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Jon Gruden mistakenly wears old Oakland Raiders hat for Las Vegas Raiders, makes change mid-game vs. Chargers
Jon Gruden probably did not forget which city the team he coaches plays in on Thursday, but you'd be forgiven for briefly thinking he did given his choice of headwear. The Raiders coach was sporting a Raiders hat while on the sideline of his team's game against the Los Angeles Chargers, but it was one that was out of date.
Gruden's hat was one from the Oakland Raiders, where the team played until the end of last season. It seems like someone pointed out the mistake to him during the game, as he switched to a hat with the same exact font, but with the city reading Las Vegas instead.
This switcheroo was prominent enough to grab the attention of the Fox broadcast, and sideline reporter Erin Andrews was sent to investigate what happened. Early in the fourth quarter she came back with a statement from the Raiders, who said that it was a mistake that came from habit. Per Andrews, Gruden is a big hat guy and the headwear he wore at the start of the game was probably already in the rotation, so he put it on without thinking much of it — to his credit, the difference in size between Raiders and the city is massive.
At the same time, it's also worth noting that Gruden does have a Las Vegas Raiders hat he has worn on the sidelines this season, so it's not clear how much water the Raiders' statement truly holds, but I digress.
There was another explanation that came from Leigh Mayock, the daughter of Raiders general manager Mike Mayock, who posted on Twitter that this was just Gruden's way of celebrating Throwback Thursday.
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Try fasting for the day before your training, breaking your fast an hour before you train for a small meal of eggs or something similar (protein & a small amount of fat, but not too much) then another small meal straight after training. Fasting after training is a bad idea as your body needs to repair.... 5/12/2006 · I started a fast for cleasing purposes and by the end of the day I had a massive headache (perhaps migraine) and nausea which were unbearable until I broke the fast and ate - the pain was gone about an hour after I ate.
I don't always get nausea while fasting, but this time was the worst I got some diet ginger ale (ginger helps with nausea) and just rested curled up in a ball with my water blanket and ginger ale and it seemed to pass fyi vitamins and coffee may cause more nausea. but it differs from person to person... Try fasting for the day before your training, breaking your fast an hour before you train for a small meal of eggs or something similar (protein & a small amount of fat, but not too much) then another small meal straight after training. Fasting after training is a bad idea as your body needs to repair.
I have never felt very healthy during EF's, and now I realise this isn't probably a good thing, even though I'm clearly not alone in this (if you google "water fasting nausea" you get a lot of results).... A possible way to help the transition into fat burning would be to eat a low carb diet at least on the day before a fast and during the fast and to do some exercise while fasting. This encourages the switch.
The FastDay Forum Why do I get headaches on my fast days?
26/08/2010 · Ramadan: Nausea during fasting? Do you know of any way to relieve nausea without breaking my fast? I have been nauseous since I woke up and still hours until I can break my fast.
I have never felt very healthy during EF's, and now I realise this isn't probably a good thing, even though I'm clearly not alone in this (if you google "water fasting nausea" you get a lot of results).


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Man Trying To Flee Shop After Stealing Phone But Door Wont Open
A thief met his waterloo after he stole a phone from a shop but was unable to escape because the door refused to open. Shop owner Afzal Adam, 52, used a gizmo installed behind the counter to lock the entrance after becoming suspicious of the thief's motives. In a video shared online, the thief is seen at the counter, showing interest in the phones on sale.
When he finally got the phone he wanted, he turned on his heels and ran towards the door. However, the door wouldn't open. Seeing no other means of escape, he returned the phone before the door was opened to let him out.
The shop owner at Phone Market in Dewsbury, West Yorks, England, said he let the thief go because he feared he could get violent
Afzal said: "With people wearing masks and balaclavas, I was worried about not being able to identify anyone if they did steal from my store. "He'd have gotten away with £1,600 of merchandise, so the mechanism has paid for itself! "After I had the owner of another local store come in and ask what mechanism we had as they wanted the same."
He added: "99.99% of the comments have been saying well done and commending our forgiveness. "Some people have been asking 'Why didn't you beat him up?', but we would never do that. "I hope I have showed people what humanity is - there's more to the story than this and if we had acted out it would just have been another story of violence."
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Q: How to re-direct download destination with PowerShell? I have a daily running Powershell script which downloads a csv file from a site.
the code is :
$oppo_url = "https://itisawebsite?export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=csv"
Start-Process $oppo_url

Start-Process will invoke Chrome which is my default browser and download the csv to my local Download folder, but I want the process to download the file to a designated folder, would it be possible?
I tried to add -WorkingDirectory 'C:\Users\myfolder\ but it didn't work.

A: Use BITS its used internally to download stuff in the background, but you can use it as a simple file downloader:
Start-BitsTransfer -Source "https://itisawebsite?export=1&enc=UTF-8&xf=csv" -Destination "c:\path\to\yourfiles\itisawebsite.csv"
You can make it run as a background job by adding -Asynchronous and catch the return value from Start-BitsTransfer or use Get-BitsTransfer to check on the status of the downloads.
(Those & should really be & but ive left it exactly as your example)

A: There are two Chrome extensions i have seen, but there might be more. These are, Downloads Router and RegExp Download Organizer. Where you should be able to specify which filetype, and then the .csv file can be downloaded to a specific folder you specify.
When PowerShell opens Chrome, these settings should be used.

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You may know Ted Rall as a editorial cartoonist. (Check out a recent cartoon that suggests why the US might really want to send troops to Liberia.) Ted is also a writer and he's right about George Bush: his tax cuts for the rich and his invasion of Iraq are both failures.
This bizarro Administration does everything bass-ackwards. The recession is hardest on the poor and middle-class, so Bush gives tax cuts to the rich. When an overwhelming invasion force was needed to secure Afghanistan, Rumsfeld sent in a skeleton crew. Now that the citizens of those countries want us to go home, Gen. Tommy Franks has announced that our 148,000-man, $5 billion-a-month occupation army will get bigger and stick around until whenever.
What Rall also points out is that using the CIA's George Tenet as the patsy in Yellowcakegate amounts to a cover-up before there is even a scandal.
Considering the conventional wisdom that Bush's idiocy is mitigated by his brilliant cabinet, Bush opted for a weird defense: I'm not a liar--my staff is incompetent! And so the cover-up began.
In the most transparently brokered deal since Ford's pardon of Nixon, Tenet agreed to take the blame for the Niger imbroglio in exchange for not taking the fall. "These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president," said Tenet in a prepared statement. "The president is pleased that the director of Central Intelligence acknowledged what needed to be acknowledged," said Ari Fleischer the next day. Bush got his patsy and Tenet kept his job. But career CIA staffers are furious at Bush for sticking them with the blame for a snafu they specifically tried to talk him out of. This is just beginning.
Lying about Niger yellowcake pales next to Bush's other evil chicanery: hobbling the U.S. economy with debt, feeding corporate corruption, opening concentration camps for Muslims and bombing thousands of people to death. But those acts are almost too monstrous to comprehend. Americans easily understand the myriad of little lies--the faked Jessica Lynch "rescue," the phony Saddam statue toppling and now the Niger uranium story--and how they add up to the character of a man unworthy of the office he holds.
Speaking of Jessica Lynch, she is scheduled to be released July 22 from Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
She is scheduled to make a brief press statement in Elizabeth, then travel via a military motorcade to her home in nearby Palestine, about 70 miles north of Charleston. She will not take questions from reporters, and will not address specifics of her capture and rescue, (family spokesman Randy) Coleman said.
This comes from FOXNews, which mentions nothing about the controversy behind Lynch's so-called "rescue." FOX does call Lynch a hero, which seems to be typical in the Southern press, i.e. Bush Country.
Interesting sidenote: More than 200 Google news items refer to Randy Coleman as the "family spokesman." As far as I can tell, only two cite his regular job title: Communications Director for the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety. I wonder, who is paying his fees to work for the Lynch family?
Could it be that the story of the Jessica Lynch "rescue" has gone away? I doubt it. Her handlers can't keep her away from the press forever. This is a story that is bound to be told, and only Lynch can tell it.


Virtual Console is an emulator that run particular ROM on Nintendo platforms, they contain ROM. It appears that the ROM extracted from VC (see how) could be played on Nintendo 64 emulators, and the ROM size appear to be unchanged with the one dumped directly from N64 cartridge.
Interestingly though, Nintendo 64 emulators could play without a problem even on low end PC and yet Dolphin still struggle playing the Nintendo 64 game, because, it's actually emulating an emulator. Maybe someday Dolphin will extract ROM on the fly and play it directly? Or run other Nintendo 64 emulator core/plugin(s) for it?
Nope, Dolphin is just meant to emulate the GC/Wii, as the hardware is very similar between the two systems since the Wii is just an upgraded GC. The N64 is too different of a system to be natively run in Dolphin. Most VC titles play without any issues. When you say you're struggling, which games are you referring to? And have you tried the latest dev build: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ as it is way faster than 4.0.2.
(01-14-2015, 10:27 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Nope, Dolphin is just meant to emulate the GC/Wii, as the hardware is very similar between the two systems since the Wii is just an upgraded GC. The N64 is too different of a system to be natively run in Dolphin. Most VC titles play without any issues. When you say you're struggling, which games are you referring to? And have you tried the latest dev build: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ as it is way faster than 4.0.2.
Maybe I overlooked other Nintendo 64 games than Zelda ones. I've usually downloaded the latest build every time I play Dolphin.
I understand that Nintendo 64 is very different than GameCube and Wii system. I think it would be awesome to be able use Dolphin as front end for Nintendo 64 core/plugins as that would append Wii and GameCube controllers to it in a very convenient way with familiar hotkeys and features.
Considering that Dolphin plays many N64 games better than N64 emulators do... I think "struggling" depends on your perspective!
orly "dolphin+VC is better than n64 emulator"? all n64 games are extremely slow, doesn't the wiki say Majora's Mask is also unstable?
I guess that the less-supported-in-n64-emu games work better in Dolphin, as Nintendo optimized the N64-on-PowerPC emulators to run without glitches on limited hardware, and Dolphin's emulating the Wii sufficiently well to introduce less glitches than PC N64 emulation does, albeit slowly due to double-emulation.
The correct thing to do is to extract the ROM and play it in a N64 emulator. Dolphin is not a N64 emulator, even if it can run N64-on-PowerPC emulators.
Mario Tennis is amazing on Dolphin. Majora's Mask and OoT on VC are unstable due to unknown reasons, but, the Collector's Edition/Master Quest ones are flawless at this point. It's hit or miss, but, it's very very high number of hits at this point.
Glide64 can run Paper Mario and GLide64 will be able to run Tennis.
So? I can run it in Dolphin right now.


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After a busy but very enjoyable long weekend we start preparing for another weekend, not quite as busy as there is quite a bit on the go.
Before we get to the weekend the Safety First Aviator Team will be delivering another instalment of their very enlightening Safety programme and Benoni Brakpan airfield on Thursday 28 September, as Santjie White says "if you think its not for you then it definitely is.
Secunda airfield will be hosting a SPFA Rally flying competition please contact Frank Eckard for details frank.eckard@mweb.co.za
SkyClass Aviation is offering scenic flights on a DC3, R850 per person is definitely worth paying to experience Air Travel from yesteryear. Contact William Carstens Tel: 011 541 9911 Cell: 073 251 3348 Website: www.flyskyclass.com for more detail.
Cape Town Air Access lines up new flights, expansions
This week the team from Cape Town Air Access participated at the World Routes conference held in Barcelona, Spain, and lined up three new non-stop flights to Cape Town International and two expansions.
Details of the flights will be announced in due course, according to the Western Cape investment agency Wesgro.
World Routes is the global meeting place for airline, airport and aviation stakeholders. This year Cape Town Air Access shared a booth with Airports Company SA (ACSA), Durban Direct and the Gauteng province.
Wesgro CEO Tim Harris was also an invited panellist on World Routes' "Spotlight on Africa" discussion on Tuesday. During this discussion critical topics affecting the continent and its development were covered, ranging from infrastructure to air access increasing trade and investment with major markets like China.
Cape Town Air Access is a partnership, based at Wesgro, which includes the Western Cape Government, the City of Cape Town, Cape Town Tourism, ACSA and SA Tourism and is the focal point for international air route development in the Western Cape.
According to Wesgro it was thanks to this partnership's efforts that Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) experienced close to 30% growth in international passenger traffic in 2016, breaking the 10 million passengers per year mark for the first time.
From January until June 2017, international passenger traffic grew by 27% compared to the same period last year. Fast growing markets include North America, Brazil, France, Germany and South East Asia. On the African continent strong growth has been recorded for Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius and Zimbabwe.
The new flights and route expansions secured by Air Access so far mean that more than 130 000 international seats will be added to CTIA's capacity during the upcoming SA summer season starting in October 2017, according to Wesgro.
"Cape Town Air Access is a successful model of how route development can be driven as part of a collaborative approach by government and business. World Routes was a great success for our team this year with multiple commitments for new routes and expansions," said Harris.
Have a great week, and please be safe out there.


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Patient satisfaction with occupational health physicians, development of a questionnaire
J H Verbeek1,
A G de Boer1,
W E van der Weide2,
H Piirainen3,
J R Anema4,
R J van Amstel4,
F Hartog5
1Coronel Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, Netherlands
3Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of OHS Development, Kuopio, Finland
4TNO Work and Health, Hoofddorp, Netherlands
5NIGZ, Woerden, Netherlands
Correspondence to:
Dr J H Verbeek
Coronel Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health, Academic Medical Centre, Division of Clinical Methods and Public Health, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, Netherlands; j.h.verbeekamc.uva.nl
Aims: To develop a questionnaire that measures specific aspects of patient satisfaction with occupational health physicians.
Methods: General patient satisfaction questionnaires, a literature survey, and interviews with patients were used. An initial questionnaire was distributed among sick listed patients (n = 432) of occupational physicians (n = 90) from different occupational health services. To reduce items and to develop scales exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis was used. A linear regression model was used to predict satisfaction ratings from the scales of the questionnaire.
Results: Questions about independence of the occupational physician were difficult to ask unambiguously. The factor analysis revealed five relevant factors which were named "being taken seriously as a patient", "attitude towards occupational health services", "trust and confidentiality", "expectations", and "comfort and access". All scales could be reduced to a maximum of five items without reducing the scale reliability too much. In the regression analysis, 71% of the variance of satisfaction ratings was explained by the first four scales and most by the first scale. "Comfort and access" did not contribute significantly to the model.
Conclusions: A short questionnaire was developed to measure different aspects of patient satisfaction specific for occupational health. Whether the questionnaire can effectively lead to quality improvement in occupational health services should be investigated.
occupational physician
Patient satisfaction is an important measure in health services research.1 By some it is seen as a measure of outcome that can be used to evaluate treatment.2 It has been shown that a higher patient satisfaction is related to a better compliance with advice on treatment.3 Furthermore, patient satisfaction is supposed to give an impetus to quality improvement of health services.4 Patient satisfaction ratings are also used to help consumers make an informed choice between health care providers.5
To date, most researchers assume that satisfaction is best defined as a patient's evaluation of aspects of a health care service based on the fulfilment of their expectations.3,6,7 The evaluation is in the affective domain and ascribes favourable or unfavourable feelings towards the object of evaluation. Satisfaction is generally seen as a concept which is influenced by several factors in various domains such as interpersonal manner, humaneness, competence, technical quality, outcome, comfort of facilities, and continuity of care.8 In their literature review, Verbeek et al report that there are factors in occupational health services that are specific for patient satisfaction with these services. They mention aspects such as the independence of the occupational physician, unclear reasons for seeing the occupational physician, and good knowledge of working conditions as factors that are specifically related to satisfaction in occupational health.9
Van der Weide et al and Piirainen et al developed questionnaires based on existing patient satisfaction questionnaires that could measure specifically satisfaction with occupational health.10,11 However, their questionnaires did not show specific domains related to occupational health and therefore they did not have much added value over general patient satisfaction questionnaires. We wanted to expand the occupational health aspects of these questionnaires, because a patient satisfaction questionnaire with a more specific occupational health content can have a higher potency for quality improvement in occupational health services.
To get a better understanding of patients' expectations, we interviewed patients of occupational health physicians about their expectations of the visit to the occupational physician. We constructed a new questionnaire which was subsequently tested in a large patient sample. The objective of this article is to report about the contents of the new questionnaire and its psychometric properties.
Initial questionnaire
From previous questionnaires on patient satisfaction with occupational health,10,11 and the results of the literature review,9 an initial questionnaire was constructed.
The items of the questionnaire were presented as statements with which the respondent could agree or disagree. Answers to the statements were made up of a five point Likert scale with the answers: totally disagree (1), do not agree (2), don't know (3), agree (4), totally agree (5). For general satisfaction we asked the patient to give a rating based on a number between 1 and 10, where 1 would mean the lowest possible satisfaction and 10 the highest possible satisfaction. We also asked them to answer to three general statements on satisfaction in general, usefulness of the visit, and meeting of expectations.
In a pilot version the questionnaire was tested with four randomly chosen patients of an Occupational Health Service, who had just seen their occupational physician, to find out about the feasibility and understanding of the questions.
To find additional themes to be covered in the questionnaire, 13 consecutive patients of an Occupational Health Service of a large academic hospital were asked to be interviewed prior to their visit to the occupational physician. The interview had a semi-structured character, with items about expectations of the visit and previous experiences with both occupational physicians and physicians in general. The interviews were audio-taped and transcribed. The written transcripts were screened for common themes. Additional items were added to the initial questionnaire
In occupational health care, trust and attitude towards the occupational health physician are important underlying aspects of patient satisfaction.
Based on literature and interviews, a questionnaire was developed for measuring patient satisfaction with occupational health physicians.
Factor analysis and reliability analysis revealed five reliable scales in the questionnaire underlying patient satisfaction.
The scales from the 20 item questionnaire can be used to look for causes of dissatisfaction, that can in turn be used as input for a quality improvement programme.
The initial questionnaire was part of an ongoing research project on evaluation of the collaboration between occupational physicians and general practitioners. Occupational physicians who participated in the project were interviewed (n = 90) about patients who they had recently seen at their consultation hour. For this purpose the agenda of the physician was taken and a consecutive series of nine patients who were seen during the past week was selected by the physician together with the interviewer. The inclusion criteria were having a paid job, being on sick leave, and understanding of the Dutch language. The physicians were spread evenly over the country. During the interview, we asked them to send the questionnaire to the included patients. This resulted in 789 patients being approached, of whom 432 (55%) returned the questionnaire.
To be able to reduce the number of items in the questionnaire and to check for the underlying assumptions about aspects specific for occupational health, an exploratory factor analysis was first performed. Responses on the items of the initial questionnaire were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis using squared multiple correlations as prior communality estimates. The principal axis factor method was used to extract the factors, and this was followed by a varimax rotation with Kaiser normalisation. In interpreting the rotated factor pattern, an item was considered to load on a given factor if the factor loading was 0.40 or greater for that factor, and was less than 0.40 for the other factors.12 When an item loaded less than 0.40 on any factor and we could not consider it as a separate factor, it was removed from the initial questionnaire.
After item reduction, the resulting factors were interpreted as representing specific aspects of patient satisfaction. The items that made up these factors were further examined by means of reliability analysis by which the internal consistency of scale scores was estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient.12 The number of items per scale was then further reduced to a maximum of five without reducing the alpha coefficient. Items with lowest item-rest correlation were omitted. Care was taken that a scale still covered the whole content of a theme. Reliability was considered adequate if >0.70, good if >0.80, and excellent if >0.90.
To enable easy comparison of the scores on different aspects of satisfaction, all scales were transformed to a scale with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 100 by dividing the crude score minus the minimum crude score by the score range and multiplying by 100. Sixty per cent of the item scores had to be present to enable the calculation of a sum score.
Policy implications
Patient satisfaction with outcomes of occupational health care can be measured with a questionnaire specific for occupational health physicians.
Interventions to increase patient satisfaction should be directed at improvement of the communication with the patient, the trust in, and the attitude towards occupational health services.
Subsequently, the resulting reduced questionnaire was again subjected to an exploratory factor analysis to investigate the final factor structure of the questionnaire.
Finally, the scales were entered in a linear regression analysis as independent variables to investigate whether they could predict the general satisfaction rating. In the regression analysis missing values were substituted by mean values.
On the basis of the pilot test, several items were removed from the questionnaire because the interviewees interpreted the statements in different ways. Some items were altered to improve the feasibility of the questionnaire. It turned out to be difficult to ask questions about the independence of the occupational physician that were not multi-interpretable.
The interviews with the patients of the Occupational Health Services did not reveal any new themes that were not covered already.
These preparations resulted in a initial questionnaire that contained 54 items about the following themes:
The making of an appointment (8 items)
Satisfaction rating with the appointment making (rating from 1 to 10)
Access and comfort (4 items)
Interpersonal manner of the occupational physician (3 items)
Communication (5 items)
Expectations and continuity of care (2 items)
Professional knowledge (7 items)
Independence of the occupational physician (3 items)
Trust and confidentiality (3 items)
Satisfaction in general (3 items)
Satisfaction in general rating (rating from 1 to 10)
Attitude towards occupational health services (14 items).
A priori, and based on the literature review and the interviews, it was hypothesised that the questionnaire would cover at least the following six themes: access and comfort, manner and communication, expectations and continuity of care, professional knowledge, independence and trust, and attitude towards occupational health services.
The initial questionnaire with 54 items was tested in 432 patients. Half of them were male and the average age was slightly higher than that of the working population in general. They were all on sick leave and almost 80% were invited for a visit by the occupational physician. For less then 20% this was the first experience with the occupational physician. Almost 40% had seen the occupational physician more than four times before (table 1).
Characteristics of patients of occupational physicians that filled in the initial satisfaction questionnaire (n = 432)
Before the data were entered into a factor analysis the number of items was reduced because the data were not available for all patients or the items were not supposed to represent dimensions of satisfaction. Since only 23.2% of the patients had made the appointment themselves with the occupational physician, the eight items about making the appointment and the satisfaction rating for appointment making were not used in the analyses. The question about the amount of time the visit had taken differed in structure so much from the other statements that it was omitted from the analyses as well. The three general items about satisfaction (satisfaction in general, usefulness of the consultation, meeting of expectations) and the satisfaction rating were not supposed to represent specific aspects of satisfaction and were left out of the factor analysis. The three satisfaction items were summed into a scale of general satisfaction.
The remaining 40 items were entered into an initial exploratory factor analysis. The items were further reduced if the items did not belong to a specific factor based on the pre-set criteria for the factor analysis. The scree test suggested six meaningful factors. For five factors a meaningful interpretation could be found. The following two items loaded on a sixth factor for which we could not find a meaningful interpretation: "It is clear for what reasons the occupational health service invites you" and "The occupational health service does not send anyone back to work who is still ill". These items were not included in the further analysis and deleted from the questionnaire. Three items about the independence of the occupational physician did not meet the criterion of a factor loading of at least 0.40 on one factor only. The statements were: "During my visit my health came first for the occupational physician", "The occupational physician is there to save money for the employer", "The occupational physician takes only care of the interests of the employer". These items loaded high on both the factors "being taken seriously" and "trust and confidentiality". The same held for one item about comfort which loaded on both "being taken seriously" and "comfort". Two items did not load higher than 0.40 on any factor and were omitted for that reason. Two items loaded on different factors than we hypothesised in advance and changed from overarching theme.
This resulted in 32 items and the following five factors that were supposed to represent specific aspects of satisfaction with occupational health:
Being taken seriously as a patient (13 items)
Having a positive attitude towards occupational health services (9 items)
Having expectations of occupational health services (3 items)
Comfort and access to the occupational health service (4 items).
In the last step the number in the various factors or scales was further reduced based on the reliability analysis. The 13 items of the scale "being taken seriously as a patient" were reduced to five items, without reducing the reliability of the scale. From the nine items of the "attitude towards OHS" scale, four items were omitted. The other scales had already less than five items so they were not further reduced. Both reduced scales showed high reliability. (table 2) This reduction resulted in the final 20 items that make up the questionnaire.
Means, standard deviations, Pearson inter-correlations, and coefficient alpha reliability estimates (in brackets on the diagonal) for the scales of 20 item Patient Satisfaction with Occupational Health Questionnaire (n varies from 429 to 432)
The scores of the resulting scales of the final 20 item questionnaire varied from 65 (21) for the attitude scale to 75 (22) for the scale "being taken seriously as a patient" (table 2).
Table 3 gives the mean item scores and the factor loadings of the final 20 item questionnaire. The highest scoring item was "The OP treated me in a pleasant manner", while the lowest scoring item was "If my boss drove me crazy with work I would ask the OP to help me". All items met our criterion of loading more than 0.40 on one factor and less than 0.40 on the other factors.
Questionnaire items, mean score and standard deviation, and corresponding factor loadings from the rotated factor pattern matrix (n = 397) for Patient Satisfaction with Occupational Health Questionnaire
The regression of satisfaction on the scale scores as independent predictors yielded 71% of explained variance (table 4). It was problematic that both the satisfaction rating and the independent variables were not normally distributed but skewed to the left. Therefore, we performed the same analysis in three different ways: with the satisfaction rating, with the satisfaction scale score, and with the square transformation of both the dependent and the independent variables. The square transformation had a normal distribution when visually inspected. In all analyses, most of the variance was explained by the scale "being taken seriously" and next by "attitude towards occupational health" and "trust". Only after square transformation the "expectations" scale provided some extra explanation of variation. The "comfort and access" scale did not contribute significantly to the model.
Results of regression of satisfaction on scales of being taken seriously, attitude towards occupational health, trust in occupational physician, expectations of occupational health service, and comfort and access to occupational health service
We developed a questionnaire to measure satisfaction with the visit to the occupational physician. The questionnaire consists of 20 questions showing at least four relevant domains of satisfaction which could be summed into scales. The scales were named "being taken seriously as a patient", "attitude towards occupational health services", "trust and confidentiality", and "expectations". The scales showed sufficient reliability and predicted the general satisfaction rating with 71% of variance explained.
We used extensive preparatory studies to gather items for the questionnaire, both with a survey of the literature and with qualitative interviews of patients of occupational health physicians. Items that were not unambiguously comprehensible for patients were deleted. We used factor analysis and reliability analysis to reduce the number of items and retained meaningful components of the questionnaire. This strongly supports the use and the structure of the resulting questionnaire. The data we used came from a great variety of occupational physicians from all over the country, which increases the generalisability of the results.
We were able to test only the directly measurable psychometric properties of the questionnaire. In future research it has to be studied whether the questionnaire has also predictive validity in the sense that it can predict unwanted patient behaviour, such as not returning for appointments or not complying with advice. This would support its validity. Its predictive validity could also be supported by showing that the results of the questionnaire can effectively be used to improve quality of care. However, studies on the use of feedback of patient opinions to improve quality of care have not shown very positive results.13–15
Even though we covered a wide range of themes in our study and could include patients from different backgrounds, we could not guarantee sufficient variation in the answers. Possibly, some aspects do not influence satisfaction because of a ceiling effect. The average and median answers of most questions were around the value 4 out of 5 and very skewed to the left. It could be that the comfort scale did not influence satisfaction ratings because of this ceiling effect. On the other hand, our sample consisted of patients on sick leave only. Inclusion of patients that would have come for health examinations or preventive procedures could even have increased the ceiling effect, assuming that they would be more satisfied. The same holds for the non-responders. We had a fairly high number of non-responders, which is not unusual for a postal survey. It is generally assumed that responders use the opportunity to complain.16 If the response rate had been higher, the ceiling effect might also have been higher.
We were not able to formulate questions about the independence of the occupational physician that were unambiguous enough to be retained in the questionnaire, even though the literature provides some evidence of its influence on satisfaction.17,18 Independence of the physician is a difficult concept, especially in relation to occupational health, and there is no general consensus about the meaning. An independent occupational physician could, for example, act only in the interest of the employee, act only in the interest of the employer, or act only following professional standards regardless of the outcome. What would be called independent here depends on one's point of view.
There was a difference in phrasing of questions which is still apparent in the final questionnaire. The original questions were divided into those relating directly to the visit and those about a more general opinion. In the factor analysis those that represented a more general opinion loaded on the factor attitude towards occupational health services. In the regression analysis this factor explained a considerable amount of the variance in satisfaction of the last visit. Therefore, we retained these questions in the questionnaire.
In future research the questionnaire should be tested for test-retest reliability and convergent and divergent validity, in addition to the different aspects of predictive validity. Cultural aspects being related to a national culture of occupational health could also bias the results that we have found. Therefore we recommend cross-cultural research on the validity of the questionnaire. Furthermore, since this questionnaire has been tested in patients on sick leave, it needs to be more widely tested amongst workers seen by Occupational Health Services for other reasons such as health surveillance.
The majority of the patients were invited for a visit by the occupational health provider, not only as result of an earlier visit but also for the first visit. This creates a situation apparently different from that in primary care where patients almost exclusively make an appointment themselves. This could be one of the reasons that the factor of trust became influential for patient satisfaction. However, we could not find a statistically significant difference between those patients that were invited and those that made an appointment spontaneously.
To those that want to use satisfaction surveys in practice, we recommend asking patients to give a general rating of satisfaction with a number between 1 and 10, and in addition to ask them to fill out the questionnaire. This enables the comparison of satisfaction levels with those that we found here. In addition, if satisfaction is below average, it could reveal which relevant aspects that lead to satisfaction could be improved. Improvement could be realised by better communication skills, improvement of the image of occupational health services, especially related to trust and confidentiality, and being clearer about what patients can expect. Comfort and easy access to the occupational health services do not seem to influence satisfaction to a great extent.
In conclusion, we feel that we have developed a feasible instrument for satisfaction surveys that could prove to be a useful tool in quality improvement of occupational health services.
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Running at about 40 minutes, this is one of our longer pantomimes, but it is told in the traditional way. The Dame chats with the audience; there's a comic cow; the Giant's wife has had enough of her slob of a husband and it all turns out well in the end! We have made this story very easy to stage. There's a beanstalk but no-one climbs it or chops it down! Songs are sung by a group of townspeople but they can be eliminated altogether if you don't have enough children and it won't affect the script at all. A thoroughly enjoyable and traditional panto.


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Day 4: Keith in Israel!
by Keith Dvorchik | Oct 22, 2021
I had to set my alarm for 5 a.m. because we were leaving Jerusalem at the crack of dawn to travel to Masada and the Dead Sea. I've been to both about a dozen or so times, and they are both very cool and fun to explore. The only thing that stinks is the super early morning wake-up. We drove south through the desert, and it wasn't long before we were below sea level. Bedouin encampments dotted the landscape, and the desert had this beautiful, mysterious look to it. When I got the first glimpse of the Dead Sea, I was captivated, as I always am. It's very big, it's a stunning aquamarine, and it's bordered by the most picturesque mountains. It's truly breathtaking. As we approached Masada, the mountains began to dominate the area. It's a beautiful drive.
Atop Masada.
We got off the bus and went into the Masada welcome center. I usually walk up either the snake path or the Roman path (although it's been well over a decade since I walked up the snake path), but this time I took the cable car. After a long flight and longer days, I opted to get to the top the easy way. One member of our Orlando group decided to run to the top. This is his first time visiting Israel, and he wanted the challenge. From the cable car, I could see him way ahead of the group, gradually nearing the top. As it turns out, he reached the top of Masada and all the way to the north palace in under 19 minutes! We were all in awe.
As we gathered at the top of Masada, there was another group there. They were a pre-army preparation group, and it was fun to talk with them. There is no question how important military service is in Israel and what a key part of Israeli identity it is.
We began our tour of Masada by celebrating b'nai mitzvah for men on the trip who hadn't had one. It was so exciting and filled with joy and ruach (spirit). We sang and celebrated them. In the ancient synagogue atop Masada, there is a sofer (scribe) writing a Sefer Torah. We had the opportunity to go in and 'write' a word in the Torah by touching his arm as he wrote the word and saying a blessing. It was an honor to get to write a word in a new Torah that will go somewhere in Israel.
Writing a word of Torah.
After the b'nai mitzvah, we began our tour of the mountain.
Having done this many times, I know the story and wasn't totally invested. But then our tour guide did something amazing—he began sharing historical information I had never heard before, about Herod the Great, the Roman Empire, and placed Masada firmly in that context. He explained everything that happened to get to the point where the Jews of Masada found themselves besieged by the Romans. It was fascinating.
As we wrapped up, our guide shared some words of wisdom that his rabbi shared with him, which applied to both Masada and our lives today: "Figure out what it is that you would die for—and then begin living for it." Such simple yet profound words, and certainly something to aspire to. I know this is one lesson I will be taking home with me.
The view from Masada.
After descending in the cable car, we had a quick lunch and then made our way to the Dead Sea. The area we were in was a private men's section. It was filled with amazing salt crystals that were like rocks. I was grateful that I had my water shoes to protect my feet. We loaded up on Dead Sea mud and spread it all over ourselves to get the healing power of its minerals. And then it was into the Dead Sea!
The Dead Sea is hard to truly explain.
It's approximately 35% salt content. (The ocean is approximately 3%.) You feel every cut on your body when you first enter the water, and it doesn't take long for the buoyancy to kick in, and all of a sudden you're floating. It's a very cool feeling, as your body is mostly out of the water and you aren't doing anything to make that happen. You float, talk with others, and relax. After about 45 minutes in the Dead Sea, it was time to get out, change clothes, and move on.
Our final stop of the day was Ammunition Hill. Ammunition Hill was the site of a critical battle in the Six Day War of 1967 that allowed the recapture and reunification of Jerusalem. It memorializes the 182 soldiers that died in the Six Day War. Most of them were paratroopers who died at Ammunition Hill. It's truly a special place and has meant something to me since I first visited in 1989 on my first trip.
This time we did something different: we played laser tag on the actual battlefield. The guns we used looked and felt like real rifles, and we split into two teams with different objectives that were related to the Battle of Ammunition Hill. Our team lost the first exercise and then won the second one. In the final team exercise, we lost. Each exercise was very challenging and helped us understand just a little bit of what the paratroopers faced. We then went into the Bruce K. Gould Auditorium (named for our very own Bruce Gould!) where we heard from Alon Wald, the Head of Operations. Alon's father was one of the paratroopers who was killed during the Battle of Ammunition Hill. It was a powerful and inspiring talk.
We headed back to the hotel for a quick shower, and then it was off to dinner. We walked to the Old Train Station, which is now a hip area with restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and live entertainment. I've been there before, but not at night when it was alive like this. There was a real energy in the air, and it really felt like pre-COVID times. It put a smile on my face and in my heart. Dinner was delicious. We ordered a bunch of different appetizers, and our entrees were fantastic. It was a wonderful dinner with great conversation.
The rest of the Orlando crew went off to visit the Mir Yeshiva, the largest yeshiva in the world with over 8,000 students while I went back to the hotel, completely exhausted after three very long and very intense days.
Tomorrow will be Shabbat, and I'm excited to be here in Jerusalem and to visit the Kotel for Shabbat. It's something truly special, and I'm excited to share it with the men on this trip. We are forming amazing bonds while doing personal exploration, and really opening up with each other and the larger group. It's an incredible thing to be a part of and to watch happening day by day.


Why would I use a credit adviser?
As the home loan market becomes increasingly complex, more people are turning to credit advisers. Here are some of the reasons.
The choices now available in the mortgage market can seem limitless and completely overwhelming. You can choose to research the subject, the lenders and their products yourself, or work with a credit adviser who already has that knowledge.
All credit advisers have a panel of Lenders from which they recommend a loan. They have to become accredited with the lender to offer their product, and are required to keep up-to-date with their latest offers.
The best deal is not necessarily the cheapest rate. A good credit adviser will examine your circumstances and future plans to recommend a loan that is right for you. Having an appropriate loan which works for you can help you build wealth.
Most credit advisers don't charge a fee for their service as the lenders pay them a commission for the loans they write. Most lenders offer the same rate via the credit adiver as they would directly, and a credit adviser could save you money in other ways.
Many products seem to offer a great deal but they could have penalties, fees and charges you may not be aware of. Or, they may not offer the flexibility you require in the future. A credit adviser can help you avoid taking out a loan you might later regret.
A good credit adviser can save you time and money, and give you peace of mind. Contact Bevon at [email protected] for further advice.


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Pflanz, 75, Praised As Industry Leader
SIOUX CITY, IOWA — Vance Pflanz, 75, president of Pflanz Electronics, a veteran CE retailer, was praised by industry leaders just before and after his passing on Thursday, March 27.
Pflanz' participation with industry associations, BrandSource and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), was praised for his willingness to share his retail experience of 55 years and his involvement with a variety of local charities.
BrandSource reported prior to its March 16-19 convention in Orlando, Fla., that Pflanz suffered a stroke and released an "appreciation" in which he was described as "a dedicated and loyal member who has consistently gone above and beyond expectations to serve his industry as well as his community."
During the convention, the group's consumer electronics division, ProSource, named Pflanz to its Hall of Fame.
In a statement, BrandSource CEO Bob Lawrence said, "Vance is a remarkable individual with a unique combination of attributes. He's exceptionally smart, highly skilled at marketing, well-liked by his customers and colleagues, and he's fearless when it comes to embracing change. That's rare. Vance has made major contributions to our members and to the industry. We salute him."
In a statement from CEA, president and CEO Gary Shapiro said, "Our association has lost a true friend and leader in Vance Pflanz. Vance helped grow our association and create deeper ties between dealers and manufacturers by championing retailers' participation in CEA. We owe him a strong debt of gratitude for his service, his leadership and his legacy of programs to help support independent retailers."
Pflanz was a longtime volunteer leader at CEA, helping to oversee the merger of the Professional Audio Video Retailers Association (PARA), where he served on the board, with CEA in 2004. He helped found and served as chair of CEA's Audio-Video Retailer Division from 2010 through 2011, and was a member of the Retail Leadership Team of CEA's Retailer Council since its inception.
CEA said Pflanz was a strong advocate for independent retailers. By trying to "get footprints" in dealers' stores, Pflanz was influential in the development of "CE Demo Days," CEA's successful national retail promotions. He also helped develop CEA's Great Ideas Meetings and Workshops for retailers, as part of his strong support for, and belief in, the importance of continuing dealer education.
To help keep the company front and center as the area's electronics expert, Pflanz produced five-minute weekly radio spots and an hour-long radio call-in show to spotlight new technologies.
BrandSource quoted Spencer Kalker, president of Image Crafters, store design and strategic planning consultancy, about working with Pflanz, saying in part, "He's always positive, upbeat, engaged in the industry and eager to learn," said Kalker. "He also wears his community hat 24/7. We worked on a Boys Club of Sioux City home-theater project last year, and he wanted to make sure everything was perfect. It wasn't just a job. Doing it right was extremely important to him."
Pflanz also worked with organizations including Albums for Alzheimer's and Make-A-Wish Foundation, as well as a variety of community projects, here.
His survivors include his son Scott and his wife Mindy Pflanz, his daughter Mona and her husband Brian Hodgins, and five grandchildren.
Vance Pflanz, CE Retail Leader, Dies At 75
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This series of works was presented for an Advanced Diploma in Printmaking which was awarded with distinction in 1989 from the University of Cape Town. The associations of a jewelry box, a metronome, jack-in-the-box and Pandora's box served as initial inspiration for this series of etchings. I wishes to create the illusion of centrifugal motion, that of the spiralling ballet dancer in a jewelry box, in order to suggest music. The structures of the striated "ticker" and the circular cog found in the mechanism of the metronome re-inforced the illusion of centrifugal motion. I modified the shape of some of the plates in order to create greater dimension and to facilitate the illusion of objects propelled by their own momentum from the confines of the music box. The use of musical titles directs the viewer's imagination towards the fantastical nature of the image.


Officials at the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) are preparing for what they anticipate to be an overload of visitors in the weeks before Oklahoma schools start classes. That concern is intensified with Oklahoma City Public Schools' decision to start classes this year at the same time as most other schools in the state.
Parents who have children beginning school in August are encouraged to order the official copy of their child's birth certificate in advance. An official copy of a birth certificate is typically required for students enrolling for the first time or enrolling at a different school.
OSDH Director of Vital Records Kelly Baker said she is expecting a 50 percent increase in customers during a time of the year already known to bring increased traffic and long lines.
For those who prefer to avoid the lines, information about back-to-school applications for birth certificates may be viewed and submitted online at https://go.usa.gov/xEbFu with a credit card, or applications may be printed and returned with payment and a copy of a photo ID by mail.
Those parents or legal guardians wishing to obtain a certificate in person should visit the OSDH at 1000 NE 10th Street in Oklahoma City. Lobby hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. All applicants must present a current legal photo ID along with payment and their application. Applicants who are not identified as a parent on the record, will need to provide proof of parentage or guardianship.


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Q: Is this set open in the product topology? Let $X$ and $Y$ be topological spaces and equipp $X\times Y$ with the product topology. Assume $U\subset X$ is open and for every $p\in U$ we have an open subset $V_p\subset Y$ of $Y$.
Is the set
$\bigcup_{p\in U}\left(\{p\}\times V_p\right)\subset X\times Y$
open in $X\times Y$?
If not, does it hold for more specific choices, e.g. $Y$ is a metric space and $V_p=B_\varepsilon(p)$ is the open ball of radius $\varepsilon$ around $p$ where $\varepsilon$ doesn't depend on $p$.
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Replies to some of the comments -
Brandon: Thank you for your answer :-). In fact, it is not a homework problem (thats why I also added the additional question in the case of metric spaces). I tried to work with the definiton of product topology (i.e. products of open sets of $X$ and $Y$ form a basis) but couldn't come up with something useful. Then I tried to find a continuous map that has the above set as the preimage of an open set, but that attempt also flailed. Maybe it's rather simple and I'm just stuck, or the set isn't open.
Rise: Yes, thanks for noticing, one should also have $X=Y$.

A: Let $U = (-1,1)$, $V_x = (-1,1)$ for $x = 0$ and $V_x = (-\frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{2})$ otherwise. There is obviously no $\varepsilon$-Ball around $(0, \frac{3}{4})$.


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Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström (* 12. August 1976 bei Klaukkala; weitere Künstlernamen: Lilly Lazer und Daniel Lioneye) ist ein finnischer Gitarrist und Mitbegründer der Rockband HIM.

Er gilt als großer Bewunderer von Iggy Pop. Lindström und Ville Valo trafen sich das erste Mal mit zehn Jahren in der Schuldisco. Mit seiner Lebensgefährtin Manna hat er seit März 2003 eine Tochter. Manna ist inzwischen auch als Sängerin tätig. Auf ihrem Debütalbum Sister befindet sich auch das Duett Just For Tonight mit Ville Valo.

Daniel Lioneye
Unter dem Namen Daniel Lioneye brachte Lindström 2001 ein eigenes Album mit dem Titel The King of Rock 'n Roll heraus. Dieses Album kann als Nebenprojekt von HIM betrachtet werden, da zwei weitere Bandmitglieder (Ville Valo, Schlagzeug, und Mige Amour, Bass) ihn dabei unterstützten. Lindström sang und spielte Gitarre. Im Gegensatz zum HIM-Klang ist The King of Rock'n'Roll ein reines Rock-'n'-Roll-Album. Das gleichnamige Titellied wurde als Thema der MTV-Sendung Viva La Bam verwendet.
Das zweite Album Daniel Lioneye Vol. 2 erschien 2010. Ville Valo saß jedoch nicht mehr am Schlagzeug.

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Achilles tendonitis is a painful condition involving the Achilles tendon prior to its attachment into the back of the heel bone.
The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the body and consists of muscle fibers originating from the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles in the back of the leg. The Achilles tendon is a major muscle group that helps to lift the heel off of the ground during normal walking activity.
The incidence of this injury is not fully known but it is often seen as it relates to overtraining for a specific athletic activity or being overly aggressive in an exercise program while being in a deconditioned state. Overuse of the Achilles tendon with activity that lifts the heel off of the ground; including excessive walking on hilly terrain, use of "Stair stepper / NordicTrack" can contribute to the problem. Other factors can include an excessively tight Achilles tendon or making a shift from a high heeled shoe into a relatively flat shoe--like a running shoe. People with inflammatory arthritis or connective tissue diseases are at greater risk for developing this injury.
The "itis" in Achilles tendonitis refers to an inflammatory process related to injury of the tendon prior to its attachment in the back of the heel. This tendonitis can occur as a result of acute or chronic injury to the Achilles tendon and generally occurs in a region of the Achilles tendon that has relatively poor blood flow. The "watershed" region of the Achilles tendon is about three inches above its attachment site on the heel bone. There are different stages of tendonitis based on the degree of injury: Paratendonitis involves the acute inflammation to the vascular lining over the Achilles tendon and is characterized by acute pain to massage and manipulation of the tendon at the Watershed region. Tendinosis is characterized by a non-painful nodule in the watershed region of injury related to chronic inflammation and scarring of the tendon. Paratendonitis and Tendinosis involve acute inflammation and scarring at the watershed region.
Despite the pain of paratendonitis and the nodularity of the tendinosis, rarely does this injury advance to acute tearing or rupture of the Achilles tendon.
Treatment is aimed at reducing the biomechanical stresses to the Achilles tendon and decreasing inflammation to the area of injury.
Biomechanical stresses placed on the Achilles tendon during daily walking activity can be relieved by the temporary use of a shoe with a heel. Generally, patients are advised to avoid the use of shoes with heels however this is an injury that responds best to shoes with a heel lift because this type of shoe decreases the stresses placed on the Achilles tendon during normal walking.
If the pain is severe, the use of a removable walking cast or CAM boot may be required for the first few weeks of treatment.
Eliminating all exercise activity that places stress on the Achilles tendon is a critical step in recovery. Focusing conditioning efforts on low-to-non impact activity, including: stationary or recumbent biking, swimming or aqua jogging, and core conditioning.
Anti-inflammatory measures include: ice massage, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication including ibuprofen or naproxen. Cortisone injections into this region should be avoided.
In both acute and chronic states, formal physical therapy can be a helpful modality in achieving recovery. Gentle calf stretching as well as a guided eccentric strengthening program can be initiated by physical therapists.
The occasional use of a rigid splint that helps maintain the foot at a ninety-degree angle to the leg can be a helpful tool in recovery.
Surgical care for chronic Achilles pain is on occasion pursued. Diagnostic imaging including MRI is performed to determine the degree of pathologic changes to the tendon at the site of injury. Surgical procedures vary based upon the clinical situation but include removing the scarred portion of the Achilles tendon as well as the occasional transfer of well vascularized muscle into the injured region.
Chronic Achilles tendinosis: recommendations for treatment and prevention.
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French president: 3,000 extra staff hired for Euro security
PARIS – French President Francois Hollande says private security firms have hired an additional 3,000 people for the European Championship soccer tournament.
After last week's Brussels attacks that killed at least 35 people, French authorities decided to continue with Euro 2016 from June 10-July 10 as planned, including the fan zones where spectators gather to watch games on large screens.
Hollande said 2.5 million people are expected to attend the matches in 10 French cities, and about 5 million are expected to visit the open-air areas.
Referring to the high risks of attacks, Hollande said in a speech to sports professionals in Paris that "we must show that sport, like culture, like our lifestyle, will not yield to this pressure and this threat."


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Tristan Thompson Is Expecting Third Child With Personal Trainer
Reports say that Tristan Thompson is expecting his third child with a personal trainer from Texas. According to TMZ, Maralee Nichols claims that the baby was conceived in Houston back in March — around the time Tristan was in town to celebrate his 30th birthday. At that time, Tristan was reportedly still with Khloe Kardashian.
Maralee filed legal docs to establish paternity, claiming that she and Tristan were together for five months. She also claimed that he offered her $75,000 to keep quiet on the baby and told her that he wanted nothing to do with the child.
Maralee is asking for child support and reimbursement for the medical expenses related to her pregnancy and birth.
There are unconfirmed reports that Maralee gave birth on Friday (December 3rd) to a baby named Angelou Kash Thompson but TMZ reported that an account claiming to be Maralee announcing the news and posting the baby was a fake.
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We present a novel architecture for hybrid radio frequency (RF)/ free space optical (FSO) wireless systems without feedback or channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. Under the assumption that 60 GHz RF and FSO systems support the same data rates, the proposed implementation transmits the same data over both links, using phase shift keying (PSK) as a common modulation scheme, and combines the signals from each individual link at the receiver on a symbol-by-symbol basis. Two popular diversity combining schemes are considered, namely, selection combining (SC) and maximal ratio combining (MRC), while tractable analytical approximations for the bit error rate (BER) are obtained. Investigations over various weather conditions and link distances revealed that the proposed implementation fully exploits the complementary nature of RF and FSO channels, even when one of the two available links fails. Furthermore, the comparison of the combining schemes demonstrates MRC as the optimum combining scheme, offering link distance gains compared to SC.


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Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries
Newton, MA 02458	 [P] (617) 244-3650
http://www.coopmet.org
Rodney Petersen
To mobilize congregations and communities across economic, religious, racial, and ethnic boundaries so that, in partnership, we can work more effectively for a just and peaceful society and for spiritual growth and interfaith understanding.
Interfaith Youth Initiative (IFYI)
Values Over Violence Project
Founded in 1966, by interfaith congregations wishing to support civil rights activity, the organization sponsored urban-suburban partnerships, across faith, ethnic, and economic lines. CMM is noted for its 8-day summer interfaith program for high school and college students--and graduate theological students as mentors--held each summer at Brandeis University. Our new Values Over Violence program, which is a partner effort with five local Greater Boston organizatoins, is also growing in popularity and strength. On a continual basis CMM promotes multi-cultural education through our continuing education classes, as well public policy education and advocacy in areas such as immigration and homelessness. We encourage diverse faith and spiritual communities to share their cultural richness and worship forms with their neighbors, in hopes of lessening prejudice and phobias that can breed within ignorance of "the other".
1. Brought 25 high school and college-age youth (from urban and suburban communities across the United States: MA, NH, NJ, NC, IL) together with 6 mentors for the intensive 8-day Interfaith Youth Initiative (IFYI), whereby all participants participate in interfaith dialogue, leadership and peacemaker training and social action projects. Hosted at Brandeis University, this event was themed, "Rooted in Faith, Reaching out in Love."
2. Launched a new program consisting of 5 Greater Boston partners from urban and suburban communities, entitled the Values Over Violence Project (VoV). This project is designed to reduce violence from a multitude of areas, not least of which is gang violence and suicide. This past spring 2015 we trained 30 clergy, community leaders and leaders of youth in several towns in the city and suburbs of Boston. They learned the skills of forgiveness and reconciliation as outlined by the VoV Curriculum, and are prepared to go on to teach youth this academic year 2-15-16. VoV is a Boston-based version of the curriculum developed by ESPERE (Escuelas de Perdón y Reconciliación), the School of Forgiveness and Reconciliation, in Bogotá, Colombia. The ESPERE method has been applied in different scenarios including prisons, companies, schools and churches, and has been taken to countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Canada and the USA, for them to replicate the peacebuilding model. The ESPERE materials have a proven track record in reducing violence not only in Latin America, but also in many countries, including the United States (Texas and Oregon), receiving a UNESCO prize in 2006.
3. A new annual winter publication entitled, "Interfaith Peacemaking in the Community", which garnered articles and prayers from 15 local religious and spiritual leaders from over 10 different faith traditions. Next year we will do a similar project focused on "Just Peacemaking in the Marketplace", focused on discussions of economic justice.
4. Worked with a wide variety of faith-based and civic communities and community agencies to conduct a year of impactful programs that brought, in total, hundreds of people together for interfaith dialogue and social justice. Programs included: Martin Luther King, Jr Interfaith Youth Day of Service, Spirituality and Healing Conference, 3 Dialogue Dinners (on Humanism, Quakers, and Homelessness), 3 continuing education courses (on Celtic Poetry, Interfaith Just Peacemaking, and Interfaith Meditation Practices), as well as our annual dinner with prominent local speakers.
5. CMM also welcomed an entirely new staff this year, which also included growth of 3 new work-area specific employees in Development, Marketing/Communications, and our IFYI program. We also welcomed 3 new Board members and 3 different interns and field-ed students to our dedicated team.
Goals for 2015:
1. Further develop programs within the adopted framework of Interfaith Just Peacemaking, as approved by the CMM Board in the Fall 2015. Areas include: Just Peace in the Community, Just Peace with the Earth, Just Peace Among Peoples (internaitonal), and Just Peace in the Marketplace
2. To carry out this year with an overall focus on "Just Peace in the Marketplace", through our Values Over Violence Project and our economic-theme interfaith prayer booklet. Also, gearing up with a spring environmental event and action projects that will build a foundation for our next year's focus on Just Peace with the Earth.
3. As we enter into our 50th Anniversary Year, we hope to see a growth and further diversification of our individual and organizational members, as well as our program partners. Our goal is to see our members at least increase by 1/3 by the end of 2016. This will serve to support future partnerships and current programs.
1. Funds to support our work. We have an annual budget of approximately $190,000, but have need for more staff (we currently have all quarter and half-time employees) to support our extensive activity and in order to build greater capacity.
2. Volunteers for all of our programs and administrative support
3. Attendees at interfaith dialogue dinners and programs on spirituality
4. Funds to support our work with like-minded partner organizations, to further CMM's efforts to engage members of our diverse network of faith and spiritual communities in social justice work
5. Increased congregational and individual membership. This is our core audience and it needs to be cultivated.
I am relatively new to CMM and I continue to be awed by the commitment shown by the staff, Board members, volunteers and past program participants of CMM. This intense commitment is derived from the fact that CMM gives people a place to connect deeply with others across differences and, at the same time, to work effectively on the issues of social justice about which they are most passionate.
METROWEST REGION, MA
GREATER BOSTON REGION, MA
Greater Boston Area, with members from Acton to Roxbury, Sudbury to Jamaica Plain, Newton to Dorchester, and places in between.
Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy - Civil Rights, Social Action, & Advocacy N.E.C.
Religion- Related - Interfaith Coalitions
IFYI is a unique experience in youth empowerment, leadership development, interfaith education, and peacemaker training. Participants of diverse religious backgrounds come together for a joyful and intensive overnight immersion program that includes community building, workshops, service and social action experiences, field trips, theological dialogue, and much more! Youth are mentored by graduate theology students and other faith leaders.
Youth Development, General/Other Youth Leadership
Adolescents Only (13-19 years) College Aged (18-26 years)
As a result of this program, participants will be better able to understand perspectives of those with different backgrounds than their own, advocate for social justice causes which they support, and build environments of peace in their communities. The mentors are equipped with skills of dialogue and group facilitation, workshop development, teambuilding and active mentoring.
Participants of this program get engaged in long-term initiatives for positive change in their own communities. Mentors often go into ministry, pastoral counseling, chaplaincy or become other types of faith leaders and remark that, even years later, they draw on the skills they developed at IFYI in terms of facilitating open, communicative and inclusive communities.
Each year, participants and their families complete evaluations that invite feedback on the experience and the learning that takes place during the program. Staff/mentors provide feedback at the end of each summer's program, as well as one year and three years out from their experience (to help us gauge how the experience/training helped to guide their educational and vocational direction).
Some participant feedback from 2013:
"At IFYI, we create a beloved community by sharing our differences as well as similarities. Then we leverage our collective strength to help heal both ourselves and the world around us."
"IFYI is a place where you become family with people so different from you."
"I discovered just how much love and truth can impact the lives of people next to us. I realized that even though at times I may feel like the good actions I do are nothing more than a drop of water, they are not. After all, what is the Ocean but a lot of drops?"
"IFYI fills my spiritual cup and motivated me to make positive change."
"I have learned that love unites us all. Sometimes we get caught up in the physical differences between one another, but all we need to remember is that we all want to love and to be loved."
The Values Over Violence Project (VoV) is designed to reduce violence from a multitude of areas, not least of which is gang violence and suicide. This past spring 2015 we trained 30 clergy, community leaders and leaders of youth in several towns in the city and suburbs of Boston. They learned the skills of forgiveness and reconciliation as outlined by the VoV Curriculum, and are prepared to go on to teach youth. The Values over Violence curriculum we wish to implement among youth is focused on violence prevention training by creating learning communities in which youth can safely examine their emotions, learn to identify events which trigger anger, rage, and depression, and look at choices about how to handle these events.
The Values over Violence Project is a Boston-based version of the curriculum developed by ESPERE (Escuelas de Perdón y Reconciliación), the School of Forgiveness and Reconciliation, in Bogotá, Colombia. The ESPERE method has been applied in different scenarios including prisons, companies, schools and churches, and has been taken to countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Canada and the USA, for them to replicate the peacebuilding model. The ESPERE materials have a proven track record in reducing violence not only in Latin America, but also in many countries, including the United States (Texas and Oregon), receiving a UNESCO prize in 2006.
Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, General/Other Intergroup Relations
Adolescents Only (13-19 years) Adults At-Risk Populations
VoV is a successful partnership model for other programs. The Values over Violence Project consists of five primary organizations: Pathway to Redemption, Ten Point Coalition, Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries, Future Hope Apprenticeship Program, and the Mattapan/Hyde Park Economic Development Corporation (additional community organizations and faith groups are supporters). We are also in close partnership with the founders of this material, La Fundación para la Reconciliación (Foundation for Reconciliation) in Bogota, Columbia and a branch nonprofit based in Massachusetts, Forgiveness International.
We saw overwhelming support for the initial training phase of this program last Spring, and accepted 30 people to train. 100% of those who begun the program graduated, and many of them are ready to being training youth, but need further administrative and financial support.
We hope to support 30-50% of our Trainers from last Spring to continue on the train at least 100 youth in Greater Boston. This program was previously implemented in Mattapan, Boston, and we plan to expand it to Concord, MA and Newton, MA this year as well, at the request of a member congregation and organizational partner.
Successes are monitored by evaluation forms, interviews and outside research teams made up of psychological professionals and community development researchers (to be implemented next Summer 2016 after youth have gone through the program).
Our spring 2015 VoV graduates provided feedback:
-Communication/Admin of VoV from partner orgs- Avg score 4.6
-VoV was a good networking/relationship-building experience- Avg. score 4.8
-Timing of Class- Avg. score 4.6
-How prepared you feel to train others after taking this course- Avg. score 4
Anonymous Quotes from those trained last Spring:
"This is important in both the urban and suburban communities, and as a collective group of different faiths and different beliefs, issues of violence need to be addressed... How do we apply this to job readiness? Because of the urgency of this situation, we are brought together."
"In memory of my son, this has been incredibly moving…Tools like these manuals will empower all of us."
"This training helped me to see ways I can be more effective in my own ministry. Also, it has shown me ways to improve my family as well. I just wish we had more time... I cried. I smiled. At the end of the day we all came together to be one."
Mr. Rodney L. Petersen
Rodney L. Petersen, Ph.D. began his tenure at CMM in the summer of 2014, after serving as the executive director of the Boston Theological Institute (BTI), the consortium of theological schools, seminaries, and university divinity schools in the Greater Boston area for almost 25 years. He has taught in BTI member schools and overseas, in addition to facilitating workshops on restorative justice, reconciliation, interfaith just peacemaking, and community engagement. He is author and editor of a wide bibliography and co-founder of the Religion and Conflict Transformation program now centered at Boston University School of Theology. Currently Petersen serves on the board of several other Greater Boston nonprofits, including Refugee Immigration Ministries and Church and Prison, Inc. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., and co-chair of the national drafting committee for "An Interreligious Stance of the Presbyterian Church (USA)."
Dr. Alice E. Kidder	 Aug 2012	 Jan
Ms. Whitney Retallic	 Feb 2013	 May
Pathway to Redemption in Mattapan, Black Ministerial Alliance, Boston TenPoint Coalition, Mattapan-Hyde Park Economic Development Corporation, Future Hope Apprenticeship Program of Dorchester, The Walker Center in Auburndale, Northeastern University, Advocacy Network to End Family Homelessness, Sustainability Guild of Dorchester, Jewish-Christian-Muslim Center of Merrimack College, Brandeis University, various faith and spiritual communities in the Greater Boston area, MIRA (Mass Immigration Rights Advocacy)
Yes Semi-Annually
Rev. Dr. David Killian
Retired Priest
May 2014 - Apr 2015
Shua Arshad	 Community	 --
Dr. Abdul Cader Asmal	 Mass General Hospital (retired)	 Voting
Julie Carey	 Community Volunteer	 Voting
Rev. Wayne S. Daley	 Boston TenPoint Coalition	 Voting
Rev. Sandra Dorsainvil	 American Baptist Churches	 --
Dr. Alice E. Kidder	 Retired economist	 Voting
Rev. David Killian	 Retired	 Voting
Maxine Lyons	 Community Volunteer	 Voting
Rev. Dr. Rodney L. Petersen	 Executive Director of CMM	 Exofficio
Michele Saunders	 Community	 --
Ted Wade	 Self-employed	 Voting
Total Revenue $192,599 $143,332 $130,282
Total Expenses $110,468 $143,978 $138,777
Corporation Contributions $134,999 $60,000 $53,737
Individual Contributions $47,956 $41,021 $48,588
Earned Revenue $9,618 $42,273 $21,703
Investment Income, Net of Losses $26 $38 $58
Special Events -- -- $6,196
Program Expense $76,744 $128,767 $120,753
Administration Expense $33,724 $12,839 $12,972
Fundraising Expense -- $2,372 $5,052
Total Assets $151,484 $58,459 $57,905
Current Assets $151,484 $58,459 $30,252
Current Liabilities $9,489 $1,200 $0
Total Net Assets $141,995 $57,259 $57,905
Current Ratio: Current Assets/Current Liabilities 15.96 48.72 inf
Financial summary data in the charts and graphs above is per the organizations IRS Form 990-EZs for fiscal years 2013 and 2012, with further expense data per the Form PC, on file with the state of MA, for fiscal year 2012. For fiscal year 2011, the data is per the organization's financial reviews.