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Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research Seminar – Dr Katerina Kavalidou - University College Cork - The role of multimorbidity in self-harm and suicide
University staff, Current University students
Dr Katerina Kavalidou
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In category "Seminar"
By Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
At this seminar, our external speaker Dr Katerina Kavalidou, a researcher at the National Suicide Research Foundation, University College Cork, Ireland, will present a talk titled "The role of multimorbidity in self-harm and suicide".
Summary Research indicates that it is more likely to have middle-aged and older adults reaching health care services due to multiple health conditions, than due to a single disease alone. The terminology used for people having multiple disorders/diseases, regardless of temporality, is multimorbidity and it is a distinguished term from comorbidity - the latter always takes into account additional health conditions to a primary one. However, within suicide prevention research the risk of suicide-related outcomes (suicidal thoughts, suicidal behaviours, suicide) for those with multimorbidities has not been clearly presented, partly due to the interchangeable use of comorbidity and the study designs. The current presentation will focus: a) on the role of physical/mental multimorbidity in the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours (PhD outcomes), b) on the limitations regarding publishing relevant evidence, and c) on some preliminary findings from an ongoing meta-analysis of prospective studies investigating the association of multimorbidity and comorbidity with the risk of suicide.
For Zoom details, please email: CPCHSR.seminar.series@manchester.ac.uk
Role: Postdoctoral researcher
Organisation: University College Cork, Ireland
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Preferred Yields 10.9%, Paid Monthly: Growing Revenue, Shrinking Debt
With a 10.9% dividend yield (paid monthly), growing revenues, shrinking debt, and a very large total addressable market, the preferred shares of this healthcare IT company are worth considering if you are an income-focused investor. After providing an overview of the company, this article reviews the negative risks, which are greatly outnumbered by the positives characteristics, before finally drawing some conclusions on how you may want to "play" this very high-yield opportunity.
Medical Transcription Billing Corp
(MTBC) Preferred (MTBCP)
Medical Transcription Billing Corp (MTBC) is an information technology solution that helps healthcare providers improve their financial performance and grow their businesses. The company serves healthcare entities ranging from single physicians to medium sized practices. "PracticePro" is the company's core Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") solution, and it offers physician practices a comprehensive fully integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, including:
Practice management software, which facilitate the day-to-day operation of a medical practice;
Electronic health records ("EHR"), which allow its customers to qualify for government incentives;
Revenue cycle management ("RCM") services, which include medical billing, analytics and related services;
Mobile Health (mHealth) solutions, including smartphone applications that assist patients and healthcare providers in the provision of healthcare services.
MTBC also offers a clearinghouse service, which allows clients to track claim status.
The Risks:
Before getting into all of the positive attributes of this company (and there are many), we first review some of the obvious risks. Mainly, this is a very small "microcap" stock, and net income has been negative (although it is improving).
1. MTBC is a Microcap stock with a market cap of only $33.1 million (extremely small). The common stock trades at only $2.87 per share, and the preferred shares (which happened to yield 10.9%, paid monthly) have been consistently hovering around $25.30 (which is just above the $25 price at which management can redeem them starting in November of 2020). Microcap stocks (such as MTBC) are prone to heightened volatility, less analyst scrutiny, and are generally perceived to be higher risk.
2. Short Interest: Another risk to consider is there are a significant amount of MTBC shares currently sold short (i.e. investors betting against the stock). According to the YCharts, as much as 8.9% of the total float was recently sold short.
3. Negative Net Income is the other big obvious risk for MTBC. The company has not been turning a profit, but the bottom line has been getting better (and EBITDA turned significantly positive in the last two quarters—a very good thing which we will cover more, later). For perspective, here is a look at the company's historical net income and earnings per share.
To some investors, this type of consistent negative net income is a deal breaker. Some investors simply won't consider investing in a company that doesn't turn a profit. However, despite the negative earnings, MTBC has consistently supported the big dividend payments on its preferred shares (if you're an income investor, this is critical), and the company has also recently taken actions (paid down debt, made a big accretive acquisition) that are positioning it for better future earnings soon. Specifically, let's take a look at the positive attributes of MTBC…
The Positives:
Now for the positives, and there are a lot of them…
1. Revenue Growth: MTCB has been growing its revenues, as shown in the following chart.
The company's growth strategy includes both organic and inorganic (acquisitions) growth.
From an acquisition standpoint, MTBC has a history of acquiring other small companies, but rather recently (late 2016) completed its largest acquisition ever by acquiring MediGain, and the company has been working to integrate, drive down costs (economies of scale), and maintain and grow revenues.
Important to mention, acquisition activities tend to have a temporary negative impact on EBITDA for 1 to 2 quarters following the acquisition, and as the following graphic shows, MTBC's EBITDA recently turned sharply positive in the last two quarter (two quarters after the MediGain acquisition) and this is a very good thing.
In fact, this positive news is a large part of the reason the share price of MTBC's common shares have recently climbed, as shown in the following chart.
From an organic growth standpoint, the company has been focusing on ramping up its sales efforts. According to President and Director, Stephen Snyder, during the most recent quarterly conference call:
"With regard to business development, while we have spent less than 4% of our revenue in sales and marketing so far this year, we're generating more than $3 of annualized revenue for every $1 spent. Our strategy of building lead generating relationships with other industry stakeholders and increasing our visibility at industry trade events has enabled us to sign much larger groups and achieve a record year of new sales bookings. In view of the strong return on our investment, we intend to further increase our sales and marketing activities during the year ahead."
Also, management expects robust long-term growth led by talkEHR, a voice-activated SaaS electronic health record system. For example, the common shares were up significantly this last fall (as shown in our earlier price chart) as the company announced the successful launch of its next-generation, voice-enabled electronic records solution, talkEHR. MTBC has been offering talkEHR free of charge to all U.S. healthcare providers who can upgrade to the full-service package, including end-to-end medical billing, for 2.95% of a physician's collections. This is an opportunity for significant growth for MTBC.
2. Debt Reduction is another big positive for MTBC, as shown in the following chart.
Specifically, MTBC recently issued more preferred shares to pay down debt, and this ultimately strengthens the company's balance sheet and positions it for stronger future performance. Per the company's most recent earnings release:
"The Company raised gross proceeds of $7.9 million from the sale of approximately 315,000 additional shares of its non-convertible Series A Preferred Stock via four small public offerings during the quarter. This was in addition to approximately $7.4 million from the sale of approximately 295,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock sold in June…
The Company used a portion of the net proceeds of these offerings to repay in full its term loans outstanding with Opus, which was approximately $7.3 million as of December 31, 2016. In addition, the Company paid Prudential approximately $5.3 million, which covered the remainder of the purchase price from its acquisition of MediGain plus interest."
Also important, according to Bill Korn, the company's CFO:
"based on MTBC's current financial position, the fact that operating losses are dramatically reduced, adjusted operating income and adjusted EBITDA are positive, and future cash flow from operations is anticipated to be positive, the Company was able to remove the 'going concern' disclosure included in previous 10-Q's. We now have a solid financial foundation, which leaves the Company well-positioned for growth."
3. A Large Total Addressable Market is another attractive quality of this investment opportunity.
Specifically, the North American EHR/RCM industry (as described previously) is a $20 billion opportunity, and 70% of that space is in MTBC target market (1 to 10 physician size practices). MTBC targets smaller practices while AthenaHealth (ATHN) goes after to larger customers. However the overall market is fragmented considering AthenaHealth has only a 5% market share. Importantly, the space has seen (and will likely continue to experience) frequent business combination/acquisition opportunities (such as those MTBC has completed). If MTBC were to get acquired by a larger organization (which is more likely now that debt has been paid down) the common shares would likely rise significantly (i.e. they'd get acquired at a premium). Also important, upon the occurrence of a change of control, the company will have the option within 120 days to redeem the preferred shares at $25 per share plus accrued and unpaid dividends.
Worth noting, the following graphic describes industry drivers, including healthcare reform, reimbursement optimization, and consolidation.
Another encouraging sign of the large total addressable market is that MTBC is hiring. A quick glimpse of the company's website reveals a variety of open opportunities. It's often a sign of health when a business is hiring, such as MTBC.
4. Attractive Preferred Shares: The details of MTBC's preferred shares (MTBCP) are also important to understand. Not only do they offer an attractive 10.9% dividend yield, paid monthly, but according to QuantumOnline:
"Medical Transcription Billing Corp., 11.00% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock, liquidation preference $25 per share, redeemable at the issuer's option on or after 11/4/2020 at $25 per share plus accrued and unpaid dividends, and with no stated maturity. Cumulative distributions of 11.00% per annum ($2.75 per annum or $0.22917 per month) will be paid monthly on the 15th day of each month to holders of record on the record date that will be the last day of the calendar month (NOTE: the ex-dividend date is at least 2 business days prior to the record date)… Dividends paid by this preferred security are eligible for the preferential income tax rate of 15% to a maximum of 20% depending on the holder's tax bracket (and under IRS specified holding restrictions)… In regard to the payment of dividends and upon liquidation, the preferred shares rank junior to the company's senior debt, equally with other preferreds of the company, and senior to the common shares of the company."
Importantly, the shares trade close to the $25 par value (which is much better than if they traded at a large premium), and they've traded in that general range fairly consistently.
Make no mistake, there are very real risks associated with investing in Medical Transcriptions Billing, such as those described in this article. Specifically, it's a microcap stock with negative net income. However, in addition to paying down its debt, MTBC has a variety of additional attractive qualities such as attractive revenue growth, a large total addressable market, and a business that is starting to turn the corner toward profitability and more growth. The common shares are highly volatile, but could easily increase dramatically if the company achieves profitability and continues on its positive trajectory. The preferred shares involve less risk and offer an attractive 10.9% yield, paid monthly. If you are an income-focused investor, MTBC preferred shares may be worth considering for the higher risk allocation in your prudently diversified investment portfolio.
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Q: Assembly atoi function I am making atoi function for assembly.
Whatever I try it doesn't work and I have no idea why.
Does anyone know what is the problem?
org 100h

mov si, stri     ;parameter
call atoi        ;call function
pop eax          ;result
mov [broj], eax  ;save
mov ah, 9        ;display (in ascii, because I don't have itoa function yet either)
mov dx, broj
int 21h

mov ah, 8
int 21h
int 20h

atoi:
    mov eax, 0 ;stores result
    mov ebx, 0 ;stores character
atoi_start:
    mov bl, [si] ;get character
    cmp bl, '$' ;till dollar sign
    je end_atoi
    imul eax, 10 ;multiplu by 10
    sub bl, 30h ;ascii to int
    add eax, ebx ;and add the new digit
    inc si ;;next char
jmp atoi_start
end_atoi:
    push eax ;return value
    ret

stri db '1000$'
broj: db ?,?, '$'

A: The problem is that you push eax to the stack just before returning from atoi. ret uses data from top of the stack as a return address.
Possible solution: don't push eax to stack and simply return from atoi with the answer in eax. So, you would not need pop eax in the main part of the code.
Besides this, you would also need to be sure that DS points to the code segment where your stri memory location resides.
For a regular exit from the program use int 21 function 4Ch. Use of int 20 is deprecated after MS DOS 2.0.

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Lenovo results: Data center business on the rise despite net loss
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Chinese PC and data center server provider Lenovo registered its second consecutive profitable quarter, announcing $11.91 billion in revenue for the first quarter of the financial year ending on June 30th, a 19 percent increase year-on-year.
The company's net profit of $77 million was supported by growth in its personal computer business, which leapt up by 11 percent, which has been attributed to two causal factors: the introduction of Windows 10 OS and the ensuing systems replacement by enterprise customers, and Lenovo's acquisition of a 51 percent stake in Fujitsu's PC and laptop business earlier this year.
A share of the company's profit recovery came from $105 million in cost savings in its mobile business, and another $73.9 million of unspecified cost savings. Despite releasing a new mobile portfolio, the segment still failed to bring in a profit.
Lenovo's US headquarters in Morisville, North Carolina – Lenovo
This also applies to its data center business. Although the company registered $1.6bn in revenue for the division - a 67.8 percent increase year-on-year and an all-time high - and profitability rose by 11 percent, the segment still made a $63 million loss pre-tax.
The biggest revenue sources in the division were its 'ThinkAgile' converged systems - and namely its CP series, a fully integrated cloud infrastructure, SDN and automated compute and storage platform accessible via a software-as-a-service portal - as well as HPC, AI and hyperscale products.
And indeed, the ThinkAgile brand has more than doubled year-on-year; the company became the number one high performance computing (HPC) provider on the Top500 supercomputing list this quarter, overtaking HPE with 117 systems; its hyperscale server business more than doubled and its flash storage systems sales grew by 42 percent year-on-year.
In an earnings call (via Seeking Alpha), the company's President and CEO Yang Yuanqing said the company is planning to develop its network functions virtualization (NFV) and edge computing product range, as well as make continued investments in software-defined infrastructure, artificial intelligence, storage and networking.
The company's EVP, Wai Ming, said he was "confident" that the division would remain sustainably profitable.
Lenovo became a major data center player in 2014 when it bought IBM's x86 server business, but has struggled to keep the division afloat, which some have said could be due to stagnating data center hardware sales, the lack of a clear strategy for the business, or a tendency for customers to lack trust in Chinese manufacturing processes.
The company has doubled down on its data center product portfolio and increased investment in sales and channel partner programs in the past eighteen months, which may take time to bear fruits.
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Žižek, Peterson, and The Third Policeman
It was a debate not of this century but the last.
The meeting of Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson was meant to be the philosophical debate of the century. The title, 'Happiness: Capitalism –vs– Marxism', was mostly sidelined, however, as both men quickly came to agree that Marxism wasn't particularly effective at creating the conditions for human happiness, and then slowly came to agree that Capitalism wasn't particularly good either. If they disagreed at all it was about the nature of 'Happiness' itself, but even this might be considered more of a shift in emphasis than any meaningful disagreement.¹
Žižek summarised their common ground during the debate when he said: "Happiness as the goal of our lives is a very problematic notion [and] we humans are very creative in sabotaging our pursuit of happiness." Žižek and Peterson are essentially two policemen of philosophy who advise extreme caution when you find yourself engaged in the pursuit of happiness. Dr. Peterson, wearing his smartest suit, is the good cop, urging you to do what you can and strive for the light without being too optimistic. Žižek, wearing his scruffiest shirt, is the bad cop, reminding you that the light at the end of the tunnel is in any case a train, so don't be afraid of being too pessimistic. They both agree, in other words, that between human beings and happiness is the tyrant of reality, (Reality, with a capital 'R', if you are Peterson; and 'reality', in inverted commas, if you are Žižek). But who is this tyrant of reality? This tyrant of reality is someone who goes by the name of, and can be explained by, The Third Policeman…
The Third Policeman is a dark and comic novel that goes a long way to explain the philosophies of Žižek and Peterson. If this debate can be called the debate of the century, it is not because of what these two thinkers think because what they think is remarkably similar. If this debate can be called the debate of the century, it's because it can be reframed along methodological lines: how these thinkers think. To think like Marxist or like Capitalist is certainly not the distinction of the 21st century. To think like a postmodernist or like a rationalist might seem more apt in the 21st century, but this is not the distinction here either, because Žižek does not accept that all knowledge is power, and Peterson tends to become teary-eyed when it comes to religion. What The Third Policeman does is recast this debate as a debate between two thinkers who can be said to represent two modes of philosophical enquiry: analytical philosophy and continental philosophy.
What are these? Analytical philosophy is the making of propositions which are necessarily true because their denial involves a contradiction. Continental philosophy is more interested in metaphysics and normative statements than it is in problems of epistemology. These are hasty definitions that must be hastily retreated from, however, because their separation is certainly not as easy as all that, and any reason for their separation is almost always controversial. But the relationship is one characterised by tension – and it should be thought significant that the only thing guaranteed to make people bridle more than attempts at their separation, is when there is no attempt to separate them. There is much to be confused about here, especially when analytical philosophy is in a sense both the parent and the child of continental philosophy, having labeled something which proceeded it by hundreds of years while also having been born by it.
Žižek and Peterson exemplify this confusingly intimate relationship. Broadly speaking, the analytical thinker seeks to partition nature into segments for ever-closer painstaking examination, and this process of examination is something that Peterson engages in – for example, when, at the end of his opening remarks in the debate, he delved into "a few free market stats". The continental thinker is not so rigorous as this, and this is nicely personified by Žižek, someone who has a wide-range of interconnected interests and a romantic affiliation with infinite regressions ("so on, and so on, and so on…"). Why these two thinkers can be squashed into analytical and continental boxes can put more simply though. Analytical philosophy is popular and in vogue. As is Peterson. Continental philosophy is genially appreciated but not easily read. As is Žižek.
The Third Policeman is a novel which reveals the 'Marxist-vs-Capitalist' paradigm to be one which distracts from the real differences in these respective modes of thinking. Firstly, The Third Policeman offers a critique of those who, like Žižek, drop the pursuit of happiness down a lift-shaft of infinite regression.
Let's look at one example.
One scene in The Third Policeman explains why it is always possible to aim for approximate truths (eg. what will make you happy) even though there are no reliable sources of authority lurking in the background. Picture this scene. The narrator/protagonist of The Third Policeman stands inside a police station. The first policeman, a man by the name of Sergeant MacCruiskeen, stands in front of him, and takes from his dresser a magnificent brown chest which he puts on a table in front of our narrator/protagonist. The chest is said to be so well made that the only thing worth being stored inside it is an identical but smaller chest. MacCruiskeen opens that chest next. Inside it is another identical chest, and inside that one is another identical chest, and so on and so on… until MacCruiskeen moves past a chest that is but "a tiny piece of dirt" and arrives at a place where, to use his words: "nobody has ever seen the last five I made because no glass is strong enough to make them big enough to be regarded truly as the smallest things ever made." An infinite regression is identified. Later in the novel, the second policeman, a man named Sergeant Gilhaney, knocks over the table on which one of these invisible chests has been placed. MacCruiskeen explodes. He takes his gun and threatens to shoot Gilhaney and the narrator/protagonist if they do not find his chest, and so the two men scramble around on the floor looking for the "tiny thing that probably does not exist at all." After a short while, and with a wink to the protagonist, Gilhaney pretends to have found the chest and makes a show of placing it back on the table. This is said to satisfy MacCruiskeen, but while us readers are encouraged to think that MacCruiskeen has been hoodwinked, it is actually us, the readers, who have been hoodwinked, as MacCruiskeen later says that, by rare chance, Gilhaney had actually closed his hand around the chest and placed it on the table all without knowing and by accident. Or had he? The novel should have left us in a state of appropriate skepticism by now, and it is precisely this state of severe skepticism which will allow us to move forwards (eg. move towards happiness). So, whatever the metaphysical claim for imaginary transcendence is that Žižek makes, there never can be a final source of authority. The Third Policeman tells us that you can never know, just as Jorden Peterson advised the audience in the debate to "assume you're probably wrong." It is only through falsification that you can arrive at something approximating truth. Žižek might see happiness in the fact that people in poor Eastern countries enjoyed being reminded of what their lives could have been, and as such the nature of happiness is "corruptive", but he should not be allowed to stop there, for this "necessary byproduct" is not serviceable when this byproduct is nothing but a byproduct, of a byproduct, of a byproduct…
Secondly, though, The Third Policeman offers a critique of Peterson and his philosophical puddle.
Here's how.
In The Third Policeman, de Selby is said to be a crazy philosopher with crazy theories. For example, he thinks it is possible to travel from Bath to Folkstone by locking yourself in your room and studying postcards of all the areas that you would have to have traversed to make such a journey. "Like most of de Selby's theories, the ultimate outcome is inconclusive," remarks the narrator/protagonist. This suggests that de Selby has much in common with the postmodern types Peterson hates, but this very same accusation could be leveled at Peterson too. It is said of de Selby that: "It is a curious enigma that so great a mind would question the most obvious realities and object even to things scientifically demonstrated (such as the sequence of day and night) while believing absolutely in his own fantastic explanations of the same phenomena." Peterson's theories and sort-yourself-out advice are likewise inattentive to obvious realities. Firstly, and as the Zeno Paradox makes clear, if you follow Peterson's advice and tidy half your room, and then half your room again, and then again… you will never actually finish tidying your room. It's more platitudinous than it is philosophical to say that you should ignore this fact and just tidy up as much as you can anyway – it's the kind of advice that could be given by… well, anyone… (although this isn't to say it's a bad thing that Peterson uses his platform to give it). Secondly, though, and as Žižek pointed out in the debate, the uselessness of tidying up your room is made clear and obvious when placed in the context of North Korea. (It is also worth noting that North Korea reveals something of Žižek's philosophical fortitude – just how much does he like the idea of deprivation, or is it just that he doesn't know it?). Context matters and for an analytical thinker to neglect context is to suggest that they are not immune to the conceptual confusions one finds in continental philosophers, and that their way of coping with these conceptual confusions seems to be to just ignore them.²
When a veteran listener listens to Peterson repeat his happiness maxim, which tells him/her how hard it is to be happy, and which tells him/her how much he/she is going to have to sacrifice to be happy, this veteran listener is probably not doing the very things Peterson needs them to do to be happy. It might be the case that whatever you think about happiness is less important than the way – or the how – you think about happiness.
Whether or not you should turn to analytical or continental philosophy is not a question I feel I can answer, but I do think that too much methodological certainty in either might be a problem. Although it is true that just because you are probably wrong does not mean you cannot be approximately right, it is still the case, as Žižek would put it, that "whenever you act you err." Unceasing attempts to make yourself happy, much like unceasing attempts to tidy your bedroom, are doomed to failure. When at its best, Peterson's 'Rules for Life' offers a placebo to its readers as a solution. By contrast, Žižek does not pretend to offer a solution, but through this does he offer us a (somewhat snotty) helping hand. Žižek seems to understand that sometimes thinking itself is exactly where people go wrong. It is a consequence of the human condition that thinking too much about ourselves can be the worst thing a human can do. Sociological studies show this to be the case, and tell us that choosing 'not to think' should not be confused with choosing 'to be ignorant'. Instincts can lead to better personal outcomes than rational thought.
When we talk about what we should do to be happy, we should not take our cognitive faculties too seriously. The Third Policeman is concerned with the overwhelming strangeness of our existence, and while the novel can be read as a colonial text, (telling us that the reality from which we take comfort is in fact a strange distortion imposed on us by an English-sounding-Empire), a more interesting reading of the novel drops the imperialism, because what the novel tells us is that these strange distortions would be imposed upon our lives anyway. For anyone that has read The Third Policeman, simply relive the trauma of discovering the true nature of the common bicycle; for anyone that hasn't, simply relive the trauma of trying to understand quantum mechanics. I hope you have my meaning – our world is strange enough as it is. In The Third Policeman, the eponymous character of Policeman Fox – always on the beat and playful with his truncheon – is a representation of the strange distortions in our world, and the only way to beat the tyrant of reality at his own game is to accept that we are playing a game with loaded dice, and sometimes all we can do is laugh.
Humans cannot always think their way to being happy. It's known as the 'Paradox of Hedonism', and it's pragmatic, easily intuited, and accepted by anyone who pushes the boat out beyond Socrates. It's something which Žižek seems to have a firmer grasp of than Peterson. As Žižek said during this debate: "Happiness – if you focus on it you are lost." More to the point, though, was when he said to Peterson: "I want to solicit from you to tell a joke, don't you see this?" I'm not sure Peterson did.
¹ Žižek's problem with human happiness resides more in the 'happiness', whereas Peterson's problem with human happiness resides more in the 'human'. For Žižek, transcendence is based on deprivation, and yet through deprivation one can reach some kind of transcendence. Happiness is an illusion. For Peterson, transcendence is achieved through sacrifice rather than deprivation. Happiness is basically an illusion then.
² Is Peterson really an analytic thinker? His main strength seems to be a wealth of historical and textual references, and so, in so far as Peterson can be said to philosophise, it might be said that he has less in common with analytical philosophy than he does with traditionalist philosophy. Peterson is first and foremost a reinterpreter. He reinterprets thinkers like Nietzsche and Jung, and seems so determined in this that he might in part see these thinkers as worthwhile precisely because they are Nietzsche and Jung. And an atavistic Peterson explains his tiresome use of religion, and all their meta-truths.
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Q: Expression language, don't show variable value I am pretty new in Java EE, i am trying use that .war file http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ThreadDumpJSP , but it seems index.jsp file doesn't show variable, I see only ${thr.name}   ${thr.state}    ${thr.priority} ${thr.daemon} I am tested it on jboss and tomcat 6
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package org.jboss.varia.threaddump.ThreadDumpBean;

import java.io.Serializable;import java.util.*;

public class ThreadDumpBean implements Serializable {

    private final Map traces;

    public ThreadDumpBean() {traces = new TreeMap(THREAD_COMP);traces.putAll(Thread.getAllStackTraces());}

    public Collection getThreads() {return traces.keySet();}

    public Map getTraces() {return traces;}

    /*** Compare the threads by name and id.*/
    private static final Comparator THREAD_COMP = new Comparator() {
        public int compare(Thread o1, Thread o2) {
            int result = o1.getName().compareTo(o2.getName());
            if (result == 0) {
                Long id1 = o1.getId();
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<jsp:useBean id="threadDump"
             class="org.jboss.varia.threaddump.ThreadDumpBean"
             scope="request"/>

Thread Summary

    Thread
    State
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    Daemon

  <c:forEach items="${threadDump.threads}" var="thr">

      <c:out value='${thr.name}' escapeXml="false"/>
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A: If you deploy the JSP page on Tomcat 6 you need to enable the expression language to use it (for reasons of backwards compatibility this is disabled by default). That can either be done by creating a web.xml file where the version of the Servlet spec is set to at least 2.4. Your web.xml file should look something like this:
<web-app id="TreadDumpApp" version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd";>

</web-app>

To use EL outside JSP tag attributes, you need to add event more magic to the web.xml
<web-app {...magic from above...}>
<jsp-property-group>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<el-ignore>false</el-ignore>
</jsp-property-group>
</web-app>

You should also be able to force this single page to allow EL, but adding this declaration in the top of the page:
<%@ page isELIgnored ="false" %>

Yeah, that double negation is quite elegant, eh? ;-)


Academy for Professional Excellence (APEX), Kolkata has established itself as a comprehensive educational institution that provides students and working people with courses and qualifications to enhance their skills and make them professionally competent for the workforce. The university alliances and affiliations, industry associations, academic expertise, experienced human resources, and modern infrastructure, combine to provide a learning experience that is grounded in practical application and domain knowledge, thereby enabling students to prepare for their future careers.
It has been successful in not only providing the students with proper guidance and training, but also the jobs and careers to make them productive members of the society. APEX has consistently been the institution of choice for students and corporate alike. The performance by students graduating from the institute over the years is testimony to its commitment to quality and professional excellence. The Institution has firmly established itself as a quality provider of training and education in diverse fields.
Deserving students are provided Scholarships strictly based on financial capacity on a case to case basis to help them subsidies the cost of education.
The Placement Cell believes in a mutual symbiosis of the network, enthusiasm, aspirations, and efforts between the student community and the placement officers. They maintain regular liaison with the industry and placement consultants and keep in touch with the moving trends to offer the best option as per individual competencies. The placement cell coordinates with various companies to ascertain their requirements and accordingly, positions available are listed for applications.


Mixed-media painting on 8" x 10" stretched. Signed on back of painting.
This original artwork contains layers of acrylic paint, collage, vintage ephemera, inks, embossing powder, and stenciling.
It includes 1920s ledger paper from a Sea Captain documenting his ship's travels.


Today is Halloween. I am busy with all of the last minute preparations of finding shoes to wear with costumes, remembering where I put the pumpkin candy holders, and hoping the weather cooperates for trick-or-treating tonight. Along with all of the fun and excitement there lingers in the back of my mind a sense of grieving and sorrow. Two years ago, Halloween was a fun and carefree holiday and then my life changed forever.
Carson Alexander was born October 27, 2004; his Grandpa Ray's birthday. He arrived with an uneventful birth, came home from the hospital and was welcomed by his sister Maddie, brother William, and Grammy. All in his first week of life we celebrated his homecoming, Halloween, then my birthday, but I will never forget the day Grammy left.
I dropped my mother off at the airport and then headed off to see our pediatrician for Carson's seven day check up. Dr. Fiona Rubenstein had become a dear friend and I couldn't wait for her to meet Carson. We were shown to the exam room and waited briefly. As Fiona entered she greeted us with her normal cheerfulness and asked me to be seated. At the time I thought she was just being considerate. I soon realized however that it was much more than that. She proceeded to tell me that Carson's newborn screen results had come back abnormally and that he needed further testing. She told me that the disorder identified was so incredibly rare that chances were it was just a false result. To be cautious however, she had him admitted to the hospital for jaundice and to keep an eye on him. We spent our first night in the hospital that night but little did we know that we would spend a majority of the next two years there as well.
Within the week Carson caught his first cold and had to be transported to Cleveland Clinic by ambulance. As he was being admitted the doctors asked tons of questions. One of the doctoral residents just happened to ask if there was anything else they should know about. I told him that Carson's newborn screen had come back abnormal and within minutes he had printed off a protocol to follow in caring for him. We still had not gotten the confirmation test results back so we didn't know if Carson really had this rare disorder but the doctor's treated him with the protocol anyway. In hindsight, I truly believe it was a factor in saving his life.
A few days later we received confirmation from our doctor, Carson does in fact have Glutaric Acidemia Type 1. I had to ask several times just how to pronounce the name let alone understand what it was. We then began a series of meetings with specialists. For the next year Carson ended up in the hospital almost every 2 to 3 weeks due to poor feeding, bronchiolitis, high fever, and cold symptoms. He had a metabolic crisis at 4 months old and mild brain injury was confirmed with MRI. It has been a long two years of over 20 hospital stays, central line and g-tube placements, three nasty line infections, fighting off normal childhood ailments like colds and respiratory infections, speech, physical, and occupation therapy. Sometimes it seems like the only thing Carson didn't get was an oil change and tire rotation.
There have been a number of things that seem to have made Carson's treatment successful and given us comfort and encouragement as we have endeavored to "live normally." We have some of the most loving family and friends one could ever hope for. Our families and our church family pray daily and have been known to drop everything and get in the car or on a plane to come to our aid. Our specialists: Dr. Shawn McCandless, Dr. Art Zinn, Dr. Douglas Kerr, Dr. Sumit Parikh, RD Judy McConnell, Dr. Tom Phelps, Dr. Maria Couthino, Dr. Walter Chwalz, RN Patti Smith, RN Kathleen Nolan and a host of other doctors and nurses at Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital and Cleveland Clinic have invested in Carson's life not just his illness. They have helped us by seeing Carson not just as a sick child but a child who happens to have an illness. My greatest joy in working with these amazingly competent people is watching them smile, talk, and enjoy Carson while treating him. God has given us so many experiences and so many people to be thankful for.
I said earlier that in the back of my mind there is grieving and sorrow over many things: the loss of dreams and plans, the loss of time with my other two children, and the loss of that sense of normalcy are just a few. It needs to be said however that these things truly are just in the back of my mind. What is most important is what resides in my daily thoughts. Where I live and strive daily is a life developing new dreams and plans, a life making the most out of the moments I have with my other two kids instead of regretting the time lost, a life of abundanceinstead of normalcy, but most of all just simply living life today as faithfully and joyfully as possible. Carson's life has been marked by suffering but it has been defined by love, laughing and joy. We will never look back and regret a moment of Carson's life because we know that God's plans are greater than our own. We would never trade the lessons and experiences Carson has had and will continue to learn from and the perspective and growth we have experienced as well. It has been a life well worth it.
Picture Melissa, husband David, Carson, and Madison is 6 and son William is 4.


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The Art Nouveau Tiles in Lisbon
By António José Barros Veloso / Isabel Almasqué
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This week in getLISBON invites series, we're honoured to have the collaboration of Isabel Almasqué and António José de Barros Veloso. This couple of doctors, passionate about tiles, have, over time, contributed in a significant way to the study and dissemination of this very particular and expressive art form. They're the authors of several reference books on this subject and in this interesting article about the Art Nouveau Tiles in Lisbon, they're going to tell us about: how this artistic movement emerged; the main tile production units; their artists and even a reminder for some unique tilework of our city that deserve a closer look.
The artistic movement known as Art Nouveau emerged in Europe at the end of the 19th century and despite its short duration (1885-1910), it had a decisive influence on all artistic production of a time marked by profound economic and social changes related to the Industrial Revolution. Based on the rejection of previous conservative and academic styles and heavily influenced by the ideas of the Arts and Crafts movement, this style was the meeting point of multiple aesthetic influences. It sought to reconcile mechanised production with aesthetic quality and was, in a way, a precursor of what we now call "design".
The Art Nouveau Movement in Portugal
Rua Alexandre Herculano, nº57
In Portugal, at the end of the 19th century, the cultural circles were still not very receptive to the social transformations and aesthetic trends that had given rise to this movement and the industrialisation process was still at its beginning. Therefore, with few exceptions, Art Nouveau had a very discreet influence both in architecture and in the decorative arts and it was perhaps in the field of tilework that its development expanded the most.
Its main motives of inspiration were the elements of Nature, seeking to take advantage of everything that could suggest movement, lightness and freedom, rejecting the suggestion of volume and using sinuous curves and whiplash lines as its main characteristics.
The Case of Lisbon
In Lisbon, Art Nouveau tiles decorate hundreds of buildings, either by covering the façades with patterned tiles whose decorative elements obey this aesthetic, or through bands next to the cornices, friezes surrounding the openings or longer panels applied on pediments.
Lilies, pansies, poppies, water lilies, sunflowers and other plant elements often appear, represented in a stylised way and arranged along sinusoidal lines, suggesting movement; Butterflies, dragonflies, peacocks, swans, ducks or swallows, symbols of freedom and lightness in the world of birds and insects, also appear with some frequency. Rarer are the representations of the female figure, almost always wrapped in ethereal and flowing clothes, or decorated with long wavy hair that blends in with organic and vegetal elements.
Tiles Production Units
Avenida Visconde Valmor nº38
The Factory of Sacavém was the major producer of this type of tiles not only for Lisbon but for the rest of the country. On the one hand, the fact that it had already mechanised means of production and decoration allowed for large-scale production and, on the other hand, the influence of its English owners who, along with the new aesthetic trends that dominated Europe, always maintained close commercial contacts with other English factories that allowed the importation of raw materials, machinery, catalogues and even of some specialised workers and the adaptation of their production to the Portuguese taste, never losing its British characteristic.
The Factory of Desterro also produced many of this type of tiles, using the same production and decoration techniques as Factory of Sacavém, although on a smaller scale. Others, such as Factory of Constância and Lusitânia Ceramic, played a more modest role. However, in Lisbon we can find Art Nouveau tiles produced by factories in other regions of the country, namely by Factory of Faience from Caldas da Rainha and the Factory of Devezas. There were several techniques used, with emphasis on manual painting, mechanical printing, airbrushing and transfer printing.
Many of these tile ornaments were manufactured in series, using semi-industrial production techniques and by anonymous craftsmen, with no reference to the date they were painted or the name of their author. However, the factory where they were produced can often be deduced from manufacturing and decoration techniques. Some panels, having been made on commission for certain façades and painted by better-known artists, are dated and signed, or at least mention the name of the factory. The dated inscriptions that we found in Lisbon are between 1903 and 1918.
The Authors of Art Nouveau Tiles
Corner of Rua do Patrocínio and Rua Saraiva de Carvalho
In addition to Raul Lino, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and Costa Motta Sobrinho, authors of some of the most notable examples of Art Nouveau tiles, other painters were also linked to this type of tilework, namely Carlos Afonso Soares and José Lacerda who worked at the Factory of Sacavém, José António Jorge Pinto who worked at Constância Ceramic and Factory of Campolide, Viriato Silva who also collaborated with Constância Ceramic, António Luís de Jesus, founder of Factory of Campo de Ourique, and others such as Alfredo Pinto, Luís Cardoso, Alberto Nunes and Francisco Gonçalves Freitas, authors of several panels that today can still be seen in some buildings in Lisbon.
Main Locations of Art Nouveau Tiles in Lisbon
Rua Filipe da Mata nº27
Although very dispersed, the Art Nouveau tiles in Lisbon are concentrated in some neighbourhoods, namely Avenidas Novas or Campo de Ourique.
Some examples, for their originality or for having been made on commission for certain façades, deserve special attention. Here are the addresses for those who are curious:
Av. Praia da Vitória, 43;
Av. Almirante Reis, 2;
Av. Almirante Reis,74;
R. Feio Terenas, 9;
Av. 5 de Outubro, 6-8 (Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves);
R. Álvaro de Castro, 51;
R. das Janelas Verdes, 70-78;
R. Saraiva de Carvalho 242;
R. dos Sapateiros, 225 (Animatógrafo do Rossio).
Despite thefts and frequent demolitions, many of the Art Nouveau tiles in Lisbon still persist in a few hundred buildings and can be admired by all of us. Just keep your eyes peeled.
getLISBON suggests you also read the article The Art and Design of the WC Kiosks of Lisbon, where we talk about the four WC kiosks, as well as about the Art Nouveau tile panels on the façades of each of them.
Decoration Portuguese Tilework
António José Barros Veloso / Isabel Almasqué
António José de Barros Veloso, internist. "Honoris Causa Doctor" by NOVA-Medical School. Decorated with the Medal of Merit of the Order of Physicians and with the Gold Medal for Distinguished Services from the Ministry of Health. In 2017, he was awarded the National Prize for Internal Medicine.
Isabel Almasqué, ophthalmologist. Co-founder and regular contributor to the website DE OUTRA MANEIRA.
They carried out the inventory of façade tiles in Lisbon (commissioned by the City Council of Lisbon in 1988-89) and published several books in the field of tiles, for which they received several municipal awards:
- Azulejos de fachada em Lisboa – Edição da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, 1988
- Azulejaria de Exterior em Portugal- Edições Inapa, Lisboa,1991.
- Hospitais Civis de Lisboa – História e Azulejos – Edições Inapa, Lisboa, 1996.
- O Azulejo Português e a Arte Nova – Edições Inapa, Lisboa, 2000.
Curators of the exhibition "A Arte Nova nos Azulejos em Portugal" (The Art Nouveau in Tiles in Portugal). Aveiro, 2011
A Brief History of Tagus Estuary Boats
Lisbon of Spies – Intrigue and Glamor in World War II
Water Museum: Diving in Lisbon


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July 21, 2016 / cigarman501
I wonder how many YEARS of my life have actually been spent driving mowers and tractors in circles? In my own yard, on football and baseball fields? Finishing up where I started only to do it over again…and again…. I find that my mind drifts with the repetitive mindlessness of the job…until I run over something I shouldn't or cut a clump of Linda Gail's flowers.
This time of year, the hot and humid doldrums of summer, my mind "circles" to twenty-nine seasons as a football coach…despite not having coached football in fifteen years. It's been that long? With the coach's clinic this weekend I am reminded that the football season is just around the corner. The smell of my freshly cut grass, along with the heat and humidity, takes me to the fields of my past. Twenty-nine first practices followed by twenty-nine first games. Fields freshly manicured with sharp white lines almost glowing from the reflected light from above.
In some ways my twenty-nine seasons were a study in frustration. Eight seasons finishing above .500 and a small, very small, handful of break-even seasons. We have at least three coaches in South Carolina with eight or more state championships during their career. It gets much worse, five of those winning eight seasons occurred during my first nine seasons. Three winning seasons over the last twenty. My own tenure as a head football coach boasts one winning season, six wins out a total of thirteen over four seasons. What made me think I was head coaching material?
I spent this past Friday morning with best friend, former boss and Linda Gail's former high school classmate, Mike "Hawk" Hawkins. I was lending "moron" support as we attempted to erect a backyard swing from scratch. The "blind leading the blind" didn't quite describe it. More like the "blind leading the stupid." Somehow with a bit of "cussin'" on my part and a lot praying on his, we got the job done. Maybe it won't collapse in on itself. More importantly, being around "Hawk" reminded me of why I coached football for twenty-nine years despite the frustration. It was the people and the personalities surrounding high school athletics.
My last game coaching football was Mike's last game as head coach at Riverside. No man could have put more into a program than he did but it wasn't in the cards. My first five years as his assistant netted two winning seasons and a couple break evens but then the wheels fell off the jalopy. To quote Linda Gail and thousands of others, "You can't make silk purses out of sow's ears." We had great kids who tried and worked hard but were "athletically challenged" proving that you could do most everything right and still not be successful. Weekly we found our X's to be much smaller and slower than our opponent's O's. Tasting just a bit of success is what made my last game much sweeter.
I don't know how many games we won my last year…it wasn't many. It doesn't matter because we won the last one. A playoff bound Mann team came to the River and our kids rose up and smacked them in the nose. Hawk devised what I have always called a "bastard" defense, throwing caution to the wind and our kids executed it. As the seconds ticked down a senior defensive end who, in a normal defense, would not have been dropping into pass coverage, did. Geoff Rigsby intercepted the confused Mann quarterback to ice the victory…my last victory. I didn't know it was my last game at the time. I was living vicariously through "Hawk" who was being carried from the field on the shoulders of his players while what few fans were in attendance were bring down the goal posts…well bending the goal posts.
A friend who used to coach with Hawk and I, Rick Scott, once said, "Winning is better than sex." I bit, "How is that?" "Sex only last a few minutes. A win lasts all week long." Well! I would guess he is correct. I've enjoyed my last win for fifteen years.
For more humor by Don Miller click on the following link: http://www.amazon.com/Don-Miller/e/B018IT38GM
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Q: Biber and Biblatex: reference to multiple subentries I am using biblatex with biber for my thesis. I use sets to have several subentries:

When I refer to multiple subentries (e.g. a & b) of one set, I would like an output as: [1a,b], but instead I get [1a,1b]:

Is there a way to solve this? And also something like: [1a-c]?
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
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journal = {journal},
year = {1999},
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year = {1999},
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year = {1999},
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A: Update
From biblatex 3.15 onwards the numeric-comp style comes with a subentrycomp option (enabled by default) that compresses subentry references as well.
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An '1a,b,c' solution is not too complicated. We only need to redefine cite:comp:inset a little to check if the last labelnumber is the same.
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With more work you can also get '1a-c'. The following solution recreates the numeric-comp macros for @set entries. The solution is optimised for short code rather than conceptual niceness.
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Mathews Bridge Contractor Works Around the Clock
Mon June 04, 2007 - Southeast Edition
Jeff Brooks
Every construction site has its share of safety concerns, but working hundreds of feet above the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla., brings a different dimension to worker protection.
Fortunately, Tampa-based PCL Civil Constructors Inc., the prime contractor for the Mathews Bridge deck replacement project, knows a little something about high-wire bridge work. Regarded as one of the premier civil contractors in the United States, PCL specializes in bridge construction and repair. The low bidder for the Mathews Bridge project, the company also is working several other bridge projects across the country.
According to Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) spokesperson Mike Goldman, "PCL is a name contractor. They're an experienced bridge builder."
And that experience helps keep employees safe.
"On all our jobs, safety is a concern," said Ryan Hamrick, PCL Mathews Bridge project manager. "Fall protection is a big concern on this job. Any type of edge work, we're always tied off. With all the activities going on, keeping everything neat and orderly is a big issue, too."
PCL is replacing 800 ft. (244 m) of metal grating on the bridge with an exodermic deck system — a steel grid filled with lightweight concrete. The system has been successfully installed on several bridges, including structures in Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Tappan-Zee Bridge in New York, which is similar to the Mathews Bridge. Supports beneath and above the riding surface are being replaced and strengthened to provide a smoother ride across the bridge.
"We've got about 56,000 square feet of decking we're replacing," said Ankur Talwar, PCL manager of special projects. "We've also got about 2,500 square feet of barriers and rails to replace."
Opened in April 1953, the Mathews Bridge was named after John E. Mathews, a Florida state legislator and chief justice of the 1955 Florida Supreme Court, who pushed for the bridge's construction. In 2000, the FDOT replaced the original metal grating, which drew sharp criticism from motorists who claimed the new grating was unsafe.
"We put a substitute grating in and that drew concern," Goldman said. "We heard from a variety of different sources. People were calling us. People did not feel comfortable riding across that bridge so they asked us to do something about it. It was a lightening rod issue. Some users said it was fine, but others had complaints."
Two years ago, Goldman said, the FDOT presented a plan to replace the grating with an epoxy-like substance, similar to what's used on aircraft carriers.
"About a week before bids were due from contractors we pulled it for one primary reason maintenance purposes," Goldman said. "With the epoxy surface, how do you repair it? There were some major maintenance concerns so we pulled that and came up with the exodermic deck process."
PCL was awarded the contract and divided the $12.9 million project into four phases:
• Phase I started in January and included removing barrier walls on both ends of the bridge and building crossovers for traffic shifts and the Phase II detour.
• Phase II, which started in April, closed the two eastbound traffic lanes to begin installing the new deck.
• Phase III includes installing the deck on the two westbound traffic lanes.
• Phase IV includes bridge painting, removing the work platform from under the bridge and any other finish work that may be necessary.
Phases II and III have a 90-day time limit. The overall project, which is scheduled for completion in October, is on schedule, Talwar said.
Besides being high above the river, Hamrick said two big challenges are the schedule and logistics.
"The schedule, obviously, working 24 hours a day and logistics, getting everything in place in such a small area," Hamrick said. "Compared to other bridge projects, we have limited walk space. Access is a big issue. We have tool trailers we haul around."
PCL is working three nine hour shifts, six days a week. It has approximately 55 workers on site.
Talwar said the company is using two carry deck cranes, one on each side of the bridge. The cranes, he said, are miniature hydraulic cranes designed to work in tight spaces.
"We're using PCL-owned tractor trailers to haul all the materials," Talwar said. "We rent the carry decks and some other equipment."
Hamrick said they've rented equipment from Ring Power Inc., Sims Crane, Hertz and United Rental. "All gave good service, no problems," Hamrick said.
Talwar said several subcontractors are working on the project, including Bob's Barricades Inc.; Gemstone LLC, a Key West-based painting company; Amber Construction Company; Jacksonville Machine & Repair Inc.; Concrete Cutting and Breaking; Ameriseal Highway Striping; and Blasters Inc.
"Jacksonville Machine did some of the structural steel work," Talwar said. "Concrete Cutting and Breaking did the detour work. Gemstone built the decking under the bridge. That thing is rated 25 PSE. We're not putting any materials on it, but men are able to walk readily and comfortably on it."
When complete, the deck will make driving a whole lot smoother for motorists, but the early stages of the project created big headaches for drivers trying to get in and out of downtown Jacksonville. A major east-west traffic artery, approximately 66,000 vehicles use the bridge daily. A 90-day detour allowing westbound traffic only sent those vehicles to the adjacent Hart Bridge during the evening rush hour.
The resulting traffic jams enraged commuters, turning 15-minute commutes into an hour or more. The outcry reached all the way to Gov. Charlie Christ's office, which appealed to the FDOT to alter its original plan and do a lane switch, allowing eastbound evening commuters to use the westbound lanes. After a visit from FDOT Secretary Stephanie Kopelousos, the decision was made to alter the detour, adding $1.5 million to the cost of the project, including a $625,000 increase in costs to PCL.
"We're going to Plan B," said FDOT District Secretary Charles Baldwin after driving the detour route with Kopelousos.
The two lanes that remain open on the bridge switch to eastbound from 3 to 7 p.m. during the week. Westbound traffic uses the bridge from 7:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and all day on the weekends. It takes a crew of 50-some workers to move the signs and barricades. Both PCL and the FDOT agree the shift has eased traffic snarls impacted by the project.
"The cycle is working very well," Talwar said. "To manage this job in 90 days, we brought 17 salaried staff on site and we have eight, nine pickup trucks on the job."
As the halfway mark on the 90-day detour approaches, Goldman said they're preparing to assess how the work is progressing.
"Right now we're going to have an assessment after 45 days to see where we are," Goldman said. "That 90-days will be close but we can't say if it's going to be exactly 90 days. A lot depends on the weather, but they're working around to clock six days a week to get it done."
Which is good news for Jacksonville commuters. CEG