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Interview in Pittsburgh City Paper
11/8/2007--Printed from the Pittsburgh City Paper website: pittsburgh.gyrosite.com
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 8, 2007:
Author and Duquesne University law professor Bruce Ledewitz says secularists could use a little more religion in their politics.
By Bill O'Driscoll
"Not the dogma, not the doctrine": author Bruce Ledewitz.
If you consider politics and religion the third rails of sociability -- touch them and the conversation dies -- you might want to reconsider asking Bruce Ledewitz to your next party. The Duquesne University law professor is a secular Jew and anti-death-penalty activist whose recent book American Religious Democracy: Coming to Terms with the End of Secular Politics (Praeger Publishers) announces that the wall between church and state has crumbled -- but also that a religious component of politics is good for us. As he writes, "Millions of Americans absolutely deny ... that it is legitimate for the voters to attempt to legislate God's will." But this form of secularism, he argues, was bound to crumble -- partly because it requires transcendent values of its own.
Ledewitz is on sabbatical to write (and seek a publisher or agent for) his planned follow-up book. Its working title is Hallowed Secularism: A Guide for the Nonbeliever, and you can follow its progress at Ledewitz's blog, http://www.hallowedsecularism.org/.
What's Hallowed Secularism about?
[T]he big question is, what is [secularism], exactly? Right now, it's scientists who say that people who don't believe in evolution are stupid. And [that's] true -- but that's not a philosophy to live by. This book argues that secularism has to be religious. It has to be grounded in the same kind of insights and worldview that religious people have, just not the details. Not the dogma, not the doctrine. There's no God, there's no being outside time and space who has a plan -- nothing that violates the laws of science.
But then what? How do you live your life? Jesus says that he who would save his life would lose it. There's something to that. If your concern is yourself, and keeping your stuff, and owning the people around you, you will lose your life. He's right! And only by giving your life up, to something greater -- and what's greater than loving your neighbor? I think we'd all be better off reading the New Testament and trying to live like that. We [secularists] just don't think that Jesus is the son of God.
When did you start to think of yourself as secular?
Really it was the result of writing [American Religious Democracy] that I had to admit that I am in fact a secularist. I'm writing about myself.
That recently?
A lot of Jews don't believe in God. But I finally began to see that if I can't be honest about myself, how can I expect to talk to other people?
And you contend secularism is spreading?
The longer-term trends are not really in dispute. We are much more secular today, and young people are much more secular today, than 50 years ago. Pushing that agenda, in 1947, was just too early. Religious people have a right to have an American religious democracy right now. They're the majority. But they're not going to remain the majority forever.
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Posted by Bruce Ledewitz at 9:19 AM
There is a man in America who was taken to church as a child. When he went to a local college Sam spent most of his time with friends, studying, playing games and with nice girls. When holidays came around he went to church with his parents where he liked the preacher's stories but Sam did not believe the parts that insisted that God was the all powerful.
When he took his first job as an accountant Sam was able to live in a nice house and enjoy life around town with his friends. He became engaged to a woman he loved and they had plans for a secure life. As time went on Sam made plans for getting a better job and living a better life.
He moved with his family to a new city where there was a well paying job. When Sam was alone he occasionally had feelings of depression and loneliness even though he loved his family and they loved him. He tried many things like taking his family on vacations and spending more time entertaining his friends but the uplifting benefits of these things would fade quickly.
Sam was very protective of what he had and was very sad when his first child went off to a university. His children visited on occasion, he moved to better jobs and bought nice things to live with. Until the day Sam died he worked to get that better life that America had promised but there was always more that was needed.
Now there is another man in America who was also taken to church as a child. When he went to a local college Pat spent most of his time with friends, studying, playing games and with nice girls. When holidays came around he went to church with his parents where he liked the preacher's stories but Pat did not believe the parts that insisted that God was the all powerful.
When he took his first job as an accountant Pat was able to live in a nice house and enjoy life around town with his friends. He became engaged to a woman he loved and they had plans for an abundant life. As time went on Pat made plans for ensuring that his family would have what they needed.
He moved a few times between jobs looking for one that would pay the bills and was a fulfilling place to work. When Pat was alone he thought about who he was and what the right way was to raise a family. He took his family on vacations, entertained friends and reminded himself constantly that he was lucky to have these things he loved.
Pat had high hopes for his children and encouraged them to take risks while being conscious to do the right thing. He and his wife stayed in the same house and his children came back to visit on occasion. Until the day Pat died he pursued a good life, he love America for providing him the opportunities he had and was fulfilled with his life.
The difference between Sam and Pat is not some psychological difference; it is that Pat believed that there was a universal good within a world of randomness and Sam believed that relationships and objects could make his life good. Sam was a Secularist, Pat was a Hallowed Secularist.
This blog will track the progress of a new way of life in this society, a way of life that may come to be known as Hallowed Secularism. In the short run, I will be writing a book that describes this way of life, at least as I see its future. But in the longer run, others will decide the future of Hallowed Secularism by living it.
A group of self-announced atheists, such as Christopher Hitchens, is currently trying to push secularism toward atheism and away from religion. But secularism need not be atheism. The secularist rejects many things the religious person holds dear: a traditional God, life after death, miracles and so forth. But the secularist can still have a conception of God or Godhead. The secularist may see a deep pattern in history and may feel a profound connection to all that is. Secularism can be holy. You and I will live that possibility.
Bruce Ledewitz
Follow me on twitter @BLedewitz and read my columns for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star newspaper. Author of Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism (Indiana University Press 2011), Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Practice, Belief (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and American Religious Democracy: Coming to Terms with the End of Secular Politics (Praeger 2007).
Upcoming Events and Appearances
Oxford University Press will publich Bruce's new book, The Universe Is on Our Side: Restoring Faith in American Public Life, in early October. Preorder now from Oxford, Amazon or wherever you buy books.
Bruce will participate in a zoom discussion of the Electoral College and The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact with the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Sept. 13 at 7 p.m.
Bruce will be delivering the Larry Grimes Lecture at Bethany College on October 7.
Bruce is interviewed on the podcast Ikthos at https://ikthos.podbean.com/e/episode-4-interview-with-prof-bruce-ledewitz/
Indiana University Press has published Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism. A trailer for the book can be viewed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n2aEHsYP5Q
A podcast about the book can be accessed here.
Atheists and Hallowed Secularists (19)
Errata (1)
Framework of Hallowed Secularism (39)
Hallowed Secular Talmud (2)
hallowed secularims and God (4)
hallowed secularism (2)
Hallowed Secularism and Christianity and Judaism (135)
Hallowed Secularism and Current Approaches to Gnosticism (2)
hallowed secularism and economics (31)
hallowed secularism and global warming (2)
Hallowed Secularism and God (97)
Hallowed Secularism and Harry Potter (2)
Hallowed Secularism and Higher Law (9)
Hallowed Secularism and Humanism (7)
Hallowed Secularism and International Law (5)
Hallowed Secularism and Longing (4)
Hallowed Secularism and Materialism (14)
Hallowed Secularism and Natural Law (12)
Hallowed Secularism and Our Religious Traditions (214)
Hallowed Secularism and Politic (3)
Hallowed Secularism and Politics (232)
Hallowed Secularism and Ritual (4)
hallowed secularism and science (16)
Hallowed Secularism and the 2008 Election (32)
hallowed secularism and the Constitution (52)
hallowed secularism and the election (2)
Hallowed Secularism and the Environment (11)
Hallowed Secularism and the Family (7)
Hallowed Secularism and the Fight over Evolution (4)
hallowed secularism and the future (16)
Hallowed Secularism and the Issues (153)
Hallowed Secularism and the meaning of Life (49)
Hallowed Secularism and the Name of God (7)
Hallowed Secularism and the Natural World (9)
Hallowed Secularism and the Secret of Life (8)
hallowed secularism and the w (3)
Hallowed Secularism and the Wall of Separation (147)
hallowed secularism and truth (20)
hallowed secularism in the age of nihilism (61)
Hallowed Secularism is More Than Not Going to Church (1)
hallowed secularism Talmud (1)
Hallowed Secularism: No Big Deal? (1)
Hallowed Secularism's Relationship to American Religious Democracy (9)
How Should a Hallowed Secularist Live (6)
Public Life and Hallowed Secularism (54)
Racism and Hallowed Secularism (1)
Secularism's Indifference to Religion as the Task of Hallowed Secularism (11)
The Failure of Secularism (8)
The Growth of Hallowed Secularism (3)
the Israeli/Palestinian conflict (1)
The Life of Hallowed Secularism (47)
The New Atheism and Hallowed Secularism (16)
The Origin of Hallowed Secularism (5)
The Sources of Depth in Hallowed Secularism (24)
The Sources of Secularism (9)
The Theologians of Hallowed Secularism (2)
Theists (1)
What Makes Hallowed Secularism Hallowed? (10)
What Makes Hallowed Secularism Secular? (3)
Why Secularism Should Embrace Hallowed Secularism (17)


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Q: Matching the object key and add a new key and value into it using lodash I had an an object
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  sampletrue:{
  data1:'data',
  data2:'data'
   },
  samplefalse:{
  data1:'data',
  data2:'data'
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}

Here, what i'm trying to do is with the object key name, i want to add a new key/value pair into it. Let's say for 'sampletrue' object i want to match the key name and if it has 'true' i need to add a new value as "resolve:'enable'"  and if it is 'false' i want to add "resolve:'disable'" I'm using lodash in my code.
Sample Output:
 {
sampletrue:{
data1:'data',
data2:'data',
 resolve:'enable'
 },
samplefalse:{
data1:'data',
data2:'data'
resolve:'disable'
}
}

Thanks!

A: you can find explanation in comments:

var d = {
   sampletrue: {
     data1: 'data',
     data2: 'data'
   },
   samplefalse: {
     data1: 'data',
     data2: 'data'
   }
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// loop through the keys of the object with Object.keys() and forEach()
Object.keys(d).forEach(k => {
// we check with match method if the key (k) matches 'true'
  if (k.match(/true$/))
    d[k].resolve='enable' ;//if it matches assign resolve prop , 'enable' val

//same as above but with 'false'
  if (k.match(/false$/))
    d[k].resolve='disable' ;
})

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US Super-rich Get Five Times More Income Than in 1995
By Andre Damon
World Socialist Web Site 20 February 2010
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-super-rich-get-five-times-more-income-than-in-1995/17768
The incomes of the very rich in the US grew phenomenally between 1992 and 2007, while their tax rates plummeted, according to recently uncovered IRS statistics.
The figures were published on the IRS web site in December of 2009, but received little notice because they were not announced. The report only became widely known when Tax Analysts, a news outlet for tax information, discovered the document and wrote about it on its web site, tax.com, on Thursday.
The report shows that the average income for the top-earning 400 families, denominated in 1990 dollars, grew from $17 million to $87 million, representing a five-fold increase in real terms. During this time, the percentage of the total national income that went to the top 400 families tripled, from .52 percent in 1992 to 1.59 in 2007.
The data shows that these families saw their incomes increase by 31 percent between 2006 and 2007 alone, while the average income of each family reached $345 million.
The amount of money earned by the group more than doubled from 2001, when its members earned on average $131.1 million. In 1993, the top 400 tax return filings amounted on average to $46 million. This means that there was an eight-fold nominal increase in the average earnings for this group between 1993 and 2007.
Meanwhile, the effective tax rate on this group—the amount actually paid in taxes—fell to 16.6 percent, the lowest figure on IRS records dating to 1992.
Congressional Democrats have sought to place blame for falling taxes on the wealthy solely on the Bush administration's tax cuts. But the IRS figures show that the effective tax rate on the top 400 income earners actually fell faster under the last part of the Clinton administration than at any later time.
The effective tax rate hit a high point of nearly 29 percent in 1995. By the end of the Clinton administration, the rate had fallen to 22 percent. The trend continued under Bush, with the effective tax rate falling another 6 percentage points between 2001 and 2007.
The Bush administration lowered the capital gains tax by 5 percentage points, to 15 percent, in 2003. But Bush's policies were only a continuation of laws passed under the Clinton administration, when the capital gains tax was lowered from 28 percent to 20 percent for the top income brackets.
The top income earners received a total income of $138 billion in 2007. This figure is larger than the yearly output of most of the world's countries, and is nearly as large as the GDP of Chile. Out of this amount, the group paid only $23 billion in taxes.
If the top 400 earners had been taxed in 2007 at the 1995 rate, they would have paid an additional $18.4 billion in taxes, enough to cover the entire 2010 budget shortfall of the state of California.
About three quarters of income for earners in this tax bracket came from capital gains, which were taxed at 15 percent, as opposed to income, which is taxed at a rate of 35 percent for the top bracket.
The top 400 families actually paid lower taxes compared to other high-income earners. In 2005, the Congressional Budget Office found that the top 1 percent as a whole paid a tax rate of 19.7 percent.
The median 20 percent of income earners paid a tax rate of 12.5 percent, including Social Security payments, which are negligible for the very rich.
The IRS report on the top 400 families was first regularly published by the Clinton administration, but the Bush administration shut down its release, according to the tax.com article by Cay Johnston, a tax law professor at Syracuse University. The Obama administration resumed publication of the figures, with the 2006 figures published about a year ago.
Johnston also noted, "At least three hedge fund managers made $3 billion in 2007." He added, "Only 33 of the top 400 paid an effective tax rate of 30 percent to 35 percent, which is the maximum federal tax rate."
The data further substantiates the highly publicized conclusions of economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, who found that two thirds of income increases between 2002 and 2007 went to the wealthiest 1 percent of society and that income for the top 1 percent grew 10 times faster than that of the bottom 90 percent. Piketty and Saez found that the top 1 percent of earners got a higher share of income in 2007 than at any time since 1928.
The latest figures come amid constant calls by the White House and Congress to cut social programs in order to balance the budget. The federal government, we are told, has been bankrupted by the "profligacy" of social programs and the proportion of social resources allocated to the general population.
But the latest figures show that the opposite is true. It is the rich who have bankrupted the state, with the full assistance of the two big-business parties.
Disclaimer: The contents of this article are of sole responsibility of the author(s). The Centre for Research on Globalization will not be responsible for any inaccurate or incorrect statement in this article.
Copyright © Andre Damon, Global Research, 2010

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Thank you for taking a principled stand in defense of the Venezuelan people. Self-determination must mean Venezuelans are allowed to have their own internal debates. Even the left in Venezuela is not all uniting uncritically behind Maduro. I would recommend following Marea Socialista, for example. In many ways the Maduro government is consolidating power in ways that undermine democracy, while at the same time handling the oligarchs with kid gloves. As Rosa Luxemburg would say, the revolution must press forward or else it will get thrown back further than from where it started. I cringe every time Maduro talks about being buddies with the president of Iran or Turkey. Groups like ANSWER erase class struggle in favor of Cold War politicking, and betray the concept of working class internationalism. Bolsonaro was elected in Brazil, does that mean socialists should unite behind him too? Is it imperialist to stand in solidarity with the opposition? This logic is ridiculous and I fear the left is setting itself up for more losses.
I don't believe that they meant to imply that the entire people are united. Clearly there is a divide and as some of the eloquent speakers mentioned, it is divided by class and by skin color, with the whiter and richer Venezuelans overwhelmingly supporting the opposition and the vast majority of the rest of the country standing with Maduro, just as they did with Chavez. Self determination for the Venezuelan people is an admirable goal but the way to that is not through U.S. or any other imperialist intervention. There is SO much more to the story that is being censored by the U.S. media. The opposition groups have been the violent ones and they are claiming that it is the government. The fact of the matter is this is no clear cut situation, it is much more nuanced than we are being led to believe.


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Osman-kapetanova medresa, nekadašnja odgojno-obrazovna institucija u Gračanici, u Bosni i Hercegovini.

Povijest
Osman-kapetanova medresa u Gračanici je osnovana 1800. godine. Jedna je od tri medrese koje su u Gračanici postojale, ubraja se u veće medrese u Bosni i Hercegovini. Dao ju je sagraditi Osman-kapetan Gradaščević, upravitelj Gradačačke kapetanije i otac Husein-kapetana Gradaščevića. Medresa je bila jedan od njegovih vakufa u Bosni i Hercegovini. Prvobitno je ova ustanova bila prizemna zgrada s tri krila. Za njeno izdržavanje Osman-kapetan Gradaščević je uvakufio imetak u Gračanici, Modriči i Gradačcu, brojne dućane, hanove, obradivo zemljište.

Današnja zgrada Osman-kapetanove medrese u Gračanici potječe iz 1889. godine, nakon temeljite obnove. Od tada je imala dershanu, prostorije za muderise (profesore), knjižnicu i kuhinju za učenike. Na dužnosti knjižničara izmijenio se veliki broj muderisa (profesora i upravitelja). Među najznačajnijim bili su Mehmed ef. Piskavica, Hasan ef. Nurikić, hfz. Mehmed Teufik ef. Okić, hfz. Mustafa Šiljić, koji je u Medresi službovao oko 30 godina, sve do prestanka njenog rada 1945. godine.

Po završetku Drugog svjetskog rata, Medžlis Islamske zajednice u Gračanici imao je namjeru da obnovi ovu medresu, ali im to nije bilo omogućeno jer je njen rad bio zabranjen. Godine 1951. pokrenuta je akcija obnove medresa. Nekoliko godina kasnije zgrada je pretvorena u Dom kulture i njome je upravljao Narodni univerzitet.

Danas je Osman-kapetanova medresa ponovo u vlasništvu Medžlisa Islamske zajednice u Gračanici.

Izvori

Vanjske poveznice
 Osman-kapetanova medresa i dalje najljepši ukras grada

Građevine u Gračanici
Medrese
Islamska arhitektura

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JLT Pension Capital Strategies research: FTSE 100 pension liabilities improve to £32 billion
By Jennifer Paterson	 31st May 2011 11:02 am 3rd November 2015 5:54 pm
The total deficit of the FTSE 100 pension schemes totalled £32 billion at 31 March 2011, according to research by JLT Pension Capital Strategies.
This amounts to an improvement of £36 billion on 12 months ago. The number of organisations disclosing a pension surplus has doubled from six to 12 in the 12 months to 31 March 2011.
However, The FTSE 100 and Their Pension Disclosures, report found that 72 FTSE 100 organisations disclosed pension deficits. The research shows that 20 organisations would have disclosed a pension surplus if they had a year-end of 31 March 2011, given asset appreciation during the second half of 2010.
The 12 months to 31 March 2011 saw a continued funding of pension deficits. The total deficit funding last year amounted to £11.0 billion, down marginally from the year before. HSBC led the way with a deficit contribution of £1.8 billion in its latest set of accounts.
The research found that defined benefit (DB) pension provision has continued to fall, with an approximated reduction of 20% over the last 12 months.
In a large number of FTSE 100 organisations have changed their investment strategy, and there are seven that have increased their bond allocation by more than 10% in the past 12 months alone.
In the last 12 months, the total disclosed pension liabilities of the FTSE 100 have risen from £410 billion to £451 billion. A total of 14 firms have disclosed pension liabilities of more than £10 billion, the largest of which is BT with disclosed pension liabilities of £43 billion.
The research also found that if pension liabilities were measured on a risk-free basis, the total disclosed pension liabilities of the FTSE 100 at 31 March 2011 would increase by 22% to around £550 billion, and the total deficit would be around £130 billion.
Charles Cowling, managing director of JLT Pension Capital Strategies, said: "The recent equity rally has not removed the pensions issue from the boardroom; almost 10% of FTSE 100 firms have pension schemes that represent a material risk to the business as at the end of March, in addition to 63 other organisations reporting DB scheme deficit positions.
"The flight into bonds continues, confirming that schemes are taking steps to reduce investment mismatching. We expect bond allocations, presently at 50%, to reach 75% within five years.
"Our research indicates that, despite FTSE 100 organisations continuing to pour money into their pension schemes in an attempt to narrow deficits, 2011 will be the year than sees the death of final salary schemes; in the past 12 months alone we have witnessed an underlying reduction in ongoing provision of 20%."
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Fellows are engrossed in a detailed study of each phase of the Design Cycle. Students deepened their understanding of the empathy stage through studying and practicing the art of interviewing.
Over the past few weeks, the EDI Fellows have been tackling the interview portion of the design process. During this time, each fellow was tasked with interviewing 1-2 students and/or faculty members to gain a further understanding of how to improve the systems they were working on. The Ingresses and Egresses team, which consists of Kevin, Patrick, and Sebastian, chose to interview a wide array of people from the community about the entryways around the Norfolk Academy. The Refectory Team, which consists of Frances, Nathan, and Connor, interviewed a teacher, as well as one student from each division (Lower, Middle, and Upper). Having conducted these interviews, they gained a better understanding of how people felt about the traffic flow in Norfolk Academy's hectic lunch room.
The interviewees were chosen by the fellows in order to gain a perspective from each age group, as people of different ages often have various patience levels. This is important to ensure that any potential solutions will benefit all users as opposed to just the age group of the designer. Then, each fellow created a list of questions to bring up during their discussions. These were based primarily on understanding how the faulty systems affected the people using them and their emotions. Through these conversations, most of the interviewers found that people have varying amounts of passion about the same subject. While some had strong opinions, others simply didn't seem to care or be overly affected by any of the issues. With this process completed, the fellows will now turn their attention to the problem definition phase. This will force them to narrow in on a specific problem that they would like to tackle.
Fellows are engrossed in a detailed study of each phase of the Design Cycle. Students deepened their understanding of the empathy stage through understanding the role of observation in the engineering design process.
During the second half of the first semester we, the Engineering Design and Innovation Fellows, also known as EDI, focused the majority of our time on observations. Observations are an essential step of the design process, as it is impossible to improve a design or system if the engineer has no first-hand experience with the problem that they are trying to solve. Also, collecting data is vital to bringing about positive change with a new design.
The first group, composed of Patrick McElroy, Kevin Smedley, and Sebastian Singh, focused on ingresses and egresses, or in other words, the first group focused on doors and the system of entering and leaving rooms. Patrick, Kevin, and Sebastian performed their observations by watching a diverse myriad of students and faculty interacting with ingresses and egresses. They then recorded this information and data that they gathered within their design notebooks, graciously provided by Mr. Garvin who works in the art department.
The second group, composed of Frances Harrington, Nathan Williams, and Connor Holland, focused on the lunch system at Norfolk Academy. We spent our observation time by attending the three different division lunches. First, was the lower school lunch, which is comprised of first through sixth graders. Second is middle school lunch, which contains seventh through ninth graders. Finally there was the upper school lunch which is composed of tenth to twelfth graders. During the second group's observation time, we recorded our findings within our design notebooks, same as the first group.
As we move on to the interview phase we will hang on to these observations, as they will surely be a major component in our ideate phase of the design process. We will be discussing our observations among ourselves in the meantime and attempt to state a problem.


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Science Camp offers your child an exciting opportunity to explore the world around us!
Campers entering grades 1-5 will experience a different science theme, consisting of three activities, each day. We will engage in tons of exciting experiments that will be sure to entice the curious mind of your budding scientist.
"Water, Water Everywhere" is the theme for rising Kindergartners. They will discover the wonders of water in our bodies, in the ground, in the air and more.
All camps are hands-on, and emphasize active learning and fun. Science Camp is comprised of eight one-week sessions, running from June 10 through August 2. Due to the popularity of the program and limited number of spaces, each child will only be permitted to attend one session of science camp per summer.
Registration for residents will begin Monday, March 25. Registration for non-residents will begin Monday, April 8. Register in person at the Sugar Sand Park Community Center front desk, or online through WebTrac.
Note: If you are not already a WebTrac user, you will have to register in person.
Time: 9am-1pm daily. Extension programs are available through the Sugar Sand Park Community Center.
*Camp will run as normally scheduled on Thursday, July 4th.
Open House: After you register, mark your calendar for Open House on Saturday June 8, from 10am - 12pm. At Open House, your campers will pick up their camp uniforms and meet their counselors, while you'll have the opportunity to ask questions, and make sure your camper is ready to go on their first day.


Readers: I'm back with yet another compendium of the very best and most laughably cheap recipes here at Casual Kitchen. For readers new around these parts, "laughably cheap" is an expression we use here for a recipe that's so inexpensive and so good that it literally makes you laugh out loud.
Well, my previous Top 25 Laughably Cheap Recipes post is now nearly five years old, and over those five years it became one of Casual Kitchen's most viewed posts. But since then, however, I've published a ton of new recipes, many of which are (believe it or not) even easier and less expensive.
Well, it's time to share those even easier and less expensive recipes, with readers old and new, in an easily accessible format. So today, I bring you The NEXT Top 25 Laughably Cheap Recipes at CK. I hope you find it useful. More importantly, I hope it helps you eat well--and save time and money while you're at it. Enjoy!
One of CK's easiest recipes for around $1.25 per serving.
Rich, delicious and spicy, and only about $1.25 per serving.
Delicious, intriguing and healthy at just 80c per serving!
An exotic yet easy recipe (with an admittedly unusual origin) that serves 5-6 for less than $7.00 total.
An elegant and rich soup like nothing you've tasted before, at just 99c per serving.
Serve 4-6 for less than $7.00 in total with this easy-to-make yet complex-tasting dish.
You'll laugh out loud at how easy it is to cook this unusual recipe. Just over $1.00 a serving.
Perfect for vegetarians, vegans and even gluten-free eaters. Only $1.15 per serving.
This savory and easy recipe involves "studded onions." I shall say no more.
The name says it all. It's simply amazing that a soup this easy could be this good.
You'll never guess how easy it is to make this simple but exotic recipe. Just 70-75c per serving.
You'll never look at the humble beet in the same way again.
Simple, delicious Middle-Eastern comfort food at a mere 50c a serving.
This dish is so good it taught me to stop hating squash.
Barely 10 minutes of prep time and a hard-to-believe per serving cost of under 40c.
This vegan-friendly dish packs a big punch of nutrition for just 80c a serving.
Adapted from one of our favorite cookbooks, Vegetarian Soup Cuisine, this recipe is easy to prepare and leaves you with days of leftovers. Per-serving cost? Just 60-70c.
Sick of old, boring split peas? This recipe--one of CK's easiest of all time--will fix that for you. Per serving cost: around 70c.
Outrageously easy! With a per-serving cost of just 60c.
This dish can be made in about 30 minutes for as little as 50c a serving.
A delicious, easy recipe that serves three for just 50c a serving.
A home run recipe you can make in under 30 minutes, with a truly unusual mix of flavors, spices and textures.
Just 15 minutes of prep work and a mere $1.25 a serving.
Serve six with this simple, delicious recipe. Just 80c a serving.
It's hard to believe this hearty recipe costs under 50c per serving.
I can't WAIT to make some of these! I've been getting bored with the same old same old.
Thanks Marcia! Really glad to hear it.


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LBSU WBB NEWS: Benton, Kim, Sawyer Sweep All-Big West Conference Specialty Awards
March 6, 2017 LBLN
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LONG BEACH – Long Beach State women's basketball made history as the Beach swept the Specialty Awards category marking the first time in Big West history a school completed that trifecta. The senior trio of Raven Benton, Anna Kim, and Jewelyn Sawyer led LBSU which totaled four players, including senior Madison Montgomery, on the Big West All-Conference Team.
Sawyer repeated as the Defensive Player of the Year, while Benton claimed the Best Sixth Player award, and Kim earned the Best Hustle honor.
A three-year starter for Long Beach State, Benton was utilized as a reserve in her final year after battling injuries throughout her career. The senior guard came off the bench and made the most of it as she averages 11.0 points per game and 4.2 rebounds per game to lead the team. In Big West Conference action, Benton averaged 12.0 points per contest with 4.6 boards per game and 2.1 assists per game, while shooting 45.1 percent from the field.
During the regular season, Benton recorded 10 double-figure scoring games, including a season-high 23 point performance against UC Santa Barbara last month. She is the third Long Beach State player to earn the Best Sixth Player award, and the first since Jinga Gosschalk following the 2002-03 season.
Kim has been a key component to the Long Beach State program in her four years with the Beach and in her senior season, averaged 10.0 points per game, 3.8 assists per game, 2.9 rebounds per game, and 1.4 steals per game, while shooting 45.7 percent from the field, 40.3 percent from long distance and 74.2 percent from the line. Kim's gritty, hard-nosed style of play has become her trademark as she is known to give the game her all day-in and day-out.
This season she poured in a career-high 27 points against Loyola Marymount, led the team in assists with 111, dished out five or more helpers on 11 different occasions, and ranks in the Top 10 in Long Beach State history in free throw percentage, three-point field goal percentage, three-pointers made, and games played.
Sawyer earned the Defensive Player of the Year award for the second year in a row after leading the Long Beach State defense with 6.3 rebounds per game and 1.4 steals per game. This season, she has led one of the top defenses in the nation as the Beach rank 17th in the country in turnovers forced per game (20.7) and in the Top 50 in the country in steals per game (9.7).
In her senior season, Sawyer has recorded three double-doubles, notched a career-best 15 rebounds against Pepperdine, and notched at least two steals in six of her last seven games, including a career-high tying five against CSUN in the final week of the regular season.
In addition to taking home the specialty awards, Kim was named to the All-Big West Conference First Team, while Benton earned Second Team honors and Sawyer was an Honorable Mention selection.
Joining Sawyer as an Honorable Mention selection was Montgomery who finished the regular season averaging 10.1 points per game to go along with 4.0 rebounds per game. Thus far, Montgomery has put up 117 blocks to rank in the Top 10 at Long Beach State.
This season, she has tallied 13 double-figure scoring games, and pulled down a season-high 11 rebounds at UC Davis. Additionally, in the final regular season game of her career, she posted a career-high five blocks at Hawaii to bring her season total to 34.
Big West All-Conference Teams
Hannah Gilbert, CP
Channon Fluker, CSUN
Anna Kim, LBSU
Morgan Bertsch, UCD
Pele Gianotti, UCD
Sarah Toeaina, UH
Lynn Leaupepe, CP
Serafina Maulupe, CSUN
Raven Benton, LBSU
Dani Nafekh, UCD
Drew Edelman, UCSB
Dynn Leaupepe, CP
Daeja Smith, CSF
Madison Montgomery, LBSU
Jewelyn Sawyer, LBSU
Andee Ritter, UCI
Michelle Curry, UCR
Simone DeCoud, UCR
Lauren Holt, UCR
Drea Toler, UCSB
FRESHMAN TEAM
Eliza Matthews, CSUN
Nina Bessolo, UCD
Brooke Bayman, UCI
Skyler Lewis, UCR
Julissa Tago, UH
Player of the Year: Channon Fluker, CSUN
Freshman of the Year: Eliza Mathews, CSUN
Coach of the Year: Jennifer Gross, UCD
Best Sixth Player: Raven Benton, LBSU
Best Defensive Player: Jewelyn Sawyer, LBSU
Best Hustle Player: Anna Kim, LBSU
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This Monday, February 18th is Family Day. We hope you all have an enjoyable and relaxing long weekend. Just a reminder our office will be closed and will re-open Tuesday February 19th.
Join in on our upcoming upgrading courses. Classes will run 4:30pm to 8:30pm through the Spring. Pizza and refreshments provided, as well as a $25 per diem. (Every class you attend you receive $25) Interested? Contact Sue Kabera.
Tonight's membership meeting will be cancelled due to the snowfall warning. An e-mail has been sent to all members, please make sure your info is up to date with the hall so you can remain up to date regarding important notices. Please use caution when out or driving today.


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Juncker to British Europarliamentarians: 'I'm surprised you're here' and 'That's the last time'
Miercuri, 29 Iunie 2016 15:02 2016-06-29 14:58:23 PUBLIKA.MD Comments
"Why are you here?" Jean-Claude Juncker asked Ukip MEPs as the European Parliament met to discuss the UK's vote for a Brexit.
Nigel Farage was among the British representatives present for the debate, which quickly became heated as Brussels continues to reel from Friday's result.
Mr Juncker, the President of the European Commission, turned on Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall who clapped after he pledged to respect Britain's wishes.
"That's the last time you are applauding here," he said, to enthusiastic applause from MEPs.
"And to some extent, I'm really surprised that you are here. You were fighting for the exit, the British people voted in favour of the exit, so why are you here?"
"It's a pleasure," Mr Nuttall replied.
Mr Farage, sitting to the right of Mr Juncker with a Union flag on his desk, laughed during the exchange.
Mr Juncker said he was "sad" at the UK's decision, adding: "I'm not a robot, I'm a human being."
"Our British friends have expressed their view by universal suffrage and the majority view of the British people demands respect," he added. "Democracy is democracy and we must respect it."
Before the session opened he was seen in conversation with Mr Farage, who grimaced after receiving a kiss on the cheek, The Independent writes.
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Most people want to tell the truth. It's in our nature. A confession to the police acknowledges our wrongdoing. When we confess, the weight of the world is lifted off our shoulders. We feel better inside, especially when the confession is given to an authority figure like a police officer. We are taught from childhood to admit to our misdeeds, apologize to the other kid, and say we are sorry. Religion teaches us to confess our sins. Voters expect the unfaithful politician to admit to his infidelity. It's simply the right thing to do.
What could possibly be wrong with admitting to a crime? It gets you in even more trouble. Unless you are a glutton for punishment, don't confess the crime to the police. They are not your friends. The police are only interested in solving the crime, getting a promotion, and putting you behind bars!
What can be done if you have confessed already? You need to discuss strategy with your criminal defense attorney. One option would be to file a motion with the court to suppress the use of the confession at trial. In other words, the prosecution cannot use your confession at trial if it was not freely and voluntarily given. Courts often look to the circumstances surrounding the confession when deciding if it was voluntary such as the defendant's age, maturity, prior experience with the criminal justice system, length of detention, and the nature of the interrogation.
If you have confessed already, all is not lost. You may be able to suppress the confession and weaken the prosecution's case. Unlike the false promises of the police officer, a suppressed confession could lead to an actual escape from punishment.


Berhampur: A Class VI student of a private high school in Ganjam district was injured after a teacher allegedly slapped her, following which the teacher was removed from services on Tuesday.
"The cheek of the student has swollen and she is under treatment," said block education officer (BEO) PK Padhy after conducting an inquiry into the incident which took place on Saturday at Mahatma Gandhi High School, Sheragada.
The girl was allegedly slapped as she failed to properly answer a question put to her by the mathematics teacher.
The teacher was removed from services following the recommendations of the BEO, according to the school management committee.
"The incident was un-warranted and undesirable", Padhy said and sought an explanation from the head master.
Following the incident, the BEO has written to the head masters of all schools in the district to properly guide their teachers against corporal punishment.
"I have written letters to the head masters to create awareness among the teachers of their respective schools and ensure that school premises are punishment-free zones," Padhy said.


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Within the Middle: Claustrophilia (again): Quotes of the Day
In a comment on Jeffrey's post on Christopher Tilley's The Materiality of Stone, I complained about the anthropocentrism of Tilly's phenomenology:
To a degree, phenomenology stirs up "embeddedness in context" by reminding us of how the context--the self, that is--always changes through contact, how contact is always dispersing and reforming the self (which means we need another concept for self, a new language). But what are the final limits of that dispersal? I'm tempted to believe that the transformative encounter with the other through our senses is one tethered to our sensory limitations. Even if the "us" is shifted...there's a limit, and because of that limit, the disclosed phenomenon is always, ultimately, translated into an us that is, yes, always shifting, but shifting like an amoeba: within limits, and through assimilation.
And losing sight of that limit, and assimilation, means losing sight of power.
I don't know if I want to let go entirely of that awareness of the limit and with it, power (by which I mean coercive power), but I'm feeling a bit ecstatic right now, because I've just finished reading Cary Howie's extraordinary Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in the Middle Ages. The book's made a few appearances on the blog so far (for example, here's Jeffrey admiring Howie's sparkle). Since I read this book because of Jeffrey's (and, if I remember correctly, Eileen's) recommendations, and since they've presumably read it, I want to declare a mini-itmbc4dsoma on Claustrophilia. What did you two (or three, [EDITED for sense!] if Holly Crocker, who is mentioned in the acknowledgments, wants to say anything), or other readers of Howie, get out of it? What did it to do you? Or, to ask a question more in line with Howie's argument, what happened between you?
Before sharing some of my favorite moments, however, I should say, or confess?, that I was more than halfway through the book before I began to understand it. There's a lesson in that. I've started to think that certain scholarly books should come with warning stickers, something akin to the clown-painted boards that refuse anyone under a certain height their chance to throw up on the Zipper or the Cyclone or what have you. Perhaps Žižek should come with a sticker directing us not to tarry with the negative until we've read a certain amount of Hegel, select portions of Marx, and, of course, Lacan, and probably much else (and a warning NOT to review certain films). With Howie, I would have appreciated a sticker proscribing me entry until I had immersed myself in phenomenology and especially, at least for the first 30 or 40 pages, Heidegger. I've only just begun to get "unconcealment" (which means that the multiple times I've tried to read Agamben's The Open have probably been for nothing), and not getting this concept meant a lot of frustration early on. I would have appreciated, as well, a warning that anyone unaware of queer theory's promotion of the slippage of metonymy, with its preservation and intermingling of objects, over the predictable equivalence of metaphor, with its mere substitution of objects, needed to skip ahead, briefly, to pages 81, 96, 121, or 93, where Howie explains "I would argue that metonymy offers a relationship of contiguity (indeed, contiguity as enclosure), which does not swallow part into whole, but, rather, preserves each of its terms in the surface upon which they touch. Metonymy is thus the trope of borders, tact, and the very spaciousness of desire." Had I had these warnings, which I, perhaps, uniquely need, the noise of my notes would have been less frequently frantic, more often ecstatic, generally less full of difficult muddles. If you will indulge me in my embarrassment, or welcome this abandonment of the illusion of self-possession so typical to the profession, what follows are minimally edited samples from my more frustrated encounters:
"Does hagiography mark, does it write [why does he double up marking with writing? aren't the two essentially equivalent, at least in poststructuralism?], the holy as that which resists the ethical, before whose ambivalence despair and understanding are equivalent?" (21). What is the distinction here? What is "the ethical" here, and what does it look like? (for an assault on ethics, see here)
This section has to do with the fetishistic temptation in the work of art as characterized by Heidegger (paradigmatically with a Greek Temple). But even after a few months away, I still have very little idea what it is he's doing. When he says that "unconcealment closes," I suppose this means that things resolve into being (not that nothingness is a void), which means they become bounded, and then adds "but it does not close in or close out; it marks a line, a material edge" (30), I suppose this means that, phenomenologically speaking, we come into contact with that unconcealed stuff and are with it. It's still there, not wholly appropriated, but we are with it all the same: hence it has a line but is not, because of this line, closed OFF (which is perhaps the word he wanted to use) to us. That said, there's still so much that's opaque in this; as if he doesn't want to give it up to truth, as if he WANTS to prevent the illusion of full disclosure, and thus his opaque style models the work of art as characterized by Heidegger.
"Marina's technique, together with its dead genital sign, echoes Jehan's writing in exile; these lives, in addition to Marie's dervish-like turning, could be said to constitute an account of experience in the barest sense, by which I mean a compromised inasmuch as mediated, that is, enclosed, traversal of the senses, especially vision. Such a traversal constitutes vision even as it moves toward it: in this way, to ape Jean-Luc Nancy, it spaces vision out" (64). What the fuck? I get mediation as enclosure, since to be mediated is to be carried within something, enclosed by (someone else's sense), but I don't get how traversal is MOVING TOWARD vision, and how this can be separate from CONSTITUTING vision??
Thank goodness that I stuck with it. My (eventual) joy in Howie is not just for his bawdiness (e.g., "Romuald, in Damian's vita, is as cantankerous as Damian himself: he wanders the Italian hills building hermitages, visiting monasteries, and routinely beating the shit out of wayward monks" (74); "If the altar of God is also an asshole..." (77)), nor only for the fluidity of his joyful anachronistic slippage between Jacopone da Todi, Marie de France, Dante, Thom Gunn, Mark Doty, and Fred Schneider.
It's for, and chiefly for, Howie's attention to being, yes, in the middle, and how it offers me a less depressingly closed-off ontology and epistemology than those to which I've lashed myself for so long (whether he offers me anything new for understanding coercive power is a question I suspend for a while). Unconcealed being does not give itself over entirely; keeping something in reserve, or always being more excessive that it appears, it cannot be assimilated entirely; nor do we, in giving ourselves over to texts, to eros, to contact with each other, even to God, become assimilated entirely (even in digestion, I wonder?). As Howie argues, in enclosure, we--and they--are in, not absorbed in each other, embraced, not disappeared: in this moment, we are with-in (a tempting hyphenated mutant for which I claim responsibility, and that I like to imagine Howie erased in an earlier draft).
He wonders, "Is there room, within our thought as comparatists and claustrophiles but also within thought more generally, for a relationship of contiguity or juxtaposition that would not be reducible to either an antagonism, on the one hand, or simple collapse, on the other?" (149) He wonders, "Within an economy of metonymy and anaphora, of dragging and differential repetition, might it be possible to speak of a comparative critical practice, or even a comparative mode of being-in-the-world, where being beside something or someone is not, first and foremost, a question of hierarchical, quantifiable ordering but, rather, a question of how bodies, and bodies of literature, that are allegedly outside but close to me also, again and again, get under my skin and go to my head?" (150). On Purgatorio 26:28-33
For through the middle of the burning road
There came a people face to face with these,
Which held me in suspense with gazing at them.
There see I hastening upon either side
Each of the shades, and kissing one another
Without a pause, content with brief salute.
ché per lo mezzo del cammino acceso
venne gente col viso incontro a questa,
la qual mi fece a rimirar sospeso.
Lì veggio d'ogne parte farsi presta
ciascun' ombra e basciarsi una con una
sanza restar, contente a brieve festa.
he writes, "Dante is written into the space between homo- and hetero-, a space that grows smaller as the two ranks draw close, and that maps onto the time--of suspense or belated presence--in which Dante sees and sings. The outcome of this drawing close is not, however, an assimilation, not a unity. It is, rather, a touch: the sensible affirmation of proximity within distance. More specifically, it is a kiss" (111).
He speaks as well of our contact with authors, here about one who died just years before Howie discovered his writing:
It goes without saying that I arrived too late for Bo Huston, but thankfully just late enough for the books that bear his touch, which carry him metonymically beyond and into himself. I remember thinking what a shame it was that I had arrived in San Francisco in 1997, merely four years after his passing. But his enclosures persist, and metonymically inflame...When the author is dead, this [metonymical presence] is a small consolation, but it is all we have: a trace neither utterly removed from its putative source nor synecdochically making this source wholly present (as in the medieval cult of relics), but metonymically dragging someone, something, momentarily close. (121)
This is all I have to say for now, all except my asking, my exclaiming, isn't this lovely? Heartbreaking? Don't you want to read the book?
Posted by Karl Steel at 9:23 PM
Labels: ITMBC4DSoMA, queer theory, theory
Eileen Joy said...
Karl: I myself have not yet read Howie's book but did, indeed, suggest it for our so-called "book club." It is on my short list of books I want to read, right after Lara Farina's "Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing," which I am reviewing right now for "Sixteenth Century Studies." But I must say, that after your post here, I want to throw Farina's book violently to the floor and rush over to the bookshelf where Howie's book is sitting and read it instead [and to Lara Farina, wherever you are, I love your book and mean no disrespect]. Howie's books sounds fantastic and I really will start reading it this week for this, our mini-book-thingamajiggy.
Karl Steel said...
Oh, I can't just declare a "mini-book-thingamajiggy" (which is, strangely enough, a more wieldy term than the one we've been using) on my whim; there's no OBLIGATION here; but, yes, the Howie is a book you will love. I promise. If you find yourself getting bogged down initially--which you probably will not--you might want to skip ahead to the last chapter.
I love this book, and hope to have something to post on it later in the week. The term starts tomorrow, and I have a new class with 80 students who I have to figure out how to entertain ... and on top of that there are a bajillion administrative tasks on my desk. But thanks, Karl, for bring up Howie's book!
Cary said...
Karl, your comments--and frustrations--are incredibly insightful. I'm not really sure that anything's gained by having the guy who wrote the stuff chime in, so I'll leave the discussing to the rest of you; but I'm delighted that the book is being used as something other than a (small) doorstop.
Cary, thanks for dropping in, and thanks for the kind words: perhaps less insightful than engaged? If you do want to say something--or correct something!--by all means do. There's nothing gauche about that at all. And we've been fortunate enough to have several authors come by and join in the conversations on their books (most recently, James Simpson, who you can see in a nearby thread).
Holly Crocker said...
Sorry I'm so late to this thread—here in SC, we are overflowing with candidates. The presidential candidates have moved on, but now I'm in the middle of our department's hiring season! Anyway…
I would like to express my admiration for Cary's work in terms that get under his skin; but, and to his credit, I probably can't find that threshold. He is a brazen thinker, and I'm completely enthralled by the work he does. I haven't had the chance to read all of *Clautrophilia*, but if you guys decide to take it up, I will do my best to go there with you!
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The search for patients with suitable profiles to participate in clinical research drug trials has been compared to the proverbial search for the needle in the haystack – and rightly so. Traditionally, the call would go out from the pharmaceutical drug developer to their local affiliates, who would contact their friendly local hospitals, where diligent medical researchers would comb their paper-based patient records for candidates who fit the long list of inclusion and exclusion criteria – a laborious, time-consuming and costly process.
The identification of trial-eligible patients represents a considerable and costly bottleneck for the industry, impacting patients directly in the form of slow progress and availability of new drugs on the market, as well as elevated prices as a result of longer development time and shorter patent protection. Each day a drug is delayed from reaching the market, the pharma company loses up to $8 million (1). Recruitment difficulties are the underlying reason for 30% of Phase 3 terminations (2). Almost half the sites (48%) miss their enrolment targets for Phase 2 or 3 studies, with timelines nearly double their originally planned duration to meet desired enrolment numbers (3). The level of inefficiency and waste is, therefore, considerable.
The advent of electronic data capture and electronic health records (EHRs) has only slightly improved the situation. A hospital's health information system (HIS) is not optimised for patient search and identification within the context of a clinical trial, and there are often no structured tools available. Even if there were, these systems generally have limited search functionality; a user would search for 1-3 parameters, and then resort to a manual verification of the remaining criteria.
Outside patient recruitment, information technology has been applied in clinical research for over 50 years. Nowadays, electronic data capture has become the de facto standard in trials. Statistical randomisation technologies are used in planning studies centrally, and allow the trial manager to minimise bias by creating comparable cohorts across study sites. Meanwhile, drug shipments are managed by software that calculates the optimal location of warehouses, time spent in transit, supply expiry dates and site stock.
Clinical trial management systems have been developed for the use of both pharma companies who sponsor clinical trials, and CROs that often manage their execution. These systems control data collection and the actions of clinical research associates (CRAs) and doctors, calculate site invoices to sponsors based on patient procedures, and allow the aggregation and review of data on CRA and patient visits.
There have been some attempts to use electronic systems for patient recruitment, but more in the area of engagement – finding and approaching patients directly through channels such as online groups and social media, and inviting them to join trials. This approach works well for studies that rely on volunteers, who are motivated to participate in clinical trials and are more suited for chronic clinical conditions. However, directto- patient marketing is labour-intensive and can result in high numbers of irrelevant leads.
Patient recruitment based on EHRs is, to date, a neglected and under-utilised area. Individual HISs have attempted to conduct patient recruitment based on their EHRs, but multihospital networks did not exist until very recently.
Electronic records for patient data came into use with the advent of digital technologies. Hospitals and doctors' practices recognised the value of keeping patient records electronically for the documentation of patient encounters in a standard and consistent way, reducing the problem of illegible, handwritten notes and improving care by ensuring transition of care and continuity of treatment. These records became known as electronic medical records (EMRs). EMRs took root very easily because they enabled data to be stored efficiently and retrieved quickly within a practice, while maintaining specifiable standards of data security, safety and retention.
At a higher level, clinical information systems – which went across practices and allowed the integration of patient information from multiple sources – arose in the 1960s. These became more standardised in the 2000s, and became known as EHRs. A patient's complete medical history – including results from external labs and diagnoses from specialists, for instance – EHRs compile an overall picture of a subject's health, while also supporting the management of patient information within the healthcare ecosystem. As a result, EMRs/EHRs enable doctors to offer a better standard of care for their patients.
Representing a rich source of patient information, a moderately structured EHR allows complex queries to be made to a patient database – taking account of, for example, medical history, medications taken, procedures and lab values. A sponsor may, therefore, use such a query to evaluate the possible number of patients at a specific hospital which fit a specific set of criteria – and thus evaluate the feasibility of that site to run a specific study. A mistaken feasibility assessment would represent a potential source of problems, such as a trial not taking off, if the patient enrolment numbers cannot be met; or an unnecessary number of small studies in numerous locations, due to inefficient siting of trials.
EHR use allows the standardisation of the feasibility evaluation across multiple sites and, to a considerable extent, removes the subjective element from the process. However, the employment of EHR data across hospitals, healthcare networks and countries has a number of associated challenges, including inconsistent coding practices and semantic interoperability. These issues can be identified and mitigated, though – something that is much harder to do with subjective recruitment estimates by individual principal investigators, known to provide patient enrolment estimates that may not meet the expectations.
Identifying Patients
Performing feasibility studies through EHR-networked hospitals allows sponsors to identify the most suitable research hospitals for their trials, but gives doctors no tool to find the patients. By itself, feasibility can be a poor predictor of a study's success, as the sites will still be limited in their ability to identify the relevant patients in time – for example, if the trial requires a patient profile where dozens of criteria overlap, or where studies are for acute indications which cannot be predicted from historical information, or especially if the trial is time-sensitive.
An EHR-based recruitment system that can identify patients allows a trial's primary investigator (PI) to start a study with a ready-to-use list of patients to screen, potentially generated already from the feasibility query. This reduces the PI's workload dramatically and accelerates trial progress. It also facilitates recruitment targets to be met more easily – particularly in difficult cases, such as studies where patient consent is very low, or rare diseases.
This is where the benefits of EHR-based patient recruitment become apparent. Querying a complete database electronically enables all potential candidates who fit the trial protocol criteria to be found – exhaustively, and within a short time. The fact that the candidates are pre-filtered according to matches with the protocol also helps the subsequent processes of candidate validation and enrolment. This reduces the time and resource effort from the beginning, allowing the trial's PI more flexibility in managing the trial and completing it on time, or even earlier than expected.
The ability to run a query against multiple overlapping recruitment criteria not only enables a trial manager to come up with a better defined patient population distributed across multiple sites, but also brings the capability to run studies in populations which would normally be associated with personalised medicine. Sometimes, these criteria are so specific that eligible patients may only be found on a level similar to rare disease populations – for example, in fewer than 100 patients per million.
Patient Enrolment
Depending on how they are configured, electronic recruitment systems may screen for patients on a continuous basis and identify eligible candidates in near-real time. This offers another important advantage where trials are timesensitive. Recruiting a patient may depend heavily on certain criteria which have a shelf life: for example, if a specific lab test has to have been done within the past 24 hours, or if a specific treatment has to have been initiated in the last seven days. Real time systems allow such criteria to be queried, and a candidate population to be assessed against completely up-to-date patient information.
But the beauty of real time systems lies in their potential to support the search for patients with acute indications, where historical data are of no help. In these indications, the search is for patients where there are no predictors for their condition, and relies on the patient arriving at the site on occurrence. A good example would be trauma studies. The time between the appearance of the patient and the start of standard treatment would usually be very short, and it is a major challenge for the PI to include the patient in a clinical trial without a system that identifies the patient upon arrival and alerts the clinical researcher immediately.
Real Time Recruitment
Bringing everything together, a subset of studies can be identified which require three distinct candidate search capabilities to arrive at successful patient recruitment. They include the identification of sites according to how their patient populations fit multi-search criteria, the identification of patients which meet the study criteria, and the ability to do both in the very limited amount of time available from the moment the data appears in the system – ideally instantly (see full PDF for Figure 1). The confluence of these three features is where the strengths and benefits of real time recruitment become possible.
Examples of indications that could benefit from real time recruitment include trauma surgery, acute infectious diseases, pain relief and certain acute cardiovascular conditions, which require time-sensitive treatment initiation.
The implementation of a real time recruitment system is not without challenges, however, as it heavily depends on the ability and readiness of investigators to use it. Responding to an alert requires quick, coordinated action within the research team. Acute indications are normally treated with urgency, but using traditional techniques means PIs may not be aware a suitable patient has come in until the window of opportunity is gone. Therefore, PIs and study staff need to have quick and ready access to the relevant information, and be able to set up procedures for referral, enrolment and consent for patients for acute indications studies.
Enrolling Patients Successfully
Multi-site feasibility and patient identification in real time, with alert generation, is an indispensable tool in modern clinical research, allowing the successful enrolment of acute patients corresponding to complex recruitment profiles.
1. The expanding web of clinical trial patient recruitment, ISR Reports, March 2014
2. Howes M, The pulse on global trials, CW Weekly: p6, March 2014
3. Getz K and Lamberti MJ, 89% of trials meet enrollment, but timelines slip, half of sites under-enroll, Tufts CSDD Impact Report 15(1), January/February 2013
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* Trails for hiking and biking start at our back door thru the beautiful Nicolet National Forest.
* Besides rafting or tubing you can kayak the unspoiled Wolf River. We can assist you with rental or instructors at one of the fine outfitters in the area.
* Ask us about horseback riding.
* If you like to gamble there are 3 casinos approximately 30 minutes away from our campground.
* What about fishing? Across the road from us is the Wolf River, which offers some of the premier trout fishing in the state. There are also several great lakes within miles for your enjoyment - whether it be for fishing or just laying on the beach and relaxing.
* Also close by is the Silver Moon Trout Farm where you don't even need a fishing license. They will even clean your catch and wrap it up for you to take home. A great place to take the kids!
* For the golf enthusiast we have several courses in our area. Just ask for information.
* Time for some night life? There are many good places to get something to eat or drink just minutes away. On weekends many local establishments have live entertainment. Ask us for menus and help with directions.
These are just some of the reasons to come to the Wolf River territory. But most of all – Nothing is better than sitting around a campfire with family and friends, relaxing how it was meant to be "naturally".


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After Data East's bankruptcy in 2003, Paon Corporation and Nintendo acquired the rights to the series, with Paon (now Paon DP) and Nintendo co-owning the copyright and Nintendo solely owning the trademark, and Nintendo released the latest installment in the series, Heracles no Eikō: Tamashii no Shōmei for the Nintendo DS in 2008. None of the games had been released outside Japan until E3 2009, at which the latest game was announced by Nintendo as Glory of Heracles.

The series is based in the world of Greek mythology, with the Greek hero Heracles as the title character of each game. However, Heracles only serves as the main character in the original game and the Game Boy spin-off, and plays a support role in all subsequent games.

The 2018 game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate represented the series in the game's spirit mode, with Heracles from the original game and the player character for the DS game, named as the Glory of Heracles Hero, possible to unlock.

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Stability of Essential Drugs in the Field: Results of a Study Conducted over a Two-Year Period in Burkina Faso
F. Ballereau, T. Prazuck, I. Schrive, M. T. Lafleuriel, D. Rozec, A. Fisch, C. Lafaix
Affiliations: 1 World Health Organization Collaborative Center for the Study of Stability of Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nantes, France; Groupe d'Etudes Epidemiologiques et Prophylactiques, Villeneuve Saint-Georges, France
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 Jul 1997, p. 31 - 36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1997.57.31
To evaluate the stability of essential drugs stored in realistic tropical conditions, we have carried out a two-year prospective study in western Burkina Faso. Twenty-seven essential drugs were stored in a rural site and a urban one where temperature and hygrometry were recorded daily. Samples of each drug were taken for further analysis to the World Health Organization Collaborative Center for the Study of Stability of Drugs in Nantes, France every three months. Quantitative analysis showed that the majority of samples suffered no significant loss of their active ingredient. In contrast, ampicillin, erythromycin, sulfaguanidine, injectable furosemide, penicillin G, trimethoprim, and chloroquine showed more than a 10% quantitative loss of their active ingredient. Thus, it is not recommended that these essential drugs be stored for more than one year in a tropical climate.
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The 2014 matchup between the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings at Dodger Stadium was an enchanting experience for everyone. According to NBC, the game was a rating success as well with a 2.38 share, the highest rated regular season game on NBCSN in LA.
The next season's game in Santa Clara was a success as well, when the San Jose Sharks hosted the Kings in front of a sold-out crowd of over 70,000 fans at Levi's Stadium. That made it the third-highest attended game in league history. California needs another outdoor game. Here are some realistic ideas and some fantastical locales for the NHL's next California outdoor game.
The NHL confirmed on Jan. 1 that the 2020 Winter Classic will take place at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas with the Stars hosting an undecided team.
It's a smart play for the NHL to hold another game in a classic college football stadium in college football country. When it's time to come back to California for an outdoor game this would be the smartest option: to host a game between the Ducks and Kings at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum would almost be too perfect. First, it's not a baseball field. Move away from the baseball fields. Dodger Stadium has already hosted one, and while old baseball stadiums look great on TV, the in-person experience is underwhelming. Most of the sight-lines are miserable and there really aren't any classic baseball parks left to visit.
The Coliseum has the history part down. It's hosted two Summer Olympics and will host a third in 2028 (you're welcome for the cross-promotional ideas NBC.) It's played home to countless legendary college football games, NFL games, MLB games including a World Series, concerts, you name it.
The NHL can also help further its goal of bringing varsity college hockey to Southern California with an outdoor game at the Coliseum. The arena is affiliated with not one but two Pac-12 teams that could field successful Div. 1 NCAA hockey programs. The USC Trojans are the Coliseum's most famous and decorated tenant, but for close to 50 years it also hosted the UCLA Bruins until they moved to the Rose Bowl. What an excellent opportunity to host a college game between the USC and UCLA club hockey teams after the NHL game.
The potential to showcase college hockey in Southern California and the media attention it would bring might help motivate either school to start a varsity program. It's not unusual for college teams to skate on the NHL's outdoor ice after their game. It's happened in Boston and Chicago and will happen at Notre Dame on Jan. 5. However, they need to make sure to hold the game when USC is in session to attract as many students as possible.
If you're looking for TV eye candy, the Coliseum is perfect. It has pristine views of the Los Angeles skyline from its upper decks and the iconic Peristyle behind the east end zone.
The NHL could include all three California teams much as it did at Yankee Stadium in 2014 when the New York Rangers hosted the New York Islanders and the New Jersey Devils in consecutive games.
Like a teenager trying to distance themselves from their parents, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks ditched the "Mighty" in 2006 when Henry and Susan Samueli purchased the team from Disney. However, like many twenty-somethings, it's time for the Ducks to come home and embrace their parents. Anaheim started this season with multiple throwback jerseys and events honoring the Ducks' 25th anniversary. What better way to celebrate their 30th birthday in 2023-24 than to have the Ducks host an outdoor game at Disneyland?
Yes, it's about as fantastical as "The Little Mermaid" or "Fantasia," but it's not impossible. Disneyland has, in years past, hosted a public skating rink around the holidays. No, it wasn't even close to standard NHL sized, and the Christmas tree in the middle may add a wrinkle to the game unlike any before, but at least they've seen ice before. They did make "Frozen" after all.
It's not just the "Mighty Ducks" movies where ice hockey and Disney intersect. Disney made "Miracle," so why not host a game on Feb. 22, the anniversary of the Miracle on Ice.
If you think an NHL game at Disneyland is outrageous, how about an NHL game on the beach. How many times have NHL broadcasts associated Southern California teams with beaches and palm trees? Well, it's time to walk the walk or maybe skate the pier.
How cool would it be for the Ducks and Kings to play a game on the beach? The classic image of children skating on a pond surrounded by snow-dusted pine trees is what almost everyone thinks of when you hear "pond hockey." Imagine an outdoor game flanked by palm trees and crashing waves.
It sounds ridiculous, but is it really? California beach cities like Manhattan Beach (home to many Kings players) and Huntington Beach (the closest beach to the Honda Center) are more than big enough to fit an 85-foot wide NHL playing surface. If there isn't enough space for bleachers on both sides, why not keep one side completely free of seating so there's an unobstructed view to the ocean behind the players.
Both beaches already host a major athletic event. The Manhattan Beach Open is the Association of Volleyball Professionals' (AVP) marquee tournament and they build a stadium to host the main event every summer.
Huntington Beach hosts the U.S. Open of Surfing. Yes, the competitors are in the ocean, but it also holds stadium seating for fans.
The temperature issue isn't that big a deal. The daytime temperature for the Dodger Stadium game in 2014 reached 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 Celsius). The game-time temperature was 63 Fahrenheit (17 Celsius). Air temperatures near the ocean are more consistent than inland, which would make producing artificial ice slightly more predictable, at least when it comes to freezing it.


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Disinfo: The West is fighting a Russian vaccine, not a virus
What is the West's problem with a Russian vaccine that has been proven effective. They are fighting a vaccine, not a virus. The Russian Sputnik-V vaccine is effective 91% of the time, but Western countries are trying to prove otherwise. The vaccination has already caused a stir around the world, and many European countries have already ordered a batch for testing. However, while some are trying to buy a vaccine, others are unleashing an information war against it.
The claim advances a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative concerning the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine casting Russia as the spearhead of the global race to develop an effective treatment for COVID-19. This is a part of a campaign aiming to promote the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. The claim that the West is trying to discredit the Sputnik V vaccine is unfounded.
A pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign on Sputnik V launched after its announcement was met with skepticism and criticism even by Russian specialists in the country. However, experts' reports present that Russia has perceived the development of a coronavirus vaccine in terms of geopolitical and economic gain. Reservations and criticism of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine are caused by the fact that Russia did not complete large trials to test the vaccine's safety and efficacy before releasing it. Rolling out an inadequately vetted vaccine could endanger people who receive it.
The same disinformation campaign includes statements such as "Western attacks on the Russian coronavirus vaccine are a corporate cold war against humanity" or "Russian progress in COVID-19 vaccine has become for the West an outrageous challenge", that Sputnik V is a target of the corporate cold war; that the West wants to discredit the Sputnik V; that the WHO and Microsoft sabotaged the Russian vaccine, that the West criticises the Sputnik V because it can't accept Russia's primacy and because its pharmaceutical companies will lose billions of dollars.
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Keywords: Sputnik V, vaccination, West, Information war
The Western Elites use the anti-COVID measures to usher a code-red lifestyle
Once it became clear to the Western elite that their subjects would readily accept draconian anti-Covid measures, it encouraged them to usher in a code-red lifestyle where there will be no 'return to normal' in the foreseeable future and, possibly, never.
Recurring pro-Kremlin conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic, exploiting the trope of "secret elites".
Read previous cases claiming that Bill Gates is planning to use microchip implants to fight the coronavirus, that Covid-19 will allow total control of the population through forced vaccination and chips, that Bill Gates seeks to vaccinate everyone against the coronavirus in order to implant people with under the skin microchips and has a Malthusian agenda, that the new Gates-sponsored coronavirus vaccine will be used to reduce the world's population, and that Bill Gates is working on depopulation policies and artificially created the coronavirus for this purpose.
Nazi ideology became the only one allowed in Ukraine after February 2014
2014 was truly a turning point for Ukraine. The second-largest and most populous post-Soviet republic chose the "European path of development", implicated in Nazi ideology. The neo-Nazis who brought their henchmen to power not only don't want to negotiate peacefully with anyone, like Moscow or Budapest but also do not imagine such a possibility. The Nazi ideology of "Ukrainian integral nationalism", after February 2014 became the only one allowed in Ukraine. It does not even assume the possibility of peaceful coexistence of "Ukrainian Nazis" with any "aliens". Rather deportation, or forced assimilation, or the physical destruction of such.
Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative attempting to link Ukraine with Nazism. The accusation of Nazism is a popular propaganda technique used by pro-Kremlin outlets. Read more: Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo's nest.
The myth of Nazi-ruled Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian disinformation about the country since the very beginning of the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests, when it was used to discredit the pro-European popular uprising in Kyiv and, subsequently, the broader pro-Western shift in Ukraine's foreign policy.
The EU is waging a vaccine war against Russia
A war of vaccines is being carried out by the West against Russia in order to discredit the Russian-developed Sputnik vaccine and Russia's efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
Pro-Kremlin disinformation part of a narrative aimed at promoting Russia's Sputnik vaccine.
While, due to the pressing nature of the coronavirus crisis, there has undoubtedly been a race for safe and efficient vaccines against COVID-19, the narrative, according to which Russian-developed vaccines are attacked solely because they are developed in Russia, is false.