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Back in 2018 the Charity brought you the news of the £950,000 Children's appeal launching across Solihull Hospital, Heartlands Hospital and Good Hope Hospital sites. The aim of the appeal was to transform the children's areas across the three hospitals so that visiting children feel as comfortable as possible, minimising stress for their parents and the staff who treat them.
Thanks to the many generous donations received, Good Hope Hospital was able to complete the refurbishment at the Children's Outpatients Department. The department has now completely transformed into a more child-friendly, calm, colourful and enjoyable area.
Melanie Stanyer, Paediatric Clinic Clerk at Good Hope Hospital's Children's Outpatients Department, said: "The new department is so incredible and beautiful. Even the design and the wall art is making a huge difference to the patients who are treated here, the brightness really does make them feel less weary and anxious about being in hospital. Children are now able to play with a range of toys including iPads, a floor projector and books that help keep them occupied whilst waiting for their appointments, and the staff love the new department, it's such a nice environment to work in."
Before The new unit at Good Hope really makes a huge difference to a child's experience in hospital.
With the exciting news about Good Hope Hospital, Heartlands Hospital and Solihull Hospital is keener than ever to get their units looking as fun and vibrant as Good Hope's, but we cannot do this alone.
With your donations, we will be able to transform the departments with children aged 0-18 in mind. From a chill-out area complete with TV and games consoles for the older children to a soft play area for toddlers we want to make every patient feel relaxed.
Part of the appeal will also include the repurposing of the baby feeding room at Solihull Hospital. This area will be used as a multi-sensory room for children who have complex needs; the room will include equipment and facilities such as bubble machines, soft play areas, projectors, mirrors and sensory toys making the area much more accessible and stress free. For some, hospital may never be an enjoyable place, but with the aid of this beautiful new department along with specialist toys, activities and games it will make it that little bit better.
Helen Rooney, Paediatric Nurse at Solihull Hospital's Children's Outpatients Department, said: "This appeal means so much to the team on the unit. Ultimately we want the very best for each and every child that is treated here; some children have lifelong conditions such as cystic fibrosis or diabetes which means we have to see them regularly for check-ups. We would love a fun and playful area that is tailored for our patient's needs in mind. Currently the unit is quite outdated and it can be very boring for our patients to stay here for hours on end."
None of this will be possible without your support; there are lots of ways that you can raise money to support the Children's appeal. Join one of the fantastic events coming up this year or set up your own fundraising event at work or in the community.
Please help support Solihull Hospital and Heartlands Hospital's Children's Outpatients Departments today by donating at the top of this page.
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There is a record of there being a school in North Rigton from the very early date of 1769, when a '10d was paid for a lock for the schoolhouse and 12s. 8d for repairs of schoolhouse glazing'. The first school was built by the Earl of Harewood and Reverend Henry Blunt, Rector of Kirkby Overblow and North Rigton in 1851 from funds obtained from the National Schools Reform Act of 1833. The Building of the School House was funded by the wife of Rector Henry Blunt. This is now a private dwelling house lying adjacent to the school.
In February 1982, an office was built for the school, which was a huge step forward, and although small, it was an office, a staff room, a spare room and a confidential conference room rolled into one. This was paid for by the parents and families of the children attending the school at the time. The plaque is still on the wall in the stairwell where you can see the size of the space created beyond the schoolhouse. At this point the school house was 'partitioned' into two classrooms. Some time later a mobile classroom was erected on the top playground, where the infants were housed.
In 2003 the original hall was extended and three further classrooms, a main entrance hall, improved toilets, an upstairs office, intervention suit or 'spare room' and a staff room were created. The change was and still is enormous giving modern up to date facilities within an historic and beautiful setting.
In late 2010, we commenced a further building project, which was completed in February 2011.
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1954-1958: Terra Incognita
Sectionalism
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The Governor Intercedes
Farr Tract Revisited
As early as April of 1954, the Advisory Council for the Northern Virginia University Center actively studied various sites for both temporary and permanent locations for the branch college. Although the group's main function was to advise the University on the matters pertaining to the operation of the Northern Virginia Center at Arlington, it attacked its secondary responsibility of exploring how the center might be transformed into a branch college with as much, if not more, enthusiasm. A large part of the establishment of the future branch was finding a suitable tract of land on which to build, or at least a temporary location with an existing building or buildings, that could host the college until permanent quarters were finished. The Council was given the responsibility of finding appropriate properties and submitting them to the University for consideration by its Board of Visitors.
Early in the site selection process University of Virginia President Darden had suggested some guidelines for acquirable land to members of the Advisory Council and the Board. He believed that any site must be no less than 50 acres in size. It must be near the geographic and population center of the region, have access to local transportation, and, if possible, have water and sewer available.[1] Later, a suggestion that the site have some sort of historical significance was added to the discussion. By 1956 a more elaborate and official set of guidelines was disseminated.[2] With these principles in mind, the two groups would begin looking for a suitable place for the new branch college.
In order for a property to be considered as a temporary site for the branch, it had to be able to conform to the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools definition of a "branch." Viable locations primarily had to consist of a separate physical plant and not share space with some already existing organization. A branch also had to have its own faculty, curricula, stable course offerings, classrooms and laboratories.[3]
While the Advisory Council focused on meeting all of the guidelines established by President Darden, one guideline upon which they would remain non-negotiable throughout was that the site was near as possible to the center of the population of Northern Virginia. The exact meaning of this concept was at the center of the debate between the local Advisory Council and the Charlottesville-based Board of Visitors. The Advisory Council wished to establish a location that would serve the Northern Virginia population of the late 1950s and early 1960s immediately. They focused on locations in the central part of Fairfax County which were easily accessible to students travelling from Alexandria, Arlington, Falls Church, and to a lesser degree, Prince William and other counties. As for the Board representing the University, their ideal location was in the far western part of Fairfax County, or even further west. The Board suggested that such a location would be well-placed to serve the population as future land development expanded west.
But was this stance simply a thinly veiled attempt by certain members of the Board aimed at locating the branch a significant distance away from the perceived progressive bastion of Arlington, as Mann strongly suggests in his unpublished narrative of the early history of George Mason? Although it could be argued that the Board was acting with the best interests of the University in mind, Mann was convinced that certain members were not immune to exercising their political beliefs during this process. It should be noted that the local jurisdictions (Arlington County, Fairfax County, and the cities of Falls Church, and Alexandria) would be purchasing the land. Each would be responsible for providing part of the cost of the land and a portion of the operating costs of the new college. This simple fact should have made it difficult for the Board to force any unwanted location on the local population, especially when they were prepared to pay any reasonable amount to secure a convenient location for their school.
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[1] Mann Unpublished Draft, p. 16
[2] Springfield Committee for the Northern Virginia University Center, to the Editor, September 24, 1956, John C. Wood papers, Collection #C0115, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Box 1, Folder 1
[3] Sorrell, Ronald, Extending Public Education into Northern Virginia: The Formative Years of George Mason University, 2002, p.111


Amongst the news of high-res cameras and 64 bit A7 CPUs delivering twice the performance, Apple introduced a new home button on their iPhone 5s, one that interestingly contains a fingerprint sensor. This move was widely anticipated after Apple acquired AuthenTec along with their fingerprint sensor patents for $356m in July 2012.
The obvious use for this is to unlock the phone without the need to type a password, draw a shape with your finger or swipe the unlock button. But this new feature also has the potential to improve many of the ways we purchase online today.
Fingerprint sensors are not new, my laptop has had one for years, making sign-in that little bit simpler, but so far no devices have tied this to payment confirmation. Apple plans to link fingerprint authentication to the online purchases we make through iTunes and the App Store and may later open this up to third party solutions. This is a simple but fundamental upgrade which delivers a number of benefits, some more obvious than others.
Collecting the payment (conversion rate): The simpler and smoother the process of collecting money from the customer, the higher the probability it will succeed. The more steps you introduce the more chance there is that the customer will fail, get confused or simply change their mind. In fact, for every additional step introduced you can lose up to half your remaining customers – we call this "Walkers law".
Security: Ensuring you are collecting money from the correct person, with the permission of the bill payer. The safest, zero-risk option is always not to collect the payment, but that makes little sense.
These two factors naturally oppose each other because security traditionally adds complexity to the customer's payment experience, entering PIN codes or passwords. This is an area Bango knows well, having developed significant innovations around cloud based user authentication, payment risk management, mobile identity and user experience.
The Bango payment system uses a range of factors to silently authenticate the customer wherever possible, avoiding the need for PIN codes, passwords or fingerprints – it automatically ensures the optimal, super-smooth payment experience and the highest possible conversion rates at all times. Apple's new fingerprint scanner augments this nicely to provide a low-friction, higher security authentication mechanism when required.
The new fingerprint sensor gives Apple the ability to further improve their usability-security balance by completely removing the need for iPhone customers to remember PIN codes or passwords – they simply touch the home button and the payment is confirmed, further increasing Apple's conversion rates by making it easier for people to pay. The fingerprint sensor also has the potential to reduce risk and increase security, in that the device owner must be present to make a purchase , ensuring undeniable accountability.
Going forward we can only just begin to anticipate all the other payment possibilities that the iPhone fingerprint scanner could enable. Home banking apps obviously get another form of strong authentication. In-store cards payments, for the weekly groceries, could use a fingerprint scan to approve rather than a signature or PIN code. Fingerprints suddenly become fundamental to Apple Wallet plans. Importantly, because the fingerprint is only stored on the device there is no need to share this important biometric with third parties to enable these things.
The new Apple iPhone 5S fingerprint sensor is a device innovation that Bango welcomes whole heartedly and we look forward to Apple opening up its capabilities to approved third parties.
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Word of Mouth is returning to the Art on the Avenue Festival this year! We're very excited to be participating in such a fun event. The music, arts and crafts festival takes place on Saturday October 3rd on Mt. Vernon Avenue in Del Ray, Alexandria. More information about the festival can be found here.


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What Explains the Variation in Estimates of Labour Supply Elasticities?
Michiel Evers
Ruud A. De Mooij
Daniel J. Van Vuuren
Ruud Aloysius de Mooij
This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though. There is no systematic impact of the model specification or marital status on reported elasticities. The decision to participate is more responsive than is the decision regarding hours worked. Even at the intensive margin, we find that the elasticity for women exceeds that for men. For men and women in the Netherlands, we predict an uncompensated labour supply elasticity of 0.1 and 0.5, respectively. These values are robust for alternative samples and specifications of the meta regression.
Michiel Evers & Ruud A. De Mooij & Daniel J. Van Vuuren, 2005. "What Explains the Variation in Estimates of Labour Supply Elasticities?," CESifo Working Paper Series 1633, CESifo.
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April 21, 2020 | History | Foxen Winery
Origin Stories with Billy & Dick
DICK: I met Billy about 45 years ago at a party he was throwing with a mutual friend. He'd just gotten out of Cal Poly and he was up at Mesa Vineyard, which is now part of the Cambria Winery.
BILLY: I see this VW van come rolling down my driveway and park and the sliding door opens and all this smoke comes pouring out!
DICK: Billy and I partied and the following morning I went to work for him driving a tractor - which of course I said I could do but had never done. I had just gotten back from Europe with the family and didn't have a job. I remember the first day of work, I arrived at the door and was greeted with a cup of Columbian coffee and a joint of Columbian pot!
BILLY: I came down in 1975, moved into a house in Tepusquet Canyon and started farming the 220 acres of vines at Mesa. I was introduced to a lot of the locals by the vineyard manager of Bien Nacido at the time, Jim Bellich, who is still a dear friend of ours. Those vines were planted in '72 and FOXEN is still getting fruit from those old vines. I was there till '78 when I went to work for Chalone. I came back in '81 and moved back into the Tepusquet house.
DICK: So we decided to start making wine together when Bill got back from Chalone. It took us four years to sort of get our act together. We pressed our first crush up on the basketball court I had put in up the hill here. I lived here on the property for 33 years and had put in a basketball court. Billy bought some old American oak barrels and sterilized them with bleach and citric acid. I think we had four barrels that first year. Did we buy that Italian stemmer/crusher that year?
BILLY: Yeah. It was really dangerous!
DICK: Very dangerous. So, we borrowed a press from Harold Pfeiffer at Rancho Sisquoc and pressed on the back of our pickup truck on the basketball court. We had our four barrels up there and had to get them down here to the Shack, which was going to be our barrel room. So, we sort of made a railroad track with railroad ties to get the barrels into our pickup truck and brought them down here and did the same thing. A barrel weighs about 600 pounds, so we were praying that the bungs wouldn't pop out!
DICK: In 1985, the original Shack was in complete disrepair. We fixed the doors, we fixed the roof - sort of! We poured a concrete slab behind it, which was our crush pad for the first ten years. Eventually, we took over the barn as our barrel room.
BILLY: One room was the whites, another was the Pinots, the main room was the Bordeauxs and the Rhones were down below.
DICK: Until one year when we made too many Rhones and had to take over the tractor shed. We had barrels here, there and everywhere. It was insane!
BILLY: In '87 we did our first Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. We had twelve barrels by then.
DICK: We sort of opened up the tasting room - we had the FOXEN OPEN sign. We were totally illegal, so we put out the sign on the weekend and pretended we didn't exist during the week.
BILLY: Dick worked Saturday and I worked Sunday. But, Dick would work from his front porch!
DICK: Our first customers were a carload of girls who came in and said, "Hey, your wine's pretty good! How much is it?" and I said twelve bucks a bottle and they said, "That's too much!" and walked out.
BILLY: There was always cold beer in the fridge and always a football game on the black and white TV. That went on till '89 or '90. One Sunday, a limo came in at 4:00, everyone completely sh*tfaced and I decided I was fed up with dealing with the public and told Dick "I quit!". He said "Well then, I quit too!".
DICK: That's when we hired our first employee, Sandy, a bartender at the Hitching Post. She was the inspiration for the Virginia Madsen character in Sideways.
BILLY: We started making more wine at a certain point and decided we wanted to buy some new French oak barrels.
DICK: French oak was expensive - around five hundred bucks a barrel. So, we came up with the Barrel Subscriber program. We called up a bunch of our friends and offered them a case of wine and a dinner party every year if they'd buy the barrel for us. They'd decorate them with cartoons and what not.
BILLY: The barrel subscriber dinners became notorious. We had pumpkins and gourds with flower arrangements on the tables as centerpieces and at the culmination of the dinner, we'd always have a centerpiece toss. It became very competitive. One year, a bus full of German tourists happened upon one of our dinners and joined in the toss! It was off the wall!
DICK: We poured this 1986 Cabernet Sauvignon at the second Santa Barbara Vintner's Festival ever, which was held at Flag Is Up Farms in Solvang.
BILLY: Still holds up! Cheers!
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"Of course! What did you expect?" replied the wife of Dr. Ashish Jha, the study's senior author, when he shared his team's findings with her. Jha said he expects a backlash over the study results. But his team's methodology, successfully put through multiple analyses, makes this work noteworthy, he added.
Whoa! To us, a man and woman who met as we were getting our start in medicine, them's fightin' words.
Since half the patients we treat are women and girls, it makes sense that at least half the physician corps should reflect the population. We've achieved that in medical school rolls, but overall only a third of practicing doctors are female. And many specialties, including orthopedics, cardiology and neurosurgery, are still dominated by men.
So why is there a gender-based difference in physicians' care? The authors admit that they are "unable to identify exactly why female physicians have better outcomes than male physicians."
We don't pretend to know for sure, but as married doctors, we have our hunches. We talked it over and here are our thoughts about the research.
Dr. John Henning Schumann: I like the Big Data aspect of it. The authors said, "Let's look at more than a million Medicare patients over several years and see how they fared based on the gender of their doctor." While many people may want to tear this study apart, I think the findings make intuitive sense.
Sarah-Anne: I'm assuming the difference is because of the way that women, in general, communicate. It's about being better listeners, more nurturing and having emotional intelligence.
Sarah-Anne: Yes, just as there are plenty of women who don't really have those qualities. For female doctors, having worked their way through pre-med, med school and residency, they can have some of that nurturing communication skill beaten out of them.
Sarah-Anne: That's true. But this study shows us — just possibly — that if female doctors, on average, communicate better, their style might be more effective in treating disease and preventing death.
John: It's interesting to me because I think about some of my older patients, who much prefer that I tell them what to do rather than to discuss options and share decision-making.
Sarah-Anne: My mother has had many experiences with male doctors where she feels they haven't listened to her. They aren't warm or kind, but she feels reassured anyway. She thinks they're smart, and what's most important to her is their knowledge and technical skill, not their bedside manner.
John: Mom always knows best, if that's what she values.
Sarah-Anne: Even in our family, we're both doctors. I'm a family doctor, trained to see adults and kids. You're an internist, trained to only see adults. And in both of our families, most of the time, our family members will reach out to you with their questions — even about kids. And my family, who attended my Harvard Medical School graduation, I'll remind you, seems to value your opinion more. They seem to be looking for opinions more from men. That's kind of an interesting thing.
John: I never really thought about that. I can see how that's totally male privilege. It has to be frustrating to be taken less seriously.
Sarah-Anne: I'm in a Facebook group of physicians who are moms. While it's not every doctor-mom in the country, there are over 60,000 of us in it. So many tell stories of being mistaken for nurses — and taking great offense at that. We have worked so hard to get where we are and want to be treated as equals to our male colleagues.
John: That's a smart way to reframe it. Our colleague Jill used to get angry when people assumed she was a nurse. Instead, she decided to embrace it and use it as a call to service. Now she asks patients if they need an extra blanket or something to drink. And she believes that she provides better, more empathic care.
Sarah-Anne: Everyone is going to want to know what is it about women that leads to these better outcomes. I think it's going to be hard to figure out exactly.
Sarah-Anne: You're not really asking me that, are you?
Sarah-Anne Henning Schumann is a family doctor and serves as medical director of Community Health Connection, a federally qualified community health center in Tulsa, Okla.
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EVANSTON, IL -- Professional Sports Catering, LLC, (PSC) in conjunction with the Rome Braves, announced a partnership today at State Mutual Stadium (South Atlantic League, Class-A Affiliate of the Atlanta Braves). PSC will manage all aspects of the food operation at State Mutual Stadium, including concessions, catering, and staffing for every event at the ballpark.
PSC and the Braves organization are executing a series of upgrades throughout the ballpark that include new specialty food carts, revitalized branded food options, and most importantly, all food items cooked fresh in front of fans. Over the past nine years, PSC has experienced tremendous growth throughout minor league baseball. As a partner of now twenty-eight venues across the country, PSC's commitment to live cooking and 'POSITIVELY OUTRAGEOUS' guest service has allowed it to become the largest in minor league baseball.
For information on Professional Sports Catering visit prosportscatering.com or contact sgoodman@prosportscatering.com.
Professional Sports Catering, LLC is the only full-service food & beverage company that focuses exclusively on Minor League and Spring Training Baseball. Tom Dickson launched the company in 2007 to serve the needs of minor league baseball teams across the country. The PSC business model focuses on high quality, fresh, cooked-before-your-eyes food and an almost obsessive level of customer service and partnership with its clients. Since its inception, PSC has become one of the fastest growing foodservice providers in sports. In 2014, PSC announced a joint venture partnership with Levy Restaurants, who have become active partners in the growth and vision of the company.
The Rome Braves baseball team is the Single-A South Atlantic League affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, located at State Mutual Stadium in Rome, GA. Rome offers full season and half season ticket options with 6 and 12 pack plans starting as low as $70. Single game tickets are now on sale. For the latest news and updates, visit Romebraves.com or connect with @theromebraves on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.


Name That Company Recap David Gardner gives the answer to last week's "Name That Company." The clue: "I started in 1998 and was born on Wall Street one year later. Dr. Spock has been on my payroll but my enterprise hasn't always produced out-of-this-world returns. I want to give you a moving experience. Who am I?"
David Gardner gives the answer to last week's "Name That Company." The clue: "I started in 1998 and was born on Wall Street one year later. Dr. Spock has been on my payroll but my enterprise hasn't always produced out-of-this-world returns. I want to give you a moving experience. Who am I?"


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6 of the Best and Strangest Football Stories
Posted on February 19, 2020 February 19, 2020 by Kian Bell
Football is all sorts of fantastic and bizarre at times. At times, you'd be surprised that events like these actually transpired several years ago.
Below are some of the best, yet the strangest, football stories of all time.
1) Celery chant
You have to thank the Chelsea fans for being the most creative (despite the inappropriateness of the language) when it comes to chants.
Chelsea fans are said to bring celery to Stamford Bridge for several decades now because of this chant.
However, in 2007, the club issued a statement forbidding the fans from bringing the veggie to the Bridge. It was outlawed and considered as "dangerous."
Anyone caught doing will be punished with a refusal of entry and lifetime ban.
Fans were also encouraged to report any fan seen carrying celery. A dedicated hotline was on standby. All reports were treated as confidential.
2) A minute of silence
Teams honour fans who passed away. So in 1993, the oldest fan of Congleton of the HFS Loans League was reported dead a week before. The team mourned his death before playing the match.
The minute of silence was halted midway when the fan walked right into his silence memorial. The public relations department of the club immediately cancelled the memorial.
3) One versus one
The Isles of Scilly Football League was once considered as the smallest league worldwide.
It has two teams, namely Woolpack Wanderers and Garrison Gunners. For the entire season that is composed of 17 games, they had to play one another.
There were other Cups, called the Foredeck and Wholesalers. Both Cups were played by, yes, you guessed it right, the Wanderers and the Gunners!
4) Same team names
Some football players' names are challenging to pronounce. That's true.
However, in one almost cosmic turn of events, the 20 players from both clubs have the same names. They were all named Bungay. The match happened in Bungay, Suffolk as well.
It was astounding as there were only 500 people in the United Kingdom with the surname Bungay.
No, they have nothing to do with bunga-bunga Silvio Berlusconi.
5) The 10-minute manager
Coaches are an embodiment of their respective club. Their experiences are definitely different, however.
Some coached a club for several decades such as Sir Alex Ferguson—he was a constant fixture at Old Trafford. Arsene Wenger was with the Arsenal for 15 seasons.
This cannot be said for Leroy Rosenoir, though. He was a club coach appointee for only 10 minutes. Rosenoir was told that Torquay United, the club he was supposed to head, had been taken over.
6) A bomb on the field
Amateur football players played on the pitch that was later discovered to cover an unexploded German bomb. It was a World War II bomb found in April 1995 in Portland, Dorset. It was discovered by quarrymen.
About 4,000 residents were evacuated while the technicians, a 10-man Royal Engineers bomb disposal squad, disable the bomb weighing 1,100 lbs.
No one got hurt. Thus, it was regarded as the most prominent peacetime bomb disposal activity in Great Britain.
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One Day at Disney Shorts é um série documental estadunidense, composta por episódios curtos, produzidos pela Disney Publishing Worldwide e a Endeavor Content para o serviço de streaming Disney+. A produção é uma continuação do longa homônimo, também documental. Os 51 episódios,  com duração de 5 a 7 minutos, foram lançados semanalmente desde sua estréia, no dia 6 de dezembro de 2019.

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O documentário é uma série de curtas, onde cada episódio segue o trabalho de um funcionário diferente da The Walt Disney Company.

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A Common Sense Media avaliou o documentário com uma nota 3, de um total de 5 estrelas, justificando que: "O conteúdo não é algo espetacular, mas o formato de vinheta trabalha a favor dos pré-adolescentes e adolescentes, que geralmente desejam saber um pouco sobre como a mágica é feita por trás das cenas. Além do mais, a produção inspira respeito por uma extensa variedade de carreiras e talentos e demonstra como o trabalho em equipe e a efetiva solução de problemas são essenciais para o sucesso da Disney".

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Cops Cockblock Area Man
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John Nova Lomax | February 11, 2010 | 11:03am
In the wee hours of a Saturday morning late last month, police in the Liberty County town of Dayton were patrolling State Highway 146 when they encountered what must have looked like a a streak of metallic gray lightning.
They claim to have clocked a silver, late-model, Mercedes coupe at speeds up to 123 miles per hour, and say that the driver, 26-year-old James Steven Ferguson of Highlands (near Baytown) also blazed through a construction zone at around 100 mph.
After a short pursuit, Ferguson pulled over into a gas station, the blazing blue lights of three units behind him. Ferguson told them he had no driver's license and was ticketed for speeding and taken to the Liberty County Jail on the no license charge.
But maybe Ferguson's foot wasn't the only thing pressing down on the accelerator...
Somewhere along the way, the cops must have asked him why he was in such a hurry, because we know exactly why: Ferguson told the cops that he had a Viagra in his pocket and a lady friend who was ready to roll.
Maybe he should count himself lucky he didn't drop that pill before he was taken to the pokey.


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These printable Christmas gift boxes are the perfect way to personalize your Christmas gift. Each box comes as two 8.5 x 11″ black and white PDF templates – one for the base and one for the lid. Color in your templates, then cut along the solid lines, fold along the dotted lines, and glue the panels together to make your box. how to make a christmas tree topper These printable Christmas gift boxes are the perfect way to personalize your Christmas gift. Each box comes as two 8.5 x 11″ black and white PDF templates – one for the base and one for the lid. Color in your templates, then cut along the solid lines, fold along the dotted lines, and glue the panels together to make your box.
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HomeTechnologyAutonomous Data Machines to gather fuel for Big Data
Autonomous Data Machines to gather fuel for Big Data
At today's nestCON 1.2 Internet of Things conference, a company called Knightscope announced it is developing a new technology it calls "Autonomous Data Machines."
The machines are designed to collect massive amounts of real world data to provide organizations with real time information, behavioral analysis and user-defined alerts at any site they choose. The company says the influx of data will enable improvements in business intelligence and analytics, ultimately helping companies make better decisions.
Each unit can be equipped with sensor payload options including omnidirectional cameras, microphones, optical character recognition, thermal imaging, air quality sensors, ultrasonic detectors, lasers and infrared. There are currently two models: The Knightscope K5 is shown above; the K10, which is designed for open areas, looks like a car from the film Minority Report.
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The company has started securing beta customers for the machines through a subscription model and testing will begin at the end of 2013.
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December 15, 2009 May 12, 2011 Dan Acree
Parker and Duke Wilson
Just as the sun started to rise, Duke Wilson and his nephew Parker slid into their battery-powered golf cart and headed out across the property. They do this most every morning to check the health of their seasonal crops, as well as the functioning of several operation systems. "Let's take a picture here," Duke said, as the men examined precisely laid rows of cabbage and kale. The younger man pushed the brim of his cap up from over his eyes and snapped a digital image of the plants.
Cabbage and kale—sounds good, but these plants are not for eating. They are ornamentals, and along with a wide variety of other bedding plants just getting started, they are the Wilson's crop. These and the pansies. Yup, pansies. Right now they have greenhouses full of pansies just waiting to find a new winter home.
"Pansies are tough," Wilson said. "They like the cold." Perhaps it's time to reconsider the little flower's image.
Rows of greenhouses along a road in Pottsboro, Texas
Located two miles west of Pottsboro on FM 996, Wilson's Farm operates out of sixty-seven greenhouses spread across twenty-four acres. From their office in a large, orange, steel Conex shipping container with a door in the side, the images from that morning's photo shoot were forwarded to Duke's brother and Parker's father, Tom Wilson. "He works out of the store in Dallas and has a real good knowledge of everything we grow," Duke said.
The store in Dallas is Christina's Flowers, named for Tom's wife. It's located on Mapleshade Lane, near US 289 and the George Bush Freeway. There, Tom and ten-year staffer Kelsey London, receive the flats and set them out for retail. The bulk of the Wilsons' Pottsboro product goes to stock this store, but product from Wilson's Farm reaches consumers from Oklahoma City to San Antonio, too,. "In a season, we can send out 600,000 flats of annuals," Parker said.
The bunker-like office is headquarters for the farm, home to piles of paperwork, a computer monitor and a label making machine. Overhead, on a dry-erase board, a running list of maintenance projects grows as rapidly as the plants. "We're the maintenance team, the plumbing team, the operations team. This is a family business and we do it all," Duke said.
Wilson's Farm got started forty years ago when Tom and Duke's father, R.C. Wilson, purchased the Pottsboro property. The boys took a liking to the country life and at one time lived there. Tom and Duke have both been a little of this and a little of that—landscapers, concrete workers, and sprinkler-system installers. As a hobby, Tom began putting his horticulture education to use and began planting on the farm. "He's always had a knack for working with plants," his brother said.
Over time, they built six wood-framed greenhouses, and the Wilsons began taking their crops to market. They also sold plants on the street. "We would go to Florida and pick up a truck load of plants and sell them on corner lots in Dallas," Duke said. The brothers found that they could unload a truck full of exotic house plants within hours.
"We just sat down one day and talked. We realized we were selling a lot of plants and that we couldn't keep our jobs and continue to do this. So we made a decision to get in the greenhouse business. Then we hired some people and made it work," Duke said.
The Wilsons built more greenhouses, with metal frames instead of wood to provide greater durability, and called on friends and a small staff to run the place. "As we got the money for them, we continued putting up new houses," Duke said. "That way we didn't owe on anything."
There are sixty-seven houses now, lined up in rows and covered in a layer of heavy-gauge Visqueen® poly sheeting. At both ends of the houses sit large turbine fans, used to exhaust the warm interior air during the summer. If the temperatures soar, the Wilsons use shade cloths to cut the heat.
Too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter has always been the farmer's challenge. "When we get a real hard freeze, I have to get out here and check the heaters in every house. It's worth getting up at 1 a.m.," said Duke.
A deep freeze on begonias will wipe out an entire crop. "We may only have $20,000 in it," said Parker, who has grown up in the business, "but if you think about what that could create, on the back end, in a greenhouse full of plug trays…" He grabbed the calculator and punched a series of numbers. "That's a loss of $250,000."
Planting is a continuous operation at Wilson's Farm. Truckloads of peat moss arrive in bundles, and seeds are purchased from various suppliers. Most of the plants are grown from seed.
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The automation process begins once the tightly compacted bundles of peat moss are dropped into a bail busting machine and reduced into a workable medium. A machine that definitely has the "shakes" sifts the peat into 384 pinky-sized plug holes on a plastic tray as it moves along a conveyer. Each tray is watered, seeded, and packed. A fine layer of vermiculite coats the finished trays, which are then stacked on rolling racks to be organized in greenhouses.
Once they are in a greenhouse, water for the plants is channeled through an irrigation system. It comes from an on-site well and runs through a reverse osmosis machine. "We get a lot of sodium from the well, and the system purifies the water," Duke said. The cleaned water is stored in tanks and dispersed through a maze of PVC pipes. An automated humidity meter reads the moisture in the air and turns on misters to water the seedlings as needed. "For seed planting, a direct spray washes them out of the flats, so we use a fine mist."
Under ideal conditions, and depending on the crop, buds will poke out of the moss in three to four weeks. Once the buds have made a leafy appearance, they are then replanted from the plug trays into eighteen-cell finish flats.
Through the years, and after attempting several different procedures to perfect the replanting process, the Wilsons' found that a crew of six replanting along a conveyor is ideal for production and cost. "We had an automated machine some time ago doing this for us, but once the machine went down, we were left with a whole lot of crop and no home for them," Wilson said.
Now they employ six young women, who sit alongside the conveyor wearing latex gloves to keep their hands from drying out, and as flat after flat moves past, they delicately but quickly replant the sprouts into finish trays. The women laugh and talk as they work, but if something goes amiss, the straw boss—or would that be moss boss—Raquel Vargas steps in and makes it right. "This is a family operation, but she's the boss," Duke said of Vargas, who has been with the Wilsons' for more years than she or Duke can quickly recall.
Cabbage and kale are winter favorites and for color—remember those pansies—well, the Wilsons sell 100,000 flats of pansies each year. Spring sees traditional favorites such as marigolds, petunias, and periwinkle. But their cash cow, as they've come to find over the years, is the red-leaf begonia. "We've tried a lot of different things, but our number one seller is the red-leaf begonia," Wilson said.
To a large extent, what Duke and Parker plant depends on what Tom Wilson and Kelsey London, who field questions and get feedback from customers, decide. "It takes several years to establish a core group of crops," said London. "We're the loop between here and the farm, and this is where we gauge what customers are looking for."
As they stay on top of customer trends, the Wilsons see the fluctuation in consumer purchases. Pots of wisteria occupy a small space now, remnants of a trend that was popular five years ago. In 2009, the potato vine emerged as a hot-selling item. "We've gradually refined what people are looking for," London concluded.
Back at the farm, Duke and Parker, after a long day babysitting baby plants, turned the golf cart back to the barn. They put away their tools, added a couple of new items to the never shortening list of maintenance chores, and checked the computer for updates. Parker Wilson lifted the brim of his cap and squinted into the sun hanging low on the western horizon. It was time to go home.
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I Love this place, the girls are very friendly and helpful. We live out at the lake and almost everyone with plants flowers or trees use Wilson Farm, i've had people come from dallas, Amarillo, shamrock to buy plants. LOVE LOVE LOVE this place
I love Wilson Farm! Just picked up a some fall color at Christina's yesterday in fact. Mums are looking great this year!
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Here's the source painting, by the way.
It's been 12 years since I visited the Prado (Spanish for meadow), but I don't remember that painting. Not surprising, religious iconography never did it for me…but Las meninas. Velazquez was something else.
Las meninas is my favorite painting of all time – it blows me away. I've never been to Madrid but would go just to see it. Funny you should mention it, too, because just yesterday I made a joke somewhere – probably Facebook – about doing all the painting as caricatures, and I put dibs on Las meninas.
I didn't know that painting either, it is easy enough to spend half your life in the Prado and still miss hundreds of masterpieces. It is a terrific painting though, full of energy and very taut.
Of course Las Meninas is the greatest work in the collection but its ubiquity in Spain (where it has something of the status of the Mona Lisa as a synechdoche for 'great art') robs it of some of its impact if you spend much time there.
If you get the chance, go to Madrid. Hang out in the Plaza Major, try the bars in Malasaña, walk around the Grand Via, Cibeles, Parque de buen retiro, palacio real etc. Of course, Reina Sofia and Prado are museums worth the trip on either's account. Guernica, Las Meninas, …. Screw it, if you like Las Meninas, that's reason enough. Book your flight.
What a strange painting Las Meninas is. Thank you for putting me onto it.
Doesn't the infanta have the Hapsburg chin? It's Carlos quinto or Felipe Segundo as young girl…Still, that's taking away from the meta stuff happening in the painting: who's looking at who and who is the subject of the work?
I just love the meta stuff. I love the way Velasquez is eyeing us. I love it that we're the royal parents dropping in for a look at the portrait session – that we're the very top people, and everything is focused on us, but we're not visible, and in fact we're not the royal parents at all. Sooooo meta.
All that meta stuff is one of the reasons that I sometimes get unreasonably annoyed by certain post-modern theorists in the arts – the way they seem so pleased with themselves at challenging perspectives and assumptions that Valasquez had thrown into the air 400 years earlier without ever striking a pose as some kind of daring 'outsider' or mouthing inanities about subversion.
We may not be in the position of the royal couple, though. It may be that they are reflected from the large canvas. The optics would work for that and it lends another layer of representation.
But who is it on the stairs?
The optics are the genius of the painting. We could be the audience, seeing Velazquez paint us, or we could just be spying a moment of Velazquez eyeing a portrait of the pareja real whilst the infanta and retinue go about their business and it's the guy on the stairs who's the audience, or it could be Velazquez doing a self-portrait….
The part I enjoyed most when I learned about this painting is how Velazquez was paid by the royal family to do a straight portrait of the infanta, and instead did nothing like it, but still there she is, amongst many other potential subjects. Genius.
And it gives you that slip-sliding "wait who am I" feeling…and the wonderful unease at Velasquez's considering stare. It reminds me of Shakespeare.
It's nice, artistically, but I still like various aspects of the photoshop one, esp PZ, for example. I truly thought he was adorable in that, but this guy looks bored or tired, not as lively. While I know having "No life" is part of the painting, I prefer livelier things.
On topic, Ophelia, you did come across regal. Which, whilst merited, I doubt Paula Kirby meant. P.Z. is P.Z. a cuddly, fluff ball of evil spit and bile.
It's strange, that I esteemed Paul Kirby so much and would never have expected this. But not. I take people on their word, until they hang themselves with the rope they chose to dole out. And I am not a great judge. In otherwords, just because a person can spell, it doesn't mean they know anything..
Is it just me, or does the woman in the middle of the painting look like she's rolling her eyes, and the guy on the right is facepalming?
You cross the Romans and they "cross" you.
I like your interpretation, Stevarious.
I dunno, kinda just looks like an after-after-party.


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Ramaco, LLC, CEO Randall Atkins poses with a core sample from the planned site of a new coal mine near Sheridan in northern Wyo., Jan. 15, 2015. Coal developers working against the trend of mine closures and bankruptcies say a $90 million investment announced Tuesday, will enable them to open two new mines in West Virginia and Virginia over the next year.
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The Elk Creek Mine and Berwind Mine could bring hundreds of jobs to communities struggling with unemployment rates triple the national average, according to Ramaco Development.
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September 6, 2016 | CHEYENNE, Wyo.
As mines close and the coal industry faces a seemingly endless run of bankruptcies and other bad news, a company backed by a $90 million investment is defying conventional wisdom by preparing to open two new mines next year in Appalachia, the hardest-hit coal region.
The mines in West Virginia and Virginia will create some 400 jobs in counties where unemployment ranges close to three times the national average, Ramaco Development CEO Randall Atkins told The Associated Press.
"It's a fairly big deal, frankly, for southern West Virginia," Atkins said.
Low prices for natural gas and new pollution regulations are turning many utilities off coal as their fuel of choice for generating electricity. U.S. coal-fired power capacity is down 15 percent since 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
This coal won't be used for electricity but for steel manufacturing. Metallurgical coal prices are up lately due to a mix of international market factors. But Ramaco can make the mines work even at even fairly low prices, Atkins said.
The Elk Creek Mine in southern West Virginia and the Berwind Mine spanning the boundary between southern West Virginia and Virginia will be operational for around 17 years. A $90 million private equity investment should enable test mining at both sites to begin early next year.
Work on the Elk Creek Mine's coal preparation plant will start even sooner, according to Kentucky-based Ramaco.
"We will start construction at the Elk Creek property just as soon as we get all the equipment lined up there," Atkins said.
The company plans to begin talking with potential buyers in the next few weeks and could begin shipping coal under supply agreements in 2018, he said.
Ramaco also has been seeking to open a mine in northern Wyoming that would supply coal to power plants for generating electricity. The Brook Mine proposal has been challenged in court by another company claiming surface ownership rights in the area but the mine faces no significant regulatory obstacles yet.
Over the past year, bankruptcy reorganizations by major companies including Alpha Natural Resources, Arch Coal and Peabody Energy have roiled the U.S. coal industry. Coal companies in Chapter 11 also mine much of the nation's metallurgical coal, which is baked into a substance called coke that plays an important role in steel production.
While heavy debts have haunted those companies, Ramaco is debt-free and will strive to keep costs down, Atkins said.
"If we can control costs, the market will take care of itself. So even when you had a very low point in the market — which frankly we've had in the past 12 months — our cost is such that we would still be quite profitable," Atkins said.
Very thick coal seams will help control costs at the mines, which will be mostly underground but will include some surface and longwall operations as well, he added.
Longwall mining uses huge machines to shear blocks of coal hundreds of feet long from the coal seam while allowing the roof behind the machinery to collapse. In Wyoming, the top coal-producing state, nearly all coal comes from open-pit mines but Ramaco plans to employ longwall mining at the relatively small Brook Mine.
Ramaco has been working on development, planning and permitting at Elk Creek since acquiring the property in 2012. The company acquired the Burwind property in 2015, Atkins said.
Long-term, Ramaco seeks to produce up to 4 million tons from the two mines per year. While many environmental groups have embarked on a unified "keep it in the ground" campaign for coal and other fossil fuels, a Republican congressman from southern West Virginia welcomed the news that new mines might be on the way.
"Southern West Virginia needs jobs, and our families need the hope and promise that a paycheck brings," U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins said in a release.
Prices for high-quality U.S. metallurgical coal have fallen in recent years, from $300 per ton to below $100, but recently rebounded to around $140 amid production cuts in China, rising demand in India and supply interruptions in Australia, said James Stevenson, director of North American coal for analyst firm IHS.
A metallurgical coal mine in Alabama formerly owned by bankrupt Walter Energy is set to reopen under new owner Warrior Met Coal, he noted.
New life for metallurgical coal mining could become a trend if companies can lock in contracts at higher prices, he said.
"It's pretty slowly ramping up, but you're going to see that kind of effect, where strong prices bring production," Stevenson said.
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