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Free Online Event: Social-Emotional Learning in Schools
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). Student Voice. School Climate. Student Motivation.
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Developing a child's social and emotional skills is as important as building his or her academic skills, but who is most responsible for doing this? There's an emerging recognition that schools and educators will be more successful if they consider students' social and emotional development as they teach lessons and craft school policies. Strengths in those areas translate to success—both in the classroom and in life, SEL advocates say. But there are some daunting gaps between that understanding and the reality of weaving SEL into the fabric of everyday schooling.
Education Week offers a big-picture look at how states, districts, and schools can reach their students through SEL strategies and other best practices for motivating and engaging students. In this virtual event, Education Week journalists and guests will staff online "discussion" rooms on a host of topics, including how districts and schools are incorporating social-emotional learning into classrooms, how principals and teachers are tending to their own SEL and work-life balance, the role that ed-tech is playing in the expanding use of SEL strategies, student voice, what research has shown to be effective strategies for building trust and respect between teachers and students, and how some district leaders are using flexible federal dollars to support efforts around improving school climate and student engagement. Join them on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, from 1 to 3 p.m. ET, for a deep dive into SEL in your schools.
This online summit provides you a unique opportunity:
• To directly interact with reporters and experts on social-emotional learning and school climate; and
• To watch a livestreamed series of interviews with the reporters after they've broken it down with you for final insights.
Thank you to those who joined us for this event, which took place on March 20, 2019.
1-3 p.m. ET*
#SELSummit
Social-Emotional Learning in Schools: In Conversation With Education Week
1:00–2:30 p.m. ET | #SELSummit Discussions Open
Education Week journalists and guests provide practical takeaways on social-emotional learning, school climate, and student engagement.
Room 1: Strategies for Social-Emotional Learning at the School and District Level
‣ Moderator: Evie Blad, Staff Writer, Education Week
‣ Guest Speakers: Melissa Schlinger, Vice President of Practice and Programs, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL); Karen VanAusdal, Senior Director of Practice, CASEL
‣ How does a school develop and integrate an SEL strategy schoolwide and work with teachers to carry it out? What role does the district need to play in helping schools weave SEL into their daily classroom teaching? What are the major hallmarks of a meaningful social-emotional learning strategy? In this discussion room, Blad, our lead reporter on SEL, talks with leading experts who will provide insights into best practices for district and school-level social-emotional learning strategies.
Room 2: Principals and Teachers Need Strong Social-Emotional Skills, Too
‣ Moderator: Denisa R. Superville, Staff Writer, Education Week
‣ Guest Speakers: Elizabeth Congdon-McGee, Counselor at Whaley School; Korinne Engstrom, Assistant Principal of Whaley School; Robyn Harris, Principal of Whaley School in Anchorage, Alaska
‣ Happy principals lead to happy teachers and happy teachers lead to happy students, educators and researchers say. As schools across the country put more of a focus on social-emotional learning for their students, experts have come to realize that teachers' social-emotional competencies, especially their stress-management skills and their ability to regulate their emotions, are a vital piece of that puzzle. Principals play a huge role in creating a healthy climate for their teachers and staff. In this discussion room, Superville explores how schools are succeeding at this and how it can lead to better social-emotional instruction for students.
Room 3: Ed-Tech Companies Are Tracking Students' Emotions. The Promise and the Peril
‣ Moderator: Benjamin Herold, Staff Writer, Education Week
‣ Guest Speakers: Wayee Chu, General Partner, Reach Capital; Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Associate Director, Penn Center for Learning Analytics, University of Pennsylvania
‣ There's a growing presence of educational technology used in schools that can pinpoint when students are feeling happy, bored, or engaged, part of a broader push to leverage technology to help measure, monitor and modify students' emotions and mindsets. But the ways in which ed-tech companies and researchers are building tools to understand the 'whole child' is sparking fears over privacy and surveillance. In this room, Herold and his guests explore what ed-tech tools do this, the promise that some believe this holds for improving student learning, and fears that critics have raised.
Room 4: Amplifying Student Voice
‣ Moderator: Alyson Klein, Assistant Editor, Education Week
‣ Guest Speaker: Michelle Hammond, Student Voice Coordinator, Washoe County School District, Reno, Nev.
‣ Schools around the country say that they want student input and opinions, but how many education leaders use that input to shape their policies and practices? Advocates say that student voice can be a powerful tool for building a safe and welcoming school environment and that their efforts to gather students' insights and use them to inform decision making send an important message to young people and encourage them to be more engaged in their schooling.
Room 5: The Student-Teacher Relationship: What the Research Says About Empathy
‣ Moderator: Sarah D. Sparks, Assistant Editor, Education Week
‣ Guest Speakers: Mary-Helen Immordino-Yang, Professor of Education and Psychology, University of Southern California; Vicki Nishioka, Senior Research Advisor, Education Northwest
‣ In this room, assistant editor Sarah D. Sparks leads a conversation with leading researchers on how teachers can build relationships of empathy and respect with their students, which studies have shown have a strong, positive effect on how children feel about school and how hard they are willing to work in class. Emerging research suggests some small changes can create a healthier, more productive learning environment and drive down behavior issues.
Room 6: Leveraging Federal Dollars (Title IV of ESSA) to Support School Climate and SEL
‣ Moderator: Andrew Ujifusa, Assistant Editor, Education Week
‣ Guest Speaker: Amanda Fitzgerald, Director of Public Policy, American School Counselor Association
‣ This $1.2 billion pot of federal money is intended to give school districts discretion to use on a wide range of student supports and academic enrichment. And a 2018 survey of district leaders showed that to help students become more well-rounded, 53 percent said they plan to spend Title IV money on social-emotional learning. And in general, 63 percent said they plan to use Title IV money to help create safe and drug-free schools. But what does that work look like? What are the strategies and initiatives district leaders are using with the support of Title IV money?
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Room 7: Using Data to Support SEL And Academic Growth for All Students
‣ Guest Speakers: Elizabeth Breese, Marketing Director, Panorama Education; Samuel T. Moulton, Research Director, Panorama Education
‣ Join Panorama Education to discover resources on social-emotional learning, MTSS and early warning systems, district case studies, and new research on the links between SEL, attendance, behavior and coursework. Connect with Research Director Sam Moulton to learn best practices on using data to support the academic and social-emotional needs of your students.
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Room 8: Mental Health—The Forgotten Piece of the SEL Puzzle
‣ Guest Speakers: John Campo, Assistant Dean for Behavioral Health, Chief Behavioral Wellness Officer, and Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, West Virginia University and the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute; Zach Wagner, Senior Vice President of Product, EVERFI
‣ Stress and anxiety are constant companions for many of our students. Social-emotional learning helps us understand that these shadows can be managed, and that like our physical health, mental health can be strengthened or diminished through our daily habits. Join experts in student mental wellness for a conversation about finding and creating opportunities to promote mental well-being for all members of our school community.
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Room 9: Creating Connections with SEL and Boys Town
‣ Guest Speakers: Courtney Dealy, Senior National Trainer; Jo Ann Flaxbeard, National Trainer; Mike Meeks, National Training Manager
‣ For more than three decades, Boys Town education experts have partnered with educators to transform school culture; creating safer, more effective learning environments. The Boys Town Education Model® puts research-proven methods to work in a variety of educational settings. Providing classroom teachers, administrators, and support staff the tools to implement a comprehensive multi-tiered system approach to creating and encouraging respectful staff-student relationships by changing the way schools address student behavior.
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Room 11: The Connection Between Student Motivation and Reading Intervention
‣ Moderator: Jenny Eisenman, Director of Education, Reading Plus
‣ Guest Speakers: John Ferrara, Data/Research Analyst, Reading Plus; Dr. Jeffrey Pascoe, Research Scientist, Reading Plus
‣ Research shows that students' attitudes and mindsets play an important role in learning, but how do you gauge student motivation? Join Jenny Eisenman, Director of Education at Reading Plus, John Ferrara, Data/Research Analyst at Reading Plus, and Dr. Jeffrey Pascoe, Research Scientist at Reading Plus, in an open conversation centered around motivation and reading intervention.
2:30–3:00 p.m. ET | Final Reporter Wrap-up
SEL: In Conversation With Education Week
Led by the reporters, the Education Week newsroom will close out the day with insights from the discussions they've had with you, the readers.
Guests, Speakers, and Moderators
Evie Blad
@EvieBlad
@Rulz4Engagement
Blad is a reporter for Education Week who covers school climate, student engagement, social-emotional learning, discipline, nutrition, and student well-being. Before coming to Education Week in 2013, she was a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, where she covered K-12 education at the state and local levels, higher education, as well as health issues.
Wayee Chu
Reach Capital
Chu is a general partner at Reach Capital, a venture fund focused on early-stage education technology start-ups. Prior to Reach, Chu was the co-founder of the NewSchools Seed Fund, a fund focused on early-stage education technology companies with potential for impact in K-12 education. She was also a former associate partner at NewSchools Venture Fund, where she focused on sourcing and supporting early-stage education technology entrepreneurs. During her eight-year tenure at NewSchools, she led the NewSchools EdTech Entrepreneurship Lab, in partnership with Teach For America and the Stanford d. school, and she also led NewSchools' field-building work.
Elizabeth Congdon-McGee
Whaley School in Anchorage, Alaska
Congdon-McGee has been an educator with the Anchorage School District for 18 years and at Whaley School for 20 years. She has worked with the Anchorage district as a teacher and school counselor. Congdon-McGee was previously a clinical therapist for a nonprofit agency, running a K-3 group and co-facilitated an adolescent boys group.
Michelle Hammond
Student Voice Coordinator
Washoe County School District, Reno, Nev.
Hammond views student learning through a broader developmental lens that has made her an advocate of social-emotional learning and student voice since the beginning of her education career. During her 12 years with the Washoe County School District, she has worked with students in grades pre-K through 12, and served in numerous roles, including classroom teacher, program coordinator, MTSS/SEL external coach, and student voice coordinator.
She created the School of PEACE (Parent Engagement and Child Enrichment), a program established to provide quality early-childhood education, parenting classes, and wrap-around supports for teen parents and their young children. Currently, as the student voice coordinator, Hammond facilitates professional learning and provides coaching and technical assistance to help build educators' capacity to engage students across Washoe County School District in the school improvement process.
Robyn Harris
Harris is the principal of the Whaley School in Anchorage, Alaska, a school which specializes in serving students with acute behavior needs. She was the Alaska State Principal of the Year in 2018 and has been an administrator for the Anchorage School District for 10 years.
Benjamin Herold
@BenjaminBHerold
@EdWeekEdTech
Herold is a reporter covering educational technology for Education Week. He joined Education Week in 2013. Previously, Herold covered the Philadelphia school district for WHYY public radio station and the Philadelphia Public School Notebook. He has won awards as the nation's top education beat reporter and for his feature reporting on the city's mass school closings. He has previously worked as a policy researcher, an independent documentary filmmaker, and a training specialist for rape-crisis and domestic-violence-prevention organizations.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience
Immordino-Yang studies the psychological and neurobiological development of emotion and self-awareness, and connections to social, cognitive and moral development in educational settings. Her work has a special focus on adolescents from low-income communities, and she involves youths from these communities as junior scientists in her work. She has also been an urban public junior high school science teacher.
Alyson Klein
@PoliticsK12
Klein is a reporter for Education Week who covers the Trump administration's K-12 policy, Every Student Succeeds Act implementation, and the politics of education. She has discussed education news on CNN, National Public Radio, C-SPAN, PBS, and other news outlets.
Vicki Nishioka
Senior Research Advisor
Education Northwest
Nishioka has extensive experience in evaluation and technical assistance focusing on strengthening teacher-student relationships, equity in school discipline, social and emotional learning, and bullying and harassment. Her Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northwest work includes conducting research on ways to reform school discipline policies. She also leads the development of professional learning materials that help educators design and implement policies and practices that lead to welcoming, inclusive school communities.
Jaclyn Ocumpaugh
Penn Center for Learning Analytics
Ocumpaugh's work centers on affective learning processes, often in STEM. She has made important contributions to BROMP—an observational method for studying behavioral and affective engagement that has been adapted in six countries. Prior to her work in learning analytics, she earned degrees in linguistics, where her work on the formation of new dialects was at the intersection of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition research. She is currently collaborating on several projects in the learning sciences that make broader use of this early training, including some that involve the analysis of natural language processing tools and one in which she is helping to tailor new technologies to the specific cultural needs of English-language learners in the Philippines.
Melissa Schlinger
Vice President of Practice and Programs
Schlinger leads CASEL's efforts to advance systemic implementation of evidence-based social and emotional learning in school districts across the nation. She oversees CASEL's Collaborating Districts Initiative (CDI), which has grown under her leadership from eight to eighteen large urban districts implementing systemic SEL. She also oversees the development of school and district resources based on CDI learnings, as well as CASEL support services. As a key member of CASEL's leadership team, Schlinger collaborates with foundations, program providers, state and federal departments of education, school districts, community-based organizations, and university partners to advance CASEL's mission of helping to make SEL an integral part of PreK-12 education for all students in the nation.
Sarah D. Sparks
@SarahDSparks
Sparks is a reporter for Education Week who has covered education research and the science of learning for more than a decade. She joined Education Week in 2010, and has published on education and other issues in Education Daily, the Republican-American, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveler, and others.
Denisa Superville
@drsuperville
@district_doss
Superville is a reporter at Education Week covering school districts and leadership. She joined Education Week in 2014. Previously, Superville worked at The Record in New Jersey, where she covered breaking news, local governments, and schools.
Andrew Ujifusa
@AndrewUjifusa
Ujifusa is a reporter for Education Week who covers federal and congressional K-12 policy and politics. He has discussed education news on PBS, All Things Considered, the CBS radio network, and other outlets. Ujifusa began working at Education Week in 2012, after working at newspapers in Maryland and Mississippi. He also taught high school English in central Japan.
Karen VanAusdal
Senior Director of Practice
VanAusdal oversees multiple initiatives to support and scale SEL in school districts and with collaborators in the field. Previously she served as executive director for the Office of Social and Emotional Learning in the Chicago Public Schools, where she worked to ensure that all schools developed multitiered systems of support for students' social, emotional, and behavioral needs. This included a focus on developing positive school and classroom climates, intentional instruction for social-emotional skill development, and targeted SEL interventions. Most recently, VanAusdal spearheaded a districtwide initiative to reduce the use of exclusionary discipline (suspensions and expulsions) and increase SEL strategies in the Chicago schools, an effort that resulted in a 65 percent reduction in out of school suspensions over two years.
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Social-Emotional Learning, Explained
What is social-emotional learning? How can schools help teachers to weave the concepts into everyday classroom instruction? And can educators know whether the strategies are working? Reporter Evie Blad explains.
SEL Is Part of District's Academic Core
The Washoe County school district in Reno, Nev., has been way ahead of most other districts in its approach to social-emotional learning, especially in measuring students' SEL skills.
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Staying Sane Through the Holidays – shoes. bag. travel. my life.
Tis' the season to be jolly, right? At least that is what the song says. Don't get me wrong, I love the holiday season. I mean, I start counting down the days 'til Christmas in September. I love decorating, I love shopping, I love the traditions and spending time with family and friends. I want to do all the special things with my kids while they are still young and want to do them. I want to make each year magical and create memories my family will cherish forever.
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ASP has issued a voluntary recall of Cyclesure 24 Biological Indicators due to the revised expiration time (shelf life) from 15 months to 6 months. This recall followed an FDA review of ASP data, which showed that the Sterrad Cyclesure 24 Biological Indicators cannot effectively monitor the sterilization process throughout a 15-month shelf life.
Use of biological indicators beyond their 6-month shelf life may prevent verification of proper sterilization. However, the FDA believes that the risk of infection for an individual patient is very low, given that this biological indicator is only one of three sterilization system monitors and the window of possible exposure to the malfunctioning Cyclesure 24 devices is relatively short.
Supplies of Cyclesure 24 Biological Indicators may be temporarily reduced. The FDA is working with ASP to make suitable product available and to assure that health care facilities experience little or no disruption.
The teleconference will be held Thursday, July 5, 2012 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. ET. The toll-free number is 888-946-7205. The pass code is FDA.
The briefing will include a brief summary of the safety communication, followed by a question and answer session. The briefing will be moderated by Cathy Miller, Office of Special Health Issues.
A replay of the call will be available one hour after the briefing ends until Aug. 5, 2012. To hear the replay, callers can dial 866-428-3805.


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Life | Entrance Requirements | Accommodation | Universities in Andalucia
UNIVERSITIES IN ANDALUCIA
By Tina Andlaw
Spain has a high standard of university level education while some of the most prestigious national universities can be found in Andalucia. Indeed, the universities at Granada and Seville are widely considered to be amongst the best in Spain.
Life at Spanish University
Studying at Spanish university will not only be an academic experience but a cultural one as well. The Spanish have a very individual way of conducting their higher education system and this is a direct result of the cultural style you will experience. In order to get a good insight into life at Spanish university, please click here to read an interesting article written by Russell Seaman, a British student who studied in Málaga University.
As in all countries, the Spanish education system has its levels of education required for entrance into university but this depends largely upon what subjects you wish to study and works along the lines of a system of points.
General requirements in Spain are the Bachillerato which is taken at school at age 18, swiftly followed by Selectividad exams. A final mark representing points gained for entrance to university is then calculated from the results of these two examinations. It is composed of 60% of the Bacillerato marks, plus 40% of the Selectividad marks to make the total points gained. Each university has a point requirement for entrance and this will depend on the individual course and number of students wishing to study the particular subject. Minimum points required for entrance to university are currently 5.
If you have received secondary education outside Spain and wish to go to a Spanish university to continue your studies, you will need to satisfy the university that you have the equivalent level of studies and linguistic skills to enable you to go on the course. You will also need to supply legalised and translated certificates and related documentation. Students need to apply to the Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura: www.mec.es and go through a process of validation, or convalidación. This is a standard procedure but can sometimes take up to a year to complete. Apply to: Subdirección General de Títulos, Convalidaciones y homologaciones, Servicio de Homologación de Títulos Universitarios Extranjeros. Paseo del Prado, 28. 28012 MADRID. Tel. 91 018 500.
Andalucia has some first class universities.
Although students may study in any chosen university in Spain, it is more common, even today, for economic and social reasons, for students to stay in the family home and commute to university or stay nearby during the week and go back home at weekends.
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Nonprofits Adopt-a-Storefront To Spruce Up Downtown
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By Vicki Hillhouse Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Wash.
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) As Vicki Hillhouse reports, "The "Adopt-a-Storefront" concept was created as a solution to bring together nonprofits with a penchant for community service and a need for marketing with vacant property owners."
Lorna Barth calls it her twist on the Adopt-a-Highway program.
In this case, though, vacant downtown storefronts in Dayton are being cleaned, refreshened and maintained by nonprofit groups committed to keeping up the work in three-month increments. In exchange, the nonprofits get to market their organizations, projects and events with displays in the empty windows.
"We have two storefronts adopted now, and they look fantastic," Barth said.
Inside the former Alder Street Dental location at 202 E. Main St., Columbia County 4-H youth robotics club members were the first to test out the program. Dioramas with photographs and descriptions show what the program participants learn and do.
The latest is at 238 E. Main St., the former spot of an attorney's office. After professionals were brought on to help remove a baked-on window film, the Dayton Historical Depot Society adopted the space as a way to share a slice of Main Street.
For All Wheels Weekend, wrapping up in Dayton today, the window display was set up to include photos of antique automobiles.
"If you adopted (a building), then you can show what your group is about in whatever theme is coming up," Barth said. "It gives them an opportunity to change things up."
The Adopt-a-Storefront concept was created as a solution to bring together nonprofits with a penchant for community service and a need for marketing with vacant property owners whose spaces could use some sprucing on the main drag through the community.
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce and Port of Columbia officials are hopeful the program may even spark interest in new investment in their town.
"We're just trying to really clean up, beautify and give our vacant buildings a face-lift so potential entrepreneurs could maybe see themselves in the space," said Chamber Executive Director Melissa Bryan.
Barth, the former 4-H coordinator for the community, was looking for ways to observe the organization's 100th anniversary in Columbia County when the idea came to her. Unsure of where to go with it, she approached a friend in real estate who recommended she take it to the Port of Columbia, where Economic Development Coordinator Kathryn Witherington was an immediate willing helper. Soon it developed into a much bigger vision.
Barth also connected with Bryan who was a tie to the Dayton Development Task Force. All of the organizations have either been advocates or helped facilitate the program with communication to property owners and more.
The Chamber has been an integral partner, helping facilitate the application process and a contract between the participating groups and the private property owners.
Bryan said numerous nonprofits have come forward, interested in the mutually exclusive partnerships that clean up Main Street and bolster community awareness at the same time.
"The nice thing is the groups are actually not only putting displays inside, but are physically cleaning the windows and the space outside," Bryan said. "We have kids physically outside scrubbing sidewalks, getting invested in Main Street.
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The Ottoman wintering in Toulon occurred during the winter of 1543–44, following the Franco-Ottoman Siege of Nice, as part of the combined operations under the Franco-Ottoman alliance.

Wintering in Toulon
Francis offered to allow the Ottomans to winter at Toulon so that they could continue to harass the Holy Roman Empire, and especially the coast of Spain and Italy:

Only the heads of households were allowed to remain in the city, with the rest of the population having to leave, on pain of death. Francis I indemnified the inhabitants by exempting them from the taille tax for a period of 10 years.

During the wintering of Ottoman admiral Barbarossa, the Toulon Cathedral was transformed into a mosque, the call to prayer occurred five times a day, and Ottoman coinage was the currency of choice. According to an observer: "To see Toulon, one might imagine oneself at Constantinople".

Throughout the winter, the Ottomans were able to use Toulon as a base to attack the Spanish and Italian coasts under Admiral Salih Reis. They raided and bombarded Barcelona in Spain, and Sanremo, Borghetto Santo Spirito, Ceriale in the Republic of Genoa, and defeated Italo-Spanish naval attacks. Christian slaves were being sold in Toulon throughout the period.

Sailing with his whole fleet to Genoa, Barbarossa negotiated with Andrea Doria the release of Turgut Reis.

Barbarossa found the Toulon base very pleasant and convenient, could refit his ships at the expense of France, and could maintain an effective blockade of Christian shipping. The Lord Lieutenant of Provence complained about Barbarossa that "he takes his ease while emptying the coffers of France".

The Ottomans finally departed from their Toulon base after a stay of 8 months, on 23 May 1544, after Francis I had paid 800,000 ecus to Barbarossa. All Turkish and Barbary corsairs had to be freed from French galleys also, as a condition to his departure. Barbarossa also pillaged five French ships in the harbour of Toulon in order to provision his fleet.

Return to Constantinople

Five French galleys, under the command of the "Général des galères" Captain Polin, accompanied Barbarossa's fleet, on a diplomatic mission to Sultan Suleiman. The French fleet accompanied Barbarossa during his attacks on the west coast of Italy on the way to Constantinople, as he laid waste to the cities of Porto Ercole, Giglio, Talamona, Lipari and took about 6,000 captives, but separated in Sicily from Barbarossa's fleet to continue alone to the Ottoman capital.

This would be one of the last naval campaigns of Barbarossa, who died 2 years later in Constantinople in 1546.

Aftermath
Toulon would again be used as a safe harbour for several months by Turgut Reis from August 1546, when he was pursued by the fleet of Genoese admiral Andrea Doria.

Notes

References
 Roger Crowley, Empire of the sea, 2008 Faber & Faber
 Yann Bouvier, « Récits de voyage et représentation de l'espace. La Méditerranée de Jérôme Maurand, un espace vécu », Mémoire de Master, Dir. par Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Université de Nice, 2007, 292 p.
 Yann Bouvier, « Antoine Escalin des Aimars (1498?-1578) - De la Garde-Adhémar au siège de Nice, le parcours d'un Ambassadeur de François Ier », Recherches Régionales, Nice, Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes, n°188, Octobre-décembre 2007, 28 pp.

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Becoming reality – mucopolysaccharide storage diseases and adulthood
Susanne Gerit Kircher, of the Medical University of Vienna, explains why more resources and effort must be put into understanding mucopolysaccharide storage diseases in adults.
Mucopolysaccharide storage diseases (MPS) are a group of rare inborn metabolic diseases. There are at least 11 different types, all belonging to the so-called 'lysosomal disorders', diseases which are caused by impaired function of the small cell-organelles, the lysosomes. Lysosomes are vital cellular components and any damage or impaired function has far-reaching, even fatal consequences for the cell metabolism and survival. It is therefore not surprising that any inherited lysosomal disorders have severe consequences, even during the fetal period or in the first months of life.
With this knowledge, it could be understood that the first publications about mucopolysaccharide storage diseases described severely affected children in their first years of life, with many symptoms of the disease in the skeleton, the abdominal organs and the faces. This was 100 years ago, the first authors were the paediatricians Charles Hunter (from Canada), Meinrad v. Pfaundler (Austria), and Gertrude Hurler (Germany). While Hunter focused on the many signs such as peculiar face ('gargoyle'-like), umbilical and inguinal hernias, protruded abdominal wall, Pfaundler and Hurler described the many changes in the skeletons of their patients which they could show by X-rays. The two different MPS types (this was shown more than 50 years later) later received the names Hurler's and Hunter's diseases. All these affected children did not survive long.
Unexpected observations in the severity of MPS
In 1962, the ophthalmologist Harold Glendon Scheie (USA) believed in a new disease he named as 'forme-fruste' of Hurler's disease. He observed very similar changes in the cornea and the conjunctiva of the eyes in adult patients as he had known from the young Hurler patients. All the other not so typical signs for mucopolysaccharide storage diseases he could not recognise. In those days, four different clinical types of MPS were already known:
MPS type I (Hurler's disease)
MPS type II (Hunter's disease)
MPS type III (Sanfilippo's disease)
MPS type IV (Morquio's disease).
It was therefore obvious to denote the type described by Scheie as MPS type V (Scheie's disease).
It took a few more years before, in 1969, Elizabeth Neufeld and her coworkers Joseph Fratantoni and Clara Hall (all USA) discovered specific factors which were able to correct signs of storage in MPS fibroblast cultures. When investigating these corrective factors systematically, they could prove the different origin of Hurler's and Hunter's disease. When identifying these factors as lysosomal enzymes, it was surprising that the severe MPS form Hurler had the same enzyme defect as that in Scheie patients. The term MPS type V was no longer used. But, as adult patients existed, the dilemma was solved by creating the new terms MPS I – Hurler and MPS I – Scheie, and, if the severity was between, MPS I – Hurler-Scheie compound. This was the beginning of the finding that adult MPS patients existed.
MPS – no longer a disease only in childhood
Sensitisation and knowledge about mucopolysaccharide storage diseases were raising awareness to improve the diagnoses of these patients. Nevertheless, it took years before these affected patients were diagnosed as suffering from MPS. Unquestionably, diagnoses improved for young patients; the focus was on the early signs and better screening methods. These efforts were reinforced due to the possibilities of effective therapies which should start or be performed as early as possible. The aim of discovering the youngest possible patients to make the correct diagnoses and start with the best available therapy led to the fact that only small efforts were being made to find older patients.
But nowadays, due to better diagnostic procedures, more and more patients are being diagnosed in the later decades of their life. Some of them are parents, have children, have been educated and practise a profession. All of them have had symptoms since their young age, but nobody put two and two together and recognised an MPS disorder. The clinical symptoms were milder than expected, but still there. Many of them have had orthopaedic problems for many years and operations with prostheses of hips and knees. They have problems with the heart valves and some of them have had surgery with heart valve replacement. They have eye problems, such as glaucoma, cataract and corneal clouding, and are treated by ophthalmologists, even operated on. They have joint problems, restricted movements and severe pains, and rheumatologists cannot provide evidence of rheumatism. Some of them suffer from psychiatric problems and intellectual decline, such as MPS type III patients.
New therapies and higher life expectancy
The new therapies used in mucopolysaccharide storage diseases, such as haematopoietic stem cell transplantation and enzyme replacement therapies, lead to a higher life expectancy of even severely affected patients. These treatments offer the specific missing enzyme to those who cannot make it themselves. These new forms of therapies cannot change the genetic cause but offer the missing gene product, with the consequence of decreased storage and stopping, even regression of the disease-related symptoms. It simply means that the genetically determined serious disease is transformed by those treatments into attenuated milder forms. Even patients who would have died some decades ago due to their disease may survive now for years or even decades. However, this positive development means that the medical treatment and care must adjust to the fact that more and more MPS patients are growing up.
Medical care and treatment in adulthood
Multisystemic diseases such as mucopolysaccharide storage diseases need a special approach. While paediatric medicine is composed of multidisciplinary disciplines, such as endocrinology, cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, inborn metabolic diseases, and many other organ-specific educated staff, medicine in adulthood means that a bundle of different disciplines are offered to treat the specific problem. For MPS patients growing up into adulthood, this new situation now requires a group of medical doctors and caregivers that need to be addressed. Each of them is responsible for only a small part of the problems the patients have experienced. Instead of just having to contact one doctor, several specialists must be consulted. Accompanying symptoms in other organs are not perceived.
The physically (and possibly psychologically) affected persons may be overburdened with maintaining all these necessary contacts. The result is that patients cannot perform all those steps and that treatments are partially omitted. With negative consequences, the prolonged life may not have the best possible quality of life. The advocated reconciliation into adult medicine may facilitate the transition process but the situation in the increasingly old age is still unresolved. This can be seen, for instance, in the fields of genetic counselling, gynaecology and andrology, anaesthecis, orthopaedics, dermatology etc. All these specialists were not educated to nor ever expected to treat MPS patients with their special needs and requirements.
New chapter: MPS in adulthood
Medicine has to reconsider and deal with adults with mucopolysaccharide storage diseases. MPS is a chronic disease and challenging, but solvable. The experiences and observations of previous adults should encourage us to better deal with the new unfamiliar situation. It makes no sense to put all possible efforts into young patients and to leave them to an uncertain and unaccompanied future.
Ass Prof Dr Dr Susanne Gerit Kircher
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Susanne.kircher@meduniwien.ac.at
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MH370: After three years, deep sea hunt for missing plane suspended
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Sydney: The deep sea hunt for missing flight MH370 has been suspended after nearly three years without result, the Australian, Malaysian and Chinese governments said Tuesday.
The Malaysia Airlines aircraft disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March, 2014, carrying 239 passengers and crew.
The plane "has not been located" in the 120,000 square kilometre (46,000 square mile) search area of the southern Indian Ocean, a statement from the three nations said.
"Despite every effort using the best science available, cutting edge technology, as well as modelling and advice from highly skilled professionals who are the best in their field, unfortunately, the search has not been able to locate the aircraft," the statement added.
"Accordingly, the underwater search for MH370 has been suspended."
The governments said the suspension, which was flagged by Malaysia earlier this month, was not "taken lightly nor without sadness" but that "to date no new information has been discovered to determine the specific location of the aircraft".
"We remain hopeful that new information will come to light and that at some point in the future the aircraft will be located."
Investigators have so far confirmed that three pieces of debris washed up and recovered on western Indian Ocean shorelines came from MH370.
Other pieces recovered mostly on western Indian Ocean shorelines have been identified as likely, though not definitely, from MH370.
New analysis by Australian and international experts released in December concluded MH370 was not in the search zone — a long stretch of water within the so-called seventh arc where the plane was calculated to have emitted a final satellite "handshake" — and might be further north.
They identified an area of approximately 25,000 square kilometres with the highest probability of containing wreckage, but Australia and Malaysia said the report did not constitute a strong enough lead to extend the search.
Next-of-kin association Voice370 said it was "dismayed" with the search's suspension and called on authorities to extend the hunt.
"In our view, extending the search to the new area defined by the experts is an inescapable duty owed to the flying public in the interest of aviation safety," Voice370 said in a statement.
"Commercial planes cannot just be allowed to disappear without a trace."
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I was fortunate to have first encountered Lenny Abrahamson's work back in 2007, when a trip back to Dublin saw everyone talking about Garage, a drama set in rural Ireland. Particular praise was going to comedian Pat Shortt's serious turn in the lead role.
I have since caught both the earlier and subsequent work of Abrahamson and was delighted when he received the Oscar nod earlier this year for Room.
In some ways, the less you know about the story the better. However, given that the film is adapted from the well-known novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, the attempt to avoid spoilers feels a little redundant.
Reportedly inspired by aspects of the Fritzl case, the film tells the story of Joy and her five-year-old son Jack, who live in a ten by ten foot room, seemingly cut off from the outside world. They have access to utilities and an ongoing source of supplies.
Joy has led Jack to believe that the room is the extent of the real world and that everything else only exists on television.
Despite everything, Jack seems a well-adjusted, polite and optimistic little boy.
We then gradually learn that the supplies and utilities are provided by a man known to Jack only as 'Old Nick'.
He has never seen Old Nick but only knows that, when Old Nick visits, as he frequently does, Jack needs to be hidden out of sight in a wardrobe until his mother lets him out.
One night, Jack overhears his mother's reaction to Old Nick's news that he has been looking for months but cannot find a job. Fearing what this might mean for her and Jack's survival, Joy hatches a plan to escape.
In its tackling of a rather grim subject through young and innocent eyes, the film which this most resembles in recent years is Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones. But whereas Jackson's film owed a great debt to its rich visuals, Room is driven by a mixture of sparser but equally effective visuals, and two outstanding performances.
Cinematographer Danny Cohen does a terrific job making the confined spaces seem large, and the external spaces seem oppressive.
The canvas is then set for Joy (Brie Larson) and Jack (Jacob Tremblay) to fill these spaces with their story.
Larson bagged the Best Actress Oscar, which was as likely as it was deserved. She maintains the underlying air of hopelessness to Joy's character whilst never detracting from the unwavering love she feels for, and optimism she instills in, her child.
Joy's release from the room sees Larson admirably balancing a wide and complex range of emotions.
It is nine-year-old Jacob Tremblay who really steals the show as Jack, boundless and full of life inside the room, yet initially shy and painfully reserved in the real world.
The moment in which he looks up and sees the sky through anything other than a skylight is extremely memorable.
No Oscar nod for Tremblay this year but you can feel it's only a matter of time. And the latter could easily be said too for Abrahamson.
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Babe Ruth jersey fetches record-breaking $5.64m at auction
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A jersey worn by legendary baseball player Babe Ruth has become the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold.
The garment was snapped up for $5.64m (£4.4m) at auction in New York on Saturday.
It broke the previous record of $4.4m which was set in 2012 - also for one of Ruth's New York Yankees jerseys.
The shirt dates from the 1928-1930 period of Ruth's long career, in which he became an early sporting superstar.
"The legacy and significance of Babe Ruth to the game of baseball and American popular culture is unmatched by any other figure in the history of this country," the president of Hunt Auctions, David Hunt, said in a statement.
He added: "While the record-setting prices attained today are certainly astonishing, I am not surprised at all given the incredible materials and the mythical status the Babe holds in the history of this country."
The record-breaking jersey was one of 400 pieces of Ruth memorabilia supplied by his family and private collectors and put up for sale at the Yankee Stadium.
The identity of the seller and the buyer have not been made public.
New exhibit shows private side of Babe Ruth's legacy
Ruth played for 22 seasons in Major League Baseball and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history.
He won seven World Series and broke numerous records during his career, before eventually retiring in 1935.


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What New Caregivers need to hear on the role of a New Caregiver with loved one that has been diagnosis with Alizheimers.
Christina Turner is a caregiver and advocate to help the New Caregivers in their journey as caregivers. Christina talks about caregivers expectations and Education. Sometimes caregivers may expect family helping, but with out communication you maybe disappointed. Communication and Education will be vital to all new caregivers. Christina will go further in dept in her audio.
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Strange and Odd Texas Attractions
United States Texas
All Texas
By Danno Wise
Texas is full of attractions, ranging from museums to natural attractions. However, while many of Texas' numerous attractions are unique, some are downright strange or odd. Here's a handful of the most unusual attractions found in the Lone Star State.
Stonehenge II
UTPB
120 Point Theatre Rd S, Ingram, TX 78025, USA
Located just outside of Hunt, on the property of the late Alfred Shepperd, Stonehenge II is a 3/5th replica of the original Stonehenge site in Salisbury Plain, England. Stonehenge II was built in the early 1990s and has been a tourist attraction ever since. In addition to the Stonehenge replica, the property also houses two Easter Island heads, offering sight-seers plenty to look at while touring the location.
Old Line Photography
13651 I-40 Frontage Rd, Amarillo, TX 79124-2619, USA
Located on I-40 about 12 miles west of downtown Amarillo (between Exits 60 and 62), Cadillac Ranch is an iconic attraction. Originally placed along Route 66, Cadillac Ranch was moved to its current location in 1997 due to the ever-expanding city limits of Amarillo. The Cadillac Ranch was created by a California-based group of artists known as the Ant Farm at the behest of eccentric Amarillo millionaire and art patron Stanley Marsh 3. Cadillac Ranch consists of 10 Cadillacs planted nose-down into the ground. The 10 cars used were year models 1949, '52, '54, '56, '57, '58, '59, '60, '62, and '64. These models were chosen to represent the evolution of the Cadillac's signature tail fins. Cadillac Ranch gained cult-like status thanks to Bruce Springsteen's ode to this odd attraction.
Devil's Rope Museum
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100 Kingsley St, McLean, TX 79057, USA
The invention that was more responsible for taming Texas and the Southwestern United States than any other single element was barbed wire. Offering ranchers an inexpensive way to fence their property to keep cattle in and cowboys out, barbed wire came in many configurations. In fact, the US Patent Office issued more than 500 unique patents for different styles of barbed wire. Many more models were created. The one feature all barbed wire has in common is some sort of protruding spike or spur woven into two or more strands of wire. Due to these "metal thorns," barbed wire was quickly nicknamed "Devil's Rope." Today, the Devil's Rope Museum, located just off Route 66 outside of Graham, TX (actually connected to Route 66 Museum), houses more than 6,000 examples of various barbed wires.
Creation Evidence Museum
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3102 FM 205, Glen Rose, TX 76043, USA
Glen Rose, also known as the Dinosaur Capital of Texas, has long attracted visitors from near and far to see the dinosaur tracks embedded in the Paluxy River bottom. Dinosaur Valley State Park and Fossil Rim Wildlife Center showcase the evolutionary evidence found in the Glen Rose area. As a response to all of this evolution fervor, in 1985 Carl Baugh founded the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose to feature what he determined to be solid evidence of the creation theory as told in the Bible.
Munster Mansion
3636 FM813, Waxahachie, TX 75165, USA
Although it claims to be located at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, the Texas version of the Munster Mansion is actually located at 3636 FM 813 in Waxahachie. Built to replicate the home from The Munsters television series, the Waxahachie Munster Mansion features a dungeon, electric chair, revolving bookcase, secret passageway, and a fire-breathing "dragon" beneath the front stairway. The highlight of the year for the Munster Mansion is Halloween, when the owners traditionally host fundraising parties for local charities.
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like a shapeless gray flower.
long enough for the boy inside to take it all in.
on his way south from the Duluth.
of the springs, a neon sign flashing "Open"
along the small of his back.
the way he smelled like a mechanic.
two thin layers above the heart.


When Scottish Borders Council wrote off £2.2million and ripped up a contract for a waste treatment plant, the public was assured "lessons would be learned".
But over a year on, the council is declining to disclose the results of a post mortem into the debacle and is claiming the public interest is best served by not doing so.
In February last year, the council scrapped its 24-year multi-million pound deal with New Earth Solutions (NES) for an advanced thermal treatment (ATT) plant at Easter Langlee on the outskirts of Galashiels which had promised to turn 80% of the 43,000 tonnes of rubbish sent to landfill annually into gas and hence into electricity. Having concluded that issues relating to untried technology and funding were insurmountable, the council later admitted it had already spent £2.2m on the abortive project, including £679,000 on a single Edinburgh law firm for procurement advice.
The council has since agreed to close Easter Langlee as a landfill site in 2017 and, thereafter, transfer all waste out of the region.
Last month, retired Borders journalist Bill Chisholm used Freedom of Information (FoI) legislation to ask the council for a breakdown of costs incurred since the contract termination and for "information contained in council documents, reports, emails and other written correspondence detailing the 'lessons learned'".
The SBC response reveals that an additional £50,000 has been spent since last February, including over £12,000 on legal expenses and internal fees relating to closing down the NES contract.
A further £38,000 has been expended on external consultants for the new waste management plan involving the decommissioning of Easter Langlee and its impending new role as a waste transfer station.
However, the council has told Mr Chisholm the information he seeks on "lessons learned" is being withheld.
"The purpose of a lessons learned workshop is to critically analyse and examine the project to highlight any things that could or should have been done better, or differently, or not at all or, indeed, to identify other approaches which could have been taken," states the SBC response.
"This process will only be effective and worthwhile if those participating are free to be open and honest and the information can be properly recorded for internal purposes on that basis.
"If it is likely that the contents of that debate or discussion will be released into the public domain, it would inevitably lead to those people being restrained in their communication and the workshop's effectiveness being significantly reduced as a result.
Mr Chisholm confirmed this week he had submitted a formal request for the council to review its non-disclosure decision.


கல்லூரி வாழ்க்கையை அதிகம் அனுபவிப்பத ு மாணவர்களா(� �)மாணவிகளா??
View Poll Results: Who enjoys college life more?
Thread: கல்லூரி வாழ்க்கையை அதிகம் அனுபவிப்பத ு மாணவர்களா(� �)மாணவிகளா??
அனைவருக்கு ம் என் இனிய தீபாவளி நல்வாழ்த்த ுக்கள்.. இந்த 2004 தீபாவளி திருநாளை முன்னிட்டு , கீதம் இனையதளத்தி ல் ஓர் சிறப்புப் பட்டிமன்றம ்.
"கல்லூரி வாழ்க்கையை அதிகம் அனுபவிப்பத ு மாணவர்களா அல்லது மாணவிகளா???"
Who enjoys college life more?? Boys or Girls..
Form a team and start the fun guyz.. Dont forget to vote too :P :P..
3. If the posts from participants are alternate, it would look good. So, try to give atleast 5 minutes before the other team responds.
4. Maximum time allowed to come with a counter argument is 24 hours. Otherwise, it would be considered as a loss.
5. Other team members can help the supposed poster with tips and suggestions using PM.
பட்டி மன்றமே ஒரே வரியில் முடித்திடல ாம் நடுவர் அவர்களே..
நடுவர் அவர்களே, உலகறிந்த உண்மைக்கு பட்டிமன்றம ா?? மாணவிகள் தான். அவர்கள் அடிக்கும் கொட்டமென்ன , ஆட்டமென்ன, பாட்டமென்ன , மாணவர்களுக ்கு தண்ணி காண்பிக்கு ம் திறமை என்ன, எதை என்று சொல்வது??
அடடா, இது என்ன இப்படி சொல்லிறீங் க.. நான் பசங்க தான் ஜாஸ்த்தி லூட்டி அடிச்சிருப ்பாங்கன்னு நினைச்சேன் ..
nicchayam maanavarhal thaan. Avarhal adikkara lootty irukke! Appappa!
Naanga girls ellam paavam theriyuma. Friends kooda oru cinema poganumna kooda parents kitta kenji kenji thaaja panni permission vaanganum, neratthukku veettukku varanum ippadi yegappatta kattuppaadugal! Pasangalukku enna! Friends kooda serndhu ooraiye rendaakkiduvaanga!
kandippa ponnunga dhaan. oomai madhiri irundhukittey niraya enjoy paneruvaanga.. more to come..
இதுவல்லவோ பட்டி மண்ற topic. i like it.
Ofcourse maanavigal thaan. Oomai kusumbugal oorai emaathumnu kelvi pattu irukkeengala. Athaan.
Silent'a irunthu enna attoozhiyam pannuvaanga theriyuma.
Fun enna periya fun! Modhalla ladies colleges ellam romba strict. Gents college maadiri ellam kidaiyaathu. Ishtatthukku cut adikka mudiyaathu. Naan college padicchappa oru naal kooda class-a cut adicchu cinema ponadillai!
Avvalavu yen. Naan college final year padicchappa oru naal enakku romba odambu mudiyaama poiducchu. Evvalavu kenji kettum veettukku poha anumadhikkalai. Dhairiyama college-ai cut adicchuttu madhyaanam veettukku poitten. Maru naal college vandha lecturer kaacchu kaacchunnu kaacchittaanga!
Gents college-la enna! Summa sowriyatthukku cut adikkalaam. Hmm... kudutthu vaccha maharaasanga!
That is true. It depends on the country. India le girls a adaki odiki vachirukanga. only in ladies college they can atleast speak and enjoy within the campus. Co-ed collegele athuvum mdiyathu.
also we enjoy college time. so my vote for girls.
My vote goes to girls. Most of the girls get their max. freedom during this 3 or 4 years. Before college (while in school) they won't get that much freedom. After college once when they get married, their lifestyle changes completely. So, when compared to boys girls are the one who enjoyed their life more.
and also after college going out.
Ennathaan girlskku freedom irrunthaalum.. boys rangekku vaaramudiyathu.. Aavangallukku yenna raaja vaazkai thaan.. College vanthutta.. vettulai.. oru thaani maariyadhai thaan.. Thoolukku mella valarnatha thozan thaan solluranga.. thozhi nu solla maatanga.. So paasanga (boys) oru age vanthathu kaaparum.. parents avangaloda eyillbu nu sollittu.. avnagalai free'a vitturanga..
Ponnungallukku appadi illai.. college ponnalum.. parents romba gaavanama paathupaanga.. Vettukku seekiram vaaranum nu naaraya breaks and rules.. Ithulaiyum aavanga college poittu vaarathu jolly thaan.. but avaanga jolly na enna.. naalla onkaanthu aaratai adichoma..paasangalai paarthu kindal pannoma avalavu thaan... Ithulaiye romba santhoshama irrukanga..
But paasanga.. urrai suthi.. cut aadichu, bit aadichu..test kku paadikama, pora vara ponnungalai site adichikkittu.. hostel paasangaloda thaani adichittu.. appuram verai enna.. sollunga.. evalavo irruku..
right I just want to get something right... college you mean uni? or do you mean post-16 educational institution?


Last week, me and 2 Indonesian openSUSE members : Bonnie Kurniawan & M Herry Nurdin holds a training session at Grha Pemuda & Olah Raga (Youth Fellow & Sports Building), State Ministry for Youth Affairs and Sports of the Republic of Indonesia, Senayan, Jakarta.
Training focused on openSUSE server function and administration, with an overview about openSUSE 11.0 features and capability. There are totals 20 audiences on first and second day, and 40 audiences on third day, came from sub dept of State Ministry for Youth Affairs and Sports and they will administer openSUSE server on their office. Most of the audiences are newbie for Linux but they have no problem with openSUSE administration. They looks a quite bit worried when we got an introduction about Command Line Interface, but after a few minutes, they're enjoy the training.
This is my first post in lizards.opensuse.org :-). Thanks to Beineri for activating this account.
Indonesian openSUSE Community (openSUSE-ID) monthly meeting will be held on Saturday, May 24, 2008, 09.00-13.00 am (GMT+7) at Detik.com head office Jakarta. Detik.com currently is the biggest online newspaper in Indonesia.
The monthly meeting called "Kopdar", means "Kopi Darat" or offline/physical/face to face meeting.
This monthly meeting will be discuss some issue regarding openSUSE 11.0 release party on June 2008, preview about openSUSE 11.0 features, openSUSE remastering and share knowledge about zypper package manager.
Another topic is about our agenda on IGOS Summit 2 event. IGOS stand for Indonesia goes Open Source and IGOS Summit 2 is an event prepared by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of Indonesia to encourage open source application usability in Indonesia. OpenSUSE-ID have a booth at the event. Well, it's a small booth (2.75 m x 2.5 m with 1300 watt of electricity) but this booth is free of charge 😉 and we have a nice opportunity to promoting openSUSE.
We choose Detik.com as our place for monthly meeting to reached more user and (maybe) to get a nice publication about our activity. a friend of mine worked for Detik.com and he helped me to arrange this event. Thanks Andry.
So, if you are an Indonesian openSUSE lover, why don't you join with us on Detik.com. Let share together !


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Abdirahman Saeed Hassan (born April 13, 1997) is a Qatari athlete who specializes in the 800m and 1500m.

Abdirahman Saeed Hassan gained his first experience in international championships at the 2019 Asian Championships in Doha, where he finished fourth over 800 meters in 1:47.71 minutes. In the 1500m, he also qualified for and ran in the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha.

In May 2021, Hassan met the qualifying standard and secured a spot at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in the men's 1,500m event with a personal best in 3:34.24 for a second place finish at the Enrique López Cuenca Stadium in Nerja, Malaga. He competed at the Olympics however did not finish his race.

Personal bests
Outdoor
800 metres – 1:45.33 (Marseille 2021)
1500 metres – 3:34.24 (Nerja 2021)
Indoor
1500 metres – 3:44.85 (Luxembourg 2020)

References

Qatari male middle-distance runners
Living people
1997 births
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Qatar


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Review by Rafa: Machine Metal Magic, by Hanna Dare
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Machine Metal Magic, by Hanna Dare
Series: Mind + Machine, Book 1
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Waiting on a Bright Moon, by JY Yang – Science Fiction for a Diverse Readership, Discussion of a Short Story by Mel
February 27, 2018 February 27, 2018 / Mel / 2 Comments
Waiting on a Bright Moon, by JY Yang
Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and its far-flung colonies— a role that is forced upon magically-gifted women "of a certain closeness". When a dead body comes through her portal at a time of growing rebellion, Xin is drawn deep into a station-wide conspiracy along with Ouyang Suqing, one of the station's mysterious, high-ranking starmages.
Published Jul 12, 2017, on Tor.com
Discussion originally written in German on September 17, 2017, for an academic writing course at Freie Universität Berlin, translated and adapted for an English audience by myself.
The discussion contains spoilers.
Waiting on a Bright Moon was written by JY Yang in 2017 and is freely accessible on Tor.com's website. The author lives in Singapur and is known for several short stories in magazines like Lightspeed and Uncanny. Through the story's main theme it is proposed to take your life into your own hands no matter the circumstances. Other topics like social injustice, rebellion, and same-sex love are touched, and the story features both Chinese attributes as well as elements of the science fiction genre. Moreover, it will become apparent that Waiting on a Bright Moon shows differing nuances in meaning depending on the reader's cultural background.
The story's protagonist, ansible* Xin, works for the empire of the originworld and was placed on the eight's moon's colony in order to exchange information and objects via a magical connection with other ansible. The cruel empire's methods and social injustice lead to a rebellion. Xin gets tangled up in it because she falls for the starmage Ouyang Suqing who had to hide her lesbian nature her whole life and is now actively involved in bringing down the leadership. While the empire falls in the end, Xin and Ouyang are played by a traitor, thus being prevented to have the happy life they were hoping to live together.
In the first paragraphs, the reader already notices that JY Yang uses both English language as well as Chinese characters on a small scale. Since those are mainly used in two poems or songs which appear to be irrelevant to understand what is going on in Waiting on a Bright Moon, the story is also accessible for readers without a Chinese background. In addition, Waiting on a Bright Moon is saturated with Chinese culture: for instance, the cover mirrors the yin-yang symbol through the position of the women's faces, there are Chinese names, zodiac and color symbolism, as well as political parallels to feudal China.
Looking at the characters' names, it is not surprising to readers with a Chinese background that they befit their characters very well. For instance, the protagonist Xin's former name was Tian (田, meaning field), but she was forced to use a new name instead and work for the government when it became known that she was in a lesbian relationship. Her new name is Xin (辛) which means sorrow and as an ansible, she is now a member of the lowest social class. She has no rights and lives a shameful life.
Her former lover's name was Mingyue (明月), and it is here that there is some information that remains hidden to the Western audience because they don't know that mingyue means bright moon in Chinese, which is, surprisingly, also right there in the story's title. Waiting on a Bright Moon can thus be read with two different meanings: to be waiting while being on the moon (here the eight's moon colony), or to be waiting for a bright moon.
There are hints in the Chinese characters of the songs as to the meaning of the case of waiting for a bright moon. The text is originally from two very famous ancient Chinese poems, therefore, on the one hand, being hard to understand even for Chinese readers, but, on the other hand, so famous that they are part of everyone's school education.
In this story, mingyue stands for the fond memory of a good time past (here her former lover) as well as the hope and expectancy of another such experience (明月几时有?, meaning, When will there be another bright moon?). Regarding the theme of a bright moon, there is an interesting difference in paradigms within the readership of this story: In the West, we usually have a linear worldview, but it is a cyclic one in Asia, which means that one does not wait for the bright moon in Asia but for a bright moon because there is more than, metaphorically spoken, one bright moon; there are many recurring events that have the potency to make us happy.
As follows from this difference in perception, the ending of the story also has a different connotation. From a Western point of view, the story ends on an open yet hopeful note, but for the Asian reader, the ending describes the natural course of life. Concerning the characters' thoughts and decisions, they receive another nuance as well because of the cyclic worldview: Because it is natural for the moon to rise and wane, Xin and Ouyang Suqing rise to the challenges that life throws at them and they won't be hindered by difficult circumstances like their gap in social class or the prohibition of same-sex love.
Since there is not the one right interpretation of any given text, there is no question of which interpretation is the correct one. Different explanations are absolutely valid since paradigms and individual backgrounds always influence our understanding of everything that we read and our reactions to a text are subjective in any case. The questions that the author raises in their story are universal: Who is in charge of your life? When are you ready to act and what are you willing to sacrifice? Additionally, by using both the rather unusual second person perspective and present tense, JY Yang accomplishes a closeness between the story and the reader without coming off as preaching or stilted. Their prose and storytelling is subtle and leaves much room for the reader's thoughts and emotions.
Although JY Yang uses a Chinese context for Waiting on a Bright Moon, even going so far as adding Chinese characters and symbolism that mostly evade the Western reader's understanding, by writing within the science fiction genre, they accomplish to make the story universally applicable and therefore relatable to a large and diverse readership. Waiting on a Bright Moon is an entertaining story to read. It is set in a fascinating world and has so many layers of depth that it engages every reader, no matter their cultural background.
* Name for the group of women who are forced into the empire's service and are of low social class because of their same-sex attraction.
My three passions in life are my family, books, and China.
I've been married to my wonderful husband for nearly 16 years, have the loveliest 11 year-old daughter, and we live together in Berlin's beautiful quarter Prenzlauer Berg. We spend as much time together as possible and enjoy a quiet life — well, next to a job and school…
Spending two years abroad in Macao SAR China made me want to change my profession, and so I've been studying Sinology since fall 2014. My focus, next to learning Chinese, lies in the field of gender and queer studies, and I am working on my thesis on the portrayal of homosexual sexual practices in Chinese literature and their relation to gender and class right now.
In my free time and on my long commute, I love to read and I like my books to be diverse, surprising, and genre-bending. I will read the occasional contemporary romance, but my heart actually beats faster for genre books like fantasy, science fiction, or steampunk. Since for me, love is love, I read stories about people of all gender and sexual identity.
Book Review by DMac: The Jackal's House, by Anna Butler
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The Jackal's House, by Anna Butler
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Tap-Dancing the Minefield, by Lyn Gala
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All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
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Fortitude Smashed, by Taylor Brooke
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