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RICHMOND, Calif., - More than 300 volunteers are expected to roll-up their sleeves to rebuild the aging John F. Kennedy Park into a community gem. The City of Richmond, in partnership with The Trust for Public Land, is championing the one-day community-build park project in the City’s Park Plaza neighborhood, which will also include the installation of more than neighborhood trees in celebration of Arbor Day.
Built in 1968, the seven-acre park will be renovated to meet the changing needs of today’s park users and bring multiple benefits to the neighborhood. The project and process is a catalyst of a new era for park revitalization and cross-sector partnerships.
“I’ll be there with a wheel barrel and ready to work,” said Mayor Tom Butt who’s a strong supporter of expanding the City’s urban park footprint. “I applaud the commitment of the neighborhood residents who have been working with our urban planners to redesign the park into something we can all be proud of.”
Since April 2015, more than 400 community members have joined in the participatory process to design the park improvements. Together, they are helping shape future programs aimed at improving quality of life and providing connections to meaningful, safe, beautiful outdoor spaces for people of all ages.
“Our park has been underutilized for many years for a variety of reasons,” says Madalyn Law, President of the Park Plaza Neighborhood Council. “The rebuild of JFK Park gives our neighbors an opportunity to use the park again in a more positive environment with new features designed for all ages to come together for health and wellness and fun in the outdoors.
Generously funded and technically supported by The Trust for Public Land, the new design will feature a family zone with a children’s playscape, offering a fun environment designed to enhance youth's imagination around play, and build positive childhood memories. The park will be the home of the City of Richmond’s first Fitness ZoneTM and fitness trail. Together, the fully-accessible and senior-friendly fitness zone and the fitness trail encourage area residents to meet in the park and support one another in healthy lifestyle choices and strengthening social ties.
“Every Richmond resident deserves a quality park within walking distance from their home,” said Gina Fromer, The Trust for Public Land California State Director. “Good parks make neighborhoods healthy and whole.”
Other park improvements include a community garden, the installation of energy efficient LED lights, a 5,000 square foot mural, and a rain garden.
“With the new improvements going into the park, I have no doubt that it will be a community treasure for generations to come,” said Mayor Butt. “Open space that has a mix of passive and active use and is appropriate for different age groups means everyone in our community will be able to enjoy it.”
The upcoming volunteer action is part of the City’s on-going commitment to invest in its neighborhoods. Earlier this year, more than 100 volunteers came together to rebuild the softball field in an event sponsored by O.C. Jones & Sons, beginning a powerful movement for change in the neighborhood.
Chevron is providing funding for the Chevron STEM Learning Center and Community Plaza, which will provide a teaching space for local schools to use to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), as well as a picnic pavilion for residents to enjoy.
“We are proud to partner with the City of Richmond on this park project, which will help spark interest in STEM for students at neighboring schools,” said Kory Judd, general manager of the Chevron Richmond Refinery. “The John F. Kennedy Park provides a unique opportunity for our neighbors and students to enjoy the park space and explore STEM education in a park setting.”
In addition to the community-build park event, the public is invited to visit The 50 Tour: Champions of the Bay presented by Chevron. The tour will feature the eight Vince Lombardi trophies from the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers and a guest appearance by an NFL legend. It will also feature the Chevron STEM Zone, an interactive learning space that demonstrates how STEM fuels innovation all around us – through the lens of football.
"I've been a proud resident of the south east community for over 40 years and it's wonderful that some of our requested neighborhood improvements are coming to fruition," said Naomi Williams, President of the Pullman Neighborhood Council. "With the park improvements and the reopening of the Richmond Swim Center, we are seeing a south east renaissance."
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Connections among the Twitter users who follow @Amy_Harmon when queried on August 15, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another.
See: twitter.com/#!/amy_harmon
Layout using the "Group Layout" composed of tiled bounded regions. Clusters calculated by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm are also encoded by color.
A larger version of the image is here:
Betweenness Centrality is defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality#Betweenness_centrality
Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm is defined here: pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v70/i6/e066111
Top most between users:
@amy_harmon
@nytimes
@nickkristof
@billgates
@rebeccaskloot
@shitmydadsays
@stevesilberman
@matthewherper
@markoff
@brainpicker
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The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.
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Sketchnote of a talk by Chris Atherton (@finiteattention) at GOTO Zurich in April 2013. Chris covered a whole range of cognitive science theories and gave a load of great examples to illustrate the talk.
Autoscatto in spiaggia di circa 30 secondi...Passa una specie di meteora nel cielo stellato..Una scia rossa non penso una stella cadente...Viaggia parallela all orizzonte per 10 lunghi secondi...
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ARM's North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory is providing data about cloud and radiative processes at high latitudes. Scientists use NSA data to improve how these processes are represented in earth system models.
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Japanese Garden＆Art
念佛宗(念仏宗無量寿寺) 総本山 兵庫県加東市
Nenbutsushu Sanpouzan Muryojuji "The Royal Grand Hall of Buddhism"
This is the only temple of the world that Buddha scriptures are dedicated by Buddhist leaders from 33 countries and one region around the world, His Majesty the King, His Excellency Prime Minister, and President of the Country.
Connect with U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart online!
Back to school amid coronavirus precautions
By Geoffrey Morris, Stuttgart Citizen volunteer
For the first time since March, our students at U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart
are back in school.
On Aug. 24, Stuttgart High School, Patch Middle School, Stuttgart Elementary
School, Patch Elementary School, and Robinson Elementary School all reopened for in-person learning. The openings came amid new coronavirus restriction
measures.
“We want to set expectations from day one,” said SHS Vice-Principal Vincent
Power, on the high school PA system at the start of the day.
Students at the five schools followed similar precautions including extensive mask-wearing, social distancing wherever possible, hand sanitizing
and washing, and delaying entry into the schools. Classrooms are arranged to
allow for the greatest distance between each other – in some rooms enough to
not have masks on during class.
At Stuttgart Elementary School and Patch Elementary School, both on Panzer Kaserne in Böblingen, students lined up with their teachers before going into the building. There students learned how to physically distance
themselves.
At Patch, teachers wore buttons with their images on them, so students know
what they look like behind the coronavirus mask.
“Students came to school ready to learn, and teachers were prepared as
well,” said Sonja Rodriguez, Patch Elementary School Principal.
(Released - U.S. Army photo by Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart)
PHOTO CAPTION: Jason Lee collects his supplies to begin second grade at Patch
Elementary School amid coronavirus restrictions, which include masks and
physical distancing in the classroom.
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Cholera has been endemic in Baraka over the last years. Lake Tanganyika may act as a reservoir for the bacteria. Years of war and absence of government had destroyed the water system and returning refugees had dangerously overcrowded Baraka. From here the bacteria spread along the roads up the coast and in land causing smaller epidemics in Lulimba, Kilembwe and elsewhere.
Late last year UNICEF and www.acted.org with a local NGO CHR and the local water authority started the construction of a 30km piped water system bringing water down from the hills with water fountains across the town. It provides more than 30,000 people with drinking water. Cholera has all but disappeared. MSF is closing down their Cholera Treatment Centre due to lack of patients. Cholera has significantly reduced throughout the territory of Fizi. It has the additional benefit of reducing the distances women and child have to carry 20kg jerricans of water.
The cloth in the girls head is to cushion the weight of the water container.
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Uber UK strike: users urged not to cross 'digital picket line'
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Finally went to the lovely people at the Japan Centre on Regent Street in London.
While Asahi Super Dry and Kirin Ichiban are easy enough to find in some bars in the capital, that's about it for Japanese beer. So, ever curious, I took myself into town to further my "education".
That education has led me to find out that the OWA beer is not from Japan. It's a Belgian-style beer made by Japanese brewmaster Leo Imai in Belgium.
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CNUG April 2012 Users Group
Get Yourself Kinect-ed
This month we look at how you can build Windows applications that utilize Microsoft Kinect for Windows.
Prior to the regularly scheduled CNUG meeting the Chicago Azure Cloud Users Group and Scott Seely will present "Intro to Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appfabric" at 5:30PM.
Sponsor: Solving IT!
Website: www.solvingit.com/
When: April 18th
Where: Microsoft Downers Grove
3025 Highland Parkway
Downers Grove, IL
Agenda:
5:30PM - Arrival
6:30PM - Food and Beverages
7:00PM - Get Yourself Kinect-ed! - Greg Levenhagen, Skyline Technologies
Abstract:
Kinect development used to mean hacking without any support, but now that the Kinect SDK, Kinect for Windows hardware and commercial support for non-XBOX 360 applications has been released, the full power of the Kinect is unleashed. Come see how to start developing with the Kinect, using its hardware features and what the Kinect SDK provides.
Speaker Bio:
Greg Levenhagen has been designing and developing enterprise solutions, leading projects for a variety of businesses for over 10 years and has worked on a diverse set of platforms using many different tools. He is a true enthusiast of computer science, with passions and interests including mobile, cloud, architecture, parallel, testing, agile, ALM, UX, 3D/games, languages and much more. Greg is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies, Board member of the Fox Valley .NET User's Group, cofounder of the Northeast WI Agile User’s Group, INETA speaker, IEEE member, ACM member, substitute professor and a PhD student.
Along with being a life-long geek, Greg enjoys golfing, football, woodworking, philosophy and stimulating conversation.
You can find Greg at devtreats.com and @GregLevenhagen.
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Eureka! This new EM Spectrum exhibit takes advantage of twin 4K UHD screens and all of the coding, user interface, graphic design, and content is entirely new.
For this exhibit, we developed custom software which allows visitors to view both terrestrial and celestial objects across different wavelengths. The exhibit runs on an Ideum 100” dual 4K UHD Pano multitouch table. All of the content was developed specifically for the application. Ideum conducted a multispectral photo shoot for terrestrial objects and helped collect the latest celestial images. We worked with Science World in Vancouver to find appropriate images for the exhibit and collaborated on the content and text descriptions.
The 8K EM spectrum imaging exhibit will debut in the Eureka! Gallery at Science World at Telus World of Science in Vancouver in late February 2015. You can learn more about the Pano 100” multitouch table or the EM Spectrum exhibiton the Ideum website.
Upper Campground at Lake Como re-opened to the public in July, 2011 after undergoing a major renovation. The popular campground located on the north side of Lake Como has 21 camp sites all equipped with new fire rings and picnic tables, four walk-in tent camp sites (equipped with table, fire rings, tent pad and walkway to the site), two new outhouses, and a new loop with 9 additional camp sites. The camp sites cost $8 per night and are available on a first come basis.
Lake Como Recreation Area is located on the Darby Ranger District and is the most utilized recreation site on the Bitterroot National Forest and in the entire Northern Rockies Region of the Forest Service System. It is the only designated Forest Service High Impact Recreation Area in Montana, northern Idaho and portions of North and South Dakota and is visited by more than 100,000 people annually. The area is extremely popular with boaters, horseback riders, mountain bikers, hikers, day users, campers, and x-country skiers.
In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to quickly get a list of users connected to a server via Remote Desktop (RDP).
Whether you have a fully-fledged Remote Desktop Services (RDS) deployment, or just want to see which administrators are managing a server, there are several ways to view ...
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