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Possibly Square’s most fascinating portion is its own Money App, with 24 million active users going to infinite capability and 2020 to build its own service offerings out.
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I am very pleased to inform you that preparations for our next Triennial Conference are going well. It is the Executive Committee’s pleasure to confirm that the Conference, scheduled for December 2018, will be co-hosted by the Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA) and the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) in Melbourne. Bill Green and other colleagues from Australia are putting together a Program that will ensure productive conversations about and across the worldwide field. More information is available at the Conference website (http://www.iaacs2018.info) or through our IAACS page (www.iaacs.ca).
I also remind you all that our term as IAACS Executive Committee Officers is finishing and that we will have a new round of elections. Zhang Hua, as a member of the Nominations Committee, will contact you soon about these elections.
The current elected Executive members are willing to stand for election in order to serve another term; our only exception is Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, our current Treasurer, who recently was elected President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education – congratulations, Nicholas! Fortunately, our colleague Michael Uljens, from Åbo Akademi University in Finland, accepted our invitation to step in for Nicholas and to run for election as part of the current Executive. We therefore would like to present our names again for your consideration — Elizabeth Macedo (President, Brazil); Leslie Le Grange (Vice-president, South Africa); Michael Uljens (Treasurer, Finland) and Poonam Batra (Secretary, India) — hoping that we could continue our work together for the next 3 years in fostering collective projects and further developing IAACS’s stated commitments to continuing development of the worldwide curriculum field.
We are happy to announce that, in our just-ending term of office, members of the Executive were able to improve two of our most important spaces of conversation, (besides the triennial conferences): our IAACS Webpage and our Journal (TCI). We also worked more closely with the National Associations, integrating databases and getting together for sustained discussion of pressing issues during our International as well as various national conferences. For the next elected term, we would like to continue improvements in communicative relationships among IAACS and the various national fields, especially by working more closely with our countries’ Representatives. To support, sustain and further these advancements, it is also important that we continue to have the most representative Board possible. We will count on all Affiliates to help us with these and all aspects of IAACS’s declared mission, both during and continuing past the actual Executive election.
On behalf of the Executive, I offer thanks for your continuing support of all IAACS’s commitments and activities.Actor Oh Seung Yoon belatedly revealed to have enlisted for mandatory military service.
On January 29, an entertainment insider revealed, "Oh Seung Yoon quietly enlisted in September of last year. He reached the age to go to the military, and he tried to avoid informing those around him." He's said to be currently serving as an active-duty soldier.
In related news, Oh Seung Yoon has been out of the limelight ever since he was booked for aiding and abetting his girlfriend's DUI in July of 2019.
Stay tuned for updates on Oh Seung Yoon.
After working pretty well for many, many months, my external mic, a Blue Yeti, suddenly started having issues in Microsoft Teams on macOS. The issue was isolated to Teams, other video and audio solutions worked fine.
For some reason, Teams had decided to start auto-adjusting the input level on its own, rendering it pretty useless. While some might say it’s a blessing that I get auto-muted, seemingly at random, but for me at least it’s pretty annoying.
Changing to the internal mic in my MacBook did the trick, but that’s not really a solution when you have a proper external microphone! According to Microsoft Teams UserVoice, lots of people are having issues with this, so hopefully a real fix for this issue is on it’s way.
Bjoern Brundert also tweeted about the issue, and how he solved it with a virtual microphone device, which got me thinking it should be possible to do this also with built-in macOS tools.
Start Audio Midi Setup from Applications->Utilities This will show the available audio devices, both input and output.
Click on the small + on the bottom left, and select Create Aggregate Device.
Select the inputs you want to include in aggregate device group, here I selected my Yeti.
Rename the Multi-Output Device to something that makes sense to you, by clicking its name.
Restart Teams, if it’s already running, to make the new device available, and switch to the newly created aggregate device as your input source!
Turns out Microsoft Teams does not auto-adjust the levels on virtual devices like this, so you’ll be able to still use your external microphone simply by putting it into a Aggregate Device, without a requirement for any 3rd-party software.
Now all we have to do is wait for Microsoft to actually fix the issue, so we don’t have to rely on workarounds like this to be able to use our equipment.
Then and than are easily confused in written English. Here we show you the difference between these little words to help you avoid embarrassing mistakes in you written English.
First, we went to the baker’s then the butcher’s then the candlestick maker’s.
Use than to introduce the second part of a comparison.A recent paper published in the Web of Conferences journal tracked the progress of Clarias gariepinus, the African sharptooth catfish, during a three-month feed trial, during which some were given Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis probiotics.
The researchers wanted to determine if supplementing aquafeed with probiotics would alleviate some of the biological stress catfish experience in a closed production environment. The team focused specifically on cortisol levels (a hormonal indicator of elevated stress), antioxidant activity and micronuclear images (cellular indicators of stress).
At the conclusion of the trial, the team noted that the catfish who received probiotic-supplemented feed had cortisol levels that were 2.8 times lower than fish in the control group. Catfish in the probiotic group also showed enhanced antioxidant enzyme responses, meaning that they were more resilient to environmental stress. The micronuclear tests showed that fish in the probiotic group sustained 5.7 times less cellular damage in the trial period than their counterparts in the control group.
The researchers kept two cohorts of catfish in a closed water system for the duration of the trail. The first cohort was used as a control group and fed a balanced feed from Coppens. The second cohort received the same feed, supplemented with the probiotic Sporothermin at 4g per kg feed. Sporothermin contains two bacillus subspecies: Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis. The bacteria are heat resistant and can withstand acidic environments, making them ideal probiotic candidates for aquaculture.
After the feed trial ended, the researchers took blood and tissue samples to measure the fishes’ cortisol levels, antioxidant enzymes and conduct micronuclear tests.
Ideally, producers want to keep fish cortisol levels low – elevated cortisol can negatively impact