Spending time in a wheelchair and on crutches has opened my eyes to help others in similar predicaments. Sometimes it is hard to help people who are struggling because you don't want to hurt their feelings but I believe if you help with the right heart they will be blessed. Even if they act like they don't want the help it is always good for people to know that someone cares.
Shawn and I saw a man the other day sitting in a wheelchair in the rain trying to get into a building far away. Shawn quickly ran to grab an umbrella and asked me to push him. It broke our hearts to see that people had passed him and didn't offer to help. I went up and asked if he wanted me to push him and I could see he was grateful to know someone cared. But I also knew what it is like to be in that chair and wish that you could be independent. It is so hard to accept help but sometimes you need to.
Do you know someone who is struggling? Perhaps they are like me living with a chronic illness or maybe they are working three jobs to provide for their family. I would challenge you to pray that God will reveal a way for you to help them. Can you send them a meal, pick up their kids from school, take them to a doctor appointment, or pick up groceries for them? I remember when my R.S.D. first started someone offered to do all of my Mom's ironing. What a blessing that was. It was a reminder that we weren't alone in fighting that health battle.
In the past two years many people offered to help but most of the time we were too exhausted to even let them know how they could help us. But each offer was such an encouragement. It was so helpful when someone found a way to help and just did it without asking. For example saying they would like to bring us dinner that week and what day would be good for us. Not having to make as many decisions was relieving.What a beautiful thing it is when we live life together. When we can cry together, laugh together, and share each other's burdens.
We are not meant to live life alone. Don't shut yourself in and try to live life by yourself. And if you are watching your friend struggle be the kind of friend who reaches into the darkness and says I'll walk through this with you. The movie Frozen reminded me how easy it is to live in isolation like Elsa. It is easier to hide than it is to share in each other's lives. But we need each other. We need words of wisdom, words of kindness, and sometimes we need to be told if we're making mistakes. Words have the ability to change your life. The change can be positive or negative that is up to you. Sometimes kindness needs no words. Even a friendly smile can make a difference in someone's day.
I want to be more intentional about living life together. It is so easy for me to stay home by myself but I need to reach out to others. And I need to be intentional about treating others as I wish to be treated. We live in a beautiful world and it would be a pity if we didn't share in that beauty together.


I told you all that I do not have the patience to post info all the time. I wanted to first thank Jamie , Rich and the kids for having me over to their house for my quickie weekend get away. I had so much fun with the girls and sweet baby James. That boy has a permanent smile on his face and it so refreshing to see all the time.Thank you to Rich's Parents for having me over for Sunday/G-pa birthday dinner and allowing me to hang out with the Melin family. Floating down the river was so much fun and I cant wait to bring the kids to enjoy the river like I did. Montana is a Beautiful state and I took alot of great pictures. Thank you to Laura and Darrin for having me over for the night and to Jared for allowing me to sleep in his bed. Thank you to Gabe for showing me how much Patience and determination he has to complete the dragon puzzle I got him..he is smarter than I am I think. I really had a great time seeing Matt and Amie and their Damn cute boys, Holy crap they are handsome. I had so much fun hanging out playing games and scarfing down junk food. I miss being close to you guys and I hope that we can get together more often.
The boys are home from moms house and they had a fun time. Cody and Tyler earned a few merit badges at scout camp and showed me the fun things that they made. School started today and all the boys of course were not happy. Cody is in High school and that makes me feel really old. I am hoping that he has a better year this year than last year. Tyler is in 7th grade and he is finally able to go to school with out the presence of Cody. I am hoping that he will find out who he is and not who Cody has made him out to be. Joey is also going to middle school and is in the 6th grade. Joey and Tyler ride the bus together but today(remember this is the first day) I came home early so I could be here when they all got home Joey was not on the bus so Cody and I went looking for him. I drove to the school and around the neighborhood three or four times, back to the school, I called the transportation line to see if he was still on a bus and all the buses had emptied. Still no Joey an hour later. Chris finally joined me in the search about the time that I was starting to freak out and call the cops for a missing child. Chris drove around the same places I had and when I started out again I found him coming up the street by the gas station. Turns out he got on the wrong bus and didn't know that he should tell the bus driver that he was on the wrong bus so he got off about a mile and a half away and walked home. We had a long discussion on what he needs to do if this happened again. Anyway we are all safe and sound and getting ready to go to bed so we can all get up and do it again tomorrow. I love all of you and I hope everyone is doing well. I will post pictures another time.
I'm so glad that you came up for a visit. Gabe left today to go visit his dad. He will be gone for almost 3 weeks. I'm happy that you found Joey safe and sound. Love you.
Lisa Marisa...you are so funny and you know what? You are welcome up here with your "TOO MANY BOYS" any old time! I am excited to hang out with you in October. I think I might fly directly from Billings to Phoenix instead of catching a plane in SLC--either way, it's gonna be FUN! Love you!


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The first resophonic guitars produced by the National String Instrument Corporation in the late 1920s were relatively expensive and highly decorated tricones, aimed at the professional ensemble player. Square neck versions were designed for Hawiian music, popular at the time, and round neck versions for swing bands. These guitars had four to five times the volume of traditional wooden guitars and allowed musicians to use the guitar as a serious band instrument for the first time.
However, it was the introduction of the single cone design by "National" just at the turn of the 30s decade that gave the opportunity to mass produce budget models alongside the classier tricone guitars. These single cone guitars, particularly the budget priced steel-bodied Duolian, caught the imagination of street musicians who valued their volume and strident tone. The "National" sound became synonymous with Delta blues - where the guitars were often played in open tunings with a bottleneck slide. The resophonic guitar's haunting lyrical tone, paired with driving bass string rythms, found resonance with the Depression era audience.
It is the wide dynamic range and vocal quality of resophonic instruments that still inspires today's guitarists. Young and older players alike are rediscovering acoustic music, moulding diverse genera into vibrant new sounds. Whether you want to reach back to the early days of the blues or take your music in a new direction - the resophonic guitar will provide something both very functional and highly expressive for your live acoustic sessions.
Busker Guitars is based in Snowdonia, Wales and is owned by Robin Clark. Robin has been a blues guitarist for many years but a rock climbing accident, causing the partial loss of a fretting hand finger, forced him to rethink his playing. He took up slide guitar and now plays bottleneck blues and lap style on resophonic instruments with a number of local musicians and bands.
It was his personal extensive search for good quality, practical resophonic guitars for busking and live performance that led to the creation of Busker Guitars. Whilst many manufacturers carry entry level resophonic instruments, there was a lack of understanding of the important design features required to produce instruments with both the voice and ease of playability required by today's performers.
The solution was to partner directly with a small luthier's workshop in China who had a proven record in the field of resophonic guitars and who were open to a collaborative ethos on design criteria.
Right from the early days of Busker Guitars, Michael Messer provided advice and guidance. It was a very natural step to work together on the Michael Messer Blues and Lightning projects and to extend the range of guitars available for musicians.
Busker Guitars are traditionally built by a small team of craftsmen and craftswomen, givin each one its own identity and subtle nuances.
Once in the UK, each guitar is fully set-up in my Snowdonia workshop. And it is this work that is essential to getting full tone and excellent playability from a Busker guitar. As of May 2015 I have setup somewhere around 1000 instruments. I have never managed to complete more than one guitar a day, so that's a lot of time at the bench! I've learnt a lot along the way and know just where the tone lays within a resonator guitar and how to tease it all out to give every musician a workhorse instrument for the stage and studio.
Because I sell direct to musicians the result is the opportunity for me to offer a special product at a great price to UK and European musicians.
At Busker Guitars you will get personal service and a pragmatic solution to your resophonic guitar needs.
They may be budget priced guitars - but these instruments are well built, set-up for your needs and have great tone and playability. Pragmatic functionlity for live performance has been our driver. And our goal is your musical inspiration!


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By Mike Wittmer|2023-01-01T01:33:02-05:00January 1st, 2023|
Keith was feeling down as he trudged through the produce aisle. His hands trembled from the first signs of Parkinson's disease. How long before his quality of life began to slide? What would this mean for his wife and children? Keith's gloom was shattered by laughter. Over by the potatoes, a man pushed a giggling boy in a wheelchair. The man leaned over and whispered to his son, who couldn't stop grinning. He was noticeably worse off than Keith, yet he and his dad were finding joy where they could.
Writing from prison or under house arrest as he awaited the outcome of his trial, the apostle Paul seemingly had no right to be joyful (Philippians 1:12–13). The emperor was Nero, a wicked man who would soon paint Christians with tar and set them on fire, so Paul had reason to be concerned. He also knew there were preachers who were taking advantage of his absence to gain glory for themselves. They thought they could "stir up trouble" for the apostle while he was imprisoned (v. 17).
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The Best Christmas Jazz Albums
Jazz Christmas albums capture the essence of the holiday spirit. Some of the biggest bands and artists of the genre have released holiday songs allowing for the popularity of jazz songs, which are among the most requested during the holiday season. The albums and songs featured on this list are some of the most popular Christmas songs of all time and some of the greatest jingles in the history of music. Bands like Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald released music that captured the holiday spirit. Not to be outdone, Wynton Marsalis or Diana Krall. No matter what style or type of Christmas song you enjoy, you're likely to find an album on this list that will fit whatever music you enjoy.
Michel Legrand - Noel, Noel, Noel- From "Jingle Bells" to "Silent Night" these are the greatest Christmas songs that are revisited by Michel Legrand. Holiday release from the French pianist, who is joined by a star-studded cast of friends. From Vive le vent (Jingle Bells) through Silent Night to Santa Baby, Michel Legrand has revisited the greatest Christmas songs. He created the arrangements and directed the Symphonic Orchestra with an accompanying jazz big band, recording the album in New York. The artists who participated to the project include Mika, Madeleine Peyroux, Carla Bruni, Iggy Pop, Jamie Cullum, Renan Luce, Rufus Wainwright and others.
Diana Krall - Christmas Songs - This 2005 album is performed with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra.This is Krall's first full-length album of Christmas songs, and her first studio album with a big band. The album features the talents of renowned arranger and bassist John Clayton (Count Basie, Duke Ellington), Anthony Wilson (Chris Botti, Michael Buble), drummer Jeff Hamilton (Rosemary Clooney, Natalie Cole) and bassist Bob Hurst (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live).
Christmas Jazz Jam - Wynton Marsalis - Christmas Jazz Jam, is the first holiday album of Wynton in 20 years. Rooted in the spirit of New Orleans and the gospel church, these new arrangements of holiday standards are drenched with down-home soul and joyous swing. Christmas Jazz Jam brings the American art of jazz improvisation to traditional songs loved worldwide. It provides a great opportunity to discover and enjoy contemporary jazz.
An Oscar Peterson Christmas – In this album, the living legend of jazz piano and 14-times recipient of the "Best Jazz Pianist of the Year" given by Down Beat Magazine, Oscar Peterson, is surrounded by some of the best musicians in the history of jazz. Recorded in 1995 by Telarc in its new exclusive 20-bit technology, the listeners are guaranteed the best quality sound ever. Telarc has an exceptional reputation not only for producing discs of the highest quality standards, but also for utilizing top-of-the-line digital recording techniques.
A Dave Brubeck Christmas - Dave Brubeck was one of the most active and popular musicians in both the jazz and classical worlds. With a career that spanned over six decades, his experiments in odd time signatures, improvised counterpoint, polyrhythm and polytonality remain hallmarks of innovation. Brubeck delivers a cool-jazz Christmas album that you'll have to break out year after year. It's just him at the piano on this 1996 recording, bringing class and joy to Santa Claus Is Coming to Town; Winter Wonderland; Away in a Manger; Joy to the World; The Christmas Song; Jingle Bells , and more.
Hot Jazz For A Cool Night: A Jazz Christmas - This album released in 1992, is even for those who are not fond of holiday collections. There are numerous compilations of jazz versions of Christmas music - and this is one of the best. The music was recorded between fall 1991 and summer 1992; the CD was released for Christmas 1992. One of the features that makes this collection different than many other jazz Christmas compilations is the choice of material and the uniform feel of the album. The musicianship is of a consistently high enough level to appeal to the most discriminating jazz fan, while the presentation of each tune is pleasant enough to appeal to the non-jazz casual listener.
Warner Bros. Jazz Christmas Party - Various Artists such as Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldhau, Al Jarreau, Kevin Mahogany, etc…. One of the best christmas jazz. Perfect for any Christmas Party...office, home ...etc
The Very Best of Christmas Jazz. This jolly collection features fourteen of the world's favorite holiday jingles previously recorded by the legendary vocalists and musicians of jazz. Jazz divas Shirley Horn sings "Winter Wonderland," powerhouse singer Ella Fitzgerald performs a playful rendition of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and the eloquent Dinah Washington amazes on "Silent Night." John Coltrane grooves on "Greensleeves," while Mel Torme offers a timeless version of "The Christmas Song." Delightful treats packed together like an overstuffed Christmas stocking, this selection will be sure to add a joyful spirit to your holiday season.
What a wonderfull Christmas Louis Armstrong and friends - One of the most collectible Christmas packages. This is the only album to include all six Christmas sides Louis Armstrong recorded for Decca- White Christmas; Zat You, Santa Claus; Christmas in New Orleans; Christmas Night in Harlem; Cool Yule , and Winter Wonderland -plus other yuletide nuggets unearthed from the label's vaults. May Everyday Be Christmas Louis Jordan; Silent Night Dinah Washington; Santa Baby Eartha Kitt; The Christmas Song Mel Torme, and more.
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas - It'd be hard to imagine a happier wish than the one this jazz vocal legend offers her listeners on this urbane-yet-homey collection of holiday favorites. The First Lady of Song recorded these tunes in 1960, at the peak of her interpretive powers. As such, she puts her singular stamp on everything from a sultry vamp like "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" to the sweet and cozy "The Christmas Song." Even potentially shopworn standards like "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" sound fresher when they're coming from Ella Fitzgerald. --David Sprague
"Jingle Bells" by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - From Jingle Bell Swing (Columbia/Legacy) Classic Duke sound and great choruses played with typical economy from his sidemen circa 1962.
"White Christmas" by Charlie Parker All-Stars From Jingle Bell Jam (Verve) - Every family should serve up some Christmas Bird.
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When we hear the words, "Once upon a time…," we immediately recognize that we're at the beginning of something that's about to start, a story that is about to unfold. And, obviously, when we hear the words, "The End," it signals that the story has come to a close. A conclusion has been reached, and nothing more about the story line follows.
In every book, fairy tale, or story I've ever read or heard, the order is just as it is above. "Once upon a time" or "In the beginning" comes first, followed later by "The End."
However, when thinking about eternity, those phrases take place in the opposite order. "The End" of a physical life must take place before eternity can begin, at which time a new story begins to unfold.
So, it's worth the asking. When you breathe your last breath here on planet Earth, and "The End" of your life takes place, will your eternity be a "Happily Ever After" story? Or, will a horror story unfold? As Paul Harvey used to say, "The rest of the story" is yours to choose, so choose wisely. Once "The End" is written about your life, and a conclusion has been reached, the story line that follows cannot be rewritten.
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Mary Louise Cioffi
Mary Louise Cioffi RUTLAND — Mary Louise "Lou" Cioffi, 93, died July 1, 2019, at The Pines at Rutland. She was born in Proctor, Dec. 11, 1925, daughter of Peter Francis Cioffi, Sr. and Katherine (Moore) Cioffi. Loving wife to the late Frank J. Cioffi Sr. (2007). Sister to late Peter F. Cioffi Jr. and James (Jack) Cioffi. Mary Lou was a graduate of Mount Saint Joseph Academy in 1943. On October 23, 1949 she married Frank J. Cioffi at Saint Peter Church. Mary Lou was employed for CVPS for years before her marriage to Frank and then moving to Boston for a short time before Frank's departure time in the U.S. Navy (1949) on the U.S.S. Salem. Upon returning home Mary Lou was house wife/homemaker creating many beautiful wedding cakes for friends and family members. Making thousands of miniature cupcakes for teas and small parties. She was a very active mother for her children and family in the community. A dedicated member of the Alumni of the MSJ community working and playing at Bingo to support MSJ sports which her Sons and Daughters were very active in. Mary Lou earned the nick-name Commissioner of the MSJ community. Mary Lou became a resident of the Pines in 2011 until her time of Death. She was a very active resident of the Pines attending many Social Events and enjoying the Activities about cooking, baking, sewing and gardening. Mary Lou made many new friends at the Pines with the care of her and the housekeeping staff. Mary Lou was a member of the St. Peter community. She is survived by her eight children; Frank J. Cioffi, Jr. and his wife Azucena, Ernest M. Cioffi and his wife Chris, Catherine A. Taggart and her husband Scott, Agnes C. Marro and her husband Edward Robert J. Cioffi and his wife Barbara, John P. Cioffi and his fiancé Melody, Mary Frances Notte and her husband David, Ann Marie Malbon and her husband Scott. Mary Lou is survived by her eleven grandchildren; Kaitlin Sue Cioffi-Grote, Rebecca Lynn Cioffi, John P. Cioffi Jr., Christopher M. Cioffi, Leigh Ann Cioffi-Carter, Victoria Sue Cioffi, Mary Katherine Marro, Michael E. Marro, Jennifer Mary Cioffi, Jessica Ann Malbon, and Joshua S. Malbon. Two step-grandchildren; Bryan Taggart and Lisa Taggart and. She is also survived by five great-grandchildren; Kent Christopher Carter, Brian Francis Carter, Ava Marie Carter, Carter Michael Cioffi and Lincoln Grote, and one step great-grandchild; Lucas Taggart all of whom she loved very much and was a big part of her life. She is also survived by nieces, nephews and cousins. A funeral mass will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, July 5, 2019, in St. Peter's Church. Calling hours will be held at the Clifford Funeral Home on Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Burial will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Peter's Church or The Pines at Rutland Activities Fund.
Lucy Notte Jul 3, 2019 9:21am
To Marylou's family: Those we hold most dear never truly leave us. The live on in the kindness they showed, the comfort they shared and the love they brought into our lives. I will always remember and treasure the times around the kitchen table solving all the problems of the world and of course eating something!! Your Mom is up above now with "Daddy" and is at peace. I am sure she is making or baking something. RIP Marylou.
Jim Pallutto Sr Jul 3, 2019 9:40pm
Mary Lou Cioffi, my Aunt, was the hardest working woman I ever knew. Yet she raised her kids with love, great food and a determination that they were all going to be leading busy, active, working lives. I saw them working everywhere from City Hall, to the Fire Department, from the police station to the radio station, from playing sports to reporting on the sporting news. Mary Lou and Frank made and raised people that became great friends, wonderful employees, the best bosses ever, and really good neighbors. It's not just her great cooking I'm going to miss, but her stories and memories of our relatives and her way of making you feel a part of her family; she cared, she really cared for people. I hope God blesses her and she is in the best part of Heaven. But I can't help but feeling she'll get together with Frank to check on how everybody else is doing, just to make sure they're ok.
Brenda Jones Jul 6, 2019 1:04am
To all of Mary's family ,what a lady she was fullof wit an fun to chat with I was lucky to have meet Mary at the Pines an would stop by daily an visit ,or just pop in to see how she was , Mary always had a story about Ernie an my husband about fishing , she told me of her other children who she loved so. Thank you Miss Mary for all the wonderful chats. Rest in peace my friend . Thinking of you all. Brenda J. (Billy's wife)


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Q: server sent events - One client to update them all Alright, so here is what I am trying to achieve. I have a custom built Point of Sale done in VB.net. What I want to add now is a customer facing android tablet that shows the reciept as it's entered into the Point of Sale.
Brainstorming how to do this I came up with the idea to use a php hosted script (no problem as the POS has a mysql-php web backend on a local server) that would use server sent events to update the tablet. The issue I'm facing is I'm not sure how to update the server (and thus the tablet) from another client (this one being the Point of Sale).
I can't seem to find any examples other than clocks for server sent events, does anyone have a link to something similar or perhaps a better solution than what I came up with?
I had considered using an app like idisplay and just extending that way, but it doesn't support windows 8 which is what the POS is running. I also considered websockets, but I don't have a firm enough grasp of that to get it up and running. I could make an app for the tablet, but I don't really want to do that, most of my background with app development is on iOS and I don't personally like java as a development language.
EDIT 1: Alright, so I'm understanding better how I would need to make this work.
So far I have it working where I can input a $_GET variable to change the value and the next time an update is pushed it works properly. I just need to verify there's new or different data before it pushes the data.
Is there a better example than this http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/ concerning how to push updates on demand to the listening clients?

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If At First You Don't Succeed: Companies Whose Success Came After Failure
By Radu Alexander
One of the few truths in life is that you're not always going to get it right on your first try. This is especially true when your goal is to become an international, multibillion dollar company. Countless businesses have risen and crumbled simply because they offered the wrong product and failed to see it. Others, however, learn to adapt. These companies did just that, and are now some of the biggest corporations in the world.
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Today, The Gap is one of the largest apparel retailers in the world. In fact, for a while it was the largest and still has over 3,200 locations worldwide and employs 132,000 people. That's a giant leap from the first Gap merchandise store, opened in 1969 in San Francisco by Donald and Doris Fisher. To be fair, the company didn't need to do a complete 180 when it comes to its product lineup, but a little specialization. At first, The Gap sold an odd combination of Levi's jeans and LP music records.
Donald and Doris Fisher, Gap founders Source: CNN
The store was successful right off the bat, recording $2 million in sales the first year alone and quickly opened another store. It would only be a few years before The Gap became a chain across the East Coast, but this success is also due to the company's decision to drop LPs from the merchandise and instead focus on popular clothing apparel.
The first Gap store opened in 1969 Source: Redesign Related
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With annual sales exceeding $10 billion, Avon is one of the biggest beauty companies in the world, but it has very humble (and completely unrelated) beginnings. It all started with one man – David McConnell. He was a door-to-door salesman who toted books, not beauty products. His business wasn't doing too well, so in an attempt to boost sales, he began offering small samples of perfume as gifts in order to entice female buyers (who, given that this was the late 19th century, were by and large the people taking care of the home during the day).
David McConnell, founder of Avon Source: Wikipedia
His plan worked…sort of. Customers weren't really interested in buying more books from him, but they did want to buy more perfume. McConnell hopped on this untapped market and eventually founded a new company dubbed the California Perfume Company in 1892. It would later be renamed Avon, and the rest, they say, is history.
Original California Perfume Company products Source: Beautylish
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Over the decades, Lamborghini stayed relatively within the same automotive industry, although there's a big difference between the company's exotic roadsters that earned its fame and the vehicles it started out with – tractors.
Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of the company Source: Lambo Cars
Lamborghini founder Ferruccio Lamborghini didn't kick off his career in luxury cars but tractors. After serving as a mechanic in World War Two, Lamborghini started a tractor-building business that, by the 1950s, was very successful. This allowed Lamborghini to indulge in his true passion – fast cars. He had all the luxury automobiles of the day, including several Ferraris. However, when the clutch broke on one of them, Ferruccio contacted Enzo Ferrari himself and gave him advice on how he could improve his cars.
Ferrari made the mistake of quickly dismissing Lamborghini as a mere tractor builder who knew nothing about cars. As you might imagine, this inspired Lamborghini to start his own company and create the perfect GT car to compete with Ferrari. He did just that, and the rivalry between the two companies is still alive today.
Lamborghini tractor from 1951 Source: Wikipedia
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Radu is a freelance writer who specializes in historical, scientific and offbeat topics.
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Living in Southern California the home owner needs to control weeds in the yard year round. When landscaping beds need weed clearing the Hori Hori Japanese gardening knife is better than other tools because of the tip, slender blade and simple handle.
Owning mine since 2011 has proved to me that asking for one was worth the cost and it is the first tool used for work in the yard and flower beds.
The knife edges are handy to term off dried blooms while you are weeding.
The serrated edge is perfect for cutting succulents stems and clippings.
Use it for digging small holes for succulent cuttings.
The blade of the knife is strong and is made of stainless steel: this knife will not to bend. The shaft is embedded into the hilt of wood that is a comfortable shape. It will last for a lifetime.
As I am weeding I can spruce up the succulent beds. This knife is perfect for the succulent grower. The serrated edge helps keep my succulent slope trim and neat.
The edge is not as sharp as it used to be but it still cuts all types of small branches. Cut buried roots and pull small plants up easily. The blade has good heft, is thick and does not bend and is wide enough for balance.
I find that the Hori Hori knife has more precision than a weed pick. You get more balance as you dig beside the weed and there is enough blade, so that, you can run under a patch of weeds and easily pull them out at once.
After six years, the shaft is as solid and tight in the hard wood handle as when it was new.
I am perfectly satisfied with this weeding tool and unlike the weed pick it has a touch of professionalism.
A bonsai knife made in Japan.
I never use a hand spade anymore. This knife works wonders in the hard, dry packed soil of my yard.
Have You Heard of the Hori Hori Knife?
No, I have not seen one.
I need to purchase one.
I would gladly answer any questions you may have about this tool that has become a favorite in the gardening shed.


The vast majority of big U.S companies now train workers across the world. Yet most of their training dollars remain focused on delivering education at home.
A study by outsourcing company Expertus of 268 firms found almost half spent less than 10 per cent of their annual training budgets on training delivered outside their home countries.
Among more than a third of those polled, employees outside of home countries received less training than those located within home countries.
Yet nearly two thirds of companies managed global training through a centralised learning organisation, with four out of 10 employing training staff in both U.S and non-U.S countries.
English was by far the most commonly used language for training, although almost 40 per cent of companies translated training into Spanish, 30 per cent into French and a quarter into Chinese or German.
More than half of the companies polled gave their employees access to e-learning.
The top challenges identified were budget constraints, making content locally focused and translated, effective learning delivery, and the best use of e-learning.
"Global training presents a whole new range of challenges to most companies," said Ramesh Ramani, president of Expertus.
"While most companies recognise that all employees should have equal access to corporate training resources, few know how to meet this goal with existing budgets and technology infrastructures.
"We've seen demonstrable results from those companies that have made global training a priority – including increased revenues, reduced spending, and improved utilisation of workforce resources," he added.


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Works by Darren Hudson Hick
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Using Things as Art.Darren Hudson Hick - 2019 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 96 (1):56-80.details
Secured to a table in my living room is an antique apple peeler—a cast iron 19th century mechanical contrivance that I gave my wife for her birthday some years ago. This thing is not art. At the very least, I do not believe it is art. Yet my wife and I do not use it as an apple peeler; we use it as art. Indeed, my living room is filled with things that we are using as art—some artifacts, some natural (...) objects—but my living room is not filled with art. This is not, I think, all that unusual a phenomenon. Indeed, I believe this is a widespread phenomenon occurring at the blurry line between art and non-art, especially in the home. However, exactly what it means to use a thing as art without thus believing it is art, and without it being art, is not a straightforward matter, especially given the many functions of art today, and their functional overlap with non-art. In this essay, I investigate the notion of using a thing—specifically a non-art thing, whether an artifact or otherwise—as art, and the importance of this notion both inside and outside of philosophy.. (shrink)
Art and Artworks in Aesthetics
Artistic License: The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation.Darren Hudson Hick - 2017 - University of Chicago Press.details
Culture clashes -- Ontology, copyright, and artistic practice -- The myth of unoriginality -- Authorship, power, and responsibility -- Toward an ontology of authored works -- The rights of authors -- The rights of others -- Appropriation and transformation -- Afterword.
When is a Work of Art Finished?Darren Hudson Hick - 2008 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (1):67–76.details
Authorship, Co‐Authorship, and Multiple Authorship.Darren Hudson Hick - 2014 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (2):147-156.details
In this article, I use the example of the novel Micro, authored by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston, to tease out the relationships between an author and his work and with other authors of that work. The case presents a complication for a number of contemporary views on authorship and co-authorship, which suggest that Crichton is either not an author of the novel or an author but not a co-author—both, I suggest, are counterintuitive views. After working through the leading views (...) on the topic, I present my own view of authorship, co-authorship, and multiple authorship, centrally resting on issues of power, responsibility, and creation. (shrink)
Artworks in Aesthetics
Philosophy of Literature in Aesthetics
Ontology and the Challenge of Literary Appropriation.Darren Hudson Hick - 2013 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 71 (2):155-165.details
When Is a Work of Art Finished?Darren Hudson Hick - 2008 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (1):67-76.details
The Problem of Tragedy and the Protective Frame.Darren Hudson Hick & Craig Derksen - 2017 - Emotion Review 9 (2):140-145.details
We explore the classical philosophical problem of the "paradox of tragedy"—the problem of accounting for our apparent pleasure in feeling pity and terror as audiences of staged tragedies. After outlining the history of the problem in philosophy, we suggest that Apter's reversal theory offers great potential for resolving the paradox, while explaining some of the central intuitions motivating philosophical proposals—an ideal starting point to bridge a narrowing gap between philosophy and psychology.
Emotions in Philosophy of Mind
A Reply to Paisley Livingston.Darren Hudson Hick - 2008 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (4):395-398.details
Philosophy of Film in Aesthetics
Making Sense of the Copyrightability of Plots: A Case Study in the Ontology of Art.Darren Hudson Hick - 2009 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (4):399 - 407.details
Performance Hero.Craig Derksen & Darren Hudson Hick - 2009 - Contemporary Aesthetics 7.details
Ontology of Music in Aesthetics
On Canon.Craig Derksen & Darren Hudson Hick - 2018 - Contemporary Aesthetics 16 (1).details
Carroll, Noël. Minerva's Night Out: Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures. Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell, 2013, X + 358 Pp., $99.95 Cloth, $29.95 Paper. [REVIEW]Darren Hudson Hick - 2015 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (4):463-465.details
Expressing Ideas: A Reply to Roger A. Shiner.Darren Hudson Hick - 2010 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68 (4):405-408.details
Forgery and Appropriation in Art.Darren Hudson Hick - 2010 - Philosophy Compass 5 (12):1047-1056.details
Although art forgery is documented throughout the history of Western art, philosophical discussion of the problems of art forgery is a relatively recent matter, beginning largely in the latter half of the twentieth century. Arising even more recently is the practice of creating 'appropriation art', a topic that has so far been largely ignored in aesthetics but which raises some challenging questions especially when compared with forgery. This article introduces some of the philosophical problems that arise from the practice and (...) products of art forgery and in the contemporary movement of art appropriation. Rather than involving issues on the periphery of aesthetics, I suggest, forgery and appropriation art cut to the heart of issues in the ontology of art, the intersection of aesthetics and ethics, and other central areas in the philosophy of art. (shrink)
The Co‐Author Is Dead; Long Live the Co‐Author: A Reply to Killin, Bacharach, and Tollefsen.Darren Hudson Hick - 2015 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (3):337-341.details
Why Can't You Take a Joke? The Several Moral Dimensions of Pilfering a Ha‐Ha.Darren Hudson Hick - 2020 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (4):465-476.details
ABSTRACT This article investigates the moral wrongness of joke theft. Working through a trove of real-world cases, and using the sitcom The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as a touchstone, I argue, ultimately, for a pluralist approach, contending that there are several wrongs that may be present in any case of joke theft, but which cannot be reduced to each other and which are collectively irreducible to any sort of "superwrong.".
Humour in Aesthetics
Young, James O., Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts: A Philosophical Approach.Darren Hudson Hick - forthcoming - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.details
Young, James O., Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts: A Philosophical Approach (Routledge, 2021), 184 Pp., $155.00 Cloth. [REVIEW]Darren Hudson Hick - 2021 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (1):124-127.details


Brief: How can we make the public Library more popular?
Public Libraries benefit society. Library use is positively associated with improved mental health and community involvement.
Despite this, in the UK the public library is severely under threat. Over the last 6 years around a quarter of libraries have closed. The libraries that have stayed open are out-dated and public usage is significantly decreasing.
I created & Library, the de-centralised public library system. Instead of one library in a town there would be smaller libraries across a neighbourhood. These new libraries would be placed in in cafes, pubs, museums and on public transport. The section of books chosen is relevant to the place, for example - fiction in a café, art books at the gallery and sporting books at gyms. People who wouldn't usually go to the library would come across new books as part of their normal routine. The &Library app would be used to keep track of where all the books are. People can search by genres and read reviews to find their new book. Once they've picked a book they can reserve it from their local &library and take it out using their contactless library card.
Also, to engage a wider audience &Library would partner with Netflix. Netflix would give personalised book recommendations with the option of reserving it locally. & Library is a new, exciting service to engage a wider audience in reading by invigorating the public library.
Many thanks to Theo Hallas for the bespoke background music.


A pack covering the early learning basics of Opposites. Dr. Seuss and his crazy characters and wacky phrases are the perfect way to engage young children and guide them down a learning path - and have some fun while doing it!Sturdy, large format learning cards are perfect for little hands. The extra treatments to each card makes them that little bit more special!Engaging and zany, Dr. Seuss illustrations will entertain kids while they learn!


Today's card was inspired by a couple of things I saw on Pinterest (here and here). I've been really into using embossing lately, and this card fed into that.
I used gold mirror paper and aqua cardstock to create the card. The snowflakes are from the Simon Says Stamp Holiday Envelope Sentiments stamp set. My sentiment came from a Stampin' Up Greetings of the Season set (unable to find in their store anymore). I embossed all using Versamark and a gold detail embossing powder.
The inside of the card is about as simple as you can get - I embossed another of the sentiments from the SU set.
the card looks awesome. The heat embossed snowflakes are gorgeous!
Simply beautiful. Very elegant. Thanks for joining us at Inspiration Destination. Hope to see you again and good luck!
The gold embossing looks really lush Sara and nice touch with the gold carried through to the insert.
baeutiful embossing on the snowflakes.
Beautifully elegant, Sara! Love your pale blue and gold color combo. Thanks so much for honoring us with your lovely entry in our Anything Goes challenge at Through the Craft Room Door this week. Hope to see you again soon and good luck in the draw.


The work never stops at the House of Windows! And while we already have an idea that Microsoft is working on a couple of different version of its flagship operating systems (at least), some new details about what is in store for us in the coming months have surfaced.
Redmond's immediate priority is releasing a new update for Windows 8.1 early this year.
Going by the name of the Spring GDR Update, this new version of the operating system is expected to go live alongside newer Surface slates with 4G LTE capabilities.
Win8China actually has gotten wind of what Microsoft is thinking of calling this particular update. And according to this new report, the upcoming release is expected to be called either Windows 8.1+ or Windows 8.1 Update 1.
In other words, we can lay to rest the Windows 8.2 designation.
This also means that while the new update will bring along a lot of improvements on both the performance and feature side of things, it will, for all essential purposes, be something of a service pack. A kernel update along with support for low specification processors (think 1GHz) is on the cards, though.
The above source also claims that development of this new Windows 8.1 Update 1 is on track to be finalized by March at most, and Redmond has started internal testing of this as of this writing.
An April launch, is then, a distinct possibility.
Which, come to think of it, coincides perfectly with the BUILD developer conference. Anyway, file this as an early rumor for now, but expect some feature and screenshot leaks in the coming weeks.


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Pair of two-panel folding screens; ink, colour, and gold on paper, 1825, by Suzuki Kiitsu (1796 - 1858)
Left panel
These two stunning folding panels were part of the exhibition of art from the Japanese Edo Period which had opened at the Harvard Art Galleries a few weeks prior to being closed down by the outbreak of the pandemic. I earlier wrote about a wonderful image of a peacock from the same exhibition. These panels measure almost two metres each in both width and height and when you happen across them in the exhibition space, you invariably find a cluster of people gathered in front of them, just staring entranced at their simple but radiant beauty. On both occasions I went to see the magnificent Edo exhibition, it was these elegant cranes who had somehow seemed to draw towards them a quiet and respectful audience. A certain silence falls over viewers in the presence of great art, just as it does when concert goers find themselves transported beyond the sound of music into something more divine, and in this state remain suspended, momentarily unaware even that the last cadence of the music has already been played, and so passed on into nothingness. The curators of the exhibition seemed to anticipate the effect this extraordinary work would have on viewers and so they placed it in a sort of darkened, quiet enclave where it was exquisitely lit by subtle spotlights, the light emblazoning the gold painted paper and making its avian subjects appear to hover off the screen and the water to shimmer and ripple behind them. I would imagine that to have the panels as a decorative partition in a bedroom or parlour would make for many a deeply meditative moment, not to mention a fine and envious conversation piece in the houses of the Edo aristocracy.
I know nothing of Japanese art, except perhaps to have briefly encountered the fine screen paintings which were often used as scrims and backdrops for their tradition of kabuki theatre. Reading extracts from the fine book which was written to commemorate the Edo exhibition at Harvard was very informative and yet somehow the soul of Edo art seemed to remain elusive to me, as if it all lingered from within a fully sealed hermitic reality that was impossible to penetrate. This, as it turns out, is not entirely true because there is wide evidence to suggest that the artists of the Edo period were already beginning to immerse themselves in the traditions of the west as increasingly busy ports brought trade and commodities from Europe and other countries previously sealed off from Japanese culture. But there is a genteel elegance to Edo figure-work which seems to come from another world, the "floating world" of fine fans and lit lanterns and magnificent miniaturist gardens: all components of a very high, stately and particular culture. Suzuki Kiitsu was a leading proponent of the Edo Rinpa school of craft art, descendants of a long line of a specific kind of art which was used to embellish a number of utilitarian items, such as fans, sliding doors, traditional tea bowls, pots and screens. Interestingly, however, when you read further, you learn that the tradition of screen painting, called Byōbu was not in fact Japanese at all, but appropriated from the Chinese Han dynasty many centuries earlier.
The curator of the Harvard Edo exhibition wrote an exquisite description of this piece which I copied into my notebook: The sublime simplicity of the supple necks and luxuriant feathers of this group of cranes is complemented by the tangle of angular legs at ground level. A patch of water bridges the gap between the two screens, compelling unification in the mind's eye. As the birds call to and gaze at each other in the shallow pictorial space, their body language echoes the distinctive coiled ripples inked on the azurite water.
There is indeed an arresting juxtaposition between the simple and the complex in the work: the carefully evoked bodies of the cranes, lush in their fullness and curved lines, become strangely scrawny and discombobulated as their legs criss-cross one another and their raggedly claws provide a disjointed relief from their otherwise graceful posturing. In fact, the balance of the composition hangs in this precarious juncture between harmony and disharmony as we scan from top to bottom, but also from left screen to right screen. The groupings of the cranes are held in a kind of elusive tension with the water: it is barely perceptible but the flat contours of the water and their complete lack of dimensionality grate antithetically with the full-bodied outlines of the birds. In order to reach a satisfactory resolution, we first need to encounter disunity and crisis. We need to work mentally towards denouement and catharsis; the screens would hardly be arresting otherwise, quite probably the reason they draw viewers towards them and hold people's gaze so intently. Consciously our mind is drawn to the oddness of these tiny discordant notes but always we are longing to resolve them towards a perfect cadence. It's a total triumph of technique that Kiitsu seems to know the value of intriguing and testing the mind rather than handing us a scene which is already fully unified.
Art as object, as utility, is also raised in viewing Cranes. On display, the screens make up four compartments which slope away from one another at slight angles. The overall impression of the object comes to you not as a flat painting, therefore presentable and viewable, but as a pronounced object overtly servicing a larger function. The screen divides, it separates, it conceals. It makes one space into two spaces. It makes a larger space into a smaller space. It permits action to unfold behind it which is invisible from in front of it. It coalesces to intimacies which its absence would render indelicate. It does not demand attention within itself, but its beauty is rather attendant to its primary role as an arbiter of discretion. Also it is ambient rather than purely artistic; it adds taste to a room without being the centre of that taste. And yet, despite its purpose, the screens are utterly magnetic: they draw energy towards them in a way which almost seems to dislocate the intention of ambience altogether. It is no wonder now that they are prized exhibition pieces and used in a manner which specifically solicits undivided attention, but it interests me to contemplate what effect they had on ordinary visitors to a parlour room or incumbents of a bedroom. Does the artistry of an object supersede its functionalism when its aesthetic qualities mask the apparentness of that object's purpose? Do people see a screen or a work of art?
Of course they can be one and the same thing, but placed in a larger context of Japanese culture, and then placed also in relation to a larger global historical period, one can't help but feel a kind of sad longing for that bygone time when we seemed to value art so highly for its ability to neutralise the perfunctoriness of our everyday utility. The modern world seeks to popularise the mass productiveness of items: our Samsung TV is manufactured to look the same as the other ten million Samsung TV's propped up as literal screens in ten million rooms. Somehow sameness and commonality has become a status symbol: we want what other people want. Yet I can imagine that whoever originally owned Cranes and used it for whatever purpose, prized it particularly for its uniqueness, its originality, its distinction. One can only wonder whether our fixation with the common mass object somehow means we eventually end up all thinking and acting in the same common way?


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Episode 339: The Many Perspectives of Grief – Interview with Rachel Beanland
Jan 06, 2021 by Gabriela Pereira
published in Podcast
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Beanland.
Rachel Beanland writes fiction and essays, and has recently released her debut novel. Her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction and Broad Street, among other places, and she has an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University.
With bachelor's degrees in art history and journalism, Rachel worked in public relations and nonprofit management before focusing on writing full time. She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and three children.
Her debut novel is Florence Adler Swims Forever, which we'll be discussing here today.
In this episode Rachel and I discuss:
How a family tragedy influenced her approach to writing her debut novel.
Why rotating perspectives helped with secret-keeping throughout her story.
Her experience with workshopping her novel as she wrote it.
Plus, her #1 tip for writers.
About Rachel Beanland
Rachel Beanland writes fiction and essays. Her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction and Broad Street, among other places. She has an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds bachelor's degrees in art history and journalism from the University of South Carolina. Before turning to writing full-time, Rachel worked in public relations and nonprofit management. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and three children. Florence Adler Swims Forever is her debut novel.
You can find Rachel on her website or follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Goodreads.
Florence Adler Swims Forever
Rachel Beanland's debut novel Florence Adler Swims Forever transports us to Atlantic City, 1934.
The beaches are packed, but the crowds won't deter Florence Adler, home from college and determined to spend her summer training to swim the English Channel. Training is a welcome respite from Florence's family's crowded apartment. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the small apartment above their bakery. Despite the cramped quarters, this is the apartment where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and it always feels like home.
This year, the apartment is especially full. Fannie, pregnant again after recently losing a baby, is on bedrest for the duration of her pregnancy, and her seven-year-old daughter Gussie has moved in. After Joseph insists they take in a mysterious young woman, Anna, whom he recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany, the apartment is bursting at the seams.
Despite the chaos, Esther looks forward to having three generations under one roof. She only wants to keep her daughters close and safe but some matters are beyond her control: there's Fannie's risky pregnancy—not to mention her always-scheming husband, Isaac—and the fact that the handsome heir of a hotel notorious for its anti-Semitic policies, seems to be in love with Florence.
When tragedy strikes during one of Florence's swim practices, Esther makes the shocking decision to hide the truth—at least until Fannie's baby is born—and pulls the family into an elaborate web of secret-keeping and lies, bringing long-buried tensions to the surface that reveal how quickly the act of protecting those we love can turn into betrayal.
At its core, Florence Adler Swims Forever is a brilliant depiction of a bygone era of the Jersey Shore, a great novel of big dreams and loss. Based on a true story of her great-great aunt, and told in the vein of J. Courtney Sullivan's Saints for All Occasions and Anita Diamant's The Boston Girl, Beanland's family saga is a breathtaking portrait of just how far we will go to in order to protect our loved ones and an uplifting portrayal of how the human spirit can endure—and even thrive—after tragedy.
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6 Best Practices for MTSS Interventions from Ogden School District
Delivering MTSS interventions to students is an important pathway to equity and excellence in schools. But how do you build—and systematize—tiered intervention services across an entire district?
To do this well, there's a lot to learn from Ogden School District. The district, which serves 12,300 students in Ogden, Utah, has a strong vision for student support that focuses on building strong relationships with students. This vision motivates their approach to MTSS and informs everything they do—from Tier 2 interventions, to how they collect and use data.
On a recent webinar, administrators from Ogden shared their values, best practices, and norms for delivering tiered student supports and interventions.
Here's a round-up of everything you need to know from the webinar.
Download 3 shareable resources to unify MTSS/RTI across your district.
1. Don't reinvent the wheel for every school and every student.
Instead, strive to deliver consistent MTSS services across the entire district. Although the goal of MTSS is to provide individualized support to every student, it's not efficient or repeatable to write a new behavior plan every time a student acts out or shows signs of struggle. Develop district-level systems and core MTSS values to ensure that students are getting the best support possible at every school.
In Ogden, for example, district leaders have worked hard to maintain consistency in MTSS services across school sites. These shared elements include data collection systems, intervention menus, support teams, and professional development.
"We can guarantee that a student will get the same service at every school in our district. This means that one student can move to another elementary school and receive the same type of service on the day that they start."
– Aspen Henderson, MTSS and PBIS Coordinator,
Ogden School District
2. A strong Tier 1 is the best prevention for needing Tier 2 or 3 interventions.
Above all else, focus on building a strong base of Tier 1 supports to create a proactive and preventative MTSS culture. In Ogden, school sites evaluate Tier 1 data every month to identify one area for improvement. For instance, at New Bridge Elementary School, this month they're working on students' friendship skills because of a rise in playground incidents.
"Our three major Tier 1 systems relate to behavior, attendance, and academics. Interwoven through all three are our new efforts in understanding how SEL impacts those three areas for our students," said Janice Bukey, principal of New Bridge Elementary.
Here are a few of Ogden's school-based Tier 1 strategies:
Attendance challenges to celebrate good attendance with a traveling trophy and ice cream parties.
Daily behavior spotlights over the PA and on a bulletin board to encourage positive behavior.
Second Step curriculum to develop students' social-emotional learning skills including emotion regulation, social awareness, and self-efficacy.
3. At the Tier 2 level, create student support teams to mobilize around at-risk students.
The goal of these cross-functional teams should be to review relevant data, identify students in need of Tier 2 supports, and come up with interventions for each child. Ogden has Child Assistance Teams (ChATs) made up of principals, assistant principals, counselors, and behavior interventionists. The ChaT teams meet weekly with the following responsibilities:
Look at students' needs across academics, behavior, attendance, and social-emotional learning.
Prepare for meetings by reviewing the data to identify at-risk students ahead of time.
"ChAT" two to three students per week and review the progress of three to four students.
Exit the meeting with intervention plans for each student.
Assist teachers in implementing interventions within 48 hours, with each intervention running for three weeks.
4. Train staff on a narrow set of MTSS interventions to ensure fidelity of implementation.
Keep your intervention menu simple; administrators at Ogden recommend going deep on a set of pre-determined Tier 2 interventions. Their district-wide Tier 2 menu includes four interventions that staff are heavily trained to implement:
2x10 Relationship Building: Connect with a student for two minutes per day, 10 days in a row. These conversations should focus on relationship building, and must be about anything but school.
Preventative Problem-Solving Plan (3Ps): Work with the student to identify the problem and talk through a solution.
Goal-Setting: Check in with the student around a goal; more teacher-directed than the 3Ps, but still based on what the student has identified as the problem. ("Today we're working on staying in our seat. Do you think you could sit in your seat for 80 percent of the time?)
Check In, Check Out (CICO): This is the most time-intensive intervention; review goals with the student every morning and collect data in 30-minute increments.
Download this Interventions Toolkit for more intervention strategies and ideas.
5. Group interventions can be just as effective as individual supports.
While individualized supports are critical in a MTSS, group-based interventions can also lead to positive student outcomes. For example, the "Achievement Club" at Mound Fort Junior High in Ogden is a group intervention for at-risk eighth and ninth graders who need extra support on the path to graduation.
Nichole Goodliffe, assistant principal at Mound Fort Junior High, shares how she identifies students for the Achievement Club:
"Prior to Panorama, it took me two to three days to pull the data across attendance, behavior, and grades with spreadsheets. Panorama saves me a lot of time. I can immediately pull up students who need extra support going into eighth grade with the smart groups feature."
– Nichole Goodliffe, Assistant Principal, Mound Fort Junior High
She also described the impact of Achievement Club for a specific student: After being placed in the club, the student went from 11 Fs, 63 behavior incidents, and 89 percent daily attendance to only five Fs, two behavior write-ups, and 95 percent attendance.
6. Manage and progress monitor interventions in one central data system.
Administrators, staff, and educators need shared access to progress monitoring data to quickly identify struggling students and understand if interventions are working. For Ogden School District, Panorama is that one-stop shop. Educators can review and log student intervention data across academics, behavior, attendance, and social-emotional learning in one place.
To learn more about how Ogden is building and scaling MTSS, read this impact story.
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Q: codeigniter: The value from the last text field repeats itself or doesn't get the value from the text field I select 2 text fields and input 'alpha' on the first text field and second on the 'beta'. When I display it on the next page It only shows the second value which is 'beta'. What is the problem with my code? I already foreach the the variable that holds the data.
This is the view for form. (jscript)

This is the form
      Adult:
    <select id="bookinfo_adult" name="bookinfo_adult">
    <option value="0">- SELECT -</option>
        <option value="1">1</option>
        <option value="2">2</option>
        <option value="3">3</option>
        <option value="4">4</option>
        <option value="5">5</option>
        <option value="6">6</option>
    </select>

This is controller
for ($i=1;$i<=$data['num'];$i++) {
                //concatinate number of fields to a variable
                $name=array();
                $name=$this->input->post('passenger-'.$i);
                $value=array();
                $value='val'.$i;
                $data['bookinfo_passengers']=array();
                $data['bookinfo_passengers']=array($value=>$name);
            }

This is whats on my display view
     for($a=1;$a<=$num;$a++){
    foreach($bookinfo_passengers as $value=>$name)
    {
        echo $value.'='.$name;
    }
            }

A: You are restarting the array every loop and you are overriding the old data with the new one:
for ($i=1;$i<=$data['num'];$i++) {
            //concatinate number of fields to a variable
            $name=array();
            $name=$this->input->post('passenger-'.$i);
            $value=array();
            $value='val'.$i;
            $data['bookinfo_passengers']=array(); ---> **put this outside of the loop**
            $data['bookinfo_passengers']=array($value=>$name); ---> this will override the previous data.
        }

try this:
 $data['bookinfo_passengers']=array();
 $tmp = array();
 for ($i=1;$i<=$data['num'];$i++) {
            //concatinate number of fields to a variable
            $name=array();
            $name=$this->input->post('passenger-'.$i);
            $value=array();
            $value='val'.$i;
            $tmp[$value] = $name;
        }

 $data['bookinfo_passengers']=$tmp;

Then use it like:
foreach($data['bookinfo_passengers'] as $value=>$name)
    {
        echo $value.'='.$name;
    }


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Chairman Morris Chang keeps TSMC on the cutting edge of chipmaking
Founder and Chairman Morris Chang helped TSMC thrive with his tough love leadership (Photo by Cheng Ting-fang)
CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei staff writer September 29, 2016 12:00 JST | China
TAIPEI Foresight, an unwavering focus and tough-love leadership. These are the qualities that have helped Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) Chairman Morris Chang, 85, deliver stellar returns and make smartphones a ubiquitous part of daily life over the past decade.
"Chairman Chang is like an outstanding general in the military," said Rick Hsu, a veteran semiconductor analyst at Daiwa Capital Markets. "He is very demanding, strict and tough."
Hsu continued: "Because of Chang's strong leadership, TSMC is much more disciplined than any of its rivals, if any, across the industry and can achieve very high efficiency in manufacturing chips as well as in developing advanced technologies."
Daniel Heyler, the new chief executive of Hong Kong-based eFusion Capital, left TSMC only recently. According to him, Chang's belief in building solid relationships with corporate customers and treating them all equally regardless of the size of their company has paid off.
"TSMC has been a phenomenal performer year after year, and that's due to Morris Chang and his team," Heyler said. "The business model has remained pure and simple from day one, hence the now huge organization is [sharply] focused on technology and customer needs."
With a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University and solid executive experience with U.S. chipmaker Texas Instruments, Chang was invited by the Taiwanese government to build a world-class chip industry on the island back in the 1980s.
Widely recognized as the godfather of Taiwan's semiconductor industry, Chang has helped push Taiwan onto the global tech stage with the creation of a foundry sector and an accompanying ecosystem that now makes chips for integrated circuit designers around the globe.
Today, TSMC controls 55% of the global market for contract chip production and counts more than 470 chip designers as its customers, including Qualcomm, Nvidia, Huawei chip subsidiary Hisilicon and MediaTek, the largest mobile chip supplier to China.
Without Chang driving innovation at TSMC, Apple would have found it much more difficult, if not impossible, to deliver iPhones with the superior computing power they now boast.
The Taiwanese chipmaker began supplying core processors for Apple in 2014, poaching some orders for the iPhone 6 series from Samsung Electronics.
A mere two years later, it now has a monopoly on iPhone chip orders. That monopoly is expected to continue thanks to its supe
rior production technology, which delivers more energy-efficient core processors than its rivals.
TSMC's market capitalization has more than tripled since mid-2009, hitting a record 4.86 trillion New Taiwan dollars ($154.6 billion) in September. The company's revenue and net profit have broken records every year since 2012.
While most industry peers slashed research and development spending following the financial crisis of 2008, Chang increased his company's R&D budget substantially each year -- from NT$21.59 billion in 2009 to NT$65.54 billion in 2015 -- to capitalize on the emerging mobile trend.
TSMC is set to outperform its peers again this year with revenue forecast to grow nearly 10%, even as research company IC Insights predicts global semiconductor sales to drop 1% in 2016.
One key to TSMC's success is that it ensures it always has a technological edge over its competitors and never tries to win business by cutting prices, said Chang Chun-yen, former president of National Chiao Tung University, a longtime incubator of local tech talent.
But while Morris Chang is widely recognized as TSMC's most important asset, the octogenarian leader is also becoming its Achilles' heel, as the company has no clear succession plan in place.
Chang appointed Mark Liu and C.C. Wei in late 2013 to become co-chief executives, but he also told reporters that he may remain as executive chairman until 2020.
"TSMC's Chairman Chang is one of the most visionary leaders of our time," said NCTU's Chang. "However, I see no one in sight at this point to replace or compare with him."
Nikkei staff writer Debby Wu in Taipei contributed to this report.
Taiwan tech sales rebound after 9-month decline
Apple and Samsung lose some of their luster
TSMC says global smartphone demand seems 'normal'
Renesas, TSMC working on advanced automotive chips
Intel aims to challenge TSMC over Apple chip orders by 2018
TSMC shares mixed despite better-than-expected 2Q results
TSMC warns of inventory correction for fourth quarter


When it comes to the hotel industry – even in regards to hotel chains and bigger and more prosperous hotels – loyalty is an important component. Trends in hospitality technology can be hugely beneficial for this, as it can help to measure and track customer service trends. Keeping an eye on trends in hospitality technology can also help you to be more considerate and aware of how to best utilize customer service. Because when it comes down to it, customer loyalty is hugely dependent on customer service and the quality of it that is provided.
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Technology is at the heights of its power and evolution as of right now, and some people believe that there is still room to grow. This has truly changed how businesses conduct themselves and how they interact with social media, website design, and digital marketing. Most businesses that are wise will hire a marketing company that is talented and modernized.
According to a report from SalesForce Marketing Cloud, 83% of customers love or like when a business responds to them on social media. For most businesses, it is hard to create a sector of a business that works just specifically with social media. However, hiring an experienced marketing company will help you launch your businesses into the sphere of technology.


Molecular prosthetics are small molecules that can replace missing proteins to treat diseases. Illinois professor Martin Burke describes one that could treat anemia by replacing an iron transport protein.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers have demonstrated that a small molecule can transport iron in human cells and live animals when proteins that normally do the same job are missing, a condition that often causes severe anemia in patients. Such "molecular prosthetics" might treat a host of incurable diseases caused by protein deficiencies, such as anemias, cystic fibrosis or certain types of heart disease.
Researchers at the University of Illinois and collaborators at Harvard Medical School and Northeastern University published their work the journal Science.
See a video at https://youtu.be/n--1DgIg5Nc.
Illinois chemists have developed molecular prosthetics, small molecules that can treat protein deficiencies. Pictured, back row: Chemistry professor Martin Burke, undergraduate students James Fan and Chris Nardone. Front row: graduate students Anna SantaMaria, Anthony Grillo and Alexander Cioffi.
"If you're sick because you have too much protein function, in many cases we can do something about it. But if you're sick because you're missing a protein that does an essential function, we struggle to do anything other than treat the symptoms. It's a huge unmet medical need," said Burke, who also is a medical doctor.
The small molecule hinokitiol transports iron across cell membranes where transport proteins are missing. See an animation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD_BwBhQqyo.
The National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute supported this work.
Editor's notes: To reach Marty Burke, call 217-244-8726; email: mdburke@illinois.edu.
Multimedia files are available at https://uofi.app.box.com/v/molecularprosthetics.


Light is not both a wave and a particle. It is a particle (sort of). Let me give two arguments from intimidation: the first is that one branch of modern physics such as the kind that goes on at the LHC is dubbed particle physics, not wave physics. They talk about fundamental particles such as electrons, photons, and quarks. There are no mentions of waves.
What's he saying here? Two things actually. The first is an experiment that doesn't make sense from a wave interpretation. You launch a bunch of photons at a detector, which works as follows: the photons hit a metal plate and knock off some electrons, which are then attracted to a charged plate nearby, so they go smash into that plate and knock off even more electrons, which are attracted to an oppositely charged plate also nearby, so they go smash into that and knock off even more electrons...and so on until there's enough electrons to signal a beeping circuit. So the experimental question is: if I send a lot of photons ("strong wave intensity"), how many electrons do I smash off the first plate and what is the energy of each individual electron? A wave interpretation would suggest that the number of electrons you smash off remains roughly constant, but as you weaken the wave you weaken the total energy that each electron takes, so the energy per electron goes down, and perhaps at some point when your wave is so weak it won't disturb any electrons. A particle interpretation, on the other hand, reverses that. A single photon smashes off a single electron once in a while, and that electron has some energy E. A bunch of photons smash off a bunch of electrons, and each electron has the same energy E as in the single case. So to recap: waves suggest as you weaken the light, you still get the same bunch of electrons out but at weaker energies. Particles suggest that as you weaken the light (fewer photon particles), you get fewer electrons out each with the same energy. What happens in reality? The particle version happens, not the wave version. Go home, wave theorists! Some other experiments seem to permit both wave and particle interpretations, but apparently not all. Particles win, Newton's conclusion (though not his method) was right.
The second thing Feynman says notes that the mathematics of waves as commonly understood don't really work at higher dimensions. With one photon, yeah, psi(photon_position, time)=psi(pp, t) looks like a wave. psi(pp1, pp2, t) does not, however. How would one visualize psi(pp1, pp2, pp3, pp4, pp5, t)? It only makes sense as a high-dimensional probability distribution, which looks like a wave in the 2D case but doesn't really look like a higher-order wave for higher orders.


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19th Century Photo Album of the Mayan Acropolis of Copán
[Barberena, Santiago I.]; [Ruiz, Manuel]; [Pozo, Francisco]
[Cover Title:] Exmo. Sor. D. Francisco Menendez Presidente de la República.
Around 1888. Vintage leporello album with 17 mounted albumen prints (ca. 95 × 116 mm). Bound in red morocco. Front panel with gilt title and ornamentation, rear panel with blind stamped ornamentation. Both panels with bevelled, blind stamped edges. With the brief description of the album written on the upper margins in black ink, presumably by Francisco Pozo's hand. Each image is labelled below in black ink by the same hand. Stamp of Associació Catalanista d'Excursions Científiques on the verso of five leaves. Bookplate of Antoni Pach (Barcelona, 1935) on the rear pastedown. Panels and spine slightly rubbed. The images are sharp, in fine condition. Overall in fine condition.
Unique, nineteenth-century photo album of explorations at the Maya site of Copán, dedicated to Francisco Menéndez, the President of El Salvador.
Lead by the Salvadoran archaeologist, historian and lawyer, Santiago I. Barberena (1851–1916) and Spanish directors Manuel Ruiz and Francisco Pozo, a group of explorers visited the ancient Mayan ruins in Copán, Honduras in 1888 by the commission of the government of San Salvador. The group, whose expedition is documented in the present album, spent almost three weeks, between May 21 and June 8, 1888, surveying the plazas, pyramids, steles and altars of the Acropolis.
The item includes seventeen photographs, presenting the archaeological site in its primary state before the excavation. These images are among the first ones to document the Mayan remains of Copán. Identifiable monuments represented are Stela A, C, D and H - all erected by Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil in the early 8th century AD - Altar Q and the West "turtle" Altar of Stela C, as well as the doorway of Temple 22.
The album was presented to Francisco Menéndez Valdivieso (1830–1890), the President of El Salvador by Francisco Pozo, the Spanish director of the expedition. Marginal notes describing the album and image captions are included, possibly by Pozo's hand.
Provenance: Stamps of Associació Catalanista d'Excursions Científiques. With the bookplate of Antoni Pach (Antoni Pach Buira). Pach was a chemical expert of the Catalan Society of Sciences (Societat Catalana de Ciéncies) and the author of the 1951 book, Centro Excursionista de Cataluña […], in which he discusses the birth of the l'Associació Catalanista d'Excursions Científiques. Pach's bookplate was designed by the Catalan Art-Nouveau graphic artist and painter, Ramón Borrell i Pla (1876–1963).
Price: €70,000.00
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