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Research led by Southampton academics, could lead to first Lassa virus vaccine
A study led by the Biological Sciences, at the University of Southampton has unearthed findings which could support the creation of the first vaccine for the deadly Lassa virus. This highly infectious agent is amongst a panel of viruses, which includes Ebola, which cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans.
As there is currently no effective vaccines or treatments available to combat this virus, the findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), will support efforts to generate a vaccine to tackle the subsequent outspread of the disease.
The Lassa virus is commonly found in West Africa and is transmitted to humans mainly through handling rats, food or household items contaminated by rats' urine and faeces. The virus can spread between people through direct contact with the body fluids of a person infected with Lassa fever, as well as contaminated bedding and clothing.
According to figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the current Lassa virus outbreak in Nigeria has resulted in a total of 444 confirmed cases, including 111 recorded deaths to date. This is the largest outbreak of the Lassa virus ever reported in Nigeria.
Any successful vaccine to combat the Lassa virus would likely include the viral spike that functions on the virion surface and is responsible for helping the virus enter a target cell. It is hoped that by including mimics of the viral spike the body's immune system will make antibodies against the spike that are capable of neutralising the virus.
Making a vaccine against Lassa virus is difficult and one characteristic, which enables it to avoid detection by the immune system, is a dense coat of sugars that are attached onto the surface of the spike, otherwise known as glycans.
Professor Max Crispin, Professor of Glycobiology and Principal Investigator of the study from the University of Southampton, said: "We hope that by understanding the glycan shield of Lassa virus we will be able to help in the efforts to generate an effective vaccine.
"Given the impact of Nigeria's largest-ever Lassa fever outbreak this year, it is critical that we begin to identify the idiosyncrasies which could help to create a vaccine to combat this highly infectious agent and ensure it is contained."
As part of the study, titled 'Structure of the Lassa virus glycan shield provides a model for immunological resistance', the research team has created a detailed map of the glycan shield which has shed light on why the virus is so immunologically resistant.
The findings provide a potential blueprint for understanding how glycans render the glycoprotein spikes of Lassa virus and how the infection could be combated.
Professor Thomas Bowden, co-author of the study from the University of Oxford, said: "The development of a vaccine for a virus such as this is a long and complex process."
"These findings have important implications for researchers developing vaccines against Lassa virus, providing a benchmark to assess future vaccine candidates."
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1. The work at the University of Southampton was principally supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery Grant (OPP1115782).
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You Do Know What Makes It a 'Free' Market, Right?
By Michael F. Cannon
Here's a poor, unsuccessful letter I sent to the editor of the Washington Post:
"Health‐care provision at center of Supreme Court debate was a Republican idea" [Mar. 27, A7] describes the health care law Mitt Romney signed while governor of Massachusetts as comprised of "free‐market ideas." Really?
RomneyCare's individual mandate, now mirrored in ObamaCare, uses the power of the state to compel people to health insurance. What could be more un‐free than that?
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If Thomas Edison Had to Submit His Innovations to Medicare, You Would Be Reading This by Candlelight
Two articles in the Washington Post sparked these two poor, unsuccessful letters to the editor. First this:
I'm no Republican, but "'Innovation advisers' chosen for ideas to improve health care, cut costs" [Jan. 21] gives short shrift to those who oppose the new health care law's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation when it reports, "Some Republicans have questioned the value of investing in experimentation to produce results at a time of limited resources."
If some critic of the law actually said, "Resource limitations prevent us from investing in innovations that stretch resources further," please do print it. I could use the laugh. But that's not why critics oppose the Center.
The argument against the health care law's efforts to promote innovation is that they won't work. The Congressional Budget Office recently reported that out of dozens of supposed Medicare innovations, only one met its goal of saving taxpayers money. That pilot program ended 16 years ago. Medicare has yet to adopt it program‐wide.
This is an important debate. Readers deserve to hear both sides, not caricatures.
And then this:
Recent coverage of the new health care overhaul ["'Innovation advisers' chosen for ideas to improve health care, cut costs," Jan. 21; "Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation aims to cut health‐care costs," Jan. 26] let defenders make outlandish claims about government efficiency, but gave short shrift to critics.
Government is not more innovative than private health insurance. It was private health plans that developed important innovations like prepayment, bundled payments, pay‐for‐performance, and penalties for medical errors. Government adoption typically lags private insurers by decades. In the rare instance where Medicare successfully tests an innovation (read: bundled payments for heart bypass surgery), it goes nowhere. If Thomas Edison had to submit his innovations to Medicare, you would be reading this by candlelight.
We don't need more pilot programs to tell us that Medicare blocks innovation. What we need is a little skepticism when presented with the latest Bureau of Government Efficiency.
J.P. Morgan and Yahoo: Market Successes
Investment giant J.P. Morgan made a bad trade that cost its owners $2 billion. The responsible parties are losing their jobs. Yahoo's CEO evidently misled people about his qualifications. As a result, he lost his job.
If you want to know why these are market successes, consider: Medicare and Medicaid lose at least 35 times as much per year to fraud and other improper payments, and Medicare wastes even more on medical care that does nothing to make patients healthier or happier. This happens year after year after year.
Now ask yourself: when was the last time someone got fired over those losses? And yet the politicians' first reaction to the J.P. Morgan trade was greater oversight by the political system, which tolerates much greater losses than the market system that is currently disciplining J.P. Morgan.
Here's hoping the Yahoo incident inspires some politician to crack down on people who embellish their resumes.
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Medicare Fraud Posse Cackles as If They Laid an Asteroid
What the media blare:
Levinson Snags $515 Million in Health Care Fraud
More than 100 Charged in Massive Medicare Fraud Busts in 7 Cities in Scams Totaling $452 Mil
What I hear:
Drip .… .… . . drip … .… .… . .
Why? As the latter article notes, "authorities have targeted fraud that's believed to cost the government between $60 billion and $90 billion each year." So add up those two figures, which include frauds that occurred in multiple years, and you get somewhere between 1.1 percent and 1.6 percent of the amount that Medicare and Medicaid enable criminals to steal from taxpayers in a single year.
Neither article makes it clear how paltry these anti‐fraud efforts are. But at least the former article asks:
So what is it about the government's health care programs that make them such inviting targets for white collar criminals?
I answer that question here, and in this video:
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Sometimes, Governments Lie (6th Anniversary Ed.)
(This blog post first appeared at Cato@Liberty following the release of the 2006 Medicare and Social Security trustees' reports. I repost it, with updated links and "exhaustion dates" because sadly nothing else has changed.)
Sometimes, Governments Lie
Year after year, federal officials speak of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds as if they were real. Yesterday Today, the government announced that the Social Security trust fund will be exhausted in 2040 2033 and that the Medicare hospital insurance trust fund will be exhausted in 2018 2024— projections that the media dutifully reported.
But those dates are meaningless, because there are no assets for these "trust funds" to exhaust. The Bush administration wrote in its FY2007 budget proposal:
These balances are available to finance future benefit payments and other trust fund expenditures — but only in a bookkeeping sense. These funds…are not assets…that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits…When trust fund holdings are redeemed to pay benefits, Treasury will have to finance the expenditure in the same way as any other Federal expenditure: out of current receipts, by borrowing from the public, or by reducing benefits or other expenditures. The existence of large trust fund balances, therefore, does not, by itself, increase the Government's ability to pay benefits.
This is similar to language in the Clinton administration's FY2000 budget, which noted that the size of the trust fund "does not…have any impact on the Government's ability to pay benefits" (emphasis added).
I offer the following proposition:
If the government knows that there are no assets in the Social Security and Medicare "trust funds," and yet projects the interest earned on those non‐assets and the date on which those non‐assets will be exhausted, then the government is lying.
If that's the case, then these annual trustees reports constitute an institutionalized, ritualistic lie. Also ritualistic is the media's uncritical repetition of the lie.
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Alan Blinder Owes Me $5 for Wasting My Time
In today's Wall Street Journal, Alan Blinder writes one of the most error‐ridden and discourse‐debasing op‐eds I have ever read. About any topic. Ever.
A sampling:
[O]ur country was founded on the idea that the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable. Access to affordable health care is surely essential to two of these three rights, maybe to all three.
This is absurd. Does Blinder really mean to say that until about a hundred years ago, when modern medicine really began, the lack of access to affordable health care alienated every single human being to walk the Earth from their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
I wish people would think — long and hard — before they write about health care. Especially the smart ones.
Government and Politics, Health Care, Constitution, the Law, and the Courts
Politico: Opponents Are Winning the Debate over ObamaCare 'Exchanges'
Politico has a great story about how free‐market groups are defeating ObamaCare Exchanges at the state level:
Conservatives like John Graham of the Pacific Research Institute have also been touring states with the platform provided by the American Legislative Exchange Council to help kill off state‐based exchanges, a key piece of health reform that will help millions of people purchase insurance coverage — often with federal subsidies — starting in 2014.
"Our approach has to be absolute noncollaboration, civil disobedience — well, not civil disobedience but resistance … by whatever means," said Graham.
Two years into the law's implementation, conservative emissaries have contributed to impressive stats. Almost all red states are holding off on exchange legislation at least until the Supreme Court decides on the Affordable Care Act, and in most of those states, exchange‐building legislation has crawled to a stop.
I have to point out three problems with the story, though. First, the Cato Institute and I are libertarian, not conservative.
Second, the article identifies Cato, ALEC, and AFP as being "funded partly by the Koch brothers." Even though these groups have no direct or indirect financial interest in this issue, and even though Cato currently receives no funding from the Kochs, and even though Cato is currently fighting a hostile takeover attempt by the Kochs, I guess that's a fair categorization. What isn't fair is how the article fails to disclose that Leavitt Partners has a direct financial interest in this issue: Leavitt is getting paid by states to help implement Exchanges. (See "Health Exchanges: A New Gold Mine," Politico, June 27, 2011.) It would have been nice if the article mentioned that all the moneyed interests – including health insurance carriers and many Chambers of Commerce – are on the pro‐Exchange side. But it at least should have mentioned Leavitt's financial interest.
Third, I'm not sure what basis there is for saying "most legal experts think" the federal government can offer tax credits and subsidies in federal Exchanges. My co‐author Jonathan Adler and I have been following that debate closely. Only a handful of scholars have even commented on the issue, and they are fairly evenly split. If I'm unaware of others who have weighed in, I'd like to hear about them.


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First-Mover: Japan May Revise Climate Targets Over Nuclear Crisis
Monday 4th April 2011
Japan signalled Monday it may review ambitious climate goals amid a nuclear disaster that has crippled reactors and highlighted the radiation risk of the low-carbon energy source.
Top government spokesman Yukio Edano said Japan's carbon emission reduction goals, along with many other policies, were open to review after the quake, tsunami and nuclear calamities struck over three weeks ago.
Japan has pledged to cut its greenhouse emissions by 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels — provided other major polluters also make sharp reductions — one of the most ambitious targets of any industrialised country.
But the environment ministry's top bureaucrat, Hideki Minamikawa, said at UN climate talks in Bangkok that the March 11 disaster and Fukushima nuclear plant crisis had compromised the goal, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said.
"It is true that the reduction goal will be affected a great deal," he was quoted as saying, adding that the carbon cut target was based on plans to build new reactors and to improve the capabilities of old ones.
"Both the target year and reduction percentage will be reviewed," the vice minister was quoted by the mass-circulation daily as saying.
Edano appeared to back Minamikawa's comments, saying: "Needless to say, this great disaster will have a great impact in many areas in Japan.
"Not only the 25 percent reduction target but also many other challenges that Japan is facing now should be examined at one point because many areas have been impacted by the quake disaster."


Clicking the browse button of the "import from GGA"-option brings up a file browser.
Clicking on a directory name will show the corresponding entries, clicking on a file name will select it and, in single select mode, close the file browser. In multiple select mode the file browser stays and you are able to select further files. Klick on the 'Submit' button on the bottom of the file browser when you are done.
The base directories that the file browser will show are preset by the GGA system administrator. The GGA home directory where the home directories of the Bioinformatics Workbench users are located is available on every GGA as "workbench_home". Here, the demo data files used in the GGA Quickstart Guide can be found (see "workbench_home -> Demo -> NGS -> data").
In order to make a file available to the "import from GGA"-option just copy it into one of the base directories or a directory below. Directory names and file names shown in red can't be accessed respectively read because of their currently set file permissions. The file permissions of files and directories accessible for import have to be read (r) and execute/search (x) for your user account.


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Hot summer nights: 'I hated my job – but did I really want to be fired?' | Life and style
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It was July 2015. I hated my job and was bad at it. I was on a fitness kick, sometimes cramming in two sessions a day around work, the exercise a trapdoor from my persistent unhappiness. I was as piteous as a medieval martyr, but without good cause – I had made all my bad life decisions, after all. I was 26 years old. I felt as if someone had put a wheel lock on my life and my tyres were grinding in reverse.
It all came to a head one summer evening over red wine and cigarettes.
The day had started out ordinarily enough. It was a Friday. I woke at dawn, took three trains into central London, elbowing past women in pencil skirts and running trainers. My still-wet hair clung to my neck. The air was humid and slightly mildewy.
I walked into the office, where I worked as a public affairs consultant, advising companies that didn't pay corporation tax or that invested in fossil fuels. Often, when I was supposed to be taking minutes during an interminable meeting in a glass-walled conference room, I would have fantasies about a bomb going off in our offices; my last thought, before I exsanguinated beneath the rubble, would usually be: "It's no great loss."
I lingered over breakfast, contemplated lunch and tabbed between emails and online news. I did no work, of course. I had once been good at this job, but had stopped caring – I couldn't put my finger on when. I texted my boyfriend and he didn't respond, although I could see he was online.
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That afternoon, I remembered I had a performance review, so I collected my notebook and went to a boardroom. There, my manager said things like "underperforming", "lack of enthusiasm", "performance improvement plan" – and "possible termination".
"Do you really want to be here?" she asked. She was kinder than she needed to be, but I got the gist.
The sensation of shame, as she talked, is hard to explain. It felt like walking through a thicket of nettles in your underwear. Like waking up in wringing-wet bed sheets. Like a plume of blood in a school swimming class.
I went home and called my friends, who made sympathetic noises, but didn't have the nerve to tell it to me straight. I called my boyfriend, who was uninterested. Within a month, I would break up with him, although I didn't know that.
That summer night had a metallic quality. I sat on the floor and dangled my legs over the balcony. The evening air felt like a cold hand pressed on my forehead, like a thermometer tucked in a fevered armpit. My teeth were furred by the iron-rich wine I was drinking. My lips were stained. I felt like a copper pan being scraped by wire wool: flayed, mortified, raw. I had no idea what to do. None at all. I knew I wanted to be a journalist, but it seemed an impossible abstraction, like learning Urdu or developing a sense of direction.
I spoke to a friend and told her everything. She was the only person to tell me the truth. "They're going to fire you," she said. "You should quit now." She was right, of course.
When Monday dawned, I went into the office and handed in my notice. My manager nodded as if to say: "Yes, this is best." I spent those last weeks being cut out of email chains and shunned. My boss gave a leaving speech that felt so outrageously insincere that I had the urge to laugh. My friends there, good people, looked out for me, stood with me on cigarette breaks and stuffed my leaving card with cash.
I walked out of that job on a summer evening much like the one I am writing this on now. The wheel lock is gone and I am spinning pointlessly no more.
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A Brother Runs Through It: twilit reflections on directorial brothers in the healing allegorical films of Robert Redford by Gary W. Wright
After years of acting in New Hollywood films and often playing characters linked to George Lucas such as the Sundance Kid and Johnny Hooker in Roy George Hill's allegorical films, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) and THE STING (1973), or Joe Turner in Sidney Pollack's allegorical film, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975), Robert Redford joined Marlon Brando and Clint Eastwood in the ranks of film actors turned directors with his freshman allegorical film, ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980). After the fateful helicopter crash that killed actor/director/writer Vic Morrow and child extras Renee Chen and Myca Le around 2:20 am in the early morning of July 23, 1982, in the Santa Clara River of Indian Dunes Park on the John Landis set of the allegorical Landis, Joe Dante, George Miller and Steven Spielberg film, TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE (1983), Redford also joined the allegorical cinematic Zone Wars that broke out between the directors of the era. Unlike the other directors of the dread Zone Wars, however, Redford preferred to concentrate less on the disaster and more on the battling directorial brothers in his films. A sympathetic interest in directorial sibling rivalry that was already apparent in his first allegorical film, ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980), inspired by Ordinary People (1976) by Judith Guest.
'This is the real world!'
Significantly, the leisurely montage of shots that established the film's location in the suburbs of Chicago evoked the leisurely opening montage of shots that established the Faber College location of the allegorical Landis film, ANIMAL HOUSE (1978), two year before the release of ORDINARY PEOPLE. The wealthy high school in Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago, that the montage ended at reiterated this link to ANIMAL HOUSE, as the high school and its students-including Timothy Hutton's Conrad Jarrett-evoked Faber College.This similarity implied from the outset that ORDINARY PEOPLE was a reply to ANIMAL HOUSE. An implication that was increased by the fact that Landis was born in Chicago and set his allegorical film, THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980), in Chicago. The appearance of Donald Sutherland as Conrad's father, Calvin Jarrett, reiterated the link of ORDINARY PEOPLE to Landis, as Sutherland had a small role as a clumsy waiter in the 'That's Armageddon' segment of the allegorical Landis film, KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE (1977), and as an English professor named Dave Jennings in ANIMAL HOUSE. To remind us of this latter role, ORDINARY PEOPLE even had a scene set in an English class at Lake Forest High School that was similar to the English class scene in ANIMAL HOUSE. The first name of Jarrett also underlined the link, as Calvin could be turned into the Landis sounding 'Lanvic'. His son reiterated the link, as Conrad looked like Tim Matheson's Eric 'Otter' Stratton in ANIMAL HOUSE.
The rivalry between Conrad and his older, more talented, successful and handsome brother, Buck-played by Scott Doebler-also reiterated the link of ORDINARY PEOPLE to ANIMAL HOUSE, as this rivalry recalled the rivalry between Delta House fraternity members like Otter and the better looking, more successful, talented, and wealthy members of Alpha Omega House, like James Daughton's Greg Marmalard. However, the greater seriousness of ORDINARY PEOPLE, which revolved around Conrad's struggle to deal with the trauma caused by Buck's drowning death in a storm tossed boating accident, made it clear that Redford was not amused by ANIMAL HOUSE and was determined to bring sobriety, maturity, and harmony back to the Temple Theatre with ORDINARY PEOPLE. And perhaps eager to caution Landis about the rivalry between Alpha and Delta Houses, a rivalry that could be seen to symbolize the rivalry between top directors like Lucas and struggling directors like Landis. For Buck not only had a name that evoked the Buck Rogers style of the allegorical Lucas film, STAR WAR EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE (1997), he also looked like Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in that film. This implied that on one level ORDINARY PEOPLE was a cautionary allegorical tale about the potentially fatal consequences of directorial sibling rivalry, a cautionary tale that was eerily prescient in hindsight given the fatal consequences of the TZ disaster and the diretorial rivalry that was partly behind the disaster. Clearly, Redford's cautioning sentiments were shared by many observers, given that ORDINARY PEOPLE won four Oscars the following year, including Best Picture and Best Director. An auspicious directorial debut, indeed, and one that no doubt inspired Redford to helm his first twilit post-TZ disaster allegorical film, THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR (1988).
'Joe Mondragon is growing beans in his dead father's field'.
Significantly, the slow dissolving montage of shots that established the setting at the beginning of the film evoked Landis again, as at the beginning of ORDINARY PEOPLE, making it clear that THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR was again concerned with Landis. In fact, with shots of the moon in cloudy nighttime skies overlooking the small New Mexico Latino town of Milagro, the opening montage openly evoked such allegorical Landis films as AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981) and THREE AMIGOS (1986), affirming that Redford was addressing Landis again in THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR. Indeed, Chick Vennera's struggling farmer Joe Mondragon was linked to Landis throughout the film, making his ultimately successful fight to grow beans in his dead father's field despite fierce and furious opposition from the wealthy, Omega House evoking interests led by Richard Bradford's Ladd Devine jr. and M. Emmet Walsh's Governor-actors and characters who were linked to 1982 forever by their roles as Andrew Babcock in Costa-Gavras' allegorical film, MISSING (1982), and as Captain Bryant in Sir Ridley Scott's allegorical film, BLADE RUNNER (1982), respectively-symbolise the battle of Landis to free himself from the tragic and twilit events of 1982 in order to get back to a less stressful life and to continue making films. An interest in Landis that continued in Redford's next allegorical film, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (1992), inspired by Norman Maclean's novella, A River Runs Through It (1976).
'…Grace comes by art. And art does not come easy'.
For the focus of the film was on two river and fly fishing loving brothers, Norman and Paul Maclean-played by Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt, respectively-who grew up in the beautiful and inspiring surroundings of Missoula, Montana in the early decades of the Twentieth century. The brothers were linked to Cronenberg and Landis, and their passion and talent for fly fishing was linked to a passion and talent for film directing throughout the film, in the rivers that ran through the film like the Santa Clara River location of the TZ disaster. Indeed, Norman looked, talked and acted like Cronenberg, while the presence of Tom Skerrit as family patriarch Reverend Maclean openly linked the film to Cronenberg via Skerrit's role as Sherrif Bannerman in Cronenberg's first twilit and allegorical Zone War salvo, THE DEAD ZONE (1983). For his part, Paul was not only wild and reckless like Landis, the resemblance of Paul's native girlfriend, Mabel-played by Nicole Burdette-to Deborah, the wife of Landis, confirmed Paul's link to Landis. Thus, as the film ended with the more brash and reckless Paul being murdered by gamblers linked to more successful directors like Cameron and Lucas, and Norm going off to marriage and adult success as an English professor at the University of Chicago-a vocation that reminded us that Cronenberg had an English degree, reiterating Norman's link to Cronenberg-Redford implied in this allegorical film released in the tenth anniversary of the TZ disaster his fear that it was now time to leave Landis and the TZ disaster behind and head into a daylit new film era in the Nineties. Not too far behind, however, as an interest in Landis continued in his next allegorical film, QUIZ SHOW (1994), inspired by Remembering America: a voice from the Sixties (1988) by Richard Goodwin.
'It was the getting away with it part that he couldn't live with'.
Significantly, Paul Scofield's family patriarch and Cambridge literature professor Mark Van Doren also looked, talked and acted like Cronenberg-albeit, an older Cronenberg-and Norman Maclean throughout the film, linking the film to A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT. Thus, it was no surprise to see a character linked to Landis show up as well in QUIZ SHOW. However, the initial involvement of his equally talented and Frank Marshall linked son, Charles-played by Ralph Fiennes-in a rigged Fifties NBC television game show called Twenty One with the Landis linked contestant Herb Stempel-played by John Turturro-rigged by the Spielberg linked producer Dan Enright-played by David Paymer-implied that Redford increasingly believed that the TZ disaster was deliberately planned to happen and had been covered up by Spielberg and Marshall, executive producer of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE. Thus, Stempel and Van Doren's decisions to testify honestly at a Senate sub-committee hearing into the rigged television show in order to bring Enright to justice in the end implied that Redford hoped that Landis and Marshall would also confess to any wrongdoing in the TZ disaster and bring Spielberg to justice, for he had come up with the idea of making the movie with Warner Brothers in the first place and had hired Landis and Marshall to work on it with him as a co-director and executive producer, respectively, making him ultimately responsible for the disaster. The appearances of directors Barry Levinson and Martin Scorsese-who had both worked on twilit and allegorical films produced by Spielberg such as YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES (1985) and CAPE FEAR (1991)-in small roles, and the fact that Fiennes was also linked to Spielberg by way of his role as Nazi slave labor camp commandant Amon Goeth in Spielberg's allegorical film, SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993), underlined Redford's intent. An interest in the directors and producers most responsible for the TZ disaster that returned in Redford's next allegorical film, THE HORSE WHISPERER (1998), inspired by The Horse Whisperer (1995) by Nicholas Evans.
'The truth is I help horses with people problems'.
Indeed, in no other post-TZ disaster film did Redford underline that he was more interested in the directors and producers responsible for and coping with the disaster than in the disaster itself than in THE HORSE WHISPERER. Redford also made clear in THE HORSE WHISPERER that he wanted to heal these directors and producing partners so as to allow them to release the disaster and move on. Redford confirmed this intention by having the Lucas linked Tom Booker-played by Redford-heal and free Dianne Wiest's Diane Booker-linked to TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE associate producer Kathleen Kennedy-Chris Cooper's Marshall linked Frank Cooper and Sam Neill's Robert MacLean-the actor linked to Spielberg by way of his character Dr. Alan Grant in the allegorical Spielberg film, JURASSIC PARK (1993), and his new character Robert MacLean to the director linked Maclean brothers of A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT by his surname, confirming the symbolic director status of Robert MacLean-of the trauma caused at the beginning of the film by the TZ disaster-like accident involving a big rig that resulted in the amputation of the right leg of Scarlett Johansson's art of film linked Grace MacLean and injuries to her horse Pilgrim. Booker's success in healing and freeing all of the main characters made it clear that Redford was hoping to heal Kennedy, Marshall and Spielberg in reality and kick off a new era of film. Booker's link to Lucas also made it clear that Redford had not forgotten his own link to Lucas in films like BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID and THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, a sympathetic interest in Lucas that returned in his next allegorical film, THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE (2000), inspired by The Legend of Bagger Vance (1995) by Steven Pressfield.
'Junuh was playing a fierce fourth round…'
Indeed, the film featured a once famous young golfer named Rannulph Junuh-played by Matt Damon-who disappeared after the Zone Wars evoking Great War, before finally returning years later to his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, to take on and defeat two talented golfers named Water Hagen and Bobby Jones-most likely linked to Francis Coppola and Cameron, and played by Bruce McGill and Joel Gretsch, respectively-to win a legendary golf game with the help of angelic caddy Bagger Vance-played by Will Smith. The fact that THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE was released a year after George Lucas jr. returned to the town of Hollywood and the Temple Theatres after a long absence following the outbreak of the dread Zone Wars in 1982 to take on his fellow directors with his allegorical film, STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999), implied that Redford, unlike most directors and audience members at the time, approved of the latest STAR WARS film and felt that the film had flowed with enough Force to beat competitors like Coppola and Cameron. A sympathetic interest in Lucas that returned again in his next allegorical film, LIONS FOR LAMBS (2007).
'…it is the Vietnam era thinking; you know, they just repackaged'.
For a Lucas linked American soldier named Lt. Col. Falco-his surname recalling the Millenium Falcon in an open link to Lucas, and played by Peter Berg-quickly appeared in LIONS FOR LAMBS. Commanding a nighttime military operation authorized by Tom Cruise's Spielberg linked Republican Senator Jasper Irving to attack insurgents sneaking into Afghanistan from Iraq through Iran to fight US led coalition forces in their Landis evoking wolf packs in the mountains of northern Afghanistan. A nighttime operation that led to two US soldiers, Arian Finch and Ernest Rodriguez-played by Derek Luke and Michael Pena, respectively-falling from their TZ disaster evoking CGI helicopter and down onto a difficult to reach plateau in the Hindu Kush mountains, and Lt. Col. Falco leading the attempt to rescue them. Alas, Falco and his fellow US soldiers failed in the attempt to free the two soldiers from their position in the mountain top zone, just like Lucas had failed two years earlier to free Chen and Le-and film, audiences and his fellow directors-from the Zone Wars-a Zone War ultimately set off by Speilberg's decision to make TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE with Warner Brothers, symbolized by the decision of the Spielberg linked Senator Irving to launch the anti-insurgent operation in Afghanistan-with the last allegorical installment of his Millenial Trilogy, STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005). An embittering failure that returned in his next allegorical film, THE CONSPIRATOR (2011).
'It's not justice you're after, but revenge'.
Significantly, this embittered fury was directed at Spielberg again in THE CONSPIRATOR, as in LIONS FOR LAMBS and QUIZ SHOW. For Redford furiously likened the success that Kevin Kline's Spielberg linked Secretary of State Edwin Stanton and his accomplices had in using Stanton's political power to have Robin Wright's Mrs. Mary Serratt executed for harbouring conspirators who plotted to assassinate Gerald Bestrom's President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to the success Spielberg and his supporters had in using their post-TZ disaster films to blast Landis and his film art and blame all of the TZ disaster on him. Intriguingly, and despite his sympathetic support for Lucas in THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE and LIONS FOR LAMBS, Redford also blasted Lucas in the film. He did this by linking Lucas to Danny Huston's Joseph Holt, the Stanton supporting prosecuting lawyer in the trial of Serratt and her co-conspirators that was not only a highlight of the film, but also evoked the slave trial in Spielberg's allegorical film, AMISTAD (1997), a link to AMISTAD that confirmed the anti-Spielberg intent of Redford in THE CONSPIRATOR. This unusually sour outlook on Lucas from the Skywalk Kid was probably caused by the fact that two years earlier Lucas picked Spielberg again to direct the last allegorical installment in his Indiana Jones series, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008), which was an unusual development, given that Lucas had blasted Spielberg for all of his insidious and twilit cinematic machinations with righteous fury by linking Spielberg to Jake Lloyd and Hayden Christensen's fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker throughout the Millenial Trilogy. Significantly, the successful defense and release of Serratt's Landis linked son, John Serratt-played by Johnny Simmons-at the end of the film in a separate trial after the end of the Civil War implied that Redford still wanted to release Landis from any and all presumptions of guilt for the TZ disaster and move on as he had implied in THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR, QUIZ SHOW and THE HORSE WHISPERER, an interest in absolving and releasing Landis that returned in Redford's next allegorical film, THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (2012), based on The Company You Keep (2003) by Neil Gordon .
'We should never have carried out that plan…we should have known that we were wrong'.
Indeed, the film concluding release from custody of the Landis linked ex-radical Sixties fugitive Nicholas Sloan, aka James 'Jim' Grant-played by Redford-by the confession of Julie Christie's Kennedy linked fellow Sixties fugitive Mimi Lurie that Sloan was not the one who shot and killed a bank guard in a robbery in the Sixties made it clear that Redford believed that Landis was not guilty, and should be freed from potential charges and suspicion. Redford also implied that all blame for the disaster should be confessed to by Kennedy, given that she had been the associate producer of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE and had the power to stop Landis from illegally using Chen and Le on the set the fateful early morning of the disaster and had not done so, paving the way for the disaster. Allowing film to finally leave the Zone, and Redford to return to films that explored the healing and redemptive powers of art and nature and ensure that a brother runs through it.
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Building Successful O.R. and Analytics Teams
Miser-Harris Presidential Portrait Gallery
INFORMS Award Namesakes
Biographical Profiles
Non-Academic Institutions
O.R. Application Areas
O.R. Methodologies
History & Traditions eBooks
Hillier, Frederick S.
Born and raised in Aberdeen, Washington, Frederick Hillier excelled in high school, winning numerous awards in statewide contests for essay writing, mathematics, music, and debate. Hillier's success continued as an undergraduate at Stanford University, where he ranked first in his engineering class of over three hundred. He remained at Stanford for graduate work, studying under Gerald J. Lieberman. Hillier received his PhD in 1961 with a dissertation on new criteria for selecting continuous sampling plans
Hillier joined the faculty at his alma mater, though he also has received visiting appointments at Cornell University, Carnegie-Mellon University, the Technical University of Denmark, the University of Canterbury, and the University of Cambridge. Many of his approximately forty former students, including James Bean, Bruce Faaland, Vijay Mehrotra, Paul Gray, J. Michael Harrison, and Shaler (Sandy) Stidham, Jr., have gone on to lead successful careers as operations researchers and educators. Hillier retired early in 1996 to focus on writing his textbooks.
Hillier is best known for the book he and Lieberman co-authored in 1967, Introduction to Operations Research. This widely used textbook continues to be read in business and engineering classrooms, alike, and is currently in its tenth edition. Since 1967, Hillier has gone on to publish five more textbooks, touching upon a number of topics including mathematical programming, stochastic modeling, risk evaluation in investments, queueing tables, and management science with spreadsheets. He and Lieberman published two companion volumes to their original work, Introduction to Mathematical Programming and Introduction to Stochastic Models in Operations Research, in 1990. Hillier and his son, Mark S. Hillier (a faculty member at the University of Washington), also are the co-authors of the textbook,Introduction to Management Science: A Modeling Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets,now in its 5th edition and widely used in business schools.
An active member of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS), the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA), and their successor, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Hillier has held a number of leadership positions in professional OR societies. He served as Treasurer of ORSA, Vice President for Meetings of TIMS, Chair of the TIMS Publications Committee, and Chair of the ORSA/TIMS Combined Meetings Committee. His work with the latter helped lead to the eventual merger of the two societies in 1995. Starting in 1993 and continuing until 2013, Hillier was the founding Series Editor for the International Series in Operations Research and Management Science published by Kluwer Academic and then Springer..
Hillier was named a Fellow of INFORMS in 2004. The same year, he was awarded the Saul Gass Expository Writing Award. Though the award presentation was primarily dedicated to Introduction to Operations Research, Hillier was celebrated for his entire corpus of works that has significantly enhanced the quality and depth of education in the field.
McGraw Hill. Introduction to Operations Research: About the Authors. Accessed July 5, 2018. (link)
Stanford University, BS 1958
Stanford University, PhD 1961 (Mathematics Genealogy)
Academic Affiliations
Key Interests in OR/MS
Inventory Management / Production Planning
Optimization/Mathematical Programming
OR/MS Education
Probability and Stochastic Models
Queueing Models
Finance & Financial Institutions
Frederick Hillier (2015) Interview by Vijay Mehrotra, November 2, 2015. Video by David Tavani, Philadelphia PA
Vijay Mehrotra interviews Fred Hillier, November 2, 2015
NOTE: The video chapter transcripts below are searchable, with search results displayed as marks on the time bar above the search box. Click a mark to jump to the search word or phrase in the video and transcript, or click on any word in the transcript to jump to that point in the video.
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Chapter 1: The high school years
Chapter 2: Choosing to attend Stanford
Chapter 3: Connecting with Jerry Lieberman
Chapter 4: The decision to stay at Stanford for Graduate Study
Chapter 5: The decision to immediately join the Stanford Faculty
Chapter 6: A variety of early research
Chapter 7: Planning and writing the Hillier-Lieberman textbook
Chapter 8: The early years of operations research at Stanford
Chapter 9: Research in Integer Programming
Chapter 10: The Evolution of the Hillier-Lieberman textbook
Chapter 11: Mark Hillier joins the team
Chapter 12: Reflections on the past 50 Years and the future 50 Years of the field
Office of Naval Research/TIMS Capital Budgeting of Interrelated Projects Contest First-Prize 1964
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Fellow 2004
Saul Gass Expository Writing Award 2004
Operations Research Society of America (ORSA), Treasurer
The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS), Vice President for Meetings
Hillier F. S. (1963) The derivation of probabilistic information for the evaluation of risky investments. Management Science, 9(3): 443-457.
Boling R. W. & Hillier F. S. (1966) Effect of Some Design Factors on the Efficiency of Production Lines with Variable Operation times. Journal of Industrial Engineering, 17(12): 651.
Connors M. M. & Hillier F. S. (1966) Quadratic assignment problem algorithms and the location of indivisible facilities. Management Science, 13(1): 42-57.
Boling R. W. & Hillier F. S. (1967) Finite queues in series with exponential or Erlang service times—a numerical approach. Operations Research, 15(2): 286-303.
Hillier F. S. & Liberman G. J. (1967) Introduction to Operations Research. McGraw-Hill: New York.
Hillier F. S. (1969) The Evaluation of Risky Interrelated Investments. North-Holland Press: Amsterdam.
Hillier F. S. & Yu O. S. (1981) Queueing Tables and Graphs. Elsevier North-Holland: Amsterdam.
Hillier F. S. & Lieberman G. J. (1990) Introduction to Mathematical Programming. McGraw-Hill: New York.
Hillier F. S. & Lieberman G. J. (1990) Introduction to Stochastic Models in Operations Research. McGraw-Hill: New York.
Hillier F. S., Hillier M. S., & Lieberman G. J. (2000) Introduction to Management Science: A Modeling and Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets. Irwin/McGraw-Hill: New York.
Hillier F. S. (1999) Remember Jerry Lieberman: founder of Stanford's OR Department inspired many, including the author. OR/MS Today, 26(6). (link)


I can feel whatever meagre abilities I have slipping away from me again… feck.
Once again the pigging archives are broken, here's the link to the list (again).
Mind you, I'm guessing it'll fix itself in a second.
Got a rough pencil of page 3 of Cages done. A little too rough, I'll either redraw the entire thing tomorrow or start inking the bits I'm ok about and re-pencil bits to add on to the ink bits (ok, it's an odd strategy, but it usually works).
Marvel have been doing some beautiful covers – gorgeous.
Well, flight's booked. So, I get in at 8:30 on Friday morning, if anyone wants to hang around most of the day, that's where I'll be.
Not terribly productive day today, only just started into sitting down to Cages pg 3, sat down to it, roughed up half a panel with a pen and then decided to check email/blog/websites/ the internet kills me. Anyway, going back to work.
Hopefully, tomorrow, I can book the guest hotel. We'll see.
A selection of the one pagers I seem to have been building a collection of.


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Union Representing Nursing Home Workers Calls on State for Help Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Published April 8, 2020 • Updated on April 8, 2020 at 11:22 pm
A union representing nursing home workers in Connecticut is calling on the state to get them the resources they need to keep staff and residents safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rob Baril, president of the SEIU 1199 New England, said there is a staffing crisis at more than half a dozen of the 69 nursing homes that union members work in because of the lack of personal protective equipment and the workers are getting ill.
Among the SEIU membership of 6,000 workers, the union believes 500 workers have been diagnosed or are in self-quarantine. Baril is also calling for help from the state cover medical bills for people who are putting themselves at risk.
"There are 81 residents that are confirmed to have passed away in Connecticut nursing homes during the COVID-19 crisis. That's almost a third of 277 deaths that have taken place statewide," Baril said.
He said there are 80 nursing homes out of the 213 in Connecticut that have confirmed COVID-19 cases, but they believe there are more.
Baril said there is an "unforgivable" under-resourcing of personal protective equipment in nursing homes and some staff have fashioned their own PPE out of trash bags, paper bags, old rags and painter's gear as amide a "highly dangerous pandemic."
State officials said they are communicating with nursing homes multiple times a day and responding to shortages. They added that they are following CDC guidelines for PPE and PPE conservation strategies. Gov. Ned Lamont noted that they have a backlog of orders of PPE and that getting supplies to front-line workers is their first priority.
Officials said that the distribution of PPE will be based on which facilities have more cases of COVID-19 and a greater immediate need for the equipment.
Workers who took part in a conference call on Wednesday said they are reusing PPE, including masks, there are limited numbers of gloves and limited amounts of cleaning supplies.
Another worker said staff and patients are scared and a lot of the nursing home workers are already sick.
Another worker said she had been using a face mask for about a week and they are pleading for proper equipment and adequate staff.
When asked about workers' requests to have their medical bills covered, the governor said they were open to looking how the state could ensure health insurance coverage and other benefits.
There will be two nursing homes dedicated to COVID-19 patients, Department of Public Health officials confirmed. The state is working to move and separate people in nursing homes to prevent further spread of the virus.
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MONDAY, JAN. 16: BermudaFirst commends Premier Cox for the recently enacted Incentives for Job Makers Act.
Our message to all stakeholders has been consistent and clear. We must embrace international business as the key contributor to Bermuda's economy. We must review and more importantly, action changes to our policies relating to work permits, residency, landholding, tourism and foreign investment in light of the current climate and realities we are facing.
It should now be clear to all stakeholders that we are no longer living and operating in a 'business as usual' environment. Our Government has some tough decisions ahead and Bermuda's business, third sector and community at large must be bold enough to galvanise around the urgent decisions required to do what is best for Bermuda's long-term regrowth, stability and prosperity.
The Incentives for Job Makers Act is an example of taking action on an area where change is required. It is one of the many necessary and positive steps that will send the message that Bermuda is not only open for business, but truly welcomes those individuals and organisations who are committed to creating jobs and enhancing the economic stability of our Country.
There is power in consultation and collaboration. The future of our economy and the stability of our social system and way of life is at stake and dependent upon it. Premier Cox showed the courage to raise this matter for public debate and Parliamentary vote. Feedback was provided and integrated into the final legislation. There is more work to be done and the momentum of positive change must continue. Doing so will result in a stronger, more stable Bermuda for Bermudians.
BermudaFirst is a collective of business, sector and Government leaders who came together (beginning in 2008), principally as a THINK TANK, to track the landscape of threats and opportunities in order that we might collectively respond, protect and extend Bermuda's economic miracle. BermudaFirst is a public/private, bipartisan forum led by Co-Chairs: The Hon. Paula Cox, JP, MP ~ Premier and Minister of Finance; Craig Cannonier, JP, MP ~ Leader of the Opposition; Don Kramer ~ Chairman, ILS Limited; Gil Tucker ~ Partner of Ernst & Young and Peter Durhager ~ Executive Vice President of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. Over 70 men and women representing all sectors of Bermuda are currently working together to secure the future of Bermuda and her people.


Olympic College tuition is $3,468 per year for in-state residents. This is 51% cheaper than the national average public four year tuition of $7,056. The cost is 82% cheaper than the average Washington tuition of $18,938 for 4 year colleges. Tuition ranks 4th in Washington amongst 4 year colleges for affordability and is the 32nd most expensive 4 year college in the state. If attending from out-of-state, the tuition is $3,922 which represents a 13% premium.
The school charges an additional fees of $225 in addition to tuition bringing the total effective in-state tuition to $3,693.
Olympic College doesn't offer on campus housing. If you're not living with family you will need to budget for food and housing in the Bremerton area just like you would for a college with dorms. The estimated rent and meal expense per academic year for off campus housing is $9,855.
Off-campus students should budget for $3,255 in other miscellaneous living expenses.
The total tuition and living expense budget for in-state Washington residents to go to OC is $17,838 for the 2017/2018 academic year. Out-of-state students who don't have Washington residence can expect a one year cost of $18,292. Students residing at home with parents providing food and housing should budget a total cost of $7,903.
Citation: Price data from the U.S. Department of Education's 2017-2018 and 2016-2017 IPEDS survey response for Olympic College and represent reported costs for the 2016-2017 and 2015-2016 academic years.
Depending on many factors including student and parent income and assets, the total cost of attendance may be less than the $17,838 published price if scholarship or grant aid is made available to you.
The net out-of-pocket total cost you end up paying or financing though student loans is known as the net price. The reported OC net price for in-state students is $5,940* for the 2014/2015 academic year. This net price includes housing and meal expenses.
43% of Olympic College students received grant aid in 2014/2015. The average total aid amount was $5,768. 39 percent of students received aid in the form of Pell Grants from the U.S. Federal Government. The average Pell Grant awarded for 2014/2015 was $4,138. To apply for a Pell Grant to attend Olympic College, the first step is to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
CollegeCalc has estimated typical coverage of the annual in-state tuition and living expenses of $17,838. Breakdown is based on average grant aid and federal loan aid which will vary based on your family income.
Money granted to you by the U.S. Department of Education, Olympic College or other organizations. These are not loans and do not need to be repaid.
When considering ability to pay for college, the annual cost is often discussed but it's the "all in" multi-year degree cost which matters in the end. Let's take a look at what it could really cost for four years at Olympic College.
At the current published rates, an estimated total tuition, fees and living expense price for a 4 year bachelor's degree at OC is $71,352 for students graduating in normal time. This methodology for estimating the 4 year cost is a straight multiple of the most recent reported annual total cost and does not factor in tuition increases during the time you're in school. It also assumes you receive no grant or scholarship aid and pay the full list price.
If you end up on the "five year plan" and need an additional year to graduate, your five year cost could be as high as $89,190 or $24,410 using an average net price.
Some schools offer the ability to take single classes by paying on a per credit hour basis. The reported price per credit hour and estimated cost for one class at Olympic College are as follows. Per credit costs are for reference only as many schools will not allow students to pay by credit hour.
The second consideration after understanding the cost of college is determining how to finance it. Some students are fortunate enough to have some form of family financial assistance, but student loans end up financing a significant portion of higher education in the U.S. 14% of Olympic College students receive U.S. Federal Student Loans with an average annual Federal Loan aid amount of $5,495.
How much are student loan payments for Olympic College? Obviously this varies based on a number of factors - offsetting financial aid you receive, percentage of fee you pay upfront while enrolled and the interest rate on your loans. We've modeled a sample student loan based on current Stafford loan rates to give you an approximate idea.
The following are the costs for a loan if you borrowed $19,528, 100% of the estimated average net price for a four year program and paid nothing while enrolled. The total of all payments including interest would sum $24,229.77. This could be your effective total out of pocket cost of an education at Olympic College. Note that this calculation assumes you don't pay full list price tuition, are part of the reported 43% of students at this school who receive financial aid and you are paying an average annual net price of $4,882. If you do not financially qualify for a reduced net price, your student loan payments could be significantly higher than this example. Use our Olympic College student loan calculator below to change loan assumptions and recalculate.
Can I afford to attend OC? In the end, the answer comes down a determination if you will earn enough to comfortably pay back a student loan with your post graduation salary. This is an extremely important point to consider. In order to afford student loan payments and still meet all your other costs of living, it is recommended not to borrow more than you can pay back using 10% of your monthly income earned after graduation. If you're considering attending Olympic College, you need to carefully consider if it will be realistic to make the post graduation loan payments based on your expected salary.
Using the 10% of salary threshold, an annual income of $24,229.77 would be needed to afford a $201.91 monthly payment in the example $19,528.00 loan modeled above. You will need to determine if it is at all realistic that you will be earning this type of salary after graduation. This assumes a loan payback over 10 years. You can change the terms of this example loan using the student loan calculator below.
What will it cost to send your child to Olympic College in the future? Nationally, university tuition prices are rising around 5% per year. Looking out five, ten, fifteen or eighteen years, these are CollegeCalc's estimates how much you could expect to pay for a 4 year degree assuming tuition increases at the national average rate. Estimated future prices are based on the current in-state 4 year cost of $71,352.00. Use the college savings plan calculator below to perform a more comprehensive analysis on future costs and how much you will need to save for Olympic College.
We've compared the out of state cost of the most popular undergraduate areas of study at Olympic College to the national average for all other colleges offering the same major. Use this comparison to determine particular programs where this school offers value relative to other colleges.
Use the calculators below to formulate a college savings plan for Olympic College or model a student loan.
Discover how much will you need to start saving now to afford Olympic College in the future.
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Olympic College is a four year public college located in Bremerton, Washington. Full time enrollment is 3,841 and part time is 2,686. Olympic College has an open admission policy meaning that any prospective student who has completed high school or attained a GED certificate may enroll in classes.
Olympic College is a public not for profit institution. Public schools often represent the best value for your education dollar, especially when students qualify for in-state tuition.
Olympic College cost and financial aid data source: U.S. Department of Education https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=236188 IPEDS survey data.


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Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson
Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and her sister, Monique, are 2018 Olympic Gold Medalists, two-time Olympic Silver Medalists and six-time IIHF World Champions. The sisters were the first set of twins to ever play on the United States Women's National Hockey Team.
At 12-years-old, Jocelyne and Monique led an all-boys hockey team to the North Dakota State Championship. The sisters later went on to play at the University of Minnesota where Jocelyne finished freshman year as All-WCHA First Team, and Monique finished the year as the WCHA Scoring Champion and WCHA Rookie of the Year. Jocelyne and Monique then returned home to play at the University of North Dakota.
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Machine translated chapter 1178 of Almighty Student light novel.
"Challenges me?" Xia Tian doubts looks to front female. "Em!" Beijing versatile school beauty very serious saying. "I do not accept." Xia Tian said that has gone round female directly, then walks toward front, his classroom is nursing is one class, although there is own classroom, however the general curriculum is not completed in own classroom, but is the enlarged class, is several classroom together on that especially takes as an elective, that is the people of any department has. "Yeah, is really troublesome, must result in a bit faster tries to find a solution." Xia Tian sighed, helpless saying. Saw Xia Tian to walk, will dry in the sun in the wind, that Beijing versatile school beauty presented one type never had the frustration, first time had the man such simply to reject her, she said a moment ago must challenge Xia Tian, traded to be others, that happy also without enough time, can have the relations with Beijing versatile school beauty, that future definitely has greatly the opportunity contacted school beauty, this was others asks unable to strive. But Xia Tian unexpectedly directly has rejected, moreover he as if in that class schedule ratio to his hand to Beijing versatile school beauty is interested. "Hateful, I will certainly not let off your." Beijing versatile school beauty looks at Xia Tian that goes far away thoroughly to shout. This time Xia Tian all thoughts are all seeking for the place that attended class. Which asked several him to find the Confucianism , Buddhism , Daoism , after having found the Confucianism , Buddhism , Daoism, he entered the 504 room directly, at this time here came many people, Xia Tian looked for a middle position to sit down directly, he discovered that a rule, sat in the front person, although has not attended class, but has hugged to write books there had a liking, but sat all sleeps there in the following person. Lies on the table all, probably is one has not rested to be the same. But sits is playing the cell phone in middle here person majority, Xia Tian to coordinate their atmosphere directly has also put out own cell phone, his cell phone was yesterday evening takes newly, inside anything software did not have, therefore he has remembered the present people most commonly used thing. Micro letter. Opened has downloaded the page, Xia Tian has downloaded a micro letter from above directly. Xia Tian not from Dashanli, although before him, useless good cell phone, but these ordinary functions he can, he use his mobile number to register a micro letter account number directly. He just landed has not studied yes what's the matter the time, his cell phone has heard a series of sounds, surrounding person strange visits him, afterward Xia Tian hurried own cell phone furnishing vibration.
Xia Tian looked that the discovery is in the address book these people adds his, many people, but the flash has several hundred people, majority is the Jianghai person, Xia Family armed forces whole staff unexpectedly has the micro letter, moreover Little Fei and Fan Jin have Zhao Long to have the micro letter, the people of Xu their these older generations added Xia Tian. Are their common words "your unexpectedly have the micro letter?" Xia Tian felt instantaneously one turned into alien, the person who looks at these good friends, Xia Tian felt really one have exploded weakly, the function of micro letter is the opposite party, so long as has your mobile number, you when register the micro letter, the opposite party cell phone will demonstrate. The people of Xia Family armed forces are brushing the friend encircles the time at this time, they discovered that the Xia Tian unexpectedly registration believed that how their this possibly put Xia Tian, direct started the good friend. Xia Tian very helpless passing, after Xia Tian passed their good friends, information instantaneous full house. Finally Xia Tian came new mission, one by one gives them the note. Bing Xin wife, Sister Rou wife, Bingbing wife. Xia Tian has not returned, there notes. Finally started to attend class. The first matter of attending class mentioned by name, teacher in the there 11 roll-calls. "Xia Tian!" The teacher selected the Xia Tian name. "!" Xia Tian puts out a hand. Afterward the teacher goes to the names of other people, Xia Tian has completed mission finally, then he started to start to inquire after the well being to his several female friends, after the first enlarged class has finished attending, the second class was to return to a they class of classroom. After returning to classroom, Xia Tian direct casual sitting in a position.
"Newly arrived?" A female greeted with Xia Tian on own initiative. "Em." Xia Tian has not gained ground, but continues to play the start slight letter there, he had not played the micro letter before, the feeling very novelly. "Hey, I spoke to you." That female very discontented saying. "I only want to lead a meeting peacefully." Xia Tian looks up said to that female. Hears the Xia Tian words, that female hoodwinked thoroughly, she first time saw such man. A moment ago Xia Tian played possibly was too fascinated, when he looked up to surroundings he discovered that surroundings unexpectedly has been filled with the person, what was main, this classroom unexpectedly only then his man. Liking a crane among chickens. Xia Tian can say one at this time self-confidently, he absolutely is in this classroom the most graceful person, because this classroom absolutely does not have the second male student, in classroom these female students all is a face strange looks at Xia Tian. Because before this classroom, does not have male student, although couple of days ago they heard that has transferred a male student, but this male student has not come to attend class. Today they have experienced this person finally. Treads! Leading walked from the entrance, leading is a woman. Leading comes in first saw Xia Tian: "Are you that transfer schools to skip classes directly several days of Xia Tian?" "Volume, you said should be I." Xia Tian has not thought that this leading is so direct, he knows that the matter perhaps did not have is so good to be solved.
Challenges me Xia Tian doubts looks to front female. Em Beijing versatile school beauty very serious saying. I do not accept. Xia Tian said that has gone round female directly, then walks toward front, his classroom is nursing is one class, although there is own classroom, however the general curriculum is not completed in own classroom, but is the enlarged class, is several classroom together on that especially takes as an elective, that is the people of any department has. Yeah, is really troublesome, must result in a bit faster tries to find a solution. Xia Tian sighed, helpless saying. Saw Xia Tian to walk, will dry in the sun in the wind, that Beijing versatile school beauty presented one type never had the frustration, first time had the man such simply to reject her, she said a moment ago must challenge Xia Tian, traded to be others, that happy also without enough time, can have the relations with Beijing versatile school beauty, that future definitely has greatly the opportunity contacted school beauty, this was others asks unable to strive. But Xia Tian unexpectedly directly has rejected, moreover he as if in that class schedule ratio to his hand to Beijing versatile school beauty is interested. Hateful, I will certainly not let off your. Beijing versatile school beauty looks at Xia Tian that goes far away thoroughly to shout. This time Xia Tian all thoughts are all seeking for the place that attended class. Which asked several him to find the Confucianism , Buddhism , Daoism , after having found the Confucianism , Buddhism , Daoism, he entered the 504 room directly, at this time here came many people, Xia Tian looked for a middle position to sit down directly, he discovered that a rule, sat in the front person, although has not attended class, but has hugged to write books there had a liking, but sat all sleeps there in the following person. Lies on the table all, probably is one has not rested to be the same. But sits is playing the cell phone in middle here person majority, Xia Tian to coordinate their atmosphere directly has also put out own cell phone, his cell phone was yesterday evening takes newly, inside anything software did not have, therefore he has remembered the present people most commonly used thing. Micro letter. Opened has downloaded the page, Xia Tian has downloaded a micro letter from above directly. Xia Tian not from Dashanli, although before him, useless good cell phone, but these ordinary functions he can, he use his mobile number to register a micro letter account number directly. He just landed has not studied yes whats the matter the time, his cell phone has heard a series of sounds, surrounding person strange visits him, afterward Xia Tian hurried own cell phone furnishing vibration. Xia Tian looked that the discovery is in the address book these people adds his, many people, but the flash has several hundred people, majority is the Jianghai person, Xia Family armed forces whole staff unexpectedly has the micro letter, moreover Little Fei and Fan Jin have Zhao Long to have the micro letter, the people of Xu their these older generations added Xia Tian. Are their common words your unexpectedly have the micro letter Xia Tian felt instantaneously one turned into alien, the person who looks at these good friends, Xia Tian felt really one have exploded weakly, the function of micro letter is the opposite party, so long as has your mobile number, you when register the micro letter, the opposite party cell phone will demonstrate. The people of Xia Family armed forces are brushing the friend encircles the time at this time, they discovered that the Xia Tian unexpectedly registration believed that how their this possibly put Xia Tian, direct started the good friend. Xia Tian very helpless passing, after Xia Tian passed their good friends, information instantaneous full house. Finally Xia Tian came new mission, one by one gives them the note. Bing Xin wife, Sister Rou wife, Bingbing wife. Xia Tian has not returned, there notes. Finally started to attend class. The first matter of attending class mentioned by name, teacher in the there 11 rollcalls. Xia Tian The teacher selected the Xia Tian name. Xia Tian puts out a hand. Afterward the teacher goes to the names of other people, Xia Tian has completed mission finally, then he started to start to inquire after the well being to his several female friends, after the first enlarged class has finished attending, the second class was to return to a they class of classroom. After returning to classroom, Xia Tian direct casual sitting in a position. Newly arrived A female greeted with Xia Tian on own initiative. Em. Xia Tian has not gained ground, but continues to play the start slight letter there, he had not played the micro letter before, the feeling very novelly. Hey, I spoke to you. That female very discontented saying. I only want to lead a meeting peacefully. Xia Tian looks up said to that female. Hears the Xia Tian words, that female hoodwinked thoroughly, she first time saw such man. A moment ago Xia Tian played possibly was too fascinated, when he looked up to surroundings he discovered that surroundings unexpectedly has been filled with the person, what was main, this classroom unexpectedly only then his man. Liking a crane among chickens. Xia Tian can say one at this time selfconfidently, he absolutely is in this classroom the most graceful person, because this classroom absolutely does not have the second male student, in classroom these female students all is a face strange looks at Xia Tian. Because before this classroom, does not have male student, although couple of days ago they heard that has transferred a male student, but this male student has not come to attend class. Today they have experienced this person finally. Treads Leading walked from the entrance, leading is a woman. Leading comes in first saw Xia Tian Are you that transfer schools to skip classes directly several days of Xia Tian Volume, you said should be I. Xia Tian has not thought that this leading is so direct, he knows that the matter perhaps did not have is so good to be solved. I heard that you are college entrance examination foremost person in the field. The face of leading has been very cold. Yes. Xia Tian nodded. Surroundings these female students heard that Xia Tian is the college entrance examination foremost person in the field, is stranger looked to Xia Tian. Remembers a few words, the real man did not raise was brave in the past, no matter before you, was what result, now you were the Beijing student, cant casual skipping classes, yes Leading reproved. Em. Xia Tian this, acknowledged that the wrong manner is good. Was good, comes to power to introduce oneself with everybody. Leading said. Xia Tian stands up directly, walks toward the stage, when he stands on the stage, the vision took a fast look around on the surrounding these schoolmates bodies Hello, I called Xia Tian, I thought that I was a lucky fellow, my unexpectedly fell in a beautiful woman nest, I hoped and beauty treat every day in the same place attend class, was my body is not good. Xia Tian said here time coughed intentionally suo two, installed unusual looked like My three years old have contracted the infantile paralysis, four years old have resulted in the cerebral apoplexy, five years old are paralyzed, six years old of congenital cerebellum withers, seven years old have had the heart disease, eight years old. Yeah, said that is the stories, what actually I want to say that I do not skip classes intentionally, but is because my body was too bad, therefore I had not come to attend class couple days ago. Xia Tian more said is more pitiful, more said is more sensational, he even directly compelled several drops of tears. Thump At this moment the entrance presented a familiar form, Xia Tian saw time secretly thought of this person Went bad.


The five differences between those that choke that those who don't.
A few weeks ago, Dave Kerpen, author and chief executive of Likeable Local, received a postcard that illustrated the traits and behaviours of truly successful people.
1. Successful people embrace change. Unsuccessful people fear it. "Embracing change is one of the hardest things a person can do," Kerpen says. With the world moving fast and technology accelerating at a rapid speed, it's imperative that we embrace these changes and adapt, rather than fear them, deny then, or hide from them, he says. Successful people are able to do just that.
2. Successful people talk about ideas. Unsuccessful people talk about people. Instead of gossiping about people — which gets you nowhere — successful people discuss ideas. "Sharing ideas with others will only make them better," Kerpen says.
4. Successful people give others all the credit for their victories. Unsuccessful people take all the credit from others. Letting people have their moments to shine motives them to work harder, and, consequently, makes you look better as a leader or teammate.
5. Successful people want others to succeed. Unsuccessful people secretly hope others fail. "When you're in an organisation with a group of people, in order to be successful, you all have to be successful," Kerpen explains. That's why the most successful people don't wish for their demise; they want to see their co-workers succeed and grow.
Other major differences: successful people exude joy, share data and information, read every day, and continuously learn, while unsuccessful people exude anger, hoard data and information, watch TV every day, and fly by the seat of their pants.
The postcard Andy Bailey, CEO of Petra Coach, sent to Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Local.


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Q: View css styles originating from user agent style sheet in IE9 Is there a way in IE9 to see styles that are originating from the user agent?
Similar to firebug's show user agent css feature.

A: Today I thumbled accros a nice site. Internet Explorer User Agent Style Sheets
You can find there all user agent styles of the last IE Versions listed in a nice table. Of course you can open developer tools on any major browser by hitting F12

Within IE11 you'll see a picture as shown below. Navigate to DOM Explorer open Calculated Style at the right hand and disable options marked with red.

Right now I can't find a working IE9 installation on one of my computers. So I hope this may still be of any use for you.

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14 Kms trek downwards towards Gaurikund.Drive to Srinagar.(100 kms). overnight at Hotel.
After arrival check into hotel. PM half day sightseeing of Varanasi.
Morning transfer to Railway station to board train to Jasidih. HWH S Fast Varanasi Jasidih 13:30 Hrs 22:09 hrs Overnight at Hotel.
Afternoon catch the train to Patna. Poorva Exp Jasidih Patna 12:23Hrs 16:05 Hrs After reaching patna catch the train to Manmad. Patna Manmad 23:55Hrs 05:20 Hrs Overnight at train.
Morning arrive Manmad and transfer to Aurangabad.(120 kms).Overnight at hotel.
Morning drive to Trayambakeshwar(222 kms).Overnight stay at Nasik(40 kms).
Early morning catch the train to Indore. BSB SUP Exp Nasik Khandwa 0435 Hrs 10:25 Hrs AKRTM Fast Pass Khandwa Indore 13:15 Hrs 17:55 Hrs. Arrive indore and overnight stay at Hotel.
Morning drive to Ujjain(60 Kms) Visit Mahakaleshwar and Omkareshwar temple.Eveving drop to rly station. Narmada Exp Ujjain Bhopal 19:40 Hrs 23:25 Hrs. AP Exp Bhopal Hyderabad 03:30 Hrs 19:50 Hrs. Overnight at Train.
Arrive Hyderabad and overnight at Hotel.
Morning drive towards Hyderabad (250 kms). Chennai Exp Hyd Chennai 16:55 Hrs 05:55 Hrs Overnight at Train.
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Morning visit Nageshwar Temple and evening transfer to Somnath(230 kms). Arrive Somnath and check in to hotel.
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How accurate is the CDC's seasonal flu death estimate?
May 14, 2009 · Michael Fumento · Weblog
All health agencies tend to exaggerate the threat of anything within their ambit, whether it's numbers or overall severity as we're currently seeing with the WHO and its threats to declare swine flu a pandemic. That's in addition to including with their ambit that which clearly doesn't belong, such as the CDC expanding into gun deaths and divorce.
For this reason, numbers coming from outside of the agencies and their officials tend to be more reliable. A 2008 study by Foppa and Hossain in Emerging Themes in Epidemiology analyzed data from 1995 to 2005 and comes up with an annual average of 23,710 U.S. seasonal flu deaths. By coincidence, until fairly recently, the CDC used a range of 24,000 to 36,000.
That said, Dushoff and others in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2006 said the CDC figure was too low. Analyzing data from 1979 to 2001, they found an annual average of 41,400.
It would be interesting for somebody to contrast their methodologies. My gut feeling is that the CDC figure is too high, but gut feelings in science are for leads and not for conclusions.
All this said, when it comes to swine flu comparisons there isn't one.
The widely-used estimate for the U.S. seasonal flu death rate is one per one thousand infections (0.1%), though the CDC, using in part it's 36,000 death estimate, employs a range of 0.06% to 0.24%. Currently three Americans have died out of 4,298 "confirmed and probable cases," all of whom were chronically ill, for a rate of 0.07% without even counting hidden infections. (The "fourth" U.S. case was a Mexican national who sickened there and died under treatment here.)
But with any flu, each confirmed case represents many milder or even asymptomatic hidden infections. Indeed, despite its alarmist theme, the Ferguson et al. paper in Science magazine, prepared under the auspices of the WHO, says Mexico apparently has had hundreds of undetected infections for each confirmed swine flu case. Thus to peek below the tip of the swine flu iceberg would be to find the U.S. death rate dramatically lower than that of seasonal flu.


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Q: How do I get to my assigned Glamping Tent for the weekend?
A: Upon entry, we will have a designated check-in area where you will be directed to your assigned a Glamping Tent. As it gets closer to the event, the ticket purchaser will receive an email with all of the package details, including exact times and locations for the check-in.
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