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MARQUETTE — It’s something the late Karen Violetta Kunkel would have wanted.
Kunkel, who died in December at age 83, was an administrator, professor and professional women’s baseball player who played for the Grand Rapids Chicks, among other things, and was instrumental in establishing the United States Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan University, now known as the NMU Olympic Training Site.
One thing she — and other former female baseball players — strongly favored was the International Women’s Baseball Center.
Plans call for a museum and educational facility to be built across from Beyer Stadium, home to the former Rockford Peaches, in Rockford, Illinois. In fact, the center was dedicated Sept. 3, with visits from “A League of Their Own” actresses Tracy Reiner and Anne Ramsay.
In a “From the President’s Desk” column penned by IWBC President Kat Williams in the December issue of its “Step Up to the Sport” newsletter, Karen Kunkel’s name was prominently featured.
“Her dedication and stubbornness were legendary, and it was on the rock of that dedication that the IWBC was founded,” Williams wrote.
Williams said that for many years, Kunkel, along with former AAGPBL players Shirley Burkovich, Maybelle Blair and the late Jane Moffet, dreamed of building a museum and educational center that would preserve and support the history of girls and women in baseball.
Kunkel also would have been excited by the educational programs planned for the Rockford area this year, even before the first brick of the building is laid, she said.
Kunkel’s husband, Jack, said his late wife nurtured the IWBC dream.
The idea goes way back to a reunion among former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players.
She apparently was forward-thinking in another way. His mother, he noted, realized how important museums and halls of fame are to history.
To say the least, Karen Kunkel had a varied and interesting background in baseball, on and off the field.
Jack Kunkel said a 1980s reunion in Cooperstown, New York, where the Baseball Hall of Fame is located, linked his wife, who emceed the event, with director Penny Marshall. It was there that Marshall told her she had seen a documentary on women in baseball.
She later became a “consultant for originality” for “A League of Their Own,” which Marshall directed.
“Karen kind of got the message that she was going to be working in conjunction with Penny to make this thing not a comedy and to show that these women had some talent,” Jack Kunkel said.
With the AAGPBL players dying off, though, his wife pushed the museum idea.
Jack Kunkel said she and Moffet, both educators and catchers, decided to be a “team of two” to promote the concept.
They approached a Cooperstown administrator to suggest an annex for the women, which although was in the film still doesn’t exist in real life. Another visit resulted in a statue being installed outside, which he called a breakthrough for the women.
Still, it wasn’t exactly a separate Hall of Fame wing for the women.
However, “A League of Their Own” was a big hit.
Jack Kunkel said his wife and Moffet noticed other players were capitalizing financially on the film’s popularity.
Jack Kunkel said they finally realized there was a way they could accomplish both, but had no idea how to go about it.
So, Karen Kunkel, Moffet, Burkovich and Blair got to work.
Rather than creating a museum strictly for the AAGPBL, they decided to go international and create the IWBC, he said, since women in many countries play baseball.
“They split from the league, so to speak, and went their own way,” said Jack Kunkel.
The city of Rockford really got behind the effort.
“Rockford has come up with lots of dollars to make this thing come together,” said Scott Kunkel, who pointed out the project is in its infant stages.
It also involves a lot of volunteer work.
“The people that are working this darn near full time for zero dollars right now, they have jobs,” the younger Kunkel said.
The focus now, Scott Kunkel said, is fundraising and determining the “inner workings” of each room at the center. One room, which will be called “The Catcher’s Den,” will be dedicated to his mother and Moffet.
He credited Blair and Burkovich with continuing the effort, pushing the dream to the point where the city of Rockford became involved.
People who want to help the project come to fruition, however, don’t have to live in Rockford, Illinois. To become an IABC member and help the cause, they can visit www.internationalwomensbaseballcenter.org.
Education will factor greatly into the IWBC.
“It’s really turned into more than just a display of memorabilia,” Jack Kunkel said.
Karen Kunkel no doubt would be pleased.


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ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 21, 2012-- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX), a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of regenerative medicine, today announced that Chief Executive Officer, Michael D. West, Ph.D., will present a corporate overview of BioTime and its subsidiaries with an update on recent developments at the 2012 Maxim Group Growth Conference on Monday, March 26, 2012, 11:00 a.m. EDT, at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. The presentation will be webcast and available online at the Investors section of the BioTime website at www.biotimeinc.com.
The 5th annual Maxim Group Growth Conference is designed to provide institutional clients with the opportunity to gain an in-depth perspective on the issues affecting the growth of presenting companies. The one-day event will feature more than 80 company presentations across six designated industry tracks including the healthcare and biotechnology sectors.

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In a sign of how much our industry is evolving, a brand — not a media company— has won the prestigious Portada Award as a Top Content Provider to Hispanic Audiences.
When I founded Captura Group in 2001, I saw a tangible opportunity for brands to engage directly with online Hispanics through culturally relevant content to drive business objectives. Over the years, Captura Group has had blazed the trail by executing successful Hispanic content marketing programs for many of our clients.
I am proud to announce that Captura Group’s client, Dias Grandiosos con Kellogg’s, has been recognized as the Top Content Provider to Hispanic Audiences by Portada.
Días Grandiosos is Kellogg’s cross-brand Hispanic content marketing program that takes a fresh approach to reaching and connecting with Hispanic families through stories about food, family and culture from real Latina moms. The site features recipes, tips, articles, and original content designed for Latinas and their families. By engaging Hispanic consumers through an authentic brand journalism approach, Días Grandiosos will build long-term relationships with a consumer segment that is critical for growth.
Recognition for the work we do on behalf of our clients are always rewarding, but this win is particularly significant as it validates a vision we had a long time ago. We are grateful to our client-partner Kellogg’s for sharing our progressive approach to connecting with online Hispanics through a content marketing program, to our Captura Group team for concepting and executing it, and to Portada for validating it with this award.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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You might assume that those who work in high-trust professions, such as medical doctors, would naturally adhere to a strict set of ethics, and therefore may not require the same strict background screening that would apply to a financial advisor or bank teller, for example. The recent story of a United Airlines pilot posing as a cardiologist shows just how wrong an assumption this can be.
Recent news stories report that for 20 years, United Airlines pilot, William Hamman, reportedly posed as a cardiologist and led seminars for groups at the Western Michigan University Center for Simulation Research, Northwestern University, and on behalf of the American Medical Association (AMA) and American College of Emergency Physicians.
According to news reports, his seminars were widely attended and covered such topics as applying flight skills simulation training to cardiology. In addition to giving seminars, he published in journals with M.D. and PhD credentials attached to his name—neither of which is he reported to hold.
Hamman is reportedly grounded from his job at United Airlines after he submitted a grant proposal at William Beaumont Hospital in which, as part of the grant process, staff attempted to verify his education credentials. He is now barred from giving his seminars with the AMA and his case is under investigation.
During his time posing as a cardiologist, he received a $2.8 million dollar grant to expand simulation training in medical facilities and signed a training contract that paid around $250,000. And while it is believed that he never attempted to treat patients during his time posing as a cardiologist, no doubt this case has left egg in the faces of many who supported his work.
Where Was the Education Background Check?
Look at the negative attention this story is bringing to cardiologists and institutions who relied upon Hamman’s credentials – not to mention the reputation of United Airlines.
What it boils down to is this: Education background checks are a MUST in any position where an individual’s education-related credential is important. Experts estimate that 40% of all resumes contain misrepresentations. Plus, in today’s world, it is far too easy to obtain fake credentials for everything from a high school diploma to a law degree. And while degree mills and education lies are certainly not the norm, it pays to verify the accuracy and validity of your applicant’s educational claims.
Don’t take a person’s resume and educational claims at face value. Doing so can put your reputation – and more – at risk.
Proforma offers comprehensive employment screening services to reduce your human capital risk and protect your company’s reputation. Open an Account or Request a Proposal to find out how an affordable background check can protect your organization.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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Deputy President raised 19 Million shillings for two Isiolo groups. Dr William Ruto helped the Kinna women groups and Isiolo Teachers Sacco raise funds for their members. The Kinna fundraising was to help 85 Women Groups get start-ups and was attended by all elected leaders from the county. It raised Ksh 11M for the women groups.
The Deputy President also flew to Isiolo Stadium to fundraise for Isiolo Teachers SACCO in the company of Isiolo county Governor Dr Kuti and the Senator Hon Fatuma Dulo. The Isiolo Teachers SACCO fundraising was attended by the DP, The Governor and the Senator and raised a total of Ksh. 8M. However the 2 Constituency MPs, the Woman Rep and MCAs did not attend the Teachers Sacco fundraising. It is not yet known the reason the leaders did not attend the teachers fundraising.
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I know summer isn’t quite here yet, but, I’m already kind of smitten with summer produce. The spring stars and good gardening mojo aligned perfectly and my summer vegetable gardens just took off like a shot. I’m harvesting cherry tomatoes daily. (Okay, so it’s just one or two per day, but guys, it’s barely mid-June and Ohio Valley home garden tomatoes don’t normally begin ripening until after the 4th of July.) I have green bell peppers (plural) ready to pick (although I’ll let them fully ripen to a bright, sweet red). Poblanos, jalapeños, and serranos are close behind. My first cucumber is ready to pick. My herb garden has been in full glorious greenery for weeks.
It’s hard to give asparagus its due when tomatoes and basil and cucumbers are calling my name from my own yard.
So, in my book, of the summery vegetables and herbs in this colorful salad, only corn is still slightly out of season at this point (shipped up from the South to a Kroger near me — thanks, South!).
But, if you’re not quite up for grilling yet, you can roast the vegetables under the broiler. Or — as I plan on doing as summer heat progresses — you can prepare this raw: sweet corn, straight from the cob (uncooked!), chopped peppers, quinoa, and herbs, tossed lightly with olive oil and salt and pepper. Oh my crunchy yum.
And did I mention the citrusy sesame dressing? An unexpected nutty-savory twist, brightened with a splash of orange juice. The dressing is optional but takes mere minutes to pull together, and turns a satisfying vegetable toss into something really special.
Preheat grill to medium-high and prepare for direct grilling. Clean and lightly oil grates.
Place the corn and peppers on the grill. Turn the cobs and peppers frequently to char on all sides. When the pepper skins are mostly black, remove them from the grill and place them in a paper bag or cover them foil to cool (this will make the skins easier to remove). Remove the corn from the grill when the kernels have a light char and let cool.
Remove the skins from the peppers and chop. Use a chef's knife to cut the corn kernels from the cob. Combine the peppers, corn, quinoa, cilantro/parsley, and chives in a bowl. Season lightly with salt and pepper.
*This recipe is a great use for leftover quinoa, but if you need to cook some fresh: bring 1 cup of water to a boil and add 1/2 cup rinsed quinoa. Reduce heat to maintain a simmer, cover, and cook 15 minutes or until the water has evaporated and the curlicues have separated from the seed. I recommend doubling or tripling the amounts and freezing the extras.
I can, however, haunt the farmers’ markets and still make this gorgeous salad, just not from the ground up. That counts, right?

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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NOTE: You will need to have a check layout set up to match your banks check stock before printing checks. You can reach out to your Implementation Consultant or log a Support ticket to get help setting up your layout.
Verify that the "Next Check No." field is correct and select which checks you would like to print.
After the checks print, you will get a Check Number Confirmation window.
Verify that each check printed correctly and each number was properly assigned.
If a check was assigned the wrong number, you can change it on this screen.
This screen can also be accessed by going to Banking>Check Number Confirmation if you need to reopen it for any reason.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


text: I am a product of the media. I am a bar on the bar code taped to the brand “young adults of America”. I am a note in the song during a man-made advertisement sexually assaulting every sense you’re humanly capable of. A song that blares from the surround sound speaker’s that wash over you, helping you drown in gossip, politics and scripted reality TV, anything to avoid that strange thing called life. I believe my role in media consumption is what keeps media alive. Though I am just one person, it only takes one person to spread to the masses, isn’t that the universal glory behind the world of media? The ability to spread information quickly to large amounts of people. I see the immense importance of what the media was and can be, i.e., when the world saw the truth behind the Vietnam War, from their TV screens, in their plush living rooms. Though today, it seems as if we ARE the information that is spreading, due to social networks like facebook, that sends literally pictures of your face and a timeline of your entire life all over the planet, for anyone’s eyes that feel like looking. These are our thoughts, ideas, and beliefs that we tweet; WE are keeping Twitter Earth in constant orbit with every post 140 characters or less. We are the media, we know what we want to see, so we post videos of it on YouTube, write blogs about it on blogspot, give bad reviews on Yelp, forewarning future consumers. We want funny, we want crazy, we want new, we want want want, and more will never be enough. I am a twenty something, birthed and raised by Mother Media.

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It’s my morning routine: I sit, smartphone in hand, twitter app open and dig into the chatter. Quickly scrolling through breaking news, taking in headlines and laughing at Michael Moore’s latest quip, I pause on a presidential candidate’s tweet; a candidate I support. As I read the tweet and agree with its message, nodding my head in a “you said it, brother!” manner, I’m also debating whether to heart or even possibly retweet. I can see that it’s been hearted and retweeted thousands of times already and a part of me truly wonders what is lost to my 45 followers (most of whom are trying to sell me something) if I don’t share?
Will they miss out on some vital information?
And then, I have the aha moment.
The truthiest truth is this: I should “heart,” “like,” “share” and “retweet” content I believe in. Not for my followers, since they’ll most likely receive the same information from various other sources, but because we now have the power and the platform to really say what we think, feel, believe. And that is real power. And who am I to turn away such a gift?
All this power is made even more potent because everyone is listening!
For example, marketers and companies want to test the waters with a brand or product, continually finding new ways to slice and dice the data to arrive at the best metrics for planning and executing marketing and sales adventures.
Or political parties taking the temperature of the society on the importance of an issue or testing the potential of a particular smear campaign (I’ve seen it, it’s ugly).
Or news media outlets continually gathering sentiment, feedback and sometimes actionable intel (in the case of citizen journalism) on stories, topics, issues and events.
These golden nuggets of information or social insights reveal so much about who we are and what we care about that no marketer, politician or gatekeeper can resist.
After my early morning aha moment, my eyes are opened to the dangers inherent in such a powerful tool and what could happen if the tables were turned on us lovers of online democracy. Citing various examples of self-censorship, an article on The Intercept addresses a recent study on the chilling effect created by widespread surveillance. And that, of course, includes social media channels where users know they are being read, monitored.
And this is no stand-alone, one-off study. Data abounds (and compounds) indicating that we, the watched, are watching what we say.
This makes me fret— a sweaty-palmed, hand-wringing sort of fret.
If we begin to see ourselves as oppressed by the experience of sharing on social media, we’ve collectively gone through the looking glass. We’ve embraced an alternate reality where we are not free to contribute to the construction of a society or the promotion of an idea (or even product). We’ve turned away from the greatest contribution and benefit Twitter and other social media platforms provide…the opportunity to engage in the global marketplace of ideas, to hear and be heard, to make a difference.
So, setting fear aside, I embrace the power of my opinions and retweet that tweet. To do my part, to provoke, to question, and in this instance, to add my one voice to the many.
Even if it means being the 3,478th person to retweet a tweet, it matters.


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Technology use is leading a wellness revolution and more authentic place making according to speakers at REMIX Sydney.
VR and immersive experience are still leading the creative entrepreneurial sector, but bespoke – more human – creativity is on the rise according to REMIX Summits.
Coinciding with a national call out for greater artistic courage, NAVA also responds to continued political interference in arts decisions as the NSW election approaches.
Opera Australia announces unique concert, Australian Museum upgrade given green light, funding boost for Vision Australia’s library services, and more.
Games used to be seen as the obsession of techies and nerds. How did they become the happening medium for creatives?
Paul Callaghan is a Melbourne based freelance writer and game developer and director of Freeplay 2012.
A three-day forum in Brisbane will interrogate the operatic form and consider opera’s place in contemporary culture.
As a self-appointed ambassador in a gold lamé suit, Lim takes conversations about identity, dislocation and racism into regional SA and NSW.
The criticism plaguing VR is that while it is great technology the content is dismal. Artists are pushing the form through new commissions at ACMI.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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Victorian home in popular neighborhood exudes a gracious manner. Large rooms invite conversations and home-centered celebrations. Beautifully manicured lawn feels like a perfect place for a game of croquet. 2.87 acres to sprawl out on too! Has raspberry and blackberry bushes, and is near golf course and community pool.
This content last updated on 4/18/2019 5:27 AM. Some properties which appear for sale on this web site may subsequently have sold or may no longer be available.
I would like more information on the listing at 2012 West Loveland Drive, Carthage, MO 64836.

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MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 I’M MATTTHAT’S NOT EVEN MY BATHROOM.
I’M A DORK MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 THIS IS NOT FALSE MODESTY.
DEVELOPERS ERRYWHERE MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 THEY SAT IN ON DEFINITION.
DEVELOPERS ERRYWHERE MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 THEY HELPED WITH USER RESEARCH.
DEVELOPERS ERRYWHERE MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 THEY HELPED WITH FEATURE DEFINITION.
DEVELOPERS ERRYWHERE MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 THEY DID UI REVIEW/FEEDBACK.
DEVELOPERS ERRYWHERE MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 THEY LET ME SEE BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
I’M REFERRING TO THEIR DESIGN EXPERTISE. MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 BUT DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT.
STOP DOING THAT. AVOID BEING A BOTTLENECK. MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 ANYWAY, THAT JUST MEANS THE DEVS ARE DOING DESIGN WITHOUT YOUR INFORMATION.
EVERY ORG IS DIFFERENT. BUT THEY ALL VALUE EFFICIENCY. MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 MAKE THE CASE THAT YOU’RE REMOVING INSTITUTIONAL BOTTLENECKS & REDUCING THE BURDEN ON REVIEW CYCLES.
BULLSH!T. THEY JUST TALK ABOUT IT DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU. MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 DO THE HEAVY LIFTING FOR A WHILE. LEARN TO SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE.
MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 REMEMBER THIS PART TREAT YOUR DEVS LIKE THE DESIGNERS THEY ARE.
MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 REMEMBER THIS PART USER EXPERIENCE DOES NOT BEGIN AND END WITH YOU.
MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 REMEMBER THIS PART FUSCIA IS A VIABLE PRESENTATION COLOR.
MATT EDWARDS MINNEWEBCON 2015 REMEMBER THIS PART THE MINNEAPOLIS TECH SCENE IS TRULY AMAZING. THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF IT.


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Jones Ave - "Folk Art"
Jones Ave is a Georgia based band that alternate between jamming acid psychedelia and folk songs. The band consists of Brian Fowler on guitar, mandolin, bass, Rhodes, congas and vocals, John Joiner on flutes, bass and keyboards, Master Gabe Holland on keyboards, Dr David Wisdo on acoustic guitar, bass and vocals, Laszlo Stan on violin, and Jota Parker on drums.
On the acid space rock side my favorite tracks are "Treadmill" and "Circus Clown". "Treadmill" is an excellent jam tune with slowly soloing stoner acid guitar and a beautiful violin and flute combination. Laszlo Stan's violin is the real highlight, rising to screaming peaks and then slowly falling again. Like a combination of Bevis Frond and Hawkwind. Killer psychedelia that combines a raw jamming style with a more cosmic space rock sound. "Circus Clown" is even more in the Bevis Frond domain being a total acid psych guitar freakout tune, but with the addition of Laszlo Stan's violin peppering the music in a quirky style and spoken word taking the place of singing. "Atlantis" features singing violin leads along with strumming acoustic guitar, and a spacey synth line and slowing soloing guitar gives the music an underlying trippy feel. "Mcveigh" is a dark and intense metallic acid-psych tune, which is appropriate given that Timothy McVeigh is the subject of the lyrics.
The rest of the songs are in the folk realm, though elements of psychedelia and even prog rock are apparent. What makes the music so enjoyable and gives Jones Ave their character is the violin (a key instrument throughout the album), mandolin and flute, which adds an ethnic or traditional flavor to the songs. My favorite from this style of tunes is "World War 3" with it's lyrics and news samples of conflict in the Middle East that create a haunting aura around the song. Overall an impressive album that could appeal to a diversity of tastes. And poking around their web site it looks like Brian Fowler is involved in a number of tasty looking projects.
For more information you can visit Jones Ave at the San Francisco Blue web site at: http://www.sfblue.co.uk/.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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General Mill’s Yoplait brand has a long history of helping organizations that support women with breast cancer. In 2013, they realized there was a missing piece in the breast cancer community–peer mentoring. In focus groups and through research, they learned how on-on-one peer mentoring would positively impact a woman’s breast cancer experience. With funding from Yoplait, Firefly Sisterhood was built as a gift to the community.
Yoplait’s start-up funding sunsets this year and our organization is now on its own. Our program and requests for our services grows every day. On average, we get one request a day and our program continues to move beyond the Twin Cities. Our Board of Directors is committed to reaching into all parts of our community–geographically, economically and culturally. We want to serve all individuals with breast cancer.
As Firefly Sisterhood, we do two things: run our program and raise the money to run our program. We are committed to making sure our program is available to all women in the state of Minnesota. We apply for grants and are the recipient of fundraising event proceeds. You do not need to be a “fundraiser” to help in many ways.
You can host a party, golf tournament, Bunco night, or 10% day at your favorite shop. We even have signature mason jars to collect change at your desk or in the community.
You can see if your corporation will match your donation to double your contribution. We are registered 501(c)3 non-profit, which means donations are tax-deductible.
Use Amazon Smile or Ebay’s non-profit program when shopping this holiday. It is amazingly easy to use! Click Here to learn about Amazon Smile.
Buy a ticket to Illuminight, our annual fundraising event on June 14th. Or even better, sponsor an Illuminight table and bring your friends and colleagues. More details will be out in early spring, but save the date for a great party on our behalf.
Open a door to a corporation or a potential sponsor who might like to support our work.
And be sure to tell your friends, because we believe in a world where no one should face breast cancer alone.
Hi! We are LuLaRoe Conlin Sisters and we are fashion retailers who sell buttery soft leggings and clothing for kids and women.
I saw your website and understand that you assist women going through breast cancer. What an amazing organization that I am proud to see in the Twin Cities!
We want to bring more awareness and funds to agencies. We understand this is breast cancer awareness month, so please let us know if you are interested in a fundraiser.
We can do online, in person, etc. to raise funds for your organization!


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Mathematics is a server subject and teaches children fundamental skills that allow them to access many other areas of the curriculum. Below are some examples of the links between Maths and other subject areas. These also demonstrate how making links between Maths and different subject areas can deepen mathematical knowledge, understanding and skill to develop true mastery.
Maths and science are tightly linked together. Almost every scientific investigation is likely to require one or more of the mathematical skills of classifying, counting, measuring, calculating, estimating, and recording in tables or graphs. Statistics are used extensively in Science. Most charts and graphs used in science are initially taught in maths lessons.
Collecting and representing data from field work.
Using scales on Ordnance Survey maps to establish the correct distance between two points.
Time, distance and speed of races can be incorporated into Mathematic sessions to enable children to work out averages and convert between different measures.
Data can be collected and analysed to assess performances.
As in Geography, maths skills are needed when orienteering: using grid references, angles and direction.
Averages (Mean, Mode and Median) can be used to assess an athlete’s performance.
Discussing symmetry on the football pitch or netball court.
Measuring ingredients and working out proportions.
Being able to measure things accurately is an important skill in DT when making products.
Estimation is also important when working out quantities of raw materials.
Angles and direction which can be drawn and measured using floor robots and apps.
Information can be represented through Excel documents.
Logic is used in programming as is problem solving.
Scratch Maths allows children to use their mathematical skills to program computers.
Symmetrical art can be analysed and the number of lines of symmetry can be found. Also, the order of rotational symmetry can be studied.
Ratio is used to mix paints. For example, to make purple, you mix 3 parts red to 7 parts blue.
Many artists and architects have proportioned their works to approximate the Golden Ratio, believing this proportion to be aesthetically pleasing.
Tessellations in different pieces of artwork.
Works of art from the Cubism era of the 20th century link to nets and 3D shapes.
Historical (scaled) timelines can be used as a basis for finding the difference in dates and giving an understanding of lengths of time over periods in History.
Historical dates can also be utilised for sequencing events.
Charts and graphs can provide extremely useful historical information, which children can analyse.
Please visit our twitter feed above, to see how each group is using Maths across the curriculum.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant and animal life; however, its presence in concentrations exceeding assimilative capacities of receiving water bodies is undesirable. Therefore, the form and concentration of total nitrogen released in wastewater effluents is of great concern. During the course of this study, the nitrogen analysis was performed on the various unit processes of the Florida Technological University wastewater treatment plant. The average percent removal of nitrogen between plant influent and clarifier effluent was 30.5% during the month of August 1975. It is believed that the nitrogen removal is attributed to luxury uptake by the biomass through the plant. The clarifier effluent was highly nitrified containing an average ammonia nitrogen concentration of 0.76 milligrams per liter and a nitrate nitrogen concentration of 16.47 milligrams per liter. The extent to which nitrification took place was 93 - 98% with an average of 96.5% for the month of August.
Morris, Mark Lee, "Nitrogen Transformation in Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plants" (1975). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 168.

industry_corpus2: Water Resources & Marine


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 How long does it take to remove mice in a building?
How long does it take to remove mice in a building?
There are many factors that will be involved in how long it will take to remove the mice problems. There is no way that you can solve the problem in the correct way if you do not tackle the cause of the problem. If the house has holes the mice use to get inside, then you should start by solving this problem. Sealing the building will take time and requires experience.
When it comes to getting rid of the mice, it is not advised to use poison. This is because you can only kill half of the entire population. Others may not touch it or they may not find it. Some will only eat a small amount which is not enough for them to die. The poison is also a temporary fix, so new mice will keep coming inside after time.
If you want to kill the mice, you should start by sealing the holes which allow them into the house. The next step is to look where the mice live by identifying where there are trails, chew marks and grease marks. If you are aware of where the mice are, then it is time to set the traps to catch them. The wooden trap is known to be the best trap. You can bait it using different types of bait. You can use peanut butter or chocolate.
You can clean the mice away. The mice will not be attracted to a filthy house necessarily, but they can be attracted to the place where they can get water and food easily. If you want to keep the mice away, you have to make sure that there is no water or food accessible to the mice in any way. Using mothballs and peppermint can help to keep the mice outside.
Using traps is an effective method. Confirm all the entry and exit points where the animals can come in or leave to go outside. You should start by using the mouse traps or deterrents so that you can force the animals to go over where the trap is.
Go back to the How to Get Rid of Mice page or email us if you have any other questions about How long does it take to remove mice in a building?

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text: The complex consists of 5 low-rise villas, 4 IQ buildings and 2 tower buildings, which were completed in 2012 and BREEAM certfied. SERVICES On-site amenities include restaurants, cafes, retail showrooms, shops, bank branches, news agent, hairdresser, notary, health club. The complex is located along Herspicka street, which secures great access by car (10-15 minutes drive) to the city centre as well as to the D1/D2 highway junctions and Brno international airport. A bus stop is situated in the complex, further bus and tram stops can be reached within a 10-minute walk through a pedestrian underpass and footbridge.


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Language Log: Habermas the conservative?
I'm glad that Sally Thomason is in Hamburg, because I need help. I've just gotten a nice note from Germany, but the more I think about it, the more confused I get. Visiting the University of Hamburg, Sally is in a good position to do some linguistic anthropology to map out the intellectual territory that I'm lost in.
I am the owner webmaster of kerneuropa.de. I noticed you mentioned my website in your blog on Hambermas, though you mentioned you were not sure whether our site has anything to to with the kerneuropa debate started by Habermas and others. Some friends and I secured the domain because we completly disagree with the whole notion of a European core that conservatives want to create: an idea that has unfortunately been endorsed by some German intellectuals. We wanted to counter this idea with a weblog on European Politics and Sports. Therefore, we spent most of June and July on the Euro 2004. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for noticing us, since you were our #2 referrer url (only beaten by google).
I wish Mr. Leidecker and his associates well. At least I think I do. How can you not like a site that has posts on sports entitled "Portugal wird Europas Meister" [ translate] and "Latvia, oder die Band auf der Titanic spielte auch bis zum Schluß" [ translate]?
But the thing is, I have to confess that I find European intellectual politics baffling, and so I'm not completely sure what I'm supporting here. Is Habermas being viewed as a conservative? or is he just one of the German intellectuals who have unfortunately endorsed a conservative initiative? Are "conservatives" and "German intellectuals" disjoint sets of people, who occasionally make alliances for convenience? Is the kerneuropa development that motivated Leidecker to get started the same Habermas statement that I blogged about, or something else? Is the idea of "core Europe" being rejected because of opposition to all regional identity politics, or because of support for more local regional identity politics?
On May 31, 2003, philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas published a joint statement in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and France's La Liberation, calling for the formulation of a common European foreign policy in order to "balance out" US global hegemony. A greater show of solidarity between the members of "Kerneuropa" or "core Europe," they contend, and the empowerment of intergovernmental organizations like the UN, the World Bank, and the IMF, is the only way to contain (and perhaps combat) the recent "pre-emptive" foreign policy initiatives of the United States.
So is this the "European core that some conservatives want to create"? or just evidence that the "idea ... has unfortunately been endorsed by some German intellectuals"? What does "conservative" mean in this connection? Is it the old meaning of "someone who wants to prevent change", or the new meaning of "someone who wants to change things"? Or one of the many other current meanings, such as "someone who generally dislikes government intervention", or "someone who supports the wealthy and powerful"?
Mr. Leidecker has kindly written to me in English rather than in German, so perhaps he has tried to translate some European political terminology into its American equivalent. Another piece of evidence here is that kerneuropa.de links to Daily Kos and politics1. If so, I'm afraid that the translation didn't work. In the US these days, "conservatism" spreads its tent widely, over many values of many social and ideological variables, but I don't think you could stretch it to cover Habermas.
Of course, I'm in no position to complain about the irrationality of European politics, being myself a citizen of a country in which Ralph Nader has been variously allied with Pat Buchanan, Fred Newman and Lenora Fulani, and the Oregon Republican Party. But the sad fact is that politicians -- and other humans -- are like words. Their meanings shift in ways that make local sense but combine over time to create bizarre large-scale trajectories. And some politicians, like some words, are what Roman Jakobson called "shifters" -- their meanings involve contextual references that land on completely different things on different occasions. Nationalists, for instance.
Anyhow, I look forward to more information, in the naive hope that it will make me less rather than more confused.


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Susan began her personal lines insurance career over 29 years ago, with a third-generation owned firm. This experience of working with families that had been clients for three generations showed her that a focus on client service, and the ability to serve families now and into the future, was how she wished to build her career.
Relocating to the Carolinas in 1998, Susan joined a local, established family agency as a senior client manager. In this capacity she managed a widespread group of clients. Before joining Allen Tate Insurance, Susan was part of a national brokerage firm that specializes in affluent client management. She worked with Family Office programs in counseling and review of their insurance portfolios.
Susan takes a comprehensive view of her clients' needs, from protection of assets through placement of appropriate insurance coverage. Her dedication and commitment to detail assures her clients that their needs will never be overlooked.


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The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) has announced the winners of the 2016 Canadian Shopping Centre Awards, recognizing Canada’s most innovative shopping centers for outstanding achievement across marketing, development and design, and retail store design categories. ICSC has named Samsung Sherway Gardens as a Award winner in the Design Development category.
Cutler had the pleasure to work alongside Samsung Canada to design and develop their fourth brand experience store in Canada located at Sherway Gardens in Toronto. With experience stores located in Vancouver, Richmond, BC, and Edmonton, Samsung Sherway Gardens is their first venture into the Ontario retail market.
The retail goal for Samsung was to create an environment for customers to experience their various mobile and electronic offerings.
The Samsung journey starts with the grand angled storefront entrance opening, with pattern embossed solid surfaces and a large panel of low iron glass for the window display. With an open storefront design, the interior of the store becomes a part of the storefront elevations. Once inside the store, customers can explore freely through the brightly lit and spacious display point of interest.
The 2016 ICSC Canadian Shopping Centre Awards competition was open to shopping centre owners, developers, management companies, architects and designers, and retailers. ICSC announced the winners during an awards ceremony at the ICSC Canadian Convention in Toronto.


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Pure mattress running for hotel elite status rarely makes sense: you only receive status benefits for nights you stay, so the further away from elite status you are, the less worthwhile a potential mattress run towards status will be.
At the same time, mattress running for bonus points during promotions rarely makes sense because travel hacking makes hotel stays so cheap that any bonus points earned are unlikely to buy you much hotel than you can purchase any day of the week by simply manufacturing spend.
As a new Hyatt Diamond, I decided to see whether the current Stay More Play More promotion may make mattress running make sense for the combination of elite-qualifying stays towards renewing my status, and the bonus points earned.
How much does a mattress run cost?
To calculate the cost of a mattress run, I take the cost of a paid stay and, in the case of a Points + Cash stay, the cost of any points redeemed, then subtract the value of any points earned on the stay. Here are some sample calculations I scratched out last week, based on nightly rates at my local Hyatt property.
In words, I can pay $50.38 (after buying a gift card at an 18% discount) and 2,642 Hyatt Gold Passport points (4,000 minus the 1358 points earned on the cash portion of the stay), or I can pay $122.84 and earn a total of 1,872 points. A valuation of 1.61 cents per Hyatt Gold Passport point makes the two options a wash. If I value Hyatt Gold Passport points more highly than that, I should book an all-cash stay, and at a lower valuation, I should book a Points + Cash stay for my mattress run.
The question is, it possible for the Stay More Play More promotion to make mattress running cheap, or even free? The answer, it turns out, is yes — for a certain definition of free.
one offering 25,000 points on your 25th night.
Keep in mind that no other nights are bonused in any way under this promotion: only these multiple-of-five eligible nights between April 1 and June 30, 2016, earn any bonus points at all.
The first promotion may be marginally worth a mattress run if you have access to a Category 1 Hyatt property. You'll earn 5,000 bonus points plus, as a Diamond, 6.5 points per dollar on the cash portion of your stay, plus 500 bonus points (at Hyatt Place and Hyatt House properties) or 1,000 bonus points (at other Hyatt properties).
A Points + Cash stay at a Category 1 property will thus cost $50 plus tax and earn a net of 3,325 Hyatt Gold Passport points, or 1.5 cents per Hyatt Gold Passport point at Hyatt Place and Hyatt House properties or 3,825 points (1.31 cents per point) at other Hyatt properties.
If you value Hyatt Gold Passport points at 1 cent each (when transferred from Ultimate Rewards), that's like paying $11.75 or $16.75 for a stay credit, which may be worth doing if needed to secure Diamond elite status the following year.
The promotion for later nights shifts the balance even more in your favor. Booking your 10th night on a Points + Cash stay in Category 1 gives a net cost of 0.6 cents per point and at Category 2 a net cost of 0.8 cents per point.
The deeper you get into the promotion, the more lucrative it becomes. If your 25th night happens to be at a Category 7 Park Hyatt on a Points + Cash stay, you'll pay 15,000 and $300 for the night — then get 27,950 points back, leaving you out of pocket just $170.50 for your Category 7 night.
The flip side of the structure of this promotion is that unbonused nights (all but the 5 bonused nights) make little sense for mattress running. Even at the very top of the promotion earning 5,000 bonus points per night leaves you paying 1.5 cents per point at Category 1 properties, which is 50% more than you would pay simply transferring in Ultimate Rewards points.
But even more importantly, if you are staying that many nights in a single 3-month period you're unlikely to need the elite-qualifying stays at all — you'll probably requalify for Diamond status on the stays you'll naturally book during the calendar year.
Without applying for the IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card, I could complete the rest of my offers with two, 3-night stays at Holiday Inn hotels (including at least one weekend) and earn a total of 48,000 bonus IHG Rewards points.
If you like the IHG Rewards Club program and have two 3-night stays planned during the promotional period, this promotion might make it worth directing those stays towards Holiday Inn properties.
Personally, I consider IHG Rewards Club to be tied with Marriott in the category of "worst hotel loyalty program," so I won't be participating.
Either way, you should still register now, before you forget.
Registration has opened for what I assume are the final global promotions of 2015 for Hilton HHonors and Marriott Rewards.
Between September 1 and December 31, 2015, earn double base HHonors points Monday through Thursday nights and triple base HHonors points and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Register for the promotion here.
I found after my overnight stay last Sunday at a Hilton property courtesy of Delta that I earned base points on charges I made to my room, which triggered the current Double Your HHonors promotion and my Diamond elite bonus. Just one more reason why, even if you don't have any paid stays coming up, you should register now, before you forget.
Between September 15, 2015, and January 15, 2016, earn double base points on each paid stay, starting with your second paid stay. Register for the promotion here by November 15, 2015. Ritz-Carlton properties are not participating in this promotion.
Since Marriott Rewards is the second-least rewarding program for paid stays, it's hugely unlikely that this promotion will make it worth directing paid stays to Marriott. But it doesn't cost anything to register now, before you forget.
The travel hacking blogosphere seems to be in a tizzy lately over the return earlier this month of the Hyatt Diamond status challenge. The challenge awards Diamond elite status after 12 qualifying (i.e. not award) nights within 60 days, and the status is good through February of 2017 — a pretty long time!
People who like Hyatt Diamond status seem to value it most for the 4 confirmed suite upgrades and lounge access (or full breakfast at properties without a lounge).
Let me start by saying that no one doubts that it's possible to design a vacation schedule for the next 20 months that maximizes the value of those benefits and makes it well worth arranging to credit 12 paid stays to Hyatt in 60 days in order to earn them.
But personally, I won't be participating. Here's why.
Hyatt is almost the only Ultimate Rewards transfer partner I take advantage of, since I don't fly United or Southwest. I transfer points to Amtrak once or twice a year for long-haul sleeper-car redemptions, but that's a rounding error with respect to my earning rate. On the other hand, where Hyatt properties are available, they frequently have extremely affordable points redemptions, like the Hyatt Place New York/Midtown-South, which costs 20,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points per night.
Since Hilton properties in New York start at 60,000 HHonors points (a $222 imputed redemption value) and Club Carlson's Radisson Martinique on Broadway costs 70,000 Gold Points (a $310 imputed redemption value), paying $200 in Ultimate Rewards points offers a relatively good value.
It's frequently noted that Hyatt has vastly fewer properties than Hilton or Marriott: just 587 hotels. But I don't actually treat this as much of a drawback. Since I only transfer points to Hyatt when I plan on making a reservation, it's not like I have an ever-growing supply of Hyatt Gold Passport points that I can never redeem. When there's a Hyatt property that's a good value, I stay there, and when there isn't, I stay at a Hilton HHonors (or, until recently, Club Carlson) property instead.
Furthermore, as I pointed out above, you can just plan a vacation around one or more Hyatt stays! Sure, people will look at you strangely when you explain that you're visiting Ekaterinburg in order to stay at the Hyatt Regency, but if we cared what people thought of our hobby we wouldn't talk about it all the time.
As you can see, with a few exceptions luxury hotels get built because there's a demand for them. And if there's enough demand for a luxury Hyatt property, there's likely to be sufficient demand to justify building a nearby Hilton hotel, as well.
The point of this exercise is that unless you are planning a trip to Beaver Creek, Zurich, or Kauai — and tens of thousands of people do indeed visit those cities each year — the Hyatt property is not your only option: there's also a convenient nearby Hilton that will be happy to serve your award redemption needs.
But unlike Hyatt Diamond status, which requires paying at least some surcharge on top of the stays you'd otherwise book, Hilton Diamond status can be earned strictly as a by-product of manufacturing $40,000 in spend on their co-branded Surpass card offered by American Express, and I find it worth my while to manufacture that much (and indeed, more) spend with the Surpass card each year purely for the value of the HHonors points I earn. Diamond status is a nice bonus, but doesn't have any effect on my decision-making.
I don't draw a neat distinction between paid and award stays; my imputed redemption value calculations are designed to make booking stays a seamless process of comparing hotel options, whether a given stay is paid for with cash or with points earned at the sacrifice of cash back.
In other words, if you have a Barclaycard Arrival+ MasterCard, every stay is an award stay: the only question is whether to pay for it with a hotel chain's own currency or Arrival+ miles.
This means that when you book a paid stay in order to secure Hyatt Diamond status under the challenge, you don't need to consider the entire cost of your paid stay as "payment" for Diamond status. The only payment you're making for (one twelfth of) Diamond status is the difference between the price you pay to stay with Hyatt and the price of the hotel you would have stayed at instead – the "surcharge" I mentioned above.
Who should take the Hyatt Diamond challenge?
So that's where I stand: I earn enough Hilton HHonors points to cover my mid-range and luxury hotel needs, and redeem my Ultimate Rewards points only for the Hyatt stays they make incredibly cheap, where breakfast is often included anyway.
You have 12 paid Hyatt stays in the next 60 days. This may go without saying, but that's what I'm here for.
You're planning a luxury vacation. At the very top end, Hyatt award stays are actually cheaper than the imputed redemption value of Hilton stays: $300 in Ultimate Rewards points versus $352 in Hilton HHonors points. If you're deciding between such properties (for example, in the Maldives or in Hakone, above) Hyatt Diamond status can add additional value by giving up to 4 people per room the benefit of lounge access or a full breakfast.
You really need a suite. If there's some reason you actually need a suite upgrade on a paid stay, and especially if you actually need 4, week-long suite upgrades, then paying a small upfront surcharge for Hyatt Diamond status can get you those suites at a vast discount. I've enjoyed every suite I've been upgraded to, but personally wouldn't assign any actual value to it. If you're traveling with a family, or need to host meetings in your hotel room, then you may assign a concrete dollar value to having a guaranteed-at-booking suite upgrade.
I want to stress that the second two categories are, while not mutually exclusive, also not complementary in any way: the suite upgrades in the third category cannot be applied to the award bookings in the second category, and at such expensive properties the idea of booking a paid, instead of award, stay merely to secure a suite upgrade is not rational behavior.
I don't fall into any of the above categories. But if one or more of them applies to you, you have my blessing to consider taking advantage of the Hyatt Diamond status challenge!

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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I'll stay silent as promised.
But keeping praying for that L. And watch what happens.
So Li apparently has a week to pay back Elliott. I would guess he is trying to sell the club to come up with that money unless Elliott have Milan right away. Then Elliott will probably flip it to whoever they have lined up.
You're a Browns fan? I feel sorry for you.
Life long Milanista and Browns fan.
Life's been hard for many a year, but positive I remain.
Entire life without positivity returned w the Browns, except this upcoming season. Intensely jacked up about it.
Browns are making the right moves and I actually like Baker as a prospect and their choice, took balls.
I’m a Niners fan so I’m optimistic too. Hyde is a better fit for your O than ours, he’s a good guy in the room.
We smoke L's, we don't take 'em.
Hyde was a weird signing when they drafted Chubb and have Duke Johnson.
Hyde will be gone next season, his guarantees are low.
Yep, it was weird when they picked up Chubb but Duke is a completely different back from Carlos.
IIRC Hyde signed well before the draft so I think it was the Browns going with a clear BPA strategy and taking Chubb when he fell to them.
Candreva's Agent - he is extending with Interz it's only a formality at this time.
So we will be rich AGAIN??? with new mercato???
Ah good news. Hopefully this time there will be no extensions.

industry_corpus2: Sports


text: A wickedly funny new series for ages six and up from the creator of Where Bear?, Pass It On and the Pom Pom series, with colour illustrations throughout. Jeanie's Grandma is BAD. Not bad like a vampire or a gangster or anything, more like... up to no good. Sometimes she can be a bit embarrassing but most of the time she's REALLY fun, especially when she gets Jeanie involved in her mischievous schemes. Everyone says she's old enough to know better... but she doesn't seem to care one bit. In fact, Jeanie thinks she might quite like it! Bad Nana is a deliciously wicked new series for ages six and up, told through the eyes of 8-year-old Jeanie. Gorgeously illustrated throughout with vibrantly coloured spreads, Bad Nana's naughty exploits will shock and appal - and make you snort with laughter!


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Stephanie Neil from Automation World wrote a great piece this week about food safety in the 21st century, focusing on increasing regulations and challenges for compliance. When it comes to allergens and adulteration, she turned to Icicle to explain how technology has evolved to meet the needs of the industry. The article also highlighted several other companies that are changing the game in food production, such as The Cornucopia Project, a non-profit farm-to-form organization that is teaching farmers about new farming practices for the 21st century. Another company, Analog Devices, is using IoT technology to launch a crop monitoring system that helps farmers with monitoring and optimizing their crops, as well as higher level decision-making that comes with access to big data. In other intiatives in the field of precision agriculture, John Deere has put together an application to help farmers analyze and share data about equipment and people in their operations.
There are definitely many new things to think about when it comes to food safety. Like terrorism. Which is why the FDA’s traditional focus around hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) has expanded to hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls (HARPC), which covers everything in HACCP but also requires that companies evaluate their products and processing for biological, chemical, physical and radiological hazards, as well as toxins, allergens and intentionally introduced hazards, including acts of terrorism.
That’s why Icicle, which used to be a pure food safety app based on HACCP, has evolved into a production management system that includes food safety as one of many components. For example, a vendor management module can manage large numbers of suppliers in order to know if they provide organic or gluten-free products, or what certifications they have. Equipment maintenance is another piece to make sure machines are clean and sanitized.
According to Burton, the FDA has sent thousands of inspectors to physically inspect facilities in 150 foreign countries. “We have a customer in Italy that got a call out of the blue from an FDA inspector saying they were on their way and that they need to comply with FSMA,” he says.
Icicle can help, Burton says, because it is a cloud-based app that can model the process steps involved in producing food—covering all of the HACCP and HARPC mandates and FSMA compliance.
The food industry is under pressure to comply with FDA regulations—and the FDA never said how to comply. But the good news is that there are tools available that will help. If done right, this could be a transformative time for the industry as it implements technology for the 21st century farmer and manufacturer.
A big thanks to Automation World for reaching out to us for this piece! Learn more about Icicle by requesting a free demo today.


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Help with Naze32 - No Yaw control!
Why is my Dragonfly spinning?
I am having problems with my first tricopter build. I purchased the Dragonfly and I have it put together. Unfortunately every time I give it throttle, the whole copter spins. The tough-tilt keeps pitching to the right. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?
Multiwii 2.4 - Tricopter - How to activate yaw servo?
Naze 32 board, random yaw issues.
Anyone fly the Rcexplorer Tri v3 With Naze32 (cleanflight) ??

industry_corpus2: Aerospace


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The following specifications are for Hitachi models that have been discontinued. For information on OEM and other models please contact those companies. For technical support on our Hitachi SuperScan monitors please call 800-536-6721. For information on Hitachi monitors with model numbers beginning with HM or UX please call 800-820-4010. for HM or UX monitors (the name has been discontinued 4 or more years ago) we no longer have any additional material in excess of the information below. For repairs please call technical support.
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** Panels use a smoothing algorithm for any resolution other than prime and is not recommended for extended text viewing. Or panels may use only a portion of the screen to ensure a quality image.


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Lock bumping practice is a lock picking technique. Bumping a pin tumbler lock, using a specially crafted bump key allows you to open the lock.
One bump key will work for all locks of the same type of key way.
A US patent first appears in 1928 by H.R. Simpson called a “rapping” or a bump-key.
In the 1970s, locksmiths in Denmark shared a technique for knocking on a lock cylinder while applying slight pressure to the back of the lock plug.
Forcing the pins with high energy would make them jump inside of the cylinder. The plug would be able to slide out freely, thus enabling the locksmith to disassemble the lock quickly.
The use of a bump key was not introduced until some time later. Bump key was first recognized as a potential security problem around 2002–2003 by Klaus Noch. Klaus Noch brought it to the attention of the German media.
After further examination of the procedure, a white paper was drafted in 2005 by Barry Wels & Rop Gonggrijp. The Open Organization Of Lockpickers (TOOOL) detailing the method and its applicability.
A patent exists for a lock device following the same principle as the bump key from 1926–1928.
The technique then attracted more popular attention in 2005. A Dutch television show, Nova, broadcast a story about the method.
The method received further publicity from TOOOL presentations at security conference talks.
Members of TOOOL and a Dutch consumer group, Consumentenbond, analyzed the capability of the method. They tested 70 different lock models, by joining trained and untrained users in a 2006 study.
Most homeowners (and most locksmiths) are still unfamiliar with the easy-to-learn method.
However, in 2005, information about lock bumping started appearing on the Internet.
As for now, any curious amateur lock picker can find how-to articles. Also by watching step-by-step videos, getting bump-key kits, and even purchasing the actual lock bumping keys online.
Locksmiths have long used the “lock bumping” technique to gain access to locks when a key is not present, it is much faster and easier than lock picking technique.
The term “bumping” comes from the fact that a specially cut key is inserted into a keyhole and then tapped or “bumped” by a screwdriver or other object.
This bumping forces the pins in the lock to jump to their shear line, and with a little torque applied to the key, the lock will open.
With the advent of the internet, this technique was made generally available and sadly, companies are selling the specially cut keys online.
Anyone with an internet connection now has access to the technology and tools needed to gain entry to your home.
When lock bumping occurs, insurance companies will deny claims because there is no proof of forced entry.
Experts say no traditional lock is bump proof.
Newer locks provide less protection than older ones, because they are cleaner.
The only true bumpproof lock is an electronic keypad, which is too big and expensive for most people.
The very best and effective solutions to prevent lock bumping is to upgrade your locks to a high security lock such as Mul-T-Lock, or an electronic lock that does not have a conventional lock cylinder.
A simple chain or sliding lock will offer protection when you are in the house; and good lighting around all your entrances will also deter potential criminals.
For advanced home security against lock bumping, install a home security system and actually use it.
Take your door locks to a locksmith shop. Locksmiths can install special pins that make it much more difficult, though not impossible, to bump a lock. This is an affordable way to protect your home from lock bumping. If taking your locks to a shop is not possible, a mobile locksmith can come to your home for an additional service charge.
Install Residential Bump Resistant Locks. There are two good choices here. Master Lock, Bump and Pick Resistant Locks and Kwikset, Bump and Pick Resistant Locks. Both can be purchased at locksmith shops or home store.
Replace your locks with a light commercial grade lock. If you have Schlage locks, this will be your least costly solution. Schlages light commercial grade locks are heavy duty, pick and bump resistant lock.
Please contact us if you want to hear more about preventing lock bumping and get more information about upgrading the security of your home or your business.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Happy birthday Chicago Social Club!
It was only a year ago when Boom Chicago wasn’t feeling too well.. Up all night and feeling an intense pain. She knew she was expecting something, but never thought it would feel like this. After a lot of sweat and tears, suddenly, there it was. She couldn’t possibly have dreamed it would have been like this! A beautiful baby, the Chicago Social Club. One year later, Boom Chicago is still very proud. Here’s a flashback of all the sweet memories.
When the owners of this new club in Amsterdam started, they wanted to add something to the party scene that wasn’t quite there yet. They saw a warm home in venue that is a comedy club during the day. The CSC is a relatively small club, and because of that it has an intimate atmosphere. The small lounge upstairs with a DJ playing the music makes you want to stay there, sit and hang out with your friends far longer than closing time. You could say that CSC has created some sort of living room, where everybody feels free to party.
The CSC is a very cozy club, which means the good vibe always comes early.
We from CSC hope that the people that come here understand what we want as a club, that we know what is going on.
It wouldn’t be the Chicago Social Club if they weren’t throwing four birthday bashes to celebrate their birthday. So come and check out your favorites, or better, come check out all four!


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VENICE, ITALY – Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), an international research organization devoted to the evaluation of climate policies, announced the launch of its Venice center today. The Venice center is CPI’s third office, following San Francisco and Berlin; additional offices are planned for Beijing, New Delhi, and Rio de Janeiro. Housed within the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), a leading Italian economics research institute, the CPI office in Venice will collaborate closely with FEEM’s economists and environmental analysts.
While CPI aims at establishing itself as a new and important player in the Italian and European landscape, the aspirations of Venice’s CPI office are not only related to the Italian and Mediterranean context but are part of a global organization that has wide ambitions. The CPI office in Venice will be part of creating a global platform in collaboration with FEEM, the International Center for Climate Governance and other partners and will allow Italy to play an increasing role by having a global platform for low carbon growth issues. Amongst others, CPI Venice will make contributions to global issues such as multilateral finance. Finance is a main challenge to ensure a path towards a more sustainable future, representing one of the essential reasons that influence the success of policy implementation. The CPI Venice office will therefore work closely with the finance and business communities to understand how emerging climate policies create and affect markets that allocate investment capital.
Dr. Buchner, an economist who for the last three years worked as a Senior Energy and Environment Analyst at the International Energy Agency and previously was Senior Researcher at FEEM and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an expert in market-based mechanisms and other policy approaches to GHG mitigation as well as the politics related to climate negotiations.
“CPI and FEEM are complementing each other – FEEM is a world leader in modeling and studies a wide range of environmental, energy and global economic issues and CPI builds bridges between the academic, policy, business and finance communities,” said Prof. Carlo Carraro, President, University of Venice, and Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, FEEM.
CPI and FEEM are holding a two-day international conference in Venice in order to inaugurate the new CPI office as well as the International Center for Climate Governance, a joint project between FEEM and Fondazione Giorgio Cini. In follow up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the opening event for the centers is dedicated to the role of public and private financing mechanisms for climate change policy.
Tracking multilateral climate finance. Against the background of financing needs, amongst others the fast track funding as established in the Copenhagen Accord, this stream of research will assess and diagnose multilateral finance, evaluating whether financing practices work and whether they are new and additional. After building up a comprehensive database of available funding sources and practices, ideas around the transparency, accountability and productivity of investments in transnational climate finance will be developed. The overall aim is to develop a clearinghouse of information on climate finance in order to learn the lessons both from success stories and failures related to financing low-carbon growth.
Lessons learned in infrastructure finance.
A variety of existing and emerging financing practices, both public and private, are available in the context of infrastructure finance. Can we learn from these experiences to pave the way for a low-carbon future? The main question is whether and how finance contributes to enforce policies – i.e., the buildup of infrastructure – effectively. The research will build upon some relevant case studies of infrastructure development in the renewable energy sector, both at the national and international levels, and will analyze experiences of financing practices in other areas, in order to understand the main factors influencing successful investments.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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Care facility workers: Could you be sued?
On behalf of Weber & Nelson Law Office, PLLC on Thursday, November 8, 2018.
As an employee at a care facility, you appreciate how emotional the work can be. You provide care for someone who can no longer do so on their own. The care you provide may range anywhere from routine meal preparation to bathing and toileting. In providing this care, you must also manage the patient’s expectations as well as the expectations of the patient’s loved ones who monitor your work.
How can physicians protect patients' privacy in the digital age?
Weber & Nelson Law Office, PLLC, offers health law counsel and professional license defense representation in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Rochester, Duluth and throughout the state of Minnesota.


text: The first of its kind sunshade for an archery scope. The design of this sunshade was inspired by the light diffusing properties of a camera objective. It features baffled grooves that reflect the light back out away from the lens and a matte black finish making it physically impossible for light to reflect back onto the lens or into your eyes. It flushes up perfectly to the grooves on the outside of the housing making a seamless transition from sunshade to scope.


text: Remember when I said that the sampling distribution of sample means is approximately normal for a large enough sample size? This caveat means that for smaller sample sizes (usually considered to be below 30), the sampling distribution of the sample means is not well approximated by a normal distribution. It is, however, well approximated by another distribution: the t-distribution.

industry_corpus2: Math & Statistics


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6pm on selected Sunday nights.
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G-Fuel is our High School Youth Group run by Northside Community Church volunteers. Come on down from 7pm-9pm every second Friday during the school term. We would love you to join us for fun, engaging events with your fellow peers. Our heart is for you to know Jesus like we know Jesus. See the below facebook link and also the other menu items on the website for the latest flyers etc.
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In the wing mirror on the passenger side of a vehicle, objects are closer than they appear.
Rearview republishes fundamental texts of art criticism that are crucial for the present moment. They deserve a renewed attention because they reveal “blind spots” in contemporary discourses. These “found” documents (indeed, quasi-artifacts) are prefaced by one of our writers.
View of “Les Immatériaux,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1985. All images courtesy of Centre Pompidou - MnamCci - Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris.
From our contemporary vantage point, is there anything—whether philosophical inquiry or historical phenomenon—more anachronistic than postmodernism? Jean-François Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition in French in 1979, but the intervening three-and-a-half decades cover a period we now call “the contemporary,” even as the label struggles with each passing year to contain all that falls within its temporal and now global bounds. In March 1985, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris opened "Les Immatériaux," an exhibition organized by Lyotard—then at the height of his influence—and Thierry Chaput, director of the Centre de Création Industrielle in Paris.
While Lyotard’s attempt to convey the profoundly destabilizing experience of contemporary life via an exhibition may now seem as outmoded as the clunky IBMs he included, our current interest in new materialisms and attendant critiques of the relations between objects and humans, exhibition histories and their dramaturgies, and a spate of publications theorizing the contemporary all converge at the Beaubourg in 1985. In "Les Immatériaux" Lyotard attempted to use all the tools in his arsenal, from the latest technology to the full human sensorium, to query if and how our relationship to the world had fundamentally changed. For the tangle of conviction and ambivalence found in its gaze into the future, Lyotard’s vision for an exhibition is worth looking back on.
Philippe Parreno and Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Conversation Series 14 (Cologne: Walter König, 2008), 17.
Jean-François Lyotard, “Les Immatériaux,” Art & Text 17 (1985), 48. For Lyotard, the Cartesian program so endemic in modernity was manifest in exhibitions through several conditions: first, the visitor is an eye, and sight is the dominant sense. Here, space becomes understood, ordered, and rational. Lyotard sought to undo each of these conditions. Instead of an eye perceiving space organized in linearly unfolding enfilade, he threw up all manner of barriers to vision: darkness, the grey screens, and the twists and turns of the labyrinth. Instead of privileging sight, he activated the entire sensorium. Instead of enlightenment, he aimed at “intensifying the interrogation” and “aggravating the sense of uncertainty” posed by his principal question. The immaterials had triggered a loss of our identity as human beings and led us to this state of uncertainty. In this state, and in this exhibition, Lyotard intended that we feel the dissolution of the boundaries between our bodies and the things we encounter.
Just before the show opened, Bernard Blistène, who was named director of the Centre Pompidou’s Musée national d’art moderne in late 2013, sat down with Lyotard to discuss his exhibition. An excerpt of their conversation, which appeared in Flash Art in March 1985, follows.
Bernard Blistène: Tell us about the exhibition you’re organizing.
Jean-François Lyotard: The idea of “immaterials” or “non-materials” was a little bit different at first, since I’d been asked to do the exhibition under a different title. It was supposed to be called “Nouveaux Matériaux et Creation”—New Materials and Creativity. But then I slightly shifted the subject by trying to give it a somewhat different range; I said to myself, “Creativity? What is that supposed to mean?” And again, “What is ‘new’ supposed to mean?” Thinking about “materials” today, I thought, “But what does that imply for an architect, or for an industrialist?” I came to the conclusion that all of these words have undergone considerable shifts in meaning, and I thought that the question had to be approached from a different point of view.
BB: But what can we say about the philosopher who decides that his job is to give us something to look at?
JFL: Everybody knows that books are going through a period of crisis as instruments for the diffusion of ideas, and that this is a part of the general crisis of intellectual life today, here in what we could call a kind of democratic despotism that makes for the world we live in. And of course, there’s no question of maintaining the superiority of any kind of aristocratic power, but the both of us know very well that the philosopher experiences a very grave problem with respect to the writing or recording of what he has to say, and there is a problem of the shortcomings of the philosopher with respect to the available modes of writing and recording, or of what I would call “inscription.” As far as I myself am concerned, my acceptance of the idea—to use the words with which you’ve stated it—of becoming “the philosopher who decides that his job is to give us something to look at” is something very simple and not even particularly original. I accept myself as a philosopher, and it seems to me to be important for the philosopher to be able to record what he thinks through the use of instruments that don’t have to be restricted to the instrument of the book. It’s just that simple. New and different things are at stake today, even though they’re not totally new, and we have to try to understand the things that are being offered to us.
BB: And that is the point where we find a lack of differentiation between technological experimentation and the questions posed by art?
JFL: Even the most modest tinkler with software has an attitude that’s somehow “artistic”—an attitude of a kind of astonishment. And what that means is that metaphysics, as Adorno puts it, goes into crisis at much the same time as the rest of classical philosophy and that there’s a way in which it is going under as a result of a decline in the capacity it can have for the creation of wide-ranging global systems that include the great and final issues for which we feel a need. If there’s a decline of metaphysics, there’s also a decline of everything that people in general call philosophy. And this decline—which is something that Adorno grasped quite clearly—shows us the history of the diaspora of philosophy as it wanders through domains that can’t be properly defined as philosophical, even though the domain that can be properly defined as philosophical continues to exist. What this means is that metaphysics, as Adorno puts it, goes under, along with classical philosophy, even though certain people continue to practice it as though it weren’t in crisis at all.
BB: Your texts on “painting” go from Adams to Buren, and from Monory to Arakawa. They seem to contain what I’d call the logic of discontinuity. Can you say something about the reasons that have prompted you to write about certain painters rather than others? And do you think of your essays on painting as fragments of a whole within your work as a writer?
JFL: I’d answer quite simply that it has been something of a question of chance. I’m usually acquainted with the painters whom I decide to write. I’ve worked along with them, and I’ve seen them at work, but then again, there are obviously painters with whom I’m personally acquainted but whom I’d never want to write about. It’s not that I can give you an answer simply by saying it’s a matter of people I’ve happened to meet. And if you ask me if these essays are part of some single thing, and if this single thing is part of my reflections as a philosopher, I’d have to answer in much the same summary way and that for the moment I think of all these various short texts as the beginning of a kind of dossier that could lead to some substantial study not so much of art, but specifically of painting. Contemporary painting. And my goal would be to attempt to define the nature of a possible philosophy of art today.
BB: You mean that you don’t at all exclude the idea of writing a theory of aesthetics?
JFL: I don’t think it would be a question of a theory, and I don’t think it would be a question of aesthetics. I don’t think it could be a theory since I think of the idea or theory as belonging to the area of metaphysics, which we were saying is now in decline, and I don’t think of it as a question of aesthetics, since I don’t think that aesthetics corresponds to the time we live in. Aesthetics primarily appertains to a very precise moment in the commentary on art, which is to refer to the Age of Enlightenment and to what follows after it, so it’s a question of something in the order of two centuries ago. Basically, I’d be ready to maintain that there wasn’t any such thing as aesthetics up until the eighteenth century, and that up until that time there was only a series of poetics. Aesthetics actually corresponds to the philosophy of the sublime and to a theory of genius.
BB: In the light of what you’re saying, do you think that Adorno could give an explanation of the title of his book?
JFL: No, I don’t think he could. I think that his title… how can I put it? I think his title is bad but that his book is very good. And that’s precisely because it isn’t at all a theory and has nothing to do with aesthetics. This is the line of thought into which I’d like to situate this work, and I’d want it to be a kind of prolongation of what’s indicated in Adorno’s work. But, you know, whenever I reread Adorno, I always see that his approach is negative, and almost always cynical, which is the measure of the breadth of his despair. It’s the measure of the strength of the attachment still to be felt for modern aesthetics, the measure of the strength of the attachment still to be felt for modern aesthetics, the measure of a refusal to go into mourning for the final death of it. With Adorno we’re within the sphere of melancholy. You can’t forget the context in which that book was written. The most admirable parts of German art were being burned in public, and the most intelligent parts of literature and the arts were being persecuted. We no longer live under that kind of despotism, but today we can see we live under a kind of democratic despotism of the media, which is of course, something very different. And so, even though there’s nothing that has been forgotten, we have to attempt to work our way into the philosophy of contemporary art by completely disengaging ourselves from romantic aesthetics. And so this reflection on art begins for me with “Discourse-Figures” as a way of starting to palliate—or rather to supplant—the political thinking of the present day.
Basically, the most essential question of all for me, is the question we’ve just been talking about: “What do we do if we no longer have the prospect of emancipation? What sort of line of resistance can we have?” When Zola took part in public affairs, he knew exactly what he was talking about, he was aware of his “prospects of emancipation.” The same thing was true for Voltaire, and for Fourier, who was also a political thinker, and it was still true for Sartre, even though Sartre was wrong. We intellectuals are no longer capable of any kind of real intervention. And so what is our line of resistance if it’s no longer a question of a prospect of emancipation? I think that it’s something that’s very closely connected to artistic activity, or philosophico-artistic activity. It’s something that has to be thoroughly explored by asking ourselves what’s happening at the level of time, space, and the social community in contemporary art. That’s what I’ve been trying to explore by means of these various small texts that I write on art, and sometimes of music, when I feel sufficiently audacious. I’d like to write a commentary on Paris, Texas  and say that it’s an Alice in the Cities , which is not poor art anymore.
BB: Let’s go back to your exhibition “Les Immatériaux” and to the concept behind it.
JFL: We arbitrarily and quite purposely created a kind of filter, since there were so many things to exhibit that our very first worry was about how to go about dealing with it all. There was never any pretense of doing some sort of universal exhibition. Universal exhibitions are no longer possible, and that’s more than just a question of budgeting. And so what were our criteria of selection? They were on three different levels. First of all, we wanted to exhibit things that inspire a feeling of incertitude: incertitude about the finalities of these developments and incertitude about the identity of the human individual in his condition of such improbable immateriality. That’s a criterion of selection that’s concerned with the philosophical stakes of the exhibition. Then we obviously had to give attention to the arrangement of the show in terms of time and space. And here we appealed to two principles: no fancy mouldings and no pedestals. We didn’t want still another re-evocation of a gallery or a salon, by which I mean an arrangement of rooms in a royal palace as designed by the king. We wanted to avoid this way of squarely defining things and we had to discover a more fluid and immaterial system for the organization of space.
BB: Is there a postmodern formalism?
BB: How do you feel then about the attempt to rehabilitate “technique” and “métier” as primary values for the judgment of an artist?
JFL: It would be a little paradoxical to reduce the history of a painting to a single problem of technique or supports. In any case, that’s far too little. Do you remember those extremely incisive texts by Diderot, like the one he called “La petite technique” not without a certain air of disdain. And if Chardin, for example, was far beyond his contemporaries even though they were technically his peers, one surely has to explain that in different terms from a phenomenological point of view. And look at Cezanne: he wasn’t exceptional from any technical point of view, and yet, at the same… But even though I’m not at all tempted to take these problems of technical mastery any too seriously, I’m in any case quite concerned with the aspect of technique when it comes to trying to understand the way it can affect a viewer and modify the course of his attempt to make use of his sensibility as the instrument of some kind of exploration. I imagine that someone from Flanders who made a trip to Venice in the sixteenth or seventeenth century must have been terribly shocked. But apart from that kind of consideration, we still have to realize that we’ve been witnessing a permanent process of reformation in the individual’s ability to see and then to love what he sees. But that’s not at all the situation to be seen in the majority of the works that are being produced today. They don’t teach me anything. I say to myself, “I’ve already seen that, and I’ve already seen it done better.” The overemphasis of the hand, the agitated drawing, and all the rest of it, we already know that, and we’ve already seen it. I’m not saying that it’s entirely without interest. I’m just saying that it’s without any interest to me.
BB: What, finally, is postmodernism?
JFL: My work, in fact, is directed to finding out what that is, but I still don’t know. This is a discussion really that’s only just beginning. It’s the way it was for the Age of Enlightenment: the discussion will be abandoned before it ever reaches a conclusion.
The full text of this conversation originally appeared in Flash Art, no. 121 (March 1985), pp. 32–39. This excerpt is reprinted with the kind permission of Flash Art.
Tara McDowell is Associate Professor and Director of Curatorial Practice at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.


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Angela won a copy of 'Girls World' by Jennifer Paganelli. This month, one new member will win a copy of '101 Applique Blocks' by Nancy Brenan Daniel.
Angela says, "Thank you so much for my prize. I have only just recently started sewing again. After leaving school I worked as a seamstress making soft furnishings, in my spare time I would also make all sorts of other crafty items. Then along came my children and this all got put on hold. The children are getting older now and I am finding myself with more time. I have always wanted to have a go at patchwork and quilting, but after looking at projects in some magazines, found the idea of a big quilt a bit daunting. Then I spotted the Popular Patchwork handbag special. After getting this home I couldn’t put it down, I have already made two of the bags, which have quilting and patchwork elements in them, and can’t wait to start my next project. Since subscribing to the magazine and getting full access to the web site, and lots of the back issues, I have found a wealth of information and inspiration. The thing I like best is the variety of projects not just quilts but anything from a bag to a fabric cupcake."
Thanks Angela, we hope you enjoy your new hobby and your new book!


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Over the years working as a talent management consultant on Select International’s Healthcare Team, I've conducted competency-based job analyses with dozens of healthcare organizations ranging from large academic hospitals to small, rural community-based hospitals to help them build a nursing talent strategy. I've spoken with hundreds of top-performing nurses, nursing managers, directors of nursing, and even chief nursing officers across the nation.
When speaking to what differentiates the top performing and low performing nurses, decision-making and critical thinking skills are consistently noted. Highly successful nurses are able to consider the whole picture of a patient’s care.
They are able to integrate information from multiple resources (e.g., charts, vital signs, medications, changes in patient statuses, etc.) to be proactive and anticipate the needs of a patient. This isn't too surprising when you consider the research that points to cognitive ability as one of the best predictors of job performance.
Ask a nurse if their day is the same day after day. Or, ask a nurse if their patients are all the same and have the same conditions. I'll do you a favor, the answer you will get is NO!
Patient acuity, or the amount/intensity of nursing care that a patient requires, is one factor that changes with each patient and requires adaptive behaviors to provide the care a patient needs. Some patients are in a more critical condition that must be accounted for, and nurses must be able to act and adapt rapidly in changing situations.
Not only must nurses be able to adjust behaviors to accommodate to changing circumstances, it is often cited that the ability to continue to function effectively with calmness during times of change as being equally significant to performance. If there is one industry more rapidly changing than healthcare, I have yet to find it.
As healthcare continues to move toward Value-Based Purchasing, not only are reimbursements tied to quality, but the way patients are treated and cared for by the staff are also large components tied to reimbursement (i.e., HCAHP scores).
Although reimbursement is not cited as the reason compassionate care is a critical behavior by nurses, it is often cited as one of the top differentiators in a great nurse. A top performing, highly rated nurse more frequently exhibits a patient first demeanor. A nurse’s job is to be the patient’s advocate, know the patients’ needs, and be able to speak up on the patients’ behalf for the best plan of care.
Nurses that receive the majority of accolades in the hospitals (i.e., “best of the best”), are always mentioned with stories of going above and beyond to meet patient expectations. Exhibiting compassionate care by going above and beyond and ensuring everything is done to ensure the patient is satisfied will play an insurmountable role in the quality of care for patients, as well as play a role in reimbursement for the hospital.
Learn more about how nursing assessments can help you build a nursing-specific selection program, and help you reduce nurse turnover.

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What the data for the 3rd quarter (July 1st to September 30) looks like.
With the latest data for international car shipping now available, we can take a look at which overseas destinations imported the most US cars in containers.
Despite importing 13% less cars in the 3rd quarter (compared to last year), the Middle East remained as the most popular destination in the world. This was mainly due to large gains in Iraq (+40%) and Saudi Arabia (+9%).
Central and South America have experienced the second largest gains of the quarter. The largest growth came from Belize (+73%), Chile (+26%), and Honduras (+22%).
Asia continues to be affected by changing car import laws and growing economies in the region. Japan (+58%), Guam (+51%), India (+40%), and South Korea (+38%) are the top growing destinations in Asia. While China (-12%) is experiencing a downward trend due to a slowing economy.
The strong US dollar continued to limit US car imports into the region. Germany (-7%) was also hit by an expiring US military contract which signaled a decline in the number of privately owned vehicles (POV) being imported. Russia (+109%) was the top growing destination in Europe due to new BMW imports from the US.
Africa saw the strongest growth in the number US car imports during the 3rd quarter. With strengthening economies and favorable import laws allowed Cameroon (+54%), Senegal (+37%), Ghana (+14%), Benin (+13%), and Nigeria (+12%) to grow.
The smallest US car importer by volume (sorry Antartica), saw growth due to the increasing popularity of US classic cars and modern muscle cars like the new Ford Mustang. Australia (+39%), and New Zealand (+16%).

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