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At last, some decent rain, hasn’t it been wonderful!
Recently, we flew to Sydney to celebrate the wedding of two very special friends, and I had an opportunity to look in some of the city jewellery windows, which I haven’t done for years. Some of the styles made me reflect on the many different styles I have designed over past years as well as the designs I am creating today. Not much has changed, and in particular there seems to be a rebirth of the different textures that can be applied to gold.
This has always been a favourite look of mine throughout the decades – it is jewellery that is enhanced by organic, flowing and textured forms, which showcases the beauty of yellow gold, white gold and pink gold. It is a finish which can also incorporate gemstones. If gems are incorporated, I often suggest a contrast gold colour to enhance the beauty and colour of the gemstones and makes them more obvious.
The process I use to create these styles normally involves hand carving the designed piece of jewellery in jewellers carving wax – it’s similar to a very hard candle wax but with more of a plastic consistency. All the detail of the design is created in this material by carving away the wax using hand held carving tools (similar to woodwork tools) and I vary the look by choosing different widths and shapes of blade – this means the design can incorporate many forms and depths of texture. One advantage of this method is that my customer is able to view the wax model and try it on to check proportions and design before the piece is made in gold. This helps if customers are having trouble imagining what their finished piece of jewellery will look like.
Once the wax model is complete, the casting process is used to transform the wax into precious metal. Simply, the casting process includes:
- a form of plaster is poured over the wax model and a funnel is added
- the plaster and funnel form sets hard
- the form is placed in a kiln and heated which melts the wax away, leaving a cavity
- then molten gold is forced under pressure into the cavity where the wax used to be.
Once the plaster is broken open, magic! The result is a gold piece of jewellery, exactly the same as the original wax model!
Some of the pieces I recently completed using this technique are below:
Thanks and I hope you enjoyed this small selection of styles that show you what is possible to achieve very individual designs using the beauty and texture of gold.
Cheers until next time
I would like to pass on my condolences to Lesley Fraterman as we all celebrate the life of her wonderful man Joe who passed away a few days ago. He will be sadly missed. RIP Joe.
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All meals are chosen for their quality and tastiness, and are flashfrozen to lock in their goodness and flavour. With a huge range of more than 300 dishes available, there is plenty to choose from, including hearty pies, pastas, stir-fries and seasonal recipes, such as mouth-watering lamb, cranberry and redcurrant hotpot (left) and blackcurrant crumble tart (right). You’ll also find a gorgeous lasagne, sweet and sour chicken and shepherd’s pie among the many options. Whether it’s breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert, nothing lifts the spirits quite like a tasty, satisfying dish on the table, and this meals delivery service is sure to have something to suit you.
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Feinwerkbau 100 is a competition air pistol. It was produced between 1988 and 1997 in Germany by the company Feinwerkbau Westinger & Altenburger. It is a firm with a long tradition in competition gun making having made the first competition air rifle in the early sixties and the first competition air pistol in 1965.
The model 65 and its successors 80 and 90, have dominated the shooting sport for many years. But they used a spring to power the gun. In 1988 the first compressed air pistol was introduced, the model 100. It compresses the air with a lever, so there are no more moving parts that produce vibrations or recoil. This kind of gun is called SSP – single stroke pneumatic.
The SSP pistols were short lived on the shooting scene. Even though they were simpler and lighter than springers, it was still required to pump the lever on each shot, that takes some effort. After came CO2 pistols but they also had some disadvantages like the carbon dioxide not providing constant pressure, so they didn’t last long as well, making place to the modern PCP pistols – pre compressed air.
PCP pistols use a small cylinder with compressed air at 200 bar or more. With one cylinder charge you can fire 100-300 shots depending on maker. Each shot is made with the same pressure due to the regulator equipping all PCP pistols.
But PCPs also have an disadvantage: to fill the 200 bar cylinder special equipment is needed. 200 bar is quite a lot, a car pump only manages 10-15 bar. There are special pumps that go to 200 bar but cost a bit much, around 150-300 euros and require serious effort (around half and hour of pumping). Another alternative is a quality compressor that costs 800 to 2000 euros. Or a SCUBA cylinder that you can fill at a diving center, from which you can fill the air pistol cylinder about 20 times. Of course you need a diving center in the vicinity.
As there is no diving in my city, the compressor is too expensive and i don’t feel like pumping that much, i chose to acquire an old SSP pistol. Old because today no one is making a competition SSP pistol. The only SSP with an ok quality produced today is the Baikal MP-46M made in Russia. It’s ok but it is not on the level of a Feinwerkbau.
The working principle is quite simple. The lever in the open position lets air get into the cylinder. The piston compresses that air into a small space. When the trigger is pressed, a metal block hits a valve that opens and releases the compressed air through a tube directly into the barrel, behind the pellet.
The lever compresses the air in the cylinder (green rectangle) with the help of a piston. All that air is compressed in a small space and high pressure. The striker, shown in cocked position, is released by the trigger and strikes a metal rod that is the valve. This rod moves back for a fraction of time letting the air go by. The air goes up through a tube and into the barrel through the pellet pushing pistol. So the pellet is pushed from directly behind and leave the barrel.
The optimal exit speed of the projectile is 150 m/s. But that can be adjusted between certain limits using this screw.
At the maximum open lever position, the loading flap automatically pops. One pellet is put in this channel and, when closing the flap, the small piston pushes the pellet into the barrel.
The gun is 4.5 mm calibre or .177 and uses as projectile lead pellets. 4.5 is the only accepted caliber in shooting competitions. For sport shooting wadcutter pellets are used. They have a flat head to make clean holes in paper targets. You can see some clean target holes.
What set apart a competition pistol are the sights, the trigger and the grip. All are of superior quality and are very adjustable.
This is a mechanical trigger in 2 stages. The first stage has a short travel and requires some force and the second stage has no travel and requires very little force. This is stage 1 and this is stage 2. This system is useful to have a very sensitive trigger that is also safe. The trigger of a competition pistol needs to have a minimum of 500 grams. So stage 1 has 300-400g and stage 2 has 100-200g. This makes releasing the shot very easy when the gun is properly aligned with the target.
Of course there are multiple adjustments available for the trigger so one can customise it as prefered. The trigger shoe position can be adjusted backward and forward, up and down and rotate left and right. Also it can be adjusted the trigger point, weight, stop and slack by individual screws. Here are 2, one here ,one there behind the trigger and a few more behind the grip.
The gun can be put in dry fire mode, when the trigger operates normally but does not reach the valve rod and so it does not release the air. Now it’s live, now it’s dry fire. This mechanism is very useful for training.
You the see the striker, and when released it does not reach the valve rod. That is the valve rod, the striker is this aluminium block and you can see that in dry fire it does not reach. In live mode, it does.
The sights are also adjustable. First, the front sight is removable. It is this small piece that can be removed with this screw. Now on the gun is a 3mm front post and i have here a 3.8mm front post.
The rear sight is also also adjustable with thumb screws – no screwdriver needed. By turning this, the windage is adjusted – if the group is to the right, turn one click towards R. And from there elevation is adjusted – if the group is too high, turn one click towards H. The group position plus windage and elevation indications can be found with the TargetScan app. The width of the aperture is also adjustable, with this longitudinal screw – insert a tool in there and turn. The width can only be adjusted between 3 and 3.8mm. There are rear sight modules with different apertures available.
The third important module is the grip. It is made of walnut wood and it is anatomical. It has a thumb rest, a middle finger place and an adjustable palm shelf. You can slide the shelf up and down. Those whole grip inclination is adjustable for 10 degrees.
Unfortunately, if the tigger and the sights are up to modern standards, the grip is not. It is the same design from 1965. It’s made out of 2 pieces.. You can see here. And it is held together with these 2 screws. Also it does not have finger grooves. Because of this, for me at least, is not a perfect fit. A modern grip is made of a single wood piece and it is adjustable in all directions.
As you can see, Feinwerkbau 100 is a massive pistol. The length is 42 centimeters, which is the maximum length for ISSF competitions. The weight is … 1128 grams. Below the maximum allowed weight of 1500 g but above normal modern pistol weight of 900-1000g.
Another element new with this model and after adopted by other brands is the barrel compensator. It has the role to deflect the air coming out of the barrel so that no turbulence is created behind the pellet and affect the trajectory. Modern pistols have a more complicated design and probably more efficient.
For a 25 years old gun it performs exceptionally well. All it needs from time to time is a seal kit that costs around 11 euros and the replacement procedure is not too complicated. Otherwise it does not require maintenance, cleaning or lubrification.
In his time, Feinwerkbau 100 and its successors, 102 and 103, were used in world championships and olympics. Today is the preferred gun of shooting enthusiasts that don’t what to pay 2000 euros on a new PCP and related infrastructure. It is still used in regional matches, especially in Germany.
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The U.S. Postal Service says 25 rural Alaska post offices will remain open after all.
Douglas is not on that list, according to Senator Mark Begich’s office.
USPS Alaska District Manager Diane Horbuchuk says 25 post offices off the road system are in the clear. The agency last month targeted 3,700 post offices nationwide for possible closure, as a way to reduce costs and expenses. Thirty-six were in Alaska.
Begich arranged a meeting Monday so rural health care providers and other community groups could give postal service officials more information on the impact to rural communities. Horbuchuk announced the agency had already made the decision to spare Alaska’s most remote post offices.
Horbuchuk said those communities will receive letters to that effect this week.
She said the review of the remaining 11 sites, including Douglas, should be completed by the end of the week.
- September 1, 2015- After a class action grievance, a regime change, a year of renovations and buying hundreds of $8,000 workstations, state employees are finally moving into their new offices in Douglas.
- September 1, 2015- "It really helps to have good manners because we are waking people up. The interviewers ask folks very intrusive questions about their income levels, about their history, about demographic factors, health," said Mariya Lovishchuk.
- - Alaska's health commissioner spends her summers working on policy issues by day and fishing for salmon for the winter on nights and weekends with her family who belong to the Yup'ik people.
- September 1, 2015- Aside from a lack of routing measures, the Bering Sea’s nautical charts are outdated, presenting serious safety risks to vessels of all kinds.

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V.19 No.47 | 11/25/2010
Kevin R. Elder
A Tale of Betrayal
Tricklock weaves a tangled web
By Christie Chisholm
In Traitors, things are not as they seem.
The original script by Tricklock Company member Kristen D. Simpson weaves together the stories of Benedict Arnold, Judas Iscariot and Sen. Joseph McCarthy. On the surface, the play is a reflection on the nature of betrayal, patriotism and forgiveness. But there’s another surprising current that sweeps through the show. Religion is the undertone of the production, and its presence left me more than a little confused.
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The ‘Scandal’ look will be hitting the malls this fall as ABC Studios formally unveiled its partnership with The Limited stores for an apparel line inspired by the hit Washington,D.C.-based fixer.
“Scandal” star Kerry Washington and costume designer Lyn Paolo collaborated on designs with Elliot Staples, Limited’s head of design, for a range of items that evoke Olivia Pope’s signature “Gladiator in suit” style. Deal marks an elaborate extension of a hot primetime TV brand in the retail arena.Prices begin at $49 for the collection of tops, pants, jackets and outerwear (see sketch above). The togs will hit shelves on Sept. 22, coinciding with the fourth season launch of the drama series created by Shonda Rhimes. Are you looking forward to the new Scandal collection from the Limited?
“They are allowing an educated, intelligent, powerful, complicated, human, flawed, multidimensional Black woman into their homes. They’re not walking past her on the street, they’re not trying to avoid engaging her, they’re not ignoring her and pretending she’s somebody else’s family and somebody else’s problem…” - Kerry WashingtonShonda Rhimes, the brilliant creator behind it all, says Washington "is truly dedicated to making Olivia a real person. She adds layers and depth and a soul to Olivia." No doubt that's what keeps Washington's 8.5 million die-hard fans, or Gladiators, coming back for more every Thursday at 10pm. But we wanted to know how similar Kerry Washington and Olivia Pope really are. In the Essence Magazine feature "Olivia Vs. Kerry," writer Denene Millner asks the 36-year-old what divides the artist from the muse. Washington says, "Olivia has three [fashion] modes: Work Olivia, Black-Tie Gala Olivia and At Home Olivia... My fashion is more eclectic: There's Going to Work Kerry, which is gym clothes and Nike kicks. That's the Bronx girl. There's also Red Carpet Kerry and Out to Dinner With Friends Kerry." On what a Girls' Night Out for Olivia would be, Washington says "it would involve a lot of wine." For her, "I drink maybe twice a year. I would be with my three best friends from high school or my girlfriends from the show."
ESSENCE’s November issue hits newsstands on October 10th.

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TOTS Gymnastics 2015 #2
Images from the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics section of the Top of the South Gymnastics Competition, Nelson, July 2015
The Ner-A-Car from 1922, the motorcycle that Cannonball Baker once rode from New York to Los Angeles in 8 days.
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A selection of images from the 2015 “Top of the South” Gymnastics Competition
1913 Henderson Model B
Details of the 1913 Henderson Model B, one of the classic motorcycles at Nelson’s famous “NZ Classic Motorcycle Collection”
1910 Marsh Metz
Another in the series of classic motorcycles, thanks to the NZ Classic Motorcycle Collection. Text courtesy of Mike Murphy and NZCM (and the photographs are of course mine). “In 1893 Charles H. Metz co-founded the Waltham Manufacturing Company in Massachusetts to produce the ‘Orient’ bicycle. As part of his sales promotion, Metz trained a bicycle racing team and constructed a motorised tandem pacer bicycle with the rear passenger operating a De Dion-Bouton single-cylinder engine fitted in the rear of the frame. The machine helped to train his bicycle team to achieve considerable success and he began experimenting with motorised pacer bicycle designs with a view to marketing them. After trying tricycle and quadracycle configurations, in 1989 he mounted an Aster/De Dion-Bouton engine in a heavy-duty version of his production bicycle. Several prototypes later he launched a catalogue in 1899 advertising his ‘Orient Motor-cycle’ pace machines, possibly providing the first published…
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1907 Indian ‘Camelback’
The NZ Classic Motorcycles collection is heading towards becoming a major attraction in Nelson, for good reason. It is an amazing collection of fascinating machinery. .I was recently commissioned to photograph some new acquisitions and their management has kindly given me permission to reproduce some of them here. So here’s the first, the oldest in the group. It’s a 1907 Indian: The following description was commissioned for the launch, written by experiencing motoring journalist Mike Murphy. “Oliver Hendee, a very successful bicycle racer who established the Hendee Manufacturing Company to manufacture ‘Silver King’ bicycles in 1889, saw one of Oscar Hedström’s motorised bicycles pacing bicycle racers at Madison Square Garden in 1899 and commissioned Hedström to design one for general sale. Hedström was a machinist who had acquired skills in developing and producing internal combustion engines, including redesigning the De Dion-Bouton engine. The two men produced their first prototype Indian motorcycle…
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Taking a step towards amplifying customer experience
Trescon is set to bring the 11th global edition of World CX Summit on 17th August 2023 at the Edsa Shangri-La in Manila, Philippines. The World CX Summit – Manila brings together the most influential CX Leaders and technology vendor from thePhilippines ‘all under one roof’.
Monday, 24th July 2023: Philippines, the third-largest contact center outsourcing destination, is gearing up to host the 11th edition of the World CX Summit, organized by Trescon. The premier customer experience event brings together leading CX professionals and experts to help businesses and brands provide a seamless customer experience journey using the latest trends and technologies that dominate the market.
After successfully hosting over 15,000 CX thought leaders, innovators, specialists and key stakeholders in over 10 editions, the World CX Summit has established itself as a premier knowledge sharing platform to share actionable insights about the latest trends and technologies in delivering a memorable customer experience. At the event, attendees will engage in insightful sessions, listen to captivating keynotes, and draw inspiration from successful use-cases to transform their CX strategies.
At the 11th global edition of the World CX Summit, the attendees will witness the fusion of cutting-edge technologies and customer insights while helping them focus on how to amplify customer experience, pioneering personalization at scale, cracking the code of CX ROI along with other key topics. Fostering a spirit of knowledge-sharing and innovation, the event facilitates networking opportunities and forge impactful relationshipto
accelerate the adoption of the latest technologies to optimize customer experiencestrategies.
The notable speakers attending the event include:
- Venn Jude Francisco, Chief Experience Officer, Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation, Philippines
- Sam Tolentino, Assistant Vice President – Client Engagement & Solutions Group, Union Bank, Philippines
- Melody Lim, Head of Customer Experience, Aboitiz Power Philippines
- Hazel Montano-Zamora, CX Design Head, AIA Philippines, Philippines
- Godfrey Santos, Assistant Vice President- Customer Experience, PETNET Inc.
- Tara Cabullo, Head of Customer and Investments Digital Experience, GCash, Philippines
- Samuel Powell, CEO, HMR Philippines, Philippines
- Warren Ilustre, Head of Customer Experience, East West Bank, Philippines
- Dan Ramirez, SVP and Head of Transformation, ING, Philippines
- Jonas R. De Los Reyes, First Vice President, Head of Digital Marketing andOmnichannel, Metrobank and Trust Company (Metrobank), Philippines
Naveen Bharadwaj, Group CEO, Trescon shared his excitement about the upcoming event stating, “The Philippines’ expanding CX market and economic growth made it an ideal choice to host the latest edition of the World CX Summit. We are committed to supporting the continued digital transformation of the market by undertaking the mandates and requirements of local government and enterprise stakeholders and facilitating their introductions to the world’s leading solution and service providers.”
On being a part of the Summit, one of the key speakers, Venn Jude Francisco said, “The World CX Summit provides a venue that will foster much needed collaborations which can hopefully spark meaningful innovation in customer experience across regions.”
Sam Tolentino, AVP‐ Client Engagement & Solutions Group, Union Bank expressed his excitement about the Summit saying, ” The World CX Summit will play a pivotal role inelevating local CX to exceed global standards.”
Trescon is a pioneering force in the global business events and services sector, driving the adoption of emerging technologies while promoting sustainability and inclusive leadership. Its summits, expos, and conferences create real economic impact by connecting and empowering key stakeholders, including government organizations, regulators, enterprises, corporates, and more. With a team of over 250 employees across offices in 6 countries, Trescon has helped clients achieve exponential growth, accelerate market entry, and buildvaluable partnerships. For more information about Trescon, visit: www.tresconglobal.com
Trescon is glad to announce a new mega tech show called Digital Acceleration andTransformation Expo (DATE) scheduled to take place in Delhi in November 2023 and Jakarta in 2024. For further information about DATE, visit: www.datewithtech.com


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Global education, or global studies, is an interdisciplinary approach to learning concepts and skills necessary to function in a world that is increasingly interconnected and multicultural. The curricula based on this approach are grounded in traditional academic disciplines but are taught in the context of project-and problem-based inquiries. The learner examines issues from the vantage point of the individual, the local community, the nation, and the world community. As social conditioning, an essential component of schooling, global studies takes an international stance that respects local allegiances and cultural diversity while adhering to the principles of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
There is, however, no standard definition among proponents of global education. Kenneth A. Tye and Barbara Benham Tye of the Center for Human Interdependence (CHI) in Orange County, California, an educational training program that emphasizes global awareness, constructed the following working definition:
Global education involves learning about those problems and issues that cut across national boundaries, and about the interconnectedness of systems—ecological, cultural, economic, political and technological. Global education involves perspective taking—seeing things through the eyes and minds of others—and it means the realization that while individuals and groups may view life differently, they also have common needs and wants.
Global education is distinct from the concept of globalization, that is, the forces of market capitalism, which tend to focus discussion on global economic systems and information technologies. From a pedagogical standpoint, economic prosperity and technological progress are part of a broader emphasis on planetary interconnectedness, interdependency, and sustainability. Key concepts in global education include human rights, environmental responsibility, cultural studies, and sustainable economies. Global education views national politics and transnational economic policies with an eye toward international accountability. It stresses the role of global ethics in shaping humane, environmentally sound attitudes toward the world as a single ecosystem, and it teaches that a globally conscious citizenry can effectively overcome such problems as climate change, ocean pollution, and resource depletion with ingenuity, leadership, and cooperation.
One of the aims of global education is a shared international global ethic that would be used to govern socioeconomic decision-making. This ethic would be based on a system of universal values found in United Nations documents onhuman rights, agreements of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, proposals of Amnesty International and other NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) for the realization of human rights, and the Earth Chapter project.
The value and utility of global education derives from the sense that international events require all societies and their citizens to become knowledgeable about the world beyond their national borders. Usually, this imperative is cast in economic terms. Business and political leaders warn that, as the world's economies and financial systems are incredibly interconnected, our material well-being depends on professionals and workers with sophisticated knowledge of the global economy. In their view, family and local community can no longer define our values. Rather, community-based values must be integrated into the large-scale social institutions that govern our lives.
Training Professional Educators
Much education planning in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries focused on preparing students for the increasingly interdependent world and the diverse societies they would graduate into. Professional educators, parents, and policy-makers understood that educators need to have a sound awareness of other nations, their social milieus, cultures, customs, political and economic processes, and educational systems. Accordingly, teacher-education programs in colleges and universities around the world responded by introducing courses of study and program components to help meet this need.
Such courses and program components fall under the generic heading of Global Education but may have different labels such as Global Comparative Education or Comparative Education. Postsecondary education reacted to the globalization phenomenon in a way that sought to use the technological, economic, social, and political developments of the late twentieth century to develop a shared vision of global responsibility and economic sustainability.
Courses in global education tend to fall into two general categories: survey courses and courses dealing with specific issues. Survey courses have three basic components. First, they introduce students to the field of global/comparative studies in education. Second, they undertake examinations of selected countries as case studies. Third, these case studies provide the data and substantive content for comparing national systems of schooling; discerning common themes and trends; appreciating differences; understanding problems and controversies; and drawing conclusions, insights, and lessons.
The second category of courses focuses on specific issues in contemporary schooling, examined in an international context. The wide scope of issues addressed includes equality of educational opportunity; educational achievement; evaluation and examinations; the treatment of minority groups; women in education; formal, nonformal, and informal education; delivery modes; teacher training, certification, and supply; citizenship education; politics, ideology, and schooling; language and literacy; schooling and the economy; education, modernization, and development; education reform; accountability; effective schooling; and school administration and governance.
Global education addresses schooling in all its aspects. Pedagogical strategies, curricular content, evaluation, classroom management, and organization and administration are conducted in fundamentally different ways around the world. Research into how children learn, what constitutes "best practices" in pedagogy, and how schools serve social and class interests is being conducted in many societies and in many different national and cultural contexts. All around the world, educators, departments of education, education research institutes, professors of education, and others are working conscientiously to produce pedagogy, curricula, and diagnostic tools to better serve students, parents, society, and the teaching profession.
Schooling will inevitably reflect the cultural biases on which it is established, but as a general rule, global education aims to:
Find a cross-cultural foundation for knowledge and human values;
Refine understandings of globally applicable ethical attitudes;
Consider how international organizations might affect national political and economic decisions;
Foster a global civic culture with a capacity for altruism and empathy, one that encourages social action and community service.
The Development of Global Perspective
in U.S. Education
The progressive education movement of the twentieth century included several components, one of which was the emphasis placed on the democratic educational approach, accepting the interests and needs of an increasingly diverse student body in an increasingly interdependent world. In the 1920s this was reflected in the rebirth of comparative studies. In the 1940s, progressive education was reclassified as intergroup education. In the 1950s it focused on area studies, race relations, and ethnic studies. In the 1960s, it added peace and conflict studies, human rights education, international studies, intercultural studies, and open classrooms.
In the 1970s, the women's liberation and African-American liberation movements blossomed in both positive and negative terms. In the field of education this was reflected in the introduction of multicultural and environmental education. The 1980s saw the introduction of global education and world studies. From the 1980s to the early 2000s global education as well as multicultural education remained constant in the historical context.
Thus, global perspective in education is not a new idea. Yet, while efforts in this direction can be traced in earlier history, World War II is something of a watershed in its development. After the war, a widespread movement began around the world to foster education for "world understanding" with the purpose of preventing a third world war. Children's books in war-torn Europe, Japan, and the USSR featured peace and antiwar themes and empathetic stories about children of other lands.
In the United States the Cold War chilled and slowed the movement for a time, especially in the 1950s, when McCarthyites saw "communism" behind every effort to increase international cooperation. But even in this climate, some educational leaders foresaw that the United States could not remain isolated forever from the rest of the world and that "international education" was in the national self-interest. The Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957 was a spur not only to improved science education but also to increased pressure in the United States for international education. A year later Congress passed the 1958 National Defense Education Act (NDEA). Under Title VI it mandated the teaching of foreign studies, languages, and cultural understanding. However, practice did not match the preaching; allocations were minimal. Years of effort followed, as groups of educators and others in the United States pressed for congressional support for substantive international and global education programs. For a time, under the Carter administration and the leadership of Ernest Boyer as commissioner of education, major breakthroughs seemed imminent. Boyer condemned education that failed to acquaint students with the interdependence of all humans and the fragility of life in an unstable world. In this period, fourteen states adopted global education guidelines or programs. And although the notion of global education came under fire during the Reagan administration, support was growing among some U.S. business and educational leaders.
But even among those who did accept the need for global education, there was no widespread agreement on its definition, purposes, or objectives. Phrases such as education for world understanding ; intercultural, international, global, or foreign affairs education; global perspectives in education, or transnational or planetary perspectives; or education for spaceship earth —these were used interchangeably, even by professionals, blurring important distinctions. This ambiguity may be symptomatic of the new and tenuous nature of thought in the field and of the different emphases of different persons and institutions at a given time.
The various terms also reflect a certain historical development. References to "global," "interdependent," "transnational," and "planetary" education emanated in part from a new perspective of the planet—as seen from outer space—in which national political boundaries were seen as artificial human creations, the real subject being the life and functioning integrity of the planet as a whole.
Perhaps most important, the different terms are symptomatic of changing—and sometimes conflicting—worldviews or paradigms. For example, phrases such as foreign-affairs or international education suggest a state-centric vision in which the major actors are seen as governments. In contrast, terms such as global, planetary, transnational, or interdependent education suggest a frame of reference in which a variety of actors—economic, environmental, cultural, and popular as well as governmental—are considered for their impact on the world as a whole. National interest here is seen as inseparable from world interest.
Three Views of Global Education in American
In a period of competing worldviews, the more interesting and significant question concerns not what terms are being used but, rather, the underlying vision and purpose of education and how it will affect our children and the people and the world of tomorrow. Three distinct views of the purpose of global education emerged in the United States during the late twentieth century.
Win the superpower contest.
This view emerged from a bipolar vision of the world that assumed that the most important fact of life as the United States approached the twenty-first century was the ideological conflict between the superpowers and their competition for world hegemony. One of its more prominent spokespersons was the U.S. secretary of education, William J. Bennett. In his December 5, 1986, speech to the Ethics and Public Policy Center Conference, Bennett spoke of the United States's global responsibilities as a global power and, as a result, the need to learn as much about the world as possible. In Bennett's view, the defensive position of the United States and its allies to the USSR was the central fact of the political world. More recently, after criticizing other approaches to global education, Bennett suggests that global education properly understood should include geography, foreign languages, some foreign literature, and a good deal of European history. But most important, Bennett suggests that American students should learn about American literature, history, and especially democracy; about totalitarian and theocratic regimes; about the social, political, and economic differences between despotic and dictatorial nations and democratic nations; and, finally, about the key historical events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century that created the current relations between the United States and the Muslim world.
A limitation of this approach is that it is not particularly global. It provides little understanding of other nations or cultures or of the deeper life processes of the planet. In its most benign form it is an incomplete education—inadequate preparation for life in an increasingly interdependent world. Taken to extremes, it could lead to fascism.
Win the global economic contest.
A second view of the need for global education in the United States emanates from international economic competition. In this view the most important fact about the world in the late twentieth century was not superpower competition but the emergence of one world economy—global capitalism—and shifting centers of economic power within it. In the United States this shift had the potential power of a Sputnik II in reshaping the purposes and direction of education, except that the major competitor striking fear in the hearts of national leaders in the early 2000s was not the USSR but Asia and the European Union.
In addition to Japan and Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and the European Union were rapidly gaining economic ground. Together they represent a shift of economic power away from the West toward Asia. This carried not only economic importance but also potential significance with respect to political, cultural, military, and other forms of power in the future.
In the 1950s the United States enjoyed a trade surplus; by the 1980s, it was experiencing chronic trade and payment deficits. The 1990s were healthy economic years for the United States; the country managed to eliminate the trade and payment deficits. But as the United States entered the twenty-first century, economic uncertainty coupled with the events of September 11, 2001, managed to reverse the American economic forward momentum to a crawl. Thus, in contrast to the "peace" focus of international education efforts after World War II, and the military security goals that characterized the post-Sputnik emergency passage of the National Defense Education Act in 1958, some U.S. leaders saw the fundamental purpose of international education as helping to maintain U.S. economic strength.
With this in mind, when Congress decided in 1980 to make the Title VI NDEA international education programs part of the "mainstream" Higher Education Act, the strong national security rationale for these programs was augmented to include not only military but also economic security. A special business and international education provision was added to establish "export education programs," among other things. Congress stated that
- The future economic welfare of the United States will depend substantially on increasing international skills in the business community and creating an awareness among the American public of the internationalization of our economy.
- Concerted efforts are necessary to engage business schools, language and area study programs, public and private sector organizations, and United States business in a mutually productive relationship which benefits the Nation's future economic interests.
The relationship between education and economic security was underscored by the National Commission on Excellence in Education in its 1983 report A Nation at Risk, which stated that because "our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science and technological innovation [was] being challenged by competition throughout the world," a revolution in U.S. education was called for.
The Southern Governors' Conference also addressed the problem of "international illiteracy" in the United States and its negative effect on U.S. ability to compete in the international marketplace. The conference's Advisory Council, made up of leaders from business, education, and government, issued in November 1986 a no-nonsense report that came right to the economic point:
Americans have not responded to a basic fact: the best jobs, largest markets, and greatest profits belong to those who understand the country with which they are doing business.…
We operate in a global economy. There are no more guaranteed markets for our goods. We must compete—and to compete we must be able to communicate.…
We cannot trade goods or ideas unless we understand our customers and they understand us.
The Council's recommendations for redressing the problem included increased emphasis in the schools on geography, international studies, and foreign languages, "sister-school" programs abroad, and teacher and student exchanges. They also recommended special educational programs and assistance to businesses, including programs on languages, foreign business practices, and cultural training.
Persons, peoples, and planet.
A third view of global education sees as its purpose not winning a struggle for military or economic power but rather an understanding of humanity's responsibility to individuals, to peoples, and to the planet itself.
This view seeks a deep understanding and appreciation of humanity's shared evolutionary past—the story of the earth, of its creative life forces, of human becoming, and of the common human subsistence in that one earth—as well as of their more local and distinct social, cultural, economic, and political roots. It seeks to help children worldwide to understand the increasingly interdependent nature of the human world and to learn how to take a creative and responsible part in its life. It also wants them to understand the consequences of their choices—not only to themselves but also to those around them and those yet to come. Thus, the values needed to guide responsible decision-making must include not only the maximization of profit but also peace, freedom, human rights, social justice, and ecological balance. To create and maintain the conditions necessary to realize these values they must learn how to think critically, resolve conflicts, and solve problems creatively.
See also Education: North America ; Globalization .
Banks, James A. Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.
——. Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies. 7th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.
Diaz, Carlos, Byron G. Massialas, and John A. Xanthopoulos. Global Perspectives for Educators. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.
Lynch, James. Multicultural Education in a Global Society. London and New York: Falmer, 1989.
Marciano, John. Civic Illiteracy and Education: Battle for the Hearts and Minds of American Youth. New York: Lang, 1997.
O'Riordan, Tim, ed. Globalism, Localism, and Identity: Fresh Perspectives on the Transition to Sustainability. Sterling, Va.: Earthscan, 2001.
Parker, Walter C., ed. Educating the Democratic Mind. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Southern Governors' Conference. Advisory Council Report. Atlanta, Ga.: The Association, 1986.
Spring, Joel H. American Education. 11th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Tye, Barbara Benham, and Kenneth A. Tye. Global Education: A Study of School Change. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
United States, National Commission on Excellence in Education. A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. Washington, D.C.: The Commission, 1983.
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The Difference Engine
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history—and the future:
Sybil Gerard—a fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator
Edward “Leviathan” Mallory—explorer and paleontologist
Laurence Oliphant—diplomat, mystic, and spy.
Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for….
Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the collaborative masterpiece by two of the most acclaimed science fiction authors writing today. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson’s and Sterling’s unique visions—and the beginning of movement we know today as “steampunk!”
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Volkswagen to Speed Up the Development of EVs & Digital Services as Part of its Updated 'ACCELERATE' Strategy
【Summary】Automaker Volkswagen announced an updated company strategy called "ACCELERATE" that includes a faster roll out new electric models that are software-based and connected. The updated ACCELERATE strategy will prepare the automaker for a changing auto industry that’s quickly moving towards electrification, connectivity and autonomous driving.
German automaker Volkswagen has already made its bold electric vehicle plans known. The company is investing billions to develop new electric models globally, but now its accelerating those plans under an updated strategy that includes a faster roll out new electric models that are software-based and connected.
The automaker originally planned for 35% of its European models to be battery-powered by 2030, but now its doubled its target to 70% of its model lineup. In the U.S. and China, Volkswagen plans for 50% of its vehicles to be fully-electric by 2030.
Volkswagen's new timelines are part of the company's updated "ACCELERATE" Strategy, which will prepare the automaker for a changing auto industry that's quickly moving towards electrification, connectivity and autonomous driving.
Over the next several years VW will introduce one new electric model every year, beginning with the new all-wheel-drive ID.4 GTX in the first half of 2021. The automaker will follow that up with the sporty ID.5 in the second half of 2021.
In the third quarter of 2021, Volkswagen will launch the ID.6 X / CROZZ, a seven-passenger electric SUV for the China market.
Volkwagen's ID family of vehicles currently includes the all-new ID.3 hatchback and ID.4 SUV. Both vehicles are positioned to compete with Tesla's Model 3 sedan and Model Y crossover, as well as other vehicles in the rapidly expanding EV market.
Volkswagen is also planning to launch a more affordable electric car under the ID.3 and the vehicle will arrive two years ahead of its previously scheduled launch in 2027 to 2025.
In the interim, Volkswagen's existing internal combustion engine models like the Golf, Tiguan and Passat, will also be updated to more efficient hybrid powertrains in parallel to the development of new EVs.
"We will still need combustion engines for a while, but they should be as efficient as possible, which is why the next generation of our core products – all of which are world models – will also be fitted with the latest generation of plug-in hybrid technology, with an electric range of up to 100 kilometers," said Volkswagen CEO Ralf Brandstätter.
The new EVs will be built on Volkswagen's Modular Electric Drive Toolkit (MEB), which the company says has been improved to offer quicker acceleration, longer range and faster charging.
The new MEB platform represents an entirely new way of building cars at Volkswagen. The new architecture consolidates all of the vehicle's electronic controls and reduces the number of microprocessors. Volkwagen said previously that it aims to build up to 10 million vehicles on its new MEB platform, but there is more to the company's updated strategy.
"E-mobility was just the beginning: the real disruption has yet to come. With our strategy we will ACCELERATE towards the digital future," said Brandstätter. "In the coming years, we will change Volkswagen as never before."
Volkswagen's new ID.4 fully-electric SUV.
Volkswagen's Transition to Software-based Vehicles
A significant part of Volkswagen's updated ACCELERATE plan includes the integration of software into its vehicles, digital services and data-based business models which will help the automaker attract new customers and tap into additional sources of revenue. This also includes a wide rollout of vehicles capable of autonomous driving before the end of the decade.
Volkswagen said that the integration of software into the vehicle and the digital customer experience will become a core part of the Volkswagen brand by 2030. The company is developing what it calls a "customer-centric digital ecosystem", beginning with the new ID. family of fully-electric vehicles.
Future Volkswagen models will be software-based and will receive over-the-air updates every three months the automaker announced last week. The software updates will begin this summer. VW is working with Microsoft on a cloud-based data platform to support its push into software and digital services and vehicle connectivity.
VW plans to have a networked fleet of over 500,000 vehicles on the road within two years, the company said. Since the vehicles will be updatable via OTA updates, Volkswagen said it will be able to receive feedback from customers to continuously make improvements, then be able to push them out quickly to the entire network of vehicles.
OTA vehicle software updates were pioneered by electric automaker Tesla with the Model S launch in 2012. Now other automakers are following suit, including Ford Motor Co with the new fully-electric Mustang Mach-E SUV, which supports OTA updates.
By turning its vehicles into software-based products like a smartphone, Volkswagen said its will be able to offer attractive service packages for customers that they can download to their vehicles via an OTA update. Volkswagen expects to generate additional revenue from these services, which will extend through the entire service life of the vehicle.
These revenue streams might include autonomous driving functions that can be added to the vehicles via a subscription, which is what Tesla is exploring with its Full Self Driving feature, which customers can unlock with a one-time payment or via a monthly subscription, which is what Tesla is considering.
As part of Volkswagen's transitions to electrification, the automaker said its future model lineup will be much more simplified. The company said that future vehicle generations will be produced with a much smaller number of variants.
With this approach, each vehicle will essentially be a blank slate, allowing customers to upgrade their vehicles with software for adding new features at any time using VW's digital ecosystem, including for premium features. This will significantly reduce vehicle production complexity, the company said.
In 2026, all of Volkswagen's new vehicle technologies will be bundled into a new flagship sedan code-named "Trinity." Volkswagen said that with Trinity, all of the elements of the company's transformation will come together in a new and advanced electric sedan.
The Trinity-based vehicle will support Level 2+ autonomous driving and up to Level 4 in the future, the company said.
"Trinity will become a kind of time machine for our customers, saving them time and stress. However, this technology must not become the preserve of a select elite, which is why we are scaling it to make it available for many people," Brandstätter said.
Last month, Volkswagen announced a new partnership with Microsoft on a cloud-based software development platform. The automaker will use Microsoft's Azure cloud computing services to help the company streamline the development of software for advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving.
Volkswagen plans to establish a neural network across its fleet, allowing vehicles to continuously exchange data, such as information on road conditions in real-time. The neural network will be used to create a self-learning system using the data collected from millions of vehicles to improve Volkswagen's self-driving capabilities over time.
"Volkswagen will undergo profound changes. We will epitomize not only climate-friendly e-mobility, but especially fascinating digital customer experiences, new business models and autonomous driving for many people. We have built up a strong basis for this over the last few years. Now, with ACCELERATE we will give digitalization a further push," said Brandstätter.
Volkswagen's Plan to Increase Profitability
Volkswagen has allocated roughly 16 billion euros (US$19 billion) through 2025 for investments in e-mobility and digitalization. In order to fund this massive investment, VW will work on increasing its efficiency with ACCELERATE, targeted operating margin of at least 6% by 2023. The automaker is aiming to trim its fixed costs by 5% before 2023.
With improved margins, VW can still post a profit in North America with a decrease in sales volumes of around 15%. In South America, that number jumps as high as 30%. This will allow the automaker to weather any economic downturns and still remain profitable, which is what the world's automakers faced last year when the global pandemic caused a sudden decline in auto sales.
Volkswagen Plans to Win the EV Race
Automakers like Volkswagen are racing to develop electric vehicles to meet tighter CO2 emissions targets, especially in Europe. Swedish automaker Volvo Cars announced this week that it will only sell fully-electric vehicles by 2030. U.S. automaker General Motors also announced recently that it will only sell fully-electric passenger vehicles by 2035.
Stellantis, the new company formed after the merger of Fiat Chrysler and PSA, plans to have fully-electric or hybrid versions of all of its vehicles available in Europe by 2025.
But simply building more electric vehicles will not alone transform an automaker. It's the digital services, connectivity and customer experience that will likely differentiate rival automakers in the future.
It's exactly what Tesla has done with its disruptive business model without using traditional dealerships and only selling fully-electric vehicles that are connected and part of a massive network. Now Volkswagen has the similar pieces in place to become a digital mobility company.
"Of all the major manufacturers, Volkswagen has the best chance of winning the race. While competitors are still in the middle of the electric transformation, we are taking big steps toward digital transformation," Brandstaetter said.
Originally hailing from New Jersey, Eric is a automotive & technology reporter covering the high-tech industry here in Silicon Valley. He has over 15 years of automotive experience and a bachelors degree in computer science. These skills, combined with technical writing and news reporting, allows him to fully understand and identify new and innovative technologies in the auto industry and beyond. He has worked at Uber on self-driving cars and as a technical writer, helping people to understand and work with technology.
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Buckwheat honey is a dark brown, opaque, earthy-mossy honey with a resemblance in flavor profile to molasses. It pairs beautifully with strong cheeses, especially blues, and with hearty breads or in barbeque sauce.
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About the Book
The Regulatory State
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Edward L. Rubin
Kevin M. Stack
2010. 768 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7355-9417-3. With Teacher's Manual.
About the Book
The Regulatory State is an innovative new casebook for 1Ls that aims to provide lawyers with a foundation for handling matters that involve agencies and regulations, as well as with a basis for understanding and evaluating our government.
- Focuses on an accessible example: uses motor vehicle safety as the central example in each chapter, a familiar entry point into a complex legal area that provides thematic unity
- Visually distinctive: presents primary materials drawn from the primary sources of the regulatory state, including the Federal Register, Executive Orders, and administrative guidance documents, alongside judicial decisions
- Tools-based approach: the chapters on legislation, judicial statutory interpretation, and agency statutory implementation highlight the modes of argument and analysis that lawyers, courts, and agencies use
- Useful practice exercises: included in the Notes
- Provides selected materials from the best empirical and positive political theory on how Congress, federal agencies, and the courts make decisions
- Includes practical treatment of statutory interpretation, making it an updated alternative to more traditional treatments of statutory interpretation, whether in other regulatory state books, legislation books, administrative law books, or legal process books
- Contains lively, contemporary excerpted materials, including includes excerpts from news articles, blogs, letters from government officials, and excerpts from trade press books, as well as selected primary source materials on regulatory government
- Organized to allow students to better understand why we have our administrative form of government: examines the common law as a regulatory regime, introduces legislation, and exposes the dynamics of its implementation by courts and agencies
- Written by high-profile authors: Bressman and Stack are among the best young administrative law scholars in the country; Ed Rubin, former dean of Vanderbilt, is a widely respected scholar
- Accompanied by a Teacherís Manual and a website containing specific and detailed lesson plans, along with updated primary documents (e.g., statutes, legislative history, regulations, party comments, executive orders, White House documents) and news clips (accounts from the popular press of contemporary events) for lively class presentation.

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Published on Tuesday June 7, 2011
Professor Christopher Li has been promoted to the rank of Professor.
Li has been with the department since 2002. He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Science from the University of Akron in 1999 and his B.S. in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995. Li's research specializes in polymers and soft matter and hybrid materials. He oversees the Soft Matter Research Group and was recently awarded an NSF Special Creativity Award.


I've searched the VMTN forums haven't found anything relevant yet. Thanks much for your ideas and recommendations!
After using Converter to P2V several of our older Windows 2003 servers, a few of the VMs started showing the following alert in MOM:
Alert Source: Processor: % Interrupt Time: _Total
Alert Description: Extremely high processor activity detected. Processor: % Interrupt Time: _Total value = 11.3750464279179. The average over last 6 samples is 11.375.
Alert Severity: Critical Error
I understand this alert indicates the following:
% Interrupt Time is the time the processor spends receiving and servicing hardware interrupts during sample intervals. This value is an indirect indicator of the activity of devices that generate interrupts, such as the system clock, the mouse, disk drivers, data communication lines, network interface cards and other peripheral devices. These devices normally interrupt the processor when they have completed a task or require attention. Normal thread execution is suspended during interrupts. Most system clocks interrupt the processor every 10 milliseconds, creating a background of interrupt activity. suspends normal thread execution during interrupts. This counter displays the average busy time as a percentage of the sample time.
So...does anyone know why this alert would only show on a select few VMs? Should I adjust the monitoring threshold in MOM and forget about it? Or does something in the OS or hardware need tweaking?
Thanks so much - this community rocks!
Thanks much for the reply. Both servers running 2 CPU, both running ACPI Multi-Proc HAL.
Host is very lightly used, CPU Ready% of <1% for this VM. In VC, this VM is showing CPU Ready average of 94 Milliseconds.
I have the same issue as well with a dual proc W2K3 server. The cluster it is in is not heavily used and processor ready times for this server are in line with other servers on the cluster that do not get this error.


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I did ballet throughout middle and high school. I had a light blue water bottle that I took with me from school to ballet. I never put any stickers on it – I didn’t know enough of myself at that point to feel comfortable advertising my identity in this way, and my experiences with ballet only served to reinforce this discomfort.
Myself and the other interns visiting the U.N. for #HIVIsNotACrime!
For all the beauty of this art form, the ideals of ballet have for too long been limited to Eurocentric physical standards idealizing white bodies. As a young Latinx girl, my body fell outside of these imposed norms – something that I was constantly reminded of. I soon realized that not only did I deviate in this way, but also in my budding awareness of my sexuality. Considering the religious influence of my culture, microaggressions in American society towards my ethnicity, and my own sense of disconnect from where my identities as a Latinx and an American existed in conflict with one another, I had no idea how to define myself – much less how to take pride in this confusing identity. The studio I went to wasn’t the best for my mental health; I ended up quitting halfway through high school. From there, I’ve gone on to pursue other activities, but my past with ballet has definitely influenced how I continue to act and perceive the world.
I’ve only just moved to New York to intern with OutRight, and so far it has been the most I’ve ever been immersed in queer culture. I’ve absolutely loved it.
Last Monday, I was excited to attend a Ballez class. It was the first time I’d done ballet since quitting, but, more than that, Ballez advertises itself as being for “all the people whom ballet has left out” on its website. It is an explicitly queer and inclusive space – something I’d never heard in relation to ballet before. I had no idea what to expect from a class, but I knew it was somewhere I had to be.
True to its word, the class was inclusive of everyone, regardless of how they identified. I went by myself, and I was surprised at just how much fun I had. The instructor encouraged us to move however we wished and let loose. This was something I hadn’t experienced in ballet before, and I didn’t know how much I needed it.
A picture of the Ballez company from Lola Hourihane.
I’ve had many moments of pride over the years as I’ve come to terms with who I am, but this moment, reclaiming ballet – something that was such a huge part of my formative years – stands out the most. The complexity of my identities has made me hyper-aware of the spaces I inhabit and my given role within them. In my past with ballet, there was only so much space I felt I could take up. At Ballez, I stretched as much as I could and waved my arms around, and leaped as I pleased, taking advantage of the freestyle exercises to do whatever I wished.
I’m proud to say I’ve grown to a point where I’m comfortable taking up the spaces that previously made me feel unwelcome, in ballet or otherwise. I have so many stickers now. They’re on practically everything I own. The water bottle I took to Ballez was completely plastered in them. I finally feel as though I have the confidence to declare in this small way who I am and what I believe. To me, pride means that I will no longer wait for spaces to accommodate me. I now have the power to claim my own.
This year’s World Pride will be my first time attending a Pride parade, much less marching in one. The queer community has come so far, but there remains critical work to be done. Pride is a protest as much as it is a celebration of our identities; I am proud to take a visible position advocating for my community during this year’s march, and am so excited to be in this unique kind of space with other people who identify as I do. I’ll be filled with pride.
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Hollywood Roofing Experts Prepare for Roof Replacement Season
Hollywood Roofing Experts had to hire more roof replacement crews to prepare for a busy fall season. With many homeowners putting off replacing their roofs until the daily rain stops.
Many people can assume that summer is the time to replace their roofs in Hollywood, Florida. Summer is, after all, the time of year when it rains almost every day. However, as the summer rain continues local roofing companies in Hollywood very busy, mainly roof repair work. The Hollywood Roofing Experts have had a successful summer in terms of new business, especially compared to 2020. Now, with dozens of roof replacement projects already under contract and dozens more to come, Hollywood roofing experts are stepping up to the plate. top speed by hiring additional crews for replacement projects.
Many homeowners put off buying a new roof until the end of the summer because of the rain. Relentless rain and thunderstorms can often delay projects, so if the roof can be tarped or repaired, at the moment this is the route many homeowners take, then they are looking to replace the roof in the not-so-fall. rainy and winter months.
Jonathan, a representative of the Hollywood Roofing Experts, said: âWe are very excited about the tremendous growth we have seen in 2021. We are expected to do nearly double the number of roofing replacements by the end of this year. year that in 2020. these roofs are under contract and will be completed in the coming months now that summer is behind us. We are happy to announce that we have hired an additional team for what will be a very busy end of the year. ”
The roof replacement process can take some time, which is why homeowners are encouraged to seek help as soon as possible if there is a roofing problem in the home. On the one hand, permits must be withdrawn; then, if the roof is tiled, it may take longer due to the current shortage of tiles. Fortunately for Hollywood homeowners, many are opting for asphalt shingle roof replacements. A shingle roof replacement can be completed in days or less, and the materials are currently in stock, get more information about asphalt roofing here. https://www.hollywoodroofingexperts.com/roof-replacement/asphalt-shingle.
Hollywood roofing experts offer free quotes and proposals to all homeowners who want to replace their roof. Plus, they can help with any insurance claims and have the ability to put homeowners in touch with roof top financing options.
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Thermal cameras are great if you want to get an idea of what’s hot and what’s not. However, if you want to use a thermal camera for certain machine vision tasks, you will generally need to perform a geometric calibration to understand what the camera is seeing and correct for lens distortion. (Henry Zhang) has shared several methods to do this.
To calibrate a thermal imager, you first need a thermal pattern. This is like the typical test image from a camera or screen, but with temperatures instead of colors. (Henry) explains several methods of doing this. One involves using a nichrome wire grid to create a thermal pattern for calibration purposes. Another uses cold aluminum discs inserted into a foam board. Even a simple checkerboard can work, with the black spaces warming more from ambient sunlight than their neighboring white dots. He then (Henry) explains the mathematical techniques used to calibrate based on these patterns.
It is a useful introduction to the subject if you are working with thermal imaging systems. We’ve also looked at other interesting machine vision topics before. If you have any great thermal imaging tips, feel free to drop us a line!


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“Astonishing maturity... Marika Bournaki displayed amazing refinement and poetry.”
- Thomas Beaujean, Aachener Zeitung, Germany
After her successful New York debut in 2008, twenty year-old Canadian pianist Marika Bournaki returns to the stage in support of The Glenn Gould Foundation. Join us for this intimate musical event in one of North America's landmark performance venues.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Reception - 5:30pm
Recital - 8:00pm
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
New York City
Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825
Sonata in A major, D.664
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 30, Op. 109, in E major
The Glenn Gould Foundation would like to thank State Street Global Markets and the Quebec Government Office in New York for their generous event sponsorship support. Thank you also to Mr. Pierre Bournaki and Carnegie Hall.
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About Marika Bournaki and The Glenn Gould Foundation:
Montreal-born Marika Bournaki moved to New York when she was 14 years old, having already made her orchestral debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Orchestre Métropolitain by age 11. Now 20, she is completing her Bachelor’s Degree at the venerable Juilliard School and continues to bring classical music to new audiences. More recently, she performed Schumann’s Piano concerto with the St-Petersburg Symphony Orchestra at the Palaces of St-Petersburg Festival in Russia and played Grieg’s Piano concerto with the Montreal Symphony.
Other engagements include an opening-night performance at the Luminato Festival in Toronto and recitals at the National Arts Centre Debut Recital Series in Ottawa and at the Seoul Arts Center Opera House in South Korea; at the Flanders Festival in Belgium and on the Accordate Konzerte Series in Aachen, Germany. In addition to a broadcast of National Public Radio's From the Top, she has been featured on radio in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and on television in Canada and Europe. Flare Magazine named her one of Canada’s brightest young stars in culture and Marika is a finalist for Chatelaine’s 2011 Women of the Year awards.
As part of its mission to extend the legacy of Glenn Gould, the Foundation recognizes and celebrates young artists of extraordinary promise, providing the kind of support that helped launch Gould’s meteoric rise. In 2007, Marika made a powerful impression on audiences when she opened the 18-month-long exhibition, Glenn Gould: The Sounds of Genius at the Canadian Museum of Civilization with a performance on Gould's favourite Steinway piano. The event also marked the international celebration of the 75th anniversary of Gould’s birth. Marika's New York debut in benefit of The Glenn Gould Foundation soon followed in 2008. She also performed in front of distinguished audiences at an event honouring the Eighth Glenn Gould Prize Jury, including the world-renowned dramatic tenor Ben Heppner, the late Academy-Award winning director, playwright and screenwriter Anthony Minghella, award-winning author Michael Ondaatje and famed composer, musicologist and broadcaster Peter Shickele.
Last December, Marika performed for the Governor General of Canada at Ottawa’s Rideau Hall in a concert for young artists presented by The Glenn Gould Foundation, and she was introduced to Prime Minister Harper in his office in the Parliament Buildings. Click here for photos.
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For many, just the phrase ‘go compare’ is enough to lodge in one’s head for a week the warblings of opera singer, Gio Compario, about the comparison site ‘where the wise go to economise’. Indeed, Gio has directed huge traffic and brand success to the insurance and financial services aggregator that he’s named after. But the mustachioed man is not the driving force behind the website that brought in a £30 million profit last year. That’s Hayley Parsons, a Welsh entrepreneur who left school at 16 to work in the insurance industry, and found she quite liked it.
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Nerd meets nerd in the New Zealand comedy “Eagle vs. Shark,” and wacky, deadpan, dark and dysfunctional adventures occur, complete with animal costumes, homemade candles, animated apples and anti-bully revenge. Writer-director Taika Waititi serves up a colorful geekville with this romantic comedy and noteworthy feature debut. You just wish that, amid the quirkiness, he’d included an embraceable relationship and some genuine heart.
Waititi’s valentine to oddballs focuses on two misfits — sweet, awkward burger flipper Lily (Loren Horsley) and cluelessly uncool video game clerk Jarrod (Jemaine Clement) — who click at Jarrod’s dress-as-your-favorite-animal party, which Lily crashes. She’s a shark, he’s an eagle, and, before long he’s showing her the candles he makes (one is shaped like a pointing hand). “Do you want to have sex?” he asks. “Yup,” she says.
Soon, Lily accompanies Jarrod to his hometown, where Jarrod plans to fight the high-school bully who tormented him a decade ago. He goes into martial-arts training and callously dumps Lily. Refusing to lose him, she hangs around and bonds with his off-kilter, trauma-plagued family.
Once you get past its superficial resemblance to the similarly deadpan-geeky “Napoleon Dynamite,” the film comes across as fresh and mildly amusing, with Waititi displaying an original brand of middlebrow drollness. He’ll “reap what he sowed — and I’m not talking corn or wheat,” Jarrod says, among other unexceptional but distinctive phraseology. Visually, the sight of Lily and Jarrod kissing in their tacky animal costumes is goofy-perfect. Whimsical animation sequences featuring apple cores add to the movie’s personality.
But if you buy into the Lily-Jarrod relationship, that’s because you expect it to ripen or deepen in its off-the-wall course. Instead, Waititi, who is a comedian in New Zealand, presents it with all the depth of an extended skit. He’s created 87 minutes of story, but nothing to keep you from emotionally abandoning these characters.
Most problematic is Jarrod, who, described by Waititi as “all the very worst traits of every male you’ve ever known,” exhibits no quality that enables you to deem him worthy of Lily. Eventually, you buck the grain of the story and can’t root for the pair’s reunion.
The performances, meanwhile, are superb. Both Horsley, who created the Lily character, and Clement turn potential one-dimensional dorks into unpredictable protagonists.
Eagle vs. Shark **½
Starring Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement, Brian Sergent, Joel Tobeck
Written and directed by Taika Waititi
Running time: 1 hour, 27 minutes


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Convicted: Erie Meat Products Ltd., 3240 Wharton Way, Mississauga, Ontario, a meat processing company.
Location: The company’s meat processing facility at 1400 Mitchell Road South, Listowel.
Description of Offence: A worker who was cleaning excess packaging from a machine was injured after removing interlocking guards from the front of the machine. The company failed to ensure that the hot dog loader/packer machine was locked-out when the worker was removing excess plastic.
Date of Offence: October 12, 2018.
Date of Conviction: November 10, 2020.
- Following a guilty plea, Erie Meat Products Ltd. was fined $50,000 in provincial offences court in Stratford by Justice of the Peace Gordon Chaput; Crown Counsel Mike Nicol.
- The court also imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.
- On October 12, 2018, a temporary worker was cleaning a hot dog loader/packer machine.
- The worker removed the interlocking guards from the front of the machine to clean any excess plastic packaging. This exposed the machine and its pre-heating plate.
- As the worker was attempting to remove excess plastic, the machine was actuated and the worker was injured by the machine’s plates. The injured worker was taken to hospital.
- During a subsequent Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development inspection, it was learned that the machine was not locked-out when the injured worker was removing excess plastic from the machine, as required by the Regulation for Industrial Establishments (Ontario Regulation 851) under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
- As such, Erie Meats committed the offence of failing, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 76 of the regulation, as amended, were carried out in the workplace contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the act.