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the national interest Apr. 20, 2018
Republicans Now Believe James Comey Used the Pee Tape to Set a Trap for Trump
By Jonathan Chait@jonathanchait
Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Former FBI Director James Comey has been telling the world about his harrowing encounters with President Trump, who repeatedly demanded his personal loyalty, implored him to stop investigating Michael Flynn, and then dispatched his personal bodyguard to fire him when he failed to comply. But what if we have the story backwards? What if Trump, an innocent family business operator, naïve to the ways of Washington, had been accosted by a scheming, predatory deep state operator? And what if Comey's firing was a defensive measure against his nefarious trap? This is the scenario Trump's defenders now envision, and have laid out in columns by The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway and the Washington Examiner's Byron York.
Hemingway proposes a simple account of Comey's interactions with Trump: The FBI director was setting up the president by laying a pretext for a media ambush. "Newly released memos written by former FBI director James Comey indicate that an early 2017 briefing for then-President-elect Donald Trump about the contents of an infamous dossier was held so it could be leaked to media outlets eager to report on the dossier's allegations," she writes, faux-authoritatively.
Hemingway's theory is that CNN had the Steele dossier, and could not cover it unless it had a news hook to do so. Comey's meeting was designed to be the hook. He would tell Trump about the dossier, and then leak the fact that he told Trump to the news media, which "provided them the very news hook they sought and needed" to report on the dossier.
If you read the CNN report on the dossier that Hemingway describes, though, literally the first sentence describes the fact that President Obama was briefed on the dossier before Trump was told about it: "Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN." And then, if you go a few paragraphs down in the CNN story, you learn that the dossier's allegations were also "mentioned in classified briefings for congressional leaders last year."
So CNN knew Congress had been briefed on the dossier in 2017. And it also knew Obama had been briefed on the dossier. Hemingway's theory is that CNN would not have reported either of these facts without the additional revelation that Trump had also been briefed on the dossier.
I have an extremely hard time believing CNN would refuse to run a story revealing for the first time that there was a dossier of explosive allegations against the president-elect that had been shared with both Congress and the president of the United States, because they needed the additional information that the president-elect had also been briefed in order to run it. And I really don't see why Hemingway, who has long been convinced CNN hates Trump and smears him routinely, would believe it would be so reticent. But that's her theory. CNN wanted to report on the dossier, but somehow could not do it until it had a third confirmed instance of it being discussed by government officials. And this need was so great that the conspirators sent Comey in to mention it to Trump, to set off this trap.
York's analysis is different than Hemmingway's, but possibly even less plausible. York argues that Trump's request for loyalty was not an attempt to suborn the FBI into an instrument of his personal control, but instead a defensive and completely reasonable response to what looked like Comey blackmailing him. "It seems entirely reasonable for a president to wonder what was going on," he concludes of the pee tape debriefing, "and whether the FBI director was loyal, not to the president personally, but to the confidentiality that is required in his role as head of the nation's chief investigative agency."
So what did Trump mean when he said he needed Comey's loyalty? Maybe he meant an FBI director he didn't have to worry would blackmail him. https://t.co/VolkoMlfnP
— Byron York (@ByronYork) April 20, 2018
This analysis obviously omits a massive amount of context: Trump asking Comey specifically to let off Michael Flynn (who, at the time, was the only official known to be under investigation for his Russian ties); Trump's months and months of attempting to control multiple aspects of the Department of Justice, including demands that it investigate his opponents; and indeed Trump's long-standing belief that the Department of Justice has always been and always should be a weapon to protect the president's interests. To believe Trump's demand for "loyalty" was anything other than an insistence that the FBI protect his interests requires ignoring everything Trump's said and done about this subject for his entire career.
What's more, if it's true, as York says, that Trump's demand for loyalty was merely merely an innocuous request that Comey not leak anything hostile to him, why didn't Trump say this himself? Indeed, why has he spent a year denying he ever said this at all? As soon as Comey reported having been asked for loyalty in 2017, the White House insisted no such words were ever uttered. As recently as this week, Trump has been claiming, "I never asked Comey for Personal Loyalty." York has produced an alibi on Trump's behalf that Trump never thought to use himself over all these months.
The easiest way to see through these defenses is to imagine the alternative. Suppose that Comey decided not to tell Trump about the Steele dossier, even though its findings had been taken seriously by U.S. intelligence, and both Congress and the former president had already been briefed on it. Would Trump's defenders today be holding up Comey's silence as evidence that he did the right thing by withholding this information from the new president? Would they see it as a point in Comey's favor, evidence that he really did have a good faith interest in helping Trump? No, of course not. The backlash would be far worse. They would be charging Comey with having participated in the deep state conspiracy by keeping Trump in the dark about the investigation that posed such a serious threat.
Republicans Believe Comey Used Pee Tape to Trap Trump
The Reagan attorney who broke the PATCO strike, brought back to Washington by Trump to defend employers and bust unions, got his own walking papers.


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What are three equivalent fractions for one thirds?
10/30, 100/300, 100000/300000
Q: What are three equivalent fractions for one thirds?
What is three equivalent fractions to fifthteen fives?
I am thinking eighteen thirds is one. But I would get others opinions too.
Is three thirds equivalent to one whole?
How do you find a equivalent fraction?
Equivalent fractions must have equal denominators, and this is done by setting the denominators of both fractions to their smallest common multiple. So, say a person wants to compare two thirds and one half, they would set both denominators to six. Two thirds would become four sixths and one half would become three sixths. Thus, two thirds is bigger than one half.
What is the LCD of these fractions one half plus two thirds plus three over x?
What are some equivalent fractions for three over twelve?
What is one take away two-thirds in fractions?
One take away two thirds is one third.
How to write fractions with keyboard?
You have to put the slash after the numbers one half is 1/2 three thirds is 3/3
What are two equal equivalent fractions to one-three?
2/6, 3/9
Four thirds is equivalent to?
It is equivalent to one and one third.
What fractions are equivalent to one thirds?
2/6 3/9 4/12 1000/3000 As long as you multiply the numerator and the denominator by the same number, it's equivalent.
What is the answer for 2 one thirds in fractions?
What three fractions that are equivalent to one third?
10/30, 100/300 and 3/9 are three examples.
Is one over three equivalent to five over fifthteen?
Yes, one-thirds equals five fifteenths.
What is the equivalent of one-thirds?
0.33...
What three fractions are equivalent to one sixth?
2/12, 3/18, 4/24
What are two equivalent fractions for three over twenty one?
1/7 or 2/14
What are three equivalent fractions for one eightth?
Is nine thirds greater than three and one third?
No, nine thirds is just three so three and one third is one third larger than nine thirds
How man one-thirds are in three-fourths?
2.25 thirds fit into three-fourths.
What fractions are equivalent to three-ninths beginning with six as the numerator?
only one fraction is equivalent 3/9 = 6/18
Is the fraction 1-10 equivalent fractions?
Which faction pair are equivalent to three ninths?
First, simplify this fraction to simplest terms. That will give you one equivalent fraction. If you want additional equivalent fractions, multiplying numerator and denominator by the same number will give you additional equivalent fractions.
Why is 2l3 equal to 4l6?
Draw two rectangles. Divide one into three parts and one into six. Color in two on the "thirds" one and four on the "sixths" one. If you put them on top of each other, they will match. If you multiply 2/3 by 2, you get 4/6. They are equivalent fractions.
What three equivalent fractions are equal to one over six?
Two over twelve, three over eighteen, and four over twenty-four are all equivalent to one over six.

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Homepage / Prosecutors of the local prosecutor's office visited the National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko
Prosecutors of the local prosecutor's office visited the National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko
Continuous training is a difficult work that requires constant need of comprehensive and cultural development, so it is important not to forget about leisure and to engage in art from time to time. The prosecutors of the local prosecutor's offices during the continuous training course visited the National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan
Local prosecutors within continuing professional development training visited the Supreme Court and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Military prosecutors of the garrisons in charge of procedural guidance of pre-trial investigation and prosecution, and local prosecutors in charge of supervision over the observance of laws in the execution of judicial decisions in criminal cases, as well as in the application of other coercive measures related to restriction of personal freedom, visited the Supreme
Civil servants of the prosecutor's office visited the first corruption park in Ukraine
On June 6, 2018lecturers of the department of initial and continuous training of civil servants of public prosecution service of Ukraine of the Institute for Continuing Professional Development together with the civil servants from local prosecutor's office who were undergoing the continuing professional development at the Academy, visited a park of corruption that is located
Active leisure of civil servants of the prosecutor's office during continuing professional development training
On June 2, 2018, lecturers of the department of initial and continuous training of civil servants of public prosecution service of Ukraine of the Institute for Continuing Professional Development together with the civil servants from local prosecutor's office who were undergoing the continuing professional development at the Academy, visited the National Museum of Folk Architecture
Visit of prosecutors from local prosecutors' offices to the National Opera of Ukraine
The prosecutors of local public prosecutors' offices who upgrade their qualification at the National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine despite the tense schedule of trainings found time to visit the cultural events of the capital. Students of the Academy visited the National Opera of Ukraine, the largest musical theater in Ukraine, which is located
Newly appointed prosecutors visited the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
All prosecutors know what kind of building the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is, but not everyone has to go inside. Thanks to the support of the rector of the National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine, newly appointed prosecutors from all regions of Ukraine had the opportunity to get inside one of the most
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Those who pass continuous trainings will have not only lectures and familiarization with the work of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Supreme Court of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, but also visits to the theaters and sightseeing tours in Kyiv. For civil servants of local prosecution offices in November there was conducted


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#5 of The Revenge of Magic
James Riley
Kirby Heyborne
Fort and his friends face more perilous ancient magic as they race towards a battle to save humanity in this fifth and final installment in the fantastical series from the author of the New York Times bestselling Story Thieves!
Fort Fitzgerald is finally reunited with his father and wants nothing more than for life to return to normal, the way things were before magic burst back into the world. But normal isn't an option anymore. Not when the Old Ones could still return to enslave humanity and Damian is dead set on making that happen.
Convinced he's the Chosen One the prophecy says will save the world, Damian has mastered all six books of magic and plans to summon the Old Ones to destroy them. Fort knows better though—Damian has no chance of defeating the Old Ones once they arrive.
Maybe Fort could stop Damian if he could use the magic from the dragon dictionary, but he's consumed with strange visions each time he tries. The only hope left is for Fort, Jia, and Rachel to recruit the help of old friends—and enemies. But how can they know who to trust? Because unless they can find the truth behind the web of secrets and lies surrounding the prophecy of the Chosen One, Fort's visions, Arthurian legends, and even magic itself, they've already lost.
This title is due for release on March 2, 2021.
This title is due for release on March 2, 2021
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Effectiveness of paramedic practitioners in attending 999 calls from elderly people in the community: cluster randomised controlled trial
BMJ 2007; 335 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39343.649097.55 (Published 01 November 2007) Cite this as: BMJ 2007;335:919
Suzanne Mason, reader in emergency medicine1,
Emma Knowles, research fellow1,
Brigitte Colwell, research associate1,
Simon Dixon, senior lecturer3,
Jim Wardrope, consultant in emergency medicine2,
Robert Gorringe, lead emergency care practitioner4,
Helen Snooks, professor of health services research5,
Julie Perrin, nurse consultant in emergency medicine2,
Jon Nicholl, professor1
1Health Services Research, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA
2Department of Emergency Medicine, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust, Sheffield S5 7AU
3Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield
4South Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Rotherham S60 2BQ
5Centre for Health Information Research and Evaluation, School of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP
Correspondence to: S Mason s.mason{at}sheffield.ac.uk
Objective To evaluate the benefits of paramedic practitioners assessing and, when possible, treating older people in the community after minor injury or illness. Paramedic practitioners have been trained with extended skills to assess, treat, and discharge older patients with minor acute conditions in the community.
Design Cluster randomised controlled trial involving 56 clusters. Weeks were randomised to the paramedic practitioner service being active (intervention) or inactive (control) when the standard 999 service was available.
Setting A large urban area in England.
Participants 3018 patients aged over 60 who called the emergency services (n=1549 intervention, n=1469 control).
Main outcome measures Emergency department attendance or hospital admission between 0 and 28 days; interval from time of call to time of discharge; patients' satisfaction with the service received.
Results Overall, patients in the intervention group were less likely to attend an emergency department (relative risk 0.72, 95% confidence interval 0.68 to 0.75) or require hospital admission within 28 days (0.87, 0.81 to 0.94) and experienced a shorter total episode time (235 v 278 minutes, 95% confidence interval for difference −60 minutes to −25 minutes). Patients in the intervention group were more likely to report being highly satisfied with their healthcare episode (relative risk 1.16, 1.09 to 1.23). There was no significant difference in 28 day mortality (0.87, 0.63 to 1.21).
Conclusions Paramedics with extended skills can provide a clinically effective alternative to standard ambulance transfer and treatment in an emergency department for elderly patients with acute minor conditions.
Trial registration ISRCTN27796329.
The UK Department of Health's strategy has been to encourage the increased use of non-medical staff to carry out assessments and treatments traditionally carried out by doctors.1 The introduction of new models of care, including further assessment, triage, and treatment skills for paramedics, has been recommended to help manage ever increasing demands for health care.2 Current evidence concerning safety, effectiveness, and costs to support these changes in practice, however, is lacking.3
Paramedics can be trained to assess and treat or refer patients with a range of conditions such as wounds,4 hypoglycaemia,5 falls, and epistaxis.6 The merits of a pre-hospital practitioner working in certain geographical areas such as rural locations in fulfilling a broader public health and primary care outreach role in the local community have also been discussed.7 Other authors, however, have cast doubt on the safety, feasibility, and cost effectiveness of paramedics assessing and treating apparently minor problems in the community.8 9
Elderly people make 12-21% of visits to emergency departments. Many of them attend after an accident or fall.10 11 Recently completed studies suggest that an alternative approach to an emergency ambulance response would have the greatest chance of improving patients' experience, as well as potentially helping to reduce demand, if it was targeted at elderly patients with minor complaints.12 13
The South Yorkshire Ambulance Service developed the paramedic practitioner in older people's support (PPOPS) scheme to deliver patient centred care to elderly people who call the emergency services with conditions triaged as not immediately life threatening. Practitioners underwent a three week full time theory based course with lectures from specialists in emergency medicine or care of the elderly. They spent a period of 45 days in supervised practice.
Seven experienced paramedics were selected through open competition and completed the training course to enable them to provide community based clinical assessment for patients aged over 60 who contacted the emergency ambulance service with minor acute conditions. Initial assessment and, when appropriate, treatment was delivered within the patient's residence by an individual paramedic practitioner who responded to emergency calls. When the paramedic practitioner deemed it necessary, patients were transported to an emergency department for further assessment or treatment such as radiological investigation.14 The box outlines the scope of practice.
Scope of practice of paramedic practitioners
Presenting complaint
Foreign body in ear, nose, or throat
Practical skills
Local anaesthetic techniques
Wound care and suturing techniques
Principles of dressings and splintage
Joint examination
Examination of neurological, cardiovascular, and respiratory system
Examination of ear, nose, and throat
Protocol led dispensing: simple analgesia, antibiotics, tetanus toxoid
Assessment of mobility and social needs
Additional options for referral and requesting investigations
Requests for radiography
Referral processes: emergency department, general practitioner, district nurse, community social services
Operational between the hours of 8am and 8pm each day, the service was activated by a 999 call or an urgent call from a general practitioner to the ambulance control room or from an ambulance crew attending an eligible patient.
We conducted a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of this new service.
Patients were recruited from 1 September 2003 to 26 September 2004. Patients aged 60 and above were eligible for inclusion when the call to the ambulance service originated from a Sheffield postcode between 8am and 8pm, with a presenting complaint that fell within the scope of practice of the paramedic practitioners. We used cluster randomisation to reduce the risk of contamination (practice in the control group being influenced by the presence of the paramedic practitioner in the community) and to allow service level, rather than individual patient level, evaluation of the intervention. Weeks were randomised before the start of the study (to allow for rostering of the paramedic practitioners) to the paramedic practitioner service being active (intervention) or inactive (control), when the standard 999 service was available. The forward roster was concealed from other members of the emergency services. During inactive weeks, the paramedic practitioners were removed from operational duties within the ambulance service, and undertook research duties including obtaining patients' consent and follow-up. Randomisation of weeks was undertaken by computer random number generation.
Before the trial we carried out a four week pilot study to establish the number of weeks needed to complete recruitment and to test data collection methods.
Principal outcomes in the study protocol were attendance at emergency department and hospital admission between 0 and 28 days, interval from time of call to time of discharge, and patients' satisfaction with the service received. Secondary outcomes were investigations and treatments prescribed, subsequent use of health services within 28 days, and health status and mortality at 28 days.
Recruitment of patients
During each week, a paramedic practitioner based in the ambulance control room identified eligible calls by the presenting complaint and notified a paramedic practitioner in the community (during intervention weeks) or in the emergency department (during control weeks). All identified patients were approached face to face either in the community or in the emergency department for written consent to follow-up. To avoid unnecessary burden on participants, patients who had more than one eligible episode were recruited only for their first episode.
If patients were unable to complete questionnaires—for example, because of cognitive impairment or who were unable to read English—we obtained consent for follow-up by review of clinical records only.
The research team independently checked the ambulance service call database at the end of each month for any additional eligible calls not identified by the paramedic practitioners at the time of the incident. We noted patients identified retrospectively to check for selection bias but did not follow them up.
Routine data
The research team used the emergency department or ambulance service records to collect clinical data, including investigations, treatment, diagnoses, and discharge from the service, relating to the initial patient episode. Total episode time was derived by calculating the interval between the time the initial call was received in the ambulance control room to the time that the patient left the emergency department, was admitted to hospital, or, if the patient was discharged in to the community, the time that the paramedic practitioner or ambulance crew left the scene. These times therefore included any time spent waiting for assessment in the emergency department.
We used hospital records to collect information about unplanned hospital attendances or admissions within Sheffield in the 28 days after the initial episode and mortality at 28 days. Information relating to subsequent ambulance requests was collected from the local ambulance service. Attendance at an emergency department or hospital admission on day 0 was combined with any unplanned attendances at an emergency department or admissions in the 28 days that followed to provide information on overall unplanned use of hospital services.
Survey of patients
Follow-up was by postal questionnaire at three and 28 days after the incident. The three day questionnaire asked patients about examinations, treatments, advice, and satisfaction with the service they had received. One of our primary outcome measures of patients' satisfaction was based on one question asking about overall satisfaction with the care received during the initial episode and was measured on a five point scale.
The 28 day questionnaire contained items on subsequent use of health services relating to the incident and perceived change in physical health and included the general health status measure, the EQ-5D.15
We calculated our sample size on the basis of four primary outcomes: satisfaction with care, attendance at emergency department, hospital admission, and total episode time. The number of primary outcomes reflects the importance of considering different aspects of the impact of service delivery on patients and services in a pragmatic multi-dimensional study. If, as we expected, there is no clustering of data in relation to these outcomes within weeks, we needed about 1100 patients in each group to have an 80% chance of detecting as significant at the 5% level a 5% change in the proportion of "very satisfied" patients. If there is clustering, with an intraclass cluster correlation of 0.02 and 40 patients per cluster, this sample size gives 80% power to detect a difference of 75% versus 82%. If we ignore the clustering, this sample size also gives 80% power to detect a change of 4% in the proportion of patients attending the emergency department, a change of 6% in the proportion of patients admitted, and a difference of 20 minutes in the mean total episode time (assuming an SD of 180 minutes).
On the basis on the results of the four week pilot study, to recruit two sets of 1100 patients to follow-up we randomly allocated 52 weeks, later extended to 56 weeks, to achieve the sample size. The 56 weeks were randomly allocated in an unrestricted design into control (n=26) and intervention (n=30) weeks.
Analysis was by randomisation, on an intention to treat basis, irrespective of the actual service received. During the intervention weeks, identified patients should have received an assessment by a paramedic practitioner in the community. This was not always possible if a paramedic practitioner was busy assessing another case when an eligible call was received. Such patients were attended by a standard emergency ambulance response and, according to ambulance service protocols, should have been taken to the emergency department by ambulance unless they refused transport. During the control weeks, identified patients were attended and treated according to standard practice as described above.
SPSSv.12 was used for initial statistical analysis of baseline differences between groups. Data were then exported to STATAv.8.0 to enable analysis at a cluster level.16 Generalised estimating equations were used to correct the standard errors of control and intervention comparisons for the effect of any correlation within weeks. To allow for a proper estimation of a relative risk, we used a Poisson error distribution with a robust standard error.17 18
Trial numbers
During the trial, the paramedic practitioners identified 96% (3996/4175) of all eligible calls at the time of the incident (figure)⇓. There were no significant differences in terms of sex and presenting complaint between those identified by the paramedic practitioner and those identified retrospectively by the research team. Those identified by the paramedic practitioner, however, were a little older than those who were not identified (table 1)⇓.
Trial profile, presented according to CONSORT flow diagram guidelines19
Baseline characteristics of all patients identified
Of the 2087 patients identified during the intervention weeks and 1909 during the control weeks, 978 patients did not consent to participate, resulting in the inclusion of 3018 patients into the trial. The figure shows details of why patients did not take part.⇑ There was a small difference in recruitment rates between intervention (74%) and control (77%) weeks, but no significant differences between the baseline demographics of those who were recruited and those who were not (table 2)⇓.
Baseline characteristics of patients identified by paramedic practitioner at time of incident
During intervention weeks most patients (n=1090) received the intended service (assessment by a paramedic practitioner). The other patients received the standard ambulance response and were (n=390) or were not (n=69) transported to the emergency department. During control weeks all patients received a standard ambulance response (1234), although 235 were not transported to the emergency department.
There were no differences between groups in terms of demographics or presenting complaint (table 3)⇓. The presenting complaint was identified as the primary complaint allocated by the call taker to the call that initiated the ambulance response.
Baseline characteristics of recruited patients. Figures are numbers (percentages) of patients unless stated otherwise
Primary outcomes
Patients in the intervention group were less likely to have attended an emergency department either during the initial episode (day 0) or in the next 28 days (62.6% v 87.5%, P<0.001). They were also less likely to have required a hospital admission during the same time period (40.4% v 46.5%, P<0.001) (table 4)⇓. Respondents in the intervention group were more likely to report being "very satisfied" than those in the control group (85.5% v 73.8%, P<0.001). On average, patients in the intervention group experienced a shorter total episode time by around 42 minutes (235 v 278 minutes, P<0.001).
Primary and secondary outcomes in patients seen by paramedic practitioners or not. Figures are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise
Secondary outcomes
Investigations received by patients during the trial included radiography, blood and urine tests, and electrocardiography. Patients in intervention weeks were less likely to undergo some form of investigation (49.7% v 67.9%, P<0.001) but were more likely to receive some form of treatment, including advice (81.3% v 72.8%, P<0.001).
Patients in the intervention group, however, were more likely to have subsequent unplanned contact with secondary care services, such as the ambulance service, emergency department, or hospital admission, in the 28 days after their initial episode (excluding the initial contact on day 0) (21.3% v 17.6%, P<0.01). They we also less likely to report that their physical health had worsened compared with those in the control group (21.7% v 25.6%, P=0.13). The EQ-5D revealed no significant differences in health outcomes between the two groups.
In the 28 days after their initial episode 142 (4.7%) patients died. There were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of mortality.
This randomised controlled trial evaluated the impact on processes and outcomes of paramedics with extended skills managing patients with acute minor conditions. The service conveyed considerable benefits for patients and the NHS in terms of reduced overall attendances at an emergency department and hospital, shorter episode times, and higher levels of satisfaction among patients. The new service also seems to be safe in that we identified no differences in mortality or health outcomes after 28 days.
More than a quarter (29.6%, n=459) of patients in the intervention group did not receive the paramedic practitioner service. These patients therefore received the "normal service" but were still included in the "intervention" group as the results were analysed on a pragmatic intention to treat basis, reflecting the outcomes that could be expected were the intervention to be introduced more widely, and standard for the reporting of the results of health services research.20 This had the effect of considerably weakening the impact of the intervention.
The patients in this trial were categorised as having "minor" conditions at their initial contact with the emergency services. The most common presenting complaint was a fall. Within 28 days of the initial call, however, over 40% had required a hospital admission and 5% had died. This highlights the high risk nature of this group of patients. None the less, the service seemed to manage the risk appropriately and identify a group of patients who benefited from management at home.
There is increasing strategic pressure within the NHS to extend this type of approach. In 2003, the changing workforce programme, part of the NHS modernisation agency and the Department of Health, set up 17 initial emergency care practitioner pilot sites. These practitioners are mainly paramedics who receive extended skills training, as did the paramedic practitioners in this study (although for a shorter time period). More work is required to enable identification of patients who can benefit from this level of care rather than a full assessment in an emergency department.21 22 Some emergency care practitioner schemes are targeted at different populations and operate in different ways and thus the results of this study may not be fully transferable.
This large open pragmatic trial has some limitations because of differences in recruitment of patients and response rates to follow-up questionnaires between the groups. In particular, the measurement of patients' satisfaction depended on receipt of a three day follow-up questionnaire. Of the 3996 patients randomised to the trial, only 2293 agreed to receive a questionnaire. This was mainly because of the proportion of patients with cognitive impairment, who we excluded from this part of the study. Of the 2293 patients, 1482 (64.6%) responded, which is less than the number we calculated we needed (n=2200). The effects on the primary outcomes (hospital attendance and admission, episode times, and satisfaction), however, were all significant and sufficiently large for us to be confident that the effects are real.
The study was conducted in one large urban area of the UK. Therefore the generalisability of these results should be treated with some caution. We think that there is nothing unique about the patients or presenting complaints. Other health communities could replicate this model, and we are aware of similar services being set up in the UK and abroad. This does require major cooperation between organisations and considerable training and operational costs.
We acknowledge that there may have been some clustering at a practitioner level. Though our study was designed specifically to assess clustering by week, statistical software does not allow for cluster analysis of two variables simultaneously so we could not analyse clustering at a practitioner level.
Paramedics with extended skills working in the community can provide a clinically effective alternative to standard ambulance transfer and treatment in an emergency department for elderly patients with acute minor conditions.
What is already known on this topic
Paramedics can be trained to manage certain medical conditions outside hospital
They have also been trained to make triage decisions
Paramedics can be trained to see and treat elderly people with acute minor conditions and reduce the need for emergency department attendance by almost 25%
Patients find this approach more satisfactory than attending the emergency department
Contributors: SM and JW initiated and designed the study. EK oversaw the data collected by BC. JN provided advice on design and statistical advice. SM and EK analysed the data. All authors contributed to the advancement of the project by providing specialist knowledge at study meetings and provided input in re-drafting the manuscript. SM drafted the first manuscript and wrote the final version, which was seen and approved by all of the authors. SM is guarantor.
Funding: Health Foundation.
Competing interests: None declared.
Ethical approval: North Sheffield research ethics committee.
Provenance and peer review: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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In this work, we address the following matrix recovery problem: suppose we are given a set of data points containing two parts, one part consists of samples drawn from a union of multiple subspaces and the other part consists of outliers. We do not know which data points are outliers, or how many outliers there are. The rank and number of the subspaces are unknown either. Can we detect the outliers and segment the samples into their right subspaces, efficiently and exactly? We utilize a so-called Low-Rank Representation (LRR) method to solve this problem, and prove that under mild technical conditions, any solution to LRR exactly recover the row space of the samples and detect the outliers as well. Since the subspace membership is provably determined by the row space, this further implies that LRR can perform exact subspace segmentation and outlier detection, in an efficient way.
%X In this work, we address the following matrix recovery problem: suppose we are given a set of data points containing two parts, one part consists of samples drawn from a union of multiple subspaces and the other part consists of outliers. We do not know which data points are outliers, or how many outliers there are. The rank and number of the subspaces are unknown either. Can we detect the outliers and segment the samples into their right subspaces, efficiently and exactly? We utilize a so-called Low-Rank Representation (LRR) method to solve this problem, and prove that under mild technical conditions, any solution to LRR exactly recover the row space of the samples and detect the outliers as well. Since the subspace membership is provably determined by the row space, this further implies that LRR can perform exact subspace segmentation and outlier detection, in an efficient way.
AB  - In this work, we address the following matrix recovery problem: suppose we are given a set of data points containing two parts, one part consists of samples drawn from a union of multiple subspaces and the other part consists of outliers. We do not know which data points are outliers, or how many outliers there are. The rank and number of the subspaces are unknown either. Can we detect the outliers and segment the samples into their right subspaces, efficiently and exactly? We utilize a so-called Low-Rank Representation (LRR) method to solve this problem, and prove that under mild technical conditions, any solution to LRR exactly recover the row space of the samples and detect the outliers as well. Since the subspace membership is provably determined by the row space, this further implies that LRR can perform exact subspace segmentation and outlier detection, in an efficient way.


Apple ranked as the top phone maker with 39.2 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers, up 0.3 percentage point from the prior quarter, followed by Samsung with 23 percent market share, up 1.7 points. But HTC , Motorola, and LG, which rounded out the top five, and all lost share. As they have for more than two years, the top operating systems all held their rankings. Google's Android and Apple's iOS remained No. 1 and 2, respectively, with both rising. Blackberry, Microsoft and Symbian systems all declined.
CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Feedback? info@iphoneatlas.com, iPhone SDK release 5 posted, some sane iphone case apps will need to be rewritten, Apple has posted its fifth revision to the iPhone SDK (software development kit), The new release updates documentation and has various API changes, AddressBook APIs have been significantly revised, as have OpenGL-related components including the EAGL items, The graphics changes in particular mean that some under-development applications will need to be re-written to take advantage of the new libraries..
Above the screen is a 2-megapixel front-facing camera capable of shooting video in 1080p HD. A tiny notification light sits here, too. Below are three capacitive buttons for Android functions. The right side holds a long volume bar, and up top are a headphone jack, power button, and SIM card slot. The bottom edge houses a rubber flap covering the phone's Micro-USB port. On back, the phone's soft-touch surface, cut from premium polycarbonate, reminds me more of the design language of the HTC One X and One X+. You'll need that soft-touch coating, too, since its rubber feel provides a sure grip. Also placed here are the DNA's 8-megapixel camera and LED flash. There's even an additional notification light, the first device I've seen with one in this location.
The reasons for this are obvious, The iPhone 4, in any language and from any point of view, has been a storming success, in spite of its technical problems, Nokia and RIM have failed to create phones that were anywhere near as attractive, with flagship handsets the N8 and the BlackBerry Torch respectively arriving too late and sane iphone case failing to inspire any gadget lust, Having said that, even companies that lost market share sold more phones, with Nokia growing from 16.4 million units in the same period last year compared to 26.5 million this, RIM zoomed from 8.5 million handsets to 12.4 million, whereas Apple went from 7.4 million to 14.1 million..
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Electra Loft 7D Step-Thru
This modern day classic is built to ride. It's lightweight. It's durable. It's comfortable. The wide range gearing is perfect for everything from the bike path to beer runs. The 7D comes equipped with an alloy frame, 7-speed drivetrain and fenders for all-weather riding.
FX 1 Disc is a lightweight aluminum hybrid bike that looks great and feels just as good to ride. It has lots of gears so you can cruise any terrain comfortably, and powerful disc brakes give you confident stopping power, rain or shine. It's perfect for anyone looking to get out more, do a bit of exercise, or commute to work on a versatile bike backed by a lifetime warranty. It's right for you if... You want to ride more, and you're looking for performance where it really counts: a lightweight frame, wide range of gearing, strong wheels, and great stopping power. You also want a great value and the confidence of Trek's lifetime warranty. The tech you get A lightweight Alpha Gold Aluminum frame with internal cable routing for clean looks and protection from the elements, 21 speeds so you can always find the right gear for your terrain, and disc brakes for stopping power in all weather conditions. Plus, strong double-walled wheels and mounts that make it easy to accessorize your ride. The final word FX 1 Disc is a cool and versatile hybrid bike at a great value. It's built with a lightweight aluminum frame and reliable performance parts like sturdy wheels, and disc brakes that stop on a dime in any weather. It's perfectly suited to a variety of uses, from casual riding to exercise and commutes. Why you'll love it - This bike brings families together, gets people away from screens, and lets you enjoy time outside - More confident braking means bad weather doesn't have to keep you from enjoying your ride - It's versatile and does whatever you want it to do, whether that's riding for fitness, commuting, or cruising to the farmer's market to pick up groceries - You can pair FX with your smartphone and send your ride data to your favorite fitness app when you add DuoTrap S - Like every Trek hybrid, it's backed by a lifetime warranty and supported by a wide network of retail partners
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You've got places to go. The 7i is the reliable super commuter that will get you there. Explore the city's ups and downs with a 7-speed internal gear hub, fenders, rear rack and lightweight but sturdy alloy frame.
Trek Verve 2 Disc Low Step
Verve 2 Disc Lowstep is a hybrid bike designed for comfort and fun on commutes, cruises, and fitness rides. It has a lot of thoughtful features that make for a confident and comfortable ride, like a lowstep geometry that makes it easy to mount and dismount, a suspension seatpost, and disc brakes that perform in any weather. It's right for you if... You're ready to get outside more, and want a hybrid bike with comfort-minded details, a wide range of gears for hills, powerful brakes, and enough versatility to conquer commutes, workouts, and more. The tech you get A lightweight aluminum frame with mounts for a rack and fenders, a lowstep design that makes it especially easy to mount and dismount, a reliable drivetrain with 24-speeds so you'll never have to pedal too hard or too soft, powerful disc brakes, an adjustable stem, a padded saddle, wide tires for extra stability, a road-smoothing suspension seatpost, and a geometry that keeps you in a comfortable, upright riding posture. The final word Verve 2 Disc Lowstep is a comfortable hybrid with impressive braking power and durable parts that will hold up mile after mile. It's a great bike for a range of recreational riders, from first-timers and commuters to veteran riders looking to get back into the saddle. Why you'll love it - It has a host of design details that make a huge difference in comfort, like a suspension seatpost and adjustable stem - The lowstep frame design makes it easy to get on and off—no need to swing your leg over! - This bike brings people together—attach a trailer and tow your kids, meet up with friends to cruise the bike path, or commute to the office with coworkers - Disc brakes perform well in any weather, let you slow down or stop faster, and require less effort to activate than rim brakes - Like every Trek hybrid, it's backed by Trek's Lifetime warranty, which means you get a companion for life
Verve+ 2 is an electric hybrid bike that will help you get out and ride more. Your daily cruises, commutes, and workouts will all get a boost from the reliable Bosch pedal-assist system that sustains speeds of up to 20 mph. Plus, this e-bike is equipped with parts that put your comfort and safety first, like a road-smoothing suspension seatpost, wide, stable tires, and front and rear lights. It's right for you if... You want to do more by bike and have more fun on every ride. You know the extra boost of an e-bike will help you see more and go farther, and you're looking for one that's comfortable, built to last, and equipped with the latest e-bike technology. The tech you get A lightweight Alpha Gold Aluminum frame, a 250-watt Bosch Active Line motor capable of sustaining speeds up to 20 mph, a PowerPack 400Wh battery, and a handlebar-mounted Bosch Purion controller. Plus, Shimano hydraulic disc brakes for all-weather stopping power, a road-smoothing suspension seatpost, wide 45c puncture-resistant tires for extra stability, ergonomic grips, a kickstand, front and rear lights, and a rack and fenders. The final word Verve+ 2's powerful pedal-assist system opens up a world of possibilities. You can adventure longer, commute quicker, and climb hills more easily. The extra boost makes riding your bike even more exciting and enjoyable, and quality components and comfort features make going farther and faster more fun than ever. Why you'll love it - Electric bikes amplify your power so you can enjoy the best parts of riding even more - The 250-watt Bosch Active Line motor helps you sustain speeds up to 20 mph - This bike gets you outside more and helps you make the most of every commute, cruise, and workout - It comes equipped with lights, fenders, and a rear rack so you're ready to ride right from the start
Verve+ 2 Lowstep is an electric hybrid bike that will help you get out and ride more. Your daily cruises, commutes, and workouts will all get a boost from the reliable Bosch pedal-assist system that sustains speeds of up to 20 mph. Plus, this e-bike is equipped with parts that put your comfort and safety first, like a road-smoothing suspension seatpost, wide, stable tires, and front and rear lights. It's right for you if... You want to do more by bike and have more fun on every ride. You know the extra boost of an e-bike will help you see more and go farther, and you're looking for one that's comfortable, built to last, and equipped with the latest e-bike technology. The tech you get A lightweight Alpha Gold Aluminum frame, a 250-watt Bosch Active Line motor capable of sustaining speeds up to 20 mph, a PowerPack 400Wh battery, and a handlebar-mounted Bosch Purion controller. Plus, Shimano hydraulic disc brakes for all-weather stopping power, a road-smoothing suspension seatpost, wide 45c puncture-resistant tires for extra stability, ergonomic grips, a kickstand, front and rear lights, and a rack and fenders. The final word Verve+ 2's powerful pedal-assist system opens up a world of possibilities. You can adventure longer, commute quicker, and climb hills more easily. The extra boost makes riding your bike even more exciting and enjoyable, and quality components and comfort features make going farther and faster more fun than ever. Why you'll love it - Electric bikes amplify your power so you can enjoy the best parts of riding even more - The 250-watt Bosch Active Line motor helps you sustain speeds up to 20 mph - This bike gets you outside more and helps you make the most of every commute, cruise, and workout - It comes equipped with lights, fenders, and a rear rack so you're ready to ride right from the start


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Q: Fortran compiler error I'm trying to compile my program with the intel Fortran compiler for Linux (version 12.0.3) and I'm getting this error:
buggy.f90(206): error #6219: A specification expression object must be a dummy
argument, a COMMON block object, or an object accessible through host or use
association   [SPECTRUM]
    type(spect)                       :: spectrum
 ----------------------------------------^

This is within a module. type(spect) comes from another module, which I use at the beginning of the troublesome module. Here's some code; more details can be found below.
module non_buggy

   implicit none

   type axis
      character(len=6) :: nucleus
      integer          :: num_data_points
      real             :: spectral_width
   end type axis

   type spect
      integer                 :: num_dim
      type(axis), allocatable :: axes(:)
      real, allocatable       :: intensity(:)
      character(len=10)       :: type = ''
   end type spect

   type(spect), target :: spectrum  ! might this be a cause of error?

   contains
   ! ...
end module non_buggy

module buggy

   use non_buggy

   implicit none

   contains

   subroutine no_problem_here()

      type(spect) :: spectrum  ! compiles beautifully
      ! ...
   end subroutine no_problem_here

   subroutine problem()
      type(spect) :: spectrum  ! does not compile, but no error if I change the variable name
      ! ...
   end subroutine problem
end module buggy

I have read about what the error means, but I have the impression that does not apply to what I'm doing in my code - no array bounds are specified on those lines. As the error goes away if I rename the second occurrence of spectrum to something else, I was wondering whether the problem might have something to do with the module variable spectrum in module non_buggy (but then the error persists, even if I comment out the line in which the module variable is declared). If a Fortran expert could clarify that issue I would be most grateful.
Thanks a lot in advance!

A: Can't reproduce with ifort 11 on linux and osx. I don't have ifort 12 so I can't verify, but the point here is that you are exporting spectrum from the module, which is most likely a bad idea. Always use the keyword private in your modules, and make public explicitly only what you want to let out.
If you want to make spectrum a module variable (something I don't understand, why would you? do you expect one and only one spectrum ? Are you sure about it?) you may also consider if you need a save keyword to preserve the values.
Finally, you are overshadowing a module variable. Idiotic fortran has no concept of namespacing. If you slam everything from a module within another module, you pollute your namespace, and you are very likely to end up with these cases. Favor subroutine import in some cases, to limit the damage (although it becomes less communicative). Keep your module vars to a minimum, and when you do, either prefix them with a unique prefix, or simply don't use them and discipline yourself in OOP-like layouting of your code.
Modules should be stateless. You gain both in flexibility and reduced multithreading headaches.

A: I don't see any error in you code sample, even if it is error prone to declare local variables (within the routines no_problem_here and problem) having the same name (spectrum) as a global variable (the one on the module non_buggy).
What compiler are you using ? I compiled your sample with ifort 11.1 and gfortran 4.7.0 without trouble (just in commenting the keyword CONTAINS of the module non_buggy because ifort complains that there is no instruction between "contains" and "end module").

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Please Pass the Placenta: Unreal deduces the reason placentas are clogging sewers in Illinois
Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:00 am
If you haven't already eaten lunch today, stop reading now. Seriously. Go eat, come back, then dive into something that's sure to make you lose your appetite.
Unreal was browsing news of the weird yesterday when we stumbled upon this whopper of a headline: "Placentas Found In Sewage System."
Apparently someone in the city of Urbana, Illinois — the town adjacent to Champaign and the University of Illinois — is dumping human placentas down the drain. The fetal organs are getting caught in the filters at the city's sewage plant. Three placentas have already been found this year. Police are baffled.
While most news outlets pontificated on the source of the placentas (An unscrupulous midwife? A doctor trying to duck the cost of medical-waste disposal? Tom Cruise?), Unreal wondered about a different tack.
Often called afterbirth, the placenta is the organ that provides nutrients to a fetus inside the mother's womb. Many societies consider it sacred. In Hawaii, for instance, the placenta was traditionally planted with a tree so the family could watch it grow (the tree, weirdo) along with the newborn child. Other cultures, including those in New Zealand, Costa Rica, Belize and the Navajo Indians, bury it for various superstitious reasons.
Some people eat it.
The act is called placentophagy and it's not as uncommon as Unreal would like to hope. In fact, humans are the only mammals that don't munch on their post-birth mess. It's a part of traditional Chinese medicine, and it's long been rumored as cure to postpartum depression.
Some people eat it just for the hell of it. Of course, the Internet knows no bounds so there are both written and digitally recorded accounts of the act.
Here's how a registered nurse described it in the November 1984 issue of Midwives Chronicle and Nursing Notes:
"Most newly parturient women feel voraciously hungry following a normal, uncomplicated delivery and, resolving to eat the placenta, I had expected it to satisfy this hunger in my case... However, my own aversion to bloody, raw meat frustrated me from eating the afterbirth immediately postpartum so it was placed in a large dish and left in the kitchen...Despite having convinced myself in pregnancy that it was necessary, for medicinal reasons, to eat the placenta, it was at this point that I nearly threw away my special 'birthday cake.'"
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Q: Loading TomTom Multinet with shp2pgsql accented characters I am tasked with loading a new set of TomTom multinet shape files into a Postgres database using a bespoke tool for the process.  The source data is supposedly in UTF-8.
I have just realised that some of the French data has been loaded and has had accented characters mangled, and the same for Spanish data (I presume the same is true of any accented data).
I have access to the C# code, and it creates batch files to run shp2pgsql like this;
{binpath}\shp2pgsql.exe" -s 4326 -d -D -I -g geom -W Latin1 "{datapath}\fraf24___________gc.shp" fraf24.gc | "{binpath}\psql.exe" -d Test -U postgres

I have confirmed that shp2pgsql.exe is outputting these mangled characters by redirecting output to a text file.
As I understood it, the -W option controlled the encoding, but whatever I have used, from not using -W at all to specifying Latin1, LATIN1, UTF-8; the output every time has been garbled accented characters such as these:

*

*"Rue de la République"

*"Rue de la Bécasse"

In other respects the loads seem to have gone well, so I am at a loss to explain what is going on, especially as it sounds like the -W option should be the solution?


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NorthAmOil: EQT aims for net zero by 2025
NorthAmOil - North America Oil & Gas
Pittsburgh-based EQT, an independent natural gas producer and pipeline operator, intends to bring its net carbon emissions down to zero in just four years.
The company unveiled its net-zero agenda last week, saying in a statement covering its 2020 ESG report that it had "announced targets to achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its production segment operations by or before 2025." This plan is in line with EQT's effort to "continuously improve the way it produces environmentally responsible, reliable and low-cost energy," it declared.
In practical terms, the statement said, the company will seek to bring the Scope 1 GHG emissions intensity of its upstream production operations down to less than 160 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by or before 2025. This would represent a decline of approximately 70% on 2018 levels and 21% on 2019 levels, it said.
EQT is the largest producer of natural gas in the Appalachian basin. Most of its assets lie within the Marcellus formation.


Barça TV will air a special broadcast on May 25th on the Copa del Rey Final between FC Barcelona and Athletic Club Bilbao. The programme 'Barça Notícies Migdia' will run an additional 15 minutes, 'ADN Seccions' will air 30 minutes ahead of its usual schedule and 'El Marcador' will broadcast from the Vicente Calderón. There will be a two hour post-match broadcast after the game.
At 14:00, a special 45 minute segment of 'Barça Notícies Migdia' will air will all the information on the match in the hours leading up to kickoff. There will be a simulcast with the stadium and the Barça Fan Zone.
Last-minute updates from Guardiola's team and the Azulgrana expedition to Madrid will be broadcast at 17:00, 18:00 and 19:00.
Barça TV will also focus on Barça's other professional teams, especially the roller hockey team's progress in the Last Eight of the European League which will be played in Lodi (Italy). The 'ADN seccions' programme will air 30 minutes ahead of its normal schedule, starting at 19:00. The programme will also air Josep Guardiola and Marcelo Bielsa's press conferences live.
Two hours before the Copa del Rey kickoff, from the Vicente Calderón, the programme 'El Marcador' will offer up all the information on the Cup in the hours leading up to the match between Barça and Athletic Club. There will also be special reports on Guardiola's last match on the Barça bench. After the Final, there will be a two-hour post match segment with the best images from the game and interviews with the players.


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AONB produces anniversary brochure
Published: 8:41 AM November 6, 2009 Updated: 4:01 PM November 7, 2020
THE North Devon Coast Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership has produced a beautifully illustrated brochure outlining its development, future plans and special qualities to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Highlights include the series of Pers
THE North Devon Coast Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership has produced a beautifully illustrated brochure outlining its development, future plans and special qualities to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Highlights include the series of "PersonalT", which members of the community, AONB Partnership and local officers wanted to share with others for them to enjoy.
These feature places within the area that hold special memories as well as beauty spots and areas of important historical or geological interest. AONB 'champion' comedian Bill Bailey has also talked about his favourite place.
A time line cleverly lists notable public events alongside important developments within the AONB such as 1961, when the first man went into space and the Somerset and North Devon Coast Path was designated.
The brochure also contains information about the exciting anniversary events and activities programme, which is already underway. More dedicated and linked events will be announced shortly as well as plans for a grand finale.
Commenting on the golden anniversary, Rose Day, chairman of the North Devon Coast AONB, said: "During these last 50 years, enlightened stewardship has protected this very special landscape, while allowing it to adapt to changing times. Today, in additional to traditional 'bucket and spade' holidays, a wealth of exciting recreational and cultural activities are available."
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The North Devon Coast AONB was designated on September 10, 1959 and confirmed on May 25, 1960 in recognition of its stunning coastal landscape, which is of national and international importance.
For 50 years, the Partnership has protected and conserved the area and will honour this landmark birthday with a series of events highlighting the different aspects of life, culture, history and wildlife across the region from September 2009 to May 2010.
Copies of the brochure are available free from libraries, tourist information centres and selected local attractions or it can be downloaded from the AONB's website, www.northdevon-aonb.org.uk, which also contains a wealth of information about the area.
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Dr. Aviad Moreno—The History of Moroccan Jews
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ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week's trivia question: About how many Jews live in Morocco today?
Dr. Aviad Moreno is a member of the Jewish History Department at Tel Aviv University. He has done extensive research on Jews in the Middle East and North Africa, primarily Morocco. He has just published a book, Europe from Morocco: The Minutes of the Leadership of Tangier's Jewish Community (the Junta), 1860-1864, which examines the Jewish community in Tangier, against the backdrop of the growing European presence in the city. Moreno discusses how the local Junta came to play an active role in developing a pro-European discourse that promoted European intervention in the community, which enabled European modernization to emerge, as they shaped the image of Europe on Moroccan soil.
Dr. Moreno spoke with us about the history of the Jewish community in Morocco, and his new book.
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Mark McGuigan. Picture: Michael Gillen.
The forward has hit 17 goals this season and is expected to be crowned Falkirk Herald Sports Star of the Year 2018 at next week's Falkirk Sports Council Awards.
And the good news continues as the 30-year-old penned a contract extension with Colin McMenamin's side at training this evening, to ward off potential suitors and help Stenhousemuir cement a place in SPFL League One.
Arbroath were rumoured to be interested in the striker whose stock rose even further with an equaliser at Pittodrie in the Scottish Cup draw with Aberdeen in January.
McGuigan has previously played at Stranraer, Albion Rovers and Partick Thistle.


Your required course materials can be purchased at the Follett Bookstore in Beacon Hall on the HCC campus in room BH-137. The bookstore also carries general supplies, art and lab supplies, trade and reference books, computer peripherals, gift cards, and HCC apparel and gifts. A few bookstore services include; a gift card Price Match program on textbooks, a Buyback program where students can sell their textbooks back to the store at the end of the semester, extended return dates for the fall and spring semesters, bus pass sale and distribution on behalf of HCC, graduation cap and gown pick up, and a full service online web site.
During the first two weeks of classes, the bookstore has extended hours. Students should check the bookstore web site, the bulletin board outside the bookstore, or call 203-335-2949 for current hours of operation.


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WORKSHOP DAY 1 - Thu, June 8th
WORKSHOP DAY 2 - Fri, June 9th
CONFERENCE DAY 1 - Sat, June 10th
CakePHP Keynote
Larry Masters
Keynote - 10 ways to improve
This is a hybrid talk. It will both touch on the human aspects of development and the technical aspects of improving any codebase. CakePHP has been active for quite a while and while the code has matured quite well, we are always facing the constant forces of change the tech world experiences. Where should we head towards? On one hand we have ecosystems with an extreme change rate but also causing greater fatigue in their users, and on the other hand we have the option of not changing at all. How do we balance this two extremes with our limited time? Is it worth living on the cutting edge to achieve relevancy? As a community, CakePHP has also seen tremendous transformations. What can we do at a personal level to improve? What's the secret sauce for contributing to open source and not burning yourself out? I hope to offer an answer to those questions based on my experience of more than 9 years contributing to CakePHP.
Guest Speaker - Ed Finkler
There is a crisis in the tech industry. At least 20% of our colleagues, friends, and teammates suffer silently with mental illness, but our work culture does little to help. Based on real data, we'll show the enormous impact of mental illness in our industry, and how we can change � and save � lives.
CakePHP in a containerized (CI/CD) environment
Stefan van Gastel
A short talk about putting CakePHP in a (Docker) container environment for CI and CD purposes, what obstacles we have encountered doing that and what advantages it has provided us.
Progressive Web Apps For CakePHP Developers
Prosper Otemuyiwa
Popular Web platforms are making their apps progressive and it's increasing their conversion rate numbers & helping them acquire more customers in areas of low internet penetration.
The attendees will learn the following about building Progressive Web Apps:
- What a Progressive Web app is
- Key Features of a Progressive Web App
- How to build a Progressive Web App to Work Offline
- How to make a Progressive Web App Installable and send Push Notifications
- Benefits of making Progressive Web Apps
- How CakePHP can serve as a Powerful Backend for making a PWA.
Realtime PHP using websockets
Jeff Kolesnikowicz
Websockets give real-time access to your PHP application, facilitating data transfer between the browser and the server. With the popularity of Javascript libraries like Node.js and Meteor, websockets are Hot Stuff�. But just because they�re popular with the Javascript crowd doesn�t mean PHP applications are left out in the cold.
In this talk, we will discuss some use cases for websockets as well as strategies for implementing websockets into your PHP application. We will look at the most popular websocket protocols and specifically an overview of the WAMP protocol (the protocol, not the stack - http://wamp-proto.org) and the PHP Ratchet library. Additionally, we�ll talk about WAMPv2 and Thruway. At the end of this talk, you�ll have a better sense of what websockets are, how they work, and how to use them in your application.
We will look at websockets from a CakePHP standpoint.
CakePHP Prepared Statements Ease MySQL Table Design
Ed Barnard
This talk highlights CakePHP 3's excellent support for prepared statements. Many see them as outdated. On the contrary, for this high-traffic use case, we have a strong advantage. We'll re-design our tables for our code's advantage. We'll develop a PHP utility class taking advantage of our re-designed tables.
Guest Speaker - Chris Hartjes
Chris Hartjes
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Testing. Back when I was learning about how to test PHP code, I had to walk both ways uphill in the snow to get the information I needed. Over the past 14 years (has it really been that long?!?) I�ve learned a lot about not just testing but about code and people. In this talk I want to share what I wished I knew all those years ago so you don�t have to suffer like I did.
Open Source Infrastructure
Like any other organization, CakePHP has applications and services it deploys to support the organization. Unlike many companies, it's developers are unpaid volunteers in many timezones. How does CakePHP manage it's infrastructure in a transparent, distributed fashion? This talk will cover tips and tricks we use to minimize our server overhead while keeping everyone informed of how things work.
Cultivating community: Building powerful relationships by communicating with empathy
Sharon Steed
One of our most valuable commodities as humans is our ability to build relationships - both personally and professionally. And the key to any successful relationship is empathy: being able to understand someone, connect with someone and view the world through their eyes. The problem is that the empathy needed to cultivate relationships, foster collaboration and build strong communities is often times lacking, especially when we are around people who are different from us. And if empathy is the tie that binds us, then vulnerability is the thread that holds that rope together.
It's time to change the status quo in tech. Let's explore the impact of empathy on communities. We'll discuss how communication plays a role in building successful relationships; how empathy fosters highly collaborative teams; and finally we'll talk about true accessibility. Why? Because innovation is at it's best when it's inclusive. And to be inclusive, you must be empathetic.
CONFERENCE DAY 2 - Sun, June 11th
Stepping Outside your Comfort Zone: Learning to Teach
As a developer, you spend your entire life learning. But what happens when the tables are turned and you become the teacher? Do you want to become a conference speaker or a mentor, talk at your local user group, give presentations at work, or become a technical trainer? As a previous classroom teacher with a Master's Degree in Curriculum Development, I will take you on a journey to understand the various learning styles and how to effectively reach everyone. We will look at how to present your information, best ways to structure it, and learn ways to reach all students no matter their level. We will also cover a number of best practices for crafting your presentation decks themselves. Join me for this exploration into the inner workings of the human mind.
Guest Speaker - Cal Evans
Cal Evans
Everyone tells you that you need to. What if you don't want to run an Open Source project? What if you just need something to work? What if you just want to use Open Source, can you still make a contribution? Of course you can! In this talk, we will look at three broad groupings of roles that you can play in any Open Source project. Take a look around, find your role and your project and make a difference.
Keynote - 3.4 and the Path to 4.0.0
In this talk I'll be covering some of the new features that have come out in
3.4. Features like PSR-7 support, new plugins give us more flexibility and allow CakePHP developers to tap into code from outside the CakePHP community. I'd like to follow up a recap of the present, by reviewing the strategy, high-level roadmap and upgrade path we have planned for 3.5, 3.6 and 4.0.
Testing for people who hate testing
Viraj Khatavkar
I love having tests. I hate writing them. It�s tedious. It�s boring. It�s hard, sometimes harder than writing the code. Worst of all, it doesn�t feel like it accomplishes anything. You cannot sell writing tests to developers who hate it or are new to the approach. Bombarding testing jargon is not gonna help. Let me show you how awesome tests can be written and let's deep dive into the testing approach step by step
Building for a Million Transactions Per Hour
Femi TAIWO
In 2015, a two man team (Femi & Sunday) built within 3 weeks a system on CakePHP which handled over 32 million transactions in a 24 hour period for the elections in Nigeria. Femi will be taking us through how to create a fail-safe, fault tolerant, high-traffic-ready architecture to handle similar or even higher amounts of traffic using CakePHP. I will also be talking about methods for scaling systems automatically and manually on popular cloud service providers.
Machine Learning: one step closer to J-Day
Skynet is still far off, but we can do some serious damage with our data. Using machine learning, we can learn from the data we have, by building algorithms that are taught to understand concepts hidden in our data, and we can benefit from this learning by developing algorithms that produce more meaningful information.
This is a talk aimed to those who may have heard of Machine Learning but have never dwelled on it. It is an opportunity to open our minds to an exciting field filled with possibilities. We will explore the concepts, review the math supporting them (I promise it's fun!), and write some code.
We will cover this fascinating subject with a practical approach: how machine learning can help us build much better products. Maybe even fix Facebook's feed priority algorithm? Who knows, the prospects are unlimited!


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Futures Movers: Oil jumps nearly 6% in bid to snap 7-day losing streak as dollar retreats
Oil futures rose sharply on Monday after the U.S. benchmark suffered its biggest weekly drop since October on worries the continued spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 will dent demand for crude.
"Oil was way oversold and fire sale was on," Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at AvaTrade, told MarketWatch. "Bargain hunters are wasting no time to closing the deal and this is pushing the price higher."
West Texas Intermediate crude for October delivery
rose $3.68, or 5.9%, to $65.82 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. WTI dropped 8.9% last week, taking the U.S. benchmark to a three-month low. October Brent crude
the global benchmark, jumped $3.67, or 5.6%, to $68.85 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe, after also falling to its lowest since May last week.
Both benchmarks were on track to snap seven-day losing streaks. That was the longest losing streak for WTI oil since the eight session decline ended Oct. 3, 2019, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
Concerns around the rapidly spreading delta variant have forced demand expectations lower through the remainder of the year, said Robbie Fraser, global research and analytics manager at Schneider Electric.
However, "crude and product inventories remain at low levels across all markets," he said in a Monday note. That "continues to raise the floor against any major bearish move."
"For that to change, the market will need to see a consistent run of oversupply," he said. "Those conditions become more realistic moving into Q1 next year as recent demand weakness combines with seasonal declines, and the potential for supply increases" from both the U.S. and OPEC+ — the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies.
The move up for oil comes despite Monday's announcement by the U.S. Energy Department that it plans to sell up to 20 million barrels of crude oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Contracts will be awarded no later than Sept. 13 with delivery to take place between Oct. 1 and Dec. 15, the Energy Department said.
"There's a perception that the government doesn't need the [SPR] like they used to because of the increase in U.S. production, so there's an expectation that we have money sitting in these oil caverns and the government wants to get their hands on it," Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at The Price Futures Group, told MarketWatch.
It's "interesting we're willing to forgo our reserve at this point," he said. The Biden administration may be feeling the heat from higher gasoline prices and this is "one way to cool off prices and potentially cool off gasoline prices."
Meanwhile, some analysts said signs of resilience in the physical market for crude belied the carnage seen in the futures market last week as metals, oil and other commodities came under heavy selling pressure.
"The financial market rout is moving at an asymmetric downward pace to what the physical market is telling us," said Michael Tran, commodity analyst at RBC Capital Markets, in a note. "Atlantic Basin marginal barrels, while off the recent highs, are not signaling a struggle as extreme as the financial price weakness."
Tran said that several marginal barrels in the North Sea were pricing at physical premiums not far off the highs of the year seen just two weeks ago.
"Most crudes are pricing softer, physically over the past week, but not in a fashion that would suggest distress. Headline fears of the delta variant and weak Chinese buying programs have weighed on the financial market for the past month, but the relative firmness in the physical market in prior weeks is indicative that other buyers are emerging to pick up the slack," he wrote.
Moves in the U.S. dollar also helped to support oil prices on Monday. A surge in the dollar last week fed a selloff for commodities as a stronger greenback can make them more expensive to users of other currencies.
The dollar backed off on Monday, with the ICE U.S. Dollar Index
a measure of the currency against a basket of six major rivals, down 0.5% after soaring last week to a nine-month high.
Investors also looked ahead to this week's monetary policy symposium, which was set to be held in Jackson Hole, Wyo., but will take place virtually due to health concerns around the spread of the delta variant. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak Friday morning, with investors looking for clues to when the central bank will lay out a timetable for the tapering of its monthly asset purchases.
See: Investors look for Fed clues on tapering as Jackson Hole goes virtual because of delta variant
Rounding out action on Nymex Monday, September gasoline
tacked on 4.9% to $2.12 a gallon and September heating oil
rose 5.4% to $2.01 a gallon.
traded at $3.91 per million British thermal units, up 1.7%.
: Unvaccinated Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 cost the U.S. health care system $2.3 billion in June and July: report
Deep Dive: These 15 stocks of retailers are expected to rise up to 97% over the next year


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An exciting new role for a IT Technical Trainer has arisen in our Birmingham training centre. You will play a key role in the success of the centre by delivering high quality IT training to a variety of customers and you will ensure that customer satisfaction targets are exceeded. You will also ensure that New Horizons Birmingham offers a wide-ranging number of IT courses and qualifications meeting the market needs.
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Europe controls the fate of international markets in 2012.
Uncertainty ruled world markets in 2011, but one thing was sure: A big bear clawed foreign stocks. Through November 4, the MSCI EAFE index, which tracks stocks in developed nations, tumbled 9%; the MSCI Emerging Markets index fell 12%. Over the same period, Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was flat.
Expect volatility through the early part of 2012, says Virginie Maisonneuve, co-manager of Vanguard International Growth Fund, in part because of unresolved issues from 2011. Details on how to solve Europe's government-debt crisis still need to be ironed out. Economic growth in China, the world's growth driver, is slowing, even as inflation worries weigh on markets from Asia to Latin America.
Europe controls the fate of international markets in 2012. As Greece teeters on the precipice of default, it threatens to take Italy, Spain and France with it. If Greece restructures its debt in an orderly, negotiated process, it could renew confidence and boost international markets in the latter half of 2012. But even with a so-called structured default, the future looks grim. "How does Europe get its mojo back?" says Katherine Nixon, chief investment officer with Northern Trust. "It's a long-term issue with a lot of pain." Life in Europe, with an average 10.2% unemployment and just 1.6% gross domestic product growth in 2011, already feels recession-like. Growth in 2012, at 1.1%, will be anemic.
If Europe remains risky and developed markets stay volatile, then emerging markets will get even choppier. How China, the largest emerging economy, handles its slowing economic growth is key. If officials lower interest rates too far or too soon, a real estate bubble could reinflate. Wait too long and growth could slow too much.
Slow is relative. Even pared down, China's GDP growth, estimated at 9% in 2012, is impressive. Growth in emerging economies overall should come in at 6% for 2012 -- a lot higher than predicted growth in the U.S. and Europe.
Meanwhile, the MSCI Emerging Markets index trades at 9.5 times 2012 earnings, well below the historical average of 15. It may be a great time to buy foreign stocks -- the choppier the market, the better the chance to pick up good companies at a discount, via mutual funds with a proven stock picker at the helm.
We like Oakmark International (symbol OAKIX) and Tweedy, Browne Global Value (TBGVX). Buy in moderation, during downturns. "There's no need to put all the money in at one time," says Oakmark's Herro. We also like Vanguard International Growth (VWIGX), where co-manager Maisonneuve is focusing on large, European-based multinationals, such as Nestlé and Tesco, that also rely on regions outside the euro zone for a chunk of revenue. In China, she's betting on the country's consumers -- retail, food and beverage company China Resources, for example -- rather than its exporters.


(HealthDay)—Weight loss wisdom suggests chewing every bite 15 or more times to give your brain time to process what you're eating and send the signal that you're full. Now a group of studies has found that counting the bites themselves could be an effective way to lose weight.
Knowing that dieters often underreport how many calories they eat, researchers from Clemson University conducted a number of studies that showed bites could be a more accurate measure of food intake. They also found that wearable technology that can count the bites for you and tell you when you've reached your limit can help you eat less.
To create a realistic bite goal for yourself, start by establishing your baseline number of bites. Without changing anything about your current consumption, track and write down every bite you take at every meal and snack for one week. Then you can work on reducing that number.
One reason counting bites helps is that it keeps you from mindless eating. It's also less time-consuming than counting calories, which may make sticking with it easier. Just make sure you don't try to compensate by taking bigger bites when you eat, a natural tendency, but one that will bite you back by slowing weight loss.
More information: Harvard Health has a more detailed explanation of how more bites and slower eating helps curb appetite and, in turn, calories.


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