Fighting/Weapon skill: +1-3, +1-3 starting weapon of the chosen type.
Magic skill: an appropriate spellbook.
It seems to me that if Fighting/Weapon is chosen, you get something very good, ranging up to possibly a +3/+3 crossbow or quarterstaff, whereas if Armour is chosen, you get something significantly worse. Some of the other skills give something of good power level, but maybe not as apropos as possible, like Dodging and perhaps Stealth.
Here's what I've changed. No one suggested anything different in the forum, but many liked what I proposed.
Weapon skill: +1-3/+1-3 short sword|mace|hand axe|blowgun|spear|falchion or +1-2/+1-2 bow or +1/+1 quarterstaff|crossbow.
I've tested this patch by compiling and generating wanderers until I saw each case come up.
// to worry about scale mail's not fitting.
* Setting all weapons to +2.
* Improving Armour/Dodging/Stealth Good starting items.
// Returns true if a "good" weapon is given.
+// Players can get some other consumables as a "decent item".
// Create a random wand in the inventory.
// Give the player knowledge of only one spell.
-    // a curing potion/teleportation scroll.
// levels/equipment, but pretty randomised.
// Decide what our character roles are.
// Regardless of roles, players get a couple levels in these skills.
-    // No Invocations for demigods.
I don't see a good reason to special-case different weapon skills and give them different bonuses -- sure, some of those weapons are better than others, but wanderers aren't supposed to all be the same power level and this feels like unnecessary complication to me.
I also don't like the dodging/stealth changes -- I don't think they will play as well as giving out consumables. Being more "apropos" is not a convincing argument given that players aren't going to be aware that they are associated with dodging/stealth inside the code.
I do think boosting the armour skill gift is a good idea though, since +0 scale mail and nothing else is quite weak and also boring. Enchantment, a chance at starting with ring or chain instead, or a piece of auxiliary armour all seem reasonable to me.
Oh, I also think the Shields skill gift could use a change - +0 buckler is really lame for most species, and giving a regular shield instead for non-small species would be good (like fighter does).
FWIW, +0 shield is already the SK_SHIELDS good_item. The decent_item is +0 buckler. I think it may be possible for ogres/trolls to get bucklers.
Apparently Shields skill does already try to give a regular shield, so that is probably fine.
After some discussion on IRC, my current suggestions are to make the weapons +1-2 instead of +1-3, change Dodging skill to either give +0 leather and nets or give +1-2 leather, and leave Stealth skill as it is (giving consumables).
Does it make sense to upgrade the list of good_item weapons to use the new Fighter list? If so, it would be reasonable to cap all at +1. It would make the weapon list slightly more even and add more variety in what wanderers can start with, which both seem like good things to me.
* All good_equipment weapons will be exactly +2.
* Good_equipment Dodging is +2 leather or +0 leather and 2-4 nets.
* Good_equipment Armour is +2 scale.
* Good_equipment Stealth is 1 good consumable and +2 dagger.
* Remove Invo as a starting skill.
* Decent_equipment UC/Dodging/Stealth will give 1 of [!curing, ?tele, !lignification] at random instead of giving nothing at all.
* Decent_equipment Evo will give wand of random effects instead of nothing at all.
Uploaded a revised patch. In testing, I found that the existing code can place two separate instances of the same consumable in two inventory slots, so I fixed that.
I observed all skill cases in testing, though I found that in one case Polearms Good and Hexes/Summoning Descent gave only a +2 spear. I didn't figure out the source of that issue, but it seems to be both extremely rare and preexisting, so I'm going to upload this patch anyway.


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1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear review: Spot-on sound, hot-spots on the head
The inconvenience of wired listening is easy to overlook with these cans
1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear
The inconvenience of wires is easily overlooked once you hear what a wonderful job these do at reproducing your favorite tracks. Construction isn't at the expense of sound quality; the cans are made of leather, aluminum, and stainless steel and manage to feel lightweight on the head.
101.6 x 1346.2 x 152.4 mm
Triple-Driver Over-Ear
Excellent sound quality
Replaceable Kevlar cable
Hard-shell case
Shallow ear cups
Creates hotspots
Lacks in-line mic and remote
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Durability / Build Quality
Ever look at a tire and think, "Yeah, I want that on my ears." Well, 1More thinks that you have, and the company has designed the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear headphones accordingly. The Trident Bass Reflector system echoes design elements of the Sennheiser HD 820 that was unveiled this year at CES, but ends up looking more like the spokes of an car tire.
These are great for listeners who already know what they want in a pair of mid-tier headphones. For instance, if you like a bass-heavy sound, you'll enjoy the Triple-Driver Over-Ear.
Design aside, the triple-driver technology is just as effective here as it is with the company's in-ear model. These headphones sound phenomenal, and are available at a competitive price of $249. Let us go then, you and I, like a patient anesthetized upon a table and dive into the nitty-gritty of the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear cans.
Who are the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear for?
These are for listeners who have dabbled enough in the world of audio to know what they seek out in a pair of headphones. If you're going to invest a couple hundred dollars in audio equipment, you've done your homework more often than not. As it applies to the 1More Triple-Driver On-Ear headphones, these are great if you want accentuated bass with minimal sacrificing of clarity.
Externally, the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear look very similar to a car tire due to their spoked design.
Additionally, if you're a bit of a Luddite and refuse to succumb to the move towards Bluetooth, then these are a great option for you. They manage to sound incredibly clear while retaining a sound that's a hybrid of consumer-friendly and studio-ready. Though I wouldn't recommend professional audio-mixing with these, they're certainly up for the challenge of run-of-the-mill voice edits for straightforward projects like narrative voice-overs.
Before we get to what's inside; the 1More design team deserves credit for their excellent package design. If you caught Adam's review of the Triple-Driver In-Ear 'buds, then you're already familiar with it. The blueprint design—depicting the headphones' internals—is beautifully done, and reminds me of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical studies. But onto what's included.
The headphones include a proprietary 1.35-meter long 3.5mm replaceable cable. It's equipped with a Kevlar core for increased durability and tangle-resistance.
You get a removable, 1.35-meter long 3.5mm proprietary cable that's decked out with a Kevlar core and inserts into both ear cups; a matte-finish, hard-shell case; a ¼-inch adapter; and the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear headphones.
How are the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear built?
If you're worried about mostly-plastic headphones, relax: the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear are really well-built. A stainless steel skeleton allows for the headphones to expand or retract without catching. The frame sits atop a steel hinge, granting the Triple-Driver Over-Ear the ability to fold upward for storage. The leather headband looks gorgeous, and the two parts are held together by a silver accent that pipes along the edge of the headband. On top, the 1More name is embossed in the leather.
It's apparent that 1More's R&D team did their due diligence, but the headband still manages to create a hot-spot on the crown of the head and behind the ears.
Though this may not be the case for you, I'm ambivalent about the aluminum alloy ear cups. My first impression was, "I didn't realize that these are open-back headphones." Well, they're not. First-glances, however, may have you thinking otherwise because of the transparent paneling—dubbed the "Trident Bass Reflector." Personally, I'm not a huge fan of this design but do appreciate that form follows function.
The ear cups are constructed from the same premium leather as the headband and feel soft and supple—everything you could conceivably want from ear pads. However, the ear cup design is far too shallow. Immediately upon donning these, I felt the ear cups rubbing against my ears. If your ears protrude more than average, you'll find this problematic. Hot spots form on the crown of the head and behind the top of the pinna after about an hour.
It's easy to expand the headphones via the stainless steel sliders.
On the plus side, the ear cups rotate and lay nearly flat on the chest, which is great news for chins everywhere. Plus, the mixed-material cable is thick and durable without feeling dense or cumbersome. The best part? It's replaceable, Kevlar-reinforced for durability, and tangle-resistance. At the 3.5-mm termination is a nice metal jack and silicone stress reliever; this construction is mirrored at the other end of the cable, too.
Benefits of triple-driver technology
Most headphones use a single dynamic driver to do all the work of reproducing the 20Hz – 20kHz frequency range, but a triple-driver system—you guessed it—uses three drivers to divvy things up. Now, to clear some things up: These don't contain three drivers; rather, they're constructed of a single graphene-coated mylar driver, a bass reflector, and a ceramic tweeter. Additionally, these are hi-res certified, so they receive an extended frequency response range of 20Hz – 40kHz, 20kHz beyond the upper limit of human hearing.
1More's triple-driver technology effectively delegates the work of frequency response reproduction between a graphene driver, ceramic tweeter, and bass reflector system in each ear cup.
A tweeter is a type of driver that propagates a quickened treble response, lessening distortion. On the other end of the system is the bass reflector which allows for greater depth and clarity in the low-end. The best part about it? It's not just marketing hype—it truly is effective. But more on that in the "Sound Quality" section.
Wired-only connection
The wired connection requires that the cable is connected to both the left and right ear cups.
Though I do enjoy the convenience of Bluetooth, wired connectivity is the way to go for high-resolution audio. You don't have to deal with Bluetooth codec alphabet soup or worry about battery life. Of course, there are hardware vulnerabilities to deal with instead of software issues: The cable could fray or snap at any of the three terminations, but 1More accounts for this by making it replaceable—problem solved.
"Whoa, wait. There isn't a mic… or in-line controls?"
You're correct. The 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear headphones lack a mic and in-line control module, both of which we consumers have come to expect as a given on consumer-oriented models. You could argue that this improves fidelity, but it's a negligible improvement at best. To my surprise, I found myself missing the basic control functions that even a one-button remote supplies, but it's not a deal breaker.
Though the soundstage is impressive for closed-back cans, the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear headphones still fall short compared to the Sennheiser 598 CS.
Let's cut to the chase: Overall sound quality is great. These are by no means neutral, and that's fine. Plus, the emphasis is fun; the bass reflectors are effective, and compensate for loud notes by absorbing undesirable low-end reverberations. As far as the soundstage is concerned, it's wonderful. Though, I've said it before and will say it again, the Sennheiser HD 598 CS are the consumer cans to buy if you want a reasonable illusion of 3D space in your music. However, music played over the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear headphones sounds much clearer due to the care 1More put into managing the effects of loud sounds in small places echoing.
Lows: Does the Trident Bass Reflector system work?
Indeed, the Trident Bass Reflector system works. Low-end reproduction is pristine. No matter the song, the bass manages to avoid the common problem of echoing low notes, or what you might notice as a bewildering boom. I'm astounded by how clear the bass is in Sophie So by Hippo Campus. It's certainly emphasized, but the bass notes during the instrumental (2:30) are appropriate and responsive.
The midrange notes sound great. Relative to low-midrange frequencies—think G or Emajor chords on a guitar—vocals tend to be slightly under-emphasized, but female vocals don't suffer to the same degree. If you want to hear this in action, listen to Souls by Hippo Campus, which can be found on their freshman album. Jake Lupen's vocals are forward and clear during the verses. However, once the chorus kicks in, it requires a bit of effort to parse Lupen's voice from the drums and guitar riffs.
Atop the leather headband is the 1More name.
That said, The Greeting Committee's song—She's A Gun—is even busier when it comes to guitar riffs and general underscoring, but Addie Sartino's higher-pitched voice is never overwhelmed by lower notes. It's not like Sartino's voice is high-pitched for a female, but there's enough of a difference that the 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear are able to isolate her vocals from the maddening guitar in conjunction with aggressive drum hits.
The introductory 20 seconds of Buttercup by Hippo Campus relies solely on a tambourine and falsetto vocals. I wasn't sure how the song would sound on the Triple-Driver Over-Ear since they favor the low-end, but tambourine hits are satisfying and clear during the intro. Once the rest of the instrumentalists join in, though, treble reproduction loses some clarity.
The stainless steel yolks rotate 45 degrees, and the hinges fold in completely for convenience.
As the song transitions from the focused chorus to the verse—which is filled with synthesized noises that are layered on top of typical guitar, drum, and bass accompaniment—the tambourine is traded in for hi-hat hits, which are difficult to hear over the guitar's rhythm. In all fairness, treble reproduction is actually quite accurate, but due to the overpowered bass, they become hard to hear.
How well do these isolate?
Noise attenuation is disappointing for just about any on-ear cans, and the 1More Triple Driver Headphones are no different. Low frequencies easily permeate the isolation barrier and the cartilage in your outer ear, which goes against 1More's claim that these are "perfect for travel." When on the Amtrak, I was able to hear other passengers when they were three rows ahead of me. The isolation of the 1More Triple-Driver headphones is little more effective than cupping your hands over your ears.
Should you buy them?
Well, yes. 1More has received quite a bit of praise here and elsewhere—and for good reason. Much like Monoprice—though not to the same extent—1More knows how to construct solid products for a competitive price. Quite frankly, it's undeniable how good the Triple-Driver circumaural headphones sound.
The 1More Triple-Driver Over-Ear headphones retail for $249.
Shelling out $200-plus is plenty for a pair of headphones, but these aren't for the average Jane or John Doe who needs to replace their Phillips 'buds. Instead, these appeal to those of us who are enthusiasts and have already figured out what we do and don't like in any given pair of headphones. If you don't like a bass-oriented sound signature, then you're best looking elsewhere; perhaps more towards something like the aforementioned Sennheiser HD 598 CS or the Bowers & Wilkins PX if you're not wed to wires.
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Steps to sync only specific folders of your OneDrive account in Windows 10. 1. Right click or long press on the OneDrive icon from taskbar and go to Settings. 2. Go to Choose Folders tab. 3. Under Choose Folders tab, you can click on the choose folders option to open the list of all the folders of your OneDrive account. 4. Now uncheck the folders which you don�t want to sync. The computer... Home / Products / OneDrive One Way Files/Folders Sync Windows 10/8/7 One way sync OneDrive files and folders with the help of OneDrive official application as well as third party cloud sync software - MultCloud in Windows 10/8/7.
To make a folder pair, head to Synced Folders and hit the �+� icon. The folder pair menu will ask you to choose the remote folder from OneDrive and a local folder from device to keep them in sync.... 9/12/2015�� The link describes how to select the folders that already exist on your OneDrive for downloading / sync'ing with the local OneDrive folder in your C:\Users\%username% directory. It doesn't describe how to choose individual folders from the C: for uploading / sync'ing.
OneDrive and Dropbox both support symbolic link folders and will sync everything up to the cloud like shown below: Sync Folders to Google Drive For Google Drive, start by downloading the Backup and Sync software mentioned above.
18/12/2017�� If you select the Choose folders to sync option on the subsequent screen you can untick any folder that you don't want to be synced. The unselected folders, complete with their contents, are still available everywhere else you have OneDrive installed.
Cloud sync just keeps the same set of files and folders on client devices and cloud storage. When altered files are uploaded, all clients download them automatically. Almost all public services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive are based on this kind of sync.
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The corner office: Raji Kumar of Dallas Medical Center on the competitiveness and complexity of healthcare
- Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 Print	| Email
Raji Kumar, MBA, has served as CEO of Dallas Medical Center since 2010, but she has nearly 10 years of experience as a hospital CEO — and since she turned 40 in 2014, that's quite a feat. She will also soon become CEO of Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas. Both hospitals are part of Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare.
Ms. Kumar bills herself as a turnaround CEO, and that holds true: When she took over the 155-bed Dallas Medical Center it was losing $2 million a month, but in a short time and under her leadership it has more than doubled its patient volumes, added service lines and tripled monthly revenue collections.
Before joining Dallas Medical Center, Ms. Kumar was CEO of Oakland Regional Hospital in Southfield, Mich.
Ms. Kumar grew up in India, but moved to the U.S. in 1995 after graduating with a degree in physical therapy. She now calls Dallas home, where she lives with her husband Vinnie and their 15-year-old son, Pranav. She earned her MBA from the University of Michigan-Flint and holds a certification in managing healthcare delivery from Harvard Business School.
Here, Ms. Kumar took the time to answer Becker's Hospital Review's seven questions.
What's one thing that really piqued your interest in healthcare?
What really piqued my interest is the complexity of healthcare. Healthcare is heavily regulated and you need to take care of who walks in your door, but payment is not guaranteed. I don't know of any other business that's this complex. You can look at it like it's a hospitality industry, but none of the customers you have want to be here. When people walk into Nordstrom, they go there because they want to go there. In this business, they don't want to be here and they expect a five-star service and don't want to pay for it. That's what piqued my interest; it's like solving a puzzle.
What do you enjoy most about Dallas?
It's a metropolitan city that's very diverse. Prior to moving to Dallas, I lived in Michigan for about 14 years and one of my goals was to move back to India and retire there. After moving to Dallas, though, that has changed. I don't think I'll ever move back to India. You get the best of both worlds in Dallas. From my standpoint, I can be as Indian as I want to be and as American as I want to be in Dallas. There's a huge Indian population, so you get to celebrate all the festivals just like you would back home.
I just love Dallas. It's a newer city, it's big, and it's nice to see it booming [with] a lot of opportunities. It's very competitive as a city; it's kind of like the survival of the fittest. When you compete, things get better.
If you could eliminate one of the healthcare industry's problems overnight, which would it be?
I would choose care for the under- and uninsured. The most difficult thing in this business is that you're taking care of people, but need to keep in mind that it is a business. It's kind of like an oxymoron. We need to take care of people who sometimes can't afford to pay, and we still have to run the business. I'd solve the problem of people not being able to afford insurance or their deductibles and co-pays, and improve access to care. That would be the No. 1 thing.
What do you consider your greatest talent or skill outside of the C-suite?
I'd say my greatest skill is my ability to move with and connect with people and make them feel comfortable. I'm gifted with a very great memory: I can remember all 500+ of my employees' first names and I can speak at least six languages.
Beyond that, I love music. I DJ when I'm not at work — top 40 music and some Bollywood. I'm the mother of a 15-year-old, and I think it's important that we bond with our children and find something to bring us together. I never used to listen to rap music, but my son did, and now I understand his interests and I can have conversations with him about something other than schoolwork.
How do you revitalize yourself?
I try to work out every day. I tell myself it's like brushing my teeth: You can't go to work without doing it; working out has to be part of my day-to-day activities. You can buy everything in life but health.
What's one piece of advice you remember most clearly?
Early in my career as a CEO — I became a CEO at the age of 31 — one of the hospital's owners was an orthopedic hand surgeon, and he gave me a lot of good advice that I still remember and utilize every day. One was: "To be a successful CEO, make sure you listen to your doctors." Since I specialize in hospital turnarounds, there is so much history, and the core group of doctors will be able to tell you what has worked and what has not.
Another thing that sticks out in my head that he would say is: "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan." And that's so true. When a hospital is successful and doing well, everyone wants to claim it. When it's failing, no one wants to claim it. So often when we inherit hospitals we go there and see the core group of doctors and one thing we know is these are the people who have stuck around to claim this place — these people are the core team.
What do you consider your greatest achievement at Dallas Medical Center so far?
It would be the financial turnaround of this hospital. The hospital was losing $2 million a month when I got here about five years ago. Today we are operating at a 27 percent profit margin, which is phenomenal. Some of the problems I'm facing are music to my ears, like not having enough OR time because we're full.
The financial turnaround is incredible and is a testimony to myself, as it was my first major turnaround. To walk into a hospital that was bare bones in such a competitive market, and to be able to survive in this environment and make a successful turnaround is incredible. This wouldn't have been possible without Prime Healthcare, which came to the table in 2012, and provided the resources to do the turnaround.
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Rhys Ifans Says Roland Emmerich Was Brave To Cast Him As The Real Shakespeare
Katey Rich
Published: Oct. 26. 2011 9:40 AM
Rhys Ifans admits up front that he didn't expect to get the role of Edward de Vere in Anonymous. He's the gangly, goofy guy who played Spike in Notting Hill and Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter; why would anyone bring him in as the noblemen who, at least in the theoretical world Anonymous presents, secretly wrote all of Shakespeare's plays? He went in to talk to the film's director Roland Emmerich about the part and told him that the easy choice was to cast him in the goofball role of Shakespeare himself, the dim and fame-hungry actor played in the movie by Rafe Spall. But the brave choices was to make Ifans de Vere.
Emmerich made the brave choice, and the result is one of the best performances of Ifans's career, in one of Emmerich's most unusual movies. As de Vere, also called the Earl of Oxford, Ifans is a haunted nobleman who dreams of being a poet but is stuck as a lawyer and a political power broker instead. Under the guise of the callow Shakespeare, de Vere wrote plays skewering the political situation of Elizabethan England, not to mention sonnets and plays that spoke of his furtive love for the Queen herself (played at different ages by Joely Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave). Ifans owns the role with his massive height and sad eyes; even if you don't believe that Oxford was the secret author of Shakespeare, you believe in this charter.
As it turns out, Ifans doesn't even necessarily believe Oxford was the real author, but as he told me in our conversation at the Toronto Film Festival, it doesn't really matter. You can read our interview below, in which he talks about the Oxfordian theory, the leap it was for him to play a heroic figure, and how with The Amazing Spider-Man coming up next summer, he still feels kind of amazed that anyone ever actually sees his movies. Anonymous opens this Friday.
Do you have to believe in the Oxfordian theory to play this character?
No. I don't necessarily believe it was the Earl of Oxford who was the author of those works, but I am convinced it wasn't William Shakespeare. And I think that's important about the film is that it presents a very valid debate. Any great body of work, and this is without question the greatest body of work in the last 500-600 years that we're presented with in the Western world, has to be placed and set in a historical context. And that's what the film does. And if that creates a debate among academics and students, then I think that's healthy.
Are there outraged literary scholars angry at you guys?
Not yet, but I'm waiting for them, and I think it's very exciting. And I do genuinely think it's important. My feeling is that these works are an amalgamation of many writers, in the same case as you look at any screenplay and it is never just one person. It's a collaboration. All that's important to me-- nothing can disguise the fact that this is absolutely great writing. Life-changing stories and poetry and language, and that's there. The body of work is there. It will never go away.
You were saying that you told Roland Emmerich it was brave of him to cast you in the lead. Why was it a risk?
I think the natural, lazy choice for a director would be to cast me as William Shakespeare, as Rafe Spall.
Because he's a goofball in this?
Yeah. That would be a walk in the park for me. And Roland was brave enough, or foolish enough- and he said to me, which part would you like? I said, "The part I'd probably be offered is that of WIlliam Shakespeare, but the part if you were brave and courageous would be the Earl of Oxford." And that's what happened.
Is taking a lead role like this a career direction hanger , or just a new challenge?
I never think career. You guys think career. I'm just a dancing girl. But I'm very proud of this film and my performance in it. It's what I've wanted to do for years. Spike [his character in Notting Hill] was a landmark for me, but it's been a set of wings and a ball and chain as well. I think this goes some way to present me as something other than the scantily clad buffoon.
You've got this, and you're on the poster and it's a big fall release, but Spider-Man is also looming. Those feel like two hugely different career directions. Does it feel like a good overall change?
I never think like that.
But you do recognize that a change is happening?
Absolutely. I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches. I always look at a film like the cast and crew, and a good time was had. And then it comes out, and it's like "Fuck, man, all these people are going to watch this."
You were in Elizabeth: The Golden Age as well, and the Shakespearean period looms so large in movies. Why do you we keep returning to it?
It's a period in history where Western thought came into fruition. It was in a place of great flux. The world was changing in the same way as now. If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux. That's why it's powerful.
Do we have the power now to recreate something like that?
We're in it, we're participants in it. We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take. That was exactly what was happening in Elizabethan England. That's why it's attractive to us.
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UX Writer | Product Designer
Monday Rewards
recognize, praise and appreciate.
In July 2020, I decided to navigate through the UX challenge presented by Monday.com. I partnered with a developer and product designer to take on this one month challenge. I was primarily responsible for UX writing, participated in the ideation process and design sprint.
A bit of background
Monday.com is a project management tool that helps teams to manage tasks, projects and the overall effectiveness of daily work through fully customizable features like integrations, automation, widgets, boards and dashboards.
Main Requirements for the Challenge: Build a new Monday App for the marketplace that allows teams to improve collaboration, communication, teamwork, or simply make daily work a little more joyful for 100,000 teams that use Monday.com.
So, what's Monday Rewards?
Nothing stimulates creativity like a good challenge with constraints.
After the ideation process and the design sprint, we came up with Monday Rewards. An employee recognition system designed to express appreciation for employees' contributions within your team and organization. Our app has been designed to encourage and incentivize team building, give accolades, celebrate failures, and so much more. We believe everyone in an organization should recognize each other's hard work and efforts while having fun!
Our goal was to create a transparency between the management and teams, by showing empathy to the user and celebrate their achievements together through friendly language.
Many companies strive to have a rich culture in their organization, but most leaders don't have time to track their employees' good deeds by witnessing and recognizing their efforts, whether remotely or in the office. With Monday Rewards, team members can praise, recognize, and celebrate failures and successes with each other, anytime and anywhere. However, this isn't just a top-down system between managers and those who report into them - it's about everyone! Managers are people and want some appreciation too! It's a 360-degree style of recognition which we believe builds empathy and transparency between everyone in the company while forging fun and meaningful relationships as well.
I was responsible for the UX writing component of the design, such as a microcopy for tooltips and notification messages for badges/trophies using the down-to-earth language.
Monday Rewards Dashboard
Intuitive Path & Delightful Experience
As outlined in the Design Principles of Monday.com, the intuitive path is achieved through gradual discovery and orientation.
"Give" the user the right feature at the right time...Users always need to know where they came from, where they are going, and how to get back.
When it came to UX writing the core element of design principles focused on down to earth language.
Show respect for users' experience and attention through thoughtful and elegant craftsmanship.
Terminology Document
Process & Terminology
Each badge and trophy is unlocked or given under a specific set of guidelines.
For example, The Night Owl is under the accolade category and is worth 1 XP points.
It unlocks when: Someone pulls an all-nighter to complete a project
How it unlocks: When an item is changed from 'In Progress' to 'Complete' between 3 am-5 am on the Monday.com platform.
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When the user hovers over The Night Owl Badge icon, a tooltip appears with the message: "Earned by pulling an 'all-nighter' on a project"
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We competed against 1600+ participants from over 20 countries to build an app for the monday.com app marketplace. We won in the "Most Creative" category.
Throughout the challenge, we created 67 badges and trophies but not all made to the final version due to time constraints. We had to prioritize which badges and trophies should be part of this MVP. Although we had variety such as Most Creative, Most Analytical, Best Idea, Most Likes and many more that shaped the overall team culture and recognition system. We chose based on the core value it would bring to the Monday.com platform which is to retain and onboard new teams, as opposed to having fun features on a stand-alone app.
I'm glad I had an opportunity to write tooltips and notifications for our rewards system. Our app idea heavily focused on celebrating achievements, successes and failures with the user in a friendly and empathetic way- which I enjoyed writing for. I'm satisfied with our product's outcome and believe it will provide value to the teams.
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Cartier W20112Y1 is a handsome timepiece with classic, traditional design that is refined with modern details. Stylish and reliable, the luxury watch is presented in an elegant 18K Yellow Gold on Brown leather construction with sapphire shielded Silvered dial that boasts a decent capacity of 100 m water resistance, and powered by the Cartier Calibre 076 Swiss automatic movement that offers a long lasting accuracy.
This beauty is one of the Santos 100 collection for gents, a "branch" the watchmaker's iconic timepieces line-up that had been widely praised by collectors since its first interception in 1904. And just like the original Santos de Cartier, not only offering a fashion versatile elegant style, this watch is backed by all the quality needed that allowing it to lasts for years to come.
As expected from the renown Paris head-quartered jeweler and watchmaker, this Cartier W20112Y1 watch's built quality is superb, and favorably, its ergonomic-concerned design makes it comfortable to wear, too. Its robust rectangle case, that is made of solid 18K Yellow gold and finished in fine brushed measures 34.87 mm × 45.54 mm and around 8.67 mm thick, in which, its square part, that is measured in parallel with the bezel's outer line is around 32 mm × 32 mm. Meanwhile, its luxurious Brown bracelet that is made of genuine alligator leather and comes equipped with a hidden deployment clasp with push button safety is around 20 mm wide.
Although it is labeled for men, considering its "not-too-large" size, it would also suitable for women who love a masculine flavored oversized wrist watch as well.
The back of its case is solid, and typical to Cartier watches, at the case's right hand side, there is an octagonal shaped 18K Yellow Gold screw-down crown that is decorated with a faceted sapphire. Encased by the studded mirror finished 18K Yellow Gold bezel, the timepiece's face is clean, simple yet simply charming, and offers a nice read-ability. Its black Roman numerals hour numbers as well as the sword shaped Black oxidized-steel hands offer a decent contrast to the bright Silver opaline dial. The hands feature SuperLuminova that offers some degree of night vision, while the sapphire atop has an anti-glare coating for an improve visibility.
Speaking a bit about the mechanical movement inside, Cartier Caliber 076 is an automatic self-winding movement that is simple, yet both accurate and reliable. This mechanical movement is personalized by Cartier based on the 25 jewels ETA 2670 top grade. It beats at 28,800 alterations per hour, and provides an approximately 38 hours of power reserve under full wind.
Anyway, for all of its quality offerings, this unisex's 18K Yellow Gold on Brown leather "two hands" Cartier Santos 100 W20112Y1 automatic watch is reasonably priced with an original manufacturer suggested retail price of $21,600.00. Of course, you can expect to get this beauty for less than that for this time being.
Cartier Calibre 076. Personalized, based on ETA 2670 top grade. Swiss made, automatic self-winding mechanical movement.
Three hands, no-date. 7¾‴ lines (Ø 17.2 mm), height: 4.80mm. 25 jewels. beats at 28,800 vph (4 Hz). ± 38 hours of power reserve. Ball bearing self winding. Incabloc shock absorber. Etachron fine adjustment.
Sword-shaped blued-steel hands. Black Roman numeral hour markers. Black printed markers around the inner rim. Date display at 4:30.
Square, Ø 32 mm × 32 mm (34.87 mm × 45.54 mm), ± 8.67 mm thick. fine brushed and polished.
stationary bexel, decorated with 8 screws. polished.
18K Yellow Gold, screwed. engraved.
18K Yellow Gold. octagonal set with a synthetic crystal.
Brown, textured pattern, with tonal stitching. ± 20 mm wide. standard length.
with push button safety for extra security measures.
suitable rain, showering, swimming, and shallow snorkeling.
You can find an original Cartier W20112Y1 at the site(s) listed above. However, we don't guarantee its availability as being listed here simply means that those site(s) has the item in question by the time we wrote the review.
The Cartier 32mm Santos 100 Automatic review in this page is written by Rief at Monday, July 29, 2013. The post is tagged as $10000 up to $25000, 100m, 32mm, analog, cartier, dress, gold, men, mid end, on leather, rectangle, square, three hands, unisex, watch, women, yellow gold.


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This is the type of person who wants people to appreciate who he or she is and what his or her personality is like even before setting foot on any other part of the house. If this is your overall goal, then the best thing to do is to personalize your living room! Add a shelf to put in all of your personal photo albums so that guests may look through them. Add funky and colorful picture frames containing photos of you, your families, and friends, and place them in different parts of the living room. Just be careful not to go overboard, as your living room may end up looking like a museum of yourself.
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using System;
using System.IO;
using SerialPortNET;

namespace ArduinoCommunicator
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Holds state of the Arduino board
    /// </summary>

    public class Arduino<T> where T : AbstractSerialPort, new()
    {
        #region Public Constructors
        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new instance of Arduino board with the specified board type and connects to it on the serialPort.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="board">Arduino board type</param>
        /// <param name="serialPort">Serial port to which the Arduino is connected</param>
        /// <exception cref="IOException">Throws IOException if connection fails.</exception>
        public Arduino(BoardType board, T serialPort)
        {
            this.SerialPort = serialPort;
            BoardType = new BoardInfo(board);
            analogBuffer = new int[BoardType.NumberOfAnalogInputPins];
            IsConnected = false;
            try
            {
                if (this.SerialPort == null)
                {
                    sc = new SerialCommunicator<T>();
                    this.SerialPort = sc.serialPort;
                }
                else
                    sc = new SerialCommunicator<T>(this.SerialPort);
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                if (serialPort == null)
                    throw new IOException("Cannot find an Arduino connected to this computer.");
                else
                    throw new IOException("Cannot connect to Arduino on port " + serialPort.PortName);

            }

            IsConnected = true;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new instance of Arduino board with the specified board type, and automatically connects.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="board">Arduino board name</param>
        /// <exception cref="IOException">Throws IOException if connection fails.</exception>
        public Arduino(BoardType board = ArduinoCommunicator.BoardType.UNO) : this(board, (T)null)
        {

        }

        #endregion Public Constructors

        #region Public Methods

        /// <summary>
        /// Read the analog value on pinNumber. If an error occurs, it will return the previously successfully read number, or zero if no successful previous analogRead operation.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pinNumber">Number of analog pin to read from (Usually written as A0, A1, ... on the board)</param>
        /// <returns>An integer value between 0 to 1023</returns>
        public int analogRead(int pinNumber)
        {
            try
            {
                analogBuffer[pinNumber] = analogReadEx(pinNumber);
            }
            catch (ArgumentOutOfRangeException)
            {

            }

            return analogBuffer[pinNumber];
        }

        private int analogReadEx(int pinNumber)
        {
            var ret = sc.readCommand(SerialProtocol.Commands.ANALOG_READ, (byte)pinNumber);
            if (ret > 1023 || ret < 0)
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(pinNumber.ToString(), ret.ToString());
            return ret;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes to the analog pin.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pinNumber">Pin number.</param>
        /// <param name="value">Analog value to write to.</param>
        public void analogWrite(int pinNumber, byte value)
        {
            sc.readCommand(SerialProtocol.Commands.ANALOG_WRITE, (byte)pinNumber, value);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Reads digital value of the pin.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pinNumber">Pin number to read its digital value.</param>
        /// <returns>DigitalValue read on the pin.</returns>
        public DigitalValue digitalRead(int pinNumber)
        {
            return sc.readCommand(SerialProtocol.Commands.DIGITAL_READ, (byte)pinNumber);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes digital value to the pin.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pinNumber">Digital pin to write to.</param>
        /// <param name="value">Digital value to write to the pin.</param>
        public void digitalWrite(int pinNumber, DigitalValue value)
        {
            sc.readCommand(SerialProtocol.Commands.DIGITAL_WRITE, (byte)pinNumber, value);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Sets pin mode.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pinNumber">Pin number to set the mode on.</param>
        /// <param name="pinMode">Either PinMode.OUTPUT, PinMode.INPUT, or PinMode.INPUT_PULLUP</param>
        public void pinMode(int pinNumber, PinMode pinMode)
        {
            sc.readCommand(SerialProtocol.Commands.PIN_MODE, (byte)pinNumber, (byte)(pinMode));
        }

        #endregion Public Methods

        /// <summary>
        /// Close the connection.
        /// </summary>
        public void Close()
        {
            sc.Close();
        }
        #region Private Methods

        #endregion Private Methods

        #region Public Properties

        /// <summary>
        /// Board type of this instance
        /// </summary>
        public BoardInfo BoardType { get; private set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// True if instance is connected to Arduino board. False otherwise.
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsConnected { get; protected set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The serial port object that Arduino is connected to. Null if not connected.
        /// </summary>
        public T SerialPort { get; private set; }

        #endregion Public Properties

        #region Private Fields

        private int[] analogBuffer;
        private SerialCommunicator<T> sc;

        #endregion Private Fields
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Arduino class with a SerialPort object as its underlying communication class
    /// </summary>
    public class Arduino : Arduino<SerialPort>
    {
        /// <summary>
        ///
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="board"></param>
        public Arduino(BoardType board = ArduinoCommunicator.BoardType.UNO) : base(board) { }

        /// <summary>
        ///
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="board"></param>
        /// <param name="serialPort"></param>
        public Arduino(BoardType board, SerialPort serialPort) : base(board, serialPort) { }

    }
}

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In March, as the coronavirus pandemic shut down countries around the world, a massive earthquake struck Croatia. Now, as this tumultuous year closes, the Balkan nation again finds itself hit by earthquakes. And Baptists there are among those hurt by the quakes and ministering to their neighbors.
Over the past few days, several large earthquakes occurred in central Croatia, including a 6.4 magnitude quake on Tuesday (Dec. 29) that marked the largest one in the nation this year. The 5.4 magnitude earthquake on March 22 had been the largest in the nation in 140 years.
Other large quakes this week include: a 5.2 on Dec. 27, a 4.7 on Dec. 28, a 4.8, 4.7, and 4.4 on Dec. 29, and a 3.7 on Dec. 31. Centered about 30 miles southeast of the capital of Zagreb, the quakes have been felt in several neighboring countries and beyond. Several people have died in the quakes, and numerous buildings have been damaged — including Baptist churches.
Toma Magda, director of Croatian Baptist Aid, told Word&Way that "what was left standing" after the first few quakes this week in the towns near the epicenter "was devastated during the strongest earthquake."
"There are over a thousand houses that have been destroyed, most cannot be used anymore and will need to be completely torn down and rebuilt," he added. "People have spent the night outside and in former military buildings. Electricity and water supply have been disconnected, and the population was left without ways to communicate with their loved ones, as well as drinkable water and basic sanitation conditions."
Toma Magda inspects the damage at a Baptist church in the village of Donja Bačuga near the epicenter of the recent earthquakes. The severe damage rendered the building unusable. (Croatian Baptist Aid)
He also noted that two Baptist churches in the area were "completely destroyed."
"Rebuilding will begin in the following months and supplies will be necessary," he added. "At present, the ground continues to shake, which presents a serious challenge to the mental health and wellbeing of the population."
Further complicating the recovery efforts is not only the winter weather but also the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. More than 210,000 people have been infected with COVID-19 in Croatia, with more than 2,300 dead. When adjusted for inflation, Croatia's rates per million people are just slightly less than those in the U.S., and thus among the 20-hardest hit nations.
Baptists in Croatia are a small community, but are particularly active in relief work. According to the Baptist World Alliance, the Baptist Union of Croatia has 48 churches with about 2,000 members. In 2015, the Union created Croatian Baptist Aid to provide humanitarian relief, and that aid organization has been highly involved across the Balkan region and beyond in serving refugees entering Europe the past few years from the Middle East.
Note: Those who wish to give to support the relief and recovery efforts can do so on the Croatian Baptist Aid website.
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Meet the 82-year-old woman who has spent over 40 years painstakingly creating beautiful artwork from discarded Indian postage stamps and her son who passionately preserves philately.
Deepa Melkote speaks at the lightening pace of a woman on a mission.
The 82-year-old homemaker is a woman of many talents, but her specialty lies in the intricate collages she has created over the last four decades. Her subjects are varied: historical monuments, dancers in colourful lehengas, brightly coloured birds and mythological figures.
Each piece is comprised of vivid stamps that have been segregated, cut into tiny pieces and glued neatly onto a sketch.
"I once read in a magazine about a British woman who collected stamps and used it as wall paper for her home," she explains. "That gave me an idea to do something with discarded stamps. The colours are what attracted me."
Understandably, Deepa's hobby has been culled by the scythe of modern technology. She complains that she no longer receives snail mail and, when she does, is uninterested in the monotonous stamps affixed to it, unlike the brightly coloured specimens she used to work with when she first began her artistic hobby in the 70s.
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High above the treetops on Bangalore's Raj Bhavan road extends a majestic dome atop an imposing, stone building. It has been a hallmark of the city's skyline long before it was joined by swooping metro rails, tacky hoardings and the penthouse suites of tall, business hotels. If you crane your neck, you can just about make out the logo affixed to the front of the building: three yellow wings that zip across a red square.
This is the General Post Office, an architectural and historical marvel, with a reputation for efficiency.
On the first Sunday of every month, a group of philatelists meet here to resuscitate what is quickly becoming the lost art of stamp collecting. Formally, they comprise the Karnataka Philately Society, established in 1975 to promote the hobby of philately and build and disseminate philatelic knowledge around it.
Despite dwindling interests in the art, on paper, the organisation boasts more than 500 life members. Their General Secretary is Nikhilesh Melkote, who has been collecting stamps since he was eight years old.
He also happens to be Deepa's only son, and the reason she began using postage stamps as material for her art projects.
"My son used to collect stamps as a school boy. He has many wonderful thematic collections," Deepa says, proudly.
Today, Nikhilesh works tirelessly to share the passion that changed his childhood with other young people. He began by collecting all sorts of stamps but, over time, realised that a more scientific, educational method would involve acquiring thematic collections. At present, he has a stunning range of flag and cricket-themed stamps. He speaks warmly of how both his parents supported his hobby by buying him all the books and materials he needed to pursue philately.
"I could not have reached the level I did, winning international awards and visiting foreign stamp exhibitions, without their unstinted support," he says.
Like her son, Deepa understands being passionate about a hobby, because she has several.
On a regular morning, Vividh Bharati radio is on loud at the Melkote's Indiranagar residence. Deepa sits in her usual spot, listening to music but focusing on the task at hand, usually needlework. She first took to embroidery as a schoolgirl in Dharwad and keeps at it, 70 odd years later, stitching beautiful patterns onto tablecloths or patiently sewing geometric kasuti designs onto saris for friends. In all her years as a seamstress, Deepa has never considered going professional.
"No, no!" she says, appalled, when the question is raised. "Needlework is my hobby! I just do it for my friends."
She is also an ace at crochet work and knitting, is a club- and state-level Bridge player and never misses an Indian cricket match on TV.
Much of her adult life has been transitory. Deepa's husband, an IAS officer, was posted in a different part of Karnataka every two or three years and the family moved with him across the state, from Gulbarga to Raichur. Despite their fluid lifestyles, Deepa and Nikhilesh always managed to pack up their stamps and continue where they had left off at their next destination.
"I hate throwing things out!" Deepa laughs. "I used to collect all the damaged and discarded stamps my son did not want and use them to make collages. At one point, all the peons in my husband's office were instructed not to throw away any stamps but to collect them and give them to me."
Nikhilesh fondly recollects similar memories of his mother. "Sometimes she would get stuck because of the lack of a particular colour. I would ask all of my collector friends and also search envelopes in my Dad's office till we got her the right colours. During my school days, I remember watching my mother patiently and diligently cutting and pasting stamps to make her stamp craft. She would ask me for my spare, unwanted and damaged stamps. I no doubt learnt the qualities of patience and hard work from her. These are especially required for a philatelist who wishes to excel."
Deepa is one of those people whose packrat tendencies nearly always have creative outcomes; when she's around, even used matchsticks can be turned into crafted flowers on a tray. Last Christmas she cleaned out aluminium foil used to wrap food and turned it into garlands that now hang from her friends' Christmas trees.
Among her creations are intricate collages of the Madurai Meenakshi Temple, the Tungabhadra Dam, the Howrah Bridge and Bangalore's Vidhana Soudha.
"The sketching is done very quickly," she says. "The rest depends on whether I have all the stamps I need. Sometimes I have to wait for the right colours. If I have enough stamps I can sit from morning to night and finish a piece."
The most remarkable aspect of her work is that it has remained largely hidden for 40 years, save a few exhibitions she allowed her son to display her pieces at, and the times she showed them to her friends.
"People don't have patience with these things," she says, referring to her craft ventures in general. "Some of my friends wanted me to teach them kasuti but after two days they said they didn't have the patience. You have to be willing to sit quietly and keep working."
Despite the fact that she has not held a full-time job since she married – Deepa worked as a lecturer of Sanskrit at the Karnatak University Dharwad – she never has trouble filling her day.
"I was a very good student!" she tells me when I ask what other Renaissance Woman surprises she has up her sleeve. "I got a First Class in all three of my degrees. I also have an LLB Law degree."
Deepa's long-term plans don't extend further than her evening card game at the Bowring or Indiranagar Club, but Nikhilesh is working hard to continue promoting philately. With the KPS, he travels to schools in urban and rural Karnataka to share his passion for stamps with the younger generation. The organisation also conducts workshops and helps existing collectors participate in, and develop, world class exhibitions.
To attend a KPS meeting, visit the GPO, Raj Bhavan Road, Bengaluru 560001, on the first Sunday of every month between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Contact KPS here.
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A New Switch and Crossing Design: Introducing the Back to Back Bistable Switch
Jou Yi Shih, Ramakrishnan Ambur, Hitesh Boghani, Roger Dixon, Edward Stewart
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Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education
A new track swtich and crossing (S&C), the back to back bistable (B2B) switch, is proposed that has shown potential to significantly reduce the wheel/rail contact forces through the switch due to its more continuous wheel/rail contact interface and more uniform track stiffness arising from the elimination of the crossing nose. This offers a major reduction on maintenance cost of future S&Cs. The paper explains the concept and identifies the design guidelines for a current layout and uses vehicle/turnout dynamic modelling to predict wheel rail forces through a switch to identify performance improvements relative to a conventional S&C. Both multi-body simulation (MBS) and Finite Element (FE) model have been developed to account for dynamic and thermal analysis. The new design has shown improvements in lateral and vertical wheel-rail contact forces and less relative rail displacements due to thermal effect compared to the conventional S&C.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Construction
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Shih, Jou Yi ; Ambur, Ramakrishnan ; Boghani, Hitesh ; Dixon, Roger ; Stewart, Edward. / A New Switch and Crossing Design: Introducing the Back to Back Bistable Switch. In: Journal of Civil Engineering and Construction. 2020 ; Vol. 9, No. 4. pp. 175-186.
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U of M's new Dance Science concentration expands students' possibilities
Published by Phillip Tutor on February 12, 2019
This fall, students in the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Memphis can for the first time pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre, with a concentration in Dance Science.
"I'd love five" students in the inaugural class, Department Chair Holly Lau said. "I don't know if we'll get there, but five will be good."
Either way, Lau is excited about the introduction of the interdisciplinary concentration at the U of M that expands the possibilities for students. With classes divided between Lau's department and the School of Health Studies' Exercise, Sport and Movement Sciences, students seeking this concentration will receive dance training and skills in areas such as nutrition, biomechanics, exercise physiology and kinesiology.
The goal, Lau said, is to train graduates for careers in a variety of related fields, such as health and wellness advisors for dance companies and trainers in fitness clubs. The concentration also will allow students who take additional classes and degrees to pursue careers in physical therapy or dance medicine.
"We have had students in the past cobble this together on their own very successfully," Lau said. "It creates a dancer who really is best aware of her own body and how to take care of her own self. Every single one of our dancers teach. People who dance teach dance, (and) they are now really very skilled, careful, healthy teachers. So no matter what else they do in their life, they have this."
This addition positions the U of M's Department of Theatre & Dance among a small collection of U.S. colleges and universities that feature Dance Science. Some offer it as a Bachelor of Science degree; others list it as a BFA in Dance with a concentration in Health Science. The U of M's route — as a concentration, not a major — is easier to maneuver through the myriad levels of higher-education approval. Lau's department had to add only one course to accommodate the addition, Intro to Dance Science.
"Some of the people we're thinking it might attract are returning professionals, especially people who may have been in the dance world," Lau said. "They can come in and get a lot of experience-for-life credit for the dance portion for what they've done, and then they'll fill that in with the science classes. We think this might have a unique appeal to a lot of people."
The idea of importing Dance Science at the U of M gained steam when Dr. Anne Hogan became dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts in 2017. Hogan had previously been the Director of Education at the Royal Academy of Dance, based in London, and its Senior Advisor for International Partnerships, based in the United States.
"The dean was absolutely for it," Lau said, "and the professor I was working with primarily (in the School of Health Studies) was for it."
The BFA in Theatre, with a concentration in Dance Science, will require 120 undergraduate hours, including 41 in general education classes, nine in Theatre, three for an internship in Exercise, Sport and Movement Sciences, and 10 in electives. In the concentration, students will take 24 hours in Exercise, Sport and Movement Sciences and 33 in Dance.
"I spoke to someone out of Florida who runs a program," Lau said, "and he said, 'The thing that's different about a person who comes out of dance science and becomes a physical therapist is they understand dancers, and they're different from athletes. The bodies are different and the goals are different.'"
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Stimulus package is a package of tax rebates and incentives used by the governments of various countries to stimulate the economy and save their country from a financial crisis.
The idea behind a stimulus package is to provide tax rebates and boost spending, as spending increases demand, which leads to an increase in employment rate which in turn increases income and hence boosts spending. This cycle continues until the economy recovers from collapse.
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The theory behind the usefulness of a stimulus package is rooted in Keynesian economics, which argues that recessions are not self-correcting, and therefore government intervention can lessen the impact of a recession.
A recession, according to Keynesian economics, is a persistent deficiency of aggregate demand, where the economy will not self correct and instead can reach a new equilibrium at a higher rate of unemployment, lower output, and/or slower growth rates.
The term economic stimulus is based on an analogy to the biological process of stimulus and response, with the intention of using government policy as a stimulus to elicit a response from the private sector economy.
Fiscal stimulus differs from expansionary monetary and fiscal policy more generally, in that it is a more specifically targeted and conservative approach to policy.
Instead of using monetary and fiscal policy to replace private sector spending, economic stimulus is supposed to direct government deficit spending, tax cuts, lowered interest rates, or new credit creation toward specific key sectors of the economy to take advantage of powerful multiplier effects that will indirectly increase private sector consumption and investment spending.
Economic stimulus is commonly employed during times of recession. Policy tools often used to implement economic stimulus include lowering interest rates, increasing government spending, and quantitative easing, to name a few.
One such stimulus package was used by the United States in 2008 during the time of the global recession, which was aimed at increasing employment and recovery of the US economy.
India too used its first stimulus package in 2008 to ensure the safety of bank deposits and stability of the financial system. The government took necessary steps to infuse liquidity into the banking system.
In an effort to infuse liquidity into the banking system, RBI reduced the CRR as well as repo and reverse repo rates. Also, the problems faced by non-banking financing companies were addressed.
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Stars Special Edition
Stars Special Edition is the latest version of the debut album by the English musical theatre boy band, Collabro. Featuring covers of well-known songs from shows and films including 'Bring Him Home' from Les Miserables, 'Let It Go' from Frozen and 'Over the Rainbow' from The Wizard of Oz, the album by the winners of the 8th series of Britain's Got Talent entered the UK Albums Chart at #1.
It also includes two bonus festive songs 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' and the all time classic 'White Christmas.' There are also bonus covers of 'Sat Something' and 'Falling Slowly,' two of the boy's favourite songs, making Stars: Special Edition a magical extended album.


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A Life on Our Planet Nails the Planetary Problems But Misses the Political Ones
David Attenborough is 93. Over the course of his lifetime, the beloved natural historian and broadcaster has seen the planet go through unimaginable changes. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases have soared, as has the human population, while biodiversity has declined precipitously. He details these shifts in a new documentary released on Netflix on Sunday, which he calls his "witness statement" for the natural world.
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David Attenborough in the new film David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet.
The new film, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, beautifully and persuasively argues in favor of a fundamental reshaping of humanity's relationship with nature. But in doing so, it misses something more subtle: the fact that not all of humanity are equally responsible for exploiting Earth.
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That's not to say it's not well worth a watch. The new movie is both deeply moving and visually stunning. In it, we're treated to footage of Attenborough's decades of adventures chronicling incredible ecosystems around the globe, from the Amazon rainforest to the Arctic.
As is typical for an Attenborough film, the footage is paired with equally lush narration, in which the historian explains the ways he saw the world shift from his up-close-and-personal vantage point. Species that were once common became scarce and hard to find. More coral, under stress from unprecedentedly high ocean temperatures, begun to expel its colorful algae and turn a deathly white. More trees were cleared for agriculture. And thanks to power plants and vehicles spewing out far more dangerous planet-warming pollutants and the devastation of the world's carbon sinks, the planet has warmed by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) in his lifetime.
"We are facing nothing less than the collapse of the living world," he says in the movie.
If we continue business as usual, by the 2030s, the Arctic could be free of sea ice in the summers. By the 2050s, already struggling coral reefs could all but die off completely. And by the 2080s, we could see a global food shortage due to our depletion of the world's fertile soils and the die-off of pollinators while extreme heat makes some part of Earth essentially uninhabitable.
The film doesn't, however, explicitly discuss the unequal economic engine that's responsible for the systems that set this devastation into motion. It's true that the entire world is dependent on unsustainable systems. But the choice to move toward those systems wasn't exactly made democratically. Monocultural industrial agriculture, for instance, is the product of violent land grabs and slavery, and the shift toward it has impoverished many farming communities around the world. And fossil-based energy is produced through means that subject workers and poor communities to dangerous pollution. Those same groups don't get much say in how energy is produced, leaving at the mercy of multinational corporations more focused on profits than human well-being.
All of humanity doesn't share equal responsibility for the damage either, as the film implies. Rather, a small subset of the global elite are the main drivers. A recent analysis by Oxfam found that the world's richest 1% caused double the emissions of the poorest 50%, a point backed up by academic research as well. Other findings show that just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global carbon emissions while four major biotech firms essentially control agriculture.
Though it doesn't say who's responsible for unsustainable practices, it does call for an end to them. To prevent catastrophe, Attenborough makes suggestions for major alterations to the systems we rely on in increasingly unsustainable ways.
These include cries to restore biodiversity, reduce our farmland, restructure our agricultural practices so they're more sustainable and produce increased yields, change our diets, and crucially, completely halt the use of fossil-based energy altogether. The plea is markedly more urgent from the last one Attenborough narrated, 2019's Netflix series Our Planet, which doesn't directly discuss the industrial activity that led to climate change and biodiversity loss. When I asked Keith Scholey, the film's director who has worked with Attenborough for more than 20 years, what sparked this change in tenor, he didn't hesitate.
"It's because we've run out of time," he said. "If we don't change things in the next 10 years, we've run out of time, we really have."
Yet also among the suggestions are curbing population growth. The means to doing so are not objectionable. Attenborough notes that providing people with better living conditions and ensuring girls, in particular, have access to education have both been associated with lowering population growth in the past.
But again, the film misses the issue of inequitable distribution. Research shows that the world currently produces enough food to feed everyone on Earth, and yet hunger persists. Another recent study shows the world could contain billions more people if the wealthiest countries vastly curbed their energy use. This suggests that while population growth might pose some challenges, it is not the key problem. Instead, it suggests the world will have to change the fact that right now, the rich and powerful are able to make decisions based on what will grow their profits and let them live resource-intensive lifestyles, not what is best for people and the planet.
Here, Scholey and I disagree. "We can carry on in a business sense in exactly the same way," he said. "There's a huge fortune to be made by from clean energy. And already some countries in the world are actually rushing towards that marketplace. And you have entrepreneurs like Mr. [Elon] Musk, who are rushing towards that."
That's why, he said, the film documents Attenborough making appeals to not only civic leaders at United Nations summits, but also business leaders at Davos. But in our capitalist world, it's the job of these entrepreneurs to behave in the ways that make them the most money. We cannot simply see if the market places the most value on sustainable practices. We have to ensure no one is allowed to devalue life, human or nonhuman, on the planet in centuries to come.
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