Vitamin D has long been known to be an important part of good nutrition to promote healthy bone growth, avoid Rickets, and to avoid bone conditions such as osteopenia or osteoporosis. Vitamin D leads to increased absorption of calcium and other minerals from ingested foods. Adequate vitamin D is necessary to manage the amount of calcium in our blood and bones. Nutritional sources of vitamin D are traditionally quite poor as a source of adequate vitamin D. Our bodies get most of its natural vitamin D from exposure to the sun. Synthesis of vitamin D in our skin from exposure Ultraviolet (UV) light converts cholesterol into vitamin D3 which is later converted inside our bodies into an active form.
As a population, we are spending less time in the sun and are more likely to protect ourselves from the harmful effects of UV light with sunscreen or clothing which compound the prevalence of deficiency.
Studies indicate that as many as two thirds of healthy volunteers have low blood levels of active vitamin D and nearly 40% are severely low. It has been noted that certain populations can run rates of deficiency at close to 100%. This effect is further compounded by living in northern latitudes such as western Montana. Risk factors for vitamin D deficiency include older age, living in northern climates, darker skin pigmentation, and obesity. Ideal sun exposure to maintain healthy levels of vitamin D may have harmful side effects, often leading to the need for supplementation.
In recent years, there has been increasing amounts of evidence that low levels of vitamin D are associated with many health issues and conditions. Low levels of vitamin D may be associated with conditions ranging from muscle and joint pain to a variety of cancers including colon, breast, prostate, esophagus, and the ovaries. Other serious conditions have been linked to low levels of vitamin D including hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, and immune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.
In addition to diseases that increase the risk of heart disease such as diabetes and hypertension, there is significant evidence related to the association of low vitamin D levels and actual heart diseases.
Studies have indicated a relationship with vitamin D deficiency and heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure, rhythm disorders, and peripheral arterial disease. One Harvard study indicated Vitamin D deficient patients were at twice the risk of similar non-deficient patients for a heart attack. Studies have also indicated that very low levels may take on higher risk than mildly low levels. Italian studies have demonstrated a very high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in patients suffering heart attacks throughout all seasons, but in summer months, with increased sun exposure, the prevalence was less.
Vitamin D may decrease risk through a variety of means including decreasing inflammation, hypertension and diabetes, arterial wall thickening, and arterial wall calcification. Normalizing vitamin D levels with supplementation can normalize parathyroid hormone. This is important because parathyroid in our blood rises in vitamin D deficiency in response to lower circulating calcium to maintain normal blood levels of calcium. In addition to weakening bones and leading to osteoporosis, high parathyroid hormone levels are inflammatory to blood vessels and are associated with vascular events such as heart attack and stroke.
The best evidence suggests that avoiding deficiency of vitamin D may decrease your risk for cardiovascular disease. There are several studies that indicate treating vitamin D deficiency with supplementation will decrease future risk, avoid poor outcomes, and decrease complications of cardiovascular disease. Early studies have shown promising results in treatment of cardiac disease.
Treating vitamin D deficiency with supplements appears to be involved in preventing and reducing risk of cardiovascular disease. Funding for such research is difficult, and larger studies has been lacking but some larger studies are underway. Studies have indicated that the use of vitamin D supplements has been associated with better tolerance of certain cholesterol medications common in cardiac patients.
In our own research focusing on patients with congestive heart failure and vitamin deficiency, we demonstrated dramatic improvement of quality of life as compared to placebo. This is important as many studies of congestive heart failure have demonstrated standard or guideline based therapies will improve survival but may be associated with decreased quality of life over the course of the study.
Additionally, hormonal markers for heart failure and exercise markers were improved in our study and demonstrated a marked reduction in parathyroid hormone in the treatment group. Many studies of vitamin D supplementation in cardiac disease have had issues with appropriate dosing and often don't provide sufficient dosing to overcome deficiency. Inadequate dosing is an issue with current guidelines for vitamin D supplementation in general as there is evidence that the national daily requirement recommendations leave many patients deficient, especially the most vulnerable patients.
The appropriate dose for any person should be discussed and decided on in consultation with their physician. Vitamin D supplementation has been demonstrated to be very safe. Toxicity occurs only at very high non-recommended doses and is rare in the absence of other medical conditions. The potential health benefits are many both for prevention, as well as treatment of many conditions including cardiac diseases in conjunction with other appropriate medications. Often, monitoring levels of vitamin D is helpful as people absorb, convert, and utilize vitamin D at very different rates. Always discuss supplement additions or dose changes with your healthcare provider as interactions with existing medications and conditions are possible.
This community health column is brought to you by Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital, Marcus Daly Cardiology Services and The International Heart Institute of Montana. For questions and or comments, please contact Bradley D. Berry, M.D., Heart Failure Director, International Heart Institute of Montana. Working together to build a healthier community!


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Nowadays, Malaysia have been poured with many bad stories on the newspaper and television. One is the famous dog abuser in YouTube but it was first posted in Facebook by a woman who found the video in a thumb drive somewhere in a shopping mall. The one I'm about to say here is an owner of a Indian cuisine restaurant suing Google and a local blogger. The law sue was filed at RM6mil! Not 6 ringgit or 60 cents but RM6mil with 6 zeros at the back!
Here's the article from The Star:
KOTA KINABALU: A popular Indian cuisine restaurant here that is recommended by travel guide Lonely Planet, is suing a blogger and Google for defamation.
Jothy's Fish Head Curry restaurant director Tharumaraj Sivaperumal filed a RM6mil civil suit at the Kota Kinabalu High Court here Monday, naming blogger Poh Huai Bin as first defendant and California-based Google Inc as second defendant.
The suit is arising from some allegedly defamatory statements about Jothy's Fish Head Curry restaurant posted in May last year by Poh, originally from Sibu in Sarawak and now residing in Kuala Lumpur.
Jothy's, represented by counsel Marcel Jude Joseph, is seeking exemplary or punitive damages to deter them from making similar statements in future and an order to restrain Poh from defaming the restaurant on the Internet.
Jothy's is also seeking an order from the court to remove the offending articles from Google and other popular search engines used on the Internet.
The company claimed that the alleged defamatory statements published by both the defendants tended to prejudice against the plaintiff in the conduct of its business and deter others from dealing with it and were injurious to the business.
As a result of the defendants' action, the plaintiff claimed it had suffered loss and damage, and its reputation had been affected both locally and internationally.
The plaintiff claimed that the good reputation of the restaurant, in operation since 1987, was known globally and reported as a well-known destination in Kota Kinabalu and Sabah, in the global television and book series Lonely Planet, referred to as an authority for tourists throughout the world.
The plaintiff also claimed that the posting and articles of the first defendant were available and read by Internet users throughout Sabah and Malaysia, adding that the second defendant conducted business within the jurisdiction of Malaysian courts because its search engine was used regularly by Internet users in the country.
Google opens up an office in Malaysia and the very first thing they got is a RM6mil law suit. EPIC!
Below is the blog post which was the cause of that event:
Jothy's Fish Head Curry Banana Leaf Restaurant
Indian, Kota Kinabalu, The Grim Eater
a.k.a. The Worst Fish Head Curry and Banana Leaf Restaurant in the Known Universe
Jothy's Fish Head Curry Banana Leaf Restaurant is located in Api Api Center in KK, Sabah and has a lot of impressive stickers on its front window facade, including one that says "as seen in Lonely Planet", which was the reason we headed there to eat in the first place. I place a certain amount of trust in the Lonely Planet brand.
The first clue that it might not exactly be the best place to eat when we walked in is the underwhelming crowd in the restaurant. We were the only ones there. I swear I could hear crickets chirping.
Their banana leaf rice seems authentic enough…
…but the taste did not live up to expectations. I tried every single one of the side serves and found them severely wanting.
Their flagship signature dish – the curry fish head – was tough, overcooked and dry. It's certainly not "the freshest fish head from the market".
I don't know what kind of fish this head came from but finding meat is like looking for a needle in a haystack (or insert other cliched analogy here since there are a lot of fish bones in there).
The fried prawns were not "succulent" as the menu claimed, but tough. I'm also highly doubtful about the "choice fish eggs fried to perfection" description as our fish roe had the same taste and texture of cardboard (not that I've ever eaten cardboard – it's what I imagine cardboard would taste like).
I find this unforgivable in a place known for it's abundance of seafood. The bill was exorbitant too – the fish head curry alone was RM 50.
It's a tourist trap. Avoid it like a bad case of herpes.
*blog entry taken from Lowyat.net forum
Sithxseal.com is a local blogger who blogs about food, events and travel managed to turn himself as famous as Raja Petra overnight but hopefully he won't be ended up behind bars as well.
What I learn from here is, we as Malaysian have only limited rights to voice out our opinion but when it's done properly, people somehow will accept it. In this case, he might have gone overboard by claiming Jothy's Fish Head Curry Banana Leaf Restaurant as the worst in well known world. My humble opinion, maybe the chef wasn't feeling well or in a bad mood that day and unable to prepare the meal as up to his standard or maybe the fish, prawn or whatever wasn't that fresh on that day which is common to any other seafood restaurant but at least they need to be honest and notify their customers. Tell me about it, I know it mostly when I have left Sabah for more than 3 years. Actually there's a lot other good seafood/fish head curry places in KK if you ask around or just simply Google for it on the net.
Whatever it is, I am curious to know what's the outcome of this story. Stay tuned for more updates from my blog ya. Till then...
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Atomenergomash and GE to supply turbine hall equipment for nuclear power station in Egypt
09 October, 2018 / 17:06
AAEM LLC (a joint venture of Atomenergomash JSC and General Electric) has entered into the contract with DEZ JSC (acting on behalf of Atomstroyexport JSC, a general contractor for the El Dabaa project) to supply turbine hall equipment for Units 1 to 4 of the El Dabaa nuclear power station in Egypt. Under the contract the company will be responsible for designing, manufacturing and supplying four sets of steam turbines, condensers, generators and select auxiliary equipment, and for technical field advisory services during erection and commissioning of supplied equipment at the NPP site. Over 50% of the equipment will be manufactured in Russia.
The El Dabaa nuclear power plant will comprise ARABELLE™ half-speed steam turbines and GIGATOP™ 4-pole generators manufactured by General Electric.
Ilya Vergizaev, General Director of AAEM, said: "I am positive that eleven-year long cooperation of Atomenergomash Engineering Division and GE Power in developing the joint venture's high-tech competencies both in the field of engineering nuclear turbine island equipment and in development of advanced production technologies, will provide a principled framework for successful implementation of this project."
"As Egypt works to diversify its energy production and to support its growing economy, the El Dabaa nuclear power plant, equipped with GE Power's ARABELLE technology, will help Egypt deliver on their ambitious goals," said Andreas Lusch, CEO of GE's Steam Power.
AAEM joint venture was established in 2007 to equip the conventional islands of NPPs of Russian design. The joint venture has combined extensive production capabilities and in-depth VVER expertise of Atomenergomash with high performance of GE equipment building based on the ARABELLE™ half-speed technology and the company's proven track record in nuclear power engineering.
El Dabaa power plant is constructed under the intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement for construction and operation of the nuclear power plant in the Arab Republic of Egypt between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt, dated November 19, 2015. The Project will include four units equipped with VVER 1200 reactors. The El Dabaa power plant is located in the Matrouh region on the Mediterranean coast, 6 km from the town of El Dabaa.
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Percept is the procedure of construing the messages of our senses to supply order and significance to the environment. Among the most of import perceptual experiences that influence organisational behavior are the perceptual experiences that organisational members have of each other.
The perceiver's experience. motivations. and emotions can impact his or her perceptual experiences.
Motivational State. Differences in our demands at a given minute and our motivational province can besides be a beginning of struggle within organisations.
Our perceptual experiences are besides influenced by the target's societal position and ambiguity. Ambiguity or deficiency of information about a mark leads to a greater demand for reading and add-on.
The context of the state of affairs can greatly act upon our perceptual experiences by adding information about the mark.
1. Selective Percept: Peoples selectively interpret what they see on the footing of their involvement. background. experience. and attitudes.
2. Halo Consequence: Pulling a general feeling about an person on the footing of a individual feature.
3. Contrast Effectss: Evaluations of a person's features that are affected by comparings with other people late encountered who rank higher or lower on the same features.
5. Stereotyping: Judging person on the footing of one's perceptual experience of the group to which that individual belongs.
Early feelings are really of import. Mistake on Perceptual judgements may frequently take to non-selection of the campaigner in malice of holding required making.
Due to mistake of perceptual experience people expect better public presentation from those who are non capable of making it.
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namespace SafetySharp.CaseStudies.PillProduction.Modeling
{
	using System;
	using ISSE.SafetyChecking.Modeling;
	using SafetySharp.Modeling;

	public partial class ParticulateDispenser
	{
		private class IngredientTank : Component
		{
			public readonly Fault TankDepleted = new PermanentFault();

			public IngredientTank(string stationName, IngredientType ingredientType)
			{
				IngredientType = ingredientType;
				FaultHelper.PrefixFaultNames(this, $"{stationName}.{ingredientType}");
			}

			public IngredientType IngredientType { get; }

			public virtual uint Amount { get; set; } = 0u;

			public Ingredient Capability => new Ingredient(IngredientType, Amount);

			public virtual void Dispense(PillContainer container, Ingredient ingredient)
			{
				if (ingredient.Type != IngredientType)
					throw new InvalidOperationException("Incorrect ingredient requested");
				if (Amount < ingredient.Amount)
					throw new InvalidOperationException($"Insufficient amount available of ingredient {ingredient.Type}");

				Amount -= ingredient.Amount;
				container.AddIngredient(ingredient);
			}

			[FaultEffect(Fault = nameof(TankDepleted))]
			private class TankDepletedEffect : IngredientTank
			{
				public TankDepletedEffect(string stationName, IngredientType ingredientType)
					: base(stationName, ingredientType)
				{
				}

				public override uint Amount => 0u;
			}
		}
	}
}

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Доменико да Гравина, или ди Гравина (, или Domenico di Gravina, ; около  — между  и ) — итальянский хронист, нотариус из Гравины (совр. Гравина-ин-Пулья в провинции Бари), один из летописцев Неаполитанского королевства, автор латинской «Хроники событий, относящихся к Апулии» () с 1333 по 1350 год.

Жизнь и труды
Родился около 1300 года в Гравине, где служил городским нотариусом. Сведений о происхождении и образовании нет, но, по-видимому, являлся выходцем из местного городского патрициата.

Принимал активное участие в бурных событиях своего времени, коснувшихся и его родного города, из которого он был изгнан, лишившись всего имущества, после убийства в сентябре 1345 года правящей неаполитанской королевой Джованной I своего супруга принца Андрея (Андраша) Венгерского, сторонником которого он являлся.

Его латинская «Хроника событий, относящихся к Апулии» () охватывает события в королевстве с 1333 по 1350 год, и считается достаточно надёжным, хотя и не совсем объективным, источником по истории правления одиозной Джованны Неаполитанской, а также войне её с братом убитого принца королём Венгрии Людовиком (Лайошем) I Великим и его итальянскими сторонниками.

Первая часть этого сочинения, написанная Доменико в июне-июле 1349 года в Битонто, недалеко от Бари, где вместе со своей семьей он пребывал в изгнании, посвящена происхождению самой Джованны, дочери герцога Карла Калабрийского и Марии Валуа, внучки и наследницы короля Роберта I, и её второго супруга Андрея Венгерского, устройству помолвки их в 1334 году, предпосылкам и обстоятельствам их брака (1343), последовавшей вслед за этим ссоре между ними, затем заговору против Андрея и его убийству (1345), новому браку Джованны с Людовиком Тарентским (1346), кризису в государстве, связанному с вторжением в него в конце 1347 года войск Людовика Венгерского, осадившего в январе 1348 года Неаполь и последовавшему бегству королевы с её новым супругом в Прованс, возвращению в мае того же года на родину короля Венгрии, оставившего командование трансильванскому воеводе Стефану I Ласковичу, и, наконец, прервавшей войну эпидемии «чёрной смерти» (1348).

Вторая часть, написанная в конце 1350-го или в начале 1351 года, в основном посвящена описанию событий в городах и провинции Апулии, в которых активное участие, как один из видных сторонников провенгерской партии, принимал сам Доменико, а также новой неудачной военной экспедиции Людовика Великого, в апреле 1350-го пришедшего с новой армией, на время захватившего даже Неаполь, но в сентябре того же года из-за развернувшегося против него сопротивления местных баронов вынужденного отступить. В частности, сообщается о политических волнениях и борьбе неаполитанской и провенгерской группировок в Гравине, закончившейся сменой власти и захватом её 9 февраля 1349 года воеводой Стефаном, оставившего там своего капитана Никола ди Анджело, последовавших за этим действиях сторонников Джованны во главе с Роберто ди Сансеверино, направленных на возвращение города, тщетных попытках Доменико организовать оборону последнего, закончившихся бегством его 28 апреля в венгерский лагерь в Корато, и, наконец, дальнейшем его участии в военных экспедициях против Гравины, Корато, Соммы-Везувианы и др. городов.

Обстоятельное сочинение да Гравина, довольно внимательного к фактам и хронологии, не лишено традиционных для итальянской историографии его эпохи литературных штампов и риторических оборотов. «О, как несчастно, — пишет он, — это королевство, которое окончательно перешло под власть женщин и детей! И сколько придется пережить каждому его жителю... Впоследствии я стал свидетелем печального конца осужденных за недостойные поступки многих магнатов, принцев и баронов, благородных и знатных обоего пола, опустошения городов, замков, провинций и обнищания деревень...»

Наделив Джованну I едва ли не инфернальными чертами, да Гравина, по сути, заложил основы для формирования её негативного образа в итальянской исторической и литературной традиции, открытой жизнеописанием в трактате Дж. Бокаччо «О знаменитых женщинах» (1361). Красочно описывая развращённость ненавистной ему королевы Неаполя, двор которой уподобляется им публичному дому, хронист отказывается даже признавать королевский титул за её новым мужем Людовиком Тарентским, упорно называя его «сеньором Неаполя», с нескрываемым удовлетворением описывая его бегство с супругой в Прованс и череду поражений в войне с Лайошем Венгерским.

Подробные рассказы любознательного провинциала да Гравина о неаполитанских придворных интригах, заговорах и убийствах, прежде всего трагической гибели злосчастного Андрея Венгерского, ставшие впоследствии основанием для творческой фантазии различных писателей, не всегда следует безоговорочно принимать на веру, а его повествование несомненно нуждается в сопоставлении с данными других источников, в первую очередь флорентийской «Новой хроники» Джованни Виллани (ум. 1348), продолженной его братом Маттео, и феррарской анонимной «Хроники дома Эсте» ().

Будучи не только очевидцем, но и активным участником многих из описанных в хронике событий, Доменико из Гравины, несомненно, оставил потомкам весьма ценные наблюдения, однако приверженность его провенгерской партии, очевидное чувство личной обиды и неявно выраженный местнический сепаратизм заставляют несколько критически воспринимать его свидетельства о трагической для Неаполитанского королевства эпохе 1340—1350-х годов.

Рукописи и издания
Хроника да Гравина дошла до нас в бумажной рукописи XIV века, находящейся в собрании Австрийской национальной библиотеки (Вена), которую исследователи считают автографической.

Впервые она была опубликована в 1728 году в Милане церковным историком Лодовико Антонио Муратори в 12 томе издания «Rerum Italicarum scriptores». Без существенных изменений её в 1781 году переиздал в Неаполе А. А. Пелличча в «Собрании различных летописей, дневников и других сочинений, относящихся к истории Неаполитанского королевства». В 1890 году там же вышло переиздание Эрнесто Анфосси, вместе с переводом её текста на итальянский язык. В 1903—1909 годах хронику выпустил в Читта-ди-Кастелло А. Сорбелли, заново отредактировав для XII тома «Rerum Italicarum scriptores».

2 декабря 2011 года в конференц-зале  в Гравина-ин-Пулья был обнародован 24-месячный проект подготовки нового критического издания латинского текста и итальянского перевода «Хроники событий, относящихся к Апулии» да Гравина, при поддержке местной администрации и Ассоциации научного центра норманно-германских исследований университета Бари. Участники конференции отметили непреходящее значение хроники как источника по исторической географии и истории архитектуры региона, незаменимого, в частности, для разработки исторических маршрутов в рамках культурно-туристических программ.

Публикации
 Dominichi de Gravina. Chronicon de rebus in Apulia gestis ab anno MCCCXXXIII usque ad annum MCCCL // Rerum Italicarum Scriptores. Raccolta di fonti, ideata da Ludovico Antonio Muratori. — Tomus XII. — Mediolani: Typographia Societatis Palatinae in Regia Curia, 1728. — coll. 545–722.
 Dominici de Gravina Chronicon de Rebus in Apulia gestis: praemittitur praefatio Ludovici Antonio Muratore. — Napoli: Ernesto Anfossi, 1890. — xii, 292 p. — (Collection Rerum Italicarum Scriptores).
 Dominici de Gravina notarii, Chronicon de rebus in Apulia gestis, a cura di Albano Sorbelli. — Città di Castello: Tipi dell'Editore S. Lapi, 1903. — xxxii, 240 p. — (Collection Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, XII, 3).
 Chronicon de rebus in Apulia Gestis di notar Domenico da Gravina, édition de Maria Giovanna Montrone. — Matera: Giuseppe Barile, 2008. — xlix, 448 p. — ISBN 978-8885425613. — (Colección Mandrágora, 3).
 Domenico da Gravina. Chronicon De Rebus In Apulia Gestis, a cura di Albano Sorbelli. — Charleston: Nabu Press, 2012. — 294 p. — ISBN 978-1273781247.

Примечания

Библиография
 Caravale Mario. Domenico da Gravina // Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. — Volume 40. — Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, 1991.
 Casteen Elizabeth. From She-Wolf to Martyr: The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples. — London; Ithaka: Cornell University Press, 2015. — 295 p. — ISBN 978-0-8014-5386-1.
 Violante Francesco. Dominicus de Gravina // Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. by Graeme Dunphy and Cristian Bratu. — Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016.

Ссылки
 Dominichi de Gravina. Chronicon de rebus in Apulia gestis (миланское издание 1728 г.)
 Dominici de Gravina Chronicon de Rebus in Apulia gestis (неаполитанское издание 1890 г.)

Хронисты Италии
Хронисты XIV века
Родившиеся в 1300 году
Умершие в 1355 году
Латинские писатели Средневековья

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Ilarratza est un village ou contrée faisant partie de la municipalité de Vitoria-Gasteiz dans la province d'Alava dans la Communauté autonome basque.

Démographie

Dessertes en bus
La compagnie de bus La Burundesa de Sakana transporte les voyageurs sur les lignes de Vitoria-Gasteiz-Pampelune a un arrêt ici. Elle propose trois services quotidiens. Ces arrêts sont:

 Vitoria-Gasteiz - Ilarratza - Argomaiz - Agurain - Munain - San Roman - Ibarguren - Andoin - Olazti-Olazagutía - Ziordia - Altsasu - Urdiain - Iturmendi - Bakaiku - Etxarri-Aranatz - Arbizu - Lakuntza - Arruazu - Uharte-Arakil - Irañeta - Ihabar - Hiriberri - Etxarren - Irurtzun - Atez-Atetz - Saratsa - Añezkar (Cuenca de Pampelune) - Berrioplano et Pampelune

Notes et références

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 Liste des municipalités d'Alava

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Thomas Penfield Jackson went so far over the line in harsh comments to journalists about Microsoft that the federal judge deserves the severe criticism he received on Thursday from an appeals court, say a wide array of legal scholars.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a stinging rebuke of Jackson for "deliberate, repeated, egregious and flagrant" violations of judicial ethics for remarks he made to journalists throughout the landmark antitrust trial.
"This was an astonishing blunder by a trial judge," said Northwestern University law professor Stephen Lubet, an expert on judicial behavior. "No other judge has ever had such extensive contact with journalists while presiding over a case and it is likely no one will ever do it again."
The 7-0 opinion characterizes Jackson, 64, as a jurist "posturing for posterity." The ruling is laced with detailed references to comments the judge made to reporters forecasting his rulings.
The appellate judges said that Jackson's practice of forbidding journalists to use the information until he ruled made the situation even worse because it gave Microsoft no chance to respond.
"Concealment of the interviews suggests knowledge of their impropriety," the appeals court said.
Jackson agreed to interviews with several journalists, including New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, who wrote a book about the case. While the trial was pending, Jackson told reporters he thought Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates "has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company." He chastised Gates for delivering testimony that was "inherently without credibility."
Jackson, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Reagan in 1982, compared Microsoft's protest of innocence to the attitudes of gang members in a racketeering case he presided over. Just a month before he issued his order calling for the break up of Microsoft, Jackson told reporters that judges on the appellate court that would review the case are "supercilious," lacking in practical trial experience and utilizing "superficial scholarship."
In Thursday's ruling, the court of appeals acknowledged that it had found "no evidence of actual bias" by Jackson.
However, the appeals court ruled that Jackson's actions had "seriously tainted the proceedings . . . and called into question the integrity of the judicial process. The public cannot be expected to maintain confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the federal judiciary in the face of such conduct."
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Additionally, the U.S. Judicial Code provides that judges must recuse themselves when their "impartiality might reasonably be questioned." The appellate court said that Jackson's conduct certainly crossed that line.
USC law professor Erwin Chemerinsky applauded the ruling, saying the appellate court had followed both the letter of a federal law governing such situations and prior precedents. Chemerinsky said it is rare but not unprecedented for a federal judge to be taken off a case because of comments to the media.
New York University law professor Eleanor Fox said the appeals court's comments on Jackson were "harsh but necessary," because his statements to reporters were "integral to the case."
As a trial judge, Jackson has had a reputation for becoming an expert on issues that his cases revolved around. During the Microsoft trial, he was seen lugging home thick binders on the weekends. At one point, with the help of an aide, he showed that Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser could be removed from the Windows operating system--a key point in the case.
This hardly was the first high profile case handled by Jackson. In 1988, he fined former Reagan aide Michael Deaver $100,000 for lying about his lobbying activities. In 1990, he sentenced Washington Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. to six months in prison for cocaine possession. In 1994, he ordered Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) to surrender salacious diaries whose details drove him from office.
Experts said it is unclear whether the appellate court would formally reprimand Jackson. The judge has lifetime tenure and can be removed only by impeachment for "high crimes and misdemeanors."
"I am not aware of any case authority that says I have to give them any due process at all. The case is over. They lost. .. I'm suspicious that they are just playing for time, hoping they will get to deal with a new administration."
Weinstein reported from Los Angeles, Cimons from Washington.


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Q: Aligning textviews with imageview in a gridlayout I'm trying to align 5 textviews with an imageview. I've created a gridlayout with 2 columns and 5 rows. In column 0 are 5 textviews divided in 5 rows. In column 1 is an imageview that spans over the 5 rows. But I can't get my desired layout. See below the desired layout:

My code:
<GridLayout
        android:id="@+id/gridlayout1"
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        android:columnCount="2"
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        <TextView
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        <ImageView
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        <TextView
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            android:layout_row="1"
            android:layout_column="0"
            android:layout_gravity="start"
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        <TextView
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            android:layout_gravity="start"
            android:layout_row="2"
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        <TextView
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            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
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Can someone help me with this issue?
Thank you.

A: This code will show the TextViews divided equally :
(Remove the backgrounds, they are just for view proposes)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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    <LinearLayout
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            android:layout_margin="5dp"
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            android:background="#675" />

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    <ImageView
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        android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
        android:background="#eae"
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A: You can set the span of element using one of this attributes:
android:layout_columnSpan="..."
android:layout_rowSpan="..."

In your case it will be
android:layout_columnSpan="5"

A: Use below code for xml which is good to design this type of layouts:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal">

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="One"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="center"/>

    <View
        android:layout_height="5dp"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"/>

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="Two"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="center"/>

    <View
        android:layout_height="5dp"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"/>

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="Three"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="center"/>

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    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="Four"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="center"/>

    <View
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        android:layout_width="match_parent"/>

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="Five"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="center"/>

</LinearLayout>

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<ImageView
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    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:background="@drawable/ic_launcher"/>

</LinearLayout>

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A new study by climate scientists at the University of Bristol shows that there simply may not be the right amount of geoengineering to satisfy and help everyone, and that any geoengineering that takes place will affect different areas differently.
Geoengineering has long been heralded by some as the saviour for our warming planet, but previous studies have never fully satisfied the needs of everyone. Using average global temperatures as a baseline, normal levels may return to one are but inadvertently leave another warmer and another cooler.
Geoengineering is the concept of deliberately manipulating Earth's climate to counteract the effects of global warming. This can mean anything from seeding the atmosphere or oceans with chemicals to bring about a desired reaction such as more carbon eating life forms or creating more rain-bearing clouds.
There are other, more experimental ideas, such as seeding the atmosphere with reflective particles to minimize the sunlight that reaches the surface, and even further, such as placing reflecting panels in low orbit to achieve the same outcome.
No large scale projects have so far taken place due to technological failings or public outcry, though research is constantly ongoing.
The analysis by the researchers from the University of Bristol suggest that increasing the geoengineering strength implemented around the world force most regions to become drier and others to become wetter.
For example, according to their research, with increased geoengineering the United States became increasingly dry while Australia became wetter. The US only returned to normal conditions under half strength geoengineering while Australia only returns to normal conditions under full strength geoengineering.
As a personal aside, I wouldn't mind Australia becoming wetter for a few years.


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An education consultant with connections at many of the top private elementary schools tells me the number of admissions directors who are requesting her to ask her clients to pick a "first choice" school is way up this year.
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Thank you for the post! What is the significance of the #1 choice? How does this change the process of choosing applicants or the admissions process from the AD's perspective? As an applicant, it's sometimes a tough choice to make and we don't want to limit our options. Thanks!
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Hi Anon, I think it is really common to like a lot of the schools and get swept up in the moment after a great visit or a fantastic parent interview. So many of these schools are amazing! I think it's great to express strong interest to schools you really like in a genuine way. I think its important to make each note UNIQUE and specific to that school, so it doesn't seem like you're sending a form letter. Why would that school be so great for your child? What is it about the school you absolutely love? It sounds like you've been doing exactly that. You don't need to make promises you can't keep to a bunch of schools. The fact that you've told one school you'll accept if your child gets isn't really something you should try to "undo" at this point. It's only one factor in whether your family will be accepted at that school….they are many other factors which go into the mix, besides your "if accepted" note. And, you really have no way of knowing whether that admissions director will be talking to other schools where you applied. At this point, it's a "waiting game" and a stressful one!
Thank you, Christina! What you say is reassuring and I think we've been doing the right thing. I will continue to express strong interest to each school and hope for the best!! Four weeks and counting! Now I should focus on that weekend getaway that we will need to take once this is all over!
At this point of the process does it look desperate to send an admissions director another note stating how much we love the school and that it would be perfect for our child. We recently went to our last school visitation day and I could tell my child just loved it there, the way her eyes lit up in the music room, and how she felt so comfortable at in the classrooms and with the teachers. I hope I'm not caught up in the moment, but I do want to let the admissions director know how much she enjoyed it there. I was thinking of just sending a quick email. I am not sure if this is appropriate, or if I'm better off just leaving it alone at this point because it is March. I'm also wondering if an email is appropriate to send to an admissions director. This is a school that you are familiar with so I was just hoping you would have a good insight as to whether it would make a difference at this point.
I don't think it looks desperate to send a nice note or email telling an admissions director how much you and your daughter love the school. A quick email is a great idea. Parents are emailing, calling and sending notes up until the day letters are mailed out. I think you should say exactly what you say in this comment: a quick note about your daughter's response to the music room, the teachers, how comfortable she felt and how you observed her in the school setting and how you feel like this is the right school for her. Schools want to know who is truly interested in the school vs. who is applying there "just in case". Hope that helps!
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Former World No. 5 Makes Bold Predictions on Iga Swiatek and Simona Halep for 2021
Former Slovak tennis star, Daniela Hantuchova, has backed Polish sensation Iga Swiatek to add to her big gains in 2020 and be in the hunt for more titles next year.
She also made a huge prediction on two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep, saying the Romanian would make a strong comeback to the circuit next year.
Daniela Hantuchova backs Iga Swiatek to add to her 2020 gains
Largely unheralded in the circuit, Swiatek turned heads with her tennis at the French Open this year and went all the way to claim her maiden Grand Slam trophy.
"I play for the game and something much bigger than myself."@Iga_Swiatek plays for coming back stronger 💪
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Her first Major title saw the Pole move up the ranking ladder and also sent her stocks skyrocketing.
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Swiatek finished the season at 17th in the WTA singles rankings.
Swiatek reminded Hantuchova of Martina Hingis
Speaking to Tennis365, Hantuchova said she was hugely impressed with what she saw of the 19-year-old Pole star (no pun intended) and hopes she can build on from her maiden Grand Slam success.
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"There have been so many different winners and unusual results this year that it makes it impossible to predict what might happen in 2021, but it was not to be incredibly impressed with what we saw from Iga Swiatek at the French Open," she said.
She said watching Swiatek in action reminded her of former five-time Grand Slam winning Swiss star Martina Hingis.
"The way she played with such easy power reminded me a little of Martina Hingis. The way she moves around the court was so good.
"She has amazing timing on the ball and strikes it so cleanly, so she is certainly one to watch next year," said Hantuchova, a former World Number 5.
Simona Halep could have a great year, predicts Hantuchova
She also said Halep's injury-forced absence from tennis would only whet her appetite for more titles next season.
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"I think Simona Halep is another player who could come back and have a great year after everything that has happened to the world in 2020," the former Slovak tennis star said.
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Hantuchova hopes for a full WTA season in 2021
Hantuchova said she hopes for a full WTA season in 2021 as it would enable the tennis world to assess rising stars in the women's game on the yardstick of consistency.
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This book explores the relationships between financial inclusion, poverty and inclusive development from Islamic perspectives. Financial inclusion has become an important global agenda and priority for policymakers and regulators in many Muslim countries for sustainable long-term economic growth. It has also become an integral part of many development institutions and multilateral development banks in efforts to promote inclusive growth. Many studies in economic development and poverty reduction suggest that financial inclusion matters. Financial inclusion, within the broader context of inclusive development, is viewed as an important means to tackle poverty and inequality and to address the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This book contributes to the literature on these topics and will be of interest to researchers and academics interested in Islamic finance and financial inclusion.
This chapter explores the linkages between financial development and quality of institutions with poverty using cross-sectional and panel data sets for Islamic countries. The empirical findings show that financial inclusion and development significantly alleviate poverty in the Muslim world. However, poverty-reducing effect of financial development is not robust to the use of different measures of financial development. In contrast, the poverty-reducing effect of institutional quality remains robustly negative and significant in all models. Corruption turns out to be the most significant predictor of poverty in the Muslim world. This study concludes that both inclusive financial development and institutions are important to address the issue of widespread poverty. Nevertheless, these are the institutions, which are prerequisite to eradicate the poverty because institutions also play a mediating role to ensure poverty-reducing effect of financial development.
Micro survey data from 36,135 firms in 41 Islamic countries are used to address two questions: first, what are the firm-specific and country-level predictors of financing constraints of firms and, second, whether there are differences between low- and high-income Islamic countries. The firm-specific characteristics are shown to predict financing constraints of firms. Differences are documented between low- and high-income Islamic countries. Firm age, size, sector of activity, export and ownership status of firms appear to be robust predictors of access to finance in low-income countries, whereas only a few of these determinants are found to be significant in high-income Islamic countries. Finally, country-level indicators that measure economic development, income distribution, and financial infrastructure also affect the role of firm-specific characteristics on financial constraints.
This chapter evaluates the impact of the Islamic microfinance institution toward the women empowerment. We surveyed approximately two hundred and forty women who had been involved in the microfinance of the Misykat program in the Dompet Peduli Ummat of Daarut Tauhid and BAZNAS in Bandung. The primary data collection was held in two sessions, starting from June to December 2014. The causal effect of the credit on empowerment was identified using quasi-experimental setting with proxy controls for latent heterogeneity between the control and the treatment groups. The study suggests that women involvement in the microfinance improves their position within the household through (i) access to independent income; (ii) control over savings and credit use; and (iii) ability to bring productive asset to household economy. In addition, using the matching propensity score and the instrumental variable methods helps address the bias selection in a cross-sectional setting.
Global Findex database reports that 75% or about one billion adults among self-identified Muslims do not have an account in a formal financial institutions. The first part of this chapter suggests that overall access to Islamic financial products is positively correlated with levels of financial inclusion in Muslim majority countries. One such product is Qard Hassan and the second part of this chapter highlights its theoretical potentials in reducing poverty and increasing shared prosperity. This theoretical treatment is then complemented with the third part of the chapter where a case study of Akhuwat Foundation, a Pakistani Islamic microfinance organization operating on a Qard Hassan model is presented in some detail and its relative success in breaking the cycle of poverty through Qard Hassan is highlighted.
Food security is at the forefront of worldwide policy debates. Food security is not only about production, but also includes accessibility, availability, and affordability of nutritious food. Zakat plays a central role in Islamic economic welfare system. The objective of this study is to outline a model to use Zakat as a tool to improve food security as well as fulfill the goal of taking care of the poor and needy of a rural locality. This faith-based novel approach to inclusive development would allow more flexibility to integrate moral and ethical codes in the process. The most vulnerable households among the eligible recipients of food as Zakat would receive food vouchers or ration cards, giving them easy access to the food bank on a weekly or monthly basis.
This chapter studies the behavior of individual Islamic donors who make a specific type of religious contribution called zakat. It seeks to provide a fundamental understanding of what governs the behavior of these donors—the triggers and motivators, traits and attributes, and preferences. The study uses hierarchical cluster analysis to develop psychographic profiles of individual Islamic donors or groups among them. Interestingly, two of the three clusters closely resemble subsets of the overall sample, when disaggregated on the basis of donor's country of origin, indicating the possibility that Islamic donors from a given country may be displaying a distinct behavioral pattern. This raises a more profound possibility that the national identity of the donor associated with a unique social, economic, legal, and political environment may be a key influencer of the way she/he engages in matters pertaining to faith. The evidence highlights the need to give due importance to the observed diversity among zakat donors in any initiative to develop core principles, regulatory standards, institutional infrastructure, and models of governance for the development of this component of the global Islamic social finance sector.
This chapter analyzes the impact of Zakat on to the welfare of household of Zakat recipient (mustahiq). This study utilized human development index (HDI) as the indicator of welfare, which has been disaggregated at household level. The study performed two times repeated questionnaires to get the sample, and distributed to beneficiaries of productive-based Zakat who have received funding from Zakat institutions through two-stage cluster sampling. The study suggests that the level of human development index of household who receives productive-based Zakat is significantly higher than the first period. Moreover, through panel data regression, the results show that the variable of productive-based Zakat is positively correlated with the level of HDI. Therefore, it can be concluded that Zakat, particularly productive-based Zakat, can play important role to improve the welfare of poor household.
This chapter examines the nature of waqf land and properties development and reviews the role of institutions in waqf land and properties development in Muslim countries. The study shows that the development of waqf land faces many problems and challenges among others such as lack of financial resources, undeveloped and unproductive waqf land, loopholes in the legal framework, unregistered waqf land, waqf on leasehold land, and land classified as heritage. Accordingly, the potential contribution of these institutions hinges on improving its efficiency. Thus, this study proposes a new framework that Awqaf institutions in Muslim countries should consider undertaking waqf land development through the issuance of sukuk and developing cash waqf fund.
This chapter makes use of the theory of planned behavior to identify factors that motivate intention toward Waqf giving. The chapter examines the relationship between intention and actual support toward the construction of modern Waqf-based hospital in Uganda. The study adopted factor analysis, principal component analysis, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to analyze data from 300 valid questionnaires. The findings reveal that three motivating factors, namely attitude, moral duties, and religious duties significantly and positively influence Muslim community's intentions to provide actual financial and non-financial support for the construction of modern Waqf-based hospital in Uganda. Accordingly, Muslim religious authorities and relevant parties should use these three motivating factors to influence Muslim community decision to support Waqf-based projects for their socioeconomic development.


Some of my colleagues in the US and abroad either have to provide details of their professional travel plans to their university before travel or, in some cases, have to get permission to travel, even when classes are not in session. At some institutions, these policies apply to both domestic and international professional travel, and at others, only to international travel.
Note: I am not talking about cases in which faculty are applying for travel funds from their university. I am talking about travel that is covered by a grant or other external sources of funding.
I know what my university's rules are for allowable travel expenses, airline and fare class selection, frequent flyer miles, use of a business credit card (rental cars and plane tickets: yes! casino chips and massages: no!), and the reimbursement process. Every once in a while I hear a rumor about a notification policy, but so far, it seems that either there isn't such a policy or it is not enforced.
For a while, faculty in my department were supposed to provide travel plans in advance to a certain administrative assistant; if we didn't, we were told, we might not be covered by health insurance or workers' compensation if a problem arose during travel.
That did not seem quite fair to me. If I traveled to a major city for perfectly legitimate professional reasons and then, while walking to my hotel, I am struck on the head by a piece of plywood that falls off a building under construction (true story), would I be ineligible for coverage if I hadn't told my department I was making the trip? Maybe I don't want to know the answer to that.
Anyway, when that pseudo-policy was in effect, some of us dutifully filed our travel info, some of us didn't, and eventually the AA pleaded with us all to stop sending her this information, so we did (stop).
I can see why a university might want to know quickly and accurately who is where if major disaster strikes in a particular location. I am not sure, however, that knowing what country and city we are in would be that useful for any practical purpose in an emergency. I could be quite wrong about that: Do universities that know the general whereabouts of its employees (I am not including students in this; that is different) during a major natural or other disaster provide any useful help, or is travel info just a record-keeping exercise for general bureaucratic purposes?
I do not know the answer to that question. I have been in/near some disasters during travel, but in those particular cases I did not need assistance from my university to deal with whatever I needed to deal with (for example, alerting family, friends, and colleagues that I was fine).
Do you believe that universities collect travel information out of concern for their employees and students? Some of my more cynical colleagues think there are darker motives for collecting such data.. (and if you can't guess what these are, that's great -- it means you are not (yet) a paranoid cynic).
Some things like this (travel plan reporting) may still be the domain of departments or other sub-units of an institution, so policies and/or enforcement may vary even within a single university. This may change: it seems that there is a move to centralize some functions that were formerly dealt with in departments; none of this has increased efficiency, as far as I can tell.
I hope the day never comes when such a policy either comes into existence or is enforced in my little corner of academia, dramatically decreasing our freedom to hop on a plane and travel incognito to Tuvalu on a whim, while adding to the amount of paperwork that we all have to do and that may well not have any real purpose.
I think we are meant to notify admin if we are away from our desks, whether on holiday or travelling for work. The stated reasons are (1) to check we are taking enough holiday(! 6 weeks in UK), (2) to check we are covered by uni travel insurance (3) so student & admin people know how to get hold of us.
I normally forget to notify anyone, but I probably would give advance notice if I were taking a field trip somewhere dangerous and might need the insurance / support.
How timely. Just yesterday I wrote our admin staff asking about policy on this issue and offering my itinerary, in preparation for a trip to a lesser developed country. I don't normally bother with trips in the US and Europe. As far as I know, neither our center nor university has a clear policy. A previous quasi-academic employer did require approval of travel, extra approval for international travel, and among the reasons they cited issues of on-the-job injury and insurance. In my opinion, if you consider yourself to be travelling on behalf of the university, it shouldn't seem like an unreasonable request.
Many years ago when travelling to a less developed country to teach a several-week-long class, I had to ask my department head to write a letter stating that the university would be legally and financially responsible for my conduct in that country - the country's visa process required such documentation (I suppose in case I caused havoc, killed somebody in an automobile accident, etc...). Luckily for me, my department head assented.
We have to get permission from a "supervisor" prior to any travel. Its clear to me from the permission form we have to file that this policy came about out of reasons of acountability in the administrative side of campus. For example, on the form, this a line that says "How will this trip benefit the University?" (Which I often fill out with snarky things like "My colleagues are happier when I am away from campus.") So it seems to me that this policy came about because of admin worries that staff were taking junkets and charging the university willy nilly. It has *nothing* to do with safety.
Oh, I definitely have to comment on this one! While working as a postdoc at a government lab, I received an invitation to give a talk at a semi-major international conference. Obviously, at that early stage in your career, you do not say no to invited talks in international settings (provided you have some results to talk about). However, the lab I was at required about 6 months notice for any international travel. I received the invitation about 4 months before the meeting, which is standard in our discipline.
I ended up having to quit my job to attend the meeting! It's not quite as bad as that - I was coming to the end anyway so I really just left about two weeks early. Still, that was a significant amount of pay to me at the time, and it meant I had no source of funding for the trip. Fortunately, the inviter was very kind and paid for my travel and lodging. I hope to pay that forward some day with another junior researcher.
My University requires us to tell them about international travel (business for sure, personal travel optional), but that is because they purchase international travel insurance for us. It's nice to know that if something were to happen my medical bills (and medical evacuation) would be mostly covered. The policy they get requires listing the cities/areas where we will be.
I also find it nice/convenient that they will even provide the insurance for personal international travel. Small price to pay for the piece of mind.
It's supposedly for travel insurance purposes. It's called an approval to travel form and is a common format across the university.
This is a clear case of bureaucracy creating busy work at the expense of researchers. I've fought back against such rules at every institution I've been at and in all cases they relented, proving that the need was completely unnecessary.
To be clear, I don't doubt in the least bit that insurance companies require proof that the trip was for work purposes. The point is how hard could it be to prove after the fact that the trip was taken for work purposes? Surely you are attending a conference you previously registered for and/or have an email track with a colleague you are meeting there.
Yeah, College of Science at our university (in the USA) has gotten REALLY picky about this one. You pretty much HAVE to get a travel authorization form signed BEFORE you go, even if the funds will come out of a grant, or they won't reimburse you.
I think the reason here (that they got picky about it, I think the policy has been in place for quite a while) is all the state budget cuts we've been dealing with. They want to be able to say no, you can't do that travel, so they can save money, if they need to. I think maybe the major craziness here is that they don't have a separate procedure for grant travel vs. state funds travel. I think (I hope) they'd be hard pressed to deny grant funded travel.
It's a pain to have to remember to fill the form but it's not that big a deal in the end, I guess.
Each fall our dean sends an email saying that absences of greater than two weeks must be voiced to one's respective chair and dean. The university does not want to set up a situation where faculty members not on sabbatical are away from campus for long periods of time. Teaching usually structures one's whereabouts enough, but this policy, instead of being safety/disaster oriented, is so that faculty are available as resources even if their teaching schedule does not require their presence on campus multiple days a week. It makes sense to me.
which is great for attending conferences, but kinda breaks down when the trip is for five weeks on site at the experiment, staying in an apartment provided by the grant, and cooking your own food bought at a grocery store.
I mean, how can I provide a receipt for breakfast on day 22 when I made an omelet with materials bought on day 19 and shared with half a dozen other meals?
In the worst case I wrote a script to generate a bogus breakdown because there was no other way to turn in the expenses. Later I learned that every other member of the research group had a similar tool.
There is no way that helps accountability.
We're asked to tell admin about when we're away from campus (but not where we're going). Apparently faculty sometimes used to disappear for months at a time during their non-teaching terms, leaving their students somewhat mystified (and unpaid---no signatures on salary approvals).
Note that non-teaching terms aren't like summer terms in the US: faculty are paid for 12 months.
My university requires department chair approval for any absence from campus, and dean's approval for anything over 4 days. No reason is given for this policy, but I suspect it is to keep track of those faculty who are not doing their teaching jobs (a very small number).
In our department (as in most where travel is common), the process is purely a bureaucratic rubber stamp, which just wastes everyone's time.
What if I went somewhere and gave a talk on something that was not related to my work at the university? Like, say, a panel at a conference of hobbyists of some sort? (Not that I go to such things, I'm just trying to understand how this works.) If, while walking down the street after that talk, I get hit by a car, would my employer's health insurance cover it? Would it depend on whether I got travel authorization?
Wow, this is very eye-opening. I've generally not had to state plans or ask permission at the institutes I've been at. And now I may be at the same university as mjphd. But my university, as far as I can tell, seems to be genuinely concerned for student safety -- the required international travel insurance is paid for by the university and it covers evacuation from natural and political emergencies. Faculty seem to have been added to this requirement as an afterthought. We just enter our travel info into a website and don't have to file any forms or bother any admins.
My department requires a form for ANY TIME I travel out of state. A little "big brother". For example, I had to do one when I was on a NIH study section, even though that is outside my job. Makes me wonder if they'd notice if I started giving a lot of "invitation seminars" one early spring, and suspect they were actually job talks?
These seem to be purely to keep tabs on where you are, and if you have made accommodation for the teaching you are missing.
Ok, so this is lawyers creating busy work for professors. Harder to push back but still can be done.
My institution has a rather short list of dangerous locations for which you need approval to visit. They notify the embassy of your presence there and keep track of your expected day of return. This is not busy work, but a realistic precaution.
Asking everyone to notify the chair because of the odd guy who travels to a current hot spot, is, as I said before, just busy work.
I'm at a university in the UK and, in our department, we have no official policy, but our admin asks us every term to let her know our travel plans just in case of an emergency. Last year, during the ash cloud debacle, this was actually a life saver, as a number of us were stranded in various places and our admin, who is a total star, was able to coordinate our emergency alternative travel arrangements to get us all home overland without too much misery. So in short, yes, sometimes it is actually useful for your department to know this sort of thing, provided your department is staffed by insanely capable people.
Both places I've worked at require notification prior if you're going to ask to get reimbursed (even if it off of your own grant). Technically, you're supposed to do it no matter what, but I don't think most adhere to that rule.
We have to file travel plans for even unfunded work-related travel (though not in the summer). These "requests" have to be countersigned by the chair, dean, provost, and president (no kidding). If we travel internationally, we need to pay for supplemental insurance, which can be $50 for western Europe, up to several hundred dollars for other places.
Every year, it's something new. On many days, I feel like actually going to conference and research trips is an act of defiance to a bureaucracy that seemingly wants me never to leave the campus.
In the US if you are injured on travel and cannot work for a period, the Uni's workman's compensation policy may require that you were given permission to travel on University business.
We have to notify admin about travel outside the country for insurance purposes. We do not need to notify anyone for national travel. This is not a case of extra bureaucracy but rather saving money.
My university has a policy requiring notification. It is ridiculous and clearly created by some bureaucrat who has no clue.
Most faculty respond by just ignoring the policy and travelling anyway.
I actually took the time to schedule a meeting with the bureaucrat at our travel services organization who created and was responsible for the policy, and explained why it was nuts. They listened politely, but were not willing to change the policy. Apparently they said they get some big discount on the insurance policy if they report details on people's travel to the insurer. I pointed out that they while they think they are reporting details, their sample is badly contaminated by the fact that most people don't report travel. I also pointed out that if they really needed the information, they could extract it from our reimbursement databases (which already contain information about payments for flights etc). The person in charge of the policy wasn't interested.
I asked the person: what happens if an employee or faculty travels on university-related business without submitting the official notification, and something happens to them? She said, candidly, the university's policy would probably pay out anyway.
So I gave up, and went back to doing what everyone else in my department does: ignore the policy, and travel without bothering to submit the stupid notifications.
P.S. In case it is not obvious, I consider these travel notification requirements totally unreasonable. As someone who travels several dozen times a year, they take up time for no good reason -- which means they are costing the university time that I could have spent on helping a student or doing better research or something.
For those who think they are a good idea, I would love to see the travel department that imposes the requirement have to account for the cost, in terms of faculty's and employee's time, in the travel department's own budget. Suppose they had to take a charge of several millions dollars, because of the cost of their silly requirement? We all know the requirement would disappear in a minute.
So one reason I rail against these requirements is that they are doing cost-shifting, but in a stealth way that doesn't show up on their accounting sheet -- and if we actually account for the true costs, we'd probably find that they are inefficient and not a good use of time.
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SUNY agrees to student credit card safeguards
The State University of New York, which has 64 campuses, has agreed to a code of conduct developed by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to safeguard students from what he calls "deceptive and unfair credit card marketing."
Mr. Cuomo's code outlines steps schools should take to monitor and limit credit card marketing to students, according to an e- mailed statement from the state attorney general's office.
The code requires the schools to offer financial literacy programs and not share personal information with credit card companies without permission.
It also bans agreements in which the school earns a percentage of finance charges imposed on students. If a school enters into an exclusive agreement with a credit card company, it must select the card based on their students' best interests, Mr. Cuomo said. It also must monitor all credit card offers promoted on campus.
"I commend SUNY for being at the vanguard of reform and I urge other colleges and universities to follow their lead," Mr. Cuomo said in the statement. Last week, Mr. Cuomo announced a statewide investigation into credit-card marketing practices that target college students through their institutions. He said he sent letters to about 300 colleges and universities in New York requesting contracts that offer exclusive rights to market cards.
SUNY chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said in today's statement from Mr. Cuomo's office that the university wants to "make sure that all of our students are prepared with the financial education they need and have the strongest safeguards against financial danger."
David Belsky, a SUNY spokesman, did not immediately return a call for comment on how the reforms will change current practices.
Mr. Cuomo said his continuing statewide investigation into credit card marketing has revealed troubling practices that have contributed to students' credit card debt. Citing a 2009 survey by Sallie Mae, he said the average college student graduates with nearly $4,100 in credit card debt.
Mr. Cuomo's current probe follows a nationwide investigation beginning in 2007 into conflicts of interests, including payments and perks to colleges and financial aid offices, in the $85 billion student loan industry. About a dozen lenders and 28 colleges agreed to cut financial ties as a result.
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Strong made her official debut at the "Weekend Update" desk during the 39th season premiere, though she has been a fixture there since she joined the NBC sketch comedy series with her character "Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party." Strong might soon be alone anchoring "Weekend Update" since co-anchor Seth Meyers is leaving SNL in early 2014 to take over hosting duties at Late Night.
"It's a time of transition, Seth is getting ready to leave," Poehler says of her former co-anchor. "She's just starting. I remember the early days of it, and it's a hard thing to get into a groove of, but Seth is such a pro and so good at it, I'm sure he's making her feel really good. She's going to be great. She's so great already and she's just starting."
How do you think Strong has been doing as a "Weekend Update" anchor?