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How to Keep Company Alumni Engaged—and Why You Should
Evive | March 21, 2019
In 2009, the only business that seemed to be growing sharply was outplacement. That year, the nation's unemployment rate skyrocketed and hiring barely budged. Fast-forward to present day with unemployment at around 4%, following a record-breaking 2018 in which national job turnover figures were the highest they'd been in 17 years.
What a difference a decade makes.
Many would say it's a candidate's market right now, making retention more important than ever. So it may be time for employers to consider what was once unthinkable at many organizations: maintaining an ongoing relationship with former employees in the form of an alumni program.
SHRM indicates that 22% of survey respondents have had alumni programs for at least 10 years, including major employers like Citigroup and Dell. A particularly extensive model of alumni relations belongs to Microsoft, which has not only elevated its Microsoft Alumni Network to a strategic entity within the technology giant, but now estimates 15% of its hires are "boomerang employees" who have left and returned.
Last year, Evive CEO Prashant Srivastava shared his perspective on using benefits to keep company alumni engaged—and that approach is just as important now. Here's a closer look at what it takes to build an alumni program and the unique advantages of doing so.
Building the foundation
Start by examining how you're managing relationships with current employees, because even the most content employees can end up leaving. Conducting stay interviews, for example, can provide great insight into what those employees value about their job and what frustrates them. Learning such things will help you not only retain the right people, it will shed light on what could keep them engaged as alumni, should they decide to part ways.
Maybe you'll decide it's best to create a system of specific member offerings, or to launch a corporate alumni network on social media. Either way, find a cost-effective solution that's relevant to the desires of both your alumni and your organization, and build from there.
On that note, think about exactly what you want out of the alumni relationship. Do you want to save training costs by rehiring good people for seasonal periods? Do you want them to be brand ambassadors? Do you want them to be future customers, or even business partners? It's important you know this going into stay interviews—and exit interviews, for that matter—so you can ask the right questions and get the answers you need to develop a relevant program.
Keeping an ongoing relationship with former employees allows you to stay in the loop on their continued career development and expanded skill sets. Some of these newly found assets might make sense within your organization as existing workers retire or as business needs change. SHRM's report also indicates that workplace turnover—driven in part by Boomer retirement and frequent job changing among Millennials—makes continued communication practically a necessity.
Next, remember we live in an online culture where praise and discontentment alike can always find an immediate audience. That's particularly true for former employees and an ever-evolving range of platforms that allows them to call attention to the inner workings of an organization. Maintaining a connection with ex-employees, through a variety of touch points, provides a feedback loop against what's being said by anonymous posters about your culture, benefits offerings, and other factors. Good or bad, that's valuable.
Evaluate and re-evaluate
Whichever elements you choose for your alumni program, don't just set them and forget them. Make sure you consistently keep tabs on whether your alumni are getting value out of the relationship, and whether the program is serving its intended purpose for your organization.
Consider this recent quote from Rich Kaplan, Microsoft's general manager of employee services: "I want them to come back and work here," Kaplan says. "Maybe they went somewhere else because they thought the grass was greener on the other side, and they found out it was brown. But they only come back if you treat them with respect, and make sure they are fans and advocates."
So whether you have 500 alumni or 5,000, start planning that reunion now.
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A year into his School in the Cloud documentary, Jerry Rothwell shares the highs and lows of watching students teach themselves
Posted by: Natasha Scripture
April 26, 2014	at 10:00 am EDT
Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell films a family in Korakati, India. He is making a documentary that tells the story of the School in the Cloud. Photo: Courtesy of Jerry Rothwell
British director Jerry Rothwell, the winner of the first annual Sundance Institute | TED Prize Filmmaker Award, has spent the past year trailing TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra as he sets up the first locations of the School in the Cloud. Traveling between a remote village in India and a forward-thinking elementary school in the U.K., Rothwell has watched Mitra, a Newcastle University professor, plant the seeds of his global education experiment that lets children learn on their own, and from each other, by tapping into online resources and their inner sense of wonder.
The subject matter of School in the Cloud is definitely different from Rothwell's previous films, which include Donor Unknown, about a sperm donor and his many offspring; Town of Runners, about an Ethiopian village famed for its athletes; and Heavy Load, about a group of people with learning disabilities who form a punk band. But Rothwell says he has long been interested in education and technology, so was up for this challenge.
School in the Cloud is slated for release in April 2015. Now that Rothwell is halfway through the project, we thought we'd check in with him to see how it's going …
What's the thing that you hear Sugata say the most?
Sugata's mantra for adults is "don't intervene." That's both really interesting, and challenging. Sometimes it's the most challenging thing I find about the work. A month ago, I was at the new lab in Chandrakona, India, which just opened, and I was filming kids who'd never used a computer before explore one for the first time. There were four or five of them around this computer and they'd reached an error message where to them it seemed frozen. In fact, all they needed to do was click "OK," but they couldn't figure that out. I watched them for 20 minutes, wanting to intervene and show them that simple step, but because Sugata's whole philosophy is that you can't intervene, I didn't do anything. His research suggests that when children find out things for themselves — and start showing what they've learned to other students in the room — they are going to retain it much better than if someone just comes and sorts them out. It's difficult for someone in a teaching role, but I think he's right.
Students at the School in the Cloud in India excitedly figure out how to use a computer. Photo: Courtesy of Jerry Rothwell
Some critics find Sugata Mitra's ideas around 'minimally invasive education' radical. What do you make of the controversy around Sugata's philosophy?
I think there is a tension between the rhetoric around his work and the work itself. Take for example the idea of self-organization, which is at the heart of the project. A great deal of organization of various kinds goes into making the work effective — so the question of what constitutes 'self-organization' depends on which part of the process you're looking at. In some ways, Sugata is a provocateur. He strips educational processes down to something very simple and pure in order to challenge the way we do things. I think some of the opposition to his work doesn't take account of the need for that provocation, and the context of it.
This is a global project. How did you decide what and where to film?
Very soon after I got the award, I traveled with Sugata to [India] with the idea of choosing where we would base the film. The project is spread in many different locations, but I wanted to go deep rather than wide, and try to look at the impact of these ideas in detail with a very few people: one family in a very remote Indian village, one "Granny" in the UK, one teacher in a primary school in the northeast of England. Fairly quickly, we decided to focus on the little village of Korakati in the Ganges Delta, primarily because it was the most remote place Sugata was working in, with no Internet or electricity. If the ideas work there, they will work anywhere. There are so many practical issues. To get there, you have to drive for three hours, take a boat down the Ganges and then hire a rickshaw to take you along a bumpy brick path for an hour or so. To build there, they had to carry all the construction materials – bricks, glass, computers – on that journey. We chose it because that community has had no access to computers at all in the past, so we could document the impact not just of the School In the Cloud, but of the arrival of the Internet.
Sugata Mitra watches a group of children as they investigate the question: What is algebra? Photo: Courtesy of Jerry Rothwell
Talk to me a little bit about the kids.
I've worked in two kinds of environments on this project — in India and in the UK. In India, it's all about getting the adults out of the room. Then the kids will start teaching each other things with a lot of excitement. One girl in Chandrakona said to us, "I'm hoping that this project will help me go from being just a village girl to a modern girl."
In a primary school in Gateshead, on the other hand, the teacher — Amy Dickinson — has taken on Sugata's ideas and is encouraging colleagues across the school to use the facility for self-organized learning during school lessons. The teacher will start with a broad, almost philosophical question, like "How do you measure a mountain?" or "Will robots replace humans?" The conversations and exchanges that happen between the kids as they research are really interesting. It challenges teachers a bit, to step back from their role as a classroom leader, where they usually give strong direction and maintain a high degree of order. It's about empowering the children. In Gateshead, there is a committee of young people in the school running the space. They'll even bring forward a complaint if they feel a teacher is misusing the room in order to teach a conventional lesson or using it more like an IT suite.
So there's a big difference between the Indian and British contexts. The current western education system already has more inquiry-based learning. It is part of teachers' everyday practice; whereas in my limited experience of the Indian system, it's far more likely to be a teacher at the front, writing on the chalkboard as the kids chant it and learn it by rote. Sugata's ideas are an important challenge to that system, urging us to link the amazing resource of the Internet with children's innate desire to learn about the world, placing the tools for learning in their hands. That doesn't mean you don't need teachers, but it means they have a different role.
As an artist, how has this been different from the other projects you have worked on? Has it influenced the kinds of projects you will take on in the future?
This is my fifth feature documentary. Each of my films have been on very different topics. One was about a sailor who faked his journey around the world, another was about a sperm donor whose kids were coming to find him, and my most recent was about two young Ethiopian girls who want to be athletes. I guess the common theme is trying to tell stories from the bottom up, from within the character's experience instead of commentating on it from the outside. I try to embed the film in the point of view of those it is about. For School in the Cloud, I'm working alongside Indian filmmaker Ranu Ghosh, who lives in Kolkata and has been able to develop close relationships with the families. One aspect of the project which is different from my previous films is that in some ways it's a film about ideas — almost like a science or philosophy documentary — because of the nature of the person Sugata is. He is an incredibly inquisitive man, about everything. You want to capture that in the film, because he is so engaging.
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Being myself a teacher, I know how important it is to be able to maintain the flow of ideas and keep a discussion open among the kids. However, Sugata takes it to another level. And I like the idea of doing it in places that are peripheral. Marginalized people and their lack of access to new ideas, new materials, technologies and other stuff we consider as normal makes them even more backwards, which encourages poverty, drug abuse, crime, and other forms of anti-social behavior. Let's just hope that people like Sugata will be the heart of the contemporary leaders, and knowledge will be spent more equally. One of the important aspects is to fight against gender exclusion in less developed societies. This is something we should promote as well as reform in educational system.
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Some of the oldest stained glass windows in the world, their glowing, 800-year-old detail normally visible only to passing pigeons, have temporarily come to ground level at Canterbury cathedral, while the massive window that is their normal home is rebuilt.
The style of one of the anonymous medieval artists who worked on the glass is so distinctive, in the animation of the figure and the elegant folds of his drapery, that he is known as the Master of Methuselah, and his work has been identified in several windows on the continent. In the bible, Methuselah was the oldest man who ever lived, dying at the age of 969 just before Noah's flood – but in Canterbury he is a young man, looking slightly anxiously to one side and stroking his luxuriant curly beard.
"These are real works of art, not just any old figure of a man," said Leonie Seliger, director of the cathedral's glass studio. "Methuselah is so wonderful, I could look at him forever. I know these windows so well now, but every time I look at them I see something new.
"This enormous carpet of glowing colour is some of the oldest and most extensive stained glass in Europe – and so in the world. It was an appalling moment when we discovered that they would all have to be taken down, but it has given us an extraordinary opportunity to look at these figures in such detail – they will never be seen like this again," Seliger said.
The glass could have been lost forever if the great south window, which has held it for the past three centuries, had collapsed. The first warning came just before Christmas 2009, when a large piece of carved stone fell from the window surround, fortunately without injuring anyone.
Although it has been repaired many times – with the mixture of types of stone and mortars adding to its problems – the huge window dates back to the 1420s. It was at the edge of what was technically possible when built, 16.8m tall and 7.6m wide, but over the centuries the entire building has moved slightly, tipping the window forward and sideways. Iron cramps and bars intended to strengthen it were also corroding and fracturing the stone. When structural engineers moved in to study the damage, their verdict was that the entire window was in danger of collapse.
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Recently I've seen friends at work fall into a couple of well-worn traps, and I wondered – why do these same simple but devastating problems keep turning up again and again? The answer lies in deceptive software API's, and the solution I think may come from video games. But before explaining all that, I want to just describe these two problems in a little detail.
Many programmers learn to deal with databases. Fewer work with full text search indexes like Lucene. I think newcomers to Lucene often bring with them the mental models acquired from databases, since they share many similarities. Both implement an "atomic" transactional model in which writes don't become visible to readers until after a commit point is passed. This is critical in a transaction processing environment to ensure that two things succeed or fail together: for example, the concert ticket doesn't get allocated to you unless ticketmaster confirms your credit card, and your card doesn't get charged unless you get the ticket.
Lucene implements this model, but it isn't designed to support transaction processing of that sort: it's mostly optimized for batch updates and superfast querying across large numbers of documents (Yes, Lucene experts, I know about soft commits and near real-time, but that's a story for another evening). This design criterion led to tradeoffs that tend to make committing expensive, very much more expensive than it is in a typical database.
Programmers writing their "Hello World" Lucene program don't particularly need to be worrying about performance problems, but as soon as they start using Lucene for its intended purpose – indexing and querying large amounts of text – they do need to worry. Too often though it seems we fall into the trap of committing after every insert, causing a dramatic fall-off in indexing (and querying) performance, even to the extent of making a search service non-responsive. A very common version of this problem manifests itself in Solr, where you can see the dreaded "PERFORMANCE WARNING: Overlapping onDeckSearchers" message in the logs.
There are pounds and pounds of curative blog posts, wiki pages and stack overflow answers explaining this problem, why it arises, and what to do about it. And thanks to search technology, it's pretty easy to find them if you go looking. But an ounce of prevention would save a lot of headaches here.
My number 2 most common Solr performance blunder is `fl=\*`. Solr search results include the values of fields stored in the index associated with the result document. Typical search applications show a title, with a link to a full version of the document, and possibly an associated contextual 'snippet'. A few other fields like date, publisher or book title might be included too. Such applications must store the full text of every document in the index to make it available to the snippeting component (the highlighter, as it's called). However, if that text is *retrieved* as part of the search result, and the documents are not tiny, this practice vastly increases the amount of data that needs to be transferred, often leading to a 10-100x slowdown in search performance. Programmers tend to do this because it's just easier to retrieve all the fields (that's what `fl=*` does) than to list explicitly only the fields required to display the result.
No decent Solr tutorial will lead a programmer to do this, and again, there is plenty of good information explaining how to select fields, but the Solr default is to select all fields, so this is a very easy trap to fall into. And it becomes even easier not to notice that this is happening when your queries are mediated by a middle tier.
I maintain an API for searching across multiple different backend data storage and indexing systems, and in that API we once defaulted to returning full document results. I believe our thinking was that beginners would have everything they need and not stumble over having to learn too much of a complex API even to get started. But I got tired of leaning over people's chairs with a knowing grin and pointing out their n00b mistake. It really wasn't their fault, anyway (it was mine.) They were just doing the natural thing, following the most straightforward path the API made available. So I changed the default, and I think the people I work with must be really smart since they seemed to be able to figure out how to get the missing field values when they really did need them. Even if they had to ask about that, it was much better to field a question like "how do I get the full text of a document in the search result?" than a question like "why do my search results sometimes take 10 seconds to come back?" because often a situation like that would be intermittent, only arising when really large documents made it into the search results, and could persist for a long time with merely mediocre performance before anybody really took note of the egregious outliers.
OK I'm a bit peeved about Haystack right now, but I truly hope the maintainers will read this and take it as constructive criticism, because their library actually does provide a lot of convenience to Django framework programmers grappling with search. Here's my advice.
This conceit that programming can be easy is partially fueled by the development of software languages and tools. It *is* easier to incorporate other people's code now using reasily-available libraries and frameworks, and to make use of existing systems, so not every program has to start as a *tabula rasa*. It is *not* necessary to understand computer architecture in a deep way in order to write much useful and/or entertaining code now. In some ways, things have gotten easier.
There is also a cultural component to this new easy-going attitude: it's a deliberate effort to be more inclusive, to shed the high-priest hacker snobbery that has been the stock-in-trade of software gurus for thirty years and more. "RTFM" with its veiled obscenity was always a little rude, even when uttered in jest, where its moral successor, "lmgtfy," is simply peevish, but they reflect the same unpleasant underlying attitude of condescension. I'm glad to see some reflection on that negative side of hacker culture and thecorresponding openness to newcomers.
The positive side of the "learn to program" movement is that there are numerous ways to contribute without being a master. More than ever it is possible to go very far with very little. Silicon valley startups no longer sweat hardware: they just rent space with Amazon. This is healthy: it means that the culture as a whole is able to learn and grow, to stand on the shoulders of the previous generation rather than their faces.
I'm sure you saw this coming: yes, Virginia there is a dark side. The thing is, the obnoxious attitude grows out of a hard reality. Expert programming requires knowledge. Mental nimbleness and a problem-solving bent count for a lot, but true mastery of any craft, including programming, is only available to those willing and able to devote years of study, trial, error and correction. And there are still problems to solve that demand mastery, where beginners should be cautioned to read lightly.
At the same time, we don't want to scare people away. There's no call to be going all high-priest-in-the-inner-sanctum with acolytes getting in only after years of fasting and prayer. Here's where I think we can take a cue from video games. I read (this post)[http://robotinvader.com/blog/?p=402] about luring gamers into playing the video game Devil May Cry. It talks about a game that is notoriously difficult, but also offers an easy way out. The interesting thing is that it challenges the player to try the hard way first, and warns them that there will be no way back if the easy path is chosen. Nethack, an insanely arcane video game, does a similar thing with its wizard mode: players can use it to try out all kinds of stuff, without dying, but it comes with a caveat: this is not for real, and your scores won't be reported.
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Tata bolsters its ultra truck range
Focus on Transport	 Sep 04, 2019
The Tata Ultra, built on the core philosophy to provide the best value for money offering to the customer, is a result of extensive feedback from customers and is specifically engineered for the South African market.
"Since its introduction, the Tata Ultra – dubbed the business utility vehicle – has been well received in the South African market. The positive response has encouraged us to launch the Ultra Plus 1418 at Ultra 814 AMT at this month's Futuroad Expo to enhance the vehicle's platform offerings. Be it large fleet operators, captive users, fleet rental companies or logistics companies, the Tata Ultra has an ideal solution for all," says Harneet Luther, executive director at Tata Automobile Corporation SA.
The Ultra platform is engineered to be extremely versatile, boasting three deck lengths and three wheelbases with payloads ranging from four- to eight-tonnes. The platform also has a wider track and cab, which enables bodies with a width of up to 2,5 m – ideal for voluminous goods and giving the truck 15 to 20 percent better volume capability in its segment.
"This premium benefit offered in a seven to eight-tonne vehicle is being provided in a value-for-money offering, representing a massive advantage to the operator through enhanced profitability," adds Luther.
Superior performance is guaranteed by a reliable and efficient next-generation common-rail engine offered in two configurations,
3,0-litre 103 kW (140 HP) or 5,0-litre 134 kW (180 HP), paired with either a manual or automatic six-speed gearbox.
Three-way adjustable suspended seats, parabolic leaf suspension, HVAC as standard, a walk-though cabin and a dash-mounted gear lever are some of the key features provided in the Ultra to ensure higher driver productivity and better fleet utilisation.
The vehicle also offers superior manoeuvrability with the lowest turning circle radius in its class even with its longer wheelbase and wider track, making it ideal for last-mile operations.
The Ultra is also equipped with full airbrakes, tubeless radial tyres and halogen headlamps. Furthermore, the vehicle meets ECER-29 crash-test standards. Luther says: "The Ultra has an electronic battery cut-off switch inside cabin to prevent truck jacking. This is a very important for South Africa. The batteries are also locked away to prevent theft."
He adds that the Ultra is sold with a two-year/120 000 km service plan and a two-year/unlimited kilometre warranty. Combined with 91 touchpoints across South Africa, 24-hour towing and roadside assistance and nationwide parts availability – with 97 percent same-day availability on Top 500 parts – the vehicle is designed to provide complete peace of mind to the operator.
Maintenance is also extremely easy thanks to prop-shaft joints that are sealed for life and rubber bushes that eliminate the need for repeated greasing, while a hydraulically tilted cab offers technicians excellent accessibility.
"Tata is bullish on South Africa," says Luther. "We have a range of world-class offerings to address the specific requirements of the market. We have many customers whose Tata trucks have exceeded a million kilometres in South Africa – and one whose vehicle has done over 4,2-million kilometres. That is the kind of ruggedness and reliability we build into our trucks. We are confident that, down the years, we will have similar success stories with the Tata Ultra. We have carried over the same genes and improved on them through extensive engineering."
He says the Ultra is designed to ensure the best-bang-for-the-buck for a South African operator with perfect integration of versatility, performance, comfort, style and safety. "We are not branding the Ultra as a truck, but as a business utility vehicle (BUV) as we are offering premium utility-vehicle-like interiors on a functional and versatile load carrier," he says.


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Emmanuel Addoquaye Pappoe (Acra, 3 de março de 1981) é um futebolista ganês, atua como zagueiro.

Carreira
Nasir Lamine representou a Seleção Ganesa de Futebol nas Olimpíadas de 2004, marcou no evento no empate em 2-2 frente a Itália.disputou a Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2006.

Naturais de Acra
Futebolistas do Gana
Futebolistas olímpicos do Gana
Futebolistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2004
Jogadores da Seleção Ganesa de Futebol
Jogadores da Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2006

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Q: Matlab How to use a custom transfer function in neural net training I'm using Matlab2008. There is file template_transfer.m and rename it : fungsiku.m. I write down my function in this file and put it in my working directory. I modified purelin transfer function.
I trained my NN and  I got the outputs. But I got some messages like this
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what's wrong with my transfer function?
here is my transfer function 'fungsiku'
function out1 = fungsiku(in1,in2,in3,in4)
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A: Not sure if things work the same way in Matlab 2008, but in newer versions you can try setting your transfer function for a layer directly in neural network object properties:
net = <network creation code>; net.layers{1}.transferFcn = 'fungsiku'; This should set fungsiku transfer function for first layer.

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The harsh winter still is being felt on some Midwest wheat fields as the production estimates were reduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
U.S. winter wheat production is forecast at 1.40 billion bushels, down 9 percent from 2013.
As of May 1, the nation's yield is forecast at 43.1 bushels per acre, 4.3 bushels below last year. Expected grain area is forecast at 32.6 million acres, up slightly from 2013.
The USDA estimated hard red winter harvested acreage about 10 percent higher than the previous year. Soft red winter harvested acreage is expected to be down 19 percent from last year.
SRW winterkill losses were reported across Illinois, Missouri and Michigan, where lower-than-normal spring temperatures coupled with higher-than-normal precipitation throughout the winter hampered crop development.
In the southern Great Plains states, drought, winterkill and freeze damage have affected the potential yield results in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Most of the wheat-growing areas in the southern Great Plains are in severe to exceptional drought stages.
Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas winter wheat was rated in good to excellent condition as of May 4 at 17 percent, 6 percent and 13 percent, respectively.
In California, producers are expected to harvest a record-low acreage due to exceptional drought in the winter wheat growing area.
In the Pacific Northwest, there were isolated reports of winterkill across the three-state region. Rainfall will be necessary to maintain current conditions and to aid in further crop development.
Nationally, 29 percent of the winter wheat crop was headed by May 4, six percentage points behind the five-year average pace.
The USDA estimated Illinois winter wheat yields to average 64 bushels per acre, down three from last year's record yield, on 675,000 acres. Total production is projected at 43.2 million bushels, 12.4 million below the 2013 yield over 830,000 acres.
Indiana's estimated winter wheat yield is estimated to average 66 bushels per acre, seven below the record yield in 2013. Acreage is estimated at 390,000 acres for total production of 25.74 million bushels, compared to 32.12 million bushels over 440,000 acres in 2013.


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News / Politics
UK to investigate state-funded attack on Corbyn
Tuesday, 11 December 2018 7:58 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 11 December 2018 9:54 AM ]
British Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech at the XI Party of European Socialists Congress under the theme "Fair, Free, Sustainable - The Progressive Europe We Want", at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon in Lisbon on December 7, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
UK Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan has authorized a probe into allegations that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was targeted in a propaganda attack funded by the government.
According to a report by the Sunday Mail, leaked documents show that the Scottish-based Institute for Statecraft, which had received hundreds of thousands of pounds in Foreign Office money to fight online "Russian propaganda," also promoted tweets calling the Labour leader a "useful idiot" for Moscow.
Speaking on BBC, Duncan said he ordered the investigation immediately after learning about the allegations over the weekend.
"I don't know the facts but if there is any kind of organization for which we are paying which is involved in domestic politics in that way, I would totally condemn it, and I have already over the weekend asked for a report to be on my desk by 10 o'clock this morning to say if there is any such activity," he said Monday.
The minister said he wanted Statecraft to stop its anti-Labour attacks. "Not only must it stop, I want to know why on earth it happened in the first place."
In late November, Parliament asked Duncan about Foreign Office's funding of the Institute for Statecraft's Integrity Initiative.
The FM's response revealed that the "charitable" organization had received £296,500 in the 2017-18 financial year and was expected to rise to £1,961,000 this year.
The so-called Integrity Initiative is supposed to counter disinformation on social media by hiring "clusters" of journalists and online activists across Europe.
However, the Institute for Statecraft's official Twitter account repeatedly retweeted anti-Corbyn posts.
One of the tweets called Corbyn a useful idiot and stated: "His open visceral anti-westernism helped the Kremlin cause, as surely as if he had been secretly peddling Westminster tittle-tattle for money."
Similar messages targeted other top members of Labour such as Seumas Milne, Corbyn's top aide. A message retweeted by the Institute for Statecraft had links to a newspaper report that said: "Milne is not a spy – that would be beneath him. But what he has done, wittingly or unwittingly, is work with the Kremlin agenda."
PressTV-Jeremy Corbyn calls for reforms in British media
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn calls for the end of government's stranglehold over the BBC.
The organization has denied that the anti-Corbyn tweets were published on purpose.
"I'm not the one who controls the Twitter account," said spokesman Stephen Dalziel. "If it was criticism of one of our politicians, then that shouldn't be on there."
This is not the first time that Corbyn comes under attack from outlets close to the government .The BBC has also been accused by Labour supporters of bias in their coverage of the Labour Party and its leader.
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Probably the most significant collector and interpreter of Southern, African American culture, Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is the dominant female voice of the Harlem Renaissance era. In her works, she celebrates her hometown, Eatonville, as representative of the dignity and beauty of rural Southern, African-American life and culture. A consummate storyteller, she brings to her readers an authenticity based on her primary research.
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First presented in 1990, the ZORA!™ Festival is a multi-day, multi-disciplinary, intergenerational event composed of public talks, museum exhibitions, theatrical productions, arts education programming, and a 3-day Outdoor Festival of the Arts. The event takes place primarily in Eatonville, Florida (10 miles north of Orlando) and throughout Orange County.
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Soryu may refer to:

 Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū, an Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier scuttled during the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942
 Sōryū-class submarine, a ship class of Japanese submarines
 JS Sōryū (SS-501), the lead submarine of the Sōryū class of submarines in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
 Asuka Langley Soryu, character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise


This is a list of all the OVA episodes from the Attack on Titan anime. The original video animation So far, OVAs 1, 2, 4, and 5 have been officially released in. it's officially out today!!! When do you think it will be available online?(Sorry if this is in wrong format. First time posting). ABOUT US; CONTACT US. Patreon. ATTACK ON TITAN! OVA 5 - A Choice with No Regrets: Part Two. YouTube Channel. Patreon. About Us. Contact Us.
Attack on Titan is an anime series adapted from the manga of the same title by Hajime Isayama. OVA episodes; Bonus shorts "Hidariude no Yukue - Torosuto-ku Kōbōsen (5)-" (左腕の行方 ―トロスト区攻防戦⑤―), Yoshiyuki Fujiwara. So fellow peeps ova 5 of Attack on Titan was released yesterday. The name of the episode is No Regrets. This is just an ova showing Levi's.


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Stunt i Danmark startede for alvor i 80'erne med Spang Olsen brødrene, Martin og Lasse Spang Olsen indsatser i film som Midt om natten, Mord i Mørket.

Mord i Paradis og Jydekompagniet. Spang Olsen brødrene havde desuden også en stunt skole som mange af de nuværende aktører på stuntmarkedet gik på. Spang Olsen brødrene er nu "pensionerede" indenfor stuntbranchen.

Eksempler på aktuelle danske stuntkoordinatorer er Stig Günther som er indehaver af 2 Guinness verdensrekorder og Deni Jordan som har vundet.
i Moskva samt blev nomineret til en Taurus World Stunt Award for "Best action in a Foreign Feature." i 2010 og 2014.  Stig Günther er kendt for at koordinere Forbrydelsen, Rejseholdet, Borgen og mange andre produktioner.  Deni Jordan har stuntkoordineret flere sæsoner af Broen, Mænd og Høns, Wallander og mange andre film og tv-serier.

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Line-source based X-ray Tomography
by Deepak Bharkhada, Hengyong Yu, Hong Liu, Robert Plemmons, Ge Wang
"... Abstract: Current computed tomography (CT) scanners, including micro-CT scanners, utilize a point x-ray source. As we target higher and higher spatial resolutions, the reduced x-ray focal spot size limits the temporal and contrast resolutions achievable. To overcome this limitation, in this paper we ..."
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we propose to use a line-shaped x-ray source so that many more photons can be generated, given a data acquisition interval. In reference to the simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) algorithm for image reconstruction from projection data generated by an x-ray point source, here we
Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Biomedical Imaging Volume 2009, Article ID 534516, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2009/534516
"... Current computed tomography (CT) scanners, including micro-CT scanners, utilize a point x-ray source. As we target higher and higher spatial resolutions, the reduced x-ray focal spot size limits the temporal and contrast resolutions achievable. To overcome this limitation, in this paper we propose t ..."
to use a line-shaped x-ray source so that many more photons can be generated, given a data acquisition interval. In reference to the simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) algorithm for image reconstruction from projection data generated by an x-ray point source, here we develop a
Finance and the sources of growth
by Thorsten Beck, Ross Levine, Norman Loayza
The sources and consequences of embeddedness for the economic performance of organizations: The network effect
by Brian Uzzi - American Sociological Review , 1996
"... In this paper, I attempt to advance the concept of embeddedness beyond the level of a programmatic statement by developing a formulation that specifies how embeddedness and network structure affect economic action. On the basis of existing theory and original ethnographies of 23 apparel firms, I dev ..."
develop a systematic scheme that more fully demarcates the unique features, functions, and sources of embeddedness. From this scheme, I derive a set of refutable implications and test their plausibility, using another data set on the network ties of all better dress apparel firms in the New York apparel
Bandera: Extracting Finite-state Models from Java Source Code
by James C. Corbett, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Shawn Laubach, Corina S. Pasareanu, Hongjun Zheng - IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING , 2000
"... Finite-state verification techniques, such as model checking, have shown promise as a cost-effective means for finding defects in hardware designs. To date, the application of these techniques to software has been hindered by several obstacles. Chief among these is the problem of constructing a fini ..."
program source code. Bandera takes as input Java source code and generates a program model in the input language of one of several existing verification tools; Bandera also maps verifier outputs back to the original source code. We discuss the major components of Bandera and give an overview of how it can
Self-Similarity Through High-Variability: Statistical Analysis of Ethernet LAN Traffic at the Source Level
by Walter Willinger, Murad S. Taqqu, Robert Sherman, Daniel V. Wilson - IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING , 1997
"... A number of recent empirical studies of traffic measurements from a variety of working packet networks have convincingly demonstrated that actual network traffic is self-similar or long-range dependent in nature (i.e., bursty over a wide range of time scales) -- in sharp contrast to commonly made tr ..."
analyses of real-time traffic measurements from Ethernet LAN's at the level of individual sources. This paper is an extended version of [53] and differs from it in significant ways. In particular, we develop here the mathematical results concerning the superposition of strictly alternating ON
Graphical models, exponential families, and variational inference
by Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. Jordan , 2008
"... The formalism of probabilistic graphical models provides a unifying framework for capturing complex dependencies among random variables, and building large-scale multivariate statistical models. Graphical models have become a focus of research in many statistical, computational and mathematical fiel ..."
all be understood in terms of exact or approximate forms of these variational representations. The variational approach provides a complementary alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo as a general source of approximation methods for inference in large-scale statistical models.
View Interpolation for Image Synthesis
by Shenchang Eric Chen, et al.
"... Image-space simplifications have been used to accelerate the calculation of computer graphic images since the dawn of visual simulation. Texture mapping has been used to provide a means by which images may themselves be used as display primitives. The work reported by this paper endeavors to carry t ..."
this concept to its logical extreme by using interpolated images to portray three-dimensional scenes. The special-effects technique of morphing, which combines interpolation of texture maps and their shape, is applied to computing arbitrary intermediate frames from an array of prestored images. If the images
Analysis, Modeling and Generation of Self-Similar VBR Video Traffic
by Mark Garrett, Walter Willinger , 1994
"... We present a detailed statistical analysis of a 2-hour long empirical sample of VBR video. The sample was obtained by applying a simple intraframe video compression code to an action movie. The main findings of our analysis are (1) the tail behavior of the marginal bandwidth distribution can be accu ..."
be accurately described using "heavy-tailed" distributions (e.g., Pareto); (2) the autocorrelation of the VBR video sequence decays hyperbolically (equivalent to long-range dependence) and can be modeled using self-similar processes. We combine our findings in a new (non-Markovian) source model


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Boys' lacrosse: Thornton Academy solves Lewiston
The unbeaten Golden Trojans use a run of seven straight goals in the second half to grab a 15-9 win.
By lee hortonSun Journal
Brayden Charest, left, of Lewiston and Cameron Houde of Thornton Academy battle for the ball during Thornton's 15-9 lacrosse victory Thursday in Lewiston. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
LEWISTON — For about a quarter and a half, Thornton Academy could not get the ball past the Steele curtain.
Lewiston goalie Hunter Steele turned back shot after shot in a boys' lacrosse game Thursday at Garcelon Field.
Finally, the Golden Trojans broke through, and despite Steele's continued stellar play, Thornton pulled away for a 15-9 win.
"We usually are able to score a lot easier than that," Thornton Coach Ryan Hersey said. "I think he frustrated some of our kids, and our message was, 'You guys are shooters, you got to shoot. Just keep on shooting.'"
Thornton (5-0) has the most Heal points in Class A, but Lewiston took a 4-0 lead with goals in the first quarter by Gunnar Wade and Jayden Wilson, then two more in the second quarter by Logan Michaud and Wilson.
"They did an excellent job of getting the ball around and really extending our zone out, and then finding those gaps, probably the best job all year that I've seen," Hersey said. "They kept their composure, they weren't forcing the ball around and (they made) us really have to work at it."
Thornton's Wyatt LeBlanc ended the shutout with an unassisted goal with 7:40 left in the second quarter.
Five minutes later, the game was tied, 4-4.
Brayden Charest put Lewiston back on top with 1:02 left in the first half, but goals by LeBlanc and Thomas Levasseur gave Thornton a 6-5 lead at the break.
"We just wanted to come out of the gates swinging, and I think we knocked them back a little bit, surprised them," Lewiston Coach Ben Fournier said. "Got out to a quick start, it was great. And they, obviously, being the team they are, they didn't give up, they came clawing back, took the lead."
Goals by Levasseur and Jack Webb extended the lead to 8-5 before Wade got one back for the Blue Devils off an assist by Sam Payne.
Thornton closed out the quarter with five straight goals for a 13-6 lead, then added two more in the fourth quarter.
"We have about 12 people on offense on our team that can go out there and get goals consistently," Levasseur said. "That definitely helps, because I don't think there's a defense in the state that can cover all six guys at once and do it perfectly."
Lewiston closed out the game with the final three goals, one each by Wilson, Payne and Michaud.
"I'm happy with the way my team played tonight," Fournier said. "We didn't give up. Things got a little rough there in the third quarter, but we didn't just roll over and let them blow it wide open, we kept plugging away and moving some things around. We kept at it, we kept fighting."
Wilson led Lewiston (5-3) with three goals and two assists, while Wade had two goals and two assists and Michaud scored twice.
Steele stopped 21 shots.
"Hunter had an incredible game today," Fournier said. "He definitely stood on his head for us tonight."
"We can score in really good numbers," Hersey said, "and that goalie made a ton (of saves). I think at first we might have been hitting him a little bit, but he definitely earned his keep tonight."
Levasseur scored seven goals, a day after scoring six in a 17-7 win over Scarborough.
"He can finish," Hersey said. "He's got a hell of a hard shot, he can change it up."
Webb and LeBlanc added two goals apiece for Thornton. CJ Labreck had three assists.


text:
The Free Declaration of
The Universal Moral, Social,
and Political Laws of
True and Necessary Civilization
If, as it is commonly supposed, nation-states have an inherent right to defend (and even to expand) themselves, the people (and the human species itself) have the same inherent right—and the self-responsible duty to exercise it. If this were not so, where would nation-states have acquired the right otherwise?
A living species (or even any living entity or individual) is, itself, naturally motivated merely toward survival (by means of reproduction, struggle, domination, and expansion). Only a civilization-culture makes morality and Wisdom. Among all the living species now on Earth, only the human species makes (or, indeed, can make) civilization-cultures. All right human morality is based on the (uniquely) human (and, therefore, mind-based and memory-dependent) capability for the comprehension of totality and universality.
War is no longer a "program" for gaining power over people, territories, and resources by strategically defeating and controlling the representatives of people, territories, and resources. Wars are no longer merely between armies—or, in some limited and "theatrical" sense, between the representative "heroes" of the State. Rather, wars are now "programs" for directly and brutally attacking, and grossly damaging, and (thus and thereby) directly controlling the people, the territories, and the resources themselves.
The people—and not merely the national armies and other representative "heroes" of nation-states—are now the direct and specific targets of all wars. The people—or the totality of humankind (along with all their territories and resources)—are now universally regarded and treated (as a working-principle and policy of virtually all national governments) as the principal and specific contextual enemy and immediate "fair game" of nation-state institutions and their any and all expansive and acquisitive aggressions.
The direct murder and suppression of humankind itself (in the immediate context of national territories and resources) is now the "method of choice" that is the basis of the war policies and power-games of virtually all nation-states on Earth. Therefore, the people—everywhere and all together—must (now, and forever hereafter) actively presume (and must actively exercise) the intrinsic right to approve or disapprove (and, thus and thereby, to allow or not allow) the activities (of war, and of everything else) proposed and exercised by each and every national government of State.
Right laws—based not merely on naturally "self"-based and grossly survival-oriented motives, but, rather, on the truly moral exercise of universal and all-including, and, thus, really civilized, principles—must everywhere govern both the people and the nation-states. Therefore, a global cooperative order of all of humankind, "voiced" through the exercise of truly universal and all-including principles, must, now, and forever hereafter, be the root-context of all nation-states.
People take refuge (and citizenship) in a nation-state because they (by inherent right) expect the nation-state to guarantee and actively uphold their necessary basic human rights to unlimited physical participation (in all basic political, social, cultural, and economic processes) and to unlimited protection from physical violence (whether violence is directed from within the nation-state, in the form of crime, or from outside the nation-state, in the form of war). Therefore, every nation-state (or sovereign political entity) must (by necessity, by law, and by universal agreement) guarantee and uphold these necessary expectations (and inherent rights) of each and all of its citizens, residents, and visitors.
Unlimited physical participation and unlimited physical protection are the necessary basic human rights of all human beings within the boundaries of any civilized nation-state. These rights are not merely "natural" in their nature or origin. Rather, these rights are, in their nature and origin, expressions of the comprehension of totality and universality. Therefore, these rights are of the nature of civilization, and they must originate from civilization—and they can (and will) be guaranteed and actively upheld only by truly civilized nation-states.
The entire world of humankind must enter into a perpetual global dialogue (via a Global Cooperative Forum), and, thus and thereby, establish (and actively perpetuate) a global cooperative order based on mutual cooperation, tolerance, real peace, and the principle of prior unity. In this manner, all nation-states must (in a global dialogue with the thus "righteous voice of the people") be brought to agree to function as civilized nation-states, and, thus and thereby, to absolutely guarantee and to always actively uphold the two necessary basic human rights (of unlimited physical participation and unlimited physical protection) within their national boundaries. Likewise, all such (thus civilized) nation-states must conform themselves to (and, thus, remain always subordinate to) the "righteous voice of the people"—expressed collectively via the always continuous Global Cooperative Forum of all of humankind.
Civilized nation-states have neither the inherent right nor the inherent calling to either guarantee or actively uphold any kind of presumed emotional or mental human "rights", but only necessary basic physical human rights. Thus, in the context of civilized society, the conditions associated with human emotional and/or mental processes and modes of expression must not be associated with pro-active manipulations, rules, and limits, but, rather, with pro-active freedoms and allowances—and a general environment of limitlessness.
The human right of unlimited physical participation must, necessarily, include unlimited physical access to all modes of education, culture, free exchange, responsibility-training, and Wisdom-learning—but, in order for all of that physical access to be right, effective, and truly unlimited, such education, culture, free exchange, responsibility-training, and Wisdom-learning must, itself, be truly free, really demanding, and of an all-inclusive nature. Therefore, no civilized nation-state should establish or enforce any limiting controls on the emotional and/or mental expressiveness of human beings and human institutions within its boundaries—except insofar as any emotional or mental demonstration in physical action threatens, causes, or enacts a limitation on the necessary and basic physical human rights of anyone (including the would-be limitation-doers themselves).
Thus, all civilized nation-states must refrain from the establishing and the enforcing of any laws or procedures that limit the free physical and verbal expression of emotional feelings and/or mental conceptions within their national boundaries. In that case, all civilized nation-states must establish and uphold laws and procedures that guarantee and enforce unlimited free speech, unlimited free emotional expression, and unlimited free physical activity—except insofar as any mode of speech or of emotional expression threatens physical harm on anyone (including the would-be harm-doers themselves), and, also, insofar as any mode of physical activity threatens, causes, or enacts physical harm on anyone (including the would-be harm-doers themselves), and, altogether, insofar as any mode of speech or of emotional expression or of physical activity threatens, causes, or enacts a limitation on the necessary basic human rights of anyone (including the would-be limitation-doers themselves).
The Global Cooperative Forum of all of humankind must perpetually insist and always actively and lawfully require that every nation-state accept, and guarantee, and actively uphold all these requirements for civilized nation-statehood, including the real, active, and consistent conformity and subordination (or self-responsible self-disciplining) of the every nation-state to the "righteous voice of the people" expressed collectively via the Global Cooperative Forum of all of humankind. Likewise, and coincidently, the "righteous voice of the people" must be really, actively, and consistently conformed and subordinated to the principles of the necessary basic human rights, and, altogether, the global cooperative order of all of humankind must be conformed and subordinated to the principle of civilization—which principle requires real, active, and consistent conformity and subordination (or self-responsible self-disciplining) of every human individual to the intrinsically ego-transcending comprehension of totality and universality.
On this basis, the Global Cooperative Forum of all of humankind must constantly and uncompromisingly demand (and always actively and lawfully require) the real, total, and universal global nation-state-enactment (or civilization-culture-fulfillment) of the principle of the physical protection of all of humankind—and, as a support for the necessary physical environment on which the physical protection of all of humankind must naturally depend, the physical protection of the Earth-world as a whole (and even the physical protection of the natural order of the universe within which the Earth-world is appearing and on which it depends) must, likewise, be demanded, required, and enacted.
This is the Free Declaration, for one and for all, of what is right and necessary for humankind in its now much advanced stage of global collective development, and of universal mutuality, and of universal mutual dependence—and of universal mutual aggravation and suffering.
The old moral, social, and political "order" of humankind is now dead. A new and true and right order of humankind is, now, and forever hereafter, necessary. This Free Declaration is the Seed-Utterance of that new and necessary true and right (and truly globally, totally, and universally cooperative) order.
This moment in human-time—July 23, 2006—is the precise and decisive moment of the uniquely new human necessity for all of humankind. Therefore, all signs say and illustrate that, if the new Way of true and right and truly human civilization herein and hereby Freely Declared is not now and everywhere chosen and enacted, the return to a natural and ego-based and inherently immoral chaos of separateness, division, mutual opposition, deadly competition, global conflagration, universal suffering, universal darkness, and universal death will have its global mandate of indifference—to move by nature's "twos" of human species' double-minded left and right of hands, to terminally and conclusively replace the civilization of this always fateful all of humankind.
One and all, consider this Free Declaration of your possibility on Earth.
One and all, Be of this Free Wisdom Blessed and made all right—together and at once.
Read Excerpts From Not-Two Is Peace:
Introduction by Ervin Laszlo
Anthroposphere (The Natural Zone of Necessary Human Responsibility)
Humankind Is Literally One Family
C+T=P: Formula for World Peace
Principles Regarding a Global Cooperative Forum, Part 1
Everybody-All-At-Once
723: The Free Declaration of The Universal Moral, Social, and Political Laws of True and Necessary Civilization
Two Is Not-Peace
All Modes of True Religion Point To Reality Itself
No Enemies
Reality-Humanity
"A new kind of human consciousness is required—based on the working-presumption of prior unity, and on an understanding of the indivisibly single world in which everyone is living. This involves not only the notion that there is such a single world, but it requires grasping the necessity for cooperation, and the necessity to function on the basis of an understanding that the Earth is a single system, and humankind (likewise) is a single whole."
– The World-Friend Adi Da,
from Not-Two Is Peace
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There's so much in this passage that can related to queerness and LGBTQ+ Christians. What does it mean to be extraordinary in our service of God and the work of God? How can LGBTQ people related the bad faith questions asked by those who don't care about it? In what ways is queerness inherently holy? We just scratch the surface of those questions and more.
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It's hard to believe it has been three decades since AIDS Vancouver first hosted its AIDS Candlelight Memorial. More than a 30 year anniversary of the memorial though, this year also marks the 30th anniversary of AIDS Vancouver.
The 30th Vancouver International AIDS Candlelight Memorial event will be emceed by Bradford McIntyre, Vice-Chair of AIDS Vancouver and will include a musical tribute with performances from the Vancouver Men's Chorus, Leora Cashe, Jess Cullen and others.
AIDS Vancouver welcomes everyone to celebrate the 30th Vancouver International AIDS Candlelight Memorial on Sunday May 19, 2013 beginning at 7:30pm in Alexandra Park at the bandstand. The evening service will include a stellar cast of performers to celebrate and perform a musical tribute to people affected and infected by HIV and to all of those friends and family we have lost to HIV/AIDS. Visit http://www.aidsvancouver.org for more information.


In this three-part series, we analyze the various stages of a typical personal injury case – from medical treatment to lawsuit. This first article discusses promptly seeking appropriate medical care. This important part of the process can play a big role, not only in the victim's physical recovery but also for their chances of receiving fair compensation.
Under the U.S. tort law, a person who suffered physical or mental harm because of the intentional or negligent action of another party may be entitled to file a personal injury lawsuit against the person or organization deemed to be at fault. The purpose of such a lawsuit is primarily to obtain financial compensation for the injured person's losses which may include medical bills, loss of income, pain and suffering, diminished quality of life and more. Secondly, a personal injury lawsuit offers the injured party an opportunity to have their grievances heard and considered before the court and by a jury of their peers. In the case of a favorable outcome, this can give a wronged person a much-needed sense of justice and closure.
Unfortunately, however, some who find themselves in a position to file a personal injury claim or lawsuit may be hesitant to do so. They may have become discouraged by one of the often-repeated myths about personal injury cases. Others simply don't know what they can expect and the idea of being a party in a lawsuit may seem intimidating. And even though nowadays it seems like all the information we need is only a couple of clicks away, in an apparently infinite stream of websites, it often proves all too difficult to find a source you can trust.
For these reasons, in this three-part series, Ron Bell Injury Lawyers will provide trustworthy and concise information about the personal injury process in New Mexico. We hope that our overview of the stages of a personal injury case will help those who may have a valid claim to make an informed decision whether or not they should exercise their legal rights and take advantage of the protections the law offers to accident victims.
After suffering extensive injuries in a serious accident, medical treatment is a necessity. However, some accident victims who suffer seemingly less serious or substantial injuries tend to procrastinate seeking medical care. Others never actually visit a doctor or receive any medical attention at all. Unfortunately, neglecting this issue is a mistake that can have negative results for both a person's health and the outcome of his or her personal injury claim.
Obtaining medical treatment as soon as possible is recommended primarily for health reasons. Even if a person feels that the injuries sustained are minor, or if there are no obvious signs of serious harm, the victim may still have suffered trauma requiring urgent medical attention. One of our previous articles offers a more detailed look at the importance of seeking medical attention even in the case of seemingly trivial accidents or injuries.
However, refusing to see a doctor or even waiting too long to get treatment may also have negative consequences for the outcome of a personal injury claim. Without medical treatment, a person will have no medical records that are important during the personal injury process because they constitute important tangible evidence of the severity and scope of the injuries sustained. Without such evidence, the insurance company of the at-fault party, or the jury during a potential trial could conclude that the injuries were negligible and that any claims are unsubstantiated. The same argument can be made if a person waits too long before seeking treatment.
In the next article in this series, we will take a look at the next two steps in the personal injury process – choosing the right lawyer and the review of the injured party's claim.


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