Add the Bulls to the list of teams trying to acquire the Timberwolves' Kevin Love.
The Bulls became the latest team on Monday to throw their hat in the ring as potential suitors in the Kevin Love sweepstakes.
According to Chad Ford of ESPN, via NBC Sports' Dan Feldman, Chicago has offered forward-center Taj Gibson, small forward Tony Snell and the Nos. 16 and 19 picks in this year's draft to Minnesota for a deal that would involve Love going to the Bulls.
Golden State has also reportedly been in continued talks with Minnesota, but the Warriors' front office is reportedly divided on whether to give in to Minnesota's request for sharpshooter Klay Thompson as part of any potential deal.
The Nuggets have also reportedly made swingmen Kenneth Faried and Wilson Chandler available as part of a potential package to bring Love to Denver.
Love, who turns 26 in September, is set to test the free agent market in 2015. He is scheduled to make $15.7 million in the final year of his contract and will leave Minnesota if the Wolves don't trade him before the league trade deadline in February or surround him with the kind of talent that he feels is worth staying to contend for a championship.
Last season, the three-time All-Star averaged 26.1 points and 12.5 rebounds per game.


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On this edition of StudioTulsa, we learn about "The Light Fantastic, or In the Wood," a new play that will be staged by the locally based Heller Theatre Company tonight (the 19th), tomorrow night (the 20th), and Sunday afternoon (the 21st) at the Nightingale Theatre in downtown Tulsa, which is located at 1416 East 4th St. Our guests are David Blakely, who wrote this play, and Susan Apker, who is the president of Heller Theatre Company (or HTC). Blakeky is also the director of the RSU Theatre Program, as well as the first playwright-in-residence at HTC. Also on our show today, come rain or come shine, we offer a husband-and-wife, climate-driven commentary from Janet Pearson and Jeff Nix: "Weather or Not."
On this edition of ST, we learn about the new Heller Theatre Company presentation of "Dead Man's Cell Phone," which opens at the Henthorne PAC here in Tulsa (at 4825 So. Quaker) on Friday the 23rd. (It runs through February 1st.) "Dead Man's Cell Phone" -- a celebrated and off-the-wall comedy by Sarah Ruhl, the forty-ish American playwright and MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship recipient -- was given the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play after it premiered in 2007.


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Scaitcliffe was a prep school for boys aged 6–13 in Egham, Surrey. Founded in 1896, it was both a boarding and day school. After merging with Virginia Water Prep School in 1996, the school is now co-educational and known as Bishopsgate School. The school is located in a small village in Egham called Englefield Green near Windsor Great Park.

In post-war days, boys were allocated to four houses each named for British military heroes: Jellicoe, Beatty, Haig, and Kitchener.

Former pupils include Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group; Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo, the former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, patron of the Arts and architecture connoisseur; James Reed CBE, chairman and chief executive of the Reed group of companies, Abhisit Vejjajiva, leader of the opposition Democrat Party in Thailand, who subsequently went to Eton College and Oxford University; Charles Philipps, CEO of Amlin, who also subsequently went to Eton College; Bim Afolami, MP; Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner; and Michael Holroyd, biographer, who describes it in his 1999 book Basil Street Blues.

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Officers received a report of a runaway juvenile after a man and his son a fight. The son left for a walk and the dad went to bed. Several hours later, there was still no word from the son, who did not have a cellphone with him. About five hours after leaving, the boy returned home.
Officers received a report of broken vehicle window outside of a residence. Nothing was taken or disturbed. The owner said he was sitting in the living room when he noticed the broken window. He did not hear or see anything and had no idea how the window could have broken. A neighbor told officers that it had not yet been broken when they passed it 20 minutes before. Officers checked the surrounding area and found no other broken windows.
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Officers received a request for assistance after it was reported that a man had shrapnel in his face from shooting at the range with a friend. It was unknown which gun it came from.
A caller reported that the some subjects were blowing an air horn and playing loud music. Officers responded, and the subjects agreed to turn down the noise.
Officers received a report of a stolen car. The victim said the person who took his car was a man in his 20s who was wearing a black hat and blue shirt. He said he chased him but could not catch him, and the man who stole the car had used his turn signals.
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ISO 50001:2018 - Final Draft Released - Whats in it?
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ISO 50001 is an internationally recognised standard for Energy Management. It is recognised as the standard practice framework for managing your energy performance and addressing your energy costs, while also helping you to reduce your environmental impact and meet emissions reductions targets.
We, 2EA, have purchased the ISO/FDIS 50001:2018 edition that was released May 2018 and for the benefit of our clients and readers have summarised the main points and changes that organisations currently running, implementing or looking to implement ISO 50001 should be aware of.
It should be noted that with regards to ESOS, the ESOS legislation outlines the use of ISO 50001:2011 for routes to compliance for ESOS. Government and the Environment Agency have been and are aware of the change to ISO 50001:2018. However, no further proposals for these issues have been raised.
The introduction of the High Level Structure (HLS), similar to other ISO such as 14001 and 9001 was the main focus of the new revision.
A new form of conformance or self declaration is added by seeking confirmation from third parties such as customers.
Throughout the Leadership & Commitment of revised ISO. There is emphasis on ensuring that, throughout the process, things such as policy and objectives are compatible with the strategic direction of the organisation.
As we compare the two PDCA cycles, we can see that they have made significant changes to the newer version.
Within this new revision, they have emphasised the importance of cultural change. Something that was not mentioned in the previous version. Cultural and even behavioural change has started to take more a front seat role within the development of energy management.
Within 3.1.2 top management. Further notes have been added.
Note 2 to entry: If the scope of the management system (3.2.1) covers only part of an organization, then top management refers to those who direct and control that part of the organization.
Note 1 to entry: The concept of organization includes, but is not limited to, sole-trader, company, corporation, firm, enterprise, authority, partnership, charity or institution, or part or combination thereof, whether incorporated or not, public or private.
9. Clarification of energy performance indicator (EnPI) and energy baseline (EnB) text to provide a better understanding of these concepts.
b) enable the organization to demonstrate energy performance improvement.
There are many changes within the newly revised version and they cannot all be included here but this revised version lays the foundations to a better understanding of what is needed in implementing ISO 50001:2018.
ISO 50001 is there to help you better manage your energy use. However, it is effectively a change management system that relies on senior people within the organisation taking a prominent and positive role in supporting and implementing this management system for the better of the organisation and their energy management.


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Q: Let's disallow moderator nominations from people who've been suspended in the past year Well, it's election season again. On sites all over the network, moderators are being selected from among the good folk willing to volunteer their time to help guide and support their communities. I'm proud to be part of a system that governs itself in this manner; for all of its inherent messiness, democracy goes an awful long way toward avoiding the sort of alienation and discontent that tends to settle on communities over time.
But about that messiness... For as long as we've been doing this, we've faced the question of whether or not to allow candidates who are currently or recently suspended. In the past, we've taken a hard stance on preventing or removing nominations from folks who are currently suspended on the site running the election. But the more elections I see, the more I've come to believe that allowing nominations from candidates who are currently or recently suspended anywhere on the network is a bad idea:

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*They lead to speculation and personal attacks. It's natural and healthy to discuss the beliefs and behaviors of nominees, but suspension details are mostly not public; this makes frank discussions difficult. It is possible for the moderators involved in the suspensions to reveal the details, but this tends to be seen as unnecessarily personal and vindictive, even by those who would normally favor transparency.

*They leave insufficient opportunity to demonstrate good faith. Everyone makes mistakes; most of us try to move on from them. But moving on takes time; rebuilding a reputation tarnished by inexperience or one bad day requires long-term effort. In the meantime, even the most sincere candidate's record will be controversial.

*They distract everyone from the most important question in any election: who will make a good moderator? Let's face it: a checkered past is entertaining in a way that years of patient service to the community isn't. But turning elections into a circus hurts everyone who cares about the long-term health of the site.

Five years ago, Pekka made a reasonable suggestion:

Candidates who have a record of vote fraud within the last two or three years (or whatever time span is decided) be silently removed from the nomination page - the more boring, but probably wisest option.

I think we should do this. 2-3 years is a long time on The Internet, but 1 year (after the end of the suspension) strikes me as quite reasonable - and also happens to match the longest suspension period normally imposed. If you can manage to avoid trouble for that long, you should have a reasonable chance of being able to run on your merits.
Unless someone can raise a credible objection to this, I plan to start implementing this immediately: the next time someone nominates themselves after having been suspended on any Stack Exchange Q&A site during the past year, we'll quietly withdraw their nomination and send them a message to let them know why.
In cases where the suspension was clearly in error - lifted early with a message explaining the situation - we'll forego this process.
I spent this afternoon spot-checking various elections throughout Stack Exchange's history, and found very few cases where this would've mattered (see Appendix below for details). But invariably, these were some of the most controversial and distracting nominations in those elections.
Any thoughts or concerns?
Appendix: how would this have affected past elections?
A few people have expressed concerns that this would be either too widespread or too fuzzy. So here are some hard numbers:

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*There've been 136 elections held under the current system

*There've been 1266 nominations

*...from 984 users

*...of whom 76 have been suspended at least once

*And finally, 54 nominations were posted within a year of a previous suspension by the nominee.

The last one - 54 nominations - is the number that would've been blocked if we were doing this all along. Except... It shouldn't really be 54, since at least two of them were posted after a candidate (already a moderator) got another moderator to suspend him "For Science". This same candidate went on to run in two elections and win one, making him one of only 3 candidates with recent suspensions to ever win a moderator election.
What can we take away from this data? Here's what I got out of it: folks with sketchy pasts getting elected isn't a problem - it almost never happens. Folks are pretty good about letting others know when someone is likely to cause problems.
...But that - the discussion of past suspensions - has been a problem: far too many of those 54 nominations have managed to significantly derail the elections they were part of, turning them into public trials of the nominees. The goal of a timed suspension is to let someone reconsider their actions and move on quietly, without having to leave the site or spend the rest of their days under a dark cloud; having everything dragged out into public defeats that goal, hurts the person nominating as well as the larger group who must try to sift through the drama to determine what is and isn't relevant.

A: To split out a sidenote from Gilles' answer, I'd suggest specifically that if the suspension was ended early, the default should be to allow nomination with no further ban period. That would handle the majority of cases identified so far where the suspension shouldn't weigh on the candidate's eligibility: preventative suspensions (e.g. BalusC) and suspensions that proved incorrect.
These cases are, as I understand it, rare; most suspensions are served out. But when they do happen, it seems like they almost never correlate with any sort of behavior that should really cast a shadow on future elections in any way. So it should be safe to remove early-ended suspensions from consideration.

A: Full disclosure
As of the time I posted this answer, I had just exited from a one-day suspension on Super User.
While this idea was on my mind for some time, I have to put it out there that I may be under a conflict of interest, so please take this answer with a grain of salt.

I think the underlying idea has very good merit. However, one year for any suspension of any length anywhere in the network within the last year does seem a bit harsh to me. A minor issue can cause brief suspensions lasting a week or less, and often with just a short-term effect on the community's goodwill toward the user.
I'd suggest that users be disqualified for 10× the sum of the length of all suspensions ending within the last year, with a minimum of 30 days and a maximum of 365 days. This means:

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*A user suspended for three days or less will be prevented from running for moderator for 30 days.

*A user suspended for a week will be prevented from running for moderator for 70 days (about 2-1/3 months).

*A user suspended for a month will be prevented from running for moderator for ten months.

This should address the concerns posed by Nick Gammon's answer and avoid being too harsh on good-faith users while still reducing the chance that a dispute would arise during an election due to a prior suspension for a more serious issue.
In any case, incumbent moderators should be able to exercise discretion in applying this rule.

A: Given

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*Moderators are chosen by the users to do the will of the users.

*Some suspensions are due to the Stack Overflow company not liking users who care more about what is what's best for the original aims of the site then the company's imposed political correction agenda.

Should actions of the company remove the free choice of users to choose their representatives?

A: I agree with this. Being a moderator is a higher responsibility than being an ordinary user; it should follow that moderators are held to a higher standard, and that there is an intermediate stage where someone is trusted enough to be a user, but not to be a moderator.
But I'd like to propose a tweak (I think I got the idea from Chris in chat): rather than make the ban on nominating for moderator last one year, it should last as long as the suspension. At least in this ballpark, perhaps not exactly with a 1:1 ratio.
This reflects the fact that different suspension lengths reflect different levels of problematic behavior. I don't think that someone who was banned for one day to halt an edit war should be banned from running in an election six months later. At the other extreme, someone in a one-year suspension didn't get that way by accident (one-year suspensions are normally handed out for a third instance of problematic behavior, clearly a habit and not a bad day).
This also means that there is no need for an election suspension review process that's separate from the participation suspension review process. If a suspension is considered unwarranted and overturned after three days, it won't have lasting impact. If the suspension is maintained, the election suspension stays.

A: To somewhat play devil's advocate, I am throwing an alternative into the ring that has not been discussed yet (forgive me if I missed something):
TL;DR
Let the voters decide, but steer inform them appropriately.
Suggestion
Do not block anybody from nominating (with the possible exception of currently suspendend users) but show the suspensions big and noticeable on the candidate's nomination, i.e., like this:

Hello, my name is Palpatine and I want to be your emperor moderator …
[candidate's text]
Palpatine was suspended on 19.05.1999 on Galactic Politics SE for vote fraud (suspension was lifted due to being accidental).
Palpatine was suspended from 16.05.2002 to 23.05.2002 (one week) on Galactic Politics SE for warmongering.
Palpatine was suspended from 02.09.2002 to 02.10.2002 (one month) on Galactic Politics SE for warmongering.
Palpatine was suspended from 15.05.2003 to 15.05.2005 (two years) on Galactic Politics SE for warmongering.

However, be somewhat less lenient with what suspensions are shown, e.g., show every suspension within the last year, but show all year-long suspensions from the last three years.
Why could this solve the problem at hand?
We know that most voters do not look any further than the election page. For example 27 k users voted in the last SO eletion, but the Questionnaire for that election was visited by only 6 k people until today¹. Most voters do not want to spend much time on voting but want a short digest of most import information on the candidates, which guides their decision.
As far as I can tell a considerable amount of the drama around the recent SciFi Election was about making the candidates' suspension history known and the fact that the community actually elected one of these candidates.
I think it is safe to say that if the suspensions were displayed, the former source of drama would have been obsolete and the latter source of drama would never have occurred since the candidate would not have been elected.
Yes, all of this is influencing the voters, but so does displaying candidate scores and reputation on the election page. SE is neither important enough to have independent journalism to pre-digest information about candidates nor is it relevant enough to motivate voters to consume that pre-digested information. The best we can have is a digest which is as informative and neutral as possible. And displaying recent suspensions fits very much into this.

¹ which includes a lot of repeating visitors and visitors who did not vote. Note that I chose SO here to keep the relative impact of that number as low as possible.

Further Pros

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*This is more democratic.

*It softens the threshold. You still have to choose when to show a suspension, but at the end of the day, the voters decide.

*This alleviates possible fuzz around borderline cases, weighting suspension lengths and reasons, unjust suspensions and so on. It's the candidate's job to explain their suspension.

*Moderators do not have to worry that much about ruining a user's election chances when issuing a short suspension.
Cons

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*With some candidates, it causes more quarrel than if those candidates weren't allowed to run in the first place. However, in some cases, it causes less quarrel. It's hard to foretell.

*Such a candidate may still be elected and do bad stuff, but that would require expertise demagogy or true dedication.

*This poses the problem of candidates not being honest about their suspension in their nomination. Outright lies should arguably lead to a disqualification, but what about the grey area?

A: I tend to agree with this. The reason is, unlike content that you contribute to different Stack Exchange sites, the principles of moderation stay the same between them, for the most part.
These people should be exemplars of good behaviour within the community, and that includes other SE sites - it most definitely is relevant. When their reputation is tarnished by a suspension - especially, but not only, when the circumstances around the suspension are controversial - it shifts the focus from electing moderators to stopping candidates from being elected.
It turns what is generally, and what, in my opinion, should be a positive campaign of people promoting their merits and recognising their shortcomings into target for negative campaigning, where people dredge up the past. It's certainly not healthy for the candidate either, I don't think.
On the other hand, there is the supposed view that the end of this timed suspension period, your reputation will be recalculated, and your account will resume as normal. We don't hold grudges. I'd probably say that this means to apply only to being able to participate as a user on the site, and that's fair - moderators are held to a higher standard, and rightfully so.
Additionally, preventing someone from running in elections for an entire year even if their suspension was for a single day might be harsh. However, that really does come down to moderators exercising good judgement when issuing suspensions, even single-day suspensions. Suspensions should never be taken lightly anyway, and as far as I know, aren't, so this shouldn't be a real problem.
On balance, I think this would have positive effects, as it would avoid the kinds of issues you mentioned, but also give everyone a chance to forget about the person's past behaviours, focus on their (more) recent contributions, and, for the candidates involved, not have those past incidents brought up despite their attempts to improve and move on from them.

A: I agree with this in general. I'd say if you've been so immoderate as to get yourself banned from an SE site, you need time to let bygones be bygones before you can be an undivisive candidate.
There are however certain suspension reasons, and/or times, that I think would be valid exceptions to that:
Why was BalusC temporarily suspended from SO?
Congratulations Eric Lippert for finally winning the 'c#-language' badge (I guess that no suspension was actually handed out here, but it was strongly suggested)
Both of these involved users in otherwise very good standing being suspended essentially for "What the heck is going on? Stop for a second so we can talk".
Opinions may vary on this, but I don't even see a "one bad day" level of reputation tarnish there. But if you're going to have a rule about disallowing someone from this level of interaction with their site, I think the rule must be applied consistently. BalusC shouldn't be prevented from nominating, but not because he's a cool guy who contributes a lot of good stuff: because the suspension reason was preventative, not punitive.
In other words, I think the stakes are high enough here that this rule should not be subject to -- or even be able to be cast as -- favoritism-like decisions about who can and can't be a mod.
I'd suggest that only long-term suspensions count for this disqualification: more than a week, say. Another option would be only suspensions that were not lifted manually. A third would be to add an explicit "slow down" suspension reason, distinct from "cool down", that is excepted from this rule.

A: What real problem is this actually solving?
A user suspended on one site is unrelated to their activity on another. If they happen to be a negative contributor on the site, they are very unlikely to be elected. So if they were suspended recently on a different site, why should they be barred from running? Just because some baseless accusations might fly in this political environment (e.g. "I was suspended because the mods are scared of me winning elections")? This is the nature of heated political environments and must just be suffered.
These don't sound like real problems.
Further, community managers can take down moderators and presumably nominees at will. Preventing the rare self-destroying community from it's own destruction is part of their job. And as far as I know this deus ex machina has never been employed on nominees or recently elected moderators.
This is not equitable
If formerly suspended users are not allowed to run, they are still paying for their mistakes when their suspension should have covered it. They messed up and paid with a suspension. The suspension has now passed. The violation against the community has been paid back. But worse, they would be barred for a violation against a different community entirely, not even the one they are hoping to represent.
Much in the same way ex-convicts have trouble getting jobs. It's not equitable and it's not right. The difference is we have the power to be equitable on Stack Exchange.
I would rather hear baseless arguments about a suspension than valid arguments that SE moderator election are inequitable.
What about the good guys?
Your post here says that you want elections to be about the merit of the candidates, and if they would be good moderators. Barring people from running for past reasons neglects the reality that they may very well make good moderators now. It assumes that once suspended users are not capable of moderating, which is frankly not true. And again, you take this a step further, declaring that apparent past inability to positively contribute on one site means they clearly cannot contribute positively on a completely different site. What bollocks.
We should trust the communities to make good voting choices
This proposal shows no faith in the communities that elect their moderators. The users that bother to vote generally have a good idea of who would be a good moderator and who would not. And for those that don't, the pre-election phases allow for plenty of time for the trusted users to make it known that they believe the bad ones are indeed bad.
In the tour of every SE site it reads:

[SE site] is run by you!

A hollow claim to those barred from moderator nomination.

This proposal is not congruent with the philosophy found in these two posts:

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*A Theory of Moderation

*Who are the site moderators, and what is their role here?

A: Except for voting fraud suspensions (which are supported by objective, system level facts about the user) I am not interested in suspensions candidate had on some other site.
There are over 500 moderators at over 150 sites across the network, sometimes with totally different culture. I did not vote for these guys, I do not participate in sites they moderate and I have no reason to trust their judgement if they decided that particular user needs to cool down at their site.
I don't want these 500 guys to stand in my way of evaluating candidate. I prefer to do it myself based on candidate's activity on my site (except for if they were involved in voting fraud elsewhere).

For now, you can enjoy your little scientific stats and supportive voting from your buddies at Teachers Lounge. But wait until someone publicly complains about block from elections.
If (when) this happens, you better hope that their suspension wasn't even remotely questionable and that you will be able to communicate that publicly. Because to the world outside of TL this will look like unfair manipulation.

A: I am very happy with this. I don't think it's an unreasonable restriction and the net win for the process itself is big. This is supposed to be a fun and exciting time for a site and everyone that participates in the process.
I have a couple of thoughts.
While it's not an unreasonable restriction, we have to ensure that people anticipate it. I don't want a scenario where someone spends a large block of time putting forth a good-faith nomination only to realize that they weren't eligible because of that argument they kept poking 11.5 months ago and have since forgotten about. We need to make it clear where they enter their nomination that we have this restriction, and encourage anyone in doubt to contact us to talk about it.
Secondly, suspensions are sometimes issued in error, or in excess of what the situation called for upon review. It doesn't happen often, but mistakes do happen. This could theoretically lead to someone thinking:

I know this user was suspended on Mayonnaise SE within the last year, something something about Miracle Whip.

If the nomination is allowed to continue, folks are going to just have to trust that we (the Community Growth team) reviewed everything there is to review and determined that the user shouldn't have been suspended. In other words, I don't want to create even more incentive for the details of the suspension to be aired out like laundry - that's a big part of what we're trying to avoid.
What I like the most about this plan is that we're not creating any additional process around an already kind of complicated thing. It's just more review.

A: It sounds like a nice idea in one sense. It is a bit analogous to that of a man being locked up for 5 years for robbing a bank. Upon being released from jail he can return to the normal community, but would hardly expect to get a job as a bank teller. Such jobs have higher degrees of trust and probity attached to them.

But, could the system be "gamed"? A lot of computer systems are gamed these days by people working out how the rules can be turned to their advantage.
Here's a hypothetical scenario:

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*A user John Doe has been doing a good job on his site, he has gained reasonable amounts of rep, and done his job editing posts, voting to close, and so on.

*He lets it be known that he is interested (or is an obvious candidate) in the next moderator elections

*Another user has a grudge against John Doe. This user didn't like his posts being voted to close, or his edits refused, or something.

*This other user provokes John Doe into doing something silly. With enough goading John eventually lashes out with an insult or something similar.

*The other user makes a strongly worded complaint to the moderators about John Doe. "This isn't the way to run a site, I'm deeply offended, blah blah".

*John Doe is suspended for a week.

*The other user has achieved his objective. Now John Doe can't be considered for the upcoming moderator elections, because of this extra year's period.

I'm not sure of a good compromise but maybe this proposed rule would kick in for long suspensions (for something really bad) but not short suspensions.

(edited to add)
Possibly influence moderators to not suspend
Another issue would be the effect this might have on moderators. Presently if you suspend someone for a week, that is the entire punishment. But now you would have to take into account possibly forthcoming moderator elections. You might think "is what he did bad enough to not allow him to nominate for an entire year?".
So you might not suspend, but merely warn.
Therefore a side-effect of this proposal might be that less people are suspended than previously. Is that a good thing?

A: This is partially in response to Nick Gammon's answer.
Rather than hard coding it as a year since the last suspension of any length, make it that the time passed is greater than the length of the last suspension.
Thus if they've only been suspended for a week, then they're only blocked for a week after the suspension ends. This means that the blocking period doesn't seem to be excessive for minor infractions. However, as Catija points out a week (or a day) might not be long enough to determine whether the person has reformed or not. So perhaps the time should be the next suspension level or a year (which ever is the greater).
So for a suspension of a day they can't nominate for a week, for a week a month, and for a month or longer they can't nominate for a year.

A: I think we need more context on this. Politicians usually propose a change in the law touted as designed 'for the Greater Good' (TM) but in effect promoting their own /special interests. I hope this is not the case here.
The election at SFF seems to be the background of this discussion, and people on Meta SE don't know even 1 per cent of the stuff that has been happening there, and cannot come to a meaningful conclusion based on this question alone.
Thus, I have two things to say:

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*first and foremost, I don't want past transgressions on a site or current bans on other sites to disqualify anybody from running in the election. If a person does not abide by the rules of the network, issue a permaban and be done with it, moderator or not a moderator.

*second, the question has to be revised to reflect the story at SFF, and to include the viewpoints of all the sides. Otherwise, it will be regarded as hopelessly biased.
I also agree with Nick Gammon's view that this opens up the field for power games and election manipulation.
EDIT: At Tim's request, I'd like to make my position clearer.

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*Bans for infractions on other sites should not disqualify a SE user from running in an election. We have to avoid the impression of power games by other peer mods. no change needed

*Community managers already have the authority to terminate an elected moderator. If they deem a moderator unsuitable for the position, they can de-frock him/her practically at will. no change needed

*If an infraction on another site is deemed serious enough to prevent joyful inauguration as a mod, it is also serious enough to ban the user from Stack Exchange. Thus, the network-wide ban should be imposed by Community Managers which automatically means the user won't take part in the elections. no change needed except in SOP

EDIT #2: I see quite a few similarities between the proposal under discussion and this one (YouTube):

A: I disagree.
Sometimes people challenge the status quo and pick up a suspension in the process.
And sometimes, especially on the smaller and younger Stackexchange sites, suspensions can be politically motivated; often stemming from either a personality conflict or a difference of opinion.
Preventing recently suspended users from running for moderator would be a bad idea.

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Dennis Jones - My Kinda Blues (2012)
Saturday, 06 October 2018 13:01 | Written by bluesever |
1 	Jesus Or The Bottel 	4:29
2 	Same Train 	3:30
3 	My Kinda Blues 	4:30
4 	Text Us Girl 	3:35
5 	You Took My Baby 	5:26
6 	I Want You 	2:34
7 	Never Go Away 	2:48
8 	Best That I Can 	3:29
9 	They Say 	2:36
10 	Good For Me 	4:05
11 	One More Dance 	4:41
12 	Devil's Nightmare 	4:16
13 	Baltimore Blues 	7:28
Bass – Samuel Correa
Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Michael Turner
Guitar, Vocals – Dennis Jones
Harmonica, Backing Vocals – Kenny Neal (tracks: 2)
Lead Guitar – Guitar Shorty (tracks: 5)
This is my fourth release on Blue Rock Records. I strive to grow and evolve as a musician and songwriter with every new album, and the music on My Kinda Blues is evidence of this. Blues music is the root of what I write and play, as always. I'm very fortunate to work with an unbelievably talented band, and to have a few reknowned guest blues artists play on this CD. Much of this album was recorded live and raw with only one over dub guitar track. I didn't try to reinvent the blues; I just wanted to do what I was feeling in my heart, and hearing in my head. Hope you enjoy it. Thank you. ---Dennis Jones, cdbaby.com
Modern, edgy, street smart, full of attitude delivered with muscle and fire, this is how guitar man Dennis Jones may describe "his kind of blues." Check out his latest release My Kinda Blues the fourth from his own Blue Rock Records and judge for yourself. Jones doesn't pull any punches as he launches the album with a seething rebuke of televangelists on "Jesus and the Bottle," then gets down home cute with the train beat ramble "Same Train," featuring guest Kenny Neal on Harmonica. The Title track spells out Jones' mission statement for dragging the blues into the twenty first century kicking and screaming if need be. The rhythm section of Michael Turner on drums and bassist Samuel Correa are a force to be reckoned with, who lay doing super fat dynamic grooves one would expect on a neo soul or R&B record.
Jones whips out the zingers of modern vernacular on his catchy dance hall tunes like "Text Us Girl," and "I Want You." The driving funk rock of "Never Go Away," delivers one of the best man cave lines ever "how can I miss you if you never go away? " Jones trades hot licks with guest Guitar Shorty on the classic Chicago shuffle "You Took My Baby." A nice choice was made to explain in the album notes that Shorty's guitar is panned hard right for the track so you get the feel of the two gun slingers tossing barbs back and forth. Another treat is the Tex-mex styled rumba "One More Dance," that twists and turns into a Band of Gypsies style rocker that shows off this power trio's full range of skills. The album ends with the instrumental "Baltimore Blues," giving Jones the chance to show off his arsenal of chops while paying tribute to the city of his birth and all the guitar heroes who inspired him to stick to his guns and play his kind of blues. ---Rick J Bowen, nodepression.com
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Jeremiah Patrick (Jerry) Lordan (født 30. april 1934 i Paddington, London - død 24. juli 1995 i Shropshire, England) var en engelsk komponist, sangskriver og vokalist.

Lordan som nok er mest kendt for de 3 store hits "Apache! (1960), "Wonderful Land" (1962) , "Atlantis" (1963) og tillige hittet Mary Anne (1965), som instrumental gruppen The Shadows lancerede og toppede hitlisterne med disse år. Han har også skrevet nummeret "Diamonds" (1963) og "Scarlett O´Hara" (1963), som blev hits for Tony Meehan og Jet Harris, som var den oprindelige rytmegruppe i The Shadows til henholdsvis 1961 og 1962. Lordan skrev også "A girl like you" (1963), som blev et hit for Cliff Richard. Lordan startede som ung med at spille klaver, så senere guitar, inden han slog over og blev sangskriver og sanger. Efter en mislykket karriere som sanger, blev han komponist på fuld tid. Han var senere i sit liv bla også skuespiller, feks. i filmen "Sex Comedy, Come play with me (1977). Han døde i 1995 af nyresvigt 61 år gammel.

Udvalgte kompositioner

 Apache (1960)
 Wonderful Land (1962)
 Atlantis (1963)
 Diamonds (1963)
 Scarlet O´Hara (1963)
 A girl like you (1963)
 I am Just a baby (1963)
 Mary Anne (1965)

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Komponister fra England
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The school year for our year-round schools has begun. Our traditional schools are set to begin on Thursday, August 23, and we are excited to announce the Second Annual Million Father March for Hayward Unified School District (HUSD). This encompasses male figures bringing their children to school on the first day of classes.
Over the summer I was able to visit some of our summer learning sites that allowed students to recover credits for high school and graduation, attend enrichment classes, and provide learning for extended school year.
Over the last few weeks, I have been thinking about "leadership," and what leadership means and looks like. The issue of leadership continues to be an important topic to improving our school district. As trustees, we must realize that constructive conflict resolution is the best way to guarantee effective leadership for HUSD. In order for our district to flourish for our students' sake, the Board of Trustees needs to lead effectively and efficiently. We need to allow for conflict, which is healthy for any organization, and at the same time work through that conflict openly, and constructively.
There have been some developments over the last several months which I feel has distracted our community, staff, Trustees, and unfortunately, even our students. The recent articles on the news website www.ebcitizen.com has reported some alleged improprieties with members of our school board. We must acknowledge this negativity, seek the truth, learn from the experience, and move forward while remembering this lesson as it becomes history so we can put forth an effort not to make the same mistakes again. Hopefully this acknowledgement will guide and lead us to a level of increased trust and success of our school district to benefit our students in a positive way.
For clarification purposes, the Board held a special meeting Wednesday, August 8, with the expectation that amended bylaws would be presented. However, the discussion was a rehash of the first reading of some bylaws that were presented at the July 25 meeting. On July 25 all board Trustees were able to comment on the bylaws they felt needed amending. Staff was to work on the amendments, consult legal counsel, and bring the bylaws back to the board for a second reading at a later date. At the August 8 meeting, it was stated that the Board directed staff to bring these policies back to us at a special board meeting for another first reading. In reviewing the video (http://www.husd.k12.ca.us/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1343052019931) from our meeting on July 25, it was never stated to bring these policies back for another first reading. The miscommunication of the reason for this meeting shows the need to work on clear communication strategies to minimize confusion in an effort to not waste money and staff time.
What I feel should have been one of the topics of the August 8 meeting, a request made per our current board bylaws, was the exploration and discussion of the HUSD facilities master plan (which can be read at http://www.husd.k12.ca.us/FacilitiesMP). Had we done so, we could have revisited plans pertaining to the retrofit, safety, modernization, and technological upgrade of existing schools in the district. We have been able to see the results of this master plan with the building of several new schools. It is unfortunate that the Board of Trustees has been prohibited from engaging in a conversation about this plan. It is my hope that through leadership, Trustees will engage in periodic discussions about the master plan, reach out to the community, and have dynamic conversations to create plans to improve our facilities for all of our students so they may have the opportunity to learn 21st century skills in 21st century buildings! This will also be beneficial for the employees of our district as they will be able to work more efficiently in modern and safe facilities, and with the latest technology. Our schools are outdated. If we expect our children to have a world-class education, we need to provide them with world-class facilities.
The HUSD has the opportunity and ability to grow into a unified district of success for all students. The community is clamoring for change, demanding improvement, and insisting upon accountability. The Board of Trustees must follow bylaws and govern through policy and hold staff accountable for executing plans aimed at raising achievement for all students. This is an opportunity to understand that we are all leaders and need to work collectively at strengthening education opportunities for all of our students.


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News » World
Penny Palfrey Attempts 103 Mile Swim From Cuba to Florida Without Shark Cage
If she succeeds, Palfrey would beat the record for the longest unassisted swim she set in the Cayman Islands last year.
by Helene Hofman, GlobalPost
British-Australian swimmer Penny Palfrey will today begin an attempt to become the first person to swim across the Florida Straits without a shark cage or swim aids.
AFP says that the 49-year-old mother of three and grandmother of two was due to set off from the Hemingway International Yacht Club in Cuba's capital Havana at dawn. She was expected to arrive at Key West in Florida, across shark-invested waters, three days later.
"She will swim continuously 103 miles or 166 kilometers under standard open-water swimming rules. That means no wetsuit, no shark cage," her husband, Chris Palfrey, is quoted as saying by CNN. If she succeeds Palfrey would beat the previous record for the longest unassisted swim that she set in 2011 when she swam more than 67 miles from Little Grand Cayman island to Big Grand Cayman island.
In 1997, another Australian swimmer Susie Maroney completed a similar swim at the age of 22, but with a shark cage, according to Associated Press. American Diana Nyad, 62, made two attempts without a cage last year, but they were cut short by asthma attacks and jellyfish stings.
Instead of a shark cage, Palfrey will rely on "sharkshields," explains MSN News, which generate an electrical field in the water and deter sharks. She will also wear a Lycra bodysuit when Portuguese man o' war stings threaten to pose a problem.
"Every single swim is individual. Each swim comes with its own challenges. This is a really big challenge, the Florida Straits, 103 miles," Palfrey told Reuters ahead of the swim.


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Yascha Mounk is a writer, academic, and public speaker known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy.
Born in Germany to Polish parents, Mounk received his BA in history from Trinity College, Cambridge and his PhD in government from Harvard University. He is now an Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds appointments in both the School of Advanced International Studies and the Agora Institute. Yascha Mounk is also a Senior Advisor at Protect Democracy, a Senior Fellow at New York University's Reiss Center on Law and Security, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mounk formerly lectured on political theory as part of Harvard University's government department.
He has written three books: Stranger in My Own Country - A Jewish Family in Modern Germany, a memoir about Germany's fraught attempts to deal with its past; The Age of Responsibility – Luck, Choice and the Welfare State, which argues that a growing obsession with the concept of individual responsibility has transformed western welfare states; and The People versus Democracy – Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It, which explains the causes of the populist rise and investigates how to renew liberal democracy. His latest book has been translated into ten languages and was hailed as one of 2018's Best Books of the Year by multiple publications, including the Financial Times. A columnist at Slate, Mounk regularly writes for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, CNN, Die Zeit, and La Repubblica. He has appeared on radio and television in over ten countries. Mounk also writes "The Good Fight" column: articles on populism, resistance, activism, and the changing face of democracy for Slate magazine. Additionally, he is the host of a podcast, also called "The Good Fight," which interviews political luminaries such as George Packer, Mark Blythe, Brian Klaas, and more.
"People have lost all faith in democracy—and rightfully so. But it's not too late to fix it." –Yascha Mounk
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is an American scholar of digital humanities and media studies. She is currently the Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University. Prior to assuming this role in 2017, she served as Associate Executive Director and Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association.
Fitzpatrick is the author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (NYU Press, 2011) and of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006). In her most recent book, Generous Thinking: The University and the Public Good (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), she explores the "ways that scholars might connect and communicate with a range of off-campus communities about our shared interests and concerns."
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Fitzpatrick received her BA and MFA from Louisiana State University and her PhD from New York University.
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Today's Article - The transatlantic telegraph cable
This article is for quizzes on Thursday September 15th...
A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart's Content in eastern Newfoundland. The first communications occurred August 16, 1858, reducing the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days – the time it took to deliver a message by ship – to a much shorter time. Transatlantic telegraph cables have been replaced by transatlantic telecommunications cables.
On August 16, 1858 the first message sent via the cable, other than technical messages sent by the electricians setting up the system, was, "Europe and America are united by telegraphy. Glory to God in the highest; on earth, peace and good will toward men," sent from England. Queen Victoria then sent a telegram of congratulation to President James Buchanan at his summer residence in the Bedford Springs Hotel in Pennsylvania and expressed a hope that it would prove "an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded on their common interest and reciprocal esteem." The President responded that, "it is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle. May the Atlantic telegraph, under the blessing of Heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Divine Providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty, and law throughout the world." The messages were hard to decipher – Queen Victoria's message of 98 words took sixteen hours to send.
These messages engendered an outburst of enthusiasm. The next morning a grand salute of 100 guns resounded in New York City, the streets were decorated with flags, the bells of the churches were rung, and at night the city was illuminated.
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An unpleasant abnormal sensation, whether spontaneous or evoked.
Note: Compare with pain and with paresthesia. Special cases of dysesthesia include hyperalgesia and allodynia.
A dysesthesia should always be unpleasant and a paresthesia should not be unpleasant, although it is recognized that the borderline may present some difficulties when it comes to deciding as to whether a sensation is pleasant or unpleasant. It should always be specified whether the sensations are spontaneous or evoked.
International Association for the Study of Pain. IASP Pain Terminology. Internet. Accessed on April 15, 2016.


PI HYA (Pi Hydrae). Casual stargazers may look to the prominent head of Hydra, the Water Serpent, then perhaps down to Hydra's heart, bright (mid-second magnitude) Alphard, the "Solitary One," which shines in lonely splendor to the south- southwest of Regulus. The view might then extend to the southeast to admire Corvus (the Crow) and, if under a very dark sky, Crater (the Cup), both of which ride upon Hydra's back (Crater to the west). Nobody thinks much about Hydra's tail, in part because the constellation is so huge, wrapping a third the way around the sky, that it can't easily be viewed in one take. The tail's underappreciated end is represented by rather prominent third magnitude (3.27) Pi Hydrae, which lies about an hour to the west of southern Libra and about ten degrees due north of Menkent (Theta Centauri), and is the eastern-most star in the constellation carrying a Greek letter. Shining at a distance of 101 light years (give or take a half), Pi Hya is also a classic orange class K (K1) giant rather like a distant Arcturus, though with a higher metal content (from scattered measures, the iron abundance about 90 percent solar). With a well-determined temperature of 4660 Kelvin (from which we can derive the amount of invisible infrared radiation), we get a luminosity 98 times that of the Sun, which then (with temperature) gives a radius of 15 times solar, eight percent less than studies that use the star as a calibrator for finding stellar radii from interferometry. Rotation measures are inconsistent, the rotation period perhaps a year, maybe more, possibly less. Though estimation is difficult for such stars, theory best shows Pi to be a helium-fusing "clump star" (the term meaning that there are lots of stars in the same position in a graph of luminosity vs. temperature) with a mass 2.5 times that of the Sun. On a finer scale, it could have just arrived in that situation with an age of 600 or so million years, or it could be another 150 million years older and just leaving it. In either case, Pi Hya started life as a cool-side class B9 hydrogen-fusing dwarf. The star's velocity relative to the Sun of 39 kilometers per second, a bit more than twice normal, is consistent with it being a modestly "cyanogen- weak" star, with a deficiency of carbon or nitrogen or both, the star passing by us from a somewhat different region of the Galaxy than the one in which we find our Sun.
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Markets: Flat. No change. Rates hover at 5% and a bit below. 15-year loans are at 4.25% and thereabouts, 5/1 ARMS are 4% or a shade lower.
Analysis: A piac nem tud melyik iranyba menni, ugyhogy semmisem tortenik. If I write the same thing I've been writing for the past month, it gets old, even for me, so I wrote it in Hungarian this time. Prizes for the first person to email me the sentence above in English.
There's nothing going on, people. Or, at least, nothing that is big enough to make the markets move. Breathlessly we wait for the Fed to stop buying mortgage-backed securities, and loud are the forecasts of rate-based doom, and yet…nothing. Still, nothing.
Clarification: There is a lot of confusion about the homebuyer tax credits, so let me herewith set the record straight. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CLOSE ON YOUR PURCHASE BY APRIL 30. The house merely has to be under contract by April 30. It can then close any time before JUNE 30. "Under contract" means there is an agreement, signed by both the seller and the buyer, outlining the sale price and the terms of the sale. As long as you have that in place by April 30, you still qualify for the tax credit, and that is either the first-time homebuyer credit or the long-time homeowner credit, either one.


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Frontiers Collaborative Peer Review: criteria to accept and reject manuscripts
Posted on September 20, 2016 by Frontiers Communications in Frontiers Announcements, Open Science and Peer Review // 0 Comments
Frontiers' founding principle is to empower researchers in the publishing process. We distribute editorial responsibility to our Editorial Boards, to which we appoint leading experts according to strict criteria of excellence.
— By Gearóid Ó Faoleán, Frontiers (Last update: 5 December 2018)
We trust that these experts can take acceptance and rejection decisions, and can certify the rigor of the research presented in the articles with their names. Hence the distributed power in Frontiers comes with responsibility, accountability and recognition of services to the community.
The Frontiers Collaborative Review is designed to ensure a constructive interaction between authors, reviewers and editors, and improve the manuscript as needed. The review mandate is focused on evaluating the validity, rigor and correctness of the presented work. Our Editorial Boards determine the suitability and quality of scientific and academic content within each discipline, while Frontiers policies ensure that the consistency of Frontiers model is maintained across all of our publications.
How are decisions on manuscripts made at Frontiers?
Our Associate Editors are at the core of the decision process and responsible for overseeing the review process. After making an initial assessment to ensure a manuscript fits within the scope of the specialty and is scientifically robust, they have the responsibility for inviting reviewers — members of our standing Review Editorial Board or external experts. Associate Editors then assess the review reports and mediate during the collaborative review process.
Once the handling Editor has chosen the reviewers, they in turn have considerable autonomy during the review process. Reviewers can interact with the authors in the custom-built discussion forum, requesting clarifications and additions as well as questioning aspects of the manuscript.
Reviewers can also directly contact the handling Editor or editorial office to raise concerns as needed. To finalize their involvement with the peer review of a manuscript, reviewers can endorse the manuscript for publication, withdraw from the process or recommend the manuscript for rejection to the handling Editor.
Accepting a manuscript
At Frontiers, Associate Editors can accept manuscripts for full-length articles when a minimum of two reviewers have endorsed the submission for publication; this requirement is actually hard-coded into the system.
Once the interactive review forum is activated, reviewers can at any time endorse the manuscript for publication if they are satisfied with the manuscript. With this, they agree to be named on the published article, publicly validating its content.
The criteria for acceptance are:
Valid research question and hypothesis
Correct methodology including study design, data collection and analysis
Sufficiently referenced and grounded in existing literature
Editorial and ethical policies were adhered to
Clear presentation and adequate language level
Withdrawing from review
Further, at any stage of the review, reviewers can withdraw from the process, thereby remaining anonymous to the authors. Their reports remain visible in the collaborative review forum, though the discussion is closed. When withdrawing, reviewers can select one of the following reasons:
I do not have the time right now
There is a conflict of interest
I do not want to be named on the final publication if accepted
Alternative reason with an accompanying text-box allowing for clarification
Rejecting a manuscript
At any stage of the review process, reviewers can recommend a manuscript for rejection. They then choose from one of the following reasons:
The manuscript contains fundamental errors that cannot be rectified through author revisions
There are concerns about ethical issues in the manuscript that cannot be rectified through author revisions
The authors are unwilling or unable to address my concerns sufficiently to make this manuscript suitable for publication
Other, with an accompanying text-box allowing for clarification
Reviewers often recommend rejection if their concerns cannot be sufficiently addressed by the authors or if they deem the article overall of not sufficient quality. Ethical issues include appropriation of the ideas from already published work, or deceptive practices during research on the part of authors. The "Other" option allows for reviewers to recommend rejection for reasons including manuscripts being out of scope, unsupported conclusions, and the singling out of persons or organizations for attack. Such content may be considered for retraction if passed through peer review.
Reviewers retain their anonymity if the article is rejected. Only reviewers who have endorsed a manuscript are named on publications. The handling Editor is alerted whenever a reviewer withdraws or recommends rejection, while the authors see that a reviewer has withdrawn and is now inactive.
Associate Editors can recommend rejection of the manuscript to the Speciality Chief Editor either before initiating peer review or after the authors had a first chance of a rebuttal to the reviewer reports when the interactive review forum is activated. Chief Editors are asked to verify that the rejection recommendation is valid and meets one of the criteria listed above.
The Frontiers Research Integrity Team is tasked with pre-screening submissions and they directly reject manuscripts that fall into one of the following categories:
Quality does not meet the standards of the academic discipline
Ethical concerns
The Research Integrity Team thereby supports our Associate and Chief Editors in ensuring the quality of the articles.
With this peer-review model in place, Frontiers has published 35,000 articles since January 2016. In the same period, Frontiers Editors and our internal Research Integrity Team together have rejected over 15,500 manuscripts to uphold the quality standards of Frontiers journals.
Our model works: Frontiers journals are consistently ranked among the highest cited journals in their academic disciplines both in the 2016 Journal Citations Report (Clarivate Analytics, 2017) and in the CiteScore 2016 edition (Scopus, Elsevier).


BauerFinancial, Inc., the Nation's Premier Bank Rating Firm, recently awarded Chelsea Groton Bank with Bauer's highest 5-Star rating for financial strength and stability. The Bank has now maintained that top rating for 100 consecutive quarters. Earning a 5-Star rating indicates Chelsea Groton excels in the areas of capital adequacy, profitability, asset quality and much more. Earning and maintaining this top rating continuously for over 25 years gives Chelsea Groton the added status of being a "Best of Bauer Bank". This designation is reserved specifically for banks that have earned Bauer's highest rating consistently for 100 consecutive quarters or longer.
Chelsea Groton Bank was established in 1854, and has been building personal and business relationships ever since. Today, after 165 years, the Bank continues to create a better banking experience for customers through conveniently located branches throughout New London County, a loan production office in Hartford County, and online at chelseagroton.com.


I don't write Newsletters, but I can make them look better and perhaps even pretty. I was contacted by the 92nd Memeorial Association to help the editor in making sure their newsletter looked professional and good. This si a case of taking a business class software package to its limits... and then producing something that has been getting raves world wide and has been lifted up as an example for similar organizations in the AirForce to try and aim for.


Penny stocks are the micro cap stocks having per share value ranging from a few cents to maximum 5 dollars. These stocks are not dealt on major stock exchange listings and hence, these are not preferred by many people. Penny stocks are also called nano stocks or micro stocks and the price of these stocks is determined by per share value and the total market capital of the company.
The companies included in penny status have the market cap lower than $500 million. The stocks are highly speculative and traded over the counter. Penny stocks are difficult to sell due to high volatility and low liquidity levels. However, the investors need to know about them in detail before making any move in penny stocks as the risk involved in these stocks is too high in comparison to the major stocks. Despite of the risks, these investments appeal people due to the low initial pricing and the possibility of earning high profits. Potential risks come along with the substantial losses in these stocks.
Penny stocks are quite risky and the investors should be aware of this fact. The liquidity levels are low, which add to their fraudulent chances. Penny stocks have less number of shareholders and it makes them less reliable. These stocks are very unpredictable and the prices either grow abruptly or fall off within no time. The lack of liquidity makes these stocks less likeable by people.
Pink sheets or OTCBB includes penny stocks and these contain low regulatory requirements than the listed stocks. The notification of penny stocks is less and this makes them a tool for fraud. It doesn't mean that all penny stocks are not worthy, but most of them are highly unpredictable, which make them prone to doubt. The risks involved in penny stocks are more and they should be purchased carefully to avoid losses.


Nikki Bella is making peace with the past.
The WWE superstar is back in Napa Valley in this exclusive clip from Sunday's season finale of Total Bellas. This time around, it appears she and twin sis Brie Bella are visiting the vineyard-lined landscape to kick back with some wine and a good view. Understandably though, it's impossible for Nikki to forget that her last trip to Napa was motivated by very different circumstances.
Almost a year ago, the Bellas traveled to the same picturesque NorCal spot to check out venues ahead of Nikki and John Cena's would-be wedding. The pair called off their engagement a few months later, and Nikki has steered clear of wine country ever since.
"This is the first time I've been back in Napa since my big breakup and I just immediately get all the memories. But a part of me is like, 'OK, Nicole. Now you have to make new memories,'" she tells the confessional camera, as old footage from her and Brie's 2018 location scouting trip flashes across the screen.
As difficult as it is to revisit those memories in such a literal way, it sounds like the Bella Twin is taking it all in stride.
"I think that's why I was crying so much yesterday," Nikki tells Brie. "I feel like it was the first time I'm just fully, like, starting my true grieving and healing process."
So, when her twin asks how Nikki's going to feel seeing John with another woman, she admits it's going to be hard, but she's ready to face it. "No matter what, the next time I see him with someone it's gonna kill me," she says, but that definitely won't stop her from continuing her own post-breakup journey: "I'm ready for a new me. I need it."
As for where to go from here? Hear more about Nikki's personal revelation in the clip above!


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Q: Can you use spmetal entities for FAST search? Is there a good site for FAST search information, complete with sample code?

A: As you probably know, SPMetal generates entity classes for LINQ for SharePoint. Most of the classes generated are used to translate LINQ syntax to CAML.
Since FAST doesnt use CAML (it uses Fast Query Language -FQL) for queries, SPMetal cant be used to search FAST.
Here are some links to get you started.
FAST Query Language (FQL) Syntax Reference
Querying FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint