or break a company), W-S Feeds is looking to offer a "farmer-friendly alternative" to larger, less personal competitors for years to come.


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Yoga Came to America via an Indian Monk at the 1893 Worlds Fair
If you are one of the 40 million people in the United States who practice yoga, or if you have ever meditated, you have a forgotten Indian monk named Swami Vivekananda to thank. Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on both Eastern and Western life as him, the Indian monk who inspired the likes of Freud, Gandhi, and Tagore. Blending science, religion, and politics, Vivekananda introduced Westerners to yoga and the universalist school of Hinduism called Vedanta. His teachings fostered a more tolerant form of mainstream spirituality in Europe and North America and forever changed the Western relationship to meditation and spirituality.
Today's guest is Ruth Harris, author of Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda. She traces his transformation from son of a Calcutta-based attorney into saffron-robed ascetic. At the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, he fascinated audiences with teachings from Hinduism, Western esoteric spirituality, physics, and the sciences of the mind, in the process advocating a more inclusive conception of religion and expounding the evils of colonialism. Vivekananda won many disciples, most prominently the Irish activist Margaret Noble, who disseminated his ideas in the face of much disdain for the wisdom of a "subject race." At home, he challenged the notion that religion was antithetical to nationalist goals, arguing that Hinduism was intimately connected with Indian identity.
The iconic monk emerges as a counterargument to Orientalist critiques, which interpret East–West interactions as primarily instances of Western borrowing. As Vivekananda demonstrates, we must not underestimate Eastern agency in the global circulation of ideas.


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Children's Coalition leverages tax credits for child care centers
Businesses can earn a unique state tax credit while helping improve early childhood care and education in the region ...
Children's Coalition leverages tax credits for child care centers Businesses can earn a unique state tax credit while helping improve early childhood care and education in the region ... Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: http://usat.ly/I3XaW9
By Greg Hilburn;, ghilburn@thenewsstar.com; Published 4:08 p.m. CT Nov. 20, 2013 | Updated 8:55 p.m. CT Nov. 20, 2013
Maureen Gallagher and Lynda Gavioli of the Children's Coalition for Northeast Louisiana met with The News-Star Editorial Board on Wednesday.(Photo: Emerald McIntyre/The News-Star)
Businesses can earn a unique state tax credit while helping improve early childhood care and education in the region through the Children's Coalition for Northeast Louisiana.
The School Readiness Tax Credits, up to $5,000, are 100 percent refundable, unlike deductions.
"It's an opportunity for business to redirect their tax money from Baton Rouge and keep it here locally," said Lynda Gavioli, executive director of the Children's Coalition.
Gavioli and Maureen Gallagher, early childhood director for the Children's Coalition, spoke to The News-Star's Editorial Board Wednesday.
The Children's Coalition, which is designated as the child care resource and referral agency for northeastern Louisiana, is the only agency in the region that can receive the tax credit donations.
Gavioli said her agency will issue grants to qualified child care centers, of which there are 158, to improve the quality of care at the centers. The Children's coalition will also use the donations for training and seminars for child care center personnel.
Last year 56 local business donated $254,000.
"We've been very grateful to our business community," she said. "They get it."
Gavioli said the child care centers are critical to the quality of life of parents and the community.
"We believe this program is the only one like it in the country," she said. "This is a tremendous chance for businesses to improve the quality of child care in their community with no out-of-pocket costs.
"We hope they'll consider it especially now near the end of the year when many are looking for ways to pay or reduce their tax liability."
Gavioli said businesses who have questions about the credit can call her at the agency's office at 323-8775.
Follow Greg Hilburn on Twitter @greghilburn1.
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In the winter, besides a fantastic array of waterfowl, Essex, Old Lyme, and Old Saybrook become one of the best Eagle viewing areas in the Northeast. It is very rare this winter that I drive what I call the "circuit" (North and South Cove, Knollwood, the beaches), and don't see at least 2-3 Eagles. Just look up or across the river to Old Lyme. We now have 3-5 pairs of resident eagles living year-round near us.
Also, this time of year is the best time to see Northern Harriers. This Hawk will float or "kite" over our marshes on the prowl for birds, rodents, and other small mammals. Look for the owl-like face.
We also have a pair a Peregrine Falcons that reside under the Baldwin Bridge. The fastest animals in the world-they can reach speeds of over 200 mph in a dive.Look up in the big towers or on top of the concrete bridge supports.
Harbor Seals at back off the town beach. All you need to see them is low tide with some sunshine, and a pair of binos.
Rarities seen recently –Tufted Duck.
This is also one of the best spots to see Snowy Owl which has started showing up in CT regularly this year and last.
And amazingly we had 3 White Pelicans that hung out in South Cove for 3 days right after Christmas.
Maynards Pond and Chalker Mill- Hooded Mergansers, Wood ducks, Am. Coots, Teal, Ring-necked Ducks.
Rarities- Maynard's Pond on Ingham Hill road is known for the rare birds that show up there. This fall a Cattle Egret visited for a couple of weeks. Last week a female Northern Shoveler was seen on our Christmas Bird Count.
Talking about our Christmas Count which we did Jan. 3, we had 90 species of bird tallied in Old Saybrook, in one day! (To put this in perspective, when I started birding it took me almost 3 years to get to 100 birds). This shows what a great birding site Old Saybrook is in the winter-it also shows what a lousy birder I was way back when.


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You need to know most of the element of the kitchen cabinets so that you may not waste your money on wrong items. If you want to have a dream kitchen then you need to check on the details such as frames, the door and drawer fronts to ensure that they are well constructed. The wood should be smooth, and the drawers and the doors of the cabinets should be in the best shape since they will be used most of the time.
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which I'm talking about the relationship between Buddhism and science.
And at the moment, we're sort of in the middle of a discussion about logic.
Logic being a science as shown by the fact that it can be mathematized.
So, in the last lecture, we talked a little bit about Western logic.
And I talked about two principles, which are fairly orthodox in Western logic.
false, so principle of excluded middle.
which says it can't be both.
So that's excluded middle, non-contradiction.
And, as I said, these are roughly orthodox in the history of Western philosophy.
from Athens to somewhere is North East India.
And we're going to talk about a view that you find in Buddhism called the Catuskoti.
The Catuskoti is a Sanscrit word.
It means something like four points or four corners.
which changes both excluded middle and non-contradiction.
So what I want to do today is talk about the Catuskoti.
Now, let's start having look at where the Catuskoti appears in Buddhist logic.
the people listening to him ask questions.
the Buddha ask what happens to someone who's enlightened after they die?
All right, so being enlightened is not like going to heaven.
You can be enlightened in this life, okay?
How do you know? Well, the Buddha was enlightened.
is to be like the Buddha.
But, hey, what happens to an enlightened person after they die?
kind of curious about this, as you would be.
where the people listening to the Buddha asked the Buddha this question.
And the dialogue goes like this.
Remember the Buddha's name is Gotama, okay.
How is it, Master Gotama, does Master Gotama hold the view.
After death a Tathagata exists.
Only this is true, and anything else is false?
it's just referring to someone who's a chief enlightenment, okay?
after someone's achieved enlightenment, does that person exist?
the Buddha says, I don't hold the view.
After death, a Tathagata exists.
Only this is true, and anything else is wrong.
Okay, that's one possibility disposed of.
a Tathagata does not exist?
Only this is true, anything else is wrong.
Vaccha, I don't hold the view that after death a Tathagata doesn't exist.
Now, if we'd been in Aristotle's lyceum, that will be the end of the dialogue.
Okay, because is it true?
But the dialogue actually continues, so it goes on.
hold the view that after death a Tathagata both exists and does not exist?
And only this true is true, anything else is wrong.
Vaccha, I don't hold the view.
After death a Tathagata both exists and doesn't exist.
Okay, so that's the third possibility, and then we continue.
How then does Master Gotama hold the view.
After death a Tathagata neither exists nor doesn't exist.
And only this is true, and anything else is wrong.
After death a Tathagata neither exist nor does not exist.
Only this is true, and nothing else is wrong.
at least skepticism about all four possibilities.
Set that aside, I'll return to it briefly at the end.
the interlocutor, phrases the question.
the enlightened person exist, doesn't exist, both, or neither.
That is the Catuskoti, okay?
the social culture of the day is taking for granted.
goes back before the fifth century BCE.
that it's operative by the time the sutras are being composed.
All right, so that's the Catuskoti.
But through all that, it's very, very easy to make sense of it.
it's actually quite easy to see how it works.
So in the last lecture, I drew a little picture.
it was divided neatly between the trues and the falses.
So on the screen now, you can see another picture, and it's quartered.
But the trues again, occur in half, but they occur in the left-hand half, okay?
And the falses occur in the bottom half.
So truths on the left, falses on the bottom, and that gives us four quadrants.
In the top left quadrant, things are true but not false.
So they're true only, okay?
In the quadrant I've marked number 2, things are neither true nor false.
In the quadrants I have not number 3, things are both true and false.
And in the quadrant I have not number 4, things are false and not true.
So they're false and false only.
as divided up into essentially these four regions.
quadrants of the Catuskoti, the four possibilities of the Catuskoti.
Now, you might wonder how negotiation works in this picture.
as it does in the previous picture.
So remember that if you negate something true, it becomes false.
And if you negate something false, it becomes true, all right?
So what happens if something is both true and false?
So if it's in quadrant that I marked 3.
Well, if it's true, then its negation is false.
If it's false, then its negation is true.
So if it's true and false, its negation is false and true, that's the same.
So if something is in the third quadrant, so is its negation.
Similarly, if something is in the second quadrant, it's neither true nor false.
So if you negate it, its negation is going to be neither true nor false.
So if something is in the second quadrant, so is its negation.
So, we haven't really made any change to the way that negation works.
false and false only, both, and neither.
because the picture I've given you about the way that this works is not esoteric.
will learn if you do Logic 100 at a university, is called Classical Logic.
because it was invented at the end of the 19th century.
And it with a number of the logical theories that came beforehand.
So really classical logic has nothing to do with classics.
Nothing to do with Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Ancient India.
the 19th century by people like Russell and Frege, and is now a kind of orthodox.
is the development of a number of so-called non-classical logics.
So these are logics, which differ from classical logic.
Now, the picture I've just given you is one of these.
I'm not going to tell you much about it, its name is First Degree Entailment.
which can have more than two truth values.
true only, false only, both, and neither.
And logics of this kind make perfectly good mathematical sense.
Their mathematics is now well-understood.
We know how to work their proved systems, they're semantics, they're algebras.
Now, that doesn't mean that they're correct.
Any more than the fact that you just got two values, that view is correct.
of many valued logic is perfectly mathematically coherent.
classical logic on the grounds that it's the only coherent view of logic, it isn't.
the developments in modern mathematics, mathematical logic.
that would be entirely anachronistic.
non-contradiction, and it's perfectly mathematically coherent.
of Western logic, and a challenge which is mathematically completely coherent.
sciences where Buddhism and the physical sciences seem to work quite well together.
in Buddhism actually challenges a standard view in Western logic.
asks the Buddha which corner of the Catuskoti we're in?
The Buddha refuses to endorse any of them.
Well, different sutras give different answers to this question.
So some of the sutras continue, well, why won't you answer the question?
I'm telling you how to live a better life and you want to do metaphysics?
Come on, look, I'm giving you practical advice.
You don't want to do this sort of philosophical stuff.
I'm telling you how to improve your life.
Okay, so that's how some of the sutras continued.
And some of the sutras go rather different way.
They say, hey, Buddha, how come you don't endorse any of these possibilities?
And he says, well, none of them fits the case.
And they say, what do you mean doesn't fit the case?
it does rather look as though there's a fifth possibility.
about 700 years, and then it's picked up by Nagarjuna.
We will meet Nagarjuna again in the next lecture.
be interested to see how the dialogue continues in the case that we looked at.
So just to summarize the main points where we've been today.
true only, false and false only, both true and false, neither true not false.
The view is strongly at odds with standard views in Western logic.
show that the view is perfectly coherent mathematically.
So here, we have the beginning of a debate in the philosophy of logic.
Which of these views, if either, is right?
Now, that's a entirely different topic.
you can just see how things stand with respect to these views.
the Catuskoti, which violates both.
Next time, we move on to something entirely different.


I would like to argue the case for generalised problem solving skills in the visual domains like mathematics and physics through improved competence at creating and using runnable mental models.
Bloom' Taxonomy (note 1) is not particularly helpful for understanding higher order thinking and problem solving in visual thinking so I have already had a try at describing problem solving in visual domains as the creation and running of mental models.
(1) Mental models are internal representations.
(2) Language is the key to understanding mental models; i.e.. they are linguistically mediated.
(3) Mental models can be represented as networks of concepts.
(4) The meanings for the concepts are embedded in their relationships to other concepts.
(5) The social meaning of concepts is derived from the intersection of different individuals' mental models.
Jonassen's mental might be a bit different to my concept, mine are visual rather than linguistically mediated. Jonassen also states that mental models are multi-modal so the meaning of linguistically mediated is unclear. Jonnasen also seems to lump together mental models that are a community mental model that is socially negotiated with the construction of a problem space inside a problem solver's head.
I like the words in Dunn quoting Jennifer Wiley: students' "active construction of a runnable mental model" significantly improves their comprehension of any dynamic system.
To give another example of creating, validating and running mental models, consider my manual transmission car which has a noise. Assume I have a vague recollection of the function of the clutch to break the drive train and remove forces from the gearbox. I produce two visual images of engine-clutch-gearbox-wheels and engine-gearbox-clutch-wheels as possible mental models of the car. To validate them I run them, test their output for what I know of the behaviour of cars. Only the first model is consistent with double declutching (remember having to do that? You are old). I can now use my validated model to diagnose my noise, the noise is present, stationary in neutral , but not with the clutch depressed. Run the model, only the gearbox input shaft meets these conditions.
My belief is that there are generalised problem solving and higher order thinking skills that relate to the ability to build complex and robust mental models and then interrogate or run them. Good problem solvers are good at building and running mental models. These skills can be exercised when programming, particularly in the syntax-free iconic languages such as Scratch, Etoys and GameMaker, also when playing problem solving games. The higher order thinking is the debugging where you compare the behaviour of your program and the mental model of your program. Good learning environments keep learners in a tight cycle of test-implement-debug.
Care should always be exercised when talking about generalised higher order thinking skills, one can make sweeping claims without ever defining what higher order thinking is. Pea & Kurland (ON THE COGNITIVE EFFECTS OF LEARNING COMPUTER PROGRAMMING) criticised similar claims about Logo: whether "spontaneous experience with a powerful symbolic system will have beneficial cognitive consequences, especially for higher order cognitive skills. Similar arguments have been offered in centuries past for mathematics, logic, writing systems, and Latin" That is why I think it is important to have a clear understanding of what higher order thinking is.
I'm thinking about the mental model you have of a computer program as you write the program and the debugging process in the context of cognitive conflict or cognitive dissonance. How helpful is it to view a mental model of a program in the dimensions of the Event Indexing Model - time, space, protagonist, causality, and intentionality? For example, think about event driven programming vs linear, with causality indexing for event driven vs temporal for linear.
Finally, you add the magic ingredient of games: a relevant and authentic challenge, the right tools and a collaborative environment which encourages peer tutoring, flow and the ZPD.
Note 1, Reeves "Kyllonen and Shute (1989) have proposed a taxonomy that represents the spectrum of internal states with which cognitive psychologists are concerned. Their taxonomy begins with simple propositions (e.g., stating that Japan sells more electronic products than any other nation), proceeding through schema, rules, general rules, skills, general skills, automatic skills, and finally, mental models (e.g., analyzing the potential of a trade war between Japan and the United States based on an analysis of balance of trade trends). The latter type of knowledge seems particularly important because mental models are the basis for generalizable problem-solving abilities (Halford, 1993)."
have you read Gee, "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy" ?
I've been having another look at idit harel's work on teaching kids the deep meaning of fractions using an instructional design approach.
One thing she found was that some kids initially had absurdly rigid ideas of what fractions were, eg. "a fraction is just the shaded semi circular part of a whole circle, the unshaded part is not a fraction, it is nothing"
Then after a month (sic) of discussing and building fractions with logo, the same student started to see fractions everywhere in the world - and built a logo screen showing fractions in a house, cars and the moon.
So the factors here would be play with the right tools in the right environment using a relaxed time frame - pretty much the opposite to how maths is taught in school most of the time.
Another thought I had is that competitive chess is a great way to teach runnable mental models, with the enforcement of the touch and move rule. Chess players are continually testing alternative mental models, some win and some lose, so the penalty of getting it wrong is high. The debugging has to be done mentally before committing the "code", not after.


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Trends in Cyber Attacks Over the Last 15 Years
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I first met Brian Contos, CISO of Verodin, when he ran sales engineering at ArcSight, Inc., where I was a member of the Board of Directors. He later became the Chief Security Officer and, in my opinion, the chief evangelist for ArcSight and its products. He was extraordinarily effective in this customer facing role, and he started a podcast series at that time. I was one of his first guests on that podcast for ArcSight. In 2007 Brian and I, along with two other cybersecurity subject matter experts, co-authored a book titled Physical and Logical Security Convergence.
You can listen to the podcast here or directly through iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher. You can also read the podcast transcription here.
Brian and I started this interview with a deep dive into my 57-year history in the Security and Intelligence worlds. It is a fun little journey into the work that I did at NSA where I was fortunate to be able to lead a number of organizations in research, development, science and technology, information assurance, and the intelligence and analysis efforts against the then Soviet Union. I completed my career at NSA as the Deputy Director of the Agency. From there I went to Silicon Valley where I became the CEO of Cylink, Inc., a public company specializing in cybersecurity technology including encryption, authentication, and public key infrastructure. For the past 15 years, I have served as a director on the boards of a number of successful cyber and physical security companies.
This interview concentrates on the massive changes in cyber threats over the last 15 years and how well the security industry has coped with those changes. Perhaps the most significant change was the 2008 discovery of the first-time use of the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). These advanced malware attacks were first discovered in DOD networks that were not connected to the Internet, thereby testing and proving that alternate delivery mechanisms could be used to place the malware. This "land, expand, and connect" type of attack has been a powerful weapon in the hands of hackers, criminals, and nation states.
Another development was the large-scale use of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against customer and business facing websites and networks. Still, another very effective type of attack has been phishing, which essentially weaponizes emails and email attachments to collect credentials of unsuspecting users by misdirecting them to malicious websites or other mechanisms of collecting their login IDs, passwords, and other personal information.
Cybercrime has now become commonplace, and the monetization of cyber attacks has become routine. Ransomware, which encrypts the targeted data resources of the victims, is also a growing and malicious form of cybercrime.
In summary, the means and methods of attacking the users of the Internet has mushroomed over the past 15 years and the security industry is having a hard time keeping up. The cyber solutions available in the marketplace today are all too often point solutions that are not integrated and often leave the seams between products as permeable channels for attacks.
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The expanded Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme has been introduced by the Australian government which targeting 20% of Australia's electricity supply is generated from renewable sources by 2020. Consequently, this will drive large changes which will effect on behaviour and investment in Australia's market environment especially transmission use of system (TUoS) charging scheme. Hence, this paper is intended to explore the existing TUoS charging methodologies in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) to the development of renewable generation. There are some aspects related to the existing TUoS charging methodology which can be improved especially in the issues of transmission usage evaluation, percentage of transmission services allocation for the market users and also the transmission pricing methods. Therefore, in this paper, novel transmission pricing methodologies and mathematical formulation of the proposed approaches were introduced. There are two proposed schemes for allocations of TUoS charges for the renewable energy which called Distribution Factors Enhanced Transmission Pricing (DFETP) capacity-based method and DFETP energy-based method. Both methods were tested on the 59-bus system of the South East Australian power system in order to determine which approach provides a better TUoS charges allocation scheme.


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A: They are chemical compounds in the atmosphere that trap the sun's heat near the Earth's surface. This naturally occurring phenomenon is what keeps the Earth's temperature stable at an average of approximately 60 degrees. Without this greenhouse effect, our planet's average temperature would not be warm enough to sustain life. Human activity, however, is producing additional large amounts of some greenhouse gases, which are disturbing this natural balance and warming the climate.
Q: Why is a warmer climate a concern?
A: Even the slightest increase in average global temperature can cause major changes in climate patterns. For example, the United States is feeling the effects of more frequent and extreme weather events. During the past several years, the Midwest has endured one of the worst droughts on record. Higher temperatures, meanwhile, are melting the snow pack that provides much of the water supply for the western U.S. Experts predict the region could lose nearly half its water supply by 2100.
Q: How much warmer are we?
A: The 1990s were the warmest decade of the century, and the first decade of this century is on track to be another record-breaker, according to NASA. The years 2002 through 2006 along with 1998 were the warmest six years since the 1890s, with 2006 the warmest in more than a century.
whenever fossil fuels, such as oil, natural gas, gasoline, diesel fuel and coal, are burned to produce electricity, heat buildings or power vehicles. Carbon dioxide levels are at their highest levels in the past 650,000 years. Methane, meanwhile, is a byproduct of organic waste and sewage decomposition. In urban areas, methane gas is produced when organic waste such as paper, yard trimmings, wood and food waste decompose in landfills. Methane is 21 times more powerful per unit of carbon dioxide.
Q: What can local communities do to reduce greenhouse gases?
provide reuse, recycling, composting and other waste reduction services, to name just a few.
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A: By saving taxpayer dollars, creating job opportunities, improving air quality and reducing health ailments. Energy-efficient technologies – from high-mileage or alternative fuel fleet vehicles to energy-efficient public buildings, water and sewage treatment plants and streetlights – dramatically reduce energy expenses. Additionally, as the demand for clean, renewable energy continues to grow, cities that tap into this demand will have a competitive advantage. Renewable energy technologies, such as wind and solar power, generate more jobs in construction, manufacturing and installation than fossil fuel-based energy technologies.
Pollution-related health ailments, meanwhile, incur a significant human toll and a staggering cost. Sunlight and heat are important ingredients in the creation of ground-level ozone, which is one of the most damaging aspects of urban smog.
A nationwide study indicates a 35-percent reduction in the average daily ozone level could save nearly 4,000 lives in the 95 communities included in the study. Meanwhile, more than $3 billion is spent annually treating children under 18 for asthma, which is often triggered by unhealthy air.


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On this day in 2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman, considered one of the most talented and versatile actors of his generation, dies of an accidental drug overdose at age 46 in New York City. During his career, the prolific performer appeared in more than 50 movies, including "Capote," "Doubt" and "The Hunger Games" series, and earned a reputation for playing difficult or quirky characters. Hoffman also was an accomplished stage actor and director.
Born July 23, 1967, Hoffman was raised in Fairport, New York, and developed an interest in theater while growing up. He studied acting at New York University, from which he graduated in 1989, and went on to make his small-screen debut in a 1991 episode of "Law & Order." The next year, he earned his first big-screen credit in an indie film titled "Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole." Hoffman garnered attention for his supporting role as a spoiled prep school student in the Oscar-winning film "Scent of a Woman" (1992), which he followed with appearances in such movies as "Nobody's Fool" (1994), "Twister" (1996), "Boogie Nights" (1997), "The Big Lebowski" (1998) "Magnolia" (1999) and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999). Increasingly in demand, Hoffman then took on roles in films including "Almost Famous" (2000), "Punch-Drunk Love" (2002), "The 25th Hour" (2002), "Cold Mountain" (2003) and "Along Came Polly" (2004).
He won an Academy Award in the best actor category for his portrayal of author Truman Capote in "Capote" (2005), and received Oscar nominations for best supporting actor for his role as a CIA agent in "Charlie Wilson's War" (2007) and for his performance as a priest in "Doubt" (2008). Other film credits include "Mission: Impossible III" (2006), "Moneyball" (2011) and "The Hunger Games" series. Hoffman garnered a third best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his role as a cult leader in "The Master" (2012).
Hoffman also was an acclaimed stage actor and director, who helped co-found a theater company, LAByrinth, and earned Tony Award nominations for his performances in "True West" (2000), "Long Day's Journey into Night" (2003) and "Death of a Salesman" (2012), in which he starred as Willy Loman.
On February 2, 2014, Hoffman, who had struggled with drug addiction in his early 20s but was sober for many years before relapsing in 2012, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment. The medical examiner later ruled that the father of three had died from acute mixed drug intoxication.


August was actually a pretty great month. I went on holiday to Italy and it was amazing. I saw the Amalfi Coast, which has been on my bucket list forever, and Pompei, which is just super impressive!
Readingwise, August has been pretty great for me as well. Though I guess most of that is simply because I had two weeks off which means more time for books, yay! I also kind of started a Throne of Glass re-read marathon – mostly because I am too excited about the upcoming release of Empire of Storms that I can't focus on any other books right now. I still have Heir of Fire and Queen of Shadows to finish before September 6th, so it will be tight but I will try!
So many awesome new book releases!
Fall weather, which means fall clothing!
This entire summer has been pretty much the same music-wise: a combination of All Time Low, Pierce the Veil, Sleeping with Sirens and Hamilton.
And the only new addition to my playlist this month was Pvris. I love pretty much their entire White Noise album, but I think I've played My House the most so far.
Still marathoning this in preparation of the revival – I watched the entire 5th season in August.
Finally finished season 3 and I'm both heartbroken and excited for season 4!
So in September I'm planning to read four of my MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASES this year. Of course I am super excited. And slightly terrified. But mostly excited!
Great reading month, Lindsey!! I'm so glad you loved The Raven Cycle and ADSoM. I should really start the Throne of Glass series, haha.
So much good music, too. Pvris are amazing!!
And yes, I love Pvris! I just discovered them this month but I saw they're already around for a while and it makes me wonder why I haven't heard more of them here in Belgium… They're so good and definitely deserve some more recognition here!
I'll definitely try to get to ToG soon especially now that Empire of Storms is out…. I can't believe I've avoided spoilers for the entire series so I better hurry up and read it before that changes ?
I'm glad you were able to find them! They really do deserve more recognition. White Noise is one of my all time favourite albums and I'm so excited for their new one!!
I loved the entire Raven Cycle, so I definitely hope you'll enjoy book 3 and 4 as well! I have A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab lined up to read next, but after that I for sure want to try Vicious. I've heard so many good things about it, glad you liked it too!


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Q: How to retrive logged in Users name, email, using SESSION? To Website My website in hosting when I'm trying to run this code, contents are disappearing, What's wrong with this code? Any alternative way to display the result of the code below?
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    session_start();
    $db = mysqli_connect('localhost', '******', '*******', '********'); //db connection is correct
    $sql = "SELECT name, email FROM users WHERE username = '" . $_SESSION['username'] . "' ";
    $result = mysql_query($sql);
    $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
    echo "Hello, " . $row['name'] . " (" . $row['email'] . ").";
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A: Use mysqli functions, in your code put:
session_start();
$db = mysqli_connect('localhost', '******', '*******', '********'); //db connection is correct
$sql = "SELECT name, email FROM users WHERE username = '" . $_SESSION['username'] . "' ";
$result = $db->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC);
echo "Hello, " . $row['name'] . " (" . $row['email'] . ").";


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The Cincinnati Reds have popped up in rumors for a lot of players that one would not normally expect. Free agents like Dallas Keuchel and, earlier, Patrick Corbin. Trade bait like Yasiel Puig. I'm not sure how serious any of that pursuit has been. Maybe it's just P.R.-driven noise aimed at making Reds fans think the team is going for it or whatever, but it's been kind of fun. The Reds have, basically, been that guy who shows up in everyone's photos from the party even though no one knows who he came with or why he was there.
The latest hot stove photobomb for the Reds is Marlins catcher J.T. Realmuto. Craig Mish of SiriusXM reports that they have "jumped into" his trade market.
There seems to be some room to jump, as the talks with the Mets are perceived to have cooled off in the past 24 hours. It's also the case that the Reds are far more likely to be able to improve via a trade than via the free agent market, as the Reds aren't as attractive a landing spot as a lot as some other places. Still, given that the Marlins are the trading partner, it will almost certainly cost a lot in prospects or young big league talent to get Realmuto and that's the sort of talent the Reds should not be in the business of giving up, so it's hard to see a match.
But hey, the party is fun. Why not hang out for a while?