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Antarctic Ice Sheet – Mass Balance from 1992 to 2017
According to the IMBIE Team the Antarctic Ice Sheet is an important indicator of climate change and a sea level rise driver. In this paper satellite observations of the changing volume of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, flow and gravitational attraction with modelling of its surface mass balance shows that it lost 2,720 ± 1,390 billion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2017, which corresponds to a mean sea level increase of 7.6 ± 3.9 mm (errors are 1 standard deviation). Rates of the loss of ice from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has increased from 53 ± 29 billion to 159 ± 26 billion tonnes per year as a result of ocean-driven melting over this period and ice shelf collapse has increased the rate of ice loss from the Antarctic Peninsula from 7 ± 13 billion to 33 ± 16 billion tonnes per year. It was found by the IMBIE Team that large variations in and among the estimates of models of surface mass balance and for East Antarctica, glacial isostatic adjustments with its average rate of mass gain over the period 1992-2017 (5 ± 44 billion tonnes per year) being the least certain.
Enough water is held in the Antarctic ice sheets to raise global sea level by 58 m (Fretwell et al., 2013). Ice is channeled to the oceans through a network of glaciers and ice streams (Rignot, Mouginot & Scheuchl, 2011), each of which has a substantial catchment (Zwally, Giovinetto, Beckley and Saba, 2012). Fluctuations of the mass of grounded ice sheets arise due to differences between the net accumulation of snow at the surface, meltwater runoff and the discharge of ice into the ocean. Reductions in the thickness (Shepherd, 2010) and extent (Cook & Vaughn) of floating ice shelves have disturbed the flow of inland ice flow, and this has triggered retreat (Rignot et al., 2014; Konrad et al., 2018), acceleration (Joughin et al., 2002; Rignot et al., 2004) and drawdown (Shepherd, Wingham & Mansley, 2002; Scambos et al., 2002) of many ice streams that terminate at the ocean. There have been various techniques that have been developed to measure ice sheet mass changes, based on satellite observations of their speed (Rignot & Thomas, 2003), volume (Wingham et al., 1998) and gravitational attraction (Velicogna & Wahr, 2006) combines with modelled surface mass balance (SMB) (van Wessem et al., 2018) and glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA; the ongoing vertical movement of land associated with ice load changes) (King et al., 2012). There have been more than 150 assessments of the loss of ice from Antarctica based on these approaches (Briggs et al., 016) since 1989. It was demonstrated by the inter-comparison of 12 such estimates (Shepherd et al., 2012) that the 3 principal satellite techniques provide similar results at continental scale and, lead, when combined, to an estimated loss of mass of 71± 53 billion tonnes of ice per year (Gt yr-1) averaged over the period 1992-2011 (errors are 1 standard deviation unless otherwise stated). In this paper the assessment has been extended to include twice as many studies, which doubles the overlap period and extends the record to 2017.
Satellite Observations
According to the IMBIE Team they collated 24 estimates that were derived independently of ice sheet mass balance that had been determined in the period 1992-2017 and were based on the techniques of satellite altimetry (7 estimates), gravimetry (15 estimates) or the input-output method (2 estimates). The computation involved a total of 24, 24 and 23 estimates of mass change within defined geographical limits (Zwally, Giovinetto, Beckley & Saba, 2012; Rignot, Mouginot & Scheuchl, 2011) for the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIC), WAIS and Antarctic Peninsular Ice Sheet (APIS), respectively. The rates of mass change of ice sheets were compared over common intervals of time (Shepherd et al.,2012). The rates of ice sheet mass balance was then averaged using the same class of satellite observations to produce time series of mass change that were independent of technique in each geographical region. The uncertainty in the annual mass rate was computed within each class as the mean uncertainty of the individual contributions. The final reconciled estimated ice sheet mass change was computed for each region as the mean of the values that are dependent on the technique that are available for each epoch. The IMBIE Team assumed that the errors for each technique are independent in computing the associated uncertainty. In order to estimate the cumulative mass change and its uncertainty, estimates for each ice sheet were integrated and the annual uncertainty was weighted by 1/√n, where n is the number of years since the start of each time series. Mass trends of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) were computed as the linear sum of the regional trends and the uncertainties in the mass trends as the root-sum-square of the regional uncertainties.
Trends in Antarctic ice sheet mass
The disagreement level between individual estimates of the mass balance of ice sheets increases with the area of each region of the ice sheet, the average standard deviations per epoch being
· APIS 11 billion tonnes of ice per year,
· WAIS 21
· EAIS 37
Gravimetric estimates are the most abundant among the techniques, and are also the most closely aligned, though in East Antarctica their spread increases, where the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment remains poorly constrained (Bentley et al., 2014) is at its least uncertain when integrated spatially (Peltier, 2004; Wahr & Zhong, 2013; Sasgen et al., 2013; Peltier, Argus & Drummond, 2015; King, Whitehouse & van der Wal, 2016; Whitehouse et al., 2012; Spada, Melini & Colleoni, 2015; Konrad, Sasgen, Pollard & Klemann, 2015; Briggs, Pollard & Tarasov, 2014; Ivins & James, 2005; Ivins et al., 2013; Nield et al., 2014), because of the vast extent of the region. Solutions that are based on satellite altimetry, and the input-output method that is run for the full record is roughly twice the duration of the gravimetry time series. Though most (59%) estimates are within 1 standard deviation of the technique-dependent mean, and a few (6%) depart by more than 3 standard deviations.
For the Antarctic Peninsula, the 25-year average rate of mass balance is -20 ± 15 billion tonnes per year, with an increase of about 15 billion tonnes per year that has been lost since 2000. In West Antarctica the strongest signal and trend has occurred, where mass loss rates increased from 53 ± 29 to 159 ± 26 billion tonnes per year over the period between the first and final 5 years of the survey by the IMBIE Team; the largest of the increases occurred during the late 2000s when there was an acceleration of the discharge of ice from the Amundsen Sea sector (Mouginot, Rignot & Scheuchl, 2014). These regional losses are both driven by reductions in the thickness and extent of floating ice shelves, and this has triggered the retreat, acceleration and drawdown of glaciers that terminate at the ocean (Shepherd, Fricker & Farrell, 2018). East Antarctica is where the least certain result was obtained, where the average 25-year mass trend is 5 ± 46 billion tonnes per year. The Antarctic Ice Sheet, overall, lost 2,720 ± 1,390 billion tonnes per year between 1992 and 2017, which is an average rate of 109 ± 56 Billion tonnes per year.
Surface mass balance
An essential component of the input-output method is knowledge of the Surface Mass Balance of the icesheet, which subtracts the discharge of solid ice from the net accumulation of snow, and aids in the interpretation of mass trends that are derived from satellite altimetry and Gravimetry. The main driver of temporal and spatial variability in the Antarctic Ice Sheet surface mass change (Boening et al., 2012; Medley et al., 2018) is snowfall. Though locally important, spatially integrated sublimation and runoff of melt water are typically 1 and 2 orders of magnitude smaller, respectively. The Surface Mass Balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is usually taken from the atmospheric models in the absence of maps that are observationally based, evaluated with observations that are remotely sensed and in situ (van Wessem et al., 2018; Favier et al., 2013; van de Berg & Medley, 2016; Palerme et al., 2017; Van Wessem et al., 2014). The IMBIE Team compared 2 global reanalysis products (JRA55 and ERA-Interim) and 2 regional climate models (RACMO2 and MARv3.6) in order to assess the Antarctic Surface Mass Balance. The best performing reanalysis product over Antarctica is usually regarded to be ERA-Interim, albeit with a dry bias in the interior and overestimated rain fraction (Palerme et al. 2017; Bromwich, Nicolas & Monaghan, 2011; Behrangi et al., 2016). Accumulation rates that are averaged spatially peak at the Antarctic Peninsula, and are roughly 3 times lower in West Antarctica and roughly 7 times lower in East Antarctica. Values are given by the regional climate models of 4.7% higher and the reanalysis 7% lower. According to the INBIE Team these differences can be attributed to the higher resolution of the regional models, which resolve the steep coastal precipitation gradients in greater detail and to their improved representation of the polar processes. In all products the temporal variability is similar and they all agree that there is an absence of a trend that is ice sheet wide in the Surface Mass Balance over the period 1979-2017, which implies that the recent loss of mass from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is dominated by increased discharge of solid ice into the ocean.
Glacial isostatic adjustment
The method used to correct for Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (King et al., 2012) strongly influences the gravimetric estimates (Peltier, 2004; Peltier, Argus & Drummond, 2015; Whitehouse et al., 2012; Ivins & James, 2005; Ivins et al., 2013; Shepherd, Fricker & Farrell, 2018). There were also 9 continent-wide forward-model simulations and 2 regional simulations that were assessed in this study to understand better uncertainties in the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment signal; the gravimetry estimates of mass balance were reprocessed using W12a (White et al., 2012) and IJO5_r2 (31) Glacial Isostatic Adjustment models for comparison with earlier work (Shepherd et al., 2012). Across Antarctica the net gravitational effect is positive, and the mean and standard deviation of the continent-wide Glacial Isostatic Adjustment models (54 ± 18 billion tonnes per year is very close to that of W12a (56 ± 27 billion tonnes per year) and IJO5_R2 (55± 13 billion tonnes per year) models. The difficulty of quantifying the timing and extent of past ice sheet change and the absence of lateral variations in Earth rheology within some models (van der Wal, Whitehouse & Schrama, 2015), is probably a reflection of the narrow spread. In areas where the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment is a substantial component of the regional mass change, such as the Amundsen, Ross and Filchner-Ronne sectors of West Antarctica, though it is also the area of greatest variability (e.g. standard deviation of more than 10 mm/yr in the Amundsen sector, the models predict the greatest rates of solid Earth uplifts (on average, 5-7 mm/yr). There is a low variance among the models and broad agreement with the GPS observations (Martín-Español et al., 2016), away from areas of large Glacial Isostatic Adjustment signals. Most models that are considered in this study, nevertheless, do not account for ice sheet change over the past few thousand years, as it is not well known. Gravimetric calculations (Caron et al., 2018) can also be biased by inaccurate treatment of low degree harmonics that are associated with the global Glacial Isostatic Adjustment signal. If a transient component that is associated with recent ice sheet change is included in the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment signal, it will bias the mass trend estimates and should be accounted for in future work.
It is still possible that assessments in ice sheet mass balance can be achieved. A powerful tool for evaluating models of Surface Mass Balance and compaction of firn over large spatial (thousands of kilometres) and temporal (centennial) scales is airborne snow radar (Medley et al., 2014; Lewis et al., 2017), as well as the ice cores that have been used traditionally (Thomas et al., 2017). Glacial Isostatic Adjustment models are enabled to be scrutinised and calibrated by geological constraints of the ice sheet history (Bentley et al., 2014) and GPS measurement of contemporary uplift (Martín-Español et al., 2016; Thomas et al., 2011). The IMBIE Team suggest more of these types of datasets are needed, especially in East Antarctica. The spread of models such as Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Surface Mass Balance should be evaluated in concert with the satellite gravimetry, altimetry and velocity measurements, given their apparent diversity. The imbalance that is present in the current record would be addressed by a reassessment of the satellite measurements that were acquired during the 1990s. Alternative techniques (e.g. Wahr, Wingham & Bentley, 2000) for combining satellite datasets should be explored, and satellite measurements with common temporal sampling should be contrasted. The mass balance of the ice sheet record should now be separated into continuations due to short term fluctuations in in Surface Mass Balance and to trends on longer terms in glacier ice. Continued satellite observations are essential, as well as these improvements.
Shepherd, A., et al. (2018). "Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017." Nature 558(7709): 219-222.


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ACEP Provides Feedback on New Emergency Medicine Cost Measure
As I discussed in a recent Regs & Eggs blog post, the first, and only, emergency medicine cost measure is in the process of being developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractor, Acumen. A key step in the development process is the "Field Testing" period, where emergency physicians like you can download feedback reports that tell you how you and your groups would have performed on the cost measure relative to the national average based on Medicare spending data from 2019.
I spent the last blog post highlighting the role ACEP has played thus far in the development of the measure (including having members serve on an expert panel providing direct input to Acumen) as well as the importance of having a reliable cost measure for emergency medicine. However, I want to reiterate again that you should try to download your feedback report and provide input to Acumen and CMS through an online survey. Acumen and CMS are looking for feedback on two topics: the measure itself (how it's structured and what services are included or excluded) and the format of the feedback report and the experience you had accessing and reviewing it. The deadline for providing feedback is Friday (February 25), but the American Medical Association (AMA) along with ACEP and a few other specialty societies have formally asked for an extension due to the recent COVID-19 surge.
Here are some of the important links to help you with Field Testing Process:
Background Information on Field Testing Process from CMS
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While we are trying to get Acumen and CMS to provide you additional time to download and review your feedback reports and provide input via the survey, the deadline at this point is still Friday, February 25. Therefore, on behalf of our emergency physician members, ACEP did submit overarching comments on the emergency medicine cost measure through the survey earlier this week. Highlights of our comments are found below, but please feel free to reach out to us if you would like additional information to help inform your individual comments.
As a reminder, the draft emergency medicine cost measure represents the costs of an episode of care that is initially triggered by a visit to the emergency department (ED). The measure first identifies the emergency physician or group who initially treated the patient and billed an ED evaluation and management (E/M) service. Once the episode is triggered, the measure covers the total cost of certain services for a 30-day period. The measure is stratified into 28 different high-volume ED conditions.
It is important to note that the measure covers both services delivered in and out of the ED during the 30-day period. Acumen and CMS have tried to already exclude some services that are not clinically related to initial ED visit or that cannot be influenced or impacted by the emergency clinician who triggered the episode. Finally, the cost measure is risk adjusted to take different factors outside the control of the emergency physician into account, including patients' pre-existing conditions, age, and clinical severity.
ACEP provided comments both on the measure itself and on the layout of the Field Testing report and the ability to access and review it. With respect to the construct of the measure, ACEP had the following four overarching comments:
"Table 2" of the Field Testing report lists out all the types of services that could be included in the episode. As stated earlier, Acumen and CMS already removed some services that could not influenced by the emergency physician. However, ACEP still feels that there are some services included in the measure that emergency physicians cannot control. These include certain imaging services (such as radiation oncology services), inpatient rehabilitation or Long-Term Care Hospital services, dialysis services, ambulance services, and chemotherapy and other Medicare Part B covered drugs. Including the costs of these services in the measure would cause the measure to be an inaccurate reflection of the cost of emergency care. We therefore ask Acumen and CMS to exclude these services from the measure.
ACEP strongly believes that the length of the episode, 30 days, is too long. Such a long period results in the measure including services and costs that are beyond the scope of the initial emergency visit. For example, we do not believe that the cost for procedures (outpatient surgery) should be attributed to the emergency physician who bills the initial emergency department (ED) evaluation and management (E/M) service. We therefore strongly recommend that that this period be cut back to SEVEN DAYS. This cutoff is consistent with published work which demonstrates that only 1 in 5 ED revisits within 30 days are related to the initial ED visit (specifically, that 77 percent should be classified as new index episodes), and a majority of related ED revisits occur within seven days.
Decreasing the length of the episode to seven days would also negate the need for so many exclusions in the measure. ACEP found that a large component of the variation in the cost of episodes is driven by spending for post-acute care services among patients who are admitted, which, again, are not controlled by emergency physicians. If Acumen and CMS shortened the period to seven days, these services would probably not be included to begin with and therefore would not need to be excluded. Overall, shortening the time period would increase the likelihood that the cost measure is truly attributable to emergency physicians, which increases accountability and the potential for emergency physicians to reduce avoidable costs in each episode.
ACEP strongly recommends that Acumen and CMS bifurcate costs associated with patients who are admitted with costs for those who are discharged. Although Acumen and CMS have made it clear in the development process that they want to include costs from both admitted and discharged patients in the measure, they must recognize the significant clinical differences and cost variation between patients who are admitted versus those who are discharged and build that into their methodology. Furthermore, the costs associated with post-acute care (care received in a skilled nursing facility or home health care) after an inpatient stay are significant—but should not be attributed to emergency physicians. With respect to skilled nursing facility stays specifically, emergency physicians can never directly admit Medicare beneficiaries to skilled nursing facilities due to the "Three-day Rule" (this Medicare rule requires Medicare beneficiaries to have a three-day inpatient stay in order to receive services from a skilled nursing facility).
The largest cost-affecting decision made by an emergency physician is the admission decision. In other words, the most potential for cost savings and therefore the largest opportunity to change an emergency physicians' cost profile is at the point when he or she decides to admit or not admit a patient.
The majority of the costs for admitted patients are from hospital inpatient and post-acute services. According to Table 2 of the Field Testing Report, average costs for inpatient services are around $10,000 per episode and post-acute services around $5,000. Conversely, if patients are discharged and only receive ED services and other outpatient services, the total costs are just over $1,000—a fraction of the cost of admitted patients. Thus, if admitted patients are lumped in with discharged patients, there would be a significant disincentive to admit too many acutely ill patients. While Acumen and CMS' risk adjustment methodology can account for some of this variation, we do not believe that any level of risk adjustment can fully reflect the patient acuity differences between admitted and discharged patients. In all, ACEP again strongly recommends that Acumen and CMS find some approach to stratify these two populations.
Finally, ACEP recommends that Acumen and CMS also stratify the measure based on the size of the hospital, hospital type (critical access hospital or traditional hospital), and ED volume. These factors can significantly impact the total cost of care. For example, some smaller, rural hospitals cannot handle all inpatient cases and may transfer admitted patients in need of inpatient services to other facilities on a routine basis. Therefore, these hospitals' cost profiles would be biased and vary significantly from other hospitals, and the measure must take that into account.
On the issue of accessing and reviewing the Field Testing reports, ACEP did note in our survey response that we have heard from some of our members that they had difficulty accessing their group's field test report. It was also difficult to figure out the appropriate person responsible for pulling the reports and whether they should use the group or individual report for feedback.
Now, what happens once the Field Testing process ends? Remember, the ultimate goal is for the measure to be incorporated into the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and the emergency medicine MIPS Value Pathway (MVP) that CMS approved for MIPS reporting. If Acumen and CMS keep the deadline at Friday (February 25), the next step is for Acumen and the expert panel to reconvene in March to review the input received during the Field Testing period and consider whether or not they need to make any changes to the emergency medicine cost measure and/or the cost measure feedback report. Obviously, based on our major comments stated above, we do hope that Acumen and CMS make some changes to the measure. Once the measure has been finalized by Acumen and CMS, it will go through an extensive endorsement and approval process, most likely starting with the Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) review process. The MAP is a public-private partnership convened by The National Quality Forum (NQF) that provides multi-stakeholder input to CMS on performance measures (including cost measures). CMS also must officially propose the measure in the annual Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Quality Payment Program (QPP) proposed regulation, receive and incorporate any public comments from the reg's 60-day public comment period, and then finalize the measure in the PFS and QPP final reg.
That is indeed many steps! Given the extensive process the cost measure goes through before it is finalized, it may not be incorporated into the MIPS program or the emergency medicine MVP until 2024—although the exact timeline is a bit unclear at this point. I will definitely keep you updated as the cost measure is further refined and goes through the various steps of the approval process.
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Q: Why does one of my Docker containers not start automatically on machine boot? I have two Docker containers, one to run a Jenkins instance, and one to run YouTrack. Their respective starting scripts look like the following:

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*Jenkins: docker run --name jenkins_master --restart on-failure -p 8080:8080 -p 50000:50000 -v /home/ci/jenkins_home/:/var/jenkins_home -d jenkins:latest

*YouTrack: docker run --name youtrack --restart on-failure -p 8081:80 -v /home/ci/youtrack/data/:/opt/youtrack/data/ -v /home/ci/youtrack/backup/:/opt/youtrack/backup -d uniplug/youtrack
As you can see, nothing special, some port mapping and some -v.
I would like them to start running when I boot up the PC. The Docker documenation says "Docker provides restart policies to control whether your containers start automatically when they exit, or when Docker restarts."
As Docker "restarts" when I boot up my machine, I assumed both containers to run on boot due to --restart on-failure. But only Jenkins starts to run on port 8080, I have to manually start YouTrack when I reboot my machine.
How can I avoid manually starting the container?

A: When you reeboot your PC, what the docker daemon does is try to stop the running containers. This is like running docker stop on all running container, and this is what happens (taken from here):

When you issue a docker stop command Docker will first ask nicely for
  the process to stop and if it doesn't comply within 10 seconds it will
  forcibly kill it. If you've ever issued a docker stop and had to wait
  10 seconds for the command to return you've seen this in action
The docker stop command attempts to stop a running container first by
  sending a SIGTERM signal to the root process (PID 1) in the container.
  If the process hasn't exited within the timeout period a SIGKILL
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Adele long jams with friends for 2-hour set at intimate Washington show
While Grammy-winning singer Adele has performed for thousands of her adoring fans around the world, the ethereal pop songstress delivered a self-referential, self-penned affair for which she also served as director. "30," an acoustic…
While Grammy-winning singer Adele has performed for thousands of her adoring fans around the world, the ethereal pop songstress delivered a self-referential, self-penned affair for which she also served as director.
"30," an acoustic set with only her band and two backup singers, came in at a whopping 2 hours and 30 minutes, according to the BBC, but it was an experience for many of the 700 or so people in attendance.
Billboard couldn't help but compare Adele to, well, a musical Adele. "Achingly smooth at times, like her singing, another classic performance from a performer who's come to embody the phrase 'once in a generation'," wrote Jackson Nolan. "A truly incredible set," wrote Steve Baltin. "25's recording sound here, and with all but six of the songs recorded live, they were lush, solemn, rich and certain to put you in headlong emotional states that weren't always immediately accessible," Jordan Schultz wrote for Rolling Stone.
Rolling Stone's Andy Greene even joked: "She's got a sense of humor about herself."
Adele then retreated into the crowd to cuddle with her dog for "Til It Happens to You," according to The New York Times, and skipped around for a bit to give fans a peek at the live staging for her next studio album "A Discovery."
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Q: How to copy URL of an open chrome session OR How to make selenium iteract with an open chrome session During the automation a third party server (Legedo - Powerdocs - OpenText) will be started and this one is not supported from my Siebel UI.
I was using perl to controll this third party, i stopped since perl needs physicall screnns.
My questions are  :
1 - How to copy / Extract the URL of this open session and re-use it on python  selenium script?
2 - How to make selenium interract with this open session ?
Note :
1- the third party generates a new URl after each start .
2 - Google Chrome

A: Fixed using some basics of pyautogui to copy the url:
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Solomon Lew pressures Myer to release first-quarter sales
Sue MitchellSenior Reporter
Updated Oct 31, 2018 — 4.27pm, first published at 12.50pm
Premier Investments chairman Solomon Lew is keeping up the pressure on Myer, calling on the beleaguered retailer to release first-quarter sales so shareholders are fully informed before the annual meeting.
In his second attack on Myer in the space of a week, Mr Lew demanded it release sales for the three months ending October 27 immediately, so shareholders could assess the retailer's new "customer-first" strategy before they voted on the remuneration report and the re-election of directors at the AGM on November 30.
Myer, which has a July year end, has previously released first-quarter sales at its annual meeting. However, it said in May it would no longer provide quarterly sales updates, mirroring Wesfarmers' move away from quarterly reporting.
Solomon Lew wants to oust the Myer board and appoint three of his own nominees. jmarlow@oculi.com.au
"The upcoming AGM is extremely important and, in fact, may be a pivotal moment in the history of Myer," Mr Lew said in a letter on Wednesday.
"Yet the Myer board has indicated that it will not be providing quarterly sales numbers to the market.
"Premier believes it is now critical that Myer shareholders are fully informed in relation to how the business is currently performing by immediately providing its first-quarter sales results and profit forecast to the market."
Myer reiterated on Wednesday that it would not longer release quarterly sales but was well aware of its periodic and continuous disclosure obligations and would update the market on its trading position when it was required to do so.
Mr Lew said sales information and other key metrics were no doubt being provided monthly to Myer's bankers, who recently took security over Myer's assets after agreeing to refinance a $400 million bank facility, extending the maturity until February 2021.
"If the information is key to the banks' assessment of their position, it is equally relevant to the shareholders, suppliers, employees and landlords who have a similar need to assess their positions and futures within Myer," Mr Lew said.
Myer's new chief executive John King continues to rebuild his management team after more than 30 departures over the past few months.
"Given the ongoing revelations of the royal commission into the major banks, it would be disappointing to see the big banks being given such preferential treatment over the interests of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Australians.
"How can Myer stop providing information to the market at the same time as handing it over to its banks?
"How can Myer shareholders be kept in the dark ahead of a crucial vote, when Myer's bankers have all the information in front of them?"
Value slump
Premier bought a 10.8 per cent stake in Myer in March last year at $1.15 a share, or $100 million, and has seen the value of its investment fall by 60 per cent.
Mr Lew claims Premier was misled and wants to oust the Myer board and appoint three of his own nominees.
"This is the only way that shareholders could eventually see the formerly once great retail icon become potentially successful with its current management structure," Mr Lew said.
Meanwhile, Myer's new chief executive John King continues to rebuild his management team after more than 30 departures over the past few months.
Mr King has appointed a well-known marketing industry veteran, Geoff Ikin, as chief customer officer, a new role that brings together customer-facing functions including online, marketing and advertising.
Mr Ikin was most recently general manager for global media and public relations for Tourism Australia and has previously worked at Westpac (head of mass media, advertising and agency management) and David Jones (marketing and program manager).
"Geoff's career has been all about the customer," Mr King said. "Through this new structure, he will ensure that we continue to build and grow our multi-channel offering including our Myer One loyalty program, as well as delivering the best possible marketing and advertising to promote our brands and offers to our customers."
Myer shares rose 1.5 per cent to 46.7¢ on Wednesday.
Premier Investments
Sue Mitchell is a senior companies reporter and writes about retail, consumer products and fast moving consumer goods. Connect with Sue on Twitter. Email Sue at suemitchell@afr.com


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Expanding hospital-based innovation hubs to promote 'what if' solutions
PEORIA, Ill., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Most people in their daily jobs don't see themselves as innovators and that's certainly the case with OSF HealthCare Mission Partners (employees). But the Peoria, Illinois-based Catholic integrated health system is working to change that by expanding hospital-based innovation hubs.
OSF Innovation Senior Vice President Becky Buchen says frontline caregivers are living those challenges every day, so it makes sense to tap them for solutions.
"When you really start to leverage the ideas that they have, because they're at the front line of care, they're seeing the challenges that are being faced every day, whether it's by our patients or their fellow Mission Partners, and then bringing forward those ideas really starts to advance that innovative culture. Then they build on each other's ideas and that really supports the transformation of health care."
Buchen says experts in the division she oversees researched and found a platform called Ideawake – to solicit and vet possible solutions to pressing issues facing caregivers and patients. Buchen says the platform provides a safe space that makes it easy and fun to crowdsource ideas.
"You start out with a problem that you want to solve, but then it acts very much like a social media platform. So I can bring forward my ideas. Other people can vote up my ideas or add to my ideas, and that starts to build great excitement. It's a very intuitive platform; very easy to use so it's not intimidating."
Zack VanKeulen is the director of Emergency Services for OSF HealthCare Saint Paul Medical Center in Mendota, two hours southwest of Chicago, Illinois. VanKeulen was a finalist for the first Trailblazer Challenge launched at a hospital-based hub in the I-80 region.
VanKeulen says even if the solution he pitched in a 'Shark Tank' style presentation isn't fully developed, the experience was worth the effort. He enjoyed the coaching sessions available through Ideawake and gained useful skills along the way.
"You learn about things outside of health care, like software design and coding and the amount of money and resources it takes to create some of these apps. And those things may not be possible, so you have to bite off a smaller piece than you originally thought was possible. But in the end, if you can innovate and make a change that positively impacts the patient's experience, then it's a win-win situation," says VanKeulen.
OSF Saint Paul Medical Center President Dawn Trompeter was an early champion of innovation hubs. For the Trailblazer Challenge, leaders solicited solutions for improving processes when patients are discharged from the hospital. The best solutions, will get support for development, testing, and could potentially be rolled out to other OSF hospitals or clinics.
Trompeter explains, "If the pilot is successful and increasing those experiences for our patients, then that's something we can spread across our entire market region and then across the Ministry to enhance our patient experience across the entire health system."
The hub has a designated space but also houses mobile, virtual reality (VR) headsets that can be used for patient or provider education. For example, Trompeter says a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be immersed in their own body to view their lungs in 3D.
"That's just one example. It could be for diabetes, it could be a number of different things, but really engaging our patients in their own health care and helping them understand in layman's terms, really what happens and what their diagnosis may be about or how they may be able to help keep themselves healthy through that (seeing the impact)."
Innovation hubs can provide cost-savings and help ensure hospitals continue to operate in challenging times. Buchen says they can also be an economic engine for communities, particularly if a solution – a product or process – is commercialized. The best ideas emerging from the hubs will get support from OSF Innovation, based at the Jump Simulation & Education Center in Peoria. The center is home to experts such as data scientists, engineers, performance improvement and legal specialists among others.
"It might be that we need to better understand the data. It might be that we take a deeper dive into the process as we transform the ideas they're bringing forward. It may be that the idea they brought forward is something so unique that we need to make sure that we have the intellectual property protected for them," according to Buchen.
VanKeulen agrees the best way to transform health care is from the inside out, and having support is important because those engaged in it every day care deeply and want to improve patients' experience.
"You hear the general public saying that the health care system is broken. So this is members of the health care system, Mission Partners from OSF, trying to make that repair that's so desperately needed in our country today."
OSF HealthCare is also a major backer of Distillery Labs, a downtown Peoria-based innovation hub that is part of the Illinois Innovation Network. The health care system with 15 hospitals in Illinois and Michigan was also a founding member of the Discovery Partners Institute which empowers people to jumpstart their tech careers or companies in Chicago.
OSF HealthCare is an integrated health system owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. OSF HealthCare employs nearly 24,000 Mission Partners in 150 locations, including 15 hospitals – 10 acute care, five critical access – with 2,089 licensed beds, and two colleges of nursing throughout Illinois and Michigan. The OSF HealthCare physician network employs more than 1,500 primary care, specialist and advanced practice providers. OSF HealthCare, through OSF Home Care Services, operates an extensive network of home health and hospice services. It also owns Pointcore, Inc., comprised of health care-related businesses; OSF HealthCare Foundation, the philanthropic arm for the organization; and OSF Ventures, which provides investment capital for promising health care innovation startups. More at osfhealthcare.org.
OSF Innovation was launched in 2016 and includes a multidisciplinary team that inspires, mentors and partners to transform care for patients and providers. With expertise in everything from ideation to commercialization, the division designs agile solutions, connecting everyday needs with inventive approaches and bold advances.
Additional assets, including photos and videos are available on the OSF Newsroom.
Contacts: Colleen Reynolds | Media Relations Coordinator, OSF HealthCare | cell: (309) 825-7255
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Q: incompatibility issue between scikit-learn 0.24.1 and scikit-optimize 0.8.1 I have scikit-learn 0.24.1 and scikit-optimize 0.8.1, when I tried to use the BayesSearchCV function it gave me this error:
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'iid'

when I searched it turned out that the 'iid' is deprecated in the new scikit-learn, any suggestions to solve this problem?

A: I've also encountered the same issue, and I found that scikit-learn has deprecated the iid param. Temporarily,  I have downgraded the scikit-learn version to <= 0.23.2 , and it solved my problem.
You can downgrade it using : pip install 'scikit-learn==0.23.2' or lower.

A: As it says here, 'iid' is deprecated:
https://github.com/scikit-optimize/scikit-optimize/issues/978


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CALIFORNIA — In an update to Asbestos Case Tracker's previous post, the court reversed and remanded this matter ordering a new entry of judgment holding the plaintiffs' economic and noneconomic damages jointly and severally liable against CertainTeed Corporation (defendant). At the trial level, a jury previously returned a verdict on economic damages in the amount of $776,201 against defendant. The verdict also included $9.25 million in noneconomic damages which was apportioned to defendant at 62 percent with the remaining to other joint tortfeasors. The…
Covil Corp. Seeks to Overturn $33 Million Verdict in North Carolina U.S. District Court. for the Middle District of North Carolina, November 19, 2018
Appeal Damages North Carolina Punitive Damages Verdict
Gregory M. McNamee
NORTH CAROLINA — In October, the plaintiff, Ann Finch, prevailed against Covil Corp. in a mesothelioma case involving her husband's workplace exposure at Firestone. Covil made asbestos insulation that Mr. Finch worked around daily while changing molds on tire presses. The plaintiffs were awarded $32.7 million by the jury, which found that Covil failed to warn Mr. Finch that there was asbestos present in the insulation and that it posed a hazard to his health. Covil has filed a motion to overturn the verdict or,…
Special Master's Recommendation Vacated; Order Permitting Limited Discovery of Co-Defendants to Establish Apportionment Granted
The defendant John Crane (JCI) has been granted limited discovery of co-defendants to establish apportionment of fault. JCI's request had been denied by the Special Master. However, JCI argued that the Case Management Order (CMO) placed it in an unfair position for trial. The CMO encouraged defendants to use depositions in asbestos litigation from other defendants and permitted a second deposition by stipulation or permission only. According to JCI, these constraints made it impossible for JCI to meet its burden of proof at trial with…
California Appellate Court Defines Scope of Damages Recoverable in Survival Action California Court of Appeal, First District, August 23, 2018
California Damages
CALIFORNIA — The First District of the California Court of Appeal addressed numerous issues in a case involving exposure to friction products used during personal automotive repair. The family of decedent, J.D. Williams, filed suit in January 2011 after his July 2010 death from mesothelioma. The plaintiffs asserted claims for wrongful death, strict liability and negligence. The defendant, Pep Boys, was not named in the lawsuit until an amended complaint was filed on December 6, 2012. The trial court granted Pep Boys' motion for judgment…
Admission into Evidence of Testimony and Answers to Discovery of Settled Defendants Leads to New Trial Ordered on Issue of Apportionment Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, June 29, 2018
Case Decisions Damages New Jersey Other Asbestos News
NEW JERSEY — Donna Rowe (plaintiff), individually and as executrix and executrix ad prosequendum of the estate of Ronald Rowe (Rowe), appealed an April 27, 2015 judgment of $304,152.70 plus prejudgment interest. The plaintiffs originally sued 27 defendants, alleging that exposure to asbestos from their products caused Rowe's mesothelioma. Twelve defendants were granted summary judgment, four were dismissed, and two never appeared and the claims against them were abandoned. Additionally, eight parties settled their claims before trial, leaving only Hilco, Inc., the successor-in-interest to Universal…
$117 Million Verdict Upheld in Talc Case Middlesex County, New Jersey, July 2, 2018
Case Decisions Damages New Jersey
NEW JERSEY — Superior Court Judge Ana C. Viscomi denied motions from Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America, Inc. to set aside a $37 million verdict in compensatory damages and a combined $80 million verdict in punitive damages awarded earlier this year. On Wednesday, May 23, 2018, the court heard arguments on Imerys Talc America, Inc.'s motions to overturn the verdict. The court instead upheld the verdict. In rendering her decision, Judge Viscomi stated that the verdicts "do not shock the judicial conscience."…
Post-Trial Motions Denied Against Both Plaintiff and Defendant on Damages and Judgment as a Matter of Law United States District Court, W.D. Washington, June 4, 2018
Case Decisions Damages Expert Challenges Washington
WASHINGTON – The plaintiff filed suit against the defendants including Scapa Dryer Fabrics (Scapa) alleging her husband, Mr. Barabin, developed mesothelioma as a result of his work at Crown-Zellerbach paper mill in Camas, Washington. Mr. Barabin worked as a spare hand, which included working directly on the paper machines at the mill. Part of his work including using high pressure hoses to blow dust out of the dryers. Suit was brought against the defendants on theories of product liability design, failure to warn, and negligence.…
Expert and Fact Witness Evidence Establishes Last Day of Exposure for UPS Worker in Workers' Compensation Commission Award Court of Appeals of North Carolina, May 1, 2018
Case Decisions Damages North Carolina
NORTH CAROLINA — The plaintiff filed an action under North Carolina Workers' Compensation for alleged development of mesothelioma by her decedent. Mr. Penager worked as a driver for United Parcel Services (UPS) from approximately 1967-98. It was alleged by the plaintiff that Mr. Penegar drove tractor trailers each day and would walk through the mechanic shop after his shift where workers were using compressed air to clean out dust from brake jobs. The Commission found that the plaintiff's last date of injury from asbestos occurred…
Case Remanded to Determine Setoff Amounts from Settlements with Asbestos Trusts Supreme Court of Mississippi, February 15, 2018
Case Decisions Damages Mississippi Verdict Reduction
MISSISSIPPI — On February 13, 2009, Clara Hagan filed a complaint, as the representative of Bennie Oakes, against Illinois Central Railroad in the Warren County Circuit Court. The complaint, brought under the provisions of the Federal Employers Liability Act, sought to recover damages for personal injuries and/or death sustained by decedent Bennie Oakes while decedent was employed by Illinois Central and while engaging in interstate commerce. The decedent was employed by Illinois Central from 1952 through 1994 and alleged he was exposed to asbestos "on…


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The Board for Mission Services seeks applicants for the position of regional director,
to lead the development of LCMS World Mission programs along the border with Mexico.
The person in this position, who also serves as the executive director of Frontera Mission Society, works to maintain positive relationships with a number of groups, including the Hispanic Mission Society of the LCMS and with district and mission-society leaders, working with these partners in the design and implementation of mission strategies along the border with Mexico.
The regional director is responsible for the design of LCMS World Mission and Frontera program activities in the Mexican/U.S. border region, ensuring that they are properly monitored and evaluated for the purpose of assuring the ongoing quality of the Synod's and districts' mission initiatives. As such, the regional director provides and/or links expertise for new missions and for turning around existing churches and establishes priorities and develops financial resources for funding new starts and turn-arounds.
Position qualifications include ordained active membership in the LCMS or any of its partner churches; 10 years of ministry, with a minimum of five years of cross-cultural experience, especially with Spanish-speaking immigrants.
For consideration, please contact David Fiedler, LCMS Human Resources, 1333 S. Kirkwood Road, St. Louis, MO 63122-7226; fax (314) 996-1121; or e-mail to LCMSJobs@lcms.org. Application deadline is Aug. 1.
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Sabre argues that its global distribution system ("GDS")—which connects travel agents with airline schedules, fares, and booking information—should be analyzed in the same manner. In particular, Sabre contends that in order to attract travel agents to its platform it must be able to offer an incentive fee and access to all of an airline's available flights and fares. Therefore, it negotiates booking fees with airlines so that it can fund the incentive fees and states that it is willing to negotiate a lower booking fee if the airline makes all its flights and fares available on Sabre's platform. If booking fees increase, Sabre argues, then it would increase its incentive fees and thereby attract more travel agents and vice versa if booking fees decrease.
In the district court, US Airways was able to persuade both the jury and Judge Schofield that even though Sabre is a two-sided platform like Amex, the relevant market should still be considered one sided because the market for GDS is a "mature market" in which all travel agents use one of the three providers of GDS services and all airlines subscribe to all three of the GDS providers. Therefore, the market lacks the interdependence necessary to find a two-sided market because "changing the price on one side of the platform (increasing or decreasing the booking fee paid by airlines) does not change demand on the travel agent side" because all the travel agents already use at least one of the GDS services to which all airlines subscribe.
The Second Circuit will evaluate Sabre's appeal under the same standard as the district court did in considering Sabre's motion for judgment as a matter of law: whether, when viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to US Airways, it is insufficient to permit a reasonable juror to find in US Airways's favor.


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What is "Diversity"?
Diversity Lectures
Transgender Surgery:
Crossing Disciplines and Changing Minds
Marci Bowers, MD
The Fourth Annual ASA Diversity Lecture
Monday, April 24, 2017, 10:30 AM
Sponsored by the ASA Diversity Initiative Program
Marci Bowers, M.D. of Burlingame, California, is acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of Genital Reassignment Surgery and is the first woman worldwide to hold a personal transgender history while performing transgender surgery. She is also the first US surgeon to learn the technique of functional clitoral restoration after Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Dr. Bowers is a pelvic and gynecologic surgeon with more than 26 years' experience. She is a University of Minnesota Medical School graduate and former class and student body president. Her Ob/Gyn residency was at the University of Washington. She continued in Seattle as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the Polyclinic and Swedish Medical Center, then joined Dr. Stanley Biber in Trinidad, Colorado in 2003, redefining US transgender surgery. She gained expertise in FGM clitoral restoration from noted French surgeon, Pierre Foldes in 2007-2009. Dr. Bowers relocated her surgical practice to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010.
As an international authority on clitoral reconstruction, Dr. Bowers is sought after as a speaker and worldwide surgical educator and has been featured in numerous documentaries and news features including the Guardian, BBC, Times of London, Esquire and many others. Dr. Bowers is a member of WPATH, and serves on the board of directors for both GLAAD and the Transgender Law Center. In 2016, she joined the faculty at Mt. Sinai-Beth Israel in New York to establish the first transgender surgical educational program in the US. Her transgender work has been highlighted by appearances on Oprah, CBS Sunday Morning and Discovery Health. Dr. Bowers was recently honored as one of the 100 most influential LGBT people on the Guardian's World Pride Power List and also recognized as one of The Huffington Post's 50 Transgender Icons.
Dr. Bowers will highlight her surgical work with the backdrop of changing societal expectations.
Thomas LaVeist, Ph.D.
"My Journey to Understand Why Health Disparities Exist and What to Do about It"
Director, Center for Health Disparities Solutions
William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Dr. LaVeist's research and writing has focused on three broad thematic research questions: 1) What are the social and behavioral factors that predict the timing of various related health outcomes (e.g. access and utilization of health services, mortality, entrance into nursing home? 2) What are the social and behavioral factors that explain race differences in health outcomes?; and 3) What has been the impact of social policy on the health and quality of life of African Americans? His work has included both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Dr. LaVeist seeks to develop an orienting framework in the development of policy and interventions to address race disparities in health-related outcomes. Specific areas of expertise include: U.S. health and social policy, the role of race in health research, social factors contributing to mortality, longevity and life expectancy, quantitative and demographic analysis and access, and utilization of health services.
Nancy L. Brackett, Ph.D.
"Current trends in the treatment of infertility in men with spinal cord injury"
Departments of Urology and Neurological Surgery
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
In countries throughout the world, men with spinal cord injury (SCI) outnumber women with SCI, often by as much as 4:1. Because the most common causes of injury include motor vehicle accidents, violence, falls, and sports-related injuries, it has been assumed that this gender disparity is due to more men than women engaging in risk-taking behaviors. However, this assumption has not been confirmed. The majority of new spinal cord injuries occur to persons between 18 and 35 years, i.e, the prime parenting years. Following SCI, women can conceive via sexual intercourse and deliver children with nearly the same success rate as women without disability. In contrast, most men with SCI are infertile due to a combination of erectile dysfunction, ejaculatory dysfunction, and semen abnormalities. Dr. Nancy Brackett is a researcher in the area of reproductive health and men with paralysis.
Charles Modlin, MD
"Disparities in Men's Health:
The Role of the Primary Care Physician"
Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Urologist and Founder and Director of the Minority Men's Health Center of Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological Institute, and Executive Director of Minority Health for Cleveland Clinic
A special area of interest of Dr. Modlin is the issue of healthcare disparities experienced by minority patients in the United States. Minority patients suffer a disproportionate burden of disease in many areas, such as prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and need for kidney transplantation. To this end, Dr. Modlin has developed a dedicated Minority Men's Health Center and Center for Health Equity at Cleveland Clinic. The center conducts dedicated research into elimination of minority healthcare disparities and provides community outreach as well as direct patient care and public education to minority patients.
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Thu, March 2, 2017
Opening Date Set for Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney's Wilderness Lodge
Exciting news today: Sales for Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney's Wilderness Lodge, the newest Disney Vacation Club resort, will begin next week. Current Disney Vacation Club Members will have the first chance to purchase real estate interests beginning on March 8, with general sales following on April 5.
The resort, which is currently under construction, also has a scheduled opening date: July 17. Once open, Copper Creek Villas & Cabins will be the 14th Disney Vacation Club development and the second at Disney's Wilderness Lodge.
Copper Creek Villas & Cabins offers Disney Vacation Club Members and guests a new frontier for magical vacations where the comforts of home and the wonders of the wilderness are deeply rooted in the magic of Disney. Inspired by the legendary mining and railroad history of the Pacific Northwest, Members and guests will discover rustically elegant accommodations, where cozy touches mix with modern designs to create a tranquil retreat.
Offering one of the widest ranges of accommodations found at Walt Disney World Resort, Copper Creek Villas & Cabins will feature 184 modern, nature-inspired vacation homes, including Deluxe Studios, one- and two-bedroom Villas, and even three-bedroom Grand Villas, which sleep up to 12.
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The new resort will also include 26 all-new luxurious waterfront cabins. Sleeping up to eight and featuring two bedrooms, two baths and large dining and living room spaces, the cabins' floor-to-ceiling windows, exposed wooden beams and interior-exterior stone-hearth fireplace bring the beauty of the outdoors in, and offer plenty of room for families. After a long day of fun at the nearby theme parks, guests can return to their porch and relax in the built-in hot tub. Some even enjoy a view of the Electrical Water Pageant on Bay Lake!
Additional developments at Disney's Wilderness Lodge include the recently opened Geyser Point Bar & Grill, an open-air lounge overlooking Bay Lake. The resort's quick-service restaurant, Roaring Fork is also undergoing refurbishments and is scheduled to reopen later this year with a refreshed look and expanded outdoor seating. Boulder Ridge Cove pool, a modern-day swimmin' hole, will also open this summer.
Those in search of extra pampering will want to stop by the all-new Salon by the Springs for poolside manicures, pedicures and hair services scheduled to open this summer.
I'll be sharing even more exciting details about this beautiful resort right here on the Disney Parks Blog in the months to come. Until then, visit DisneyCopperCreek.com to explore this latest offering from Disney Vacation Club.
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Price per point?
Lisa on April 2, 2017 at 1:51 pm
When will regular guests be able to book?
April on March 18, 2017 at 10:29 pm
What is the price per point?
Erica on March 8, 2017 at 9:59 am
I'm dying to see what the kitchens will look like in the cabins!
Camille on March 7, 2017 at 3:56 pm
Can't wait! Very exciting things coming to Animal Kingdom & Wilderness Lodge 🙂
Brianna on March 4, 2017 at 10:16 am
A DVC Cast member just told me booking begins for those with new Sales at Copper Creek, at the end of March; other members can book beginning end of April – I believe it was April 26th. Enjoy!
Kristol on March 3, 2017 at 11:21 am
When will the rooms be available to book for existing DCC members who own at other properties?
Benjamin on March 2, 2017 at 5:56 pm
I love Wilderness Lodge. I come from western Montana and Disney got it so right when they designed the Lodge. Every little detail screams National Park Lodge. So I was really looking forward to seeing the new cabins. I've seen 12 pictures of the inside of the cabins. I don't understand how they got them so wrong. If you just saw pictures and were asked to pick which resort they go to I'd pick the Contemporary. The cabins have a very contemporary sleek design. I saw exactly 3 rustic elements. The stone fireplace, the wood floors and plaid pillows. True cabins look rustic: lots of oak and pine, Craftsman style furniture, overstuffed couches and chairs, shaker cabinets and log walls. Not smooth exotic hardwoods and sleek lines. And where are the bunkbeds which kids love so much? These cabins do not match the style of the rest of Wilderness Lodge. They don't fit. I'll continue staying in the main lodge. Sorry, Disney, but you got it wrong this time.
Kathryn on March 2, 2017 at 2:58 pm
Do you have to be a Disney Vacation Club member to stay at this new resort?
Rachel on March 2, 2017 at 11:21 am
Members Enjoy Priority Booking for New Year's Eve Event at Topolino's
by Ryan March, Editor, Disney Vacation Club's Disney Files Magazine
Member Cruise Magic from California to Canada
Tue, June 11, 2019
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In 1986, Foldvari won the World Professional Billiards Championship making him the only other person from Australia along with Walter Lindrum to win the World Professional Billiards Championship. For this, Foldvari was runner up to Pat Cash in the Herald Caltex Sportsman of the Year Award.
Robby's first cue is at the National Sports Museum within the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Robby has also won a WPBSA sanctioned professional snooker tournament defeating Darren Morgan in the final, 8-1 in Clacton, England. This made Robby the only person in the modern day game to win both WPBSA (Professional) sanctioned Billiards and Snooker Tournaments.
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Iconic motor yacht OCEAN EMERALD draws a lot of attention with her radically modern design and extremely voluminous interior. She had a starring role in the December 2015 Xtreme-sport remake of 1991 cult movie POINT BREAK and provides a spacious platform for glamorous parties as well as family get togethers. Designed by renowned architect Norman Foster, she was built by Italian shipyard Rodriguez Yachts in 2009 and completely refitted in 2015 and 2016. Her superstructure is placed forward to maximize outdoor terrace space and interiors are opened up to daylight and views. Altogether, space has increased with over 30 percent, compared to traditionally designed yachts of her size. OCEAN EMERALD offers a stylish playground in the sun with several over-sized sundecks with sun beds, loungers and bar. While at anchor, the upper-deck Jacuzzi is popular for a refreshing dip in-between sunbathing and relaxing. The main deck salon has panoramic windows around. The informal upper deck salon has a 'Beach House' feel and has a bar, game station and an extensive movie library. The 'Beach House' adjoins the exterior deck, ideal for al-fresco dining. A state of the art lighting system changes the mood from light and bright beach, to sultry lounge bar. OCEAN EMERALD has five cabins, including a spectacular full-beam master on the main deck. On the lower deck are two VIP double cabins and two twin cabins with an extra Pullman bed. Decks are linked by a glass spiral staircase, designed to draw daylight down through to the guest accommodation. A stabilization system reduces roll motion; even guests who have not found their 'sea legs' yet, will feel comfortable on board at all times. She has a proven 'safety at sea' record and completed long passages (a.o. from Phuket to the Philippines in March 2016) with ease, despite fairly rough weather conditions. The OCEAN EMERALD crew, most of whom have been ,long-term on board deliver highly personalised service. A French gourmet chef plus a Thai chef create the most delicious Western and Asian dishes including lots of fresh fish and seafood. OCEAN EMERALD is available in Thailand and Malaysia and surrounding countries. From April/May - October she normally cruises the east side of Thailand (Pattaya/Koh Samui) and from November - March/April the west side (Phuket). The unspoiled Anambas Islands can be visited from May/June until September/October and the Mergui Archipelago of Myanmar from November until April, depending on the booking schedule. She has numerous water toys and recently acquired a New Axopar tender, a good chase boat for fishing and/or exploring with a max speed of 50 knots!


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Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne explore a stunning universe and battle aliens in the gorgeous new trailer for Luc Besson's upcoming intergalactic opus, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
The two star as Valerian and Laureline, the titular characters of Pierre Christin's comic series that Besson's new film is based on. Soundtracked by the Beatles' ethereal "Because," the teaser follows the pair through a gorgeously conceived universe as they encounter and fight a slew of strange creatures and monsters, while also figuring out the specifics of their relationship. "We get along just great – you flirt, I smile," Laureline says right before the trailer cuts to a clip of her punching Valerian in the face.
Along with DeHaan and Delevingne, Valerian boasts an impressive cast that includes Clive Owen, John Goodman and Ethan Hawke, as well as two musicians: Herbie Hancock and Rihanna (who makes a brief appearance towards the end of the clip). For Besson, Valerian marks the filmmaker's first movie since 2014's Lucy.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is scheduled to open on July 21st, 2017.