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Government and Businesses Turn Attention to Eventual Reopening of $22 Trillion U.S. Economy
Once social distancing slows coronavirus pandemic, tough questions follow over how to get the nation back to work: ‘It isn’t like a light switch on and off’
With some preliminary signs that infections from the virus are slowing, the whole nation is hopeful to get back to business as soon as possible. But a host of questions arise: Under what conditions should people be allowed back to work and stay-at-home orders be lifted? How will people at work be monitored for reinfection or antibodies to prevent a resurgence of the deadly virus? Does it all happen at once or is it staggered? Who is in charge of the effort?
New York, the state hit hardest by the pandemic, is looking to join with New Jersey and Connecticut on a unified reopening approach. “We cannot restart life as we knew it without testing,” Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted Tuesday.
Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, which has the second-most Covid-19 deaths, said the resumption of economic activity would be “slow and careful, because the last thing we’re going to need is going too quickly.… That’s the equivalent, I think, of throwing gasoline on the fire.”
Plans to Reopen Economy Depend on Testing
Bloomberg Reports The White House is developing plans to get the U.S. economy back in action that depend on testing far more Americans for the coronavirus than has been possible to date, according to people familiar with the matter.
The effort would likely begin in smaller cities and towns in states that haven’t yet been heavily hit by the virus. Cities such as New York, Detroit, New Orleans and other places the president has described as “hot spots” would remain shuttered.
The administration sees rapid and widespread testing as a crucial step, one person familiar with the matter said, allowing public health authorities to better identify infected people, including those who don’t show symptoms, and isolate them from healthy people who could go about their businesses.
New York Has Developed Antibody Testing Regime
The New York Department of Health has established a COVID-19 antibody testing regimen for use in the state, Governor Cuomo announced Tuesday.
It must be brought up to scale to be an effective tool to determine if persons who already contracted the virus and have recovered have the anti-bodies that can be used on others who currently have the deadly bug.
Cuomo said we must start planning for the post-virus economy and the best way to get there is to continue social distancing, but that depends upon everyone.
New York seeks private sector partners to bring rapid COVID-19 testing to scale and accelerate testing capacity.
Businesses interested in working with the state to manufacture these rapid tests on a large scale should contact Empire State Development at 212-803-3100 or COVID19supplies@esd.ny.gov
Companies are Cutting 401(k) Matches Because of the Coronavirus
“We are getting more inquiries from plan sponsors about what their options are,” according to Jerry Patterson, senior vice president of retirement and income solutions at Principal Financial Group. “And in some cases, we are seeing actual action taken to amend plans to reduce or suspend the match. And we expect that, as this goes on, we’ll see more of that. It will come, I think in different degrees from sectors that are being impacted most severely.”
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The Lord answered, "What right do you have to be angry?"
Jonah went out east of the city and sat down. He made a shelter for himself and sat in its shade, waiting to see what would happen to Nineveh.
Then the Lord God made a plant grow up over Jonah to give him some shade, so that he would be more comfortable. Jonah was extremely pleased with the plant.
But at dawn the next day, at God's command, a worm attacked the plant, and it died.
After the sun had risen, God sent a hot east wind, and Jonah was about to faint from the heat of the sun beating down on his head. So he wished he were dead. "I am better off dead than alive," he said.
But God said to him, "What right do you have to be angry about the plant?" Jonah replied, "I have every right to be angry - angry enough to die!"
The Lord said to him, "This plant grew up in one night and disappeared the next; you didn't do anything for it and you didn't make it grow - yet you feel sorry for it!
How much more, then, should I have pity on Nineveh, that great city. After all, it has more than 120,000 innocent children in it, as well as many animals!"

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What I've really grown to love about this sculpture is how it makes me think continuously about the message that I am trying to convey. The conversation I want to start relates to sustainability and usefulness, environmentally and personally, but lately it's made me think about sustainability as it relates to communities, specifically Gowanus.
Artists are being pushed out of their studios on 9th street in Gowanus, and right around the corner at 112 2nd avenue, where I have my studio. Walking to my studio a couple of weeks back I saw the word forget tagged on the side of one of the buildings housing artists on 9th street. I have no context for it, but it made me think immediately that it was a message to the artists to forget. To move on.
Obviously, Artists aren't the only one's that struggle as a neighborhood becomes more popular, as developers become interested. Original residents, small business, industry and more get price / pushed out.
People are obviously talking about this, there are community groups all over, and in Gowanus specifically the community got together to form a planning framework (www.bridginggowanus.com) in essence to discuss sustainability of the neighborhood going forward.
The pieces of wood of which René is comprised were and will be pieces found in Gowanus. As such the sculpture speaks to the community, a reminder of what we need to take into consideration as we move forward, that we are a community, that we can come together, that we are strong. I'd like for that to be one of the messages at least. Thus I'm looking to exhibit it in an industrial lot / space in Gowanus so that people will see it and think about the issues. That it will serve as a reminder.
Hopefully it sparks other thoughts and conversations as well. These are just my thoughts as I build the sculpture.

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PAUL HUGHES staked his claim for a UFC call-up with a sensational and bloody victory over Jordan Vucenic – who was left unrecognisable after their five-round war.
The pair renewed their rivalry on Friday night in an eagerly-anticipated featherweight title unification bout at the Indigo at London’s O2 Arena.
Entering interim 145lb king Hughes went into their rematch hellbent on avenging his split-decision defeat to his undisputed counterpart.
And he served his revenge cold with a dominant display across five rounds to score a unanimous decision victory.
The Derry destroyer took control of the fight in the third and opened a huge gash up above Vucenic’s right eye late in the stanza.
Hughes dished out more punishment in the fourth, dropping The Epidemic with a vicious combination.
Vucenic was hurt again in the fifth and final round and took more crushing blows on the blood-soaked canvas until the end final horn.
All three judges saw the contest the same way, scoring the bout 49-46, 50-43, and 49-43 in Hughes’ favour and subsequently crowning him Cage Warriors’ undisputed featherweight champion.
MMA fans across the globe were in awe of the thrilling bloodbath, with one saying: “This is incredible.”
Another said: “Amazing fight, tough as nails the two of them.”
And another said: “Great fight! Props to both for the war.
One remarked: “MMA really is the harshest of sports.”
But they were left even more stunned by the bruises [on] Vucenic’s face on Saturday morning.
One said: “So you want to be a fighter!!?? Jordan Vucenic is a f*****g warrior!!”
And another said: “He looks like the elephant man FFS.
“Vucenic will definitely be back and in the UFC in about 3 more fights I’m sure of it.”
Victory over Vucenic was Hughes’ sixth under the Cage Warrior’s banner and third on the bounce.
And the 25-year-old has set his sights on a call-up to the promised land of mixed martial arts – the UFC.
He told The Energized Show: “It has to be [the UFC next] “Cage Warriors? Completed it.
“I’ve taken out all of the best guys in Europe, I’m selling out venues in other countries on Friday nights.
“That’s what I’m doing here. I beat the best, I’ve just unified the title and avenged my only loss.
“In my eyes, I’m 10-0 right now and I am the biggest prospect unsigned to the UFC in the world.
“We have got a country behind us, like you have heard of Conor McGregor, well, Paul Hughes is next, and I truly am bringing a country behind me.
“I’m bringing Northern Ireland, I’m bringing Ireland, I’m bringing Derry, I’m bringing Belfast, we have got a new horse in the race, and his name is Paul Hughes, and he’s a superstar.
“I’m here to stay, and I’m here to take over the UFC, and with my country behind me, I couldn’t be more proud.”

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Music is one of the most universal languages, and mastering it requires specialized guidance. In Singapore, music schools are the first step toward pursuing a career in music. Despite the fact that there are many music schools in Singapore, only a few have built a reputation as excellent places for beginners and professionals to take lessons. Listed below are the top three music schools in Singapore. Let’s explore each one’s benefits and how it can benefit you.
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LVL Music Academy is located in the heart of Singapore’s arts scene, near Sultan Plaza. It is run by the renowned music teacher Shao-wen, who started studying the violin at a very young age. She has since won the 1st prize at the National Piano and Violin Competition in 1997 and 1999. She has also studied under famous pianists and violin teachers including Erick Friedman, Hu Kun and Adrian Adlam.
LVL Music Academy is Singapore’s premier music school, offering lessons in a variety of genres. Classical music has rich tones and intricate arrangements, and many famous composers are associated with it. Jazz, on the other hand, has the catchiest arrangements. Almost any musical instrument is suitable for jazz. In fact, jazz is the most widely-appreciated genre in the world.

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I am new to pyro and generative modelling.
Recently, I have been interested in models that combine the interpretability of a discrete structured PGM with NNET likelihood functions. In particular, a model such as, Nonparametric Variational Auto-encoders for Hierarchical Representation Learning. The model uses an alternating optimisation strategy, alternating between optimising the nested CRP and the VAE. The generative model consists of the Nested CRP that generates z and a NNET decoder mapping z to x.
I was excited about pyro because I believed that pyro’s flexibility would let us design models as above. Building a simple VAE is quite straightforward in other toolkits as well, such as PyTorch. Although, the DMM and AIR examples show that how powerful a PPL such as pyro could be, building models with discrete structures is still not clear to me. For e.g. in a language acquisition domain, you might want to infer the underlying linguistic structure (discrete), given speech etc.
Is pyro in the current form not suitable for models such as the one referenced above? or models that combine complicated discrete structures with NNETs.
A noob to this field. Your thoughts and comments would help me a lot.


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Everyone warns you that parenting is hard.
When you’re pregnant, people see that swollen belly as an invitation to give you unsolicited tips and warnings about how hard your life is about to become. Parents of older children see you with your little ones and prophesize about how challenging your life will be in 2, 10, 20 years.
What I'm saying is, you go into this whole spawning children thing with your eyes wide open. And what you weren’t prepared for, people warn you about along the way.
That's not so true with marriage.
It's strange and, in hindsight, oddly discomforting to realize that when engagements are announced the main response from people is that they want to see the ring. Advice upon an engagement almost entirely surrounds venue options and caterers that come highly recommended. True, you get the occasional "always remember to listen to your spouse" and "communication is so important to a happy marriage," but no one really tells you the ugly truth: Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do.
In chatting with some of my girlfriends recently this topic came up, and the unanimous agreement was that, yes, marriage is way harder than parenting. Here are two reasons why.
1. Struggling as a parent seems to be more socially acceptable.
Moms vent to other moms, ask for tips and easily admit when they are feeling like they are in over their heads. There is great comfort in sharing a struggle and discovering that you are not alone. You feel normal, you hear success stories and get tips from people who have been there.
Sadly, it seems like sharing that you are struggling in your marriage is basically admitting that you are separating, getting a divorce or doomed to live the rest of your life unhappy. While everyone has challenging times in their marriage, a lot of people shy away from sharing these struggles with a professional or even just close friends, which leaves them feeling alone and often hopeless.
2. Love sometimes comes easier with your kids.
There is no thought to "Why do I love you?" with your children. You just do because you do. Even when your kids get older and are naughty or talk back or do unspeakable things as adults, the love you have for them is innate, and almost nothing in the world could remove that.
The love for your spouse sometimes feels more like a choice. It came easily when you first met and there are times when it still feels effortless, but there may be days, weeks, even years when you hardly like your spouse, let alone love them. Having seasons of easy love and seasons of choosing to love are normal and a part of every marriage. At the end of the day, loving your partner is a choice—and sometimes it’s a hard one.
At the end of the day, parenting and marriage are two of the biggest decisions you will make in your life. Both require a huge amount of patience, love and commitment. And both are a heck of a lot easier with support from your friends.

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Luck is the story of a nuclear family: father, mother, daughter and son. But all is not as it seems, for Mother is in love with Herr Herkenrath, and now father and son will have to leave home. Or will they?The mother sits in her room, squirting herself with perfume, waiting for her new man to arrive and her old one to go. Everyone makes their own luck in this life! she tells her children. The father sits in his room, planning another novel. Why doesn't his writing sell? Is it just bad luck? Thomas Mann's first book was rejected five times, after all. When he takes his son for a walk, the townspeople wish them all the luck in the world. We'll see about that! he says. The little sister is the lucky one: she gets to stay at home. Then again, the son won't have to put up with Herr Herkenrath's annoying habits and his smelly feet. So maybe he's lucky to be going.
But will they really leave for Russdorf? Or is it Berlin? Or Africa? Or will Father manage to win Mother round at the very last minute?
Only time will tell, but time is running out. The moving van is on its way.
Soon Herr Herkenrath will arrive and the whole family will sit down for the last time to coffee and crumb cake. But maybe, with any luck, Herr Herkenrath will choke on the crumbs. A child's-eye view of a family in decline, Gert Hofmann's Luck mixes humor and suspense with a heartbreaking pathos.

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From Emotional Zero to A Life Beyond My Dreams
A natural ability to create transformational change was evident early on in my career.
My first job at age 22 was to create the strategies from the ground up for a plan and program to introduce a new protected area in Panama, which I successfully created and pitched to the World Bank for funding.
Because of my efforts, this area is now known as the San Lorenzo National Park. A 9,653 hectare protected area of forests, mangroves and pastures, and 12 miles of coastline, that has cultivated activities involving the local communities such as coffee growing, craft making, bird watching, and secured the area for wildlife to flourish.
But what has significantly helped shape my abilities to center and transform myself and others, has been the more challenging times in my life.
I have experienced pessimism, deep anxiety, loss, and overwhelm, particularly after losing my grandfather to a terrorist attack.
It was July 19, 1994. I was 18 years old, right around that time after graduation and just before I was due to go off to school in the States.
My grandfather on my mom's side, with whom I lived at the time and was a father figure to me, died a victim of a terrorist attack.
The commuter plane he travelled on every day to and from work exploded mid-flight, leaving no one alive.
I remember it vividly.
Those words hit me hard...
I had already built up an emotional wall to block myself from feeling pain when my grandfather on my Dad's side passed away earlier that year. And now, after the horrific loss of my Mom's father, I became numb to my feelings altogether and never allowed myself to feel the full weight of this grief.I had tried my hardest to stay mentally 'strong' my whole life.
I guess that's where the block to these feeling had come from. And I let it stay like that for a long time.
Eventually, years of being this way led me to the low point in my life, my destroyed relationship and marriage of 14 years.
I was completely devastated; my self-esteem was beyond repair.
I contemplated the idea of dying.


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Being born in the year of 1452 by a poor family of no high social class, Leonardo Da Vinci had no hopes of becoming anything more than his parents had already become and achieved. As he was older he became dedicated to his work and as he steadily gained popularity, he began to climb the social scale. Leonardo Da Vinci led an inspiring and meaningful life by creating the art he loved, that helped us open our eyes to a new vision of Renaissance Art and gave us a broad understanding of the Renaissance world.
Leonardo was an extraordinary boy, with an amazing talent. "Leonardo was able to view texts owned by his friends and close relatives..." Since Leonardo was so young and his father being a notary he had access to an abundance of what most people think started the "brains" in Leonardo. "When Leonardo was 15 his father put him under the teachings of Verrocchio in Florence", it was here that Leonardo began his works on art and learned what started the base of his ways. While in Florence at Verrocchio's workshop, Leonardo began working on much of what we know about hi style.
Recent studies show that his "techniques" slowly seeped into Verrocchio's workshop and were quite visible among Verrocchio's pupils. Spending most of his time in the workshop, Leonardo demonstrated his talent. Later on he was commissioned to paint a art piece called, "Baptism of Christ". He painted this piece so much better than his teacher Verrocchio, that Verrocchio vowed to never paint again. As demonstrated in the text, "Leonardo demonstrated his colossal talent... so much more than his teacher Verrocchio, that Verrocchio vowed to never paint again."
Leonardo left the workshop soon after completing the piece around 1477. After not receiving any help and shelter from Verrocchio's workshop, Leonardo set out to find money and a new patron. During this time, Leonardo began to design many weapons. Many of which we use today, such as the modern day tank and submarine. Leonardo also began a major study on other topics as well, "Leonardo studied tons of other topics like nature, planes, certain matters of math, mechanics, municipal construction, canals, and architecture". Leonardo also gave us a broad understanding of what Renaissance society knew and didn't know. It gave us a clear vision of life back then, compared to today. He kept everything recorded for us in his notebooks. "In 1490 to 1495, Leonardo began keeping record of his studies in beautifully, yet complicated notebooks."
During his time in Florence, Da Vinci was commissioned to paint a piece called "The Adoration of the Magi". He denied the claim in search of money and a workshop of his own. Leonardo also began to work more on mechanics and architecture. He designed everything from weapons to churches. He still kept everything recorded and documented.
In search for money, Leonardo left Florence and headed to Milan. In Milan, he was discovered by the Duke and he himself (the Duke) hired him. The Duke...


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Surgery for a proximal biceps tendon tear fixes a tendon that is torn near the shoulder. The proximal biceps tendon connects the biceps muscle to the shoulder blade.
A biceps tendon treatment is usually done as arthroscopic surgery. Your doctor puts a lighted tube and other surgical tools through small cuts (incisions) in your shoulder. The lighted tube is called an arthroscope, or scope. Most people go home the same day of the surgery.
Your doctor may choose to do an open surgery. The doctor will make a 5 to 10 centimetre (2 to 4 inch) incision over your shoulder. If you have open surgery, you will probably stay in the hospital overnight.
In both surgeries, scars usually fade with time. The shape of your biceps should remain the same.
Your arm will be in a sling for about a month. You will need rehabilitation (rehab). This will probably start 1 to 2 weeks after your surgery and last for 2 to 3 months. It will take about 4 to 6 months for your shoulder to heal.
You may be able to do easy daily activities in 2 to 3 weeks, as long as you do not use your affected arm. Most people who work at a desk job can go back to work in 1 to 2 weeks. If you lift, push, or pull at work, you may be able to go back in 3 to 4 months. You should be able to throw objects and play sports 4 to 6 months after the surgery. How long your recovery takes depends on your injury and how well your rehab goes.
Surgery can be stressful. This information will help you understand what you can expect. And it will help you safely prepare for surgery.
Current as of: November 9, 2022
Author: Healthwise Staff
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When Special Counsel Jack Smith requested that the Supreme Court fast-track a ruling on whether a former president can claim total immunity from criminal prosecution of actions taken while in office, he may not have realized he’d potentially deny voters the only chance they’ll ever get to hear arguments that Donald Trump tried stealing the 2020 election.
If you’ve recovered from laughing yet, let’s now mock the dummies in corporate media who are actually making that ridiculous assertion.
The Supreme Court this week did agree to take up the question generated by Smith’s criminal case against Trump in Washington. Smith is attempting to prove Trump violated the law by contesting the 2020 results. Oral arguments are scheduled for late April, which means it could be until after this coming election that the case in Washington is able to resume, at which point it’s possible Trump will be president again and thereby moves the Justice Department to drop the charges altogether.
Reaction from Trump’s bloodthirsty opponents in the media has been nothing short of hysterical. “[W]ith each delay,” wrote The New York Times’ Alan Feuer, “the odds increase that voters will not get a chance to hear the evidence that Mr. Trump sought to subvert the last election before they decide whether to back him in the current one.”
Excuse me, what?! Voters won’t get a chance to hear that Trump tried to steal the election?! Unconscionable!
On MSNBC, Chris Hayes channeled his inner actress to berate the “MAGA-majority of the Trump-created court” for “giv[ing] him what he wanted.”
Hayes’s colleague and doppelganger Rachel Maddow called the court’s decision a deliberate delay tactic “to help your political friend, your partisan patron.” So… Smith shouldn’t have asked the Supreme Court to resolve the dispute?
Either way, it’s laughable that any delay in the proceedings would somehow starve the electorate of its rightful opportunity to hear for the one billionth time how Trump nearly ended the world’s longest running experiment in self-governance.
Trust me, media. After hearing from you and Democrats nonstop for three years that Trump and “MAGA Republicans” serve as the greatest “threat to democracy” since the Cold War, voters have received the message.
Since Jan. 6, 2021, a date cherished by Washington journalists more than their own birthdays, there have been countless congressional hearings about Trump’s “threat to democracy,”; a presidential address by Joe Biden on Trump’s “threat to democracy” (complete with a charming blood-red backdrop); multiple attempts to remove Trump’s name from voter ballots because he’s a “threat to democracy”; two criminal prosecutions of Trump related to being a “threat to democracy,” a national news interview with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Trump’s “threat to democracy,” accompanied by several more press conferences on the same topic; and my personal favorite: legions of weeping reporters who remain beside themselves that voters are still willing to support Trump, despite being a “threat to democracy.”
If all of that hasn’t resulted in the intended effect, I’m not sure what they’re still searching for. The issue is evidently not something that consumes voter attention the way it does reporters who were jostled around at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Or maybe, just maybe, voters sense something a little off about Democrats bemoaning threats to democracy while trying to throw their political opposition in prison. Unclear!
Maybe Biden should try another one of those satanic primetime speeches.


Leica M10-R Unveiled The Latest Rangefinder Camera In India At Just ₹6,95,000 Only
Leica M10-R was unveiled by the German company as the latest Rangefinder camera. The new offering, which is the newest upgrade to the original Leica M10, comes with a 40.9-megapixel image sensor as the highest-resolution camera in the firm. The Leica M10-R also provides a maximum sensitivity of up to ISO 50000 and an exposure time of up to 16 minutes to allow you to capture not only vivid daylight shots but also decent night-time images. The new camera is mainly designed for architectural and landscape photography, although it can also be used as a daily driver, albeit at a high cost.
Leica M10-R price in India
In India the Leica M10R price was set at Rs. 6,95,000. This is higher than the $8,295 (around Rs 6,22,600) US price. The camera will also go on sale in the Indian market starting in August.
Leica M10-R specifications
The Leica M10R has the CMOS sensor (40.9megapixel) as its USP. There is also a range of ISO 100 to ISO 50000 sensitivities. The camera also has the Leica M10P’s metalblade focal plane shutter feature, regarded as “extra quiet.” Yet you are not going to have an automated shutter.
Leica has made no improvements to the M10-R specification to what was available on the M10-P. The camera is made of an all-metal diecast magnesium frame with a soft leather cover and top and base panels of brass. The Maestro II image processor, internally, is also the one that already power the existing 24-megapixel rangefinder. You’ll also have the same 3-inch TFT monitor — plus a large, bright line frame viewfinder.
The Leica M10-R supports DNG and JPEG file formats, and comes with the lens adapter for the M bayonet. There are distinct exposure modes with the option to select between priority aperture and manual shutter speed and adjusting aperture.There are also manual dials to allow you to easily control adjustments including aperture and shutter speed according to your frame requirements.
The Leica M10-R has 802.11 b / g / n Wi-Fi, in terms of wireless connectivity. The camera also has an accessory shoe with which to attach a xenon flash unit. It measures 139×38.5×80 mm in addition, and weighs 660 grams.


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This book was germinated a result of a recent academic symposium in Spain. At that time, the editors reflected on how wonderful it would be to disseminate the most critical components affecting immigration in the world today via print form. The first great effort was a book printed in Spanish with Toma Calvo Buezas as the editor. The editors of this current book worked with several of the symposium presenters to develop a book in English that would be of interest to not only leaders, educators, and/or academicians, but also to a broader readership.
Este mapa de relaciones está construido utilizando los contenidos y la ontología de DBpedia (Wikipedia semántica) y permite enriquecer los contenidos educativos de Didactalia, ofreciendo un uso educativo de Wikipedia, y vivecersa.


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Belle turns to Rumplestiltskin with hope of finding a way to protect their child from Hades. However, they disagree over whether to use dark magic, as Belle forbids Rumplestiltskin from using his powers for evil.
Did You Know?
In season one, episode 12, entitled Skin Deep, we first meet Sir Gaston, played by Sage Brocklebank (Psych). In this episode he is played by Wes Brown. See more
Why do you defend Rumplestiltskin? He kidnapped you. He made you a servant. You should want him dead, too.
Yeah, well, I don't.
He's my husband.
[Gaston looks shocked... but quickly recovers and starts to chuckle
Good old Belle. You always did have a soft spot for a monster.

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Thursday, March 9th Asbury Hall features the Buffalo Chamber Players: Safety Last! Doors open at 6:30pm and tickets start at $25. For more information and tickets, click here.
Join the Buffalo Chamber Players for a screening of Safety Last! at Asbury Hall. The 1923 silent rom-com will be shown in its entirety with new music composed by Robert Deemer.


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Maybe you’ve heard of haciendas, which are common in Mexico and in some South American countries and were created during Spain’s colonization of the area. Most haciendas were huge tracts of land owned and farmed by the elite and were passed down from generation to generation. Haciendas operated almost like small towns unto themselves with a main house for the owner’s family and housing for the hundreds of workers employed on the property—they often even had their own school and their own church. Many were so huge that it would take days to ride the length or breadth of the hacienda.
Over time, haciendas became too expensive to operate and more valuable as real estate so some families sold their entire haciendas or sold off portions of them to make money. But some chose to turn the big, main houses into hotels.
Ecuador has dozens of these historic hotels in houses built as early as the 1500s. They offer epic landscapes, outdoor adventures and some of the top rooms and restaurants. In fact, staying at a hacienda hotel is one of the best ways to get an all-round Ecuadorian experience. But how can you choose the hacienda hotel that’s right for you? We’ve done the leg work.
For luxury travelers
With sophisticated yet traditional style, excellent service, outstanding cuisine and a serious horseback riding program (they have their own breed of horse), Hacienda Zuleta is Ecuador’s most luxurious hacienda hotel. The original hacienda, located near the town of Otavalo, was built by Jesuit priests in the 16th century. Don Galo Plaza Lasso bought the hacienda in 1898 and went on to become President of Ecuador from 1948-52 (his father was also president of the country two separate times). To this day, the luxury hotel is family-run.
The place is elegant, authentic, comfortable and luxurious, from the hundreds of freshly cut long-stemmed Ecuadorian roses arranged throughout the enormous house to the hot water bottles placed between your sheets every night (a welcome touch at nearly 10,000 feet in the hills near Otavalo) to the gourmet meals made with traditional recipes and local ingredients (the hacienda is now famous for its homemade cheese). Service is impeccable and many staff members are the third or fourth generation of their family to work on the hacienda. Another point of interest: Hacienda Zuleta has an on-site Andean condor breeding and rehabilitation center where you can get close to one of the biggest (and most endangered) birds on the planet.
For design and culture buffs
While most haciendas in Ecuador were created for cultivating the soil, one hacienda became a place for cultivating the mind. Piman Hacienda Garden Hotel, just north of the town of Ibarra, was established in 1680. The hacienda eventually became the home of writer and newspaperman Ignacio Zaldumbide. Then it was home to his son, the famous Ecuadorian poet Julio Zaldumbide Gangotena.
After that, the hacienda was home to his son, statesman and novelist Gonzalo Zaldumbide (one of his most acclaimed works, “La Egloga Tragica” was written at Piman). The Zaldumbide family still owns the hacienda which they’ve recently turned into a surprisingly modern take on the theme.
The family hired French landscapers to create formal gardens filled with native plants. Ecuadorian architect Igor Munoz restored the rooms in the original hacienda house which feature original wood floors, hand-painted wood trim and even some original wallpaper. Munoz also created 10 new sleek, modern rooms with walls of windows and huge decks, as well as an angular wood-and-glass dining room. It all adds up to a very creative vibe.
For travelers on a budget
Hacienda hotels can be pricey but budget travelers have at least one great option: Hacienda El Porvenir offers a wide range of room types including “Machai” rooms with multiple low beds separated by fabric partitions and shared bathrooms which are styled after the simple, traditional lodgings of the area—like an Andean dorm ($35 per night including continental breakfast). Standard rooms and spacious new suites are also available.
The hacienda has more than 30 horses and riding guides can take you high into the gorgeous landscape of the 2,500 acre hacienda, which still produces renowned bullfighting bulls, on the border of Cotopaxi National Park. The family-run hacienda is also focused on reforestation and sustainable practices and was nominated in the category of “Leading Green Hotel” in Ecuador in the 2015 World Tourism Awards.
For the Indiana Jones types
Hacienda San Agustin de Callo was built on ground that had served as an Incan fortress and palace since the 1500s. Researchers speculate that the property may be the northernmost point that the Incas ever ventured. Small buildings and sections of walls made from symmetrically carved lava-rock building blocks which fit together without any mortar, a distinctly Incan practice, still exist on the property and have been incorporated into the hacienda.
The property now offers luxurious rooms with antique details, massive fireplaces and murals. Don’t miss the hacienda restaurant, either: It’s known for its gourmet regional food (be sure to try their take on locro, a beloved cheese and potato soup). On a clear day, the views of the very active Cotopaxi Volcano are breathtaking. And it’s all less than one and a half hour south of Quito.
For traveling families
Many hacienda hotels in Ecuador are either too fancy or too rustic for families. Travelers with kids will appreciate the spacious and flexible family rooms, the friendly farm animals (including rabbits, ducks, donkeys and cows), the organic garden, the wide-open spaces and the kid-friendly dining menu at Hacienda Manteles. Located about an hour by car from the town of Baños—famous for waterfalls, hot springs and one of the most terrifying swings in the world—this former apple-and-pear orchard is located in a verdant valley with views of the currently-active Tungurahua volcano. The sprawling Hacienda Manteles property also includes 25 waterfalls, some of which you can hike to.


The wait is almost over, as North America-bound 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata production has begun, signaling the imminent arrival at U.S. Dealers of the world’s most popular two-seat roadster
Mazda announces sales plans for the 2016 MX-5 Launch Edition, which will be limited to the first 1,000 roadsters earmarked for the U.S. market. Mazda’s 2016 MX-5 Launch Edition will be the first new-generation MX-5 to go on sale in the U.S.
Mazda North American Operations introduced the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club at the New York International Auto Show, marking the world debut of the Club model.The MX-5 Club represents the most aggressive road-going iteration of Mazda's fourth-generation flagship roadster.
The all-new Mazda CX-3 compact crossover SUV is the fifth model in Mazda’s line-up of new-generation vehicles that feature the full range of SKYACTIV Technology and KODO—Soul of Motion design.
Mazda went to extraordinary lengths to bring new levels of depth and maturity to every aspect of the 2016 model. In addition to an innovative interior design, the refreshed Mazda6 offers greater sophistication and value with enhanced exterior design, functionality, ride comfort, quietness and safety.
The CX-5’s capable performance, efficiency and boldness have made it a favorite in its class. For the 2016 model year, CX-5 adds new levels of refinement and brings a depth and maturity to a variety of areas, including design, the quality and functionality of the interior, ride comfort and quietness, as well as safety performance.


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While 63 percent of American adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, most of the rest of the world is struggling to vaccinate the bulk of their population.
On Thursday, the Biden administration laid out how the United States would share the first 25 million of 80 million vaccine doses with the rest of the world. The first doses were already “in the air” as of Thursday’s briefing on the plan. Of that 25 million, 19 million of those doses will be distributed through COVAX, a global partnership with the World Health Organization to distribute shots to poorer regions, with a priority on Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. The remaining 6 million doses would go directly from the U.S. to countries including Canada, Mexico, India, and South Korea.
“We are sharing these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions,” President Biden said in a statement. “We are sharing these vaccines to save lives and to lead the world in bringing an end to the pandemic, with the power of our example and with our values.”
According to the White House, the 25 million doses doled out beginning Thursday will include the Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Moderna vaccines but not AstraZeneca, which is still under review by the FDA. Biden has previously committed to providing other nations with all 60 million domestically produced doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is widely approved around the world, but the U.S.-produced doses will be available to ship as soon as they clear a safety review.


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Five companies currently have lithium mining concessions in Mexico, according to a report by two mining NGOs, which clashes with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s claims that there are only one or two such concessions in the country.
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The use of emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic — allowing governments to restrict individual freedoms, suspend constitutional norms and bypass normal parliamentary scrutiny —prompted intense public debate across Australia.
A focus of debate in Victoria was the State Government's push to extend, from six months to 18 months, the maximum period a state of emergency can remain in force.
The debate was marked by confusion, with some thinking the change would mean Victorians would remain in lockdown for another year, and it highlighted the tension between emergency powers and normal democratic processes.
In the end, the Government compromised, with legislation passed to extend the period from six months to 12 months, during which it can opt to roll over its state of emergency every four weeks without requiring parliamentary approval.
Often lost in the debate was the fact that Victoria is the only state that caps the maximum length of time a state of emergency can remain in force.
Public health acts provide states and territories with base-level powers to manage community health. The declaration of a state of emergency activates stronger powers for a certain period of time to address serious public health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
The period of time that a state of emergency may remain in force varies across states and territories, but it can be extended as long as a health minister considers it necessary.
As mentioned, Victoria can extend an initial state of emergency, but unlike other jurisdictions, the maximum period is capped at 12 months.
RMIT ABC Fact Check takes a look at what the law says in each of the states and territories, and at the federal level.


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Vegetarians: Myths vs. Facts
Vegetarians are often seriously misunderstood. It's time to debunk some of the most common vegetarian myths!
Fact: It's actually pretty easy for vegetarians to meet their needs for protein, even if they choose not to eat eggs and dairy products. Thanks to plant-based proteins like tofu, beans, lentils and what's found in whole-grains breads and cereals, getting enough protein can be deliciously simple.
Fact: Many folks who follow a vegetarian diet still choose to incorporate dairy and eggs (or even fish or chicken) into their meal routine. There's really no right or wrong when it comes to these choices, and whichever foods they do choose to eat will expose them to important vitamins and minerals. For example, calcium can be found in dairy products like yogurt, milk and cheese, but it's also in tofu, leafy greens and calcium-fortified orange juice. (Learn more about the types of vegetarian diets.)
Fact: A well-rounded vegetarian diet includes healthy fats from foods like olive oil, peanut butter, nuts and seeds. But less than healthy foods like french fries and doughnuts fall into the vegetarian category as well. So even vegetarians needs to watch which fats they take in.
Myth: Meat substitutes are better for you than the real thing
Fact: From bacon to ground meat to hot dogs, there's a veggie imposter for just about every type of meat. While these options may lack animal protein and be low in cholesterol, they're often made from highly processed ingredients and contain large amounts of sodium and fat (that doesn’t sound so healthy, now does it?).
Fact: It's possible for both vegetarians and meat-eaters to become iron-deficient, but there are plenty of ways to get iron from plant-based foods like beans, tofu and spinach. Eating these plant foods along with vitamin C-rich foods will enhance iron absorption. (Learn more about getting enough iron in your daily diet.)
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc., which specializes in culinary and sports nutrition. See Dana's full bio »


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Despite assertions from Texas Republicans that Governor Greg Abbot’s proposed school voucher program, called an Education Savings Account, would not harm Texas public schools, the Legislative Budget Board has said that the program will likely cost $1 billion within the first three years.
The Board estimates that all of the current 250,000 Texas students enrolled in private schools would receive the $8,000 per child grant, and that by 2025 that number would rise by 10 percent if the voucher bill passes. By 2026, the total price tag just for the vouchers would be $1.75 billion, with the number only expected to climb.
That’s only the cost of the vouchers, which will be covered by the general fund. The Board also assumes that the increased cost of bureaucracy to monitor the program would run roughly $24 million annually.
The report acknowledges that schools will lose funding from the collected loss of expected students ($231 million for 25,000 students), though that will be covered by a $10,000 per student grant for districts with less than 20,000 students. The grant is being offered by Texas Republicans as a political strategy to get rural conservatives on their side. Traditionally, rural Republicans have opposed vouchers systems because of the loss of jobs they lead to in community schools. This grant is only good for two years, after which it will either have to be renewed or abandoned.
During the hearings on the bill Wednesday, the principal author Sen. Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe) claimed that bigger school districts would not need the grants because they had more resources to weather the loss from student enrollment. On average, every ten students that leave a district costs a job.
Currently, Texas has a record $30 billion budget surplus. However, half of it has already been spent on a property tax relief bill. As it stands, paying for the voucher system would likely require future surpluses, which are less likely as the state degrades the tax revenue. Fewer property taxes generally means less funding for public schools, which puts the rising cost of the voucher programs and expected loss of tax revenue as a double whammy on public schools within the next five years despite Republican promises of pay raises and support.
The voucher program is soundly rejected by most public school employees and teachers, who have staged multiple rallies at the state capitol to protest the establishment of the Education Savings Accounts. Decades of research show that voucher do not improve test outcomes, drain public school coffers, increase segregation, and mostly funnel tax money to religious institutions. At least one study showing negative academic outcomes was cited by State Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) on Wednesday. Creighton responded that he had a file full of supporting data, but did not mention specific papers or institutions. Later, he received statistical support from a conservative think tank.
Not included in the Board’s budget report is the possible impact the voucher system will have on disabled students. Many private schools are not required to take to disabled students, meaning that families that need additional support will be left out of whatever benefits the vouchers provide and have to make due with dwindling resources at the remaining public schools.

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In this episode Kate talks about why data governance is important and the features of a good data governance program. With a slight digression on why data is not the new oil and the problem with data.
Hi, and welcome to episode two of the Data Revolution podcast. I’m Kate Carruthers, and this time I’ll be talking about data governance and why it’s important. I will also make a slight progression to share my thoughts on data as a new oil and some of the problems with data. First, a bit of an explanation about what I’m going to be doing with the podcast. I’m planning on a mix of episodes in the near future. One kind will be like this one, where I’m sharing my thoughts on a particular aspect of data practice, and the other will be a series of interesting guests. I’m pretty excited about the lineup of the guests, and we’ll share information about them on my https://datarevolution.tech website. That’s data revolution one word dot tech.
Today I want to talk about data governance. This is because it’s not well understood, and most folks don’t understand why it’s important. Also, as anyone who’s known me for the last decade or so, you’ve heard me bang on about data governance for years. I’m often at conferences saying that data governance is the foundation for information and security, and I want to explain what I mean by this. I tend to think that data governance has been badly named. It’s a name that does not immediately convey the utility of the concept to ordinary folks. It’s not catchy, and it doesn’t roll off the tongue easily.
You can tell that the people who came up with this were not marketers. There are many definitions of data governance, but my favourite one is from a colleague in the US, john Ladley, and it’s from his 2012 book Data Governance how to Design, Deploy, and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program. It’s still one of the definitive works in the area, and his stuff is worth reading. He defines data governance as “the organization and implementation of policies, procedures, structure, roles and responsibilities which outline and enforce rules of engagement, decision rights, and accountabilities for the effective management of information assets.”
You can see this definition on my website at https://datagovernance.unsw.edu.au. I like this definition because it covers all the notes of what goes into making a good data governance program. This definition covers all the major features of a data governance program, and at work, my data governance manager has distilled it even further: “Put simply, data governance is the creation and implementation of rules to protect data and to get the most benefit from data.”
And this takes us at starting principle the fact that we treat data as an asset that needs to be managed like an asset. But one thing this definition does not provide is a reason why we need to do data governance at all. Data governance is an essential risk management function, and it provides key information for decision making around information security and cybersecurity spending. If we don’t understand where our data is, how valuable our data is, or how it is protected, then we’re probably making ill informed judgments about where to spend our scarce information security and cybersecurity dollars. To protect our data effectively, we need to understand it. Increasingly, our data landscape is moving from a simple, internally hosted one to a complex, multi-hosted landscape across which we disclose, manipulate, and consume data often. Now, our data is hosted across multiple cloud environments, as well as on premise, as well as software as a service, and this adds to the complexity.
There is also an increasingly complex landscape of privacy and compliance that we need to navigate, and data governance provides the foundations for this as well. A good data governance program will ensure that data is secured, trustworthy, documented, managed, and audited. In my day job, data and information governance is framed around the five no’s, which I got from Mike Burgess when he was at Telstra many years ago, and he’s now at ASIO. We work on ensuring that we know the answers to each of these questions for our data.
- Question one: do you know the value of your data?
- Question two: do you know who has access to your data?
- Question three: do you know where your data is?
- Question four: do you know who is protecting your data?
- Question five: do you know how well your data is protected?
I literally used to walk around the university in the early days of establishing our data governance program with all of these questions on a laminated sheet, and the conversation would go something like this: “I don’t need no stinking data governance” oh, just answer the questions on this sheet, and if you can answer them, you’re fine. It would typically result in the person sobbing on my shoulder saying, please help me, Kate. So that was a good way to frame a data governance conversation. Now, if we want to treat data as an asset, then we need to make sure that data is used properly.
And we also need to make sure that we can prevent data errors, especially now with the growth in AI. And we also need to make sure that misuse of personal or sensitive data doesn’t take place. The best starting point to achieve this is through clear policies on data use and effective procedures to monitor and enforce these policies. Another important benefit of a data governance program is improving data security. One of the key objectives of data governance is ensuring that all data is secure if it needs to be, and that there is no unauthorized data access. This means that the Data Governance Office will need to work with colleagues across the organization, and in particular, across information technology, cybersecurity, and information security teams. A good data governance framework must also include specifics of how data can be distributed and shared, both entire and externally to the organization, because inappropriate data sharing is often a vector for cyberattacks nowadays. One thing I’ve discovered about use of data internally is that folks are just trying to get their jobs done.
And they often need data, but don’t understand the risks inherent in the way that they are storing and using that data. Now, I’m going to take a small digression here. I have ADHD and you’ll just have to put up with this kind of thing. There’s a well known article in the Economist that was titled the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil. No longer oil, but data. And it said, quote, a new commodity spawns a lucrative fast growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resourcing question was oil. Now, similar concerns being raised by the giants at dealing data the oil of the digital era.
But if you think about it, this analogy just doesn’t make sense. This thing about data being the new oil was in the context of the need to regulate the data economy. And I believe that regulation of data does remain an extremely valid point, and some regulation would be a bloody good idea. Several years ago, in the past, I used this analogy of data being the new oil in several presentations, but in the context of showing people that there was an awful lot of it to manage. But that was before I really thought about it. Then I realized that data is very unlike oil in important ways. Data is the ultimate resource. It keeps growing and there seems to be very little that we can do to stop its proliferation.
Now, I think that data is the endless resource that is only limited by our storage and analytics capabilities and by our capacity for regulation. So now I want to talk about the problem with data. The problem with data is it’s really easy to make, it’s really easy to create and store it. And so this is often done without any thought as to whether it is the appropriate thing to do. Anyone with an internet connection and some basic skills can start to collect and store data online and there are no rules for how anyone ought to store data, which explains why so many data breaches are just really some random person who stored personal data in an unsecured s three bucket. Further, often the safety of stored data does not seem to be top of mind. Remember that enormous Equifax data breach back in 2017? That organization had tremendous amounts of personal information on a global basis and they could not even be bothered to patch against known vulnerabilities. And this experience does not seem to have given rise to any learnings whatsoever on the part of local organizations, many of whom have had major data breaches in recent memory that disclose the personal data of millions of Australians.
Apart from the obvious implications for data security practices, it seems as if we have not established a velocity of data and that our model for understanding data and rights in respect of data is that of property. And if we accept this, then we almost also accept that our model for privacy, which is based on informed and explicit consent, is also not quite ready for the world where data about us is so readily captured, stored and shared, often without our explicit consent. And then we’ve also got to remember the cookies fiasco where everybody just clicks yes to get to what they need. So utility trumps privacy every time. So it seems to me that we have a lot more thinking to do about data privacy and security. But one thing is clear is that data will continue to proliferate. And until we sort these things out, its proliferation and its safe storage and usage is going to remain problematic. This will have an impact on our data governance programs in the future.
Now, back to data governance. There is a quote from Kent Aiken, who was a Prime Minister’s Fellow in Canada that I use all the time in presentations. He said, “Complexity is the defining feature of the digital era, and we are not adjusting our governance structures to manage it.” I truly feel that this sums up the challenge we have with data governance. Increasingly, we need data governance that can operate programmatically and autonomously at the edge of our networks. But the tool sets that are available to us are only slowly creeping towards that kind of functionality. They’re kind of primitive, to be sure. But coming back to what data governance programs can help with how data governance can help with identifying data at risk is an important consideration.
If you want to identify data at risk, you need to have a classification framework for data. And once you’ve located sensitive data, you need to ensure that that sensitive data is stored and managed properly. That means that you need to have a set of data handling guidelines that specify how to manage data across its entire lifecycle, including data creation, data access, data storage, data transmission, data processing, data integration and flow, data disposal, and data retention. Now, data disposal is the one thing we all need to get better at doing. I keep saying that we are all such terrible hoarders of data. We hoard it like dwarves hoarding gold. And we need to get better at getting rid of the data that we don’t need, because all it is is a risk, not an asset. And you also need to think about things like data sovereignty and data management.
And data management practice is something we need to talk about in a future episode. Some other things that a data governance program can assist with, including complying with increasing regulatory requirements, improving data security via collaboration with information and cybersecurity professionals, creating and enforcing data distribution and data sharing policies, creating the basis for effective data and analytics operations. And we’re going to talk a lot about this over the course of the podcast and also identifying the crown jewels. So your precious things that really need to be protected by your cyber and infosec teams. So there’s a number of key factors about running a successful data and information governance program. First of all, data governance needs to be a good fit for each specific data domain and for the business operations it supports. It needs to be developed collaboratively with the stakeholders because there’s no single one right answer for every part of the organization. And a data governance program that doesn’t take account of the differences across the organization will ultimately be unsuccessful because it won’t meet stakeholder needs.
So data governance needs to be a stakeholder driven activity and you shouldn’t engage in it if they’re not coming along on the journey with you. And the data and information governance framework needs to be able to help the business to better manage information and data quality. If it’s not doing that, then there’s no point doing it. So no data and information governance activities ought to be undertaken without stakeholder buy in and leadership. I always frame our work in the data and information Governance office as facilitation rather than leadership. Now, there’s some other things that need to be lined up and these are in no particular order is you need to assess and define your risk and controls. You need consistent data definitions across the entire organization. And this has been a perennial problem.
I worked on a data warehouse project at GIO back in the day. That was one of our big problems with inconsistent data definitions, and I’m pretty sure it’s just the same everywhere. Now we need to have data driven improvements, so using data to drive the improvements also makes sense. One of the big things we also need to build is data literacy, and that’s a real challenge to develop that across the entire organization. And the other thing that we really need to focus on is data quality because all of our AI efforts will be for naught if we have really bad quality data. And then the two practices that I really think every organization needs is master data management and metadata management. Tracking provenance of data as it moves around now becomes even more important. But the most important thing of all that needs to be clarified and agrees, the roles and responsibilities and in particular establishment of decision making rights and input rights in respect of data.
Getting to who is the decider is the most single important thing to do, and then the next thing is to empower those people to start making decisions about the data. But above all, managing data risk is a team sport. There’s no single part of the organization that has all the answers. Reducing risk needs collaboration and it needs broad collaboration across the entire organization.
Based on my experience, it really does take a village to establish an effective data governance program. It reminds me of that saying, if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. So I recommend that you find allies within your organization who can collaborate with you and also find allies outside your organization for knowledge sharing and commiseration and possibly drinks.
That’s all for now. Hopefully you’ll all join me again next time, where we’ll be joined by a special guest. Thank you very much for listening.


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Admittedly, it’s been too long since I’ve posted and I’ve been missing keeping up with this blog. It’s been an interesting time, and here are a couple of the highlights.
Some of my most inspiring experiences have been bearing witness to incredible people going out of their comfort zones to bring joy or fulfillment to others. I am truly awed by the people in my life.
One distinct highlight was attending the US premiere of the film, Vegucated, on October 13th. This is a documentary written, directed and edited by my friend Marisa Miller Wolfson that followed three meat, egg and cheese eaters as they adopted a vegan lifestyle for 6 weeks. I had been eagerly awaiting the film, which Marisa has been devoted to for an incredible seven-plus years, and absolutely fell in love with it. It was funny at times, heartwarming, and deeply personal; indeed, I laughed and I cried. It masterfully reflected Marisa’s graceful, witty and sidesplitting style of expressing herself and absolutely nailed EVERY vital message coming out of the animal rights movement. The event itself was infused with this amazing positive energy that was just breathtaking. I can’t wait to get my DVD, which I’ll be lending out like a mad-woman.
Another highlight was attending Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary‘s ThanksLiving event on October 16th with my husband and in-laws; a charming gathering where the turkeys are the guests of honor versus the main course.
The next day, I called my father-in-law to thank him for the day. I let him know that I really appreciated him coming, knowing that spending a day at a vegan event isn’t really his “cup of tea”. He admitted that it wasn’t really his thing, but he really enjoyed spending the day with all of us. In his characteristic good-natured way, he grumbled that my husband and his wife spent a good part of the day talking about their new iPhones, and said, “The animals are dying and all they can talk about are their iPhones!” Needless to say, I got a good laugh out of that and was totally bowled over to hear him connect just a bit with the plight of animals.
That’s it for now!


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Akanksha Awasthi is an Actress of Bhojpuri Cinema, she was born on 15 November 1992 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. She currently lives in Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and works in the world of cinema.
Akanksha Awasthi has acted in Bhojpuri films Rocky Handsome (2016, Hindi) and Dabang Sarkar (2018). She has also worked in the TV serial, she acted in Ghar Ki Laxmi Betinan (2016). Since 2015, he has been in the world of TV and cinema. She Hindi has knowledge of Bhojpuri and English language. Walking and cooking and acting is her favorite job.
Real Name – Akanksha Awasthi
Born – 15 November 1992 in
Lucknow Profession – Actress, TV Artist
Current Address – Mumbai, Maharashtra, Bharat
Films – Rocky Handsome (2016, Hindi) and Dabang Sarkar
TV Serial – Ghar Ki Laxmi Betinan, Uttaran (On Color), Doli Saja Ke (On Sahara) and Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat (Star Plus)
Married Life – Married
Husband – Abhishek Singh Chauhan
Education of Akanksha Awasthi –
Akanksha did her education from Dayanand Girl Inter College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, it is said that she also studied from Lucknow University, after which she went to the world of TV serials from where she got an offer in Bhojpuri films and she became a star actress.
Interesting Information –
- Akanksha Awasthi also received the 16th Lions Gold Award in the serial Uttaran.
- She has worked in Uttaran on the color TV serial.
- He has also worked in the TV serial Doli Saja Ke on Sahara TV channel.
- On Star Plus, he has also acted in the serial Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat.
- He likes to travel and act.
- She currently lives in Mumbai, and comes to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to shoot films.


Strictly speaking, the encoder will only tell you how to locate and how to perform, it is need to rely on numerical control system (
Or a PLC controller
Control servo and stepper motor to achieve positioning, encoder is like people's eyes, know the motor shaft and load, at a certain position in the current industry in general is photoelectric type encoder.
photoelectric encoder is in a very thin very light round plate, through close instruments to corrosion carved many fine seam, is equivalent to a 360 - degree, subdivided into many parts, such as 1024 group, so that the Angle difference between each group is 360/1024 = 0.
and then have a sophisticated light source, mounted on the encoder side, the other side of the encoder, there will be a receiver, such as the use of the photoresistor these components of amplifying and shaping circuit, the encoder rotation, there is gap will pervious to light in the past, the receiver will instantly receive light pulse, after dealing with the circuit, and output an electrical signal, this code rotating a week, 1024 will correspond to the output pulse, the first pulse position if it is 0, the second pulse position is 0.
3515625 °, the third pulse position is 0.
3515625 ° * 2, and so on, such as long as have instrument can read pulse number, the encoder is known corresponding in what position, if the encoder mounted to the motor shaft, the motor shaft and encoder is rigid connection, both the location of the relationship will be one to one correspondence, by reading the encoder pulse, the motor shaft position is known.
and the motor shaft, such as through the synchronous belt, gear, chain drive some load, such as control of lead screw, so there will be a so-called electronic gear ratio, the relationship between motor turns a circle, how many mm screw coming, so read the corresponding output to the pulse encoder, through the pulse number can be launched against the screw position.
but the encoder is round, if unlimited rotation, Angle will be infinity, so designed a kind of incremental encoder, turn round, can output ABZ three sets of signals, the AB is the same pulse, such as a circle above said there are 1024 pulse, AB pulse corresponds to a circle circle Angle, and it is two kinds of pulse in orthogonal state, if it is positive &negative, judging by AB pulse rising and falling down the order, you can know the encoder of the current is clockwise or counterclockwise.
in addition a Z pulse, though because the circumference of a circle will not halt, the Angle will be endless, but they are all a week a week of repetition, fixed at a certain position in the circumference of a circle, zero phase pulse encoder per round, only one zero phase pulse output, so that if a to Z pulse as the benchmark, so every time to read the pulse time, the system will reset once, can let a maximum Angle control within 360 °, the equivalent of a zero datum.
so even if the system is breaking down, again with electricity, as long as you can find the reference point, you can know the screw of the initial position in what place.
Above this positioning is called incremental coordinate system, so the encoder is incremental encoder, apply more extensive, because flexible and cheap.
if only devices only need to turn a circle, which is within 360 ° Angle, the encoder can segmentation precision, such as 13, equivalent to 2 ^ 13 power pulse circuit, corresponds to 360 °, the pulse number and the Angle of the one-to-one correspondence does not fear the power system need to readjust the zero, this encoder is called single ring absolute encoder.
If the load need to turn more circle, but the number of turns can not very much, such as five laps, equivalent to 1800 °, 360 ° = 5 * this pulse and 1800 ° one-to-one correspondence, the application in some high-end CNC machine, screw or some rotation work can know the current precision position, and don't have to worry about power system to zero.
in addition, the encoder and magnetoelectric way, such as processing a lot of the encoder with a north and south between small magnets, through the hole to read small magnet signal, the output signal of the same are amplified and plastic into electrical impulses, this and photoelectric encoder is similar, but the price will be cheaper, reliability is high, but the accuracy is almost than photoelectric.
PLC can input switch, which is held high level voltage, and the encoder pulse signal, can understand a certain period of time, complete set of switch with great speed.
But because this kind of switch frequency is too high, so the ordinary I/O port of PLC controller
is unable to read the number of these pulses accurately, because exists in the working process of PLC controller scan cycle, need each time to refresh the common I/O data of mouth, and the precision of the encoder is too high, the output per unit time of pulse number is too much, common I/O is insufficient.
has the high speed counter port design, the essence is to use the underlying microcontroller hardware logic to complete these encoders count, avoids the problem of scan cycle, the PLC controller have dedicated high-speed count instruction design, use, direct call these instructions can read the current pulse value.
But on the calculation and output pulse, because scanning period, often there is a lag effect, if used to control some actuators, such as cylinder to action cutting action, so want to consider the compensation of nc.
as a reminder, if you want to use PLC to control the servo or stepping system, often do not need through the encoder feedback to determine position, through some PLS order to issue a position such as pulse in the servo drive, position loop in the servo drive internal composition is good, and the PLC here is just an instruction organization, did not constitute a closed loop position, of course, if it is a special positioning module, using the NC control mode, such as, can be in the building of a position closed loop inside.
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BMI’s programming for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival includes two virtual Score to Screen panels featuring conversations between Common and Patrick Warren and Amy Poehler and David Schwartz. Each discussion gives an inside look at the creative process of incorporating music in film while diving into the relationship between a composer and the film’s director or producer. The festival will be held January 20 - 30 online, and on satellite screens across the country.
Score to Screen Panels
Common & Patrick Warren: Alice
The multi-talented GRAMMY and Academy Award-winning entertainer, Common, along with award-winning composer Patrick Warren, co-produced and curated the music for the drama/thriller Alice. The film tells the story of a brave young woman who escapes a life of slavery on a secluded Georgia plantation, only to realize that not everything is as it seems. Common, who also plays the role of Frank in the film, and Warren open up about how they each came to work on this project, taking viewers into the inner workings of the score for the film, and elaborating on their creative process and beyond. Both the film and Score to Screen conversation premiere on January 23.
Amy Poehler & David Schwartz: Lucy and Desi
Making her documentary directorial debut, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress Amy Poehler and esteemed Emmy and GRAMMY-nominated composer David Schwartz kick things off with a candid discussion about their work on Lucy and Desi, which chronicles the life of the much beloved Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. During BMI’s Score to Screen, launching on January 22 to coincide with the film premiere, the pair elaborates on what drew them to the film, how they collaborated to interweave Lucille and Desi’s professional and personal lives and more.
“We’re thrilled to once again partner with the Sundance Film Festival and present two insightful discussions about music in film, with BMI’s Score to Screen,” said Alex Flores, BMI’s Senior Vice President of Creative. “There are many BMI composers who have scored films premiering at this year’s Festival, and we’re honored to provide a platform and continue our commitment in supporting and highlighting their brilliant work.”
The Sundance Film Festival is premiering films featuring musical works by 20 BMI composers, including Aska Matsumiya (After Yang), Carmen Vandenberg (Bring On The Dancing Horses), Chanda Dancy-Morizawa (Aftershock), Christopher Wong (Maika), Gretchen Jude (Free Chol Soo Lee), Kyle Rodriguez (Work), Marcus Norris (Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.), T. Griffin (2nd Chance), Tony Morales (La Guerra Civil) and many others. For some of their thoughts on their scores, please scroll down.
BMI Composers & Their Premiering Films


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DJ Magnus clearly communicates an infectious passion for House music through the decks. If you missed his debut gig at Cairns Tropical Pride in 2007, he may well have had you sweating it out at Big Gay Day (Brisbane), I Remember House (Sydney), the Midsumma T-Dance (Melbourne), CoastOut (Coffs Harbour), ChillOut (Daylesford), Christchurch Pride, the Broken Heel Festival or at the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras AfterParty.
His signature sound of uplifting vocal House and an instinct for delivering goosebumps on the dance floor have earned him a respected place as one of Australia's finest House music DJs. However, he also shows great diversity by playing Deep House & Trance for his fans.
He's held residencies in Sydney at Daywash, Hot Kandi, ARQ & The Colombian and more recently in Melbourne at Rock City, Sircuit, The GH & Sundaylicious!
DJ Magnus has also supported many local & International acts including Heather Small (M People), Paul Mac, Kelly Rowland, Wynter Gordon & played al…


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Hockey: Storm drops opener at Windom
The Morris Benson Area boys hockey team opened up the season with a 4-3 loss at Windom Saturday, Dec. 2.
Two Storm players got their first varsity goals. Jack Riley started the scoring for the Storm with a short-handed goal in the first period to lock the game at 1-1. Zach Bruns scored one of his two goals in the game to give MBA a 2-1 lead early in the second. Bruns added a third period goal off an assist from Hunter Gades.
"It was great to have our first year guys contribute so much in the first game of the season, getting us off to a good start," head coach Jeremiah Day said.
The Storm plays host to Wadena Deer Creek Tuesday, Dec. 5 in Morris. The puck drops at 7 p.m.
Windom 4, Morris Benson 3
MBA (0-1)......1 1 1 – 3
Windom.......... 1 2 1 – 4
FIRST PERIOD – W: Ethan Becker (Eli Becker) 3:53pp... MBA: Jack Riley (Zach Bruns) 15:52sh
SECOND PERIOD – MBA: Bruns 7:08... W: Alex Espenson (Eli Becker) 11:45... W: Eli Becker (Espenson, Vincent Vongsy) 13:23
THIRD PERIOD – W: Kyle Espenson (Wyatt Schumacher, Ethan Becker) 4:03 pp... MBA: Bruns (Hunter Gades) 4:36
GOALIE SAVES – Morris Benson Area: Chase Engebretson 52… Windom: Josiah Quintero 17


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Prostate patients 'get second-rate NHS care': Report says sufferers are far less likely to receive the latest drugs or be looked after by specialist nurses
- Cancer charity Orchid: Men treated worse than women with breast cancer
- Prostate cancer sufferers are often older and in poorer general health
- More than 10,000 men die of prostate cancer every year in Britain
Prostate cancer patients are receiving ‘second rate’ care on the NHS compared to women with breast cancer, a report warns.
They are far less likely to be offered the latest drugs, be looked after by a specialist nurse, or given basic pain relief.
Campaigners accuse the health service of discriminating against men with prostate cancer, who tend to be more elderly than women with breast cancer.
Men with prostate cancer are far less likely to be offered the latest drugs, be looked after by a specialist nurse, or given basic pain relief compared to women with breast cancer, according to a new report (posed by model)
They also say Nice, the drugs rationing body, has made fewer prostate drugs available to the health service compared with those for other forms of cancer.
Paul Burstow, the Liberal Democrat MP and former health minister who wrote the report with cancer charity Orchid, said there was a ‘huge, unacceptable, inexplicable variation’ in standards.
He added: ‘Why should men with prostate cancer have to cope with second-rate services, a lack of vital support and limited access to world-class drug treatments and trials?’
There are 41,700 new cases of prostate cancer in the UK each year, and one in eight men will contract the disease at some point.
But the report warns that despite such high prevalence, men with the illness suffer far worse care than other cancer patients.
'I NEEDED MORE SUPPORT'
Richard Smock was diagnosed with prostate cancer four years ago.
The married 72-year-old was told the cancer had spread to his bones – and was therefore untreatable.
Doctors are now giving him drugs to extend his life and help relieve symptoms, but he is not expected to survive past the age of 75.
However he has never been put in touch with a dedicated nurse – known as a clinical nurse specialist – who could offer expert care and support.
The father of three, who lives in Bromley, South-East London, said: ‘I would have really appreciated having someone to talk through the basic practicalities, particularly immediately following my diagnosis.’
He added: ‘It’s easy just to focus on the physical – the first thing you discuss is exactly how long you have left – but there is so much beyond that.
‘Having a dedicated individual to help navigate through the psychological, social and financial side of cancer would have been invaluable.’
There is no obvious reason why, but the majority of patients are elderly. Meanwhile women with breast cancer, for example, tend to be younger and in better health. Mr Burstow said: ‘We do require health providers to ask, “Are we doing everything we can to make sure men are getting access to cancer treatments they need as much as women?”
‘It’s something the NHS England cancer tsar should be looking at.’
Despite mortality rates improving substantially thanks to earlier diagnoses, prostate cancer still kills 10,800 men annually.
But figures show that only a third of men with the disease are offered the chance to take part in potentially life-saving clinical trials – which could also pave the way for new treatments for other patients.
The report also says that many men with incurable cancers are not offered life-extending treatments such as Docetaxel and Abiraterone.
This may be because doctors are not aware they are available – or assume they are not worthwhile.
There are also just 280 specialist nurses in England for all urological cancers – which include prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular – compared to 425 for breast cancer.
Some 13 per cent of prostate patients felt their care was substandard, against 10 per cent of women with breast cancer. Twenty-two per cent also felt staff did not do enough to control pain, whereas the figure was 17 per cent for breast cancer patients.
In addition, far fewer prostate drugs have been approved by Nice, meaning men must rely on getting unapproved drugs from the Cancer Drugs Fund – which can only be done through an oncologist.
Sean Duffy, the clinical director for cancer at NHS England, said: ‘Survival rates for prostate cancer are now very high. We are not complacent though and know we need to do much more, particularly to reduce variation in services.’
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