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Finally an Optimal Strategy for Diagnosing Deep Vein Thrombosis
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By Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH, Professor, University of California, San Diego. Dr. Scherger reports no financial relationship to this field of study.
Synopsis: A medical research unit in the United Kingdom analyzed 18 different strategies for managing patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Using systematic review, meta-analysis and cost effectiveness analysis, they settled on an algorithm based on clinical risk. The initial screen for all patients is a latex D-dimer test. If the D-dimer test is negative and the patient is low or intermediate risk (Wells rule), DVT is ruled out. If the clinical risk is high, and the D-dimer test is negative, an above-the-knee ultrasound is ordered and, if positive, the patient is treated. If the D-dimer test is positive, an ultrasound is ordered regardless of risk. If the ultrasound is negative and the patient is high risk, it is repeated before a treatment or discharge decision is made.
Source: Goodacre S, et al. How should we diagnose suspected deep-vein thrombosis? QJM. 2006;99:377-388.
Deep vein thrombosis of the proximal lower extremity is one of the most important and challenging diagnoses to make. The treatment requires inpatient care and is potentially life saving. Multiple evolving diagnosis and treatment algorithms are available which make clinical decision making difficult. Variations in the management of patients with suspected DVT are an important quality issue. Credit the United Kingdom and its National Health Service to commission a meticulous detailed analysis of multiple strategies to come up with an approach which is both highly accurate and cost effective.
After a systematic review and meta-analysis of 18 different strategies, a hypothetical group of 1000 patients were managed using each algorithm. A mean survival of 11.6 quality adjusted life years (QALYs) was used after a diagnosis of DVT at age 60. Clinical risk was assigned using the Wells Clinical Prediction Rule using 9 factors to score the risk of DVT. A recent analysis of the Annals of Internal Medicine questioned the reliability of the Wells rule in ruling out DVT.1 However, in the British analysis, the Wells rule was mostly used to identify patients at high risk of DVT for further analysis even if the D-dimer test is negative.
The latex D-dimer test is a major advance in screening for DVT and other hypercoagulation states. The D-dimer reflects fibrin degradation products which indicate thrombus formation, and is positive in a number of conditions besides DVT, such as in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). The test is sensitive for DVT but not specific, and may rise in the elderly, with false positives in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, high triglycerides and elevated bilirubin. The test is not diagnostic for DVT and should be followed up by more specific testing such as venous ultrasound.
Using the algorithms in this study, the percentage of patients with proximal DVT who would be treated appropriately ranged from 90.1% to 99.5%, and the patients without DVT treated inappropriately ranged from 0.6% to 6.0%. The final recommendations for the most accurate and cost effective algorithm are quite simple. The initial screen for all patients is a latex D-dimer test. If the D-dimer test is negative and the patient is low or intermediate risk (Wells rule), DVT is ruled out. If the clinical risk is high, and the D-dimer test is negative, an above the knee ultrasound is ordered and if positive the patient is treated. If the D-dimer test is positive, an ultrasound is ordered regardless of risk. If the ultrasound is negative and the patient is high risk, it is repeated before a treatment or discharge decision is made.
Even though this study is based on hypothetical patients, the analysis is quite rigorous, and uses the best available evidence. No combination of tests is perfect and there is always a risk of a missed diagnosis. A main contribution of this analysis is that not all patients require ultrasound, which may be difficult to obtain acutely in the primary care setting. As the study in the Annals of Internal Medicine points out, some patients (2.9% in their analysis) will have a low Wells score and a negative D-dimer test and will be found on ultrasound to have DVT. Maybe clinical judgment here should also include the "thin slicing" of rapid clinical intuition described by Malcolm Gladwell in Blink. If our initial assessment makes of think of DVT, we should be quite certain it is not present before accepting that it is ruled out.
We now have coherence in the diagnosis of suspect DVT. The three-part assessment is easy to remember: D-dimer testing, the Wells rule, and venous ultrasound. Combined with the clinical judgment of an experienced clinician, we have sound and consistent strategies for the diagnosis of DVT.
1. Oudega R, et al. The Wells rule does not adequately rule out deep venous thrombosis in primary care patients. Ann Intern Med. 2005;143:100-107.
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Game to Table: Holiday Festive Food Ideas for Your RPG
November 27, 2019 - by Steven Partridge
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The holiday season is in full swing! Families gather around large meals and share time with one another… possibly even play a session of D&D together? In the spirit of the season, I was trying to think of a topic that might thematically represent this time of year. Ideas danced in my head like sugar plums… Sorry, I couldn't resist. However, it did strike me that a common element when it comes to holidays is food.
Sweets, treats & beyond
With a broad spectrum of cultures represented in my own gaming groups, I realized each of us has our own ideas of what holiday food is. Part of this also stems from the fact we all have different holidays we celebrate, and even those of us who celebrate the same holiday do so in wildly different ways, with different emphases.
That brings us back to food. Food is a cultural staple, and the kinds of food people eat reveals a great deal about their culture. Even when a food is shared among a group of people, individuals often have their own stories surrounding food. What I've come to realize in my preparation for this article is food inspires stories.
This got me to thinking about D&D. Why don't many of us place an emphasis on food in our game sessions?
Game to table
The majority of people I know who get together for game night share a meal when they play, and a few of my friends will make a special dish — or more often, a special drink — for a game session in which the players encounter said delicacy. Potions are an especial favorite, as they encourage alcohol, but if you do this please make sure everyone's of legal age and drinks responsibly. 🙂
Serving a meal or beverage the players encounter in-game is a phenomenal way to add depth and immersion in your game. By serving it at the very moment they encounter the food in question, it also makes the experience much more memorable. This is doubled if the food is a staple plot point.
This, I think, indirectly helps to answer why we don't place emphasis on food in our games. Food isn't a mechanical staple… yet.
Suppose the food did have a mechanical benefit? What if the food was a magic item, even just a common one?
With the release of Eberron: Rising from the Last War, I think there's no better time to introduce food with a magical kick. After all, in an arcanepunk setting where magic is mundane, why wouldn't there be enchanted food? It's not like it's an especially revolutionary concept, either. Fairy tales are littered with magical food (not litter-ally, though — yes, I know, I'm terrible).
With that being said, we've got an idea for a common magic food item you can use in your games this holiday season!
Fortunecast Cookies
Wondrous item, common
This collection of four tiny cookies are decorated with brightly-colored frosting runes that glow in the dark. When a creature tosses all four cookies into the air at one time and catches them, the cookies cast the augury spell.
After casting augury in this way, the cookies' magic dissipates, but the sweet treats remain. Each cookie nonmagically restores a single hit point to a creature that eats it.
The cookies come in four iconic flavors: classic vanilla cinnamon, chocolate mint, tangy lemon and dark mocha. Many people believe that a set of cookies that features all four flavors is good luck.
Get Cookin'
Want to make these cookies for your players? I've found a couple of ideas!
Try this recipe for animal crackers (which makes the classic vanilla cinnamon variety). Instead of animal shapes, make rectangles, or whatever other tossable shapes you like. Omit the icing and instead frost runic shapes with decorative icing you can find here. Substituting other flavors for the cinnamon would be an easy way to alter the recipe to make the other cookies.
Alternatively, if you're not much for the kitchen, you could always pick up some simple cookies as your local grocery store and make a few modifications. [NERDITOR'S NOTE: You could borrow a few recipes from Tika Waylan's cookbook too.]
Do you like to incorporate food into your game sessions, both physically and narratively? What are some of your favorite holiday foods and memories? Let us know in the comments below!
As we enter this festive season, be safe, be kind, and be nerdy!

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No Longer a Headline: Salvaged Stories from Puerto Rico
February 4, 2018 Brendan Ruberry News
Ignacio Fletcher, MCAS '20, hasn't seen his home in five months.
The world he left may be lost to him forever.
Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico last September as a Category 4 hurricane. It spent the next 24 hours wreaking unfathomable destruction on the island. Infrastructure was wiped out. Damage estimates top nearly $100 billion, making it not only one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, but a human catastrophe.
The students here at Boston College, an ocean apart from their home, can only watch from afar as life in Puerto Rico trudges on without them. Family and friends are migrating to the mainland as the recovery effort, has not made the meaningful strides that had been promised by U.S. leadership. Nearly half a year into the rebuild, many remain without a reliable source of drinking water. Roughly 40 percent remain without electricity.
The process is simply not moving quickly enough.
It's easier for many to pick up whatever survived the storm, gather their families, and move to the mainland rather than rebuild at home.
Aside from occasional visits, many will never return to live there again.
"I'm kind of a little bit scared of going back home, because obviously I'll see my family, and they're OK, but not seeing my friends, not seeing where I grew up the same," Fletcher said.
"It was just in a day that everything changed. Just a day."
Born only days before the landfall of Hurricane George in 1998, he finds a sort of cruel irony in his recent absence from the island as it faces its greatest crisis. Obviously he couldn't help when he was only a newborn, but he was there. He suffered with them.
"It's shocking because I was not even there, to be with my family," he said. "Sometimes you say I prefer to be there with them and suffer with them, rather than to be here in a safe space, to be here, OK."
Many Puerto Rican families send their children to the United States because of its opportunities, economic and otherwise. They are U.S. citizens in name, but go without meaningful congressional representation. They do not have senators or representatives. Puerto Ricans cannot vote in federal elections unless they claim residence on the mainland. At the national level, they largely go without a seat at the table. Some of the Puerto Rican students at BC consider their home's place within the country as utterly imperial, and divisions of opinion regarding self-determination run deep.
"People have joined together to move forward, but I don't think that is enough," said Mariela Casellas, MCAS '18.
To illustrate her political leanings, she points to a prominent mural splashing a wall in the Old San Juan section of the capital. It reads, "Welcome to the Oldest Colony."
Casellas' frustration is common.
"Politically, it's very divided," said Gabe Emanuelli, CSOM '20. "And our leaders have not been up to the standard."
Puerto Rico's current situation—American, but not a state; desperately in-need of funds to rebuild, yet massively in debt—could hardly be less conducive to rebuilding in the wake of historic disaster.
Fletcher considers it part of their job here at BC. Not to scold their classmates, but to wake them up. If people can't be bothered to learn about Puerto Rico and its ills, how can they be expected to make the meaningful decisions regarding its determination?
He asks not that you harass diners at Lower for donations, or that you petition your state representatives or even the administration here at BC, but only that when you have a decision to make with possible ramifications for Puerto Rico and those toiling to rebuild it, that you make it consciously. Also, that you consider from time to time, whether you're jogging the track in the Plex, ascending the Million Dollar Stairs, or taking the bus back from Agoro's, that you stop to consider what's happening in Puerto Rico.
"You just want other people to know what's happening to your home," Fletcher said.
The roads were ravaged in the days after. News from the far reaches of the island came slowly. Some students waited longer than a week to hear from family members. Andrés would tag friends in videos on social media, hopefully giving them small glimpses into the conditions their families might be facing in those darkened regions.
Carolina Tiru, MCAS '20, couldn't verify her parents' safety until seven days after the storm. It was another 72 days until her mother had power. Even then, Tiru could only communicate with them via landline. When she returned for Thanksgiving, it was apparent that the slow stream of aid to the island had barely trickled South.
Each day's first task was finding water.
"We couldn't even cook," Tiru said. "You would go to McDonald's and wait in line for two hours to be told 'Sorry, we only have chicken nuggets.' So it was hard."
But things looked better when she returned for Christmas. She spent New Year's at her grandmother's home in the coastal mountains of Ponce, P.R. She had been miraculously spared much of the carnage dealt to rural homes.
It was on New Year's Eve that Tiru and her family looked upward and watched as fireworks lit up a night sky that had been, for lack of electricity, dark for months.
For the first time during those weeks that she had been back, Tiru felt enveloped by the old Puertorriqueño spirit that had been missing amidst the destruction dealt by Maria.
It was a small but significant blessing.
Even as much of the island was still without power, those with it compensated by adorning their homes with even more festive lights than would normally mark the month-long Christmas celebration from December to February. Those without power simply fired rockets into the sky.
Despite the challenges of the present and those that lie ahead, Tiru and other students have found a thread of optimism and grasped it tightly, proving that hope exists among the still-empty shelves, bare palm trees, and obsolete traffic lights of their communities.
The grave issues besetting Puerto Rico, however, are varied.
Devastating as its effects were, Hurricane Maria exposed the island's many vulnerabilities: its egregious lack of federal representation, its general lack of opportunity, and its glaring infrastructural concerns, including an energy authority not only massively in debt, but plagued with corruption. Just as it so callously leveled many of the island's institutions, it exposed those which were rotten to the core at the outset.
Andrés De La Cruz, CSOM '20, wears a black hat, its logo a stylized, vertical gold icon of the Puerto Rican flag. He is, foremost, a realist.
According to De La Cruz, the cost of the recovery effort coupled with the island's massive debt —$74 billion—has the island "between a rock and a hard place." It needs a strong leader now more than ever.
"This is a time we need someone to step up," De La Cruz said. "Someone we can point out and say, 'That guy helped us move forward.'"
It remains to be seen, however, if the challenges facing Puerto Rico at home, as well as in Washington, D.C., will prove surmountable. For the help it needs, Puerto Rico will likely have to look within to move forward, and Tiru, Fletcher, and their classmates' sights remain fixed on a brighter future for the island that was crippled so indifferently.
"You can't look at the past, and look at home, like, this is how it was in the past, you have to look at the future and how you see your home brighter than it ever was before," Fletcher said.
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Yes, I am in paradise, but I'm also pretty pumped about my man Obama.
What's surprised me is how pumped everyone in Thailand is about this election. Every time I hopped in a cab and they asked in broken English where I'm from, the first response to "New York City" is always "Barack Obama!" Oftentimes, they'd go on and talk to me about who has more foreign policy experience or if America can really elect a Black President. Sure, the US elections affect everyone, but it's amazing how knowledgeable my cab drivers have been.
Anyway, with this election seeming pretty much wrapped up, I'm going to go hang on the beach.
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On November 12th and 13th, the Global Cooling Prize coalition hosted the first-of-its-kind cooling solutions oriented summit—Global Cooling Innovation Summit in New Delhi, India. The summit most prominently featured the launch of the Global Cooling Prize and panel discussions on the important topics of innovations in cooling, investment, and scaling of breakthrough technologies, and policy support for cooling innovations of the future.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Hon'ble Minister of Science and Technology, Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Government of India launched the prize portal on November 12 and thanked the Global Cooling Prize Coalition for promoting innovation in this space in his inaugural address.
At the Inaugural Session, the most senior representatives from key ministries in the Government of India spoke about the cooling challenge and the need for innovation. The Indian ministries represented at the summit were the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, and the Ministry of Power. John Loughhead, Chief Scientific Officer, Government of UK and Mission Innovation also spoke during the Inaugural Session. Also on the dais was the Indian Prime Minister's Chief Scientific Advisor, who delivered special remarks supporting the prize. Richard Branson, an official Global Ambassador of the prize, recorded a personal video message calling on all innovators to enter the prize.
RMI released a report titled "Solving the Global Cooling Challenge", which received a fantastic response and continues to generate interest globally. The report stresses the need for a breakthrough cooling solution across the world – one that has five-times less climate impact (5X solution), which would prevent up to 100 gigatons of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2050 and help mitigate up to 0.5°C in global warming by the end of the century. RMI also released a dossier titled "Why India and the world needs a breakthrough in comfort cooling technology," focusing specifically on the Indian market.
The first day of the Global Cooling Innovation Summit was attended by over 180 individuals from around the world. These attendees represented various intergovernmental and national government entities such as Mission Innovation, Government of India, United Nations Development Program, World Bank, USAID, Oakridge National Laboratory, and The United States Embassy, as well as prominent universities and not-for-profits such as Sustainable Energy for All, The Climate Group, World Wildlife Fund, The Natural Resources Defense Council, The Energy and Resources Institute, the University of Birmingham, and Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation. Many of these leading experts voiced their support for the Global Cooling Prize as speakers or panelists during the event. Additionally, several potential prize applicants attended, including incumbents, start-ups, and prominent industry associations, most of whom expressed their interest to enter the prize.
The second day of the event provided all attendees an opportunity to learn all the details of the prize and ask their questions to prize organizers as well as other industry experts. The day consisted of a presentation and Q&A on the prize criteria, roundtable discussions on the support prize participants require to be successful, and a Pitch clinic with experts in which 16 experts held a total of 47 individual sessions with potential prize participants.
The event and the Global Cooling Prize received excellent media coverage and noteworthy articles in some of the most premier news outlets around the world such as CNN, NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Financial Times, Cooling Post, Economic Times, Inside Climate News, The Wire and Times of India.
The Prize's Outreach Partners which include UN Environment, SEforAll, Virgin Unite, NRDC, The Climate Group, U4E, World Economic Forum, ASHRAE, ISHRAE, AIRAH, CLASP, German Energy Agency, ECEEE, Social Alpha, TERI, ASE, IGBC, AHRI, and AEA helped spread the word through their networks, amplifying global outreach for this important initiative.
In the two weeks following the event, more than 550 teams registered to participate in the prize and over 60 teams submitted their initial proposals. The teams that registered come from more than 20 countries across six continents, demonstrating a truly global participation.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Mission Innovation leaders, other dignitaries launch the prize and open the application portal.
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The National Court Reporters Foundation (NCRF) is now accepting nominations for the Frank Sarli Memorial Scholarship and the Student Intern Scholarship. The deadline for both these scholarships is Dec. 1.
NCRF's Frank Sarli Memorial Scholarship of $2,000 has benefited court reporting students nearing graduation for 20 years. The award honors the late Frank Sarli, a court reporter who was committed to supporting students at the highest level of their education. Sarli, who was studying to become a professional pianist, turned to court reporting when he could no longer afford the tuition to music school. During his career, he opened Accurate Court Reporters in Orlando, Fla., Orange County's first independent court reporting firm, and was a founding member of the Florida Shorthand Reporters Association. Sarli also served in numerous roles at the national level, including as a director for NCRA. He was the first Floridian to earn NCRA's Distinguished Service Award.
"This scholarship helped me immensely because I was able to use some of the funds for my professional machine, which helped me enter the workforce without being in debt, the first leg of my RPR, and my airfare to attend the NCRA Convention in Chicago, which was incredibly inspiring and motivating for a new reporter/recent grad," said Nicole Bulldis, RPR, an official court reporter in Pasco, Wash., and the 2016 recipient of the Sarli scholarship.
A generous annual donation from the Reis Family Foundation helps fund these scholarships.
NCRF's scholarships and grant are supported by donations to the NCRF Angels Drive and other fundraisers. To learn more about these scholarships, and to find the nomination forms, please visit NCRA.org/NCRF/Scholarships.
The Newton Daily News posted an article on Aug. 15 announcing that Maggie DeRocher, RPR, of LeMars, Iowa, received a $1,000 scholarship from the National Court Reporting Association Council on Approved Student Education. DeRocher is a graduate of the Des Moines Area Community College Newton Campus court reporting program.
Valerie Melkus, RPR, Charleston, S.C., was named recipient of the 2017 New Professional Reporter Grant. The Foundation also announced that Laurel Stalnaker, a student from Sumner College in Portland, Ore., is the recipient of the 2017 Robert H. Clark Scholarship.
NCRF awards the annual New Professional Reporter Grant to a reporter who is in his or her first year of work, has graduated within a year from an NCRA-approved court reporting program, and meets specific criteria, including a grade point average of 3.5 or above, a letter of recommendation, and active work in any of the career paths of judicial (official/freelance), CART, or captioning. Melkus, a graduate of the College of Court Reporting in Valparaiso, Ind., is the 13th recipient of NCRF's New Professional Reporter Grant. She was recommended by J. Lynn Clark, RMR, president of Clark & Associates.
The $2,000 Robert H. Clark Scholarship is named for the late Robert H. (Bob) Clark, a court reporter from Los Angeles, Calif., who was dedicated to preserving the history of the profession. Stalnaker is the third recipient of this scholarship.
Students are nominated by instructors or other officials at their schools. To be eligible, nominees must be NCRA members, enrolled in an NCRA-approved court reporting program, have passed at least one of their program's Q&A tests at 200 words per minute, and possess a GPA of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale, among other criteria.
To learn more about NCRF's scholarships and grants, visit NCRA.org/NCRF/Scholarships.
The National Court Reporters Foundation (NCRF) recently won a $10,000 Innovation Grant from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Foundation. The grant supports NCRF's new program, the Hard-of-Hearing Heroes Project, which seeks to preserve the stories of America's war veterans with hearing loss using CART captioning. The Hard-of-Hearing Heroes Project is an offshoot of NCRF's continued work with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP). NCRF will use grant funds to host Hard-of-Hearing Heroes VHP Days across the nation.
NCRF is one of four recipients of the ASAE Foundation's Innovation Grants, which receives more than 100 applications each year.
The inaugural Hard-of-Hearing Heroes Project VHP Day event will be on Feb. 18 at HLAA's headquarters in Bethesda, Md., in conjunction with Court Reporting & Captioning Week. NCRF will also host events at HLAA's annual convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, in June and at ALDA's annual convention in Orlando, Fla., in October.
Four veterans will be interviewed at each of three sessions on Feb. 18. The sessions are 9-10:30 a.m.; 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; and 1:30-3 p.m.
For each veteran's interview, NCRF will need a volunteer to interview the veteran, a captioner to provide realtime for the veteran, and a reporter to transcribe the interview for the Library of Congress. Both the court reporter and captioner may earn 0.25 PDCs for each veteran interviewed.
If you would like to volunteer at the Feb. 18 event, please contact April Weiner, NCRF Manager, at aweiner@ncra.org.
Six court reporters from across the country raised more than $35,000 during NCRF's annual fundraising phone-a-thon between April 27 and May 6. The volunteers made thousands of calls and generated donations from $10 to $995 over the course of two weeks.
the Corrinne Clark Professionalism Institute, which educates students and new reporters about professionalism, branding, and building a successful career.
Volunteers for this year's effort included Kathy Cortopassi, RMR, CRR, CRC, Dyer, Ind.; NCRF Trustee Jane Fitzgerald, RMR, Des Moines, Iowa; NCRF Trustee Joan McQuinn, RPR, CMRS, Rockford, Ill.; former NCRF Trustee Laurie Shingle, RPR, CMRS, Pleasant View, Utah; Bonni Shuttleworth, CRI, CPE, Crestwood, Ill.; and NCRA President-elect Tiva Wood, RDR, CMRS, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
"NCRF launched its annual phone-a-thon in the mid-1990s and has relied on using member volunteers to make the calls rather than an outside company because of the high success rate of the peer-to-peer outreach," said B.J. Shorak, NCRF Deputy Executive Director.
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Un tel document était délivré aux citoyens polonais qui avaient renoncé à la nationalité polonaise pour pouvoir partir à l'étranger. Le document confirmait l'identité d'une personne  et le fait que « le détenteur de ce document n'est pas citoyen polonais »

Lors de la vague d'immigration en 1968, ce document a été obtenu par exemple par les émigrants juifs (et leurs époux non-juifs) ou par les Allemands quittant la Pologne après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Actuellement, on délivre le document de voyage de Pologne à l'étranger qui possède un permis d'établissement, un permis de séjour de résident de longue durée – UE ou bénéficie de la protection subsidiaire.

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Cara Fiala, Philadelphia regional engineering student, explains a project to a student at the University of Maine.
Image: Penn State
Remote robot connects engineering students, UMaine cohorts
Penn State Abington and Brandywine general engineering students used a mobile telepresence robot — an iPad attached to a self-balancing vehicle — to collaborate with students 500 miles away at the University of Maine.
The immersive technology easily bridged the distance, providing a two-way learning experience:
Abington/Brandywine students in the general engineering multidisciplinary engineering design (MDE) option remotely operated the robot at the PopTech Conference in Camden, Maine. As part of the senior robotics design course, the Penn Staters interacted with the New England students and others at the conference and experienced PopTech exhibits.
Maine students, enrolled in an online course connected to the conference, logged in to the Double Robotics unit physically located at the Penn State engineering lab at Great Valley in suburban Philadelphia. The Abington/Brandywine students led a tour of the fabrication workshop and walked UMainers, mostly non-technical majors, through their robotics projects.
Robert Avanzato, associate professor of engineering at Abington, explained that telepresence robots are becoming increasingly common in fields including medicine, education, and manufacturing. The Maine project gave students the opportunity to explore the effectiveness and limitations of remote two-way communication.
The user can independently move the robot to different locations, including hazardous environments. Using the robot in this way supports strong communications and reduces environmental impact, travel time and expenses.
The telepresence robot gives students the opportunity to explore the effectiveness and limitations of remote two-way communication.
The MDE program and the Abington campus each own a battery-operated Double Robot. Faculty use the robots to bring experts into classrooms and labs and allow the students to share their blossoming expertise with people in Maine and beyond.
Avanzato served as a guest lecturer on robotics and virtual worlds for the Pop!Tech online course, taught by Amy Cross at the University of Maine. The Abington professor also teaches the robotics design course for the MDE seniors. They plan to connect their students for PopTech again this fall.
Interested in exploring the MDE program or the Great Valley lab through the telepresence robot? Contact Avanzato at rla5@psu.edu.
Robert Avanzato, Penn State Abington associate professor of engineering, uses a telepresence robot to connect with students at the University of Maine.
Earn a Penn State engineering degree in the Philadelphia region
The multidisciplinary engineering design (MDE) option of the Penn State general engineering degree is delivered by a consortium composed of Penn State Abington, Penn State Brandywine, and Penn State Great Valley. Students graduate with a bachelor of science degree from the Penn State College of Engineering.
Students spend their first two years taking foundational coursework at either Abington or Brandywine. They enroll in the final four semesters at the $2.5 million engineering facility at Great Valley. An internship is required prior to graduation.
The general engineering program is accredited by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology).
Regina Broscius
rmb45@psu.edu
Student-built robot fends off flooding and erosion
FIRST Tech Challenge program hosted in regional Philadelphia engineering suite
Engineering professor sees high-performance teamwork at the 2019 White Out game
Penn State Great Valley professor helps U.S. Army build unified teams
Analyzing design team interaction
Jablokow recognized as 'World-Class Engineer' for innovativeness, collaboration
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The Twins' Gymnastics Dream
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Missing in Action_Homeless Women Veterans
Mary Calvert
Award-winning American photojournalist Mary F. Calvert has long specialized in under-reported and neglected gender-based human rights issues, but her work often took her to far-flung locations around the world.
Melissa A. Ramon attends the "4th Annual Heroes in the Shadows, San Gabriel Valley Veterans Stand Down" on May 25, 2015.
Several years ago, after being laid off from her newspaper job, Calvert began reporting on issues close to home with her long-term project, "The War Within: Sexual Assault in America's Military." The project documents an epidemic of abuse in the U.S. military where there are an estimated 26,000 sexual assaults each year.
"I didn't have the funds to travel, so I started to look for stories in my own back yard, which is what photographers should all be doing anyway," she says in a Vantage interview.
While Melissa A. Ramon unpacks their belongings, her 13-year- old son Sam plays with a toy gun in their room at a motel in Pomona that they call "The Jungle."
Her husband, photojournalist Joseph M. Eddins Jr., suggested that sexual abuse in the military was under-reported. Calvert began researching and was shocked by what she learned.
"Missing in Action" is the third stage of her reporting and was supported by the Alexia Foundation as a 2014 Women's Initiative project. It documents the struggles of female veterans who are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in the United States and four times more likely to become homeless than civilian women. The second stage of "The War Within" focused on the devastating impact Military Sexual Trauma has on survivors.
While high on drugs, military sexual trauma survivor and former U.S. Marine, Sarah Jenkins accepts a bag of food and water.
With plastic trash bags to keep her belongings dry, veteran Paula Anderson leaves the San Diego Veteran's Village Stand Down in the pouring rain. "In the little bit of time I've been homeless it takes the good out of me. I don't care how I look. I think I look ugly. Pretty soon you use drugs to comfort yourself. That's part of being homeless." At night, she sleeps in her car in a church parking lot. "The military taught us how to survive on the streets. They taught us to camp and survive the elements," she added.
Calvert has long been dedicated to using photography to bring about meaningful social change and shed light on difficult issues.
"It is my job as a journalist to put a human face on the statistics and make people care," she said in 2016 interview with L'oeil De La Photographie. "It is my intention that people who view the work come away with awareness and understanding of what is happening right under their noses in the U.S. Military and that they share what they have seen and heard with their friends and family."
Paula Anderson, left, and Patricia Butts, right, hold hands during the final serenity prayer. When Paula told her U.S. Army commander that she had been drugged and raped by a fellow soldier, she was shipped off to Korea. Her U.S. Army career lasted six years but her military sexual trauma has followed her for 20 years. In 1979, Patricia was a young U.S. Army soldier stationed in Ft. Devens, MA, when she witnessed a steady campaign of rape within her unit. At night a sergeant and/ or a lieutenant would come in and take a woman to the bathroom. "You could hear them struggling and screaming and they would come back crying. I would have to go to the bathroom so bad but I was scared to go so I used the bathroom by my bed." After three years, she could no longer cope with military life and was honorably discharged. Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (PTSD) she has been homeless off and on since 1981. "For me, the homelessness has a lot to do with my PTSD.
Calvert's work received the 2016 World Press Photo First Prize, Long-Term Project; the 2015 and 2016 NPPA Cliff Edom New America Award, the 2015 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Fellowship, and in 2013, the Canon Female Photojournalist Award. She also received a Getty Images Editorial Grant to work on the fourth stage of her project, "Prisoners of War: Male on Male Rape in America's Military."
In April 2017, she was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in photography.
Disabled U.S. Army veteran, Karen Scott takes a cocktail of drugs prescribed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Melissa Ramon cries in the relaxation room at the "4th Annual Heroes in the Shadows, San Gabriel Valley Veterans Stand Down" in Pomona, CA. Homeless veterans attend stand-downs to replenish themselves in a safe environment with hot meals, clothing, shelter and access to area medical and homeless services.
Darlene Matthews shows signs of fatigue after rolling down her window on a rainy evening for a portrait in her car where she has been
living for the past three years in Costa Mesa, CA, in the parking lot of a mortuary next to a graveyard. She has been waiting for a housing voucher and benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, (VA). Darlene joined the U.S. Army in 1976. "I was going to join this all women's army and there would be no sexual problems but I joined and there were sexual problems. The whole atmosphere was abusive. It's like being in a fun house and every door gets slammed in your face every time you try to leave. I feel like giving up sometimes, and nobody would care."
Photojournalist Mary F. Calvert is committed to using photography to affect meaningful social change and is known for producing work on gender based, human rights issues. Calvert believes that journalists have a duty to shine a light into the deepest recesses of the human experience and provide a mirror for society to examine itself. For her work on sexual assault in the US Military, she is the recipient of numerous honors including First Prize, Long-Term Projects in the 2016 World Press Photo Contest, the 2016 Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, the 2015 and 2016 National Press Photographers Association Cliff Edom New America Award, the 2015 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Fellowship and the 2014 Alexia Foundation Women's Initiative Grant. In 2013 Calvert was awarded the Canon Female Photojournalist Award at Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France for her project "The Battle Within: Sexual Assault in America's Military."
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package com.ibm.xsp.extlib.designer.tooling.visualizations.dojoform;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

import com.ibm.designer.domino.constants.XSPAttributeNames;
import com.ibm.designer.domino.constants.XSPTagNames;
import com.ibm.xsp.extlib.designer.tooling.visualizations.AbstractCommonControlVisualizer;
import com.ibm.xsp.registry.FacesRegistry;

/**
 * This class generates the following source
 *
 *  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 *  <xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core">
 *
 *  <xp:button value=" User Name" style="width:px;background-color:rgb(247,247,255);border-color:rgb(198,219,247);border-style:solid;border-width:1px;color:rgb(16,93,181)" icon="xsp://com.ibm.xsp.extlib.library~~/extlib/designer/markup/dojoform/DojoListTextBoxX.png" id="button1" dir="rtl">
 *  </xp:button>
 *
 *  <xp:button value=" User Name" style="width:px;background-color:rgb(247,247,255);border-color:rgb(198,219,247);border-style:solid;border-width:1px;color:rgb(16,93,181)" icon="xsp://com.ibm.xsp.extlib.library~~/extlib/designer/markup/dojoform/DojoListTextBoxX.png" id="button2" dir="rtl">
 *  </xp:button>
 *
 *  </xp:view>
 *
 */
public class DjNameListTextBoxVisualizer extends AbstractCommonControlVisualizer{

    private static final String LIST_TEXT_BOX_X_IMAGE = "DojoListTextBoxX.png"; // $NON-NLS-1$
    private static final String BUTTON_1_TEXT = "User Name"; // $NLX-DjNameListTextBoxVisualizer.UserName-1$
    private static final String BUTTON_2_TEXT = "User Name"; // $NLX-DjNameListTextBoxVisualizer.UserName.1-1$

    /*
     * (non-Javadoc)
     * @see com.ibm.designer.domino.xsp.api.visual.AbstractVisualizationFactory#getXSPMarkupForControl(org.w3c.dom.Node, com.ibm.designer.domino.xsp.api.visual.AbstractVisualizationFactory.IVisualizationCallback, com.ibm.xsp.registry.FacesRegistry)
     */
    @Override
    public String getXSPMarkupForControl(Node nodeToVisualize,  IVisualizationCallback callback, FacesRegistry registry) {

        String imageURL = generateImageURL(nodeToVisualize, registry, LIST_TEXT_BOX_X_IMAGE, DOJO_FORM_IMAGES_LOCATION);
        StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();

        Tag button1Tag = createTag(XP_PREFIX, XSPTagNames.XSP_TAG_BUTTON);
        button1Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_ID, "button1"); // $NON-NLS-1$
        button1Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_STYLE, "width:px;background-color:rgb(247,247,255);border-color:rgb(198,219,247);border-style:solid;border-width:1px;color:rgb(16,93,181)"); // $NON-NLS-1$
        button1Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_BUTTON_ICON, imageURL);
        button1Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_BIDI, XSP_ATTR_VAL_RTL);
        button1Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_VALUE, padString(BUTTON_1_TEXT));
        strBuilder.append(button1Tag.toString());

        Tag button2Tag = createTag(XP_PREFIX, XSPTagNames.XSP_TAG_BUTTON);
        button2Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_ID, "button2"); // $NON-NLS-1$
        button2Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_STYLE, "width:px;background-color:rgb(247,247,255);border-color:rgb(198,219,247);border-style:solid;border-width:1px;color:rgb(16,93,181)"); // $NON-NLS-1$
        button2Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_BUTTON_ICON, imageURL);
        button2Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_BIDI, XSP_ATTR_VAL_RTL);
        button2Tag.addAttribute(XSPAttributeNames.XSP_ATTR_VALUE, padString(BUTTON_2_TEXT));
        strBuilder.append(button2Tag.toString());

        return strBuilder.toString();
    }

    private String padString(String str){
        return " " + str;
    }
}

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Build 11530 was OK. Failure started on build 11531 and forward. Between those 2 revisions, no changes happened to the OSGeoLive folder.
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 177 not upgraded.
Need to get 232 kB of archives.
libpam-systemd is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 177 not upgraded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 175 not upgraded.
After this operation, 193 kB disk space will be freed.
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/whoopsie not found.
the "package not found" thing has been there for a long time, so probably not related.
can you bootstrap into the chroot and run setup.sh, then see if DNS is working or if 'ifconfig eth0' has lost contact? can you figure a way to manually bring it back up from there?
maybe it is the same trouble we are having at boot with /etc/resolv.conf missing, happening earlier?
Experiment added in setup.sh, r11539.
sorry, experiment is in r11540 not 11539.
Unfortunately doesn't work. Is there a way to disable resolvconf update?
yes, we can put it on hold. We can do that as a stop-gap solution, but I'd rather like to understand the real cause of the problem, as the related login-session work around is rather brittle.
it seems an attempt by ubuntu to fix the run-time bug made it worse for us at build-time, we'll have to wait and see if the run-time bug is fixed now.
"Symlink /etc/resolv.conf does not exist after installation or upgrade of resolvconf -- various causes"
I added some more debug messages in r11545 to try and figure out what's happening. Could you trigger another build?
maybe 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts wants to be "127.0.1.1 localhost osgeolive" ?
echo "Setting up network for chroot"
So perhaps partially self-inflicted after the rules changed on us. added symlink to /run/resolvconf/ back in r11546 for testing later NetworkManager? controlled lookups.
the added debug messages show that file sizes and timestamps remain the same. no missing files. ?!
I suspect someone will have to poke around in the chroot and experiment with nslookup to try and figure out why DNS went away.
putting it on hold should be ok, we should probably take it off hold but not upgrade at the end of the script?
So I wonder how the DNS is working in the chroot even from the start? and what does the upgrade of the resolvconf package do to make that stop? and if we simply run resolvconf(8) if it will generate a new/temporary one?
Probably not needed now, but another workaround could be to just set /etc/resolv.conf's nameserver to 8.8.8.8 manually for the duration of the build.
The resolvconf is now on hold. You are right we need to unhold it before we exit the chroot so it can be updated later.
At least the build is back on working.


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The Blues plan to send back Rivermen winger Brett Sterling after Tuesday's game in St. Louis if T.J. Oshie (jammed wrist) was able to make it back into the lineup, and if the NHL team made it thru the contest without any other injuries.


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UPA and scams: made for each other
Timeline created by saketha
Formation of UPA
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was formed after the general elections in 2004. UPA is a coalition of center-left political parties of India and the single largest party is the Indian National Congress.
Iraqi Oil for Food Scam
The first scandal that rocked the UPA, soon after its formation, was the Iraqi 'Oil for Food' scam in 2005. An independent inquiry committee headed by Paul Volcker said that former Minister for External Affairs, Natwar Singh, and his son, Jagat Singh, were the "non-contractual beneficiaries" of the United Nations 'Oil for Food' program. Anil Mathrani, the then Foreign Minister to Croatia, pointed out that "Natwar Singh used official visits to Iraq to procure oil coupons for Jagat Singh from th
Scorpene submarine deal
The Scorpene submarine deal was a 16,000 crore deal signed between India and France in October 2005. It was suspected that one of the accused in the Navy War Room Leak case contacted the manufacturers of the submarines and, on behalf of Congress, demanded that they pay 4 percent commission to negotiate the deal. Many government agencies and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigated the allegations. But, they could not find evidence of any kickback payments.
Cash for vote scandal
Another scandal that affected the credibility of UPA was the 'cash for vote' scam. It was alleged that UPA bribed the MPs to "survive" the very first confidence vote on July22, 2008 in the Lok Sabha after the Left parties withdrew support for the government. They withdrew support because the Government had approached the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for an Indo-US nuclear deal. The BJP demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The 2G scam involved the allocation of 2G spectrum licenses at a throw-away price to several telecom companies. The Comptroller and Audit General (CAG) of India first exposed this scam. Several politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen, corporations and journalists were accused. The Minister for Telecommunication A. Raja resigned and was taken into custody by the CBI.
CWG Scam
India faced humiliation before the world after the commonwealth games scam, popularly known as CWG scam, was brought to light. The organizing committee, headed by Suresh Kalmadi, was accused of "irregularities like increasing the cost and meddling with the official documents to favour private firms."
Adarsh Society Scam
Adarsh Housing Society in Mumbai had flats that were reserved for widows of Kargil martyrs. But, it was the politicians and bureaucrats who got the apartments. Ashok Chavan was the Revenue Minister of state when he reportedly asked the Adarsh Society to change the rules to include civilians.
Chavan denied the charges, but it was found that his mother-in-law owned a flat there. The Congress asked for his resignation and he resigned.
CoalGate
Of all the scams that rocked the nation, it is safe to say that Coalgate is the 'mother of all scams'. At least 155 coal blocks with millions of tonnes of coal reserves were allocated at throw-away prices, when compared to their market value. 76 of these blocks were sold to private companies and the rest were distributed among public sector enterprises. According to Tehalka, this scam had "greater implication for the UPA than the 2G swindle."
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antes de viena
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BIOGRAFIA SOBRE LA VIDA DE DARWIN
Mexico history
Biografía de la vida Darwin
History of Civil Engineering
Darwin's Voyage timeline
Colonization of India
Civil War to WWI
History of the Clothes
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Events between ww1 and ww2
WSR 12 Shah Jahan
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Inventions Timeline 1880-1915
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Indexed register of ratepayers for all Cueillettes in the Parish of St Ouen [ these volumes were re-used in 1945 and do not contain information for the years1937-1944]
Indexed register of ratepayers for all Cueillettes in the Parish of St Ouen for the years 1937 and 1943 [ these volumes were re-used in 1943 and do not contain information for the years1938-1942]
Indexed register of ratepayers for all Cueillettes in the Parish of St Ouen for the years 1940 and 1941 [ these volumes were re-used in 1941
Indexed register of ratepayers for all Cueillettes in the Parish of St Ouen for 1946
Reference: F/J/E3/12a
Rate list for the Cueillette de Vinchelez
Handwritten Rate list for the Cueillette de Vinchelez giving an estimate of rateable assets for named individual
Microfiche of the 1901 Census for Jersey, Public Record Office reference 1+ RG13/5316. St Mary - District 1 - All that portion of above parish which lies North of road running from Greve de Lecq to last house or lodge at Heathmount, bordering on St John's Parish by East, less Five Houses included in No 2 district. St Mary - District 2 - Comprising the Northern side of the South Vingtaine [Vingtaine du Sud?] situated North of road beginning from St Mary's Arsenal in straight line East joining St John's Parish. St Mary - District 3 - All that part of above parish which lies South of the road running in direct line from the West, bordering the Parish near the Military Arsenal to the East, border of same near 'La Hougue Boëte Manor'. Boundary, East Parish of St John, South East, Parish of St Lawrence, South and West, Parish of St Peter, North, (wholly on) other part of St Mary's Parish. St Ouen - District 1 - The Vingtaine called the Vingtaine de Vichelez [Cueillette de Vinchelez?] with the exception of the Canton De Lecq bounded on the North by the sea, on the East, by the sea and the Vingtaine de Léoville [Cuillette de Léoville?] on the West, by the Vingtaine de Millais, together with four houses situated on the Western part of the Vingtaine de Millais belonging to Francis Le Marquand, John Vibert, Philip Le Gresley and Edward Le Cornu. St Ouen - Part of District 2 - The Vingtaine called Vingtaine de Millais [Cueillette de Millais?] with exception of four houses included in district No 1, bounded on the North by the sea, and Vingtaine de Vinchelez, on the West, by the sea, on the East, by the Vingtaine de Vinchelez and on the South by the Vingtaine de Grantez [Cueillette de Grantez?].
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Microfiche of the 1901 Census for Jersey, Public Record Office reference 2+ RG13/5316. St Ouen - Part of District 2 - The Vingtaine called Vingtaine de Millais [Cueillette de Millais?] with exception of four houses included in district No 1, bounded on the North by the sea, and Vingtaine de Vinchelez [Cueillette de Vinchelez?], on the West, by the sea, on the East, by the Vingtaine de Vinchelez and on the South by the Vingtaine de Grantez [Cueillette de Grantez]. St Ouen - District 3 - The Vingtaine called the Vingtaine de Grantez bounded by the North by the Vingtaine de Millais, on the South by the Vingtaine called Grande Cueillette, on the East by the Vingtaine de Leoville and on the West by the sea. St Ouen - District 4 - The district called the Canton de la Ville Au Neveux, being part of the Vingtaine de Leoville with part of the said Vingtaine of Leoville to the South of Trodez Main Road and two houses belonging to Thomas P Vautier and John Le Ruez, said district bounded on the South by the remaining part of the said Vingtaine on the South of the Grande and Petite Cueillette, on the East by St Peter's Parish and on the West by the Vingtaine de Grantez. St Ouen - District 5 - The remaining part of the Vingtaine de Leoville [Cueillette de Léoville?] together with the district called the Canton de Lecq situated on the Vingtaine de Vinchelez, bounded on the East by St Mary's Parish, on the South by the district No 4 and by the Vingtaine de Grantez, and on the West by the Vingtaine de Vinchelez, on the North by the sea. St Ouen - District 6 - The Vingtaine called La Petite Cueillette and that part of the district of the Grande Cueillette, included between La Pelle road [La Rue des Pelles?], and the Canton de dessus le Chêne [Canton de Defours le Chêne?] as far as F P Richardson's House bounded on the North and West by the remaining part of the Vingtaine de la Grande Cueillette and on the South and East by St Peter's Parish. St Ouen - District 7 - The remaining district being a part of the Vingtaine called Grande Cueillette bounded on the South by the district No 6, on the North by the Vingtaine de Grantez and on the West by the sea. St Peter - Part of District 1 - As much of the Parish of St Peter called Vingtaine du Douet, bounded on the North by the Vingtaine des Augerez, by the South by the Vingtaine St Nicolas and St Brelade's Parish, on the East by the Vingtaine du Coin Varin, and on the West by the Grande Vingtaine.


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These XML-based standards support the implementation of electronic court filing but they do not define court policies. In 2003, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) published Standards for Electronic Filing Processes (Technical and Business Approaches).

In the summer of 2009, the NCSC commenced a survey of the usage of e-filing in state courts across the country, including U.S. Territories. The survey responses were published in the 2009 NCSC Court E-filing Survey.

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 LegalXML:
 ECF 1.0: March 22, 2000
 ECF 1.1: July 7, 2002
 ECF 3.0: November 11, 2005
 ECF 3.01: April 25, 2006
 ECF 3.1: December 4, 2007
 ECF 4.0: October 8, 2008

LegalXML
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 Merged with OASIS in March 2002.

ECF 1.0

ECF 1.1
This version was approved by the NCSC Joint Technology Committee as a recommended standard in 2002.

ECF 2.0
This version number was skipped in order to create a linkage between GJXDM 3.0.

ECF 3.0
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 GJXDM
 UBL
 Web services
 W3C
 OASIS
 WS-I
 Use of XML schemas rather than DTD
 Supports Standards for Electronic Filing Processes (Technical and Business Approaches) approved in 2003.

ECF 4.0
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The LegalXML Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee serves as the primary source of documentation and support.

See also
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 LegalXML
 GJXDM, the Global Justice XML Data Model
 National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)
 Electronic Filing System (Singapore)
 National Center for State Courts

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Every week, we are treated to another revelation about the alarming attitudes of white evangelical Christians. You would think that a people steeped in the Bible—which commands and exemplifies concern for refugees and others in dire straits—would find President Trump's closing the door to the world's neediest refugees repulsive. But white evangelicals support Trump's exclusionary policy by a whopping 76 percent.
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Neill from Krieg's Happy Holidays Extravaganza: On Euronymous, Myrkur, and Blankets
Black metal's had a weird year.
by Neill Jameson
December 15, 2014, 5:35pm
Photo courtesy of All Black Recordings
As we round out the year 2014 in the usual manner of bitching about everyone's year end lists, this time I figured I'd take a different approach to the idea of complaining about music, black metal in particular, instead of making a list (though you should check out the new records by Wolvhammer and Chaos Moon if you haven't). I'd use run on sentences as my weapon.
Black metal, at least in the United States, can be defined by a few basic things this year: personal politics, advertising, and blankets. I fondly remember the days where the biggest threat to whatever credibility or "purity" black metal had were Dimmu Borgir and that kid from the Sopranos having an Ulver poster. I never really thought about the real endgame in the scenario, even once bands like Liturgy and Deafheaven appeared and made the old guard shit weirder than the aging already do. Recently, Deafheaven did something to ruin Christmas and make the internet a more sour place: they made a blanket, and started pitching the font their last record had out into the world. I'm no fan of crass consumerism, but I am a fan of watching how this new marketing strategy has sent the internet underground into a shit fit. The natural evolution of every subculture turns into this sort of thing, and I'm always dumbfounded when purists are shocked by this shit. It doesn't help that while I'm typing this, I'm drinking from a Darkthrone coffee mug, but I've also hit the age where these things aren't even worth getting upset about. Black metal in this post-Second Wave form has existed for decades now; it's entering its midlife crisis, and a lot of people are taking years of their life with their aggravation over trivial shit that no one will remember in five years outside of a few jokes. By then, we'll have moved on to other nonsense that will be even more nauseating, and everyone will wonder what Euronymous would think if he were still alive. You know what he would be thinking? If it's time for his annual prostate exam and what the early bird specials are. Why? Because he'd be fucking old. Everything ages, everything changes and nothing will ever be as great and special as when you were young. Everything fucking dies.
This might sound a bit mean-spirited, but I don't think seventy-five percent of people would give any second thought to Myrkur if there wasn't the campaign of secrecy behind it pre-release, coupled with the fury over the main musician having ovaries and other things people who still live with their parents are confused and frightened by. It speaks a lot to gender politics in music in general with how this scenario played out, and it wasn't at all helped by shrouding the whole thing in mystery early on; Velvet Cocoon did that ten years ago and much more successfully. Now, it just comes off like the Sex Pistols or American Idol-styled manufacturing, but that's easier to ignore than the moist masses who, when faced with a woman, can only yell "TITS!" like she's unaware that she has them. Yes, black metal is a negative expression which isn't the most inclusive of genres, but recently people have been acting more like they're on Xbox Live than in a genre which should be held to a higher intellectual standard than most.
You'd think the people who put together year-end lists had fucked most of the comments sections participants' mothers and wiped off on the family dog by how offended they get when their favorite releases don't get mentioned. They complain about how stupid the lists are, and how they don't matter. If they don't matter, then what's all the fuss about? It's passive aggressive bullshit. Look guys, most of what's on there sounds like Mumford & Sons anyway, and if a record from your band or your friend's band that you keep telling everyone you know didn't get on it, then WHO CARES. Be that special snowflake your mom keeps telling you that you are, and move on.
2015 is right around the corner, but all of these debates will keep raging because that's what music subcultures do. Personally, I think this year had some great moments and great releases, and with Leviathan's new one around the corner, I'm excited for what's next. Everyone else trying to hold on to their perception of black metal's purity from 1991 is only holding onto their virginity and trying to put a coat of paint on a burning house. Happy New Year.
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