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Zero Tolerance Discipline and Civil Rights: Rethinking School Punishment
Published February 29, 2012 at 3:40 PM PST
Alexi Nunn Freeman, a lawyer for the Advancement Project, told us a story about five year-old Ja'eisha Scott who was arrested by the police in her kindergarten classroom for having a temper tantrum. This sounds extreme; but according to Freeman, it is part of a recent national trend.
The Advancement Project is a non-profit civil rights action group that has been following the emergence of a school-to-prison pipeline, and specifically, the impact of zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools. Freeman explains that in the 1980's, practices meant for the war on drugs were adopted in schools as well, resulting in the criminalization of minor classroom misbehavior.
Check out an excerpt of the interview below.
Turnstyle: What are the trends you have seen over the past few decades in the use of discipline in schools? What's the reason for the increase in discipline in schools?
Freeman: School discipline policies are directly related to the war on drugs that was going on in the 1980's. Practices and policies that we were implementing on drug laws have really taken stance in the schools.
Things like having mandatory minimum sentencing laws, or having three strikes and you're out, or the idea of aggressively policing minor offenses — these are things that were happening as a result of the war on drugs and we were implementing these processes in schools. When this started happening we really noticed a direct effect on young people; the schoolyard scuffle, or the talking back to a teacher, would now be classified as assault or as disorderly conduct, and that would result in students being arrested or suspended.
Turnstyle: How have policies changed?
Freeman: Back in the day when I was in school, [things like talking back to a teacher] weren't appropriate for the schoool environment, but they resulted in a trip to principal's office, or a call home. But now, they're resulting in extended time out of school, and in the worst cases actually being arrested for these types of things. This has ballooned over the last ten years.
We also noticed these policies are implemented in many districts [and] are often very much implemented in urban districts that have with high populations of low-income students, and high populations of students of color. So you notice that the impact of these policies disproportionately affects these students. The policies also make their way into other schools as well, but again, students of color, students with disabilities and now LGBTQ students, are disproportionately affected.
Turnstyle: In schools, are you seeing a backlash against these more punitive approaches, and trying to reverse this pattern?
Freeman: In the last couple years there has been some great community push-back and changes in policy. We were not allowing students to make mistakes and were harshly and swiftly punishing students instead of getting to the root of the problem and figuring out how can we prevent this stuff from happening again … We were responding with exclusionary policies and practices.
Turnstyle: Can you give us an example?
Freeman: In Baltimore in 2008 – 2009, we worked with the district to revise their policy. They had an exorbitant number of out of school suspensions. Out of school suspensions were used more than anything else, rather than in-school suspension, rather than parent-teacher conferences. It was [being used] for things like classroom disruption, defiance, or not obeying school policy — very subjective offenses.
But when we worked with them to revise their policy and focus more on effective prevention and intervention strategies, focused on keeping students in the school, the [policy revision] had dramatic results. Over five years, out of school suspensions have gone from over 26,000 to under 10,000. At the same time, their graduation rates have reached record highs. Baltimore is a district that has a high population of black students, so we're really having an impact on young black males, which is a population that is often disproportionately affected.
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Sharon Katherine (Chambers) Christensen of Longmont, Colorado passed away on January 9, 2023 at the age of 69.
She was born on March 7, 1953 in Redfield, South Dakota to Robert "Bob" and Jeannine (Sparks) Chambers. She began her elementary years in Battleground, Washington, attended 2-4th grade at Boulder Junior Academy in Boulder, Colorado, and graduated 8th grade from HMS Richards Elementary school in Loveland, Colorado. She graduated high school with high distinction from Campion Academy in Loveland, Colorado in 1971. In December, 1974, she graduated from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska with a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing Degree. While at Union College, Sharon began dating and later married Allan James Christensen on August 5, 1973 at the Campion Seventh-day Adventist Church.
After graduation, Sharon worked as a nurse at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver, Colorado and Portland Adventist Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Alison was born in 1981 and Cara was born not long after in 1982 on moving day. The family moved to Walla Walla, Washington where they lived for about two years, and Sharon continued nursing at Walla Walla General Hospital before moving to Rusk, Texas where they lived for a year. In 1986, they moved to Pipestone, Minnesota where Sharon worked part-time as a guardian ad litem. She was heavily involved with her local Seventh-day Adventist Church, helping with the building of the church. In 1991, the family moved to Longmont, Colorado where Sharon worked beside Allan in running Minuteman Press in Boulder, Colorado. Sharon returned to nursing in 2005 and worked at Longmont United Hospital until she retired in 2021.
Sharon was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She enjoyed spending time with her family, hosting people, hiking, boating, business networking, and sharing Bible studies. She and Allan built four homes together.
She was preceded in death by her father, Robert "Bob" Chambers.
Sharon is survived by her mother Jeannine Chambers of Longmont, Colorado; her daughters Alison Christensen of Edmond, Oklahoma & Cara (Daniel) Greenfield of Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada; her grandchildren Andrew, Autumn, & Alex Greenfield of Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada; sisters-in-law Doris (Russell) Hanson of Broomfield, Colorado & Karen Christensen of Loveland, Colorado and numerous other aunts, uncles, nieces, and cousins.
Memorial contributions for Sharon Christensen can be made to Good News TV-Colorado at mygoodnewstv.com/co-donate.
Funeral service will me Tuesday January 17, 2023 at 10:00am at Campion Seventh-day Adventist Church. Burial will follow service at Foothills Garden of Memory in Longmont.
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Nina Derwael, competing in her first event since becoming a world champion in Doha last October, made a winning return as the Belgian won gold at the Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup.
Yesterday at the Aspire Dome, the venue of her world title, Derwael was in sublime form as she cruised to an easy win. The two-time European champion stuck to her routine which has given her success in the last two years.
Derwael, who will turn 19 on Tuesday, began with a full twisting double tuck and finished with a twist high above the bar for 15.033 points, the same score she achieved in the qualifying on Wednesday. The 2017 world champion Fan Yilin (14.933) took silver ahead of Russian Anastasiia Iliankova (14.700).
Derwael was pleased with her gold medal finish and admitted she did not have an ideal preparation as she was recovering from a broken finger.
"I did not have an ideal preparation for the competition but I am very happy that I pulled it off. I had some little injuries that prevented me from doing other competitions. But now I am really happy to be back on the podium. I wasn't really anxious; I was comfortable out there and I knew I could do it. I just did what I usually do in training," she said.
"I am really happy to be back here, I have won gold thrice now in Doha. I am going to prepare for the European championship now. I am very excited about Tokyo Olympics. The Belgium team still needs to qualify as a team so we are going to try and do that at the World Championship in Stuttgart this year," added Derwael, who will be in action in the Balance Beam finals today.
Meanwhile, Jade Carey continued her rich vein of form as the American won the Vault gold. Carey, who had clinched both Vault and Floor gold at the Baku World Cup last week, put on a strong show once again.
The 18-year-old controlled her landing perfectly to top score with 14.833 points, ahead of Russian Maria Paseka (14.766) and Frenchwoman Coline Devillard (14.549). Yesterday's win boosted Carey's World Cup series ranking points to 85, putting her first in the Vault race for Olympics qualifications.
The 43-year-old Oksana Chusovitina finished fifth with 13.866 points. The Uzbek, who has competed in seven Olympic Games, is gunning for her eighth appearance as she looks to book her place at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
World bronze medallist Lee Chih-Kai overcame nerves to flair his way to win the Pommel Horse. The Chinese Taipei gymnast beat 2013 world champion Kohei Kameyama of Japan to gold, after both had finished on same score of 15.400.
Chih-Kai was given the gold thanks to his superior difficulty scores. Kameyama's compatriot Imabayashi took bronze after tallying 5.333.
China's Zou Jingyuan missed out on a medal after he missed his hand placement and came off early on. He also tumbled for a second time to finish seventh 12.866.
In the men's Floor Exercise, veteran Israeli gymnast Alexander Shatilov sprung a surprise by winning the gold medal. In a strong field which consisted of world championship bronze medallist Carlos Yulo and all-round silver medallist Xiao Ruoteng, Shatilov made it a memorable 32nd birthday with a superb show as he tallied 14.633 points.
Rayderley Zapata of Spain was also a surprise runner-up with 14.433, finishing ahead of Filipino teenager Yulo, who had topped the qualifications but had to settle bronze medal after scoring 14.266 points. Ruoteng finished a disappointing sixth with a 13.166.


The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 -- H.R.1301 -- has been introduced in the US House of Representatives. The measure would direct the FCC to extend its rules relating to reasonable accommodation of Amateur Service communications to private land use restrictions. US Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) introduced the bill on March 4 with 12 original co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle -- seven Republicans and five Democrats.
HR 1301 would require the FCC to amend its Part 97 Amateur Service rules to apply the three-part test of the PRB-1 federal pre-emption policy to include homeowners' association regulations and deed restrictions, often referred to as "covenants, conditions, and restrictions" (CC&Rs). At present, PRB-1 only applies to state and local zoning laws and ordinances. The FCC has been reluctant to extend the same legal protections to include such private land-use agreements without direction from Congress.
Take a few minutes and send letters today.


Finally, mental health is being covered more and more in hip-hop, both in the music and in the media. The latest artist to share their story and help battle stigma is Fat Joe, who sat down with the Hot 97 crew to discuss his two-year battle with depression in the early 2000s.
"After Big Pun died… My sister and my grandfather [died in the] same week," Joe began. "I was under depression for like two years. I went to see a psychiatrist. I gotta go for my health, for my benefit, for my family, my friends, everybody, so I went to see a psychiatrist and I had to learn how to snap out of that, so two years later I snapped out of it.
As we've seen time and time again, depression simply does not discriminate. No matter how successful, rich, or revered you may be, an illness is an illness. Kudos to Fat Joe, someone widely known for his hardened persona, for speaking his truth and joining artists like Kamaiyah and Kid Cudi in making their recovery public. When a fan sees their favorite artists getting help, it might be the push they need to do the same and get the answers and treatment they need.
In 2017, JAY-Z threw out a major co-sign for therapy, advocating for everyone to get the help he or she needs. If real rap cats like Jay and Fat Joe aren't too tough for therapy and mental health treatment, then no one is.
Big Sean Opens Up About Depression & Anxiety: "I Never Really Took the Time to Nurture Myself"
The UK star's powerful words about mental health are a welcome change from a genre—like hip-hop—soaked in bravado.


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Intel, Hitachi SSD project slip behind schedule
A partnership between Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has missed the ship date for its first enterprise flash storage products, but that stumble wasn't a harbinger of bad times for the technology, which continues to gain acceptance in data centres, an industry analyst said.
Stephen Lawson August 18, 2010
A partnership between Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has missed the ship date for its first enterprise flash storage products, but that stumble wasn't a harbinger of bad times for the technology, which continues to gain acceptance in data centres, an industry analyst said .
The companies announced a deal in late 2008 to jointly develop SSDs (solid-state drives) for enterprise servers and workstations. Hitachi plans to use flash silicon developed by the partnership of Intel and Micron in drives with SAS, or Serial Attached SCSI, and Fibre Channel interfaces. Less than a year ago, Hitachi GST Director of Enterprise Marketing Dean Amini said the companies were on track to deliver products in the first half of 2010.
Initial products now are scheduled to come out in the second half of this year, said Ulrich Hansen, director of market development at Hitachi GST.
"We did have a slightly more aggressive target initially set, but we're still very enthusiastic about this partnership," Hansen said in an interview on Monday. Hitachi is a major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) to server and workstation manufacturers. These will be its first SSD offerings.
Hansen spoke on the eve of the Flash Memory Summit conference in Santa Clara, California, where executives and customers will gather to discuss the range of flash technologies from consumer electronics to data-centre storage arrays.
Per gigabyte, flash storage is more expensive to make than HDDs (hard disk drives), but it typically uses less energy and allows for quicker retrieval of data because it has no moving parts. Enterprises that have adopted SSDs generally have used them for data that needs faster retrieval, while they left to HDDs larger amounts of content that isn't as urgently.
The enterprise flash business as a whole, which has faced some stumbling blocks over the years, is still growing fast, according to analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
"The market is really budding right now," Handy said. His company forecasts global SSD shipments to rise from 170,000 this year to 4.1 million in 2015 while revenue increases from US$425 million to $3.8 billion.
SSDs long suffered a reputation as not reliable or long-lived enough for enterprise use, but much of the problem had to do with the controllers that were used to manage the flash in earlier products, Handy said. Some used controllers that were designed for consumer Compact Flash cards, which get much less intensive reading and writing use than enterprise storage does, Handy said. With purpose-built controllers, SSDs don't represent a step down from the reliability and long life of HDDs (hard disk drives), he said.
SSDs are likely to remain more expensive than HDDs for the foreseeable future, but enterprises will pay the premium for their speed where it is needed, Handy believes.
Intel and Hitachi fell behind schedule because some development took longer than expected and they have added more features and carried out more testing of the products, Hitachi's Hansen said.
"We are essentially finished with the development work. We're validating the product [and] we're doing pre-qualificaiton work with some of our OEM customers," he said. The first of the products from those OEMs are likely to hit the market before the end of this year, according to Hansen.
As planned, the products will use 6G bit-per-second (bps) SAS and 4G bps Fibre Channel interfaces. The first SSDs from the partners will use SLC (single-level cell) flash, the form that has been used in most enterprise SSDs so far. SLC packs less data into the same amount of space and is more expensive per gigabyte, but it also has greater longevity for uses where data is intensively written to the drive, Hansen said. Ultimately, it is less expensive for these applications, he said. By the second half of next year, Hitachi and Intel expect to come out with versions that use MLC (multilevel cell), which is more dense, less expensive and adequate for applications where data is written less intensively, he said.
Consistent with Amini's forecast last year, the drives will have an MTBF (mean time between failures) of as much as 2 million hours, Hansen said.
STEC increasing storage on enterprise SSDs to 2TB Storage giants are getting bigger, but prices will stay small


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Charles A. Ralston Website
< Scott LaFaro Home Page >
Scott LaFaro: Beacon for Jazz Bassists -- Home
Copies of Jade Visions will be for sale from this website in August 2009.
Please check back to this website periodically for details.
"To The Pianist, Bill Evans"
Scott LaFaro at the Newport (RI) Jazz Festival
(Sunday 2 July 1961)
-- Bill Zavatsky
--Ed Dephoure
Click on Updates for additions, revisions, and other changes to this site.
April 2009 -- The University of North Texas Press has announced publication in September 2009 of Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro by Helene LaFaro-Fernandez ; with an introduction by Gene Lees and foreword by Don Thompson. This will be a clothbound book of 352 pages, with bibliography and discography, illustrations (photographs). Publisher's list price is $24.95.
Copies of Jade Visions will be for sale from this website in August 2009. Please check back to this website periodically for details.
Revised Discography 2000 -- entries for re-issued CDs:
This is Pat Moran: Complete Trio Sessions (2007, 1957)
Buddy DeFranco: Generalissimo / Live Date (2007, 1958)
Harold Land Quartet: Jazz at the Cellar (2007, 1958)
Scott LaFaro Memorial Award update. Added names of the most recent recipients of this scholarship-musicianship award presented at the end of the academic year at Geneva High School, Scotty's alma mater. Congratulations are in order for Mr. Ryan Kinkaid (2007), Mr. James Eddington (2006), and Ms. Emily Schule (2005).
0n Monday 2008.05.05 I received an email from the 1997 recipient of the SLF award, which I'll share:
I wanted to send a note to say thanks for the Scott LaFaro info posted on your site.
I was honored with the GHS LaFaro award several years ago and can now appreciate its significance.
Melissa Birkett
In November 2005, Helene LaFaro-Fernandez, Scotty's sister and contemporary, and I met in Los Angeles to discuss approaches to writing a book about her brother. We made an initial outline of topics and sought the advice of publishers and authors, in particular, Mr. Gene Lees, esteemed author and critic and former editor of Down Beat magazine.
Helene has conducted dozens of telephonic and in-person interviews with musicians with whom Scotty played and recorded, to include drummers Lawrence Marable, Paul Motian, and Roy Haynes; pianists Paul Bley, Don Friedman, Steve Kuhn, and Walter Norris; and saxophonists Ornette Coleman, Herb Geller, Charles Lloyd, Sonny Rollins, Ira Sullivan, and Phil Urso, to name a few.
Also, Helene has interviewed three prominent musical directors who included Scotty in their ensembles: Buddy Morrow , Buddy De Franco, and Gunther Schuller. And of course, Helene has had discussions with bassists Chuck Israels and Charlie Haden, contemporary colleagues of Scotty, and with bassists Eddie Gomez and Marc Johnson, two of the principle 'bassists of Bill Evans'.
My contributions to this endeavor are the bibliography and discography (most of which is evident on this website) and what I deem to have been perhaps the catalytic agent in all of this -- conversations with Helene over the past decade about the incredible gift to jazz that her brother, Scott LaFaro, was during his short life time. Much remains to be done, but with a little luck (and the continuing thoughtful suggestions of many of you who have looked into the pages of this site) the book should be published by Summer 2009.
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Rocco Scott LaFaro (1936-1961) was a musician of the first order, who found his 'voice' in jazz in the mid-1950s. His played the double bass violin, better known today as the acoustic bass to differentiate this instrument from the electric (or electronic) bass. His life was cut short in an automobile accident in the summer of 1961 near Geneva, New York, his home town. Although he performed for only six years (1955-1961), his innovative approach to the bass astounded his contemporaries, and to this day his recorded performances continue to surprise and delight.
Those who have found the Bill Evans Jazz Resource on the Internet know of the profound interplay among Paul Motian, Scott LaFaro and Bill Evans in a jazz trio that for many musicians to this day remains a model of sonority, complexity, and swing. Scott LaFaro's bass playing 'alchemy' (to borrow from an Ornette Coleman recording on which LaFaro performed) propelled Bill Evans to meet the artistic challenge of balance in a jazz trio.
The trios of Art Tatum, Nat Cole, and Oscar Peterson feature the pianist. Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian were of one voice. The Evans trios that followed in the wake of the tragic death of Scott LaFaro in 1961, continued the search for balanced interplay but, notwithstanding the contributions of Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker, Gary Peacock, Eddie Gomez and Marty Morell and Elliot Zigmund, Marc Johnson and Joe LaBarbera, musicians with technical facility and swing, the pianist's voice remained dominant.
The post-LaFaro trios of Bill Evans achieved maturity and polish, the result of many years of playing together. Evans and LaFaro and Motian played (and recorded) as a trio less than two years, from December 1959 to June 1961. It is the sense of harmonic exploration and discovery, challenge and response, time's ebb and flow, that draws one to listen again and again to Portrait in Jazz, Explorations, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, and Waltz For Debby. These recordings are as fresh today as when they were first made, and together serve as an archetype of the jazz piano trio.
Scott LaFaro's mastery of his chosen instrument began after his 1954 graduation from high school. Although he played bass only six years, LaFaro remains a beacon for jazz bassists.
Scott LaFaro Home Page
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Bibliography -- Books A-F Discography -- All Acknowledgements
Bibliography -- Books G-K Chronology -- 1936-1949 Discography -- 1956--1957 Items Lacking
Bibliography -- Books L-R Chronology -- 1950-1955 Discography -- 1958 Memorial Award
Bibliography -- Books S-Z Chronology -- 1956-1957 Discography -- 1959 Musician Associates
Bibliography -- Mags A-F Chronology -- 1958 Discography -- 1960 Photography
Bibliography -- Mags G-K Chronology -- 1959 Discography -- 1961 Photography 2
Bibliography -- Mags L-R Chronology -- 1960 Discography -- 1961--1979 Photography 3
Bibliography -- Mags S-Z Chronology -- 1961 Discography -- 1980--1989 Renderings
Bibliography -- Miscellany Discography -- 1990--1999 Sunday Vanguard Matrix
Bibliography -- Web Sources Discography -- 2000-- 2001 ISB LaFaro Tribute
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Pharmacies asked to use state license numbers to identify veterinarians
Industry group urges substitute for inappropriate use of DEA number
November 21, 2013 (published)
New industry guidance is directing pharmacies and third-party processors to accept veterinarians' license numbers as a means for identifying prescribers of non-controlled medications for animals.
That means pharmacists soon may stop asking for veterinarians' DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) numbers when filling scripts for non-controlled medications. The same goes for National Provider Identifier (NPI) numbers, which veterinarians aren't eligible to receive because they do not meet the regulatory definition of "health care provider."
The new guidance comes from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP), a not-for-profit organization that develops industry standards and guidance related to medications, supplies and services within the U.S. health care system. Approved by NCPDP members during a Nov. 6-8 meeting in Portland, Ore., the guidance adopts veterinary license numbers as a new way for pharmacies and third-party processors to identify prescribing veterinarians in their databases.
The changes were motivated by inquiries from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). Use of license numbers, advocates say, could clear up problems veterinarians encounter as more of their clients take pet prescriptions outside of veterinary practices and fill them at local retail pharmacies. It's not uncommon for pharmacists to ask doctors — veterinarians included — for NPI or DEA numbers as a means for verifying and tracking all prescriptions, not just controlled substances.
That's a problem for veterinarians, who are advised by federal regulators to stave off potential abuse by keeping their DEA numbers under wraps unless prescribing narcotic pain relievers and the like. In general, NPI numbers aren't available to veterinarians. Some don't have DEA numbers, either.
"We have a task force that's discussed with the AVMA the use of identifiers for prescribing veterinarians," said Lynne Gilbertson, NCPDP vice president of standards development. "It was recommended that state license numbers should be used for non-controlled medication prescriptions by veterinarians, and the industry has approved guidance for this."
That's welcome news to Dr. Beth Neuman of Tucson, Ariz., who recently refused to give a local Walgreens her DEA number to fill steroid, antifungal and antibiotic prescriptions for a canine patient.
The drug store declined to fill the prescription without Neuman's DEA number. "My client," Neuman recalled, "was livid."
DEA numbers are needed for customers to take advantage of the Walgreens Prescription Savings Club, which offers discounts on certain medications to club members' families, including their pets, said Tasha Polster, director of pharmaceutical integrity.
She pointed to the company Walgreens hired to process medical and savings club claims: "They require DEA numbers to validate prescriptions." When asked to identify the company, Polster said she wasn't privy to that information.
Walgreens isn't the only retail pharmacy that requires DEA numbers for non-controlled medications. On the Veterinary Information Network (VIN), an online community for the profession, veterinarians report getting such requests from a variety of drug store chains. Some are said to assign veterinarians a dummy NPI number to fulfill the pharmacy's identification requirement.
Attempting to appease her client, Neuman matched Walgreens' prices, selling the medications from her in-house pharmacy at a loss to her practice.
"Now I have a pissed-off client, I lost some money selling the drugs and I'm uncomfortable with Walgreens sharing my DEA number with a third party," she lamented. "I think that my DEA number should be somewhat private."
Regulatory perspective vs. reality
So does the DEA. On its website, the agency states: "DEA strongly opposes the use of a DEA registration number for any purpose other than the one for which it was intended, to provide certification of DEA registration in transactions involving controlled substances.
"The use of DEA registration numbers as an identification number is not an appropriate use and could lead to a weakening of the registration system," the DEA warns.
Even so, there's no legal basis for the DEA to preclude insurance providers and pharmacy benefit managers from doing just that.
"DEA is in the business of regulating controlled substances, and our numbers are legitimately required from practitioners by pharmacies to meet their legal obligation to conduct due diligence in determining that a controlled substance prescription is legitimate..." the DEA's Office of Diversion Control said in a statement by email. "Beyond that, how a company uses the numbers is their own business practice, which we don't regulate."
It's not as though DEA numbers are private, remarks Doug Kemp, a pharmacist and VIN consultant. He points out that a national database of DEA registrants exists online. Subscribers must pay to access the information.
Kemp understands why pharmacists, insurance companies and the third-parties that process claims adopt DEA numbers as universal identifiers rather than other unique numerical codes, including state licenses.
"Veterinarians' license numbers from one state to another will overlap in the database of national chains," he said by email. "You might have many John Smiths in the database. Since veterinarians are not eligible for NPI numbers, the only unique numerical identifier is the DEA registration number."
It remains to be seen whether the use of veterinarians' license numbers to track prescribers causes confusion. Meanwhile, uncertainty of another kind exists.
While text of the guidance says state license numbers should be used to identify prescribing veterinarians, a parenthetical "or DEA" also is in the language. Some believe this invites pharmacies and processors to continue using DEA numbers as a universal identifier, even on non-controlled substances.
The NCPDP's Gilbertson thinks otherwise. She explained that the guidance addresses the fact that NPI numbers are not available to veterinarians, so there needs to be another means for identifying them.
"NPI is used on non-controlled claims. DEA is used on controlled claims. So the verbiage is addressing that state license is used instead of NPI (for veterinarians)," she said.
The NCPDP's guidance will go out this week to members and stakeholders via its electronic newsletter.


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Q: Invalid rule in CodeIgniter 4 I'm trying to create an update page for users. The firstname and lastname are getting updated successfully, but when I try to update the password it gaves me an error which says that the rule is not a valid rule. I can't understand what is the problem. Here is my profile method.
public function profile()
    {
        $data = [];
        helper(['form']);

        $model = new UserModel();

        if ($this->request->getMethod() == 'post') {
            $rules = [
                'firstname'  => 'required|min_length[3]|max_length[20]',
                'lastname'   => 'required|min_length[3]|max_length[20]',
            ];

            if ($this->request->getPost('password') != '') {
                    $rules['password'] = 'required|min_length[8]|max_length[255]|';
                    $rules['password_confirm'] = 'matches[password]';
                }

            if (! $this->validate($rules)) {
                $data['validation'] = $this->validator;
            } else {

                $newData = [
                    'id'           => session()->get('id'),
                    'firstname'    => $this->request->getPost('firstname'),
                    'lastname'     => $this->request->getPost('lastname'),
                ];

                if ($this->request->getPost('password') != '') {
                    $newData['password'] = $this->request->getPost('password');
                }

                $model->save($newData);

                session()->setFlashData('success', 'Successfully Updated');
                return redirect()->to('/profile');
            }

        }

        $data['user'] = $model->where('id', session()->get('id'))->first();

        echo view('templates/logreg/header', $data);
        echo view('profile');
        echo view('templates/logreg/footer');
    }

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$rules['password'] = 'required|min_length[8]|max_length[255]';

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2006 - 2007 SEASON
Sep 5 - Oct 1, 2006
Lured to an inescapable island, a group of people who have all escaped justice for their complicity in deaths of others, are themselves killed, one-by-one in a manner similar to the deaths in the nursery rhyme, Ten Little Indians. Classic mystery by Agatha Christie. Directed by Cheryl Doyle.
Something's Afoot
Oct 27 - Nov 12, 2006
Hilarious mystery musical that spoofs detective stories, mainly the works of Agatha Christie, and especially her detective novel And Then There Were None. Book, music,& Lyrics by James McDonald, David Vos, and Robert Gerlach. Directed by Joe Doyle.
The Andersonville Trial
A striking courtroom drama about a famous event in American history: the military trial of Henry Wirz, who was commander of the Confederate prison at Andersonville during the Civil War. By Saul Levitt. Directed by Joe Doyle.
Santa and the Christmas Pig and From Bethlehem with Love
Dec 21, 22 and 23rd Only!
Two encore holiday one acts by Joe Doyle. Plus a holiday concert and sing-along!
The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-93. Directed by Cheryl Doyle.
Dark of the Moon
Set in the Appalachian Mountains and written in an Appalachian dialect, the play centers on the character of John, a witch boy who seeks to become human after falling in love with a human girl, Barbara Allen. By Howard Richardson and William Berney. Directed by Joe Doyle.
Apr 27 - May 13, 2007
George Hartpence and Carol Thompson star in Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. The Bard's masterpiece dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake Directed by Cheryl Doyle.
Damn Yankees
May 5 - Jun 10, 2007
The musical is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., at a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. Book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Directed by Joe Doyle.


People from all over the South are arriving in Cosham for the one the only Mutiny Festival.
The Bank Holiday festival has been growing bigger and bigger every year and 2018 is no different.
Festival goers will get to experience Dizzee Rascal + Sub Focus B2B Wilkinson on Saturday and Craig David presents TS5 + Sean Paul on the Sunday, all for just £70!
Not only this but the Souths best upcoming DJ's Including LMSUKmedia's very own Outhouse DJ's performing at the ZEAL Movement showcase.
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WILLEMSTAD – The Prime Minister of Curaçao and leader of the ruling party MAN, Hensley Koeiman called the tumult in Parliament yesterday a violation of democracy. He stated that the opposition should keep a sharp eye on the government but not intervene in the democratic process.
"For more than 60 years it has been customary that those that are elected to Parliament will take their seat unhindered. But yesterday, according to my knowledge and from what I have been told, it was the first time something like that happened," said the new Prime Minister in an urgent press conference called last night. All the Ministers were present and the Members of Parliament representing the coalition.
"You cannot hinder one or more persons who were democratically elected by the people to take their seat in Parliament. We really didn't expect this from the opposition MPs. This is unacceptable," stated the Prime Minister.
But, according to Koeiman, Parliament is complete once again. The seven new MPs have been sworn in and they are ready to work.
Koeiman did say that he is willing to reach a hand to the opposition MPs to work together for a better Curaçao.


Attention: All Titan Adults. We will be having a friendly game of flag football on Thanksgiving morning! The participants will be coaches, board members, parents only. Anybody that's interested in playing - please be @ the Titan Field by 10:00 am Sharp! This is a non-sactioned event. It's just for fun! Happy Thanksgiving to all & hope to see you Thursday morning.
First, and most important- we owe a huge Thank You to the Burbank Park District! The Board & staff have been a tremendous help. One person above all that has been instrumental in making a great place for these kids to play football & to cheer is Park District Director- Bill Olsen!
On Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 - Bill Olsen presented the Park District Board with a request for bid approval for the Titans stands. It was approved unanimously. The stands seat approximately 280 people. There is an announcer's booth with fencing around the roof for a film deck. The Park District Board approved a purchase for shutter doors over the booth windows at a cost of approx. $4,500.00. The shutter doors were installed on Monday, November 20th, 2006. There are plans for a storage area to be built under the stands. There are also 2 sets of mini-bleachers on the visitor's side as well. They seat approximately 50 people each. Two New Y-shaped goal posts have been installed.
The football field proposal to install an irrigation system was approved by the Burbank Park District Board on July 12th, 2006 & is up & running since mid-October. The practice field has already been fertilized once & is being placed on a schedule to recondition & maintain it.
The Burbank Park District Board also approved the purchase of a field striper that Bill Olsen has shared with the Titans for the 2006 season!
In cooperation with the Park District, we are working to improve the parking by the practice & game fields. At the October 2006 Park District meeting they approved a plan to expand the parking lot by 39 spots for a cost of approx. $60,000.00. The Parking lot expansion project was completed in May 2007.The practice field was thatched several weeks ago. Brand new goal posts were installed onto the practice field in May 2007. Also in May 2007 - The Titan's Game Field received a 2 inch lift by applying 6 tons of top soil & 500 lbs. of grass (Bluegrass). The Park District also installed a new flag pole on the North end of the Titan's Field.
All of this is great stuff! When you have the opportunity-make sure you thank Bill Olsen & the Burbank Park District Board for all of their support! Please let them know how much we appreciate all the time & money they are putting into our kids! You can contact them by going to the Titan's community links page.
The concession stand has been completed. Here are a few of the features: Security cameras have been installed. An epoxy finish has been placed on the concession & bathroom floors. The concession area & bathrooms are heated. For 2007 - it is scheduled for the West side of the concession is to be landscaped with decorative woodchips for an eating are. Also, a small concrete pad is to be poured for the grill. Also in the works is the area in the middle of the round turn to be landscaped with flowers & stones reflecting the Titan's colors. More pics in albums folder.
The New Scoreboard Has Arrived!
The scoreboard is 18' x 8'. The bottom of the sign is over 10' from the ground. The beams have been placed in cement 7 feet deep. Power has already been run to the scoreboard & when you get to see it lit up - you will notice that the board has LED lights. Very bright & are supposed to last a very long time. The scoreboard will be run by a wireless system.
A special thanks to the 2 installers from Chicago Sign who spent all day putting up the scoreboard in the wind & cold! More pictures in the albums folder!
Junior Cheerleaders take 2nd Place at St. Xavier's Cheer Competition!
Congratulations to our Junior Cheerleading squad & their coaches for the terrific effort you made! Way to go girls!
We have a few improvements we would like everyone to know about. Again, thanks to our friends at the Burbank Park district!
-New Welcome Sign to be installed. Update!- In September-Welcome sign installed in the circle at the end of the parking lot. Also, in the circle, purple rubber mulch laid down & flowers to be planted. Also, 2 signs have been erected to direct our visitors to the the parking lot.
New directional signs installed. -Two directional signs have been installed on each side of 79th street. They are double-sided & state required color-brown.
Field striping markers installed.- In September-Field markers installed on the corners of the game field as well as every 5 yards around the field. These markers make it easier & more accurate to stripe the field.
Announcer's Booth painted.-In September, booth painted to match the risers on the bleachers. Also, several picnic tables & garbage cans painted Titan's purple.
Flag Pole for the game field. Update!- Flag pole is up on the North end of the Titan's Field! Installed in August.
-Eating area near concession stand to have mulch put down. Update!- Eating area completed in August!
-Parking Lot Expansion completed in May 2007. An additional 39 parking spots with 2 way driveway.
-New goal posts for the practice field installed in May 2007.
-Game field- Company contracted- laid down 6 dump trucks of top soil & to seed 500 lbs. of blue grass in April 2007. Also, will fertilize throughout the season.
-First full year with sprinkler system in use.
-Many more items are in the works!
Thanks to the Reavis High School Board & Asst. Principal Tim Smith, the Titans are able to use the Reavis facilities for practices for the 2007 season. The football divisions are allowed to use 2 of the practice fields & all of the football training equipment. The cheerleading divisions are allowed at least once a week to use the North gym for practices. The cheerleaders are provided with Reavis mats to use as well. This greatly enhances our coaches abilities to bring out the full potential in our football players & cheerleaders.
-Conant Spirit Challenge on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at Conant High School, 700 E. Cougar Trail in Hoffman Estates.
additional information, please click on to the heading(hyperlink).
Please make sure you arrive in complete uniform:Body liner, Skirt, Vest, Spankies, Cheer Socks, Hair Bow & please carry in your freshly polished Cheer Shoes. You must have a complete uniform to compete. Please keep in mind also: no jewelry, no gum, no glitter, fingernails must not exceed the height of the fingertip, no nail polish, hair bows must be safely secured. Please see your Headcoach for hair style or if you have any other questions. Please see your head coach for individual arrival times. Please try to stay around and CHEER for all levels of TITANS competing today. Admission is $5:00 per person and $10.00 for a video pass that will allow you to videotape an unlimited amount of teams.
Concessions will be available for purchase by all spectators and participants.
-Spirit Spectacular on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at Sears Centre at 5333 Prairie Stone Parkway in Hoffman Estates.
-The Burbank Park District is going to loan the Titans an AED(Automatic External Defibrillator) for the 2008 season.
-Recently the Titans applied for & received nonprofit stamp price status from the U.S. Post Office.
- 4 new sideline bleachers, with tables attached, have been purchased & delivered - for the Titans by the Burbank Park District.
-The Burbank Park District has also paid for & put in a flower garden around the Titan's scoreboard.
-A new mesh fencing is going to be purchased for the game field on game days. This replaces the yellow ropes. 75% of the price will be paid for by the Burbank Park District.
-A new container is going to be built on the Titan's campus. Extra storage & space is needed for our growing organization. Most of the cost will be covered by the Burbank Park District.
-Adding Full background checks for all coaches & team parents(Board members already have background checks performed per the Illinois Attorney General's Office).
-A record breaking total of 175 children have been registered at March, April, May & June's registrations. If you haven't registered yet-make sure to get your child(ren) registered at the next registration the week of July 21st. Don't wait! Rosters are filling up quickly.
Note: Registration will close on August 1st.
The Peewees will be versing the Lansing Lions, at Lansing, in the 2nd round playoffs. Game time: 11:00 AM. All Titans are welcome to cheer them on! GO TITANS!
80-94 to Torrence Ave.; South to Ridge Road; East to Burnham; South to 185th Street.
Titan's Peewees Make It To The Superbowl!
The Titan's Peewees will be playing on Saturday, November 15th at St. Laurence High School(77th & Central Ave., Burbank). Game starts @ 11AM. Please make every effort to come out & support the 1st team to make it to the Superbowl in over 15 years!
We are also looking for all of our cheerleaders to be part of this great & historical event for the Titans. If you can participate, please wear your purple windsuits. Also, have your hair styled as for a game day- including your purple & white hairbow & wear your competition shoes. Please meet Director of Cheerleading, Jamie Liedecker, near the concessions stand at St. Laurence High school. Please arrive by 10:00AM so we have time to put a half-time performance together.
The reason that the Superbowl games are at St. Laurence High School is because the Burbank Titans were fortunate enough to be awarded the honor of hosting the Superbowl. We are hosting at St. Laurence High School so the football teams can play on a turf field. This is a great opportunity to bring in extra funds to the Titans organization. So, we can use all the help we can get. This is also a good opportunity for any family to get in their parent participation hours if they are short on hours. We will be responsible for the concession stand only. We will be working the concession stand from 7:30AM-5:30 PM. We especially need help between 11AM & 1PM. We will also need help, at 5:30PM, transporting our concession equipment back to the Titan's concession stand.
I would like to congratulate the the Juniors that have been selected to the Probowl: Damien Malgioglio, Evan Fermaint, Deante Cartwright, Raul Boles.
And congratulations to Junior Headcoach, Evan Fermaint, for being selected as a Probowl team coach.The Probowl game will start at approximately 5:00PM.Hope to see everyone there!
Congratulations to the following 2008 Football & Cheerleading Divisions!
Thanks to the sponsorship of the Burbank Park District we have a new garage built. It is 24' x 24'. It is space that is desperately needed.
In our continued effort to keep the Titan's members safe- we are proud to announce the purchase of an AED. This unit will be available at all events held at the Titan's campus.
The State finals will be held on December 5th & 6th in Dekalb at Northern Illinois University.
Admission is $10.00 per person (5 yoa & under are free).
TRANSPORTATION: The Illinois Recreational Cheerleading Association will be providing free bus service for those teams/families that will be staying at either the Holmes Student Center or the Best Western Hotel in DeKalb (our host hotels). The bus transportation will run continuous from 7:45am to 6:45pm on Saturday, December 5th only.
All families that are competing in the Championship Round on Sunday, December 6, 2009 are encouraged to relocate their vehicles to the NIU Convocation Center.
A Dance & Game Party for participants will be held on:December 5, 2009 at 7:00pm at the: NIU Holmes Student Center, Huskies Den, DeKalb, IL 60115.
The cost for the party will be $5 per participant, Adults are Free. Each team must have adult supervision. Only 2000 tickets are available. This includes a dance party with a DJ, cosmic bowling, a video arcade with Wii, PlayStation and Xbox 360, and pool tables.
The reason that the Superbowl games are at St. Laurence High School is because the Burbank Titans were fortunate enough to be awarded the honor of hosting the Superbowl.
We are hosting at St. Laurence High School so the football teams can play on a turf field. This is a great opportunity to bring in extra funds to the Titans organization.
So, we can use all the help we can get. This is also a good opportunity for any family to get in their parent participation hours if they are short on hours.
We will be responsible for the concession stand only. We will be working the concession stand from 8:00AM-5:30 PM. We especially need help at 5:30PM with transporting our concession equipment back to the Titan's concession stand.
Thank you to all the MYFL organizations & divisions who participated! It was a great opportunity for all of our players to test their skills as well as for all of us to visit with our friends from around the Metro League. A big thank you goes out to all of our volunteers that came out & made a great day! Also, we would like to thank the football players from the Reavis Rams & the Oak Lawn Spartans for being referees for the scrimmages. The Titans would also like to thank Walter Fox, a Titan Alumni, with helping us obtain a PODS container donated for the jamboree.
Thank you to everyone who participated to make this year's homecoming a great one! Thank you to the Homecoming Committee for all the hard work and dedication to make it a special week for all Titans!
Thank you to all of our alumni & fans that came out to share the day with us!
Fallbrawl will held on Saturdays November 6th & 13th @ Evergreen Park & the Titan's Field . Below is the schedule for November 6th games at the Titan's Field. Game scheule bracket is attached for the 6th & the 13th.
12:30p.m. - Chicago Blitz vs. winner of 10:00a.m. game.
2:00p.m. - loser of 10:00a.m. game vs loser of 12:00p.m.
Congratulations to our Peewee & Widget football teams on making the playoffs!
Also, congratulations to the Widget team on being Conference Champions!
Widget Division- (2) Burbank (8-0) vs. (7) Hayes Park (4-4) at approx. 12:30PM at the Titan's Field.
Home team is the higher seed.
To view the full playoff schedule, please click onto the heading.
2010 Burbank Titans Widget Team Advances to the 2nd round!
Congratulations to the Widget team on their victory - 40-0 over the Hayes Park Blitz in the 1st round.
Widget Division: (3) Summit (6-3) @ (2) Burbank (9-0) at approx. 12:30PM at the Titan's Field.
Attention all cheerleaders: Reavis Cheerleading Head Coach Jackie Hanik has invited the Titans to attend the Reavis Cheerleading Competition on Sunday, January 23rd from 9:00am-3:00pm. It will be held in the Reavis HS Main Gym(Austin Ave. entrance). Admission is free to Titan cheerleaders & their immediate family members. Entrance fee for all other fans is $5.00.
Please have your cheerleader wear their windsuits. And, we ask all Titan members to wear Titan spirit wear. This will make it easier for gaining free admission into the competition.
Also, the Titan Widget & Junior squads have been invited to perform an exhibition routine. There are tentatively scheduled to perform at 2:00pm. Cheer uniforms will be handed out to the Widget & Junior squads for their performances.
Newspaper Article about the Titan Super Bowl Champs!
We are pleased to inform you that a press release about the Titan Widget Team winning the Super Bowl will be in the Southtown Star's Oak Lawn Edition, this Sunday, December 5th. Make sure you pick a copy!
Hello Everyone, My name is Daileen Bucki. For those who do not know me, I have been involved in Titan organization for just about 6 years now. My husband Mark Bucki has been the head coach for fall football for 7 years & arena football for 2. He is also an active Board Member. Most home games you can find me working by the grill with my brother-in-law (co-concession board member) Bryan & my sister Cathy, unless I am watching our boys on the field. I have committed to participating in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Chicago June 4th & 5th. Seven years ago my Mom received that dreaded phone call that she had breast cancer. I can't imagine how she felt receiving news that her sister had received years before. My Mom & my Aunt are SURVIVORS & they are both as strong as ever. I am walking for my Mom, my aunts, my cousins, nieces, and friends. I am walking for all of us. We all know someone that Breast Cancer has affected somehow. I have done a couple of smaller walks in the last year & for the last few years I have wanted to do the Avon Walk & always had prior commitments. Well this year I AM DOING IT! It is a big commitment, one that will require me to spend the next several weeks training and fundraising. But breast cancer is a big disease, one that still affects far too many people, and I am determined to do everything I can to help put an end to it. The money I raise will be managed and disbursed by the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade to help provide access to care for those that most need it, fund educational programs, and accelerate research into new treatments and potential cures. I will be just one of thousands of people that will walk 39.3 miles (equivalent of a marathon and a ½) over a weekend, raising awareness of the cause and educating even more people.
I cannot do it without your help. Though I am required to raise at least $1,800 in donation, I plan to raise much more!
I hope that I can count on the support of our TITAN FAMILY! You can make a donation to my fundraising campaign right here now by clicking on the heading above. As I prepare for this exciting event, I plan to update my page frequently so that all my supporters can follow my progress, so please visit often. While you're here, you might want to spend some time on the site to find out more information on why this event is so important, and the organizations and people that will be helped by the money we all raise.
We are proud to announce the formation of the pom cheer division. These squad will consist of kindergarteners & they will cheer on the flag football teams. Practices will be the same as flag football. In August- 3 days a week for one hour per practice. Starting in September- cheer for 2 games & 1 practice per week.
Uniform, socks & bow are provided.
The Titans will be commemorating the 10th year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. To help us commemorate we are looking for any military personnel- active, reserve, or veterans that would like to participate. We will be having the commencement at 11:45am. Please have them contact President Mark Mellenthin @ 708-285-1452.
Congratulations to the Undefeated Conference Champion Titan Widget Football Team on being Super Bowl XXVII Champions! They beat the Alsip Falcons 48-20.
This is the 1st time in 19 years that the Titans have won a Super Bowl. This same team were 2008 undefeated Peewees only to lose against the Frankfort Square Wildcats in the Super Bowl by a touchdown.
We're all very proud of you!
Widget Team are Super Bowl Champions!
Congratulations to the Widget football team for an undefeated season & being the 2010 Widget Division Super Bowl Champions!
Congratulations to our Peewee football team on making it to the playoffs!
We are very proud of all of our football players on a very successful season!


I am having a ball playing with this little hedgehog set! This is a card I created for my friend who won a free card class for her and 3-4 friends. They'll be making 4 cards total. I'll show the other 3 over the next few days.
Stamps: Happy Forever: July Stamp of the Month.
ADORABLE. i love how the color of the ribbon and balloons just pop off the card!
August Stamp of the Month Blog Hop.
Foto Friday... and a card!


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Devils Sign First Round Draft Pick, Pavel Zacha
Three-year entry level deal for Zacha
Chip Gianni
The New Jersey Devils announced on Tuesday, that they signed first round draft pick Pavel Zacha to a three-year entry level contract.
The sixth overall selection in the 2015 National Hockey League Entry Draft spent last season with the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League averaging almost a point per game. In his 37 appearances with the Sting he put up 16 goals and 18 assists. The eighteen year old forward was ranked second amongst Sting forwards with six power play goals and tied for fourth on the team for all goals despite missing 31 games last season.
While finishing tenth in scoring in the OHL, Zacha was named to the league's All-Rookie Team. Prior to playing in Sarnia, the Brno, Czech Republic native played 38 games in the country's top league, with the Bili Tygri Liberec White Tigers. One of his mentors, former NHLer Petr Nedved, has been a big influence in his transition to North American hockey.
Zacha participated in the last two World Junior Championships. In five games in the 2015 tournament, he scored a goal and an assist. He has represented his country three times in the under-18 World Junior Championship, while earning a Silver Medal in 2014 with three goals and two assists in seven games. As a 14 year old in 2011, he played for the Czech Republic's under-16 team and also skated for both the under-17 and under-18 teams the following season.
Devils General Manager, Ray Shero announced that the 2.78 million dollar entry level deal will carry an average annual value of around 925,000 dollars. The team expects Zacha to compete for a spot on the roster this upcoming season.
Chip is a Staff Writer at DoubleGSports.com
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Soweto, an acronym for South Western Township, located in Johannesburg is a populous black urban residential area with an estimated population of 1, 7 million residents (2010). Within this township, is the location of the second state hospital neatly nestled between the townships of Zola and Jabulani. Most of the residents in Zola and Jabulani as well as Soweto in general are impoverished and cannot afford private healthcare. It is hoped that this hospital will ease the bottleneck and alleviate pressure at the only hospital in Soweto, Chris Baragwanath Hospital.
The hospital was initially to be built in Zola, at the current Zola Clinic site, however, it was later found that the site was too small and deep into the residential area. An alternative site was found in Jabulani, hence the interchangeable name of the hospital.
The new District hospital comprised a multi storey 300 bed, now increased to 400 beds and 14 adjacent buildings which will act as a mortuary, laundry room, pharmacy and other service buildings. The 18 000 square meter hospital will include a maternity, obstetrics, gynaecology and radiology wards as well as outpatient care and emergency department amongst other services.
Progress on the project has been good with all aspects nearing completion, with practical completion expected in early April 2012. Service rendered for medical gas, HVAC, water reticulation and fire protection are at eighty five per cent completion. Cold and freezer room progress is also at eighty five per cent completion, whilst the mortuary and other services are at ninety five per cent complete.


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Substitution, Barcelona. Carles Alena replaces Sergio Busquets.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Gerard Pique.
Luis Suarez (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the right wing.
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Attempt missed. Luis Suarez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Nelson Semedo with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Luis Suarez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Coutinho.
Attempt missed. Luis Suarez (Barcelona) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Lionel Messi.


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Stargate SG-1: The Alliance est un jeu vidéo qui avait été annoncé officiellement par MGM basé sur la licence Stargate. Ce jeu était développé par la compagnie Perception pour JoWooD et Namco en Amérique du Nord. Il devait sortir sous Windows, Xbox et PS2 fin 2005 mais a été annulé à la suite d'une guerre juridique entre l'éditeur et le développeur.

Ben Lenzo, le chef du projet Stargate SG-1: The Alliance pour la compagnie Perception, avait toutefois révélé que ce jeu était un jeu de tir à la première personne développé avec le moteur de jeu de Unreal Tournament 2004.

Développement et annulation
Le jeu a commencé à être développé par Perception, une entreprise australienne, à partir de janvier 2004, pour le compte de l'éditeur autrichien JoWooD.

L'éditeur JoWooD a annoncé avoir arrêté le développement de Stargate SG-1: The Alliance à cause du travail bâclé effectué par le studio Perception, espérant ainsi récupérer la licence et le code source du jeu. Le développeur Perception, quant à lui, a annoncé que la licence et le code source du jeu lui appartiennent et que le développement du jeu est toujours en cours, il a ainsi porté plainte devant les tribunaux autrichiens pour faire valoir sa vue sur l'affaire.

La justice autrichienne a rejeté la plainte de Perception en déclarant que JoWooD étant dans son bon droit, ayant payé ce qu'il avait à payer. Le problème demeure cependant puisque la question de la propriété intellectuelle du jeu reste en suspens.

Namco a tenté pour sa part de continuer à éditer le jeu aux États-Unis un certain temps avant de jeter l'éponge : le jeu ayant été abandonné sans même un communiqué officiel.

Histoire
Le jeu met en scène l'alliance entre Anubis et une nouvelle race spécialement créée pour le jeu : les Haaken. Le jeu n'étant pas considéré comme faisant partie de l'histoire de Stargate SG-1, cela n'avait pas dérangé les créateurs de la série.

Certaines images du jeu ont été réutilisées dans l'épisode 6 de la saison 8 de Stargate SG-1 : Avatar.

La version de démonstration testée par le site IGN était une mission de sauvetage de SG-2 dans un temple Goa'uld, où le joueur pouvait contrôler un des quatre membre de SG-1.

D'après l'un des développeurs, le multijoueur devait être présent avec des modes death match, capture du drapeau et par équipe, mais aussi des spécificités liées à la présence de la porte des étoiles.

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The Board of Directors of Amedica Corporation (NASDAQ:AMDA) authorized the implementation of certain cost saving measures which included a reduction in staff of 21 employees, or approximately 38% of the company's workforce as the result of a comprehensive business review to improve financial performance, increase operational efficiencies and strengthen the Company's value proposition. The implementation of the staff reduction was started on October 3, 2016 and completed on October 4, 2016.
Conditional on the execution of a release of potential claims, all employees whose employment is being terminated as part of the workforce reduction will be provided with severance pay and benefits.
Amedica estimates the staff reductions will result in savings of approximately $2.0 million in cash operating expenses on a going forward basis, with estimated one-time severance and related costs related to the restructuring of approximately $465 thousand expected to be recorded in the 4th quarter of 2016. Amedica does not anticipate that there will be any further material future cash expenditure associated with the workforce reduction. The estimated savings and costs noted above are subject to a number of assumptions. Actual results and experience may differ materially as a result of various important factors, including the risks and uncertainties described under the heading "Forward- Looking Statements" in the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, which are incorporated by reference herein. Amedica may incur additional costs not currently contemplated due to events that may occur as a result of, or that are associated with, the workforce reduction.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Their Benefits
Contribution of DEI to Organizational Success
Barriers that Hinder Inclusion
Culture of DEI in Budweiser
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) refer to policies and programs that enhance the participation and representation of various groups of people, including individuals of different ages, abilities, and disabilities. DEI also covers people with diverse skills, backgrounds, experiences, and expertise (Ciszek and Lim). Currently, workplaces are changing in intensive ways, from communication to corporate culture and daily jobs. New technologies and permanent marks of the global pandemic have also added to the intensity experience at workplaces. Due to this, companies have constantly been forced to innovate their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
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Diversity involves all the ways people are different, including the other characteristics that make an individual or group different. Diversity includes mental ability, religion, gender identity, veteran status, sexual orientation, and physical ability. Diversity can also have a range of perspectives, ideas, and values. Further on, equity ensures opportunity equality, fair treatment, as well as advancement for every person (Ciszek and Lim). Equity also recognizes and eliminates obstacles that prevent some individuals or groups from participating fully. The primary responsibility of equity is to enhance fairness, justice, and equitability within the distribution and procedures of resources by systems. To handle issues related to equity, individuals are required to understand the root causes of result disparities in an organization or society.
Finally, inclusion is assigned to build a culture that ensures everyone feels welcomed through an active invitation to participate and contribute. This welcoming and inclusive environment embraces and supports differences and respects all individuals in actions and words (Ciszek and Lim). A workplace with inclusivity supports, concerns, collaborates and aims to ensure that employees have an opportunity to contribute and participate—an inclusive workplace endeavors to eliminate all intolerance, barriers, and discrimination. Generally, diversity, equity, and inclusion complement each other to ensure an organization becomes successful while adhering to its mission and making profits.
Each component in DEI is robust, making it a more comprehensive, operationalized strategy. An organization that uses DEI demonstrates that it is committed to its strategy, business practices, and mission. DEI also ensures that the organization protects the name of competitive business advantage (Ciszek and Lim). Therefore, an organization that develops and supports DEI will be more successful than its competitors. This section aims to discuss how the use of DEI leads to organizational success.
The benefits of an organization's commitment to DEI tend to compound over time. DEI usually develops a magnetic reputation that assists an organization in retaining and attracting top talents. For example, numerous people seek employment; due to this, most organizations consider diversity an essential factor while offering jobs. Therefore, DEI ensures talent management that sustains organizational performance by providing crucial knowledge and strategies for improvement and change (Ciszek and Lim). It also helps organizations identify the most talented employees with the potential to become future leaders when the need arises. Hence, DEI will ensure that the organization successfully manages its workers and prepares for replacement whenever needed.
When an organization uses DEI, it makes it more creative and adaptable. In addition, having frontline decision-making teams in an organization reflects a diverse and inclusive culture that helps to surpass its financial goals. A perfect example is when a manufacturing company decides on value addition based on the inclusivity of all its employees (Ciszek and Lim). This will ensure successful innovation in the whole company and increase profits. In other perspectives, for example, a company that DEI provides that all employees' ideas are listened to and evaluated to test their success rate. This will encourage creative thinking in the organization, creating more products that increase sales. Therefore, DEI increases creativity and innovations that improve the organization's profitability.
In most cases, individuals make mistakes in responding to other people because it makes all the difference. For instance, if an employee in an organization slips up, they get a second chance or are forever considered careless. Due to such cases, some people in an organization have changed their blame to external factors when their group members make mistakes. However, when an individual from out-group makes mistakes, they are usually attributed as personal flaws (Ciszek and Lim). In addition, supervisors can build a good relationship with one employee and simultaneously ostracize another with a penalty. Due to such inconsistent responses to makes made by employees, it hinders inclusion in some organizations.
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Another barrier is insensitivity; this happens in an organization that does not realize how changes their employee and member demographics might require a few tweaks to their social traditions. Events, jokes, and comments that were traditional components of the organization's culture might negatively impact a more diverse employee (Ciszek and Lim). In addition, insensitivity causes workplace stress low morale, causing burnout, and in some instances, more advanced consequences such as violence and drug use. Due to all these consequences caused by insensitivity, it makes it hard for its feels to feel included in the company's matter, and sometimes it can lead to costly employment lawsuits
The company ensures equality by creating more employment vacancies for women in the beer industry. For instance, half of its U.S. breweries and more than a quarter of its breweries in Europe, Argentina, and China are women-led as head brewmasters. This type of equality has made women have a key role in brewing some of the company's best-known products. In addition, to equality, the company believed that equal work means equal pay. When President Obama announced the equal pay pledge, Budweiser was among the first major brewer to sign the pledge (Ciszek and Lim). In another instance, in places such as Latin America, the company has publically declared its support for the U.N. Women Compact by signing the CEO agreement of supporting Women's Empowerment principles. All these actions by Budweiser have proved that the company supports gender equality.
The company has reflected support for LGBT through different programs to prove inclusivity. For example, in Brazil, the company branded a beer that sponsored the Brazilian LGBT pride parade. This gesture has enhanced awareness of LGBT inclusivity through numerous campaigns to date. Bud light has the longest supporter since its first-ever LGBT-specific print ad in 1995 (Ciszek and Lim). All these gestures have shown that Budweiser is inclusive regardless of an individual's sexuality.
The company also accommodates diversity because, for more than 150 years, it has honored to spend time and raise funds for veterans through programs such as folds of honor. In addition, a section of revenues from the Budweiser Freedom Reserve Red Lager, which the company's three veterans created, has been pledged to the folds of honor program. The company also shows patriotism by providing educational scholarships to military families. For example, last year, the company raised over $10 million to sponsor education for military families (Ciszek and Lim). Due to these programs, the company has been considered one of the diverse beer brewers in the U.S.
Ciszek, Erica, and Hayoung Sally Lim. "Perceived Brand Authenticity And LGBTQ Publics: How LGBTQ Practitioners Understand Authenticity". International Journal of Strategic Communication, vol 15, no. 5, 2021, pp. 395-409. Informa U.K. Limited. Web.
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The performance of Verdi's "Rigoletto" at the Lyric Opera House on Friday evening proved to be an unremarkable, if somewhat mysterious, affair.
No one -- either in the organization that presented the performance or the audience -- seemed to know much about the fTC visiting Opera Nazionale Italiana other than that it was formed a few years ago. A poster proclaimed the company's city of origin as Florence, but the abilities of the singers and the level of the production seemed far more like those one might encounter in a provincial repertory company. And here's another unanswered question: What was the Opera Nazionale Italiana doing traveling with the musicians from the Budapest State Opera Orchestra and choristers from the Hungarian Army Chorus?
Those questions seemed more intriguing than the performance, which was very much of the bus-and-truck variety: a tiny (if excellent) orchestra, professionally competent (if not scintillating) singers, and bargain-basement sets that boasted lighting effects less sophisticated than those that illuminate many of the Christmas displays in some Towson neighborhoods.
The singing was -- for the most part -- maddeningly even: There were no highs and no lows. One could say that it was a cast of flat-liners. Baritone Maurizio Scarfeo -- who sometimes forgot that he was supposed to be a crippled hunchback -- sang all the notes in the title role without approaching the supple lyricism and the dark bravura that lie at the heart of the part. Of Fiorella Prandini's Gilda, Andrea Elena's Duke of Mantua, Edoardo Zecca's Sparafucile and Anna Schiatti's Maddalena, one could make similarremarks. Rosalba Trevisan's direction was of the wind-it-up-and-let-it-run variety: There was never any sense that human beings inhabited these roles or that the action had a significance deeper than an opportunity for singing.
The acting (though one wouldn't have cared if the singing were better) was as persuasive as the kind one encounters in high school productions: It rarely went beyond a wave of the hand or a glowering look. The small orchestra -- there were only two double basses -- played its heart out under the intelligent conducting of Stefano Pellegrino.
One of the interesting things about the event was the size of the audience. With almost no advance publicity, this single performance attracted enough people to fill most of the Lyric's cavernous spaces. There's clearly real hunger for opera in Baltimore.


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Kennedy's statement contradicted by his own words
By James E. Liedell
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's Aug. 30 letter to the editor of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette stated he did not give "windmills on the horizon will spoil the view" as a key reason for his opposition to the Cape Wind project.
It is disappointing that Mr. Kennedy totally ignores Cape Wind's environmental, health, economic, security and other benefits to Massachusetts individuals, towns and businesses.But his statement was contradicted by his own words -- "the sight of wind turbines bothers me" -- to me at a Boston Pops Concert in Hyannis. Mr. Kennedy also told me, "That's also where I sail, and I don't want to see them." Most opponents similarly identify the real or purported effects on their view as their key objection, although most have never seen an offshore wind turbine.
The visual complaint is one of the few arguments opponents have. State and federal governmental reviews have found few significant faults, and many powerful benefits.
Mr. Kennedy also claimed Cape Wind will "seize 25 square miles of public lands and waters." But Cape Wind's turbine towers and service platform would occupy less than two acres -- leaving 99.99 percent of the 25 square miles for others' use. The towers would be one-third to one-half mile apart. Cape Wind will pay a large lease fee, 27 percent of which will go to Massachusetts.
It is disappointing that Mr. Kennedy totally ignores Cape Wind's environmental, health, economic, security and other benefits to Massachusetts individuals, towns and businesses.
James E. Liedell of Yarmouthport is a writer, engineer and director of Clean Power Now, the major pro-Cape Wind group. This appeared in Sunday's Providence Journal.
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A heritage monument of India, the Qutub Minar in Delhi stands as a luminous testimony to the ravages and splendors of the golden days of History. Founded by the Afghan invader, Qutub-ud din Aibek, to mark his victory in North India, the Qutub Minar stands tall in the southern parts of Delhi and regarded as the tallest free standing stone towers in the world. Due to the decay in its ancient construction, as well as a few unfortunate incidents such as accidents and suicides from the monument, Qutub Minar has been closed down. The Archeological Survey of India has been dedicating a lot of efforts in resurrecting this monument to its former glory. As a part of the revival process, there is a three day festival called the Qutub Festival that is held in Delhi.
Description of the Qutub Festival
The Qutub Festival, held in the premises of the historical structure, Qutub Minar is a festival to celebrate the splendor and magnificence of the Minar and showcase its past glory and majesty to the world.
There are different cultural shows and art forms that are displayed during the festival. One of the main focuses of the Qutub Festival is the attention it gets, both national and international. There are a number of cultural events and shows that are held against the historical backdrop of the Qutub Minar. There are also performances by the folk musicians and the classical musicians as a part of the celebrations. The three days of non stop music and dance brings back life in this ancient structure which is illuminated and offers a bedazzling and royal view. The Qutub Festival is organized jointly by the Delhi Tourism and Transport Development Corporation and the Sahitya Kala Parishad. There are also a number of regional food stalls that are set up at the premises serving mouthwatering local cuisine of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and the north eastern states.
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"I like to call Arthrex the house of 1,000 doors," said Senior Production Coordinator Ernesto Leiva. "If you work hard and you're dedicated, Arthrex will open doors and give you opportunities to excel. Dedicate yourself to what you want to do, and it can happen."
Ernesto joined the Arthrex team five years ago as a production machine operator (PMO) 1 in a clean room at Arthrex Manufacturing Inc. East (AMIE). Manufacturing and production were totally new to Ernesto, but he was up for the challenge.
Ernesto was immediately intrigued by the intricacy of working in a clean room and several coworkers were eager to help show him the ropes. From the gowning required to enter the room to the immense attention to detail needed for each work order, Ernesto was drawn to the precision of the job right away.
In the five years since his Arthrex journey began, Ernesto has advanced twice to reach his current position. He now reports to the room supervisor on shift and helps oversee about 60 team members during the night shift in Clean Room 1.
"My coworkers always trained me, supported me and had my back," said Ernesto. "Now that I'm in this position, it's my job to return the favor. I always try to give back and be a source of helpful information."
Ernesto's daily tasks as senior coordinator are often varied. He helps train new hires, provides production coordinators components to complete work orders, and brings new work orders to the clean room to ensure there are plenty to complete throughout the shift. Every day is slightly different, which is part of what he loves about the work.
Since moving into his senior role last year, Ernesto's mentorship of one employee in particular stands out. Eduardo Rafols Velazquez began working three years ago as a PMO 1, the same position Ernesto had when he started. Eduardo was eager to learn and asked lots of questions, and Ernesto was excited to share the knowledge his team members had previously shared with him. Eduardo worked hard and was promoted twice. He is now a senior production coordinator, just like Ernesto, and is thankful for his guidance along the way.
"He's always been a great leader," said Eduardo of Ernesto. "He is constantly willing to give you a hand and has a great attitude. He's the kind of coworker you can always count on and I can truly say it's been a pleasure to work with him."
In December, Ernesto was part of an exciting project at AMIE. He and several other team members were given the opportunity to participate in a Kaizen (continuous improvement) project aimed at reducing the handling of Imaging and Resection (I&R) parts throughout the production process.
Arthrex is frequently looking for ways to make processes more efficient, often referred to as "lean manufacturing," while maintaining our world-class quality. Several more Kaizen projects have been launched since the I&R task in December.
During the project, Ernesto and the team assessed the current I&R production process, counted the number of times materials were handled, brainstormed ways to lessen that number without compromising quality and, ultimately, presented their findings to AMI leadership.
"They did really well," said Packaging Operations Manager Craig Klein, who oversees Ernesto and helped present the project's results. "The team found multiple areas for improvement and we're in the process of implementing some of them now."
Craig says Ernesto absorbs every bit of information he can and that he jumps at development opportunities almost as fast as he jumps at the opportunity to help his colleagues.
"We offer growth opportunities to all our team members, like the Lead Development Program and these Kaizen projects. Ernesto is always eager to make the most of them," said Craig.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that Ernesto has lofty professional development goals for his future, just like the ambitious goals he had in place five years ago that helped him accomplish what he has today.
He thanked Manufacturing Supervisor Ryan Dunaway, Packing Supervisor Joseph Greyer and Assembly and Packaging Supervisor Lead Maridalys Rivera Rodriguez, especially, for their guidance, and made it a personal goal of his to "pass the torch" by sharing the valuable lessons he has learned with other team members.
"I'm taking action to learn more about managing and lean manufacturing and expanding my knowledge of the company so I can, hopefully, become a supervisor," he said.
While he's extremely thankful for his career development and all the mentors who help him reach his goals, Ernesto is passionate, above all else, about the Arthrex mission.
"I love that I'm part of the process of building something that directly affects patients," he said. "I feel like I'm doing my part in Helping Surgeons Treat Their Patients Better™."


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Founding Wine Sister Named 2022 Groundbreaker
We are so proud to share the news that one of our founding Wine Sisters, Terry Wheatley, earned a position on Worth's Groundbreakers List this year as one of the "50 Women Changing the World."
"As the first woman President to take a multimillion-dollar wine company public, my goal is to continue to raise up the women who follow and also to continue to lead Vintage Wine Estates as the industry leader in digital marketing," Wheatley told WORTH. "I am humbled to take my place among the Worth Women who share that vision."
Throughout her career, Terry launched brands that you might be familiar with in our Wine Shop and in your neighborhood stores, including Middle Sister, Girl & Dragon, Purple Cowboy and Bar Dog, among a long list of others.
"There are two things I really, really love about my job: creating wine brands and advocating and mentoring women in the wine industry and young entrepreneurs who are building their own businesses," she said.
A few years ago, Wine Enthusiast gave Terry the Wine Star Innovator of the Year award. The video below shares more details about why we feel honored to work with her.
Terry is a breast cancer survivor and also founded Tough Enough to Wear Pink, the Western community's grassroots campaign to battle breast cancer. Purple Cowboy wines donates 100% of profits to Tough Enough to Wear Pink and last year, the organization celebrated its 17th anniversary with more than $35 million raised.
As Terry climbed her ladder of success, she worked to clear a path for other women. We featured a few more of our incredible colleagues, who are also making waves in the wine industry in our Women's History Month blog.
Join us in raising a glass to Terry and all the female groundbreakers making progress and setting the stage for future generations of leaders!
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