(a) An illustration of the microstructure of the developed catalyst: Pt-Co nanoparticles and graphene-wrapped Co nanoparticles anchored on a Co, N-containing carbon surface. (b) Tafel plots of output voltage versus mass activities of four oxygen reduction reaction catalysts. LP@PF-2 is the best catalyst the researchers synthesized. The green star marks the performance set by the 2025 target of the US Department of Energy (DOE), Fuel Cell Technologies Office. Credit: Di-Jia Liu.
Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that convert chemical energy stored in fuels (e.g., hydrogen gas) into electricity. Their functionality relies on a rapid oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for energy generation. Since ORR is a non-spontaneous process with a high reaction potential barrier, electrocatalysts containing noble metals (e.g., Pt) are typically used to reduce this barrier and improve the fuel cell energy efficiency. The scarcity and high cost of Pt is one of the reasons hindering broad adoption of fuel cells. A research team led by Di-Jia Liu, a senior chemist at Argonne National Laboratory, recently developed a novel ORR catalyst with record low Pt mass (0.035 mgPt/cm2) that outperformed its commercial counterparts. This breakthrough was reported in a recent issue of Science.
The developed ORR catalysts were fabricated into fuel cell membrane electrodes for performance evaluation. The electrodes contained ultralow Pt loadings, approximately one tenth of those used in commercial electrodes, while still exhibiting excellent ORR catalytic activity. At an output voltage of 0.9 V, the highest mass activity (current generated per milligram of Pt) was 1.77 A/mgPt, which exceeds a 2025 target (0.44 A/mgPt) set by the US Department of Energy. The improved ORR catalytic activity was attributed to the synergistic catalysis between the Pt-Co nanoparticles and the Co, N-containing carbon support. Specifically, in addition to directly reducing O2 to water over the Pt-Co nanoparticles, the N-coordinated cobalt (Co-Nx-Cy) sites on the substrate can also reduce O2 to water and H2O2. The generated H2O2 then diffuses to the surface of nearby Pt-Co nanoparticles where it is eventually reduced to water.
Bao Yu Xia of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China, says that the key deliverables of this work, "developing cost-effective and scalable approaches for some of the most promising ORR catalysts with ultralow Pt contents," as well as understanding their catalytic activities in fuel cells are vital to large-scale implementation of fuel cells. Xia was not involved in this study.
"This work brings out a new research direction and is far from complete," Liu says. The research group is investigating various issues to further enhance the performance of their catalysts, including the optimal distance between the Pt-Co nanoparticles and the Co-Nx-Cy coordination sites, the influence of humidity on the synergistic catalysis, and the minimal Pt loading possible without sacrificing catalytic activity.


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The Most Useful Interviews of 2017
The most useful interviews on the podcast get lots of traction. That's because, in addition to our core audience that shows up each week, many of you share the most useful conversations with others in your professional and personal network (thank you, if you've done this).
In this final update of the year, I'm sharing this list of the top downloaded episodes of 2017, which presumably, are also the ones that were most useful to you and others.
If you haven't listened to any of the below, it's worth following the link to grab the audio — or sharing the episode with a colleague who might benefit.
Perhaps it goes without saying that the most recent episodes don't show on this list, since they've not had as much time to be downloaded. That includes my chat with Chip Heath this week on his new book with Dan Heath: The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact*.
My PDF highlights and notes from Chip's book are available for download (free membership required). His insights, along with the lessons from the most useful episodes below, may be helpful started points to create the most powerful moments in 2018.
10 Most Useful Interviews of 2017
10. Kim Scott: How to Challenge Directly and Care Personally (CFL302): There is so much in Kim's book Radical Candor* that it was virtually impossible to represent it fully on this episode. Yet, perhaps most important is the lesson that leaders need to both care personally and challenge directly. I've probably referred to this episode in 2017 more than any other.
9. Pete Mockaitis: The Way to Inspire Ownership (CFL303): A lot of new leaders struggle to delegate work effectively. Pete and I discussed this common pitiful and also how to lead around it during this episode. Pete is also the host of the super popular careers podcast How to Be Awesome At Your Job.
8. Patrick Lencioni: How to Get the Ideal Team Player (CFL301): Patrick has been a powerhouse writer, thinker, and consultant for the last 15 years. While a lot of us hear that interviews aren't good indicators of how successful an employee will be, Patrick and his firm have identified three core frameworks that really matter. If you're hiring in the New Year, it's a must-listen.
7. Tom Henschel: How to Grow Your Professional Network (CFL279): While I'm thrilled to see my friend Tom's name here on the list, it doesn't surprise me. Lots of people have told me in the past year that this conversation got them into a healthy mindset about networking. Subscribing to Tom's own podcast, The Look & Sound of Leadership, should certainly be a New Year's resolution.
6. Brenda Bernstein: How to Vastly Improve Your LinkedIn Profile (CFL285): A few times a week, I get a kind LinkedIn note from someone who benefitted from this conversation. In this episode, Brenda and I examined listener profiles and made suggestions for changes. Brenda will be back on the podcast in a few months with an update on the new LinkedIn interface.
5. Amanda Davis: Get Better at Onboarding Employees (CFL288): You heard this topic come up again in this week's conversation with Chip Heath. In this past episode, Amanda Davis showed us where companies often miss the mark and taught us the key lessons from her many successes in the hospitality industry.
4. Collins Osayamwen: How to Overcome Obstacles (CFL281): Early in his career, Collins literally slept in airports so he could afford to attend conferences outside his home country of Nigeria. Today, he's a respected leader in his field. If you're looking for an inspirational story to start the year with, this may be it.
3. Jonathan Raymond: Five Steps to Hold People Accountable (CFL306): When I hear a leader telling me they are dealing with a performance management issue, I often suggest this episode. Jonathan showed us how to leverage the core lessons from his book Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For*.
2. Michael Bungay Stanier: The Way to Stop Rescuing People From Their Problems (CFL284): Just about every week, someone tells me this conversation was useful to them. Michael's blockbuster best-selling book The Coaching Habit* is probably the book I've recommended the most to leaders in the past year. (Pssst, Michael also holds the record for top-downloaded episode of 2016, so he's both useful and consistent).
1. Dan Ariely: How to Motivate People (CFL282): My conversation earlier this year with Dan Ariely was the top downloaded episode of 2017. Dan is perhaps the best known behavioral economist in the world and taught us the lessons from his most recent book, Payoff*. If salary and bonuses tend to be the chief way you keep people motivated, don't miss this episode.
The next episode is our monthly Q&A show. Bonni and I will be taking your questions on leadership. Submit your question for consideration.
Received this from a friend or colleague? Subscribe to the Coaching for Leaders podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher.
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Back to Málaga I have spent this afternoon working a bit and doing some changes on my web, putting links to the music of the songs I have, by means of the revolutionary Radio Blog searcher. A great tool for teaching English or other languages with music.


Over 70 in-house dispute resolution counsel responded to the IMI ADR Users Survey.
To view the Summary of the results, please see below.
IMI invited in-house counsel responsible for managing dispute resolution in international corporations to participate in an IMI Survey looking into their attitudes and approaches to arbitration and mediation. The Survey ran from mid-January to mid-March 2013. This seems to have been the first time that in-house dispute resolution counsel had been asked for their views on many of the issues raised at an international scale. Seventy-six in-house dispute resolution counsel from North America and Europe completed all (or in the cases of 5 responders, almost all) of the Survey.
The IMI Survey was designed to address gaps not covered in two previous user surveys, both conducted in 2011. The IMI Survey focused more on in-house counsel needs, attitudes and preferences regarding issues concerning information, professional quality standards and the skills they expect from their arbitrators, mediators and outside counsel.
The IMI Survey was circulated to an informed group of in-house dispute resolution counsel, including members of the Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group (CCIAG – www.CCIAG.com) and the Mediation and Conflict Management Round Table of German Business (RTMKM – www.RTMKM.de). The majority of responders (64%) had arbitration and mediation experience, with 14% having experience of mediation but not arbitration, and a further 14% having experience of arbitration but not mediation. Only 8% of responders had no personal experience in either mediation or arbitration.
Most responders were either senior in-house legal counsel (63%) or senior management (20%) in their companies with 17% indicating they were engaged in other corporate roles. 71% of responders were from corporations with over 10,000 employees, and 18% were employed by companies having between 1,000 and 10,000 employees.
The IMI Survey, like most other surveys, was based on multi-choice answers to a range of propositions, principally to enable the Survey to be completed relatively quickly. Many of the questions referred collectively to "Neutrals" which the Survey's preamble defined as meaning both arbitrators and mediators.
There were 10 sections in the IMI Survey and the results are summarised below (the full results are at: www.IMImediation.org/imi-international-corporate-users-adr-survey-full-results).
3. All Neutrals should seek feedback from users and make that feedback openly available to future users (in summary format, prepared by an independent person or institution while preserving the anonymity of the feedback giver).
4. All Neutrals should belong to an ADR professional institution that has a rigorous and public code of ethics backed up by a disciplinary process.
5. ADR professional institutions (ie bodies certifying the competency of mediators and/or arbitrators should (a) not be a service provider or otherwise earn income from users; or (b) could be a service provider; or (c) no view one way or another.
60% responded that competency-certifying bodies should not provide ADR services to the dispute resolution market or otherwise earn service income from users. 28% considered that service providers could do this, and 12% had no view.
6. Parties to an Arbitration proceeding should be actively encouraged by the Arbitration Provider to use mediation to settle their dispute.
Almost three quarters of responders felt that arbitration providers should be actively encouraging parties to use mediation. 22% were ambivalent and 4% disagreed.
"Compulsory" is a strong term and opinion on this issue was more evenly spread. This question followed the less aggressive proposition in Q6. Nonetheless, almost half (48%) of responders were in favour of mediation being a compulsory procedural step in both litigation and arbitration, with 37% disagreeing and 15% ambivalent.
8. Mediators should not be purely facilitative but adopt a proactive idea-generating role, including proposing solutions and settlement options.
With 77% of responders favouring a more proactive style of mediation, this result broadly confirms trends detected in previous surveys.
9. In my experience, outside lawyers are often an impediment to the mediation process.
47% of in-house counsel agreed with this proposition and 15% disagreed with it. 38% were neutral on this subject.
10. I expect my arbitration and litigation counsel to have been trained in mediation advocacy skills.
An 80% positive response in support of this statement, with 14% ambivalence and 6% against it, indicates a very strong expectation among in-house counsel that their outside counsel should be trained in mediation advocacy skills.
In 2011, a survey of the in-house counsel in 368 Fortune 1,000 companies was conducted by Cornell and Pepperdine Universities together with CPR Institute as a follow-up to a 1997 survey conducted by Cornell. The results of this survey have been reported in Living with ADR: Evolving Perceptions and Use of Mediation, Arbitration and Conflict Management in Fortune 1,000 companies .
The Cornell/Pepperdine/CPR Survey, probably the most extensive contemporary research among ADR users, was designed to identify trends among corporate users, surface emerging ADR policies and practices and understand the drivers of those trends, policies and practices. It confirms the findings of the IMI Survey, although it had a very different set of goals. The Cornell/Pepperdine/CPR survey, conducted almost entirely in North America, demonstrated that a high proportion (97%) of US in-house counsel responders had experience with mediation and arbitration or both, with 45% saying they "frequently" use ad hoc mediation and 37% using mediation "occasionally". In total 12% were "frequent" users of arbitration and 35% were "occasional" users of arbitration. The IMI Survey also found a high level of mediation and arbitration experience among in-house corporate responders. It is reassuring that both surveys benefited from highly-informed and experienced users.
In 2011 a UK initiative, the Commercial Mediation Group, conducted a survey  focused mainly on mediation practice issues. Unlike the IMI Survey and the Cornell/Pepperdine/CPR survey, both of which were restricted to corporate in-house dispute resolution counsel, the CMG survey invited responses from over 60 law firms, and a smaller number of UK in-house counsel and other users were also surveyed.
Three questions similar to those in the CMG survey were also included in the IMI Survey, namely whether mediation should be a compulsory process step, whether mediators should be purely facilitative, and whether outside lawyers are an impediment to mediation (see sections 7, 8 and 9 of the IMI survey).
On the question whether mediation should be compulsory, 20% of CMG responders agreed, 13% were neutral and 67% disagreed (the IMI result was 48% agreed, 15% neutral and 37% disagreed).
On whether mediators should be more proactive than purely facilitative, 68% agreed, 25% were neutral and 7% disagreed (IMI Survey: 77% Agreed, 8% were neutral and 15% Disagreed).
On whether outside lawyers are an impediment to mediation, 5% agreed, 15% were neutral and 80% disagreed (IMI Survey: 47% agreed, 38% neutral, 15% disagreed).
Users want more information about mediators and arbitrators. They want evidence that their competency has been independently assessed, they want them to belong to professional organizations that are not service providers, and to subscribe to rigorous Codes of Practice in ADR that render them subject to disciplinary processes – like any other mainstream professions.
Past experience with mediators and arbitrators is vital to selection decisions – whether that experience is the user's own, or that of their counsel, or of previous users of the neutrals under consideration captured in independently-prepared feedback summaries (for which a strong demand was identified).
Arbitration providers are expected by three quarters of corporate users to be proactively encouraging parties to mediate their disputes, and almost half want Courts and Tribunals to make mediation "compulsory" in both litigation and arbitration.


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Paul Burgoyne married Deborah Helen Beese, daughter of Godfrey Henry Beese and Bridget Anne Elizabeth Freeman.1
Philippa Lucy Beese1
Philippa Lucy Beese was born in 1960.1 She is the daughter of Godfrey Henry Beese and Bridget Anne Elizabeth Freeman.2 She married Ian McKenzie.1
Her married name became McKenzie. She was educated at La Retraite Convent.1 She lived in 2003 at 14 Petty's Brook Road, Chineham, Hampshire, EnglandG.1
Ian McKenzie1
Ian McKenzie married Philippa Lucy Beese, daughter of Godfrey Henry Beese and Bridget Anne Elizabeth Freeman.1
Julius Andrew Gilman Beilby1
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Julius Andrew Gilman Beilby is the son of Guy Beilby.2 He married Tiffany Jane Morris-Marsham, daughter of Jack Richard Morris-Marsham and Agnes Margaret Goodman, in 1997.1
Julius Andrew Gilman Beilby usually went by his middle name of Andrew.2
Children of Julius Andrew Gilman Beilby and Tiffany Jane Morris-Marsham
Zofia Mary Beilby1 b. 23 Aug 2001
Julius Kit Beilby1 b. 1 Jan 2003
[S1122] Peerage News, online http://peeragenews.blogspot.co.nz/. Hereinafter cited as Peerage News.
Elizabeth Richmond1
Elizabeth Richmond is the daughter of Ernest Tatham Richmond.2 She married Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, 1st Bt., son of William Robert Freeman and Anne Farquhar Carr Dunn, on 17 April 1935.1
From 17 April 1935, her married name became Freeman.1 She was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in 1945.1
Children of Elizabeth Richmond and Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, 1st Bt.
Joan Margaret Freeman+2 b. 3 Aug 1936, d. 23 Apr 2009
Susan Hilary Philippa Freeman+2 b. 17 Mar 1939
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Joan Margaret Freeman was born on 3 August 1936.1 She was the daughter of Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Richmond.2 She married John Richard Bine Morgan-Grenville, son of Hon. Robert William Morgan-Grenville and Elizabeth Hope Bine Renshaw, on 7 July 1955.1 She died on 23 April 2009 at age 72.3
From 7 July 1955, her married name became Morgan-Grenville. She lived in 2003 at Upperton House, Petworth, Sussex, EnglandG.1
Children of Joan Margaret Freeman and John Richard Bine Morgan-Grenville
Joanna Jane Morgan-Grenville+2 b. 26 Sep 1957
Roger Temple Morgan-Grenville+2 b. 18 Dec 1959
John Richard Bine Morgan-Grenville1
M, #415377, b. 10 July 1927, d. 15 October 1994
John Richard Bine Morgan-Grenville was born on 10 July 1927.2 He was the son of Hon. Robert William Morgan-Grenville and Elizabeth Hope Bine Renshaw.2 He married Joan Margaret Freeman, daughter of Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Richmond, on 7 July 1955.1 He died on 15 October 1994 at age 67.2
He was given the name of John Richard Bine Grenville at birth.2 He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England.2 He gained the rank of Captain in the King's Royal Rifle Corps (Territorial Army).2
Children of John Richard Bine Morgan-Grenville and Joan Margaret Freeman
Susan Hilary Philippa Freeman1
F, #415378, b. 17 March 1939
Susan Hilary Philippa Freeman was born on 17 March 1939.1 She is the daughter of Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Richmond.2 She married Robin Neil Lochmell Malcolm, 19th of Poltalloch, son of Lt.-Col. George Ian Malcolm, 18th of Poltalloch and Enid Sybil Gaskell, on 27 January 1962.1
From 27 January 1962, her married name became Malcolm. She lived in 2003 at Duntrune Castle, Kilmartin, Argyllshire, ScotlandG.1
Children of Susan Hilary Philippa Freeman and Robin Neil Lochmell Malcolm, 19th of Poltalloch
Ian Rory Malcolm of Poltalloch, younger+2 b. 5 Mar 1963
Kirsty Elizabeth Malcolm+2 b. 9 Oct 1964
Andrew Neill Malcolm+2 b. 21 Dec 1965
Josephine Clare Malcolm2 b. 18 Oct 1969
Lt.-Col. George Ian Malcolm, 18th of Poltalloch1
M, #415379, b. 26 April 1903, d. 20 March 1976
Lt.-Col. George Ian Malcolm, 18th of Poltalloch was born on 26 April 1903.2 He is the son of Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm, 17th of Poltalloch and Jeanne Marie Langtry.2 He married, firstly, Enid Sybil Gaskell, daughter of Maj.-Gen. Herbert Stewart Gaskell, on 12 August 1929.3 He and Enid Sybil Gaskell were divorced in 1944.3 He married, secondly, Muriel Hobhouse Hebblethwaite, daughter of Ernest Presgrave Hebblethwaite and Maud Hobhouse, on 12 February 1946.3 He died on 20 March 1976 at age 72.2
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England.1 He was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire, England.3 He gained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in 1923 in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.3 He was admitted to the Royal Company of Archers in 1937.1 He fought in the Second World War, in Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus, Abyssinia, Malta, and the Pacific.3 He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1943.3 He was commander of the 8th (Argyllshire) Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders between 1945 and 1946.3 He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Argyll in 1948.3 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Argyll in 1949.3 He was producer of the Edinburgh Tattoo between 1949 and 1951.3 He held the position of Chief of the Clan Malcolm from.3 He held the office of Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Argyllshire in 1958.3 He was recognised by Lord Lyon King of Arms, and matriculated his arms at the Lyons Court on 20 July 1967.3
Children of Lt.-Col. George Ian Malcolm, 18th of Poltalloch and Enid Sybil Gaskell
David Ian Malcolm3
Robin Neil Lochmell Malcolm, 19th of Poltalloch+3 b. 11 Feb 1934
Bridget Mary Malcolm+3 b. 12 Jun 1935
Robin Neil Lochmell Malcolm, 19th of Poltalloch1
M, #415380, b. 11 February 1934
Robin Neil Lochmell Malcolm, 19th of Poltalloch was born on 11 February 1934.2 He is the son of Lt.-Col. George Ian Malcolm, 18th of Poltalloch and Enid Sybil Gaskell.2 He married Susan Hilary Philippa Freeman, daughter of Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Richmond, on 27 January 1962.1
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England.1 He gained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant between 1952 and 1954 in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.2 He was educated at North Scotland College of Agriculture, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, ScotlandG.2 He gained the rank of Captain in the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Territorial Army).1 He held the position of Chief of the Name and Arms of Malcolm (MacCallum) from.2 He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) in 1974.2 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) in 1976.2 He held the office of Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Argyll and Bute between 1996 and 2001.2 He lived at Poltalloch, Duntrune Castle, Argyllshire, ScotlandG.2 He lived in 2003 at Duntrune Castle, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, ScotlandG.2
Children of Robin Neil Lochmell Malcolm, 19th of Poltalloch and Susan Hilary Philippa Freeman


The original bucket bag is a little more extravagant, but in this version, the mini bucket bag is more stuctured and cute. Tote bags are also having their place in our wardrobe. You will find unique designs and vivid colors.
Oceans of red from burgundy & carmine to crimson & scarlet!
From teeny-tiny mini bags to oversize style bags, that is what is going to happen during 2017. Little details like handles and hardware make these feel special for the ladies who know how to style.


The Arizona Historical Society, in partnership with Sandra Day O'Connor Institute, will host "Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors," a special exhibit from the George W. Bush Institute, this fall.
Growing out of President Bush's personal commitment and the ongoing work of the Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative, Portraits of Courage brings together 66 full-color portraits and a four-panel mural painted by President Bush of 98 service members and veterans who have served our nation with honor since 9/11, and whom the president has come to know personally since leaving office, according to a release.
The Arizona Historical Society's Arizona Heritage Center at Papago Park, 1300 N. College Ave. in Tempe, is one of four venues nationwide selected to host the paintings this year. Portraits of Courage will be on display Oct. 19-Dec. 29.
Admission to Portraits of Courage is included with tickets to the Arizona Heritage Center at Papago Park.
Adults are $12; seniors 65 and older are $10; ages 7-17 are $8; and children 6 and under, Arizona Historical Society members, military and veterans are free.
"Each featured painting is accompanied by the inspiring story of the warrior depicted, written by President Bush," according to the release.
"As the stories unfold, readers and visitors will encounter the faces and the hearts of those who answered the nation's call and learn of their bravery on the battlefield, their journey to recovery, and the continued leadership and contribution they make as civilians," according to the release.
The paintings featured in Portraits of Courage are also the subject of a hardcover book by the same name, available in stores and online.
President Bush is donating 100 percent of his profits from the book to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, whose Military Service Initiative works to ensure that post-9/11 veterans and their families make successful transitions to civilian life with a focus on gaining meaningful employment and overcoming the invisible wounds of war.
Housed within the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the George W. Bush Institute is nonpartisan policy organization with the mission of developing leaders, advancing policy and taking action to solve today's most pressing challenges. Visit BushCenter.org.


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Greg Roth
President | Chief Operating Officer - Midwest
Greg Roth was named Chief Operating Officer for Wells' Midwest Division in February 2019. In this capacity, he works with all Eastern Division operating departments including Project Management, Drafting & Engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations, Field Services and Sealants.
Greg has been with the company for over 10 years and has had several roles, including Vice President of Operations, where he was responsible for company-wide production and yarding operations. During his time, he has lead our implementation of Concrete Vision, developed many of the metrics we use to drive continuous improvement and has been instrumental in building teamwork between quality and operations to drive performance.
Greg holds a Master of Science degree in Executive Leadership from Saint Cloud State University and an Undergraduate degree from University of Minnesota Morris.
Contact Greg Roth:
greg.roth@wellsconcrete.com


National Heatstroke Prevention Day urges "look before you lock"
National Heatstroke Prevention Day reminds parents to "look before you lock"
Corpus Christi police are urging anyone who sees a child left alone in a vehicle to take action. Wednesday is National Heatstroke Prevention Day.
Forty-three children died in the U.S. from heatstrokes after being left inside hot vehicles last year, according safety organization Kids and Cars.
Incidents include parents or caregivers forgetting a child in a vehicle, children playing in a car unattended or even being left in the vehicle intentionally.
On April 11, National Heatstroke Prevention Day, organizations and local law enforcement are making efforts to remind parents to check their vehicles before locking them.
The Corpus Christi Police Department also urges anyone who sees a child left by themselves in a vehicle to take action.
"If they see a child alone in a car, they need to call us," Senior Officer Travis Pace said. "You can't leave your child in a car."
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a child left in a hot car can die of heat stroke very quickly. Its website provides facts about hot cars and keeping kids safe.
When left in a hot car, a child's major organs begin to shut down when their body temperature reaches 104 degrees.
A child can die when his body temperature reaches 107.
Heat stroke can happen when the outside temperature is as low as 57 degrees.
Lock your vehicle. Ensure children do not have access to keys or remote entry devices. Children should be taught that vehicles are never to be used as a play area.
Remember to check the back seats. Keep a stuffed animal in the carseat and when the child is put in the seat, place the animal in the front with the driver. You can also place your purse, briefcase or cell phone in the back seat as a reminder.
Have a plan. Have your childcare provider call you if your child does not show up for school.
Check on the child. If someone else is driving your child or your daily routine has been altered, always check to make sure your child has arrived safely.


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Michelin adds telematics provider Masternaut to portfolio
By Rachel Evans on	 21st May 2019 Business
Michelin is to purchase telematics provider Masternaut in a transaction that will enable Masternaut to accelerate its product development and growth across Europe. The company will continue to operate under the Masternaut brand as a fully owned subsidiary of Michelin. Completion is expected within the next 60 days.
Founded in 1996, Masternaut provides service to fleets across Europe, and is a leader in its field in the UK and France. Masternaut offers solutions for fleet tracking and optimization, driver behavior improvement and digital transformation.
This will be Michelin's third major acquisition in the fleet telematics industry. Its portfolio also includes Nextraq, a company based in North America, and Sascar, a South American business.
The acquisition will provide the tire manufacturer with access to Europe's rapidly growing telematics market – projected by industry analyst Berg Insight to grow by over 15% per annum in the next five years.
Florent Menegaux, managing partner of Michelin, said, "Michelin is consolidating its expertise in telematics, enabling the company to optimize customer mobility and respond to the needs of a changing market. Masternaut represents a further step in the expansion of Michelin's services and solutions business, especially in Europe and for light vehicle fleets."
With Michelin's investment and automotive expertise, Masternaut aims to expedite the development of its product and service offering – particularly in data science in areas such as predictive maintenance and operational re-engineering.
Dhruv Parekh, CEO of Masternaut, commented, "Over the last four years I have been incredibly proud of what we have achieved. Masternaut Connect today is one of the fastest-growing telematics platforms in Europe, with an industry-leading Net Promoter score. Our investment in an enterprise-grade IoT platform has enabled us to launch new products in a scalable way.
"Together with Michelin, we are well-positioned to expand in the connected vehicle industry across Europe. Operating within the Michelin Group will accelerate our ability to achieve the vision of a connected world that is safer, cleaner and more productive."
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Metallurg Novokuzněck ( Металлург Новокузнецк) je profesionální ruský hokejový tým, který do sezóny 2016/17 hrál Kontinentální hokejovou ligu. Byl založen v roce 1949, od ročníku 2017/18 působí ve VHL.

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 Metallurg Stalinsk (1949 – 1961)
 Metallurg Novokuzněck (1961 – )

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Can you give me more information about Tawny Crazy Ants?
These ants form supercolonies. All ants from the same species are viewed as from the same colony, there are no turf fights for territory. They forage over 1/4 a mile for food. Theoretically, it is possible for every ant within 1/4 of a mile to converge on a single site. The results can be overwhelming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html is an extremely well written article which explains a lot about them.
www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/infested/videos/hairy-crazy-ant.htm is a video of an infestation in Mississippi, which was so bad a family had to abandon its home because of them.
Is this treatment only good for tawny crazy ants?
It may possibly work for Argentine ants, another supercolony ant. It is not suitable for fire ants. If you see a trail of fire ants and crush a few ants on the trail, fire ants will scatter. If you do the same with crazy ants, other ants in the immediate vicinity will rush to the spot for a fight.


Kathmandu, Dec. 25: As the winter is on the verge of its peak, more cold has been experienced across the country today including in the Kathmandu Valley. The Valley's temperature dipped to 2.6 degrees Celsius today.
The latest details of the Meteorological Forecasting Division show that today's Kathmandu Valley's minimum temperature was recorded at 2.6 degrees Celsius and the maximum was measured at 17.6 degrees Celsius against 3.5 minimum and 18 maximum on Monday.
Division meteorologist Raju Pradhananga said the Valley's minimum temperature is predicted to be around 2.3 degrees Celsius for the next few days, bringing more chilling days for the Valley people.
"We are on the midst of the winter and more preventive measures are required to avoid catching cold. The month of January is the coldest and we are advancing towards that end," he reminded.
Despite the fall in temperature, sunshine since the morning gave some respite to the people.
Temperature in Jumla, the district in Karnali province, plummeted to -7.2 degrees Celsius today. Dipayal, Dadeldhura and Birendranagar recorded the minimum 2 degrees Celsius.
Biratngar was the warmest today as its minimum temperature was 9.5 degrees Celsius and the maximum was 26.4 while Simara witnessed minimum temperature of 5 degrees Celsius and maximum 26.5 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile, the Division, through a press statement today, has forecasted the weather for the next three days. The weather pattern is to be partly cloudy in the eastern hilly region and mainly fair in the rest of the country today. Likewise, the forecast is partly to generally cloudy in the western region and partly cloudy in the eastern and central hilly regions tonight with the possibility of light snowfall at one or two places of the western high mountainous regions.


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John Mensah player, height, wife, family, profile and club career
August 6, 2017 By Live Sports
John Mensah is an international Ghanaian professional footballer. He was born on 29 November 1982 and his birth place at Obuasi, Ashanti, Ghana. Mensah has played in the different club and national football team in Ghana. Basically, his playing position is Centre back. In fact, John is an important player for this team.
His height is 6 feet 0 inches. Also, Mensah has played in English club Sunderland in the Premier League. He has played in the different club. Mensah is also adept at night-back and played in both positions for his side in national as a centre-half team.
John Mensah international and club career
Mensah moved to Rennes on loan after having played in Italy for his most popular career, on 31 January 2006. He signed a three-year contract with Rennes in April 2006. Stade Rennais website wrote an article about footballer John Mensah influence on his new team on 28 September 2006. Footballer Mensah signed a new contract extension with Stade Rennais until 2010 from 17 May 2007. Besides, he was linked with the Portsmouth, which also likely to be his future time destination to the strong presence of African Footballers with his most important international players Sulley Muntari on this club.
Mensah was rated the number one player in the France by the football France with Juninho Pernambuco, in the year of 2006-07 and top 100 France league Player. Usually, Mensah finally signed a five-year contract with Lyon in an 4 million on 21 July 2008. Mensah was presented to the media at 20.00 this day. However, Mensah made his first debut on 13 September 2008 in a 3-2 over.
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Mensah made his FC Nitra club debut against Slovan Bratislava in March 2014 in a game.
Mensah played on Ghana's superb U-20 National Team that went to the FIFA World Youth Championship 2001. Ghana went forward and then forced a corner in the 4 minute and Mensah got in front of his marker to send a firm header line. Anyway, he was involved in the FIFA World Cup with his national side in 2006. After, the coach of Ghana during FIFA World Cup 2006.Then Mensah was selected in the African Nations Cup in 2006 all-star-team of the tournament by the Confederation of African Football team in 2006 February.
Footballer Mensah biography, height, weight, and football career
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His Real Name: John Mensah
Nickname: Mensah
Profession: Footballer
His Height in cm & m: 184cm and 1.84m
Also height in feet inches: 6 feet 0 inches.
Weight in kg: 179 Ibs and 81 Kg
His Heir color: Black
Body statements: not known
His date of Birth: 29 November 1982
And age: [showcurrentage month="November" day="29″ year="1982″ template="9″]
Nationality: Ghanaian
Birth Place: Obuasi, Ashanti, Ghana
International Football debut: 2000
Club career debut: Lyon 2008-2012, Rennes 2012-13, FC Nitra 2014, AFC United 2016-present
Playing Position: Centre back
Current team & Jersey Number: AFC United
John Mensah Wife, net worth, family and more details
John Mensah wife
His father name: Not known
And brother name: Ekow Benson
Sister name: Not known
Mensah Wife: two wife names are Mireille Mensah and Henrietta Mensah
Girlfriends: Henrietta Mensah
Children name: John Simons Mensah, and Mathew Mensah
Religion Name: Not known
Mensah Salary: 1.92 million EUR
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Explore Health: A wonderful way to explore diversity is through activities that promote health, because everyone wants and deserves to be healthy. For example, join an exercise class or take an ethnic cooking class to improve your well-being and connect with others from different backgrounds.
Share Life: Meeting people of different ages and from all walks of life is exciting, but truly getting to know and help them can boost your spirit. During January's National Mentoring month, consider volunteering to mentor a teen. This may be an opportunity to change a life—not only the teen's, but also your own as you guide them to appreciate others and become their own person.
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The girl receives an heirloom mirror and her life changes forever.
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The Monsters in the Closet
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The Silverobe children discover just HOW odd their household really is
Created: March 5th, 2005 at 11:38am
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Genres: Family, Fantasy, Comedy
The Silverobe children were beginning to suspect that there was something odd about their family...and that their parents might, just might, be keeping a HUGE secret from them.
This wasn't in the way that EVERY child under 14 thinks their parents are keeping secrets. The Silverobe children were well aware that there were some odd things going on around their household. Things that their parents avoided questions about, or changed the subject when they were brought up.
As most children do, they had thought things in their household were perfectly normal, until they went to school and the other children, and even the adults, convinced them that maybe, just MAYBE, it was THEIR household that was odd.
Chris, the oldest, had been the first to learn to keep quiet about certain things. On his first day of school, some children had been discussing the boogeyman, and ways to combat him. Chris hadn't understood why anyone would WANT to combat such a nice old boy, and had explained that the boogeyman was a nice sort, who absolutely LOVED children, and was, in fact, his favorite babysitter.
He didn't understand at all why the other kids had started singing that nasty song about his pants being on fire, and was flatly hurt when his teacher smiled, and told him what a wonderfully active imagination he had, when he went to her to have his bruised feelings soothed.
Shortly, he learned not to speak first, in groups of children, and only to speak when his experience led him to agree with the most commonly held beliefs expressed by the other kids...things like how great it was to splash in mud puddles, and how unreasonable adults were on the subjects of such undoubtedly poisonous things as brussles sprouts.
Jennifer, when she started school the following year, had discovered that, while the CHILDREN would happily believe her when she talked about the topiary animals in the front yard changing position during the night, if she allowed an adult to hear of such things, she would miss recess while having the school counselor ask some rather insulting questions about her "home situation".
Brad discovered, on the following year, that the absolute extreme of shocked reactions could be pulled from kids, teachers, and scholastic adults alike, simply by stating that there was not ONE television in their house.
They all learned their respective lessons about talking about their household well before the subjects of closet or bed monsters came up, and were quite clever enough to realize that they shouldn't discuss things like the habits of their dog, Aluicious, around the time of the full moon (though discussing the tricks he could do was quite acceptable, so long as they left out such facts as THEIR dog couldn't "play dead" without, at absolute minimum, some pantomimed props, and 5 minutes of melodramatic gasping, wheezing, and stumbling about).
There were some other things that never managed to work their way into the children's conversations outside the house, as well...little things.
Like the "action figures" that were above and beyond those of any toy their school chums owned. Jenny's "Ballroom Belle" dolls that would, without benefit of any moving plastic stage, dance anything from a classic waltz to the jitterbug on her dresser, or the bedroom floor, if the approipriate music was played. The boys were regularly punished for the destruction caused by their playing of "Army Men" in the living room...which was completely unfair, in their opinion....how was it the general's fault if a miscalculation on the part of a flame-thrower-wielding toy soldier resulted in the total loss of the sofa? Chris hadn't TOLD the soldier to flame the sofa, and, besides, it had been unfair of Brad to defend the contested high ground of the coffee table by ordering his snipers to conceal themselves in the fringe of the end table doilies.
Also, they discovered that their facility in such card games as poker was as disapproved of at school, as it was by Mother. Boy, had she been mad, when she caught them playing for toothpicks. When she dragged the fact out of them that they had been taught to play by Rrargh (the monster who resided, sometimes, in the closet in the boys' room), she had grounded them all for a week, AND had had Daddy remove the closet door for the same period, and install a sun lamp on the closet shelf that turned on if anything in the closet moved, so that Rrargh had been forced to stay away throughout the grounding.
She approved of Untl, Eegh, and Brrowr, though (the monsters under the beds), who only played checkers (though Untl would sometimes try to cheat...but the children never mentioned this to Mother, not wanting to have him declared a "bad influence").
As I have said, there were things they now KNEW were just too strange to discuss with people outside their home, and their parents just seemed to have no interest in talking about with them.
They weren't the only kids to have both a cat AND a dog...but they, as far as they could tell, WERE, the only ones with one pet that was both, even if it was only by the light of the full moon that small, scruffy, and brightly friendly Aluicious-the-dog turned into the large, scarred, evil tempered and evil smelling Samminus (Sammy) the tomcat, terror of all the neighborhood dogs when he got out. And, incidentally, possessor (or companion) of a smell that had a personality all of its own (the smell had been known to preceed Sammy into a room by a good five minutes, and to fail to leave for a good half hour after Sammy himself had departed the area). This might partially explain Aluicious's tendancy to hide under beds at night around the full moon, forcing the bed monsters to double up for a night or two a month.
Aluicious seemed to regard a litterbox as a great indignity, for one thing (all dogs are a bit conservative, and feel natural functions should take place near a tree or fire hydrant). For another thing, he seemed to resent the lingering scent of Samminus in his doggy bed (not to mention the wear and tear the cat's claws always put the tartan bedcover through).
However strange it might have been, in the eyes of others, home, for the Silverobe children, was home. They kind of figured their home was about normal for happiness, and love, and all that mess, even if it WAS a bit....different...from what they heard about at school, or saw when they went visiting. They didn't often encourage others to come to THEIR house, though, as their toys wouldn't HELP anyone play with them if a friend from school was involved in the game, and the monsters stubbornly refused to show themselves, even if the curtains were drawn, and all the lights were out...the bed monsters couldn't even be tempted with the "dangle a leg over the edge of the bed and snatch the tempting ankle back just before they could grab it" game, when there was a guest present. This was much to Jennifer's dissappointment, as this was, undoubtedly, her favorite game, often prompting shouts of "Stop teasing the bed monster and go to SLEEP" from downstairs, when she couldn't suppress her giggles well enough at night.
And they wouldn't have parted with their favorite boogey-babysitter for any mere teenage girl, no matter how lax in discipline or attention to the clock she was, as no teenage girl could be as good at hide-and-seek as a creature that could melt into shadows, or turn himself into a semblance of a pile of discarded clothing and toys. Not to mention the fact that there was a clear lack of interest from most teenage girls in giving oozing demonstrations, drooling seminars, and performing such parlor tricks as bulging their eyeballs completely out of the sockets in the face that normally contained them. For some odd reason, teenage girls seem more interested in talking on the phone with various other teenagers, raiding the fridge for whatever sweets were present (never enough, in the childrens' collective opinon), or worrying about what shows they were missing on the never-present television.
In some ways, in fact, they were quite comfortably sure that their parents were better than most adults, since THEIR Mother and Daddy had never tried to convince them of the supposedly imaginary status of such obviously real things as their friends, the bed monsters, closet monsters, and boogeymen. EVERY child knew such creatures existed, yet MOST adults seemed to spend great amounts of time and effort trying to convince them that this wasn't true. Not Mummy and Daddy, though. Mummy and Daddy had introduced them by name to their monster friends, as soon as the children had demonstrated that they could be trusted to use proper "eddy-quit" (this is to say, when the children respectively showed they could be trusted to say "how do you do, Mr Rrargh?", when introduced to the monster, instead of screaming, and turning on the lights, which not only banished the monster in question into his camoflage state, but, according to the monsters, hurt like a bad sunburn for hours afterwards).
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People are cautious about the well-being of the homes. You should guard against hazards that can harm your family. Allocate some money annually for keeping your home in the right condition. Different parts of the house last for long when adequately maintained. Houses that are kept in good condition last for many years.
You should regularly check the gutter to make sure it does it work efficiently. The drainage should ensure that the area around the foundation is free from rainwater. You should always ensure that there are no debris found in the gutter as it can cause leakages in the roof if water is not able to drain properly. The debris can cause rusting which may make the roof to leak. You will need eaves trough cleaning equipment to ensure there is thorough cleaning. You must take the initiative to clean the gutters personally.
It is crucial to have fixed times of general cleaning for the eaves trough within the year. Gutter cleaning should be done many times annually. Do regular inspections of the gutter. Rectify any problem noted without hesitation.
Insects are attracted to dirty places. The microorganisms inhabiting the dirty in the gutters can be detrimental to your health. You should prevent issues rather than struggle to find a cure.
One of the common challenges in eaves troughs is the developing holes. Make sure that you clean the eaves trough to eradicate debris which can make it develop holes. You should fix sagging gutters to prevent them from falling.
You can engage in professional gutter cleaning services. Look at different firms that offer gutter cleaning.
Hire a cleaning firm that has skilled experts to clean your gutter. Hire a firm that has employees that have been in this work for more than five years. Ask whether they have any professional training.
Ensure that you deal with a company that has enough resources to undertake this job. Go for gutter cleaning services that used advanced equipment. Look for a licensed company as it is a guarantee that they have what it takes to deal with this challenge of gutters. Request to see a copy of the permit. Ensure that they have an insurance policy which protects the owner against claims that may arise if the cleaners are injured in your premises.
Choose a cleaning company that works in your neighborhood. They can follow up on their work after some time without hurdles.
You should engage a reputable service provider. Get the phone numbers of the past clients and ask them how they feel about the gutter cleaning firm. You can get your close network giving you reliable leads. Check what people are saying over the internet about the services provided by the gutter cleaning firm.
Obtain quotes for this exercise. Every cost should be itemized. You should see what various gutter cleaning firms charge for the same services. Hire those who are affordable, but they offer quality services.


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Lucky Patcher And GameGuardian Can Go Hand In Hand
Vadim Ioan Caraiman December 15, 2018 Leave a Comment
Lucky Patcher and GameGuardian are two apps with two different purposes. While Lucky Patcher allows users to manipulate paid apps to work in full version, GameGuardian is focusing only on mobile games and permits users to search and replace in-game stuff such as the number of coins, inventory items, life points, and so on.
Lucky Patcher Features
Lucky Patcher is eliminating license checks, while it also removes in-game ads. Also, Lucky Patcher can modify associated permissions of the applications, unlock paid apps, and extract the APK of any installed app to backup.
In short, Lucky Patcher allows you to run paid apps without paying a dime. However, such a feat is not legal at all and strongly violates the policies of Google. Accordingly, you can't find Lucky Patcher on Google Play Store, so you'll have to rely on APK sites to download and install the app. Therefore, you can't be 100 percent sure you won't also install a malware, along with Lucky Patcher.
GameGuardian Features
GameGuardian is focusing exclusively on mobile games. This app allows you to search within a running game the values that you'd want to replace. Accordingly, you can add more in-game coins, inventory items, or lives. That would only work when you're actually running a game.
While some of Game Guardian's functions are altering the in-app purchases features of a mobile game, its primary purpose is to allow users to cheat and get some extra advantage within a specific game, such as more coins or inventory items.
I'm neither promoting pirating paid apps (because some people put some work into that application), nor cheating in games (because a game, no matter how hard it is, should be played as it is as that's what makes it challenging and fun), but for those of you who would like to try a paid application before buying it, here's something interesting.
Lucky Patcher is the perfect app for removing license checks, while, on the other hand, GameGuardian allows users to trial more of what a specific game is offering, by either adding more coins for buying new stuff or new inventory items.
Lucky Patcher and GameGuardian can go hand in hand, but they are both not legal apps to be used, especially when playing multiplayer mobile games online.
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You have to measure your sales success. It sounds easy, but in reality, measuring successes in sales can be difficult. Although the job is to close sales, measuring the progress can't come down to the number of sales and looking at profit margins. You have to consider things like the demand for your product (growing or shrinking), the efforts being made my your sales team, the progress over the year, etc. You can't assume that a slow month means your team members aren't doing their jobs.
In that article, Grev describes a client who fired a long-time, successful sales person because his performance seemed to continue to decline. After working with Grev, the client discovered that the problem wasn't with the sales person – it was with the product – and the replacement they hired didn't have the materials, overnight or CRM tools needed to be successful.
Consistent sales content: Your sales people are having conversations with prospective clients. They are talking about your product or service, describing why your business is different and making the case for why your product or service is something they should add to their lives. But what are they saying? Make sure your sales people are relaying the same information to all prospective clients by approving all the sales copy and the prospecting process. You should be able to control the message being sent by your sales people – they are representing your company to the public.
Don't ignore the data: Sometimes data doesn't tell us what we want to hear. If your data shows you that your product or service needs changed or that you're no longer meeting the needs of your prospective clients, figure out what needs to change. No one benefits if you wait until it's too late.
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The Innovation Imperative
Health care delivery has to innovate on a massive scale for higher performance.
Ian Morrison Ph.D.
If you are an optimist, as I am, you see growth in health care costs moderating, coverage expanding, and important progress being made on patient safety and quality. But even optimists cannot be complacent. We are just scratching the surface of what must be done to transform the health care delivery system. Remember, the baby boom is just starting the long march through Medicare (and for the vast majority of the eventually impoverished seniors, a significant tramp through Medicaid).
It is also wise to consider that health care premiums are swamping the finances of most middle class Americans as well as the businesses and taxpayers that support those health insurance premiums. And recall: We are on the edge of dazzling technologies that have the potential to extend life, cure disease and ameliorate suffering, but at a cost that could be staggeringly expensive. No, we cannot be complacent; we need to innovate our way out of this.
Creating Sustainable Affordability
Health care affordability is the key challenge. We lull ourselves into complacency if we simply try to bend the trend a wee bit. Health care is already outrageously expensive, and the pressures from an aging, obese, spoiled and demanding public will overwhelm our ability to pay for health care as it is currently conceived and delivered. Add to the demand side the new technologies on the supply side — genetically engineered drugs; intelligent implantable devices; and new forms of prosthetic aids to mobility, well-being and function (none of which sounds cheap to me) — and you have a recipe for unit costs increasing and volume of units expanding.
Oh yes — we are bringing 50 million more Americans into the fold with coverage expansion, slowly but surely, over the coming decades, because we Americans are not really the heartless bastards we sometimes appear to be to the rest of the world. (I am writing this in Scotland, so maybe I am tainted by the local views.)
But while affordability is the key challenge, the solution is not just cost-cutting and re-engineering. Don't get me wrong — we need to do those things, but they will not get us where we need to be. As one CEO in another industry with whom I worked taught me: "You cannot re-engineer your way to greatness."
Many organizations are on the path of process redesign, supply chain rationalization, clinical process improvement and Lean. All good. But in many cases, they will yield improvement that will be smothered by the forces of supply and demand. No, the true challenge is to create sustainable affordability through massively scalable innovation.
Leading Innovation
My longtime friends and colleagues Molly Coye, M.D., chief innovation officer at UCLA Health System, and Wendy Everett, chief executive officer of the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation, are pioneers in tackling this innovation imperative. I was honored to participate recently in their second annual National Healthcare Innovation Summit held at Harvard University Medical School in conjunction with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Avia. The summit brought together chief innovation officers and chief transformation officers of leading health care delivery systems, encouraging interaction between thought leaders in health care and many smaller entrepreneurial inventive companies.
The value of such interaction is clear: We need to harness the innovation that entrepreneurial companies can bring and to encourage large-scale delivery systems to deploy them. All this must be done in pursuit of the noble Triple Aim of better health care, better health and lower per capita costs. Searching and sorting these innovations — and evaluating, disseminating and connecting them to partners — is very important work.
As these forums and other worthy initiatives across the country show, there is potential to bring large-scale innovation to health care delivery. I would offer the following observations about what to watch for on this journey.
The trajectory of silicon. In almost every other industry, meaningful innovation has occurred because contemporary information technology was deployed at scale. The expanding power of semiconductors has enabled many of the technologies that have transformed our lives. Getting on the silicon innovation trajectory has been hard for health care, because health care delivery is not just about bits and bytes; yet that does not excuse us. Health care has been pathetically slow at incorporating contemporary information technology.
I recall as a young analyst working in Vancouver, B.C., writing the justification for a Meditech electronic record system as part of an all-computerized hospital strategy in 1979! That was nearly 35 years ago; it is sad it has taken us this long to get with the program (if you pardon the pun). While meaningful use is no panacea, it has dragged the health care delivery system toward the future, if not into it. We must jump on the silicon trajectory and use cutting-edge technology to better effect. For example, companies like Teladoc provide remote access to physician consultation services on demand to more than 7 million members. Similarly, Eric Topol, M.D., teaches us that the iPhone and its derivatives may become the key medical technology of the 21st century.
The value of clinical innovation. We are on the cusp of a key societal debate about how to value clinical innovation. Scientists and industry pursue unmet medical needs, drawing on the best of emerging science and translating it into meaningful innovation. We celebrate their success on "NBC Nightly News" and in the National Enquirer — medical breakthroughs we call them. But we don't have a very good idea about how to deal with clinical innovation that is highly effective and incredibly expensive, with potentially huge numbers of clinically plausible patient applications. Biologicals or specialty pharmaceuticals have been the focus of this debate, with the anti–hepatitis C drug Sovaldi its epicenter. A drug that costs (priced at) $1,000 a pill that could help millions of people is just the tip of a very big iceberg. Specialty pharma is no longer a rounding error for purchasers.
A decade ago, specialty pharmaceuticals accounted for about 2 percent of the pharmaceutical budget, growing at 20 percent compound per annum. Specialty pharmaceuticals now account for nearly 40 percent of drug spending by purchasers, and these costs are still growing at more than 20 percent per annum. United Healthcare paid out $100 million for Sovaldi for its health plan members in the first quarter of this year alone. Industry supporters defend Sovaldi's price as value-based, because it is cheaper than the liver transplant it purports to avoid. To me, that's nuts. It's like saying that the telegraph should be priced at the same rate per bit of information as the Pony Express it replaced.
But I feel for the clinical innovators; they need to know what the rules are. What are we as a society prepared to pay for clinical innovation? On what basis? In the United Kingdom, they are comfortable making recommendations to cover therapies based on classic cost-effectiveness criteria such as cost per quality-adjusted life year, or QALY, which sounds brutally calculating but has the salutary effect of encouraging the manufacturers to lower their price to make the cut of deemed cost-effectiveness (typically around $50,000 per QALY). This all smells too much like death panels for most Americans. But we'd better figure this out soon or we will have a big problem.
Imagine an effective but highly expensive neurosurgical intervention for Alzheimer's, or an effective heart xenotransplantation using baboons raised on farms in Texas where the only limit was not organ donors but money. (By the way, I raised this baboon farm scenario with a Wall Street Journal reporter 20 years ago, and when he published it in a front-page story the next day, I got an irate call from the head of heart transplantation at nearby Stanford telling me I was an idiot because it wouldn't be baboons … it would be pigs. But you get my point.)
Scaling emerging models. Organizers of the Innovation Summit were clear that a key challenge for the future is finding scalable innovations. In health care, we are spectacularly successful at pilots that never take off. Overcoming this dilemma needs commitment by health system leaders to deploy, at scale, promising innovations and putting the force of the enterprise behind them. All too often, large-scale delivery systems see innovations like Scout badges, little things they can point to that they have done but that are meaningless individually and collectively as a share of revenue or as a share of mind or strategic focus.
Disruptive innovation vs. distractive innovation. Clayton Christensen is a hero of mine. But I worry that his great insights and practical teachings may be lost in misuse, overuse and outright abuse of the term disruptive innovation. For too many large health systems, half-assed pilot projects are distractive innovations. Worse yet, the people they disrupt are not overpaid incumbents, but hard-working clinical caregivers who are at the front end of care but are bombarded with idea-of-the-month projects overlaid on an already demanding workload.
Policymakers must support innovation … sometimes by getting out of the way. One of the key features of the Affordable Care Act was creating a Center for Innovation within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. I strongly support it, but we should not expect all innovation to come from CMS or from the government. A key role for policymakers is to develop an environment that encourages innovation by being less prescriptive, not more; by eliminating regulations, not creating more; by eliminating layers of bureaucracy, not adding them. No one is regulating Apple's app community developers, and they seem to be doing just fine.
Health plan innovation: reframing markets. Health plans can play a key role in creating an environment conducive to delivery system transformation and innovation. At the Innovation Summit, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini spoke eloquently about his vision for Aetna and all of U.S. health care: Aetna and others would enable consumers to select among (Aetna-enabled) accountable care organizations in private exchanges. (I still think Obama's public exchanges will be around, too.)
Business model innovation. As innovation experts such as Clay Christensen and Larry Dobson teach us, most true innovation is not just in technology or service offerings, but is rooted in business model innovation. Finding new ways to be paid is important: Consumer subscription services, direct pay retail models and sponsored offerings all have potential. Advertising-based plays get trickier because of the special sensitivity of patient-specific information; but they can exist, as WebMD and others have shown.
Engaging consumers. A common theme at the Innovation Summit and across the country is finding new ways to help consumers make better decisions about their health and health care. For example, Castlight Health helps consumers to become more discriminating shoppers. EosHealth assists the chronically ill in managing their conditions more effectively.
Using the new digital infrastructure: social, mobile, cloud, big data and new analytics. In Silicon Valley where I live, the buzz is all about the new digital infrastructure that can enable all kinds of innovation. Many of the emerging health care innovators are applying these tools to consumer engagement, clinical process improvement and administrative efficiencies.
De-institutionalization: health care as a social, family and community responsibility. As we have explored in many recent columns, the shift from volume to value and toward population health means that health care will look a lot more like social work than medical care. But on my trip to Europe, I am deeply struck that in Ireland, France and Scotland, the social work aspects of health care are not always delivered by government or formal health care institutions but by volunteer organizations and individuals, by a sense of family obligation to be care deliverers, by communities that support interaction. As we move toward population health, we need to develop and harness our own existing, innovative American social and community-based solutions for promoting health and delivering health care. The promotores in the Latino community are an excellent foundational example.
Engaging the big system in change. My final observation to the entrepreneurs of innovative startups and the CEOs and chief innovation officers of large health care delivery systems is to focus on the big system — the core delivery system and how it can be transformed meaningfully. Innovation should not be thought of as myriad little ornaments on a Christmas tree, but as a means to rethink, in a deep way, how the whole delivery system can be redesigned at scale and with purpose to be higher performing. That is our work. That is the Innovation Imperative.
Ian Morrison, Ph.D., is an author, consultant and futurist based in Menlo Park, Calif. He is also a regular contributor to H&HN Daily and a member of Speakers Express.
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Essar Ports to develop iron ore handling facility of Vizag port
May 15, 2015 10:45 am Published by Atlantic Admin
Essar Ports Ltd (EPL) today announced the taking over of the iron ore handling complex of Visakhapatnam port on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis, for a period of 30 years. Essar Vizag Terminals Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EPL, will comprise three berths -two outer harbour and one inner harbour berths – with a combined capacity of 23 million tonnes per annum to be developed in two phases. The project will be developed at a cost of Rs 1,200 crore over a period of three years, and will cover the upgradation of outer harbour berths (OB I & II) in Phase I and mechanisation of inner harbour berth (WQ-I) in Phase II.
"Enhancing the cargo handling capacity and mechanisation of port facilities for efficient management is crucial for long-term sustenance. We are sure Essar will develop the facility with latest state-of-the-art handling facilities and achieve higher loading rate thereby reducing the overall turnaround by at least 50 per cent," MT Krishna Babu, chairman, Vizag Port, said. Commenting on the development, Rajiv Agarwal, CEO & managing director, Essar Ports, said the facility was well-placed to cater to both domestic and international steel industry. It will serve major iron ore consuming countries like China, Japan and Korea in addition to coastal movement within India. The facility has a dedicated rail connectivity to India's iron ore mining belt and would will take Essar Port's total east-coast iron ore handling capacity to 39 mtpa.
The company has three operational terminals at Hazira, Vadinar and Paradip ports with a current capacity of 104 million tonnes. It has plans to expand the capacity to more than 200 million tonnes over the next few years. Essar Vizag Terminals has paid an upfront payment of Rs 185 crore to Vizag port for the complex. In addition, it will also pay a revenue share to the port, said Satyanand, CEO, of Essar Vizag Terminals. Vizag port handled close to 14 million tonnes of iron ore during 2014-15, highest by any port in the country.


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whether the Ministry of Defence would consider a proposal that upon death of Victoria Cross, PVC and other gallantry award winners, their families may be allowed to participate in Republic Day parade, wearing the medals, so that these stories of valour do not fade away upon the death or passing away of these brave men and women?
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I have been running blank for a while trying to find someone to dress as from my favourite Anime/Manga.
I have done Mihawk, which is the sort of character I am looking for. I'm a perfectionist, so I will want to pull him off well. E.g. Franky would be impossible for me to be happy with.
Yo ! dont know if you're still tryin to find a character but I have a few in mind you could totally do .
[QUOTE=nastykuma;4996916]Yo ! dont know if you're still tryin to find a character but I have a few in mind you could totally do .
Eutass might actually be a good one.
The others don't really have a very outstanding 'wow' factor to it in my opinion.


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Ulrike Weichelt (* 25. Februar 1977 in Dresden) ist eine ehemalige deutsche Bahnradsportlerin.

1998 wurde Ulrike Weichelt Europameisterin (U23) im 500-Meter-Zeitfahren, im Sprint belegte sie Platz zwei. Im Jahr darauf wurde sie erneut Europameisterin im Zeitfahren und im Sprint Dritte.

Bei den UCI-Bahn-Weltmeisterschaften 1999 in Berlin belegte Weichelt Platz drei im Zeitfahren. 2000 startete sie bei den Olympischen Spielen in Sydney und belegte im Zeitfahren Platz sechs.

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«giga» stands for 1,000,000,000 (i.e. one billion), whereas «nano» is kind of the opposite, one billionth.
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Mob Psycho 100 Gets Second Anime Season
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Get hype, fans, because Mob is back for more action!
Earlier today, fans tuned in to the Mob Psycho 100 Reigen: Shirarezaru Kiseki Reinōryokusha (Mob Psycho 100 Reigen: The Miraculous Unknown Psychic) fan event. During the event's evening session, news broke that the Mob Psycho 100 anime will receive a second season.
The core staff from the first season will return to work on the show at Bones. Yuzuru Tachikawa (Death Parade) will return to the director's chair, while Yoshimichi Kameda (Paroru no Miraijima) provides character designs. Hiroshi Seko (Ajin – Demi-Human, Seraph of the End) is in charge of series composition on the project.
The first season of the Mob Psycho 100 anime aired in the Summer 2016 broadcast season. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and describes the title as:
Kageyama Shigeo (a.k.a. Mob) is an 8th grader with powerful psychic abilities. Workingunder his not-so-capable master, Reigen, Mob uses his powers to exorcise evil spirits. But his will to be normal causes him to suppress his powers and feelings until he hits 100 percent — a point where his pent-up emotions are unleased and a darker power takes over.
Mob Psycho 100 is a manga series by One-Punch Man creator ONE. The series revolves around middle school student Kageyama Shigeo, whose lack of presence earned him the nickname "Mob." Though he seems inconspicuous, Mob is actually a powerful Esper. As he gets older, Mob comes to realize the dangers of his powers, and chooses to live under a constant emotional shackle to contain his abilities. Mob wants nothing more than to live a normal life, but must endure a barrage of problems that seem to arrive at his feet. If his emotions are fully unlocked, a mysterious "something" will overtake his entire being.
Mob Psycho 100 first debuted on Ura Sunday in 2012. The series ran through December 2017, and spans fifteen collected volumes. Volume 16 will hit Japanese retailers on April 4.
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How do I hold my head up high when I'm up from the Sticks for my weekly London fix? One way is to whizz into an exhibition at breakneck speed during the day, in order to achieve something other than trying on unsuitable designer outfits and eating Yo! Sushi.
By alternating culture with shopping I get a glorious (possibly delusory) sense of purpose, and by belonging, as I do, to a variety of arty memberships (Tate RA V&A ROH NT and the Artfund) this Artfix is made as easy as pie.
Annual cost? £50 -£70 a piece (or £350 pa for all of the above): a snip in the grand scheme of things because suddenly the Art World is your Oyster with sell out shows, secret houses, free talks, ballet rehearsals, and members rooms offering respite and focus all over town, at the drop of a hat.
The trouble with Art nowadays is that it has become so deadly serious and far too much of a mission. Why, oh why, when a ten-minute visit will do the trick just as well? A recent research-led memory-lane whistle-stop tour of Damian (Tate Mod) reacquainted me with the delights of tobacco: by sticking my head into a mega-size ashtray full of Silk Cut fag ends I probably experienced enough to hold conversational sway later in the day. That's half the fun isn't it? And when I found myself carelessly asleep on the leather sofa-bench of the upstairs members' room at the V&A, I quickly realized how reassuring membership actually is: where else in central London can I grab forty winks without causing a sensation? That's one of the bonuses of being a Friend: knowing that no one minds if I drop off quietly in the corner or chew/paint my fingernails before an evening's onslaught. The rest of the perk (of being a serial Friend) is the opportunity to dip 'n' dive, all round town, from show to show, without agenda or financial reservation.
My modus operandi: If I can come and go with alacrity, and don't have to fork out £8 – 12 every time I go into an exhibition, I see more shows more often. I come away feeling pleased with myself, sated, possibly informed. No more Art oblige. No more trying to reconcile the cost of entry with the level of enjoyment (not always equal). And no need to rationalize yet another curatorial fantasy or expose myself any longer than is absolutely necessary to the Emperor's New Clothes School of Art. Call it Cultural Philistinism if you like, but little and often is my new rule, and a welcome end to Art Overload. Stay fifteen or fifty minutes - either way I enjoy.
I LOVE being a card-carrying member –Tomax included. It offers me FREEDOM: freedom to pass, to roam, no plan, no fuss - a modest thrill in this day and age, and almost as satisfying as returning home from a day's shopping in London with only a loaf of bread to hand.
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The 9 Best Educational Activities for Children in Florida!
Sometimes it's easy to forget about the array of enjoyable and educational activities for families when you first think of things to do in Florida. Although beaches and theme parks are always an option, our state's museums, enlightening attractions and interactive exhibits are fun for adults and children alike …and the prices won't have your wallet feeling empty. Gather up the kids and head out for an adventure with these nine great educational activities in Florida.
Does your child dream of exploring outer space? Aspiring astronauts and science lovers will have the time of their lives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. From real encounter with your favorite space travelers to the adventurous Shuttle Launch Experience, your family will feel fascinated and entertained at this central Florida spot.
Kids love the movie "Dolphin Tale," a story of a sweet dolphin named Winter who learns to swim and function without her tail fin. If you're in the Clearwater area, you can meet her at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium! Turtles, otters, sharks and more underwater creatures can be found here too.
Containing four floors of exciting exhibits and a giant IMAX theater, the Orlando Science Center is easily among the favorite places of most children in the Orlando area. The KidsTown exhibit alone houses over 11,000 square-feet of interactive stations to learn and explore.
Are you in the southeast Florida area looking for something interesting to do with your young ones? Young At Art Museum in Davie has endless possibilities when it comes to your creativity. Build sculptures from sand, hear about different cultural traditions worldwide or ride a fun subway!
If your kids love to learn about the outdoors, Green Meadows is a great hands-on experience where your kids can touch and feel their favorite animals while being educated on farming. Learn how to milk a cow, feed a pig and take a hayride for a fun-filled day!
Whether you're searching for something to do on a rainy day in Daytona Beach or simply are looking for a way to escape the sun, the Museum of Arts and Sciences is a great spot to take children who love to learn! From a state of the art planetarium to beautiful paintings this museum has it all.
If you're hoping to take your children to a place where they'll acquire some knowledge about the history of the sunshine state, History Miami is the place to go. Travel through the folk life, history, tropical wildlife exhibits and more for a great day!
This larger than life attraction is perfect for kids who find prehistoric creatures thrilling. Their imaginations will be captured as they run around with these ancient animals while learning about their lifestyles and habitats.
"Let your imagination run wild" and head to WonderWorks downtown for an out of the box experience in Orlando. Peruse around the different Wonder Zones to discover fun facts about natural disasters, art and more.