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Statement from the IGLTA Board of Directors
MILAN (9 March 2020)—There are no more resilient, intrepid and confident travel leaders anywhere in the world than in the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association.
Therefore, we are determined to host our Annual Global Convention in 2020 in Milan. At the same time, we must be prudent and sensitive to health and safety precautions and to the actual conditions on the ground. We have decided to postpone our convention in Milan until this September/October.
We believe firmly in the resilience of travel and want to be part of the industry’s recovery when COVID-19 has been contained with confidence. We must, however, give all our participants time to prepare.
The outbreak of the coronavirus has left all of us with many unknowns. We will announce new dates and plans as soon as possible. We will join you in monitoring the situation closely through our Italian governmental contacts and trusted sources such as the World Health Organization.
Since IGLTA began in 1983, our Annual Global Convention has been an essential part of our LGBTQ+ tourism outreach and a highlight of our year. We value facilitating the sharing of ideas among the leaders of the tourism industry and bringing travel professionals from around the world together for networking. We also love showcasing destinations within our network, like this year’s host city, Milan, and we look forward to seeing you there.
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Distance from Preddvor to Karlsfeld
Distance from Preddvor to Karlsfeld is 309 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 192 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Preddvor and Karlsfeld is 309 km= 192 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Preddvor to Karlsfeld, It takes 0.34 hours to arrive.
Preddvor is located in Slovenia.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||46° 18´ 6.1920'' N |
14° 25´ 18.0480'' E
Preddvor Distances to Cities
|Distance from Preddvor to Konigsbrunn||346 km|
|Distance from Preddvor to Emmendingen||537 km|
|Distance from Preddvor to Lahr||545 km|
|Distance from Preddvor to Illertissen||390 km|
|Distance from Preddvor to Kehl||558 km|

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When members Andrew Heringer and Robbie Arnett started sending tracks to each other after they graduated, they soon discovered the hardships of booking their own gigs. To address the issue, a fictional booking agent was invented. The character was British, well-read, confident, wore a monocle and three-piece-suit, and his name was Milo Greene. After adding Marlana Sheetz and Curtis Marrero, the band released their self titled debut in 2012. Their new album Control is the melodic, percussive sophomore album.
The band is composed of all multi-instrumentalists, all taking turns on various instruments as well as lead vocal. While the instrumentation stays fairly salient throughout, it can be a bit jarring to switch between different vocalists from track to track. If you can get past that, it’s actually an incredibly brave way to make an album. Marlana Sheetz sings on most of the first half of the album. Around the halfway mark on the album on “When It’s Done,” one of her male cohorts take the mic, and it plays just as well. With different minds behind the instruments comes a different singer in the driver seat, making each song dynamic in its own way.
While the collaborative spirit and instrument swapping on this album is to be admired, I am wholly thankful that no one managed to kick drummer Curtis Marrero off the kit. His work is on aspect of Control that elevates this showing from their cookie-cutter pop-folk premier to something much more melodic and percussive. In “White Lies,” the album’s lead single, Marrero gives a bed of sleepy dream-synth a much needed punching up, with a disco styled kit and backing bongos. In the middle of the album, on the skeletal “Parents’ House,” the constant and marauding beat gives the song a much needed momentum, and plays nicely with the shiny, singing guitars.
The sounds here aren’t revolutionary when you look at them in the context of modern pop music. Having said that, Control is a massive step up from their debut project, and that’s just as important in its own way. There isn’t a song on this album that won’t get stuck in your head. The Milo Greene approach to songwriting is unorthodox, but it clearly works for them. Control is a singularly infectious listen. Milo Greene will be at the Bluebird Theater on February 27th.
Check out the band’s site here
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Laura is a spicedrop in a production of The Nutcracker. Today was photo day, so Laura needed her stage hair and makeup done.
All but basic hair and makeup is outside my skill sets. I struggled to get her chin length bob into a high, classical bun. I attempted to apply foundation, eyeliner, mascara, blush, and lipstick symmetrically and evenly. The end result was messy and amateurish. Despite great gobs of gel that crunchified her hair and many bobby pins, wispy strands drooped on her neck. Her eyeliner was heavily smudged and one eye was drawn much heavier than the other.
Over the next 2 weeks, I will need to do this hair and makeup routine 3 more times for Laura (dress rehearsal + 2 performances). I hope it gets easier with practice.
How have your kids pushed you out of your comfort zone and experience level? Any tips for applying eyeliner?


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Location: Fruit and Nut Research2012 Annual Report
1a. Objectives (from AD-416):
1. Develop improved nematode management strategies based on cultural, biocontrol, and chemical pesticide approaches for suppression of ring and/or root-knot nematodes and related peach and pecan disease complexes, such as Peach Tree Decline and Pecan Replant Disease. 2. Elucidate the interactive effects among key nematode pests and pathogenic fungi, and rootstock genotype to improve understanding of host susceptibility to peach tree decline problems, such as Peach Tree Decline Disease.
1b. Approach (from AD-416):
Evaluate cover crop systems for nematode suppression and mode of action identified; investigate efficacy of a new postplant nematicide and lower rates of Telone with selected rootstocks; evaluate Pasteuria penetrans as a biocontrol agent for pecan root-knot nematode; develop new knowledge regarding interactive effects among nematode pests and pathogenic fungi as correlated with peach replant disease; and evaluate advanced Prunus germplasm for resistance to continuous root-knot and ring nematode pressure under field conditions. Resources will support research already taking place on this research project. This includes development of strategies or approaches to minimize the economic impact of nematodes and other pathogens on peach and pecan. Work involves ground covers, new postplant nematicide, alternatives to chemical nematicides, lower rates of Telone II nematicide, and biological agent to reduce nematode populations in soils.
3. Progress Report:
In FY 2012, this new Project Plan was accepted for implementation on April 04, 2012. Progress accomplished to date includes: 1) Three tall fescue groundcover, peach tree, and natural weed treatments have been established and baseline nematode data recorded; 2) grass and peach root exudates to be used in nematode attraction study have been extracted and stored in freezer for upcoming trials; 3) Met with collaborators in February 2012 in Florida to discuss Pasteuria penetrans research project. Microplots to be used in this biological control study with the Pecan root-knot nematode are being established; 4) Baseline nematode populations in both the Movento and Telone II field nematicide trials have been obtained. In the Telone II, the fumigation treatments have been established (full rate vs. half rate vs. unfumigated); 5) peach rootstocks and nematode treatments have been established in field microplots to determine superior resistance to continuous ring and root-knot nematode pressure over time; and 6) timelines were discussed with Clemson University collaborator to synchronize nematode, Armillaria (ARR), and peach rootstock treatments in field microplots.

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The origination of the oral folk story has been theorized to come from the witch persecutions that were being performed in France in the 1600s (Perrault web site? Since the origination of this tale to the present time, there have been many different versions and re-writes.
I intend to discuss and explore many of these versions to compare the symbolisms and morals of then and now.
The story of "Little Red Riding Hood" was first written by Charles Perrault in 1729.
He established the story from an oral folktale that originated in France.
[tags: Little Red Riding Hood, Fairy tale] - “Little Red Riding Hood” A Fairy Tale created by adults for adults.
The Fairy Tale has sexual themes and messages that come out as you read and tell the fairy tale.There have been numerous changes to the way the wolf is presented but the over all symbolism has not altered.Some of the stories display the wolf as a sly intelligent predator methodically planning out the demise of Little Red Riding Hood.[tags: Little Red Riding Hood, Fairy tale] - That particular day, I left my den to go on a nice hike through the woods. [tags: Little Red Riding Hood, short story] - Growing up I heard many versions of the tale of Little Red Riding hood, however it wasn’t until college that I was aware of the references regarding this tale.In reading both Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood” and Brothers Grimm’s “Little Red-Cap,” I can see what it is that makes these works of literature a common and ongoing tale that adults continue to tell their children.Similarly, I don’t really believe anything that is supernatural.However, I also don’t think one man’s fate can be totally controlled by himself, there are so many things that can decide one person 's life, for example, in Charles Perrault’s fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood, if the man who meets the little girl is truly a gentle, handsome young man instead of a wolf, the little girl may have a happy life and receive a lively relationship....[tags: Little Red Riding Hood, Fairy tale, Vowel] - Dual Audience in Little Red Riding Hood The genre of fairytales is arguably one of the most commonly known genres in literature today.These tales are known by people of all ages and although there are many variations and version, they remain within the same parameters when it comes to structure and content.I can also see how children would be attracted and captivated by this fairytale.While some may suggest that the story of Little Red Riding Hood is appealing to children, others would suggest that it is inappropriate....

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MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Just before the first anniversary of a Spanish airliner crash that killed 154 people last August 20 at Madrid's airport, government investigators released a report Monday, saying technical and human errors may have contributed to the accident.
The report did not establish final conclusions on what definitively caused the crash of the MD-82 aircraft on Spanair Flight JK5022.
But it indicated that the pilots' review of the "final items" checklist just before takeoff may not have been carried out properly.
Plus, it repeated findings from an earlier report that the wing flaps and slats were not properly deployed for takeoff and that the plane's cockpit warning system failed to notify the pilots about this problem.
The report, by the Spanish Civil Aviation Accident and Incidents Investigation Commission, said its basic mission was to try to prevent future accidents and that its work was exclusively technical, without establishing any blame or responsibility for the crash.
The 83-page interim report, viewed by CNN, was dated August 4, but released on Monday.
Development Minister Jose Blanco, who oversees the commission, told reporters he hopes the commission's recommendations -- to European Union authorities, to review takeoff procedures -- would be put into place when Spain's holds the rotating EU presidency in the first half of 2010.
The Spanair jet crashed upon takeoff at Madrid's airport on a scheduled commercial flight to Spain's Canary Islands. There were just 18 survivors pulled from the crash site which burned 45 hectares or 111 acres at the end of a runway.
Among the dead were the pilot, age 39, and the co-pilot, 31.
The report said the pilots "did not strictly comply" with procedures to verify the plane's flight readiness just before takeoff, "eliminating the security protection that these procedures provide."
The report said the pilots' actions might have been due to another technical problem which prompted the plane to return from the runway to the terminal before takeoff, or "the pressure from the delayed takeoff time, or deficiencies in the work method used in the cabin."


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Visually impaired man attacked in Chester burglary
The 22-year-old victim, who is the son of the homeowners, told police that he was upstairs when he heard a noise downstairs. He went downstairs to check things out and was attacked by the burglar, Burke said.
“We ended up getting him right to the medics immediately,” Burke said.
The burglar forced open a rear door in the lower level of the house and made off with jewelry and cash, Burke said.
The victim’s visual impairment has made the investigation more challenging because of the lack of any suspect and vehicle descriptions, according to Burke.
Police found some blood samples at the scene, but Burke said they’re not sure if the blood was from the burglar or the victim.
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The FBI announced that police killings at the hands of felons increased by 89% in 2014. Fatal attacks on police increased from 27 in 2013 to 51 in 2014.
President Obama put together a meeting at Camp David this week to assure the six major Arab nations in the Persian Gulf that the United States is standing with them against Iran and Islamic Terrorism. The countries invited do not trust Obama to defend them and to attack Iran if they are attacked by Iran.
The leaders of four of the six Arab nations invited have announced they will not be attending, including King Salman of Saudi Arabia.
For children to do well in life and to become better educated, they need to be with family members and not government employees in a government preschool program. Obama and even some of our states have been pushing for forced early public school attendance.
A very happy Mother’s Day to all of you ladies who have children and who are with child. May God richly bless you and all that you do for your families, for our nation, and for the preservation of our Liberty.
We appreciate and remember your sacrifices for your families and for our nation.
From the earliest days of our Revolution to the War on Terror, women have served a vital role in protecting our nation and in securing and maintaining our Liberty.
Prime Minister David Cameron and his fellow Tories (Conservatives) were swept back into leadership by a margin of six percent over the Labour Party (Liberals). The Tories gained 26 seats in Parliament, winning a solid majority.
ISIS again claims to be in the United States. ISIS announced it is planning attacks inside the United States over the next six months.
ISIS claimed on Monday 05 May that the two Islamic Terrorists killed while trying to gain access to the art show in Garland were ISIS members,
President Obama appeared on the David Letterman Show and candidly admitted that the Democrats have often ignored the problems of the inner city. Obama stated, as reported by The Baltimore Sun,
A man with a long criminal record shot a twenty-five year old New York City police officer in the face this past weekend. The police officer died on Monday.
Why have no comments come from Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, or others who have been racially attacking America’s police officers? Why have they not condemned the shooting? Why have they not promised that justice will be done?
Our United States Supreme Court has heard the arguments and is in the process of determining if it will declare that the institution of marriage can henceforth include combinations of people other than one man and one woman. The Supreme Court has granted itself the power to pass judgment on nature of marriage, as instituted by God and adhered to throughout the millennia by all major religions.
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The Wooden Palace
When the Wodeyars took over Mysore in the 14th century, they built a Wooden Palace inside the Old Fort. This original palace underwent renovation several times.
The Wooden Palace is said to have got burnt during the time of the wedding of the Princess Jayalakshammanni. It is only in 1897 that a plan was commissioned to build a new palace.
15 Years of Hard Work
A plan for constructing an exotic palace was commissioned by the Maharaja Krishnarajendra Wodeyar IV to the British Architect Henry Irving. It took 15 long years to finish the architecture. Finally, the grand Mysore Palace was complete in 1912.
The Mysore Palace gets more than 6 million visitors every year. It is one of the most visited tourist places in India.
Potpourri of Styles
The Mysore Palace has an amalgamation of architectural styles. Guess, that is why it's called unique. The main Indo-Saracenic architecture has a blend of Hindu, Mughal, Rajput and Gothic Styles.

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Mark Regnerus, a professor at UT-Austin, argues that Americans should be marrying younger. He tries to make the case for this even after offering that “getting married at a young age remains the No. 1 predictor of divorce.”
First, what is considered “early marriage” by social scientists is commonly misunderstood by the public. The best evaluations of early marriage — conducted by researchers at the University of Texas and Penn State University — note that the age-divorce link is most prominent among teenagers (those who marry before age 20). Marriages that begin at age 20, 21 or 22 are not nearly so likely to end in divorce as many presume.
Second, good social science pays attention to gender differences. Most young women are mature enough to handle marriage. According to data from the government’s National Survey of Family Growth, women who marry at 18 have a better shot at making a marriage work than men who marry at 21. There is wisdom in having an age gap between spouses. For women, age is (unfortunately) a debit, decreasing fertility. For men, age can be a credit, increasing their access to resources and improving their maturity, thus making them more attractive to women. We may all dislike this scenario, but we can’t will it away.
Third, the age at which a person marries never actually causes a divorce. Rather, a young age at marriage can be an indicator of an underlying immaturity and impatience with marital challenges — the kind that many of us eventually figure out how to avoid or to solve without parting. Unfortunately, well-educated people resist this, convinced that there actually is a recipe for guaranteed marital success that goes something like this: Add a postgraduate education to a college degree, toss in a visible amount of career success and a healthy helping of wealth, let simmer in a pan of sexual variety for several years, allow to cool and settle, then serve. Presto: a marriage with math on its side.
Too bad real life isn’t like that. Marriage actually works best as a formative institution, not an institution you enter once you think you’re fully formed. We learn marriage, just as we learn language, and to the teachable, some lessons just come easier earlier in life.
A fundamental problem with arguments for marriage is that it’s not really statistically possible to tell which marriages are “working” and which ones are not. Using [YEARS MARRIED] as a barometer for a marriage’s health or happiness is obviously really problematic; plenty of people who are married for several decades believe, like the lady in the video, that divorce is not an option, and remain unhappily married for a really long time.
(I’d also like to note the dodge in his first point: Marriages that begin at age 20, 21 or 22 are not nearly so likely to end in divorce as many presume. That’s impressively vague, homie.)
But none of the rest of his points are terribly convincing. He never considers that the well-educated marry older for reasons that might have nothing to do with oats-sowing or bar-hopping or extending adolescence. Maybe you want to travel when you’re just out of college. If it’s hard to be in law school/grad school/Ph.D programs when you’re 24, it’s probably exponentially harder when you’re 24 and married. And what about simply not having found someone you’d want to marry?
He also doesn’t acknowledge that what people want in marriages has changed dramatically over the last half-century, for myriad reasons. Our grandparents got married because there was tremendous social pressure to do so (and stigma for not doing so), but I think there’s more social stigma for us under 30-somethings to be married unhappily. Staying in an unhappy marriage is not seen as some deeply honorable thing. In making the decision to get married — and the fact that we can decide not to is another huge cultural change — I think people of marrying age today do so using much more involved calculus. At 20, 22, 24, 26, we’re still legitimately working that stuff out.
Regnerus goes on:
“What really matters for making marriage happen and then making it good are not matches, but mentalities: such things as persistent and honest communication, conflict-resolution skills, the ability to handle the cyclical nature of so much of marriage, and a bedrock commitment to the very unity of the thing. I’ve met 18-year-olds who can handle it and 45-year-olds who can’t.”
And again, on balance, I’d guess that more people can better do all of those things as they get older.


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Trends indicate that AI is becoming increasingly a part of the education space, but continued adoption is not a given. First, the industry must face down the immediate hurdles to adoption, whether it's cost, time, or something unforeseen.
These industry professionals shared their views on the greatest challenge to AI adoption in education. Here's what they said:
1. Dan Ayoub, General Manager for Microsoft Education
“For most educational institutions today, the first hurdle is simple digital transformation of the organization. Once institutions are leveraging the cloud and seeing the potential of smart data management, AI is a natural progression.”
2. Tom Livne, CEO and co-founder of Verbit
“The main challenge lies in planning and strategizing the school’s budget. Understanding which AI-based learning tools are available and how they can benefit the students is an essential part of overcoming this challenge. Often times, it begins with the philosophical approach of the institution. If the institution takes a non-UDL(Universal Design for Learning) or a reactionary approach and only captions content when a student with a disability requests it, for example, the budget becomes very difficult to forecast. The money spent with this approach typically only benefits the one student that requested the accommodation, making it very expensive and driving a low ROI.
Alternatively, when institutions are proactive and have built into their policy that all videos must be captioned, it becomes much easier to budget. Content development and creation come with a great expense, including professionals’ time and expertise, props and demonstration aids, and technology to create and present the content. Missing important components, such as captioning, could lead to less efficient student engagement, and therefore, to a smaller ROI.”
3. Sergey Karayev, Head of AI for STEM at Turnitin
“In student-facing solutions: The biggest problem is that the AI has to be working well enough to be clearly useful. When it’s complicated, it bogs down. Most adoptions for student-facing solutions are very simple like Grammarly.
For instructor-facing solutions: Teachers are skeptical that AI tech is robust enough to actually be helpful. In other words, AI needs to be a big help or faculty and instructors won’t go out on a limb to try it, but it also has to be low risk. This is why we think our product is so successful; Gradescope gives instructors full control and oversight of the grading process, so there is little risk. They can to easily review the grading results that are generated through the AI assistance, meaning they don’t hand over control = little risk. On the other hand, the reward is great. Instructors can cut their grading in time in half on a task that they do time and time again.”
4. Andreas Oranje, General Manager at Educational Testing Service
“Fairness and equity in AI and it's integration in education have been the biggest challenge faced this year. Collecting enough data to create defensible edtech products we expect teachers and administrators to adopt, and how these products integrate with existing systems and methods has also proven challenging not only for fairness but also implementation and efficacy.”
5. Joe Caprio, VP of Sales at Chorus.ai
“There is a lot of hesitancy with adopting AI to use in the classroom. Many are still unsure what artificial intelligence is as well as the power it has.
For example, UT Dallas is one of the first university programs to use Chorus.ai in the classroom. Dr. Dover plans to continue to look at AI to see if there are any other platforms can help his students prepare for their career after finishing their education.”
6. Bill Salak, CTO at Brainly
“I see many challenges in the short, medium, and long-term. The #1 challenge that I see falls into the medium-term category. This is the redefinition of the role of a teacher, and subsequently the re-training of this workforce.
In the short-term, the use of AI in education will largely be focused on improvements within our existing education systems and the roles of teachers and education workers within these systems. The products will largely be supplementary to the traditional classroom or aimed at improving efficiencies within these environments.
The medium-term will bring the most disruption as the traditional role and functions of a classroom teacher will not be enough to achieve the best outcomes. Expertise and familiarity with tools and systems unknown to the previous generation of teachers will become the norm. In many ways, this will look like the transformation that has happened in business leadership where experience and instincts were augmented with sophisticated data-driven approaches to decision making and the understanding and adoption of these new tools blended with experience and instinct created the most powerful results.”
7. Viola Lam, founder and CEO of Find Solution Ai
“Although the personalized learning approach is becoming popular, the acceptance rate towards new technologies is relatively low among Hong Kong schools. Knowledge in AI for the education sector is inadequate while the development of AI products is in an early stage. As local schools are conservative in general, more introductions with demonstrations on AI
products or services are needed to enhance their confidence and knowledge of new technologies.
Therefore, we anticipate gaining trust from schools by doing school tours regularly, attend exhibitions internationally and locally to enhance the exposure as well as letting the fields to understand the advantages of integrating AI into education.”
8. Martin Basiri, Co-Founder and CEO of ApplyBoard
“While there isn’t much of a challenge for students, as it ultimately enhances their learning experience, the challenge lies with parents and schools. To adopt a new way of thinking and learning, accepting the alternating role of the human element from something as personal as education, seems to be the biggest challenge.”
9. Paul Mumma, CEO of Cerego
“Educators, trainers, and students are generally reluctant to integrate AI into their curriculum when the technology is difficult to use or implement. The AI-based technology needs to be something they can naturally add into their day to day. The user interface must be simple and straightforward for both the student and the teacher. When educators feel intimidated by a technology or feel it will complicate their teaching strategies, they are unlikely to integrate it into their classroom. To be successful, technology creators need to understand the teacher's point of view and create a product that caters to their needs and workflows.”
10. Jiajia Zhang, Product Manager at Gooroo
“Training educators and teachers to design comprehensive curriculums that can adapt based on student’s learning needs.
There’s also this challenge in training teachers to become familiar with technology and integrate it into their class. The students of this generation learn very differently from their teachers. They are extremely comfortable with technology and the digital environment, and it's not surprising to see students better at technology than their teachers.”
11. Jennifer Jones, Ph.D., CEO of Green Ivy Schools
“There really is no challenge. Big AI companies will make sure it is adopted. They are expert at seducing teachers, who then take that starry-eyed fascination back to their school and district leaders, who then hand over contracts. It is a formula tech companies have perfected for the last 20 years. AI developers that see opportunity in education will identify the budget and student performance weaknesses in schools and present themselves as easy solutions. And AI will become a fixture.”
12. Vishen Lakhiani, CEO of Mindvalley
“I believe the greatest challenge to A.I. adoption in education today is a lack of access to data and the complexity required in building systems that consider a wide variety of data points. To successfully implement A.I. in education, designers will need to look at the student’s vision for themselves and weigh this against their deficiencies. This requires a 360 degree look at the individual’s personality. Only then can you factor in other various curriculum learnings and ideas to set the student on an optimal path for their future.”
13. Franz Chen, CEO of Ponddy Education
“There are two factors that slow the adoption of AI in education. The first is the fear in implementing systemic changes. The learning curve in adopting a new methodology or technology takes time to understand and integrate and the process can be intimidating. There isn’t much difference between a classroom a hundred years ago and today. There is still a teacher, students, desks, a chalk/white board, and textbooks. The second factor is resources. Technology implementation requires IT support/expertise, professional development, the proper equipment and bandwidth all of which are costly budget items.”
14. Chris Nicholson, CEO of Skymind
“Schools can be slow to adopt new technology, both because budgets are constrained, and new technologies require that people be trained to use them, which is a slow process.”
15. Mike Dierken, CTO at Varsity Tutors
“There are two top challenges – accessibility and unintentional bias. People no longer leave school and stop learning. With online resources, there are now AI-powered educational tools beyond traditional schools and institutions, but these are not always available or accessible to all. Cost and convenience are being addressed but there is more work to be done. Another challenge is bias within data skewing results and recommendations. This is a hot topic but requires real commitment to address.”
16. Dee Kanejiya, founder and CEO of Cognii
“Regulatory frameworks can sometimes pause a challenge when a new technology is being introduced. State governments can play a bridging role between AI innovators and educators to increase opportunities for professional development.”
17. Tom D'Amico, Associate Director of Education for the Ottawa Catholic School Board
“I would suggest that funding challenges are preventing the spread of AI in the K-12 education field at this time. An additional challenge is the lack of expertise around security related to new technologies in K-12 such as AI and this leaves school boards vulnerable.”
18. Alain Goudey, Chief Digital Officer at Neoma Business School
“The #1 challenge of AI adoption in education is the creation of value for the students’ experience. We are still at the beginning of the story and we need to assess the real contribution of AI technologies to the learning process or to the way students experience the school. Then, when the value has been proven, the challenge is definitely to transform the habits of faculty members and the global education community.
Teaching with AI is very different than the traditional approach as you must gather a students data throughout the whole journey: this data concerns the students’ habits, the assessments, their way of learning, etc, and therefore it requires a high level of digitalization within the school.”

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“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds.”
James 1:2 New International Version
So many things in life are out of our control. Life is full of highs and lows. Successes and failures. It’s a roller coaster of events, struggles, trials, and tribulations. It’s through these tough times where I find myself asking God why are you doing this to me and my family? I’ve found out the only answer is to just trust in the Lord and his plan. I give everything to him. The only thing I can control is my attitude and how I choose to live each day.
I lost my Uncle last December to a malignant brain tumor and currently my Grandfather is battling cancer. The only way that I can get through these tough times is to live in the present moment! I try to show my affection extravagantly by hugging my grandfather every chance I get and cherishing every moment that I’m with him. I try to make jokes to make him laugh. We have a choice in how we live each day. I want to turn a bad situation into a better situation. It’s better to look at the joy and the precious moments/experiences that I’m sharing with my grandfather than the tough battle that he is enduring. I choose Joy! I choose Joy for the Joy of the Lord is my strength!! My only goal is to spread the JOY to everyone I come in contact with. I’m trying to serve the Lord by passing along this Joy every chance I get. Most importantly, I choose to spread Joy to my grandfather and let the light of the Lord shine upon him!
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Hyderabad-based Zify, an app for carpooling and ride sharing, reportedly closed its first angel funding round raising Rs 1.2 crores. Zify presently operates in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Gurgaon, and reportedly has 11,000 registered users and does about 500 daily rides on an average. Founded by Pramod Kumar and Anurag Rathor in 2014, Zify lets users search and book a shared ride with a verified member of its community at Rs. 5 per kilometre, and lets users form women-only groups.
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Harbinger's outworldly knowledge allows it to tap into the ebb and flow of all spiritual energy, infusing it into his being.
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Locked away in the pocket between this world and the Outworld, victims realize their infantile knowledge and mortality.
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Ability: Point Target
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Successful songwriters and bands often have to deal with trying to equal previous successes. That’s never been on the mind of Air Supply’s Graham Russell, despite the fact that he had to do that numerous times in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.
“Songwriting for me has always been organic,” he said. “I’ve never even thought about if it would sound the same. I honestly never thought about it. The songs just came out, and I’ve been writing songs for 55 years. Consequently, because I’m not conscious sounding about them, I don’t think any two sound the same. They are all of the same genre, and that’s the nature of music.
Air Supply’s Lost in Love Experience comes to Pechanga Resort Casino, 45000 Pechanga Parkway, in Temecula Saturday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m.
Formed by Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock, Air Supply became chart regulars starting with “Lost in Love” in 1980.
“In the 70s, we got back opening for Rod Stewart, and we thought we’d go back to Australia and get a hero’s welcome,” he said. “We were unknown and Rod really liked us, but we had to begin all over again, but Russell and I always believed we were predestined to have success. We knew we could write and sing and it was going to be a journey and we’d have to claw ourselves up.”
“Lost in Love” was one of the keys to their early success in the United States.
“We had some songs, and we got on a bus for a few days and played them and recorded them,” he said. “At first it was just guitar, drums and us, and then we added some piano, some keyboard, some keyboard strings. I did my vocal and he did his. We knew there was something there, and I remember playing it back to our producer and he felt the same. It did very well in Australia.”
The band got a deal with Arista Records and released their first album, “Lost in Love,” which included the hits “Every Woman in the World to Me,” the title track and “All Out of Love.”
“When we were recording ‘All Out of Love,’ we never planned who was going to sing what and I played it on piano I thought Russell should sing the whole song and he went into sing it,” he said. “Russell said I should sing the verse, and I went in and I was struggling with it. The producer said to just keep singing, and I sang the verses and he sang the chorus.”
It’s something that has emerged at other times on record.
“The distinction was part of that magic,” he said. “Everything in the studio was a democracy. It was the case of ‘Who wants to sing this?’ It was a great, creative way to find something, and when we hit it we knew we had something.”
Since Graham Russell is the primary songwriter, it makes sense that it starts with him.
“I’ve always been the first one to sing it,” he said. “But I always feel Russell (Hitchcock) should sing it since he is the lead singer, and he thinks I should sing it. We don’t have the same voices. I can get to an A, but his is just so much better at singing high notes.”
For Graham Russell, one of the keys about the band’s songs is that they seem to grab the listener.
“You hear it, and you want to keep listening,” he said. “I hear ‘All Out of Love’ all the time on radio. My ear will just search for it, and it still sounds like such a great record. I think that’s why they still put it in movies.”
In fact, the song has been in numerous TV shows such as “South Park” and “The Office,” and a number of movies, such as “The Dukes of Hazzard,” “The Wedding Date” and “Deadpool 2.”
“I liked the first ‘Deadpool,’ he said. “I knew it was going to be in “Deadpool 2,” and there it was in the first few minutes with all the explosions and such and a knife in his back. I guess it can be in anything.”
Their career exploded with their next album.
“Back in those days, and I am not trying to knock anyone, if you wanted a sound you had to create it,” he said. “No one sounded like us, and that’s what kept it alive. After the album was so successful, we’d tour nine months nonstop and then go home to make a record. We came back to Los Angeles to mix it, and Clive Davis hadn’t heard any of it and he wanted to see what we had, and we were kind of freaked out.”
It turned out well.
“He said, ‘OK, let’s see what you’ve got,’ and we played him ‘The One That You Love,’” he said. “The track finished and no one said anything because everyone was waiting for him. He then said, ‘Well, first it’s going to No. 1, and second, it’s going to win a Grammy.’ We breathed a big sigh of relief.”
The record was indeed a Billboard No. 1 but it didn’t receive a Grammy. Altogether, the band has charted eight singles in the Top 5, including “Sweet Dreams,” “Even the Nights are Better” and “Making Love out of Nothing at All.”
The latter was their last big hit, a production crafted by legendary writer/producer Jim Steinman of Meatloaf fame.
“It was just a different kind of song, and we all thought it was very different and thought ‘let’s do it,’” he said. “It’s a Jim Steinman song, and we met him and I’ve been a big Meatloaf fan, a big Steinman fan. If there’s a great song from a great writer and it would benefit Russell’s singing, it doesn’t have to be my song.”
It began in an ice cream parlor.
“We had coffee with him in this ice cream parlor in New York, and the song as written was six minutes long and we figured we had to trim it,” he said. “Clive said the same thing and he got it down to a good place and the E Street Band played on it. Russell did the vocals in one take. We thought maybe we should do another take, but when we played it back, we figured it was strong just as it was.”
Ironically, the song was kept from the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart by Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” another Steinman song.
Russell credits the strength of Air Supply’s song collection to the basics of the songs.
“They aren’t just hot songs, but they hit people’s lives,” he said.
And now, their latest record is “The Lost in Love Experience,” recorded with the Prague Symphony.
“I’ve always wanted to do a full album with this orchestra because it has been considered one of the best in world,” he said. “The time came up and we jumped on it and went and recorded with them. The symphony did it in a beautiful old landmark building, the place where the soundtrack of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ was recorded, and a bunch of other Academy Award-winning soundtracks.”
And the players were remarkable.
“I am a classical music fan, and the bar is set so high for those players,” he said. “Most of the players were in their 70s, some in their ‘80s and they were phenomenal. I think some of them knew our music.”
Ultimately, he said he is happy and proud of the success of Air Supply.
“We’ve had a great career,” he said. “Who would have thought we would still be out there performing and recording?”
Admission starts at $49. For more information, visit www.pechanga.com/entertain/airsupply.
Jim Dail is an English professor and longtime freelance writer in the Temecula area covering performances at local wineries, casinos, Old Town Temecula and other venues. His specialty is pop, rock, country and jazz performers, as well as stage performances. His writing can be found at www.temeculaentertainment.com.


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Ryan Holden was found guilty of manslaughter in April 2011 after facing a first-degree murder charge in the daytime killing of 60-year-old Kelly Roney, who was shot in the parking lot of the Old Rockwell's Pub in June 2007.
On Friday, the B.C. Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) announced Holden was one of 43 people swept up as part of a police investigation into the street- and mid-level drug trade in the Peace Region.
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MultiSensor Homogenization and Change Detection
For decades, multispectral sensor images have been a stable and popular data source in Remote Sensing Change Detection (RS CD) application fields. This is mainly due to the availability of long time series databases and in the last decade to the free distribution of this information, at least for medium resolution sensors (e.g., MODIS, Landsat). With the development of sensor technology, the new generation satellite sensors have been capable to acquire images with higher spatial and spectral resolution and with pass of time, to offer a VHR time series database. For acquiring VHR data over any specific area, a previous order to the owners of the satellite sensors must be done. This implies that a continuous mapping over the same area is not always possible from a single satellite sensor, thus VHR time series with good time resolution can be constructed by using images from different satellite sensors. Therefore, for a proper time series CD analysis, development of novel techniques are required to address problems such as: i) analysis of high (or very high) spatial resolution multitemporal images and; ii) analysis of multi-sensor multitemporal images. VHR images contain richer information for detecting changes than standard multispectral images, but also pose great challenges in the CD process. In this research, both topics are analyzed with the goal to define effective CD and homogenization techniques for multi-sensor images.
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Published in the June 2010 issue of Today’s Hospitalist
While it’s been an elusive goal for 40 years, health information technology (HIT) may finally be reaching critical mass, given a push by government funding and high-level support. While only 11% of hospitals have electronic medical records “and even fewer have computerized-physician order entry (CPOE) “the factors driving the development and adoption of information technology at last appear to be on a roll.
That’s great news, right? Not necessarily, according to Kendall Rogers, MD, chief of hospital medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque. In a session he co-presented on information technology at the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) annual meeting this spring, Dr. Rogers delivered a scathing indictment of the problems plaguing many IT systems, and of the stonewalling that vendors typically bring to fixing those problems.
Out-of-the-box EMR systems “which hospitals may rush to buy and implement to take advantage of federal grants “”are currently unproven,” said Dr. Rogers, who chairs the SHM’s IT committee. Most data backing health IT’s big safety and efficiency dividends have been culled, he added, “from homegrown systems that are incredibly receptive to physician needs.”
And physicians find themselves stuck in a Catch-22 where vendor contracts prohibit doctors from sharing error reports and software advances, which in turn stymies much-needed improvements. Dr. Rogers framed his presentation as a call to arms for frustrated hospitalists, who he said should take the lead in IT development and advocate for putting IT firmly at the service of patient safety.
“We are the experts in the nation dealing with this,” Dr. Rogers said. “We often know how to use the software better than the people making it, and we’re uniquely positioned to advance HIT in inpatient environments.”
Design and implementation flaws
Dr. Rogers said he embraces the promised benefits of information technology, but only if it can be designed and implemented correctly. “It could revolutionize health care,” he announced. “Besides the potential gains for quality and safety, it could extend the number of people we care for, and make us faster and smarter.”
But he and his co-presenter, Ross Koppel, PhD, presented a long list of what’s standing in the way of doctors reaching those goals. For one, “current software is barely useable,” said Dr. Rogers, something hospitalists who work with EMRs or CPOE are painfully aware of.
Dr. Koppel, a professor of sociology at Philadelphia’s University of Pennsylvania who’s written extensively about problems with health information technology, detailed ways in which flaws in software design can exacerbate errors.
Cramped data displays, he pointed out, don’t allow doctors to find the information they need. Or doctors get tired of clicking through multiple allergy screens and may easily miss a key patient allergy.
Or they have to dig through several screens to find abnormal lab or culture findings that should be prominently flagged. Or dosage amounts in order sets don’t say if they pertain to kilograms or pounds, making it easy to over- or under-dose medications.
Another problem is that neither vendors nor many local IT departments have the expertise to guarantee safe implementation, even if manufacturers could get the software right. And while doctors may painstakingly point out system problems that need to be corrected, Dr. Rogers said, the way the IT industry operates “inhibits us from being able to go through rapid cycles of improvement.”
A more egregious example of how vendors inhibit improvement can be found in contract language that shifts liability for system flaws away from the IT industry itself.
One such legal maneuver is “hold harmless” clauses, which Dr. Koppel wrote about in a commentary in the March 25, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. These clauses, Dr. Koppel said, hold vendors harmless even when companies have been repeatedly alerted to system errors or flawed configurations.
Instead, those flaws are supposed to be detected by “learned intermediaries,” more contract language that means that the responsibility for correcting errors rests with the experts “doctors, nurses, pharmacists “using the system.
Even more damaging, he continued, are non-disclosure clauses that prevent users from sharing system reports or screens.
“Not only are you responsible for any screw-ups in the software,” Dr. Koppel told audience members, “but you can’t even tell your colleagues about them.”
Designing for clinical care, not billing
As a first step toward creating the type of IT systems that doctors need, Drs. Koppel and Rogers said hospitalists need to present a united front in rejecting such contract language. An even more important move is getting hospitalists involved in designing both software and hardware.
While health care is the most complex process that technology will ever tackle, Dr. Rogers pointed out that health IT right now isn’t as usable as “the online systems we book airline tickets with.”
The big problem is that very few systems are being built from the ground up to provide clinical care. Instead, most IT systems have only “a layer of clinical processes” on top of accounting software, Dr. Rogers added.
To design IT systems to fit clinical processes, physicians first have to understand clinical workflow and formatting. Part of the problem, said Dr. Rogers, is that many hospitalists are attempting to bring IT online at the same time that they’re trying to change the culture of their hospital with protocol-driven care via order sets and clinical decision-support.
“What physicians often see the first time they use CPOE is protocol-driven care through a set of orders,” he pointed out. “They’ll disagree with something in those protocols and hate CPOE.”
That’s unfortunate, Dr. Rogers added, because the decision-support that IT can offer and that is often embedded in order sets holds the greatest promise for physicians in the area of safe, effective diagnosis and treatment. But it’s also the one area of IT that “needs to be developed the most,” he said.
Figuring out how doctors work
When implementing a new system, Dr. Koppel said that order sets and decision-support tools should be added slowly, starting with one small set of decision-support alerts “that make intuitive sense” and carefully evaluating each new element. To better facilitate the way physicians work, decision-support should also avoid what Dr. Rogers called “hard stops,” or alerts that tell physicians “you can’t do this.”
Doctors have a much easier time changing clinical direction rather than coming to a dead end, he explained, so alerts should direct them to consider another approach or diagnosis.
“We should have alternatives built in,” said Dr. Rogers. Decision support is such an important feature of information technology that Dr. Rogers said he believes it should be headed up in individual hospitals by a separate director.
And physicians’ role in IT design and implementation is so crucial, said Dr. Rogers, that hospitalists who plan to devote time to IT development and implementation first need to get schooled in quality improvement. “It’s not enough to understand how IT works,” he said. “You have to know how people and systems work as well.”
Insist on useability
The fact that a doctor has to click through 17 screens to order one medication in a CPOE system is not just an annoyance, according to Dr. Rogers. “It is pulling physicians’ attention away from the important task of picking the right medications,” he said. “This isn’t a convenience issue, it’s a safety issue.”
Unfortunately, vendors’ knee-jerk response to such problems is that “it’s a training issue” “a response that Dr. Rogers said hospitalists should not accept. “People can’t be trained to do things reliably,” he said. “Instead, the system needs to be built to support people in providing safe, reliable care.”
While software can be written to do just about anything, vendors typically have an 18-to-30-month-long cycle for improving hard code. During that time, IT manufacturers are busy trying to figure out which of the problems flagged by physicians in a system can be fixed in a new update or version “and sometimes sold back to the hospitals logging the complaints.
“We need to push to shorten those cycles,” Dr. Rogers said. “Significant safety concerns have to get through quickly.”
The only way to make that push and advance IT development is through physician and hospital collaboration. That means that providers have to share the problems they find.
“Yes, non-disclosure clauses exist, but that’s a lawsuit that I would welcome,” Dr. Rogers said. “It is against our moral and professional standards not to report errors that could harm patients, and I do not believe that it is something that could stand up in court.”
Physicians need to work together, he added, to determine what the government’s role in health IT should be, how products should be evaluated, what level of interoperability products need and how certification can be more than “a sales strategy.”
While SHM’s IT committee is beginning to filter through problem reports, committee members support the development of vendor-specific collaboratives so hospitalists can share innovations and issues directly with each other.
“There’s no reason why doctors in 10 hospitals have to start from the ground level to build IT tools if someone has developed an effective tool like an excellent sign-out sheet,” said Dr. Rogers. “We can and should build off of each others’ efforts.”
Phyllis Maguire is Executive Editor of Today’s Hospitalist.
Pitfalls to avoid with information technology
EVEN IF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY gets the kind of innovation it needs, using health information technology always comes with some big caveats. That’s according to Kendall Rogers, MD, chair of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s IT committee who co-presented a session on information technology at SHM’s annual spring meeting.
For one, physicians have to guard against over-reliance on technology. In many academic centers, Dr. Rogers said, residents ordering medications via CPOE assume that any drug listed in an order set can’t be wrong.
And because providers become accustomed to safety alerts when ordering drugs through CPOE, they may keep titrating doses up, waiting for an alert to stop them “even when the system’s alert function is turned off.
“My personal belief is that nurses question handwritten orders far more than they question CPOE orders,” Dr. Rogers said. “People assume that every electronic order has gone through layers of safety before it makes it to them.”
Physicians working locally to fix system problems also have to beware of another pitfall: customization. That’s been hospitals’ answer when an off-the-shelf system doesn’t have the functionality to do medication reconciliation, for instance, or generate a discharge checklist.
“We come up with some kind of workaround,” said Dr. Rogers, “and those can be very dangerous when not done properly.”