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Radical care: Doctors ditch health insurance
Dr. Maura McLaughlin believes that by not taking health insurance, she's found a better way to practice medicine. EZE AMOS
11/29/17 at 6:26 AM
Maura McLaughlin still remembers the day in January 2015 she heard about a revolutionary way to practice medicine—like doctors used to do decades ago. Now she spends as much time as she needs with patients, who can come see her as often as they like at a reasonable cost.
A key component: She doesn't take health insurance at her two-year-old medical practice in Crozet. The model is called direct primary care, and it's spreading across the country, with four such practices now in Charlottesville and Albemarle, where, incidentally, people who don't qualify for Affordable Care Act subsidies are facing the highest premiums in the country.
McLaughlin compares it to a gym membership. Patients sign up and pay between $15 and $60 a month, and use it as often as they like.
What it's not, she stresses, is health insurance. "We don't consider ourselves substitutes for insurance," she says. But for those who have high-deductible health insurance that makes them balk at doctors' visits they'll have to pay for out-of-pocket, direct primary care can be a more affordable alternative, she says.
And by not having to spend 40 cents of every dollar she takes in to cover overhead for dealing with health insurance companies, "I'm able to keep costs low," she says. "From a physician standpoint, it allows doctors to be doctors and focus on patients."
Her Blue Ridge Family Medical Practice offers lower rates for lab tests, and "I can help people navigate the [prescription drug] system" to find generics or the best local pharmacy prices, she says.
One of her patients has diabetes and comes in every three months for a follow-up visit. Young families like the convenience of being able to come in without a long wait, she says, and some employers and school systems add direct primary care as part of employee benefits.
"Even if you don't have insurance, it's a way to get health care," says Delegate Steve Landes, who carried a bill the past two years in the General Assembly that specifies direct primary care is not insurance—after insurers complained the doctor-patient agreements should be regulated like insurance.
Carolyn Engelhard is a health policy expert at UVA, and she has a few concerns about the direct primary care model. "I worry that people think it's insurance and it isn't," she says. "If they end up in the hospital with a major illness, they wouldn't be covered."
She also worries about accountability for solo practices not connected to a larger health care system. Doctors within a system must show they're meeting quality-care metrics and best practices, and insurers attach payment to guidelines being followed, she says.
"Dr. McLaughlin is a wonderful doctor," says Engelhard. "She's connected to other doctors in the community." But for other standalone direct primary care practices, there's "no oversight," she says.
And when it's necessary to refer a patient to a specialist, a doctor who is affiliated with Sentara or UVA talks to the specialist, she says. Direct primary care "fragments an already fragmented health care system."
McLaughlin, who worked for UVA for nine years before venturing on to her own practice, says making referrals works much the same as it did when she worked in a traditional practice, only now she has more time to research specialists and costs, and to discuss patients with the specialists.
For the solo practitioner, there's been no looking back. "This model of care," she says, "allows me to be the kind of family doctor I always wanted to be."
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Icterus
There are two types of birds called orioles. Both types are brightly colored birds, but they are not closely related. The first type is the genus Icterus in North, Central, and South America.
The second type is the family Oriolidae in Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. For our purposes, we will discuss the "New World" orioles that live in the Americas. Read on to learn about the oriole.
Description of the Oriole
Orioles are bright colored birds, often with contrasting areas of black or dark feathers. Most of the different species have yellow feathers with black patches on their wings, backs, heads, or tails.
There are 33 different species of orioles, but their sizes are similar. Most orioles range in size, from about 6 to 10 inches long. They are also quite light, and most species weigh less than 2 ounces.
Interesting Facts About the Oriole
There are many different species of orioles, and thus, many different things to learn about them! Learn some fun facts about different oriole species below.
Altamira Oriole – This species is quite smart, and some populations picked up a unique trick from one another. In some regions, people have spotted this species pulling dead insects out of the grills of cars! Work smarter, not harder.
Baltimore Oriole – Vampires in Baltimore?! While they aren't quite sucking the blood from victims, Baltimore orioles do drink the juice from the inside of fruits and berries. They used their closed beak to stab a hole into the side of a piece of fruit, and then open their beak to create a hole. From this hole, they use their tongue to sip up the fruit juice.
Spot-Breasted Oriole – These beautiful birds have impressive plumage. Unlike most orioles, males and females are the same bright color. The various North American species usually have less colorful females, and brighter males.
Orchard Oriole – Orchard orioles are friendly, non-territorial birds. They frequently nest close to other oriole species, and even robins, sparrows, and kingbirds. Friendship pays off for all these birds. The more eyes watching for predators, the less likely something will catch you off guard. They often group together to chase away predators.
Habitat of the Oriole
These birds live in a variety of different habitats, though some share many of the same preferences. Some of the many different ecosystems that these birds inhabit include open forests, marsh and river edges, shrublands, and more. Many species also live in urban areas, like farms and city parks, particularly those with fruiting trees and berries.
Distribution of the Oriole
This group of birds lives across the Americas. Some species live farther north, in Canada and the United States. Other species live in Mexico, various parts of Central America, or South America. Many species also live on the islands off the coast of North, Central, and South America.
Some species, like Baltimore orioles, have very wide distributions. Other species, like the Critically Endangered Bahama oriole, only live in a small area.
Diet of the Oriole
Most orioles are omnivores, which means they eat both plants and animals. Their diet usually consists of a combination of insects, fruits, berries, and seeds. Each individual and species has specific dietary preferences, and some species eat a wider variety of food than others.
Some of the small invertebrates that they feed on include ants, crickets, spiders, beetles, snails, worms, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and more. They also eat a variety of fruits and berries, including bananas, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, mulberries, and more.
Oriole and Human Interaction
Because they eat fruits and berries, sometimes these little birds come into conflict with humans. In some areas, these conflicts are more severe than in others.
Healthy populations are usually able to withstand threats, but small localized populations suffer. Habitat destruction also takes a toll on populations, and pesticides used to protect fruits and trees often kill these birds or their prey.
Humans have not domesticated orioles in any way.
Does the Oriole Make a Good Pet
No, orioles do not make good pets. They are wild animals with special needs and care requirements that are difficult to meet without experience. In most places, it is also illegal to own an oriole as a pet.
Oriole Care
Most orioles in zoos got there because something injured them in the wild. Sometimes injured birds cannot survive in the wild again, and thankfully many find homes in zoos. Zoos also receive birds from other zoos, as many species readily reproduce in captivity.
The ideal environment for these birds is a large aviary with plenty of trees, bushes, and branches to land on. This allows them to forage for food and exercise. Zookeepers also feed them a variety of fruits and berries, insects, and a pelleted insectivore diet.
Behavior of the Oriole
Many species of orioles are not particularly territorial, and live in close proximity to one another, even when breeding. They are diurnal, and spend much of their day foraging for insects and fruits.
While hunting insects, they often find perches in trees to watch for insects flying close by. As an insect approaches, they leap from the branch and snatch it. These birds are also quite vocal, and often both males and females sing.
Reproduction of the Oriole
Oriole pairing varies from species to species, but most birds sing to establish mates. They are not territorial, but they do defend their nest from predators and other birds.
Different species have different sized clutches of eggs, though the number laid is usually between three and seven. Most species incubate their eggs for around two weeks. After another two weeks, the young chicks begin learning how to fly.
Altamira Oriole
New World Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Spot-Breasted Oriole
6 – 10 in long
Up to 2 oz.
Bright yellow/orange and black feathers.
Up to 12 yrs.
Open woodland, riversides, marsh edges, farms, etc.
Pairs and small flocks
Insects and fruits
Humans, birds of prey, foxes, feral cats, snakes, etc.
North, Central, and South
Varies by species
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The Fellowship of the Ring, first volume (1954) in the trilogy that forms the famed fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, whose academic grounding in Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Norse mythology helped shape his fictional world. The three-part work, set in the land of Middle-earth, forms a sequel to Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937) and constitutes one of the most successful novels in publishing history. The epic tale continued in The Two Towers (1954) and The Return of the King (1955).
The story begins in the Shire—a part of Middle-earth where the small, good-natured, quietly domestic hobbits live—as the eccentric hobbit Bilbo Baggins is celebrating his "eleventy-first" (111th) birthday. During the party Bilbo announces his departure and disappears with the use of the magical ring that makes its wearer invisible; his discovery of the ring is chronicled in The Hobbit. Before leaving the Shire, however, he returns home. Although he intends to give all his possessions to his young relative and heir, Frodo, at the last minute he balks at leaving behind the ring. However, he is persuaded to do so by the wizard Gandalf, who later learns that Frodo's ring is the One Ring, the most powerful of the 20 Rings of Power. It was fashioned by Sauron, the Dark Lord of Mordor, to rule the other rings and enable him to conquer and enslave the world. The One Ring will also eventually corrupt its possessor. Sauron wants the ring back and knows that it is in the Shire. Gandalf tells Frodo to take the ring to the one place where it can be destroyed—the place where it was forged, the fires of the Cracks of Doom under Orodruin (the Fire-mountain), in the very heart of Sauron's realm of Mordor.
So begins Frodo's quest. Accompanied by his friends Sam, Merry, and Pippin, he departs the Shire, bound for Rivendell, where Elves live. As soon as he sets out, he finds that there are Black Riders on his trail. To avoid them, the hobbits travel through the Old Forest. There Merry and Pippin are caught by a malevolent tree, but they are rescued by Tom Bombadil, "Master of wood, water, and hill." Later they reach Bree, the chief village of Bree-land, where both hobbits and Men live. At an inn they meet the Ranger called Strider, or Aragorn, and, when the hobbits depart, he joins them as their guide. After a few days on the road, they are attacked by Black Riders, and Frodo is injured by a weapon that could put him under Sauron's power. Later they encounter the Elf Glorfindel, who has come to help them reach Rivendell. He sends Frodo on his horse, and the hobbit escapes capture by the Black Riders only when a river rises and washes them away.
At Rivendell the ruler Elrond heals Frodo. Gandalf is also there, and he explains that the Black Riders are Ringwraiths—nine kings who were given Rings of Power and thus came under Sauron's control. Eventually Frodo goes forth to complete the quest, now as part of a Company of the Ring, comprising nine companions, who counterbalance Sauron's nine Ringwraiths. This fellowship consists of Frodo and his fellow hobbits Merry, Sam, and Pippin; two Men, Aragorn and Boromir; Legolas the Elf; Gimli the Dwarf; and Gandalf. As they embark on their perilous quest, they are thwarted in their attempt to cross over a mountain range and instead travel through the Mines of Moria. In the underground passages they are attacked, first by Orcs and then by a Balrog. Gandalf defeats the Balrog but is himself lost. The surviving companions follow Aragorn to the Elvish forest of Lothlórien. After resting, they resume their journey, but the ring's mighty power begins to corrupt and entice even members of the fellowship. Eventually, Frodo and Sam decide to strike out for Mordor on their own. The fellowship is broken, but the quest continues.
The book is about power and greed, innocence and enlightenment. Ultimately, it describes a battle of good against evil, of kindness and trust against suspicion, and of fellowship against the desire for individual power. This is also a story about war, no doubt drawn from Tolkien's own experience in World War I. The enduring fascination of the mythology of Middle-earth can be seen in the success of the film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), directed by Peter Jackson, and in the plethora of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and games based on Tolkien's works.


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This work is an unfinished catalogue of artistic vocabulary and encounters. Over a longer period of time, I realised different works that seamed to have a similar intent. Through a process of synthesis of those works I came up with a suitable form to continue this practise, an unfinishable catalogue. The work became an attempt to transpose a state (of being) into a practise and a structure, challenging the object of work, the significance of content and the limitations of rationalization and radical abstraction.
The presented version of this work consists of the structure of the catalogue and a series of annexes produced in collaboration with other practices during the course of this exhibition.
To device a project or to project, the hope would be to accomplish a variation. Trough a constructed process I aspire to avoid forced repetition by fear.
Condition (s) refers to a given state, the condition you find yourself in, or given circumstances, these are the condition that surround us.


Global bio-electronics and biosensors market size was valued at USD 11.39 billion in 2013. It is likely to be estimated over USD 25 billion by 2023.and is likely to grow at a CAGR of over 10%. Proliferating prevalence of target diseases is expected to drive industry growth over several forthcoming years.
Escalating demand for diagnostic as well as monitoring devices such as blood glucose level, cardiac pacemakers and other implantable medical devices are likely to fuel bioelectronics market size. Rising pervasiveness of diabetes accompanied by increasing need to measure and monitor blood glucose level is likely to positively impact the biosensors market demand. Proliferating technological improvisation along with increasing innovation is expected to drive the industry growth. For example, HealthPatch MD biosensors by Vital connect has received FDA approval in 2014. This patch is applied over the skin and has a capability of capturing biometric measurements.
Major application of these sensors are contributed in numerous industry sectors such as agriculture, toxicity detection, environmental, industrial process control as well as medical applications among several others. The preliminary thrust for swiftly advancing bio-electronics & biosensors technology was derived from healthcare segment. These sensors allow superior evaluation of the patient's metabolic state. Flourishing implementation of these sensors in blood glucose monitoring devices is expected to stir the industry demand. For example, The American Diabetes Association recommends the patients suffering from insulin-dependancy type 1 diabetes disease are required to monitor blood glucose levels three to four times a day, while, insulin-reliant type 2 diabetic patients are required to monitor blood glucose levels once in a day. Thus, this is highlighting increasing requirement of blood glucose biosensor in recent times.
Optical biosensors market is projected to experience healthy growth over the forecast period. These devices are anticipated to modernize the ecological monitoring as well as untimely warning field by augmenting the capability to calculate and differentiate the environmental contaminants. This is projected to drive the industry growth for bio-electronics & biosensors market over the several upcoming years.
The Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostics market was valued at over USD 14 billion in 2015. The advent of bioelectronics market is likely to initiate a revolution in the swiftly evolving point of care testing industry. Points of care biosensor systems offer real time health monitoring and thus assist in improving patient's health condition. Use of this equipment also aids in increasing patient's satisfaction and also leads to lessening the patient waiting time.


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Dayton Daily News wins several awards in Ohio APME awards
By Business Staff
The Dayton Daily News was recognized for its work in the annual Ohio Associated Press Media Association's contest and Tom Archdeacon was announced as an inductee into the organization's hall of fame.
Fifty-six daily newspapers submitted 1,630 entries in the contest, which featured news and sports stories, features, editorials, columns, graphics and photos from 2019.
Winning awards for the Dayton Daily News among the state's largest newspapers were:
• Kaitlin Schroeder, best business writer in the state
• Amelia Robinson, best feature writer in the state
• Laura Bischoff, best news writer in the state and third place for explanatory reporting
• Adrian Zamarron, third place for full-page design
• Ty Greenlees, second place for best news photo
• Amelia Robinson and Cory Frolik, second place best digital project
• Dayton Daily News staff: best illustration/informational graphic
• Dayton Daily News staff: best spot news coverage
• Dayton Daily News staff: third place for best digital presence
Archdeacon, a longtime award-winning sports writer and columnist for the Dayton Daily News, will be inducted into the Ohio APME Hall of Fame at a later date.


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"A low point in the series, but still with merit."
Released Nov 21, 1993 by Nippon Columbia (catalog no. COCC-11290).
Reprint by QLM / Phoenix Entertainment (catalog no. QLM-0001) includes a ten-minute bonus track, "GR Medley / A-Type".
A low point in the series, but still with merit.
The first two soundtracks for Giant Robo instantly catapulted it to the level of the great soundtrack series. To expect composer Masamichi Amano to keep the music at such a high level for its seven-episode duration is perhaps asking too much, and indeed this third episode marks a temporary drop in quality. Giant Robo III Original Soundtrack doesn't match the greatness of its predecessors, but it's still a well-crafted orchestral score with moments that belong at the pinnacle of the series.
The opening segment of the score begins in a tone akin to the Golden Age of Hollywood, with sweeping strings, piano, and a melodramatic chorus. It works well enough as a temporary cooling off period from the high drama of episodes 1 and 2, and "The Return to Peking Base" in particular boasts some very pretty passages. Less easy to rationalize is the closing segment of the score, which except for a harsh, splendidly perturbed-sounding intro in "Gods Collide!! (GR vs Uranus)", consists mostly of string-heavy classical pieces that lack the driving narrative quality pervasive to the series.
Fortunately the middle section demonstrates that characteristic narrative drive and dramatic potency, and provides a couple of the series' best pieces to boot. "Paris in Ruins ~Alberto and Ivan~" is the simplest but most memorable, a peaceful and dignified troubadour-like piece performed by guitar and flute, intriguing considering it accompanies the episode's two primary villains. "The Announcement! The Magnetic Web Strategy" is the eminent pre-battle set piece - a rolling snare drum and rhythmic, steadily building brass give the impression of a crucial, monumental task at hand, while a quiet trumpet interlude adds a humanistic touch. Though not at the same level, "Vogler's Landing" marks another effective set piece for the battle itself, while "Daisaku's Theme" does its best to elicit empathy for a hard-to-like character.
Giant Robo soundtracks make excellent use of theme and repetition from the opening episode onward, but the themes chosen for reprisal in episode 3 are not among the best of the series. "Vogler's Fury" worked as a foreboding, mood-setting piece in the thematically packed second OST (as "Darkness Covering the Beijing Sky"), but it doesn't really bear repetition here. And though the somber reprise for "Giant Robo's Theme" is nice, it pales in comparison to the almost gut-wrenching Bashtarlle theme from earlier episodes and other truly poignant themes that come later. Another uncharacteristically weak area is the chorus, which though utilized to perfection in other episodes is a bit excessive here. The mood of perseverance and valor in "The Sortie Order" would have been stronger with more focus on the orchestra, and though the heavy use of the chorus in "Ending" keeps with the tone of classic Hollywood cinema established at the beginning, combined with Daisaku's already gushy theme the melodrama is a bit much.
Though disappointing when compared to its spectacular predecessors and successors, by any other standard Giant Robo III Original Soundtrack is quite the quality orchestral soundtrack. Giant Robo fans will need it for a couple of significant contributions it makes to the series canon, while lovers of classical music or classic Hollywood cinema should get the most out of this episode's slight departure in style from its counterparts. In all cases it should be understood that the score provides a glimpse but not the full picture of the excellence of the series.


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Mahathir at UN condemns Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya
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Smoke is seen on the Myanmar border as Rohingya refugees walk on the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, on Sep 11, 2017. (Photo: REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo)
NEW YORK: Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has condemned the Myanmar government for the massacre of Rohingya in Rakhine.
"I believe in non-interference in the internal affairs of nations. But does the world watch massacres being carried out and do nothing?
"Nations are independent. But does this mean they have a right to massacre their own people, because they are independent?" he said in his statement to the 73rd United Nations General Assembly on Friday (Sep 28).
Mahathir said the actions of the Myanmar government that have been denied by Aung San Suu Kyi have caused the loss of lives, destruction of homes and displacement of its people.
"In Myanmar, Muslims in Rakhine state are being murdered, their homes torched and a million refugees had been forced to flee, to drown in the high seas, to live in makeshift huts, without water or food, without the most primitive sanitation. Yet the authorities of Myanmar including a Nobel Peace Laureate deny that this is happening," he said.
Mahathir also hit out at the double standards of rich and powerful nations who speak on the importance of free trade but at same time exploit the terms of trade where the poor nations are no longer independent.
"Free trade means no protection by small countries of their infant industries. They must abandon tariff restrictions and open their countries to invasion by products of the rich and the powerful," he said.
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BloomEnergy, Solution to the energy crisis?
imshard at 12:05PM, Feb. 26, 2010
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Featured on 60 minutes backed by major corporations like Google, Walmart, and eBay, and famous persons like Arnold Schwarzenegger, and designed by former Nasa Scientists.
The product literally makes electric out of air, and whatever carbon fuel you want.
What is it? A viable fuel cell design, available to the general public decades ahead of competitors. Unfortunately consumer models are not available, … yet.
What does DrunkDuck think?
Don't be a stick in the mud traditionalist! Support global warming!
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Hawk at 5:22PM, Feb. 26, 2010
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Clean energy at that quantity and in such a small source really is an exciting thing. It almost seems magical. But my mind always thinks, "There's not such thing as free energy" and it starts looking for the downsides.
The Bloom Box runs on two things: Your average fuels (natural gas, solar, fossil fues), and oxygen. The fuel side of things sounds like a definite improvement, producing power much more efficiently than a generator using those same fuels.
So, what about the Oxygen? If we end up like they were hoping in that 60 Minutes footage, and Bloom Boxes are powering every home and business, will there be a noticeable effect on the world's oxygen level? I guess the lawn at the eBay HQ didn't seem to mind. Hopefully it's not a big deal.
I also wonder about its output. They say it's "clean", but what does is it emit? (besides the energy)
ozoneocean at 10:08PM, Feb. 26, 2010
The same any any generator- CO2, heat, electricity.
It's not some magic clean device, that's just spin. The reality is that it's simply more efficient than a standard generator. And it's pretty cheap to run.
At the moment though they're very expensive to make.
The economic model of energy generation with these as they currently are is impractical for home use. They're more suited to big businesses, business complexes like a business park, medium level industry, or possibly a large residential complex.
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Product Placement at 5:50AM, Feb. 27, 2010
I wouldn't call this Clean energy, just more… efficient. It probably still makes CO2 and other forms of by products, depending on the fuel that is used for the conversion process. What this thing does is that it puts a portable generator in your backyard. Nothing more.
Now despite that, it's undoubtedly a much better alternative then fossil fuel plants which is a grossly inefficient form of power production that pollutes quite allot. It can utilize natural gas that would have been released into the atmosphere anyways and save business that buy these units allot of money in the long run. It's a nice additive to our power production capabilities but I doubt it's gonna magically fix everything.
Those were my two cents.
If you have any other questions, please deposit a quarter.
ozoneocean at 8:05AM, Feb. 27, 2010
Now despite that, it's undoubtedly a much better alternative then fossil fuel plants which is a grossly inefficient form of power production that pollutes quite allot.
I think it depends… Coal is very polluting, but Nuclear just as much, since there's much more work involved in the construction and decommissioning of the plants and the storage and disposal of the amazingly toxic waste.
Natural gas plants produce a lot of CO2 , but they're not too bad…
I think large scale energy production like that has some benefits- It's a cheap way to go because the costs are so spread out, it's expandable, can support very large communities…
You couldn't do large scale with bloom boxes… The cost/efficiency ratio wouldn't be as appealing. It's the same reason why you can't do small scale with them yet. They're a good medium term option though.
The best thing about that sort of generation is that you have greater control over it -no need to worry about worker strikes or corrupt companies like ENRON F-ing things up- and you don't lose so much energy in the transmission process if you don't have to transmit so far. A massive amount of conventionally generated electricity is lost to heat and other radiation through the transmission wires.
The Gravekeeper at 8:40PM, Feb. 27, 2010
When it comes to anything purporting to be environmentally clean, be cautious. Every alternative source of energy has its drawbacks; hydro power means dams that, at absolute best, slightly alter the surrounding environment, windmills tend to take up land that could be used for agriculture and generate an electric field (we don't quite know what the effects of that are on animals), biomass does nothing to reduce carbon emissions, nuclear energy has that nasty habit of creating hazardous waste that we can't get rid of and will take millenia to degrade, and solar energy is still too expensive and too inefficient to really be a viable option for most cases.
You know what we need? Something that can generate electicity from all the green washing that's going on (I'm looking at you, aerosol companies, touting your CFC-free stuff like it hasn't been banned since the 50's).
As for Hawk's concerns about oxygen, there is something we can do about that: create more green spaces. Besides, people tend to like places with trees and such better than places that are all concrete or dirt.


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Q: Prove this formula for $R^2$ in the case there is one explanatory variable in the OLS estimator I'm learning OLS estimator with difficulty with computing the $R^2$. First are the notations used in my lecture note:
$X_{i} \equiv\left(\begin{array}{c}{X_{i 1}} \\ {X_{i 2}} \\ {\vdots} \\ {X_{i K}}\end{array}\right)$ of size $K \times 1$, $\beta \equiv\left(\begin{array}{c}{\beta_{1}} \\ {\beta_{2}} \\ {\vdots} \\ {\beta_{K}}\end{array}\right)$ of size $K \times 1$, and $\epsilon \equiv\left(\begin{array}{c}{\epsilon_{1}} \\ {\epsilon_{2}} \\ {\vdots} \\ {\epsilon_{n}}\end{array}\right)$ of size $n \times 1$.
$X \equiv\left(\begin{array}{cccc}{X_{11}} & {X_{12}} & {\cdots} & {X_{1 K}} \\ {X_{21}} & {X_{22}} & {\cdots} & {X_{2 K}} \\ {\vdots} & {\vdots} & {\vdots} & {\vdots} \\ {X_{n 1}} & {X_{n 2}} & {\cdots} & {X_{n K}}\end{array}\right)$ of size $n \times K$, and $Y \equiv\left(\begin{array}{c}{Y_{1}} \\ {Y_{2}} \\ {\vdots} \\ {Y_{n}}\end{array}\right)$ of size $n \times 1$
My model is $Y_{i}=X_{i}^{\prime} \beta+\epsilon_{i}$ for $i=1, \ldots, n$ or equivalently $Y=X \beta+\epsilon$. From FOC, we have $$\begin{aligned} \hat{\beta} &=\left(X^{\prime} X\right)^{-1} X^{\prime} Y \\ &=\left(\sum_{i=1}^{n} X_{i} X_{i}^{\prime}\right)^{-1}\left(\sum_{i=1}^{n} X_{i} Y_{i}\right) \\ &=\left(\frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^{n} X_{i} X_{i}^{\prime}\right)^{-1}\left(\frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^{n} X_{i} Y_{i}\right) \end{aligned}$$
Let $P_X = X\left(X^{\prime} X\right)^{-1} X^{\prime}$. Then the OLS fitted values $\hat{Y} \equiv X \hat{\beta}= P_XY$. The uncentered $R^2$ is $$R^2 = \frac{\hat{Y}^{\prime} \hat{Y}}{Y^{\prime} Y}$$
Then I have an exercise:

If $K = 1$ and $X_{i1} = 1$ for all $i =1,\dots,n$ then $$R^{2}=\frac{n \overline{Y}_{n}}{Y^{\prime} Y}$$ where $$\overline{Y}_{n} \equiv \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^{n} Y_{i}$$

My attempt:
We have
$$\hat{Y} = X \hat{\beta} = \left(\begin{array}{c}{1} \\ {1} \\ {\vdots} \\ {1}\end{array}\right) \left(\begin{array}{c}{\hat{\beta_1}}\end{array}\right)  = \left(\begin{array}{c}{\hat{\beta_1}} \\ {\hat{\beta_1}} \\ {\vdots} \\ {\hat{\beta_1}}\end{array}\right)$$
As such, $\hat{Y}^{\prime} \hat{Y} = n (\hat{\beta_1})^2$. On the other hand, $n \overline{Y}_{n} = \sum_{i=1}^{n} Y_{i}$.

After that, I'm stuck. Could you please help me finish the proof? Thank you so much!

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Stone Age Tales: The Great Cave
By Terry Deary
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Nishaan's review
What happens? Did you find the plot interesting?
They find out how to stop the bison. It was a bit interesting.
Who are the main characters?
Willow and Old Man Bison.
Who was your favourite character? Why?
Willow, because he was brave enough to talk up.
Did you like the book?
Only if I read all the book.
What was your favourite part? Why?
The true story because I know what actually happened. I think it would be for year 4 or 5.
Yes, because my friend likes the Stone Age.
Star rating ★★★
John's review
The thing I liked was at the start, when Willow got a chance to hunt.
The message I thought of was always give another person, no matter what they are, a chance to do their dreams.
About the author: Terry Deary was born on 3rd January 1946. Terry Deary is a British children's author and has done over 2000 books, also selling over 25 million copies in over 40 languages. Best known as the writer of the Horrible Histories series.
[Name unclear] review
I liked Willow because he was brave.
I loved this book.
My favourite part was when they left some food and a bone and the wolves came and started chewing on the bone and the guy came and said, "I should have put the bone underground".
I would recommend it to a friend because they like funny stories.
Star rating ★★★★★
Efe's review
Summary: This book is about a Stone Age group trying to get food for the people in the cave. The painter, who had unfortunately died, had brought good luck to them before he did. Did you know that the painter was actually Willow's dad? Willow has long and thin legs with pink skin. He also has red, short hair! If you would like to find out more about this amazing, spectacular book, read Stone Age Tales: The Great Cave.
Opinion: My favourite character is Willow because he still stood strong whatever occurred. My least favourite part was when Flint died because he was a fabulous leader for all ages.
Recommendation: I recommend this book for 6 and older because if you are younger you may not understand it. I recommend this book for children who are fascinated, interested, or intrigued in Stone Age Tales because this book is full of it!
Thank you for reading this review!
Erin's review
Characters: I liked Willow because he knew what the tribe needed and was very kind. I did not like Bull because he was threatening Willow to kill him and he did kill the leader of the tribe.
Plot: Willow's tribe had lost its luck since their painter died. The tribe was getting hungry and angry and all they cared about was who was the best hunter. So when the hunters went out, Willow was desperate to go with them. Willow because the new painter and the tribe got their luck back.
I thought it was an "OK" book because it didn't really catch my interest and was quite boring at times. I understand why others would like this book but it would be more suitable for a lower age group.
I recommend this book to ages 6–8.
Archie's review
I enjoyed this book because I felt really good reading it, it made me feel really excited and I wanted to know what would happen next.
I found Flint the most interesting character because he is really nice to Willow at the beginning of the story even though he died very early the character that I disliked was Bull, he was very mean to Willow at the and all the other parts except the end.
The thing I learned was that the people from the Stone Age hunted bison. It was very interesting to read about the Stone Age because they were the first humans.
I found the plot very enjoyable because there are some nice characters but also some mean characters. The thing that stands out to me the most is the whole story! I would recommend this to other pupils, it can be a bit grim at times but mostly not. That is all.
Harry's review
This was a great book to read. I learned lots about Stone Age people and how they lived. The book taught me that people lived in tribes and had a leader. I learned that they hunted bison in the fields and used to paint in caves to please the spirits.
I liked Willow the best. I did not like Bull but it was good at the end when they became friends.
I would rate this book four out of five and recommend it for children in years 3 and 4.
Brooklyn's review
I like Willow because he is courageous and adventurous because he wants to hunt. I didn't like Bull because he is mean and full of himself.
Did you learn anything new about the past from this book?
Yes, I didn't know that the Stone Age had flint for fires.
When was the book set? What made the history or the time it was set in interesting?
It was set in the Stone Age era.
Was the plot exciting, thought-provoking, serious, or light-hearted?
It was really good because I liked the leader. He was kind to Willow and is very mature (for a caveman).
What stands out most for you from the book?
When Bull told ten people to come with him to set up a trap for an ox.
Would you recommend it to other pupils?
Yes, because it is awesome and it has good characters in it.
7 stars out of 10.
Anna's review
Terrry Deary makes it obvious. He writes funny things but makes it sound a normal part of their life, "they say he is 35 winters old".
The name Rainbow felt Stone-Agey and he introduces it without any jokes, just like it's ordinary. All the characters have nature names like Willow and they are named for strength.
It doesn't have facts in, but it makes me feel like Terry Deary was actually in Stone Age times, because it has a realistic feel to it. I love how Terry's language is easy to understand because children should understand how it was to be Stone Age.
I also like how Terry at the end explains how he got the idea for the story.
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Apr 1, 2015 - Alcohol, Binge Drinking and Associated. Mental Health Problems in Young Urban. Chileans. Amanda J. Mason-Jones1,2*, Báltica Cabieses1,3.
Alcohol, Binge Drinking and Associated Mental Health Problems in Young Urban Chileans Amanda J. Mason-Jones1,2*, Báltica Cabieses1,3 1 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, England, United Kingdom, 2 Adolescent Health Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
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Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Mason-Jones AJ, Cabieses B (2015) Alcohol, Binge Drinking and Associated Mental Health Problems in Young Urban Chileans. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0121116. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0121116 Academic Editor: Ignacio Correa-Velez, Queensland University of Technology, AUSTRALIA Received: October 27, 2014
Objective To explore the link between alcohol use, binge drinking and mental health problems in a representative sample of adolescent and young adult Chileans.
Methods Age and sex-adjusted Odds Ratios (OR) for four mental wellbeing measures were estimated with separate conditional logistic regression models for adolescents aged 15-20 years, and young adults aged 21-25 years, using population-based estimates of alcohol use prevalence rates from the Chilean National Health Survey 2010.
Accepted: January 28, 2015 Published: April 1, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Mason-Jones, Cabieses. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Sixty five per cent of adolescents and 85% of young adults reported drinking alcohol in the last year and of those 83% per cent of adolescents and 86% of young adults reported binge drinking in the previous month. Adolescents who reported binging alcohol were also more likely, compared to young adults, to report being always or almost always depressed (OR 12.97 [95% CI, 1.86-19.54]) or to feel very anxious in the last month (OR 9.37 [1.77-19.54]). Adolescent females were more likely to report poor life satisfaction in the previous year than adolescent males (OR 8.50 [1.61-15.78]), feel always or almost always depressed (OR 3.41 [1.25-9.58]). Being female was also associated with a self-reported diagnosis of depression for both age groups (adolescents, OR 4.74 [1.49-15.08] and young adults, OR 4.08 [1.65-10.05]).
Data Availability Statement: Data are available from the Ministry of Health in Chile for researchers who meet the criteria for access. (http://epi.minsal.cl/ estudios-y-encuestas-poblacionales/encuestaspoblacionales/). Funding: AMJ was supported by the University of York, BC by Universidad del Desarrollo. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Conclusion Young people in Chile self-report a high prevalence of alcohol use, binge drinking and associated mental health problems. The harms associated with alcohol consumption need to be highlighted through evidence-based prevention programs. Health and education systems
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Alcohol, Binge Drinking and Mental Health Problems in Young Chileans
need to be strengthened to screen and support young people. Focussing on policy initiatives to limit beverage companies targeting alcohol to young people will also be needed.
Introduction The WHO 'Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol'[1] advocates for a clearer understanding of harmful alcohol use in every country and particularly in emerging economies. These countries, whilst promising huge potential for economic growth can simultaneously pose significant political, social and health risks to their populations [2]. For example, there is evidence that young people, especially those in urban areas, are at increased risk in these economies, from harmful alcohol use [3]. Despite this, the problem of youth alcohol drinking remains an under-researched phenomenon [4]. This is concerning because of the evidence emerging about the links between mental health problems related to alcohol use in young people [5]. For example, among those in the 10–24 age group worldwide, the main cause for years lived with disability were mental health disorders [6] and the main risk factor was alcohol. It has been recognised that adolescents and young adults are an especially vulnerable population with regard to problematic alcohol consumption[7]. Possible explanatory factors suggested for the link between alcohol consumption and mental health problems are discrimination [8], concomitant drug consumption [9], problematic family functioning [10], sex, age, and general wellbeing [11]. In Chile, loneliness, impulsivity and alcohol use have also been highlighted as risk factors for suicide among adolescents [12]. Despite the evidence, alcohol beverage companies are allowed to continue to target youth [13] and often dispute the prevalence of alcoholrelated problems [14,15]. Alcohol use is one of the leading causes of both mortality and morbidity in Latin America [16] and is considered to be a regional public health threat requiring urgent action [17]. Chile, with a population of just over 16 million [18], has a largely urban population (over 88% live in cities) who have experienced extensive economic changes in recent years [19]. The country is regarded as a 'global player'; Indeed, Chile became a high-income OECD member country in 2011 [20]. This rapid socioeconomic transformation has, along with some gains, resulted in significant pressures for young people. Chile has a rising middle class with disposable income, a large young population and an informal alcohol sector. Moreover, alcohol has been identified as the largest risk factor for death and disability in Chile [21] but there remains very limited information about alcohol use in young people in Chile. One of the few studies, a school-based study of adolescents, found that students in Grade 9 (14 years old), 38.8% reported drinking alcohol in the previous 2 weeks [22] The aim of this study was to find out more about the association between harmful alcohol use and mental health problems measured by self-reported anxiety and depression and medical diagnosis for depression from a representative sample of young people in Chile using the Chilean Health Survey 2010.
Materials and Methods Since 2000, the Chilean Ministry of Health has made efforts to obtain information about population´s health through national health surveys [19]. We utilised the Chilean National Health Survey 2010 (ENS 2010) as a source of data for our study with approval granted by the Ministry of Health in Chile to access the anonymised dataset from a secured governmental website (http://epi.minsal.cl/estudios-y-encuestas-poblacionales/encuestas-poblacionales/). Any
researcher can access this dataset after completing a brief on line questionnaire. However, neither the Ministry nor the funding institutions had any role in the design, execution, analysis or decision to publish these data.
Data collection The cross-sectional survey used a random multistage sampling of households (stratified by urban/rural location) with national and regional representation. The target population were those aged 15 years and older. The ENS survey employs multistage probabilistic sampling with two phases (county and household), stratified by urban/rural. The sampling frame included all regions in Chile from over 600 unique geo referenced counties created by the national institute of statistics in 2006. Around 20 hard to reach counties were excluded. Within each county, households were randomly selected. This complex sampling strategy allows the creation and use of sample weights in analysis, in order to attain to population-based estimates. Data collection was via face-to-face interview by trained interviewers, using a validated questionnaire. The preferred respondent for the household socio-demographics was the reported head of household, followed by their spouse or an adult household member. For questions on health status and health outcomes, all household members of 15 years of age or older were asked to complete the questionnaire individually. The response rate was 85% and after the recruitment phase, 5 293 people were interviewed. Data for two specific age groups relevant to this study were extracted: for adolescents (15 to 20 years of age) and young adults (21 to 25 years of age).
Outcome measures The following dependent variables were used in the models: 1. Self-reported general life satisfaction: 'how would you rate your life in general in the last year'? It allowed for the following response categories: very good, good, regular, bad, very bad. We recoded the 5 categories into two: poor ("1": bad and very bad) and fair/good ("0": regular, good and very good). 2. Depressed in the last month: 'how often did you feel depressed last month'? Response categories were 'always/ almost always', 'occasionally', and 'rarely/never'. We analysed this variable as collected for descriptive purposes first and then recoded it into high depressive symptoms ("1": always/ almost always) and low/no depressive symptoms ("0": occasionally, and rarely/never) for the multiple regression. 3. Anxious in the last month: 'how anxious did you feel last month'? Response categories were 'very', 'moderately' and 'not at all'. We analysed this variable as collected for descriptive purposes first and then recoded it into highly anxious ("1": very) and not/moderately anxious ("0": occasionally, and rarely/never) for multiple regression. 4. Depression diagnosis: 'have you ever been diagnosed with depression'? Possible answers were 'yes' (labeled as "1") or 'no/don´t know' (labeled as "0"). The following independent variables related to alcohol consumption: 1. Alcohol prevalence in the last year: 'Have you consumed any alcohol in the last year'? Response 'yes' was labeled as "1" and 'no' was labeled as "0". 2. Binge drinking prevalence last month: 'Did you binge-drink alcohol at least once last month'? The definition of this was if they had drunk four or more units of alcohol in a single
episode in the last 4 weeks. Those reporting 'yes' were labeled as "1" and those reporting 'no' were labeled as "0". The "units of alcohol" indicator represented the number of self-reported 200 ml glasses of alcohol consumed. This was as a standard measure adapted from one of the 10 items of the "Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test" (AUDIT) questionnaire developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) [23] and adapted for use in Chile [24]. We included age, sex, urban/rural residency, type of healthcare provision, and tobacco consumption as additional control variables. Age was included as a continuous variable for each age group under study whilst sex (male/female), urban/rural residence and type of health care provision (public, private, and other or don't know) were also included as categorical variables. Tobacco consumption was asked as the following question: ´Have you ever smoked in your life?´ Possible answers were ´never´ (labeled as "0"), ´former smoker´ (labeled as "1"), and ´current smoker´ (labeled as "2").
Statistical analysis Descriptive statistics for dependent and independent variables were reported as means (continuous variable) and proportions (categorical variables) with their 95% confidence intervals. All analyses for adolescents and young adults were conducted separately in order to explore if there were distinctive patterns of behaviour and mental wellbeing in these different age groups. In order to estimate the direction of magnitude of existing associations between behaviours and mental wellbeing, we estimated age and sex-adjusted Odds Ratios (OR) for each of the four mental wellbeing measures. Conditional logistic regression models (for each age group separately) were estimated by demographics, and alcohol consumption. For covariates with more than two categories (e.g. healthcare provision), we tested overall's statistical signification through the adjusted Wald test and reported it as significant in the final tables (a p-value
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5 identity management startups grabbing attention — and funding
Twain Taylor April 24, 2019
Cybersecurity is really a problem associated with digital transformation. Legacy systems are not equipped to protect your data from the new security threats emerging every day. Enterprises used to have their own software systems but their abilities are limited. This is especially true when it comes to access management and authentication. Fortunately, identity management companies remove the burden of managing identities and provide companies with updated solutions. Here is a list of five such dynamic startups that have raised the most funding in 2018 and 2019.
1. Payfone: $23M
Payfone is all about identity certainty. They do for digital security what Amazon does for online shopping and Uber does for hailing taxis. They make the customer authentication process simple and effortless besides giving transparency and control over how and where their digital identities are used. Their popular digital identity authentication network helps the world's leading banks, insurance, brokerages, hospitals, and technology companies prevent digital identity theft and transact without insecurity.
Payfone's latest funding was raised in February 2018. It is a Series F round and the company raised $23 million in that round alone. The company has raised a total of $93.6 million in funding in over 8 rounds.
Payfone competes with companies like ShoCard, CARDFREE, and ThreatMetrix. The company was making significantly frequent headlines over the last year. In March 2018, Payfone joined hands with higi unveiled a healthcare engagement technology with a network of 11,000 health kiosks. Consumers can track their health data securely through this network. Payfone is a pioneer in replacing passwords with two-factor authentication. In April 2018, Payfone partnered with EnStream (an identity authentication service provider for third-party applications) to kill passwords with federated digital identity platform.
Their new service allows customers to log in to a lot of applications just by using a mobile app. Customers don't have to hassle with remembering passwords anymore. In February 2019, the company partnered with GSMA to provide companies in Spain with fraud-free login experiences. In May 2018, Payfone hired W. Ross Ashley, a former Air Force intelligence officer and assistant administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to be the VP of government affairs and federal markets.
2. Socure: $30M
Socure is a New York-based company that entrusts businesses with next-generation security. Socure is among the leading high-assurance digital identity verification companies. The company's SaaS solution prevents identity thefts and fraudulent activities.
Today, mobile devices are increasingly used for account openings and online transactions. The static credit bureau data to digital identity verification are resulting in more fraud. So multifactor authentication with machine learning techniques is used to improve security. Socure's predictive analytics platform applies machine learning to trusted online/offline sources like emails, phones, IP addresses, social media, and GLBA/DPPA data to authenticate identities on a real-time basis. Socure also leverages biometrics and data intelligence from email, mobile phones, social media, and the broader Internet for more secure authentication. Socure's Authentic Identity Agent (Aida) bot detects a customer's identity from their digital footprints to calculate the risk and correlation scores. This enables businesses to increase online transaction rates and also it reduces fraud.
In February, Socure raised a whopping $30 million from a Series C round. The funding round was conducted by scale venture partners and the capital will be used to accelerate company operations, marketing and extend their footprint in the U.S. The company has raised $61.9 million in funding over seven rounds and generates $6.2 million in revenue annually.
3. Onfido: £4.52M in Series C
The London-based company, Onfido, is on a mission to help businesses build trust in the digitizing world. It leverages AI technology to digitally verify people's identities. It develops an AI that sorts true IDs from false and then compares it against facial biometrics. This way the company helps businesses onboard more customers, more securely. The technology brings more users onto the platform, reducing fraud risks at onboarding and beyond.
The company's AI technology uses RVshare to reduce fraud and build trust among its community of vehicle lenders and renters via a new partnership. The identity verification company has also partnered with BitPay to allow users to make payments in bitcoin. Onfido's AI-based KYC processes make sign up process a breeze. Companies like Volopa, Remitly, and Indiegogo have chosen Onfido to build trust within its user base.
This March, Onfido raised £4.52 million in its Series C funding round led by Augumentum Fintech. The company has raised an amount of $65.6 million in funding over eight rounds. Onfido generates $1.5 in million annually.
4. OneLogin: $100M in Series D
OneLogin unified access management (UAM) brings on-premises and cloud apps under a single console and provides centralized management with unified security policies. The UAM platform uses single sign-on and a cloud directory to allow organizations to manage access for on-premises and cloud applications. The platform also comes with user provisioning, multifactor authentication, and lifecycle management.
This March, the identity and access management (IAM) provider GS Labs joined OneLogin's certified implementation partner ecosystem to widen the reach of its UAM solution. Combined, the two companies will eliminate manual onboarding and off-boarding, provide enterprises with automated user provisioning, while improving governance and compliance.
OneLogin generates $33.5 annually and has over 2,000 customers worldwide including Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, Airbus, Du Pont, Royal Mail, Herman Miller, and Dun & Bradstreet. This January, the company raised a whopping $100 million in its Series D round, which brought the total funding amount to $175 million.
5. Auth0: $55M in Series D
Auth0 operates on a cloud-based identity platform for developers to provides a web-scale cloud solution. It enables users to single sign-on for applications running on various platforms with various identity providers. It comes with APIs and tools that enable developers to eliminate the authentication issues of their applications. JavaScript is used in between and customize the authentication and authorization pipelines.
It connects their applications and APIs to their database of users and passwords. Auth0 platform allows the person to authenticate to an active directory, LDAP, SAML, Integrated Windows Authentication, Google Apps, Salesforce, and other intrusion detection and prevention systems (IdPs) without the need to configure the firewall. It can add and remove accounts of users, modify profiles and authorization attributes, and identify root cause user login issues.
In May 2018, Auth0 raised $55 million from a Series D round. Auth0 has raised a total fund of $109.3M in over five rounds. They're backed up by some leading banks, venture firms Bessemer Venture Partners and Sapphire Ventures.
Identity management companies: Still growing
It is very unlikely for enterprises to become 100 percent cloud-based today and hybrid is the reality. This means having to deal with multiple access management systems. By providing a centralized platform to manage all the accesses, identity and access management companies have become real problem-solvers and their rapid growth is totally reasonable. The global identity management system market is growing at an astounding CAGR of 16 percent. Factors like technological advancement, global players in developed nations such as the U.S. and Canada have made North America the most dominating market for identity management. Europe stands as the second biggest market. Asia-Pacific is also flaunting a positive trend especially due to the growing economy of India and China. The market is expected to hit $24 billion by 2022. Identity management, and particularly the startups mentioned here, are ones to keep a close watch on in 2019.
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Posted on December 9, 2016 by Portsmouth Daily Times
'Christmas For Foster Kids' hosted by PHM
By Portia Williams - portiawilliams@civitasmedia.com
The office of Potter's House Ministries was loaded on Monday with many donations for the Christmas For Foster Kids' program.
Foster children from Hocking, Lawrence, and Scioto counties in Ohio will be the recipients gifts of the 'Christmas For Foster Kids.' The annual program is a collaborative effort between Potter's House Ministries in Sciotoville, and NECCO, in Lawrence County.
SCIOTOVILLE — The Potter's House Ministries (PHM) in Sciotoville is partnering with NECCO to provide 'Christmas For Foster Kids' to children in Hocking, Lawrence, and Scioto counties.
Anita Casper, director of PHM, said they have been working NECCO, founded by Ed and Dorothy NECCO, which is located in Lawrence County, Ohio. PHM will accommodate 72 foster children in the aforementioned counties.
"We are doing Christmas For Foster Kids, so we have chosen a local agency, and we are sponsoring 72 kids this year to give gifts to for Christmas," Casper said. "It varies from year to year, and this is one of the largest groups that we have done. We have been doing this for about 10 years now, and we are so glad to be able to provide this service."
PHM was introduced to 'Christmas For Foster Kids' through Casper's own personal experience.
"We kind of got into it because I am a foster parent myself, and have done it for about 20 years," she said. "I've noticed that as kids come into the system, the one thing that they've always lacked is Christmas, like a big Christmas. So is kind of how we got started."
Each annual every is a leap of faith for PHM, Casper said.
"The way it works, is we take on the kids by faith, and then we find sponsors for the children, so we get support from local churches, a few businesses come on board," she said. "This year at the beginning we only had 29 kids sponsored, and as of last Monday we just took a leap of faith, and decided to do this out of our own funds for the whole sum total of the 72 kids. So what has been happening, is people have just been coming in and giving, and not even knowing that we needed that money. So it has just been by faith, and the Lord handled it. The Lord completely took care of it, and we are good."
Spontaneous gifts have come continued to come in which have been a tremendous blessing.
"One lady walked in, we've known her, she is a woman in community, and said she didn't know anything about our program, but she wanted to sponsor children," she said. "She told us that she was adding up the number of children by their ages, and that's the total amount of dollars that I am giving for Christmas to support what you all are doing. So, that's just one way that she gave back, and she had no idea that we were so desperately needing 50 plus kids left that needed to be sponsored."
For the remainder of the process, NECCO made a trip to the Potter's House to pick up the gifts to distribute at their own Christmas party event to be held on the campus of Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. on Dec. 19
"It is really a unique party for the kids," she said. "We all get to go from our board, which makes it nice because our board actually gets to see the kids opening their gifts, and gets to interact with the children. This makes it really nice, because it allows them to see the results of all of the hard work."
"We are always taking donations, and will hold them back for the next year if we need to," she said. "So, every year we do this, and it is a really nice service for the community, and the kids have a blast."
PHM is located at 5409 Winchester Avenue in Sciotoville.
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The Space In My Heart
Posted on 23 September 2021 23 September 2021 by #BDB
Whoever thought we would be doing this again?
#BerenaDeservedBetter was born out of anger and rage at a storyline that promised representation and degenerated into… Well, we all saw the result. We thought Berena deserved better than it got. Looking back, we were probably quite bloody-minded about it. It mattered. It still does. We needed to take that hurt and harm and redirect it away from ourselves rather than internalise it. That way leads to so many of our LGBTQIA+ community taking their own lives. But sometimes the reasons we do things, or why an idea takes hold in us, are complicated and ill-defined and we cannot articulate them or understand them. But these reasons are still important. They are still our reasons.
The anger and rage I felt over Berena dissipated a long time ago. Life has happened, these past three years, as life does. Catherine Russell left Holby City. The world learnt of a new virus called Covid-19. Cameron Dunn descended into evil mayhem. The BBC announced the end of Holby. Simon Harper moved on as executive producer. Nine months ago – not that long a time in TV land.
What was left was… A space. A small, empty hole in my heart that life grew around but never filled. Like most Berena fans, I held my breath over these three episodes of Bernie Wolfe's return, wondering if the new Holby City powers-that-be were going to do it all over again. Break my heart. I don't know if I could have done it a second time. I barely managed the first.
Life can be a strange thing sometimes. The older I get the more I think I cannot be surprised. A disparate group of women from all over the world held together by their rage – and I would like to say, their Pride – in a storyline that promised so much, raised their voices and… The usual when women and/or those marginalised protest something that affects their mental and emotional wellbeing, their physical safety. Their lives. We were being too sensitive. We didn't understand the necessity of the storyline. We were overreacting. Overly dramatic. Drama does after all, need drama. Bisexuals cheat, lesbians deeply in love break up, out lesbians die. It's mature. And all perfectly normal within the context of everything else that happens on the show called Holby City.
The heteronormative context of everything else that happens on the show called Holby City. #RepresentationMatters – that was the point. The space in my heart wasn't that the then Holby City powers-that-be had somehow missed this point. It was that they didn't seem to care that they had missed it.
And just as I was no longer surprised at this, the world turned. Henrik Hanssen picked up the phone to call someone he wanted Cameron to talk to, and Bernie Wolfe looked up from across the hospital car park and saw her son. I'm still not sure what to make of that.
But a week on from Bernie leaving Holby to return to Serena, there are two things I'm pretty certain of. The first is that many fans chose not to remain silent after the degeneration of the Berena storyline at the end of 2018, and made a noise. A great deal of noise. We got very, very angry. Whether we chose to channel that anger through #BerenaDeservedBetter or not. We signed petitions, submitted formal complaints, sent postcards, wrote fanfiction, had articles published in UK newspapers and international zines. We made an absolute racket on social media and the internet. Whatever our reasons, working together, we did something quite profound: We stood up for ourselves. I don't think the BBC quite expected it. We did good.
The second is that as Bernie looked up from her ringing phone, it was Jemma who faced that camera with the new Holby powers-that-be behind her. In doing so, she faced the Berena fandom in all our wrath and anger. Perhaps trying to mend something that was once quite precious. Because #RepresentationMatters. It really does. The dead lesbian was no longer dead. And although it was never stated outright that Bernie and Serena were back together, "home" for Bernie was Serena in Spain. I can't help thinking that they heard us. And that even if they didn't understand our anger and protests, they knew it was important to try. That takes courage. As well as something deeper: Acknowledgement that they tried to do the right thing to the best of their ability amid an ocean of wrong. They did good.
That matters. I'm surprised by how much that matters.
The space in my heart is still there. It will always be there. A small, empty void that was the possibility of a life and love that was Berena. Maybe it still is. But life has grown around it. Life has been added, three Holby episodes now accumulating onto the layers. Three episodes that were far from neutral. Where perhaps the perspectives and experiences of a fandom of disparate women from all over the world were taken on board and listened to, despite the heteronormative context. Perhaps. Sometimes reasons are complicated and ill-defined and unknowable and it doesn't make them any less valid. It just makes them reasons.
By River Kingston
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