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At the time of the 2011 Census there were 10 Districts in Birmingham (parliamentary constituencies) with an average population size of 107,300.
- Districts range in size from 95,000 in Sutton Coldfield to 127,000 in Ladywood.
- Hall Green and Hodge Hill are the most densely populated, with 59 people per hectare, compared with 17 people per hectare in Sutton Coldfield.
- Hodge Hill and Hall Green are the only Districts that have a greater household size that the Birmingham average of 2.56 persons per household.
- 20% of people living in Sutton Coldfield are pensioners, compared with 7% in Ladywood.
- There were four Districts where the number of people who said they belonged to an ethnic group other than White was above the city average of 46.9%. They were, Hall Green (69.5%), Hodge Hill (66.9%), Ladywood (78.7%) and Perry Barr (65.2%).
- Over half (52.1%) of residents living in Hodge Hill said they were Muslim.
See the documents below for more details.
For more information about the characteristics of the population, such as ethnic group or health, please see our Census pages.
Last Updated : 27th March 2013


Champ Ferguson
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Champ Ferguson
Full Name: Champ Ferguson
Origin: Clinton County, USA
Occupation: Leader of a Confederate guerrilla company
Hobby: Killing prisoners and pro-Union civilians
Goals: Defeat tbe Union (failed)
Crimes: War crimes
Type of Villain: Confederate war criminal
Champ Ferguson (29th November 1821 - 20th October 1865) was the leader of a guerrilla company during the American Civil War and one of the only two people convicted of War crimes relating to the Civil War, with the other being Henry Wirz.
Ferguson was born in Clinton County, Kentucky in 1821. He became a farmer, like most people in the area, but gained a reputation for violence even before the American Civil War. On 12th August 1858, Ferguson became involved in an altercation with brothers Floyd and Alexander Evans after being caught on the wrong side of the Kentucky-Tennessee border, resulting in Ferguson repeatedly stabbing Floyd Evans and acting constable James Reed, killing Reed and almost killing Evans.
After the American Civil War began in 1861, Ferguson formed a pro-Confederate guerrilla company to hunt down and kill pro-Union civilians. Many stories circulated about his sadism, most notably that he enjoyed beheading prisoners and rolling their heads down hillsides, and that he was willing to kill elderly and bedridden men if he believed they supported the Union. He also often came into direct conflict with David "Tinker Dave" Beatty, the leader of a pro-Union guerrilla company.
Ferguson's most notorious crime occurred after the First Battle of Saltville, when several wounded Union soldiers, both black and white, were murdered by Confederate troops under Brigadier General Felix Huston Robertson. During the massacre, Ferguson and his guerrillas were responsible for attacking a nearby field hospital and killing all Union soldiers found within, while Robertson's men killed those found on the battlefield. However, Ferguson failed to kill all of the Union soldiers at the hospital before the Legion of Cherokee Indians arrived, forcing him to leave with his men before his involvement in the massacre could be discovered.
After the Confederates were defeated, Ferguson disbanded his company and returned to his farm, where he was arrested by Union troops and taken to Nashville, where he was charged with 53 counts of murder. Ferguson admitted to many of the killings, claiming he was simply doing his duty as a soldier. He was convicted on all counts on 10th October 1865 and executed by hanging 10 days later.


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How to Create a New Custom Dictionary in Excel 2010
In Excel 2010, you can create custom dictionaries to use when spell checking your worksheets. You use the Add to Dictionary button in the Spelling dialog box to add unknown words to a custom dictionary. By default, Excel adds these words to a custom dictionary file named CUSTOM.DIC, but you can create a new custom dictionary to use as the default, if you prefer.
Click the File tab and then click Options.
The Excel Options dialog box appears.
Click the Proofing tab and then click the Custom Dictionaries button.
Excel opens the Custom Dictionaries dialog box where you can create a new custom dictionary.
Click the New button.
Excel opens the Create Custom Dictionary dialog box.
Type the name for your new custom dictionary and then click the Save button.
The name of the custom dictionary you created appears underneath CUSTOM.DIC (Default) in the Dictionary List box.
(Optional) Click the dictionary's name in the Dictionary List box and then click the Change Default button.
This makes the new custom dictionary the default dictionary into which new words are saved.
Click the Edit Word List button.
Excel opens a dialog box with an alphabetical list of the words in that custom dictionary. If you just creaetd the dictionary, it will be empty.
Type a word you want to add to your custom dictionary in the Word(s) text box and click Add.
Continue to do this until you're satisfied with your custom dictionary.
Click OK until you've returned to your worksheet.
Now you're ready to get back to work.
If you make the custom dictionary your default, Excel continues to add all unknown words to your new custom dictionary until you change the default back to the original custom dictionary (or to another custom one that you've created). To change back and start adding unknown words to the original custom dictionary, select the CUSTOM.DIC file in the Custom Dictionaries dialog box and click the Change Default button.

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Often asked: What is a fein?
What does Fein mean?
A Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) is not required for all business types. If you are a sole proprietor or single-member LLC with no employees, you are not required to have a FEIN. All other businesses must request a FEIN from the IRS website, or contact them at _PHONE_ with questions.
How do I find my Fein number?
You can locate your EIN on your confirmation letter from the IRS, old tax returns, old business loan applications, your business credit report, or payroll paperwork. You can also call the IRS to look up your federal tax ID number. If you need to locate another company's EIN, you can start by asking the company.
What is the difference between an Fein and a tax ID number?
A federal employment identification number (FEIN) is the exact same thing as an employer identification number (EIN). The only exception to this rule is in when someone uses the abbreviation EIN to refer to a state tax identification number. In that situation, the state EIN is not the same as a federal EIN.
What does Fein mean for unemployment?
9-digit Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) – a FEIN can be obtained by going to the IRS website.
Is Fein a word?
fein is an acceptable dictionary word for games like scrabble, words with friends, crossword, etc. The wordfein' is made up of 4 letters.
Is Feening a real word?
Is Feening a real word? No, "feen" is the word. It was "fiend", but it's now "feen" in certain people's lexicon.
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What does an Fein number look like?
FEIN is an acronym for Federal Employer Identification Number, also known as an EIN. This unique, nine-digit number is used by the IRS to identify a business operating in the United States. An FEIN is structured like this: XX-XXXXXXX. An FEIN is a type of taxpayer identification number (TIN) used by certain businesses.
Can I verify EIN online?
Anyone can access this information directly from the IRS. As such, a nonprofit must provide you the EIN upon request, and you can verify this directly with the IRS on the Exempt Organization page of the IRS website. The site not only verifies EINs but advises you if organizations are in good standing with the IRS.
Is Fein public record?
Your employer identification number (EIN), or FEIN, allows you to do business and report financial information to the Internal Revenue Service. However, an EIN number is a public record, making your company vulnerable to people who care less about your business.
Who needs Fein?
The IRS uses the EIN to identify the taxpayer. EINs must be used by business entities–corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. However, most sole proprietors don't need to obtain an EIN and can use their Social Security numbers instead. Even so, you may want to obtain an EIN anyway.
Where is the Fein on w2?
The best place to look your employer's EIN (Employer Identification Number) or Tax ID is in Box b of your W-2 form. Look for a 9-digit number with a dash separating the second and third digit (NN-NNNNNNN). It's usually right above your employer's name or below their address.
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Should I give out my tax ID number?
You can think of an EIN as a social security number for your business. Don't worry about keeping it secure though, because unlike a social security number, an EIN is not considered sensitive information. Be careful to never give out your EIN unless you need to—in the wrong hands, it can be used for identity theft.
Do you need an EIN for unemployment?
Requirements may vary from state to state, but here's a sampling of the information you will need to have available when filing for unemployment: Your Social Security number. The Employer Registration number or Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) of your most recent employer (if you have either).
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Jeanna Bryner LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.comWed Mar 21, 4:30 PM ET
The fossil of an ancient amphibious reptile with a crocodile's body and a fish's tail has been unearthed in Oregon. Scientists believe the creature's remains were transported by geologic processes nearly 5,000 miles away from where it originally died more than 100 million years ago.
The new fossil is the oldest crocodilian ever unearthed in Oregon and one of the few to be unearthed on this side of the Pacific. The "hybrid" animal is thought to be a new species within the genus Thalattosuchia, a group of crocodilians living during the age of dinosaurs.
The reptile roamed a tropical environment in Asia about 142 to 208 million years ago. Called a Thalattosuchian, the amphibious creature [image] represents an early milestone in evolutionary history, marking a transition during which these reptiles moved from being semi-aquatic to wholly ocean species.


The Project
Between 1927 and 1951 millions of Christian posters entered the Chinese market. Printed by the thousands onto the cheapest paper, most were used in street preaching and teaching. Others were hung in tearooms and shop windows, or put up with starch and brooms on city gates and local temples. The bright-colored posters briefly attracted attention before they tore, were covered by a more current notice, or dissolved in the rain. These visual messages competed aggressively for the soul of China. The Center for Global Christianity & Mission, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, is pleased to make hundreds of these rare images digitally accessible and searchable for the first time.
Popular Theology
Chinese Christian propaganda posters were produced for the masses. Displayed in public spaces, artists created posters for popular consumption. What would make Jesus and the Christian message immediately comprehensible and appealing? Who did the people want Jesus to be, and what did they think the Savior needed to rescue them from? Propaganda posters portray the gospel, not as Chinese theologians wrote about it, but as artists pictured it for the common people. Through five hundred images, it is possible to explore how these posters portrayed salvation to a nation in crisis.
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File Exchange Pick of the Week
Our best user submissions
'Custom Syntax for Formatted Strings with %s'\{SPRINTF}
Greg's pick this week is Nice sprintf syntax using \ (left divide) by Will Fox.
A simple entry that exemplifies the extensibility of MATLAB.
Create a formatted character array with the following syntax
c = 'Hello %s, my favorite number is %.5f!'\{"Greg", pi}
c =
'Hello Greg, my favorite number is 3.14159!'
where the left argument is the format definition, and the right argument is a cell array of values applied to the format definition.
How is it done?
The author Will creates a new syntax for creating formatted character arrays in MATLAB where the left divide (MLDIVIDE) operator is used to apply the SPRINTF function.
MATLAB permits the overloading of many operators. Will took advantage of an operator that is not available for cell arrays, and added it to the Cell class of datatypes in MATLAB.
The code in this entry is very simple. It maps the input arguments to MLDIVIDE to the input arguments of SPRINTF.
Brilliance in simplicity.
Should I Learn a New Syntax?
Adding new syntaxes to your code can make things harder in the long term if they are not used consistently (at least within a particular project).
Injecting part of my philisophical view of coding, "consistency is key to readabilty". In my experience, I spend much more time reading code than writing it, so applying consistent coding patterns is a key practice for me, even if no one else will see the code. If the code written is useful then I will likely need to maintain and enhance it in the future. I apply the same ideas when constructing Simulink and Stateflow models.
I'm a fan of this very crisp syntax as more consise syntaxes can (but not always) reduce cognitive load once you have learned to interpret them.
["Let's construct a string by including this syntax: " + '%s!'\{'format'}
 "Adding in some " + 'numbers: %f, %.0d, %-04.4g'\{exp(1), rand*10, pi}
ans = 2×1 string array
 "Let's construct a string by including this syntax: format!"
 "Adding in some numbers: 2.718282, 1e+00, 3.142"
A similar approach is taken for regular expressions in Javascript where a special compact syntax is applied for constant formatted regular expressions.
But, be careful! This is not a standard syntax and it does not appear in the MATLAB Documentation. This will hinder new coders who come onto the project and are not familiar with this syntax or the ability to overload MATLAB operators.
Opportunities for Improvement
Using the ISCHAR and ISCELL functions when testing for the appropraite datatypes in the MLDIVIDE function will likely improve performance with no loss of readability. Currently the ISA function is used instead.
tic;isa('myArray', 'char'); toc
Elapsed time is 0.005289 seconds.
tic; ischar('myArray'); toc
Elapsed time is 0.000234 seconds.
Perhaps this can be extended for the new STRING datatype introduced in MATLAB R2016b. Or applied to regular expressions instead!
Should concise syntaxes like this be built into the MATLAB language?
Have you ever written overloaded methods for your classes? How else could this type of syntax be used?
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Goodwill was founded in 1902 in Boston by Rev. Edgar J. Helms, a Methodist minister and early social innovator. Helms, inspired by compassion for people with disabilities and disadvantaging conditions, sought a way to improve their quality of life.
Helms took a burlap sack and began traveling to the affluent areas of the city, asking for unwanted garments and other goods. Underprivileged or indigent men and women were then offered work at the Morgan Memorial Chapel restoring the collected items, learning trades and acquiring skills as they worked.
Once the items were repaired, they were resold and the money was used to pay the wages of the workers. This cycle of donating, repairing, selling and paying wages was the beginning of Goodwill Industries. Times have changed, but Helm's vision remains constant.
More than 118 years later, Goodwill remains a household name and leading nonprofit provider of educational and workforce-related services.

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The provision of unemployment insurance is heavily contested amongst policy-makers around the world. Recent research by IIES Assistant Professor Arash Nekoei and Professor Peter Nilsson provides new insights into how to optimally provide unemployment insurance.
Arash Nekoei and Peter Nilsson
Unemployment insurance for all increases risk of unemployment
Insurance against the income fall experienced in case of unemployment is chronically challenging to design. When leaving the decision of taking up such insurance to every worker, the buyers will tend to be those with the highest risk of getting unemployed. Such a selection, in turn, implies that the price for such insurance is high, and a sizable group of people with lower unemployment risk will effectively not be able to obtain unemployment insurance at a price that adequately reflects their risk of unemployment. In fact, this mechanism – referred to as 'adverse selection' by economists - might lead to a full breakdown of any potential market for unemployment insurance.In light of this, many countries choose to mandate unemployment insurance for all. However, that comes with its own problems: once covered by unemployment insurance, people might decide to alter their behavior in ways that makes it more likely for them to become unemployed.
How significant are these problems, and what is the optimal way to provide unemployment insurance?
Arash Nekoei and Peter Nilsson's work leverages the rich Swedish administrative data and several policy reforms and characteristics to answer those questions. Amongst other things, they provide a framework to think about the optimal provision of unemployment insurance and find that combination of mandatory coverage and optional, heavily subsidized top-up insurance as seen in many Scandinavian countries, including Sweden before the 2007 reforms, might be close to optimal.
The paper is co-authored with David Seim of Stockholm University (and an IIES alumnus) and Camille Landais and Johannes Spinnewijn of the London School of Economics and is forthcoming in the American Economic Review, one of the world's most prestigious journals in economics.
Please contact Arash Nekoei and Peter Nilsson for any questions about their work. There's also an excellent summary of the paper at VoxEU.


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Framework Planning of a Provincial Information Management Platform for Energy Resource Analysis and Forecast Based on Diversified Data Acquisition
The information system with function of data acquisition and processing could be an essential foundation of decision making and planning for government on energy resource management in China. However, some existing barriers have impeded the usage of data, such as inefficiency mode of data reporting and transmission, sluggishness of data collection and summarization, deficiency of data standardization and serious information asymmetry. In this paper, a framework planning of an info management platform in provincial level is proposed for energy resource condition analysis and prediction. The various types of data from industries of electrical power, coal, petroleum and others such as bio-gas is acquired and analyzed based on certain data processing methods. And the related systems of statistic index, early warning index, monitoring index and unit GDP energy consumption statistic index and evaluation are established. The proposed platform can support info service to government or related department, help keep the balance and stabilization of energy supply.
Qunjie Xu, Hui Li and Qiaoxia Li
L. Ma et al., "Framework Planning of a Provincial Information Management Platform for Energy Resource Analysis and Forecast Based on Diversified Data Acquisition", Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 869-870, pp. 495-503, 2014


Duplicating Objects
You can create duplicate or multiple copies of an object. The copies can be identical or can differ in size, color, orientation and location.
The following example creates a stack of coins by making multiple copies of a single ellipse.
 1. Use the Ellipse tool to draw a solid yellow ellipse.
 2. Select the ellipse and choose Edit - Duplicate.
 3. Enter 12 as Number of copies.
 4. Enter a negative value for the Width and Height so that the coins decrease in size as you go up the stack.
 5. To define a color transition for the coins, select different colors in the Start and End boxes. The Start color is applied to the object that you are duplicating.
 6. Click OK to create the duplicates.
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Abstract: We extend the classification of irreducible finite dimensional representations of almost simple algebraic groups over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero to certain non-connected groups $G$ where the component group is cyclic. We also extend some of Steinberg's results on the adjoint quotient $G\rightarrow T/W$ to these non-connected groups. These results are used to describe the geometry of $\theta$-conjugacy classes of $G^o$, where $\theta$ is an automorphism of the connected group $G^o$. As an application, we show that there is a "functorial" correspondence between virtual (finite dimensional) characters of $\theta$-invariant representations of $G$ and virtual characters of an endoscopic group $H$ of $G$.
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text: The Triangle is the southern corner of MEMBG and is outside of the main fence of the Garden. This space has changed hands several times over the years, but is now securely a part of the Garden. Trees and shrubs from all over the world can be seen in this area. Particular highlights include several massive Eucalyptus trees (E. maidenii, E. saligna, and E. acmenoides among others), as well as a sculptural Bracelet honey-myrtle (Melaleuca armillaris) in the northwest corner of The Triangle. Several beautiful species of Dombeya from Africa are found on the western edge of the area, providing showy early winter flowers.


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Friday, May 18, 2012
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy (Academic Center of Law & Business - Israel) has posted Inheritance Legal Systems and the Intergenerational Bond (Real Property, Probate, & Trust Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:
This article offers an analysis of three legal systems of inheritance: American law, common law family provision, and civil law. It offers a unique reading of these systems by focusing on the role of continuity in inheritance and by stressing the position of potential recipients. It uses the concept of the intergenerational bond to capture the intersection of continuity, property, and the giver–receiver interrelation. It then highlights the role of continuity in each system and explores their different constructions of continuity. Two main conclusions arise. First, each of these systems has a bifocal dimension. Second, these legal systems can be defined along two axes. One axis is the balance between the giver and the receiver. The other is the content of the bond. The balance between testamentary freedom and familial continuity varies among legal systems, but provides a general model for understanding these systems.


How To Body Surf
Learning how to body surf is one of the best ways to have fun in the ocean. Body surfing is great because, unlike other water sports, you do not need any equipment other than your own limbs to body surf. While the following tips may not transfer the average shoobie kook into Mark Cunningham, they will provide a strong foundation in how to body surf.
To body surf, you will need:
 - wave action
 - functioning limbs
 - swim fins (optional)
 - speedo (optional)
 1. Learn to swim: This is the most important and most obvious aspect of body surfing. It is impossible to body surf if you cannot swim. Case closed. The freestyle crawl stroke is the most important swim stroke for wave-riding.
 2. Improve your cardio: This is directly related to swimming skills. Bodysurfing requires long periods of swimming without stopping as well as constant treading. People in poor cardiovascular shape will find it difficult to body surf.
 3. Swim Fins: A good pair of swim fins will make it easier to body surf for several reasons. First, swim fins make swimming and treading water much less tiring. Second, swim fins provide the quick burst of speed necessary for catching waves.
 4. Ocean Knowledge: Understanding wave and current dynamics is a basic component of ocean safety and is crucial to any sort of wave riding.
In The Water:
 1. To successfully ride waves, the body surfer must position himself in the surf zone. As a wave approaches, swim for the wave by stroking towards the beach. Timing is crucial. As the wave begins to crest take one or two hard strokes and kick continuously.
 2. If you have successfully caught the wave, you will feel the wave's energy lifting upwards and pulling you towards shore.
 3. For a longer ride, point your leading hand in the direction you would like to turn.
 4. Try to make your stomach as rigid as possible. To body surf successfully, you must use your stomach as a surfboard.
 5. If losing speed, kick continuously and take a few freestyle strokes.
 6. To keep in trim, try to keep your body as straight as possible..
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It may be best known for being the first part of the country to be sighted by Captain Cook in 1769 and its claim to be the first city in the world to see the sunlight, but in green building and construction, the small rural town of Gisborne and surrounding areas in northeastern New Zealand is fast becoming known for being the quickest regional area to take advantage of a government program to provide insulation into homes.
New Zealand Minister for Energy and Resources Phil Heatley says more than 25 per cent of all homes within the Gisborne region, otherwise known as the East Cape, East Coast or Eastland region, have used subsidies to install ceiling or underfloor insulation under the government's Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart program.
All up, Heatley says 3,962 houses within the region have been insulated, including 2,894 low income homes and 808 families living in rental accommodation.
In addition to having the highest portion of homes being insulated under the subsidy, the Gisborne region also has a take-up rate among low income households of around 73 per cent, compared with a national average of around half for the rest of the country.
Heatley says the benefits of insulation spread beyond environmental considerations and improve overall health and well-being, with flow on benefits including reduced absenteeism at work and school, higher productivity and greater levels of comfort for householders.
He also says research has demonstrated that $NZ5 worth of overall benefits are achieved for every one dollar invested in the program, primarily as a result of reduced health costs.
"Insulation makes a house warmer and more comfortable," Heatley says. "It also makes it easier and cheaper to heat, and has a lot to do with preventing illness, particularly for the elderly, children, and people with respiratory problems."
Having started on July 1, 2009, the $347 million program has retrofitted more than 150,000 homes throughout the country with insulation at no cost to home occupants, and the government aims to increase this number to 230,000 by the time the program comes to the conclusion of its four-year period in June next year.
At these numbers, however, the program will only cover just over one quarter of the 900,000 homes throughout the country which New Zealand's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority estimates had substandard insulation at the time of the program's inception in 2009/10.
Because of this, policy makers on all sides readily acknowledge that much more will need to be done in this area beyond the conclusion of the current initiative.


- hundredweight to kgs
 The following utility will enable you to convert mass/weight expressed in hundredweight to kgs
 To convert hundredweight to kgs multiply by 50.80235. I've generated some hopefully helpful examples randomly below, as with most random sentences please excuse the repetitive and occasionally comic outcomes.
 You've got 80 hundredweight of oats but someone only wants to buy that in units of kgs, to change the units multiply by 50.80235. Now you have 4064.188 kgs.
 You have 680 hundredweight of carrots but you need to know how many kgs that is. To get the answer multiply by 50.80235 which gives you 34545.60 kgs.
 To convert 380 hundredweight into kgs multiply by 50.80235 giving 19304.89 kgs.
 In 180 hundredweight of beetroot there are 9144.423 kgs, to achieve this take 180 and just multiply by 50.80235.
 How many kgs of barley are there in 390 hundredweight? Just multiply by 50.80235 to get the answer of 19812.92 kgs.


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René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de (rāˈəmyŏr, Fr. rənāˈ äNtwänˈ fĕrshōˈ də rāōmürˈ) [key], 1683–1757, French physicist and naturalist. He invented an alcohol thermometer (1731) and the Réaumur temperature scale, in which the freezing point of water is 0° and the boiling point 80°. In 1710 he directed the official description of arts and trades in France. He investigated gold-bearing rivers, turquoise mines, and forests. He did research on the composition of Chinese porcelain, which led him to develop an opaque glass, and on the composition and manufacture of iron and steel, including a means of tinning iron. As a naturalist he is best known for his exhaustive study of insects (6 vol., 1734–42; a 7th vol., part of the original manuscript, appeared in 1928); he also studied regeneration in crayfish and showed corals to be animals, not plants.
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10 Unexpected benefits Surya Namaskar give to your Body
10 Unexpected benefits Surya Namaskar give to your Body
Surya Namaskar steps has benefits extend to long term extraordinary changes in your body. With its multiple rounds, the body organs start to work effectively. It starts to vanish most of the symptoms of diseases at initial days.
Lets define it. Surya Namaskar consists of two words: Surya and Namaskar.
Practicing this dynamic yoga exercise, which comprises 12 yoga postures. All helps long term changes in physical, mental, spiritual, and social domains of health for the concerned practitioner.
This wonderful practice revitalizes the whole body. It proves to be an excellent source to extract the maximum benefits from subsequent asanas, pranayama, and meditation.
Sun salutation is the single yoga exercise that impacts all the organ systems of the body. The rounds can be practiced at any time of the day. It helps to restore vitality, excellent antidote for stress & depression thus greatly help to overcome emotional disturbances.
10 Major benefits of Surya Namaskar steps
The consistent practice of surya namaskar has long term benefits to your body. Thus, a round of 108 poses consolidates enriching changes in the body.
Surya namaskar poses change your body
1. Sun salutation step enhances skin beauty:
One can perform Sun salutation for beauty, healthy and glowing skin. Surya Namaskar is an effective means of having beautiful skin and a fair complexion.
As it makes the person sweat profusely, which ensures the removal of accumulated toxins through the skin, thus Surya Namaskar helps in preventing pimples and boils.
2. Prevents hair fall
3. Weight Loss:
Moreover, Surya Namaskar has more long term benefits to your lifestyle.
4. Improves digestion:
This practice alternately stretched and compressed the body organs including the stomach. Surya Namaskar imparts better massage to the digestive system and encourages to work efficiently.
As a result, it stimulates peristalsis of the intestines and removes waste products from the body.
5. Smooth kidney functions due to Surya Namaskar poses:
Regular practice of Surya namaskar encourages the kidney to work efficiently, which also leads to the filtration of blood through these organs.
6. Good for heart:
The multiple rounds of Surya Namaskar increase the heartbeat and the working of the whole circulatory system. It is good to remove waste products from the body and ensures efficient human heart function.
7. Improves lungs function:
The practice of this Sun salutation module helps in the optimum utilization of the lungs and the respiratory system.
As a result, the lungs completely emptied from impure air and the brain gets fresh oxygen, which makes the person full of energy and vigor.
8. Corrects hormonal imbalance
As a result, hormones level in your body changes.
9. Tones the nerves and nervous system
Surya Namaskar steps tones up all these muscles and nerves and awakens the brain centers.
10. Surya Namaskar helps in muscle loosening
It means, the expansion and contraction of muscles help in the redirection of impure blood to the kidney and the lungs.
Therefore, this is the best module for the loosening of muscles and removes stiffness from the body and considered as the best possible exercise that seeks healthy living.
In Conclusion
The sedentary lifestyle has resulted in an unhealthy lifestyle. In this Yoga plays an important role in balancing hormone levels, ageless skin, preventing seasonal diseases, etc.
So, a complete round of Surya namaskar will benefit your whole body. Keep it doing it under the guidance of a yoga instructor.
Stay healthy and blessed!


dardeggiare in German
(Italian to German translation)
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Synonyms of : dardeggiare
movimento rapido
scagliarsi in avanti
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I've recently moved apartment again. One of my housemates in my apartment had always planned to move in with his wife at the end of the lease. I didn't want to be a third wheel (or a fifth wheel), so I'm moving on.
Another way to refer to being a person who accompanies a couple, usually awkwardly, is to say they're a gooseberry. Which seems quite unfair to gooseberries, as they're just innocent fruit. Where does this association come from?
Well first, let's look at where gooseberries get their name from. No-one's actually really sure of the precise etymology. Some people believe it might be a translation of Old French (grosele) or Germanic terms, and therefore not actually related to geese at all. That's unlikely though, as plant names that refer to animals are usually very deliberately chosen for the link between the two. So while we can't be sure exactly what the link between geese and gooseberries is, we can be pretty confident that the berry was named after the bird.
The term gooseberry first came to be used to refer to people in the early 18th century, generally meaning fool. This is probably simply an extension of the association of geese with foolishness or silliness. Which again, seems a bit unfair. Geese aren't particularly silly, are they? But then when a form of the word was first applied to geese, it probably didnt mean silly as we know it now.
Silly is derived from the Old English gesælig, which originally meant happy or fortuitous. The word gained slightly different meanings over the years, each one evolving from the last, so that at one time it could mean innocent or pious. I think it's the latter that people had in mind when they first started calling geese silly, considering the way they walk around with the heads help up in the air.
But the association of geese with silliness/foolishness stuck, and I think when people started to refer to someone accompanying a couple as a gooseberry, it was because they looked or felt foolish by doing so.
So the word has nothing to do with the berry, but is rather more directly related to geese, and the image we have of them being silly, probably because an earlier form of the word silly was used to refer to them as pious, but that meaning's been lost now.
Like the origins of a lot of words, it's a pretty convoluted thread involving subtle shifts in meaning over time, until the link between the term we use now and the original meaning which led to its current use has long been lost. It's interesting though, that we continue to use the word gooseberry in this way, even though there's no logical link between the literal and metaphorical uses of the word. Maybe it's the sound of the word, or maybe on some unconscious level we draw the connection between being the odd one out alongside a couple, and the silliness of a goose.
Or maybe it's just because nobody likes gooseberries!
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 1. Very interesting! This must be a totally British thing. In all my years I've never once heard or read gooseberry used to refer to anything but the fruit. "Silly as a goose", yes, I've heard that now & then.
 Perhaps the origin of gooseberry was that geese were wont to get into the patch and eat the berries? Or maybe cooks tossed them in the stuffing for roast goose? I can't really see a twist that would turn groseille (a currant) into goose, but maybe it derived from grosse baies (fat) berries
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The steps below describe an easy way of creating mosaics from mapped hyperspectral files, making use of the command line GDAL utilities. They can be installed on Windows through OSGeo4W, and are available on Linux through the package manager (e.g., yum, apt-get).
The initial mosaic is a 'virtual raster', which comprises a text file with links to other files containing the data. It is created using the gdalbuildvrt command, available with GDAL and also in QGIS through the Raster, Miscellaneous menu.
gdalbuildvrt -srcnodata 0 f216_mosaic.vrt /path/to/file/f216073b_mapped_osng.bil /path/to/file/f216083b_mapped_osng.bil
The above command creates a virtual raster 'f216_mosaic.vrt' from two bil files, setting the no-data value to 0. The full path to each BIL file is passed in so they are stored in the VRT (useful if the VRT file is moved). You can also create a VRT from all '.bil' files using:
gdalbuildvrt -srcnodata 0 f216_mosaic.vrt /path/to/file/*.bil
The VRT file can be used as any other file in programs which use GDAL (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS, TuiView). However, for displaying it is often more convenient to create band / spatial subsets using the gdal_translate, also available through QGIS under Raster, Conversion, Translate.
command. For example to create a three band subset using bands 38, 25 and 12 use:
gdal_translate -of GTiff -b 38 -b 25 -b 12 f216_mosaic.vrt f216_mosaic_bandsubset.tif
Note, as all the flightlines use a slightly different grid a nearest neighbour interpolation will be preformed to create a common grid. Standard GeoTiff's aren't compressed so areas outside the flightlines, which have no data, will take up as much space as pixels with data. You can reduce the file size by using compression. You can tell gdal_translate to create a compressed GeoTiff by passing in a creation option flag for example:
gdal_translate -of GTiff -co "COMPRESS=LZW" -b 38 -b 25 -b 12 f216_mosaic.vrt f216_mosaic_bandsubset.tif
Note, not all programs support compressed GeoTiffs.
To make the mosaic faster to display you can create overviews using the gdaladdo command:
gdaladdo f216_mosaic_bandsubset.tif 2 4 8 16


Recent Apple Patent Hints at a Future of Autonomous VR Cars
According to a patent filed by Apple in 2017, some very fun road trips could be on the horizon.
At first glance, patents are nothing more than a standard collection of technical details and various legal jargon. But hidden within these walls of text are the future possibilities of a company, hidden throughout endless paragraphs like little gold nuggets in a river.
Earlier this week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published several Apple patent applications submitted September 2017, leading to some very interesting speculation towards the company's vision of VR in the future. Some gold nuggets, if you will.
According to information provided in the patent, Apple envisions a future where autonomous cars are centered around VR entertainment. Suggesting the entire removal of windows, interior screens or VR headsets would be used to provide a view of either the actual exterior or a virtual experience.
"In addition to addressing the problem of motion sickness for passengers in moving vehicles and in providing benefits such as improved productivity to passengers in moving vehicles, embodiments of the VR system may provide immersive VR experiences to passengers in vehicles, for example by replacing the view of the real world with any various types of virtual experiences and environments that a passenger may desire," states Apple in the document.
On top of visual stimulation the patent describes how the physical motions of the vehicle could be used in the VR experience itself to enhance the immersion, providing a captivating, location-based experience not available with in-home VR systems.
"Integrating the VR system with a vehicle in motion provides opportunities for enhancing virtual experiences that are not available while sitting in a room using a stationary simulator or wearing a HMD. For example, accelerations and motions of the vehicle. In some embodiments, active vehicle systems (e.g., HVAC systems, audio systems and active seats) and/or vehicle control systems (e.g., braking, throttle, steering and active suspension systems) with constraints, may be integrated with the VR system to provide physical effects with the virtual experience, for example rushing wind or heat through the HVAC system, surround sound and sound effects through the audio system, and acceleration or motion effects through the seat."
According to Apple, passengers would have the opportunity to choose what kind of VR entertainment they'd like to enjoy during their commute, from more relaxing experiences such as floating down a mellow river or hand gliding over a serene mountaintop, to more exciting adventures like surviving a zombie apocalypse.
The company teased the idea of combining the physical motion of the vehicle with the VR experience, describing how a VR experience could have you barreling through the apocalypse at high speeds, only to stop abruptly at a red light while a horde of flesh-hungry zombies grows closer and closer.
Apple goes on to list other possible use-case scenarios such as virtual meeting rooms for livestreaming business conferences, virtual authors reading their work to you side-by-side and virtual talk shows where you're sitting right in the middle of the action.
Of course it goes without saying that any and all ideas expressed in this document are by no means set in stone. However with rumors circulating about Apple developing its own model car all the way back in 2015, it's clear the company has its eyes set on the automobile industry. With autonomous vehicles poised to become the next big thing within the transportation industry, it's up to someone to provide some entertainment during these new-found moments of free time. Will Apple be that someone?
Last month we reported that Uber was also pursuing patents for VR systems in self-driving cars.
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DANIEL KYALO1, ERIC BETT2, BERNHARD FREYER2, RHODA BIRECH3, KIBET NGETICH4
1Egerton University, Agricultural Economics & Agri-Business Management, Kenya
2University of Natural and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Inst. of Organic Farming, Austria
3Egerton University, Crop Horticulture and Soil Sciences, Kenya
4Egerton University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Kenya
The nature of marketing of high value agricultural products such as Organic products has evolved over time, resulting into well coordinated physical, exchange and facilitating functions. However, the degree of market efficiency and effectiveness of these functions is highly influenced by the nature of interactions between the actors and their attributes. The current study aimed at offering policy options for improving marketing of organic products in Kenya through an analysis of the marketing channels. First, the study identified the actors and activities involved in marketing of organic products in Nairobi urban area. Secondly, the commodity (organic fruits and vegetables) attributes, the actors and the activities were analysed with view of determining how they influence two key outcomes: transaction costs and profitability. Primary data for the study was collected through a survey among 31 traders dealing in organic fruits and vegetables within Nairobi city. The data were analysed within the Institutions Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework.
Results indicate that although transaction costs exist in the three channels identified, the nature and magnitude of such costs greatly varies across the channels depending on the number of players and their attributes. Traders incur transaction costs while searching and screening for reliable suppliers and customers, transporting the product and enforcing contracts. Furthermore, the type of transaction costs incurred within each marketing channel highly depends on the level of information asymmetry between actors, the actors' attributes and existing institutional arrangements that are necessary to maintain transactions and counter opportunistic behaviour. The nature of activities and actors within each channel was also found to influence the transaction costs. The study draws imperative policy implications that can be used to reduce the transaction costs incurred in the business of marketing organic products. Some suggested policy options include: improving market information transmission, reforms in legal framework to facilitate contract farming and improved transport infrastructure.
Keywords: Organic food products, organic marketing channels, transaction costs


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FLORISTIC STUDY OF CONVOLVULACEAE FAMILY IN UMARGAM TALUKA, VALSAD DISTRICT, GUJARAT, INDIA
Keywords:Floristic study, speciation, isolation, endemism, Convolvulaceae, Umargam taluka, Species, Genera
Floristic studies help us to assess the plant wealth and its potentiality of any given area. Floristic studies also help us to understand the basic aspects of biology such as speciation, isolation, endemism and evolution. Flora of any area is not fixed up. It changes from time to time. Various ecological factors, mostly biotic, change the floristic components. The total number of species may be changed; dominant species may be replaced with other species; the floristic composition, i.e., family: genus: species ratio may be changed. Umargam taluka is selected for the floristic studies. Whole area is rich in plant diversity. Floristic study of Convolvulaceae family in Umargam taluka, Valsad district, Gujarat, India, was carried out. A total of 23species under 8 genera belonging to the family Convolvulaceae were collected and identified. For each species botanical name, local name, habitat, flowering time, distribution and Taxonomic description have been mentioned.


Archaeologists finished their race Monday to excavate a sphinx from the set of Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic silent film "The Ten Commandments" the director left buried in the Guadalupe Dunes.
The excavation will likely be the last one mounted by the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center in its efforts to preserve, restore and display artifacts from the only movie set known to exist from that era.
"Unless something really major happens, unless we get a bigger facility, this will be the last excavation here," Dunes Center Executive Director Doug Jenzen said last Thursday as he stood atop a dune surveying the site, its location a carefully guarded secret known only to a few.
Down the leeward slope, archaeologists worked feverishly in one of two side-by-side pits, each surrounding one of the plaster sphinxes constructed for DeMille's film.
They were working to balance the slower pace needed for the plaster to dry out so it could be moved with the faster pace required to prevent it from crumbling from too much exposure to the open air.
At the same time, they were trying to maintain a pace to finish the job by Monday, the end date for the work contract that was determined, essentially, by available funding.
Four archaeologists from Applied Earthworks, an art restorer, a Native American monitor for the Northern Chumash and a Cal Poly intern were carefully removing pieces of one sphinx that had already disintegrated.
In the other pit, a nearly intact sphinx lay on its side, only the first few inches exposed so its plaster could dry out as the workers perfected their extraction method on its crumbling neighbor.
A moving target
The crumbling sphinx was originally the focus for the excavation.
Discovered 2012 by Applied Earthworks archaeologists, it is one of the 21 sphinxes — each standing 12 feet tall and weighing 5 tons —that in the film lined the wide sand avenue leading to the gates of "Pharaoh's City."
When it was found, archaeologists had only enough time and funding to remove its head, now restored and displayed inside a plexiglass case in the Dunes Center.
The initial goal for this dig was to exhume the body and reunite it with the head.
"Last week in a preproject survey, we found the wind had blown the sand off, and it pretty much imploded," Jenzen said. "But the wind also uncovered another piece 20 feet away that turned out to be another sphinx, and it's in much better shape."
It's also much smaller.
"There are pictures of the actors as slaves hauling one around," Jenzen said. "We think that may be what this one is."
"We're figuring it out as we go," said Leeann Haslouer, a staff archaeologist with Applied Earthworks. "We improvise, experiment, change strategies — we adapt."
Haslouer has been on a number of archaeological digs, from prehistoric Native American shell middens to Spanish colonial buildings and aquaducts in downtown Santa Barbara to historic oil fields in Santa Maria.
"This is completely different because this is a completely different situation," she said. "There are no other film sets like this. There are no other sphinxes to dig up."
"This is starting to work," she said, as workers lifted a large portion of the hindquarters out of the pit.
"The piece over there we're working on is more robust," she said, looking down into the pit with the intact sphinx. "This one's not nearly as sturdy, so it's more of a challenge.
"It's nice to work and learn on the sturdier piece before we move to this one."
The last excavation
If the sphinx is successfully removed and preserved, it will become the centerpiece of a major display devoted to DeMille's film in the Dunes Center, which Jenzen said simply won't have any more space for additional artifacts.
That's why this dig was likely the last one the center will undertake, he said. And with a price tag of $120,000 for this excavation, it's not likely any other organization, business or agency will fund a future dig.
For Jenzen, that's a loss for the local community as well as society as a whole.
"This project is significant for multiple reasons," he said. "First and foremost, it's unlike anything else on Earth, and it's part of the unique character of the Central Coast.
"It provides a way to preserve an important piece of Americana," he continued. "It preserves the local heritage, and it promotes the local economy through heritage tourism.
"Everything we learn here will contribute to the larger archaeological field, and we're also training the future workforce through interns. Altogether, it demonstrates why it's important to be out here doing this work."


How to interpret your dog's barking
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How much barking is too much barking?
In an effort to determine what is normal woofing, an Auckland animal behaviourist has bugged the houses of 60 dogs and recorded how much they barked when their owners were out.
Maggie, Brodie, Rastus and Jezebel (breeds unknown) were the kind of dogs anyone would like to have next door, barking infrequently and not for very long.
Emily, Jasper, Scarr and Jock were not so good neighbours though: Emily barked more than 20 times in a week for about three minutes each time; on one occasion Jasper barked for about 15 minutes straight.
The study's author, Dr Elsa Flint, said the average amount of barking for a home-alone dog over an eight-hour period was 4.3 times, with an average of about 30 seconds per bout.
The study participants came from two Auckland vet practices, on the North Shore and in Howick.
All were aged one to 14 and were ordinary, well-cared-for dogs, exercised off-property for at least 30 minutes per day, and living in suburban houses with gardens.
Sixty dogs began the study but only 40 returned data as tape recorders were lost or damaged or owners withdrew from the study.
The noisiest dogs were female and younger.
The question, though, is why do this research?
Flint, in her work as a behaviourist, has seen complaints about barking dogs increase over the years as population density increased. Auckland Council alone fielded 8876 complaints in the 2011-2012 financial year.
But it wasn't always the dog that was at fault, Flint said. "In a lot of cases there was some bad feeling between neighbours and they were using the dog to get back at each other."
Councils were in a difficult position because they didn't have a benchmark for inordinate barking.
The other worrying factor was that concerned owners often turned to electric collars that shocked the dog when it barked, Flint said. "That really upsets me. The dog doesn't know what's happening. I've seen results where the dogs are terrified to move. They just go into shut-down mode."
Flint said in one extreme case owners came home to find their dog hiding under a bed in a pool of its own excrement, fearful of moving because it wasn't sure what was causing the shocks.
Flint said she could hear whether barking was territorial guarding or separation anxiety and most of the dogs she recorded were territorial guarding.
Problem barking required an evaluation of the many factors that could be creating the behaviour, she said.
In one case, she filmed two dogs in a backyard and the problem was that the older dog was going into their joint kennel and preventing the younger one from getting in. A second kennel solved the problem.
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Get the Facts About Escrow Shortages
An escrow account is for making payments toward your real estate fees like taxes and insurance. It helps make these fees more manageable through monthly installments rather than paying a large lump sum when these bills are due. There's typically a minimum balance that must be maintained to ensure that you have enough money to pay the fees.
However, these fees can sometimes fluctuate, and when this happens, your escrow account could be short. This is called an escrow shortage. Here's a rundown of why this occurs and what you can do about it.
Escrow Account Basics
An escrow account breaks down the fees associated with homeownership into monthly payments. Typically, the following are included in an escrow account:
 - Hazard Insurance: Covers damage to your property and meant to protect the lender from their losses should damage occur. The coverage may also have personal property and liability protection.
 - Flood Insurance: You may be required to have flood coverage if the house is located in a flood zone.
 - Mortgage insurance: If your down payment was under 20%, you'll pay private mortgage insurance (PMI) until you reach at least that amount of equity. This only applies to conventional loans.
 - Property taxes: Also known as real estate taxes.
 - Ground rents: If you own your home but not the land it's sitting on, then the ground fees will be paid from your escrow account.
 - Special assessments: Refers to recurring fees levied by your county or other taxing authority.
 - Possible first-lien position charges: Any payment that could take priority over your mortgage should you default on the loan and the property needs to be sold.
When Does an Escrow Shortage Happen?
An escrow shortage is when your escrow account balance falls below the minimum required level. The shortage is often due to increasing charges from any of the above items leaving you with less than the required cushion in your account.
In some cases, you may end up with an escrow deficiency. This is when your account doesn't have enough money to pay for all the escrow items, like taxes and insurance, leaving you with a negative balance. When this occurs, the lender will pay the difference on your behalf, and you'll pay the lender back, typically through one of these options:
 - Pay it off in full: One-time payment to the mortgage company.
 - Pay off over 12 months: Spread the payments out over the next year to pay it back over time.
Remember that even if you pay it in full, your monthly escrow payment will likely remain at a higher amount if the shortage was caused by a permanent tax or insurance fee increase. Thus, what you'll pay into your escrow account will now reflect the new amounts due.
Are you new to the homebuying process? We can help! From answering questions to making it easy to apply for a loan online, we have the tools and knowledge to make your home buying process a breeze. Start your application today!


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Biddle Coleridge (2024)
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Occupation: Unemployed
Status: Deceased (2024)
Died: 2024
Played by: Frank Military
Biddle Coleridge was a Human male in the 21st century on Earth. Coleridge was a resident of Sanctuary District A in San Francisco. Within the Sanctuary Coleridge, or B.C., was a "ghost" with a tendency toward violence and thievery.
Coleridge was a leader of a group of ghosts who attacked and captured the processing center for the District in 2024 as part of the Bell Riots. Several times during the siege Coleridge came close to attacking the hostages and it was only through the intervention of Starfleet officers Benjamin Sisko and Julian Bashir, who had become trapped in the past, that the hostages were spared.
Coleridge hoped to bargain the hostages for his release from the Sanctuary District and travel to Tasmania, home to his idol, Errol Flynn, but he was killed when government forces stormed the building to free the hostages. (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I", "Past Tense, Part II")
Biddle Coleridge was played by Frank Military.
The character's initials were a homage to DS9 assistant director B.C. Cameron. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 197)
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Calculate the BSA to the nearest 100th.
1. An adult who is 170 cm tall and weighs 100 kg.
2. A child whose measurements are height 143 cm and weight 54.2 kg.
3. A child whose weight is 14.3 kg and length is 94.1 cm.
4. An adult who is 5 ft 9 inches and weighs 190 pounds.
5. A child whose weight is 33 lb and length 24 in.
Determine the dosage for the following drugs and indicate if the order is safe.
6. A child has an order for 2.5 mg of a drug t.i.d. The dosage range is 15-25 mg/m2 per day.
The child has a BSA of 0.41 meters squared.
6a. Dosage per day?
6b. Dosage per dose?
6c. Is the order safe?
7. A 20 mg dose of a drug with a recommended dosage of 10 mg/m2 has been ordered for a
Patient with a BSA of 2.17 m2.
7a. Dosage per dose?
7b. Is the order safe?
8. The per dose range is 0.5 – 1.5 g per square meter. The patient has a BSA of 1.97 square
meters. A dosage of 2 g has been ordered.
8a. Dosage per dose?
8b. Is the order safe?
9. The dosage range of a drug is 100 – 150 mcg per m2 bid. The patient has a BSA of 0.77 m2 and a dosage of 150 mcg has been ordered b.i.d.
9a.Dosage per dose?
9b. Accuracy of order :
10. A patient with BSA of 0.47 m2 has orders for 10 mg of a drug q.6h. The daily dosage range is 75-100 mg/m2 /day.
10a. Normal dosage per day.
10b. Dosage ordered per day
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Nomination & its Importance
Who is a nominee?
A nominee is a person in whose name assets, securities and other investments are transferred for the purpose of transaction and distribution. However, the actual ownership of the asset lies with the owner, who is also the nominator. Nominees are appointed for property, insurance, mutual funds, stocks, bank deposit accounts and safe deposit accounts to name a few.
Why is a nominee appointed?
The purpose of appointing a nominee is to have someone who is trustworthy and responsible to handle the nominator's assets after his death.
What is the role of a nominee?
According to most of us, 'nomination' means that the asset/property will be transferred to the nominee after the death of the nominator. However, nomination means a 'right to receive' the asset and 'not to own it'. A nominee is responsible to manage the asset as per the nominator's wishes after his death. But a nominee cannot sell the property unless he is a legal heir.
What is the benefit of nomination?
The appointment of a nominee leads to less complications at the time of claim and distribution of the asset in the event of the death of the owner. The legal heir can also be made the nominee in many cases to avoid tedious procedures.
How to appoint a nominee?
In case of most investments, the owner will be required to fill out a form during application with the particulars of the nominee and sign wherever required. Witnesses may also be required, depending on the specification.
Can a minor (below the age of 18) become a nominee?
In case of making a minor a nominee, the owner will also need to appoint another person, above the age of 18, who can legally receive the proceeds in the event of the death of the owner/holder.
Can there be multiple nominees?
One can appoint multiple nominees for receipt of the proceeds and, in some cases, can also specify the desired share to be given to each nominee.
Can a nominee be changed once appointed?
Yes. A nominee can be changed time and again. The owner would have to contact the company or bank with the request and follow the necessary procedures required by them.
What is a Will?
A Will is a legally-valid document that enables the owner of the property/assets to choose who gets his assets after his death. Thus, a Will becomes operative only after death.
Why is it necessary to make a Will?
It is necessary to make a Will because a Will establishes the intention of the person that after his death assets will only be given to those people who have loved and cared for the person making the Will.
What are the important terms about Wills?
- Testator is the person making a Will.
- Legatee is the person who inherits under the Will.
- Intestate is the person who dies without leaving a Will.
- Executor is the person who has been nominated in a Will to carry out the wishes of the testator's Will after he dies.
- Beneficiary is person who receives his share under the Will.
- Codicil means when the testator has to make minor changes in the Will.
- Main elements of a Will: The name and identity of the testator, two witnesses and their addresses, the list of assets and their distribution.
How to make a Will?
A Will must have a complete list of the testator's assets and liabilities and details of their distribution in simple and easy-to-understand language.
A Will should be signed by the testator (the person whose Will is being made) in the presence of at least two witnesses.
A testator must be of sound mind when making a Will. Also, the full names and addresses of the witnesses should be indicated in the Will. A witness should neither be a beneficiary nor an executor of the Will.
What if you want to make changes or make a new Will?
A Will can be changed any number of times but it is only the last Will that is taken into consideration.


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National Wetlands Update February 2013
Issue No. 22, February 2013
Wetlands at risk of weeds
Philippa Bailey, Friends of Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands
The Friends of Edithvale Seaford Wetlands Weed Maze.
Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands in the southern suburbs of Melbourne are the last remnants of the Carrum Carrum swamp. In 2001, the wetlands were listed under the Ramsar Convention as being of international significance.
The Friends of Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands, FESWI (established 1988), embarked on a steep learning curve in 2012, taking on a weed eradication project that will ultimately maintain and improve water quality at the wetlands.
The group arranged plant identification training in the wetlands with botanist Dr Graeme Lorimer, who taught group members about the variety of native plants which enhance the wetland environment and presented an example of a weed of national significance, Juncus acutus (spiny rush), a growing problem at Seaford wetlands.
FESWI then researched local weeds which mainly escape from household gardens and can prove hazardous in the wetlands environment. It may surprise readers to learn the colourful gazania can be a menace if left to multiply. Another prolific weed in the area is mirrorbush, which is found on many vacant plots of land and has been spotted thriving within the wetlands.
FESWI put all this new knowledge into a booklet "Wetlands at Risk of Weeds" which was launched at our Wetlands Awareness Day, held on 16 September 2012 at Seaford North Primary School.
Launch of the Wetlands at Risk of Weeds booklet, September 2012.
With funds provided by the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment's Coastcare program, FESWI were also able to design and purchase a weed maze, which draws children into its compartments, where they discover information and hands on experiences with plants and weeds.
FESWI will be distributing the weed booklets through local community channels close to both wetland areas. The group will be displaying the maze at local events and hope to educate young people about the risk of weeds destroying fragile wetland environments.
For further information visit the FESWI website.


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Agriculture and Environment: Cotton
Carcinogenic dyes & chemicals
On the processing and manufacturing side, the use of industrial chemicals is of concern, especially those associated with dyeing textiles and finishing clothes. These chemicals affect not only the environment but also workers in the processing and apparel industries. Of particular concern is the use of carcinogenic dyes and chemicals, especially azo dyes.
Other important concerns
At the producer level, the main environmental impacts from cotton production in order of importance include use of agrochemicals, water use, soil erosion and degradation, freshwater contamination, and habitat conversion and the associated loss of biodiversity.


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How does the word sound?
History of this Word
"sesqui" is from "semis" (half) + "que" (and) spoken by ancient people in central Italy around 700 B.C.
A prefix added to the start of a word. Indicates that "one and a half" modifies the word. Created to expand meanings. Can be used with many words to form new words.
Examples of how the word is used
|Join us as our Sesquicentennial Celebration continues with the dedication of the Memorial.|
|This is a form of the "Red Herring" fallacy which I call "Sesquipedalianism" or babbling on and on about nothing.|


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Free Thoughts Podcast: Richard E. Wagner Discusses 'Politics as a Peculiar Business'
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Is an economy like a machine or a tropical rainforest? Is it more like a mechanical device that can be maintained by an exogenous force (government), or is it more like a diverse ecology, one that includes government actors?
Richard Wagner joins the Free Thoughts Podcast to discuss his new book, Politics As a Peculiar Business: Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy (2016).
Wagner concludes that modern governments function much the way a business enterprise does, albeit a strange one. He also theorizes about what happens when government becomes entangled in the same incentive structures it claims regulatory power over.
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Why isn't my Heat turning on with my Sensi?
If you are finding that your heat is not running, check the physical Sensi thermostat on the wall. Ensure that the Wifi symbol is present in the top left corner, and does not show an "X". If your Sensi is not connected to Wi-Fi, Ecovent will not be able to adjust it to ensure your comfort settings are met.
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 1. If the set point is below the current temperature, Ecovent has determined that your heat should not be running as a result of your room settings. You can raise your room temps in the Ecovent app and shortly after Ecovent will adjust your Sensi thermostat.
 2. If the set point is above the current room temperature, use this guide from Sensi to determine if your HVAC is set up properly and configured for your heat source.
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negative experience of it not starting one morning:
 - Slow to Crank
 - Check Engine Light
 - Low Battery Fluid
 - Battery Case is Bloated or Swollen
 - Battery is Leaking
 - The Battery Is Older than 3 years
As with a frozen battery, the same advice holds. Be on the safe side and get a new car battery if your current car battery is exhibiting any of these things. Call _PHONE_ today for your car battery jump needs in Festus, MO.
What is Light Duty Towing?
Couple near tow-truck picking up broken car
Learn More About Light Duty Towing
It can be a process to see what kind of towing you may need when you require transportation to and from a location. Depending on the capacity of materials that you need to be towed there will be different types of tow trucks that will be ideal to use. Consider light duty towing services when you know that you won't require heavy-duty towing capabilities. If you'd like to know more details about towing services contact a qualified towing company for more information. Until then, here is some general background information regarding light duty towing that may be useful to you.
What is a light duty tow?
Light duty towing is similar to medium duty tow trucks and are equipped with modern wheel-systems that eliminate all contact between a tow truck and vehicles with the exception of the tire's rubber on a given vehicle. This is due to the fact that light duty towing trucks will lift the vehicle off of the ground by securing the front two or back two wheels. Consider these options if you have a smaller vehicle or attachment that won't require the use of larger tow trucks and equipment.
What is considered a medium duty tow?
A medium-duty tow will have a tow truck chassis that has a minimum gross vehicle weight (GVWR) rating of no less than 22,000 pounds. It will also have to have at least a twelve-ton boom assembly as rated by the truck's manufacturer.
What is considered heavy towing?
Heavy-duty towing is ideal for weights of around 25 tons. Trucks used in these cases will have for example a six-ton wheel lift, a 25-ton boom lift or winch, both of which often are used for heavy-duty towing situations.
What is the difference between a tow truck and a wrecker?
A tow truck is a vehicle that can tow or haul a vehicle while a wrecker truck can recover vehicles and at times can tow a vehicle. A tow truck however will not be able to act as a wrecker truck.
Light Duty Truck Towing Capacity
The heavier a vehicle is the more weight it technically is able to hold. With modern trucks and vehicles although they are lighter than before in design they can actually hold heavy loads as well. As far as the specifications of the wheelbase, the longer the distance between the front and rear axle then the safer it will be for towing. As of now, perhaps the best light-duty truck that can hold a maximum of 13,400 pounds is seen with the Chevrolet Silverado.
What happens if you tow over capacity?
If you happen to tow over capacity there can be a number of reactions that can be triggered such as tire failure from added weight, breaks starting to fade, and the engine overheating due to the extra work required to move. This will end up overloading the drivetrain and shortening the life of the transmission.
Will my insurance cover towing?
Most insurance policies won't cover towing or they will cover towing up to a certain mileage amount. This will typically come with roadside assistance also known as towing and labor coverage which is typically an inexpensive add-on by major auto insurance companies.
How much weight can a tow truck tow?
Depending on the size and type of the tow truck there will be different capacity caps for each. A medium-sized truck can take anything around 25,000 pounds for example. This includes such vehicles as buses, box trucks, most construction vehicles, and tow trucks themselves.
Do you have to be insured to be towed?
At times your car may be towed without connection to your insurance. As far as having your car towed, if you don't have that covered by insurance then you
Tow truck with broken car on country road
What is the most fuel efficient vehicle for towing?
 - Chevrolet Silverado | 17 mpg | 13,400 lbs
 - Ford Expedition | 19 mpg | 9,300 lbs
 - GMC Canyon | 23 mpg | 7,700 lbs
 - Nissan Pathfinder | 23 mpg | 6,000 lbs
 - Ford Explorer | 24 mpg | 5,600 lbs
 - Kia Telluride | 21 mpg | 5,000 lbs
 - Honda Passport | 21 mpg | 5,000 lbs
 - Chrysler Pacifica | 22 mpg | 3,600 lbs
 - Toyota RAV4 | 27 mpg | 3,500 lbs
 - Subaru Outback | 26 mpg | 3,500 lbs
Contact Your Local Towing Company Regarding Light Duty Towing
If you're in need of light duty towing services then reach out to your local towing company today. Light duty towing is a great way to transfer fairly lighter weights of materials, vehicles, or possessions in a more sustainable and safe way. It's important to contact a professional about your towing needs in order to get the vehicle that will work best with your capacity load. If you have any questions or concerns then reach out to a knowledgeable towing representative for more information. Ease the process of transferring items with a reputable towing company today.
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Who do I call to pick up a junk car?
damanged and worn car
Getting rid of a junk car
There it sits, your non-running, totaled car that hasn't been driven in years. The city has told you it is time to move it or they start fining you for every day it sits there, uninsured, and unregistered. You can't find the title, so you can't sell it, so what can you do with this junk car? Removal service maybe? Those companies that buy running or not a junk car removal service that would haul it away.
Your first question may be, "Can I junk a car that's not in my name?" The short answer is, it depends. There are states where cars can be sold to junk car removal services without the title, so yes, it is possible. However, Missouri is not one of those states. While that wasn't the answer you wanted to hear, but it is the law. So, what to do if you want to scrap your car? Is there a way to get junk car removal service done without having the car title in your name?
In Missouri, and most other states, the opportunity that allows a junk car removal service to accept an abandoned vehicle or a vehicle without a title just isn't possible. There are legal considerations for junk car towing companies, including buying and towing away a car without a bill of sale and proof of ownership. The 'junk yard' business isn't as simple as it may seem on the other side of those walls, and the first law not to be broken is to only deal with a junk car with title!
If the title was ever in your name, there should be registration records with the state of Missouri. You will have to get a copy of that registration and with that, you can prove the car is yours to have junk car removal done. If registration can't be found or proven, you can file for a duplicate or missing title with the state of Missouri.
Is it better to scrap a car or donate it?
So, you need to do something with that old clunker in the driveway, is it better to handle it as a junk car or donate to an organization? Getting rid of a junk car, removal is the biggest challenge. If you have the title, in the state a Missouri, there are junk car removal services, aka, towing service, but that will usually cost you.
No, they don't do junk car removal for free, this is a business for them. Some will pay you for it if you do your own junk car removal and bring it to them. Otherwise, if they come to your house, you will be required to pay them for the service.
Another option you have is to donate that clunker car to a charity. There are several in all states, and Missouri has several that junk car removal is a vital fund raiser for them. Like, Make A Wish or Vehicles For Veterans that have agreements in place with junk car removal services. These organizations are the only ones that benefit from this junk car removal service, there are several benefits for individuals that donate the cars and trucks too.
 - Free Towing: If you call a junk car removal service, you'll be required to pay for the towing of the vehicle, even if they are buying the car from you. However, when you donate a vehicle to a charity, these junk car removal services will pick up the vehicle for no charge and junk car removal service to haul it away for free. Why? Because they are getting a tax credit and you will too!
 - Tax Deduction: Donations of junk car, removal for free isn't all you'll get from getting that old clunker out of your way. When you sign over the title to a charitable organization, they will put it up for auction. Once that vehicle has sold at auction or sent to recycle, you will get a receipt for a tax deductible donation


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They're clammy. They're rubbery. They're often deep-fried in vegetable oil. And though the red abalone of California was once a staple of dirt-cheap seafood shacks, this big slippery sea snail is today one of the most prized seafoods in the world.
Abalone is also the goal of one of the most dangerous recreational games in America. Abalone diving season kicked off in Northern California on April 1, and though no fatalities have yet been reported, well, let's just knock on wood. Because since 1993, at least 54 people have lost their lives while pursuing abalone, including eight in 2008 and seven in 2007, and rare is the season in which at least one diver doesn't perish in the cold and rough waters of the North Coast. Yet so fervent is the urge to get in the water and bag one's daily limit of three abalone that many divers who have driven hours to get to their favorite spot only to find the sea surging and violent just brave the waves anyway. Sometimes they die. Kelp may be the greatest of hazards to the diver, who are prohibited from using SCUBA gear. This spectacular seaweed, so gentle in appearance and symbolic of the California coast, occurs in nasty thickets in many locations. Kelp may grow more than a foot per day, and in the summer sun during calm periods, kelp forests can burgeon seemingly out of control until the fronds layer the surface like a carpet. Underwater, the long, cord-like stipes hang ceiling to seafloor. Among the rocks at their base is where the abalone dwell. Some divers wait until a large storm rips these kelp plants from the seafloor, clearing the water, while most just deal with it—the sensation of long, rubbery cords of kelp sliding over one's legs is familiar to any abalone diver. Many carry knives strapped to their lower leg to cut through the kelp should they become entangled. Ironically, divers have drowned when their knives become snagged on the kelp.
Other divers die of exhaustion or heart attacks, sometimes collapsing on the rocks after a particularly strenuous dive. Among the least of dangers is the great white shark—though the fear of being eaten is one of the most persistent and haunting. In 2004, a well-known diver in Mendocino County was decapitated by a shark in one swift attack. Though dozens of abalone hunters have died from other causes since, Randy Fry remains a name that Northern California divers speak with a tone of regret and unmistakable dread. Today, many divers, as well as kayakers and surfers, wear "Shark Shields," a relatively new device that emits an electric field that may deter sharks as large as great whites.
So, what is all the fuss and excitement about? For many people, abalone means nothing more than an excuse to get wet in one of the world's most beautiful underwater settings. For some divers, it's a treasure hunt—all about locating the big snails and prying them out of their crevices and holes. For a few divers, eating abalone isn't even the point—collecting them is. After sacking their limits an driving home, they hand out the snails to their friends. (I recently joked with one such diver that she might just hunt for rocks instead and leave the abalone, which may be decades old, to their peaceful business.)
For others, abalone hunting is an obsessive game of numbers. These dedicated trophy hunters will take nothing but "tens," that is, abalone at least 10 inches wide. (The minimum legal size is seven inches.) So particular are "ten divers" about this hallowed but arbitrary dimension that they usually measure and record their catches down to the hundredth of an inch, with the difference between a 10.64- or 10.47-inch abalone being a worthy distinction. The shells they polish and display on walls, and there is even a website dedicated to the hunt for huge abalone called Abalone Ten. Large abs, as divers often call their quarry, often occupy dark crevices 20 feet or more beneath the surface, and one may wonder as shivers creep up the spine how many divers have drowned with their heads stuck in an underwater cave.
The snails, meanwhile, keep meekly minding their business. They slide slowly across the seafloor, seeking kelp scraps, their chief food source, by day and returning to cracks and caves by night, and little do they know of the storm that their existence stirs—a storm of economic activity, weekends spent camping, poaching busts and car chases, photo ops, celebrations and family feasts... and funerals.
By the numbers:
Of about 35,000 licensed abalone hunters in California, more than 50 have died in the past 20 years.
Of about 300,000 licensed hunters in California, 27 died in accidents from 1994 to 2009.
20: Fatal mountain lion attacks in North America since 1890, including 6 people in California.
934: Commercial fishermen killed in America between 1992 and 2007.
6,000 to 8,000: Estimated total number of mountain climber deaths on Mont Blanc.
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Builders of Wooden Railway Cars... and some of other stuff
Canada Car & Manufacturing Company
Toronto Steel, Iron & Railway Works Company, Ltd
The Canada Car & Manufacturing Company was given birth by the Toronto Steel, Iron & Railway Works Company, Ltd. The latter was founded in the mid 1860s by two Toronto stock brokers and financial agents, John L. Blaikie and William Alexander. It produced mainly signals and track appliances. One piece of its stationary steam engines was manufactured by William Hamilton & Sons' St. Lawrence Foundry.
Through the years Blaikie invented a number of articles and processes useful to the railway industry, but by the early 1870s the company's revenues were declining and they were looking for other fields of opportunity.
In 1872, Blaikie and Alexander were approached by a group interested in establishing a railway car factory using their works as a basis. Blaikie and Alexander would receive stock in the new enterprise in exchange for title to their factory. There was just one little problem. Their factory had been built on five acres of military reserve land, and their lease would expire in just eight years. A longer lease would have to be negotiated if the deal was to be worthwhile. And the negotiations would be complicated by the fact that in 1870, the Province of Ontario had purchased the reserve from the Dominion with the intent of building a new Central Prison. Car factory or prison, which was it to be?
In the usual manner of business and political negotiations (and Ashdown goes through all the details), the car factory needed the facilities, and the authorities needed an activity for their convicts. After long and sometimes contentious negotiations, the final agreement was that —
1. the car company would employ as many prisoners as the prison could provide, up to a maximum of 260. 2. the car company would provide training in the various trades required. 3.
the car company could use the manufacturing facilities being constructed as part of the prison.
4. the government would provide heat, light, power, water, tracks and offices at the prison. 5. the government would build stipulated iron-mongering equipment and facilities at the prison. 6. the car company might utilize prison space for storing lumber and other material. 7. the car company was not limited to the construction of railway cars.
It was 1871 before agreement was reached, and construction of the prison commenced, and October of 1873 before it was finished and the workshops turned over to the car company. During this time a great deal of renegotiation was carried on, and the car company ended up building and installing much of the track and machinery promised by the government.
Since the prison workshops would be connected to the car factory by only a road and a railroad track, the general plan was for the prisoners to build the trucks and woodwork for the cars at the prison and for the final assembly to be done in the car factory itself. The factory was thus set up to be primarily an assembly and finishing area.
Work continued during this time on the car factory itself, and was largely completed by the summer of 1873. It formally opened in February 1874 as the Canada Car & Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Unfortunately, during the several years of construction, and with the prisoner labor not yet available, the company lost several large orders for cars. It opened, however, with a substantial order for platform cars (flat cars) for the Great Western Railway and promise of a substantial order for trucks from the Intercolonial Railway, which was about to change its tracks from broad gauge to standard. It would be June, however, before prison labor would be available.
For much greater detail about this fascinating endeavor, see —
Ashdown, Dana William. Iron & Steam; A History of the Locomotive and Railway Car Builders of Toronto. Toronto, ON: Robin Brass Studio, 1999.
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As the current plan goes, the move of an aging Titan 1 ICBM from its current location at NASA ARC to its new home next to Building 596 starts around 7:30 AM PST on 18 March 2010. This Titan 1 was brought to ARC in 1969 and was used in a variety of tests to study buffeting of launch vehicles during atmospheric ascent. The rocket has been sitting outside since the early 1980s as an exhibit next to the (former) Ames visitor's center.
A team has been assembled that will restore this rocket and upgrade it to serve as an educational tool as well as a smallsat payload integration testbed - much in keeping with its original appearance at Ames 41 years ago. This project will be undertaken at NASA Ames Research Center at Building 596 aka "McMoons" where the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) has been under way for 2 years.
The Titan 1 team includes SpaceRef Interactive Inc., SkyCorp Inc, and the Challenger Center for Space Science Education. The intent is to involve a wide range of local groups and citizens of all ages in this project in a crowd-sourced, participatory exploration format.


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Google can see several different elements of an image that it can use to help categorize it. This is useful primarily for image search purposes, but also for on-page SEO. Let's go over them.
First up, you have technical details about the image. Google can tell when the file is static or if it's an animated gif, and thus can file it away for that category search in image search results. You also have the file size, the file type, and the image dimensions. These are also used to categorize the image in image search.
Then you have the descriptive elements. Each of these is important, so I'll cover each on its own.


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Summary of Modification for PWRERRL
Version 8.2.c -This is an OUS report that highlights six situations to help identify input problems and correct payroll errors as follows: 1. Gross and Net Pay: The audits identify employees with gross and/or net pay exceeding whatever dollar amount is entered in parameter 05 (Threshold Amount). Both gross and net are checked, as it is possible to make an error in the entry of an "add/replace" amount and give an employee an erroneous figure. 2. Hours: The audit lists employees with paid hours exceeding the number of available hours in the month, or 173.33; whichever limit is greater. This should help identify situations of duplicate entry, data entry errors, etc. 3. Arrears: The audit identifies employees with arrearage deduction situations. 4. Deductions: The audit identifies classified employees who do not have 80 regular hours in a month (or 86.67 regular hours for unclassified employees), or are listed with their contribution deductions. Benefits personnel should review the entries in order to determine whether to stop these or other deductions. 5. FICA Warning: The audit identifies U.S. citizens who are not students and have TSS and TME deductions, but a status of exempt or waived. 6. Comp Error: The audit identifies scenarios where an employee's comp time earned, non-exempt or exempt, minus comp time taken, paid, adj., plus leave balance, is greater than 120. Version 4.2.a was a report modification with the following changes: Change hours in month to 184, report only PSA errors, and 9 month not in summer. The report also allows you to limit the report to certain Employee Classes by the use of parameter 06.
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Background/Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a rapid expansion in the use of telemedicine. This study aimed to assess the experiences of hemangioma specialists utilizing telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic to evaluate and manage infantile hemangiomas (IH), including perceived effectiveness of different modalities and barriers to care delivery. Methods: Multicenter cross-sectional study asking providers to describe their experiences using telemedicine for initial evaluation of IH from March to September 2020. Results: The study included 281 patients from 15 medical centers internationally. Median time from referral to evaluation was 17 days. Median physician confidence in performing evaluations via telemedicine was 95.0 (IQR 90.0–100.0). Most evaluations were performed via video communication with photographs or audio communication with photographs; when not initially available, photographs were requested in 51.4%. Providers preferred follow-up modalities that included photographs. Conclusions: Physicians with extensive expertise in managing IH are confident in their abilities to assess and manage IH via telemedicine including initiating treatment in patients without risk factors for beta-blocker therapy. There was a preference for hybrid modalities that included photographs. The data suggest that telemedicine can be effective for managing IH and may decrease wait times and improve specialist reach to underserved areas.
- health care delivery
- hemangiomas/vascular tumors
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- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health