The figure is calculated from the median hourly pay rate of the firm's staff salaries – the standard way of comparing payroll between firms.
The mean difference was slightly higher at 20.9 per cent – equating to women earning 80p for every £1 earned by men. The median bonus pay gap was 33 per cent.
ZHA stated that 40 per cent of its 310-strong UK workforce are women, and currently 35 per cent of its senior management are women —although in April 2017, when the pay gap was calculated, this figure stood at 25 per cent. In its official gender pay gap reporting, the practice revealed that its highest earners were men, who made up 78 per cent of the top quartile of employees.
A statement by chief executive Mouzhan Majidi said: 'Men and women in equivalent roles at ZHA are paid equally. We are committed to an inclusive working environment of equal opportunity that is gender aware and recognises the important contributions of every individual member of our team.
Under legislation enacted last year, businesses in England, Scotland or Wales employing more than 250 people must report their gender pay gap by 4 April 2018. The report uses a snapshot of data from 5 April 2017.
Median pay gaps revealed so far include NPS's 31 per cent, Stride Treglown's 28.7 per cent, Aecom's 21.9 per cent and Pick Everard's 24.3 per cent.
Meanwhile Hawkins\Brown had a median pay gap of just 2.6 per cent, and the Architectural Association's median female staff salary was equal to its median male salary.
Last month the AJ reported that Zaha Hadid Holdings' headcount had fallen from 379 in 2016 to 348 last year.
Over the financial year 2016-2017, the company's income slipped only marginally from £46.5 million to £46.3 million, with its operating profit rising from £4.3 million to £5 million.
ZHA is a member of the AJ/Architectural Review's Women in Architecture partnership programme. See how architectural practice' pay gaps compare here.
Why do any of these figures matter? Mean/median average hourly pay does not in any way demonstrate inequality in the workplace. Correlation is not causation.
It is grossly irresponsible of the AJ to be presenting these figures as some kind of equality ranking system.


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Bodiam Castle is located in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dallingridge, a former knight of Edward III, supposedly at the request of Richard II in order to defend the surrounding area from French invasion. However, recent research suggests that the castle was built more for show than as an effective defence.
It is a perfect example of a late medieval moated castle:-
One of Britain's most famous and evocative castles
Sussex Family Attraction of the Year
Medieval battlements, ramparts and moat to explore
Try on armour (ring ahead to check)
Wonderful views across an archaeology-rich landscape
Bodiam Castle looking south
The castle is completely surrounded by a moat. The south side has a central tower called a postern tower. To the right of the postern tower is the castle's great hall. The turret at the left houses the well. Most of the castle interior was destroyed during the English Civil War. The north side of the castle has the gatehouse and bridge. The turret on the left contains the chapel.
The castle was willed to the National Trust in 1926.
The impressive towers and broad moat of Bodiam Castle are like a scene from a fantasy as you gaze at them for the very first time. At a quick glance it appears to be the very epitome of a medieval castle, until closer inspection is given. One soon discovers that it was built at an evolutionary stage when the nobility were looking for more comfortable, agreeable places to live that offered them security, but also represented an outward show of their wealth and rank.
Comparatively few of its type were built and it should be more accurately described as a Courtyard Castle. The castles built in this period were the last true castles to be built in England, they provided security and also separate suites of rooms for the Lord, his domestic staff, guests and garrison.
When Edward III signed the treaty of Bretigny in 1360 he renounced his claim to the Crown of France whilst retaining Aquitaine, Calais and other important provinces. He was unable, and perhaps not too bothered, about evacuating his forces from the remainder of France and these men soon banded together. This was the time of the 'Free Companies' or 'Routiers', private mercenary armies who would normally be under the control of the king but who now sold their services to the highest bidder. They were basically medieval mercenaries, who indulged in looting and destruction on an appalling scale, with many of the men involved gaining great wealth and notoriety from such expeditions.
Bodiam Castle looking north
In Roman times, Bodiam was a main crossing point for the road leading from Beauport near Battle to the North Kent coast. It was also used as a port from which to ship the Iron Ingots produced in nearby Sedlescombe , Staplecross and Stonegate .
Bodiams main claim to fame is its great medieval military fortress, the last to have been built in England. This moated fairytale castle was built by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge between 1385 and 1390 as a protection to the Rother valley from the French.
The castle was only attacked twice, once in 1484 by Richard III who captured it, and in 1645 by the Roundheads led by Sir William Waller, who left it in a partially ruined state.
From 1754 until the early 1800's, guns and cannons manufactured at Robertsbridge were shipped from Bodiam to Woolwich Arsenal, and other destinations.
In 1828 it was purchased by John Fuller " Mad Jack " of Brightling from a firm of Hastings Builders, who were demolishing it to use as building materials.
Mad Jack spent a lot of time and money repairing the building, and replacing the main gates.
In 1917 it was acquired by Lord Curzon, who carried out further restoration and repairs. On his death in 1925 the castle was bequeathed to the National Trust, and can be visited, and explored to the present day.
The Castle has excellent car parking facilities and can be also reached by a No 349 Bus from Hastings Station. Nearest Railway station is Robertsbridge (5miles).
The Castle entrance is 1/4 mile walk from the Car park but special arrangements for people with disabilities can take them to the entrance. There is wheelchair access to the Castle but not the Towers. Dogs are permitted on the site but not allowed in the Castle. Picnics are welcome to be taken in the grounds but not in the castle.
Bodiam Castle is one of the most famous and evocative in Britain and is probably the most ideal for a visit with children. An excellent Guidebook is available on the castle and its history along with many gifts and books for children in a well-stocked shop. There is also has a very reasonable restaurant alongside although these are only open from February until the end of October. Special mention should be given to the entrance front to the castle. The must present to the visitor one of the finest facades of battlements and towers of any surviving castle today
Bodiam Castle - the great hall
The castle and grounds can get very busy during the school holidays and summer months, but a visit with entry just before 5 O'clock on a summers evening, as they lock the gates, is well worth it. It ensures you are locked in with a closing time to be out at 6. (A castle to yourself for an hour). Winter is not so busy and a visit on a fine, crisp winters day can be a very rewarding.
Although the exterior is in excellent condition some folk may find the interior a little disappointing, for these people, I leave you with the words of Lord Curzon:
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4 Nov–23 Dec '06
6 Jan–9 Feb '07
10 Feb–28 Feb '07
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Telephone - 01892 - 891001. Bodiam site office.
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another bad apple or three
There is also a south Florida cop who was a Sergeant and member of SWAT that was using his police powers to force women to have sex in order to avoid arrest. In that case, five different women came forward (one of whom a police cadet he got pregnant, ending her career) and said that he had raped them.
In the case of the cadet, the woman was a student where the cop was working as an instructor. They were having an affair, and she got pregnant. The rest of the class urged her to come forward and tell the academy. She did. After that, our amorous Sergeant told the class that he had enough pull to make sure none of them got hired unless the pregnant cadet recanted. Under pressure, she did.
He then bragged that he was protected by a fellow cop in the Internal Affairs division that he was also sleeping with. It didn't hurt that his father was a chief of police (now retired).
No one would do anything until the Feds stepped in. It took four years. One thing that slowed it down was much of the evidence against him was kept in an evidence room that his police chief father had access to, and much of that evidence remains missing. In all, a total of 7,877 evidence and property items are missing, including 19 weapons, 177 valuables, 19 bikes and 44 items from the narcotics cage.
This appears to be a crime family. The police chief father was alleged to have ties to a drug kingpin, and the chief's brother (who worked for Miami PD) was an "inside man" who was assisting in the smuggling of drugs into South Florida.
The charges against the son for his sexcapades were filed in December of 2019. It is still tied up in court, and he is a free man. He is still working for the police department, but in a desk job in the communications division.
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A · April 23, 2021 at 10:39 am
"The charges against the son for his sexcapades were filed in December of 2021."
I think you meant 2020.
Divemedic · April 23, 2021 at 2:33 pm
Actually I meant 2019. Thanks.
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Edinburgh Infectious Diseases and the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS), University of Edinburgh, are now open to receiving applications from the first cohort of students on a new Wellcome Trust-funded 4yr PhD programme: 'One Health Models of Disease: Science, Ethics and Society'. This scheme is open to biomedical scientists, social scientists, and bioethicists.
In Yr1, students on the programme will receive class- and lab-based bioscience training, as well as seminar-based learning in the ethical and social dimensions of techniques such as gene-editing. In Yrs2-4, students will complete their doctoral research, with students who are continuing down a social sciences/bioethics PhD pathway being supervised in CBSS by Sarah Chan, Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, or me. Students on the CBSS pathway will, ideally, have a BSc in a biological sciences subject and an MA/MSc in a relevant social science (e.g. sociology, STS) or humanities (e.g. bioethics, law) discipline.
The programme will start in October 2020 with a deadline for application of 12PM (GMT) on Thursday 16 January 2020. The programme will have an intake of 6 students per year, and is open to all students regardless of country of citizenship. All students will have their fees paid in full, and receive a tax-free starting stipend of £19,919 per annum - plus travel and research funds. Details are here: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/wellcome-trust-funded-four-year-phd-programme-in-one-health-models-of-disease-science-ethics-and-society/?p4622
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Chazzan Shepsil Kanarek, Who is he?
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October 13, 2010 3:41 pm at 3:41 pm #592617
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Does anyone know the Real name of this Comedian? And anything about him?
Did anyone watch the link?
The comedian was Michla Rosenberg, a well known Yiddish comedian. He used this character in other settings as well. The Hy Elokeinu he sang is a cantorial piece by Oscar Julius, well know choir leader in the 1920's-1950's(?). Moishe Oysher sang it with great success.
thanks amillion
Where can I see or hear any of his other acts
November 11, 2010 2:44 am at 2:44 am #708187
DovidM
Kanarek means canary.
The play/movie, I'm not Rappaport, takes its title from one of the skits Kanarek did.
June 7, 2020 5:08 pm at 5:08 pm #1868862
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He is known for a few of the movies that he was an actor of.
The above skit was based on a movie, "The Cantor's Son" where a shul is looking for a chazan. One of the members, Shepsil, says that he will lead the davening, and after his "perfomance" they find Moishe Oysher. He is also is known for "A Cantor on Trial".
"Born in Warsaw, Mr. Rosenberg was associated with Schwartz's New York-based troupe for a quarter-century, appearing in such plays as "Yoshe Kalb" and "The Brothers Ashkenazi," and subsequently became a monologist whose best-known character was "Getzei."
A member of the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance, Mr. Rosenberg starred in such Yiddish films as "Mirele Efros" and "The Cantor's Son" and in the Israeli films "Uncle Sam in Israel" and "Highway Robbery." He last appeared on Broadway in 1968 in "Borscht Capades."" – JTA
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That "Yoshe Kalb" has nothing to do with the story of about a Yoshe Kalb in
Rabbi Dr. Twerski's The Zeide Reb Motele, if anyone else is curious.


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Extension of planning permission sought for new UHG Oncology Centre
An extension of planning permission is being sought for the construction of a new Oncology Centre at University Hospital Galway.
When completed the oncology centre will include seven radiotherapy treatment vaults, a brachytherapy suite, two CT rooms, on-treatment support and ancillary physics, treatment planning and administration facilities.
The HSE was first granted planning permission in October 2015 for the demolition of the existing Psychiatric unit and link corridor to the hospital's Paediatric unit, and to build a three storey Radiation Oncology Centre in its place.
The grant of planning permission is set to expire on August 11 of this year, and the HSE is predicting that the project will be completed by June 2022.
The work carried out on the site so far includes the construction of a new ground floor link corridor between the Paediatric Unit and the main hospital, and modification to the road and car park layout on site.
The Psychiatric Unit has been demolished, and site preparation work which has taken place includes "the removal of redundant services, the completion of a bulk dig and the provision of perimeter hording to the site".
Galway City Council is due to rule on this Extension of Duration application by August 4.
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Dismantling of GEBA processing plant
Well-planned and executed: partial dismantling of the GEBA plant
In order to secure the raw material quantities for the demands of the market in the years 2021 and 2022, it was necessary to expand the Dorfner workshop in a westerly direction as part of raw earth extraction planning.
A lot of things had to be set in motion for this project: the GEBA processing plant was partially dismantled because it was located in a future mining area. And pond 13, which supplied the GEBA plant with process water, was also in the affected area.
Keeping operation going
As if these challenges were not enough in and of themselves, the project team faced another hurdle: all conversions and changes to process flows had to be made whilst keeping production going. This was especially important for customers who produce seven days a week and rely on an uninterrupted supply, such as the glass industry. Thanks to sound planning and the high level of commitment of everyone involved, these and other customers were fully supplied over the entire conversion period from February to October 2021.
Partial dismantling of GEBA processing plant
View after dismantling
Well thought-out and sustainable
To supply the plant with fresh water and deliver process water, we switched from pond 13 to pond 6. For this purpose, the pipeline network and the pumps had to be adjusted to the new conditions.
Pond 13 – already without water (before dismantling)
Pond 13 became a new mining area
As part of the partial dismantling that was carried out, the drainage boxes were mostly dismantled. This resulted in large quantities of concrete, which could be crushed and sieved directly on site. Recycled material is now available for future projects, for example to stabilize subsoil. In order to ensure stable production with the remaining boxes, the remaining stockpile structure and its filling was rebuilt via conveyor lines.
Processing of old concrete for later reuse
In addition to maintaining uninterrupted production, we also managed to meet the agreed deadline for completing the partial dismantling. Thanks to the tireless efforts of all ten companies involved and the colleagues from the GEBA plant, the site for raw material extraction could be handed over to the mining company on time.
Many thanks to everyone involved! Together, we were able to master this challenging task on a tight schedule and thus secure raw material extraction in the long term in the interests of our customers and our company.
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"You can start to build interesting segmentation and understanding of your clients and audiences based on where they go," says David Bairstow, SVP of product management at Skyhook. "You can quickly categorize any device or any group of devices by what they're doing. You can identify people who have a strong preference for high-end shopping versus budget or family shopping. You can understand what kind of hotels they stay at. We even get down to a level of which particular airlines and flights particular devices are flying on."
Location data can even help you drill down into census data and infer demographic information about who your customers are and where they're coming from when they visit your business.
"There is great, rich information about your customers that can inform marketing strategies in how you operate as a company," Bairstow adds. "But the data itself is also very actionable, because all of this segmentation starts at the bottom up. Any segmentation can be quickly targeted through whatever advertising platforms you work with, and everything is measurable."
This kind of data is critical when you're looking at customer loyalty — specifically splitters, because for many companies, that's the most critical opportunity, says Sheryl Jacobson, principal consultant on strategy and analytics at Deloitte Consulting.
She points at the hospitality and travel industry as a prime example. Most hotel customers are "splitters," with a go-to brand that they prefer, but will still switch based on convenience, price, location availability, and so on.
"What the hotels haven't been able to access is how big that splitting opportunity is: Who is it that's splitting, where else are they going, and how do I think about intervening, given that?" Jacobson says. "Your ability to home in on where a phone is resting, assuming the person has opted into location services, means you can tell if they're currently staying at a Hyatt, and if this is a person who has stayed at Starwood properties their last three times."
This goes far beyond the self-report data that hotels have previously had to rely on. You can drill down to the type of travel they're doing, business or leisure, with their family or alone, for true behavior-based segmentation, and reach out with offers in the moment, and with a much higher degree of confidence around the design and appropriateness of your programs.
The splitting opportunity for airlines is even bigger than for hotels, Jacobson says.
Location data means that an airline can actually know for sure when someone is splitting, and gives it the opportunity to intervene in the moment, as well as offer the opportunity to explore some of the business issues around airline splitting with differential data: Where does splitting happen most often, and on what types of routes? Is it competitive intensity, a particular terminal in a particular airport, a price?
Airlines are also interested in the overall travel experience — what are its customers doing in the hours leading up to arriving at the airport? What are they doing at the airport when there's a delay? Are there better ways for the airline to improve that experience? And what kind of opportunities does this unlock?
Location data is also significant for sporting teams, she adds, tackling some of their biggest challenges.
"It solves an age-old problem for these teams," she says. "How do you get corporate sponsors? How do you think about the value to them? How do you prove out and measure the value to them in this process?"
For corporate sponsors, it helps ensure they're reaching the right people; for the teams, it helps them determine who they should partner with. Does it make sense for, say, the Bulls and McDonald's to partner up and run a special on Big Macs post-Bulls games, for instance. Would that actually matter to the folks that sit there?
You can take a look at your most loyal customers, outside of the season ticket holders — your core base and most fierce fans. But you can also know what they're doing before, after, and in between.
"So you would know, with a great degree of certainty — before a game, this specific proportion of people are stopping at Chik-Fil-A, this one at McDonald's." she says. "It's a very actionable way to dig into the fanbase."
And that's true of any event space or franchise that taps into the sponsorship revenue streams. You can think of it as a much broader anchor around a particular event, around a business revenue stream of sponsorship.
"Whether it's a huge Salesforce event or VMworld or any others, there's a great captive audience for lots of people, but it's been hard to group them and reach out to them in any coherent way," Bairstow adds.
The retail opportunity is also significant, Jacobson says.
"Again, it's an age-old problem of how Walmart could grab that revenue being spent at CVS, minimize that splitting, and understand why it happens — that's a direct impact on the bottom line," she says.
On the retail side, particularly when you combine it with purchase data and the receipt data that's available, whether it be from credit cards or what the actual retailer sends, you know literally who the Walmart shoppers are, what percentage are splitting trips between Walmart and Target, whether they consistently stop off at CVS beforehand, and more.
And all of these opportunities, from travel to retail to events and banking all build off that fundamental piece: know your customers better.
To learn more about the huge variety of customer insights that location data can offer, the kinds of customer engagement potential they can unlock, and how to start developing your own location data strategy, catch up on this VB Live event now.
During this webinar you'll learn how to:
Boost engagement with location-based consumer insights and competitive intelligence
Gain insight into the behavioral patterns of customers and prospects
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David Bairstow, SVP Product Management, Skyhook
Sheryl Jacobson, Principal Consulting Strategy and Analytics, Deloitte Consulting LLP
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Андрей Юрьевич Прокопьев (род. 16 августа 1992 года) — российский игрок в хоккей с мячом, полузащитник и капитан хоккейного клуба «Байкал-Энергия».

Карьера

Клубная
Воспитанник сосновоборского хоккея с мячом. Первый тренер — Владимир Анатольевич Евграфов. Занимался в хоккейной школе со своим старшим братом — Михаилом Прокопьевым.

В сезоне 2008/09 в составе команды «Саяны».

В сезоне 2009/10 был игроком второй команды «СКА-Нефтяника», принимающей участие в первенстве России среди команд первой лиги. В том же сезоне в составе юниорской команды «Енисея» побеждает в первенстве России.

С 2010 по 2012 год в составе «СКА-Нефтяника».

С 2012 по 2019 год выступает за «Енисей», с которым трижды подряд побеждает в чемпионате России (2014, 2015, 2016), в 2015 году — в Кубке мира.

В 2019 году продолжил игровую карьеру в составе иркутской «Байкал-Энергии». С сезона 2020/21 — капитан команды.

В сборной России
В декабре 2017 года на Турнире четырёх наций провёл свой первый официальный матч в составе сборной России, в котором была одержана убедительная победа над сборной Норвегии (16:1).

В 2018 и 2019 годах побеждает на чемпионатах мира.

Достижения
«Енисей»
 Чемпион России (3): 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16
 Серебряный призёр чемпионата России: 2017/18
 Бронзовый призёр чемпионата России (2): 2012/13, 2016/17
 Финалист Кубка России (3): 2015, 2017, 2018
 Обладатель Суперкубка России (2): 2016, 2017 (осень)
 Финалист Суперкубка России (2): 2015, 2017 (весна)
 Обладатель Кубка мира: 2015
 Финалист Кубка мира (2): 2012, 2017

«Байкал-Энергия»
 Финалист Кубка Губернатора Хабаровского края: 2019

Сборная России
 Чемпион мира (2): 2018, 2019
 Победитель Турнира четырёх наций: 2017
 Серебряный призёр Турнира четырёх наций: 2018
 Серебряный призёр Турнира трёх наций: 2020
 Серебряный призёр Открытого Кубка Красноярского края: 2021
 Победитель чемпионата мира среди молодёжных команд: 2013

Личные
 В списке 22-х лучших игроков сезона (2): 2018, 2019

Статистика выступлений

Клубная

На начало сезона 2023/2024 забивал мячи в ворота 16 / 11 команд

На начало сезона 2023/2024 количество мячей в играх

 Чемпионат России

по 1 мячу забивал в 62 играх
по 2 мяча забивал в 6 играх

Свои 74 мяча забросил в 68 играх, в 279 играх мячей не забивал.

 Кубок России

по 1 мячу забивал в 16 играх
по 2 мяча забивал в 2 играх

Свои 20 мячей забросил в 18 играх, в 64 играх мячей не забивал.

Первый и юбилейный мячи в чемпионатах России
1-й мяч забил в 27-й игре 5 января 2012 года в выездной игре с командой «Сибсельмаш» (4:8) на 29-й минуте с передачи Сергея Почкунова.
50-й мяч забил в 274-й игре 10 ноября 2020 года в домашнем матче с командой «Мурман» (7:2) на 74-й минуте с передачи Егора Егорычева.

В международных турнирах

''Участие в Кубке мира: 7 раз (2012—2018).

В сборной России

Итого: 19 матчей / 9 мячей;   14 побед, 2 ничьи, 3 поражения.

Примечания

Комментарии

Источники

Ссылки
 Профиль на сайте КХМ «Байкал-Энергия»
 Профиль на сайте bandysidan.nu

Хоккеисты с мячом России
Игроки сборной России по хоккею с мячом
Чемпионы мира по хоккею с мячом
Чемпионы мира по хоккею с мячом среди молодёжи
Игроки КХМ «Саяны»
Игроки КХМ «СКА-Нефтяник»
Игроки КХМ «Енисей»
Игроки КХМ «Байкал-Энергия»

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Ideas for a 7yr old girls sleepover party.?!
Question: Ideas for a 7yr old girls sleepover party.?
My daughter wants a sleepover for her birthday. I'm already going to get her a DVD to watch and have them make their own pizzas and sundaes. I'm just kind of at a lost as to what else to do with them. We invited about 8 girls but I doubt all of them will make it.
What are some activities I can prepare ahead of time and some fun games to play?
Play truth or dare. Have two bowls or bags with printed questions and dares written on slips of paper.
Such as truth: What is your middle name? What is the silliest thing in your room?
Dare: Hop on one foot while saying, "I am great," three times.
Mybe do their nails? They will find stuff to do all on their own. They will love to run around and dance, maybe just talk. Put some clothes out for dressing up in, and put on some of their cd's or ipod playlists. Have them make a fashion show or photo shoot. Do makeup. Make jewlry. Paint.


GLEN ELDER – Carl Edwin Jordan was born July 13, 1943 in Beloit to George Edwin Jordan and Clela Remus Jordan. He passed on to his heavenly home on Nov. 5, 2018. He attended Center Rural School, graduated from Beloit High School and following graduation he attended Kansas Wesleyan University graduating with a degree in biology and laboratory sciences. Carl worked as a medical laboratorian assistant at Mitchell County Hospital and returned to farming and ranching in Mitchell County.
On December 27, 1970, Carl married Sharon Blasdel in Plevna, KS. To this union were born two children, Shawna and Brian.
Carl enjoyed the farm way of life, at a very early age he raised hogs and started his own herd of registered Polled Herford cattle which he had until he retired. Carl's passion in life was conservation of the land. He devoted many years to working with Mitchell County Conservation District, the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts, serving as an officer for many years. He also served with the National Association of Conservation Districts for 6 years. Carl also had a passion for mentoring youth. He spent many years as a 4-H leader providing guidance in woodworking and shooting sports. He was able to pass this love on to his children and granddaughters. Carl provided mentoring through a variety of youth sporting activities from starting the youth soccer program, working with kid's wrestling and assisting at all levels of baseball for youth. Carl also served as a Sunday School Teacher and youth sponsor with Beloit First United Methodist Church for many years. He took great pride in creating the Pleasant View Memorial Chapel at the Beloit First United Methodist Church that he finished May 2018. The past several years the pride of Carl's life was watching his granddaughters' activities. Carl served in many organizations during his lifetime: Kansas Young Farmers, Beloit Optimist Club, Beloit First United Methodist Church, Mitchell County Conservation Board, and Kansas Association of Conversation Carl Districts.
was preceded in death by his parents; and his sister, Elizabeth He is Reese.
survived by his wife Sharon, Glen Elder, and daughter Shawna Jordan of Manhattan, Kansas; and son Brian (Amy) Jordan of Berryton, Kansas; grandchildren, Ava Jordan, and FuMaeal Jordan.
services will be at 2:00 PM Thursday, November 8 at the Beloit First United Methodist Church. Visitation will be from 1-8 PM Wednesday with family present from 6-7 PM at the Roberts Family Funeral Home. Memorials may be given to the Beloit First United Methodist Church or Mitchell County Regional Medical Foundation. Roberts Family Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.


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U of W Administration Sponsors Events For Next Two Weeks Re: Middle East to Promote Dialogue And Counter-Balance IAW- See Schedule Here
by Rhonda Spivak, posted Feb 28, 2012
About ten days ago, the Winnipeg Jewish Review wrote to the University of Winnipeg to find out whether they were planning a week relating to exploring the Middle East as a way of encouraging balanced respectful and contructive dialogue, as oppossed to Israeli Apartheid Week, which is a one sided attempt to deamonize Israel.
Last year, the University of Winnipeg's stance made international news in an article we wrote published in the Jerusalem Post, which can be accessed here: http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=873&sec=2.
On Monday of this week, we received a letter by Diane Poulin, a U of W communications with a " schedule of events" stating "the University of Winnipeg is planning to encourage respectful dialogue and a deeper understanding of contemporary Middle East issues. This is similar to what we did last year which was well attended and well received by students, faculty and the broader community."
The University of Winnipeg hosts two weeks of lectures and dialogue from February 28 – March 9, 2012, on a range of issues featuring the Middle East shedding light on the past, to understand the present Spring and conflict that is occurring across this region. Everyone is welcome and the lectures are free.
Note, however, that Israel Apartheid Week is still scheduled to take place this year as it did last year on U of W campus.
HERE IS THE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
WINNIPEG, MB –For millenia, the Middle East has been the cradle of civilization encompassing a cross section of Western Asia and Northern Africa. Centuries later, it remains an epicenter for international trade. It is also an area known for conflict.
"The intention is to provide a respectful and engaging space for relevant dialogue and learning about this region of the world," expressed UWinnipeg President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Lloyd Axworthy. "We have an opportunity to shine a light on current events such as the Arab Spring, while encouraging greater understanding and appreciation around complex debates in the Middle East, many of which have global implications."
The Arab Spring: Syrian Version by Dr. Rais Khan,
UWinnipeg United College Fellow & retired professor
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Convocation Hall, 515 Portage Ave
What was behind the Egyptian Revolution and what lies ahead? by Dr. Salah Hathout,
Senior Professor at UWinnipeg
12:30 pm – 1:20 pm, Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, 515 Portage Ave
The Responsibility to Protect and the Arab Spring by Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, UWinnipeg President & Vice-Chancellor
"Bearing Faithful Witness" so "That We May Know One Another:" A Jew, a Christian and a Muslim in Dialogue with Dr. James Christie- Professor of Dialogue Theology, Faculty of Theology, and Director of the Ridd Institute for Religion and Global Policy of the Global College, UWinnipeg - Ms. Belle Millo, Chair of the Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada - Dr. Ahmet Seyhun, Assistant Professor of Islamic/Middle Eastern History, History Department, UWinnipeg.
Building Bridges through Dialogue: A Panel Discussion
with Members of the Arab-Jewish Dialogue Group of Winnipeg
Competing ideologies and the transformation of the Middle East in the early twentieth century: Ottomanism, Islamism, Arabism and Zionism by Dr. Ahmet Seyhun, Assistant Professor of Islamic/Middle Eastern History, History Department, UWinnipeg.
Education Under Fire: Iran denies their Baha'i citizens the right to post-secondary Education! byDr. Redwan Moqbel, Professor and Head, Department of Immunology University of Manitoba
Film – Turkish Passport
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, 515 Portage Ave.
Israel, Iran and the Arab Spring – A Coming Storm? by Dr. Yoram Peri, Director of the New Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland


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Gravesite of Bo Diddley in Bronson, Florida
September 3, 2019 March 9, 2017 by Karren Doll Tolliver
I am increasingly enamored of roadside attractions in the US these days. There is nothing comparable to them in Europe. It's one slice of Americana that is pointless and fascinating at the same time. I've visited a few around here in the past, including the Airstream Ranch (which is, sadly for me, recently defunct) and the IST building at Florida Polytechnic. (If you haven't seen my pictures of them, you really should – they are stunning, if I do say so myself!)
For researching these peculiar sights, I use RoadsideAmerica.com a lot. Whilst perusing this site for my recent trip to Micanopy that I wrote about last week, I discovered that musician Bo Diddley's grave is located in nearby Bronson, Florida. So I scheduled that into my itinerary.
It's in the Rosemary Hill Cemetery. Bronson was more difficult to find than the grave! It's at the intersection of NE State Road 24 and State Highway 27, west of Micanopy. The cemetery is right on 24 and the grave is right along the road:
I drove through the cemetery on that little, narrow, paved path they have until I came up parallel to the headstone. You can see here how close it is to the road (love that big tree!):
In fact, a couple of passing motorists honked their horns at me while I was there taking pictures.
Now, I didn't know much about Bo Diddley before I took these photos. But I did some research about him for this blog:
He was born in McComb, MS, in 1928 and was a legendary blues guitarist and vocalist. His original name was Ellas Bates McDaniel, and he was adopted by a family that moved him to Chicago at a young age. He studied violin while in elementary school and changed his name to Bo Diddley allegedly after the name of a one-stringed African instrument called the diddley bow.
In his teens he learned to make musical instruments in vocational school. At the age of 15, he constructed his first rectangular guitar, which was to become his trademark, hence the image on the headstone.
He toured for almost six decades and was one of the most influential guitarists and vocalists in blues and rock. Two of his most famous songs are "I'm a Man" and "Who Do You Love?" He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Interestingly, he attributed his long career to the fact that he abstained from drugs and alcohol.
He had a home in Archer, Florida, about 10 miles from Bronson. He died there of heart failure in 2008.
You owe it to yourself to read more about this man. There are good articles on the Rolling Stone Magazine website, Biography.com and a website called Our Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There is much more to him, his life and his music than I have time for here.
However, what moved me about this grave were the personal items from his family:
The guitar pick is cool!
It was touching to realize this famous, influential musician was also a beloved family man, too. I'm glad I paid my respects.
Oh, and if anybody knows why he was called Pharoah, please let me know. I couldn't find anything about that online.
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6 thoughts on "Gravesite of Bo Diddley in Bronson, Florida"
Paula Showen
I had no idea that Bo Diddley was buried in Florida! He was an amazing musician!!!
When I lived in Gainesville I was Bo Diddley's Travel Agent. Our agency had an office at the airport and he would often pass through to pick up his ticket as he was headed out to his next gig. Was not aware of the date he passed away.
HP Philiip
I know in later years, Bo lived in Hawthorne, FL, and Archer, FL. So I wonder, how did Bronson become his resting place? Awesome man, many thanks to him and his energy.
Karren Doll Tolliver
Thanks for your comment, HP Phillip. I don't know how Bo Diddley came to be buried in Bronson, but I guess it's not that far from either Archer or Hawthorne. Maybe his family lives in Bronson and they made the decision. Hard to say, but thanks for your contribution. It helps fill out the story.
How interesting, Eileen! Thanks for sharing your story!
Actually Hawthorne is on the east end of the county and Archer and Bronson are fairly close together on the west side of the county. Last I heard his address was Archer. Maybe the cemetery in Bronson the one with space available…


In a previous post, I used Vali Architects' amazing Instant Terrain plugin to simplify my complex terrain model into more manageable triangles. I then used Vali Architects' Instant Road plugin to add perfectly graded roads to my terrain mesh. Next, I used the Artisan Sculpt Brush to match the terrain mesh to the underlying Google Earth terrain. Using Instant Terrain to simplify my mesh allowed me to quickly and easily modify my terrain model without it taking hours; the downside is when I added the road, the triangular face became somewhat jagged in areas. I am now going to use another tool in the Artisan plugin set, the Subdivide and Smooth tool, to smooth out the jagged areas. The Subdivide and Smooth plugin works by doing exactly what it says, subdividing faces into smaller segments, and smoothing the faces in the process.
Although the new, improved mesh is white, I simply need to paint it with the Paint Bucket to change the color.


Here's some pretty cool news, American Airlines has just launched their official AAdvantage Facebook page and their official Twitter channel.
Welcome to the official Facebook page for the AAdvantage program!
Are you crazy about AAdvantage miles? Well, here is a brand new community for people like you who want to learn about and share all of the great ways to earn those precious miles and some of the fun things you can do using them.
We've got some BIG plans for our members who "Like" AAdvantage here on Facebook, including promotions, offers, giveaways and more!
I'm excited about "promotions, offers, giveaways"!
When you visit their new Facebook page, check out the cool video they posted: "Are People Crazy for AAdvantage Miles". See what happens when they installed a snack vending machine in uptown Dallas that included 500 AAdvantage Miles with each purchase. (I. Would. Drive. To. HOUSTON. For. That!) Go here to watch it.
Stay connected with your friends at 30,000 feet! Just open your browser in-flight during the month of February and click the Ford Explorer banner on the Wi-Fi welcome page. You will enjoy full access to Facebook, without purchasing a Wi-Fi pass, compliments of Ford Motor Company. It's easy and it's free!
You'll also find a link to their new Twitter channel. I applaud American for using Twitter as another way to communicate with customers and to resolve customer service issues, but I'm hoping for lots of cool, AAdvantage specific news with their new AAdvantage feed and not just a bunch of customer service complaints like the American Airlines Twitter channel. I know that they can't really control the conversation, but I hope that they're able to encourage people to limit the conversation to AAdvantage related topics.
Anyway, go here to follow and welcome them to Twitter.


Having a house is the desire a substantial variety of individuals share. There is absolutely nothing as easing as ultimately bidding farewell to your property owner or landlady. This is something that you could attain if you place your mind to it. The choices that you have when it involves possessing the house are to acquire or to construct. Acquiring appears to be a typical choice for lots of people since it has the benefit of time. This is thinking about that you will not need to wait throughout the structure procedure to appreciate your house as it holds true when you opt to construct.
Constructing a personalized residence on the various other hands likewise has its benefits despite the fact that it could take longer prior to you could appreciate your house. On choosing to construct, you will certainly discover it most useful to employ the solutions of a custom home builder. Thankfully, there are lots of building and construction business that will certainly make the procedure very easy for you. There are a variety of points you stand to delight in from a custom home builder. The house contractor has the experience and also understanding bordering residence building and construction. He for that reason recognizes excellent quality products for an important building and construction. With this understanding, you could depend on recommendations that you obtain from the home builder depending upon exactly what your assumptions are. He will certainly remain in a setting to put down all your alternatives so you could make an enlightened choice that still brings you important outcomes.
When utilizing the contractor, you will certainly have complete control of the functions that you desire your home to have consisting of the layout. You are working with an individual task as well as your contractor will certainly remain in a placement to obtain you precisely just what you are seeking. Also when supplying his specialist suggestions, he will certainly still need to stay with your selections ultimately. A great custom home builders will certainly supply you a selection of solutions. They consist of searching for developing room in your recommended location, picking the ideal designer solutions along with providing you funding if you are really fortunate. This implies that besides taking pleasure in a house that is developed to match your choices, you could not need to bother with additional expenditures such as those of employing a designer or trying to find a sponsor. This is taking into consideration that banks are not constantly comfy providing landings to develop personalized residences.
The building contractor focuses on information and also will certainly consequently bring you the practical house you have actually constantly imagined. The home builders are never ever in a thrill to complete the job as it is generally the situation with buildings. They take their time with the job to guarantee that in the long run you are a satisfied as well as pleased consumer.


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Q: How do I solve indentation errors in Python? When I run the below code, I get indentation errors in many lines, such as line 6 and lines where I put exit(0):
from sys import exit

def gold_room():
    print "This room is full of gold, How much do you take?"

    next = raw_input("> ")
    if "0" in next or "1" in next:
        how_much = int(next)
    else:
        dead("Man learn to type a number!")

    if how_much < 50:
        print "Nice, you're not greedy, you win!"
        exit(0)
    else:
        dead("You greedy bastard!")

def bear_room():
    print "There is a bear here."
    print "The bear has a bunch of honey."
    print "The fat bear is in front of another door."
    print "How are you going to move a bear?"
    bear_moved = False

    while True:
        next = raw_input("> ")

        if next == "take honey":
            dead("The bear looks at you and slaps your face off.")
        elif next == "taunt bear" and not bear_moved:
            print "The bear has moved from the door and you can go now."
            bear_moved = True
        elif next == "taunt bear" and bear_moved:
            dead("The bear gets pissed off and chews your leg off.")
        elif next == "open door" and bear_moved:
            gold_room()
        else:
            print "I got no idea waht that means."

def cthulhu_room():
    print "Here you see the great evil Cthulhu."
    print " He, it, whatever stares at you and you go insane."
    print "Do you flee for your life or eat your head?"

    next = raw_input("> ")

    if  "flee" in next:
        start()
    elif "head" in next:
        dead("Well that was tasty!")
    else:
        cthulhu_room()

def dead(why):
    print why, "Good job!"
    exit(0)

def start():
    print "You are in dark room."
    print "There is a door on your right and left."
    print "Which one do you take?"

    next = raw_input("> ")

    if next == "left":
        bear_room()
    elif next == "right":
        cthulhu_room()
    else:
        dead("You stumble around the room until you starved.")

start()

A: *

*Don't mix tabs and spaces.

*Use tools which will replace tabs with spaces (such as PyCharm).

By the way, you can use PyCharm to repair your broken indentation.

A: You are mixing tabs and spaces.
To fix your file on Linux :
tr \\t '    ' < file_in.py > file_out.py

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Devils Fall Short In First Division Game
By Editor | October 8, 2008 | 0
Gaining Experience – Water Valley quarterback Josh Johnson shows continued improvement as the Blue Devil passing attack opens up. –Photo by Reid Bankston
By Reid Bankston
WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley Blue Devils came into Friday night's division opener against the Eupora Eagles looking to secure an upset victory against the division region champions. However, it was Eupora that had made the statement at the end of the night, as the Eagles dodged the upset attempt, and secured a 28-12 road victory.
Head Coach Brad Embry knew his Water Valley squad would have to provide their best performance of the season to upset the Eagles, but missed opportunities and blown assignments cost the Blue Devils dearly.
"The kids played hard. We didn't play nearly as well as we could, and against Eupora that isn't good enough," said Embry. "Against Eupora we knew we'd probably have to play our best game of the year and we just didn't do it. I think the kids played their butts off as far as playing with effort. We didn't have to play perfect, but we had to play much better than we did tonight."
Water Valley opened the first quarter brightly enough though, as the Blue Devil forced the Eupora offense into a three-and-out on their first possession, providing their offense with an opportunity to take the lead.
Behind the running of D.C. Logan, and the continued improvement of quarterback Josh Johnson, the Blue Devil offense did just that. Six carries from Logan took the Water Valley offense inside the Eupora 35-yard line, but it was Johnson that finished the drive off in impressive fashion. On a fourth down play from the Eagles 32-yard line, the junior signal caller rolled out of the pocket, connecting with tight end D'ante Rogers for the touchdown. Water Valley's extra point woes continued though, as yet another miss put the Blue Devils ahead 6-0 with 6:33 remaining in the first quarter.
"He's (Rogers) got a lot of ability. He's still learning to play tight end, so it's an everyday process of him trying to get better and learn the position, he can make plays," said Embry.
Solid defensive play was the theme for the rest of the first quarter and the beginning of the second, as both Eupora and Water Valley allowed little offensive movement.
Unfortunately for Water Valley, it was Eupora who broke up the first half defensive stalemate, as a Shawn Ashford dive from three yards capped off a 62-yard touchdown for the Eagles, putting Eupora ahead 7-6 with 6:58 remaining in the second quarter.
Water Valley's ensuing drive was stopped on the Eupora 20-yard line after a Johnson pass on a fourth-and-five fell incomplete. Eupora took over looking to add to their lead, and Junior Graham's team did just that. Behind the running of Chad Gaston, Demarcus Pass, Ashford, and quarterback Tre McCarthy, the Eagles moved inside the Water Valley 10-yard line with under a minute to go in the half. A sack on McCarthy on first down forced Eupora back to the 14, as the Blue Devils were looking for another vital defensive stand. Water Valley had an opportunity to seize the momentum on the following play, as McCarthy forced a pass into the end zone, but Blue Devil defensive back Chris Connard could not add to his heroics from last week, as the freshman dropped a potentially game changing interception. Eupora took advantage of the Blue Devils misfortunes, as McCarthy connected with tight end Dominick Woodard for a 14-yard touchdown on the next play, putting the Eagles ahead 14-6 with 13.5 seconds remaining before the half.
"When I talk about playing perfect, we had to make those plays. We catch that interception, we go in 7-6 at halftime getting the ball coming out," said Embry. "Like I told the kids, we're learning to win and when you play 2-2A ball against Eupora, and this has been this way since I was in grade school, you better come to play and you better play a good ballgame. You better not make mistakes and we made some tonight and it hurt us. A play here or there and we could easily have won the ballgame."
Water Valley answered Eupora's touchdown to cap off the first half with a touchdown of their own to begin the second. Behind Logan and sophomore J.D. Fondon, the Blue Devils marched down the field, before briefly stalling inside the Eupora three-yard line. A Logan 21-yard run set the Blue Devils up at the Eagles door step, and fittingly enough, the junior finished the drive off with a fourth-and-one conversion from the Eupora one-yard line. Eupora's Caylon Johnson tipped Johnson's two point pass attempt, as the Blue Devils pulled within two at 14-12 with 6:06 remaining in the third quarter.
Pass returned the Water Valley kick off to the Water Valley 41-yard line, as the Blue Devils kick coverage continues to struggle. It took Eupora just three plays to take advantage of the positive field position, as an eight-yard run by Gaston set up a third down, 33-yard Ashford touchdown run, putting Eupora ahead 21-12 with 4:36 left in the third quarter.
After the division foes traded possessions, Water Valley looked to mount a second half comeback, but the Blue Devils found themselves ruing yet another missed opportunity. Logan, who rushed for 156-yard on 36 carries on the night, led the Blue Devils inside the Eagles' territory, but Water Valley's offense faltered at one of the game's biggest moments. On a fourth-and-one on the Eupora 30-yard line with 8:44 remaining in the fourth quarter, the Blue Devils couldn't convert, all but ending their hopes of a second consecutive home victory.
"We've got to put together more scoring drives, we get down there and once again tonight we have fourth-and-one and we don't get it. You're not going to beat Eupora not getting fourth and ones," said Embry. "We're playing a team (Eupora) that's done it and we haven't and we're learning how to do it. They've done it, and we have to catch them, we have to figure out how to make those crucial plays."
Eupora, led by a strong rushing attack, proved both why they are defending the region champions, and why they are favorites to repeat with their next drive. Gaston carried the ball eight times on the Eagles' next possession, including a two yard touchdown run on 4th and goal with 1:56 remaining in the game, putting Eupora ahead 28-12.
"I don't think they wore us down, I saw them getting up off the ground slower than we were. I think that they blocked us sometimes and we didn't block them sometimes, that is basically what it amounted too," said Embry. "I don't think either team wore each other down, I just think it was a battle of executing and making plays when we had a chance."
Water Valley attempted to cut into Eupora's final margin, but they were stopped short when Johnson was intercepted by Johnson for the second time with 18.3 seconds remaining, resigning the Blue Devils to a losing start in division play.
Missed Assignments, Bad Technique
In Water Valley's first five games, the Blue Devil defense established themselves as a formidable unit, coming up with timely stops and huge defensive turnovers. However, against Eupora, the Blue Devils could come up with neither, as the defending region champions caught all the breaks in Friday night's match up. Eupora, who came into their meeting with the Blue Devils averaging 26.2 points per game, took advantage of an off night by the Water Valley defense en route to a 313 yard, 28 point performance
"They were running a simple toss play, but we didn't execute our techniques, the defense we run requires all 11 guys to play with technique," said defensive coordinator Richard Russo. "When your number is called upon to make a play, you have to do it."
While Water Valley held an advantage in first downs, amounting to 13 while holding Eupora to 11, they lost the all important turnover battle. The Eagles recorded two crucial turnovers, while Water Valley left several opportunities on the table.
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Corruption Research Paper
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This research paper discusses the nature and typology of corruption, including "conflicts of interest," "regulatory and institutional capture," the "revolving door" phenomena, and "gaming of systems." It argues that incorporating an institutional corruption lens into the field of global bioethics would help advance the global bioethics discourse. The paper concludes by reviewing key reform strategies – such as proscription, independent monitoring, incentive design mechanisms, transparency and disclosure initiatives, blinding, ethics education, deliberation and ethical persuasion – that may help mitigate specific instances of corruption and contribute to building institutional integrity and trustworthiness.
The purpose of this research paper is to help readers understand the nature and manifestations of corruption, its relevance for the field of global bioethics, and prospects for reform. After cataloging varieties of corruption – including "conflicts of interest," "regulatory and institutional capture," the "revolving door" phenomena, and "gaming of systems" – remedies and prevention strategies are introduced. Because corruption can take many forms, preventing and reforming it usually involves a multipronged approach.
Proscription, independent monitoring, incentive design, transparency and disclosure initiatives, blinding, as well as ethics education, deliberation and persuasion are identified as promising reform and prevention strategies. Studying and understanding corruption implies not only that there is a problem, but that the counterfactual is possible: a situation where the corruption does not exist. Understanding that things can be better and what that "better situation" can and should look like, is part of the solution to corruption and moving towards higher levels of integrity on the individual and institutional level.
Defining Corruption
It is tempting to think one will know corruption when one sees it. However in practice, defining the concept and recognizing its manifestations can be challenging. In fact, the precise definition of the term remains rigorously debated. Notwithstanding, something can be generally understood as corrupt when it deviates from its purpose or its ideal state of being. In simplistic terms, corruption often implies something is broken.
There are at least two types of corruption: formal and informal corruption. Formal corruption involves a deviation from official rules, such as laws, institutional policies, constitutions or codes of conduct. The paradigmatic example of formal corruption is bribery, which involves a quid-pro-quo relationship where something of value is solicited, offered, or given to an individual, with a public or legal duty, to influence their actions. In medicine, this could involve a pharmaceutical company bribing a hospital or doctor to prescribe their drug over that of a competitor, something for which the Chinese government recently fined GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Informal corruption is harder to define and recognize, as it involves a deviation from less tangible things such as ideals and purposes, rather than formal laws. It is often explained through two metaphors: the concept of magnetic deviation applied to a compass (Lessig 2013) and the concept of sickness. A compass can be understood as corrupted if it no longer functions as it is designed to function: to point towards magnetic north. This corruption can occur, for example, by placing a magnet adjacent to the compass, causing its needle to deviate away from magnetic north and towards a corrupted direction. Similarly, a sick, diseased, or decomposing body can be understood as a corruption from a sound or healthy state.
Inherent in both informal and formal corruption, is an argument that strategic forces and influences (such as placing a magnet next to a compass or pharmaceutical industry money presented to a doctor) are the root causes of deviations (that, is corrupting) from formal requirements, ideals, or purposes. These deviations, or corruptions, can occur on both the individual and institutional level. The concept of individual corruption is far older, dating back to the writing of Aristotle.
The term institutional corruption (IC) was coined by Dennis F. Thompson in 1995 and substantially advanced by Larry Lessig, starting around 2010. Both scholars developed the concept in the context of political corruption, using it as a lens for considering ethical concerns about the US legislative system (Lessig 2013; Thompson 2013). Current scholars are investigating how the concept applies to other sectors of society, such as think tanks, medicine, public health, finance, and academia.
Definitional Challenges: A Normatively Neutral Conception Of Corruption?
Part of the challenge of recognizing and addressing corruption, is defining the ultimate purposes of institutions. Some corruption scholars argue for a normatively neutral conception of corruption. They propose that the purpose of an institution, and therefore the metric against which to judge corruption, is that which the institution defines for itself. In this sense, institutional purpose could be ascertained by, for example, simply reading an institution's public mission statement (Marks 2014) and determining whether it is implemented. Corruption would then be measured as intentional deviations from self-espoused goals and purposes.
Under this conception, corruption could actually be a good thing. For instance, one might want to corrupt or disrupt an institution with a harmful purpose. Imagine corrupting the mafia's ability to perpetrate a harmful crime, thereby maximizing social welfare. Corrupting the institution of the mafia, in this case, could be a public good.
Corruption And Bioethics
To date, the field of bioethics has largely focused on the ethics of individuals. It asks what a person should or should not do on matters related to health. For example, there is a large body of literature elucidating which principles, ends, and virtues should guide clinicians, scientists, or ethics committee members in their care of individual patients, treatment of human research participants, or allocation of scarce medical resources.
However, bioethics regularly fails to consider that often, good people cannot make good decisions when in bad systems or bad institutions. The emerging field of institutional corruption, in many senses, asks that the bioethical discourse better consider the role of external influences and systems on the institutions housing bioethical decision makers and in turn how corrupt systems and corrupt institutions can corrupt the decisions of individuals, consciously or not.
Varieties Of Corruption: Conflicts Of Interest, Regulatory Or Institutional Capture, The Revolving Door, Gaming, And Distrust
Bioethical decisions occur in a wide range of institutions, including hospitals, governments, regulatory bodies, patient advocacy groups, think tanks, universities, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, and research ethics committees or institutional review boards (IRBs). All of these systems have the potential for corruption and therefore to corrupt the decision making of their members. Corruption can take at least three forms in institutions: conflicts of interest, regulatory or institutional capture, and gaming. These three form will be explained using research ethics committees (RECs) and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), as an example, herein referred to collectively by the international term REC.
RECs are gatekeepers that decide whether testing a drug, vaccine, or device is ethical in a proposed group of people. Previously, small RECs reviewed individual drug trials proposed for conduct in single-sites. Since the 1980s, however, the research landscape has globalized and involves multisite trials. A trial could, for example, now take place in five countries spanning several continents and in multiple hospitals per country. This trend, of multicite trials, often requires a larger, centralized, and more robust REC that can handle multicite and transcontinental research. To keep up with this demand, RECs began merging with and acquiring (M&A) other RECs to form larger institutions. This centralization, growth and M&A activity required an influx of capital and other resources. Private equity firms often filled the capital need. Herein entered the first type of corruption concern.
The corruption concern, in this case, pertains to conflicting interests, missions, and purposes. The mission of an REC, as defined by governments and the RECs themselves, is to protect human research participants in clinical trials, by reviewing and approving or disproving research proposals. RECs are constituted to fulfill a public good. The mission and values of a private equity (PE) firm, in contrast, include securing high returns on investments (ROI) and positioning funded entities to be resold (or flipped) within 3–5 years for a profit. Moreover, akin to credit rating agencies, many RECs' are financed through fees paid by the entities they are governing and regulating (Miller 2013). Applying an institutional corruption lens raises the question of whether the role of the PE firm, whose purpose is related to maximizing profits, weakens an REC's ability to achieve its public good purpose of protecting research subjects. IC theory also raises questions of whether ownership structures and financial models matter for gatekeepers and certain public good oriented institutions, an important question not usually asked or addressed in bioethics.
Conflicts of interest need not be financial. Quests for prestige and professional advancement through high volume publications in top academic journals are examples of other types of conflicts of interest, particularly in academia, that can corrupt an individual's decision making. This may have been the case with Robert Slutsky, a National Institutes of Health funded scholar and a junior research cardiologist at the University of California-San Diego, who was dubbed a wunderkind and a "must hire" as a result of his prolific publication record. Unfortunately, several publications included falsified data and were based on studies that he never conducted. Despite Slutsky's unusually high publication rate, arguably implausible without fraudulent behavior, the academic system took years to notice the problem.
A second corruption concern is that of regulatory, cultural, or institutional capture. Returning to the REC case, competition among RECs is increasing. As a result, pharmaceutical companies can "shop" around for a preferred REC. This shopping may serve as the magnet that deviates the REC away from its purpose of protecting research subjects (its magnetic north), towards the interests of their potential "client" to win their business. The worry is that RECs may adopt inappropriate speed and leniency in protocol reviews driven by this competitive spirit. Just as pharmaceutical companies used to throw extravagant events and give gifts to doctors to influence their prescription practices, RECs now fund extravagant parties at industry events to court pharmaceutical and biotechnology company clients. Applying an IC framework raises the question of whether these system influences routinely deviate an REC away from protecting research subjects towards the interests of the industries and sectors, in a process known as institutional or regulatory capture.
Related to regulatory capture is the concern about the "revolving door" phenomenon (Salter 2014). The revolving door concept refers to concerns that individual regulators and evaluators will be unjustly lenient in their evaluation and governance of institutions that have the power to offer them a job or contract, at a much higher pay.
There are plenty of cases of gatekeepers and regulators taking jobs in the companies and industries they once governed. Take the current directors of both the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry trade associations, they are both former politicians. Additionally, in 2004, the majority of lobbyists hired by the pharmaceutical industry to educate politicians and shape legislation walked through the revolving door; at least half of them had previously worked for the US federal government (Brody 2007).
A fourth type of corruption involves gaming of systems. For example, many pharmaceutical companies sell HIV/AIDS and other potentially life-saving therapies at significantly discounted prices, or even donate them for free, to countries with lower purchasing powers (Miller and English 2014). The idea is to help increase access to essential medicines for patients in emerging economies. Unfortunately, some grass roots players will obtain the free or discounted drugs and resell them in wealthier countries for a profit, through a process called drug diversion. Drug diversion represents a gaming of tiered-pricing systems set up by pharmaceutical companies and governments.
Returning to the example of the role of private equity firms in running the ethics committees that review and approve drug research in humans, PE money may actually improve an IRB's ability to achieve its mission by for example providing needed money to train and educate its members. However, the role of PE, if widely understood, could also weaken stakeholder/public confidence and trust in an IRB/REC. Some definitions of corruption include arguments that significant distrust eventually weakens an institution's ability to fulfill its intended purposes. Therefore, under these definitions, strategic economies of influence that weaken trust in or the trustworthiness of an institution are also corrupting.
Preventing And Remedying Corruption: Proscription, Independent Monitoring, Incentive Design, Transparency And Disclosure, Blinding And More
Because corruption can take many forms, preventing and reforming it usually involves a multipronged approach. Strategies such as proscription, improving independent monitoring capabilities, incentive design mechanisms, blinding strategies, mobilizing civil society activism, and professionalization can have measurable impacts on reducing specific instances of institutional corruption. These tools largely share a common strategy of identifying and counteracting improper systemic influences that can weaken an institution's ability to achieve its purpose or its trustworthiness.
Concerns about regulatory capture aside, the most obvious strategy for addressing corruption is to ban it. Take the concern in healthcare innovation that clinical trial sponsors hide unfavorable clinical trial results from the public, as an example. In an attempt to minimize this practice of biased reporting, the US Congress passed the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA), requiring the registration and results reporting of all interventional clinical trials other than phase I trials, in a public registry run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The law made it illegal, in a sense, and penalized the hiding of certain types of clinical trial results. The law is far from perfect, but it has measurably advanced the process of improving transparency in clinical trial disclosures.
Governance initiatives can also occur on the private or quasi-public levels. Before the FDA passed FDAAA, the International Commission for Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), attempted to address the concern about biased clinical trial results reporting by requiring registration of all clinical trials (a more robust standard that the US legal standard) as a condition for publication in member journals. The ability to publish in a top-tier medical journal proved a powerful incentive for many researchers and trial sponsors to comply with the ICMJE's transparency standards.
In many ways, the ICMJE initiative can also be understood as a type of independent monitoring or incentive design mechanism. There is a wider-angle of incentives that may motivate better behaviors by individuals and institutions, including the promise of a better reputation, greater public trust, lower risks of litigation, the ability to attract and retain a better workforce, tax breaks, or even the ability to charge more for a product that can be advertised as ethically produced (such as fair trade products like chocolate and coffee). Or course, incentive design mechanisms are not without their own limitations.
Eliciting behaviors through incentives may backfire for at least two reasons. First, some scholars argue that market incentives may crowd out intrinsic motivations and nonmarket norms that are important for producing a desired behavior, in this case for people doing the right thing. Richard Titmuss (1997) argues this may have been the case with blood donations in the USA. Voluntary blood donations decreased around the time commercial blood banks began offering to pay for blood to augment the blood supply.
Titmuss argues the fee incentive (or commercialization and marketization of blood) crowded out the internal sense of duty and altruism to donate blood and in the end reduced the participation of altruistic donors and the overall blood supply in the USA (in contrast to the United Kingdom who has maintained a voluntary donation system). On the other hand, scholars such as Sen, Huffman, Lowenstein and colleagues (forthcoming), have empirically shown that offering financial incentives does not "crowd out" intrinsic motivations that are important to producing a desired behavior, at least not in the context of offering financial incentives for weight loss. Second, it is impossible to design a system whereby it always pays to do the right, good or uncorrupt thing. As such, incentive design mechanisms are always limited in scope.
Accreditation, certification, rating, ranking, indexing, auditing, reporting, and other labeling systems can also be helpful reform strategies (Miller 2013a, b). They aid in defining quality standards for products, services, and institutions, and signaling to stakeholders the degree to which the standards are met. They also help to bridge asymmetries of information, which can exacerbate corruption and distrust (Stiglitz 2009). These quality improvement initiatives are not immune to the corruptions discussed above, particularly conflicts of interest and the revolving door phenomena. To address concerns about revolving doors, it may be good policy for governance entities to ban monitors and evaluators from accepting employment in regulated industries for a year or more after stepping down from their review roles, and vice versa (sometimes called a cooling off period). It might also make sense to rotate those that review, evaluate, or monitor entities to reduce the likely they develop biasing personal ties with the employees of particular companies. These systems are closely related to professionalization efforts and can also be thought of as transparency initiatives.
The spirit behind transparency and disclosure initiatives can be largely summarized by Justice Louis Brandeis' famous remark in 1913 that, "sunlight is the best disinfectant." Disclosure initiatives do not ban a problematic practice, but rather assume that publicly naming and faming good practices, and/or shaming bad ones, can incentivize change, where needed, and that practices that cannot withstand public scrutiny are likely problematic. This was part of the spirit behind the creation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act in the USA, which requires many drug, biological, and medical device manufacturers to report payments and gifts they make to physicians and teaching hospitals to a public database. Many experts suspected that forcing disclosures of conflicts of interest could reduce them. Interestingly, patients and other physicians were not morally outraged upon learning their physicians or colleagues accepted gifts from drug companies (Hampson et al. 2006). They often viewed them as well-earned badges of honor and signals of expertise and competency. When proscription, disclosure, and transparency strategies fail, blinding can be a solid alternative reform tool.
Blinding is often used to address conflicts of interest. It works by concealing the biasing information from the relevant decision maker (Robertson 2013). For example, several scholars have argued that blinding pharmaceutical funding in clinical trials may help reduce risks that the results of clinical trials are biased in favor of the funder. In this case, these scholars advocate for an independent entity to collect funding for clinical trials from a wide range of sources, including different companies and universities, and for the money to be pooled and dispersed from a single fund. When an institution needs a clinical trial conducted, they ask the independent blinder to select the entity to conduct the trial and to fund it from the blinded single pool of money.
Finally, ethics education, deliberation, and ethical persuasion should likely be a part of all reform strategies. There is some evidence to suggest that successful reform entails people understanding not only what to do, but why it is important to do it. They may also need to understand and have hope that change is possible, to prevent disengagement. Studying and understanding corruption may, counter to intuition, provide some of this hope.
Reviewing the nature and typology of corruption shows that defining and recognizing corruption are not as easy as one might think. In general terms, corruption occurs when a person or an institution deviates from formal standards or from the informal ideals and purposes that justify their existence. The root causes of these deviations can include systemic "conflicts of interest," "regulatory and institutional capture," the "revolving door" phenomena, and "gaming of systems."
Inherent in the concept of corruption is the prospect for reform. Diagnosing something as corrupt suggests not only that there is a problem, but that the counterfactual is possible: a situation where the corruption does not exist. This hope, that things can be better and the clear vision of what that good can and should look like, is part of the solution. Additionally, tools such as regulatory proscription, independent monitoring, incentive design mechanisms, transparency and disclosure initiatives, blinding techniques, as well as ethics education, deliberation and persuasion – can also help mitigate corruption and foster institutional integrity and trustworthiness.
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Wissekerke is een buurtschap bij 's-Heer Hendrikskinderen in de gemeente Goes in de provincie Zeeland. Tot 1816 was Wissekerke een aparte gemeente, die per 1 januari 1816 opging in 's-Heer Hendrikskinderen. Het gemeentewapen werd pas op 31 juli 1817 door de Hoge Raad van Adel bevestigd.

Ambachtsheerlijkheid
Waarschijnlijk is de ambachtsheerlijkheid Wissekerke eerst eigendom van het geslacht Van Schenge geweest en is Wisse van Schenge de naamgever geworden. Later was het ambacht van de familie Van Borsele. In 1686 werd Isaak de Perponchcr Sedlnitski eigenaar.

In 1705 kocht Johan van Sonsbeeck de heerlijkheid, die haar na liet aan zijn dochter Anna. Deze Anna huwde in 1754 met Frederik Willem Egter, waarmee de heerlijkheid Wissekerke in de familie Egter kwam en de familienaam Egter van Wissekerke ontstond.

Tot op heden is de ambachtsheerlijkheid Wissekerke nog steeds eigendom van de familie Egter van Wissekerke.

Geboren in Wissekerke
 Johan de Kanter, 1762

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Voormalige gemeente in Zeeland
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