A bit of savvy planning before, during and after meetings can ensure that things get done.
The old cliché has it that only two things are certain: death and taxes. But I believe there are actually three certainties: death, taxes and meetings. And, don't you know, there seems to be a gazzilion opportunities to meet.
Most of us face staff, department and task force meetings at work. Then there are board, membership and planning meetings for schools, church, non-profits, clubs, sports, etc. The list could go on forever.
How many times did you feel that the meeting you just left was a waste of your time because very little or nothing was accomplished? Maybe it was the participants who were not prepared or chaos prevailed due to lack of leadership.
So, the next time you are put in charge — and have to call the meeting yourself — think about how you conduct yourself as a leader. A bit of savvy planning before, during and after meetings can ensure that things get done, participants feel productive and it was time well spent. Follow these 21 tips the next time you are in charge of a meeting, then sit back and enjoy the accolades you receive for a job well done.
First of all, establish goals — what is the purpose of this meeting? Then objectives — what do we want to accomplish? And, finally, outcome — how do we measure our performance? These give your meeting direction, purpose and a basis for all decision making.
Each person should have a reason to be at the meeting, and be sure to include decision makers who can move things forward. Perhaps an expert outside the group needs to attend. Remember, a meeting can be ineffective if there are too few or too many people.
This is critical to success. Limit the agenda to one page, if possible, and send it out to participants prior to the meeting. Identify persons responsible for topics and allot a realistic time for each topic. Address top priority items first and avoid death traps, like planning around one person's agenda.
Send out materials in plenty of time for participants to read, instructing them to come prepared to discuss the materials — and not to read them during the meeting. Ask for any other information that needs to be distributed prior to the meeting.
Here is your logistics checklist: location, adequate room size, room set up, A/V needs, signage, food or refreshments, phone line with speaker, easy parking, easy access, sign-in table, name tags, ADA compliant. If meeting in a public place, avoid crowded, noisy areas or areas where sensitive conversations could be overheard.
Start on time! After introductions all around, review the agenda and ask for any changes or amendments. If the participants are new to each other, use a fun "ice breaker" to help everyone relax and become familiar with each other.
Invite open and frank conversations. Encourage people to speak without intimidation or ridicule. Ask for respect of others who are speaking. Deal with the issue, not the person. Listen!
Ask the participants to establish rules for cell phone usage, tardiness, leaving early, absence, interrupting, side-bar talking. When participants make the rules, they tend to enforce them as well. That means you, as leader, do not have to be the meeting police.
Select two participants who are dependable and willing to take minutes or notes of the meetings. The "scribes" can share responsibilities of disseminating minutes, keeping a record of all handouts and materials as well as producing a final report, if necessary.
Select a person who isn't afraid to speak up when time is running out on a topic. Of course, the group can always agree to extend the time and set a new deadline.
When brainstorming or problem solving is needed, gather participants in small groups to discuss the topic. Ask each group to report 2-3 best ideas, solutions, etc. Then the entire group can combine suggestions and narrow them down to the most popular or logical ones. This exercise is effective for 10 minutes to an hour or more.
At the end of the meeting, the chair or scribe can summarize the action items and who is responsible for them. Identify completion date and reporting expectations (by the 10th of the month, next Tuesday, next meeting). Appoint a "nudger" who will gently remind the participants when the deadline is near.
Send minutes within five days after the meeting. Send absent participants all materials that were handed out at the meeting when sending them minutes. Minutes should clearly (I like in bold) identify the action items and responsibility. Be sure to note the date, time and place of the next meeting.
As you go along, take time to periodically measure and evaluate your progress by referring to the original goals and objectives. Ask group members to evaluate their progress. You may be pleasantly surprised about your progress and productivity.
You are the leader … take the leadership role. Anticipate needs. Have a backup plan!
This really works! Start your meeting at an odd time, say 10:49 am or 3:33 pm. Participants are more likely to be on time. Maybe it is curiosity — what is he/she up to? — but it works.
When people are discussing one topic, sometimes an idea pops up about something else that is unrelated. Have stickie notes handy to record the idea and post it on a "Parking Lot" white board or paper. When the creative juices start flowing, you don't want to lose the idea when you cannot address it at the present time. This also establishes a sense of importance to ideas and the participants.
A professional facilitator is handy when long-range planning is involved or when issues on the table could provoke controversy. The facilitator is impartial and will keep the group focused in the right direction.
Cover the table with white paper and throw a box of markers or crayons on the table. Put out stress balls, legos or tinker toys, especially when the meeting is a long one. Have everyone get up and march around the room shouting, "I'm brilliant!" or "We rock!"
Avoid problems before they arise. Encourage hesitant participants with positive feedback. Encourage all participants to be patient and inclusive. Stop private conversations. Ask questions to stimulate debates. Defuse anger.
Enjoy the experience. Keep a good sense of humor. And do the right thing! Always!
Barbara Ann Cox, CMP, is president of Meeting Makers Inc., a meeting consulting firm based in Tallahassee. She is a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) and a freelance writer. Contact her at (850) 322-6184 or Barbara@MeetingMakersInc.com. Comments and experiences are always welcome.


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2009 Digicel-SKNFA Super League Playoffs & Finals
The top four teams of the Digicel-SKNFA Super League have advanced to the Super 4 Playoffs. The four teams ranked first through fourth are TDC Newtown United, UDC Garden Hotspurs, S.L Horsford St. Pauls and Washington Archibald High School.
Matches in the Super 4 Playoffs will begin on Thursday 16th July, 2009 at Warner Park. The complete fixture and ticket costs will be made available shortly.
The SKNFA wishes to congratulate the top four (4) teams for making it to the first ever Digicel-SKNFA Super League Playoffs.
In the meantime, the SKNFA wishes to advice that the Trinidad & Tobago "Soca Warriors" will engage our "St. Kitts-Nevis Sugar Boyz" in an International Friendly on Sunday 12th July, 2009, at 7:00p.m.
Ticket costs for the match are as follows:
Bleachers: $15.00
Stadium: $20.00
Stadium and one replica: $35.00
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Lenox Native Lands Roll in New Glenn Close, Mila Kunis Movie
Marjo Published: March 16, 2021
Berkshire County native Rebecca Field continues to land movie roles among Hollywood A-listers, this time it's Glenn Close and Mila Kunis.
Lenox Memorial Middle and High School graduate and accomplished actress Rebecca Field just announced via social media she'll be appearing in the upcoming movie Four Good Days.
Based on a true story by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post writer Eli Saslow, the story centers around Molly played by Kunis, who begs her estranged mother Deb, played by Close, to help save her from the grips of heroin addiction in a poignant and unpredictable chronicle of mother and daughter fighting to regain the love and trust that once held them together. Close's character helps Kunis' through the "four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse." In the new film Field plays Coach Miller, a supporting cast member.
Four Good Days debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2020 and the film is scheudaled to hit theatres April 30 and will be available on streaming platforms on May 21.
Below Fields (left) takes a photo on set with costar Mila Kunis.
Field has appeared in many movies including 2018's Oscar award nomiated A Star is Born, where she played Gail, the assistant to Bradley Cooper's character Jackson Maine. Field also recently appeared in the wildly popular series Shamless, in which she was reoccuring character, Eliza. Grey's Anatomy fans might recoginize Field as Sabine McNeil, who appeared as a character in a seven episode strech back in 2014.
Field's route to Hollywood began in Lenox, where she had the opportunity to learn from Shakespeare & Company actors during school plays. She particpated in fall Shakespeare production, as well as a springtime contemporary play. She was also active in the Berkshire Public Theater programs during her youth. After graduating from Lenox she attended Bridgewater State. She double-majored in communications and theater, acting in two plays per year.
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There is Nothing Scandalous About List of Appointees – Presidency – ……news on the go!
The presidency has said there was no big deal about the controversy being generated by the inclusion of dead persons' names on the list of appointees into the boards of agencies and parastatals.
The federal government had on Friday evening, announced the appointment of 1,468 Nigerians into the boards.
But checks revealed duplications names, inclusion of names of dead persons and individuals who are no longer in the ruling All Progressives Congress.
The Presidency however downplayed the matter Saturday as, according to a spokesman of the president, there was nothing scandalous about the list.
The spokesman of the President Garba Shehu said that "the list has a history" which explains the controversy around it.
"In 2015, Mr. President requested all state chapters of the party to submit names of 50 party members for board appointments," he said.
He said the names where compiled by the national secretariat of the APC and forwarded to the then secretary to the government of the federation, Babachir Lawal.
"However, complaint arose from some governors who felt they were not carried along in the process. To answer this, the president constituted a committee under the vice president to review and reflect the interest of the governors".
Mr Shehu however said action was delayed on the report of the committee headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as President Muhammadu Buhari took ill.
"The current SGF was only directed to complete that process by releasing the list which he apparently did without altering it," Shehu explained.
While admitting that errors were committed, he added that "no human undertaking can be free of mistakes".
He said the errors identified with the list were not enough to describe the exercise as scandalous, adding that all errors in the list would be corrected.


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SXSW '13 Interview: Anna Margaret Hollyman & Zach Clark Take "White Reindeer" One Heck of a Ride
When Anna Margaret Hollyman got the part of Suzanne Barrington, a real estate agent who spends 11 months out of the year looking forward to Christmas, only to have her husband die right before the holidays in Zach Clark's "White Reindeer," it wasn't long before a stack of DVDs came her way to get her in the mood.
"'Jeanne Dielman' was very helpful because I think that something I was really interested in was a woman alone, not having a ton of dialogue and how that can be one of the more interesting things to watch," says Hollyman, shortly after the comedy's premiere at SXSW. "He also gave me 'Scrooged' and [turning to Clark], then you gave me that swingers video too, right?"
"Did I?" Clark asks innocently enough about something that came from his collection of '50s erotica. "Did I give you 'Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer'?"
As you might surmise, when "White Reindeer" opens with a weatherman opining, "Anything goes this Christmas," he's not kidding when it comes to introducing the latest film from the director of SXSW discoveries "Modern Love is Automatic" and "Vacation!" An idiosyncratic, sharply funny and surprisingly moving character study of a woman left to her own devices after realizing both the life she had with her late husband and the joy she takes from her favorite time of year are artificial at best, it is not surprising to learn Clark was working on three separate ideas for scripts – involving swinger parties, his favorite holiday, and a chance encounter between two women from opposite ends of the spectrum – before blending them all into a movie as harmonious and warm as an experienced trio of carolers at your doorstep.
Hollyman, who is quickly becoming a Moveable Fest favorite after her light comic turn at SXSW two years ago in "Small, Beautifully Moving Parts," returns to give yet another strong lead performance, hitting darker notes here as the heightened emotions of the holidays uncover an underbelly to her suburban neighborhood she wasn't privy to while with her husband, full of cocaine, strippers and sex parties. While in Austin, she and Clark took the time to reflect on a production that was occasionally as tricky practically as it was tonally, the film's evocative use of lighting and whether they've had their fill of Christmas cheer after all the gallons of egg nog consumed on the set.
How did you both get started on this?
Zach Clark: Christmas is my favorite holiday, and I made a little short film in film school that was a Christmas movie and really wanted to do a feature-length one. Three other ideas that I was having for movies congealed into one and that became what the script was going to end up being. I wrote it to cost not a lot of money by any movie standards, but a lot of money compared to the amount we made the last two for and [after] trying to get that amount of money for about a year and not finding it, [we] hit a point where I was either going to keep waiting for another year or pull the trigger and do a Kickstarter and make it on the scale we had made the last two movies. I'm not super-patient. I'm a firm believer in doing things over talking about them, so I just decided to pull the trigger and make it that way.
Anna, how did you get involved? You're always playing solitary women!
Anna Margaret Hollyman: I think you're right! I was going to say …
ZC: And pregnant women.
AMH: And pregnant women. It's so true. I think this is my fifth movie where I'm pregnant or possibly pregnant. I was talking to this actor recently who is a little bit older who said you really have to find your type. You have to find a connective thread in order to really understand how marketable you are. And I was like what's a connective thread through all these ladies? They're all ladies on a journey by themselves.
But I met Zach briefly at an Anthology Film Archives screening, then we met at our friend's screening when Aaron Hillis ran ReRun and I put two and two together that he had directed "Vacation!", which I had seen a year or two before. Then I saw "Modern Love is Automatic" and I really loved that film. What drew me to it was kind of the balance that he has between humor and dark [material] and also being able to get these very real, emotionally charged [performances] from all the actresses that I saw. I liked how the two could co-exist and I think it's a very rare thing. Also, it's very rare to find scripts that have interesting female protagonists and a predominantly female ensemble. That doesn't happen unless you're Pedro Almodovar, so that was really interesting to me as well.
One of my favorite aspects of the film was the lighting because since it's so evocative. What was involved in creating a color scheme for the film and did it impact the performances at all?
ZC: Daryl [Pittman], the cinematographer and I – this is our third feature together and he's one of my best friends in the world, so he knows what I like and I know what he likes. He was there from the inception, so we talked a lot about a sort of balance between warm and cool and balancing warm and cool images in the same shot because that feels very evocative of the '50s melodramas. There's [was always] more stylized stuff in the script [such as] the swinger party, which would be all blue with like a pink lit Christmas tree and the nightclub stuff would be all red and the way that the TV light plays blue in some scenes. Daryl and I had a general talk about how we wanted light sources to play with Christmas tree lights and that sense of the movie having a bit of a warm glow to it, which is also evocative of Christmas cards and fireplaces and that sort of thing.
Zach has cited Douglas Sirk as an influence and I thought it was great because it was lush as Sirk in some places, but ambient.
AMH: Yeah, [Zach] gave me a pile of Christmas movies to watch as reference points and the cornerstone was "All That Heaven Allows." As an actor, you're supposed to be hyperaware of the light, but it's the first time I understood it as I can see the palette change a lot in how the scenes would reflect her inner world versus the outer world. That's very apparent in Sirk's work in a way I think is very subversive and so graphic and jarring and ahead of its time, so I understood that in terms of his concept.
Is it true the film was shot somewhat sporadically over the past year? If so, how did that play out in Anna's performance?
ZC: We were cutting while we were shooting, so we shot in December a little bit, then I was putting it together while we were prepping the other stuff. A lot of it just came out of budget. Our Kickstarter budget essentially got us through the first two-thirds of production. We shot an initial two weeks and then we were supposed to just do one more week, but we really only had enough money to get us through another three days, which meant that we just had to do those days because we needed to do them and then literally save up money to shoot the last little bit. Then we put it all together and lived with it for a while and like we really could use a scene here of this or a shot here of this or shoot this again, but change this about it.
AMH: Not to get too Daniel Day Lewisy, but pragmatically, you try to keep in contact with where the character is at whatever juncture emotionally she is in the script because you need to know where to go when you're going to pick back up. But then there is a part of that that she's incredibly lonely, sympathetic character, so I remember we were shooting a pickup where she's just crying. It was the last thing. We shot it in August. And it had been eight months since we first started shooting and I just remember we were shooting that scene where [Zach] was like, "We need to get a shot of Suzanne just in her kitchen with the candy canes, just crying, just having a private moment." It was one of the first things we shot [that day] and I started crying and then all of a sudden, I just remember suddenly tapping back into Suzanne's sadness and really crying and really feeling that devastation.
It sounds silly, but it does feel like your feeling for a friend or something and you come back in contact with her and where she is and you're instantly reminded of her situation. I just felt nothing but incredible sympathy for her, so it brought up all these emotions. You really have to create like a familial relationship with characters, I think. They almost have to be a sibling or someone you really truly care about just so you can access and reinterpret those feelings.
Did you get sick of Christmas by the end of filming?
ZC: My love for Christmas is eternal and undying.
AMH: That is very true. Zach and his sister each…well, his sister really, but he helps produce a thematic Christmas album each year that is available online. "Colleen Clark's Christmas." The two of them have themes like…what was it this year?
ZC: International. Around the world.
AMH: They will drink banana daiquiris Christmas eve as an homage to the Prince song, "Another Lonely Christmas."
ZC: But as an example, when we had to decorate the tree in the movie for Christmas to get that scene, we played Christmas music and everyone on the crew decorated that tree together as a spiritual bonding thing to get in the spirit. It's my favorite holiday and I love it with all my heart. But in making a movie, you do work through things and get things out of your system. My last movie was shot entirely at the beach and I still like going to the beach, but my enthusiasm to go to the beach has been significantly reduced. So it'll be interesting to see how I feel about Christmas this year. The last two Christmases have been very low-key for me because I have been getting a lot of Christmas cheer throughout the year. But I'm not sick of it. It's subdued the intensity of my actual Christmas.
AMH: I definitely can't wear red sweaters anymore… [pause] for a while. And I did not have any candy canes this year. Because I binged boxes and boxes of candy canes. That and egg nog. During one of the takes, I think I finally said, [feebly] "I don't really like egg nog. I've never liked it. But it's fine…"
ZC: You're a trooper.
AMH: I'm a trooper. I'm a real trooper.
"White Reindeer" does not have U.S. distribution yet. It will play SXSW once more Thursday, March 14th at 9:15 p.m. at the Rollins Theatre at the Long Center.
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Q: Entropy and Probability in Theano I have a written a simple python code to calculate the entropy of a set and I am trying to write the same thing in Theano.
import math

# this computes the probabilities of each element in the set
def prob(values):
    return [float(values.count(v))/len(values) for v in values]

# this computes the entropy
def entropy(values):
    p = prob(values)
    return -sum([v*math.log(v) for v in p])

I am trying to write the equivalent code in Theno, but I am not sure how to do it:
import theano
import theano.tensor as T

v = T.vector('v') # I create a symbolic vector to represent my initial values
p = T.vector('p') # The same for the probabilities

# this is my attempt to compute the probabilities which would feed vector p
theano.scan(fn=prob,outputs_info=p,non_sequences=v,n_steps=len(values))

# considering the previous step would work, the entropy is just
e = -T.sum(p*T.log(p))
entropy = theano.function([values],e)

However, the scan line is not correct and I get tons of errors. I am not sure if there is a simple way to do it (to compute the entropy of a vector), or if I have to put more effort on the scan function. Any ideas?

A: Other than the point raised by nouiz, P should not be declared as a T.vector because it will be the result of computation on your vector of values.
Also, to compute something like entropy, you do not need to use Scan (Scan introduces a computation overhead so it should only be used because there's no other way of computing what you want or to reduce memory usage); you can take a approach like this :
values = T.vector('values')
nb_values = values.shape[0]

# For every element in 'values', obtain the total number of times
# its value occurs in 'values'.
# NOTE : I've done the broadcasting a bit more explicitly than
# needed, for clarity.
freqs = T.eq(values[:,None], values[None, :]).sum(0).astype("float32")

# Compute a vector containing, for every value in 'values', the
# probability of that value in the vector 'values'.
# NOTE : these probabilities do *not* sum to 1 because they do not
# correspond to the probability of every element in the vector 'values
# but to the probability of every value in 'values'. For instance, if
# 'values' is [1, 1, 0] then 'probs' will be [2/3, 2/3, 1/3] because the
# value 1 has probability 2/3 and the value 0 has probability 1/3 in
# values'.
probs = freqs / nb_values

entropy = -T.sum(T.log2(probs) / nb_values)
fct = theano.function([values], entropy)

# Will output 0.918296...
print fct([0, 1, 1])

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Home News C-43 Reservoir: construction back on
C-43 Reservoir: construction back on
Jan 25th, 2016 · by Patty Brant · Comments:
After years of remaining on hold, the C-43 West Basin Storage Reservoir off SR 80 just west of LaBelle, is finally seeing activity again.
South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Intergovernmental & Outreach Representative Phil Flood told the January 14 LaBelle City Commission that the project had been back burnered for years due to lack of funding.
The $584.6 million project cost is shared between the federal government and South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD).
A secondary recreational component will be funded by SFWMD and is expected to take another three or four years to complete after the essential water project is complete and funding secured.
The reservoir is on a 10,000-acre site and intended to hold excess stormwater and Lake Okeechobee overflow totaling some 170,000 acre-feet or water in above ground cells during the wet season. During the dry season, this water can be released as needed, without inundating the Caloosahatchee Estuary and upsetting the ecological balance there.
The project is a joint venture by SFWMD and the Corps of Engineers; part of the Everglades Restoration.
Phase I of the construction project has begun, including Cell 1, improvements to the Townsend Canal, manatee mitigation, two pump stations and a portion of the perimeter canals. It is expected to provide some 76 jobs.
Crews are also doing prep work for the extensive berms, along with grubbing and clearing. Some one million cubic yards of dirt will be mounded to help compact the earth
The next two construction contracts will involve pre-loading and site demolition (April 2016-September 2017), putting in pump stations (December 2016-November 2018) and reservoir construction (March 2017-July 2010). Berms for the 12-mile perimeter will be 25-35 feet high.
Work is expected to be completed in 2020.
Referring to questions by locals concerning possible seepage, Mr. Flood said SFWMD is confident in its design work.
Mr. Flood also provided information on other ongoing SFWMD projects in Hendry County:
S-169 Structure Relocation
Replacement of a water control structure located at the Clewiston Boat Basin. Relocation approximately two miles west of current site could enable additional boat access to the lake.
– Remove structure following Corps of Engineer completion of C-2 structure replacement
– Complete construction of fall 2017
– City of Clewiston to seek legislative funding for bridge replacement.
Sam Jones/Abiaki Prairie Restoration:
Project converts 15,000 acres of citrus grove in south Hendry County (Southern Gardens) the historical Everglades wet prairie.
– Restore hydrology and ecology; construct flow equalization basin for STA 5/6
– Multi-year project to improve ground water and surface water hydrology, water supply and water quality
– $1,463,000 contracted awarded December 2015
– Construct January-December 2016
– 2,875-acre site leveling, culvert removal (246 8:, 247 8") and abandon 15 irrigation wells.
Surplus properties
Four Hendry County spoil sites north of the river have been approved as surplus, for a total of 169 acres.
The Boma Water Quality Treatment and Testing Facility on 1,770 acres on SR 80 at the Ortona Lock is being developed to remove nitrogen from the Caloosahatchee watershed. Construction of mesocosms (experiments that encapsulate a small part of a specific ecology under controlled conditions) is to begin this April. A 20-year lease for 260 acres to UF/IFAS for Best Management Practice and citrus research is contemplated. Citrus is anticipated to continue on the property till the facility is constructed.
In Glades County, water quality and environmental enhancement is the object of the Lake Hicpochee North Hydrologic Enhancement project. It involves acquisition of 638 acres for storage with an option for an additional 2,454 acres for $17.6 million. Construction is to begin this year.
Five dispersed water storage programs with private and public landowners:
Nicodemus Slough (Glades) 34,000 acre-feet, operational
Mudge Ranch (Glades), 396 acre-feet, operational
Alico Ranch (Hendry), 91,944 acre-feet, design and permitting underway
Babcock Ranch LLC (Charlotte), 1,214 ace-feet, design and permitting underway
Babcock Ranch State Preserve (Charlotte), 1,500 acre-feet, design and permitting underway.
SFWMD projects have the following legislative priorities: C-43 Reservoir construction; Completion of existing projects; Governor's budget; and FDEP: Lake Hicpochee acquisition (2,454 acres).
SFWMD is also committed to renewing the LaBelle Passive Park Lease. The current lease on the 186-acres site on the north side of the Caloosahatchee River expires April 30, 2016. Mr. Flood noted that there may be opportunities to partner with Florida Department of Transportation for stormwater improvements.
Patty Brant, can be reached at cbnews@newszap.com
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Defensive player recognized nationally
Authors: Collegian sports staff
Colorado State defensive lineman Jesse Nading was one of 42 players announced Monday to the 2006 Lott Trophy Watch List.
Other Mountain West Conference players named to the list included defensive end Tommy Blake of TCU and safety Eric Weddle of Utah.
The Lott Trophy is awarded annually to college football's Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year. Winners are judged on various aspects of life on and off the football field including academics, community service and maturity.
The upcoming season will mark the third year of the Lott Trophy. Former recipients include David Pollack of Georgia and DeMeco Ryans of Alabama. Pollack is now a linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals, while Ryans figures to go early in this year's draft.
Nading is coming off a big year in which he recorded 48 tackles and four sacks.
The Pacific Club IMPACT Foundation, sponsors of the award, has donated $25,000 to the programs of both former winners. The selection committee consists of media, previous finalists and college coaches, among others.
The winner of the third annual Lott Trophy will be announced Dec. 10.


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Brief Outline: For DTaP/IPV/Hib' Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR' Talked to friends, her father who is a doctor, family friends who were doctors, and alternative practitioners. Gathered some information from the media. Talked to their GP about her daughter's egg allergy.
Background: At time of interview' married, one daughter, aged 3 years who has an egg allergy. Parent's occupation' Mother- Bookshop owner/Teacher, Father- Floor Layer. Ethnic background' White-British.
Believed the evidence wasn't strong enough to prove a causal link between MMR and autism.
The underlying piece of evidence I was told was basically they took files from autistic, they were looking at, at trying to find links between autistic children and looked at everything they had in common. And one of the things that they all had in common was MMR. Which was inevitable because at the time everybody was being vaccinated with it. But it didn't, to me that doesn't justify any kind of cause, link. I mean it was probably something worth investigating just like wheat and hamburgers over, you know, a certain period of time, but it doesn't, in no way does it, you know, was it conclusive for me at all. It didn't allay necessarily other fears but it was, you know, basically wasn't enough for me to feel that it was, you know, a strong piece of research to support any, a problem with it.
There was evidence that single vaccines especially as offered by private clinics might not be a...
I investigated it. What, I mean what I found slightly annoying was I mean you couldn't, you couldn't do it. But I did feel that you ought to have the option through your GP. You ought to have to pay for it extra if it was costing more. But I probably would, had it been available to my GP, I probably would just at the time. I don't know that I would, I don't think I would with the next one. But I think I would at the time possibly have, have sort of paid for it, the extra, whatever the extra was, you know, through the GP. But the whole idea of going private, I was never, you know, sort of particularly comfortable with doing, doing that, without there being any hard evidence that it was necessarily going to be more beneficial or safer or whatever else.
Because there's always people who are willing to exploit it in that degree. And equally there were articles about how, you know, having single jabs didn't necessarily provide the protection that the children needed, and, you know, there were, it wasn't conclusive that, that was going to be a kind of good way forward. And I didn't, I, it sort of wasn't, in a way wasn't really the issue for me. The issue was whether it was safe or not safe. And I just wanted to, you know, sort of make sure that I was fully reassured that I felt that it was statistically going to be, you know, overwhelmingly okay at the end of it, although you can never rule anything out altogether. But I mean all of life and you know, health is, is, you know, kind of best-fit scenario. So you just have to kind of take what you can with it.
She talked to a lot of people and gathered a lot of information before making a decision to give...
But it did become, you know, sort of really anxiety-inducing thing for the whole of the first year. And all of my friends who had children that age were, it was kind of, the main topic of conversation was, 'What have you read? What have you seen? Who have you spoken to? Have you got anything that's going to sway it one way or the other?' And I think the hardest thing, particularly with the MMR, was that you felt whatever you did you were endangering your child's sort of well-being. And that's, you know, which was what made it such an incredibly tough decision. Because it wasn't just, 'Is it going to be good for them or not so good for them?' It was kind of like, 'Am I being socially responsible as far as, you know, everybody else goes? And am I risking my child's life and health and all the rest of it in order to be socially responsible? And if I don't immunise, then am I risking my child's life that way round as well?'
So it was a kind of, you know, it was a really, really big issue. I then basically read everything I could get my hands on and spoke to anybody who could possibly bear to have another conversation about immunisation with me. And in the end I didn't feel that the evidence or the research against it at the time was strong enough to warrant me not doing it. And I, you know, I then thought about having them all done individually, and just thought, 'Actually, I know I'll end up doing half and not doing the other half, and then I might as well not have started in the first place'. So we decided just to go for it and I was holding my breath and praying that it was all going to be all right.
She talked to family friends who were doctors about their decisions for their own children or...
I talked to dad and various doctor friends that he had and asked what they'd done with their children and grandchildren. I wanted to know very much people who had given their children the jab and who had been fine, particularly medical people who'd given their children the jab and it had been fine. So I suppose in a way I was geared towards finding people who'd had it and it had been all right, because I did want to be able to go and have it done. But I just needed some support for it.
But I was also aware that they had a government slant, that the government was very much pushing for it. And therefore I wanted to talk to them as a friend, on a friendly basis as to what they would do with their own children rather than just what the line was from the government. And fortunately there were a lot around that were saying, 'We'll absolutely immunise, and the MMR's fine and it to our knowledge is safe'.
Wanted statistical information on the chances of getting a reaction to the vaccine as detailed by...
It was just an overwhelming thing of, you know, 'What are the odds of my child, you know, developing autism or a, you know, sort of stomach issue, you know, sort of some serious kind afterwards?' you know. And you, you sort of really wanted statistical evidence. And of course there wasn't, there was no, because no link had been confirmed, it was just, you know, a kind of possible link. There was no statistical evidence around.
So you just got this massive panic without any, you know, any sort of real hard evidence one way or the other. Because you can't disprove something either until it's been, been looked into. And I think it was that whole fear of possibility without kind of any, any concrete evidence. And you really just wanted someone to sit down and say, 'All right, there's...' you know, either, you know, 'There's 100 per cent chance that there's no link whatsoever' or, 'There is a link but it's a 98 per cent chance that you know, that they'll be fine and a 2 per cent chance they'll develop autism'. And, you know, '70 per cent chance that if they don't have a vaccination they'll get German measles'. So you could at least weigh up what the, you know, what your odds were to make a decision. But there was just nothing there at all. And I think that's what was most worrying. Because if you're, if you're presented with, basically with enough facts to be able to make a decision on, you at least feel that you've done it in a kind of best-chance scenario way. Whereas you just felt you were kind of, either way you were, you know, as I, I said at the beginning, about to endanger your child's life.
So the questions really were just based around, 'If there is a link, how high, you know, what chance is there? How many children have been vaccinated entirely safely as opposed to any possible children that may have developed effects, side effects afterwards?' I think it was based more around that, trying to establish some kind of reassurance that statistically it was likely to be fine, and not have any problems with it.
More information should be given about the reasons that lie behind the changes that have been...
And also why they feel, why the government feels it's necessary. Like what led to them vaccinating. Because I think, I think that's one of the things also that people just kind of go, 'Well, measles was never a problem, or, you know, whatever. Why, why on earth are we all suddenly having to be vaccinated?' Because I felt like that about mumps. I was a bit, well, I had mumps, it wasn't that big a, big a deal, you know. And sort of, 'Why, you know, the re-, what led to them feeling that it was necessary to vaccinate that, against?' I think, because I think that as a parent you can see the bigger picture of, you know, and how your child's going to fit in as part of the whole, whole unit. And I think then it helps with people's sense of social responsibility. If they realise what the, you know, the possibility of if you don't have vaccinations, it's much, you know, you're much more likely to kind of go through with having it done probably.
And it's worth kind of, you know, making that point, not in a kind of bullying way, but just that realistically statistically this is the reality of the situation here. And the situation if you don't, you know, if a certain percentage don't have it done, that, you know, that there are, there is a reason why. It's not kind of done, done to annoy people, which, you know, the press around, it's been so bad lately that it's just kind of just like the government saying, 'You've got to have this done' and, and, you know, creating a system which is in GPs' surgeries that will basically make it impossible for people not to do it. Whereas I think if you just said to people on a reasonable basis, 'This is why it's being done'. And I don't remember ever reading anything that just went through kind of what the steps were leading to them doing the triple jab, and why they, you know, they made those decisions and what the implications were for it.
It is better to give a professional opinion and explain on what evidence the opinion has been...
I think where you, wherever you felt they were talking from their own opinion rather than from the government line you, you were far more likely to trust what they were saying. If you felt they were regurgitating something they didn't believe, and you can kind of generally tell when people are sort of spinning out a, a line. Whereas when people were fairly adamant that it was, you know, kind of not worthy of, paying too much attention to, I was much more reassured by that. Not to encourage people just to lie about it, but it's, you did genuinely kind of want to know what they would do with their own children rather than what the government line was.
And although I know that it's very difficult in a, in a professional thing, there's a limit to how much you're allowed to say, as a parent all you want to know is that your child's going to be all right. And so it, it's not reassuring to know what the government line is. It is reassuring to know that ultimately your doctor as a professional feels that your child's going, on an overwhelming basis of evidence, is going to be fine at the end of it. And it may be that they're the same thing, but you want to have it from their personal opinion rather than from a kind of government line, that someone is going to take responsibility at the end of the day for what happens. And I think, not in that you'd want to sue them or, just that your child's, you know, basically all you want to know is that your child is going to be okay. So anything that reassures you about that is probably the best way forward.
She was more reassured when it was obvious that a health professional had reviewed the evidence...
I was more reassured as well when people had clearly looked at the evidence. Where people were able to say, 'Look, this is...'. I mean I, as I said before, 'This is what the research was. This is what is was based on. This is the kind of outcome of it'. And where they clearly themselves had considered what the issues were rather than just, 'It's fine. Don't worry about it. It's not worth worrying about'. Where, it's just not reassuring at all because you're not even aware of whether they really know what those issues are. It was much, yes, much more reassuring. You felt that they too had considered as a professional and weighed up on a balance of judgement whether it was likely to be detrimental or not.
Parents have a social responsibility to immunise their children to keep the population as healthy...
And the measles, I was, you know, just concerned from a social standpoint that basically people need to be vaccinated in order to keep these diseases under control for the good of everybody, not just, you know, for your own child. And I did feel that I had a social responsibility element to that, and that as a parent I would be very angry if my daughter was in a nursery with a lot of children who hadn't been vaccinated and it became an issue. I mean hopefully she'll be all right, having been vaccinated. But I, I think it's, you know, if the health was there and the preventative health was there, that you should take it up, provided you feel it's safe for your, you know, for your child.
She no longer has to worry about her daughter catching measles, mumps or rubella when she goes to...
I would then worry about her being at nursery and swimming pools and ball parks and, you know, there's a lot of places where you come into a lot of contact with a lot of other children that, who you've no idea what, you know, what they may be catching from them. And I do feel that, at least I don't, when she's in those situations I just don't worry about the kind of more serious things. Because you're worried about her falling over and breaking her leg, not about her catching those sort of things. And I think it's a huge reassurance from that. I would be a lot more tense permanently. So although it was horrible at the time thinking, 'Ahh, I'm about to damage her permanently' at least now that she's, you know, sort of okay there are a lot of other things I now don't have to worry about as a consequence. So on balance because she's okay, I wouldn't be saying it at all if the, you know, obviously if the outcome had been any different, it, you know, I've now got a life basically where I'm not having to kind of be overly concerned every day of the week about her coming into contact with other children, which inevitably she's going to do. And she's been in full-time nursery from quite a young age, so it was even more important that she, you know, had some sort of protection against other things that she might come into contact with.


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Abbott, Still Worked Up Over Planned Parenthood Videos, Announces "LIFE" Plan
Stephen Young September 1, 2015 4:00AM
Last week, a group of forensic video researchers strongly suggested that the videos shot at a variety of Planned Parenthood facilities by a group called the Center for Medical Progress were "substantially manipulated." A video filmed at a Houston clinic that's served as the fuel for a storm of conservative vitriol against the women's health provider was perhaps the most edited, the researchers said. Discrete segments of the video were stitched together in order to make them appear seamless — and to make Planned Parenthood personnel appear as if they were admitting to federal crimes, namely the altering of abortion procedures in order to preserve tissue for donation to fetal tissue research programs and the subsequent donation of that tissue.
The state has started both criminal and civil investigations, and held a state Senate committee hearing at which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested that the real problem was the continued existence of legal abortion in the state. Paxton, Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick have adopted the phrase "baby parts" and added it to the likes of "traditional marriage" and "religious freedom" on their greatest hits collections.
Late Friday afternoon, Abbott tossed out more catnip to his rabidly anti-choice following. The governor rolled out what he's calling the LIFE Initiative. t's a four-point plan that would stop two things that are already illegal, criminalize something that hasn't happened in the state in five years and somehow stop funding for Planned Parenthood — which has already be excluded from receiving any state funds in 2011 and, as of September 1, will not be eligible to receive any money that it previously would have under the joint state-federal Breast and Cervical Cancer Services.
"Gruesome — and potentially illegal — harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood cannot be allowed in Texas. Treating unborn children as commodities to be sold is an abomination. The barbaric practice of harvesting and selling baby body parts must end," Abbott said in announcing the initiative.
Included in the LIFE initiative is a plan to make partial-birth abortion a felony. "Partial-birth abortion" is a term of art coined by the anti-abortion movement to refer to a late-term abortion procedure known medically as dilation and extraction. It was made illegal across the United States in 2003. Abbott would also make changing abortion procedures to preserve fetal tissue illegal, which is confusing, because it is already illegal. It's among the reasons Planned Parenthood is under criminal investigation. Fetal tissue donation itself would also be banned if Abbott gets his way. No Planned Parenthood in Texas has participated in fetal tissue research since 2010, despite its tremendous medical value.
Abbott's LIFE announcement comes after a legislative session during which he vetoed bills that would make it easier to save the lives of overdosed drug addicts and mentally ill people who are a danger to themselves.
Stephen Young has written about Dallas news for the Observer since 2014. He's a Dallas native and a graduate of the University of North Texas.
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Explained: Why Scottish banknotes can be rejected
Why Scottish banknotes can be rejected
It is a long-running complaint from many who travel south of the Border from Scotland when an attempt to use a Scottish banknote is met by the refusal to accept the currency.
However, shops can refuse a Scottish banknote or any banknote for that matter. A business can choose what payment they accept. They are at liberty to refuse a £50 note or any note, it's a matter of discretion.
READ MORE: Judy Murray's Scottish banknotes refused in London bakers
What is classed as legal tender?
Just to keep things complicated, what's classed as legal tender varies across the UK. In England and Wales, Royal Mint coins and Bank of England notes are legal tender. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, only Royal Mint coins are legal tender, with English bank notes not classed as legal tender.
Debit and credit cards are not classed as legal tender.
READ MORE: Video: watch rugby fan being refused sale of scarf because he wanted to pay with Scottish money
The Bank of England states: "The term legal tender does not in itself govern the acceptability of banknotes in transactions. Whether or not notes have legal tender status, their acceptability as a means of payment is essentially a matter for agreement between the parties involved."
READ MORE: Iain Macwhirter: Dear EU 27, here's why you shouldn't give up on Scotland
Why are Scottish bank notes refused?
The majority of banknotes circulating in Scotland are issued by Scottish banks and are accepted quite freely in Scotland and across the UK.
The notes are also legal currency and are approved by the UK Parliament, however, Scottish banknotes are often refused at the discrepancy of the business.
If a banknote is refused, there is very little you can do as payment is essentially a matter for agreement between the parties involved.
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Home »	Musicians » Alessandro D'Episcopo
Alessandro D'Episcopo
Alessandro d'Episcopo was born in Naples. Italy. Already at the age of 13, he decided to devote his life to music and to become a jazz musician. He studied classical music at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples. In 1979, he moved to Milano, which was the heart of the Italian jazz at that time. Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett have influenced d'Episcopo formation since his earliest youth as vivid examples for musical diversity and curiosity.
He has worked with various musicians such as: Tullio De Piscopo, Larry Nocella, Gigi Cifarelli, Chet Baker, Tony Scott, Gianni Basso, Billy Cobham, Toots Thielemans. He played at the jazz festivals in Umbria, Clusone, Sant'Anna Arresi, Padova, Livorno, Cagliari and Genova.
At the age of 30, he moved to Zurich to further broaden his musical development and career, studying classical music with Rudolf Am Bach. At the same time, he attended courses of Thierry Lang at the Conservatoire of Montreux, obtaining after two years his diploma in Jazz Performance. D'Episcopo has always been - and still is - eager to passionately explore all the various stylistic directions. Driven to go forward and to experience new dimensions, he studied Jazz Improvisation with Charlie Banacos (Boston/USA) for many years.
His urge for musical freedom and his enthusiasm induce him to participate in most diverse events and to work with different musicians like George Robert, Franco Ambrosetti, Marianne Racine, Benny Bailey, Peter Appleyard, Julio Barreto, Phil Wilson, Charito, etc.
With his own Trio or with other bands Alessandro has performed at numerous Jazz festivals. In Italy: Sorrento, Moncalieri, Serravalle, Serre, Ciampino, Milano. In Switzerland: Montreux, Liechtensteig, Riva San Vitale, Caliente Festival Zurich, Piano Off Stage Lucerne. In Romania: Bucharest, Sibiu. In France: Midem Cannes. In Greece: Larissa.
D'Episcopo's musical versatility is reflected in his present activity:
- teaching at the Jazz School of Zurich and the Music School of Zug; - playing with various bands: JMR4/Jürg Morgenthaler; Key Bone/Stefan Schlegel; Elmar Frey Sextet; Latin Project/Martin Bürgi; Standard Edition/Marc Halbheer and David Angel - performing with his own trio; recording the first CD "Stella Cadente" in February 2002, the second "Meraviglioso" in December 2007. - participating as Side Man in various CD recordings	Show less
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Location: Zurich
Instrument: Piano
Born: February 1, 1959
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Babá, właśc. Roberto Caveanha (ur. 7 lipca 1944 w Mogi-Guaçu) – brazylijski piłkarz, występujący na pozycji napastnika.

Kariera klubowa
Karierę piłkarską Babá zaczął w klubie Guarani FC w 1964 roku. W latach 1965–1970 występował w São Paulo FC. W latach siedemdziesiątych występował jeszcze w Guarani FC, Athletico Paranaense, Colorado i EC São Bento.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Brazylii Babá zadebiutował 17 grudnia 1968 w meczu z reprezentacją Jugosławii, wchodząc na boisko za Edu i strzelił bramkę na 3-3. Był to jego jedyny mecz w reprezentacji.

Bibliografia
 Miniencyklopedia Piłka Nożna nr 5/2004, roz. Historia meczów reprezentacji Brazylii 1914–2004, cz. 5 (1957–2004), Oficyna wydawnicza ATUT, Wrocław 2004, ISSN 1644–8189, s. 20.

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 Biografia na sambafoot.com
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Reprezentanci Brazylii w piłce nożnej
Piłkarze Guarani FC
Piłkarze São Paulo FC
Piłkarze Athletico Paranaense
Piłkarze EC São Bento
Urodzeni w 1944


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GenRx Pharmacy Warned Hundreds of Thousands of Patients Over a Potential Data breach
Melina Richardson
Hundreds of thousands of patients were warned by GenRx Pharmacy, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based healthcare company, about a possible data leak after a ransomware attack earlier this year.
"The company said in a recent security alert: "The pharmacy detected signs of ransomware on its infrastructure on September 28, 2020 and promptly launched an investigation, including recruiting independent information security and technical specialists to help with incident response and forensic investigation.
"The pharmacy, together with forensic experts, terminated the access of cybercriminals to the pharmacy's systems the same day… and confirmed that the ransomware was deployed by an unauthorised third party only one day before (September 27, 2020)."
Although the incident management team was swift to delete the unauthorised entry, GenRx said it later found out the malicious hackers were able to remove a "small number of files" that contained the pharmacy's healthcare information used to manage and distribute prescription drugs to patients.
"According to the company, "certain former GenRx patients' health records, including their first and last name, address, phone number, date of birth, gender, allergies, drug list, health plan details, and prescription information, are hacked and deleted by cybercriminals.
Breach alert
An entry on the HIPAA violation page of the US Department of Health and Human Services suggests that more than 137,000 GenRx patients are being informed about the incident.
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However, less than five percent of its client base is currently affected, the firm added.
"While the pharmacy is not aware of any actual harm to individuals as a result of the situation, it provides first class mail information to potentially affected individuals about measures taken and what can be done to protect against potential harm."
With concerns about the ransomware strain that was used in the attack, the Daily Swig reached out to GenRx Pharmacy. When more data comes to hand, this post will be revised.
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