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Social and Community Service Managers
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Quick Facts: Social and Community Service Managers
2021 Median Pay
Typical Entry-Level Education
Work Experience in a Related Occupation
On-the-job Training
Number of Jobs, 2021
Job Outlook, 2021-31
12% (Much faster than average)
Employment Change, 2021-31
What Social and Community Service Managers Do
Social and community service managers coordinate and supervise programs and organizations that support public well-being.
Social and community service managers work for nonprofit organizations, for-profit social service companies, and government agencies. Most work full time.
How to Become a Social and Community Service Manager
Social and community service managers typically need at least a bachelor's degree and work experience.
The median annual wage for social and community service managers was $74,000 in May 2021.
Employment of social and community service managers is projected to grow 12 percent from 2021 to 2031, much faster than the average for all occupations.
About 18,000 openings for social and community service managers are projected each year, on average, over the decade. Many of those openings are expected to result from the need to replace workers who transfer to different occupations or exit the labor force, such as to retire.
Explore resources for employment and wages by state and area for social and community service managers.
Compare the job duties, education, job growth, and pay of social and community service managers with similar occupations.
More Information, Including Links to O*NET
Learn more about social and community service managers by visiting additional resources, including O*NET, a source on key characteristics of workers and occupations.
What They Do ->
What Social and Community Service Managers Do About this section
Social and community service managers meet with community members and funding providers to discuss their programs.
Social and community service managers coordinate and supervise programs and organizations that support public well-being. They direct workers who provide these services to the public.
Social and community service managers typically do the following:
Work with community members and other stakeholders to identify necessary programs and services
Oversee administrative aspects of programs to meet the objectives of the stakeholders
Analyze data to determine the effectiveness of programs
Suggest and implement improvements to programs and services
Plan and manage outreach activities for increased awareness of programs
Write proposals for social services funding
Social and community service managers work for a variety of organizations. Some of these organizations focus on working with a particular demographic, such as children, people who are homeless, older adults, or veterans. Others focus on helping people with particular challenges, such as substance abuse, mental health needs, and chronic hunger.
A routine part of social and community service managers' job is to show that their programs and services are effective. They collect statistics and other information to evaluate the impact their programs have on the community or their target audience. They are usually required to report this information to administrators or funders. They may also use evaluations to identify opportunities to improve their programs, such as providing mentorship and assessments for their staff.
Although the specific job duties of social and community service managers may vary with the size of the organization, most managers recruit, hire, and train new staff members. They also supervise staff, such as social workers, who provide services directly to clients. Additionally, they may perform some of the services of the workers they oversee.
In large agencies, social and community service managers tend to have specialized duties. They may be responsible for running only one program in an organization and reporting to the agency's upper management. They usually do not design programs but instead supervise and implement programs set up by administrators, elected officials, or other stakeholders.
In small organizations, social and community managers often have many roles. They represent their organization through public speaking engagements or in communitywide committees; oversee programs and execute their implementations; spend time on administrative tasks, such as managing budgets; and help with raising funds and meeting with potential donors.
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Work Environment About this section
Social and community service managers work in a variety of settings, including offices, clinics, hospitals, and shelters.
Social and community service managers held about 173,700 jobs in 2021. The largest employers of social and community service managers were as follows:
Individual and family services 26%
Nursing and residential care facilities 11
Local government, excluding education and hospitals 11
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations 11
Community and vocational rehabilitation services 10
Social and community service managers work for nonprofit organizations, for-profit social service companies, and government agencies. They also work in a variety of settings, including offices, clinics, hospitals, and shelters.
Work Schedules
Most social and community service managers work full time. Some work more than 40 hours per week.
<- What They Do How to Become One ->
How to Become a Social and Community Service Manager About this section
Social and community service managers typically need at least a bachelor's degree and work experience in a related occupation.
Social and community service managers typically need at least a bachelor's degree and work experience. However, some positions also require a master's degree.
Social and community service managers typically need a bachelor's degree in social work or a related public policy and social services field. However, some positions also require a master's degree.
Workers usually need experience in order to become a social and community service manager, and it is essential for those with a bachelor's degree. Candidates can get this experience by working as a social worker, substance abuse counselor, or in a similar occupation.
Important Qualities
Analytical skills. Social and community service managers need to understand and evaluate data in order to provide strategic guidance to their organization. They must be able to monitor and assess current programs as well as determine new initiatives.
Communication skills. Social and community service managers must be able to speak and write clearly. Public speaking experience is also helpful because these managers often participate in community outreach.
Managerial skills. Social and community service managers spend much of their time administering budgets and responding to a variety of issues.
Problem-solving skills. Social and community service managers must be able to address client, staff, and agency-related issues.
Time-management skills. Social and community service managers must prioritize and handle numerous tasks, often in a short timeframe.
<- Work Environment Pay ->
Pay About this section
Median annual wages, May 2021
Other management occupations
Total, all occupations
Note: All Occupations includes all occupations in the U.S. Economy.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
The median annual wage for social and community service managers was $74,000 in May 2021. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $46,550, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $118,650.
In May 2021, the median annual wages for social and community service managers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
Local government, excluding education and hospitals $93,420
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations 70,960
Individual and family services 63,260
Community and vocational rehabilitation services 60,590
Nursing and residential care facilities 60,590
<- How to Become One Job Outlook ->
Job Outlook About this section
Percent change in employment, projected 2021-31
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program
Much of the job growth in this occupation is the result of a population increasing its number of older adults. This age group has a greater need for social services, such as adult daycare, creating demand for social and community service managers.
In addition, employment growth is projected as people continue to seek treatment for their addictions and as people with substance abuse disorders are increasingly being directed to treatment programs rather than sent to jail. As a result, managers who direct treatment programs will be needed.
Employment projections data for social and community service managers, 2021-31
Projected Employment, 2031
Employment by Industry
11-9151 173,700 194,100 12 20,400 Get data
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State & Area Data About this section
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program produces employment and wage estimates annually for over 800 occupations. These estimates are available for the nation as a whole, for individual states, and for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. The link(s) below go to OEWS data maps for employment and wages by state and area.
Projections Central
Occupational employment projections are developed for all states by Labor Market Information (LMI) or individual state Employment Projections offices. All state projections data are available at www.projectionscentral.com. Information on this site allows projected employment growth for an occupation to be compared among states or to be compared within one state. In addition, states may produce projections for areas; there are links to each state's websites where these data may be retrieved.
CareerOneStop includes hundreds of occupational profiles with data available by state and metro area. There are links in the left-hand side menu to compare occupational employment by state and occupational wages by local area or metro area. There is also a salary info tool to search for wages by zip code.
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Similar Occupations About this section
This table shows a list of occupations with job duties that are similar to those of social and community service managers.
ENTRY-LEVEL EDUCATION
Health Education Specialists and Community Health Workers
Health education specialists develop programs to teach people about conditions affecting well-being. Community health workers promote wellness by helping people adopt healthy behaviors.
See How to Become One $48,860
Marriage and Family Therapists
Marriage and family therapists help people manage and overcome problems with family and other relationships.
Master's degree $49,880
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole.
Bachelor's degree $60,250
Rehabilitation Counselors
Rehabilitation counselors help people with physical, mental, developmental, or emotional disabilities live independently.
School and Career Counselors and Advisors
School counselors help students develop academic and social skills. Career counselors and advisors help people choose a path to employment.
Social and Human Service Assistants
Social and human service assistants provide client services in a variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, and social work.
High school diploma or equivalent $37,610
Social workers help people prevent and cope with problems in their everyday lives.
Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors
Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors advise people on a range of issues, such as those relating to alcoholism, addictions, or depression.
Medical and Health Services Managers Medical and health services managers plan, direct, and coordinate the business activities of healthcare providers.
Bachelor's degree $101,340
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Contacts for More Information About this section
For more information about social and community service managers, visit
The Network for Social Work Management
Council on Social Work Education
National Association of Social Workers
For a career video on social and community service managers, visit
O*NET
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook , Social and Community Service Managers,
at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/social-and-community-service-managers.htm (visited January 18, 2023).
Last Modified Date: Thursday, September 8, 2022
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Quebec judge okays class action lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol
Shuyee Lee CJAD News 800
Published Thursday, February 27, 2020 1:12PM EST
MONTREAL -- A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class action lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol.
The class action includes Quebecers who bought one of 19 Tylenol products for adults or one of 12 Tylenol products for children between October 2015 and December 2017.
Lead plaintiff Kathleen Gauthier never suffered any health problems from taking Tylenol but alleges that Johnson & Johnson misled consumers by failing to disclose and inform them about its side effects, including risk of death and liver problems requiring a transplant.
Gauthier said she found out about the risks in 2017 and claims she would have used the painkiller less often and wouldn't have given it to her children if she had been informed.
Gauthier alleges the company hid the risks from the public to ensure their share of the market. She further maintains that the company outlined the risks on products sold in the U.S. and reduced the maximum daily dosage for those products but did not do the same in Canada.
Montreal cardiologist Dr. Christopher Labos said you need to be aware of the risks, respect the dosage recommendations and consult your doctor.
"All pain medications have side effects," said Labos in an interview with CJAD 800.
"If you're needing more than eight extra-strength Tylenol a day, that's not good for you. You probably need something else and you probably need to get that dose reduced because that's going to start causing you problems in the long term."
The class action is seeking $10M in damages and $100 per person in punitive damages.
The lawsuit is being led by attorneys Karim Renno and Michael Vathilakis of Renno Vathilakis Inc.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
describe('The validator service',  function () {
	'use strict';
	beforeEach(function () {
		module('ingredients');
	});

	it('should initialize the validator with a non-false value', inject(
		function (validator) {
			expect(validator).toBeTruthy();
		}
	));

	it('should be able to check whether a required value is present', inject(
		function (validator) {
			var validDfn = {
				'test': {
					'value': '',
					'validators': [{'type': 'required'}]
				}
			};

			var validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.valid).toEqual(false);
			validDfn.test.value = 'nonempty';
			validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.valid).toEqual(true);
		}
	));

	it('should consider null as an empty value', inject(
		function (validator) {
			var validDfn = {
				'test': {
					'value': null,
					'validators': [{'type': 'required'}]
				}
			};

			var validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.valid).toEqual(false);
		}
	));

	it('should be able to check the validity of email', inject(
		function (validator) {
			var validDfn = {
				'test': {
					'value': 'non@empty',
					'validators': [{'type': 'email'}]
				}
			};
			var validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.valid).toEqual(false);
			validDfn.test.value = 'non@empty.com';
			validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.valid).toEqual(true);
		}
	));

	it('should be able to use javascript functions for validation', inject(
		function (validator) {
			var validDfn = {
				'test': {
					'value': 1,
					'validators': [{
						'type': 'javascript',
						'args': [function (val, arg) { return val+arg < 3; }, 2]
					}]
				}
			};
			var validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.valid).toEqual(false);
			validDfn.test.value = 0;
			validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.valid).toEqual(true);
		}
	));

	it('should be able to chain validations', inject(
		function (validator) {
			var validDfn = {
				'test': {
					'value': '',
					'validators': [{
						'type': 'required',
						'chained': [{'type': 'email'}]
					}]
				}
			};

			var validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.errorText.test).toEqual(['Test is required.']);
			validDfn.test.value = 'non@empty';
			validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.errorText.test).toEqual(['Test has to be a valid email address.']);
			validDfn.test.value = 'non@empty.com';
			validation = validator.check(validDfn);
			expect(validation.errorText.test).toEqual(undefined);
		}
	));
});

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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package net.finmath.montecarlo.interestrate.modelplugins;

import net.finmath.montecarlo.AbstractRandomVariableFactory;
import net.finmath.montecarlo.RandomVariable;
import net.finmath.stochastic.RandomVariableInterface;
import net.finmath.time.TimeDiscretizationInterface;

/**
 * Implements the volatility model
 * \[
 * 	\sigma_{i}(t_{j}) = ( a + b (T_{i}-t_{j}) ) exp(-c (T_{i}-t_{j})) + d \text{.}
 * \]
 *
 * The parameters here have some interpretation:
 *

 *
The parameter a: an initial volatility level.

 *
The parameter b: the slope at the short end (shortly before maturity).

 *
The parameter c: exponential decay of the volatility in time-to-maturity.

 *
The parameter d: if c > 0 this is the very long term volatility level.

 *

 *
 * Note that this model results in a terminal (Black 76) volatility which is given
 * by
 * \[
 * 	\left( \sigma^{\text{Black}}_{i}(t_{k}) \right)^2 = \frac{1}{t_{k}} \sum_{j=0}^{k-1} \left( ( a + b (T_{i}-t_{j}) ) exp(-c (T_{i}-t_{j})) + d \right)^{2} (t_{j+1}-t_{j})
 * \]
 * i.e., the instantaneous volatility is given by the picewise constant approximation of the function
 * \[
 * 	\sigma_{i}(t) = ( a + b (T_{i}-t) ) exp(-c (T_{i}-t)) + d
 * \]
 * on the time discretization \( \{ t_{j} \} \). For the exact integration of this formula see {@link LIBORVolatilityModelFourParameterExponentialFormIntegrated}.
 *
 * @author Christian Fries
 */
public class LIBORVolatilityModelFourParameterExponentialForm extends LIBORVolatilityModel {

	private final AbstractRandomVariableFactory	randomVariableFactory;

	private double a;
	private double b;
	private double c;
	private double d;

	private boolean isCalibrateable = false;

	// A lazy init cache
	private transient RandomVariableInterface[][] volatility;

	/**
	 * Creates the volatility model σi(tj) = ( a + b * (Ti-tj) ) * exp(-c (Ti-tj)) + d
	 *
	 * @param randomVariableFactory The random variable factor used to construct random variables from the parameters.
	 * @param timeDiscretization The simulation time discretization tj.
	 * @param liborPeriodDiscretization The period time discretization Ti.
	 * @param a The parameter a: an initial volatility level.
	 * @param b The parameter b: the slope at the short end (shortly before maturity).
	 * @param c The parameter c: exponential decay of the volatility in time-to-maturity.
	 * @param d The parameter d: if c > 0 this is the very long term volatility level.
	 * @param isCalibrateable Set this to true, if the parameters are available for calibration.
	 */
	public LIBORVolatilityModelFourParameterExponentialForm(AbstractRandomVariableFactory randomVariableFactory, TimeDiscretizationInterface timeDiscretization, TimeDiscretizationInterface liborPeriodDiscretization, double a, double b, double c, double d, boolean isCalibrateable) {
		super(timeDiscretization, liborPeriodDiscretization);
		this.randomVariableFactory = randomVariableFactory;
		this.a = a;
		this.b = b;
		this.c = c;
		this.d = d;
		this.isCalibrateable = isCalibrateable;
	}

	/**
	 * Creates the volatility model σi(tj) = ( a + b * (Ti-tj) ) * exp(-c (Ti-tj)) + d
	 *
	 * @param timeDiscretization The simulation time discretization tj.
	 * @param liborPeriodDiscretization The period time discretization Ti.
	 * @param a The parameter a: an initial volatility level.
	 * @param b The parameter b: the slope at the short end (shortly before maturity).
	 * @param c The parameter c: exponential decay of the volatility in time-to-maturity.
	 * @param d The parameter d: if c > 0 this is the very long term volatility level.
	 * @param isCalibrateable Set this to true, if the parameters are available for calibration.
	 */
	public LIBORVolatilityModelFourParameterExponentialForm(TimeDiscretizationInterface timeDiscretization, TimeDiscretizationInterface liborPeriodDiscretization, double a, double b, double c, double d, boolean isCalibrateable) {
		this(null, timeDiscretization, liborPeriodDiscretization, a, b, c, d, isCalibrateable);
	}

	@Override
	public double[] getParameter() {
		if(!isCalibrateable) return null;

		double[] parameter = new double[4];
		parameter[0] = a;
		parameter[1] = b;
		parameter[2] = c;
		parameter[3] = d;

		return parameter;
	}

	@Override
	public void setParameter(double[] parameter) {
		if(!isCalibrateable) return;

		this.a = parameter[0];
		this.b = parameter[1];
		this.c = parameter[2];
		this.d = parameter[3];

		// Invalidate cache
		volatility = null;
	}

	@Override
	public RandomVariableInterface getVolatility(int timeIndex, int liborIndex) {

		if(randomVariableFactory != null) {
			synchronized (randomVariableFactory) {
				if(volatility == null) volatility = new RandomVariableInterface[getTimeDiscretization().getNumberOfTimeSteps()][getLiborPeriodDiscretization().getNumberOfTimeSteps()];

				if(volatility[timeIndex][liborIndex] == null) {
					volatility[timeIndex][liborIndex] = randomVariableFactory.createRandomVariable(getVolatilityAsDouble(timeIndex, liborIndex));
				}
			}

			return volatility[timeIndex][liborIndex];
		}
		else {
			return new RandomVariable(getVolatilityAsDouble(timeIndex, liborIndex));
		}
	}

	private double getVolatilityAsDouble(int timeIndex, int liborIndex) {
		// Create a very simple volatility model here
		double time             = getTimeDiscretization().getTime(timeIndex);
		double maturity         = getLiborPeriodDiscretization().getTime(liborIndex);
		double timeToMaturity   = maturity-time;

		double volatilityInstanteaneous;
		if(timeToMaturity <= 0)
		{
			volatilityInstanteaneous = 0.0;   // This forward rate is already fixed, no volatility
		}
		else
		{
			volatilityInstanteaneous = (a + b * timeToMaturity) * Math.exp(-c * timeToMaturity) + d;
		}
		if(volatilityInstanteaneous < 0.0) volatilityInstanteaneous = Math.max(volatilityInstanteaneous,0.0);

		return volatilityInstanteaneous;
	}

	@Override
	public Object clone() {
		return new LIBORVolatilityModelFourParameterExponentialForm(
				super.getTimeDiscretization(),
				super.getLiborPeriodDiscretization(),
				a,
				b,
				c,
				d,
				isCalibrateable
				);
	}
}


Denver, Colorado, November 15, 2017 — TYAN, in partnership with Nyriad, announces a revolutionary advance in ultra-dense GPU-accelerated storage to be demonstrated at Supercomputing 2017 (SC17).
TYAN has qualified the Thunder SX (FA100-B7118) storage server with an NVIDIA Pascal GPU to enable Nyriad's NSULATE™ GPU-accelerated storage. NSULATE uses a GPU to perform erasure coding and cryptographic checksumming. This enables NSULATE to support hundreds of device failures within a large storage array.
This solution overcomes the limitations of traditional RAID-based storage and enables low cost, high-density data storage. It supports the creation of DAS arrays with hundreds of parallel storage devices, able to provide high performance even with massive array degradation. The specific hardware implementation also allows GPU computing on the storage nodes, resulting in minimal data movement and saving on network fabric.
TYAN expressed its excitement about the partnership with Nyriad as GPU computing directly on storage servers will enable it to offer server systems with lower power consumption and minimal data movement.
TYAN and Nyriad will demonstrate the solution at Supercomputing 2017 in Denver, Colorado, on November 13-16, Booth #1269.
TYAN, as a leading server brand of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation under the MiTAC Group (TSE:3706), designs, manufactures and markets advanced x86 and x86-64 server/workstation board technology, platforms and server solution products. Its products are sold to OEMs, VARs, System Integrators and Resellers worldwide for a wide range of applications. TYAN enables its customers to be technology leaders by providing scalable, highly-integrated, and reliable products for a wide range of applications such as server appliances and solutions for HPC, hyper-scale/data center, server storage and security appliance markets. For more information, visit MiTAC's website at http://www.mic-holdings.com or TYAN's website at http://www.tyan.com.
Nyriad is an exascale computing company specialising in advanced data storage solutions for big data and high performance computing. Officially the first commercial spin-out from the Square Kilometre Array Project, the company was forced to rethink the relationship between storage, processing and bandwidth to achieve a breakthrough in system stability and performance capable of processing and storing over 160Tb/s of radio antennae data in real-time, within a power budget impossible with any modern IT solutions. For more information, visit http://www.nyriad.com.


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* Appropriate errors are now thrown in `Listeners.all()` and `Listeners.race()` when a Promise implementation isn't available.

### 1.1.3

* Fixed an issue where listeners wouldn't be called.

### 1.1.2

* Fixed compatibility issues with jspm.

### 1.1.1

* Removed unnecessary module declarations from the module definition.

### 1.1.0

* The package definition is now standalone
  - It no longer requires a Rx definition
* Replaced emitter types to accommodate extended objects

### v1.1.0-beta.3

* Fixed an issue with missing default exports in the UMD modules.

### v1.1.0-beta

* Added `EventStation.reset()`
    - Resets global configuration without affecting existing stations
    - Resets injected dependencies
* Added `EventStation.make()`
    - Shorthand method to create, extend, and initialize an object literal
* RegEx markers can now be any length
* Fixed an issue where the global `Promise` object wouldn't be recognized
* `EventStation.init()` now returns the given object
* `EventStation.config()` now throws an error when given an empty string as a delimiter

### v1.0.0

* Stable release

### v1.0.0-beta

* Add `emitAsync()`.
    * Works just like `emit()`, except it returns a `Promise` that resolves when all of the called listeners have completed.
    * Asynchronous listeners must return a Promise-like object.
    * Please view the documentation for [asynchronous listeners](./docs/Usage.md#asynchronous-listeners) for more details.

### v0.5.2

* Added listener modifiers
    1. `attach()`
    2. `detach()`
* Improved listener removal performance.
* If `Listeners.prototype.isAttachedTo()` is applied with no parameters, it now determines whether *any* of the listeners are attached to *any* station.
* Changed `Listeners.prototype.clone()` to set an origin station on the created `Listeners` instance.

### v0.5.1

* Distributed modules now assign an `EventStation` global when not imported as a module.
    * Allows Event-Station to be used in Web browsers via a `<script>` tag.
* Added members
    1. `EventStation.prototype.getListeners()`
    3. `Listeners.prototype.count`
    2. `Listeners.prototype.has()`
    4. `Listeners.prototype.clone()`
* Added package to [Bower](http://bower.io).

### v0.5.0

#### Breaking Changes

* Changed the `off()` listener modifier to remove listeners from ***ALL*** stations.
    * Before `0.5.0` the `off()` listener modifier removed listeners from only the origin station.
    * The `removeFrom()` listener modifier can be used instead to remove listeners from one station.
    * Initially, this was the expected behavior.
* Renamed `heardCount` to `hearingCount` for clarity.

#### Non-breaking Changes

* Added listener modifiers
    1. `forEach()`
    2. `index()`
    3. `get()`
* The `race()` and `all()` listener modifiers no longer override each listener's callback.
    * Using `calling()` after using either `race()` and `all()` no longer breaks promises.
* Added `EventStation.prototype.toObservable()` for creating Rx Observables
* Added `EventStation.inject()` for injecting the `rx` namespace and `Promise`-like objects
    * See the [module definition](https://github.com/morrisallison/event-station/blob/master/dist/event-station.d.ts) for details.

### v0.4.1

* Added the `reset()` listener modifier
* Added the `enableDelimiter` option
    * Performance gains of 25% have been seen when this option is set to `false`.
* General performance improvements

### v0.4.0

* Added `stopPropagation()`
* Callbacks are now optional for event name strings and event name arrays.
    * `station.on('boom').calling(function () {});`

### v0.3.0

#### Breaking Changes

* Renamed the listener modifier `thenCall()` to `calling()`
    1. For consistency with the `using()` modifier
    2. For clarity; to not confuse with `Function.prototype.call()` and `Promise.prototype.then()`

#### Non-breaking Changes

* Added listener modifiers
    1. `pause()`
    2. `resume()`
    3. `isPaused()`
* Added regular expression listeners
* Added options
    * enableRegExp
    * regExpMarker
* 100% code coverage

### v0.2.1

* Added listener modifiers
    1. `isAttached()`
    2. `isAttachedTo()`

### v0.2.0

#### Breaking Changes

* EventStation now uses a `constructor`
    * Direct prototypal inheritance and how literal objects are extended has changed
        * Please view [USAGE.md](./docs/Usage.md) to see how to do this in v0.2.0.
    * More advanced forms of inheritance remain unchanged, e.g. TypeScript and CoffeeScript

#### Non-breaking Changes

* Added listener modifiers
    1. `off()`
    2. `using()`
    3. `addTo()`
    4. `removeFrom()`
    5. `moveTo()`
* Added the `delimiter` option
* Options can be now be set using the `EventStation()` constructor
* Performance improvements
* Added benchmarks

### v0.1.2

* Added listener modifiers
    1. `occur()`
    2. `thenCall()`
    3. `once()`
* Added the `emitAllEvent` option
* Fixed `heardCount`
* To reduce possible method name conflicts, private methods are now prefixed with an underscore.

### v0.1.1

* Initial release


My memorial work holds a very special place in my heart. It is because of my own search for that perfect memorial doll of my son, that I discovered this beautiful art form. I feel blessed and honored to be able to offer just a little bit of peace to those that have also had to say goodbye far too soon to their sweet angels. As with each of my dolls I put my heart and soul into creating that perfect memory. No I am not able to recreate your angel, but I try my hardest to capture them in my work. I am beyond touched by each angel I create and firmly believe they help to guide my hands, so that I'm able to bring a little comfort to their families.
If you are looking to have a memorial doll of your angel created, I would be honored to work with you. The process starts with you either sending me a picture or describing your angel to me. Also giving me the length and weight of you sweet angel, helps to guide me with finding the perfect kit. Please know that I am able to create angels as small as 7". Once we find a kit with your angel's features, I then paint the doll with your angel's skin-tone and then root the hair with the same hair color and hair line as your angel. If your angel had any types of birthmarks, stork bites or moles, I am also able to recreate those on your memorial doll.
As for pricing my babies range in price between $400.00 to $700.00 depending on size and kit chosen. (Please see my custom doll page for complete pricing guide lines.) I do offer an easy payment plan $100.00 non-refundable deposit and then monthly payments of your choice.
The first step is to contact me with your angel's descriptions and/or pictures, from there we will work together on finding the perfect kit. Once we decide on a kit, I am able to give you an exact price.
Your sweet angel will arrive home in an outfit fitted just for them, a blanket, brush/comb set, Certificate of Authenticity, care instructions and upon request a magnetic pacifier (for girls I can also do a magnetic bow).
Please feel free to message me with any questions you may have, I am always here to answer your questions.
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All of the following business tax credits, with the exception of the electric vehicle credit, are part of the general business tax credits. The form you use to figure each credit is shown below.
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In addition to the credit form, in most cases you may also need to file Form 3800.
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Legături externe

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Any employer that offers pet benefits to its employees certainly gets a round of appaws from me. It's well documented about the health benefits of owning a pet, yet companies are slow to respond to this as well as the growing trend of millennials of owing pets over having children.
An article in Workforce titled, "Breeding Pet-Friendly Benefits," notes that young people entering the job market are not only getting married later, they're having children later in life if at all. Many are filling that void by owning pets. Unfortunately, these new professionals are discovering that their employers haven't kept up with the times. It's true that some companies offer day care, but these are for human children and not "fur babies." What are employees, who often have to work long hours, able to do with their pets who are stuck at home?
Anyone who has owned a pet knows that it's considered a member of the family. Some companies, looking to offer unique benefits in order to attract top talent, are exploring pet-friendly options. These include subsidizing doggy daycare and pet resorts, offering pet insurance, and even allowing employees to bring their pets to work. A great activity that has popped up even among companies not providing any pet-related benefits is organizing on-site pet get-togethers for their employees after hours and on weekends so that they can network and socialize.
The article points out that millennials aren't just looking for a paycheck, they're looking for an employer that fits their culture and varied expectations. They want to know that the employer is also willing to help make a difference in an employee's life.
Employers are recognizing that if an employee's pets are happy, that in turn will help make the employee happy, which in turn helps to make that employee more productive and loyal to the company.


One by one, players and coaches from the Ivy League-champion women's basketball team climbed a ladder at Jadwin Gym, clipping sections of the net and posing for photos. It was a well-deserved ritual for the Tigers, who had just beaten Penn to finish a perfect 14–0 Ivy season. But somehow, the slow procession seemed out of place.
Rasheed, the unanimous choice for Ivy Rookie of the Year, and fellow freshman starter Lauren Polansky drove Princeton's up-tempo attack, and returning players helped to set the pace. Lauren Edwards '12, who joined Rasheed on the All-Ivy first team, showed equal proficiency inside and on the perimeter, working her way to the basket on one possession and then drifting out for an open jumper on the next. Two of Princeton's best players in 2008–09 — Addie Micir '11 and Devona Allgood '12 — were the program's most improved players this season, according to coach Courtney Banghart. Allgood sharpened her post moves, and Micir, known primarily as an outside shooter, became more dangerous off the dribble.
The five starters — along with a deep, versatile bench — enjoyed unprecedented success, including team records for scoring average (70.7 points per game), wins (26), and longest winning streak (21 games). Most importantly, Princeton earned its first trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Tigers started the season ranked third in the Ivy's poll of media and sports-information directors and ended it with the best NCAA seed in league history (No. 11 in the Dayton Region).
For a team that won its league games by an average of 22 points, Princeton maintained a remarkable intensity on defense, even when holding seemingly insurmountable leads. Banghart was particularly proud of her team's defensive ranking — fifth in the nation at season's end — and it was no mistake that Princeton's top two scorers, Rasheed and Edwards, also were first and second on the team in steals.


The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has said the legendary band could play more shows after their forthcoming performances in London and New York next month (November).
Speaking on the red carpet at the premiere of new Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane yesterday evening (October 18), Wood said: "once this wheel is turning I don't think it will be able to stop … We won't be able to stop," AP reports.
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Q: Can you make a form object work for new and edit actions if the form itself is never persisted? I'm trying to make a form object work for new User and edit User actions. The form object creates or updates a User through it's save method, but the form object itself is never persisted so Rails always tries to make a POST even though I'm specifying different routes in the simple_form_for url.
Is there any way to make it work for both actions?
UsersController.rb:
class Admin::UsersController < AdminController
  def new
    @user_form = UserForm.new(account_id: current_account.id)
  end

  def create
    @user_form = UserForm.new(user_form_params)
    if @user = @user_form.save
      flash[:success] = "User created"
      redirect_to admin_user_path(@user)
    else
      render "new"
    end
  end

  def edit
    @user_form = UserForm.new(existing_user: @user, account_id: current_account.id)
  end

  def update
    if @user.update(user_form_params)
      flash[:success] = "User saved"
      redirect_to admin_user_path(@user)
    else
      render "edit"
    end
  end
end

UserForm.rb
class UserForm
  include ActiveModel::Model
  include ActiveModel::Validations::Callbacks

  attr_accessor :fname, :lname, :email

  def initialize(params = {})
    super(params)
    @account = Account.find(account_id)
    @user = existing_user || user
  end

  def user
    @user ||= User.new do |user|
      user.fname = fname
      user.lname = lname
      user.email = email
    end
  end

  def save
    @user.save
    @user
  end
end

_form.html.erb
<%= simple_form_for @user_form, url: (@user.present? ? admin_user_path(@user) : admin_users_path) do |f| %>

    <%= f.input :fname  %>
    <%= f.input :lname %>
    <%= f.input :email %>
    <%= f.submit %>

end

The new/create flow works fine, but editing an existing User returns
No route matches [POST] "/admin/users/69"

A: class UserForm
  # ...

  def to_model
    @user
  end
end

<%= simple_form_for @user_form, url: [:admin, @user_form] do |f| %>
    <%= f.input :fname  %>
    <%= f.input :lname %>
    <%= f.input :email %>
    <%= f.submit %>
end

When you pass a record to form_for (which SimpleForm wraps), form_with or link_to the polymorphic routing helpers call to_model.model_name.route_key or singular_route_key  depending on if the model is persisted?.  Passing [:admin, @user_form] will cause the polymorphic route helpers to use admin_users_path instead of just users_path.
On normal models to_model just returns self.
https://api.rubyonrails.org/v6.1.4/classes/ActionDispatch/Routing/PolymorphicRoutes.html

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Going to where they've never gone before
By Matthew Cronin :: Posted October 9, 2011
Aga won back to back Premier titles for the first time.
So now Agnieszka Radwanska has gone where she never gone before
Three fine finals ahead
Murray: so close yet so far
TOKYO: Rafa Nadal vs. Andy Murray
Welcome to version 18 of what could be a great rivalry but one that has somewhat fizzled as Nadal has beaten Murray all four times they've played this year. Even thought the Scot plays him tough, Nadal is more consistent and authoritative than he is from the backcourt and unlike some other elite players, Murray cannot totally exploit Nadal's backhand with his weaker forehand. Murray is 4-13 against the Spaniard entering this match and while he did look good in dispatching David Ferrer 6-2 6-3, Nadal also looked good in out muscling Mardy Fish 7-5 6-1. Murray needs this win more than defending champ Nadal does, but Rafa is looking for a confidence booster after his difficult loss to Novak Djokovic in the US Open final, so he is sure to charge hard. Murray has a much better chance here than he does at the Slams because it's a two out of three set match and there is less pressure attached to the event.
BEIJING: Tomas Berdych vs. Marin Cilic
With Berdych talking out Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4 4-6 6-1 in the semis, the eight spots for the ATP World Finals are getting close to being sewn up. While there are still big events to be played in Shanghai, Basel, Stockholm, Vienna and Bercy, Berdych, Tsonga and Tokyo semifinalists Mardy Fish and David Ferrer all made progress this week. Nicolas Almagro, who is No. 9 in the race, isn't a very good fast court player, No. 10 Robin Soldering is ill and No. 11 Giles Simon does not like super fast courts either. No. 12 Juan Martin Del Potro has an outside shot, but he will get a zero pointer in his ranking for not playing Shanghai next week and all aforementioned four will play there. DelPo will have to do major damage to grab the last spot.
Berdych has proven himself to be en excellent fast court player when he is motivated and the same goes with Cilic when he's feeling confident, which has been rare this year. This a huge chance for the young Croat to make himself relevant again but he will have to serve and return very well to pull off the upset.
BEIJING: Andrea Petkovic vs. Agnieszka Radwanska
While it may not always be the case, the last two weeks have shown that those players on the buddle of qualifying for the year-end WTA Championships in Istanbul are super motivated. That Radwanska and Petkovic made it to the final proves how important being members of the 2011 final eight club is, as both came into the week chasing Marion Bartoli for the eight and final spot. By reaching the final, both appear to have already passed Bartoli and it looks like if Radwanska wins the title, she'll also pass No. 7 Samantha Stosur.
Radwanska won Tokyo last week and is looking to pull off a career first by winning back-to-back Premier titles. Petkovic has never won a Premier title, but has been very solid most of the year, reaching three Slam quarters. Radwanska is the more talented of the two, having beaten Petkovic twice this summer, ironically in back to back Premier tournaments in San Diego and Toronto in August. She is not as physically strong as the German is, but has more variety and confuses her with her change of pace. Petkovic has to bring something different to the table this time.
The relevance of the Asian swing
Murray, Young to clash for Bangkok title
Young has come a long way this season.
Donald Young and Andy Murray will meet for the third time this season but for the first time, it will be in a final when they face off at the PTT Thailand Open.
Young advanced to his first ATP World Tour final by topping Gael Monfils in a 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(5) thriller, just another indication that his heart is in the right place, his game has solidified and that his fitness is gradually improving. He


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#ifndef _PASSENGER_SCOPE_GUARD_H_
#define _PASSENGER_SCOPE_GUARD_H_

#include <boost/noncopyable.hpp>
#include <boost/function.hpp>
#include <boost/thread.hpp>
#include <oxt/system_calls.hpp>
#include <cstdio>
#include <Logging.h>

namespace Passenger {

using namespace boost;
using namespace oxt;

#ifndef _PASSENGER_SAFELY_CLOSE_DEFINED_
	#define _PASSENGER_SAFELY_CLOSE_DEFINED_
	void safelyClose(int fd, bool ignoreErrors = false);
#endif

/**
 * Guard object for making sure that a certain function is going to be
 * called when the object goes out of scope. To avoid the function from
 * being called, call clear().
 */
class ScopeGuard: public noncopyable {
private:
	boost::function<void ()> func;
	bool interruptable;

public:
	ScopeGuard() { }

	ScopeGuard(const boost::function<void ()> &func, bool interruptable = false) {
		this->func = func;
		this->interruptable = interruptable;
	}

	~ScopeGuard() {
		if (func) {
			if (interruptable) {
				func();
			} else {
				this_thread::disable_interruption di;
				this_thread::disable_syscall_interruption dsi;
				func();
			}
		}
	}

	void clear() {
		func = boost::function<void()>();
	}

	void runNow() {
		boost::function<void ()> oldFunc = func;
		func = boost::function<void()>();
		if (interruptable) {
			oldFunc();
		} else {
			this_thread::disable_interruption di;
			this_thread::disable_syscall_interruption dsi;
			oldFunc();
		}
	}
};

class StdioGuard: public noncopyable {
private:
	FILE *f;

public:
	StdioGuard()
		: f(0)
		{ }

	StdioGuard(FILE *_f, const char *file, unsigned int line)
		: f(_f)
	{
		if (_f != NULL && file != NULL) {
			P_LOG_FILE_DESCRIPTOR_OPEN3(fileno(_f), file, line);
		}
	}

	~StdioGuard() {
		if (f != NULL) {
			P_LOG_FILE_DESCRIPTOR_CLOSE(fileno(f));
			fclose(f);
		}
	}
};

class FdGuard: public noncopyable {
private:
	int fd;
	bool ignoreErrors;

public:
	FdGuard(int _fd, const char *file, unsigned int line, bool _ignoreErrors = false)
		: fd(_fd),
		  ignoreErrors(_ignoreErrors)
	{
		if (_fd != -1 && file != NULL) {
			P_LOG_FILE_DESCRIPTOR_OPEN3(_fd, file, line);
		}
	}

	~FdGuard() {
		if (fd != -1) {
			safelyClose(fd, ignoreErrors);
			P_LOG_FILE_DESCRIPTOR_CLOSE(fd);
		}
	}

	void clear() {
		fd = -1;
	}
};

} // namespace Passenger

#endif /* _PASSENGER_SCOPE_GUARD_H_ */


By Lisa Katayama 11.26.07 | 4:00 PM Lisa Katayama: "Once I'm all wired in and gelled up with an EEG cap, a researcher places a magnetic stimulator on my head and starts zapping my brain as part of a memory experiment."
SAN FRANCISCO -- I feel like the hoodlum Alex in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange : My head is held steady by a chin strap, while two technicians grease my scalp with conductive gel and slip on a cap bristling with electrodes.
I'm about to have my brain scrambled -- electrically -- in the name of medical science. Scientists are going to knock out regions of my brain while I perform a memory test.
"We're ready to do some zapping!" one of the technicians says excitedly.
I'm a guinea pig in a brain-scan experiment conceived by neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley , who is testing how memory changes with age. The "zapping" induces seizures in some subjects and cures depression in others. I don't know what it will do to me, but I'm about to find out.
Brain experiments are a dime a dozen these days. But Gazzaley's experiment is the first to combine three brain-scan technologies in one study: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which will knock out some of my memory circuits.
"Gazzaley's research is cutting edge," says Suzanne Corkin, an MIT neuroscientist. "Most cognitive neuroscience labs do not have the equipment and technical knowledge to apply all three methods."
Gazzaley directs the new imaging center here at the University of California, San Francisco's Mission Bay campus . He's testing a theory that we forget things with age because we remember too much. We can't find the important stuff among all the junk. He hopes to identify and isolate the precise neural networks that determine how we remember some things and ignore others.
The experiment could provide important insight into a wide range of age-related memory conditions, including attention deficit disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder and aging.
"We'll learn how the young brain works, how this changes through aging, and maybe guide new therapy programs to improve these abilities as they change with age," explains Gazzaley, a 38-year-old New York City native.
Gazzaley is studying the brains of 40 volunteers: 20 younger subjects who -- like me -- are between 18 and 35, and 20 older adults between 69 and 75.
The study is split into two phases: First, to locate the neural memory circuits, Gazzaley uses fMRI , a neuroimaging technology that detects blood flow. During a battery of memory tests, the technology indicates which parts of my brain are active while I try to remember and ignore certain information.
In phase two of the study, he applies EEG to record my brain's electrical activity, while simultaneously scrambling my memory circuits using TMS, which suppresses neuron activity with rapidly changing magnetic fields. If I do comparatively poorly on the test while one part of my brain is scrambled, it's likely those circuits contributed to memory function.
So, in phase one, I lie on a cold white plank inside a giant, donut-shaped Siemens Tesla fMRI scanner. The room is dark. Giant headphones, restraining foam pads and strict orders not to move have me quite literally in a bind. A mirror, situated at a slant directly above my head, reflects a flat screen showing a short film about pink flamingos. As the machine pulsates steadily, a woman's voice announces through the intercom: "We're starting."
A loud beeping noise like an emergency alarm pervades the room. The words "GET READY" appear in bright green letters across the screen. My anxiety is replaced with determination: I want to beat this brain game.
Black-and-white photographs of grim faces and nature scenes (many of which Gazzaley took himself ) flash before me. I click the right button for photos I've seen before and the left button for the ones that I don't remember seeing. I'm instructed to either ignore faces or scenes. It seems simple, but it can be confusing.
An hour and 40 minutes later, I leave the scanner feeling cold and stiff. Its magnetic field -- 3,000 times stronger than the earth's -- made me drowsy. A research assistant shows me a picture of my brain ("It looks pretty normal"), and gives me $60 for participating in the trial.
"The fMRI generates maps of my brain such as this one, which shows the regions I used during a memory game I played as part of the trial."
Phase two: A week later, a man is measuring my head. Then he draws a pink dot on my forehead and brushes my hair. "I am abrading your scalp so we can get a better connection," he explains. He's referring to the 64-channel EEG cap that will record my brain's electrical activity.
On my right, a computer screen displays my brain from five different angles. Different areas of it are colored purple, yellow, green and red. Sensors near my eyes and ears are equipped with amplifiers that connect through fiber-optic wires to a digital box where analog brain signals are digitized using software called Analyzer (and some proprietary scripts).
I don plastic goggles (festooned with what appear to be small disco balls), which triangulate my exact position. Once I'm wired in, the technician takes a giant blue gadget that looks like the head of a vacuum cleaner -- the TMS -- and points it at my head.
Using a method called fMRI-guided stereotactic localization, Gazzaley's researchers scramble my prefrontal cortex to see how I do during a battery of memory tests without access to some of my neural networks.
Four hours later, I finally leave the nondescript UCSF office, this time feeling groggy and crampy. I don't know if it's from sitting in that uncomfortable contraption or from the brain scrambling.
Another week later, Gazzaley shows me a simple bar chart on his desktop.
"As you get older, you have a harder time ignoring information," he explains. "Your data shows that you're really good at ignoring and remembering."
Another chart mapping the performance of older people at memory tests shows they didn't do as well. "The old have a problem with this. They don't modulate as much ... they have a harder time ignoring information."
With the myriad of variables that can influence the results -- tiredness, machine noise, motivation, slippery fingers -- it's impossible to tell whether I truly have a better short-term memory than the next guinea pig my age.
But Gazzaley hopes that when he has enough data to publish, he'll be able to say something meaningful about memory. Corkin thinks he's on the right track -- and that we'll likely see more studies combining various brain-scan technologies.
"Multimodal experiments in humans will expand knowledge in all cognitive domains," she says. "These kinds of experiments are highly appealing to funding agencies and faculty search committees."


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Paxton Wins Another Legal Battle Against The Biden Administration
Chad Hasty Published: August 20, 2021
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is celebrating another win on this Friday as Paxton's office sued the Biden Administration over immigration laws that Paxton claims the Biden Administration is not enforcing. The ruling by the district court, included a preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration for not detaining criminal illegal immigrants.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas ruled that the Biden Administration's policies violated federal law. Federal law states that the Department of Homeland Security must take control of illegal immigrants convicted of certain crimes after they serve their sentence. According to Paxton's Office, the Biden Administration decided to stop detaining illegal immigrants that were convicted of crimes related to drugs or "moral turpitude". That went against federal law according to the State of Texas. The actions taken by the Biden Administration forced Texas to sue according to Paxton's office.
In the ruling, the court ordered that the Biden Administration must also turn over important information to ensure they are in compliance with the injunction. According to a press release from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the court sided with Texas because they saw the "blatant irresponsibility" from the Biden Administration.
"The district court sided with the great state of Texas, granting us some much-needed relief—a preliminary injunction," Attorney General Ken Paxton said. "The court saw the blatant irresponsibility from the Biden Administration that has caused tremendous harm to the safety of all Texans. It's time for the federal government to wake up and address the chaos that they caused—and in the meanwhile, we will fight tooth and nail to protect Texans from their carelessness."
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This Dockard was a location in Murder Detective 2: Corruption, published by Tournay Software. As part of the game, the player has to spot a number of hidden clues.
The scene is created mostly out of modelled 3D geometry, however some items such as the Bat and the Crowbar (if you enjoyed hunting for those in the picture just then, please buy the game :)) were actually flat 2D opacity mapped billboard images added to the scene. This was a technique I used a lot in the final scenes in order to speed up art development.
I have shown some of the effects layers below the main image. For me, rendering out the lighting volumes is a must if I am to balance the image correctly. I find the volume colours in particular can make a huge impact on the mood of the final scene.


We decided to look back on a past project to see how they were doing..
Canterbury Lane is custom home development situated in the District of Burke Mountain in Coquitlam. Oxford Heights, and Park Ridge Estates are nearby neighborhoods. While Canterbury Lane has no properties currently available, the community of Burke Mountain is continuing to flourish in development.
This quiet cul-de-sac was built by Blue Ocean Construction Inc. in 2003. There were 9 homes in the entire development. These homes were built and designed craftsmen style to suit the natural surroundings. The colour choices of the homes also reflect this design.
These home are sought after, and rarely for sale because they were built with quality and growing families in mind.
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This custom built home was part of The ENERGY STAR® For New Homes Initiative in Canada, and became a certified upon completion.


A pharmaceutical company accused of bribing doctors to boost sales of its synthetic opioid medication gave tens of thousands of dollars to Oklahoma doctors over the past four years in connection with the medication, an investigation by The Frontier has found.
All told, pharmaceutical companies paid nearly half a million dollars to more than 1,300 Oklahoma physicians between 2013 and 2016 promoting opioid prescription drugs, according to doctor payment data from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
And though most physicians received less than $100 from companies promoting opioid medications (usually in the form of meal payments), some received tens of thousands of dollars for speaking engagements, consulting and travel, according to the data.
The company with the largest amount of payments to Oklahoma doctors was Insys Therapeutics, an Arizona-based company and manufacturer of the powerful painkiller brand-named Subsys, meant for use by some cancer patients.
In late October, the company's founder John Kapoor was arrested in Arizona after being added to a federal indictment of company officials alleging, among other things, that several top executives and sales reps participated in a scheme to bribe doctors around the nation to prescribe Subsys to non-cancer patients by using a "speaker's program" that paid doctors based on the amount of prescriptions written for Subsys.
Payments from Insys accounted for more than a third of the $497,246 total spent by all pharmaceutical companies in the promotion of opioid medications to Oklahoma doctors between 2013 and 2016, the CMS data shows.
Nearly 85 percent of the $173,729 Insys spent on doctors in Oklahoma during that time went to only two Tulsa physicians, the data shows. Dr. Terri Lynne White, a partner of Pain Management of Tulsa, received $91,816 from Insys, and Dr. Venkatesh Movva, who has since moved to Texas, received $55,055. Most of the payments came in the form of speaking payments, according to the CMS data.
Payments for speaking engagements, travel or meals to doctors by pharmaceutical companies or medical device manufacturers promoting a drug or product are legal, but must be reported to the federal government.
Though full publicly-available prescription data for Subsys is limited, White and Movva were two of only three doctors in the state to file claims with the Medicare Part D prescription drug program between 2013 and 2015, according to data from CMS.
Together, both doctors prescribed more than $2.3 million worth of Subsys through the Medicare Part D program during that time.
The third doctor shown as prescribing Subsys through Medicare Part D was Oklahoma City doctor Harvey Jenkins Jr., who is facing unrelated charges of overprescribing opioids to patients. Jenkins, whose medical license was suspended in 2015 and was charged in 2016, prescribed $333,469 worth of the drug from 2014 to 2015, the CMS prescription data shows.
Neither White nor Movva have been accused of wrongdoing by law enforcement or the Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision, and neither doctor has been disciplined by the board in relation to any past allegation of misconduct.
Neither doctor responded to multiple requests by The Frontier for an interview.
In an interview with The Frontier, the former specialty sales representative and regional sales trainer for Insys Therapeutics in Tulsa, Casey Hanoch, confirmed that White and Movva were part of the company's speaker program. He said he was not aware of any cases where doctors he worked with took money in exchange for prescribing the drug.
However, Hanoch, who was hired by Insys a month before the company began selling the product in March 2012 and left the company in October 2014, said he and other sales reps were under constant pressure by higher-ups in the company to boost sales of the drug.
Hanoch said he often had to act as a buffer between the corporate executives at Insys pushing for higher sales and the doctors he worked with in Tulsa and other parts of the sales territory, which also included Arkansas and western Kansas.
Hanoch, who now lives in Texas, said he was one of several Insys employees who were subpoenaed to testify in front of federal the grand jury in Boston, Massachusetts, that recently indicted Insys founder Kapoor.
A spokesman for Insys Therapeutics did not respond to an interview request from The Frontier.
R. Trent Shores, U.S. Attorney in Tulsa for the Northern District of Oklahoma, said he was aware of the Insys Therapeutics case from media reports, but could neither confirm nor deny whether his office was taking part in any related investigation.
Over the last few years, Oklahoma and the nation have seen an increase in fatal fentanyl overdoses, though it's hard to tell in some cases whether it is from medication or black market fentanyl that mostly originates in China, said Mark Woodward, spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
In 2016, 81 people died from fentanyl overdoses, while there were 70 fentanyl overdose deaths in 2015 and 41 in 2014, Woodward said. That increase is most likely because of a rise in non-medication fentanyl on the streets, he said.
Last month, President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a "national health emergency," and federal law enforcement agencies have also been directed to increase focus on opioids.
The roles played by pharmaceutical and distribution companies have especially come under scrutiny. Earlier this year, the Cherokee Nation filed a lawsuit against several pharmacies and distribution companies, while several state attorneys general, including Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter, have filed lawsuits against opioid manufacturing companies.
This summer, Hunter filed suit in Cleveland County against the Purdue pharmaceutical companies, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Cephalon, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Allergan, Watson Laboratories, and Actavis Pharma.
Insys Therapeutics is not named as a defendant in that case.
In October, during Sessions' visit to Oklahoma, Hunter asked him to put greater focus on the role of pharmaceutical companies in spreading opioid addiction and urged that companies that played a part in the epidemic be treated "like the criminal enterprises they are" through the use of federal anti-racketeering statutes.
Subsys is made from fentanyl, a synthetic opioid considered to be 25 to 50 times as potent as heroin, 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and among the most potent opioids available for human use. It is administered in micrograms rather than milligrams, and compared to other opioid-type drugs, fentanyl's effects have a relatively rapid onset and short duration.
While breakthrough pain has been treated using fentanyl in pill, patch and lozenge form, Subsys was unique, in that it comes in a spray form and is meant to be administered under the tongue.
The drug's label warns that it poses the risk of misuse, abuse, addiction, overdoses and serious complications due to medication errors. When the FDA approved the drug, it was categorized as a Transmucosal Immediate Release Fentanyl (TIRF) drug subject to the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy Access Program. In short, that means that the patient, prescriber and pharmacy dispensing the drug are each required to be educated about the drug's risks before it can be prescribed.
Both the rate and extent of absorption of the spray were determined to be substantially different from other fentanyl products, meaning the substitution of the same dose of Subsys for the same dose of any other TIRF drug came with a substantial risk of overdose.
However, Subsys was entering a limited and somewhat crowded market. Nationwide, fewer than 1,900 practitioners wrote 90 percent of all TIRF product prescriptions, practitioners had a large number of TIRF drugs to choose from and generic forms of TIRF medicines made up nearly two-thirds of all TIRF prescriptions, according to court documents.
Furthermore, Subsys was expensive. Because of the relatively high price, most insurance companies required prior authorization for Subsys before paying for it, and were unlikely to pay if the drug had been prescribed "off-label" for non-breakthrough cancer pain, according to court documents.
In March 2012, Insys launched its marketing campaign for Subsys, planning and funding a "speaker program" intended to increase brand awareness of the drug.
Insys sales representatives were to recruit doctors and other licensed practitioners who were to be part of the speaker program and provide peer-to-peer lectures about the benefits and use of Subsys at lunch and dinner events, court documents state.
The speakers — who were chosen based on skill in the use of opioids, experience with Subsys, geography, prominence and experience as speakers — were required to sign agreements with Insys and attend organized training sessions. In exchange for their services, the speakers would be paid per speaking event by Insys, prosecutors said.
But, according to prosecutors, by the end of June 2012 — before the speaker's program events launched and while most of the speakers were still undergoing training — high-level executives at Insys had already grown dissatisfied with sales.
On Oct. 26, a federal indictment of billionaire Insys Therapeutics founder Kapoor was unsealed. Kapoor had been added to an earlier criminal indictment of other Insys executives — president and CEO Michael Babich, vice president of sales Alec Burlakoff, vice president of managed markets Michael Gurry, national director of sales Richard Simon, regional sales manager Sunrise Lee and regional sales manager Joseph Rowan.
The executives are accused of conspiring to violate federal racketeering, mail fraud, wire fraud and anti-kickback laws by operating a nationwide program designed to pay doctors to write large numbers of prescriptions for Subsys and defrauding insurers to pay for prescriptions.
The company also faces several civil lawsuits filed throughout the country in connection with the alleged scheme by family members of patients who died from the drug, state attorneys general and insurance companies. Some doctors and company sales representatives have also been criminally prosecuted for their involvement in the alleged scheme.
At the end of the first quarter it was available, Kapoor and Babich were not happy with the sales of Subsys, prosecutors said, and hired Burlakoff as the Southeast Regional Sales Manager.
Burlakoff, according to prosecutors, began telling sales representatives that the key to sales was using the speaker program to pay practitioners to prescribe Subsys.
It did not matter how good at communicating a speaker was, only whether they wrote a lot of prescriptions for Subsys, prosecutors have alleged.
Three months after being hired, Burlakoff was promoted to vice president of sales for Insys, meaning he supervised all of the company sales managers and representatives, prosecutors said.
Though Subsys was meant for cancer patients, physicians who focused on treating cancer were not usually high-level TIRF drug prescribers. So Insys executives and sales representatives targeted their efforts toward practitioners from pain management clinics and practitioners who would write prescriptions for TIRF medications for all types of pain, prosecutors allege.
In 2014, Burlakoff would allegedly tell employees that the market for breakthrough cancer pain was "small potatoes," and along with other company officials pushed sales reps encourage doctors to write prescriptions for Subsys "off label" to non-cancer patients, the indictment states.
Company executives also offered bonuses for selling stronger doses of the drug, and actively discouraged the sale of lower doses of the drug — despite the FDA's warning that patients starting the medication should start out at the lowest dose, 100 mcg, court records indicate. The company went as far as producing a video shown during its 2015 national sales meeting featuring sales reps rapping and singing with Burlakoff, who was wearing a costume of a 1600 mcg (the largest dosage of the drug available) bottle of Subsys, to encourage sales reps to push physicians to prescribe higher doses, the indictment states.
According to the indictment, the company and its executives tracked how many prescriptions of Subsys the practitioners in Insys's speakers program had written, the net revenue earned by the company from each speaker, the number of prescriptions written by speakers for competitors' products, and the ratio of return on investment for each speaker. Those with a ratio of return on investment of less than 2:1 usually faced negative consequences of some sort, the indictment states.
Practitioners who did not write the appropriate number of prescriptions for Subsys often had the number of scheduled speaker programs — and thus the amount they were paid by Insys — reduced by company officials, unless the practitioner wrote more prescriptions, prosecutors state.
"Between August 2012 and 2013, the use of speaker fees to bribe high decile targets to write prescriptions for the Fentanyl Spray outside the usual course of their professional practice became endemic within the Company sales force," the indictment reads.
The total amount budgeted by Insys for the speaker program in 2013 was $2.25 million and 2014's budget was more than $10 million, the indictment states. Unnamed practitioners in the indictment offered as examples of illegal acts would each receive tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes through the speakers program while prescribing thousands of doses of Subsys between 2012 and 2015.
The events were often attended by the same repeat attendees who were friends of the practitioner, the practitioner's support staff. Sometimes no attendees showed up at all and attendance logs were falsified, the indictment alleges.
However, most insurance companies required prior authorization before paying for a prescription of Subsys. Obtaining prior authorization is often time-consuming and costly for practitioners, and support staff are often required to navigate the process and paperwork.
According to federal prosecutors, Insys had a solution.
For doctors who prescribed large amounts of Subsys, Insys would hire "Area Business Liaisons" and "Business Relations Managers," who would act as the doctor's support staff by filling out and faxing prior authorization paperwork and other documentation, the indictment reads. Prosecutors consider this another form of kickback, and in some cases the practitioners' friends or family was hired by the company.
In January 2013, the company launched a new unit at its Arizona headquarters, initially named the Reimbursement Center, that was dedicated to obtaining prior authorizations directly from insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, the indictment alleges.
Practitioners who used the reimbursement center were required to fill out "opt-in" forms that sought confidential patient information. The forms and other patient medical records were then faxed from the practitioner's office by office staff, Insys sales reps, the area business liaisons or business relations managers to the reimbursement center, the indictment states. Insys employees at the center would then seek prior authorization from the insurance company for the prescription.
Prosecutors allege employees at the reimbursement center would attempt to conceal who they worked for from the insurance company. Those employees would also read from a script that was intended to conceal the fact that a patient did not have cancer, or make up other diagnoses to obtain prior authorization, prosecutors aid.
According to CMS data, White received the most money of any Oklahoma doctor from Insys between 2013 and 2016, followed by Movva, mostly in the form of speaker payments. A third Tulsa doctor, Daniel G. Morris was paid $13,062 by Insys in 2013, mostly for speaking engagements, but received little compensation from the company after that.
Overall, White, Morris and Movva were also the top three recipients of all payments to Oklahoma doctors from pharmaceutical companies marketing opioid medications from 2013 to 2016, the data shows.
The publicly available doctor payment data does not include payments made in 2012 (when the Insys speaker program started) or the first half of 2013.
Though the data is limited, during 2013 White is shown as the only doctor in the state filing claims to Medicare Part D for prescriptions of Subsys. In 2014, Jenkins began making claims through Medicare Part D for the drug, and though the data shows Jenkins was filing claims for more beneficiaries (15 to White's 11), total drug costs from White's claims were more expensive.
In 2015, the CMS data does not show the number of beneficiaries for White or Movva, indicating there may have been 10 or fewer. However, the data also shows that White filed claims 60 times for 30-day supplies of the drug and Movva filed 41, while Jenkins filed 14. The total drug cost for White's claims that year came to nearly $1.1 million, while Movva's came to around $158,736.
Jenkins did not respond to a Facebook message from The Frontier seeking comment.
Between June 2013 (when CMS began making doctor payment records public) and December 2016, Insys Therapeutics spent $174,000 on promoting Subsys to Oklahoma doctors, according to CMS data — more than any other pharmaceutical company promoting an opioid medication during that time.
The next closest company promoting an opioid, in terms of general doctor payments, was Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of OxyContin.
The amount paid by Insys was spread out over 734 different payments, consisting of speaker payments, consulting fees and meal payments. The $151,033 paid to doctors by Purdue was given in 4,329 separate payments, though it too made larger payments to some doctors for speaking fees.
Hanoch, the former Insys regional sales trainer and specialty sales professional in Tulsa, said his sales numbers were consistently high, going from $0 to about $3 million during the first two years, according to Hanoch's LinkedIn page.
However, Hanoch said the Insys speakers program in Tulsa was not like what was happening at speakers programs in other areas of the country that are now the subject of federal investigations and indictments. Nothing illegal occurred and, Hanoch said, he and other sales reps tried to maintain ethical integrity when selling the product.
Speaking events where no one was present or where only office staff were present were rare, and would only happen when those invited would cancel at the last minute or just not show up, he said.
Often, speaking events would have large crowds he said, especially at places like the Cancer Treatment Centers for America facility in Tulsa, Hanoch said.
"That's an ideal location to have a speaking event because, one: it's on label, two: the vast majority of patients there have private insurance which is obviously what any pharmaceutical company wants just because of reimbursement," Hanoch said.
Reception by physicians and mid-level practitioners to Subsys was somewhat mixed, however, Hanoch said.
There were four doctors who did Insys speaking events in Tulsa, Hanoch said. One — Morris — only lasted a short time, while White, Movva and a now-former doctor from the Houston area (who records show was paid around $63,000 between 2013 and 2015 by Insys) did most of the speaking events in the Tulsa area.
Neither White nor Movva wrote the volume of Subsys prescriptions or had the number of patients that got other prescribers in trouble with the law, Hanoch said.
Other doctors who were seeing patients with cancer would also refer their patients to White to treat their pain, Hanoch said.
Hanoch said a couple dozen doctors in his sales territory prescribed the drug while he was at the company.
Cancer centers were a target for sales by the company, Hanoch said.
When communication did come down in writing from Insys higher-ups, they were usually carefully worded, Hanoch said.
Eventually, many of the original sales representatives hired during the early days of Subsys left the company, Hanoch said.
Hanoch's wife Jennifer also worked for Insys, serving as a business relationship manager and specialty sales representative in Tulsa beginning between July 2014 and April 2015. She stayed on after Casey Hanoch left to help maintain the family's income, he said.
According to Jennifer Hanoch's Linkedin page, her duties while serving as a business relationship manager for the company in Tulsa included assisting "with all company-based programs to ensure patients quickly received medication" by advocating for patient care and ensured the proper submission of records and files for insurance claims for the drug. She increased the approval rate for the drug to 98 percent within the first quarter, she wrote.
Casey Hanoch said in almost all cases in which Subsys was prescribed — including those submitted by Tulsa doctors — the paperwork was sent to Insys's reimbursement center.
Hanoch said Kapoor's indictment will probably not be the last in the case, and the alleged wrongdoing has brought a cloud of suspicion on doctors who truly believed in the drug they were prescribing.
Hanoch said he eventually took a job with another pharmaceutical company in the Dallas area, but left shortly afterwards to start his own landscaping company.
Hanoch said he feels he did good during the time he spent working for Insys — the drug helped patients who needed it and he made real friendships with the doctors he worked with — but the corporate values being passed down from above were not his.
"I felt that I gave as much of myself as I could have. I thought it was a great opportunity in the pharmaceutical field, which is where I wanted to be," Hanoch said. "I did well, I brought a lot of value to the company and trained a lot of people. There is some resentment about how it all went down. I don't know.


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The High Line Opens and It Looks Phenomenal
After years of dreaming, designing, and campaigning, the first section of the High Line park-built on top of an old elevated rail structure-opened in New York yesterday. We've been following this project for a while (in 2006, GOOD cited the High Line as an example of "the next generation of American public spaces") and it's very nice to see it come to fruition.Inhabitat has a big set of pictures. Is that a chaise lounge on train tracks?UPDATE: Inhabitat has added a great video of the High Line that includes interviews with Scofidio and Corner.


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Lublin, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Rumia, Płońsk, Pałecznica, Raciechowice, Sztum, Sopot and Milanówek these 10 municipalities are the winners of the contest for the best and most innovative projects in the area of energy efficiency and RES use. Each of them will receive 50 000 PLN for the preparation of necessary analyses and documentation, as well as will be supported in establishing cooperation with Norwegian partners, who will help them in implementation of their projects.
The winners were announced during the 2nd meeting of Experience Exchange Group (EEG), which took place on the 13th of June in Poznań. Organisation of the contest supporting transfer of Norwegian know-how to Polish municipalities was one of the main objectives of our Polish-Norwegian project. In total 20 different project were submitted for the competition by 19 Polish local authorities. All of them successfully passed through the formal assessment and the 1st stage of the content assessment, which was performed by experts in the area of energy.
During the meeting in Poznań the 2nd stage of content assessment took place. This time project proposals were evaluated by the representatives of these municipalities, which participated in the competition (they were evaluating all proposals but their own). The highest scores were given to the projects proposed by Lublin, Bielsko-Biała and Bydgoszcz - both by the experts and the participants of the meeting.
10 most successful projects (see complete list below) were awarded with micro-grants amounting to 50 000 PLN each. The funds (500 000 PLN in total) come from the Bilateral Cooperation Fund, which is financed from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism (NMF) 2009-2014.
A quick reminder - our Polish-Norwegian project is implemented from January 2016 till April 2017. It is coordinated by the Association of Polish Cities, which is supported by two project partners - Association of Municipalities Polish Network "Energie Cités" and Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities. The Norwegian partner will help the prize-winners to find Norwegian municipalities who will help them in implementation of their pilot projects.
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