A classic aircraft design still in service more than fifty years after the first version flew, the Boeing B-52 is a heavy bomber operated by the United States Air Force. The official "name" of Stratofortress has never been widely used; perhaps the most common name for it in the military is BUFF, an abbreviation for Big Ugly Fat Fellow. The final model, B-52H, and the only one in service, is expected to stay in active service until at least 2040.  The B-52 celebrated its 50th anniversary (first flight April 1952) in April 2002 and is the longest serving combat aircraft in the world - a total of 744 were built.
Bombers had advanced rapidly in the Second World War, with the Boeing B-17 the mainstay of the offensive against Germany, and the B-29 against Japan. Both with the coming need to carry large nuclear weapons and have intercontinental range, requirements for a successor were being defined even during the war. While the B-36 was an interim attempt, it was a World War II design.
While the B-36 was approaching production, a new requirement was issued, in late 1945, for a bomber with an operational radius of at least 5,000mi/8,050 km, and greater speed than the B-52.  Initial Boeing proposals first were essentially a scaled-up B-29 with turboprops, first a straight-wing design and then a swept-wing turboprop reminiscent of the subsequent Soviet Tu-95 BEAR.
By 1947, these still did not appeal to the Air Force, and the XB-52 project, also being pressured by the Northrop XB-49, a "flying wing" reminiscent of the much later B-2 Spirit. It was made clear that the winning design would have to be pure turbojet.
Eventually, Boeing was awarded a proposal in 1951, for 13 B-52A aircraft. An XB-52 and a YB-52 prototypes were already under construction. Only 3 A models were actually built, and served as test aircraft. The contract called for the aircraft to be convertible between a B-52 bomber and an RB-52 configuration. The B-52A first flew in 1954. A total of 744 B-52s were built with the last, a B-52H, delivered in October 1962.
The B model entered service in 1955. In 1956, a B-52 dropped a live Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb of 4MT yield over Bikini Atoll. The bomb detonated 30 seconds early, bending but not breaking the drop aircraft and other aircraft in the test. As Goebel put it, this "was fortunate as bailing out was not an option under the circumstances."  Other drops were done until the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty went into effect in 1963.
In 1957, a flight of three B-52Bs, with air refueling, circumnavigated the planet in 45 hours and 19 minutes. Together with the demonstrated nuclear delivery capability, the force clearly demonstrated global reach in nuclear warfare.
B-52Cs and Ds had only minor modifications, the main changes being in the fuel system. The D model also dropped support of the reconnaissance pod; where the U.S. continued to specialize, the Soviet Union built even more Tu-95 and Tu-142 BEAR variants as maritime patrol/antisubmarine warfare, signals intelligence and maritime strike surveillance. In U.S. service, these missions went to transport aircraft derivatives such as the P-3 Orion and RC-135 RIVET JOINT.
Originally intended to fly high and fast to targets in the Soviet Union, improvements in the Soviet integrated air defense system made such a flight path suicidal, except when firing long-range air-to-surface missiles. In the nuclear delivery role, the aircraft was mechanically strengthened and given penetration flight paths at extremely low altitude. The next major modification was the E model, whose changes reflected the new tactic of low-level penetration of the Soviet Union, their high-altitude defenses having become too formidable. Soviet air defenses had improved to the point where high-altitude bombing was no longer practical, and so SAC switched to low-level tactics. This required new navigation and bombing avionics. The F model was essentially an E model with improved engines.
G models, of which 193 were built, had performance improvements including weight reductions while increasing fuel tank size.
Wing pylons were added for the AGM-28 Hound Dog cruise missile. Doctrine for this missile focused on using it as a penetration aid, to take out air defenses on the way to the targets to be attacked with gravity bombs.
At one point, the G was seen as the last model, with the B-52 to be replaced by the supersonic B-70 Valkyrie high-altitude bomber. Development problems, coupled with the serious question if high-altitude penetration was possible at any speed, resulted in the cancellation of the B-70 and commitment to the B-52H.
B-70 cancellation caused significant friction with the United Kingdom, since it led to cancellation of the associated Skybolt high-performance cruise missile program. The British had expected to use the Skybolt on their own strategic bombers.
Only the H model is still in the Air Force inventory and is assigned to Air Combat Command and the Air Force Reserves. The first of 102 B-52H's was delivered to Strategic Air Command in May 1961. The H model can carry up to 20 AGM-86 ALCM air launched cruise missiles. In addition, it can carry the conventional cruise missile that was launched in several contingencies during the 1990s, starting with Iraq and ending in the Balkans.
The B-52H entered service in 1961 and 104 were built. The last was delivered in 1962. However, due to extensive system and structural upgrades, its service life is expected to continue beyond the year 2040. Air refueling gives them worldwide range.
Present flexible force, primarily for support of ground troops and for missions with conventional weapons, but retaining a nuclear attack capability with cruise missiles. Strategic delivery of nuclear bombs would use the B-2 Spirit stealth aircraft, which can penetrate integrated air defense systems.
At this time, the standard weapon load was one or two "clips" containing either B28 gravity bombs or dedicated penetration aids.
In the 1960s, the more powerful B41 and B53 bombs were added, as well as the 10 KT tactical B57 bomb.
Also in the sixties, a number of steps were taken to shorten takeoff time, such as pyrotechnic engine starters (essentially large blank shotgun shells) rather than auxiliary power carts. The "minimum interval take off" (MITO) procedure, where a large force would take off, nose to tail like a herd of elephants, a collision always imminent in the dense smoke they produced.
In the Strategic Air Command, the alert system required 70-80 hour weeks on duty, with constant drills and draconian discipline. At any time, a senior general might fly in, without warning, and hold an Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE); that general could promote or demote on the spot, or even dismiss wing commanders. There was ever-present realization of what it would mean if the alert was ever real; the crews might survive, but their bases, homes, and families were apt to be radioactive dust.
The most intense airborne alert was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The B-52 proved sufficiently reliable that the Air Force began to phase out B-47 medium jet bombers. B-47 range, even with air refueling. was shorter than that of the B-52, requiring politically sensitive forward bases outside the U.S. In addition, the smaller B-47 did not have the space to add the ever-increasing amount of electronic warfare systems. There had been some hope for the supersonic B-58 medium bomber, but that proved hard to fly and unreliable.
Still in the strategic role, the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) role of the B-52 evolved, given the increasing availability of missiles for fixed targets. In addition to the ability of manned bombers to strike mobile or contingency targets, they could send a deadly warning that missiles could not. If more bombers went onto airborne alert, as they did in the Cuban Missile Crisis, or flew closer to the Soviet Union, it was a threat that simply could not be transmitted by a missile crew moving their hands closer to the launch key.
A U.S. Air Force Boeing B-52F-70-BW Stratofortress drops Mk 117 750 lb (340 kg) bombs over Vietnam, circa 1965-1966.
With the exception of the 11-day Operation Linebacker II attacks against North Vietnam in 1972, the B-52 bombers, designed for strategic nuclear attacks on Soviet and Chinese targets, principally operated in a tactical support role of mass bombing in South Vietnam. Other than the Linebacker campaign, the strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam was carried out by Air Force and Navy fighter-bombers, designed as tactical aircraft.
Under the code name of ARC LIGHT, B-52s flew missions over suspected enemy areas, each B-52 typically dropping 42,000 pounds of conventional explosives. They bombed from high altitude, out of sight and hearing, so the first warning of the actual attack would be exploding bombs. Poor U.S. communications security, as well as Soviet intelligence ships in international waters near the main base in Guam, would give a general warning that an attack was on the way, but not where.
While ARC LIGHT attacks were most common in South Vietnam, ground-controlled attack, precision for its time, began in July 1966. With the "combat sky spot" radar system, a ground controller could direct the bomber to release its payload over a specific spot designated by the supported troops. This allowed their use against targets of opportunity discovered while they were en route, especially significant given that the enemy tended to know strikes were coming, and occasionally the general area.
This capability was used in close support at the Battle of Khe Sanh in 1967. "Bugle Spot", a refinement of "Combat Skyspot", established pre-surveyed target boxes in the Khe Sanh area, where bombs could be dropped on call. The defenders found that the B-52 strikes had a major effect against North Vietnamese trenches and underground installations moving closer to the perimeter, with the bombs setting off sympathetic detonations of enemy ammunition.
Every three hours, six B-52s would arrive over Khe Sanh, to be directed to the target area judged most important at the time of arrival. By the end of the battle, 2,548 B-52 sorties had dropped 59,542 tons of bombs, turning the area around the base into something resembling the cratered surface of the Moon.
A B-52 delivering large numbers of "dumb" bombs.
On what was to be the longest bombing mission in history,  B-52 bombers took off in the wee hours of the morning, for a 14.5 hour flight to the unmarked point in the sky, from which they would launch then-secret AGM-86C conventional air-launched cruise missiles, known by their crews as "Secret Squirrels", at targets in the Baghdad area. This strike was somewhat controversial, with critics claiming the Air Force flew a needlessly difficult mission to hit eight targets, including power plants at Mosul and a telephone exchange in Basra. In response, Air Force commanders pointed out that this long-range capability was available had a response been needed as soon as the Iraqis invaded Kuwait, when little else could have gotten quickly into position, yet not jeopardized crews flying into the teeth of the Iraqi integrated air defense system (called KARI).
On the next day, drop more leaflets essentially saying "We kept our word. Save your lives."
In its present role, the B-52H flies at high altitude (up to 50,000 feet) and high subsonic speed, generally over areas where the air defenses are nonexistent or have been suppressed. B-52's can perform strike with standoff weapons, battlefield air interdiction, offensive counter-air against enemy air facilities, and deliver precision-guided munitions in close air support. While B-52s are counted as nuclear delivery systems under arms control treaties, their limited ability to penetrate limits them to a rule as cruise missile carriers with nuclear-armed AGM-86 ALCM weapons.
They are organized into two active wings, one at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, and the other at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. The Air Force Reserve Command also has a wing at Barksdale, which is also home to their controlling headquarters, the Eighth Air Force.
It can complement purpose-built maritime patrol aircraft such as the P-3 Orion, BaE Systems Nimrod, and Tu-142 BEAR, and provide ocean surveillance, anti-shipping warfare, and lay naval mines. Two B-52s, in two hours, can monitor 140,000 square miles (364,000 square kilometers) of ocean surface. The B-52, however, does not have surveillance sensors comparable to those on specialized aircraft, although there have been recent improvements.
Special operations teams in Afghanistan routinely directed B-52 attacks, on nearby targets, by providing target coordinates for Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM). This was informally described as having a "2,000 pound hand grenade" available, quickly, to small forces.
With JDAM, it is possible for a B-52 to strike numerous independent tactical targets in the same mission. The GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb equipped with JDAM is part of that evolution; one does not need or want a 2,000 pound bomb if a 250 pound bomb can hit very near the target.
Another enhancement was the addition of the AN/AAQ-28 LITENING electro-optical imagery and aiming pod. This allows the B-52 not only to designate targets for precision-guided munitions, but to transmit imagery outside the aircraft. In addition to tactical cooperation, image transmission makes the B-52 more useful as a surveillance platform.
Communications include the UHF AN/ARC-164 SINCGARS and AN/ARC-210 SATCOM; AN/ARC-190 and AN/ARC-310 HF; FAB-T EHF SATCOM.
Current B-52H aircraft carry all munitions in the internal bomb bay, although other models have variously carried air-to-surface missiles, decoys, or racks for additional conventional bombs on the wings.
The B-52H, with a weapons payload of more than 70,000lb, is capable of carrying the most diverse range of nuclear and non-nuclear weapons of any combat aircraft.
The conventional weapons payload is some combination of four AGM-142 Raptor missiles, 20 AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCM), 12 AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapons (JSOW), 12 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) and 16 Wind-Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD). WCMD was first deployed by the B-52 in 2002 in Afghanistan. JSOW entered service in 2003 and was deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
While early B-52 aircraft were equipped with radar-controlled 20mm autocannon in the tail, all defensive equipment is now for electronic warfare, including defense against heat-seeking missiles.
The B-52 has used a variey of deceptive decoys. B-52s of the 1960s carried up to 8 ADM-20 Quail free-flying decoys in its bomb bay.
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Three Hall & Evans attorneys presented at The National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (NARTC) Special Litigation Conference in Snowmass, Colorado on March 21-23. The NARTC is a 65-year old organization made up of approximately 1,100 outstanding railroad trial attorneys from across the United States and Canada. Membership includes in-house railroad counsel and claims professionals, and outside counsel who defend railroads.
Cash Parker's presentation focused on techniques and skills for defense counsel to not only defend against misleading "reptile" theory arguments by plaintiff's counsel, but also how to use the same techniques to educate the jury without misleading rhetoric, advancing the defense case.
Drew Reitman's presentation "Defending Traumatic Brain Injury Claims in FELA Litigation," discussed strategies and considerations in defending traumatic brain injury claims in Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) litigation.
Gina Rossi presentation "Obtaining Liability Waivers and Social Media Evidence: Litigation Tactics and Ethical Constraints," discussed strategies for dealing with objections to signing liability waivers for site inspections and why social media matters, exploring social media at depositions and using it at trial, and ethical constraints.


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Cozzano  est une commune française située dans la circonscription départementale de la Corse-du-Sud et le territoire de la collectivité de  Corse.

Géographie

Urbanisme

Typologie
Cozzano est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction d'Ajaccio, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des forêts et milieux semi-naturels (97,7 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (97,8 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (68,5 %), espaces ouverts, sans ou avec peu de végétation (22,2 %), milieux à végétation arbustive et/ou herbacée (7 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (2,2 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Histoire

Toponymie
En corse la commune se nomme  (prononcé []).

Politique et administration

Démographie

Lieux et monuments
"U Mondu di u Porcu - Casa di u Territori" : centre d'interprétation consacré aux savoir-faire de la vallée du Tàravu dans l'élevage et la transformation porcine.

Vestiges de la Chapelle de San Cesario, dédiée à saint Césaire diacre et martyr de Terracina, ancien patron de Cozzano. L'agglomération principale dite "Capella San Cesario" se situe à mi-pente à proximité de cette l'église. Actuellement, cet endroit s'appelle Saint-Césaire.

 Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Cozzano. Elle est inscrite à l'Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Félix Ciccolini (1916–2010), ancien sénateur-maire d'Aix-en-Provence, né à Cozzano.

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de la Corse-du-Sud

Liens externes

Commune en Corse-du-Sud

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US: Luigi's Mansion For Nintendo 3DS Coming 12th October
This October, everyone's favorite video game scaredy-cat Luigi is returning to a haunted mansion he hasn't visited since 2001. In the Luigi's Mansion game, a Nintendo 3DS remake of the spooky Nintendo GameCube game, Luigi must enter a sprawling mansion equipped with nothing but his trusty flashlight and Poltergust 3000, a vacuum-like contraption used to capture ghosts, find treasure and solve puzzles.
This is the first time the Nintendo GameCube classic can be played on the go. This updated version of the game includes the same classic adventure, but with some added features perfect for Nintendo's popular portable systems. Using the bottom touch screen on the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, players can view the mansion map.
In the new Gallery Battle Mode, exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS version of the game, Luigi will have the ability to re-challenge boss ghosts that were defeated in the game.
Luigi's Mansion will launch for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems at a suggested retail price of $39.99. For more information about the game, visit https://luigismansion.nintendo.com/.
Source: PR
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42 thoughts on "US: Luigi's Mansion For Nintendo 3DS Coming 12th October"
Mike S August 21, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Anyone find it strange how the last time Nintendo really talked about the 3DS was the, I think March, Direct where this was first announced?
I don't ;)
DukePassMasters August 21, 2018 at 2:48 pm
Are you still on about that? Pretty obsessive.
Pretty defensive. I was making a joke that I haven't for months. I'm also loving being proven right time and again.
What was proven right exactly?
3DS not having a lot of focus and being on its way out.
On it's way out? We are still getting some games in 2019.
HollowGrapeJ August 21, 2018 at 10:45 pm
Yeah, but they aren't focusing as much on it anymore. I think it's pretty clear why.
DukePassMasters August 21, 2018 at 11:45 pm
Not as much, but it is still being supported through 2018.
Mike S August 21, 2018 at 10:55 pm
Compared to how many new games announced for Switch? Exactly.
That doesn't matter.
Mike S August 22, 2018 at 12:14 am
To show which one Nintendo is putting pretty much all of its big focus on, it kind of does.
DukePassMasters August 22, 2018 at 12:39 am
Not really. Not now.
Mike S August 22, 2018 at 2:56 am
Then when? Lol
DukePassMasters August 22, 2018 at 3:24 am
2019 at earliest.
There's already been evidence since last year. Why do we have to wait for 2019?
3DS is still getting games in 2019.
Yeah, a drip feed compared to years past.
It's the same thing as any living being. As they get closer to the end they slow down. All the signs are there. You're in denial.
Denial about what? It is a fact that there are games in 2019. There certainly is denial here, but not from me.
Denying that's it's close to the end. I've never said there's nothing coming. Only that it's very noticeably less than years before which is in line with what happens when a system is close to the end.
How is it the end when the 3DS is still getting support?
Did you read what I said at all?
I did.
Also the fact that what is coming is mostly remakes, late localizations, and games that are confirmed to be the last in their series to be released for 3DS. Also staples like Pokémon and Yokai Watch moving to Switch.
They are still games.
And you're a trolling brick wall that is unwilling to understand what is being said.
Just because I say the truth, doesn't mean I'm a troll.
You're ignoring all of my valid points. What's happening to the 3DS is what's happened to every system near the end. Breath of the Wild still being released on the Wii U didn't mean anything for how close the end was.
Valid? The simple fact is that the 3DS is still good through 2018.
Whatever, if you can't see the differences between how things are being done now I might as well stop here. Once again, brick wall.
I'm done here.
All I said were facts. We still have 2018 before it "dies".
CosmicTornado August 21, 2018 at 2:33 pm
Sad it's not on Switch, but I'm picking this up regardless. I sold my original copy years ago and never wanted to commit to spending a lot of money to get a new copy, so this is a good game for me
supermosh1990 August 21, 2018 at 2:39 pm
Really wish this game was on Switch.
GodzillaGuy64 August 21, 2018 at 2:59 pm
Well it's not, so be quiet. But, we could get Luigi's Mansion 3 on Switch.
ariycon August 21, 2018 at 2:44 pm
Cool cool……can we get an HD collection for switch though?
I am glad i can get both for 3ds though. Good 3d game
MH4 August 21, 2018 at 10:23 pm
I loved Dark Moon but sadly never played the original. I'm definitely getting this.
N64EVER August 22, 2018 at 4:39 am
Original is better. You'll love it. The ghosts had much better art style than Dark Moon.
WetWaluigi August 21, 2018 at 11:28 pm
Even though I don't really like Luigi, I must say his games are delightful. Although I would have prefered Luig's Mansion on Switch.
sonicgalaxy27 August 22, 2018 at 12:36 am
I hope they make Luigi Mansion 3 on switch.
Loco Nitwit August 22, 2018 at 2:22 am
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Law August 23, 2018 at 5:21 am
if only persona Q2 would come to switch too…
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Rewarding individuals just creates 'mean bad chickens'. Amphipolis/Naples Museum/Flickr, CC BY-SA
Bonus time? Research shows it's better to reward groups than individuals
Ian F. Wilkinson, University of Sydney, Daniel Ladley, University of Leicester, Louise Carley Young, Western Sydney University
Ian F. Wilkinson
Professor of Marketing, University of Sydney
Daniel Ladley
Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Leicester
Louise Carley Young
Professor of Marketing, Western Sydney University
Ian F. Wilkinson is affiliated with the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management at the University of Southern Denmark. His research has received funding from the Australian Research Council.
Louise Young is affiliated with the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management at the University of Southern Denmark. She receives funding from the Australia Research Council
Daniel Ladley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
University of Sydney and Western Sydney University provide funding as members of The Conversation AU.
University of Leicester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK.
Virtually everyone lives and works in a team, but there is a tension between what is good for the group and what is good for the individual. Within a group competitive individuals do better, but cooperative groups as a whole do better.
Organisations tend to reward individual performance such as sales or production but this can be counterproductive because it tends to produce very competitive groups. An alternative is to reward group performance but this carries the risk of free riders, shirkers or loafers, who ride on the coattails of others.
But in recent research published in the Journal of Business Research, we found group rewards can produce more cooperative, better performing groups and also better performing individuals than individual-based reward systems. We also established that poor performers may not be free riders or shirkers but may be essential to the effective functioning of the group. We call them self-sacrificers and believe their role is underappreciated and misunderstood.
Our research was inspired by theories of group versus individual selection in biology and especially experiments to breed better egg-laying hens. The norm in the industry has been to do this by breeding from the best egg-layers, which increased egg production but also produced cages of aggressive "mean bad birds" with short life spans, raising serious animal welfare concerns. William Muir tried another approach by breeding from all the hens in the best laying cages, not just the best layers. This quickly produced "kind friendly chickens" who got on well, had normal life spans and better quality eggs.
We applied these ideas to work groups by building computer models that allowed us to consider all types of group situations. We modelled group interactions as games like the iterated prisoners' dilemma (IPD).
The prisoner's dilemma is based on the situation of two prisoners who can cooperate by not dobbing on each other. If neither dobs they get the same sentence, if only one dobs they get a lighter sentence and the "sucker" gets a worse sentence. If both dob they do better than a "sucker" but not as well as if both keep quiet. In a one-time game it is best to dob to avoid the suckers payoff (Nash equilibrium) but if the game is played a number of times (iterated) the best strategy is not so obvious. Robert Axelrod showed, in a series of computer tournaments using the iterated prisoner's dilemma, a simple cooperative strategy won. The strategy was tit-for-tat, involving cooperating and then doing whatever the other did the last time. It was cooperative, provokable, forgiving and easy to spot.
Based on his methods we examined the effects of individual and group rewards for more than 14,000 games, including the iterated prisoner's dilemma, so as to mimic different types of group situations. Each period or generation group members played each other a number of times and we identified the best performing individuals and groups. For the next period we repopulated the groups with copies of the best performing individuals (individual rewards) or all the individuals in the best groups (group rewards). Using a technique called genetic algorithms we also created some new hybrid individuals from the best performing individuals or group members. We did this over many periods to simulate the evolution of groups and performance and repeated the experiments many times.
We found that for most types of games group rewards do best. These produce cooperative, high performing groups but also, counterintuitively, the best performing individuals. It depends on the alignment of rewards. If "what's good for GM is good for America" then individual rewards work best. But most groups don't work like that, people depend on each other and can help or hinder.
Group rewards generate the top-performing individuals because of a supportive group ecology, a mix of strategies that supports and sustains them. Individual rewards produce non cooperative groups of individuals bent on exploiting each other – like the mean bad birds or "jerks at work". No strategy, like tit-for-tat dominates, and different mixes of strategies can emerge to support high performing groups.
Not only did the best individuals emerge under group rewards but also the worst performers. They are not shirkers but self-sacrificers, whose value isn't captured by individual performance measures. They play an important role in boosting the performance of others. You have probably run across such people in your own work groups, the nice guy who helps everyone else but whose own work may suffer. If they get sacked the group falls apart. These people don't seem to have attracted much research attention in real groups, but they should.


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Qasba Mosque
Qasba Mosque nine-domed mosque, which derives its name from the village Qasba under gurnadi upazila in Barisal district, is located a few yards away from the Barisal-Faridpur highway. The tank in front of the mosque, now almost dried up, appears to have been dug at the same time as the mosque to serve as an ablution pond.
This is a typical multi-domed square structure built entirely of well-burnt red bricks, save for the four stone pillars that support the domes on the roof. The walls are very massive with a thickness of 2.13m while the circular corner towers rise only up to the roof level. The mosque has three archways, on each of the north, south, and east sides. Of the three arches, the central one is the largest. It is to be noted here that in the north and south walls only the central archway is now open, while the flanking ones have been closed by brick filling. The three semi-circular mihrab niches inside the qibla wall are kept symmetrically large and small corresponding to the three entrances in the east wall.
The interior of the mosque is divided into nine equal square bays by four stone pillars. The domes, nine in total, rest on arches springing from the stone pillars. The four triangular corner spaces, formed by the intersection of arches just below the base of the dome in each bay, are filled with traditional Bengali pendentives. The four corner towers have slightly moulded bases and plain tops. The only cornice band of the building is curved in the Bengali fashion.
The decorations of the mosque consist only of terracotta depicting diaper, lozenge, scrolls, interlocking patterns and rosettes. These decorations are now seen in the mihrab niches and the doorway arches.
After restoration and repair by the Directorate of Archaeology the mosque has become one of the best preserved monuments in Bengal. It is now being used for prayers five times a day. The building is not dated by any inscription. Tradition has it that it was built early in the 16th century by one Sabhi Khan, whose identity is still unknown. But in plan, in measurement, in the arrangement of the interior apartments and the domes on the roof, in the setting of the door openings and the design of the corner towers, the Qasba Mosque appears to be a replica of nine-dome mosque of khan jahan at Bagerhat and the masjidkur mosque in Khulna. This strong affinity of the mosque with Khan Jahani buildings suggests of the fact that it might have been built in the middle of the 15th century, when the area appears to have been brought under Muslim control by Khan Jahan. [MA Bari]
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Aspirants will be required to click on Tamil Nadu TET Hall Ticket.
Aspirants are required to enter all the required details in the provided fields.
After which the aspirants will need to click on submit button.
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TNTET 2017:: The Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitmet Board (TRB) has released the hall ticket of TamilNadu Teacher Eligibility Test 2017 (TNTET 2017) – Paper I and Paper-II in the official website. The candidates who have registered for the TNTET 2017 can download their hall tickets from the official website; trb.tn.nic.in. The TRB has informed all applicants that the decision of the Board to issue Hall Tickets to all applicants is purely provisional and does not confer any acceptance of their claim in the application.
"Issuing the Hall Ticket and permitting the candidate to sit for the examination does not mean that their application form has been accepted by the Board. The Board reserves its right to reject the candidature at any stage of the recruitment", TRB said.
Regarding the candidates who have submitted their application without the photograph, the board has said that, those candidates have been provisionally admitted and uploaded their hall tickets without photograph. The board advised these candidates are advised to download the form the TNT website and fill in the details, affix a recent passport size photograph and get it attested by a Gazetted Officer.
Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board has released an application forms for those applicants who want to get a seat in the coming TNTET 2017. According to the information in coming days the government of Tamil Nadu is going to manage Tamil Nadu Teacher Eligibility Test 2017.
TRB prepares the merit list only. All matters concerning Appointments and Posting should be got clarified from the concerned User Departments.


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Le elezioni furono vinte in Lombardia dalla coalizione di centrodestra composta da Popolo della Libertà e Lega Nord, come del resto rispecchia l'andamento nazionale. Il Popolo della Libertà fu il partito più votato alle elezioni con il 33.5%, davanti al Partito Democratico (28.1%) e Lega Nord (21.6%).

Qui di seguito è indicato l'elenco degli eletti alla Camera e al Senato per la Lombardia.

Eletti in Lombardia

Camera dei Deputati

Lombardia 1 (Milano-Monza)

Popolo della Libertà
 Ignazio La Russa
 Stefania Craxi
 Gianfranco Rotondi
 Andrea Ronchi
 Mario Valducci
 Paolo Romani
 Maurizio Lupi
 Luigi Casero
 Francesco Colucci
 Gaetano Pecorella
 Paola Frassinetti
 Valentina Aprea
 Mariella Bocciardo
 Elena Centemero
 Riccardo De Corato
 Giorgio Stracquadanio

Partito Democratico
 Matteo Colaninno
 Linda Lanzillotta
 Barbara Pollastrini
 Erminio Angelo Quartiani
 Enrico Farinone
 Furio Colombo
 Emilia De Biasi
 Emanuele Fiano
 Vinicio Peluffo
 Alessia Mosca
 Roberto Zaccaria
 Lino Duilio
 Pierluigi Mantini

Lega Nord
 Umberto Bossi
 Giancarlo Giorgetti
 Ettore Pirovano (sostituito da Fabio Meroni il 21 dicembre 2011)
 Paolo Grimoldi
 Matteo Salvini (sostituito da Marco Desiderati il 13 luglio 2009)
 Giacomo Chiappori
 Claudio D'Amico
 Laura Molteni

Italia dei Valori
 Gabriele Cimadoro
 Anita Di Giuseppe

Unione di Centro
 Bruno Tabacci

Lombardia 2 (Bergamo-Brescia-Como-Sondrio-Varese-Lecco)

Popolo della Libertà
 Giulio Tremonti
 Mariastella Gelmini
 Raffaello Vignali
 Mirko Tremaglia (sostituito da Luigi Fabbri il 10 gennaio 2012)
 Gregorio Fontana
 Stefano Saglia
 Antonio Palmieri
 Adriano Paroli (sostituito da Marco Airaghi il 1º febbraio 2012)
 Laura Ravetto
 Viviana Beccalossi
 Giuseppe Romele
 Giorgio Jannone
 Massimo Maria Berruti
 Antonio Angelucci
 Renato Farina

Lega Nord
 Roberto Maroni
 Giacomo Stucchi
 Davide Caparini
 Marco Reguzzoni
 Daniele Molgora
 Nicola Molteni
 Marco Rondini
 Carolina Lussana
 Silvana Comaroli
 Jonny Crosio
 Pierguido Vanalli
 Erica Rivolta
 Raffaele Volpi
 Nunziante Consiglio

Partito Democratico
 Enrico Letta
 Paolo Corsini
 Paola Binetti
 Antonio Misiani
 Daniele Marantelli
 Giovanni Sanga
 Lucia Codurelli
 Renzo Lusetti
 Pierangelo Ferrari
 Chiara Braga

Unione di Centro
 Savino Pezzotta
 Luca Volontè

Italia dei Valori
 Sergio Michele Piffari
 Ivan Rota

Lombardia 3 (Cremona-Mantova-Pavia-Lodi)

Popolo della Libertà
 Gian Carlo Abelli
 Massimo Corsaro
 Maurizio Bernardo
 Chiara Moroni
 Andrea Orsini
 Carlo Nola

Partito Democratico
 Antonello Soro
 Luciano Pizzetti
 Maurizio Turco
 Angelo Zucchi
 Marco Carra

Lega Nord
 Andrea Gibelli (sostituito da Marco Maggioni il 18 maggio 2010)
 Giovanni Fava
 Alberto Torazzi

Unione di Centro
 Anna Teresa Formisano (sostituita da Pietro Marcazzan il 16 settembre 2010)

Senato

Popolo della Libertà

 Roberto Formigoni (sostituito da Riccardo Conti il 4 giugno 2008)
 Alfredo Mantica
 Ombretta Colli
 Guido Possa
 Alessio Butti
 Giampiero Cantoni
 Marcello Dell'Utri
 Mario Mantovani
 Romano Comincioli (sostituito da Antonio Del Pennino il 21 giugno 2011)
 Antonino Caruso
 Luigi Scotti (sostituito da Maria Alessandra Gallone il 9 dicembre 2008)
 Antonio Tomassini
 Giancarlo Serafini
 Giuseppe Valditara
 Giacomo Caliendo
 Salvatore Sciascia
 Valerio Carrara
 Alfredo Messina
 Pierfrancesco Gamba

Partito Democratico

 Umberto Veronesi (sostituito da Francesco Monaco il 23 febbraio 2011)
 Mauro Ceruti
 Pietro Ichino
 Emanuela Baio
 Gerardo D'Ambrosio
 Daniele Bosone
 Fiorenza Bassoli
 Tiziano Treu
 Luigi Vimercati
 Antonio Rusconi
 Guido Galperti
 Cinzia Fontana
 Giorgio Roilo
 Paolo Rossi
 Marilena Adamo

Lega Nord

 Roberto Calderoli
 Giuseppe Leoni
 Rosi Mauro
 Massimo Garavaglia
 Cesarino Monti
 Roberto Mura
 Sandro Mazzatorta
 Lorenzo Bodega
 Fabio Rizzi
 Armando Valli
 Irene Aderenti

Italia dei Valori

 Giuliana Carlino
 Giuseppe Astore

Note

Voci correlate
 Camera dei deputati
 Senato della Repubblica
 XVI legislatura della Repubblica Italiana
 Senatori della XVI legislatura della Repubblica Italiana
 Deputati della XVI legislatura della Repubblica Italiana
 Elezioni politiche italiane del 2008 (Veneto)

Elezioni politiche in Italia del 2008
Politica della Lombardia


Nice to meet you! My name is Amy. I'm 40 years old and living in Frostburg, MD with my sister near Cumberland. I enjoy helping people, keeping house, caring for pets, walking, writing and much more. I life coach via phone and write health-related literature part-time. I can work anywhere with my laptop. I have had many experiences throughout my life as a house sitter in Maryland and West Virginia that included care for a variety of different pets. I have traveled a lot and I am very flexible. I promise your house will be better than when you left it. The only weakness I have is an allergy to perfumed air fresheners which is only problematic if I can't open a window. Can't wait to chat with you soon. I would wish for sitting jobs that last at least 1 week long. Thank you for your consideration.


LOT will launch ticket sales for new direct flights to and from Newark, beginning April 28, 2017. Flights to Warsaw are to be operated at first three and later four times a week, giving passengers the best access to Poland as well as Central and Eastern Europe.
"Newark is one of the most important airports to the Polish diaspora on the east coast of the United States. I am pleased that we are able to relaunch that route after a break lasting several years, ensuring our fellow countrymen the most comfortable flights to Poland," says Rafał Milczarski, CEO of PLL LOT.


Heart disease: It's not just for men anymore. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), heart disease kills more than 500,000 women annually. In 2001, well over half of the people who died from heart disease were women. That's right ladies, as far as heart health goes, it is no longer a man's world.
Yet, "Women still think they cannot have coronary disease," says Dr. Massimo Guisti of Cardiovascular Associates of Virginia, PC. "They are more afraid of ovarian or breast cancer, but coronary disease is the actually the leading cause of death in women."
Atypical chest, stomach or abdominal pain.
Nausea or dizziness without chest pain.
Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing without chest pain.
Unexplained anxiety, weakness or fatigue.
Palpitations, cold sweat or paleness.
The National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute reports that one in 10 American women, ages 45-64, has some form of heart disease. In women over the age of 65, these numbers double. For women, like men, the major risk factors for heart disease include increasing age, heredity, tobacco use, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, physical inactivity and obesity.
While some of these factors, such as age and family history, cannot be modified, there are plenty others that can. The first step a woman can do towards reducing her risk of coronary disease is to take more responsibility for her health. Women must insist on a thorough risk assessment from their healthcare provider, and not be afraid to ask questions.
What are the warning signs of heart disease and a stroke?
What should I know about the effects of menopause on my heart health?
What is my blood pressure, and is it appropriate for my age?
What is my cholesterol level, and is it healthy or does it need improving?
Based on my history and risk factors, what can I do to lower my risk of heart disease and stroke?
For mature women, the question of menopause and heart health is particularly important. Long gone is the misconception that estrogen protects post-menopausal women from heart disease. Therefore, mature women need to maintain an open dialog with their primary care physician and gynecologist on the subject, and again do not be afraid to ask questions.
"Women are underrepresented in terms of the workup we do in the cardiac world," says Henrico Doctor's Hospital cardiologist Dr. Gary Zeevi. "After menopause all women should have a fairly extensive evaluation of their coronary risk."
For more information on women and heart disease, visit the American Heart Association Web site.


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Home News Briefs Avebury Capital Partners Hires for US Team
Avebury Capital Partners Hires for US Team
Angela Sormani
Avebury Capital Partners, a specialist private debt advisory firm headquartered in London, has appointed Ryan McGovern to join its US team. Ryan was a partner at Ember Capital in London and one of the founding members of the Nomura-sponsored €350 million European mezzanine fund.
Avebury Capital Partners, a specialist private debt advisory firm headquartered in London, is pleased to announce that Ryan McGovern has joined to establish the Avebury Capital Partners presence in the USA. Ryan was most recently a partner at Ember Capital LLP in London and one of the founding members of the Nomura sponsored €350 million European mezzanine fund. Ryan brings extensive direct investment experience in the mezzanine space as well as strong investor contacts globally.
About Avebury Capital Partners
Avebury Capital Partners is a global alternative investment advisory firm with offices in London, New York and Zurich. The firm specializes in private debt (senior, second lien, mezzanine and PIK/structured equity), arranging funds and direct investments for market leading institutions throughout the world.
Managing Partner James Newsome and his team founded Avebury Capital Partners in 2009 after leading Merrill Lynch's Alternative Investment Group in London. Avebury Capital Partners LLP received its full United Kingdom FSA regulatory authorization in September 2010. For further information please see www.aveburycap.com.
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Home Community Ayukta Thakur co-founded the first special needs program for young adults in...
Ayukta Thakur co-founded the first special needs program for young adults in Dubai
Ayukta Thakur
By David Harbeck
News at Northeastern
When Ayukta Thakur traveled to Dubai for vacation in 2012, she planned to stay for one month. Instead, she never left, and wound up creating the first ever program for young adults with special needs in the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates.
Her plan to create the program took shape shortly after she arrived in Dubai. She started volunteering at a special needs school run by the government there and met parents who kept asking the same question: What's next for my child?"
Thakur decided that she could not leave Dubai without providing an answer to parents whose children become too old to remain in special education programs. After conducting focus groups with parents of children with special needs in order to discover what everyday skills their children need to thrive, Thakur, her sister, and a friend obtained a license to create their own program.
In 2017, they opened the Integreat Center for Special Needs, which helps young adults with special needs develop the life skills and vocational training required to live independently.
"We see lots of students with potential, but they're too dependent on their families," said Thakur, who graduated from Northeastern in 2012 with a degree in communications. "We give them the platform to practice life skills in safe environments."
Students begin the program at the center by learning how to do everyday tasks on their own, including buying groceries, crossing the street, and managing their money. By the end of the program, which lasts four years, many of the students, aged 16 to 25, land internships in various industries, including hospitality, retail, and education.
To fund the program that helps students learn to better manage their money, Thakur formed a partnership with Emirates NBD. The bank also helps to match students with a selection of employers in the Emirates, including Choithrams, a supermarket chain, and Boutique 1, a clothier.
"Our first batch of students just started their first internships, and it's amazing to see how the community is finally responding and integrating these individuals," said Thakur. "Our students are excited and they really do have skill sets and we're monitoring to see how successful they are."
Thakur cited statistics that spell out the need for programs such as hers. Dubai's Community Development Authority estimated that 13,000 people in the city were living with disabilities in 2014, a number that is expected to grow to 17,000 by 2020.
She was recently selected to be a Board Member of the Special Olympics UAE organizing committee, which is planning the 2019 Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi.
"Seeing how hard they work and how happy they are to come to the center brings so much positivity. Their energy and vibe pushes you," said Thakur. "These students really do have potential, they've just never been given the opportunity."
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Michelle Lovric is the co-writer of My Sister Milly by Gemma Dowler, published on June 29th 2017 by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books.
The book tells the inside story of the Dowler family before and after disappearance of thirteen-year-old Milly on March 21st, 2002. Through the eyes of her sister, Gemma Dowler, we see a candid portrait of the very special person Milly really was. We experience the shock of Milly's disappearance, the agony of protracted search, the tragic discovery of her remains and the eventual conviction of her murderer in a traumatic trial, the phone-hacking scandal that brought down the News of the World and the shocking disclosures, more than a decade later, of what really happened to Milly. The Dowler family waited many years to tell their story. Now it emerges in Gemma's brave, distinctive voice. For the first time, Gemma and her family show how – with love, humour, music and the help of an extraordinary therapist - they have survived more tragedy than anyone should have to bear.
My Sister Milly has been an Amazon number 1 and a Sunday Times best-seller.
Michelle Lovric scripted TESTIMONY, a performance that took place in Southwark Cathedral on June 3rd, 2018 during a Grand Iftar to mark the first anniversary of the terror attack on London Bridge and the Borough Market – which left eight people dead, 48 wounded and five hundred cordoned in or out of their homes and workplaces for days while the area remained in lockdown. The spoken word piece was based on the testimonies of many residents, community leaders and businesspeople who were caught up in the attack and its aftermath. This post on The History Girls explains the genesis of TESTIMONY. Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark Cathedral, wrote about the project here.
Her Love Letters – an Anthology of Passion is one of the few gift books to have become a New York Times best-seller. Meanwhile, How to Abuse, Insult & Insinuate in Classical Latin has remained in print for more than a dozen years and has sold more than 175,000 copies.
She blogs regularly on writing, Venice and other subjects at the History Girls.
modern-day life in a floating city to Oxygen Books' latest volume in their successful City-Pick series. City-Pick Venice.
The article is not available online at the magazine's site but it's here.
Michelle Lovric has been interviewed and served as a panellist on various BBC programmes. Her subjects include the history of correspondence – particularly women's letters and love letters, poetry, female wit, and, of course, Venice.
Michelle Lovric discussed holy anorexia and convent life in Venice and Peru with Jenni Murray on Woman's Hour, to mark the publication of The Book of Human Skin in April, 2010.
Lara Corner spoke to the Venetian writer, Barbara Zolezzi, but first met the author of Carnevale Michelle Lovric in the Calle Malipiero outside the house in which Casanova was born.
Michelle Lovric, whose novels Carnevale and The Floating Book were both inspired by and set there, believes that Venice is the most feminine city in the world.


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'The New Edition Story' Part Three: The BET Biopic's Most Shocking Reveal
1/27/2017 by Niki McGloster
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New Edition Mini series in Los Angeles on May 25, 2016.
The third and final installment of BET's The New Edition Story miniseries was certainly the most heartbreakingly vulnerable. The first two parts were filled with entertaining drama, but Thursday night's (Jan. 26) two-hour finale showcased the lowest moments for Ralph Tresvant, Michael Bivins, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell, Johnny Gill and Ronnie DeVoe.
Amid onstage brawls, inflated egos that led to the platinum-selling group's official breakup and their struggle to regain financial footing, the most shocking reveal was Bell's drug addiction.
"We great together, but we just can't get it together" that's #NewEdition #NewEditionBet
— Ricky Bell (@MrRickyBell) January 27, 2017
Played by Elijah Kelley, Bell first displayed his battle with substance abuse during the Home Again album cover shoot in 1996, where he washed down two pills with brown liquor. On the album's accompanying tour in 1997 -- during which the entire group was in debt --- his addiction spiraled. Then, once New Edition splintered midway through the tour, Bell hit rock bottom, losing his house and other assets. "They're garnishing my publishing," he told his distraught wife. "There's no more money."
Bell eventually found support in a sobriety program, where he revealed that New Edition's notoriously unresolved tension and constant in-fighting -- a departure from their early glory days -- was the root of his drug problem. "I'm addicted to a feeling, a feeling that I don't think at this point in my life is coming back," he said. "I guess that's why I'm here. It's to try to live outside that feeling."
I'm in shock and I'm extremely grateful....Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky Ralph, Johnny & Brooke I love you with all my heart..the redemption is comn
— Mike Bivins (@MikeBiv) January 27, 2017
Relationships between the guys took an upturn when DeVoe (portrayed by Keith Powers) wed Shamari Fears (one-third of the R&B girl group Blaque). "I put y'all through a lot of s--t," Brown told DeVoe at the reception. "We both know I'm the good, the bad and the ugly of New Edition, but you've always been the glue."
Though New Edition patched up their tumultuous bond on-screen by the time they performed at BET's Silver Anniversary Special in 2005, some underlying conflict still existed between some of the band members. And while those issues may not have resolved completely, Bell Biv DeVoe remains solid. The three-man crew released their long-awaited fourth studio album Three Stripes today (Jan. 27).
The vulnerability of Bell's storyline in part three -- along with the highs and lows of each NE member -- is a testament to the film's warts-and-all accuracy and the group's real-life legendary status as survivors in the music industry. Rising above three decades of discord, the members were still able to produce an outstanding collection of hits, both individually and as a unit.
Already a bonafide ratings hit for BET, The New Edition Story easily stands up to such classic biopics as 1998's The Temptations and 1992's The Jacksons: An American Dream. Like New Edition's music, the film will outlive this generation and the next.


The coefficient of kinetic friction between a suitcase and the floor is 0.272. If the suitcase has a mass of 90.0 kg, how far can it be pushed across the level floor with 700 J of work?
Choose the option that corrects the error in the underlined portion. If no error exists, choose "No change is necessary." It says that more students learn through visual and hands-on teaching methods than through auditory ones. (It says is Higlighted) A.
In "January," what does the speaker mean by the image in the following lines? The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark. Is the answer A?
A gas has a volume of 590 mL at a temperature of –55.0 C. What volume will the gas occupy at 30.0 C? V1T1 = V2T2 (590 mL)(-55.0C) / (30.0C) = 1081.67 mL 273 + (-55) = 218 K 590/218 = V2/303 V2 = 590 (303/218) = 820 ml Is my work and answer correct??
A machine of efficiency 80% is used to raise a load of body of mass 75kg through a vertical height of 3m in 30seconds.Calculate the power input.
A 1500kg car skids to a halt on a wet road where μk= 0.53. How fast was the car traveling if it leaves 62-m-long skid marks?
Triangle XYZ is reflected across the line x = 3. What is the reflection image of Y?
Identify the sentence that is correctly punctuated. A. Clara did not study very much for her biology test, therefore, she guessed at many of the answers. B. Clara did not study very much for her biology test; therefore she guessed at many of the answers.
What is the H3O+ in a solution that contains 1.48 g HNO3 in 0.560 L of solution?
A 0.17 kg baseball moving at +20.80 m/s is slowed to a stop by a catcher who exerts a constant force of -376 N. How long does it take this force to stop the ball? How far does the ball travel before stopping?
We can find some of the solutions of sin x = 0.2 graphically by graphing y = sin x and y = 0.2 (I was able to figure this one out) Use the graph below to estimate some of the solutions. (Let −3π < x < 3π.) Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.
Of 43 plays attributed to a playwright 16 are comedies, 15 are tragedies, 12 are histories. If one play is selected random find the odds against selecting a history?
Santa loses his footing and slides down a frictionless, snowy roof that is tilted at an angle of 26.0. If Santa slides 7.00 before reaching the edge, what is his speed as he leaves the roof?
The following transactions occurred during June for Campus Cycle Shop. Record the transactions below in the T accounts. Place the letter of the transaction next to the entry. Foot and calculate the ending balances of the T accounts where appropriate. a.
1. A major difference between today's Hispanic and past European immigrants is that— (1 point) for Hispanics, the old country is only two hours away. European immigrants were all light-skinned. Hispanics are willing to take jobs Americans don't want.


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Steven Odzer To Accept Award on Behalf of Late Father, Yehoshua Ben Tzvi Hakohain Odzer
HENDERSON, NV / ACCESSWIRE / December 12, 2019 / Founder and CEO of YBT Industries Steven Odzer will be accepting an award in the name of his late father, Yehoshua Ben Tzvi Hakohain, Seymour Odzer. The award, which will be presented at the Ahavas Torah Center's celebration of 8 Years of Torah and Community Growth Gala is a lifetime achievement award for Seymour Odzer's work in the Jewish community. The Gala will take place on the evening of Sunday, December 15.
Having recently expanded his business to Las Vegas from New York, Steven is excited about the Ahavas Torah Center's Rabbi Yehoshua Fromowitz and his effort to spearhead a vibrant Jewish community within Henderson.
'I am honored to be able to accept this award for my father's work,' says Steven. 'I feel that this community represents the finest that people can achieve through hard work and dedication and I'm proud to be a supporter of this great cause'.
If you would like to support the Ahavas Torah Center's Jewish learning and community outreach programs in Henderson and Las Vegas, please visit www.atcdinner.com to donate. All contributions are tax-deductible and can be used to place ads within the Ahavas Torah Center's journal.
About Steven Odzer
The founder and CEO of YBT Industries, Steven Odzer has found great success within the janitorial supplies industry. Originally from Brooklyn, Steven started his first company which led to him being named the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for distribution. Outside of his work, Steven is heavily involved with the Republic Jewish Coalition and multiple agencies and services which help people with disabilities. Steven Odzer now resides in Henderson, NV, where his company resides.
Additionally, Steven Odzer has launched his own scholarship campaign to help ease the financial burden of college students in the United States. Apply for the scholarship today at https://www.stephenodzerscholarship.com/.
Contact: Rhonda Gooding
Email: rhonda@bandtsupply.com
SOURCE: Stephen Odzer
https://www.accesswire.com/570022/Steven-Odzer-To-Accept-Award-on-Behalf-of-Late-Father-Yehoshua-Ben-Tzvi-Hakohain-Odzer
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El sitio de Compiègne (1430) fue la última acción militar de Juana de Arco. Su carrera como líder terminó con su captura por los  borgoñones durante una escaramuza fuera de la ciudad el 23 de mayo de 1430. Aunque se trataba de un asedio menor, tanto político como militar, la pérdida del comandante más carismático y exitoso de Francia fue un acontecimiento importante de la Guerra de los Cien Años.

Antecedentes
Durante esta época, a finales de la Guerra de los Cien Años, el políticamente independiente  Felipe el Bueno, duque de Borgoña, se alió con Inglaterra bajo la regencia de Juan, duque de Bedford que era el tío del rey niño,  Enrique VI. Estos dos aliados habían conquistado la mayor parte del norte de Francia durante los diez años anteriores. Sufrieron pérdidas impresionantes en 1429 a causa de un ejército francés revitalizado bajo el mando conjunto de Juana de Arco y el duque  Juan II de Alençon.

Los franceses habían derrotado a los ingleses en Patay el 18 de junio de 1429 y habían procedido hacia el noreste para coronar al rey Carlos VII de Francia en Reims sin más resistencia, aceptando la rendición pacífica de cada ciudad a lo largo de su camino. Compiègne no estaba en ese camino - su ubicación está al norte de París - pero junto con varias otras ciudades declaró su lealtad a Carlos VII poco después de su coronación. Anteriormente había estado bajo control borgoñón.

Eventos

Preparación
En marzo de 1430 la corte francesa se enteró de que Felipe el Bueno, duque de Borgoña, planeaba asediar la ciudad. El conde de Clermont entregó un mensaje a la ciudad de que Compiègne era suya según el tratado legal [nota 1] y exigió una rendición. Los residentes de la ciudad expresaron una fuerte oposición a la demanda y el comandante de la guarnición francesa Guillaume de Flavy preparó la ciudad para la acción.

El Conde Juan de Luxemburgo partió para la expedición al mando de la vanguardia el 4 de abril. Felipe el Bueno partió de Péronne el 22 de abril. Mientras tanto, el duque de Bedford esperaba en Calais la llegada del rey Enrique VI de Inglaterra, un niño de nueve años que había sido recientemente coronado rey de Inglaterra.

Según Régine Pernoud y Marie-Veronique Clin, Felipe el Bueno planeaba retomar el mando de las ciudades que controlaban el río Oise. Bedford apoyó la estrategia para proteger Île-de-France y París, que estaba entonces bajo control anglo-burgués. El Rey Carlos VII de Francia se dio cuenta el 6 de mayo de que la defensa militar era necesaria para proteger la ciudad.

Juana de Arco había intuido el peligro y comenzó a hacer preparativos privados para la guerra en marzo, pero no se le había concedido el mando de una fuerza sustancial desde el fallido ataque a París el septiembre anterior. Para abril había reunido una compañía de 300-400 voluntarios. Partió hacia Compiègne, posiblemente sin el conocimiento del rey, y llegó a la ciudad el 14 de mayo.

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Varias acciones menores tuvieron lugar en los días siguientes. Dos días después el Capitán Louis de Flavy huyó de los bombardeos de la artillería en Choisy-au-Bac y se refugió en Compiègne. El 18 de mayo Juana de Arco intentó sorprender a los borgoñones en Soissons, trayendo a Regnault de Chartres y al conde de Vendôme en la expedición. Los residentes de Soissons les negaron la entrada y declararon su lealtad a Borgoña al día siguiente.

Juana de Arco planeó entonces un asalto sorpresa contra los borgoñones en Margny con la ayuda de Guillaume de Flavy, atacando un puesto de avanzada mientras estaba separado de la fuerza principal. El Conde Juan de Luxemburgo se dio cuenta de la acción por casualidad mientras realizaba un reconocimiento del territorio y pidió refuerzos. Estos refuerzos superaron a los atacantes y Juana de Arco ordenó la retirada, tomando la posición de honor en la extrema retaguardia de sus fuerzas.

Captura de Juana de Arco
Los próximos momentos siguen siendo una fuente de debate académico. La puerta de la ciudad se cerró antes de que todos los defensores franceses pudieran volver a la ciudad. Esto fue una acción razonable para evitar que los borgoñones entraran en la ciudad después de haber tomado el final del puente; o un acto de traición por parte de Guillaume de Flavy. En palabras de Kelly DeVries, "tanto los acusadores como los defensores deben a su vez acusar o reivindicar el carácter del gobernador de Compiègne, Guillaume de Flavy, y el papel que desempeñó en el cierre de cualquier posibilidad de fuga de Juana de Arco ese día". La retaguardia francesa que permaneció fuera no tuvo otra alternativa que la captura.

En la descripción del borgoñón Georges Chastellain:

Se entregó a Lionel, Bastardo de Vendôme, que estaba al servicio del Conde de Ligny. Aunque la defensa de Compiègne tuvo éxito, las acusaciones de mala conducta en relación con la captura de Juana de Arco causaron el declive de la carrera de Flavy.

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Got the poly installed into the s4 rear sway bar link tonight.
So it was pretty tough but we got it back together. Went back to the mazdaspeed diff mount vs the lucky10 custom mount setup.
I know it might not look like the 2 nuts are on there enough but when we remade the new box and tabs we used 3/8 steel and almost made it too thick. So thats the best we could do but it's a very thick wheel nut or trailer nut, it's only about w threads off from being fully threaded. We also put the gooey red lock tite on it. So I think it'll hold.
Just gotta go back to my buddy's tomorrow and put the exhaust on and drive it home!
You CANNOT run a solid front diff mount with rubber subframe bushings. You will rip the mounting tabs off the subframe.if you want to keep it a street car, replace your mazdacomp front mount.
hey i have a solid diff mount, with rubber subframe bushings. the diff mount bracket on the subframe ripped off. are you saying i need poly subframe bushings? or solid? so that the front diff bracket wont rip off?
I'can't keep this setup living on mine. I've tried reinforcing the madzacomp mount, the mount welded off the bottom of the cradle, have a pinion snubber, I've got poly cradle mount with aluminum plate retainers holding the diff to the body etc. But the torque of the link bar bends both the rubber mount and the link bar mounts.
Has anyone seen a design that surrounds the front of the diff and has a link on the centerline of the diff so the force excerted is straight down?
SOB Racing "Sitting On Blocks"
I have no doubt the Ronin setup would be a good fix but $2k makes one look for other options.


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ByYunus Emre Özdiyar Posted on May 15, 2019
Warner Bros. has released the first official trailer for DC animated film Batman: Hush with a classic story.
Who doesn't love Batman comic stories? Off course we know you're loving too much. Maybe still waiting for a film like Dark Knight. But this doesn't look like it will be longer than time. This film was announced last year. Also, this will be the latest in a long time of Batman animated. Its screenplay by Ernie Altbacker from adapts the classic 2002 story by Jeph Loeb and artist Jim Lee. IGN has debuted the first trailer for this movie. There's a new villain and classic Gotham city with Batman.
Batman: Hush synopsis, release date, cast, and more
Here is the full official synopsis about this animation: "An adaptation of the seminal DC classic tale, Batman: Hush centers on a shadowy new villain known only as Hush, who uses Gotham's Rogues Gallery to destroy Batman's crime-fighting career, as well as Bruce Wayne's personal life – which has already been complicated by a relationship with Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman." Peyton List is playing both Batgirl and Poison Ivy, also the cast including Alfred (James Garrett), Joker (Jason Spisak), Riddler (Geoffrey Arend), Bane (Adam Gifford), and Lady Shiva (Dachie Alessio). It's directed by Justin Copeland.
Batman: Hush will be released on theaters or Blu-ray, Digital, and DVD in either late July or August 2019. Check out the first trailer below.
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CCCFAM Sermons
Reasons To Embrace Your Wilderness!
Speaker: Bishop Don Bledsoe
Series: CCCFAM Sermons
Scriptures: Psalm 78:19, Psalm 107.
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Bishop Don Bledsoe
What Would You Do For Your Breakthrough?
Pastor Ron Carson
Speak What You Expect!
Make Room For Jesus!
Are You Expecting?
FAVOR....It Will Cost You!
I Appreciate You!
Looking Back, Looking Forward and Looking Inward!
ThanksLIVING!
A Thanksgiving Blessing!
November 7, 2021 10:00 am
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This or That: You Decide!
Pastor Johnnie McIver
Good Trouble!
Now You See All of Me!
5 Critical Areas For A Spiritual Reset!
Refuel, Renew, Reset!
The Noise Factor!
Something In Common!
Thank You For Giving To The Lord!
It's More Than a Name!
Blessed, Broken & Given!
Do You Really Want That?
March 7, 2021 10:00 am
Flawed But Favored!
See Beyond The Moment!
Just Like This!
It's Time To Come Clean!
February 7, 2021 10:00 am
Plugged In & Turned On!
The Four Attributes of Jesus!
Dare To Dream!
Pastor Ron Carson.
How Is Christ Seen Through You?
Thy Will Be Done!
Praising God In A Bad Place!
God IS In Control!
Desire With Expectations!
Passing the Faith Along!
He Recovered All!
Pastor Helen Bledsoe
After This!
Advent (Click to show)
Real Love!
The Pursuit of Peace!
Part 1: There Is Hope in Jesus!
Thanksgiving (Click to show)
Where Are Your Stones?
The Difference Between Giving Thanks and Being Thankful!
12th Anniversary Pastors Ron & Katie Carson (Click to show)
Looking Back - Reaching Forward!
Good Trouble! (Click to show)
A Present Help in Our Time of Trouble!
In His Will and In Trouble!
Pleasing God! (Click to show)
A Church That Pleases God - Part 4!
A Church That Pleases God - Part 3
A Church That Pleases God - Pt2
A Church That Pleases God!
Anniversary Service (Click to show)
It's In His Presence!
What's Right With the Church!
Trusting in God (Click to show)
From Wrestling to Resting!
When The Church Prays Something Happens!
June 6, 2021 10:00 am
Will You Let It Go?
Don't Worry, Just WORSHIP!
Your Purpose Is GREATER Than Your Predicament!
Don't Give Up; God Is Able!
Pastor Katie Carson
There Is More In Store For You!
It's Not Too Late!
Watching While Waiting!
What Matters? (Click to show)
The Power of Unity and Imagination!
The Inside Matters Most!
Live A Life That Matters!
Your Example Matters!
Special Event (Click to show)
Bishop Don & Pastor Helen Bledsoe 48th Ministerial Anniversary
Pastor\'s Bernard & Terrill Coulter
Dreaming To Living!
Thy Will Be Done in 2021!
Pastor Ron Carson, Pastor Katie Carson, Minister Dorothy Robinson, Pastor Helen Bledsoe, Pastor Johnnie McIver, Bishop Don Bledsoe
Resurrection Sunday (Click to show)
He Didn't Get Down, But He Did Get Up!
Attitude Adjustment (Click to show)
Change Your Actions......The Evidence of an Attitude Adjustment!
Hear, Forgive & Heal.... The Rewards of Attitude Adjustment
Epilog - It's A Grace Thing!
Part 4 - Turn From Your Wicked Ways!
Part 3 - Seek His Face!
Part 2 - Pray!
Part 1 - Humble Yourselves!
Unity (Click to show)
These Walls Will Fall!
Walk In Unity!
Our Nation in Crisis (Click to show)
Armed & Armored for Purpose!
Arm Yourself!
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Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, Ephesians 6:13-17, 1 Peter 5:8, Ephesians 6:12, John 15:19, 1 Peter 2:11, Romans 2:11, 1 John 4:20, Ephesians 4:26, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Proverbs 14:12, Psalms 138:2, Isaiah 55:10-11, Romans 8:37
Scriptures: Job 42:10,16, Psalm 34:3, 1 John 4:4, Job 1:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:18
Scriptures: Matthew 25:32-33, Revelation 3:15-16, Matthew 6:24, Acts 26:28, John 7:24, 1 John 2:11
Scriptures: Ephesians 6:11-13, 1 Peter 5:8, 2 Corinthians 10:3-4, Revelation 3:16, Matthew 6:10, Ephesians 4:27, 2 Timothy 3:12, Psalms 34:19, Isaiah 54:17, Isaiah 59:19.
Scriptures: Ephesians 4:1-5, John 17:22, James 1:8, Psalm 133:1-2, ark 3:25, Matthew 18:19.
Scriptures: Joshua 6:2-5
Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14, Proverbs 3:5-6, Matthew 5:13, Matthew 7:3-5, Romans 13:1, James 4:10, Matthew 18:12
Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14, Psalms 121:1-2, Numbers 23:19, Isaiah 55:11, Isaiah 55:8, Proverbs 16:18, Matthew 4:3, Luke 23:39, Exodus 3:3, Matthew 27:46, James 5:16
Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 12:7-9, Isaiah 40:31, Ephesians 1:2
Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 5:13, Luke 9:22, Matthew 26:39, Matthew 6:10, Genesis 1:26, Revelations 3:20, Genesis 2:7, John 3:16, 1 John 4:8, 1 John 4:20, John 15:13, Ephesians 6:9, 1 Samuel 16:7
"Love Don't……."
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Passage: 1 Cor 13:4b-6a, Gen 4:3-8, Gen 37:11, Matt 27:17-18, 6:2, Prov 16:18, Rom 8:34, Matt 26:11, 1 john 3:17, Num 20:12, Matt 6:14
"Love Is …….."
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Passage: 1 Corinthians 13:1-4a, John 3:16, Matthew 26:53, Rom 13:10, 1 John 4:8, 2 John 1:6, 1 Cor 13:4a, 1 Cor 15:31, Ps 86:15, Eph 4:2, Matthew 18:21-22
Expecting A Harvest
How, Where and What!
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Passage: 2 Cor 9:6, Mark 4:3-8, Gal 6:7-8, James 2:20, Proverbs 10:5, Matthew 9:35-38, Gen 41:39-41, Gen 8:22, Proverbs 13:22
Harvest……From Dreaming to Living!
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Passage: Gen 41:39-44, Matt 9:37, Prov 29:18, Gen 13:14-15, Gen 37:5-8, Psalm 23:5, Gen 39:1-4, Gen 50:24-25, Ecc 3:1
See, Feel and Do!
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Passage: Matt 9:35-38, Matt 28:19-20, John 4:35, Matt 14:15, Luke 10:30-35, Matt 9:36, Heb 4:14, Lam 3:22, Mark 2:5,11.
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Finance Supervisor required by leading Swindon based manufacturing company on a contract basis.
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Last month, we caught up with Scott Woodley from Tutora as part of our Tomorrow's Leaders blog series. He gave us some workplace tips and clued us up on the joys of matching pupils with the tutors they need to improve their learning.
Our newest entry in the series joins Tai Alegbe from wine sourcing platform, BAACCO, to ask him about his colleagues and how BAACCO helps level the playing field for growing wine merchants.
BAACCO is a search and discovery platform, where consumers can search for available wines across thousands and thousands of merchants and make a purchase in a matter of just a few clicks.
Cosmin, Federico, Raj and I are the co-founders. I spent five years working in London, in institutional consulting and sales within capital markets, institutional regulatory compliance, and data. Cosmin is a science buff and an experienced software engineer who has worked with numerous technologies, consumer applications and marketplace businesses, with specific experience in the food and drink marketplace, JustEat.
Federico is our wine-loving software engineer with experience working in the food and drink marketplace on OpenTable. Raj is a passionate entrepreneur and an experienced software engineer with experience in both the dining and consumer service marketplaces, including websites such as GoCompare and Broadbandchoices.
We launched the business in late 2015 after experiencing difficulty sourcing and buying a specific wine. We realised this problem existed for other consumers and we set out to solve it, especially as our professional skill sets steered us towards solving a consumer search problem.
It has to be a customer writing to us to thank us for our excellent customer service. The customer was struggling to source a specific wine for their son on his wedding day, so getting it right was very important. We sourced the wine and delivered it with time to spare.
I'm told it's very tidy, however, I often feel it's organised chaos. I have something of an obsession with post-it notes.
Elon Musk. He balances a past, present, and future thinking style and combines it with a high level of intellect.
It has to be that we help to even the playing field for small and emerging wine merchants. In a market which is highly skewed towards the bigger players we're helping to give a voice and exposure to excellent emerging brands.
Poor manners. I find it extremely frustrating when people fail to show courtesy or politeness when communicating with one another.
To validate their business as early as possible – you don't want to spend too much time and resources on the wrong business model.
What's next for your company? What are your plans for the future?
We're growing at an exciting rate – we plan to scale to other European markets within the next 18 months and ultimately we hope to be in ten countries by the end of 2022.


In this interview we discuss some of the skills that people who are blind or partially sighted need to learn in order to live on their own independently. We talk with Sophia Spyropoulos, and independent living skills specialist at CNIB.
Sophia, what exactly are Independent Living Skills?
Interviewer: Okay, and so what would be some specific examples of Independent Living Skills? What kind of topics would they cover?
Interviewer: So, can you describe that process a little bit more? In terms of how you think about an individual… I guess maybe another question would be is there a different between someone who is blind and someone who has partial vision in terms of how you approach this?
Sophia: Yes, it's very individual because depending on the eye condition and how that individual is affected by it, we'll try to maximize the use of their vision, if they do have a certain degree, to help as well as different kinds of techniques. For example, organization is very key, certain things would be common to somebody with partial sight and full vision loss, organization is one big area that anybody can benefit from so that if they know they're putting back something in the same spot and something has a spot and other family members follow that as well, it cuts down the frustration.
They'll know exactly where things are, so if, for example, you open up your cupboard or your drawer, and you know where the scissors are, those kinds of simple things will cut down on the frustration. So we'll go over those kinds of things; organizing, using contrast is very important for those who are partially sighted, so instead of, let's just say at meal time, instead of having a white plate on a white table, and say you're serving white rice with mashed potatoes, and like chicken, there's nothing there, there's no contrast at all. So it's manipulating the environment, especially at your own home you can do that quite easily.
Manipulate your environment so that there's a greater degree of contrasts and that will enable you to use your vision a little bit more to be able to see that, so something as simple as getting different coloured place mats, different coloured dishes. If you're going to pour something that is dark like tea or coffee, put it in a white mug. Vice versa, if you're going to pour something white like milk, get a black mug. So basically when it comes to a general approach, organization using contrast and lighting are the three areas that we talk about in general, that we try and approach for all the different tasks you can kind of bring that to each task. Making sure you've got enough lighting.
What's beneficial is sometimes lamps with, like a … Lamp, that you can adjust the light specifically on a task, as opposed to just general overhead lighting, and controlling light is very important, as many people experiencing vision loss will become very sensitive to the light, so they have not just sunglasses for outside but often getting indoor sunglasses as well, or closing the blinds or opening, controlling that kind of thing. So in general, we'll talk about that organization contrast use of lighting to approach different tasks, and then specifically each person how they're coping with their vision, what tasks are giving them difficulties, then we try to customize what works for them.
Interviewer: Okay, so you've talked a lot about the environment that they live in, so what would you then do specifically for people around them, as opposed to setting things up, setting up their environment, but how they actually do things? So what would be some examples like that, and what would you call that?
Sophia: For example, labeling is a very big one. Being able to identify different food items. Let's just say they fridge, in the cupboard. There's so many different ways to do that, and that's why it's so good to specifically find a method that is good for an individual. So for example, if a person's able to read large print, we can make large print labels up that would have used, instead of pen, a black felt tipped marker, and they would make labels up for themselves, make reusable ones, hole punch it, have a little elastic around it, put it on a can. And this is where organization comes in as well, because you can label everything, but if you're trying to pull every single can off the shelf in order to read it, it kind of goes hand in hand.
So if we put say, vegetable, everything canned vegetables, canned goods all in one cupboard, and soups in another. That person knows okay I'll go to my left cupboard for the vegetables, pull of my can, read the larger print label. For other individuals, they might not be able to read the large print, so we can do something tactile. Often shampoo bottles and conditioner, the bottles are the same shape, so if you can't tell them apart, you can just throw an elastic band over the shampoo bottle, you feel the elastic band, you know that's your shampoo.
So sometimes it's using large print and using contrast, sometimes it's tactile, and then there's also audio. A really interesting device is called a "Pen Friend" and it actually came from the RNIB and it's an audio labelling system. So it's shaped like a cigar, or a very large pen, and it comes with these stickers, so what a person would do is, say they pull out a can of corn. They can stick that sticker on there, usually need somebody, some assistance to label everything in the beginning. So they bring the Pen Friend over to the sticker and record their own voice and say "corn".
So the next time they pull that can out with that sticker, they bring the Pen Friend over to that sticker and they hear their own voice say "corn". So it's a great way not just to label but also for messages. So as you can see there's a variety of ways, and that's what it is; it's finding what helps. What will help that person be able to do the task independently? And that's just an example of labelling. When it comes to thing like using the appliances, because microwaves, for example, it's very flat, the panel, there's these little stickers, tactile bumps, bump ons that we use, we can just put on let's say the 2, a 0 and a start.
That way the person doesn't have to struggle getting close to it or get their magnifier and a flashlight, to go through all of this to try and see the numbers, they can just feel the bumps and know to push what they need to turn the microwave on. Similar to when you're using the stove or the oven, we use a hymer, almost a puff paint, and you put a mark on the dial and let's say a mark at 350 (degrees) and it dries hard, and that way the individual would feel the bump on the dial and line it up with the other bump at 350 that way they would know for sure what temperature they're setting.
Sophia: Exactly, fabric paint that will dry hard. So there's all those techniques but there's also safety factors too. For example if somebody is burning themselves using the oven, we would come in and teach them techniques so that they are safer. And those sort of small things like, instead of standing in front of the oven you're going to stand to the side. And so often we'll show them those techniques and if they would like to we can actually follow a recipe and cook something and be there to observe. And also show them those kinds of techniques, so the main idea is that they keep their independence and they're safe.
Interviewer: On the website we talk about, on Project Aspiro, we talk about personal management and home management as well as a bunch of other topics that relate to, that fall under Living Independently. The things you talk about, would you say those are more home management type things versus personal management? Or would they fall under both categories?
Interviewer: And so what would be some more examples of personal management?
Interviewer: If you talk about the process for some of those things, like managing money or time?
Sophia: So for managing money often what we'll teach the coins, well the Canadian coins often have a, if you feel the very edge of it, there are different textures, so judging by that, and the size and if somebody can see enough to know the, let's say that a penny is darker and the loonie is a different colour, those kind of things.
So it's using those kinds of factors but mainly the size of the coins and the feel of them. And for bills, if an individual is having a hard time seeing the five, the ten, the twenty, there's a bank note reader they can get, a little device that you can slide the bill in and it will announce to you the denomination of the bill, whether it's five, ten, twenty, so first to be able to identify your money, and then be able to organize it.
So for again, organization is always coming in, because you can identify that it's a five or a ten dollar bill but once you put it in your wallet it can get confusing as to which bill is which again. So what we often do is identify the five and ten, and then lets say that your wallet is organized in such a way the that five dollar bill is flat, your ten dollar bill is folded, your twenty is folded a different way, or sometimes we'll get a wallet a person might feel more comfortable not judging it based it on folds but in different pockets, for example in little compartments. But that's the idea is that again, that organization comes in, so that's just specifically in that area.
For telling the time, it's finding a device that enables someone to tell the time, whether it's talking watches where you push a button that tells you the time, talking clocks, there's talking key chains, different things like that.
Interviewer: Can you talk a little bit about, so these are fundamental living skills in order to be independent, can you talk a little bit about what does that mean in terms of how that translates into preparing for your career?
Sophia: Yes, right, well often if a person's had a change in vision, day to day tasks can become very, very frustrating, you know, if they wake up in the morning, you can't get the toothpaste on the toothbrush, if you go to the microwave and you're struggling to use that and you're struggling to pour something to drink, that kind of frustration builds and often make you feel like not reaching for other kinds of goals that you feel.
So it hits you, but if you have the techniques to manage the basics then it will give you confidence and that way that's under control, that's being managed. And that way you can reach out and say okay what else would I like to be a volunteer, or now I'd like to start a career, if you're going to be switching, things like that. And some of these skills are transferable, so if you use a traditional computer, but now it's difficult for you, there's different software that will speak to you on large text on the screen, so if you're able to know how to use that you can use that at work as well. Of course, computers and cell phones and everything is the way the world works it seems now, so that way you're able to do that in your work, you're able to dial a telephone comfortably, get on the computer, send emails, those kind of things.
Being able, in terms of orientational mobility, being able to navigate to work, around your office independently and home. I've got a co-worker who does exactly that; he leaves his home, able to get on to the subway, take a few buses up to his office, and he knows exactly how to be able to do his work, to go to and from. So it's building, that's what it is, it's building bit by bit.
Sophia: That's right, building those skills, first personally and at home like everybody has to do, and then that can branch out for when you're in the work force. Yes, absolutely.


3 times this week, and says that they've been his best shaves in years. He also doesn't use aftershave, and after shaving last night my little sister said, "Boy Dad, you actually smell GOOD!" He replied, "It's that great shaving soap that Dan sent me!" Thanks so much. I'm putting in another order in just a few minutes!


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Chris Moreno - One Way Track
One Way Track by Chris Moreno (featuring Joe Bermudez) is a song from the album One Way Track - Single and was released in 2021.
The official music video for One Way Track premiered on YouTube on Friday the 9th of July 2021. Listen to Chris Moreno's song below.
One Way Track Lyrics
Chris Moreno's One Way Track lyrics were written by Chris Moreno and Joe Bermudez.
Chris Moreno Male 2021
© 2021 New Country Songs / One Way Track - Chris Moreno