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Cheapest ROCCAT Nyth Price in Hong Kong is HK$ 784.00

The ROCCAT Nyth is now available in Hong Kong. The cheapest ROCCAT Nyth price in Hong Kong is HK$ 784.00 from Amazon. ROCCAT Nyth price details are updated November 2018.

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Price List by Country for ROCCAT Nyth

Country International Price Price in HKD
Hong Kong HKD 784.00 HK$ 784.00
Indonesia IDR 1.469.000 HK$ 784.00
Malaysia MYR 410.00 HK$ 767.00
Philippines PHP 5,317.00 HK$ 783.00
Singapore SGD 185.00 HK$ 1,051.00
Thailand THB 3,580 HK$ 847.00
Vietnam VND 3.219.000 HK$ 1,085.00

ROCCAT Nyth Specs

Release Date in Hong Kong
DateNov 2017
Input device
Device interfaceUSB
Buttons typePressed buttons
Buttons quantity12
Scroll typeWheel
Movement detection technologyLaser
Movement resolution12000 DPI
Recommended usagePC/notebook
Number of scroll wheels1
Form factorRight-hand
Colour of productBlack
Surface colorationMonotone

Reviews of ROCCAT Nyth
Reviewed on 2017-07-12
Very comfortable, 12,000 DPI laser sensor, 12 modular thumb buttons, Great software
MMO and MOBA games are not going anywhere and gamers in these genres are some of the most competitive. With that many peripheral makers have made specific products for these gamers. We've already taken a look at the Corsair Scimitar Pro RGB and the SteelS...
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Reviewed on 2017-01-06
Easily customizeable both physically and via software, Comfortable fit in the had, Very responsive and smooth polling rate
Button assignment has to be done in SWARM, Higher price tag may scare some away,
Today we are going to review the ROCCAT Nyth gaming mouse. I was looking very forward to reviewing this mouse and seeing how the ROCCAT software would be able to customize my own gaming experiences! With it's twelve thumb buttons alone and ROCCAT's easy-s...
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Reviewed on 2016-04-13
Unlike a processor that's a little too slow or an uncomfortable headset, the mouse is one of those rare components where if it's not just right, it'll hinder just about every aspect of your computing experience. But how do you know you're going to like yo...
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Reviewed on 2016-02-18
– Customizable design, – 2 side grips for better fit, – Powerful sensor that enables amazing gaming, Great software solution and functionality
– The wide side panel is too wide for some users, – Some users have problem with the macro setup
Roccat Nyth is one of the latest additions to the Roccat gaming family. It is a gaming mouse that belongs somewhere between medium and high-priced gaming mice, currently priced under $ 100. Although Roccat is not a big name in the gaming mouse industry, s...
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Reviewed on 2016-01-21
18 tiered buttons (with 36 functions using shift button), Stored profiles for each game, Modular button system, Swarm configuration utility is handy, Lift-distance slider
Side buttons all release at once when swapping, No angle snapping, No help in configuration utility, Little depth to macro editor
This last question might seem facetious, at least if you're not an MMO player. If you are a member of that community, however, then you're likely aware just how much disagreement exists over what constitutes a comfortable, easily accessible mouse design.T...
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Reviewed on 2015-11-30
There are many options on the market for gaming mice, but if you're looking for for a highly customizable mouse check out Roccat's flagship model, the Roccat Nyth MMO Mouse. The Nyth is a highly customizable modular MMO mouse that allows for a high amount...
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Reviewed on 2015-09-29
At first we would like to thank ROCCAT for offering us a sample of the Nyth Gaming Mouse for testing and reviewing.“ROCCAT designs the best gaming products in the world. We combine detail-loving German innovation with a genuine passion for what we do. The...
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Reviewed on 2015-08-11
Ridiculous number of button layout options, Rocksolid construction, Ease with which it can be customized, Soft, smooth cover material, Ergonomicallysound shape, 12,000DPI TwinTech Laser Sensor R1, Sidegrips – gripping options, Carry case for modular piece...
Dorsal fin a bit awkward, EasyShift [] button accessibility (or lack thereof)
The NYTH is billed as an MMO mouse, but ROCCAT is confident that it can be a world-beater no matter what game you are playing. In fact, ROCCAT states that the NYTH possesses, “deep button modularity that fluidly transitions into a MOBA or FPS master tool...
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Reviewed on 2015-08-05
Facing stiff competition from hardware manufacturers SteelSeries and Razer, Roccat has upped the ante by showing off the Nyth, a new gaming mouse that promises to give gamers an unprecedented level of customization. Nyth is a modular gaming mouse that off...
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Reviewed on 2015-08-04
Lightweight and comfortable, Tons of ways to customize, Promising software, Great performance.
Thumb buttons not suited to all genres, Removing buttons takes some effort
Describing the Roccat Nyth's design in a single swoop is impossible, since it's one of the most customizable peripherals currently on the market. The mouse features three sets of swappable thumb buttons as well as two different grips. In its default confi...
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Reviewed on 2016-09-02
When we first came into contact with ROCCAT, it was at a CES show many moons ago now, and what we saw then had us lifting our jaw from the table. While they may not have been in the peripherals market as long as some of the better-known companies out ther...
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Reviewed on 2015-10-01
ROCCAT Nyth Review – Designing a gaming mouse is never easy and competitive online gamers demand the best from their mouse: accuracy, comfort, design, features, and the list goes on.When you own a ROCCAT Nyth gaming mouse, it feels as if it's your own per...
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Reviewed on 2015-09-02
So what does modular really mean? Basically as a gamer, you can choose the buttons (including size) of what will be available on the mouse. That's right, simply by unlocking the release button on the bottom of the Nyth , players can individually place 12...
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W. R. Berkley Corporation Names Emily J. Urban President of Berkley Life Sciences

Jill E. Wadlund Appointed Non-Executive Vice-Chairman

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE: WRB) today announced the appointment of Emily J. Urban as president of Berkley Life Sciences, a Berkley Company. Ms. Urban succeeds Jill E.Wadlund, who has been named non-executive vice-chairman of Berkley Life Sciences. The appointments are effective immediately.

Ms. Urban joined Berkley Life Sciences as a senior vice president and chief underwriting officer when the company was formed in 2007 and was named executive vice president and global field officer in 2009. She has been in the property casualty insurance industry for nearly 30 years, with significant experience in leadership, underwriting and distribution management. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University and a Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School.

Ms. Wadlund joined Berkley as president of Berkley Life Sciences when it was formed in 2007 and has over 30 years of experience in the property casualty insurance industry, nearly 25 of which have been focused specifically in the life sciences area. In her role as non-executive vice chairman, she will remain a resource through transition to Ms. Urban.

Commenting on the appointments, W. Robert Berkley, Jr., president and chief executive officer of W. R. Berkley Corporation, said, “Jill has done an outstanding job building Berkley Life Sciences into a leading provider of property casualty insurance products to the life sciences industry on a global basis. Emily has been part of that success from the start. We are pleased to be able to draw upon the depth of talent within the operating unit to have an executive with her institutional knowledge take over in what we expect to be a seamless transition. Jill and Emily have both made important contributions to our organization and we look forward to their continued success in their new roles.”

Berkley Life Sciences offers a comprehensive spectrum of property casualty insurance products to the life sciences industry on a global basis, including primary and excess liability coverage and commercial insurance. It serves pharmaceutical and biologic/biotech companies, medical device companies, dietary supplement manufacturers, medical and research software developers, contract service organizations, research institutions and organizations, and other related businesses. For further information about Berkley Life Sciences and the products and services it offers, please visit

Founded in 1967, W. R. Berkley Corporation is an insurance holding company that is among the largest commercial lines writers in the United States and operates worldwide in two segments of the property casualty insurance business: Insurance and Reinsurance. For further information about W. R. Berkley Corporation, please visit

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Mandeln….Roast Sugared Almonds

It’s Christmas time! 🙂 I absolutely LOVE this time of year! The run-up is almost more enjoyable than the actually day….seeing the Coco Cola advert on TV, watching the Late Late Toy Show (it’s an Irish thing 😉 ), wandering through the Saturday market stocking up on goodies, carol singers, the Christmas lights in the city, mulled wine, mince pies and decorating the house! 🙂

We’re going to put our tree up tomorrow evening, so I’ve been busy making lots of treats for a Christmassy evening decorating the house. I plan on making a few batches of mince pies this evening, recipe to follow. There’s nothing like the smell of freshly baked mince pies to get you into the Christmas spirit.

I spent a year in Germany a couple years back. Absolutely loved my time there. My favourite time of the year was the Weihnachsmarkt in the run up to Christmas. Mulled wine and crepes. And Mandeln. Mandeln are roasted sugared almonds and are so delicious and  addictive – as well as easy to make.

1 cup whole almonds

2 tbsp butter

1/2 cup caster sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

Butter a roasting pan and set aside.

Place the almonds, sugar and butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly until the sugar has dissolved and the almonds are toasted. This process should take about 10 minutes.

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I’ll be baking my mince pies this evening so I’ll share a couple more recipes over the next couple days… we countdown to Christmas! 🙂

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Seriously. This is the best granola recipe ever. I’ve tried many recipes and this one just has the perfect combination of fruit, nuts and seeds. It’s expensive to make, but yields about 130 portions (30 g portions). Great for healthy snacks and hearty breakfasts 🙂

As I mentioned, it is expensive to make and works out the same price as buying Granola pre-made in a supermarket. But at €0.28 per portion and knowing that it’s your own home-made, chemical- and additive-free recipe, it’s a lot more satisfying!

8 cups rolled oats
1 1/2 cups wheat germ
1 1/2 cups oat bran
1 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup finely chopped almonds
1 cup finely chopped pecans
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 1/2 salt
1 tbsp maple syrup
1 cup honey
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup dried mango chunks
1 cup shredded coconut

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Logistics gets smarter with IoT

Published on the 30/08/2018 | Written by Heather Wright

Blue tooth tracking on freight

But traffic lights... that's another story

It’s one of the ironies of our age. With a GPS tracking collar, I can track where Fido – or for that matter any number of other items – are anywhere in the world, down to two metres, yet getting from the iStart office to a meeting a suburb over sees me stuck at the lights forever, even when there’s no traffic, and despite my car being considerably bigger than Fido.

Both issues – tracking and transport – are something the logistics sector contends with daily. The good news is that IoT is changing logistics, and quickly, from tracking freight and trucks to predicting demand for products in warehouses.

“IoT is changing logistics, from tracking freight and trucks to ensuring an unbroken chain of refrigeration.”

GlobalData has forecast the market for IoT devices in the logistics sector will experience 93.3 percent CAGR from 2016 to 2020, to hit US$2.4 billion by 2020.

Location tracking is a key use for IoT in logistics, along with fleet management and environment sensing – particularly in the case of perishable goods including food and pharmaceuticals which are often temperature sensitive (the bio-pharmaceutical logistics market alone is expected to hit US$91.0 billion by 2020).

Last November, Air New Zealand began installing more than 5,500 Bluetooth tags on its cargo containers, pallets and unit load devices. One hundred readers are also being installed at 29 airports globally, enabling real time information to be captured automatically when the tagged items pass by a reader.

“These Bluetooth tags and readers will not only allow us to speed up cargo handling, but also improve our accuracy and inventory management and help to locate any missing items,” Air New Zealand cargo general manager Rick Nelson said.

The deployment is believed to have been the first time the technology had been deployed on such a large scale.

At the heart of the Air New Zealand deployment is Kiwi company Core Transport Technologies’ Bluetooth tracking. Core announced earlier this month that it has shipped more than 15,000 tags to customers including Delta Airlines and Alaska Airlines. Qantas, UPS, United States Postal Service, Nippon Cargo Air and Korean Air are also on its customer list, with the company providing supply chain management and big data analytics for cargo and postal products, including high value ‘unit load devices’ in air cargo.

IoT and artificial intelligence powered predictive analytics are also being used to ensure an unbroken chain of refrigeration from start to finish, ensuring food and medicines don’t spoil in transit.

Elsewhere, Bluetooth beacons are being used to flag whether parcels are being loaded into the right trucks, 3D cameras are being used along with analytics to monitor loading processes in order to make the process more efficient, and smart sensors embedded in vehicles, combined with analytics, are enabling predictive maintenance.

And as for those traffic lights, well, IoT is helping reduce idle times, but it’s through effective route utilisation and real time communications, rather than sensors ensuring vehicles aren’t left idling at clear intersections. Camera’s too are being used to study and analyse the flow of traffic with the data used to optimise the timing of lights so that traffic flows easier and travel times are shorter.

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The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in January 2016 a new online visa filing system for consular-issued visas. The new consular visa online system applies to AMS (Assembly, Maintenance and Service) visas and work visas, and those visitors who are not visa-free or E-visa eligible. This new system is not to be confused with the E-visa system for eligible visitors that started in 2013.

Foreign nationals filing Turkish visa applications at a Turkish consular post must now upload their applications and supporting documents online before their appearance at the applicable consulate through the MFA’s online visa system ( or at Applicants must select the specific consular post and category of visa for which they wish to apply (e.g., Work, AMS, Student, Intern) and include biographical information. The applicant then selects an appointment date. The applicant will receive an email confirmation reiterating consular filing details for the specific consular post. The email will contain a reference number allowing the applicant to re-log into the system to edit or change the appointment date. The applicant must still submit his or her visa application form and supporting documents in person at the Turkish consular post.

The online system has several glitches and is still being amended frequently.

Proposed Changes in Turkish Visa and Immigration Policy

Meanwhile, proposed changes in visa and immigration policy in Turkey are rife with rumors. These are a result of both deteriorating relations with Russia and pressure on the EU to change Turkey’s visa requirements as it rekindles membership talks. The following is what can be confirmed:

Russian nationals. Despite Russia’s greatly enhanced restrictions on Turks’ entry and work authorization, there have not been reciprocal moves by Turkey. Although this could change in 2016, Russians still enjoy visa-free entry for up to 60 days. Restrictions on work permits are not anticipated, according to unofficial reports.

Syrian work permits. Syrian nationals’ exemption from the 5:1 ratio of Turkish to foreign employees is on the table for removal. Some denials based on this issue are on appeal. A modification of Syrian work permit issuance is anticipated in early 2016.

Eligibility for visa-free and E-visa entry. Turkey has been on an especially long road to EU membership talks. But now that relaxation of visa entry into EU countries for Turks is on the table, the EU has made it clear that Turkey’s visa-free and e-visa regime is problematic for many nations that are required to obtain consular visas to enter the EU. It is anticipated that a significant number of countries will not be allowed visa-free or E-visa entry into Turkey in the long term.

Upgrades to passports and ID cards. Both passports and ID cards (kimlik) are set to undergo production changes in 2016 to meet EU requirements.

The issues summarized above are likely to be subject to many changes in 2016.

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I’ve worked with Jack for about 8 months after he was one of the strength and conditioning coaches for my team. I had stopped playing the sport and was de-motivated until I started working with jack on my fitness and strength. His depth of knowledge, and his explanations for why I’m doing exercises is beyond anything I’ve experienced before. His attention to detail and drive to make himself better made me improve and want to keep up with what he was helping me to do. I am now fitter, stronger and more powerful than I ever have been all thanks to Jack. Would recommend to anyone.


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Friday, February 13, 2015

TV Ratings Diaries Still Exist

Remember those things called Rating Service Diaries which you would receive in the mail and in which you would write down what you watched on TV for a week?  If you thought these were a thing of the past, think again.

Last Wednesday, February 4, I received one of these in my mail to be started the following morning. I'd received and ignored a phone call sometime earlier about getting one of these things, but I still got it in the mail. I just couldn't ignore the the thing, since they sent four crisp new $1 bills with the diary, and the instructions said to send the dairy back at the end of the week, no matter how much TV was watched during the dairy period.

The last time I'd received one of these things was around 1999. As such I kind of began wondering if they'd been rendered obsolete in the digital age to be replaced a digital equivalent of some sort.  Obviously this has not been the case so far.  But somehow I haven't gotten a ratings diary for about 16 years now. I know I got more than one of these during the 1990s, but not one during the first two decades of the new millennium.  Thus it took some time getting back into the idea of recording what I watched for a week into a diary.

The dairy period began on February 5.  For some reason, "morning" began at 5 AM each day, "afternoon" at noon. "evening" at 5PM, and "late night" was 11PM till 4AM, the following day. Thus watching Access Hollywood and Early Today during the 4AM hour on February 5 did not count. In fact, these two programs were basically all that I watched during the ratings diary period (which ended on February 12).  Since I've been working a temp job that is swing shift (3:30PM to midnight) on weeknights, I wasn't home most of the time to watch TV. All I watched on the weekends while I was home was the local news as well the evening news on NBC. Saturday I watched two episodes of Saturday Night Live,  the vintage episode at 10PM (a repeat from October 1990, with Patrick Swayze as host and Mariah Carey as musical guest), as well as the show in its regular time slot, which was actually a repeat from December (with a Christmas theme).  Sunday was more news, Jeopardy, and a repeat of Burn Notice.  I don't have cable and only get two channels (literally). As a result, it felt awkward doing a ratings dairy with little to watch and little time to do it. But having accepted the $4 sent with the diary, I just couldn't toss the thing. And they wanted know what you watch, no matter how much you watch.  If I got more channels and more time to watch, the whole experience would have been more challenging.  I was just surprised to see this process is still being done, even though it's been forever since the last time I've done it.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

About My Reading Posts

Yes, as you can see, I've been signing up for these reading challenges on the web and the posts have been on my blog for all last month. I've tried to resist some and some I have been able to pass on.  Some I'm doing this year that I did last year and some this year are new to me. These are either being offered for the first time this year,  or are one I passed on last year.  Some I joined later in the year (March or May), but that's something I'm trying to avoid this year, except maybe some short-term one, but I don't know how many of those there will be.  And some I did last year weren't offered this year.  I'm trying to resist signing up for any after this month.

I have actually already finished the Pre-Printing Press (chose to do three books) and Poetry (chose to do six books) ones and have one book to go on What's in a Name.  The Play On one ends in April.   And there a re some I still haven't made progress on yet.

Those of you who do these challenges--have any of you done 50 or more in one year?  That's how many I have now for this year (including the ones I've already completed).  I've only been aware of these challenges since about 2012, but did not begin doing them yearly until 2013.

If I knew how, I'd try hosting one of my own, but am not sure what my theme or subject would be.  If you ddi one, what would yours be?

Ethereal 2015!

And now Riedel Fascination's third challenge.  For this one, I choose level one.  I read fantasy, so this one should work for me.  Sign up at the link above.
Ethereal 2015

Ethereal” débuted this year and is closest to my heart of the trio I created.  My groups are free of rules stifling what we read and prizes are for all guests internationally.  This theme is for anything that steps beyond the black & white of life.  Titles boasting “haunted of” or “ghost of” that debunk those inside the pages?  No.  Anything else under the sun?  Bring it!
I love spirits, extra-sensory abilities, animal communication, healing, the afterlife.  My favourite ambiences are haunted houses, witches, and gothic mystery!  When I sought reading challenges along these lines;  all I saw were vampire-type themes in very young crowds.  I am providing a forum for any mystical subject!  Readers over 30 needn’t feel out of place and topics that were drowned out, have our attention.  Share your literature from Februrary 1, no matter when you join:  in any format, publication year, length, age group.  Anything you considerEthereal belongs here.
 ~ Spiritual, mystical, paranormal:  non-fiction, fictional, religious.Serious studies:  dreams, near-death experiences, miracles, astrology.Novels with clergy:  Sister Carol Anne O’Marie, Caroline Roe, Margaret Frazer.Books with animals talking / doing more than what society credits them.Fantasy is certainly otherworldly, as well as witches and fairies.

Ethereal Levels
Here is what I am reading:
  1. Down a Dark Hall--Lois Duncan
  2. Shadow Falls: The Beginning--C.C. Hunter
  3. Taken at Dusk--C.C. Hunter
  4. The Time Machine--H.G Wells
  5. Whispers at Moonrise--C.C. Hunter
  6. Chosen at Nightfall--C.C. Hunter
  7. The Selection--Kiera Cass
  8. The Elite--Kiera Cass
  9. The One--Kiera Cass
  10. The Thief--Megan Whalen Turner
  11. The Martian--Andy Weir
  12. Just Ella--Margaret Peterson Haddix
  13. Frostfire--Amanda Hocking
  14. Storm Front--Jim Butcher
  15. Outlander--Diana Gabaldon
  16. Hush, Hush--Becca Fitzpatrick
  17. The Book of Life--Deborah Harkness
  18. This Present Darkness--Frank E. Peretti
  19. Piercing the Darkness--Frank E. Peretti
  20. The Oath--Frank E. Peretti
  21. The Scorch Trials--James Dashner
  22. Blizzard of the Blue Moon--Mary Pope Osborne
  23. Moonlight on the Magic Flute--Mary Pope Osborne
  24. Four--Veronica Roth
  25. Life of Pi--Yann Martel
  26. The Heir--Kiera Cass
  27. Crystal Kingdom--Amanda Hocking
  28. Nightschool: The Weirn Books Volume 1--Svetlana Chmakova
  29. Nightschool: The Weirn books Volume 2--Svetlana Chmakova
  30. The Silver Kiss--Annette Curtis Klause
  31. The Secret Circle: The Initiation and The Captive Part 1--L.J. Smith
  32. The Secret Circle: The Captive Part II and The Power--L.J. Smith
  33. The Poison Apples--Lily Archer
  34. Vampire Beach--Alex Duval
  35. Vampire Beach 2--Alex Duval
  36. The Kitchen Witch--Annette Blair
  37. Bewitched, Bothered and Biscotti--Bailey Cates
  38. Charms and Chocolate Chips--Bailey Cates
  39. Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men--Peter Cashoralli
  40. Christmas in Camelot--Mary Pope Osborne
Calling this one complete on December 18

Saturday, February 7, 2015

My Kind Of Mystery 2015!

I decided to do this one too, and since it begins in February, I took my time deciding.  It's also by Riedel Fascination and you can sign up here.  I want to try reading different kinds of mysteries along with the cozies and  I plan to aim for the first level.
My Kind Of Mystery 2015

Our pioneering year concludes February 28th, with a good crowd that has made me happy.  Every review has contributed to a database in my menu atop this blog.  No effort is wasted and I am excited to look ahead.  I hereby renew “My Kind Of Mystery” in 2015!  See my whole trio.
What sets us apart is any literature related to mystery ~ not solely novels.  If you enjoy true cases, are a student of investigative techniques, if there were an ‘open a detective agency for dummies’, or you like writing tips and biographies of authors:  all of these angles are included.  No matter when you join, count what you’ve read since February 1st.
Age, publication year, format, length:  there are no rules.  Combine your material with my other groups, like “Ethereal“!  :)  There are three other mystery hostesses, to whom I wholeheartedly nod.  We each bring our flair and they supported my fledgling year.  Here’s to a fun 2015!

I love plotting creative ways to award prizes!  Winners our inaugural year enjoyed eclectic goodies:  secondhand paperbacks, Canadian postcards, even plant seeds.  Fun options for everyone internationally.  Your choice each time.  RIEDEL Fascination festivities run every couple of months.
Please either subscribe to this blog, or ask for an e-mail when there’s an activity:  AlyshaeB(at)hotmail(dot)com.  Festivities are voluntary but can only take place if people play.  Rather than struggle to drop off information (via dial-up!);  everyone will know what’s afoot.  Don’t hesitate to guess.  If everyone were stumped by a riddle, I would draw a prize among all who tried!

Full Mystery Levels
Here is what I am reading:
  1. Death and Taxes--Susan Dunlap
  2. Big Little Lies--Liane Moriarty
  3. Candy Apple Dead--Sammi Carter
  4. The Chocolate Cat Caper--Joanna Carl
  5. The Girl on the Train--Paula Hawkins
  6. Maigret and the Loner--Georges Simenon
  7. Just Desserts--G.A. McKevett
  8. A Salty Piece of Land--Jimmy Buffett
  9. Cat With an Emerald Eye--Carole Nelson Douglas
  10. Storm Front--Jim Butcher
  11. Murder Past Due--Miranda James
  12. 1st to Die--James Patterson
  13. 2nd Chance--James Patterson
  14. 3rd Degree--James Patterson
  15. 4th of July--James Patterson
  16. Carrot Cake Murder--Joanne Fluke
  17. Fatal Shadows--Josh Lanyon
  18. Spring Cleaning Murders--Dorothy Cannell
  19. The Oath--Frank E. Peretti
  20. Assault and Pepper--Tamar Myers
  21. Cream Puff Murder--Joanne Fluke
  22. Gossamer Ghost--Laura Childs
  23. The Kitchen Witch--Annette Blair
  24. Bewitched, Bothered And Biscotti--Bailey Cates
  25. Charms and Chocolate Chips--Bailey Cates
  26. Devil's Food Cake Murder--Joanne Fluke
  27. Boy Toy--Michael Craft
  28. Blackberry Pie Murder--Joanne Fluke
  29. The Thirteenth Tale--Diane Satterfield
  30. A Cold-Blooded Business--Dana Stabenow
  31. Inferno--Dan Brown
Calling challenge complete on December 18


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In 2008, in the wake of a void, some courageous, forward looking lovers of jazz and jazz education gathered in a Chicago airport motel to discuss the creation of an organization to serve jazz education. Led by Mary Jo Papich and Lou Fischer, the 37 attendees hammered out bylaws, a mission statement, and a name. The result – a vision became a reality and JEN was born.

With no outside financial support, it was a challenge to create programs. Many were yearning for a conference and there were many questions about what happened to create the vacuum in which JEN was created. At a Board meeting in the summer of 2009 there was a definite desire to offer a conference but with a lack of funds it seemed out of the question. After a lunch break, Board member Jim Widner announced that he had procured the use of his college the University of Missouri – St. Louis as a site for a May 2010 conference and that by using the facilities we could afford to offer the first JEN conference. It was very successful and a mere seven months later we mounted a larger scale conference in New Orleans that also exceeded expectations.

With each successive conference, and the evolution of offerings such as Outreach programs and infrastructure, acceptance of and respect for JEN increased. Conference attendance grew and the conferences became more successful. More programs, awards and scholarships were added. Folks began to believe in JEN and what JEN had to offer.

All of this was done and continues to be supported by a volunteer based organization. Along the way JEN engaged some part time independent contractors who work far beyond their part-time status and in many ways join the rest of the volunteers in their selfless service and dedication.

Now in our 6th conference, we attract stellar artists and thousands of attendees. Submissions to present and perform at the conference have increased in quantity and quality. We have members from 23 countries and all 50 states. We have awarded over $50,000 in scholarships and our Outreach programs have reached over 20,000 people. The question is where do you, the members want JEN to go from here? We have a number of substantive offerings some of which have recently become public and other very impressive programs waiting for staff, website development and funding support to launch.

JEN has become a respected and stable organization in a very short period of time. Not withstanding some ongoing growing pains much of which is due to a shortage of  staff and resources; it is remarkable what JEN has accomplished. We all take pride in JEN’s current position. As we continue to grow forward and unleash some new useful offerings we need additional infrastructure funding and selfless volunteers with specific skills in web-design, web development and maintenance specific to Drupal, programming, fund raising, marketing, communication, project management and secretarial skills to join our team and offer significant services to build the jazz arts community by advancing education, promoting performance and developing new audiences.

Many years ago I trained for the Peace Corps in San Diego and fell in love with all that it has to offer. When thinking about the spirit of JEN’s volunteers, I am reminded of a Peace Corps slogan – It’s the toughest job, you’ll ever love. We certainly would love to have YOU as part of the team. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to join us.

Bob Sinicrope
JEN President


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Actualités — December 07, 2017

We Do Commit to a Better World at the 2017 JCI World Congress in Amsterdam!

To advance the world’s most pressing issues through the lens of the global development agenda, exchange dialogue with international thought leaders and connect with individuals from nearly 120 countries around the world, JCI’s active citizens, partners and friends once again united for the most-anticipated annual event of the year — the 2017 JCI World Congress — an event in the making since 2007.

With more than 4500 delegates present from 106 countries around the globe, the Congress took place from 6 – 10 November in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Delegates looked forward to not only an impactful 5-day program, but also the host city’s perks including a variety of museums, historic scenery of canal-lined streets and the famous and delicious fried Dutch snack — “bitterballen.” However, to ensure participants traveling from countries around the world got the true Dutch experience, a variety of programming in neighboring cities including The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam was available and only made possible with the help of nearly 20 JCI Netherlands Local Organizations.

This year, World Congress delegates were also provided with the unique opportunity to heavily focus their Congress activities on exploring four of the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development including Global Goals #4: Quality Education, #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, #10: Reduced Inequalities and #13: Climate Action. Through an innovative program that was strategically created to bring awareness and focus on the global development agenda, participants engaged with all sectors of society through a variety of keynotes, workshops, company visits and community impact projects.

One impactful addition to this year’s Congress program was the WeDo 2030! Festival, which included a full day of empowering keynotes, panel discussions and interactive activities covering the Global Goals. This distinctive event also featured an amazing performance by JCI Ambassador and singer/songwriter Tennille Amor who performed her gender equality hit “I am a Girl.” However, a highlight of not only this festival but also the entire World Congress was the special visit and keynote by Nobel Peace Prize Winner, former UN Secretary-General and past JCI member Kofi Annan. Mr. Annan spoke to the delegates on the important responsibility youth have to both develop their skills as leaders and unite with fellow change makers to build a better future.

Mr. Annan said: “I am optimistic about the future. Today we have the largest global population in history, and the vast majority of young people in the world are committed to peace, sustainable development and human rights.”

“Throughout my career I met with numerous youth groups, student associations, young leaders, and I have always been struck by their talent, knowledge and ambition to create a better world. With new forms of technology and interaction, your generation is a source of opportunity and possibility and is connected more than any other previous generation…For these reasons, I am confident that you will be able to do what my generation has not been able to achieve.”

The keynote was followed with a panel discussion featuring Mr. Annan, JCI Secretary General Arrey Obenson and moderator Bart Burghgraef where a number of audience members got the once in a lifetime opportunity to ask their most pressing questions about how to create impact in today’s world.

In response, Mr. Annan stated: “If we want to make a difference, we have to come together to pull our efforts and our resources. That is something that we can take from youth organizations like JCI…But [youth] must know, that change is not easy. Change is difficult. And I always say that change and reform is not an event, it’s a process.”

JCI Secretary General Arrey Obenson added: “The challenge now for us as a generation is what we will leave for the next generation so that they too can leave an impactful mark on our world.”

This special event concluded with members from JCI Zeeuws-Vlaanderen presenting Mr. Annan with a tremendous gift of € 15.000 to the Kofi Annan Foundation, which works to promote better global governance and strengthen the capacities of people and countries to achieve a fairer, more peaceful world. Following his visit, the audience left inspired and empowered to continue taking action not only for the remaining days of the event, but upon returning home to their respective communities.

Other exclusive visitors of the 2017 JCI World Congress included a variety of stakeholders from all sectors of society including international JCI partners and friends such as Insights, The Global Growth Institute, Let’s Do It! Foundation, OFID (The Opec Fund for International Development), AIESEC, Kiwanis International, The Nippon Foundation, UN SDG Action Campaign, International Chamber of Commerce, Peace One Day and MasterPeace. Through workshops such as How to Fund Your Impact Projects and Partnering for Impact Workshop, many delegates received the highly desired chance to speak to these international partners on an individual basis about how to partner and create impact at the local level.

As JCI was founded upon creating impact, it wouldn’t have been a JCI event without community-based actions. Therefore, on the final day of the Congress, before celebrating a successful week at the Farewell Party, delegates participated in a variety of local impact projects demonstrating to the community how to make a lasting impact. One of these activities included a canal clean up where members divided into groups, traveled in boats among the multiple city’s canals — a common dumping place for garbage — and picked up as much discarded trash as possible, all while competing to see who could find the most interesting item (such as the brand new mountain bike).

Despite many new additions to the Congress program, organizational business, such as adopting the new plan of action and budgeting for the upcoming year, was conducted as usual during General Assembly. This year, chief delegates enjoyed the simplicity of the new electronic voting system when electing the incoming 2018 JCI Board of Directors, including 2018 JCI President-elect Marc Brian Lim from JCI Philippines, and while adopting the report and bid of the 2019 JCI World Congress to be held in Tallinn, Estonia.

The 2017 JCI World Congress was undoubtedly successful as it united global citizens in a common purpose to create sustainable, positive change. While this goal may seem audacious, it has remained the driving force behind every action taken by every JCI member since the founding of the organization over 100 years ago. The JCI World Congress continues to be the premier event that reminds delegates of this with its fusion of cultures and sense of community propelling members to excel in all that they do on their journey to creating a better world.

Interested to learn more about the event? Explore the 2017 JCI World Congress Report to discover all that the event had to offer.

Visit the JCI Facebook Page to explore photos from the 2017 JCI World Congress.

Interested in attending next year’s World Congress? Learn more about the 2018 JCI World Congress in Goa, India 30 October – 3 November!

Interested in attending other JCI Events? Register and learn more about the upcoming 2018 JCI Area Conferences!

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JonathanTonkin Ecologist

As per the twitter #365papers hashtag, I am going to have a go at documenting my paper reading for 2016. I won’t necessarily do 365 papers but it’s a nice goal. I’ll add a sentence summarising the paper and sometimes a little more detailed notes.

  1. Beche, L., McElravy, E., Resh, V., 2006. Long-term seasonal variation in the biological traits of benthic-macroinvertebrates in two Mediterranean-climate streams in California, U.S.A. Freshwater Biology 51, 56–75. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01473.x. Beche et al. looked at seasonal variability in one intermittent and one perennial Californian Mediterranean stream. There was considerable seasonal turnover, with distinct communities present between the two seasons - more evident in the intermittent stream. They showed that despite high seasonal variation in abundance and composition of benthic invertebrates, there was much less variation in the traits (i.e. greater seasonal stability). However, interannual variation in rainfall influenced the effect of seasonality within years. i.e. There was greater variation between seasons in wet compared to dry years.

  2. Review for journal.

  3. Dalby, L., McGill, B.J., Fox, A.D., Svenning, J.-C., 2014. Seasonality drives global-scale diversity patterns in waterfowl (Anseriformes) via temporal niche exploitation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23, 550–562. DOI:10.1111/geb.12154. A look at global patterns in waterfowl diversity. Essentially shows that the mid-latitude peak in waterfowl diversity is a function of temporal niche exploitation. The areas with richness peak were dominated by migratory species in both breeding and non-breeding seasons. This reflects shifting environmental conditions, i.e. intra-annual variability and seasonal productivity. Previous work (Hurlbert and Haskell, 2003) demonstrated North American birds track plant production similarly in both breeding and non-breeding seasons - exploiting temporally available niches. Hurlbert and Haskell (2003) also found the greatest number of migrants with the largest seasonal shifts in productivity. This also backs up early predictions (e.g. MacArthur, 1959; Herrera, 1978) that the most seasonal environments (those with the greatest difference in productivity between seasons) will support the highest number of migrants.

  4. Bogan, M.T., Lytle, D.A., 2011. Severe drought drives novel community trajectories in desert stream pools. Freshwater Biology 56, 2070–2081. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02638.x. Document a catastrophic regime shift in the community of arid-land stream pools corresponding to a shift from perennial to intermittent. Communities did not show any sign of recovery in the four years post-drought. Pre-drying, richness and composition oscillated seasonally between low- and high-flow seasons. Post-drying, abundances were much higher, which may somewhat reflect extirpation of large-bodied predators.

  5. Bogan, M.T., Boersma, K.S., Lytle, D.A., 2013. Flow intermittency alters longitudinal patterns of invertebrate diversity and assemblage composition in an arid-land stream network. Freshwater Biology 58, 1016–1028. DOI:10.1111/fwb.12105. Invertebrate richness was lowest in intermittent reaches, but intermittent reaches harbored distinct taxa with adaptations to intermittency (e.g. egg and⁄or larval diapause). Thus, intermittent reaches contributed clearly to regional diversity. Predators were much more abundant in perennial than in intermittent reaches.

  6. Shimadzu, H., Dornelas, M., Henderson, P. a, Magurran, A.E., 2013. Diversity is maintained by seasonal variation in species abundance. BMC biology 11, 98. DOI:10.1186/1741-7007-11-98. Use 30-y data of monthly sampled estuarine fish assemblage. Seasonal fluctuations in species abundance allow coexistence. Species fall into distinct seasonal groups. Interestingly, this reflects the four seasons, not just a wet-dry or summer-winter pattern. Seasonal variation in richness and evenness linked to shifts in resource availability. Essentially, spatiotemporal shifts in community composition minimize competitive interactions and help stabilize total abundance.

  7. Review for journal. Re-review.

  8. Corliss, B.H., Brown, C.W., Sun, X., Showers, W.J., 2009. Deep-sea benthic diversity linked to seasonality of pelagic productivity. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 56, 835–841. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2008.12.009. Documented latitudinal patterns of North Atlantic deep-sea benthic foraminifera. Fits the typical latitudinal diversity gradient. Regions with low seasonality and more stable food input over an annual cycle have higher diversity, a more even distribution of species and higher richness.

  9. Johnson, R.C., Carreiro, M.M., Jin, H.S., Jack, J.D., 2012. Within-year temporal variation and life-cycle seasonality affect stream macroinvertebrate community structure and biotic metrics. Ecological Indicators 13, 206–214. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.06.004. Macroinvertebrates from three rural and three urban streams were sampled monthly in Kentucky to examine seasonal patterns.

  10. Chesson, P., Gebauer, R.L.E., Schwinning, S., Huntly, N., Wiegand, K., Ernest, M.S.K., Sher, A., Novoplansky, A., Weltzin, J.F., 2004. Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments. Oecologia 141, 236–253. DOI:10.1007/s00442-004-1551-1. Maintenance of diversity in arid and semi-arid environments. Focuses on resource pulses (rainfall) as a temporal coexistence mechanism. Emphasise that variability from pulsed rainfall does not reduce the importance of competition but allows differentiation for species to coexist. Essentially, two coexistence mechanisms at play: the storage effect and relative nonlinearity of competition. In these systems, life histories allowing persistence through bad times are fundamental to coexistence through the storage effect. They also identify other mechanisms of coexistence of these desert plant communities beyond the previous two. They briefly discuss how coexistence might differ when generalists are involved. Key to understand these dynamics to understand effects of global change.

  11. Mathias, A., Chesson, P., 2013. Coexistence and evolutionary dynamics mediated by seasonal environmental variation in annual plant communities. Theoretical Population Biology 84, 56–71. DOI:10.1016/j.tpb.2012.11.009. Really interesting paper, but lost me in the maths at times. Focuses on coexistence of annual plants through seasonal fluctuations of environmental conditions. Compare within-year single and double pulses of rainfall on two-species coexistence. Coexistence is possible on single pulse via the storage effect, but not evolutionarily stable. Double pulse, on the other hand, is stable. Essentially emphasises that seasonal pulses of resources can maintain or promote diversity through the storage effect.

  12. Linke, S., Bailey, R.C., Schwindt, J., 1999. Temporal variability of stream bioassessments using benthic macroinvertebrates. Freshwater Biology 42, 575–584. DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00492.x. Essentially demonstrated the importance of considering season in stream biomonitoring. Consistent differences in stream invertebrate biomonitoring metrics between summer and winter samples. For instance, bioassessment in winter indicates better value than summer. Note that many spp that indicate high water quality are those that favour cold water. They found the best predictive models were those that were built for each season.

  13. Kendall, B.E., 2015. Some directions in ecological theory. Ecology 96, 3117–3125. DOI:10.1890/14-2080.1. A personal account on some fruitful directions in ecological theory and past changes from theory being a source of conceptual ideas to now being used to quantitatively descirbe empirical observations.

  14. McMeans, B.C., McCann, K.S., Humphries, M., Rooney, N., Fisk, A.T., 2015. Food web structure in temporally-forced ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30, 662–672. DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2015.09.001. A look at the role of seasonality on food-webs. They use a case study from the Arctic to demonstrate their point that food webs shift with season. Emphasise this framework can help to understand the consequences of global change.

  15. Merritt, D.M., Scott, M.L., Poff, N.L., Auble, G.T., Lytle, D.A., 2010. Theory, methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation-flow response guilds. Freshwater Biology 55, 206–225. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02206.x. Review of tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation. First outline of the use of riparian vegetation-flow response guilds. Doesn’t go into detail of methods for flow response guilds but outlines five categories of guilds: life history, reproductive strategy, morphology, fluvial disturbance and water balance.

  16. Stromberg, J.C., Merritt, D.M., 2015. Riparian plant guilds of ephemeral, intermittent and perennial rivers. Freshwater Biology. Early view. DOI:10.1111/fwb.12686. Used clustering to identify different plant guilds from floodplains, terraces and uplands in rivers with varying flow: surface flow permanence, depth to ground water and intensity of fluvial disturbance.

  17. RE-READ: Colwell, R.K., 1974. Predictability, constancy, and contingency of periodic phenomena. Ecology 55, 1148–1153. Colwell’s classic paper on measuring the general characteristics of periodic phenomena: predictability, constancy and contingency. As predictability is the converse of uncertainty, it stands to reason that its calculation is based on the mathematics of information theory. Can be calculated very easily using Nick Bond’s R package ‘hydrostats’.

  18. Cauvy-Fraunié, S., Condom, T., Rabatel, A., Villacis, M., Jacobsen, D., Dangles, O., 2013. Technical Note: Glacial influence in tropical mountain hydrosystems evidenced by the diurnal cycle in water levels. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17, 4803–4816. DOI:10.5194/hess-17-4803-2013. Outlines the use of wavelets to track glacial influence by looking at power, frequency and temporal clustering of diurnal flow variation.

  19. Smith, L., Turcotte, D., Isacks, B., 1998. Stream flow characterization and feature detection using a discrete wavelet transform. Hydrological Processes 12, 233–249. Demonstrates wavelets as a tool for characterising streamflows. Uses five different hydroclimatic regions to do so.

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  24. Keitt, T.H., Fischer, J., 2006. Detection of scale-specific community dynamics using wavelets. Ecology 87, 2895–904. Quite similar to the previous nature paper. Looks at synchrony vs. compensation in response to long-term disturbance at an LTER site using wavelets.

  25. Steel, E.A., Lange, I.A., 2007. Using wavelet analysis to detect changes in water temperature regimes at multiple scales: effects of multi-purpose dams in the Willamette River Basin. River Research and Applications 23, 351–359. DOI:10.1002/rra.985. Identifies the temporal scales of variability in temperature that dams disrupt.

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  27. Fahimipour, A.K., Hein, A.M., 2014. The dynamics of assembling food webs. Ecology Letters 17, 606-613. DOI:10.1111/ele.12264. Food web structure develops according to repeatable trajectories that are strongly influenced by colonisation rate. They found webs with different colonisation rate had stable web topologies, despite strong assemblage turnover. This indicates network architecture begins early and remains similar through the assembly process.

  28. Adler, P.B., HilleRisLambers, J., Kyriakidis, P.C., Guan, Q., Levine, J.M., 2006. Climate variability has a stabilizing effect on the coexistence of prairie grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, 12793–12798. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0600599103. Evidence of the storage effect coexistence mechanism at work in relation to climatic variability.

  29. Gravel, D., Poisot, T., Desjardins-Proulx, P., 2014. Using neutral theory to reveal the contribution of meta-community processes to assembly in complex landscapes. Journal of Limnology 73, 61–73. DOI:10.4081/jlimnol.2014.807. Uses a combination of graph/network theory and neutral theory. Develop three models to differentiate between neutral, patch dynamics and species sorting using simulated data in four landscape types. Demonstrates the importance of landscape structure and network position.

  30. Economo, E.P., Keitt, T.H., 2008. Species diversity in neutral metacommunities: A network approach. Ecology Letters 11, 52–62. DOI:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01126.x. A network-focused look at metacommunities from a neutral perspective. Demonstrates that spatial structure within a metacommunity can promote gamma diversity.

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  41. Friendly review for colleagues.

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Praise for Wine Dark:

Wine Dark is an ethereal book where the idea of language, the theory of story becomes one with the knowledge of the self, a self burrowing, digging, trying to find a home, a place of residency under the grass in the great cemetery of words. Jenny Drai has found that out beyond all the words lies the body of language, and having come back, somehow is able to show us what it is to live, how it is we inhabit an alphabet.

—Carl Adamshick

In Wine Dark, Drai launches the reader into a language of scents, tastes, and colors that is as seductive as it is ominous. A sense of danger, of unreality or the sudden slap of reality, lurks around every corner. Like Scheherezade, Drai is telling stories to save her life, narrating the world around her as an American in Germany in order to understand it. Just as Virgil leads Dante, Scheherezade serves as Drai's guide in the psychological underworld of this collection, interrogating the nature of truth, the truth of storytelling, and the multiple truths of stories of the self. The pervasive presence of immigration and the dark liquids of wine, blood, and the sea contrasts with concrete references to tragedy, injustice, and the deaths of innocents from the Holocaust to Bosnia and Trayvon Martin. With the deft use of anaphora, internal and slant rhyme, and short lines that make effective use of elision, Drai is a powerful voice singing a subtle, sensitive music.

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Youth of BCP2017

I had the pleasure of attending the Brain-Child-Partners conference here in Toronto on Nov. 6-7 2017. I was there with CanChild, but was also representing the youth voice.

The first session, Can We Fix the Brain? shared some fascinating and exciting therapies that help to rewire the brain and improve mobility. But it was the question posed in the title that really engaged the crowd, a question which quickly morphed into Should we fix kids with disabilities, and to what extend? Given this is likely a common question among parents of newly diagnosed children, many parents in attendance stepped up to the microphones to over their thoughts and experiences. Listening to the many opinions on this question, a theme became clear to me:  We don’t need to be fixed; we need understanding and tools to help us achieve our potential and participate in society without stigma.

BCP2017, my first such conference, was an excellent example of research and community uniting around a common interest and goal — patient engagement. But how to we achieve effective patient engagement that satisfies all parties? This was a question that received a lot of attention but lacked a clear answer.

Several parents, both official presenters––including Rachel Martens, Julie Drury and Ann Douglas––and those in the audience, shared their experiences advocating for their children; what they’ve done, learned and need to change. I appreciate these stories more and more as I get older because they help me to better understand the challenges that my own parents faced and concurred in order to give me the best life possible. And it is by listening to these experiences that help researchers and clinicians understand what and how they can improve the lives of patients moving forward. I particularly loved what Louise Kinross, editor of BLOOM, had to say about clear and effective communication––if you want to know if parents understand your message, just ask.

Louise also used one of my favourite quotes, from Albert Einstein, to illustrate her point: “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well.” Those deep in the science often seem to lose sight of the fact that not all of us can, or care to, speak science. Though we greatly appreciate their work, it should be communicated in the language of those it is intended to help, otherwise it is almost entirely useless.

As important as the parent voice is, so is the voice of the patient. Symon Hay captured the issue well when he said, “I think quality of life should be the root as individuals, health care practitioners, care givers and researchers.” He also spoke about how lucky he was to have had a doctor who put more stock into who Symon was as a person, than just his diagnoses alone. This enabled him to live a full and active life (We have a shared love of travel), when it seemed, on paper at least, that he shouldn’t. I couldn’t agree with Symon more.

I was thrilled to be included with and meet the small group fellow youth with disabilities from across Canada at BCP2017. However, there should have been more of us. We should have been as considered and granted had as great a platform as parents.

Many of us with disabilities wouldn’t be where we are today without our parents, research, medical advancements and early intervention. For this I am forever thankful to all those involved in my care and success. But it’s important to remember that we, the patients, lived it and are here to share our insights. This is especially important when discussing the transitions from childhood to adulthood, or youth engagement. If you want to know what we think or need, either for ourselves or future generations of children and youth with disabilities––as you should––ask us.

Some of my takeaways from the Brain-Child-Partnership Conference 2017


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“If we’re not safe in our own churches, then where are we safe?” Pop quiz: Was the preceding sentence uttered by, a. One of the grieving congregants at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina? Or b. Elizabeth Hasselbeck of Fox and Friends, making the Charleston shooting into “an attack on faith” rather than a hate crime against a black church?

Congratulations! You have correctly guessed Elizabeth Hasselbeck. You are awarded nothing, and as a terrible anti-bonus, here’s her co-host Steve Doocy:

[E]xtraordinarily, they called it a hate crime, and some look at it as well, because it was a white guy, apparently, and a black church, but you made a great point just a moment ago about the hostility toward Christians — and it was a church — so maybe that’s what they’re talking about. They haven’t explained it to us.

Yes. Apparently a white guy.

Fox has grown incrementally smarter over the years about having stuff like this come out of the mouths of African Americans too, and so they also brought on Bishop E.W. Jackson, black Republican and frequent Fox guest, who observed, “There does seem to be a rising hostility against Christians in this country because of our Biblical views.”

Here’s the video, captured by Media Matters and which we saw via Wonkette:

This is increasingly taking shape as the Right-Wing Charleston Talking Point; appearing on The View later in the morning, Senator Lindsey Graham observed, “There are real people who are organized out there to kill people in religion and based on race, this guy’s just whacked out. But it’s 2015. There are people out there looking for Christians to kill them.”

As always, though — does Fox create the terrible talking points, or do they merely search #tcot and go with whatever they find?

What a great time to stop paying attention to the television for the remainder of the day/week/until the end of time.

Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly identified Fox and Friends’ resident blonde lady as Gretchen Carlson. That was the other one. This one is Elizabeth Hasselbeck. Oops.

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Chica’s Big Day

Poor little Chica…

Today is the day I scheduled to have Chica spayed.  I am more nervous then her, since she doesn’t really know what is happening.

Spay Clinic is packed…

I put her in her carrier to take her to the spay clinic.  She doesn’t like riding in it, but she does seem to be getting more used to it.  I sure hope so as she and I will be doing a lot of traveling together.  I got there at 7:00am and the place is packed with even people waiting outside.  Eventually they called her name and the vet went over everything with me as to what they will be doing and what I need to do after the surgery.

Here is a pic of her sleeping with her ducky on the new bed I purchased for the bumkins.  She crawls under the towel to get nice and warm.

She loves her little ducky and races from one end of my rig to the other playing with it.

People just love her…

The vets and their helpers just fell in love with her.  She is a very friendly dog and seems to like everyone.  The vet is going to clean her teeth and remove a couple of her baby teeth which she still has.  She said it will greatly improve her breath.  Thank goodness for that!!!

She will need to take antibiotics…

They did mention that she will need to take a couple of antibiotics.  One for her spaying and another for her teeth.  Thankfully the antibiotics are liquid and I can squirt them directly in her mouth.  I will be glad when today is over.  I planned a day of recuperation tomorrow for her to just relax and not be too stressed out driving.  Then it is off to Rockhound State Park outside of Deming, NM.

She loves the sun…

Here is a pic of her in her favorite spot when I am home, which is almost all the time now that Spring Training is over.

I just hope she is that relaxed when I pic her up at 5:00pm this afternoon.

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  1. What great pictures and such a cutie! My 4 footers Music and Violet send their best- having been there done that… and want you to know a towel warmed in the micro for 40 sec… is very comfy indeed when its been a stressful day or a bit sore. We all 3 send our best wishes. She will do great and realy love all those extra cuddles you will give her!

  2. So happy you took this little darling in and you have taken to each other. I lost my Lab Elsa a few months ago, we were so lonely without her, we adopted a blind 7 yr. old Lab, Lizzy from Labrador and Friends Dog Rescue in San Diego, Ca., and now, I volunteer for them, rescue dogs are the BEST.
    Good luck to you both…
    Woods n Paws,

  3. Chica will be fine and still a little sleepy (hopefully) this evening. You’re doing what is best for her. Lots of cuddles, and she will feel better in no time. I love the pictures – she is an adorable little cutie.

  4. Chica is so cute and her finding you makes her more special. She will be fine and knows you will take good care of her.

    Have fun at Rockhound. I will be there in a couple of weeks. It is one of my favorite spots.

  5. Good luck to Chica and you both know why she found you, a match made in Mesa. She is really cute. Biggest problem I can see is the steps getting in and out of rig.

  6. Chica will be fine but she will be groggy after surgery and sleep for most of the night after you pick her up. I love the photos of her in the bed and in the sunbeam. Just too, too cute.

  7. She’s going to still be pretty out of it and sleepy when you get her. But then your problem will be keeping her from ripping out the stitches. Those pictures of her are so very very cute. She is such a wonderful traveling companion for you.

  8. OMG, Jim, your little girl is so photogenic. You two are so lucky to have each other. You will have to watch her so she doesn’t lick, chew… her stitches. Maybe ask the vet for a “e-collar” so she can’t reach them . I had cocker, years ago, that licked her stitches out in the middle of the night, We had to get the vet back to surgery at 3:am. to put her back together. It was pretty serious. I don’t want you to experience that.

  9. Absolutely adorable. She’s won my heart and I can only imagine how you feel about her. What a great traveling companion. She’ll be your friend for life. Thanks for posting the pics. Please give us an update on her when you can.

  10. She is the dearest little baby girl!! so glad you have that travel companion now- having a pet and one that needed a home is soo priceless!!!! the pics are sooo adorable!

  11. I have had many females spayed, and it is a very simple surgery, though traumatic for the person who loves her, just keep her quiet, carry her up and down the steps,and shell be fine.Mine are stock dogs and har to keep down. The collar is a perfect idea, you don’t want to watch her constantly. And worry that shell pick at her tummy, shes perfect for you, just adorable. the best dogs aree the ones who have been on their own for a bit, they’re so happy to find love!!you’ll both be fine!!

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Zerline HughesFor now, there’s not much we can do about police brutality against our children of color. We post our social media memes, share news stories, watch footage and talk about how horrible the images are among ourselves. Some of us even put boots to the ground and march to the offices of our policymakers to advocate for change.

But in the meantime, it’s safe to say that nothing’s going to change immediately. The only two real-time things we can do are talk to our black youth and be an eyewitness — even to their own experience, according to a counselor and a former police officer turned anti-police brutality advocate.

Last month in Washington, D.C., We Act Radio’s Luv Lounge taped in front of an audience a segment on “Our Children & the Law.” I watched counselor LaNail Plummer and Jonathan Newton, anti-police brutality advocate, explain how to raise children of color — particularly black youth — in a society that is constantly targeting them.

Concerned with how my 10- and 12-year-olds are taking in all the misconduct and brutality cases, and senseless killings of black men, I wonder how they would react if put into a similar situation. Really, what should they do if/when they actually come in contact with a police officer; whether they’ve done something wrong, are witnessing a crime or want to help defend a friend or family member?

I want them to know how to respond, but I don’t have any idea what to tell them. Right now I tell them stay calm, don’t answer any questions, demand that they call a lawyer and your mother … but realistically, these kids are too young to do any of that.

Plus, will that get them in more trouble? And thirdly, I simply don’t see any of that happening. My son was too afraid to assert himself with the local librarian when he was accused of being too old to be in the children’s section when he was the right age (he’s just a bit tall).

Finally, can you imagine a kid “demanding” a lawyer in front of a police officer? Yeah, me neither.

My daughter is deathly afraid of police. When I was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign when she was about 6, she leaped into the cargo area of the car to hide from the officer before I could even stop the car. I thought for sure the officer was going to shoot at us or demand we get out of the car after seeing that.

hub_graphic_racialdisp-01I had to explain to her that we — she — had done nothing wrong. I even asked the officer to explain that she was not in any trouble. My son says he’s “not yet” scared of the police. He does say that the potential of more police brutality cases would make him more fearful. He says if he steers away from police and criminal activity, he should be fine. That makes total sense, but unfortunately, that is not how it has been working as of late.

“Young people do not understand why all of this is happening. The impact is really affecting our youth. We need to prepare our children for these circumstances,” said radio show guest Newton, president of the National Association Against Police Brutality (NAAPB), father and former police officer. “My conversation has been to survive. Police are armed with a belt, Taser and gun. You’re going to end up being beat or killed by an officer who is out of control.”

Young people need to become good witnesses for things we cannot stop.

“If you’re in a situation where you see an officer is doing something that is going to turn into a deadly situation, legally speaking, the only thing people can do is try to survive,” he said.

See. I told ya. There really isn’t much we can do. Grin and bear it — and record it. Just great. But according to Plummer, we can get deeper into our youths’ heads.

“A lot of it has to do with the conversations we have with our children,” said radio guest Plummer, who is also a Trinity University professor and mother.

“Our children are being traumatized day in and day out, and they don’t know if they will be next. We have to build their resilience,” she said.

Parents must train children to push through a traumatic event with a thought, she said. Children need to be exposed to what’s happening in a very sensitive way, through careful conversations, video or by attending protests, so they can build a resilience to traumatic episodes, she said.

“Otherwise, they will experience them in a very different way … through urban PTSD,” Plummer explained. “Our children here in the U.S. are products of war.”

The three symptoms of urban PTSD are hyperarousal (fighting back), numbing (desensitizing or having that “I’m gonna die anyway” attitude) or flashback (operating in a bipolar, erratic manner).

“We need to start developing their brain to be resilient. We can’t stop this right now. If we could, we’d stop this tomorrow, but that’s not our reality,” she added.

Unfortunately, it’s true — it's not our reality. So in the meantime, I need to keep the kids’ phones charged and memory space available so they can provide evidence of what’s going on out there on the streets to their counterparts — and themselves. And I’ll have to continue to have those difficult conversations that remind them daily that they are different and must be wary of those they were once told would protect them.

That’s our reality.

Zerline Hughes is a Washington, D.C., communications consultant and blogger on social justice issues. Her blog Not These Two focuses on keeping her children out of the school-to-prison pipeline. Follow her on Twitter at @zerlinehughes.

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  1. E: The problem with all kids and young adults is that they are not smart enough to know that the policeman is not a judge. At the point of contact with the policy, you simply COMPLY with their orders. Arguments are for your lawyer to make in a courtroom. Its THAT simple, but younger American’s just don’t get it, haven’t been trained and have not been brought up properly to see how the system works.

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  3. I truely can not compare our situation in Europe but there are things that are the same.Education at school and education home is first step.Secondly I give the kids here trust in themself and in the fact that police exists from us ,we are the police and police exists also from white and black to serves us.
    Together we make the society and only cooperating and transparency we trust eacht other and keep trust.
    An incident once a year or oftener makes the policemen not directly a danger for whomever.
    In the third where I came from a policeman could take you from street ,beat you and leave you on street,because our judges were corrupt and there was not a rule of law,but believe me in US and Europe is this realty not one of everyday,so every incident is one too much,but please keep your trust in authorities,they exists from us and serves us.

    Good luck and all symphaty to all of you my friends


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Sr Dir., Line & Assortment Planning Capabillties

Posted on Nov 12, 2018 by Nike

Portland, OR 97201
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Every successful team at Nike, Inc. needs a brilliant game plan. Strategic Planning teams keep the company moving in the right direction by leading the strategic business planning process and spearheading transformational projects across Nike businesses and geographies. Embedded in teams across the company, strategy professionals explore complex business issues; conduct consumer, competitive and market analyses; create financial models and develop action plans. The Strategic Planning teams help write the future of sport by charting Nike's path forward.

Our vision is to transform the way we plan our product lines and assortments at Nike. Over the last several seasons, we have revamped our strategy to ensure we can better react to changing consumer behaviors in the marketplace, while also establishing more collaborative decision-making that reduces volatility in our product creation and assortment planning processes. We are on the right trajectory to maintain the industry standard, however our ultimate north star is to define a best-in-class capability that creates a lasting competitive advantage.

As Sr. Director of Line and Assortment Planning Capability, you will define and execute a cross-functional vision for all process and tools used for product line and assortment planning for the Nike Brand. This role will require you to obsess over the user experience for our design, product and merchandising teams and define a multi-year roadmap for the ecosystem of software applications that are required to execute our seasonal workload. In this effort, you will work across business, analytics and technology teams, at Global and Geo levels, to create best in class tools delivering efficiency and speed.

The primary accountability of your position will be to develop the Product Roadmap, set requirements and manage the implementation for all digital tools used for line and assortment planning. Based on this roadmap, you will need to work with business and operations partners to execute any process and behavioral changes required capture the most value from the tools being developed. You will manage multiple teams that will be responsible for specific processes, applications and zones of business. You will also need to work cross-functionally to ensure the vision and roadmap are complimentary to capabilities being developed within our partner organizations.

  • Bachelor's Degree plus 10+ years' relevant experience or MBA and 5+ years' experience
  • Experience in developing product, merchandising and planning capabilities
  • Experience with the BI and line planning applications
  • Strong analytical knowledge and understanding
  • Proven experience in project management
  • UX Design or Data Visualization experience preferred
  • Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others
  • Able to lead cross-functional work and influence senior level stakeholders
  • Able to respond to and prioritize changing demands
  • Strong oral and written communication skills

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