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CQC to examine NHS hospitals' efficient use of resources
Staff burnout could derail the NHS's drive for efficiency
CCGs flawed because of multiple accountability
Staffing and accountability key parts of NHS shake-up
Accountable care organisations
CCGs to be compared using 'traffic-light' metrics
Health secretary reveals plan for new way of holding commissioners accountable for care
Jeremy Hunt has told delegates at the NHS Confederation's annual conference that he wants to bring the same transparency, efficiency and accountability to the commissioning of health care, as to the provision of health care. The health secretary proposed a 'traffic light' system of rating clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that he said should help the NHS to become the 'world's largest learning organisation'.
He said that the Government could 'help' those working in the NHS by changing the way that NHS performance data are published, to reduce the current level of inconsistency between reporting of, for example, A&E figures and cancer waiting times, and for safety data to be included.
But he also revealed to delegates: "I have asked The King's Fund's Chris Ham to help myself and NHS England to develop some transparent metrics that look at the provision of health care in every part of the country, as the proper and correct way of holding CCGs accountable for the way they deliver health care."
He said the intention was to look at global best practice, and models used in Sweden, the US and elsewhere, to move "one step closer to true outcomes-based assessment", with a patient-focused approach to examining healthcare economies.
He proposed a 'traffic-light' system of looking at CCGs' performance right across their commissioning of all health care, including co-commissioning of social and primary care and specialist commissioning, 'through the lens of five key patient groups' – older people, people with long-term conditions, people with mental health conditions, mums and children and the generally healthy. He said they would look at access; quality, including clinical outcomes and safety; and prevention.
These factors would then be weighted, and CCGs given ratings so that the quality of care that they commission could be compared with that in other CCGs nearby and across the country.
Mr Hunt argued that although the quality of care is determined by providers, nevertheless, "in the end the CCG holds the chequebook so they are responsible for making it work."
He said that if this could be achieved it would "make this country one of the first in the world to try to understand the quality of whole-patient care of an entire patient pathway – primary, secondary and social care" and enable us to see where it is and isn't working well.
He explained that CCGs awarded 'lots of green ticks and lots of blue OKs' would be able to be left alone, but said: "On behalf of patients we have a responsibility to step in if we have persistent failure that is not being addressed" – which, in his presentation, was denoted by a red exclamation mark symbol.
Assessment would also include a metric for resilience – for example, how well prepared CCGs were for seasonal variations in the demand for emergency and urgent care – and another for 'transformation', which referred to planning for changes over the next, say, 3-5 years.
Mr Hunt said: "I want to stress that this [proposal] is a way that we can move beyond targets as a way of driving change in the NHS, to transparency, to peer review and to becoming the world's largest learning organisation as the real way that we drive up quality. And if we can do that, that will be transformational for the NHS."
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Q: Show that $e^A$ is normal whenever $A$ is normal for $A\in\mathcal{M}_{n\times n}(\mathbb{R})$
Show that $e^A$ is normal whenever $A$ is normal for $A\in\mathcal{M}_{n\times n}(\mathbb{R})$

Suppose that $A$ is normal so that $AA^*=A^*A$. We wish to show that $e^A$ is normal, i.e. we wish to show that
$$\sum_{j=0}^\infty \dfrac{A^j}{j!}$$
is normal. I am having trouble even figuring out where to begin on this proof. Any help would be appreciated.

A: One approach: If $A$ is diagonalized by the unitary $U$, then so is $\exp(A)$.
Or if you want to do it directly:
$$\exp(A^*) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty (A^*)^n/n! = \exp(A)^*$$
and each term here commutes with each term in $\exp(A)$.

A: $e^A (e^A)^* = \sum_i \sum_j {1 \over i!} {1 \over j!} A^i (A^j)^* = \sum_i \sum_j {1 \over i!} {1 \over j!}  (A^j)^* A^i = (e^A)^* e^A $.
A marginally different approach:
More generally, if $[A,B] = 0$ then $e^A e^B = e^{A+B}$ and so $e^A$ and $e^B$
commute.
Since $(e^A)^* = e^{A^*}$, and $[A,A^*] = 0$ we get the desired result.

A: Let $m_A(x) = (x-\lambda_1)\cdots(x-\lambda_k)$ be the minimal polynomial of $A$.
For any analytic function $f$ we have
$$f(A) = f(\lambda_1)P_1 + \cdots + f(\lambda_k)P_k$$
for some fixed matrices $P_1, \ldots, P_k$. Plugging in $f(x) = \prod_{j \ne i}(x - \lambda_i)$ we get $$P_i = \prod_{j \ne i} \frac{A-\lambda_j I}{\lambda_i - \lambda_j}$$
so for $f(x) = \exp x$ we get $$\exp A = e^{\lambda_1}\left(\prod_{j \ne 1} \frac{A-\lambda_j I}{\lambda_i - \lambda_j}\right) + \cdots + e^{\lambda_k}\left(\prod_{j \ne k} \frac{A-\lambda_j I}{\lambda_i - \lambda_j}\right)$$
In particular, $\exp A$ is a polynomial in $A$, so it is normal because polynomials of normal matrices are normal.

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Diagnosed with cancer twice, given three months to live and spending a year in a coma would be enough for anyone to cope with. But not Sean Swarner.
He is an inspiration to speakers who are hoping to achieve more than just inspire their audiences, but literally save their lives!
The amazing thing about speaking is that it isn't just something people do to brag about themselves. Speeches help people when they have no hope left.
Finding inspiration for your speech doesn't come out of a textbook, but real life experiences, and no matter what difficulties you've been faced with, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
And the amazing Sean Swarner, who has been through more than anyone could ever comprehend, shares with us what that light is.
Hi Sean, it's so great to speak with you. Can you please tell us a little about the main topics you cover in your speeches?
I've accomplished what most thought would be impossible.
My mindset, perspective, and how I see the world is completely different than anyone else because of my history (being read my last rites, and climbing Mt. Everest with one lung).
I speak on a number of topics, but everything comes down to perspective and how people see their world, goals, and other areas of life – tailoring my presentations to be unique for the event and people listening, to help guide them to the best perspective on their specific goal.
Do you have a goal in mind when you're speaking?
It's to make the audience re-think the word "impossible" and to change their perspective on what they can achieve.
What makes you different from any other speaker?
I'm the only person in the world who's accomplished what I have, and am fortunate enough to have created a way of connecting with people on an emotional and direct level, for immediate and life-lasting changes/benefits.
What inspired you to take this career?
When I was a teenager, I battled through two life-threatening cancers and was at one point read my last rites and told I only had 14 days to live.
I had nothing to hold onto and nothing to live for, but I found hope.
The human body can live for about 30 days without food. The human condition can sustain itself for roughly 3 days without water, but no human alive can live for more than 30 seconds without hope.
I wanted to give and help people with something I never had… hope.
What was your latest presentation and how was the experience?
Although I've spoken to and helped companies like IBM, Dow Chemical, Unilever, and have been told it was the best presentation they've ever seen, my last talk was to a group of High School kids – and it was fantastic!
The teachers said they had never seen their students that engaged and quiet before. Earlier in the day, I surprised a 3rd grade class down the road with a visit.
Last year I had a Skype call with them after I returned from the South Pole, and their teacher said they haven't stopped talking about it since. I worked with the teacher and surprised the kids.
The looks on their faces were priceless.
Do you think it's important to continuously grow as a speaker?
We have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Everyone on earth has a story to tell, and you can learn something from everyone.
Live, Love, Laugh, Learn, Lead by example. Five 'L-words' that include the word 'learn' because we should always continue learning throughout life to reach our life-purpose.
Have you ever had someone approach you and say that you've had an impact on their life?
This story gives me the chills every time I tell it. Often times when people are going through life, they question what they're doing, why they're doing it, and if they should continue.
I'm no different. Whenever these questions begin creeping into my mind, I think about a lady who came up to me after a talk. She was next in the queue, and I could tell she had been crying because her eyes were bloodshot and her mascara had run down her face.
When she came up to me, she latched herself onto me, buried her face into my chest, and started crying again. It took all the strength I had to hold back my tears. Eventually she told me that in the past 5 months she had lost her son to cancer, her husband died as well, and she was diagnosed for the third time with the disease.
She went to the conference knowing she wasn't going to go home and actually had a suicide note written in her room. That day, she was going to kill herself. She looked me in the eyes, tears flowing down her face and thanked me for saving her life.
Do you think you need to go through 'tough' life experiences in order to inspire and motivate others?
I think to fully understand what I've been through, and why I do what I do, yes. However, those 'tough' experiences don't necessarily have to be two cancers.
As I initially said, life is all about perspective and how you see the world. For me, my 'Everest' was truly that… Mt. Everest. For some people, it could be walking around the block. It could be getting the motivation to get out of bed. It is all personal experience and based on perspective.
I didn't go from the hospital bed and a coma for a year to the top of Mt. Everest. My first goal was to move from the hospital bed to the bathroom so I wouldn't soil the sheets.
After that, it was to move around the nurses' station in a wheelchair. The next step was to shuffle on my own two feet. But how I see things is different because even before I begin, in my mind's eye, I start successful.
By doing so, any frustration that would normally make me quit, only slows me down, because I'm already there.
If your role is to motivate others, who/what motivates you?
I hope my life, words, and actions motivate others because those others are who motivate me. Everyone who has struggles. Everyone who has difficulties. Everyone going through a hard time… they don't have a choice.
People fighting for their lives can't quit and turn around. Climbing the highest mountain on every continent, completing the world's most difficult race (the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon), trekking across Antarctica to the South pole… I always have a choice of turning around.
If those others can continue forward, I can continue as well. Supporting each other and giving each other motivation and hope can help us all be unstoppable.
What process do you take to create a speech?
I try to understand the corporation's/association's/establishment's goals completely and what issues they have so I can incorporate it into my speech.
That way it's not a canned presentation, it's more impactful and directly related to their specific issues.
A lot of speakers fill the crowd with energy and try to create a momentum within the audience. That's adrenaline and disappears within a few days.
What I do is leave people with a story that resonates for a lifetime. It's a seed of hope and change that continues to grow and help people forever.
And Sean repeats this process for every one of his speeches, because what he says can change someone's life. Be more than a speaker who informs their audience.
Make a difference to people's lives and be the reason that they got through another day, and do it just because you care.


Feynman has a bunch of ideas in common with Popper! Here are some examples from his speech "The Value of Science". Read the whole thing.
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize the ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, tossed out, more new ideas brought in; a trial and error system ... doubt and discussion were essential to progress into the unknown. If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
we can make grave errors that can stunt our growth for a long time. This we will do if we say we have the answers now, so young and ignorant; if we suppress all discussion, all criticism ... and thus doom man for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. It has been done so many times before.
When we read about this in the newspaper, it says, "The scientist says that this discovery may have importance in the cure of cancer." The paper is only interested in the use of the idea, not the idea itself. Hardly anyone can understand the importance of the idea, it is so remarkable. Except that, possibly, some children catch on. And when a child catches on to an idea like that, we have a scientist. These ideas do filter down (in spite of all the conversation about TV replacing thinking), and lots of kids get the spirit -- and when they have the spirit you have a scientist. It's too late for them to get the spirit when they are in our universities, so we must attempt to explain these ideas to children.


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Lunch at The Four Seasons with: Lawrence Otis Graham
Published by The New York Sun on 2006-06-07
Lawrence Otis Graham has a history with history.
"My goal is to share the black experience by examining our collective history," the lawyer and best-selling author said. "I'm aiming to broaden the definition of what is to be black in contemporary America - but to understand that, we need to look at where we've been. I'm pulling back the curtain on the black upper class of today and years gone by."
His efforts received wide national attention when Mr. Graham published "Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class" (HarperCollins) seven years ago. The book went through 19 printings before being re-launched as a paperback, which has also done well. Now he's about to come out with a new book that has already generated formidable buzz in publishing circles; it's being serialized by Reader's Digest and US News & World Report.
The book is titled "The Senator and The Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty" (HarperCollins). It's about a Virginia-born slave, Blanche Bruce, who, in 1874, became America's first black senator. Bruce, a Republican, was later selected by President Garfield for a high Treasury Department position - and became the first black to have his name on U.S. currency.
"I wanted to take a fresh look at race, class and power across three generations of America," Mr. Graham said. "Senator Bruce's story seemed to capture it all - the life of a slave in Virginia and Mississippi, the astonishing election to the U.S. Senate, and the subsequent membership in a political elite in Washington and New York.
"This is not just a story for White America which may not fully understand Black America. This is a story for everyone. I've always been struck by the level of discomfort between the black upper class and inner-city blacks - we don't agitate, we are quiet. Learning about history allows people to recognize more than they realize that they have more things in common with people who look different," he said.
That is why, Mr. Graham said, he isn't especially fond of the term "diversity."
"'Diversity' may be politically correct, but I like to use the term 'proversity,'" he said. "I'm not one to constantly focus on what's different between us Americans. I prefer to focus on what we have in common. So I invented the term 'proversity.'"
Mr. Graham invented a career as a writer while he was a freshman at Princeton University.
"Some kids worked in the dining halls or the library - my job was writing books," he said.
The first of his 14 books was about a 10-point plan that Mr. Graham devised for high school students to gain acceptance at a college of their choice. It was an instant success, not the least on account of serialization in Good Housekeeping magazine. Mr. Graham was invited to appear on several national radio and television programs.
"I wrote a book a year while in college," he said. "By the time I entered Harvard Law School, I was making a tremendous amount of money."
Mr. Graham also became an entrepreneur while at Harvard. Teaming up with a friend, he launched a newsletter about marketing to young people, especially in affluent black communities. The newsletter, which sold for a subscription price of $500 annually, made its publishers a tidy fortune.
It was also at Harvard that Mr. Graham met a woman named Pamela Thomas. Like him, she hailed from a prosperous African-American family. Like him, she was ambitious - obtaining an MBA from Harvard in addition to a law degree.
They married not long afterward. The Grahams have three children, Gordon, 7, and twins Lindsey and Harrison, 4.
Pamela Thomas, who now goes by the name Pamela Thomas-Graham, is now group president of Liz Claiborne Incorporated. Earlier, she was president and chief executive officer at CNBC. And before that, she was the first black woman to become a partner at the fabled consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. She was 32 at the time.
And Ms. Thomas-Graham writes mysteries whose locales are Ivy League schools. (In addition to her business and law degrees from Harvard, she obtained her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College.)
"There might be a hint of the over-achiever in both of us," her husband said. "But we were brought up to succeed - and to make our contribution to contemporary American society."
Mr. Graham's father, Richard, was a real estate developer, and his mother Betty was a psychologist. Their parents were also achievers - Richard Graham's father Herman ran a trucking company in Memphis, and Betty Graham's family was in the insurance business.
"In the old American South, segregation forced blacks into creating their own businesses," Lawrence Otis Graham said. "That's why you found that blacks owned so many banks, insurance companies and funeral homes."
Mr. Graham said that when his parents moved to Westchester in search of more economic opportunity, they initially found that few realtors would sell them a home in white neighborhoods.
"It was the rabbi of a local synagogue in Scarsdale who vouched for my parents - which is how they were able to buy a house," Mr. Graham said. "That's how they came to be very close to the Jewish community, and worked to improve relations between blacks and Jews. That's also why I've been able to gain insight into race relations."
As Mr. Graham and his brother Richard were growing up, their parents harbored the same expectations that an upper middle class white family might of its progeny: that their children become lawyers or physicians or dentists or accountants.
Indeed, Richard Graham opted for becoming an orthodontist. But his brother rebelled in an unexpected manner.
"It had to do with the choice of a college," Lawrence Otis Graham said. "It was O.K. to go to the traditional colleges where upper class blacks went - Howard University, and Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. If blacks like me wanted to go to a predominantly white institution, then Brown, Harvard, Tufts and Wellesley were acceptable."
But he chose to go to Princeton.
"My parents said, 'We don't go there,'" Mr. Graham said. "Mind you, this was 1980."
His new campaign is to get the U.S. Post Office to issue a stamp honoring Senator Bruce.
"No black elected official has ever been placed on a U.S. postage stamp," Mr. Graham said. "The post office issues around 50 stamps each year - it has issued 30,000 stamps so far. But the fact that not one black elected official has appeared on a stamp - that either a blatant oversight or a blatant error. It needs to be corrected."
Pranay Gupte,
Senior Writer and Global-Affairs Columnist
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Wellbeing and Social Change// March 12, 2019
How Human Trafficking Activist Cecilia Flores-Oebanda Triumphed Over Trauma
The Wellbeing Project enabled Cecilia to reflect upon her life, her purpose, and her sacrifices.
Alice Gatignol at The Wellbeing Project
The Wellbeing Project
Cecilia Flores-Oebanda is the president and executive director of Visayan Forum, a non-profit, non-governmental organisation based in the Philippines. Visayan Forum focuses on promoting the development, welfare and rights of marginalised people to end human trafficking. Cecilia and Visayan, now called Voice for the Free, have trained more than 1000 collaborators in the work against human trafficking and have helped more than 60,000 victims.
The story of Cecilia is one of the accumulation of trauma, ignored for years, followed by an epiphany, a renaissance. She was about 15 years old when she became a youth leader in a politically unstable Philippines, governed by a president considered a tyrant. However, Cecilia was determined to fight. At the heart of the fight, groups were organised to tell stories about liberation theology, and eventually Cecilia became one of three female commanders of the guerilla movement. In the middle of all this violence, the news landed: Cecilia was pregnant with her first child. "It is difficult to be pregnant when you are a guerilla fighter in the mountains," she shares. When Cecilia gave birth, she was forced to give up her child. To make the situation harder, this was when she was informed of her mother passing away. Losing all hope, Cecilia hit rock bottom, and lost herself in the process.
Life on the battlefield carried on, and before she knew it, Cecilia was pregnant with her second child. She reminisces solemnly about the day on the battlefield when her loyal assistant tried to protect her 8-month pregnant body in a hole he dug with his bare hands, in the midst of gun fires and screams. "He was still calling my name when he died." Seconds later, Cecilia and other men were captured and put into prison. There, she started her family, giving birth to her second child. The family spent four years in prison. Upon her liberation, Cecilia decided to definitely close this chapter of fighting and violence.
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The Wellbeing Project enabled Cecilia to reflect upon herself: her life, her purpose, her sacrifices, and those of others. As a participant of the Inner Development Program, Cecilia raised and released the trauma that had locked up inside herself throughout the years, to mourn the pain, to listen to her sufferings. "I finally got to process what was going on in my life, for all these years; I had been like a headless chicken who continued to run and run and run…"
"The Wellbeing Project provided me a safe space where I could pause and reflect — a space where I was able to heal the wounds I have incurred throughout my life as a freedom fighter, an activist, a friend, a daughter and as a mother. Choosing to become a freedom fighter and advocating against slavery and human trafficking was a choice which gave me heavy weight to carry and endure. Wellbeing helped me reach closure and move past the previous chapters of my life. It gave me a deeper sense of humanity and liberated me from guilt and unnecessary stress that I have been dealing with. I was able to process my brokenness, trauma, pain, and loss. My time with Wellbeing has been a gift of a lifetime and I'm extremely grateful."
— Published on March 12, 2019
Wellbeing inspires welldoing: the profound connection between how our relationship with ourselves deeply influences the way we are in the world. We are hearing changemakers around the world express the pressing need for support with their wellbeing. Our work highlights how wellbeing needs to be fundamentally prioritised both for each individual changemaker and because of how it shapes the way social change happens. The Wellbeing Project is a global initiative focused on shifting the culture of the social change field to one oriented towards inner wellbeing and catalysing an infrastructure of support for everyone in the field. The Project is co-created with leading social change institutions and is a community of many of the key global and regional social change leaders and organisations. We see an incredible opportunity to cultivate a social change culture that is more human-centred and at the same time unlock more of the extraordinary collaboration and innovation we need to address our great social and environmental challenges.
Wellbeing inspires welldoing: the profound connection between how our relationship with ourselves deeply influences the way we are in the world.
We are hearing changemakers around the world express the pressing need for support with their wellbeing. Our work highlights how wellbeing needs to be fundamentally prioritised both for each individual changemaker and because of how it shapes the way social change happens.
The Wellbeing Project is a global initiative focused on shifting the culture of the social change field to one oriented towards inner wellbeing and catalysing an infrastructure of support for everyone in the field. The Project is co-created with leading social change institutions and is a community of many of the key global and regional social change leaders and organisations.
We see an incredible opportunity to cultivate a social change culture that is more human-centred and at the same time unlock more of the extraordinary collaboration and innovation we need to address our great social and environmental challenges.
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FMIP controls the adipocyte lineage commitment of C2C12 cells by downmodulation of C/EBPalpha
A. Mancini, O. El Bounkari, A. F. Norrenbrock, M. Scherr, D. Schaefer, M. Eder, A. H. Banham, K. Pulford, L. Lyne, A. D. Whetton, T. Tamura
Fms interacting protein (FMIP) is a substrate for Fms tyrosine kinase, and a nuclear/cytoplasm shuttling protein with a leucine zipper. As the phosphorylation of FMIP is observed in insulin-stimulated preadipocytes, we examined the role of FMIP in adipocyte differentiation, using the mesenchymal multipotent stem cells, C2C12 cells, that can differentiate into adipocytes, muscle cells and osteoblasts. Ectopic expression of FMIP in C2C12 impairs the adipocyte differentiation induced by treatment with insulin, dexamethasone and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine. These cells exhibit muscle phenotype with multinuclear morphology. Furthermore, knockdown of endogenous FMIP expression by small interfering RNA improves adipocytic lineage commitment of C2C12 cells, while impairing muscle differentiation. Upon stimulation with insulin, CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP)beta, but not C/EBPalpha, is upregulated in cells expressing ectopic FMIP, whereas in FMIP knockdown cells, C/EBPalpha is constitutively expressed. Ectopic expression of C/EBPalpha counteracts the effects of FMIP, whereas C/EBPalpha knockdown partially mimics the effects of FMIP in this system. Northern blot analysis and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction study reveal that ectopic FMIP-expressing cells do not contain the polyadenylated C/EBPalpha mRNA, but contain the C/EBPalpha pre-mRNA, suggesting that FMIP plays a role in RNA processing and/or export. Indeed, a member of the THO complex that plays a role in mRNA export, THOC1, is co-precipitated with FMIP. The data we have acquired on FMIP suggest that it is a target for tyrosine kinase receptors that potentiate mRNA export. © 2007 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved.
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Jeddah Tower 3,281'
my bro's stunning collection of lake erie shots from around the eastside lorain harbor -- enjoy!
bonus -- this is spring runoff at a park in sheffield lake
ColDayMan 663
♫ An Apollo Legend ♫
Ohio is lucky to have a treasure like Lake Erie.
"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
Robert Pence 0
I like the icy winter shots and the roaring water from the Spring runoff.
"Ohio Lake Erie is lucky to have a treasure like Lake Erie Ohio."
my bro has been at it again -
june sunset shots over lake erie
peabody99 0
One World Trade Center 1,776'
Those are gorgeous. I can't say I ever say anyone stand up paddle boarding on the lake, and I often wondered why, it seems like it would be perfect in the summer.
surfohio 541
It's really taking off!
http://nalusup.com/
a sunset from my bro recently -
C-Dawg 0
I always get the lighthouses in Lorain, Fairport Harbor, and Ashtabula mixed up. Which one is this?
Mov2Ohio 331
Scenes like that mrnyc are what make me believe that Ohio doesn't do enough to market itself. If more people knew you could sit back and look at a view like that I think they would think differently about our state.
For now we're just a state full of snow and corn to the masses. lol.
Nice pic!
Exactly. Call Ohio "coastal" and yes, you get funny looks from people who should know better.
City Blights 0
Kettering Tower 408'
Ohio has more state border covered in water than any other inland state outside of Michigan. Reputation or lack thereof might be Ohio's biggest hurdle on the path to relevance.
another recent one
ClevelandOhio 1
Burj Khalifa 2,722'
Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing them
i think we lost a bunch here,
but we should definately build a lake erie thread back up
more from my bro
one from my bro
I just flew back from New York over Lake Erie, and there is unbelievable ice cover. It seems way more than normal. Prime photo ops for people in Ohio to go out and ice hike!
Some historic pics and comments from my good friend, Neal Luoma.
Neal is a retired longshoreman who grew up and still lives in Saybrook, a quiet coastal town just east of Geneva-on-the-Lake. His family ran a campground that was very popular at one time. Working class families from Youngstown and Pittsburgh would spend there summers there, swimming and camping along the beach.
during the 1950's Neal picked up surfing while on trips to Florida with his family. He brought his passion for waves back to Ohio and naturally he taught the kids at the campground to surf. By the end of the 1960's there was a vibrant, if hidden, surfing community in Saybrook, Ohio, all thanks to Neal.
Gradually over-development and rising lake levels led to erosion that wiped out many of the sand beaches, and people stopped coming up to the Lake. The coastal resort towns like Geneva were hit hard, and looked destined for ruins. For quite a few years Neal was the only surfer in Ohio.
When surfing here started to get popular again in the 1990's, Neal was there to share generous advice on tracking storms and finding the best wave spots for every weather condition. So many years later he's still out there in the water, and his Surfers Point Campground is still open for business. Stop in and say hi!
pic 1 Lots of sand on Lake Erie's shore protected the hillside from erosion back then. Shadow my dad.
pic 2 My Grandmother standing on her wide beach back before the high flooding lake levels of today.
1. old crowd
2. quality waves in Saybrook, OH
3. Neal at Edgewater Park, Cleveland. Photo by Robby Staebler (2010)
AJ93 1
That's really cool. I was just in Florida at the beginning of the month and the surf off Juno beach wasn't much different than what that guy is surfing on.
urbanforever 0
So I have always wondered how surfing on Lake Erie works. Are surfing conditions most optimal when the beaches are typically closed for unsafe rip-tide? And are the best waves in the fall, winter, and early spring?
^What I've seen the most on all the lakes is fall surfing. The Gales of November seem to bring people out. It's wetsuit surfing, similar to what you see in Northern California. Water temperatures are actually similar on the lakes that time of year (50-60 degrees in early November and dropping throughout the month). I haven't seen anyone beyond November. In December, the water can get down to 40 degrees, and ice can start forming on the edges even before the official start of winter if it's a bad year (I used to see this in Toledo where the water is shallow).
gottaplan 117
I've been snapping cell phone pics of Lake Erie from downtown vantage points in various stages of freeze/thaw for the last couple weeks. I find it fascinating.
lake erie in comparison
^ Very cool I'm sending that around!
tcjoe1985 30
A very tropical-looking view of Kelleys Island from Perry's Monument on South Bass Island (June 2015):
You cannot beat a Lake Erie (sunrise or) sunset. Period. Here's a little hometown love! Sandusky's Jackson Street Pier at dusk on a warm June night:
Love that Jackson Street Pier in Sandusky! Thanks for posting! Sandusky rocks and has so much potential.
E Rocc 260
Villa Angela:
^ There seems to be tons of sand beach at Villa. Maybe they can now remove those breakwalls?
For the record, this was last July.
Bump for the summer season!
I made a quick visit home a few weeks ago....and Lake Erie was extremely beautiful! I've never seen the water this clear (neither had my dad and grandma, lifelong Sandusky area residents). If/when we finally get our act together (talking about environmental regulations for the Great Lakes), Ohio's largest environmental asset will truly be a sparkling gem!
These pics were taken on South Bass Island / Put-in-Bay on May 25, 2016:
And some Sandusky Bay sunset photos:
Have a great summer!
TPH2 152
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^ Wow. I can't believe how clear the water is there. Beautiful pics
IAGuy39 55
Wow, that water looks fabulous.
Is this clear of water a reflection of mostly cleaning up the water ways due to EPA Water Acts? Or, does the zebra muscle have an affect here, or combination of both?
I was back home in Iowa this past weekend for work and swung out to my grandparents for the weekend. I was talking with a friend who "sells" farmers native prairie grasses through steps and drops in farmland. It's a tough sell for the farmers, but he has implemented 40 farms in the last year, a really high number considering how much the land is worth there. This prairie grass filters out 90-95% of nitrates running through fields through the roots of the plants. They are also working on new technologies on tiling, where towards the end of the tiles they pull them and connect them to a perpendicular tile, which runs parallel to the drainage ditch. The area between the drainage ditch and the parallel tile they plant native prairie grass, filtering out many more nitrates and fertilizers while also slowing the flow of water. This has many, many benefits besides cleaning the water and slowing flooding. It also brings back native grasses, beetles, birds and all sorts of creatures.
Does this also have a movement in the agriculture rich areas of the Erie watershed? Water quality and natural preservation I believe are going to be some of the biggest issues facing our world and country in the 21st Century
a combination.
the water acts, the loss of industry, better awareness and related actions and then perhaps mostly due, or at least most recently, due to the zebra mussels.
there is a very obvious and significant change for the better over the years in the water clarity.
unfortunately, the zebra mussels bring their own very serious sets of problems, like the resultant algae blooms for example:
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/15693/20150717/toxic-algae-expected-lake-erie-potentially-worst.htm
Cleburger 541
^^very true. The balance of nature has been in turmoil for about the last 150 years with the industrialization and farming around the lake. I'm not sure we'll ever get it back to natural, but every little thing helps.
It's crazy how much land is manipulated but even crazier how fast it comes back. In Iowa, the DNR has a re-purchase program where they buy back land from a farmer on a lease, they cut out the tiles, and let it go back to it's native form. There is no manipulation needed on the DNR's end except to plant some seeds and let nature take it's course.
99% of Iowa's prairie and 99.5% of Iowa's wetlands are gone becuase of agriculture. You are right, every little bit helps. I assume the same thing for Ohio in Iowa, not much of the native land is left.
I have noticed lately that Canada doesn't make much use of the lakeshore. It's almost entirely agricultural right up to the shore and I don't think there's a town bigger than 20,000 on the shore itself. Perhaps this is because there aren't the rivers we have here (glaciation caused, no doubt) but it still seems odd.
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Leamington, Ontario is 28,000. While your point is still valid, you just need to raise the number to 30,0000 :-D.
True that Canadian cities on Lake Ontario are made around rivers - Toronto has the Rouge River, the Don River, and the Humber River and Mississauga has the Credit River, but possibly the main point is that every major population center on the Eastern half of Canada has very easy access from the St. Lawrence River. The St. Lawrence River comes from Atlantic Ocean and goes through Quebec City then Montreal. Then its tributary, Ottawa River, splits off and the city of Ottawa is on Ottawa River. Continue down St. Lawrence River and it's a very straightforward path to Toronto. I suppose it could have continued to Lake Erie but the path is a lot less direct.
Doing a bit of research, both Kingston and Toronto were founded as French military/trading posts. While Quebec City was incorporated around 1600 and Montreal in 1642, Kingston was founded 1673 and Toronto in 1750. In 1763, the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the French rule of Canada. The War of 1812 was focused around Lake Erie and according to Wikipedia, "American forces took control of Lake Erie in 1813, driving the British out of western Ontario." I have to work now so I can't continue my Wikipediaing, but I think it's a combination of the convenience of the route through the St. Lawrence River, the end of the French rule, and the fact that the Battle of 1812 was focused around Lake Erie and Great Britain lost.
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Country Stars And Industry Executives Wish Mel Tillis Happy Birthday
August 14, 2016 tcscnashville Off Country Music News,
Dolly Parton, Larry Gatlin, Ray Stevens, Charlie Daniels, Tracy Lawrence and
Many More Send Video Messages to Mel Tillis in Celebration of 84th Birthday
Daughter Pam Tillis Provides Update on Country Music Hall of Famer's Condition
Country music stars and industry executives are helping the legendary Mel Tillis celebrate his 84th birthday.
Mel Tillis, who has been under medical care since undergoing colon surgery last January, received a video reel from some of his longtime friends and industry execs.
The footage includes birthday wishes from Dolly Parton, Larry Gatlin, Ray Stevens, Charlie Daniels, Bobby Bare, Aaron Tippin, Darryl Worley, TG Sheppard, Lorrie Morgan, Billy Dean, Tracy Lawrence, Steve Wariner, Sammy Kershaw, Doug Gray of The Marshall Tucker Band, John Berry, Jeannie Seely, Bill Anderson, Daryle Singletary, Restless Heart, T. Graham Brown, Mark Wills, Leroy Van Dyke, Sarah Trahern, CEO of the Country Music Association, Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Crook & Chase as well as the Statesiders, Mel's band. Click HERE to view the reel.
"Thank you all for making this day so special for Daddy," says Mel's daughter, Pam Tillis. "This year has been tough for him but we continue to see improvements as the days go by. Right now, he's in assisted living since he needs special wound care and rehabilitation. We hope to have him home soon. Our family thanks you all for the outpouring of love. We've been truly touched. Continued prayers for Daddy are appreciated."
Mel also received special birthday messages from Grand Ole Opry General Manager Pete Fisher, the Academy of Country Music, Rhonda Vincent, Neal McCoy, Buddy Cannon, Maggie Rose, Chuck Wicks and more.
The Tillis team would like to extend a very special 'thank you' to Jeff Moseley and Hank Elliott of CJM Productions for donating their time to produce Mel's birthday reel. We would also like to extend sincerest thanks to the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music, the Grand Ole Opry, Webster PR and EB Media for helping to make Mel's day extra special.
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Phillip Bock, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 1:19 p.m. CT Aug. 4, 2015 | Updated 9:29 a.m. CT Aug. 5, 2015
Spectators at Whistling Straits will have new options for following the PGA Championship from the course, including a phone app that will show where specific golfers are on the course.(Photo: File/AP)
SHEBOYGAN – Ticketholders heading to Whistling Straits for the PGA Championship next week should remember to bring their smartphones — and not for making calls.
An official app and a mobile website are being developed to offer new digital tools to enhance the experience for fans on the course.
The PGA has tried for years to determine how to use technology to enhance the spectator experience on the course, Gary Treater, manager of PGA.com, said. For the major tournament next week, an expansive Wi-Fi footprint at Whistling Straits "unlocked a lot of possibilities for us to create features within a mobile device," he said.
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An all-new feature, called "Binoculars," will utilize Bluetooth beacon technology to make it easier for fans to find and identify golfers from a distance on the course.
Bluetooth beacons installed on each of the standard bearer poles for each group of golfers will allow fans with the PGA Championship smartphone app to easily find and identify their favorite players.
"We're building a feature into the app that will communicate with those beacons, so if I'm a fan walking around, it will get a ping on my app alerting me to the groups in my area," Treater said.
The new "Binoculars" feature on the official PGA Championship smartphone app uses Bluetooth beacon technology to assist fans in identifying players on the course from a distance. (Photo: Photo courtesy Turner Sports)
The app and mobile website also will feature a player locator to help fans find their favorite golfer anywhere on the course.
"Let's say I want to watch Jordan Spieth and I don't know where he's at. I can punch his name in and it will tell me (where he is)," Treater said.
The player locator feature will be complemented by interactive digital maps, which will help spectators navigate the course.
The PGA Championship apps and PGA.com mobile website also will offer video, live scoring, news, photos and a new feature called "Minute-By-Minute," which will have live updates throughout the event.
"Whistling Straits is a long golf course. It's a golf course that's laid out without a lot of parallel holes, so if you're going to see the whole golf course, you're going to do a lot of walking," Treater said. "Should you choose to, after awhile, not walk for a while and sit in the stands or sit in the hospitality area, we're going to provide a real-time, what we call 'Minute by Minute,' live update stream."
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Similar to a Twitter feed, Minute-By-Minute will have a live feed of videos, pictures, tweets, and other content curated by PGA digital producers for the fan who wants to sit for a while, but not be out of touch with what's happening elsewhere on the course.
"If I'm a fan sitting on Hole 18 watching all the groups come through, and I hear a big roar on Hole 15, I want to know what's going on," Treater said. "We'll have someone out there and it will be put into this Minute-By-Minute feed. You'll be able to actually see it and experience it rather than wonder what's going on."
The feature also will be available on the PGA.com website to allow people watching the tournament at home to follow the feed.
The smartphone app also will direct visitors to the cellphone policy of the PGA, which asks visitors to silence their phones. While use of social media and the PGA mobile app are encouraged, taking photos and videos during the championship is prohibited.
"The PGA obviously is very mindful of the players. There is a mobile policy. (Spectators) are allowed to take photos, whether it be a camera or a cellphone, on practice days. Once the event starts Thursday through Sunday, there is no photos," Treater said.
Videos in the Minute-By-Minute feature will contain minimal sound to avoid disrupting other spectators, Treater said. It is recommended that spectators bring ear bud headphones if they wish to watch full video on their smartphones while at the tournament.
The PGA Championship app is available on iOS and Android. Cellphone charging stations will be available at the event in the fan experience area near the golf shop and in some sponsor areas of the course.
PGA Championship attendees utilizing social media are invited use the hashtags #ThisIsMajor and #PGAChamp to participate in the social conversation surrounding the event. PGA.com is managed by Turner Sports.
— Reach Phillip Bock at 920-453-5121, pbock@sheboyganpress.com, or @bockling on Twitter


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However, I have also read that the developer of iKeywi may also be working on an iPad version (in addition to a landscape version for the phone ... or both).
All I can suggest right now is to wait. Sorry.


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