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Locations > Instructors > Manuel Reyes
About Manuel Reyes
Music Teacher, Professional
Location: Ridgewood, NJ
Speaks: English, Spanish
Get to know Manuel Reyes
Hello! My name is Manny I currently teach trumpet at Music & Arts. I picked up the trumpet the second I started high school and after that the rest was history. I grew up in a small town called North Arlington, so you could imagine when I picked up the trumpet it started to get very noisy in the area. I've always enjoyed listening to classical music thanks to my grandfather who would listen to a lot of classical piano, but there was something that caught my ears once I heard one of my favorite trumpet solos from Mahler's Symphony no. 5.
I am currently attending Montclair State University for my B.A degree in Music Education. But I have also taught in a few different school's for their marching band program. I've been playing trumpet for about 8 years and counting, but I have also marched in Drum Corps for the Hawthorne Caballeros.
When it came down to the decision of wanting to teach I was actually inspired by my high school band director. He was able to make music enjoyable for the class that he would teach, he was always pushing his students to strive for success but also made playing and preforming music just as enjoyable. i found that I wanted to give that same energy of pushing for success and enjoyability in preforming music to the same students that I get to teach.
Manuel Reyes teaches at:
Ridgewood NJ
185 E Ridgewood Ave
With over 150 locations nationwide, Music & Arts is the nation's leading provider of private music lessons, band and orchestra instrument sales, rentals and repairs. Our remarkable story of growth has everything to do with the countless unshakable relationships we've formed with students, parents, music educators and musicians of every stripe in the local communities we serve across the country. Since opening our first store back in 1952, we've been owned and operated by the same family, and there's nothing we do as a company without our values in mind. For whatever you're doing in music, we're here to help. We hope you visit our Ridgewood location soon! Our friendly staff can't wait to meet you.


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Let us first posit the Lord's Resistance Army, which is neither an army nor the Lord's, is overdue for elimination, long overdue. It was founded in Uganda in 1987 and unlike so many movements that flourish briefly and bloodily, this one was never stamped out.
The LRA has moved among Southern Sudan, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, taking advantage of the rough terrains, its reputation of amoral viciousness and these countries' limited capacity for military cooperation.
In itself, the anti-LRA operation doesn't set any particular precedent. Advisers from the U.S. Africa Command are scattered throughout the continent with the largest contingent, about 3,500, in Djibouti. But the continent doesn't lack for problems that may draw U.S. attention – al-Qaeda's attempts to establish itself in northern Nigeria and the ongoing chaos and anarchy of Somalia.
The so-far limited deployment to central Africa is billed as both a training and a humanitarian mission, but now that the U.S. has committed itself there is, despite what the White House Power Point presentations may say, only one successful outcome – the death or capture of Kony and the death or dispersal of his followers.


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Study: Denver-area arts and culture organizations lost a decade of growth in 2020
Kyle Cooke
• Published on November 5, 2021 • Last modified on November 4, 2021
Denver Art Museum's renovated campus opened in October 2021, but the pandemic's impact on arts institutions show just how difficult 2020 was.
Photo: James Florio Photography
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DENVER — This week, the nonprofit Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) released a study detailing the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on art and cultural institutions and many of the findings paint a bleak image.
The data for the study were self-reported by close to 300 arts, culture and science organizations that receive funding from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). The CBCA study concluded that the Denver area's arts sector "lost a decade of growth in 2020."
"Arts, culture and scientific organizations are the backbone of a vibrant, resilient and inclusive society. CBCA's 2021 Economic Activity Study of Metro Denver Culture illustrates years of record-breaking cultural growth, which hit an all-time high in 2019, and conversely in 2020, how a community responds to drastic and disruptive circumstances," CBCA's executive director Christin Crampton Day said in a news release.
2019 was a banner year for the arts, with $2.3 billion in economic activity (defined by the CBCA as "direct and indirect spending from operations, audiences and capital projects"). That figure is an all-time high.
But of course, the COVID-19 pandemic was right around the corner in 2020, and with the combination of the deadly virus and pandemic-related closures of places like museums and concert venues, economic activity decreased by 34% compared to 2019. The CBCA said the economic activity in 2020 was comparable to the levels of the "Great Recession" in 2008.
Not surprisingly, attendance to arts events was nearly halved.
Job loss was another problem. In 2019, the cultural sector had a record number of full-time, part-time and contract workers at 13,392 according to the CBCA's study. "If the entire cultural nonprofit sector was one single employer in 2019, it would have been the largest private employer in the metro region," the CBCA wrote.
But in 2020, the number of workers plummeted nearly 30%, down to just 9,688.
That summer, Rocky Mountain PBS spoke with three different workers in Colorado's entertainment industry, including Philip Hiester. A stagehand who works at places like Boettcher Concert Hall, Hiester had to file for unemployment benefits for the first time in his decades-long career during the pandemic.
The hardest part for Hiester during the pandemic was the uncertainty of when steady work would return. Some of that anxiety was eased in 2021 when indoor performances returned to the Colorado Symphony, but rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Colorado are proof that the pandemic is not very close to being over.
There were, however, some success stories. The Denver-based dance company Wonderbound, for example, was able to keep all its dancers on payroll despite performance cancellations.
[Related: Wonderbound's Henry McCall: 'Our bodies are our art']
And the Denver Art Museum, meanwhile, was able to open its renovated campus earlier this year. After the renovations, the museum added 65 full-time jobs.
The lone bright spot in the CBCA study was in donations and government support for the arts sector. It was the only key metric in the study that increased between 2019 to 2020. In 2019, the organizations surveyed received $38 million in individual donations and $25 million in government funding. In 2020, individual donations jumped to $43 million and government funding increased to $41 million.
"These sources helped to cover major losses in earned revenue and corporate event sponsorships as a result of the pandemic," the CBCA wrote.
For a detailed breakdown of the CBCA study, click here.
Colorado Voices: Artists
Stream the full episode and learn about the featured artists.
A look inside Denver Art Museum's renovated campus

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For our latest collaboration we've teamed up with rock royalty Johnny Marr, to introduce you to a brand-new style of Yogis. Based on a 90's archive style, the Rishi's minimalistic design has been developed on our classic crepe outsole complete with an unlined leather or suede upper. Available in an array of earthy toned, this limited collection features 5 colourways, Dark Olive, Dark Brown, Black Tumbled Leather, Senape Sand, Black Suede, and all perfectly finished with a duel branded foot bed and external swing tag.
Marr's career first started back in 1982's when the young musician joined Manchester rock and roll band The Smiths, his creative journey further found him at the heart of The Electronic, Modest Mouse, and The Cribs. Since then Marr perused a solo career leading him to have four UK Top Ten albums, he also recently featured on the soundtrack for James Bond, No Time to Die. As one of the most influential songwriters and guitarists in British History, it was a pleasure to partner with him for this collaboration.
"It's exciting to have the opportunity to work with Yogi on the Johnny Marr Rishi shoe. Yogi have been making shoes for me on my last few tours. They invited me to take the creativity a stage further and design a new shoe that would be perfect for me. Hopefully other people will think they're perfect for them too." – Johnny Marr
As a fan of Yogi since the 90's, our long-standing relationship with Marr goes back 25 years. As the guitarists 'go to' footwear brand, you'll most likely see Johnny in a pair of Yogis on stage. To celebrate this collaboration we interviewed Marr on all things Yogi, fashion, and rock and roll…
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Books for kids who don't like reading
November 29, 2012 Joanne Mallon books, parenting, Theories About Stuff, writing 0
Is a book is one of the few things it's OK to give as a gift to someone who might not like it? Maybe if that person's a child.
With an adult who says they don't like reading then I guess you have to respect their life choices and file them away under B for barbarian.
But a kid who doesn't like reading – surely they just haven't met the right book yet? And maybe if you provided it, you could be the one to help them fall in love with books?
My son was never a huge reader, but slowly slowly this year we have infected him with bookwormitis. This week he's been getting up extra early to fit in more reading time, which never would've happened a year ago. So how did he get from reluctant reader to avid one?
What sort of books will tempt a reluctant reader?
A book about whatever they DO like
OK, so you don't like books but maybe you like football or superheroes or all-in wrestling or trees or puppies. They have books about all that stuff. Marvel pocket books have been a big hit here.
Where's Wally books
There's no actual words in these, so they're much less threatening to a struggling reader. They get the message across that books can be a fun way to pass the time.
Guinness Book of World Records
We were sent this by the publishers a while ago, and I was surprised at how popular it's been. Primarily this is because there are loads of facts, plenty of words but no big long stories to read and tons and tons of amazing pictures. The other big draw in the 2013 edition is the accompanying app. Download it, hold your phone over the pages and the pictures jump out in 3D.
Shark!
The LEGO Book
Check out our review of this here. This is the book we've returned to most often over the last month. It's fantastic for any reluctant readers who'd rather be playing – basically you're tricking them into reading by presenting them with loads of pictures of LEGO.
The book that's not really a book, except it is. You could even give the book as well as the audio version so they can read along. We like the How to Train Your Dragon books read by former Doctor Who David Tennant. The Harry Potter books read by Stephen Fry are great too, but unfortuntately they still cost an arm and a leg – the full set is about £400! For cheaper options, my son has listed his top 5 audio books over here on his blog.
Tom Gates books
These award-winning books are our current birthday party gift of choice and they always seem to go down well. They're a series of illustrated books about a little boy, written by Brighton author Liz Pichon. They're quite hefty but without a lot of words, so you get the satisfaction of reading a brick of a book without getting overwhelmed.
Mr Gum books
Hilarious! If you don't laugh at Mr Gum, check your pulse. Reading up a tree not compulsory, but it helps.
What do you think? Do you still give books to kids who say they don't like reading?
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Research on these topics has proliferated and a sizable literature has emerged over the last decade to understand the distinctive forms that forced labour and trafficking take today. In other words, trade and capital dependence can generate positive policy gains too. We combine data on economic globalization with data on major industrial accidents, and examine the relationship between these variables across 137 countries for the period 1971—2012. But other types of international production, particularly subcontracting, can engender competitive races to the bottom in labor rights. The policy implications suggest that irrespective of the political ideology, upholding labor rights in Latin America requires strengthening the enforcement capacity. This is an impressive and important new book that will shape the way we understand globalization and labor rights for years to come. It is no longer completely accurate to say that the empirical study of human rights is still in its infancy because a compilation of findings now exists for a variety of human rights-related topics.
It's easy to get started - we will give you example code. Labor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers' rights and multinational production. Locke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology You can earn a 5% commission by selling Labor Rights and Multinational Production Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics on your website. But is economic globalization to blame for the worsening conditions of many of the world's workers? The overall picture: economic globalization and workers' rights; 6. Thanks also to Patricio Aroca Gonzalez for generously providing us with his data. With this book, Mosley has emerged as one of her generation's leading scholars of international political economy.
Anner finds that four labor strategies have dominated labor campaigns in recent years: transnational activist campaigns; transnational labor networks; radical flank mechanisms; and microcorporatist worker-employer pacts. She tests her theoretical arguments using both state-of-the art quantitative analysis and a case study of labor rights in Costa Rica. Specifically, we find that economic liberalization in general as well as the two aspects of liberalization—business regulatory environment and economic openness—are positively and significantly related to the occurrence of major industrial disasters. By tracing the politics of pro-worker reforms, this study draws attention to drivers often overlooked by donors: strikes, commerce and trade deals. In this paper we put these claims to an empirical test using 37 aspects of de facto practices and de jure laws violations of labor rights.
Previous large-N research suggests that globalization could have either positive or negative consequences for labor rights in developing nations. Though a number of studies investigate the determinants of why these three rights are related, rarely have these rights been considered together in a single, unified empirical analysis. The E-mail message field is required. Unions in other countries, such as Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Spain, are also able to raise wages by significant amounts. Without doubt, these studies have yielded important insights about the dynamics of forced labor in global supply chains, and have helped to inform public and private governance initiatives to combat it.
Additionally, this convergence should be stronger in laws than in practices because some states continue to benefit from women-suppressing policies, and because improving laws is less costly than improving policy implementation. One vein of research has focused specifically on explaining cross-national variations in security rights, including the rights to be free from torture, execution, and imprisonment, or the violation of what has come to be known as integrity of the person, or physical integrity rights. This article argues that these processes would not allow substantive progress in the working class associational power, due to the strong instrumental power of business elites, which historically and except very short joints, allowed to veto any possibility of advancement of the power of association of workers. We find strong evidence for the effect of markups on upgrading choices and suggestive evidence for the saliency mechanism. Strikes have triggered Government concerns about regime legitimacy. The results also present a dilemma for policymaking.
When and why have employers supported the development of institutions of social insurance that provide benefits to workers during various employment-related risks? As a result of these new communications technologies and increasing globalization and interdependence, governments are finding it increasingly difficult to violate their citizens' human rights without attracting the attention and the ire of interested individuals, governments, and international organizations around the world. Department of Labor, the National Research Council's Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards was charged with identifying relevant and useful sources of country-level data, assessing the quality of such data, identifying innovative measures to monitor compliance, exploring the relationship between labor standards and human capital, and making recommendations on reporting procedures to monitor compliance. This article examines the ways in which domestic political institutions and interests conditions the effects of economic globalization. They merely stimulate debate, authorise experimentation and are used by coalitions to push for reform. Under what conditions does the global economy serve as a means for the diffusion of labor standards and practices? The estimates from the seventeen countries we examined averages out at 12 per cent. More specifically, we posit that eliminating market-distorting trade barriers will decrease the incentives for shadow sector activities such as smuggling. Conclusions and issues for the future.
Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in directly owned foreign investment, positively affect labor rights. Results point to a significant positive association between pro-market reforms and major industrial disasters. Extant scholarship treats national policies concerning labour rights as a function of economic factors and yet neglects influences of policies among economically competing states. It is within this critical theoretical intervention that solidarity economies emerge as a unique theoretical construct as well as a unit of analysis to expose the alternative paths that employment relations may resort to against the contemporary challenges of neoliberal globalization. As such, this study compares the diffusion effects of South—South trade to those of other types of trade, using data covering 104 developing countries from 1986 to 2011.
It shows how commerce, trade deals, aid, and geopolitics strengthened support for higher wages, social dialogue, and freedom of association. Static levels in bodily integrity scores, conversely, have no effect on growth; neither do static levels of or dynamic changes in civil liberties. A distinct feature of contemporary international relations is the proliferation of multilateral monitoring regimes. Dan cuenta de las aportaciones de los diferentes artículos del número y concluyen analizando las brechas de control existentes. Indirectly, democracy offers better protection of property rights, which lessens the need to use labor rights as an economic incentive. This is specifically relevant with regard to production relocation, which generally selects countries with less regulation, not more Anner, 2012. Such government actions, when coupled with private sector—based capacity building, codes of conduct, and regular monitoring, offer the most promise for protecting labor rights within global supply chains.


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Man accused of threatening to kill driver with knife in Manchester
Driver says man came at him with 'ninja knife'
Ray Brewer
A Manchester man is facing charges after police said he pulled a knife on another driver in a road-rage incident.Click to watch News 9's coverage.Adam Lewandowski, 26, was arrested Thursday evening and charged with criminal threatening.The driver of the other car, who asked to be identified as Manny, told News 9 he had never seen Lewandowski before, but he will never forget what he looked like when he got out of his car."Angry. Really angry," Manny said. "He was red."Manny said the incident began about 5:30 p.m. Thursday when he nearly collided with Lewandowski's car."He was going into the credit union and backed up," he said. "I was going up Harrison, and I almost hit him. I beeped the horn."Police said the horn apparently angered Lewandowski."They exchanged hand gestures," Lt. Brian O'Keefe said. "The victim continued eastbound several more blocks, at which time the arrested subject allegedly stopped him with a knife in hand.""It was like a big ninja knife," Manny said. "It was black, and it had a case. It was a like a ninja knife."The incident happened at the corner of Pine and Harrison streets. Witness Melissa Lamarche said she was in her back yard at the time."The guy from Maine got out and asked him if he wanted to fight, and I told him I was going to call the police and get back in the car," Lamarche said.Police said the car Lewandowski was driving had Maine plates on it. Manny said he took a picture of the car and forwarded it to police. Lewandowski was arrested a short time later.Manny said he called police because he was afraid of what might happen if Lewandowski encountered someone else. He said the incident has changed him, especially when it comes to exchanging hand gestures with other drivers."I will definitely not do that," he said. "You never know. The guy could have had a gun."Police said that when Lewandowski was arrested, he didn't offer any explanation, other than to say that he was having a bad day.Lewandowski was released on personal recognizance bail. A court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 27.12967056
A Manchester man is facing charges after police said he pulled a knife on another driver in a road-rage incident.
Adam Lewandowski, 26, was arrested Thursday evening and charged with criminal threatening.
The driver of the other car, who asked to be identified as Manny, told News 9 he had never seen Lewandowski before, but he will never forget what he looked like when he got out of his car.
"Angry. Really angry," Manny said. "He was red."
Manny said the incident began about 5:30 p.m. Thursday when he nearly collided with Lewandowski's car.
"He was going into the credit union and backed up," he said. "I was going up Harrison, and I almost hit him. I beeped the horn."
Police said the horn apparently angered Lewandowski.
"They exchanged hand gestures," Lt. Brian O'Keefe said. "The victim continued eastbound several more blocks, at which time the arrested subject allegedly stopped him with a knife in hand."
"It was like a big ninja knife," Manny said. "It was black, and it had a case. It was a like a ninja knife."
The incident happened at the corner of Pine and Harrison streets. Witness Melissa Lamarche said she was in her back yard at the time.
"The guy from Maine got out and asked him if he wanted to fight, and I told him I was going to call the police and get back in the car," Lamarche said.
Police said the car Lewandowski was driving had Maine plates on it. Manny said he took a picture of the car and forwarded it to police. Lewandowski was arrested a short time later.
Manny said he called police because he was afraid of what might happen if Lewandowski encountered someone else. He said the incident has changed him, especially when it comes to exchanging hand gestures with other drivers.
"I will definitely not do that," he said. "You never know. The guy could have had a gun."
Police said that when Lewandowski was arrested, he didn't offer any explanation, other than to say that he was having a bad day.
Lewandowski was released on personal recognizance bail. A court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 27.


Thursday, December 6th, Lori La Bey host of Alzheimer's Speaks Radio, will talk with Kaylee Tilton, a Music Therapist and Joe Kaufman, an intern with Aegis Living while completing his BA in music therapy. Both work at Aegis Living. Join us and learn how and why people react to music. You will find out how music therapy is different from our everyday use and enjoyment of music, along with their personal experiences that pulled them to become music therapists. Kaylee and Joe will explain how the use music therapy to improve lives and will give us some real life examples of its effect on people of all ages and stages of life.
On World Kindness Day it just seemed appropriate to talk with Dr Lori Myren-Manbeck who is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in geriatrics. She is also the founder and CEO of INCLUSIVI-TEE, a t-shirt company devoted to justice and kindness.
Dr. Myren- Manbeck believes the most important things we can do are listen, pay attention, and try every day to make the world a better place for the people we meet. Listen to this insightful and fun conversation. Find out about the 10 days of Kindness movement Lori is coordinating.
Lori La Bey, host of Alzheimer's Speaks Radio talks with Cory Czepa, Founder & President of Live 2 B Healthy. Joining them will be Bryan Schreifels, the Vice President and Kelly Nygard, the Director of Marketing. Learn how Live 2 B Healthy is helping create better senior housing experiences. Find out how their program encourages seniors of all abilities to improve their strength and balance in a fun group setting.
Today our host Lori La Bey talks with Dr. Jeff Leismer who has been developing non-invasive medical equipment to reduce atrophy of the body during times of disuse since 2000. He is Founder & CEO of Vibe Tech, Inc. a company which restores physical function and reduces pain in people recovering from injury and surgery and those with weakness and mobility impairments through Vibration Therapy. In addition to Dr Leismer, Lori will also be talking with Kayla Clinton the Administrator and Deb Jacoby the Life Enrichment Director at Rocky Knoll Health Care Center where they are working with Vibe Tech to improve the quality of life for their clients.


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Randy Newman - The Natural
(Original Soundtrack on Aqua Blue Vinyl)
First time in print in decades, now on aqua blue vinyl!
"One of the 100 Scores Of All Time" — Movie Music UK
"...one of the most defining, effective, and memorable sports scores of all time." — Filmtracks
Back on vinyl for the first time in decades! Pressed on aqua blue vinyl.
Composer and conductor Randy Newman's many honors include six Grammys, three Emmys, and two Academy Awards. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 — the same year he was given an Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award. Mostly recently, Newman was presented with a PEN New England Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award in June 2014.
1. The Prologue 1915-1923
2. The Whammer Strikes Out
3. The Old Farm 1939
4. The Majors: The Mind Is a Strange Thing
5. Knock the Cover Off the Ball
6. Memo
7. The Natural
1. Wrigley Field
2. Iris and Roy
3. Winning
4. A Father Makes a Difference
5. Penthouse Party
6. The Final Game / Take Me Out to the Ball Game
7. The End Title
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9. Music From And Inspired By Soul
13. Spirited Away


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As well as contributing to various television and radio programmes, Laurie has also authored three books 'The Wildlife Photographs of Laurie Campbell', the bestselling 'RSPB Guide to Bird & Nature Photography' and his most recent, published in July 2014 and co-authored with Anna Levin, 'Otters Return to the River' charts the return of otters to the Tweed river system near his home over two decades. He has also received commissions to illustrate many others including, 'Golden Eagles', 'The Great Wood of Caledon', 'Badgers', 'Wild Scotland', 'The Cairngorm Reindeer' and 'Highlanders' featuring Scotland's ancient breed of long-haired cattle. Laurie has also written and illustrated a long-running column about nature photography in 'Outdoor Photography' magazine, each month since issue number one in June 2000.
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As companies seek higher loyalty, retention, and loyalty from their customers, service has become a critical path forward. Field service management (FSM) solutions can help firms take the servitization journey and meet the expectations of demanding customers.
We spoke about this with Darren Roos, the CEO of software provider IFS. Previously, he was President of SAP's global ERP Cloud business.
What is field service management?
What does servitization mean?
Servitization and culture change
Lessons for the servitization journey
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Michael Krigsman: Field Service Management and servitization are changing industries. Darren Roos is the CEO of IFS. They've just been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for field service management. Darren, tell us about IFS and tell us about your role at the company.
Darren Roos: I'm CEO of IFS. We're an enterprise software business, one of the fastest-growing enterprise software businesses in our space. We're focused on, as you said, field service management but also on ERP and enterprise asset management. We have just about 4,000 employees globally, over 400 partners, and what differentiates IFS is that we're focused on our customers, focused on those outcomes, and how do we make sure that they're deriving value from the solutions that we provide.
Michael Krigsman: Darren, we hear a lot about field service management and servitization. We need to begin this conversation with an explanation of field service management. What do we mean by that phrase?
Darren Roos: I think at its very simplest term, it's about tracking, optimization, and operationalization of field operations for really any organization. But I think that now, especially in COVID-19 times, we're moving into a space where service is much more important, and how service impacts businesses is a little broader than just that track optimized and operationalized.
Michael Krigsman: Darren, how does field service management impact or benefit customer experience?
Darren Roos: It's become really important, Michael, because companies across the board have realized that service is an area in which they really must differentiate if they want to remain relevant. It's happened because end users desire really memorable experiences. They demand guaranteed service outcomes. Service is very often the face of the brand and the way that they create new opportunities.
Field service done right gets people to the right customers with very clear instructions. It also helps customer loyalty, reduce attrition rates, and I think the importance of getting service right is something that really can't be underestimated.
At the financial level, services shifted from being a cost center to being a very powerful profit center. I think that, as consumers, we all recognize the impact that service has. Those are elements that I think can't be underestimated.
Michael Krigsman: Of course, I have to ask. What has been the role of IFS in this evolution?
Darren Roos: We are real thought leaders in this space. We've invested heavily in getting the right team of people on board so that, irrespective of the industry, we're able to go in and really advise customers on how they can leverage service management in order to have an impact on their business.
It's a lot less of a bolt-on now. It's very much technology that is purpose-built to be able to help customers to really drive value for their customers irrespective of the industry that they're in, so a broader range of capabilities, more predictive analytics, more next-generation customer-focused capabilities. It's much more streamlined and integrated. With IFS, we're able to bring together these technical capabilities, this technology with the domain expertise from the people that we've recruited, to bring them together to really drive a specific outcome for a customer that is focused on enabling this service journey that they're looking for.
Michael Krigsman: It sounds like you're trying to weave service into the foundation or the core of operations across many different departments in an organization.
Darren Roos: Service has changed a lot. We all understand that there is wanting to offer a better service or, as a consumer, expecting a better service. I think that's something that most people relate to.
Then, of course, you have the angle of servitization also. It's how these two things come together. How can their business bring new models to market that are enabling them to drive new revenue streams for their business while, at the same time, improving the customer experience?
The obligation changes because the company providing that servitized offering has a much deeper responsibility, but the prize is much bigger because they have this recurring revenue stream that is much more predictable and more resilient to changes. We see it in more and more industries now, and whether you're talking about just better service or whether you're talking servitization to drive new business models, both are becoming ubiquitous now.
Michael Krigsman: You've used the term servitization several times. What do you mean by that?
Darren Roos: What servitization is, it's how you're providing a service around a product so that the offering becomes the service. I touched earlier on how businesses can build a more predictable, more resilient business by providing a servitized offering. Perhaps a company that manufactured washers and dryers and sold those washers and dryers are now providing a price to their customer per wash.
We see these models really becoming ubiquitous now, irrespective of the industry. That's the exciting part because the business becomes more resilient. They become better. They become more profitable.
For the consumer, it's a better experience and that's such a compelling value proposition. I think that for both parties it becomes a much more positive experience.
Michael Krigsman: At the end of the day, is the subscription component important in this?
Darren Roos: Absolutely. I think it goes away from the importance of building a good product and buying it at a specific price but encompassing this whole journey for the customer of how are they going to consume whatever the output is that that product is. That's the servitization model.
Michael Krigsman: It's the journey that is, I was going to say, the challenge. I guess it's both the challenge and the opportunity for businesses.
Darren Roos: Yeah, I think it is important to understand that when you come from manufacturing a product and providing after-sales service, moving towards contract service or, ultimately, a subscription, it is a continuum journey that the customer needs to go on. Frankly, there's a journey that the company needs to go on who is providing that service. I think it's important to understand that while your subscription offering might be the end goal that you're looking for, depending on the industry that you're in, there may be a few steps in between that you need to go on.
Michael Krigsman: Darren, how much of this is a cultural change, a mindset change, rethinking the relationship between your organization and your customer?
Darren Roos: Yeah, I think that's a great point, Michael. It's very much a cultural thing.
I think that if we think about the software industry, that's a great example of servitization. Historically, what we would have done is we would have built software, sold it to a customer, and then they would have done whatever they did with that software. Potentially, they would have gotten their maintenance and support offering, but that was just another transaction every time you shipped new software every few years.
But when you think about the cloud, which is an example of servitization, companies that operate in this way have to think very differently. They have to think about adoption. How is the customer using the product? They have to think about their customer experience. Is it a good experience to use it? They have to think about how do they keep their customer getting the value that they'd anticipated getting rather than just making a product and selling it.
It's a very different proposition, and that requires a cultural shift. I think that those shifts are always customer-focused, always focused on how the customer is going to have a better experience.
Michael Krigsman: It sounds like there's a dual-link that's going on all the time here because, on the one hand, it is beneficial for the customer. You're creating that stronger link, that stronger relationship. That then engenders the virtuous cycle of producing loyalty back to the organization that's providing the servitized offering. At the same time, it creates a responsibility for that providing organization to do the right thing then for the customer to maintain that positive cycle.
Darren Roos: I think that's exactly accurate, and it's why servitization has been so successful because it is such a virtuous circle. There is real value for both the company that's providing it and the customer receiving it.
Michael Krigsman: Darren, you speak with many organizations that are undertaking this servitization journey. What are some of the lessons that you've seen that can make it successful and make it as easy as possible?
Darren Roos: It's got to be a cultural change. You've got to be thinking about what is the process that you're trying to impact here. How is this going to impact the customer? Are you sure that that virtuous circle that we've touched on is being created? Is there value for your customer in this discussion? I think that's really important.
What we see is that there is tangible value. In the analysis that we've done with IDC, we see that service revenues are, on average, a third larger than their peers in companies that are adopting servitization. We see eight times more likely to increase profits directly linked to digital transformation in these servitized companies.
The value is tangible, but I think that what is particularly important is they have to be thinking through the entire value chain. Are we an organization that is ready to do this? Do we have the processes that are ready to do it? Are we culturally prepared to do it? Then are the customers going to see value?
Maybe you start with the customer and work backward, but all of those different levels have to be there. Otherwise, it's not going to work.
Michael Krigsman: Then I have to ask you. Give us the 30-second sales pitch on IFS.
Darren Roos: Our commitment to service management and the experience that we have is unmatched in the industry. If you look at the Gartner FSM Magic Quadrant, you'll see that we lead it. But really, it's not about that. It's about the depth of talent that we have, the extensive experience that we have that has the battle scars on taking customers on this journey, and how we help them to drive servitized value in their customers. You can't do that without the domain expertise. That's why you should go with IFS.
Michael Krigsman: As we finish up, give us your final thoughts on servitization and advice for companies taking this journey.
Darren Roos: What I would say is, you need to find a partner that has the experience of doing a lot of these projects. IFS has had a lot of examples of where we've helped customers, and that gives us this institutional knowledge that we can draw on. Still, you must have a partner, a technology partner who can leverage lots of experience to help you on the journey.
It needs a solid tech foundation. That's going to be important. You're not going to be able to do it on an Excel spreadsheet. If we think about larger organizations particularly, some of the complexity that you have to deal with around the customer relationship management, around the accounting treatments, around the complex scheduling, parts management, all of those elements are things that come in a robust field service management suite. They're not the kinds of things you can cobble together without the technology.
I think that you've got to be very outcome-focused. It's not a race. You can't try and do it overnight. I think, during COVID-19, we've seen customers start to go on this journey. We've seen some great, positive steps. But you do need to take the time.
The reason the time is so important is because of this cultural change that we spoke of. You can put technology in, you can come up with a new business model, but really to get the institutional change to happen where you're more customer-focused and are focused on the adoption and value is something that takes a bit more time. That's a journey that organizations have to go on.
Michael Krigsman: Darren Roos, CEO of IFS, thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us.
Darren Roos: Thank you, Michael.
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Newsom Vows to Bolster Wildfire Fight Despite Budget-Busting Pandemic
May 13, 2020 May 14, 2020 NICK CAHILL
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — With the state coffers charred by Covid-19 and an ominous fire season looming, California Governor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday wildfire-prevention efforts must remain fully funded regardless of mounting financial woes.
Giving a preview of the revised budget due tomorrow, Newsom said the state can't afford to skimp on public safety even as his advisers warn the state is facing a potentially record high deficit. Newsom says he will ask lawmakers to provide fire departments and emergency services with hundreds of millions in new spending to suppress a fire season that has gotten off to a fast — and early — start.
Newsom used his daily briefing to try and ease the anxieties of millions of residents on edge due to the coronavirus and a disappointing winter that has mountains and foothills drying up ahead of schedule.
"We are mindful of the understandable anxiety that this time of the year presents to people in addition to what's going on with Covid-19," Newsom said. "I want folks to know that we have been preparing for this upcoming wildfire season and we're not stepping back our efforts; we're in fact stepping them up."
Caused in part by a meager snowpack, California has already seen over 1,100 wildfires since January, a roughly 60% increase compared to 2019. Last week alone, nearly 250 wildfires sparked across the Golden State, pulling firefighters from prescribed burns and other prevention tactics.
To advance the state's goal of performing fuel management on 450,000 acres, Newsom wants to increase the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services' budgets by more than $200 million combined. He says the agencies need to continue stockpiling equipment like Black Hawk helicopters and fire engines and may need to hire up to 600 additional firefighters this summer.
The Democratic governor took a jab at climate change skeptics and reminded them California is struggling with massive wildfires partly due to warming global temperatures.
"Come to California and visit us. Learn about climate change firsthand because even if you deny it, your own eyes may tell you something very, very different," Newsom said.
Newsom's climate change assessment came on the heels of an announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that ocean surface temperatures were the warmest ever recorded for the month of April.
According a report issued Wednesday by NOAA, temperatures of the world's oceans sizzled a full 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average. In terms of land and ocean surface temperatures, this April rated as the second highest on record, coming in at 1.91 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average.
"The April 2020 globally averaged land and ocean surface temperature departure from average was the second highest for the month in the 141-year NOAA global temperature dataset record, which dates back to 1880," the report states.
Along with enhancing the firefighting budget, Newsom told reporters Thursday's proposal will include funding for a new agency that will be tasked with monitoring the wildfire safety plans of the state's largest utilities. The 106-person agency will operate independent of the California Public Utilities Commission and be tasked strictly with monitoring utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric, which has been blamed for starting scores of devastating and deadly wildfires due to faulty equipment.
Newsom said PG&E and the other two privately owned utilities have committed up to $5 billion to harden lines and have committed to lessening the severity of preemptive power shutoffs, but there is still a glaring need for the increased oversight and transparency to be provided by the new agency.
"I don't hold my breath in any of these categories," Newsom said. "We have been sobered by the reality of PG&E in particular over the last number of years, but we are emerging in a different frame and a different space."
In order to continue fighting wildfires and the virus- which killed 87 more Californians overnight- Newsom reiterated the need for partnership with the Trump administration. He noted most of California's rural landscape is federally owned and said the state and others will need massive financial relief from Congress and the White House to cure budget troubles.
"This is not just about the state of California, these deficits are so profound and so pronounced for one thing: Covid-19. The federal government must do more to help support these states," Newsom said.
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The Birth-Tissue Profiteers
How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry
This article is a collaboration between ProPublica and The New Yorker.
Their shoulders and backs and knees were giving out. Pills and steroid injections hadn't eased their pain. They were scared of surgery. So, one afternoon last October, two dozen men and women, many of them white-haired, some leaning on canes, shuffled into a meeting room at Robson Ranch, a luxury retirement community in Denton, Texas. Sipping iced tea and clutching brochures that promised a pain-free tomorrow, they checked off their ailments on a questionnaire.
They were there to see a presentation by Dr. David Greene, who was introduced as a "retired orthopedic surgeon." Atlas Medical Center, a local clinic that specializes in pain treatment, hosted the event. Greene, a short, trim man with his hair slicked up, ignored the stage and microphone and stood close to his audience. After warming up the crowd with a joke about his inept golf skills, Greene launched into his sales pitch. A tiny vial no larger than the palm of his hand, he told the group, contains roughly 10 million live stem cells, harvested from the placenta, amniotic fluid, umbilical cord or amnion, the membrane that surrounds the fetus in the womb. Injected into a joint or spine, or delivered intravenously into the bloodstream, Greene told his listeners, those cells could ease whatever ailed them.
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First US Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway
"2019 is the year when the training wheels come off and the world gets to see what CRISPR can really do for the world in the most positive sense," says Fyodor Urnov, a gene-editing scientist at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences in Seattle and the University of California, Berkeley
The powerful gene-editing technique called CRISPR has been in the news a lot. And not all the news has been good: A Chinese scientist stunned the world last year when he announced he had used CRISPR to create genetically modified babies.
But scientists have long hoped CRISPR — a technology that allows scientists to make very precise modifications to DNA — could eventually help cure many diseases. And now scientists are taking tangible first steps to make that dream a reality.
For example, NPR has learned that a U.S. CRISPR study that had been approved for cancer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has finally started. A university spokesman on Monday confirmed for the first time that two patients had been treated using CRISPR.
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This Editorial Is Not About Designer Babies
A procedure called mitochondrial replacement therapy could eliminate devastating diseases. It would not enable parents to 'design' their children
Leigh syndrome is a terrible disease. In the worst cases, it emerges shortly after birth and claims one major organ after another. Movement becomes difficult, and then impossible. A tracheotomy and feeding tube are often necessary by toddlerhood, and as the disease progresses, lungs frequently have to be suctioned manually. Most children with the condition die by the age of 5 or 6.
Leigh syndrome is one of hundreds of so-called mitochondrial diseases, which are caused by defects in the specialized cellular compartments — called mitochondria — that produce 90 percent of the body's energy. These disorders are rare; about 1,000 to 4,000 babies in the United States are born with one every year. But they are devastating. They can result in grave impairment of nearly any bodily system. They are largely untreatable, uniformly incurable and very difficult to screen for.
Some might also be preventable. Scientists have devised a procedure called mitochondrial replacement therapy (M.R.T.) that involves transplanting the nucleus of an affected egg — mitochondrial diseases are passed down from the mother's side — into an unaffected one whose nucleus has been removed. (The procedure is sometimes called "three-parent I.V.F." — in vitro fertilization — because mitochondria contain a minuscule amount of DNA; any resulting embryo would have mitochondrial DNA from the donor egg and nuclear DNA from each of its parents.)
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Gene-Edited Babies: What a Chinese Scientist Told an American Mentor
Stanford is investigating Stephen Quake, a professor of biotechnology, because of his interaction with He Jiankui, the scientist behind the first gene-edited babies. "I hold myself to high ethical standards," said Dr. Quake, who was once Dr. He's academic adviser
PALO ALTO, Calif. — "Success!" read the subject line of the email. The text, in imperfect English, began: "Good News! The women is pregnant, the genome editing success!"
The sender was He Jiankui, an ambitious, young Chinese scientist. The recipient was his former academic adviser, Stephen Quake, a star Stanford bioengineer and inventor.
"Wow, that's quite an achievement!" Dr. Quake wrote back. "Hopefully she will carry to term…"
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Elite Hospitals Plunge Into Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
Critics are concerned about the explosion in controversial stem cell procedures offered by clinics—and, increasingly, respected hospitals
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
The six-minute segment mimics a morning talk show, using a polished TV host to interview guests around a coffee table. Dr. Adam Pourcho extols the benefits of stem cells and "regenerative medicine" for healing joints without surgery. Pourcho, a sports medicine specialist, says he has used platelet injections to treat his own knee pain, as well as a tendon injury in his elbow. Extending his arm, he says, "It's completely healed."
Brendan Hyland, a gym teacher and track coach, describes withstanding intense heel pain for 18 months before seeing Pourcho. Four months after the injections, he says, he was pain-free and has since gone on a 40-mile hike.
"I don't have any pain that stops me from doing anything I want," Hyland says.
…continue reading 'Elite Hospitals Plunge Into Unproven Stem Cell Treatments'
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How a Nigerian genome team contained a Lassa fever outbreak with international partners
This response, marked by cooperation and in-country capability, may be the model for the years ahead, as scientists from both Broad in the US and Nigeria believe the chances are high of emerging virus outbreaks occurring more frequently.
Lassa fever first flared across Nigeria in February 2018, 1081 cases reported in just six weeks, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control; 57 people, including four healthcare workers, died. As Lassa cases continued to spike throughout the year, it sparked fears of a new form of the virus or path of transmission.
The fear for scientists and health professionals at the time was that the virus had mutated into a deadlier strain, perhaps one that can be passed through the air, like the flu. Such a change could be catastrophic.
Genetic sequencing of Lassa virus genomes taken from patients revealed the virus was neither a dangerous new strain nor being passed from person to person through the air; the multifarious results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, pointed to a diverse range of Lassa viruses which had previously been seen in Nigeria, ruling out a new form, and it was determined that the increase had not been caused by a mutation or new route in transmission.
The cases continue to spike this year; from Jan. 1 to Feb. 10. The World Health Organization reported 324 confirmed cases and 72 deaths across Nigeria, the majority of them in Edo and Ondo states in Nigeria's south. Fatalities are hovering around 20%, which is high for Lassa, and while the virus is not a mutant—the worst-case scenario—the reason for the dramatic rise remains a mystery. On Jan. 22, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control declared the outbreak an emergency.
This Drug Can Stop Mothers Bleeding to Death in Childbirth
So why can't more women get it? We now know there's a cheap, safe treatment that could save thousands of lives each year. But those who need it can't always access it.
Twenty-eight weeks into her first pregnancy, Rabia's worst fears were realised. She went into labour, and the baby was stillborn. The bleeding started the next day.
"It was severe bleeding, uncontrolled," Rabia recalls. "The doctors and nurses were changing the bed sheets after every two or three minutes. They were red with blood."
She was at a hospital in her hometown of Taxila, north of the Pakistani capital Islamabad. The hospital was small and poorly equipped; it employed hardly any gynaecologists, and did not have the facilities to give Rabia a blood transfusion or to surgically explore the cause of the haemorrhage. As her condition worsened and the bleeding continued unabated, panicked medical staff referred her to a larger hospital, over an hour's drive away, in the nearby city of Rawalpindi.
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Depressed and Anxious? These Video Games Want to Help
Sea of Solitude, which Electronic Arts will publish this year, is among a growing number of video games that are tackling mental health issues
In the coming adventure video game Sea of Solitude, the main character — a young woman named Kay — navigates a partly submerged city as she faces a multitude of red-eyed scaly creatures.
None are as terrifying as her own personal demons. As the game progresses, Kay realizes the creatures she is encountering are humans who turned into monsters when they became too lonely. To save herself, she fights to overcome her own loneliness.
Kay was modeled after the game's creative director, Cornelia Geppert of Jo-Mei Games, an independent game studio, who struggled after a 2013 breakup. "I felt like I was trapped in a cage," Ms. Geppert, 37, said of her experience.
…continue reading 'Depressed and Anxious? These Video Games Want to Help'
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How to Obtain a Title for an Abandoned Vehicle in Minnesota
by Christell York
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The state of Michigan defines abandoned vehicles as vehicles that remain illegally on government property, that remain on a property with proper warning signs for more than four hours, that remain on a private property without the consent of the owner, or that are inoperable but are not in a storage unit or garage. Individuals can obtain the title of an abandoned vehicle if the vehicle was abandoned on their private property. To obtain a title through this means, you must file a petition with the Minnesota courts.
Click "Forms" on the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Driver and Vehicle Services Division page.
Click "Motor Vehicles," then select "Application to Title and Register a Motor Vehicle."
Print and complete the provided form and submit it to the Department of Public Safety along with proof of abandonment. To prove abandonment, the vehicle must have been previously reported to local police as abandoned. If the vehicle is determined to be an abandoned vehicle, you will be provided the title. If the vehicle is not determined to be abandoned, you will receive a letter stating why.
MNCourts.gov: Instruction Guide to Obtain a Court Order for Transfer of Motor Vehicle Title
Christell York has been writing professionally since 2008 for various websites and offline for "The Houston Press." She specializes in technical, automotive, travel, personal finance and food articles. York has a bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Phoenix and is currently seeking an associate degree in baking and pastries at the Art Institute of Houston.
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The remains of these 3 Dutch ships are from the Battle of the Java Sea which was fought on February 27, 1942 between a hastily assembled battle group of Dutch, British, American and Australian ships led by the Dutch Admiral Karel Doorman and the overwhelming Japanese fleet steaming towards the Island of Java. It was a hopeless battle as they fought a larger, better armed and well-coordinated Japanese fleet knowing that their chance of survival was nil. Of the 5 cruisers and 9 destroyers of the battle group only 2 destroyers escaped.
"February had been a disastrous month from the beginning and it ended with a conglomeration of American, British, Australian and Dutch ships under the Dutch Admiral Karel Doorman losing the Battle of the Java Sea on February 27 and 28, leaving Java wide-open to the Japanese invasion force bearing down on it. Our world was crumbling. Knowing that they had little time left, our forces had burned the Navy yard, ammunition dumps, oil depots and warehouses in Tandjong Perak, the harbor of Soerabaja, creating clouds of black smoke that turned all of Soerabaja dark for two days and squeezed our hearts with fear and desperation.
The disastrous sinking of two Dutch light cruisers and two destroyers in the Battle of the Java Sea, taking most of the crews down with them, sent waves of grief and anguish through the Navy families in Soerabaja. That Admiral Doorman had decided to go down with his ship, following the best tradition of the Royal Netherlands Navy, was a source of pride as well as a stark symbol of defeat. Navy grieves for Navy and the subsequent news of the loss of eight of the Allied ships added to their burden.
The wrecks of the cruisers HNLMS De Ruyter and HNLMS Java are completely gone and large parts of the destroyer HMLMS Kortenaer have also disappeared. How can that be? These wrecks were discovered intact by amateur divers in 2002 and now a new expedition to mark them in preparation of the 75th anniversary commemorations of the battle in 2017 finds imprints on the sea floor in sonar images but the cruisers are no longer there!
These wrecks are located only 100km (60 miles) off the north coast of Java near Surabaya, the headquarters of the Indonesian Eastern Fleet, at a depth of 70 meters (230 feet). While 70 meters does not seem that deep, salvaging these wrecks would have had to be a huge salvage operation over a long period of time.
Apparently illegal scrap metal scavenging has become commonplace in the seas around Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia and, now the Dutch expedition has let the cat out of the bag, accounts are appearing in the British press that 3 British ships have also disappeared. And there are more accounts and hints of scavenging of ship wrecks all over the area, including American and Australian.
There will be international investigations and finger pointing in all directions about what really amounts to desecration of sacred war graves and, hopefully, there will be some honest introspection of how these governments could allow this to happen.
My heart goes out to the families of about 2,200 people who died, including 1,174 Dutch and Indonesian Dutch. The bravery of these sailors was never well known and is now largely forgotten, but they deserve better.
I had friends whose father died on the HNLMS De Ruyter and HNLMS Java. So I have a personal stake in this developing story and intend to follow it and share what I find.


good news, Sony will deploy Nougat on its lines 2015 and 2016 under Android TV , but also its recent range 2017.
NVIDIA isn't the only manufacturer to deploy Android 7.0 Nougat on its Android TV products, Sony will also begin in a massive range 2015 and 2016 deployment. The recent series ZD9 will be also updated.
this update is rather major and welcome: it includes picture-in-picture functionality, managing several accounts, a menu for multitasking, better support of HDR (including Dolby Vision), Vulkan 3D engine , so some general improvements and bug fixes. OTA should be proposed in the next weeks, feel free to let us know by commenting on this article.


All parents are issued with a Parents Handbook when their child starts in the school (a full copy is available to download below); all information in the handbook is also available in this section, or other parts of the website, and should be the first place to look if you have any queries about processes and the school organisation. If you are still unable to find what you are looking for, please contact the school office.
Click on the links to the right of this page for the information which you require.


SYDNEY (Reuters) - A refugee Bahraini footballer who was held in a Thai prison for more than two months at the Gulf state's request arrived in his adoptive hometown of Melbourne on Tuesday, television pictures showed, to cheers and the great relief of his wife.
"Australia is my country. I don't have citizenship yet, but my country is Australia ... I love Australia, I will die in Australia," Araibi said after he disembarked in Melbourne airport from a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok.
"To fight incredibly hard for not just a young player who virtually no-one knew, but a refugee who was under our protection... speaks volumes about the character, the values and the pride that we have as Australians," Foster told reporters in Melbourne.


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Going Places is in Coventry Street Kidderminster. You can view a list of neighbouring businesses by going to the Coventry Street page.
If you would like a list of other travel agents & holiday companies shops & other retail outlets listings throughout Kidderminster, please visit the Travel Agents section of this website.
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This is Peaches, she has flamboyant calico colors of ginger, cinnamon, white and in true tiger tabby style: black and grey stripes. She is confident, sassy and flamboyant. Her favorite activities are Being Admired, Posing for "photo-ops" in adorable positions, and Harassing her sister Paprika. Her motto is "If it's a lot of work, don't do it." She is super affectionate and greets me every day with kisses, purrs, rubs and delightful tummy displays. She is a creature of infinite variety with a wide diversity of sounds...including "muttering" and "sputtering! if she is displeased with something!
Peaches and Paprika Arrested - in Jail!


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Бориевые (Boryaceae) — семейство древовидных, хорошо засухоустойчивых цветковых растений, распространенных в Австралии.

Семейство относят к порядку спаржецветные, класс однодольные. Древесный облик этих растений, а также то, что ранее их относили к семейству лилейные, привело к тому, что эти растения называют лилейными древьями. До настоящего времени семейство не признавалось многими систематиками, и два рода семейства, Бория (Borya) и Алания (Alania), помещались в семейство агавовые или лилейные. Система APG III (2009) признает это семейство и помещает его в порядок спаржецветные, кладу монокот, основываясь на молекулярно-филогенетических исследованиях, доказывающих родство этих двух родов. Эти два рода содержат около дюжины видов, распространенных в Австралии.

Таксономия
В семействе выделяют следующие роды:

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 Borya in western Australia
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Примечания

Спаржецветные
Семейства растений
Флора Австралии

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Brie Larson sports the classic Captain Marvel costume in the red, blue and gold, which fans should be happy with, and also which should put down any doubt about the costume.
It's common for Marvel Studios to release official pictures of their latest movies before a trailer - something Entertainment Weekly previously had an exclusive for with Thor Ragnarok.
The Kree race whom we saw in Guardians of the Galaxy can also be seen. They're most famous for creating the Inhumans and for their war with the Skrull that almost decimated Earth. Carol then finds herself back on Earth where she's going to have to face an alien threat, the Skrulls, which are attacking Earth - Ben Mendelsohn will play Talos, their leader. We see him on the Kree planet of Hala, prior to the figure partnering up with Thanos and becoming an extremist. However, Mendelsohn won't be hidden under alien make-up the entire time, because his shape-shifting character will be infiltrating SHIELD under the guise of a human. He is your go-to fella for creator interviews, conversations about comic book structure, and general DC Comics nerding.
Another photo shows off Jude Law as the commander of Starforce, who acts as a mentor to Carol Danvers. Or are they keeping his name under wraps until closer to the film because his character is a spoiler?
So far, Monica Rambeau hasn't been confirmed to appear in Captain Marvel, but even if she doesn't, she's got a direct connection to the film. We are also learning that Carol Danvers is a Nine Inch Nails fan, a creative decision made specifically to ensure that this writer will see Captain Marvel fourteen times in theaters.
We know Captain Marvel is immensely powerful since that's who Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, reprising his role with both eyes for this '90s-set movie) called at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. And we are really feeling it now! We have to wait until "Avengers 4" next summer to see the aftermath of all that. In addition to Carol Danvers, its members include Korath (Hounsou) and Minn-Erva (Chan).
Novak Djokovic produced his most impressive display of the tournament so far to defeat Richard Gasquet 6-2, 6-3, 6-3. Shapovalov held serve for the remainder of the match, coming back from four match points in one game to hold.
"She can't help but be herself".
'She's also quick to jump to things, which makes her fantastic in battle because she's the first one out there and doesn't always wait for orders, ' something Brie described 'a character flaw'.


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9 Things You Didn't Know About Being a Lesbian Mom
Think lesbian moms are raising their kids totally differently than you are? Think again. This mom tells gay parenting like it really is.
1. We're too tired to march for gay pride.
Or do anything else, really. When we get coveted downtime on a weekend, we'd rather take the kids hiking up a mountain than along a parade route. We're still proud, but now we have more pressing commitments — like the kids' afternoon naps.
2. We are both the "Real Mom."
My wife may have carried the children, but I've changed enough diapers, wiped enough tears, and read enough bedtime stories to earn my parenting stripes. Like adoptive parents, we know biology isn't what makes us moms.
3. Our kids have donor siblings.
Other people used the same sperm-donor we used to conceive our kids, so biologically, their children are half-siblings with ours. Our oldest daughter has met three of her donor siblings, and we keep in touch with most of the parents. It's a great opportunity for us to compare notes about our kids, since we lack detailed information about the genetics and medical history of our common donor. And we all met through a great website!
4. Our children's donor is not their "dad" or "father."
He is a very generous man who allowed us to bring three beautiful children into the world, but he is not their parent. As the non-bio mom, I already get enough insensitive comments about my relationship to my kids, so it only rubs salt in the wound when people refer to their donor as "dad."
5. We do what we can to teach our children about all kinds of different families.
There aren't very many toys or books that represent gay families, so sometimes we have to get creative. When my aunt bought my daughter a Little People wedding set, she bought her an extra set so she would have two brides and two grooms to mix and match.
6. We aren't raising our kids to be vegetarians.
There are many of stereotypes about lesbians — we're vegetarians, we like to wear flannel, we listen to folk music, we drive Honda Civics, preferably Hybrid. Though occasionally I will throw on a flannel shirt, I also like to toss a few steaks on the grill. Our beliefs and preferences vary as much as any straight parents, as do our parenting styles.
7. Our kids have plenty of male role models.
Many people have asked us if we're worried about our kids growing up without male role models. Given that we don't live in a cave or on a deserted island, this isn't likely. They've got tons of uncles, cousins, and family friends to fill out that perceived void.
8. We don't worry that our kids will grow up to be gay.
If they are, that's great. If they're not, that's great. We just want them to be happy. Besides, statistically, it's most likely they will be straight regardless of how we parent them. Our oldest daughter has quickly proven how little we influence her preferences and tastes. Despite a blue nursery and gender-neutral baby toys and clothing, she has grown into an obsessed-with-all-things-princesses-and-pink toddler. There are just some things beyond our control, and we're okay with that.
9. We're just like any other family.
Our three-year-old throws temper tantrums. Our twins have the uncanny knack for projectile vomiting – at exactly the same time! My wife and I argue. We make up. The laundry occasionally piles up in a corner of our bedroom. Like any other family, we have ups and downs and get through each day with a mix of love, laughter and patience.
Jen Bauer is a mom of three and founder of the website AdventurousMoms.com
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Here are a few proven methods for quickly farming those all-important Motes of Harmony in Mists of Pandaria, the new expansion for World of Warcraft.
10 Motes of Harmony can be combined to make a Spirit of Harmony, which in turn can be used as a reagent for high-end crafting pieces or can be traded for patterns and plans of level 450, bind-on-equip Season 12 gear.
Spirit of Harmony is the definitive elemental material in Mists of Pandaria. All crafter professions will have use for it, while gatherers exchange it with Vale of Eternal Blossom vendors for Ironpaw tokens, Restored artifacts, Starlight Ink, Black and White Trillium ore and a dozen other useful trade goods.
Because of this, farming Motes of Harmony is one of the emerging Gold-generating strategies in Mists of Pandaria, especially for crafters looking to sell their wares at the auction house.
YouTube user goclockworkriot shared a video showing a fast and efficient farming location in Howlingwind Carvern based on a tip she got from fellow Stormspire.net user Willifer.
"The mob is called Mischievous Snow Sprite... and are found all over the cave, some are under a Suspicious Snow Pile just walk over it or attack it to make the mob appear," said Willifer in the original tip.
The video is a visual guide on how to go about mass farming the mischievous sprites for their Motes of Harmony drops using a non-level 90 Retribution paladin equipped with sword and shield.
goclockworkriot has also made a newer video for farming with level 90 characters.
"Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest that higher level mobs have a higher chance of dropping Spirits of Harmony," goclockworkriot said in explaining why level-capped characters should probably follow this second farming guide instead of the first one.
She goes on to list her favorite Motes of Harmony farming spots, which covers Zan'vess southwest of the Dread Wastes zone, Kunzen Village northwest of the Heartland in the Valley of the Four Winds zone, and a high-density mob areas west of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms zone.
As we previously mentioned, Motes of Harmony can also be literally farmed ala Farmville-style after reaching Revered reputation with the Tillers faction located in Halfhill in the Valley of the Four Winds zone.
Wowhead has a comprehensive guide on how to earn reputation with the Tillers faction through daily quests beginning with the quest chain Learn and Grow. Become Friendly with the Tillers and you will be granted your very own farm in Sunsong Ranch, where you will be able to plant seeds bought from Merchant Greenfield.
You will need to reach Revered reputation to be able to acquire the Songbell Seed, which ripens and yields one Mote of Harmony per day. Wowhead user jumbodog estimates that "farming takes roughly about five minutes a day... The limit to the number of plants you can have is 16 at exalted."


Love Ocampo is a lifestyle blogger, and interior and product stylist from Manila. She has a knack for putting random items together and capturing vignettes to tell a story. Her feed is a mesh of beautiful photographs from her interior design work, travels, product shoots, and of her adorable puppy. We specifically love how she's able to incorporate our tiles in her design and styling work.
Check out Love's instagram at @_loveocampo and her blog at www.livingthecuriouslife.net.


Left to right: Goverment & Special Programs Manager Rich Baeder, Vice President of Sales John Slieter and Manager of Engineering Services Ryan Oestmann serve lunch at a United Way fundraiser in Lincoln, Neb. this afternoon.
One of Duncan Aviation's "Core Values" reads "Support our communities and encourage volunteerism." This isn't just a passive statement; it is lived out loud daily among many Duncan Aviation team members with the full support of members of the Senior Management Team.
For more than 20 years, Duncan Aviation has held annual fundraisers to support United Way. Today, we kick off the beginning of this year's United Way campaign with a free-will appreciation lunch at our Lincoln, NE, and Battle Creek, MI, locations. While we enjoy all the planned activities, we keep in mind the ultimate purpose: that the residents of our communities have hope for a better life tomorrow because we choose to participate to make a difference today.
When members of our community face hardships, we are all affected. The good news is that we can join together, neighbor helping neighbor, to make a difference. It all starts with us, because we We Live United!


Most of the Lenormand decks depict the Clouds card in an easy, identifiable manner. The French Cartomancy deck is a little tougher to figure out. It looks like a full sky of clouds, roughly the same shading.
The King of Clubs is factored in my perception that is illustrated in the above image. He faces towards the lighter side of the clouds, his back is on the darker side of the clouds and the top & bottom are easy to figure out.
The Clouds always pass and sometimes you can get caught in a heavy down pour in the midst of it all.
In life situations, you get "drenched" temporarily but have options.
I would need your help to understand this card.All the time I have trouble with The Clouds card.I use French deck,the lighter side is on the left,the darker side on the right.
I did 5 cards spread for a friend and this card was the last one.
it bothers me the last card because I really don't know if I should interpret in a positive way according the direction of the brighter side of the card.If I would follow this rule than I would say this girl will get married with X.All problems will dissipate and she will get her desire especially that The Key card appears in the spread but also it mirrors the Clouds card.
Thank you for all your comments and the Lenormand question using 5 cards.
The answer is posted —-> HERE.
thank you very much.I'm deeply fond about the way how you explain the cards since I discovered your blog 2 years ago.