From 2010 to 2014, hospital use of electronic health records (EHRs) increased to over 95 %, and physician use of EHRs increased from 25 to over 80%. The rate of use in PACE organizations is even higher. While the advancement of EHRs has many promised benefits, there are risks to program integrity that could lead to compromised patient care or violation of regulations.
We have pointed to a number of compliance issues in previous articles, and now want to draw attention to EHR signature requirements. CMS has defined specific signature requirements for authenticating services provided and ordered. These requirements include paper and electronic medical records.
The following are various examples of acceptable signatures.
Handwritten signatures certify the knowledge or acceptance of the information documented. The handwritten signature must be present in the document and must be legible. A signature log can be used for illegible signatures. Signature logs contain the providers typed or printed name and should also contain credentials.
Electronic signatures are signatures produced by encryption software and allow only sole usage. The purpose of this is to prevent any modification of the author's signature.
Note: Simply typing a provider's name and credentials is not an acceptable signature.
An Attestation statement is another example of a valid signature. It must be signed and dated by the provider and must identify the Medicare beneficiary. Attestations must be provided when needed for all records submitted in the event of an audit.
Rubber stamp signatures are not acceptable except in the case of an author with a disability. This method is permitted under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
It is important to know and understand CMS guidelines for signatures and ensure your program is meeting the requirements for paper and electronic charts.


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Outspoken Cryptocurrency "StopBezos" to Launch
Developers Take on Billionaires with Cryptocurrency Movement
By Oliver Dale September 2, 2021
Sep. 2, 2021 – StopBezos announced that it will soon be deploying its token contract on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and will soon be available on PancakeSwap. The currency is the first movement-oriented token geared toward taking on billionaires and to do so via cryptocurrency.
The CEO of StopBezos, Jalal Alp said, "We are the first movement-oriented token to take billionaires head on. Join us. Join us in restoring rights to the working people. Join us in decentralizing the governance of a company. Join us in creating a better universe."
STOPBEZOS is the native token of StopBezos. It's community-based, with a goal of "stopping juggernauts and helping hard-working people." StopBezos enables charitable contributions, and a "Worker Fund" has been established by the company.
The movement is also planning a series of large-scale events with token holders and supporters, all eventually leading to an entirely new system that allows one to stake traditional shares for a return in $STOPBEZOS token. This stake pool allows for governance, which is executed through community polling, a revolutionary move that encapsulates the close-knit nature of the crypto sphere.
StopBezos has published their smart contract source code and to promote transparency, there will be a fixed supply with no minting of new $STOPBEZOS. Anti-whale mechanics are in place to limit maximum acquisitions for every holder and all transactions are safe and secure. The cryptocurrency incorporates a variety of unique features, including advanced tokenomics, charitable causes, frictionless yields and liquidity generation. Token transfers have a programmed burn on each transaction, with hyper-deflationary buyback and an auto-burn by reflection mechanism included. Investors will be able to buy, sell or get rewarded for holding. Each transaction donates a small amount to help workers and their families.
The new cryptocurrency will be rolled out in a five-phase process that will ultimately see the digital currency available on multiple platforms. The upcoming launch of StopBezos represents a first in cryptocurrency history due to the founder's stated intention.
Asked where the cryptocurrency is ultimately headed, the CEO said "To Jupiter. To give control back to workers and the community. To StopBezos."
For more information, visit:https://stopbezos.space/
Twitter: @StopBezos
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StopBezos is a cryptocurrency movement and community initiative championed by their native token, $STOPBEZOS. StopBezos is dedicated to restoring the rights of employees at large corporations, providing charitable contributions to worker funds and decentralizing the traditional governance of large-scale businesses.
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Editor-in-Chief of Blockonomi and founder of Kooc Media, A UK-Based Online Media Company. Believer in Open-Source Software, Blockchain Technology & a Free and Fair Internet for all. His writing has been quoted by Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Investopedia, The New Yorker, Forbes, Techcrunch & More. Contact Oliver@blockonomi.com
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A Red Dead Redemption Remake Could Be In The Works
We'd love to see this!
Rockstar Games Comes to the Rescue of Angry GTA V Players
About a week and a half ago, Take Two Interactive, and by extension, Rockstar Games, did the unthinkable- they banned the largest modding tool available in GTA V, OpenIV. Understandably, the community was outraged. The Rockstar Games and GTA V forums were alight with the righteous fury of modders around the world. The Steam rating … Read more
Executive Reveals Brand New Red Dead Redemption 2 Details
If you aren't already foaming at the mouth in anticipation for RDR 2… you're crazy, lose our number. But don't worry, there's still plenty of time for salvation, and these new recently revealed details may do the trick. 2017 isn't that far away anymore, and anticipation keeps building, but the CEO of Take-Two has offered … Read more
GTA & Red Dead Redemption Publisher Not Interested in "Milking" Franchises
Take Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games has published some of the most genre-defining and amazing games that the world has seen. Be it the Grand Theft Auto franchise or Red Dead Redemption series, it has always managed to come up with titles that are truly amazing. However, there has always been one … Read more
Lindsay Lohan Files New Lawsuit Against Rockstar Grand Theft Auto 5
Looks like Lindsay Lohan has filed another lawsuit complaint to Rockstar for using her "likeness" in the video game Grand Theft Auto 5. The lawsuit will be against not only Rockstar but Take-Two Interactive. This time, Lindsay Lohan has filed a 67-page complaint that supposedly holds evidence that shows her likeness being taken and used … Read more
Spec Ops: The Line Won't Have A Sequel
Fans of the Spec Ops: The Line will be disappointed to find out that the game will end fully at the first installment. Any hopes for a sequel has been dashed away by Yager Development as they revealed the studio won't be looking into making another game that continues the story. Yager Development, was in … Read more
Bioshock Series Will Continue
Fans of the Bioshock series may be wondering what the status is for the franchise. Since the development studio, Irrational Games, has in fact shut down news was scarce on what will become of the beloved video game series. Take-Two Interactive has announced that the game series will continue. Take-Two, Irrational Games parent company has announced that more … Read more


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Février
 11 février - Publication du « Rapport Durham ».
 15 février - 12 patriotes sont pendus à la prison du Pied-du-Courant. Cinquante-huit sont déportés dans une colonie pénitentiaire de l'Australie.

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Naissances
 29 janvier -  (homme politique)
 7 avril - Ludger Labelle (homme politique)
 8 mai - Adolphe-Basile Routhier (écrivain) († )
 31 mai - Louis-Alphonse Boyer (homme d'affaires et homme politique) († )
 16 novembre - Louis-Honoré Fréchette (poète et homme politique) († )

Décès
 15 février
 François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier (l'un des grands chefs patriotes canadiens français durant les révoltes de 1837-1838 au Bas-Canada)
 Charles Hindenlang (participant aux révoltes de 1837-1838)

Articles connexes
 Chronologie de l'histoire du Québec (1791 à 1840)
 L'année 1839 dans le monde

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Arthur McIvor
Professor, History
Phone01414448364
Emaila.mcivor@strath.ac.uk
My research interests are in the history of work and occupational health where I've played a significant role over the past two decades in applying an oral history methodology. My work thus lies at the intersection of the sub-disciplines of labour and medical history. My recent publications reflect this, including a co-authored book, Miners' Lung (Ashgate, 2007), my monograph Working Lives: Work in Britain since 1945 (Palgrave 2013) and the co-authored book Men in Reserve: British Civilian Masculinity in the Second World War (Manchester University Press, 2016). Generous financial support from external funders has contributed to these research outputs, including the AHRC, the Wellcome Trust, the Nuffield Foundation and the Hudson Trust. I am currently working on projects on the transnational gendered health impacts of industrialisation and deindustrialisation (including collaboration in a major Canadian SSHRC funding bid 2019-20); working lives in the Scottish and Irish whisky industry (funded by Diageo, Irish Distillers and Chivas); and occupational health during the Second World War.
In my role as Director (since 2005) of the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC) I have overseen its development into an internationally renowned interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange centre for oral history. I am passionate about oral history and have played a leading role in getting oral history situated as one of the four research strengths of the History subject area at the University of Strathclyde, in teaching through our undergraduate and postgraduate oral history pathways, in providing advanced oral history training through the SGSAH/SS and in supervising dissertation, Masters and PhD theses deploying oral history methodologies.
I strongly believe that academic research should have a significant public impact and that there should be deep engagement with the public and wider stakeholders. I have tried to do this in my own research where my oral history approach to occupational respiratory disease and disability has had a significant effect on understanding the diverse and complex impacts of contracting such diseases upon identities, health and well-being, including in relation to the ongoing asbestos-related disease epidemic. I held a Knowledge Transfer Fellowship with Glasgow Museums in 2010-11 and have developed close links with museums, archives, community groups and some businesses, which has significantly impacted on their practices, including their understanding of the importance of memory heritage and the role of the voice in reconstructing past lived experience. I submitted a public impact case study to REF2014 and will submit another: 'Memory in Public History' to REF2021. The latter will incorporate a new MOOC (FutureLearn) I have been working on (with Kirstie Blair) over 2019 on coal miners' working lives (in collaboration with coal mining museums).
I have extensive experience of postgraduate supervision and welcome enquiries from prospective Masters and doctoral students interested in any aspects of the history of work, occupational health and safety, and deindustrialisation – especially those interested in deploying oral history methodology.
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Arthur McIvor is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
labor Social Sciences
employer Social Sciences
industrial relations Social Sciences
worker Social Sciences
working class Social Sciences
Workers Arts & Humanities
occupational disability Social Sciences
Oral History Arts & Humanities
Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard Oral History Project
Walker, D. & McIvor, A.
Irish Distillers Cork Oral History
McIvor, A.
Irish Distillers Limited (Ireland)
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Blighted live: Deindustrialisation, health and well-being in the Clydeside region
McIvor, A., 2 Sep 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : 20 & 21: Revue d'histoire. 144
Deindustrialization
'Scrap-heap' stories: oral narratives of labour and loss in Scottish mining and manufacturing
McIvor, A., 15 Mar 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen. 31, 2
Oral Narrative
Disability and Industrial Society 1780-1948: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields: Statistical Compendium
McIvor, A. (Creator), Turner, D. (Creator), Thompson, S. (Creator), Bohata, K. (Creator), Long, V. (Creator), Mantin, M. (Creator), Blackie, D. (Creator), Curtis, B. (Creator), Turner, A. (Creator), Brown, V. (Creator), Jones, A. (Creator), Borsay, A. (Creator), 10 Dec 2016
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183686
'Not our jobs to sell' - workforce mobilization, deindustrialisation and resistance to plant closure : Scottish female factory occupations, 1981-1982
Author: Clark, A., 1 Jan 2017
Supervisor: McIvor, A. (Supervisor) & Taylor, P. (Supervisor)
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AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellow (Glasgow Museums)
Arthur McIvor (Recipient), Jan 2010
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
17 Participation in conference
6 Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences
6 Examination
4 Membership of committee
3 Editorial board member
3 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
1 Organiser of major conference
1 Visiting an external organisation
1 Visiting an external academic institution
International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) Scientific Committee on the History of Prevention of Occupational and Environmental Diseases, conference, 28-29 May 2020. Keynote: 'Guardians of workers' bodies: The rise and fall of trade unions in occupational health and safety'.
Arthur McIvor (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences
Understanding the Deindustrial Body: The Legacies of Occupational Injuries and Disease in the Former Kent Coalfield (Sophie Rowland)
Arthur McIvor (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › Examination
Contribution to occupational health campaigns, international debate and public awareness of miner's lung and asbestos related disease and disability.
Arthur McIvor (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Quality of life and safety, Public understanding, information and debate, Culture and creativity
Health History and the Curriculum for Excellence
James Mills (Participant), Emma Newlands (Participant), Arthur McIvor (Participant), Matthew Smith (Participant), Angela Turner (Participant), Patricia Barton (Participant), Ryan Johnson (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Culture and creativity, Education
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Week in Review - October 18, 2019
School Board approves repurposing of Blue Ridge into an Early Learning Center
Replacement Levy on February 11 ballot
ACT Scores show improvement for WWPS graduates
Educational Effectiveness Parent Survey closes Oct. 25
Wa-Hi Trunk or Treat Halloween night
Music students selected to international band honor festival
Walla2Hoops AAU basketball club hosting 3 Cities Hoops league games
Isaacs Ave Preconstruction Meeting Open House
Dia de Los Muertos Festival October 19 and 20
• School Board approves repurposing of Blue Ridge into an Early Learning Center
Following eight months of study, community engagement, and deliberation, the school board has reached a unanimous recommendation to proceed with repurposing Blue Ridge Elementary School as a building-wide Early Learning Center, effective the 2020-21 school year. This will necessitate the relocation of approximately 200 students and faculty from Blue Ridge to other school sites.
The school board has identified specific supports to ensure the administrative team has the resources needed to put deliberate measures in place to support all stakeholders in this change.
"The Board is fully confident Superintendent Smith and his staff will manage this transition in a thoughtful way that supports students, families, and staff," said Ruth Ladderud, School Board President.
The school board has also requested to delay the boundary review process until the 2020-21 school year to ensure staff attention and resources are fully committed to supporting Blue Ridge students, families, and staff this year and next. The transition plan is detailed below.
Blue Ridge Early Learning Center Transition Plan
• Establish transition plans that allow individual Blue Ridge families/students the ability to remain together in their new school
• Ensure transportation is made available to Blue Ridge attendance area families to and from their new school
• Maintain dual language program access for current Blue Ridge program students
• Establish a Spanish-speaking point-of-contact who can serve to assist and support all of our Blue Ridge families through this transition and into the following school year
• Develop a staffing plan that maintains employment for current Blue Ridge staff
• Ensure sufficient resources are available to support Blue Ridge students and families at the transitioned schools
• Develop transition plans that prioritize appropriate class sizes
• Provide the Board with the following reports/data regarding this matter:
o On or before January 21, 2020: Overview of the transition plan for 2020-21
o September `20: Update on the transition
o November `20: Former Blue Ridge family survey and attendance data review
o May `21: i-Ready performance data for former Blue Ridge students
• Replacement Levy on February 11 ballot
REPLACEMENT LEVY WEBSITE
Tuesday night, school board members approved a resolution to seek renewal of its Replacement Education Levy on the February 11 ballot. This proposed Replacement Education Levy helps maintain the current level of educational programs and opportunities Walla Walla students and families have approved at the ballot box for over 50 years. This is not a new tax, but a continuation of a local levy requiring re-authorization from voters every four years. The Replacement Education Levy funds more than 100 staff not paid for by the state's basic education funding model. Advanced course offerings, fine arts programs, elementary electives and athletic/club offerings are just a few of the programs the education levy provides Walla Walla students.
• ACT Scores show improvement for WWPS graduates
Recently released ACT scores for the class of 2019 reveal a .6 increase for WWPS graduates from an average composite score of 19.0 to 19.6.
"Unlike most school districts, WWPS assesses every senior at both Walla Walla High School and Lincoln High School annually," said Superintendent Dr. Wade Smith. "This annual administration not only provides each student the opportunity to take the college admittance assessment, but also provides the district an opportunity to assess the preparation of its completers as it strives to reach its vision towards "Developing Washington's Most Sought-After Graduates."
While the nation saw a decrease overall, from 20.8 to 20.7 last year, Walla Walla Public Schools witnessed its second-highest achievement score to date, up significantly from 18.5 in 2013.
"Since we assess all of our seniors in the ACT, whereas most districts only report college-bound student scores, it is unlikely we will ever exceed state or national results," said Smith. "Despite our comprehensive administration of the test, we are seeing our results edge closer and closer to state and national marks."
A deep data dive revealed a number of promising trends and outcomes, the most significant being Latino students in WWPS outscored their statewide counterparts by achieving the highest ACT score ever recorded for WWPS Hispanic/Latino graduates. Students who participated in four years of English and three or more years in math, social studies and sciences, boasted an average ACT score of 24.7, the highest performance to date.
"This reveals the importance that all students continue to challenge themselves academically throughout their high school career with the many rigorous elective options our levy dollars provide Walla Walla students," said Smith.
As part of the district's Strategic Plan indicators, the School Board established a target composite score of 22 for the 2022 graduating class.
• Educational Effectiveness Parent Survey closes Oct. 25
Walla Walla Public Schools is seeking feedback from key stakeholder groups through the Educational Effectiveness Survey (EES) as an extension of the Board of Director's Strategic Plan. This survey tool is used annually to help the district better serve students.
Last week the district launched the survey to parents. Parents have an opportunity to complete the survey using their own electronic devices. They had the opportunity to take the survey when they arrived for conferences at their respective schools. Paper copies have also been mailed home. The following survey link is posted on the Walla Walla Public Schools webpage. The survey closes Oct. 25.
Parent Survey Link - https://www.research.net/r/wwps-parent
In addition, a community telephone survey was conducted this fall to garner feedback about the quality of education offered in Walla Walla Public Schools. The district will use the data to track progress towards its goals and initiatives.
The survey is completely anonymous and available in both English and Spanish. Survey questions were developed by the Center for Educational Effectiveness, a Washington-based educational research firm, in collaboration with the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for Washington State. This survey has been used with over 750,000 educational stakeholders in the Western U.S. and provides a powerful tool for district staff to benchmark current school perceptions with high-performing schools across the nation.
• Wa-Hi Trunk or Treat Halloween night
• No tricks it's all treats for this event! Annual event open to the community
• October 31 from 5:30-7 p.m.
• Partnership event with Walla Walla High School Key Club and our local Kiwanis Club. This event is open to all our community goblins! Bring your child and a can of food to participate in this annual event! Wa-Hi service clubs will each display a car and will be dressed up in a matching theme handing out candy to community children. Cars and club decor will be judged by the participants and the winning club will win a pizza party.
• Walla Walla High School 'Science' parking lot (off Abbott Rd)
• Admission: One can of food that will be donated to the Blue Mountain Food Bank at the end of the evening.
• Music students selected to international band honor festival
Congratulations to Walla Walla High School music students William Huntsman and Olivier Nicault for being selected for the annual Western International Band Clinic (WIBC) honor band festival November 22-25. The festival will be held at the Sea-Tac Double Tree Inn. Huntsman and Nicault are both alto saxophone players, are members of the Wa-Hi Wind Ensemble and served as this year's drum majors for the marching band. They were selected for the honor band through an mp3 audition process.
WIBC has four honor bands of approximately 160 students each, made up of the best high school musicians in the northwest states and Canada. They will be performing under the direction of some of the finest college level conductors and composers in the world.
• Walla2Hoops AAU basketball club hosting 3 Cities Hoops league games
The Walla2Hoops AAU Basketball Club is hosting 3 Cities Hoops league games Saturday, October 26 and Saturday, Nov. 16 at Garrison Middle School from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Local and regional boys and girls teams will be competing. The games are open to the public. Daily cost is $5 for adults and $4 for senior citizens and students.
"We are excited to begin our second season as a club and encourage our community to come out and support these dedicated athletes and coaches," said Walla2Hoops Club President Matthew Price-Huntington. "This competitive brand of basketball is fun to watch so come cheer on our players."
There are 20 Walla2Hoops teams, boys and girls, consisting of youth grades 2-8 set to compete this season. A total of 31 coaches are volunteering to lead teams. Players represent Walla Walla Public Schools, College Place Public Schools, Assumption Catholic School, Touchet School District, Rogers Adventist School, Dayton School District, Waitsburg School District, Weston School District, St. Basil Academy and homeschool students.
Walla2Hoops is a 501C3 Non-Profit basketball club which operates under the umbrella of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). Walla2Hoops provides an enriched basketball environment with a mission to create a positive competitive culture focused on developing character and basketball fundamentals.
For more information about the club or to provide donations for the scholarship program, contact: walla2hoops@gmail.com
• Isaacs Ave Preconstruction Meeting Open House
• The Isaacs Avenue contractor will be finishing work through the Roosevelt intersection in about a month. The City of Walla Walla is planning an open house for Isaacs Avenue construction before work starts on the east side of Roosevelt.
• Tuesday, October 29
• 4-6 pm
• Green Park Elementary (Library)
• Information: Adam Schmidtgall, P.E. 509-529-9260 office
• Dia de Los Muertos Festival October 19 and 20
12 p.m.: Join us in the green space across from Earthlight Books at 321 E. Main Street, Walla Walla for masking decorating, crafts, and snacks before the procession.
1:15 p.m..: All families, individuals, and community groups are invited to join the Procession down Main Street, starting at 321 E. Main Street to the Marcus Whitman Hotel at 6 E. Rose Street.
2 p.m. Coco | FREE movie screening at Marcus Whitman Hotel, 6 W. Rose Street, Walla Walla (limited seating)
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Location: On Main Street, Walla Walla between 3rd and 4th Streets
FREE art activities, music, dance, and community altars. Food vendors with food for purchase.
• Lacrosse Stick Night – Free Drop-In for ages 8-16. Mondays & Thursdays 5:30pm to 7pm at Vista Terrace Park. No experience necessary. Equipment provided.
• Fencing – Beginning Classes for ages 9-18. Cost is $60. Saturdays. Equipment provided
• Pumpkin Carving Contest - Free for ages 3-12. Thursday, October 24th 5:30pm to 7:15pm at Super 1 Foods. Pumpkins provided by Super 1 Foods. Pre-registration is available, but not required.
• Scholarships available for youth programs. To apply stop by the Parks and Recreation office at 55 E Moore St.


Sky very slow at adopting widescreen.
Forums › Home Theatre (incl HTPC) › Sky very slow at adopting widescreen.
On one midday news they showed highlights from previous nights cricket game in widescreen so the game is sourced in widescreen from channel 9. People pay sky to watch sports and then get the sides chopped off on sky.
Also I'm using 16x9 zoom more and more as Getting bars on all sides of pictures in programs on other channels, like beyond tomorrow on discovery, it would be a lot less messy if they'll shown in widescreen in the first place.
Is there a technical issue with widescreen, or is it just that sky thinks the pay for television market can't handle it like the free to air market?
I wished free to air would get the sci fi programs rather then prime and sky 1 as I would rather watch them in full wide screen.
apparantly it takes a whole new facility to do widescreen, which is strange since I would think it would take more effort to crop the sides off material then to play it out as they get it.
I understand that they are in the process of upgrading the Mt Wellington facility as we type to handle 16:9 (as well as HD). What I do find strange is that the Albany facility where Prime is played out (as well as some feed through channels that are soured/shared with Foxtel like Discovery) have already been updated, yet Prime is still not 16:9.
They do seem to have dragged the chain on this one.
cyril7: I understand that they are in the process of upgrading the Mt Wellington facility as we type to handle 16:9 (as well as HD). What I do find strange is that the Albany facility where Prime is played out (as well as some feed through channels that are soured/shared with Foxtel like Discovery) have already been updated, yet Prime is still not 16:9.
16:9 depends on the wide screen signaling held within the PAL system. Line 23 is used for signaling widescreen. Basically your TV (providing it's something nice and new and widescreen) reads this line and decides if the picture is intended to be widescreen or 4:3.
The problem is what I would informally call the 'switching speed' of TVs. Most will go black for a second or so while they swap their aspect from standard to wide. If you were to have a show that had both standard and wide signalled clips you would have holes in the show as the TV adjusts for this.
The dilemma at the moment is the whole HD thing. Does one put all the effort into setting up a channel in widescreen, spend a whole ton of money on ARCs to pillar box all the 4:3 shows, then throw all that gear and effort out as soon as the HD gear is implimented?


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  Morley est
       un village
       situé dans le département de Meuse en Lorraine. On dénombrait 218 habitants en 2008.

Si vous envisagez de demenager à Morley, vous pourrez facilement trouver une maison à vendre.

À coté de Morley sont localisées les communes de
Villers-le-Sec à 5 km, 109 habitants,
Paroy-sur-Saulx à 7 km, 45 habitants,
Fouchères-aux-Bois à 4 km, 138 habitants,
Montiers-sur-Saulx localisée à 5 km, 453 habitants,
Brauvilliers à 7 km, 171 habitants,
Couvertpuis à 4 km, 90 habitants,
 entre autres. De plus, Morley est située à seulement 22 km de Saint-Dizier.

Le parc de logements, à Morley, était réparti en 2011 en quatre appartements et 101 maisons soit
 un marché relativement équilibré.

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Carlos Emilio de Brandeburgo (; Berlín, 16 de febrero de 1655 - Estrasburgo, 7 de diciembre de 1674) fue un príncipe prusiano, el segundo hijo varón y heredero del Elector Federico Guillermo I de Brandeburgo y su esposa Luisa Enriqueta de Nassau-Orange.

Biografía
Carlos Emilio fue el segundo hijo varón del Elector Federico Guillermo I de Brandeburgo y su esposa Luisa Enriqueta de Nassau-Orange. Después de que el primer hijo, Guillermo Enrique, falleciera cuando tenía dos años y la electora tuviera que soportar una serie de embarazos desafortunados y finalmente nació Carlos Emilio, el tan esperado heredero al trono.

El príncipe se convirtió en un regalo para su padre en todos los aspectos, no solo en términos de sucesión al trono, sino que casi se convirtió en su imagen. Esto no solo era por su apariencia, Carlos Emilio era fuerte y bien formado, sino aún más para el carácter temperamental y de mal genio y la tendencia pronunciada a expresarse como un hombre: el ejército y la caza eran la máxima prioridad. El medio más eficaz de los educadores para domarlo era quitarle la espada al príncipe durante unos días.

En 1670, Carlos Emilio se convirtió en Coronel del regimiento Radziwiłł. En 1674, el ejército de Brandeburgo partió hacia Alsacia para participar en la guerra imperial contra Francia; a la cabeza estaba el Elector Federico Guillermo I de Brandeburgo y el joven elector Carlos Emilio, quien estaba entusiasmado con la guerra. La campaña pronto se vio envuelta en maniobras incesantes, con el mando imperial de Bournonville, quien por alguna razón, rehuía un conflicto militar en lugar de buscarlo.

Llegó un otoño húmedo y frío, lo que provocó escasez de suministros y problemas higiénicos, lo cual aumento las bajas por enfermedad de las tropas del electorado. Un chambelán, Dietrich von Buch, escribió en su diario que el príncipe electoral

"Asumió su deber con tanta diligencia mañana y noche, visitaba constantemente el campamento, especialmente a los enfermos, conducía a la gente a trabajar en los atrincheramientos él mismo y hacía todo con... mucho celo y buenos modales".

Carlos Emilio enfermó a finales de noviembre y fue llevado a Estrasburgo a principios de diciembre. Después de siete días de fiebre creciente, murió de disentería. Los restos del joven príncipe descansan en la Catedral de Berlín.

Referencias

Príncipes de Prusia (Casa de Hohenzollern)
Nobles de Alemania del siglo XVII


In Kirkwood, Mo., the historic depot is the heart of the bustling downtown, known for its shopping, dining and cultural attractions. A dedicated team of volunteer station hosts assists Amtrak passengers and visitors throughout the day.
Kirkwood is located west of St. Louis and is served by four trains a day that operate between St. Louis and Kansas City.
Amtrak and the state, which helps fund the four daily Missouri River Runner trains, decided to remove ticket agents from the Kirkwood station in 2003 as part of a broader cost-saving measure. Fearing that the prominent downtown building would be shuttered, city leaders purchased the depot from Union Pacific Railroad and considered ways to keep it open to the public. The city subsequently created a pioneer management program made up of local volunteers who would staff and manage the station. Following the city's first call for volunteers, almost 200 people showed up to perform their civic duty, and many agreed to regularly participate in the program.
Originally charged with greeting passengers and keeping the depot open for a few hours a day for train arrivals, the enthusiastic volunteers soon advocated for maintaining a presence at the facility all throughout the day. They also suggested ways to promote the depot as a community gathering place, such as decorating it according to the seasons and creating a lending library.
Today, more than 75 active volunteers staff the depot 365 days of the year and act as goodwill ambassadors for Amtrak and the city. They gladly tell visitors about restaurants, shops and local attractions such as the nearby Farmers Market. Volunteers do not sell Amtrak tickets or quote fares. More than one million passengers and visitors have stopped by the depot since May 2003.
The city employs a station manager, Bill Burckhalter, who oversees the station volunteer and rental programs, reports building needs to the city's maintenance supervisor and works with all municipal departments in maintaining the depot and grounds.
Station hosts decorate the depot according to the season. Image courtesy of Bill Burckhalter.
Due to the professionalism of the volunteers, who fill all open shifts and make arrangements to cover for one another, Burckhalter no longer has to spend the majority of his time at the station directly overseeing them. Instead, he has been able to focus on pursuing grants for important station improvement work.
Burckhalter also represents Kirkwood at quarterly meetings of the state-sponsored Missouri Rail Passenger Advisory Committee, during which communities served by the Missouri River Runner discuss common issues such as promotion of train service and tourism.
The depot is used throughout the year for special events, such as this visit from Santa Claus. Image courtesy of Bill Burckhalter.
In large part due to the friendly volunteer presence, the depot has become a de facto town welcome center where people are encouraged to sit and take a rest while shopping, play a game of checkers or attend some of the more than 100 events scheduled each year – including art shows, poetry readings and book talks. The waiting room can also be rented for parties, meetings and other events.
Volunteers also gather for an annual party held in their honor that recognizes the important role they play in promoting Kirkwood as a community in which to live, work and have fun.
Thanks to Kirkwood Station Manager Bill Burckhalter for his assistance with this profile.
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Lucas was contemplating himself in the mirror. His translucent skin was taut over exquisite bone structure, his hazel eyes framed by eyelashes so long and dark that he would barely need mascara tonight. His T-shirt and leggings highlighted sculpted muscles.
This was the culmination of all Ben's dreams, to be here with him.
"It's true, you're perfect, Lucas," he sighed.
Ben worshipped Lucas's body. Everyone worshipped Lucas's body. For Lucas was perfectly proportioned, his limbs a masterpiece of symmetry. When he walked past with his perfect gait, he turned everyone's head. When he danced, they were bewitched. His had been the fastest ever progress from the corps de ballet to soloist, and he was set to become a principal before the end of the year.
Principals only ever dated other principals. But no-one was surprised when the divine Kara, the company's star, ditched her long-term amour, Perry Quinn, for Lucas. Kara was Lucas's due, thought Ben. How could someone perfect be expected to make do with less than the divine?
"I can't tell you what a privilege it is to be in this masterclass with you," he went on.
Lucas ignored him and began stretching his spectacularly supple hamstrings. He folded himself over from upright until his chest was pressed against his knees, his head against his shins.
"And today of all days!" said Ben. "I feel part of history. To dance alongside Lucas Ward just before he appeared in his first lead role."
Lucas paid no attention, pointing and flexing his powerfully sinewed feet.
Ben took up position beside him at the barre.
"You're my role model," he confided. "I dream of being like you."
This time, Lucas reacted. His perfect eyebrows shot up and his perfect lip curled.
"You dream of being like me?"
He prowled round Ben. "Neck – too short. Shoulder-blades – too high. Knees – too rotated."
"Yes...I see..." said Ben.
Lucas suddenly punched him violently in the stomach. Ben, completed unprepared, rocked forward, winded.
"Abs – too weak," said Lucas with cool satisfaction.
"Sorry, Lucas," wheezed Ben.
The students were beginning to filter into the room. They huddled at the back, staring in awe. Lucas was on to hip warm-ups now, moving an athletic leg round and back in a semi-circle.
And then Mr Bryce and his entourage entered, and some students almost hyperventilated. The company's revered founder, now 87, lived in semi-seclusion. But once a year, he emerged to take a masterclass with two of the professional dancers. He was still an impressive and intimidating figure: his ornate stick seemed more for show than support. One of his followers took his cape, another got him a chair, and a third shooed the students into a line.
"A remarkable day for you, hey, Mr Ward?" said Clifford Bryce.
Lucas inclined his head in graceful agreement.
Bryce turned to the students. "You may not have heard yet, but Mr Quinn has been struck down by a nasty bout of food poisoning."
The students computed this. Perry was dancing Prince Siegfried in the premiere of Swan Lake. And his understudy was –
"Lucas – Lucas will be dancing with Kara!" squeaked a student who could compute faster than the others. The divine Kara as the Swan Queen and Lucas as her prince: the students practically swooned with the romance of it all.
Clifford Bryce clapped his hands for silence.
"We must begin, to give Mr Ward time to rest before this evening's performance. Mr Ward, Mr Jenkins, kindly run through the basic exercises and then the students will join you."
Ben followed Lucas in the familiar routine. But he had lost all enthusiasm. How was someone like him supposed to motivate the students, with his over-rotated knees and his deformed shoulder-blades? How could he ever have hoped to make soloist? It was ghastly seeing himself reflected in the mirrored walls alongside Lucas, the contrast magnifying his defects.
Then he saw Mr Bryce watching him. He was in class. He could never be like Lucas, could never know perfection, but he could push his defective body to its limits.
When they finished, the founder moved on to questioning the students about method and technique.
"What do you see when you look at Mr Ward?" he asked one of the most promising students.
"Perfection!" the student sighed. The others nodded vigorously.
Clifford Bryce smiled. "That is a tribute to Mr Ward's superb technique," he said. "Mr Ward has succeeded in creating the illusion of perfection. In fact, his thighbones are three centimetres too long."
Ben blinked. That couldn't be right. Lucas's every dimension was – perfect.
"Senile old fool," said Lucas in a stage whisper.
There was a puzzled muttering among the students, who stared at Lucas, first in concern, then in shock. Ben turned to look at his hero, his unattainable role model, verifying that every body part was in perfect correspondence with every other. Perfect...perfect...perfect...perfect. He reached Lucas's thighs. Impossible. Lucas Ward was perfect.
The divine Kara was a consummate professional. With a radiant smile, she rose up en pointe, Lucas's hands on her dainty waist, and began a series of dazzling pirouettes. As her body twirled, she looked out at the audience, turning her head at the very last moment, so that there was only a split second when her lovely face could not be seen. But it was long enough to let her spit out a single venomous syllable at Lucas every time she whipped past.
"How – dare – you – try – to – hood – wink - me - we're – through – you - freak."
While the audience broke into thunderous applause, the news passed excitedly down the two lines of delicately fluttering swans.
"Kara's broken up with Lucas! It's all over!"
Lucas clasped the Swan Queen to his bosom in a masterful embrace, trying to ignore the way the other swans were all craning to get a better view of his thighs.
"Kara, believe me, I didn't know!"
Kara bashfully withdrew from her prince's grasp and extended her left leg in a faultless arabesque.
"Yeah, right," she mouthed as she coyly allowed her hand to be captured. "Like you don't spend every spare second preening in the mirror."
She inclined towards him with submissive pliancy and Lucas, powerful and passionate, caught her round her slender shoulders.
"It's only the thighbones, Kara! Everything else is as good as it ever was!" he whined.
Kara gazed up adoringly at him, her right leg bent at a breathtakingly picturesque angle.
"It was never that good, Lucas, believe me."
Lucas lifted her up with princely strength and determination. Kara arched into a flawless curve, conveying wistfulness and hope combined. She spoke softly but distinctly.
"And stop hogging the limelight. It's not your fucking solo."
It was just as well he couldn't see his parents in the grand circle. This was their fault. He was a laughing-stock because of their genetic defects. Had they given a thought to their future offspring, had checks on their physical compatibility? Not a bit of it. They had rushed headlong into parenthood, thinking only of themselves. The sheer selfishness of it, the sheer –
Kara shifted her weight to return to earth and Lucas was literally wrong-footed. There was a wobble, muffled shrieks from the corps de ballet, a thud, and a frantic ringing down of the curtain.
Lucas, in a crumpled heap, was vaguely aware of the babble of voices.
"His leg's broken."
"It's those thighbones of his. He just doesn't have the stability."
"What understudy? Lucas is the understudy!"
"Message from Mr Bryce, get Ben Jenkins into Perry's costume. Move it!"
The male paramedic hissed at the female paramedic: "I can't cover for you any longer. There's only so many tests I can pretend to do on him."
The female paramedic reluctantly emerged from the wings. "Okay. It's finished anyway. It was sublime. Kara Anderson was supposed to be dancing with Perry Quinn, but I swear, a star is born!"
There was a sudden roar from the audience, and she darted back to see what was happening, then returned, giggling, to help her colleague adjust Lucas on the stretcher.
"Oh, wow, that was some kiss she gave him – how cute are they?"
As they began to wheel Lucas away, Ben rushed offstage, rather flushed, clutching a bouquet.
"Lucas, I owe it all to you!" he gasped. "I'm so stupid, I completely misunderstood what you were saying to me. I thought you meant my body was too flawed for me ever to be a great dancer. It was only when Mr Bryce explained about your disability that I realized that if you could overcome your handicap, then I could overcome mine."
Gently, he laid the bouquet on Lucas's chest. "You deserve these, not me."
The paramedic cocked her head. "They're calling for you. You'd better get back on stage."
They headed towards the door.
"That was sweet of him to give you his flowers – Lucas, is it? Make you feel better."
And Lucas burst into tears of perfect rage.
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Until the Second World War Marlow was really just another sleepy Buckinghamshire village located on a bend in the River Thames. Its main central core centred around the High Street, Station Road and Chapel Street, (now the A4155) and is mainly characterised by principally brick built pretty Victorian cottages and larger Victorian villas with further similar aged housing north of the High Street between Oxford Road and Dean Street (B482). These areas allow easy access into town but still retain a genteel air of suburban tranquillity.
After the war the town, as many did, saw an explosion in new development and new housing was quickly built beyond the central core in Barn Farm and also south of Little Marlow Road the main approach road into Marlow now off the A404 Marlow Bypass during the 1950's where classic 50's style housing can be found. These developments essentially spread the town eastwards whilst 1950's semi-detached housing including bungalows characterises Marlow Bottom centred on good primary schooling.
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 Argyroeides boliviana
 Argyroeides braco
 Argyroeides ceres
 Argyroeides eurypon
 Argyroeides flavicincta
 Argyroeides flavicornis
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 Argyroeides ortona
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 Argyroeides rubricauda
 Argyroeides sanguinea
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His first published work in 1970 was a series of four travel articles in the Portsmouth Evening News based on wanderings in the Americas. Another publication was a history of Holyport and local cricket in Berkshire (now in the library at Lord's). He has had a number of poems published by the Poetic Republic (two being short listed for prizes) and also several poems in South poetry magazine as well as Home Counties Poets and Rhyme and Reason. For the past ten years he has been a member of Temys Poets. For several years he has been a regular reviewer for South magazine.
Speaking to Crows is Richard Woolmer's debut collection, which will be published in January 2019. Richard's gentle humour and irony illuminate issues and episodes in his own life and that of historical figures and issues with a light, very English touch.
Much of the book is set somewhere between dream and reality — a world seen through a prism of benign, surreal humour, reminiscent of the best Lear and Carroll. Here an assortment of characters, ranging from an English King, President Trump and the Rev. Spooner rub shoulders with ashes in an urn, a fan of an unfashionable football team, a TV weather girl and a besmirched statue. Prince Harry puts in an appearance as does the Bayeux Tapestry and the notorious "Uritrottoir" of Paris.
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The Marijuana Conversation: Questions Regulators and Legislators Are Asking
Insights What's Trending
By NCCI insights September 14, 2017
About this article: "The Marijuana Conversation: Questions Regulators and Legislators Are Asking" is the fourth installment in NCCI's Marijuana Conversation series aimed at exploring the issues surrounding marijuana's impact on workers compensation stakeholders.
As discussed in NCCI's previous conversations, medical marijuana is currently legal in 29 states, as well as Washington, DC. It's also legal for recreational use in eight states and Washington, DC. However, marijuana is still illegal at the federal level and is classified as a Schedule I drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act.
This leaves regulators with questions about the best way to protect workers, employers, and insurers, while legislators at both the state and federal levels debate numerous public policy issues regarding legalizing marijuana.
Below are four key questions regulators of both insurance and labor departments, along with legislators, are asking as marijuana becomes legal across the nation.
How do I protect workers and promote safe working environments?
State insurance and labor departments share responsibility for regulating workers compensation. While the division of their duties may vary from state to state, consumer protection is a fundamental role for any state regulator. In the workers compensation system, one of the state regulator's top priorities is to ensure that workers are protected and that injured workers receive the benefits they are entitled to in accordance with state law. As regulators evaluate the impact—or potential impact—to their state from legalizing marijuana, they are likely doing so by considering the effects on workers.
Right now, regulators around the country are dealing with an opioid crisis. Opioid addiction and overdose have reached epidemic levels over the past decade. Prescription painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone can be highly addictive and result in thousands of overdose deaths each year. And, as reported by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse, misuse of prescription painkillers may be a risk factor for using heroin as a substitute. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States more than 183,000 people died from overdoses related to prescription opioids between 1999 and 2015.
Facing these statistics, regulators are certainly wondering whether medical marijuana may be a safer, less addictive alternative to opioids for injured workers, and therefore, a better choice for pain management in the workers compensation system. Since marijuana is still illegal under federal law, research has been limited and allowed only under strict controls. So, definitive answers to these questions will take time.
However, regulators must weigh the potential benefits of medical marijuana use with the potential risks to the workplace. Could an employee's legal use of marijuana—whether medical or recreational—impact workplace safety? Are workers who are legally using medical marijuana less likely to report injuries if their employer has a drug-free workplace policy? What if the workers are concerned about potentially losing their workers compensation benefits if they test positive for marijuana at the time of injury? And what impact does all of this have on employers and insurers in the state? No doubt, regulators want to determine the best way to address these questions to ensure safe workplaces and the proper reporting of workplace injuries.
Federal regulators have also been part of the discussion. In 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated federal workplace injury and accident reporting regulations that expanded employer exposure to fines. The rule also included new standards for post-injury drug testing. However, in 2017 Congress passed—and the President signed—a resolution blocking the regulations, and at this time it seems unlikely that a similar proposal will be advanced.
How do I regulate reimbursement for medical marijuana?
The friction between federal law and state laws on marijuana creates additional challenges for state regulators tasked with governing in this new environment.
To date, at least five states—Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New Mexico—have found that medical marijuana is a permissible workers compensation treatment that requires insurer reimbursement. New Mexico was the first in 2014 when the New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that insurers must reimburse "qualified" workers compensation claimants for the cost of medical marijuana to treat work injuries. Based on that ruling, the same court decided two other cases, determining that reimbursement is required if the drug is reasonable and necessary medical care for treating a work injury.
In response to these decisions, the New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration created a rule and adopted a fee schedule to provide a system of reimbursement for medical marijuana given to injured workers. The fee schedule went into effect on January 1, 2016.
At this time, New Mexico is the only state that established a maximum reimbursement amount for medical marijuana in a workers compensation fee schedule. In other states where medical marijuana is legal and permitted as a workers compensation treatment, regulators are considering whether they should include medical marijuana in their fee schedules. They're also asking: What are the challenges in implementing such a change in a fee schedule? Are there alternatives?
While only one state has established a maximum reimbursement amount for medical marijuana in its fee schedule, every state now has, or is developing, a prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP). PDMPs are state-run electronic databases that track the prescribing and dispensing of prescription drugs within the state. They've been used by states to address the opioid epidemic. As medical marijuana becomes more commonly recommended by doctors, regulators want to know if their states should consider including medical marijuana in their PDMPs. If so, how can it be effectively tracked without a universal drug code? Currently, marijuana cannot be assigned a National Drug Code due to its Schedule I status.
While it remains to be seen whether states and state courts will continue to find that medical marijuana is permissible treatment for workers compensation, regulators likely want to know how the reimbursement process works. Does the insurer pay the marijuana dispensary directly or pay the injured worker, who can then purchase the medical marijuana? And how should the reimbursement rate be determined? Regulators are exploring new tools to address these questions going forward.
What are the issues in the legislative debate about legalizing marijuana?
Legislators at both the state and federal levels are grappling with myriad public policy issues surrounding legalizing medical and recreational marijuana.
As state legislators debate whether to legalize medical and/or recreational marijuana in their states—or are dealing with implementation issues in states that have already legalized it—no doubt they are following the opinion polls. Legalizing marijuana has become increasingly popular with voters. According to an April 2017 Quinnipiac University poll, 60% of voters favor legalizing marijuana, while 94% support the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
State legislators want to know: Is congress considering legislation to legalize marijuana? Are other marijuana-related issues, such as banking and tax reforms, being debated?
On the federal side, congress has already introduced at least 20 bills in 2017 addressing issues related to legalizing marijuana. Some of the bills propose removing marijuana from the list of Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act or legalizing certain forms of marijuana at the federal level. Other bills propose amending the Internal Revenue Code to address the taxing and regulation of marijuana products and/or to provide protections for financial institutions that serve marijuana-related businesses that are legal under state law.
It is too soon to tell whether congress will pass any substantive legislation related to marijuana. However, in May 2017 congress passed an appropriations bill for the current fiscal year that contained language stating federal funds will not be used to stop states from implementing medical marijuana laws.
This leads to another question state legislators are asking:
If my state legalizes—or has legalized—marijuana, will the federal government take enforcement action in my state?
In 2013, the US Department of Justice issued guidance regarding marijuana enforcement, known as the "Cole Memo." The guidance suggested federal law enforcement officials focus their efforts on eight federal priorities—including preventing marijuana distribution to minors and preventing violent activity related to marijuana cultivation and distribution. The memo noted that the guidance was based on the expectation that state and local governments would "implement strong and effective regulatory and enforcement systems" in states that have legalized marijuana.
There have been questions whether states have systems in place to effectively address marijuana-related activity. For example, citing studies by the Highway Loss Data Institute and the American Automobile Association (AAA), a recent report by Smart Approaches to Marijuana—an antilegalization group—claimed that states with legalized recreational marijuana have seen an increase in both marijuana-impaired drivers and automobile accidents. Whether there is an actual causal link to marijuana use, or there are other contributing factors at play, may require additional data and analysis. In any case, there is ongoing debate regarding appropriate state regulatory and enforcement responsibilities.
It remains to be seen whether the federal government will take a more active enforcement role under the new Administration. In the meantime, state and federal legislators face the task of weighing these public policy issues, and their decisions will ultimately influence the regulatory process.
Medical marijuana is now legal in a majority of states, and numerous states are expected to consider marijuana proposals in the coming year. As state and federal legislators debate the public policy issues regarding legalizing marijuana, state regulators are facing questions about how to implement their state laws, while continuing to provide appropriate protections for workers, employers, and insurers.
This article is provided solely as a reference tool to be used for informational purposes only. The information in this article shall not be construed or interpreted as providing legal or any other advice. Use of this article for any purpose other than as set forth herein is strictly prohibited.
Stay tuned for our final edition of The Marijuana Conversation: What's Next?
The Marijuana Conversation: Questions Employers Are Asking
The Marijuana Conversation: Questions Employees Are Asking
The Marijuana Conversation: Questions Workers Compensation Insurers Are Asking
The Marijuana Conversation: What's Next


As part of the ongoing 18th edition of Asian Art Biennale, a two-day international seminar featuring discussions of local and foreign artists and art critics was organised at the auditorium of National Art Gallery of BSA.
The seminar that continued from Sunday to Monday featured three sessions.
In the opening session a keynote paper titled 'Between Art and Narratives' was presented by artist-art critic Mustafa Zaman.
Zaman in his paper analysed how colonisation and subsequently globalisation influenced the narratives of local artists.
Professor Fakrul Alam, Shamsad Mortuza, Indian artist Jogen Chowdhury and thespian Ramendu Majumdar were present as discussants at the session, which was chaired by art critic-professor Nazrul Islam.
American art critic Deborah Dyer Frizzell, Polish artist Marek Batelik, Japene art professor Tetsuya Noda and local art critic professor Syed Mazharul Islam attended the seminar on Monday.
BSA published a booklet on the seminar containing writings of artists and art critics on Sunday. In his writing American art critic Deborah Dyer Frizzell did not referred to artists as 'teller of stories'. 'Artists may imply a narrative, but allusions are not the same thing as a narrative in words', wrote Frizzell.
Indian artist Sanghamitra Das wrote that the relationship between art and contemporary narrative is a dynamic one.
'Artists always absorb contemporary narratives in their works. Bangladeshi artists of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s responded to their contemporary time and stories and presented them in their works', wrote Das.
Besides, a roundtable titled 'Art, Pedagogy and Promotion' was held on Monday at the seminar room of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy where local and foreign artists, art-critics and writers participated.
The 18th Asian Art Biennale is displaying 583 artworks by 465 artists from 68 countries.


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Q: Build HAProxy Config from HTTPD Puppet Manifests We currently manage a cluster of Apache HTTPD servers with Puppet. The each web server uses profile::web_server::redundant which looks like this:
class profile::web_server::redundant inherits profile::web_server {
  ::apache::mod { 'userdir': }

  include ::ourweb::sites::site1_example_com
  include ::ourweb::sites::site2_example_com
  include ::ourweb::sites::site3_example_com

  # Other general webserver configuration
}

Each website looks something like this:
class ourweb::sites::site1_example_com {

  $site_root = '/var/www/sites/site1.example.com'
  $port     = '8001'
  $port_ssl = '8401'

  # Checkout site from VCS

  # Add $port to firewall

  apache::vhost { 'site1.example.com':
    servername      => 'site1.example.com',
    port            => $port,
    docroot         => $site_root,
  }
  apache::vhost { 'site1.example.com_ssl':
    servername      => 'site1.example.com',
    ssl             => true,
    port            => $port_ssl,
    docroot         => $site_root,
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We are planning to move from a proprietary load balancer to HAProxy and we want to avoid creating an additional manifest for every site. Is there a (simple) way to have the HTTPD servers use the information they need from the manifest and have the HAProxy servers use the same manifests with just the information they need?
Additionally, instead of giving HAProxy a list of backend servers, can Puppet make that list based on which systems have this manifest applied? For example, if ourweb::sites::site1_example_com is applied to server1 and server2, but ourweb::sites::site2_example_com is applied to server2 and server3, the HAProxy configuration will contain the correct values for each frontend.

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Research Policies and Guidelines
Author Center > Research Policies and Guidelines
Scientific Misconduct and Breaches of Publication Ethics
Scientific misconduct includes fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism by the authors.
Breaches of publication ethics include failure to reveal financial conflicts of interest; omitting a deserving author or adding a non-contributing author; misrepresenting publication status in the reference list (erroneously claiming that a paper is "in-press"); self-plagiarism without attribution; and duplicate or redundant publication.
Editorial action should be expected in breaches of publication ethics, cases of scientific misconduct, and embargo violations (see Embargo Policy).The Neurology Journals are members of, and subscribe to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Any and all authors submitting a manuscript agree to adhere to the ethical guidelines contained in the Information for Authors, and acknowledges that they are aware of the consequences that may result following breaches of publication ethics. Consequences include notification of the breach in the Journal, retraction of published articles, notification of institutional authorities, subsequent institutional investigation, and loss of privileges of publishing in the Journal.
Redundant or duplicate publication is publication of data, tables, figures, or any other content that substantially overlaps with other material published previously or to be published in the future. This includes work published by others or any author of the manuscript submitted to the Journal. When submitting a paper, the Corresponding Author must make a full statement to the Editor-in-Chief in the cover letter about all submissions and previous reports (in any language) that could be regarded as redundant or duplicate publication of the same or very similar work. The corresponding author is also responsible for alerting the Editor-in-Chief if the work includes subjects about which a previous report has been published or about a manuscript that is under review by, submitted to, in press at, or to be submitted to or published in another journal in the future. Any such work must be referred to and referenced in the new paper and a copy of the material should be included with the submission as a supplemental file. Abstracts presented at scientific meetings (with no press releases and not discussed in detail at a symposium) and data provided as required to clinical trial registries are not considered pre-published material.
Effective July 1, 2018, Neurology Journals will consider articles that are published on preprint servers (e.g., bioRxiv). See Preprints section below.
Plagiarism is the use of others' ideas or words without properly crediting the source. If authors include one or more sentences verbatim from another source, the original source must be cited and the sentence(s) put in quotation marks to avoid plagiarism. Authors must not use materials of others (text, figures, images, tables) without permission and attribution, including their own published work. See Miguel Roig, Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing".
Overlap detection technology has been implemented in the form of iThenticate, a software tool created by CrossRef to check for overlap in submitted manuscripts. iThenticate detects possible plagiarism in text using an extensive database of published materials. Manuscripts with excessive duplication will be rejected. (Wording adapted from Baskin PK and Gross RA, Neurology 2013;80:2-4.)
Editorial action should be expected in cases of scientific misconduct, breaches of publication ethics, and embargo violations (see Embargo Policy). Editorial actions that may be taken include notification of the breach in the Journal, retraction of published articles, notification of institutional authorities, and loss of privileges of publishing in the Journal.
Neurology Journals will consider articles that are published on preprint servers (e.g., bioRxiv). Publication on a preprint server must be disclosed in the cover letter of the submission. Authors will also be prompted on upload to include this information. For example, please list "bioRxiv: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/307788125". If the manuscript is ultimately published, copyright is assigned to the American Academy of Neurology. The copyright licenses assigned to the pre-print and the published version will be mutually independent, so authors should review our Open Access policies related to available license types and potential Article Processing Charges. Finally, if published, the corresponding author is responsible for reporting the publication details to the preprint server administrators.
Full Data Access
Neurology requires clear statements of author participation in industry-sponsored research and corporate activities for evaluation of a manuscript. For industry-sponsored and all other research, Neurology now requires the Principal Author or Guarantor to declare in the Authorship Agreement Form that they take full responsibility for the data, the analyses and interpretation, and the conduct of the research; that they have full access to all of the data; and that they have the right to publish any and all data, separate and apart from the guidance of any sponsor. These statements must also be made in the cover letter.
Data Availability Policy
The Neurology journals have adopted the following data availability (data sharing) policy in an effort to promote data transparency.
Authors must include carefully documented data, methods, and materials in all research articles. Please add the subheading 'Data Availability' at the end of the Methods section with a statement related to the availability of the data. (For clinical trials, please also see additional information on Data Availability in Clinical Trials below).
Data not provided in the article because of space limitations must be made available in a trusted data repository or shared at the request of other investigators for purposes of replicating procedures and results. Authors will be required to include a data availability statement specifying that any data not published within the article is available in a public repository and include digital object identifiers (doi) or accession numbers to the datasets or to state that anonymized data will be shared by request from any qualified investigator. This statement will be published with the article. If data cannot be shared for legal or ethical reasons or if there are embargoes on datasets, authors must inform the editors at submission and explain the restrictions on the dataset or materials.
For more information on data availability, see the editorial "The new Neurology: Redesigns, short articles for print, full articles online, and data availability policies"
Additional information required for data availability for Clinical Trials
Neurology supports the ICMJE requirement that all manuscripts reporting results of clinical trials contain a data sharing statement that indicates whether individual de-identified participant data will be shared; what data will be shared; whether related documents such as study protocol and statistical analysis plan will be shared; when and how long the data will be made available; and criteria for accessing data, including by whom, for what types of analyses, and by what mechanisms.
Open Data Repository
To facilitate full transparency and openness of data, Neurology encourages authors to use a publicly-accessible respository such as Dryad to handle supplementary data. We will require deposit of supplementary data beginning with manuscripts that are invited for revision after March 1, 2018. If deposit is required, information will be provided by the editorial office at revision. We have integrated Dryad deposition into our online peer review system. Please note that there is a nominal charge for deposit but payment will not be initiated until the manuscript is accepted. Waivers exist for submissions from authors based in countries classified by the World Bank as low- or middle-income economies.
Most file formats are accepted in Dryad. Please refer to Dryad FAQs . When you submit data, you will receive a Dryad DOI and temporary passcode, which will be made available to editors and referees. If your manuscript is accepted, the information will be released into the public domain in the Dryad archive under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
With increased length specifications for Articles and Views/Reviews, the journal's goal is to eliminate the use of data supplements (except for videos and PowerPoint slides).
Embargo is the prohibition of releasing findings in a submitted or accepted paper to the public until after the article has been published (either online or in print) for copyright reasons. Prior to publication, authors may not reveal that the paper is under consideration at any Neurology Journal when presenting at other scientific meetings, or release information to the press, and must ensure that other organizations or institutions have been instructed of this policy. Exceptions to the embargo policy can be made at the Editor's discretion for papers presented at AAN Annual Meetings or in situations in which the article describes major medical advances deemed critical to public health. Please note that the Journals cannot guarantee that journal processes will be expedited to meet deadlines for presentation at other meetings. Consequences notification of the breach in the Journal, retraction of published articles, notification of institutional authorities, subsequent institutional investigation, and loss of privileges of publishing in the Journal.
Articles appearing in the print journals, Neurology and Neurology: Clinical Practice, are embargoed for release to the public until 4:00 PM, ET, the day before the Tuesday print publication date. If the full article is chosen to be published online ahead of print publication, the paper and its findings would be embargoed until 4:00 PM, ET, the day of online publication to Neurology (Wednesdays, Fridays) or Neurology: Clinical Practice (Thursdays).
Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation and Neurology: Genetics are online-only and articles are published on a continuous basis; findings are embargoed until 4:00 PM, ET, the day of online publication.
Credentialed representatives of the press may request further information about embargoed Neurology, Neurology: Clinical Practice, Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, and Neurology: Genetics articles, including advance copies of articles and help coordinating interviews with researchers, by contacting the American Academy of Neurology Media and Public Relations Department: Renee Tessman at RTessman@aan.com.
View Post-embargo Press Releases at https://www.aan.com/pressroom/.
Errata/Corrections
Corrections to previously-published articles are considered by Neurology to be errata. Neurology adheres to the National Library of Medicine's policy on errata . To notify staff of a potential error in published material, please contact the Editorial Office.
Neurology has an Ombudsman. Appointed by the American Academy of Neurology Board of Directors, this person acts as a mediator between authors and the Editorial Office. The Ombudsman can investigate editorial process: delays in peer review, challenges to publication ethics, and cases of editorial bias. The Ombudsman will address the editorial process and will not handle complaints about the substance of editorial decisions, criticisms regarding editorial content, or accusations of scientific misconduct. The complainant should contact the Editorial Office first to resolve the problem. If the complaint is not resolved by contacting the Editorial Office, the complainant may contact the Ombudsman: Jonathan W. Mink, MD, PhD, FAAN, Department of Neurology, University of Rochester, e-mail: jonathan_mink@urmc.rochester.edu.
Clinical Trial Guidelines
According to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, a clinical trial is any research project that prospectively assigns people or a group of people to an intervention, with or without concurrent comparison or control groups, to study the relationship between a health-related intervention and a health outcome. Health-related interventions are those used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome; examples include drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, educational programs, dietary interventions, quality improvement interventions, and process-of-care changes. Health outcomes are any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events. The ICMJE does not define the timing of first participant enrollment, but best practice dictates registration by the time of first participant consent.
Authors reporting clinical trials or observational will be prompted at manuscript upoad to indicate the specific author who carried out the biostatistical analysis and the author's academic, governmental, or commercial affiliation.
Due to the growing concerns on the overuse and misinterpretation of P values, replace P values with estimates of effects or association and corresponding 95% confidence intervals unless the protocol or the statistical analysis plan has specified methods to adjust for multiplicity of testing. Hence, a well-designed randomized or observational study will have a primary hypothesis for which a P value < 0.05 can be applied after adjustment for testing multiple endpoints associated with that primary hypothesis. The analysis of all secondary and other endpoints should focus on estimates and 95% confidence intervals. Please see NEJM editorial for detailed information.
In the Results section of the manuscript, the following evidence-based medicine statistics must be included for the manuscript to be forwarded for editorial review:
Numbers needed to treat
Absolute risk reduction
Standard Protocol Approvals, Registrations, and Patient Consents
Humans: In reporting experiments on humans, the authors must indicate in the cover letter and a specific subsection in the Methods (titled "Standard Protocol Approvals, Registrations, and Patient Consents") that the procedures were approved by an ethical standards committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional). Authors must comply with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors with regard to patient consent for research or participation in a study. Do not use study participants' names, initials, or hospital numbers anywhere in the manuscript (including figures). If there was a waiver from your institution's ethical approval board, please note the waiver in this section and provide documentation to the editorial office that waiver was granted.
In addition to the standard patient consent for participation in research, authors are responsible for obtaining patient consent-to-disclose forms for all recognizable participants in photographs, videos, or other information that may be published in the Journal, in derivative works by the AAN, or on the Journal's Web site. The patient consent-to-disclose form should indicate specific use (publication in the medical literature in print and online, with the understanding that participants and the public will have access) of the participant's information and any images in figures or videos and must contain the participant's signature (or that of a legal guardian). Authors must fax (651-454-2748) or email (the Editorial Office) a copy of the patient consent-to-disclose form when the manuscript is submitted. The original should be retained by the guarantor or Corresponding Author.
Animals:Authors must comply with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors with regard to experiments on animals. Authors must indicate in the cover letter and the Methods that the procedures comply with the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals.
Registration of Clinical Trials
The Journals require investigators to register their clinical trials in a public trials registry and to provide the identification of the clinical trial registry and the clinical trial identification number. The National Library of Medicine provides a free registry that meets the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) requirements (Section III.J). Investigators are required to register at or prior to patient enrollment. This policy is effective for any clinical trial beginning enrollment after July 1, 2005. The Journals will not consider retrospectively registered trials for publication. Authors must provide the clinical trial identifier number in the Methods section of the submitted article.
The Food and Drug Administration Amendment Acts of 2007 require mandatory results reporting for clinical trials. (See https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/manage-recs/fdaaa.) Neurology Journals, following the ICMJE policy, will not consider results posted in the same clinical trials registry in which the primary registration resides to be previous publication if the results are presented in the form of a brief, structured (<500 words) abstract or table. The authors should alert the Editor in the cover letter at submission that the review of the manuscript should be accelerated if possible.
Rejected Manuscript Policy
The Editors of the Neurology Journals do not consider manuscripts that they have previously rejected.
Classification of Evidence
Authors submitting articles that report on clinical therapeutic intervention (clinical trial or use of medication, procedure, maneuver, or change in patient environment intended to benefit the patient) or diagnostic accuracy must state in the Abstract and Methods the primary research question(s) and the classification of level of evidence1 assigned to each question based on the latest versions of the AAN classification scheme requirements. Authors of Clinical/Scientific Notes that report on clinical therapeutic intervention studies must also state the primary research question and level of evidence at the end of the manuscript. Authors are expected to initially assign a level of evidence. If the submission is invited for revision, an independent team affiliated with the AAN guidelines committee will review, adjudicate, and assign the level of evidence they deem appropriate and relay to the author with the reviewers' comments. If aspects of the manuscript can be adjusted to raise the level of evidence assignment, the authors should indicate this in the 'Response to Reviewers' when returning the revision. The final level of evidence will be assigned by the guidelines committee team before final publication.
Gross RA, Johnston KC. Levels of evidence: taking Neurology to the next level. Neurology 2009;72:8-10.
NON-OPEN ACCESS ARTICLES: Authors must submit written permission from the copyright owner (usually the publisher) to use direct quotations, tables, or illustrations that have appeared in copyright form elsewhere, along with complete details about the source. Any permissions fees that might be required by the copyright owner are the responsibility of the authors requesting use of the borrowed material, not the responsibility of Wolters Kluwer or the Neurology editorial office. To request permission and/or rights to use content from the Journals, access the Copyright Clearance Center) and enter Neurology in the 'Get Permissions' field in the upper right. Please note: Permission will not be granted to adapt figures that have been previously published in the Journals.
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLES: Authors retain copyright when they opt to publish via the open access option. Papers (including the tables/figures within) with a Creative Commons license CCBY-NC-ND (noncommercial/nonderivative) may be reproduced with permission from the author and must be attributed to the author and the journal. They cannot be reproduced in any way for commercial use. Open access articles published with a CCBY license may be re-used for any purpose (including commercial) without requesting permission from the author or the journal. Content re-use must be attributed to the author and the journal.
Use of Generic and Proprietary Drugs and Devices
At first mention of a drug or device in a manuscript, authors must state the generic name with the proprietary name in parentheses along with the name, city, and state of the manufacturer. In subsequent mentions, the generic name should be used. Clinical/Scientific notes only need to list the generic name unless the paper compares two medications.
Genetic Studies
Authors of genetic association studies must consider whether their results are likely to be considered of sufficient power and interest to warrant publication. The Journals follow the guidelines outlined by authorities in the genetics research field (Neurology 2001 57:1153-1154 and Nature Genetics 2005:1217-1223). Calculations of statistical significance must make appropriate corrections for multiple testing. After such correction, the (experiment-wise) significance level must not exceed 0.01 and should preferably be smaller than that limit. The Journals will not accept articles claiming a new gene has been discovered for a neurologic disease unless an adequately powered verification sample is included with the journal submission.
For standards and guidelines related to the classification of sequence variants, refer to https://www.acmg.net/docs/Standards_Guidelines_for_the_Interpretation_of_Sequence_Variants.pdf. For standards and guidelines related to reporting incidental or secondary findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing, refer to https://www.nature.com/articles/gim2016190.
Methodological information such as primer sequences or PCR conditions should be submitted with the main manuscript as supplemental data .
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) values must be calculated and reported in population genetic studies submitted to the Journals.
NIH-Funded Studies and Public Access
Authors must acknowledge explicitly in the text of their research articles the funding source of the research and, if applicable, their institutional affiliation with the appropriate agency. They must also check the appropriate funding box on the Publication Agreement form if the manuscript reaches provisional acceptance.
Wolters Kluwer (WK), publisher of the Neurology and Neurology: Clinical Practice, will submit an electronic version, on behalf of the authors, of the final published article of any study funded by NIH (or in which any of the authors are funded by NIH) to PubMed Central (PMC) for publication 12 months after print or online publication (whichever is first) in Neurology. The authorization is a non-exclusive license only for the purpose stated in the NIH Public Access Policy. The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) reserves all rights not specifically granted in this non-exclusive license. Further information on the NIH Public Access Policy is available at: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
WK will submit, on behalf of the authors, an electronic version of the final published article of any study funded by Austrian Science Foundation, Canadian Institute for Health Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NIH, and World Bank to PMC within 12 months after print or online publication (whichever is first). (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UKRI [formerly known as RCUK], Swedish Research Council, Telethon Italy, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) [UK] and Wellcome Trust/ COAF Partners authors: Please see open access mandates.) Queries can be sent to customerservice@lww.com; 1-800-638-3030 or 1-301-223-2300 (outside the US).
Depositing in institutional repositories. Neurology will permit authors to deposit their final, published (not the accepted, pre-print) manuscripts in institutional repositories if required by the author's institution or funder.
Forms for the following guidelines if applicable (forms should be included with FIRST submission and if not, will be included in revision requests):
Randomized Controlled Trials. Authors reporting the results of Phase 1, Phase 2, or Phase 3 randomized controlled trials must submit a CONSORT checklist and flow diagram.
Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis. Authors reporting systematic review or meta-analysis of randomized trials must submit the PRISMA statement (previously known as QUORUM).
Diagnostic Accuracy. Authors reporting studies on the accuracy of diagnostic tests must submit the STARD checklist.
Observational Studies. Neurology requires the STROBE checklist for cohort, case-controlled, and cross-sectional studies and all observational studies of humans, as well as case series, pilot studies, genetic linkage studies, and retrospective data collection studies. If the detailed methods are explicitly stated in the manuscript for single-case studies, STROBE is not required. Please make a note on the checklist which page numbers contain the requested information.
Epidemiologic Studies. Neurology requires the STROND checklist to assess the reporting of prevalence and incidence studies of neurologic disorders. Please make a note on the checklist which page numbers contain the requested information.
Genetic Association Studies. Authors reporting genetic association studies must submit the STREGA checklist.
Reporting Adverse Events. In case reports, author should state whether they have reported serious adverse events to the manufacturer, US FDA, or other governmental regulatory agency.
Patient consent form (if applicable).