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Brands That the Best MBA Programs Can't Save: Examples of Mistakes and Missteps
Oct 2, 2012 | Blog | 0 comments
Branding tends to be a mysterious practice that, in recent years, has grown and become tangled with social media platforms in unique ways. Today's post by guest blogger Juliana Davies highlights some of the mistakes that major brands like T.G.I. Friday's have made on sites like Facebook, in a way that limits the new need for well-educated and clever "Internet" brand strategists in today's business ecosystem. Juliana was involved in crafting this year's best-ranked MBA programs, where more than sixty schools were assessed on the viability of their virtual academic programs to, among other things, create graduates with skills to tackle problems in an Internet-based branding environment.
Brands That the Best MBA Programs Can't Save: Examples of Mistakes and Missteps (by Juliana Davies)
In today's business climate, the concept of 'branding' – creating and preserving a company image that is attractive to prospective customers – is highly important. While some branding strategies have earned companies widespread acclaim, other measures have been significantly less popular with customers and investors.
In the age of online business and social media marketing, industry analysts recognize several branding 'missteps' that can greatly hurt companies. Two Harvard Business Journal contributors recently noted that companies should not "expect people to stick around for nothing"; in order to implement an engaging online experience, the brand should use social media to reach out to customers and facilitate networking opportunities between site visitors. However, online technology can also harm a company's image. For example, Business Insider reports that restaurant chain T.G.I. Friday's recently offered a promotion, whereby the first 500,000 Facebook users to 'like' the eatery's mascot, Woody, were entitled to a free burger. However, the company was not properly equipped to handle the overwhelming response; Woody reached his quota more than two weeks before the promotion ended, and T.G.I. Friday's extended the offer to 1 million fans. Ultimately, the restaurant failed to deliver on its promise to any of the entitled individuals – and Facebook became "a forum for angry fans to vent their frustration with no moderation."
Drastic changes to a company's image can also lead to negative feedback, as Accenture recently learned. In 2000, Andersen Consulting parted ways with the Andersen accounting group and decided to adopt a different brand name to reflect the split. A Norwegian management consultant suggested Accenture, a portmanteau that symbolized "accent on the future", and company executives embraced the idea. However, as TIME reports, the new name was instantly reviled as nonsensical corporate jargon. The negative buzz eventually led to a $100 million loss for the company. Radio Shack committed a similar blunder in 2009 when it dropped 'Radio' from its name and simply became, 'The Shack'. While company marketers were probably striving for simplicity, many customers felt the new name ran counter to the brand's high-tech image. Harry McCracken of Technologizer argued that the original name was "one of the company's greatest assets", while he characterized 'The Shack' as simply a "lousy name."
One final branding mistake that companies make is to prioritize saved revenue ahead of customer interests. In response to the economic recession, many well-known businesses were forced to increase their prices; customers bemoaned the hikes, but appreciated the transparency. Popular DVD retailer Netflix, on the other hand, abruptly announced a 60 percent price increase for customers who received DVDs in the mail and had access to streaming online content (the company's two core offerings). A significant number of customers found this strategy to be somewhat underhanded on the company's part; more than 12,000 left negative comments on the site, while thousands cancelled their subscriptions. According to The Huffington Post, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings later conceded that the announcement was poorly handled.
Branding strategies do not always succeed – and sometimes, they downright fail. However, companies that emphasize customer engagement and cultivate a public-friendly brand image are much likelier to benefit in the long-term.


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Facebook has been rolling out changes to their news feed algorithm that can potentially change the way your audience will engage with you. In short, this means that you're now more likely to see posts from your friends and family and less posts from brands on the platform. What does this mean for you as a business on social media or Facebook in particular?
Facebook has stated that the changes will "prioritize posts that spark conversations and meaningful interactions between people… [and] posts from friends and family over public content." For some, the thought of these changes are frightening but in reality if you've had a good strategy to begin with you'll be fine. It just means you'll need to execute the same social media strategy that you have been using just better than you should have been all along.
If your business has been using social media primarily as a social platform to engage with your customers then you should be fine. If you've only looked at it as an advertising platform then you'll need to make a few changes. Let's take a dive into what you can do to make your process a lot more strategic and how to minimize any impacts.
We're not saying that your business needs to be on every social media platform, but you definitely should consider having a presence outside of Facebook if it suits you. If your content strategy only fits one social media platform then you're truly at the will of every change that comes along. While we're on this topic… make sure that your content is tailored for each individual platform. Products like Hootsuite are great for saving time, but pushing the same post to all social media platforms without any consideration to how each social media platform interacts and displays is just lazy.
Simple. Use more video and live streaming. Video consistently has higher engagement than any other post types and using Facebook Live will garner even more engagement. If you do plan on using Facebook Live then make sure that you're topic is interesting and that you engage with your live audience. They're supposed to be sharing an experience with you, not watching you experience something. Read our blog post about Video Marketing: Show, Don't Tell or our case study for Larrimor's involving Facebook Live.
Use the insights given to you freely or ask your social media manager or agency to get you the information about your audience. This information is more vital than ever so that you can find out the makeup of your audience — geography, demographics, interests, time of day they interact, etc. Read our blog post Analytics: If you're not measuring it, you're not managing it.
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Over the years there have been many changes to your social media news feeds. Some were good, some not so much. We're all still here. If you're using social media as a social platform as opposed to an advertising platform you'll probably make it through any changes that come your way.
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New Zealanders will overcome Netflix
How dare US company Netflix damn New Zealand's internet as being too poor and ridden with data caps!
By Darren Greenwood for Techie Isles | December 1, 2011 -- 00:47 GMT (16:47 PST) | Topic: Security
Netflix cited these factors as arguments explaining why it won't be offering its services here.
However, our country's broadband is no worse than many, and, when it comes to speeds, at least, we often beat the Australians. Take last year's Akamai broadband speed surveys, for starters. And as for caps, well, things are getting better.
Despite this, it's Australia that will reportedly see the arrival of Netflix sometime next year, as the NBN roll-out gathers speed.
New Zealand has its own NBN, and with the re-election of its National-led government on the weekend, the project is safe and secure, unlike what might happen in Australia when the nation goes to the polls.
I feel Netflix needs to rethink the matter. If it doesn't, the inventiveness of Kiwis will likely beat them.
This is highlighted by the debate from some technology news readers who reveal methods of how people can disguise their location.
Indeed, outfits like VPNfreedom explain how it can be done, although the legality of that is certainly questionable.
So, my advice to Netflix: come to New Zealand, because otherwise New Zealanders will probably come to you.
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Ruel studied at the University of British Columbia in 2005, majoring in Classical Guitar Performance with a minor in Composition. His B. Mus. degree was conferred in 2008, the same year he produced and performed on the Allegra Trio's album, "East-West Journey".
Ruel's foray into music began with piano lessons at the age of four with The Royal Conservatory of Music. Ten years later, Ruel taught himself how to play the guitar, exploring rock and metal genres. With the start of his first formal training at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 2003, Ruel began his venture into classical music and jazz.
At the same time he joined the Percussion section in the KUC Wind Ensemble. The following year he became Principal Percussionist.
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Ensuring An Orderly Presidential And Parliamentary Elections; Sustaining Peace And Stability In Ghana
Ghana is preparing for its twin-elections of Presidential and Parliamentary tomorrow, 7th December, 2020.
The twin-election constitutes an important step in the development of the country. To this end, everything must be done to ensure that the outcome is one that is procured through a free and fair system.
Thus far, the umpire (Electoral Commission) has demonstrated great sense impartiality and has been transparent through out the course of the process, however, tomorrow's event which is also the climax of the entire process, will have to be overwhelming transparent with all actors playing according to the rules of the game.
For the electorates beyond desiring a free and fair, is that the entire process must remain peaceful.
Peace is not just a prerequisite, but also is the Sino quanon for the development of any people and cannot be altered on the whims and caprices of any self-centred individual or politician.
That is possible, but not a given. Even though Ghana 2020 is not same as Ghana in the revolutionary days, the risk of renewed confrontation in the country is real.
Now is the time for preventive action.
Election is an important mechanism in the democratic processes. The purpose of elections is to provide citizens the opportunity to choose freely who they desire to lead them and allocate power to them.
However, the stakes are often very high in this process and this coupled with the underlying tensions in a society requires that, the processes are managed with tact and sincerity lest, it result in violent outcomes.
In line with this, it is important that all political parties, especially, the two leading political parties; the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) prevent any form of degeneration by negotiating a code of conduct which will guard against fraud and violence at elections, on December 7 polls.
A challenge for Human Security
Less visible and more complex than armed conflicts, political and electoral violence remain an important threat to human security and regional stability.
In Africa and Asia, numerous examples from many years reflect the frequency of political and electoral violence.
In Africa alone, it is estimated that, nearly 20 percent of elections over the last two decades have been marred by violence.
Such occurances of violence do not result directly from elections, but reflect instead the breakdown of political processes.
If they are legitimate and inclusive, elections can pave the way for freedom of expression and promote peaceful transitions.
The 2010-2011 post-electoral conflict in Cote d' Ivoire claimed more than 3,000 lives and caused significant economic damage.
The courage and the determination of Ivoirians have allowed the country to stage a remarkable recovery and make real strides in economic and social development.
Interestingly, Côte d'Ivoire's wounds cannot be healed with economic growth alone.
As the pandemic cripples the economy, they are returning to the fore. In the absence of justice for past atrocities and effective national reconciliation, the political atmosphere remains tense.
The warning signs are clear. Against a background of distrust and controversy over the legitimacy of the electoral roll, the independence of the electoral commission and the exclusion of some political leaders from the race, there has been a rise in hate speech and clashes along ethnic and religious fault lines.
Conflict is not inevitable, but critical confidence-building measures are indispensable and urgent.
Thus, relying on the mandate of peace promotion, there is call on the people of Ghana to ignore the sirens of those who would try to manipulate them with appeals on divisive identity politics and promote peace and democracy in this year's elections.
Elections are important pillars of a wider agenda supporting democratic processes. It is a moment when citizens can hold their political representatives accountable and when power can be redistributed.
Inclusive and transparent elections, free from violence and fear are important conditions to meet these expectations.
Civil Society Organisations and media are also support strategies; there is therefore an appeal to all journalists to provide fact-based information as well as promote a conflict-sensitive approach towards the elections.
The media must supports civil society organizations, for example during the 2015 elections in Myanmar, the media played an important role in informing the citizens about the election process and the significance of broad and peaceful participation.
It further supported civil society platforms conducting domestic election observation.This is important to enhance the legitimacy of the election process.
A recommended good practice is, instead of ad hoc contributions, to rather engage on the long term, ideally during the entire election cycle as part of a larger governance/democracy promotion portfolio ; it is particularly important in order to build trust and legitimacy in fragile contexts.
Source: Chineseman, Osei and GuyGee (COG)
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Home » -Neuro-ophthalmology Illustrated » Neuro-ophthalmology Illustrated Chapter 10 – Specific Disorders of Higher Cortical Function 8
Neuro-ophthalmology Illustrated Chapter 10 – Specific Disorders of Higher Cortical Function 8
August 28, 2019 By Talmage Cooper
61. What are the clinical characteristics of posterior cortical atrophy?
62. What are the neuroimaging findings in posterior cortical atrophy?
63. What are common etiologies of posterior cortical atrophy?
64. What visual difficulties are commonly seen in Alzheimer disease?
65. What are the neuroimaging findings in Alzheimer disease?
66. What are the OCT findings in Alzheimer disease?
67. What visual difficulties are commonly seen in the Heidenhain variant of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
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Posterior cortical atrophy is characterized by a progressive illness combining memory, insight, judgment impairment, alexia with or without agraphia, visual agnosia, components of Balint syndrome (simultagnosia, ocular apraxia, and optic ataxia), Gerstmann syndrome (right-left confusion, finger agnosia, acalculia, and agraphia), and transcortical sensory aphasia (fluent aphasia with intact ability to repeat).
Neuroimaging reveals cerebral atrophy that is more severe posteriorly.
Etiologies include Alzheimer disease and other dementias.
Alzheimer disease is a slowly progressive degenerative dementia that is often associated with visual disturbances (e.g., difficulty reading), which may predominate early in the course of the disease. Although these patients have numerous visual complaints (e.g., difficulty reading, difficulty seeing, and difficulty processing what they see), they have normal visual acuity and normal ocular examination, and frequently normal visual fields. The correct diagnosis is often delayed.
Brain CT and MRI are often normal or show some posterior cerebral atrophy at the parieto-occipital junction. Functional imaging, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), may help make the diagnosis.
Alzheimer's disease patients showed significant differences in ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer thickness (standardized mean difference [SMD], -0.46; 95% confidence interval [CI], -0.80 to -0.11; I2 = 71%), ganglion cell complex thickness (SMD, -0.84; 95% CI, -1.10 to -0.57; I2 = 0%), macular volume (SMD, -0.58; 95% CI, -1.03 to -0.14; I2 = 80%), and macular thickness of all inner and outer sectors (SMD range, -0.52 to -0.74; all P < 0.001) when compared with controls. Peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (SMD, -0.67; 95% CI, -0.95 to -0.38; I2 = 89%) and choroidal thickness (SMD range, -0.88 to -1.03; all P < 0.001) also were thinner in Alzheimer's disease patients.
The Heidenhain variant of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease manifests with early, prominent visual complaints (e.g., visual hallucinations, difficulty reading, homonymous hemianopia, and distortion of vision).
The information below is from Neuro-ophthalmology Illustrated-2nd Edition. Biousse V and Newman NJ. 2012. Thieme
10.3 Causes of Disorders of Higher Cortical Functions
Cerebral disturbances of vision can be caused by any condition that affects the visual association cortices or subcortical white matter. They commonly result from bilateral cerebral lesions and are most often found in patients with cerebral hypoxia resulting in bilateral watershed infarctions or with bilateral infarctions in the territory of the posterior cerebral arteries, diffuse encephalopathy and encephalitis, and degenerative disorders producing dementia.
Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain are sometimes normal or show nonspecific cerebral atrophy in most degenerative dementias. The diagnosis is often difficult and is delayed in patients in whom visual complaints predominate.
10.3.1 Posterior Cortical Atrophy
Posterior cortical atrophy is characterized by a progressive illness combining memory impairment, insight, and judgment impairment, alexia with or without agraphia, visual agnosia, and components of Balint syndrome, Gerstmann syndrome, and transcortical sensory aphasia (fluent aphasia with intact ability to repeat). Neuroimaging reveals cerebral atrophy, more severe posteriorly. Etiologies include Alzheimer disease and other dementias.
10.3.2 Alzheimer Disease
Alzheimer disease is a slowly progressive degenerative dementia that is often associated with visual disturbances (e.g., difficulty reading), which may predominate early in the course of the disease. Although these patients have numerous visual complaints (e.g., difficulty reading, difficulty seeing, and difficulty processing what they see), they have normal visual acuity and normal ocular examination, and frequently even normal visual fields, and the correct diagnosis is often delayed. Brain CT and MRI are often normal or show some posterior cerebral atrophy at the parieto-occipital junction. Functional imaging, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), may help make the diagnosis.
10.3.3 Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is a rapidly progressive dementia that is usually lethal within a few months. Along with kuru, Gerstmann–Sträussler syndrome, and fatal familial insomnia, it comprises a group of dementing illnesses known as human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. The Heidenhain variant of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease manifests with early, prominent visual complaints (e.g., visual hallucinations, difficulty reading, homonymous hemianopia, and distortion of vision).
The diagnosis is based on the following:
● Normal conventional brain MRI with abnormal diffusion-weighted images
● Abnormal electroencephalogram (periodic activity)
● Positive testing for mutation 14–3–3 in the prion protein gene in the cerebrospinal fluid
● Abnormal brain biopsy
Spectral-Domain OCT Measurements in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Ophthalmology. 2019;126(4):497-510.
RESULTS: We identified 30 eligible studies, involving 1257 AD patients, 305 MCI patients, and 1460 controls, all of which were cross-sectional studies. In terms of the macular structure, AD patients showed significant differences in GC-IPL thickness (standardized mean difference [SMD], -0.46; 95% confidence interval [CI], -0.80 to -0.11; I2 = 71%), GCC thickness (SMD, -0.84; 95% CI, -1.10 to -0.57; I2 = 0%), macular volume (SMD, -0.58; 95% CI, -1.03 to -0.14; I2 = 80%), and macular thickness of all inner and outer sectors (SMD range, -0.52 to -0.74; all P < 0.001) when compared with controls. Peripapillary RNFL thickness (SMD, -0.67; 95% CI, -0.95 to -0.38; I2 = 89%) and choroidal thickness (SMD range, -0.88 to -1.03; all P < 0.001) also were thinner in AD patients.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results confirmed the associations between retinal measurements of SD OCT and AD, highlighting the potential usefulness of SD OCT measurements as biomarkers of AD.
Abbreviations: spectral-domain (SD) OCT, Alzheimer's disease (AD), ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GC-IPL), ganglion cell complex (GCC), retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL)
1. Neuro-ophthalmology Illustrated-2nd Edition. Biousse V and Newman NJ. 2012. Thieme
2. Spectral-Domain OCT Measurements in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Ophthalmology. 2019 Apr;126(4):497-510. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2018.08.009. Epub 2018 Aug 13. Chan VTT1, Sun Z2, Tang S2, Chen LJ2, Wong A3, Tham CC2, Wong TY4, Chen C5, Ikram MK6, Whitson HE7, Lad EM8, Mok VCT9, Cheung CY10.
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Please send feedback, questions, and corrections to tcooper@stanford.edu.


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Dreghorn is a village in North Ayrshire, Scotland,  east of Irvine town centre, on the old main road from Irvine to Kilmarnock. It is sited on a ridge between two rivers. As archaeological excavations near the village centre have found a significant neolithic settlement provisionally dated to around 3500 BC, as well as medieval structures, scholars have suggested that Dreghorn could be Britain's oldest continuously inhabited village. Both Irvine and Dreghorn have grown in size and they are now separated by the Annick Valley Park, which incorporates a footpath and National Cycle Route 73 on the route of the disused Irvine to Busby railway line. It had an estimated population of  in .

The Church of Scotland Dreghorn and Springside Parish Church, at the centre of the village, dates from 1780. Its octagonal plan, which is unusual in Scotland, was produced by the church's principal benefactor, Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton. The village's most famous inhabitant, John Boyd Dunlop, was born at a Dreghorn farm in 1840. When practicing as a veterinary surgeon in Belfast, in 1887 he invented pneumatic tyres for bicycles.

Location

Dreghorn lies on a ridge between Annick Water, to its immediate north, and the River Irvine further south. The old main road from Irvine to Kilmarnock (now the B7081) formed the original village street along the ridge. As Townfoot, it rises to the high point of the ridge at the Parish Church in the centre of the village, then continues as Main Street east along the ridge, down to the nearby village of Springside which is also in Dreghorn Parish.

The Annick Water runs close to the north of the village, along the edge of the Annick Valley Park. Woodland and open green spaces, including playing fields, separate Dreghorn from Irvine New Town, with the district of Broomlands adjoining the park. The disused Irvine to Busby railway line, which runs along this park, has been converted to a footpath, and forms National Cycle Route 73 as part of the Irvine New Town Trail.

At a crossroads immediately to the east of the church, Station Brae runs north down the hill to the former Dreghorn railway station, and the B730 runs south towards Drybridge, crossing the River Irvine at Holmsford Bridge. Here it crosses under the A71 road, which runs as a modern bypass along the Irvine Valley to the south of the village. A link from the B730 joins the A71 at a roundabout at Corsehill, providing expressway access from Dreghorn to Irvine town centre, and eastwards to Kilmarnock.

History
Dreghorn was the site of a significant neolithic settlement, and subsequently a medieval village: archaeological evidence has been provisionally dated to around 3500 BC, suggesting that Dreghorn could be Britain's oldest continuously inhabited village. In advance of a development of new housing to the north of properties on the current Main Street, preliminary testing found features including an ancient well.

The excavations were carried out between November 2003 and April 2004 at a site on the slope from the ridge down towards Annick Water. The housing development has since been completed, as Station Brae Gardens. Neolithic features included pits and post holes with remains including fragments of some Early Neolithic carinated bowls and larger amounts of Late Neolithic Grooved ware. Stone items were made from local and imported materials including flint, Arran pitchstone and chert, and included scrapers, arrowheads and cutting tools.

Three parallel rows of post holes indicated a rectangular structure measuring , probably a timber hall similar to the Neolithic long house found at Balbridie. Smaller post holes and stake holes define eight to twelve round or oval structures, possibly round houses, as well as six gully-defined structures with numerous stake-holes. A large oval feature, measuring approximately , contained heavily retired pottery shards and is thought likely to have been a kiln. Possible ritualistic landscape features include a massive post-pit and post holes or pits forming arcs. At the west edge of the site, adjacent to Station Brae, part of a probable palisade was found. Medieval finds included a trackway, ditches, pits and remains of numerous structures including kilns and a  wattle and daub walled granary.

John Boyd Dunlop was born at a Dreghorn farm on 5 February 1840. He qualified as a veterinary surgeon at the Dick Vet in Edinburgh and set up practice in Belfast, where he also invented a pneumatic tyres for bicycles in October 1887. The principle had been patented by Robert William Thomson in 1847, but it was Dunlop's invention that made a success of the idea.

Maid Morville's mound
Maid Morville's mound was located to the east of the B730, just north of Holmsford Bridge before it crosses the River Irvine. The name commemorated the tragic drowning of a member of the de Morville family, who were the overlords of the baillerie of Cunninghame. The mound was destroyed by construction of the earthworks of the expressway. "Maid Morville Avenue" still exists to commemorate the event. Locally the mound was known as "Marble Hill",  a corruption of "Morville's Hill". There is also a "Marble Avenue" nearby.

Railway Station
Dreghorn Station, at the foot of Station Brae by the River Annick, provided access to rail services between Irvine and Kilmarnock. It closed in 1964 and the railway is now a public footpath and woodland.

The Churches
Excavations of the Neolithic site suggest ritualistic features, and early Christians including the Culdees often took over pagan religious sites for their churches. Saint Brendan influenced the area in the 6th century. It seems that relics of his fellow monk Barrintus were venerated at Dreghorn church, though this could date from a much later period. When Kilwinning Abbey was established around 1171, fourteen parishes including Dreghorn came under its control. One of the monks would have been given charge of Dreghorn parish and the church lands.

Dreghorn and Springside Parish Church

The Church of Scotland parish church at the top of Station Brae, dating from 1780, has an unusual octagonal plan. At one time, the church was known locally as the "Threepenny" after the 12-sided Threepence coin.

Following the Scottish Reformation, maintenance of the small rectangular church, the manse and churchyard, as well as payment of the minister's stipend, was vested in local landowners, the Heritors of the Parish. After years of complaints over repairs, in February 1777 the minister, Mr Tod. petitioned the Presbytery in Irvine that "a visitation be made with assistance of skilled tradesmen that the church (in Dreghorn) be pulled down and a new one built" on the same site. The Presbytery agreed in March 1777, then in 1779 they petitioned the principal Heritor, and patron of the church, Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton, to "give in a plan of  a New Kirk". The heritors agreed in March 1780 to commence building work on the basis of his plan, in the shape of an octagon: he may have seen similar churches during his recent years spent in Europe.

Built as a school in 1774 the small building on the right of the entrance to the churchyard was in the 19th century used as a morthouse and a mortuary, with a room for each, later becoming the kirk session house.

When the Parishes of Dreghorn and Perceton were united, Dreghorn and Perceton church owned the land surrounding the church (called 'The Glebe').  A current circular cul-de-sac called The Glebe commemorates this fact. The kirk is now called Dreghorn and Springside Parish Church.

Perceton and Dreghorn Free Church
In the Disruption of 1843, the Free Church of Scotland broke away. The entry for Dreghorn in Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer for 1882-4 describes the village as having "a Free Church mission station and an Evangelical Union chapel; and Dreghorn Free church is at Perceton village."

Perceton and Dreghorn Free Church, at the east end of Main Street in Dreghorn, was built in 1877 for £4,000. It later became the Church of Scotland's Perceton and Dreghorn Parish Church, but eventually congregation numbers fell, so the parishes merged and the church closed in 1992. A Threatened Building Survey recorded photographs of the building in 1996.

The Sun Life Corporation of Japan bought the building for £50,000. In 1996 they demolished it carefully and shipped the materials to Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, for reconstruction, at a cost of £250,000. This included the pulpit and church organ, and every block of masonry was numbered for rebuilding. The Hotel Sunlife Garden wedding complex, incorporating the reconstructed church as its central feature, was opened with a ceremony on 2 July 1999.

Employment
Dreghorn's historical main industries were farming and coal mining.  All of the coal mines around Dreghorn were closed by the early 1980s.  Dreghorn is still surrounded on two sides by farm land.  The new communities of Broomlands and Bourtreehill cover the sites of some former mines.

Dreghorn Primary School, on Main Street, had a school roll of 270 pupils in 2013, with 21 teachers. Greenwood Academy secondary school at the west end of the village serves several areas of Irvine as well as Dreghorn. In September 2013, its school roll was 1494 pupils, and it had 113 teachers.

Other Dreghorns
A pastoral property named Dreghorn had been established in north Queensland, Australia, by 1864. Gold and silver was discovered there and mined in the 1860s and 1870s, the mining town taking the name of Dreghorn.

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Video and commentary on the old Towerlands Tram Road

Villages in North Ayrshire
Octagonal churches in the United Kingdom

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The J Kenyon Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law (MI), based at the University of Edinburgh and located within the School of Law, serves as an interdisciplinary research network, aimed at investigating the interface between medicine, life sciences and the law in relation to medical and bioethical developments on a national and global scale.
MI is dedicated to conducting innovative world class research, and raising the quality, quantity, and awareness of the research being undertaken, individually and in cooperation with other domestic, European, and international partners at the University of Edinburgh. As an institution, we provide evidence-based research and policy advice and are a nexus for international collaboration and exchange, drawing on and pulling together a diverse collection of existing networks and forging new ones.
We are undertaking an expanding portfolio of work that will lead to greater insights into the governance and regulation of medicine and the life sciences, doing so via direct and on-going engagement with regulatory and user communities. Drawing on an international network of academics, the Mason Institute works collaboratively with industry, scientists, policymakers and the public. Research to-date has produced standards and guidance for policymakers and industry, nationally and internationally.
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The J Kenyon Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and Law strives to reflect the openness of spirit and mind exemplified by Professor JK Mason, and to contribute to academia, public life, and the wider society through ground-breaking research and teaching. Professor Mason was Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine in the University from 1973-1985 and Honorary Fellow in the School of Law from 1985 until his death on 26 January 2017.
Prof Mason's work and commitment to Edinburgh perfectly embody the ideals to which the Mason Institute aspires. The institute reflects the interdisciplinary interests of Ken and others at the University towards collaborative, supportive, impactful and engaging research and teaching. The Mason Institute's vision includes a commitment to be a centre of excellence that is genuinely University-wide, internationally-oriented, and which emphasises the importance of interdisciplinary working at the interface of medicine, science, social sciences and law.
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The Mason Institute's Visiting Fellows programme offers scholars in medical law, bioethics and related disciplines the opportunity to spend a period of time conducting their research in a stimulating interdisciplinary environment, as part of the University of Edinburgh's vibrant research community, while enjoying the rich cultural life and picturesque surrounds of the historic city of Edinburgh.
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During their stay, Visiting Fellows will be provided with access to University facilities including workspace, library and IT access, and will have the opportunity to work alongside Mason Institute researchers, take part in MI activities and research meetings, and attend other events across the University. They will give informal talks on their research and may also be invited more formally to participate in events such as the MI Lunch seminar series or MI Lecture. Each Visiting Fellow will have a sponsor from the MI Executive Committee who will act as a point of contact and assist in organising their participation in these activities.
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Clinton's quest to regain former House part 1
By Nicholas Bostick
Hillary Clinton is leading the polls to become the democratic presidential nominee. But can her campaign survive the uphill battle over her use of private email? The final installment of a three-part series in which The Courier profiles a presidential hopeful.
It makes sense that the first Democratic debate was held Oct. 13 in Las Vegas. Because voting for any of the democrats currently vying for the candidacy is a major gamble for the future of the U.S.
And the biggest longshot of the bunch is Hillary Clinton. Not because her foreign policy skills are in question like those of her former opponent, President Barack Obama.
Not because her husband's political scandals and successes are threatening to overshadow her. But, to paraphrase local radio personality and Dallas Morning News columnist Mark Davis on his radio show Oct. 14: Before the American people can care about a candidate's ideas on tax reform or what she's going to do about global warming, we need to know that she is a fundamentally trustworthy person.
If Clinton is not being up front about the personal email account she used to conduct her duties as secretary of state from 2009-2013, she's guilty of a far worse crime: ignorance.
The controversy arose after the State Department discovered Clinton had almost exclusively used a private email account to conduct national affairs while secretary of state. According to The New York Times and hillaryclinton.com, the State Department requested correspondence from the past four secretaries of state in an effort to comply with new federal record-keeping practices enacted by Obama in 2014.
"I can recall no instance in my time at the National Archives when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal email account for the transaction of government business," Jason Baron, former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration from 2000-2013, said in an article for The New York Times.
She may have won the debate, but when her only real competition was Bernie Sanders, a social mediasavvy democratic socialist, no one should be surprised Clinton seemed like the rational choice.
Especially when Sanders notso- subtly pandered to donors by claiming the American people are tired of hearing about these pesky electronic messages.
According to a Huffington Post article, Sanders raised $1.4 million during the debate. This figure was no doubt aided by the press release his campaign manager Jeff Weaver sent out before the debate had ended. It's a stratagem when Sanders says the American people don't care about Clinton's emails. When she says it, it's ignorance.
A poll conducted March 13-15 by CNN and ORC International shows that 51 percent of the 1,009 Americans polled said Clinton's use of private email is a very serious or somewhat serious issue. The same percentage said Clinton has not done enough to explain why she used said private email account.
A more recent poll by the Huffington Post and international market research firm YouGov, conducted July 28-30, shows 60 percent of the 1,000 Americans polled think Clinton's email is a very serious or somewhat serious issue. Yet in interviews, Clinton laughs when the fact that the FBI is currently investigating her is brought up. And on the debate floor, she shrugs the issue off as an honest mistake.
It was a matter of convenience that ultimately did not affect national security or break the Federal Records Act, as all of her work emails were sent to official .gov email accounts and therefore backed up by the State Department's email system, according to hillaryclinton. com.
In 2015, when cyberterrorism is becoming the norm and digital communication skills are essential for most jobs, a presidential candidate should know that sending and receiving sensitive emails over private email will never be as secure as using an official government account.
The issue of security is only the tip of the iceberg, though. "What really turned this into a scandal is not the content," Jason Leopold, a Vice News investigative reporter, said in an interview with fellow Vice News staff writer Mike Pearl. Leopold claims the real controversy behind this incident is that Clinton's private email account had both personal and work-related emails.
"If you worked at the State Department and you left, and I asked for your documents, they would review it and maybe discuss some of it with you," Leopold said. "What happened here is that Hillary and her staff reviewed all of it before turning it over to the State Department, deciding what was personal and deciding what was not for public consumption and destroying it. That was hugely troubling."
According to The Washington Post, Clinton gave the State Department over 30,000 emails that she and her aides decided pertained to her role as Secretary of State. This amounts to less than half of the emails she sent and received during her time in the White House. "It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario – short of nuclear winter – where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business," Baron said.
At best, this controversy shows an astonishing lack of common sense on Clinton's part. At its worst, she'll end up in the White House.
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Moss Point alumni honor classmate who now runs Coca-Cola at reunion
Updated Jan 02, 2019; Posted Aug 01, 2010
By Cherie Ward
John Brock, chief executive officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises, center, was honored Saturday night at the 2010 Moss Point High School Alumni reunion at the Jackson County Civic Center in Pascagoula. Brock, his wife Mary, and brother David, looked over photos before walking into the reunion.
PASCAGOULA -- John Brock, chief executive officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises, was honored Saturday night at the 2010 Moss Point High School Alumni reunion at the Jackson County Civic Center.
"This is really exciting," said Brock, 62, who graduated from Moss Point High School in 1966. He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Rockett Brock, who also attended the event and graduated from the school in 1967. The couple lives in Atlanta, Ga.
"We just love coming back, and to have this big reunion to come back to means so much to us," Brock said. "We were with the class of 1966 (Friday) night and now we have a broader group of friends tonight."
Brock said although he's lived all over the world, he considers Moss Point home.
"Moss Point is remarkable in terms of a small town with a big heart," Brock said. "We love telling people that not only are we from Mississippi -- we're from Moss Point."
Betty Wells, president of the alumni association, said numerous classes get together each July and honor a graduate who has become successful either on a local or national level.
"We chose John this year because he's such a great success and he's still such a humble person," Wells said.
Brock has more than 25 years experience in the beverage sales industry, and reportedly earned almost $12 million in 2008. He took over the Coca-Cola reins in 2006, and previously had stints at Procter & Gamble, Cadbury Schweppes and Interbrew.
John Brock, chief executive officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises, was honored Saturday night at the 2010 Moss Point High School Alumni reunion at the Jackson County Civic Center in Pascagoula. Brock sent over cases of speical coke products that have hit only a limited number of U.S. stores for his friends to enjoy.
George Hinkle, one of Brock's classmates, said that although Brock was not named the most likely of his graduating class to succeed, "John was the most brilliant of the bunch."
Hinkle said that earlier Saturday, Coca-Cola sent over numerous cases of 8.5-ounce aluminum bottles of Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Sprite.
"The delivery guys said you must be real special because these are only available in the really big cities and Canada," Hinkle said, laughing. "I just told them their CEO was a friend. I'm not sure they believed me."
Each year, Wells said, a new class is added to the celebration and invited to return for future reunions. Wells said the Moss Point High School class of 1970 was added to this year's event.


Dagger's fitness is still questionable and I'd spare him the many more tackles he'd have to make in the holding role; I still wince every time I see him getting up close and personal with an oppostion player.
I'd love to see Dan having a go at DM. The problem is in what game can we experiment now?
If we get the right result on Thursday, then we could give it a trial against either Udinese away or Young Boys at home I suppose.
14 appearances this term is quite a lot for downing. Six Europa starts (one appearance off the bench), 2 league cup starts, 1 premier league start (and 4 appearances off the bench). Why not assaidi? Why not Pacheco?


Company Pork Recipes is located in the city of Atlanta. The legal address of the company is PO Box 1152, Evans, Georgia, USA. Other interesting information can be found on working days by phone 206.309.0234. The scheme of travel to the company Pork Recipes can be viewed on the interactive map.


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These charts show the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total compensation for the job of Equipment Engineer I in the United States. The base salary for Equipment Engineer I ranges from $59,874 to $72,839 with the average base salary of $66,538. The total compensation, which includes bonus, health and retirement, can vary anywhere from $62,262 to $77,745 with the average total compensation of $70,294.


Stacked New York is known for its Argentium silver bangles—a style that is a staple in many jewelry wardrobes—but the firm is now adding stud earrings to its mix. Earrings in the new 7th Avenue Mix and Match Stud collection are sold separately for $85 apiece ($170 for a pair) and are set with seven different types of gemstones: black spinel, clear or rose quartz, red spinel, sky blue topaz, and green or purple amethyst. The choice of seven is deliberate, as it nods to "creativity and imagination," according to creative director Tina Snyder, as is the ability to buy singles: Consumers can mix and match colors as they like. The aesthetic, meanwhile, is a hand-hammered effect borrowed from the line's Varick Street and Carmine Street bangles and bands. The studs will be ready to ship to retailers by mid-January.


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Anatoli Mikhailovitch Khrapati (; 20 de outubro de 1962 – 11 de agosto de 2008, em Astana) foi um halterofilista, que competiu pela União Soviética e depois pelo Cazaquistão.

Khrapati ganhou cinco campeonatos mundiais e o ouro olímpico em 1988, na categoria até 90 kg, sob a bandeira da União Soviética. Pelo Cazaquistão, ganhou duas medalhas de prata nos Jogos Asiáticos (1994, 1998) e uma nos Jogos Olímpicos (1996). Ele participou dos Jogos de Sydney 2000, mas não concluiu a prova.

Anatoli Khrapati definiu cinco recordes mundiais ao longo de sua carreira — quatro antes da reestruturação das classes de peso em 1993 e um após isso (ver também: recordes mundiais do halterofilismo), sendo um no arranque, dois no arremesso e um no total combinado (arranque + arremesso), e um no arremesso após 1992.

Ele morreu devido a um acidente de motocicleta.

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Campeões olímpicos da União Soviética
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Halterofilistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1988
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Halterofilistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1996
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Definitions And Alarming Silences Parliamentary Inquiry Into
Heat Kills Consistency In The Way We Measure
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The risk of measure more heat-related deaths is one of the most serious consequences of climate change. Heat stress can worsen existing conditions like diabetes, kidney disease, and heart disease. Senior citizens are especially vulnerable.
You may surprise to hear that recent research suggests climate change could reduce the number of deaths relate to temperature in Australia. A related study in The Lancet also found that the cold kills more people than heat in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
My research, however, publish in Climatic change. I used a similar method to the one used in The Lancet's study and found that heat is responsible for the majority of Australian deaths due to temperature.
Temperature-related deaths are one measure we use to evaluate the impact of climate change. It is important that we measure them consistently and accurately.
How Can Researchers Measure The Death Rate From Temperature-Related Causes?
It is important to estimate the deaths due to cold and hot weather. This done by using a baseline temperature. The reference temperature should the day when people feel comfortable in their region and their health is not affect by heat or cold. Deaths due to temperature-related causes below this temperature will be classified as cold-related. Deaths above it will consider heat-relate.
To distinguish between deaths caused by temperature and deaths that are not, we use statistical techniques. To account for seasonal factors such as flu seasons, estimates must adjust. Although flu and pneumonia deaths increase in winter, they are not directly related to the cold.
The assumptions and modelling techniques used to calculate temperature-related deaths can affect the estimates. However, the use of different reference temperatures is a major issue that can cause discrepancies in results. This affects the percentage of deaths that are attribute to heat and cold.
The Importance If The Temperature Reference
As a curve, the risk of death due to high/low temperatures can shown in relation to the reference. The figure below shows how the estimate curves, call temperature-mortality curves, can differ when the reference temperature is changed. It compares temperature-mortality curves from my latest study (the bottom row), to those from the study published in The Lancet (the top row).
The parts of the curve that are define as heat or cold are shown in red and blue shading. Arrows indicate the reference temperature that was use to calculate the curves.
Numerous studies, including that of Lancet, have calculated the death toll from heat and cold by using what is call the minimum mortality temperature (MMT), as the reference temperature.
The MMT is the lowest point of a temperature-mortality curve and is often interpret as the daily average temperature at which there's the lowest risk of death.
Based on Australia's findings, I am concerned that the MMT (reference temperature) used in The Lancet study is too high. A reference temperature of 22.4degC, shown in the figure above, meant that almost 90% of Melbourne's historic daily average temperatures were consider cold. This could translate to a day with an average temperature of 31.4degC, and a night with a minimum temperature of 13.4degC.
In my most recent study, I used a different temperature as the reference temperature. As the reference temperature, I used the median of historical daily temperatures. In my study, cold days in Melbourne were those below 14.7 degrees Celsius. Any daily average temperature above 14.7degC is consider hot.
The median temperature is use as the reference temperature. This creates a 50/50 split of what is consider hot and cold.
Compare The Measure Results
To estimate the temperature-related deaths in six climate zones, I also used a different temperature reference. These range from areas experiencing a hot, humid summer in the north to areas experiencing mild/warm summers and cold seasons in Tasmania, the ACT, parts of NSW, and Victoria.
Other studies that I have mentioned included data from many cities around the globe. But only the three largest Australian capitals (Sydney and Melbourne) were use.
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If you're a visitor to Melbourne you may just miss these unusual bells right in the heart of the city. Likewise I've talked to a few Melburnians who've never heard of them. The 39 'upside down' bells were created for the centenary of Australia's federation in 2001 and play three times daily. On a visit last week I was lucky enough to hear them playing as I approached. The bells play between 8-9am, 12.30-1.30pm and 5pm-6pm and it's really worth timing your visit to catch them play their sweet melodious sound.
The Federation Bells are situated in the park right beside the Yarra River so you may want to pack a picnic basket full of local goodies or buy some lunch at Southgate and take it down to the riverside while the bells play. These bells are also a great subject for the photography enthusiast as different angles produce vastly different shots of the bells. It's possible to get a bush scene (shown above) or change your vantage point to get gorgeous blue sky or Melbourne city skyscrapers in the background.


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Q: Why are the principal axes about the center of mass of a cube perpendicular to its faces? I have calculated the moment of inertia tensor of a cube about its center of mass: $I=\dfrac{1}{6}Mb^2\{1\}$ where $\{1\}$ is the identity matrix. So the principal moments of inertia are all 1 (1 is an eigenvalue of multiplicity 3).
When you attempt to calculate the eigenvectors to identify the principal axes, the result is that every vector is an eigenvector of the identity matrix, which is expected.
My textbook, however, states, "Thus, we find that, for the choice of the origin at the center of mass of the cube, the principal axes are perpendicular to the faces of the cube."
Why is this true? I thought that the principal axes were simply the eigenvectors of the diagonalized matrix, which would mean that every axis that passes through the center of mass of a cube is a principal axis.

A: It is simply not true, as stated.
A cube is as perfectly balanced around its center of mass as a sphere is. You have shown it mathematically, and you are perfectly correct.
However, the principal axes may be chosen perpendicular to the faces of the cube. Of course, when the point is the center of mass, this is no better than any other choice, except for considerations of symmetry and mathematical convenience.

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Alternatively, you can add a box over the top of text you want to replace and add new text in its place. Foxit Reader is more for annotating than rewriting, but if that's what you're after then it's an excellent free tool.
If you require more features then you can use the online version of PhantomPDF where extra tools are available.
PDF-XChange Editor replaces the Viewer app, bringing with it some impressive features. It offers a similar set of tools to Foxit Reader, meaning you can create and annotate documents with ease. There's even OCR support for a few languages, including English, French, Spanish and German.
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This online service offers various conversion options, plus the ability to split files and merge them. There are some simple editing functions available, though, including adding rectangles, highlighting zones, plus the ability to strikeout or add text.
There's one main limitation: any file you upload must be under 50MB. But that's it: there are no ads or any other restrictions.
As long as your editing demands aren't too heavy, PDF Candy may be the quickest solution. It can also convert PDFs to other formats, rotate them, split them, protect them and add watermarks.
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This is another excellent online service that offers a wide range of editing tools. The most notable is text editing, which is something of a rarity in the free realm, plus you can annotate documents, convert formats, and all from the comfort of a browser window.
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Something to Know - 14 October
I need to apologize. This should have come out yesterday. What I do is bookmark all that I read from various sources (New Yorker, LA Times, NY Times, Rolling Stone, etc) for later reading, and pick out the best to send out. This one is the best one from yesterday, but I not know it at the time - too busy with other stuff to notice. This particular piece has been really buzzing around the Internet on several forums, with lots of chatter. For good reason. I think you will see that David Brooks really hits it out of the park as he takes on the crazies who have infested the GeeOpie:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/opinion/the-republicans-incompetence-caucus.html?emc=eta1
The Opinion Pages | OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Republicans' Incompetence Caucus
The House Republican caucus is close to ungovernable these days. How did this situation come about?
This was not just the work of the Freedom Caucus or Ted Cruz or one month's activity. The Republican Party's capacity for effective self-governance degraded slowly, over the course of a long chain of rhetorical excesses, mental corruptions and philosophical betrayals. Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism. Republicans came to see themselves as insurgents and revolutionaries, and every revolution tends toward anarchy and ends up devouring its own.
By traditional definitions, conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured and responsible. Conservatives of this disposition can be dull, but they know how to nurture and run institutions. They also see the nation as one organic whole. Citizens may fall into different classes and political factions, but they are still joined by chains of affection that command ultimate loyalty and love.
All of this has been overturned in dangerous parts of the Republican Party. Over the past 30 years, or at least since Rush Limbaugh came on the scene, the Republican rhetorical tone has grown ever more bombastic, hyperbolic and imbalanced. Public figures are prisoners of their own prose styles, and Republicans from Newt Gingrich through Ben Carson have become addicted to a crisis mentality. Civilization was always on the brink of collapse. Every setback, like the passage of Obamacare, became the ruination of the republic. Comparisons to Nazi Germany became a staple.
This produced a radical mind-set. Conservatives started talking about the Reagan "revolution," the Gingrich "revolution." Among people too ill educated to understand the different spheres, political practitioners adopted the mental habits of the entrepreneur. Everything had to be transformational and disruptive. Hierarchy and authority were equated with injustice. Self-expression became more valued than self-restraint and coalition building. A contempt for politics infested the Republican mind.
Politics is the process of making decisions amid diverse opinions. It involves conversation, calm deliberation, self-discipline, the capacity to listen to other points of view and balance valid but competing ideas and interests.
But this new Republican faction regards the messy business of politics as soiled and impure. Compromise is corruption. Inconvenient facts are ignored. Countrymen with different views are regarded as aliens. Political identity became a sort of ethnic identity, and any compromise was regarded as a blood betrayal.
A weird contradictory mentality replaced traditional conservatism. Republican radicals have contempt for politics, but they still believe that transformational political change can rescue the nation. Republicans developed a contempt for Washington and government, but they elected leaders who made the most lavish promises imaginable. Government would be reduced by a quarter! Shutdowns would happen! The nation would be saved by transformational change! As Steven Bilakovics writes in his book "Democracy Without Politics," "even as we expect ever less of democracy we apparently expect ever more from democracy."
This anti-political political ethos produced elected leaders of jaw-dropping incompetence. Running a government is a craft, like carpentry. But the new Republican officials did not believe in government and so did not respect its traditions, its disciplines and its craftsmanship. They do not accept the hierarchical structures of authority inherent in political activity.
In his masterwork, "Politics as a Vocation," Max Weber argues that the pre-eminent qualities for a politician are passion, a feeling of responsibility and a sense of proportion. A politician needs warm passion to impel action but a cool sense of responsibility and proportion to make careful decisions in a complex landscape.
Welcome to Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and the Freedom Caucus.If a politician lacks the quality of detachment — the ability to let the difficult facts of reality work their way into the mind — then, Weber argues, the politician ends up striving for the "boastful but entirely empty gesture." His work "leads nowhere and is senseless."
Really, have we ever seen bumbling on this scale, people at once so cynical and so naïve, so willfully ignorant in using levers of power to produce some tangible if incremental good? These insurgents can't even acknowledge democracy's legitimacy — if you can't persuade a majority of your colleagues, maybe you should accept their position. You might be wrong!
People who don't accept democracy will be bad at conversation. They won't respect tradition, institutions or precedent. These figures are masters at destruction but incompetent at construction.
These insurgents are incompetent at governing and unwilling to be governed. But they are not a spontaneous growth. It took a thousand small betrayals of conservatism to get to the dysfunction we see all around.
When all else fails there's always delusion.
Conan O'Brien


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Q: T-Sql: How to write a SP that executes several similar insert statement? I have this table called DevProject which keeps track of developers who are affected to a particular project.
ID           int PK
DevID        int NOT NULL FK
ProjectID    int NOT NULL FK

ID is the PK column for DevProject table. DevID and ProjectID are respectively PK in the Developers and Project tables. When A new project starts, a group of developers are affected to that project. Some of the developers might still be working on other projects. So, After the manager has decide whose going to work on a particular new project, the DevProject table should be populate with the ID of the new project and the ID of the developer.
Thanks for helping.

A: I know what you meant.  And that link had the answer.
  declare @ID int;
  insert into table_1 (value) values ('newProj2');
  SET @ID = SCOPE_IDENTITY();
  insert into table_2 (id, memberID) values (@ID, 1);
  insert into table_2 (id, memberID) values (@ID, 2);


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Clinical inertia in patients with FH and CVD
Treatment Inertia in Patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Literature - Langer A, Mancini J, Tan M, et al. - J Am Heart Assoc. 2021;190:e020126. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.020126
The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) guidelines recommend LDL-c lowering therapy (LLT) with high efficacy statin therapy and addition of ezetimibe and/or PCSK9i as needed in patients with established CVD, if LDL-c levels are not decreased by at least 50% or below 2.0 mmol/L [1]. The CCS recommends the same therapeutic approach in patients with FH, albeit with an LDL-c attainment goal of <2.5 mmol/L [2]. Despite these treatment guidelines, many patients with elevated LDL-c do not achieve LDL-c target goals [3-6]. A recent study, however, has demonstrated that physician support based on a reminder system for recommended LLT led to an increase in the proportion of patients who achieved guideline-recommended LDL-c levels [7]. This post hoc analysis specifically assessed the care gap in patients with FH with respect to LLT. Furthermore, this analysis explored whether lipid management differed between patients with CVD and patients with FH.
The Guidelines Oriented Approach to Lipid Lowering (GOAL) Canada was an investigator-initiated interventional program. The intervention was physician education based on lipid management reminders when entering LLT data in the electronic case report form. A total of 177 physicians (58% primary care and 42% specialists) enrolled 2009 patients (at least 12 patients per physician) with clinical vascular diseases such as, CAD, PAD, cerebrovascular disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, or with FH. In addition, eligible patients had to have LDL-c levels of >2 mmol/L at baseline while receiving maximally tolerated statins (having tried a minimum of 2 statins, each at least on 2 reduced doses) for at least 3 months before enrollment. A total of 1054 (52.4%) patients with CVD, 636 (31.7%) patients with FH, and 319 (15.9%) patients with FH and established CVD were included. LLT was assessed on enrollment (visit 1) and twice during follow-up (visit 2 and 3, each between ~4 to 6 months apart). The prespecified primary endpoint was the proportion of patients who achieved the CCS recommended LDL-c targets of ≥50% reduction or <2 mmol/L in patients with CVD and ≥50% reduction or <2.5 mmol/L in patients with FH.
At baseline, 70.6% of patients with FH received statin therapy compared to 79.2% of patients with CVD (P=0.0001). A larger proportion of patients with FH were treated with ezetimibe compared to those with CVD (28.1% vs. 20.4%, P=0.0003). 46.6% Of patients with FH used high-intensity statins compared to 58.1% of patients with CVD or 67.7% of patients with FH and CVD (both P=0.0001).
45.3% of patients with FH were already at LDL-c target goal at baseline. At visit 3, 73.6% of patients with FH were at target.
22.0% of patients with FH who had not achieved their LDL-c goals at baseline, attained their goal at the last available follow-up visit, compared to 45.8% of patients with CVD (P<0.0001) and 55.2% of patients with FH + CVD (P<0.0001).
Significant LDL-c reductions from baseline to visit 3, were observed in patients with FH (-1.4±1.6 mmol/L, P=0.0001), with CVD (-0.8±1.2 mmol/L, P<0.0001), and in those with FH and CVD (-1.4±1.4 mmol/L, P=0.0001). A larger LDL-c reduction was seen in patients with FH who were not on their LDL-c attainment goal at baseline compared to those who were (-1.6±1.6 mmol/L vs. -1.2±1.8 mmol/L, P=0.02).
The strongest predictors of LDL-c goal attainment were PCSK9i treatment (OR 11.4, 95% CI: 8.7-15.0, P<0.0001), statin use (OR 5.3, 95% CI: 4.2-6.7, P<0.0001), ezetimibe therapy (OR 1.6, 95% CI: 1.3-1.9, P<0.0001), and FH diagnosis (OR 2.7, 95% CI:2.0-3.5, P=0.0001).
This post hoc analysis suggests that physician reminders for recommended LLT led to an increase in the proportion of patients with FH and/or CVD achieving LDL-c treatment goals. However, treatment inertia remains to exists in patients with FH, including those with established CVD.
1.	Anderson TJ, Grégoire J, Pearson GJ, et al. 2016 Canadian cardiovascular society guidelines for the management of dyslipidemia for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in the adult. Can J Cardiol. 2016;32:1263–1282.
2.	Brunham LR, Ruel I, Aljenedil S, et al. Canadian cardiovascular society position statement on familial hypercholesterolemia: update 2018. Can J Cardiol. 2018;34:1553–1563
3.	Hackam DG, Leiter LA, Yan AT, et al. Missed opportunities for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in Canada. Can J Cardiol. 2007;23:1124–1130.
4.	Yan AT, Yan RT, Tan M, et al. Contemporary management of dyslipidemia in high-risk patients: targets still not met. Am J Med. 2006;119:676–683.
5.	Petrella RJ and Merikle E, Jones J. Prevalence and treatment of dyslipidemia in Canadian primary care: a retrospective cohort analysis. Clin Ther. 2007;29:742–750.
6.	Rapezzi C, Biagini E, Bellis P, Cafiero M, Velussi M, Ceriello A, Cooke RMT, Schweiger C, Investigators EASY. Exploring the gap between National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines and clinical practice in secondary care: results of a cross-sectional study involving over 10 000 patients followed in different specialty settings across Italy. J Cardiovasc Med. 2008;9:878–887.
7.	Langer A, Tan M, Goodman SG, et al. GOAL Canada: physician education and support can improve patient management. CJC Open. 2020;2:49– 54. DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2019.12.002
Find this article online at J Am Heart Assoc.


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An audition or interview is required for graduate assistantship consideration and must be completed by Saturday, February 20, 2021. Applications received after the deadline will not be evaluated.
All admitted graduate students are considered for graduate assistantships. There is no secondary application for assistantships.
Details and Amounts
It is the policy of the College of Visual and Performing Arts that any and all financial assistance awarded to graduate students has one major purpose: to provide academically deserving students with financial assistance so they may pursue their professional studies at UNCG. Consequently, the College of Visual and Performing Arts and its faculty strive to ensure that the graduate assistantship assignments are: (1) academically and professionally rewarding to the student; (2) well within the capabilities of the student; and (3) directly related to the School's teaching, research, service, and administrative operations. Recipients of stipends, whether holders of fellowships or assistantships, must be full-time students during the entire appointment period. Each Graduate Assistant has a work assignment of 20 hours per week.
Master's Degrees: $6,000
Doctoral Degrees: $10,500
In-State and Out-of-State Tuition Waivers may be available. Additional University fees are not covered by tuition waivers.
Assistantship Descriptions
In some cases, more than one vacancy may exist for these positions. Even if there is no dedicated assistantship available for your performance or scholarship area, other assistantships may be available, especially in theory and technology.
Many assistantship assignments will also include support services to other areas of the school in addition to the specific duties listed below.
Those selected for these assistantship positions will work closely with the faculty in all aspects of the music education department, including classroom teaching, student teaching supervision, internship supervision, and working with researchers. Qualifications include superior interpersonal skills and a record of successful teaching. For full consideration, interested applicants are strongly encouraged to submit materials by November 1. Those interested in Music Education assistantship positions are encouraged to contact Dr. Tami Draves (tjdraves@uncg.edu).
The graduate student(s) selected for this position may assist in applied and class voice instruction, diction, ensemble conducting, opera, and vocal area support. Qualifications include a superior performance ability and record of successful teaching.
Piano, Organ, or Collaborative, the graduate student(s) selected for these positions may assist in applied piano, organ, class piano, opera coaching, studio accompanying and additional support positions. Qualifications include a superior performance ability and record of successful teaching.
The graduate student selected for this position may assist in applied and small ensemble instruction. Qualifications include a superior performance ability and record of successful teaching.
The graduate student selected for this position assists in support services in other areas of the Music Departments. Qualifications include a superior performance ability.
The graduate student selected for this position assists in applied and small ensemble instruction. Qualifications include a superior performance ability and record of successful teaching.
The graduate student selected for this position assists in support services in other areas of the School. Qualifications include a superior performance ability.
The graduate student selected will assist in all areas of percussion including keyboard, timpani, snare drum, and multiple percussion. Typical duties may include applied instruction, small ensemble coaching, conducing a percussion ensemble. Knowledge of jazz drumset and ethnic percussion is helpful. Qualifications include a superior performance ability and record of successful teaching.
The Composition Graduate Assistants will work closely with our composition faculty in all aspects of their program. This may include the electronic music studio, teaching composition classes, support work for the composition area, and working with the Contemporary Chamber Players.
Graduate String Quartet – Violin
Graduate String Quartet – Viola
Graduate String Quartet – Cello
Qualifications for the Graduate Sting Quartet include superior performance ability, string quartet or other similar chamber ensemble experience, orchestral experience including section leadership and public performance experience. Typical duties include Graduate String Quartet presenting one on-campus and two off-campus performances per semester, section leader of appropriate instrument in UNCG Symphony Orchestra (responsible for fingerings, bowings, sectionals, etc.) and possibly assisting in applied and small ensemble instruction.
The graduate student selected for this position will perform in the University Orchestra and assist in applied and small ensemble instruction. Qualifications include a superior performance ability and record of successful teaching.
Conducting:
The Conducting Graduate Assistants (Band, Choral and Orchestral) chose for these positions will have duties that may include conducting rehearsals and sectionals, assisting with or conducting a major ensemble, assisting or teaching conducting classes or other courses, and ensemble library work. Other assignments may include office work such as program notes, programs, and advertising.
The graduate student selected for this position assists will assist professors with jazz music library maintenance, as well as grading and assisting in one or more undergraduate jazz classes. If the candidate has extensive performance experience he/she may be asked to coach one or more undergraduate jazz performance ensembles. Qualifications include experience in jazz performance, and acceptance into a graduate program in classical performance.
** Graduate students applying for other majors may also be eligible for assistantships in Music Studies if they meet the qualifications. **
The graduate students selected for these positions are often assigned to teach and tutor in the Freshman or Sophomore Music Theory and Ear Training sequence. Qualifications include a superior academic record, strong keyboard, vocal and aural skills, and advanced coursework in theory.
For more information on auditioning for a Theory assistantship, please see this form.
Applicants interested in a theory assistantship must contact Dr. Adam Ricci (adamricci@uncg.edu) to set up an interview with the music theory faculty.
Old Time Ensemble
The graduate student selected for this position will assist with instruction and administration of the Old Time Ensemble, including managing aural repertoire resources, assisting with ensemble scheduling, and supervising student groups at rehearsals and performances. Qualifications include experience playing old time, bluegrass, blues or other aural musical traditions.
Fellowships from the UNCG Graduate School
The UNCG Graduate School offers a limited number of fellowships to students with high GPAs and GRE scores. These are campus-wide awards and are quite competitive. Each year, a small number of music students usually receive the largest awards, which are $20,000 per academic year plus tuition waivers and health insurance. There is no work assignment for students on Fellowship. Students must be nominated by our faculty in order to be considered for these awards.
There is no secondary application for fellowships. Students are nominated for fellowship consideration by a faculty member in their area of study. The deadline for fellowship nominations is February 1st
Interested students must be fully admitted to UNCG and have completed the Graduate School application and audition process by February 1.


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As Poudre School District's Board of Education searches for the district's next superintendent, staff, students, family and community members have a few ways they can weigh in.
The board is looking for input on what the community would like to see in the district's next superintendent.
A survey open to all community members through Jan. 22 is asking for feedback on the district's and schools' strengths, challenges the district faces, new leadership priorities, and the professional and personal characteristics the district's new leader should have, according to the district website.
The survey is available in English and Spanish and can be found online at psdschools.org/News/SuperintendentSearch-CommunityInput.
Three virtual forums have been scheduled this month for different stakeholder groups.
Students, family and the general community are invited to a forum from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13. People can join by video at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88671826713.
School district staff are invited to a virtual forum from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14 and can join by video at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83599874544.
A forum for Spanish speakers will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21. People can join virtually at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83022779614.
For information on how to join these conferences by phone, visit psdschools.org/News/SuperintendentSearch-CommunityInput.
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Additional invite-only focus groups will be held this month as well, according to the district website.
With help from an education consulting group, Hazard Youg Attea and Associates, the board has begun the nationwide search for a new superintendent. The consulting group will gather feedback from the community in the coming weeks and present them in a leadership profile during the Board of Education's Feb. 9 meeting.
The board plans to conduct interviews with initial candidates in mid-February through mid-March, identify finalists by late March and name a sole finalist by mid-April. The new superintendent will likely assume the role by July 1.
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