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Discover the Underground of Rome: Tiber Island and St. Nicholas in Prison
Experience a full tour of Tiber Island and the underground of St. Nicholas in Prison Church. An amazing journey that begins on the beautiful, boat-shaped Tiber island, to discover an ancient church that hides the secrets of three antiquated temples.
Amazing tour of Tiber Island and St. Nicholas in Prison Underground highlights:
Discover some of the most ancient ruins in all of Rome
Follow the trail the Roman's did on a daily basis to get to their vegetable and cattle markets
Explore the ancient history of Tiber Island
Travel some of the oldest known trails in Roman History
Truly experience Roman's history in person
Amazing tour of Tiber Island and St. Nicholas in Prison Underground
With this tour you will discover the story and the legends about the Tiber Island and St. Nicholas in Prison Church, in the centre of Rome: two ancient places that tell the story of the Ancient Rome.
Discover the Tiber Island, the only island on the Tiber River in Rome
Start this tour by entering Tiber Island via one of its two bridges, two of the oldest and most ancient in Rome: the Ponte Fabricio, the only original bridge in all of Rome, which connects the island from the northeast to the Field of Mars in the rione Sant'Angelo, or the Ponte Cestio which connects the island to Trastevere on the south.
Upon entering the Tiber Island you will come upon an ancient church that hides the secrets of three ancient temples. It is truly a fascinating way to discover ancient Rome underneath the cobblestones. It is an immerse underground tour for anyone fascinated with the mysteries of places ignored by the "normal" tourists.
Visit St. Nicholas in Prison, a church built over Roman ruins
Leaving the island, you will go to the close St. Nicholas in Prison Basilica. Entering the church, you will see it is built entirely on three Roman temples, which were constructed in the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. These temples are uniquely set apart from others because they are not Imperial, they are instead Republican-Era: this makes these temples possibly the oldest in all of Rome.
You will then enter the crypt under the alter and descend into the underground level: you will visit the open spaces, which where once completely open to sky, and travel along the same path many Roman's once did to and from their cattle and vegetable markets on a daily route.
An underground tour to discover the legends of Rome
The only way to experience the oldest history in Rome is through this tour. You will be in the vicinity of the oldest known structures in all of Rome! This is really one of the most interesting and immersive tours you can take anywhere in the world.
Your professional guide will tell you some legends about the area. One legend which pertains to Tiber Island says that after the death of the Tyrant Tarquinius Superbus, the angry men and women of ancient Rome took his body and threw it into the Tiber River. His body then proceeded to settle to the bottom of the river where dirt and silt slowly accumulated, leading to the formation of Tiber Island. Many other legends and stories follow this ancient place, awaiting for you to listen and learn!
Tiber Island
Fabricio Bridge
St. Nicholas in Prison Church and underground
Skip the line entrance ticket
English Speaking Archeological Guide
This tour is free for children 0-3 years old.
We suggest you to wear comfortable shoes and clothes. We regret to inform that this tour is not suitable for guests with wheelchairs or with impaired mobility and / or with claustrophobic pathology.
This is a Small Group Tour with Min.2/Max.10 participants.
Confirmation will be received at time of booking. You will receive a voucher. This is your ticket and proof of purchase.


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Family Medical Center wins $500,000 grant
Danielle Portteus Monroe News staff reporter DPortteusMNews
The money will be used to help Monroe and Lenawee county residents who are struggling with substance abuse.
Family Medical Center has received a grant to help serve those in Monroe and Lenawee counties struggling with substance abuse.
The $500,000 grant is from the Primary Care Association to be split $250,000 each year for two years, said Ed Larkins, Family Medical Center's Chief Executive Officer.
Larkins said about 42 centers across the state applied for the grant and nine centers received funding to help combat a problem many communities are facing.
"Monroe County is third in the state in terms of opioid overdoses death," Larkins said. "From a community health care standpoint, we know there is a need for this type of treatment. We are very excited about this grant."
Nationally, Michigan ranks 11th out of the 50 states in opioid deaths, Larkins said.
The grant will help expand the center's treatment program.
Chief Operating Officer Audrey Smith said about two years ago, Family Medical Center locations in Carleton and Adrian, along with limited services in Temperance, began administering naltrexone. The grant will help expand the services.
"It is a drug that blocks the high and reduces cravings," Smith explained.
Smith said Family Medical Center hired a nurse case manager specific to the grant and a counselor who specializes in addiction and alcohol counseling. Additionally, five doctors have received the waiver after specialized training to administer a combination of buprenorphine and naltrexone known as suboxone to assist in treating patients who are addicted to opioids.
About 500 people will benefit from the new services provided from this grant.
Larkins said the treatment also include a behavioral health component.
"Many people who are opioid addicted also need treatment for another behavioral concern," he said. We had additional supports available."
For instance, Smith said, patients who are experiencing pain could be dealing with addiction.
"We are screening all patients for substance and drug abuse," Smith said. "If the patient's pain is related to addiction, the treatment follows a different course of action than if the pain is not related to addiction."
Additionally, if a patient is addicted to opioids, the course of treatment would differ than those who might be addicted to a different substance. Opioid addiction is treated with both suboxone and naltrexone, Smith said.
Treatment for pregnant women addicted to opioids differs still with those patients also receiving methadone.
The nurse case manager will coordinate all patient care information, which will be logged into a technology platform to track patients, another tenant of the grant, so the center can keep track of the treatment program each patient is following.
Larkins said Family Medical Center is working on forming a partnership with ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital who can refer patients who have overdosed on opioids.
Smith said the center is also working with Catholic Charities and other community partners to help address the addiction problems within the region.
According to Smith, of those with a substance abuse disorder in Monroe County, 55 percent are addicted to heroin while 23 percent are addicted to prescription opioids. Subsequently, the numbers are a bit different in Lenawee County where 29.9 percent are addicted to heroin and 18.8 percent are addicted to prescription opioids. Alcohol addiction in Lenawee is high among those with a substance abuse disorder registering 31 percent. Those stats are based on admissions to substance abuse disorder services, Smith said.
Anyone who is interested in learning more about the services provided by the grant can call 734-654-2169.
Family Medical Center of Michigan

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Q: How to make you web application in Azure be accessible through https? I applied for certificates for my domains. I received files with the following extensions:

*

*ca-bundle

*crt (multiple files)

*p7b

I would like to upload SSL certificates to Azure by installing the certificate. For that I need to upload pfx file that is not included. I read that I need to create a private key and then merge the certificates somehow in order to create one. Unfortunately, as a programmer, I do not understand what and where should be done. Could someone help?

A: I think, this link here talks about the exact scenario you are talking about.
"The question is, how do I convert the CRT file into a PFX file so that I can upload it to my Azure Web App?  Here are the steps I followed to convert a CRT into a PFX file:"

*

*Open Certificate Manager for the Local Computer

*Import the Intermediate Certificate (.P7B file)

*Import the SSL certificate (.CRT file)

*Export the SSL certificate and its dependencies as a .PFX file

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/waws/2015/12/02/add-an-ssl-certificate-to-an-azure-web-app-crt-and-p7b/

A: You will need to convert it using a Windows system.
More info can be found here

A: In the end I managed to do it in the following way:
I downloaded openssl from here: https://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/
Two files are needed - the domain certificate and the private key. Once you have them you issue the following command:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out file.pfx -inkey private.key -in certificate.crt
You need to provide a password for the export. This will create a file.pfx file that you can upload to Azure using the same password. The next step is to add SSL bindings. For each domain you choose the certificate and create the binding. After ~2 minutes the https connection will be available for your domains.

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AV Fair and Alfafa Festival kicks off Friday!
by The AV Times Staff • August 16, 2018
LANCASTER – The 80th annual Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa Festival kicks off this Friday in Lancaster, featuring cost-effective, wholesome entertainment for the entire family.
Themed "Holy Cow, We're 80 Now," the 10-day event opens at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, at the Antelope Valley Fair and Event Center, located at 2551 West Avenue H in Lancaster. Admission and parking are free from 4 to 5 p.m. on Friday only, then the fee is $11 for adult general admission tickets and $8 for youth and senior admission tickets. Active Military and their dependents get in free with their military service photo ID. Parking for the Fair is $10 (cash only) per car, and there is free shuttle from the parking lots to the main gate.
General admission tickets include free grandstand seating to the Palmdale Auto Mall Concert Series, Figure 8 race, and Rural Olympics & Fireworks show. Other featured attractions include Suzy Haner the Hypnotist, a Petting Zoo, Pig Races, Dancing at Various Stages, Goat Mountain, and an 80's Flashback Party.
A wide range of exhibits are also free, including artwork, floriculture, gems and minerals, small and large livestock, home arts and agriculture. Hands-on demonstrations from quilters, artists, florists and more will be available in the exhibit halls every day. Visit www.AVFair.com for the complete list of entertainment and exhibits.
"The Antelope Valley Fair has a long tradition of providing fun and opportunities for every generation," stated Dan Jacobs, CEO of the Antelope Valley Fair and Event Center.
New to this year's Fair
A new attraction this year is The Backyard, a gathering space to enjoy independent craft beer, taste local wine and play a game of bocce ball, corn hole, jenga and more. Also new this year is the Antelope Valley Fair app, featuring all things Fair — voting for your favorite food vendor, surveys, push notifications, maps, and more. The app is available at Google Play and the IOS Apple.
Discounts/Season Passes/ Special Admission Days
Pre-Fair general admission tickets are just $7, until until 11:59 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16. Season passes, offering unlimited admission for all 10 days of the Fair, are available for $15 if purchased by Aug. 16, and $18 if purchased after Aug. 16. Carnival wristbands, which allow unlimited rides for one day, can be purchased for $25 until Aug. 16 and $35 after Aug. 16.
Pre-Fair admission tickets, season passes, carnival wristbands, concert and arena tickets can be purchased at www.AVFair.com. Tickets and coupon books are also available at participating Antelope Valley Vallartas, Vons, Albertsons supermarkets, the A.V. Fair kiosk in the Antelope Valley Mall, and the Antelope Valley Fair Administration office.
Special admission days are:
Monday, Aug. 20 – Kids, Senior and Special Needs Citizens Day. Seniors 62 and older and Special Needs Citizens (with one caregiver) get free admission and parking from 2 to 4 p.m. and a complimentary lunch served between 2 and 3 p.m. Youth 11 and under get free admission after 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 21 – Fair goers who bring five cans of food for Grace Recourse Center will receive one free admission ticket and one ride pass.
Wednesday, Aug. 22 – Fair goers who donate one new or three gently-used elementary level books to the Rotary Club of Lancaster will receive one free admission ticket and one ride pass.
Thursday, Aug. 23 – Military Appreciation Day, sponsored by Budweiser. All military personnel and dependents are admitted free into the Fair, with a red carpet entrance.
The Antelope Valley Fair is presented by IBEW Local 11 and NECA Los Angeles. Starting Friday, Aug. 17, the Fair will open daily at 4 p.m. and close at 12 midnight, with the exception of the last day, Sunday, Aug. 26, when the Fair will close at 11 p.m.
For all Fair-related information, call 661-948-6060 or visit www.AVFair.com.
[Information via news release from the Antelope Valley Fair and Event Center.]
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As the cloud of recreational cannabis legalization looms on the horizon, employers will face difficult situations pertaining to cannabis and the workplace. It is important to remember that just because recreational cannabis will be legal, and medically authorized cannabis use is already permitted, this does not mean that an individual will be given carte blanche to use cannabis however and wherever he or she chooses. Workplaces in particular will be allowed to strictly implement and enforce rules surrounding the use of cannabis, especially where there is a bona fide safety element to the specific job in question.
A pair of recent cases, discussed below, help to highlight the boundaries of cannabis use within the workplace and the limits of the duty to accommodate employees in safety sensitive positions with medical authorizations for cannabis.
An authorization for medical cannabis does not create a license to use it at work. Such use of medically-authorized cannabis combined with a failure to inform an employer of the medical authorization and the possible necessity of its use at work or otherwise, may still provide grounds for with-cause termination where a proper drug and alcohol policy is in place. Importantly, where an employee has failed to inform the employer of the medical authorization, any discussions around accommodation are moot.
The Ontario Human Rights Commission in Aitchison v L&L Painting and Decorating Ltd., 2018 HRTO 238 looked at just such a situation, involving an employee who smoked medically authorized cannabis on a job site. The job was particularly safety sensitive, as it involved being out on a swing stage many stories in the air. The incident which prompted the dismissal involved the employee smoking cannabis on the swing stage, without safety gear, 37 stories in the air. The employer had implemented a "zero tolerance" policy for both drugs and alcohol, and the employee was fully aware of this policy. He unsuccessfully attempted to argue that he had been given approval to medicate on the work site by the site supervisor; unsurprisingly, this was denied by the supervisor and the tribunal found this assertion by the former employee "fl[ew] in the face of the health and safety protocols that were in place".
Despite the allegations by the employee that the employer had failed to accommodate him, the tribunal found that he had never asked for any such accommodation, particularly because he never made his employer aware of the fact that he had a medical need to smoke cannabis. Although the employee had a doctor's note regarding his medication, there was conflicting evidence as to whether the note was ever delivered to the employer. Even so, the cannabis-prescribing doctor testified that he never would have made the authorization in the manner he did, had he known what the employee's work entailed.
The tribunal found that because the employee was fully aware of the zero tolerance policy, never made his employer aware of his prescription, was in an extremely safety-sensitive position where an error in judgment could have fatal consequences, never requested accommodation, and unilaterally decided to self-medicate without authorization, this constituted valid grounds for dismissal.
This case suggests that employees cannot unilaterally defy a policy which prohibits use of cannabis at the workplace, especially where there is a significant safety element; there is no "absolute right" to use cannabis while on the job, even if it is prescribed for a disability. The case also demonstrates the importance of a proper drug and alcohol policy.
The level of impairment from THC, the active ingredient in cannabis which causes impairment, is notoriously difficult to measure. The inability to accurately measure impairment from cannabis use is a concern for employers and there have been questions around whether an employer will be required to accommodate medical cannabis use in safety sensitive positions.
These circumstances were considered in the 2018 Newfoundland arbitration decision Lower Churchill Transmission Construction Employers' Association v IBEW, Local 1620. The grievor used cannabis with high THC content every night before going to bed to alleviate osteoarthritis and Crohn's disease. He applied for two general labourer positions, both considered safety-sensitive. He was denied employment in both due to his use of medical cannabis.
Although the grievor's physician gave evidence that he would be capable of working in such a position four hours after use of the medication, there was significant conflicting evidence from other sources which suggested impairment could last up to 24 hours. Further, there was no effective means of allowing the employer to measure any such impairment such that it could appropriately manage the risk to safety. Given the conflicting evidence and lack of means to measure impairment, the arbitrator held that accommodating the individual would have constituted undue hardship to the employer. Importantly, the arbitrator also noted that a family physician was not in a position to adequately assess the safety issues inherent in a particular job site – a more thorough understanding by someone closer to the circumstances of the job was necessary.
The two aforementioned decisions should provide some measure of relief for employers looking to control the use of cannabis at the workplace, especially where there are significant safety concerns; having a medical authorization will not override all safety concerns. Although these decisions were rendered in the circumstances of medically authorized cannabis, they are also helpful in the context of regulating recreational cannabis in the workplace as they confirm that use in the workplace is not an unfettered right, even where an employee has a medical authorization.
It is important to remember that every situation will be different and must be analyzed based on the particular circumstances. Employees with medical authorizations may be prescribed a form of cannabis with very little to no THC, meaning impairment will not likely be an issue. It is important that an employer's policy require an employee to advise the employer of a medical authorization before a significant incident, such as testing positive for cannabis after an accident, occurs. Employers will also need to get information from the medical professional who provides the authorization, including dosage, THC concentration and timing of use.
Field Law's Cannabis Industry Group will continue to countdown to the implementation of the legislation sometime in the summer of 2018. Stay tuned for more information on labour and employment, occupational health and safety, intellectual property and business-related issues that may arise following the legalization and regulation of cannabis in Alberta and the Territories.


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Q: Is there any method to pass multiple selected option value to MongoDB using React JS? I want to pass the selected option value to my back end using React Select. First I want to select option from React Select then I want to store into the usestate from where i am sending it to the database.
The code look like:
const options = [
    { value: 'AUD', label: 'AUD' },
    { value: 'CAD', label: 'CAD' },
    { value: 'CHF', label: 'CHF' },
]
export default function MemberInformation() {
    const { t } = useTranslation();

    const value2 = useContext(DataContext);
    const [currency, setCurrency] = value2.currency;
    const[favcur,setFavCur]=useState([]);
     const[memberData,setMemberData]=useState([]);
    const [member,setMember]=useState({_id:"",name:"",prefCurrency:[]})
         var name,valueV;
        const handleInputs=e=>{
          console.log("Updated ",member)
          name=e.target.name;
          valueV=e.target.value;
          setMember({...member,[name]:valueV})
          if (name == "prefCurrency")
          {
            setFavCur(e);
            setMember({...member,[name]:valueV})
            setCurrency(e);
          }
        }
        const postData= ()=>{
          setMemberData({...memberData,...member})
          const { _id,name,prefCurrency}=member;
          var UpdatedMemInfo ={_id,name,,prefCurrency};
          axios.put('/memberInfoUpdate', UpdatedMemInfo)
          .then( res => {
            alert('Updated successfully!');
           }
          )
          .catch(err => {
            console.log(err.response);
            alert('An error occurred! Try submitting the form again.');
          });
       }
useEffect(() => {
        async function fetchBooks() {
          const response = await fetch('/memberinfo');
          const json = await response.json();
          setMemberData(json.memberLogin);
          setMember(json.memberLogin);
      }
      fetchBooks();
  },[]);
return (
<div>
 <Row >
                  <Col ><Form.Text className="text-muted">{t('Name')}</Form.Text></Col>
                  <Col><Form.Control size="sm" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Enter Name" value={member.name} onChange={e=>handleInputs(e)}/></Col>
              </Row>
 <Row >
                  <Col ><Form.Text className="text-muted">{t('Preferred Currency')}</Form.Text></Col>
                  <Col>
                  <Select options={options} placeholder="Select Currency" isMulti name="prefCurrency" value={member.prefCurrency}  onChange={handleInputs} />
                   </Col>
              </Row>
</div>
 )
}

The error is that "Cannot read properties of undefined name" and page appears blank. When i want to select any option value it does not select anything from the options data.
preferred Currency(prefCurrency) is basically an array type in mongoose schema.
It looks like:

How can this issue be solved? , how can i pass multiple selected option value to the MongoDB back end?


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Q: Calculating heavy numbers in a given range? I had an interview question a couple days ago involving the calculation of the amount of heavy numbers between in a given range. I came up with a basic solution, which was to iterate over the entire range and test for the heaviness of each number. I realized right away that its a terribly inefficient method of solving the problem. In the interest of educating myself I have been tackling the problem today to try and learn more about this type of problem. Its tough for me, because I don't have a super strong mathematics background but I'm trying to learn.
Basically, the problem goes like this:
Take any 2 numbers from 0 to 200,000,000. In that range, calculate the number of "heavy numbers". This is calculated by adding together all of the component digits and then dividing by the number of components. If the average is greater than 7, the number is considered heavy.
Example:
1234: 1+2+3+4/4 = 2.5 (not heavy)
8996: 8+9+9+6/4 = 8 (heavy)

So given the range 1002 - 12089, my naive approach is to iterate over each number between and calculate its weight. This approach quickly falls apart when dealing with very large number ranges.
I've done quite a bit of searching via Google and Bing and beyond a couple of posts where people have copy/pasted verbatim the question, I find almost no information about this kind of problem. I suspect that this type of problem is called something other than "heavy numbers" but I'm at a loss as to what that the terminology is.
Here is a link to one such discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks/browse_thread/thread/a1b824107afe3801
I'm hoping that someone who is familiar with type of scenario can explain alternative ways to solve the problem in a simple manner, and that I might ask follow up questions until I understand.
Thanks for reading.

A: If you want to calculate the answer exactly, one way to go is using generating functions (which is the same as dynamic programming).
Let's restrict ourselves first to some particular length, say $5$. We are going to calculate how many numbers with exactly $5$ digits have digits that sum to more than $35$.
The generating function for the sum of digits is
$$ (x+\cdots+x^9)(1+\cdots+x^9)^4. $$
You want to sum the coefficients of $x^k$ for all $k \geq 36$.
As mentioned above, this approach reduces to a dynamic programming algorithm. The algorithm computes inductively how many number of length exactly $l \leq 5$ have a certain digit sum. I'll leave you the details.
In case your range is more complicated, you break it up. First, we can handle something like "all numbers of length 5 starting with 1,2,3" by adjusting the first factor. Second, you can break up an arbitrary range $[0,n]$ into ranges of that form (plus extra "constant" digits that affect only the choice of the threshold). Finally, use $[l,h] = [0,h] - [0,l-1]$ to handle an arbitrary range.
If you only want to estimate the number, the way to go is the Central Limit Theorem, or rather Large Deviation Theory. The sum of digits of an $n$-digit number is approximated by a normal variable - but not far from the mean, which is what you're looking for. Still, there are estimates on the error of the normal approximation which can be useful. Methods from Large Deviation Theory may give more accurate results.

A: I have investigated this issue a bit more depth and implemented two solutions. Please refer to
http://cpluspluslearning-petert.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/dynamic-programming-heavy-numbers.html
http://cpluspluslearning-petert.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/dynamic-programming-heavy-numbers-part.html


So the Big Stick Cleanup got started yesterday, but did not get finished: I got a call from Anne just before 2:00; she said she was somewhere in Connecticut riding alone, she was cold and wet, it was raining, and was done. I packed up what I was doing, got home and ready to go, and was on the road by 2:05 after getting her exact location by email. It was about four hours away, but the drive was pretty easy, and with an hour for dinner we were home by 11:00 or so, and totally crashed not long after. I guess we'll have that pot roast tonight.


Over a year ago, I applied for the Hertz Foundation Fellowship, and was invited to the first round of interviews.
MD/PhD students are eligible for the Hertz Fellowship, unlike the NSF Graduate Fellowship.
The Hertz interviews are technical, and similar to PhD qualifying exams (which I wrote about in this post).
Here I describe the questions I was asked and the answers I gave. Each interview covers different topics, some of which are selected by the applicant, so your experience will differ.
Interview questions are block quoted, and my responses are plain text.
Tell me how your journey started, back when you chose a college, then decided to pursue MD/PhD training.
Don't feel like writing this out, but same information as was in my essays when I applied to MD/PhD.
Why did you switch your interests from biomaterials to software?
Software is eating the world (shoutout to A16Z).
Where do you see yourself after finishing school, then after that?
Residency, then faculty with joint appointments in medicine and engineering. I want to balance patient care, research, and teaching in a synergistic fashion.
This sounds cliched, but interestingly it is also one of the rarest outcomes for any academic doctor. Everyone says they want to do it because they think the admissions committees want to hear it. They may be right. Lots of us say this because we truly want to do it. But the actual number of MDs and MD/PhDs who successfully attain synergy between three very demanding and sometimes conflicting endeavors is small - based on my anecdotal experiences with faculty over the years.
Tell me about a situation in which you exercised creativity?
I talked about my senior design project at UCLA where we attempted to reduce cell death in polymer scaffolds by seeding cells in a gradient to better control oxygen consumption and diffusion. Our team was limited to 1 or 2-dimensional modeling in COMSOL because of mathematical complexity. To match computational and experimental paradigms, we fabricated polymer discs that fit exactly in the wells of a 48-well plate. Like stacking pancakes of different chocolate chip densities, we stacked discs with different cell densities to crudely control cell distribution.
Another thing Hertz looks for is technical skill. What are some areas we can talk about?
Chemical engineering, transport, biology / physiology, statistics.
We play a game where I have 1000 coins and you have 1000 coins. We take turns flipping one coin at a time. If it lands heads, I get the coin (or keep it if it was my flip). If it lands tails, you get it. What does the sample space of game outcomes look like? How would you determine the length of the game?
I would write some very simple code and run a Monte Carlo simulation, then plot a histogram of outcomes against simulation number. I would expect to see the distribution of game outcome follow a normal distribution if sufficient samples were taken. At this point I cited the central limit theorem.
What is an analogous process to this coin-flipping game? What would both the game and the analogous process look like at infinite time?
I did not immediately answer correctly, but we ended up discussing diffusion.
What is the relationship between length scale and diffusion, and why?
The above expression is correct for 2D or 3D space. I incorrectly thought it solely applied to 3D space, which was the scenario in which I derived it.
Switching gears - how would you construct a biological circuit that can perform logical operations?
I would introduce two receptors on the surface of a cell that had specific binding to two different ligands; say, calcium versus a neurotransmitter.
In real life what do the kinetics of ligands binding to a receptor look like, and why?
Sometimes the response looks like sigmoidal curve, because of allosteric effects, e.g. hemoglobin. Activity reaches an asymptote. There is also lots of noise in biological systems.
How would you make a sigmoidal curve sharper?
First, I thought to increase the binding affinity of the ligand for the receptor, but that would probably just increase binding at all concentrations.
Next, I thought about how hemoglobin works; you could make the receptor or enzyme decrease activity at higher concentrations of ligand.
Another way is to add a 3rd party allosteric modulator, so I used 2,3-BPG acting on hemoglobin as an example.
Let us suppose you construct a surface receptor system that lets you signal 1 or 0 using two separate ligand inputs. How would you build an 'AND' and an 'OR' gate?
Use a downstream signaling integrator, or traffic the signal to a different part of the cell, a la trafficking motifs. I also talked about a very superficial neural network approach.
Describe an organ system from a clinical perspective, then contrast that to an engineering or science view.
The brain; neurologists think of disease in terms of clinical symptoms or vascular localization. Neuroscientists think about a more microscopic scale, drawing on graph / information theory, electrophysiology, etc.
Also, the heart; physiologists clasically think of CV systems as a network of resistors, capacitors, and pumps (I cited Guyton). Cardiologists integrate a lot of physiology: clots to the brain from atrial fib, or fluid overload hitting the lungs, etc.
In hindsight, cardiology was a bad example because that is a fairly quantitative medical specialty. But I summarized by saying the major difference between the two views was a quantitative approach, or for a bench scientist, length scale versus clinical integration.
You mentioned in your application you enjoy cooking. Give me an example of chemical engineering or chemistry in cooking.
I talked about heat transport in making the perfect filet mignon. Pink in the middle, but seared with a beautiful crust on the outside. You have to use high, intense heat in the beginning to lock in the color and flavor (Maillard reaction), then reduce heat to gently cook the center of the meat further from the heat source. If you want more even diffusion, you can sear on the stovetop and transfer to a convection oven.
Outside of your research, what are the three big-picture problems you want to work on?
Instill rigorous management practices into academia.
Apply behavioral economics and psychology so society chooses truly impactful problems to work on instead of problems people think are important.
Use technology in a broad sense (mobile, cloud, analytics) to radically transform training and education.
Why do you contribute to / get out of Hertz?
He likes meeting and interviewing fellows.
Global health requires technology innovation, but also cultural and policy approaches. People tend to lie in one camp or the other and criticize work outside of their view. I disagree with both extremists and believe we need a combined approach to improve healthcare in underresourced environments.
I felt I answered the questions well, but was not invited for a final interview. The rest of my application (GPA, publication record, etc.) was probably not as strong as the competition. Congratulations to the brilliant people who won the fellowship.


Despite the expense of school fees, neither my children nor their friends knew what famous battle was fought in 1815, and that included a few with A grades at GCSE in history. Try asking yours I hope that you get a better result.
The trouble is that history isn't taught chronologically. It's not their fault that there are yawning gaps in their knowledge-it's the fault of the curriculum. Children learn about the Tudors, the World Wars and the American Civil Rights Movement, but nothing in between. I can't see how they will have a sense of place if they aren't taught about the history of the place. This year, I'm going to attempt a basic history course at the breakfast table.
However, what they don't know about history, they do know about technology. If something goes wrong with a mobile phone, computer or television, they can fix it in a moment. Their wonder at my inability to record a television programme successfully mirrors mine over their lack of history. The trouble is that I expect that they will soon know what happened in 1485, 1588, 1688, 1715 and 1805, but I'll still be left cursing the remote control.


I cannot help but try and incorporate fruit into all of my meals when there is so much of it available. Take cherries, there have been some absolutely gorgeous garnet beauties hanging out at the farmer's market these past few weeks and I've snatched up a carton on every visit I could. What did I do with all of them? Well, besides just eat them standing directly over the trash can, (to take care of the pits) I made this Food Matters Project inspired lunch that also involved some carbs and cheese, and Jessica over at How Sweet It Is has this recipe for bourbon maple pork chops that I used as the inspiration for this.
In a small sauce pan, combine bourbon, sugar, maple syrup, garlic, Worcestershire, vinegar, mustard and cherries. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly, then reduce to a simmer and let cook for 10-12 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and let thicken.
Once done, top the pork chops with the glaze and serve immediately. Serve with some roasted potatoes for a 100% dude approved meal.
Strawberries have also managed to sneak their way into a lot of my meal ideas. Instagram proved to be the inspiration for this dinner when a friend was enjoying a Flying Dog and Pizza pairing dinner down in DC. One of the pizzas on the menu was a strawberry and bacon pizza ... wait for it ... yeah, exactly. I was initially going to try to make a strawberry basil pesto, but found myself without my food processor. So I just threw my strawberries, basil, bacon, red onions and goat cheese on a whole wheat crust and hoped for the best.
I got three enthusiastic thumbs up from the friends (and Rob) who helped me polish off two of these pizzas.


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Social media is ubiquitous in enabling personal connections online, and medical-focused professional networks are similarly influential among physicians who want to share information and experiences with colleagues around the world.
These healthcare social networks provide a means for communication and collaboration that would otherwise not be possible, and offer the promise of improved health outcomes for patients. While many physicians and patients embrace the benefits of these online networks, they should also be aware of the potential risks and understand how to mitigate them.
While some may consider healthcare social networks to be part of eHealth or telemedicine, there are notable differences compared to such practices as ePrescribing and eCommunication. The primary distinction is that healthcare social networks are, by definition, social and therefore open to other Internet users.
In medical crowdsourcing, responders to a clinical query may be motivated by recognition, curiosity, or simply the satisfaction of collaborating. Financial rewards may also be a motivating factor.2 For patients, medical crowdsourcing offers access to a large pool of medical expertise to diagnose and treat rare or difficult conditions—though patients are generally advised to not act on crowdsourcing opinions or advice, and instead seek their own doctor's professional judgment.
There are numerous different healthcare social network platforms, though many of their features overlap. Some platforms are targeted specifically at physicians to help diagnose and treat their existing patients. SERMO and Canadian-based Figure 1, for example, allow physicians to upload images and other clinical details of their cases, and other physicians provide responses to help arrive at diagnoses and propose treatments. Other platforms are targeted at patients who seek help with troubling medical conditions from the network's members which include physicians and other healthcare experts. CrowdMed is a leading platform in this area.
Physicians who offer medical advice on a social network that is likely to be used by patients living outside of Canada might consider including a note that the information being provided may be applicable only in Canada. This will help mitigate the risks of non-Canadians following medical advice that might not be appropriate or relevant. The CMPA will generally not provide assistance with medical-legal matters brought outside of Canada that arise from the publication of information to a non-medical audience.
When using a social network to help diagnose and treat their existing patients, physicians should be cautious about relying on an online opinion, particularly if the identity and reputation of the other individual are unknown. Physicians may want to document in the patient's medical record an online recommendation that is relied upon, as well as the rationale for a rejection of a particular recommendation on a course of treatment.
While platforms such as CrowdMed reassure physicians they are not legally liable if their suggested diagnoses or treatment solutions turn out to be incorrect—owing to, among other factors, the aggregate nature of experts' suggestions where no single individual has absolute influence4—such assurances are untested in Canadian courts and cannot be relied upon at the present time. The CMPA is not aware of any legal actions brought in Canada to date involving medical crowdsourcing.
Physicians who share information about their existing patients on social networks are obligated to protect patient confidentiality. This can be achieved by ensuring that the posted information is properly de-identified, that is, excludes any information or images that might identify a specific patient. While, for example, the Figure 1 platform informs users that, because their images "do not have identifying details about patients and are not attached to any patient information" and consequently are not subject to privacy regulations,5 physicians should nevertheless do their own due diligence to ensure their patients' health information is not identifiable. Alternatively, physicians should obtain the patient's express consent to share identifiable personal health information.
Some social networks provide an electronic consent form that patients can sign, and in these instances physicians should ensure the form has been tailored to the legal requirements of their jurisdiction. Canadian physicians may instead choose to use the CMPA's photo and video consent form [PDF], available on the CMPA website, for this purpose. The consent agreement, which should include a discussion with the patient about the photos and their intended use, should be documented in the medical record. If you are working in a hospital or other institutional setting, you should also familiarize yourself with, and abide by, any relevant policies or procedures that restrict the taking of clinical photos.
Social media platforms typically provide ways to hide confidential information such as automatically detecting faces and blocking or blurring them in uploaded photos, as well as reviewing uploaded images and removing them when necessary. If a patient were to complain to a medical regulatory authority (College) or privacy commissioner, or bring a legal action in relation to a privacy breach, it is uncertain whether the physician's reliance on the social network's practices to identify potential confidentiality issues would be considered sufficient.
When a patient seeks medical advice through a crowdsourcing platform such as CrowdMed, it is the patient who initially posts his or her personal health information on the site and agrees to the platform's terms and conditions. The physicians and other practitioners who offer advice in response to such requests need not seek additional consent from the patient to discuss that patient's health information within the social platform.
When using professional social networks, like all social media, keep in mind that you are governed by the same legal and professional standards that would apply in any other professional setting. As the Canadian Medical Association notes, "having an online profile or identifiable presence on social media can have the same degree of positive or negative impact on a physician's social reputation as being active in any other public venue."6 These standards apply whether or not you choose to be anonymous online and whether or not your identity has been "verified" (i.e. the social platform authenticates your identity by checking publicly available databases of licensed physicians and then displays your verification badge).
The CMPA, together with its healthcare partners, encourages physicians to explore innovative approaches to medical care, and to consider their use of professional social networks with prudence. Similarly, the CMPA supports efforts by governments, regulatory authorities, and medical associations/federations to establish the regulatory clarity governing the use of new health technologies, and thereby help physicians to better manage the associated medical-legal risks.
When all parties work together to develop a suitable approach to the appropriate use of emerging technologies, including healthcare social networks, providers can use such tools with the confidence that they are providing the best possible care for their patients and making a positive contribution in healthcare.
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Q: Do there exist any subsets of $\mathbb{R}$ with positive measure but not of size continuum? As title goes, without assuming continuum hypothesis, is there a subset of $\mathbb{R}$ with positive measure but not being continuum? That is,

Does there exist $A\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ such that $\mu(A)>0$ and $\aleph_0<|A|<2^{\aleph_0}$?

I believe that maybe in some system without assuming continuum hypothesis, there exists.
And by the regularity of Lebesgue measure, it suffices to deal with compact set.

A: There's a standard exercise in measure theory that says that if $A$ has positive measure, then $A-A$ contains an interval. It follows from this that $A$ must have the same cardinality as the reals.

A: I find a solution due to This question. Due to the regularity of Lebesgue measure, it suffices to deal with compact set. And a standard result is a closed subset of $\mathbb{R}$ is either at most countable or continuum.


Mockery Live At Maryan's/Talking Leaves Now In Stock!
'In The Crease: Mockery Live At Maryan's': Tom takes to the stage after a losing playoff game for the Buffalo Sabres at Maryan's in Depew and by some miracle manages to win the crowd over.
'Love Those Water Boys': Dave 'The Real Deal' Waters rocks out his first live musical set in almost two years at Maryan's in Depew.
As always, you can subscribe to The Big Words I Know By Heart Radio Hour on 'the iTunes' by searching Big Words Radio and clicking on the show listed under Comedy. If you're a current subscriber, then you already have both episodes!
And finally, Mockery is now available at both Talking Leaves books locations, so if you live in the city and you can't make it out to any of the suburban events, feel free to pick up the new book at the Main Street or Elmwood locations. Talking Leaves has been another long time friend for every single book over the years. While it's a hassle to set up some promotions, Atomic Don and Jonathan at Talking Leaves have never needed more than a phone call to iron out a date and time and for that I'm grateful.
I hope you all enjoy your Easter and perhaps I'll see you out on the road next week!
There's a lot of new business this week, so I'll try to cover it all quickly and efficiently. First and foremost, I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to vote for me in ArtVoice's 2011 Best Of Buffalo polls. Regardless of the outcome, I truly appreciate everything that all of you have done for me over the years. You've all encouraged my tantrums, supported my work and continued to stand behind me every step of the way. There is no way to properly express my gratitude for everything that all of you in the Buffalo community (and beyond) have done. Thank you for riding along with me through all of the peaks and valleys. I won't get my hopes up about all this awards business, but I guess we'll find out together.
And finally, on to a tiny bit of nasty business. After almost a month of provocation from two individuals recently, I was forced to take action. After facing the consequences of their actions, they had a sudden crisis of conscience. Let's get something straight if we can. I'm getting older. I'm slowing down, time is at a premium and if it were up to me, I'd be much happier to be left alone and move away from the whole 'waging war with fill in the blank' phase of my life.
Please don't for both our sakes.
Think like a journalist, gather your facts and draw an informed opinion before you make the hasty decision of taking a run at me. My fuse gets a lot longer as I get older but that doesn't mean I won't employ the full brunt of my investigative knowledge to maximum benefit if you get my dander up. Kindly leave me alone. If you want to exorcize your inadequacies or any other number of neuroses on someone rather than seeking therapy, be smart and don't…pick…me.
I would truly like to be left alone. Aside from the book promotions, I'm trying to move further away from any kind of public presence, personality or finely tuned image. Hopefully in five or ten more years my family and I will have a house in the country that's no less than forty five minutes away from a normal shopping center where I can listen to Bob Dylan, drink whiskey on my porch and an incoming phone call will be a major event. Please keep this in mind should you choose to wage a war against me. Poor etiquette will no longer (nor has it ever been) tolerated.
That's it for today. Sorry for the negative backlash, but this had to be addressed.
Tom dials up Mark Kalesniko (the writer and artist for the new book Freeway by Fantagraphics) along with returning co-host Atomic Don to talk about Asian women, working for Disney and 'the acid shits'. Diets are changed, beers are consumed and Mark plays along with the boys like a champ.
You can also subscribe for free to The Big Words I Know By Heart Radio Hour on 'the iTunes' by searching 'Big Words Radio' in the Podcasts section. Dial it up and rate high, folks!
Thanks to Mark Kalesniko and Atomic Don for rolling with the punches. Thanks are again in order to producer Richard Wicka for putting up with/dealing with my horrendous artistic temperament before, during and after the show.
With a recent cancellation for my May show, I'm putting a call out for a new guest! If you're a local artist, musician, writer, painter, etc., now would be the ideal time to get ahold of me. Kindly send me a query email at: bigwordsmailbag@yahoo.com. The Big Words I Know By Heart One Man Mobile Unit will be taping in about two or three weeks, so speak now or get lost in the vacuum. If you have an observable talent and a small degree of conversational savvy, now's the time to let me know!
That's all for today. I've got a few more aces up my sleeve later this week, but I'm saving them for the time being.
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As it was Veterans Day weekend, I thought that I would make a quick stop here to pay my respects to those who have gone before. Though it's technically Memorial Day for those who have died in the armed forces and it's Veterans Day for all who have served, living and deceased.
This is a lovely cemetery. Calm, green, rolling hills and well kept trees. The headstones are in good conditions and the grounds are maintained well.
They have closed and locked the back gates for traffic control. You'll want to enter using the front gates as I did. Loop around on I-95.


The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office arrested a man Tuesday afternoon after he stabbed a man and fled from the scene at the Beneva Place Apartments.
Deputies responded to the 3400 block of Queens Street around 4:15 a.m. on Sunday, for a report of a stabbing. Deputies made contact with the victim, who said he was sitting on the back porch with his friend when 28-year-old Brendan Sheridan attacked and stabbed him with a knife. The victim was taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital for treatment. The victim's friend, who resides at the apartment with Sheridan, said Sheridan fled shortly after the incident.
Sheridan is charged with Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon. He was released Wednesday evening on $100,000 bond.


Lawyers claimed victory yesterday as ministers revealed that plans to introduce fixed costs in clinical negligence claims will implemented in cases valued up to £25,000 rather than £250,000.
Specialists had feared that the government would set the higher fee, which they argued would severely limit the legal advice available to those claiming serious negligence by doctors.
But their joy was tempered by proposals for a rise in the fixed costs regime to that level for general personal injury cases.
Lord O'Shaughnessy, a minister at the Department of Health, announced the revised proposals yesterday in a consultation paper. Ministers maintain that 36 per cent of the cost of clinical negligence claims against the NHS relates directly to the cost of litigation in claimant and defence costs.
O'Shaughnessy said that for claims of less than £25,000, claimant recoverable legal costs are on average 220 per cent of damages awarded. "Where litigation is needed," he said, "the process will be streamlined so that the injured person and their family reach a resolution more quickly, confident that change will occur, and that harm will not happen to others.
The minister added that "it is right that the government should endeavour to reduce the cost of litigation so that more resources are available for NHS patient care".
Sugarman said the NHS needed to change its approach to litigation. "Above all, we need an end to the deny, defend and delay approach by medical professionals when something has gone wrong, which is all too common," he added.
Robert Bourns, president of the Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, also cautiously welcomed the government's move.
Despite quietly celebrating the Department of Health's u-turn, lawyers were still battling over wider proposals to set the fixed fee limit at £250,000 for personal injury claims.
Responding to a consultation from Sir Rupert Jackson, the Court of Appeal judge reviewing the system, solicitors and costs lawyers called for the proposals to be at least put on hold, if not ditched.
The Association of Costs Lawyers pointed out that the current regime was only three years old and had not been fully assessed. "Our members accept that extensions to the fixed recoverable costs regime may follow over time," it said in a statement.
The Law Society also weighed in. Bourns warned that if costs were fixed at the level proposed by the government, "for at least some cases and possibly most, the costs that a successful party could recover will fall significantly short of the costs they have incurred".
In our view fixed costs are likely to result in more ADR or earlier settlements as Claimants realise that it is uneconomical to run cases to trial.
We have recently written a book about ADR and personal injury claims available from Law Brief Publishing.


The A Group has come to the end. ShtanUdachi and ThijsNL are going to Kiev for the LAN Finals, which will run in October of this year. And we are to see the B Group now, which two our players, Lostov and Kucha, are taking part in. The first match, which Lostov will compete with StanCifka within, is starting at 18:00 CET. The Czech player currently takes the 5th place in the European and the 11th one in the world Hearthstone rating. Since July 11 he's been a member of the Luminosity team. The most successful tournament of StanCifka is DreamHack Bucharest 2015, where he took the first place and got the prize of $4,000. In the first group stage of SLTV StarSeries Season 1 Stanislav Cifka showed an excellent result, having beat Kolento and ThijsNL with 3:1 and 3:2 scores. Aleksey Fursov will try to live up to the hopes of the CIS community and reach the next stage, where he will go up against the winner of the Kucha and Dog pair.
And now let's have a look at the second pair. Aleksander «Kucha» Kulinich will have to try hard himself, since his rival is the American player, who takes the first place in his region rating and the third one in the world rating of Blizzard's card game. During his career, Dog has played 173 matches, having got the 57% winrate. Both players are taking this match very siriously, so none of them will ease down. The game must be very interesting, then. Don't failt to come to the stream and follow the HellRaisers.Hearthstone players. Olesia «Olesami» Denisenko and Roman «CaspeRRR» Lepokhin will be broadcasting for you in Russian.
There is more information about SLTV Hearthstone StarSeries Season 1 in our report.


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'Little Humanoid' Encounters
This first story is from my father.
During one particular summer, my father - who had been toiling out in the yard - had decided to come inside to get away from the heat and take a little break. He said he went into his bedroom and laid down on the mattress on his back, looking up to the ceiling. After some time, just enjoying the silence and the warm buzz of the empty room, he heard the sound of paper rustling softly to his side. Thinking perhaps it was a mouse, he turned his head very slowly (careful not to scare it away) and was startled to see a small humanoid figure rummaging through some newspaper that was near my parents' dresser. He said it was a little person, and that it was dressed in dark brown rags.
My father recalled watching it for a few seconds in disbelief, and that was when the figure stopped dead in its tracks, as if it suddenly realized that it had been noticed. At that moment, he said it turned quickly and walked through the wall, vanishing. As soon as it disappeared, he jumped up off the bed to search the spot the figure had just occupied, even feeling at the wall where it had gone through. But there was nothing there. If you've ever seen the film "Cat's Eye" (based off of a collection of Stephen King stories) my father claims that the little person he saw closely resembled the little creature that was living in the little girl's room. I'm in my mid-thirties, and to this day he still stands by what he saw.
My second story - to piggy-back off the first one - also took place when I was a child. This is a story within a story.
My family owns property we mainly use for hunting. It's on the edge of the town where I grew up, and apart from the acre we've cleared out to feed deer, the rest is all thick brush. When I was little, my father bought the property off of another family, and once, while they were negotiating prices, etc. he heard a strange story from the buyer's grandfather. Now, the old man had grown up in the area, and used to love talking about his boyhood adventures on the property. All innocent stories, except one time, the old man related a strange incident that happened to him one early morning when we was very small.
A large creek used to run through the property. Today, it's nothing more than a dried out ravine, but when the old man was a child it was full and had fish in it.
The old man said that one early morning, he had come out to the property with the intention of doing some fishing. As he approached the creek, he was startled to hear hushed voices. Creeping quietly to see who it might be, he said he found himself looking at two small people standing by the water's edge. The figures appeared to be no bigger than a foot, and were dressed in dark green and brown clothing. The voices that he had heard belonged to these two people and although he couldn't tell what they were talking about, he remembered feeling that it was something serious. Then, he remembers that one of them whistled (like a bird) and to his astonishment, a whole group of these beings clamored out of a dead nearby fallen tree. The old man said he watched as they gathered and walked in file down the bank, disappearing where the creek bent and went in another direction. Of course, when he got up to find them there was no trace of them. The old man told my father that he had tried going early again several times hoping to see them again, but he never did. - John
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The current UK government has often re-iterated that its policy is 'evidence led'. Whether this happens in practice is for others to decide, but a useful spin-off is that research has become more prevalent in areas interesting government.
This Research into Practice focuses on a report reviewing how volunteer-involving organisations attract and involve older volunteers. Between 1999 and 2003, the UK Home Office spread £1.5 million between 26 projects with the aim of looking at how to involve more older people in volunteering.
The report is a summation of the experiences of those projects, highlighting some well-trodden issues: what volunteers have to offer, what volunteers want and the barriers that need to be overcome to involve more older people. It also tries to distil lessons that are transferable.


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Mansfield breaks ranks over legal aid action
By Chloe Smith2015-06-19T06:48:00+01:00
A top criminal chambers has broken ranks after the Criminal Bar Association decided not to call direction action in response to the government's legal aid plans, calling for an emergency meeting to overturn the decision.
Mansfield Chambers said that it was 'imperative' that the bar sends a clear signal to the government that the criminal justice system will not survive the cuts.
The Criminal Bar Association earlier today said that 'it understands the difficulty solicitors face' after the government decided to pursue plans to cut fees for litigators, but said it would 'not call for barristers to forgo work in opposition to the [duty provider] scheme'.
According to Mansfield, the executive committee voted by 34 to 11 against taking action on dual contracts or cuts to litigators legal aid fees. It said the decision had been described by insiders as 'naïve' and 'like trading the family cow for a handful of magic beans'.
Veteran criminal barrister Michael Mansfield QC (pictured) said in a statement: 'It is time for barristers to make a stand and strike. Most people are now unable to fight their corner because of the legal aid cuts and the risk of innocent people being convicted is more apparent now than ever before.
'If the lawyers don't stand up now the government will decimate legal welfare completely and will ultimately lead to the collapse of an effective and fair criminal justice. Including the very existence of an independent and committed public service profession able to challenge the excesses of successive overweening governments.'
Mansfield Chambers said the CBA decision 'will come as shock to members' who had expected their representatives to endorse the mandate for action, after 96% of members voted in favour, and amounts to a 'considerable U-turn'.
It added: 'Many are now questioning whether that apparent preparedness to fight was in fact genuine.'
The crime team at 1 Pump Court also said it remains committed to direct action.
A tweet from the chambers stated: 'The 1 Pump Court crime team maintain solidarity with our solicitors and reiterate our commitment to a united campaign against dual contracts'.
Meanwhile a document which the Gazette understands was drafted by members of Mansfields chambers with other criminal barristers sets out details of call for an emergency meeting. It notes that a meeting can be called by 50 members and raises concerns that action may not get under way before dual contracts are implemented.
The document also says cuts to advocates' or litigators' fees on criminal matters and a continuation of the dual contracts policy would be triggers for direct action. Action would include a restart of the 'no returns policy' within two days of a trigger, a one-day walk-out a week after the trigger and an indefinite walkout within six weeks of the trigger.


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UMPI, Wintergreen partner on Northern Maine Center for the Cultural Arts
Posted on June 26, 2013 in Press Releases
UMPI to establish downtown gallery, art studios at 149 State St.
The University of Maine at Presque Isle will soon have a physical presence in downtown Presque Isle as part of a major project to establish the region's very first facility dedicated to the visual arts. UMPI officials are partnering with the Wintergreen Arts Center on this project that not only supports the region's growing arts community and efforts to spur economic development, but also encourages innovation in academic and community education.
During a press conference held on June 26, officials from the University and the Wintergreen Arts Center announced the details of the project. The two entities are working with building owners, the City of Presque Isle, and several other partners to transform 149 State Street (known locally as the old Wight Furniture Building) into the Northern Maine Center for the Cultural Arts. The building already houses the Wintergreen Arts Center on its first floor, but will soon feature UMPI's Downtown Art Gallery on the second floor and UMPI's Art Studio Space on the third floor.
The project also includes hiring a dedicated cultural outreach liaison to coordinate community cultural endeavors at the new center, engaging partners in the development of a five-year cultural plan for Presque Isle, and creating a green space in the parking area behind 149 State St. The project is expected to benefit students, the arts community, the downtown area, and the community at large.
"The University of Maine at Presque Isle connects with the region in many important ways that allow our students to gain real-world skills while serving community needs," UMPI President Linda Schott said. "We are very pleased to be expanding that effort in a very significant way not only by establishing a downtown art gallery and art studio spaces, but also by partnering with Wintergreen Arts Center to present a whole building filled with arts-focused activities and opportunities for the region. We hope to see many positive impacts created through this project."
The cultural center project is expected to cost about $257,000. So far, officials have raised about $89,500 in cash, in-kind donations and grants, including a recently awarded $50,000 Maine Arts Commission Creative Communities = Economic Development grant [CCED]. The grant is designed to support dialogue and partnership between municipalities, businesses, and the cultural sector regarding economic development. The project is being led by grant administrator Wendy Gilman-Zubrick, WGAC Executive Director, and project director Heather Sincavage, UMPI Art Professor and Director of UMPI's Reed Fine Art Gallery.
"We at Wintergreen are delighted to be a part of creating the Northern Maine Center for the Cultural Arts," Gilman-Zubrick said. "It is going to be simply wonderful to see three floors of the building bursting at the seams with arts programming."
"Our goal is to have the Northern Maine Center for the Cultural Arts serve as a location of excellence that attracts leaders to the local community, integrates the University into the downtown district, and becomes an avenue for student engagement and community development," Michael Sonntag, UMPI's Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, said.
The 2,300-square-foot second floor space will include an expansive, museum-quality art gallery that will allow for the display of large art work and higher profile exhibitions, as well as larger group exhibitions. The space will also include an office and room for climate controlled storage of artwork. Established as a sister space for the Reed Fine Art Gallery on the UMPI campus, the downtown gallery will serve as a showcase for established and emerging artists. It will also serve as a real-world learning space for students developing skills in the arts, education, and business, allowing them to gain experience in the professional practices they'll encounter within the art field.
The building's 2,300-square-foot third floor will be converted into art studio space for local and emerging artists. This first-of-its-kind space for the region will provide participating artists with high quality studio space to rent and a built-in arts-centered community atmosphere in which to work. The floor will be divided into six to eight art studios with artists being encouraged to hold gatherings and classes/lessons in their spaces. Artists will also take part in First Friday art walks and volunteer and engage with Wintergreen and downtown gallery programming. The rent artists pay for their studios will help to keep the cultural center sustainable going forward.
The project also includes the replacement of the building's elevator, a hydraulic unit with openings on all four floors, and the addition of a new, safe green space to be developed behind 149 State St., making the area more attractive to foot traffic. Right now, that space is used for parking. In the future, it will be transformed into a space with walkways, floral edges, outdoor umbrella tables, and an outdoor mural.
An exciting and innovative component of the project is the establishment of an Emerging Artist Program. This teaching residency, expected to start in August 2014, will bring an up-and-coming visual artist to the Presque Isle cultural community on a yearly basis (through a national call for artists and a juried process). The selected emerging artist will work with UMPI Fine Art students and members of the public during a year-long appointment. With a stipend of $10,000, he or she will teach two courses, create a body of work based in a studio provided on the third floor, produce a show in the downtown gallery, and give a community lecture. The artist also will be encouraged to give community workshops and participate with Wintergreen and the downtown gallery.
"Not only will this teaching residency distinguish UMPI's Fine Art Program from others in the state, it will provide a diversity and richness to our program, keep the program contemporary, and bring a global dialogue to the area," Sincavage said.
To direct all the important work that will be underway at the Northern Maine Center for the Cultural Arts, officials are hiring a Cultural Outreach Liaison to coordinate between consortium partners, city officials, business owners and groups/organizations in the downtown, and be responsible for collaborative programming and cultural marketing of the region, as well as related funding needs. Among the most important work the Cultural Outreach Liaison will undertake is to help put together a five-year cultural plan to address the vision of arts and culture in Presque Isle.
The funding officials have in hand so far will cover the costs of Phase I of the project: renovation and construction work to the second and third floors, computers and audio/visual needs for the second floor, the Cultural Outreach Liaison salary for one year, a portion of space rental, and development of both the Emerging Artist Program and the marketing strategy. Phase II will include the replacement of the building's elevator and implementation of the Emerging Artist Program and the marketing plan. The Maine Arts Commission is actively helping NMCCA project officials to find other grants to support Phase II of the project. Officials hope to begin Phase I renovation and construction efforts this summer.
"We are so excited to have this project happen for Aroostook County," Sincavage said. "Other cities in Maine have taken on similar projects with quite impressive results. We can't wait to see how this effort helps to change the game in terms of economic development, cultural tourism, and innovations in arts education for the region."


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Keith Curle says Carlisle Utd will bounce back from first defeat of season
Keith Curle says Carlisle United won't change their approach after the Blues finally lost their historic unbeaten record.
Defeat at bottom side Newport checked United's stunning progress in League Two so far this season.
But Curle said his players have strong enough character to recover quickly from their first setback of the campaign.
The Blues manager said: "We've been beaten in a game of football - it's going to happen.
"There's no disgrace in coming [to Newport] and not getting the result we wanted.
"The important thing is we need to react. There's been a lot of good work gone into the start of the season, and that won't change."
Goals from Josh Sheehan and Rhys Healey saw Graham Westley's Exiles stun United, who failed to score in a game for the first time this season.
The result ended their record run of eight successive wins in all competitions and their 15-game unbeaten league start.
United remain in second place in League Two, now four points above the play-off places, but Plymouth increased their lead to seven points at the top.
Curle felt Carlisle battled well in the second half but were undone by errors beforehand.
"You've got to stand your ground and do the basics - and some of our basics weren't at the required level," he said.
"For example, Macaulay [Gillesphey's] clearance for their first goal - you'd probably say one of the most cultured left feet in the division, and unfortunately he doesn't get the ball cleared and instead keeps it alive.
"But we're going to get setbacks - it's how you roll with it. There's enough in this team, character-wise, to bounce back."
While Curle said Newport deserved credit for their own display, he questioned whether ref Darren England had a clear enough view of a second-half incident when Carlisle appealed for a penalty.
Michael Raynes appeared to be held by Darren Jones in the Newport box. Curle said: "I didn't think his positioning gave him the opportunity to see contact in the box. It's a learning day for himself, because that could have been a penalty.
"And with the dominance we had in the second half, if we'd scored then I think we would have gone on and won the game."
Curle, meanwhile, refused to blame the heavy Rodney Parade pitch - which also hosts two rugby teams - for the loss of his side's unbeaten record.
"You've got to say fantastically well-done to the[Newport] ground staff, given the amount of games and footfall it has on that pitch," he said.
"It suits them. They don't really look to get it down and play; they bang the ball forward, get after it and flood areas.
"You need to be a very fit team for that. When it comes off it's pleasing on the eye, when it doesn't you won't pay money to come and watch it."
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