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When I saw the initial reports on the Supreme Court’s decision in Tsilhqot’in Nation versus British Columbia it sounded like the Supremes were ordering the province to pack up and move out … that most (all?) of the land previously known as British Columbia was now to be handed back to the First Nations bands. I guess it’s not quite so apocalyptic, although it will complicate things. Colby Cosh talks about the historical record that informed the decision:
Like everyone else who has studied the Supreme Court’s dramatic decision in the case of Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, my response largely amounts to “Well, sure.” “Tsilhqot’in” is the new accepted name of the small confederacy of B.C. Indian bands long called the Chilcotin in English. They live in a scarcely accessible part of the province, and one reason it is scarcely accessible is that the Chilcotin prefer it that way. In 1864, they fought a brief “war” against white road builders, killing a dozen or so. The leaders of the uprising were inveigled into surrendering and appearing before the “Hanging Judge,” Matthew Begbie. True to his nickname, he executed five of the rebels. But that road never got finished.
In most of Canada, occupancy by “settlers” whose ancestors arrived after Columbus has been formally arranged under explicit treaties. There is a lot of arguing going on about the interpretation of these treaties. But, broadly speaking, most of us white folks outside B.C. have permission to be here. Our arrival, our multiplication and the supremacy of our legal system were all explicitly foreseen and consented to by representatives of the land’s Aboriginal occupants. The European signatories of those treaties recognized that First Nations had some sort of property right whose extinction needed to be negotiated.
Oddly, this concept was clearer to imperial authorities in the 18th and early 19th centuries than to those who came later. The Royal Proclamation of 1763, for instance, recognized the right of Indians to dispose of their own lands only when they saw fit. By the time mass colonization was under way in British Columbia, the men in charge on the scene had absorbed different ideas. Concepts of racial struggle were in vogue, and so were straitlaced, monolithic models of human progress.
And the problems going forward?
The biggest problem for large infrastructure projects in the B.C. Interior may not be the collective nature of “Aboriginal title” alone, but the fact that it is restricted in a way ordinary property ownership isn’t. “It is collective title,” writes the chief justice, “held not only for the present generation but for all succeeding generations. This means it cannot be alienated except to the Crown, or encumbered in ways that would prevent future generations of the group from using and enjoying it.” The special category of legal title devised for First Nations turns out to have a downside: Even completely unanimous approval of some land use by a band or nation may not suffice if people who do not yet exist are imagined disagreeing with it. Would you care to own a car or a house on such terms?
Update, 11 July: Perhaps I spoke too soon that this ruling didn’t mean the non-First Nation inhabitants need to move out of the province.
British Columbia First Nations are wasting no time in enforcing their claim on traditional lands in light of a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision recognizing aboriginal land title.
The hereditary chiefs of the Gitxsan First Nations served notice Thursday to CN Rail, logging companies and sport fishermen to leave their territory along the Skeena River in a dispute with the federal and provincial governments over treaty talks.
And the Gitxaala First Nation, with territory on islands off the North Coast, announced plan to file a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Appeal on Friday challenging Ottawa’s recent approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta.
The Kwikwetlem First Nation also added its voice to the growing list, claiming title to all lands associated with now-closed Riverview Hospital in Metro Vancouver along with other areas of its traditional territory.
They cite the recent high court ruling in Tsilhqot’in v. British Columbia.
In the short term, the ruling will impact treaty negotiations and development in the westernmost province, where there are few historic or modern treaties and where 200 plus aboriginal bands have overlapping claims accounting for every square metre of land and then some.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Road work doesn’t stop for the heat, so crews will be out doing their jobs this week in the Kansas City metro, even as heat index values reach triple digits.
On Wednesday, Missouri Department of Transportation crews laid asphalt down near U.S. 40 west of Interstate 435. The job can be one of the hottest for crews, as the asphalt can reach up to 300 degrees or more.
MoDOT Safety and Health Manager Eric Ramsey said during the summer months, workers start and finish work earlier in the day.
"We would like to be able to just say we're calling it because of a heat day, however we just can't do that," Ramsey said.
As many as 300 crew members were out working Wednesday in the Kansas City area. Ramsey said after a harsh winter, along with significant spring flooding, crews need to keep up with projects this summer.
"There's no shortage of work,” Ramsey said. “In fact, there's a great deal of work that needs to be done, and it has to be done, so the workforce is out there.”
In the extreme heat, crews do their best to keep cool. For safety reasons, they have to wear layers while on a job, so they focus on staying hydrated and taking frequent breaks. They also have a heat sensor to help monitor the work area.
"It's about 107, 108 degrees. A little bit ago when the sun was out, it was up to about 123 degrees, and then we can just move it over 10 feet into the shade and use the same sensor and it's 86 degrees," Ramsey said.
MoDOT's emergency response trucks are also out this week. On a hot day, one driver might receive as many as 50 calls.
"We handle anything from accidents to moving stalled or abandoned vehicles, to providing gas, jump starts, directions and transports," said Scott Banes, emergency response operations supervisor.
When temperatures rise, emergency response drivers see many blown-out tires. When they stop to help, they also give out water and transport people to cool locations.
"It's too hot to be stranded out here on these highways," Banes said.
Every year, road crews prepare for drastic weather, but when asked if they prefer hot or cold, many agreed Wednesday's weather wasn't the worst.
"At least with summertime, you can always put the windows down if everything else fails and get some kind of relief," Banes said.
"MoDOT is fortunate to have great workers. They're really troopers and they get out there and get the work done," Ramsey said.
Emergency response drivers also will check abandoned vehicles on the highways for people and pets that may have been left behind.
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Thank you all for this opportunity and the very warm welcome.
It is a gift giving season. Handmade gifts are the best, and what better way to share love and self than writing. Let us write and wrap a poem as a gift.
Choose a person as a focus for the poem. It can be family, friends, lover, someone of major influence in your life, an unforgettable stranger, or anyone that sparks creativity in your writing.
- Focus on and describe one physical trait of the person–eyes, hair, lips, hands, smile, anything.
- Describe something he or she is does with that trait.
- Where would this person like to travel (or where would you like to take them)? Wrap the present in a scene from there by describing the scene in vivid sensory imagery.
- What gift/souvenir would you give them? How would it pair with the trait? Describe the gift with those…
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The DEI Certificate Program is a new initiative from the SOM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in support of the 2019 SOM Strategic Plan to foster an inclusive workplace environment. The program’s curriculum offers workshops and training designed to broaden awareness about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion topics among the SOM faculty/staff and deepen engagement with and between individuals in the SOM at all levels – from patients to leadership. The workshops offered accepted as part of the certificate program address a broad array of DEI topics, including those related to race and ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, culture and religion, socioeconomic status, and more.
To earn the SOM DEI Certificate, program participants must complete six approved DEI offerings (two required and four elective workshops). Workshops will be offered on a regular basis and we anticipate that it will take at least 3 semesters to complete the certificate requirements.
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The OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test has been discontinued in New York City as a means of HIV testing there. The <"https://www.yourlawyer.com/practice_areas/defective_medical_devices">faulty test has been delivering unusually high false positive results and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have now become involved. In January 2004, New York clinics introduced and began offering on-site, rapid HIV testing of finger-stick, whole-blood specimens using the OraQuick test. The following March, the clinics replaced the finger-stick test with an oral fluid test, the OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test.
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which operates 10 sexually transmitted disease walk-in clinics, stopped the popular OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test over problems with false-positive results. Beginning in late 2005, the City’s clinics began noticing an unexpected increase in false-positive oral HIV test results. According to an online June 18 article in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the CDC, the increase subsided after several months.  Use of the OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test was suspended for three weeks in December 2005 and replaced with the finger-stick test while New York City health officials investigated the increase in false-positive test results. The finger-stick tests did not produce any false-positive results. And, while the OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test was re-introduced in late December 2005, all positive test results were followed up with a finger-stick test.
Another false-positive spike in OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test results occurred late last year; however, its cause has not been determined and the City health department has stopped the use of the oral fluid test. Only the finger-stick test is being used. “These findings underscore the importance of confirming all reactive HIV tests, both from oral fluid and whole-blood specimens,” the report authors wrote. “In addition, the results suggest that the NYC DOHMH strategy of following up reactive oral fluid test results with an immediate finger-stick whole-blood test reduced the number of apparent false-positive oral fluid test results and might be a useful strategy in other settings and locations,” they added.
In October 2004, OraSure Technologies, Inc. launched its OraQuick ADVANCE Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test as “the first and only U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved and CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments Act of 1988)-waived rapid point-of-care test that provides accurate results for both HIV-1 and HIV-2 in 20 minutes, using oral fluid, finger-stick or venipuncture whole blood or plasma specimens.â€Â A CLIA waiver allows such testing to be used by more than 180,000 sites in the US, including outreach clinics, community-based organizations, and physicians’ offices.
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Email is the ultimate social network. There is no doubt about that. And yet not many companies have attempted to unwrap that opportunity.
Google made a big, bold move in that domain last week. Which is remarkable considering Google does not play (or play well) in the social domain. Buzz has unleashed all sorts of reactions and social gaffes (including pretty serious ones).
While I am looking forward to Buzz for my company (we use Google Apps), there are some fundamental problems with the Buzz approach for personal email, and even more so, with the way it was launched.
Most social networks do not launch fully developed. They start small, plant the seeds, watch it grow, react and build on it. At birth, the social network is a newborn baby which slowly learns to crawl, then walk, then run. This is how every successful social network has been built.
In contrast to a newborn social network which develops in relation to its surroundings, Buzz is a fully developed adult who popped out of the (Gmail) womb one fine day. It received 9 million messages in two days (how many did Facebook/Twitter receive in first two days). Buzz has not had time to adapt to users or let them adapt to it before getting scale.
Turning the Google firehose on means instant growth – a huge advantage for other types of apps, but a huge disadvantage for a social system which needs a strong foundation and to get the fundamental of social interations right. Think of how important it was for Twitter to the sociality of the basic tweet right, before letting it grow.
Secondly, not all social networks are the same. We have our private social networks and there are public social networks. Email is a public soical network – with me as the center of my network. Which is why a tool like Xobni can expose that network and fit in, without disrupting the basic nature of email.
In contract, Buzz makes our personal social networks public. This is huge – its a problem (or an opportunity) not just for Buzz but also Gmail itself. The question in my mind is less about user acceptance of Buzz, but more about changes in perception of Gmail. Will people start seeing Gmail as less private because of Buzz?
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We all know the importance of looking after our hair during the harsh winter months, a quick scroll through the ‘gram will reveal galleries of inspiration for protective styles, but how much thought do we give to protecting our skin? Personally speaking? Sadly, not much! We asked Aesthetician and founder of Black Skin Directory, Dija Ayodele, to share her top eight tips to keep our skin glowing during the winter months.
Let’s face it, the weather appears to be in full havoc mode these last few days and the forecast is that things are going to get colder over the coming weeks before they get better. The impact of the harsh winds, despite layers of warm clothes, means that your skin will be dry and ashen if you don’t look after it properly.
Thankfully, we now have the Black Skin Directory as a resource to guide us on how best to look after our melanin-rich skin. Founded by Dija Ayodele in February 2018 (read our interview), the Black Skin Directory has already won a prestigious industry accolade; the PHI Clinic Award for Professional Initiative of the Year at this year’s Aesthetics Awards. The much-needed platform offers support to people of colour through education and events, but also ensures the clinics and practitioners listed, who have lots of experience in treating skin of colour, are highlighted and promoted to the intended audience.
Read on for Dija’s top eight tips to keep your skin healthy during cold weather.
Establish and follow a basic skincare routine of cleansing with skin type appropriate cleanser
Gently exfoliate with an Alpha Hydroxy Acid such as glycolic or lactic. Treat your skin using a Vitamin A product such as retinol or retinaldehyde. Hydrate with hyaluronic acid, ceramides, peptides, cholesterol and fatty acids e.g Osmosis Immerse and don’t forget to protect with sunscreen.
Continue to combat hyperpigmentation
Use pigmentation serums that prevent excessive melanin from clumping in the skin. For example, Neostrata Illuminating Serum with liquorice extract. Vitamin C, niacinamide and resorcinol will work to prevent hyperpigmentation as well as gently fade existing skin discolouration and brighten the skin.
Don’t forget to apply additional sunscreen
Use a broad-spectrum SPF 30 minimum. It may be cold and grey, but UV rays still penetrate through cloud and glass to age and damage skin cells.
Keep your skin hydrated
You can do this by using hyaluronic acid infused serums before moisturizing. This will prevent skin from drying out and losing moisture to the environment quicker.
Raw Shea on the face? It’s a no, no!
Don’t be tempted to use raw Shea butter, coconut oil or cocoa butter directly on the face. They are comedogenic products, which means that they can clog pores and increase breakouts on acne prone skin.
Follow a rainbow diet
Ensure your diet remains colourful, full of good fats and protein. Heavy winter stodgy food does not feed your skin the nutrients it needs to thrive. Also, maintain a good intake of water as this supports the important functions that your skin performs.
Now’s the time to have those skin resurfacing procedures
Winter is the best time to explore professional cosmetic procedures such as chemical peels and laser treatments. We tend to have a more indoor lifestyle and direct sun exposure is shorter = good!
Don’t forget to massage
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Why The Bathroom Is The Most Dangerous Room In The Home For Seniors…
…and how to make it safer
According to the CDC and the National Council for Aging Care falls are the leading cause of fatal injuries for seniors today! And for those who do survive, 50% never regain their independence resulting in them losing their ability to live at home, participate in activities, or enjoy the quality of life they had prior to falling.
Over 85% of these falls occur in the bathroom while trying to climb in and out of the old antiquated climb over bathtub, loosing balance when using the toilet, or simply slipping as a result of inadequate slippery flooring.
Fortunately, so many of these falls are preventable by making some home modifications such as replacing the climb over bathtub with a safe and beautiful walk in shower or walk in tub, installing grab or flip bars at toilets, and having slippery flooring treated with non-slip applications or replaced with non-slip flooring.
In addition to saving lives or preserving a senior’s wellbeing, these modifications can also be a good investment as today’s home buyers prefer a walk-in shower over a bathtub. According to HGTV homeowners who update their bathrooms recoup more than the investment. Updated homes are also much easier to sell.
Updating your old climb over tub to a safe and beautiful walk in shower can be done by Long Baths without major interruptions in your daily routine, as most jobs are completed in one day.
To request you Long Baths free product demonstration and free estimate simply call 844-810-5664
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A fireworks warehouse blew up in Phichit province due to the current extreme hot weather. The main chemicals that reacted with the heat are Potassium Nitrate and Sulfur. No one was hurt from the incident but nothing was left standing after the fire stopped.
The Dong Pa Kam fire station was notified on the 14th of this month about a fire that started in a warehouse located in the area. The firefighters drove to the location with their fire trucks. They later discovered that the fire started from an explosion inside the building caused by the extreme heat and the chemicals inside the fireworks.
There were also special pieces of equipment that were used in fireworks production and motorbikes that were destroyed in the fire along with the fireworks. After the first explosion, it is estimated that the other fireworks were ignited from the explosion and blew up in a chain reaction effect. The metal roof blew to different directions around the warehouse, scattered along with the pieces of the wooden walls that used to exist.
Luckily, no one was hurt in the incident as the warehouse was empty at the time. The pieces of the warehouse flew into the neighbor’s house and broke some of their windows. Banyat the owner of the fireworks warehouse reported that when the warehouse blew up he was outside of the building. He realized what had happened when he heard a loud bang from his warehouse.
Banyat thinks that it must be the heat that caused the warehouse to blow up. The police were notified of the explosion. When they came to the warehouse, the police discovered that the license for such warehouse had already expired. The license needed to be renewed every annual year. The police stated that the Potassium Nitrate and Sulfur used in fireworks could have reacted with the extremely hot weather. Further evidence will be submitted to a lab for confirmation on the cause of the explosion.
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Talking about unemployment insurance, the role of an unemployment insurance agency is quite pivotal especially in terms of assisting unemployed workers as well as their families in the tough time of financial crunch.
There is no doubt that the unemployment insurance program is pretty important in enhancing resilience of the country's economy, and of course the community at large. The whole program of unemployment insurance is designed in such a way that they assist unemployed workers when they are feeling the pinch of financial instability. In addition, if one takes into account the unemployment insurance law one would realize that the unemployed individual would also get temporary monetary advantages.
If you are interested in getting your unemployment insurance advantages, it is of paramount importance that you report to the state unemployment insurance agency. Once you do that, you will be required to fill two or three forms. When filling these forms, be careful. You are required to give authentic information in the form if you want to avail the advantages of unemployment insurance.
More often, you will be asked regarding your previous employment location as well as the profile of the company. For how many month or years you worked there, your job profile and some information on your salary and the taxes you paid would also be asked. Before you go any further, remember the point that you can get the advantages of unemployment insurance for a time period of 52 week. All in all, you can only avail the benefits of unemployment insurance if you have done nothing wrong in terms of employment and you satisfy the eligibility criteria of the State Law.
It has come into the notice that number of unemployment insurance benefits agency offers you with financial support for a time period of one year starting with the Monday following the week of your application. In terms of benefits, the NYS benefits can be defined as the unemployment insurance payment to a claimant with rate more or less identical to 1/26 of the remuneration paid.
Once you submit your application, it's the job of the US department of labor to offer you all the mandatory forms that are an absolute must for registration. Furthermore, it's their responsibility to supervise you to different kinds of interviews, which comes in the category of your work profile in your state and city or in few cases a location where you are interested in relocating. If you feel that your qualification is not up to the mark, state unemployment services can help you immensely by sending you to attend top-quality trade courses or educational classes.
Don?t worry, if you are not able to find employment during the unemployment benefits period because the state has a power to increase this time period for another twenty weeks. This time period of 20 weeks in general varies from state to state; therefore check this out with your state department.
As you can pretty much imagine, you can only get these extended advantages if you are not able to find work. This is due to the simple reason that there is lot of candidates for state department to take care of. Taking this into perspective, it is of paramount importance that you do your best in securing a new job during the one-year period.
In case if you are unemployed because of some sort of disaster, there is program called disaster unemployment, which can help you out in tough situations. To avail the advantages of disaster unemployment program, first and foremost fill a claim at the agency. Once you re through that you will begin to receive your disaster unemployed benefits. Irrespective of the reason behind your unemployment, one thing is for sure the state has lots of programs that are specifically designed to remove your financial crunch.
But for that to happen, you have to show the mental strength and will to succeed. There is no doubt that if you manage to qualify for unemployment insurance you will feel more at ease as you get instant money and a job. As already mentioned, the temporary subsidy from the state agencies in terms of unemployment insurance have a limited time frame but on the basis of your financial situation it can be increased.
Few of the states such as Arizona and Texas have voluntary programs in place where the unemployed person can avail extended advantages for additional two to three months. Another significant advantage associated with unemployment insurance is that it offers subsistence to workers who are unable to find a job of their choice. Lots of people believe that unemployment insurance benefits are evaluated by a standard salary agreed upon by the state agency that you work in. This is not true. As a matter of fact it judges the pay amount that you will get on the basis of your previous salary.
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Solar is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States
WASHINGTON, DC -- Calling for "stable, reliable, well-structured tax policy," the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has weighed into the tax reform debate by offering extensive insight and comments to the House Ways and Means Committee, which is tasked with overhauling the federal tax code.
Today, solar is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States. And last month – for the first time ever – solar energy accounted for all new electric generation in the United States, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). What's more, preliminary numbers show solar provided nearly one-third of all new utility-scale power nationwide during the 1st quarter of 2013.
"Since the enactment of the 30-percent commercial and residential solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) in 2005, domestic deployment of solar has increased twelve-fold, the cost to consumers has significantly dropped, and we have developed a domestic industry that today employs over 119,000 Americans," SEIA President and CEO Rhone Resch told a House Ways and Means Committee working group, headed up by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA).
"By any objective measure, these important incentives are doing exactly what they were meant to do – allow our nation to reap the significant energy, economic and environmental benefits associated with utilizing our abundant solar resources," Resch added.
In 2012 alone, the price of solar panels dropped by more 40 percent, and costs continue to fall, making solar even more affordable for residential and business consumers. Today, cumulative solar capacity in the U.S. now exceeds 7,700 megawatts (MW) – enough to power more than 1.2 million American homes, with photovoltaics (PV) capacity growing by more than thirty-fold in recent years.
Last year, the U.S. installed 3,313 MW of utility-scale and distributed PV capacity – up from 1,892 MW in 2011.
Resch made several other key points to lawmakers:
• Solar represents America's largest source of domestic energy, yet represents less than one half of one percent of our energy generation;
• The solar industry has grown from less than 15,000 employees in 2005 to more than 119,000 today, reflecting the importance of the ITC;
• The U.S. lacks a comprehensive energy policy, instead relying on the tax code to provide incentives to develop new energy sources. SEIA believes it is important to maintain these policies until our largest source of domestic energy – solar – becomes a significant part of our energy mix.
Resch also told lawmakers that both the 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California and the 280 MW Solana Generating Station in Arizona are on track to be placed in service this year. Between 2013 and 2016, projects deploying Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies will add more than 3,000 MW of generating capacity – and many of these projects will use innovative storage systems, allowing solar energy produced during the day to be used to meet electricity demand at night.
"Stable, reliable and well-structured tax policy provides the framework for innovation throughout the solar value chain – from scientists developing novel solar technologies to the installers offering new financing options that make solar more affordable for consumers," Resch continued. "Retaining and enhancing proven, highly-effective tax policies is the right choice for American jobs and our local and national economies."
Resch added that an independent research report released in 2012 by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, concluded that solar energy is following the same path to commercialization as other traditional energy sources spurred by federal incentives.
Given current trends and smart tax policies, "costs will continue to drop on account of economies of scale, improved technology and enhanced efficiencies, and reliable access to conventional and innovative financing," Resch told lawmakers.
- SEIA Comments to Ways and Means on Comprehensive Tax Reform, April 15, 2013: http://www.seia.org/research-resources/comments-house-ways-means-committee-working-group-energy-tax-reform
- 2013 SEIA Policy Priorities: http://www.seia.org/research-resources/2013-policy-priorities-federal-state
- U.S. Solar Market Insight: 2012 Year-in-Review: http://www.seia.org/research-resources/us-solar-market-insight
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Anything from stress to poor nutrition to your body's natural hormonal changes can affect the health of your gums, and healthy gums are a must for healthy teeth. If you notice receding gums, experience swelling in the gums or have a heightened sensitivity to temperature, you might be experiencing gum disease. Fortunately, preventative measures can keep gums from receding farther and advances in dental technology can repair lost tissue.
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Take note of any abnormalities in your gums and teeth. Plaque under the gum line can give way to infection, which causes the gum tissue to swell and gradually break down and recede. If your gums are swollen or discolored, they are probably receding.
Prevent further gum recession by brushing and flossing at least twice a day. Regular flossing is even more necessary to preventing gum disease than brushing is, because plaque that is embedded between the teeth and under the gums can only be removed with floss.
Brush and floss as often as you eat and avoid eating when you don't have the opportunity to brush immediately afterwards. Take a toothbrush, toothpaste and floss with you when you're going to work or going out to eat.
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This season's excavations at Tel Hazor National Park in the Upper Galilee conducted by Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) uncovered 14 large pithoi-style storage jugs filled with 3,300-year-old burnt wheat. The jugs were located inside a storage room in a monumental, palace-like building from the Canaanite period (2000-3000 BCE), INPA said on Monday.
"Hatzor flourished during the Middle Canaanite period (1750 BCE) and during the Israelite period, and generated the biggest fortified complex in Israel during this period," said Dr. Zvika Tsuk, chief archeologist of the INPA. Professor Amnon Ben-Tor of Hebrew University said the jugs were destroyed around the 13th century BCE, a period which coincided with the biblical account of Joshua's capture of Hazor. According to Joshua chapter 11, Hazor was the only city in the land of Israel destroyed by fire during the conquest.
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Natural Resources and Food Minister Alun Davies has relaxed for seven days EU rules that ban farmers from burying dead animals on their land.
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Between Monday, June 11, 2018, and Tuesday, June 26, 2018, the ICIR’s ‘KUNLE ADEBAJO paid visits to 41 faculty and departmental libraries in four prominent federal universities in Nigeria and posed as one interested in buying or duplicating a thesis for a friend in his final-year.
A thesis―what many Nigerians refer to as a ‘project’—is defined as “a dissertation on a particular subject in which one has done original research, as one presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree”. “Original research”, or sometimes “personal research”, is a phrase that comes up regardless of what dictionary is consulted. Yet, it is a common practice for students to pass off the exact opposite. They obtain theses one way or another, change the author’s names and other details, and submit as theirs. Worse still, such students are often aided by university librarians employed to safeguard these documents.
Between Monday, June 11, 2018, and Tuesday, June 26, 2018, the ICIR’s ‘KUNLE ADEBAJO paid visits to 41 faculty and departmental libraries in four prominent federal universities in Nigeria and posed as one interested in buying or duplicating a thesis for a friend in his final-year. The universities were Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria; Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife; University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka; and University of Abuja (UniAbuja), Gwagwalada. He shares his findings in this two-part report.
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY: IT IS NOT ALLOWED BUT…
ADJACENT the central library at the Ahmadu Bello University’s Kongo campus—known as President Kennedy Library—is the Law Library. It is a magnificent two-storey structure, dazzling in a bright paint of yellowish beige. Behind a large, wooden table at the reception area was Ibrahim, who identified himself as the librarian and a “lawyer also”.
The ICIR reporter explained his mission to him: to get about three topics for his friend, a law student at Ambrose Alli University, and to come back for the thesis as soon as his supervisor approves one of those topics.
“Number one, the issue is that it is not allowed to photocopy projects,” said Ibrahim, leaving the reporter to wonder what number two would be. “There is what we call copyright. If you photocopy somebody’s work, you know you are converting all his work to yours.”
“But, yet I may help you,” he added. “I will collect your number and get some topics for you. I will text you some of the topics for you to select. For any of them that is approved, I promise you I will get the material for you complete. You understand ba? I will text at least ten, so that he can select three and forward that other people may also select.”
He gave his MTN phone number and promised to send the topics the following day. His only prior requirement was that the reporter gives him money to recharge his mobile account. When he was handed a N500 note, he declined and suggested it is doubled.
“I will text all the thing for you. I will see wonder, wallahi,” he maintained. “Anyone they approve, there is no problem. If you want complete work, whether hard or soft copy, I will get for you. There is no problem.”
True to his words, the following day, this reporter received a series of texts from Ibrahim, containing up to eight project topics: 1. An Appraisal on the Activities of Boko Haram Sect in the Light of Freedom of Religion, 2. Legal and Institutional Arbitration under International Law: A Case Study of Nigeria, 3. An Analysis of the Theories of Implementation of Treaties under the Abuja Geographic Information System, …, 8. Challenges on the Prosecution of Serving Heads of States by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
He also called to confirm receipt. Again on June 18, 2018, he called to emphasise that my friend should share the topics with his colleagues, with each person taking about three, “so that the remaining topics will not be in vain”. Asked how much it will cost to buy the materials, he replied that it depends on the topics chosen, because some of the documents have more than 100 pages. The reporter has missed numerous calls from Ibrahim since that conversation.
N3000: THE PRICE OF ANOTHER’S HARD WORK
In charge of the Library of the Department of Public Administration is a gentleman who, in writing, identified himself simply as Bayero. As this reporter introduced his plan, he quickly interjected with the word “alright”, repeated thrice, to indicate he understands. He allowed access to the thesis catalogue, where the reporter copied details of 2011 submissions by Mohammed Murtala, Mohemmed Musa, and Musa Garba Hadija.
Asked how much it would cost to buy the document once a topic is approved, he quickly signaled the reporter to keep mum, as his eyes darted across the room, where a library user sat. Stuttering, he asked when the reporter would return for the document, as he signalled for writing materials. He afterwards penned down 3000 and, upon request, his name and phone number.
CHIEF LIBRARIANS ARE NOT LEFT OUT
The library of the Department of Accounting was deserted at the time of visit. Moses Shatusen, the Chief Librarian, who was about to head out, was however available. “I know it is project you want to collect… come back tomorrow,” he said, as he questioned why the reporter was coming “at the late hours”. Notably, the time was 2:50pm.
After he was told the reporter arrived from and is returning to Abuja that day, he eventually budged. He then requested for a student ID card, which the reporter did not provide. This led to another round of pleading. He has, in fact, instructed his staff not to give out any materials without identification, he informed.
From the catalogue which he eventually handed over, the reporter copied topics of theses submitted by Muhammad Sani Ashiru and Ibrahim Shaffi Bello in 2014, and Comfort Amos Jatau in 2010. Shatusen further gave his phone number, confirmed that the materials are available for collection, and tactfully said it is left to the reporter’s discretion whether or not he comes with a gift.
NO DIFFERENCE AT THE ABU SAMARA CAMPUS
One of the numerous departments at the university’s main campus is Biochemistry, with its library situated on the top floor of the departmental building. At the time of visit, a good measure of activity was ongoing and two librarians were seated opposite the entrance. This reporter approached the male librarian and tabled his demand for a thesis.
He handed over the library catalogue, but permitted the copying of only five topics from recent years because, according to him, “if we give more, that is how they will start distributing and they will start coming to disturb”. He also recommended that the reporter’s friend who needed the thesis return personally for the material once a topic is approved.
Also on the main campus is the Department of Mass Communication, whose library is named after Ben Uchegbu. The librarian, after a brief introduction, allowed direct access to the shelves and did not bother providing a catalogue. There, the reporter took notes of theses submitted in 2016 by Areh Osigbodi Simeon, Salihu Samira, and Atinuke A. Keku.
Afterwards, he instructed the reporter to note the serial numbers taped to the theses. Asked what the cost of getting the thesis would be, the librarian said that will be determined at the second visit. While later giving his contact, he identified himself simply as ‘Pastor’. TruCaller, a mobile caller identification app, however gave his name as “Pastor Olorungbami”.
A FEW GOOD EGGS
While majority of the librarians visited by the ICIR, particularly those without company at the time, yielded easily to the unlawful request, there are a number of exceptions. One of them is Abubakar Aliyu, who is librarian at the university’s Arabic Department.
He started by requesting for the reporter’s identification card and suggested getting possible topics for a thesis does not necessarily need the consulting of previous publications. He showed the reporter two samples from the shelves and allowed topics to be copied from the catalogue. However, when the reporter informed him he would be returning to duplicate after a topic is settled for, he immediately replied that it is not allowed.
“We don’t allow people to photocopy theses, unless if you come and jot what you want,” he said.
This reporter had a more embarrassing encounter at the library of the university’s History Department, which faces that of the English Department. After introducing the purpose of his visit, the middle-aged librarian donning a light brown-coloured hijab did not attempt to hide her scorn.
“You want to get topics so that you will go and give your supervisor and he will approve and you will come and make photocopy… We don’t do that,” she said.
“Are you no longer getting the topics?” she asked as the reporter made to leave, then immediately added with a wry grin: “Oh, there’s no need? Okay.”
Likewise, at the Department of Economics, the ICIR’s request to get a thesis met a brick wall. In the poorly lit room was a middle-aged man and woman, who later gave her name as Kafewo and informed the reporter she hails from the Basange tribe in Kogi state.
“We don’t give out our undergraduate materials,” Kafewo said, politely. “We don’t give out projects generally.”
Asked whether the materials can be duplicated if not allowed to be borrowed, the male librarian replied that would be piracy.
“Definitely you can’t do your work without making reference to another person’s work,” he added. “The essence of research is you do your own research and then somebody will build on it. But some, instead of building on it, they will just do copy and paste, and change only the title page. You have done nothing. It is plagiarism.”
He said many departments, including Economics, have started acquiring anti-plagiarism software and requesting that students submit soft copies of their works. He narrated a story of how a student of the university had his certificate withdrawn, after years of graduation, following a complaint lodged by the author of a thesis which he plagiarised. He further said, in the past, students of the department have had to spend an extra year because they plagiarised their thesis.
“But the students feel they are smart and they can do it this way,” he said. “The truth is you are not helping the student if you do it that way. You will think you are, but by the time it backfires you will realise you are not. It is better for him to do the right thing.”
The reporter faced similar resistance at the Faculty of Education library. The Chief Librarian requested that the reporter’s friend come with an introductory letter from his institution as a requirement for collection. However, when he thereafter instructed the junior library worker to grant access to the library catalogue, this reporter discovered not all the theses are available.
“These are the topics, but don’t write this and this, we don’t have this one,” the library worker said, pointing to topics of theses submitted in 1988. “You can start with this one from 1994.”
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UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA: ‘N500 FINE’―FROM ONE LAWBREAKER TO ANOTHER
When this reporter was told by Chioma Ozioko, the librarian of the UNN Mass Communication Department, that there are processes that must be followed to gain access to library materials, he expected an instruction to provide an ID card or letter of introduction. But what he heard afterwards shocked him.
“You must pay a fine of N500,” said Ozioko, with a straight face as she feasted casually on a cucumber tightly secured in her right grip, while occasionally supporting it with groundnut.
She added: “Whether or not you see anything useful to you, that N500 is gone. Now for the material, if you eventually see any of topic of your choice and you want to go and photocopy, it is N1000. So, that is the process. It’s up to you.”
Asked if there is a catalogue, she replied in the negative, admitting the materials are not well arranged. Her words: “We don’t have a catalogue; everything is upside down… there is no specific place for specific subjects.” The reporter then paid the “fine” of N500 and proceeded to the shelves to copy topics of 2012 submissions by Ajibade Aderonke Olubukola; Eke Joseph, Enemanna Chinakasi and Eze Uchechukwu J; and Ezuwu Patrick, Ezerim Adaobi and Iweha Chioma.
When he was done, Ozioko directed him to where more recent topics are, and then he copied two more (2017 theses by Ike Chidera Daisy and Aningo Genevieve Ezinne). She further suggested “another way of making it easy”. “Select those books and put them aside, because you may come next time and you will not see them again. But it depends on how soon.” To avoid the extra work, the reporter promised to return in one or two weeks.
THE SMOKE SCREEN OF REGISTRATION
At the first floor of the Faculty of Social Sciences building is the library of Department of Religion, and alone in the inner room at the time the ICIR visited was Tony Martins, a soft-spoken young man who confirmed to be the librarian. In front of him was a laptop abutting a bulky thesis that had been flipped open.
“Okay,” he said, after this reporter tabled his demand. “But the issue is that you have to register.” This reporter told him he is not a student, but it doesn’t matter he replied.
He continued: “Normally, if you are a student, it would have been N500. But coming from outside, it is N1000.”
He brought out a notebook with a list of names and other details such as matriculation number, department, hall of residence, amount, date, and signature. As he drew the table on a fresh page, he hesitated, apparently unsure whether to omit or include some of the headings. He eventually decided to write them all so as not to raise suspicion, but said the reporter could leave out matriculation number.
“Don’t worry, don’t worry,” he said. “Just write N1000 here… Do you have the money now?”
Martins gave out eight catalogues, including the Old Testament Diploma Catalogue, New Testament Diploma Catalogue, Old Testament Degree Catalogue, New Testament Degree Catalogue, Religion and Society Degree Catalogue, Church History Diploma Catalogue, African Traditional Religion Diploma Catalogue, and African Traditional Religion Degree Catalogue. They contained only serially numbers and thesis topics.
After this reporter randomly copied one topic from six of the catalogues, he informed Martins his friend would be returning to duplicate the thesis eventually selected by his supervisor.
“Of course, no problem,” he replied. “Even if the ones you have there [in the catalogues] are not current, there are more current ones that are here and the topics are similar.”
“Anytime he comes around, whoever he meets here, he should just tell him he has registered. Let him inform the person that is here that someone registered on his behalf. Just give him the name. I don’t have any card that I can actually issue to you now.”
LIBRARY PERMIT FOR A NON-STUDENT?
Unlike Martins at the Department of Religion, the librarians in charge of the UNN Institute of Education―a young man and middle-aged woman―had no problem issuing an actual library permit to this reporter after he paid a “required” sum of N500. He was told he could come at any time to affix a passport photograph.
When the reporter told the male librarian, who was filling the register, that he is not a student of the university, he said it was not a problem and proceeded to write the department and matriculation number provided by the reporter―though the card issued eventually says it is a “library permit for student”.
Asked if the reporter could come back for the thesis, the male librarian said that it is fine since “you are now registered with us”. Further asked if the thesis could be duplicated, he chuckled and said students are not allowed to go out with the materials. He, however, added: “but you can use your phone to take pictures of all what you need”.
N300…SORRY, I MEANT N500
When this reporter arrived at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology’s library and observed a crowd of students pawing at academic resources, he had expected to be turned back. The young male librarian who first attended to him was not alone. Closely by his left was a female student who made it obvious she was listening in on the conversation. He, however, directed the reporter to an elderly woman whose table was closer to the entrance.
“First of all, you will register with N300,” said the woman, as both parties conversed in hushed tones.
“Oh, it is even N500,” she chuckled a minute later, using her index finger to trace previous haphazardly written financial records which ranged from N300 to N500.
With the exchange of cash taken care of, the reporter was allowed to copy topics and he noted theses submitted by Ekpo Emmanuel Ekpo and Ewa Emmanuel Ajayi in 2016, Odo Chekwube Angella in 2015, and Ubani Precious Ezinne in 2011. Afterwards, she assured the reporter he could always return to duplicate the materials needed. All he had to do, she said, was give her prior notice through a phone call, and tell anyone he meets he is asking for the librarian. She explained she is not always around as she has a separate office on the first floor.
OF LOCKED LIBRARIES AND LOST LIBRARIANS
A number of UNN libraries visited by the ICIR were under lock and key, though the university was in session and semester examinations are only weeks away. One of such libraries was that of the Political Science Department. Twice on June 22—first at 9:51am and then again at 10:54am―this reporter checked but the library remained locked and the librarian nowhere to be found. A student who spoke to the ICIR said trading thesis is not an unusual practice among librarians in the department.
Previous day at 2:41pm, the library of Soil Science and Land Resources Management, with the tag “Dr Mrs Uzoh” on its door, was also not open. The same observation was made with respect to the Food Science and Technology department; however, the reporter was informed the librarian was invigilating at the time of visit.
The library of the Faculty of Pharmacy, which has just been relocated to an intimidating four-storey structure, was also inaccessible. The library is placed on the left wing of the top floor. “I don’t think they are at work,” said a female student dressed in tee-shirt and jeans, as her pregnant friend who held an office file banged the door. The time was 1:07pm.
GO TO SSRN IF YOU NEED TOPICS
The situation at the University of Nigeria was not all doom and gloom as there were librarians who did not jump at the unethical opportunity of making extra cash. One who stands out is the librarian―a woman appearing to be in her mid or late thirties—stationed at the Department of Crop Science. For five seconds, she kept silent after the reporter made his request for topics. Then she made a unique suggestion.
“Why doesn’t he look for a topic?” she asks. “Look for a topic now.”
“Okay, I’ll give you a topic,” she continued after a few questions. “I’ll give you something. I’ll give you where you can go to get a topic. Write SSRN. SSRN website. Google it; then you can form topics. Tell the student to choose any topic from there. If it is on pineapple or cassava he wants to write, he will find it there. And from there, he can get a lot of papers. He can also go to your school library for additional materials.”
“You won’t say thank you?” she asked sarcastically, as the reporter closed his notebook in mock disappointment.
Likewise, at the Department of Foreign Languages’ library—located a floor below that of Mass Communication at the Faculty of Arts―the librarian requested for a student ID. In the absence of that, she said, the reporter’s friend has to present “a letter from somebody who can identify him from the university”.
- This investigation was supported by Ford Foundation and the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, ICIR.
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Contributed by Rob Emrich
There seems to be a misconception floating around in the startup ecosystem that entrepreneurship is synonymous with misery and painful uphill battles. And while it is true that entrepreneurship is a uniquely challenging road, I take issue with the claim that it has to be a gruelling and thankless one.
So, how do we keep ourselves happy and sane while we’re on the path to creating a better life for ourselves, and a better world for others? Simple: positive psychology.
Learned Optimism Keeps Us Going
Being an entrepreneur means that you are changing the status quo. Whether you’re building disruptive technologies, founding an innovative non-profit or providing a service, you have seen the need for something better, and you are bringing that vision to life.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress – Charles F. Kettering
That means that you are going against the grain of society, challenging existing markets, and changing the hearts and minds of thousands – if not millions – of people around the world.
And that makes entrepreneurship the hardest job on the planet. Everything about this career lifestyle choice works against our basic human desires for comfort, stability and predictability.
As an entrepreneur, you are waking up each and every day and fighting deep-seated market inertia in the hopes of creating something better. As a result, you are placed at a much higher risk for encountering failure and rejection on a daily basis. Why? Because markets and consumers take a long time to change and adapt to new ways of thinking and being.
So how do we insulate and protect ourselves from the harsh realities of entrepreneurship, in order to keep forging ahead on the path to making our dreams come true?
Avoid the Convention to Dwell on Failures
Every morning at PaeDae, our team has a group huddle. We take the opportunity to share learnings, talk about upcoming challenges, and discuss how we will drive the business forward that day. Sounds pretty common, right?
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier – Colin Powell
But every single day we end our team huddle with an exercise called ‘three good things’, where each team member shares two positive work events, and one positive personal event from the day before. Not only does it allow us to bond as a team on a personal level by celebrating each other’s personal accomplishments – it also forces us to remember that even on the most difficult days, there are always ‘wins’ to be celebrated.
The idea comes from psychologist and author Martin Seligman’s book, Flourish. He explains that although from an evolutionary standpoint it makes sense that we dwell on and analyze our failures more deeply than we do our successes, this tendency negatively impacts our happiness and life satisfaction.
When we begin each day by reinforcing optimism and happiness – even in the face of adversity – we become more positive and resilient as entrepreneurs, and as leaders.
The Journey to Prosperity is not About the Money
When many people think about the term ‘entrepreneur’, the image of a hustling founder working herself to the bone for years in the hopes of striking it rich comes to mind.
But after founding six successful companies myself, I’ve learned that money and success are just by-products of the entrepreneurial quest for freedom, meaning and self-actualization.
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world – Anita Roddick
It’s no surprise that some of the greatest entrepreneurial minds of our time have signed on to the famous Giving Pledge, spearheaded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. While it’s true that they’ve amassed fortunes in the billions, they didn’t set out on their entrepreneurial journeys with the goal of becoming wealthy beyond their wildest dreams – they had a vision for changing the world. And since money was just a by-product of changing the way millions of people live their lives…they have no problem giving it all away.
Don’t get me wrong – there is absolutely nothing wrong with aspiring to wealth. But I think that what drives so many entrepreneurs to the brink is that they become so focused on building a revenue-generating company and looking for a lucrative exit that they lose sight of the reason that they started on this crazy journey in the first place.
That vision is unique to entrepreneurs. It keeps us up at night, it wakes us up in the morning, and it drives us. But, more than anything, it protects us. By nurturing that learned optimism and holding on to our vision, we become happier (and more successful) entrepreneurs.
About the author
Rob Emrich is a serial entrepreneur, and is currently involved in his latest venture as the Founder and CEO of PaeDae. He has founded and led six ventures, including the nonprofit Road of Life (2002), Boundaryless Brands (2008), which was acquired in 2011, SpeakerSite (2008) deadpooled, and BULX(2010), which was acquired by Dealyard.com in 2011. He is a mentor at the start-up accelerators Hub Ventures (Part of the Global Accelerator Network championed by TechStars) in San Francisco and Founders Factory in Columbus, OH. | <urn:uuid:0a140dda-15b2-43c1-8adb-927c1361a9fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.clarity.fm/how-to-be-a-happy-entrepreneur/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00199-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954872 | 1,126 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Laws, Regulations & Annotations
Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2017
Sales And Use Tax Court Decisions
Sunshine Art Studios of California v. State Board of Equalization . . . (1974)
Plaintiff, a California corporation that distributed greeting cards to independent salesmen in California and other western states, sought a refund of taxes paid by it, contending that the salesmen were the actual retailers of the cards. The salesmen, who were solicited by an out-of-state corporation associated with plaintiff, forwarded orders to that corporation who in turn forwarded them to plaintiff. Plaintiff mailed the cards, which were drawn from stocks acquired from its out-of-state parent corporation, directly to the salesmen. The Board had ordered that plaintiff, rather than the salesmen, be regarded as the retailer of the cards pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code Section 6015 which provides that the Board may, for the efficient administration of the Sales Tax Law, regard salesmen as agents of the distributors ". . . under whom they operate or from whom they obtain the tangible personal property sold by them . . ." and the distributors as retailers.
The trial court found that plaintiff distributed the cards to the salesmen, that the salesmen obtained the cards from plaintiff, and that the salesmen were so numerous that the Board could not effectively collect the tax directly from the salesmen. In affirming, the court of appeal held that plaintiff was not required to have an ownership interest in the cards to be a distributor. The fact that it was a subsidiary of the parent corporation and that the cards sent to the salesmen by plaintiff bore its identification in the form of a return address, and at times even contained sales literature inserted by it, was sufficient. The court noted that it was plaintiff which actually delivered the erecting cards to the salesmen, and that this act constituted the final service accorded to the salesmen by any of the entities. The court further held that plaintiff was not entitled to a refund with respect to sales which might have been made outside the state since it failed to offer any evidence as to which of its sales were made outside of California. Sunshine Art Studios of California v. State Board of Equalization (1974) 39 Cal.App.3d 223. | <urn:uuid:13060799-a495-43ef-965f-aa841eab7a48> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.boe.ca.gov/lawguides/business/current/btlg/vol1/sutcd/sales-and-use-tax-court-decisions-s22.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00156-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978126 | 460 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Recover a Lost Android
Edited by Sean Zylow, Eng
Hi! You're looking at the VisiHow tutorial on recovering your lost Android, and how to locate it.
- 1First things first, your Android device has to be registered with your Google account.Advertisement
- 2Go to Google and type in Android Device Manager.Scroll down and you'll see a result (below all the ads) titled Android Device Manager. It has to be under a Google website.Advertisement
- 3Click on it and you'll be brought to a login page.Sign in with your Google account to continue.
- 4If you have multiple devices, select the device you want to locate in the drop down box.Depending on your network status, and whether your lost device has GPS turned on, your device may not be found.
- 5If Google has found your device, you will see the time it was located, the location of the device on a map (of which the accuracy is stated) and some options.
- Ring your device. Your device will ring at full volume for five seconds, and will only stop when it's Power button is pressed. Google will ask twice to ring your device.
- Lock your device. This option is only available in selected phones. You can choose to lock your device if it is storing sensitive information. Until you get your device back, no one can access your device. Google will ask you to set a temporary password to lock your device.
- Set up Lock & Erase. This will also follow Option 2, locking your device. But, there is a twist to this option. Once you lock it, all data and apps on your device will be erased, and your device will be placed in Activation Lock, meaning that it will be secured with the temporary password you set.
- 6Found your device?If you have chosen Option 2 or 3, you'll have to type in the temporary password, and the lock code you set on your device.Advertisement
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The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is moving forward with plans to buy a hydroelectric powerhouse and reservoir from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for $10.4 million. In a joint statement, the local utility providers announced that the Chili Bar Hydroelectric Project — a dam, reservoir, spillway and powerhouse that generates electricity north of Placerville on the South Fork of the American River — would be changing hands after SMUD’s board of directors voted Thursday evening to greenlight the purchase. The purchase is expected to be finalized in 2020.
Despite the efforts of a handful of Riverside County lawmakers, a controversial bill that would pave the way for a massive hydroelectric energy storage project on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park has been shelved for now, leaving the Eagle Mountain project still without a clear path forward. The project would use abandoned iron mining pits to store billions of gallons of groundwater, pumped from the Chuckwalla Valley aquifer. Once operational, the facility would use abundant daytime solar power to pump water from a lower retention area to a higher elevation.
Some residents in the Southern California city of Lake Elsinore fear power lines from a proposed $2 billion hydro electric dam project could ignite a brush fire. Residents are worried electrical towers and power lines could impact the area as part of the Lake Elsinore Advanced Pump Storage Dam project. “In the last two years, there have been two wildfires that have burned in the location of the proposed transmission line locations,” said Joe Folmar, who heads up a group of residents who oppose the project. “The Wildomar fire in 2017 and the Holy Fire in 2018 are the two fires, both of which required mandatory evacuations.” | <urn:uuid:d278dc04-ba4e-4071-8809-b55f7a14c2b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.waternewsnetwork.com/tag/hydroelectric/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941678 | 348 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The latest NEJM features a big story about a small trial, with only 39 patients in the end, on the potential for placebos to relieve patients’ experience of symptoms. This follows other recent reports on the subjective effectiveness of pseudo-pharmacology.
My point for today is that placebos are problematic in health care with few exceptions. First, in clinical trials, patients sometimes agree to take what might be a placebo so that researchers can measure effects of a drug, by comparison. A second instance is, possibly, when doctors treat children. Even then, I’m not sure it’s wise to “train” kids to take a pill and expect to feel better.
The relationship of an adult patient with a physician involves, or should involve, trust and mutual respect. A person cannot possibly give informed consent for a treatment he or she doesn’t know about. So if the doctor’s giving a placebo to the patient, and making the decision for the patient because it might help, that diminishes the patient’s autonomy, or self-determination. In simpler terms, it’s condescending.
You might consider the hypothesis that there’s nothing wrong with something if it makes you, or someone else, feel better. But that’s kind of like saying the ends justify the means.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
SEOUL?North Korea has a well-earned reputation as one of the most tightly closed and rigorously controlled countries on Earth. But when it comes to the privacy of the bedroom, even the all-powerful North Korean Workers? Party is largely hands-off, according to North Korean defectors.
Intellectuals and artists in the Workers? Paradise have long espoused a fairly open and liberal set of views around sexual relationships, according to former North Korean artist and defector Lee Yoon Jeong, despite a widespread lack of sex education for young people.
?The culture of sex in North Korea is not conservative,? she said in a recent interview with RFA?s Korean service. ?A liberal sex culture is certainly not encouraged, but as far as sex is concerned, people make their own choices.?
Lee said high divorce rates, and the tendency for Party officials to have mistresses and extra-marital affairs, meant that the Party was reticent about dictating to the people about their love lives.
?The Workers? Party is truly in no position to regulate relationships between men and women,? she told reporter Jinhee Bonny. ?The authorities may control everything, but they could never dictate matters of love between North Korean men and women.?
Kim and the Joy Brigade
Jeong Young, a North Korean defector, said North Korean university students enjoyed a certain amount of freedom in dating and relationships.
?There is a tendency among North Korean university students to be liberal when it comes to dating,? she said. ?For example, when they go to a friend?s birthday party, they play foreign music, dance disco, and are very natural in their approach to relationships between the sexes, Western-style.?
North Korea?s political culture, on the surface, appears to lean toward extreme conservatism, with propaganda posters showing rows of clean-cut young men and women, saluting the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, or remembering the Great Leader, his father Kim Il Sung.
But Kim Jong Il in his younger days enjoyed an international reputation as a playboy, surrounding himself in his ?Joy Brigade? with hand-picked young women who were given the job of keeping the heir to the North Korean leadership happy.
Kim Jong Il?s eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, was born out of his relationship with his first mistress, actress Song Hye Rim. She was a married woman at the time she moved in with Kim Jong Il and was never recognized as more than his mistress.
Kim Jong Il?s unrestricted sexual behavior was highly contagious, and he surrounded himself with members of the Party elite, who also boasted about their drinking and womanizing, North Korean analysts and defectors said.
Famine brought prostitution
Since that era, adultery, premarital sex, and cohabitation have become more prevalent among ordinary young people in North Korea, although homosexual relationships are still discouraged.
The famine of the 1990s, which forced thousands of defectors across the border into China every year in search of jobs and food, brought in its wake greater openness about sexuality, but also a thriving trade in trafficking and prostitution.
Professor Lee Won Woong of Kwandong University in Kangnung, South Korea, said that the famine itself prompted many women to take up prostitution in return for food for themselves and their families.
?Many women have willingly or unwillingly gone into prostitution, as selling oneself has become a means of survival,? Lee said, adding that the transformation of sexual culture in North Korea was on an unprecedented scale.
?The divorce rate is rising rapidly, families are falling apart, and married couples get separated without properly filing for divorce,? Lee said. ?If married couples live separately, this is a de facto divorce, and women are left to fend for themselves without suitable legal protection. Many of these women, left on their own in society, are exposed to this rapidly changing sex culture.?
The North Korean authorities say they are cracking down on the underground sex industry but defectors say they are in fact rather reluctant to do anything, as the livelihoods of many people depend on this booming enterprise.
Prostitution is visible, defectors say, around train stations and in the saunas, karaoke bars, and restaurants in the bigger cities.
Some of the women who ?sell night flowers? find themselves on the street after a marital break-up, while others, according to human rights workers, do so willingly.
According to defector Kim Jinhee, who was a traditional medicine doctor in North Korea before she defected, the repercussions for some women of a new sexual liberalism without adequate social services can be severe.
?Abortion is illegal in North Korea, as it is considered that it takes human life. In my case, I went to a hospital to get an abortion done, but they wouldn?t do it,? she said.
?However, there are instances where people want to get rid of problematic and unwanted pregnancies, and these are handled with discretion. After the procedure, the health of the woman who has had the abortion needs to be monitored, but in order to evade unwanted attention, that is often avoided or overlooked. This has become a social and health problem in North Korea,? Kim added.
Prof. Lee said North Koreans of both sexes were also vulnerable to the negative side-effects of Chinese pornography, either from their time in hiding in China, or from exposure to smuggled Chinese adult material in North Korea, because they had little or no sex education.
The result was that many North Korean defectors living in South Korea were experiencing various forms of sex addiction after exposure to Chinese porn, Lee said.
And North Korean women defectors, who were engaged in the sex industry as a way of surviving their transition through China, are often still involved in a similar line of work even after arriving in South Korea, he added.
?Generally, there is no sex education in North Korea,? Jeong Young agreed. ?There is no teaching on contraception, or on the very basics of sex education. Talk about sex is just avoided.?
?In China, adult material is widely available to computer users, the sex culture is very liberal, and sexual promiscuity is rife. Many North Korean defectors abruptly come in contact with such sex culture in China, and that is why many of them end up having distorted views on sexual mores in the free world of capitalist societies,? she added.
Original reporting in Korean by Jinhee Bonny. RFA Korean service director: Kwang-Chool Lee. Translated and researched by Grigore Scarlatoiu. Written for the Web in English by Luisetta Mudie. Edited by Sarah Jackson-Han.
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Updated: Jan 9, 2020
Our passage into womanhood starts on the first day our first cycle but the journey isn’t always a pleasant one, with many who suffer from irregular periods, heavy bleeding and extreme pain. Many women suffer in silence thinking it is normal or not knowing what could be done to help rebalance the cycle. Every woman should enjoy a stress-free monthly cycle.
A women’s regular cycle is 28 days, this can vary slightly either side of the 28 days. An irregular cycle is when the cycle is different each month or you miss months completely. There can be several causes the most common being hormonal imbalances, stress, extreme weight loss and extreme emotion. Ovulation then occurs between day 11-14, depending on the length of your cycle, this may vary.
The menstruation (bleeding) phase generally last around 3-7 days, longer then this can also signal a hormonal imbalance.
Period pain (dysmenorrhoea) affects many women, mild pain is normal, and you shouldn’t need to take anything for it, any pain over and above this can be a sign of hormonal imbalances however can also be a sign of endometriosis.
Heavy bleeding is another common issue that I see in clinic and again is associated with hormonal imbalances but also could be uterine fibroids, polyps or endometriosis.
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In the instant of a Women Monthly cycle, this may mean rebalancing the hormones, being able to cope with stress better or rebalancing and healing the emotions, by doing so we address the underlying causes and the symptoms naturally disappear.
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CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIA AND KINETICS IN SOILS
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Does this mean no more "duck prints" on flight decks?
There are certain things that keep sailors happy, liberty, a good meal, payday, and mail call! Of course in this day and age we have e-mail. But nothing can compare to a letter from a girlfriend or that care package chock full of goodies and pictures from home. Predictable the flight deck team usually has a little more kick on those days. It's amazing how fast the flight deck moves for the Desert Duck. The Desert Ducks are not only famous for their world class service, they have a somewhat dubious signature trademark. They are notorious for "stamping the flight deck." Upon completion of their mission aboard a vessel, the air crewman will run out of the helo at the last minute with a giant stamping device attached to a three-foot pole and stamp several large yellow duck footprints on the flight deck.Hate to see a great tradition go away... What kind of print will a Desert Hawk leave?
By the way, I have it on good authority that many ships begged the Ducks to stamp their decks...
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Dead Men Ruling
Winner of the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award
The news coming out of Washington, D.C., and reverberating around the nation increasingly sounds like a broken record: low or zero growth in employment, inadequate funds to pay future Social Security and Medicare obligations, cuts in funding for education and children’s programs, arbitrary sequesters or cutbacks in good and bad programs alike, threats not to pay our nation’s debts, inability to reach political compromise, and political parties with no real vision for twenty-first-century government.
In Dead Men Ruling, C. Eugene Steuerle argues that these seemingly separable economic and political problems are actually symptoms of a common disease, one unique to our time. Despite the despairing claims of many, Steuerle points out that we no more live in an age of austerity than did Americans at the turn into the twentieth century with the demise of the frontier. Recognizing this extraordinary but checked potential is also the secret to breaking the political logjam that—as Steuerle points out—was created largely by now dead (or retired) men.
“Gene Steuerle brings both enormous experience and great wisdom in thinking about the Federal budget. This book moves beyond the urgent to the truly important as it seeks to provide a broad theory of our problems and to chart a forward course. Anyone concerned with our economic future should carefully consider Steuerle’s arguments.”
-Lawrence H. Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and former Director, White House National Economic Council
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Project Aim: Imagine a world where you are stuck in a wheelchair, and simply using a standard physical keyboard is exhausting. Typing even the simplest answer takes you four times longer than other people. A world in which the internet is your only means of living the way you want to and independently from others. This is the world that 200 million people around the world live in every day. This is also why we created ParrotOne – solutions that benefit the disabled.
Being able to easily type and communicate with friends is crucial. I suffer from CMT myself – it’s a neuropathic disorder that makes my muscles weaker. I can type with only two fingers, one in each palm. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide face similar challenges.
What does ParrotOne do?
ParrotOne is a mobile messenger app and a physical smart-touch keyboard. Both are intended to make life easier for the physically disabled. Our AI learns the way users build messages, and gradually offers more accurate text predictions – not just words, but actually complete, ready-to-use phrases. Created with the needs of the manually impaired user in mind, the interface relies on big visual elements, and makes the entire screen available for forming messages. Using predictions as ‘bricks’ is much easier and faster than typing phrases letter by letter not only for the disabled, but also for elderly people or children.
The ParrotOne team is also working on a smart-touch keyboard prototype that will be compatible with most devices like personal computers. The integrated touch function limits the force required to ‘press’ a key to a minimum, whereas an internal, smart term-and-phrase prediction system decreases the number of actions required to type a message in any app (the word and phrase suggestions are displayed on an OLED touchscreen). Typing becomes easier and faster.
How does ParrotOne work?
ParrotOne has now become an advanced prototype. The app assists in typing SMSs or g-mails, as well as in chatting with Facebook friends. Furthermore, the planned B2B and B2G function is going to help consumers chat with on-line consultants, e.g. on a store or city administration website. ParrotOne makes it easier for disabled users to inquire about store products, discuss shipping details or set a doctor’s appointment.
An additional purpose of the app is to help the disabled learn foreign languages, and facilitate their professional activity. With that in mind, all text suggestions displayed on the screen can be flawlessly translated between numerous foreign languages in a single click – for example if the user selects an English text suggestion, the app’s internal translation system allows to form grammatically correct sentences in Polish. This naturally works both ways – your interlocutor can activate Polish-to-English translation as well.
“Europe is my home. It’s where I live, and where I was born and raised. That’s why I see reaching the SEUA finals as a big honour. It’s also an opportunity to present our start-up to people across Europe, and bring society’s attention to the issues and challenges that disabled people face every day.” Piotr Lewandowski, CEO ParrotOne. | <urn:uuid:b91e5ec7-7c10-4cba-a464-ae8feb01cc94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://startupeuropeawards.eu/parrot-one-polish-winner-in-creative-category/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.932048 | 675 | 2.1875 | 2 |
HOMER, which stands for Health Outcomes and Medical Education Research, is a unit within National Healthcare Group’s Education Office.
The most difficult challenge in today's healthcare is arguably the provision of integrated care. The patient often has to navigate a complex and often times, fragmented institutional environment across an entire spectrum of healthcare organizations to receive the care required. Our understanding in the conditions that make interprofessional and interdisciplinary teams work is crucial in helping us meet this challenge.
The idea is for the different health professions to work with differences and together to achieve better patient care. What is the role of medical education in interprofessional collaboration and education? When do interprofessional teams work? What kinds of organizational environment are more conducive for team-based care? How should interprofessional initiatives be implemented? How can we measure the outcomes of interprofessional initiatives?
Topical areas: collective or team competence, systems-based practice, interprofessional learning, interprofessional communication, attitudes toward IPECP, interprofessional leadership, organizational structures and task characteristics.
We also recognise the need for healthcare professionals to keep their skills and knowledge on par with the pace and scale of change. While formal, structured training is still important, a large part of learning happens through work and in the workplace, and the impetus to harness learning in authentic work settings is becoming more urgent than ever. Correspondingly, we need to examine how our clinical teachers and faculty members teach and guide learning.
Topical areas: informal and hidden curriculum, transfer of training, experential and service learning, professional identity, learning environment, workplace-based assessment, and communities of practice.
We need to prepare clinical teachers and faculty members to take on expanded roles as educators and faculty developers. Whether it is classroom learning, informal, or work-based learning, we want to create and build a base of knowledge that is empirically grounded so that our educators and faculty developers' pedagogy is informed, and they grow professionally and personally in the best possible manner.
Topical areas: educator identity, educational leadership, faculty competency framework, faculty evaluation, faculty selection, faculty engagement, training and development.
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Satellite operators need more accurate SSA data
WAILEA, Hawaii — Space situational awareness data used by satellite operators isn’t accurate enough to support the decisions they need to make on whether and how to maneuver their spacecraft to avoid potential collisions.
In a paper presented at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies, or AMOS, Conference here Sept. 15, officials with the COMSPOC Corporation, which specializes in commercial space situational awareness (SSA), looked at the various approaches satellite operators used to determine if they need to make a collision avoidance maneuver and compared it to the accuracy of the data they use to base “go/no-go” decisions for those maneuvers.
Dan Oltrogge, director of integrated operations and research at COMSPOC, said in an interview that a survey of members of the Space Data Association, a group of satellite operators, revealed no consensus in the criteria they used to determine what is a “high-interest” close approach in either low Earth orbit or geostationary orbit. GEO operators, for example, use a threshold of a projected miss distance ranging from 1,000 to 15,000 meters, and a probability of collision ranging from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 1 billion.
“The criteria and the thresholds they were using are all over the map,” he said. “Maybe it’s unrealistic to expect that they wouldn’t be different because each operator has varying levels of sophistication and varying levels of resources and SSA data they have access to. But, it was striking for us just how different these things are.”
With an understanding of those wildly varying thresholds, COMSPOC then analyzed how well existing SSA data supports those operators’ decision-making processes. “Typical data is not meeting their needs. It’s not accurate enough to use it in the manner that it’s being used,” Oltrogge said.
A solution COMSPOC proposes is “data fusion,” where the freely available SSA data like that from the U.S. government is combined with other data, such as the operator’s own knowledge of its satellites as well as commercial SSA data. “By blending all those together and factoring in the operator’s planned maneuvers and the operator’s spacecraft dimensions, we were able to get a much better picture of what’s going on,” he said. “We can get very close to meeting those accuracy requirements.”
That requires some change in thinking by operators. “We have a heritage here of using best available data and assuming that’s all we have, so let’s be happy with it,” he said. “Instead, I urge us as a community to figure out what accuracies we need, and then figure out what we need to meet those requirements.”
There are signs that operators are willing to share SSA data, Oltrogge said. “If you can bring that into a comprehensive data fusion system where it’s blended with government SSA observations and commercial SSA observations, that’s when you can really get accurate and actionable SSA products.” | <urn:uuid:763a97f6-aff8-4a7e-8548-3754ac1d6a03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spacenews.com/satellite-operators-need-more-accurate-ssa-data/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.943804 | 678 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Why Digital Currency Makes Sense For A Global Economy
With an ever-increasing global market, do physical currencies tied to national governments actually hinder trade?
The United States has the dollar, Mexico has the peso, and Great Britain has the pound. Within their individual borders, having a single currency provides a streamlined, unified system for appropriating value in an exchange. But when traveling outside national borders, currency can become confusing–what was ‘worth’ one amount in one country takes on new value in another; the physical bill or coin is literally worth nothing as it can’t be readily exchanged in the visiting country for goods, and its assigned value changes based on fluctuating exchange rates. What could buy a pack of gum in one country could buy a steak dinner in another.
With an international, globalized economy made increasingly possible by the growth of Internet-enabled commerce, do nationalized currencies even make sense as the basis for trade? Could there be a single, global, digital currency to unify the world economy? Instead of looking at the value of currency as a measure of supply and demand, could value be measured by social activity, trust, or reliability?
Several companies are exploring this very idea, proposing alternative systems of exchange that exist outside physical borders and redefine our traditional concepts of value. Instead of a valuing currency as a measure of supply and demand, these systems measure value based on a new set of metrics. Hub Culture, for example, is a company who proposes value as a measure of social interaction. Members of Hub Culture trade in Ven, a virtual currency earned by sharing knowledge with others. Stan Stalnaker, Hub Culture’s founder, thinks Ven is a more efficient way to think about value:
Hub Culture uses social connectivity to drive value exchange – which is a fancy of way of saying a trusted community can get more done together than other types of groups. The community drives exchange, and helps to create and build opportunities in a connected fashion. The Ven is merely a utility to reflect the values of the community – so a single, global, digital, green means of exchange reflects the values important to us. Value is value – its just another means of expressing it, perhaps more efficiently. I think of currency as language — a code for promises between economic actors.
In essence, Hub Culture places a high value on community; those who actively lend their expertise to others in need positively contribute to the economy. Empire Avenue, similarly, creates a value proposition through social networking interaction. In Empire Avenue, people and brands become stocks. Share price is determined by online influence–by both activity and engagement levels on sites Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. But unlike Hub Culture, Empire Avenue plays out more like an interactive stock market; people ask for retweets or page views in exchange for ‘investing’ back in you. As Founder Duleepa Wijayawardhana explained to us:
On Empire Avenue you can invest virtual currency in any individual to buy shares in that individual’s social media value. Every individual returns a dividend daily to their shareholders based on the engagement they create. As you collect and own more shares in those producing engaging content, the richer you become and the more ability you yourself have to engage your networks in a similar manner. Empire Avenue is unique in the social media landscape as it assigns a real world economic system using virtual currency to social media and online engagement.
Whether you agree with the Empire Avenue model or not, the platform is intriguing because it seeks to link a person’s relative ‘value’ directly to their level of social reach and influence, which points to a potential future where individual worth on the open market is determined by an entirely new set of standards. As Stan Stalnaker believes:
It’s already happening – social value tied to reputation rankings and networks, the value of billions of like buttons, are all obscure forms of currency in themselves. As they become more comprehensive and trade-able, they will become quantified related to other forms of value – from Ven to dollars to coconuts and cars. Once you assign numerical value to something, it can theoretically be exchanged, which makes it a form of currency, whatever it is – whether trust, or reliability or money itself.
And once communities of interest start generating their own accepted currencies and forms of self-governance, there’s no longer a need for a central authority- unlike banks and credit card companies, there are fewer (if any) intermediary fees for exchanging money between two parties. Such is the case with two other digital currencies, MintChip and BitCoin, which also eschew a traditional money-flow path in favor of peer-to-peer exchange.
MintChip is a newly ‘minted’ digital currency developed by Canada and is designed to operate like cash, only better. Royal Canadian Mint CFO, Marc Brule, explains the benefits of using MintChip over physical currency in a recent interview with Wired:
Unlike most other payment products, MintChip operates with many of the characteristics of cash in the online world. Not requiring a proprietary network or any network at all to authenticate and process the transaction, it is a direct transfer of value from consumers to business or person-to-person. The value is stored in secure integrated chips and uses a secure protocol that allows the transfer of value from one chip to another. Like cash, it operates without the need for personal identification, is instantaneous and does not have any age or credit requirements for use.
People can exchange the MintChip currency instantly over any Internet connected device, and the transaction is private and secure. However, MintChip is directly tied to the Canadian Mint, so while transactions don’t pass through a bank and no fees are collected, it doesn’t necessarily translate into a global economy. What it does allow for, though, is third party development, which the Royal Canadian Mint is promoting through its MintChip Challenge, a competition that tasks software engineers with building innovative apps for the evolved currency.
And while exciting advancements may indeed come from government support, the fringe innovation of inspired by BitCoin, has been an interesting study in the rise and almost fall (thanks to hacking and counterfeiting efforts) of a parallel currency and economy that operates digitally, instantly and anonymously without middlemen or banks. Instead the system is regulated by the people who use it.
With BitCoin, trust becomes central to the idea of value exchange- users must trust each other to appropriately manage transactions as all sales are final. Once again, the idea of digital currency hinges on the community and a transparent exchange between two parties. Because many see so much promise in this model, there are new businesses being constructed around the currency such as banks like Flexcoin and exchanges like Ruxum to further its reach.
Whether or not the markets have found their universal means of exchange, it’s clear that digital currency has the power to break down borders; currency becomes global with no physical borders, and borders in terms of fees and middle men are trampled in favor of a system of reciprocity and openness.
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In the Czech Republic Christmas is celebrated because of Christianity, celebrating the birth of Jesus. I think that in the USA Christmas turned into a commercial matter. Christmas begins on November 24 as Chritmas Eve in all countries. But people celebrate this day in different ways.
In the Czech Republic all families are together, we watch television and after a good lunch we usually go for a walk. Somebody goes to cemetery. Christmas is a time of good food. The most important is dinner. Traditional czech christmas dinner consists of fish soup (chowder) and carp with potato salad. But many people eat also different foods as sausages, steaks, mushrooms, cakes and so on. After dinner Father Christmas (or Santa Claus) comes. In some families he rings. Afer this, all family meets at Chrismas tree. It´s a time for unwrapping the presents.
In Great Britain on December 24 has never been a holiday but on the other hand it is the only day of the year reserved for the „office party“. A lot of people spend the day shopping. Before children go to bed, they hang up Christmas stockings.Next morning they find small presents and sweetness in this stockings. Under Christmas tree they have bigger gifts. They believe that Santa Claus brings this gifts. On the 25th of December they lunch their traditional roast turkey with chestnut stuffing, roast potatoes and Christmas pudding.
On December 26 they celebrate Boxing day from the custom in earlier times of giving postmen,dustmen,milkmen, newspaper boys and the like small sums of money, which they collected in their Christmas boxes. A pantomime is a traditional Cristmas-time entertainment, pantomime is a theatre show based on fairy tale or traditional story with music. Americans of British origin follow the same traditions as their ancestors. Christmas in the USA is not family holiday, families invite friends to join them Christmas dinner and often have parties at Christmas-time. Americans also decorate their houses with garlands and electric coloured lights. | <urn:uuid:293b181c-6775-4841-a010-1073b7f66d25> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://referaty.centrum.sk/cudzie-jazyky/anglictina/28397/christmas-in-the-czech-republic-and-english-speaking-countries | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.960982 | 417 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Greece’s prime minister warned his country’s voters on Thursday that the choices they make in next months’ early elections will determine whether Greece slips back into “the dark days” of austerity.
Alexis Tsipras’s left-wing Syriza party suffered a heavy defeat in May’s European elections, trailing the conservative New Democracy party by more than 9 percentage points and leading him to call an early national vote for July 7.
In a hastily arranged statement outside his office in Athens on Thursday, he said the results had emboldened some among Greece’s creditors to attempt to undermine his government’s recent introduction of new benefits and consumer tax cuts.
The election results “whetted the appetite of both the old political establishment in Greece and the more extreme conservative circles in Brussels, to doubt our political choices and to place obstacles in the way of our plan,” he said.
Tsipras’ comments came a day after the European Commission issued a report expressing concern at the impact the new measures, announced shortly before the European elections, would have on the country’s budget targets.
The prime minister said the new benefits were part of a plan to allow those who had made sacrifices during the bailout years “to be able to see in their daily lives … the results of their sacrifices.”
Greece, which emerged from its third and final bailout last year, has promised bailout creditors to run high budget surpluses for years to come so it can continue servicing its debts. But the EU commission said Wednesday that the government’s relief measures set the budget targets at risk.
The commission report also noted that newly-adopted extra pension payments will increase Greece’s pension expenditure, already the highest in the EU, and divert welfare funds from young, working-age Greeks.q | <urn:uuid:f930402c-8fe6-4ed9-a3a1-6130320ad068> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.arubatoday.com/greek-leader-warns-of-return-to-dark-days-of-austerity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.969814 | 384 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Carl Frieden, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
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ApoE proteins and Alzheimer’s Disease
Apolipoproteins are essential for lipid and cholesterol transport and metabolism. ApoE4 is one of a family of three apoE proteins. While there are several genetic risk factors for late-onset AD (onset after age 60), the original observation made in 1993 that the ε4 allele is a genetic risk factor still holds. In fact. apoE4 is the major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It is now known that the ε4 allele of apoE increases risk ~3-fold when present in 1 copy and ~12-fold when present in 2 copies relative to the ε3 allele. The three common isoforms of apoE, a protein of 299 amino acids, differ only in two amino acids at positions 112 and 158. We are examining how these single amino acid changes can give rise to functional differences.
Amyloid beta, Aβ, is a small peptide associated with plaques in those who have Alzheimer’s Disease. Genetic, biochemical, and animal model studies strongly suggest that apoE4 is likely to influence Alzheimer’s Disease pathogenesis via effects on the metabolism of the 38-43 amino acid amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide.
We are studying the molecular properties of the interaction of apoE isoforms with lipids and with Aβ using biophysical techniques. We are also screening a small set of compounds that may preferentially affect the behavior of apoE4 relative to apoE3.
The Tau protein
The protein called tau is responsible for the formation of tangles associated with AD. We have started a project investigating the interaction of apoE proteins with tau.
Bacterial communities, called biofilms, are important in various types of infections, including urinary tract infections (UTIs), chronic skin wounds, otitis media and lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. For E. coli and other Enterobacteriaceae biofilms, adhesive amyloid fibers called curli can be a major proteinaceous constituent of the extracellular matrix. Curli promote biotic and abiotic surface colonization, stabilize cell-cell contacts allowing cell aggregation and thickening of the biofilm layer, and confer resistance to the biofilm against environmental stresses and biocides. The structural subunits of curli amyloid fibers are CsgA (major component) and CsgB (minor component), CsgE and CsgF which may serve a chaperone function and CsgG, a lipoprotein that localizes to the outer membrane as an oligomeric pore structure and is required for the export of curli subunits to the cell surface. Both CsgA and CsgB are intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). In vitro, CsgA and CsgB can self-associate to form high molecular weight aggregates/fibrils. We are studying the properties of the curli subunits and their mechanism of aggregation.
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Ebola virus disease is a scourge in West Africa, where the toll from the most recent outbreak totals nearly 28,000 reported cases and over 11,000 deaths. And while the symptoms and the suffering associated with Ebola can be disturbing to those who simply hear or read about the disease, those working directly with patients know the grim reality of the disease — and the challenges of dealing with it — only too well.
Consider Norah Keah-Sandi, director of nursing services at Ganta United Methodist Hospital in Liberia that receives aid from Stop Hunger Now. In July 2014, the hospital admitted a man diagnosed with malaria, one of many fevers with symptoms that mirror those of Ebola and present themselves at the hospital.
While the doctor at the hospital isolated the patient, he died two days later. The staff needed to dispose of the body, but the hospital had no protocol in place for prevention and control of the disease, and the staff knew little about Ebola.
Fortunately, Keah-Kandi had received training in the protocol for personal protective equipment. So she led five staff members in the protocol for preparing the body for disposal and burying it, and then for 21 days followed strict protocols for monitoring vital signs for those coming into contact with suspected or confirmed cases of Ebola.
“I continue to tell almighty God, ‘Thank you, Daddy God,’ for grace and protection,” she says. “I also praise and thank you, our partners, such as Stop Hunger Now, for your prayers and material support that gives us courage, wisdom, strength and enabled us to remain safe throughout the heat of the crisis until now. We are not free yet from Ebola, and so we need your prayers, Ebola training and materials support in order to keep safe and keep serving.” | <urn:uuid:9bf649de-86b9-47e5-b594-078f65f5499c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://riseagainsthunger.org.ph/courage-and-prayer-on-ebolas-front-lines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.96276 | 368 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The Dutch House Summary and Analysis
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Find out about “Currency Trading Risks” –
The reason why Set a Stop Loss?
Currency Trading Risks – Products to know how to be a currency trader then the first thing you must know is forex products are typically dealt on margin accounts using large amounts of leverage, usually anywhere from 50: 1 for you to 200: 1 and sometimes to 500: 1 . Leverage might be a great tool allowing the use of a relatively small amount of money to cash in on the fluctuating value of a great deal of money.
This also can work versus you as the fluctuation associated with a large amount of money can cause that you lose all of the relatively little money. This reasonably little money is your capital deposited with the broker and might not be a small number of dollars.
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Currency Trading Risks – This is why you must use suitable risk management techniques at any time trading to protect your investment. The most basic of risk operations processes are using the foreign exchange stop-loss order. This designates a limit to the amount of burning that can be taken on a specific trade, but how much reduction is acceptable?
Acceptable loss is by many things, but an excellent place to begin is to look at the actual associated with 1 unit of reduction. Profits and losses tend to be measured in units known as PIPs which are referenced through the fourth decimal place in the majority of quotes.
Currency Trading Risks – For example, if you were starting to buy EUR USA for one 3471 and sell it about 1 . 3465, you might have taken a loss of six pips. Forex products are purchased from quantities of lots. A typical lot or 1 . zero lot is for 100 000 units, a mini great deal or 0. 1 good deal is for 10 000 devices, and a micro lot or maybe 0. 01 lot is designed for 1 000 units.
The value of each pip is usually relative to the size of a good deal you have ordered. Using EUR USA 1 . 3471, to buy a standard lot or 1 . zero lot, you would need to pay – 3471USD * 100 000 units for a total involving $134, 710USD for a hundred 000EUR before applying to make use of.
Currency Trading Risks – Since a pipe is measured as 0. 0001, the following calculation can be created ((. 0001 / one 3471) * 100, 000), which gives a pip associated with 7. 4234EUR. In UNITED STATES dollars, this would be 7. 4234EUR * 1 . 3471 (exchange rate) and give $10USD for each pip.
Currency Trading Risks – Pip values within US Dollars can become stated as being $10 for any standard lot or one 0 lot of 100 000 units, $1 for a small lot or 0. one lot of 10 000 models, and $0. 10 for any micro lot or zero. 01 lot of 1 000 units. So for the sort of a six pip reduction, if you have traded with a regular lot, your loss will be $60, or with a small lot, you would have lost $6 and a loss of $0. sixty with a micro lot.
Provide Loss a Value
Currency Trading Risks – Now that you know how much to expect for a loss device, you can provide the maximum allowable loss at a price based on how much capital you need to invest. A good value for any beginner is 2% of your total money for just about anyone trade. This means that for those who have $1000 to invest, then a 2% loss would equate to 20 dollars.
If you were to go with an average lot with a pip associated with $10USD, you could only reduce two pips before the most significant loss. You need to allow for some loss without closing your role with your stop loss right away, so a standard lot would be too big for your capital level. A fantastic starting point is to allow some loss of 50 pips ahead of your forex stop loss obtain is triggered.
Currency Trading Risks – A little lot with a pip associated with $1USD is getting closer mainly because it would allow for 20 pips before your maximum burning is reached, but still not necessarily ideal for a beginner. Some micro-lot comes with a pip value of $0. 10USD letting 200 pips loss ahead of maximum allowable loss is usually reached. If we take 190 pips and divide by simply four, the result is 50 pips, so now take the 0.
01 lot and multiply by simply 4 to get 0. 2008 which tells us that zero. 04 lots or some x 0. 01(micro lot) is a perfect amount to order, with a stop loss of 50 pips. Bear in mind to stick with currency twos that have enough active trading so that your stop-loss order may be filled when it is triggered.
Currency Trading Risks – If the broker cannot fill your current order due to a lack of buying and selling volume on the currency match, losses may keep on beyond your maximum allowable sum until the order can be stuffed. Staying with the significant currency frames will eliminate this achievable problem. The majors are usually EURUSD, USDJPY, GBPUSD, AUDUSD, USDCHF, and USDCAD.
Walking Stop Loss
Currency Trading Risks – If you are looking for fx trading strategies that work, try a sophisticated technique used with a stop loss buy called trailing stop loss. Thus giving you the ability to reduce or perhaps eliminate the possibility of any damage by moving your stop loss amount with the increasing income of your order.
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Best Student Portal JCPS 2022
Student Portal JCPS, (Jefferson County Public Schools) is a public school district in Jefferson County, Kentucky, which operates all but one of the county’s public schools. The research indicates that it is administered by an elected seven-member Board of Education that selects and hires a Superintendent who serves as the system’s main executive.
JCPS is the twenty-seventh largest school district in the United States, with 150 schools and over 100,000 pupils. In 2014–2015, the system had a budget of $1.1 billion and almost 18,000 personnel. With a fleet of over 1,500 vehicles, it operates one of the nation’s ten largest transportation systems. We are informed that the overall population of Jefferson County Public Schools is roughly 760,000, making it by far the largest in Kentucky.
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STUDENT PORTAL – JCPS
You can log in to Student Portal JCPS if you are a student at JCPS (Jefferson County Public Schools). Obviously, account creation is a prerequisite. After creating a Student Portal JCPS account, you will be able to login to your account. Moreover, what is the Student Portal JCPS login procedure? We believe it to be a very simple task. You must visit the JCPS Student Portal page as the initial step.
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Once you have arrived at the JCPS Student Portal homepage, you will be able to see the login button. You can now click the login button to enter the JCPS Student Portal. When you reach the login screen for the JCPS Student Portal, you will find two columns that require completion. The first column is where you must input your student username, and the second column is where you must enter your account password. If you have already entered your student username and password correctly, clicking the login button is the final step. By clicking the Log In button, JCPS Student Portal will be accessed.
On the Student Portal JCPS, as a JCPS student, you can view your scores, grades, schedule, class details, and search for further information. Additionally, you can request to have your scripts printed. We believe that the Student Portal will make learning and obtaining the information you require much simpler.
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In the event that you are unable to access your JCPS Student Portal account due to a forgotten password, you can request assistance by selecting the link labeled “Forget your password.” If you click on this link, you will be redirected to the password reset page. Enter your email address and then click the proceed button to reset your password.
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There is quite a bit of information in this graph. The purple, dashed line shows the course of rhodopsin regeneration after it was completely bleached by a very bright light. Time represents the amount of time in darkness after bleaching. The ordinate for the dashed, purple line is on the right and you can see that at time 0 there is almost 0% unbleached photopigment (rhodopsin). This purple curve represents the function for both a normal sighted person and a person that has only rod receptors (rod monochromat). This data was collected with a retinal densitometer.
The squiggly green line represents the psychophysical threshold function for the rod monochromat and the solid red line is similar to the psychophysical cone threshold function for a normal sighted person and the red dotted curve the rod function.. The threshold curves should be view with respect to the left-hand ordinate.
The early stage of the psychophysical function for rod threshold is not seen for a normally sighted person because the cone receptors are more sensitive than the rods. You can see, in this graph and also in the dark adaptation graph that the cone function reaches a plateau after about 7 minutes in the dark. Rod vision takes over when it becomes more sensitive. The significance of the graph on the right is that because the same retinal densitometry function for rods is found with a normal and rod monochromatic observer we can confidently assume that the extrapolation of the early stage of rod sensitivity shown in the dark adaptation curve is correct.
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Know more about the costs involved in franchising
At present, you will find that many people want to be entrepreneurs. If you also possess the same ambitions then invest in franchising instead of opening a new business. This is because franchising involves less risk and more profits than a self-owned business. In addition to this, franchising allows you to sell products and services which are already famous and recognised in the market.
Once you pay the required amount of money to the franchisor then you can easily enjoy the various benefits offered by them. Here is more information about the fees which are involved in franchising:
To use the franchisor’s name and its assistance, you (franchisee) need to pay a specific amount. The fees are divided into three different categories.
• First of all, you need to pay the initial fees which may be non-refundable. This fee may cost the franchisee several hundred pounds. The fees include the cost of the outlet. In addition to this, it also involves the insurance and licence fees.
• Continuing royalty payments – These payments or fees are paid by a franchisee to the franchisor on the basis of their monthly or weekly income. These royalties are generally paid for using the brand name. The monthly or weekly fees need to be paid for the duration which is fixed in the franchise agreement. • Lastly, the franchisee also needs to pay advertising fees to the franchisor, as they help in promoting your business through national advertising.
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Friday, 9 December 2011
The last convict ship down under
I stepped off a plane yesterday, having flown in stages from Sydney to Bangkok, Bangkok to Dubai, and then onwards to Glasgow. The journey took just over a day, though ironically the longest part of the trip was the two hours seated on board the plane at Glasgow Airport, with permission for passengers to disembark and cross the final twenty metres into the terminal building denied due to high winds!
I'll write about the Unlock the Past genealogy cruise soon on which I participated in the next few days, but here's a wee treat from my visit to Picton, New Zealand. The cruise vessel on which we were travelling, the Volendam, was the height of luxury, and a perfect venue for a two week genealogy cruise, but it was in marked contrast to the vessel I encountered in Picton, the ninth oldest in the world, and the only remaining original convict ship in either Australia or New Zealand - the Edwin Fox. Built in 1853 in Calcutta, the remains of her once proud hulk were recently recovered and preserved, and can now be visited in the town.
The following is a video diary I recorded on board her on Saturday, 26th November 2011.
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Leave it to a bear cub on the Fourth of July to remind us we share this land.
Ryan Duke had joined a group of photographers atop Mount Wilson to capture fireworks when their eyes were captivated by this small but mighty bear.
"I heard someone yell, 'Bear!' I looked up and I almost didn't believe it at first," said Duke, a photographer. "I thought it was just a joke. I personally was yelling. I was raising my hands in the air, trying to appear bigger."
While some stood their ground, others tried to scare the bear away.
At one point the bear bit a man as he turned his back.
Later the man can be heard shouting he's fine.
"This person ended up staying to watch the fireworks," Duke said. "I'm sure it was a tiny nibble but still something startling and unexpected."
U.S. & World
Duke says the bear eventually made its way back into the brush. But not before asserting his freedom on Independence Day.
"The lesson here is that never forget when you're in the wilderness, that you're a guest in someone else's home in the wild there," he said. | <urn:uuid:1e18a065-06bf-42ac-9d69-6f18c1b7f9a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/fourth-of-july-revelers-get-visit-from-bear-cub-and-catch-it-all-on-video/2522779/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.992953 | 244 | 2.015625 | 2 |
THE ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE 531
profession — law, medicine, the Church or mercantile life — he has no doubt as to the course of preliminary training. So far as one can judge, his system was uniform and invariable for all kinds of mind, for all walks in life — Greek and Latin driven in with the rod. " Boys, be pure in heart," said Keate, the famous Eton Head Master ; " I'll flog you if you are not." " Boys acquire a tolerable knowledge of the dialects," said Johnson; "take in your knowledge through the eye and ear if you can; but, if you fail to do this, I will undertake to insert it through some other part of your personality." His recom- mendations to his young friend are pellucidly ingenuous. He is to apply himself to the languages and even to the dialects. There is no pretence in this. No false issue is raised. Johnson does not for a moment suggest that his young friend has anything to gain from the subject-matter of JElian's or Xenophon's or Theocritus's works. The scholars of the Eenaissance studied Latin and Greek for the sake of getting at the writer's thought. They found that Greeks and Eomans knew so much more than they did, and argued so keenly about what they knew, that it seemed futile to medieval students to obtain knowl- edge at first hand. Plato and Aristotle could teach them more than they could ever find out for themselves. By the beginning of the eighteenth century the wisdom of Plato and Aristotle had been ab- sorbed into modern thought. The reason for studying Greek and Latin had gone. Yet the languages had a firmer hold upon the schools and universities than they had ever had before. Their study molded the mind of Johnson, and has molded the minds of the greatest of our statesmen, lawyers, philosophers ever since.
Why should the languages produce such admirable results? John- son does not recognize French, German, Italian as coming within the category of languages when thinking of education. They may be useful for business, or even for lighter employment; but they do not train the mind. Why should languages which have lost their purpose as means of communication possess virtues which living languages can not acquire? In a limited sense their uselessness is their chief merit. Amo, amas, amat. The boy who learns the meaning of j'aime or ich Hebe might have an eye upon the possible application of this knowledge; but amo, amas — he would not be understood even by a modern Eoman maiden!
If attention is to be concentrated wholly upon language as a means, there must be no risk of distraction due" to the contemplation of its possible end. "Waiter, 'mrangs!" called the little boy in Punch. " Oh, Freddy, that isn't the way to pronounce m-e-r-i-n-g-u-e-s! " — " It's the way to get 'em! " When we are working at a living language thought passes on ahead to the end to be gained. It is only when a dead language is being studied that attention can be wholly devoted to its form. A modern language is studied with a view to 'getting | <urn:uuid:e5f396a1-3deb-4c99-a325-2b7921da5a79> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Popular_Science_Monthly_Volume_70.djvu/535 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00047-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974777 | 686 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Lenders still overvaluing properties, Fed study finds
The Fed calls it an “apparent misunderstanding.” Whatever term you prefer, a new Cleveland Fed study makes one thing clear: lenders are still overstating home values. The study focuses on real-estate-owned or REO inventory, which covers properties that are now owned by lenders.
We analyzed sales data from Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and found signs that appraisers, lenders, and investors could be routinely overestimating the property values of foreclosed homes there. We suggest some simple identifiers that can help lenders better estimate home values in weak housing markets. And though we have focused on one county, we believe the situation could be the same in other places. The factors we identify as possible causes of overestimation in Cuyahoga County are likely to be found in many other weak housing markets around the country.
The two Fed economists who wrote the report identify an array of reasons for such overvaluations, ranging from the perfectly innocent to the potentially dodgy:
Lenders may be overvaluing properties because their valuation methods—which they use because they work well in most markets—don’t happen to work well in weak ones. The evidence supports this explanation, since it is not only lenders that overestimate the value of properties acquired in the sheriff’s sale, but all parties, including federal agencies and investors. Proper valuation methods would substantially discount the appraised value of homes in weak markets, bringing the estimates of value more in line with what the property will sell for on the open market. It is important to remember that lenders usually cannot legally enter the home and inspect the interior prior to foreclosure, which would prevent them from detecting hidden defects. But even when they are allowed to inspect the interior, it may not be feasible to inspect each property prior to foreclosure, given the number of foreclosures initiated every year.
Finally, there may be incentives that encourage lenders to overvalue foreclosed properties. Doing so would allow them to shift accounting losses from their loan portfolio to their REO portfolio. Solvency tests and supervisors of financial institutions place less emphasis on REO portfolios than on loan portfolios. This is a function of banks having relatively small REO portfolios in normal times, but always having an active loan portfolio that can be analyzed. | <urn:uuid:99fade91-39a9-4511-8679-e7b9a52058c8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2012/03/15/lenders-still-overvaluing-properties-fed-study-finds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00141-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942625 | 474 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Mulloy v. United States
Annotate this Case
398 U.S. 410 (1970)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mulloy v. United States, 398 U.S. 410 (1970)
Mulloy v. United States
Argued April 20, 1970
Decided June 15, 1970
398 U.S. 410
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
Petitioner, who had been classified I-A, applied to his local Selective Service Board for a I-O classification as a conscientious objector, filing the appropriate form with detailed answers. Letters were submitted by five persons attesting to the sincerity of petitioner's belief. At petitioner's request, the board granted him a personal appearance. He was notified that the classification had not been reopened and that the interview was a matter of courtesy. Under Selective Service regulations, reopening would have entitled petitioner to an administrative appeal from the rejection of his conscientious objector claim. Petitioner then refused to submit to induction, and was tried and convicted for violating 50 U.S.C. App § 462(a).
Held: Where a registrant makes nonfrivolous allegations of facts not previously considered by his board, that, if true, would be sufficient under the regulations to warrant granting a reclassification, the board must reopen the classification, unless the truth of the new allegations is conclusively refuted by other reliable information in registrant's file, thus affording the registrant an administrative appeal from an adverse determination on the merits. Pp. 398 U. S. 415-418.
412 F.2d 421, reversed.
MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.
Following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, the petitioner was convicted for refusing to submit to induction into the Armed Forces in violation of § 12(a) of the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, 62 Stat. 622, as amended, 50 U.S.C.App. § 462(a) (1964 ed., Supp. IV). He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined $10,000, and his conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. 412 F.2d 421. We granted certiorari, 396 U.S. 1036, to consider the petitioner's contention, raised both in the trial court and in the Court of Appeals, that the order to report was invalid because his local board had refused to reopen his I-A classification following his application for a I-O classification as a conscientious objector. The argument is that it was an abuse of discretion for the board to reject his conscientious objector claim without reopening his classification, and by so doing to deprive him of his right to an administrative appeal.
On October 17, 1967, the petitioner, who was then 23 years old and classified I-A (available for military service), wrote to his local Selective Service Board that,
"[a]fter much, much thinking, seeking, and questioning of my own religious upbringing and political experience, I have concluded that I am a conscientious objector. I am therefore opposed to war in any form."
In response to this letter, the clerk sent him the Special Form for Conscientious Objectors (SSS Form 150), which he promptly completed and returned. [Footnote 1]
The petitioner stated in the form that he was conscientiously opposed by reason of his religious training and belief to participation in war in any form. He said that he believed in a Supreme Being and that this belief involved duties superior to those arising from any human relation; that his religious training had taught him that it was against God's law to kill, and that, as a member of the armed services, he would be obliged to kill or indirectly assist in killing. In response to the form's inquiry as to how, when, and from what source he had received the training and acquired the belief upon which his conscientious objection was based, he gave a detailed answer, explaining that he had been born and raised a Catholic; that he had at one point in his life thought he would become a priest; that he had gone through a religious crisis in college and left the church, but had returned to it and been greatly influenced by the writings of Thomas Merton, who had preached nonviolence. He said that he had learned in the work he had been doing with an antipoverty organization in Appalachia of the need for love and understanding among people, and of the futility of violence. He concluded that his early training, coupled with his adult experience, particularly as a worker among the Appalachian poor, had brought him to his present position as a conscientious objector.
The petitioner also gave detailed and specific answers to other questions that the form asked, such as when and where he had given public expression to the views expressed as the basis for his conscientious objector claim, and what actions or behavior he thought most conspicuously demonstrated the consistency and depth of his religious convictions. Five people who were well acquainted with the petitioner wrote to the board, attesting
to the sincerity of his beliefs. One letter was from a Catholic priest, who wrote of the petitioner's honesty and integrity and said that he felt military service would do violence to the petitioner's conscience. Other letters from people who had worked with the petitioner spoke of his belief in nonviolence and confirmed the accuracy of the incidents that the petitioner had referred to in the form as manifestations of his beliefs. The petitioner's brother wrote that, while he vehemently disagreed with the petitioner's unwillingness to bear arms for his country, he still felt that the petitioner was sincere in his beliefs.
In response to the petitioner's request to discuss his application with the board, the clerk wrote that the board had decided to grant him a personal appearance. This interview took place on November 9 and lasted about 10 or 15 minutes. It was attended by three of the four local board members. The resume of the interview prepared by the clerk stated that the petitioner
"advised that he was claiming a C.O. classification because he had learned through experience, and did not until later in life realize the importance of now believing as he did,"
and that he "felt that military service would interrupt his work, and there would be no one else to take his place." The minute entry in the petitioner's file indicated that all members present felt the information in the form, and accompanying letters, together with what was learned at the interview, did not warrant a reopening of the petitioner's I-A classification. However, no formal vote on the petitioner's application was taken until January 11, 1968, at which time, the minute entry indicated, all four members were present and again it was noted that all "felt this information did not warrant reopening" of the I-A classification. After receiving notification of the board's action, the petitioner wrote to the board on January 21 seeking to appeal its failure to reclassify
him I-O. He said that he considered the November interview to have been a reopening of his case. On January 23, the board replied that the interview had been extended as a matter of courtesy, and that it had not at any time reopened the petitioner's classification. On the same day, the petitioner was ordered to report for induction on February 23, 1968. The petitioner reported, but refused to submit to induction. This refusal resulted in the criminal charge that led to his conviction under 50 U.S.C.App. § 462(a) (1964 ed., Supp. IV).
Under the Selective Service regulations, a
"local board may reopen and consider anew the classification of a registrant . . . [if presented with] facts not considered when the registrant was classified which, if true, would justify a change in the registrant's classification. . . ."
32 CFR § 1625.2. [Footnote 2] Even if the local board denies the requested reclassification, there is a crucial difference between such board action and a simple refusal to reopen the classification at all. For once the local board reopens, it is required by the regulations to
"consider the new information which it has received [and to] again classify the registrant in the same manner as if he had never before been classified."
32 CFR § 1625.11. A classification following a reopening is thus in all respects a new and original one, and even if the registrant is placed in the same classification as before,
"[e]ach such classification [following the reopening] shall be followed by the same right of appearance before the local board and . . . of
appeal as in the case of an original classification."
32 CFR § 1625.13. Where, however, in the opinion of the board, no new facts are presented or "such facts, if true, would not justify a change in such registrant's classification . . . ," 32 CFR § 1625.4, the board need not reopen, and, following such a refusal to reopen, the registrant has no right to a personal appearance or to an appeal. Thus, whether or not a reopening is granted is a matter of substance, for with a reopening comes the right to be heard personally and to appeal. While the petitioner here was given an interview as a matter of courtesy, the board's refusal to reopen his classification denied him the opportunity for an administrative appeal from the rejection of his conscientious objector claim. Therefore, if the refusal to reopen was improper, petitioner was wrongly deprived of an essential procedural right, and the order to report for induction was invalid.
Though the language of 32 CFR § 1625.2 is permissive, it does not follow that a board may arbitrarily refuse to reopen a registrant's classification. While differing somewhat in their formulation of precisely just what showing must be made before a board is required to reopen, the courts of appeals in virtually all Federal Circuits have held that, where the registrant has set out new facts that establish a prima facie case for a new classification, a board must reopen to determine whether he is entitled to that classification. [Footnote 3] Not to do
so, these courts have held, is an abuse of discretion, and we agree.
Where a registrant makes nonfrivolous allegations of facts that have not been previously considered by his board, and that, if true, would be sufficient under regulation or statute to warrant granting the requested reclassification, the board must reopen the registrant's classification unless the truth of these new allegations is conclusively refuted by other reliable information in the registrant's file. See United States v. Burlich, 257 F.Supp. 906, 911. For, in the absence of such refutation, there can be no basis for the board's refusal to reopen except an evaluative determination adverse to the registrant's claim on the merits. And it is just this sort of determination that cannot be made without affording the registrant a chance to be heard and an opportunity for an administrative appeal.
Because of the narrowly limited scope of judicial review available to a registrant, [Footnote 4] the opportunity for full administrative review is indispensable to the fair operation of the Selective Service System. [Footnote 5] Where a prima facie case for reclassification has been made, a board cannot deprive the registrant of such review by simply refusing to reopen his file. [Footnote 6] Yet here the board did
precisely that. For it is clear that the petitioner's SSS Form 150 and the accompanying letters constituted a prima facie showing that he met the statutory standard for classification as a conscientious objector (50 U.S.C.App. § 456(j) (1964 ed., Supp. IV)), and the Government now virtually concedes as much.
The Government suggests, however, that the board might have concluded that the prima facie claim had been undercut by the petitioner himself -- by his statements at the courtesy interview or because his demeanor convinced the board that he was not telling the truth. There is, however, but scant evidence in the record that the board's action was based on any such grounds. And, in any event, it is on precisely such grounds as these that board action cannot be predicated without a reopening of the registrant's classification, and a consequent opportunity for administrative appeal.
This is not to say that, on all the facts presented to it, the board might not have been justified in refusing to grant the petitioner a I-O classification; it is to say that such refusal could properly occur only after his classification had first been reopened. The board could not deprive the petitioner of the procedural protections attending reopening by making an evaluative determination
of his claim while purportedly declining to reopen his classification. [Footnote 7]
Since the petitioner presented a nonfrivolous, prima facie claim for a change in classification based on new factual allegations which were not conclusively refuted by other information in his file, it was an abuse of discretion for the board not to reopen his classification, thus depriving him of his right to an administrative appeal. The order to report for induction was accordingly invalid, and his conviction for refusing to submit to induction must be reversed.
It is so ordered.
MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
At this time, there was no outstanding order to report for induction, though at least two orders to report had previously been sent and subsequently canceled for various reasons not relevant here. Prior to the petitioner's classification in I-A, he had had a II-S student deferment and subsequently a II-A occupational deferment.
If reclassification is sought after an order to report for induction has been mailed to the registrant, the regulations provide that the classification
"shall not be reopened . . . unless the local board first specifically finds there has been a change in the registrant's status resulting from circumstances over which the registrant had no control."
32 CFR § 1625.2.
United States v. Gearey,379 F.2d 915, 922 n. 11 (C.A.2d Cir.1967), adopting the standard enunciated in United States v. Burlich, 257 F.Supp. 906, 911 (D.C.S.D.N.Y.1966); United States v. Turner, 421 F.2d 1251 (C.A.3d Cir.1970); United States v. Grier, 415 F.2d 1098 (C.A.4th Cir.1969); Robertson v. United States, 404 F.2d 1141 (C.A. 5th Cir.1968), rev'd en banc on other grounds, 417 F.2d 440 (1969); Townsend v. Zimmerman, 237 F.2d 376 (C.A. 6th Cir.1956); United States v. Freeman, 388 F.2d 246 (C.A. 7th Cir.1967); Davis v. United States, 410 F.2d 89 (C.A. 8th Cir.1969); Miller v. United States, 388 F.2d 973 (C.A. 9th Cir.1967); Fore v. United States, 395 F.2d 548, 554 (C.A. 10th Cir.1968).
See, e.g., Clark v. Gabriel, 393 U. S. 256.
See, e.g., United States v. Freeman, 388 F.2d 246; United States v. Turner, 421 F.2d 1251; Olvera v. United States, 223 F.2d 880 (C.A. 5th Cir.1955); see also Simmons v. United States, 348 U. S. 397.
The scope of judicial review is, as a practical matter, particularly narrow where the registrant is claiming conscientious objector status.
"A sincere claimant for conscientious objector status cannot turn to the habeas corpus remedy [to challenge the legality of his classification] because his religious belief prevents him from accepting induction under any circumstances. As a result, he is limited to seeking review in a criminal trial for refusal to submit. In this criminal proceeding, as in any proceeding reviewing a draft classification, his defense of invalid classification is tested by the 'basis in fact,' formula. Under these circumstances, conviction is almost inevitable, since the Board's refusal to grant the conscientious objector classification is based on an inference as to the sincerity of the registrant's belief, and there will almost always be something in the record to support an inference of lack of sincerity."
United States v. Freeman, 388 F.2d 246, 248-249 (C.A. 7th Cir.1967).
The Government argues that, if the local board must reopen whenever a prima facie case for reclassification is stated by the registrant, he will be able to postpone his induction indefinitely, and the administration of the Selective Service System will be undermined. But the board need not reopen where the claim is plainly incredible, or where, even if true, it would not warrant reclassification, or where the claim has already been passed on, or where the claim itself is conclusively refuted by other information in the applicant's file. Moreover, a registrant who makes false statements to his draft board is subject to severe criminal penalties. 50 U.S.C.App. § 462(a) (1964 ed., Supp. IV). | <urn:uuid:ccc6ee5e-548f-4b56-bd6b-12cf87217811> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/398/410/case.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00568-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976392 | 3,653 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Stewed Fruit Etiquette
eating etiquette (how to eat...)
Table manners for eating stewed fruit. Eat stewed fruit with a spoon (you may use a fork to steady large pieces). Spit pits onto your spoon and put them on the side of your plate.
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Dennis Doros and Amy Heller created Milestone Films in 1990, a company dedicated to the restoration and rediscovery of forgotten and neglected films, be they classic or contemporary. They first brought Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Mabarosi (1995) and Takeshi Kitano’s Fireworks (1997) stateside and they distribute such silent landmarks as South (1920), Beyond the Rocks (1922), and the films of Mary Pickford. But their greatest legacy lies the area of cinema archeology. They rescued the 1964 Russia/Cuba collaboration I Am Cuba from near oblivion, restoring the film and releasing it to great acclaim in the U.S. in 1995, and stepped up to distribute Charles Burnett’s 1979 landmark Killer of Sheep for the first time in theaters and on DVD.
They have since resurrected a number of American independent landmarks, including On the Bowery (1956), The Exiles (1961), and Winter Soldier (1972). Their current mission (dubbed “Project Shirley” by Dennis Doros) is to restore and re-release the films of American director Shirley Clarke, an overlooked pioneer whose films have been almost impossible to see for decades. The Connection was released in 2012 and the restoration of Portrait of Jason is underway.
Partners in business and in marriage, Dennis and Amy continue to run Milestone Films from their home, though they have upgraded their facilities from a New York apartment to a house in Brooklyn. I caught up with Dennis at the 2012 Association of Moving Image Archivists conference, which took place in Seattle. The following interview began in person in Seattle but the bulk of it was conducted the week after AMIA via phone so I could talk to both Amy and Dennis in the relative calm of their New York home. I was lucky to catch them between trips.
Sean Axmaker: Can you talk about the process of restoring a film like The Exiles or Killer of Sheep or the current Shirley Clarke films? Not just the technical process of physically creating a print, but from discovery and tracking down materials to clearing rights. What does it take to restore and re-present a film is effectively unavailable to us?
Amy Heller: Each restoration project that we’ve done has been a completely different story. It can range form the easiest, which is a film that has just been restored, you can get the rights, you can bring it out. That’s really simple and it occasionally happens that way. But it also happens every other possible way. For instance, in the case of Killer of Sheep, it had been restored by UCLA. However, the music rights hadn’t been cleared, so that was an epic and very expensive journey finding out where all the rights owners were, clearing all the rights, paying for all the rights clearances. So that was a different kind of scenario. In any number of scenarios, we brought the films to the archives, most recently with Portrait of Jason.
Dennis Doros: Also Ornette and The Exiles.
Heller: In the case of Ornette and The Exiles, we knew where the materials were.
Doros: Actually, The Exiles was missing and I told the family that if they could find the negative, we would do it, and they sent the cinematographer to USC and he went through the vaults and found them. They were actually missing until we said, We’d love to distribute it if you can find it.
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New Delhi, Sep 13: Government's efforts to deal with the menace of terror financing has hit a road block with no state government sharing information on national risk assessment on threats to various financial institutions and capital market.
Following a recommendation of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body that looks after how to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats, the Centre set up a working group to asses the terror threat, its vulnerability in banking, insurance, capital market and financing institutions.
The group had sent a letter on August 19 to all state governments and union territories along with the three templates on 'terrorism threat', 'terrorism financing threat' and 'terrorism financing vulnerability' asking them to reply by August 30.
"So far, no response has been received from any of the state governments or union territories," a senior government official said.
The first template on 'terrorism threat' aims to determine the extent of the threat based on the sources as identified through enforcement and intelligence data on terrorism in the jurisdiction and related financing information.
The template collects data on the organisations and individuals that pose terrorism threat to the jurisdiction. It requires information on terrorism cases which includes number of reported or investigated cases, number of convictions, number of international assistance requests received, sent, property damage.
Qualitative information on future trends, other intelligence, the level of terrorism threat - low, medium or high, level of sophistication of operation, organisation average costs of operation, annual operational budget of operation, main income sources, main sectors or channels abused and originating jurisdiction of funds, the impact of terrorism financing threat - low, medium or high are other information which the state governments have to provide.
The second template on 'terrorism financing threat' aims at identifying the direction of terrorism financing funds and the sources and channels that are being used for terrorism financing, using enforcement data and typology information as indicators.
It seeks information on direction of funds, sources, criminal activity channels and overall terror financing threat.
On terror financing cases, it requires information on number of cases investigated, prosecuted, convicted, number of persons convicted, number of case files sent to law enforcement agencies, number of international assistance requests, received, sent, amount of terror financing funds seized or frozen or confiscated.
On qualitative data, it requires information of Financial Intelligence Unit-Intelligence on terror financing, FATF mutual evaluation report (reference to source and destination of funds if available) on terror financing and estimation of undetected terror financing funds (incoming and outgoing).
Lastly, it requires information on terror financing threat whether it is high, medium or low. The third template on 'terrorism financing vulnerability' aims at determining the strength of terrorism financing controls in the country context.
It requires information on quality of legislation, quality of intelligence, effectiveness of terror financing related STRs, monitoring and analysis, adequacy of resources, effectiveness of international cooperation, awareness and commitments of terror financing, geographic and demographic factors and over all vulnerability of terror financing.
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Proof-Reading-Service.com is pleased to offer a new academic course writing service. Whether you are looking for a complete credit course, a teaching unit or just a single lecture, we will be happy to provide what you need. Courses aimed at secondary, undergraduate or postgraduate students can be accommodated, and anything from introductory surveys to advanced studies of individual topics and texts can be developed. Instructional material can be designed or adapted for classroom presentation, private tutorials, distance-learning scenarios or the online engagement of students.
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Global biopharmaceutical firm Hilleman Laboratories Singapore has selected RISE with SAP to digitalise and accelerate innovation in its vaccine development programs.
Hilleman Labs conducts research to develop cost-effective vaccines that tackle prevalent yet highly preventable diseases such as rotavirus, cholera, and shigella, in low and middle income countries.
To achieve this, it is critical for the company to harness technological innovations to enhance collaboration between stakeholders, gather useful insights from multiple data sources, and accelerate the vaccine development process while ensuring industry compliance.
RISE with SAP, SAP’s new Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) is a solution that supports customers in identifying value creation potential in the planning of strategic IT projects.
Hilleman Labs’ adoption of RISE with SAP is aimed at enabling it to deploy a flexible digital infrastructure that complements, extends, and integrates with other solutions. New technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced analytics capabilities have been embedded into the system.
The objective is to enable scientists to conduct real-time analysis of process development and analytics, clinical and genomics data from different sources as well as create patient cohorts and check local feasibility of clinical trials quickly.
The new infrastructure is targeted at achieving faster time to value and improved savings, speed, and decisions across the company by breaking down silos and integrating data, intelligent technology and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software on a single platform and data model.
The deployment was achieved within a short timeframe of 75 days, supported by SAP partner ABEAM Consulting Singapore, engaged by Hilleman Labs as its implementation partner.
“Infectious diseases while highly prevalent globally are preventable by vaccination, which underscores the importance of investing in research and development of vaccines that are equitable, affordable, and sustainable,” said Raman Rao, CEO of Hilleman Labs.
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Lavender is part of our May color palette, and you will see it sprinkled throughout our projects in this month’s craft collection. Not only is it a pretty color, but the flower is beautiful too. Since we already have our crepe paper lavender plant, our designer Krista decided to make some felt lavender flowers.
This felt flower is great for beginners, and you can make an entire bundle in a short amount of time if you’re using a cutting machine with a rotary blade. If cutting by hand, we recommend you trace onto fabric using a disappearing fabric marker and small detail scissors.
A Flower to Lavender
Lavender is known for its calming properties, and while our felt lavender may not have a fragrance, we think that crafting these felt flowers will be just as therapeutic! If you love the smell of lavender, we have some homemade lavender bath salts you can make after crafting these flowers. We also like to add lavender essential oil to some of our DIY skincare, including our hand sanitizer spray and hand lotion.
When you are ready to make your felt lavender flowers, we recommend using a Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 with our SVG file to cut your felt pieces. After selecting the felt setting on your Cricut Maker, be sure to change the blade to rotary for a better cut.
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- Cricut Maker (recommended)
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- Craft Scissors
- Detail Scissors (recommended)
- Needle-Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
How to Make Felt Lavender
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the lavender pattern below.
- Cut out felt according to the flower pattern using a Cricut Maker (recommended) or scissors. Each stem has 12–16 flowers, 2–3 tiny leaves, and 0–2 longer leaves.
- Crumple up the flower petals to make the felt softer.
- Cut one of the flower pieces into two.
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If we look
carefully at Prigogine and other evolutionists' claims, we
can see that they have fallen into a very important trap.
In order to make evolution fit in with thermodynamics, evolutionists
are constantly trying to prove that a given order can emerge
from open systems.
And here it is important to bring out two key
concepts to reveal the deceptive methods the evolutionists
use. The deception lies in the deliberate confusing of two
distinct concepts: "ordered" and "organized."
We can make this clear with an example. Imagine
a completely flat beach on the seashore. When a strong wave
hits the beach, mounds of sand, large and small, form bumps
on the surface of the sand.
This is a process of "ordering." The seashore
is an open system, and the energy flow (the wave) that enters
it can form simple patterns in the sand, which look completely
regular. From the thermodynamic point of view, it can set
up order here where before there was none. But we must make
it clear that those same waves cannot build a castle on the
beach. If we see a castle there, we are in no doubt that someone
has constructed it, because the castle is an "organized" system.
In other words, it possesses a clear design and information.
Every part of it has been made by an intelligent entity in
a planned manner.
The difference between the sand and the castle
is that the former is an organized complexity, whereas the
latter possesses only order, brought about by simple repetitions.
The order formed from repetitions is as if an object (in other
words the flow of energy entering the system) had fallen on
the letter "a" on a typewriter keyboard, writing "aaaaaaaa"
hundreds of times. But the string of "a"s in an order repeated
in this manner contains no information, and no complexity.
In order to write a complex chain of letters actually containing
information (in other words a meaningful sentence, paragraph
or book), the presence of intelligence is essential.
The same thing applies when a gust of wind blows
into a dusty room. When the wind blows in, the dust which
had been lying in an even layer may gather in one corner of
the room. This is also a more ordered situation than that
which existed before, in the thermodynamic sense, but the
individual specks of dust cannot form a portrait of someone
on the floor in an organized manner.
This means that complex, organized systems can
never come about as the result of natural processes. Although
simple examples of order can happen from time to time, these
cannot go beyond certain limits.
But evolutionists point to this self-ordering
which emerges through natural processes as a most important
proof of evolution, portray such cases as examples of "self-organization."
As a result of this confusion of concepts, they propose that
living systems could develop of their own accord from occurrences
in nature and chemical reactions. The methods and studies
employed by Prigogine and his followers, which we considered
above, are based on this deceptive logic.
However, as we made clear at the outset, organized
systems are completely different structures from ordered ones.
While ordered systems contain structures formed of simple
repetitions, organized systems contain highly complex structures
and processes, one often embedded inside the other. In order
for such structures to come into existence, there is a need
for intelligence, knowledge, and planning. Jeffrey Wicken,
an evolutionist scientist, describes the important difference
between these two concepts in this way:
are to be carefully distinguished from 'ordered' systems.
Neither kind of system is 'random,' but whereas ordered
systems are generated according to simple algorithms and
therefore lack complexity, organized systems must be assembled
element by element according to an external 'wiring diagram'
with a high information content ... Organization, then,
is functional complexity and carries information.377
Ilya Prigogine-maybe as a result of evolutionist
wishful thinking- resorted to a confusion of these two concepts,
and advertised examples of molecules which ordered themselves
under the influence of energy inflows as "self-organization."
The American scientists Charles B. Thaxton, Walter
L. Bradley and Roger L. Olsen, in their book titled The
Mystery of Life's Origin, explain this fact as follows:
... In each case random
movements of molecules in a fluid are spontaneously replaced
by a highly ordered behaviour. Prigogine, Eigen, and others
have suggested that a similar sort of self-organization
may be intrinsic in organic chemistry and can potentially
account for the highly complex macromolecules essential
for living systems. But such analogies have scant relevance
to the origin-of-life question. A major reason is that they
fail to distinguish between order and complexity...378
And this is how the same scientists explain the
logical shallowness and distortion of claiming that water
turning into ice is an example of how biological order can
It has often been argued
by analogy to water crystallizing to ice that simple monomers
may polymerize into complex molecules such as protein and
DNA. The analogy is clearly inappropriate,
however… The atomic bonding forces draw water molecules
into an orderly crystalline array when the thermal agitation
(or entropy driving force) is made sufficiently small by
lowering the temperature. Organic monomers such
as amino acids resist combining at all at any temperature
however, much less some orderly arrangement.379
Prigogine devoted his whole career to reconciling
evolution and thermodynamics, but even he admitted that there
was no resemblance between the crystallization of water and
the emergence of complex biological structures:
The point is that in
a non-isolated system there exists a possibility for formation
of ordered, low-entropy structures at sufficiently low temperatures.
This ordering principle is responsible for the appearance
of ordered structures such as crystals as well as for the
phenomena of phase transitions. Unfortunately this
principle cannot explain the formation of biological structures.
In short, no chemical or physical effect can
explain the origin of life, and the concept of "the self-organization
of matter" will remain a fantasy.
S. Wicken, "The Generation of Complexity in Evolution: A Thermodynamic
and Information-Theoretical Discussion," Journal of Theoretical
Biology, vol. 77, April 1979, p. 349.
378 Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley
& Roger L. Olsen, The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing
Current Theories, 4th edition, Dallas, 1992, p. 151.
379 C. B. Thaxton, W. L. Bradley, and R.
L. Olsen, The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current
Theories, Lewis and Stanley, Texas, 1992, p. 120.
380 I. Prigogine, G. Nicolis ve A. Babloyants,
"Thermodynamics of Evolution," Physics Today, November
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School Choice Scholarships Draw Huge Response
April 21, 1999
The 40,000 winners in the Children's Scholarship Fund lottery are to be announced today. They will receive amounts ranging from $600 to $1,600 a year for four years to attend the school of their choice -- private, public or parochial. Their parents -- whose incomes average less than $22,000 a year -- will be required to make a matching contribution averaging $1,000 a year.
Financier Ted Forstmann, co-founder of the fund along with Wal- Mart's John Walton, says that nothing "could have prepared us for the explosive level of demand we encountered for these scholarships."
- By the March 31 deadline, the fund had received 1.25 million applications -- from all 50 states and more than 22,000 communities across the nation, representing 90 percent of all counties.
- Parents of nearly one out of three qualified students in New York City, Newark, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Washington applied -- and nationwide one of every 50 students' families applied .
- Forstmann makes the point that if that many poor families are willing to make $1,000 sacrifices every year for four years, it is "an amazing demonstration of dissatisfaction with the present system" of public schools.
- Even though per pupil spending in public schools has quadrupled over the past 40 years and the pupil-teacher ratio has been cut in half, Forstmann notes, student performance has stagnated in some areas and gotten worse in others.
Some 90 percent of children in America are enrolled in public schools -- a monopoly, which Forstmann describes as a system that produces "bad products at high prices." Forstmann and Walton started the fund just eight months ago by contributing $50 million each. They have since raised an additional $70 million from other donors around the country.
Sandra Feldman, the president of the American Federation of Teachers -- the nation's second largest teachers union -- complained that "there's something going on about getting kids out of the public schools, and that's terribly unfortunate."
Sources: Anemona Hartocollis, "Private School Choice Plan Draws a Million Aid-Seekers," New York Times, and Ted Forstmann, "School Choice By Popular Demand," Wall Street Journal, both April 21, 1999.
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[Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council during the last day of its Feb. 5-8 meeting here reaffirmed its stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation.
Council members said the church pledges to “continue to support the action and leadership of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation as the salt and light of the nation in its unwavering support of the sacredness of water, land, and other resources and reminding us all of the sacred calling to faithfulness.”
They praised the Episcopal Church and its ecumenical partners in the water protection actions led by the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. The Rev. John Floberg, council member and priest-in-charge of Episcopal congregations on the North Dakota side of Standing Rock, drew council’s specific praise, as did “the hundreds of Episcopal lay and clergy who responded to his call for support.”
Council also endorsed the Standing Rock Sioux Nation’s call for a March 10 march on Washington, D.C. The resolution said the march was “for the purpose of proclaiming the continuing concern for our sacred waters and lands as well as challenging our government to fulfill all relevant treaty obligations of the United States to all federally recognized tribes.” The tribe had previously started organizing the march, which Floberg had called on Episcopalians to join.
The Episcopal Church has advocated with the Sioux Nation about the Dakota Access Pipeline since summer 2016. Local Episcopalians have also provided a ministry of presence in and around Cannon Ball, North Dakota, the focal point for groups of water protectors that gathered near the proposed crossing.
Council’s action came about 24 hours after the U.S. Army said it would cancel the environmental impact study it promised to begin two months ago. Instead, it will allow construction on the final phase of the pipeline. The announcement was the latest is a series of administrative and legal maneuvers over the nearly complete pipeline.
The remaining work on the pipeline would push it under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe just north of the Standing Rock Reservation. The pipeline company set up a drill pad very near the proposed crossing point, which is upstream from the tribe’s reservation boundaries. The tribe has water, treaty fishing and hunting rights in the lake. Workers have drilled entry and exit holes for the crossing, and filled the pipeline with oil leading up to the lake in anticipation of finishing the project, according to the Associated Press.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said last summer that the crossing would not have a significant impact on the environment. That determination prompted months of protest that began with a group of young people who live on the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River reservations.
On Dec. 4, then-Assistant Army Secretary for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy reversed that determination and said the Corps would conduct a full-blown environmental impact statement. Such a study typically takes up to two years to complete. Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline construction company, accused then-President Barack Obama’s administration of delaying the matter until he left office. The Corps formally launched the study on Jan. 18, two days before Obama left office.
Two weeks ago, in one of the first of an ongoing string of presidential actions, President Donald Trump, called for the rapid approval of the pipeline’s final phase, specifically telling the Corps to quickly reconsider conducting the environmental impact study. The Army’s Feb. 7 announcement fulfilled Trump’s requirement.
Episcopal Public Policy Network issued an advocacy alert just after the Army’s announcement, calling on Episcopalians to contact Secretary of Defense James Mattis and urge him not to grant the final easement without a full impact study “that properly consults the Standing Rock Sioux and upholds treaty obligations.” The tribe contends that the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1888 obligate the federal government to consider a tribe’s welfare when making decisions that affect the tribe.
After the announcement, Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II said the Standing Rock Sioux Nation would challenge the Trump Administration’s move in court. “Our fight is no longer at the North Dakota site itself,” he said. “Our fight is with Congress and the Trump administration. Meet us in Washington on March 10.”
Jan Hasselman, lead attorney for the tribe, said the reversal “continues a historic pattern of broken promises to Indian tribes and unlawful violation of treaty rights. They will be held accountable in court.”
Trump said Feb. 7 that he has not gotten a single call protesting his directive to the Corps. That claim, Archambault replied reflected a distorted sense of reality. Archambault flew to Washington D.C., Feb. 7 to meet with Trump administration officials to discuss the tribe’s concerns about the pipeline. He learned of the Army’s announcement to Congress when he landed and canceled his meeting.
The 1,172-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline is poised to carry up to 470,000 barrels of oil a day from the Bakken oil field in northwestern North Dakota – through South Dakota and Iowa – to Illinois where it will be shipped to refineries. The pipeline was to pass within one-half mile of the Standing Rock Reservation and Sioux tribal leaders repeatedly expressed concerns over the potential for an oil spill that would damage the reservation’s water supply, and the threat the pipeline posed to sacred sites and treaty rights. The company developing the pipeline, Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, says it will be safe.
The Feb. 5-8 meeting took place at the Maritime Institute Conference Center.
Additional ENS coverage of the meeting is here. Some council members tweeted from the meeting using #ExCoun.
The Executive Council carries out the programs and policies adopted by the General Convention, according to Canon I.4 (1). The council comprises 38 members – 20 of whom (four bishops, four priests or deacons, and 12 lay people) are elected by General Convention and 18 (one clergy and one lay) by the nine provincial synods for six-year terms – plus the presiding bishop and the president of the House of Deputies. In addition, the vice president of the House of Deputies, secretary, chief operating officer, treasurer and chief financial officer have seat and voice but no vote.
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Compost tea offers benefits of compost in a more manageable package, according to the Rodale Institute. Farmers have soaked bags of compost in water for centuries to fertilize their crops. Today, home gardeners can refine this passive method by actively aerating a solution of compost and water using a homemade tea brewer. The resulting tea can strengthen plants as the tea's beneficial organisms crowd out pathogens in the soil and produce antibodies and enzymes that minimize disease organisms, according to the Soil Nutrient Analysis Laboratory at the University of Connecticut.
Cut aquarium tubing into three pieces at least 12 inches long. Attach the pieces to the gang valve.
Place the gang valve on the side of the bucket. Double-check that the hoses reach the bottom of the bucket.
Cover the bottom of the bucket with the finished compost. Double-check that the ends of the hoses are covered.
Fill the bucket with water up to within six inches of the top. Use water that has been allowed to sit for 24 hours to allow its chlorine to evaporate.
Turn on the aquarium pump and let the mixture brew for two to three days. Stir the brew occasionally.
Strain the solution into the second bucket or a sprayer canister through cheesecloth. Place the compost solids back in the compost pile or in the garden.
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A new species of ancient reptile has been described by scientists at the University of Birmingham, filling a critical gap in the fossil record of dinosaur cousins and suggesting that some features thought to characterise dinosaurs evolved much earlier than previously thought.
Described in a paper published today in Nature, the carnivorous reptile, Teleocrater rhadinus, was approximately 7- 10 feet in length, had a long neck and tail, and walked on four crocodile-like legs.
It roamed the Earth during the Triassic Period more than 245 million years ago – pre-dating the first true dinosaurs by around ten million years – and appears in the fossil record just after a large group of reptiles, known as archosaurs, split into a bird branch (leading to dinosaurs and eventually birds) and a crocodile branch (eventually leading to today’s alligators and crocodiles). Teleocrater and its kin are the earliest known members of the bird branch of the archosaurs.
The discovery overturns widely-held preconceptions by palaeontologists about the morphology of early dinosaur relatives, with many scientists anticipating that such creatures would be smaller, bipedal and more ‘dinosaur-like’.
‘Teleocrater fundamentally challenges our models of what the close relatives of dinosaurs would have looked like,’ says Professor Richard Butler from the University of Birmingham.
‘Dinosaurs were amazingly successful animals. It’s natural to want to know where they came from, and how they became so dominant. Teleocrater is hugely exciting because it blows holes in many of our classic ideas of dinosaur origins.’
All the specimens used to describe Teleocrater were collected from a rock unit called the Manda Beds, in the Ruhuhu Basin of southern Tanzania, Africa. Teleocrater fossils were first discovered in the region in 1933 by palaeontologist F. Rex Parrington, and subsequently studied by Alan J. Charig, former Curator of Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians and Birds at the Natural History Museum, in the 1950s.
However, due to a lack of crucial bones, such as the ankle bones, Charig could not determine whether Teleocrater was more closely related to crocodylians or to dinosaurs. Unfortunately, he died before he was able to complete his studies.
Re-examination of Charig’s specimens by Butler and colleagues, combined with the discovery of additional fossils by a US-led team in Tanzania in 2015, has finally allowed the surprising relationship between Teleocrater and its dinosaur cousins to be revealed.
‘It’s astonishing to think that it’s taken more than 80 years for the true scientific importance of these fossils to be understood and published,’ says Professor Butler.
Professor Paul Barrett from the Natural History Museum, one of the other main authors of the work on Teleocrater, said:
‘My colleague Alan Charig would have been thrilled to see one of ‘his’ animals finally being named and occupying such an interesting position in the Tree of Life.
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What do I owe the people I write about? This concern is ongoing, whether I’m writing about family as in my marriage memoir, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, or about strangers I meet, as in Good Neighbors, Bad Times, Echoes of My Father’s German Village.
Actually, I’m sometimes more concerned for strangers than for those I live with every day. Family can get mad at me. They can challenge my sense of truth. They can sue to keep me honest. Fortunately, none have—partly because, except for my sister, they are reasonable if I am reasonable; partly because I keep two caveats in my head while writing. One is Annie Dillard’s advice: “Writing memoir is an art, but not a martial art!” The other is from Kim Barnes after she discovered that, despite their battle scenes, her father, much to her surprise, liked her memoir In the Wilderness:
One thing that we always assume, wrongly, is that if we write about people honestly they will resent it and become angry. If you come at it for the right reasons and you treat people as you would your fictional characters—you know, you don’t allow them to be static—if you treat them with complexity and compassion, sometimes they will feel as though they’ve been honored, not because they’re presented in some ideal way but because they’re presented with understanding.
Both authors’ advice, however, was not enough help in the kitchens and living rooms of the Christians and Jews I met and interviewed about my father’s German village. Everyone was gracious; many served me homemade linzertorte. But unlike my family, I knew very little about them, and so had no context for processing what they were telling me about their memories and lives. Plus I had a built-in bias: these were Germans and I was Jewish, a child born in the US to parents who fled their country in the 1930s, so when they said, “Everyone got along before Hitler,” my struggles with fairness became part of the story. Finally, they were old people, unsophisticated, who thought I was only gathering the objective facts of their lives. And no matter how often I tried to explain narrative nonfiction, they did not understand that I was going to recreate them fully on the page, as I experienced what they said, thought, and did before, during, and after Nazi times.
One big question: Do I use real names? I had their written permission so I could—but should I? These people, as it turned out, were neither heroes nor villains, so were names ethically necessary or a bad idea? With my family, I had no choice; my husband Stu was my husband Stu. But in Good Neighbors, Bad Times, I could follow the tradition of other writers of nonfiction books about small villages—and use pseudonyms.
In the end, like Carlo Levi’s Christ Stops at Eboli and Lawrence Wylie’s Village in the Vaucluse, I changed names. First, it universalized the story so people in other German villages couldn’t let themselves off the hook, saying, “Oh, that was X. We are Y.” Just like if you write “an Ivy League school,” Harvard can’t say, “Oh, that’s Princeton, not us!” Second, and most important, the names were not essential to my story. Whether the postman was Herr Stolle or Herr Stoner had no consequence; he is still the young man in Hitler’s army who spent his retirement years researching the history of the village Jews. His life is complicated, and as Kim Barnes advises, my challenge was to honor that complexity.
Since then, when I write nonfiction, I’m comfortable with this rule of thumb: If people are neither famous nor infamous, they deserve privacy whenever possible. At the very least, they should not be hurt or embarrassed without good reason. I always let the reader know: sometimes with initials; sometimes with a “Let’s call her….” ‘ sometimes with a footnote, such as, “I’ve changed the name and some identifying details to honor requests for individual privacy.”
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GICAA CORE FAITH STATEMENTS
The primary goal of school athletics should be to teach life lessons and life skills that will equip and prepare our young men and women for the world beyond school athletics. Also our desire is to provide the very best opportunity for those who wish to play at the next level. Winning is important, but it is not the most important thing. Bringing honor and glory to God in how we play is more important than winning.
It is possible to win a game... yet lose our ability to shine light into a dark world."
Every school, athletic director, coach, team, and athlete should strive to do their very best because God is honored when we give our best to him. Athletic Directors, coaches, teams, and athletes should understand that, because of their position, they carry a great deal of influence and should act accordingly. Coaches hold an enormous amount of influence over their athletes. Therefore, member schools should choose their coaches carefully and prayerfully.
Athletic competition can be and should be conducted in a way that brings honor and glory to God and draws people to Him.
If athletic competition is done properly, win or lose,—it will promote mutual respect and encouragement from schools, teams, and players. If competition divides us and produces discord and strife, then it ceases to be God-honoring.
Schools should have the opportunity to compete in a safe and Godly environment without unnecessary distractions. Although league parity is almost impossible, teams should have the opportunity to compete on a level playing field. | <urn:uuid:7aa290cf-2874-422e-8739-1458827c1820> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.gicaasports.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00364-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967328 | 316 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Apple Valley Hillbilly Garden and Toyland Museum is Western Kentucky’s most fun-filled, pun-filled roadside attraction.
Where some folks might see a problem, Keith Holt has a way of finding a creative solution.
For example when the local sheriff paid him a visit after neighbors reported his tractor-trailer — which sits in his yard and holds the majority of his massive toy collection — as abandoned, Keith saw it as an opportunity for self-expression.
“They were going to fine me as a public nuisance, so I thought if I painted faces on the side it wouldn’t look abandoned. Clowns are the easiest, so I painted them free hand,” Keith says. “Now, whenever I paint something I give myself three hours. If it doesn’t look right after that I turn it into a clown.”
Keith has since used his toy collection and free-wheeling imagination to create Apple Valley Hillbilly Garden and Toyland Museum, a sprawling mash-up of folk-art installations, vintage toy displays and other whimsical elements that have to be seen to be fully appreciated.
A short 15-minute drive from Paducah, Kentucky, Apple Valley is both an homage to the roadside attractions of yesteryear and one of Western Kentucky’s most unique and popular tourist destinations. Apple Valley is open to visitors from 8 a.m. to dusk year-round. There’s no charge for admission, although donations are appreciated.
Keith’s homestead has a long history as a local attraction.
His grandparents, Oral and Myrtle Wallace, bought Apple Valley in 1928 and opened a roadside produce stand called “Shady Nock.” They sold apples from the property’s orchard, as well as homemade apple cider. Presumably, one could also procure harder stuff the Wallace’s made using an underground still they kept hidden beneath their barn.
When Oral heard that Highway 68 would run past Apple Valley, he added a room to rent and an auto camp, along with a small petting zoo. Using leftover lumber, Oral also built a tiny one-room country store where he’d cut hair and serve chicken dinners. Legend has it that Bonnie and Clyde once stayed at Apple Valley and left a shotgun behind in the barn. Oral Wallace passed away in 1964 and Apple Valley fell into disrepair.
“My grandmother always wanted me to come back and do something with the property,” says Keith, “but I was like everyone else. The last thing I wanted to do was come back to Kentucky.”
Keith moved to Los Angeles after high school to pursue an acting career, although “obviously I never made it because you’ve never heard of me,” he says with a chuckle. While in L.A., he built model train layouts for A-list stars and producers to make extra money.
“I’d also get to see all these big star’s private toy collections,” says Keith, who had also begun collecting toys by that time. “I always thought it was a shame that no one else got to enjoy them.”
That’s when Keith landed on the idea of using toys as the backdrop for model train layouts. He stored the idea away for what he thought would be his eventual return to Kentucky.
When his mother passed away, Keith decided to move back sooner than he expected. He had big plans to build a toy museum on his grandparents’ property. His neighbors, on the other hand, wanted to see the area developed into a subdivision.
Keith moved ahead with his toy museum, and spent a lot time and money fighting public nuisance charges. He filled the tiny country store with as many of his toys as it would hold and rechristened it as Toyland. Inspired by Cadillac Ranch, a public art installation in Amarillo, Texas, he also began filling the rest of his property with weird and whimsical “hillbilly art,” as he calls it.
Nearly every inch of Apple Valley revolves around the seemingly endless supply of puns that fill Keith’s head. Old sofas and chairs dangle from trees in an installation dubbed “Hanging Out.” “Gulf Man” is a robot made from an antique Gulf gas pump, and “Potty Mouth” is a face installed on a tree with a toilet seat serving as its mouth. There’s a “Deer in Headlights,” and all sorts of stuff resides in “The Throw Away Woods.”
The internet has provided Keith with a new outlet for his distinctive brand of hillbilly humor. He and his children like to make wacky homemade videos showcasing their pun-filled antics, as well as celebrating nearly every obscure observance on the calendar.
Between his fans on social media and features in national media, the popularity of Apple Valley continues to grow and Keith now welcomes visitors from all around the world. It’s a fitting second act for a man who’s always dreamed of a career in entertainment.
“Apple Valley is my stage and my act, so to speak,” he says.
His neighbors have also come around.
Says Keith: “Now, instead of a public nuisance, they call me a landmark.”
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'Incredibly rare' sighting of blue whale off coast of Cornwall
A blue whale has been spotted about 250 miles off the south-west coast of Cornwall.
The "incredibly rare sighting" was recorded by scientists studying deep sea environments from the Royal Research Ship James Cook.
Professor Russell Wynn, from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, photographed the huge mammal - twice as long as a double-decker bus - on August 24.
The creature was swimming over a deep sea canyon on the northern edge of the Bay of Biscay.
Prof Wynn said: "I was undertaking our daily marine mammal survey and enjoying watching up to seven fin whales around the ship, when the blue whale suddenly surfaced about a kilometre away. I had just enough time to secure some conclusive photos before the visibility decreased and the whale disappeared into the gloom."
The last sighting of a blue whale so close to the UK occurred in September 2008 when one of the animals was photographed off south-west Ireland.
Blue whales were hunted to near-extinction in the north-east Atlantic in the early 20th century but experts believe the population is slowly starting to recover and moving into new areas.
Dr Veerle Huvenne, also from the NOC and the expedition's chief scientist, said: "There was huge excitement on board as many people got a glimpse of their first blue whale.
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Penalties and Sentencing for Theft
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What Does the Term “Theft” Cover?
In criminal law, the term “theft” can be used in reference to a number of different crimes. Generally speaking, theft involves the unauthorized taking of the property of another person, in some form or another. Theft crimes or “theft related crimes” can include:
- Petty theft
- Larceny, larceny by trick
- Theft by deception
- Receipt of stolen goods
Also, theft does not always have to involve the physical taking away of property. Some theft crimes are accomplished through other means than physical force or effort. Many white-collar crimes, like unauthorized bank account transfers, can be treated as a theft
What are the Penalties and Sentences for Theft?
Penalties and sentencing for theft crimes generally involve two consequences: criminal fines, and/or a jail sentence. The amount of the fine and the length of the sentence will always depend on the severity of the crime- more serious crimes will result in higher fines and longer jail sentences.
Also, some theft crimes, like grand theft auto and burglary, can be charged as felonies. In such cases, the defendant would likely have to spend their sentence in a prison facility, rather than a local or county jail. Also, felonies can result in other consequences like a revoked driver’s license, and the loss of the right to own a firearm.
How are the Penalties and Sentencing for Theft Determined?
Since there are so many different crimes involving theft, penalties and sentencing for theft can be very different from one case to another. Penalties and jail sentences can be pre-determined in a criminal statute. However, courts will often consider the following when determining a sentence for a theft-related crime:
- The type and value of the property stolen
- The defendant’s criminal background- repeat offenses are punished more severely than first-time offenses; a misdemeanor may be charged as a felony if it is a repeat offense
- Whether violence, force, or threats of force were used during the crime (as in robbery)
The first of these, the value of the property, is usually given the most importance when defining theft sentences. In fact, the definition of a certain theft crime may depend on the amount that was stolen.
For instance, many states set a specific dollar amount, such as $1000, as the limit for petty theft. Any theft for property above $1000 would result in a more serious charge, such as grand theft. Thus, sentence is generally reflects the amount stolen.
Can Sentences for Theft Crimes be Increased or Decreased?
Certainly- some of the factors in a theft case can lead to the sentence either being increased or decreased. Factors that serve to increase a sentence are known as “aggravating factors”. These include:
- The use of force or threats of force during the commission of the crime
- Repeat offenses or a history of similar crimes committed
Thus, a simple petty theft offense can result in relatively severe sentencing if the defendant had a long record of previous theft offenses.
Similarly, a sentence may be lowered if the defendant was a first-time offender, or if the defendant can raise a viable defense. This may require skillful research on the part of the defendant’s lawyer.
Do I Need a Lawyer for Issues With Theft Charges?
Theft charges can become very complicated, especially when it comes to the sentencing phase of trial. If you are facing charges for a theft-related crime, you have the right to an attorney. It is important that you work with a criminal defense lawyer for advice and assistance during proceedings.
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The department is engaged in simulation, analysis and evaluation of a wide range of fluid flows, with an emphasis on the atmosphere and ocean at local scales. Applications include dispersive transports, fluid-structure interactions associated with human activities, offshore renewables, weather prediction, CO2 storage and aquaculture.
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First of all, you should realize that the term "detente" is not typically used in connection to the Korean War. We do not use the term to refer to anything that is the opposite of "brinkmanship." Detente refers to a time, typically given as 1969 to 1975, in which tensions between the superpowers were generally low.
Second, if your essay is about ending the Cold War, Korea is not a great example to use. This was the early stages of the Cold War. The end of the shooting war in Korea did not do anything to end the Cold War itself.
So, it sounds more as if you're trying to argue that negotiations and less aggressive actions were more effective than brinkmanship in solving problems during the Cold War. If so, the Korean War can be of help. Brinkmanship can be seen in the actions of people like General MacArthur. His push to the Yalu did not end the war but rather brought China into the war. Threats of the use of nuclear weapons did not help either. The war only ended when military stalemate was achieved. Once this happened, the sides had an incentive to back down and "peace" could be achieved.
The Korean War did not end. The two sides stopped fighting, but it is still an active war.
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This a very interesting, informative book, the Indians of Texas in 1830 by Jean Louis Berlandier, edited and introduced by John C Ewers, copyright 1969, a Smithsonian Institute Press distribution...book is based on the documentation by Jean Louis Berlandier who went on a scientific exploration to Texas in 1828...he carefully recorded what he learned of the native tribes, their languages, beliefs, attitudes, dwellings, clothing, eating habits, educations, women's activities, hunting techniques, ware tactics, burial customs and much more..this valuable documentation, written in French, is now published in English for the first time...I took a photo of the brief summery of the book from the DJ(see 6th photo)...book is hard back with dust jacket...dust jacket displaying color wear, rubs, no tears...hard back cover is very clean, some light wear to the edges, spine is strong...book is complete, contains 209 pages...interior pages very nice, clean, I didn't note any tears, creasing or soiling....measures 10" X 7 3/4"wide...great book to add to your collection..
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Escape isn't easy.
As California buckled under layoffs and hiring freezes last year, tens of thousands of residents saw lower unemployment rates in other states and decided to move.
Many couldn't find jobs near their new homes either.
The unemployment rate in 2010 among former Californians who had left the state during the previous 12 months was 19 percent, according to a Bee analysis of new U.S. census data. By comparison, the unemployment rate in the state they left behind was 12 percent.
Those figures partly reflect the dismal job markets in other places. Moving from California to Nevada, which has the nation's highest unemployment rate, isn't the safest bet, but 30,000 people tried it anyway last year.
Texas looked safer. It has added roughly 150,000 jobs since the start of the recession, and 50,000 Californians moved there last year, a higher number than moved to any other state.
But 15 percent of those former Californians couldn't find jobs when they got to Texas, according to The Bee analysis.
The statewide unemployment rate in Texas is 8.1 percent – about half a percentage point better than the national average, but still high by historical standards.
The contradiction in Texas – more jobs but relatively higher unemployment – is largely due to movers, particularly from California. More than 160,000 Californians have moved to Texas since the start of the recession.
"We have produced lots of jobs but, despite that, our unemployment rate is about as high as everywhere else," said Daniel Hamermesh, professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. "The reason is simple: We attract migrants."
Hamermesh was blunt in his advice for Californians thinking of leaving for Texas: Don't. Texans, he said, typically earn less and enjoy fewer public services. If they do come, Californians should realize that "if they are looking for a job, so is everyone else."
Carl Friberg wishes someone had given him that advice a few months ago.
Friberg, 55, moved from Texas to California in 2003 with a friend who had family here. He got a job working for a landscaping company in Sonoma County, and did well during the housing boom.
When the housing market tanked, the company laid him off. He spent months looking for work, but found nothing. So he moved back to Texas.
"The job search here seems to be the same as in California," he said in an email Wednesday. "There are precious few jobs, mostly minimum wage, and I have applied to several.
"I would suggest that, if someone wanted to move to Texas for a job, make sure they had one in advance and it was a signed contract."
Former California resident Jessica Prus eventually had better luck than Friberg, but only after weeks of job searching and scores of rejections.
Prus, 31, moved from Texas to California about five years ago, taking bartending and administrative work at Santa Barbara restaurants. When the recession began, her employer cut back her hours.
Prus' boyfriend, an accomplished mechanic, landed a job in Houston. Prus followed him back a few months ago.
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"I remember there were kids around my [Chicago] neighborhood who would say, 'Ooh, you talk funny. You talk like a white girl.' I heard that growing up my whole life. I was like, 'I don't even know what that means but I am still getting my A.'"
That's my First Lady continuing her effort to reach out to children of color in D.C., while addressing some children in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the District.
Now a few thoughts about this "talk like a white girl" phenomenon: First, there is no such thing. Either you speak clearly or you don't. When I am in Southern Louisiana I still struggle to understand what folks (black and white) are saying. You folks in Baaastan talk funny to me, too. And so do some of you New Yawkers. In fact, right here in Philly your accent might be different depending on which neighborhood you are from. I can always tell a South Philly accent (they say youze a lot), and a black person from Mt. Airy sounds different from a black person from West Philly. An Irishman from the Northeast? I am all over that as well. Mrs. Field says I talk funny because my Jamaican accent always creeps into my diction. Mrs. Field would have probably been teased a lot in Michelle Obama's neighborhood as well. Mrs. Field was born and raised in South Louisiana, but she managed to craft a very generic accent. It's always fun to see the reaction we get when Mrs. Field makes arrangements over the phone and the people see us in person. Yes, may I help you? I am Mrs. Field, we spoke over the phone. We did? Oh, yes, of course....
Anyway, my point is, people have accents, and we all speak in different ways. The important thing is that we speak well, and in a way that can be clearly understood by whoever is listening to us. Now unfortunately, some of my cousins, well.....it's almost like they don't want the person listening to understand. Unless you are in on the secret slang, you don't deserve to understand what the speaker is saying. For some of us, it's our own way of communicating that might as well be a totally different language. When our children grow up speaking like this it's tough to get them out of it. And damn it, the shit can be embarrassing when they reach adulthood. If I have to strain to understand the conductor on the train, or the person taking my order at the fast food restaurant, that's a problem. Especially when they are supposed to be speaking English. I am not talking about an accent here, I am talking about putting words together that just don't belong. Just what the hell does, you be done messed up, mean? YOU. BE. DONE. MESSED. UP. That is not English, that is some kind of ghetto Morse code that will get you nowhere in school.
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Our new building on the hospital campus, Forest B, is open. Families and visitors can park in the new Forest B garage next to Emergency.
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of blood conditions that affect hemoglobin, the part of red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells in the body. In the United States, most people with SCD are of African or Hispanic heritage. However, the disease can affect anyone, especially people of southern European, Middle Eastern or […]
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(Notification) Recruitment of Mail-Guard at India Post (Madhya
Pradesh Circle) - 2016
Post Name: MailGuard
Total No of Posts: 7
Matriculation or Equivalent from a recognized board or University
Probation Period: Two years
18 to 27 years for General candidates
Pattern and Syllabus for the examination:
The applicants shall be subjected to an Aptitude Test with a total 100
maximum marks covering the following subjects/ topics. Aptitude test will be
comprising four parts (Part A, B C(i) & C(ii) ). There is no negative marking
|A- General Knowledge (25 marks with 25 questions of 1 mark each)
||Topics: Geography, Indian History, Freedom Struggle,
Culture & Sports, General Policy & Constitution of India, Economics,
General Science, Current Affairs and Reasoning & Analytical ability
of 10th standard. (Examiner may set 2 to 3 questions from each
|B- Mathematics (25 marks with 25 questions of 1 mark each)
||Topics: Number systems, computation of whole Numbers,
Decimals & Fractions, Relationship between Numbers, Fundamental
arithmetical operations, percentages, Ration & Proportions, Profit &
Loss, Simple Interest, Average, Discount, Partnership, Time & Work,
Time & Distance, Use of Tables & Graphs, Mensuration. (Examiner may
set 1 to 2 questions from each topic)
|C (i)- English (25 marks with 25 questions of 1 mark each)
||Topics: Articles, Prepositions, Conjuctions, tenses,
verbs, synonyms & Antonyms, vocabulary, sentence structure,
Proverbs, Phrases, questions from small unseen passage. Etc.
(Examiner may set five questions from one unseen passage and 2 to 3
questions from remaining topics)
|C (ii)- Regional Language (25 marks with 25 questions of 1 mark
||Topics (for Hindi)- Shabd Pad, Kriya Bhed, Mishr &
Sanyukt Vakya, Vakyo ka Rupantaran, Swar Sandhi, Alankar, Samas,
Muhavare & Lokoktiyan, Ashudh Vakya Shodhan, Apathit Gadyansh.
(Examiner may set five questions from one Apathit Gadyansh and 2 to
3 questions from remaining topics)
a. The duration of the Aptitude Test will be for 2 hours (120 minutes)
b. The questions on General Knowledge and Mathematics will also be supplied in
the Regional Language i.e. Hindi in addition to English.
c. One blank page will be kept at the end of Question paper Booklet for rough
work by the candidates.
Qualifying Marks :
a. Parts A and B – Minimum 10 marks for OC , 8 marks for SC/ ST and 9 marks
for OBC candidates in each part.
b. Parts C (Two Segments)- Minimum 10 marks for OC, 8 marks for SC/ ST and 9
marks for OBC candidates in each segment.
c. 40 % marks for OC, 33 marks for SC/ ST and 37 marks for OBC candidates in
Examination Fee :
The Examination fee prescribed for all Male applicants in Un-Reserved and OBC
categories is Rs. 400/-. Candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes / Scheduled
Tribes/ Physically Handicapped/ Women are exempted from payment of Examination
How to Apply:
The applicant can apply for only one division either choosing Postman cadre
in Postal Division or Mail Guard cadre in Railway Mail Service Division. If an
applicant registers more than one application on-line, his/her candidature is
liable to be rejected without any communication.
Closing Date for Registration of Application: The registration of online
applications will commence on 10.04.2016 at 00.00 hrs and closes by 05.05.2016
at 23.59 hrs.
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Inside The Poseidon
In Figure 6 you can take a look inside Poseidon case from Gigabyte. Opening it is very simple as it uses thumbscrews. This case comes with two 120 mm fans, one at the back of the case, that glows blue when the system is turned on, and one at the front of the case. It has seven screwless slots for expansion boards, meaning that you can install daughterboards without needing to use a screwdriver. This case doesn’t come with a power supply.
In Figure 7, you can see a close up on the front panel fan. As you can see, it helps cooling down hard disk drives installed on the two 3 ½” internal bays located in front of it.
In Figure 8 you can take a look at the accessories that comes with the case. Besides the usual stuff, this case comes with a small extra window for you to personalize it. This case, like other Gigabyte cases, has a light beam projector that projects the Poseidon logo on your desk when the system is turned on. You can change this logo by a logo of your own using this small window.
In Figure 9, you can see the location of the light beam projector. If you want to personalize it, Gigabyte provides a series of pre-made logos on their website in Word format, including templates for you to create your own design. Just print them on transparent paper, cut the design you want to use and replace the original slide. | <urn:uuid:cab6fa8e-a93e-4dc3-821f-4912dcbfec83> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/gigabyte-poseidon-case/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943615 | 309 | 1.671875 | 2 |
جستجو برای آسیب شناسی روانی طیف دوقطبی: شناسایی و بیان در زندگی روزمره
|کد مقاله||سال انتشار||مقاله انگلیسی||ترجمه فارسی||تعداد کلمات|
|36030||2012||14 صفحه PDF||سفارش دهید||محاسبه نشده|
Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Comprehensive Psychiatry, Volume 53, Issue 5, July 2012, Pages 409–421
Objectives Current clinical and epidemiological research provides support for a continuum of bipolar psychopathology: a bipolar spectrum that ranges from subclinical manifestations to full-blown bipolar disorders. Examining subthreshold bipolar symptoms may identify individuals at risk for clinical disorders, promote early interventions and monitoring, and increase the likelihood of appropriate treatment. The present studies examined the construct validity of bipolar spectrum psychopathology using the Hypomanic Personality Scale. Methods Study 1 used interview and questionnaire measures of bipolar spectrum psychopathology in a sample of 145 nonclinically ascertained young adults. Study 2 assessed the expression of the bipolar spectrum in daily life using experience sampling methodology in the same sample. Results In study 1, Hypomanic Personality Scale scores were positively associated with clinical bipolar disorders, bipolar spectrum disorders, the presence of hypomania or hyperthymia, depressive symptoms, poor psychosocial functioning, cyclothymia, irritability, and symptoms of borderline personality disorder. In study 2, bipolar spectrum psychopathology was associated with negative affect, thought disturbance, risky behavior, and measures of grandiosity. These findings remained independent of clinical bipolar disorders. Conclusions In the present studies, bipolar-like disruptions in cognition, affect, and behavior were not limited to clinical diagnoses or mood episodes, providing further validation of the bipolar spectrum construct. The bipolar spectrum model appears to provide a conceptually richer basis for understanding and ultimately treating bipolar psychopathology than current diagnostic formulations.
Recent literature supports a broad spectrum of bipolar psychopathology , , , and . This spectrum includes but extends beyond bipolar diagnoses listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR ). The present studies examined the construct validity of bipolar spectrum psychopathology in a nonclinically ascertained sample of young adults. Study 1 used interview and questionnaire measures of bipolar spectrum psychopathology, and study 2 assessed the expression of the bipolar spectrum in daily life using experience sampling methodology (ESM). | <urn:uuid:6922d185-4c86-4151-a82a-7387f2bae7bb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://isiarticles.com/article/36030 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00420-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.727185 | 648 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Ford Australia chief H. C. French and then-new Prime Minister Ben Chifley continued to debate over the future of the Ford Falcon. The dreadful irony of all the complex maneuvering was that Lawrence Hartnett was not able to extract the financial commitment he needed from his superiors in New York, who insisted that the money be raised locally. Chifley used his influence to arrange a $2.5 million loan from the Commonwealth Bank to GM-H even though French had been refused government assistance on the very same issue.
Faced with its most serious competitor gaining the upper hand to manufacture in the burgeoning Australian market, Ford was forced to cast around for cars to sell. From England came the small two-door Anglia and four-door Prefect sedans, and the sidevalve V-8 Pilot that was just a tad larger than the Holden. From Ford of Canada came the hunch-backed North American V-8 sedans, followed in 1949 by the more modern spinner-nose Custom sedans that were the first Fords to have a coil-and-wishbone front suspension, but retained the "flathead" V-8 engine.
In June 1950, French retired and was replaced by Charles Smith, an Englishman who had spent much of his working life in Canada and who was posted to Australia from Ford in South Africa. He was a no-nonsense, straight-from-the-shoulder kind of guy quick to assess a need and go at it with all guns blazing. His bosses in Windsor were soon to feel the full brunt of his attack.
Ford Australia was in desperate need of revitalizing, and Smith was determined to challenge GM-Holden's for market supremacy. The Ford plant at Geelong was modernized to assemble the V-8 engine, and in 1952 Smith introduced the most modern postwar Fords yet: the 1.5-liter four-cylinder Consul and the related 2.3-liter six-cylinder Zephyr, both sourced from the UK. The Zephyr was a belated -- and more expensive -- challenger to the Holden, but was moderately successful nonetheless.
Still, Smith kept the pressure on for an "all-Australian" Ford challenger. Eventually, in 1955, the decision was taken to build the Zephyr as a direct challenger to the Holden. Smith negotiated £18.5 million ($37 million) for investments in new assembly and engine manufacturing facilities.
As stylists worked on the Zephyr for Ford, Smith had other plans. Learn how Smith altered the development of the Ford Falcon on the next page.
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STEM CELL RESEARCH NOT A PRIORITY
January 20, 2005
Compared to other health issues, Americans are not particularly interested in funding stem cell research. In fact, funding for stem cell research ranked 12th out of the twelve choices for the most important health care issues in a post-election survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health.
The survey, conducted by International Communications Research between November 4 and November 28, 2004, had a nationwide sample of 1,396 respondents ages 18 and over.
- Of those 1,396 respondents, 19 percent said federal funding for stem cell research is "Not too important," 32 percent said federal funding was important but not a top priority, and 23 percent said federal funds should not be used at all for stem cell research.
- Only 21 percent agreed that "increasing federal funding for stem cell research" should "be a top priority for the President and Congress this year."
The study did not differentiate between funding embryonic stem cell research and adult stem cell research, note observers.
In 2001, President Bush authorized $190 million for adult stem cell research but prohibited the use of funds on any new embryonic stem cell research. Considered more ethical, research on adult stem cells has already resulted in dozens of treatments and cures, report observers.
While not at the top of the list this year, federal funding for stem cell research will continue to be hot topic. However, this year, Americans are more concerned with lowering health insurance and health care costs, stabilizing Medicare and responding to bioterrorism issues, say observers.
Source: Steven Ertelt, "Survey: Funding Stem Cell Research Lowest Health Care Priority," LifeNews.com, January 11, 2005.
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Setting the Standard
Global Monitoring Division standards laboratories key to global atmospheric science collaboration
Brad Hall's laboratory sits on special underground pillars, to better isolate the room from any activities taking place outdoors. Hall and his colleagues create meticulously calibrated standards of halocarbons and other trace gases found in the atmosphere. Some of their balances are precise enough to pick up the grease on an errant fingerprint.
"In our old lab, when a truck drove up to the loading dock, all my balances went off scale," Hall said. "I had to make standards at night."
Hall prepares standards of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), and other gases. He and his colleagues create cylinders containing specific amounts of the materials, then send them around the world for scientists to use in calibrating their own measurement systems. That ensures that measurements made in China, on an airplane science mission, and on the ground in Antarctica are all comparable.
Many of the chemicals his team targets are ozone-depleting substances, released by human activity and now regulated by the Montreal Protocol because they damage Earth's protective ozone layer. Some are also greenhouse gases, of growing international interest.
"In the mid-1980s, there were huge differences among measurements and instruments," Hall said. "The idea of standards is to tie atmospheric measurements to a known, stable value. You have to be able to trust your measurements, especially if you're looking at a trend over, say, 20 years."
His colleague Duane Kitzis (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) works with a standards team that focuses on carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and carbon monoxide (CO). The NOAA carbon dioxide scale is based on the measurement of the pressure of CO2 extracted from air ("manometric method") while other gases such as halocarbons and methane are based on standards prepared by weighing gases into cylinders ("gravimetric method").
Using these methods, Hall, Kitzis and their colleagues create in-house "scales" covering a range of concentrations needed to measure the range of atmospheric trace gas species.
These so-called "primary" standards are used only to calibrate secondary and tertiary mixtures of gases. Secondaries also remain at ESRL; tertiary standards are sent and used worldwide.
Kitzis is currently coordinating a WMO "Round Robin intercomparison," an international contest of sorts, to see how accurately various laboratories around the world measure unknown samples of CO2, CH4, CO, and nitrous oxide, N2O. Kitzis created three sets of cylinders containing amounts of carbon dioxide that only he knows. Every participating laboratory gets the cylinders for a few weeks, and reports results to "referee" Linxi Zhou at the Chinese Meteorological Administration, who does not know the actual concentrations. Results are tallied when all laboratories are finished. Laboratories use results to identify problems in instrument calibration or measurement methods, Kitzis said.
The images on this page show several steps in the process Hall uses to make standards gravimetrically, by measuring precise weights of tiny quantities of condensed gases. The posed pictures give a sense of how the work is done, but Hall can't let visitors in the lab when he's making actual samples. "It takes too much concentration," Hall said.
"Making the standards is not rocket science," Hall said. "Making them reproducible is tricky, and learning how to make them stable over long periods of time is the hardest."
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Ready to begin your college career, but need to know how to apply for student loans? Understanding the exact actions to take is essential for making the entire ordeal as seamless, simple, and efficient as possible.
And we’ve got you covered with all the steps in the student loan application process — from start to finish — to help you ensure college is affordable for your own financial situation.
As all freshly accepted college students know, school can be very expensive. According to The College Board, a single year at a public, in-state university is $9,410. If you opt for a private school, that number jumps to $32,410. Few people can afford to pay that out of their own pockets, so most turn to student loans to foot the bill.
But where do you even start with setting up student loans? Transferring between federal and private loans and their different application processes can be overwhelming.
Don’t worry, though. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to apply for student loans so you can get your college life underway.
How to apply for student loans
Step 1: Before applying for a student loan, exhaust all other financial aid
Before even thinking about applying for a student loan, make sure you exhaust all your other options first. There are other forms of financial aid you can use to pay for college:
Scholarships: Unlike loans, which have to be repaid with interest, scholarships never have to be repaid and are merit-based (like academic or athletic scholarships). You can search for available scholarships at FastWeb, and you can apply for a wide variety of scholarship types from many different sources, including:
- Private businesses
- For-profit institutions
- Professional organizations
- Philanthropists, high profile figures, and celebrities
- Other individuals on a local, state, or federal level
Grants: Like scholarships, grants do not have to be repaid, but are typically based on need rather than merit. You can qualify for grants from the federal government or from your school, as well as some other places. You can get college grants through:
- Your college or university (includes government-issued grants after completing the FAFSA)
- Federal grants (for example, the Pell Grant and the Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant)
- State grants from your state’s grant agency
- Local grants from your area including nonprofits, professional organizations, private businesses, for-profit institutions, and private philanthropists
Work-study programs: With a work-study program, you work at a part-time job related to your area of study and use the money you earn to pay for a portion of your tuition and expenses.
By utilizing these forms of financial aid, you can minimize how much you need to borrow in student loans.
Step 2: Understand your student loan options
When it comes to student loans, there are two main options: federal and private student loans.
Both types of loans offer students temporary funding assistance to pay for the college or university they’ll be attending. Federal student loans come from the U.S. Department of Education, while private student loans come from private institutions like banks, credit unions, and online lenders.
In general, federal student loans should be your first loan choice. They tend to have lower interest rates that are set by Congress and offer more protections and benefits to you, the borrower. Before applying for one or both, you should know the key differences between federal and private student loans.
What is a federal student loan?
Federal student loans are offered by the government, and tend to have lower interest rates and more generous repayment terms than private student loans. As an undergraduate student, you may be eligible for:
- Direct Subsidized Loans: Loans that you can get if you demonstrate financial need as an undergraduate student.
- Direct Unsubsidized Loans: Loans that aren’t based on financial need and are available to any type of student.
With subsidized loans, the government covers the cost of the interest that accrues while you’re in school and for six months after you graduate.
With unsubsidized loans, you’re responsible for all the interest that accrues on your loan, even when you’re still in school.
Federal loans have a grace period. It’s a six-month period after you graduate when you don’t have to make payments on your loans, giving you time to find a job.
When you enter repayment, federal loans have unique perks, such as the ability to enter into an income-driven repayment plan. Under these plans, you may be able to qualify for a much lower monthly bill that is based on how much you make.
What is a private student loan?
If you need more help paying for school than you can get from the federal government, private student loans can help fill the gap. Private student loans are offered by banks or financial institutions and interest rates can vary from lender to lender. Depending on the loan repayment plan you choose, you may have to start making payments while you’re in school.
As an undergraduate student, you’re unlikely to qualify for a private loan on your own. You’ll probably need a cosigner. A cosigner—usually a parent or relative with a stable income and good credit—acts as a guarantor on the loan. Having a cosigner decreases the risk to the lender, making it more likely you’ll get approved for a loan.
Step 3: Gather all your financial information
Whether you plan on applying for federal or private student loans, you’ll need to collect some information before you complete the process to help it go more quickly.
- Tax returns: While you can use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, it’s helpful to have a paper tax return as well. You should have the tax return from two years ago. You’ll need your parents’ tax returns as well as your own, if you filed taxes.
- Adjusted gross income: You’ll need the adjusted gross income of both yourself and your parents.
- Asset information: You’ll need to provide information about your assets, such as account balances.
- Social Security numbers and birthdates: You’ll need your birthdate and Social Security number.
- A list of schools you’re interested in: Include all schools that you’re even thinking of applying to on the application.
- Information on grants or scholarships you’ve received: If you’ve received any grants or scholarships, you’ll need to enter how much aid you got.
Step 4: Complete the FAFSA
To qualify for financial aid, you must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). It’s what the federal government and colleges use to determine your aid.
It’s free to complete the FAFSA, but it’s a good idea to submit your application as soon as possible. The earlier you complete it, the more likely you are to qualify for financial aid, including grants.
You can complete the FAFSA online. You’ll need to create a Federal Student Aid ID, which you then use to access your application in the future.
Once you finish the FAFSA, you’ll receive a Student Aid Report. This is a summary of your financial information and provides your Expected Family Contribution (EFC), or how much your family is expected to pay toward your education. If you notice a mistake on the Student Aid Report, log into your FAFSA to update it right away.
Step 5: Submit a CSS profile for institutional financial aid
Besides federal aid, you may be eligible for institutional aid, which comes from the school you attend. To qualify, you must submit the CSS profile.
To do so, create an account. Then, select the schools you’re interested in—not all schools participate—and provide information about yourself, your family’s finances, and your assets. There is a $25 fee for submitting the profile, and you’ll have to pay $16 for each additional report.
The College Board has a comprehensive guide on how to complete the CSS profile if you need additional help.
Step 6: Review your financial aid award letter
After you complete the FAFSA and are accepted into college, schools will send you a financial aid award letter, which details what aid you’re eligible to receive. The letter will detail the total cost of attendance, what you got in the form of scholarships or grants, and what federal student loans are available.
To accept, you generally need to sign the letter and return it to the school financial aid office.
Step 7: Decide if applying for student loans is right for you
In some cases, you may find that you need more aid than the school and government will provide. If that’s the situation, private student loans can help.
Private lenders will do a credit check to determine your rates and eligibility, and private student loan interest rates vary by lender. They’re calculated based on your credit score (or your cosigner’s), and by other factors like income and even the type of degree you are pursuing, to ensure you are likely to have the money to pay the loan back.
It’s a good idea to shop around with different lenders to ensure you get the best deal on your interest rate. Luckily, you don’t have to comparison shop manually on your own. Purefy’s rate comparison tool allows you to compare offers from multiple lenders at once.
When you apply, you’ll need to provide much of the same information as you did on the FAFSA. Make sure you know how much you want to borrow and what school you want to attend.
After submitting your application, it can take a couple of weeks to receive your funds. So, fill out an application as soon as possible to make sure you get the money you need on time.
Where to apply for student loans
Applying for student loans can be a difficult experience. From deciding between private and federal student loans or a combination of the two, to the unique processes each lender needs you to follow, it can be stressful and confusing. So how do you know you’re making the right choices to afford your college tuition as easily as possible?
Purefy is here to help. Here’s an at-a-glance infographic to keep handy that explains the entire student loan application process.
And if you need additional private student loan help, visit our rate comparison tool that shows you interest rates, terms, and eligibility requirements from multiple lenders—all in one place with just one quick and easy form.
Find your best interest rate in seconds, choose the right solution for your needs, and apply for your top private loan option, simply and conveniently.
Paying for college tuition
Now that you know how to apply for student loans, you can get the funding you need to pay for college. Make sure you understand all your options so you can minimize how much you need to borrow. Reducing how much you take out in student loans now will help you in the long run after you graduate.
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AMD Overdrive -- also known as ATI Overdrive in some products -- is a utility that allows you to customize your computer's video card or processor's settings and increase its performance. However, overdriving, otherwise known as overclocking, can cause damage to your computer, so you must agree to AMD's terms before all features will become available.
Enabling AMD Overdrive
After launching the AMD Overdrive or ATI Catalyst Control Center utility, the "Enable AMD Overdrive" or "Enable ATI Overdrive" check box is grayed out. You can enable it by clicking the padlock icon. This displays a window notifying you that any damage caused to the computer's components by overclocking won't be covered under the computer's warranty. Clear the message by clicking "OK." You can then click the "Enable AMD Overdrive" check box.
When used with a video card, AMD Overdrive and ATI Overdrive can raise the video card's processor and memory clock speed for higher performance or reduce their speed for lower power consumption. You can also reduce the fan's speed for reduced noise. Additional options are available if you use AMD Overdrive with your computer's processor, such as the ability to adjust memory timings when the utility is used with an AMD Black Edition processor.
Some novice users may be uncomfortable with making manual adjustments to a video card's processor and memory speeds. For this reason, AMD Overdrive and ATI Overdrive include an "Auto-Tune" button that automatically selects higher speeds and tests them for stability. The Auto-Tune feature removes some of the guesswork from overclocking, simplifying the process. However, through experimentation you can manually select a processor and memory speed combination that produces higher performance.
When you overclock your computer's processor or video card, it produces more heat than it would at its stock clock speed. In a computer with adequate cooling, this shouldn't cause concern. However, the increased heat can cause damage to these components. Although the chance is minimal, don't attempt to overclock a component you can't afford to lose. | <urn:uuid:c3a7621d-5d1e-4920-92bb-7da4b8706515> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ehow.com/info_12218444_amd-overdrive-grayed-out.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00135-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928829 | 423 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Why 2 rows in x$kgllk for package .
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:27:21 +0100
while playing with Tanel query for reporting sessions which suffer from global variables state change in 126.96.36.199 DB . I've found something strange (for me) :
select t.* , (select sid from v$session where saddr = t.KGLLKUSE) sid
from x$kgllk t
kglnahsh in (select /*+ no_unnest */ kglnahsh from x$kglob where upper(kglnaown) like upper('TEST') and upper(kglnaobj) like upper('DEMO_PKG') )
Lets focus on KGLLKFLG column.
So looks like after getting breakable parse look KGLLKFLG = 0 then after package is recompiled there is 0 and 3 reported for 2 rows related to one session which executed package procedure .
After recompilation the KGLLKFLG is 2 and 3 and looks like when we ask
for value 3 we get what we want
so sessions which after running recompiled package reports ORA-04068 .
Question is why we have 2 rows in x$kgllk for 1 session (is that because
separate lock for package header and package body )?
Next one, Im not sure what is the meaning of columns:
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Nvidia's Maximus technology enhances workstations
SANTA CLARA, CA — Today, Nvidia introduced its new Maximus (www.nvidia.com/maximus) technology, which accelerates work by enabling a single workstation to simultaneously handle interactive graphics and the compute-intensive number crunching associated with the simulation or rendering of the results. Previously, this was accomplished in separate steps or on separate systems. Maximus achieves this by bringing together the professional 3D graphics capabilities of Nvidia’s Quadro professional graphics processing units (GPUs) and the massive parallel-computing power of the company’s Tesla C2075 companion processor. The unified technology assigns work to the right processor to handle the job.
“Previous workstation architectures forced designers and engineers to do compute-intensive work and graphics-intensive work serially and often offline,” explains Jeff Brown, Nvidia’s general manager, professional solutions group. “They can now do them at the same time, on the same machine, allowing professionals to explore more ideas faster and converge quickly on the best possible answers.” With Maximus-enabled applications — such as those from Adobe, ANSYS, Autodesk, Bunkspeed, Dassault Systèmes and MathWorks — GPU compute work is assigned to run on the Tesla companion processor. This frees up the Quadro GPU to handle graphics functions.
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H.R.2062 - Migratory Bird Treaty Act Penalty and Enforcement Act of 2009111th Congress (2009-2010)
|Sponsor:||Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] (Introduced 04/23/2009)|
|Committees:||House - Natural Resources | Senate - Environment and Public Works|
|Committee Reports:||H. Rept. 111-355; S. Rept. 111-375|
|Latest Action:||12/17/2010 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 714. (All Actions)|
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Summary: H.R.2062 — 111th Congress (2009-2010)All Bill Information (Except Text)
Reported to Senate without amendment (12/17/2010)
(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on December 7, 2009. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Migratory Bird Treaty Act Penalty and Enforcement Act of 2009 - Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to subject a person who kills or wounds any migratory bird in an aggravated manner in violation of such Act, in lieu of any penalty for such violation, to: (1) a fine and/or imprisonment for no more than a year for the first violation; and (2) a fine and/or imprisonment for no more than two years for subsequent violations. Defines "aggravated manner" to mean deliberately and in a manner that: (1) demonstrates indifference to the pain and suffering of the bird; or (2) involves actions that would shock a reasonable person.
Grants the Secretary of the Interior authority provided for undercover or enforcement operations under the Fish and Wildlife Improvement Act of 1978 to detect and prosecute violations of this Act, including the authority to use funds for payments for information, rewards, or evidence concerning such violations. | <urn:uuid:aae0eb35-5962-4a4d-952a-cadf9ce34e4a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/2062 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00340-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914105 | 413 | 2.34375 | 2 |
How to Survive a Micro-Managing Board
We see this issue over and over in our practice. Far more common than the hands-off, head in the sand, rubber stamp board, is the micro-managing board. The micro-managing board members show up to their first board meeting and before they have done anything of substance for the organization, they want to revamp the reports, review the nonprofit’s journal entries, question every expense, and critique the Chief Executive’s management style. One might rightly ask whether these activities are adding value. I would argue that nine times out of ten they are not.
Sometimes, micro-managing board members are infused with for-profit hubris. They intuitively feel that nonprofit management practices are inferior to for-profit approaches and take it upon themselves to lead the nonprofit to the light. More often, they just don’t know how else to add value. One way to point a micro-managing board member in the right direction is to teach them. Some suggestions include:
- Engage the Board in discussions about how they can elevate the organization’s name and reputation and open doors that might otherwise be closed to the Chief Executive.
- Build agendas that focus on the big picture – mission, vision, values, what success looks like and how they will measure progress toward their goals.
- Give the Board comfort by providing a financial dashboard that makes it easy for Board members to track the organization’s financial progress.
- Adopt an annual budget and signature authority policy that gives the Chief Executive clear direction regarding his or her spending authority. Clear direction and delegation minimizes the number of times the Chief Executive feels compelled to go to the Board to “ask permission.”
- Create a board action calendar of compliance and governance due dates such as the date the Form 990 is due, the date annual reports are due, goals to review policies, governing documents and the strategic plan.
- Clarify roles and divide responsibility for book-keeping, check signing, and reconciling bank statements.
- Review the Form 990 with the Board to help them better understand the financial side of the organization.
- Even if the organization can’t afford audits, consider engaging a CPA to provide periodic reviews.
If the Board still can’t get out of the weeds, address their fears about liability. Provide education regarding their insurance coverages, indemnification rights, the protection afforded by the business judgment rule to directors who fulfill their fiduciary duties, volunteer protection statutes, and other risk management protections the organization has in place.
Consider bringing in a consultant to provide board training and attempt to refocus the board on their key duties. Another possibility is adding more experienced board members who can set an example for the board members who tend to micro-manage.
Finally, the Chief Executive should take stock of his or her own performance and the performance of the organization. When there are problems, Board members tend to lean in and become more demanding of information. The Chief Executive should consider what further steps they can take to re-establish confidence and trust.
Learn more about nonprofit boards through our section on building leadership strength – https://www.philanthropegie.org/resources/non-profits/building-leadership-n/boards-n/
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30 Additional non-fiction readers plus 3 Teacher’s Resources, in 3 Stages, to follow the structure and style of the parent series, Jumpstart. Its purpose is to provide non-fiction, easy-read books for the primary reading market as well as to add more breadth to each stage of Jumpstart.
Jumpstart Extra Stage A provides ten non-fiction books to complement and extend Jumpstart Stage 1 readers.
Every Jumpstart Extra title links thematically to a core book in Jumpstart and repeats the core book's high frequency vocabulary.
Less confident readers are progressively familiarized with non-fiction text features such as captions, diagrams, maps, indexes and glossaries.
No new strategies are introduced and new vocabulary is minimal, allowing children increased opportunities to succeed.
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John Foster is a well-known anthologist and poet and has compiled several wonderful collections – WHAM BANG ORANGUTANG being one of the best known (OUP), and he wrote the poem of the title. He travels extensively to help promote his books.
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Is a Higher Dividend Near for Bank of America?
Bank of America (NYS: BAC) is nearly four years removed from paying a quarterly dividend above a penny a share, but recent developments with the bank may have brought it closer to raising its dividend. At a conference last week, chief financial officer Bruce Thompson indicated that the bank was just waiting for specific guidance from the Federal Reserve before submitting a plan to raise its dividend.
The bank has been close to raising its dividend before, only to be rejected by the Fed. Now, however, the bank's capital ratios seem to be in line with what the Fed was looking for previously, so it might be able to convince regulators to allow it to return money to shareholders. If it manages to do so, it would be great news for investors who have stuck around throughout the bank's more recent problems, and a potential boon for other investors who want to see a larger dividend before jumping in.
What happened to its dividend?
Its last dividend that was greater than a penny was paid out on December 3, 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis. With some financial companies on the brink of collapse after the fall of Lehman Brothers, the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve stepped in with the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, in an effort to prevent full-scaled collapse. It worked, but all of the banks had to receive money under the program and certain requirements were placed on them, including the amount of money they could pay out in dividends every year.
Some banks passed the Fed "stress tests" earlier this year and were able to raise their dividends or repurchase shares. For example, JPMorgan Chase (NYS: JPM) immediately announced plans to repurchase $15 billion in shares, and Wells Fargo (NYS: WFC) announced an 83% increase to its dividend. Not to be outdone by its much larger brothers, regional banking leader US Bank (NYS: USB) increased its dividend by 56% and announced plans to repurchase 100 million shares of its stock. Meanwhile, Bank of America, despite actually passing the same stress tests, chose not to increase its dividend at the time.
The bank may be in better financial position than it was eight months ago. With most of the toxic Countrywide mortgage debt slowly finding its way off the balance sheet, Bank of America's provisions for credit losses were down an astonishing 48% from last year at the end of its recent quarter. Sure, a $1 billion Justice Department lawsuit makes it seem like the mortgage damage is not over yet, but the bank might actually be turning the corner and moving further away from its Countrywide problems.
Because it is actually starting to look like the worst of the Countrywide problems are behind it, I think the bank is primed for a dividend increase, perhaps in time for the first quarter next year. I think we could see the bank do what US Bank did in March, announcing both a dividend increase and a share repurchase plan. Either way, Bank of America will finally join some of its larger banking brothers in returning real value to shareholders.
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The wilderness played an important role, affecting life in ancient Israel in several different ways. For instance, every year, at the beginning and end of summer, a hot, dry desert wind blows from the east. This wind, called sirocco, raises the temperature and can be quite destructive to vegetation. The wind was yearly reminder to Israel that the wilderness was within reach.
The wilderness also became a powerful symbol in the Scriptures. The symbols were apparently contradictory: negative, on one hand, and positive, on the other. First, wilderness was a place of danger where only wild beasts lived. It was a place of death and barrenness. God is life, fruitfulness, light, order, and harmony; in contrast, the wilderness was a place of death barrenness, darkness, and chaos.
However, the wilderness also was a place of transition, a place for meeting God, The wilderness experience began after the Israelites came out of Egypt, on their way to the Promised Land. The wilderness represented the transition from being different tribes and from being slaves for generations, to becoming a holy nation, a worshiping people, God’s treasured possession. The wilderness journey was a time of preparation. Although God promised to be with them and fight for them, the people needed to learn how to trust God. Trust requires time to grow. In addition, the trust that holds firmly is usually born in times of difficulties. True worship and faith arise from a heart grateful to God for his love, grace, and mercy.
The presence of God in the midst of the camp could not have contrasted more than it did in the wilderness. God intended the Israelite camp to be an oasis of life, grace, and light. Like Noah’s ark in the midst of the flood, it was meant to be a place of life in the midst of death, a place of order and harmony in the midst of disorder and chaos.
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Kindness is a gift. It is a gift you can give and receive.
You know this because when you are kind to someone it lifts your heart and makes you feel better. When someone is kind to you, it can change your mood, and outcome of your day.
It’s absolutely empowering to choose to be kind.
I have partnered with KIND snacks to reflect on my goals for the New Year. 2016 will be my year to “Live KIND Every Day,” which means doing the KIND thing for my body, my taste buds, and my world.
I put together a list, a mantra of sorts for me to follow to ensure I am being as Kind as I should be everyday. Not only do I want to be kind to those around me, but also to myself.
Making sure that I am doing the KIND thing for my body and mind means that I need to maintain a routine.
For me that is making sure there are enough fresh vegetables and fruits in the house that are easy accessible. I steam fresh vegetables on Sunday and store them in the refrigerator, so that they are always available at every meal.
I love participating in crossfit, one of the reasons it is so fun for me is the group of friends I workout with. I not only get in a great workout, but I get to laugh and have fun with people who I like and care for. Knowing my friends are at the gym, ensures I won’t skip a class. I also maintain a good sleep regiment.
I try to go to sleep at the same time every night and wake up at the same time each day. This allows my body the time it needs to recover and replenish.
I also am KIND to my taste buds, allowing my little “indulgences” is a great way to reward myself. I don’t over indulge in sweets, but if I want a cookie, I will have a cookie. As long as my meals are healthy and I have worked out, I will be KIND to myself and enjoy the cookie or slice of cake. A girl needs her sweets!
The sayings below can be used in so many ways. Not only how you treat others, but how you treat yourself. Emotionally and physically we need to learn to be kind to ourselves.
When I am being hard on myself, I will say be supportive, be positive, and be loving. I won’t get discouraged and continue to work hard to reach my goals.
When someone may treat me unkind I will be compassionate, be strong, be accepting, and be forgiving. The strongest way to get over hurt feelings is to forgive.
When I see someone struggling I will be encouraging, be helpful, be honest and be considerate. If you are at the gym introduce yourself to the people around you. This is a great way to make friends who have the same goals to be fit and healthy.
When I am missing a friend or loved one I will be thankful, be responsible, be respectful and I will be a friend. Then I will pick up the phone and ask them to meet me for a walk, or coffee.
Each of these sayings are powerful and can help us to lead a healthier happier life.
Be a listener
Be a friend
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How A Cavity Forms
Our mouths are full of bacteria and while some are helpful, there are also harmful bacteria that cause tooth decay (and eventually cavities).
These harmful bacteria come from sugary and starchy foods and beverages. When you consume these things, the acids in them will start to attack the minerals that make up your teeth. While your teeth can recover from this and rebuild, if the process continues, a cavity forms.
How to Avoid a Cavity:
- Use Toothpaste with Fluoride – Fluoride is a mineral that helps prevent and even reverse tooth decay. It helps replace lost minerals and reduces the ability of bacteria to make the acid that affects your teeth.
- Watch What You Eat – Diet is an important part of preventing cavities. Every time you eat food with sugar and starches, the bacteria in our mouth produce acids that eat away at our tooth enamel.
- Schedule Regular Dental Cleanings – During a cleaning, we can help make sure that there isn’t any tartar or tooth decay, and help reverse any tooth decay you may have.
If you think that you might have a cavity, don’t hesitate to give us a call. We can take a look at your teeth and address your cavity before it becomes a larger tooth health problem.
Call 203-254-3780 to contact our office to schedule your appointment or visit our website for more information on the different treatments and services that we offer at Fairfield Dental Arts.
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Durability of competitive advantage determines how long the competitive advantage can be sustained and is considered in terms of the ability of competitors to imitate through gaining access to the resources on which the competitive advantage is built.
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors. –Warren Buffett (1999)
The durability of competitive advantage of a company is a function of three factors: the height of barriers to imitation, the capability of competitors, and the general dynamism of the industry environment.
1. Barriers to Imitation
Barriers to imitation are factors that make it difficult for a competitor to copy a company’s distinctive competency. The longer it takes to imitate a company’s distinctive competency, the greater is the opportunity for the company to improve on that competency or build other competencies. Imitability refers to the rate at which others duplicate a firm underlying resources and capabilities.
- The easiest distinctive competencies to imitate are those based on firm-specific tangible resources such as buildings, plant, and equipment, which are visible to competitors and can be readily purchased.
- Intangible resources are more difficult to imitate. Brand names symbolize a company’s reputation, and are protected by law.
- Marketing and technological know-how are intangible resources that are relatively easy to imitate.
- Marketing strategies are visible to competitors, and the movement of marketing personnel between companies facilitates the diffusion of know-how.
- Technological know-how should be protected by patents, but in practice, it is often possible to “invent around” patents.
- Imitation of capabilities is more difficult than imitation of resources. Capabilities are often invisible to outsiders, and are based on the way in which decisions are made and processes managed deep within a company. Also, a company’s capabilities are not dependent upon one individual, but are the product of how numerous individuals interact within a unique organizational setting. Thus, no one person can duplicate capabilities, and therefore personnel movement will not be as useful in imitating capabilities.
2. Capability of Competitors
When a company is committed to a particular way of doing business based on a set of resources and capabilities, the company will find it difficult to respond to new competition if doing so requires a break with this commitment. This influence on the durability of competitive advantage is called capability of competitors.
- Strategic commitment is the company’s commitment to a particular way of doing business that is to developing a particular set of resources & capabilities.
- A related concept is absorptive capacity—that is, the ability of an enterprise to identify, assimilate, and utilize new knowledge. Firms with a low absorptive capacity may experience an internal inertia that slows their ability to innovate and imitate.
- Therefore, when innovations reshape the rules of competition in an industry, value often migrates away from established competitors and toward new enterprises that are operating with new business models.
3. Industry Dynamism
Industry dynamism refers to the rate of product innovation. A high dynamism (rapid rate of innovation) means that product life cycles are shortening and that competitive advantage can be very transitory. Durability of competitive advantage is difficult for any company to sustain in a highly dynamic industry. | <urn:uuid:d59d253a-20d7-4ddf-9fe3-198deb5ae025> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mbaknol.com/strategic-management/durability-of-competitive-advantage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00011-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948385 | 719 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Section 2: In-place Surface RecyclingAnchor: #i1003406
Hot In-place Recycling (HIPR)
This rehabilitation technique is meant to address asphalt concrete surface distress and texture issues only, therefore the underlying base layers must offer adequate support.
The HIPR process involves recycling the existing asphalt surface layer by heating, scarifying, and adding a recycling agent. There are three basic HIPR processes:
- Heater-scarification - heating, scarifying, rejuvenating, leveling, reprofiling, and compacting.
- Repaving - heating, scarifying, rejuvenating, leveling, laying a new hot mix layer, reprofiling, and compacting.
- Remixing - heating, scarifying, rejuvenating, mixing (adding a new hot mix), leveling, reprofiling, and compacting.
A specialized train is used to heat the surface of the pavement to 300 - 350°F which allows the top 1 to 2 in. of material to be scarified, rejuvenated, remixed and replaced in a multi-step on-site process. Minor cross slope and aggregate gradation corrections can be made. Virgin hot mix can also be added to correct the recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) shortcomings as in the case of the remixing process. Coring of the existing asphaltic concrete pavement (ACP) surface is necessary to determine the material properties of the existing asphalt pavement. This will allow for evaluation of any necessary adjustments to aggregate gradation to develop the required voids in mineral aggregate (VMA) and selection of the appropriate asphalt concrete (AC) binder. It is recommended that the vendor/contractor be contacted with regard to the mix design.
Pavements with delaminations, especially saturated delaminations, in the top 2 in. should not be considered for HIPR projects. Also, the state of practice does not recommend pavements that have been rutted, heavily patched, or chip-sealed as good candidate projects. Typically, hot in-place recycling operations are conducted when the ambient air temperature is 50ºF and rising, but 2004 specifications cite a minimum surface temperature for hot mix asphalt (HMA) placement of 60ºF. An additional overlay may be placed over the recycled surface if additional structural strength is needed as in the case of the repaving process. An equivalent alternative strategy is to mill 1 in. of the existing top layer and place back 2 in. Up to 30% RAP may be allowed in the new 2-in. overlay.
Figure 7-1. Hot In-place Recycling Train.Anchor: #i1000534
Cold In-place Recycling (Bituminous Layers Only)
As with the hot in-place process, this rehabilitation technique is meant to address distress within the bituminous portion of the pavement structure, but can reach as deep as 4 to 6 in. Therefore, the base must also be sound, with repairs made to locations that have failed or show potential for failure. The process also involves a specialized train with a cold milling machine, crushing/screen unit, and mixing unit that is capable of reclaiming the old asphalt, crushing (screening and sizing) the RAP, and mixing the RAP with virgin aggregate (if necessary) and emulsion. Coring of the existing ACP surface is necessary to determine the material properties of the existing asphalt pavement to properly design proportions of virgin aggregate, emulsion and rejuvenator, if necessary. Cores are also inspected for the presence of variations in the pavement layers, delaminations and whether voids are saturated. The industry does not recommend pavements that have been rutted, heavily patched, or chip-sealed as good candidate projects. Generally, a seal coat or additional overlay will be required after adequate curing since the cold re-processed mix has higher void ratios and is more difficult to compact than hot mix. | <urn:uuid:e4587282-ca0b-4b75-94aa-4116b1132335> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/pdm/inplace_surface_recycling.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00156-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904115 | 810 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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This course covers the basics of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from a signal processing perspective. In particular, the course will examine why there are limiting design considerations for real aperture radar and how a synthetic aperture can overcome these limitations to create high-resolution radar imaging. Various SAR geometries will be considered. Image formation algorithms, such as range Doppler, chirp scaling, omega-K, polar formatting, and backprojection, will be reviewed and, in some cases, coded by the student. Other post-processing techniques, such as motion compensation, aperture weighting (or apodization), autofocus, and multilook, will be reviewed. Advanced topics will include interferometric SAR, polarimetry, continuous wave linear FM (CWLFM) SAR, and moving objects in SAR imagery. Students will work through problems involving radar and SAR processing. Students will also develop SAR simulations, in either MATLAB or Python, based on simple point scatterers in a benign background.
EN.525.648 Introduction to Radar Systems, along with either basic MATLAB or Python skills.
Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Connie Mack’s Second Great Athletics Team: Eclipsed by the Ruth-Gehrig Yankees, But Even Better
This article was published in the 2013 The National Pastime.
Editor's note: This article was adapted from the chapter on the 1926–32 Yankees and 1928–32 Athletics found on the author’s website, www.thebestbaseballteams.com.
In the annals of baseball history, the New York Yankees are often remembered as being most formidable when they had Babe Ruth batting third and Lou Gehrig right behind him in the cleanup slot. They were the heart of the 1927 Yankees—still mythologized by many as the greatest team ever there was. The 1927 Yankees finished every day of the season in first place, won 110 games, took the pennant by 19 games, outscored their opposition by 376 runs (that’s 2.4 runs a game more than the other team), and were said to so intimidate the Pirates during batting practice before Game 1 in Pittsburgh that their quick sweep in the World Series was a foregone conclusion—or any other words you might choose to connote inevitability. Ruth and Gehrig teamed together for 10 years, 1925–34, but despite power production unmatched in history by any other dynamic duo, they led the Yankees to only four pennants. The Ruth and Gehrig Yankees won three consecutive flags from 1926 to 1928, and a fourth in 1932.
The team that interrupted and short-changed the Ruth-Gehrig Yankee dynasty was the Philadelphia Athletics, who won three consecutive pennants of their own from 1929 to 1931—all in convincing fashion. One would be misguided to think that Ruth and Gehrig should have won more than the four pennants they did together, so great were they and their team, because the rival Philadelphians had their own luminescent stars in baseball’s historical firmament—notably muscular first baseman Jimmie Foxx, left fielder Al Simmons, catcher Mickey Cochrane, and pitching ace Lefty Grove. It was no disgrace for the Ruth-Gehrig Yankees not to win more often when those guys were their contemporaries on the Athletics.
And so the question to be addressed: Is it possible that the Foxx-Simmons-Cochrane-Grove Philadelphia Athletics were actually a better team than the Ruth-Gehrig Yankees? For comparative purposes, this analysis will not focus in on any one iconic year—such as 1927 for the Yankees—or even two (1932 is close to iconic for the Ruth-Gehrig Yankees). Ironically, while the Athletics were the first team in baseball history to have three consecutive 100-win seasons—the Ruth and Gehrig Yankees managed two in 1927 and 1928—their three straight blow-out pennants are anything but iconic; the 1929–31 Philadelphia Athletics are, in fact, largely forgotten in the broad arc of popularized baseball history, except perhaps in the collective historical memory of the City of Brotherly Love. The mark of a great team is its performance over time, and so this comparative analysis will focus on the seven years between 1926 and 1932, which mark the beginning and end of the pennant-winning collaboration of Ruth and Gehrig, but during which Philadelphia owner and manager Connie Mack restored the Athletics to their former measure of greatness. Let us begin with a brief history on how Mr. Mack rebuilt Philadelphia’s foundation for competing with the New York Yankees.
MACK’S ATHLETICS RETURN WITH A VENGEANCE
Connie Mack built one of the first great runs in American League history, winning four pennants in five years between 1910 and 1914, all by comfortable margins—14 1/2 games in 1910, 13 1/2 in 1911, 6 1/2 in 1913, and 8 1/2 in 1914—and the Athletics confirmed their dominance of the baseball world in the World Series by dispatching the Chicago Cubs in five games in 1910, the New York Giants in six in 1911, and the Giants again in five in 1913, before being ignominiously swept by the surprising National League champion Boston Braves in 1914. It is true that the Boston Red Sox intervened with a command performance to take the 1912 pennant by 14 games over Washington and 15 over 90-win Philadelphia, and that the 1914 World Series debacle spoiled the party, but the Athletics appeared primed to be the team to beat for at least the next several years, except that 1914 turned out to mark the end of Mack’s dynasty.
Although undoubtedly embarrassed by his team’s fold against the Braves, it was financial pressures from diminishing attendance and the challenge posed by the start-up Federal League that caused Mack, who was an owner as well as manager of the Philadelphia franchise, to begin disbanding his great team. Taking a page from the American League’s own book, the Federal League (which lasted only two years as a “third major league” in 1914 and 1915, before legal challenges forced its surrender) offered higher salaries to attract the major-league veterans needed to build credibility for the new league (and the Federal League is indeed recognized in baseball’s official records as having been one of the major leagues). This, in turn, contributed to demands for more money from players staying loyal to the American and National Leagues, dollars that Mr. Mack was unable or unwilling to pay.1
Meanwhile, in 1913 and 1914, the US economy was hit with its second recession in four years. Industrial production and real income declined, and in 1914 the number of civilians in the labor force who were unemployed nearly doubled from 1.7 to 3.1 million, according to statistics compiled by the National Bureau of Economic Research, representing about 12 percent of nonfarm workers. These tough economic times undoubtedly contributed to a dramatic 30 percent decline in attendance at major-league baseball games, excluding the Federal League. Notwithstanding the attraction of watching two of the best players of their era—Eddie Collins and Home Run Baker—and the fact that the Athletics won the American League pennant, Mack’s ledgers showed an even greater 39-percent drop in paying customers in 1914. They may have been by far the best team in major-league baseball, but the Philadelphia Athletics were only the fifth-best team in the American League in attendance, and seventh overall, including National League clubs.2 This was not helping Mr. Mack pay his $100,000 infield (whose members, of course, did not collectively earn nearly that much).
It would be wrong to say that Mack broke up the core of his first great team all at once. He did so over three years. But the heart was cut out in 1915. Veteran pitchers Eddie Plank and Chief Bender defected to the Federal League after having been preemptively placed on waivers by Mack, leaving a young pitching staff without experienced and savvy veterans; Collins was sold to the White Sox, and shortstop Jack Barry to the Red Sox.3 Mack did not move Home Run Baker in 1915, but his refusal to meet Baker’s salary demands caused his outstanding third baseman to sit out the season. Indicative of the importance of these players, particularly Collins and Baker, the Athletics plunged into the first of a disheartening wilderness of seven consecutive lastplace finishes, beginning in 1915.
By the early 1920s, Mack was patiently reconstructing another would-be dynasty. Although the Athletics finished dead last in 1920 for the sixth straight year with 106 losses, in 1922, they finally moved out of last place, finishing seventh with 89 losses, having added Bing Miller to the outfield. By 1924, Al Simmons was in the Philadelphia outfield, and the Athletics moved up to fifth place. In the 10 years after 1914, the Athletics had an abysmal .354 winning average (528–963), but with 71 victories in 1924 putting them within five wins of a .500 record, their future was looking bright.
The next year, 1925, proved pivotal as Cochrane, Grove, second baseman Max Bishop, and pitcher Rube Walberg became regulars. Their addition not only propelled the Athletics to their first winning season since 1914, but also landed Philadelphia in second place (second place!), 8 1/2 games behind Washington. The 1925 Athletics even held first place for nearly two full months in May and June, and for nearly another month between July 23 and August 19. But Mack’s budding great team was not yet ready. From August 14, when they led the league by two games, to September 7, the Athletics lost 17 of 20 games, including 12 straight at one point, to fall nine games back and out of contention.
The team lost ground in 1926—the year when Ruth and Gehrig teamed up for their first pennant together— by finishing third with five fewer wins, but ended up only six games behind the Yankees, whom they beat 13 times in 22 games. Any hopes Philadelphia had of closing that gap in 1927 were dashed with the Yankees having their first iconic season. While never in the pennant race, Mack’s men finished strong with 19 wins in their final 27 games, which did nothing more than secure second place, for whatever that honor was worth, 19 games behind New York. By 1928, right-hander George Earnshaw had joined Grove and Walberg in the starting rotation; Foxx was a rookie playing third base on his way to becoming one of the game’s greatest first basemen (moving across the infield the next year); Bing Miller, who had been traded away in 1926, was back in the outfield alongside Simmons; Mule Haas was new in the outfield; and with Cochrane behind the plate, Philadelphia was poised to challenge the Yankees—this time for real. At first it didn’t seem like it would be in 1928, but a surge of 40 wins in 52 games allowed the Athletics to overcome a 12 1/2-game deficit as late as July 18 and bring a half-game lead into Yankee Stadium for a doubleheader showdown with the Bronx Bombers on September 9. Alas, the Yankees swept the twin bill, beat Grove for good measure the next day, and the 1928 Athletics never saw the sunny side of first place again. But they had sent a message to New York, and the next three years were all Philadelphia’s.
ATHLETICS PENNANT WINNERS WERE ARGUABLY MORE DOMINANT
It perhaps comes as a surprise, given the Bronx Bombers’ headliners Ruth and Gehrig, but between 1926 and 1932 the Philadelphia Athletics’ achievements were comparable to those of the New York Yankees. Each won three consecutive pennants, although the Yankees won four American League titles in all. Philadelphia won two World Series, New York won three. The Yankees won 677 games and lost 400 over those seven years for a .629 winning percentage. The Athletics, playing 10 fewer games resulting in a decision (not including games that ended in a tie because of darkness or weather), had a slightly higher .636 winning percentage, with 679 victories against 388 losses. In the five years between 1928 and 1932, including three straight pennants sandwiched by runner-up status to New York, Philadelphia’s .662 winning percentage (505–258) is exceeded only by the 1906–10 Chicago Cubs (530–235, .693, four National League pennants and two World Series championships) for the highest over any five-year period in major-league baseball since 1901. No New York Yankees team over any five-year period— not with Ruth, not with Gehrig, not with DiMaggio, not with Mantle, not with Jeter—ever had as high a winning percentage as the 1928–32 Philadelphia Athletics.
The Athletics won more than 100 games in all three of their consecutive pennant seasons and were never challenged after mid-summer, winning decisively each year. In 1929, the Athletics blew open the pennant race early and inexorably built their lead from 9 1/2 games on July 4, to 10 1/2 games on August 1, to 12 1/2 games going into September, on their way to an 18-game final advantage (with 104 wins) that was nearly the equal of the 1927 Yankees’ 19-game pennant romp. The 1930 Athletics actually trailed the unsuspected Washington Nationals (officially the Nationals, but better known as the “Senators”) by a half-game on July 9 and 10, but were eight games in front by the end of the month and never looked back on their way to 102 wins and an eight-game margin of victory. And 1931 was 1929 all over again in Philadelphia’s complete dominance of the league—12 games up by the end of July and 15 1/2 by the end of August. They wound up taking the pennant by only 13 1/2 games, but with the most wins of any of Connie Mack’s 50 Philadelphia teams, including his great 1910–14 Athletics. Indeed, no team in franchise history—including after the A’s moved to Oakland, via Kansas City—won more games than the 1931 Philadelphia Athletics.
The 1926–32 Yankees also won at least 100 games three times—consecutively in 1927 and 1928, and again in 1932—but cruised to the pennant decisively only twice: in 1927 (by the aforementioned 19 games) when they won 110 games and in 1932 (by 13) over Philadelphia. Their 107 wins in 1932 would remain the second-highest total in the Yankees’ storied history until 1961. In their two other pennant-winning years, the Yankees finished first by just three games over secondplace Cleveland in 1926 and by only 2 1/2 over the latecharging Athletics in 1928, and in both those years, they allowed large leads to fade away.
In 1926, the Yankees had a 10-game lead on August 23, and led by eight as late as September 9, before holding on to win the pennant, possibly only by virtue of the big lead they built up early in the season. The 1926 Yankees had a losing record in the final two months of the season, going 25–29 in August and September. And in 1928, the Yankees were in command by 13 1/2 games on July 1, only to lose the entire lead and find themselves a half game behind Philadelphia on September 9, the start of a fourgame series against the Athletics. As already mentioned, the Yankees took the first three of those games to move into first place for good. And in the three following seasons, when Philadelphia cleaned up on the American League, the Yankees were playing catch up from far behind early on and never challenged for the pennant. In 1930, the Yankees didn’t even finish second; they came in third, behind second-place Washington.
POTENT PHILADELPHIA OFFENSE NO MATCH FOR YANKEES
With Cochrane, Simmons, and Foxx at the heart of the lineup, the Athletics were a dangerous club, particularly once Foxx became a regular in 1928. Thirty-five percent of their 505 victories during the five years from 1928 to 1932 were by blowout margins of five runs or more, but the Athletics did not once lead the league in scoring because, well, they were not the New York Yankees—the Bronx Bombers with their fabled Murderer’s Row. After scoring the second-fewest runs in 1926, Philadelphia was third in scoring the next year, second from 1928 to 1930, third behind New York and Cleveland in 1931—despite setting what remains the franchise record for wins—and second to the Yankees by only 21 runs in 1932.
With Ruth and Gehrig being, well, Ruth and Gehrig, the Yankees dominated all of baseball offensively between 1926 and 1932, leading not just the American League but both major leagues in scoring in six of the seven years.4 Even when the Yankees finished third in runs in 1929— the year Philadelphia displaced New York at the top of the American League—they scored only 27 fewer runs than the Tigers, who led the league despite finishing in sixth place, and only two fewer than the Athletics. In 1930, the Yankees resumed their place as the team scoring more runs than anybody else and, moreover, became the first team in modern baseball history (or the first since the Boston Beaneaters in 1897, if you prefer) to score more than 1,000 runs, when they touched the plate 1,062 times—the first of three consecutive 1,000-run seasons.
In the six years they led the league in scoring between 1926 and 1932, the Yankees did so by an average margin of 92 runs.
The Yankees completely dominated the American League in offensive wins above replacement (WAR), according to data available on Baseball-Reference.com, leading by a substantial margin all seven years between 1926 and 1932.
Appropriately for being the “Bronx Bombers,” the Yankees led the league in home runs every year of this run except 1932, when the Athletics hit 172 to their 160 (Interestingly, the Ruth-Gehrig Yankees from 1925 to 1934 were not perennial major-league leaders in home runs. The National League’s Giants in 1925, Phillies in 1929, and Cubs in 1930 all hit more home runs than the Yankees.) Indicative of their clout, from 1926 to 1932 the Yankees won 38 percent of their total 677 victories by blowout margins—including an astonishing 44 of their 94 victories (47 percent) in 1931, a year in which they finished 13 1/2 games behind the Athletics despite outscoring Philadelphia by 209 runs. And why would that be?
YANKEES PITCHING AND FIELDING NOT IN PHILADELPHIA’S CLASS
Because, the Athletics had far better pitching and fielding than the Yankees. Philadelphia led the league in fewest runs allowed four times (1926, 1928, 1929, and 1931), was second in 1930, third in 1927, and fourth in 1932, when the Athletics finished second in the standings, but far behind the Yankees. In five of those seasons (all except 1927 and 1932), Connie Mack’s pitching staff collectively had the highest WAR for pitchers in the American League. Philadelphia pitchers accounted for 21 percent of the league’s total pitchers’ value from 1926 to 1932, and in all but 1927, the park effects at Shibe Park— the Athletics’ home field—was not favorable for pitchers.5 With Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw, who were first and second in the American League in strikeouts in each of their pennant-winning seasons, the Athletics were also the premier power-pitching team in baseball. The Athletics led the league in strikeouts for six straight years beginning in 1925, before finishing third in 1931 and second in 1932.
The Yankees pitching staff, meanwhile, was in transition from Waite Hoyt and Herb Pennock, their ace starters for three consecutive pennants from 1926 to 1928 and two of the best pitchers in the American League those three years, to Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez, who were emerging by the pennant-winning year of 1932 as the foundation of what would prove to be an excellent staff later in the 1930s. In between those years—when the Athletics were winning their three straight—the collective WAR for the Yankee pitching staff was dead last in the league in 1929 and 1930, and next-to-last in 1931. The 1926–32 Yankees led the league in fewest runs allowed only once (in the mythologized year of 1927), surrendered the second fewest in 1928 and 1932, and the third fewest in 1926 and 1931. They were fourth in 1929 and seventh in 1930.
Table 1: Pitching Wins Above Replacement
|NYY||10.7 (4)*||17.0 (1)*||12.4 (5)*||2.1 (8)||1.3 (8)||7.4 (7)||14.3 (2)*|
|PHA||28.3 (1)||16.6 (1)||20.3 (1)||23.3 (1)*||18.0 (1)*||22.4 (1)*||13.6 (4)|
(#) = pitching WAR ranking among the 8 AL teams
* = won AL pennant
Yankees pitchers had less solid fielding behind them than the Athletics. New York was never better than second in fielding percentage and led the league in defensive efficiency (making outs on balls put into play) only in their historic 1927 season. In five of the seven years—including when they won three of their four pennants—the Yankees were below replacement-level performance in defensive WAR. The Athletics, by contrast, were never worse than third in fielding percentage (only once, in 1928), had the best league’s fielding percentage during each of their three straight pennants and in 1932 besides, and led the league in defensive efficiency in three of the four years between 1928 and 1931 (they were third-best in 1930).
Table 2: Defensive Wins Above Replacement
|NYY||-1.5 (6)*||4.1 (1)*||-1.2 (6)*||1.9 (3)||-3.3 (7)||-0.4 (4)||-1.9 (6)*|
|PHA||1.0 (3)||0.1 (4)||1.3 (2)||1.1 (5)*||1.4 (3)*||5.6 (1)*||2.6 (2)|
(#) = defensive WAR ranking among the 8 AL teams
* = won AL pennant
Table 3: Defensive Efficiency Record
|NYY||.691 (4)*||.701 (1)*||.689 (4)*||.691 (4)||.674 (5)||.690 (3)||.690 (5)*|
|PHA||.692 (3)||.687 (4)||.700 (1)||.703 (1)*||.688 (3)*||.708 (1)*||.699 (2)|
(#) = defensive efficiency ranking among the 8 AL teams
* = won AL pennant
Comparing the two teams specifically for the years 1928 to 1932, while the Yankees outscored the Athletics by an average of 81 runs per season, the strength of their pitching and fielding enabled Philadelphia to outpace the Bronx Bombers in outscoring their game opponents by an average of 232 runs annually to the Yankees’ 217-run annual margin. Throw in the 1926 and 1927 seasons, and the 1926–32 Yankees scored an average of 227 runs more than their game opponents, still not quite as productive as the Athletics from 1928 to 1932, but better than the A’s average of outscoring their opponents by 198 runs per season over the entire seven years. The 1928–32 Athletics’ superior defense gave them a better differential between runs scored and runs allowed than the 1926–32 Yankees.
PHILADELPHIA HAD AN ALL-AROUND STRONGER ROSTER
Our analysis so far shows the two teams comparable in terms of achievement between 1926 and 1932. The Yankees have an edge in winning four pennants to the Athletics’ three during those seven years, but Philadelphia had a higher overall winning percentage. Moreover, our analysis suggests the Athletics, especially in the five years from 1928 to 1932, were a marginally more dominant team than the 1926–32 Yankees—despite the Bronx Bombers’ overwhelmingly superior offensive WAR—because of their three blowout pennants and much better pitching and fielding. Nonetheless, while the names Ruth and Gehrig (and their long-ball exploits) have kept the Yankees of those years alive in historical memory, the Philadelphia Athletics—despite their own great players and string of championships—are largely a historical afterthought.
Taking account of the teams’ core players—position regulars, starting pitchers, or oft-relied upon relievers for at least four seasons between 1926 and 1932, or on either of the three-straight pennant winners for all three years—the Yankees would seem to have a huge advantage with seven of their own enshrined in Baseball’s Hall of Fame, compared to only four for the Athletics. And for the Yankees, that does not even include Hall of Fame pitchers Ruffing and Gomez. Red Ruffing did not don Yankee pinstripes until 1930, was on only one pennantwinner as a teammate of Gehrig and Ruth, and sealed his Hall of Fame legacy later in the decade with the Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio Yankees. Lefty Gomez made his debut with the Yankees in 1930, pitched badly and was sent to St. Paul in the second half of the season, then became a fixture on Manager Joe McCarthy’s pitching staff in 1931, winning 21 that year and 24 the next— accounting for exactly half of the four 20-win seasons he put together in his career.
Three core regulars of the 1926–32 Yankees were the best in the American League at their position during all or most of this seven-year run—Gehrig at first base, Tony Lazzeri (even better than Charlie Gehringer for most of these years) at second, and Ruth as one of three outfielders. And those three, plus center fielder Earle Combs, were among the AL’s 10 best position players between 1926 and 1932, based primarily on the WAR metric. In 1929, the Yankees introduced catcher Bill Dickey to the equation. While he immediately established himself as one of the best catchers in baseball, it would not be until the mid- 1930s that he supplanted Mickey Cochrane as the best catcher in the league.
The Athletics had four of their core regulars among the league’s 10 best position players during those years—Foxx, Simmons, Cochrane, and Bishop. In fact, Cochrane behind the plate and Simmons as one of three outfielders were the best at their positions for all or the majority of these seasons.6 Jimmie Foxx was such a great player in his own right, beginning in 1929, that it would be unreasonable not to consider him 1B to Gehrig’s 1A as the best first baseman in baseball during this time. Coincidentally, neither the Yankees nor the Athletics had a particularly strong left side of the infield.
Two Philadelphia pitchers—Grove and Walberg— count among the five best in the American League between 1926 and 1932, based primarily on the WAR metric for pitchers. From 1928 to 1932, Grove made a strong case for having the best five-year stretch of any pitcher ever by winning 128 games while losing only 33 (that’s a .795 winning percentage) and leading the league in earned run average the last four of those years, in strikeouts the first four, and this in the peak years of the hitters’ era.7 Grove also led the league in ERA in 1926 and in strikeouts for seven consecutive years— beginning in his rookie season of 1925—before the Yankees’ Red Ruffing took the K crown with two more than the Philadelphia Lefty in 1932. Walberg, another lefty, ever reliable, had his best seasons in 1929 (18–11) and 1931 (20–12). Earnshaw, meanwhile, was 67–28 in the Athletics’ three pennant-winning seasons (for a .705 winning percentage), before beginning a relatively quick burnout at age 32 in 1932 when he went 19–13. Although the concept of dedicated relief pitchers was in its infancy at the time, the Athletics had Eddie Rommel (himself a formidable starter for most of the 1920s) pitching very well, mostly in relief during these years, although it was ace-starter Lefty Grove who more often than not was the “closer”—a term still about a half-century away from being coined.
None of the Yankees pitchers were among the five best in the league for the majority of the seven years between 1926 and 1932, although both Hoyt and Pennock had been from the early 1920s through the three consecutive pennants New York won from 1926 to 1928. The southpaw Pennock was 23–11, 19–8, and 17–6 those three years, and right-hander Hoyt went 22–7 and 23–7 in 1927 and 1928. Those, however, were the last of the best seasons by either in a Yankee uniform.
Table 4: Core regulars on 1926-32 Yankees and Athletics
|New York Yankees||Philadelphia Athletics|
|1B||Lou Gehrig, 1926-32||HOF||Jimmie Foxx, 1928-32||HOF|
|2B||Tony Lazzeri, 1926-32||HOF||Max Bishop, 1926-32|
|SS||Mark Koenig, 1926-29||Joe Boley, 1927-31|
|3B||Joe Dugan, 1926-28|
|MPR||Jimmy Dykes, IF, 1926-32|
|LF||Bob Meusel, 1926-29||Al Simmons, 1926-32||HOF|
|CF||Earle Combs, 1926-32||HOF||Mule Haas, 1928-32|
|RF||Babe Ruth, 1926-32||HOF||Bing Miller, 1928-32|
|C||Bill Dickey, 1929-32||HOF||Mickey Cochrane, 1926-32||HOF|
|SP||Herb Pennock,1926-32||HOF||Lefty Grove, 1926-32||HOF|
|SP||Waite Hoyt, 1926-29||HOF||Rube Walberg, 1926-32|
|SP||George Pipgras, 1927-32||George Earnshaw, 1928-32|
|SP||Roy Mahaffey, 1930-32|
|SP-RP||Hank Johnson, 1928-31||Jack Quinn, 1926-30|
|RP||Eddie Rommel, 1926-31|
MPR = multi-position regular (no set position from one year to the next)
Note: Bold players were the AL’s best at their position for the majority of these years or among the AL’s 10 best position players, five best starting pitchers, or best dedicated reliever between 1926 and 1932, based on the wins above replacement (WAR) metric and playing at least four years.
All told, while the Yankees were a very impressive team, Ruth and Gehrig were the only players who had historically great years between 1926 and 1932. The Philadelphia Athletics, by contrast, had four core players in their prime with historically great years—Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Mickey Cochrane—even if none of the four measured up to Ruth and Gehrig.8 It may seem a heretical notion because the 1927 Yankees are an iconic team, but with four such all-time greats at the peak of their career and accomplishing what they did—three straight pennants, all by decisive margins—against the Bronx Bombers as their principal rival, the Philadelphia Athletics from 1926 to 1932 were probably the better team in context, notwithstanding Ruth and Gehrig (not to mention Lazzeri, Combs, and Dickey).
Table 5: Best players in the American League, 1926-32
|10 BEST POSITION PLAYERS||5 BEST PITCHERS|
|Babe Ruth, 1926-32||Goose Goslin, 1926-32||Lefty Grove, 1926-32|
|Lou Gehrig, 1926-32||Earle Combs, 1926-32||Wes Ferrell, 1929-32|
|Jimmie Foxx, 1928-32||Tony Lazzeri, 1926-32||Ted Lyons, 1926-32|
|Al Simmons, 1926-32||Charlie Gehringer, 1926-32||Alvin Crowder, 1926-32|
|Mickey Cochrane, 1926-32||Max Bishop, 1926-32||Rube Walberg, 1926-32|
Based on average annual wins above replacement (WAR) value, consistency from year to year, and playing at least four years.
BREAKING UP THE COMPETITION: THE END OF THE ATHLETICS IN PHILADELPHIA
Just as he dismantled the 1910–14 Philadelphia Athletics for economic reasons in the midst of a grave recession, so did the Great Depression compel Connie Mack to break up his even better 1926–32 team in what would be the beginning of a very long end—more than two decades—for American League baseball in the City of Brotherly Love. This time, however, the breakup was less precipitous, and also less immediately calamitous. Of the four Hall of Famers who were the centerpiece of th team, Simmons was gone by 1933, Cochrane and Grove by 1934, and Foxx remained three more years before leaving Philadelphia in 1936. Of the other core regulars, Jimmy Dykes and Mule Haas were gone by 1933; Bishop, Earnshaw, and Walberg by 1934; and Bing Miller by 1935. (Bishop and Walberg were part of the deal that sent Grove to Boston). Philadelphia dropped to third in 1933 and fifth in 1934 before finding a home in the American League basement for seven of the next nine years.
Unlike the core players of the 1910–14 Athletics, most whom were still in their prime, the foundation players on Philadelphia’s last great American League team were all on, or very close to, the downside of their career when Connie Mack said to them good-bye and good luck. Grove and Foxx played for eight and six years with the Boston Red Sox after they were traded away for bit players and (primarily) big money, and both had some excellent years with their new team, but no stretch of five consecutive seasons that would have given them the historical legacies (and Hall of Fame credentials) they earned in their time with the Philadelphia Athletics.
The New York Yankees, meanwhile, were financially on a more sound footing throughout the Depression years, shedding only those players they no longer needed or wanted. By 1935, that included the Babe himself, despite his iconic status in New York City. With excellent scouts, one of baseball’s premier minor-league systems, and a trademark commitment to excellence, the Yankees were on the threshold of being the best they ever were. And when the team that still had Gehrig, Lazzeri, Dickey, Ruffing, and Gomez in pinstripes added Joe DiMaggio in 1936, it wasn’t long before the New York Yankees— winning six pennants and five World Series in seven years from 1936 to 1942, before World War II claimed Mr. DiMaggio for the service, and another pennant and World Series without him in 1943—would eclipse the 1928–32 Philadelphia Athletics, with three straight pennants in the middle of those five years, as the best team in American League history through the first half of the twentieth century.
This time, unlike after he dismantled his first great team, Connie Mack did not invest in trying to rebuild a championship-caliber club. The ultimate question, of course, is: Could he have, if he wanted to, as the Great Depression ran its course? At the time, Philadelphia was one of five American cities with two major-league teams, one in each league. Of the five cities, only New York (which actually had three teams, if you include Brooklyn) and Chicago historically were consistently able to support two major-league teams with strong attendance for each relative to other teams in their league. In Philadelphia, on the other hand (as well as in Boston and St. Louis), attendance in most years was typically heavily skewed in favor of the city’s more successful team at the time, with the other team at or near the bottom of its league’s attendance and usually in financial straits. But at least until the Depression, the return on investment for putting together a competitive team—much easier said than done, of course—could turn around a financially troubled franchise, even with in-market competition from the other franchise, and all three cities had years where both teams had good attendance records.9
With 16 teams in 10 cities, an equal distribution of attendance per team would have been slightly more than 6 percent of the major-league total. For the five cities with two big-league teams, drawing a combined 10 percent of total attendance would seem to have been a reasonable threshold below which the city’s capacity to support two teams would have to be considered problematic. For most of the first third of the twentieth century, this was never a problem for New York City and Chicago, and it wasn’t for Philadelphia either. Except for the first half of the 1920s, when both the Athletics and the Phillies were in the dumps with very bad teams, the two franchises in most years combined for about 12 percent, and sometimes as much as 15 percent, of total major-league attendance, equaling or exceeding a notional equal distribution for two teams. The good citizens of Philadelphia might flock overwhelmingly to the ballpark of the better team, but the City of Brotherly Love was a large enough market for both when both the Athletics and Phillies had competitive teams.
With the Great Depression, the dynamic in Philadelphia changed for the worse. Most years from 1933 until 1945, the two Philadelphia teams combined for only about 7 percent of total attendance—barely above what one team alone should have drawn if attendance was equally distributed among the 16 teams. This clearly was not sufficient for a two-team market. And after the war ended and major-league attendance nearly doubled between 1945 and 1948, Philadelphia’s combined share remained below 10 percent, hovering between 8–9 percent. The Athletics and Phillies were nearly an equal draw in 1947 and 1949, but it probably seemed apparent to owner Connie Mack that Philadelphia was not a sustainable market for two major-league teams in the long run.
BRYAN SODERHOLM-DIFATTE is devoted to the study of baseball history. He is author of the online manuscript, www.thebestbaseballteams.com, which identifies the best teams of the twentieth century in each league using a structured methodological approach for analysis, and writes the baseball historical insight blog at brysholm.blogspot.com. Bryan is also a frequent contributor to "The Baseball Research Journal."
- 1. Norman L. Macht, Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), 650–670.
- 2. Attendance figures from www.baseball-reference.com.
- 3. Macht, 650-652. In his comprehensive biography of Connie Mack, Norman L. Macht states that, economic issues aside, Mack was not inclined to stick with Plank and Bender because both were aging veteran pitchers whose best years he assessed were behind them.
- 4. The Yankees also led the league in scoring in 1933, although they finished second in the standings to Washington, seven games off the pace. Third-place Philadelphia was second in scoring.
- 5. Park factor values are included annually for each team’s home ballpark at www.baseball-reference.com.
- 6. The author’s identification of the American League’s 10 best position players and five best pitchers between 1926 and 1932, based on playing at least four of those years, are derived from the wins above replacement (WAR) metric used by www.baseball-reference.com, but are not determined by highest cumulative or average annual WAR. The author instead rated players according to consistency of high-level performance. Heinie Manush, for example, had a higher cumulative and average WAR for 1926–32, but with two seasons (1927 and 1931) with a player value of 1.6 wins above replacement, he did not maintain as high a level of consistency as Max Bishop, who had only one season (1929, with credited with 1.7 wins above replacement), with such a low player value.
- 7. The pitcher most often compared to Grove for best five-year stretch was Sandy Koufax, who from 1962 to 1966 won 111 and lost 34 for a .766 winning percentage, led the National League in ERA all five years, in strikeouts three of the five years— failing to do so in 1962 and 1964 when arm problems limited him to 26 and 28 starts—and averaged 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings, with 1,444 strikeouts in 1,377 innings pitched.
- 8. In The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (The Free Press, 2001), baseball historian and godfather of sabermetric analysis, Bill James, ranked Grove (number 19), Foxx (29), Simmons (71), and Cochrane (72) in the top 100 players of all-time based on his win shares methodology. Ruth (number 1) and Gehrig (14) were the only players on the Yankees between 1926 and 1932 who made James’s best 100 list.
- 9. As Connie Mack steadily improved his team during the 1920s, average per-game attendance at Shibe Park soared from among the worst in the AL to consistently second behind the Yankees beginning in 1925 (when the Athletics actually led the league). Winning the 1929 pennant resulted in a 22 percent increase in home attendance for the Athletics, but the beginning years of the Depression resulted in a 14 percent decline when Philadelphia repeated as AL champions in 1930, another 13 percent drop when Mack’s men won their three-peat in 1931, and a far more precipitate 35 percent decline in 1932 (third-best in the league), when the Athletics were still a baseball power but could not keep pace with the Ruth-Gehrig Yankees. Perhaps more to the point, pergame home attendance decreased from about 38 percent of Shibe Park’s capacity in 1929 to only 16 percent of capacity in 1932—the Athletics’ lowest level since 1919, when Mack’s last-place team with its atrocious 36–104 record was the worst draw in the American League. (Data on attendance capacity at Shibe Park can be found in “Shibe Park Historical Analysis” on www.baseball-almanac.com. Annual and per-game attendance figures can be found for each team, each year in www.baseball-reference.com.) | <urn:uuid:5869a735-e412-45ab-9a7f-351b0a85808a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sabr.org/research/connie-mack-s-second-great-athletics-team-eclipsed-ruth-gehrig-yankees-even-better | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00222-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969895 | 8,771 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Within days of releasing application forms, the camp was full, with referrals coming from a range of services including The Smith Family.
Interest was so high that a waiting list has been established for a similar camp in September, and plans are now under way for a camp for teenagers.
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A former camp counsellor herself, Ms Dupagne said the camp was based on a combination of successful camp programs running overseas, including those in America and South Africa, which have achieved long term success.
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Over the past 3 decades, pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) clinicians, respiratory care practitioners (RCPs), physicians, and patients with chronic lung disease have worked vigorously to address inconsistent and limited national and local coverage of pulmonary rehabilitation. After years of legislative and advocacy efforts by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR), American Thoracic Society (ATS), American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC), National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care (NAMDRC), American Lung Association (ALA), state societies, and patient organizations, Congress passed legislation making Medicare coverage “the law of the land” in July 2008, with the benefit slated to take effect January 1, 2010.
The final rule for coverage of PR was published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in early November 2009 in two sets of related regulations. There are links for the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), www.federalregister.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2009-26502_PI.pdf, and the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS), www.federalregister.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2009-26499_PI.pdf, that outline coverage and payment rules.
The legislative and advocacy efforts over the past 3 decades mirror the decades of development of evidence supporting the effectiveness of PR, which is outlined in three guideline statements:
- The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD)1
- American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society (ERS) Statement on PR2
- American College of Chest Physicians/American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation joint evidence-based clinical practice guidelines3
These national and international guidelines identify PR as the standard of care for people with symptomatic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Additionally, the ATS/ERS statement on PR and the ACCP/AACVPR evidence-based guidelines address the appropriateness of PR for other chronic lung diseases.
The landmark law for PR coverage became a reality in July 2008 when Congress voted overwhelmingly to override a veto by President George W. Bush to make PR a permanent part of the Medicare benefit. Despite a strong message from Congress that PR would be available for people with chronic lung disease, CMS published proposed PR coverage and payment rules in July 2009 that would reduce existing PR payment by approximately 78% to an estimated $15 per hour. Additionally, patients with very severe COPD (FEV1 or forced expiratory volume in 1 second of less than 30% predicted and FEV1/FVC or forced vital capacity ratio of less than 70% predicted) and non-COPD pulmonary diseases were excluded from the proposed coverage. Other challenges included a substantial increase in the physician role in PR and use of a bundled HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System) code to cover all services that were previously separately billable, such as a 6-minute walk test. These proposed rules would have made providing PR a nonviable option for most providers, essentially eliminating PR in the United States. The proposed rules also would have excluded current existing coverage for PR for very severe COPD and some non-COPD diagnoses, which are currently covered by many local Medicare contractors.
Following publication of the proposed CMS rule for PR, representatives of AACVPR, ATS, AARC, and NAMDRC met with the leadership of CMS coverage and reimbursement on August 4, 2009, to address these concerns. The result of this and other meetings, as well as written responses from the professional and scientific societies and individuals’ comments, yielded substantial modification in the final rule.
All Bundled Up
The final rule goes into effect January 1, 2010, and uses a new “bundled” HCPCS code G0424 for PR coverage. The code covers 1 hour of PR, which must include monitored exercise. No specific definition of monitoring requirements is included. The new G code crosswalks to a new APC (ambulatory payment classification) 0102 and pays approximately $50.46 per 1-hour unit. The rule allows for up to two PR sessions per day, per beneficiary, and, what is important, every 1-hour session must include aerobic exercise. Up to 36 visits are covered. CMS notes that additional services may be appropriate in certain circumstances and that another 36 visits may be considered for coverage by local contractors based on clinical need. There is no specific limit on the duration of the PR program.
Resources for Interpreting and Implementing the Final Rule
AACVPR Legislative and Regulatory Resources: www.aacvpr.org/PolicyReimbursement/…/Default.aspx
ATS Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Final Rule Sets Medicare Coverage and Reimbursement Policy: [removed]www.thoracic.org/sections/about-ats/advocacy/washington-letter/letters/september-7-2009.html[/removed].
Medicare Administrative Contractor Information: www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicareContractingReform/01_Overview.asp
Other PR Resources
Guidelines for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs, 3rd Edition
AACVPR Program Certification
Specific mandatory components for PR, based on the legislation, are outlined in the final rule and include:
- Physician-prescribed exercise
- Education or training
- Psychosocial assessment
- Outcome assessment
CMS has identified specific requirements in these four areas. The PR program must be reasonably expected to improve or maintain the individual patient’s condition and functional level. CMS identifies techniques such as exercise conditioning, breathing retraining, and step and strengthening exercises as appropriate components of PR in the final rule. Some aerobic exercise must be included in each pulmonary rehabilitation session.
Education or training needs to be closely and clearly related to the individual patient’s care and treatment and tailored to meet the patient’s needs. Skills training and education should encourage changes in behavior that will lead to improved health and long-term adherence. Examples of education include management of respiratory problems, proper use of medications, and nutrition counseling. Other examples of education and training identified in the proposed rule include respiratory techniques for physical energy conservation, work simplification, and relaxation techniques. The education should address the patient’s achievement of individual goals toward independence in activities of daily living (ADL), strategies for adapting to limitations, and improving quality of life. If brief smoking cessation counseling is appropriate, it can be included in the education but would not be separately billable outside the bundled PR HCPCS code.
Psychosocial assessment requires a written evaluation of patients’ mental and emotional function that relates to the rehabilitation or their respiratory conditions. The assessment needs to include aspects of patients’ family and home situations that affect their rehabilitation treatment. The evaluation also needs to include the patients’ responses to and rates of progress under the treatment plan.
Outcomes assessment requires evaluation of the patient’s progress related to the rehabilitation. The outcomes must include objective clinical measures of effectiveness of PR for the patient, including exercise performance, self-reported measures of shortness of breath, and behaviors. The physician must be involved in conducting both the initial and final evaluations, which are based on patient-centered outcomes.
The Doctor Is In
Significant physician involvement is required in the PR program and includes expertise in management of patients with lung disease, knowledge of the patient’s condition, and involvement in directing the progress of the patient’s care. Additionally, the physician has significant responsibility and involvement in developing the individualized treatment plan (ITP) in conjunction with the interdisciplinary team. Specific requirements of the ITP include the patient’s diagnosis and scope of services, including the type, amount, frequency, and duration of services and patient goals. Individualized treatment is furnished based on an ITP, which is established by, reviewed by, and signed by the physician every 30 days and modified as necessary. If the plan is established by the referring physician, the PR medical director must review and sign the plan every 30 days.
The physician must be immediately available and accessible at all times for both medical consultation and medical emergencies while the PR program is in operation. In the hospital outpatient setting, the physician must be on the premises of the provider-based department and immediately available to furnish assistance and direction during PR program operation, although not necessarily in the room where PR is performed. (Author’s Note: In the case of hospital-based programs provided on the main hospital campus, physician availability is presumed.) When PR is provided away from the main hospital campus, the physician must be in the provider-based department, although not necessarily in the same room. Supervision must be provided by a doctor of medicine or osteopathy and cannot be provided by a nonphysician such as a nurse practitioner.
PR services furnished in physicians’ offices require that the physicians are in their office suite and immediately available during PR sessions, although not necessarily in the same room. For PR provided in the physician’s office, reimbursement is approximately $18.46 per session.
PR coverage has been expanded to include individuals with very severe COPD and will now cover those with moderate to very severe COPD or FEV1 <80% predicted and FEV1/FVC ratio of <70% predicted. For other pulmonary disorders, CMS has identified the National Coverage Determination (NCD) process for further coverage. Until the NCD process is complete, the respiratory services previously allowed by local contractors for other medical conditions under other Medicare Part B benefit categories remain in effect. In the case of existing individual respiratory services that are reasonable and necessary, a local contractor can still cover these services. Clinicians should refer to their own Local Coverage Determination based on Medicare Administrative Contractor or MAC region.
Depending on geography and a program’s Medicare contractor, individuals with other pulmonary-related diseases may be eligible for coverage of pulmonary rehabilitation services, but they will be billed as respiratory care services using the current, existing coding mechanisms, HCPCS codes G0237, G0238, and G0239. This may lead to some short-term confusions where some beneficiaries will fall into one billing methodology and others, even though they receive the same service, will be subject to other billing procedures.
Other clarifications in the final rule include that physical therapists can no longer bill for PR using PT codes (97000 series). Because the new G code is “bundled,” PR programs cannot bill separately for the 6-minute walk test or smoking cessation as part of the PR program. The new final rule does not impact CORFs (comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities) that will continue to bill using HCPCS codes G0237, G0238, and G0239.
The PR final rule does not have specific requirements for staff to patient ratio or maximum number of patients in a PR session. Clinicians should use national guidelines such as the AACVPR Guidelines for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs (3rd edition). A fourth edition of the guidelines that will include information on the new PR final rule will be published in 2010.
Calling All RTs
Respiratory therapists are at the forefront of educating other clinicians and patients about PR effectiveness and coverage changes. The professional and scientific societies will continue to work together and with CMS to address concerns raised by the final rule, including coverage concerns for non-COPD lung disease, reimbursement for physician office-based practices, and other areas. It is critical for RTs to become members of national organizations such as AACVPR and/or AARC to understand and use the new final rule for PR, receive important updates, and become involved in the processes that made many of these advances a reality.
Chris Garvey, FNP, MSN, MPA, is manager and nurse practitioner, Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, CHF Program, and ER Asthma Management Program, Seton Medical Center, Daly City, Calif, and nurse practitioner, University of California, San Francisco, Sleep Disorders Center. For further information, contact [email protected]
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Mr. Govindarajan will discuss the breakthrough idea of reverse innovation. Historically, multinational companies innovated in a rich country like the United States and sold their products in a poor country like India. Reverse innovation is doing exactly the opposite. It is about innovating in a poor country like India and selling those products in a rich country like the United States. This presentation will focus on three issues: Why is reverse innovation a significant growth opportunity for American corporations? Why is it so hard? How does one win with reverse innovation?
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Vijay Govindarajan is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. Mr. Govindarajan was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric, and worked with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt to write “How GE is Disrupting Itself”, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that pioneered the concept of reverse innovation. In addition, Vijay has published a book titled “Reverse Innovation” which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller. Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, he was on the faculties of the Harvard Business School, INSEAD (Fontainebleau) and the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India). Mr. Govindarajan received both his doctorate and his MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School. | <urn:uuid:53b08457-b73d-43c0-b6cb-29d76fedfcc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sites.sandiego.edu/ahlers/event/reverse-innovation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.952545 | 347 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The more we learn about resilience in children, the more we begin to understand the powerful role that adults can play in fostering it, even in kids who face daunting challenges.
As the latest science from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard shows, resilience is fluid and compounding, nurtured by the essential fertilizer of an adult’s caring attention. A new three-part video series produced by the center explores — in clear and simple terms — exactly how that happens, answering questions about why some children who face serious problems can cope and thrive.
Resilience is a broad set of “capacities and skills and abilities that give people a sense of mastery and management of difficulty,” says center director Jack Shonkoff, one of a number of neuroscientists and early childhood experts who paint a picture of resilience as a quality that is built over time, resulting from the interactions of people and their environment.
Think of resilience like a scale, the scientists say, with a fulcrum in the middle. Things pile up on both sides of that scale — our experiences of bad things and of good things. Our genes affect where the fulcrum is positioned at the beginning; some of us are inherently more or less sensitive to stress, and so the fulcrum might start out closer to one end of the scale than the other.
But our experiences move the fulcrum, providing adults with a powerful opportunity to shape a child’s outlook and abilities. When positive experiences accumulate, children gradually gain the adaptive skills that help them manage stress, and the fulcrum slides. When that happens, the scale tilts more easily toward positive outcomes, counterbalancing adversity now and in the future.
How do we generate more of these positive experiences for kids who sorely need them? By creating opportunities for caring, reliable, and responsive interactions with adults. Parents are key, of course, but they are not the only adults who can make a significant impact. Coaches, teachers, extended family, foster parents, social workers, mentors — all of these figures can form relationships with kids that build resilience down the road.
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Why is software so bad?
“What’s surprising — astonishing, in fact — is that many software engineers believe that software quality is not improving. If anything, they say, it’s getting worse. It’s as if the cars Detroit produced in 2002 were less reliable than those built in 1982.”
‘ Microsoft released Windows XP on Oct. 25, 2001. That same day, in what may be a record, the company posted 18 megabytes of patches on its Web site: bug fixes, compatibility updates, and enhancements. Two patches fixed important security holes. Or rather, one of them did; the other patch didn’t work. Microsoft advised (and still advises) users to back up critical files before installing the patches. Buyers of the home version of Windows XP, however, discovered that the system provided no way to restore these backup files if things went awry. As Microsoft’s online Knowledge Base blandly explained, the special backup floppy disks created by Windows XP Home ‘do not work with Windows XP Home. ” [more…]
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Chopin's 200th birthday celebration, live from Warsaw
This is it, Chopin’s big one. The Polish composer was born March 1, 1810. And Warsaw, it is hardly surprising, is the place to be for the mother of all the Chopin celebrations. If you've got a few hundred of the new 20 zloty Chopin banknotes (pictured, and worth about $7) and happen to be in the Polish capital -- and if you know a black marketeer dealing in scalped concert tickets -- you might be able to catch the Galowy Koncert Symfoniczny birthday event Monday night. The rest of us can, at 11 a.m. (West Coast time), click on to Chopin 2010 for a live webcast.
The program will begin with the Chinese pianist Yundi (who won Warsaw's Chopin Competition in 2000 when he was Yundi Li ) playing solo Chopin selections. Next Garrick Ohlsson (1970 Chopin Competition winner replacing an indisposed Martha Argerich, class of '66) will be soloist in the First Piano Concerto conducted by Antoni Wit, leading the Warsaw Philharmonic in music they’ve played a million times. The most intriguing aspect of the program, though, will be the Vietnamese pianist Dang Thai Son (who was the first Asian to take top honors at the Chopin Competition in 1980) performing the Second Concerto on a 19th century period piano. He will be accompanied by the Dutch early music specialist Frans Bruggen leading his Orchestra of the 18th Century, which hasn’t played the Chopin concertos a million times.
And to make up for another Argerich no-show, Deutsche Grammophon has just released “Argerich Plays Chopin,” a CD of recently discovered early broadcast recordings she made in Germany. It begins with her setting afire Chopin’s First Ballade in a studio in Berlin in 1959, when “the exceptionally attractive Argentine pianist,” to quote the CD booklet notes, was an impressively impulsive 17.
The remainder of the disc contains performances from 1967, two years after Argerich won the Chopin Competition, which turned her into a star. According to DG’s breathless prose, that win proved more dazzling than such 1965 news as a Soviet cosmonaut’s first walk in space, Louis Armstrong’s first East Berlin appearance or the first woman to win the Peace Prize from the German Publishers Guild.
Well, she really was exciting (still is), and it is a thrill indeed to hear her find hidden messages in mazurkas and set the sparks flying one moment and turn impossibly seductive the next in the Third Piano Sonata.
Happy birthday Fryderyk.
-- Mark Swed
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Taxes and Accounting in Finland
Accounting (0) , Consumption/VAT/Sales Tax (1) , Corporate Tax (0) , International Tax Treaties (0) , Personal Tax (0)
Overview by Globlatrade.net:
- Tax Year
- From January 1st to December 31st
- Accounting Standards
- The Finnish Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is a commonly used accounting standard in Finland. Companies that are quoted in the stock-exchange have to use the IAS/IFRS standards (EU obligation since 2005).
- Accounting Regulation Bodies
The European Federation of Accountants
Chamber of Commerce
- Accounting Reports
- The accounting report is made annually. In the report intangible assets can be shown in the balance sheet or in expenses in the profit and loss account (choice of the company). Physical fixed assets must be estimated at the original or production cost. Current assets have to appear at the lower cost and value of the market. Stocks are estimated at the weighed average cost or by the FIFO method.
- Publication Requirements
- Law refers to the notion of "good accounting method" as regards the methods of companies for the elaboration of financial status. All companies have to send a copy of their annual report to the legal authorities of the country. This annual report must contain a profit and loss account, a balance sheet and an annual report.
- Professional Accountancy Bodies
KHT-yhdistys ry , The Finnish Institute of Authorised Public Accountants
HTM-tilintarkastajat ry , Association of Accountants (in Finnish only)
Association of Finnish Accounting Firms , Association of Finnish Accounting Firms
- Certification and Auditing
- Companies have to seek a statutory auditor to conduct an annual audit of the financial health of their organization. You can contact the Central Chamber of Commerce and Local Chambers of Commerce.
- Accounting News
Accounting news (in Finnish only)
- Nature of the Tax
- Value Added Tax (VAT)
- Tax Rate
- Reduced Tax Rate
- A 13% rate applies to basic foodstuff and animal feed. The excise duty on alcoholic beverages is 12%.
A 9% rate applies to passenger transport, books, medicines, accommodation services and entry fees to cultural events.
- Other Consumption Taxes
- Exceptions include the sale or rental of immovable property, financial and insurance services, healthcare and education.
- Company Tax
- Tax Rate For Foreign Companies
- Finnish companies are taxed on their worldwide income; non-resident companies are taxed only on income sourced in Finland.
- Capital Gains Taxation
- In 2010, the tax rate on capital gains is 28%.
- Main Allowable Deductions and Tax Credit
- Deductions normally include expenses that are incurred to generate or retain the company’s income such as payments of interest and royalties, realized foreign-exchange losses, 50% of entertainment costs, irrevocable orders to buy goods, doubtful sales receivables, fees for establishing an organization and reorganization costs, R&D expenses, etc.
- Other Corporate Taxes
|State income tax||Progressive rates from 8.5% up to 31.5% on revenues over EUR 62 001.|
|Municipal tax||from 16.5% to 21%|
|Church tax||from 1% to 2% (depending on regions)|
- Allowable Deductions and Tax Credit
- The following deductions are allowable:
- expenses incurred in excess of EUR500 for traveling to and from work;
- statutory pension insurance and unemployment insurance premiums;
- interest on a loan if the loan was used to buy a permanent home or property that is used to acquire income;
- capital losses;
- medical expenses and alimony are not deductible, but there is a deductible maintenance allowance of EUR80 per child from earned income for each child living with a former spouse.
- Special Expatriate Tax Regime
- at a flat rate of 35% if that person’s regular monthly cash salary exceeds EUR5,800 (except for teachers and researchers) for 48 months. The application has to be filed within 90 days from the start of the work in Finland.
Double Taxation Treaties
- Countries With Whom a Double Taxation Treaty Have Been Signed
See the list of Finland's tax treaties
- Withholding Taxes
- Dividends: 28%, Interest: 0%, Royalties: 28%
- National Organizations
Ministry of Education and Culture
National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland (NBPR)
- Regional Organizations
- European Patent Office
- International Membership
Member of the
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Signatory to the Paris Convention For the Protection of Intellectual Property
Membership to the TRIPS agreement - Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
National Regulation and International Agreements
|Type of property and law||Validity||International Agreements Signed|
|20 years|| Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
Strasbourg agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
|10 years|| Trademark law treaty
Protocol relating to the Madrid Agreement
Registered designs act
|5 years, renewable|
| Berne convention
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms
Rome ConventionFor the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
WIPO Copyright Treaty
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
Act on utility model rights
|4 years, renewable (maximum 10 years total)|
- Independence of Justice
- Equal Treatment of Nationals and Foreigners
- The Language of Justice
- Finnish and Swedish
- Recourse to an Interpreter
- In connection with certain matters involving the fundamental rights of an individual, such as taking a child into custody, the party concerned is, according to the Language Act, always entitled to use his or her own language regardless of the language of the municipality. If necessary, interpreters can be used.
- Sources of the Law and Legal Similarities
- Finland has a parliamentary system. The main source of the law is the constitution of March 2000. The legal system is based on civil law system which originates from the Swedish law. European Community law is directly applicable and takes precedence over national legislation. The country accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, but with reservations.
- Checking National Laws Online
Constitution of Finland
Legislation in Finland
- National Standards Organizations
Finnish Standards Association (SFS)
- Integration in the International Standards Network
- The Finnish Standards Association SFS and its standards-writing bodies, the Finnish Electrotechnical Standards Association and Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority are members of the European standards organizations CEN, CENELEC and ETSI. SFS is also a member of the International Organization ISO and IEC.
- Classification of Standards
- SFS (or SFS-EN) + 4 or more digits showing the technical area and the rank in the division.
- Online Consultation of Standards
- National SFS Standards are sold in Finland only by SFS. Distribution of SFS standards abroad is handled by national ISO member bodies. SFS standards can be viewed in the Catalogue of SFS Standards or downloaded from the online shop of SFS.
- Certification Organizations
Finnish Standards Association (SFS)
- General Information
A guide to Finnish customs and manners by Virtual Finland
Finnish business culture as seen by the Kwintessential website
Finnish business culture as seen by the Executiveplanet website
- Opening Hours and Days
- Offices are closed on Saturday and Sunday.
|New Year’s Day||January 1|
|Good Friday||End of March or April, changes according to the year|
|Easter||Sunday and Monday following the Good Friday|
|May Day||May 1|
|Ascension Day||May, changes according to the year|
|Whitsun||May, changes according to the year|
|Mid-Summer Day||End of June, changes according to the year|
|All Saints’ Day||End of October or beginning of November, changes according to the year|
|Independence Day||December 6|
|Christmas Eve and Day||December 24-25|
|Boxing Day||December 26|
Periods When Companies Usually Close
|Christmas||One week between Christmas and New Year|
|Summer holidays||1-4 weeks starting from Midsummer (around June 24)|
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