Medicare certified Home Health Agencies in Illinois are furious over a report CMS posted on its web site on October 5. HHAs in Florida and Texas are not yet furious but are experiencing growing concern. NAHC has already released an official response, in which it criticizes CMS for cherry-picking and manipulating data to make it appear as though the experiment is succeeding when it is not. Read the CMS report here.
What is the real denial rate?
In a document simply titled "Fact Sheet: Pre-Claim Review Demonstration for Home Health Services - Early Data from Illinois," the uncredited author declared that, as of week eight, 66 percent of pre-claim requests are receiving provisionally affirmed or partially affirmed decisions.
"Partially affirmed" means partially denied, wrote NAHC's VP for Legal Affairs, Bill Dombi. "The financial impact of partial affirmations can be significant. For example, if an HHA submits a pre-claim review for a plan of care that would result in a $3000 episode if fully accepted, it can result in a partial affirmation with only $300 of the physician-prescribed services approved. It is crucial to understand specifically what the distribution of full affirmations and partial affirmations is in the PCR data along with an understanding of the financial impact on the claim payment amount as HHAs are incurring the full cost of the services rendered." The CMS document does not include this data. Read the complete NAHC response here.
Dombi expresses dismay that CMS counts these partial affirmations when it declares the overall denial rate is only 34%. CMS said, "This suggests that the home health services in Illinois submitted in pre-claim review requests under the demonstration are meeting Medicare rules and requirements at a higher rate than was measured for services submitted in claims in the 2015 national improper payment rate for home health services (59 percent)."
Dombi countered, "It is also notable that CMS presents the proverbial apples to oranges comparison by noting that the non-affirmation rate is lower than the 2015 national improper payment rate of 59%. The 59% calculation is based on the amount paid for home health services that the CERT evaluation concluded should not be paid. It is the ratio of the total dollar improperly paid to the total dollars paid. The 34% metric in the CMS report is a ratio of total pre-claim submissions to pre-claim submission non-affirmations. These are completely different calculations. What is worse, Dombi's reply adds, even if the non-affirmation rate is only 34%, that translates to $350 million per year in unreimbursed care in Illinois. With average profit margins in single digits, providers cannot withstand such losses. Their only logical survival strategy is to delay care until they receive a pre-claim affirmation. This, he says, will result in physical and financial harm to patients and skyrocketing hospital readmissions, further damaging the health of the Medicare Trust Fund.
How efficient are PGBA reviewers, really?
CMS patted itself on the back with its calculation that decisions are delivered within the proscribed timeline (10 days for first submissions, 20 days for re-submissions) 99 percent of the time. But Dombi reminded CMS that most Illinois providers are holding back most of their pre-claim requests until they have learned from mistakes — both theirs and those of Palmetto GBA — uncovered in early submissions. While the quickly-trained PGBA reviewers are barely keeping up with the volume of work in these first eight weeks, no one know what will happen when Illinois turns loose its full onslaught of an estimated 25,000 review requests per month, nor when Florida and Texas are added to PGBA's workload.
Illinois providers we spoke with, who asked not to be named, wondered aloud which Illinois CMS is talking about, "because it is certainly not the Illinois I live in."
the real denial rate still hovers between 60% and 80%.
each reviewer gives a different answer to the same collection of documents.
although Palmetto is required to respond to pre-claim requests in the same format in which they were submitted, response formats have been random, arriving via Fedex, fax or U.S. mail after having been submitted via the Palmetto electronic portal.
denial reasons for a re-submission are different from the reason for the original non-affirmation.
denials can be based on insufficient documentation but the electronic portal limits the number of pages that can be submitted. If you send the first 50 pages then restart a submission to submit additional pages, reviewers have no way to associate the second set of pages with the first, resulting in two sets of incomplete documents.
How much time does each request really take?
The CMS memo also declares: "the time to complete each submission through the online portal decreased from an average of 12 minutes in Week Two to under 9 minutes in Week Eight. This time does not include the time a provider uses to collect the documentation since providers are required to collect this information whether or not the demonstration is in effect."
"The CMS data is highly misleading. It does not include the extensive time needed to collect the documentation for submission nor does it include the time it takes to review all that documentation for compliance. While CMS is correct in stating that HHAs have the responsibility to collect this documentation, its assemblage, review, and submission is a new requirement under the demonstration project. An HHA study shows that the new functions take nearly one hour of nurse time per pre-claim review submission, not just the 9-12 minutes online."
Susan Platt, owner of Spoon River Home Health in Peoria told us her next steps. "I am going to write and thank all of my congressmen and women for signing on to the letter to CMS. But, I will also add my disgust with CMS and suggest perhaps they need an audit if they can send a report out like that with such false figures."
Our Editorial Position: There must be a 50-state response!
Taking a cue from Ms. Platt, going directly to Congress may be the only hope at this point for HHAs in Illinois, Florida, Texas, Michigan, and Massachusetts. Elected officials do respond when the argument points out that patients are being harmed. However, if CMS is not persuaded by Bill Dombi's fact-filled and thoughtful analysis of their distorted report on pre-claim progress in Illinois, and if they prove immune to pleas from one state's Congressional appeals, there is no doubt that they will proceed full-speed ahead to move from five-state pilot to national rule.
If this is the likely result, every provider in every state has a vested interest in sending a message to their own Congresspersons and Senators. Waiting until this badly executed program arrives in your state will be too late.
First they came for the Illinoisans, and I did not speak out — because I was not in Illinois. Then they came for the Floridians, and I did not speak out — because I was not in Florida. Then they came for the Texans, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Texan. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.


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For those who love dark chocolate and salt. And this is not just any sea salt, it is Fleur de Sel of Guerande in Brittany, France, where salt and butter rule. Sea salt from this region has just a special umami flavor giving any creation a special "je ne sais quoi".
For those who not only love a little savoriness but also a little heat with their chocolate. The Togarashi spices and a popular Japanese spice mix that has chili peppers, sesame seeds, citrus peel, Nori (seaweed) and salt.


The average interest rates charged on mortgages available with a 5% deposit have fallen since the start of the month, according to financial information site Moneyfacts.
It reported that the average two-year fixed rate has dropped from 4.11% at the start of May to 4.06% today. Meanwhile, the average five-year fixed rate has fallen from 4.49% to 4.43%.
As a result, both rates are now lower than they were this time last year, despite bank base rate having risen since then.
Charlotte Nelson, finance expert at Moneyfacts, noted that rates across the board had been increasing in anticipation of a base rate rise in May, which didn't actually take place.
But while the rest of the market has continued on its upward trajectory, rates on higher LTV deals are "forging their own path".
Recent months have seen a swarm of lenders launch deals at 95% LTV, including Barclays, Yorkshire Bank and Sainsbury's.
Back in March, the number of deals available at this LTV topped 300 for the first time since the financial crisis.


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The broadcaster has been embroiled in controversy over its arrangements with freelancers, including presenters.
The BBC has been accused of failing to "fully untangle" the "mess" caused by the use of personal service companies – as it emerged that some 800 presenters are at risk of being challenged over their tax affairs.
Presenters have previously accused the corporation of forcing them to set up special tax vehicles to allow it to avoid paying millions in national insurance contributions.
Many are now being pursued by HMRC for unpaid tax bills, some running into thousands of pounds.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has now published a report on the issue.
It says that some 800 presenters could potentially be asked to pay back tax and suggests that the HMRC is currently investigating around 100 BBC freelance staff.
Meg Hillier MP, chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, said in a statement, following the publication of the report, that more needed to be done to ensure certainty for freelancers working for the BBC .
"The Public Accounts Committee raised concerns about the BBC's use of personal service companies six years ago," she said.
The report states: "By May, the BBC estimated that some 800 presenters, nearly 300 of whom were hired through PSCs, warranted further review as they were at risk of being challenged by HMRC.
The report states that "between April and September 2017 the BBC paid £8.3 million of tax (in advance) to HMRC to avoid any penalty charges for not paying tax that was potentially due.
By June 2018, it was yet to recoup £2.9 million.
But it said that issues relating to the BBC's relationship with its freelancers remain unresolved and may have financial implications for the corporation.
An HMRC spokesman said: "Presenters are now increasingly paying the right tax and most do.
The BBC has approached HMRC to discuss the possibility of an alternative approach to resolving historical cases, it said.
A BBC spokesman said: "As the NAO recognises, personal service companies are a legitimate way of contracting for services used by many across the media industry.
"However, determining whether an individual is employed for tax purposes is complex and in managing this we have always sought to balance the interests of our workforce and the licence fee payer.


As new survey data from staffing firm OfficeTeam finds, among 300-plus senior managers, eye contact during an interview was actually the most telling non-verbal cue about a job candidate.
Appropriate facial expressions and good posture also topped the list — but fidgeting and hand gestures weren't as important (so maybe focus more on looking your interviewer in the eye rather than what to do with your hands).
Overall, positive body language might be more important than you'd think. The managers reported that 30% of candidates displayed negative body language during interviews, which could hurt their job prospects — and the changing way in which we communicate could be partly to blame.
"As we get more and more into email and texting, the art of interpersonal communication is diminishing," said Daryl Pigat, a division director for OfficeTeam, to MarketWatch.
This might make you rethink how you practice for your next job interview. Rehearsing for your new role ahead of time can help you ace the performance. But phoning a friend to perfect your lines might not be enough — meeting in-person to go through a trial round or doing a video call with someone you trust might help you better understand what non-verbal cues you're giving off.
So while you put the finishing touches on your elevator pitch, don't forget what you say is important — but how you say it is, too.


In the Merry, Merry Month of… April?
I've had my head buried in grad school this month but I also have some super-fun news: the editing and cover design for are done and I'm waiting on Smashwords and Amazon to look them over. If everything is successfully vetted then I'll officially make it available this weekend and it will get pushed out to Nook/iBooks/etc. in the next week or so.
My current plan is to set the price of Perishables to $0.99 US and offer Tooth & Nail at $3.99 US. It's a substantially longer book – roughly 85K words as opposed to Perishables' ~55K – but I don't want to nearly double the price by going to $4.99. That price simply feels too high and if my experiments last year have taught me anything it's that pricing is at best an intuitive art: science has no place in it.
In the meantime, I'm working on short stories to submit to two different anthologies.
One is a "theme-thology" in which every story must have invasion as a theme. For that I'm writing a vampire short story set in World War II titled "The Several Monsters of Sainte-Sara-La-Noire". I should be wrapping up the first draft of that one this weekend and submitting it in the next week or two.
The other is for an anthology of vampire stories being published by Sekhmet Press, an independent publisher in the Asheville, NC, area. I'm going to submit a short story titled "Daddy Used to Drink Too Much". I'm feeling a strong 1930's Depression-/Prohibition-era mountain setting for that one. The details aren't all worked out but I've got the concept and I want a setting that reflects the bleak emotions on stage at the outset.
Does this make me a guy who writes vampire stories? I guess so, and I am A-OK with that; so is my inner 7th grader, who has perpetually just finished Dracula for the first time and whose mind has been totally blown. Today I sent a friend request to one of my favorite vampire writers, P.N. Elrod, and it was accepted. Oh, Facebook: sometimes you do sincerely thrill me with fanboy shivers!


Air Atlanta Icelandic is an Icelandic airline founded in 1986 by Captain Arngrimur Johannsson and his wife, Thora Gudmundsdottir.
From the beginning, the company has focused on providing ACMI (Wet Lease) and aircraft charter services to the passenger and cargo market worldwide.
Throughout the years, Air Atlanta Icelandic has established a large and diverse customer base of airlines, tour operators, charter brokers, governments and various non-profit organizations.
Air Atlanta Icelandic operated its first Hajj flight in 1988 and has since evolved to become the largest ACMI Hajj operator in the world.
Historically, Air Atlanta Icelandic has operated a wide range of aircraft types in the narrowbody and widebody range, both passenger and cargo. Air Atlanta Icelandic currently specializes in Boeing 747-400 aircraft. Other aircraft operated by the company are Boeing 747-300, Airbus 340 and Airbus 330.
Air Atlanta Icelandic employs a multicultural workforce of more than 1,000 employees and contractors, counting more than 50 nationalities. Flight deck and cabin crew form the largest group of the workforce, with maintenance and operations experts making up the majority of ground staff. Head Quarters are based in Iceland, but the company sets up operation bases and maintenance line stations all over the world to support its global flight operation.
Air Atlanta Icelandic holds an Icelandic AOC (air operator certificate) issued by the Icelandic Transport Authority, fulfilling the requirements of JAR OPS 1 / EU OPS and PART M and EU – regulation 2407/92. The company further holds Air Operator approval from the US Department of Transport, Canadian Transportation Agency and Australian Government. The company became IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) qualified in 2011, but the IOSA program is an internationally recognized and accepted evaluation system designed to assess the operational management and control systems of an airline.
We are proud to have a highly-experienced management team, who all have extensive airline operational knowhow. The management team is made up of highly competent personnel whose main focus is to deliver superior service and assist the company's worldwide customers with their ever-changing needs.
The work force of Air Atlanta Icelandic is truly global as it is comprised of more than 50 nationalities. Flight deck and cabin crew form the largest group of the workforce, with maintenance and operations experts making up the majority of our ground staff. We have developed a core team of experienced people who can act flexibly and quickly set up an operation at short notice anywhere in the world. Air Atlanta Icelandic's employees are required to work within the airline customer's operational environment and national culture, adapting procedures and techniques to the customer's specific needs.
Air Atlanta Icelandic is a privately-owned company. The current ownership rests with four members of its senior management team, who purchased the company through a management buy-out in December 2007.
Our headquarters are based in Hlidasmari 3, Kopavogur, Iceland, just south of the country's capital of Reykjavik. Approximately 100 employees and 24-hour operation centre are located at the company's headquarters, but all flights are operated out of the customer operational bases worldwide.


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Amal Clooney had some special advice for a Galway law student
Amal Clooney is a renowned human rights lawyer and pretty much an all-round inspiration for many young women around the world.
This week she shared some of her legal wisdom with one lucky law student from Galway.
Loughrea native Catrina Chahin was lucky enough to meet her idol at the September session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The 23-year old has just finished her masters in International Human Rights Law at NUIG.
Amal was on hand to give a talk on fair trial rights and issues surround judicial accountability.
Catrina said that she had a chance to witness first-hand how Amal takes the time to speak with young lawyers about their goals. She told UTV Ireland:
"I was asking her how to best go about practicing law in the international sphere and she was just saying to be determined and don't be deterred by statistics which obviously make it seem very difficult."
Catriona wants to go on and practice law internationally and was looking for some guidance. Amal told her not to be deterred by the statistics which make it seem so difficult.
"She recommend that I qualify as a lawyer, solicitor or barrister, while I'm still in the academic mind-set basically and then I can always go back to working for NGOs."
While it may seem that Amal, who specialises in public international law, international law and human rights was someone who had her sights set on success from a young age, Catriona says it was the opposite.
"She told me that when she finished university she never had a 10 year plan and that you never know what opportunities will arise."
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Acupuncture has been shown to effectively lower blood pressure and treat heart disease by working on the natural chemicals known as endorphins, researchers reported Thursday.
Tests on cats showed the 3,000-year-old technique has clear physical effects on the endorphin system, often called the body's natural opiate system because of the way it regulates muscle function and pain.
"By finding out how acupuncture uses this system to regulate cardiovascular function, we will gain a better understanding of how the technique eventually can be used on some patients to treat high blood pressure and heart disease," said study leader Dr. John Longhurst of the University of California Irvine, in a statement.
Longhurst, working with Dr. Li Peng of Shanghai Medical University in China, found that injections of naloxone, a drug that interferes with the endorphin system, blocked the ability of acupuncture to lower blood pressure in cats.
A 1997 report on acupuncture by the National Institutes of Health supported that finding. It said that this formed a basis for believing the technique, which uses needles to stimulate unknown systems in the body, can work.
According to the NIH report, there is evidence that acupuncture can relieve nausea and certain other symptoms, but it did not mention blood pressure.
Longhurst and Li used a chemical known as bradykinin, which is released naturally in response to infections, to raise the blood pressure of the cats.
Acupuncture interfered with the ability of bradykinin to raise blood pressure, but when naloxone was added to the mix, blood pressure went up again.
"Endorphins have been known to help the body prevent heart disease, but we've never seen how they can be affected by acupuncture," said Longhurst, whose findings are reported in the American Journal of Physiology.


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New emirates: Ganduje appoints Bayero's son, three others as emirs
By Olaotan Falade On May 11, 2019
…as court stops government from implementing new emirates, appointments
A High Court sitting in Kano yesterday issued an order against the appointment of four new emirs in the ancient city.
The ruling, however, coincided with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje's appointment of Aminu Ado Bayero, son of the late Emir of Kano Ado Bayero, and three others as new emirs.
Ruling in an ex parte motion dated May 10, 2019 and filed by Hon. Sule Gwarzo, Justice Nasiru Saminu restrained Ganduje, the Kano State House of Assembly and the Speaker, Clerk of the Assembly, the Attorney-General and the State from implementing the division of Kano into five emirates.
In an order of interim injunction, the court directed all the parties in the suit to maintain the status quo, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
Governor Ganduje had signed a law on Wednesday, which created four additional emirates, a move that was widely viewed as an effort to reduce Emir Sanusi's influence.
The order directed the defendants/respondents to halt the publication and release of the law accented on May 8, 2019, namely: Kano State Emir's (Appointment and Deposition), (Amendment), Law, 2019 (1440 AH), pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
It reads: "An order of interim injunction, retraining the Defendants/Respondents from taking steps or giving effect to the Kano State Emir's (Appointment and Deposition) (Amendment) law, 2019 (1440 AH), pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
"It also restrained the 4th Defendant/Respondent from appointing or recognising any purported Emir under Kano State Emir's (Appointment and Deposition) (Amendment) law, 2019 (1440 AH), pending hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
"It further restrained the 4th Defendant from giving a staff of office or appointing anyone whatsoever as Emir of Gaya Emirate, Bichi Emirate, Rano Emirate and Karaye Emirate, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
"And such further or other orders, as this Honourable Court may deem just to make in the circumstances.
"The matter has been adjourned to May 15, 2019 for hearing on motion on notice."
But in an announcement on radio stations in Kano yesterday, Ganduje was reported to have appointed three other emirs for Gaya, Rano and Karaye emirates, in addition to Bayero.
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Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir Gaya was appointed as the Emir of Gaya. The Emir of Rano is Alhaji Tafida Abubakar Ila, while the Emir of Karaye is Dr. Alhaji Ibrahim Abukakar ll.
All four emirs have been elevated to First Class status, the same rank as Sanusi.
The new monarchs according to reports will be officially turbaned today at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kofar Mata, Kano, where the governor is expected to present letters and staffs of office to the four new emirs during the event.
Speaking with State House correspondents in Abuja yesterday, Governor Ganduje said the creation of the four new emirates is not meant to settle any personal vendetta.
He recalled that the bill that created the new emirates was passed and transmitted to him by the state's House of Assembly.
Ganduje noted that constitutionally, the emir is answerable to the Local Government Authority.
He said the people of Kano State are happy with the creation of more emirates in the state.
Reminded that his action might have rubbished over 800 years of Kano history for personal vendetta, he said: "Well, they are entitled to their own opinion. But we are taking Kano to the next level and we need active participation of the traditional system, especially in the areas of education, security, agriculture.
"We need the effectiveness of the traditional rulers. By discentralising it, we are following history.
"Years back, even before the 800 years you are referring to, the situation was not like that.
"So, if something developed 800 years ago, things are also developing now and there will be another 800 years. So, look at the history.
"So, it is not vendetta. I am not against him. In fact, he is supposed to be reporting to the local government chairman, according to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
"It is the local government chairman that is supposed to discuss issues with him, not the governor.
"So, this is celebrated by the people of Kano and we will make sure that the new Emirate councils are effective in terms of developing Kano State."
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Q: gnuplot data file with open or close parenthesis / parentheses "(" or ")" : "Skipping" warning / "x range is invalid" I would like to read output from a python script that has parentheses and also commas (see below) directly into gnuplot. The error message is given below. Although it works, I would like to avoid pre-processing the output with the usual GNU/Linux tools (sed,awk etc.).
The output is from a python script (obtained on SO, link provided if needed) that is modified to make less editing. One example full line of the output is given below :
QuadraticBezier (106.774, 78.855)

There is a longer .dat file with similar lines that will plot nicely in gnuplot with this command (also obtained on SO - ask for link if needed):
plot "input.dat" using ($3):($2):2 w l, "input.dat" u 3:2

the gnuplot error message includes a ^ :
         warning: Skipping data file with no valid points
         warning: Skipping data file with no valid points
                                                                  ^
         x range is invalid

If I reduce the file down by hand - removing all (, ), and , to :
QuadraticBezier 106.774 78.855

the plot works (image provided if needed).
... otherwise I edit the ( ) out to avoid trouble in gnuplot. It seems the , is not the problem - and I am read help datafile section on separator, so I tried set datafile separator "()", and the using section, and while gnulplot treats the characters separating the variables quite well, the case I describe above has special characters stuck onto the variables. I could continue pursuing this but it will help to know if this will not work, etc.
gnuplot version 5.4 patchlevel 2
Ubuntu Linux 22.04.2
SO post showing a lot more about the python script output.

A: If you have the following data format:
QuadraticBezier (106.774, 78.855)

and you want to extract and plot the two numbers, you need to define:
set datafile separator '(,)'

The closing parenthesis might be skipped.
If you don't separate at the comma, the second column will be interpreted as 106.774, 78.855 which leads to a floating point number of 106.774 and the 3rd column will be empty after the closing parenthesis.
Script:
### datafile separators
reset session

$Data <<EOD
QuadraticBezier (106.774, 78.855)
QuadraticBezier (222.222, 66.666)
QuadraticBezier (333.333, 55.555)
QuadraticBezier (444.444, 44.444)
EOD

set datafile separator "(,)"

plot $Data u 3:2 w lp pt 7
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The Coleg at your University Swansea University
Branch Officer: Lois Griffiths
At Swansea University, we aim to ensure that students get the best of both worlds: a Welsh language experience in a university with multicultural and international links.
Swansea University's branch of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol is located at Academi Hywel Teifi. Its main aim is to provide students with assistance and support to study and socialise through the medium of Welsh.
As a new student, you will receive an invitation to a Welsh medium welcome event during freshers' week, which will give you an opportunity to get to know branch officers and Swansea University's Welsh medium lecturers.
The University has over 25 courses that are eligible for the Coleg's Main Scholarship, and over 40 courses eligible for Incentive Scholarships. The University continues to develop Welsh language provision in order to give students more choice when studying here.
The branch arranges all kinds of activities during the year, including events for schools, welcome events for freshers, events for Welsh-speaking students, formal meetings, discussion forums, gigs and much more!
Accommodation is allocated for students who wish to live with other Welsh-speaking students at Penmaen Hall. There is also a Welsh language society that provides opportunities to socialise with other Welsh speakers at the University.
Please contact the Swansea University branch for more information: abertawe@colegcymraeg.ac.uk / @cangen_abertawe
Student Opinion
"I decided to study Welsh at Swansea because of Academi Hywel Teifi, the friendly staff and the general support for Welsh-speaking students. Having all the Welsh language stuff under one roof is so convenient. And with the beach less than a minute from the campus, Swansea is the ideal place for learning and leisure."
Lewys Arón, Welsh, Swansea University


Cara teaches an embodied and strength-based Vinyasa flow practice. She is certified to teach Prana Flow® Pre-natal and is completing her 300 hour certification in Prana Flow® with Shiva Rea. She has her 200hr RYT certification through Sun-Moon Yoga in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has experience teaching modified and restorative yoga for injury recovery. Cara grew up in Los Angeles and fell in love with yoga in 2000. She currently lives in San Francisco with her dog, Pigeon. She incorporates practices of Thai Massage and Acro-yoga as well. Cara is inspired daily by the importance and relevance of yoga in contemporary life. Yoga has been an awakening to life in the present moment--seeking joy and contentment in every moment. Some of her inspiration comes from working with great teachers such as Shiva Rea, Erich Schiffman, Simon Park, Annie Carpenter, Alex Holmes, Jo Horn and others. Cara is also proud to be a part of the Manduka Ambassador program.


Jumore Global reports, April 24, 2018, that according to a Feb. 27 report released by the International Energy Agency, the U.S. is expected to replace Russia as the world's top oil producer by 2019. IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said the U.S, will overtake Russia as the biggest crude oil producer "definitely next year," if not this year. America's shale oil boom is exerting profound impact on the global oil market.
According to U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. oil output would exceed 11 million barrels per day (bpd) by late 2018.
But it's not just the oil. US gas industry is also set to embrace the biggest increase of production has ever seen over the next few years. The IEA forecasts that the U.S. is also on its way to become the No. 1 exporter of liquefied natural gas, because of the growing demand from China, India, and Southeast Asia.
As the earlier forecasted by Energy Department, America is set to become a net energy export country by 2022, which will be the first year since 1953 that U.S. energy exports surpass imports.


In rent stabilized apartments, a landlord must give the tenant 90-150(Ninety to One Hundred Fifty) days notice prior to the expiration of the tenant's lease in addition to a thirty (30) day notice of termination (both of which may be combined) of the landlord's intention not to renew the tenant's lease based on the alleged non-primary residence of tenant.
In all Non-Primary Residence proceedings, landlords seek to evict their rent regulated tenant based on the allegation that the tenant does not occupy the apartment in question as that tenant's primary residence.
Where the tenant actually sleeps.
Where the tenant actually works.
If the tenant is married where does the tenant's wife reside.
Where do the tenant's children attend school?
Address on the tenant's tax returns.
Did the tenant pay New York City and State Residency Taxes?
Address on Tenant's Drivers License.
Address on Tenant's automobile registrations.
Address on health club memberships.
Address on credit card bills.
Location of credit card purchases.
Other residences owned by tenant and/or tenant's spouse or life partner.
Jury duty service and locations.
Voter's Registration location and voting record.
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I was going to go be social with Amythest today. Woke up this morning and had exactly 0 tentacles for leaving the house. I'm trying to see if I can find some, but I really think I'll just be staying here at home.
Weird dreams again, including my agnate sibling. Something about moving, so double odd. I also dreamed more stuff that's from a city in my dreams, same place that the ur-Bookstore is in, but this is a major subway/train station, with a hub that has a lot of small shops in it. So I guess I'll be dreaming about the theater district next. Yeah, I dream about this place a lot. I wonder if I'll end up going somewhere and go 'Oh holy crap, this is that dream!'. Which, if it has the ur-Bookstore, may mean I'll finally move. My luck, it's Unknown Kadath, and Nyarlathotep will be there to mock me.
Finished one book and one serial story last night. So much Mythos. And I have much more to read. Some group funded books came in, including a collection of stories based on the writing of Ramsey Campbell, one of my favorite authors. So that should be a lot of fun. As I said yesterday, I need to do some reviews. Maybe I can knock out a few today.
Not much else, work this week should be busy. I know I'm spending a few hours tomorrow dealing with telco stuff. I'm thinking I may work from home one day so I can sit down and focus on one project from the comfort of Château Innsmouth. We'll see, I'd like to do it Friday, so I can work til late if I get into a groove, but we already have one admin on PTO that day. We'll see what the boss thinks. Ok, that's enough ramble for today. Catch everyone later. Oh yeah, enjoy your Superb Owls.
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Ritrattista e studioso di elettricità inglese, fu autore di diversi trattati di elettricità e fece importanti esperienze sulle bottiglie di Leida, sulle proprietà elettriche della tormalina e sui parafulmini. Membro della Royal Society, si oppose alle teorie frankliniane dell'elettricità e sostenne, contrariamente allo scienziato americano, che i parafulmini a punta erano meno efficaci di quelli terminanti a sfera. La diatriba assunse anche colorazioni politiche per la crisi allora in corso fra la Gran Bretagna e le colonie americane: Benjamin Franklin, che sosteneva l'efficacia del conduttore a punta, era anche lo statista più importante delle colonie americane ribelli e come tale inviso al sovrano inglese Giorgio III.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Scheda sull'apparecchio per dimostrare le proprietà dei parafulmini sul sito del Museo Galileo.

GLAM/Museo Galileo


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Graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging changes perceptions
Smokers in a randomized clinical trial were more likely to recognize the negative consequences of tobacco and consider quitting
image: Participants were randomized to receive their cigarettes in one of three pack designs: a blank pack, a standard commercially available U.S. pack, or a package with a graphic warning label used on cigarette packs in Australia (under license from the Australian government). view more
Credit: Commonwealth of Australia
Purchase a pack of cigarettes in Australia and be prepared to be accosted with graphic warning labels depicting the dangers of tobacco use — including images of gangrene of the foot, a newborn with a breathing tube and throat cancer.
"Graphic warning labels are used in more than 120 countries to counter marketing that promotes cigarette smoking. We wanted to know what effect such cigarette packaging would have on United States smokers," said David Strong, professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego.
Graphic warning labels were mandated by the United States Congress in 2009 but implementation has been stopped pending the outcome of legal challenges to the law by the tobacco industry.
In a paper published online in JAMA Network Open on Aug. 4, 2021, Strong and colleagues at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, California State University San Marcos, San Diego County Public Health Services, and San Diego State University, demonstrated that graphic warning labels are effective reminders of the negative health consequences of smoking.
"Graphic warning labels caused daily smokers in the United States to perceive cigarettes to be less positive and it increased their concerns about the health effects of smoking on both themselves and their loved ones," said corresponding-author John P. Pierce, Distinguished Professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health.
The study manufactured special cigarette packs that incorporated the graphic warning labels used on cigarette packs in Australia (under license from the Australian government). Study participants were 357 smokers living in San Diego who agreed to purchase their preferred brand of cigarettes from a study website. Participants were randomized to receive their cigarettes in one of three pack designs: in package with a graphic warning label, with a blank pack, or in a standard commercially available U.S. pack.
During the study, participants were queried by interactive text messaging about concerns over health risks and about their perceptions of the most recent cigarettes that they smoked. Changes in consumption and smoking status were assessed at the end of the three-month intervention.
Participants who received cigarettes in the standard pack or a blank pack had no change in their positive perceptions of their cigarettes, while smokers randomized to the graphic warning label arm perceived their cigarettes less favorably. Health concerns increased in all three groups, likely due to the intervention that made them think about health consequences more often, said the study authors.
"While these labels make smokers more likely to think about quitting, it did not make them more likely to make a serious quit attempt, nor was it sufficient to help them quit their nicotine addiction. Thus, graphic warning labels are an integral component of tobacco control strategies but they are only one tool for governments to reduce the societal costs from the death and disease caused by tobacco smoking," said senior-author Karen Messer, professor of biostatistics at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health.
Co-authors include: Minya Pu, Matthew D. Stone, Eric C. Leas, Jesica Oratowski, Elizabeth Brighton, Samantha Hurst, Sheila Kealey, and Ruifeng Chen, all of UC San Diego; Kim Pulvers, CSU San Marcos, Adriana Villaseñor, San Diego County Public Health Services; and Claudiu V. Dimofte, San Diego State University.
This research was funded, in part, by the National Cancer Institute (RO1 CA190347, RO1 CA234539) and Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program grant (28DT-0005).
Disclosures: Strong reported receiving grants from the National Institutes of Health during the study. Leas reported receiving grants from the National Cancer Institute during the study.
10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.21387
Randomized controlled/clinical trial
Effect of Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarette Packs on US Smokers' Cognitions and Smoking Behavior After 3 Months
4-Aug-2021
COI Statement
Strong reported receiving grants from the National Institutes of Health during the study. Leas reported receiving grants from the National Cancer Institute during the study.
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// Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE in the project root for license information.

#nullable disable

namespace StyleCop.Analyzers.Lightup
{
    using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp;

    internal partial struct PositionalPatternClauseSyntaxWrapper : ISyntaxWrapper<CSharpSyntaxNode>
    {
        public PositionalPatternClauseSyntaxWrapper AddSubpatterns(params SubpatternSyntaxWrapper[] items)
        {
            return new PositionalPatternClauseSyntaxWrapper(this.WithSubpatterns(this.Subpatterns.AddRange(items)));
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Q: Mapping route to another route in Laravel I am developing an application in the Laravel 5.2 which must have a friendly URL-s. This is not problem with the regular way, where the {slug} wildcard is handled by a controller but I want to make it in a different way.
For now I have only two controllers:

*

*ProductsController@show to show details product

*CategoriesController@show to show selected category with listing products which are assigned to it

And routes:
Route::get('product/{product}', 'ProductsCategory@show')->name('product.show');
Route::get('category/{category}', 'CategoriesController@show')->name('category.show');

So when I want to echo a just use route('product.show', compact('product'))
Nothing special until I want to handle different URL-s which are fetched from a database. I thought it will be possible to make an another routes which are assigned to existing and when I use a route(...) helper it will be handled automatically. But it is not. So for example I have a new URL:
domain.com/new-url-for-product.html

so by route it should be assigned to the regular 'product.show' route with some ID, which is handled by route model binder for {product} wildcard. The same for route(..) helper it should print friendly URL-s.
I don't know if my strategy is good. How do you handle with the similar problems?

A: of course route will handle this automatically. have a look into this. I am just giving you example, you have to set this code as per your need.
route('product.show', 'product'=>'new-url-for-product.html');

will generate this

domain.com/new-url-for-product.html

route('product.show', 'product'=>'new-url2-for-product.html');

will generate this URL

domain.com/new-url2-for-product.html

and so on, and then you have to handle all this in your controller method.
eg: your controller method for this route is ProductsCategory@show which is
public function show($product){
 if($product == 'new-url-for-product.html'){
  //perform this
 }

 if($product == 'new-url2-for-product.html'){
  //perform this
 }
}

this just an example, you have to map this according to your need
Edited Here is the example I tested it
Route::get('/product/{product}.html', ['as'=>'product.show', 'uses'=>'ProductsCategory@show']);