A Kansas City woman was arrested and charged Saturday with abusing her 10-year-old daughter who weighed just 32 pounds when she was found locked in a closed that reeked of urine.
The Associated Press is not naming the mother to protect the child's identity.
The 29-year-old woman faces charges of assault, child abuse and endangerment in Jackson County Circuit Court. Prosecutors are requesting bond be set at $200,000.
Officers responded to a call to a child abuse hotline and freed the child from the locked closet. Neighbors told police they didn't know the malnourished little girl was even living in the public housing complex.
Two women told officers when they first arrived that the mother had left 20 minutes earlier with two younger girls. They described the children as "clean and well fed," a Kansas City officer said in a probable cause statement.
A social services worker said there should be three children at the home. The neighbor insisted, "No, we have lived here for several years, and she only has two daughters that stay here, and we have never seen the other girl, but we heard she stays with the father or the aunt," the probable cause statement said.
When officers entered the apartment they found a portable crib pushed against a bedroom closet, which was tied closed. When they asked one of the other children if anyone was inside, the child said, "yes," the probable cause statement said.
The child was transported to Children's Mercy Hospital where she was diagnosed with multiple skin injuries. Hospital staff said she had gained only six pounds since they last saw her at the hospital six years earlier.
The girl also said she gets in trouble "because she keeps peeing on herself" and her mother will "punch her on her back real hard," according to the probable cause statement.
The woman's boyfriend claims he never knew the little girl was locked in a closet and has not been charged. He said he hadn't seen her in about a year and was told by the mother that the child was with her aunt or in her room because she was in trouble. He said if he'd known she was locking the little girl in the closet he "would have done something about it," the probable cause statement said.
According to Mike Mansur, a spokesman for the Jackson County prosecutor's office, the mother has not said why she singled out her oldest daughter.


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Wave energy converters remove energy from waves. This means that both near-shore bottom mounted devices and offshore floating devices will calm the sea. This will be broadly beneficial since it will protect the coast from waves.
Land and near-shore bottom mounted wave converters will cause some disruption to the marine environment during construction but this should be short lived. Once in place they should have little impact. There may be a visual impact and oscillating water column converters may generate noise from their air turbines.
Floating offshore devices should be less disruptive since they will normally be built onshore and then towed to the site where they are deployed. However floating devices are likely to be a hazard to shipping and sites will need to be selected that cause minimum disruption. It may well make sense to deploy such devices at offshore wind sites; both need to be away from shipping lanes and well marked to prevent the danger of collision. A floating device could become a serious hazard if it slipped its mooring, so strict monitoring would be essential.


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How does big game hunting in British Columbia work?
Aug. 10, 2014 1:00 p.m.
If you want to hunt big game in B.C., how does it work?
The province's limited-entry hunting system — the way many big-game animals are "taken," to use hunting parlance — is a lottery.
Basically, if you want to hunt certain animals that aren't subject to open seasons — sheep, moose, grizzly bear and others — you are required to apply and luck is a big requirement.
Every January, biologists from the B.C. Ministry of Environment located across the province examine their regions. They take local species statistics and factor in the previous year's hunting numbers, habitat changes and climate issues to determine how a specific herd or area species might have been affected.
With those figures, the biologists set regulations for each region — how many animals of various species can be hunted.
Every year, officials receive more than 150,000 applications for limited-entry hunts. The applications are sent to a private accounting firm where they're tabulated. They include first- and second-choice hunts — locations where hunters would like to take down their animal of choice.
A computer program running an enhanced-odds system checks all applicants and decreases chances of winning a lottery if the hunter has won in recent years. If a hunter has taken that lottery's score in the previous three years, his or her likelihood of winning a tag is decreased by 66 per cent.
Once the draw is held, notifications are sent by mail to successful hunters.
After killing an animal in a limited-entry hunt, a hunter may be required to take his or her animal to a government-employed wildlife technician for a compulsory inspection.
At these inspections, biological data is collected, along with various measurements of the animal. In addition, the hunter is required to give an exact location of where the kill took place.


New Delhi: As many as nine FIRs have been registered so far against the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and four against the BJP for defacement of public property ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in the city, Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh said on Monday.
"Nine FIRs have been registered against the AAP under the Defacement of Public Property Act. Besides, four FIRs have been filed against the Bharitya Janata Party under the same Act, one has registered against the Congress and one has been registered against others," Singh told reporters.


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Inmates at a St. Louis jail set fires, caused flooding, broke out fourth-floor windows and tossed a stationary bike, chairs and mattresses outside Saturday in the latest disturbance over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions that have limited visits and stalled court proceedings, officials said.
Crews arrived to the building located in the 2000 block of South Tucker Boulevard near Clark Ave for a report of a fire around 5:45 a.m. A News 4 crew saw a group of inmates setting flammable items, such as sheets, on fire from the upper floor of the north side of the building and throwing them out of a broken window. Several chairs, containers, and other debris could be seen from the street.
Dozens of law enforcement officers worked for hours before bringing the riot at the St. Louis City Justice Center under control shortly before 10 a.m., a spokesman for Mayor Lyda Krewson, Jacob Long, said. About 115 inmates.
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We now know that prosecuting counsel, Peter Openshaw QC, held a secret meeting with the trial judge, Mr Justice Sachs, on 1st December 1994. This was during the final prosecution and defence speeches but before the judge's summing up. There is no mention of this meeting on the court log and HM Court Service has confirmed that it did not adhere to the protocol of the time. The defence had no knowledge of it until 2006 when Peter Openshaw mentioned it in a statement he made in relation to Thomas's leave to appeal hearing. In this same statement he denied that there was any increase in security after he told Sachs that Thomas was responsible for bringing a gun into HMP Manchester.
In Openshaws statement for the leave to appeal hearing, he states that he may have been accompanied in this meeting by one of the investigating police officers to verify the information he gave to Sachs. We are now able to prove, and it has been accepted by the Court of Appeal, that Openshaw's report to the judge was nothing but a pack of lies, albeit that he may have been duped into making such a report.
One would think that as a matter of honesty and fairness, Openshaw and Sachs should have informed Thomas's counsel, Mr Richard Ferguson QC and Thomas himself, that there was information that it was being alleged that the gun was for Thomas. Had the prosecutor and judge passed this information on to the defence, then Thomas and his team would have demanded that the trial be stopped and that a police investigation be conducted into the matter by an outside force. Had the defence been given this opportunity, Thomas would have been able to have a new and fair trial at a different venue. And an official investigation into those conspiring to falsely incriminate Thomas, - the drug dealers, their customs handler and his bosses – would have led to arrests and charges in relation to a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
The integrity of the trial was destroyed from the moment that Openshaw gave Sachs this false information in secret. This meeting, which is not even noted on the court log, has resulted in the most terrible miscarriage of justice.
Sachs' judgement, and his summing up, were skewed and contaminated by the false premise that Thomas was, in some way, linked to the gun in Strangeways. We have no way of knowing whether or not Openshaw and Sachs discussed any other aspect of the case.
Sachs ignored Thomas's alibi in his summing up even though it was supported by a prosecution witness giving evidence under oath.
· He called Howard Ridgeway a completely "independent witness" even though he heard that this man stored weapons for Mitchell.
· He said a (truly) independent schoolgirl witness corroborated Bob McGahey's evidence – she did not.
· He said that Mr Bailey, another independent witness, stated the car pulled up between approx 2.15 - 3pm. Mr Bailey said in his evidence between 2.50 – 3pm. Sachs misled the jury and disregarded Thomas's alibi.
· In his summing up, he says that Bob McGahey has immunity. In his evidence McGahey said that he did not have immunity. Sachs goes on to say that Mitchell has no immunity "nor is there any suggestion that there is any in this case, you may think".
During evidence, DS Thompson said McGahey received immunity after he had spoken to the CPS. Sachs falsely recalled that Thompson said that immunity had not been mentioned until after 26th November 1993 – by which time McGahey had told them everything. This is incorrect. McGahey's last statement was on 22nd December 1993 in which he claimed Thomas told him: "I've done them both". Importantly this was after he had been given immunity.
Under oath, Detective Superintendent Rod Murray said that he had no knowledge of immunity, which, if true, means either of two prime prosecution witnesses - Thompson or McGahey - committed perjury in the court. The way Sachs summed up the immunity issue was completely confusing and the jury would not have known whether there was or was not immunity. Indeed to this day we have been unable to get a written answer to this question.
· Sachs summed up incorrectly concerning the lack of shotgun residue in the car.
The forensic scientist, Dr King, whose evidence was read out in court, was totally misquoted by Sachs in his summing up. Sachs states, "In King's experience, it is seldom possible to detect residues in a vehicle that has only been used to carry the firearms". However, in his statement dated 17th December 1993, Dr King said that "it is seldom possible to detect residues in a vehicle that has only been used to carry a firer of a gun". Dr King was never told that, according to Mitchell, the recently fired sawn-off shotgun was supposed to have been placed on the front passenger seat of the red Sierra. If Mitchell was telling the truth, there should have been chemical residues in abundance. Forensic scientists found no traces in the recovered red Sierra. This adds significantly to the body of evidence that demonstrates that Mitchell lied.
Sachs told the jury that Mitchell in evidence said that he, Walter and Thomas were sat in a restaurant on Friday 5th November 1993, just after Department of Transport officials paid a visit to Chestergate Autos. Mitchell said the brothers flew into a rage and went back to the garage and shot up some oil drums. It had earlier been proven in court that the officials did not attend the site until the following Wednesday, 10th November 1993. Another example of Sachs corroborating one of Mitchell's many lies.
· When the judge mentions the admissions to the jury he says "I do not propose to refer to them any more because you have them in front of you". Those admissions state that Thomas had nothing to do with Chestergate and that the Crown accepted this. Therefore why did the judge add, on Page 79 of his summing up, "ask yourselves do you think it is important why he had not been to see the powers that be"?
This summing up, which was riddled with factual inaccuracies, was extremely prejudicial and was not challenged at the time of the trial. The only explanation can be that the lies (now accepted to be so by the police, the Court of Appeal and the prosecution) told to Sachs by Openshaw, in private, no doubt contaminated his mindset and had an adverse effect on his summing up.


Threats of hurricanes swirled near the Hawaiian Islands and as my plane landed, it amounted to very hot and humid conditions but the beauty of Maui was undisturbed.
The 5th annual Hawaii Food and Wine Festival was underway and an all-star chef line-up had been created on 3 of the major islands. The islands swirled with music, drink and fabulous food as each island paradise celebrated their bounty. Every year Hawaii's culinary presence from the land and sea culminates with food and drink prepared by talented chefs. I attended the 2nd annual food and wine festival on Oahu in 2012 and the list of celebrity chefs was like watching the red carpet at the Oscars. Fast forward 3 years and it has expanded significantly with even more chefs and venues.
It's a way to bring many partners together from agriculture, tourism, education and other entities that speak of Hawaii. The state feels so strongly about the festival that it enacted a house resolution supporting the agricultural and culinary festival and referred to it as "Taste our Love for the Land".
Maui, the "valley isle" of the Hawaiian Islands, has mountains, a volcano, and the sea, which creates an array of goods to supply locals and tourists alike. Sure there is poi, papaya, and fish but it's how these are put together that has changed the food scene. My first event was early Saturday morning and I grabbed my hat and canvas bag and walked along Ka'anapali's shoreline until I reached the "Grown on Maui" farmers market near Whaler's Village. Tables with colorful cornucopia displays accentuated the varieties of vegetables, fruits, coffee and eggs produced on Maui. I met Jesse and Roxanne Tiffin, of Kula Fields Farmshop who were busily handing out samples of passion fruit and selling pineapples for $3 from the Kula fields' co-op. Roxanne was happy to explain about the produce which comes from the upcountry fields of Maui and all the healthy benefits of buying locally grown. With bag in hand, I headed back to the hotel for more adventures.
I tried not to be too starstruck as celebrity chefs Nancy Silverton and Celestino Drago arrived and traded their aloha clothing for chef's jackets. Chef Drago and a few of his team from Drago Centro in Los Angeles holed up in the Hyatt kitchen and made cecaluccoli pasta by hand. While honeymooners sunned poolside drinking mai tais, the daylong pasta rolling yielded 8,000 pillow soft gems just waiting to join simmering puttanesca sauce.
The Signature event held at the Hyatt Regency Maui honored the Legend of Shep Gordon. Shep, a former rock star manager, had been the most instrumental person promoting chefs into the newly found Food Network. Emeril Lagasse and Wolfgang Puck to name a few, are grateful for his active role in raising chefs to a new level. It was the start of the culinary celebrity movement in the early 1990's which revolutionized the way chefs are seen today. His devotion to the chefs changed the entire food scene on television, products marketed by the chefs and enlisting public loyalty to the chefs. Among these chefs cooking for the event was Dan Fearing from his restaurant Fearing's. Shep began to manage his culinary career and now he was here to pay tribute to the man who had a major impact on his career. Shep also had a hand in the beginnings of the Hawaii culinary movement and with his ingenuity, the rest is history.
Throughout the day, workers set up a platform stage and mini kitchen in the garden for the evening event. Arriving early, chefs and culinary students assembled behind simmering pots and seemed to have the dinner for the large crowd under control. They worked together, concentrating on plating each course with an orchestrated flair as guests took their seats while the sun was setting. Teaching Hawaiian culinary students how to work alongside professional chefs and learn from their techniques is one of the goals of the two-week festival. Not all students can go to the Mainland and the variety of visiting chefs widens the students' knowledge and is meant to inspire their culinary dreams. You couldn't ask for a more scenic chef's table.
The President of the Maui pineapple association gave the blessing for the meal and all the festival stands for throughout of Hawaii. Six courses were served: Smoked Kona abalone with kabocha squash and Surfing goat cheese with Okinawa spinach and herbs (Chef Gregory Grohowski, Hyatt Maui); wild caught Ama Ebi with ceccalucali puttanesca (Chef Celestino Drago, Drago restaurant group); wild caught big eye ahi Nicoise tartare with cucumber, haricot vert and grape tomato (Chef Mark Tarbell, Tarbell's Restaurant); Pit BBQ Nihau lamb with slow roasted eggplant and red chile curry sauce (Chef Robert Del Grand, RDG + Bar Annie); BBQ Kalua wild boar tacos, smoked tomatillo with mango and pickled red onion salad, spiced macadamia nuts (Chef Dan Fearing, Fearing's Restaurant); Torta Della Nonna, Hawaiian Island goat cheese and Naked Cow goat cheese, pine nuts and honey (Chef Nancy Silverton and Dahlia Narvaez, Mozza Restaurant Group). Lots of wine pairings were poured with each course.
As the evening wrapped up, I talked with Chefs Wong and Yamaguchi who worked tirelessly throughout the evening and obviously loved every minute of it.
Co-founder and co-chair of the event, Chef Alan Wong told me one of the reasons for the festival is to make people aware about the foods of Hawaii which are more than spam and pineapple. Not to mention, that big misnomer "Hawaiian pizza", making it that much harder to overcome preconceived notions about their foods. Chef Wong has an innate love for the land and the more he and others share their purposeful mission, more of the festivals' goals are achieved. He said the visiting chefs reconnect with other chefs and experience the aloha spirit to take back to their kitchens.
Chef Roy Yamaguchi, the other co-founder and co-chair, has significantly widened his vision about the event since its humble beginnings 25 years ago. Both chefs, along with 10 other distinguished chefs began the Hawaii Regional Cuisine movement in 1991 to raise awareness about their foods. Through the years, it evolved into the current Hawaii Food and Wine Festival. Time had come to bring in other chefs from the Mainland and train the next generation of up and coming culinary students.
Chef Yamaguchi desires the continually growing event to showcase Hawaiian food, farms and products by enlisting visiting chefs to become culinary ambassadors. The over-arching goal is for chefs' to tell the Hawaii story by using the products and recipes in their own restaurants. International chefs will be added in the future as they seek the next step of a global influence. People attending will enjoy the vibrant hospitality and be able to share the Hawaii story with others. Chef Yamaguchi is passionate not only about Hawaii's world-class ingredients but also about the positive collaborative community immersion.
Executive Director of the Hawaii Food and Wine Festival, Denise Yamaguchi, expounded on this. Chefs returning home enthusiastically share the aspects about Hawaii such as the culture, people, and natural surroundings. Combined, it makes for a large tourist market for all the islands. And year after year, many of the chefs order Hawaii products for their restaurants.
A very important factor beside fabulous food is the many local groups which benefit from the proceeds. Sizeable donations have occurred to culinary arts programs, seafood council, agricultural foundation, farm bureau and zoo conservation society and more.
I asked the humble Shep what he thought about the evening as he walked among the guests extending greetings and he said, "great".
As it has been well said, come to Hawaii not just for the beauty but as a culinary destination.


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The World Safety Congress
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The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) – a member of the Workplace Safety and Health Institute (WSHI) in Higher Education and Research Workgroup – participated in the exhibition section of the World Safety Congress (WSC) held at Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre from 3 to 6 September 2017. Alongside other members of WSHI, the SUSS team, led by School of Science and Technology (SST) senior lecturer Mr Stephen Low, contributed to the exhibition by displaying four posters on working structure and safety training initiatives, which served to inform the public of the important roles of the WSHI nationally. One of the posters described the Higher Education and Research (HER) group's terms of reference, structure and achievements, while the other three posters focused on the Education sub-committee's programmes, the Research subcommittee's programmes such as harmonisation of chemical safety training and biosafety training, as well as other HER initiatives such as the sharing of lessons learnt from incidents, meeting regulators and drafting of fire safety standards.
SST also publicised the courses and programmes it offered, specifically those related to human factors and workplace safety and health. The exhibition created a healthy public awareness of the functions of WSHI and provided a platform to showcase the availability of workplace safety and health/human factors programmes at SUSS.
Mr Stephen Low (second from left) and members of the WSHI Committee at WSC 2017.


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Ochsner doctor's research shows COVID-19 put strain African American community's health problems
"Most of these patients have a high rate of high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity," she said.
Author: Meg Farris (WWL)
Published: 5:38 PM CDT June 1, 2020
Updated: 7:32 PM CDT June 1, 2020
NEW ORLEANS — An Ochsner doctor wanted answers as to why more African-Americans are dying from COVID-19 in Louisiana. The number is 59 percent in a state where the black population is 33 percent.
And her recent findings were just published in the New England Journal Of Medicine online.
Dr. Eboni Price-Haywood took a deep dive into what doctors at Ochsner were seeing treating COVID-19 patients in March and April. Of 3,500 patients testing positive, 70 percent were African-American.
"Most of these patients have a high rate of high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. We did notice that our black patients had a higher proportion of those, or higher percentage of those conditions," explained Dr. Eboni Price-Haywood, the Ochsner Director for the Center for Outcomes and Health Services Research.
Price-Haywood is a primary care physician who was also the principal investigator on the study. She uncovered that black patients were more likely to come to the emergency department, a possible sign they were already sicker. So she dug deeper.
"Once we accounted for the person's age, their gender, number of chronic health conditions, and really how sick were they on admission, once you account for those factors, then race is no longer an independent risk factor for death," Dr. Price-Haywood said.
So if a second spike in cases comes, what have we learned from this?
"We want to shift testing out to the community, as opposed to people having to wait to be tested and coming into the emergency department," she said.
So, the first strategy focuses on the short term. Just like with cancer, find it early and it's more curable, but also identify the many who have the virus but never get sick. That way, they can stay away from high risk people.
And the second strategy is for the long term.
"In this part of the country, we do have high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity, and the question is what are we going to do about it," she said.
Dr. Price-Haywood says COVID-19 just called attention to years of health problems, and the need for action, like access to more healthful foods and walkable neighborhoods.
Dr. Price-Haywood says her study also found that more African-Americans had signs of inflammation. It could be related to stronger immune response that is damaging, but she says more studies are needed to see if there is a genetic underlying cause.
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Bloomington-based Bright Health raised $924 million Thursday in the largest-ever initial public stock offering by a Minnesota company, bolstering the state's influence across national health insurance markets.
The founders of Bright Health — which got its start in the individual markets on the government-run exchanges — came from UnitedHealth Group, the Minnetonka-based giant that runs the largest U.S. health insurer and also is a large operator of clinics, urgent care facilities and surgery centers.
Having already expanded into the Medicare market, Bright Health plans further growth with Medicaid and employer health plans as well as a division that manages a network of doctors and clinics.
The $924 million raised by Bright Health eclipses recent IPOs from Jamf Holding Corp., which raised $468 million in 2020, and Ceridian HCM Holding Inc., which in 2018 raised $531 million from its IPO and nearly $100 million more after a private placement.
Four other Minnesota companies — including Trean Insurance Group, Sun Country Airlines Holdings Inc., SkyWater Technology and Agiliti Health Inc. — also have gone public in the past 12 months.
Bright Health completed its offering in a busy week and busy year for IPOs, with health care and technology companies being the dominant issuers. According to NYSE.com, there have been 323 IPOs in the past 12 months that raised $1.6 trillion; 141 of them have been health care companies that together raised $39 billion, while 67 technology IPOs have raised $43.4 billion.
Nationally this week, seven companies completed IPOs. They included Eden Prairie-based life sciences company Miromatrix Medical Inc., which also priced its offering late Wednesday.
Miromatrix is trading on Nasdaq under the symbol MIRO. It is developing bioengineered fully transplantable organs that it says could provide better outcomes for patients and help alleviate the shortage of donated human organs. The company will use proceeds of the offering to fund further research and development and for clinical trials.
Miromatrix stock closed its first day at $15.24, up 69%.
The busy IPO season this spring also included one other big deal for a new health insurer when New York-based Oscar Health raised $1.4 billion in March. After an initial offering price of $39 per share, the stock has since fallen below $24.
The startups are hoping to capitalize on a push to make health care easier for consumers to navigate, said University of Minnesota health economist Stephen Parente.
"There certainly is more of an interest in consumerism and flexibility and more advanced tools — that's a lot of what they're selling in their messaging," he said.
Bright Health launched in 2015 with a focus on selling coverage to individuals who buy policies under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) via government-run health exchanges. These ACA markets are designed for individuals under age 65 who are self-employed or don't get coverage from their employer.
The startup insurer then moved into the Medicare Advantage market, where individual seniors receive their Medicare benefits through private managed-care insurers. Bright Health now covers about 515,000 people across 11 states through individual insurance policies and another 108,000 people enrolled in Medicare Advantage health plans.
Some growth has come through acquisitions of insurers in California and New Mexico. Bright Health now is trying to diversify into Medicaid coverage as well as selling administrative services to employer health plans.
The employer market is particularly attractive to insurers because it provides a strong, steady source of income, Parente said.
Traditionally, new insurers have struggled to create doctor and hospital networks that are attractive to employers, he said. That's one reason why Bright Health is highlighting the company's division called NeueHealth, with ties to more than 200,000 health care providers plus 28 managed and affiliated risk-bearing clinics.
Parente said the NeueHealth unit sounds similar to the Optum health services division at UnitedHealth Group, which manages a growing network of clinics focused on "value-based care" agreements with health insurers. Under these contracts, clinics can see financial rewards for efficiently providing health care.
"Through these risk-bearing clinics, NeueHealth maintains nearly 75,000 unique patient relationships as of April 2021, approximately 30,000 of which are served through value-based arrangements, across multiple payors," the company said in a regulatory filing. "In addition to our directly managed and affiliated clinics, NeueHealth manages care for an additional 33 clinics."
Over the past 18 months, Bright Health has acquired a Florida family practice group and a controlling interest in a second medical group, as well as the Minneapolis-based telehealth provider Zipnosis.
Going public means companies have access to more forms of financing to invest in additional growth and jobs while giving current shareholders and prospective shareholders easier means of buying and selling shares.
Chief Executive Mike Mikan and other executives from Bright Health rang the closing bell Thursday afternoon at the New York Stock Exchange. Bright Health will trade on the NYSE under the symbol BHG.
Bright Health's IPO was downsized in price and shares from projections in its latest SEC filing.
The company ended up selling 51.35 million shares at $18 per share. The company was expecting to sell 67.2 million shares in the range of $20 to $23 per share that could have raised close to $1.5 billion.
The IPO didn't generate buzz among traders, with shares closing Thursday at $16.47, down 8.5%
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<?php namespace Orchestra\Foundation\Bootstrap\TestCase;

use Mockery as m;
use Illuminate\Container\Container;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
use Orchestra\Foundation\Bootstrap\NotifyIfSafeMode;

class NotifyIfSafeModeTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * Application instance.
     *
     * @var \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
     */
    private $app;

    /**
     * Setup the test environment.
     */
    public function setUp()
    {
        $this->app = new Application(__DIR__);

        Facade::clearResolvedInstances();
        Container::setInstance($this->app);
    }
    /**
     * Teardown the test environment.
     */
    public function tearDown()
    {
        Facade::clearResolvedInstances();

        m::close();
    }

    /**
     * Test Orchestra\Foundation\Bootstrap\NotifyIfSafeMode::bootstrap()
     * method.
     *
     * @test
     */
    public function testBootstrapMethod()
    {
        $app = $this->app;

        $app['orchestra.extension.status'] = $mode = m::mock('\Orchestra\Contracts\Extension\StatusChecker');
        $app['orchestra.messages'] = $messages = m::mock('\Orchestra\Contracts\Messages\MessageBag');
        $app['translator'] = $translator = m::mock('\Illuminate\Translation\Translator')->makePartial();

        $messages->shouldReceive('extend')->once()->with(m::type('Closure'))
                ->andReturnUsing(function ($c) use ($messages) {
                    return $c($messages);
                })
            ->shouldReceive('add')->once()->with('info', m::type('String'))->andReturnNull();

        $mode->shouldReceive('is')->once()->with('safe')->andReturn(true);

        (new NotifyIfSafeMode())->bootstrap($app);
    }
}


Double vision also called Diplopia is a common eye problem. It is when you see the perception of more than one image (preferably two) which may appear vertically or horizontally. The problem may appear in one eye, both eyes or it may cause for some time due to some other problem. Some people consider it temporary and don't take much care of it. Sometime it may cause a serious problem, so it is suggested to take some Double vision Treatment when it is not temporary.
Damage to the muscles of the eye.
Fever or some other problem.
There are some symptoms which can alert you to this condition in advance. If you feel such symptoms, then you should take Double vision Treatment.
When you see two or more perceptions of a single image.
You probably feel weakness in eyes.
Apart from the home and self-treatment, there are many medical treatments for this. If double vision is not temporary, then you should go with such treatments. But you have to consult your doctor first as he will suggest the best treatment for you.
If the eye muscles are weak and they cause this problem, then you should go with surgery.
Moreover, if you don't want surgery, then take proper medication of doctor's prescription.
Botox is a method of injections through which you can also cure this problem. It will allow the muscles of the eyes to be relaxed.
Some vision therapy (some eye exercise- best for people who don't want surgery).
If the problem arises due to some other reasons or disease, then you should cure the actual disease first.
First of all, wear the eyeglasses when you feel such condition.
Secondly, do some eye exercise. Try to press your eyes gently and then press the area around the eyes.
Thirdly, try to wear some contact lens as it may prevent this condition.
Moreover, use some eye patches if possible.
Open and close your eyes for any time and stay away from sharp light as well as from screen.


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The Library of Catalonia (, ) is the Catalan national library, located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The primary mission of the Library of Catalonia is to collect, preserve, and spread Catalan bibliographic production and that related to the Catalan linguistic area, to look after its conservation, and to spread its bibliographic heritage while maintaining the status of a center for research and consultation.

The Library occupies 8,820 m² and has nearly about four million items. It is a special member of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL).

History
The library was founded in 1907, as the library of the Institute for Catalan Studies (Institut d'Estudis Catalans, IEC). It was opened to the public on 28 May 1914, in the time of the recently founded Commonwealth of Catalonia, and was housed in the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

In 1914, the Commonwealth of Catalonia converted the library of the IEC into a public cultural service. In its early days, the Library was situated in an area of the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona. In 1929, the Library was acquired by the city government of Barcelona. In 1931, the 15th century buildings formerly occupied by the (Old) Hospital de la Santa Creu were declared a part of Spain's historical patrimony; and the municipality of Barcelona approved the cession of large portion of the site to the Biblioteca de Catalunya.

During the Republic era (1931-1939), the process of relocation began. In 1934, the Generalitat confirmed its status of general institution with full legal personality by the Law of the Service of Libraries. In 1936, the first reading room of the new seat, the Sala Cervantina, was opened, but the project was halted because of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and not all of the necessary adaptations were completed. After the fall of Barcelona in January 1939, the library was closed until 1940. After the Spanish Civil War, in 1940, the Library was reopened under the new name of Biblioteca Central ("Central Library") by Francoist dictatorship and moved to its new site, where it remains to this day. In Francoist Spain, the institution was turned into a general use library, which was intended to supplement the deficiencies of the public and university libraries.

In 1981, two years after the restoration of Catalan self-government, it was made the national library of Catalonia by the Llei de biblioteques ("Libraries law"), approved by the Parliament of Catalonia, conferring upon it the duties of the reception, conservation, and distribution of the Catalan legal deposit. In 1993, the Law of the Library System of Catalonia extended the institution's depository functions and helped in its modernization, which included the remodelling of the building, its reorganization and the digitization of its procedures.

During the 1990s, a major renovation project further transformed the Library, including the construction of four underground levels of storage (creating more than 40 kilometres of shelf-space) and the annex building. In 1998, the Library renovated the Gothic elements of its buildings and extended its space, thanks to the construction of a new services building.

Partnership with Google
In 2007, the Biblioteca de Catalunya and four more Catalan libraries agreed to join the digitization project. These libraries have begun digitizing books of theirs that are in the public domain. The digitization partnership project is intended to make these books available on the Internet. The Biblioteca de Catalunya acts as coordinator and intermediary on behalf of the other four Catalan libraries participating in the project:
the library of the Monastery of Montserrat,
the Public Episcopal Library of the Seminary of Barcelona,
the Library of the Barcelona Excursionist Centre and
the Library of the Barcelona Athenaeum.
The Catalan libraries group became the second non-Anglo-Saxon collaborator to join the Google Books Library Project, within the Google Book Search program. In 1977, the Library of Catalonia joined another Spanish participant in the project, the Complutense University of Madrid.

Statistics
 Linear metres of shelving:
 Free access: 1,500 m (20,000 volumes)
 Closed stacks: 49,000 m
 Total surface area of the Biblioteca: 15,000 m2
 Total surface area of the General reading room: 2,700 m2
 Surface area of the Reserve room: 360 m2
 Seats (reading points): 229
 Total documents: 3 million (estimated)

See also
 List of libraries in Spain
 Google Book Search
 Google Books Library Project
 PADICAT
 Joan Maragall Archive
 Name and Title Authority File of Catalonia
 Llista d'encapçalaments de matèria en català

References

 Riding, Alan. "France Detects a Cultural Threat in Google," New York Times. 11 April 2005.

Further reading

Fontbona, Francesc: Présentation dés tresors de la Unitat Gràfica de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2005.
Jorba, Manuel: La Biblioteca de Catalunya com a biblioteca nacional, Barcelona, 1996; The Biblioteca de Catalunya library of Catalonia, Barcelona, 1993 ; Els 80 anys de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1994.
Panyella, V.: The Biblioteca de Catalunya, Library of Catalonia, Barcelona: Biblioteca de Catalunya, 1993.
[Pere Bohigas (ed.)]: Cincuenta años de la antigua Biblioteca de Catalunya, Biblioteca Central de la Diputación de Barcelona, Barcelona 1968.
Reis Fontanals, Marga Losantos: Biblioteca de Catalunya, 100 anys : 1907–2007, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona 2007
Rodón, Joan: Sales de lectura de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, 1995.
Rodríguez Parada, Concepción: Los fondos patrimoniales de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, Firenze, 2010.

External links

 Official website
 The European Library

1907 establishments in Catalonia
Organizations established in 1907
Catalonia
Libraries in Barcelona
Libraries established in 1907
Buildings and structures in Barcelona
Tourist attractions in Barcelona
Education in Barcelona
Deposit libraries
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New education partnership is reframing feedback and how best to do it
Peer-to-peer interaction, bump-it-up walls and numbered flags are just some of the creative ways teachers are applying effective feedback in Australian classrooms to improve student-learning outcomes.
Now the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) and Evidence for Learning have partnered to produce new resources designed to support a whole-school approach to enhancing their feedback practices with students.
The new evidence-based materials are free to access from the AITSL website. They include a 'Spotlight' research summary, video and written case studies profiling schools already embracing effective feedback practice, and implementation and evaluation tools.
Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said the new feedback resources brought an important focus to the techniques and strategies being used to support students in class.
'It's widely acknowledged that the most important in-classroom factor that can help student performance is our teachers, and we want to ensure teachers have the right resources at their fingertips,' Minister Birmingham says.
'I'm pleased to see AITSL has brought together easy-to-use materials on effective feedback and the leading research on the topic, especially as we know high-quality feedback can improve student learning by up to eight months. It's materials like these that help our teachers cut through the hundreds of different opinions and pages of research sent their way – AITSL gives them an authoritative source of information.'
The materials have been developed by drawing upon global evidence and research-based approaches. They will help school leaders and teachers take action to enhance feedback practices in their setting, which in turn will boost learning outcomes for students.
AITSL Chair Professor John Hattie, a leading academic on feedback, said:
'While there is a wealth of evidence about the positive impact of providing effective feedback, there is very little easy-to-access information for educators on how best to implement it.'
'By equipping teachers and school leaders with a suite of assets to readily apply best-practice feedback across a school, we can support them to get the most out of the approach and ensure it has the maximum impact on learning,' he added.
Director of Evidence for Learning Matthew Deeble comments:
'The new resources draw on approaches from a number of Australian schools that are focusing on feedback to boost teaching and learning. These include using creative visual tools for students to signal their level of understanding to teachers and peer-to-peer feedback.
'Put simply, effective feedback is a low-cost, high-impact approach that can produce dramatic gains in learning outcomes. These assets will support teachers to make it work for their students.
'Materials like these support the goal of giving practical support to schools to implement effective approaches. It's helping to make our public investment in education more productive,' adds Mr Deeble.
The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) provides national leadership for the Australian, State and Territory Governments in promoting excellence in the profession of teaching and school leadership. AITSL is funded by the Australian Government.
Evidence for Learning (E4L) helps educators increase learning by improving the evidence of what works and why. The enterprise is an independent, non-profit, national and cross-sectoral evidence intermediary, focusing on building, sharing and encouraging the use of evidence. Evidence for Learning is incubated by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) with the support of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the Education Endowment Foundation (UK) as founding partners.
Feedback resources are one of several tools AITSL has developed to directly support the implementation of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (specifically Standard 3 – Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning, and Standard 5 – Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning).
They are available from https://www.aitsl.edu.au/teach/improve-practice/feedback


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World War 4 Report, November 8, 2005
Being a writer -or woman- still dangerous in Afghanistan
A woman poet Nadia Anjuman, 25, died in western city of Herat after being severely beaten by her husband.
By Bill Weinberg
A woman poet well-known in literary circles in Afghanistan's western city of Herat has died after being severely beaten by her husband, authorites report. Nadia Anjuman, 25, died late on Nov. 1, said provincial police chief Nisar Ahmad Paikar. "We have arrested her husband, accused of killing her," Paikar told AFP. The couple had a six-month-old daughter. Anjuman, a student at Herat university, had a first book of poetry printed this year. She was popular in Afghanistan and neighboring Iran.
Nadia Anjuman
The United Nations has condemned the killing. "The death of Nadia Anjuman, as reported, is indeed tragic and a great loss to Afghanistan," UN spokesman Adrian Edwards said at a media briefing. "It needs to be investigated and anyone found responsible needs to be dealt with in a proper court of law." (AFP via Pakistan Daily Times, Nov. 8; BBC, Nov. 6)
This appears indicative of the continuing vulnerability of women in Afghanistan. Ironically, Herat province had just witnessed the election of Fauzia Gailani, a women's rights campaigner and professional fitness instructor, to Afghanistan's parliament in an upset victory. Gailani, whose campaign posters "sold in a hormonally-charged secondary market," topped the ballot with nearly 17,000 votes and eclipsed powerful allies of the province's former ruler, warlord Ismail Khan. Results show that although female candidates failed to win more seats than the 68 reserved for them under the constitution, many would have been elected even with out the quota system. (India Daily, Oct. 24)
Gailani pledges to form Afghanistan's first women's party. "Women are not seen as human beings in Afghanistan, but like objects that people can sell, trade or buy," she says. "There are not enough rights for women in this country: they cannot study, they cannot work." She is particularly opposed to child marriage, which is common in Afghanistan. "I can talk about it: I was married at 12, I had my first child at 13, and I hated that," she says. (Sify, Nov. 5)
The results also confirmed a seat in the new parliament for another women's rights activist, Malalai Joya, from Farah province, who rose to prominence—and received death threats—when she dared to criticize feared warlords at the Loya Jirga two years ago. (Middle East Times, Oct. 17)
Even if Anjuman's death had more to do with being a woman than being a poet, we recently noted that writing is a pretty dangerous vocation in Afghanistan. Ditto being an editor.


They came back to the apartment in the early afternoon when they knew both the other students would be out. The apartment was cold. They undressed quickly and got into Patrick's bed. Now was the time. They clung together, shivering and giggling. Rose was doing the giggling. She felt a need to be continually playful. She was terrified that they would not manage it, that there was a great humiliation in store, a great exposure of their poor deceits and stratagems. But the deceits and stratagems were only hers. Patrick was never a fraud; he managed, in spite of gigantic embarrassment, apologies; he passed through some amazed panting and flounderings, to peace. Rose was no help, presenting instead of an honest passivity much twisting and fluttering eagerness, unpracticed counterfeit of passion.
She was pleased when it was accomplished; she did not have to counterfeit that. They had done what others did, they had done what lovers did. She thought of celebration. What occurred to her was something delicious to eat, a sundae at Boomers, apple pie with hot cinnamon sauce. She was not at all prepared for Patrick's idea, which was to stay where they were and try again.


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Dirt Fest 2013 Is Coming To Birch Run Saturday August 10th
Soaring Eagle Casino and Resorts present Dirt Fest. Now in its 16th year, is an unrivaled experience in the heart of Mid-Michigan. With performances from Clutch, Alien Ant Farm, Chiodos, All That Remains, Silverstein, Mayday Parade, Every Time I Die, In This Moment, Otherwise as well as Michigan born bands like Pop Evil and The Black Dahlia Murder and hundreds of others, Dirt Fest stays on the cutting edge of new talent while bringing the best established acts as well.
As a one day event, Dirt Fest boasts well over 50 acts of various genres over multiple outdoor stages at The Birch Run Expo Center every year. Banana 101.5 FM hosts Dirt Fest with promoters Matt Dalton and Andy Dalton. Founder Matt Dalton started the Dirt Fest as a small outdoor music party which quickly grew into Mid-Michigan's only long-running and large scale music festival of its kind which continues to reach a growing audience each year.
This year's artists include: Sevendust, Adam Gontier (formerly of Three Days Grace), Pop Evil, Escape The Fate, Asking Alexandria, Trapt, Red, Art of Dying, American Head Charge, Devour The Day, Parabelle, Blue Felix, Wilson, Crackjaw, Psychostick, Maybe Whitney, Hollywood Vampires, Givensix, It Lies Within, Saint Ridley, Beast In The Field, Rotation, Dismember The Fallen, Critical Bill, Hour 24, Subkultur3, Sydetrakt, Greta Van Fleet, Brody And The Busch Rd Trio, Blind Season, Mercy Beach, Drawn To Fury, Chaos Rains, Spork, Dead in 5, Underneath It All, Day Uno Familia.
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A museum JUST for kids where they can play, learn, explore, discover, have fun and just be themselves? Well, welcome to the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum!
All of the exhibits focus on early learning, science, music, art, community, and allow kids to develop those very important foundational skills!
The exhibits also ensure kids can spend their hours exploring, building, pretending, collaborating, and creating.
The Early Learning Junction is suited for kids up to 4 years of age, ensuring they are ready for their first days at school!
The Science Center is all about STEM, developing those and to make those connections with the world around them. There are exhibits on flight, rockets, magnetism, and building, it's here kids are encouraged to problem solve and collaborate!
Active kids will love the WonderDome too, which is an immersive play space featuring nine interactive sensory exhibits involving lights and color.
LOVE construction? Those future engineers and builders in the family should head to Imagination Playground! Using the big blue blocks, kids can build anything they like, from robots, to rocket ships, and even animals.
Tell Me A Story develops those literacy skills, and RiverTown is all about role play! Kids can create in the art studio, be a baker in the bakery, be a hero in the fire truck, and so much more in the Hudeon Valley kiddie town.
Many special events are held throughout the year celebrating any number of seasonal and cultural wonders, always aimed at families, so keep an eye out for those too!
Imaginative, creative and plenty of kid fun at the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, so let's get PLAYING!
The museum's entrance is facing the Hudson River, and offers both stairs and ramp to assist strollers and wheelchairs in accessing the museum's first floor.
Check out the fun events they host, including STEM and Pizza night and Family Free Night!
MHCM does not operate an indoor café, but they do have a vending machine with healthy and organic snacks.
You are welcome to bring your own snacks and beverages from home to enjoy in our indoor snack area, on the deck, or in the outdoor pavilion.
Children love field trips to the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum… and teachers love that MHCM field trips directly support classroom learning! They offers several educator facilitated programs that have been specifically designed to support NYS Learning Standards. Visits with programs also include plenty of time for your students to explore the museum exhibits.
Head to their Gift Shop and take the learning home with a discovery kit or special toy. Purchases can be made at the front desk.


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Goldberg still thinks Riddle's a *****, but he appreciates him now
By Sean Rueter@s1rude Aug 17, 2021, 1:00pm EDT
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Our last update on Riddle & Goldberg's relationship sounded really promising! But we may have gotten ahead of ourselves in declaring the former enemies "Bros".
Goldberg explains where things stand from his perspective in a new interview with DAZN. Asked about a potential match with Randy Orton's tag partner, the Hall of Famer makes it clear its not all sunshine & rainbows between Riddle & himself. But it does appear there's now detente in a situation that once seemed like a powder keg.
"The cocky kid [Riddle] spouting off his mouth in the beginning, and I didn't appreciate it very much by any stretch of the imagination. But the guy has put in a lot of frickin hard work and a lot of hard work, and he's dedicated his life to this business. Whether I like him as a human being or not, I have to understand and appreciate his passion for the business and his work ethic. Because he works hard and that I appreciate as an athlete and as a human. Is he a prick sometimes? Absolutely. But that's him. That's his character, and so am I."
We'll take it.
Goldberg also says he wants matches with John Cena & Roman Reigns, and talks about a number of other things, in his chat with DAZN. Check it out here.


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Search for Magical Solutions
Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally
캘리포니아대학교 산타크루스캠퍼스
4.2(31개의 평가) | 6.3K명의 학생이 등록함
In this short course you will explore the possibility that children might acquire written language in a way that is similar to how they acquire spoken language—without instruction. You will encounter various aspects of behavioral science and technology that are relevant to this proposition. You will have the opportunity to learn the the perceptual, cognitive, and neurological capacities of children during their first years of life. You will advance your understanding of children and how they learn language. You will also be more attuned to current advances in the technology of human machine interactions, and what these phenomena imply for learning to read at an early age.
4.2(31개의 평가)
It was a very interesting course that opened up my mind regarding early literacy in children. This new perspective could be a great start for further research on the topic.
The class was both fun and interesting. Thanks so much!
Week 3 Reading, Early Reading, and Technological Innovations
The nature of reading, reading myths, current approaches to teaching reading, demographics of literacy and illiteracy, and technological innovations.
Measuring Reading Skill6:24
How We Perceive Letters and Words9:22
Reading Words5:24
Search for Magical Solutions6:51
Testing Top-Down Influences6:59
Dr. Dominic William Massaro
[MUSIC] In the spirit of finding a magical solution, one could ask whether whole word shape, word length, and the first and last letters provides sufficient information for reading words. Only 9% of the thousand most frequent words in American English are uniquely defined by their first and last letters. Adding the number of letters in a word, increased this percentage to 40%. It should be noted, however, that word length isn't such an easy property to pick up given the difference in length of the letters and proportional spacing. Compare the words ill and wow, or lilly and women. Note that the five letter word, lilly, is not longer than the three letter word wow. When exterior letters, interior word shape, and word length are considered as features, 75% of the thousand most frequent words are uniquely described. At first glance, you might believe that three out of four times is not bad. Succeeding at this strategy, however, requires the reader to accurately recognize all three variables. This is not a trivial amount of processing to bypass a strategy, simply of recognizing the letters of the word. We have pursued a misguided endeavor, and conclude that readers must necessarily recognize words, based on the letters that make them up. In fact, there's evidence that the probability of identifying a word is a function of the probability of identifying each of it's individual letters. Although, there are no readily apparent shortcuts to successfully reading words, we have not yet accounted for the ease of word recognition. What is it about words that make them so easy to recognize by the expert reader? The primary reason is that we use multiple sources of information in domains of pattern recognition, such as reading. Many sources of non-visual information supplement the information from the letters. In our infamous paragraph, syntactic and semantic constraints facilitated its reading. We would have expected less skilled readers to have much more trouble with the paragraph, ostensibly because they have less of this top down knowledge. Another important source of information in word recognition is knowledge about the spelling orthography of the language. We call this information orthographic structure. Claude E. Shannon gave a formal description of orthographic structure. He was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer who founded information theory. It should be noted that orthographic structure refers to the constraints within the written language, independently of how the orthography predicts the pronunciation. This later metric is usually called spelling to sound correspondence. And languages can differ in the degree to which the orthography predicts pronunciation. As it's well known, English is notorious for its unpredictability. And spelling reform has more or less been continuously advocated, without success since written English began. The controversy and research on this topic are another story that must be postponed until another time. We saw earlier that neighboring letters can interfere with each other because of crowding. This occurs because fundamental visual processes. However, neighboring letters can also inform one another in the hands, or should I say eyes, of a knowledgeable reader. Consider the puzzle of guessing a word. This demonstration shows that leaders are capable of recognizing words based on partial information from the letters that make the words up. Where do readers get this information? They have read many, many words, and have learned about their statistical occurrences. It is possible to analyze large databases of text to determine these statistical regularities, and then ask, to what extent they are used by readers. Peter Norvik analyzed all of the words occurring in all of the books scanned by Google. Given this huge database, we now have a good measure of how letters occur in written English. One must feel relieved, that only slightly less than 100,000 words, were found in over 743 trillion words. The graph shows the frequency of occurrence of single letters. As expert scrabble players can attest, it is instructive that there is such a disparity in the occurrence of letters, with the letter E occurring about 139 times more often than the letter Z. In reading, however, this base rate frequency may not be important. Most likely, we can expect that a good statistical measure of the orthography will include both letter patterns, and their position in words. In addition, we can expect the statistical predictability of letter patterns to be greater at the beginning, and at the end of words, rather than in the middle. The graphic shows frequent letter patterns in initial and final position of words. Many of these patterns are frequent in initial position, but not in final position, and vice versa. [MUSIC]


Philanthropist, social entrepreneur, field builder, and the "Janie Appleseed" of women's philanthropy Tracy Gary of the Bay area today received the Shaw-Hardy Taylor Achievement Award from the Women's Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
The Shaw-Hardy Taylor Achievement Award recognizes philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, volunteers, change agents, fundraisers and researchers who have moved women's philanthropy forward and have demonstrated significant impact on the field. The award was presented today during WPI's symposium, DREAM. DARE. DO. in Chicago.
Gary has been at the center of developments in women's philanthropy and the broader philanthropic landscape for four decades. She helped start the Women's Foundation of California in 1979-1980, one of the first locally based women's funds in the country; and several donor networks including the Women's Funding Network, Women Donors Network, and Women Moving Millions. Gary has been a staunch leader of the donor education field and created her first of 23 nonprofits, Resourceful Women, to teach women about money and philanthropy.
Seeking to reach a broad and diverse audience, Gary published the first edition of Inspired Philanthropy in 1998. Now in its third edition, Inspired Philanthropy continues to be a principal resource to help people think intentionally and strategically about their charitable giving.
Throughout her career, Gary has helped inheritors think intentionally and strategically about philanthropy. An inheritor herself, Gary is related to the Pillsbury family through her mother and to GTE through her stepfather. She inherited about $1.3 million at the age of 21 and learned early on that the inheritance came with obligations. Her mother told her to volunteer and to give away 10 percent of what she earned. She has exceeded those expectations exponentially and helped build the field of women's philanthropy in the process.