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Due to the rising demand for PCR tests, Alberta is changing the eligibility for those who will receive them.
The province says wait times for booking a PCR test are nearing four days and turnaround time for providing results to patients is approaching 48 hours.
To ensure that patient care decisions are supported by timely diagnostic information, PCR testing eligibility will now be focused on those who have clinical risk factors for severe outcomes and those who live and work in high-risk settings.
"While we have been used to managing COVID through widespread PCR testing, that approach is not possible with the Omicron variant. At this time, most people who have mild symptoms don't need a PCR test. For those without risk factors such as immunosuppression, they should self-isolate and manage their symptoms at home, using a rapid test if they have one," said Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of health.
Alberta Health Services has updated the online COVID-19 assessment tool to help Albertans determine whether they need a PCR test, what type of care to seek based on their symptoms and how to take care of symptoms at home with appropriate support.
It is recommended Albertans use the online COVID-19 assessment tool to check their symptoms or the symptoms of someone they may be caring for before they call Health Link.
At this time, the assessment tool has been updated to reflect new PCR testing criteria for adults. The tool will be updated later this week for children and youth.
Those with mild illness should not visit emergency departments seeking a test, as tests in those settings are only used when a test is needed for patient care. If Albertans are unsure whether they need to talk to a doctor about their illness, they can also use the Alberta Medical Association tool to determine what they should do. Most people with mild illness do not need a test or a conversation with their doctor," the province said in a release
Hinshaw said employers and organizations should not require individuals with mild symptoms to have a PCR test to be eligible for sick time off work. Adding it is critical to support those who are sick to stay home with no testing requirements at this time of high transmission.
Eligibility criteria
Effective immediately, PCR tests will be available only for the following individuals:
- Continuing care residents and health-care workers and staff in acute and continuing care settings, shelters and correctional facilities who meet one or more of the following criteria:
- need confirmation of a positive rapid test on screening
- have COVID-19 symptoms
- are part of an outbreak investigation where public health has requested lab-based PCR testing
- Symptomatic household members of a person who works in continuing care or acute care.
- Emergency department or hospital patients of all ages who meet one or more of the following criteria:
- inpatients who develop new COVID-19 symptoms while in hospital
- patients being admitted for symptoms consistent with COVID-19
- patients in the emergency department with respiratory illness where a test will change treatment plans
- Symptomatic community patients who would be eligible for Sotrovimab (monoclonal antibody) treatment if positive:
- Those who are not immunized and are:
- age 55 and over
- 18 years and over with one of the following health conditions: diabetes, obesity, chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or moderate to severe asthma
- children aged 12 to 17, with a referral by a pediatric I.D. specialist
- pregnant
- Those who are immunosuppressed (transplant, active cancer or systemic immune treatment), regardless if immunized or not.
- Those who are not immunized and are:
- People from isolated and remote First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities, and individuals travelling to these communities for work.
- Asymptomatic continuing care residents returning/readmitted from other health-care settings.
- Pediatric and adult asymptomatic transplant donors and recipients, prior to transplant.
- Pediatric and adult oncology patients, prior to commencing chemotherapy.
- Newborns born to COVID-19-positive parents.
- Returning international travellers who become symptomatic within 14 days after their arrival.


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Electronics > RF, Microwave, Ham Radio
Whatever Happened to Ham Radio?
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I have (or had, I think the license is expired now because I didn't renew it) a General Class license. I was big into morse code in junior high school, but lost interest over the years.
Ham radio used to be the ultimate electronics hobby. I mean it was the Big Time thing if you wanted to experiment with electronics. You really had to know your shit.
I realized the other day, I never, and I mean never, hear about a ham hobbyist on electronics forums. I'm sure they have their forums, but it seems to be a dying hobby. I don't know if computers are killing it or the internet, but something happened, for me anyway. I just didn't see the challenge in it at some point. Maybe it was that you could go buy the most elegantly engineered radios and given that, there was no more challenge to it. :(
I think it has a lot to do with how easy and cheap it is communicate internationally now. Before my day, it was actually difficult and/or expensive to communicate with people in other parts of the world. Now we do it every day, essentially for free.
That said I'm a (not very active) operator and have a fair bit of interest in applying more modern design to old ideas. Not modern design, but something more modern than we would have done in the 80s. APRS is a good example. Most of the TNCs out there are still based on 1980s analog demodulators. SDR is really interesting too, as are some of the crazy new digital modes.
Still lots going on :).
Well, my father could not easily send messages from Czech Republic (middle Europe) to a guy from Australia in early 1980s.
--- Quote from: ve7xen on June 08, 2013, 12:59:22 am ---I think it has a lot to do with how easy and cheap it is communicate internationally now. Before my day, it was actually difficult and/or expensive to communicate with people in other parts of the world. Now we do it every day, essentially for free.
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Yea I think you're right. Back in the day (I mean early 1970's) there was no way to talk to other countries, other than some sort of expensive international call or a letter. :P
Ham radio was a really neat way to do something many people simply couldn't do or even really understand how to do. I got tutored by a Ham operator and that how I got into electronincs. Shoot - I knew things that many grown-ups didn't have a clue about.
Even before that, I got into shortwave listening because I got kits from Radio Shack. I listened to WWV and foreign nations and thought I was doing things that nobody else could do.
I still have a JRC communications receiver - not made anymore but man it's a kick-ass receiver. But do I use it for anytning now? No.
It's the damn internet! :rant:
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I am a General class operator. Not qute as active as I was 2 years ago but when I am in the shop the radios are on and monitoring. There are serveral ham radio forums. qrz.com being the biggest. But it is not ham radio. I do agree that the internet and cell phones has took alot out of the hobby. But it is not dieing. Put up a decent antenna, listen to the bands. They are very active. I am talking about HF freqencies. Not VHF or UHF.
The only reason I am not as active is because of the shop. When I am in the shop I am working on HF rigs or amplifiers. Most power supplies in these are between 2 to 3KV. Not every body wants to work on these. Like the new breed of ham operators. Not that I have anything at all against them. It is just at one time most ham operators could repair thier on stuff. Now that the FCC has made becoming a ham op easier, there are folks in the hobby with no electronic back ground at all. So I started repairing more and more radio equipment for ham operators. So I am still enjoying the hobby.
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Because the Nestle coupons reset this week I decided to head back to Kroger to take advantage of the Nestle instant rebate deal which ends tomorrow.
I used 10 – $1/1 coupons for the juice, 4 – $1/1 coupons for the cookie dough, and 10 – $0.55/1 coupons (which doubled) on the baking chips. The total cost of these items (using the sale price before rebate) was $61.96. After coupons ($25 total) and instant rebate ($15 total), I paid $21.96 out of pocket for the items above (plus one box of juice boxes that are missing from the photo). That is an average of $0.92/ea and a savings of over $40!
I think it is safe to say that I have enough chocolate chips and juice to last me for a long time! Thank goodness for my extra freezer…
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So, there are better ways to get publicity, but this one doesn't hurt: On Wednesday in Dallas County District Court, Tammie Kirkham filed an injunction and temporary restraining order against director Michael Cain and executive producer Christopher Smith concerning their Deep Ellum Pictures-produced documentary TV Junkie -- which debuts tonight at 9 on HBO2 as part of its "Addiction" series. Tammie Kirkham, who filed the legal papers in order to block the film's showing on HBO, is one of the stars of the doc, though a bit of an unwilling one: TV Junkie was compiled from some 3,000 hours of video footage captured by Tammie's former husband Rick, a former Inside Edition reporter who chronicled every second of his life (yeah, damned near) as he went from successful on-air personality to accidental daddy and husband to alcoholic and drug addict. Cain and co-director Matt Radecki -- and scores of editors -- spent years sifting through the footage to assemble the film.
Yesterday, Cain tells Unfair Park this morning, a judge denied the TRO; TV Junkie had its unofficial premiere last night, in fact, on HBO on Demand. And the case is in the process of being settled, says the filmmaker: "It was really disappointing to get this, to hear that someone who's part of this project you made to benefit them and others feels like they're out of the loop," says Cain, who's also the co-founder and artistic director of the AFI Dallas International Film Festival, which begins next Thursday. "But it will work out very friendly. It started yesterday. We did the project with the intent of healing as many people as possible, and when someone says they weren't treated well, you take it even harder. It's like family feeling they didn't get their due."
Tammie -- who, during some scenes in the movie, is threatened and even abused by her former husband, who she divorced in 2001 -- alleges in her suit that she was not told that their children would be "portrayed in the defendants' documentary based on her life and experiences." She also says the filmmakers told her she would "be afforded reasonable opportunities to view any changes to the piece before release." The fact she's making those allegations this late in the game is a little odd: TV Junkie debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January 2006, where it was widely acclaimed; it even went on to win a coveted Special Jury Prize.
Then again, there's also this from the lawsuit: "The defendants have since sold the rights to the documentary to HBO and have failed to pay the plaintiff a share of the profits." So perhaps thie suit is what most lawsuits are almost always about: the money.
In the suit, Tammie says Cain and Smith asked her on January 3, 2006, if she was cool with their using her face in a film culled from Rick's life. She says she signed a release on January 6 and pocketed $3,500. Tammie says she was also told she could see the film in advance of its release and that she was promised "72 hours after receiving updated version to either approve or object to its contents." And, Tammie claims, she was told that if she didn't like the movie, well, Cain wasn't allowed to release "the documentary for public theatrical showing until situation resolved between parties."
She also claims she gave Cain and Smith no permission to use footage of their two children in TV Junkie -- which would have been fairly impossible, since the kids figure into some key moments throughout the film (there's one scene during which Rick leaves his then-1-year-old son's birthday party to score some crack). In fact, Tammie says no mention of the kids was in the initial agreement she signed in January 2006, because if they had asked to use footage of the kids, she would have said no.
Cain says he did in fact have permission to use footage of the kids; he says he has the signatures to prove it. And he says Tammie was also fine with the film through three different festival screenings: Sundance, South by Southwest last year and a smaller fest on the SMU campus. "She was in support of the film every time," Cain says, "and the kids were in every frame every time."
In the end, perhaps, it all comes down to Tammie wanting a cut of the HBO dough. "Defendants sold rights to documentary to Home Box Office," reads the suit, "and never provided Plaintiff her share of the net profits."
That's because there really aren't any, Cain says. Indeed, TV Junkie isn't the kind of film likely to generate much money at all: Not only is it being screened on TV, but it's also being used as an educational tool in classrooms, as part of a New York Times-sponsored anti-drug education program.
"Sometimes peoples expectations are, 'You sold to HBO, so you made a fortune,' and as you and I know, that isn't the fact," Cain says. "But that doesn't mean everyone gets that... The feeling is that other people around her were pushing, like, 'Oh, my God, they must have made a fortune.' We wish. We wish HBO's support would have taken care of the cost of the film, but it didn't. It's a long-term thing. It'll be a while. In two years, we'll be OK. It's just unfortunate." --Robert Wilonsky


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After a long six year fight, recent news signals that the proposed concrete batching plant, in close proximity to Bayswater houses, will become a reality. The people who live and/or work in the vicinity have been severely let down by numerous State government departments. And I for one am out of ideas.
Today I received a letter from Hon Albert Jacob MLA, the State Liberal Minister for Environment; Heritage. It can be found here, but the picture on the right provides a brief summary. The letter was in response to my appeal to have him instruct the Environmental
Protection Authority (EPA), also known as 'Every Proposal Approved', to conduct an environmental impact assessment on the concrete batching plant.
His response was not what was wanted; neither was it warranted.
The Minister's letter refers to the approval from SAT. Surely the EPA is meant to decide environmental matters and not SAT. In SAT's Decision, it is written that "the plant would also require licensing and ongoing regulation by the State's departmental environmental agency, if it were to be proceeded with." So SAT approve because there will be environmental oversight by the EPA and the EPA approve because SAT approved the plant. This circular reasoning is absurd.
The letter states that the separation distances is less than the generic distances recommended by the EPA but that the proponent's (applicants) own modelling indicated there would be no unacceptable impacts. With regards to dust, the proponent's own modelling indicates emissions which may exceed the National Environmental Protection Measure (NEPM) on only two occasions per year. In relation to noise modelling again by the proponent, indicates everything will be okay.
Clearly the Minister and the EPA have relied on the applicants own modelling. I wonder whether an applicant has ever provided modelling stating that their application shouldn't go ahead? As if.
The letter notes that the EPA was justified in not contemplating any production over 500 m3 per day. As I have previously written about when detailing the numerous reasons the plant should't be allowed, whilst the applicant states they will have an average daily production rate of 135 m3, with the possibility of up to 500 m3 on two days per year, they are building a plant which can produce 150 m3 per hour! It defies logic that the plant capacity is ignored in this way.
The letter comes soon after the State Administration Tribunal (SAT) approved an extension of time for the original plant design. I have previously provided my thoughts on why this shouldn't have happened. The SAT are the real villains in this whole process. There should never have been an approval in the first place, and now we simply await their red stamp, the only one they have, for approval of the revised plans.
The people have been sorely let down. #SackTheSAT
(Please be aware that these views are my own and have not been endorsed by the City of Bayswater)
19/12/16: As anticipated, the SAT approved the concrete batching plant on the 14th December. True to form, their contempt for the citizens was illustrated by their refusal (and what I consider negligence) in not applying a production limit and in not applying a 'wind fence' condition to protect the neighbouring business.
Whilst the application claimed an average daily production limit of 135 m3, and 500 m3/day on only one or two days of the year, the SAT has approved a plant capable of producing 150m3 per hour and NOT imposed a production limit.
Resident concerns about traffic, noise, visual pollution and their health have been ignored by numerous government departments.
As this NSW government safety alert makes clear, cement dust can be dangerous.
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Gold has its best week in almost two years thanks to Ben Bernanke's 'taper' remarks. But that's about as good as it gets - look for more selling, says Credit Suisse's Tom Kendall
"(QUESTION: gold's best week for almost two years this week, 4.5%. Can we say the worst is over?)
I'm sure there are many who would love to say the worst is over. I suspect probably not, however. 4%-ish in a week is pretty good performance, but as you said, gold is reflecting what's been happening in other markets as well - big moves in Treasury yields, emerging market equities. In the context of what's happened over the last two years though, I really don't think anyone can step in and say, yes, this is definitively the bottom here. It's a reflection of the fact that a lot of the markets were a bit oversold before Bernanke soothed the waters. But April was a chastening experience for a lot of people who bought that dip down to $1,300-ish and thought they'd seen the bottom and then promptly saw the market collapse another $100, $150 on them.
(QUESTION: So is the next level on the downside- are we looking at $1,200 and I suppose if you do get through that, the big one, $1,000 isn't too far away?)
Well the technical guys would point to an area around about $1,150, $1,160 as being a key point for the market on the charts. Round numbers sometimes mean a lot and sometimes don't mean so much. I think the next key point on the downside is the previous low in this cycle, about $1,180.
(QUESTION: That's a lot of talk about the downside and the bearish side of gold. But what levels on the upside should we be looking at if we break through them that will give gold something of a breather?)
Well physical demand is very strong right now and if you get a pause in investor sales, then we could see gold being taken back up to the sort of 13, 20, 22 kind of area on that physical buying, I think. But that's going to be pretty stiff resistance at that point."
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Welcome to the synergy,
folks. Disney's three big acquisitions over the past decade have been Pixar (a partner the Mouseketeers bought outright in 2006), Marvel Comics and the "Star Wars" universe. Total cost: About $15 billion. Those last two weren't just surprises, they were industry-defining purchases nobody saw coming—catching all their competitors totally flat-footed—and now Disney can count among its flock ESPN, ABC, "Toy Story," "Iron Man" and the next "Star Wars" trilogy.
Perhaps nothing, though, exemplifies what all this means to Disney as much as "Big Hero 6." While the Marvel adaptation "Guardians of the Galaxy" turned out to be the year's biggest movie so far, this film merges something from the pages of Marvel with Pixar boss John Lasseter and Disney's untouchable mix of distribution and marketing power. The perfect storm. It's not a title known to many outside the halls of your local ComicCon, but given the big November push from Mickey Mouse—it was "Frozen" this time last year—a whole lot of kids will get a whole lot of "Big Hero 6" toys this holiday season.
Beyond the bottom-line cynicism, however, there's a movie to contend with. Because "Big Hero 6" is not exactly "The Avengers" or "The Fantastic Four," the filmmakers had a little more flexibility to change some of the origin story and lay the groundwork for future films. Comic book fans should be used to movies making changes by now, so nobody will cry for them. In the film, Hiro (voiced by Ryan Potter) is a super-genius teenager who loves robots. He graduated high school at 13 and over the past year, has been engaging in illegal botfighting to perfect his work. Robotics runs in the family: Hiro's late older brother, Tadashi, created Baymax (Scott Adsit), a healthcare robot that looks like the Michelin Man.
Together, Hiro and Baymax must stop a mysterious villain who has stolen Hiro's mircrobot technology. What are microbots? Think of an ant colony that can build or do just about anything you direct it to. So, pretty powerful in the wrong hands. Things proceed about as you'd expect, although "Big Hero 6" mines a lot of comedy out of Baymax, who is only programmed to be a nurse but must become something far more lethal.
There are some definite misses, though. The supporting cast — the title "Big Hero 6" actually refers to five young superheroes and the robot — is mostly an afterthought, and there's not a lot of magic here, even if the animation is predictably great.
About the only thing that truly stands out beyond the animation and its 3-D presentation is the performance by Scott Adsit as the robot. He's a veteran of Second City and "30 Rock," and while a robot is obviously limited emotionally by his programming, it must still carry some human qualities if audiences are going to be sympathetic to the character. Whether it's "The Iron Giant" or "Wall-E" or this film, if you can't connect with the machine, the movie is sunk. Baymax is the most fleshed-out character in the "Big Hero 6," ironically enough, particularly funny during the drunken stupor the robot enters into when its battery is drained.
Overall, however, the movie struggles to leave its own mark. It's not as fun as "Wreck-It Ralph," it's nowhere near as accomplished as "Frozen," it's hard to see where a sequel could take it and the majority of the characters just fill space and time. But, man, is it going to sell a lot of merch.


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Classroom management is a delicate balance
Classroom management is an acquired skill.
It takes patience, experience and guidance from veteran educators to keep a class engaged and paying attention for the duration of the school year.
Stephen Mounkhall, an English teacher at Scarsdale High School, remembers well his first year of teaching, some 24 years ago.
"I had completely lost control of the class by the second month," he said.
He likened his experience to an anecdote he'd read about ships coming into New York Harbor, and how if a ship was not on the right course from about a mile away, it could hit the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
"I hit that bridge in October," he said with a laugh.
By Jan. 3, Mounkhall was not sure he even wanted to return.
"It was hard," he said. "I had failed so badly."
But he stuck it out and, by the next school year, things began running more smoothly.
The key to gaining control of his class was setting clear expectations and establishing ground rules, he said.
"Now it is less about classroom management and more about planning of the curriculum," he said. "You quickly have to suss out what sort of students you have in class and what material would be challenging for them. But it can't be so challenging that they shut down, but challenging enough that they stay engaged. Appealing to their intellectual side always works."
His advice to new teachers? "Try not to give up. Rely on people around you for advice. Look for mentors."
Sue Luft, a fifth-grade teacher at Fox Meadow Elementary School in Scarsdale, who's been teaching for 17 years, said it was all about building a community.
"Establishing a community of learners, where they are involved in setting the classroom rules, is helpful," Luft said. "It is very important for them to have a routine and when they can expect certain things to happen."
Luft said she encourages her students to get to know one another and learn about one another's interests.
"In the beginning, classroom management is one of the most difficult things to do. You could be a specialist in the content area but managing a group of people is not easy," she said.
Her advice? "Observe your colleagues and mentors, and find out what works. Always be ready for students before they arrive and have the day fully planned. Be ready for all the transitions. Preparation is really the key."
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Owen Wynne Jones (also known as Glasynys, 1828-1870), was born in Rhostryfan, the same parish as Richard Hughes Williams (1878-1919), and worked in a quarry at the age of ten. In 1855 he began work as a teacher, and in 1860 he was ordained. He was an eisteddfotwr, journalist, folklorist and writer, whose stories were published in a selection edited by Saunders Lewis (1948).
Concerning Spirits
My uncle Tomos from Esgair Adda, peace on his bones, came from one of the old families of Mawddwy, and was a very devout man. He told this story about the foul deeds of two unruly witches.
A familiar spirit followed Bessi constantly, though most of the time it was unseen.* Once, when she was near Esgair Adda, requesting parish support from the warden, my Uncle Tomos's father, she told him with a torrent of curses that if she did not get what she wanted he would regret it within a few minutes. He replied, quite calmly, 'Time will tell, Bessi.' But not three minutes later, the sheep were running pell-mell over the mountain in their terror, breaking their necks by the dozen, and the old man was forced to make peace with that vicious woman.
It was believed that Bessi had sold her soul to the devil. When her time on earth came to an end, something snatched her away, and off she went across the slopes of Cowrach like a leaf before the wind. When they found her, she was in the weir at Mallwyd, dead and cold, and it is said that there was a look of utter horror on her face. And that was the end of Bessi, and all her witchcraft.
But if Bessi was a vicious woman, Sali was a hundred times worse. There was no peace in sleeping or waking while that hideous she-elf was alive. As a young girl, she had been widely admired, but somehow she had grown sluttish and wanton in the company of some rich young popinjay who lived nearby. Her honour was soiled, and from then on it would have been better for her to hang herself than to live as the wretch she became. She turned to that cursed land of enchantment, and there was no deed under the sun so vile that she would not attempt it. She wanted nothing but to torment and harass her neighbours. In one place she would turn the milk so it was impossible to churn, try as one might; in another, she would charm the sheep so a hundred shepherds could not keep them in their pasture; in yet another place, she would give the cattle the evil eye, and make the best of the milch cows infertile for three years, and even the still births of the calves would not be the end of the curse. Many wholesome, healthy young girls she cast down as sickbed wretches, and many mothers she left bereft of those their hearts had loved. It was said that she never slept, but was constantly on the watch for any chance to show her magic. And somehow she knew of every plan that was made to get rid of her. One night two or three men in the pub in Dinas were laying plans to take her to Shrewsbury and lay her under the hand of the law as a madwoman, and she knew the entire plan by morning. She caused six bullocks belonging to the first man to fall from a crag, drove the dogs belonging to the second to worry the sheep in their folds, and put a curse on the third, so that even if he had been offered the world in exchange for his torment, he could not have got free of it for a moment. When he sat down, he felt that it was on prickles and thorns, and so he had to roam like a beast in his frenzy: longing to sit down, yet unable to rest; exhausted by his wanderings, yet unable to sit still even for an instant.
A certain cunning man who lived in the south was asked to put a spell on Sali. It was terrible magic he wrought on her, for her own familiar spirit turned on her and began to torment her with pains, and there was no end to her suffering. She took to running about, crying wildly, 'The pain! The pain!' and then she would tear at her flesh in her ferocity. Whenever she had a moment of ease she would either pray or curse, pleading for even greater agonies to fall on the wretch who had seduced her from the paths of virtue. But Sali passed over at last. It was said that her whole body was a mass of cuts and sores, and that not one inch of her flesh was whole. Her house was abandoned for many long years and, 'so they say,' is an unquiet place to this day. Rhys y Cwm, 'so they say,' took some of her books, but was unable to make any sense of them, and so all of Sali's witchcraft in Cwm Mawddwy came to end.
That is a taste of the mountain beliefs.


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The 2012 World Junior Hockey Championship is here, and both Canada and the United States kick off the tournament on Monday, part of the four-game schedule on the first day of IIHF's under-20 world championship tournament.
Edmonton hosts Group B action while Calgary hosts Group A action. Here's the full schedule for Day 1:
3:30 p.m. ET: Finland vs. Canada (Group B, Edmonton)
5:30 p.m. ET: Latvia vs. Sweden (Group A, Calgary)
8 p.m. ET: Denmark vs. United States (Group B, Edmonton)
10 p.m. ET: Switzerland vs. Russia (Group A, Calgary)
NHL.com will live stream the USA game and the Switzerland vs. Russia game. NHL Network in the United States will also provide a live broadcast of Canada vs. Finland and Denmark vs. USA.
Each of the 10 teams in the tournament play four games in the preliminary round, which continues through December 31. The top three teams in each group move on to the playoff round, with the two top-seeded teams gaining byes into the semifinal game. Semifinal winners move to the gold medal game, played January 5, while losers move to the bronze medal game played the same day.


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Editor of GlobalPost from 2010 - 2015
Under Mucha's direction, GlobalPost won a Peabody Award and two Edward R. Murrow Awards for its On Location video series, a Polk Award for the site's coverage of the Syrian conflict, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a National Press Club Award for reporting on Myanmar, an Overseas Press Club Award for GlobalPost's coverage of the Libyan rebellion, and 32 SABEW awards for the site's coverage of the global economy and business. The site was also a Webby Awards Finalist for five years running.
As GlobalPost's editorial leader, Mucha appeared on National Public Radio's Talk of the World, Talk of the Nation, and On the Media, as well as Public Radio International's The World, The Bob Edwards Show, ABC News and other local, national and international radio and television broadcasts.
He started with GlobalPost at its inception in October 2008.
Mucha spent his first decade in journalism as a writer, producer, and editor for CNN and CNN International in New York and London where he covered Wall Street, the US and global economies, Asia's economic rise, the birth of the euro, as well as global emerging markets. He was Senior Producer of daily news broadcasts Business Asia and World Business Today, and Senior Writer for CNN's Emmy Award-winning program Moneyline. In addition, Mucha worked on the assignment desk for CNN Financial News in New York where he coordinated daily business coverage across 19 CNN bureaus around the world. He was also a participant of the World Economic Forum annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland.
Mucha also spent four years as a columnist and features writer for Time Inc.'s Business 2.0 Magazine, where he covered global business, technology and other topics, including a weekly column on global marketing. His magazine work has appeared in Wired, Details and other leading print publications.
Prior to his arrival at GlobalPost, Mucha was Assistant Managing Editor of Crain's Chicago Business where he led features and special projects. While at Crain's, Mucha launched its award-winning global business and economics coverage, leading reporting and video teams to China, India, Brazil, and Indonesia. He also co-produced several award-winning video series on entrepreneurship, global business and other topics and was a frequent public speaker on Chicago business and global economics issues. In partnership with Chicago's WBBM/CBS Radio, Mucha also produced and presented a weekly radio segment on Chicago business and entrepreneurship.
Mucha has an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago. His degree program focused on global economics, politics and business, with an emphasis on China and India. Mucha's academic work also emphasized the Middle East, including research and reporting trips to Egypt, Jordan and Israel to study economic and political liberalization in the region.
A new report by Standard & Poor's highlights the growing risks.
Humor, economics, and good old American douchebaggery.
Like politics, economics is all local.
What plays in Peoria also plays in Punjab. But not how you might think.
Amid some criticism, and a lot more laughs, Emerson College unveils The Ron Burgundy School of Communication — for one day (and not a minute longer). GlobalPost was there.
Forget the debate over climate change. Calamity is already upon us. A yearlong GlobalPost investigation assesses the damage from the Amazon, to Africa, to the Gobi, Greenland and beyond.
Why does the invisible hand want to slap you across the face?
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Book Giveaway! Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony, by Daniel Herwitz
"A work of ebullient imagination, zest, and wit, Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony explores the double life of heritage in the making of modern political identities." — Jean Comaroff, Harvard University
This week our featured book is Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony by Daniel Herwitz.
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Bringing the eye of a philosopher, the pen of an essayist, and the experience of a public intellectual to the study of heritage, Daniel Herwitz reveals the febrile pitch at which heritage is staked. He travels to South Africa and unpacks its controversial and robust confrontations with the colonial and apartheid past. He visits India and reads in its modern art the gesture of a newly minted heritage idealizing the precolonial world as the source of Indian modernity. He traverses the United States and finds in its heritage of incessant invention, small town exceptionalism, and settler destiny a key to contemporary American media-driven politics. Showing how destabilizing, ambivalent, and potentially dangerous heritage is as a producer of contemporary social, aesthetic, and political realities, Herwitz captures its perfect embodiment of the struggle to seize culture and society at moments of profound social change.
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Lithgow local Heiko Riecken is keeping the fine art of printing alive and has just been named the 2020 Lithographic Institute of Australia (LIA) and Heidelberg Graduate of the Year for New South Wales.
As one of the largest manufacturing sectors in Australia, the printing and graphic arts industry is a significant contributor to many aspects of the Australian economy and workforce, with an estimated 6,500 businesses in operation and almost 27,000 people employed in related occupations.
The TAFE NSW graduate said he was thrilled with the win and hoped to inspire more young people to join the trade.
"The world of print is a fascinating field of employment with changing technology and machinery and appealing products, coupled with diverse challenges each day. We have to make decisions about efficiency, quality, resources, production processes and how to be part of a team of co-workers."
"I enjoy printing and the challenge of making decisions about each job, how to produce it fast with good quality, little waste and maintaining the machine for reliable and repeatable outcomes."
After spending 30 years working in the printing industry, Heiko enrolled at TAFE NSW Ultimo in 2019 to brush up on his knowledge and consolidate his considerable years of experience.
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The LIA/Heidelberg Graduate of the Year award, awarded annually in each mainland state with plaques presented to the winners and certificates to their employers, dates to 1972.
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Champagne Drip (Feat. Hollis) – Millennia (Original Mix)
Having left his SPL moniker behind, Los Angeles producer Champagne Drip has refined his aptitude for producing high-powered hits with the release of hist latest single, "Millennia," featuring Hollis. "
Millenia" is the first of four tracks set to be featured on Champagne Drip's forthcoming EP, which recently made its debut on BBC Radio 1Xtra's Diplo and Friends. The downtempo production exhibits a keen use of pulsing synths that compliment the future bass overtones of the track, making "Millennia" another rousing enterprise by the burgeoning producer.
Champagne Drip tells Dancing Astronaut:
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Geometric objects, predicates, and operations
Project description
Shapely is a BSD-licensed Python package for manipulation and analysis of planar geometric objects. It is not concerned with data formats or coordinate systems. It is based on the widely deployed GEOS (the engine of PostGIS) and JTS (from which GEOS is ported) libraries. This C dependency is traded for the ability to execute with blazing speed.
In a nutshell: Shapely lets you do PostGIS-ish stuff outside the context of a database using idiomatic Python. For more details, see:
Shapely wiki
Shapely manual
Shapely example apps
Shapely 1.2 depends on:
Python >=2.5,<3
libgeos_c >=3.1 (3.0 and below have not been tested, YMMV)
Windows users should use the executable installer, which contains the required GEOS DLL. Other users should acquire libgeos_c by any means, make sure that it is on the system library path, and install from the Python package index:
$ pip install Shapely
or from a source distribution with the setup script:
$ python setup.py install
Here is the canonical example of building an approximately circular patch by buffering a point:
>>> from shapely.geometry import Point >>> patch = Point(0.0, 0.0).buffer(10.0) >>> patch <shapely.geometry.polygon.Polygon object at 0x...> >>> patch.area 313.65484905459385
See the manual for comprehensive usage snippets and the dissolve.py and intersect.py example apps.
Shapely does not read or write data files, but it can serialize and deserialize using several well known formats and protocols. The shapely.wkb and shapely.wkt modules provide dumpers and loaders inspired by Python's pickle module.:
>>> from shapely.wkt import dumps, loads >>> dumps(loads('POINT (0 0)')) 'POINT (0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000)'
All linear objects, such as the rings of a polygon (like patch above), provide the Numpy array interface.:
>>> from numpy import asarray >>> ag = asarray(patch.exterior) >>> ag array([[ 1.00000000e+01, 0.00000000e+00], [ 9.95184727e+00, -9.80171403e-01], [ 9.80785280e+00, -1.95090322e+00], ... [ 1.00000000e+01, 0.00000000e+00]])
That yields a numpy array of [x, y] arrays. This is not always exactly what one wants for plotting shapes with Matplotlib, so Shapely 1.2 adds a xy property for getting separate arrays of coordinate x and y values.:
>>> x, y = patch.exterior.xy >>> ax = asarray(x) >>> ax array([ 1.00000000e+01, 9.95184727e+00, 9.80785280e+00, ...])
Numpy arrays can also be adapted to Shapely linestrings:
>>> from shapely.geometry import asLineString >>> asLineString(ag).length 62.806623139095073 >>> asLineString(ag).wkt 'LINESTRING (10.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000, ...)'
Shapely uses a Zope-stye suite of unittests and doctests, excercised via setup.py.:
$ python setup.py test
For current information about this project, see the wiki.
If you have questions, please consider joining our community list:
Shapely is written by:
Sean Gillies
Aron Bierbaum
Kai Lautaportti
Patches contributed by:
Howard Butler
Frédéric Junod
Eric Lemoine
Jonathan Tartley
Kristian Thy
Oliver Tonnhofer
Additional help from:
Justin Bronn (GeoDjango) for ctypes inspiration
Martin Davis (JTS)
Jaakko Salli for the Windows distributions
Sandro Santilli, Mateusz Loskot, Paul Ramsey, et al (GEOS Project)
Major portions of this work were supported by a grant (for Pleiades) from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov).
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- Mekonnen, D., Fesmire, M., Barnes, A., Backman, S., Ramos-Mattoussi, F. (2018). Changing Teacher Educators' Conceptions and Practices on Literacy Instruction: Lessons from Teacher Educators' Professional Development Experiences in Ethiopia. In Pouezevara, S. R. (Ed.) (2018). Cultivating dynamic educators: Case studies in teacher behavior change in Africa and Asia. (RTI Press Publication No. BK-0022-1809). Research Triangle Park, NC: RTI Press. http://DOI: 10.3768/rtipress. 2018.bk.0022.1809. https://www.rti.org/rti-press-publication/cultivating-dynamic-educators
- Milligan, J.; Fuentes, V.; Ramos-Mattoussi, F.; Paredes, C.; Arango, M. (April 2018) Community College Administrator Program (CCAP) with Selected Countries: Final Program Evaluation. Report Prepared for The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. State Department under Cooperative Agreement S-ECAGD-14-CA-1165. Washington, DC.
Barnes, A., Zuilkowski, S. S., Mekonnen, D., & Ramos-Mattoussi, F. (2018). Improving teacher training in Ethiopia: Shifting the content and approach of pre-service teacher. Teaching and Teacher Education, 70(Feb 2018), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2017.11.004
Ganley, C.M., Schoen, R.C., LaVenia, M., Tazaz, A., & Razzouk, R. (2016, April). Exploring relations between teacher math anxiety and other teacher characteristics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.
Betancourt T.S., Zuilkowski S.S., Ravichandran A., Einhorn H., Arora N., Bhattacharya Chakravarty A., et al. (2015) Development of the SAFE Checklist Tool for Assessing Site-Level Threats to Child Protection: Use of Delphi Methods and Application to Two Sites in India. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141222. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141222 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141222
Darabi, A., Arrastia-Lloyd, M. C., Nelson, W.D., Liang, X. & Farrell, J. (2015). Learning how the electron transport chain works: independent and interactive effects of instructional strategies and learners' characteristics. Advances in Health Science Education, DOI 10.1007/s10459-015-9592-2.
Darabi, A. (2015). Learning in the defense sector with simulated systems. In J. Michael Spector (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, Print ISBN: 9781452258225, Online ISBN: 9781483346397.
LaVenia, M., Cohen-Vogel, L., & Lang, L.B. (2015). The Common Core State Standards Initiative: An event history analysis of state adoption. American Journal of Education, 121(2) 145–182.
Lee, J. & Zuilkowski, S.S. (2015). 'Making do': Teachers' coping strategies for dealing with textbook shortages in urban Zambia. Teaching and Teacher Education, 48, 117-128. doi:10.1016/j.tate.2015.02.008.
McCoy, D. C., Zuilkowski, S. S., & Fink, G. (2015). Poverty, physical stature, and cognitive skills: Mechanisms underlying children's school enrollment in Zambia. Developmental Psychology, 51(5), 600-614.
Piper, B., & Zuilkowski, S. (2015). Assessing reading fluency in Kenya: Oral or silent assessment? International Review of Education, 61(2), 153-171. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11159-015-9470-4
Piper, B., & Zuilkowski, S.S. (2015). Teacher coaching in Kenya: Examining instructional support in public and nonformal schools. Teaching and Teacher Education, 47, 173-183. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X15000025
Ramos-Mattoussi, F. & Caballero, V. (July 2015). External Evaluation of the Women's Leadership Program in Paraguay: Evaluation Report. [174 p.] Higher Education for Development (HED), American Council on Education (ACE). USAID/DEC, Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00KNGF.pdf
Tekkumru-Kisa, M. & Stein, M.K. (2015). Learning to see teaching in new ways: A foundation for maintaining cognitive demand. American Educational Research Journal 52(1), 105-136.
Tekkumru-Kisa, M., Stein, M.K., & Schunn, C. (2015). A framework of cognitive demand and content-practices integration: Task Analysis Guide in Science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 52(5), 659-685.
Boyle, H.N. (2014). Between Secular Public Schools and Qur'anic Private Schools: The Growing Educational Presence of Malian Medersas. The Review of Faith &International Affairs, 12 (2), 16-26.
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Champagne, Z., Schoen, R.C., & Riddell, C. (2014). Variations in Both Addends Unknown problems. Teaching Children Mathematics, 21 (2), 114–121.
Fink, G., & Zuilkowski, S.S. (2014). Measuring child development across cultures. In UNICEF (Ed.), State of the World's Children 2015: Reimagine the future. New York: UNICEF. http://sowc2015.unicef.org/stories/innovations-in-assessment/
Lang, L.B., Schoen, R.C., LaVenia, M., & Oberlin, M. (2014, March). Mathematics Formative Assessment System–Common Core State Standards: A randomized field trial in Kindergarten and First Grade. Paper presented at the annual Spring conference of the Society for Research in Educational Effectiveness, Washington, DC.
Piper, B., Zuilkowski, S. S., & Mugenda, A. (2014). Improving reading outcomes in Kenya: First-year effects of the PRIMR Initiative. International Journal of Educational Development, 37, 11-21. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059314000145
Purpura, D. J., & Ganley, C. M. (2014). Working memory and language: Skill specific or domain general relations to mathematics? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 122, 104-121.
Ramos-Mattoussi, F.; Milligan, J.; Fesmire, M.; Kim, Y.S.; Amorim, E. (2014). Baseline Assessment of Preservice Teacher Education Programs at Colleges of Teacher Education in Ethiopia, Technical Report Produced by the Florida State University Team for Reading for Ethiopia's Achievement Developed Technical Assistance Project (READ TA). RTI International: USAID-Ethiopia, 2014.
Razzouk, R., Dyehouse, M., Santone, A. & Carr, R. (2014). Plants v. pollutants: Bringing engineering design practices and real-world context to the science classroom. The Science Teacher, 81(9), 43-49.
Robinson-Cimpian, J. P., Lubienski, S. T., Ganley, C. M., & Copur-Gencturk, Y. (2014). Are schools shortchanging boys or girls? The answer rests on methods and assumptions: Reply to Card (2014) and Penner (2014). Developmental Psychology, 50(6), 1840-1844.
Robinson-Cimpian, J. P., Lubienski, S. T., Ganley, C. M., & Copur-Gencturk, Y. (2014). Teachers' gender-stereotypical ratings of mathematics proficiency may exacerbate early gender achievement gaps. Developmental Psychology, 50(4), 1262-1281.
Zuilkowski, S.S., & Betancourt, T.S. (2014). School persistence in the wake of war: Wartime experiences, reintegration supports, and dropout in Sierra Leone. Comparative Education Review, 58(3), 457-481. http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/edlp_faculty_publications/15
Zuilkowski, S. S., & Jukes, M. C. H. (2014). Early childhood malaria prevention and children's patterns of school leaving in the Gambia. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 84, 483-501.
Boyle, H. N., & Boukamhi, A. (contract). Islamic Education in Morocco. Manuscript under contract for publication, The Netherlands: Springer.
Piper, B., & Zuilkowski, S. S. (in press). The role of timing in assessing oral reading fluency and comprehension in Kenya. Language Testing.
Zuilkowski, S. S., & Alon, I. (in press). Promoting education for vulnerable children by supporting families: A holistic intervention in Uganda. Journal of Social Service Research.
Lang, L. B., Schoen, R. C., LaVenia, M., Oberlin, M., & Robinson, M. (2013, April). K–3 mathematics formative assessment: Effects on teaching, learning, and the gender gap. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
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Bu, L., & Schoen, R.C. (Eds.) (2011). Model-centered learning: Pathways to mathematical understanding using GeoGebra. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Haciomeroglu, E.S., Bu, L., Schoen, R.C., & Hohenwarter, M. (2011). Prospective teachers' experiences in developing lessons with dynamic mathematics software. International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 18 (2), 71–82.
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Schoen, R.C., Erbilgin, E., & Haciomeroglu, E.S. (2011). Analyzing the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for mathematics: Is the state curriculum still a mile wide and an inch deep? Dimensions in Mathematics, 31 (1), 30–39.
Milligan, J. A. (2010). The Prophet and the Engineer Meet Under the Mango Tree: Leadership, Education and Conflict in the Southern Philippines. Educational Policy, 24(1), 28-51.
Milligan, J. A., & Zhang, H. (2010). Self-Enlightenment in the Context of Radical Social Change: A Neo-Confucian Critique of John Dewey's Conception of Intelligence. Journal of Thought, 45(1-2), 29-41. Retrieved from http://journalofthought.com/?page_id=347.
Ramos Mattoussi, F. (2010). Assessing the impact of short-term technical assistance and gender integration training implemented by international organizations in developing countries. In Virtual Conference on Methodology in Program Evaluation, September-December, 2010. School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Johannesburg, South Africa. Retrieved from http://wpeg.wits.ac.za
Schoen, R.C. (2010). Professional vision: Elementary school principals' perceptions of mathematics instruction. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Florida State University.
Haciomeroglu, E.S., Bu, L., Schoen, R.C., & Hohenwarter, M. (2009). Learning to develop mathematics lessons with GeoGebra. MSOR Connections, 9 (2), 26–28.
Haciomeroglu, E.S., & Schoen, R.C. (2009). What does it mean to teach mathematics "in depth"? Dimensions in Mathematics, 29 (2), 20–24.
Milligan, J. A. (2009). Prophetic Pragmatism? Post-Conflict Educational Development in Aceh and Mindanao. Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education: An International Journal, 3(4), 245-259.
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State lowers passing grade for bar exam
HELENA — Attorneys can now pass the Montana state bar exam with a score that is slightly lower than it was in May, in an effort to deal with decreasing passage rates because of changes made to the exam in 2013 while also aligning the test with other states.
In January, Paul Kirgis, dean of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana, proposed lowering the exam score, saying the percentage of the school's graduates passing the bar on the first try dropped from 88 percent before 2013 to below 70 percent in the past two years.
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The state Supreme Court discussed the issue June 7, and ordered the bar exam score to be moved from 270 to 266 on a 400-point scale. It had taken public comment prior to the decision.
Kirgis described it as a "modest" change.
"It aligns Montana with states like New York, Iowa and Kansas and puts us in the middle of our region, with Wyoming and Washington at 270 and North Dakota and Minnesota at 260," he stated.
In 2013, the state made "significant" changes to its exam, Kirgis said. Four essay questions about Montana law were dropped and the passing score was raised from 260 to 270. Officials agreed to the change at the time motivated by the fact that most other jurisdictions required higher scores, and feared a low passing score might result in unqualified lawyers coming to Montana to practice.
He said Idaho has had a 280 score, but with review that allowed a number of candidates with lower scores to be admitted; it is now considering lowering its score and eliminating the review.
He said setting the score at 266 rather than 270 was expected to increase the overall passing rate by about 5 percentage points and called it a "modest change."
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Kirgis said he has heard little negative reaction to the change.
"Most of the bar members I speak with are skeptical of the validity of a standardized test as a measure of competence to practice law," he said via email.
The Montana state bar did not return a call seeking comment. However, on May 18 it filed comments with the state Supreme Court in which it said its board of trustees could not reach a consensus.
They noted that the passage rate of the exam dropped from 86 percent in July 2013 to 67 percent in February 2015. About half of those taking the Montana exam graduated from the University of Montana law school.
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They noted the primary difference in the bar exam was increased weight of multiple-choice questions, elimination of the four one-hour essay questions specific to Montana law and the increased passing score.
They also noted that no one at a March 9 meeting presented evidence that a bar exam score is correlated with problems related to "character and fitness, disciplinary problems, or malpractice."
The bar noted that each jurisdiction determines its passing score. The passing score was 260 until 2013 with "no untoward effects," the bar wrote.
This allows an applicant who has achieved a Montana passing score on the exam while taking the examination in another jurisdiction to transfer that score to Montana within three years of taking the bar examination. It is also retroactive for applicants who achieved that score during the past three years.
Since July 2013, 29 bar examinees have scored 266-269 and 17 of those have retaken the exam with a score of 270 or better. Of the 12 who have not passed, five are UM graduates and seven are not.
Great Falls attorney Alexander "Zander" Blewett III, for whom the UM law school is named, said the exam is now more focused nationwide rather than Montana based.
He supported lowering the scores.
"It makes good sense," said Blewett, of the law firm of Hoyt & Blewett PLLC. "We don't want kids to be perfectly able to practice law in Montana and not pass because they are taking a national exam."
He said lowering the passing score from 270 to 266 was not a big jump.
"It's very minor, but there are two to three kids who could have been lawyers because of this number," Blewett said.
"You don't want to have graduates getting done with law school and for some reason not get this extra couple of points," he said.
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Montana Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike McGrath said he supported lowering the score to 260, but was all right with 266, which he said was similar to adjacent states.
He said several years ago Montana approved the Uniform Bar Exam process, which had its questions designed by a national testing entity.
He said upon review it seemed the testing score was too high.
"Now we're making an adjustment and reducing the score," he said, adding most people in the public comment thought the score should be lowered.
He added it was not a perfect measurement.
Among those opposed to lowering the exam score was attorney Erin Erickson of Missoula, who wrote the Supreme Court on April 28 and said that easing the requirements will "only serve to diminish the quality of lawyering in this state and I believe it will greatly affect the professional relations and collegiality of the Montana Bar."
She said she feared the bar will be compromised and "flooded with out of state lawyers who do not value the atmosphere of professionalism and respect that our bar has developed."
"I have been practicing nearly 13 years in this state and I greatly value the quality and ethical standards of our bar," Erickson, who is with the law firm of Bohyer, Erickson, Beaudette and Tranel PC, wrote. "I believe the citizens of our state are afforded a high level of protection and representation by our current bar members, in large part due to the admission requirements. Therefore, I strongly oppose any amendments to the current requirements."
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Kirgis said until the early 1980s, Montana had a "diploma privilege," which meant that any graduate of the University of Montana School of Law did not have to sit for a bar exam.
He said many of the leaders of the Montana bar, including Sid Thomas, the current chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, never took a bar exam.
Kirgis said the bar is best understood as setting a baseline measure of the analytical ability needed to perform legal work.
He said there was no evidence that attorneys who scored between 260 and 270 for all those years were incapable lawyers.
"So I see little risk that adjusting the score to 266 will lead to the admission of ineffective lawyers," he said.


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The broadcast and media industry is experiencing a period of extraordinary innovation. In order to professionally encounter and better understand the highly topical trends of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) content production for HD and beyond for the broadcast industry, ARRI and the volumetric studio, Volucap, organized the second International Broadcast Day at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam, Germany.
This unique gathering which provided a platform for exchanging knowledge and experiences on future key technologies with industry leaders, took place from June 26 – 27, 2019 in the FX Center and the state-of-the-art Volucap Studio with camera and lighting solutions as well as system services from ARRI. Experts from around the world joined the ARRI and Volucap teams for one and a half days of keynotes, presentations, and workshops with a special focus on discussing opportunities, applications, and constraints of VR and AR affecting media today.
The event gave insights into different focus topics. The morning session comprised of presentations of top keynote speakers, while the afternoon session was spent in detailed, rotating workshops lead by experts from SMPTE, nablet, TrackMen, Volucap and ARRI.
Keynote speakers:
· Lorenzo Zanni, Head of Insight & Analysis of IABM
· Muki Kulhan, Executive Digital Producer & Creative Tech Analyst, member of the IBC Content Steering Group
· Richard Mills, Technical Director Sky VR Studios UK
· Hassan Kiyany, member of the VR/AR Association Middle East
· Frank Govaere, VFX Supervisor UFA Technology & UFA LAB
· Lighting for LED and beyond
· VR/AR workflows in practice
· MXF Live of IP - safe, fast and transparent from set to post
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I can't imagine that there is any industry out there that is not starting to create or use immersive content – it is affecting everyone, all sectors. And, if you don't know what to do or where to start, just dive into making partnerships, to collaborate and share the knowledge, and learn together.
Muki Kulhan – Executive Digital Producer & Creative Tech Analyst, Member of the IBC Content Steering Group and Assessor at Innovate/Immerse UK
The broadcast and media industry is going through a radical shift. Media companies are transforming into media factories - with a focus on optimized workflows, data, automation, and cloud services. AI is also becoming more important, also acting as a driver for increased cloud adoption. VR brings many opportunities, even though consumer adoption has been slow. According to our research, some of the challenges to be addressed include storytelling, deployment costs and the business models supporting the technology.
Lorenzo Zanni – Head of Insight & Analysis of IABM
Volumetric film is the film you can walk into in which the viewer can determine his own point of view. It is really very inspiring. The volumetric studio is a work in progress and VR and XR are a multidisciplinary challenge. Volumetric capture gives us the tools to widen our horizon and opens up new possibilities for producing content.
Frank Govaere – UFA Technology & UFA LAB
I want to use this technology to tell all the stories that haven't been told yet.
Today we can collaborate and that's best part - technology is only one part of the game, the other is the collaboration that leads to creative content and storytelling.
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Go-kart track, hookah lounge reported for COVID violations
Public health officials in Washington County say they've referred two businesses that were in violation of Phase 1 reopening orders to state officials for review after multiple attempts to bring the businesses into compliance with coronavirus safety measures.
One business is K1 Speed, an indoor go-kart facility in Hillsboro. The other business is Urban Hookah, a hookah lounge in Beaverton.
Indoor go-karting businesses are not allowed to reopen until Phase 2, according to Gov. Kate Brown's reopening guidelines, which were released this spring. Hookah lounges must remain closed in Phases 1 and 2. Washington County has stayed in Phase 1 since June.
Representatives of both businesses said they recently closed the unlawful operations — indoor go-karting and indoor hookah-smoking — adding that they weren't trying to defy laws but were simply confused about whether or not such operations were permitted in Phase 1.
They also criticized state officials for the rigidity of Phase 1 guidelines, saying state and local officials should do more to work with individual businesses toward reopening.
But county officials say after receiving multiple complaints from the public, they were clear in phone calls, letters and ultimately on-site visits by COVID-19 reopening compliance officers that the businesses should not be open.
Since March, the county has had a COVID-19 compliance team tasked with making sure businesses had adequate information and resources to comply with reopening guidelines, said Marni Kuyl, director of Washington County Health and Human Services. The county created an online toolkit to help businesses comply.
Kuyl has provided updates to the county Board of Commissioners regarding Phase 1 noncompliance complaints about several businesses since June.
"When we do get complaints, it goes to this compliance team and they follow-up with a phone call just to make sure they understand what the guidance is — do they have questions, do they need support, do they need help?" Kuyl said. "If we get a second complaint, we follow up with a letter, and then if we get a third complaint, we'll do a site visit."
If the compliance team determines the business is continuing to operate outside the guidelines, the county refers the business to state agencies for review, which could lead to penalties.
The county called K1 Speed after receiving its first complaint about the business on July 7, said Mary Sawyers, spokeswoman for Washington County Public Health. Officials sent a letter to the business days later on July 15 after a second complaint. On Aug. 6, county compliance staff did a site visit at the facility and determined go-kart operations continued. After receiving an additional complaint on Sept. 16, the county referred K1 Speed to state agencies.
Officials with the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration conducted a site visit of their own on Sept. 22 after the agency received a confidential complaint, said Aaron Corvin, spokesman for OSHA, the state agency in charge of investigating COVID-19-related workplace complaints.
Corvin said the agency's decision to issue a citation for COVID-19 workplace violations depends on the findings of the onsite inspection, "including whether the inspection identifies violations."
Corvin added, "If we identify violations, we cite."
OSHA has issued 32 citations to businesses across the state for COVID-19-related violations since March, including at least five businesses in Washington County, and other citations are pending, Corvin said.
Penalties for non-willful violations range from $100 to $2,000, while the penalties for willful violations range from $8,900 to $14,000, he said. The size of the penalty depends on the size of the employer, the risk involved, and the probability of someone getting hurt, Corvin said.
Drew Percival, senior regional manager for K1 Speed, said the go-kart facility reopened in July with the understanding that the business constituted an indoor sport court and was allowed to reopen under Phase 1 guidelines.
Go-kart operations closed last week in response to the OSHA inspection, Percival said.
Percival said he was surprised by state and local officials' handling of the issue. He said he reached out to the county after the Aug. 6 site visit seeking clarification on whether the facility could be considered an indoor sport court but didn't receive any response.
"We're not trying to be these rebels," Percival said. "We want to keep people just as safe on the track as off the track. I haven't heard anything from the county in months."
He said he was frustrated with the county's lack of a response to his questions about whether the business could be considered an indoor sport court because the business, which operates 41 locations in the United States and abroad, has been able to open other locations around the country. There's a K1 Speed in Bend that opened this summer after Deschutes County moved to Phase 2.
Percival said other states' willingness to work with individual businesses to come up with plans that would allow them to reopen sets Oregon apart from other places, adding that he wasn't aware of any positive COVID-19 cases tied to K1 Speed facilities.
"If people don't want to work with you and try to figure out ways to keep you safe, and just say, 'Oh, nope, you're closed, that's the only way to keep people safe,' it's difficult as a business to work in that environment," he said.
Amer Alwan has been operating Urban Hookah in Beaverton since 2006. He said he closed the hookah lounge in March and didn't reopen until early August.
He said he reopened because he saw on a local TV news report that bars and restaurants could stay open until 10 p.m., and he thought the lounge, which also serves food, could reopen.
Alwan said he was confused about messages from the county stating the lounge couldn't be open but that retail sales of hookah materials could continue. He said he closed the lounge immediately after the county's on-site inspection on Sept. 25, after the county received multiple complaints.
Alwan said he has been struggling to provide for his family since the beginning of the pandemic, adding that he hasn't been able to receive any small business assistance grants.
"If they shut me down, they have to find me some way to make money to stay alive," Alwan said. "They can't just throw me on the street. I need to pay my bills, and I need to feed myself and my wife."
Kuyl said the county works to respond to COVID-19-related complaints because public health officials have a duty to keep people safe, adding that it's unfair to closed businesses if some businesses defy reopening guidelines.
She said she recognizes that reopening guidelines can be confusing, and county officials are working hard to make sure businesses are clear about what's allowed.
"We are worried about a potential increase in cases over the fall and winter," Kuyl said, adding that it's important for people to continue social distancing and get a seasonal flu shot.
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Alec Baldwin: Goodfellas audition for Henry Hill role discussed on Howard Stern
From the files of near-misses: Alec Baldwin once auditioned to play Henry Hill in Goodfellas.
It's a story that's not necessarily new — producer Irwin Winkler talked about Baldwin's interest, along with that of Sean Penn and Val Kilmer, in an interview with Playboy this year — but Baldwin relayed the anecdote while speaking with Howard Stern on SiriusXM radio on Tuesday.
"I had auditioned for the part in Goodfellas. I had went to Scorsese's apartment, and I went and auditioned for Scorsese," Baldwin said. He then remembered talking with Liotta years later about the film during a panel at the Savannah Film Festival in Georgia.
"I said to Ray, 'You know Ray, a lot of times guys get parts that I go up for and I don't get the part and I think to myself — I think I would have been better in that part. But you're the one example of someone where I go that's not true,'" Baldwin recalled. "'Ray, no one could have done that better than you.' And he reaches over and goes, 'I agree.'"
"When Marty wanted to cast Ray, I said, 'Why Ray?'" Winkler recalled in an interview that was included as part of the recent Goodfellas anniversary Blu-ray release. "I kept saying look at other people, let's see who else is out there." Winkler then met Liotta out at a restaurant and was convinced of his capability to play the role.


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Best Jewish Travel Ideas for Boston
On the evening of April 18, 1775, the sexton of the Old North Church climbed the steeple and held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were heading to Lexington and Concord (just a few miles from Boston) by sea and not by land. This fateful event sparked the American Revolution and assured Paul Revere's place in American history. No matter what means of transportation you take to get to the city of Boston, you will love the time you spend here.
The Boston area ranks seventh in Jewish population among U.S. metropolitan areas. The surrounding communities of Brighton, Brookline, Cambridge and Newton have vibrant and well-attended synagogues, restaurants, day schools and community centers that are enriched by a highly educated lay and professional leadership – many with ties to the large number of prestigious colleges and universities in the area, including Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Hebrew College, Boston University, Boston College and Brandeis University.
For a look at Boston Jewish life in Beacon Hill before the Second World War, visit The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture. Built in 1919, it is the last remaining immigrant era synagogue in the city of Boston and offers a variety of historical and cultural events every month.


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It's common knowledge that when you are attempting to become pregnant, a healthy diet is ideal. If you do not get optimal amounts of vitamins and minerals from food sources, you will want to start looking into taking prenatal vitamins early, as soon as you are thinking of trying to conceive.
The main components of prenatal vitamins are:
Folic Acid: Folic acid helps prevent neural tube defects. Folic acids can naturally be found in dark leafy greens, asparagus, broccoli, citrus fruits, beans and lentils, avocado, and many other vegetables.
Iron: Iron supports the baby's development, as well as prevents anemia in both you, and your baby. Iron can naturally be found in red meat, dark leafy greens, egg yolks, beans, and artichokes.
Additionally, if you are unable (or unwilling) to eat a diet that consists of omega-3 fatty acids, you may want to consider choosing a prenatal that includes that as well. Most standard prenatal vitamins do not include omega-3 fatty acids, so talk to your doctor or midwife about taking DHA supplement as well as your standard prenatal.
Talk to your healthcare provider and see if they have any prenatal vitamin recommendations. They may leave the choice up to you, so look for a prenatal that will compliment your diet. If you eat lots of greens, you won't need a prenatal that has 100% of your daily folic acid recommendation. If you know that your diet lacks certain things, such as calcium, look for one that has a higher percentage of your needed ingredient.
Prenatal vitamins are about complimenting and adding to your diet, and are not meant to substitute for good nutrition. In addition to preparing your body for trying to conceive, prenatal vitamins may also help build stronger fingernails, and thicker hair- so that's a nice little bonus as you're popping your prenatals every morning!
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Before taking any supplements, please talk to your healthcare provider. Having a pre-conception check up is always recommended.


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The Internet's Steve Lacy Shares New Song "N Side"
Published Apr 08, 2019Months after the Internet teased the completion of new music, the band's Steve Lacy has shared a new solo single.
Titled "N Side," you can hear the song in the players below. Lacy last delivered his solo EP Steve Lacy's Demo in 2017.
In February of this year, the Internet announced that two of its members had completed new solo albums. Yesterday, the band amended that tweet, announcing plans to release "1 this month. 1 next month."
This year, Lacy has collaborated with Solange and Vampire Weekend.