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Value City Department Stores, Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History
3241 Westerville Road
Value City is striving at all levels to become the industry leader in all measures of performance. Management recognizes that achieving these goals requires a commitment to customers and to all associates. Success depends on attracting and retaining quality people. Training, development and recruiting are the highest priorities.
History of Value City Department Stores, Inc.
Value City Department Stores, Inc. operates several chains of off-price department stores. Its largest is the 120-unit Value City chain. Value City stores are unique in offering a huge array of discounted goods in a vast space. Stores are typically between 80,000 and 100,000 square feet, about three times larger than most other off-price competitors. Items at Value City retail for at least 30 to 40 percent below regular department store prices. The stores sell men's, women's, and children's apparel, housewares, sporting goods, and other items. Much of the merchandise is purchased directly from manufacturers, and other goods are bought as overstock or from liquidations of other merchants. The stores offer leading brands as well as moderate and budget-priced lines. Value City also runs a chain of discount shoe stores called DSW Shoe Warehouse. Its roughly 60 stores sell brand-name shoes at lesser prices. Value City also runs the Massachusetts-based discount chain Filene's Basement, and the St. Louis-based Grandpa's chain. The company was formerly an operating division of Schottenstein Stores Corporation (SSC), a private firm run by members of the Schottenstein family. Schottenstein Stores was well known as a liquidator, specializing in buying up failing regional department stores. Value City is still led by a member of the Schottenstein family, and family members control about 60 percent of the firm's stock.
In 1991 Value City Department Stores was spun off from Schottenstein Stores Corporation (SSC). SSC began as a single store in Columbus, Ohio, opened by Ephraim Schottenstein in 1917. Schottenstein's family emigrated from Lithuania and settled in Columbus in the late 1800s. Ephraim was apparently in the clothing business as early as 1909, and soon after he opened his store, E.L. Schottenstein Department Store. Ephraim Schottenstein had four sons, Saul, Alvin, Leon, and Jerome, and a daughter, Selma. The children all grew up working in the family store. One brother in particular, Jerome, was credited with orchestrating much of the growth of the corporation in later years. By the time Jerome was a teenager, he was taking trips to New York and making buying decisions for the store. Jerome became an executive in Schottenstein Stores in 1946. By the early 1950s, the Schottenstein retail empire encompassed only the original Schottenstein store and several furniture stores. But at that time the company began to get involved in the liquidation business, bidding on the merchandise of failing area stores. From liquidating merchandise, the company moved to acquiring bankrupt businesses. In 1963, Schottenstein Stores acquired a failing store in Dayton, Ohio, called Concord City, and the next year it bought another struggling store, Elyria City, in Elyria, Ohio. Then in 1966 the Schottenstein family acquired a store named Value City, in Independence, Ohio. The family business continued to buy up bankrupt stores, and it gave them all the Value City name. This name conveyed the prime message of the stores, which was to sell at budget prices.
Growth As a Liquidator in the 1970s and 1980s
Jerome Schottenstein became president of Schottenstein Stores Corp. in 1972. He went on to become an almost legendary figure in retailing: he was expert at buying liquidated merchandise, and equally astute at turning around failing stores. The Value City chain grew in the 1970s by taking over floundering regional chains and reopening them profitably. Some were closed and reopened under the Value City name, while others SSC funded and gave management assistance in exchange for a percentage of the business. SSC turned around bankrupt chains such as Valley Fair/Widmann in New Jersey and Levine's in Texas. Most of the company's operations centered in the Midwest, in relatively small towns within 250 miles of Columbus. The company owned extensive real estate in and around Columbus, Ohio, where the firm was headquartered. But Jerome Schottenstein sometimes roamed far afield in looking for juicy liquidations. In the early 1980s he bought and sold the discontinued product line of flamboyant and bankrupted car maker John DeLorean. Schottenstein also sold overstocked Fiat cars. He was involved in the operation of an air freight company in Singapore, though he had never been to Singapore. While most of the Value City stores operated in relatively small towns such as Lima, Ohio, Schottenstein Stores Corp. also bought chains in big cities, such as Wieboldt's, in Chicago. By the early 1980s, Schottenstein Stores was still tightly controlled by the Schottenstein family. The Value City chain had grown to around 35 stores, and it pulled in about $250 million annually. The company's furniture division, Value City Furniture, was one of the leading furniture retailers in the country. SSC also ran a chain of lawn and garden stores in the Philadelphia area; a drug and beauty-aid chain; a chain of auto supply stores, and it also had a 50 percent interest in two mall-based apparel chains, Silverman's and American Eagle. The entire Schottenstein retail enterprise was estimated to bring in $600 million a year.
Public Company in the 1990s
The Value City chain expanded through the Midwest in the late 1980s. It opened nine stores in 1989, and then six more in 1990, bringing the total to 53 stores in 11 states. Sales and earnings rose annually in the late 1980s. Sales of $537.8 million in 1990 were over 25 percent higher than the year previous, and operating profits too rose more than 20 percent. In mid-1991, Schottenstein Stores Corp. announced that it would take its Value City division public, offering a 25 percent stake in the business. The money raised would be used to retire debt. Value City's initial public offering went over well. Off-price retailing was seen as a smart trend, and Value City found eager investors. The stock price quickly rose by almost 90 percent, and the company soon declared a 2-for-1 stock split. The Schottenstein family still owned three-quarters of the new company's stock, giving it controlling power, and Jerome Schottenstein led Value City as chairman. His son Jay was vice-chairman and chief operating officer.
Jerome Schottenstein died in March 1992 of cancer at age 66. His son Jay, then 37, became chairman and CEO of Value City Department Stores, Inc. Jay had worked for SSC since 1976, and had been vice-chairman since 1986. He had worked closely with his father, and been responsible for much of the day-to-day business. Under his leadership, the Value City chain continued to expand as anticipated. Amid a generally flat retailing environment, Value City posted sales and earnings gains, and the company continued to open new stores. In 1992 it acquired a chain of 15 Gee Bee stores based in Johnston, Pennsylvania. Gee Bee was a struggling chain picked up by SSC in 1990. Value City took over the stores and converted most of them into Value Cities. The Value City formula seemed to make it stand out even as the market filled with other discount chains such as Marshall's, T.J. Maxx, and Filene's Basement. A writer for Discount Store News described Value City stores in an October 5, 1992 article as 'an off-price, value-driven mall, a collection of specialty stores, under one roof.' The stores were so big, and with such a variety of merchandise, that they attracted shoppers from all income levels. While some of the goods were genuinely inexpensive, some of the bargains Value City offered were top-of-the-line brand name items including men's suits and raincoats. These sold for hundreds of dollars, which was still hundreds of dollars less than department stores charged. Thus it was not just consumers on tight budgets who were attracted to the stores. A native of Columbus familiar with the store described shopping there in a September 28, 1992 Forbes article as 'more like a sport than ordinary shopping.' He claimed it was currently trendy among the city's affluent to dig for bargains at Value City.
Given the success of its IPO and its apparently excellent retailing strategy, the chain laid plans for major growth. Already by early 1993, the Value City chain boasted 79 stores and sales of around $870 million; management foresaw hitting the $1 billion mark soon. Over the next ten years, management planned to open a minimum of five to seven stores a year, and company planners expected sales to eventually hit $2 billion.
Yet by 1995 the story was a little different. Apparel, which accounted for about two-thirds of Value City's sales, was stagnant, and company analysts struggled to come up with a corrective strategy. The company had problems getting a new distribution center up and running, the market was considered flat in any case, and exceptionally warm weather in the fall of 1994 further depressed apparel sales. This led to a steep drop in earnings. The company looked at ways to make its stores friendlier, to advertise more effectively, and to move more goods from the back room onto the selling floor. Company executives reiterated that Value City had a great retail strategy. The firm's senior vice-president told the Daily News Record on November 3, 1995 that the chain was depending on its buyers being 'sharper and closer to need' in order to get Value City cooking again. Despite difficulties, the chain continued to expand, moving mostly eastward. It opened stores in Atlanta, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1995, and in 1996 opened nine stores total, including stores in New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Though the chain had long been suited to smallish towns, it expanded in Chicago and in suburbs of Philadelphia and St. Louis. All the stores the chain opened were not the same. The merchandise mix was specifically targeted to certain buying groups. A Paramus, New Jersey store, for example, was filled with pricier and more sophisticated goods, while others in less trendy urban markets were designated as 'moderate' or 'budget' stores overall. The chain's advancement continued as the firm bought up struggling regional merchants. Its new Philadelphia stores, for instance, were remodeled from units of a chain called Clover.
By the late 1990s, Value City had grown to a chain of over 90 stores. But the growth had come at a cost. By 1997, Value City was in a slump that had lasted for many months and sent earnings spiraling down. Same-store sales growth was under one percent monthly, and inventory piled up. In late 1997 Value City hired a turnaround artist, Martin P. Doolan, to take over as president and chief executive, temporarily setting aside Jay Schottenstein and former president George Iacono. Doolan brought in a team of new executives, and set to work refocusing Value City's apparel buying. Some stores were slated for renovations, which included wider aisles, new carpeting and signs, and a way of grouping goods by category rather than brand name. The company also began offering more services to its customers, such as automated teller machines in the stores and promotional incentives to its store credit card holders, and upped the discount its employees received on purchases, from ten to 20 percent.
By the fourth quarter of 1998, the company had survived its red ink period. Doolan had refocused the store on branded goods, and he attributed that shift to the company's returning fortunes. What Doolan called 'good brands' had grown over his tenure from 15 percent of sales to over 60 percent. Most stores were renovated. The chain had halted its new store openings for fiscal 1998, but resumed its expansion with several new openings in the Southeast in 1999. Sales for 1998 reached $1.16 billion, and the company also made a new acquisition, buying up a shoe retailer called Shonac Corp. in May. A year later, the picture looked even better. Earnings increased dramatically, and the firm made several more strategic acquisitions. Value City took over eight stores from the Crowley's chain, which was in bankruptcy proceedings, giving it five stores in Detroit and three in Connecticut. Later in 1999, Value City acquired the inventory of the bankrupt Starter Corp., a maker of athletic outerwear. Value City also purchased a chain of 14 discount stores in the St. Louis area, Grandpa's. The company planned to reopen them as Grandpa's Value City.
In 2000, Value City paid $16.1 million in cash and stock for the Filene's Basement chain. Filene's Basement was a rival discounter which had had its IPO at the same time as Value City's. The Wellesley, Massachusetts-based chain had at first been quite successful, growing to over 50 stores. However, by 2000 Filene's Basement had started to shut its stores and enter bankruptcy proceedings. Value City intended to sell off one part of the purchase, a chain of warehouse stores called Aisle 3 Filene's operated, and to revive Filene's under new management. Value City began reopening some of the shuttered Filene's within months of the purchase, and it claimed it could bring the chain back to profitability within a year. With steadily growing sales and a stabilized earnings picture, Value City in the early 2000s seemed to be furthering its earlier pattern of success. It continued to expand across the country, using its tested strategy of buying up other bankrupt regional chains.
Principal Subsidiaries: Filene's Basement Corp.; Base Acquisition Corp.
Principal Competitors: Melville Corp.; TJX Co.
Related information about Value
Value can refer to:
Value (mathematics) -- the value of a variable in mathematics.
Value (personal and cultural) -- the principles, standards, or quality which guides human actions
Value (economics) -- the market or estimated worth of commodities
Value theory -- ethics
Value (marketing) -- the value of commodities from a marketing standpoint
Value (computer science)
Value (law)
Value (semiotics)
Value (colorimetry) -- a measure of lightness or darkness in color
Anthropological theories of value
Theory of value for more general discussions of economic value.
Moral character
Progressive logic, that illustrates the value logic of civic morality.
Phronesis
1917: Ephraim Schottenstein opens first store.
1946: Jerome Schottenstein joins Schottenstein Stores as executive.
1966: Schottenstein Stores buys Value City store, and utilizes this name for subsequent purchases and resuscitations of bankrupt stores.
1991: Value City is spun off from Schottenstein Stores Corp. as public corporation.
1992: Jerome Schottenstein dies; son Jay takes over as CEO of Value City.
2000: Value City buys Filene's Basement chain.
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The Goddess's Favorite Creepy Movie Scenes, or Evil E.T.'s Eggcellent Adventure
3 Nov 2014 19 May 2016 / Jenny Ashford
I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the sci-fi genre or of horror/sci-fi crossovers. There are some exceptions, of course—the Alien franchise, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers—but on the whole, aliens are not really compelling baddies for me. So it was with some degree of meh-ness, on Halloween night, that I agreed to give a lesser-known British sci-fi horror flick from the 80s a whirl; the film was the God of Hellfire's pick for the evening (our other two Halloween screenings included more traditional horrors, The Omen and The House That Dripped Blood, in case you wondered). Despite my initial trepidation, though, I have to say that I am now rather glad that the GoH exposed me to this hidden gem, because I would have likely never sought it out on my own, and it is deeply, intensely fucked up, but in the best possible way.
Released in 1983, the bewilderingly-titled Xtro was directed by Harry Bromley Davenport, and was presumably made to cash in on the wave of popular sci-fi films of the period, like E.T., Alien, and Videodrome. It was pretty resoundingly panned on its first release, but became something of a cult film in the ensuing years, spawning two sequels so far (though the sequels don't have much of anything to do with the original movie). It's not difficult to see why the film slowly found an audience, because there is some very, very strange shit going on in this thing, and though it's a fairly low-budget affair, the special effects are actually quite good for the time, and some of the imagery is pretty disturbing.
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, BUT IS THERE ANY WAY I COULD MAYBE GET A RIDE TO THE CHIROPRACTOR?
Xtro tells the story of a boy named Tony (Simon Nash) who is playing with his dad Sam (Philip Sayer) in the yard of their farmhouse when suddenly an intense light blazes out of the sky and apparently drags Sam away with it. Cut to three years later. No one really knows what happened to Sam, but Tony and his mom Rachel (Bernice Stegers) have had to move on with their lives, and now live in London with Rachel's new boyfriend Joe (Danny Brainin) and a hot French nanny named Analise (Mariam d'Abo), who was presumably shoehorned into the film to provide the requisite titty shots.
Meanwhile, a light shines out in the woods again. Two people driving down a dark country road hit a freaky-looking creature with their car (in one of the movie's creepier scenes, and in fact one that made the rounds on YouTube labeled as a "real" monster sighting), and stupidly go into the woods to try to find it. The creature kills the man, goes back to the car and takes care of the woman, then circles around to a house. It attacks the woman living within and impregnates her. Her belly swells to gargantuan proportions in minutes, and then a fully-grown, blood-slick Sam comes crawling out of her monumentally wrecked vagina. After heading back into the woods and stealing the clothes off the car-driving dude he killed, Sam heads to London to try and track down his family.
Here's where the whole thing gets a little more bizarre. Sam picks up Tony from school, so when Rachel comes to get the boy, she is told that his father has already taken him. She chases them down, and sees that Sam has indeed returned. She's glad to see him, but angry that he seemingly left them three years earlier with no explanation. He says that he doesn't remember anything about what happened, so Rachel feels bad for him and takes him back home. Tony is overjoyed to have his father back, but naturally Joe, the new boyfriend, is far less enthused, especially when it becomes clear that Sam doesn't really have any intention of leaving and Rachel doesn't have the heart to tell him to take a hike. Joe eventually sort-of moves out, though he's still sharing the photography studio where he and Rachel both work.
So it's all a very awkward family drama into which more weirdness soon manifests itself. Tony wakes up in the middle of the night covered in blood that isn't his. The next day he catches his father eating the eggs of his pet snake, has a freakout, and hauls ass out of the house. Sam chases after him, reassures him that everything is fine and that he just needed to eat those eggs because he's different now, and wouldn't Tony like to be different too? Tony seems to relent, because hey, that's his long-lost dad, so Sam creepily puts his lips on the kid's neck and either starts sucking blood from him or inserting something into the blister he makes there.
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU, DON'T DRINK SO MUCH RED TEMPERA PAINT BEFORE BED???
ALIEN DADS WHO GIVE THEIR SONS HICKEYS: NEXT ON MAURY.
Later on, back at home, Sam tells his son that he has powers now, and can pretty much do anything he wishes to do, and that now Tony can too. Predictably, the first thing the kid uses his powers for is revenge: Tony's pet snake escapes and turns up in the apartment of their busybody downstairs neighbor (played by Anna Wing), who chops the hapless reptile into pieces. Tony uses his newfound alien magic to animate a toy soldier and make it grow life-size, so that it can troop down to the busybody's flat and poke her to death with a bayonet. It's a weird, unsettling scene, not least because it doesn't make much sense, and also because the actor playing the life-size toy soldier has some creepily inhuman movements to go with his plastic, unmoving face.
KNOWING HOW TO STAB YOUR NEIGHBORS IS HALF THE BATTLE.
Tony also brings one of his clown dolls to life in the form of a sinister little person (Peter Mandell) who does his bidding. When Rachel decides to take Sam back to the farmhouse to see if he remembers anything about the night he disappeared, she leaves Tony in the care of the often-shirtless nanny. Analise wastes no time in inviting her boyfriend over for some afternoon delight, but Tony keeps pounding on the bedroom door, insisting she play hide and seek with him. Finally she agrees to a short game and begins searching the apartment for the boy, at which point Tony and his creepy clown henchman hit her on the head with a mallet and then drag her into the kitchen, where we later see that she has been attached to the wall in some sort of cocoon. Squishy eggs are squelching out of an ovipositor-type tube where the bottom half of her body was. The clown midget takes these eggs and places them lovingly in the refrigerator after coating the inside with some lumpy green goop. Analise's boyfriend, by the way, is first chased and shot at by a toy tank, then attacked and eaten by a black panther that is inexplicably wandering the halls. Because aliens.
PREPARE TO TASTE TINY HELL.
Back at the farmhouse, Rachel and Sam are going at it, but suddenly Rachel notices that Sam's skin is starting to rot off. He takes off into the woods toward a bright light, and Rachel runs after him. Joe has brought Tony out to the farmhouse after he finds the kid running around outside the apartment alone and everybody else dead. Sam starts alien-ing like crazy, turning back into the creature we saw at the beginning. He makes a high-pitched shriek that apparently ruptures something in Joe's brain, killing him. Then Sam gets to the light, and he has Tony with him, and Tony is starting to alien out too, hand in hand with his dad, and then they both disappear and Rachel is standing there in the field where the light just was, wondering what the fuck just happened. She doesn't wonder long, though, because later on, she gets back to the apartment, finds the eggs in the upturned fridge, stupidly picks one up and stares at it until a little hand thing shoots out of it and attaches itself to her face and kills her.
IN 1980'S ENGLAND, OMELET EATS YOU.
So everybody dies, pretty much, except for Sam and Tony, who I guess live happily ever after on some alien planet far away, where they fill their days with telepathic toy control, big cat training regimens, and reptile-egg feasts. Did I mention this was a weird-ass movie? It's kind of like a low-rent Cronenberg flick, what with all the goop and tentacles and vaginal imagery and creatures with backwards legs and what not, and even though the guy who played Joe kept reminding me of a lost member of the Romantics, I actually enjoyed the thing a great deal more than I thought I would. As I said, some of the images—the first sight of the creature scuttling across the dark road, the full-grown man emerging from the woman's torn hoo-ha, the eerily grinning clown doll come to life—are really effective, and I quite liked the very downbeat, bleak drama of the whole family dynamic, which I guess is pretty typical of British films. It's definitely an odd little film, but one that I'd recommend to fans of the genre. And with that, until next time, Goddess out.
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2 thoughts on "The Goddess's Favorite Creepy Movie Scenes, or Evil E.T.'s Eggcellent Adventure"
Mr. Xploit
5 Jan 2015 at 3:51 am
These pictures really make me want to check it out Xtro. Clowns and midgets both scare me. Two in one? *Shudder*
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Q: Git stash with staged files. Does stash convert staged files to unstaged? I was working on a large set of changes to a code base. Some of the changes had been staged, and some had not. I needed to switch to a different branch, but was not ready to make a commit, so I stashed my current state using git stash.
Later, I went to apply my stash with, git stash apply. Then I ran git status. I noticed that my staged changes no longer appeared as 'staged', and instead appear to be included as 'Changes not staged for commit'. Am I correct in my understanding that no data was actually lost, but instead 'staged' data is now simply converted to 'unstaged' data?
EDIT: I should add that some of the files in question had staged versions, and unstaged versions at the time of the stash. For example, file A had some changes made, which were staged. Then, some more changes were made to file A, which had not yet been staged. Then, a stash was made.

A: The answer to the question as asked ("does stash convert staged files to unstaged") is both yes and no.
If you've applied with git stash apply (vs git stash pop), you're in great shape because the stash is still present.  But let's back up a bit and look at the underlying mechanism, since it matters here.
When you run git stash push (the new verb) or git stash save (the old verb) (or plain git stash which does a push/save), git makes two1 commits that are not on any branch.  One commit holds the state of the index, i.e., whatever you've staged.  The second commit holds state of the work tree, i.e., everything else.
Later, when you use git stash apply, git smushes the changes together so that nothing is staged, unless you add --index2 to the apply operation, in which case it restores (if it can) your previous arrangement of staged vs unstaged.
When you use apply, the stash script keeps the stash commits around as well, so if the apply does not go the way you wanted—including if you forgot --index or misspelled it (see footnote 2)—you can git reset --hard (assuming you had everything in a clean state when you started, anyway) and re-do the apply.
If you've used pop, though, and git thinks the apply worked, it then drops the stash.  I generally recommend using separate apply and drop just for this reason.
(Side note: I actually recommend avoiding git stash as much as possible.  It has too many traps for the unwary, plus it historically has had a number of bugs.  But if you've used it and now regret it, consider git stash branch, which turns a saved stash into a branch.  See ADTC's comment below.  You can do this with the raw hash ID of an already-popped stash, though you will generally need a "clean" state.  The new branch branches-out from the commit you were on at the time you made the stash.)

1With -u or -a, which save not just staged and unstaged files abut also ignored and/or all files, the stash script makes three commits.  Without these flags, such files don't go in to either part of the stash, though.
2Confusingly, the stash script also has a --keep-index flag, which it allows you to specify for apply operations but has no meaning there.  Instead, --keep-index affects what stash does after making its special stash commits.  Occasionally I've accidentally done git stash apply --keep-index instead of git stash apply --index, having mixed up the two options.

A: Yes, your thinking is correct. It's described in the following sections of man git-stash:
Use git stash when you want to record the current state of the working
directory and the index, but want to go back to a clean working
directory. The command saves your local modifications away and reverts
the working directory to match the HEAD commit.

(...)

pop [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>] Remove a single stashed
           state from the stash list and apply it on top of the
           current working tree state, i.e., do the inverse operation
           of git stash save. The working directory must match the
           index.

           (...)

           If the --index option is used, then tries to reinstate not
           only the working tree's changes, but also the index's
           ones.

(...)

apply [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]
           Like pop, but do not remove the state from the stash list.

A: NO, no changes have been lost.
Acc. to the documentation:

Git re-modifies the files you uncommitted when you saved the stash. In this case, you had a clean working directory when you tried to apply the stash, and you tried to apply it on the same branch you saved it from; but having a clean working directory and applying it on the same branch aren't necessary to successfully apply a stash. You can save a stash on one branch, switch to another branch later, and try to reapply the changes. You can also have modified and uncommitted files in your working directory when you apply a stash — Git gives you merge conflicts if anything no longer applies cleanly.
The changes to your files were reapplied, but the file you staged
  before wasn't restaged. To do that, you must run the git stash apply
  command with a --index option to tell the command to try to reapply
  the staged changes. If you had run that instead, you'd have gotten
  back to your original position:
$ git stash apply --index
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#      modified:   index.html
#
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#
#      modified:   lib/simplegit.rb
#

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07-10 December, 2017
APICTA AWARDS
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Jamuna Future Park is the largest shopping mall in Bangladesh as well as largest shopping mall in Asia with a gross leasable area of 1,614,586 square feet (150,000 m2).The centrally air-conditioned shopping complex has seven floors, equipped with its own 45MW power plant and WiFi internet. The lower basement and middle basement floor are reserved for car parking and a portion for a supermarket and a hypermarket. Level 1 is the base floor for all atria, facilities for live entertainment, musical and fashion shows. From the ground floor to the fifth floor, there are several categories of outlets, non-branded shops, banks, online booths and food courts. The fifth floor has space for a children's theme park, a gymnasium and a health club, two separate swimming pools for men and women, exhibition halls, banquet halls, international standard movie theater with seven individual halls, 22-lane bowling alley with karaoke facilities, and a musical and entertainment floor. JFP is also going to have Dhaka's second ice skating rink.
Jamuna Future Park (www.jamunafuturepark.com/)
Bashundhara City (http://www.bashundhara-city.com)
Bashundhara City is a 19 storey high building complex covering an area of 191200 sqft comprising an 8 storey podium containing Retail Spaces, Mega Stores, Theme Park, Cinemas and Food Court and a 19 storey Corporate Office of Bashundhara Group over 2 storey Health Club and Swimming Pool.The mall has ample recreational facilities on offer. There are over 2325 shops, several floors for accommodating office and business centre. The range of products and service is vast and the marketing is aggressive. A multi-screen movie theatre with digital sound system screens both local and international films. Each of the three parts of the theatre can accommodate 262 viewers. A bowling and billiard centre and video games are also here. Connoisseurs of food would like to visit the international food court that has 100 shops. They can enjoy cuisine and take to fast food shops and restaurants. Children are not going to be deprived, as a Theme Park is on the Levem-8. Decorated with replicas of Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and India Gate, the park can accommodate 160 children at a time. Kids take pleasure in roller coaster, bumper car, flying carpet and highway cars. For fitness, there is a world class gymnasium -'Adonize Fitness Center' that has gym, swimming pool and spa in it.
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Bert Weedon was such a gentleman and his contribution to British Rock-n-Roll was immense via his guitar tutor PLAY IN A DAY and his massive hit Guitar Boogie Shuffle which we all learnt from, as everybody was boogie mad in those days. Bert's Tutor was brilliant and it was the only one of its kind that taught you the guitar chords and it was a big must have item along with pitch pipes to tune up with! Everyone had his Tutor book back in the 1950's it was like a Bible to us all. You couldn't get any guitar lessons for love nor money as nobody knew how to play and most of us couldn't read music! We learnt ( or guessed ) from records after we all started playing guitar from scratch to Lonnie Donegan's Rock Island Line. Joe Brown was the only guy we saw who could play half way up the guitar neck back in 1957 and we were all gob smacked and went WOW!!! I saw him do this with his band in the Rialto Cinema Leyton when Skiffle Groups played between the film sets on a Sunday afternoon.
Joe must have had some advice from someone unknown to us as our acoustic Spanish guitars were impossible to play above the 5th fret, this was because we put metal strings on them to get a LOUD big twanging sound and due to the extra pressure these exerted they bent the neck upwards and the guitar looked like Robin Hoods Bow! You couldn't push the strings down as they were 3inches up at the 5th fret !!! This hampered our progress big time, even with Bert's Tutor to hand it couldn't help us. Electric guitars were unheard of in those days and we thought you had to plug them in to a 240 volt mains socket which was a bit scary back then! It was not until I was called up for National Service that I got a guitar lesson when a northern guy showed me how to play bar chords in 1958 when I was stuck in a tent for 15 months in Cyprus. I used to play my guitar 24 hours a day to beat the boredom and the first song I leant to play with bar chords was Connie Francis's "Who's Sorry Now" and I was so proud of myself I wrote a letter home to my parents with all the song chords in it which I have still got !!!!
I still had a Spanish guitar at that time but I had put the proper strings back on and could now play like JOE BROWN at last !!!!!!!
I met Bert on several occasions when I was doing 60's shows with my band Blackcat in the 80's and it was a real honour to perform with him. He was a great guy, very polite and very professional and we got on great, be it playing together on stage or personal wise. I kept in touch with him by phone for many years and he was very approachable at all times. He paid me some great compliments on my guitar playing and my energy which I thought was fantastic coming from the MASTER….. and I have never forgotten it. I had a copy of his Guitar Tutor "PLAY LOUD IN A DAY" which I had kept from the 50's which I used to show people until someone nicked it along with my equipment and my van!
If anybody out there has a spare copy, could you please send it to me because I have forgotten where BIG "E" is !!!
I really enjoyed Bert's company and our phone chats but sadly we moved apart in his later years..... as you do in music! In all my life I have never heard a bad word spoken about Bert, everybody loved and respected him and he was a true pioneer of British Rock & Roll and I feel so privileged to have met and known him personally LONG LIVE HIS MEMORY!
Bert Weedon died on April 20, 2012 at the age of 91.


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How to Share the Road with Motorcycles
July 1, 2015 • by Adam Pringle
Photo courtesy of iStockPhoto.com.
Even before factoring in the specific challenges faced by fleet drivers (such as additional miles traveled and work-related distractions), road accidents involving motorcycles can be even more physically and emotionally devastating than those involving automobiles — and the statistics reflect this.
On a per-vehicle-mile basis, motorcyclists are more than 26 times more likely to be killed in a crash than occupants of cars and five times more likely to be injured, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). And, motorcyclists accounted for 15 percent of total traffic fatalities in 2012 (the most recent data available), even though motorcycles make up only 3 percent of all registered vehicles in the U.S., according to the National Safety Council.
However, there are a number of tips fleet managers can pass along to their drivers regarding how to share the road more safely with motorcyclists.
Being on the Look-Out
One strategy fleet managers should recommend to their drivers to more safely share the road with motorcyclists is to check their mirrors and blind spots twice — first for traffic, then for motorcyclists — before entering a road or changing lanes, according to Phil Moser, vice president of Advanced Driver Training Services (ADTS).
"Check your mirrors, and watch for motorcyclists riding in your blind spots. You have to be especially diligent when looking for motorcycles in your blind spots. Develop the habit of making a conscious effort to look for motorcycles, and make it a part of your daily driving," Moser said.
In addition, fleet managers should advise their drivers to increase their following distance when behind motorcycles due to their quicker stopping ability, as well as give motorcyclists a lot of buffer room, according to Moser.
"Give motorcyclists a lot of space, and don't start passing them until you make sure you have a clear shot that you can get by them because they will swerve when necessary. You have to give them a wide berth, basically," Moser said.
And, if you're in a vehicle with compromised visibility (such as a large truck or van), let the motorcyclist pass, Moser added.
"If motorcyclists are out in front of you, then they're not going to run into the back of you, and you can keep an eye on them and gauge your distance from them," Moser said.
Getting Reacclimated
One difficulty for fleet managers based in cold areas is that their drivers may go months without encountering motorcyclists on the road, so, when the weather gets warmer and motorcyclists once again become a more common sight, drivers may need a reminder about how to drive around them, Moser recommended.
"It's like if it doesn't rain for a long time, and, when it finally does rain, there are crashes all over the place because the road is wet and oil mixes in with the water. For drivers who haven't driven around motorcycles in a while, you have to re-educate them about how to drive around those vehicles," Moser said.
Above all, though, Moser emphasized that fleet managers pass along to their drivers a message that's always crucial, whether or not there are motorcyclists on the road: focus on driving, and avoid distractions.
"Fleet drivers need to be especially diligent because they're working and they're focused on other things, but, when they get behind the wheel, they need to say to themselves, 'OK, now I have to drive,' and be focused on their driving — and not be on their phone. It's true for driving in general, but it's especially true when driving around motorcycles because crashes involving a motorcycle and car are absolutely devastating," Moser said.
Related: Fleet Safety Video Tip: Motorcycle Awareness
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East China city to build giant panda research and breeding center
HANGZHOU, April 15, Xinhua -- East China's Hangzhou City plans to build a state-level giant panda research and breeding center, according to the Hangzhou Safari Park.
Giant pandas in Hangzhou Zoo. (photo/xinhua)
The park Saturday signed an agreement with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda on the breeding project.
Construction of the center, which covers an area of 6 hectares, is scheduled to start this year and be finished by 2022.
Currently, there are four giant pandas in Hangzhou, two at Hangzhou Zoo and two at Hangzhou Safari Park. The project is scheduled to bring in another 20 giant pandas by 2022.
Li Desheng, an expert from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, said there were many zoos with giant pandas across the country, but there were only a very few research and breeding centers.
The center will also conduct giant panda wild training.
Giant pandas are one of the world's most endangered species and live mainly in the northern mountains of Sichuan Province as well as in southern Gansu and Shaanxi provinces.


00 - New Game. After the heroic first adventure of "Rad" Spencer, bionic technology revolutionized infantry warfare. The world was at peace for a time, but things started going south when the country of Papagaya threatened a missile attack, led by General Sabio, a brilliant engineer who created a robotic army.
01 - The FSA (good guys) sent a battalion led by Colonel Brubaker. The FSA soon lost contact with Brubaker and his entire army unit. Whoever is narrating this (Super Joe?) sent a team of five bionic soldiers to investigate.
02 - A helicopter flies over the sea. The bionic soldiers inside make a few wisecracks at each other and argue about the gravity of the mission. First objective: fight your way to Brubaker's men, then fight alongside them. Second objective: disarm Sabio's missiles. The bionic soldiers drop out of the helicopter in pairs, except the last one: "Rad" Spencer. "Damn rookies." His mustache is fierce and commanding, yet affable and welcoming.
03 - Map screen. First stage is Puerto Calao. Highlighting the stage shows your best completion time, your friends' best completion time, the world's best completion time, how many secrets found, extra lives obtained, Yashichis found, completed with/without jumping, completed in co-op mode, hardest difficulty played, and completed with "prestige." Looks like there's plenty of options here to scale your challenge and exploration needs, then.
04 - Apparently I have "Bio-vision," which works like scanning in Metroid Prime. I'm told to scan an intel station nearby. The game pauses and screen turns green, with scannable items in red. This intel station gives me the basics on the controls (movement with D-pad or control stick). Scanning bosses will give me tips on their weak points.
06 - Spencer's jump is very small, hardly enough to really help with platforming. It is nice that I can climb on top of barrels instead of having to swing through them, though. Pressing Up enters doors. I enter "Real de Juego, Sabio's Preferidos Casino." There's some kind of collectable puzzle piece in here. Got it. Probably should have scanned it to see what it was.
07 - There are switches that I can trigger by hitting them with my arm. The bionic one. This switch opens a shutter ahead.
08 - Explosions in the background on the beach. Guess the other bionic commandos have met the enemy? There are blue, solid barrels and red explosive barrels. An enemy takes cover behind a blue one, and shoots over the top. I can shoot my bionic arm forward (down and circle) to stop the bullets.
09 - When latched onto a barrel, I can pull myself toward it or pull it back to me, at which point I can walk around with it and toss it. Now climbing up a series of outdoor speakers up a dilapidated building.
10 - Shooting up some more bad guys...they drop health when killed. I can climb up boxes and pull myself up ledges with the jump. That's helpful.
11 - These blocks down here look fragile...can I break them? Not with what I have now, apparently. A truck pulls up from the background, and an enemy hops out, taking cover behind a barrel. Nearby, I found a grenade launcher! Apparently it's an Active Upgrade rather than a switchable weapon. With it equipped, pressing triangle shoots a grenade from Spencer's shoulder-mounted launcher.
12 - The grenade destroys the series of fragile blocks, revealing a door inside. It's a pretty narrow indoor area. Oops! Apparently this little ditch in the floor is electrified. I stay in it a bit too long and die.
13 - Started not too far back from where I was. Hmm, that enemy dropped a yellow bullet symbol. Apparently these are ammo pickups. Maybe my other weapons have limited ammo? I don't think that was the case in the first BCR, but I might be wrong.
14 - Found a fragile-looking wall. A scan says that it could be taken out with a bazooka...guess I'll have to come back later to get whatever's in there.
15 - Found a health regeneration upgrade. Apparently this is a Passive Upgrade. I can equip one Active and one Passive upgrade at a time. I come across a small trail of bad guys, and roll a barrel through them all.
16 - There's an old generator here...I destroy it, and that triggers a huge barge to drop into the water, forming a bridge for me to cross.
18 - I swing up a trail of speakers, leading upwards. This seems to lead the same way as a path below. Maybe one is the preferred path for speed-runners?
19 - I use my grenade launcher to explode another trail of fragile boxes. There's a mechanical lever in here. If I hang onto it, Spencer's weight pulls it down and opens a shutter ahead.
21 - There's a HUGE guy in the area ahead. "What do they put in your cereals?" asks Spencer. "I don't eat cereal," he replies, "I eat muesli!" And the fight begins. Shooting him appears to do nothing. He has a small minigun, I have to jump over or duck under his shots.
22 - If I get too close, he knifes me. I use the lampposts nearby to swing into him, knocking him over. I unload some shots at him. Apparently my rapid-fire is pretty fast, because he's already dead. "Welcome to Papagaya Island" trophy earned.
23 - Instead of heading forward to finish the stage, I backtrack a bit and explore the area before the boss. There's a Yashichi in this area...some tricky swings lead me to it. I don't think it does anything, just a collectable to find and grab.
24 - Found a fuse box. Apparently I'll need an electrical arm upgrade or a certain weapon to use this. I'm at the end of the stage now. One of the other bionic commandos radios in. Through the static, Spencer can figure out that one of them is dead. The surviving bionic is terrified, and apparently something is hunting them. Predator!?
25 - Stage complete! Hagle Breaker found. Cycle weapons using L1 and R1. I get a recording of my time and a summary of the stuff I collected, whether or not I jumped, etc. Map screen, next stage is Fort Arturo. Let's try this stage without jumping!
26 - This area appears to be some kind of ferny area, outside the port I just came from. It transitions into a more military base-looking area. I am greeted by some enemies and swing to a higher vantage point. I have already jumped, instinctively. Damn it.
28 - Ooh, a little robot enemy! It rolls explosives at me. Trying to avoid them, I jump off the edge...and right into the water, where I sink. Oops. I can't really tell how many lives I have left, the life counter is inside the health bar. And it's very tiny.
29 - This time, I hang on the ledge above the robot, and drop grenades onto it from my launcher. Time to move forward.
30 - I head into a door, into a silent challenge room. I have to swing up across a rising ceiling to get ahead. One of the parts of the ceiling can't be grabbed onto, either.
31 - I head back outside...I'm pretty sure this is not far from where I went in, even though I traveled pretty far inside...?
32 - Found a new upgrade, "Death From Above." When falling, I can press down and jump to pound the ground as I land. This destroys fragile blocks and damages enemies. It also looks pretty badass, with Spencer screaming on the way down.
33 - Ooh, I can slide down walls! Kind of like Mega Man X. That's neat.
34 - Still making my way through this industrial base...sliding under low ceilings by using barrels on the other side.
35 - Maybe I'm just used to the first game at this point, but the stage design seems pretty easy so far. I remember having a very hard time after the first stage in the first Rearmed.
37 - Oh yeah, I forgot I got another weapon at the end of the first stage. It appears to be a shotgun, and I have eight shots with it. Guess I gotta keep getting ammo to keep it refilled. I destroy a robot ahead with it and the robot drops ammo. Convenient.
38 - There's a signpost here. Does that mean a boss is ahead?
40 - Map screen. Next stage is The Mighty Jungle. Okay, this time I won't jump at all! As the name suggests, it's a stage full of tree branches to swing through and some waterfalls as well.
41 - Damn it, I hate having to swing over barrels instead of just hopping over them. Angered, I grab the explosive barrel and throw it at an enemy ahead on the bridge. The bridge was destroyed! Too bad I was already swinging toward it...I'm dead.
42 - After I restart, I notice the bridge is still destroyed. That makes things a bit tougher...I swing over the gap and climb up the side of a waterfall ahead.
43 - There's a stack of barrels in my way here...I can't pull the bottom one out, so I scatter them with a grenade instead. Found a new Active Upgrade, the Uppercut. I equip it in lieu of my grenade launcher. It is as it sounds, an uppercut with that hulking metal arm. It uses my whole Ability Gauge, which slowly refills.
44 - I try uppercutting a couple barrels ahead...and they barely budge. What's the point when I can just grab it and toss it just as far?
46 - Damn it, I'm jumping. The temptation is just too much for me. Unfortunately, Spencer's tiny jump doesn't even make it over the trap, and half of my life bar is taken away.
47 - Now that I've broken the seal, I'm just going go jump around as much as I want and explore this big waterfall area.
48 - There are plenty of paths leading through this waterfall, at varying heights. Hmm, a Yashichi is in this area over here...I have to go to a higher area, fall down, grab onto a branch, then swing toward it. Unfortunately, I can't find the path backwards...whatever, let's just keep going.
49 - Still climbing up this waterfall area. Killed a guy by falling down onto him with my Death From Above move. That felt cool.
50 - There are a series of shutters ahead...not sure what the point of some of them are, I can go around them by using other paths.
51 - Hmm, now I see. Some of the doors need to be approached from another path. I'd have to go back outside this cave area and come in to get some pickups.
52 - I've found some kind of sniper tower. As I enter it, a reticle appears on-screen. I can move it around the screen and pick off bad guys from far away. This feels kind of cheap...at least there's a range limit to it.
53 - Now I'm heading through some big red warehouse area. In the middle of the jungle. There appear to be some sentry towers nearby, but nobody inside.
54 - Ack, fell into a huge chasm. I didn't see that there was no ground below. Time to regain the ground I lost.
55 - I swing up to a lever, and pull it down. It releases a bunch of logs, which take out some buildings ahead. Their roofs line up perfectly to make a bridge across the chasm. Didn't see that coming.
56 - There's a small area I can sneak a grenade into from my launcher...it breaks a chain of fragile blocks, but I'm too big to fit in the opening anyway.
57 - Oh well, keep going. There's a boss ahead, some sort of refrigerator-looking robot. Spencer asks if it has a beer for him.
58 - Shooting it appears to do nothing. Same with the grenades. How do I make it vulnerable? Before I can think of anything, it starts rolling grenades and shooting three-shot bursts at me. I have to grab onto lights above to avoid the attacks.
59 - I'm stumped. Let's try scanning it..."Creative use of bionics may reveal some kind of weak spot." I guess I should try latching onto it?
60 - I grab onto its chest plating and pull backwards, exposing its inner weak spot. Some rapid fire shots quickly take it out. The Mighty Jungle, complete!
New Tricks for the Old School: The original BCR stayed very faithful to the NES classic, with only a few minor alterations to the core gameplay. The sequel isn't afraid to throw in some fresh ideas and tweak things around a bit. The jumps, wall-slides, passive and active abilities are all welcome in my book.
Video: I was a big fan of the 2008 game's oversaturated colors and sidescrolling 3D objects, and BCR2 looks similar. I think there's more detail and and the colors are more subdued, however. I'm a big fan of the art style used in the character portraits as well, though they're infrequently seen.
Audio: Again, the first game's chiptune-inspired musical style returns with new arrangements. I approve.
Gameplay: Plenty of time is spent swinging around the environments, either taking out enemy soldiers or maneuvering through hazards. Exploration is encouraged, as weapon upgrades and other pickups are scattered about. It's a pretty standard 2D shooter/platformer with a hook that makes it feel special.
You got your Reboot in my Remake: In the game's intro, a few characters and organizations introduced in the 3D Bionic Commando reboot for PS3 and 360 are seen. The narrative in Rearmed 2 is in line with its prequel's humorous tone, but I'm of the mind that Capcom should stay as far away from the gritty "new" Bionic Commando as possible.
Challenge: Playing on Normal mode, I found that three or four hits from enemies was enough to kill Spencer, but each enemy drops a health pickup when killed. Similar to the original, BCR2's challenge manifests in swinging safely and avoiding pits and environmental hazards. Bosses provide some mild mental stimulation as well as a test of battle prowess.
Controls: The controls have been revamped. Those who are used to the original XBLA/PSN title will have a brief adjusting period to the new scheme. However, I think the setup in BCR2 makes more sense and will probably be easier to learn for those who have no prior experience with the series.
Would I keep jumping? I don't know that I have much of a choice. It just comes so naturally and feels like a definite improvement over the first game, I instinctively kept doing it. Still, it's nice to know there's a challenge available for those who prefer lead feet.
Would I keep playing? Yes. Bionic Commando Rearmed 2's welcome tweaks don't quite excuse it from merely being more of the same, but it's not like Capcom is beating a dead horse here. Not yet, anyway.


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Patients, staff, money gone from Haskell Hospital
Posted at 10:14 PM, Oct 02, 2019
STIGLER, Okla. — No money and now no patients or staff for the only hospital in Haskell County.
Haskell County Community Hospital partially shut down today due to bankruptcy.
Andrea Randall, Haskell County Community Hospital Interim CEO, says, "I would estimate 70-75% of our staff were laid off today."
10 patients had to be transferred to other care facilities.
Neighbors are now anxious about the lack of care in Haskell County.
Haskell native, Danny Jones says, "Some people were doing good to drive the 10 or 15 miles to just get here, much less to a town farther away. It's heart-breaking."
The problems circle around money.
Randall says, "We're basically not able to get the funding we need to continue operation."
Court documents show the hospital is associated with three filed bankruptcies from 2011 and two this year.
Money is owed to at least 100 businesses around the nation.
The hospital has had multiple owners, over the years; one of them being empowerHMS.
empowerHMS owned other hospitals across the country which also went bankrupt and closed. Insurance companies stopped making payments, allegedly, because of medical billing fraud.
"We're hoping some kind of funds will come from somewhere quickly, so we can call our staff back and continue care," says Randall, "We are an hour away from any high-level care facility. That could mean life and death for people in our community."
Only Haskell Hospital's emergency department will stay open.
The plan going forward could include auctioning the hospital, licensing, and equipment.


Population justification: The population is estimated to number 10,000-19,999 individuals based on an assessment of known records, descriptions of abundance and range size (Buchanan et al. 2008, Davis et al. in prep.). This is consistent with recorded population density estimates for congeners or close relatives with a similar body size, and the fact that only a proportion of the estimated Extent of Occurrence is likely to be occupied. This equates to about 6,000-15,000 mature individuals.
Trend justification: Buchanan et al. (2008) calculated the rate of forest loss within the species's range on New Britain as about 19% over three generations (30 years). Less detailed analysis is available for later years but about 2.2% of forest was lost plus 5.2% degraded across New Britain between 2002 and 2014 (Bryan and Shearman 2015). It is inferred that forest loss and degradation has slowed and the species's rate of decline is now estimated at 10-19% over over three generations (30 years).
BirdLife International (2019) Species factsheet: Henicopernis infuscatus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 19/04/2019. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2019) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 19/04/2019.


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The healthcare system transformation is everybody's business. Its goal is to provide Ukrainians with equal access to quality medical services and make the results of the reform patient-oriented.
Upon completion of the reform, the healthcare system should be: efficient, accessible and focused on the needs of the people of Ukraine. The living standards and quality of life of people are expected to improve after healthcare services have become more accessible, qualitative and safe as a result of more productive medical personnel, which will have better social security due to enhanced and streamlined social support.
Healthcare system transformation
The Secondary (Specialised) Healthcare Guarantee Programme was launched on 01 April, 2020. The healthcare facilities which offer secondary (specialised) care are now operating under agreements with the National Health Insurance Fund.
As of September 2020, the National Health Insurance Fund had contracts with 3,095 healthcare providers who have been paid UAH 51.6 billion for rendering services to patients under the Healthcare Guarantee Programme. Including: UAH 13.3 billion paid to primary care facilities; UAH 29.7 billion - to secondary (specialised) care facilities; UAH 3.7 billion - to emergency care facilities. UAH 4.9 billion has been paid to medical facilities treating patients with known or suspected COVID-19 diagnosis.
The number of declarations signed by Ukrainians with their GPs has increased by 1.5 million from January to September 2020 — 30 million 610 thousand Ukrainians have already signed declarations with primary care physicians.
1,682 primary care providers have signed contracts with the Fund, including 1,102 municipal healthcare facilities, 206 private centres, and 374 self-employed doctors. As of 01 October 2020, there were 216 more primary care providers who signed a contract with the National Health Insurance Fund compared with the same period last year. 75% of them are private or self-employed doctors.
The number of primary care physicians has also increased since the beginning of the year by more than 800 persons.
Primary care currently plays an important role in fighting the pandemic. Physician workload has increased significantly as they mainly work with patients with suspected COVID-19 diagnosis. 1,051 mobile teams have been established in nearly 600 primary care facilities.
More than 290,000 patients received specialised priority services in the period from April to August 2020. This year's Healthcare Guarantee Programme defines 5 top priority medical services:
acute stroke treatment;
myocardial infarction treatment;
care during pregnancy;
complex neonatal care;
imaging studies for early detection of cancer.
To date, healthcare institutions have received UAH 2.7 billion for the provision of priority services to patients.
The Healthcare Guarantee Programme also includes the Affordable Medicines Reimbursement Programme allowing patients to get prescription drugs for their cardiovascular conditions, type II diabetes and bronchial asthma free of charge or with a small co-payment. Patients can currently get 264 prescription drugs under this programme, including 85 free of charge. Patients can get medications in more than 8.5 thousand partner pharmacies across the country. 2.4 million patients participate in the Affordable Medicines Reimbursement Programme. UAH 686.6 million has been paid to the National Health Insurance Fund of Ukraine since the beginning of the year.
Raising healthcare worker pay
Healthcare worker pay has been increased since 01 September 2020, including +70% (UAH 3,561) of salary for doctors, +50% (UAH 2,362) for nurses, and +25% (UAH 1,181) for nursing assistants.
Promoting digital transformation in healthcare
24/7 availability and stability of eHealth has been ensured, SDLC Committee has been established for the proper management and development of the system functionality, and eHealth components roadmap has been created.
Healthcare provider administrative burden has been decreased (more than 25,000 primary care physicians, more than 113,000 medical specialists and more than 157,000 nurses). Electronic medical certification of births has been launched.
Healthcare personnel, education and research
Compensation of labour costs and salary paid by internship centres to first-year interns has been addressed.
Measures have been taken to pay the salaries to 3,510 first-year interns trained in 1,090 internship centres.
Mental health and tuberculosis services
Mental health and tuberculosis services in Ukraine were on the brink of closure due to significant funding shortages.
In June 2020, the Ministry of Health developed regulations to review medical service tariffs, support and prevent closure of healthcare facilities and dismissal of medical professionals. Healthcare facilities have been funded at least at the level of 2019 since 01 July.
Speaking about public anti-tuberculosis treatment, medical service packages will be priced at their cost and included in the 2021 Healthcare Guarantee Programme in 2020.
As to mental health care, the Ministry of Health is cooperating with experts to finalise and submit the draft plan of mental health care development in Ukraine to the Government for approval.
Why change anything?
Ukrainians live 9-year shorter lives than people in the EU — the average life expectancy at birth in Ukraine is 72 years as opposed to 81 years in the EU member states.
About 50% of patients after a stroke have primary disability, about 12% of deaths from stroke happen to people of working age.
Ukraine ranks first in Europe in terms of catastrophic health expenditure prevalence causing impoverishment of vulnerable households.
The share of pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies is 99% of a patient's total expenditure for medications.
37.6% of hospital admissions in Ukraine are done without proper indications.
Ukraine is among the worst world's performers in terms of child immunisation: e. g. polio vaccination coverage in 2018 was only 69%.
What does the reform include?
Healthcare funding reform, implementing new financial vehicles at the specialised and tertiary (outpatient and inpatient) care levels.
Public insurance against excessive expenditure.
Proper safeguarding healthcare service package which should be accessible for all people regardless of their gender, residence, level of wealth and other socio-demographic factors.
Improving logistic support, maintaining information and personnel resources of healthcare facilities at each healthcare level in line with international standards.
Using technological innovations in daily medical practice and ensuring access to cutting-edge treatments.
The reform is currently being implemented in the following priority areas:
healthcare reform;
public health;
secondary care;
affordable and quality medications.
In each of these areas, steps are being taken to: ensure healthcare funding, increase medical personnel compensations, set efficient quality control of healthcare, develop and update the national industry standards and treatment protocols, perform state assessment of medical techniques, create the competitive environment for healthcare facilities, promote voluntary health insurance, encourage public-private healthcare partnership, attract private capital, apply preferential tax policies in relation to income tax, empower the healthcare institutions network, develop telehealth and eHealth, promote cutting-edge medical technologies, the transplantation system and emergency care, provide treatment to patients with tuberculosis, mental illnesses or orphan diseases, launch and implement the National Cancer Strategy, define the basic principles and processes of public health in Ukraine with regard to the risks and challenges of the spread of COVID-19 caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in the world and in Ukraine, update the drug control laws for the transparency of the pharmaceutical market, develop medical education and research.
Entities involved in the reform implementation
the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the National Health Insurance Fund of Ukraine
Reports of the National Health Insurance Fund of Ukraine


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The 5th Annual Venice Holiday Sign Lighting.


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Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
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SARE In Your State
About SARE
1996 Annual Report for EW96-004
EW96-004 (project overview)
Project Type: Professional Development Program
Funds awarded in 1996: $36,424.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/1998
Matching Non-Federal Funds: $15,795.00
Region: Western
Diana Roberts, PhD
WSU Extension
Extension Faculty Learning with Farmers – A Seminar Series on Sustainable Agriculture
1. Educators and researchers together will learn about sustainable agriculture opportunities for dryland farming.
2. Extension faculty, researchers, and farmers will develop ideas for on-farm research to test sustainable agriculture concepts.
3. The Ag Horizons Team will develop a summary document on the project for use by extension faculty in other states and also one-page fact sheets on individual seminars for distribution to farmers in Eastern Washington.
The Ag Horizons Team of Washington State University Cooperative Extension faculty are committed to providing Eastern Washington producers with an understanding of the agronomic, economic, ecological, and social impacts of agriculture and to promoting the adoption of practices that sustain the natural resource base for future generations. The purpose of this project is to educate the Ag Horizons Team, along with other Extension faculty, researchers, agency personnel, and producers about the possibilities and options for developing agricultural management practices and markets that will sustain Eastern Washington farms and farmers in the post-Farm Program era.
The following seminars comprised this project.
1. Taking Out Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grassland
2. Value-Added Markets for Crop Fiber And Residue
3. Farm Policy Update
4. Residue Burning in Conjunction with No-Till Seeding of Winter Wheat
5. Value-Added Opportunities for Eastern Washington Agriculture
6. Grower Experiences with Alternative Crops
7. Organic Grain Production
8. Investigating Alternative Crops
9. Expanding Swine Production
10. The Future of the Family Farm
11. Wilke Farm Field Day – Direct Seeding Project
12. Tour of Wilke Direct Seeding Project Cooperator Sites
13. Natural Resource Issues (for Washington Extension Agents Summer Meeting)
14. A Time to Act USDA's National Commission on Small Farms
15. The Soil Foodweb – Relationships Existing Among Soil Microbes and Crop Plants.
16. Strategies for Successful Small Farms – a Videoconference with Ron Macher, Publisher of Small Farm Today Magazine.
17. Wilke Farm Field Day – Progress on the Direct Seeding Project
Consistent with our goals of learning alongside farmers, we also included farmers as speakers whenever possible. Including producers as workshop participants both as speakers and as audience adds a dimension and level of reality that is popular with other producers and is sometimes lacking from expert perspectives. Researchers can be too focused and reductionist; omitting vital questions like, What is the economic bottom line? Farmers must run their farms as businesses, and net income determines their ultimate success.
The Ag Horizons Team and attending producers reported that these seminars broadened their outlook on agricultural sustainability and gave them more hope for sustaining their land and family farms. Through this project, the Ag Horizons Team has also learned to work better as a team, has developed relationships with new grower groups, and has worked with these groups to decide on-farm research priorities. The team used this SARE project as a stepping stone to establish the area-wide Wilke Direct Seeding Project for research, demonstration, and extension of direct seeding systems. The Wilke Project incorporates farmers and agribusinesses as equal partners with the university faculty, provides producers across Eastern Washington with tools for decision-making with direct seeding, and has attracted the attention of the Under Secretary for Agriculture in Washington DC.
The Ag Horizons Team held 17 seminars during the course of this project and attendance ranged from seven to 101, with an average of 43. The number of Cooperative Extension faculty at the meetings averaged seven, so the project impacted far more than the original intended audience. The producers included ranchers, grain farmers, and small-scale, organic fruit and vegetable growers. Researchers, journalists, NRCS and conservation district personnel also attended. Under the 1996 Freedom to Farm Bill, producers in the region are hungry for alternatives to the traditional production commodities and practices, and this seminar series met a real educational need. This grant enabled us to bring in speakers that we would not normally be able to afford, and added tremendous diversity to our educational programming.
We included producers along with researchers as speakers at programs wherever possible. Eleven of the 17 seminars had producers as primary speakers or as panel members. For example, at the 1998 Wilke Field Day, speakers included a research agronomist from a private company, an Extension educator, the grower who operates the Wilke Farm, and a nationally known university researcher. At all our workshops and field days that included producers as speakers, attendees commented on the value of hearing actual grower comments and experiences.
The Ag Horizons Team prepared fact sheets that summarized the main points of each seminar. These fact sheets can be found on the Growserv Web site at http://pnw-ag.wsu.edu/ We have also published relevant fact sheets in the Ag Horizons newsletter that we send out to growers and other interested persons across five counties of Northeastern Washington.
Dissemination of Findings
In addition to the publications described above, a summary of the 1999 Wilke Field Day was published in the December issue of Wheat Life, a publication of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers with a circulation of 14,000.
Ag Horizons Team members and participating conservation district personnel have reported that these seminars have broadened their perspectives of agricultural sustainability for the region and increased their understanding of alternative practices. This will enable them to offer educational workshops that are broader in scope and they will be better able to serve as a resource for producers and other agricultural professionals.
Impacts on Agricultural Professionals
The Ag Horizons Team completed a survey of their perspectives of agricultural sustainability and teamwork before starting this seminar series and after its completion. When asked how the seminars had affected the region, responses from the project team included:
· "It has broadened regional farmers thinking of how farming is accomplished by demonstrating no-till methods, and helped educate farmers on alternative crops."
· "I really don't think sustainable agriculture is a dirty word any longer. I believe, that to a large extent, this is due to the seminar series combined with Ag Horizons' open and continuous discussion about sustainability."
· "It has given people a taste of what is out there beyond what WSU can offer, which is what we can usually afford to provide at our workshops. Bringing in people from beyond the region and with fresh perspective and expertise has been a tremendous infusion of knowledge…
Reactions from Farmers and Ranchers
At the Organic Grain Production seminar, which was attended by more than 30 people, a life-long area producer stood up and said, I wish I had been able to attend a workshop (on this topic) forty years ago!
Attendees at the seminars on value-added markets commented that they learned the importance of thinking out of the box when developing a new product or business so they might anticipate pitfalls. They also noted the importance of holistic decision-making in these projects and the need to consider value-added products and markets for every crop.
Responses from the Soil Foodweb seminar, about the most important things people learned, included:
· "This is my first class on microbes in the soil and it gave me lots to think about."
· "A lot of books tell what we should do, this class explained why."
Comments from the Wilke Field Days and tours included:
· "I can't express how appreciative I am being able to see alternative crops/no-till so close to my Sprague Farm. It seems an incredible amount of learning."
· "Quite frankly I'm glad you (the Wilke Farm) are making mistakes – that way I don't have to make them."
This summary was prepared by the project coordinator for the 2000 reporting cycle.
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This site is maintained by SARE Outreach for the SARE program and features research projects supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture. SARE Outreach operates under cooperative agreement award No. 2018-38640-28731 with the University of Maryland to develop and disseminate information about sustainable agriculture. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
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U.S. investigators are still trying to figure out who was behind the cyberattack Friday that crippled some of the biggest sites on the internet, from Amazon to Twitter.
Adam Myers, who works for internet security company Crowdstrike, says someone is sending a message.
"I think it was to demonstrate the power and capacity that they have," he said.
And a similar attack could disrupt the election.
"If you plan to be broadcasting during the election, this could be used to disrupt signals. It could be used to disrupt your website during the actual election. Depending on what the targets might be, you could use this to disrupt voting stations or the infrastructure involved in tallying votes," Meyers said.
Federal investigators believe the attackers used malware called "mirai" to access devices in people's homes that are connected to the internet, like thermostats, fitness trackers, smart TVs and even baby monitors.
"People tend to put these devices on and they want to use them as quickly and as easily as possible. So they don't go through the steps of setting up a unique password and a unique user name," Myers said.
"It becomes a really nice victim for these attackers to start looking for these devices and then to inject their own code into those devices," he said.
The mirai botnet then uses the devices to crash a server or website by flooding it with data.
"I call your phone from 1,500 different phones it's going to eventually jam up your phone so no legitimate calls can come through," Myers said.
The hacker may have used the Russian code to throw investigators off track. It takes time for cyber forensics experts to attribute cyberattacks.


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Surgery Performed With Google Cardboard Saved a Baby's Life
A true Christmas miracle.
By Kate Storey
A 4-month-old girl is alive today thanks to a dramatic seven-hour surgery performed with Google Cardboard — those inexpensive handheld viewers that allow you to see 3D images on your iPhone.
Teegan Lexcen was born with only one lung and half a heart, according to CBS Miami. Doctors told her family there was nothing they could do to help her health, and sent her home with her twin sister Riley so she could spend her short life with her family in Minnesota.
Doctors at @Nicklaus4Kids used @google #Cardboard to save baby's life. @ERodCBS4's story: https://t.co/pmUKfnJeJU pic.twitter.com/HwmMnHQaEi
— CBS4 Miami (@CBSMiami) December 23, 2015
"It was devastating," her mom Cassidy Lexcen told WSVN News. "Any parent that has to go through that is... it's devastating, and we lived every day by every day, knowing this could be her last day with us."
But after a couple of months, they found hope with the doctors at Miami's Nicklaus Children's Hospital, who thought Google cardboard's virtual imaging could help with surgery on Teegan's heart.
"He uploaded the images of the baby's heart that he got on the CT scan [to a smartphone], and you put it into this cardboard box, and then in his office, I was looking at the baby's heart in a way that I had never been able to do before," said Nicklaus Children's Hospital Dr. Redmond Burke. "With the box, you get a stereoscopic image, and you can move around in the environment to see every part of the heart."
The new view helped the doctors perform the successful seven-hour, open-heart surgery, and now Baby Teegan is recovering in the hospital's ICU. Burke told WSVN: "She's got a good shot."
"It's the best thing that we could have been given this time of year," Lexcen said. "We have another chance with our baby girl, and we didn't think we would ever have that."
Kate Storey Senior Staff Writer Kate is a writer for Esquire covering culture, politics, style, and lifestyle.
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11 Places to Travel in 2020 To Combat Overtourism
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Swimming May Have Saved This Baby's Life During Open Heart Surgery
The Incredible Way This Children's Book Saved A Premature Baby's Life
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The Pinball Hall of Fame is a museum located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Pinball Hall of Fame may also refer to:

Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection, a 2004 pinball video game by FarSight Studios
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection, a 2007 pinball video game by FarSight Studios
The Pinball Arcade, the Nintendo 3DS version of this pinball video game that only includes tables with non-emulated displays

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The Avery Glider is finished in soft, easy-to-clean fabric, with a hidden metal gliding and swivel mechanism for smooth and lasting comfort.
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After I spent some time getting initial impressions of the Fatback Skookum we had in for testing (you can see the Fatback Skookum Product Spotlight here) I wanted a guy with mad skills to spend some time with the bike and Aristotle Peters is one of those guys. Aris was one of the first people I am aware of who backflipped a fat-bike when he worked at Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park in Milwaukee. You can check out Aris's fatbike backflip video here if you want to see why I think he's the man for the job, especially considering that the Skookum is aimed at the 4-season fat-biker and is meant to be a trail shredder that can still roll the snow and beach when the time comes.
This bike comes stock with everything you would ever want in a year-round fat-bike. The 120 mm travel Bluto, KS dropper post, 740 mm handlebars, short stem, wide range cassette, and powerful SLX brakes all make for an incredibly capable bike. Fatback did a wonderful job with this spec and never had me wishing for different parts. Throw all of these parts on a carbon frame and you get a light-weight, FUN to ride bike. One thing in particular that stood out to me was the dropper post. It performed well regardless of the temperature, had a very easy to push lever under the handlebar, and was very audible when it reached the top of its travel, never leaving me guessing if I held the lever long enough. This is something that I wish I had on other dropper posts that I have ridden and continue to ride.
The spec of this bike makes it capable, but the geometry really brings out the fun of this bike. I found myself wanting to jump or manual anything I saw and left me with a huge grin on every ride. The short chainstays (440mm) and slack head angle (68.5) made this bike shine on the descents.
Although we had some pretty terrible weather here in Wisconsin during my time with the bike, I was still able to get on enough rides to make me not want to give the bike back! As seen in the pictures, I was able to ride in Appleton a couple of times at Riverview Gardens. They have one trail in particular that I had a lot of fun with. You can probably see that from the pictures. This bike is just as much at home in deep snow with its 5" tires as it is on gnarly wooden features and drops. I felt very comfortable on the bike right away, reminding me of summer days on my trail bike. With that being said, I am not nearly as comfortable riding singletrack on longer-wheelbase fat-bikes that are designed more for those long snow rides that you read about in places like Alaska and the like. The Skookum was very nimble, allowing me to ride trails and features that would be much more difficult on other fat-bikes.
I was able to ride this bike through all of the snow that we had, which wasn't much, with no problem. The 5" tires gave it more than enough stability in the deeper spots of snow. I will also note that I prefer the narrower (80mm) rims that come on this bike over the same size tires on a 100mm rim. The tire gets a slightly rounder profile that makes it better handling when laying the bike into corners.
My final adventure on this bike before I had to give it back was the Bike Across Bago event. This was a ride put on by the Fox Cities Cycling Association and the Payne's Point Hook and Spear Club. I had never ridden on a lake before so I was pretty excited to ride across the one that is only a mile from my house. I hopped on the Skookum and headed to the start of the ride, where I was surprised to see hundreds of people. My day ended up being about 24 miles round trip, about 15 of which were on the ice. I was very comfortable on the Fatback the entire ride, never doubting my traction or stability. I may have gotten a little too comfortable, laying down some sweet "powerslides". This is yet another example of what I liked most and I think sums up the bike best… It is extremely capable and MAKES you have even more fun!


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Shirin Aliabadi
Miss Hybrid 5, 2008
An art history and archaeology graduate of the University of Paris, Shirin Aliabadi was a multidisciplinary artist who lived between Paris and Tehran. Aliabadi was widely recognised for her practice, which looked at the behavioral hybridity of her home country's youth and the women's empowerment expressions that emerged in the face of adversity. The female protagonists of Aliabadi's most known series Girls in Carsand Miss Hybridpresented themselves as a radical counter-design to the officially propagated image of women, and displayed a young generation's ways of breaking free from regulations.
Aliabadi's work has been exhibited internationally. Her solo exhibitions include Girls Night, The Farjam Foundation, Dubai, UAE (2012); Eye Love You, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2010); Operation Supermarket, The Counter Gallery, London, UK (2006).
Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including; Epic Iran, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (2021);Kitsch ou pas Kitsch?,Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris, France (2015); Art from Elsewhere, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK (2014);City Lives, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK (2013); Stadt in Sicht(City in Sight):Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany (2013); Magic of Persia, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE (2012); Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA (2009); and Raad O Bargh, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (2009).
Her work can be found in public and private collections around the world including; The Farjam Foundation, Dubai, UAE; Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK; and Collection of Deutsche Bank AG, Germany.
Frieze New York, 2014
City Girl 1, 2010
Eye Love You, 2010
Untitled (03), 2009
Cache Parabole, 2008
Room Installation, 2006
Girls in Car 4, 2005
Perpetual Inventory and Dr. O's Pop Shop at The Third Line, Dubai this December. The Third Line presents Perpetual Inventory, Volume 1 and Dr. O's Pop Shop: The Live Edition, opening 19 December 2022 at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. The exhibition continues until 29 January 2023. A major new collaboration with...