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180,000 over-50s have now had coronavirus jab in North Staffordshire
It comes as a further 39 people across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours
Kathie McInnes
The vaccination programme is continuing apace
More than 180,000 people aged 50 and over have now had their first Covid jab in North Staffordshire.
Provisional data from NHS England shows this represents well over nine out of 10 residents who fall within this age group.
The figures cover the period up to March 28 and the population in each area is based on official estimates.
In Stoke-on-Trent, 94 per cent of all those aged 50 and over - 85,427 residents - have had their first dose of the vaccine. That places the city joint 170th out of more than 300 councils across England.
In Newcastle borough – weighing in at joint 85th – 49,800 residents in this age bracket have had the jab. That's 95.7 per cent of those eligible.
The Staffordshire Moorlands is just a few places behind at joint 109th, with 95.2 per cent of the over-50s vaccinated. Altogether, 44,825 residents in the district have had their first dose.
Stafford borough has come in at joint 57th, with a 96.2 per cent vaccination rate after 57,433 people had their coronavirus jab.
While in Cheshire East, 162,338 people – 94.5 per cent of the over-50s – have been vaccinated. The borough's rate places it joint 146th nationally.
Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said: "Vaccines are an incredibly important part of our route out of lockdown and this pandemic, and it's vital people take advantage of the protection they provide.
"No matter who you are, where you live, your race or your religion, I encourage everyone to take up both their vaccinations when offered and help this country get back to normality."
It comes as there have been a further 39 people testing positive for coronavirus across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire in the last 24 hours. That includes 14 new cases in the city.
There has also been one new Covid-related death recorded in Staffordshire. The person lived in Newcastle borough.
In Cheshire East, there has also been another coronavirus-related death. Since yesterday, a further eight people have tested positive for Covid-19 across the borough.
Total confirmed Covid-19 cases by area as of April 5:
Stoke-on-Trent: 19,762 (up 14 from yesterday)
Newcastle borough: 8,383 (up two from yesterday)
Staffordshire Moorlands : 5,296 (up one from yesterday)
Stafford borough: 8,508 (up five from yesterday)
Staffordshire county (all boroughs/districts - excluding Stoke-on-Trent): 59,364 (up 25 from yesterday)
Cheshire East: 20,714 (up eight from yesterday)
Coronavirus deaths between the start of the pandemic and April 5:
Stoke-on-Trent: 702 (no change from yesterday)
Newcastle borough: 350 (up one from yesterday)
Staffordshire Moorlands : 274 (no change from yesterday)
Stafford borough: 328 (no change from yesterday)
Staffordshire county (all boroughs/districts - excluding Stoke-on-Trent): 2,334 (up one from yesterday)
Cheshire East: 800 (up one from yesterday)
Here's the hospital coronavirus deaths as of April 5:
University Hospitals of North Midlands: 1,374
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare: 15
East Cheshire NHS Trust: 328
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 476
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Creating a CI/CD and agile infrastructure
DevOps in production: The ITSM mindset and DevOps
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Demand a swappable, adaptable pipeline
Better IT infrastructure means better apps
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DevOps training concerns stymie IT transformations
Thought leaders debate what needs to be done to foster DevOps training, as forward-thinking IT pros with DevOps skills are still scarce in the available pool of enterprise talent.
Finding the right people to build a DevOps team is a difficult proposition for enterprise IT managers, as DevOps training and certification programs remain nascent.
IT pros trying to cultivate DevOps transformations at their companies say they often find it difficult to staff a DevOps team with the right talent, and DevOps training and certification programs are still a jumble of conferences, vendor-specific programs, and efforts to evolve higher education curricula to better reflect the market's needs.
"There is a shortage of people power out there in the market," said Alex Witherspoon, vice president of platform engineering at FlightStats Inc., a global data service company in the aviation space based in Portland, Ore., owned by FlightGlobal, of the availability of DevOps talent in the industry.
This is particularly true when it comes to IT operations.
"As ops people, we're at this fork in the road where on one path if you don't have the right skills your salary could end up going down by half ... but with the right skill sets your salary doubles," said Gene Kim, an author, public speaker and researcher with IT Revolution, who co-authored the recently published The DevOps Handbook. "That shows how needed those skills are, and that's more for operations than development."
From government and intelligence to healthcare and finance, the cultural transition to DevOps has been a rocky road so far, and IT ops pros accustomed to manual methods are being asked to learn complex new concepts quickly.
"Right now a lot of the folks we're working with and trying to educate lack an understanding of DevOps technologies and it's a new field for them," said Michael Kristan, senior software systems engineer at The MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that operates research and development centers sponsored by the federal government. "We're trying to show them the value of things like AWS, cloud, elasticity, and DevOps, so that they will become more popular and widely accepted."
The gaps in DevOps training aren't usually due to a lack of desire to hire and train more people, but organizational inertia can be a big factor.
This isn't always on the employers' side, either.
Kim recalled an anecdote from a friend who works at a large bank, which laid off about 500 IT people, most of them in operations who were used to doing things manually, but still had 600 open job postings for anything related to IT automation.
"I asked if they offered training opportunities to the 500 people and he said, 'yes, and only 10% took us up on the offer.'"
When asked why, Kim's friend said the primary response from the laid-off IT people was, "I only need one more job. I can find one more in my area."
"I've heard this same pattern over and over again, whether it's COBOL mainframe programmers or people doing ops the old way," Kim said. "Researchers call this the fixed versus growth mindset. ... Often people identify with what they're doing right now as opposed to seeing themselves as continual learners."
Meanwhile, in the financial sector especially, organizational friction can work against DevOps training when executive compensation incentives are diametrically opposed between development and operations groups.
"You have executives that have individual goals that are counter to other people's goals," said Zubin Irani, CEO at cPrime Inc., an Agile software development consulting firm in San Francisco. "It starts at the top -- it means trying to promote a culture of Dev and Ops working together ... to agree on what the common organizational goals are."
DevOps training and certification needs abound
Another problem facing IT as it tries to move forward with DevOps is that college curricula haven't always kept pace with what the industry is seeking from its next generation of workers.
Top-flight schools may offer advanced programs in IT automation and the like, but "it's the ones that generally don't have a vast research capability where the majority of learners go," Kim said.
Still, IT employers are combing the ranks of recent college graduates to find malleable mindsets and to inject new energy into DevOps culture.
"I tend to create pressure around me to go find some hot shots that are coming out of school that are motivated, that have today's skill set, that could really immerse themselves in this space -- rather than the legacy guys that have been in the business for 30 years and this app development thing is kind of a side job," said Chris Mossengren, program manager at the Mobility Center of Excellence for BJC HealthCare in St. Louis. "We need to apply much more focus and specific cost-center funding to this environment."
Internships are a way to bridge this gap at some forward-thinking companies such as CloudHealth Technologies, a cloud service management platform maker in Boston.
"There's only so much you can learn by listening," said Vikram Pillai, chief architect and director of engineering at CloudHealth, speaking in a panel discussion at DevOps Days Boston in August. "We very much believe in learning by doing."
A freshly minted DevOps training internship program at CloudHealth offered all of its engineers some form of access to production, though almost nobody had privileges to delete anything.
"It makes it easy to go deploy things, manage things, and be not afraid of bringing production down," Pillai said. "People shouldn't be afraid of production -- the moment you [become] afraid of production it becomes a danger to doing things."
Internships can work well for people early in their careers, but as older workers need to retrain, certification programs could be another place to start, Kim said.
Panelists in August pooh-poohed the idea of a DevOps certification, saying it's too early in the evolution of the movement to codify skills and that certifications are little more than a piece of paper -- but Kim disagrees.
"Who am I to assert which is the channel where learners will learn?" Kim said. "It bothers me for people to dismiss certification because for many of us ... certification is as valid of a learning path as anything else."
Ways to get started with DevOps training
The DevOps training picture can be discouraging in some ways, but a good number of forward-thinking firms can connect with the right people to move DevOps forward, showing that despite the relative scarcity of DevOps skills, they are not nonexistent.
Even in industries that aren't on the bleeding edge of IT transformation, workers are being retrained to deliver on DevOps principles.
"I'm finding that our engineers configuring these components of our service management are the likely innovators in DevOps because they are already focused on service automation," said Scott Richert, vice president for enterprise infrastructure services at Mercy Hospital, a nonprofit Catholic healthcare provider in St. Louis. "Developing a DevOps platform for user self-service and automated provisioning is now extremely important to us, [and] we're taking our developers currently working in the service management space and pivoting them into the DevOps effort."
DevOps training gaps can be difficult to overcome, but so-called "unicorn" companies weren't just born that way, Kim added. He estimates that at least 15% of the world's eight million or so IT ops professionals "are out on the frontiers doing this sort of experimentation, and probably already know automation."
Any manager who's trying to find IT pros for DevOps teams "should know who that 15% are, and if they don't know who they are, they should go find them," Kim said. "Because pure probability on the distribution curve says that they're out there."
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Curated by pioneering feminist writers and activists Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, the fourth annual Festival Albertine will take place from November 1st through 5th, 2017 and offers an opportunity to realize a vital exchange of ideas between leading francophone and U.S.-based thinkers and artists.
The event is a timely new iteration of a longstanding and mutually-energizing dialogue that stretches back to the mid-20th Century, when Simone de Beauvoir published her groundbreaking 1949 book The Second Sex, having traveled across the United States for four months in 1947; and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique debuted in 1963, inspiring the establishment of the National Organization for Women. In 1972, Ms. magazine's historic inaugural cover story, We Had Abortions, followed the example of French feminists who had signed a petition demanding abortion's decriminalization. In 1984, de Beauvoir and Morgan joined forces to cofound the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, the first international feminist think tank.
While the U.S. and France have long produced some of the most influential feminist thinkers and still do, their sometimes diverging perspectives on questions surrounding issues such as religion, childcare, and work-life balance, together with their commonalities, will offer material for fruitful debate.
Events will take place at Albertine Books, located in the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York (972 Fifth Avenue). Festival Albertine is free, open to the public. Seating is limited and works on a first-come, first-serve basis and will be streamed live at https://livestream.com/frenchembassy.
Wednesday, November 1 | 7PM
From the Voting Booth to Your Living Room
A conversation between Christiane Taubira, Gloria Steinem, and Robin Morgan on how the fight for more diverse and inclusive political representation can have a very real impact on our daily lives.
Thursday, November 2 | 7PM
Taking stock of the dangers and crises facing the new media environment, Laure Adler, Soraya Chemaly, and Nassira El Moaddem discuss how to make an individual, group, fact, idea, or chosen identity visible in the current media landscape. Moderated by Lauren Wolfe.
Friday, November 3 | 7PM
Body: Image vs. Reality
Roxane Gay, Mona Chollet and Camille Morineau explore the struggle to reclaim the integrity of the female body and various representations that reject its objectification and oppression.
Saturday, November 4 | 5PM
The Politics of Language
Authors Mary Kathryn Nagle, Marie Darrieussecq, Anne Garréta and Robin Coste Lewis examine the way languages—the very first way we assign a gender to the world around us—shape our actions and opinions. Moderated by Gloria Steinem.
Saturday, November 4 | 7:30PM
The Politics of Religion
Wassyla Tamzali, Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, Annie Laurie Gaylor, and Daisy Khan discuss the influence of religion on women's lives. Moderated by Robin Morgan.
Sunday, November 5 | 3:30PM
It Starts in the Streets
The panel will open with a spoken word poetry performance by Staceyann Chin.
Marie de Cenival, "Frida Kahlo" of the Guerrilla Girls, Houda Benyamina and Tania Bruguera will reflect on the ways that big changes have begun in small places, both through activism and through the arts. Moderated by Elizabeth Sackler.
Sunday, November 5 | 6PM
An Egalitarian Future
Caroline de Haas, Elizabeth Diller, Cecile Richards, and Heidi Steltzer will discuss how the equality and welfare of women hold the key to our future. Moderated by Carol Jenkins.
All events will take place at Albertine at 972 Fifth Avenue and are free and open to the public. All events will be streamed live at livestream.com/frenchembassy and archived at the same address.
Festival Albertine is made possible with major support from The Recanati-Kaplan Foundation, Susannah Hunnewell, Van Cleef & Arpels, Air France, Fondation CHANEL, and Institut français. Generous support is provided by Champagne Pommery and Intercontinental New York Barclay.


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10 Extraordinary Tales of Extraordinary Twins
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The world has always had a curiosity of the unique bond that is linked with of twins. The collection of stories below are 10 interesting accounts from recent years associated with twin births. This list is not meant to be a historical look at twins, but rather some unusual recent stories – therefore it excludes people like the first siamese twins.
Psychic Twins
Linda and Terry Jamison – b 1955
Linda and Terry Jamison are twins from the United States who claim to have predicted the September 11th attacks two years ahead of time. On November 2, 1999, they claimed that through an automatic writing process there would be a terrorist attack on the federal government and the World Trade Center in 2001. The actual quote is, "we are seeing various terrorist attacks on federal government and also the New York Trade Center, the World Trade Center". The twins did not specify the time or indicate who would be responsible. The Jamison twins also predicted that John F. Kennedy Jr. would die by plane crash. However it has been pointed out that the Jamison twins are frequently incorrect. In December 2003, they incorrectly predicted that Saddam Hussein would be killed by U.S troops and that Pope John Paul II would die in June 2004.
Oldest Mother to Give Birth to Twins
Omkari Panwar b 1938 (Twins b 2008)
70 year old Omkari Panwar and her husband 77 from India already have two adult daughters, and five grandchildren. Male children are especially important among India's Hindus. Only a male heir can carry out funeral rites and female infanticide remains a chronic problem, largely because the dowry system, though banned, is commonly practiced. Their male child will also be able to work the families land. To pay for the IVF treatment vital to producing a male heir to the family's smallholdings, they sold their buffalos, mortgaged their land, spent their life savings and took out a credit card loan. Mrs. Panwar gave birth to twins a boy and girl by emergency Caesarean section The twins were born a month premature and weighed 2lb each but are healthy according to doctors.
Black and White Twins
Alicia and Jasmin Singerl b 2006
Alicia and Jasmin were born to a mother of Jamaican-English descent and a father of German descent. Alicia's eyes are brown and her hair is dark. Jasmin's eyes are blue and her hair is white. Genetic expert's explanation for this very unusual occurrence is the mother has a mixture of genes that determines skin color. When egg cells are formed in the mother, a random selection of genes will be allocated to each egg. The set of chromosomes in each egg cell is unique. In most cases a mixed-race woman's eggs will be a mixture of genes for both black and white skin. In very rare cases the eggs may contain genes for predominantly one skin color. In this case, the mother released two such eggs – one with predominantly dark pigmentation genes and one with predominantly fair genes.
Telepathy Twins
Richard and Damien Powles
Even Though the idea of a special connection between identical twins is often myth and legend little research has been done in this field. The book 'Twin Telepathy" claims an overwhelming body of evidence indicating that there is indeed a special connection. One of the experiments involved 8-year-old Richard Powles who was put in a soundproof room in front of a bucket filled with ice-cold water. On command, Richard plunged his arm into the ice cold water, giving a gasp as he did so. In another room well out of sight or earshot, his identical twin brother Damien was wired up to a polygraph. A polygraph expert monitored his respiration, abdominal muscles, pulse and galvanic skin response (sweat on the hands). All Damien had to do was sit quietly and "tune in" to his brother's feelings. At the exact moment of Richard's sharp intake of breath caused by the freezing water, there was a sudden blip on the line monitoring Damien's respiration rate. In another experiment, Richard was asked to open a cardboard box; in it was a huge rubber snake that jumped out at him. This, too, was instantly picked up by his twin as the pulse line on the chart clearly indicated. The book also concludes there are three especially telepathy-prone groups – mothers and newborn babies, dogs and their owners, and identical twins. Of these, it is the twins who pick up the signal at full strength most often, provided that they are in the right states of mind. The image above is a stock photo as no pictures could be found of Richard and Damien.
Separated at Birth Twins
Tamara Rabi and Adriana Scott b 1983
Tamara and Adriana were born in Guadalajara Mexico and were separated at birth and raised by different adoptive parents. Tamara was adopted by a Jewish couple who lived close to Central park in Manhattan. Adriana was adopted by a Roman Catholic family and grew up near Long Island just 20 miles away from where Tamara lived. Neither knew she had a twin sister. Tamara's adoptive mother also did not know but Adriana's adoptive mother knew but kept her twin a secret from her daughter. When the twins were 20 years old they were constantly getting confused by the other sister's friends. Eventually mutual friends put two and two together and arranged for them to meet. Despite different upbringings, Tamara and Adriana discovered they had very lead similar lives. The twins' adoptive fathers both died of cancer, Adriana plays the clarinet and Tamara plays the sax and they both love listening to R&B and hip hop. They also both wanted to be vets when they grew up. The reunited twins and their widowed moms have now formed a close bond.
Silent Twins
June and Jennifer Gibbons b 1963
June and Jennifer grew up in Britain. The twin sisters were inseparable, and had speech impediments which made it very hard for them to mix in with other children. The Gibbons also were the only black children in their school, and faced racism. Their language eventually became unintelligible to outsiders and spoke to no one except each other and their little sister. They would complete each other's sentences and could communicate with no more than facial expressions. In their early teens they were given two diaries as Christmas gifts. This inspired them to send away for a mail order course in creative writing, and each wrote several novels that were published. It is theorized that because they were so desperate for recognition and fame and publicity for their books, the girls committed a number of petty crimes including arson. June & Jennifer were committed to a mental health hospital where they remained for 14 years. Because of the medications given to them in the hospital they lost most of their interest in creative writing. The girls apparently had an agreement that if one died, the other must begin to speak and live a normal life. During their stay in the hospital, they began to believe that it was necessary for one twin to die. Jennifer eventually agreed to be the sacrifice. Within hours after their release at the age of 30 Jennifer died of sudden inflammation of the heart. To this day, Jennifer's death remains a mystery. After loosing her twin, June was able to speak with other people and contemplates resuming to her writing career.
Born 2 Months Apart Twins
Catalin and Valentin Tescu b 2004 & 2005
Catalin and Valentin from Romania are twins with different years of birth. Catalin was born in December (2 months premature). The doctors were able to wait and deliver her second son Valentin two months later in February. Romanian doctors attributed the time lag in the births to a rare congenital condition that gave the twins mother two uteruses due to a congenital malformation that occurred when she was herself an embryo in her mother's womb. Approximately one in every 50,000 women has a double uterus but the hospital believes this was the first case where a woman had become pregnant at the same time in both wombs and given birth nearly two months apart. The two brothers were both healthy when they were released from the hospital on the same day.
Half Brother Twins
Tuen and Koen Stuart b 1993
Wilma and Willem Stuart, a Dutch couple had been unsuccessfully trying to conceive for years and decided to try IVF. They soon learned they would be parents of twins. When the two boys were born, Koen had blue eyes, dark hair and pink skin, Tuen had dark eyes dark hair and brown skin. A DNA test revealed that Koen was the Stuarts child but Tuen was not Willem's. The report of the investigation has not been made public, but speculation is that a piece of lab equipment called a pipette, like a large eyedropper, had been used twice, causing another man's sperm to be mixed with Willem's. The hospital called it a "deeply regrettable mistake". The Stuarts remembered there was a black couple in the waiting room the same day during the IVF process. The hospital located the man and confirmed he was Tuen's biological father. Although he was under no obligation to meet his son he never knew he had, he did when Koen was 18 months old. The biological father only looked at him from a distance and didn't try to claim him and was comfortable that the Stuarts loved the child, and let them continue raising him.
Conjoined Twins
Abigail and Brittany Hensel b 1990
Many know and have followed the story of the Hensel twins. They are now 18 and recently graduated from high school. Only four known sets of conjoined twins who share an undivided torso and two legs have ever survived into adulthood. By coordinating their efforts, they have been able to enjoy many hobbies and sports including volleyball, kickball, swimming, basketball, and cycling. Two years ago the girls passed their driver test and had to pass the test twice because each girl received a driver's license. They also play the piano and are avid computer users. Abigail and Brittany expect to date, get married and have children. They hope that by providing some information about themselves they will be able to lead fairly typical lives.
Experimental Twins
Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein b 1969
Elyse and Paula were born to a woman with schizophrenia and were put up for adoption. Child psychologist Dr Viola Bernard, a consultant to the adoption agency believed twins should be separated to improve their psychological development so Elyse and Paula were sent to different families. Elyse knew that they had been adopted but neither one knew they were twins. When Elyse turned 33 she decided to contact the New York State Adoption Information Registry to look for her birth mother. It was then that she also discovered she had a twin. About six months later the twins were reunited. What makes this story even more incredible is it was also discovered that Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein were part of a secret nature versus nurture study by Dr Neubauer and his colleague Dr Viola Bernard. Neubauer was a noted child psychiatrist and studied five sets of twins and one set of triplets who were all deliberately separated at birth. The adoptive families would travel separately to the center once a month for 12 years for IQ tests and speech analysis. Researchers would also visit their homes and film the children playing. The adoptive parents were told they were part of a child development study but were kept in the dark about the twin/ triplet aspect. The set of triplets and two other sets of twins in the study have also been reunited, but it is not known if the remaining two sets of twins have. The controversial study has not been published, but will be in 2066, when most of the participants will likely be dead.
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Give me four immediate changes you can make today and stick to that will directly change your calories consumed and your calories burned. For example: Make your dinner 50% vegetables or do cardio for ten minutes every morning before you have breakfast.
On a scale from 1-10, how motivated are you to make the above four changes to your lifestyle? 1 means you don't have a chance, while 10 means you are going to accomplish it without a doubt. If your answer is anything but a 10, get real with yourself and bridge the gap.
Go to your closet and find something that does not look good until you take off this weight. Try it on every single day first thing in the morning as a fresh reminder of the work you are committed to doing.
Repeat this affirmation daily and post in four prominent places: "I lose weight easily and swiftly." Keeping yourself in the right mindset can do wonders towards keeping your motivation to lose your extra weight.
Do you have any tactics you use to try and shed the extra pounds? Share them with us in the comments below.


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Colorful sunrise at Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse along the waterway at Sawfish Bay Park in Jupiter Florida. HDR image created using Photomatix Pro and Topaz software.
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The Jupiter Lighthouse in Palm Beach County during sunset over the inlet. Three exposure HDR photo processed in Photomatix using Contrast Optimizer.
HDR Photography image of a beautiful receding wave at the beach in Boynton by the inlet during sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean.
Photo of a work boat carrying a crew to a rig off the Boynton Beach Inlet in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Sunset at the Boynton Beach Inlet Park in Palm Beach COunty Florida. HDR image created in Photomatix Pro HDR Software.
Here's a few photos from Boca Raton that I finally had a chance to process. All of them except for the postcard image is panorama HDR images processed using Photomatix Pro and Topaz plugins.


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Here are a few more stories from our last trip.
We spent Christmas 2007 in Ethiopia. Helping the Sisters prepare for the Christmas Mass, the head of baby Jesus fell off whilst setting up the nativity. Have to say this did cause a certain amount of giggling. We promised that on our next trip out we would bring back a new Jesus. We contacted The Daughters of Charity in London and asked where we could purchase a baby Jesus and as luck would have it they said that they had one and we were most welcome to it.
Baby Jesus turned out to be a foot long with outstretched arms and made from fine porcelain. Not an easy thing to transport 3000 miles. We felt that it would be best suited for our travelling companion and friend Jane to have the responsibility of transporting Jesus, mainly because it would give us someone to blame if he suffered the same fate as his predecessor.
We wrapped Jesus in bubble wrap (no swaddling clothes available) and Jane carried it lovingly in her arms. We lost count the times Jesus was mentioned on the journey, either asking how he was, where he was, the odd blasphemous remark or both.
He was left behind on the table in the pizza restaurant at Heathrow, which resulted in 'where is Jesus?
Thanks to Jane he made it to Ethiopia in one piece and will have pride of place at the Christmas Nativity 2008.
Some trips are not so good.
Whilst out one late afternoon, a young lad about twelve, in torn clothes and no shoes ran up to us asking 'Where you from' 'England' came the reply. The lad now walking with us thought for a while and with a big smile said 'RRRROONEY'. 'Yes' we said 'Rooney he is from England'.
The smile on the lads face increased with the fact that he had made himself understood and was getting very excited repeating 'RRRROONEY' over and over again and looking at us rather than looking where he was going. After repeating 'RRRROONEY' several times and getting more and more excited running around us he then stubbed his foot on a rock and tripped over. Mike slightly agitated by the persistent Rooney chants went into a fit of laughter at the sight of the lad tripping over. Aweke who was also walking with us broke down in tears of laughter at the sight of Mike in hysterics.
However the raucous laughter soon turned to concern when we looked at the lad now in tears, him with pain, blood pouring from his foot and his toe nail hanging by a thread. Angie rushed to the lad's aid with clean tissues and proceeded to wrap his foot and wipe away the tears. Mike and Aweke now full of remorse/guilt started to console the lad trying to avert the glaring gaze of Angie.
With a face now streaked by tears as Angie washed away the dirt, a smile appeared due to the attention he was receiving. This smile increased with the offer of two boiled sweets. The lad left us at this point limping away at speed, still chanting RRRROONEY, only this time with two boiled sweets in his mouth, it doesn't bear thinking about!


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Changes To Transparency In Public Contracting In Texas
6.18.19 In: Government Contracts
Governor Abbott recently signed Senate Bill 943 changing the Texas Public Information Act. Importantly for contractors, the bill amended Section 552.104 of the Government Code regarding the exception to disclosure of information relating to competition.
The Law Before S.B. 943
The Texas Supreme Court ruled in Boeing Co. v. Paxton, 466 S.W.3d 831 (Tex. 2015) that pursuant to Section 552.104 third-parties whose interests were at stake could object to the release of their proposal or contract information by filing written arguments to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG).
Boeing also expanded the test for determining release under Section 552.104 to include any information, including core contract data, that may give an advantage to another entity so long as the impacted company could factually demonstrate competitive harm.
Since this ruling, OAG precedent has effectively exempted all information for which a third-party makes a competitive harm objection under Section 552.104.
The Law After S.B. 943
As a result of S.B. 943, the Government Code now requires that only the government may make an objection to release under Section 552.104. And, in order to obtain an exemption to disclosure it must demonstrate that release of the information would harm its interests by providing an advantage to a bidder in an ongoing competitive situation or would harm competition in future procurements.
The amended Section 552.104 arguably better aligns the taxpayer's right to know how the government is spending its money and a private company's right to prevent disclosure of its competitively sensitive information. Although contractors have lost the ability to object on their own behalf regarding the release and impact of such disclosure when it relates to information in a contract, newly added Section 552.1101 (also deriving from S.B. 943) may assuage contractor fears.
Section 552.1101 still provides the confidentiality exception for contractors and potential contractors. However, it is limited to certain proprietary information submitted in a request for bid, proposal, or qualification provided the vendor demonstrates release would give an advantage to a competitor.
Therefore, contractors should be aware that they are now foreclosed from making an objection pursuant Section 552.104, that the governmental entity makes a decision about what is releasable or whether to file an objection when the request is related to information in a contract, and that contractors seeking to protect proposal or bid data should rely on Section 552.1101.
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There is a new addition to the programme this year. During the afternoon you will have the option to join either a researcher or a practitioner track session. The researcher track will be led by Dr Rachel Calogero and is aimed at fostering interdisciplinary collaborations and potential grant applications. The practitioner track will be led by Dr Deb Burgard and will be looking at ways of eliminating weight stigma from your professional practice. Alternatively, you can just hang out, eat the fresh baked cookies, check out the posters, and network a bit.
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Why is Roger Federer in Chicago? And why was he playing tennis next to the Bean? – Chicago Tribune
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Roger Federer, the world's top-ranked tennis player, was in Chicago on Monday for the first time to help kick off the countdown to September's Laver Cup.
Organizers spent Monday morning setting up a small tennis court next to Millennium Park's Cloud Gate sculpture. Federer, who had arrived in Chicago around noon, volleyed with world No. 20 Nick Kyrgios of Australia on the court around 2 p.m.
"Very excited to be here in Chicago for the very first time," Federer said at the Bean. "Nice and cold. But it's all good. That's what we came for and (to) order a deep dish pizza so we're warm on the inside."
The 36-year-old Swiss native explained how he's never had occasion to grace the city before.
"I don't want to say you always go to the same places (on tour), but when there's not a tournament in town, it's hard to go to sometimes unless you plan a vacation," Federer said. "And usually when I come to America … I go to New York, I go to Indian Wells (Calif.), I go to Miami, I go to Cincinnati.
"And the next thing you know … you haven't been in a few places you've actually wanted to go to. And Chicago's definitely one of the places I've wanted to come to, and then let alone play as well, and so now this year I'll get both, which I'm very excited."
To promote the Laver Cup, Federer was joined by Kyrgios, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, American great John McEnroe and Rod Laver, the tournament's namesake and Australian legend.
Event presenter and NBC Sports journalist Mike Tirico predicted it would be "dangerous" for Federer to hand over the microphone to McEnroe, and tennis' bad boy emeritus didn't disappoint.
"First of all, it's great to be in this tremendous city of Chicago — almost as great as New York," he said to groans. "I had to say that. I'm sorry. C'mon, you know I spent my whole life in New York."
The Laver Cup, an all-star tennis tournament similar to golf's Ryder Cup, will take place Sept. 21-23 at the United Center. For the second year, McEnroe will serve as captain of Team World and Team Europe's captain will be Bjorn Borg.


A few months after my 17th birthday, my mom and dad made me realize I was going to need some gas money -- and that the money wasn't going to come from their pockets. Therefore, I needed to find a j-o-b. I don't recall what made me stop into Vesuvio, but I'm guessing it's because it was two minutes from my high school, and if I was going to make it to track practice and then to work, I would need to be pretty close. Anyway, I worked at Vesuvio for a year and a half, and then came back the summer after college. I loved working there; I loved that I worked with all my best friends, I loved that we closed at 10pm so I could still have a life, and I especially loved the food. Now, it's seven years later, and I still frequent Vesuvio every time I go home.
Recently, Vesuvio remodeled their place. They exchanged the solid-color drywall for beautiful exposed brick. They bordered the room with small colorful glass-like tiles that accent the brick, and they are also in the process of getting their menus redone. All-in-all, it's great to see a small, family-run restaurant that has stood the test of time and that is thriving during these economic times. So what's that say about their food?
Well, I arrived, unsure if anyone was going to be joining me. I was headed back to Maryland in an hour, and it had been too long since the last time I had been to the restaurant. The first person I saw was my waitress, Gracie. She greeted me with a hug and kiss, and sat down with me while I was deciding on what to eat. We talked about family, her recent marriage, and her little girl. As we were catching up, my dad and his friend Jimmy walked in, fresh off the job site. While Gracie was reciting the specials to them, I took a walk up front to the counter to see what kinds of pizzas they had on display. They had Broccoli and Tomato, Grandma's Style with Basil and Tomatoes, Eggplant Parmigiana, and Cheesesteak Stuffed Pizza. My favorite, however, was the Hot Wing Pizza. Large chunks of breaded chicken, bleu cheese dressing, mozzarella cheese, and Vesuvio's delicious buffalo sauce. I knew I had to get it, regardless of anything else I was thinking about eating for lunch that day.
A few minutes after my dad arrived, Mrs. Gussen, my former boss and owner of the establishment, came over with a "free sample" for us! It was a mini calzone, stuffed with sweet Italian sausage, red and green bell peppers, and mozzarella cheese. Served with a side of marinara, a couple of these would make a perfect start to any lunch or dinner at Vesuvio.
While we were all enjoying our sample, my slice of Hot Wing Pizza, and my sister, arrived at the table. I usually have to try to convince Andrea to get an appetizer. See, I like to eat a lot - and I can never decide what to get, so I always make her get something that I want, so we can "share". In which, "share" means, let me eat 3/4 of it, but you order it, so I don't look like a piggy. Anyway, Andrea and I both skipped the appetizers, especially because we were already brought one, and I did order the pizza already.
My dad and Jimmy had both ordered mini Chicken Caesar Salads, and they were already enjoying them as Andrea and I placed our order. We're both pretty hooked on Vesuvio's buffalo sauce, so since I got the pizza, Andrea smelled the sauce on that and in a minute she knew she wanted a Buffalo Chicken Cheesesteak. I opted for a steak sandwich as well, but I got a Chicken Cheesesteak with Broccoli Rabe. I never get broccoli rabe in Maryland, so when I come home, it's always a treat.
Our steak sandwiches came out, and they looked as perfect as I remember them. The bread is always soft, the chicken is chopped nice and fine, which pairs well with the melted cheese. It's almost like the take the chopped chicken and blend it together with the cheese in a big pot first, and then put it on the sandwich. I particularly hate when you can tell that they just slap the chicken on the bun and then put two slices of cheese on there, in hopes it melts by the time it gets to your table. Not theses sandwiches. When I picked up one half of the sandwich, a combination of juices from the olive oil from the sauteed broccoli rabe, the juicy chicken breast, and the melted cheese oozed out from the bottom of the bread, and I was just as happy to sop it up with extra pieces of the roll, to ensure I got every last drop of goodness.
Vesuvio will always be somewhere that is a part of me. I have a million memories behind the scenes, and I keep going back for more, every time I am in New Jersey. The only complaint I ever have, is I wish the wait staff had uniforms!! Most of the servers wear flip flops and shorts, with no regard for safety in the kitchen. But, if that's the worst thing about Vesuvio Ristorante, I think, if you haven't been there yet, take the time out to go get yourself a good, homestyle, Italian meal!


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Ein Metamaterial ist eine künstlich hergestellte Struktur, deren Durchlässigkeit für elektrische und magnetische Felder (Permittivität  und Permeabilität ) von der in der Natur üblichen abweicht. Das wird erreicht durch speziell angefertigte, meist periodische, mikroskopisch feine Strukturen (Zellen, Einzelelemente) aus elektrischen oder magnetisch wirksamen Materialien in ihrem Inneren.

Metamaterialien können einen negativen Realteil des komplexen Brechungsindex haben. Beim Übergang vom Vakuum in solch ein Material werden Wellen über das Lot hinaus in die negative Richtung gebrochen. Die Ausbreitung der Wellen erfolgt also innerhalb und außerhalb des Materials zu derselben Seite des Lots. Gewöhnliche Materialien haben einen positiven Brechungsindex. Bei ihnen werden Wellen beim Übergang in das jeweilige Material zum Lot hin abgelenkt, aber nicht darüber hinaus.

Mit Metamaterialien, deren Realteil des Brechungsindex negativ ist, sind Anwendungen denkbar, die mit gewöhnlichen Materialien prinzipiell nicht möglich sind. So können sie Objekte unsichtbar machen, indem sie eintreffende Wellen um die Objekte herum lenken.

Die Struktur von Metamaterialien, mit deren Hilfe der Brechungsindex gestaltet wird, muss deutlich kleiner als die Wellenlänge der Strahlung sein. Das erschwert die Konstruktion für sichtbares Licht erheblich. Die meisten bisher realisierten Metamaterialien sind daher für Mikrowellenstrahlung ausgelegt.

Definition
Die Definition von Metamaterialien ist noch im Fluss:
 Die geläufigere Definition beschränkt die Zellgröße auf (deutlich) kleiner als ein Viertel der Wellenlänge im Vakuum. Die Anordnung verhält sich wie ein homogenes Medium. Das heißt, in erster Linie bestimmt der Zellinhalt die Funktion.
 Manche Autoren beziehen auch noch photonische Kristalle mit ein, bei denen die Zellgröße in der Größenordnung einer halben Wellenlänge liegt. Hier bestimmt in erster Linie die Zellgröße die Funktion.

Der Begriff Metamaterial wurde in den späten 1990er Jahren von John Pendry geprägt.

Physikalische Grundlagen
Die Besonderheit von Metamaterialien besteht darin, dass ihre Materialkonstanten  und  negative Werte annehmen können. Das bedeutet aus Sicht der Feldtheorie, dass
 das Feld der elektrischen Flussdichte (D-Feld) und das der elektrischen Feldstärke (E-Feld) sowie
 das Feld der magnetischen Flussdichte (B-Feld) und das der magnetischen Feldstärke (H-Feld)
jeweils einander entgegengesetzt gerichtet sind.

Den unterschiedlichen Vorzeichen stehen keine grundsätzlichen physikalischen Gründe entgegen, da den D- und E- sowie den B- und H-Feldern entsprechend den Maxwellgleichungen in ihrer materialunabhängigen Form voneinander unabhängige "Entstehungsmechanismen" zugrunde liegen:

Die unterschiedlichen Vorzeichen von D- und E-Feldern bei Metamaterialien kommen durch geschickte Anordnungen und Prozesse zustande, die dadurch gekennzeichnet sind, dass die Änderungen des magnetischen Flusses ein E-Feld erzeugen, das in die dem D-Feld entgegengesetzte Richtung zeigt.

Analog kommen die unterschiedlichen Vorzeichen von B- und H-Feldern dadurch zustande, dass die Änderungen des elektrischen Feldes bei Metamaterialien einen magnetischen Fluss (und damit ein B-Feld) erzeugen, das in die dem H-Feld entgegengesetzte Richtung zeigt.

Der Wellenvektor, die elektrische und die magnetische Feldstärke formen bei Metamaterialien ein linkshändiges Dreibein – daher auch die Bezeichnung linkshändiges Material.

Eigenschaften
1968 wurde vom sowjetischen Physiker Wiktor Wesselago die Ausbreitung von Wellen in einem Medium mit negativem Brechungsindex theoretisch untersucht. Dass in solch einem Material die Phasengeschwindigkeit und Gruppengeschwindigkeit entgegen dem durch den Poynting-Vektor gegebenen Fluss der Energie laufen, war durch Henry Cabourn Pocklington seit 1905 bekannt. Wesselago zeigte nun, dass die Linkshändigkeit der Metamaterialien zu inverser Tscherenkow-Strahlung, inversem Dopplereffekt und inversem Brechungsgesetz führt. Das inverse Brechungsgesetz führt bei gekrümmten Flächen zu einer Vertauschung von Konvergenz und Divergenz. Anders als gewöhnliche Medien bündelt eine konkave Linse aus Metamaterial einfallende Strahlung.

Zusätzlich wurde von Ilya V. Shadrivov gezeigt, dass die Strahlverschiebung beim Goos-Hänchen-Effekt mit Metamaterialien ebenfalls das Vorzeichen wechselt.

Metamaterialien können einen repulsiven (abstoßenden) Casimir-Effekt bewirken.

Herstellung
Es gibt bei der Herstellung Ansätze, die Resonanz ausnutzen (resonante Ansätze), und solche, die das nicht tun (nichtresonante Ansätze).

Resonante Ansätze

Split-Ring/Wire-Grid
Beim Split-Ring/Wire-Grid-Ansatz (s. Abb. oben) führt das Drahtgitter () zu negativer Permittivität, da sich in Metallen unterhalb der Plasmonresonanz Elektronen wie ein Plasma verhalten (Drude-Modell). Ein Resonator, meistens als (Doppel-)Ring mit Spalt ausgeführt (), führt zu einem magnetischen Dipolmoment und zu einer negativen effektiven Permeabilität, jedoch nur in einem sehr engen Frequenzbereich. Die Eigenschaften des Resonators können so gewählt werden, dass sich im gewünschten Frequenzbereich ein negativer Brechungsindex ergibt.

Diese Anordnung hat die Eigenschaft, dass geringe Verluste nur bei einer geringen Bandbreite der Resonanz erreicht werden können. Außerdem steigen die Verluste durch den Ohmschen Widerstand des Metalls mit der Frequenz. Für sichtbares Licht wäre die Absorption so dominant, dass sie Wirkungen eines ungewöhnlichen Realteil des Brechungsindex überdeckt.

Dielektrische Kugeln
Der Ansatz über dielektrische Kugeln unterschiedlichen Durchmessers in einem NaCl-Gitter hat den Vorteil, dass als nichtmetallische Struktur auch der optische Frequenzbereich erschlossen werden könnte. Die theoretische Arbeit zu diesem Ansatz zeigt jedoch, dass nur sehr geringe Bandbreiten zu erwarten sind und entsprechend extreme Anforderungen an die Toleranzen der Fertigungstechnik gestellt würden.

Nichtresonante Ansätze
Möglicher Ausweg aus der Bandbreiten-/Dämpfungsproblematik, zumindest im Mikrowellenbereich, sind nichtresonante Konzepte, die auf inversen Leitungsstrukturen basieren. Diese bandpassartigen Strukturen bieten gleichzeitig hohe Bandbreite und geringe Verluste – solange Strukturen entworfen werden können, die sich wie diskrete Serien- und Parallelresonatoren verhalten. Aufgrund der Ableitung aus der Leitungstheorie waren erste derartige Metamaterialien eindimensional und erreg(t)en die Kontroverse, ob es sinnvoll ist, von Metamaterialien oder von angewandter Filtertheorie zu sprechen. Verallgemeinerungen auf (isotrope) 2D/3D-Anordnungen wurden theoretisch vorgestellt, einige auch experimentell nachgewiesen.

Mögliche Anwendungen

Die von Wesselago analysierten planen Linsen sind aufgrund der fehlenden optischen Achse potenziell vorteilhaft, die von John Pendry vorgeführte Auflösungsverbesserung führte zu besonders großer Aufmerksamkeit in Physik und Elektrotechnik. Sie ist dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass eine punktförmige Lichtquelle ein punktförmiges Abbild hat, d. h., im Gegensatz zur üblichen Linse wird das evaneszente Wellenvektorspektrum der Quelle durch die plane Metamaterial-Linse resonant verstärkt und dann im Bild 'rekonstruiert'. Das ist nicht mit endlicher Auflösung bei üblichen Linsen aufgrund endlicher Eingangspupille zu verwechseln, Beugungsbegrenzung ist als Vergleichskriterium nicht heranziehbar, denn Pendrys Linse ist unendlich groß.

Eine weitere Anwendungsmöglichkeit von Metamaterial wird im Bereich der Tarnkappen-Technik oder Stealth-Technik gesehen. Erforscht wird das zugrunde liegende Metamaterial derzeit an der University of Pennsylvania. Die Idee hinter der Stealth-Technik ist, das Material mit Licht interagieren zu lassen, ähnlich wie es Atome tun. Dies geschieht auf einem so kleinen Level, dass die künstlichen Strukturen kleiner als die Lichtwellen selbst sind. Dadurch sollen die optischen Eigenschaften nicht mehr so beschränkt sein, wie es bei konstitutiven Materialien der Fall ist. Eine Digitalisierung dieser Meta-Materialien könnte dazu genutzt werden, das Licht genau auf der anderen Seite wiederzugeben. Ein Vorteil eines solchen Meta-Materials ist, dass Licht nicht nur wie bislang durch Lupen und Spiegel gelenkt und reflektiert, sondern auch gedehnt, gestreckt, verzerrt und in weiteren Arten manipuliert werden kann.
Dieser Effekt wird seit mehreren Jahren vom US-amerikanischen Unternehmen HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp. im Rahmen ihrer Quantum Stealth Technology erforscht und getestet.

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The Garden State of South East Asia remains one of the most enticing countries in the region for first time travellers – but can Singapore get a bit boring for returning visitors? After all, the country is small, and attractions are few and far between.
I have been travelling to Singapore at least twice per year since 2011 and on most of those occasions I spent a good while in the country (sometimes even in luxury hotels – some backpacker!). I have always been fascinated by the local culture, which is a hotchpotch of Malay/Indian/Chinese with a splattering of western influence. However, speaking to other travellers recently, it seems that the star of Singapore is shining less brightly these days.
"Once you've done the big attractions, there's no re-visit value", say some of my colleagues. They do have a point. Sometimes, this can be overcome by lodging in cheap accommodation and just hanging around for culture and food (like a lot of people do in Thailand, for example), but you cannot do this in Singapore as it is the most expensive country in the world. "Now I just use Singapore as a stopover for half a day then fly elsewhere" is something else I hear far too often. In the past, a transit visit to Singapore lasted for 2 or 3 days, yet now travellers know that there is not too much to keep them entertained here for a longer period.
I often think about what is actually new in Singapore since I began travelling 7 years ago, and really I cannot think of anything! You have the theme parks and water parks of Sentosa, the glitz and the glam of Marina Bay Sands, and of course the world class Singapore Zoo and accompanying wildlife parks – but all of these have been around since at least 2010! Although there is a lot of infrastructure to transport and of course accommodation for locals and holidaymakers alike, there has actually been a lack of investment – up to now – in the tourist attractions.
As the local tourist board says "Visit Singapore" but really once you've been here once, why would you keep coming back?
Hi! I think the latest "attraction" in Singapore might be the National Gallery, but time to time old attractions get updated with new stuff. I haven't been to many tourist attractions myself since I'm a local. Personally, my favourites are Singapore Zoo and Gardens by the Bay. I love our local food too which I suppose is an "attraction" too? But you're right about the cost of accommodation here which can be a major deterrent if you're coming just for the food.
I don't usually revisit a city for leisure unless I'm there to visit friends because there just aren't that many things that are worth taking the flight out, so I'm really amazed that you've been travelling to Singapore every year.
The same could be said for any city I guess. I would explore neighbourhoods etc if the big attractions have been seen, stay in a different area, out in a more local suburb and just wander at eat etc. The hawker food is cheap and always worth coming for, I get cravings and am always happy to have Singapore as a stopover especially after travelling to India, Nepal or Vietnam, I found Singapore a great place to regather myself and freshen up.
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Police are asking motorists to avoid a road in Northwich due to an accident near the Cheshire town this evening.
Officers in the town are asking drivers to seek alternative routes due to the accident near Chapel Street Junction on Ollershaw Lane.
The accident is understood to have taken place shortly before 9pm.
We have no further information on the accident itself at this stage.
A Cheshire Police spokesman said: "Motorists please avoid Chapel Street Junction, Ollershaw Lane and the access to the A559 Marston Lane in Northwich as it is currently closed in both directions while we deal with a road traffic collision. Many thanks for your patience."


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Q: how to install squeryl for scala in ellipse? I want to run squeryl for PostgreSQL on scala in ellipse. But I have no idea how will do it.
I tried to see on the site http://squeryl.org but there is no mention of the steps needed. Only the list of neccessary files is given.
can anybody guide me step-by-step to run squeryl for scala in ellipse. I am running scala 2.8.0

A: If you happen to be using sbt, add the following to your project file:
    val squeryl  = "org.squeryl" % "squeryl_2.8.0" % "0.9.4beta8" % "provided"

then type 'update' at the sbt prompt.
UPDATE:  Sorry, this was effectively answered yesterday:
CustomTypesMode is not a member of package org.squeryl.customtypes?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Our group decided to have a case study on a subject who involved in a group called Skinhead. This is a true story of a person that is closely related with one of our group members. He was a 16 years old male student who studied in a vocational school. According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Skinhead is a young person, usually a man, with a shaved head and often wearing braces and heavy boots, especially Doc Martens. It first appeared in Britain in the 1960s and was known for their violent behaviour and their support for the right-wing political group.
In Malaysian context, Skinhead first appeared in the early year of 1990s, firstly appeared as Punk, which got community's disagreement as their appearances are too loud- boots, Mohawk, leather jacket, skinny jeans and spike hair. So they change to a new culture called Skinhead; which they say that it is cleaner and not too loud. They have their own genre of songs. Subject started to involve himself with Skinhead when he was 16 years old. He was so enthralled with the idea of being in a group and executing new things he never knew.
He claims that he and his friends felt like they were strong and powerful as they shared things together. They did not have the slightest thought about any other things other than merely enjoying themselves. It was self-satisfying and what was more important to them is that, they felt that they were fierce and everyone was afraid of them. Subject states that he was "proud to wear Dr. Martin shoes, jeans, jacket and simple t-shirts. " The members of the group could be identified based on their similar hairstyle – they must keep their hair not longer than one inch.
Subject admits that he was feeling obligated to follow the 'trend' in order to avoid negative assumptions by his peers. He in fact did not have any idea what Skinhead was all about at that time. However, he knew that it was a culture from the Western countries. This factor encouraged him more that he ended up being one of the followers. He was feeling secured knowing that he belonged to the group and he got his friends on his back. Subject however denies being brutal as the other group of followers. The grand weekly meeting was held every Friday.
Subject also adds that usually the other members of any group alike of Skinhead would talk about loyalty to the group as well as proving bravery and strength. Nevertheless, the most important above all things for them is "autonomous social relationship". He states that the members were free to mingle with each other regardless of their genders. However, subject makes it clear that he did not take alcohol or any kind of drugs. As a teenager, subject admits that he was not aware that what he did could actually give effect to the other people around him.
What he wanted was, "to give a go for anything that I feel curious about. " He does not blame anyone because whatever he did had nothing to do with his parents, school and society in general, he says. He got everything he needed as a teenager and the people around him cared about him. He admits that the greatest influence came from his peers. APPLICATION OF THEORY: According to Erik Erikson, the fifth stage of his eight stages of human development – the identity versus identity confusion (also known as role confusion), best reflects the adolescent's life.
During adolescence, life is getting more complicated as we are going through a phase of changing from a child to being an adult. At this rate, adolescents begin to have the feeling of acquiring identity. This feeling includes their certainty about their own characteristics (who they are), their concern about social identity (what they are all about or to which group whom they belong) and their certainty about their own values and ideals (where they are going in life).
In our case, when subject engaged himself with the group, he actually made a commitment without attempting any other identity exploration. Adolescents face many new roles and adult statuses such as occupational role, beliefs and values as well as sexuality. However, they need to be allowed to explore different paths in order to obtain a healthy identity. Without enough exploration, adolescents are likely to fail from creating a positive future path because the experience they have obtained is not helping at all.
As a result, they will remain confused about their identity and thus maladaptations and malignancies (negative outcomes) arise. The involvement of subject with Skinhead could be classified as one of the negative outcomes that take place as a result of inadequate identity exploration by subject. In the process of creating a philosophy of life, we often get the tendency to be idealistic rather than being realistic. We often go to what we think as ideal, conflict-free, and choose to reject reality. This always happens to adolescents.
The problem is that they are lacking in experience but always find it easy to substitute ideals with experience. However, strong devotion to friends and causes is always easy to get developed and that is why our most significant relationships are often with peer groups. Subject found that his peers' expectation on him was very important. His sense of belonging to the group grew higher since the group members acknowledged his presence. When subject said they were fierce and that everyone was afraid of them, it could be that the society was giving in to them.
Society allows a certain degree of freedom to the adolescence in their search for identity. The society does not only provide them with formal institutions such as schools, colleges and universities, but the adolescents are also given tolerance which Erikson calls the psychosocial moratorium. CONCLUSION According to Erikson's fifth psychological stage, adolescent need to be allowed to explore different path to attain a healthy identity. If adolescent do not adequately explore different roles and did not carve out a positive future path, they can remain confuse about their identity.
In my understanding, Erikson encourages the adolescent on trying new things and learns from them. Experience sure is the best teacher out of all. It is like trial and error situation. An adolescent might be involved with something bad like Skinhead, Black metal or drug but in the end, what important is they had their lesson. Thus, they will avoid them from doing the decision and it was a process in finding their own identity. In this situation, Sam involved in Skinhead influence because of his curiosity and his friends influence.
At that time, Sam might not think that what he did was wrong but as time passes and he gets more mature, he realizes the fact that his action was wrong. Maturely, he does not put the blame on others but himself. Thus, adolescent need to think carefully before taking any action because it can affect his future. They should involve in activities that are healthy for them. Erikson surely said adolescent need to be allowed to explore different path to attain a healthy identity, but adolescent must choose the right path in order to gain it. It will be such a great loss if your young time was wasted doing unproductive activity.


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Bryce Canyon National Park: Good Things Come in Small Packages
in Hiking, Region, Travel, West, Wilderness Press
Bryce Canyon is Utah's smallest national park—-a glistening jewel cast in hues of yellow, pink, orange, and red.
But its name is a misnomer because it isn't a canyon. Canyons are carved by rivers, while Bryce Canyon is actually a series of eroding cliffs on the eastern rim of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The cliffs have formed brightly colored rock amphitheaters decorated with bizarrely shaped ridges, fins, and hoodoos. This otherworldly landscape, replete with windows, arches, and natural bridges, fuels the imagination and makes for irresistibly fun hiking.
The Terrain
Bryce is Utah's highest-elevation national park, and as in Utah's other national parks, you can read Earth's history in layers of stone. Geologically, Bryce can rightly be considered the uppermost rim of the Grand Canyon—a relatively young Cenozoic layer, softer and more quickly erodible than the formations found in other national parks in the Colorado Plateau. Because it's high and dry, you'll find an intriguing variety of alpine trees and shrubs in Bryce that are not found in the lower elevations of the Colorado Plateau.
Bryce Canyon is also home to a huge variety of wildlife, which sometimes include bobcat, mountain lion, and black bear. The plant life is even more diverse–home to over 400 species–including a number of evergreen tree species that make up a pleasant mix of forest and meadow space that contrast the sharp rock features on the "canyon" walls.
Ebenezer Bryce's cabin, where he and his family resided in the canyon (source: Wikipedia).
Southern Paiutes and other American Indians lived in the area. But because of its higher elevation and less hospitable climate for growing crops, the immediate area that is now part of Bryce Canyon National Park was not as heavily populated as other parts of the Southwest were. Not until military men passed through the area in 1866 did it become known to the rest of America. In 1872 geologist G. K. Gilbert explored the area, and after first seeing the hoodoos, he wrote: "We caught a glimpse of a perfect wilderness of red pinnacles."
Bryce Canyon became a national monument in 1923 and was designated as a national park in 1928, in attempts to protect this fragile landscape from overgrazing, the logging industry, and the increase in tourism that resulted in publicity drummed up by railroad lines leading out west (source: Wikipedia).
Dayhiking Bryce Canyon
Bryce's small size and linear layout mean it can be easily visited in one day. Even if all you do is stop at the viewpoints on the rim, you can see a high percentage of the park. But the greatest hikes in Bryce lie below the rim and require you to lace up your boots and hit the trail.
Begin with a stop at the visitor center, and proceed by car or shuttle to Rainbow Point, on the park's southernmost rim, for a short walk on the Bristlecone Loop. Because all the viewpoints are on the east side of the road, stopping at them is most easily done on your northward return, thereby requiring no left turns. When you arrive at either Sunset or Sunrise Point, hike the 3-mile Queens Garden and Navajo Loop, which is not just the finest hike in the park but is also arguably the finest short hike in America.
To entice you even further, here is some visual motivation to get yourself to Bryce Canyon this season:
Fir forest, Bryce Canyon National Park (photo: NPS)
Navajo Trail, one of many hiking trails within the park (photo: Luca Galuzzi)
Arches National Park isn't the only place in Utah you'll find natural archways and bridges. (Photo: NPS)
Cover photo: Jean-Christophe Benoist
Portions of this article were excerpted with permission from 50 Best Short Hikes in Utah's National Parks 2e, by Greg Witt (Wilderness Press).
Utah's five national parks—Arches, Bryce, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Zion—hold some of the most awe-inspiring geology on the planet. Each park offers visitors the dramatic scenery that invites exploration and discovery. In 50 Best Short Hikes in Utah's National Parks, veteran hiking guide Greg Witt shares the best routes in each park, hikes that are both "must see" and accessible. Park visitors who are short on time will find this book to be the ideal traveling companion, quickly helping readers identify the hikes and sights, making the best use of their time and provide maximum enjoyment. Each hike in the book includes distances, highlights, area maps, and easy-to-follow trailhead directions to make hike selection fast and efficient. Once on the trail, the detailed maps, route description, and interpretive details insure that hikers get the most out of their trip. Even avid hikers and experienced desert explorers will find new insights and discoveries as Witt's interesting and approachable style details the geologic forces that created this landscape. He brings to life the human history—prehistoric cliff-dwellers, native tribes, ranchers, farmers, loggers, miners, and outlaws—that adds to the color of the Colorado Plateau where these five parks are set.
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VIR Residents
Monkey Head
ICI Intern
Forget who?
"While the collective memory endures and draws strength from its base in a coherent body of people, it is individuals as group members who remember."
– Maurice Halbwachs The Collective Memory
A project, come and gone, leaves a certain mark on you. The kinetic character of the progress and action is suddenly still and you are left with the remnants and marks of movement. I'm sitting at my desk looking at the bags of remaining buttons, all mixed up, the leftover printouts of AIDS resources pages, button assembly instructions and press releases. I wonder how the physical abluvion of these past few months will be kept, organized and interpreted by the next intern, fellow, archivist or artist to come. Will we create a clear lexicon and a concise abstract to guide the investigator towards our ideas and concepts or will these documents be left to fend for themselves with no signs to combat their investigators subjectivity. In all likelihood, given my experience with past projects housed here at the ICI, I would think it will be somewhere in between. I imagine the buttons displayed in a row of unassuming boxes, organized by name, color, and "Forget" or "Remember", obituaries on small filing inserts at the front of each box; maybe a small diagram on the wall next to them which maps a person's potential digital pathways from button to tag to web page to obituaries. There is something to be said about letting the person who is seeking an understanding of something wander through it a bit without instruction; something to be said about having to make sense of it yourself. Like navigating a new city with a good intuitive sense of North, South, East and West, and maybe an outdated map from a local gas station, instead of a GPS with street by street instructions. Getting lost can be fruitful in ways that we, the project creators, might not have anticipated.
While this archive will function as a kind of stamp of the project, the digital web linked to the project will be more like a planted seed. We will wait to see if it will get the necessary inputs to germinate and grow. I am interested to see this living archive has the kinetic energy of the project. Does the project continue through this modality? Is it a mirror? Or is it a separate channel breaking off from the first? I'm curious how it will function and whether it will ever join the physical archive as a still document.
Forget Foucault has interesting implications about which ideas, people, and systems we choose to resurrect, remember or forget. While so often pseudo-poststructuralists like myself (and sometimes Foucault) want to discuss the fact that we have little ability to overcome our taught predispositions towards memorial, faddisms and our strategic propensity to just put things out of mind, FF offers (or demands) that we assume a little agency. By wearing a button with the statement of forgetting or remembering we assume responsibility for our actions…at least that is the hope.
I saw only a few people actively concerned about the prospect of wearing the wrong statement. These people were upset when we didn't have the button they wanted. Most of these wanted to remember someone, and found it an awful proposition to forget. Though these were the most impassioned people, I have a sense that it was due to a conditioned belief that remembering people is "good" forgetting people is "bad". Though I had originally wanted more people to actively engage me, I now have a suspicion that the ones who could get the most out of the project might be the few, who in realizing that they just grabbed a button at random, will find themselves considering the implications of their mindless act. Disappointed in retrospect that they didn't take the time to consider their options. That is my sincere hope.
Goodbye, ICI! <3
It is officially my last day at ICI as an intern. It's been a really rewarding experience working on the AIDS Chronicles and a few other projects these past few months. I jumped right into this intern
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