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CPS Prime: Door to Door Every 48 or 24
CPS finds new ways of getting valuable educational materials to students despite distanced learning.
Avery Dixon|September 30, 2020
Lisa Chalupney & Mike Hayes prep first thing in the morning for the start of their delivery day.
As the Coronavirus pandemic runs its course through the world, many businesses, workplaces, and organizations have had to adapt to social distancing, limits on occupancy, and mask-wearing. One of the most greatly affected areas has been schools. As all of Columbia Public Schools have been online for the beginning of the school year, getting students the materials they need has been a new challenge for teachers and families. Enter the new CPS Prime Delivery Service. This effort has been started by Dr. Tony Gragnani, EDD, and Dr. Eryca Neville, PhD. Dr. Gragnani is the principal at Hickman High School and Dr. Neville is the principal at Douglass High School. When asked to explain the need the service will meet, Dr. Neville said: "We have materials that have not been picked up. Academic materials necessary to support learning that are still sitting in our building and families whose situations are too complicated to get to pick them up for whatever reason. Our hope is that we want education to continue, so we wanted to figure out a way that we could help get those materials into the hands of our students."
As Dr. Gragnani explained the process of the service, he used the example of a photography student needing a camera. The student would request the camera through their teacher and the teacher would fill out a form. The teacher would then take the form and the camera down to the office where it would be put on a table. When the delivery service came through they could pick it up and load it for delivery. Dr. Neville jokingly calls this "Grubhub style". Once it had been sent out, a secretary would call the home to which the delivery was being made in order to let the family know the camera was on its way. This would ensure that someone would be home to get the delivery so the item was not left out for too long. When the service came back to the school, an email would be sent to the teacher who sent the item letting them know that the student received the delivery.
Dr. Neville explained the resources available for the service. "We had various employees in the building that needed meaningful work that we wanted to utilize to keep education flowing," she said. "We have many busses, we have people that are available and we have materials that need to get into the hands of our families."
Mike Hayes, the Associate Coordinator of Safety and Security, is also a driver for the program and he gave an inside look on what the delivery process is like from the delivery side. "Coach Craig Seymore and I check for all of the pickups that we need to make each day when we get here in the mornings," Seymore said. "Then, we go door to door throughout, making sure that we are following proper social distancing with masks, and then either drop off or pick up materials. We coordinate as best as we can so that we don't have to backtrack." The delivery service's goal is to deliver supplies within 24 to 48 hours.
Dr. Gragnani laid out the delivery schedule saying, "each cluster, like the Hickman and Douglass cluster, Rock Bridge cluster, Battle cluster, all have delivery that is going through. We'll do pickups on Mondays and Tuesdays for one cluster and then Wednesday-Thursday for another cluster and Friday is kind of like a catch-up day. So if we have something large that we need to get out to one of the schools, that Friday is like a spillover day for us to be flexible and modify things as needed." He also talked about the beginning of the program. "This first-week launch is going to be really interesting for us because we will have to see what the demand is and if we need to we can scale up to meet the demands of our students and families and support them in education."
Lisa Chalupny, a Counseling secretary at Hickman has been a part of the program's beginning. "It's starting out a little slow, but we have had several schools and teachers contact us and we're expecting it to pick up over the next few days and weeks," Chalupny said. "We've already made deliveries for them. The schools are really excited about it and are so happy that they can call us at the last minute. We have a really good turnaround."
The purpose of the program was to help students and families in the new virtual school age. Ms. Chalupny gave some examples of supplies that have been sent so far to help students. "It has definitely been helpful for those who haven't been able to get out. Just today they delivered hotspots, art supplies, boxes of woodworking materials, books and paperwork, even a special delivery from a counselor to one of their students in need. We're the go-between – a bridge to help people get people what they need and return what they can't get back."
Dr. Neville added, "it's another way for us, as educators during this pandemic, to have some other connectedness to our households that our students are coming from."
Dr. Gragnani pushed the value of this saying: "We really don't know how long we are going to be in this virtual setting, so we want to still have that connection to the school, or that school experience as much as we possibly can." Hayes echoed the benefits. "It's a wonderful program," he said. "You know, with all the craziness of COVID right now, it's good to see that CPS goes above and beyond for their students."
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We thank you for bringing us to this day where we begin our journey together here at Waverley College Junior School.
We give thanks for the opportunity we have had to rest and to spend valuable time with our families and friends. We now look to the new year as one of hard work, study and achievements, academically and in all of our other cocurricular activities.
Bless in a special way all the students and families of Year 5 who are new to our community. May they find their first year challenging, yet rewarding and full of many happy memories.
Bless all the teachers of the Junior School so that they may develop and challenge us into becoming the best that we can be.
Welcome to the 2018 school year. It was terrific to see the boys in their new uniforms and polished shoes ready to start the year with tremendous energy. I hope they can keep up this standard all year round. I hope everyone had a great holiday and a chance to recharge their batteries ready for another exciting year.
The boys have been challenged to be the best they can be in everything they do. I would appreciate if the parents could follow this through at home as well.
A big welcome to all our new students in Year 5 and look forward to their active involvement in all things Waverley. I look forward to meeting many of our new and 'old' parents at the Parent Association Cocktail Party on Saturday 24 February.
The laptops will be issued on Wednesday 14 February with the program starting at 3.30pm and concluding at 5.00pm. The venue is the Junior School Auditorium. All boys need to be present with at least one parent. All information and forms were emailed during the holidays.
Your son should have returned home this week with his blue College diary and the school calendars (large and small). The diary is expected to be signed by parents each week and to have homework and assignments listed.
Wednesday 2 May – Waterford Classes resume Term 2 – Winter Uniform.
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Consultation on the wording of the Anne Lister plaque
on new wording for the Rainbow Plaque commemorating Anne Lister
In July 2018 we (York Civic Trust, The Churches Conservation Trust, York LGBT Forum and York LGBT History Month) unveiled a plaque to celebrate the life and actions of Anne Lister. The plaque was universally welcomed in principle; the wording on the plaque proved controversial and we immediately undertook to review that wording.Following meetings of the four partners, we now wish to put a suggested re-wording of the Anne Lister plaque to public consultation.
The original wording on the plaque was:
Anne Lister
Gender-nonconforming entrepreneur
Celebrated marital commitment, without legal recognition,
to Ann Walker in this church
Easter, 1834
Our suggested alternative wording is:
of Shibden Hall, Halifax
Lesbian and Diarist
Took sacrament here to seal her union
with Ann Walker
The plaque is intended to be a positive celebration of the union of Anne Lister and Ann Walker at Holy Trinity Goodramgate, Easter 1834.
The four partners have consulted historians and experts on the works of Anne Lister and have developed the alternative wording based on the following principles:
The plaque is a commemoration of Anne and Ann which is directly related to the taking of sacrament at Holy Trinity Church.
It reflects as accurately as possible Anne Lister's own view of herself as evidenced in her diaries and letters.
We have clearly identified and agreed a process to allow the four partners to make the decision between retaining the original plaque or replacing it with the alternative plaque. This public consultation is an important part of that process. If the decision is have a new plaque, we will have this in place by Spring 2019. The existing plaque will remain as a place holder until after this public consultation and the four partners' decision has taken place.
We welcome your views on this decision. Please register them on this Survey Monkey poll, which will close on Sunday 25 November 2018.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/AnneListerPlaque
With thanks for your interest,
York Civic Trust
The Churches Conservation Trust
York LGBT Forum
York LGBT History Month
27 thoughts on "Consultation on the wording of the Anne Lister plaque"
Suzie LOVE says:
4th November 2018 at 8:29 am
Lesbian and diarist is perfect, it's who she was.
Isabelle Tracy says:
Lesbian Entrepreneur and Diarist
Her union with Ann Walker was blessed here
G Hughes says:
What a colossal waste of everyone's time, and taxpayers money. Leave it as it is, there are bigger problems to worry about in York.
David Fraser says:
There is no tax-payers' money involved. York Civic Trust is an independent charity and receives no money from public sources.
Nika Abkowicz-Bieńko says:
I think the change from 'gender nonconfirming' to 'lesbian' is a very good one. While the concept of someone being 'gender nonconfirming' is a nebulous one, the definition of lesbian as a woman who only loves other women is clear. It is clear that Lister satisfies it, writing in her diary "I love and only love the fairer sex" (January 1821). However, I do not support the removing of the word entrepreneur from the description. I think it is important to commemorate her activities as a businesswoman as a part of her life. Perhaps 'Lesbian entrepreneur and diarist'?
D Peragine says:
Celebrate Anne's true life and actions. Resist lesbian erasure.
Lesbian, entrepreneur, and diarist.
Took sacrament here, without legal recognition
to seal her union with
Ann Walker Easter, 1834
Jenny Glynn says:
I agree with the suggested alternative plaque wording. Let the two women be celebrated.
Kevin Morson says:
Leave it as it us but is this funded by tax payers money, if so i disagree with it being oaid for by taxpayers
There is no tax-payers' money involved. York Civic Trust is an independent charity and received no money from public sources.
Anne Heath says:
The older wording is more gracious but I prefer the new wording because it is clearer and reflects Anne Listers view of herself. It is also more relevant to the 21st century
Leave the original one ..seems right to me
Leave the original one
Leave as it is ..too much fuss is about really doing it …do not like wording of the new suggestion
Gary Harman says:
A facinating woman of her times the mention of Shibden Hall should be on the plaque ,the hall is worth a visit also
Leave it as it is, no need to spend more money replacing it. I had never heard of her until all this fuss about about the plaque was mentioned.
Liz Weale says:
5th November 2018 at 12:07 pm
I prefer the alternative wording. I feel that the original wording obscures Lister.
Why can't they just put Anne married Ann. Without describing their gender !!
Louise Moody says:
The alternative wording is a vast improvement reflecting the facts and not leading to confusion (consider, for example, a tourist with no prior knowledge of Ann Lister – they might, understandably, mistakenly think that she was a man who dressed as a woman from the 'gender non-conforming' description). Well done on the proposed change.
Was she a lesbian? yes. So stick it on the plaque.
Chelsea Lovelace says:
This wording would be perfect :
I concur. But make sure there's a comma after "recognition"…
Eileen Clarke says:
The proposed alternative wording is perfect. It's essential to the memory of Anne Lister that she is proudly & clearly identified as lesbian.
Jenny Moore says:
Anne Lister was a woman and a lesbian. The new wording acknowledges this, as it should do, and this is what should be adopted. Glad you've rethought this.
Mariana Romo-Carmona says:
I agree with the new wording– our recognition that gender is a construct is important for our time, but for Anne Lister, it was important to recognize her love and union with Ann Walker. And since she was a diarist, her own words would add the historical dimension: "I love and only love the fairer sex" (January 1821).
The epithet 'entrepreneur' is important: her role as a businesswoman was as important to her (and inspiring to contemporary women) as her passion for women.
The line "Took sacrament here to seal her union with Ann Walker" is a massive improvement on the awful contortions of "Celebrated marital commitment, without legal recognition, to Ann Walker in this church": apart from being mealy-mouthed, it's a downer to have a negative (what the union *wasn't*) in a plaque that's meant to be celebratory.
Subbing point: avoid the capital 'D' on diarist (it's a description not a job title).
Lesbian, entrepreneur and diarist
Resist lesbian erasure.

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'Protect Freedom Of Expression'
'Petitioning Members of both houses of the Indian Parliament to reconsider and revise Sections 153 (A) and 295 (A) of the Indian Penal Code'
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Ananya Vajpeyi , et al
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Petitioning Members of both houses of the Indian Parliament, and
the Honorable Law Minister, Government of India
Reconsider and revise Sections 153 (A) and 295 (A) of the Indian Penal Code to protect freedom of expression in India!
We the undersigned are appalled by the recent settlement reached between Dina Nath Batra for the Shiksha Bachao Andolan and Penguin Books India, to cease the publication of Wendy Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin USA 2009; Penguin India 2010), and to withdraw and destroy remaining copies of the book on Indian territory.
This case is only the latest in a long series of outrages against freedom of expression. Academic, intellectual and artistic expression of any kind is becoming increasingly hazardous in India. What has happened to Professor Doniger and many other scholars before her can happen to any one of us at any time. Indian laws and legislation governing the freedom of expression not only fail to protect us from harassment and intimidation, but in fact prevent us from doing our work in a respectful, fair and democratic environment.
More worrying, the laws dealing with insult and injury to the sentiments of groups and communities (organized around religion, caste or any other form of identity) are routinely used to curb the freedom of expression, both within the legal justice system and in public discourse more generally.
In our view, the way to respond to ideas one dislikes is not to censor them but to produce better ones. Such was the practice of India's great intellectual traditions in the past. Litigation like this, undertaken in the name of defending those traditions, in fact profoundly demeans them.
We make the following demands:
That there be a reform of Sections 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code—governing intellectual and artistic freedoms and the right to self-expression, as well as protecting against insult and injury to communities, and the incitement of communal hatred. We ask that lawmakers, jurists and the legal bureaucracy include necessary provisions in these laws to protect works of serious academic and artistic merit from motivated, malicious and frivolous litigation.
That Penguin Random House at the highest levels of management and decision-making continue to contest the Legal Demand # 254/LN/0310 up to the higher courts, so that a good precedent upholding freedom of expression is established, and in future publishing houses, including Penguin India, are able to publish works and support their authors without the threatening prospect of litigation, fear and censure.
We believe that writers, scholars, artists, and publishers the world over will stand in solidarity with the author Wendy Doniger. To endorse our demands, append your signature to this statement. We intend to send our petition along with all the signatures collected to the appropriate authorities in the Government of India.
Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University, New York
Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, New York
Laurie Patton, Duke University, North Carolina
Romila Thapar, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Retd.), New Delhi
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The real reason Margaret Thatcher was brought down
The final volume of Margaret Thatcher's official biography is a brilliant Westminster drama but misses the European dimension
by Anthony Teasdale	/ November 8, 2019 / Leave a comment
Eyes to the left: Margaret Thatcher watched by Geoffrey Howe at the Tory Party conference in 1990, a month before her fall from power. Photo: © SLATER/MIRRORPIX VIA GETTY IMAGES
I received a warning, in early 1988, on what was virtually day one of my new job. I had become special adviser to the man who was then Margaret Thatcher's foreign secretary, would soon be her deputy, and was ultimately her political nemesis: Geoffrey Howe. "There's one thing you need to know about this government," my opposite number in another major Whitehall department said: "The prime minster is going mad. Half the people you will meet don't realise it, and the other half won't talk about it."
The late 1980s were interesting times. Herself Alone—the third and final volume of Charles Moore's official biography—covers the tumultuous years from Thatcher's third general election victory in June 1987, when she dominated the political scene, to her painful loss of power in November 1990. The book then takes the story through the long, sad years to her death in March 2013.
Moore launched his new volume in the magisterial setting of the Banqueting House, the only surviving component of Whitehall Palace and scene of the execution of Charles I. The event brought together, perhaps for the last time, many of the anciens combattants of the Thatcher revolution. The guest of honour was Boris Johnson, leading a government whose central mission, Brexit, can only be understood in the context of the political battles of 1987-90.
Whether or not one agrees with Johnson's description of Moore's book as "the greatest work of modern British history"—written, he joked, with "the almost obsessive lust for accuracy and detail that is the hallmark of all great Daily Telegraph journalists"—it is a remarkable achievement, impressive in ambition, scope and depth.
Moore's book breaks a lot of new ground, drawing on hundreds of interviews and newly released official and private papers, to complete a trilogy of titanic proportions—a cumulative text of nearly 3,000 pages, the writing of which has consumed more than 20 years of the author's life.
Even though the tale of Thatcher's third term has been told before—Thatcher herself, Howe, Nigel Lawson, Michael Heseltine, John Major and Douglas Hurd have all published memoirs—this epic story of triumph and tragedy just keeps on giving. One doubts if even Moore's…
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11848 Paullouka eller 1988 CW2 är en asteroid i huvudbältet som upptäcktes den 11 februari 1988 av den belgiske astronomen Eric W. Elst vid La Silla-observatoriet. Den är uppkallad efter Vital-Paul Delporte.

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An employee of Bethlehem Steel Corp., he was employed in the maintenance department of the records center in Saylorsburg for 25 years before retiring. He also operated the Lilly Pond Lodge, Saylorsburg, 1945-51.
Born in Bath, he was a son of the late Harry and Ida (Mertz) Frey.
Surviving with his widow is a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer of Bath.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Daniel G. Warner Funeral Home, 23 N. 9th St., Stroudsburg. Calling hours will be 7-8:30 p.m. Monday.


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Singapore-based app Carousell raises $47 million in Series B funding
on August 5, 2016 at 1:43 pm
Singapore-based startup, Carousell, has raised US$35 million (S$47 million) in a funding round led by Rakuten Ventures, underscoring growing appeal for peer-to-peer marketplaces in Asia.
Other investors in the Series B funding round included Sequoia India, Golden Gate Ventures and 500 Startups, according to a statement.
The company, which was founded in 2012, allows users to buy and sell a broad variety of items on an online marketplace, ranging from beauty products, fashion, lifestyle gadgets to furniture and home appliances. Sellers upload photos of the items they'd like to sell while buyers use the chat function to buy.
The new funds raised will be used to speed up Carousell's growth into new markets, strengthen its product and engineering capabilities and build a world-class team, Quek Siu Rui, co-founder and CEO at Carousell told CNBC by email.
Recently, the Singaporean company hired the former managing director for Southeast Asia at Airbnb, Chai Jia Jih, to oversee the company's international expansion.
To date, Carousell has raised approximately US$41.8 million, and is available in 13 major cities around Asia, including Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Taipei and most recently in Hong Kong. Quek did not disclose which markets are next on Carousell's radar.
Carousell's marketplace had over 35 million listings globally as of the second quarter of 2016, with more than 70 listings made per minute, according to Quek. "On average, a Carousell user spends about 17 minutes a day on the app," he said.
Peer-to-peer marketplaces have seen growing popularity in Asia, with competitors such as Indonesian marketplace, Tokopedia, also snagging funding in recent months. Tokopedia has raised US$247.7 million in total equity funding to date, according to CrunchBase data.
Other competitors also include many unofficial user-created Facebook groups that offer a similar peer-to-peer selling platform.
The competition, Quek said, was "further validation that the problem we are solving is a massive one, and [it] shows a real need for innovation in marketplace that have traditionally only served the desktop internet users community."
Asia currently boasts two of the world's largest smartphone markets – China and India.
To stand out from the competition, Carousell puts emphasis on speed. Quek said it took as little as 30 seconds to post a listing on the marketplace; and users can communicate within the app, eliminating the need for messaging apps or emails.
Rakuten Ventures' managing partner, Saemin Ahn, said in a statement, "When Rakuten Ventures first invested in Carousell, it was a scrappy and hungry group of founders determined to change the way people transact with one another in the 21st century … we now see their vision and this want for interacted shared by vast groups of people not only in Singapore, but also in countries like Indonesia, Taiwan and Hong Kong."
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Online entertainment start-up iCast launches its Web site and an instant messaging service that will allow music and video lovers to immediately contact buddies while a broadcast is in play.
Online entertainment start-up iCast today launched its Web site and an instant messaging service that will allow music and video lovers to immediately contact their buddies while a broadcast is in play.
The iCaster instant messenger, supported by Tribal Voice software, plays video, MP3s, CDs and other audio such as radio broadcasts and allows people to instantly drag and drop music or video into a friend's instant messaging account.
For example, a person could instantly send a Lauren Hill MP3 to a friend while listening to the music, and both parties could engage in an instant written conversation, said Bill Golden, an iCast spokesman.
The product, however, could raise the stakes in a tiff between America Online and Tribal Voice over competing instant messaging products. The iCaster touts compatibility with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) as well as similar services offered by AT&T, Microsoft and AltaVista. But iCast unveiled its products without truly knowing whether AOL will be agreeable.
In December, AOL blocked unauthorized Tribal Voice messaging users from its network, specifically targeting the company's largest clients: AT&T's I M Here and AltaVista's instant messaging service.
For a while, Tribal Voice and AOL engaged in a cat and mouse game; each time Tribal Voice changed its code to gain access to AIM's estimated 45 million members, AOL blocked the service.
The issue has not been resolved since the December quarrel.
"Sure, it's risky and there's a concern," Beth Nagengast, Tribal Voice's instant messaging product manager, said of today's announcement. "But it's working now, and our engineers are committed to keeping it working should AOL want to block us out again."
AOL executives could not immediately be reached for comment.
How the impasse will affect iCast members remains to be seen. Still, executives from the Woburn, Mass.-based start-up are optimistic that their service will be a hit.
"It's like a virtual water cooler effect," Golden said. "People who like to talk about music and video will be able to do so in real time."
The iCast Web site features interviews, a variety of music, movie reviews and other stories. iCast Music holds more than 1 million song clips and about 10,000 MP3s, and iCast Radio has 200 broadcast radio stations and about 20 genre-based, Web-only radio stations, the company said.
The movie portion of the site features some 12,000 artists, interviews with filmmakers, and behind-the-scenes footage from film sets and locations.


Karen obtained her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Dayton (OH) in Sports Management/Athletic Training. Following Dayton, she earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (FL) in 2006. She has been a nationally-certified athletic trainer since 2000 and is an active member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA). Currently, Karen is the Athletic Trainer for Simmons College of Kentucky, the 107th Historically Black College and University (HBCU).
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Students today rely increasingly on technology that is incorporated into the learning process. While this can be very rewarding, technology is like any other tool – used improperly, it can be ineffective or even harmful. To ensure that our students are aware of that possibility and to encourage proper, effective use of technology, we have adopted a digital citizenship curriculum produced by Common Sense Media.
The lessons from this curriculum are taught several times throughout each school year In K-1 and 6th-9th grade, with more grades slated to be added next year. Instruction is delivered primarily by school media specialists in elementary and classroom teachers in secondary, reinforcing the important concepts throughout the year. Overall, the digital citizenship lessons often echo behavioral expectations that should be familiar to all of our students, such as being respectful and responsible.
Parents are encouraged to check in with their child's teacher(s) if there are any questions about the curriculum. Additional helpful links and a selection of books available in the libraries throughout the district are noted below.
A great resource for how copyright law applies to various siutations can be found here.


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ADF&PCD Paris is universally acclaimed by suppliers and key players in the aerosol, dispensing, perfume and cosmetic packaging community.
This unique exhibition and conference groups two highly focused synergistic events together for two days of conference sessions, business meetings and networking opportunities for a finely targeted audience. As the first leading packaging event of the year, it is no doubt the European professional reference in terms of packaging innovations.
This is where future launches take shape, as leading players of the perfume and cosmetics industries come together each year, in addition to those in the pharmaceutical, food and automotive sectors.
Put your company at the forefront of the cosmetic and aerosol industry by exhibiting at ADF&PCD Paris and be sure to improve your brand awareness & market penetration and to generate high quality sales leads.
Are you a professional in the cosmetics or aerosols industry, and want to meet the major players in the market? ADF and its co-located show, PCD will meet all your expectations, as they bring together over 700 exhibitors from the most innovative suppliers.
Each year is a source of new inspiration leading to innovative product design, so why not enter the ADF and PCD Awards?
The awards recognize outstanding achievements and encourage the industry to push the boundaries with technological and creative innovations in aerosol, dispensing and cosmetic packaging.
The jury is composed of packaging and aerosol experts from the world's leading brands, journalists and design specialists.
With a focus on festivity, innovation and sustainability, this year's ADF&PCD aims to illuminate and celebrate those companies and designers which are having a positive impact on our community.
The conference programme is based around feedback from buyers, specifiers and suppliers from the aerosol, dispensing, perfume and cosmetics packaging industry. This ensures the conference topics address the challenges keeping you awake at night and addresses the current climate and future of our industry.
This year features some of the Gods and Heroes of our industry, delivering insight on future trends, technical case studies, legislation updates, success and failure stories and ways to overcome the challenges you are facing.
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Rosetta Phoning Part 1
NOTHING FITS was one of my favourite discoveries of last year. Starting life as an webcomic it made the transition to print with the help of a successful Kickstarter campaign. Combining hover cars, shirty, aggressive young woman, clones, mummies, Egyptian gods and talking rats it blew you along its slipstream, delivering with all the appeal and wit of a cheeky punk single - think Buzzcocks or The Undertones. Finishing the volume you were left wondering what would come next from it's two creators Mary Tamblyn and Alex McCrone.
For writer Mary the answer is Rosetta Phone, a new webcomic she has developed in close association with her good friend Bethany Hughston. Drawn in a bright, attractive, fine line style it combines a humorous time travel narrative with a creepy cosmic undercurrent. Rolling out at the rate of a new page every Wednesday morning it marks a highlight in my working week, normally in the bleary early morning as I'm rolling to work in the cozy confines of Auckland public transport.
Mary and Bethany were good enough to agree to take part in what turned out to be a lengthy interview with Factional. Here is part one of three.
Factional: What are your respective origin stories? And what lead you both to comics?
Bethany Hughston: I don't really know how to describe it honestly, it wasn't really some cool lightbulb moment. I got into art and drawing at a young age because my mum was an artist and my older sister and brother were both creative as well, my sister as an artist and my brother as a writer and musician, and our parents were very supportive. I also went to schools that had a leaning towards the arts and stuff.
I got into comics really early! My brother was a huge comic lover, especially of Tintin, and when he outgrew his massive collection of Tintin comics, I got them. And I read them cover to cover and really got into telling stories visually, and by the time I was in school maybe at 15 or 16 I discovered webcomics and read heaps! I started drawing and doodling my own stuff, like just comics about my friends and things and then eventually into full on webcomics when I was 16-18 and I've been doing them ever since.
Rosetta Phone planning sketch
Mary Tamblyn: I never liked art when I was younger, I was obsessed with Ancient Egypt and I wanted to be an archeologist or forensic detective. I didn't actually start drawing till about Year 4 or 5, when I met Alex Jones (AJ), who was mad into comics and making his own little comics about his characters. He'd put them on the class book shelves and everyone would read them during silent reading. I started to draw, mostly animals, which then led to making Rayman fan-comics with my cousin. We did these for a couple of years, they were... very unique. They soon stopped being about Rayman and more about our own characters we made along the way.
We had compulsory art at Intermediate and High School, and I had really good teachers for that - while I had really bad teachers for science. This made me way more invested in drawing and creating. I wanted to be an animator. I continued making short comics, with the characters that then went on to become a part of Nothing Fits. I was never that into comics, I was more into novels: staying up into the small hours reading most nights at Intermediate and High School. I'm still... regrettably, not very good at reading comics. Art School makes you hate everyone and everything and really apathetic at actually reading anything. I'm getting better at it though. So I only really got into comics because of AJ and only continued with them because of Alex McCrone's interest in them. Finding ComicFury as a webcomic host got me more into comics, and meant I met a bunch of really cool comicy people.
Fac: Webcomics seems the most natural step for young cartoonists to take now days, I presume that is where you guys met.
Bethany: Yeah both me and Mary met through webcomics and through Comicfury.com, I'd already been on there for a while and I had established a name for myself with two comics I wrote in high school which had become really popular on the site. Mary and Alex came onto the scene in 2012 I think, and I remember seeing Nothing Fits and really liking it and telling some friends of mine to go read it. We started just generally chatting on the forums and the then website exclusive chat which was just a bunch of artists and writers talking to each other about nothing, and then we got each other's Facebook. We were only talking about this the other night trying to remember how we even started talking to each other but it was something along the lines of a mutual friend of ours wanted to talk to me more but was nervous so Mary volunteered to show support. Eventually we realised we got on really well and exchanged Skype info, and since then we talk and webcam frequently, we've met up and traveled a bit. And we plan to do much more of it!
Mary: I must admit that coming to ComicFury I did feel very threatened by Bethany, just because she was very well known and popular, and yes, I was very jealous of this. It's embarrassing to say this, but I initially hated her. However, as she said, once we got talking one on one, we became close fast. I love her intense and in depth world's she has created and her utter dedication over the years to stick with them. She is a better writer and artist than I am, comics wise, and a very good friend.
Fac: What do you think is the most important thing about entering that world?
Mary: Webcomics are the quickest and easiest way to get your work out there, and getting almost instantaneous feedback is very rewarding. Also means you aren't stuck in a void of creating without any viewer feedback for the process of creating the work - which can take years.
Bethany: I don't know, really, it's hard to say. A positive and safe community is really important when starting out, and he web provides near instant feedback for your work, which is really important for growth. ComicFury was great because it was just a bunch of normal people who happened to write or draw comics, and everyone was willing to give people a chance! There wasn't any nastiness or mean spiritedness and everyone was always willing to help and listen to others. That was really important to me starting out, because I was so scared that people would hate me or hate my stuff and I would be hounded for no reason. So having a positive environment to post on was great!
Rosetta Phone detail
Mary: Also, a good, clean and easy to use website layout is key. It doesn't have to be fancy, but it needs to be functional. ComicFury has a number of default layouts that work well, which is a bonus for people who are new to webcomics. They also have a bunch of great people willing to help improve/fix layouts if you need help (which is actually how I met my boyfriend, ha ha, he made the Nothing Fits website for me... actually him and Bethany worked on making the Rosetta Phone one too).
Fac: Do you think it is a nurturing environment? When I wrote my review for Nothing Fits I went and looked at the ComicsFury site and was amazed by the community that seemed to grow around the comic, it seemed like a really healthy environment to produce work in.
Mary: ComicFury was really welcoming, apart from my initial stupidity and jealousy, but at times it can be toxic. Most of my toxic interactions weren't surrounding my comics themselves though, but happened on the forums, mostly during political/social issue discussions. Which are heated topics in any art community. The most important part about coming into these communities is knowing the difference between subjective and objective feedback. A lot of critiques thrown online don't come from people considering things objectively, rather just their personal opinions (and often come from people with hardly any more experience than you have yourself). It's also important, as it is a way of getting direct feedback from viewers - to listen if you do something wrong (unintentionally being racist or sexist for example), this platform allows you to amend and fix things, because its not printed, and its not set in stone, you can make up for your mistakes. Webcomics are a great place to experiment and evolve your art making and story telling skills, and quite often you can see a clear difference from when you started your comic, to where you are now (vast improvements usually). Really, it's just a great way to get your idea out there right now without having to stall, and redo your comic forever as your skills get better, you can just grow with the story.
Bethany: I don't know, really, it's hard to say. A positive and safe community is really important when starting out, and the web provides near instant feedback for your work, which is really important for growth. ComicFury was great because it was just a bunch of normal people who happened to write or draw comics, and everyone was willing to give people a chance! There wasn't any nastiness or mean spiritedness and everyone was always willing to help and listen to others. That was really important to me starting out, because I was so scared that people would hate me or hate my stuff and I would be hounded for no reason. So having a positive environment to post on was great!
I also think it's really important to speak with artists and writers of all different ages and backgrounds and just be around them and see how they all work, just to figure out where you stand and what you like and what you can learn from them. That's why being on the forums and hanging around and participating was so beneficial for me, I got to learn so many things and I got to share my own ideas and knowledge without worrying about being attacked or made fun of.
END OF PART ONE.
Read part two here
Read part three here
Follow the progress of Rosetta Phone here
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Labels: Alex McCrone, comics, indie, Interview, Mary Tamblyn
Deep Beats: A Review of Jillian Tamaki's SEX COVEN in Youth in Decline's Frontier #7
Kelly Sheehan: In 2004 I attended a concert that was part of a festival devoted to experimental music and sound artists. The performance took place in an old television studio, an environment designed to ensure optimum audio clarity. There were three acts, Francisco Lopez, Charlotte90 with Tim Coster, and Rosey Parlane. Francisco Lopez was interesting, producing a sound like a cathedral collapsing on you in slow motion, as were Charlotte 90 and Tim Coster, serenading with pleasant electronic squiggles and blips. Rosey Parlane was something else altogether. Just one man illuminated by his PC, his set started with the blips and squiggles familiar from the previous act. Slowly, very slowly, new sounds were layered over the top, each addition still clear and precise. The sound, the noise, began to settle on the listener. After a while it felt like there was a great psychic weight pressing down. Your sense of self began to give way, to crumble and dissipate, and very soon there was only a small nugget of you left in the middle of a great, swelling, oceanic cacophony. Just the you that was listening and nothing else. No thoughts of drinks after, or leaving for India in the next week, or what you are going to do for a job when you returned in six months time. Just sound. It was what I imagine it is like to teeter on the brink of enlightenment or death. After a time the sound was just as gradually eased back, leaving you a little shaken, but awed and grateful.
Reading Jillian Tamaki's issue of Frontier, the monograph series published by Youth in Decline, is not like that, but it captures what it is like to be caught up in discovering something new, overwhelming and possibly dangerous, particularly when you are young and think you are ready to have the foundations of your world rocked or even completely demolished.
Coded messages from Satan.
Daniel Elkin: There's so much going on in Sex Coven, I don't even know where to start. I'm glad you began with your concert experience, though, Sheehan, because it grounds us, gives us some focus, a springboard from which to leap.
Yes, let's talk about the central conceit of the book first. Sex Coven gets its name from an untitled music file that was uploaded anonymously in the mid 1990's, which was then found by a user on a music-sharing site who renamed it Sex Coven and continued to share it. It gained traction, went viral, spawned a cult following, spawned intense public outcry, and there the story begins.
"How to define a wordless, six-hour atonal drone? A sound so profound that each chord shift feels like a new tear in the Universe? Sonic mindfuck gets close."
With this, Tamaki kind of echos what you were talking about when you were describing Rosey Parlane's performance. Now imagine that experience for six hours. That's what this thing is. It spawns a new sense of possibility because it shifts you in the experience of it.
We're sense making beings, after all, right? Our brain seeks patterns even in chaos. When faced with disorder, in some sort of self-preserving way, we fool ourselves into finding structure, and, in this, perhaps, is the moment of visceral artistic enlightenment found in participatory art. What makes Abstract Expressionism painting and Experimental Ambient music powerful is the emotional state it elicits, not the particular "beauty" of the piece itself. Here, it is the experience of creating the pattern, recognizing what you make it out to be – for all extents and purposes an a priori understanding – and then completely grokking that.
Powerfully individualistic.
It's powerful stuff because it's individualistic.
When you do the work to have an emotional response to art, you are the owner of that experience. Authentic emotions are precious in a world where we are so often sold how to think about things, where outrage is manufactured, enjoyment is a science, and attention an algorithm. And nobody latches on to this more than young people, especially when their peer group embraces it, especially when they see that their parents don't understand it, even more especially when their parents fear it or hate it.
Tamaki captures all of this in her book. The intensity of the reaction to the music and the ritual it inspires are all laid out with fervor and excitement. Tamaki knows the proper moment to abstract her art to convey this ardor, and when to focus on minutia in order to set context and further her story.
But in all honesty, this phenomenon is almost secondary to the other things that Tamaki is exploring with Sex Coven. Ideas of social history and building community are really what I think Tamaki is scrutinizing here.
Sheehan: As much as Tamaki is examining these things it is a retrospective examination. This is as much a comic about people, and the world, moving on as it is about the excitement and personal growth that happens with discovery in youth. I loved the end of the book where the past ends in the present and the realities of running an alternative community 'free' from the burdens of modern life begins to settle on the individual concerned. The exchange between Raven and Furbaby towards the end of the book neatly encapsulates this as it does the tensions and habits that underlie the dance which an relationship involves. It's a dance that as it winds to a close always involves one step forward and two steps back. Running on default, like some background program.
Comic minutiae.
A much bigger story hides behind the short piece that Tamaki presents us with and I think this is a large part of why we both responded to the book. The minutiae of the scene I have just described has a heavy pull for me but so does the final three pages as Raven reflects of the end of the life we have just witnessed. She's back in the world now and the compromise that this involves while often trivial are always around, pressing in from moment to moment. But are they better or worse that the slightly sinister presence of Rob? Rob who does not have that many skills when it comes to being In Real Life.
At the same time the backstory which makes up the first three quarters of the narrative is appealing. That detail, the slightly strange, mystical, experience of listening to the SexCoven mp3, the discovery of the Data, the metamorphosis of an internet community into a sex cult, has the feel of world building, of the creation of a mythology but really, it seems to me, to serve as an elaborate backdrop to the exchange between the 'real' people.
Elkin: "Moving on" and "back in the world now" are apt descriptors for much of the meat of this book, Sheehan. Thanks (again) for pointing us in the right direction.
The final panel of the book sums up this theme perfectly. The resolution of that moment would seem profound if it weren't such a reflection of the daily compromises we make every day of our lives, a concession to the "really fucking stupid rules" that corral the chaos of existence in order to maintain social order, predictability, stability (or is it "Community. Identity. Stability" in this Brave New World in which we live?).
Yeah. I know. There are always those among us, though, who try to live their life without having to make these sorts of compromises, visionaries and luminaries who have latched on to something and have fancy notions of creating an Arcadia. They see undulating ideals of what could be. They have dreams and, the bold among them, try to make this place on earth.
Failed constructs.
But, alas, the history of humanity is littered with failed utopias after all. Unfettered by the constructs of the deadening effects those compromises inherent in religious and/or political expediency, human nature comes to the fore. Self-interest becomes the guiding moral principle, which, when folded into the greater goal of the pursuit of pleasure or a higher state of consciousness, only leads to the elevation of the cult of personality, the subjugation of the others in the herd – people are taken advantage of, the goal is lost, pettiness or perversion prevail.
No matter what deep beats provide the soundtrack.
And those who were part of whatever it was, those there who held out hope for something better, are the one's who feel the loss of the dream most profoundly. They stumble back bleary eyed to re-integrate into the world and start making all those small compromises that we all must make in order to live next to people, selling another little piece of our soul along the way.
**sigh**
"Do you still believe in SexCoven...? Even after you left the ranch?" What sort of answer can Raven possibly give other than, finally, putting out her cigarette on a service plate.
You can pick up a copy of Frontier #7 directly from Youth InDecline Press
Daniel Elkin writes about comics and other things (but mostly comics) on his blog, Your Chicken Enemy and tweets a lot about sandwiches.
Labels: comics, Frontier, indie, Jillian Tamaki, Review
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be brought in on Monday and Tuesday, May 21st & May 22nd. There will be collection bins in the school lobby.
Last Drawing Club will meet Tuesday, May 22nd.
Thursday, May 24th is a half day, noon dismissal.
Fine Arts Festival is May 24th at 6 p.m. in the lower cafeteria.
Friday, May 25th and Monday, May 28th School is closed for Memorial Day.
School reopens on Tuesday, May 29th.
Our trip to the Native Lands is Wednesday, May 30th. Please arrive to school on time and remember to wear sunscreen, bring a bag lunch and water bottle (labeled), a small bag and hat if you want. Wear your gym uniform and sneakers. Please be at the glass doors by 8:15 a.m.
We'll be leaving at 8:30 a.m. and returning around 2:30 p.m. Pray for good weather.


I got a Kindle for Christmas, who didn't?
As of last summer many estimates said that there were about 8 million Kindles sold. Since Christmas 2010, it seems like everybody I talk to got one. On twitter people were buzzing – so even people I don't know seems to have gotten one.
Unfortunately, because I read so much for work purposes and because I did so much proof reading from past bosses with horrible spelling and language skills, reading anything more than a magazine wasn't something I found particularly enjoyable.
Later on in the day I tried it out and wow what a great viewing experience it was for my 40-something eyes. I even downloaded a couple of books that I paid for and by day's end I was reading Elizabeth Edward's "Resilience." I sailed through it. And next I cannot wait to try the notes and highlighting feature.
Sadly, I left and had second thoughts, "Maybe I should just go on line and order it and take the chance?" But I realized I wouldn't get it any faster and I wouldn't be able to touch it like I had wanted to prior to purchase.
I went back the next day and lo and behold they had what they had promised they had. I snatched one up and began telling all my friends that had one to get one of these little gems. I couldn't get one that was any other color than black (sounds like Henry Ford), but it is just fine no matter what color it is.
The light also doesn't seem to drain the Kindle as much as I thought it would and having right there, I use the light often, because with these 40-something eyes sometimes it just makes things easier.
Even if you do have a Kindle with a cover all ready, I would recommend making the investment. You won't be sorry!
Photo credit: Amazon (originally), but I picked it off Cnet.


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opinion, analysis and debate on security issues
Conflicts and crisis management
Defence and deterrence
Global security challenges
NATO and its members countries
NATO partners and cooperative security
Terrorism and violent extremism
Wider aspects of defence and security
NATO Review
A new era for NATO intelligence
Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven
Today, NATO faces the most complex and unpredictable security situation since the end of the Cold War – a more assertive Russia, cyber and hybrid threats, crisis and instability across the Middle East and North Africa, and a continued terrorist threat. In response to this dynamic threat environment, Allies are fundamentally adapting how NATO produces and delivers intelligence in support of decision-making.
The most significant reform came in 2017, when the Alliance established a new Joint Intelligence and Security Division (JISD) at NATO Headquarters. As the very first Assistant Secretary General for this new division and the overall strategic leader for intelligence, my task was to develop the vision, establish a professional workforce, and initiate a broad series of reforms to improve the quality and utility of intelligence provided to NATO's most senior political and military leaders. This effort included working closely with other NATO intelligence leaders, most notably SHAPE J2 (the intelligence directorate at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, or Allied Command Operations).
One of NATO's new capabilities, the Alliance Ground Surveillance system – consisting of air, ground and support segments – will provide all-weather, persistent wide-area terrestrial and maritime surveillance in near real-time, improving in-theatre situational awareness. Photo by Northrop Grumman
The overarching goal was to make intelligence as relevant as possible for our customers. Our intelligence needed to be high quality, focused on leadership priorities, and delivered at the right time to the right audience. The Secretary General has been consistently clear that intelligence support at NATO Headquarters must enhance situational awareness and inform policy making. To achieve this, assessments needed to be brought as close as possible to the North Atlantic Council, the Military Committee and the Alliance's senior leadership.
The establishment of the JISD also marked the creation of NATO's first-ever joint civilian and military division at the Headquarters. Bringing together the previously separate civilian and military intelligence staffs was no small task. At the time, some people worried that the professional cultures and approaches to intelligence would clash. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Fusing the separate intelligence units allowed us to deliver coherent intelligence assessments, increase efficiency, avoid duplication of effort, and draw upon the strengths that both civilian and military organisations brought to the table, while fostering a new culture of cooperation. More importantly, it positioned the JISD to contend effectively with the hybrid, cyber and terrorist threats increasingly confronting NATO Allies, boosting our capabilities to analyse these cross-cutting issues.
To ensure that the JISD helps to prepare the ground for Allied decision-making, we have worked to better align our focus areas and timing with leadership schedules, meetings, and missions. The true power of Allied intelligence is that it provides a common frame of reference for decision-making, thus underpinning Allied solidarity. Difficult as this may sound, in my experience there are far fewer fundamental disagreements than might be expected.
Indeed, some very important North Atlantic Council decisions could only have been taken on the basis of an intelligence picture shared by all Allies. This is true for NATO's response to Russia's breach of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty as well as for the expulsion by Allies of over 150 undeclared Russian intelligence officers, following Moscow's attempt to kill former Russian agent Sergei Skripal with a nerve agent in the United Kingdom in March 2018 (a British citizen, Dawn Sturgess, later died after exposure to the substance).
We also supplemented longer-term strategic assessments with more current situational awareness. Based on the deep knowledge and expertise of our analysts, we are now able to provide rapid initial assessments to customers. New internal formats for intelligence sharing at NATO Headquarters, such as the senior stakeholders meetings, have dramatically increased the frequency and responsiveness of intelligence support to senior leaders. Never before has intelligence been more present and relevant to NATO decision-making.
As the strategic leader for intelligence, my responsibilities involve looking beyond the JISD. The "NATO intelligence enterprise" goes far beyond NATO Headquarters and encompasses a multiplicity of critical functions across the two Strategic Commands. Due to the "organic" growth of many such functions without a common masterplan, overall coherence is an issue. Allies agreed that a common approach would improve intelligence sharing, coordinate production, enhance indications and warning, and improve management and governance. In close cooperation with Allied Command Operations (ACO) and Allied Command Transformation (ACT), we began to jointly identify, prioritise and implement a set of key reform projects. Over the years, we have developed a trusted working relationship across institutional boundaries.
In particular, close partnership with ACO enabled major progress on warning and alerting, where we made special efforts to develop a more efficient architecture, improving the coherence of mechanisms and addressing gaps. The new system is more effectively tailored to today's complex threat environment and we are currently working with Allies to ensure that it functions as intended in an actual crisis.
A two-week trial, Unified Vision 18, was held in June 2018 across NATO territories in Europe and North America to test the interoperability of multinational and collective Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities. © NATO
Production is now coordinated on a regular basis between Headquarters and the Strategic Commands. Again, we are cutting duplication, streamlining our efforts and providing a more coherent intelligence picture for our leaders.
Behind the scenes a host of enabling functions are critical to the managing, sharing and processing of intelligence. Only when the management of technical functions have been fully optimised and properly staffed will NATO intelligence reach its true potential.
To prevent leaks and the exploitation of vulnerabilities by adversaries, security is indispensable for Allies. Security enables trust, and trust enables intelligence sharing. It was wise to include the NATO Office of Security (NOS) in the Joint Division. Having both the intelligence and the security functions under one roof allows for daily interaction between them. Among many other important functions performed by NOS, it now closely monitors, vets and contributes to all intelligence reforms.
To maximise our potential, we are expanding our capabilities. Additional open source intelligence, using data collected from publicly available sources, will be employed to support accurate and timely analysis. We are currently boosting our existing capabilities to search the huge data reservoirs of the Web. To stay ahead of the curve, this will need to be aided by advanced analytics and artificial intelligence. Another new capability, the Alliance Ground Surveillance system – consisting of remotely piloted aircraft, ground and support segments – will provide all-weather, persistent wide-area terrestrial and maritime surveillance in near real-time, improving in-theatre situational awareness.
To better share and process intelligence at NATO, we are also fundamentally overhauling the technical base and interoperability of our IT systems and data management.
Almost three years after standing up the Division, civilian-military intelligence cooperation across NATO is now standard practice. We are progressing towards a common work culture, and assessments are more coherent, and are provided faster. The demand for high-quality intelligence is higher than ever and has become more relevant in policy and decision-making.
Nevertheless, some challenges remain. Reform efforts will need to be deepened. Cultures still differ. The military, with a focus on planning and operations, is typically more inclined to the "need to share". Some civilian intelligence organisations adopt a much more restrictive approach to their information, emphasising the "need to know". Such deeply ingrained traditions are hard to overcome.
Security threats are a moving target. The Alliance will need to stay abreast of new developments and track these at the speed of relevance. Russia and China are both investing heavily in their conventional forces, while developing and showcasing advanced new nuclear weapons and missile systems. Both are heavily engaged in the pursuit of emerging and disruptive technologies that could have far-reaching implications for the Allies. Hybrid and cyber threats have become the new normal. Other countries and non-state actors are also developing new capabilities. The importance of intelligence at NATO will only increase in the years to come.
What is published in NATO Review does not necessarily represent the official position or policy of member governments, or of NATO.
Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven is NATO's first Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence and Security. He is a German career diplomat, having served in Paris, Moscow and Prague. From 2007 – 2010 he was Vice President of the German Intelligence Service.
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Healthcare IT Leaders is a Top Performer in 2018 Best of KLAS Report for Business Solutions Implementation Services
January 30, 2018 Written By Healthcare IT Leaders News
Healthcare IT Leaders, a leading healthcare IT implementation, consulting and workforce solutions firm, is ranked third (No. 3) for Business Solutions Implementation Services in the 2018 Best in KLAS: Software & Services Report.
Healthcare IT Leaders is also ranked for HIT Implementation Support & Staffing for the second year in a row.
KLAS rankings are based on independent surveys and interviews with healthcare providers.
According to Managing Director Bob Bailey, Healthcare IT Leaders ranking as a top performer in the Business Solutions category highlights the firm's expertise in ERP solutions, a growing need for hospitals and health systems.
"Our KLAS rank for ERP and EHR-related services shows the breadth of our IT consulting offerings. We want to be a full-service partner to our customers," said Bailey.
Customer comments collected about Healthcare IT Leaders are available at KLAS Research. Said one CIO: "Healthcare IT Leaders has been easy to work with. They are responsive. We get great value from our engagement with them, and whenever we need help, they are there for us. We have a good partnership."*
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About Healthcare IT Leaders
Healthcare IT Leaders is a KLAS-rated, national leader in IT workforce solutions, connecting healthcare provider and payer organizations with experienced technology talent for implementation services, consulting and full-time hiring. Areas of focus include EMR, ERP, HCM, CRM, and BI. Based in Greater Atlanta, our company is ranked on the Inc. 5000 (2017, 2016, 2015), and has been named a Best Place to Work by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and one of America's Best Professional Recruiting Firms by Forbes. Learn more at www.healthcareitleaders.com.
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KLAS is a data-driven company on a mission to improve the world's healthcare by enabling provider and payer voices to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals, KLAS collects insights on software, services and medical equipment to deliver reports, trending data and statistical overviews. KLAS data is accurate, honest and impartial. The research directly reflects the voice of healthcare professionals and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. To learn more about KLAS and the insights we provide, visit http://www.KLASresearch.com
Healthcare IT Leaders and Voyce Bring Real-Time Language Interpretation to COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Healthcare IT Leaders has partnered with Voyce, a technology-driven company committed to helping people face language barriers, to enable multilingual support for its COVID-19 contact tracing services. Voyce provides real-time, on-demand access to its network of professional and medically trained language interpreters who offer interpretation in 238 languages and dialects, including American Sign Language. The […]


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Q: Getting the maximum mode per group using groupby I have generated a table that shows the mode values of my dataset.
The dataset was originally grouped by "date", "hour" and "room" in order to be able to get the mode value of foot traffic.
The groupby was performed as follows:
dataframe = df.groupby([df['date'], df['hour'], df['room']])

Then I generated the mode value(s) for "traffic" of each groups the following way:
dataframe = dataframe['traffic'].apply(lambda x: x.mode())

As a result I have my dataframe which displays the proper groups and shows the modal value per room, per hour and per day.
My issue is that in certain cases the number of modal values is more than one (as 2 or 3 values have had the same number of observations)
The current dataframe looks like this:
                            mode
date    hour    room
6       12      room1   0   15
                room2   0   23
                        1   26
                room3   0   1
                        1   2
        13      room2   0   9
                        1   11
                room2   0   15

As you can see above, for room2 at 12:00 on January 6 there are 2 modal values (23 and 26).
My issue here is that ideally I would drop the lowest "mode" value(s) from each group where there are more than 1 observation.
I have looked at several approaches but cannot get this to function.
I was thinking that the following would work:
dataframe.apply(lambda x: x[dataframe['mode'] == dataframe['mode'].max()])

I would then remove duplicates, but this does not affect the dataframe..
or
dataframe.filter(lambda x : x[dataframe['mode'] == dataframe['mode'].max()], dataframe['mode'])

which gives me a "'function' object is not iterable" error
or
for elem in range(0, dataframe.size -1):      #to iterate over the daaframe rows
    if elem != dataframe['mode'].max():       #to identify rows that aren't max mode value
        dataframe = dataframe.drop([elem])    #to drop these rows

To answer the request from Conner, please see below the original csv data (dataframe called "df"):
        room    time                 capacity   areaName    hour    date    traffic
    0   room1   Mon Nov 02 09:00:00  40         area01      9       2       14
    1   room1   Mon Nov 02 09:05:00  40         area01      9       2       15
    2   room1   Mon Nov 02 09:10:00  80         area01      9       2       23
    3   room1   Mon Nov 02 09:15:00  80         area01      9       2       23
...
    14  room2   Mon Nov 02 11:00:00  40         area03      11      2       67
    15  room2   Mon Nov 02 11:50:00  80         area03      11      2       64
    16  room2   Mon Nov 02 11:10:00  40         area03      11      2       72

If anyone knew a way to go through each group and only keep the max mode value if there are several ones I would greatly appreciate.
Thank you for your time!
-Romain

A: I was looking for something like this.  FYI you can get this with df.head(n=10).to_csv(path, index=False)
room,time,capacity,areaName,hour,date,traffic
room1,Mon Nov 02 09:00:00,40,area01,9,2,14
room1,Mon Nov 02 09:05:00,40,area01,9,2,15
room1,Mon Nov 02 09:10:00,80,area01,9,2,23
room1,Mon Nov 02 09:15:00,80,area01,9,2,23
room2,Mon Nov 02 11:00:00,40,area03,11,2,67
room2,Mon Nov 02 11:50:00,80,area03,11,2,64
room2,Mon Nov 02 11:10:00,40,area03,11,2,72

(Below I use equivalent code to be more concise)
This gives you a groupby object
df = df.groupby(['date', 'hour', 'room'])

It turns out, unlike mean, max, median, min and madthere is no mode method for GroupBy objects!

Once you've done this
df = dataframe['traffic'].apply(lambda x: x.mode())

You can reset the index and regroup to apply the max per group:
df = df.reset_index()
df = df.groupby(['date', 'hour', 'room']).max()

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Home Best Jumping Media Press Release Simone Blum is the winner of the €270,000 Grand Prix Longines de...
Simone Blum is the winner of the €270,000 Grand Prix Longines de la Ville de Lausanne.
The German rider Simone Blum surprised at CSI5* Lausanne to stay with the most important class of the week, leaving in second to Roger Yves Bost and third Simon Delestre. (Photo © Scoopdyga – Pierre Costabadie)
World Number 172 German rider Simone Blum surprised with the most important victory of her career in the €270,000 Grand Prix Longines de la Ville de Lausanne.
Although Simone Blum had 9 FEI victories to date, she was accompanied by 10-year-old mare DSP Alice (Askari x Landrebell) to take her tenth victory, setting the lead in the jump-off round for 11 classified riders, overcoming several questions by course design of Italian Uliano Vezzani.
Facing several of the world's top riders, including former world champion and Olympic medalists, Simone Blum recorded a time of 38.29 seconds to beat French Olympic gold medalist Roger Yves Bost "Bosty", who completed his course in 39.27 seconds with the 11-year-old mare Sydney Une Prince (Baloubet du Rouet x Alfa d'Elle) and former world champion Simon Delestre of France, performing with the 12-year-old stallion Chadino (Chacco-Blue x Narew xx) in time of 40.22 seconds.
The result allowed Simone Blum to take 150 World Ranking Points plus a prize of €89,100, in what will undoubtedly be a day for the memory by German rider.
Completed the Top 5 Nicola Philippaerts of Belgium in fourth place with the 9-year-old stallion Chilli Willi (Casall x Lord) in 40.45 seconds and fifth place for Italian Alberto Zorzi with the 13-year-old gelding Ego van Orti (Vigo d'Arsouilles x Darco) in 43.45 seconds, representing the last double clear round of the class.
The best seed and World No. 1 Kent Farrington of the United States completed the fastest 4 fouls regular round with the 10-year-old gelding Dublin (Cobra x Calido), assembling a time of 73.47 seconds in the 13th place.
For the Latino Ranking Carlos López of Colombia added World Rakning Points finishing in 14th place, completing his regular round in 4 faults and 75.12 seconds with the 10-year-old mare Cuplandra (Upgrade x Metall), while Brazilian rider Luiz Felipe de Azevedo Filho was slightly slower in 84.38 seconds accumulating 6 fouls in 32nd place next to the 11-year-old stallion Chacito (Chacco-Blue x Daimler).
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The City of Montrose hasn't said much about fireworks this year leaving residents and vendors wondering what their position was. Monday night (June 18) that position became clear.
The reason not much has been said is simple. The Montrose City Council and Montrose Fire Protection District had determined fire danger within the city limits wasn't high enough to warrant a ban.
That changed, not because of increased fire danger in Montrose, but because officials felt people would buy fireworks in Montrose and take them to areas where the fire danger is extremely high.
In a gesture of good will and good sense, the sale and use of fireworks in Montrose is now officially banned through September 1. There is one exception to the ban. The annual Fourth of July fireworks show on Sunset Mesa.
If conditions and availability of firefighters change, there is still a possibility the Montrose fireworks show will be cancelled. But for now, the show will go on as scheduled.


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Junior Achievement is Adapting for the Future!
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(Bridgeport, CT) - Roughly half (49%) of Class of 2020 graduating seniors say their plans for after high school have changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey by Junior Achievement (JA) and the PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF). Of those...
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(Bridgeport, Connecticut) – A new survey for Junior Achievement (JA) by research firm ENGINE Insights shows that teens remain open to becoming an entrepreneur and starting a business despite the impact of COVID-19 on U.S. small businesses. Two-thirds (66%) of teens...
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Watch JA and CNBC's Virtual Town Hall, hosted by CNBC Senior Personal Finance Correspondent Sharon Epperson. This one-hour discussion featured questions from teens across the country about the economic impacts of COVID-19, featuring panelists Sheila Blair (former FDIC...
JAGFC President Featured on For the People
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Living in rural Alberta's Parkland County brings days filled with the beauty of Alberta's parkland and clear starry nights. Parkland County homeowners are surrounded by wildlife and natural areas year-round. The county has a population of over 30,000 people living in over 12,000 homes and country recreational properties.
One city, one town, two villages, seven hamlets, and five summer villages are located within Parkland County. As a result, the Parkland County real estate market has a wide variety of home and property styles, from high-end luxury estate homes and sprawling acreage properties to affordably priced starter homes and acreages in Stony Plain, Spruce Grove and area. The wide selection of housing available in Parkland County is suited for any type of homeowner: families, retirees, first-time home buyers and investors will all find something to suit their needs and budget here.
The area is neighboured by Leduc County to the South, Sturgeon & Lac Ste. Anne Counties to the North/North-West, and the City of Edmonton to the West. Communities in Parkland County are made up of safe neighbourhoods and country residential areas, many with high levels of community involvement and engagement. It's close proximity to the City of Edmonton provides Parkland residents with easy access to metropolitan businesses, while the urbanized centres of Spruce Grove and Stony Plain provide quick access to daily amenities and services.
Since the county is located in the heart of Alberta, there are many fantastic outdoor and recreational activities available to both Parkland residents and visitors. The Chickakoo Lake Recreation Area contains 14 kilometres of trails for walking, cycling, hiking, and winter cross-country skiing. Another must-see when living in Parkland County is the Devonian Botanic Gardens. Established in 1959, it consist of 190 acres of manicured gardens, woodland vegetation, and an extensive nature trail system. When visiting the Botanic Gardens in Parkland County, be sure to stop at the butterfly and cactus showhouses.
The natural beauty of Parkland County also extends to its bodies of water. Popular summer destinations for families include tubing down the Pembina River, both a scenic and safe adventure offered 78 kilometres west of Spruce Grove. If water adventures are your cup of tea, then head over to Wabamun Provincial Park or Jackfish Lake. During the summer, families flock to these parks for camping, hiking, tubing and water skiing.
A scenic park located north of Stony Plain, Chickahoo Lake Recreational Area is a popular spot for a family fishing, hiking or canoeing trip. In the winter, trails are groomed for cross-country skiing, and nature photographers love spending the day here with their cameras. There are some excellent interpretive trails here, and this is a fantastic spot for observing wildlife in its natural habitat.
Run by the University of Alberta, these gardens are truly stunning in both their variety and scale. A popular place to bring the family for a day or to hold a wedding (amazing wedding photographs!), the Devonian Botanic Gardens are also an educational and research centre. Brush up on your horticulture and gardening skills, take an art or painting course, or just bring a picnic and enjoy a summer day.
Explore Parkland County and the Pembina River like you never have before by floating down the river on an inner tube. Located near Entwistle, this popular tubing trip is a great way to spend a hot summer day and a fantastic way to see local natural attractions, like the local 62 metre gorge created in the last ice age.Tube and life jacket rentals are available, as is a shuttle service so you don't have to worry about how you'll get back to your car at the end of the trip.
Located roughly 70 kilometres west of Edmonton, Wabamun Lake Provincial Park is a favorite winter & summer retreat among Alberta residents. With so many activities to choose from including camping, boating, tubing, water-skiing, fishing, and more, this popular destination is sure to please.
Parkland County School SystemsParkland County is serviced by three excellent school divisions: Parkland County School Division, Evergreen Catholic Separate Regional Division, and Living Waters Christian Academy. Each school offers extracurricular choices and strong academic support. In Parkland County, over 21 elementary, junior high, and senior high schools operate, welcoming students from both the urban and rural areas of the county. Post-secondary institutions including the University of Alberta, MacEwan University, and NAIT are all within comfortable commuting distance to the City of Edmonton.
A public school system, operating 21 schools in Parkland County, Spruce Grove, and Stony Plain including 6 elementary schools, 1 junior high school, 2 senior high schools, and 12 junior/elementary schools.
For those families wanting Catholic-based education, the Evergreen Catholic School system operates five schools within Parkland County, and offers both academic and spiritual education.
An accredited independent Christian school located in Spruce Grove close to the TransAlta Tri Leisure Centre. Integrates Alberta curriculum content with faith and biblical study.