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Senior Safety and Risk Control Specialist
Requisition Number: 31821
Salary: $4,842 - $9,591 monthly
Under the direction of the General Liability Program Manager Office of Insurance and Risk Management and with input from the Director and Assistant Director, , the Senior Safety and Risk Control Specialist works to insure loss reduction strategies are in place to reduce injuries across the campus community. The position must be able to prioritize, implement and devise safety systems to reduce injuries at UCLA. The Senior Safety and Risk Control Specialist position provides assistance to departments implementing and maintaining UCLA's Injury and Illness Prevention Plan (IIPP). The Senior Safety and Risk Control Specialist will assist departments in defining safety action plans; analyze department safety data and trends, complete a hazard assessment, and define controls. The Senior Safety and Risk Control Specialist will review and analyze claims loss data trends. Assists with claims intake, investigation, expert retention, and collection & coordination of evidence pertaining to claims or lawsuits involving general liability, automobile liability and property programs.
The position will interface with all levels of department management as well as other entities on and off campus such as Environment, Health and Safety and safety vendor consultants to insure appropriate assistance is provided to departments. The ideal candidate should be a 'hands-on' person, who has experience and/or knowledge of the various jobs performed in the campus departments which range from the skilled crafts to building maintenance, custodial, landscape, kitchen services laboratory and research workers. Strong leadership and communication skills are required for the position. The ability to communicate in Spanish is an advantage.
The position will include responsibility to implement behavior-based safety programs that influence employee actions toward safer outcomes to prevent work-related and other causes of injuries. Through observation and audits of various programs, the position investigates incidents and completes reviews based on preventability. The incident reviews are added to the WC claims file for use by the UC's third party administrator to help determine compensability. Accident reviews will also be used in risk mitigation strategies, and the Senior Safety and Risk Control Specialist will present information in reviews both orally and in writing to different campus stakeholders. The Senior Safety and Risk Control Specialist will analyze injury trends caused by repetitive motion and provide feedback to UCLA campus Ergonomists and work collaboratively to identify injury prevention programs. The timely and immediate investigation of incidents as assigned will create an ownership of safety by the involved campus personnel and the injured employee and their supervisor. Focus will be placed on increasing their perspective of injury prevention by documenting the process to include how future loss may be prevented.
For full application instructions and position description, please visit: https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=78152
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Georgian Orthodox Church to return donated house after protests
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Georgia's Orthodox Church has returned a donated house to it's previous owners, after they threatened to sue the Church for mismanaging the property. The Zugdidi–Tsaishi Diocese in north-western Georgia announced their decision in a statement on their Facebook page.
The house, along with 2.5 hectares of land, was donated to the Church in 2009 by Valter Akubaradia, on the understanding that it would be turned into a monastery in the name of his late son. However, the Church agreed to sell the house to Georgian State Electrosystem for ₾172,000 ($71,000), who intended to build a high voltage power line on the land. They claimed that the money would be used to build a new monastery in a different location.
In their statement, the Church said that all allegations against the diocese are groundless, and that the reason the diocese allowed Georgian State Electrosystem to purchase the land was because it was of 'importance to the state'.
'Because of the disagreement over the property, the Diocese of Zugdidi and Tsaishi has decided to refuse the donation and fully return it to the family', the statement reads
On 10 June, members of Akubardia's family and other local residents held a demonstration in the courtyard of the house against the construction of the high voltage lines in the village.
In an interview with local radio station Radio Atinati, Akubardia's son-in-law, Soso Tsimintia, said that the Church had not fulfilled the conditions on which the land and the house were handed over.
Tandilla Jologua, a trustee of the Church addressed the rally denying that the land had been sold.
Read: [Man to sue Georgian Church for 'mismanaging' donated house]
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Unter dem Titel Eurovision Song Contest – Wer singt für Österreich? fand der österreichische Vorentscheid für den Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm (Schweden) statt. In einer einzigen Liveshow wurde am 12. Februar 2016 aus zehn Künstlern und Gruppen der österreichische Vertreter ermittelt. Die Abstimmung erfolgte zur Hälfte vom Fernsehpublikum mittels Televoting und zur Hälfte von einer Fachjury. Moderiert wurde die Show von Andi Knoll und Alice Tumler.

Modus
Der Österreichische Rundfunk (ORF) veranstaltete wie im Vorjahr einen Vorentscheid unter dem Namen Eurovision Song Contest – Wer singt für Österreich?. Anders als im Vorjahr gab es nur eine einzige Sendung in der zehn Interpreten mit einem Lied gegeneinander antreten. In insgesamt zwei Entscheidungsrunden wurde der österreichische Beitrag für den Eurovision Song Contest 2016 gesucht. Die Sendung wurde in den ORF-Studios der österreichischen Bundeshauptstadt Wien produziert und moderiert vom Moderatoren-Duo Andi Knoll und Alice Tumler, die beide unmittelbar in den letztjährigen ESC in Wien verwickelt waren. Andi Knoll als Kommentator für den ORF und Alice Tumler als einer der drei Moderatorinnen.

Teilnehmer

Erste Runde
In der ersten Runde präsentierten alle zehn Kandidaten ihr Lied. Jedes Jurymitglied vergab nach jedem Auftritt bis zu zehn Punkte. Nachdem alle Kandidaten bewertet wurden, wurde eine Rangliste erstellt. Der Interpret mit den meisten Jurypunkten erhielten zehn Punkte. Derjenige mit den wenigsten Jurystimmen erhielt zwei Punkte in der Gesamtrangliste (aufgrund von Punktegleichstand von Zoe und Sankil Jones wurden sieben Jurypunkte zweimal vergeben).

Die Zuschauerabstimmung verfuhr nach dem gleichen Prinzip: Derjenige Interpret der die meisten Zuschauerstimmen auf sich vereinigen konnte, erhielt zehn Punkte und der Interpret mit den wenigsten einen Punkt.

Nach der Zuschauerabstimmung wurden die Punkte aus Jury- und Zuschauerabstimmung addiert und die beiden Erstplatzierten Interpretinnen, Zoe und Elly V, zogen in die Finalrunde ein. Wäre es zu einem Gleichstand zweier Interpreten gekommen, hätte die Anzahl der Zuschauerstimmen entschieden.

Die zehn Teilnehmer der ersten Runde waren:

Zoë Straub nahm bereits am Vorentscheid 2015 teil.

Neun Kandidaten wurden von einer Fachjury vorausgewählt, die Jury bestand unter anderem aus dem Ö3-Moderator und Musiker Eberhard Forcher und Redaktionsleiter Stefan Zechner.

Wer singt für Österreich? – Die Entscheidung

In der Finalrunde präsentierten Zoe und Elly V, die beiden Finalistinnen, ihr Lied ein zweites Mal. Hier entschieden ausschließlich die Zuschauer. Die meisten Stimmen erhielt ZOË, weshalb sie zum Eurovision Song Contest 2016 nach Stockholm fahren darf.

Im Finale trat Conchita Wurst mit einer neuen Version ihres Liedes That's What I Am auf, das sie 2012 beim österreichischen Vorentscheid Österreich rockt den Song Contest sang.

Wildcard

Der zehnte Platz für die Show wurde von Facebook-Fans vergeben, der Kandidat mit den meisten Likes sollte ebenfalls an der Vorausscheidung teilnehmen. Bis Ende 2015 konnten sich heimische Künstler und Gruppen auf Facebook präsentieren. Aus diesen wurden Laura Kamhuber, Ola Egbowon, AzRaH, Sara Koell und David Siedl feat. Madelene & Mc Vio für die Wahl durch die Facebook-Benutzer ausgewählt. Dabei kam es zu Unregelmäßigkeiten in Form von einem plötzlichen überproportionalen Anstieg und ebenso plötzlichem Abfall von Likes nicht nachvollziehbarer Herkunft. Offensichtlich manipulierte Likes wurden aus der Wertung genommen. Als zehnte Kandidatin wurde schließlich am 15. Jänner 2016 die Sängerin Azrah bekanntgegeben.

Bewerber um die Wildcard

Jury

Die Jury der Livesendung bestand aus Conchita Wurst, Edita Malovčić sowie Julie Frost. Eine vierte Stimme erhielten Vertreter österreichischer Medien, die eine Gemeinschaftswertung abgaben. Die Medienvertreter waren Stefan Weinberger (Kronen Zeitung), Astrid Hofer (Österreich), Anna Gasteiger (Kurier), Christiane Fasching (Tiroler Tageszeitung), Martin Fichter-Wöß (APA), Marco Schreuder (derStandard.at), Roland Bonimair (TV-Media) sowie Christian Ude (Kleine Zeitung). Jurysprecher war Christian Ude.

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Do you love fictional MAPS as much as I do?
I love maps in books so much that I decided to make a map of my fictionalized version of nineteenth century Englewood, New Jersey which I included in the first edition of THE HOUSE ON TENAFLY ROAD.
For a book series brimming with family drama, addiction and child abuse, my map turned out kinda cute. Life tends to look cute on the surface in certain neighborhoods and in certain time periods, but we all know that down every lane with the ticking away of every moment there are secrets hidden behind freshly painted doors.
Weldon considered bolting. He didn't belong here, but after a quick glance toward the house he crouched down to run his fingers over the hilly pumpkin skins and the soft round tomatoes. Weldon pulled a furry leaf from the low-lying lamb's ears and slipped it into his pocket. Sunny black-eyed Susans burst out where they'd be most pleasing. The wild lilies stood at attention like well-disciplined followers of an inspired leader. Weldon marveled at the planning. His visit was unplanned, unannounced—that had been a blunder. The McCullough family might not like such surprises, and it was still so early in the day.
He hadn't slept, and the night had seemed forever. He had two or three days without the urges … just enough time to meet this girl—he'd stop for her.
"You hate everyone—do you plan to poison us all?" Scott dragged the boy through the hallway into the kitchen and toward the side door.
"Then you're just a dumb old coot!" Willy said as he pulled and got free. Out the side door he went, but Scott surprised him and caught him as he flew off the steps, landing with a great thud.
"Believe me, young man, I'd love to send you away, but your father won't take you!" Scott continued, pulling his grandson toward Simon's willow. With his strong right arm he kept hold of William, who began to plead. Scott ripped a long branch, still in bloom, from the tree. Unfortunately for William his school trousers were of a shoddy, thin weave and every strike across his backside stung as if hitting his skin directly.
Buck skirted the room, his fingers running along the finely crafted bookcases until he came upon a scrapbook labeled in a sloppy masculine hand—"West Point Memories." He touched it and Weldon saw.
"Yes, of course." Weldon took the museum piece off the shelf, as if letting Buck in on a great and happy secret. "Let's find you a nice comfortable spot and some good light. There's a blanket in here somewhere." Weldon limped for the tattered throw hanging over a well-worn Scots-plaid chair.
Do you like seeing maps or imagining fictional worlds? Do you like making maps? Why are maps so fun? I'd love to read your take on maps in the comments!
EXPLORE MORE MAPS AND TELL ME WHICH ONES YOU LIKE BEST!
PS~ Thank you AMY of HEARTH RIDGE for the inspiring this post with your INSTAGRAM!
Hate that too! What are they thinking? I want to see every contour!
I love both fictional and real maps! Derek and I have quite a collection of maps of various countries.
That's really cool. Do you display them? I once got really excited when a railroad buff sent me a RR map from the 1870's so I could plot my characters' travels.
The Deleuze quote suggests all kinds of future entities – made me think. Your map is really wonderful; you worked hard to create a fully realized Englewood of your imagination. Lots of personality in it. My favorite is Adriance Farm – funny girl, you. I've painted and drawn all kinds of subjects but not ever a map – don't know why.
The map was the first one I made since grade school–remember those maps that showed a country's natural resources with tiny symbols? I loved those!
Making the map (and writing the book) brought back my childlike zest for life. If you ever decide to do a map I hope you share it on wordpress!
BTW, do you ever show your art online?
If possible, I love to see the maps!! Real or fiction – I feel I'm the only one who still uses good old-fasioned road-map for long trips away and who likes to pull out my Times Atlas of the World!! Adrienne, your map here is lovely and a great way to introduce parts of your book – wonderful blending of the two and a great post!
You're maps are a delight. I enjoy maps and family trees in books.
Me too! I made a family tree for my characters that i think I shared a few years back. I may make a new one for the series once I'm totally done. It really makes the characters come alive in another way–like real genealogy. Thanks for stopping by, Irene!


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At-large Rep. Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen on June 18 at an Ames City Council meeting.
Ames City Council discussed ordinances regarding massage establishments as well as options to change the name of Squaw Creek at their meeting on Nov. 26.
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Ames City Council approves demolition request for Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house
By Amber Mohmand, amber.mohmand@iowastatedaily.com, @ambermohmand
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The Ames City Council unanimously approved a demolition permit for the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house Tuesday.
Due to flood damages and repair expenses, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority has put in a request to demolish the current structure in order to rebuild the house.
The house was built in 1930 and owned by Kappa Kappa Gamma for 70 years.
"You know how people say 'A place has good bones and just needs a little renovating?'" said Gail Sheluga, a community member who spoke at the public form. "Well [the Kappa Kappa Gamma house] looks good, but our bones are weakening."
Sheluga said she is the current house director for Kappa Kappa Gamma.
This demolition would make the house qualified for a temporary reduction or elimination of property taxes. Currently, Kappa Kappa Gamma's rent covers the cost of insurance, long-term maintenance, property taxes and updates to the house, according to an email sent from Jessica Gunter, account manager for MJ Sorority.
At-large Rep. Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen said she expressed concerns from an environmental perspective of the demolition, though she understands the reasoning for the demolition.
"I'm torn on this one," Beatty-Hansen said. "I think the demolition definitely has an environmental impact [...] it can take decades for even an energy efficient building to make up for the fact you just demolished the old one. So, there's something that I think I'm really hesitating about where we incentivize doing that with a tax abatement. It would be one thing if we were allowing them to it if they can afford it [...] to abate the taxes from it when it's going against one of our goals, I have a hard time with that."
The Council voted unanimously to approve the demolition request and discuss the tax abatement another day.
In addition to approving the demolition request, the Council also unanimously approved to amend the first passage of the Zoning Code which will regulate stacked parking.
During the review of the Rental Code and Vacation Lodging Ordinance, there was a discrepancy in the parking standards for a single-family home, according to the Council Action. The code will provide parking requirements in the Rental Code and the Zoning Ordinance of the Ames Municipal Code, where all the regulations, city laws and codes can be found.
The Council also voted to amend the second passage of the ordinance which will regulate massage establishments.
The ordinance was drafted in order to prevent human trafficking and would require managers of the businesses to be Iowa residents, designated in writing, given the responsibility to provide information and be compliant.
The practitioners cannot provide massage services between midnight and 5 a.m. and are required to provide photo identification and licenses in plain sight.
The next City Council meeting will be at 6 p.m., Tuesday in the Council Chambers at City Hall.
Bronwyn Beatty-hansen
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본 연구는 북한의 광고시장이 개방된다면 옥외광고 시장이 성장할 수 있을 것인가에 대한 논의의 필요성을 제기하고자 시작되었다. 현재 북한은 광고와 관련된 법체계를 개정하여 상업광고의 가능성을 확대하고 있는 추세이다. 따라서 인쇄나 TV와 같은 전통 미디어상의 광고뿐만 아니라 인터넷과 모바일 등의 뉴미디어 광고도 허용되기 시작하였다. 그간 북한의 옥외광고는 관광객이나 외국인을 대상으로 하는 형태로 승인되었으나 최근에는 북한 주민들을 대상으로 하는 제품 광고들이 등장하였으며, 초기 형태의 마케팅 활동도 이루어지는 것으로 분석되었다.
This study has begun to raise the necessity of discussing whether the outdoor advertising market can grow if the North Korean advertising market is opened. Currently, North Korea is expanding the possibility of commercial advertising by revising the legal system related to advertising. Therefore, new media advertising such as the Internet and mobile has begun to be accepted as well as advertisements on traditional media such as print and TV. In the meantime, North Korean outdoor advertising has been approved for tourists and foreigners. Recently, however, product advertisements for North Korean residents have appeared, and the initial type of marketing activities are centered on outdoor billboards.


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Planes, Trains and Automobiles Camp
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The National Corvette Museum, Historic RailPark, and the Aviation Heritage Park have teamed up to create a unique week long summer camp titled, "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles".
Who can attend (ages): Camp is geared towards students who will be entering 2nd through 5th grade for the coming school year.
Dates: Monday-Friday, June 17-21
Locations: National Corvette Museum: June 17-18
Historic RailPark & Train Museum: June 19-20
Aviation Heritage Park: June 21
Time: 8:00-4:30 Monday – Friday with camp "graduation" scheduled for Friday at 3:00pm
Cost: Flat Fee of $150 per registered camper
How to Sign up/Register: We will have a link on our website to register click here .
Deadline to Register: Deadline to register will be Monday, June 3rd
Space is limited to 40 campers. Camp t-shirt included in cost. Snacks will be provided, but campers will need to bring their own sack lunch each day. Camp graduation ceremony will be held on Friday afternoon at 3:00
At the Aviation Heritage Park, campers will…
AHP Tour– Hear the extraordinary story of the pilots honored by each plane.
See the F-4D Phantom piloted by Brigadier General Daniel Cherry responsible for shooting down a North Vietnamese MiG-21. Place your hand on the NASA T-38 flown by every man to set foot on the moon. Experience the newest addition to the park- a UH-1 Huey helicopter. More: F-111 flown in the 1986 raid on Libya, Blue Angels F9F-5 Panther, and T-33 Shooting Star.
Science of Flight– Learn the parts of a plane, how those parts work, and the four opposing forces that gets it into the air- lift, force, thrust, and drag. Then campers can try their hand at flying a large glider and compete to see who can glide the farthest. Also, build and throw their own mini glider!
Military Paint Schemes– Learn how the military paints camouflage and other markings to help disguise their planes based on where the planes will be flying. Campers will be given a photo of a location to create their own camouflage paper airplane and shadow box.
Weather and Planes– Learn how the weather effects plane travel. Campers create a water cycle bracelet.
At the Historic RailPark and Train Museum, campers will…
Tour the Museum- Campers will explore the Historic RailPark and Train Museum to learn about the history of American railroading. This includes our two-story museum as well as our five restored railcars.
Weather & A Special Guest- Special guest Cody Bailey, a meteorologist at WNKY News, will come to the RailPark to teach campers about how weather conditions affect the operation of planes, trains, and automobiles.
Escape Games- Campers will experience the RailPark's Mercy Train or Caboose Crash escape games. They will utilize team work to break free before time runs out!
The Life of Hobos- Campers will learn about the life and culture of migrant workers, known as "hobos." They will engage in an activity that will teach them the hobos' secret language.
Early Technology- Campers will learn about early train technology and how it has evolved through the years. They will discover that some of the same technology is still used today!
At the National Corvette Museum, campers will…
Tour the Museum– Campers will enjoy a guided, scavenger hunt tour the Corvette Museum to learn about the unique history behind America's Sports Car. In addition, they will have the opportunity to explore our latest exhibit, "From Gas Station to Space Station: How NASA Conquered Low-Earth Orbit" which includes a large scale (1:15) replica of the Space Shuttle Atlantis along with many impressive NASA artifacts from LEO missions.
Road Science & A Special Guest – Campers will learn about "road science" behind asphalt with a special guest from Scotty's Contracting. Campers will learn about different types of rocks and binders used in creating the asphalt that pave our roadways around the region as well as some unique things they did to make our Corvette Motorsports Park track.
Street Smarts– Campers will discover how to be a street-smart pedestrian and bike rider. They will create a group poster
Tire Traction & Friction– Campers will learn about the life of a tire tread and how physics, (force and friction) come into play as they learn about traction from our Museum's Preservation and Maintenance Technician. They will also create a balloon-powered paper plate racer to race against friends and measure distance traveled.
Early Design– Campers will learn about early car design techniques that are still in use today. Campers will try their hand at sculpting a model of a Corvette out of clay.
Get Your Kicks – Campers will discover the unique history behind Route 66, learn a bit about our country's geography in the process, and create their own vanity license plates.
Interested in volunteering during Planes, Trains and Automobiles camp? Visit this link to learn more.
AviationHeritageParkBG@gmail.com
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Potential Growth Coach Guide and Checklist / version 8 | 5 February 2014 | 1 Potential Growth Coach Guide Guidance notes and checklist for potential Growth Coaches Welcome! We are delighted that you are interested in becoming a Growth Coach for GrowthAccelerator. These guidance notes will explain a little about GrowthAccelerator, the qualities we look for in potential Growth Coaches, the recruitment and selection process for Growth Coaches, and what to do next. What is GrowthAccelerator? GrowthAccelerator is a unique service aimed at SMEs in England with the ambition and capability to grow. It is designed to, help them achieve strong, measurable growth in revenue and create jobs, providing an economic boost. This is delivered through high growth business coaching. The service was formally launched by Vince Cable 23 May 2012. GrowthAccelerator is a partnership between government and private enterprise comprising of a consortium of key partners; Grant Thornton, Pera, Winning Pitch and Oxford Innovation. Together, these four consortium partners provide a service which covers the whole of England.
Why is GrowthAccelerator different? GrowthAccelerator is different from past business support programmes in that it specifically targets high growth businesses capable of 20%+ annual growth, is open only to eligible and suitable businesses, and is strongly results orientated to Gross Value Add and employment uplift thereby generating significant, measurable economic impact for the UK. To deliver this, GrowthAccelerator has built a community of associate Growth Coaches to provide high impact coaching. Further information about GrowthAccelerator can be found at www.growthaccelerator.com What is offered to high growth businesses? The core of the service is delivering high quality business coaching to participating companies. Our Growth Coaches play a major role in helping our client businesses achieve their growth potential.
Potential Growth Coach Guide and Checklist / version 8 | 5 February 2014 | 2 The value proposition for GrowthAccelerator covers the following areas:  Business Development Coaching: primarily customised business coaching which addresses general business areas such as strategy, change management, sales, marketing, organisation, systems. This is typically delivered over a period of several months to enable the company to apply the learning and embed new and/or enhanced management practices.  Access to Finance: bespoke support from finance specialists to identify appropriate sources and structures for funding requirements, build the investment proposition and financing plan, and secure investor introductions  Growth Through Innovation: bespoke support from innovation specialists to develop and commercialise innovation and to create and build a culture of innovation. The aim is to deliver growth by unblocking or accelerating an innovation challenge to help the business achieve tangible results and create new jobs  Leadership and Management Training: providing 50% matched funding up to £2k per manager in the client business, linked to development priorities  Access to Workshops & Masterclasses: providing a range of learning programmes to client businesses  GrowthCommunity: connectivity of high growth businesses taking advantage of GrowthAccelerator.
What is meant by "coaching" on GrowthAccelerator? Coaching for GrowthAccelerator is focused on business performance, not on personal development. There are many definitions of coaching. In GrowthAccelerator, we are not precious about the definition and recognise that Growth Coaching will run across a spectrum of coaching, mentoring, signposting and facilitation: GrowthAccelerator has chosen to apply the term "business coaching" to this. Having said this, GrowthAccelerator is clear that it is not in the interest of the client or the Growth Coach for the Growth Coach to provide direction to the client by acting as a traditional management consultant. What we look for in our Growth Coaches We recognise that Growth Coaches are an important facet of the GrowthAccelerator brand as well as delivering high impact coaching for strong GVA results. So, we look for high quality individuals who have robust experience of business and the commercial world, and of delivering business coaching. Therefore, two key criteria against which we judge all potential Growth Coaches are:  Personal business record: we are looking for experienced and credible business people who have strong commercial acumen and firsthand knowledge of growing a business either as a business owner or in a senior position  Personal track record in coaching business leaders: we use coaches who can demonstrate an existing successful track record as a business coach focussing on business performance.
Potential Growth Coach Guide and Checklist / version 8 | 5 February 2014 | 3 Recruitment and selection process for Growth Coaches Our Growth Coaches go through a careful recruitment and selection process so that the businesses we work with can have complete confidence that our Growth Coaches really know their stuff. We want our businesses to feel safe in the knowledge that they are part of a truly experienced community of growth-focussed business experts. All our registered and approved Growth Coaches have successfully completed the following four stage recruitment and selection process. Each stage of this process represents a quality gate to ensure that we recruit only the highest quality Growth Coaches.  CV Submission – Potential Growth Coaches should register their CV, areas of expertise and sector experience .These are then reviewed and vetted by the GrowthAccelerator team.
 Three References - You will be requested to provide three references or testimonials from Managing Directors of businesses that you have coached. These should be on headed notepaper and signed by the Managing Director or provided via an email trail which clearly demonstrates it originated from the Managing director. Further, they must mention you by name, and give specific details of the positive impact and outcomes that your coaching support has provided to the Managing Director and the business.  1:1 Interview – Potential Growth Coaches will have a face-to-face meeting with a local Growth Manager or other GrowthAccelerator personnel. This interview will look more in-depth at your CV, references/testimonials and personal experience of business growth. It will also explore how well your skills and experience are fitted to tackling the issues typically facing high growth companies.
 Due diligence – Potential Growth Coaches must be approved by a background check. We will require you to provide specific information to us which we can then check against credit reference agency databases, including information from the Electoral Register and fraud prevention agencies.  Coach Briefing & Assessment – Potential Growth Coaches will attend a Coach Briefing Day which provides further detail about GrowthAccelerator, takes you through observed and assessed exercises, and explains some of the typical tools used with GrowthAccelerator clients.
Only a coach who has been successful in this recruitment and selection process will be accepted as a registered and approved Growth Coach, and be matched with clients on GrowthAccelerator. Your details will be kept on GrowthAccelerator system which will allow us to match you with clients, and will allow you to update your details as necessary via the Coach portal. In addition, we will require to see evidence of a minimum £500,000 Professional Indemnity Insurance and in some instances, a minimum £500,000 Public Liability Insurance. We'll also require details on limited company registration with Companies House or confirmation of sole trader status.
Please Note: This is not an accreditation or an employment process. Completing this process only means you are registered with the service and pre-approved to work with potential clients should your profile match a client. You are not guaranteed coaching assignments.
Potential Growth Coach Guide and Checklist / version 8 | 5 February 2014 | 4 How are Growth Coaches engaged with clients? Once a Growth Coach has been registered and approved with GrowthAccelerator, they can be allocated clients and coaching assignments. Growth Coaches selected to work with clients are contracted by consortium members (Grant Thornton, Pera, Oxford Innovation or Winning Pitch) and sign up to delivering the outcomes detailed within the Scope of Support. Coach payments are linked to the delivery of outcomes within the Scope of Support as opposed to the number of days coaching provided. Payment is made to growth Coaches on completion and sign-off of the work. We do not pay expenses. Payment is made within 30 days of the coach submitting their invoice and completed paperwork.
A Scope of Support sets out the objectives and measurable outcomes of the work to be undertaken. It is signed off by the client and used to help the Growth Manager select and appoint the most suitable Growth Coach. Growth Coaches can provide Business Development Coaching, Access to Finance Coaching or Growth Through Innovation Coaching depending on their individual areas of expertise and experience. This will be recorded in our system following review by a Growth Manager of your skills and expertise to support a search for coaches in those areas. Although the primary contact for the Growth Coach will be the Managing Director or Chief Executive of the client business, our Growth Coaches might work with more than one person in the organisation during their engagement with the company, driving the performance of the organisation by typically working with the senior management. Becoming a registered and approved Growth Coach is in itself no guarantee of work. The client's needs will always drive a match with a Growth Coach, typically in relation to location, sector experience and functional specialisms. If you refer a client into GrowthAccelerator, please be aware that you may not be assigned that client to work with; a Growth Manager will assess the need based on the Scope of Support, however client preference is always considered.
Registered and approved Growth Coaches are free to work across all regions. Should you decide to do this, we will require you to complete a coach contract with the local consortium partner, as well as providing copies of Professional Indemnity and Public Liability insurances. Why do Growth Coaches choose to work with GrowthAccelerator? Our Growth Coaches choose to work with GrowthAccelerator for a variety of reasons. These often include the opportunity to building longer-term relationships with the service and the consortium partners, the opportunity to network with other coaches to build support and business networks, as well as the opportunity to build commercial on-going relationships with the high growth SMEs they may work with through GrowthAccelerator. In some cases, Growth Coaches are able to provide Leadership and Management Training to GrowthAccelerator clients (see below for more information). Registered and approved Growth Coaches are also free to work across England (see above for more information).
Potential Growth Coach Guide and Checklist / version 8 | 5 February 2014 | 5 Coaching and Leadership & Management training Leadership & Management training is designed to support the individual training needs of senior managers in the client business, so that they can successfully implement the growth plans that arise from the business coaching. In a small minority of cases, Growth Coaches can also deliver Leadership & Management training where they can demonstrate that they offer the best training solution for the client. This will depend on the Growth Coach's areas of expertise and experience. The delivery of any Leadership & Management training is outside the terms of any coaching contract and subject to prior approval from GrowthAccelerator; it is also the subject of a separate commercial arrangement between the training provider and the client. Where the Growth Coach and Leadership & Management training provider are the same person or company, the Growth Coach is required to complete the 'Coach as Trainer Proposal' form and indicate how it is a separate offer from what will be delivered in the coaching.
What should I do next? Having read these Guidance Notes, if you decide you wish continue your application and be considered as a Growth Coach on GrowthAccelerator review the Growth Coach Checklist. To progress your interest contact your local Growth Coach Lead below: Business Development Coaching  London and Hertfordshire – GAcoaching@uk.gt.com  Midlands and East of England – coach.queries@peraconsulting.com  North West England – Sandra Wood, s.wood@winning-pitch.co.uk  North East England – Samantha Hayton, s.hayton@winning-pitch.co.uk  Yorkshire and Humberside – Kathryn Wilson, k.wilson@winning-pitch.co.uk  South West and South East England – coaching@oxin.co.uk Access to Finance  South West and South East England – coaching@oxin.co.uk  All other areas of England – GAcoaching@uk.gt.com Growth through Innovation  South West and South East England – coaching@oxin.co.uk  All other areas of England – coach.queries@peraconsulting.com If you are unsure who to contact or have general questions regarding Growth Coaching across the consortium partners, contact Heather Reagan, Growth Coach & Mentoring Executive at heather.reagan@growthaccelerator.com Please be aware that from time to time the consortium partners will put recruitment on hold because they have a sufficiency of Growth Coaches covering the geography, or because they have a sufficiency of sector experience or functional expertise for the client businesses they are currently supporting. You will be advised if this is the case. Thank you for your interest.


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It's a great blessing when the family of God includes people of all generations. It's also a great challenge when the younger generation has differing values, habits, and expectations.
While their grandparents volunteer out of loyalty to an organization, millennials volunteer to a cause they believe in. They also need to know what difference their contribution will make.
We tend to take the value of church volunteering for granted. What could be more important than working for God's church! But evaluating impact not only motivates volunteers, it can help leaders as they make decisions in support of the church's mission. How does our children's ministry impact the children? How many families receive supplies for how many meals each month from your food pantry? What's the impact of that board that needs new volunteers? Some ministry impact can be measured in numbers of meals or participants. The impact of other ministries is shown when participants talk about its impact on their lives. The effort involved in gathering this information is outweighed by the value of knowing and sharing real evidence of ministry impact.
Encourage serving with their friends. Ministries that serve the community, like a food pantry, will also be attractive to their unchurched friends.
Millennials also enjoy inter-generational serving, where they can serve alongside kids and seniors.
Publicize your volunteer opportunities on social media.
Let the millennials do things their own way.
Rather than ask them to do the Christmas baskets for needy families the way it's always been done, let them design their own method.
When you hear that a couple millennials texted friends on Friday night to join them on a Saturday morning serving project, celebrate it! Encourage both formal and informal networks of people who want to be notified when something comes up.
Embrace technology. If Sunday school attendance can be entered on any computer at any time, a millennial is more likely to volunteer.
Is it hard to think about changing the way we've always volunteered? Yes, it is. Get used to it. At the speed our world is changing, once we get things figured out for now, it won't be 'now' any more!


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Reformulation of OxyContin to make it abuse-deterrent is main reason for shift to heroin and deaths from it, study concludes
The reformulation of OxyContin in 2010 is the main reason for the large increase in heroin overdose in recent years, according to a working paper by the RAND Corp. and the Wharton School of economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Purdue Pharma released OxyContin as a 12-hour-release opioid for acute or chronic pain in 1996. The original formulation could be easily crushed or dissolved, allowing a person to get the 12-hour dosage all at once, making it ripe for abuse.
In 2007, Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to misleading consumers about the risk of abuse associated with the drug and paid $600 million in federal fines. In 2010, it released a new formulation of OxyContin that made it "abuse-deterrent," the first drug to get this designation from the Food and Drug Administration. The report says the formula reduced non-medical OxyContin use as much as 40 percent.
This effort, along with prescription-monitoring programs and "pill mill" laws in Kentucky, Florida and other states, have all been credited with reducing prescription-painkiller deaths, but also the increase in the abuse of "substitute" opiates such as heroin and fentanyl.
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Kentucky has one of the highest OxyContin misuse rates in the nation, at 0.97 percent, says the report. To combat this, the state instigated the Kentucky All-Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) system and passed a pill-mill bill in 2012 that put additional restrictions on pain clinics and requires people who have certain controlled-substance prescriptions to submit to a regular urine test.
In 2015 Kentucky had 1,220 total overdose deaths, with 605 of them from prescription opioids and 289 from heroin. Five years earlier, 538 of the 996 total overdose deaths were from prescription opioids and only 34 from heroin, according to the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center.
The study, statistically controlling for the monitoring programs and pill-mill laws, concluded that the reformulation of OxyContin played a larger role in the shift to heroin, accounting for "as much as 80 percent of the three-fold increase in heroin mortality since 2010," the study report says.
Researchers based their conclusion on the differences in heroin deaths after 2010 in states that had differing rates of OxyContin abuse before then.
"States with the highest initial rates of OxyContin misuse experienced the largest increases in heroin deaths," they write. "Results show that this differential increase in heroin deaths began precisely in the year following reformulation."
It also found that prior to 2010, there was no correlation between OxyContin abuse and heroin deaths. "Both the levels and trends in heroin deaths were nearly identical across states with high or low initial rates of OxyContin misuse before 2010," the study report said.
Graph is from the report, deaths per 100,000
Data from the National Vital Statistics System
The study found that after the OxyContin reformulation in 2010, prescription opioid abuse and overdose deaths from them in the U.S. decreased for the first time since 1990, but this drop coincided with "an unprecedented rise in heroin overdoses," which "more than tripled between 2010 and 2014 (from 1.9 to 3.4 deaths per 100,000)." Heroin was responsible for the deaths of more than 10,000 Americans in 2014.
"Each percentage-point reduction in the rate of OxyContin misuse due to reformulation leads to 3.1 more heroin-related deaths per 100,000," the study report said. It also said the "impact of the reformulation on heroin and opioid deaths largely offset each other, leading to no net reduction in overall overdose deaths."
The study concluded that "supply-side strategies," like creating abuse-deterrent drugs, as the FDA is actively encouraging, or making it harder for patients to gain access to them, won't solve the nation's drug problems. However, it said they could deter new abuse: "Treating underlying demand may prove to be the more effective strategy for dealing with the current opioid epidemic, particularly because substitutes are readily available."
Data for the report, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, is from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health and the National Vital Statistics System.
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Electrical: Fortean Phenomena
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Unusual electrical effects are common occurrences but for the most part they go unreported for various reasons that we will cover in these pages. This is such a huge subject that I was reluctant to start writing about it – too much work involved. But, I find it fascinating and that makes the work worthwhile.
We take a look at Iverson Cottage, of interest because I have had… more or less… the same thing happen to me and my wife although with less serious consequences. I originally read the story in Fortean Times, but no one seems to have recorded it except the Fortean message board, the original source of the piece below. Followers of strange events will notice, as I did, the connection between this and the famous Canneto di Caronia case that as far as I know is still intermittently ongoing.
2000 VOLTS FROM NOWHERE
BY BILL LOVE
This is a story concerning the strange happenings in the home of a father and son in a small Somerset town some 120 miles west of London, and events, sometimes bordering on the bizarre, in the home of a married couple and their son in a Kent village.
There is a striking similarity between the two cases; weird phenomena centred around the electrical supply; official bodies unable, or perhaps unwilling to help and of course, the inevitable scapegoat – in both cases the son. Numerous theories have been advanced to explain the phenomena but none completely fits the bill.
Somerton is a small, but delightful, Somerset market town. Iverson Cottage, the home of Frank Pattemore and his son Nigel, lies unobtrusively in the heart of Somerton. Within this peaceful looking cottage 83 year old Frank and Nigel are being plagued by strange phenomena.
Adisham is a small, quiet and secluded Kent village lying between Canterbury and Dover. 3 Church Lane is situated near the end of a quiet country lane on the edge of the village. Now boarded up and dilapidated it was some ten years ago, he home of Mr and Mrs Joe Orchard and their son David. Like Frank Pattemores cottage, the Orchards home consisted of a lounge and kitchen downstairs and two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs and it was in this quiet rural home that the Orchards suffered phenomena which were at time, so bizarre as to be beyond belief.
Frank Pattemore bought Iverson Cottage in 1976 and he and Nigel enjoyed six happy years and a good electricity supply until 1982 when it was noticed that an unusually large number of fuses were blowing on both the cooker and lighting circuits. SWEB, the local electricity board were informed and their engineers thoroughly examined the troublesome circuits but could find nothing wrong. These circuits were rewired by SWEB and when their engineer switched on the supply, there was a loud explosion which destroyed the fuse board. From that moment there began a long saga of strange happenings; light bulbs exploding, light fittings melting and falling out of the ceiling, switches becoming welded and unusable, the meter turning even when all the circuits had been isolated, television sets catching fire and the phone ringing of its own accord.
Exerts from SWEB, NASA and the Electricity Research and Development Centre carried out research and investigation and the Cook Report put in an appearance with their own experts but, although 2000 volt surges were recorded the problem remained unsolved and in fact, got worse. By this time SWEB had carried out numerous repairs and two complete rewires but now objects not directly connected to the electricity supply were being affected by this elusive force.
A battery radio set also suffered damage resembling a lightning strike and during one of my visits for the purpose of research, a journalists miniature tape recorder persistently switched itself off when it was placed within a strange forcefield which runs diagonally through the Iverson Cottage.
Frank Pattemore has been visited by experts in many fields; physicists, electrical engineers, psychologists, psychic researchers, mediums, dowsers – and strangers who purport to be officials of one kind or another. They often give a name and telephone number but can never be traced afterwards. Theories advanced have included radar, lasers, poltergeists, ghosts and ley lines but all have been flawed.
The problems for the Orchards began in 1976 when their son, David, was 15. Before this they had spend a number of very happy years in the cottage. The first indication of trouble was with interference electrical equipment – a vacuum cleaner glowed and a television set switched itself on and off. These were minor problems compared to what was to follow.
Phenomena now began to be associated with water; there would be a whooshing sound, as Mrs Orchard described it, and boiling hot water would appear everywhere – in the dogs basket, in the television set, on carpets, mattresses and books and even in electric bulbs. The strange thing is that when the water was emptied the television set would work as though nothing had happened. The water always "left it's mark" – a circle with a dot in the centre.
More bizarre happenings were to follow. Objects would float across the room from their situation on shelves and the sideboard, sometimes slowly and sometimes with such force that they would smash windows or doors and continue their flight outside. A settee, chairs and tables would upend themselves and were held firmly "until the force gave them up"
A broom was snatched right out of Mrs Orchards hand and became attached to the ceiling; a line of books on a shelf flew, one by one, down the stairs, one striking Mrs Orchard on the forehead; the pet cat levitated and hovered close to the ceiling and then ran out terrified when it was released; water pipes bent and buckled as people watched in complete amazement.
What this strange and inexplicable force is and why it should appear only after an appreciable number of serene and happy years, nobody knows. Radars and laser are both line of sight and therefore can be ruled out because other houses remain unaffected. Neither of the homes is situated on a ley line and thus, energy cannot be obtained from this source.
Leakage of electric charges from the mains is hardly a candidate to be considered seriously as it would have to be an enormous amount to create the tremendous field necessary to lift the heavy objects which were moved. In one instance a Rayburn stove moved across the floor, watched by an incredulous official from the local authority.
In both cases very large induced electromotive forces have found their way into the neutral conductor. These surges have been measured at 2000 volts plus, and one day in August 1991, we recorded 11 such surges between 11pm and 11am at Frank Pattemores home.
If, as two electricity boards say, this is occurring within the house, it can only imply that it is being cause mechanically and knowingly by one or more occupants or that is being created by an unknown force within the house or, unwittingly by one of the occupants. If this is the case, the problem falls within the realm of poltergeist activity. An interesting facet of Frank Pattemore case is that, while we were carrying out our research, Hamish Miller, co-author of The Sun and The Serpent, found the same diagonal energy beam with his dowsing roads that we had found with our orthodox, and considerable more expensive scientific apparatus, although he had no prior knowledge of our findings. He also obtained one of the strangest reactions he had ever seen from Frank Pattemore himself.
Research into the cause of the phenomena has been hindered by the attitude of those in authority. Official bodies have been obstructive and devious.
SWEB, before the beginning of the investigation, told the writer that the media exaggerated and the phenomena wasn't worth investigating because they were only looking for a simple earth fault. If this were the case, why was Nigel Pattemore followed for two days by two men in a dark blue car and later arrested at work by the same two men and taken to Yeovil Police Station under completely false pretences? He was told that there was to be a meeting concerning he electricity supply at his home and his father would also be at the meeting which was to place in Yeovil; the police station was never mentioned.
The truth of the matter that was whilst he was being kept at Yeovil police station, his father was having the indignity of suffering his home being searched under warrant. Nigel had already suffered the same indignity at work when his lunch box was searched under warrant and his sandwiches taken apart. The possibility of this action being yet another red herring cannot be discounted.
The danger of a preconceived notion stopping all further research is amply illustrated in the Orchards' case. In desperation, due to bizarre events taking lace in his home, Mr orchards called in the police and was visited by a PC from Bridge who then telephone SEEB at Folkestone. As a result, SEEB wrote to Canterbury Subdivision HQ of Kent Police suggesting that quantities of water had been thrown into electrical appliances despite the fact that many gallons could be seen running down the lane.
The police responded by a letter showing that once a preconceived notion has been instilled, the intelligent consideration and analysis of evidence goes out of the window.
"As is known, we both have the same ideas as to the cause of these incidents and the police, in fact, have advised the parents of their feelings in this matter. However, the parents refuse to accept what has been said and prefer to delve into the mysterious occult for the apparent cause.
So there we have it. The police, although totally lacking in evidence whatever, had formed the opinion that the Orchards' son David, was responsible for the bizarre happenings at Church Lane, Adisham.
We are, at present, no-nearer to solving the mystery of the strange force that, so dramatically, invaded the Orchards' home and still plagues the home of Frank and Nigel Pattemore. Neither do we know whether and authority knows what is happening but won't admit whether they, too, are in the dark.
Whatever the force is, it does not obey the known laws of electromagnetism but is without doubt very powerful.
{Bill Love is a physicist by profession and has worked in such a capacity with many large companies. I visited him in Dover in 1996 to enquire about these cases. I was impressed by the level of research which he carried out on these cases. I feel that much more could have been done by the authorities to further research on these cases and the conclusions which were drawn were not the final answers. Bill Love has accumulated a large amount of data on such cases and would like to hear from people with information on similar happenings. Please contact this magazine to be put in touch. – ED}
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Here is my own letter to Fortean Times written around 2008:
Reading FT174 today I noticed that in Readers Letters there was a piece about "bizarre electrical phenomena". It referred to previous articles like FT171:48 and FT80:19. I read 171 the other day but I will have to search for 80.
This took me back to the spring of this year when about 11:00PM one night I heard a loud bang outside. Nothing was found on investigating, but the next day there were electrical utility vans everywhere. The power was off for hours and no one seemed to know what the problem had been. It was only several days later that I noticed what must have been the trouble. Living in the sticks, we have communal overhead power lines and I noticed that one of the three phase wires at the back of the house had broken and had been repaired in a slipshod manner. It had obviously snapped or melted and been repaired by wrapping wire around what was left of the power line. This must have been done the night of the bang as I had watched the progress most of the day.
The bang must have been the destruction of the cable by whatever. A new transformer had been installed and all other equipment had been replaced only a few months previously and I thought it strange that it should fail so soon.
All this got me wondering about what was going on, as early last year I received an Electricity bill that was about £600.00 above what I usually pay and it took me six months to convince the power company that I was not smelting large quantities of steel in my back garden and that I don't even own a Bessemer Furnace.
Power surges seemed to be the answer and the FT articles bear-out the fact that electricity suppliers don't take kindly to them – in fact they seem to treat them like the recent Mod UFO fiasco.
Little information exists about power surges and they are usually attributed to lightening, solar flares or solar coronal mass ejection, oh, and switching lights on and off. There were no storms on the night of the bang and the Sun seems to have behaved itself lately; I was sitting quietly with no switching and it was, after all, late at night.
A Google produced nothing new – this is hardly surprising, as no serious high voltage electronic research has been done for about a hundred years. Woops!
Anyone got any info on this?
In fact the problem continued with long life light bulbs lasting two weeks, the freezer froze its last sausage and the TV blew a fuse. As I attempted to plug my PC into a socket a spark an inch (25mm) long jumped onto the plug pin. More strange, but just like the victims above, there were two tangible *tracks* right through the house where a tingling sensation could easily be detected with the hands just below waist height.
Just like the other cases the electricity authorities did not want to know about the problem. I eventually got a slight response when I contacted the energy minister. It seems that such things are the responsibility of the company who owns the national grid. They came and did numerous tests, one of which involved disconnecting the whole house from any electricity source. As I stood watching the guy turned to me and said that the house was still alive even though there was no connection to the mains. (This could be a clue!). They left a monitor plugged into the mains and asked me to post it back to them after a couple of weeks. I never heard anything from them since that day.
It's at this point that I started my own research, I found a kindly soul online who had spent many years working for the energy dictators. I was told that this is not unusual and happens to houses in rural locations where the house is on the end of the line… as mine was.
Fortean Times: Another electrical nightmare
Bill Love's article on the bizarre electrical phenomena at Iverson Cottage [FT171:48] mirrored a case I examined in detail in my book Testimony (Victor Gollancz, 1996). (See also "Paranormal Power Theft" FT 80:19 April 1995)
Heol Fanog, an isolated stone cottage not far from Brecon, Powys, was plagued with similar electrical problems -bills massively out of proportion to use, the meter whizzing round when no electricity was being used – but it was also accompanied by a range of disturbing, seemingly supernatural phenomena. These included ghosts, unaccountable smells, disembodied footsteps, apports, suggestions of possession of the inhabitants and demonic apparitions. Whether these happened in any "real" sense or whether the altered state in the house adjusted the perceptions of the residents is open to interpretation. But what, for me, is even more disturbing is how the family who lived there-Bill and Liz Rich and their children-were treated by human agencies. The local electricity board acted in a similar way to South Western Electricity Board in Mr Love's account, at first denying all knowledge, then trying to blame the Richs, and finally subtly attempting to discredit the family by implying they were secretly siphoning off the electricity (in some way that escaped the notice of a battery of electrical engineers). Various religious representatives, psychics and fringe characters pulled the family from pillar to post. Finally BBC Wales came to the house to launch an investigation and produced one of the most appalling pieces of journalism I have ever come across in my years as a national newspaper and magazine writer. Completely devoid of balance, its conclusion was that the Richs were, basically, cheats and liars because the electricity drain happened at times when you would expect peak use, so they were clearly "somehow" stealing the electricity and trying to dodge paying for it.
The breakdown of any kind of logic really made their documentary a piece of such extreme stupidity it was almost high art, and should have been treated as such if not for the effect on the family. The Richs were falling apart, suffering inexplicable phenomena that were very, very real to them (and happening to such a degree that it threatened their sanity), while at the same time having their characters assassinated by monolithic organisations. BBC Wales' derogation of responsibility was the final straw.
Having spent a great deal of time with the Riches during the course of writing the book, I can categorically state that they were in no way trying to cheat the electricity company. Their distress was very real and extremely troubling. I considered this a one-off, yet the Iverson Cottage account made me wonder how often this is taking place around the country and what phenomenon is really at work here. Are the electricity companies covering up something that could affect their business status? Dowsers at Heol Fanog also claimed to find a confluence of "black streams", as discussed in the Iverson Cottage feature. Was there something in the construction of the cottages that contributed to what happened -Nigel Kneale's Stone Tape, perhaps? I do know that many engineers and physicists couldn't explain the electrical phenomena at Heol Fanog (never mind the rest of it) so perhaps a different approach is needed.
Mark Chadbourn Moira. Derbyshire
FT174 September 2003


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Q: Counting row occurrences and printing them A MySQL table named Tags contains 2 columns: tags and video_id with over 100k rows.
None of them is primary key which means that values in the tags column might occur few times with different video_id, for example:
column names:  |tags|video_id|
values:         tag1 video1
                tag1 video2
                tag2 video4
                tag2 video5
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How can I count all the occurrences of each tag and print it? Something like:

tag1 (2 Videos)
tag2 (3 Videos)

My website is based on CakePHP-3, the way I get the rows from the table is like that:
$query = $this->Tags->find('all');
$tags = $this->paginate($query);

The variable tags now has the results and that's how I print them:
foreach ($tags as $tag):
        echo $tag->tags."
";
endforeach;

A: You can do so by leveraging basic SQL logic, that is for example count video_id (or *, which might give you better performance under certain circumstances) and group by tags.
$query = $this->Tags->find();
$query = $query
    ->select([
        'tags',
        'count' => $query->func()->count('video_id')
    ])
    ->group('tags');

$tags = $this->paginate($query);

This will create a query similar to:
SELECT tags, COUNT(video_id) as count
FROM tags
GROUP BY tags

The resulting entities will hold the count property that you can access like any other property. Here's a small example, additionally using plural aware translation functions (surely not required, but might be useful):
foreach ($tags as $tag):
    echo $tag->tags . ' (' .
        __n('{0} Video', '{0} Videos', $tag->count, $tag->count) .
    ')
';
endforeach;

See also

*

*Cookbook > Database Access & ORM > Query Builder > Using SQL Functions

*Cookbook > Database Access & ORM > Query Builder > Aggregates - Group and Having

*Cookbook > Internationalization & Localization > Plurals

*MySQL Manual > Tutorial / Creating and Using a Database / Retrieving Information from a Table / Counting Rows

A: You can use cakephp count() function and Group options
$query = $this->Tags->find('all');
$tags = $query->select([
              'tags',
              'count' => $query->func()->count('*')
            ])
     ->group('tags');

you can get result by
foreach ($tags as $tag):
        echo $tag->tags."(".$tag->count." Videos)";
endforeach;

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THE FINALS OF ALL COMPETITIONS WILL BE HELD AT THE IDHS(GB) ANNUAL BREED SHOW, AS ABOVE. THIS LIST WILL BE UPDATED ON A REGULAR BASIS, SO KEEP CHECKING - AND GOOD LUCK.
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I really like the interface of this application however, what I would use it for is measuring architectural and engineering drawings. There are 2 feature requests that would I would need to have in order for this to be useful to me.
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2. Set Scale From Two Points. Most architectural and engineering drawings are sent to me in either PDF or Tiff format. I can open these up and locate somewhere on the drawing where they have already dimensioned something. I would like to be able to pick between the two points they have dimensioned and simply input what there dimension is. This would set a scale factor so I could then pick on any other two points and get a fairly accurate measurement based on that scale factor.
Thanks for the message. I know a lot of our customers use the Calipers for CAD and engineering work and have found the very useful.
See tip 5 at the bottom, and I think that this should give you all the information you need. If not then please reply and I'll be happy to give you more detials.
You might be interested to know that version 4.0 of the Calipers now comes with a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat so that you cen easily measure PDFs. Once calibrated the Calipers keeps the same measurement while you zoom in and out with Acrobat.
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Zahner, W. Chapin, S., Levine, R. He, L.* & Afonso, R.* (2019). Examining the recruitment, placement, and career trajectories of secondary mathematics teachers prepared for high need schools. Teachers College Record.
De Araujo, Z., Roberts, S., Willey, C. & Zahner, W. (2018). English learners in K-12 mathematics education: A review of the literature. Review of Educational Research, 88(6), 879-919. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654318798093
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Zahner, W., Dai, T., Cromley, J., Wills, T., Booth, J., Shipley, T., & Stepnowski, W. (2017). Coordinating Multiple Representations of Polynomials: What do Patterns in Students' Solution Strategies Reveal? Learning and Instruction, 49, 131–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.01.007
Cromley, J. G., Booth, J. L., Wills, T. B., Chang, B. L. Tran, N., Madejad, M., Shipley, T. F., Zahner, W. (2017). Relation of Spatial Skills to Calculus Proficiency: A Brief Report. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 19(1) 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986065.2017.1258614
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Pre-registration does not require a new registration database system nor any new software, equipment, or personnel. In fact, in many states, pre-registered voters are already put into the voter registration database as "pending" and are transferred to "active" status once they become eligible to vote.
In states where voter pre-registration has been implemented, the proposed legislation has typically had a fiscal note stating that the bill would have "zero impact" on the state's budget. Moreover, modifications to voter registration information technology systems are typically accomplished through internal staff time and managed within existing resources.
The fiscal notes for the pre-registration bills in Washington and Maryland, for example, stated that pre-registration would have no fiscal impact for the state Department of Licensing. Indeed, the only costs that could not be managed through the state's current staff and resources were related to determining whether the current election management systems had the capability to hold pending applications for up to two years, and to withhold pre-registration records from public inspection and copying.
Some additional changes may need to be made, including revision of registration forms. However, these changes can be strategically managed by election officials, so that implementation is tied to when new forms are scheduled to be printed.
Voter registration cards may need to be updated and existing stock of old cards replaced. Printing cost is tied to the implementation date, and a good time to implement is after an election year as cards are typically replenished then anyway.
Computer programs at the state board and DMV must be updated. At the state board, the coding of state-wide voter registration databases must be updated in order to establish a procedure for activating pre-registered voters when they become eligible to vote. This is only necessary for the changes involving use of the date-of-birth field. At the DMV, the software has to be updated to change when staffers offer registration to young persons.
There may be mailing costs for the county. For example, the North Carolina practice is to send a letter of acknowledgment to a pre-registered young person explaining their status.
School outreach may need to be more frequent. For example, voter registration drives in high schools may be annual instead of biannual. This additional voter education could also be managed in partnership with high schools and local community groups.