The Tri-City area of Poland is a collective name given to the three coastal cities of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot. The three cities are only a 25 minute drive from each other and due to their close proximity to each other then tourists usually visit all three cities when in the area.
One might be surprised to learn that the town of Gdansk has been a catalyst for two world shifting events in the 20th Century. Gdansk (formerly known as Danzig) was the flash point of Polish-Nazi conflict in the period leading up to the Nazi invasion. And in 1980, in Communist controlled Poland, a young worker from Gdansk, by the name of Lech Walesa became the figure-head for the worker's organisation, Solidarity.
By demanding worker's rights, Solidarity was responsible for causing the first cracks in the Communist regime and played a pivotal role in it's eventual collapse. Today, Gdansk is a cosmopolitan sea port with many cultural events and festivals taking place all the year round.
The Old Town (Stare Miasto) is where the main attractions are concentrated and the best place to enter this area is from the Upland Gate.
The Golden Gate (Zlota Brama) marks the beginning of the Royal Route. Dating back to the 16th Century this gate would have been part of the city walls but today only the gate still stands (as does Florianska Gate in Krakow). Dluga Street (Ulica Dluga), which formed part of the Royal Way, is arguably the most picturesque street in Gdansk. Dating back to 1331 Dluga Street was the home of Gdansk's elite town officials, bankers, ship magnates etc. The street still has an air of "money" about it as the beautifully decorated buildings can testify.
As you walk down Dluga Street the Main Town Hall can be found on the left hand side and it dates from the 14th Century. Once home to the famous astronomer Hevelius the building is now open to the public and is worth a visit if only to see the beautifully restored rooms (the Red Room is particularly stunning). Neptune's Fountain is nearby and this beautiful fountain is considered to be the symbol of Gdansk. It is located in front of Artus' Court (an impressive 16th Century mansion). During WWII the fountain was hidden from the Nazis and only returned to it's rightful place in 1954. Executions also used to take place in this square centuries ago.
At the end of Dluga Street is the Motlawa river which leads to the Baltic. Here you will always find a variety of vessels moored, not to mention all the amber shops and nautical themed shops. Turning left you are confronted by the sight of the medieval crane or Zuraw. This was originally built in the 14th Century and subsequently rebuilt in the 15th Century after a devastating fire. The crane was used for loading cargo ships and was also used for ship construction.
Walking towards the crane, the second street on the left is St. Mary's Street (Ulica Mariacki) and is arguably the most atmospheric street in Gdansk. The architecture is reminiscent of Amsterdam with ornate steps and guttering adorning each house. Some of the best amber in town can be found on this street. At the end of the street is St Mary's Church which is believed to be the largest brick church in the world-it can hold upto 25,000 people ! If you're feeling fit enough you can climb one of the towers to enjoy stunning views of the city and surrounding areas.


Should Employers Cover Childcare Expenses When Parents Travel for Work?
Bovasso is a single mother who also happens to be one of the very few female creative directors in the advertising industry—a "unicorn," as she refers to herself. She doesn't have a spouse at home to watch her son if she needs (or wants) to attend work events after-hours. So, when Bovasso was asked to attend an after-work appreciation dinner her employer was throwing on a weeknight, she was faced with the dilemma of whether it was even worth the $200 childcare tab she'd have to afford out of pocket.
Long story short, Bovasso ended up going to the dinner and paying for a sitter—only to discover that her employer was fronting the bill for some of her (male) colleagues to stay at a hotel near the restaurant so they wouldn't have to choose between drinking at the event and getting home safely. Bovasso wasn't too happy about the situation, so she took it up with the department head that very night. Although she eventually ended up getting her babysitting tab covered for the evening, it wasn't without a fight.
How is it that her employer was willing to cover the bill for hotel rooms for people who chose to drink too much that night, but she'd have to pay a sitter $200 to even make the event?
I'm sure we can all agree that, although the traditional family unit hasn't phased out entirely, it's definitely not as common as it was in generations passed. Nowadays, dual-income households seem to be the norm, especially when you consider the fact that women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce. Despite the evolution of the household, however, working women (moms, especially) end up getting the raw end of the deal, because of gender biases in a workplace that often seems to be stuck in the past. Not only are women still trying to break through and abolish "the glass ceiling," but they're also tackling the hardships of the gender pay gap and unconscious bias. When is enough, enough?
Hopefully, the workplace will evolve to become not only more female-friendly, but family-friendly, too. Of course, childcare responsibilities aren't exclusive to women only, but women are typically the ones who bear most of the load when it comes to household and childcare duties, even when they hold full-time careers. Therefore, it'd be nice to see some sort of compromise with childcare in and out of the workplace so that women don't have to choose between growing their careers and meeting expenses.
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Radio telescope in Greenland sees first "light"
May 31, 2018 at 10:03 am Robert Zimmerman	Points of Information
Astronomers have successfully initiated operations of a new radio telescope dish, the first ever located in Greenland.
The Greenland Telescope is a 12-meter radio antenna that was originally built as a prototype for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) North America. Once ALMA was operational in Chile, the telescope was repurposed to Greenland to take advantage of the near-ideal conditions of the Arctic to study the Universe at specific radio frequencies, collaborating with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and MIT Haystack Observatory.
ASIAA led the effort to refurbish and rebuild the antenna to prepare it for the cold climate of Greenland's ice sheet. In 2016, the telescope was shipped to the Thule Air Base in Greenland, 1,200 km inside the Arctic Circle, where it was reassembled at this coastal site. ASIAA also built receivers for the antenna. "It is extremely challenging to quickly and successfully set up a new telescope in such a cold environment, where temperatures fall below -30 degrees Celsius," said Ming-Tang Chen from ASIAA and the Greenland Telescope project manager. "This is now one of the closest radio telescopes to the North Pole."
They have also linked this radio telescope to others across the globe, helping to increase the resolution of any data these radio telescopes gather as a unit.
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Col Beausabre
Can't be a NASA project, they saved money with a "pre-owned" telescope!
IIRC, the Jodrell Bank antenna rotates on the turret ring from a scrapped Royal Navy battleship…..looked it up and…-
"Part of the gun turret mechanisms from the battleships HMS Revenge and HMS Royal Sovereign were reused in the motor system for the telescope"
The ships were part of the five ship Revenge class of 1915, mounted eight 15 inch guns in dual turrets, fought at Jutland and weren't finally decommissioned until late 1943 -44 as being worn out by hard use early in WW II. What may have happened is that the RN removed the turret parts as spares for HMS Vanguard (1946) which mounted four recycled 15inch turrets. She was sold for scrap circa 1960 so the spares could be disposed of and some clever person got a brilliant idea.

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Transformative push for gender parity for a more inclusive world
According to a United Nations study every one in three women has reported to have been a subject of some or the other form of physical, psychological or sexual violence till now. This statistic includes the working women too who strive hard to get equal wages when compared to their male counterparts but are often subjected to unfair system. As International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women raises this debate once again, we need to decipher the emerging dynamics and the relationship between the two.
The 2017 World Economic Forum Report has clearly stated that the global gender gap has increased and if necessary steps are not taken then it would take 217 years to close this gap and create a level playing field for women. This gap is augmenting major social and as well as economic consequences. The most fundamental step to close this gap and change the situation begins right here, right now.
BOTH YOU AND I HAVE TO CHANGE OUR CURRENT APPROACH.
Bridging this gap means all of us need to first start working together on major societal and social issues which can be as multifaceted and broad ranging as – domestic violence, easy access to contraception, safe roads and workplace campuses, women's labour force participation – and this is not just in close consensus with the regional and national governments but also other stakeholders like private sector, NGOs etc.
A consistent support system and demand to fill in the gender wage gap has to be driven in partnership with all players and in a single voice. Most of the initiatives which have started had a good start but soon the energy started dissipating as they progressed. We need sustainable self- driven mechanism which can address basic issues of responsibility and ownership.
UN Chief leads with example
With the recent move of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to achieve gender parity across the UN before 2030 as per the latest system-wide strategy plan which was released last month, the subject has got a fresh impetus. But the support which is coming in at a slow pace is not enough. Many out there may understand the scope of this problem but somehow fail to imagine as well as communicate the success if the world achieves gender equality and fill in the wage gap.
Women in our homes as well as in our offices are key to global prosperity. Issues like environment and forest depletion, climate change and peace & disarmament seem to find more appeal and advocates among the women since these perils often directly hit them first. They are the first set of silence sufferers of adverse conditions arising out of climate change or a War etc. Consequently the strongest supporters of stopping and reversing these.
We need as many women leaders, as the men leading some of the most critical discussions of our times.
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BLOG » Data Science Careers
Top 21 Institutes to Get a Masters in Data Science
Anukrati Mehta / May 27th, 2019	| 9 Min Read
The employment search company Indeed says that the average salary of a data scientist in the United States is $119,705 per year, while the overall average salary stands at $47,060.
This means data scientists earn about 2.5x greater than the average.
Of course, there are professionals from other fields with higher numbers, but these are the averages. Even in India, the statistics are interesting.
Data Science Demand
Data science has gained so much importance in recent times with its potentially limitless applications in the world of artificial intelligence, that despite being actually a subset of computer science.
It is now seen as a distinct and principal field. For the same reason, a lot of courses offering Masters in Data Science are coming up worldwide in all sorts of institutions.
If you are still wondering what data science really is, here's a video for you.
What is Data Science?
If you are thinking of exploring data science courses, you are in the right place.
We are going to have a careful look at the top 21 institutions in India that offer a Masters in data science. Let us begin.
Top 21 Institutes with Masters in Data Science
1. Digital Vidya
Digital Vidya
In less than a decade, Digital Vidya has become one of Asia's leading training institutes in Data Science and Digital Marketing.
With over 35,000 professional students from the largest companies and the distinction of being the official training partner of Google India and Microsoft India, Digital Vidya's Data Science Master's Program can be counted as one of the most reliable courses in Masters in data science.
Location: Online Mode
Duration: 21 weeks (minimum)
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2. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Being one from the oldest and most revered groups of autonomous colleges, the IIT Hyderabad is a premier institution offering Masters in Data Science, India.
The M. Tech in Data Science has an intake of 35 students and a requirement of a minimum of 2 years of work experience.
Duration: 3 to 5 years
3. Indian Institute of Science (IISC)
Indian Institute of Science (IISC)
The century-old IISC at Bangalore is also one quality institution that offers an M.Tech. in Computational and Data Sciences, which is a Masters in Data Science with a comprehensive course structure.
4. IIM Calcutta
Like the IITs, the Indian Institute of Management is an apex group of public management colleges in India. The Calcutta IIM offers an Advanced Programme in Data Sciences (APDS) conducted through the VCNow platform twice a week, and is one of the best masters in data science India has.
Location: Calcutta (and online courses)
Duration: 275 hours
5. BITS Pilani
BITS Pilani
The Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani is one among the six 'Institutes of Eminence' as recognized by the Government of India, Offering one of the best data science masters in India.
The M.Tech. Data Science and Engineering at BITS is a course designed for working professionals.
Location: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad & Pune
6. Indian School of Business
Indian Business School
Although not exactly a technical masters course, the Advanced Management Programme in Business Analytics at ISB is a Masters in Data Science course ranked by Analytics Vidhya.
ISB has a campus spread over 260 acres and is ranked at no. 27 by Financial Times in its Global MBA Ranking 2017.
7. Symbiosis Centre for International Education
Symbiosis Centre for International Education
The Symbiosis Group is a deemed university, which was founded in 1971. Its institute named SCIE in Pune is revered by many.
It offers a Master of Business Administration – Data Sciences and Data Analytics (MBA-DS&DA). This is one of those data science masters in India which has an eligibility criterion of graduation in Mathematics.
Location: Pune
8. Indian School of Commerce
Indian School of Commerce
ISCs course is another Bangalore based masters in data science India has. ISC offers an MSc in Data Science & Analytics.
This course gives you the option of attending it full time or part time, and admissions are subject to a one-to-one interview.
Duration: 18 – 24 months
9. Chennai Mathematical Institute
Chennai Mathematical Institute
The M.Sc. in Data Science at the Chennai Mathematical Institute has an entrance exam at various centres all over India. Students with a weak economic background can receive partial or total tuition fee waivers for this particular course for Masters in Data Science.
10. IIIT Delhi
IIIT Delhi
The M.Tech.(CSE) in Data Engineering at the IIIT (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology offer a comprehensive Masters in Data Science course with 19 important subjects in this Masters course in Data Science, of which electives can be chosen.
11. Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University
With more than 13,000 students, JNU is one of the largest university campuses in India. It has a separate 'School for Computational and Integrative Sciences'.
JNU offers a P. G. in Big Data Analytics which is one of those data science Masters courses in India that are priced affordably.
12. Ahmedabad University
Ahmedabad University
Ahmedabad University's MTech program in 'Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)', with a specialization in 'Data Science and Analytics' offers one year's research/industry based dissertation work.
The intake is a maximum of 20 students.
Location: Ahmedabad
13. Central University of Rajasthan (TCS Collaboration)
The CURAJ is a popular higher education institution with students enrolling themselves from 23 states.
The Department of Data Science and Analytics at the Central University of Rajasthan has an M. Sc. in Big Data.
This is a Masters in Data Science course that is in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services and students can be placed in TCS after completion of course.
Location: Rajasthan
14. G. D. Goenka University
G. D. Goenka University
Established in 2013, the G. D. Goenka University with a 60-acre campus is located in Haryana.
It provides a classic 4-semester M. Sc. in Data Analytics and Big Data
Location: Gurgaon
15. Jain University
Masters of Technology – Data Sciences
Bangalore's JGI is actually well-known for producing successful sports personalities with some popular names in the alumni list.
On the academic front, the Jain University also provides an M. Tech in Data Science with a good balance between statistics, as well as programming concepts, in its course content.
16. Narsee Monjee Institute
Narsee Monjee Institute
Narsee Monjee Institute's Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering has M. Tech courses on Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Cybersecurity in collaboration with Virginia Tech.
The Full-Time M.Tech. in Data Sciences (Business Analytics) is designed by experts from industries.
17. IIDT Tirupati
IIDT Tirupati
Indian Institute of Digital Technologies in Tirupati is an institute set up under the Andhra Pradesh Electronics and IT Agency, an autonomous society of the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
The institute has received 4th rank in Business Analytics in India by the Analytics India Magazine. It offers a Post Graduate Programme in Business Analytics.
Location: Tirupati
18. Xavier University
Xavier University selects candidates based on their educational credentials and the SoP. The course offered is a Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics.
Location: Bhubaneshwar
19. Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University
The Vivekananda University has a NAAC accreditation grade of A++.
This is the third institute in India that is in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services. Started in 2016, the university offers an M. Sc. course in Big Data Analytics.
Location: Howrah
20. INSOFE
INSOFE
Among all the data science masters in India in this list, INSOFE's is the only one that is a course in two countries.
The 'International School of Engineering' offers a Post Graduate Program in Data and Business Analytics.
The course is in partnership with Rennes School of Business, France and students are supposed to cover part of the course in France.
Location: Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Rennes (France)
Duration: 2 Semesters
21. St. Xavier's College
St. Xavier's College
Another institute with TCS collaboration for a data science masters in India, St. Xavier's is an autonomous college that offers M. Sc. in Big Data Analytics and requires one semester of internship based project in the last semester.
The Value of Data Science Masters in India
With every passing year, the number of courses offered in big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence is going to go up, and so is the number of experts the field requires.
India has always proved to be a producer of some of the world's smartest brains in computer science and all of above are some of the top masters in data science India can offer.
If you are deciding on enrolling to a masters in Data Science, now is the best time.
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Milton George Henschel (ur. 9 sierpnia 1920 w Pomonie, zm. 22 marca 2003 w Nowym Jorku) – amerykański działacz religijny, piąty prezes Towarzystwa Strażnica oraz długoletni członek Ciała Kierowniczego Świadków Jehowy. Odbył podróże służbowe do przeszło 150 krajów.

Życiorys
Milton Henschel urodził się w Pomonie w roku 1920. W roku 1934 jako nastolatek znalazł się w Brooklynie, gdzie przyjechał wraz ze swoim ojcem, Hermanem George'em Henschelem, który pracował nad projektem drukarni Towarzystwa Strażnica w Biurze Głównym Świadków Jehowy. W roku 1956 poślubił Lucille Bennett.

Henschel został sekretarzem Nathana H. Knorra (wówczas nadzorcy drukarni Świadków Jehowy) w 1939 roku i pozostał nim później, gdy Nathan H. Knorr został w 1942 roku prezesem Towarzystwa Strażnica.

W latach 60. XX wieku był rzecznikiem Świadków Jehowy, a w latach 70. XX wieku nadzorcą oddziału na Stany Zjednoczone.

Podróże służbowe
Od listopada 1945 roku Milton G. Henschel odbywał podróże służbowe wraz z ówczesnym prezesem Towarzystwa Strażnica Nathanem H. Knorrem
, a także po jego śmierci w 1977 roku – już jako prezes Towarzystwa Strażnica. W sumie odwiedził przeszło 150 krajów, podczas których wizytował Biura Oddziałów lub brał udział w ich otwarciu, odwiedzał misjonarzy, absolwentów Szkoły Gilead. W wielu tych krajach brał udział w kongresach, a także w rozmowach z przedstawicielami rządów w sprawie przyznania większych swobód religijnych Świadkom Jehowy (m.in. w 1978 roku w Polsce).

Prezes Towarzystwa Strażnica
W roku 1992 został prezesem Towarzystwa Strażnica. 7 października 2000 roku jako jedyny w historii prezes Towarzystwa Strażnica złożył dymisję – z powodu zmian organizacyjnych, wskutek których oddzielono funkcje Towarzystwa Strażnica od Ciała Kierowniczego i przeniesiono obowiązki administracyjne na osoby niebędące członkami Ciała Kierowniczego. Henschel pozostał członkiem Ciała Kierowniczego aż do swojej śmierci w 2003 roku. Władał językiem angielskim i hiszpańskim.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

 Rocznik Świadków Jehowy: coroczne sprawozdania z uroczystości otwarcia biur oddziałów i sal zgromadzeń, w których brał udział.

Świadkowie Jehowy w Stanach Zjednoczonych
Członkowie Ciała Kierowniczego Świadków Jehowy
Prezesi Towarzystwa Strażnica
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Being able to grow a majestic beard is often taken for granted, because there are thousands of men in the world who are unable to grow facial hair. But thanks to the ever growing popularity of beard transplant surgery, there is a viable option. In this article we will take a look at this simple procedure so that you will be in a better position to make an informed decision if you are considering having a transplant or simply looking for more information. First, let's take a quick look at some of the reasons why some men aren't able to grow facial hair.
The inability to grow facial hair is not something to be ashamed of as it's very rarely the fault of the individual. And as you can see from the reasons above, it's fairly common.
Thankfully, with a beard transplant, you can restore natural looking facial hair in just about any design you want. From a full beard to a goatee or even just a mustache.
Where does the hair used in a transplant come from?
During a facial hair transplant, hair is taken from other locations on the body and grafted onto the face by a surgeon. These hairs typically come from the back of the scalp due to the nature of the hair being similar to that of facial hair. Other hair can be used but might not resemble the hair that you were expecting to see.
Hair used for a transplant procedure is referred to as donor hair and is surgically removed from the scalp.
How many hairs are needed for the transplant?
The amount of hair needed from the scalp will vary based on the area that you would like facial hair on. A lush mustache might require 500 individual grafts while a basic mustache might be as little as 350. For a full goatee and cheek beard you might require as many as 2,500 grafts.
A surgeon should be able to give you an estimate when they see the area that needs to be transplanted.
Some surgeons may even use two hairs per graft in order to give a natural appearance to hair.
A graft isn't as simple as placing a hair. The surgeon will also have to angle the hair in the proper angle to make it appear as if the hair was growing in the proper direction.
In some rare cases the first graft will either not be enough hair or will not completely take. In such circumstances, a second transplant might be needed.
The actual transplant procedure is relatively quick. The shortest procedures for the minimal amount of grafts will only take about 2 hours.
At most, a transplant will take around 5 hours unless you have extremely tough skin or a very large amount of hair to transplant.
You will notice that little crusts form around the newly transplanted hairs for the first 5 or so days. For a some it may last a day or two longer. If it lasts for more than a week you should contact your surgeon to see what can be done.
It's been said that it's best not to wash your face while your skin has these crusts forming around the hair.
After about 2 to 3 weeks you will find the hair starting to fall out. This isn't a bad thing, it is supposed to happen.
Within 3 months though, you should start to grow your own natural hair. And that is after all the whole point of the procedure and the desired result… to get your beard hair growing naturally.
Is a beard transplant expensive?
Currently, the costs are still considered to be quite high.
In order for some men to grow the beards that they desire, they need a little bit of help. This is nothing to be ashamed of.
Getting a beard hair transplant might seem expensive at first, but it is a viable solution. And depending on how important it is for you to grow a beard, this procedure could well be worth much more than the initial cost. If however you are still unsure about undergoing the procedure, you may want to try beard growing supplements that are rich in Biotin. You can read our article about how biotin helps with beard growth.


Historically, Medicaid benefits and covered services have rarely been examined on a systematic basis. As an essential part of the New York Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT), New York State is committed to structuring the Medicaid benefit to ensure that all beneficiaries have access to the clinically effective, efficiently delivered services they require. To that end, the New York Department of Health (DOH) has established a new, systematic process for making decisions about Medicaid benefits using the best available research evidence. The Dossier Process is designed to support transparent and consistent coverage and payment decisions that align with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services´ Triple Aim vision for health care of achieving better health, better quality, and lower costs.
Through the Dossier Process, the Department evaluates available evidence to determine coverage of health care services, procedures and devices (hereafter referred to as services). Covered services must be FDA approved when required and supported by evidence of safety and effectiveness. Services of uncertain value (e.g., high cost with lower cost alterative; high risk) will be selected to go through the Dossier Process. Individuals or entities may an evidence dossier. Dossiers should be comprehensive and include the most current research available. This dossier submission process will help the State better understand the body of clinical research evidence (hereafter referred to as evidence) related to the service under review, what limitations on use may be appropriate, and whether coverage of the service represents significant value to the people of the State of New York. Figure 1 (below) summarizes the DOH Dossier Process and highlights where individuals or entities may submit an evidence dossier on a service under review.
The dossier submission process provides a structured and uniform way for individuals or entities to submit evidence related to the effectiveness and safety of a service under review. Individuals or entities submitting evidence dossiers must answer a series of questions related to the service and submitted evidence, assess the methodological quality of the submitted evidence, and calculate the net health impact of the service based on the evidence submitted.
All dossier submissions must use the Dossier Submission Form. Evidence dossiers submitted in other formats will not be accepted. Incomplete dossier submissions will not be reviewed, and the submitter will be notified. The Dossier Submission Form includes quality appraisal checklists necessary to assess the methodology quality of the evidence submitted. Please refer to the accompanying Dossier Methods Guidance document for a more detailed discussion of assessing the methodological quality of a study, determining the overall strength of a body of evidence, and assessing the net health impact of a product.
Once a dossier submission is received, DOH will evaluate the submitted evidence, the appraised methodological quality of the evidence, and the calculations of net benefit. Coverage will be determined by an assessment of the net health impact of the service as demonstrated by the available research evidence. DOH reserves the right to consult additional sources of evidence and consult with external reviewers to assist in evaluating dossier submissions for making coverage determinations.
Individuals or entities submitting evidence dossiers should understand that submission of information in the format recommended herein does not mean a service will be covered or approved for payment. This Dossier Instructions document describes the minimum information requirements necessary to support a comprehensive assessment of the service in relation to other similar services.
All costs for suggesting a service for review or submitting an evidence dossier must be borne by the submitter. A dossier submission that is incomplete or fails to follow this protocol will not be considered. All information submitted to DOH through an evidence dossier submission may become available to the public. It is the submitter´s responsibility to limit information (including, but not limited to clinical, price, financial and all other data and information) submitted under this process to data and information that may be publicly disclosed.
Make any and all information available to the public, including but not limited to Freedom of Information Law requests.
The New York DOH shall accept all dossier submissions and shall have no obligation to return submitted dossiers irrespective of any markings or statements of confidentiality contained in or on the dossier.
New York DOH coverage decisions are based on whether a service has a positive net impact on improving the health and improving the quality of care for recipients, and containing costs for the New York Medicaid program. Patient important health outcomes such as mortality, morbidity, and quality of life are of primary interest to DOH and surrogate outcomes such as test results or physiologic measurements are of little or no importance unless such surrogate measures have a strong and established link to key patient–oriented outcomes. Submitting available evidence on a service and using internationally recognized methods for appraising the quality and strength of the research submitted through this process will create an unbiased, transparent, and consistent foundation for making a coverage determination.
The following instructions address each section of the Dossier Submission Form. Evaluating the methodological quality of evidence and determining an overall strength of the evidence are sequential actions; the instructions provide a suggested order for completing the Dossier Submission Form to aid in these tasks.
Please provide contact information for the individual submitting the evidence dossier, a description of the service, and all relevant HCPCS and CPT codes. The PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome) framework should be included, along with specific references to all potential harms. The executive summary should include a short description of the service, included evidence body, and any related harms. The executive summary may be used on the Department´s website and should be written at a reading level for general public consumption.
Identify individual references on the service that relate to the specified applicable population(s), intervention(s), comparator(s), and patient important outcomes (PICO) of the service. A full citation and a PDF copy of the article must be provided for each study included in the dossier submission. Submitters should include all applicable evidence on the effectiveness and safety of a selected service (including unpublished studies). Please list all study citations in alphabetical order (by last name of first author) in the Reference & Quality Appraisal Ratings section of the Dossier Submission Form.
Note: While clinical practice guidelines may be pertinent to the service under review, DOH does not consider them an acceptable evidence source for this process. However, all good quality guidelines are supported by a systematic review of the evidence (Institute of Medicine 2011), and these systematic reviews can be included in the dossier submission.
The Service Rationale includes seven multiple part questions. The questions relate to the efficacy and safety of the service under review, and the applicability of the service to the New York Medicaid population. Each question should be answered in entirety. Please cite the references listed on the Reference & Quality Appraisal Ratings section as part of the response to each question. The total response length must be limited to 6,000 words. All references cited in this section should be listed in the References & Quality Appraisal Ratings section (Step 2), and every study must be assessed for methodological quality (Step 4).
New York DOH will prioritize patient important outcomes in its review of the evidence. If an individual or entity would like to submit evidence on surrogate outcomes, they must provide the references to support how the surrogate outcomes are directly linked to patient important outcomes. In addition, a time frame for each outcome discussed (e.g., cardiac events – per year; chronic migraines – per month) must be provided.
New York DOH uses a hierarchy of evidence to determine the weight given to available evidence on a given service. Please see the Dossier Methods Guidance document for further discussion of the hierarchy of evidence and the integral components that factor into assessing the methodological quality of a study. The tools used by DOH to quality assess individual studies are listed in Figure 2 and are included in the Dossier Submission Form document. The tools, otherwise known as checklists, are modeled after nationally and internationally recognized processes (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) (Guyatt 2008)1 in order to satisfy the requirements for scientific validity in the ethical conduct of clinical research. The Quality Appraisal Checklists and the Dossier Methods Guidance document provide step–by–step guidance on how to critically appraise the studies included in the dossier submission. A completed Quality Appraisal Checklist must be submitted for each study included in the dossier submission.
Each Quality Appraisal Checklist includes questions pertaining to the internal validity of a study. Internal validity refers to how well a study was conducted to minimize bias, or in other words, how likely the findings of the study are to be true. Every question should be answered with Yes, No, Unclear, or N/A as appropriate. Detailed guidance on filling out the Quality Appraisal Checklist(s) is provided in the Dossier Methods Guidance document. Each Quality Appraisal Checklist assesses the overall methodological quality of an individual study through a series of questions. For every study included in the dossier submission, please list the overall quality rating with the corresponding full citation in the References & Quality Appraisal Ratings section of the Dossier Submission Form.
To evaluate the strength of the overall body of evidence submitted, the body of evidence for each outcome is synthesized. Several factors are considered when determining the overall strength of a body of evidence. In order to accurately assess the strength of a body of evidence, it is essential to include all available evidence that meets the specified inclusion criteria (see topic PICO and Key Questions). Please refer to the Dossier Methods Guidance document for a detailed discussion of determining the overall strength of a body of evidence for a service.
Descriptions of the four overall ratings for strength of evidence based on the GRADE system are provided below to assist with your appraisal of the evidence.
Well designed large observational studies with additional strengths that guard against potential bias and have large estimates of effects.
Observational studies without special strengths.
Evidence typically consists of observational studies with serious limitation and outcomes for which there is very little evidence, or studies with conflicting outcomes.
None (no evidence is available).
Determining the net health impact of a service is a necessary piece of DOH´s evaluation process. Assessing harm versus benefits of a service compares the magnitude of benefit and harms within a population. There are a number of measures that can help calculate the net impact of a service. Some services can be used for multiple outcomes; when that is the case, it is necessary to assess the net impact for each outcome. The net impact of a service may be different for individual outcomes. Refer to the Dossier Methods Guidance document for a detailed discussion of outcome measures.
Upon receipt of an evidence dossier, the Department medical team will evaluate the entire dossier submission for completeness and accuracy. This will include independent quality appraisal of submitted studies and an independent literature search. The Department will determine an independent overall strength of evidence for each outcome based on its review of the evidence and determine the net impact for each outcome.
Institute of Medicine. (2011). Clinical practice guidelines we can trust. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. Retrieved December 17.


Austin-based Mobile Loaves & Fishes was started about 20 years ago by Alan Graham and four friends from Austin's St. John Neumann Catholic Church who set out to feed the homeless out of a pick-up truck. From this experience of helping the homeless on the streets, they discovered a strong desire of the homeless for community. From there, the idea for Community First! Village was born.
Today, the village is a 51-acre, master-planned community developed by Mobile Loaves & Fishes to help alleviate homelessness in Austin, Texas. The goals of this development are to provide permanent homes for individuals who do not have access to stable housing. Community First! Village has enlisted the help of many organizations in providing affordable and permanent housing within a supportive community for men and women struggling to be free from chronic homelessness. The focus is on delivering affordable housing for the homeless within the community.
At Bautex, we are always striving to build healthier and more comfortable buildings for people to live and work. Sometimes, that means partnering with local charitable organizations like Mobile Loaves, along with architects, builders and other manufacturers, to construct better homes for Texas residents. Today that means building affordable housing for someone in need.
Asked by SmithKennedy Architects to donate our innovative new block wall system, Bautex replied with a resounding, "Yes!" Along with SRD Builder and other partners, Casa Poquito, a micro home in the Community First! Village, is becoming a reality. This past March, Bautex arrived at Community First! Village with a team to construct the walls of Casa Poquito. Some members of the team had no construction experience and found out first hand how simple the process of building with Bautex really is.
The following companies have donated their time and materials to this project. With the support of this team and many others, Casa Poquito is becoming a reality.
The Village is expanding and adding 110RV sites as well as a 20,000 square foot health facility. When complete, the Village population will reach 480, which, according to the Ending Community Homeless Coalition, is almost 40% of the estimated chronically homeless people living in Austin, making it considerably larger than any other tiny-home community for the homeless.
However, we're not there yet; there is still much to be done. We need your support to help end homelessness in Austin by completing the funding for this project, so we can get our future resident into their home as soon as possible. Support Casa Poquito today!


What is better Amilia or LuckyFit? The best Club Management Software is a program that can handle your company's unique requirements. It's easy to identify which alternative works best for your enterprise if you assess numerous products before you decide which one is the best.
For example, Amilia and LuckyFit are scored at 8.5 and 6.9, respectively, for overall quality and performance. Likewise, Amilia and LuckyFit have a user satisfaction rating of 99% and N/A%, respectively, which reveals the general response they get from customers. Better yet, reach put to a current user of the software and ask for their comments concerning the solution in question.
At this time, the most significant solutions in our Club Management Software category are: Mindbody, Virtuagym, Zen Planner.
LuckyFit offers several SMB and enterprise pricing plans for all users to choose from. The plans are available through a monthly subscription and the pricing varies depending on the size of your club, the number of active customers you need to manage, and the features you want to include.
All tariff plans include lease of server capacities for storage and processing of your data. You no longer need to incur costs associated with buying and maintaining your servers. Meanwhile, for more information about LuckyFit's enterprise pricing plan, please contact the vendor and get your quote.
LuckyFit supports telephony, turnstile, and electronic door integrations.
A user-friendly and reliable web-based club management solution which simplifies the management and operations of fitness clubs, gyms, yoga studios, swimming pool facilities, and beauty centers; offering features for dynamic membership management, quick registration, unified class, session, and shift scheduling, powerful customer relationship management, automated access control, and mobile business analytics.
In the event you continue having second thoughts about which software will work best for your company it may be a good idea to take a look at each service's social metrics. Such metrics are quite often a sign of how popular a given product is and how extensive is its online presence. For instance, in case of Facebook Amilia has 2512 likes on their official page while LuckyFit profile is liked by 101 people.


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Selfish MP calls for Wales to be abolished so he can visit the beach – and Tories can take control
Daniel Kawczynski: you can tell just by looking at him that he's another Tory berk.
What a selfish, entitled Tory git.
And the people of Shrewsbury have elected him as their MP continually over the last 15 years, with an increasing majority every time. What possessed them?
Daniel Kawczynski, Tory MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, has called for the Welsh Parliament to be abolished so he can visit the beach.
Wales has coronavirus-related restrictions that are different from those in England. In Wales, people are not allowed to travel away from their local area and most cannot, therefore, visit the beach; nor can English people travel into Wales to do so.
In any event, Kawczynski is a fool because his nearest beach is in the Wirral.
His words suggest he is trying to use the virus and the lockdown – that his prime minister Boris Johnson imposed, let's not forget – to rekindle the debate about whether the UK countries should have devolved Parliaments.
"I am sorry, but the time has come to reach out as Conservatives to large numbers of like-minded citizens in Wales who like us believe in one system for both nations," he said.
"We must work towards another referendum to scrap the Welsh Assembly and return to one political system for both nations – a political union between England and Wales."
He means he wants the Tories to carry out a political power-grab and take control of Wales, so they can impose their disastrous coronavirus policies there and kill thousands more Welsh people.
Fortunately, his efforts have resulted in him being made to look the fool that he is:
I am 100% behind my old mate Daniel Kawczynski's idea to abolish Wales because Shrewsbury doesn't have a beach. What is a colony for if you can't spread infectious diseases around its beauty spots? @DKShrewsbury pic.twitter.com/aO301Pjmzz
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11 thoughts on "Selfish MP calls for Wales to be abolished so he can visit the beach – and Tories can take control"
Malcolm James May 12, 2020 at 12:54 pm
Funnily enough, Germany and Russia have both in the past had similar feelings towards his own native country of Poland.
SteveH May 12, 2020 at 1:01 pm
He already has a rather unsavoury reputation.
"A Tory MP [Kawczynski] who was widely condemned for speaking alongside far-Right politicians at a conference has been reprimanded by the party but has avoided a suspension.
Daniel Kawczynski was at the event in Rome alongside Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister, and Matteo Salvini, of Italy. The Shrewsbury and Atcham MP was condemned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Lord Pickles, the Government's envoy for post-Holocaust issues.
The Muslim Council of Britain said the Tories' claim of not tolerating racism "is truly farcical" and said Mr Kawczynski should have had the whip removed.
A Conservative spokeswoman said that his appearance was unacceptable and the MP had been reprimanded.
"Daniel Kawczynski has been formally warned that his attendance at this event was not acceptable, particularly in light of the views of some of those in attendance, which we utterly condemn, and that he is expected to hold himself to higher standards," she said.
"Daniel has accepted this and apologised."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/02/07/tory-mp-escapes-suspension-speaking-far-right-event-matteo-salvini/
Mike Sivier Post author May 12, 2020 at 9:41 pm
Yes! Thank you for finding this – I had it in mind to look up his unsavoury past but today has been quite full of fun stories and it slipped.
The Toffee (597) May 12, 2020 at 2:35 pm
And he'd be as welcome to New Brighton beach as a fart in a lift. What is it with these first & second generation IMMIGRANT tories, all demanding it THEIR way while telling other first & second generation immigrants they have to live by the rules?
Let him sod off to Saudi; kawczynski's a big fan of the headchoppers and their oil bucks, plus there's plenty of beaches & sand there.
Jill Darbyshire May 12, 2020 at 2:57 pm
Sorry mate but most of the people in Wales voted for Labour & the Cons only got a foot hold because of 'Get Brexit Done'. I much prefer Mark Drakeford's sensible leadership rather than the idiot they've got in Westminster & the nasty party mates. Wales prefers to be singular thanks.
I take it this is addressed to dozy Dan?
Growing Flame May 12, 2020 at 3:32 pm
Quite right, Daniel Kawczynski! Those Welsh people, trying to be different! Some of them don't even have Anglo-Saxon names! Outrageous!
Anna May 12, 2020 at 3:53 pm
Get infected people to look after him
Thomas May 12, 2020 at 4:57 pm
Frankly the way the (mainly) English Tory government is behaving at the moment I would not blame Wales if it decided to repair and fortify Offa's Dyke and use it for the reverse of its original purpose. The idea of using a thwarted desire to get the beach to argue for a power grab is even by current Tory standards off-the-scale ridiculous.
How utterly ridiculous in this situation. Given the behaviour of Westminster towards it I would not blame Wales if it decided to repair and fortify Offa's Dyke and use it for the reverse of its original purpose.
wildswimmerpete May 12, 2020 at 8:55 pm
There's nice little beach on the Severn in Sydney Ave, Shrewsbury, I've swum there several times when my sister lived there. There you go, Mr. Kawczynski.


Every Saturday afternoon the medieval scriptorium in the attic of Museum Meermanno is open to visitors. You can experience for yourself how it is to write with a goose quill pen. Dressed in a monk's habit, you and your children or grandchildren can have a go at getting the most beautiful Gothic letters down on paper.
Every Saturday afternoon between 12:00 and 16:30. No reservations are necessary.
The workshop is free (included in the museum entrance fee).


Nifty spot opened at 9960.10 and made a high of 9960.50 , it made a low of 9816.05, before closing at 9872.60 .
Had mentioned that long positions for the day can be taken above 9990 and short positions can be taken below 9940 . Nifty triggered our daily short trade and completed all our daily short targets giving 80 points . Nifty also triggered our weekly shorts and completed 4 weekly short targets giving 100 points . Further correction can be expected on sustaining / closing below 9815 as per weekly levels and Nifty took support near it today . Also as mentioned in the previous post " The broader range for a bigger move to come is 10040 - 10180 and breaking and sustaining beyond this range is required for a better move " , and we saw Nifty correct by nearly 200 points on breaking and sustaining below 10040 and now it needs to sustain / close below 9815 for further correction till 9690 . Holding the same we can see a move till 10000 - 10040 .


… are on their way to me and should be here next week.
I have three ARCs to give away, the first one sometime next week. Stay tuned.
I would attempt to stand on my head for three hours to get my hands on one of those. I was in a finacial crunch when Fire Along the Sky came out and I went to the book store once a week just to look at it. I had held it so many times that I knew its weight. On Christmas morning I was opening gifts at my parents house and I picked up a rather festive package. I knew what it was before I got the paper off. I started jumping up and down and squeeling with excitement.
I have been counting the days, waiting for the next instalment of the story.
Forget stand on my head, anything you ask Rosina!
I just read through more of your blog and realized that you're a Grey's Anatomy fan…here's another incentive on giving all the women in my family one of the ARCS (if the mocha cake wasn't enough)…I'm not sure where you live, but if you can get to Seattle or LA on a particular date, I can get you access to the show while it's being filmed live (I'll explain offline)!
It's really heartening to hear how eager y'all are to read this book of mine. I'm a little embarrassed, even. I really hope I can live up to your expectations.
Jody — ARC stands for 'advance reading copy'.
You haven't failed us yet Sara…I have faith!
I love your wilderness Books. I have reread Into the Wilderness 4 times and could keep rereading. I love how strong Elizabeth is and Nathaniel – What a Man!. All of the series is very good and hard to put down once started. Can't wait for the next book! I hope it soon!
they should make this into a TV mini series the characters come alive in these series and I'm counting down the day until Queen of hearts comes out.
I can't tell you the number of times my husband has said to me "Are you reading that book again?" In reference to Into the Wilderness, he finally asked the right question "What is it about that book that you love so much?" I never really answered him but I will tell you the answer, Elizabeth Middleton, Elizabeth which just happens to be my own name. She was the woman who I had become in my adulthood, the woman I wish my own mother was or could of been, but most importantly the kind of woman I want all three of my daughters to become. She knows herself, she knows what she wants and she knows how to get it. I can't think of a better role model for woman in literature. Thanks for creating her and sharing her with us. Looking forward to Queen of Swords.
I have all your previous Wilderness novels. I love them!
I also write historical fiction and would love to read an arc copy of your new novel.
I will recommend your books to all my friends in Britain.
Please send me an arc copy – I promise to spread the word!
Best Wishes and more power to your elbow, Margaret.
OMG, it is finally here, well, soon anyways.
Living in Quebec Canada, my access to english books is severely limited.


Nowadays, apps are no longer used in computers only.
People can now access different types of apps conveniently using their mobile phones. Applications can perform a variety of functions, but a large number of them are developed with the objective of solving people's problems. If you want to create a mobile app of your own, you can use the following ideas to come up with the best. The first thing that you ought to do is to come up with a team. This is very important for anyone who wants to be successful when it comes to mobile app development. After all, you will need different skills that you may not all have.
For this reason, it will be necessary to get other people who can help. You may need a professional designer do to the graphics or even a programmer to perform the coding just in case you do not know how. Again, you may need an experienced marketer who would ensure that your mobile app gains the needed platform in the market. For all these reasons, you need to create a team to offer assistance in the process of creating your mobile app.
Once you have a ready team, then you should now talk about the idea. There should be a particular market that your idea serves. This is to make sure that a large number of people downloads your app. Also, you ought to have a unique app idea. Your app should not resemble the ones that are already on the market as there are lots of them available these days.
After the mobile app is complete, the world should now know about it. It is advisable to emphasize on how the app would solve most of their problems. by using various common social networks, you will easily let the world learn more about the app. Following this, many people will know about the presence if, mobile app.
Developing a mobile app is never difficult if you have the best idea and the right team for help. Before hiring any person, ensure that you know more about them. This will assure you that you only have the best team creating the app. At first, creating mobile app requires a lot of finances and even your time but once it becomes known on the market and people start downloading it, it will turn up to be a great source of income for you.


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Review of David Rigsbee's "The Red Tower: New & Selected Poems"
Review of The Red Tower: New & Selected Poems
by David Rigsbee
NewSouth Books, 2010, $24.95, 192 pages
Like countless others, Thoreau, for example, or Camus or Whitehead or Sinatra, I have been haunted most of my life by a single question. Stephen Dobyns put this question into words in perhaps his best known poem, "How to Like It." David Rigsbee, in his new collection of poems, The Red Tower, has an answer to that question. In his opening poem, "Harp," he concludes, "Pointless speculation, and yet / / that is what I did with my life." Granted, "pointless speculation," may not sound like much, but one shouldn't judge that summation of human existence and endeavor too harshly. After all, with the exception of that special certainty granted by what we call faith (others might say imagination or fantasy or denial), as far as we can ever know, all of our efforts to explain and understand the nature or meaning of life are ultimately speculative, and lacking the truth that is necessary to make one's efforts truly meaningful and purposeful, they must be deemed in all likelihood pointless as well. More importantly, however, the answer to the question, "How do we like it," that Rigsbee provides in The Red Tower is that we embrace the uncertainty of our existence, and all that entails, in other words, that we try.
Such uncertainty is a frequent source of frustration, sometimes even depression or desperation, but it is always also a source of possibility and purpose. I think of Robert Frost's wonderful poem, "The Road Not Taken," and how any attempt to determine the nature of the road Frost is suggesting one should take is frustrated by the poem's embrace of uncertainty, leaving one with the conclusion that Frost's real point is not which road one should take but only that it is one's willingness to choose a road and pursue it that makes "all the difference." In other words, it matters most that one is willing to try. Rigsbee's poems in The Red Tower have a similar undercurrent. He recognizes that his answer to the question is an embrace of uncertainty, which creates possibility, and each of the poems in this book clarifies how one pursues possibility, what one might encounter in that pursuit, and what consequence might occur along the way. The first clarification comes in his second poem, "After Reading," where he declares, "Purity is a curse . . . / It better fits / to turn away from the shore / in favor of the garbage and the grief."
The next clarification comes in his third poem, the book's title poem, "The Red Tower," where he attempts to discover meaning out of his brother's death, finding instead no transcendent answers. He declares that "Yeats was wrong when he wrote / that God talked to those long dead," and adds, "Even if / God talked to the dead, what could / He possibly say to them?" This is not the first time anyone has asked this question, and Rigsbee makes clear that it shouldn't be the last. If God is to have any real meaning to humanity, then this question needs to be asked repeatedly and persistently. The doubt expressed in those lines is repeated in the next poem, "The Apartment," as well, where he tells us that "Saints were said to emerge from their cells / and pause, before going forth out of the spirit, / in their rope belts, into the stony forests." If even saints pause between the realms of the spiritual and the physical, between life and death, then how could the rest of us expect any certainty, any correctness, any purity in our choices?
The four poems mentioned thus far are all from Rigsbee's new poems, so it's not surprising, perhaps, that the subject matter and attitudes they express are similar. It is most interesting to note, however, that the same perspective exists in the selected poems from his seven previous collections as well. My favorite of his expressions of this embrace of uncertainty comes from "The Stone House," a poem in memoriam of Edmund Wilson, whose very life embodied the necessary dialectic between ontology and epistemology, what one might call the balancing act of being human. Rigsbee proclaims:
Wanted: a sky-blue life,
wild valleys brought to heel
by threshers and the queer tame men
walking the swath of a glacier.
Wanted too, a meaning for these footsteps,
these crawfish on the stone ledge, crawling
back to the river, and the tiny water-shrew
there, particular and bashful.
We want both to be and to make meaning out of or discover meaning within being. Embracing this balancing act and the effort necessary to persistently create meaning from it is also central to another of my favorite of Rigsbee's older poems, "Equinox."
It is the equinox, and today I feel
the thrall that reconciles the animal
and the hole, cloud and lake, the sexes.
The ticking at the window grows . . .
but in the kitchen the summer flies still swirl.
I hunt them all, as if nothing
should learn to expect the impossible.
Negative eloquence . . . /
is why the fire saves nothing, discards nothing.
Rigsbee stresses appreciation of the difference between life, which is clearly eternal, and individual life, which is decidedly not. He also stresses the necessary duality of living and being aware of living, being in the moment and aware of being in the moment.
Finally, in "Caught in the Rain," another of Rigsbee's best early poems we hear the same message in perhaps his clearest words as he contemplates the freshness of world metaphorically washed clean of loss, regret, the ever-present past by rain:
It will be
like falling in love again
to feel the sky-chilled rain
wanting to press my shirt
into the likeness of my body
until I am the submissive one,
part bird, part worm, part of
what is without reason . . .
knowing only the present tense.
Throughout his decades-long work, Rigsbee has encouraged us to live better, to make life better, by embracing the present tense, by submitting to an understanding that each of us is only a moment, by embodying Keats' idea of negative capability: "being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any [or at least too much] irritable reaching after fact and reason." It is lesson that will do us all good and that we need to be reminded of regularly.
Labels: David Rigsbee, NewSouth Books, The Red Tower
Imbued with the Spirit: A Review of Echoes Across the Blue Ridge
Echoes Across the Blue Ridge (Winding Path 2010)
Edited by Nancy Simpson
238 pages, $16
What makes the Appalachian Mountains so special? Certainly one distinctive quality is age. Where else can you see stone so old it crumbles, trees left alone to grow as big around as houses, houses bent on one knee but still lived in, and traditions as old as . . . well, as old as the hills?
Things, even people, are allowed to grow old here without someone knocking them down in the name of progress or shuffling them off to a nursing home. And that's how the real magic of the place happens, because, in one respect, nothing dies here -- not really. Sure, physical presence may come and go, but the essential character of things is retained in stories, poems, songs, artifacts, traditions, and, most of all, memory.
The word "haunted" has a negative connotation in most places, but one can hardly read about the southern Appalachians without that word or a synonym being, if not named, then at least implied. Robert Morgan uses it in his Introduction to Echoes Across the Blue Ridge: "The deep valleys seem haunted by the natives who once lived there." Kay Byer uses it in a comment quoted by Nancy Simpson in her "Note from the Editor:" "our most haunting artifacts." The first poem, "Beyond the Clearing" by James Cox, certainly suggests it by referring to "a place sublime / where spirits sing invisibly." And the first two stories, "Rendezvous" by Charlotte Wolf and "The Third Floor Bedroom" by Lana Hendershott, are, to some degree about the sensation of being haunted. And despite the usual expectation that non-fiction wouldn't involve such fanciful ideas as spirits and haunting, even the first essay, "The Oldest Answer" by Steven Harvey quotes Bettie Sellers saying, "My bent was to espouse the unseen that's in the woods at night." To which, Harvey adds, "It is the need to fill all this haunted otherness with something human."
All of this repetition of the word "haunting" or the sense of being haunted reminds the reader that the implication of the word is in fact not limited to an unpleasant habitual visitation but rather to a persistent presence of spirit, a presence that may be desired, embraced, just as I, a flatlander, have been haunted by images of Cade's Cove, Caesars Head, Graveyard Fields, and the Devil's Courthouse since visiting them as a child and returning to them as often as I can manage. This usually pleasant but sometimes unsettling lingering of spirit is closer to the type of haunting the writers in Echoes Across the Blue Ridge have discovered in these mountains and expressed in these pages.
Not that every piece in this anthology deals with the past or memory or spirit. Some of the selections deal with other reasons people are attracted to these mountains. Ellen Andrews comments on the beauty and sense of community in the mountains in "Homing:" "We are connected not by school uniforms / but by a raging lust for these purple mountains." And in poems like Gene Hirsch's "Where It Comes From," we see even more closely the intimate relationship between the human and the natural: "Love / sprouts from lichen, / in the shade, by the lily pond . . . / in the thicket / of a chapter of floating / leaves / beneath the silky / hairs of a willow."
Even the descriptions of nature are, however, frequently haunting, as in Janice Townley Moore's "Photos from Another State," where she describes the sound of a creek as "lyrics from the unseen." Similarly, Jennifer McGaha's reverie in "Looking Glass" is punctuated by images from the past: "You see your great-grandmother, her long, gray hair pinned in a bun, stooping over the quilting loom by the black wood stove in her cabin, and you see her strolling in her garden, her brown, crinkled hands pulling a green bean fresh from the vine." And Susan Lefler's harrowing story "The Spirit Tree" tells of one little girl's attempt to use the spirits of nature and tradition to fend off the hazards of her mother's emotional disorder.
Whether spirits of joy or grief, familiarity or strangeness, there is no doubt that the southern Appalachians are possessed by a presence that transcends the physical and temporal. In the same way, the poems, stories, and essays in Echoes Across the Blue Ridge are possessed by the various spirits of these mountains, leaving us standing, in the words of Janet Sloane Benway's poem "Sugarloaf Mountain," "in awe, / even in the face of sorrow."
Labels: Appalachian, Gene Hirsch, glenda Beall, Janet Sloane Benway, Janice Townley-Moore, Kay Byer, Nancy Simpson, Netwest, robert Morgan, Steven Harvey
Art Speaks -- A Unique Collaborative Art and Theatre Project
Art Speaks – A unique collaborative art and theatre project
Saint Stephens High School (Hickory, NC) students from Sue Hardy's Drawing II, III/IV, & Visual Arts III and Molly Rice's auditioned class of actors, writers, and singers Play Production have collaborated to produce a magazine-style book, art display and performance called "Art Speaks". The artists and actors have worked closely together in dialogue as partners. The artist and actor together have chosen a persona to bring to life – some include making death, fear, confusion, a secret, broken cell phone, and dog tags speak, among others. The actors have created monologues, poetry, prose, and songs based on their chosen persona and the artist has created art work from their favorite medium.
Forty-six artists and actors met on Tuesdays and Thursdays during class to be a part of each other's art as it was created. The project was kick started by Irish poet Adrian Rice who shared the "Muck Island" box a joint book made with Irish artist Ross Wilson. Muck Island is housed at Tate Gallery and Harvard University.
Artist Sue Hardy and Poet Molly Rice have teamed up as well to enjoy the experience with their students. Both teachers agreed that it was refreshing to focus on their own artistry since being a teacher leaves little time for creating outside their classroom.
"Art Speaks" will be performed in a unique walk-through production where the audience will get an intimate look at the students' work.
Saturday Nov. 13th at the Hickory Museums of Art's Coe Gallery at 4pm. This one-of-a-kind event is free to the public.
In the afternoon, the book "Art Speaks" will be launched.
Books, art prints (for framing), and CDs of the original music produced for the project will be sold. This project has been documented on film and a DVD of the work in progress and performance will be sold at a later date.
For more information, or to order copies of the books, prints, or CDs, contact Molly Rice at mollyrice@embarqmail.com
Labels: Ekphrastic Poetry, Hickory NC, Molly Rice, St. STephens High School


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The Silver Book: Vision Loss Briefing
September 25, 2007, 12:00 PM-1:15 PM
In partnership with the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research, the Alliance for Aging Research will launch the second volume of The Silver Book: Chronic Disease and Medical Innovation in an Aging Nation, an almanac of 1,000s of facts and statistics on the burden of chronic disease, and the value of innovation in reducing that burden.
This volume will highlight the impact of vision loss on our aging population, highlighting the current and future technologies and innovations that are offering hope to those suffering from debilitating eye diseases.
Speakers will discuss the burden of vision loss in the United States, as well as the current landscape of vision research. The briefing, held during AMD (Age-Related Macular Degeneration) Awareness Week 2007, will be moderated by Daniel Perry, Executive Director of the Alliance for Aging Research, and James Jorkasky, Executive Director of the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR).
Michael B. Gorin, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology and Harold & Pauline Price Chair
in Ophthalmology; Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
David Rein, PhD
RTI International
Mr. Hyman Shapiro, JD
Attorney and AMD patient
The briefing will be a widely attended educational event with a meal value of less than $50.
The briefing is brought to you in partnership with the National Alliance For Eye and Vision Research, and in conjunction with AMD Alliance International, Congressional Vision Caucus, and Prevent Blindness America.
More than 38 million Americans age 40 and older are blind, visually impaired, or have…
Senate Russell 385


A bacterial strain, designated Jyi-02T, was isolated from a flooded rice field in Taiwan and characterized using the polyphasic taxonomy approach. Cells of strain Jyi-02T were aerobic, Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile and formed yellowish orange coloured colonies. Growth occurred at 10–40 °C (optimum, 20 °C) and pH 5.0–9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and in the presence of 0–1.0 % NaCl (optimum, 0 %, w/v). The major fatty acids (>10 %) of strain Jyi-02T were C18 : 1ω7c, summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c) and C14 : 0 2-OH. The polar lipid profile consisted of a mixture of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidyldimethylethanolamine, sphingoglycolipid, an uncharacterized phospholipid and an uncharacterized lipid. The major polyamine was spermidine. The major isoprenoid quinone was Q-10. The DNA G+C content was 64.8 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain Jyi-02T belonged to the genus Novosphingobium and had closest phylogenetic similarity to Novosphingobium soli CC-TPE-1T (97.8 %). The DNA–DNA relatedness of strain Jyi-02T with respect to valid published species of the genus Novosphingobium was less than 35 %. Phenotypic characteristics of the novel strain also differed from those of the closest related species of the genus Novosphingobium . On the basis of the genotypic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic data, strain Jyi-02T represents a novel species in the genus Novosphingobium , for which the name Novosphingobium arvoryzae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Jyi-02T (=BCRC 80537T=KCTC 32422T).
The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain Jyi-02T is HF548596.


REMINDER - We will have school: Tuesday, May 29th; **Wednesday May 30th: 6th & 7th Awards assembly at 10AM (a change) and Fun Day in the afternoon. PERMISSION SLIPS ARE DUE BACK BY FRIDAY, MAY 25TH; Thursday, May 31st: Mass and report cards. Students will be dismissed about 9:30.
DIOCESAN PAPERWORK - Everyone needs to re-sign the acknowledgement for "Guidelines for Youth and those working with Youth form. You can read about the guidelines on the Diocesan website @ www.rockforddiocese.org . The information can be accessed on the left side under "Resource Links Documents and Forms/Safe Environment/Forms & Guidelines for Youth and those working with Youth". We are sending home 2 copies of the acknowledgement form (1 for each parent/guardian) to be signed and returned to the school before then end of the year. If you do not sign and return the form, you will be removed from the system and have to re-submit all required forms again. Please return the form as quickly as possible.
REGISTRATION FOR THE 2018-19 SCHOOL YEAR - was sent home. Please get your paperwork turned in as soon as possible. If you are not returning, please let the office know.
NOTE: PreK-3 class is full. There are still openings in the Pre-K4 class.
SPANISH 2018-2019 - Spanish classes for 5th-8th grade students will be held on Mondays from 2:30-3:00 or 3:10. The cost per week is $10. This time change will give more students the opportunity to take the class. Grades K-2 will be Tuesdays from 3:00-4:00. Grades 4-5 will be Wednesdays from 3:00-4:00. Cost is $12 per class.
ALTAR SERVER PIZZA PARTY - all servers who serve at Wednesday school Masses and weekends at St. Mary's Church are invited to attend a pizza party on Friday, May 18th from 3:00-3:30pm in the parish center.
8TH GRADE LAST DAY - will be Tuesday, May 22nd. Rehearsal for graduation will take place in the morning.
GROUNDS CLEAN-UP - will be Wednesday, May 23rd at 8:30am.
LAST DAY FOR UNIFORMS - will be Friday, May 25th Students may bring in their uniforms for the exchange on the 29th or 30th. Students may wear jeans, capris, or LONG shorts for May 29th, 30th and 31st.
MASS SCHEDULE CHANGE - We will NOT be attending Mass on Wednesday, May 23rd, we will be attending on Friday, May 25th.
**WEDNESDAY, MAY 30TH - The awards assembly for 6th and 7th grades will be held at 10AM in Bales Hall in the Parish Center. Families are welcome to attend.
**FUN DAY : A) will be held in the afternoon on Wednesday, May 30th. Students will walk to Kilgour Park and enjoy an afternoon of fun and games. Please wear jeans, long shorts or capris and your Walk-A-Thon T-shirt.
B) is in need of volunteers! Please call Tammy at 815-626-5623 if you are able to help from 11:45-3:00! We are looking for a few smiley, energetic, silly parents to help run the games for the kids or chaperone a team! We would also love any and all graduating 8th graders or even high school siblings who would like to come back and be a part of the fun. The more the merrier!! Thank you!
PRE-K SCHEDULE CHANGE - Students will have normal attendance on Tuesday, May 29th. The annual end of year picnic will be held on Wednesday, May 30th.
SPRING COUPONS = EASY FUNDRAISING - Spring Coupons = Easy Fundraising Two kinds of coupons were sent home.
SUMMER PROGRAMS: Each week until the end of school, there will be a list of summer activity offers from around town. If your child is interested in participating, please have them stop by the office and pick up a participation form.
4) NEWMAN: "A Study of Fear" Thunderstorms, snakes, the dark? Explore!
5) NEWMAN: "Learn Spanish" Learn about the language and make a piñata!
6) NEWMAN: "C.S.I. Camp" Solve a crime by using your new forensic skills!


On 17 and 18 October, the second edition of Italia Africa Business Week took place in Rome: a valuable chance to discuss contributions to the sustainable growth of the African continent, where Enel Green Power is committed to bringing new sustainable energy.
Africa came together for a meeting in Rome. On the 17 and 18 October, the Italian capital hosted the second edition of Italia Africa Business Week (IABW), the first economic event in Italy designed to bring together the two sides of the Mediterranean with the goal of fostering shared growth between the two continents, different but close.
The two days of networking, meetings and conferences brought together ambassadors, government figures and leaders in the sectors of infrastructure, renewable energy, agriculture, new technologies, fashion and biomedicine.
Italia Africa Business Week was a valuable chance to demonstrate the commitment of Enel Green Power, which is by Africa's side in the energy transition underway.
Michele Porri, EGP's Head of Business Development in Africa, was a speaker at the conference "Access to energy that boosts sustainable development – cycle of energy, water and food", together with Roberto Ridolfi, Special Advisor on strategy and financial development at FAO, Marco Aresti, Program Manager RES4MED&Africa, Madi Sakandé, General Manager New Cold System (Burkina Faso) Francesco Caponetti, General Director of CEDIAM SA West Africa, Kelali Adhana Tekle, CEO of the Morer Innovation Consultancy Plc (Ethiopia) and Simona De Iulis, Renewable Energy Expert and Research Scientist on Solar Energy for ENEA. The panel was moderated by Massimo Zaurrini, Director of the magazine Africa e Affari.
Limited access to electricity is a weakness of the African energy system as well as a giant barrier to its economic and social development. Energy, especially if it's renewable, is the answer.
Considering wind, water and sun, Africa is rich in renewable sources and yet more than 600 million people still don't have access to electricity and only 10 countries have an electrification rate over 75%.
Renewable energy will have a central role in the development of Africa, with an installed renewable capacity that will reach a share of 160 GW in 2030. Much of this will be made possible thanks in part to international investors, including Enel Green Power.
Renewable sources are increasingly competitive and more affordable than fossil fuels, thanks in part to on-grid, mini-grid and off-grid systems, which allow us to power the rural communities of Africa's remote areas as well as the new megalopolises of the future.
Electrical energy goes along with access to all basic services, like education, healthcare, agriculture, transport and nutrition.
This is why Enel Green Power, by making the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) its own, works to ensure a more prosperous future for the continent with, on one hand, the "green" energy from its plants and the innovative technologies it exports to the continent and, on the other, by carrying out initiatives of Creating Shared Value (CSV), aimed at improving living conditions for the local population.
Enel Green Power is present in many countries in Africa. In South Africa, where it has 500 MW already operational, it signed the Financial Close for another 700 MW in July. In Morocco, it recently won a tender for 850 MW of wind energy and is ready to sign the Financial Close and start construction on the plants, following the model of the Sustainable Worksite. In Ethiopia, it won 100 MW, and in Zambia, it recently started construction on its 34-MW Ngonye plant.
EGP also aims to develop its business in Kenya and Tunisia, where they are opening up tenders to fuel sustainable development.
However, a regulatory system is needed that allows for significant private investments to take advantage of the potential of renewables and respond to inevitable urbanisation and the resulting growth in energy demand.
At that point, renewable sources will be the real answer to the sustainable development of Africa.


Southview Cottages (although officially part of The Street) are situated at the western end of Fulking bridleway 6c (the Backway) and as their names suggest they face south with uninterrupted views of the Downs. They were built in the 16th century and at one time owned by G.S.C. Cuttress who included them in the sale of his property in 1914. At that time they were described [in the auctioneer's catalogue] as: "A double tenement cottage with garden and frontage to an accommodation road. Each tenement contains two bedrooms, a living room, washroom with copper and a lean-to wood shed. [There was] A privy in the garden common to the two tenements." At the time of the sale. the two tenements were let as one to James Steel at 3 shillings and 4 pence per week, the landlord paying rates and taxes. It is of note that a condition of the 1914 sale was that the purchaser of Southview Cottages had no third party right of access to The Street, over the land associated with Septima Cottages and the purchaser of Septima 1 and 2 had the right to deny any such access.
At some time between 1920 and 1930, Amy Harris bought the cottages and they were let to labourers working at Perching Manor Farm. Following the Second World War they were no longer required for farm employees and were let out to non-farm workers. Number 1 remained in the ownership of the Harris family until 2006.
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