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Looking For Bold Recruiting Approaches? Best Practices For Recruiting STEM-Women and Diversity Candidates, Part 1 of 2
By Dr. John Sullivan December 29, 2014 July 21, 2015
Most valuable information that recruiting leaders seek out are known as best practices: leading-edge recruiting practices that have been implemented at less than 5 percent of major firms. Best-practice information is so valuable because although "brand new" ideas can be exciting, they are always by definition still unproven. When you are faced with limited resources, it makes business sense to focus on learning about and adapting the leading-edge practices that have already been successfully implemented.
Cynical executives are much more willing to fund and support a pilot recruiting initiative after hearing that a Fortune 100 firm that they admire has already thoroughly researched, vetted, and assessed its probability of success. Keeping up with leading-edge best practices is part of the professional development obligation of every recruiter. My research has also found that far too many leaders that are responsible for STEM women and diversity recruiting spend so much of their time complaining about how difficult their problems are that they simply don't find enough time to implement any "new-to-the-firm" best practice approaches.
The Focus Should Be On Bold, Practical, and Already Proven Recruiting Solutions
There is unfortunately no central source (other than my team) for continuously recording and sharing the best practices in recruiting. So to help fill that gap, one purpose of this article is to reveal a large number of the boldest "implemented best practices" relating to the recruiting of STEM and technical women. Most of the best practices covered in this article can fortunately be directly transferred and adapted, so that they can also be used to solve the recruiting problems associated with any hard-to-fill position.
The Top 20 Best Corporate Practices in STEM and Diversity Recruiting
The remainder of this article highlights best-practice examples that have been tried at well-known firms. The best practices are listed in bullet point format and they are separated into four categories that cover the most impactful areas of recruiting. The first category (here in part one; the next three will be in part two) covers attracting more STEM women applicants.
Bold Approaches To Attract Many More Women And Diversity Applicants —Obviously you can't hire more STEM women if you don't first successfully convince them to apply for your open positions. Many of the traditional corporate diversity sourcing approaches, including career fairs, diversity job boards, and recruiting through diversity organizations have frequently produced only mediocre results. And as a result of the growth of the Internet and social media, there are now many emerging ways to reach and convince women to apply. Some of the best practices in attracting more and better women applicants to technical and engineering jobs include:
Revising job postings to make them more "woman friendly" — experimentation by Cisco well over a decade ago demonstrated that turning job postings into marketing pieces had a dramatic impact on applications. Google recently built on that concept by implementing a pilot project covering one engineering role that had zero female or male applicants over a one-year period. Women in the current role said that the existing description was scaring away many prospects because it made the job appear unappealing (even though it actually wasn't). Using a marketing research approach, it asked nearly 100 female Google employees working in that role to rewrite the description so that the job appeared more attractive to women. And as a result, the job posting description was dramatically improved. I estimate that using the new "fixed description" will significantly increase both the number of internal applications received from around the world and the percentage of applications from women who currently held technical jobs.
Invite qualified prospects on site to interact with your whole team — recruiting leaders at IBM realized that simply talking to recruiters wasn't convincing enough to attract the very best experienced women and minority candidates. As a result they experimented with a face-to-face approach called "Project View Plus," which included an expense paid two-day on-site visit. The program required managers to interact with the referred experienced prospects, and if both parties were convinced, offers were made before they left. The program attracted more than 2,000 minority candidates and formal offers were made to between 40 percent and 50 percent of the attendees. The current "Project View" program is 1 1/2 days and it focuses on college prospects.
Switching to "same-level calls" when making initial phone assessments — research at Whirlpool demonstrated that who makes an initial recruiting call has a significant impact on whether it is answered and successful. The job level, the gender of the caller, and the time of the call all have a significant impact on its success. Where calls by someone at an equal or higher job level (same level calls) can get a 100 percent response rate, standard recruiter calls normally only get a 10 percent response rate. Google recently built on that concept by instituting a pilot program that requires that the initial phone screen for all leadership roles will be made by a director or a manager at the same level as the candidate. This differs dramatically from Google's standard process, which has recruiters making all of the initial assessment calls. Having someone at the same level make the call will not only increase the response rate but having higher-level people on the line also results in a much more accurate assessment of the prospect's technical skills and cultural fit (i.e. a more accurate assessment then could be made by a standard recruiter). In addition, because the leader making the call knows the job so well (compared to the recruiter), they are also much better equipped to effectively sell the candidate. The leader making the call also has more of an incentive to accurately assess and then sell top candidates because the new hire would work directly under them on the same campus (with Google's standard unaffiliated recruiters and neutral hiring team approach, most of the candidates who a manager would interview would not end up working under them). I believe that if Google goes the next step, where women candidates are called by "same-level women," the number of women being hired will measurably increase.
Blind interviews and blind resume assessment can reduce hiring bias — some of the biases against hiring women may be subconscious. One approach to fight bias during interviews and tryouts is "a blind interview approach" which was initiated by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Academic research has demonstrated that using a screen to hide the candidate increases by several-fold the likelihood a female contestant will be the winner in the final round of a symphony tryout. Similar anti-bias benefits for women can be achieved at corporations by using the same interview screens that hide the candidate, or when that is not practical, through the use of questionnaire interviews or telephone interviews. Also, removing the candidate's name from resumes and applications can reduce hiring bias by as much as 50 percent (Pacific Telesis in the 1980s used an application form that replaced the name of the applicant with an identifying number).
Re-recruit or boomerang diverse former employees — firms like DaVita and Deloitte have learned that re-recruiting former top-performing employees is an easy but effective way to generate top-quality hires. That same boomerang concept can be used in a targeted fashion to re-recruit your former STEM-women employees who may desire to return to your firm. Boomerang rehires are high-quality hires because you only recruit former employees who were top performers and now they are even better because they have the benefit of added external experience. By telling the best when they leave that they will be welcomed back and by maintaining an online alumni group, you can ensure that up to 16 percent of your hires will be boomerangs. Focusing a segment of your employee referral program on making STEM women and diverse candidates boomerangs can also produce dramatic results.
Re-visit STEM women who were "silver medalists" — firms like General Motors, GE, and Intuit have learned that individuals who came in a close second place should be reconsidered for other positions, especially if the job competition included an extremely talented top candidate who came in No. 1. These almost-hired individuals are called "silver medalists" because they came in second in an extremely competitive competition for a job. Putting a focus on eventually placing highly qualified STEM women who came in second or who dropped out before an offer could be made has proven to be a highly effective recruiting approach. Keep in touch with your silver medalists using a CRM approach and periodically push relevant job openings to them for up to one year after their initial application. Also identify STEM women and diverse candidates who met every qualification and fit the organization but simply needed a little more experience and contact them later a year or two later after they would've acquired the needed additional experience.
Don't let narrow job descriptions scare away unsure recent STEM women grads — with so many emerging technologies, a significant percentage of technical college grads aren't sure about what job they really want. And by providing standard narrowly defined job descriptions (that they view as restrictive) also proves to be of further barrier that scares away both women and men. Cisco has initiated a program that is known as "Cisco Choice," which is designed to give new technology grads more time to make their final job choice. It is called Cisco Choice because at the end of the program's extended onboarding process, amazingly the new hire gets to choose their engineering department, manager, and job (Facebook offers a similar choice opportunity at the end of its on-boarding). In order to expose them to more opportunities before they have to make a decision, these new hires go through three weeks of onboarding where they are exposed to senior executives and each of the different parts of the business and its different technologies. Because new hires have a choice, managers are naturally pressured to make their jobs more exciting. The program has had 500 participants per year. And they have seen a 10 percent increase in the representation of technical female college recruits and an improved retention rate of female university technical hires by 30 percent over Engineering's overall average. In order to minimize bias, program interviewers go through rigorous training on how to screen and interview diverse candidates.
Use data to demonstrate to potential applicants that women are treated fairly at your firm — potential women applicants search the Internet and social media (i.e. Glassdoor and Vault) for indications that a firm treats women fairly. One way that a firm can proactively make the fact that it treats women fairly is to survey a sample of their own women employees and to directly ask them how they are treated and if they face a lower level of the common barriers that frustrate women employees. On their corporate careers or diversity website, the firm can use that survey data to show that its women employees feel that they are better treated compared to other firms that they have worked at. Survey results could show that women at the firm have a higher success probability, that they are treated fairly, that they feel that they have equal promotion/career opportunities, that they enjoy job flexibility, and that feel that they work in an inclusive environment where they "fit." This kind of data can be particular powerful to STEM women who prefer hard data on the work environment as a supplement to the opinions that they read on the Internet. Named or anonymous employee quotes can also be included to further sway potential women applicants. This survey data may also help improve the retention of STEM women if the results show that they work in a "woman-friendly" environment.
Institute a "friends program" where employees talk candidly to applicants — well over a decade ago Cisco demonstrated that by offering the opportunity to talk to an actual employee (a new friend) you could in some cases excite applicants. An updated "friends program" would include providing highly qualified STEM women interviewees an opportunity to talk briefly with another woman in a technical position at the firm. Female employees would be asked to volunteer for the assignment and the number of calls to any individual would be limited. The selected employees (as well as recruiters and managers) could be provided with a "sell sheet" which would include data and powerful stories that were chosen specifically to excite the targeted applicants.
Increasing work flexibility in order to attract and retain more women — many firms have learned that offering increased work flexibility, career scalability, and providing choices is a powerful attraction feature for women. Deloitte offers a "Mass Career Customization Program" which provides employees an opportunity to "dial down" or "dial up" their work responsibilities, work hours, and travel depending on their current individual priorities. Allowing employees to tailor his or her own career path means that people can stay in their jobs when their life situation changes dramatically. Incidentally, the firm reports that number of women and men that have chosen to dial up and down is even. They also report that employee satisfaction with "overall career/life fit" has increased 25 percent, and as a result, turnover rates among top performers in areas with the program are half of those of areas without the program. Intel also allows employees to personalize their work situation by giving them remote work, part-time options, compressed workweeks, and tutoring for their kids. Over six years, the company reports an increase of its representation of technical women at the mid- and senior levels by 24 percent.
In this part one of the article I have focused on numerous bold but proven best practices that recruiting leaders can adapt to their own firm. In next week's part two of the article to be published on January 5, 2015, I will cover how employee referrals, how requiring diversity on candidate slates, and how increasing accountability can all improve STEM women and diversity recruiting results.
Note: Special thanks to my teaching assistant, Kimberly Do (kimbndo@gmail.com), and others whose benchmarking research and calls contributed significantly to the content and the data in this article.
Dr. John Sullivan
Dr. John Sullivan, professor, author, corporate speaker, and advisor, is an internationally known HR thought-leader from the Silicon Valley who specializes in providing bold and high-business-impact talent management solutions.
He's a prolific author with over 900 articles and 10 books covering all areas of talent management. He has written over a dozen white papers, conducted over 50 webinars, dozens of workshops, and he has been featured in over 35 videos. He is an engaging corporate speaker who has excited audiences at over 300 corporations/ organizations in 30 countries on all six continents. His ideas have appeared in every major business source including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, CFO, Inc., NY Times, SmartMoney, USA Today, HBR, and the Financial Times. In addition, he writes for the WSJ Experts column. He has been interviewed on CNN and the CBS and ABC nightly news, NPR, as well many local TV and radio outlets. Fast Company called him the "Michael Jordan of Hiring," Staffing.org called him "the father of HR metrics," and SHRM called him "One of the industry's most respected strategists." He was selected among HR's "Top 10 Leading Thinkers" and he was ranked No. 8 among the top 25 online influencers in talent management. He served as the Chief Talent Officer of Agilent Technologies, the HP spinoff with 43,000 employees, and he was the CEO of the Business Development Center, a minority business consulting firm in Bakersfield, California. He is currently a Professor of Management at San Francisco State (1982 – present). His articles can be found all over the Internet and on his popular website www.drjohnsullivan.com and on staging.ere.net. He lives in Pacifica, California.
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4 Comments on "Looking For Bold Recruiting Approaches? Best Practices For Recruiting STEM-Women and Diversity Candidates, Part 1 of 2"
Sam Parker says:
Excellent article, I especially agree with the importance of showing women that they will be treated fairly and welcomed into the company culture.
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If any reader would like to share a corporate best practice in STEM related recruiting, please post it here in the comments section or send it directly to Kim Do at kimbndo@gmail.com
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Tip: if you have more than 60 cards in your deck, your.
What was a routine opening of an original Magic:The Gathering deck turned into an accidental discovery of one of the Holy Grails of Magic cards. Amanda Kooser Oct. 14, 2014 10:13 a.m. PT.
Yes of course. You may build a deck with as many colors as you want. It becomes increasingly difficult to win with such a deck. You will likely find that it is difficult to have the land you need.
List of Magic: The Gathering sets - Wikipedia.
The problem is that since most Magic decks can only contain two colors at a time (and sometimes a small amount of a third) and still function properly, the majority of the cards in booster packs are irrelevant to a single deck. For more involved players -- ones that want to build and play with multiple decks per set and can utilize most of these cards -- this is fine.Constructed Format - In the Constructed format you build your deck from your card pool of cards you own, or in the case of Magic 2014 Duels of the Planeswalkers, from the base deck of cards and the cards you have unlocked for possible addition to your deck. This format has a minimum requirement of 60 cards per deck.If you already have a copy of the card, you can just click it in your collection without first clicking the Wildcard button. If you don't have a copy of the card, change the filters to include Not Collected cards, search for the card, then click it. While editing a deck, if you attempt to add more copies of a card than you own to a deck, you'll.
In Commander, each player chooses a legendary creature as the commander of their deck. They then play with a 99-card deck that contains only cards of their commander's colors. Also, other than basic lands, each deck can only use one copy of any card.Certain artifact cards allow you to tap for powerful effects, such as forcing the other player to discard cards from his or her draw pile. Take it a step further by mixing some blue cards into your artifact deck; because blue cards largely try to prevent combat and other undesired events from occurring, such a deck easily gives you a major advantage to control and shape the battlefield as you.
Searchable card list for Magic: The Gathering Arena with full text search and powerful filters. Import your collection from MTGA and build decks on the go with our mobile-friendly deck builder.
This 60-card Magic: the Gathering deck is ready to play and tonnes of fun! FAQ What format are Battle Decks. Battle Decks are their own format! Battle Decks are 60 card decks that use cards from any set, and are designed to be played for fun with your friends. We build each Battle Deck around a theme, so that each deck is a unique and fun experience. For example, Crews Control combines the.
There's no limit to how many planeswalkers can be in your deck except for the regular deck construction restrictions (only 4 of a single card, unless you're playing Commander in which case it's only 1). However, on the battlefield, you can only control one planeswalker of each planeswalker type. For example, you can have Chandra Ablaze and Jace Beleren on the field at the same time, but if you.
Tip: if you have more than 60 cards in your deck, your deck is significantly less consistent.
This duel deck features two 60 card ready-to-play decks (of which there are a total of 12 rares), along with 5 token cards for each deck that represent creatures which are to be put onto the battlefield when generated by other cards in the deck; two 20-sided dice or spin-down counters to track each player's life total, and two very flimsy deck boxes which look nice, as they are color-coded for.
Unlike in Draft, in Sealed you don't have to choose cards one at a time. Instead, you get six packs with 15 cards each. You then take all 90 of those cards and make a 40-card deck with them. All of the cards opened are added to your collection. It's worth noting that standard MTG: Arena packs only have eight cards each, so you're getting.
Let's go over the basics first. You want to build a deck with at least 60 cards. You can't have more than four of any given card, except for basic lands. If you're playing in a Sealed Deck or Booster Draft event, you'll make a deck with at least 4.
If you plan to use your deck in casual play with friends, you can print out your own "Magic the Gathering" cards using artwork and text from actual cards. Alternatively, you may create your own unique cards based on your friends, your favorite video games or television shows. While these cards cannot be used in tournament play, you can still create your own custom deck of cards.
The other deck is selected at random from the remaining 4 colors of Magic. Each deck includes 1 special rare that cannot be found in other Magic products! New players can build their first 60-card decks around these special rares since they are legal for tournament play.
In 2018, Magic: The Gathering Arena's Beta reared its head and I was instantly hooked again by the greatest card game ever created. In all that time between high school and then, I also happened to become a programmer.
Every card belongs to one of seven "Houses," which will have their own themes and playstyles, similar to how colors work in Magic. Every deck will have a random set of cards from three.
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How many cards should you have in a magic the gathering deck? You should allways try to have the minimum amount of cards in your deck. The minimum for most formats is 60 cards.
Magic: The Gathering Commander was released on June 17, 2011. It consisted of five preconstructed decks, each containing three foil oversized legendary creature cards. This set is notable in that it was the first set printed outside of the normal booster pack expansions to have functionally new cards.

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As the new year begins this Scripture reminds us to continually call to mind the truth of who God is for us. Often our thoughts can take us into places of despair or discouragement. Remember, God's mercies are new every morning. Each day is a new beginning.
How is my heart being spoken to in this moment?
If there is nothing that comes, stay with the sense of being present to God, held close to his heart.


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Buyers versus ICs: Who will win?
The object of the tug of war game is to pull the opposing team over to your side. An ancient game — still played today — it keeps children engaged.
We are now beginning to see quite a different tug of war play out in our ecosystem as some enterprise buyers set requirements and preferences for engaging talent while the talent itself pulls in a different direction. Needless to say, enterprise buyers stand to lose much more than a child's game if they don't let talent have their way.
Who's an IC?
Who is choosing to become an IC? It cuts across generations. Baby boomers continue to work beyond retirement age, leveraging their vast experience but working on their own terms. Younger generations are also keen on working as ICs. Millennials and Gen Z talent are embracing a more entrepreneurial mindset. These individuals also view work and opportunity differently than older generations do; they love flexibility, new challenges and the opportunity to learn on a regular basis. It's from these younger generations may also have more than one job at a time, which is a huge change from previous generations. The days of workers staying in a role or with a company for decades is a thing of the past.
SIA's Lexicon defines independent contractor as: A self-employed individual performing services for a company under a contract for services. The individual may provide their services as a freelance self-employed person (1099 in the US) or through the intermediary of a single-person corporate entity (in the UK, a limited company known as a "personal service company" or "PSC"; in the US, an LLC, corporation, or S corporation).
On one end of the rope you have an increasing number of workers who want to be independent contractors. According to MBO Partners' 2020 State of Independence report, there are more than 38 million professionals in the US who are earning money in some way as independent contractors, 70% of whom are making the concerted effort to become ICs as their sole source of income. And many of them are turning to cloud and on-demand platforms to connect with work.
For example, Toptal, a platform that vets highly skilled white-collar independent contractor workers, has seen applicants on its platform increase to 750,000 in 2020 from 10,000 in 2013.
On the other end of the rope are enterprise companies that are often opposed to the use of ICs and/or talent platforms due to compliance concerns. "Sourcing of solutions within today's enterprise buyers is a result of compliance-driven metrics versus looking for the best solution to deliver talent," says Chris Paden, SIA's director of contingent workforce strategies and research.
Many enterprise buyers prohibit the use of ICs; they are deemed to be riskier as these individuals are typically responsible for paying their own taxes and obtaining their own insurance. In the truest sense, a compliant IC has an opportunity for profit and loss, has a legal entity and is not reliant on a single source of income. Some estimates put unpaid taxes from ICs in the multi-billions of dollars. As a result, many local and state governments working to collect unpaid taxes will look into the classification of such workers. When these government departments come calling to collect unpaid taxes, they typically will focus on which entity as the deepest pockets — which is usually the buyer organization. The prospects of audit hassles, paperwork trails, dealing with state and federal agencies and paying out large sums of money make buyers nervous. Thus, these buyers struggle to engage these highly qualified and unique talents with a high level of confidence.
So what does this all mean? Large enterprise buyers may find themselves missing out on the most skilled and dynamic workforce because of outdated views on ICs and their own internal policies and procedures that constrict the utilization of this talent. The tug of war is just beginning. And more than likely, the talent will win and pull buyers over to their side, forcing them to engage the best and the brightest.
Change is happening quickly; those organizations who figure out how to change their company's policies and procedures to support these highly skilled workers will no doubt begin to create a competitive advantage.
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Frank Enriquez, CCWP, is senior manager of contingent workforce strategies and research, the Americas. He can be reached at fenriquez (at) staffingindustry (dot) com.


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Window into virus surge: Death, recovery at Houston hospital
6 months 1 week 5 days ago Tuesday, July 07 2020 Jul 7, 2020 July 07, 2020 9:55 PM July 07, 2020 in News
By NOMAAN MERCHANT
HOUSTON (AP) — A few weeks after more than 100 people attended her husband's funeral, the widow herself was on the brink of death.
Her oxygen levels had fallen deadly low due to complications from COVID-19, and her heart stopped. Ten people, each in two layers of protective equipment, surrounded her hospital bed. Two climbed on opposite sides of the bed — one pressing on her chest, the other on her abdomen.
At the foot of the bed, Dr. Joseph Varon called out a rhythm: one-two, one-two, one-two.
"Keep on pumping!" he yelled.
But they couldn't save her.
At least 10 people who were at the funeral later developed coronavirus symptoms, according to her daughter, who fell sick herself. Most people weren't wearing masks. Her daughter says her mother told her she wished they had been more careful.
"We didn't take precautions like we should have," the daughter said. "We just got totally caught up in the moment."
Now, the 66-year-old Latina woman's death is a grim warning for Texas, which has seen a surge in the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus since it began aggressively loosening restrictions in May. Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in the state have more than doubled in the last two weeks, and Texas is reporting, on average, more than four times as many cases each day as it was a month ago. It surpassed 10,000 new confirmed cases in a single day Tuesday.
Nearly 80% of the state's hospital beds are in use, and intensive care units are filling up in some of the nation's biggest cities, including San Antonio and Houston, where leaders are warning their health facilities could become overwhelmed in the coming days. In all, Texas has recorded more than 2,670 deaths and more than 200,000 confirmed cases of the virus.
While rising case numbers partly reflect more testing, Texas has a positive test rate of 13.5%, more than double the rate from a month ago.
"We're going to get into situations like Italy did, like Spain did, like New York did just a couple of months ago," said Varon, board chair at United Memorial Medical Center, a small north Houston hospital.
United Memorial has been rapidly dedicating more and more space to virus care. Now, 88 of 117 beds are devoted to such patients — and Varon says the hospital may soon turn over the entire facility to treating those with the virus. Outside, long lines of cars wait hours for tests.
The hospital has taped off three separate wings with a sequence of large tarps and gates. Assisting Varon is a team of nurses and volunteer medical students. Anyone seeing a patient with COVID-19 is required to wear two sets of masks, gowns, gloves, shoe and head coverings, and a face shield.
Varon has worked more than 100 days with barely a rest and normally sleeps just a few hours a night. When he isn't seeing patients or trying to obtain more hospital supplies, he does media interviews to encourage people to wear masks and take the virus seriously.
"People need to see this so they can understand and won't do stupid things," he said, standing in the widow's hospital room. "Every day, we have stuff like this. Every single day."
The Associated Press, which spent Monday inside the hospital, is not identifying the widow because it was unable to speak to her before her death and is withholding her daughter's name to protect the mother's identity.
The widow entered the hospital in late June — about a week after the funeral for her husband, who died from liver cancer.
Around 10 a.m. Monday, the widow's oxygen levels fell dangerously. Varon decided that she needed to be placed on a ventilator. Like many doctors, he has tried to use alternatives to ventilators because of the relatively low survival rate of people on the machines.
When the ventilator failed to restore her oxygen levels, medical staff ran to bring a second one just in case there was a problem with the first. Varon also ordered shocks to her chest and injections of epinephrine, a hormone that stimulates the heart.
"Every effort that you can imagine, everything that has been written, we did, and yet we were unsuccessful," he said later. "The problem is with COVID, that's what we're seeing."
For most people, the virus causes mild or moderate symptoms. But it can cause severe symptoms in and be fatal for others, especially older adults and people with existing health problems.
Next door to the widow was LaTanya Robinson, who was breathing with a machine providing high-flow oxygen through her nose and could see hospital staff running into the widow's room as they tried to save her. Monday was the first day Robinson felt well enough to have a conversation about her illness.
The 51-year-old says she cared for her adult son when he got the virus. Both she and her husband eventually caught it. While her son and husband's symptoms were relatively mild, she went from feeling tired and struggling to move to hardly being able to breathe.
Robinson says she was held in an urgent-care center for two days before being moved to United Memorial because the first available hospital beds were in Corpus Christi and Lufkin, cities at least a two-hour drive away.
Texas leaders say there are still 12,000 available hospital beds statewide — about 23% of total beds. But Robinson's case shows that even if the sprawling state still has spare capacity, that may not accommodate people in cities where the virus is surging.
Robinson's son had recently spent time outside the house and his girlfriend had gone out with friends. She thinks one of them may have originally gotten the virus and infected her, but isn't certain.
Asked what she would tell people outside the hospital about the virus, she said: "The only thing I can do is to live to be that example for them. You don't take anything for granted."
United Memorial, already near capacity, could soon be filled, Varon says, as he braces to see what 4th of July celebrations might bring. Some people gathered for the holiday even as Abbott instituted new restrictions on outdoor get-togethers and required mask-wearing indoors.
After Varon's team did three rounds of compressions on the widow, he stopped them. "Thank you, everybody," he said. The 10 people around the bed filed out of the room, one of them sighing. The machines around her continued to beep.
A few people worked to prepare her body for the undertaker and placed a sheet over her.
Varon called the widow's daughter, expressing condolences first in Spanish, then English. He repeated that he had done everything he could and to call if there was anything she needed.
When he hung up the phone, his bluish gray eyes were filled with tears.
"That's the one thing you don't want to do when you're a doctor," he said. "But you've got to do it. Somebody has to do it."
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Q: Meteor babel config In babel config file "babel.json", I want to exclude/ignore specific files
I found this solution but this ignore all other js files.
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A: Try:
{
   "extensions": ["es6.js", "es6"]
}

Otherwise you might want to try find another package to handle what you're working with because the grigio/meteor-babel package is depreciated.
If you want to ignore a specific JS File you could just comment out the the whole file as a quick fix.

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The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index hit 98.3 for this month. Economists polled by Refinitiv expected the preliminary read to come in at 98, slightly below an October print of 98.6.
The virtually unchanged print keeps the index on pace for its strongest year since 2000, Surveys of Consumers Chief Economist Richard Curtin says.
A preliminary reading on consumer sentiment for November released on Friday came in slightly above expectations.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index hit 98.3. Economists polled by Refinitiv expected the preliminary read to come in at 98, slightly below an October print of 98.6.
"Consumer sentiment remained virtually unchanged in early November from its October reading," Richard Curtin, chief economist for the Surveys of Consumers, said in a statement. "The stability of consumer sentiment at high levels acts to mask some important underlying shifts. Income expectations have improved and consumers anticipate continued robust growth in employment, but consumers also anticipate rising inflation and higher interest rates."
The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged at its meeting this week, but kept the door open for a rate hike in December. The central bank has already raised rates three times this year.
Curtin added, however, that the virtually unchanged print kept the index on pace for its best year since 2000.
The latest look at consumer sentiment comes shortly after the U.S. midterm elections. Democrats took control of the House, while Republicans maintained a majority in the Senate. This result was largely expected by experts.
Curtin noted that interviews leading up to Friday's release went through Wednesday night, "there was only a one-day overlap after the mid-term election results were known by consumers."


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Q: Funciona no NetBeans mas não no Android Studio O seguinte código funciona para quando o user deixa em branco um editText do formulário. O código funcionou no NetBeans mas no AndroidStudio quando roda o APK com um campo em branco ele aparece a mensagem que o APP parou de funcionar.
Segue o código:
//No NetBeans
BigDecimal cota = null;
BigDecimal prazo = null;
BigDecimal reserva = null;
BigDecimal adm = null;

try {
    cota = new BigDecimal(jTextField1.getText());
    prazo = new BigDecimal(jTextField2.getText());
    reserva = new BigDecimal(jTextField3.getText());
    adm = new BigDecimal(jTextField4.getText());

} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
    jLabel5.setText("Os valores não podem estar vazios!");
}

//No Android
BigDecimal cota = null;
            BigDecimal prazo = null;
            BigDecimal reserva = null;
            BigDecimal adm = null;
            BigDecimal vida = null;

try{
                cota = new BigDecimal(edtCota.getText().toString());
                prazo = new BigDecimal(edtPrazo.getText().toString());
                reserva = new BigDecimal(edtReserva.getText().toString());
                adm = new BigDecimal(edtAdm.getText().toString());
                vida = new BigDecimal(edtVida.getText().toString());

            }catch(NumberFormatException erro){

                AlertDialog.Builder janelaVazio = new AlertDialog.Builder(Consorcio.this);
                janelaVazio.setMessage("Preencha todos os campos");
                janelaVazio.setNeutralButton("FECHAR", null);
                janelaVazio.show();
            }


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Sin Eats the Faith
Saint Gemma Galgani and her Guardian Angel.
In this week's prophecy, Saint John the Apostle teaches us about the active role of our Guardian Angels in guiding us to a holy life.
Saint John stands. He takes the Golden Book out from his clothing. He says:
"Brothers and sisters of the earth, the doctrine of the Lord is trampled under foot. The Faith, confidence and love for God are swallowed as into a dark tomb. Take courage. After the shake up permitted by God, the Faith will become flourishing; the Faith will be heard more than ever before… previously, it was necessary that, to purify men, Divine Justice pass over the earth."
--Saint John, where will the Faith be during this terrible shake up?
"Each heart will keep his plot hidden. This plot will regenerate with the Grace which will fall upon the earth after Justice will have passed over it."
--But while the rain flows from all eyes, who will revive our Faith?
"Your Guardian Angels will sustain you."
--And those who do not have one, Saint John?
"Each one has his Guardian Angel. He is always there, sometimes far away, and he cries. Their tears will serve to reanimate the faith of those with whom Faith is extinct."
--The hearts which no longer have any rest from Faith, what will become of them?
"They will be counted by the demon."
--How many hearts lose the Faith?
"Dear brothers and sisters, sin eats faith, it feeds on it and destroys it."
--Saint John, surely, I do not understand your words so wise.
"I come to preach in the name of the Lord. Here is the Justice of Heaven threatening you."
--I don't like this conversation on Justice.
"It is for you to tell the truth about which the Lord has sent me. Brothers and sisters, the earth trembles under your feet. It trembles only under the steps of sinners and the impious; but it is firm and solid under the feet of the Just.
"The earth, in this moment, is again well populated, but the flowers in it are almost all disappeared. Nature is stripped while awaiting an event of pain. The Lord will come, with His Justice, at the hour when the earth will again be stripped, but now the buds will begin to show themselves and the earth to re-green itself. The days will be longer, and the sun higher in the sky.
"I speak in the name of the Lord. Know that the Lord has blessed, upon the earth, a little corner intended for His children. Await the hour of Justice and of Mercy. In this small protected corner, Justice will not penetrate with rigor." (1st January 1878)
[Source: p. 191-192, Le ciel en colloque avec Marie-Julie Jahenny, by Fr. Pierre Roberdel].
This prophecy points directly to our times, and Saint John, the prophet of the Apocalypse, is sent by God to direct us.
The masonic takeover has ensured that "the doctrine of the Lord is trampled under foot." We have been told through the prophets that the pushing aside of the Papacy into Exile, "the shake up", is, in fact, "permitted by God". The reception of the Holy Sacraments has, for the most part, ceased, and all that is holy, all that will lead us to Heaven, the "Faith, confidence and love for God are swallowed as into a dark tomb."
We are living in the times of the Apocalypse, yes. But we must "[t]ake courage." This is how Saint John begins this message from our Lord.
When Marie-Julie asks Saint John, "[W]here will the Faith be during this terrible shake up?" we know that she has seen exactly what we endure: the diabolical effects which, without sacramental supports, sweep away the Faith from family, neighbours, colleagues, youth, and even young children.
During this shake up, the Faith becomes replaced, again and again, with the diabolical mindset that will not think of God, of His Truth, of His existence, of His love for us.
That rejection of God is in advertising, entertainment, literature and all writings, education, medicine, justice systems and laws, fashion designs, music, the Arts, all forms of government, language, "manners" and the (im)moral code of today.
God is constantly pushed out of a person's mind. People no longer take the time to look up at the sky or to observe their world, they look down at their 'smart' phones.
With the Papacy exiled, where is the Faith to be found?
Saint John tells Marie-Julie that our Faith lies hidden in our hearts, like a lovely field: "Each heart will keep his plot hidden."
In other words, we will protect our Faith by our daily prayers and our daily battles to live holy lives.
Then this great Apostle and Saint, whose task it was to see these times and write them in the Book of the Apocalypse, tells us that this Faith "will regenerate with the Grace which will fall upon the earth after Justice will have passed over it."
For all of us who are of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith, then, a time of Grace will come after the Papacy's Silent Exile which will strengthen us, which will "regenerate" our Faith within us.
Surely, this will be the time for conversions. Our words, which have fallen on deaf ears up to now, will spur the survivors of God's Divine Chastisements to believe in God's love for them. They will want to learn of Christ, and they will receive the gift of Faith!
But in the meantime, all souls living through this time must suffer. A very strong visual image is presented to us, very poignant and sad, of "rain flow[ing] from all eyes". This is an Apocalyptic image of the universal suffering of all souls, so much so, that the tears flow as steadily as "rain".
It is Marie-Julie who uses this image when, to help us to know more, she asks the hard question: "[W]hile the rain flows from all eyes, who will revive our Faith?" In other words, during these diabolically ruinous times, how will people get the gift of Faith?
Saint John's answer is mystical, beautiful: "Your Guardian Angels will sustain you."
Our Guardian Angels, who know us since our conception, will actively teach, guide, and nurture us during these most difficult times, if we let them!
Saint John expounds on the role of the Guardian Angels with souls who fall into mortal sin:
"Each one has his Guardian Angel. He is always there, sometimes far away, and he cries. Their tears will serve to re-animate the faith of those with whom Faith is extinct."
So somehow, we sense when we make our Angel cry, when we disappoint our Angel, when we have pushed our Angel far away from us by our poor choices, our attachments to sin.
The soul who hardens his heart against his Angel's tears is not just caught in a life of sin, but is also constantly and actively rejecting the Truth by ignoring his Angel's tears.
Our sins hurt our Guardian Angel and they crucify Christ.
But we go on, pretending that nothing is wrong, that we are fine! That we are good. We reject the Truth.
This is how "sin eats faith".
So Marie-Julie asks, "The hearts which no longer have any rest from Faith, what will become of them?"
She knows that only God and having the True Faith, the Catholic Faith, can give us true rest from all the sufferings and cares of this life on earth, this 'Valley of Tears'.
But without the Catholic Faith, there is no rest at all. And so, Saint John says, "They will be counted by the demon."
Yes, the devil will torment them, treating them as his own property.
But God's Divine Justice will come to punish sinners, in order to bring them back to Him. This coming Chastisement will be physical, and it will end with the 3 Days of Darkness.
The anticipation of God's Just Punishment makes sinners fearful, while the faithful patiently count on a Divine Intervention to end the reign of evil: "It [the earth] trembles only under the steps of sinners and the impious; but it is firm and solid under the feet of the Just."
Saint John then instructs us about what to expect at the time of this last Divine Chastisement:
"The Lord will come, with His Justice, at the hour when the earth will again be stripped," that is, mankind will be at its climax of sinful lives of destruction, both of themselves and of the world itself.
After the Divine Chastisement, "the buds [souls with the True Faith] will begin to show themselves and the earth to re-green itself." The Faith will be taught and, slowly, souls will convert around the world.
"The days will be longer, and the sun higher in the sky." After the 3 Days of Darkness, the people who have survived – one third of the planet -- will live their lives for love of God, glorifying Him; mankind will be blessed, and the earth will be more plentiful.
And again, our Lord assures us of our special place of refuge: Brittany:
Saint John says: "I speak in the name of the Lord. Know that the Lord has blessed, upon the earth, a little corner intended for His children. Await the hour of Justice and of Mercy. In this small protected corner, Justice will not penetrate with rigor."
Deo gratias! May our Lord help us all to meet in Brittany before the 3 Days of Darkness. May our Guardian Angels help us to hear His call and teach us to have the Love of God that will impel us to obey Him!
May the Divine Assistance remain always with us, and may the Holy Souls in Purgatory, through the Mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
LINKS: The Warnings 3 Days of Darkness Map Getting to Brittany


Bruce Burris is best known in Lexington for helping other people create art — and for pushing the boundaries of what art is and who artists are.
He directs (with Crystal Bader) the Latitude Artist Community on Saunier Street, which for nearly a decade has helped people with disabilities express themselves through visual art. Latitude artists' work has been displayed at galleries in New York and Paris, France.
Burris started ELandF Gallery, a "small-projects accelerator" for art in public spaces. It has sent poets to read in nursing homes and on LexTran buses. And it has paid small honoraria to people who wrote winning essays about why they wanted to watch clouds or read a book while sitting in a streetside parking space.
At the height of the controversy over Dudley Webb's now-stalled CentrePointe development, Burris paid performance artists to publicly "mourn" the demolition of the block's old buildings and to walk Main Street as "town criers," giving dramatic readings of a defensive speech that Webb made to the Urban County Council.


McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award made for GT and Emory Collaboration.
Muneeb Zia is the first author on a paper that has been named as one of the five most popular papers from the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology 2017.
Microfluidic cooled FPGA featured in IEEE Spectrum.
Microfluidic cooled FPGA featured in Georgia Tech news.
M. Bakir was appointed as IEEE CPMT distinguished lecturer.
James Yang and Chaoqi Zhang received the 2014 Best TCPMT journal paper award for Advanced Packaging.
Welcome to I3DS group! The multidisciplinary Integrated 3D Systems (I3DS) Research Group at Georgia Tech explores the design, fabrication, and characterization of 3D electronic systems and advanced interconnect networks. Our mission is to explore the limits and opportunities for heterogeneous 3D electronic system integration enabled through novel interconnect structures. Specifically, we focus on the (co)design, fabrication, and characterization of chip-level electrical, optical, and thermal interconnect networks to solve the power delivery, off-chip signaling, and cooling needs of future many-core and memory 3D integrated systems. We also explore the 3D integration of sensor and MEMS devices with CMOS signal processing circuitry.


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Q: Initialize matrix with conditions without a loop I want to create a matrix M with indices i,j so that M(i,j)=i/j. I could do this using two loops but is there any way to do this without using for loops?

A: Create two vectors of indices. Make one vertical, one horizontal. Then use bsxfun() to divide elementwise.
i = (1:9)'; % '
j = 1:5;

M = bsxfun(@rdivide,i,j);

A: You can use vector multiplication, like this:
row=1:10;
col=1:10;
M=row'*(1./col);

A: The ./ notation indicates element wise operation.
[m,n]=ndgrid(1:9,1:5);
M = m./n;

(I don't like to use i AND j because you make referencing sqrt(-1) complicated.)


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Q: Issue with ggplot2 geom_line not plotting all levels I am trying to plot a multiple line graph with data that looks like the following -
 Frequency    Spectrum     Time
 0.000000000  0.0222398397 Pre
 0.004882812  0.0852786647 Pre
 0.009765625  0.1601532116 Pre
 0.000000000  0.023070938  Post1
 0.004882812  0.065029561  Post1
 0.009765625  0.170168218  Post1
 0.000000000  0.002796956  Post2
 0.004882812  0.0650295614 Post2
 0.009765625  0.1601532116 Post2
 0.000000000  0.002796956  Post3
 0.004882812  0.0650295614 Post3
 0.009765625  0.1601532116 Post3

I am using the following code to plot the line graph:
    fullpsd %>% ggplot(aes(x = Frequency, y = Spectral)) +
                geom_line(size = 2, aes(color = time))

When I do this, only 3 of the 4 lines show up on the graph. I have already converted the columns in the data frame to be numeric and factor. Any advice would be appreciated!

A: If the image from this link Geom_line Issues Sample Image is what you see, then this is caused by your Post2 & Post3 data being identical as mentioned by @stefan. When I changed Post3 last Frequency to be 0.012 Geom_line Resolved Issue Image, you can see that the line of Post2 level is there but is overlapped by Post3 data.
There are 2 ways that you can fix this overlapping issues.

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*Add some offsets value or

*Make it a stack chart


On 18 September, T.O.P. from Big Bang posed for 'Dazed' Korea. He is seen holding a paintbrush with paint all over his face, looking very artsy (just like his Instagram photos). He also poses his hand like a gun against his head, smiling charismatically yet playfully at the camera.
This photoshoot will be in the October issue of the magazine.


The primary objective of this quality improvement project was to eliminate future incidences of guidewire retention during CVC insertion in the MICU and medical intermediate care area (MICA) via a structured educational program and a cost effective modified CVC set" Peh et al (2016).
Guidewire retention is a severe but preventable complication from central venous catheter (CVC) insertion. There were three cases of guidewire retention during CVC insertion in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) in Singapore General Hospital, in the period between December 2011 and February 2012. The primary objective of this quality improvement project was to eliminate future incidences of guidewire retention during CVC insertion in the MICU and medical intermediate care area (MICA) via a structured educational program and a cost effective modified CVC set. The secondary objective was to perform a cost analysis and comparison between the use of the conventional hospital CVC set and drape with our newly modified CVC dressing kit. Root cause analysis of the three cases identified major factors leading to guidewire retention. Interventions were planned and tested using PDSA cycles. Internal medicine trainees rotating through MICU and MICA during the period between February 2012 and June 2013 underwent a multi-modal structured CVC insertion training program with hands on simulation. They also used a newly modified CVC dressing kit and drape.
The CVC dressing kit was modified (CVC PLUS) to include a sterile drape with reminder stickers stating "REMOVE the GUIDEWIRE," as well as a sterile ultrasound sleeve. The total number of CVC insertions performed and guidewire retentions were monitored. During the period of study there were 320 CVC insertions in the MICU and MICA. Since this quality improvement project was initiated, and up to the submission of this article, there have not been any further cases of guidewire retention in the MICU and MICA. The total cost reduction per use of CVC PLUS was S$29.26 (Singaporean Dollars). A multi-modal structured training program, integrated with a modified, pre-packed CVC set, and drapes with reminder stickers (all included in CVC PLUS) were cost effective, and improved patient safety by eliminating guidewire retention during CVC insertion.
Peh, W.M., Loh, W.J., Phua, G.C. and Loo, C.M. (2016) Eliminating guidewire retention during ultrasound guided central venous catheter insertion via an educational program, a modified CVC set, and a drape with reminder stickers. BMJ Quality Improvement Reports. 12;5(1), eCollection 2016.
Next Article What are the barriers to ultrasound guidance for central venous catheter insertion?


The result of applying a particular Capture in an Instrument to some Unit.
1) The event of receiving a response to a survey question (the Capture) in a questionnaire (the Instrument) that is put to a respondent (the Unit). 2) The recording of a blood pressure after a procedure in an experiment.
The InstanceMeasure, InstanceQuestion and/or other InstrumentComponents used to create the Observation.
The Unit of which the Observation is made.


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NICHD issues News Releases and Media Advisories to the news media. Spotlight and Research Feature articles explain NICHD research findings and public health issues to the general public. An Item of Interest is a short announcement of relevant information, such as a notable staff change.
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Item of Interest: Joint study finds safe infant sleep practices need improvement
A study from federal researchers shows that information about ways to reduce the risk of sleep-related infant deaths is not reaching all caregivers or healthcare providers.
Spotlight: Maternal Health Research Advances
NICHD was established more than 50 years ago to help understand maternal health and improve pregnancy outcomes. These selected advances highlight NICHD's contributions to advancing the health and well-being of pregnant women, mothers, and families everywhere.
Item of Interest: NICHD enhances partnership with Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity to promote safe infant sleep
As part of NICHD's continued partnership with the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity®, Inc., the NICHD-led Safe to Sleep® campaign recently launched a mini-grant program to support fraternity members in conducting safe infant sleep outreach. The mini-grants will enable Kappa members to lead and host activities in their communities, where they can share safe infant sleep messages in culturally sensitive ways.
Science Update: Researchers identify potential genetic risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome
Mutations may impair breathing while under stress, suggests NIH-supported study
Over the past year, NICHD contributed to numerous scientific advances and key initiatives.
Blood of SIDS infants contains high levels of serotonin
Blood samples from infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) had high levels of serotonin, a chemical that carries signals along and between nerves, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health.
NICHD's Safe to Sleep Campaign with Dr. Marian Willinger
A conversation with Dr. Marian Willinger before her retirement. Dr. Willinger helped launch NICHD's Safe to Sleep campaign and led research efforts on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, stillbirth and infant health.
Getting to Know the New NICHD Director
NICHD Director Dr. Diana Bianchi shares some thoughts about joining NICHD.
Federal agencies express support for updated safe infant sleep recommendations
Federal agencies concerned with infant health and welfare today announced their support of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) updated recommendations on safe infant sleep.
Research Roundup: Here's How NICHD Research Is Improving Patients' Lives
Read a selection of past Spotlights featuring the stories of kids and adults whose lives have been enhanced by NICHD-supported research through new treatments, improved patient engagement, and new prevention and intervention campaigns.
Breastfeeding Challenges: How to Find Support for Common Problems
Breastfeeding can help optimize your newborn's health. But challenging circumstances can often bring breastfeeding to a halt. Achieving the recommended 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding for baby often requires a broad network of support from your partner, family, providers, community, and workplace. Read more about common challenges and resources that can help you overcome them.
Advising moms not to bed share with infants does not discourage breastfeeding
Following advice to sleep in the same room with their infants —but not in the same bed—does not appear to discourage new mothers from breastfeeding, as some experts had feared, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Teaching Fathers to Keep Babies Safe
Wale Olukanmi has spent more than two decades as an oncology nurse and physician's assistant at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. As a medical practitioner and father of four, he thought he was well-informed about the health risks and pitfalls of parenting. Then, he completed an all-day training on safe infant sleep practices, where he learned about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death in babies one month to one year of age, and about other sleep-related infant deaths, such as suffocation.
Many new mothers report no physician advice on infant sleep position, breastfeeding
Many new mothers do not receive advice from physicians on aspects of infant care such as sleep position, breastfeeding, immunization and pacifier use, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
"Safe to Sleep" expert offers advice on reducing sudden infant death
In the U.S., more than 3,500 infants die each year from sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, and from what experts describe as "other sleep-related causes of infant death." Sparing families this incomprehensible tragedy has been a long-term goal of the National Institutes of Health.
Neuroscience Research Resources
NICHD supports a variety of research projects and networks that are useful to neuroscientists. Find a detailed list here.
NIH launches new Spanish-language site for child health and human development
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a Spanish-language website that provides free information on health topics, including maternal and infant care, obesity, HIV/AIDS, fertility/infertility, and pregnancy.
NICHD Launches Pinterest Site to Share Health Information with the Public
NICHD is now on Pinterest. With about one in four American adults using Pinterest to access and share information, this new page is an opportunity to effectively communicate with the public about NICHD's important research and educational initiatives.
Nearly 55 percent of U.S. infants sleep with potentially unsafe bedding
Nearly 55 percent of U.S. infants are placed to sleep with bedding that increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, despite recommendations against the practice, report researchers at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other institutions.
Brain abnormality found in group of SIDS cases
More than 40 percent of infants in a group who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were found to have an abnormality in a key part of the brain, researchers report. The abnormality affects the hippocampus, a brain area that influences such functions as breathing, heart rate, and body temperature, via its neurological connections to the brainstem. According to the researchers, supported by the National Institutes of Health, the abnormality was present more often in infants who died of SIDS than in infants whose deaths could be attributed to known causes.


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Q: How variables get stored in memory in C, According to their types So I was trying to understand how C stores my variables in memory and I've been doing good enough till I faced this problem:
I wrote the following simple program that tells me where the variables are getting stored one by one so I can know the difference between the types, but I couldn't make any links the number looks so arbitrary in the same time I believe it has to do with the types. So, any clues why the characters get ALWAYS the lower memory addresses even if they are declared last?
int main ()
{
    int integer1 = 6;
    int integer2 = 2;
    int integer3 = 3;
    char character1 = 'C';
    char character2 = 'B';
    char character3 = 'D';
    char string1[4] = "Hi!";
    char string2[4] = ":D";
    char string3[4] = "ack!";

    printf ("integer1 : %d, at %p\n", integer1, &integer1);
    printf ("integer2 : %d, at %p\n", integer2, &integer2);
    printf ("integer3 : %d, at %p\n", integer3, &integer3);
    printf ("character1 : %c, at %p\n", character1, &character1);
    printf ("character2 : %c, at %p\n", character2, &character2);
    printf ("character3 : %c, at %p\n", character3, &character3);
    printf ("string1 : %s, at %p\n", string1, string1);
    printf ("string2 : %s, at %p\n", string2, string2);
    printf ("string3 : %s, at %p\n", string3, string3);
}

OUTPUT :
integer1 : 6, at 0x7ffe40915b40
integer2 : 2, at 0x7ffe40915b44
integer3 : 3, at 0x7ffe40915b48
character1 : C, at 0x7ffe40915b3d
character2 : B, at 0x7ffe40915b3e
character3 : D, at 0x7ffe40915b3f
string1 : Hi!, at 0x7ffe40915b4c
string2 : :D, at 0x7ffe40915b50
string3 : ack!, at 0x7ffe40915b54

EDIT : Compiler : GCC 7.3.0

A: The ordering of variables in memory is an implementation detail of the compiler.  There are no guarantees as to what it will look like.
That being said, it appears that the compiler was attempting to lay out the variables in such a way that all are properly aligned without any padding between them, i.e. it did so to save space.

A: Keep in mind that you are dealing with auto variables. There is no formal specification of how auto variables are implemented but in any system you are likely to find they are going to be on the stack.
(Assuming no optimization)
If you look at the generated code for your main () function (-S option, usually) you are likely to find a statement that looks something like
  MOV  SP, BP
  DECL #SOMENUMBER, SP

where SOMENUMBER is the number of bytes your main function needs for local variables.
Then the compiler assigns offsets from the SP register for each variable. It looks like then:
  1(SP) ; is character1
  2(SP) ; is character2
  3(SP) ; is character3
  4(SP) ; is integer1
  8(SP) ; is integer2
  12(SP) ; is integer3
  16(SP) ; is string1
  20(SP) ; is string2
  24(SP) ; is string3

Stacks normally grow downward so the lower variable addresses will have smaller offsets.
Then the compiler needs to initialize each location on the stack.
The compiler's allocator will figure out how to do this mapping. You'd need to look at the GCC code to figure out why it is taking the path it is.
Throwing in
 short short1 ;
 long long long1 ;
 char str[] = "12345" ;

Might give you some interesting results to see how different sizes affect the allocator.


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Home School Online: Teaching Our Children To Be Thinkers!
Preparing Our Children To Be "THINKERS" instead of FOLLOWERS!
When I began my home education journey twelve years ago I had this unrealistic picture in my head that I would be able to balance homeschool, homemaking and outside activities ALL with a smile on my face and a spring in my step! I quickly found this was not possible on a consistent basis. Especially as we added more children to our home. Life got busy and things began to fall through the cracks. I was so thankful that there were homeschool programs available that my children could do independently. However, I vowed that we would only use them until things settled down, because I wanted to be a part of my children's learning experiences.
Let me share a perfect example from the other day. My son Seth walked up to me out of nowhere to tell me about the sun....., "Mom did you know the sun was a star?" (Big Happy Mama Smile) I asked him where he learned of this and he said, "Time4learning". (He looked at me as though I was a little slow on the uptake, grin) He began telling me fact, after face, after fact. You see, HE became the teacher and I quickly became his student. This is what SELF education is all about.
Don't misunderstand, I LOVE snuggling together to read-a-loud rich literature! I LOVE occasionally hunkering down and doing a unit study! I LOVE watching educational shows together as a family and letting those be the springboard to dig deeper, BUT at the end of the day I want my boys to know how to think for themselves.
As the years have gone by we have found that we LOVE plugging into our local homeschool co-op. I have found a passion leading our monthly homeschool support group meetings. We've added children and taken care of our ailing Grandmother, but no matter how busy or full life becomes my sons simply pop on their headphones, type in their username and password and begin their wonderful journey of self education.
In the midst of LIFE, on-line education has allowed our homeschool program to keep going STRONG! Yes, I still have to (want to) be available to answer questions, to have discussions, to check their work and to cheer them on, but I can let go of having to make lesson plans, pull things together, to sit down and do the teaching.
The truth is my heart is at war with my goals at times because I want to be a part of everything they are reading, thinking, learning and doing, but I have to tread cautiously as I don't want to teach them to be dependent upon ME. One day they will leave my home and I want them to forever be....., LIFETIME learners!
What a great article, if we had an additional computer I would go back to T4Ling. Thanks or the inspiration.
Thank you MamaMary for sharing your experiences with TFL. I'm glad that you found something that fits nicely with your family and you have found the joy of homeschooling again.


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Cracking open the classics: Here are Kiran Millwood Hargrave's top retellings of stories for middle grade readers
Published on: 18 September 2019 Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave shares her favourite modern updates of classic tales, which all spin another brilliant side to the story.
They say there are two sides to every story, but in my four years writing I've found that really there are loads more than that!
My first book for young adult readers, The Deathless Girls, was written as a way to give unheard characters justice, and a voice. For older readers, I'd encourage you to try Renée Ahdieh's incredible The Wrath and the Dawn, a take of Arabian Nights, Malorie Blackman's storming Othello interpretation Chasing the Stars, or Becoming Dinah, Kit de Waal's moving and stunning take on Moby Dick.
But for middle grade readers (aged 8-12), here are five books for anyone interested in hearing a different point of view on a story you think you already know.
1. The Restless Girls by Jessie Burton, illustrated by Angela Barrett
I love fairytales, but they can be a bit boring. Princesses falling asleep, princesses locked in towers, princesses being rescued. I like darker tales. Growing up, I read lots of folk tales, myths, and graphic novels of the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian epic of good and evil. The Seven Dancing Princesses was one of my favourite stories, with its rebellious girls. But they were ultimately caught by a man, and punished for disobeying their father. In The Restless Girls, Burton erases this dubious moral lesson, making the girls wild and brilliant and free – like all children should be.
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2. Wishing For Tomorrow by Hilary McKay
There are some stories you wish would never end, and for me, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett was one of them. Alongside The Secret Garden, it unlocked a magic for me that was rooted in reality. Already a retelling of sorts (a take on Cinderella), it got the sequel it deserved from the wonderful Hilary McKay, in the form of Wishing for Tomorrow. This takes on minor characters and gives them new breath, cracking open the world wider to allow new heroes to step forward. It also offers new, hopeful ways of coping with grief and change.
3. Strange Star by Emma Carroll
The best retellings/re-imaginings stand on their own, without need for knowledge of the original influence, and this is very much the case here. I didn't read Frankenstein until I was a grown up, but Strange Star is a book I'd have loved as a child. A story within a story, this superb slice of fiction tells the origin story of Frankenstein by feminist hero Mary Shelley. Gothic, exciting and twisty, the tale of Carroll's blind protagonist influences the classic in unexpected ways. This highly original threading through of fact and fiction is a masterclass in storytelling.
4. Into the Jungle by Katherine Rundell, illustrated by Kristjana S Williams
Short stories are perfect, especially when you can't settle to a longer book, and I love linked short stories like those in Katherine Rundell's beautiful Into the Jungle, lushly illustrated by Kristjana S Williams. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling was admittedly never one of my favourite books, complicated by prejudice and stereotypes common to its time, but Rundell's interpretation of his world is glorious. Telling origin stories of major and minor characters, it weaves a rich tapestry of adventure and excitement perfect for any reader.
5. Return to Wonderland by Various
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is surely one of the true great classics of literature. Madcap, irreverent and uniquely imaginative, I still adore reading it. And some of that irreverence and joy in storytelling can be found in another short story collection, this time by a "who's who" of children's writers, including Maz Evans, Swapna Haddow, Patrice Lawrence and Robin Stevens. Each story offers something unique and often hilarious – for example, Lawrence's story is told from the point of view of a hedgehog croquet.
Have a younger child? Here are some modern fairy tales for 5-8 year olds
The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Hachette) is out now: the second book in the new Bellatrix collection, a creatively curated list of empowering, diverse YA novels by leading female voices.
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