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Controversial decision to have two baby showers
2853 March 29, 2019 | by Maggie Smart
The birth of a baby is always an exciting thing and Meghan Markle, American - born former actress, now the Duchess of Sussex is not left out of the feeling. The expectant mother has expressed this happiness in an elaborate manner, she decided to have two baby showers, one in New York and the other in London.
These seemingly extravagant parties have drawn a lot of negative responses from some members of the public as the move is perceived as distasteful and wasteful. But what is really going on and why should people think twice before calling her a diva? Can we stop for a moment and try to figure it out? We might find a reason or two to quit the diva slam! Let's dive inside Meghan Markle's two baby showers.
The Duchess of Sussex had the first baby shower at a five-star hotel in New York City on the 20th of February, 2019. It was a very lavish affair that seemed to have cost around $200,000 and which attracted some high-class people and Hollywood faces such as Amal Clooney, Gayle King, and Serena Williams and several other of the Duchess's close friends.
It's been revealed that Meghan Markle will have another baby shower in London very soon. This occasion will reportedly be smaller than the previous one, but it will include her husband, Prince Harry, as well as her mother, Doria Ragland. Neither of them was in attendance at the shower in New York City. The expectant father and grandmother will want to be let in on the fun too.
Guess you are wondering what the other members of the royal family think about the Duchess's lavish events? Although there has been no formal record of the opinions of other members of the royal family on the Duchess of Sussex's baby showers yet, there have been speculations of their reactions.
Former royal family butler, Paul Burrell, with all his many years of interaction with the royal family believes that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would disapprove of Meghan's duo shower spree as he and his wife did not have a baby shower for all three of their children. In his own words;
"I think Williams and Kate Middleton will be totally bewildered by why Meghan is doing all this, as there is no excuse for overindulgence or excess and that's what it seems to me"
British television presenter, Piers Morgan also weighed in his opinion;
"Queen Elizabeth probably does not like it either, we really don't have baby showers in Britain"
He further stressed that the concept of a baby shower itself, the act of throwing an extravagant party with celebrities trooping in with expensive gifts for the arrival of a baby yet to be born is alien to the Brits and the Queen might as well be "what is this?"
When it comes to royals and money, the key thing about the royals is to be understated, Morgan further buttresses his point.
"We all know that they are royal, we all know that they are very wealthy but the absolute number one rule is don't rub the British people's noses in your wealth."
Ingrid Seward, author of a 2017 biography about Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's marriage, does not believe that Her Majesty, the Queen, has any problem with Meghan Markle throwing baby showers. Ingrid explained;
"If she even knows about it, the queen will think, 'I am delighted the girl's enjoying herself.' There may be a bit of in-house sniping from courtiers but not from her."
Now that we have a little bit of understanding of the British public, we might need to do a bit of a recap and help people see from Meghan's perspective too. Is the Duchess really a diva for wanting two baby showers?
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As Piers Morgan pointed out, baby showers are not exactly a part of British traditions but it is understandable that some media outlets and fans are confused or even quite irritated at such an ostentatious party for a royal family member, especially since royals are rich enough to buy anything they could ever need for their child and one of the major characteristics of baby showers is showering the baby with loads of expensive gifts.
Let us remember though that the Duchess of Sussex has American roots. For many American women who are expecting, baby showers are quite important for them. Some might use showers as a way for friends and family members to show some love and buy gifts for their babies or it might act as a way to gather loved ones together to celebrate a significant milestone in their life. It's crystal clear that Meghan has not entirely left her American roots behind.
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Since she is a member of the British royal family with an American background, it makes sense that the Duchess of Sussex (who has the money for it) would have two baby showers to celebrate with friends and family who live in different parts of the world. She was an actress for many years and with many Hollywood connections, so it was inevitable that several famous celebrities were invited to the first shower.
The first shower was for close friends, work buddies and those connections she wouldn't want to lose while the second shower would be in her new home, with her new family and the new friends she has made in her short time there.
Neither of these points would make her a diva but rather a human, an expectant mother, who wants to merge two cultures that she is a part of with her close loved ones and share this new milestone with the important people in her life.
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What is your take on this? Do you think the Duchess is being unreasonable and a spendthrift by having two baby showers? Looking at this from her point of view and also the point of view of the British people, do you see her as being too American? We'll love to read your thoughts and comments as they will help establish this reasoning. Don't forget to share with your friends too, we'll love to hear that takes. Till we meet again.
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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Are Listening to These 10 Podcasts
Want to become a better entrepreneur? Start listening to one or all of these 10 podcasts.
By Sujan Patel, Co-founder, Web Profits@sujanpatel
The rumor mill says Apple and major car manufacturers are in talks to have podcasting be the new "car radio." While I won't speculate, there is no doubting that podcast listenership has grown over the years.
Thirty-three percent of Americans older than 12 have listened to at least one podcast, according to the Pew Research Center.
A strong sign that listeners are craving more podcasts came in the fall of 2014, when Serial became the quickest podcast ever to hit five million downloads.
With the increased listener base iTunes presents (along with Sticher and other third-party listening apps), podcasters are flocking to the platform and launching their own shows.
In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, at the end of 2014 there were 22,000 actively hosted podcasts.
This leads to the question: Of these 22,000, which ones should you skip and which ones should you quickly subscribe to?
Here's a list of the top 10 business podcasts of 2015.
1. The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life
The Top is like a 15-minute, daily, audio version of a monthly income report. Nathan Latka is the 25-year-old CEO at Heyo.com, which has over 10,000 monthly paying customers and $2.5 million in funding. Latka drills into guests in a fast-paced, numbers-driven podcast that leaves you with the income numbers top entrepreneurs generated last month and a clear plan to getting ahead of your competitors, on your way to the top.
Favorite episode: How to sell 1.5m books and command $20k per keynote with Bob Burg
2. Entrepreneurs on Fire
Host John Lee Dumas brings on daily entrepreneurs and discusses their biggest failures, most rewarding successes, and what they'd do to start a business if they were stranded on a deserted island and had to start 100 percent from scratch.
Favorite episode: A brush with death shifted Derek Rydall's mindset
3. The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim is a self-experimenter and best-selling author, best known for the book The 4-Hour Workweek. In this show, he deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas, digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can use.
Favorite episode: Sam Harris on daily routines
4. Smart Passive Income
Pat Flynn releases one episode each week focused on how to generate passive income to free up your time and energy. Pat's been supporting his family 100 percent with passive income generated online, easily earning a six-figure salary while only working a few hours a week. Automation, outsourcing, and SEO are favorite topics you can find discussed on the show.
Favorite episode: How to invest the passive income you earn, episode 174
5. Online Marketing Made Easy With Amy Porterfield
Amy takes a behind-the-scenes approach on her show and shares highly tactical strategies that she employs with her own team and on her own launches. She's a best-selling author, and shows you exactly how to increase your lead generation strategies so you can launch and promote your new program, grow your list, and build your authority.
Favorite episode: #64: A backstage pass to my most successful launch yet
6. ProBlogger Podcast
Darren Rowse is your host and his sole focus is helping you build a better blog. He mixes case studies and actionable challenges to help you create compelling content, find readers for your blog, and deepen engagement with readers. Darren has been blogging since 2002 and making a full-time living from his blogs for the past decade.
Favorite episode: 032: Can you really make money blogging?
7. The James Altucher Show
James is a successful entrepreneur, investor, board member, and the writer of 11 books, including the recent WSJ best-seller, Choose Yourself. In his podcast, he tells life stories based on a plethora of experience -- he went from dead broke, to advising a billion-dollar company, and has had eight exits for himself over his career.
Favorite episode: How to get an MIT education for 1% of the price
8. Mixergy
In his mid-20s, host Andrew Warner built his company to $30 million in annual revenue with no outside funding. Mixergy is the resource he wish he had had back then. This is great street-smart education for any entrepreneur.
Favorite episode: 1188 How to use the media to grow your business
9. The #AskGaryVee Show
Gary answers questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. Anyone can try to get on the show using #askgaryvee on Twitter and Instagram. Each episode averages 20 minutes and a new one is posted once every three or four days.
Favorite episode: How I balance risk and reward in investments
10. Perpetual Traffic
A weekly podcast produced by Digital Marketer. The hosts share cutting-edge strategies on acquiring leads and sales for your business through paid traffic. They focus on getting your product, service, or message in front of your target audience.
Favorite episode: #03: Facebook video ad game plan
What other podcasts would you add to this list? Leave a comment for me below.

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https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/toronto-ontario-canada-june-18-2017-663012397?src=Y-JwD4rTdS1cvlRBjorm4w-1-2A Canadian court is taking charge of $26 million CAD claimed by crypto exchange QuadrigaCX due to a dispute over the funds' provenance.
Judge Glenn Hainey of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) an interpleader order on Nov. 9, allowing the court to take control of the funds until their ownership can be established. However, the bank will maintain liability for the funds, given that CIBC froze the funds on its own initiative.
An interpleader right occurs when at least two parties claim the same funds, whether that is a debt, obligation or money, explained Christine Duhaime, a financial crime lawyer and managing partner of Duhaime Law, which is based in Toronto and Vancouver.
In this case, there was a dispute about which party has a right to about $26 million CAD and $69,000 USD (about $20 million USD overall) that the CIBC froze after questioning whether QuadrigaCX, its payment processor, Costodian, and Costodian director Jose Reyes were entitled to the funds.
Last Friday, Hainey found that the parties involved could not agree on who is actually entitled to the funds.
CIBC will now be required to transfer the funds to the court until it can establish ownership among the claimants.
"The Court holds the disputed funds in trust only until the entitlement to the funds has been lawfully determined and competing claims are resolved," Duhaime, who is not involved in the case, explained.
"The Court holds the disputed funds in trust only until the entitlement to the funds has been lawfully determined and competing claims are resolved," she added.
The judge did not rule on whether CIBC froze the funds wrongfully or not.
This is normal, given that CIBC filed an application, and there has not been a hearing on any party's conduct, Duhaime explained.
The good news for QuadrigaCX customers is they can now apply to have their funds released by the court, she said. The down side to this is their identities may be revealed as a result, which could potentially have tax consequences for some individuals.
He anticipates that the situation will be completed before the upcoming holidays, after the parties have met with a judge.
While he claimed that less than 1 percent of the exchange's customers have been impacted by the banking freeze, he thinks that full services will return to "regular timeframes" within the next few weeks.
Duhaime noted that in general, when banks de-risk accounts they provide clients at least 30 days' notice, though this number may increase to as much as 90–120 days for crypto exchanges.
This allows clients to find alternative banking services.
Banks typically do not hold on to funds in the event of a de-risking action by anti-money laundering specialists, as that would require banks to keep the "high-risk account" open.


Last week, we saw how corporate governance is crucial to enable an organization to perform as per expectations. We spoke about what it is, how it works and how it benefits organizations. This week we will look into how project management features in an organization's growth.
In one of our previous articles we have spoken about project management. Here, we will see what the various phases are and what are the various activities that shall be carried out in the phases.
The project management life cycle can be broken down into four phases namely-initiation, planning, execution and finally closure. In some cases, a fifth phase, of controlling or monitoring is also included, but this can be covered under execution and closure phases.
During all these phases, it is very important for the project managers to be able to proactive and take matters into their own hands.
Begin to solve the problem, or seize the opportunity.
Identify the major deliverables for the project.
Clearly it's worth it to do what it takes to make your voice heard early, before the strategy is set in stone.
A statement of work or project initiation document needs to be drawn out, which may include basic project life cycle flowcharts.
Once you know that the project is feasible and that you can move ahead with it in a way that your business case will be satisfied. The project is approved to move forward based on your business case, statement of work, or project initiation document, you move into the planning phase. The larger project is broken down into smaller tasks. A team is built according to the requirements, and a schedule is chalked out for the completion of assignments. During this phase, you create smaller goals within the larger project, making sure each is achievable within the time frame. Smaller goals should have a high potential for success.
The planning phase is also where you bring your team on board, usually with a project kickoff meeting. It is important to have everything outlined and explained so that team members can quickly get to work in the next phase.
You've received business approval, developed a plan, and built your team. Now it's time to get to work. The execution phase turns your plan into action. The project manager's job in this phase of the project management life cycle is to keep work on track, organize team members, manage timelines, and make sure the work is done according to the original plan.
Once your team has completed work on a project, you enter the closure phase. In the closure phase, you provide final deliverables, release project resources, and determine the success of the project. Just because the major project work is over, that doesn't mean the project manager's job is done—there are still important things to do, including evaluating what did and did not work with the project.
By remaining on task even though the project's work is completed, you will be prepared to take everything you've learned and implement it for your next project.
With software tools like VComply at ready disposal, it has become much easier to be able to manage all aspects of a project efficiently. Furthermore, project management activities always ensure compliance and adherence to the various rules and regulations.


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Wanted: Best journalism from 2017 looking at challenges faced by older people
February 21, 2018		 | By Will Lester | wjlester@aol.com
The National Press Club is eager to see your best journalism from 2017 examining the challenges faced by older people.
The Joseph D. Ryle Award for Excellence in Writing on the Problems of Geriatrics rewards top reporting on aging. That is one of many categories in the Club's annual journalism contest.
Popular superhero The Black Panther featured at Feb. 27 book event
February 19, 2018		 | By Lori Russo | lrusso@stantoncomm.com
On the heels of a record-breaking box office opening for Disney-Marvel's Black Panther superhero film, award-winning journalist and author Jesse J. Holland will share his celebrated novel featuring the superhero, "Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther?" at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 6:30 p.m.
Send your best news photo from 2017 to the National Press Club
The National Press Club's journalism contest will present an award for excellence in news photography again this year, so be sure to enter your best work.
The contest will recognize excellence for an individual news photo and the contest is limited to photos taken during 2017. Only one news photo should be submitted per entry and people are limited to 3 separate entries at most.
The winner will win one year's free Club membership. Members may offer photo entries for free, while non-members pay $50 per entry.
Best young journalists recognized with the Sandy Hume Memorial Award
The National Press Club wants to recognize the best young journalists for outstanding political reporting and writing.
The Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism shines a spotlight on the best such work in 2017. The Club's annual journalism contest offers the Hume award among many on topics ranging from politics to online journalism to foreign coverage.
Veteran journalist discusses new book on achieving a more equitable workplace, March 1
February 16, 2018		 | By Tamara Hinton | tamara.hinton@storypartnersdc.com
Veteran journalist and author, Joanne Lipman, will discuss her new book, That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together, at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1.
Lipman became the first woman to rise to the position of deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal and supervised coverage that won three Pulitzer Prizes. She later moved on to other leadership roles in media, including most recently serving as chief content officer at Gannett and editor-in-chief of USA Today.
The Watergate's mysterious past explored, 6:30 pm Feb. 21
Nearly everyone is familiar with the Nixon-era Watergate scandal, which began with the arrest of five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and ended with the resignation of America's chief executive. But there is more to the history of the Watergate complex.
Joseph Rodata, author of The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address, will take attendees on a deep dive into the Watergate's shadowy past and most intriguing inhabitants at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21.
First female American Legion National Commander to speak at Club, 10 am Feb. 23
February 13, 2018		 | By Ken Dalecki | kdalecki@hotmail.com
Denise Rohan, National Commander of The American Legion, the nation's largest veterans organization, will discuss ways that the Trump Administration and Congress can improve the delivery of benefits to the country's more than 20 million veterans at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker press conference at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 23, in the Club's Bloomberg Room.
Washington regional reporters: Show us your best work
The National Press Club wants to see the best 2017 work of journalists who explain the nation's capital to folks from a hometown perspective.
This prize recognizes Washington-based regional reporters for outstanding efforts to provide a clear understanding of events, issues and politics of importance to a city, state or region. The winner gets a prize of $750.
Starr presents memoir, "Empathy and Eyebrows," 6:30 pm Feb. 13
Danni Starr will present her memoir, Empathy and Eyebrows: A Survivalist's Stories on Reviving Your Spirit After Soul-Crushing Sh*tstorms, at a National Press Club Headliners Book event at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13.
Starr will be one of several authors making appearances at the Club in coming weeks, discussing topics ranging from mental health to the hidden history of The Watergate complex.
The best critical coverage of media to be honored by the National Press Club
Smart critical coverage of the news media is more important than ever. The National Press Club offers the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism, which honors the best coverage in 2017 of media issues.
The award, part of the Club's journalism contest, is sponsored by former U.S. News & World Report journalist Arthur Rowse. The award honors excellence in examining the role and work of the news media. All entries must focus on criticism of journalistic practices or reporting on the industry, and must encourage responsible media behavior.


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Baluchistan's natural resources need to be untapped, for example, it has the world's fifth-largest reserves of gold and copper, that is containing the Tethyan belt of a curve of copper and gold and reserves. This serpentine belt stretches from Hungary in Europe to Indonesia in the Far East across Eurasia but is much readily available in Baluchistan.
The low-level insurgency in Pakistani Baluchistan has been present in the province since independence. There were, at least, five significant spikes in violence that have occurred over the same period with the latest starting in 2006 as a result of the killing of Akbar Bugatti in a military operation and continuing till today up to some extent.
While the Baluch is Sunni Muslims, one-fifths of them inhabit the Sistan, a southeastern province of mostly Shi'a Iran. In fact, at the beginning of the seventies, the Shah of Iran together with Pakistan had conducted a campaign against the Baluch in Pakistan, fearing the wave of Baluch nationalism. Since then Iran has executed many of the leaders of a nationalist movement, Jundallah on the Iranian side of the border with Pakistan.


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TSAGHKADZOR, Armenia—The opening ceremony of the first Pan-Armenian Winter Games took place in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, reported Public Radio of Armenia.
In attendance was President Serzh Sarkisian, who welcomed athletes, participants and guests to the Pan-Armenian Winter Games, noting that after 15 years, the Pan-Armenian Games' expanding geography and continually increasing number of participants are a sign of its popularity.
The President expressed gratitude to all those people whose hard work helped establish the Games 15 years ago and whose hard work continues to make the Games a reality.
"The Pan-Armenian Games are of great importance for us. It is obvious that the Games strengthen bonds between the Homeland and the Diaspora and that they give thousands of young Armenian athletes and people seeking a healthy lifestyle an opportunity to establish new contacts abroad and in their homeland, which is vital in today's world," President Sarkisian said. Wishing everyone fun and successes, the President declared the first Pan-Armenian Winter Games open.
Participants from the Nagorno Karabakh Republic expressed their excitement for the first Pan-Armenian Winter Games and said they are happy for the latest Pan-Armenian sports event, Armenpress reported.
"We have so many expectations from the Games," said Tigran Durgaryan, the coach of Artsakh's only representative athlete Mher Avanesian, an athlete with physical disabilities who will also compete at the Sochi Paralympic Games, set to start March 4th.
Armenpress reports that Mher Avanesyan will represent Armenia at the Sochi Paralympic Games starting on March 4.
"These [Pan-Armenian] Games are quite important for Mher. For him it is also a 'test.' We can learn a lot competing here while we get ready for the Sochi Games," concluded Durganyan.
This will be good practice for some Armenians, who are interested to participate in the next Winter Olympic!


Objective: To compare the location and accessibility of current Australian chronic heart failure (CHF) management programs and general practice services with the probable distribution of the population with CHF.
Design and setting: Data on the prevalence and distribution of the CHF population throughout Australia, and the locations of CHF management programs and general practice services from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2005 were analysed using geographic information systems (GIS) technology.
Outcome measures: Distance of populations with CHF to CHF management programs and general practice services.
Results: The highest prevalence of CHF (20.3–79.8 per 1000 population) occurred in areas with high concentrations of people over 65 years of age and in areas with higher proportions of Indigenous people. Five thousand CHF patients (8%) discharged from hospital in 2004–2005 were managed in one of the 62 identified CHF management programs. There were no CHF management programs in the Northern Territory or Tasmania. Only four CHF management programs were located outside major cities, with a total case load of 80 patients (0.7%). The mean distance from any Australian population centre to the nearest CHF management program was 332 km (median, 163 km; range, 0.15–3246 km). In rural areas, where the burden of CHF management falls upon general practitioners, the mean distance to general practice services was 37 km (median, 20 km; range, 0–656 km).
Conclusion: There is an inequity in the provision of CHF management programs to rural Australians.
Given the apparent mismatch between the demand for and availability of CHF management programs, we sought to accurately compare the location and accessibility of current programs and general practice services with the geographic distribution of people with CHF.
To determine the distribution of CHF management programs throughout Australia, we used the snowball sampling method. This involved contacting leading cardiologists and heart failure nurse specialists in each state and territory and asking them to identify and provide contact details for coordinators of CHF management programs and other specialist clinicians in their region. The process of contact and referral continued until no further programs were identified. Using the GIS software, we mapped the size and location of CHF management programs using exact street addresses. Each CHF management program was mapped according to size using a classification of case load from one patient to more than 200 patients.
General practice locations were identified from a project published by the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA).10 General practices were plotted to exact street addresses using the GIS software.
GIS are used to manage, analyse, and disseminate geographic knowledge. GIS link location to information (such as people to addresses, buildings to parcels, or streets within a network) and layer that information to give a better understanding of how it interrelates.
The GIS software applications used for this project were ESRI ArcView, version 3.3 and ESRI ArcMap, version 8.3 (ESRI, Redlands, Calif, USA).
The GIS aspects of this research involved applying our detailed estimates of CHF for the Australian population (with additional Indigenous weightings) to the smallest spatial statistical unit of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) — the census collection district.
At the 2001 census, there were about 37 000 collection districts across Australia, ranging in size from 0.0022 km2 to 230 000 km2. Each collection district contains on average 225 households within a discrete area. Data collected included the total population of each collection district, including Indigenous population statistics.
CHF prevalence data were applied to the populations of each census collection district for the whole of Australia. The data were mapped thematically to five classes using Jenks' classification.18 This uses naturally occurring breaks in the data histogram to determine where the class breaks should go.
The GIS applications were used to calculate the average road distance from Australia's 13 763 population localities to the nearest CHF management program and general practice.
All data relating to the geographic location of individuals with CHF, CHF management programs, and general practice clinics were processed with the GIS to develop "perfusion" maps that illustrate the relationship between geographic concentrations of patients with CHF and the nearest available health care service. When viewed within the program, the maps provide the opportunity to zoom into smaller areas, such as states or towns, when larger scale information is required.
Sixty per cent of individuals with CHF (198 817) were estimated to reside in capital cities, 20% (64 760) in regional cities, and 20% (71 708) in rural and remote areas. Forty per cent of people with CHF (136 000) were located outside capital cities.
Using ARIA, the CHF management programs were classified into levels of accessibility to essential services. Of the 62 CHF management programs, 93% (58) were located in highly accessible areas (ie, capital cities or metropolitan areas). The remaining four CHF management programs were located in accessible areas (ie, rural towns or cities). No CHF management programs were located in remote areas, and there were no CHF management programs in the Northern Territory or Tasmania.
Using the GIS technology, we calculated that the mean distance from any Australian population centre to the nearest CHF management program was 331.7 km (median, 162.7 km; range, 0.15–3246.3 km).
Box 1 is a spatial map of CHF patients relative to the location of CHF management programs. It illustrates the location of the estimated 335 000 people living with CHF within the community (darker shading reflects higher CHF population concentrations). This map shows many areas of high case numbers outside capital cities, compared with the locations of CHF management programs, which are predominantly in the capital cities.
High prevalence rates (20.3–28.7 per 1000 population) were also observed in areas favoured by retirees, for example, Hervey Bay and Caloundra in Queensland, Shoalhaven, Greater Taree, Coffs Harbour and Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, and Mandurah in Western Australia.
Population centres with general practice services (represented in Box 2 by the dots) in comparison to the CHF population were relatively sparse for most rural and remote areas. We calculated that the mean distance from any Australian population centre to the nearest general practice was 37 km (median, 20 km; range, 0–656 km).
The 62 CHF management programs operating within Australia during the study period were tightly clustered around the capital city regions, predominantly on the eastern seaboard (Box 2). As CHF management programs are a relatively new initiative, this might be expected.
Currently, most remote health services in Australia are provided by state and territory governments, with the Commonwealth funding aspects of Indigenous services and primary health care through Medicare. Although there has been some progress in coordination of responsibility by different levels of government in the area of Indigenous health, there is still no clear responsibility and accountability for health service and health outcomes between the different levels of government. This split in Commonwealth–state funding arrangements makes the delivery of integrated care for people with chronic disease (such as CHF management programs) extremely difficult.
Our study has several limitations that require comment. Most importantly, our technique hinges on accurate population and epidemiological data. In the Australian context, we re-emphasise the need for rigorous epidemiological data that clearly describe the particular characteristics of rural and Indigenous populations, to replace our population estimates.24 The limitation of using ABS census collection district data or any statistical method is the presence of outliers, which create extremes and distort the overall results. There were several locations on our maps that appeared to indicate high prevalence over large areas in remote regions. This phenomenon is caused by the required number of households for a collection district (225) being spread over an extensive geographic area, and is why we presented both the absolute number of cases and overall prevalence rates.
Despite these limitations, our data highlight a clear mismatch between where services are provided and where people with CHF are likely to live in the greatest concentrations. There is a need to provide equitable access to CHF management programs to the ageing population regardless of its location. The use of GIS technology in guiding service and resource allocation is scientifically grounded and free of politics and subjectivity. The concepts presented in this article are internationally unique and could have broad application for all chronic disease service research.
*Natural Breaks (Jenks') Classification. ABS = Australian Bureau of Statistics. ASGC = Australian Standard Geographical Classification. CD = collection district. GISCA = National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems.
4 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA.
This study was a collaborative project between the University of South Australia, Deakin University, GISCA, the University of Adelaide and the Baker Heart Research Institute. Robyn Clark is supported by the National Institute of Clinical Studies and the National Heart Foundation Australia. Andrea Driscoll is supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council and the National Heart Foundation Australia. The research team wish to thank Chris Medlin and Graeme Hugo for their advice and contribution to this project.
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18. TerraSeer space-time intelligence system (STIS). About Jenks' natural breaks. http://www.terraseer.com/products/stis/help/default.htm#interface/map/classify/About_natural_breaks.htm (accessed Dec 2006).
23. Krum H, Tonkin AM, Pitterman L. Bush telegraph: improving outcomes for the rural and remote patient with chronic heart failure. Aust Fam Physician 2005; 33: 76-77.


When you pick up your chopsticks, you join in a cultural custom and you're responsible for understanding the etiquette behind them.
What is one of the best parts of traveling abroad? It's the food, of course! Eating different foods native to a country, authentically prepared by locals is special, as it is not the same here in America. Trying these native foods will only widen what you know about a country's cuisine.


A hybrid mobile app is similar to any app that you download from an App Store, but the fundamentals of how they work is different from native apps.
Where Do Hybrid Mobile Apps Come From?
The above graph clearly communicates that the number of mobile users have clearly overtaken desktop users, which is resulting in businesses refocusing priorities to cater to mobile users. While businesses already had a presence on the web—in most cases a website—the easiest option for them to scale up to all mobile platforms is to consider the hybrid approach. It helps them to keep teams with similar skillsets without having to invest hugely in iOS, Android, or Windows Native developers in one go. It sounds like a cost effective strategy, so let's dig deeper.
HTML5, CSS3 & ES6 in a Mobile App. Really?
In recent years the web has moved towards standards. We rarely find new web apps with metatags for compatibility with IE6. These HTML5, CSS3 and ES6 standards means the web is now cleaner, working across standard browsers without having to change code. In fact, you can scan your website for interoperability best practices here that also help development of cross-platform hybrid apps.
Looking at this, we can leverage the standards to ensure we end up using the same DOM even in hybrid mobile apps across all platforms. This approach helps us write clean code and helps easily maintain it. Check out the code for the native-looking header bar for iOS, Android and Windows Phone on JSFiddle.
Similarly, we can use platform specific fonts by querying device type.
These plug-ins include APIs for accessing the device's accelerometer, contacts, camera, and more. There are also a number of plug-ins that are built and maintained by the developer community at large. These can be found in the Apache Cordova Plugins Registry.
While installing Visual Studio 2015 (try VS Code for Mac, Linux, or Windows or the new Dev Essentials offerings that includes cross-platform tools) ensure that you select custom install and select checkbox for 'Tools for Apache Cordova'.
You can use AngularJS or any other JS library of your choice, with Intellisense. Hence developers can be more productive using Visual Studio. Not just this but the debugging experience is great too. Visual Studio ships an Android Emulator which boots up lightning fast compared to the one present with the SDK.
Increasingly, hosted web apps are a new lower cost way to build cross-platforms apps using a pre-existing web experience. The web app is hosted on the server and the HTML/CSS/JS files are not present locally in the package. Open source libraries like manifold.JS have increasingly made this path easier – you build your manifest file, upload logos, and you can quickly put your web app in the Android, iOS, and Windows Stores. Some platforms like the Universal Windows Platform also permit use of native APIs like notifications and monetization features. You can follow this tutorial to create a hosted web application in a few minutes for Windows 10.
This sounds like a great option for web developers who already have responsive web applications to get started with UWP APIs without having to start from scratch.
Application updates are controlled from the server, so the application is always updated.
Native API access/Cortana/Windows Hello etc.
It requires a consistent network connection, as the application files are hosted on the server.
Then Why Use Native at All?
In the past Facebook had leveraged the hybrid approach for their apps to ship cross-platform, which they replaced later with native apps, claiming faster performance since native apps leverage platform specific APIs. I am not suggesting that hybrid apps are always a failure, but you need to select the approach wisely based on your app requirements, user expectations, APIs that you want to use, etc. At the end of the day all you want is that the users enjoy and use your application as much as possible.
The statistics from flurry below show the usage of different categories of apps on Android and iOS.
This is interesting to know as it gives an insight into what end users like doing most on each platform. If your app's category coincides with higher percentage use apps, you have a bigger audience but might have stiffer competition from other apps. You might consider this in taking a call for hybrid or native application development.
I have seen many B2B apps using hybrid approaches to meet business requirements over focusing on end user experience, many of whom can afford to do this as their audience is already well-trained in using their existing apps.
In B2C scenarios, the focus changes a bit. End users expect the simplest and the best of experiences from your application, so you need to focus on UX, performance, simplicity, stickiness and other consumer retention concerns. There's nothing better than when you can use a native platform specific feature here like 'Windows Hello' to authenticate the user by scanning their retina or leverage TouchID in an iOS App.
Abhishek Narain is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. You can read more articles from Abhishek at MSDN.


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The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat
A Rabbit left his home one day for a dinner of clover. But he forgot to latch the door of his house and while he was gone a Weasel walked in and calmly made himself at home. When the Rabbit returned, there was the Weasel's nose sticking out of the Rabbit's own doorway, sniffing the fine air....

A Rabbit left his home one day for a dinner of clover. But he forgot to latch the door of his house and while he was gone a Weasel walked in and calmly made himself at home. When the Rabbit returned, there was the Weasel's nose sticking out of the Rabbit's own doorway, sniffing the fine air.

The Rabbit was quite angry for a Rabbit and requested the Weasel to move out. But the Weasel was perfectly content. He was settled down for good.

A wise old Cat heard the dispute and offered to settle it.

"Come close to me," said the Cat, "I am very deaf. Put your mouths close to my ears while you tell me the facts."

The unsuspecting pair did as they were told and in an instant the Cat had them both under her claws. No one could deny that the dispute had been definitely settled.

The strong are apt to settle questions to their own advantage.


If the old masters of the Renaissance had a computer, would they have painted with a brush? A self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci turns up in our gallery five centuries after his death.
Computer graphic e-art. Different kinds and genres of computer graphics, computer design.
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love that t-shirt lol!!!! raaaawr ftw!!
Why is there a worldmap hanging in the bathroom?
lol it's just a toilet room with a place for doing hair kinda weird i know but my dad thought it was funny to hang that map up there.
for Bas who is too lazy to use google translate, it means 'loverboys'.


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I am so honored to be nominated for the Kreativ Blogger Award by the kofegeek!
I always find the kofegeeks blogs to be extremely entertaining and informative! Her personality is always portrayed in such a unique manner. This is the first nomination for an award that I have received and I am very honored! Thank you kofegeek!
I am excited to nominate 7 other artistic extremely talented bloggers out there who deserve this award.
1. I tend to be very spontaneous in my thought process, if I let my head go on a creative out burst it will usually hit so many topics I can't keep track.
2. I am terrible at remembering people's names and if I don't relate their name to an object or act I will most likely forget it.
3. I am extremely obsessive about my art supplies and how they are laid out when I draw. And I do not enjoy it when people touch my art pencils when I'm drawing.
4. I can relate almost every aspect of my day with a line from either a motion picture or Disney movie. They fly out of my mouth when ever the opportunity arises.
5. I am not a very good learner. Things take me a bit to catch on to what the heck is going on.
7. I have had nic names such as Melon Ellen, Smellen Ellen, Elmllen (a mixture of me and my sis's name) and Ellenora Roary Drawers.
Inner Warrior Martial Arts is a self-defense blog for women and is extremely informational. His advice about self-defense and personal safety is more than just useful important information but it is a life saver. I am always impressed with his knowledge.
Vikram Roy's blog is a very versatile blog ranging from poetry, literature, articles and movies. He has a unique mind and was one of my first followers. I find his pieces to be inspiring and ever-changing.
mommydaybyday is a fantastic blog about the joys of being a mom day by day. I can totally relate to her in so many ways. Her stories of her kids and family life are uplifting and hit home on a lot of levels!
A Detailed house is a wonderful blog about architecture and the designs of homes. Her "How to" and "Do it yourself" post are awesome and the pictures are great! It makes me want to redecorate my house and makes me feel able to do it on my own.
Cook Every Day is a food blog about recipes and kitchen tips. I love food so this is one of my favorites as well. Her tips about preserving lime slices and making Carmel are awesome. Her simple pan sauces and puff pastry dishes are amazing and informative.
dinutrition is a great blog about a nutritionist way of healthy living. All of her post provide wonderful information about the nutritional value of what is in the recipe or item of discussion. Great information and excellent recipes.
kazualkreative is another fantastic blog about nutritional foods that are so good for you. One of my favorites that I am going to try next is Quinoa Peanut Butter and Chocolate chip cookies. I love healthy recipes and she has them on her blog!
Thank you to all my followers and fellow bloggers! I love reading all of your posts and am always impressed with your talents!
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Do passive-avoidance tasks permit assessment of retrograde amnesia in rats?
Thomas J. Carew
Neural Science
In Exp. I, 126 male hooded Long-Evans rats were trained in a modified step-down apparatus which permitted the usual measurement of retrograde amnesia (RA) in terms of latencies but which also permitted the independent assessment of RA in terms of an active-avoidance measure. This was accomplished by providing cues for Ss to discriminate the place where footshock was received. In Exp. II, 87 Ss were trained in a similarly modified step-through task. In both tasks, most of the same Ss which gave evidence of RA as assessed by a passive-avoidance measure showed no memory deficit when an active-avoidance criterion was used. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
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I had been waiting for the day with anxiety and curiosity.
How Has Technology Affected Your Life?
Technology is an essential need in everybody s life.
Advertisers muddy the airwaves of radio and television and pollute the view of travelers. DAY 1: discovery, the first day is, essentially, about scaring you into realising how much of you is online via search engines. It sounds like a guide to logging off, but as somebody whose job requires me to be online almost all of the time, that could be professional suicide. Because of that, you shouldn't deposit any letters you might feel to write in the same box as they will be delayed.) The police will keep any firearm you deposit into a postal box for a long, long time, perhaps even destroying it even though. Under the impact of electronic media, however, this psychological distance has broken down and now we discover that these people with whom we could formerly compromise on interests are not, after all, really motivated by interests but by values. That'll kill the car for sure and will do the job quickly. But it did shed some light on the influence of what other peoples search entries can make on my digital self, and thats quite disarming. Realize that they will be a shock to your system and expect what is to be expected from a radical dietary shift. For as long as possible, don't ask friends for help or shelter - most of all never ask family members! Hopefully you've managed to save aside some cash but that won't last long. Such a notice might say something like "Use only SAE 30" or "Use only SAE 10-40." Add as much sand and gravel as possible.


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Home World Asia Morocco-Palestine Friendship Group reaffirms solidarity with Palestinian people
Morocco-Palestine Friendship Group reaffirms solidarity with Palestinian people
Rabat (UNA-OIC) – The Morocco-Palestine Friendship and Cooperation Group at the House of Advisors reaffirmed, on Wednesday in Rabat, its full, unwavering and unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people.
During a meeting with the Palestinian Ambassador in Rabat Jamal Choubki, the group highly praised the resistance and activism of the Palestinian people, particularly the population of Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Jerusalem), to face the Israeli attacks against children, women and the elderly.
The Palestinian cause is a national cause placed alongside the question of the territorial integrity of the Kingdom, affirmed the president of the group, Fatima Zahra Yahyaoui in a speech.
The Palestinian issue is that of all Moroccans from all political and union affiliations, she insisted, adding that the Moroccan people have always had an emotional and spiritual relationship with Palestine and Al-Quds in particular.
For his part, the Palestinian ambassador stressed the importance of this solidarity and support, noting that Morocco is a strong and influential country in its region.
On this occasion, Choubki expressed his gratitude to King Mohammed VI for his human initiatives, welcoming the efforts made by the Bait Mal Al Quds Asharif Agency, which supports the population of Al-Quds through many projects.
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The Metal Works Refinery is a different kind of metal processing system. By using small independent systems that are able to be mobilized and moved to required locations... makes the system more versatile than existing metal processing system. The system would then be of the size able to be mounted upon a semi truck trailer.
The turn table, then with pneumatic part ejection system, also ejects the cast part to the electric conveyor belt system to be moved to the next stage that the part is intended for. The mounting for the turn table then is able to motion to stow in the vertical position (depicted in the horizontal position). The turn table also able to match the height of the gate's elevation. ie.. has the ability to vertical travel.
The laser system then running along the length of the melt trough is by carbon dioxide laser system powered by a fuel less high voltage generator. The sides of the trough shield the system from any exterior emission of laser light.
The system will then also be equipped with work lighting for safety in low light conditions.
The material feed conveyors then having the ability to hinge and "park" / lock ( via locking pin and cotter pin), in the vertical position by hydraulic piston system. This allows for travel with the total vertical height to remain within the highway standard maximum height.
The power plant for the metal melter then within a slide drawer opening from the rear of the trailer chassis. The slide drawer then also containing the systems control electronics, air pump systems, and pollution control system for the Amine (CO2 scrubber / stripper), system.
The system control panel then aft located upon the exterior face of the slide drawer with weather safe clamping enclosure that is transparent to then be able to view the warning lamps when the system indicates a system fault upon the control panel display via lamp.An infrared remote control system is also contained within the system. The remote control then also containing a photovoltaic solar panel to charge the remote control rechargeable battery.
The off loading conveyor then also recessed within the chassis of the trailer to then unload the metal part post mold pour. The said conveyor then extended by hydraulic piston system and motivated by redundant system containing hydraulic flow conveyor belt gearing and hydraulic impeller - and pump. The conveyor belt also able to be motivated by electric motor.
The total system then also containing redundant electrical grounding earth insert pins...both for the generator system and the trailer chassis itself.
To clarify the "spout" on the molten pool remains at location...as depicted the valve / gate then able to hinge allowing shallow depth of molten metal to then be directed to the turn table to cast the part. Most to the depiction for the molten pool then is the electric furnace system..... low molten metal depth within the horizontal plane in line with the trough hinge then being the molten metal pool's floor. The molten metal pool also has an operational "lid" able to be opened for clean out... a locking safety system that references the system temperature will lock the lid preventing it from opening until the temperature is safe..


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ASX's winning run comes to an end: Wednesday 14 October
Steven Deare
Australia's share market has fallen short of an eighth consecutive positive session but an expert says the result is a good one given a poor US lead and coronavirus worries in Europe.
The S&P/ASX200 benchmark finished down by 16.5 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 6179.2 on Wednesday.
The index finished below the 6200 level, which it breached on Tuesday for the first time since March.
The All Ordinaries index was down 12.8 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 6387.4.
US markets finished lower after Johnson & Johnson paused a COVID-19 vaccine study when a participant fell ill.
Investsmart market strategist Evan Lucas said the ASX result was a good one given the US lead and more coronavirus restrictions being imposed in Europe.
The World Health Organisation said more than 700,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Europe last week, a jump of 34 per cent from the previous week.
Mr Lucas saw more reason for optimism locally following "astounding" consumer confidence figures.
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index jumped 11.9 per cent to 105 points, its highest level since July 2018.
Mr Lucas said it was an incredibly robust performance given the virus and economic impact.
"That this is one of the best times to be buying a house is an amazing thing to be talking about," he said.
Experts credited the result to the federal budget, low virus infections and hopes of a rate cut.
On the ASX, healthcare was the best performer, 1.28 per cent higher.
CSL narrowed guidance on net profit and said it expected growth of three to eight per cent.
Chief executive Paul Perreault told an annual general meeting the previous low end of the range had been revised from zero to three per cent. This would give net profit after tax of $2.170 billion to $2.265 billion.
Shares rose by 1.36 per cent to $302.29.
The tech sector was next best, up 1.1 per cent.
It improved after financial crimes watchdog AUSTRAC decided it would take no more action against Afterpay.
An auditor decided the company met anti-money laundering requirements.
Afterpay reached a record price of $98.68, then finished 1.73 per cent higher to $96.09.
Bank of Queensland posted a fall in full-year profit, due to the virus, but believed better days were ahead.
Net profit was $115 million for fiscal 2020, down 61 per cent.
The annual dividend was slashed to 12 cents per share, down from 65 cents previously.
Shares were higher by 5.16 per cent to $6.73.
Westpac will consolidate international operations to London, New York and Singapore, and leave Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Jakarta and Mumbai.
The decision would not have a significant impact on earnings, the bank said.
The big four banks all lost more than 1.0 per cent.
In mining, BHP dropped 0.77 per cent to $36.03, Rio Tinto lost 1.26 per cent to $95.33 and Fortescue dropped 1.38 per cent to $16.39.
Building materials supplier James Hardie Industries raised its full-year profit forecast and said it expected record second-quarter results from solid demand. Shares were better by 1.59 per cent to $35.78.
Earlier in the US, all three major stock indices closed lower.
The virus study setback coincided with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejecting a $US1.8 trillion ($A2.5 trillion) coronavirus relief proposal from the White House.
On Thursday, employment data for September will be of main interest and indicate how the national economy is faring in the coronavirus recession.
The Aussie dollar was buying 71.67 US cents at 1720 AEDT, lower from 71.88 US cents at the close of trade on Tuesday.
ON THE ASX
* The S&P/ASX200 benchmark finished down by 16.5 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 6179.2 on Wednesday.
* The All Ordinaries index ended lower by 12.8 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 6387.4.
* At 1720 AEDT, the SPI200 futures index was higher by 4.0 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 6165.
CURRENCY SNAPSHOT
One Australian dollar buys:
* 71.67 US cents, from 71.87 US cents on Tuesday
* 75.58 Japanese yen, from 75.71 yen
* 61.02 Euro cents, from 60.92 cents
* 55.51 British pence, from 55.05 pence
* 107.69 NZ cents, from 108.03 cents.
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I had a history of choosing the same Halloween costume year after year when I was a kid.
I was a princess, then a queen, Cinderella… well, you get the idea. Royalty was kind of my thing.
While I never enjoyed being any of those scary things, I did enjoy eating spooky Halloween food.
Out of all the Halloween recipes I've helped my Mom make, enjoyed at school parties and made for my friends, this recipe for witches brew is, by far, the funnest to eat.
It totally looks like bubbles, doesn't it? Ha! Too fun.
I've been enjoying breakfast pudding every morning since I shared the recipe back in June. Heck, I even made a huge batch and took it camping with us this past summer!
This pudding will keep your insides smiling (rrr witch crackling in this case).
And really, with a breakfast like this in front of you, you'll be smiling ear to ear, too!
To email, text or print this recipe, click here.
Digestion stimulating breakfast that will make any witch happy!
Ground flax seeds, then pepita seeds. Set ground pepita seeds aside on a plate.
Prepare serving dishes by dabbing a knife in some coconut nectar and running it along the edge of a bowl and flipping it over into the ground pepita seed mixture to create a rimmed bowl effect. Set aside.
Add remaining ingredients except grapes to a blender and blend until smooth.
Stir in grapes. Do not blend grapes.
Drop into prepared dishes and serve.
You can use pre-ground flax seed for this recipe, it just wont yield the same health benefits as fresh ground flax seed (the nutrients deplete over time so it's best to ground your flax seed yourself. I use a $20 coffee grinder to grain small amounts of nuts, seeds, grains and spices. Such a great tool to have in a healthy kitchen!
Flax oil is another sensitive recipe, but well worth taking care of. Make sure that you purchase an oil that's been refrigerated and in a dark bottle. Store in the fridge at all times!
Add these ingredients, along with a handful of spinach, yogurt, lemon juice and banana to your blender.
Rim your bowls with whatever you have handy. Honey, agave, whatever.
It doesn't have to be perfect either, in fact the more messy it is the better. You're making a caldron!
And portion out into your prepared cups.


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Employee Review – Have an employee eagerly anticipating the arrival of a new product? Or one who really takes the time to look at products to have a better pitch to the customer? Let them post a review! You'll get away from the marketing copy with the words of a real user.
Artist Inspiration – From fashion design to fine art to food a good question to ask is "What was the inspiration behind this?" This information is a fun tidbit for customers, while still allowing you to talk about the newest works.
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The Aletheia (Dickens-Dayton Publishing Co., Chicago, IL), 1970-09-30
SYLVIA THANAS "The legacy of past discriminatory practices has left the legal profession with approximately 3,000 Negro attorneys among more than 300,000 attorneys in the United States today." Gel 1 horn, 1968 Duke Law Journal "The Negro...must see or at least know that there are Negro lawyers if we are to dispel the myth that 'the law is solely the white man's business. Carl, Journal of Legal Education, 1967 "In bringing legal council to the poor, in administering criminal justice, as well as in the struggle for civil nights, an increased number of Negro lawyers can make a great contribution." Justice Wi 11 iam J. Brennan, Jr., Rutgers University School of LawNewark Bulletin, 1969-70 "DePaul university has a commitment to all its students, although at times certain severe problems may seem to focus on the needs of certain groups." DPU Progress Report, 1969 In the two years that passed since Gel 1 horn (the author of the first quote above) estimated the ratio of black attorneys to white, the percentage has cl irrbed from his one per cent to an estimated two per cent. Up until this school year, DePaul's College of Law had registered ten black individuals (vs. 650 students in the college) in its classes. Clearly, the needs of the black comninity were not being met, at least at DePaul. Leigh H. Taylor, chairman of the committee that eventually organized a pre-law program for black students at DePaul this summer felt that the core of the problem was the unrel iabil ity of the admissions standards, and the failure to realize their limited accuracy. DePaul requires a 2.5 grade point average and a score of 525 on the Legal Scholastic Aptitude Test. "These are just rough indicators of success," he said, "and admissions people all over give them a scientific certainty that they were never meant to have. That's not to mention the fact they're culturally biased—then they're even less true in terms of blacks or other minority groups." Francine Stewart, a graduate of DePaul University, agreed on VOLUME q, NUMBER 2 A JOURNAL OF ISSUES AND EVENTS FOR UNIVERSITY READERS BLACKS IN the inherent bias of the LSAT. Outside of a question about sluns, she said the other question "relevant" to black culture ran something like: Q. Wiich of these is a black musician?a. Louis Armstrong b. Benny Goodman c. Tommy Dorsey This sumner, however, a pilot program was organized based on the idea that the student's own motivation is the best indicator of success in lawtrue of any students, but especially in the case of minorities, for who a nonbiased exam or any other approximate An experiment in realistic admissions policies Leigh H. Taylor measuring device does not exist. B1 acks were recruited in this year's program primarily because of the significant size of the black community in Chicago. Thirty-four students were included in the class, ranging in age from 22 to 40. They may or may not have met the regular admissions standards, but if they received a grade of 75 or better they were given credit for the course and were admitted into the law school. The course itself was a regular freshman level law course, Torts I. Originally it was scheduled and ran six hours a v^ek but later grew into a four day, eight hour a week session. The normal material was cohered, end normal grading used. Richard C. Turkington, the professor who taught the course, departed from normal teaching procedure only to organize and aid small study groups and to give four examinations. "I consider them an exceptional class.. they were always prepared and studied in groups regularly and took four tests and spent a lot of time working this summer. There are shortcuts—you can buy canned briefs, you can pencil them in your book—these students weren't into that." The final results were that of the 34 students, 30 are entering the freshman class at DePaul, three elsev^rere, and one will work a year and then enrol 1. Miss Stewart, James Hammonds (another DPU graduate) and a third student organized and analyzed a questionnaire that 18 of the students returned. Though all were "content," there were aspects that had to be improved. A primary one among all the students was financial aid. Ordinarily, a program such as this is awarded so much money to pay the way for so many students. The University, having adopted "a cautious spirit—a let's wait and see attitude," (Turkington's words), gave a few tuition grants. The Cook County Bar Association, primarily a black bar, also donated. Taylor described other financial aid efforts as "whatever we could do for the students in other ways, by putting them in touch with somebody, getting them a job, trying to see that he got what he needed to get through." Miss Stewart concurred that most of the students were on their own. "Even after the course was over, many students had no financial ccnmittmsnt or seme that were very vague." The Office of Economic Education in 1968 had developed the Council on Legal Education (CLE0) that organized training programs in several institutes. The DePaul program (the only one of its kind in this area) was organized around the experience of this council, but independent of it. Ihder CLE0, a student not only received tuition grants, but also a stipend that reimbursed him for the money he would have earned if he had been working instead of going to school. CLEO's 1969 figures show that 437 out of 4ff) students completed the course and 370 enrolled in law schools. But for 1970, the 0E0 has 1imited the number of students accepted by the council to 200. DePaul was very much on her own to find funds. Miss Stewart anniented on the teaching techniques. On the one hand com SEPT. 30, 1970 LAW mending the teachers for their availability and their work in the small study groups, Miss Stewart felt that "they stressed the fact there was 1imited time to ask questions some answers to the questions were vague." She was also critical of the poor pub1icity and recruiting techniques of the program. Most of the students "found out by word of mouth others heard representatives sent to their schools." But did she recommend the program? "Definitely. I would like to see it next year, after weeding out the undesirable points. But I don't really think it can expand. DePaul is too rigid, systematized." The idea behind this new "admissions device" seems like a good thing. The traditional policy of "how good is his score?" reeks of slaughtering students to the "good name" of the university. It should be the other way around. It's the educated individual that will hopefully fix our society, and a man's desire to learn is not measured in col- Richard C. Turkington lege board scores. The only indicator is himself, his effort and motivation. Taylor couldn't see the feasibility of the program being adopted universally for the pragmatic problems—raising the additional money, recruiting the necessary faculty and office people to work during the sumner and conduct the program on a large scale. In the meantime, then, the only other alternative we have is the regular admissions procedure, which consciously or unconsciously promotes wallowing in smug little pools of prestigious numbers, knowing perhaps nothing, but so what?
Batch name depaulia01
Title The Aletheia (Dickens-Dayton Publishing Co., Chicago, IL), 1970-09-30
Series or Other Title Aletheia (also published as: Altheia, Althia)
Transcript SYLVIA THANAS "The legacy of past discriminatory practices has left the legal profession with approximately 3,000 Negro attorneys among more than 300,000 attorneys in the United States today." Gel 1 horn, 1968 Duke Law Journal "The Negro...must see or at least know that there are Negro lawyers if we are to dispel the myth that 'the law is solely the white man's business. Carl, Journal of Legal Education, 1967 "In bringing legal council to the poor, in administering criminal justice, as well as in the struggle for civil nights, an increased number of Negro lawyers can make a great contribution." Justice Wi 11 iam J. Brennan, Jr., Rutgers University School of LawNewark Bulletin, 1969-70 "DePaul university has a commitment to all its students, although at times certain severe problems may seem to focus on the needs of certain groups." DPU Progress Report, 1969 In the two years that passed since Gel 1 horn (the author of the first quote above) estimated the ratio of black attorneys to white, the percentage has cl irrbed from his one per cent to an estimated two per cent. Up until this school year, DePaul's College of Law had registered ten black individuals (vs. 650 students in the college) in its classes. Clearly, the needs of the black comninity were not being met, at least at DePaul. Leigh H. Taylor, chairman of the committee that eventually organized a pre-law program for black students at DePaul this summer felt that the core of the problem was the unrel iabil ity of the admissions standards, and the failure to realize their limited accuracy. DePaul requires a 2.5 grade point average and a score of 525 on the Legal Scholastic Aptitude Test. "These are just rough indicators of success," he said, "and admissions people all over give them a scientific certainty that they were never meant to have. That's not to mention the fact they're culturally biased—then they're even less true in terms of blacks or other minority groups." Francine Stewart, a graduate of DePaul University, agreed on VOLUME q, NUMBER 2 A JOURNAL OF ISSUES AND EVENTS FOR UNIVERSITY READERS BLACKS IN the inherent bias of the LSAT. Outside of a question about sluns, she said the other question "relevant" to black culture ran something like: Q. Wiich of these is a black musician?a. Louis Armstrong b. Benny Goodman c. Tommy Dorsey This sumner, however, a pilot program was organized based on the idea that the student's own motivation is the best indicator of success in lawtrue of any students, but especially in the case of minorities, for who a nonbiased exam or any other approximate An experiment in realistic admissions policies Leigh H. Taylor measuring device does not exist. B1 acks were recruited in this year's program primarily because of the significant size of the black community in Chicago. Thirty-four students were included in the class, ranging in age from 22 to 40. They may or may not have met the regular admissions standards, but if they received a grade of 75 or better they were given credit for the course and were admitted into the law school. The course itself was a regular freshman level law course, Torts I. Originally it was scheduled and ran six hours a v^ek but later grew into a four day, eight hour a week session. The normal material was cohered, end normal grading used. Richard C. Turkington, the professor who taught the course, departed from normal teaching procedure only to organize and aid small study groups and to give four examinations. "I consider them an exceptional class.. they were always prepared and studied in groups regularly and took four tests and spent a lot of time working this summer. There are shortcuts—you can buy canned briefs, you can pencil them in your book—these students weren't into that." The final results were that of the 34 students, 30 are entering the freshman class at DePaul, three elsev^rere, and one will work a year and then enrol 1. Miss Stewart, James Hammonds (another DPU graduate) and a third student organized and analyzed a questionnaire that 18 of the students returned. Though all were "content," there were aspects that had to be improved. A primary one among all the students was financial aid. Ordinarily, a program such as this is awarded so much money to pay the way for so many students. The University, having adopted "a cautious spirit—a let's wait and see attitude," (Turkington's words), gave a few tuition grants. The Cook County Bar Association, primarily a black bar, also donated. Taylor described other financial aid efforts as "whatever we could do for the students in other ways, by putting them in touch with somebody, getting them a job, trying to see that he got what he needed to get through." Miss Stewart concurred that most of the students were on their own. "Even after the course was over, many students had no financial ccnmittmsnt or seme that were very vague." The Office of Economic Education in 1968 had developed the Council on Legal Education (CLE0) that organized training programs in several institutes. The DePaul program (the only one of its kind in this area) was organized around the experience of this council, but independent of it. Ihder CLE0, a student not only received tuition grants, but also a stipend that reimbursed him for the money he would have earned if he had been working instead of going to school. CLEO's 1969 figures show that 437 out of 4ff) students completed the course and 370 enrolled in law schools. But for 1970, the 0E0 has 1imited the number of students accepted by the council to 200. DePaul was very much on her own to find funds. Miss Stewart anniented on the teaching techniques. On the one hand com SEPT. 30, 1970 LAW mending the teachers for their availability and their work in the small study groups, Miss Stewart felt that "they stressed the fact there was 1imited time to ask questions some answers to the questions were vague." She was also critical of the poor pub1icity and recruiting techniques of the program. Most of the students "found out by word of mouth others heard representatives sent to their schools." But did she recommend the program? "Definitely. I would like to see it next year, after weeding out the undesirable points. But I don't really think it can expand. DePaul is too rigid, systematized." The idea behind this new "admissions device" seems like a good thing. The traditional policy of "how good is his score?" reeks of slaughtering students to the "good name" of the university. It should be the other way around. It's the educated individual that will hopefully fix our society, and a man's desire to learn is not measured in col- Richard C. Turkington lege board scores. The only indicator is himself, his effort and motivation. Taylor couldn't see the feasibility of the program being adopted universally for the pragmatic problems—raising the additional money, recruiting the necessary faculty and office people to work during the sumner and conduct the program on a large scale. In the meantime, then, the only other alternative we have is the regular admissions procedure, which consciously or unconsciously promotes wallowing in smug little pools of prestigious numbers, knowing perhaps nothing, but so what?
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