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Police and Human Resources Expert Witness Aaron T Olson
A.T. Olson Consulting, LLC
Aaron T. Olson
Police and Human Resources Expert Witness
16855 S. Wyatt Estates Lane
Beavercreek OR 97004
SUMMARY CV / LINKS ARTICLES BOOKS
Aaron T. Olson, has decades of experience in the field of Police and Human Resources. His breadth of knowledge comes from many years in Law Enforcement, as an expert witness, consultant, and trainer.
Mr. Olson's company, A.T. Olson Consulting, LLC, is certified by the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Verification and Evaluation (CVE) as a Verified Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB); and the State of Oregon's Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity (COBID) as a Service-Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (SDVBE) and Emerging Small Business (ESB).
Background Experience: Mr. Olson has over 26 years of police experience managing assignments in communications, recruitment, and patrol. He supervised and evaluated both police and non-police employees. He was a member of the OSP Procedures and Rules Advisory Committee and worked with Oregon's Department of Justice in rewriting and validating OSP's trooper and cadet applicant hiring process. Mr. Olson had the honor of being a member of the first Oregon State Police Affirmative Action Recruiting Team.
As a patrol supervisor, Mr. Olson directed major crime scenes and traffic crash investigations. He reviewed and approved administrative, police, and use of force reports. He also investigated allegations of police officer misconduct, conducted background checks, and participated in specialized tasks in community policing, dignitary protection with the U.S. Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies. In his law enforcement, career he had experience in the use of physical and deadly force. In reaching out to new immigrants and refugees, Mr. Olson initiated the "Police and Emergency Services" workshops at the Immigrant Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) in Portland, Oregon.
Mr. Olson is regular adjunct professor at Portland Community College (PCC), Portland, Oregon, and Eastern Oregon University (EOU), La Grande, Oregon. At PCC, Mr. Olson currently teaches cultural diversity online and campus criminal justice classes. He also teaches an online class on civil liability in criminal justice. At PCC, he has lectured on police use of force and facilitated the Police Use of Force Accountability Panel. At EOU, he teaches an online multiculturalism in emergency services course. He established history by designing the first cultural diversity courses and curricula for PCC's criminal justice program in 2001, fire protection program in 2009, and EOU's fire service administration program in 2011.
Mr. Olson is a published co-writer of Multicultural Law Enforcement: Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society, 7th ed. Pearson Prentice Hall, and Multicultural and Diversity Strategies for the Fire Service, Pearson Prentice Hall.
Litigation Support: Mr. Olson meets the criteria of an expert witness as outlined in the Federal Rules of Evidence. He also meets the criteria of an expert witness as outlined in the Oregon Revised Statutes. He has been deposed as an expert witness several times. Mr. Olson's services are available to attorneys representing plaintiff and defendant and include diagnostics, thorough reporting, depositions, arbitration hearings, and trial testimony as needed.
Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Police Practices and Procedures
Police Investigations and Arrests
Human Resource Investigations
Bias, Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation Investigations
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10/21/2020 · Employment
Expert Witness' Checklist When Reviewing An Employer's Handling Of Workforce / Employee Complaints
By: Aaron T. Olson
Clients need to know what an expert witness does in the review of an employer's handling of a workforce complaint. The complaint could be regarding discrimination, sexual harassment, misconduct, or retaliation, any of which could potentially lead to the accused's termination. An expert who has the experience of conducting employment investigations will be able to assess if the employer's handling of the workforce complaint, actions or omissions was satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
Multicultural Law Enforcement: Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society (7th Edition) (What's New in Criminal Justice)
Aaron T. Olson, et al
A classic text in peacekeeping, cultural awareness, and diversity in law enforcement. It provides practical information and insight to prepare officers for culturally sensitive policing. The content explores the pervasive influences of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation in the workplace and in multicultural communities.
Multicultural and Diversity Strategies for the Fire Service
As the fire service becomes a microcosm of American society, this book provides a useful tool to effectively address key issues and challenges of cultural diversity. It offers valuable lessons on cultural competence, the value of cultural differences, and the acquisition of cross-cultural skills to be used in fire science college courses or fire academies at the city, fire-district, state or federal level.
Workers Compensation Insurance Expert Witness Edward Priz
Advanced Insurance Management LLC
Edward J. Priz, CPCU, APA
3230 S. Harlem Ave.
Riverside IL 60546
Edward J. Priz, CPCU, APA, has worked full-time in the Insurance Industry since 1976. In 1982, he also began consulting on commercial property and casualty insurance, and Workers Compensation insurance premium charges, and in 1987 established his own consulting firm to specialize in those fields, as Advanced Insurance Management.
Mr. Priz holds the professional designation Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) from the American Institute of Property and Liability Underwriters, as well as the designation Associate in Premium Auditing, from the Insurance Institute of America.
Litigation Support - Mr. Priz has been retained by policyholders, insurance agents and brokers, insurance companies, and a premium audit firm as an expert witness in his field, both as a consulting expert and as a testifying expert. He serves as an expert witness to counsel for Plaintiff and Defense and has testified in federal and state courts and arbitrations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. He is a member of the Forensic Expert Witness Association and currently serves as Vice-President of the Chicago chapter of that organization. He is also a member of the Society of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, and the National Society of Insurance Premium Auditors.
Mr. Priz has also consulted on the drafting of legislation pertaining to Workers Compensation insurance in Illinois and has testified on insurance regulation before the Illinois legislature. He is the author of three books on the subject of Workers' Compensation insurance.
Edward Priz Expert Witness Services
Experience Modification Factors
Retrospective Rating
Large Deductible Policies
Payroll Audits
NCCI Manual Rules
Insurance Agent / Broker Standards of Care
Commercial Property & Casualty Insurance Coverage
NCCI classification Rules
Experience Rating
NCCI Rules and Procedures
Workers Compensation Appeals
Agent Errors and Omissions
Insurance Auditor Duties and Errors
NCCI Inspections
Independent WC Rating Bureau Rules
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4/3/2020 · Insurance
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Workers Compensation Insurance
By: Edward Priz, CPCU, APA
One question being asked is whether COVID-19 infections could be the basis for Workers Compensation claims by workers who feel they likely contracted the virus through work. At the moment, the best answer appears to be that's unlikely for many workers, possible for some, and subject to change depending on future actions by state legislatures.
11/11/2015 · Insurance
Workers Comp Shock Audits: 5 Common Causes
Employers generally realize that the initial premium they pay for Workers Compensation insurance isn't the final premium for that coverage-Workers Comp is normally subject to an audit after the policy ends, to adjust premium charges based on actual payroll amounts. When the policy starts, after all, payroll amounts can only be estimated for the coming year. So it's routine for employers of any size to undergo a Workers Compensation premium audit, and to receive an audit statement that often seeks some additional premium.
8/20/2015 · Insurance
Experience Modifiers: A Flawed Benchmark For Safety
A growing trend for many businesses has been for their customers and prospects to use their experience modification factor as a safety benchmark, requiring a modifier of 1.00 or 1.05 for those bidding on projects. A higher modifier can disqualify a firm from bidding on many projects, particularly governmental projects.
An Unregulated Workers Compensation Insurance Market Poses Problems
Recently, a former Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance wrote an Op-Ed piece, decrying recently proposed legislation that would require insurers to file changes in Workers Compensation insurance rates with regulators before using those rates with insurers. The proposed legislation would also allow the Department of Insurance to disapprove rates if it was determined they were excessive.
Worker's Compensation: A Field Guide For Employers (Paperback)
Edward J. Priz, et al
An easy to understand guide, written for a general business audience, that explains in detail how Workers Compensation insurance is priced and audited. The Field Guide explains the classification system used by insurance companies, the audit process, experience modification factors, and how and why overcharges occur. Most importantly, it explains in plain language how employers can protect themselves from the common mistakes the insurance industry makes that cause Workers Comp premiums to be higher than they properly should be.
Workers' Compensation: A Field Guide for Employers (Kindle Edition)
Edward J. Priz, Scott Priz
Everything business owners and managers need to know to understand Workers Compensation insurance for their company, including how to reduce premium costs.
Compcontrol: The Secrets of Reducing Worker's Compensation Costs
Many of the rules which determine premiums are understood only by employees in the audit and underwriting departments of insurance companies. The result is a built-in bias in the system which favors higher premiums. CompControl was written by an industry insider -- a consultant who has saved clients more than $4 million in overcharges. His book reveals how the system really works and how you can make it work for you.
SEO And Internet Technologies Expert Witness Jessie Stricchiola
Alchemist Media Inc.
Jessie Stricchiola
San Francisco CA 94110
SUMMARY CV / LINKS BOOKS
Jessie Stricchiola has over 23 years of experience in the fields of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Digital Marketing, and Internet Technologies. She is the founder of Alchemist Media, Inc., a digital marketing consultancy launched in 2002 that provides various internet and search engine marketing consulting services, including SEO, website development, web analytics, and digital marketing strategies.
Ms. Stricchiola began studying search algorithms and digital information discoverability in 1997, and was first employed as a full-time search engine optimization (SEO) specialist in 1998. She is co-author of The Art of SEO, (O'Reilly Media, 1st Ed. 2009, 2nd Ed. 2012, 3rd Ed. 2015, 4th Ed, 2022), a treatise on the practice of SEO that has been used as required or recommended reading in courses at Georgetown University, USC, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, the University of Wisconsin, Syracuse University, the University of Mumbai, the City University of Hong Kong, and others.
Ms. Stricchiola has been a presenter and/or moderator at various search engine and internet industry conferences since 2002, including Ad:tech, O'Reilly's Web 2.0, Pubcon, Shop.org, FOO Camp (O'Reilly), Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo (SMX), and others. She is credited with having been the first to identify Click Fraud in the PPC (pay per click) industry in 2001. Her work on this issue has been featured in numerous media outlets, including NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired.com, CNN Money, and in The Google Story (First Edition, David a. Vise).
Litigation Support - Jessie Stricchiola has been qualified as an Internet Discoverability, Web Analytics, and Search Engine Optimization Subject Matter Expert in two US Federal District Courts, the Federal Court of Canada, and various California Superior Courts. Her services include pre-file case evaluation and research, expert consultant (non-testifying) engagements, and expert witness testimony at deposition and trial including claims construction and related testimony for patent litigation. CV available upon request
Parties to Litigation: U.S. Government, Uber Technologies Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Dyson Technologies, Inc., IHG Hotels & Resorts, FremantleMedia, and others.
Internet / Web Forensics
Digital Data Discoverability
Digital Content Archives
Click Validity Measurement
Website Traffic Analytics
Internet and Digital Marketing
Social Media - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Intellectual Property - Trademark, Patent, Prior Art
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The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization
Jesse Stricchiola, et al
Three acknowledged experts in search engine optimization share guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. Complete with an array of effective tactics from basic to advanced, this third edition prepares digital marketers for 2016 with updates on SEO tools and new search engine optimization methods that have reshaped the SEO landscape.
Crime Lab Ballistics Expert Witness Jay Jarvis
Arma Forensics, LLC
Francis T. "Jay" Jarvis
Armuchee GA 30105
Francis T. "Jay" Jarvis has over 35 years of experience as a Forensic Scientist, specializing in Forensic Ballistics and Firearms Analysis.
During his career, Mr. Jarvis either performed casework in or was a supervisor for most of the forensic disciplines. Between 1982 and 1997, he wore a multitude of hats, performing casework in:
Firearms and Tool Marks
Glass Comparisons
Footwear Tread Examinations
Tire Tread Examinations
Fire Debris and Explosives Analysis
Latent Fingerprint Processing
Marijuana Identification
Presumptive Blood Testing
Filament Analysis
Following his retirement from the Georgia State Crime Lab, Jay Jarvis started Arma Forensics to provide personalized, timely and unbiased forensic services for clients. He has testified as an expert in Federal Court and the courts of Georgia and several other states over 750 times. Mr. Jarvis' specialty is firearms identification and ballistics but he also has casework experience in trace evidence. Mr. Jarvis has extensive experience in crime laboratory accreditation, having served as an accreditation assessor and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB), including one year as the Board Chair.
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Georgia's Crime Doctor
Jay Jarvis
Georgia's Crime Doctor is the story of Dr. Herman Jones, the Alabama native who is responsible for establishing the Georgia State Crime Laboratory. Tracing the steps of Jones and his wife June back to Auburn in the 1930's, this book chronicles the people, places and events which shaped modern day forensic science in the state of Georgia.
Safety Security Threat Expert Witness Michael Fagel
Aurora Safety
Dr. Michael Fagel, PhD, CEM
837 Hoyden Ct
Sugar Grove IL 60554
Dr. Michael J. Fagel, PhD, CEM has over 30 years of broad based experience in a variety of fields relating to Crisis Management & Recovery, Consequence Management & Emergency Management. He provides specialized assistance in OSHA compliance assistance and training in Disaster Management, Emergency Response as well as Occupational Safety and Health. Aurora Safety has extensive experience in litigation guidance drawing from decades of experience in all phases of safety and emergency response and planning. They provide guidance to attorneys and insurance companies on a variety of topics and offer effective evaluations regarding the many facets of each case.
Dr. Fagel provides expert witness services to cases in across North America. He has served various Federal Agencies providing Occupational Safety Services at disaster sites. He also was EMS coordinator for the fire rescue division in North Aurora, as well as serving as an officer in the local fire service. Dr. Fagel currently teaches industrial safety and emergency medical services at several college locations and lectures at various professional trade conferences throughout the country. He offers Expert Witness Services and Litigation Support to attorneys representing both Plaintiff and Defense.
Disaster / Crisis Management and Recovery
COVID-19 / Coronavirus Recovery
Voluntary Protection Programs (VPPs)
Fire, EMS, Disaster Management
Site Inspections
Training Assessment Management and Development of Safety Programs
Critical Incident / Crisis Management Site Inspections
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3/30/2018 · Security
Where Will It Happen Next? Are We able to Provide a Safe and Secure Environment?
By: Dr. Michael J. Fagel
Schools, campuses, houses of worship, recreational sites, transportation hubs, retail facilities, those thoughts ring out day after day. Replay in your mind's eye the horrific images of Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University (Valentine's Day), Aurora Colorado movie theater, Sandy Hook Elementary School
Are We able to Provide a Safe and Secure Environment?
At schools, campuses, sporting events, and retail facilities, those thoughts ring out day after day. We have watched with horror the increasingly more frequent news of violence at establishments we once thought "safe" from wanton violence. One has to just scan the news to see that no place is immune from any type of random act that injures or kills innocent civilians, be it a movie theater, retail mall, sporting event, school, or church. In this column, let's take a look at a few basic elements.
How Vulnerable Is Your Facility?
We often times think of our own facilities, our sites as something no one would want to harm... or would they?
Crisis Management and Emergency Planning: Preparing for Today's Challenges
Michael J. Fagel, PhD
Emergency managers and officials have seen a tremendous increase in the planning responsibilities placed on their shoulders over the last decade. Crisis Management and Emergency Planning: Preparing for Today's Challenges supplies time-tested insights to help communities and organizations become better prepared to cope with natural and manmade disasters and their impacts on the areas they serve.
Principles of Emergency Management: Hazard Specific Issues and Mitigation Strategies
This book offers preparedness and mitigation recommendations for advanced emergency planning. Because disasters are so unpredictable, advance planning is needed to effectively respond to and mitigate against the potential effects of such events. More than a dozen contributors offer their professional expertise on a wide variety of topics.
Principles of Emergency Management and Emergency Operations Centers (EOC)
This book provides a clear and up-to-date understanding of how an EOC should operate within the guidance of various federal and national programs. It discusses the processes and systems that must be considered in emergency planning and preparedness efforts, and provides time-tested tips for those developing and revising emergency preparedness plans.
Reproductive Medicine Expert Witness Barry Verkauf
Barry S. Verkauf, M.D., M.B.A., LLC
Barry S. Verkauf, MD, MBA, CPE
3203 Bayshore Blvd.
Reproductive Endocrinology - Infertility - Gynecology
A top doctor in his field, Barry S. Verkauf, MD, MBA, CPE, has more than 40 years of practice expertise in Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology/ Infertility, as well as medical management having earned an MBA from USF College of Business in 1997.He has served in leadership positions in both hospital and medical organizations. A respected and long-standing figure in his field, Dr. Verkauf currently serves as an Affiliate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida where he was on the founding faculty and initiated the Division of Reproduction Endocrinology and Infertility in 1974.
In 1981, he was the founding Partner of The Reproductive Medicine Group which continues as one of the largest and most successful private practices in his specialty in the State of Florida. Dr. Verkauf has been a reviewer for high impact journals, KePro Peer Review Organization and has published 25 papers, 8 abstracts, 3 book chapters, and 3 books. He has been active in the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, serving on several committees and as their Delegate to the American Medical Association for 15 years. Over the last 20 years, Dr. Verkauf has been awarded many honors recognizing his clinical and leadership expertise, and most recently was recognized by Marquis Who's Who with their Lifetime Achievement Award in Reproductive Medicine.
Litigation Support - Dr. Verkauf offers expert witness services in cases involving Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility, and other Obstetric and Gynecological matters. His services are available to insurance companies with questions and attorneys representing plaintiff and defendant and include peer review, medical record review, written reports, deposition, and trial testimony.
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Evolution of an Academic Department
Barry S. Verkauf, MD
The health-care industry and its professional practice are currently in uncertain times as the outcome of the hotly debated health-care reform is awaited. While the magnitude of potential change may be unchallenged, the past century has been one of continual change for the medical profession and its practice. The rapidity of this change has continually increased with emerging new technologies and changes in the social fabric of society. Even the doctor-patient relationship has changed. Medicine as a profession and the specialties within it have had to adapt to this change in order to be relevant to the physicians it trains, the patients they treat, and to maintain status among their peers. This book chronicles the history of the successful adaptation to required changes in one medical-school department.
Practicing Medicine Profitably : A Critical Relationship of Cost Analysis to Pricing Strategies in a Changing Medical Enviroment
An indispensible guide to challenges every health care provider, manager, consultant, supplier and end user faces. Detailed exploration of a single example spotlights the critical relationship of cost analysis to pricing strategies in today's changing medical enviroment. A key resource for establishing, analyzing, and improving your organization's pricing strategies.
Congenital Malformations of the Female Reproductive Tract and their Treatment
University of South Florida, Tampa. Concise survey of congenital abnormalities of the female genital tract, and their treatment, both surgical and nonsurgical. For practitioners. Variety of illustrations. 25 U.S. contributors.
Financial Planning Ethics Expert Witness Marguerita Cheng
Blue Ocean Global Wealth
Marguerita Cheng, CFP®, CRPC®, RICP®, CDFA™
Chief Executive Office
9841 Washingtonian Blvd. #200
Gaithersburg MD 20878
SUMMARY CV / LINKS ARTICLES BOOKS PRESS
Marguerita M. Cheng, CFP®, CRPC®, RICP®, CDFA™, Chief Executive Officer at Blue Ocean Global Wealth, is a Certified Financial Planning Expert with 18 years of experience. Prior to co-founding Blue Ocean Global Wealth, she was a Financial Advisor at Ameriprise Financial and an Analyst and Editor at Towa Securities in Tokyo, Japan. Ms. Cheng is a past spokesperson for the AARP Financial Freedom Campaign and a regular columnist for Investopedia & Kiplinger. She is a CFP® professional, a Chartered Retirement Planning CounselorSM, a Retirement Income Certified Professional® and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. As a Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) Ambassador, Ms. Cheng helps educate the public, policy makers, and media about the benefits of competent, ethical financial planning. She served on the Financial Planning Association (FPA) National Board of Directors from 2013 – 2015 and is a past president of the Financial Planning Association of the National Capital Area (FPA NCA).
Marguerita Cheng CNBC Interview on Social Security
Awards and Honors - Ms. Cheng is a recipient of the Ameriprise Financial Presidential Award for Quality of Advice and the prestigious Japanese Monbukagakusho Scholarship. In 2017, she was named the #3 Most Influential Financial Advisor in the Investopedia Top 100, a Woman to Watch by InvestmentNews, and a Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise (MBE®) by the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council (CRMSDC).
Litigation Support - Ms. Cheng serves as a Women's Initiative (WIN) Advocate and subject matter expert for CFP Board, contributing to the development of examination questions for the CFP® Certification Examination. She also volunteers for CFP Board Disciplinary and Ethics Commission (DEC) hearings. Services to attorneys representing plaintiff and defendant include financial due diligence, thorough reporting, depositions, and trial testimony as needed.
Areas of Litigation Expertise:
Financial Planning Issues
Elder Financial Abuse
Financial Planner Standard of Care
Financial Planner Code of Ethics
Investor Rights
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• Preparing for the Future - CNBC
• Four Ways Retirees Botch Their Social Security Benefits - CNBC
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• What's the First Question You Should Ask Your Financial Planner
• The Importance of Financial Literacy - CNBC
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5/22/2020 · Ethics / Ethical Duties
Financial Advisors: What Is A Fiduciary And Why Does It Matter?
When selecting a financial advisor, people are often confronted with a seemingly simple yet undeniably important question: What is a fiduciary and why does it matter?
6/10/2019 · Finance
Elder Abuse Awareness Day (6/15): How to Protect Your Parents from Financial Abuse
Did you hear of the case out of Wisconsin that involved a younger couple and their neighbor, a 92-year-old retired teacher who never married and had dementia? After befriending the woman, the couple took control of her home and nearly $2 million of her savings before they were eventually found out.
ERISA, the Fiduciary Standard and Where We Go from Here
Putting the DOL's investor-protection rule into historical context sheds new light on what the future may hold for retirement savers.
A Crime of Passion, Sweetheart Scams Can Be Costly
My mom was one of thousands preyed upon by this nasty con. Here's what to watch out for and how to protect those you love.
An Introduction to Asset Allocation
When you approach your financial planner, a term that most of you might have heard from him/her would be "asset allocation." In this article, you will learn about asset allocation, the importance of asset allocation, different asset allocation strategies and the benefits of asset allocation in portfolio management.
12/17/2018 · Finance
11/8/2018 · Finance
Respect Your Survivors By Creating a Will
Iconic singer Aretha Franklin had it all: respect, talent, fame and fortune, but what she didn't have was a prepared estate. Reports indicate that the Queen of Soul didn't have a will or trust set up before her death from cancer in August. Now her fortune might be in limbo for her survivors.
How Openness Personality Affects Financial Planning and Investment Decision Making
Financial planners begin their initial client meetings with a discussion of money goals, attitudes, and risk tolerance. Why? Well, it's because all investors are not created equally. Open individuals crave adrenaline-spiking adventures, always looking for thrilling activities. Most of the time, they are curious about information and knowledge about financial planning and investment decisions. These individuals enjoy researching and finding out about finance topics of interest.
Financial Scams Part of a Wide Array of Elder Abuse Problems in the United States
With the aging of the U.S. population, financial exploitation and abuse of seniors is a serious and growing problem. According to the FBI, scammers tend to target the aging population because they are more likely to have excellent credit and substantial savings.
Wealth Management Rules: 12 Tips to Help You Harness Your Financial Know-How
Marguerita Cheng, CFP
Divided into four sections, the 12 tips in the book are designed to help readers: * Know how they actually think about wealth (you may surprise yourself) * Know how to better understand what messages they've been sent by parents, media, and society about wealth — some of which may be keeping them from actually being wealthy * Know how the wealth management world works * Know how to balance love, money — and their increasing wealth
Marguerita Cheng One of Investopedia's Top 100 Financial Advisors of 2018
"Investopedia Names Marguerita Cheng One of Investopedia's Top 100 Financial Advisors of 2018"
Chinese Sourcing and Manufacturing Expert Witness Rosemary Coates
Blue Silk Consulting
Rosemary Coates
Rosemary Coates, President of Blue Silk Consulting, is a seasoned executive with an MBA and 25+ years of experience in Chinese Sourcing and Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Manufacturing and ERP Systems Consulting. Background Experience.
Prior to BSC, Ms. Coates was a Senior Director at SAP, the Supply Chain Practice Leader at KPMG Peat Marwick and at Answerthink, and a Regional Manager at Hewlett-Packard. Ms. Coates has consulted with global and domestic clients, VCs, and PE firms on operations systems and processes. She has considerable international experience and has worked for extended periods in Asia and Europe.
Ms. Coates' experience spans a broad range of industries including High Technology, Software, Chemicals, Health Care, Consumer Products, Industrial Products, Food Distribution, Transportation, Publishing, Retail, and Oil and Gas. She has extensive knowledge and experience in manufacturing and outsourcing in Asia, Europe, and the US. She has written five Amazon.com books including Best Seller, 42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China, and Legal Blacksmith: How to Avoid and Defend Supply Chain Disputes, and 42 Rules for Superior Field Service, and Negotiation Blueprint for Buyers, and The Reshoring Guidebook
Ms. Coates is also the Executive Director of the Reshoring Institute and a member of the Board of Directors at the University of San Diego Supply Chain Management Institute. She teaches Global Supply Chain Strategy at UC Berkeley. She earned a BS in Business at Arizona State University and an MBA at the University of San Diego. She resides in Silicon Valley.
Rosemary Coates: Supply Chain Management Overview
Litigation Support - As an Expert Witness, Ms. Coates has assisted attorneys in their understanding of relevant Supply Chain Operations and Practices in sourcing, logistics, distribution, manufacturing, inventory, and Chinese Imports. She has worked on legal cases for the past 10 years, writing reports, giving depositions, and testifying at trial.
Case Opinions:
Chinese Products
Import / Export Management
Counterfeit Imports
Project Management for Enterprise Software
ERP Software Consulting Implementation Failures and Runaway Projects
China Sourcing and Manufacturing
Sales Channel Distribution and Compensation
Supply Contracts
Inventory Tax
Global Manufacturing Operations, Contract Manufacturing, CMS, EMS
Transportation and logistics, 3PLs and Freight Forwarders, Freight Shipping
Chinese Products / Chinese Imports
Chinese Manufacturing
Chinese Toys
Chinese Plastics
Operations Planning
ERP Systems Implementations
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12/8/2020 · Supply Chain Management
Is It A Supply Chain Issue Or Poor Project Management?
By: Rosemary Coates
But procurement by thousands of individual hospitals and multiple governmental agencies is uneven and inefficient and we end up with variable pricing, too much inventory in some places, and not enough in others. These may look like supply chain issues on the surface, but they are actually project management issues.
10/29/2020 · Manufacturing
What Happens When You Decide To Leave China?
Reshoring and manufacturing in America is hot. Companies are now considering the possibilities of returning manufacturing to the USA. According to a recent study, 54% of all US companies over $1 billion in revenues are planning or considering bringing at least some of their manufacturing back to the US.
4/16/2019 · Supply Chain Management
Product Counterfeits Are Still A Major Problem
The way imported products are sold has drastically changed over the past few years. With the rise of eCommerce and direct shipments to U.S. warehouses and customers, more and more counterfeit products are slipping into the U.S. Owners of brands and intellectual property are losing billions of dollars in revenue every year to counterfeiters that are selling bogus products, often at the same price or only slightly less than the true brand.
5/23/2018 · Logistics - Reverse Logistics
Economics Is Strategy
"Economics is strategy." This phrase made me sit up and take notice. It was from an article in The American Interest about China's One Belt One Road initiative (OBOR). Of course, we knew that OBOR was all about economics. I have written about China's building influence around the world, but to simplify China's actions in this one impactful phrase makes it so clear.
5/2/2018 · Logistics - Reverse Logistics
How to Ensure Your Reshoring Project Won't Fail
Consider Otis Elevator. OE is one of many U.S. manufacturers, including GE, Whirlpool and NCR, which announced they were bringing factories back to the U.S. from China, Mexico and other countries and whose efforts did not go well.
The Amazon Effect and the Global Supply Chain
Have you been keeping up with the "Amazon Effect" on supply chains? This effect is defined as the impact the digital marketplace has on the traditional business model in retail. But for supply chain professionals, it is so much more.
Legal Blacksmith: How to Avoid and Defend Supply Chain Disputes
Rosemary Coates, et al
The first book of its kind, Legal Blacksmith explains how to optimize supply chain relationships, starting with marketing outreaches and supplier bidding through handling legal disputes when supply chain relationships fail. This book is for in-house counsel who want to better understand supply chain operations, and supply chain operations personnel who want to better understand the law that applies to their field.
42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China (2nd Edition): A Practical Handbook for Doing Business in China...
For business people who are experienced in doing business in China, or for first-time visitors, this book will provide valuable insights from real executives and experts. These executives offer their personal experiences and recommendations about sourcing and manufacturing in China.
Negotiation Blueprinting for Buyers: Fact Based Negotiation with Case Studies
Provides an understanding of holistic thinking and analysis based on multiple internal customer needs on the buy side and multiple stakeholders on the sales side.
The Reshoring Guidebook: Your Step-By-Step Instruction Guide For Bringing Manufacturing Back To America
The guidebook will assist you with steps to a successful Reshoring project by taking you through various decision components one by one. You will find thought-provoking ideas, helpful exercises, and outlines for things you will be considering during your Reshoring evaluation.
42 Rules for Superior Field Service: The Keys To Profitable Field Service And Customer Loyalty
Complicating field service operations in today's environment is the global nature of the installed base and where in the world your products and spares are manufactured. Sourcing global parts, managing the parts supply chain and the investment required are the things that keep managers up at night. This book provides 42 essential rules to benchmark and develop a global service business.
Islamic Law Expert Witness Amirhassan Boozari
Amirhassan Boozari, Esq.
Foreign Law Expert
7131 Pomelo Dr.
West Hills CA 91307
Amirhassan (Amir) Boozari, Esq., is a Foreign Law Expert specializing in Iranian / Islamic / Sharia Law. Dr. Boozari has decades of experience helping clients determine the degree to which a certain foreign jurisdiction diverges or converges in its methodological and interpretive framework with the one that the proceeding court has adopted.
As a foreign law expert, Dr. Boozari is well versed in both the foreign jurisdiction's and the proceeding court's approaches to universally recognized concepts in the general theory of law, such as damages or compensation, and is able to disentangle the existing intertwined complexities therein.
Dr. Boozari received a Master of Law Degree, LLM, on International and U.S. Legal Studies from Case Western University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio. He was awarded an International Business Law Certificate for a thesis on Comparative Analysis of WTO Rules and Foreign Investment Laws in Iran.
Dr. Boozari earned his SJD from UCLA School of Law where he researched and wrote on Democracy and Islamic Law, Philosophy of Law, Right to Political Participation, and Constitutionalism in Islamic Law. He also researched and wrote on Comparative Constitutionalism in Iran, Egypt, and Indonesia. He has taught as an adjunct professor of law at UCLA and other law schools in California. He has also authored a book, SHI'I JURISPRUDENCE AND CONSTITUTION: REVOLUTION IN IRAN (2011, Palgrave Macmillan) and contributed a chapter, Concept of State in Shi'i Jurisprudence, in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ISLAMIC LAW (2019, Routledge).
Litigation Support - Dr. Boozari's main task is to assist the trier of fact in unpacking the intricacies of a foreign jurisdiction's legal taxonomy and to render an opinion in a clear, meaningful, and helpful way. To reach such result, he combines his decades-long experience as a practitioner with teaching background as an academic. His opinions are thoroughly researched and supported by the most recent prevailing opinions of competent courts as well as most authoritative treatises. This approach has helped him establish himself as an expert in foreign law with a proven record of success. Dr. Boozari is fluent in Persian (Farsi), Arabic, Turkish, and English.
Past Expert Witness Cases and Research Include:
Comparative Torts Law
Political Crime
Interpretation of international petroleum agreements
Joint Venture Liabilities
Damages in bilateral investment treaties
Applicable law in torts-related disputes
Personal Status Laws
Corporation and Contract Laws
Religious Minorities Rights
Islamic Law / Sharia Law
Comparative Constitutionalism
International Business Transactions
Law and Religion
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Shi'i Jurisprudence and Constitution: Revolution in Iran (Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law)
Amirhassan Boozari
Focusing substantially on the relation between the concept of constitutionalism and Islamic Law in general and how such relation is specifically reflected in the Shiite jurisprudence, this volume explores the juristic origins of constitutionalism, especially in the context of 1905 Constitutional Revolution in Iran.
Physician and Medical Staff Affairs Expert Witness Jonathan Burroughs
Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc.
Jonathan Burroughs, MD, MBA, FACHE, FAAPL
48 Forest Ledge Road
Glen NH 03838
Jonathan H. Burroughs, MD, MBA, FACHE, FAAPL, is President and CEO of The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc., and works with some of the nation's top healthcare consulting organizations to provide 'best practice' solutions and training to healthcare organizations throughout the country in the areas of governance, physician–hospital alignment strategies, credentialing, privileging, peer review and performance improvement/patient safety, medical staff development planning, strategic planning, physician performance, and behavior management as well as ways in which physicians and management can work together in new ways to solve quality, safety, operational, and financial challenges.
Litigation Support: Dr. Burroughs offers litigation support services to counsel representing both Plaintiff and Defense. He has been involved with 148 legal cases, 40 depositions, and 13 trial testimonies since 2010. Dr. Burroughs is currently a JD candidate at the Concord Law School at Purdue Global International, Los Angeles, California and has received two CALI Excellence for the Future Awards for Highest Performance in both Legal Analysis and Torts. He provides general expert witness services for cases involving:
Negligent Credentialing
Negligent Privileging
Negligent Peer Review
Physician Performance Management
Fair and Judicial Hearings
Physician Contracts
Medical Staff Bylaws, Policies, Procedures, Rules & Regulations
Dr. Burroughs serves on the national faculty of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American Association for Physician Leadership (formerly the American College of Physician Executives), where he has been consistently rated as one of their top speakers and educators. He and Dr. David Nash were recently awarded a development grant by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) to develop a twelve hour national program to address population health and the disruptive innovative business models necessary to support it.
Dr. Burroughs is the author or coauthor of the following books: Essential Operational Components for High Performing Healthcare Enterprises (2018, awarded the James A. Hamilton Award for outstanding healthcare management book of the year in 2020 by the American College of Healthcare Executives); Redesign the Medical Staff Model-A Collaborative Approach (published by Health Administration Press, January, 2015, awarded the James A. Hamilton Award for outstanding healthcare management book of the year by the American College of Healthcare Executives in 2016); The Complete Guide to FPPE (2012); Medical Staff Leadership Essentials (2011); Engage and Align the Medical Staff and Hospital Management: Expert Strategies and Field Tested Tools (2010); A Practical Guide to Managing Disruptive and Impaired Physicians (2010); The Top 40 Medical Staff Policies and Procedures, Fourth Edition (2010); Emergency Department On-Call Strategies: Solutions for Physician-Hospital Alignment (2009); and Peer Review Best Practices: Case Studies and Lessons Learned (2008).
Dr. Burroughs is a former Senior Consultant and Director of Education Services for The Greeley Company where he was rated as one of their top healthcare consultants and educators over an eight year period. He is also a past medical staff president, past president of the New Hampshire chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and served as an emergency department medical director. As a member of the governing board of Memorial Hospital in New Hampshire, he chaired the ethics, succession planning, and bylaws committees and sat on the joint conference, strategic planning, and medical executive committees. He previously served as a member of the clinical faculty of Dartmouth Medical School, where his research interests included introducing EMT defibrillation and automatic defibrillation into the field.
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11/11/2015 · Healthcare
Population Healthcare: Strategies to Survive a Brave, New Value-Based World
By: Dr. Jonathan Burroughs
Population health is not possible in a discounted fee-for-service world, and the significant healthcare business challenge is how to transition from fee-for-service to risk-based capitation in a sustainable way. The following represents an outline for how this transition can be staged so that early steps exploit the benefits of fee-for-service while the latter ones exploit a more capitated model:
How to Avoid a Clinical Fair Hearing
Not too long ago, I had the sad task of testifying at a civil litigation and a judicial hearing for two physicians who had been suspended from their respective medical staffs. In both cases, the suspensions and resultant procedural rights were avoidable because proactive communication and management did not effectively take place. Such events should be rare and most medical staffs can easily avoid them by focusing on preventive actions and addressing potential performance issues early in a supportive and assertive manner.
9/8/2015 · Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals
Retail Medicine Finds Its Place in Population Health
Hospital CEOs may have once cast a wary eye when a retail clinic opened in their backyard, but that paradigm has shifted as health systems are increasingly opening their own retail clinics or affiliating with retail clinic operators.
7/24/2015 · Healthcare
The Regulatory Challenges Facing E-Health
Regulatory hurdles prevent more hospitals from using e-health to its full potential. Federal and state policies and regulations on care rendered via technology from a remote site spin a tangled web for providers either engaged in e-health or who want to be. A February 2014 article in Health Affairs found strong associations between state policies and hospitals' adoption of e-health, also known as tele-health or telemedicine.
6/25/2015 · Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals
Strategies for Managing Alarm Fatigue on the Floor
Alarm fatigue has moved to the forefront of hazards on the hospital floor. Nursing staff gets bombarded by hundreds or thousands of beeps, rings, whistles and pings emanating from bedside devices in a shift, and it can be difficult for them to distinguish the critical from the routine. An analysis of hospital alarms at Johns Hopkins Hospital counted a total of 59,000 alarms over a 12-day observation period, an average of 350 alarms per patient per day.1
Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises (ACHE Management)
Jon Burroughs, MD, FACHE
The future of healthcare is clear. The move toward value-based care is happening at an unprecedented rate and requires healthcare enterprises to build delivery models that focus on clinical and business outcomes, not on volume. In this book, Jon Burroughs and other nationally respected experts highlight the operational building blocks necessary to engage, align, and transform healthcare organizations into integrated delivery systems capable of delivering population healthcare outcomes in new ways. They must marshal cutting-edge tools, including cloud-based data storage, disruptive innovation technologies, and strategic partnerships that span the globe.
Redesign The Medical Staff Model: A Guide To Collaborative Change
In this book, the author, an experienced physician leader and healthcare consultant, describes key changes that must be made to redesign the medical staff model. He provides specific guidance and examples to help healthcare leaders and executives work with their physician leaders to face these changes successfully. Well-regarded contributors and subject matter experts offer additional examples and insights with special content throughout the book.
The Complete Guide to FPPE: Strategies for Medical Staff Professionals, Physician Leaders, and Quality Directors
Jon Burroughs, MD, et al
The Complete Guide to FPPE provides step-by-step guidance for developing an FPPE process and policy, selecting indicators, collecting data, conducting performance conversations with practitioners, and managing FPPE for low-volume and advance practice practitioners.
Medical Staff Leadership Essentials: A Guide to Developing Leadership Skills and Recruiting the Next Generation
Sharpen medical staff leadership skills with proven educational strategies and succession planning tools. Medical Staff Leadership Essentials: A Guide to Developing Leadership Skills and Recruiting the Next Generation delivers a step-by-step process for becoming an effective physician leader and training future leaders. Veteran and new physician leaders alike will gain valuable insight to help the medical staff develop, retain, and recruit a legacy of effective physician leaders.
A Practical Guide to Managing Disruptive and Impaired Physicians, Second Edition
Real-world solutions to problem physician behavior Don t let disruptive physician behavior and impairment negatively affect your hospital s operations or put your patients, staff, and colleagues at risk. This resource will help you implement a sound program to manage impairment and prevent disruptive physician behavior.
Engaging and Aligning Medical Staff Management and the Board: Practical Strategies and Case Studies
This resource combines the expertise of advisors from The Greeley Company and in-the-trenches hospital and medical staff leaders. You ll get real-world solutions to engage practitioners in medical staff activities and align them with hospital goals. Unlike other theory-based books, this resource provides tools and strategies that have helped your peers break the cycle of disengagement and apathy.
The Top 40 Medical Staff Policies and Procedures, Fourth Edition
Developed by trusted Greeley Company experts, the fourth edition of this concise guide will help you develop medical staff policies and procedures that comply with Joint Commission requirements and promote current industry best practices. Don t wade through lengthy manuals and Web sites full of outdated information.
Emergency Department On-Call Strategies: Solutions for Physician-Hospital Alignment
Move from reactive deals to shared costs and sustainable physician-hospital alignment. This edition provides fully updated strategies, tools, and step-by-step approaches from multiple ED call panel experts.
Peer Review Best Practices: Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Peer Review Best Practices: Case Studies and Lessons Learned will help you transform peer review theory into best practice. This book and CD-ROM set is built on contemporary peer review design and demonstrates how hospitals have used those theories to tackle real peer review challenges. Twenty case studies cover topics ranging from fixing your peer review system to tracking and trending data to reconciling peer review conflicts.
Audio Video Forensic Expert Witness Durand Begault
Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc.
Dr. Durand R. Begault, PhD
AFC Director
130 Sutter Street, Floor 5
SUMMARY ARTICLES BOOKS
Durand R. Begault received a PhD in Computer Audio from UC San Diego in 1988 and an MFA from Mills College in 1981. He has been associated with the Audio Forensic Center and Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc. since 1996 and has worked as an expert witness, legal consultant, and acoustical consultant on a variety of audio-related cases since 1988. Dr. Begault also holds a research position at NASA Ames Research Center and is an adjunct faculty member at McGill University. He is the author of several U.S. patents and is qualified as an expert witness in both Federal and State Courts. Dr. Begault has testified in over 40 cases on a variety of audio technology and forensic audio-related cases.
Audio Technology Patent / Intellectual Property Analyses
Forensic Audio and Video Tape Examination / Authentication
Analysis of Speech, Alarms, Warning Signal Audibility
Voice Identification and Elimination
Analysis of 'Ear Witness' Testimony
Enhancement of Speech from Noisy Audio / Video Tape Recordings
Music Copyright Infringement and Musicological Analysis
Gunshots
Acoustical Test and Measurement - Environmental Sound
Software / Hardware Black Box Testing for Infringement
Videotape Image Enhancement
Analysis of Digital Recordings
Please contact the Marketing Department at Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc./Audio Forensic Center for Dr. Begault's current CV.
8/30/2017 · Audio Forensics
Forensic Sound Analyses of Cellular Telephone Recordings
By: Dr. Durand R. Begault
Recordings involving cellular telephones or personal digital assistants ("PDAs") are increasingly the source evidence in audio forensic examinations, compared to recordings originating with other devices such as hand-held digital recorders. On modern PDA cellular telephones recordings can be made either directly to the telephone or transmitted as voice mail messages. The current investigation focuses on differences in the two types of recordings in terms of dynamic range and linearity of levels. Such information can be important for characterizing the distance of sound sources relative to the microphone and are important for understanding transformation of recorded speech and non-speech sounds.
3D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia
Durand R. Begault, PhD
Written by an author with expertise in both theory and applications, 3D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia provides readers an essential technical foundation in sound and virtual reality. The book covers components of spatial auditory displays; psychoacoustics of spatial hearing; what sounds are appropriate to spatialize; applications to human-machine interfaces (including virtual reality and multimedia); computer music; and room acoustics.
Pediatric Cardiology Expert Witness Anthony Chang
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Anthony C. Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS
9 Pacific Vista
Laguna Beach CA 92651
Anthony C Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS is internationally recognized as an expert in the field of Pediatric Cardiology. Dr. Chang has 30 years of experience and special expertise in Congenital Heart Disease and Perioperative Care as well as Cardiomyopathy and Sudden Death in pediatric patients. Dr. Chang has a master's degree in Healthcare Administration from University of Miami School of Business and a master's degree in Biomedical Data Science from Stanford University. He also has a master's degree in Public Health from UCLA, from which he graduated with the Dean's Award for academic excellence.
Doctor Chang - Being A Doctor
Dr. Chang has been offering litigation support services to the legal community for many years. His expertise is available to attorneys for both Plaintiff and Defense. Dr. Chang has been deposed and/or testified over 200 times since 1990. Areas of Specialization:
Cardiac Intensive Care
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
A world-renown leader in pediatric cardiology innovation, Dr. Chang is a member of the grant review committee for pediatric research at the National Institutes of Health. Respected in his field, Dr. Chang is a member the board of directors for the American Heart Association. Providing leadership in education, he has served with the faculty of UCLA School of Public Health (eMPH program) and has taught global health for UCLA's eMPH. He also teaches pediatric cardiology to cardiology fellows and holds a volunteer faculty appointment at the UCLA School of Medicine.
A prolific author, Dr. Chang is the chief editor of the textbook Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care and the past president-elect of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS). He is the chief editor of the textbook Heart Failure in Children and Young Adults. He is a regular reviewer for "Circulation," "Pediatric Critical Care Medicine," "Critical Care Medicine," and numerous other journals. Dr. Chang has been voted "Physician of Excellence" by the Orange County Medical Association and also selected as one of America's "Top Doctors," "Top Pediatricians," and "Best Cardiologists" by several organizations.
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• Dr. Chang's Curriculum Vitae
• Life-threatening Events Associated with Pediatric Patients in Sports (LEAPS) - Video
• Stimulants and the Effects on the Heart - Video
• Video: Being A Doctor
• AI Med: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - E-Book
5/9/2014 · Medical
Leonardo and the Da Vinci Pediatric and Congenital Heart Project: The Genesis and Mentoring of a SuperComputer with a "Living" Multi-Dimensional Artificial Intelligence Architecture
By: Dr. Anthony Chang
The technological singularity described by futurist Ray Kurzweil is the phenomenon when technology supercedes the human intellect [1]. The current ascent to singularity is at an exponential rate (Law of Accelerating Returns) due mainly to escalating computing power (Moore's Law), and is estimated to occur by the year 2045 or sooner.
Pediatric Cardiology Board Review
Anthony Chang, MD, et al
This is an academic dividend of the popular Pediatric Cardiology Review biannual course that was started by Dr. Chang and Dr. Eidem. The book contains over 875 questions & answers and is geared toward pediatric cardiologists taking the boards or maintenance of certification, pediatricians, and cardiologists interested in freshening their skills. It provides hundreds of questions relating to the diagnosis and treatment of the fetus, infant, child, and adult with congenital heart diseases.
Heart Failure in Children and Young Adults
This unique resource provides today's state-of-the-art guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure in children and adolescents. Contributions from the fields of surgery, intensive care, pediatrics, and cardiology emphasize a balanced, team approach to heart failure management.
Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care
A distinguished list of contributors from some of the major international centers covers this specialty like never before. With recent advances in ultrasound technology and pharmacology the expertise required to care for a critically ill child with heart disease takes an integrated approach with a multidisciplinary team and central focus. This resource provides comprehensive discussions of pertinent cardiac issues in the ICU setting with emphasis on perioperative care.
Context Expert Ray Horak
Context Corporation
Ray Horak
1500A E. College Way, PMB 443
Mt. Vernon WA 98273
Ray Horak provides litigation support as a consulting expert and testifying expert in cases involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), product/service misrepresentation, contract disputes, and intellectual property (patent, copyright, and trademark/service mark infringement) disputes, as well as issues of taxes and fees allegedly owed to 911 districts and municipalities. Those cases have involved a broad range of technologies, including Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems (ATDSs), text messaging, cellular, DSL, E911, fax, PBX, prepaid cellular, push-to-talk (PTT), videoconferencing, VoIP, and voice processing.
He also has performed numerous technical compliance reviews of the telephony systems that financial institutions and survey companies and their third party vendors employ in sales, collections, customer service and opinion polling. The objective of those engagements, several of which are ongoing, is to determine the specific nature and capacities (present, potential and theoretical) of the telephony systems (e.g., ATDS and PBX) and subsystems, the systems of record (i.e., databases), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, Receivables Management (RM) systems, and any and all other peripheral systems, both premises- and cloud-based.
Ray is an Independent Consultant with a General Practice in Wireline and Wireless Telecommunications and Related Fields such as the Internet and Voice over IP. His 45 years' experience includes management and executive positions with Southwestern Bell, CONTEL, and Executone. Ray authored the best-selling Communications Systems & Networks, (John Wiley & Sons), Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook (Wiley-Interscience), and Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary (Webster's New World). Previously, Ray was Senior Contributing Editor for Newton's Telecom Dictionary (12th through 21st Editions). He has written hundreds of technical white papers, case studies, articles, and columns for major print and electronic publications such as CommWeb, Computer Telephony, Datapro, Network World, The Prepaid Press, Teleconnect, and Telecom Reseller. Ray also has served as Technical Editor for several book-length works, including Deploying Secure 802.11 Wireless Networks with Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Press, 2003).
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10/25/2021 · Telecommunication
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) Compliance In The Wake Of Facebook v Duguid
By: Ray Horak
In the context of the Facebook v Duguid decision, considering all the issues it addressed and didn't, clarified and confused, honest and conscientious actors have to be freshly concerned about TCPA compliance. That means checking all the boxes, doubling down on all the right things, and identifying and plugging all the holes in your call center operations.
8/26/2021 · Telecommunication
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) - Facebook v Duguid: It Ain't Over
Not particularly surprising to those of us who work in the TCPA domain or are impacted by it, the published articles, blogs and such are mostly, if not all, written by attorneys in the defendants' bar. I reckon those in the plaintiffs' bar like to keep their opinions, musings and strategies to themselves until the litigation process begins. I provided some TCPA background and context in a previous article, TCPA: Facebook v Duguid, but will repeat some of that here to refresh your memory.
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) - Facebook v Duguid: Punctuation Matters
The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in the matter of Facebook v Duguid has been perhaps the single most anticipated in the realm of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), at least in the last decade or so, and all over a punctuation mark - a comma, to be exact.
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) Compliance: A Checklist
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was passed into law in 1991. At the time, consumers were plagued by sales calls which it seemed always came at the most inconvenient times...In an effort to address a growing number of telephone marketing calls and certain other telemarketing practices...
Rumplestiltskin, LLP: The Dark Side of Dialers
Most of us know, at least in general terms, about the restrictions on unsolicited telemarketing calls to consumers and the national Do-Not-Call (DNC) list designed to end those annoyances...or opportunities, depending on your perspective. Just to refresh your memory, the TCPA states "It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the United States—(A) to make any call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using any automatic telephone dialing system [ATDS] or an artificial or prerecorded voice
5/7/2019 · Telecommunication
Rumplestiltskin, LLP: Volume I - The Dark Side of Fax
In an effort to address a growing number of telephone marketing calls and certain other telemarketing practices thought to be invasions of privacy, Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), codified at 47 U.S.C. § 227.
9/16/2008 · Communication
Context Expert Opinion: Choose Your Words Carefully
Communications is a science, an art, and a field of study, depending on the context. In simplest terms, communications is the means by which people express ideas or information
Communications Systems and Networks
Ray Horak, Harry Newton, Mark A. Miller
An instant classic and a best seller, with more than 65,000 in print. It served as the basis for Horak's more contemporary works, Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook (2008) and Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary (2007).
Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
A comprehensive and authoritative telecommunications dictionary of more than 4,600 terms essential to a clear and thorough understanding of voice, data, video, and multimedia communications system and network technologies, applications, and regulations. Webster's is an absolutely unimpeachable resource written by a recognized expert in the field. Webster's enjoys great critical acclaim, as do all of Horak's works.
Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook
The one book you'll need to understand the entire telecom landscape, from copper to fiber, wireline to wireless, LANs to MANs to WANs, TDM to IP, AAL to Zigbee and everything in between. Written in a plain-English, commonsense style by an authority on the subject, this critically acclaimed book is at just the right level for the serious professional who wants to get at the whole truth—without the math.
International Fiduciary Expert Karina Sneiderova
CS&P Fiduciaire
Dr. Karina Sneiderova, MBA, ICFA, ASI
Rue General Dufour 22
Geneva CH-1211
phone: 41-225-752-948
fax: 41-225-948-025
Carlo Scevola & Partners is an International Fiduciary Company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with branches in six continents. We specialize in International Planning, Strategic Consulting and Wealth Management. Our clients trust us for everything from setting up an Offshore Company to Mergers and Acquisitions to Business Finance and Asset Protection. CS&P's customer-centric methodology ensures that each client gets a custom-tailored solution which addresses that business' individual objectives and requirements. Our team has expertise in every functional category and every important geography. From finance to operations to human resources to marketing – from the Americas to Europe to Africa, Asia and Oceania – CS&P can bring together experienced executives who know how to advise you and will make your enterprise a success. All this while always protecting your privacy. Services Offered: Business and Strategic Consulting
S.W.O.T. Analysis
Pre-investment Feasibility Studies / Competitive Background Assessments
Business Plan Research, Writing and Production
Strategy Definition / Implementation
Reworking of Operating Processes for International Suitability
Industrial Partnership Scouting / Matching
Tailor Business Model to Market Environment, Jurisdiction and Local Authorities Requirements Corporate Finance:
Mergers, Acquisitions and CessionsCommercial Due Diligence or Investment / Financial Appraisals
Company Reorganization and Restructuring
Financial Feasibility Plans for Industrial Expansion
Scouting / Recruiting Highly Qualified Financial Management
Exit Strategies in the event of Buy-outs, Buy-ins, Spin-offs or MBOs, MBIs and LBOs
Listing on Stock Exchanges Offshore Consulting:
International Tax Planning
Corporate Structuring, Maintenance and Trusts
International Contracts Law
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Intellectual Property CS&P Operates In More Than 80 Countries Around The World.
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Offshore Jurisdictions Guide
Carlo Scevola and Karina Sneiderova
Intended as a unique source of inspiration for effective business organization and tax planning, as well as a quick and easy reference book, the Offshore Jurisdictions Guide is a comprehensive and objective guide to offshore jurisdictions offering personal taxation and business opportunities. Providing a solid overview of 100 jurisdictions around the world, this is an essential handbook for financial experts, legal advisors, consultants, and the general public.
Communication Psycholinguistics Expert Michael Motley
Department of Communication, UC Davis
Michael T. Motley, Ph.D.
512 Citadel Drive
Davis CA 95616
Michael T. Motley, Ph.D. has over thirty-five years of experience in the fields of Communication & Psycholinguistics. Dr. Motley serves as an expert witness for opinions on the clarity, lack of clarity, and most likely interpretation of common messages such as warning labels, instructions, advertising, contracts, waivers, and so forth. He has served on over 30 cases; about 2/3 for plaintiff and 1/3 for defense. Dr. Motley is a Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California at Davis. He has authored almost 200 books, articles, and research papers in communication and psycholinguistics. He has won eighteen excellence awards for his research and was recognized as among the "Top 1%" of communication scholars of the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's. Areas of Expertise:
Communication Messages: Meaning, Ambiguity, Likely and Alternate Interpretations, Communicative Intention
Adequacy/Inadequacy of Messages: Product Warnings, Instructions, Waivers, Advertisements
Male / Female Misunderstandings: Sexual Consent/Resistance, Date Rape
Expert testimony & Consultation
Opinion on Adequacy of Communication Messages
Opinion on Likely Consumer Interpretation of Warnings, Instructions, Advertising
Opinion on Likely Intrepretation of Sexual Resistance/Consent Messages and Behaviors
Social-scientific testing of expert opinion (his and others')
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6/19/2018 · Warnings & Labels
Criteria for Evaluating Warnings
By: Dr. Michael T. Motley
If you do work as an expert witness on warnings, you probably feel quite confident that you know a bad warning when you see one (and would know a good one if you ever saw one). Of course, backing up our opinion with some version of, "I just know" doesn't make for very strong testimony. Indeed, we can count on our criteria being challenged by opposing council even when we can articulate them.
Semantics in Court: Providing Opinions on likely Meanings of Messages
My first expert witness case involved a man who was injured using a chinup bar designed to fit within a door frame. The bar has rubber suction cups at each end, and its length is adjusted by twisting its two sections together or apart for a telescoping effect.
Forensic Communication: Application of Communication Research to Courtroom Litigation
Michael T. Motley, PhD
In this volume, recognized scholars discuss ways they have applied communication research to court cases as an expert witness or consultant in such areas as jury selection, pretrial publicity, sexual consent, warning adequacy, hindsight bias, jury decision making, document authorship identification, graphics and simulations and several others. For attorneys, the volume may provide an introduction to ways that communication scholarship can inform their future cases.
Studies in Applied Interpersonal Communication
This book offers solutions for communication problems that erupt in our daily lives. By focusing on socially meaningful applied research in communication, this book offers a new direction for interpersonal communication studies. Featuring original studies that are practical and relevant, chapters provide readers with a balanced combination of rigorous research with pragmatic application.
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EMT: Basic Pearls of Wisdom (2nd ed.)
by Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P
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All in the Family– Seven Brothers, Seven Eagle Scouts
Ann Barnes
Jacob Hartwig, front row, far right is the newest Eagle Scout in David and Carol Hartwig's family of seven boys. Pictured with Jacob are his brothers Robert, Dean Russel, Eric, and Jacob in the front row. In the back row are Matthew, Bradley, and Ryan. Photo by Jesus Elizondo
Ecstatic! Beyond ecstatic. Those were the words Carol and David Hartwig used to describe how they felt as they watched their seventh son Jacob, age 16 receive his Eagle award recently. What made this such a special event is that Jacob is the seventh and youngest of the Hartwig sons to earn the distinguished Boy Scout honor.
The Hartwigs, who live in the Estrella Ward, Buckeye Arizona Stake, have been avid scouters since their oldest son Robert became a cub scout. Carol was the wolf den leader at that time. Both mother and son loved scouting. "It just stuck," she said. Robert's brothers all embraced the scouting program just as he did. And dad was no exception. "Each brother set an example for their younger brothers," said Sister Hartwig. There is a twenty-year span of scouting between Robert and Jacob filled with scout activities and merit badges. The family consists David and Carol and their sons Robert, Dean Russel, Matthew, Bradley, Ryan, Eric, and Jacob.
These parents of seven active boys firmly believe that scouting is a family affair. "We believe that parents need to be actively engaged with their scouts," said Brother Hartwig. By actively involved he means supporting them any way possible. He has done just that by participating in many of his sons' troop activities, going to scout camp, helping with merit badges, going on three day trips to a Boy Scout camp in Colorado and rafting down the Colorado River.
"We've been very impressed with our scout leaders," commented Sister Hartwig. Both the Hartwig's expressed deep gratitude for the leaders their sons have had throughout the years. The family has moved several times and each time one of the first things they wanted to know about their new ward was about the Young Men and whether there was an active scouting program.
Becoming an Eagle Scout was an expectation in the Hartwig household, just as was going on a mission. "The boys didn't necessarily all obtain their Eagle Rank by the time they were sixteen, but they all knew they couldn't get their driver's license until they did," said Sister Hartwig.
They all agree that obtaining the rank of Eagle is more than just working on merit badges and doing an Eagle project. There are other requirements included in the Eagle packet that must be done before turning it can be submitted for approval. Writing the Eagle project proposal before the project is started, doing the project, and writing a report on the completed project are only part of the complete packet. Several other steps are also required. Accepting and meeting the challenge of becoming an Eagle Scout offers long-term effects. The development of leadership skills, taking responsibility, and seeing the project through from beginning to end helps prepare young men for missions and will be useful all their lives. Brother and Sister Hartwig are proud of their sons and are pleased about all the life skills the boys have learned by being in the Boy Scout program.
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Year in review: COS works at keeping accreditation
Stephanie Weldy
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Editor's note: As the year 2014 draws to a close, the Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register will take a look at people and issues which were interesting and important this year — some of which may continue to be important as we head into 2015. This story is another in a series of articles looking back at 2014.
College of the Sequoias made big headlines back in February 2013 when it was placed on "show cause" status and put at risk of losing accreditation.
The loss of accreditation is enough to shut colleges down.
The big news this year was few headlines on COS accreditation as college officials and students worked to get the school compliant with recommendations from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges — which has the authority to revoke and restore accreditation at two-year colleges.
In early October school officials submitted a roughly 45-page final self-study report showing how COS is improving institutional planning, research capacity and evaluation of processes.
A final visiting team visited COS on Oct. 27 to meet with school officials and to review the submitted self-study report and minutes and agendas from governance meetings at COS.
In January, the decision will be made on whether accreditation will be reaffirmed at COS, and the school will learn of the decision in February.
Though it's required much effort to work at maintaining accreditation at the college, Superintendent and President Stan Carrizosa said the process has made COS stronger than ever before.


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Horse back: Music series returns to Good Shepherd with 9 Horses band
By Kevin Duggan Posted on October 5, 2018
Their music will bring Marine Park together.
The improvisational three-piece band 9 Horses will bring its intimate sound to the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Marine Park on Oct. 21, for the second in a series of eight free Sunday night concerts at the holy hot spot. The three members of the group produce an appealing, genre-defying sound with element of folk, classical, and jazz, said the band's mandolin player.
"It's tough to put it into any one genre," said Joe Brent. "Which may be an attractive aspect for me, the fact that it's difficult to place."
Brent writes most of the band's music, but he leaves plenty of space for violinist Sara Caswell and double-bass player Andrew Ryan to add their own unique touches, he said.
"I bring in a piece that's maybe 90% finished and then they'll add their part. And Sara will bring in bits that are better than anything that I could ever come up with. It's hard to describe our music, but when you put us together in a room that's what comes out," he said.
Brent, who previously toured with pop musician Regina Spektor, met Caswell while playing together in other projects. The two started 9 Horses in 2012 and released an EP, but quickly realized that they needed a bass to complement the higher registers of their instruments, eventually finding Ryan.
The band has since toured the country and held residencies at a number of colleges, and is currently writing songs for a new album. One of those new tunes, "The Water Understands," hints at a more elaborate direction, with a more expansive rhythm section and an entrancing video.
Brent, a Queens native who now lives upstate, is looking forward to playing at the Marine Park church.
"The church is a gorgeous space and music sounds really beautiful in there. It's spacious so sound fills the room in a beautiful way. But it's also not too big so a small ensemble like us doesn't get swallowed up in the space," he said.
Brent has performed in the Good Shepherd fall music series for the last 11 years, performing with various jazz, bluegrass, and classical music groups, and he is excited to see the audience return year after year, he said.
"It is great to see that they still like me," he said. "I hope to see a lot of the same people I see every year and more."
9 Horses at Good Shepherd Catholic Church [1950 Batchelder St near Avenue S in Marine Park, (718) 998–2800, www.goodshepherdbrooklyn.org]. Oct. 21 at 5 pm. Free.
"Music From Good Shepherd" music series performs every Sunday at Good Shepherd Catholic Church, Oct. 14–Dec. 9. Voluntary donations encouraged.
Reach reporter Kevin Duggan at (718) 260–2511 or by e-mail at kdugg[email protected]glocal.com. Follow him on Twitter @kduggan16.
Kevin Duggan
Kevin Duggan hails from the distant shores of Ireland and Switzerland. He covers northern and brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods, with a special focus on transit.
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After two new movies today--The Gift and Southpaw--my IMDb seen it list has 4144 titles in it. And, I'm convinced there are still a whole lot of obscure movies I've seen over the years that I've neglected to add to that list. Walking home from the movie theater today, I wondered at what point I will have seen enough movies. Like there's a hole in me that I keep filling with them and at some point it will runneth over. I suppose my "edition" of each of these films (and, to be fair, a few TV series have found their way onto that list, I'm pretty sure) doesn't really take up much space. Not physical space anyway.
Backtrack a moment to that "edition" line and flashback to, for example, Day 173 - who dreams of you at night, for a bit from Benesh (2011)--if you are new to this blog, Benesh wrote her doctoral dissertation on Groundhog Day and, over the course of a whole lot of days worth of blog entries, I systematically deconstructed, debated, and (occasionally) upheld her content:
...an imprint remains as during the film the audience members "introject" or take in its psychic content including symbols, images, and narrative, as well as projecting individual personal concerns. After the film, if it is particularly "resonant," the process continues as the film "plays on" in the viewer's mind. A personal "edition" of the film is thus created and is assimilated into the psyche of the viewer. (p. 8)
I coupled that with Izod's (2000) wonderful description of how the moviegoing experience can work:
A lowering of the level of consciousness is experienced in the dark warmth and security of the cinema as it unreels its manifold diversions. Its sumptuous images and sounds, its compelling characters and stories arouse many emotions and stir drives of which the individual may be unconscious. Because of the fictionality of their object, whatever the specific nature of these emotions (fear, anger, desire, wonder, horror), they are usually experienced as virtual rather than actual, and therefore ultimately as pleasurable. (p. 272)
I cut it off there before. It's already getting to the point--in layman's terms, we can get sucked into a movie and respond to it emotionally in much the same way we might deal with the events therein were they real and happened to us. Izod continues:
When the action onscreen greatly excites spectators, it seems probable that their emotions set in train the affective process which alters the configuration in the memory of the images even as the former are being screened. (ibid)
A complicated way of saying, as I take it, two things: 1) the more exciting a film the more memorable. Though, to be fair, what is exciting to one person isn't necessarily the same thing that is exciting to another person. This doesn't just mean action films and thrillers are the most memorable. 2) the emotional response we have to a film doesn't just make it more memorable but fixes it in relation to that emotion. So, like in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, they erase a memory by locating its emotional core and erasing that, the reverse here is quite true (and just as applicable to movieviewing as, you know, experiencing real life)--the emotion shapes the memory. For me, as I often cite box office records from certain movies' release dates, this means each movie is affixed, in a fashion, to the time and place where I first saw it. Now, sometimes, the physical location is not so memorable (many theaters I used to go to as a kid don't even exist anymore, so the specificity of them has grown dim), but the time matters. Where it fits in relation to all the other movies I've seen matters. And, for movies that I spent a lot of time with here in this blog, there's a whole new fixation.
And, it's more than there's just a hole in me that I've been filling up with movies for four decades now. It's more like each of those movies, and each of the TV shows I've watched, and each of the books, and every friend I've had, every family member, every game I've played, every place I've visited--all of these things are like the LEGO blocks of my soul (not that I believe in the existence of the soul). Long time follower of this blog, Mal suggested I put together a series of movies (and watch and blog about them, of course) to represent the years of my life. Boiling down some years to just one movie would be all but impossible. But, the idea is an interesting one. But, to do them in order would be like reliving my life and I'm not ready for the Nietzschean nightmare of that just yet. So, I will continue looking back from time to time, when I need to. Today, though, I merely look back a few hours. And, at over 900 words into this entry already, I suppose I shall try to be brief.
First, The Gift. A well put-together thriller, better than its trailers suggest. Mostly an examination into the artifice of domesticity and how it is vulnerable to lies. It's a thriller with very little action or violence but a whole lot of slow burn tension. Writer, director, and co-star Joel Edgerton put together a nice little exercise in a tried and true subgenre in the vein of, say Pacific Heights or Unlawful Entry, with nice turns by Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall as the other two thirds of the cast (seriously, there are a few other people in the movie, but altogether I'd be surprised if they've got 10 minutes screentime).
Next, Southpaw. The plot is all there in the trailer--the life of a boxer at the top of his game falls apart after his wife is killed and he has to get his shit back together in order to a) have his daughter with him again and b) be a fighter again. There are no surprises in the plot. But, in the wife (Rachel McAdams), for as little screentime as she has, and daughter (Oona Laurence), who holds her own against the star of the film (Jake Gyllenhaal as the boxer) and even outdoes him here and there, the film offers up some serious acting chops that surpass the straightforward material.
A marriage breaking down in the former and a guy worried about being a good father in the latter. The emotional connection was definitely there for me with both.
Benesh, J.E. (2011). Becoming Punxsutawney Phil: Symbols and Metaphors of Transformation in Groundhog Day (Doctoral Dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Accession Order No. 3450252)
Izod, J. (2000). Active imagination and the analysis of film. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 45, 267-285.
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Mecolaesthus taino est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Pholcidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique des Antilles. Elle se rencontre à la Guadeloupe et à la Dominique.

Description
Le mâle holotype mesure  et la femille paratype .

Étymologie
Cette espèce a été nommée en référence aux Taïnos.

Publication originale
 Huber, 2000 : New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level.Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, ,  (texte intégral) .

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A new Federal law is sending explosives enthusiasts scrambling for one last blast on May 1, 2005, at Boomershoot, an annual extreme sporting event of rifle shooting at exploding targets, held in Teakean-Cavendish, Idaho. Available to media representatives are exclusive spectator/participator slots that include the opportunity to mix explosives and shoot rifles, courtesy of Boomershoot.
"This is your last chance to experience hands-on explosives mixing as a truly free American," says Joe Huffman, Boomershoot Director, who holds an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATFE) license to manufacture high explosives.
"Media representatives, friends, and family help me prepare explosives for my annual event, but after Boomershoot 2005, anyone providing hands-on explosives help will be breaking Federal law unless they're ATFE-approved," says Huffman.
Huffman, a Senior Research Scientist for a government laboratory, started Boomershoot in 1998 to give people a safe space in which to enjoy the recreational pleasure of guns and explosives. At the May 1st shoot, 600 reactive targets containing over 1000 pounds of high explosives will be detonated – some of them large enough to be heard over seven miles away, causing cars and houses to shake two miles from the range.
Boomershoot has maintained an A+ safety record with participants adhering to strict standards of safe gun handling and operation. Spectators are welcome at this year's event; shooter positions are expected to sellout.


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Stasia Evasuk (June 12, 1924-May 28, 2009) was a Canadian writer and journalist known for her support of the Canadian fashion industry and Age of Reason, an award-winning column regarding the lives of seniors.

Anastasia Evasuk was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia on June 12, 1924. She was the eldest child of John and Annie (nee Makahon) Evasuk. Her father, an immigrant from the Ukraine, worked in a local coal mine and her mother was an immigrant from Romania. Evasuk attended St. Anne's High School, graduating in 1942. She landed a job as a general reporter at the Glace Bay Gazette covering local news and labour issues tied to the coal mining industry.

Evasuk moved to Toronto with a friend in 1944. She met Toronto Star reporter Don Reid while working at the Canadian Bank of Commerce, who helped her get a job at the newspaper. She worked at the Star from 1944 to 1960, at which time she moved to Vancouver and worked at the Vancouver Sun until 1962. She moved back to Toronto in 1962, landing a job at the Toronto Telegram, and returned to the Toronto Star in 1964, where she remained until her retirement in 1991.

Evasuk was best known for her fashion writing and her support of the Canadian fashion industry. The role included international travel and attendance at major fashion shows. During the later years of her career, Evasuk wrote Age of Reason, a column that focused on seniors and was published in the Toronto Star's Life section. She took over the column from Lotta Dempsey in 1981. Evasuk received an award from the Ontario Association for Community Living in 1991 for her piece "Who will care for them?" about aging parents caring for disabled children. Two years later she received an award for the column in 1993 from the Canadian Ethnic Journalists' and Writers' Club for "continuing recognition of the presence and dignity of ethnic seniors in her widely read column".

Evasuk died May 28, 2009 in Brantford, Ontario.

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