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Acta Psychologica Sinica ›› 2019, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (7): 805-815.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2019.00805
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It is reported that, the primary approach for school children to acquire vocabularies is by deriving word meanings from contexts. The typical deficit of developmental dyslexia is that they have smaller vocabulary size than their chronological age-matched children. One recent study has examined the cognitive processes underlying dyslexic children's novel word learning during reading by using eye tracking. This is a method that is well established as a means of investigating reading behaviour by measuring when and where the eye fixates on text as written language is processed naturally. It should be noted that all the studies investigating novel word learning measured fixation durations on novel words fixated by dyslexic children with a view to quantifying the time required for those novel words to be successfully identified within the context of a sentence. In the present study we investigated saccadic targeting in relation to novel word learning in dyslexia children.
Each novel word was embedded into eight sentences, each of which provided a context for readers to form a new lexical representation. Two groups of dyslexic children and age-matched control children's eye movements were recorded when they read sentences. Given the ongoing lexical processing difficulty influences the basic decision of "where to target" in Chinese reading, the novel word poses substantial processing difficulty, particular for dyslexic children with inefficient lexical processing, we predict that dyslexic children would be less efficient to target the eyes than control children did in novel word learning.
Consistent with our prediction, the mean initial landing positions on novel words were further away from the word center for dyslexic than control children, showing that the basic decision of saccadic targeting on novel words was less efficient for dyslexic than control children. Additionally, we categorized 8 exposures to novel words as being two learning stages: Learning stage 1 including exposures 1 to 4; and learning stage 2 including the exposures from 5 to 8. We aimed to examine whether they were able to modulate their saccadic targeting as the accumulated learning of novel words. The results showed that, control children targeted the initial saccades closer to the word centers with increased exposures, while such effect did not occur for dyslexic children. These findings indicate that control children adjusted the initial saccadic targeting based on lexical familiarity information, while dyslexic children did not.
On the basis of the findings above, we argue that, dyslexic children may adopt more careful strategy of saccade-target selection given their lower efficiency in word processing, such that they had lower efficiencies in the basic decision of saccadic targeting, as well as the usage of "lexical familiarity information" to modulate the saccadic targeting to novel words. This might account for their low word acquisition efficiency in reading.
Key words: developmental dyslexia, novel word learning, saccade targeting, Chinese reading
LIANG Feifei, MA Jie, LI Xin, LIAN Kunyu, TAN Ke, BAI Xuejun. (2019). Saccadic targeting deficits of Chinese children with developmental dyslexia: Evidence from novel word learning in reading. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 51(7), 805-815.
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The Supreme Court held in a 9-0 decision this week that employees who were required to pass through anti-theft security screenings at the end of each work day were not owed for the time spent waiting in line, emptying their pockets, and passing through metal detectors, because that time was not compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, et al., No. 13-433 (Dec. 9, 2014).
The case, brought by employees in a Nevada Amazon.com warehouse, required the Court to interpret the FLSA and the Portal-to-Portal Act, which essentially provide that a work activity is compensable if it is "an integral or indispensable part" of the employee's principal work activities. The Supreme Court held that an activity is integral and indispensable, and therefore requires compensation under the FLSA, if: (a) it is an intrinsic element of the activities which the employee is employed to perform; and (b) the employee cannot dispense with the activity and still be able to perform his principal activities. Stated simply, the activity must be a direct and essential part of the performance of the employee's core responsibilities. The Court then held that passing through security was not part of the duties the warehouse workers were hired to perform and would not have affected the performance of their packing and shipping duties if it had been eliminated. Therefore, the Court ruled that the employer properly regarded the waiting in line and screening time as off the clock.
While this case controls with respect to time spent for certain employer security measures, it may have broader application to those employers that require, or are considering requiring, employees to perform non-essential activities off the clock. It provides a test to determine whether those activities are compensable under the FLSA, which employers can apply to attempt to avoid violations.


You thought Business Process Management was a comparatively safe field. Think again! Stay clear of these seven deadly sins of BPM – to avoid eternal condemnation or the need to beg forgiveness. I should add it's a personal view and apologies for any of you who were hoping for more on lust or gluttony!
Woe unto he who uses the term 'management' when they really mean automating.
Business process management means many things to many people. Just take the words 'process' and 'management' alone – different people see these quite differently according to their perspective(1). For many BPM vendors and practitioners alike process management has come to mean process automation. Automation is important but it doesn't constitute Management. From my perspective Management implies good governance,; each process should be seen as an important asset and therefore owned, understood, correctly applied and improved continuously.
The end goal is improved performance. That improvement may involve automation, but not in all cases. After all – if you look at the activities in your business the vast majority are performed by humans not machines and that's not going to change any time soon. What irritates me is that so many of the automation focused tools which purport to offer BPM, offer little capability with respect to Management as I define it above. The result can easily be the automation of processes which are suboptimal, not properly understood, not properly applied and not continuously improved.
(1) Perspectives: An earlier paper "What BPM Hat are you wearing?" explores the different process perspectives of four main stakeholder groups: End Users, IT, System providers and Risk / Compliance. Access the paper here.
Verily I say unto you that work shall be end-to-end lest ye be functionally silo'd.
In reality, processes start and end in very different places in the enterprise, often spanning multiple functional areas. There is a risk therefore that process improvement efforts are too narrowly silo'd. The effect? Different departments fix just their part of a larger process.
It's difficult to influence what happens either upstream or downstream from that part. And yet improvement of the full end-to-end flow requires collaboration along the full path. The failure to achieve such consensus could result in worsened performance, as a fix in one silo could be a retrograde step for another.
A similar challenge is that different specialist projects spring up all the time that duplicate each other's process discovery efforts because the organization lacks a central repository for process knowledge. Take a typical ERP or CRM project as a good example. A team of consultants from a system integrator create a bunch of Visio diagrams. Their use is temporary. Once the system has gone live or the upgrade is complete – typically the content sits in a forgotten network folder and is never referred to again. Five years on – time for an upgrade. The content – if found – is regarded with suspicion. It's out of date. The next SI (often a different company) does exactly the same – recreating a bunch of content that has little or no residual value.
Meanwhile, there are all sorts of other projects going on, that all aim to understand and improve process. For example: Compliance, Quality, Risk Management, Shared Services, Outsourcing, Lean, Six Sigma, Merger / Acquisition, perhaps others as well.
• Alignment to frameworks (SCOR, APQC's PCF), and more.
Moving process management efforts from multiple silos to a shared enterprise asset creates the opportunity for huge efficiency gains, and the capability to start leveraging that asset far more powerfully for all manner of business initiatives.
Ezekiel saw the wheel, but he didn't reinvent it.
If starting a BPM initiative means starting with a blank slate on which you draw, you're likely reinventing the wheel. Process frameworks were developed to avoid exactly this issue. Through the use of frameworks like APQC's PCF, ITIL, or the Supply Chain Council's SCOR Model, process can be arranged in a hierarchy that has the benefit of thousands of contributing voices and is vetted by use in many industries.
When you see this list, you can see that not taking advantage of these benefits considerably slows process discovery and documentation.
As an added bonus, there are likely process 'snippets' in disparate databases all across your enterprise, and getting them together in a meaningful way is very challenging if you don't have a central framework on which to hang them.
Seek and you should be able to find very easily.
All too often, users are asked to navigate process content on crude websites, intranets or in directory/folder structures to find the key information needed to perform their work. If the worker sees much more than is relevant to their position, the likelihood that they'll come back to the repository as a knowledge source or work aid becomes more and more remote with each frustrated effort. On the other hand, if the system is role-based, it offers each user personalized, easy access to the process content relevant to their role in the organization. In that way the process repository can become a useful performance support system, like an electronic mentor.
Personalization means more than having login credentials. People have compound roles – serving more than one role in their organization. At one moment, I may be a hiring manager, under the guidance of an HR-owned process, and in another I am a rank-and-file employee that must perform safety procedures in a prescribed, approved manner.
Rather like context sensitive help available from most application software, the process repository should offer me easy access to the process information I require in relation to a task or my role. The absence of such personalization and effective search capabilities leads to information obfuscation and organizational confusion.
Thou shalt assign an owner and that owner shall be accountable.
For any information to be trustworthy, someone who can authorize its initial use and any subsequent changes must own it. Assigning ownership to process is the key to making sure that the people accountable for the success of a process have the proper authority to approve and change what they own. While it seems straightforward, this capability is all too often missing from BPM applications.
Once ownership is assigned, there should to be a systematic way for people to suggest changes, and for that owner to approve or reject those suggestions. If this capability is lacking, you're going to have a hard time engaging your workforce in continuous improvement, and the tendency will be for content review to become a sporadic and inconsistent effort.
Providing access to out of date information will quickly discredit your process repository, causing users to defect to the old ways of getting work done.
Yea, do not confuse thine followers with strange tongues.
Process diagrams need context to give meaning to their symbols and lines. For process to be understood by the end users, it needs to be expressed in symbols that are intuitive and easy to follow. The documents, forms, links and other information that supports those symbols and lines needs to be available at the time the diagram is viewed. What's more, the documentation needs to be owned and managed by its owner to be relevant and trustworthy. My favorite example of why this matters is the "Interview Candidate" activity.
The figure shows how the owner and executor of a process step are often different. And yet they must share a consistent and up-to-date understanding of the approved process. That information will often need to be localized, (according to regional regulations and company practices,) at the time the activity is executed.
Another example is the procurement process, which is often owned by the global supply chain manager at a macro level and executed by someone elsewhere in the value chain using the services of a procurement resource. To get these disparate functions to operate in a coherent fashion requires that the process is not just centrally managed but delivered with localized documentation that is targeted to the specific process consumer.
Some of the best systems I've encountered have been the ones that had titles that captured the meaning of their existence…"How2", "Pathfinder", "How We Work". These names don't evoke the image of an expert system used only by a small clique of process experts. They are the names given to systems that meet the needs of all employees across the business. You'll find the names emblazoned on promotional posters, web pages and mouse mats, with attractive logos that promote adoption by all employees. There are launch campaigns and continuing efforts to raise awareness and ensure that the resulting resource becomes part of day-to-day operations for all employees.
This may seem like a large challenge to any organization trying to undergo change, but the reality is that everyone starts somewhere. Start with a pain point, 'hang' it on a framework and use a methodology that makes sense for your workplace.
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Known to the Incas as the "navel of the world", colourful Cusco was built by the Spanish on the remains of Inca temples and palaces, and is as rich in human activity today as it must have been at the height of the empire. One of South America's biggest tourist destinations, the city boasts a thriving Andean culture, and Inca architecture and colonial treasures galore, not to mention exclusive access to the mighty Machu Picchu, an unmissable highlight to any trip to Peru. In high season – June to September – the entire Sacred Valley swarms with visitors. It may be difficult to avoid the crowds, but Cusco's magnificent history and ancient feel may well tempt you to consider extending your stay.
Enclosed between high hills, Cusco's heart is the Plaza de Armas. Directly above it, the imposing ceremonial centre and fortress of Sacsayhuaman dominates the hillscape. Once the Incas' capital, it is now home to a rich mix of traditional culture, lively nightlife and an endless variety of museums, walks and tours.
The wider region of Cusco is mainly mountainous, with several peaks over 6000m, all of them considered sacred. The entire region is high altitude and even the city of Cusco sits at 3399m, an altitude which needs to be treated with respect, particularly if arriving by air from sea level (see Mountain sickness). Within easy access of the city, there are dozens of enticing destinations. The Sacred Valley of the Río Urubamba is the obvious first choice, with the citadel of Machu Picchu as the ultimate goal, but there are hundreds of other magnificent Inca ruins – Pisac and Ollantaytambo in particular – set against glorious Andean panoramas.
The Cusco mountain region boasts some of the country's finest trekking. The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is by far the best known and most popular, but there are excellent alternative trails all starting less than a day's overland travel from Cusco. The stunning Inca remains of Choquequirao, in the Río Apurímac area, arguably provides the best alternative archeological destination, with tours leaving from Cusco more or less daily. Salcantay to the north, and Ausangate, visible on the city's southern horizon, are also appealing options.
East of Cusco, the Andean mountains slope steeply down into the lowland Amazon rainforest, where protected areas are helping to maintain some of the world's most biodiverse wilderness areas. In particular, the Tambopata–Candamo Reserved Zone, or the slightly nearer Manu Reserved Zone, are among the best and most accessible ecotourism destinations. South of Cusco are the pre-Inca sites at Tipón and Pikillacta, nearly as spectacular as those in the Sacred Valley but far less visited. The luxurious train journey to Puno and Lake Titicaca passes through scenery as dramatic as any in the country.
The best time to visit Cusco and the surrounding area is during the dry season (May–Sept), when it's warm with clear skies during the day but relatively cold at night. During the wet season (Oct–April) it doesn't rain every day, but when it does, downpours are heavy.
Your comprehensive guide to Peru.


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Renovations create casual spots for family gathering
Jan. 12, 2008 Updated: Nov. 17, 2009 5:03 p.m.
These days homeowners are going for bigger kitchens with lots of counter top and cabinet space and a homey, warm atmosphere where family and friends can gather.
Marcy and Jim Pasichopaidas finished a remodeling project in their Newtown home last summer, and the heart of that job was widening and revamping their kitchen.
"By opening up the width, it allowed us to have a center island, add a pantry, another half bath, and put in double ovens," said Marcy Pasichopaidas. "It also allowed us to have a larger refrigerator, which we really needed with the two kids."
Marcy's kitchen originally had a refrigerator with a stainless steel finish. Considering the ages of her children -- Paige is 4 and Nicholas is 3 -- she opted to replace the old fridge with one featuring a cherry-panel exterior that matched the exterior of her new dishwasher and cabinets.
"Those little hand prints can be a problem to keep cleaned off," she said.
Marcy also likes having the microwave under the counter top of the center island. It gave her more counter space overall.
"The heart of the house is now in the kitchen," she said. "We had a party with 22 people here over the holidays. Where do you think everybody was? In the kitchen or in Jim's new room off of it. There was plenty of room."
The Pasichopaidas kitchen was long and thin. With the walls pushed back and sliding glass doors taken out along one wall, it opened the space up to 14 feet by 25 feet.
The remodeling has made the kitchen more functional, Marcy said. And while keeping the center island cleared off for work space is a challenge with two little ones often sitting and eating there, she's found preparing meals easier with the island there.
"This was a tough kitchen to do," said Jim Bodner, owner of DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen, of Bethel, which did the work. "There's a lot of wood in the rest of the house -- Brazilian cherry wood floors and a cedar ceiling. We went back and forth on whether to put in more wood for the cabinets or have painted cabinets. Finally, Marcy decided on cherry."
When it comes to home makeover projects, kitchen expansions are definitely popular these days, Bodner said. Many people with older homes built in the 1970s or 1980s are finding their kitchens are just too small for today's casual kitchen-centered lifestyles.
A common makeover involves tearing down a wall between a kitchen and formal dinning room and eliminating the dining room completely, Bodner said. Often a center wall between the kitchen and living room will be removed, with a center beam put in to bear weight so the kitchen can be expanded.
"People are willing to invest the $45,000 to $100,000 that a kitchen remodel costs in their homes," he added. "Many condominium owners are planning to stay in their condos rather than sell them, and they're willing to go up to $54,000 on a kitchen remodel."
The trend in cabinetry is to have slide-out drawers and roll-outs. Bodner said it doubles cabinet space and nothing gets pushed to the back of a cabinet and lost from use.
Dan Cook, manager of Bailey Avenue Kitchens & Fine Cabinetry in Ridgefield, said the latest trend in remodeling and building is to have less formal spaces like formal dining rooms, and more functional spaces like large kitchens. Center islands are bigger, with stools for family members to sit on one side of them.
"Granite counter tops are 95 percent of what we do," Cook said. "People are hesitant to go with marble. With potential chipping and staining of marble, they like granite for the durability. There are some interesting granites that have come out in the last few months."
As deeper cuts are being made in granite quarries, the stone coming from them has a more interesting aesthetic look of veins, he said.
A honed surface granite counter top is now popular, Cook added. It doesn't have the shiny rock surface of polished granite, thus doesn't have the glare. There is also a brushed finish granite that shows the crevices in the stone.
Despite such options, Cook finds many customers still stay with painted cabinetry. White or buttermilk are popular colors. If people choose a wood option, maple is still popular while alder is picking up in interest. Alder has a light look like cherry but there are more knots in the wood itself, he said.
"In the last six months, three times I've had people choose alder over cherry cabinets when they come into the showroom and see them," Cook said. "Alder has a better price point and doesn't darken over time like cherry does."
Almost every time people remodel, they replace appliances, added Bodner and Cook.
Kitchens 15 to 30 years old will have harvest gold or avocado appliances, Bodner noted. "We're taking those out and upgrading them, "usually with a stainless steel finish or matching the cabinetry."
Cook noted that appliances have to be "fully integrated" with the rest of the kitchen. Dishwasher and refrigerator doors, warming drawers, wine closets -- all have to fit in with the look of the rest of the room.
"It also depends on how your appliances are spread out through the room that dictates the finish you'll want on them," he added.
General Electric has a Monogram line that's fully integrated with stainless steel finishes. Subzero came out with a carbon finish which is like stainless steel but a little darker.
John and Linda Swainson, of Ridgefield, went from having a breakfast nook and small kitchen to having one expanded kitchen space of 26 feet by 21 feet, with a granite topped center island of 6 feet by 8 1/2 feet.
With buttermilk paint on maple cabinets, the Swainsons broke up the uniformity of the kitchen by having cherry cabinets in the lower level of the center island, Cook said.
"The classic buttermilk-white and the classic cherry strike a nice balance," he noted, "something a lot of homeowners are doing when they have large kitchen areas like this."
Cooking meals for her family is important to Linda Swainson, said Cook, and since the Swainsons also do a lot of entertaining, they needed something spacious as well as functional.
The Swainsons' kitchen has several components that are popular today. A pot-filler faucet extends out from the ceramic tiles behind the gas range. A farmhouse-style cast iron sink, with exposed porcelain, gives a casual touch to the elegance of the room. Two 36-inch Subzero refrigerators are complemented by a refrigerator drawer on the other side of the kitchen under the plumbed coffee space, with a coffee maker that grinds each cup of coffee fresh.
"Large kitchens with informal factors accented by elegant touches are popular in $12-million homes and even in $500,000- to $2-million homes," Cook said.
The bottom line, he said, is "We are seeing less formal spaces in homes like formal dining rooms. Those spaces are a waste these days."
Spacious & stunning
By Meg Barone, Correspondent

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In yesterday's blog post, we revealed the drink offers exclusive to The Stag's and Garden Court at this year's Grad Ball. Today, we're through the doors of Building 42 and eager to explore what the 4 venues in here have on offer.
Yesterday we revealed the drink deals exclusive to our Acoustic Stage on the Redbrick at this year's Grad Ball. Today we want to give you some more exciting information about what you can expect in The Stag's and Garden Court.
Stag's Karaoke fans, this one's for you!


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Long Range Forecast: Angel Has Fallen, My Spy, & Overcomer
Tracking & Forecasts • Shawn Robbins • June 28 2019
This week's report covers a trio of new releases slated for the penultimate weekend of summer movie season.
Angel Has Fallen should attract fans of the previous films in the franchise (Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen) with stars Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman returning to their roles. Since this will be the fourth weekend of Hobbs & Shaw, competition for the target male audience could also be diminished by this point on the calendar.
My Spy will mark Dave Bautista's second comedy this summer as the STX release hopes to attract his fans with a role that could be appealing to father/daughter moviegoers.
Overcomer will aim to repeat the success of Alex and Stephen Kendrick's previous faith-based box office winners like War Room, Courageous, and Fireproof. The brothers have become a well-known draw among that target audience.
Angel Has Fallen may endure some diminished returns from its predecessor, which itself earned 37 percent less domestically than Olympus Has Fallen in its original breakout run. Meanwhile, early metrics for My Spy and Overcomer are noticeably modest.
8-Week Forecast
Release Date Title 3-Day Wide Release Tracking % Chg from Last Week Domestic Total Forecast % Chg from Last Week Estimated Location Count Distributor
7/2/2019 Spider-Man: Far from Home $120,000,000 $405,000,000 4,350 Sony / Columbia / Marvel Studios
7/3/2019 Midsommar n/a n/a n/a A24
7/12/2019 Crawl $18,000,000 $47,000,000 2,900 Paramount
7/12/2019 Stuber $17,500,000 $65,000,000 3,000 Fox
7/19/2019 The Lion King (2019) $201,000,000 $650,000,000 Disney
7/26/2019 Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood $50,000,000 $165,000,000 Sony / Columbia
8/2/2019 Hobbs & Shaw $100,000,000 $245,000,000 Universal
8/9/2019 The Art of Racing In the Rain $8,500,000 $32,000,000 Fox
8/9/2019 Brian Banks n/a n/a Bleecker Street
8/9/2019 Dora and the Lost City of Gold $28,000,000 $85,000,000 Paramount
8/9/2019 The Kitchen (2019) $11,500,000 $34,500,000 Warner Bros. / New Line
8/9/2019 Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark $10,000,000 $26,500,000 Lionsgate / CBS Films
8/14/2019 The Angry Birds Movie 2 $19,000,000 $70,000,000 Sony / Columbia
8/14/2019 Blinded By the Light n/a n/a Warner Bros.
8/16/2019 47 Meters Down: Uncaged $15,000,000 $39,000,000 Entertainment Studios
8/16/2019 Good Boys $15,000,000 $43,000,000 Universal
8/16/2019 The Informer n/a n/a Aviron
8/16/2019 Where'd You Go, Bernadette $11,000,000 $45,000,000 United Artists Releasing
8/23/2019 Angel Has Fallen $17,000,000 NEW $49,000,000 NEW Lionsgate
8/23/2019 My Spy $9,000,000 NEW $30,000,000 NEW STX
8/23/2019 Overcomer $6,500,000 NEW $24,000,000 NEW Sony / AFFIRM Films
8/23/2019 Ready or Not n/a n/a Fox Searchlight
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Alex Edghill & Jesse Rifkin contributed to this report
Angel Has Fallen My Spy Overcomer
Long Range Tracking: Bloodshot, I Still Believe, and My Spy (Updated)
Shawn Robbins • Jan 17th
This week's report continues our look ahead into March with a focus on three new releases slated for Friday the 13th of that month.
Weekend Forecast: Bad Boys for Life Tracking for $40M+ MLK Debut, Dolittle Forecast Softens, & 1917 Looks to Hold Strong Post-Oscar Nods
Despite the old notion of big box office business coming to an end after Christmas and New Year's, January has been no stranger to hits in recent years -- particularly over MLK weekend -- and this year looks to continue...
Long Range Tracking: Pixar's Onward and The Way Back
This week's report marks our first look at March 2020 with the inaugural weekend of the month slated to welcome two new wide releases: Disney / Pixar's Onward and Warner Bros.' The Way Back.
Weekend Forecast: 1917 Tracking Surges on Golden Globe Wins, Could Break Out to $30-35M+ Wide Release
Shawn Robbins • Jan 8th
2020 hits full throttle this weekend as four new releases -- two of them being wide expansions -- look to shake up the market with a dose of post-holiday offerings for a variety of audiences.


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Kidney stones? Pass the cranberry juice.
MRC News
For many years cranberry juice has been a popular folk remedy for many ills - including kidney stones. MRC-supported researchers show that it is more than a tasty drink...
Kidney stones are a painful reality many people have to live with. Approximately 10 - 15% of the general population suffers from the ailment at some stage or another. The root of the uncomfortable problem is calcium oxalate crystals which form in the urine and then progress through the spaghetti-thin tubes of the urinary tract. The result: excruciating pain.
Studies done by Prof. Allan Rodgers at the University of Cape Town scientifically prove that cranberry juice is an effective cure - not only a tasty folk remedy. The reason? The juice alters three key urinary risk factors: it lowers the concentration of oxalate and phosphate, it increases the citrate concentration and it dilutes the concentration of calcium oxalate in the urine. These results were published in the British Journal of Urology.
Previous studies had shown high concentrations of oxalate and calcium oxalate in the urine to contribute to crystal formation. It was also shown that citrate inhibits the formation of crystals - therefore the higher the citrate concentration in the urine, the better.
The Cape Town results add to studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. They found that cranberry juice had some anti- bacterial properties, which is important because it has recently been suggested that calcium-based stones may have an infectious origin. The results also state that some components occurring naturally in the berries may prevent the attachment of calcium oxalate crystals and stone-promoting bacteria to the epithelial cells in the renal tubes.
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With a passion for literature and writing, Samantha Ceballos plans to become a professor to help others see the power of literature and not fear reading and writing. She was an honors student graduate first at LSC-CyFair in 2016 and then at UTSA where she earned her BA in English with concentrations in Creative Writing and Professional Writing.
While at LSC-CyFair, she won third-place in two Poetry Slams, conquered stage fright through Pecha Kucha contest and Honors College conferences and learned to have pride in her work. She was one of the student editors for LSC-CyFair's annual literary publication "The Barker's Voice: A Journal of Arts and Letters" and later the main editor for UTSA's "Paisano Plus."
She also had the opportunity to interview author Sandra Cisneros as a sophomore in college, which she said was background information that helped push her undergraduate thesis to a new level.
Samantha, who would also like to continue to be an editor for a journal or magazine, is now pursuing her MA and MFA at Our Lady of the Lake.
February 2019: Elizabeth Hale, who is a mother, wife, singer, actor, and small business co-owner, said it's a little surreal having come full circle from being a Lone Star College-CyFair student in 2008 to returning 10 years later as a vendor creating a customized cake for the January opening of LSC-Westway Park Technology Center.
She first shared her vocal and acting talent on stage in operas such as "The Mikado" (Katisha) and "The Marriage of Fiagro" (Marcellina) and productions including The Wizard of Oz (Cowardly Lion) and Beauty and the Beast (the Wardrobe). Now as co-owner of "Cake. Fine Pastry" with her husband, Jerry, she's impressing the college and Cy-Fair communities with her creative culinary talent. In addition, they had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete on the Food Network's "Winner Cake All" which will air March 11.
Attending LSC-CyFair may become a family affair as she hopes to return to continue her own music education and have her two children, now at Langham Creek, start their college career here. She says the faculty and staff were great and the music and arts program went beyond her expectations.
January 2019: Currently a full-time father to one son and resident of Indiana, Matthew Lawson plans to be a federal defender in Indiana and one day to run for public office.
When he began at LSC-CyFair in 2009, he wasn't really "college ready" nor did he have any professional skills, some of which he learned working in the Financial Aid office. However, he said small classroom sizes allowed professors - who were helpful, encouraging and accessible - to get to know and understand their students.
It was during Professor Heidi Jo Green's Introduction to Political Science that he developed a love for the American political system and made the decision to pursue a law career.
This 2011 LSC-CyFair grad transferred to Indiana University earning a bachelor's in Political Science and minoring in pre-law in 2015. And this past May, he graduated from (Robert H.) McKinney School of Law at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis and in July passed his Bar Exam.
"LSC-CyFair put me in a position to attain my current successes and it will always hold a special place in my life!"
December, 2018: Former Lone Star College-CyFair student Shiven Patel is on track to become a lawyer working in areas of disability advocacy.
At LSC-CyFair, he appreciated the small classes and professors who took time to get to know their students and be available outside of class. He also received assistance from the Disability Services staff who provided accommodations and technology he needed to succeed in the classroom. And, he learned the importance of a hard work ethic, which led to making the President's List and maintaining a 4.0 his last two semesters.
With plans to graduate law school in December 2019, Shiven is looking forward to a rewarding career advocating for those with disabilities.
Brian says music transcends language, making it an almost magical art form. He grew up in a small rural town without much access to the arts, so he feels a great debt of gratitude to his music teachers who provided a lifeline for his self-expression. He taught as an adjunct at LSC-CyFair since 2006 and became full-time in 2018. Many former students who have become teachers gives him great satisfaction.
Music is also a highly collaborative art with his works created with specific musicians or works of poets in mind. His recent award-winning piece was written for a student ensemble and he's delighted that the shared project has garnered national attention.
October, 2018: As an international student at LSC-CyFair, Violet Dang got involved in organizing college and community events. Her confidence grew as she improved her communication skills in English, her second language, and developed leadership skills.
This 2011 grad went on to earn her BBA at Texas Christian University and just graduated in May with an MA from Columbia University. Now as a Data Scientist in the Healthcare Analytics practice at McKinsey and Company in New York, she applies advanced analytics to solve complex business problems in healthcare while helping leaders in the industry make the best use of their data.
May, 2018: Bryan Ramirez, who recently graduated from the Transportation Security Administration Academy in Brunswick, Georgia, now works in Homeland Security as a Transportation Security Officer. When he graduates from Sam Houston State University, he plans on becoming a United States customs officer and ultimately a Federal Air Marshal.
His interest in the Criminal Justice Field began as a teenager in the Harris County Sheriff's Explorer Program and was strengthened at LSC-CyFair, where he was a Criminal Justice student and CJ Club member graduating with an associate's degree in 2016.
April, 2018: Joly Denis Giraldo Zuniga is now in her seventh year as a bilingual kindergarten teacher at Alief ISD Youens Elementary School and a special education teacher in the summer at Alief ISD.
She began at LSC-CyFair 10 years ago in LSC-CyFair's English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program followed with the Alternative Teacher Certification Program (ATCP.) Joly, who is from Colombia and is still friends with some of her ESOL classmates, recommends the ESOL and ATCP programs because she said her teachers were so supportive.
While at LSC-CyFair as a full-time student, she also served as a Spanish tutor and volunteered in the children's library helping with Spanish Storytime.
Joly is a single mom of a 3-year-old daughter and a foster mom to siblings ages 3 and 4. This December, she will graduate with a master's in Special Education and hopes to become an Educational Diagnostician.
March, 2018: LSC-CyFair adjunct art instructor and Houston artist Aesha Aleem-Lee was recently featured in a Houston Chronicle article recognizing her talent in "The Beauty of the Black Woman" exhibition, which explores the diversity found in the African-American woman. Her exhibition was on display at the Art League of Houston (Dec. 1- Jan. 20) and the Houston Museum of African American Culture (during Black History Month.) The exhibition of Aesha's portraits pay homage to the diversity, strength and beauty of black women and address a gap in how are portrayed in popular culture.
February, 2018: CONGRATULATIONS to LSC-CyFair Phi Theta Kappa and kinesiology student Kaylin Sheppard, who is one of 10 students nationwide selected to receive the 2017 Pearson Scholarship for Higher Education, a $5,000 award!
This prestigious scholarship is awarded to Phi Theta Kappa members who are civically engaged in their community through service and who demonstrate leadership, academic rigor, and excellence. Preference is given to first-generation college students. Kaylin was recently accepted to attend the University of Texas at Tyler in the fall and plans to become a physical therapist.


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A leisure complex at which patrons are invited to throw a battle axe at targets had its alcohol licence suspended for one day after an investigation deemed its health and safety procedures to be inadequate.
Axe throwing is a sport in which competitors throw an axe at a target, attempting to hit the bulls eye, and is a featured event in most lumberjack competitions.
The one-day suspension was served on Sept. 10 by Michigan's Liquor Control Commission to Hub Stadium, a leisure complex that features axe-throwing lanes, in order to develop new safety procedures and precautions, as reported by Detroit News.
The commission launched an investigation on June 21 when they found a safety concern involving its policy of allowing up to 10 customers in enclosed ax throwing lanes. Among their concerns were reports of patrons drinking alcohol while in the axe-throwing area (the venue's policy does not allow this), ax-throwers wearing open-toed shoes, a lack of monitoring by bar management and axes ricocheting off targets in the direction of bystanders.
Hub Stadium also apparently did not tell the MLCC that it would offer axe throwing as part of its license application, according to the paper.
"A licensed establishment that allows alcohol-consuming patrons to throw potentially injurious and even deadly weapons posed significant concern … " says a statement issued Tuesday, Sept. 25, by the state office of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA).
The commission said the suspension would give the company time to make "numerous structural" changes.
While unusual, axe-throwing is more common than you might think. In 2016, a Canadian battle axe-throwing association applied for a liquor licence to serve alcohol at its Ontario locations, mixing drinks with a medieval sport. The Backyard Axe-Throwing League (BATL) has been bringing together axe-slinging enthusiasts since 2006. There are now six BATL axe-throwing locations in Ontario and one in Calgary.


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Hyecho (; 704–787), Sanskrit: Prajñāvikrama; pinyin: Hui Chao, was a Buddhist monk from Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.

Hyecho studied esoteric Buddhism in Tang China, initially under Śubhakarasiṃha and then under the famous Indian monk Vajrabodhi who praised Hyecho as "one of six living persons who were well-trained in the five sections of the Buddhist canon."

On the advice of his Indian teachers in China, he set out for India in 723 to acquaint himself with the language and culture of the land of the Buddha.

Memoir of the pilgrimage to the five kingdoms of India

During his journey of India, Hyecho wrote a travelogue in Chinese named "Memoir of the pilgrimage to the five kingdoms of India" (, in Korean Wang ocheonchukguk jeon).

The travelogue reveals that Hyecho, after arriving by sea in India headed to the Indian Kingdom of Magadha (present-day Bihar), then moved on to visit Kushinagar and Varanasi. However Hyecho's journey did not end there and he continued north, where he visited Lumbini (present-day Nepal), Kashmir, the Arabs. Hyecho left India following the Silk Road towards the west, via Agni or Karasahr, to China where the account ends in 729 CE.

He referred to three kingdoms lying to the northeast of Kashmir which were "under the suzerainty of the Tibetans…. The country is narrow and small, and the mountains and valleys very rugged. There are monasteries and monks, and the people faithfully venerate the Three Jewels. As to the kingdom of Tibet to the East, there are no monasteries at all and the Buddha's teaching is unknown; but in [these above-mentioned] countries the population consists of Hu, therefore they are believers."

Rizvi goes on to point out that this passage not only confirms that in the early eighth century the region of modern Ladakh was under Tibetan suzerainty, but that the people were of non-Tibetan stock.

It took Hyecho approximately four years to complete his journey. The travelogue contains much information on local diet, languages, climate, cultures, and political situations.

It is mentioned that Hyecho witnessed the decline of Buddhism in India. He also found it quite interesting to see the cattle roaming freely around cities and villages.

The travelogue was lost for many years until a fragment of it was rediscovered by Paul Pelliot in the Mogao Caves in China in 1908 and was subsequently translated into different languages over the years; the original version of Wang ocheonchukguk jeon. The original fragment is now in France.

Excerpt: Hyecho on Jibin
One of the important excerpts from Hyecho's work relates to his visit Jibin (Kapisa) in 726 CE: for example, he reports that the country was ruled by a Turk King, thought to be one of the Turk Shahis, and that his Queen and dignitaries practice Buddhism (三寶, "Triratna"):

See also
Korean Buddhism
Silk Road transmission of Buddhism
Xuanzang
Faxian
Yijing
Song Yun
Wang ocheonchukguk jeon
Great Tang Records on the Western Regions
A Record of Buddhist Practices Sent Home from the Southern Sea

Notes

References
 Sen, Surendranath (1956). India Through Chinese Eyes: Sir William Meyer Endowment Lectures 1952–53. University of Madras.
 Fully digitized "Wang ocheonchukguk jeon" on International Dunhuang Project website
W. Fuchs (ed. and transl.), "Huei-ch'ao's Pilgerreise durch Nordwest-Indien und Zentral-Asien um 726," Sitzungberichten der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil-hist. Klasse, XXX, (Berlin, 1939): 426-469.

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704 births
787 deaths
Buddhist monks
Korean Buddhist monks
Korean Buddhists
8th-century Buddhist monks
8th-century Buddhists
Explorers of Asia
Silla Buddhist monks
Vajrayana
Pilgrimage accounts
Explorers of India
Explorers of Nepal
Korean expatriates in India

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Blog topic: Exhibits
New exhibition at East Asia Library: "Traversing China's Multiethnic Passage -- Jingui Zhang's Solo Art"
by Joshua Capitanio
From June 6, 2019, to November 30, 2019, the East Asia Library will feature a new exhibition entitled "Traversing China's Multiethnic Passage: Jingui Zhang's Solo Art." An opening reception will be held on the evening of June 6, 2019.
Chinese brush painting exhibition at East Asia Library
From May 17 to May 25, the East Asia Library will host a pop-up exhibition featuring mounted works of traditional Chinese brush painting produced by students in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program. The paintings are displayed in the 3rd floor exhibition cases.
Chinese landscape paintings exhibited at East Asia Library
From May 11 to May 17, the East Asia Library will host a pop-up exhibition of Chinese landscape paintings produced by students in ART228: The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting, taught by Dr. Felix Chan Lim and Dr. Bobbi Makani-Lim. The paintings will be displayed in the exhibition cases on the 3rd floor landing.
Open House on Trains and Railroads on May 10th, 2019
by Kathleen M Smith
Friday, May 10th, marks the sesquicentennial of the Golden Spike, the ceremonial completion of the first transcontinental railroad. In honor of the occasion, curators Eitan Kensky, Kathleen Smith, and Ben Stone are organizing an Open House in Green Library from 11:00am to 3:00pm. In addition to material documenting the American transcontinental railroad and railroads in the United States, this event highlights stories of other significant trains and transportation networks around the world.
Inquisition documents and other new medieval and early modern acquisitions on display May 3rd
On Friday, May 3rd, 2019, there will be an Open House in the Barchas Room of Green Library featuring recent acquisitions in medieval and early modern manuscripts, printed books, and other new materials. One of the new items on display will be a collection of rare handwritten documents from fifteenth-century Bologna, a main center of Inquisition activity in Italy, related to trials and investigations involving Jews--which is unusual since the Inquisition in Italy focused more on combating Christian heresy.
Spotlight on the transcontinental railroad
by Julie Sweetkind-Singer
The completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869 marked an important milestone in the history of the United States with the joining of the populated east with the growing cities and towns of the west. Stanford University, with its connection to Leland Stanford and Timothy Hopkins, holds in its libraries an impressive array of materials related to this monumental achievement including the often overlooked contributions of the Chinese railroad workers.
"Religion in Manga and Anime" poster exhibition at East Asia Library
From March 15 - May 3, the East Asia Library will be displaying an exhibition of posters on the topic of "Religion in Manga and Anime" created by students in IntroSems RELIGST 6N, taught by Prof. Michaela Mross of the Dept. of Religious Studies. An opening reception will be held at the East Asia Library on Thursday, March 14.
International Women's Day/History Month
by Daniel Hartwig
In honor of International Women's Day/History Month we'd like to update the Stanford community on our efforts to collect and provide access to materials documenting Stanford women.


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Form & Function
Look-alikes
The Fauna
Agonistic behaviour - Green-barred woodpecker
The green-barred woodpecker is a resident bird which breeds in the reserve. It is easy to recognize because of its size and colour, its striking voice, the drumming on the trees and its flight technique: three wingbeats and a glide.
As the breeding time comes, the need for food and nesting place intensifies the territorial disputes. These cases show only male contendants. Though in the case of the video there was participation of other individuals, their sex remained unknown. It is still to be solved the role and participation of females if any.
When woodpeckers confront they exhibit ritualized behaviours, the function of which is to cause the rival to leave without fighting, or behaviours of overt agression. The ritual is ellicited through a very "lively" body language. The agression, through aerial spiraling chases interspersed with pecks and aerial kicks.
The scene of the ritual is the tree. The territory holder takes position in front of the intruder at a prudent distance and begins with the displays. It intimidates the rival moving its bill in a pompous way. With a stretched neck the bill is swung upwards, downwards and sideways as if it were a baton. This threatening posture is known as the bill-waving dance. This dance is accompanied by wing movements, body and tail jerks and striking calls, which combined or singly intensify the threat. One common wing movement is to extend both wings over the back and retract them. The tail, instead, is fanned out.
After an initial bout of displays they wait for the reaction and then they begin again. Antagonists do not necessarily follow a sequential dialogue. Sometimes the rival seems unresponsive to the performance, on some other occasions the response is quick and they overlap.
If threats are not effective to solve the conflict, actions will escalate. Pecks, aerial kicks and aerial spiraling chases around trees are added to the beforementioned displays. They leave the static scene of the branch to move around the whole tree and its surroundings. Face to face woodpeckers peck at each other and dodge strikes with agile maneuvers. Face to face they give aerial kicks with the feet while moving the wings forward and backwards to keep afloat. They also chase each other in a spiral around tree trunks and branches.
This encounter lasted four minutes during which there were breaks. Nevertheless, It was clear there was a latent agitation state. The presence of the other two woodpeckers in the surroundings added excitement to the conflict.
The Displacement Pecking was observed on several opportunities during the conflict. Due to the opponent's unresponsiveness the woodpecker pecks at a branch or trunk to resolve the conflict somehow. The Raised Head Feathers display was also observed.
28-02-15 © Claudia y Tito Di Mauro


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What secret skill do you have that would surprise other band members?
• gordon
Once upon a time... I was a visual artist, mainly in mixed media (computer manipulate photography as well as abstract painting). I was in a few group shows, mainly in exhibiting at ARCs and one being at the AGH.
What are you doing to keep in playing shape until rehearsals return?
Long tones!
What is your Musical New Year's Resolution?
Same for me. Keep motivated to continue playing until band starts up again!
What one piece of music do think represents you best?
This such a difficult one to answer! There are several ways I could go... Do I pick my Dad's Regimental March that I grew up with (Begone Dull Care), or one of the pieces from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada which I fondly remember (The Campbells are Coming & Black Bear - most the neighborhood kids were in 2347 RCAC). Finally I could choose a piece that I played with BTTB (any Eric Ford pieces or Sousa) or RHLI Regimental band (Zorba the Greek or any of the marches - that would definitely please Gordon...) Hmm..... Decisions...Decisions...Decisions... I will go with "Strike Up the Band" (Ford version), as this was always the 1st piece that BTTB stepped off to. I remember watching the crowds clapping along. Funny enough, I still have it memorized...even though it has been 31 years since I aged out.
What hobbies do you have outside of playing music?
Riding my motorcycle (and trying to start my own bike gang, but it's hard to find people interested in a Harry Potter Motorcycle Club) Building remote control scale model battleships
What book would you recommend to a band mate looking for some summer reading?
I haven't read his other writing beyond a taster chapter from Leave it to Psmith, which was OK, but didn't inspire me to put down the Jeeves and pick up the Blandings Castle series. Besides, I've got a lot more Woostering to do first. @lisa-yl
What series would you recommend to a band mate looking for some summer binge-watching?
Asterisks indicates it was something we/I watched in entirety during the pandemic/breastfeeding sessions . Comedy: Schitt's Creek*, The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Sci-Fi: Deep Space Nine*, The Expanse Drama: Broadchurch, The Crown
What's the one item of food or drink you can't live without?
A combination of arabinose polysaccharides and triglyceride lipids, along with 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione, emulsified in a dihydrogen monoxide solution. (Also known as coffee. Try ordering it at Starbucks or Tim's this way!!)
If you could go on a summer vacation this year, where would you go?
@Marie-Limanni I'm letting my fingers crossed for you
What was the best thing about our virtual rehearsal?
@gordon Connecting with others and playing as a group again even if we couldn't hear each other. It just felt like we were playing together again. Or on the other hand I can say all you guys sounded fantastic!
Which of the songs on the virtual rehearsal list are you most looking forward to playing?
Hockey Night in Canada and The Incredibles
What country's style of music do you enjoy playing/listening to?
@gordon I am partial to military music, due to the fact that I am an Army Brat! Since most of the music was written in the UK, I guess that is my country of choice. I remember my Father playing Regimental marches (he was the DM (NCO) for the 1st Independent Signals Corp's Drum and Bugle band - now 31 Signals based out of John Foote Armories). My Mother was from Britain, also in the military (a commissioned officer in the Medic Corp - 11th Field Ambulance), and loved Scottish Pipe and Drum music. The annual Fergus Highland Games was frequently attended by our family. I grew up also listening and appreciating Big Band music from my Aunts and Uncles who fought in WW2. But military music is my favorite! So long story short, like Gordon I love marches! I guess my 8 year tenure in BTTB also plays a part in this.
Which Concert Band piece reminds you most of spring?
@gordon If there is a band arrangement that includes pieces such as Singing in the Rain, April in Paris (music from the film Easter Parade with Judy Garland), Rustle of Spring (Christian Sinding), Spring Affair (Donna Summer), these can remind me of spring.
Have you developed any new skills during the pandemic?
I've actually learned a bit of ukulele. I asked for an instrument for Christmas, and I'm working on a few beginner pieces. The latest is "Margaritaville." Some chords are still tough, and I certainly don't want to take on anything with six strings.
What piece are you looking forward to playing the most once rehearsals return?
I have been able to procure an arrangement of John William's "March to 1941", from the movie "1941". Also, I do hope that we will be able to present De Meij's Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings".
Is there anything you've enjoyed about the pandemic lifestyle?
Not having to drive to work everyday in traffic.
What have you missed most during the pandemic?
What does miss the most about the pandemic is going out and watching live music whether it be a small or larger venue. Attending with friends together at these events, enjoying one another's company is definitely missed.
What's the strangest piece you've ever played?
I played a piece called Sonatina for Trombone for my graduating recital at Western. It was described as a blend of traditional triadic structure and dissonance governed by twelve tone aggregates. Aside from being technically very difficult, the real challenge was making all the odd sounding harmonies and collections of note like listenable music. It was very odd, ultimately rewarding, but I don't think I'd ever go in that direction again!
If you could play in a type of band or ensemble that you've never played in before, what would it be?
Barbershop Quartet! "Baby on board, How I've adored, That sign on my car's windowpane." I think it would be a riot.
What song or piece do you find the most romantic?
I've always thought Rachmaninoff Symphony 2, movement 3 is just about the most romantic sounding thing. Rachmaninoff seems to do well on the romance front!


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import org.spongepowered.api.entity.living.player.CooldownTracker;
import org.spongepowered.api.entity.living.player.server.ServerPlayer;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.Cancellable;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.Event;
import org.spongepowered.api.item.ItemType;
import org.spongepowered.api.util.Ticks;

import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.OptionalInt;

/**
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Director of Music: JOHN ASQUITH
Since 1986 the Choir has been conducted by John Asquith, who studied Modern Languages at Oxford and in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), specialising in Russian and French with Welsh.
John has always maintained a keen interest in music, especially singing, and is an expert on 19th century Russian opera. He sang bass in the Oxford University Russian Choir, the London Welsh Chorale and the London Welsh Festival Choir, and then baritone with London's Côr Meibion Gwalia before joining the Morlais as a baritone when he moved from London to the village of Blaenllechau, near Ferndale, in 1984. In January 1986 he was appointed Conductor of Côr Morlais, his first task being to prepare the choir for a one-week tour to France a few months later.
In 1997 he resigned a career in national and local government to pursue his twin passions of languages and opera. Since 2003, John has been Russian Coach for Welsh National Opera's highly acclaimed Russian Season, working on various operas by Tchaikovsky, including the award-winning production of Mazepa, as well as concert excerpts from Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov". He also prepares singers for Russian roles in Europe and America and coached in Russian at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice.
John Asquith: The Bards of Wales at the Liszt Academy Hall, Budapest 2014.
As a freelance choral conductor John has worked in Poland, Russia and Argentina. Since 2009 he has also worked on a Hungarian project based around a cantata by Karl Jenkins which sets to music the Hungarian epic poem "A Walesi Bárdok" ("The Bards of Wales"), appearing at the world premiere of the "Bards" in Budapest in 2011 and most recently performing in Rumania, in the USA (New York) and at the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest.
John is equally at home as Conductor and Speaker: his fine bass voice and command of languages have allowed him to establish a good-humoured rapport with audiences in many countries, including recording voiceovers for the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, speaking to packed venues in St Petersburg, Moscow, Budapest, Prague and Buenos Aires in Russian, Hungarian, Czech and Spanish, and compering a concert by the Russian State Cossack Ensemble in Treorci tri-lingually in Russian, Welsh and English.


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Q: Getting Missing Operand error for all equations in CMD? :Calcu
color 4D
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@set /a Sub = %First% - %Second%
echo %First% - %Second% = %Sub%
)
IF /I %Type%==3 (
@set /p First = Enter First Number:
@set /p Second = Enter Second Number:
@set /a Multi = %First% * %Second%
echo %First% X %Second% = %Multi%
)
IF /I %Type%==4 (
@set /p First = Enter First Number:
@set /p Second = Enter Second Number:
@set /a Div = %First%  / %Second%
echo %First% ÷ %Second% = %Div%
)
IF /I %Type%=>5 (
echo Not a Valid Number
)
pause
goto Calcu

Can Anyone tell me why i am getting a missing operand error
Im trying to make this calculator work but its not working
The Math operations worked in another code block but not here

A: when setting varaibles, do not use spaces around the =, otherwise the space(s) will be part of the variable name or value.
set /p First = Enter First Number:
echo %first%
echo %first %
set /p "First=Enter First Number: "
echo %first%

as for the delayed Expansion, JosefZ mentioned:
if A==A (
  set /p First = Enter First Number:
  echo %first% - !first!
  echo %first % - !first !
  set /p "First=Enter First Number: "
  echo %first% - !first!
)

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The Famous Canadian Beer Run is this Sunday, September 18th and we've put together this handy guide with all the 411 you need for event day. So crack open a brew, kick back and get schooled on everything Beer Run!
Friends don't let friends drink beer alone! There is still time for your friends to join you at the start line. Registration is open online until Saturday at 3 p.m. There is on-site registration from 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. (no personalized bib or shirt size guarantee, CASH ONLY). Register now!
Please note that no changes or transfers will be permitted after Thursday, September 15th at 11:59 p.m.
Included in your run or festival entry are tokens for four 4 oz. beer samples or two 8 oz. beers (your tokens can also be used for cider or vodka beverages). If you would like to purchase additional chips, you can do so online in advance and pick up your tokens with your race kit, or you can purchase additional tickets on-site on event day.
For race kit pick up you will need ID or your registration confirmation (printed out or on your phone). You will be able to pick up race kits for your friends.
*Please note that the colour of the number on your bib corresponds with your wave start time.
Please plan to arrive 1 hour ahead of your start time.
When you arrive at Ontario Place, you will go to the main entrance of the facility. Please be prepared to show your confirmation email for entry into the facility. It is an approximately 10 minute walk from the entrance to the start area.
Please note that entry to Ontario Place is controlled due to permit and insurance reasons. To this end, only those who are running, those who have purchased a Festival Goer pass or those under 19 will be admitted. Festival Goer passes can be purchased online.
The Festival starts at 11 a.m. and ends at 4:30 p.m.
There is a secure bag check.
You can preview the course map here.
Our Festival food vendors will accept cash only. Steel Cut Coffee will be on-site starting at 9 a.m. serving up coffee, steel cut oatmeal and other treats for those who want to eat or enjoy a coffee before the start. Heirloom Toronto and The Pie Commission will start serving at the post-run Festival at 11 a.m.
Free ice cream sandwiches will be provided to all participants courtesy of our friends from Dixie Outlet Mall. Look for their ice-cream bike cart for your free treat!
As part of your event entry fee, you will have the opportunity to preview outdoor art installations along the course. These installations are part of the in/future transformative art experience, happening on the west island of Ontario Place. If you would like to return to the West Island after your run and take in additional exhibits throughout Ontario Place's indoor and outdoor spaces, you can purchase tickets online in advance using the discount code BEER to save 20%. Alternatively, you will be able to return to purchase tickets on-site.
Free photos will be available for download after the race at ZoomPhoto.ca. Please be sure to wear your bib on the front of your shirt so that our photographers can properly index your photos. The week following the race you can expect an email with details on how to download your photos.


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Women Only Mobile Night Shelter for Brighton
News provided by Sussex Homeless Support on Thursday 15th Nov 2018
Women Only Night Shelter
VOTE NOW TO GET BRIGHTON WOMEN'S MOBILE NIGHT SHELTER IN MOTION
Sussex Homeless Support needs your votes in the Aviva Community Awards for an urgently needed Brighton women's mobile night shelter bus - closing date TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER.
One of Sussex Homeless Support's (SHS) priorities this winter is to kit out an out-of-service bus to provide beds, warmth and shelter to women experiencing homelessness. The charity needs your vote in the Aviva Community Fund, to win £10,000 vital funding towards the refuge bus.
The SHS charity, staffed entirely by volunteers, provided many nights of shelter last winter in a converted double decker bus on the seafront. Almost 300 people slept on the bus and had a hot meal at different points over the coldest months of 2017 and early 2018. Roughly 30 of those were women.
Jim Deans, who runs the charity, explains the need for a women's only space: "Homeless levels are increasing in Brighton and Hove, but the support is decreasing. Alarmingly, there are more and more attacks on homeless people living on the streets and the bus will ensure there are fewer people on the streets. This would be an exclusively women's only bus to provide safety and refuge."
"Roughly 30 of the people who used the bus last winter were women. It is essential that vulnerable women have a safe haven; women's only space away from the streets. It is not uncommon for women who are homeless or vulnerably housed to be sexually abused, raped and manipulated into providing sex in order to survive."
The bus provided an essential lifeline for women in need last year.
Jim added: "We are hoping to raise this money for another homeless bus which will this time be a women's only bus. It will provide shelter, somewhere for homeless women to wash, and somewhere they can get warm food. We would love those who support our endeavours to vote for us in the Aviva Challenge or provide a direct donation for our aims. The charity relies solely on volunteers, and this money will go towards kitting out the bus, the equipment, maintenance and running costs of the bus."
Homlessness in England has more than doubled since 2010, with Brighton experiencing the highest increases across the UK in recent years.
You can vote for the SHS Women's Night Shelter here: https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/voting/project/view/4-1917
If you are interested in volunteering for the project, email: info@sussexhomelesssupport.co.uk
To donate directly to Sussex Homeless Support:
Sort code: 83-04-25, Account No: 19332059, Account name: Sussex Homeless Support
Sussex Homeless Support, 7E 196 Old Shoreham Road, Hove, BN3 7EX
Find us on Facebook – Sussex Homeless Support CIO
Or go to www.sussexhomelesssupport.co.uk
Claudia Cahalane, PR, Sussex Homeless Support
Email: claudiacahalane@gmail.com
Julia Nye, PR, Sussex Homeless Support
Email: julia.a.nye@btinternet.com
Jim Deans, Founder, Sussex Homeless Support
Email: jimdeans@devlinmediagroup.co.uk
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Sussex Homeless Support
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/sussexhomelesssupport/
Jim Deans 07774 266244. His email is jimdeans@devlinmediagroup.co.uk.
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By Richard Wingard CEO, EuclidIQ
EuclidIQ's 2015 View From The Top
While we are in the early stages of perceptual quality optimization (PQO) as a way to further enhance video quality or gain additional bandwidth savings, we've only just begun to explore the potential of PQO.
Today, our IQ264 technology can actually enhance quality at the time of encoding, eliminating the need for postprocessing steps that can only be as good as the encodes they need to work with. IQ264 integrates directly into the encoding process, augmenting industry-standard H.264 encoders.
We've seen average bandwidth savings of more than 20% for H.264 encodes across a wide range of video types, from high motion and high complexity to low motion and low complexity.
But we're not just limited to H.264, as these bandwidth savings gains are really just a first step in a process to significantly enhance quality and further reduce bandwidth across the entire acquisition and distribution video workflow.
To do this, PQO needs to be implemented at the point of acquisition. Think of PQO as a way to train video cameras to perceive content the way humans do. That level of sophistication means that PQO could enhance the overall viewing experience.
That's the kind of change agent EuclidIQ strives to discover every day with our world-class team of researchers and software engineers. To date, we've got 39 patents covering a wide range of video optimization technologies, and we aren't slowing down as IQ264 launches. Expect more exciting announcements from EuclidIQ throughout 2016.
Winners Don't Look Down. They Look Up.
Executives from companies on the 2015 Streaming Media 100 list share their insights on towering above the industry, in this year's View From The Top
The List of the 100 Companies That Matter Most in Online Video in 2015
Discover our 2015 list of the 100 companies doing the most interesting and innovative work in streaming video. Now in its fifth year, the list shows a new maturity, a sign of an industry coming into its own.
The Streaming Media 100: The One Hundred Companies That Matter Most in Online Video in 2015
The list the online video industry waits for is here: It's Streaming Media's annual list of the biggest players around. These are the 100 companies charting the future during a time of transaction.


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Coach Clark Campbell
Jayhawk Insider: A year to remember
From breaking pool records, team records and academic records, the Kansas swimming and diving team wrapped-up a season it has been working toward as a program for years.
The Jayhawks started the 2018-19 season with a strong dual meet record of 7-1 to set the standard high for the team moving forward. Out of those performances, three Kansas student-athletes were awarded to the Big 12 Conference Swimmer or Diver 'Of the Week' Awards, with a Kansas sweep one week.
Kansas made sure to make its mark in the waters as a program-best score was tallied at the 2019 Big 12 Championship of 754.50 points, swimming in second behind swimming and diving powerhouse, Texas.
While there, Kansas totaled two Big 12 Individual Championships, one by senior diver Vicky Xu in the three-meter diving competition and the other by freshman swimmer Kate Steward in the 100-yard breaststroke event.
The success from Kansas was seen by many and credited to the person who supports them all, head coach Clark Campbell, as he was honored with the Big 12 Championship Coach of the Meet award.
"I couldn't be any more proud of this team," Campbell said. "On the bus after the Championship we arrived at a destination after conference with that point total and how well we did and I hope they really learn that it is about being the best versions of themselves, but it was so fun not so much getting to that destination, but the process of getting there. And that process this year was a process that everyone on that bus was a part of. But it has been a process for 17 years to get to that point. That is a solid black line in our sport for how our championship meet is run and that is really a high-level achievement. And I told them that even though we got to this point over the course of the weekend, it was really about the process. I have really appreciated their efforts this year and then the efforts that each of the teams have made over the years, even the teams that proceeded them; the ones that worked really hard at making the program what it is today. It was exciting to get that, but it was even better being a part of that process. We still have a long way to go – which is exciting. It is so fulfilling to be a part of something that matters. It took a lot of work to get there, it will take a lot of work to keep it growing."
Although the Big 12 Championship was one for the books, the action did not stop there for the program. Xu represented Kansas when she dove at the NCAA Championships and showcased her talents in both the one-meter and three-meter final events against other top high-performing athletes in the country.
Campbell has always made it a point to express the important of high-level performances outside of the water as well as in the pool. This season, the swimming and diving team broke the all-time athletics department grade point average (GPA) record and set it at a 3.70 during the 2018 fall semester, with eight swimming and diving student-athletes earning 4.0 GPAs.
Along with the best academic GPA in Kansas Athletics, the team was recognized as the third-best Scholar All-America Team in all of the Division I women's programs for the Fall of 2018, selected by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American committee.
"Big 12s was our highest finish ever with that many points," Campbell said. "Not only did we have great leadership but what is important is that we never talked about any of these accomplishments. We never talked about the high GPA, and the 700 points was something I didn't tell the team about until after the meet was over. What we simply focused on was one thing and that was us being the best version of ourselves. And I hope throughout this entire season and their experiences, they realize how important that mindset is and that you can accomplish a lot when you focus on that one thing. A team like what we have — with a bunch of high achievers and hard workers — you simply focus on being your absolute best, good things happen. And so we didn't have to get into goal times and goal points and number of second swims, goal GPAs for each person, it was simple. It was just, 'Let's be the best you (can be) and see where that takes' us and it took us a long way."
Swimmer and divers huddled to cap the intrasquad meet.
A driving factor behind having such a successful season and team comes from the leadership that motivates each student-athlete to be the best versions of themselves. While at the same time, demonstrating poise.
Campbell credits a lot of the team's success to the captains and senior class this year. They hit the ground running to get the legacy started that they wanted from the time the 2018 Big 12 Championships (the year before) ended.
"The seniors had accomplishments not only as athletes, but as students and people in the community," Campbell said. "Just doing really good things, they set the bar high. It gave everyone good examples to follow in their footsteps. Our freshmen really contributed, usually our freshmen GPAs in the fall are a little lower because they are trying to figure it out, and our freshmen figured it out pretty quick. We are really excited about that and I think that really shocked everybody when we saw that GPA. They are definitely ahead of the curve. You give them the opportunity to grow into it and see that but our freshmen really stood up, not only in the classroom, but also in the pool. They had a quick 'get acquainted' time and I really tribute that to the leadership. That is just good leadership when you have freshmen who are acclimating so well and quickly, that is probably why those three phases went as smoothly as they did because freshmen just have really good upperclassmen leadership and they knew what we were about and they went in and got the job done in everything."
Lindsay Manning lapped a swimmer in the mile Sunday.
This season was particularly special as the team had an unbelievable connection and was able to go through each phase of the season smoothly. Every transition made was smooth and natural, leading to an all-around incredible season for the team.
"I often talk to the teams that there are three phases every year," Campbell said. "Every year the team is different and the first part of the year you form as a team, and then you norm and then you storm. Through those three phases, you can see the team grow; getting connected and closer, and believing in themselves and each other. You can't rush any of those three phases, you (have) got to let them almost work on their own. You can't talk to them (the team) and direct them in that way, but people saw those three phases play out really well and saw a strong, connected team performing its best when it mattered the most. They really had a good lead in and ended the Championship season really well."
Although swimming and diving are both highly individual sports, there is a commonality within the team and for this year's Kansas team, that common thread has been s being the best version of themselves.
"It really boils it down to what really is important in controlling what you can do and then really lean into the process," Campbell said. "And if you do those things; competitive events, tests in school, workouts, whatever, tend to go better because you are focused on the right thing."
The team looks forward to adding eight more athletes, four swimmers and four divers, to the roster next year and welcoming them into the Kansas swimming and diving family. The coaches and student-athletes alike are optimistic that the leadership will be just as strong when welcoming the class of 2023.
"We will go through the process again," Campbell said. "We will have to form, norm and storm and our team is going to be totally different. (It will be a) Totally different leadership structure, we are going to have a big senior class, which is pretty cool. But one of the toughest things in sports that you have to do after you have a successful year is to repeat it, or get better, the next year. You look at teams that have a hard time repeating success because it is probably more difficult than getting there. So what we have to do is bring in our new freshmen, welcome them with open arms, let them know what we are about. We are about the one thing. And initially when we get (started) off is that we have got to form. And that will be again, we are going to be as good as our senior class. And that is what I tell our team every year. I think it is getting to be a pretty cool thing to be a Jayhawk swimmer or diver because we have enjoyed that success and we want to keep working and becoming better. You never want to be satisfied, but we want to continue to grow and build as a program and having a successful year this year we were hungry and ready to have even more success next year."
It will be a unique season for the Kansas swimming and diving team next year as the year opens again for the 2020 Olympics. As the 2018-19 season has reached an end, Campbell looks forward to other exciting seasons to come and is ready for whatever comes with it.
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"Dessert for breakfast is a trend that we have been following for several years," Eleanor Hanson of Foodwatch recently told Restaurants & Institutions magazine. Foodwatch is an Edina, Minnesota, consulting firm that analyzes food trends.
"We're seeing streusel in cereal, chocolate in muffins and scones, and monster-size cinnamon rolls. Blurring is occurring on the sweets continuum." In light of this continuing trend, we've put together a short list of 5 foods you shouldn't eat for breakfast.
We examined nutrition information supplied by the manufacturers of popular breakfast items from fast- food chains and supermarkets. The results should sound a wake-up call. If restaurant foods came with the same "Nutrition Facts" labels that are on all packaged foods, the lines at Tim Hortons, McDonald's, and Burger King might be a lot shorter.
Call it sneaky. Call it smart. Once you know how to purée vegetables, you can secretly swap those puréed vegetables for other ingredients in some dishes, people will eat fewer calories and won't notice the difference. This is also a great trick for eating fewer calories for people interested in losing weight. You can also use puréed vegetables as a way to change things up with your regular recipes.
If you puree vegetables, will you reduce calories consumed?
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University offered 41 young men and women breakfast, lunch, and dinner once a week for three weeks.
At each meal, one dish—the carrot bread for breakfast, the macaroni and cheese for lunch, and the chicken-and-rice casserole for dinner—contained puréed vegetables in place of other ingredients.