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Every year, Vancouver Film School hosts a number of workshops modeled after the school's many programs - from Acting to Digital Design.
Find out more about VFS Summer Intensives programs at vfs.com/summerintensives.
Son in neurosurgery intensive care, awaiting surgery as soon as he can be fit into the schedule. Mom wanders halls a bit every few hours to stay awake. The right side of the image shows a reflected view of the ward he is in and the left side shows the photographic art decorating the long corridor wall separating the adult wing from the pediatric unit. This is not "your father's" hospital unit: it's high tech, efficient and even aesthetically-pleasing. Good things!
The unusual reflected self-portrait comes as I shoot directly towards a curved glass wall. This wall is made of tall, vertical panels that are frosted glass with curving, decorative stripes of clear glass. The green cast comes from the color of the glass on this interior side of the wall. From the main focus point on the lobby for this unit on the other side, glowing colors of white, translucent glass, pink and yellow appear from the lighting. Another floor has such a wall in this hospital - pictured in three previous photos on my stream about 2 1/2 years ago. Hey, I've got to stop meeting myself like this!
Film Production Summer Intensive.
Find out more about VFS Summer Intensive programs at vfs.com/summerintensives.
Every year, Vancouver Film School hosts a number of workshops modeled after the school's many programs - from Acting to Digital Design.
Find out more about VFS Summer Intensives programs at vfs.com/summerintensives.
The elevator shaft, the intensive portion of ASLA's green roof (which also includes the staircase), has 21 inches of soil. It's able to accommodate sumac trees along with the trumpet vine.
UAB School of Nursing NNE Onsite Intensive Wednesday August 3, 2016 in Birmigham, Alabama. (UAB School of Nursing / Frank Couch)
Intensive care patient, CT scan. Coloured 3-D computed tomography (CT) scan of a ski accident victim. A respirator and suction tube in his mouth allows the patient to breathe. The patient is wearing a neck support. This image was produced using a multi-slice CT scanner, which uses a thin X-ray beam to scan around the patient collecting data from different angles to create 'slices' of the body. A computer reconstructs the slices into coloured three-dimensional images of the body, including bones and soft tissue. This image was created using OsiriX medical imaging software which allows surgeons to navigate around the body using fly-through animations of the data.
The U.S. Coast Guard Academy welcomes two hundred and ninety-one young women and men to the Class of 2025 for Day One, June 28, 2021.
Day One marks the start of Swab Summer, an intensive seven-week program that prepares students for military and Academy life.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matt Thieme
Employees of the Mogollon Rim Ranger District gathered at Blue Ridge Ranger Station on September 28, 2017 for the annual District Employee Work Day. This year's project was pest control! The group installed wire mesh around the foundations of two modular office buildings in an effort to keep rodents from digging under the edges of the buildings and entering the interior. Several incursions by mice had damage in some of the offices, with the rodents chewing clothing and paper, getting into storage areas, and generally making a mess. The morning started off with a briefing to cover safety topics and the plan for the work. Participants grabbed picks and shovels, and dug out one foot deep trenches around the two buildings. Employees laid down fine wire mesh material in the trenches, and shovel-wielders quickly filled the dirt back in.
At the end of every summer season, each of the Ranger Districts holds an employee work day. Employees use the opportunity to tackle a much-needed project on the District. Projects often include fence building, landscaping and brush work, clean-ups, and other labor-intensive maintenance and repair work that can be accomplished quickly with a large group of people. Employees from all fields of work come together to help, including office workers, fire fighters, archaeologists, soil scientists, and many others. The teamwork and camaradarie gives participants an opportunity to get to know their fellow District employees, and achieve the satisfaction of completing a project.
Following the work day project, the District held a potluck lunch to celebrate the retirement Rick and Marsha Johnson, long time seasonal workers who had served in fire prevention and recreation (respectively) for several years on the District.
Photo taken September 26, 2017 by Deborah Lee Soltesz. Credit U.S. Forest Service Coconino National Forest.
Tactical shooting requires agile and adaptive thinkers able to handle the challenges of full spectrum operations in an era of persistent conflict. To meet this requirement, TAPS delivers a comprehensive, systematic, progressive Train-the-Trainer shooting program focused on fundamental mastery and built for Law Enforcement officers, military personal, and qualified civilians. Designed for leaders and trainers, the TAPS course also applies to the patrol-level officer, basic level Soldiers, and civilian self & home defense minded shooters. The approach to instruction is through coaching and mentorship and both demonstrates and transfers a training method that is safe, effective, combat relevant, and encourages a continuous thought process that demands accountability. Training is conducted on the range and focuses on advanced refinement of the basic fundamentals of marksmanship as applied to the primary and secondary weapons systems. Utilizing a building block learning model, TAPS combines the pressures and dynamics of competitive shooting and tactical application. While course of instruction is on the firing range, the TAPS training approach also translates into training venues outside the range.
Course Outline:
The 2-day course offering provides the following training and instruction:
- Lecture on proper weapons handling and safety
- Refresh the fundamentals and grouping exercises
- Conduct a diagnostic course of fire
- Conduct a discussion on the importance of performing a focal shift during training and avoiding mundane drills that do not encourage a thought process
- Other topics covered and practiced are; grouping exercises with both primary and secondary weapon systems, target discrimination, use of barricades, movement, close quarter battle techniques, immediate action drills, ballistics 101, transitions, magazine changes
- Escalation of training and intensity will vary depending on number of students and their skill level though the core of the course will always remain the same
- This course is marksmanship intensive.
Instructor: Patrick McNamara (AKA - "Mac")
Intensive egg farm belonging to the biggest layers industry in Colombia, Incubadora Santander. Pictured: Rows of intensively-farmed egg laying chickens. © WSPA/Hector Delgado
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You never know where a poem will end up. (More legible in the large view.)
Every so often I Google myself. What turns up is a hodgepodge of magazine indices, running race results, transcription acknowledgements, blog material, personal profiles, and whatnot.
On Thursday I learned that a poem of mine had been used in a business school case, in what I think is a very cool way. I was delighted for a number of reasons, but I immediately searched for the author's contact info because he hadn't included bibliographic information about where the poem was first published. Properly, that should be included.
The case is Professor John K. Shank's "Jones Ironworks, Inc." (available as a Word download here. ) My poem, "Labor Intensive," appears at the end. My name is there as the author (hence the Google find), but the sonnet first appeared in the Harvard Business Review's July-August 1986 issue, No. 86414. "Labor Intensive" follows Professor Wickham Skinner's article, "The productivity paradox."
Shank adapted his case from one written by Professor Felix Kollaritsch of the Ohio State University, but I couldn't find out from a Web search if Kollaritsch had also used the poem.
I also wrote to Shank that having my poem appear in a case creates an educational full circle. It was inspired by a presentation given at the Harvard Business School, where I was then employed. The poem's genesis, however, lay in the stories told by Professor Lee A. Borah, Jr., now retired from Wagner College, where I received my BA in Psychology. Dr. Borah and I still keep in touch. His Industrial Psychology course exposed me to my first case study. I subsequently acquired an MS in Applied Psychology from Stevens Institute of Technology, with a concentration in Human Factors.
The inspiration for "Labor Intensive" also produced "Cog." I'd sent that story first to Tales of the Unanticipated, a magazine of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society, in honor of Dr. Borah's education at the University of Minnesota. "Cog" appeared in TOTU's Fall/Winter 1988 issue.
Almost three-quarters of my e-mail to Shank was my response to his case, because it sparked my own critical analysis muscles.
A search for "Jones Ironworks" shows the case has been taught at the Asian Institute of Technology School of Management, the University of Alabama, Johns Hopkins University, Marshall University in West Virginia, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University in Thailand, the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, and the University of Washington Business School -- in addition to the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University, where Shank had taught. The case is also part of Professor Shank's book, Cases in Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, published through South-Western College Publishing and available through numerous outlets.
I sent my e-mail off to Shank. It bounced back. I did another search -- and learned that Professor Shank died on March 30, 2006.
Wrote Tuck School Dean, Paul Damos:
Professor Shank touched the lives of thousands of students, faculty members and business leaders over the course of his academic career at Harvard, Tuck, Ohio State, Babson, and the Naval Post Graduate School....Many graduates over his twenty year career at Tuck will remember his incredible presence in the classroom and his amazing intellect. He published 16 books and wrote more than 100 articles for leading journals in accounting, finance and management. Far from complete retirement, John was still writing and teaching, and he had just joined the Board of Directors of Lazard, Ltd....John was a core member of the Tuck family, a mentor and friend to many, and a passionate soul who had an impact on all that he met." (Tuck2000 Blog)
I wish I'd known about the case when he was still alive, so that I could have thanked him then. I've mailed a printout of my e-mail and condolences to the Tuck School.
Since the "Green Revolution" fertilizer application in cropland has increased dramatically with the expansion on agricultural land-use. An increase in cropland will result in a higher application of agrochemicals including fertilizer to cropland and more nutrients entering water bodies.
Photo Credit: Gene Alexander | U.S. Department of Agriculture
2015 Design Build Intensive: MFA in Applied Craft + Design
The MFA in Applied Craft + Design degree program (AC+D) in Portland, OR (a joint program of Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art) begins each year with a 10 day pre-semester, collaborative Design Build Intensive project intended to help students get to know each other and learn how to work together by designing and building a project for an actual client who will benefit from the students' skills.
This year's collaborator is Outgrowing Hunger whose mission is "to get healthy food into the mouths of Hungry People". The organization "transforms unused private, public and institutional land into Neighborhood Gardens, where healthy food, resilient community, and economic opportunity spring up together". For this Design Build Intensive the AC+D students will focus on the East Portland Neighborhood Garden (EPNG), which provides personal gardening and fresh produce work-trade opportunities.
The East Portland Neighborhood Garden has plots that range from 360 – 1550 square feet, tended primarily by 115 Bhutanese, Burmese refugee and Latino immigrant families who literally live off of the garden's harvest. Many must commute up to two miles on foot to get to the garden, after which they often work 6 – 8 hours a day tending, harvesting and preparing traditional fermented vegetables. The entire site is almost 100% garden space with little area for rest and relief, not to mention protection from the rain and sun.
There is so much AC+D can do for EPNG!
The magic of the AC+D Design Build Intensive is the conversation and connection that happens between two communities who normally would not have come together. EPNG and ACD will meet to collaboratively discover the true needs of the community. It is clear already that there is much that can be improved. The design process will not begin until the students meet with the gardeners, but to give a sense of the potential scope the project could include: benches with shaded cover for tired gardeners and nursing mothers; raised beds with ADA accessibility for the Senior Gardens; a protective shed to secure the five wheelbarrows; a privacy shield for the portable restroom; a removable cover for the outdoor kitchen used to prepare the harvests for community and fundraising events, and the list goes on…
AC+D DESIGN BUILD: MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH MAKING
Designers in education and industry fields routinely and assuredly assert that design thinking strategies can deliver the “game-changing” ideas needed to address the critical and complex problems of our times. Frequently, however, it seems we’re seduced by and fall in love with the promise(s) of these ideas, and are less committed to following through with their actual realization with the same degree of passion. The AC+D Design Build Intensive is an effort to provide a ‘proof of the pudding is in the eating’ model of design education and practice of the first year MFA AC+D students working together designing and building a project for an actual client.
Emphasizing a philosophy of civic engagement, The AC+D Design Build Intensives are selected based on their potential to benefit an organization or population that generally does not have access to the services of designers, builders and makers. These projects put design thinking into action and solve local community problems.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
The Class of 2022 participates in Day One, the start of Swab Summer and the beginning of their 200-week journey to becoming an officer, July 2, 2018.
Swab Summer is an intensive seven-week program, that prepares students for military and Academy life.
Cadre, second class cadets in-charge of the swabs training, will lead swabs through a series of challenging tasks, events and evolutions.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Diana Sherbs