text:
Give Now

Harmonia Early Music

My Tunes: Shira Kammen On “Shuffle”

Occasionally we like to ask people in the field of early music: "What are you listening to?" This hour, we’re focusing on multi-instrumentalist Shira Kammen!

Shira Kammen.

This hour, we’re bringing you another installment of what we call “My Tunes,” in which we ask people who work and play in the field of early music this simple question: What are you listening to right now?

This time around we’re focusing on multi-instrumentalist Shira Kammen, and we have a wonderfully eclectic variety of music to share with you. Plus we’ll feature a recording by the London-based early music ensemble Joglaresa.

We’ll start with a traditional Finnish tune; its title translates as “the village awaited the new moon.” It was performed by the Scandinavian folk band Värttinä, one such artist that may show up on an mp3 player belonging to Shira Kammen.

[playlist-item 1]

Shira Kammen

Here’s a question… How do you discover new music? You might listen to a podcast or a program (…like Harmonia!), or may you ask some friends what they’ve been jamming out to lately.

We’re often curious about what music our friends who work in the early music field are listening to. So we occasionally ask someone and share it with you in a segment we like to call “My Tunes.” This time around we contacted the multi-faceted musician Shira Kammen.

Shira performs a diverse range of music, with deep roots in early and traditional repertoire. For many years she was a member of several early music groups including Ensemble Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and she’s worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Balkan group Kitka, the Newberry Consort, just to name a few.

She currently performs with several groups; she coaches and instructs at multiple universities, workshops and seminars, as well as composes and collaborates. She’s also the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to providing music on river rafting trips!

With her busy schedule, we knew it would be difficult to pin her down for a conversation about her music listening habits. And it was, but we managed to get the inside scoop about what we might hear “shuffling” on her iPod®.

Let’s start with music by this composer…as Shira puts it: “anything Dufay.”

[playlist-item 2]

[playlist-item 3]

Shira Kammen’s eclectic range of repertory includes a lot of traditional and “ethnic” musics, and she’s interested in new and traditional Scandinavian performers. Väsen is one such group.

The founding members of this Swedish trio, (sometimes quartet), have been playing music together since the 1980s. They’re veterans in the Swedish folk music world, touring extensively all over the globe, and they have 15 albums under their belts. Let’s hear music from the most recent, Mindset, a 2013 release of new works, followed by a traditional piece from their 2003 recording entitled Trio.

[playlist-item 4]

[playlist-item 5]

The Unicorn, the Gorgon & the Manticore

Welcome back. We’ve set early music performer Shira Kammen’s mp3 player on the “shuffle” setting this hour. So far, we’ve heard music by Dufay and some traditional Scandinavian tunes, and now for another eclectic turn.

Shira mixes some “later” works into her digital playlists, like contemporary Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti’s madrigal fable The Unicorn, the Gorgon & the Manticore.

Menotti modeled this dramatic work a madrigal comedy from the late renaissance—most likely Orazio Vecchi’s L’Amfiparnaso. It consists of an introduction and twelve madrigals with instrumental interludes performed by a chorus, nine instruments, and ten dancers, and it premiered in 1956 to much fanfare.

The Unicorn, the Gorgon & the Manticore tells the story of a reclusive poet who keeps as pets these legendary creatures, which represent different stages in the poet’s life. The narrative is a scathing critique of bourgeois society.

Let’s hear the first madrigal from Menotti’s work. For the sake of contrast, we’ll follow it by playing Act 1 of Vecchi’s L’Amfiparnaso (or Twin Peaks of Parnassus).

[playlist-item 6]

[playlist-item 7]

Joglaresa’s Roses & Nuns

We continue to explore what early music multi-instrumentalist Shira Kammen’s been listening to in our featured recording. The 2014 CD Nuns & Roses is by a group found in Shira’s playlist.

Joglaresa is an early music ensemble…with a twist of “historically informed electro-medieval performance practice.” By the way, “Joglaresa” was a medieval Spanish word for a professional singing girl in Arab-ruled Andalusia.

The recording has the subtitle: Medieval Songs of Sin & Subversion and contains pieces that were born out the social tension of the late-Middle Ages between the haves and the have-nots, so to speak, or the “saints” and the “sinners.” Many works are obvious in their satire, either being scathing social commentaries in and of themselves, or by employing the technique of setting new words to popular melodies (also termed contrafactum).

Let’s hear a track—a piece from the 14th-century French allegorical poem Roman de Fauvel that rails against the corruption in the church and state. Following that, we’ll hear a piece that re-purposes a melody by the medieval German lyric poet Walther von der Vogelweide. The original words to the popular melody celebrate the Crusades, but here they are replaced with lyrics mocking military adventurism.

[playlist-item 8]

(There’s a fun music video of this track on You Tube, if you’re interested.)

We’ll conclude with a beautiful track in which the Virgin Mary turns the tables on all of these subversive contrafacta. This piece from the Cantigas de Santa Maria glorifies Mary, yet it uses musical elements from an adulterous love song by the troubadour Cadenet.

[playlist-item 8]

Break and theme music

:30, Llibre Vermell De Montserrat, S. XIV, Ensemble Micrologus & Capella De Música De Santa Maria Del Mar, Discant 2005, Tr. 7 Stella Splendens – Ad Trepudium Rotundum (excerpt of 10:34)

:60, Nuns & Roses: Medieval Songs of Sin and Subversion, (Historically informed electro-medieval performance practice), Joglaresa / Belinda Sykes, Jogaresa JOG005 2013, Anonymous, Tr. 4: Lay of the Shepherdess (Li lai de las pastourelle) (excerpt of 3:11)

:30, Nuns & Roses: Medieval Songs of Sin and Subversion, (Historically informed electro-medieval performance practice), Joglaresa / Belinda Sykes, Jogaresa JOG005 2013, Tr. 5: Bella Doman (excerpt of 3:54)

Theme: Danse Royale, Ensemble Alcatraz, Elektra Nonesuch 79240-2 1992 B000005J0B, T.12: La Prime Estampie Royal

The writer and producer for this edition of Harmonia is LuAnn Johnson.

Learn more about recent early music CDs on the Harmonia Early Music Podcast. You can subscribe on iTunes or at harmonia early music dot org.

LuAnn Johnson

Born in Idaho, LuAnn Johnson moved to Bloomington in 2001. She obtained her B.A. in English at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts and her M.A. in Folk Studies at Western Kentucky University. LuAnn joined WFIU in August of 2001, and currently serves as Program Services Manager, overseeing the distribution of all WFIU syndicated programs. Additionally, she produces The Poets Weave and Focus on Flowers and acts as senior producer for Harmonia.

View all posts by this author »

What is RSS? RSS makes it possible to subscribe to a website's updates instead of visiting it by delivering new posts to your RSS reader automatically. Choose to receive some or all of the updates from Harmonia Early Music:

More Subscription Options

Follow Us

Support For Indiana Public Media Comes From

About Harmonia Early Music

Search Harmonia Early Music


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: text/html

WARC-Type: response

text:
A downloadable game for Android

In an ordinary town. Where birds around him where being struck down by humans. One bird decided that enough was enough. "Toucan play at their game".

Take control of Dumpy Bird as you dump on the people below. Target the Hipster or Ye Olde Man or anybirdy else. Whoever you dump on it's a guaranteed craptasstic adventure. Beat your high score and you will have something to crow about!

YouTube Game Trailer

To view on play store

Install instructions

How To Play:
Tap on screen to dump.
On screen controls to move left and right.

Dumpy Birds.apk 12 MB

Also available on

warcinfo:
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-30
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for July 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-232-173-83.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/


text:
Spot On Says

Inbound insight mailed directly to your inbox.

Marketing Insight: How SaaS Marketing Is Different

Marketing Insight: How SaaS Marketing Is DifferentHow do you sell what cannot be seen?

That's the question everyone responsible for SaaS marketing has to answer—and it's not always easy.

Marketing SaaS  offers a variety of challenges, not the least of which is its lack of a physical presence. It's always changing. Its moniker is strange. And then there is the fact that most consumers don't even know that a SaaS solution to their problem exists.Sometimes software marketing isn't for the faint of heart. It's different, and here's how:

Sometimes giving it away actually makes sense

If you were marketing a book, car or high-end hard drive, you wouldn't want to be giving away a lot of your products. Sure, a sample here and a sample there might make sense. But giving away the product in its entirety? Not so much.

Except that is a tactic that can work very well when you're selling low price-point SaaS and even higher priced B2B solutions.

In fact, giving away SaaS can be effective in customer acquisition when paired with the good/better/best approach used by 58% of software companies who publish their pricing on their websites. If a free option doesn't make sense, offering a very low priced "good" subscription option can serve instead.

It moves quickly

When it comes to the SaaS sales cycle, you might want to buckle up because it may not last very long. Unlike other business-to-business sales cycles, people who decide to try out a SaaS solution don't like to do a lot of homework. Nor do they want to spend a lot of time weighing their options.

They simply want the right solution as quickly as possible.

This means that demand changes like the weather. SaaS marketing professionals need to be ready to respond quickly by investing in the areas that can deliver high-quality leads more worth their direct engagement time. This means constantly testing the elements of your inbound marketing strategy and having a routine for amplifying on what's working and taking away what isn't working.

Churn is a major concern

According to a study conducted by ProfitWell, churn is the biggest challenge facing SaaS marketing professionals.

Churn occurs when customers stop using your product. Some make the conscious decision to cancel their accounts. Others simply let their accounts expire without thinking about it. Either way, churn has dire financial consequences.

Because retention is the best way to build a successful SaaS business, it's important for you to know why customers are no longer using your product, improve the product, and find ways to stay engaged with your audience as part of your inbound marketing strategy. Attracting, converting and closing are great, but the final stage of inbound, "delight," can really pay off in the software sales arena.

Security is a major concern

Every company in the world is concerned about security. That makes your job more difficult. After all, you're selling what can't be seen. Focus some of your inbound marketing messages on security and selling will likely become easier.

Devoting a portion of your content generation efforts to educating your audience on security concerns can go a long way toward building trust. If you can point to external sources to support the information your sharing, all the better.

They'll know they need it when they see it

Many companies know they have a problem, but they have no idea what the solution looks like.

Sure, you know your software inside and out. You've tested it and re-tested it. You know with precision that it works. But your prospective customers don't necessarily know about it.

This issue likely goes beyond brand awareness. Heck, they might not even know an option like yours is even possible. So you've got to educate them of the possibilities by using the language that surrounds the problems your software solves or the common solutions people use to resolve them. You've got to be there when they go online looking for a solution, and you've got to be ready to reach out to them once they make contact with your company.

This means having a well-developed marketing strategy that uses every tool available—online ads, emails, LinkedIn groups and SEO working together—to manage different parts of the workload involved in engaging prospective customers at every point of the buyers journey.

It's about selling solutions

At the end of the day, selling SaaS is all about selling solutions that don't create more headaches then they solve. To do that, you're going to have to provide value as you engage, educate and address the pain your customers are feeling—and what you can do to get rid of it.

Marketing Strategies for SaaS

Digital Marketing Strategy eBook


text:
How might we encourage the use of solar energy within households in Alberta?

Quang (Chester) Ho

With reports of the province’s carbon emissions comes environmental and policy incentives to reduce emissions. Post-secondary institutions in Alberta are preparing their students to work in new industries in order to diversify the economy and focus on improving the energy sector. The adoption of renewable energy is growing at a rapid rate. Moreover, the development of the solar industry is growing at a rate of over 90% per year.

This growth seems to be reason enough to provide solar power with ample opportunity to have a strong presence in Alberta’s households, buildings and structures. However, that is not the case. There are barriers, including economic challenges, current government policies, and the personal beliefs of many Albertans, that prevent solar energy from being used to its full potential.

How might we better educate Albertans on the facts and impacts of wind energy in the province?

Sean Milan

Alberta is currently undergoing a massive change that will impact the future of its energy production. Under the mandate of the Climate Leadership Plan, the goal is to phase out coal-fired electricity generation by 2030. This transition will create new jobs and reduce emissions in Alberta moving forward. Part of the plan will be to replace a third of Alberta’s generation with renewable energy.

The energy landscape of Alberta will change with new wind farms being installed across the province. This change will have an impact across the province. It is important for Albertans to have an understanding of the future energy climate and the impact it will have on both rural and urban areas.


text:
Speed-related accidents cause thousands of deaths each year in the United States. When a car is speeding, the driver can easily lose control, which can lead to a serious car accident. A report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) titled, Analysis of Speeding-Related Fatal Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes, gives an overview of important facts and statistics linked to speed-related crashes in the United States. The report contains valuable information that can be used to help prevent accidents caused by speeding.

Car crashes are generally caused by a variety of factors, such as driver behavior, vehicle design, road conditions and environmental-related factors. When driver behavior is a contributing cause to a car accident, it usually means that impaired driving, aggressive driving, speeding or distracted driving was involved.

NHTSA researchers found that auto accidents caused by a driver who was exceeding the legal speed limit or driving too fast for conditions, costs billions of dollars annually. Every year, almost one-third of motor vehicle fatalities are speed-related.

The NHTSA report examines crash data and goes into detail regarding the impact of speed on car accidents. Some of the key findings of the study are summarized below:

  • About 40 percent of speeding-related fatal crashes happened when the driver was negotiating a curve.
  • Driver impairment has been linked with speeding and fatal crashes. Approximately 41 percent of drivers who were intoxicated (BAC = 0.08+) were also driving too fast.
  • A large percentage of fatal accidents involving speeding occurred on rural roadways.
  • The western states of the U.S. have a higher percentage of speeding-related fatalities than the eastern states.
  • Male drivers are more likely to be involved in fatal crashes caused by speeding than female drivers of all ages.
  • More drivers speed at night than during the day.

Another interesting fact notated in the report had to do with the abolishment of the National Maximum Speed Limit in December 1995. According to researchers, after the National Maximum Speed Limit was abolished, the number of speeding-related fatalities has gradually gone up on roads with speed limits of 65 mph or higher, while the number of fatalities on roads with a speed limit under 50 mph has remained stable.

Contact our offices if you or your loved one has been injured in an automobile accident which involved a speeding driver. We can help you get any compensation you deserve.


text:
I'm not a huge fan of Mark Wahlberg, and I don't mean that in a snarky, but-I-truly-hate-him kind of way. Wahlberg clearly possesses some serious talent. He was in Boogie Nights, The Departed and The Fighter, after all. I just mean that, even for an established Hollywood talent, he seems particularly humorless about his fame, especially since he started out, well, this way.

Most of the time -- and a bit miraculously -- Wahlberg's general humorlessness doesn't seem to interfere with the movies in which he appears. Sadly, Contraband is not one of those cases. Mark Wahlberg wanted to play a serious action star, damnit; unfortunately for him, he chose a movie that would have been better suited to Jason Statham's immense and peculiar talents.

The problem here is that Contraband is just so utterly cliche that it takes a seasoned action veteran -- one who can play his part with conviction rather than traipsing around like he thinks an action star should -- to make it entertaining in spite of its trite and all-too-familiar storyline.

Wahlberg plays Chris Farraday, a former smuggler -- one of the very best in the business -- who has settled down with his wife Kate (Kate Beckinsale) and two sons in New Orleans, installing home security systems. Farraday's suburban bliss is interrupted when his brother-in-law Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) tries, unsuccessfully, to follow in his footsteps and ends up in deep debt to drug dealers after he has to ditch an incoming shipment.

Try as he might to keep from getting involved, Farraday gets sucked back into his old life -- a visit with Andy's boss Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi) and Briggs' subsequent threat to his nuclear family sealing his decision to make one last run and pay off Andy's debt to Briggs and company.

So off to Panama Farraday goes with some of his old crew and a plan to smuggle in a massive pallet of counterfeit U.S. currency. Farraday makes it very clear that it has to be counterfeit bills, not drugs -- you know, because as an ex-smuggler he has such deep moral conviction -- and it is precisely that resolution that causes problems for him. Briggs wants the drugs no matter what Farraday is willing to do, so he goes behind his back to Andy, who is with Farraday on the second expedition, and threatens to kill Farraday's son if he doesn't bring back the cocaine he was supposed to the first time around. Thus, what is supposed to be a smooth operation in Panama is derailed and, eventually, a betrayal is revealed.

If you can't already tell, this is about as cookie-cutter as an action movie gets. Most of action flicks are pretty cliche, of course, so the secret to making a good film in this genre is sprinkling in a little flavor so that the cookie doesn't taste so damned bland. A few laughs might have made Contraband less of a slog. So would have more detail or context on smuggling. Or much grander scope and ambition in the action sequences. Or more grit.

There was none of that imagination, though, just a humorless Wahlberg flailing about the screen and a surprisingly good supporting cast (including Screening Room favorite Ben Foster) that mostly went to waste.


text:
'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2'

Guardians of the Galaxy was by far the most interesting and unique Marvel movie; at a time when a template of sorts was being finalized—Marvel: fun but cookie-cutter, DC: bad—James Gunn took characters we've never heard of and made us love them through clever dialogue and an engaging story. What a novel concept!

Justifiably, there were fears that Guardians Vol. 2 would be consumed by the Marvel machine and reduce its most enjoyable elements to rote pandering. And for the first 45 minutes, those fears appear to be justified. Luckily, it settles in to become another entertaining romp, along with proof that Marvel Studios still recognizes as least some value in standing out from the crowd.

The general formula remains the same: Peter "Star-Lord" Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (the voice of Bradley Cooper), and a now-baby Groot (apparently still the voice of Vin Diesel) have become an official team of famous hero-mercenaries. They're also trying to figure out exactly how to love each other, sometimes romantically (Quill and Gamora) and sometimes platonically (Rocket and everyone else). After Rocket does some bad stuff and people gets mad, they're spirited away by Ego (Kurt Russell) who turns out to be not only Quill's father but a god. As these things normally go, gods don't typically befriend mortals unless they have an ulterior motive, and the Guardians must put frustrations aside when Ego's is revealed.

In a curious move, those aforementioned first 45 minutes serve as a sort of GotG primer, implying that Marvel believed the hype outweighed the amount of people who'd seen the original. That's an odd assumption, considering the first Guardians made $773 million worldwide; regardless, we get a lot of "characters addressing each other by name and noting specific personality quirks" or "incessant reminders that Peter Quill likes tunes and the soundtrack will be good."

Fortunately, after that we settle into the good stuff. There's an excellent subplot between Rocket and Yondu (Michael Rooker) who has become a mercenary outcast after the reveal that he kidnapped children for Ego. The raccoon and the blue guy with a telepathically controlled arrow bond over being ornery pieces of shit, and officially join forces when Yondu finally opens up about Ego's dastardly plans. It's a wonderful idea to make Rooker such a key cog, and it unexpectedly provides the movie's most emotional moments. I'm not ashamed to say I teared up a tad, a rarity for a comic book movie.

There's been some consternation among critics about Vol. 2's cavalier attitude towards murder, and it's admittedly far more gruesome than other Marvel movies in regards to its heroes (and villains) killing people. It's also often done with a smile and a yacht rock song playing, which always raises an eyebrow even higher. I'll admit to wondering about halfway through, "It's curious that we're supposed to be very pleased about all of these deaths," but come on. I understand being annoyed when a blockbuster destroys an entire city as an afterthought; that sort of mass destruction shouldn't be deployed without a damn good reason. If we're telling a classic "good guys and bad guys" story, that should be the master plan or at least the last fucking straw.

But to get mad at the shiny irreverent movie about the wacky 2000s superhero team for standing out in its depiction of cartoonish slaughter feels like a major waste of time. I think people just aren't sure how to respond when a sometimes-cuddly narrative like this pushes boundaries; comic books themselves come in all shapes and sizes, but onscreen Marvel is Marvel and DC is DC. We're used to Captain America bashing people into unconsciousness with his shield, not death, and Thor's hammer somehow battering without shattering. And the massacre even sits well within the sketchier morals of characters like Yondu and Rocket; it just seems like nitpicking when we're surrounded by so much other incompetent shit in theaters these days.

With Gunn returning to the helm as writer-director, it's hard not to go into Guardians Vol. 2 with high expectations. And once you realize that Quill is stuck with a not-as-great-as-he-should-be Ego and Gamora will spend most of her time tussling with Nebula (Karen Gillan), it's fair to wonder if this second foray has spread the team too thin. But then Russell starts quoting "Brandy" by Looking Glass with utter sincerity, and Bautista recaptures his Drax brilliance in scenes with new friend Mantis (Pom Klementieff), and you realize you're in the right place. The novelty and surprise might not be there, but you can't recreate your first time. Gunn keeps his characters afloat and finds the fun again; that's more than enough for me.


text:
Today’s discussion is all about re-reading books and why I think it is important to re-read books.  Personally, I love to re-read books and I can manage to find a balance between re-reading older books and reading more recent titles.  There are a lot of positive things about reading books again.  When you read a book for the first time, you have certain thoughts and feelings or your thoughts and feelings about the book might not be clear.  For example, I already read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, however, my thoughts and feelings weren’t very clear when I first read it.  When I read it again, this coming month (December) I am hoping my thoughts and feelings about the script will be more concise.  Over time it is possible that feelings about a certain book will change, therefore it is good to re-read the book to see whether or not your feelings have truly changed.  Another advantage to re-reading books is that you pick up on things that you may have missed the first time, and if there were things that you didn’t quite understand the first time, you may gain a better understanding of the things that you didn’t understand.  There are quite a few books that I read this year that I had read at some point during my school career and wanted to re-read them for one reason or another.  What do you think about re-reading books? Do you make time to do so? Why or why not?  For me, I think it’s important to find a balance between re-reading books that you really loved and reading the more recent trendy titles.

19 thoughts on “#ReReading

  1. MyMotorWheels says:

    I love to re-read few books which can help me grow constructively. And the other books once only. And the important thing with re-reading is with every repetition our understanding grows.

  2. Darnell says:

    I always likr rereadong, especially of if it is a book I really like, sometimes its great because I sometimes see other story elements that I haven’t seen before. Great post!

  3. Esther @ Chapter Adventures says:

    I love this topic because I’m always thinking I want to reread more. I’ve only done it a few times (mainly Harry Potter), but then I felt like I was “wasting” my time because I was dedicating time to a story I already knew, instead of focusing on a new one. This, of course, is a totally wrong way to see the whole thing because, as you said, with each reread, you discover something new. I’ve changed a lot since I last read some books, so maybe I’ll feel differently about them or see them from a new perspective, and that’s so cool and interesting. So I’m hoping to reread more next year (new year’s resolution, maybe?). Great discussion Ashley 😀

  4. Lauren @ Wonderless Reviews says:

    Great post, Ashley! I love rereading my favourite books. I used to reread Harry Potter all the time. There’s so many books that I want to reread, but I just find myself reading new ones because of how crazy my TBR is, haha. I think I’ll definitely try and set more time aside in 2017 for rereads.

  5. Megan @ bookslayerReads says:

    I normally don’t reread books, but I’ve considered changing my mind on that front. There’s nothing wrong with rereading a story you love. You’ll get a new perspective every time! Great post, Ash!

  6. MiRakelBooks says:

    I rarely re-read books that is not Harry Potter 😛 It’s because there is so many books out there I want to read, and I don’t have the time for re-reading. There is some books that I want to re-read, The Hunger games books and The Uglies series. I am 100% sure I will re-read my new favorite book The Lies of Locke Lamora, either next year or the year after that.

  7. sydneysshelves says:

    I usually only re read my favorite books. But recently I’ve given thought to re reading a few I had mixed feelings about so that I can give them a second chance. I have been thinking about adding one book to re read a month to my challenges next year. But we’ll see how that goes.

Leave a Reply to ashley Cancel reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.


text:
“When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.” by Stephen R. Covey

Developing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) skills within students is not only one of the most important ways that classrooms and schools can raise student achievement scores but the skills also prepare students for life. Here are my favorite ways to integrate social emotional learning into the classroom at any grade level:

  1. Morning Check In: Greeting students at the door and gauging how they are entering can help reshape a students day. When you see a students demeanor different, you can have them step aside to find out whats wrong and how you can help turn their day around. This not only shows you care but also can allow for less disruptions in the classroom. For younger grades you can make a chart and have them tap the feeling that they are having. such as happy, sad, etc with pictures to help them recognize their feelings.
  2. Read Alouds: Reading aloud stories that have social-emotional themes help student understand situations. Read aloud for the younger grades can be pictures books and for older grades can be chapter books.
  3. Morning Meeting/Advisory Time: Holding morning meeting is a great way to start off the day and build classroom culture. Having SEL activities as part of morning meeting makes them even better. For older students, I usually call it advisor time. This time set aside empower all of your students with a voice and allows ownership of their learning environment.

Other great resources:

ASCD: Whole Child Initiative

Character Lab

What’s New with Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in 2018

13 Powerful SEL Activities

8 Apps for SEL

Common Sense: SEL Resources

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this:


WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: application/xhtml+xml

text:
Labor unions have suffered a decades-long decline. In 1954, 34% of U.S. workers were unionized. Today, just 10.7% are, and that falls to 6.5% in the private-sector. While most Americans, 55%, have a positive view of unions, according to a Pew research survey, there’s a notable partisan split, with 70% of Democrats holding a favorable view versus 40% of Republicans. That split isn’t surprising given that it has been conservative efforts that created “Right to Work” laws in 28 states, which limit unions’ ability to collect fees from workers who don’t belong to a union but benefit from a collective bargaining agreement.

Yet some point to the voting of union members, often breaking with leadership, as decisive in the election of Donald Trump. Politico noted that 52% of white union households went to Trump, a level of support for a Republican previously only achieved by Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Looking ahead, what role will organized labor play in workplaces, policy, elections, and society broadly? To better understand, Yale Insights talked with Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO.

Q: What is the state of organized labor today?

The union movement is stronger than it has been in decades. According to polls, our perception and support has never been higher than right now. We’re focused, and people understand that collective bargaining is really the hope for the future. Last year, we had a net gain of 262,000 new members. Seventy-five percent of them were under the age of 35.

Q: What’s the impact of legislation in many states making it harder to organize?

It’s interesting; the more they try to stop people from organizing, the more determined people get to organize. We organized 800 nurses last week, in Texas, not what you’d call a worker-friendly state.

People need to come together; they need the power of collectivism to be able to change the economy, because the economy’s not working for them, and they see that, and instead of just being angry, they’re channeling it into constructive activism.

Q: Is there an industry, sector, or geographic region where you’re having the most success?

It’s a little bit of everywhere. Last week, for example, we organized 15,000 people including 5,000 JetBlue Airways workers, over 1,000 people at a utility in Georgia, and the nurses in Texas. We’ve been having success with highly-skill professionals like doctors, nurses, and engineers; people in the middle in blue-collar manufacturing jobs, and people at the bottom of the spectrum. They all need a voice.

Q: We’ve seen several wildcat teachers strikes this year. What do you make of that?

Teachers are the ones we really should be focused on the most, giving them a good wage, because they’re teaching our kids—that’s the future of our country. The better job they do, the better the country will do.

But they’ve been denied raises; they’ve even been denied textbooks. In one state, they went on strike to get textbooks that were actually printed in this century, not the last century. So they’re striking to get more resources and better wages so that they can just be teachers, not needing three or four other jobs.

That same wave is taking over in other places, in other industries. We’re starting to see people come together and say enough is enough.

A study last year asked millennials, how important is it to live in a democracy? Just 30% said it was important. Seventy percent said it wasn’t important, including 24% that said it was bad to live in a democracy. Those are startling figures, but millennials have borne the brunt of a broken economic system. They’re starting to fight to fix that system.

As I said, last year, 75% of the quarter million people we organized were under 35 years of age. I think part of that is because we’ve stopped saying, here’s what we are, come join us. We’ve started saying, what do you need us to be, so we can help you? We’ve tried to change ourselves, so that we are the support they need us to be, and it has been successful.

“Elites have tried to say it’s either free trade or Neanderthal protectionism. There’s a whole lot of room in the middle.”

Q: How is the labor movement using social media?

We were slow to understand that it’s a tremendous way to communicate with our members. It’s an opportunity to learn what they want and need, what their fears and aspirations are, and how we can help. We’re growing into it faster and faster; we’re using it in every facet of what we do—political action, organizing, collective bargaining.

Unions are based on a simple idea; we all do better if we come together. Well, that same idea applies to society. For the last four or five years, we’ve reached out to say, we’re in this together.
We’re using social media to communicate with different progressive groups—church groups, environmental groups. We talk to everybody to push a shared agenda forward.

It’s exciting to go back to our roots in the community with social media and data analytics at the heart of that and becoming more and more important to us.

Q: What are the biggest threats to unions and workers right now?

There are number of threats, including bad legislation and politicians who are determined to minimize workers’ voices while making things easier for people like the Koch brothers. That’s a threat not only to workers, but to democracy itself. The impact is becoming clear: people have less and less faith in democracy because it’s producing a society that is more unfair and more unequal.

The model—cut taxes on the rich, starve resources for schools, infrastructure, and other fundamental things we need—has failed in state after state. We just did it at the federal level, too—we just gave a $1.4 trillion gift to rich people that don’t really need it, and we’re not going to see that translated in anything. And now we have $1.4 trillion less in the federal budget to invest in schools, infrastructure, healthcare, or pensions. All the things that people want, deserve, and should have.

Q: What was the role of union members in electing President Trump?

Trump got 3% more of our members than Romney did. That wasn’t a giant jump. The difference was, Hillary got 10% less of our members than Obama did. When we dug into that, we found out that, for a lot of reasons, they just didn’t believe the things that she was saying. Now, 30 years of being attacked will do that, and I have some empathy for her.

But Trump talked about workers’ aspirations in a lot of different ways. He talked about trade and how it has been done in a way that benefited Wall Street and the rich while hurting working people. Elites, Democrats and Republicans alike, have tried to say it’s either free trade or Neanderthal protectionism. There’s a whole lot of room in the middle where we could negotiate better trade deals. We can keep trade while making it better for workers in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

Trump appealed to that and talked about changing the rules. Our members knew that the economy was not working for them. They wanted somebody who was going to fight to change the rules of the economy. They didn’t believe that Hillary would. So far, Trump hasn’t been changing things the way they wanted, but he has changed the rules of the economy, and that’s what they were looking for.

Q: Do you see union members continuing to support him?

After the election, I promised to call balls and strikes. If he does something that’s good for workers, I’m going to say it. If he does something that’s bad for workers, I’m going to say that.

He is working on trade, and we’re working with him to get a fair trade bill. We tried to work with him on infrastructure, because that’s so important to make the country more competitive in a global economy. But he came up with a pretty feeble plan to invest $20 billion a year for 10 years when the Society of Civil Engineers says we need trillions. Twenty billion dollars won’t even repair what becomes obsolete each year.

We give our members the facts every day. The less he does to change the rules to help working people, the more he doubles down on the rules that favor Wall Street and the very rich, the less support he has.

A group of people, perhaps 25% to 30%, are going to be with him no matter what he does. So, the rest of society is deciding: do we drift toward more inequality or do we really try to change the rules to benefit everybody?

Q: Trade isn’t the only thing shaping work and jobs. Do you think that workers should fear the rise of robots and AI in the workplace?

We need to look forward and say, which skills are we going to need and how do we get them? The union movement is a good place to get them. It’s one of the things we do best. People don’t understand—we train more adults every year, and give them skills training, than any institution, other than the U.S. military. No university, no school system, trains more people than we do.

We’re proud of that. In many cases, we’re taking people that would’ve been left behind, giving them remedial courses, then getting them into our apprenticeship program, paying them a good, decent living wage while they’re learning skills and getting college credits. When they come out of our apprenticeship program, they have an associate degree, and they’re about two thirds of the way to a bachelor of science degree.

All of our trades do it; we’re doing it in manufacturing now, too. We’re also partnering with junior colleges around the country to find places where there are small manufacturers that may need 8, 10, 12 employees with high skills. The company can’t do it themselves; we do it for them, and then they guarantee jobs at a good wage. We both win.

Q: If you look back at previous waves of technology introduction, are there lessons we can apply to the next round?

We’ve always done something that I call bargained acquiescence. When new technology came in, we agreed to it, but we bargained to make it work the best way for the worker. Technology made mining safer and more productive. It made bad jobs into good jobs with higher wages. That’s what unions do—make bad jobs into good jobs. The key is managing the process.

We don’t have bargained acquiescence at the societal level. There’s no mechanism for us to manage a major change. Artificial Intelligence, robots, the full range of technology—they’re all just tools. They’re not inherently good, and they’re not inherently bad. It’s how they’re employed. It’s how the benefits of what they produce are distributed.

If it all goes to the people at the top, should workers fear that? Absolutely. Should society fear that? Absolutely. Should democracy fear that? Absolutely. If instead of people being put out of work, they get a higher wage and work fewer hours so that they can spend more time with their family, more time at the schools, more time at the church, more time at community affairs, then it can be a wonderful thing. In the past, we’ve seen technological change employed for the good, and we’ve seen it employed for the bad.

If the economy is working right, productivity increases and the benefits are spread out by having higher wages and more time off. If the economy’s not working right, all that money will go to the very rich, and inequality, unfairness, and injustice will expand, and the system will collapse.

When a system cannot or will not provide a rising standard of living for the majority of its citizens, history tells us that system is changed, one way or the other.

Q: What will that look like?

What you’re seeing right now are the beginnings of people demanding that change. Only 30% of millennials say it’s important to live in a democracy because the democracy that they know has produced a society that is unequal, and in many cases, blatantly unfair.

The system isn’t working for most people; it hasn’t worked for 30 or 40 years. People are saying now it’s time for change. Women are saying “I’m sick and tired of being sexually harassed in the workplace.” People of color are saying, “I’m sick and tired of being discriminated against and denied opportunities.” White males are saying, “I’m sick and tired of my wages being cut, my healthcare being cut, my pensions being cut, my time off being cut.”

We see all of this pressure on workers while corporations are making record profits. We’re the wealthiest nation on the face of the Earth during the richest point in human history; we ought to be able to take care of our citizens. Instead, what we’ve seen is an economy where the wealth accrues to a few while the majority of people are seeing their circumstances worsen.

We need a national debate on how we’re going to have an equitable system that doesn’t continue to widen the gap between the haves and the have nots. We need to actually lower that gap, so that everybody benefits from the massive increase in productivity that all this new technology is going to spawn, in ways that we can’t even conceive. It’s going to happen.

We need to force our policymakers to start consciously deciding how they’re going to manage it, what they’re going to do to make the economy better for everybody. We need to hear answers to get a better understanding of who should be policymakers, and perhaps who shouldn’t be policymakers.

I go back to the core question: What happens when a system is incapable or unwilling to provide a rising standard of living for citizens? That system gets changed every single time.


text:
Insight Whale recently worked on a project that involved providing a client with an array of CRO services for a promo. The project led us to a number of interesting findings. We’re using this article to share some of the insights we learned with our readers.

In a nutshell

A long-term Vertising customer provides digital products and services for individuals interested in numerology, astrology, and practical guidance. This platform targets the English-speaking audience and utilizes smart user acquisition techniques striving to yield maximum ROI under stringent timeframes.

Vertising was performing a complex of CRO activities for the company’s New Year promo. The key challenge was to promptly optimize a plethora of funnels showing different pace and dynamics. The multiple funnels were intended for various affiliates in order to boost the yield.

For that purpose, we conducted a series of tests with short iterations and quick turnaround. Once we solidified the process and made sure the client was on board for informed decision-making, the results did not fail to come. We managed to raise average order value across the funnels by 68 percent (from $26 to $45) in a single test and reach up to 12% upsell CR for the key offers.

Decisive factors

Concise iterations and strict process enforcement were paramount to optimizing the promo funnels. Fast-to-implement iterative tests revealed the bottlenecks and potential for improvement.

Key findings

Take small steps and get massive outcomes! Well-weighed changes to copy, headlines and calls-to-action were the driving force for improvement in most cases. Interaction tweaks (like in sticky forms or conditional upsell flows) were more demanding in terms of time and effort, yet when we finally got them right, our CR and AOV showings soared in a snap.

Re-usable test results

In the highlights:

  • Copy: Personalized headlines are, indeed, more efficient and powerful than you might think!
  • Conditional upsell flows: Linking a subsequent product for upsell to the customer’s previous picks is the way to go! Taking time to design and implement the logic of decision tree in upsell flows really pays off. Naturally, you want to pitch different products to address the customer’s specific needs and concerns.
  • Sticky form: Clickable shortcuts to the ‘BUY’ button that remain on the page. This technique works great but it has to be triggered right depending on the device.

Lessons learned

Before running specific tests, it’s key to achieve rapport with the customer and agree upon the course of action. The three ‘rules of thumb’ here are:

  • Outline the process in advance
  • Maintain the client informed of your progress from day one
  • Sort out reporting issues prior to traffic and test activities.

In conclusion

How can we scale up this success elsewhere? In a large project with diverse traffic channels, it’s great to lay your hands on multiple funnels – and experiment! Their simultaneous optimization may seem a daunting task, yet it pays off well if you stick to the agreed procedure and keep the customer on the same page. This experience is majorly applicable to other CRO projects. Should you enjoy some leeway in schedule and traffic volumes, re-producing the mentioned tests can help harness greater statistical significance and shiny new ROIs.


text:
Inspire & Achieve a Table Sponsor for the Harris Home 63rd Anniversary Dinner and Concert

HUNTSVILLE, AL – The Harris Home for Children has been providing a safe haven for children of the greater Huntsville area and the State of Alabama since 1954. Inspire & Achieve believes is proud to support such an essential organization and believes in its mission. Their service to the community is evident and appreciated.

The Charity Anniversary Dinner and Concert will be held on March 2. The event will include an auction and reception. Afterwards, there will be concert featuring iconic R&B group “Kool & the Gang”.

63rd Charity Anniversary Dinner and Concert
When: Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 6 pm
Where: Von Braun Center, Propst Arena

Find out more!

Don’t forget to follow us on our social sites!:

 Facebook-2  Twitter

Inspire & Achieve is a Non-Profit Organization promoting higher education, undergraduate scholarships, and Cybersecurity awareness to the community. For additional information, please email us at

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


text:
Schedule Online LocalMed Icon

Dental Health Tips for Reluctant Children

pediatric dentist Amherst NYSome children are particularly reluctant to even brush and floss their teeth every day, let alone see a dentist on a regular basis. Yet, their parents often want to overcome this resistance so that their children don’t develop preventable oral health issues. These suggestions may help you to get your child to become more accepting and even enthusiastic about dental care.

Seek treatment from a pediatric dentist: When the problem is dental anxiety, working with a dentist who specializes in caring for children can help to ease that fear. Our dentists can use different techniques with a child than they would with adult patients, and our offices are designed to meet the needs of youngsters.

Take your child to see the pediatric dentist BEFORE a problem comes up: Children should see a dentist for routine care just like their parents should. Ideally, a child should first see a dentist by his or her first birthday, which can help to establish the relationship. If you wait until a problem occurs to schedule the child’s first dental visit, the child may come to associate the dentist with the symptoms being experienced at that time. In such cases, it’s easy to understand how they might come to fear a trip to the dental office!

Let your child take charge: Your child can manage simple tasks like choosing a toothbrush and cup for rinsing. A child who feels some ownership of the oral hygiene routine is more likely to stick to it. Whenever appropriate, let your child take responsibility for tasks like brushing and flossing. Our pediatric dentists can advise you of the ages at which children are usually capable of mastering these tasks.

Use a gentle technique with your child’s oral hygiene tasks: Before your child is able to take care of his or her own teeth, you can gently wipe down the gums with a washcloth or brush a child’s teeth with a soft bristled brush.

Our dentists can give you other tips to help overcome a child’s resistance to dental care and oral hygiene. Feel free to call our office to discuss this topic with one of our knowledgeable staff members and to schedule a check-up for your child.


text:
Recover Files With Easy Procedures Of EaseUS Data Recovery Software

EaseUS Data recovery software is one of the best data recovery software available today. It has surpassed all other data recovery software in terms of performance as well as features. Today, it has garnered a number of positive responses from tech reviews and customers. It has maintained its solid growth owing to its interactive, yet […]

6 easy ways to improve search engine ranking using off-page SEO

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the technique of improving your website’s ranking on search engines. If not carried out properly, your website stands little chance of attracting visitors. There are two kinds of SEO techniques — on-page SEO, which involves website-specific elements like keywords, meta descriptions, headlines, and structured HTML, and off-page SEO, which refers […]

Kyocera Brigadier Phone is a Rugged, Easy to Clean Business Option

Kyocera, maker of last decade’s popular Virgin Mobile prepaid phones, now has four years of experience making smartphones. Built to withstand drops with a relatively affordable sapphire screen and rugged exterior, this review reflects 14 months of normal use of the Kyocera Brigadier E6782. This is an Android phone with a compact 4.5 inch, 720p […]

Xerox Small Business Printers: Using Them is as Easy as Using a Mobile App

Fast out-of-the-box experience; crisp color print quality; and an interface more like a mobile tablet than a typical printer. The new Xerox 6510 and 6515 line of printers and multifunction devices is the next generation, and like no other devices in its class. Sponsored by Xerox Wouldn’t it be great to find a printer so […]

Google Launches VR View Tool For Easy VR Content Embedding

Google on Wednesday introduced VR View, a tool to let developers easily embed 360-degree virtual reality photos and videos on Android, iOS, and the Web. The content can be viewed using the Google Cardboard or a single lens “Magic Window” viewer. The Mountain View-based tech giant also expanded its accessibility by adding iOS support to […]


text:
« TestDriven.net and VS 2005 | Main | .NET vs. Java? It's All About Choice »

Jason C
In your #2 item above, the post-build command text should be this: copy /Y $(ProjectDir)app.config $(TargetPath).config
Todd Girvin
Thanks, Jason. I don't know how my original post got so non-functional. But I've corrected it with your feedback.
Todd Girvin
I found another related blog entry that says you just have to name your config file properly. I'll try it out when I have a chance and confirm. http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/peter/archive/2005/07/13/6179.aspx
This is all good stuff but what is needed is on top of this is: 1. The ability to add build events to web based projects in VS2005. There is no concept of a project any more for VS 2005 web projects (both web clients and web services). 2. The ability to generate the config file for each user from an XML document (for example). This is a simple find/replace dependent on environment. Some inheritance in the data would be good as different users may have the same environemnt topology for some solutions. I wish a SourceForge or GotDotNet project would handle this. Maybe there already is one. Anyone know ???
Todd Girvin
Gerard, there is already a Web Application Project plug-in being developed here: http://webproject.scottgu.com/
Jim Lesch
Problem: Unit tests fail when they depend upon a config file for another project in your solution. Proposed Solution #1: In each test project, create an App.config file with your AppSettings you'd normally put in Web.config or your main executable's config file. In your test project's properties pane, select Build Event and add this line to your post-build command line: copy /Y $(ProjectDir)app.config $(TargetPath).config Problem with solution #1: Not intuitive when you have a web.config format and transferring it to an app.config format. You also have 2 files to maintain when there is a change. Proposed Solution #2: Copy the config file into your test project output (bin) directory and rename it to YourTestAssembly.dll.config. Now you get all the config settings and you also get it copied automatically for you. Problem with solution #2: You still have to maintain 2 config files! Solution #3: Each time you build a Pre-Build event copies the master config file to the Test ouput dir and renames it using the .dll.config convention. On the deploy, you get an up to date config file but you only have to change it in one place – the source project. This is the full line in the Pre-Build event command line: copy $(SolutionDir)\Web16\web.config $(TargetDir)\$(TargetFileName).config Problem with this solution: The source project and config file name are hardcoded. You could use some kind of naming convention to make it work. it also assumes you have a 1-1 relationship between projects and test projects.
For paths that contain spaces, the post-build command should be adjusted to copy /Y "$(ProjectDir)app.config" "$(TargetPath).config" Enjoy!
I was just about to give up and hard code it within a #IF (DEBUG), thank god I found this post in time :)

The comments to this entry are closed.

November 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Blog powered by Typepad

We Like


text:
Integrity Testing Filters

To integrity test a filter, the filter must be wetted with a fluid with a know surface tension. After filtering the desired medication or base, the filter must be flushed with either DI water or 60% IPA (isopropyl Alcohol) and balance DI water. We prefer the 60% IPA / 40% water be used. This solution is easier to wet the capsule and the acceptable bubble point values are much lower; see the acceptable bubble point values in the table below. 18 Psi is a much safer pressure to operate at than 50 psi. This is important when the chemical compatibility is unknown and the capsule may not be structurally sound.

Note: All values above pertain to Pharmaceutical grade membranes

Bubble Point Theory

All ZenPure standard, biological, and pharmaceutical grade membrane filters are 100% integrity tested during the manufacturing process using a standard Diffusional integrity test. Additionally, the bubble point of each roll of incoming membrane and a subset of the final filter devices is verified by way of a standard bubble point test. The bubble point can be directly correlated to membrane pore size and is used to detect minor defects or out-of-size pores which could make a filter unsuitable for use. The Diffusional integrity test ensures that each filter is integral and free from manufacturing defects that could lead to filter bypass. In combination, these tests ensure the high performance of all ZenPure membrane filters. The test methods described here can be applied to all ZenPure membrane and specialty filters. Consult with a ZenPure applications specialist for additional details based on your application requirements.

Non-Destructive Testing

The use of a Diffusional integrity or bubble point test provides a non-destructive method to verify filter performance. Unlike direct particle and bacterial retention testing, these tests can be performed on each and every filter, with no degradation of the filter’s performance. During product development and validation, a precise correlation between a filter’s bubble point and its ability to perform particle or organism retention (for use in sterilization, for example), is well characterized. This correlation is used to define specified limits (with a built-in safety factor) for each product type using each test method. As integrity testing is a requirement for many applications, an overview of the test methods is contained in this document.

Each filter’s micro-porous membrane contains millions of pores creating a tortuous path used to capture particles while allowing the desired fluid to flow through the filter assembly. A nondestructive bubble point test measures the minimum pressure required to overcome the capillary forces which hold a wetting liquid within the filter’s pore structure. This pressure is known as the bubble point. The capillary forces and, therefore the bubble point, are directly proportional to the diameter of the largest pore contained in the filter. This relationship between pore size and bubble point is described by the bubble point equation (1).

Contact Us

Order Inquiry? Contact us now and a representative will be in contact within 24 hours.

International Filter Products
11070 Fleetwood St. Unit B
Sun Valley, CA 91352


text:
Essential Interview Code for Lists and Vectors

Lists are perhaps the fundamental data structure in code. There’s virtually no program that doesn’t use lists. Interviewers love asking questions that involve lists, either intentionally, or just because almost everything uses a list. To help you prepare for an interview, an keeping with our theme, I’ve created a list. It describes all the operations you should know how to perform on lists. This will make you comfortable when asked a question, and save you valuable time while coding.

Lists come in many forms, under the names “array”, “vector”, “queue”, “stack” and more. In this article, we’re looking at the general notion of a list: a collection of elements that have a specific order. Find the most general purpose list in your language and learn that one thoroughly.

Use this reference when preparing for an interview. Don’t assume you can do each item, take the time and code it. You’d be surprised at how seemingly simple things can turn out hard, or how a momentary thought blip can derail you. Honestly, I don’t think there’s any language where I could sit down and do all of this from memory. Going into an interview, I need to prepare and freshen my knowledge. Making these operations part of your natural coding vocabulary helps tremendously when in a pressure situation.

Some languages implement lists as immutable data structures. However, the wording in this article assumes you’re using a mutable list. You’ll still need all these operations, but how your code structure will differ significantly. Focus on what is to be accomplished, rather than the specific wording.

If you jump between languages a lot, it’s possible to have a blank on basic operations. This also happens when facing a blank screen, as opposed to existing source files. When you have nothing within view for reference, it’s easy to forget simple syntax.

  • Create a list: Your primary list should where all of the operations listed here are possible. There are specialty lists, but the most generic one is the best place to start.
  • Add an element to the front or back: This is the primary way to get elements into the list. Back insertion almost always has a particular function, such as append or add. Front insertion often has a special function, but sometimes not.
  • Pop element off front or back: This is the basic way to get elements out of the list.
  • Forward iterate over elements: Stepping over the items in the list, from the first to the last, is the basic way of doing something with those items.
  • Get the length of list: The syntax is different in virtually all languages; thus it’s worthwhile to remind yourself.
  • Test if empty: Most languages have a particular function, or syntax, to test if a list is empty. You can instead compare the length to zero, but knowing language specific functionality can often leave a good impression on the interviewer.

Location Based Operations

  • Get item at location: Random access allows you to work with elements in the list in any order.
  • Insert an item at location: Adding to the front or back is not enough, you need to know how to insert at an arbitrary position. In some languages, this is the only way to add at the front.
  • Remove an item from location: Popping from the front or back is not enough, sometimes we need to remove from an arbitrary position.
  • Replace/Assign item at location: Assigning an item is not the same as inserting. You replace the item with a new one, and the list length stays the same.

Sorting and searching

Searching and sorting are extremely common in interviews. You’ll find that by knowing how to do this well, you’ll use it a lot more than you expected.

  • Find an item: Don’t worry about it being efficient, just know how to find an item, matching a value, in a list.
  • Find and remove an item: Like finding, but also remove that item.
  • Find last matching item: Find usually starts from the front, but sometimes we want to start looking from the back of a list instead.
  • Sort by natural order: The basic sort function will order a list by the natural ordering of the items. This is useful for fundamental types, like integers or strings, or for classes that define an order.
  • Sort with custom comparator: A lot of algorithm questions require you to order a list with an arbitrary comparison.

Segment Manipulation

It’s not enough to work with individual elements of a list. Often you’ll want to work with segments, or slices, of lists. Knowing how to do this segment manipulation saves a lot of time and makes your code cleaner.

  • Split the list at arbitrary location: Know how to make two lists from one.
  • Multiple splits based on a match: Know how to create multiple lists by splitting on matching elements, such as a particular character.
  • Clear the list: Remove all the elements from a list.
  • Remove segment: Remove a range of elements from a list.
  • Concatenate lists: Combine two lists into one by adding one to the end of the other.
  • Insert list at location: Combine two lists into one by inserting the contents of one list into another.
  • Get a sublist: Create a new list from a segment of an existing list. Be aware whether you’re getting a view on the source list, or a true copy. If it’s a view, also learn how to get a copy.

More Iteration

There are multiple ways to iterate over the items in a list. These can be done with basic for loops, but many languages offer extra features.

  • Backward: Iterate over the items starting at the last and going towards the front.
  • Partial segment iteration: Iterate only over a range of items in the list, that is, start in the middle and iterate an arbitrary number of items.
  • Skipping elements: Iterate over every second or third element.

These patterns come up often enough that they often have custom syntax. You can always fall back to a for-loop and add items manually, but it consumes more of your time. Plus, using an advanced syntax can often demonstrate your language skills and impress the interviewer.

  • Create from a static list of items: Given a known list of items, existing variables, create a list that contains them in a specific order.
  • Create a range of numbers: Create a list of numbers ranging from a minimum to a maximum. This is a powerful ability when combined with the following data manipulation features.

Data Manipulation

Some languages have high-level data manipulation functions, others do not. If you don’t know the specialized syntax, then at least know how to do the following using the basic operations.

  • Mapping: Mapping calls a function for all elements in a list, either producing a new list or modifying in place.
  • Filtering: Removes all elements matching a filter function, either generating a new list or modifying in place.
  • Fold / Reduce: Combines all the elements in the list together, such as joining strings or summing the values.
  • Zip: Combine two or more lists together by alternating the elements.

The following are operations that come in handy if you’ve been given an algorithmic question. Many of those algorithms can be expressed as combinations of these operations or at least benefit from knowing this.

  • Swap elements at two locations: There may or may not be a special syntax for this, but it comes up often enough to know either way.
  • Reserve capacity: If your language offers lists with reserved capacity, you should know how to use it. Even if not exposed, you should know the difference between capacity and size.
  • Replace content in a list: Instead of swapping out a list with a new one, can you update an existing list with entirely new content.
  • Compare two lists: Determine if two lists contain the same items or comparable items.
  • Search a sorted list: A sorted list can use binary search to find items. Many languages offer this as a standard library feature.
  • Iterators: Know the difference between indexes and iterators. Be able to use a basic iterator manually, not just in a standard loop. Not all languages have iterators, in which case, learn how to use indexes as iterators.
  • Multiple iterators at the same time: A lot of iteration syntax doesn’t work when dealing with multiple lists. You need to know how to work with multiple lists at a time.

Now with strings

Knowing all of those operations will give you a significant boost during a coding interview. While I’m okay with people checking syntax during an interview, it costs valuable time. You want to make the part of your natural vocabulary. This will give you more time to dedicate to solving the actual problem. Additionally, the smoother this type of code flows from your fingertips, the stronger the impression you’ll make on the interviewer.

Now, as a bonus, learn these same operations with strings, at least up to the “More iteration” section. If a language exposes a string the same way as a list, great! You don’t need to learn more. Knowing how to do these operations with strings is primarily for interviews. Silly string questions are popular, even if they don’t come up during daily coding. Indeed, a lot of the common ways to manipulate strings are wrong, but I digress and will get back to that.

While this list of operations may seem long, many of them share a common syntax. I’ve roughly ordered them from basics to advanced. Learning them in that order maximizes the usefulness for an interview, and for coding in general.

Now, learn them, and master that next interview. Be sure to let me know how it goes.

Edaqa Mortoray

An avid writer and expert programmer. He’s been on both sides of the interview table countless times and enjoys sharing his experiences.


text:
Skip to content

Quick Chicken or Turkey Curry

January 19, 2010

By Kath Dedon

When I have leftover cooked chicken or turkey meat, I often make curry for dinner. It may not be the most authentic curry, but it’s quick and tasty. You can use milk, as I did last night, or coconut milk which is a great variation.

The recipe is based on one from Sunset’s Fresh Ways with Chicken. Keep in mind that the 1½ tablespoons of curry powder is just a suggested amount. It depends on how hot your curry powder is, and how much heat you enjoy in your curry. I would use 1½ – 2 tablespoons of a milder curry powder, and probably about 1 tablespoon of a fiery curry powder.

I had exactly 1½ cups of cooked chicken in the refrigerator, so I started the rice cooker (an essential appliance in my opinion) and made curry.

Quick Chicken Curry

(Adapted from a recipe in Sunset’s Fresh Ways with Chicken)

(printable recipe)

Serves 2 (doubles easily)

2 tablespoons butter
1 cup chopped onion
2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
1½ tablespoons curry powder
2 tablespoons flour
1¼ cups milk (or coconut milk)
Dash cayenne pepper
3 tablespoons dry sherry
1½ – 2 cups bite-size pieces cooked chicken or turkey
Cooked rice
Condiments (suggestions follow)

Melt the butter over medium heat. Add the onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for an additional minute. Add the curry powder, cook for 2 minutes, stirring. Add the flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and gradually stir in the milk. Return the pan to the heat and cook, stirring, until the sauce has thickened. Stir in the cayenne pepper, sherry and chicken and cook for a couple of minutes until the chicken is heated. Taste for seasoning and add salt, if needed.

Serve over rice with your choice of condiments.

Possible condiments:

Chutney (I especially like Patak’s which is made with sugar, not corn syrup), thinly sliced green onions, chopped peanuts, raisins, shredded coconut

5 Comments leave one →
  1. Laura permalink
    January 19, 2010 11:46 am

    Is there something that could be substituted for the dry sherry? (Which I’m sure I will NEVER have on hand).

  2. January 19, 2010 11:56 am

    You could just add an additional 3 tablespoons of milk.

    Or try 1 tablespoon vinegar (maybe rice vinegar), about a teaspoon of sugar or honey, and 2 tablespoons water.

    Or apple cider.

  3. February 16, 2014 4:06 am

    Hi! I’m at work surfing around your blog from
    my new iphone! Just wanted to say I love reading through your blog and look forward to all your posts!
    Keep up the fantastic work!

  1. Ideas for Leftover Turkey | In the kitchen with Kath

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Logo

You are commenting using your account. Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s


text:
Home > Membership & Publications > Membership > Corporate White Paper Library

Corporate Partner White Paper Library

Welcome to our 2019 Corporate Partners White Paper Library!

Being an Institute Corporate Partner shows your organization’s support of advanced education for the investments and wealth profession and the advisor community we represent and includes a host of rights and benefits as well as a voice within our organization. For more information on corporate partnership, please view our 2019 media kit.

Below you will find a list of white paper collections submitted by many of our corporate partners.

Cboe Global Markets

  J.P. Morgan Asset Management

  Macquarie Investment Management

  New York Life Insurance Company

  Swan Global Investments

TD Ameritrade Institutional


text:
<< Back

Press Release

December 4, 2018 at 9:10 AM EST

AeroVironment, Inc. to Present at the Raymond James Technology Investors Conference

SIMI VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2018-- AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Wahid Nawabi will present at the Raymond James Technology Investors Conference in New York City on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 11:20 a.m. Eastern Time.

A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available in the Events and Presentations section of the AeroVironment website at http://investor.avinc.com/events.cfm. A replay of the webcast will be available for 90 days.

About AeroVironment, Inc.
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) provides customers with more actionable intelligence so they can proceed with certainty. Based in California, AeroVironment is a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems and tactical missile systems, and serves defense, government and commercial customers. For more information visit www.avinc.com.

Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements, and may contain words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “project,” “plan,” or words or phrases with similar meaning. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors outside of our control, that may cause our business, strategy or actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, reliance on sales to the U.S. government; availability of U.S. government funding for defense procurement and R&D programs; changes in the timing and/or amount of government spending; risks related to our international business, including compliance with export control laws; potential need for changes in our long-term strategy in response to future developments; unexpected technical and marketing difficulties inherent in major research and product development efforts; the impact of potential security and cyber threats; changes in the supply and/or demand and/or prices for our products and services; the activities of competitors and increased competition; failure of the markets in which we operate to grow; uncertainty in the customer adoption rate of commercial use unmanned aircraft systems; failure to remain a market innovator and create new market opportunities; changes in significant operating expenses, including components and raw materials; failure to develop new products; the extensive regulatory requirements governing our contracts with the U.S. government; product liability, infringement and other claims; changes in the regulatory environment; and general economic and business conditions in the United States and elsewhere in the world. For a further list and description of such risks and uncertainties, see the reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not intend, and undertake no obligation, to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

For additional media and information, please follow us at:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aerovironmentinc
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/aerovironment
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aerovironment
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AeroVironmentInc

Source: AeroVironment, Inc.

AeroVironment, Inc.
Steven Gitlin
+1 (626) 357-9983


text:
5 Shining Silver Stocks to Buy Today

Don't ignore shining silver from your portfolio. The metal is red-hot these days.

When it comes to precious metals, gold captures most of the spotlight. However, silver could be the real money metal in our current market. That’s because silver has the best of both worlds.

On one hand, silver is seen as a precious metal. While not as glittery as its yellow sister, the “poor man’s gold” does tend to hold up its value during times of duress and can be seen as a store of value. That makes it a prime holding and portfolio diversifier — especially in a volatile market like today’s.

Secondly, it’s also an industrial metal. Silver finds its way in all sorts of end products. This includes various electronic components, photovoltaic/solar panels and even medicine. This creates additional demand for the metal.

For the miners of silver, the combination of the metal’s two sides creates plenty of potential — even more so now that silver prices have begun to rise. For investors, the time to add a dose of silver stocks is now.

Shining Silver Stocks to Buy: Endeavour Silver (EXK)

When it comes to silver stocks, some of the best opportunities lie within the mid-tier producers. These miners feature plenty of growing production and low all-in sustaining cash costs, and they serve as a vital source of supply for the larger miners during buyout situations. These three factors underscore Endeavour Silver Corp’s (NYSE:EXK) potential.

The key for EKX comes from its operating area. The silver stock owns three high-grade mines located in three of Mexico’s historic mining districts. This provides it with plenty of already-in-place infrastructure and a miner-friendly government. An added bonus is that many of these mines also feature gold and gold by-products. As a result, EXK has a relatively low cost of production. And the silver stock continues to reduce those costs further — falling 22% last year.

With production steadily growing, costs falling and silver prices beginning to rise on the back of industrial growth, EKX has seen its revenues and profits jump year-over-year. That should continue throughout 2018 as the trends persist.

All in all, Endeavour could be one best mid-tier silver stocks to buy.

Shining Silver Stocks to Buy: Wheaton Precious Metals (SLW)

Truth be told, there’s a lot risk when it comes to mining. And various mining risk can hinder a stock’s performance even if silver prices are surging. That’s why Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (NYSE:SLW) could be a great pick.

SLW — formally-known as Silver Wheaton — is a royalty firm. That is, the firm doesn’t actually operate mines. What it does is provide capital to other miners in exchange for a piece of the action. As these other miners take on the risk, do the heavy lifting and sell their production, SLW just sits back and collects a check — and it collects many checks. Wheaton currently has streaming agreements for 17 operating mines and nine development-stage projects.

And as prices for silver or gold start to rise, SLW makes more money. As a result, the firm is more of a direct play on rising precious metal prices than an actual miner.

As a royalty firm, SLW has been one of the better performers among silver stocks. Performance so good, that Wheaton actually pays a steady dividend.

For investors looking to profit directly from rising silver prices, SLW has to be on your list.

Shining Silver Stocks to Buy: Hecla Mining (HL)

Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL) hasn’t exactly had a great year or two. That’s because one of HL’s key mines in Idaho hasn’t produced an ounce in more than a year. A labor strike has shut down production for over a year now. That’s a problem as the Lucky Friday mine produced more than 294,000 tons of ore in 2016.

Naturally, HL has seen lower profits and revenues — and a crashing share price — because of this.

However, that could make HL a bargain for investors. For one thing, Hecla’s other mines are still humming along and the firm has been investing in automation and extending the reserve life of its other mines. Meanwhile, it features some of the largest reverses in the sector.

It’s a risky gamble for investors, but there is some value here — value that a larger miner just may want to take advantage off. And if labor negations finally break at Lucky Friday, HL shares should surge on the news. It’s not a stock to bet the mortgage money on, but for some risk capital, you can’t go wrong with the risk-reward proposition at this silver stock.

Shining Silver Stocks to Buy: Pan American Silver (PAAS)

If Hecla is a risky play, then Pan American Silver Corp. (USA) (NYSE:PAAS) is more of a sure thing. PAAS is the world’s second-largest primary silver producer.

The firm operates six mines as well as has six development projects under its umbrella. This provides it with plenty of reserves, economies of scale and real cash flows. Something that many silver stocks don’t have the luxury of having. In fact, things are so good at PAAS, it has more than $224 million in cash on its balance sheet and no debt.

This has allowed it to realize some of the lowest all-in costs in the sector and continually drive profits. Thanks to rising silver prices, Pan American saw a 68% jump in its earnings for the first quarter of 2018 over the same period in 2017. As the trends in silver pricing and industrial demand continue to grow, PAAS should realize additional jumps throughout the year. The firm recently guided higher for its EPS expectations for the full year.

While those expectations pan out, investors can sit back and collect the firm’s 0.75% dividend. It’s not much, but it highlights just how good PAAS is in the sector.

Shining Silver Stocks to Buy: Great Panther Silver (GPL)

Another interesting choice could be Great Panther Silver (NYSEAMERICAN:GPL). The mid-tier silver firm operates three mines in Mexico and has been pretty successful in converting opportunities at those mines into cash flows.

Thanks to rising silver prices, GPL’s latest quarter was pretty impressive and saw a 38% jump in total revenues. That resulted in some decent cash flows and Great Panther was able to improve its cash balance to more than $60 million. Even better is that GPL has no debt.

The only downside was that the firm’s all-in cash costs did rise this quarter. However, the $8.97 per payable silver ounce GPL recorded is still one of the lowest among the silver miners. There’s still plenty of wiggle room for the firm to make additional profits. And the absences of debt provides it plenty of opportunities if prices were to fall.

At under $2 per share, investors aren’t really appreciating the potential at Great Panther. As silver prices rise, so will they. Don’t let the bargain slip away.

As of this writing, Aaron Levitt did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.

Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2018/05/5-shining-silver-stocks/.

©2019 InvestorPlace Media, LLC


text:
Corsair SF750 Review: The best SFX PSU money can buy

Published by admin on

Following Corsair’s SF600 and SF400 Platinum power supplies, Corsair identified a segment of the market that needed strong but compact PSU which is able to deliver to the highest of demands. As a result, we now have the Corsair SF750.

The SF750 offers high capacity and high effeciency levels, backed up by the 80 PLUS PLATINUM and Cybenetics ETA-A certifications. Furthermore, the power supply is able to deliver a fairly quiet overall operation.

If money is no problem and you would like to get as much power from a power supply as possible, the the Corsair SF750 will surely fill all of your power requirments as this unit is the most powerful power supply money can buy to date.

The PSU is compatible with the latest high-end motherboards through a couple of EPS connectors. You might want to consider the SF600 Platinum should you only need one EPS connector, as it will be cheaper to buy.

Corsair SF750

Efficient Semi-passive mode cannot be deactivated
Amazing performance

Review Analysis

If you need 750 watts out of a compact PSU and on top of that you want two EPS connectors, the SF750 is your best choice. The second strongest SFX unit, the SilverStone SX700-G has the same amount of PCIe connectors (four), but it comes with a single EPS connector meaning that it cannot support mainboards with increased CPU power requirements. The same goes of course for the SF600 Platinum which has a single EPS and on top of that, it cannot support two high-end graphics cards since it only comes with two PCIe connectors.

The Corsair SF750 has a stiff price, but it is powerful and one of the best SFX units available in the market today. Moreover, it is supported by a hefty seven-year warranty, which provides long peace of mind. I would like to see a longer hold-up time in the next revision, but I am not sure whether Great Wall will have an easy time installing a larger bulk cap to achieve this. Finally, the rifle bearing fan that it uses has been proved to be quite good so far, but in this price category I believe that Corsair should go with an even higher-quality FDB (or magnetic bearing) fan.

Tom’s Hardware4.5 / 5
Kitguru9 / 10
Categories: Blog


text:
Support ISGAP Canada

Your generous donation helps fund ISGAP’s activities all around the world and ensures we can continue to study antisemitism in all its forms, no matter where or how it may occur.

Donations to ISGAP Canada are tax deductible. ISGAP Canada is a registered charitable organization. For online donations, please include your mailing address in order to receive a tax receipt.

Video: ISGAP 2015 Summer Institute

You may also send us a check payable to ISGAP Canada at the following address:

ISGAP Canada
1980 Sherbrooke Street West, 9th Floor
Montreal, Quebec H3H 1E3

Donor Privacy Policy


text:
Costs outweigh benefits

Open Europe has announced recognition that,

Top 100 EU regulations cost the UK economy £27.4 billion a year – and costs outweigh benefits in a quarter of cases (click through to read the press release and PDF report)

More informed comment can be found here.

“To present this as a deregulation exercise is a cynical charade. To present it as a Cameron initiative “backed by Barroso” is to perpetrate a lie.

“But, as always, not one journalist in the entire legacy media has the wit to say so. Feed the hacks drivel and they will dutifully report it. Alongside the ranks of British politicians, they are oblivious to the reality of the European Union and are as guilty as the politicians for keeping people ignorant, by playing along with the charade.”

Some people know what is going on.  EU regulations cost the UK over £27 Billion a year. Unfortunately laboratory accreditation does not waste enough money relative to the amounts excessive regulation wastes in larger industries.  This has still to be recognised within the scientific community, so it’s not surprising managers and politicians don’t realise yet.

But all things must pass.  Eventually, even ISO inspectionism.

This entry was posted in Bureaucracy, Cartel, Economics, Laboratory medicine, Politics and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Logo

You are commenting using your account. Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s


text:
Tag Archives: murder

UKAS collaborates with sharia to fund Islamic expansion

International halal accreditation is not agreed by a single body but by hundreds and is highly non-standardised, like Islam itself.  We previously drew attention to this here. UKAS is now pleased to help bring the world into submission to Allah while … Continue reading

Posted in Cartel, Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Questions | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment


text:
Valg av nytt styre i ISPS International

  • 26. juni 2019

Jan Olav Johannessen går ut av styret etter lang og tro tjeneste, og  den nye kandidaten på valg fra Norge er vår leder av ISPS Norge, Cecilie Brøvig Almås.

Cecilie er psykologspesialist og jobber ved Sørlandet Sykehus i ARA FACT, avdeling for rus- og avhengighetsbehandling. Hun har lang erfaring med psykosebehandling, og arbeider for tiden som psykolog i et av Sørlandet Sykehus’ FACT-team. Mange vil også kjenne henne som hovedansvarlig for den veldig gode fagkonferansen som avholdes hvert andre år i Kilden, Kristiansand, med tema «Traumer, dissosiasjon og psykose».

Det er faktisk slik at Norge ligger langt framme i psykososial tilnærming og behandling av psykoselidelser, det er derfor viktig at Norge er representert i det internasjonale styret. Cecilie har også omfattende organisasjonserfaring, noe som er hardt tiltrengt i det internasjonale styret.

Du kan lese mer om Cecilie nedenfor. Så, løp og stem (NB, du trenger ikke løpe, bare sett et kryss ved Cecilies navn, og returner stemmen din til ISPS International). Du må sende din stemme ved å svare på den e-posten hvor du fikk tilsendt informasjon om valget fra ISPS International.

Stemmegivningen stenger 17. juli 2019.

Cecilie Brøvig Almås – Nomination Statement

Nominated by: Jan Olav Johannessen
Seconded by: Gunnar Brox Haugen

I am a clinical psychologist currently working in a FACT-team at Sorlandet hospital in the south of Norway. I have been the chair of the Norwegian chapter of ISPS since 2017 and have been a board member since 2016.

My first meeting with ISPS was when I worked within the field of early intervention for psychosis and attended the international conference in Warsaw in 2013. I was excited to get to know the organization and their aim to promote psychological and social approaches to psychosis. I have attended all the Norwegian ISPS- conferences and the international ones since that time.

My professional background is from the early intervention field, working with in-patients, daycare and outpatients and in various FACT-teams were we mainly offer ambulant care and psychotherapy. I have a special interest in and training in psychotherapy for psychosis through the Norwegian foundation SEPREP.

I also have experience from working with traumatized individuals and I am educated in different trauma-treatment methods. When I started working in the field of psychosis and severe mental illnesses, I was struck by the similarities with the traumatized patients I was used to work with, and this has become of special interest to me in my professional work ever since. This interest led me to become one of the founders of the International conference on Trauma, Dissociation and Psychosis that was held for the first time in Kristiansand, Norway in 2015, with our regional chapter of ISPS as one of the collaborators. We arranged a new conference in 2017, and the third conference is taking place at the end of May this year with speakers like Pamela Fuller, Bethany Brand, Douglas Turkington, Suzette Boon, Andrew Moskowitz and Rai Waddingham to mention a few. The aim of the conference is to bring together the fields of psychosis and dissociation, to focus on new theoretical perspectives and treatment approaches, and to learn from each other.

If I were to be elected as a member of the ISPS executive committee, I would contribute by bringing the focus of trauma and trauma -treatment methods in to treatment for psychosis. I am also concerned about approaching the much-neglected issue of sexuality into treatment for psychosis. As health care professionals, we have a unique opportunity to approach the issue, but we far too seldom do.

I think that ISPS is a much-needed organization that brings together professionals, people with lived experience and their families to work toward a better understanding of how to promote recovery for the people experiencing psychosis. I hope that ISPS will grow to become an even more robust organization worldwide, so that we can continue to represent an alternative and more human approach to severe mental illnesses, and look beyond the medical model in our understanding of psychosis. To do so we need to strengthen our relations to other professional organizations and organizations for people with lived experience and their families.

Copyright © 2014. Design og utvikling av Vangen & Plotz


text:
Home I ♥ Israel

I ♥ Israel

Articles about a travel through Israel and daily life in Israel. Each article will describe the life in Israel and tips and how to enjoy Israel as tourist or as new immigrant (oleh chadash).

Israel travel

Travel in Israel it's very good idea, since Israel is one of the most beautiful tourism attracting countries in the world, so let's start our Israel travel. Israel travel tips After a tourist has landed the airport Ben Gurion, there is much...

Night mall Azrieli – Tel Aviv

Every part of Israel is beautiful .Tel Aviv is very modern city. Enjoy 1 minute of watching to the biggest mall Azrieli in the night of Tel Aviv, Israel. The mall Azrieli Towers is very tallest tower, measuring 187 m...
Old Jerusalem city by Night

The Old Jerusalem – Informations with photos and videos

It's really impossible to describe the old city of Jerusalem in few words. To say that the old Jerusalem is one of the most unique places in the world, it is not enough and not only because of the amount...

Haifa city – north Israel

Haifa’s Overview Haifa, the third largest city of Israel, is part of the Haifa metropolitan area and it’s well known worldwide for the Bahá'í World Centre. It is located on the slopes of Mount Carmel since 3,000 years ago as...

From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by bus or train

There are many ways to get to Jerusalem from, such as bus, train and taxi. Let’s explore all of them, analyzing the time and money spent in total. Let’s assume you are now in some place in Tel Aviv...

History of the Israeli architecture

The Israeli architecture has received different influences from different styles coming from different culture in the centuries since the Land of Israel has been occupied during its long history. In this way the architecture of Israel is an amalgamate...

Tel Aviv city Park Hayarkon

Israel Travel Guide & tips from Israeli blogger. Let's travel to the biggest park in Tel Aviv and Israel. A river, a lot green, a lot running paths - all made for sport. I tried describe park Yarkon (HaYarkon)...

Israeli food – Salads

The Original Israeli Salad A very typical Israeli food always present in the Israeli meals is the Israeli salad also known as Arab salad, that is a chopped salad of diced tomatoes, onions, cucumbers and bells or chili peppers. It...

Gardens Of Israel

The Bahá'í Gardens of Haifa and Akko The Bahá'í gardens are located at Bahá'í Holy Places in Israel, in Haifa and in Akko. The Terraces of the Bahá'í Faith or the Hanging Gardens of Haifa, which are garden terraces around...

Hadera Stream garden.

Let's travel to Hadera Stream garden. Spectacular green gardens, beautiful landscapes and green wonderful Israeli nature appear with power station. The Orot Rabin power station is located close to a long river coming from the Mediterranean Sea. This calm,...

few clouds
28.8 ° C
30.6 °
27.8 °
54 %
20 %
33 °
31 °
33 °
34 °
33 °