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Speed Mentoring and Informational Interviews
The virtual National Council on Public History conference began last week, and I am already missing my colleagues and friends and the opportunities to meet new people.
NCPH has always made space for students and early-career professionals and scholars to present and discuss their own projects, to network, and to learn about the latest research from the field as well as from professional development opportunities.
A conference staple was a Speed Networking session, offering job seekers and new graduates a chance to meet professionals working across the historical enterprise. Dozens of experienced public historians ("non-rotators") sat at tables waiting for students and professionals ("rotators") to move through the room for quick 15-minute conversations related to working and job hunting.
I was eager to serve as a "non-rotator" for the Speed Networking session. When I worked at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, I was one of the few PhDs who had experience working outside of the academy and I often advised graduate students seeking public history and humanities careers. Sometimes I found myself advising colleagues far senior to me who wanted to know how they could get started in DH or potentially shift their careers. Back in 2011, I began publishing an annual guide for a few years on "navigating DH for cultural heritage professionals."
Whether chatting with a new graduate or seasoned professional, I never offered IFTTT pathways (If this, then, that), which everyone generally found unsatisfying. Rather, I suggested communities to connect with, professional development and learning opportunities, self-reflection, while acknowledging that job hunting and career building is exhausting, deflating, and exciting.
During the NCPH Speed Networking sessions, "rotators" were eager to hear how I and my colleagues got our current jobs, or inquired as to how we got started in DH," and "what steps should they take to get where we are today. Others might inquire why I left the museum field, and then later, why I left a seemingly "stable" career in academia.
I understand why someone new the job market or new to the field might ask such questions.
The ways I got started in DH in the late 1990s and early 00s, however, aren't possible today. Similarly, my MA program offered funding (the program doesn't exist and no one seems to fund Master's students these days). I worked full-time while earning my PhD. Someone may enjoy hearing my story, but ultimately it will not be helpful to them. I always needed to discuss how careers are personal and completely contextual.
Answers to some of these seemingly simple questions quickly delve into personal stories of privilege, motivation, discrimination, risks taken, rejections, choices made, and doors closed throughout a life. For most of us, there are pivotal circumstances that we may choose not to disclose to a stranger that often shape our career paths the most: relationships; health; financial stability; discrimination; harassment; toxic work environments; and bad bosses.
[ Racial and gender harassment and discrimination are present all over public history. Please tell someone you trust about these experiences, and then work towards identifying options that work for you. NCPH is building resources for survivors, summarized by Gregory Samantha Rosenthal in a recent History@Work post.]
For all of these reasons, my path is not replicable, nor are the careers of my colleagues. It is important for those us in mentoring positions to be honest about these realities, because I see that some harm is done by some established professionals who insist that what they did is replicable–look at me, I did it– even when the circumstances that supported their climb no longer exist, or shouldn't have ever existed.
[Please note what follows is not designed to be advice for applying for teaching positions in the academy. I am not an authority on that market.]
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go where there is no path…and leave a trail.
If you are scheduling a speed networking event, ask the "non-rotators" to share their professional websites or CVs ahead of time for the participants to review. This not only offers a chance to learn more about the mentors, but also provides examples of how these individuals represent themselves through resumes, CVs, and professional websites (plus contact information for following up). Mine hasn't been updated in awhile: sheilabrennan.org
On the day of the event, provide a list of conversation-starters (or even a small deck of cards with questions). This takes the pressure off of everyone, intro-and extroverts alike, and gives everyone a chance to ease into the more complicated discussions of job hunting and career planning.
Here are some sample starter questions (with my answers):
What recent exhibit, digital project, or public program that excited you?
In February, I participated in Douglass Day, transcribing documents from Mary Church Terrell's papers.
What are you currently reading, or what is something you recently read that you enjoyed?
I recently started Magic City by Jewell Parker Rhodes, which is set in 1921 during the massacre of African Americans and the neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, OK.
I'm also reading The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman, a non-fiction book about bird behavior.
Is there a book, exhibit, project, that everyone in your field knows that you've never read/seen/experienced? (ie, what is your professional "secret")
I have never read Moby Dick. And no, I'm not planning to read it soon.
Do you have a favorite tv/streaming show? Interesting movies?
I watch a lot of tv shows. The best movie I've seen in 2021 is One Night in Miami.
Once everyone is talking, then asking more specific questions about one's career or current jobs help guide the conversation.
How did you realize that you wanted to work in history/humanities/cultural heritage? Did you have an ah-ha moment?
What sort of connections did you have starting out after college/after graduate school? If none, how did you make your earliest professional connections?
Do you feel comfortable sharing a risk you took during your career? What did you learn from that?
Have your professional and/or personal goals changed over the years?
If you feel comfortable sharing, what decisions have you made, or were made for you, that shape where you are now?
Is there something that you wished you had done or done more of when in graduate school, as an undergraduate, or early in your career?
How many jobs have you applied for?
What part of your current job do you like the most? What do you like the least?
Do you have a dream job?
What brings you joy when not working?
Here is a possible Speed Networking session with me.
During my first visit to the National Museum of American History, I saw how objects, narratives, and interactive elements were combined through exhibits to teach and to tell compelling stories. I wanted to someday be part of that.
What sort of connections did you have starting out after college/after graduate school? If none, how did you make professional connections?
Very few, and I wasn't very good at asking for assistance or networking! I was advised to search through alumni directories from my undergraduate and MA program schools (nothing was online at the time). I looked for individuals who worked at museums. I found one person, who happened to be a museum director, and I scheduled an informational interview. That didn't lead to a job or to make other connections, honestly, but he assured me that I made the right decision to pursue an MA in a discipline and acknowledged that it would take a long time to find a job in the field. He suggested I look for an internship to learn more about museum work to make some connections at one institution. At that time (late 1990s), there not many paid internship opportunities, and I hadn't been able to intern anywhere because I needed to work.
I applied for and was hired for a "temporary" position as a museum educator at a federal museum. When I got the offer, I was two weeks away from moving in my mom (where I was living six months prior, while substitute teaching at my old high school) without a full-time job, at the conclusion of my paid museum internship in DC. The job was at the US Navy Museum (so named at the time). I knew some things about American history, but very little about the Navy and was apprehensive about working for the Department of Defense. The job was a GS-7/9, which was about the best grade one could find for breaking into the field at the time, and it did not come benefits. (I don't think this category of federal employment exists anymore.) I earned sick and annual leave, but had no health insurance. This opportunity seemed pretty good for the short-term, because I did not have a family to support and I didn't have health insurance at the time anyway (this was before the Affordable Care Act). If things didn't work out, I could leave and move back home. I got very lucky. My job became permanent and I stayed for 7 years. When I left (another risk), I was the Director of Education.
Many! For some, I never got an interview or even an acknowledgement of my application.
For others, I interviewed. I received offers I turned down, never received offers to consider, and of course, there are the few offers I accepted. Applying for jobs is useful in many ways, because this exercise helps you to practice presenting yourself, your experiences, and your capacity. You can learn how different organizations function and about the myriad of positions within cultural heritage/public humanities. Importantly, applying for jobs can help you to learn more about what you would really like to be doing in the world, to see your strengths and abilities, and to see what you do not like and do not want to support.
Director of a small history museum affiliated with a college or university located in a seaside town with affordable housing, where I teach a course in digital public history. (For the record, I love my current job!) There are many more details of this fantasy life I can share, but I won't. It can be a fun exercise to imagine a dream job in a dream location, with a variety of circumstances, because it helps to clarify your aspirations and goals over your life. Who knows, you might get that job, or perhaps you already have it.
As a mentor, it is important that we offer encouragement and support to those who are starting out and those who are changing careers. I repeat to anyone who will listen that we will hold multiple jobs during our lives, and probably multiple careers. This is meant to reassure, but sometimes it is not received so well.
We can also encourage those we are advising or mentoring to develop a mission statement that describes what motivates them and what they want to accomplish in the world. My colleague Hannah Alpert-Abrams developed a worksheet for students that she currently gives to NEH interns (and she has organized a network to support job seekers). This format is easily adaptable, and encourages self-reflection through considering one's life goals rather than specific jobs. That mission helps to guide your path and decisions over time.
Shifting perspectives in this way makes it is easier to consider how we "compose a life," as Mary Catherine Bateson proposed (linked is an interview with her from On Being). Where we are now in life represents a combination of personal choices, systemic injustices, roadblocks, and the ways we move around, over, and through the opportunities and challenges in front of us at a given moment.
Hang in there, everyone.
I am so grateful for the professional and personal relationships that started at an NCPH conference, and look forward to seeing you all next year.
from → public history, public humanities
We'll always have THATCamp
[On the sunsetting of THATCamp originally posted on THATCamp Retrospective]
Saying farewell to THATCamp is saying goodbye to an era. That era probably ended a few years ago, but it's ethos and enthusiasm lives on in all of us campers.
I must admit, I never expected that THATCamp would become a thing when Dave and Jeremy imagined it in 2008.
It made sense that an idea like THATCamp originated at the Center Roy built. Like many Center projects, it started with a simple idea to address a real problem. The costs were low and the payout was huge. THATCamp democratized the DH conference by breaking it into an unconference designed for folks interested in solving problems, building some things, and working collaboratively with a schedule built on-the-fly. It certainly didn't break academic structures, but TC's created a space for trading in titles and hierarchy for a t-shirt and a bag lunch. Experimentation was encouraged. Content experts admitted they were tech novices. Attendees were encouraged to get up mid-session to try something else. The wifi wasn't always strong, but it was always available.
I missed the first one, because I had something planned on that weekend– a wedding or some family gathering. When I returned to work that Monday, I heard how well it all went. The first one was a success, and then, it became a real thing.
Participating in, and later running, THATCamps built my confidence and helped me to feel comfortable teaching, demonstrating, and sharing my own technical and professional knowledge. I was a graduate student and a project manager who didn't feel like I belonged in academia. I belonged at THATCamp. TCs were fun, and exhausting. I connected with future collaborators, learned to tinker with new things, and sometimes I sat and wrote Omeka documentation or Wikipedia entries.
THATCamp became a signature event, and later a major project for RRCHNM. It was an alt-conference organized by alt-acs and graduate students. We couldn't afford to attend the expensive DH institutes or conferences in the summer, but we could host and run an unconference. And people kept coming & organizing.
I appreciated the optimism that everyone brought… before the exhaustion settled in.
Thanks, Amanda, Jeremy, Tom, Dan, and Dave. I will always look back fondly on the movement you created and fostered. It will remind me of good times with you & the RRCHNM family, and the greater community created.
We'll always have THATCamp!
from → DH, RRCHNM
A Chance to See DH Work from Another Side
2018 April 4
Doodle by Jannelle Legg
My days of grant writing have come to an end for now. I'm pleased to announce that starting in late June, I will begin as a program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities and will join the amazing, hard-working team in the Office of Digital Humanities. I couldn't feel more excited for this opportunity to work for an organization truly dedicated to public humanities.
The position will offer me a chance to continue learning and exploring digital humanities methods and projects in a broader context than I do now. I will also work closely with many of you as potential and current grantees to develop work in the multiple ways that digital humanities scholarship develops and is expressed.
This new job, however, means that I must leave RRCHNM,which will not be easy.
Since 2005, I contributed to 26 funded grant proposals yielding $13 million in funding for the Center, and I worked on 20+ digital projects from the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank to Mobile for Museums, Histories of the National Mall, and Omeka, and to the DoingDH professional development series that is increasing digital capacity of faculty and cultural heritage professionals. Over these 13 years, I have worked with many smart and dedicated professional staff, graduate students, faculty at Mason, and with collaborators across cultural heritage organizations, foundations, universities, and open-source communities. My digital public humanities work has been both challenging and meaningful, as most collaborative work is. I remain convinced that all of the work I've done is not mine alone and is better because of collaboration.
During this time, I developed many close friendships with my colleagues. We've been through a lot together (including losing Roy) over the years: marriages, kids, mortgages, epic vacations, family deaths, illnesses, dissertation defenses, and white elephant exchanges. Some of my best recent memories occur during lunch at the Center's main dev table with the amazing Public Projects team,+ our honorary teammate, Faolan Cheslack-Postava, and Research Projects Director Sean Takats, analyzing ingredients and packaging of Trader Joe's snacks, discussing the rules of obscure Olympic sports, or playing trivia. All the while, we worked hard together moving towards shared goals; tackled big projects and problems; planned and discussed projects; respected one another's expertise; listened to one another's voices; and worked towards consensus on major decisions.
Some colleagues at other universities have marveled that I was able to craft a career and scholarly identity while working as a contingent faculty member whose salary was paid by grants. Somehow I fit in a lot, in addition to digital projects, including presenting and writing a few things (someday, my long-awaited digital and print publication will be published), and having some fun along the way. This worked for a long while, but I'm ready for a change.
When you've been at RRCHNM as long as I have, you see many folks come and go, and change will necessarily come to RRCHNM. By the end of the summer, all four of RRCHNM's women leaders mentioned in Sharon Leon's 2016-17 essay will have left the Center, as well as some staff and graduate students who will be moving on. During my time here, I feel lucky to have worked closely with many accomplished RRCHNM alum, including Sharon Leon, Tom Scheinfeldt, Dan Cohen, Lisa Rhody, Trevor Owens, Jeremy Boggs, and many others.
Much of the Center's work has relied on the ideas and expertise of the Center's staff at given moments in time. New exciting Center projects will emerge and reflect the ideas and specialties of the existing and incoming faculty. Long-term software projects, such as Omeka and Zotero, will remain strong due to their incredible project teams, and because of efforts taken by project directors past and present who established mechanisms to ensure for their long-term sustainability.
I came to Mason in 2002 as a part-time PhD student to work with Roy, and never imagined staying until 2018 to work for a Center named for him, without him there. I probably stayed longer than I would have were he still alive.
Now is the right time for me to move on to the NEH-ODH where I can support and foster digital humanities work at the national level. I'll see you soon, when I will be exploring DH from another side and finding out the secret to those legendary ODH muffins.
from → public humanities
Find me at MCN2017
Tomorrow, I head to Pittsburgh for the Museum Computer Network's 50th annual conference. The program celebrates #mcn50 with the theme of "Looking Back, Thinking Forward, Taking Action."
If you are going to #MCN2017, do not miss the opening keynotes in conversation featuring Aleia Brown, Adrianne Russell, and Jamil Smith on Wednesday morning to start off the conference.
If you'd like to say hello, find me at one of my panels or around the conference:
Radicalizing Objects in History Museums Wednesday, November 08, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Twenty-five years ago, artist Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum exhibition at the Maryland Historical Society, recontextualized and rattled the history museum field with this radical use of objects. I would like to brainstorm and build, in an unconference session, how history museums can invite and allow for critique of their institutions, and the society that created them, through their objects. Is the type of collaboration that opened the doors to MDHS to an artist possible today? In addition to a physical exhibition, it is possible to imagine this type of curation involving object-driven institutional and social critique through digital means? In this session we could even build a prototype of how something could work on the web. The bigger issues relate to bringing a history museum on board because it invites critique and addressing difficult histories, not only of the communities represented, but of the institutions themselves.
#MCN2017-W14
Here is my working document for this unconference session. Come brainstorm ideas, things to build, ways to reinterpret and re-contextualize objects in history collections, or contribute from afar: http://bit.ly/RadicalizingObjects
Confronting Theories of Museum Greatness, Wednesday, November 8, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
What does it mean for a museum to be great? What does it mean for a museum to be in decline? Who gets to decide which is which, and what is the media's role in that decision? When one narrative of so-called greatness is given prominence over others, what other narratives are pushed into the background and why?
This panel will dive into these questions and more, using recent media coverage of museums as a framework for understanding how public perception of these narratives drives internal decision-making. The panel will also examine the role museum workers have in deciding which narratives to lift up, and in crafting more balanced theories of museum greatness and/or decline. In exploring the tension in museums between conservatism and progressivism, the authoritarian and the democratic, and innovation and excellence, the panel will endeavour to understand how (or whether) narratives of museum "greatness" change our work as well as the future course of our sector.
Koven Smith
Lanae Spruce
Nikhil Trivedi
Claire Blechman
Kate Livingston
Sheila Brennan
Engaging Curators! Inclusivity and Collaboration Across Institutions, Thursday, November 9, 8:45-9:45am
Art curators are not necessarily brought into discussions shaping visitor engagement and digital strategies in art organizations today. This was not always the case, as art curators were part of MCN when it was founded in 1967. During its pilot phases, MCN's coalition to create a network of museum collections involved curators, registrars, administrators, and technologists. This roundtable discussion will address the ways art curators are involved in institutional digital strategies fifty years later.
The group will discuss the benefits and challenges as art museums implement– or begin to reframe–institutional strategies that integrate digital components across departments. To address the needs for professional development, others will reference the Networked Curator workshop, produced through a partnership between the Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, that is providing digital advancement for art curators. Together with the audience, the roundtable will discuss strategies and projects initiating interdepartmental collaboration and inclusion to ensure that art museum digital initiatives and engagement strategies connect and serve their communities.
#MCN2017-T3
Judith Pineiro
Christina Nielsen
Jose Diaz
See you in Pittsburgh!
from → conference presentations
Publication in Parameters
Parameters, the online scholarly forum published by the Social Science Research Council, is currently running a series on federal data use for research, and seeking submissions.
I wrote a short piece that tells the story of RRCHNM's Papers of the War Department and the reasons for needing to digitally reconstruct the archive of papers that were lost to a fire in 1800.
Data loss and recovery in the age of paper
from → publications
My Digital Publishing Update: Nothing
2017 June 4
Since 2012, I have been working with University of Michigan Press's Digital Culture Books imprint to produce what I had imagined as a hybrid digital publication: Stamping American Memory. My accepted proposal for the HASTAC-Michigan digital publication prize called for launching a revised version of my dissertation for WordPress + CommentPress, open peer review only, and, with the help of WP plugins, would offer print-on-demand option for readers wanting to pick and choose sections for generating an ePub or PDF. I insisted that any peer review be based on the online version, because I wrote and framed the project for the medium. I never intended for there to be a traditional book, instead, this was going to be a digital monograph. I believe that one reason for my selection was based on the probability that I would complete what I proposed– scholarly and technically.
Five years and three editors later, my open access digital monograph exists. It has been peer reviewed openly and blindly, (2014 version and 2016 final revisions), and people are reading it (eg, it's been cited in a Smithsonian Magazine article ). Objective achieved! The publication, however, still lacks the official imprint of Michigan Press and a DOI. The latter is easy, the former, not so much.
Throughout this long process, I have received little guidance from Michigan Press. I also feel as if no one has read or explored what I produced at any stage. As a result, the production staff is now trying to determine how to deal with my relatively straightforward digital monograph, and how it can be produced in accordance with existing workflows and procedures. I remain surprised since Michigan was one of the first presses willing to experiment with and support digital-first writing projects (blog-to-book and open peer review).
Since I started this publication with the Press, I saw the beginning and end of Histories of the National Mall (2012-15), where I co-directed an amazing content and technical team, and we implemented workflows and style guides for researching, writing, revising, and copy editing 500 historical items and 45 online exhibits. Then, I led the writing of a guide that described our process, which we published in WordPress, made available as a PDF, and deposited that PDF in Mason's digital repository.
As an individual, I contributed to Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2016 Edition that began with the submission of a proposal in January 2015 and ended with an online and print publication by May 2016. Minnesota Press, together with co-editors Matt Gold and Lauren Klein, managed each stage of the publication carefully with 60 different authors, working in two different digital platforms (WordPress + Comment Press for review and their new Manifold platform), and then in Word docs for the final copy editing and approval for the physical volume.
Below are a few key ways that my digital project has been stuck from its early stages.
Platforms and Domains (ongoing): In 2012, Editor #1 told me that I would be responsible for my digital project: for selecting the platform and format; for getting and maintaining a web domain; for any web design or technical work required to do the work of this project; for sustaining the project once completed. Since I run digital projects, and have developed workflows for a variety of projects, none of these steps were a big deal for me. I really wanted to demonstrate that a junior scholar could mount their own digital project, have it peer reviewed in the open, and receive approval from a university press.
I consulted with the few authors of online open access publications at that time (Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jack Dougherty, Dan Cohen, Tom Scheinfeldt) regarding platforms and workflows. I leaned toward using WordPress and CommentPress developed by the Institute for Future of the Book because of the success of other open peer reviewed texts. I wanted the functionality of CommentPress to facilitate discussion. In Stamping American Memory, I examine particular moments of public dialog between the federal government and its citizens during the early twentieth century through commemorative stamp selection and production. When I learned from a colleague in 2013 that UMP was testing out a new workflow in WordPress to copy edit and publish, I was convinced I had made the right decision. I also never planned for Stamping American Memory to become a traditional print publication.
In 2015, Editor #3 told me that the digital version might live in the press's new content management system, and that UMP would be printing a book as well.
My project remains stuck as the digital and the editorial teams decide whether this will be mounted in original UMP platform, used in the Digital Culture Books series you're probably familiar with, or the new Fulcrum platform, which to-date has only published online collections that serve as addenda for print books.
Peer Review (2014-2015): In September 2014, I notified Editor #2 that my project was ready for peer review and sent a link to my entire project. I asked some questions about the open review process and asked if the Press could help me with that phase. I was told no. I asked about how the blind peer review process would work, and emphasized that it needed to occur within the WordPress site. (Read more about this process from my blog post in January 2015).
In May 2015, Editor #2 emailed me to ask how things were progressing. I informed him that the open peer review process was mostly over (he never looked, didn't read any of the comments). I mentioned I was waiting for reader reports from the blind peer review. It turned out that he hadn't actually solicited reviews. His words were, "I didn't have a manuscript to ask reviewers to work with. A vestige, I suppose, of print workflows, my engagement of reviewers is always triggered by the arrival (even virtually) of the 'complete manuscript.' " He had a complete "manuscript" available through a URL, which he would have discovered had he looked at my digital project.
Editor #2 did solicit three reviewers (2 collaborated on 1 review), and sent along the reports with no commentary or synthesis. He asked me how I wanted to address the reviews –both recommended publishing the project without hesitation, but conflicted in a few assessments. When I responded with my plan for what and how to address the reports, he did not respond or confirm that my plan for moving forward with revisions would be brought before the board.
Final Revisions & Formats (2015-17): By November 2015, Editor #3 contacted me to say she would be taking over my project, bringing it to the board for approval as both a digital and print publication. This was the first I had heard of a print version.
In August and September 2016, I delivered an export of the final online content as XML and the print manuscript files, formatted according to the UMP specifications.
The team is just now addressing my project, and trying to determine how to handle publishing two sets of images (my online version contains nearly 90 images, and the print contains 39), and how to copy edit two versions of a "manuscript."
It appears that nothing has been mounted in a UMP content management system and my actual manuscript hasn't been touched.
These are labor and people issues, which I totally understand, but these are issues I assumed the Press had already worked through in the Digital Culture Book series.
What comes next? I really do not know.
It is extremely difficult as someone who is part of a web publishing software project and has published different types of content-driven digital projects to sit on the sidelines for her own publication.
Had I been asked two years ago if my project could have served as a prototype or guinea pig for the digital publishing initiative UMP is leading I would have been glad to help shape the development and design for authors producing narrative-driven digital publications.
For now, I am stuck in the middle, and all I want is for this project to be called done.
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Q: How can contents of a namespace be made available to an entire project without generating Multiply Defined Symbol errors? I am attempting to make a fairly large video game, and my current method of handling mouse input is to pass mouseX, mouseY, and an enum mouseState as arguments to the update function of EVERY single object that requires knowledge of the mouse. It's fairly messy, and I want to make the mouse variables more global by putting them in a namespace called Input so that I can access them with Input::mouseX, et al.
As it stands now, The namespace Input exists in Input.h (contents below)
#pragma once
#include "allegro5\allegro.h"
#include "J_Enum.h"
namespace Input{
ALLEGRO_EVENT_QUEUE *inputQueue;
int mouseX;
int mouseY;
MOUSE_STATE mouseState;
void setUpInput();
void updateInput();
};

and the two member functions are defined in Input.cpp
#include "Input.h"

void Input::setUpInput(){...declaration
void Input::updateInput(){...''

Upon including Input.h in the main loop object's header Core.h the linker throws a hissy fit because in its eyes everything included in Input.h is now a Multiply Defined Symbol.
Clearly something is wrong with my use of header files, because to my knowledge, I haven't made any glaring mistakes in my use of namespaces and the error code prefix of LNK2005 seems to implicate the linker(?).
If anyone can possibly shed some light on my dilemma I would be most grateful

A: Declare the variables as extern:
// header file:
namespace Input {
  extern int mouseX;
}

// implementation
#include "input.h"
namespace Input {
  int mouseX;
}

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https://celticswire.usatoday.com/2022/03/27/nba-boston-celtics-tatum-mvp-conversation/
Does Boston Celtics star forward Jayson Tatum belong in the 2022 NBA MVP conversation?
Paul Rutherford-USA TODAY Sports
March 27, 2022 5:00 am ET
With a rough start to both his and the Boston Celtics 2021-22 NBA season, there was not much buzz to speak of regarding the St. Louis native being a serious candidate for the league's 2022 regular-season Most Valuable Player (MVP) award this season.
But after he and the Celtics both took a turn towards serious contention in the new year, Tatum as MVP chatter has begun to build up a head of steam. With the Duke product finally making an appearance in the league's official MVP candidate tracker race at No. 4 this week, Tatum may have hit his high water mark in the race for the season — or has he?
The hosts of the NBC Sports/ Peacock show "Brothers From Another" Michael Holley and Michael Smith recently sat down with Vincent Goodwill to talk about where the former Blue Devil ought to be assessed now and moving forward in the 2022 MVP race.
Check out the clip embedded above to hear what they have to say.
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Someone's child, possibly one of my own, (I'm not going to name names) recently decided to lay a guilt trip on me and asked me when I was going to get on with it and finish the sequel to The Galian Spear.
I responded by mentally planning a graph showing how long the first edition of Book One took me, with copious vibrant rectangles added to display all the other writing and editing projects with which I am engaged, other larger rectangles communicating the amount of time given to certain child-related and household tasks, and figures along the lower axis estimating final completion dates, some of a uniquely distant nature. By the time I completed this, said child was watching YouTube.
I condensed my findings. "When I have time," I said.
The child gave an absent nod, eyes fixed on the TV.
I am writing, I reassured myself.
Okay, I have posted few word counts.
Blog posts have not been abundantly numerous, I am the first to admit. But their lack of abundant numerosity does not preclude prolificity (I am not sure if everything in that sentence qualifies as a word).
Most of my writing time is taken up by work on my political thriller The Frozen Man. That's all I'm going to say about that.
I have been editing and beta reading some amazing books, one of which is due to be published in 2016. That's all I'm going to say about them.


Load line is a special marking positioned amidships which depicts the draft of the vessel and the maximum permitted limit in distinct types of waters to which the ship can be loaded. Get a general overview of ship load lines inside the article.... 11/09/2014�� A ship�s displacement is the sum of the ship�s actual weight (lightweight) and it�s contents (deadweight). The metric unit of measurement is 1 tonne (= 1000 Kg). The displacement represents the amount of water displaced by the ship expressed in tonnes.
These marks are inverted on the other side of the ship hull. DECK LINE The deck line is placed at exact intersection of the freeboard deck with the outer shell of hull plating.... Ship draft marks Draft marks Draft marks on a ship - waterline numbers on bow and stern of a vessel at seaport Close up of the mushroom anchor on the LV116 Chesapeake in Baltimore Harbor Waterline Detail Bow of the general cargo ship Stalvard Rusting ship bow Old and weathered ship hull Question marks in thought bubbles seamless pattern background.
2 Introduction The below is a review outlining material handling shipping marks, labels and symbols applied within the context of shipping stock to inventory for the retail industry applicable.
The load line marks which we see on the side of merchant ships was infact devised by Samuel Plimsoll. Read on this article to know more about the load line markings and their relevance to ship stability.
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Q: ASP.NET Ajax postback suddenly stops on IPhone/IPad I have an Asp.Net 4.0 website/control interface that uses an update panel and some buttons. The update panel is wired to a timer that executes every 5 seconds, causing a partial postback. The buttons toggles some settings and then forces an update of the update panel through a call similar to this:
var prm = Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance();
prm._doPostBack('<%= UpdatePanel.ClientID %>', '');
return true;

The site runs fine on IE/Firefox and on Safari mobile devices (IPhone/IPad) but on the mobile devices the postback randomly and silently stops working. I figure this may have to do with saving batteries and that safari shuts the partial postback down when its idle. The problem is that when the user returns to the site the postback is completely shut off and neither the timer nor the buttons causes any postbacks no more. (I have monitored the network traffic on the server to verify this). Not even when the user refreshes the website (multiple times) the partial postback comes back into play. It just stops posting data to the server. Then suddenly and for no particular reason the postback starts working again. The downtime is often up to 10 minutes, which completely renders my website useless for its purpose.
Given that it takes so long before the postback starts again I wonder if there are any settings on either client side or in IIS to play with?
The website will run only on my customers devices, its not public, so if there is any settings to play with on the client I am up for it.
I am really confused about this and haven't found a way to trigger the "bug", it just happens sometimes. Any advices and tips are much appreciated.

Update:
Added some error handling and I have (not consistently) receive the following message when the postback fails:

The page is performing an async postback but the ScriptManager.SupportParialRendering property is set to false. Ensure that the property is set to true during postback.

Odly enough this property is obviously true for the device in the first instance, otherwise the postback would never work, which is not the case.

Update 2:
Found the folloing blog post suggesting to change the browserCap setting in web.config. Trying this now. Will report back. Other suggestions are still much welcomed.
ASP.NET 4 BrowserCaps (or: what were they thinking?)
The above disables javascript in safari mobile in fullscreen mode (running from home screen). The following article suggests a fix on this issue.
Gotcha: iPad versus ASP.NET

A: The findings under "update 2" in my question solves the issue. Apparently the Safari UserAgents occasionally recognized as Mozilla 0.0, as identified in the following blog post: ASP.NET 4 BrowserCaps (or: what were they thinking?):

The first WTF is that the .NET framework actually throws an exception if it detects an async postback from a browser that according to BrowserCaps does not support async postback. It's as if they think they know best who is capable of async postbacks even with overwhelming evidence to the contrary…
The next WTF was substantially harder to find. Why are Safari UserAgents occasionally recognized as Mozilla 0.0 and why was I never able to reproduce the issue even when using a UserAgent string that I just copied from an exception?
The answer lies in
<browserCaps userAgentCacheKeyLength="64" />
The default setting for the user agent cache key length is to take the first 64 characters of the UserAgent string. ...

And further down the page:

Setting the userAgentCacheKeyLength to 256 solved the problem, even though there are still UserAgent strings out there that are identified as Mozilla 0.0. At least now it's consistent.

So, putting <browserCaps userAgentCacheKeyLength="256" /> in Web.Config solves the issue.

This unfortunately causes another problem when the safari browser is used in fullscreen mode (link saved on the home screen). In fullscreen mode Safari uses a different HTTP User Agent String, and ASP.NET doesn't anymore recognize the browser as Safari, instead it recognizes it as a generic browser with no capabilities and for example JavaScript and JQuery will stop working. The is further elaborated in Gotcha: iPad versus ASP.NET. The solution is to put the following in Page_Init on each website. Not very elegant, but it works together with the above:
protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   if (Request.UserAgent != null && Request.UserAgent.IndexOf("AppleWebKit", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) > -1)
   {
      this.ClientTarget = "uplevel";
   }
}


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Q: Play Framework display output in console Eclipse I want to see the output of the Play Framework console directly in the Eclipse console. Can anyone help me?
I set the debug and it is working properly. But would like to see the outputs of the Play Framework in Eclipse console
My question is this same topic: Redirect Play Framework 2 output to Eclipse console
Thanks

A: Looking at the other question and the Play docs, I'm not sure it's currently possible to do what you're asking.
You can run Play in debug mode which uses remote debugging in Eclipse: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/IDE
Unfortunately, Play is still running in the Play Console process and it's going to print all logs and stdout into to that console. Eclipse is only listening on a port for JVM messages related to execution.
One hack you can do is alter the project configuration to add a file appender for the logging framework. You could then keep the log file open in Eclipse. You'll have to refresh the file or keep clicking on it to get new data, but it's something.
Another option is to ask the same question in the Play Google group. This is monitored more closely by the Play engineering team - https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/play-framework


Protoporphyrin IX (Pp IX) silica nanoparticles, developed for effective use in photodynamic therapy (PDT), were explored in in vitro and in vivo models with the ambition to improve knowledge on the role of biological factors in the photodamage. Pp IX silica nanoparticles are found efficient at temperature with extreme metabolic downregulation, which suggest a high proportion of passive internalization. For the first time, clearance of silica nanoparticles on tumor cells is established. Cell viability assessment in six tumor cell lines is reported.


When you are cooking in the kitchen, and even more importantly, photographing food for a blog, lighting is important.
Our kitchen fluorescent light fixtures are hard wired into a timer and the timer quit working. That meant the lights would be on ALL night. The only way to turn them off was to unplug them.
Maybe it was the movie I had just watched the night before (The Spy Next Door, with Jackie Chan) or the fact that I wasn't even thinking at all, but I climbed up onto the counter, climbed onto the fridge, and then onto the landing where we have three sets of fluorescent lights plugged in. Unplugged the lights, and began my ascent down.
I made it to the fridge and got one foot almost onto the countertop. I could feel my hands slipping from the ledge, so I jumped. Like the good, former gymnast that I am, I remembered to bend my knees and make a "stick it" landing that would make any gymnastics judge proud. Only I didn't land on a cushy mat. I landed on a rock hard tile floor.
Within five minutes, I had a searing pain in both of my heels. I could not walk. Immediately did RICE first aid: rest, ice, compression, elevate. Got an x-ray a few days later with good news and bad news. The good news is that I have no fractures. The bad news is that my heels will be sore for up to four months.
No more skipping around the kitchen, let alone jumping or running. Just a rude reminder that I am not sixteen years old anymore. The next day, CSN Stores contacted me with another giveaway! Now, that is great news!! CSN Stores is a group of stores that has everything....lighting, furniture, home decor, shoes and much, much more! Shipping is free on many of their items and they have a fabulous no hassle return policy!
Here's even better news....you, my dear readers, will get to choose what to order from CSN Stores if you are a winner. What is on your wish list?
Is it lighting? I could use three of these over my bar. These are under $60 and come with free shipping!
How about a stylish leather computer tote bag? This is $60 and has free shipping!
How does an ice cream maker sound? If you've always wanted one, now's your chance!
This giveaway is open to my USA and Canada readers!
First, go to CSN Stores and browse to your hearts desire.
1. Leave me a comment what you would like to spend your $60 gift certificate on. I would love to know!
3. Become a follower (or tell me if you are one) of Frieda Loves Bread on Face Book.
4. Tweet this giveaway. Leave me a comment with your Twitter name.
5. Blog about this giveaway. Leave me a comment with the title of your blog.
Please include an email address in your comment so I can contact you if you win!
CSN is graciously providing one of my lucky readers with a $60 gift promo code to use on any order from any one of their stores. Shipping is not included in the gift promo.
I have not received any monetary compensation for this post.
I'd definitely find something I'd like at their kitchen store. I've browsed there many times.
I'd buy a chef knife.
I would definitely get a new purse!
Oh Frieda, your poor heels, ouch! I hope your heels heal fast!
I would pick 6 of the Franciscan Desert Rose Salad Plates. I've always loved Franciscan ware.
If I win, I would use it to get something from the cooks store such as the Bee Hive Nordic ware pan or the 2 quart Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker...have an old Krups but my family complains it's not big enough!
Molly via RSS feed: Frieda, the ice cream maker is something that would be a luxury at our house. If I won, it would be my choice. I love your blog and refer to and use many of your ideas and recipes. Last week I bottled potatoes for the first time, thanks to you. Keep up the good work and take care of yourself!!
Well, I have never owned a food processor, and I watch all these great food shows and visit awesome food blogs. They are all using food processors, so I would use the $60 towards a Cuisinart food processor.
I follow your blog via Google Friends Connect.
I would buy the Le Creuset skinny grill on CSN.
I would love to use the money to buy a grill/griddle.
I have about 5 purses i want! or there is a bicycle for my son I would like and $60 would pay for just about all of it.
I could get lost in their site. There are so many items. I know that I could more than likely find a great set of sheets for the bedroom.
I am a new follower via google friend.
I'd get the Art 4 Kids Planets in Orbit Wall Art for my son's bedroom.
I follow Frieda Loves Bread on facebook.
I would buy the American Food Dehydrator!!! Been looking for one for a long time!
I would get the Lipper International Kids' Table and Chair Set.
How does one decide with all that great stuff. I just broke my mixer and haven't decided which brand to get but I would be thrilled to but it from CSN.
Id buy a bouncing medicine ball 10 lb one.
Hi Frieda, I'm so sorry about your heels. We've all done something we wish we hadn't at one time or another. Hope they feel better soon.
I'd buy the ice cream maker. My old ones are on their last leg.
I've been wanting a pressure cooker, but those shoes look awfully cute.
I'd love an ice cream maker!!
There are several nice Piel Leather Wallets that I would love to have!
I'm a follower via google.
I would love to get some bakeware or cookware, but I have so many already...no space. I'd like to get some goblets or bedding.
I'm a follower of Frieda Loves Bread on facebook.
Following Frieda on facebook as suburb sanity.
I have a new house and could use MANY things...or perhaps a new purse for me!! Thanks for the giveaway!
Hmmm...that ice cream maker looks like it would fit perfectly in my kitchen! Hope you feel better soon!


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Jenny Braun
Published October 21st, 2018 - 10.21.188
The trans-continental Marriott strike continues without flagging. Seven thousand workers in Boston, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, and throughout Hawaii are disrupting operations at dozens of Marriott-owned hotels. The SF Examiner describes the scene in downtown San Francisco, where more than 1,000 workers and supporters rallied Saturday. Chief among these strikers' concerns is job security – and union spokesperson Rachel Gumpert stressed that both automation and environmentalist efforts like the chains' "Green Choice Program," which encourages patrons to opt-out of housekeeping services, are already resulting in job losses. In Detroit, Unite Here 24 representatives criticized the band The Foo Fighters for clandestinely crossing the picket line last week, which the band refutes. Guitarist Chris Shiflett insisted via twitter that they did not stay at any Marriott hotel, and that he has consistently supported the strike. In Hawaii, where 2,700 workers are striking, labor and management will return to the bargaining table on Oct. 26, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
Negotiations are stalling between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and Canada Post's management officials; a nationwide rotating strike looms. Public officials across provinces are preparing for the work stoppage, but are also urging CUPW to reconsider. Ontario's minister of finance Vic Fedeli has called upon the federal government to prevent the strike and warns of "devastating" economic consequences should they not, including a disruption in the flow of online sales for 136 billion-dollars-worth of goods and services. Particularly distressing to Fedeli is the effect of a strike on the "secure and reliable online delivery" system for cannabis. CUPW-prairie region's national director Gordon Fischer explains that Canada Post must go further with its current offers if it wishes to avoid a strike. CUPW is seeking agreement on a range of issues addressing wages, benefits, safety, and job security.
In San Diego, the faculty union at Palomar College (San Marcos) has filed a lawsuit against the college's Governing Board for an opaque process that yielded a 27-percent salary raise for college president Joi Lin Blake. The complaint alleges that the Board's secret, closed-door meetings violated California's open-government rules under the Brown Act. Blake's salary rose from 252,782 dollars a year to 292,027 dollars, with additional benefits and pension plans; the Palomar Faculty Federation Local 6161 opposes this use of taxpayer dollars as "irresponsible." Governing Board member Paul McNamara is running for mayor of Escondido against incumbent Sam Abed, and the Coast News Group describes the effects of the lawsuit on that race.
In Seattle, the police union is fighting for their contract with the city, after the Community Police Commission voted against it. The CPC is a community-oriented oversight group that was initially established in 2012 via consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2017, a suite of legislative efforts focused on police accountability made permanent the CPC and instituted two additional accountability agencies. According to CPC, which is tasked with facilitating understanding and trust between the community and police, the new collective bargaining agreement would "undercut" their progress, roll back some of the legislative reforms, and ultimately erode public faith in the force. While Lisa Duagaard, CPC commissioner and director of the Public Defender Association, recognizes that the police rank-and-file "deserve a contract" and "a fair wage," she argues that the current CBA protects the police too much: it insulates some officers from new accountability standards and grants others the use of private arbitration as they contest disciplinary action. 96 percent of union members voted for the contract, which applies retroactively because the previous agreement expired in 2014, and includes between 3 and 3.85 percent wage increases. Seattle Weekly walks through the various issues and tensions in the debate. Sworn, entry-level officers currently earn 39 dollars an hour.
In New Hampshire, the Rye Police Association, represented by Teamsters Local 663, has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Chief Kevin Walsh. Allegations refer to Walsh's abusive management style, which routinely features profanity-laced tirades, and has included threats to run over a sergeant. Attrition rates at the force are high because many have found Walsh's leadership intolerable. The officers seek a hearing before the town's Board of Selectmen.
Baltimore's Police Union has taken offense at Saturday Night Live's unnecessarily "sharp jab" at the department last week. Gene Ryan, outgoing president of Baltimore's chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, wrote to SNL create Lorne Michaels lamenting the "grossly inapt" portrayal of the force as incompetent and abusive, hard-drinking and unconstrained. The skit in question features two African American female officers, played by Leslie Jones and Baltimore native Ego Nwodim, as they handle a traffic stop with a white man played by Seth Meyers; the officers have clearly been drinking and are using their power to make sexual advances. As Washington Post columnist Theresa Vargas explains, however, the police union's response is only animating a counter-response, wherein the public expresses "just how failed [it] feels by its police department."
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Rookies Ready for First Taste of NFL
Rachel Gossen
Another training camp, another preseason, another 16 games, another shot at winning the Super Bowl. But for the Chargers' rookies, this isn't just another year. It's the beginning of what hopefully will become a long career.
Saturday marks the first preseason game against the Arizona Cardinals, and for the newest members of the Bolts, it's a time to step up and prove why they were picked for this team. Defensive Coordinator Gus Bradley noted that he's eager to see them in a pro game.
"I think it's going to be an exciting game for us as a coaching staff, really, to watch our younger guys," Bradley said. "It's going to be really a fundamental game…(to) see how the younger guys have evolved from the first day of training camp."
"They've done a good job in training camp, but this is why you come to training camp, to get ready to play in ballgames," Head Coach Anthony Lynn added.
The biggest challenge for a rookie is to transition from college ball to pro, and for second-round draft pick Uchenna Nwosu, the challenge is made harder by the fact that he's playing dual positions: outside linebacker and edge rusher at defensive end on third downs.
"I'm not perfect," Nwosu said. "I haven't really played behind the ball in a while so being able to play stacked a little bit, then coming down and doing multiple things, it's a learning curve…I think I'm picking it up pretty fast, pretty smooth. The vets, they're like extra coaches out there, so any questions I have, I can ask them. They're pretty much helping me along the way and it's getting better and better."
And he is picking up both positions quickly. Nwosu has strung together his best practices of training camp this week, including multiple would-be sacks across consecutive days of practice. He also added an interception on Thursday.
Now, he's ready for the big time: his first NFL game.
"(It's a) dream come true," he said. "It's what I've been thinking about since I (began) playing football. To be able to go out there and live out my dream for the first time is going to be a surreal moment. I'll embrace it, but I also came to play."
Fourth-round draft pick Kyzir White echoed Nwosu's feelings.
"I'm very excited (and) ready to get after it," he remarked. "It's been a while since I put the pads on and went against another team so I'm looking forward to it."
The jump from college to pro has also been a big hurdle for White, who played safety at West Virginia and is now playing linebacker. However, he's keeping pace.
"I have to focus more when it comes to fronts," he said. "I have to be tuning in to reading keys, reading alignments and reading the running back's steps coming out the backfield. Little things like that, but it is a big transition…In the Big-12, I feel like it's pretty fast-paced so I feel like it's not really that big of an adjustment speed-wise for me."
While both rookies are learning to take their game to new heights, there's one thing from college Nwosu won't be leaving behind – college rivalry. Nwosu, who played at USC, will face his old rival quarterback, UCLA alum and now Arizona Cardinal Josh Rosen, when he lines up Saturday night.
"I'm looking forward to seeing him again," Nwosu laughed. "I'll give him a good nice hug like I did in college."
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Aquaculture has been the fastest growing food production sector globally during the last two decades. In opposite to the global and European trend, the production in the EU and especially in the BSR has stagnated being annually appr. 100.000 tons in the Baltic Sea catchment area of the BSR EU Member States. It is widely accepted that aquaculture has great potential to feed growing human population in the era of declining wild stocks ("Blue Revolution"), but new production has to be built on sustainable practices and technologies. AQUABEST, a continum of aquaculture flagship-project BESTAQ (Priority Area 9, project 9.5), is the first Baltic Sea Region-wide consortium of regional authorities, producer organizations, academy and stakeholders with a mission to develope common strategy for sustainable aquaculture production in the region. AQUABEST will present a toolbox of innovative practices and technologies, test them, and provide a BSR Aquaculture Vision acceptable by stakeholders.
AQUABEST will target the following four specific problems and demonstrate practices to solve them.
1) Aquaculture relies upon nutrients imported from oceans thus contributing to eutrofication of the Baltic Sea.
2) Recent spatial planning knowledge has not been transferred to most BSR regions, and aquaculture has therefore not developed in offshore or other remote areas with less environmental effects, competition and conflicts.
3) Feasibility of recirculation farming has not been assessed and technology transferred throughout BSR regions.
4) Licensing systems do not encourage adoption of eco-efficient technologies and practices.
1) Demonstration that BSR aquaculture is capable of becoming a nutrient neutral food production system.
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3) Demonstration that new recirculation technologies can be developed and transferred to regions.
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(i) A Bachelor's or Master Degree in any discipline of Panjab University or a degree of any other University which has been recognised by Panjab University as equivalent thereto with atleast 50% marks in aggregate;
Provided that in case of candidates having Bachelor's degree of the University through Modern Indian Language [Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi (Gurmukhi Script)] and/or in a Classical Language ( Sanskrit / Persian / Arabic) or degree of any other University obtained in the same manner recognized by the Syndicate, 50% marks in the aggregate shall be calculated by taking into account full percentage of marks in all the papers in Language excluding the additional optional paper, English and the elective subject taken together. Or
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(iii) AMIE examination with 50% marks or more after having passed the diploma examination with 60% marks or above and have at least 5 years research/teaching of professional experience. Concession of 5% marks will be given in the eligibility requirements for SC/ST/BC candidates.
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The Panjab University Executive MBA Entrance Test will carry 100% weightage and will be of two hours duration consisting of 100 questions. The medium of examination shall be ENGLISH only. There shall be no negative marking for wrong answers. It will consist of multiple- choice questions having four responses A, B, C & D. The components of the test will include :
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There will be 25 questions in each section.
Panjab University Executive MBA Application Form 2016
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Radicals eyed after firing near US airbase in Japan
TOKYO — Improvised rocket launchers were fired close to a U.S. airbase near Tokyo, police and the American military said Friday, with suspicions falling on one of Japan's small ultra-leftist groups. No one was hurt and no damage was done in the incident, which media reported came just hours after the arrest of a senior member of a radical faction, and followed a pattern seen four years earlier. "The incident occurred at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday. Flying objects were launched near the U.S. military's Yokota Airbase," a spokesman for Tokyo Metropolitan Police said. "Several reports were made by neighbors that they had heard explosions at about 11:30 p.m. Police discovered two steel pipes, two wires, batteries, and so forth.
"No damage has been reported so far and police have not found the projectiles." Local media reported the pipes were buried in the ground, with the upper end pointing in the direction of Yokota Airbase. A statement from the U.S. military confirmed the presence of "an improvised mortar launch outside Yokota." "There were no injuries and thus far we have found no damage or impact points here on base. We take matters of security at our installation very seriously and we are assisting" police, it said. There have been no claims of responsibility, but police believe it may have been a guerrilla attack by extreme leftists, Jiji Press and other media said. Broadcaster NTV reported police were concentrating their investigations on the Revolutionary Laborers' Association Anti-Majority Faction because the incident came just hours after they arrested a top-ranking member on Thursday. A similar incident occurred four years ago, when police raided hideouts of the same leftists, NTV said. Japan's politics is generally moderate, although there are vestiges of the radicalism on both left and right that abounded in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time Japan was in the middle of a decades-long period of blistering economic growth as the ruined and largely rural country that emerged from the defeat of World War II rose to become the globe's second largest economy. One of the most infamous groups was the United Red Army which, despite its small size, gained notoriety for its extreme brutality. A linked group, the Japanese Red Army, operated from Lebanon in tandem with Palestinian militias, carrying out high profile terror attacks including a massacre at Israel's Lod airport and hijackings of Japan Airlines planes. Japan is host to almost 50,000 U.S. service personnel and their families. The two countries have a mutual defense agreement that, in practice, means Tokyo is given shelter under Washington's significant security umbrella. But many people in Okinawa, where the bulk of U.S. troops are based, resent their presence and an increasingly vocal campaign wants them to leave. However, reports of violence to this end are not common. In a 2012 agreement, the United States said it would pull 9,000 Marines out of Okinawa — 4,000 of whom would go to Guam and 5,000 to Hawaii and on rotations to Australia — as it seeks to ease a long-running standoff over the future of its huge military presence in one of its top Asian allies. The planned Marine move, which is due to begin in the early 2020s, is part of a wider rebalancing of U.S. military assets in the region under President Barack Obama's trumpeted "pivot" to Asia. Thursday's incident also comes as tensions run high in the region between China and Japan with the focus on a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.


There is a lot out there at the moment, both individual and 360 assessments, designed with the aim of stopping people in organisations from derailing themselves. "Don't be like this, don't do that, watch out for your tendency to act like the other thing".
The problem is that this is like asking a volcano to "just keep a lid on it". With the best will in the world, the rumbles keep building up, the mountainside shakes more and more often, and you just know that sooner or later the top of the volcano is heading skywards, along with hundreds of acres of the surrounding countryside and half the inhabitants of the little town at the foot of the mountain.
It is only when a person genuinely understands the underlying reasons that lead them to behave in a certain manner, and react in the way that they do, that they can actually start to manage and change behaviours.
70 years ago Dr Roger Birkman had a critical insight which, combined with 12 years of painstaking observational research, enabled him to develop an instrument that gives individuals that level of self knowledge. The Birkman Method does predict exactly how each one will uniquely "come unstuck" in certain situations; but it also equips them to understand what is going on - and master themselves.
How is the Birkman Method different from Hogan and other 'derailer' focussed assessments? If you've seen the movie, "The King's Speech", think of the difference between the Duke of York being told "please concentrate, your Royal Highness" by the 'expert' with his bowl of heated glass balls; and the combination of empathy, understanding and technical insight and training he received from Lionel Logue. One approach was all about "stop stammering" (stop derailing yourself); the other was about "understanding what is going on here; and here's how you can learn to address this".
So if you are tired of telling your clients that they need to change something (something they are probably only too aware of); or indeed, if you are tired of being on the receiving end of that advice - there is another, better and much more fruitful approach.
Understand what is going on beneath the surface for yourself, and you will find you are more than halfway home.


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As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.


The Personal and Professional Development (PPD) training programme for postgraduate research students of the Faculty of Science (SCI) is designed with two aims in mind. Firstly to help your research get off to a flying start and then to develop a range of advanced skills to facilitate your postgraduate studies while simultaneously paving the way to your future career. Within the programme, there are elements to broaden your scientific knowledge and enhance the transferable skills needed for successful postgraduate research and to launch the next stage of your career.
The PPD training programme was launched in 2009 in response to the requirements of the UK Research Councils for researcher training and development. These requirements emphasise the importance of generic research training and preparation for a professional career. Since then the training programme has evolved in response to feedback from postgraduate researchers and the priorities of the Research Councils. Academics and research staff from across SCI are involved in the training, together with staff from the wider UEA and Norwich Research Park. We also have a range of external contributors who provide training in specialist areas.
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Two more days, 1 more hour, 20 more minutes. Jia you! Jia you! Jia you!
Thoughts like these repeat over and over as James Zheng pushes to keep up the momentum, struggling to bike uphill. Already at a height of more than 5,000km above sea level, he ignores the elevation-induced nausea forming in his stomach as he reaches the end of a roughly 140km biking day.
Days like these are tough for James and his biking team, which consists of himself and three co-workers, Austin, A-Sen, and A-Kun. A former personal trainer, James and his buddies embarked on an intensive seven-day bike ride from Qinghai to Lhasa last August. Spanning approximately 1,200 km from start to finish, the long days of biking were rewarded with breathtaking view of the plains, mountains, and local life they passed along the way.
James, your journey sounds incredible - 1,200 km in 7 days! What motivated you and your coworkers to take on this challenge?
I think there were many factors we considered when we were initially planning out this trip. Practically speaking, we only had about two weeks to complete this journey due to our vacation schedules. Personally speaking, we are all pretty fit physically, so we wanted to do a ride that would be challenging for all of us.
Additionally, the four of us work for an organization called ikid, which works to help kids in China become more physically active. Child obesity is a huge problem in this country, and we wanted to raise awareness about the importance of exercise and being healthy. Through this trip, we wanted to motivate children all over China and show them they can do amazing things too if they work hard at it.
That sounds like a great reason to ride. How did you choose your route?
This was the first time any of us would do a long-distance ride, so the Qinghai-Tibet route was a great way to start. We considered a few other routes to Lhasa, including starting from Yunnan, Xinjiang, and Sichuan, but the first two trips would have been too long for the amount of time we had, and the Sichuan route is a very popular route, so it would have been very crowded.
Did you do any training for the trip?
Not really. We all exercise and play sports regularly, so we didn't have a specific training regiment to get us ready for the trip. In general, I ran, swam, and biked as I normally would, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Looking back, I think the trip was fine without having done any training, even as we averaged anywhere between 140-190 km a day. There were a few days that were tough, especially combined with the high elevation, constant uphill biking, and lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. If anything, it would have been great if we could have somehow prepared for the elevation changes.
Did the regional foods affect your ride in any way?
Funny that you ask. Actually, if you're planning to ride through central China as we did, be prepared to eat lots of lamb and meat, since that's mostly what the local food consists of. There were virtually no fresh fruit or vegetable markets, and water was scarce in some parts of the region. This was an extremely difficult diet to have, especially since we needed to bike so much each day. Some days, we wouldn't eat much of the local food and only eat the fruits we brought with us.
How did you manage to bring all that stuff with you?
We wanted to focus on our ride during these seven days, so we hired a private van that would drive ahead of us as we rode. Not only did they carry all our stuff, but if we were injured or unable to ride for any reason, it was a good safety measure to have in place.
As a girl, I have to ask this. Any advice on what to wear?
Wear what's comfortable and practical. You don't have to go all out with the newest and fanciest brand name athletic wear. Gear is crucial in the sense that you should be practically clothed and prepared for all kinds of weather. While the sun shines strong, we also encountered hail and very strong winds on parts of our journey. Additionally, I would recommend covering your face from the sun, or at the very least, making sure you have enough sunscreen to last you through the trip.
Sounds like there were a lot of challenges along the way. What would you say was the most difficult part of your trip?
Day two was a bit difficult because it was the first time we had reached an elevation of more than 4,500 m. We weren't prepared for it, and it was painful to bike the 35 km through Kulun Pass. However, the most difficult part actually came after we completed our journey. On our way back from Lhasa to Hangzhou, we came across a number of obstacles that elongated our trip even more, when all we wanted to do was go home for a nice hot shower and jump right into bed.
The original route we wanted to take through Sichuan was blocked due to a collapsed bridge. After driving more than 100 km on an alternate route that was very rocky, our tires blew out. Without spare tires, there was nothing we could do at that point, but stay put for the night. It was very dangerous because there were many wild animals, such as bears, in the area, so we're glad nothing bad happened to us. In the morning, one of our co-workers was able to go out and find a police station, where we were finally able to get some help. This detour cost us two days, and you can imagine how difficult it was to have completed the biking part, only to run into delays just as we were about to go home.
Yikes! On the flip side, what were some of your favorite moments on the ride?
I loved some of the natural scenery we were able to see in central China, especially the beautiful mountains and plains that you can't find in Hangzhou. We passed by one of China's famous mountain ranges, the Qinling Mountains, and it would have been great if we could have stopped for a hike. I also really enjoyed cruising along and seeing some of the natural wildlife, including the Tibetan antelope. In line with trying to raise awareness about health and exercise, I was pleasantly surprised to see that children in Tibet were not only more active than children here, but they have better posture and are more physically active. It would be interesting to learn more about their lifestyle, and how we can use that to encourage fitness back in Hangzhou.
Listening to you talk about your trip, it's clear you've learned a lot. What advice do you have for first-time riders who are interested in either this route or something similar through central China?
I would definitely encourage new and seasoned riders to ride with other people. There were so many times throughout our trip that would have been difficult if I had gone on the trip by myself. Teamwork is also an important component of long-distance rides such as this. With a group of people, we were able to motivate each other to keep going when sometimes all we wanted was to stop early. It's also just more fun to share this experience with others.
On that note, motivation is key. You must be motivated or find ways to motivate yourself and your fellow riders. Focus on the daily goal as well as where you are in relation to your end point because that will help you keep moving forward. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the ride and I loved the trip, but after cycling for 100 km or so, it can be exhausting to push yourself for another 25-50 km. If you have enough time after the trip that you can afford a few extra days of riding or resting, that's fine, but if you are like us and have a time limit, staying motivated was very important to our success.
Finally, I would recommend bringing lots of fruit and water on your journey. We were lucky and thought ahead to bring this, but if you've never been to the region before, it might not be obvious. As I mentioned before, the diet in Gansu consisted of lots of lamb and little of anything else. What few fruit stands we did see were very expensive, and the quality of fruit was not as great as in Hangzhou. I'd recommend bringing apples, oranges, and other fruits that can last for a few days.
And finally, the million-dollar question: would you do this again?
Definitely! This was an incredible experience that challenged me in many ways, and I'm excited to do it again. There are a ton of things I learned from this trip that will help me prepare for the next one. I'm hoping this year I'll be able to do another cycling trip from Yunnan to Lhasa.


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Chan Hock-joe/Joe Ah Chan and Yip Kue-sum
Chan Hock-joe (known in New Zealand as Joe Ah Chan) was born in Ha Gee village in 1882 and arrived in New Zealand around 1905. He was already married to his wife Yip Kue-sum before coming to New Zealand. He worked for some years as a fruit and vege hawker in Wellington before returning to China in 1916 to help Kue-sum learn enough English so she could pass the English language test that was in force at the time. Chan returned to New Zealand in 1917, opening a store at Matamata. Kue-sum joined him in July 1920, successfully passing the reading test. Ironically the test was abolished just 4 months later. In 1925 Chan began to grow grapes at Totara near Thames, the first Chinese New Zealander to do so, and in 1929 he produced his first batch of wine. He was reputed to be the first Chinese wine-maker in the Southern Hemisphere. As he was often away on business Kue-sum played a leading role in the vineyard, supervising the cultivation, harvesting and packing of the grapes. He was known as the 'Grape Man' and she was the 'Mistress'. In 1950 they sold the vineyard to a distant cousin, Stanley Young Chan, who changed its name to Totara Vineyards SYC. Chan Hock-joe died in 1959, aged 77, and Kue-sum in 1967, at the venerable age of 87.


In reference to a right-handed pitcher I will discuss the proper biomechanics of the pitch and likely areas to accumulate stress and strain from unlikely sources.
Have you ever thought of the left foot being the cause of right shoulder injuries such as rotator cuff and bicep tendonitis?
Have you thought of the right inner thigh as the reason for slower speed in the throw?
How important is the left hip flexibility in preventing lower back pain?
If you have ever wondered about the "Why" behind the obvious "What" please read on!
It's easy to diagnose what the injury is (tendonitis, muscle or tendon tear, stress fracture) but how many athletes undergo thorough evaluation of why it occurred in the first place? Yes, it is true that repetitive motion can cause these things but what if there was a way to prevent or slow down the destructive process?
In a right handed thrower there are a few key points to look at in their body movement. As soon as the left foot hits the ground the maximal load is on their shoulder. It's the point where the more length you can generate the more power you'll have. So you can imagine if the inner thigh of the right leg or hamstring on the landing leg were at all tightened it could potentially cause an early acceleration of the trunk and throwing arm. Such timing of a highly repetitive motion can accumulate tension on the anterior (front) part of the shoulder including the bicep tendon. It can also be the cause of many side arm techniques that lead to elbow injury.
And let's look at the landing gear! How important is the ability to balance on one leg not to mention being stable while the mass and momentum of your body spins around it!? If the arch of the foot is flat or unsupported you can see how that could impact the rest of the body in the throw. The foot itself could be the culprit in early acceleration of the arm and also faulty deceleration of the body over the landing leg. Consequently a restricted hip on the landing leg could lead to the lower back compensating that extra torque which it is not designed to do. With this understanding of throwing mechanics how important do you think Flexibility is in training!? If you aren't currently incorporating sport specific flexibility training in your daily routine it's not too late to start.
There is an epidemic happening in youth sports. Injuries are occurring from overtraining or in my opinion under-training in flexibility and mobility.
High School athletes account for over 2 million injuries per year! (Journal of Athletic Training) Over 500,000 sprain/strain injuries occur each year in our teenage athlete population. That's too many!
Why are so many sprains and strains happening in non contact sports?
Are athletes spending time on flexibility?
How many injuries have caused lost time at play?
How many injuries have caused a lost season?
How many injuries have ended a career? A college Scholarship?
If you have wondered the answers to any of these questions you are not alone. Every time I see a new athlete in my clinic I ask the same questions, what do you do for flexibility training? How often do you stretch? The answers are usually astonishing, "not much" or "only a little bit". When I ask why not they usually tell me the coaches don't do it because there is not enough time.
What that tells me is that either they don't know the value of it or they simply don't know how to do it. I have offered several times and at various locations to come into the high schools and demonstrate FREE flexibility training, even sport specific programs. Every time I get the same answer, "We already have an athletic trainer here doing that and we don't want to step on their toes bringing in someone else". REALLY??!!
Help me to educate TEAM SPORTS about the importance of flexibility training. DEMAND that every sport and every team have DESIGNATED time for flexibility training.
Begin your own flexibility training program and see if you feel better and perform better. I have some videos posted that can give you a good start. A professional video of my Standard of Flexibility is underway currently.
Make some NOISE! Start talking about this among friends, family, coaches, anyone. See for yourself how much we can improve this area of youth athletics. Comment on this Blog, share it with as many as you can and let me know how loud our voice can be.
The CRITICAL age for injury is 15 years old! I see more injuries at this age than any other. This is a pivotal age in development when growth plates begin to close and that super bendable little girl/boy who we marveled at as they never seemed to tire out suddenly feels tension, restricted motion, pain! We all know that as we get older our bodies begin to stiffen.
There are many aspects to being the BEST at a sport. Just look at the entourage of people that work for Professional sporting teams. It's a full time job being a Pro. Our children admire them and we need to too. Admire their dedication and commitment to their sport but also admire all the preparatory work that takes place too.
Our kids start young in athletics and never seem to have an 'off season'. They play multiple sports and are on multiple teams. Their developing bodies are failing by the middle of high school where performance should PEAK not slow down.
If you agree with what I am saying and you'd like to see me develop a Standard of Flexibility Program for our youth please LET ME HEAR YOU! Comment here or send me a private message.


What is the advantage to you of publishing in the Journal of Experimental Pharmacology?
The time from submission to a decision being made on a paper can, in many journals, take some months and this is very frustrating for authors. The Journal of Experimental Pharmacology has a quicker turnaround time than this. Generally peer review is complete within 4-7 weeks and the editor's decision within 2-14 days of this. It is therefore very rare to have to wait more than 9 weeks for a final decision.
The Journal of Experimental Pharmacology is indexed on PubMed Central (title abbreviation: J Exp Pharmacol). All published papers in this journal are submitted to PubMed for indexing straight away.