The Rochester Lancers are having a press conference to announce 5 new player signings, along with the addition of a new assistant coach and their head athletic trainer.
Devo thinks that Mauricio Salles might be announced today because of a picture he posted on facebook. I think the bigger clue is that Salles has set the Lancers as his employer on facebook.
- Abby Wambach has been named the Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation.
- The Wichita Wings have signed Jamar Beasley who is a big time scorer in the MISL and DeMarcus' brother. The Wings have also announced that they will have an open scrimmage.
- Former Rhino Warren Ukah has re-signed with the Baltimore Blast.
- KCKRS interviews the biggest collector of MISL merch ever.
- If Gary Smith and former Rhinos player/assistant coach Steve Guppy are let go by Colorado, the duo may have suitors back home.
- WNY Flash F Christine Sinclair is back in action for Canada at the Pan Am Games.
- Beau Dure says new WPS CEO Jennifer O'Sullivan is good to go.
- Equalizer Soccer talks about the potential new team in Connecticut and apparently Tony DiCicco is not involved.
- Beau Dure also has a new post in his single digit soccer series. This time the topic is when is the right age to start splitting kids up by talent level.
- The NASL final is set and it's Fort Lauderdale versus NSC Minnesota.
- The Seattle Sounders and their fans had nice tributes to Kasey Keller over the weekend.
- Could Promotion-Relegation in the EPL go away?
- Jurgen Klinsmann's son has been called into the US U-15 camp.
- Apparently 15 clubs were scouting Brek Shea at a recent USMNT match. WOW.
- The USMNT will play Slovenia on November 15th.
- If you want Rise & Shine - The Jay DeMerit Story to come to Rochester, I'd bug The Little Theatre and see what happens.
- MLS has unveiled the details of the Montreal Impact Expansion Draft.


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It always seemed somewhat strange to me that Hook is considered one of Steven Spielberg's "B-list" titles. That meant it's lumped in with lesser lights such as Amistad, Always, and Empire of the Sun. This makes little sense to me because Hook actually did quite well at the box office; it made $120 million, which may not approach the mega-bucks of E.T. or Jurassic Park but seems substantial enough to warrant a greater profile for the film.
Because of this incomparable track record, Hook was supposed to be the big film of the Christmas 1991 season, but it couldn't even take the crown for just the winter. Disney's Beauty and the Beast raked in more than $171 million and left Hook in the dust. Ultimately, Hook only could rise to finish in fifth place for 1991, after Beast, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Terminator 2 and The Silence of the Lambs. That was a pretty weak fate for a film with such a strong pedigree.
Even if Hook had done much better at the box office, though, I still think it'd be regarded as a lesser film simply because it is a lesser film; this is the sight of Spielberg running on autopilot. While it's not his worst movie, Hook has to stand as one of Spielberg's most disappointing. He had long told of his desire to make a version of Peter Pan, and now he had his shot, with a $70 million budget – huge by 1991 standards - and an all-star cast that included Robin Williams as Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Hook, and Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell.
All of which proves the old saw about the whole being less than the sum of its parts. The detail that went into the sets and the entire production design is dazzling; clearly the crew went all-out to create a number of lavish and compelling settings.
Overall, the acting really is quite good. Roberts seems fairly flat as Tinkerbell, but Williams does a terrific job as Peter. He takes a surprisingly complex role - since he has to play Peter as older and serious as well as "classic Pan" - and makes all aspects of it realistic and believable. Williams is even able to come across as awkward in a public speaking situation and can deliver jokes in a flat manner, something I would have felt was impossible for him.
The film's climax is really well done, too. Those kinds of action bits are Spielberg's trademark, and he doesn't disappoint as he delivers a finale that gives the affair a rousing conclusion. The ending is a bit over the top, but that's to be expected and actually welcomed in this kind of film.
As these past few paragraphs demonstrate, Hook has some positives. Unfortunately, negatives such as the film's length heavily outweigh these. At more than two hours and 20 minutes, Hook is much too long and it moves at a snail's pace for the most part.
Spielberg seems far too concerned with establishing the back-story, an issue that appears almost meaningless. The audience is already familiar with most of the characters, and the plot's main twist - that Pan has grown up and become a serious adult - doesn't take an hour to explain. If I was so bored by what happened during much of the movie's first half, I can't imagine how bad it must be for younger kids.
The kiddie problem here comes from the Benetton ad castoffs picked to play the Lost Boys. From the biggest to the smallest, they all share one characteristic: they're really annoying and they consistently bring down the film. These kids scream "Hollywood cute" so loudly that the sound drowns out any positives; when they were onscreen , all I could think was how much I hoped they'd leave.
Hook isn't without its charms, especially if you can wade through the cutesy Lost Boys and the film's excess of exposition. Still, it remains a tremendous disappointment. I wanted to like Hook when I saw it theatrically in 1991, I wanted to like Hook when I watched both of its DVD releases, and I wanted to like Hook when I watched the Blu-ray. Unfortunately, there's too little of consequence happening here. The movie has its moments but too few to make Hook anything more than an intermittently fun film.
Hook appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this Blu-ray Disc. This was a consistently pleasing presentation.
Sharpness seemed strong. Occasional wide shots suffered from a smidgen of softness, and effects images came with some inevitable sags, but the image was usually tight and well-defined. I saw no instances of jagged edges or moiré effects, and the film also seemed to lack edge enhancement. Print flaws played no real role in the proceedings. Some stock footage of an airplane showed a few specks, but otherwise this was a clean image.
Colors looked vibrant and lush and displayed full saturation. This aspect of the picture worked especially well during the Lost Boys scenes, since they provided many situations with a variety of hues, but all parts of the film showed accurate and clean colors.
Black levels generally seemed very good, and shadow detail usually appeared clear and appropriately deep; at times the image could seem overly dark, but most of these instances appeared to result from the original film, especially since the majority occurred in the low-lit situations at the start of the movie. The film used diffuse lighting there that came across well. Hook remained a very attractive image.
The film's DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack seemed more than satisfactory. Imaging was generally full and broad, though I must admit I was surprised at how underused the rears were. For the most part, the surrounds provided John Williams' score with only occasional effects on display. That's not a perfect rule, of course, and some scenes presented very good material from the rears, but these examples didn't happen very often.
How did the Blu-ray compare to the original DVD? Audio was bolder and more dynamic, while visuals seemed tighter and more vibrant. The Blu-ray marked a notable step up in quality, especially in terms of picture quality.
The disc includes Previews for Soul Surfer and Zookeeper. No trailer for Hook - or any other extras – appear here.
Hook remains a film that I really wish I could love but I can only moderately like at best. It simply possesses too many flaws to become something that even remotely compares to Spielberg's finest work. The Blu-ray offers excellent visuals and very good audio but lacks supplements. The Blu-ray delivers a strong presentation of an inconsistent movie, though the continued absent of bonus features remains a disappointment.


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[Nintendo Switch] Gunslingers and Zombies Review
Ultimate Games, Live Motion Games, and Gaming Factory have brought Gunslingers and Zombies to the Nintendo Switch. Find out of this combo works in our Gunslingers and Zombies review!
Ultimate Games, Live Motion Games, and Gaming Factory have brought Gunslingers and Zombies to the Nintendo Switch. This one offers a voxel strategy game in which the Wild West and the undead combine as you take on the role of the gunslingers who are trying to stop the zombie apocalypse. Use the different weapons of your units – pistols, shotguns, knives, and more – to take on zombies of different shapes and sizes. You'll get a short intro for each stage by way of some comic book-style still images, and then you're off to shoot at anything that moves.
The first step on this journey will be to play the game's tutorial so that you can learn all of the basics. You'll move a cursor over the playing field with the left analog stick, rotating your view with the right one and zooming in and out as needed with the ZL and ZR buttons. Hover on top of one of your units and press the A button to take control. When you hover on top of a unit, you'll get to see its name and type, as well as a red bar with its health points and a blue bar with its action points. Action points are used for pretty much any action that a unit takes. If a unit receives damage, you can resort to using a bandage to partially heal its wounds by spending an action point. You can also collect quest items and place them in your bag – which has limited storage space.
By spending your action points to move through each area – either in short bursts or as far as your turn allows you to walk to – you'll remove the always classic fog of war over the playing area, revealing any zombies within your vicinity. By hovering over them, you can review their stats, just like you can for your units. You won't be seeing any action points on zombies but will instead notice a chance to hit stat, which will let you know if a zombie has spotted you and what the odds are for it to land an attack.
When attacking, you need to pay attention to the shield that will pop up on top of an enemy. If it's yellow, that means that you're attacking from ahead and will deal normal damage. If it's orange, you can deal an attack from the side, which will deal more damage. But if you manage to outflank an opponent and position your unit behind it, you will see a red shield. What this means is that you're about to unleash a very powerful attack that will deal considerable damage to an opponent, so always try to aim for as many of those as possible to boost your odds of survival.
On the bottom right corner of the screen, you will get to see a panel displaying your current weapon. It will let you know its name, base damage, range, and ammo in the magazine and in your inventory. Since this one is called Gunslingers and Zombies, these are old-school-inspired weapons, so you'll certainly have to reload them as you use them to keep them useful! If a zombie gets too close to one of your units, you might want to change your weapon so that you can use a knife to deal damage and save up your ammo for units that are further away from said unit.
And sometimes, well, sometimes you're better off standing your ground and defending against the zombies! Plan things just right, and your character will be able to attack an incoming zombie, hopefully defeating it before it can take a bite! There are different zombie types to worry about. On top of the regular zombies that will run towards your units and deal damage with melee attacks, there are other zombies, such as the Hunter, who can attack from a distance, making it a very dangerous opponent!
Each weapon will have different stats for you to consider, especially because your characters can have more than one weapon equipped, and, as mentioned before, some are more useful than others in specific situations. These stats are range, damage, accuracy, critical hit chance, ammo in the magazine, and overall ammo. A high accuracy stat for a weapon is certainly a plus, but what if its damage output is too low? Do you want to use a weapon that will always hit an enemy or one that can deal twice as much damage but might end up missing every other attack?
Gunslingers and Zombies is a fun grid-based voxel strategy game on Nintendo Switch. It does not set to reinvent the wheel, focusing on mashing together the zombies and cowboy tropes in a game that you can play at your own pace in one of the three difficulty settings on offer. Since this is a PC-to-console port, the game does suffer from text that is too tiny for its own good, and there's no option to change its size. There's some replay value for this one if you want to get a three-star rating for every stage since you'll have to complete the objectives for the stage – say, defeating X number of enemies and Y number of spawners – while also surviving with Z number of units. Gunslingers and Zombies is out on Nintendo Switch at an $8.99 price.
This Gunslingers and Zombies review is based on a Nintendo Switch copy provided by Ultimate Games.
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Our cities produce massive amounts of wastewater. This wastewater – from homes, factories, mills – undergoes treatment at wastewater treatment plants. And, as a result, sludge is formed.
Responsible disposal and management of the tonnes and tonnes of wastewater sludge thus formed, remains a major problem. What if we could use the treated wastewater sludge to address another major environmental concern?
The sludge from water treatment plants contains a variety of microorganisms capable of synthesising polyhydroxyalkanoates. Bacteria store carbon and energy as polyhydroxyalkanoates.
In the past, scientists used polyhydroxyalkanoates to synthesise an environment friendly form of plastics. In order to replace plastics derived from fossil fuel with plastics from polyhydroxyalkanoates, microbes need to be cultured on a large scale which would not be economically viable. Sludge from urban wastewater treatment plants, on the other hand, is a readily available, inexpensive resource.
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi came up with a way to improve the yield of such biocompatible plastics from the sludge formed after treatment of municipal wastewater.
"We realized that, in order to make the process cost-effective, it is essential to find the optimum conditions at which the maximum amount of polyhydroxyalkanoates could be extracted from treated wastewater sludge" says Indu Shekhar Thakur, JNU. The team, therefore, used statistical techniques to determine parameters such as the temperature, sludge solids concentration and duration of extraction for maximum yield.
"We followed it up with lab studies", says Manish Kumar, JNU. The researchers then collected liquid sludge samples from a municipal wastewater treatment plant at New Delhi. In the laboratory, they solidified, cooled, dried and prepared the sludge for a polyhydroxyalkanoate isolation reaction at statistically optimised conditions. "The results matched our predictions", beams Pooja Ghosh from IIT Delhi.
Polyhydroxyalkanoate yield increased significantly when reaction conditions were numerically optimised. "Not only that, the extraction resulted in a rich diversity of polyhydroxyalkanoates", says Indu Shekhar Thakur, JNU.
These researchers have found a way to use statistical tools to minimise the cost of producing biodegradable plastic. In doing so, they simultaneously address the problem of wastewater sludge disposal as well as that of replacing non-biodegradable plastic with biodegradable plastics.
Worldwide, water resources are contaminated with various organic micropollutants. Besides conventional water treatment, we now have an advanced process of degrading such contaminants involving oxidation by hydroxyl radicals. But to optimise this process, we need models which can predict the reaction rate parameters of organic contaminants in water.
Recently, Shikha Gupta from the NBRI and Nikita Basant from the ETRC, Lucknow, proposed a model based on the relationship between the physicochemical properties of organic compounds and their reactivities towards the hydroxyl radicals.
Using PaDel software, they calculated the molecular descriptors that affect the reactivities of the molecules towards the hydroxyl radical in aqueous medium.
Statistically selecting the "best fit", they chose a method of calculating the electronegativity of carbon atoms based on their atomic volume. The topological polar surface area of the molecules was calculated based on functional groups. The team also factored in average molecular weight, number of double bonds, and number of halogen atoms.
They used a large data set of reaction rate parameters for diverse organic compounds. Then they randomly split the data set into training set and validation set. The training set was utilized for model development, while the validation set was used to assess the predictivity of the model.
To develop the model, the researchers used a decision tree boost approach in which the software processes the data and makes decisions in a branching manner.
The scientists confirmed the predictive ability of the model using new random test data.
This model covers diverse chemical classes and has broader applicability than previous models. It can provide reliable estimates of the reactivities of new and emerging micropollutants towards hydroxyl radicals without prior experimental data and can, therefore, be employed in water purification systems.
Dyes colour our world. Unfortunately, dyes are not eco-friendly. Methods to degrade them are a hot spot of research all around the world. One way to deal with the problem is by using nanomaterials.
Recently, researchers from the Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumakuru reported tackling the problem with zinc oxide nanoparticles produced using the juice of Chakkota, Citrus maxima.
They mixed the chakkota juice, an oxidising agent, and zinc nitrate, the reducing agent, in different concentrations. The scientists found that heating the mixture at 400℃ in a furnace for five minutes was optimum for the reaction. They examined the surface morphology of the particles using a scanning electron microscope and found that the ZnO nanoparticles are one-dimensional nanorods.
These nanorods show photocatalytic activity, speeding up the reaction in the presence of light. This property was used by the scientists to degrade dyes which work on redox potentials. They used methylene blue, a staining dye, as their sample. In the presence of light and the ZnO nanorods, the dye was degraded, releasing hydroxyl ions. This was observable as a decrease in the intensity of blue colour.
The scientists suggest that this simple, ecofriendly method for degrading dyes can be applied in dye and textile industries to process the effluents released.
The Tamiraparani river originates on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats, about 2,000 m above mean sea level. It runs for about 125 km before it meets the Bay of Bengal. But it drains an area of nearly six thousand square kilometers. Over the last few centuries, many dams and channels were built for irrigation. Over 20 million litres of water are used for drinking purposes.
A team of researchers from the Anna University, Chennai and the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, were concerned. They suspected that the contamination of groundwater in this region might be due to agricultural and industrial activities. To ensure the supply of safe drinking water, careful monitoring of drinking water sources is essential.
They conducted a survey to examine this issue. They took groundwater samples from 124 wells in the Tamiraparani river basin in southern India. And analysed the pH, electrical conductivity, total dissolved solids and salinity of the samples using a portable water quality meter. Based on electrical conductivity and total dissolved solids, the scientists say that around two percent of the groundwater is in a critical condition.
The researchers also performed trace element analysis by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy – an analytical technique used for the detection of trace metals. The trace element analysis showed that more than six percent of the samples exceeds the permissible limit. The traces of iron, manganese and lead are found to be considerably higher than the standard level. However, there is no health risk associated with the present status of the water bodies.
The scientists suggest that the contaminated wells should be treated with rainwater to reduce contamination. Rainwater harvesting near water bodies might be a feasible solution.
Water contamination in the Tamiraparani river basin is below the critical limit recommended by the WHO. Analysis of water sources is an important step to monitor and to ensure safety. This survey acts as a baseline for similar activities by universities in other parts of India.
Hair dyes mask age, make us look young and attractive. But when we wash the dye off, it enters water bodies. Hair dyes contain a mixture of chemicals including p-phenylenediamine, a genotoxic chemical – it harms animals, including humans. Once the dye enters water, it is hard to remove without spending energy.
Last fortnight, Swati and Mukesh from the Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal and Sudarson from the Tel Aviv University, Israel found a solution: bioremediation. They searched for dye degrading bacteria in salon effluent. They cultured the bacteria using sugarcane bagasse powder – a commonly available and cheap source of nutrient medium. The team then tested bacteria, isolated from the effluent, for their ability to decolourise hair dye. Using a UV-visible spectrophotometer, they measured the degree of decolourization.
And among the isolates, they found an Enterobacter species, which can degrade hair dye. Molecular techniques confirmed that the isolate is Enterobacter cloacae. Using a well-diffusion assay, they found that the bacteria break dye down to eco-friendly residual products.
The harm that our fascination for artificial hair colour does to the environment can now be overcome by using commensal bacteria from our gut.


It's looking more and more like polio will be globally eradicated in the near future thanks to the polio vaccine and a well-organized global campaign primarily spearheaded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
If you are a parent and have any negative feelings at all toward vaccines, please understand the significance of what they've done for the world and reconsider. As you can see in that photo above, the vaccine singlehandedly removed your worries of that ever happening to your children. There is no link to autism.
Polio has been wiped out in the United States because we vaccinate our children. In 1977 there were 254,000 persons living in the United States alone who had been paralyzed by polio. No longer do today's parents need to worry about their children using an Iron Lung to help them breathe.


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A Story About Assets That Weren't Toxic
A refresher on a toxic accounting rule that precipitated the Financial Crisis.
By Fisher Investments, 06/10/2016
Though we are almost a decade removed from 2008, memories from the Financial Crisis still linger in the media's narrative. From oil crashes to subprime in the auto industry, folks are constantly on guard for a 2008 redux. On the flipside, we see stories heralding the individual brilliance of investors who "turned toxic assets into gold" or succeeded in a market that "everyone left for dead" during that period. In our view, this indicates investors still don't have a great grasp on what actually drove that 2008 crisis and bear market. Understanding the Financial Crisis's root causes can help banish those media-conjured ghosts.
One of the frequently cited causes for the 2008 Financial Crisis was the proliferation of "toxic assets," which broadly refer to mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and other securitized loans (e.g., collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs)-a bunch of loans bundled together, then sliced up into interest-bearing securities. These complex assets, beloved of banks and hedge funds, didn't trade often, making it difficult to assess their value on the spot. Conventional wisdom argues the credit ratings agencies wrongly deemed them investment-grade, ignoring the often sloppy quality of the underlying loans, and overleveraged banks gobbled them up while ignoring risks they should have seen. When the housing bubble burst, the house of cards collapsed as borrowers defaulted en masse, exposing MBS as toxic filth, taking the entire financial system and economy down with them as banks fell victim to their own creativity and avarice.
However, what if the assets themselves weren't really toxic, but were infected by a poisonous accounting rule instead? Consider: The beginning of the bear (October 2007) started not long before the implementation of FAS 157-mark-to-market accounting-in November. The bear didn't end until March 2009, right around the time Fed chair Ben Bernanke spoke of revising the rule and a congressional hearing on the subject demanded the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) take action (they suspended the rule on April 2). The evidence suggests this isn't simply a matter of conflating coincidence with causation, either.
To summarize, mark-to-market accounting required banks to mark assets on their balance sheet to their current market value. For illiquid, thinly traded assets like MBS and CDOs, that meant valuing them at the most recent sale price. Banks intended to hold these securities to maturity, collecting the interest along the way, but FAS 157 forced them to act as if they intended to sell. The result: a destructive feedback loop. As the housing sector sputtered and subprime mortgage defaults escalated, investors started fearing for hedge funds with leveraged exposure-particularly two at Bear Stearns. To meet redemption requests and margin calls, the hedgies were forced to sell these securities on the cheap. Before mark-to-market, this wouldn't have hurt investors who intended to own these securities forever. If they didn't intend to sell, they didn't have to account for them as if they would-they could just hold them, collect the interest and go about their merry way.
But FAS 157 forced any financial institution holding comparable assets to write down the value to those fire sale prices-or, what they'd get if they sold tomorrow. Those paper losses hit earnings and capital, spooking investors and drying up interbank funding. Bear Stearns was the first to fall, when mounting questions about its balance sheet and collateral quality locked it out of credit markets, and it ran out of cash to cover day-to-day operations. Though it had a wealth of long-term assets, illiquidity made it functionally bankrupt, so the Fed arranged for JPMorganChase to buy it out. That calmed markets for a while, but then Merrill Lynch fire-sold $31 billion in MBS in July, causing another round of writedowns. And another round of firesales. And another round of writedowns, all of which dinged earnings and capital, making short-term bank funding ever-more scarce. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae fell in September and were nationalized by the government, wiping out shareholders. Later that same month Lehman Brothers fell into the same predicament as Bear Stearns, but as transcripts show, the Fed decided to make Lehman an example and let it fail. The vortex then sucked in AIG, one of Lehman's main counterparties, so the Feds nationalized it. If this series of events makes you dizzy, imagine it playing out in real time: The uncertainty and chaos roiled markets and liquidity dried up. All stemming from one costly accounting rule!
In a telling example, former FDIC chair William Isaac showed how mark-to-market accounting horribly distorted values. Based on a case study of a tranche securities owned by Wells Fargo, one MBS' maximum expected losses was $100 million, and it held $172 million in subordinated collateral. Yet FAS 157 forced the bank to record losses as $913 million-more than 800% of the highest projected losses. This needless destruction of capital forced some firms-e.g., Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers-under as they couldn't access cash to meet daily needs, and, coupled with the government's haphazard and inconsistent response, turned the episode into a full-fledged panic, decimating investor confidence.
Ours is one of many hypotheses about 2008, and in the years since, the evidence supporting it has steadily built up. If the assets themselves were toxic, rather than the accounting rule, time would prove them to be failures. Yet that doesn't appear to be the case. Those securities came back-and even became profitable-years afterwards. CWABS 2006-7, for example, went from presumed dead to nearly recovering its value by 2013. There are also individual stories of investors who bought low and reaped the rewards. A team at Citigroup bid on a portfolio of CDOs in 2012-paying $6.3 billion, an average of 38 cents on the dollar-which has paid off tremendously. The bank has a firm hold on the CDO market and has pulled in almost $2 billion in revenue over the past three years. Similarly, across the pond, two individuals' big bet in the mortgage-backed bonds of failed UK bank Northern Rock worked out in a big way, as the debt regained almost all its face value by the time it was redeemed. Though Northern Rock wasn't subject to FAS 157, mark-to-market accounting had a global ripple effect since it decimated the mortgage-backed securities market, so UK banks felt it too. This is all compelling evidence of a misapplied accounting rule.
Now, perhaps a skeptic would argue these are all one-off anecdotes, highlighting the talents of brilliant traders. However, there is a clear-cut example showing the accounting rule, not the assets, was toxic: Maiden Lane. Maiden Lane refers to three funds the Fed used to buy various "toxic" assets, and the first was established during the Bear Stearns saga. JPMorganChase would agree to participate only if the government took on Bear's troubled assets-which the Fed did via Maiden Lane I. This put supposedly toxic assets into a non-FAS 157 environment (since mark-to-market accounting didn't apply to the Fed), establishing a counterfactual.[i] How did the assets fare without that accounting rule's onerous effects? Just fine, actually. The Fed's Maiden Lane fund actually produced profits because those "troubled" assets matured and paid back interest. How could an allegedly toxic asset possibly be profitable?[ii]
We present this not to dwell on the past, but because it holds important investing lessons for the future. Given how prevalent 2008-related fears still are today, it is important not to rewrite what happened so it fits today's message that Asset X[iii] is about to implode and take the world down with it. Though "toxic assets" comprise a large part of the narrative, abundant evidence refutes that claim: The assets themselves weren't problematic. Overlooked factors precipitated the Financial Crisis, and though it isn't the mainstream version, we're pretty sure it's also the truth. Understanding what actually happened in addition to what many people think happened is crucial when investing.
[i] Or a "control group," if you prefer scientific method-y language.
[ii] Answer: It's not toxic.
[iii] Pick from any of the assets touted as "the next 2008." Student loans, subprime auto loans, energy loans, what have you.


This small laneway house with a dwelling unit and one-car garage is an extension and completion of Cloister House. This project was the first laneway home that the City ever approved with sunken, subterranean sleeping quarters.
Completed after the main house, the laneway house became the final destination for unused building materials from the Cloister House build, such as the charred lumber.
Its small size necessitated clever use of built-in storage and millwork and a singular palette when selecting furniture. The client requested absolutely no drywall in the project, so all walls were finished with milled MDX panels, allowing for a flourish of joinery details, especially around the stair.
The building is carefully carved into the sloping site to complete the cloistered feel of the project as a whole. The naturalized green roof reflects back to the main house, achieving light and livability for the laneway and maintaining privacy for all users.


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Innovative Gridco Systems emPower Solution Enables Utilities to Effectively Integrate Renewables, Improve Energy Efficiency, Manage Peak Demand and Increase System Reliability
Woburn, Mass., January 21, 2014– Gridco Inc., a leader in active grid infrastructure solutions, today announced the availability of the only end-to-end hardware and software platform purpose built to solve current, emerging and future distribution challenges faced by electric utilities, providing them unprecedented levels of power flow control throughout the distribution system.
The Gridco Systems emPower™ Solution leverages modular power electronics, advanced control algorithms, distributed networking, and sophisticated power system analytics to increase service reliability, improve system efficiency, and defer costly transmission and generation upgrades. This active and intelligent power control enables utilities to more cost-effectively and reliably integrate distributed renewable generation, improve Volt-VAR Optimization (VVO) initiatives for energy efficiency and peak demand reduction, and provide enhanced power quality.
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Q: Error while defining a bean with @component and reading List from XML I must say I am a newbie on Spring, so most probably this would be easy to must of you reading this.
My example is very simple. I have the classes Main, Business and Client, in order to getClients from Business I created the interface ClientInterface that contains a <List>Client, Autowired to the list in beans.xml.
What I am trying to do is to print the Clients that the Business has, but its throwing me the following error:
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'clients': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: public java.util.List com.springcourse.practice.Client.listClients; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.springcourse.practice.Client] found for dependency [collection of com.springcourse.practice.Client]: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true), @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier(value=arrayClients)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:288)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1116)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:295)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:292)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:626)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:479)
    at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
    at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)
    at com.springcourse.practice.Main.main(Main.java:9)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: public java.util.List com.springcourse.practice.Client.listClients; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.springcourse.practice.Client] found for dependency [collection of com.springcourse.practice.Client]: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true), @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier(value=arrayClients)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:514)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:87)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:285)
    ... 13 more
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.springcourse.practice.Client] found for dependency [collection of com.springcourse.practice.Client]: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true), @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier(value=arrayClients)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:986)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:814)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:768)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:486)
    ... 15 more

Here are the content of the code
beans.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.springcourse.practice"></context:component-scan>

    <bean id="arrayClients" class="java.util.ArrayList">
        <constructor-arg>
            <list>
                <ref bean="firstClient"/>
                <ref bean="secondClient"/>
                <ref bean="thirdClient"/>
            </list>
        </constructor-arg>
    </bean>

    <bean id="firstClient" class="com.springcourse.practice.Client">
        <property name="name" value="Client Name 1"/>
        <property name="address" value="Somewhere 1"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="secondClient" class="com.springcourse.practice.Client">
        <property name="name" value="Client Name 2"/>
        <property name="address" value="Somewhere 2"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="thirdClient" class="com.springcourse.practice.Client">
        <property name="name" value="Client Name 3"/>
        <property name="address" value="Somewhere 3"/>
    </bean>

</beans>

ClientInterface
package com.springcourse.practice;

import java.util.List;

public interface ClientInterface {

    public List<Client> getClients();

}

Client
package com.springcourse.practice;

import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component("clients")
public class Client implements ClientInterface {

    public String name;
    public String address;

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("arrayClients")
    public List<Client> listClients;

    public List<Client> getClients(){
        return listClients;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getAddress() {
        return address;
    }

    public void setAddress(String address) {
        this.address = address;
    }

}

Business
package com.springcourse.practice;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component("business")
public class Business {

    public String name = "Programmer City";

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public String getClients() {

        @SuppressWarnings("resource")
        ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("/beans.xml");
        Client clients  = (Client) context.getBean("clients");

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("The business name is: " + this.getName() + "\n");
        sb.append("The clients the business " + this.getName() + " has are: \n");
        for(Client client: clients.getClients()) {
            sb.append("Client: " + client.name + " located in " + client.address + "\n");
        }

        return sb.toString();

    }

}

Main
package com.springcourse.practice;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("/beans.xml");
        Business business  = (Business) context.getBean("business");
        System.out.println(business.getClients());
        context.close();

    }

}

Can somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong? Here is a link of the project if someone wants to test it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/isqahsxmxw8uxc1/Cap2_PracticeBusinessLocations_2.zip?dl=0
It is very hard to understand the errors. Thank you very much to everyone!
Edit beans.xml after solving
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.springcourse.practice"></context:component-scan>

    <bean id="arrayClients" class="java.util.ArrayList">
        <constructor-arg>
            <list>
                <ref bean="firstClient"/>
                <ref bean="secondClient"/>
                <ref bean="thirdClient"/>
            </list>
        </constructor-arg>
    </bean>

    <bean id="firstClient" class="com.springcourse.practice.Client">
        <property name="name" value="Client Name 1"/>
        <property name="address" value="Somewhere 1"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="secondClient" class="com.springcourse.practice.Client">
        <property name="name" value="Client Name 2"/>
        <property name="address" value="Somewhere 2"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="thirdClient" class="com.springcourse.practice.Client">
        <property name="name" value="Client Name 3"/>
        <property name="address" value="Somewhere 3"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="arrayClientsTheSecond" class="java.util.ArrayList">
        <constructor-arg>
            <list>
                <ref bean="TheSecondfirstClient"/>
                <ref bean="TheSecondsecondClient"/>
                <ref bean="TheSecondthirdClient"/>
            </list>
        </constructor-arg>
    </bean>

    <bean id="TheSecondfirstClient" class="com.springcourse.practice.Client">
        <property name="name" value="Client Name 4"/>
        <property name="address" value="Somewhere 4"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="TheSecondsecondClient" class="com.springcourse.practice.Client">
        <property name="name" value="Client Name 5"/>
        <property name="address" value="Somewhere 5"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="TheSecondthirdClient" class="com.springcourse.practice.Client">
        <property name="name" value="Client Name 6"/>
        <property name="address" value="Somewhere 6"/>
    </bean>

</beans>

When I execute the response is:
The business name is: Programmer City
The clients the business Programmer City has are:
Client: Client Name 1 located in Somewhere 1
Client: Client Name 2 located in Somewhere 2
Client: Client Name 3 located in Somewhere 3
Client: Client Name 4 located in Somewhere 4
Client: Client Name 5 located in Somewhere 5
Client: Client Name 6 located in Somewhere 6

But again, the two list are named different and the list elements too.

A: While there are many Java and Spring conventions that you could apply to improve your code (private fields instead of public, initializing a new ApplicationContext inside a bean method, etc.), I'll focus on the main issue.
You can simply remove the @Qualifier annotation on the autowired list - Spring can identify the required beans based on your configuration by their type.
The code works after this change.

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Press release: Three-dimensional X-ray image throws light on neurodegenerative disease
No. 188 - 26.11.2021
Team from Göttingen University and University Medical Center identifies changes in nerve tissue in Alzheimer's
What changes occur in parts of the brain affected by neurodegenerative disease? How does the structure of the neurons change? Some pathological changes in the tissue are easy to identify using standard microscopy. For example, the protein deposits known as "plaques", which occur in Alzheimer's disease, can be seen with staining techniques. However, pathological changes can also be of a more subtle nature and easily missed unless there is a complete digitilisation and analysis of the three-dimensional structure. Researchers at the University of Göttingen and University Medical Center Göttingen have now found a new technique to measure and quantify neuronal tissue architecture in three dimensions and at high resolution, which enabled them to identify changes in neurons in Alzheimer's. The results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Visuals are also available in the form of film clips here: https://youtu.be/-Cv46MeAqvc and https://youtu.be/PFsBMzeE5Lw
Original publication: Marina Eckermann et al, "Three-dimensional virtual histology of the human hippocampus based on phase-contrast computed tomography" PNAS 2021. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113835118
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Institute for X-ray Physics
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Institute of Neuropathology
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Photo: M. Eckermann/T. Salditt
The authors (from left): Professor Bernhard Schmitzer, Marina Eckermann, Professor Tim Salditt and Professor Christine Stadelmann.
Photo: Dr Markus Osterhoff, Institute for X-ray Physics


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Just minutes south of Boston awaits one of New England's most captivating destinations, the City of Quincy ("quin-zee"). Called the "City of Presidents" and "Birthplace of the American Dream", Quincy is the birthplace of the second and sixth U.S. Presidents, John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams. Rich in historic treasures, Quincy's impressive past remains vibrant today as the city lays claim to an exciting future. Fascinating historic sites abound, while miles of coastline capture the imagination with their enchanting beauty. Culture and commerce blend to create an impressive array of things to see and do year round.
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Mr. Donnelly is the communications advisor for World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. He was vice president and senior editor at Burness Communications and founder of Long Tail Media. Prior to that, he was a journalist for 25 years, winning many awards in the past decade for his coverage of global development issues. He worked for the Boston Globe, covering foreign affairs from Washington and global health and development issues based in South Africa. He was the Middle East correspondent for the Miami Herald, where he also extensively covered Haiti. Mr. Donnelly is the author of A Twist of Faith: An American Christian's Quest to Help Orphans in Africa, and also has written and produced books for Harvard University, the World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins University, Management Sciences for Health, and the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research.
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Rovers boss Paul Lambert has been delighted with the recent performances of midfielder Darragh Lenihan and believes the youngster can only get better.
The Republic of Ireland Under-21 captain put in a starring display on Saturday as ten-man Rovers defeated Brentford 1-0 at Griffin Park, one of many impressive displays from the 22-year-old.
Since returning to the first team squad at the turn of the year Lenihan has gone on to make 18 appearances for Rovers with Lambert pleased with the young Irishman.
"I think he is getting better, for somebody young who has been thrown in, he's taken his opportunity," said the manager.
"You are never quite sure how people are going to play until you throw them in.
"I needed a manager myself that believed in me that I could be thrown in and shown to handle it, and if there's a time to do that with young ones who I think are good enough I'll throw them in and it is up to them to sink or swim.
"At the minute he's certainly doing more than swimming, he's performing and he's been a big player for us."
Lenihan is currently on international duty with the Republic of Ireland's Under-21s. They have UEFA qualifiers against Italy and Slovenia this week.


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In Canada, Partners in Flight functions as one of the four pillars of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative in Canada (the others are the initiatives for waterfowl, waterbirds and shorebirds) rather than as a stand-alone program. NABCI Canada coordinates the efforts of partners to protect, restore and enhance bird populations and habitats.
Members include federal, territorial and provincial governments, conservation NGOs, private sector organizations, representatives from Habitat Joint Ventures, Through cooperative planning and implementation, the partners will achieve their own goals, while helping make the vision of NABCI, and Partners in Flight a reality.
Work is centered around implementing the conservation recommendations in a suite of 25 Bird Conservation Region strategies to respond to threats identified to priority species in all species groups throughout their annual cycles. In 2017, NABCI Canada will renew its vision and mission and update its structure, work plan and website. As the largest group of species, landbirds, and Partners in Flight, will remain a central focus of Canadian bird conservation efforts.


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Take time to look at the interest rates on your credit cards and other debts. Pay more on the one with the highest interest first in order to eliminate your most expensive debt. Doing so will eventually make it easier to pay down your remaining balances. If you can, try to make extra payments on your other debt, too.
Taking a time-out from using your credit cards is one of the most important steps to getting your debt under control. By ending the accumulation of new debt while you are paying off the old, you'll begin to see the balances drop, leading to more personal satisfaction and motivation to continue.
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Take a look around your home and set aside unwanted gift items, clothing that doesn't suit you, or things you no longer need. You can take photos, establish a price, and sell them on Craigslist, eBay, or in Facebook groups. Take your earnings and pay down your debt.
If you receive a bonus or holiday incentive at work, that money should immediately be used to pay down your bills. Doing so will eliminate any temptation to spend it on something frivolous. You'll feel a sense of satisfaction to see the effect this unexpected payment has on your debt.
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Resilience Engineering: What's Next in Quality and Safety
Borrowing concepts from industry and the military, Texas Children's addresses rapid changes to improve patient outcomes.
An agile, flexible workforce has always been essential in health care—and the past several months have underscored the importance of adaptation to rapidly shifting conditions. It's in that vein that Texas Children's Hospital looked to build more resiliency into its workflows.
"People have been doing quality and safety work for quite some time, but what's next?" says Eric Williams, M.D., M.S., M.M.M., FAAP, FCCM, system chief quality officer, Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. "That's the fundamental piece of it—for us to be successful in this rapidly changing world, we must learn to move quickly as an organization in response to change."
Resilience engineering driving culture shift
Williams and his team have embraced resilience engineering (RE) to meet those challenges. RE has been defined as "the intrinsic ability of a system to adjust its functioning prior to, during or following changes and disturbances, so that it can sustain required operations under both expected and unexpected conditions." While it's rooted in industry, the concepts translate well to a health care setting.
Among those concepts is recognizing that defined processes—while often necessary—are inherently imperfect; humans must adapt their performance to succeed, according to Williams. To that end, RE focuses on four primary tenets: the ability to respond, monitor, learn and anticipate.
"Teams that are better able to adapt could move quickly to solve quality and safety-related issues," Williams says. "It's about truly understanding human error, how that leads to better causal analysis and changing the question from 'who failed?' to 'what failed?'—it's a culture shift."
Custom-made curriculum for "hand-picked champions"
To foster this culture shift at Texas Children's, Williams and his team pored over RE and Safety-II literature to develop a curriculum. The result was a four-day course of RE theory mixed with simulation exercises. Williams enlisted the McChrystal Group—a management consulting firm founded by former military leaders—to assist with the latter.
In assembling the initial study group last year, Williams' team selected "hand-picked champions" from across the organization—staff members identified not only as early adopters who were likely to embrace the concepts but also as "influencers" who would spread them back throughout their teams.
"It's a culture change; it starts one person at a time, and you have to scale it," Williams says.
RE course spurs a-ha moments
The course was eye-opening for both instructors and students. Among the a-ha moments, according to Williams:
Information sharing. Some of the simulation exercises mimicked military work and demonstrated the natural tendency of large organizations to be information silos; information is often reported up the organization and not across. "It changes the mantra to 'who would benefit from knowing what I know?' as opposed to 'this information defines me,'" Williams says.
Hindsight bias. Errors can appear obvious after the fact, and cause and effect may be mistakenly assumed. Appreciating hindsight bias can better inform training after errors occur.
Regulations. When policies and processes are established that don't sync with how work is performed, the organization loses resiliency and patient outcomes can suffer.
Investing in education critical to success
Williams says feedback from the initial RE curriculum group has been positive, and they're now in Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles to assess how the concepts are being practiced in day-to-day work. Meanwhile, Williams and his team are assembling additional cohort groups for the program.
Key to the entire process of this paradigm shift, according to Williams, is learning. It can be very challenging to allocate the time and resources necessary to read the literature, properly learn the concepts and determine the tools available to effect change.
"Most people are busy reacting to the bombs going off in their organization," Williams says. "They're unable to move to a more proactive stance where they're anticipating the bombs before they go off."


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Graham Center Policy One-Pager
Projected Impact of the Primary Care Residency Expansion Program Using Historical Trends in Graduate Placement
ROSSAN M. CHEN, MD, MSc; STEPHEN M. PETTERSON, PhD; and ANDREW W. BAZEMORE, MD, MPH
Am Fam Physician. 2014 Apr 1;89(7):518.
The Primary Care Residency Expansion (PCRE) program was created by the Health Resources and Services Administration in 2010 to help address the shortage of primary care physicians. If historical graduate placement trends for funded programs remain stable, the PCRE program would have a potential impact of more than 600 new physicians working in primary care.
In response to looming primary care work-force shortages, the Health Resources and Services Administration funded a five-year, $168 million grant to expand enrollment in primary care residency programs beyond their authorized graduate medical education caps.1 By the end of the grant period in 2015, the program will have supported the training of 900 new residents in family medicine, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics.
Because the first cohort of residents has yet to enter into practice, historical data have been used to project the potential impact of the PCRE program. Graduates of these residency programs from 2006 to 2008 were evaluated based on their practice location using the 2013 American Medical Association Physician Master-file and the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System.2
The proportion of PCRE residents projected to work in primary care does not account for those who will become hospitalists. This is likely offset by the higher proportion of PCRE residents training in primary care tracks, which have been shown to positively influence the decision to practice in primary care.3 The findings highlight the potential impact of targeted investment in primary care residency training, with family medicine residency programs representing the highest return on investment for production of physicians working in primary care, health professional shortage areas, and rural areas (see accompanying table). Future directions in graduate medical education funding should focus on programs that have a proven track record of producing physicians working in shortage areas to better align taxpayers' investment in physician training with society's pressing health care needs.
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Projected Work Areas of Residents Funded by the Primary Care Residency Expansion Program
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Projected work areas
NOTE: Categories are not mutually exclusive.
Data from the 2013 American Medical Association Physician Masterfile, National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, Health Resources and Services Administration health professional shortage area designation, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural-Urban Continuum Codes.
Author disclosure: No relevant financial affiliations.
The information and opinions contained in research from the Graham Center do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy of the AAFP.
Policy One-Pagers are available from the Graham Center at https://www.graham-center.org.
1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Affordable Care Act: Primary Care Residency Expansion (PCRE) Program. Frequently asked questions. July 1, 2010. http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/healthprofessions/pcrefaqs.pdf. Accessed February 25, 2014.
2. Chen C, Petterson S, Phillips RL, Mullan F, Bazemore A, O'Donnell SD. Toward graduate medical education (GME) accountability: measuring the outcomes of GME institutions. Acad Med. 2013;88(9):1267–1280.
3. West CP, Dupras DM. General medicine vs subspecialty career plans among internal medicine residents. JAMA. 2012;308(21):2241–2247.
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Freedom Centers Constitutional and Political Freedom Report: Hillary Clinton's Job Creation as NY Sen ...
Report: Hillary Clinton's Job Creation as NY Senator Far Below What She Promised
By Natalie Johnson • Washington Free Beacon
Hillary Clinton vowed to create 200,000 new jobs in Upstate New York during her time as a senator representing the state, but a new report published Monday found that the Democratic nominee's efforts fell far below projections.
While upstate jobs rose 0.2 percent overall during Clinton's tenure in the Senate, manufacturing jobs fell nearly 25 percent, the Washington Post reported, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Analysis of Clinton's first Senate term revealed that Upstate New York actually lost jobs. The Public Policy Institute in Albany studied BLS data and found that between October 2001 and December 2006, Upstate New York lost more than 31,000 payroll jobs.
The Clinton campaign did not comment on how man jobs were created during Clinton's tenure but directed the Washington Post to statistics from the New York State Department of Labor showing that Upstate New York had gained 117,000 jobs during the former first lady's first term. The Post reported it was unable to confirm the number, saying that the state agency doesn't "use Upstate New York as a specific regional area to measure employment."
Clinton was reelected for her second term in November 2006 before leaving the Senate in January 2009 to become secretary of state.
The Washington Post reported:
The former first lady was unable to pass the big-ticket legislation she introduced to benefit the upstate economy. She turned to smaller-scale projects, but some of those fell flat after initial glowing headlines … Many promised jobs never materialized and others migrated to other states as she turned to her first presidential run, said former officials who worked with her in New York … In March 2001, she introduced seven bills to stimulate the upstate economy–"part of a larger partnership to spur job creation across our country,'' Clinton said. None of the measures passed, records show.
Clinton has promised repeatedly on the campaign trail that she would "make the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."
The new report from the Post could cast a shadow over the Clinton campaign's focus on her time in the Senate, when she vowed to revive a depressed Upstate New York.
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Ringo Starr, 'EP3′: Album Review
Gary Graff Published: September 15, 2022
Good things come in small packages where Ringo Starr is concerned. EP3, as the title indicates, is the prolific Beatles drummer's third release in the past 18 months. The pandemic has been a work prod for Starr, recording in his own Roccabella West Studios with engineer and co-producer Bruce Sugar and, of course, a little help from his friends.
Like 2021's Change the World, the four-song EP3 is a tighter affair than early 2021's guest-laden Zoom In. But it's every bit as engaging, as Starr and company bash out a set of up-tempo and lyrically upbeat tracks that sound like nothing less than him having fun with his mates. This one won't make us forget "It Don't Come Easy" or Ringo, but the exercise certainly showcases how adept the Starr men (and women) are at getting the good time they're having across in the grooves.
Long-tenured All-Starr Band guitarist Steve Lukather and his Toto mate Joseph Williams penned and perform the opening "World Go Round," with Starr addressing post-pandemic trauma ("I know it's hard to carry on / So for you I wrote this song") over a brassy rocker that features a stinging solo by Lukather. The guitarist is also back on "Let's Be Friends," playing a treated version of his instrument for the similarly high-octane (and brassy) Sugar-Sam Hollander track.
Linda Perry, who wrote "Coming Undone" for Change the World, returns with "Everyone and Everything," whose Americana flavor supports the lyrical admonitions about kindness, patience and tolerance, all leading into a "Yellow Submarine"-style chorale singalong section. And "Free Your Soul" is fronted by Dave Koz's tenor saxophone and Jose Antonio Rodriguez's nylon-string acoustic guitar for some jazzy pop that closes things out on a relaxed note.
There's an element of blink-and-you'll-miss-it breeziness to EP3, but it's hardly a toss-off. Starr's peace-and-love philosophy is genuine and infectious, and we should take any chance to bathe in that aural optimism.
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