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Q: HTML input element password pattern with alphabet and number range I know this may be very simple but I couldn't find anything relevant. I am using the HTML  element for accepting the password from the user.

There is a condition for the password to be accepted

*

*
It should only contain letters between a to h (0 times or more)

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It should only contain numbers between 1 to 8 (0 times or more)

Following the above two conditions the user can come up with any password combination. For example: abc123, 6ad27, hefb etc etc which should be accepted by the input element.

But it should not accept patterns like z00911, ksoql234 etc.

What should be the value for pattern attribute in the following code snippet for checking the above two conditions?
<input type="password" pattern="WHAT-SHOULD-I-PUT-HERE">

I hope someone might help. Thank you

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<form action="/blablabla">
<input type="password" pattern="[a-h1-8]+" required="required" title="Wrong password">
<input type="submit">
</form>

In regular expression [a-h] means range of character, you can define multiple ranges in square brackets: [a-h1-8]. If you want to allow repetitions of pattern you add *(0 or more repetitions) or +(1 or more repetition) after pattern. Your pattern for single letter is [a-h1-8] so for password containing at least on character full pattern is [a-h1-8]+. You can read more here.
I have also added required attribute to enforce filling password field, without that attribute user could simply leave password blank.

A: You can handle this problem easily with javascript functions such as onChange event on your input tag.
Every onChange event you can check the last added character or letter whether meets your conditions.

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\section{Introduction}
The Finite-Difference Time-Domain method (FDTD) was originally developed by Yee in 1966\cite{Yee} as a tool to solve complex problems in electromagnetics, and many advances has been achieved since then. One of the first attempts to apply the same method to solve the Schr\"odinger equation was proposed by Sullivan in his book.\cite{SullivanBook} Since then, several works have been published with substantial improvements.\cite{Sullivan2003,Soriano2004,Sudiarta2007,Sullivan2012} Here we propose to use the Non-Standard formalism presented by Cole\cite{Cole2013} to the quantum mechanical version of the FDTD.

\section{The FDTD for the Schr\"odinger equation}
Before starting with the non-standard form, its ought to recall the well stated FDTD approach to solve the one-dimensional time dependent Schr\"odinger equation:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:sch}
i\hbar\frac{\partial \psi (x,t)}{\partial t}=-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\frac{\partial^2\psi(x,t)}{\partial x^2} + V(x)\psi (x,t),
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
\psi (x,t)=\psi_{real} (x,t)+j\psi_{imag} (x,t)
\end{equation}
with $j$ being the imaginary unit, and $\psi_{real}$ and $\psi_{imag}$ are of course the real and imaginary parts of the complex wavefuction. Visscher \cite{Visscher1991} proposed to split the Schr\"odinger equation by explicitly separating the real and imaginary parts of the wave function. Sullivan \cite{SullivanBook} used the same approach to write eq. \ref{eq:sch} into two coupled equations:
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
\frac{\partial \psi_{real}(x,t)}{\partial t} &=-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\frac{\partial^2\psi_{imag}(x,t)}{\partial x^2}+\frac{1}{\hbar}V(x)\psi_{imag}(x,t),\label{eq:s1} \\
\frac{\partial \psi_{imag}(x,t)}{\partial t} &=\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\frac{\partial^2\psi_{real}(x,t)}{\partial x^2}-\frac{1}{\hbar}V(x)\psi_{real}(x,t), \label{eq:s2}
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
this has the advantage of avoiding the use of complex numbers.
The FDTD method uses the central difference approximation, in which the partial differential equations are discretized as follows. First, we have to approximate the space derivative by the central difference model:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial  \psi }{\partial x} \simeq \frac{d_x \psi^n(i)}{\Delta x},
\end{equation}

where we are using the notation $\psi^n(i)=\psi(i\cdot \Delta x, n\cdot \Delta t)$ commonly used in the literature,  $\Delta x$ and $\Delta t$ are the space and time steps, and $d_x\psi^n(i)=\psi^n(i+1/2)-\psi^n(i-1/2)$. A very similar equation can be easily obtained for the first order time derivatives.
Then, as we are dealing with laplacians, we also need to approximate the second order derivative:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial^2 \psi}{\partial x^2}\simeq \frac{d_x^2 \psi^n(i)}{\Delta x^2},
\end{equation}
with $d_x^2\psi^n(i)=\psi^n(i+1)-2\psi^n(i)+\psi^n(i-1)$. Finally, applying these approximations, the update finite difference equations obtained from eqs. \ref{eq:s1} and \ref{eq:s2} are respectively:
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
\psi_{real}^{n}(i+1/2) &=\psi_{real}^{n-1}(i+1/2)-\frac{\hbar \Delta t}{2 m (\Delta x)^2 }d_x^2\psi_{imag}^{n-1/2}(i) +\frac{\Delta t}{\hbar}V(i)\psi_{imag}^{n-1/2}(i),\\
\psi_{imag}^{n+1/2}(i) &=\psi_{imag}^{n-1/2}(i)+\frac{\hbar \Delta t}{2 m (\Delta x)^2}d_x^2\psi_{real}^{n}(i+1/2) -\frac{\Delta t}{\hbar}V(i+1/2)\psi_{real}^{n}(i+1/2).
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
As we can see, real and imaginary parts of the wave function are time and space shifted by half a step. This is the core of the FDTD method and when implemented in a computer code, it gives the time evolution of the wavefunction as the time evolves in a loop where the variable $n$ runs implicitly. Numerical errors are diminished with appropriate election of the space and time steps ($\Delta x$ and $\Delta t$), which are typically smaller than wavelengths in the simulation. Stair casing is a common source of artifacts that can be remediated by brute force taking $\Delta x$ and $\Delta t$ smaller until an acceptable result is obtainded, but at the cost of a larger computational effort.

Some stability issues need to be care before applying the computational algorithm, but here we take the case proposed by Sullivan,\cite{SullivanBook} {\em i.e} that the relationship between the spatial and temporal steps is
\begin{equation}\label{eq:dxdt}
 \frac{\Delta t}{\Delta x^2} \left( \frac{\hbar}{2m} \right)=\frac{1}{8}.
\end{equation}

The previous equations have been proved to model well some typical quantum mechanics problems, like quantum wells and  quantum dots.
\section{NS-FDTD}
Cole \cite{Cole2013} developed a Non-standard variant for finite difference approaches, called non-standard FDTD (NS-FDTD). In this methodology, it was proposed the substitution of $\Delta x$ by some function $S(\Delta x)$. To obtain $S(\Delta x)$ we can assume monochromatic plane waves $\psi=\exp i(kx\pm\omega t)$ propagating in space. Thus
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\psi= \frac{d_x \psi}{S(\Delta x)},
\end{equation}
using the discretized form of $\psi$, it is easy to find that
\begin{equation}
S(\Delta x)=\frac{2\psi^n(j)\sin(k\frac{\Delta x}{2})}{k\psi^n(j)},
\end{equation}
or
\begin{equation}
S(\Delta x)=\frac{2}{k}\sin(\frac{k\Delta x}{2}).
\end{equation}

As we know from quantum mechanics, the momentum is related to the energy and frequency. For a more complex problem, we need to study
 the wave propagation as a function of the wave energy and the potential where it travels.
\subsection{Case $E<V$}
 Let us first start with the case $E<V$.
 As it is known, with this condition, $k=i\sqrt{2m|E-V|}/\hbar$. For convenience we define $\gamma=\sqrt{2m|E-V|}/\hbar$, thus $k=i\gamma$. Then, we can find that
 \begin{equation}
 S(\Delta x)=\frac{2}{\gamma}\sinh{\left( \frac{\gamma\Delta x}{2}\right)},
 \end{equation}
where $\sinh$ is the hyperbolic sine function.
 On the other hand, doing a similar procedure, we found that
   \begin{equation}\label{eq:dt1}
 S(\Delta t)=\frac{2}{\left(\frac{V-E}{\hbar} \right)}\sin{\left(\left[\frac{V-E}{\hbar} \right] \frac{\Delta t}{2}\right)},
 \end{equation}
 or in an alternative form:
    \begin{equation}
 S(\Delta t)=\frac{2}{\gamma^2}\left(\frac{2m}{\hbar}\right)\sin{\left(\left[  \frac{\gamma \Delta x}{4}\right]^2 \right)}
 \end{equation}
 where we have used eq. \ref{eq:dxdt}.

 \subsection{Case $E>V$}
 For this case, we use $k=\sqrt{2m|E-V|}/\hbar$, and in a very similar fashion, we can find $S(\Delta x)$ and $S(\Delta t)$. First, we have
 \begin{equation}
 S(\Delta x)=\frac{2}{k}\sin{\left( \frac{k\Delta x}{2}\right)},
 \end{equation}
 and
\begin{equation}\label{eq:dt2}
 S(\Delta t)=\frac{2}{\left(\frac{E-V}{\hbar} \right)}\sin{\left[\left(\frac{E-V}{\hbar} \right) \frac{\Delta t}{2}\right]}
\end{equation}
(Notice that eqs. \ref{eq:dt1} and \ref{eq:dt2} are completely equivalent.) In alternative form, we can write:
   \begin{equation}
 S(\Delta t)=\frac{2}{k^2}\left(\frac{2m}{\hbar}\right)\sin{\left(\left[  \frac{k \Delta x}{4}\right]^2 \right)}.
 \end{equation}
\subsection{Iterative Equations}
In the non-standard formulation of the FDTD, the so-called NS-FDTD, can be written as
\begin{equation}
\frac{\psi^n_{real} (j)-\psi^{n-1}_{real} (j)}{S(\Delta t)}=-\frac{\hbar}{2m}\frac{d_x^2\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (j)}{S(\Delta x)^2} + \frac{V(j)}{\hbar}\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (j)
\end{equation}

We define the non-standard term as:
\begin{equation}
  U_{NS}=\left\{
    \begin{array}{ll}
      \frac{\sin\left( \left[ \frac{\gamma \Delta x}{4} \right]^2 \right)}{\left[ \sinh\left( \frac{\gamma \Delta x}{2} \right)\right]^2}
&     E<V. \\
\\
      \frac{\sin\left( \left[ \frac{k \Delta x}{4} \right]^2 \right)}{\left[ \sin\left( \frac{k \Delta x}{2} \right) \right]^2} &   E>V.

    \end{array}
  \right.
\end{equation}
Notice that as $U_{NS}$ depends on $V$, then  $U_{NS}=U_{NS}(i)$.
The following iterative equations can be used to implement the NS-FDTD for both cases:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:ns1}
\psi^n_{real} (i+1/2)=\psi^{n-1}_{real} (i+1/2)-c_1(i)   d_x^2\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i)  + c_2(i)V(i) \psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i)
\end{equation}
and,
\begin{equation}\label{eq:ns2}
\psi^{n+1/2}_{imag} (i)=\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i)+c_1(i+1/2)   d_x^2\psi^{n}_{real} (i+1/2)  - c_2(i+1/2)V(i+1/2) \psi^{n}_{real} (i+1/2)
\end{equation}
where we define
\begin{equation}\label{eq:c1}
c_1(i)=\frac{U_{NS}(i)}{2}
\end{equation}
and,
\begin{equation}\label{eq:c2}
c_2(i)=\frac{2}{|E-V(i)|}\sin\left( \left[ \frac{|k(i)| \Delta x}{4} \right]^2 \right).
\end{equation}
Equations \ref{eq:ns1} and \ref{eq:ns2} are the non-standard form of the FDTD for the Schr\"odingier equation.  In the next section, we are going to include absorbing boundary conditions in order to simulate infinite systems.
\section{NS-FDTD with PML's}
To avoid reflections from the boundaries, we need some way to absorb the waves. The perfectly matched layers (PML's) where introduced in the electromagnetic version of the FDTD.\cite{SullivanBook} In a similar way, for the quantum mechanical version of the PML's, a stretching parameter needs to be introduced in the Schr\"odinger equation:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial t}=i\frac{\hbar}{2m}\left( \gamma \frac{\partial^2\psi}{\partial x^2} \right)-\frac{i}{\hbar}V\psi,
\end{equation}
where $\gamma$ is a complex quantity:
\begin{equation}
\gamma=\gamma_{re} + i \gamma_{im}.
\end{equation}
Details on $\gamma$ and related quantities, can be found elsewhere.\cite{Sullivan2012}
Again, separating $\psi$ into the real an imaginary parts, we obtain two coupled equations:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial \psi_{real}}{\partial t}=-\frac{\hbar}{2m}\left( \gamma_{real}\frac{\partial^2 \psi_{imag}}{\partial x^2}  +  \gamma_{imag}\frac{\partial^2 \psi_{real}}{\partial x^2}   \right) +\frac{V}{\hbar}\psi_{imag}
\end{equation}
and,
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial \psi_{imag}}{\partial t}=\frac{\hbar}{2m}\left( \gamma_{real}\frac{\partial^2 \psi_{real}}{\partial x^2}  -  \gamma_{imag}\frac{\partial^2 \psi_{imag}}{\partial x^2}   \right) -\frac{V}{\hbar}\psi_{real}.
\end{equation}
Applying the finite difference scheme, these equations become:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\psi^n_{real} (i)-\psi^{n-1}_{real} (i)}{S(\omega,\Delta t)}=-\frac{\hbar}{2m}\frac{\gamma_{real} d_x^2\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i)+ \gamma_{imag} d_x^2\psi^{n-2}_{real} (i)}{S(k,\Delta x)^2} + \frac{V(j)}{\hbar}\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i)
\end{equation}
and,
\begin{equation}
\frac{\psi^n_{imag} (i)-\psi^{n-1}_{imag} (i)}{S(\omega,\Delta t)}=\frac{\hbar}{2m}\frac{\gamma_{real}d_x^2\psi^{n-1/2}_{real} (i) - \gamma_{imag} d_x^2\psi^{n-2}_{imag} (i)}{S(k,\Delta x)^2} - \frac{V(j)}{\hbar}\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i).
\end{equation}
For the NS-FDTD algorithm, we can apply the same procedure in order to include the PML's.
After some rearrangement we obtain:
\begin{equation}
\psi^n_{real} (i)=\psi^{n-1}_{real} (i) -c_1(i) \left(  \gamma_{real} d_x^2\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i) + \gamma_{imag} d_x^2\psi^{n-1/2}_{real} (i)  \right) + c_2(i)V(i)\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i)
\end{equation}
and,
\begin{equation}
\psi^n_{imag} (i)=\psi^{n-1}_{imag} (i)+ c_1(i)\left(  \gamma_{real} d_x^2\psi^{n-1/2}_{real} (i)- \gamma_{imag} d_x^2\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i)  \right) -c_2(i)V(i)\psi^{n-1/2}_{imag} (i)
\end{equation}
where $c_1$ and $c_2$ are given by eqs. \ref{eq:c1} and \ref{eq:c2}.
\section{Results}
In order to test our implementation, including the PML's version for the NS-FDTD, we present here the simulation of a step potential. In Fig. \ref{fig:fig} we show the time evolution of the real and imaginary parts of a wave function of $0.5$ $eV$.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=7.0 cm]{figPmls.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{Time snapshots of a wavefunction (real and imaginary parts) with an energy of $0.5$ $eV$ interacting with a step potential of $0.3$ $eV$. Transmission and reflection occurs as the wave reaches the potential and are absorbed in the PML's regions.}\label{fig:fig}
\end{figure}
The wavelength is of $17$ \AA, the line of simulation has $40$ $nm$ of length, and the PML's have a length of $5$ $nm$ at the ends. Fig. \ref{fig:fig} a) shows the initial input for the wavefuction, being a Gaussian pulse of width of about the wavelength. At the time of about $32$ $fs$ in Fig. \ref{fig:fig} b) the pulse has reached the 0.3 $eV$ potential starting at the middle of the simulation line, and we can see the transmission and reflection of the wave. By the time of about $63$ $fs$ (Fig. \ref{fig:fig} c)), the reflected and transmitted waves are in the zone of the PML's and are absorbed as expected.  Finally, in Fig. \ref{fig:fig} d), at the time of about $216$ $fs$, most of the wave function has been almost completely absorbed.

\section{Conclusions}
The quantum mechanics version of the FDTD, has been treated in the methodology of the non-standard form proposed recently by Cole.\cite{Cole2013} The resulting iterative equations are different from the standard version, only in the form of the coefficients multiplying the kinetic and potential terms. The non-standard term depends on sine functions for $E>V$ and on a hyperbolic sine function for $E<V$ as the wavenumber is imaginary. However, the two forms are very similar. This means that any standard code can be easily converted to the NS-FDTD, by just using the coefficients given by eqs. \ref{eq:c1} and \ref{eq:c2}, and considering whether $E>V$ or $E<V$. In addition, we show that the PML's have also the same form, and we solve the time evolution of a one electron wave in the presence of a step potential including the absorbing boundary conditions. We hope that this new formulation of the FDTD applied to the Schr\"odinger equation can be used as a starting point to increase the precision of calculations for systems in two or three dimensions for simulating devices.

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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: Reading about Labor in the United States
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This project examines the book From The Folks Who Brought You The Weekend by Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty. The authors challenge popular misconceptions and attempt to provide a more nuanced history of American labor movements by connecting back to many issues we still face today in the workplace (e.g.: sexual harassment and racial prejudice). This presentation allows readers to reflect on the history of American labor and acknowledge the common theme of struggle for the working class throughout U.S. history.
Deme, Mohammad; Thomas, Qavonte; and Walker, Andre (2019) "From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: Reading about Labor in the United States," Navigations: A First-Year College Composite: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 6.
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MFI: Are investors getting "re-sensitized" to yield? Hazard: If you look at the AFP Liquidity Survey, capital preservation is still the number one goal, with liquidity being number two. Yield is a distant third. But I think yield is a consideration for clients if they can put a portfolio together that has capital preservation and liquidity in mind. If they look at their analytics and their concentrations, there are ways for clients to put portfolios together that will increase yield while reducing risk. We're seeing that happen a lot more. They're looking at how they can optimize their portfolio, which is something that we haven't seen in a long time.
MFI: Tell us about your global investors. Hazard: We offer funds in 8 different currencies for our clients. Some are overseas for strategic reasons and some are overseas because of American tax policy. Each country has its own complexities. In Europe, where banks and money funds have negative yields, we see a lot of clients investing in short duration bond funds to get an overall positive return.
MFI: Are you looking to expand your offerings? Hazard: Absolutely. We have about 20 short duration bond funds on our platform, globally. The way that we've always built out our fund lineup is, if a client requests a particular product or fund, we will go to that fund company and set them up on our platform. We're doing that right now with some of the private funds that are coming on our platform. MFI: Any private funds live on the platform yet? Hazard: Yes.
MFI: What is your outlook for the rest of the year? Hazard: We're extremely excited about 2016 and beyond. We have been working to prepare for this [for some] time. We're getting a little bit of a break on interest rates. Our product lineup is extremely extensive, and we have the VNAV solutions that should lead the industry.... On April 14, we [did] a webinar where we ... showcase[d] the VNAV enhancements to the portal. We're also doing a road show, and we're going to publish a white paper that's going to discuss not only the challenges but the solutions to how corporate treasury is going to trade in this post-regulatory environment.


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On the first Sunday in October, United Methodist congregations join many Christian churches across the globe in celebrating World Communion Sunday.
World Communion Sunday began at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1933. The Rev. Hugh Thompson Kerr and his congregation sought to demonstrate the interconnectedness of Christian churches, regardless of denomination.
Rev. Kerr appropriately chose the sacrament of Holy Communion to symbolize this unity.
In 1940, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which included all of the predecessor denominations of The United Methodist Church, adopted World-Wide Communion Sunday.
United Methodists believe in an open table, anyone may receive communion.
Our Book of Worships says, "All who intend to lead a Christian life, together with their children, are invited to receive the bread and cup."
In United Methodist Churches around the world, a special offering is collected on World Communion Sunday to fund scholarships for seminarians. One half of the proceeds is for World Communion Sunday Scholars administered by the General Board of Global Ministries. The remaining one half is for the Ethnic Scholarship Program and the Ethnic In-Service Training Program, which are administered by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
This video was produced by United Methodist Communications in Nashville, TN.
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This video was first posted on October 2, 2019.


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women being carried unconscious in the arms of strong men or monsters (which seems to be the same according to this feminized world) *g* As so many people. Dec 11, · Lift and carry refers to a fetish in which an individual is aroused by being hoisted in the arms of another person. The prevalence of the female athlete and the wider exposure of the muscular woman could be a catalyst for the lift and carry fetish. fireman's lift, the overhead lift, cradle carry, and over the shoulder lift. Lift & Carry Sort by Featured Best Selling Alphabetically, A-Z Alphabetically, Z-A Price, low to high Price, high to low Date, new to old Date, old to new Grid View List View.
Lift and carry refers to a fetish in which an individual is aroused by being hoisted in the arms of another person. This can overlap with other fetishes such as cratolagnia and sthenolagnia. This could be a rare fetish, but it is difficult to get actual statistics. It is almost cradle carry female fetish to say when this type of fetish even emerged. Relevant to the discussion of strong women it takes another fascinating turn. Their are men cradle carry female fetish love to have strong women lift them up. What could be a simple fetish could have gender relations implications.
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In a case marked by a great number of grounds of unpatentability, Covidien was able to get 14 challenged claims of an Ethicon Endo-Surgery patent into a trial for inter partes review in a case styled as Covidien LP v. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (IPR2013-00209), involving U.S. Pat. No. 8,317,070.
The '070 patent relates to surgical stapling devices which are "capable of producing staples of different formed length" when applied to tissue.
After listing the prior art references relied upon by Patent Challenger, the Board listed the 36 alleged grounds of unpatentability, stretching nearly two pages of the decision. Following, the Board conducted a detailed claim construction analysis, beginning with the phrase "two prongs extending non-paralelly from the main portion." The Board's claim construction mimicked that of a typical district court claim construction analysis, including citations to the claims, specification and file history. Ultimately, the Board agreed with Patent Owner.
Then, the Board moved to analyze the alleged grounds of unpatentability, beginning by noting that 18 of the 36 grounds of unpatentability alleged by Patent Challenger relied on a construction of "extending non-parallely" which was inconsistent with the Board's interpretation. The Board accordingly declined to analyze these grounds. Of the remaining 18 grounds which relied on a construction consistent with the Board's definition of the limitation, all relied at least in part on one reference which accounts for the "extending non-parallely" feature.
Patent Challenger combined this reference with three other references, all of which disclosed a type of surgical stapler, to form several obviousness grounds. Relying on the three references, as well as expert testimony, Patent Challenger showed that the reference taught all limitations of the challenged claims, including the "anvil" and "formed staple length" limitations. Completing a lengthy, but straightforward obviousness analysis, the Board granted the Petition as to several obviousness grounds.
Despite having half of its numerous alleged grounds of unpatentability doomed by reliance on inconsistent claim construction, Covidien was able to get 14 challenged claims of the '070 patent into a trial for inter partes review.


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Manfred Schneider, auch Man Schneider, (* 1957 in München) ist ein deutscher Plastiker und Maler.

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Von 1990 bis 1995 studierte Manfred Schneider bildende Kunst an der Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main bei Thomas Bayrle, Martin Kippenberger und Peter Cook, nachdem er bereits ein Architekturstudium abgeschlossen hatte. Manfred Schneider ist Meisterschüler von Thomas Bayrle.

Manfred Schneider lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

Werk

Manfred Schneiders Arbeiten zeichnen sich durch mediale und thematische Vielfalt aus. Zeichnung, Collage, Malerei, Skulptur und Video bis hin zu komplexen Rauminstallationen gehören zu seinem Œuvre. Er reflektiert in seinem Werk wiederholt Raumerfahrungen, seine eigene Rolle als Künstler wie auch die der Kunst.

Ausstellungen von Manfred Schneider fanden unter anderem in Österreich, Irland, den USA, Niederlanden sowie in Deutschland statt.

Ausstellungen (Auswahl)

 1993: Widerpart – Künstler im Dialog, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg (Katalog)
 1994: Malerei 2000, Kunstmuseum Malmö (Schweden)
 1994: Kunst in Frankfurt – Medium Zeichnung, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a. M.
 1995: Kulturprämie,  Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg/Thüringen (Katalog)
 1995/96: Scharfer Blick – Der Deutsche Künstlerbund in Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (Katalog)
 1996: Peter Bosshart, Tamara Grcic, Manfred Schneider, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt a. M.
 1998: Multiple X 1 – Beyond the Gallery (u. a. mit Pawel Althamer, Christine Borland und Simon Starling), Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
 1999: Schlafraum, Parkhaus Junghofstraße, Frankfurt a. M.
 2000: The Art or The Kartoffel Question, AusstellungsHalle Schulstraße 1a, Frankfurt a. M.
 2003: Anywhere but Here, Mainlandpavillon – Phantombuero, Frankfurt a. M.
 2004: Manfred Schneider – Räume, Interviews, Manipulationen, Galerie allerArt/Remise Bludenz, Bludenz (Österreich), (Katalog)
 2007: Die Sammlung Rausch – It Takes Something to Make Something, Portikus, Frankfurt a. M. (Katalog)
 2007: Lines, Signs, Drops and Dreams, Galerie Sebastian Brandl, Köln
 2008: Hotel Marienbad 002: Rauschende Gäste., KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
 2009: Not Strictly Platonic, Galerie Sebastian Brandl, Köln
 2010: Rock, Paper, Scissors (u. a. mit James Brown, Jannis Kounellis und Sigmar Polke), Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag
 2011: Deserted Ideologies, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag
 2011: Manfred Schneider, VOLTA NY (Einzelpräsentation), New York
 2011: Livingstone on Paper I, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag
 2012: On the Road Again (u. a. mit Jörg Immendorff, Robert Rauschenberg und Cornelia Schleime), Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag
 2013: Yes or No, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag
 2013: Group Show – Artists of the Gallery, Galerie Sebastian Brandl, Köln
 2015: At Home with Collector G., Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag
 2015: Art from Home – The Wilploo Collection, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam (Niederlande)
 2017: Train Your Mental Eraser, Hippie, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag

Literatur

 Ursula Binder (Hrsg.): Scharfer Blick – Der Deutsche Künstlerbund in Bonn. Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, 1996, ISBN 978-3-9292-8309-9.
 Detlef Böckmann, Kasper König, Jutta Penndorf u. a.: Kulturprämie – Städelschule im BASF-Feierabendhaus und im Lindenau-Museum. BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, 1995, ISBN 978-3-8610-4027-9.
 Sebastian Brandl (Hrsg.), Gabriele Wurzel (Text): Manfred Schneider. (dt./engl.), Galerie Sebastian Brandl Edition, Köln 2010.
 Daniel Birnbaum (Hrsg.): Die Sammlung Rausch. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2007, ISBN 978-3-8656-0294-7.
 Juliane von Herz (Hrsg.), Jennifer Allen: Kunstgriffe. DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Köln 2003, ISBN 978-3-8320-8851-4.
  Axel Jablonski (Hrsg.): Manfred Schneider – Räume, Interviews, Manipulationen. Galerie allerArt, Bludenz 2004.
 Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg (Hrsg.): Widerpart – Künstler im Dialog. (Forum Aschaffenburg, Bd. 8), Aschaffenburg 1993.
 Christoph Schütte: Holterdipolter, dass es nur so kracht – Fülle der Themen und der kunstimmanenten Verweise: Manfred Schneider in der Galerie Wildwechsel, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) vom 24. Dezember 2009 (Nr. 299), S. 57, .
 Harald Uhr: Manfred Schneider – Text, in: Artnews.org – Information on Contemporary Art, Berlin, abgerufen am 25. Mai 2015.

Weblinks
 Vita und Ausstellungen von Manfred Schneider (engl.)
 Vita, Arbeiten, Ausstellungsansichten und Neuigkeiten von Manfred Schneider (engl.)
 Vita, Ausstellungen und Arbeiten von Manfred Schneider (engl.)

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Community members, staff, parents and students who have a complaint are encouraged to start at the lowest level in the organization to attempt to resolve the complaint.
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A complaint of retaliation against a student or a student's parent who in good faith reported information that the student believes is evidence of a violation of state and federal law, rule or regulation, should be reported to the administrator.
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Complaints against the Board as a whole or against an individual Board member may start at step 5 and shall be made to the Board chair on behalf of the Board.
Complaints against the Board chair may start at step 5 shall be made directly to the Board vice chair on behalf of the Board.
A complainant must file a complaint within the later of either time limit set below, in accordance with state law:
Within two years after the alleged violation or unlawful incident occurred or the complainant discovered the alleged violation or unlawful incident. For incidents that are continuing in nature, the time limitation must run from the date of the most recent incident; or
Within one year after the affected student has graduated from, moved away from or otherwise left the district.
The superintendent will develop and administer the complaint process, as appropriate.
No staff, student, parent or community member will be denied the right to petition the Board for redress of an issue, complaints will be referred through the proper administrative channels for resolution before investigation or action by the Board. Exceptions are complaints that concern the superintendent or involve Board actions or Board operations.
If a complainant, who is a parent or guardian of a student who attends school in the district, is a student or a person who resides in the district alleges a violation of Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR), Chapter 581, Division 22 (Standards), ORS 339.285 to 339.383 or OAR 581-021-0550 to 581-021-0570 (Restraint and Seclusion) or ORS. 659.852 (Retaliation) and the complaint is not resolved through the complaint process, the complainant may have appeal rights with the Deputy Superintendent as outlined in OAR 581-002- 0040.
If the complaint alleges discrimination pursuant to ORS 659.850 (Discrimination) and the complaint is not resolved at the local level through administrative regulation AC-AR - Discrimination Complaint Procedure, the complaint may meet the criteria to file an appeal with the Superintendent of Public Instruction as outlined in OAR 581-021-0049.
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The Abuse of History: Where ideology meets distortion in the Middle East.
We hear frequently of the "Holocaust" and "genocide" in association with the Israeli incursion into Jenin — especially in the European presses. The very mention of those charged words in reference to fewer than 70 dead in a war zone is blasphemous to the memory of 6 million butchered in a methodical state program of death. Auschwitz alone saw 10,000 gassed on some days.
Speaking Truth to the Powerless: An Open Letter To The People Commonly Called "Palestinians"
Invest in banks, not bombs. Build computer chips, not Kalashnikovs. Teach science and mathematics, not hate. Look to the future, not the past. Stop blaming Americans and Jews for all your problems, and take responsibility for your own actions. Read those parts in the Quran about living with the "peoples of the Book".
We Have All Been Had
The belief that giving the Palestinians a state will bring peace is a delusion. The truth is that they want it all. The short-term goal is a state consisting of the West Bank and Gaza. The long-term goal is a state that includes all of "historical Palestine," including Jordan.
Silence of the Lambs WHEN NINE TIMES as many Israeli dead as Palestinian ones are women, it's awfully hard to believe in allegations of indiscriminate Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians, to say nothing of an even division of claims on victimhood and blame. It's such a nagging little truth - and so easy to ignore. Then again, as a sage British politician once observed, "nagging is the repitition of unpalatable truths." It'll take a lot of nagging yet before Israel's peril is properly understood.
Twenty Facts about Israel and the Middle East The world's attention has been focused on the Middle East. We are confronted daily with scenes of carnage and destruction. Can we understand such violence? Yes, but only if we come to the situation with a solid grounding in the facts of the matter -- facts that too often are forgotten, if ever they were learned. Below are twenty facts that we think are useful in understanding the current situation, how we arrived here, and how we might eventually arrive at a solution.
The Stillborn Palestinian State Or why a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza is nonviable.
All those who so stubbornly demand the creation of this corpse-state never stop to ask themselves what will happen after it is proclaimed. However, it is precisely the answer to this question that unequivocally demonstrates not only the hopelessly utopian nature of the idea, but more importantly the almost criminally ill-advised nature of any attempts to establish this state.
Why We'll Win Believe me, if you dare, when I tell you that these Christian Zionists are the most sincere supporters of Israel I've ever met. Bar none. ... we will win, with His help, and the aid of our humble, thoroughly sincere gentile allies. They're out there, millions and millions of them, and they can be trusted. Let's join together in His name.
Stop Your Foolish Imaginings The politician will welcome the new Arab state with warm words and praise the two sides for their fortitude. He will stir his audience to tears, mentioning the names of Arab and Jewish victims of what he will call "the cycle of violence." He will invoke Biblical images of the end of days. He will quote, of course, from the Bible and from the Quran.
Israel! O Israel! Israel at the moment is in mortal peril. Its enemies have been becoming smarter, better organized, more thoroughly imbued with hatred and animosity, and intoxicated with signs of weakness they think they have detected.
Gangster Governance For as long as Arafat retains his grip on the PA, the mechanisms of his authoritarian rule will not change. Quite simply, they cannot, given the legacy of his disastrous decisions to skirt accountability in favor of gangster-style government. The sooner Israel and the United States — poised on the brink of a serious rethink of Palestinian government for the first time in close to a decade — realize that progress hinges on a post-Arafat "Palestine," the better.
The PA's Rotten Core It is ridiculous to speak of creating a Palestinian nation at present. A would-be nation should contain, at the very least, politically independent civic institutions, leaders committed to the rule of law, and a unified police command. But even before the Israeli invasion, the Palestinian Authority had degenerated into a loose confederacy of terrorist and quasi-terrorist organizations -- Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah -- competing to shake cash out of Mr. Arafat.
Honored by Hate If you knew nothing about a person, but needed to make a moral assessment of him, how would you go about it? Most of us would assume that one effective way would be to identify the person's friends and enemies. If the list of friends were people you knew to be particularly decent, or if the list of enemies were known to be particularly indecent, you would undoubtedly feel good about the person. This applies equally to nations. That is why, since Sept. 11, I have felt so proud to be an American and a Jew. I am a member of the world's two most hated peoples, and when I peruse the list of our enemies, I am filled with pride.
History Shows Israel Alternative to Resistance MASADA, the Judean Desert -- In Israel, history is inescapable. It almost overwhelms you -- in monuments, museums and memories. Roughly 4,000 years of it, European as well as Middle Eastern, is crammed into a country half the size of New Jersey. Modern Israel is the redemption at the end of two millennia of exile.
The PA's Intentional Suicide Attempts The right to victimhood strategy is underscored by the reports from Jenin and elsewhere in the West Bank that Palestinians refused to bury war casualties in order to present evidence of a "massacre," (presumably without pictures of the guns that many were holding) at the risk that the outbreak of diseases would create an epidemic among Palestinian civilians. And in what represents perhaps the most cynical example of adding insult to injury come reports from the IDF that initial efforts to provide blood units to the Palestinians as part of a humanitarian aid gesture were met with the response that they "did not want Jewish blood."
20 Years of Anti-Israel Bias at the CBC I have just received several letters from friends of mine in Canada. They are in a state of shock at the current CBC coverage of the events taking place during the last 20 years in the Middle East. After reading of their concerns at the rewriting of history, I felt that I had to write and share my own personal experiences with you. I am a native Calgarian who 12 years ago moved to northern Israel.
On Hating Israel What we know but can't say out loud.
The Case Against Yasser Arafat The evidence that Arafat is a mass murderer is overwhelming and is beyond reasonable dispute. As a criminal law professor and a practicing criminal defence lawyer for nearly 40 years, I can attest, with absolute certainty, that there is enough evidence against Arafat to assure his conviction of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in any fair legal system anywhere in the world.
Washington Won't Let Israel Win Throughout this history, the US has justified denying its democratic ally the fruits of its military victories against despotic aggressors "in the interests of peace." This policy has never brought peace, nor has it engendered stability. Rather, just as feeding the beast acts not to placate it but to strengthen it, so US placation of the Arab world at Israel's expense has legitimized Arab rejection of Israel.
No One to Save Arafat The US has rescued Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat from Israel's clutches on two occasions: 20 years ago in distant Beirut, and now in nearby Ramallah.
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i2i Director Marie Firth turns 100!!
September 2015 Marie Firth and Carly Alexander, participants in the 8 year unprecedentedly successful Meadows School Intergenerational Immersion Project, Coldstream, BC, share a moment at Marie's 100th birthday. Carly presented Marie with a bound version of the ten children's stories that author Marie penned over a decade. These stories became the popular Intergenerational Literacy Project (info at intergenerational.ca). Carly, along with other grade 5, 6, and 7 students, illustrated each book and profits from sales of the books fund an annual i2i scholarship of which Carly, now a graduate, was the 2015 recipient.
Marie has sat on the Board of i2i as a supporter for six years and shared her thoughts on Intergenerational Immersion on her 100th birthday,
"The children come every day for two months. They spread out through the building mixing with the seniors. Hence the saying, 'Whose Grandma Are You?'. (see: You Tube short of a one-hour documentary of this title at intergenerational.ca Home Page) Each youngster takes a proxy 'grandparent' from the senior group and forms a group of their own. The children take turns working in the small General Store with us, in the dining room setting tables, at Art and Crafts, and outside in our lovely grounds playing badminton, horseshoes and bocce. We even did some drawing, spelling, reading stories, cooking, writing and singing. We work together on a plan for learning. They share their school work and we helped them, and they helped us."
A prototype of the Meadows School Intergenerational Immersion Project is in its fifth transformative year at Williams Lake Retirement Community, Williams Lake, BC.
For more information on Intergenerational Immersion working models, pre-school to middle school, contact i2i@intergenerational.ca. Be sure to follow up-dates on the Intergenerational Immersion Association here, under 'Latest News'.
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Sharon MacKenzie (left) enjoys a visit with Mary Lattenville and Marie Firth, both participants in the Meadows School Project, and former student participant Erin Sturrock during the June 1 Intergenerational Day Canada celebration.
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Ice cream, letters of reference and a chance to connect with old friends were just a few of the highlights at the recent Intergenerational Day Canada at Coldstream Meadows.
On June 1, former students and participants in the Meadows School Project gathered for a day of celebration and it was a chance to share stories, laughter and friendship.
Spearheaded by teacher Sharon MacKenzie, the Meadows School Project ran from 2001 to 2008 with students from Kidston elementary school and residents and staff at Coldstream Meadows Retirement Community before rolling into a second phase in Williams Lake and the newest MSP in Kamloops. The project model bring a class of intermediate students into a makeshift classroom at a seniors' residence for two full months of the school year.
The reunion brought together students and seniors, including special guest Marie Firth, who turns 99 this year. Firth wrote 10 children's books which were published with MSP students as illustrators, and the funds from book sales has created a $500 scholarship that has been given at Kalamalka secondary for the past six years to a student of the project or who is involved in volunteering with older adults.
"I have heard from many via e-mail as they are off in new places with their young adult lives and they all spoke so positively of the experience they had during the project," she said, adding that letters of reference regarding students' involvement in the project were made available for those who would like to add to their resumés.
Alyssa Ward, now 21, said the project has meant a lot to her throughout her school years.
"I was always proud to say that I had been a part of an experience that most children my age had not," she said. "The project taught me many things in the eight weeks that I was at Coldstream Meadows.
"I learned a lot about patience and the importance of slowing down time to enjoy the moment. I was taught a heightened insight into the respect due to my elders and gained much from their understanding of the world. I was happy to be able to listen to the diverse life stories of each person I met as well as share in the story they were still writing at Coldstream Meadows."
Now, 10 years after her participation in the project, Ward has graduated as a Licensed Practical Nurse who works with the elderly, and many other generations, on a daily basis.
"I feel that the Coldstream Meadows Project has helped to prepare me for my life-long career," she said.
Now 24, Tia MacLachlan said while she had always cherished her own grandparents, she hadn't given much thought to them beyond the importance of bridging the gap between seniors and youth.
"I remembered thinking how boring it would be to attend school beside a seniors' community home every day," she said. "My thoughts changed dramatically in a short period of time, and I soon acknowledged that I was a part of something important.
"We changed their notions about us as being reckless and disrespectful kids, and they quickly showed us that they were interesting, witty and kind. Our energy was contagious, and soon the seniors wanted us to be a part of their world.
"I learned that intergenerational relationships go beyond grandchildren and grandparents; it's the everyday kindness between generations. It can be as easy as taking the time to slow down, smile, and say hello to a senior on the street that you don't know. Maybe before this project, I would have just walked on quickly by. It's realizing that every generation has something to offer, and we are doing a disservice to ourselves and others by generalizing entire generations. I'm so proud of what the project has become, and I'm glad that I could have been a part of it."
Meadows School Project is the banner initiative of the i2i Intergenerational Society, founded in Vernon, led by former student participant, president Sam Nolan. The society provides free resources and assistance to those wanting to start or share intergenerational projects. Four years ago it launched June 1 as Intergenerational Day Canada and in 2013, more than 100 cities representing every province and territory proclaimed the day.
Now executive director of the i2i Intergenerational Society, MacKenzie said the intergenerational message is being carried throughout British Columbia, across the country and around the world.
"There are now three MSPs running in Alberta and B.C., with others in the works for next year," she said. "The spin-off from this one project in little 'ol Vernon has led a significant wave of interest in the benefits of intergenerational connection. We can't forget the wonderful resource that our growing population of older adults can provide, if we only facilitate the connecting to young people," said MacKenzie. "I am very proud of my students, the seniors and the community that was so supportive of this precedent-setting initiative."
For more information, see www.intergenerational.ca
Preventing Elder Abuse by Building Empathy and Connection Across Generations
Interview with Sharon Mackenzie, Founder/Executive Director of i2i
This article was originally posted by the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
"That was one of the richest mornings of my life. You have charged the seniors' lives with more energy and openness, and charged the students' lives with more compassion. Wow! It is indeed a model for Canada."
Shelagh Rogers (CBC Sounds Like Canada), commenting on her visit to an i2i classroom
CNPEA: Tell us a little bit about your project.
Sharon: The i2i Intergenerational Society grew out of a decade of intensive research that involved over 400 British Columbian children and older adults in the unique Intergenerational Immersion Model, The Meadows School Project.
For two months thirty intermediate students moved into a makeshift classroom at a retirement home. The two generations dovetailed their calendars, combining curriculum, public service and one-on-one buddy meetings. Residents, students, staff, parents, children of the residents and school administration applauded the life-changing outcomes of the initiative.
After seven years our society was established to:
Inform others of the health, social and educational benefits of intergenerational involvement
Assist in envisioning, implementing and sustaining respectful and purposeful intergenerational relationships.
We stage three levels of intergenerational bridge building:
Baby steps- one time, brief interaction. For example, pre-school visits to a care home to perform a song for senior audience
Mama steps- organized ongoing involvement, up to 90 m/wk, or monthly. For example, teens visiting to play board games
Full immersion- Meadows School Project
CNPEA: Why is intergenerational learning so important and why is this project fundamentally an elder abuse initiative?
Sharon: This work is important because:
1. It dramatically improves mental, physical, emotional and social health at a remarkably low cost by:
Connecting individuals from generations that are both confronted by ageism, ie children and seniors;
Providing opportunities and time for friendship, trust, empathy and understanding to develop on a one-to-one basis; and
Reducing isolation and loneliness
2. It strengthens links between generations, building a more resilient community network.
3. It reduces mistreatment in the future of all ages by instilling empathy and understanding across generations.
Intergenerational learning is proactive and counteracts ageism. If we invest in proactive, intergenerational learning opportunities now, then by the time today's young reach adulthood, they will have an enlightened attitude towards ageing.
Last year (2013) we entered Meadows School Project into the IFA International Innovative Intergenerational Solidarity Competition. Our project was short listed with five in the world. The judges, chaired by Dr. Beard, UN WHO, stated, "this project demonstrates forward-thinking advancements… and should be adopted worldwide."
CNPEA: What does the curriculum cover?
Sharon: In the immersion project, there are three components: the government mandated curriculum, public service and 1-on-1 relationships.
The students continue to follow their government-mandated curriculum with the teacher selecting appropriate topics for the intergenerational setting (e.g. history, geography, development and aging of the body, healthy lifestyles, story writing, reading, art, music, etc.). The second component is service, teaching students about work ethic and giving back within community (e.g. table setting, raking, etc). The third is a 1-on-1 component to build relationships (e.g. playing cards or visiting together).
CNPEA: What excites you most about this project?
Sharon: It is possible! It works! We can do this, collaboratively, and it is fun and simple. It does not require that you spend money. Instead it only needs you to do things differently: 'put on intergenerational glasses' and see how you can do what you have always done, but do it with an intergenerational perspective. We can help build real understanding between real people of different generations by merely giving them opportunities to become friends. Older adults and children are more the same than different and their joy in discovering this is what makes this approach irresistible. Respectful intergenerational relations are the building blocks to our future as a society.
CNPEA: How does your project address ageism?
Sharon: We address communication: face-to-face, eye-to-eye, minimize distractions and background noise, rephrase to assist understanding, say what you mean, mean what you say, be polite, smile.
We create opportunities for children and older adults to meet as one person to another. In building their relationships, they eventually find they share many things in common all the way from loneliness, to the same birth month or perhaps a hearing disability.
They inadvertently work through the issues of ageism together while becoming respectful and empathetic friends. In every one of our immersion projects, the children, when asked by parents how their visits with the seniors are going, have responded: "they're not seniors, they are my friends."
CNPEA: Earlier you mentioned something about giving responsibility to kids and older adults? Can you tell me more about that?
Sharon: It's about doing WITH as opposed to doing FOR. As health care workers of aging adults and educators of the young, we are great as socially responsible citizens. We are caretakers of others and watch out for their best interests. But where I see us really missing a tremendous opportunity is in the area of personal responsibility. As teachers and health care workers we often do FOR. In fact a much stronger approach is to do WITH—a true collaborative approach. That is a healthy empowering participatory mode for everyone.
I did a presentation for the National Seniors Council and the banner they displayed said 'Working FOR Seniors'. As I stood up to present I mentioned that I thought their banner should say 'Working WITH Seniors'. Most seniors are perfectly capable of doing things FOR themselves with only some facilitating assistance. Why would we not consider their contribution as extremely valuable, cost effective and—as the senior demographic broadens—sustainable? The mistake we make, in good faith, both for senior adults and children, is taking away self-dependence and interdependence.
What our real job should be is as facilitators to empower youth and older adults to work together on their own collaborative initiatives. We still need to be there, but as partners not leaders.
At i2i we have had success with our projects because they are built with collaboration from the onset. Even our Board ranges from a 23 year old President to a 99 year-old Board member. We know that you have to be the change you want to see.
Intergenerational Day is now recognized in many communities across Canada on June 2010.
Learn more about the i2i Intergenerational Society.
i2i in Istanbul
International Istanbul Initiative on Ageing: Age-Friendly Innovation Competition and Best Full Paper Award
This article was originally posted by the IFA: Global Connection
For the first time since the Age-Friendly Cities initiatives were formed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006, the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) and Turyak Seniors Council awarded prizes of $20,000 (USD) to two exceptional projects showcasing the best Age-Friendly Cities project and the best future vision for an Age-Friendly City.
The top ten (10) competition finalists included; Hong Kong Housing Society Elderly Resource Centre;Quimper(France); Sharon MacKenzie Educational and Intergenerational Consulting (Canada); Human Endeavour (Canada), Ageing Well Network(Ireland); City of London (Canada); Vietnam Public Health Association (Vietnam); and Los Altos, California (United States). Congratulations to all those who participated. To view the videos demonstrating the top ten finalists age-friendly projects, click on their names above.
The winner of the Best Existing Age-Friendly Initiative category was Age-Friendly New York. The award was accepted by Dr. Ruth Finkelstein of the New York Academy of Medicine. The winner of the Best Future Vision of an Age-Friendly City or Community category was the DIVANET Tri-City Project of Volgograd (Russia), Izmir (Turkey) and Dijon (France) and was accepted by Ms. Elisabeth Biot, Deputy Mayor of Dijon and Mr. Ali Muzaffer Tuncag from the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality.
During the IIIA congress, a $3000 (USD) prize was also awarded to recognize the best full paper presented at the congress. The winner of the Best Full Paper Award was Dr. Freek Lapré of the Netherlands for his paper "Service Quality in Nursing Homes".
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Meadows project goes global
Published: October 13, 2013 1:00 AM
This article was originally posted by the Vernon Morning Star, on Oct 13, 2013
A project that had its conception and development in Vernon has been selected as one of five in an international competition for the most Innovative Intergenerational Solidarity initiative.
The Meadows School Project (www.intergenerational.ca) was judged in June, along with projects from around the world, by world health care researchers and international seniors' advocates. This week, project founder Sharon MacKenzie, a former Vernon teacher and now executive director of the i2i Intergenerational Society of Canada, is in Istanbul, Turkey to do the final presentation and learn the results of the competition.
The Meadows School Project ran for eight years in Vernon with students from Kidston elementary school and residents and staff at Coldstream Meadows Retirement Community before rolling into a second phase in Williams Lake, now in its third year. Two other projects are slated to begin in Kamloops and Summerland School Districts this year in cooperation with Retirement Concepts facilities.
The Meadows School Project model sees a class of intermediate students move into a makeshift classroom at a seniors' residence for two full months of the school year.
"Based on the successful concept of immersion used for the understanding of French, Meadows School Project allows students and older adults to share curriculum studies, community service and building one-on-one relationships," said MacKenzie. "They immerse in the lives of each other to build empathy and intellectual connections."
Meadows School Project is the banner initiative of the i2i Intergenerational Society, founded in Vernon, led by former student participant, president Sam Nolan. Five of the 10-member board are from Vernon. The society provides free resources and assistance to those wanting to start or share Intergenerational projects. Four years ago it launched June 1 as Intergenerational Day Canada and in 2013, more than 100 cities representing every province and territory proclaimed the day.
The results of the world competition for Vernon's Meadows School Project, which includes the UN World Health Organization representatives, will be announced this week.
"The results, however, are already in for those who have participated over the years," said MacKenzie. "Respectful intergenerational relations always puts you in the winner's circle."
90 Canadian Cities Proclaim Intergenerational Day
This article was originally posted by the BC Care Providers Association
As June 1st was declared Intergenerational Day by 90 cities across Canada it is timely to examine how one of our members, Retirement Concepts, has fully embraced the benefits and values of full immersion in intergenerational programming at its Williams Lake Seniors Village.
The i2i Intergenerational Society of Canada was created in 2008 to assist Canadians in the building of bridges between generations. Founder Sharon Mackenzie has worked for over thirty years connecting school aged children and youth to different generations within their communities. In 2000, then a teacher in Vernon, Sharon approached a neighbor who had recently purchased an Assisted Living Facility. Unsatisfied with the impact of occasional visits to senior care facilities with her students, Sharon was looking for something that would create sustainable relationships and provide unique learning opportunities for both generations. The "Meadows School Project" was born.
A make shift classroom for thirty students, 9-12 years of age, was set up in the Assisted Living Residence, which housed fifty seniors. Within two weeks Sharon realized that this intergenerational immersion provided a host of benefits for all parties involved. Visible improvement was immediately seen in the mental, physical, and social health of the seniors. The seniors experienced a renewed interest in life and a newly found sense of purpose as a result. As Sharon commented: "Care facilities can be isolating in their very nature. The young students brought with them the life pulse of the community and pulsed back out into the community the wisdom and experience of the seniors."
For the students the educational and social goals mandated by the Ministries of Education and Health were met. The project plan required that students spend time on their dedicated studies, which for a large part adapted well into the senior context. Sharon discovered that the curriculum really resonated with the students in this environment and that the students had a measurable increase in curriculum retention. The program also required each student to participate in at least ninety minutes of public service each week. This service component provided the students with the opportunity to develop their work ethic. As well, the project created designated daily times for the seniors and students to connect one-on-one. This provided the most valuable outcome. The mutually empathetic and concrete connections made between the seniors and students could only be forged in this setting.
Sharon believes that this was the best experience of her life: " How often in your life do you have the opportunity to change lives?" The legacy of Sharon's project can be seen today on the board of directors of the i2i Intergenerational Society: one of the original Meadow School Project students, Sam Nolan, is now the president of the board.
Intergenerational learning has become a new model for senior's residences and has benefits for the entire community. The Retirement Concepts Williams Lake Seniors Village has embraced an intergenerational immersion project with great success. Janet Catalano, the Recreation Manager, was familiar with the innovative work of Sharon Mackenzie. Janet and the entire leadership team were eager to improve the quality of life of the residents and believed that the immersion of youth and seniors would allow wisdom and experience to be shared throughout the generations. Janet reached out to Mike Grace, the principal of the nearby Cataline Elementary School who was immediately interested. "It was a fantastic opportunity for us to be involved with our community and for us to branch out and incorporate other people into our education."
Modeled on Sharon's original project; the Williams Lake Seniors Village Project's program integrates the students in the daily lives of seniors while allowing them to focus on their ministry-mandated curriculum. Again the approach to the program focuses on academics, service and relationship building between the generations. And again; the intergenerational immersion has been a great success. "I have been teaching school for twenty years and I can honestly say this has been the most rewarding year of my career thus far." says Cataline Elementary teacher Steve Dickens.
The experience proved that the intergenerational immersion program could build understanding and bridges; and it could dissolve boundaries between generations. Buoyed by the success of the Williams Lake Seniors Village Project, Retirement Concepts is working with Sharon and the i2i Intergenerational Society to implement the intergenerational project in their Summerland Seniors Village and Kamloops Seniors Village facilities. Residents will be able to enjoy the programming this September. Retirement Concepts is dedicated to implementing full immersion intergenerational programming across all of their residences. Let the intergenerational movement begin!
For more information, resources, sharing, and celebrations in the field of intergenerational relations please visit the i2i Intergenerational Society website at http://www.intergenerational.ca. You will also find more information on the groundbreaking Meadows School Project.
For a video on the Williams Lake Seniors Village intergenerational experience please visit http://www.williamslakeseniorsvillage.com
Written by freelance writer Cathy Szmaus. Photographs kindly contributed by Laureen Carruthers –
An Intergenerational experience at Retirement Concepts
Revelstoke, BC, Teens and Seniors, Build Understandings to Defeat Hate Crimes
Thursday, 03 May 2012 12:04
At Moberly Manor last Wednesday, George Hopkins was busy wowing a group of teenagers. First, he showed them his 50-year-old mechanical calculator.
Then, out came the Kodak Brownie – the 19th century camera that revolutionized photography and made it affordable for the masses. He also had a mechanical level with him.
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Seeing Eye to Eye (i2i), inter-generationally!
Program helps students, seniors
Students learn at seniors village
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Facebook's desire for efficiency means democracy is out and technocratic, developer-king rule is in.
Let's stipulate that Facebook is not a country, that real governments fulfill many more functions, and that people are not citizens of their social networks.
Nonetheless, 900 million human beings do something like live in the blue-and-white virtual space of the world's largest structured web of people. And those people get into disputes that they expect to be adjudicated. They have this expectation in part because Facebook has long said it wants to create a safe environment for connecting with other people. (How else can you get people to be "more open and connected"?) But people also want someone to be in charge, they want an authority to whom they can appeal if some other person is being a jerk.
Except in this case, the someone really is a corporate person. So when you report something or someone reports something of yours, it is Facebook that makes the decision about what's been posted, even if we know that somewhere down the line, some human being has to embody the corporate we, if only for long enough to click a button.
Any individual decision made by Facebook's team -- like taking down this photo of a gay couple kissing -- is easy to question. Ars Technica's Ken Fisher detailed a whole bunch of one-off problems that people have encountered with Facebook's reporting system. In each, there is an aggrieved party, but we're only hearing one side of the conflict when these problems bubble up. Across many single events, you have two people (or entities like businesses) with conflicting desires. This is a classic case where you need some sort of government.
It's not hard to imagine making one or 20 or even 200 decisions about photographs or status updates in a week, but it's mindboggling to consider that Facebook has to process 2 million reports per week, and that's not including simple "mark as spam" messages.
How do you design a system to deal with that workload? I spoke with James Mitchell, who helms what Facebook calls "site integrity" within its user-operations department, and Jud Hoffman, the company's global policy manager about the reporting process. They are the architects of Facebook's technocracy.
"The amount of thought and debate that goes into the process of creating and managing these rules is not that different from a legislative and judicial process all rolled up into one," Hoffman, a lawyer, told me. "And James has the executive/judicial element. I don't think it is a stretch to think about this in a governance context, but it's a different form and we take it really, really seriously."
The key step, Mitchell told me, was to put some structure into the reporting process. Back when he started in 2006, there wasn't any form to complaints from users. That meant there was a massive queue of undifferentiated problems. So, he and his team started to think about what kinds of problems they received and created categories of problems, which they refined over time.
That allows the reports to be channeled through a complex set of processes and teams so that they arrive in front of human beings or computers that know what to do with them.
But the bulk of the reports are fielded by a faceless team of several hundred Facebook employees in Mountain View, Austin, Dublin, and Hyderabad. These people and the tools they've built have become the de facto legislators, bureaucrats, police, and judges of the quasi-nation of Facebook. Some decisions they make impact hundreds of millions of people in some small way; other decisions will change some small number of people's lives in a big way.
What's fascinating to me is that Facebook has essentially recreated a government bureaucracy complete with regulators and law enforcement, but optimized for totally different values than traditional governments. Instead of a constitution, Facebook has the dual missions of making "the world more open and connected" and keeping users on its site by minimizing their negative experiences. Above all, Facebook's solution to all governance problems have to be designed for extreme efficiency at scale.
As stipulated above, real-world governments have to fulfill all kinds of functions aside from disputes between citizens, but just look at the difference in scale between Facebook's government and Palo Alto's government. Palo Alto has roughly 65,000 residents and 617 full-time employees. Facebook has 900 million "residents" and a few hundred bureaucrats who make all the content decisions.
The original technocrats were a group of thinkers and engineers in the 1930s who revived Plato's dream of the philosopher-king, but with a machine-age spin. Led by Thorstein Veblen, Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert, they advocated not rule by the people or the monarchy or the dictator, but by the engineers. The engineers and scientists would rule rationally and impartially. They would create a Technocracy that functioned like clockwork and ensured the productivity of all was efficiently distributed. They worked out a whole system by which the North American continent would be ruled with functional sequences that would allow the Continental Director to get things done.
Technocracy, as originally conceived, was explicitly not democratic. Its proponents did not want popular rule; they wanted rule by a knowledgeable elite who would make good decisions. And maybe they would have, but there was one big problem. Few people found the general vision of surrendering their political power to engineers all that appealing.
With Facebook, people seem to care much more about individual decisions that Facebook makes than the existence of the ultraefficient technocratic system. They are not challenging the principles or values of the system, so much as wanting them to be applied quickly to resolve their particular dispute. And desire for speed, of course, drives the efficiency-first mindset that makes it hard to deal with nuanced problems. None of the accusations leveled at Facebook's administrative system read to me like criticisms of its core structure.
I mean, of course Facebook's governance isn't perfect. Of course the people who run it make mistakes, mistakes that they use every bit of data to squeeze out of the system. These problems are a consequence of running our social lives through a centralized, corporate social network with a set of rather staid goals: openness, connectedness, and the minimization of negative experiences. Given these goals, Facebook has come to a rational set of structures for dealing with social problems within its walled garden. It is a gated community with some CCRs and if you don't like it ... Well, there's always Brooklyn!
That is to say, the real question is whether Facebook's goals -- and the systems it uses to promote them -- reflect one's own desires. Do you want a clean, well-lighted place that works without any effort on your part? If so, Facebook has the governance structure for you. You want a more permissive place with fewer rules? Allow me to introduce you to 4chan.


Founded in 2014, La Castiglione Gallery is based in Montreal and specializes in contemporary photography. La Castiglione hosts approximately six exhibitions per year and represents both emerging and established artists with practices based locally as well as internationally; many of whom are present in museum and institutional collections.
La Castiglione offers distinctive photographs that possess the influential capacity to encourage further contemplation of the world that surrounds us.
These art works speak to all audiences; from corporate collections and experienced collectors to those who are embarking upon their first photographic purchase.
In the international market there has been, for the last decades, a significant interest in investing in photography; La Castiglione is surely developing an authority in the sale of contemporary photography in Montreal.
Virginia Oldoini, renown as the Countess of Castiglione, was born in Italy to an aristocratic Genoese family. A woman of the avant-garde and at the heart of several scandals, she is a leading icon for photography in it's earliest stages. In Paris 1856, the Countess took her first poses in the Mayer and Pierson brothers' studio, initiating a longstanding collaborative friendship that lasted up to forty years. Thanks to her monetary provenance and notoriety, she became one of photography's first historical models, contributing over 450 portraits.


The Walt Disney Company inducted eleven new members into the Disney Legends club. Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger hosted the Disney Legends Award ceremony in Hall D23 on Friday.
Carrie Fisher (Film), Clyde "Gerry" Geronimi (Animation), Whoopi Goldberg (Film & Television), Manuel Gonzales (Publishing), Mark Hamill (Film), Wayne Jackson (Imagineering), Jack Kirby (Publishing), Stan Lee (Film & Publishing), Garry Marshall (Film & Television), Julie Taymor (Theatrical) and Oprah Winfrey (Film & Television) were officially presented with their Disney Legend Awards. A few of these presentations were made posthumously.
In being awarded as a Disney Legend, Goldberg becomes the first LEGOT recipient.
Including this year's 11 honorees, a total of 278 Disney Legends have been named since the first Disney Legends Awards were presented in 1987.
The full ceremony can be viewed here.


If your iPhone seems sluggish after installing the latest version of the iOS operating system, you're not alone. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) confirmed last week that it slows down the processors in recent iPhone models, an attempt to prevent an aging battery from causing problems. Apple began doing this with the iPhone 6 and iPhone SE, and it plans to expand the number of supported devices in the future.
Not surprisingly, the class action lawsuits have begun rolling in. Users are understandably upset that Apple was purposefully slowing down their expensive phones behind their backs. Apple's rationale isn't unreasonable; a slowed-down phone is a lot better than a phone that crashes frequently due to a weak battery. But by keeping this a secret -- only acknowledging the feature when users figured out what was going on -- Apple has done some damage to its most valuable asset.
There's no brand quite like Apple. A big chunk of the iPhone user base automatically buys new iPhones when the time comes to upgrade. They don't even consider the alternatives. This intense customer loyalty is the source of Apple's competitive advantage. It's why the company can generate nearly $50 billion of annual profits in an ultra-competitive market.
The quickest way to destroy that kind of loyalty is to bamboozle your customer. The feature that slows down old iPhones isn't the problem. The problem is that Apple didn't tell its customers what it was doing. The most cynical interpretation is that Apple wanted frustrated users to buy new phones. Whether or not that was a consideration on Apple's part, selling more phones is a side effect of the decision to keep the feature secret.
An iPhone user, stuck with a newly sluggish old-model iPhone, had only one way to fix the problem prior to Apple's disclosure: buying a new iPhone. Before Apple admitted what it was doing, there wasn't any reason to believe that a simple battery replacement would fix the problem. This worked in Apple's favor. The company would much rather sell an iPhone than a replacement battery.
Now that the cat's out of the bag, iPhone users with a sluggish device have a cheaper option. A $79 battery replacement at an Apple Store costs nearly nine times less than the base model iPhone 8. The result -- a snappier phone -- is the same in both cases.
The immediate consequence of Apple's admission is that at least some iPhone users are going to opt for battery replacements to extend the lives of their iPhones rather than buying new iPhones altogether. The number may not be big enough to matter, but it's hard to say for sure. This could put a damper on iPhone demand at the same time that the ultra-expensive iPhone X is reportedly not selling all that well.
The longer-term consequence is a potential erosion of that intense customer loyalty that gives Apple an edge. Will loyal iPhone users consider switching to Android in big enough numbers to make in impact on Apple's bottom line? Will Android users toying with a switch to Apple reconsider?
All of this could have been avoided had Apple been upfront about its slow-down feature. No matter what the intentions were, the move comes off as at least a little bit sleazy. This may be the biggest test of Apple's customer loyalty yet.


FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Williamson County businessman and farmer Bill Lee announced the formation of the Veterans for Bill Lee Coalition. The group, consisting of Tennessee military veterans across every branch of service, will serve in an advisory role to Lee on state veterans and Tennessee Military Department issues.
The Veterans Coalition will help advise the campaign and coordinate with outreach within the veteran community in Tennessee. Leading this group as Honorary Chairman is Major General (Ret.) Gary Harrell of Washington County.
The Veterans for Bill Lee Coalition represents over 300 years of military service including experience in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, Operation Gothic Serpent in Somalia, Desert Storm, and the Vietnam War. Members also bring a broad cross-section of civilian experience in business, education, and government.
Lee added that engaging the veterans community was a priority for him as a business leader and will continue to be a priority if elected governor.
Bill Lee is chairman of Lee Company, a family-owned construction, facilities and home services company with offices and operations throughout Middle Tennessee, Northern Alabama and Southern Kentucky. Lee Company employs more than 1,100 people and has annual revenue in excess of $215 million.
In addition to his work with Lee Company, Bill is also active in Triple L Ranch, a fourth-generation family farm, which operates a 1,000-acre, 400-head Hereford cattle operation, providing natural beef to farmers markets and farm to table restaurants throughout Middle Tennessee.
More information is available about Bill and his campaign can be found at BillLee.com.


Nepal failed to cross the semi-final hurdle once again in the SAFF Championship football tournament as they lost 3-0 to Maldives at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Wednesday.
Nepal will be eyeing their first ever final appearance of the Saff Championship when they play against a slumping Maldives in the first semi-final at the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Wednesday.
Nepal advanced into the semi-finals as Group 'A' winners of the Saff Championship football tournament following a 2-0 victory over hosts Bangladesh at the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka on Saturday.
Buoyed by the 4-0 drubbing of Bhutan, Nepal are taking on hosts Bangladesh in their final and crucial league match of the Saff Championship with all four teams from Group 'A' still in the contention for the semi-finals.
Nepal reignited hopes of reaching the SAFF Championship semi-final with a 4-0 hammering of Bhutan at the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka on Thursday.
Nepal take on Bhutan in their second Group 'A' match of the Saff Championship football tournament at the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka on Thursday with semi-final berth at stake for both the teams.