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Named after Swedish botanist Baron Klas von Alstroemer. Hecollected seeds on a trip to Spain in 1753, among which were seeds of this South American flower.
Or windflower, as it was believed wind made the blossoms open. Another legend says it grew for the gods on Mount Olympus, where prevailing winds blew.
From a Greek word meaning flower tail (anthus meaning flower, oura meaning tail). Also known as the painted tongue and sometime in jest referred to as the "little boy flower" (we'll let you figure this one out for yourself).
In Greek it means star, for its star-like blossoms. Legend says that it was created from stardust when Virgo looked down from the heavens and wept.
Appropriately named for its small, softly-scented blossoms and it's scent. The botanical name, gypsophila, means love chalk, referring to its preference for chalky soil.
Birch Leaves
Given to a man by a woman as a show of encouragement.
Strelitzia as it is also called, is named after actual birds-of-paradise, which are the most beautiful birds in the world, with brightly coloured plumage and fan like tails.
From an old Italian word meaning complexion. The earliest carnations bore flesh-coloured flowers, which gave rise to the name.
Carnation - White
Pure and ardent love. Good luck to give to a woman.
From a Greek word meaning gold flower. In the language of flowers, red shades speak of love, white of truth, and yellow of slighted love. Also cheerfulness and optimism.
Ornarcissus. In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection. He was turned into a flower, to nod into the water at his reflection forever. Also means "The sun is always shining when I'm with you, regard."
From the Old English phrase day's eye 鈥� many open in the morning, revealing the centre disc and close again each night. The disc is made up of hundreds of tiny flowers.
The name is derived from the Greek word for dolphin because of the fancied resemblance of the flower spurs (or partly opened buds) to a dolphin's head.
Dendrobium Orchid
Dendron means tree. These orchids grow on trees and areepiphytes, which means they depend on the tree for structural support but not nutrition.
Faithful love and undying memory, good luck to give to a woman.
Named after German botanist Friedrich H. T. Freese. He was a pupil of Dr. Christian P. Ecklon who named this genus for Freese.
"I love you in secret". Good luck to give to a man.
Named after Truagott Gerber, a German botanist and naturalist who traveled extensively in Russia and wrote an important monograph on Russian specimens. Also known as gladiator, because of its sword-shaped leaves, derived from a Latin word meaning little sword. Referred to in history as the sword lily.
A wedding will follow shortly.
"I have a message for you."
Lilac - mauve
"Do you still love me?"
Throughout the ages, the lily has stood for purity and sweetness, modesty, whiteness and fragility. Various species are widely referenced in Greek mythology.
"Let's make up."
Maternal love, charity.
Named after the Nereids in Greek mythology. The Nereids were sea nymphs, daughters of the sea god Nereus.
Love Me, Desire, Sympathy, Desire For a Return of Affection
"I am furious!"
Named after the sea god Proteus who could assume different shapes. And, indeed the protea comes in many forms, from tiny dwarf flowers, to shrubs, to trees.
Romans believed white roses grew where the tears of Venus fell, as she mourned the loss of her beloved Adonis. Her son Cupid, stung by a bee, shot arrows in the rose garden. The sting of the arrows became thorns. Venus pricked her foot on a thorn, and the droplets of blood dyed the roses red. A single, full bloom means: I still love you; (Pink) - please believe me; (Red) - love and desire; (Yellow) - infidelity and jealousy [but now often means friendship]; (White and Red together) - unity and warmth of heart. Go to our dedicated rose page for much more information on roses.
Fidelity and love, remembrance.
So named because of its snout-like blossoms. A light pressure on either side of a single blossom will make the jaws of the dragon open.
Or sea-lavender because it grows wild in salt-marshes. The Greek word statice means causing to stand as the spikes stand fresh-looking for months.
Named so because it resembled the colourful Turkish tulband (turban).The word was later corrupted to tulipan, and much later, abbreviated to tulip. Means declaration of love, symbol of perfect lover; (Red) - believe me; (Variegated [bicolour]) - beautiful eyes.
"I return your love", good luck to give to a woman.
Lasting affection.


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Biscuit prices likely to rise, warns Jaffa Cake maker McVitie's
August Graham
20 December 2021, 11:58 am ·1-min read
The cost of key ingredients has spiked by 15% (Clive Gee/PA) (PA Archive)
The prices of some of the country's favourite biscuits look set to spike by as much as 5% as global prices for sugar and other key ingredients rise.
Pladis, the company behind McVitie's, said costs have gone up so much that it might have to pass them on to shoppers.
It could mean that biscuit lovers might have to shell out more for Jaffa Cakes Hobnobs and other favourites.
Although the chocolate-covered digestive is more safe from any price changes.
"We've dealt with substantial challenges in the past in the food industry but it's the combination of these issues, as well as the scale of some of them that is unprecedented," said Pladis UK managing director David Murray.
"Like many other categories faced with this scale of inflation, we can't ignore that costs have gone up and this may flow through to higher prices."
Part of the price rise is down to higher commodity costs. In the UK, the price of palm oil, wheat and sugar have all spiked, with prices rising by around 15%.
Meanwhile, the business has also faced the Covid-19 pandemic, which left many staff off work with illness.
Covid has also put pressure on supply chains around the world, including those supplying biscuits.
The price rise is only one of several that are likely to hit consumers in coming months.
The Office for National Statistics estimates that inflation – which measures increases in the cost of living for many families – hit 4.6% in the 12 months to November.
Energy bills are set to rise by further hundreds of pounds from April next year, putting even more pressure on struggling households across the UK.
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Skateboarding in middle age 'helps empowerment and boosts wellbeing'
Skateboarding can help middle-aged people feel a sense of empowerment as well as boosting happiness and wellbeing, according to research. The study, by Dr Paul O'Connor, suggests skateboarding can help those in middle age navigate depression, bonds with their children, and personal trials and tribulations. Esther Sayers began skateboarding at the age of 47 - now in her early 50s, she says it's a decision she hasn't looked back on.
(Reuters) -An underwater volcano off Tonga erupted on Saturday, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders in Japan and causing large waves in several South Pacific islands, where footage on social media showed waves crashing into coastal homes. Japan's meteorological agency issued tsunami warnings in the early hours on Sunday and said waves as high as three metres (9.84 feet) were expected in the Amami islands in the south.
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A winter storm was forecast to bring heavy snow, winds, and ice to parts of the Carolinas on Sunday, January 16, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.The NWS issued a winter storm and ice storm warning due to the storm, with accumulations of up to 15 inches predicted in Newland, North Carolina.Footage shared by Samantha Weiss shows snow accumulation in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.The county was predicted to see as much as two inches of snow on Sunday, according to the NWS. Credit: Samantha Weiss via Storyful
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Medical Bill Collections: How Far Should Doctors Go?
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With hospitals in the hot seat for aggressive medical bill collections, now is a good time for physicians to review how they deal with unpaid patient bills.
By Katherine Vogt, AMNews staff. Sept. 27, 2004.
Some stories about medical bill collections resonate like well-spun Hollywood scripts. The victims are everyday people who are arrested, forced into bankruptcy or thrown out of their homes because they couldn't afford to pay their bills for life-saving medical care. The villains are hospitals or physicians who hungrily pursue every dime they are owed.
Those familiar with medical bill collections know that this kind of drama is an exaggeration of what typically occurs when patients don't pay what they owe. They also understand that collection drama happens more commonly because physicians and hospitals must balance their need to recoup financial losses with their missions to treat patients charitably and engage in fair business practices. It can be a delicate line.
With scores of recent lawsuits accusing hospitals of overstepping that line by aggressively pursuing outstanding patient bills, some physicians and hospitals are re-examining their debt collection practices to ensure that they stay on the good side of consumer watchdogs.
Consultants and other observers say that while physicians won't likely face the same kind of legal action that has put hospitals in the hot seat, the lawsuits serve as a wake-up call that physicians should put policies in place that clearly define their collection practices, as many hospitals are now doing.
They recommend that the policies define the collection process from the time of patient preregistration and intake to when final delinquent payment notices are sent or when a collection agency becomes involved. Such detailed policies could help physicians deal with what can be a very sensitive issue.
Not having a clear policy or a clear understanding of collections got some hospitals into trouble. Rick Wade, senior vice president of communications for the American Hospital Assn., said some of the backlash against hospitals surrounded a practice called "bodily attachment," which has been used in extreme cases and involves issuing an arrest warrant for patients with delinquent debt. But he said some hospitals didn't even know that collection agencies used this tactic. Since the controversy erupted, he said, more hospitals have re – examined their agreements with collection agencies.
After learning that there were wide discrepancies in how hospitals were collecting debt, the AHA developed collection guidelines that were issued in December 2003. They advised hospitals "to be certain they knew exactly and precisely about the agency used to collect the debt," Wade said, "and to be certain that whatever they did reflected on the reputation that the institution wanted to have in the community." The guidelines emphasized having a process in place to examine the patient's financial condition, he added.
Though the dynamics of collection are different for hospitals, which tend to have larger bills to collect and greater patient volumes than physician groups, Wade acknowledged that other health care entities might be able to learn from the examination of hospital collections.
"There are lessons here for everybody in health care about what the expectations of the public are about how we handle these things," he said.
Richard L. Clarke, president and CEO of the Healthcare Financial Management Assn., said physicians and hospitals could benefit from communicating with each other about collections practices and challenges.
"Clearly they cannot coordinate their policies [out of legal concerns over price-fixing], but I think they should talk in a legal way about what each is doing. If a hospital determines that a patient can't pay, then the physician won't likely get paid by that patient, either," Clarke said.
Hertz said physicians tend to be less aggressive than hospitals in collection practices. He said that is due to both a fear of getting sued and a lack of training of front-office staff. "Collecting from an insurance company is one thing, but collecting from an individual is different," he said.
He said physicians might be able to find training programs from collections experts to help their staffs learn the best ways to collect from patients.
Michelle Durner, president of Applied Medical Services LLC, a multiservice practice management and consulting firm in Durham, N.C., said it was critical to train the office staff to collect insurance co-pays or other upfront payments while the patient is still in the building.
"A lot of physicians don't have their office staff trained adequately to get their money when the patient is there," Durner said. Many physicians have signs saying payments are due at the time of service, "but once the patient gets out the door it's easier to ignore those statements," she added.
Also critical is training office staff to get thorough and accurate information about the patient during preregistration, registration or intake, Durner said. That information should include the patient's address, phone number, Social Security number, employer name and anything else that might assist in tracking down the patient later if he or she is delinquent on a bill.
At the same time, she said the staff should verify all insurance information, including the co-pay amount due from the patient.
Ken Morgan, executive vice president and partner of the Hales Corners, Wis.-based firm Zimmerman LLC, has consulted for hospitals and physician practices. He said the information garnered during patient intake also could help them understand the patient's financial condition.
"That patient intake process — whether it's with physicians or hospitals — is critical because at the end of the day we want to make sure we understand whether or not that patient can pay," he said. That could be useful if the patient later fails to pay.
Physicians also should ensure that their staffs are prepared to talk about payment plans when patients come through the doors, said Hertz and others. For example, if a patient comes in with an outstanding account balance, the staff should have a policy on how to handle that situation.
By letting patients know about payment plans and providing them with as much information as possible in advance of the service, Hertz said physician practices can help ensure more collections. After all, he said, most patients want to pay their bills.
Providing clear information on billing statements can make it easier for patients to realize that they can find a way to pay, said Sandra Williams, Durner's colleague and CEO of Applied Medical. "Say on your statements that you're willing to accept payment arrangements or Visa or MasterCard," she said.
Many practices will send out statements every 30 days as they wait to be paid, and some will persist at this for months, perhaps adding late charges during that period. AMA policy says while it discourages harsh collection practices, physicians who have had problems with patient payments may add interest or other reasonable charges to delinquent accounts.
Durner said if a practice still hasn't been paid after three statements and a phone call, it's not likely to get any money from the patient without taking more drastic action.
In this situation, some practices turn to collection agencies for help. But Hertz said that decision should be weighed carefully.
"I recommend that each practice review the patient account before it is turned over to a collection agency. Make sure there are no extenuating circumstances and really try to get an understanding before turning it over," he said.
Indeed, AMA policy encourages physicians to review accounting and collection policies to ensure that no patient's account is sent to collection without the physician's knowledge.
Although tactics such as wage garnisheeing or putting liens on patient's homes have been criticized, Hertz said it is possible to find collection agencies with less aggressive techniques.
In choosing an agency, he said practices should research the firm's techniques, check its references and determine whether it has been the subject of complaints. He said they also should consider how productive the agency has been with collections.
Morgan said some physicians might be reluctant to use collection agencies for fear of patient backlash. "Physicians may choose to not use an agency because they may be sensitive to the impact it would have on their patients," he said. Hospitals have a different, less personal relationship with patients and therefore might be more inclined to use those services, he added.
The six-physician Prescott Valley Primary and Urgent Care Clinic is a primary care practice that has used collection agencies, though not a lot. Its administrator, Krantz, said only about 3% to 5% of the practice's patients are delinquent on their bills. About 20 or 30 patient accounts are sent to a collection agency each quarter.
Krantz said the practice put controls in place to restrict the agency from using certain tactics. "They have to ask us whether we want to go past letters and phone calls. And they have to ask if we want to get an attorney involved," he said, adding that they have never yet had to go that far.
But Krantz said that long before the collection agency is brought in as a last resort, the practice has worked to collect that bill through its efforts to get payments at the time of service.
The AMA encourages physicians to review their accounting and collection policies to ensure that no patient's account is sent to collection without the physician's knowledge. The AMA also urges physicians to use compassion and discretion in sending accounts to collection, especially accounts of patients who are terminally ill, homeless, disabled or impoverished, or those with marginal access to medical care.
Although harsh or commercial collection practices are discouraged, the AMA says a physician who has pro blems with delinquent accounts can choose to ask that payment be made at the time of treatment, or add interest or other reasonable charges to delinquent accounts. Physicians who add an interest or finance charge to accounts not paid within a reasonable time are encouraged to use compassion and discretion in hardship cases.
The AMA encourages physicians who sell their practices or contract out billing services to establish a mechanism for continually reviewing the collection methods and procedures of the billing entity.


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NFL owners voiced concern about 'disastrous' Donald Trump on anthem issue, per recording
Scott Gleeson and A.J. Perez
When NFL players, owners and the commissioner met in New York last October ostensibly to talk about protests, President Trump and the controversy surrounding quarterback Colin Kaepernick, some of the owners seemed more concerned with the image of the league and the impact of criticism from the White House, according to audio of the meeting obtained by The New York Times.
The newspaper characterized the meeting as both sides talking past each other.
Philadelphia defensive lineman Chris Long said if Kaepernick were on a roster "all this negativeness and divisiveness could be turned into a positive."
And Eric Reid, a former teammate of Kaepernick's, said he felt the quarterback was being blackballed.
"I feel like he was hung out to dry," Reid said, according to the Times. "Everyone in here is talking about how much they support us. ... Nobody stepped up and said we support Colin's right to do this.
"We all let him become Public Enemy No. 1 in this country, and he still doesn't have a job."
At one point, New England owner Robert K. Kraft said he wanted to talk about, "This kneeling." And then he took a shot at Trump, whom he has supported: "The problem we have is, we have a president who will use that as fodder to do his mission that I don't feel is in the best interests of America. ... It's divisive and it's horrible."
Said Philadelphia owner Jeffrey Lurie, referencing Trump's critical tweets and comments about the NFL, "We've got to be careful not to be baited by Trump or whomever else. We have to find a way to not be divided and not get baited." Lurie called Trump's presidency "disastrous" and urged players and owners not to be "divided."
The meeting lasted three hours and concluded with a joint statement calling it "productive."
Looking back now, former NFL kicker and activist Chris Kluwe sees significance in the owners' positions.
"I'm not surprised at all," he told USA TODAY on Wednesday. "It was clearly obvious all along that the owners are just interested in making more money. That's been clear for years, whether we are talking about concussions, prescription pills or not letting a player peacefully protest."
He also does not believe Kaepernick will play again: "I don't think the owners sat around and said collectively, 'We are not going to give Kap a job.' But they are closed-minded and not brave enough to deal with the backlash if they do sign him."
On the comments of Kraft, Lurie and Long, Kluwe said: "Kraft and Lurie say they don't agree with Trump, but they had no answer when Chris Long asked why Kaepernick hasn't been signed. Their words don't match their actions. The owners' actions, in fact, show they are willing to support Trump by their silence."
Kaepernick started kneeling in 2016 as a protest against racial injustice and police brutality, Reid was the first player to kneel alongside him and, according to the Times, attended the meeting wearing a Kaepernick T-shirt.
At the time of the rather extraordinary gathering, NFL TV ratings were dropping, fans were threatening to boycott and sponsors were becoming disgruntled with the league as more than 200 players knelt during the anthem as a peaceful protest.
Bills owner Terry Pegula said the NFL was "under assault" and suggested the league needed a player spokesperson — comparable to Charlton Heston's former role with the National Rifle Association — as a way to clean up the league's image.
"For us to have a face, as an African American, at least a face that could be in the media," Pegula said, "we could fall in behind that."
Texans owner Bob McNair urged players to stop kneeling.
"You fellas need to ask your compadres, fellas, stop that other business, let's go out and do something that really produces positive results, and we'll help you," he said.
According to a person with knowledge of the meeting, neither the players nor the owners were aware they were being recorded, though it is not clear who did the taping. The person requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
Contributing: Jarrett Bell
Follow Gleeson on Twitter @ScottMGleeson, Perez @byajperez and Bell @JarrettBell


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Q: How to remove the last layer from a pre-trained model. I have tried model.layers.pop() but it is not working I am trying to remove the last layer so that I can use transfer Leaning.
vgg16_model = keras.applications.vgg16.VGG16()
model = Sequential()

for layer in vgg16_model.layers:
    model.add(layer)

model.layers.pop()

# Freeze the layers
for layer in model.layers:
    layer.trainable = False

# Add 'softmax' instead of earlier 'prediction' layer.
model.add(Dense(2, activation='softmax'))

# Check the summary, and yes new layer has been added.
model.summary()

But the output I am getting is not what I expected. It is still showing the last layer of vgg16 model.
Here is the output
    _________________________________________________________________
Layer (type)                 Output Shape              Param #
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block1_conv1 (Conv2D)        (None, 224, 224, 64)      1792
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block1_conv2 (Conv2D)        (None, 224, 224, 64)      36928

**THE HIDDEN LAYERS**
_________________________________________________________________
fc1 (Dense)                  (None, 4096)              102764544
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fc2 (Dense)                  (None, 4096)              16781312
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predictions (Dense)          (None, 1000)              4097000
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dense_10 (Dense)             (None, 2)                 2002
=================================================================
Total params: 138,359,546
Trainable params: 2,002
Non-trainable params: 138,357,544

Note- In the output I have not shown the whole model, just showed the first few layers and the last layers.
How should I remove the last layer to do transfer learning??
P.S Keras version = 2.2.4

A: Just do not add the last layer to your model in the first place. This way you won't even need pop
vgg16_model = keras.applications.vgg16.VGG16()
model = Sequential()

for layer in vgg16_model.layers[:-1]: # this is where I changed your code
    model.add(layer)

# Freeze the layers
for layer in model.layers:
    layer.trainable = False

# Add 'softmax' instead of earlier 'prediction' layer.
model.add(Dense(2, activation='softmax'))

A: Alternatively to markuscosinus answer, you can take the output before the prediction layer and pass it through your own prediction layer. You can do it as follows:
for layer in vgg16_model.layers:
    layer.trainable = False
last_layer = vgg16_model.get_layer('fc2').output
out = Flatten()(last_layer)
out = Dense(128, activation='relu', name='fc3')(out)
out = Dropout(0.5)(out)
out = Dense(n_classes, activation='softmax', name='prediction')(out)
vgg16_custom_model = Model(input=vgg16_model.input, output=out)

I suggest you to add  a Flatten and another Dense layer before your softmax because the last one "fc2" have 4096 nodes and it's hard to change it to 2.
And of course, dropout before the prediction will give you better resoults.

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Music program students set to debut new band
Sacred Sound performs at the Totah Theater as the culmination of Delbert Anderson's seven-week Native American Music Program at San Juan College
Mike Easterling
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Local jazz musician Delbert Anderson oversaw the group's creation through his new music program.
The newly formed band has eight members -- five musicians and three off-stage contributors.
FARMINGTON — When local jazz artist Delbert Anderson got his new Native American Music Program started in June at San Juan College, he had some relatively modest goals in mind — teach some aspiring local musicians a few of the ins and outs of the business, and see if any of what he imparted took root with his students and contributed to the growth of the local scene.
A couple of months later, he's starting to see his efforts bear fruit.
On Saturday, Aug. 6 at the Totah Theater in downtown Farmington, the band Sacred Sound will make its debut, performing a set of original tunes in the contemporary/fusion genre that its members learned during their two months of studying under Anderson. The group is made up of five members — Cameron Abeyta on trombone, Sydney Chapman on trumpet, Alexandria Holiday on vocals, Dayton Singer on drums and Cobren Sells on piano — while three other students in the program serve in an off-stage capacity. Natalia Sparks and Jarid Slim are stage assistants, and Rachelle Anderson is the band's manager.
"We were forming a band from scratch," Delbert Anderson said of the experience, noting the program was open to nonmusicians who wanted to play a supporting role for the group. "So we had to go through all the nitty-gritty of finding out who's reliable. But it's been great. It's totally been worth it. All the problems we've run into as a band have been very similar to what happens in the real world when you're forming a band."
By the time the group first got together in early June, Anderson already had a good idea of what kind of ground he wanted to cover. His program would address such subjects as professional manner and skills, the fundamentals of creating a successful band, improvisation, the music business, booking and promoting, music education, music performance, and fundraising.
The most important message very well may have been the first item on that list. If nothing else, Anderson — who fronts his own highly successful jazz group, the Delbert Anderson Trio, which has toured from coast to coast, and made several national media appearances — was intent on teaching his students, who range in age from 17 to 23, how to look and act like a pro.
So, on the first day of class, he made all of them sign a contract that outlined what was expected of them and what they would receive in return.
"The idea was to keep everything professional and give them a professional experience," he said. "The whole point of the program was to educate them. I wanted to teach them music education and music performance, but I also wanted to reach them the music business."
With that in mind, Anderson put his students through a crash course in how to build and maintain a successful band. The group chose a name, identified what kind of music it wanted to play, what kind of image it wanted to convey, had publicity photos taken, selected a concert date, reached out to local venues in search of a booking, compiled and learned a set list, identified its goals and rehearsed extensively.
It also created Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter accounts to promote itself. The program took place from 6 to 8 p.m. each Tuesday in a classroom at SJC over the course of seven weeks.
It also heard from three other people in the music business in the Four Corners who were able to provide them with further insight into the realities of the business. Levi Platero, the front man for the blues-rock group the Levi Platero Band, spoke to the group one night about improvising and stage presence, while Nicholas Lucero addressed playing together as a group and making the experience fun. Local studio owner Brian NezBegay covered the subject of recording a demo.
Anderson said the group had one advantage in that all the players already had a good music education, so Sacred Sound was not starting from scratch. And the performers were experienced at playing a variety of instruments.
"I was very lucky," he said, laughing. "I was a little worried I would get nothing but drummers, but I didn't."
Anderson said the best part of the experience was watching the group jell as the weeks went by.
"I think they really liked it," he said of the camaraderie that developed. "I got them to help each other out. Only one or two of them were friends with each other when we started. Now, they're all on one page, and they've worked really hard."
The students did have a few curveballs thrown at them. Anderson said the biggest one came halfway through the program when one of the students had a conflict and had to bow out of the band.
"Everyone didn't know what to do," he said. "But I'm kind of glad it happened because those things happen in real life."
Anderson was so pleased with how the program went this summer that he plans on doing it again next year — hopefully, on a higher level. He kept careful notes and compiled data from this year's program with an eye toward submitting an application for a $25,000 grant from the Native Arts and Culture Foundation — a Vancouver, Wash.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian arts and cultures.
Participation in the program was free, and Anderson limited it to Native students because he already envisioned pursuing grant money from an organization like the NACF. He would like to start the program earlier next year and deepen the experience, but those plans depend on how much funding he is able to attract, he said.
"My goal is to plant these seeds," Anderson said. "I allow them to go out and make more music. We want to create a new band every year. Who knows? Maybe one of these bands will get some traction and do some really great things."
In the meantime, Anderson is delighted with how the members of Sacred Sound have responded to the program. He said the group already has indicated it plans on staying together, with an eye toward going on tour in the long run.
Naturally, everyone is looking forward to this weekend's debut performance.
"There's been a lot of work involved, but I think these guys can do it," he said. "Actually, they're fairly good musicians."
This is no mere recital the group has planned, Anderson noted. Sacred Sound will be playing in a professional venue and charging admission, and the band has been promoting the show heavily in hopes of drawing enough music fans to make a little money.
Of course, Anderson continues to remind the members of the group that they must maintain a professional approach — in other words, no rock divas allowed.
"You have to be on time," he said, laughing. "If not, your pay will be docked."
Mike Easterling is the A&E editor of The Daily Times. He can be reached at 505-564-4610.
What: Sacred Sound concert
When: 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6
Where: The Totah Theater, 315 W. Main St. in Farmington
Admission: $5 at the door. Children 12 and younger free.


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The Wardle Academy's Drama and Music departments team up each year for the annual school production and since this began, each production has been hugely successful.
The hard work and dedication of both staff and students in these large projects are commendable and each year continues to see new performing arts challenges beaten. Recent productions include; Grease, We Will Rock You, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Grinch Christmas musical Les Miserables, The Sound of Music, School of Rock and High School Musical.
Are you interested in Performing or Sound & Lighting? Our Drama department are starting two new clubs (more information below). These clubs will start after February half term. If you are interested please see Mr Brown in Drama.
We Will Rock You 1st, 2nd & 3rd of March.


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Our client is launching a new company, TCG Eco Guides (TCG is just an acronym for their existing company). TCG Eco Guides (who we will call TCG from from now because I'm lazy) is a group of biologists, naturalists, and other scientists who develop interactive printed guidebooks for housing developments, city parks, nature trails and the like.
Their guide books (officially called "Interpretive Guides") are designed to be carried as you hike along the trails, telling you about what you see or might see on your hike. Their books are quite professional and they provide details about the history of the trail and area, what kind of trees and plants you'll find, what kind of animals you may see or be eaten by while you're out there, and more.
TCG also provides trail design services for nature trails, hiking trails, city parks and such.
TCG's tag line is, "Every place has a story...let us tell yours."
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(2) Municipalities who are developing new parks and trails.
We'd like to see designs that communicate to the viewer, at the very first glance, an "outdoorsy" feel. This can be done through the use of graphics, colors, and/or layout (meaning, there's no need to put a tree into your design if you can accomplish the outdoorsy feel using just colors -- but trees are okay, too, if that's what pops into your head). The main reason we hold design contests is because you guys always come up with ideas we haven't thought of, and we love it!
The colors of the design should integrate well with their existing logo, which you can find at http://74.52.167.35/~tcgecog/Final%…0pixel.png (sorry, I don't have a vector version of the logo).
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Menu items should be: Home, Interactive Guides, Trail Planning & Design, Inventories, Links.
You can shorten the menu labels, if necessary. Ideally, your design should allow us to add more menu items in the future as the site grows.
Final file format should be layered png or psd files.


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package ec2

import (
	"context"

	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/awsutil"
)

type StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationInput struct {
	_ struct{} `type:"structure"`

	// Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without
	// actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have
	// the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise,
	// it is UnauthorizedOperation.
	DryRun *bool `type:"boolean"`

	// The ID of the endpoint service.
	//
	// ServiceId is a required field
	ServiceId *string `type:"string" required:"true"`
}

// String returns the string representation
func (s StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationInput) String() string {
	return awsutil.Prettify(s)
}

// Validate inspects the fields of the type to determine if they are valid.
func (s *StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationInput) Validate() error {
	invalidParams := aws.ErrInvalidParams{Context: "StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationInput"}

	if s.ServiceId == nil {
		invalidParams.Add(aws.NewErrParamRequired("ServiceId"))
	}

	if invalidParams.Len() > 0 {
		return invalidParams
	}
	return nil
}

type StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationOutput struct {
	_ struct{} `type:"structure"`

	// Returns true if the request succeeds; otherwise, it returns an error.
	ReturnValue *bool `locationName:"return" type:"boolean"`
}

// String returns the string representation
func (s StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationOutput) String() string {
	return awsutil.Prettify(s)
}

const opStartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerification = "StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerification"

// StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest returns a request value for making API operation for
// Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
//
// Initiates the verification process to prove that the service provider owns
// the private DNS name domain for the endpoint service.
//
// The service provider must successfully perform the verification before the
// consumer can use the name to access the service.
//
// Before the service provider runs this command, they must add a record to
// the DNS server. For more information, see Adding a TXT Record to Your Domain's
// DNS Server (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/ndpoint-services-dns-validation.html#add-dns-txt-record)
// in the Amazon VPC User Guide.
//
//    // Example sending a request using StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest.
//    req := client.StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest(params)
//    resp, err := req.Send(context.TODO())
//    if err == nil {
//        fmt.Println(resp)
//    }
//
// Please also see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/WebAPI/ec2-2016-11-15/StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerification
func (c *Client) StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest(input *StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationInput) StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest {
	op := &aws.Operation{
		Name:       opStartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerification,
		HTTPMethod: "POST",
		HTTPPath:   "/",
	}

	if input == nil {
		input = &StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationInput{}
	}

	req := c.newRequest(op, input, &StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationOutput{})

	return StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest{Request: req, Input: input, Copy: c.StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest}
}

// StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest is the request type for the
// StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerification API operation.
type StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest struct {
	*aws.Request
	Input *StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationInput
	Copy  func(*StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationInput) StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest
}

// Send marshals and sends the StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerification API request.
func (r StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationRequest) Send(ctx context.Context) (*StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationResponse, error) {
	r.Request.SetContext(ctx)
	err := r.Request.Send()
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	resp := &StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationResponse{
		StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationOutput: r.Request.Data.(*StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationOutput),
		response: &aws.Response{Request: r.Request},
	}

	return resp, nil
}

// StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationResponse is the response type for the
// StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerification API operation.
type StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationResponse struct {
	*StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationOutput

	response *aws.Response
}

// SDKResponseMetdata returns the response metadata for the
// StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerification request.
func (r *StartVpcEndpointServicePrivateDnsVerificationResponse) SDKResponseMetdata() *aws.Response {
	return r.response
}

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Intersection types were introduced near the end of the 1970s to overcome the limitations of Curry's type assignment system and to provide a characterization of the strongly normalizing terms of the λ-calculus. The key idea is to introduce an intersection type constructor ⋀ such that a term of type σ ⋀ τ can be used with both type σ and τ within the same context. This provides a finite polymorphism where various, even unrelated, types of the term are listed explicitly, differently than the more widely used universally quantified types where the polymorphic type is the common schema which stands for its various type instances. As a consequence, more terms (all and only the normalizing terms) can be typed than with universal polymorphism.
Intersection types have been one of the first examples of behavioural type theory: they provide an abstract specification of computational properties, by expressing a finer and more precise input/output relation than standard, commonly used, type systems can do. In fact also other relevant classes of terms, like weakly normalising terms and terms having a head-normal form, can be characterised via intersection types by adding a universal type ω; further by adding subtyping it is possible to describe models in the category of algebraic lattices, and systems where term denotations coincide with the sets of their types.
Although intersection types were initially intended for use in analysing and/or synthesizing λ-models as well as in analysing normalization properties, over the last twenty years the scope of the research on intersection types and related systems has broadened in many directions. Restricted (and more manageable) forms have been investigated, such as refinement types. Type systems based on intersection type theory have been extensively studied for practical purposes, such as program analysis and synthesis. The dual notion of union types turned out to be quite useful for programming languages. Finally, the behavioural approach to types, which can give a static specification of computational properties, has become central in the most recent research on type theory.


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Youth Work and Community Development MA/PG Dip
Created for graduates and practitioners, this professionally validated programme in Youth Work and Community Development allows you to work as a registered youth practitioner in the UK.
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This programme is recognised by the JNC.
Designed for graduates or existing practitioners, this course helps you to gain extensive knowledge of working with young people and community groups alongside providing professional qualifications to practise as a youth and community development worker in the UK.
Professionally validated by the National Youth Agency and the Endorsement and Quality Standards Board for Community Development Learning, this course will help you master skills to support young people and communities and handle the complexities of social justice. Our programme is ideal if you'd like to pursue a career in areas such as education, sexual health, housing and homelessness, and mental health.
Benefit from inter-professional learning, with the course attracting professionals from a variety of settings including youth work, parenting education, children's centres, sexual health, drug abuse, housing and homelessness, youth offending, mental health, community development and domestic violence.
On this programme you'll explore the theory and practice of a range of topics including community development, anti-oppressive practice, and health and social research methods. You'll also develop your practical and professional skills by putting theory in to practice with dedicated work placement modules and a range of specialist option modules which have been specifically designed for staff in local authorities, the NHS, voluntary, third sector and non-governmental organisations, ensuring your learning is relevant to current practice.
Professional validation by the National Youth Agency and recognition by the Joint Negotiating Committee ensures the content you study is continually relevant to industry and the current developments and challenges within the sector.
Our programme is the only youth work and community development postgraduate distance learning programme in England to have dual professional recognition.
By choosing this course, you have the opportunity to study part-time or full-time alongside your work commitments, mainly through distance learning.
Achieve planned change and enhance your employment opportunities with modules specifically designed for staff in local authorities, the NHS (non-clinical roles), voluntary, third sector and non-governmental organisations; ensuring your learning is relevant to current practice.
You can benefit from our expert teaching, with more than 55 years' professional training to draw upon as well as first-hand experience of the field. Our teaching is informed by our diverse team of skilled tutors, with many of our academics actively engaged in professional practice, research and consultancy.
Graduates from this course have gone on to pursue a wide range of careers in youth work and health and community development in the statutory and voluntary sectors.
"The course has given me a much better understanding of the historical and theoretical background to my profession. The alternative placement was a huge step forward in my professional development. My placement tutor was extremely helpful and pushed me in areas I would have otherwise overlooked."
Oliver Thorp, Youth Work, Health and Community Development MA
At DMU, we are committed to helping our graduates enhance their careers and personal development through further study.
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Find out more about the DMU Sports Scholarships worth up to £6,000.
More courses like this:
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UK/EU
Key facts for UK/EU students
Institution code: D26
Duration:Two years part-time via distance learning
One year full-time (via distance learning)
Attendance: Two teaching block weeks on campus each year in early September and late January are compulsory. There is a seven hour teaching commitment each day of the block weeks. Some optional modules are launched over weekends. The dissertation launch day is also compulsory.
Start date: September 2021 for full-time and part-time, offers the professional qualification and practice hours.
Location of study: Distance learning, with occasional attendance at De Montfort University
Fees and funding: For 2020/21 full-time and part-time tuition fees will be £6,930.
Find out more about postgraduate course fees and available funding.
Find out more about the Vice-Chancellor's Sports Scholarships worth up to £6,000.
Find out more about additional costs and optional extras associated with this course.
Please visit dmu.ac.uk/international for more information or call us on +44 (0)116 2 50 60 70.
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You need to demonstrate that you can work at master's level which can be achieved through having a first degree, normally 2:2 or above, or by having a range of academic and work experience
Applications from individuals with no formal academic qualifications but extensive practical experience will be considered on an individual basis
You may be required to undertake pre-registration modules before starting or completing an agreed portfolio of learning in the form of a 2,000 - 2,500 word pre-course assignment, determined at application or interview stage
You must be engaged in at least 12 hours of appropriate work, paid or unpaid, per week
You should also normally have:
A commitment to anti-oppressive practice
Relevant and significant youth and community development work experience
Proven ability to reflect on practice, critically examine concepts of informal education and justice, awareness of social welfare needs in a youth and community development context
You will need to attend an interview – telephone interviews can be arranged if needed
You must complete a declaration form and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check (formally CRB) and criminal record certificate (from your home country), before starting the course, which need to be cleared in accordance with DMU's admission policy.
If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent when you start the course is essential. English language tuition, delivered by our British Council accredited Centre for English Language Learning (CELL), is available both before and during the course.
Please visit dmu.ac.uk/international for more information.
Academic expertise
This course consists of five core modules, one core field placement module, and one option module. Opportunities exist to exit with a PG Dip, gaining the professional qualification at this stage, or complete the dissertation for a full MA.
Theory and Practice of Youth Work - introduces key concepts in youth and community development work: political (policy), sociological, philosophical, historical and psychological (core for Youth Work and Community Development course only)
Theory and Practice of Community Development - focuses on community development and introduces key concepts in relation to practice, policy and the national occupation standards
Anti-oppressive Practice - analyses concepts of oppression, discrimination and inequality and develops effective anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory practice
Health and Social Research Methods - introduces strategies and methods of social science research commonly used in social and healthcare settings
Field Practice - is practice - based (150 hours) and provides you with the opportunity to further develop your experience and understanding of the role of the informal educator at JNC professional range in an adult and community work setting different to your usual workplace, where you will undertake 500 hours mainly with young people
Management of Services and People - increases self-confidence and performance as a manager of people and projects within a youth work and community development environment
Plus choose one module from a range of specialist modules, depending on your specific career interests:
Contemporary Social Issues
Global Issues in Youth and Community Development
Managing Race and Diversity
The Negotiated Module - allows you to formulate, present and implement an individual proposal in an area of professional relevance and interest
Please contact us for option module descriptions and further information.
Dissertation - students wishing to achieve a master's will choose a youth and community development related topic identified in discussion with academic staff
All core modules and most optional modules are launched during one of two block teaching weeks held each year (usually in October and January). Attendance at launch days is compulsory. These are supported by a wide variety of written material, individual and organisational tasks.
You are required to engage in a number of online seminars in each module, and you are required to identify a supervisor who will primarily support your field practice, but may also provide a dialogue partner to discuss wider issues arising from the course. You will complete a minimum of 600 hours of field practice, of which 450 hours will be based in your own workplace, paid or voluntary, and 150 hours must be outside of your employing agency.
Through flexible distance learning, you will engage in a supportive learning community.
Assessment is usually by written assignment of 4,000 words per 15-credit module. Field practice assessment requires written evidence, assignments and reports of competence from the supervisor.
Teaching contact hours
This course is taught via distance learning. Compulsory attendance, when there are direct contact hours with staff, is for two block teaching weeks per year when teaching is timetabled for seven hours each day, and when the dissertation is launched.
Following each block week tutors teach via module guides and their integral activities, directed reading, e-seminars or on line action learning sets. Typically this means there is weekly tutor contact via written interventions in the seminars and oral interventions in the sets which are normally for student groups of between six and sixteen students. Personal tutorials and dissertation supervision are either conducted by telephone, or face to face for students studying full time and based in or near Leicester.
Contact hours per week depend on the teaching method used, whether students are studying full or part time and which modules they are studying. The majority of the learning is via personal study – typically six to eight hours studying and revising in your own time each week for part time students (more for full time students), including substantial guided study using module guides, directed readings, online activities, etc. Each student is assigned a practice tutor who will monitor their practice development and meet via telephone or skype at least four times with the student and supervisor over the duration of their assessed practice.
The department is home to the National Youth Work Collection and has one of the largest teams in the UK. In the past six years, the authors in the division have published nine books and a range of papers. Staff work with a range of organisations that work with young people and communities including charities, voluntary and statutory agencies at local, national and international levels.
Thematic areas of interest include:
A specialist expertise and interest in global youth and community development work (resulting in numerous conferences and publications by Dr Momodou Sallah, a leading expert in this area, who has also been recently awarded The Times Higher Education Most Innovative Teacher of the Year
Work with black young people (again, resulting in key conferences and texts by Dr Carlton Howson and Dr Momodou Sallah)
Youth participation and citizenship
Anti-oppressive practice (Dr Jagdish Chouhan)
Hospital and other health-related youth work (Dr Scott Yates)
The context, management and operation of children and young people's services (Mary Tyler)
Health and Life Sciences facilities
Substantial investment has developed our teaching and learning facilities to help you expand your practical experience and theoretical knowledge beyond the classroom.
The 19th century Hawthorn Building has facilities designed to replicate current practice in health and life sciences, including contemporary analytical chemistry and formulation laboratories, audiology booths and nursing and midwifery clinical skills suites.
Purpose-built clinical skills areas allow you to practice in a safe environment. You will receive guidance and support from staff to ensure that you develop a precise and accurate practical ability in the clinical skills suites.
On campus, the main Kimberlin Library offers a space where you can work, study and access a vast range of print materials, with computer stations, laptops, plasma screens and assistive technology also available.
As well as providing a physical space in which to work, we offer online tools to support your studies, and our extensive online collection of resources accessible from our Library website, e-books, specialised databases and electronic journals and films which can be remotely accessed from anywhere you choose.
We will support you to confidently use a huge range of learning technologies, including Blackboard, Collaborate Ultra, DMU Replay, MS Teams, Turnitin and more. Alongside this, you can access LinkedIn Learning and learn how to use Microsoft 365, and study support software such as mind mapping and note-taking through our new Digital Student Skills Hub.
The library staff offer additional support to students, including help with academic writing, research strategies, literature searching, reference management and assistive technology. There is also a 'Just Ask' service for help and advice, live LibChat, online workshops, tutorials and drop-ins available from our Learning Services, and weekly library live chat sessions that give you the chance to ask the library teams for help.
Our Learning Zones and The Greenhouse also provide space for group or individual work and study.
There are 1,600 study places across all library locations, more than 700 computer stations, laptops to borrow, free wi-fi and desktop power outlets.
You can also book rooms with plasma screens, laptops and DVD facilities for group work and presentations, secure an individual study room with adjustable lighting or make use of our assistive technology.
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Students are required to complete 600 hours of assessed practice whilst working with a supervisor approved by the University. For most students 450 of these hours are completed in their usual place of work (paid or otherwise) ideally over a period of approximately seven months, followed by a 150 hours Alternative Practice.
The 150 hours are completed in a contrasting work setting over a period of approximately six months, Full time students will be offered help to identify a suitable placement for both practices if required, and help is available for part time students to identify an alternative practice although most students prefer to find somewhere suitable themselves.
All placements and supervisors need to be approved by the University and help is available to identify a suitable supervisor if required. It is always important for the University to ensure that students will be able to undertake work in their placements that enables them to provide suitable evidence of their competence in the Practice Standards.
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Graduates go into a wide range of senior posts in youth work and community development work and in other related health and educational services in both the public and voluntary sector, all over the world.
An MA is a recommended qualification for workers who want to hold senior positions.
DMU Open Evenings
The perfect way to find out more about DMU is to attend one of our postgraduate open events.
Here, you can speak with course academics and current students, discuss fees, learn about your career prospects and tour the campus.
Our prospectus will give you a clearer idea of what it's like to live and study at DMU and a snapshot of the courses we offer.
We welcome applications from students with a wide range of qualifications and experience.
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Research at DMU
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If you've completed an undergraduate degree at DMU, then you can benefit from a tuition fee discount of up to 50 per cent on our postgraduate courses. The discount is available on selected full-time, part-time and distance learning postgraduate courses running across multiple start dates.
The discount, based on academic achievement and merit, applies automatically to all DMU UK and EU students who are graduating this year or have graduated within the past two years and achieved a 2:1 (or equivalent) or above. Learn more here.
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The Institute for Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justiceis dedicated to the production of social science research in the fields of criminology, community and social justice. It is primarily based in the School of Applied Social Sciences and its members carry out research on policing, probation, prisons, education and schools, youth work and social work. One of the institute's central goals is the development of excellent practice-based research, which is informed and underpinned by contemporary social science theory and innovative approaches to methodology.
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The best way to find out more about DMU is to attend one of our postgraduate events. You can also check out our postgraduate live stream schedule for programme-specific talks to find out how our courses can enhance your knowledge and benefit your career path.
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Back to the video. The first time I watched this I didn't know what was coming, wasn't sure if it was real or not until about 2 minutes in, and then I caught on to the pattern. The third and fifth faceballs are all time classics. I absolutely love the moment he is curled up in the corner on kick #3 and he slowly peeks over his shoulder. The shot in the chair on the 4th PK is very very creative "he literally just has to kick it anywhere, but where Sterling is sitting." Although the 5th and final shot where the camera has to pan to him crawling away from the goal is amazing. At this point I am thinking, how can they possibly make this one hit his face? Then beautifully crafted, right off the crossbar into his face as he looks back, genius.
This video is comedic gold from Studio C and I am impressed they got this done honestly because the rest of their youtube videos are not at this level. Someone in that crew definitely knows their soccer and parodied that penalty shootout to perfection and on that alone they have gained my respect. They have since added a couple follow up Sterling videos "Sterling Breaking News Update" and "Scott Sterling Gets a Christmas Present" and there is Scott Sterling 2 Volleyball video on the way! They even have a Scott Sterling Jersey you can buy from teespring which shows Studio C is capitalizing on those 36 million views on youtube. It is a great video though and every soccer player in NJ should know the legend of Mr. Sterling so please pass on the link as much as possible. I will leave you with a few of my favorite quotes below from those suspect olde english accented commentators.
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) rapidly emerged as a model system for plant biology due to the ease of genetic approaches to study development, physiology, and gene function coupled with a highly collaborative community. Arabidopsis's position as the premiere model plant system was cemented in the early 1990s when the EST project commenced at Michigan State University (Newman et al., 1994). This was the first such effort in plants and it seeded production of large-scale sequence and functional genomics resources for Arabidopsis that to this day are unmatched in any other plant species. While the EST project propelled Arabidopsis research into the genomics era, it was the foresight of leaders in the plant biology community to "...identify all of the genes by any means, and to determine the complete sequence of the Arabidopsis genome before the year 2000" (http://www.arabidopsis.org/portals/masc/Long_range_plan_1990.pdf). The resulting coordinated international genome sequence effort, the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative, laid the foundations for transition of Arabidopsis from a genetic to a genomic model system. This culminated in the publication of the high-quality genome sequence of the Columbia (Col-0) accession (Arabidopsis Genome Initiative, 2000). While there are gaps in highly repetitive low-complexity regions of what is now termed the reference genome, the quality of the Col-0 genome sequence is, and for the foreseeable future will remain, the highest quality plant genome sequence. When coupled with its manually curated annotation, the sequence data makes Arabidopsis the gold standard for all plant genomes.
Starting in 1998, Cereon Genomics LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Monsanto Co.) produced a low-depth shotgun sequence of the Landsberg erecta genome using Sanger sequencing technology (Jander et al., 2002), providing an early look at the genes of a flowering plant. For the community, access to both the Col-0 and Landsberg erecta genome sequences revealed an unprecedented number of polymorphisms between these landraces, enabling more than 100 published map-based cloning studies. To our knowledge, it also provided the community with the first example of how high-throughput sequencing of an accession or cultivar related to a high-quality reference sequence makes the initial sequence even more valuable (Rounsley and Last, 2010).
Next-generation sequencing technologies permit high-throughput sequencing at greatly reduced costs and sequencing of accessions is now feasible at an enormous scale. The plan to analyze genome-wide sequence variation in 1,001 accessions of Arabidopsis (Weigel and Mott, 2009) is well under way with nearly 100 completed genomes as of early 2010 (http://www.1001genomes.org/). This pioneering effort will result in a deep understanding of genetic variability within a species and permit analysis of genome evolution and population biology. This illustrates how Arabidopsis research continues to be at the forefront of defining approaches that will revolutionize our understanding of economically important plant processes and plant species.
Gene expression states are affected by DNA and chromatin protein modification. While standard genome DNA sequence alone cannot directly report these decorations, these epigenetic states can be assessed at the single nucleotide level using next-generation sequencing approaches, and descriptive studies on the Arabidopsis epigenome are emerging (Lister et al., 2008). This information enables studies of biological problems that are unique to plants such as epigenetic imprinting in the triploid endosperm and the diploid embryo of the seed. Examination of methylation states revealed imprinting arose through targeted methylation of genic regions due to nearby transposable element insertion (Gehring et al., 2009). While the Arabidopsis genome has relatively few transposable elements, other genomes such as maize (Zea mays) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) have large numbers of these and other repetitive sequences and it will be fascinating to examine the molecular details of imprinting in these agronomic species.
The high-quality Col-0 ecotype genome sequence revolutionized the study of nearly all areas of basic and applied plant science. Suddenly experimentalists no longer needed to clone and sequence genes and wonder whether there were uncharacterized structurally related genes undiscovered elsewhere in the genome. Evolutionary biologists began to peer back in evolutionary time to observe remnants of ancient genome duplications (Vision et al., 2000; Bowers et al., 2003) and deduce acquisition of new functions or gene loss over evolutionary time (Blanc and Wolfe, 2004). Extreme examples include enormous gene families such as disease resistance R genes and metabolic enzymes genes such as cytochromes P450.
The sequence had a tsunami-strength ripple effect on the study of gene function, enabling production of a variety of very useful reagents for studying large parts of the transcriptome and proteome. For example, the AtGenExpress (http://www.weigelworld.org/resources/microarray/AtGenExpress) resource includes a large set of transcript profiling experiments from many Arabidopsis tissue types and treatments using a single gene expression platform, the ATH1 Affymetrix GeneChip (Redman et al., 2004). This and other large mRNA expression datasets led to the development of a series of user friendly and powerful analysis tools such as Genevestigator and the Botanical Array Resource (see Lu and Last, 2008 for information on these and other Arabidopsis functional genomics resources). These resources allow plant biologists to look at developmental or stress-regulated expression of specific genes and larger scale regulatory networks.
Sequence-indexed insertional mutants are available for most protein coding genes of Arabidopsis, and these are arguably the most widely useful reverse genetics tools to emerge from the completed Col-0 genome sequence (Sessions et al., 2002; Alonso et al., 2003; O'Malley and Ecker, 2010). There are hundreds of thousands of T-DNA and transposon mutants with flanking DNA sequence data, including tens of thousands of homozygous lines. These can be ordered from the international seed stock centers (Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center and Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre), and once their genotype is verified, the lines can be used to assess phenotypes associated with a few or thousands of mutants (Ajjawi et al., 2010).
Forward genetics continues to be among the most useful approaches to dissect complex biological processes and gene function annotation. Despite innovations in mutant screening, marker discovery, and genotyping, map-based cloning continues to be relatively slow and expensive, even in Arabidopsis. The ability to sequence and assemble genomes at low cost is changing the way that forward genetics is being done, and there is an increased interest in whole genome association mapping as an approach to identify alleles that influence a wide variety of phenotypes. Discovery of genes from mutagenesis screening is also becoming streamlined and the long-awaited genetic mapping by sequencing the whole genome of a mutant is becoming a reality (Schneeberger et al., 2009).
These and other genomics approaches as well as data and hypotheses established in Arabidopsis were quickly embraced by plant scientists working in economically important plants. Analysis of evolutionary conservation of coding sequences (Wu et al., 2006) has been hugely useful to the research and crop genetics communities. The broadly applicable reverse genetics tools TILLING (McCallum et al., 2000) and ecotilling (Comai et al., 2004) were developed in Arabidopsis using the Col-0 sequence and have been widely deployed in many species of plants and animals (for recent examples, see Minoia et al., 2010 and Stephenson et al., 2010). Given the cost and technical challenges associated with transgenic crop improvement, TILLING holds great promise for improvement of other commercially important plants.
An independent measure of the pervasive impact of the Arabidopsis genome project on applied plant science is seen by the extensive adoption of the weed in corporate research and development portfolios. Starting in the late 1990s, large functional genomics programs were developed in the private sector ranging from startups such as Paradigm Genetics (Boyes et al., 2001), Mendel Biotechnology (Riechmann et al., 2000), and Ceres (Haas et al., 2002) to large Ag-Biotech companies including BASF (Trethewey, 2001), Monsanto (Jander et al., 2003; Valentin et al., 2006), and Syngenta (Sessions et al., 2002). These companies developed and incorporated Arabidopsis genomics technologies through internal research and collaborations. By providing access to the Col-0 DNA sequence, the nonprofit research community received invaluable information on DNA polymorphisms, full-length cDNA sequences, and sequence-indexed T-DNA insertion mutants from these companies.
The value of access to the Arabidopsis genome sequence and downstream functional genomics resource was readily apparent to the greater plant community and genome sequencing, along with resequencing, epigenetics, and functional genomics, was adapted rapidly in a number of other species. Following Arabidopsis, the rice (Oryza sativa) genome was sequenced, and as of Spring 2010, genome sequences are publicly available for nearly two dozen plant species. Given the innovations in sequencing technologies and shotgun sequence assembly algorithms, we can expect similar large-scale whole genome sequencing initiatives in many more species of agronomic, evolutionary, and ecological importance within 5 to 10 years. However, it is important to note that creation of gold standard reference genomes like Arabidopsis is still very expensive. As a result, few plant species have, or will likely achieve, this level of quality in the near future. Currently, rice has a high-quality reference genome (The International Rice Genome Sequencing Project, 2005) and curated genome annotation (Ouyang et al., 2007). In contrast, all other plant genome sequences exist primarily as uncurated draft genome sequences with inherent errors in the sequence, assembly, and annotation.
Small genome size and simple transformation methods were among the attributes central to Arabidopsis being chosen by the community to be the first plant genome sequenced and for creation of the most advanced set of functional resources. However, the rapid increase in numbers of crop species and other small-sized genome species with genome sequences leads to the question of whether Arabidopsis will continue to play such a dominant role in plant genomics. Arabidopsis will certainly dominate the plant genomics field in the near term due to the ease of method development and hypothesis testing. Indeed, the assessment of population diversity in plants was initiated in Arabidopsis first using single feature polymorphism detection, hybridization-based resequencing, and now with the 1,001 genomes project. All of these were then applied to other species.
However, Arabidopsis will not always be the first or most desirable organism for tool development or basic genomics research. In fact, other clades such as the Poaceae have played leading roles in comparative plant genomics, where genome sequences are available from four species. Another example is the increasing ability to employ versatile genetic materials and genomics information in crop species research thanks to the diversity of germplasm, including breeding lines. For example, in maize, diversity panels and a set of nested association mapping lines were developed prior to availability of the genome sequence and are enabling study of topics as diverse as domestication mechanisms (Tian et al., 2009) and genetic variation that influences grain nutritional quality (Yan et al., 2010).
The open and collaborative nature of the Arabidopsis community, along with the high value placed by scientists and international funding agencies on creation and sharing of resources, is an often overlooked key to the success of Arabidopsis research. Publically available resources abound, including stock centers for depositing, archiving, and retrieving germplasm, and molecular clone resources that are unsurpassed in plants. In conjunction with the high-quality genome sequence and annotation, Arabidopsis will certainly be a centerpiece in all future plant research. Indeed, the transitive nature of automated annotation methods in which functional annotation is inferred electronically from sequence similarity are the primary, if not sole mechanisms, of functional annotation in genome projects, highlights why continuing to characterize gene function in Arabidopsis will be critical to all plant systems.
IS THE PLANT SCIENCES PIPELINE FROM INNOVATION TO APPLICATION AT RISK?
An important sign of a healthy international research and development environment is innovation and excellence at all stages of the pipeline, from cutting edge research on the most fundamental processes to delivery of economic value to society. One reason why curiosity-driven research is so critical to long-term technology advancement is that it is impossible to accurately predict where the next transformative discoveries will be made. For instance, the recombinant DNA revolution has its roots in fundamental research in bacterial and phage genetics and much of our current understanding of vertebrate development was spawned by work on developmental genetics in the fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). Similarly unpredictable roads led to key innovations in plants, including crop plant transformation (Shah et al., 1986) from studies of the tumor-forming soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Van Larebeke et al., 1975; Chilton et al., 1977), and unexpected results from engineering petunia (Petunia hybrida) flower color (Napoli et al., 1990) led to a revolution in our understanding of how small noncoding RNAs influence eukaryotic gene expression.
Funding opportunities for translational plant sciences are increasing while basic model-organism research diminishes, putting the future of plant research at risk. A consensus is emerging among many plant biologists that the current government funding programs have decreasing room for research on fundamental biological processes in crop or model plants. As exemplified in this article, Arabidopsis continues to have a key role in understanding plant biology in all species. It is imperative that all funding agencies continue to financially support that cutting edge in Arabidopsis and other reference and model organisms to the maximal extent that befits their individual missions. The research community must continually educate policy makers about the importance of all aspects of plant biology, from eureka moments to the farm gate.