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The Ethical Data Scientist
People have too much trust in numbers to be intrinsically objective.
By Cathy O'Neil
In the waning months of the Bloomberg administration, I worked for a time in a New York City Hall data group within the Health and Human Services division. One day, we were given a huge dataset on homeless families, which included various characteristics such as the number and age of children and parents, previous ZIP code, the number and lengths of previous stays in homeless services, and race. The data went back 30 years.
The goal of the project was to pair homeless families with the most appropriate services, and the first step was to build an algorithm that would predict how long a family would stay in the system given the characteristics we knew when they entered. So one of the first questions we asked was, which characteristics should we use?
Specifically, what about race? If we found that including race helped the algorithm become more accurate, we might be tempted to use it. But given that the output might decide what kind of homeless services to pair with a family, we knew we had to be extremely careful. The very fact that we were using historical data meant that we were "training our model" on data that was surely biased, given the history of racism. And since an algorithm cannot see the difference between patterns that are based on injustice and patterns that are based on traffic, choosing race as a characteristic in our model would have been unethical. Looking at old data, we might have seen that families with a black head of household was less likely to get a job, and that might have ended up meaning less job counseling for current black homeless families. In the end, we didn't include race.
Most people building algorithms (except those in politics) stay away from race for similar reasons. But what about using neighborhoods or ZIP codes? Given the level of segregation we still see in New York City neighborhoods, that's almost tantamount to using race after all. In fact most data we collect has some proxy power, and we are often unaware of it.
The question of which inputs to use in a model is actually incredible complicated, and important, given how much we can glean about someone by their Facebook likes. Yet it's rarely discussed. For one, people have too much trust in data to be intrinsically objective, even though it is in fact only as good as the human processes that collected it.
Another reason such ethical issues often slip by a data scientist is the power of the modern machine learning tools. Algorithms such as neural nets and random forests pick up on subtle, nonlinear connections and patterns of behavior, but in the process they lose much of their interpretability. That means nobody can exactly explain why the answer is what it is—it's almost like it's being handed down by data gods. What typically happens, especially in a "big data" situation, is that there's no careful curating of inputs. Instead, the whole kit and caboodle is thrown into an algorithm and it's trusted to come up with an accurate, albeit inexplicable, prediction.
A final obstacle to bringing up ethics in the context of data science is the training. Most data scientists are trained in applied mathematics, computer science, or statistics, fields in which an expert will publish an academic research paper that makes a tool more efficient or extends theory. Contrast that with a data scientist working inside a company or analytics group, and you see an entirely different world.
At a social media company or an online shopping site, the data scientist will run tons of experiments on users—e.g. Facebook's famous news feed experiment or voter megaphone—and depending on how they turn out, they will change the user experience to be more "optimized," however that is locally defined. A data scientist working for a local government might develop a teacher assessment that aims to sort teachers into buckets of "effectiveness," or a predictive policing model that directs law enforcement to certain areas or even certain people.
For a working data scientist, there's little time for theory. Few papers are written to describe the results of a company's experiment, even for internal use. And there is rarely ever effort put in to see how the algorithms that are deployed affect the target population beyond the narrow definition of success that the modeler is directed to track. Do new-fangled social media algorithms encourage addictive gambling behavior? Do the teacher assessments encourage good teachers to stay in education? Does predictive policing improve long-term outcomes for the people targeted by their models? Those are not the questions that a data scientist is paid to investigate.
If the data scientist's goal is to create automated processes that affect people's lives, then he or she should regularly consider ethics in a way that academics in computer science and statistics, generally speaking, do not. What would this look like? Let's start with low-hanging fruit: the financial crisis.
A data scientist working in finance is usually called a quant, but the job description is the same: use math, computing power, and statistics to predict (and possible to effect) outcomes. The guys (because let's be honest—they are mostly guys) working at Moody's and S&P putting AAA ratings on toxic mortgage-backed securities, for example, were data scientists. Unfortunately they were terribly dishonest; they sacrificed their integrity and scientific rigor to satisfy their bosses and to get their bonuses.
After the financial crisis, there was a short-lived moment of opportunity to accept responsibility for mistakes with the financial community. One of the more promising pushes in this direction was when quant and writer Emanuel Derman and his colleague Paul Wilmott wrote the Modeler's Hippocratic Oath, which nicely sums up the list of responsibilities any modeler should be aware of upon taking on the job title.
The ethical data scientist would strive to improve the world, not repeat it. That would mean deploying tools to explicitly construct fair processes. As long as our world is not perfect, and as long as data is being collected on that world, we will not be building models that are improvements on our past unless we specifically set out to do so.
At the very least it would require us to build an auditing system for algorithms. This would be not unlike the modern sociological experiment in which job applications sent to various workplaces differ only by the race of the applicant—are black job seekers unfairly turned away? That same kind of experiment can be done directly to algorithms; see the work of Latanya Sweeney, who ran experiments to look into possible racist Google ad results. It can even be done transparently and repeatedly, and in this way the algorithm itself can be tested.
The ethics around algorithms is a topic that lives only partly in a technical realm, of course. A data scientist doesn't have to be an expert on the social impact of algorithms; instead, she should see herself as a facilitator of ethical conversations and a translator of the resulting ethical decisions into formal code. In other words, she wouldn't make all the ethical choices herself, but rather raise the questions with a larger and hopefully receptive group.
This issue is on the horizon, if it's not already here. The more processes we automate, the more obvious it will become that algorithms are not inherently fair and objective, and that they need human intervention. At that point the ethics of building algorithms will be taught alongside statistics and computer programming classes.
This article is part of the algorithms installment of Futurography, a series in which Future Tense introduces readers to the technologies that will define tomorrow. Each month from January through June 2016, we'll choose a new technology and break it down. Read more from Futurography on algorithms:
"What's the Deal With Algorithms?"
"Your Algorithms Cheat Sheet"
"How to Teach Yourself About Algorithms"
"How to Hold Governments Accountable for the Algorithms They Use"
"How Algorithms Are Changing the Way We Argue"
"Which Government Algorithm to Cut Fraud Works Best—the One Targeting the Poor or the Rich?"
"Algorithms Can Make Good Co-Workers"
"Algorithms Aren't Like Spock—They're Like Capt. Kirk"
"What Do We Not Want Algorithms to Do for Us?"
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Се́лище — деревня в Рабитицком сельском поселении Волосовского района Ленинградской области.

История
Впервые упоминается в Писцовой книге Водской пятины 1500 года как деревня Сяглицы в Егорьевском Радчинском погосте Копорского уезда.

Затем — как пустошь Säglitzi Ödhe в Радчинском погосте в шведских «Писцовых книгах Ижорской земли» 1618—1623 годов.

На карте Ингерманландии А. И. Бергенгейма, составленной по шведским материалам 1676 года, обозначена как деревня Siglitsa.

На шведской «Генеральной карте провинции Ингерманландии» 1704 года — как Säglitsa.

Как деревня Зяглица она обозначена на «Географическом чертеже Ижорской земли» Адриана Шонбека 1705 года.

На карте Санкт-Петербургской губернии Ф. Ф. Шуберта 1834 года упоминается как деревня Селище на краю болота «Косая Мшага».

СЕЛИЩЕ — деревня принадлежит Ведомству С.Петербургского окружного управления, число жителей по ревизии: 66 м. п., 68 ж. п. (1838 год)

Деревня Селище обозначена на карте профессора С. С. Куторги 1852 года.

СЕЛИЩЕ — деревня Ведомства государственного имущества, по просёлочной дороге, число дворов — 19, число душ — 54 м. п. (1856 год)

СЕЛИЩЕ — деревня казённая при речке Селиске, по просёлочной дороге из селения Ящеры, число дворов — 13, число жителей: 35 м. п., 60 ж. п. (1862 год)

В XIX — начале XX века деревня административно относилась к Сосницкой волости 2-го стана Царскосельского уезда Санкт-Петербургской губернии.

В 1914 году в деревне работала Селищенская земская школа, где учителем служил Степан Митрофанов.

Деревня Селище входила в приход Петропавловской церкви в Грызове.

С 1917 по 1923 год деревня Селище входила в состав Селищенского сельсовета Сосницкой волости Детскосельского уезда.

С 1923 года, в составе Гатчинского уезда.

С 1927 года, в составе Волосовского района.

С 1928 года, в составе Раковского сельсовета. В 1928 году население деревни Селище составляло 256 человек.

С 1930 года, в составе Сосницкого сельсовета.

По данным 1933 года, деревня Селище входила в состав Сосницкого сельсовета Волосовского района.

Деревня была освобождена от немецко-фашистских оккупантов 5 февраля 1944 года.

С 1963 года, в составе Кингисеппского района.

С 1965 года, вновь в составе Волосовского района. В 1965 году население деревни Селище составляло 90 человек.

По данным 1966 и 1973 годов деревня Селище также находилась в составе Сосницкого сельсовета.

По данным 1990 года, деревня Селище находилась в составе Изварского сельсовета.

В 1997 году в деревне Селище проживали 4 человека, деревня относилась к Изварской волости, в 2002 году — 6 человек (все русские), в 2007 году — 1 человек.

В мае 2019 года Изварское сельское поселение вошло в состав в Рабитицкого сельского поселения.

География
Деревня расположена в юго-восточной части района к югу от автодороги  (Жабино — Вересть).

Расстояние до административного центра поселения — 16 км.

Деревня находится на реке Селиска, конечный пункт железнодорожной ветки Волосово — Селище.

Расстояние до ближайшей железнодорожной станции Волосово — 30 км.

Демография

Примечания

Населённые пункты Волосовского района

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Jussie Smollett found GUILTY of staging a hate crime against himself
by Alex Caldwell December 9, 2021
A Chicago jury found Jussie Smollett guilty of staging a hate crime against himself nearly three years after he told police he was attacked by two white Trump supporters in Chicago.
After six days of testimony from 13 witnesses, the guilty verdict was announced Thursday after the actor took the witness stand to tell the jury that "there was no hoax." He was found guilty for five charges, and not guilty on charge six: aggravated battery, wearing a hood or mask to conceal his identity.
Judge Richard Linn will order a pre-sentencing investigation, and attorneys will meet to determine a date for pre-sentencing motions. Linn also announced that the jury will not speak to the media on Thursday.
Smollett's defense attorney said he would appeal the "guilty" verdict, and that he believes the actor is "100 percent innocent."
The "Empire" actor, who is black and gay, told police two white men, wearing "MAGA" hats and ski masks, recognized him from "Empire," and approached him in downtown Chicago after he purchased a Subway sandwich at 2:00 in the morning on Jan. 29, 2019.
Smollett said they yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him, then beat him up, tied a rope around his neck, poured bleach on him, and yelled "This is MAGA country!"
Smollett was admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for his injuries after the "attack" (Images taken by Smollett).
Immediately the "attack," Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Democrats, and members of the mainstream media immediately rushed to the actor's defense, many tweeting #JusticeforJussie and blaming Trump supporters for the "racially motivated" hate crime.
Then-presidential candidate Biden tweeted Americans can "no longer give this hate safe harbor," and Harris called the attack "an attempted modern day lynching."
What happened today to @JussieSmollett must never be tolerated in this country. We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor; that homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie. https://t.co/o8ilPu68CM
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 30, 2019
.@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I'm praying for his quick recovery.
This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 29, 2019
ABC News's Robin Roberts interviewed Smollett one month after the fake hate crime, where the actor sat down and detailed the seemingly unrealistic attack made against him.
Shortly after the fake attack, police raided the home of the two "white attackers." Brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, from Nigeria, were discovered to be the ones that attacked Smollett. The brothers testified that they were both paid $3,500 by Smollett to stage the fake hate crime.
Brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo from Nigeria were the "white" men Smollett claimed attacked him in Chicago.
The Osundairo brothers were also caught on surveillance camera purchasing the rope and MAGA hats used and worn in the staged attack.
Smollett was indicted in February 2019 for paying the brothers to stage a hate crime, but Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx dropped all charges against the actor in exchange for community service, baffling law enforcement, who spent over $130,000 to investigate his claims.
Smollett was indicted a second time after more evidence was uncovered against him, and he was charged with six counts of disorderly conduct.
The Osundairo brothers testified against Smollett in the trial, saying that they agreed to help him stage the fake hate crime because they thought he could help their careers.
"He wanted me to punch him but he wanted me to pull the punch so I didn't hurt him, and then he wanted me to tussle him and throw him to the ground and give him a bruise," Abimbola testified.
It was also revealed in the trial that Smollett and Abimbola once had an intimate relationship with each other, and even did cocaine together.
Smollett's defense maintained that he was the victim of a hate crime, calling the Osundario brothers "sophisticated liars and criminals." However, Smollett was still found guilty of staging a fake hate crime against himself on Thursday, Dec. 9.
Smollett faces up to three years in prison for his crimes.
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Global Influences
International Artist Feature: Indonesia
by Mary Winkler 8 Apr 2016
Length:ShortLanguages: EnglishDeutschEspañolHrvatskiBahasa IndonesiaPусский
Global InfluencesInspirationIllustrationGraphic Design
For this article in the international artist series, we turn to Indonesia, featuring five illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from illustration to graphic design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy!
Rahadil Hermana
Rahadil is a fantastic illustrator based in Malang, Indonesia, whose work is bold and often aimed at bands and various brands, having been inspired by punk rock and various cultural influences. You can check out his portfolio for more work, or the small selection of his pieces below!
"I was born and raised in Indonesia, where the diversity of traditions and cultures form a unique characteristic in this country. All sorts of inspiration emerges in my work, apart from the country itself, and become the best aspect at every part of my work.
Greatness Asmat - Mbipokumbu
"Bali is one of the most famous islands in Indonesia. Not only does it have great natural scenery, but Bali is also famous for their unique, pure arts.
Barong Sae
"Starting from their famous mythological characters, Barong, I began working with cultural themes for the first time. Also, with a little influence from all kinds of punk music that I listen to often, I try to create artwork influenced from my culture that's different than usual.
Artworks Vol. 01
"Other cultural influences are from Borneo, an island nicknamed the "Black Pearl", and Papua. That's where my interest with this theme is getting bigger. And not just stopping at my country's culture, but a mix of countries such as China, Japan, India, Mexico, and Egypt too."
Lenny Wen
Lenny is an illustrator based in Jakarta, Indonesia, whose work takes on a fun, expressive, painterly style. You can see everything from character design to story illustrations in Lenny's portfolio as well as below in a small selection of work!
"I grew up and living in Jakarta (Indonesia's capital). This city has remarkable diversity. This diversity is shown a bit in my work. I like to draw characters from variety cultural backgrounds.
"I also think that an Indonesian sense of humor has also influenced my work. Sometimes I like to put in humor into my sketches or work."
Cold for the Summer
Junissa Bianda
Junissa is a fantastic artist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Still a student, Junissa creates beautiful character designs, telling stories of rainy days, ballet, and children. You can check out more of her work in her ever-growing portfolio or in the small selection of pieces below!
Abby and Mr. Sticky
"Indonesia has influenced my work through the stories and characters I pick for my projects. My country has a vast range of folktales and legends that I'd love to introduce to people.
"I would say that having that much variety of culture in my country makes it easier to gain more inspiration, as well as it opens up the boundaries.
Love at the Circus
"Most of the folktales in Indonesia are meant for children, so as you can see my works are mostly targeted to children as the audience."
Gouache Works
Devina Puspitasari
Devina is an illustrator based in Surabaya, Indonesia, whose vibrant work is fun and often filled with humor. From silly vegetables to fantastic children's illustration, you'll find more work in Devina's portfolio as well as a small selection of pieces below!
Baby Milestone Animal Series
"In Indonesia, every place has its own unique culture. I haven't explored it all, but for now, Balinese and Javanese are my favorite (maybe because I live there).
Family for Dinner
Mr. Mustache - Indonesian Culture
"I really love Indonesian culture or characters. That's why I want to put it in my illustration with my own style. Indonesian cultures are very rich and I hope my country will be known all over the world over my illustration. I'm still in the process of exploring my country because there are so many cultures in it."
Mr. Mustache - Christmas Edition
Kathrin Honesta
Kathrin is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer from Jakarta, Indonesia, whose work is colorful and wonderfully textured. Each piece tells a story, which you can check out below or in full at her portfolio.
Illustrations of 2015
"A culture is a very important essence of a country. It takes centuries to shape it to what it is today. If you ask me about how I'd like my culture and country to influence me, I guess the work is more on my side. I have to be more observant, curious & open-minded to be able to understand more, therefore to be inspired & influenced.
People of Malaysia
The Undaunted Dandelion - Personal Branding
"Indonesia has a very rich culture. We have a lot of indigenous tribes and every tribe has their own custom & traditions. Just to name a few, we have Batik culture, Betawi culture, Wayang, and Barong.
The Moon Girl
"One day, I would love to create a piece of work that relates to Indonesia; a work that Indonesians can have an ownership of. A work that can contribute something to Indonesian culture—even a little bit."
Many thanks to the artists and designers above who took time to discuss their country and culture's influence on their work. You can follow their portfolios at the following links:
Illustrator / Ypsilanti, MI
The work of Mary Winkler (aka Acrylicana) is vivid and whimsical. It's often child-like in theme, depicting sweets, fanciful creatures and rainbows as well as exploring the world of fashion and garment in illustrated form. Done in a variety of media, including digital, acrylic, watercolour and ink, Mary's work is pop art, graphic and, for lack of a better word, sparkly. Her work is painted on canvas, a variety of papers or printed by way of giclee ink jet or silk screen (usually onto fabric for pouches/bags). Mary studied Illustration at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan.
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Joseph Conrad; Mara Kalnins
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Victory, don't forget, has come out of my innermost self. Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled 'An Island Tale', it tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island of Samburan. But Heyst's solitary existence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and takes her off to his retreat. She in turn recalls him to love and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this love story Conrad created two of his psychologically most complex and compelling characters in a narrative of great erotic power. This new edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography.
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Mara Kalnins is Fellow in English at Corpus Christi College and Staff Tutor in Literature at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. She has written and edited several books on D. H. Lawrence and i the General Editor of the works of Joseph Conrad in OWC.
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Hawks 2003-2007
a photo journal of several seasons of red tail hawk nestings
May 1, 2002: One of the two adolescent red-tailed hawks that were gently retrieved when their nest was blown to the ground during a high wind storm. They were a few weeks away from being able to fly on their own, so they were taken to Ojai Raptor Center where they were nurtured, taught how to hunt, then released into the wild. For days on end following the incident the adults hung around the tree, crying and looking for their babies. I wish I could have been able to tell them their babies were safe and in excellent care. www.ojairaptorcenter.org
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA, May 14, 2003: adolescent red-tailed hawk tried to fly but fell to ground. It then flew up on the wrought-iron fence (next photo)
May 14, 2003: This is a 2 month old Redtail hawk after it fell from its nest when it tried to fledge prematurely. We were able to gently retrieve it and place it back up on a high branch where it was successful in getting back up to the nest. It was able to fly one to two weeks later.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL: April 24, 2004, adult with three hatchlings
olympus digital: April 30, 2004: 2004 was a tremendously successful season with three hatchlings
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA: April 28, 2004, you can see how fast these little guys grow!
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA April 24, 2004: Adult with three hatchlings. Usually there are only two hatchlings.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA: April 27, 2004
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA: April 29, 2004: one of the three hatchlings of the 04 season
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA: May 5, 2004
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA: May 13, 2004: three adolescents getting up the nerve to fly! At this point they still haven't attempted, but soon will be flying. This year was so successful in that neither one of the tree hatchlings fell to the ground, not one had to be rescued.
May 7, 2005: one of two hatchlings of the 05 season
May 27, 2005: Neighbor Dave gently retrieves the adolescent red-tailed hawk from the ground after it tries to fledge but is still about one to two weeks away from being able to fly on its own. We placed it on a high branch in the tree where it was able to jump back up to the nest and successfully fledged a few weeks later.
May 27, 2005: almost ready to fledge
April 23, 2006: one of the two hatchlings with a rabbit. The adult hawks have just flown off, leaving two hatchlings left staring at the picked-at kill.
April 23, 2006: adult feeding rabbit to two hatchlings
April 23, 2006: adult red-tailed hawk with freshly-killed rabbit and two fuzzy-haired hatchlings
April 23, 2006: little hatchling "peek-a-boo."
april 23, 2006: two fuzzy heads & a freshly-killed rabbit
April 23, 2006, 6:15pm: The third little fuzzy head is hiding but he's there, confirmed sighting during this viewing
April 23, three hatchlings! Sadly, on the evening of April 25 one of the hatchlings was found dead at the bottom of the tree. Pushed out of the nest, most likely. The weaker one perhaps? Survival of the fittest.
April 26, 2006, late afternoon, early evening.
This little guy was so curious when we stood & watched him for about 20 minutes. We couldn't see the other hatchling until the parents came back about 30 minutes later with dinner. April 30, 2006
here's a picture showing the hawk's nictitating membrane. April 30, 2006
late afternoon, waiting for parents to return. April 30, 2006
May 6,2006 you can see the dramatic changes in coloring of the hatchlings. Compare this with the previous pics taken on April 30, 2006!


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Volunteer Racing Series
by Race Info | Dec 29, 2011 | Press Releases
Volunteer STARS Racing Series announced yesterday that they have ceased operations effective immediately. We will still be hosting the Southern Regional Racing Series on June 30th as well as 3 others, however June 30th will no longer be co-sanctioned with VSTARS. You can read the press release below.
Volunteer STARS and Bluegrass STARS/MDRL shut down operations immediately
SOMERSET, KY (December 28, 2011)—After careful consideration, the Volunteer STARS Racing Series (after two seasons) and the Bluegrass STARS Racing Series (after one season) under MDRL banner will cease operations immediately.
'It was a difficult decision on my part but felt it best' stated Series Director Chris Tilley. 'With all of the events being held by tracks in both areas for 2012, it should substantiate good purses for the drivers,' stated Tilley again.
I want to take this opportunity to thank Carl Short of STARS for lending us his awesome name which still means a lot to me and the racing community. I also want to thank Gerald Newton of Arizona Sport Shirts for all his help and friendship as well over the years as well as Gar Dickson and Timmy Millwood for their support during the first VRS season.
I want to take this time to thank the drivers who participated in events held, as well as the tracks and their employees, series officials for all their hard work and dedication and most of all the great race fans who showed support of both series.
I will still continue with Ray Cook's Schaeffer's Oil Southern Nationals Series as their announcer for the 2012 season.
The Banquets scheduled for each series (Volunteer January 7th) and MDRL (January 14th) will continue as scheduled and small points fund monies promised will be paid as promised but drivers must attend Banquets to receive their monies.
Any information may be regarded to Chris Tilley at 606-219-1723 or tilleyracing@hotmail.com .


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"Yes, as we travel through this topsy-turvy, sinful world, filled with temptations and problems, we are humbled by the expectancy of death, the uncertainty of life, and the power and love of God. Sadness comes to all of us in the loss of loved ones.
"God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me."
"You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane."
"Out of curiosity, would you be willing to take a lie detector test?"
"I'm afraid not," he said. "It goes against my religion."
"Only God can judge me. I certainly don't trust a machine to do it."
"You only have to worry if you're untruthful. Do you plan to lie?"
"Too bad!' the feisty poet responded.
'Man governs it himself' Homeless angrily hastened to reply to this admittedly none-too-clear question.
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Poison alert issued for some mussels harvested for Fanny Bay Oysters
Some mussels harvested by Fanny Bay Oysters might contain serious disease.
Scott Stanfield
Mussels harvested by Fanny Bay Oysters from the Okever Inlet near Powell River between Oct. 2 and 14 might contain Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP), also known as red tide, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The raw mussels were mostly distributed to wholesalers and restaurants in Western Canada, though some might have been sold at retail seafood counters, and in other provinces. A voluntary recall is in effect."It is unusual for us to have a red tide this time of year," said Roberta Stevenson, executive director of the B.C. Shellfish Growers Association. "The process remains very, very stable whereby the product is recalled almost never. Usually we see numbers changing prior to there being any issue."No one became sick from these mussels, Stevenson added. "I'm not downplaying it but it's probably because the numbers are very low — high enough that the product should be recalled but not high enough to get anyone sick. There's this huge cautionary margin built," she said, noting the recall was voluntary by the processors. Red Tide is a natural toxin that can accumulate year-round in bivalve shellfish. "The numbers come up slowly and we watch them," Stevenson said. "If we do think we're going to get one then we'll stop selling…There's a huge precautionary measure in there. "It's sad because these growers don't like to have these shutdowns, but they don't last much more than three weeks," she added. Consumers who purchased raw mussels are asked to check with their retailer or supplier to see if their purchase is covered by the recall.Symptoms of PSP include tingling and numbness of the lips, tongue, hands and feet, and difficulty swallowing. Severe cases can progress to walking difficulties, muscle or respiratory paralysis, and death in as few as 12 hours.reporter@comoxvalleyrecord.com
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There clearly are toxic herbs and other herbs that should be avoided during chemotherapy.
There is a danger from taking even safe herbs along with prescription medication or anesthesia (as noted in the links above) and these agents should be stopped prior to surgery and during radiation and chemotherapy. It was shown that taking anti-oxidants like beta-carotene actually increases the risk of cancer in smokers, see study.) There is good evidence that anti-oxidants should not be taken during chemotherapy or radiation (see report.) and here.
Recent reports in the New England Journal document the risk from contamination among Chinese herbs and the dangers of other herbal agents and emphasize the importance of better research into the safety of nutritional supplements.


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Бассе́йны Нью́тона, фракталы Ньютона — разновидность алгебраических фракталов.

Области с фрактальными границами появляются при приближенном нахождении корней нелинейного уравнения алгоритмом Ньютона на комплексной плоскости (для функции действительной переменной метод Ньютона часто называют методом касательных, который, в данном случае, обобщается для комплексной плоскости).

Применим метод Ньютона для нахождения нуля функции комплексного переменного, используя процедуру:

Выбор начального приближения  представляет особый интерес. Так как функция может иметь несколько нулей, в различных случаях метод может сходиться к различным значениям. Однако, какие именно области обеспечат сходимость к тому или иному корню?

История
Этот вопрос заинтересовал Артура Кэли ещё в 1879 году, однако разрешить его смогли лишь в 70-х годах двадцатого столетия с появлением вычислительной техники. Оказалось, что на пересечениях этих областей (их принято называть областями притяжения) образуются так называемые фракталы — бесконечные самоподобные геометрические фигуры.

Ввиду того, что Ньютон применял свой метод исключительно к полиномам, фракталы, образованные в результате такого применения, обрели название фракталов Ньютона или бассейнов Ньютона.

Три корня

Рассмотрим уравнение:
 ,

Оно имеет три корня. При выборе различных  процесс будет сходиться к различным корням (областям притяжения). Артур Кэли поставил задачу описания этих областей, границы которых, как оказалось, имеют фрактальную структуру.

Построение
По следующей формуле:

Масштабирование
Если переместить центр экрана в точку и произвести масштабирование (), то вместо подстановки  в многочлен , можно изменить сам многочлен. Так как , а , то . Так как , то .

Тогда

, считая новый многочлен , получаем

Литература

 Мандельброт Б. Фрактальная геометрия природы. — М.: «Институт компьютерных исследований», 2002.
 Пайтген Х.-О., Рихтер П. Х. Красота фракталов. — М.: «Мир», 1993.
 Федер Е. Фракталы. — М: «Мир», 1991.
 Фоменко А. Т. Наглядная геометрия и топология. — М.: изд-во МГУ, 1993.
 Фракталы в физике. Труды 6-го международного симпозиума по фракталам в физике, 1985. — М.: «Мир», 1988.
 Шредер М. Фракталы, хаос, степенные законы. Миниатюры из бесконечного рая. — Ижевск: «РХД», 2001.
 Морозов А. Д. Введение в теорию фракталов. — Москва-Ижевск: Институт компьютерных исследований, 2002, 109—111.
 Кроновер Р. М. Фракталы и хаос в динамических системах. Основы теории. Москва: Постмаркет, 2000. 248—251.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Красота фракталов
 Построение бассейнов Ньютона на MATLAB

Фракталы


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Rhodes Knights Hospitaller Stamps
Rhodes is an island that lies 11 miles off the southwestern coast of Turkey. It is the largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands. Rhodes has changed ownership many times over the centuries. It has been part of the Persian, Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman empires.
In 1309, the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John also know as the Knights Hospitallers seized control of Rhodes from the Byzantine Empire. The crusader order battled Barbary pirates and defended the island against Ottoman sieges, but finally fell to the Ottoman sultan Sulleiman the Magnificent in 1522. The knights were great builders and were responsible for much of the construction still standing on the island.
The kingdom of Italy seized the Dodecanese islands in 1912 during the Italo-Turkish war from the Ottoman Empire. As mentioned one of these islands is Rhodes. Italy overprinted the names of the various islands on Italian issues for use on the individual islands, and "Isole Italiano Dell'Egeo" for general use on all of the islands.
The Italian government later publicized its possession of the Dodecanese islands by issuing some stamps with new designs for the islands. In 1929 King Victor Emmanuel III and his Queen Elena toured the Aegean Islands. On May 19, 1929 Italian postal authorities commemorated the royal visit with a set of nine stamps.
Even though the stamps are inscribed "Rodi" the stamps were intended for use throughout the islands. The stamps were printed by lithography in sheets of 100 and perforated gauge 11. The stamp subjects chosen for this issue highlighted Rhodes' past as a former seat of the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. The vignettes of all of the stamps in the set are flanked by fasces, the symbol of the Italian Fascist Party.
The knights were both monks and warriors, who cared for the sick and battled the forces of Islam: Saracens in the Holy Land and the Ottoman Turks in the Mediterranean. The Knights of the Hospitallers were distinguishable from the other warrior monk orders by a red surplice with white cross worn over their armor.
In 1932 another set with the same values, colors and designs was issued. The 1929 Knights Hospitaller set was overprinted twice, and both of these sets are rather expensive to buy. In 1930, all nine stamps from the set were overprinted "XXI Congresso Idrologico" to commemorate a hydrological congress. This set is very pricey to purchase too. In 1931, the 5c, 10c, 20c, 25c, 50c, and 1.25 Lira stamps were overprinted "1931 Congresso Eucaristico Italiano" to commemorate the Italian Eucharistic Congress of 1931.
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Home News International JESSICA COX – World's First Licensed Armless Pilot
JESSICA COX – World's First Licensed Armless Pilot
You don't need wings to fly…Jessica Cox became the first pilot with no arms, proving you don't need 'wings' to fly. She is not your average pilot. She even learned how to fly a plane with her feet. The psychology graduate can write, type, drive a car, brush her hair and talk on her phone simply using her feet. Ms Cox, from Tuscon, Arizona, USA, is also a former dancer and double black belt in Tai Kwon-Do. She has a no-restrictions driving license, she flies planes and she can type 25 words a minute. Great Jessica. You are an inspiration to me!!
"Jessica Cox was born without arms. The doctors do not know why she was born "differently-abled." But she does. Jessica has made achievements with her feet that most people only dream of. Now she shares her story with people around the world."
JESSICA COX CAREER:-
Jessica Cox flew in a single engine airplane for the first time via Wright Flight in 2005. Cox earned her pilot's certificate on October 10, 2008, after three years of training, and is qualified to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet. She received her flight training through an Able Flight scholarship and soloed under the instruction of Parrish Traweek.
Jessica has learned to live her life with her feet
Jessica Cox's Sport Pilot Certificate is for an ERCO 415-C Ercoupe which the Federal Aviation Administration has designated a light sport aircraft. Designed in the 1940s, the Ercoupe was built without rudder pedals. Instead, the rudder is interconnected with the ailerons through the yoke. This unique design allows Cox to control the airplane with one foot controlling the yoke while the other foot controls the throttle.
At the age of 10, Cox began training in taekwondo at a school in her home town of Sierra Vista. At the age of 14, she earned her first black belt. While in college at the University of Arizona Cox restarted her taekwondo training at an American Taekwondo Association club on campus. In an effort to help future students without the use of arms the instructors created an entire training curriculum by modifying the standard material from the ATA. For example, instead of a punch Cox executes a knee strike.Cox has since gone on to earn her Second and Third Degree black belts in the ATA. Cox has also earned the title of 2014 Arizona State Champion in forms. It should be noted that she did not compete in a special abilities ring.
Know About Jessica's Cox- Jessica has learned to live her life with her feet
Jessica's flexibility in her legs and dexterity with her toes allow her to put on her own makeup.
At the age of 14 Jessica earned her first black belt in the ITF. While in college, she earned a second black belt in the American Taekwondo Association. Jessica continues to train in the ATA and currently holds the rank of Second Degree Black Belt and Trainee Instructor.
While Jessica lives in the deserts of Arizona, she learned to surf while on vacation in Hawaii.
Jessica is a certified scuba diver.
Jessica has appeared on camera for organizations such as Fox and Friends, CNN, The Ellen Show, Inside Edition, Beyond Belief, ABS-CBN, Power ng Pinoy, GMA, Hooplaha, AOPA Live, and FAA Focus.
In 2011 Jessica spoke to hundreds of students in Ghana.
Jessica has personally impacted people in 18 countries around the world.
Guinness World Record: Jessica Cox, the first woman to fly an airplane with her feet gained her pilot's license on 10 October 2008 in spite of being born without arms.
Jessica is known in the pilot community for flying the unique Ercoupe Airplane.
One of Jessica's personal heroes was Amelia Earhart.
Jessica has an unrestricted Arizona driver's license.
Jessica has a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from the University of Arizona. She wrote papers and completed tests with a pencil between her toes.
Cox works as a motivational speaker and has shared her message in 20 different countries.
In 2014 Cox competed in the 40 mile segment of El Tour de Tucson.
In 2015 Cox published an autobiographical self-help book, "Disarm Your Limits" . in order to inspire people to overcome their own challenges through the lessons she has learned in her life.
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    GettingNetBiosSettingMessage = Getting NetBIOS configuration for Interface '{0}'.
    InterfaceDetectedMessage = Interface '{0}' detected with Index number {1}.
    SettingNetBiosSettingMessage = Setting NetBIOS configuration for Interface '{0}'.
    ResetToDefautMessage = NetBIOS configuration will be reset to default.
    SetNetBiosMessage = NetBIOS configuration will be set to '{0}'.
    TestingNetBiosSettingMessage = Testing NetBIOS configuration for Interface '{0}'.
    CurrentNetBiosSettingMessage = Current NetBIOS configuration is '{0}'.
    DesiredSettingMessage = Desired NetBIOS configuration is '{0}'.
    InDesiredStateMessage = NetBIOS configuration is in desired state.
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const char kOsVersion[] = "10.6.4";

namespace content {

class GpuBlacklistTest : public testing::Test {
 public:
  GpuBlacklistTest() { }

  virtual ~GpuBlacklistTest() { }

  const GPUInfo& gpu_info() const {
    return gpu_info_;
  }

  void RunFeatureTest(
      const std::string feature_name, GpuFeatureType feature_type) {
    const std::string json =
        "{\n"
        "  \"name\": \"gpu blacklist\",\n"
        "  \"version\": \"0.1\",\n"
        "  \"entries\": [\n"
        "    {\n"
        "      \"id\": 1,\n"
        "      \"os\": {\n"
        "        \"type\": \"macosx\"\n"
        "      },\n"
        "      \"vendor_id\": \"0x10de\",\n"
        "      \"device_id\": [\"0x0640\"],\n"
        "      \"features\": [\n"
        "        \"" +
        feature_name +
        "\"\n"
        "      ]\n"
        "    }\n"
        "  ]\n"
        "}";

    scoped_ptr<GpuBlacklist> blacklist(GpuBlacklist::Create());
    EXPECT_TRUE(blacklist->LoadList(json, GpuBlacklist::kAllOs));
    int type = blacklist->MakeDecision(
        GpuBlacklist::kOsMacosx, kOsVersion, gpu_info());
    EXPECT_EQ(static_cast<int>(feature_type), type);
  }

 protected:
  virtual void SetUp() {
    gpu_info_.gpu.vendor_id = 0x10de;
    gpu_info_.gpu.device_id = 0x0640;
    gpu_info_.driver_vendor = "NVIDIA";
    gpu_info_.driver_version = "1.6.18";
    gpu_info_.driver_date = "7-14-2009";
    gpu_info_.machine_model = "MacBookPro 7.1";
    gpu_info_.gl_vendor = "NVIDIA Corporation";
    gpu_info_.gl_renderer = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OpenGL Engine";
    gpu_info_.performance_stats.graphics = 5.0;
    gpu_info_.performance_stats.gaming = 5.0;
    gpu_info_.performance_stats.overall = 5.0;
  }

  virtual void TearDown() {
  }

 private:
  GPUInfo gpu_info_;
};

TEST_F(GpuBlacklistTest, CurrentBlacklistValidation) {
  base::FilePath data_file;
  ASSERT_TRUE(PathService::Get(base::DIR_SOURCE_ROOT, &data_file));
  data_file =
      data_file.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("content"))
               .Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("browser"))
               .Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("gpu"))
               .Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("software_rendering_list.json"));
  ASSERT_TRUE(file_util::PathExists(data_file));
  int64 data_file_size64 = 0;
  ASSERT_TRUE(file_util::GetFileSize(data_file, &data_file_size64));
  int data_file_size = static_cast<int>(data_file_size64);
  scoped_array<char> data(new char[data_file_size]);
  ASSERT_EQ(data_file_size,
            file_util::ReadFile(data_file, data.get(), data_file_size));
  std::string json_string(data.get(), data_file_size);
  scoped_ptr<GpuBlacklist> blacklist(GpuBlacklist::Create());
  EXPECT_TRUE(blacklist->LoadList(json_string, GpuBlacklist::kAllOs));
  EXPECT_FALSE(blacklist->contains_unknown_fields());
}

#define GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(test_name, feature_name, feature_type) \
TEST_F(GpuBlacklistTest, test_name) {                                     \
  RunFeatureTest(feature_name, feature_type);                             \
}

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(Accelerated2DCanvas,
                           "accelerated_2d_canvas",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_ACCELERATED_2D_CANVAS)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(AcceleratedCompositing,
                           "accelerated_compositing",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_ACCELERATED_COMPOSITING)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(WebGL,
                           "webgl",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_WEBGL)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(Multisampling,
                           "multisampling",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_MULTISAMPLING)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(Flash3D,
                           "flash_3d",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_FLASH3D)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(FlashStage3D,
                           "flash_stage3d",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_FLASH_STAGE3D)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(FlashStage3DBaseline,
                           "flash_stage3d_baseline",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_FLASH_STAGE3D_BASELINE)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(TextureSharing,
                           "texture_sharing",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_TEXTURE_SHARING)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(AcceleratedVideoDecode,
                           "accelerated_video_decode",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_ACCELERATED_VIDEO_DECODE)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(Css3D,
                           "3d_css",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_3D_CSS)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(AcceleratedVideo,
                           "accelerated_video",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_ACCELERATED_VIDEO)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(PanelFitting,
                           "panel_fitting",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_PANEL_FITTING)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(ForceCompositingMode,
                           "force_compositing_mode",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_FORCE_COMPOSITING_MODE)

GPU_BLACKLIST_FEATURE_TEST(All,
                           "all",
                           GPU_FEATURE_TYPE_ALL)

}  // namespace content


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June 9, 2014 by Alana
After graduating from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Tom Bodenheimer spent time as a Peace Corps physician in Costa Rica, where he learned about the political economy and health infrastructure of rural Latin America. This led him to wonder how the US might adapt successful public health models from the developing world, such as promotores, or community health promoters. Upon his return, he practiced primary care for 32 years in San Francisco's Mission District, a primarily low-income, Latino community. He has written and co-authored several books on health policy, including Understanding Health Policy and Improving Primary Care. Dr. Bodenheimer has spent the past 11 years of his career in the University of California San Francisco's (UCSF) Department of Family and Community Medicine, where with his colleagues, he works with primary care providers to improve health care service delivery.
Career in Profile
1961- Graduated from Harvard College
1965- Graduated from Harvard Medical School
1965-1966- Interned at Boston City Hospital, Harvard Medical Service
1966-1967- Worked as a Research Assistant in Neuro-Anatomy, National Institutes of Health
1967- Served as a Peace Corps Physician in Costa Rica
1967-1968– Consulted for US Department of Health Education and Welfare
1968-1969– Served as a Urban Coalition Fellow in Community Medicine at the San Francisco General Hospital
1969– Completed MPH at University of California, Berkeley
1969-1971– Resident in Internal Medicine at University of California, San Francisco
1972-1975– Physician at the South of Market Health Center
1974-1976– Researched at the Health Policy Advisory Center
1975–1979– Physician at Mission Neighborhood Health Center
1980–2002– Physician at BayWest Family Health Care
1991-1996- Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
1995-96– Worked as the Hospital Utilization Manager at BayCare Medical Group
1996–2002- Clinical Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
1998–2000- National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine
NOW – Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Co, Director of the Center for Excellence in Primary Care, University of California, San Francisco
Can you talk about your decision to transition from practicing primary care to influencing health policy through your position at the University of California-San Francisco?
In primary care, there was this total divorce between primary care and populations. In primary care, we thought about who's coming in today or tomorrow. People didn't even know who their population was or who was on their panel of patients. Even though I have a Master's in Public Health [MPH], I turned off that way of thinking for a long time due to the pressures of private practice, but now I'm getting interested in it again. I was always really interested in health policy, even during my 1-year MPH program at the University of California-Berkeley. Even while I worked as a primary care physician, I itched to keep my hand in health policy, so Kevin Grumbach and I co-wrote Understanding Health Policy. I did some writing as a physician, and I kept my interest in health policy throughout my career as a practicing physician, but didn't have much opportunity to do much with it until I left the practice. I like to write. It's fun.
My health policy work had to get pretty truncated while I worked in primary care, but being in a private practice really teaches you how the health system works, from the bottom up. Not from the very bottom, which sadly is where patients are, but primary care is close to the bottom. This was during the time when Health Maintenance Organizations [HMO] came into being, so we had HMO contracts and PPO Preferred Provider Organization [PPO] contracts and we were in different independent physician associations and we had to worry about different managed care issues … We learned a lot about health policy just by trying to keep our practice working in the crazy world of California in the 1980s and 1990s.
You've done a number of things in your career, so what are one or two highlights?
When people ask, what do you think you did with your life? I say, "I tried to take care of a lot of low-income, mostly Latina patients, and tried to do the best I could to make their lives better". To me, that's the best thing I've done.
In terms of highlights? When I left the practice, I had no idea what I was going to do. I realized, "I have to go…I'm too burned out to do this any longer". I went to a conference up in Seattle that Ed Wagner's group [GroupHealth Research Institute] was running, and I met people that I'd never met before – Ed Wagner, Kate Lorig – and I realized, "I want to work on patient self-management". I know that if patients aren't part of what happens, it's not going to work.
So my main focus at UCSF has been patient self-management, mostly through health coaching. Health coaching works with people with chronic conditions to help them understand their disease, and gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence that they need to care for themselves as best they can. For example, if a patient with asthma doesn't know how to use the inhaler, then the inhaler isn't going to do any good. Using an inhaler is a skill. So a doctor gives patients a prescription for an inhaler and nobody will show them how to use it, they'll use it incorrectly or they'll use the wrong one, and it's useless.
Virtually every chronic condition has some skills associated with managing it. Behavior change is a big component of chronic disease and preventive care, and we have a method for dealing with behavior change that is called 'action plans'. Rather than saying: "you have to lose 10 pounds", you ask: "What would you like to do to make your health better?" Let the patient give you their long-term goals. Then you say, "Well, how can we implement an action plan to get you there?" Baby step by baby step – that's what the action plan is. The action plan might be: instead of eating a pint of ice cream each night, I'll eat half a pint. Whatever they're confident they can succeed in.
Medication adherence is a big issue in primary care, and health coaching helps patients overcome their numerous barriers to taking their meds, whether it's cost barriers, not believing it's important to take their meds, not remembering – whatever the barrier might be. So the summary of health coaching is helping people to be engaged in their own health.
There's a part of public health that's health education, and then there's primary care, and health coaching is a space where the two meet. So it strikes me that health coaching is a way that health education can operate within primary care, by working with patients to manage their chronic conditions.
Let me push health coaching a little farther. A colleague of mine and I co-wrote a paper. We ask people to create action plans to change their behavior, but we don't change the community in which they live. So a lot of times people live in a poor neighborhood where there are a lot of fast food outlets, and we ask them to create an action plan to improve their eating. Fast food is cheap! We haven't done the "upstream" work so that our patients can achieve their action plans, because the environment around them doesn't support their action plan.
We wrote a paper where we coined the phrase "evidence-based health." Evidence-based health has 3 parts. First, evidence-based medicine – so the care team does all the things that have been shown to work. Second is health coaching, helping patients to incorporate the evidence into their lives. The third component of evidence-based health is community health, or all those upstream factors that make it difficult for patients to fulfill their action plans. This takes guideline-driven medicine, adds on the self-management piece to help people implement the guidelines themselves, but also recognizes the toxic environment in which many of us live. It's like housing and asthma. You can do all the action planning you want with patients with asthma, but if you don't deal with the mold in the walls, it's not going to make much of a difference.
So it's primary care engaging with the patient, and also looking at the broader context in which the patient lives or works?
Exactly. It's where primary care and public health need to come together. And of course, that's the big divide that nobody's been able to figure out. Because primary care folks are too busy to deal with public health, and I think a lot of public health people care about primary care but they're in a different world. The two worlds need to be in one world.
I often think of public health and primary care on a continuum, community to individual, but we're often not talking to each other.
JAMA just had a 50-year issue on the progress on reducing smoking to improve population health. It was a wonderful issue, and they pointed out that most of the effective interventions have been public health interventions – the cigarette taxes that increase cost, smoke-free zones and mass media campaigns. Our counseling hasn't made nearly as much of a difference as the public health measures. One author pointed out that most people who stopped smoking just did it by themselves. By now, thanks to public health messaging campaigns, almost everybody who smokes knows that it's bad for them, it's just hard to quit. So it's pretty clear that with regards to smoking, which is still the biggest killer in the US, public health has been enormously successful, way more than medical care.
On that note, you also do work in health policy. Can you talk about that?
There's the macrosystem and the microsystem. For example, how much primary care providers get paid. Because they get paid a lot less than specialists, most medical students don't want to go into primary care and it's harder work. So that's a macrosystem health policy issue. The microsystem, in contrast, is what happens at the level of the individual practice or clinic.
Our group at UCSF is called the Center for Excellence in Primary Care. Most of the work we've done is microsystem work. We try to figure out how can we help practices work better. How can we help them use data to drive quality improvement? How can we help primary care teams work together? See more patients? Primary care doesn't have enough capacity to see all the patients who need primary care. We've also developed models for providing intensive health coaching for complex patients – the 10% of patients who incur 70% of costs. All of those things are microsystem improvements that desperately need to be done, because a lot of primary care clinics don't work well at all.
This relates back to the macrosystem, because if medical students train in primary care clinics that don't work well, or all the doctors are unhappy and burned out, then the students say, "I don't want to go into this!" So the two are related.
Can you illustrate what that looks like?
One of the practices we're working with is a pediatric practice. One of their goals was to improve cycle time. Low-income families come in, it's a teaching clinic, so they see a resident. The resident then goes to the attending to get precepted, the patient's sitting there with kids bouncing off the wall. Finally the resident comes back, maybe with the preceptor. Then the kids haven't gotten their immunizations yet because the preceptor has to approve the immunization order, so then the families have to wait even longer for the LVN [licensed vocational nurse] to get everything ready. So families are waiting a long time, and it's really hard for patients with small kids to wait so long. Our analyses showed that roughly 50% of the cycle time – which was 2 hours – was waste and 50% was value-added.
We had to figure out how to reduce the waste, and a lot of it had to do with the workflow for immunizations. If we could get the immunizations approved earlier and done while parents were waiting for residents to come back, we could maybe reduce the cycle time by half an hour. That's an example of the kinds of things we try to do with clinics. Sometimes we fail and sometimes we succeed.
When you think about public health or primary care, what do you see as a persistent challenge?
I think it's where the dollars go. It's something like 3% of the total health budget, which is about $2.25 trillion, goes into public health, and about 6% goes to primary care. A lot of it goes to specialists and hospitals and to interventions that aren't evidence-based and that patients don't even need or want. Some of it is end-of-life, unnecessary surgeries, unnecessary tests. There's a whole movement called "Avoiding Avoidable Care". To avoid care that's unnecessary, and thus drive down costs.
We need to completely redistribute the health budget so that way more goes into public health and primary care. There is plenty of money in the healthcare system, and it is maddening to see the priorities of where that money is spent. It's the paradox of excess and deprivation.
There are so many people who have so much care that they don't even want, and a lot of this is driven by fee-for-service payment. And then there are a lot of people at the other end – the uninsured, minorities, vulnerable populations – who don't get care. It's a huge challenge and it won't be easily solved. So much money goes into the far downstream care of people who didn't get the upstream prevention and primary care that they need.
What might it take to solve this problem?
Well, I know what the healthcare budget would look like – channel the money that's being wasted on unnecessary care in specialty and unneeded hospital admissions, etc., and redirect it into primary care and public health. How to get there is political.
The will to do the right thing in this country seems to have waned in the last 50 years, and I don't know if we'll get it back. So people can see what the solution should look like, but I cannot see how we're going to get there. I can give you a bunch of platitudes about how we have to elect Don Berwick as Massachusetts' governor (former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and former President and CEO of the Institute for Health Improvement) – but it's much deeper than that. It's a deep-seated problem and I don't know how we're going to solve it. Other countries have solved it because they have political systems that are more rational, I think, and also more humane.
10% of a person's health is determined by healthcare, and 60% is determined by self-management issues, community issues, education, class, race, anything but healthcare. There's so much potential for people to live long, wonderful, healthy lives in the 21st Century. People should have the opportunity to do it and the opportunity should be evenly distributed among society, and it's not. It's sad to see that the potential of humanity is so variable depending on where you come from, your income, what family you were born into, issues like that. I think that's, to me, the biggest issue. People call it "disparities." I think it's about allowing everybody to have the opportunity to have a long, healthy, happy life, as much as it's possible.
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Last weekend, Big Brother 11 and 13 houseguest Jeff Schroeder once again returned to the Big Brother Over the Top house. Jeff came to BBOTT to host a golf inspired power of veto competition. Jeff joked around with contestants like Shelby Stockton, who had no clue who he was.
He also mentioned that his wife, Jordan Lloyd was ready to give birth at any moment. He wasn't joking because Jordan gave birth to their first child, Lawson Keith Schroeder, on October 13, 2016, only four days after his BBOTT appearance.
Congrats to the new parents. See some of their Instagram pictures of baby Lawson below.
Nice. I'm happy for them.
Nothing quite like a little all-dependent bundle when it becomes your responsibility!


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"End-Game For ISIS In North-Eastern Syria?" Topic
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Tango01 12 Sep 2018 4:00 p.m. PST
"A US-backed militia alliance has begun what it says is the final stage of a campaign to clear the Islamic State (IS) group from north-eastern Syria.
The Syrian Democratic Forces launched a ground offensive on Monday against jihadist militants around Hajin, a town in the Middle Euphrates River Valley.
The international coalition backing the Kurdish and Arab fighters said they were expecting a "difficult fight"…"
Thresher01 13 Sep 2018 1:26 a.m. PST
Let's hope, but I suspect a lot are hiding in plain sight, biding their time, after they've mixed in with the civies again.
Others have moved to Afghanistan, Libya, and other receptive countries in the region.
jdginaz 13 Sep 2018 12:12 p.m. PST
I'll bet a lot are hiding in plan sight and are happy to that they got way and with continue to hide from both sides.
Tango01 15 Sep 2018 11:53 a.m. PST


Andy travels 15 thousand years into the past to meet a giant prehistoric sloth. On the way, he is stalked by a sabre-toothed cat and rides a colossal Columbian mammoth.
Andy travels through time and lands 30 million years ago in Mongolia, where he meets the paraceratherium - a giant mammal which is five times the size of a rhinoceros!


All these drunk spring break melees begin to look identical after a little while.
Sand, surf, suds and beer muscles all conspire to create some of the most pathetic fighting ever captured on video. And this one's no different.
It happened at spring break in Ft. Lauderdale and starts out promisingly enough, with a horde of muscle-bound inebriated dudes all looking to deck someone. Unfortunately, they've all got the punching accuracy of a blind man and it fizzles out quickly.
The spring break fight from last week where the girl jumped on the guy's back was more entertaining. Check out the guy in the righthand corner, though. He's dancing the whole time, not even stopping to dodge flying bodies.
He's got the right idea. It doesn't hurt if you can't feel it!


7:00p — (2) Perrysburg def. (3) Sylvania Northview, 1-0.
7:00p — (1) Rocky River Magnificant def. (2) Copley, 3-2.
3:00p — (1) Rocky River Magnificant def. (2) Perrysburg, 2-1, 2 OTs.
7:00p — (1) #8 Lima Bath def. (1) #18 Millbury Lake, 3-0.
7:00p — (1) #5 Clear Fork def. (3) Parma Heights Holy Name, 2-1.
3:00p — (1) #8 Lima Bath def. (1) #5 Clear Fork, 1-0.
7:00p — (1) Akron Manchester def. (1) Van Buren, 1-0.
7:00p — (1) #4 Ottawa-Glandorf def. (2) Archbold, 5-1.
3:00p — (1) #4 Ottawa-Glandorf def. (1) Akron Manchester, 3-0.
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Excited to go to Ottawa hills and call the OG game, they've been solid all year and are a lot of fun to watch.


Our favorite, all-time file sharing service, Dropbox, generously provides up to 2 gigs of file space for free. For many users this might be enough, but now that Dropbox is becoming the central cloud syncing service for shuffling and sharing stuff between computers and mobile devices, the allotted free space may fill up rather quickly if it's not probably managed and organized.
If you upload, download, and share files to your Dropbox account on a regular basis, you may sometimes forget where you saved pieces of content. You can launch your Dropbox account and use what is called the Events tab to see all the latest activity related to your account.
Clicking on the Events tab, you can quickly locate recently added, deleted, or shared files to your account. Surprisingly, you can jump back and view several months of file activity on your account.
I didn't realize this until recently, but Dropbox has sort of an Apple Time Machine feature, in that keeps a copy of your deleted files for 30 days before they are permanently deleted. So if you need to retrieve a trashed file, just click on the "Show deleted files" tab, and all your deleted files will show up as grayed out.
Click on the file/folder and then click on the little triangle which will reveal two buttons, one for restoring the lost Dropbox file or folder to its original folder, and the other for permanently deleting it. If your computer is shared with other users you will want to make sure sensitive files are permanently deleted from your account.
One of the best ways to ensure that you don't fill your allotted free space on Dropbox to the brim is to, well, clean it up sometimes. Yes, that can be hassle to do manually. Who among us is looking for more house chores? If you're a Mac user, let's quickly learn how you can use Automator, installed by default in OS X, to build a folder action to automatically move files added to your Dropbox account to another place on your computer. This is especially useful if you're uploading lots of photos to your Dropbox account and you want to move them to preserve space in your account.
Here's how you set up a folder action for Dropbox. I assume that you have Dropbox installed on your Mac.
Open Automator in your Application's folder. Choose Folder Action in the drop-down template window, and then click, Choose.
At the top of the workflow area, where it says, "Folder Action receives files and folders added to," click the drop-down button and locate the local folder in your Dropbox account in which you want the content of added files automatically moved or copied to this selected folder.
In the Automator search field, type "Move Finder Items," to locate that workflow action. Drag that action into the main workflow area.
In the action, click the drop-down button next "To" and locate or create a folder where you want your designated files automatically moved to.
Save the workflow. Now when new files are added to your designated Dropbox folder (say by using a mobile app that syncs to your account) they will be moved to the selected folder on your computer.
If you no longer want to use the folder action, you can simply delete the folder from your Dropbox account, or locate the Automator workflow action in your Home Library > Workflows > Applications > Folder Actions. In there, you can delete the workflow action.
Let us know if you find these tips useful for managing your Dropbox. Also let us know about other ways you use to keep your Dropbox account well managed and under the free space limit.
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Thanks for sharing A-B-C folders, Jörg.
On Windows, the freeware app Download Mover makes it even easier. You can specify multiple watched folders, and choose to move different filetypes to different locations. For example, I have it set on my desktop to move any torrent files I place in Dropbox remotely into the watch folder I've set up for uTorrent.
Download Mover works in a similar (but easier) fashion on Windows - you can specify watch folders, types of files to move, and destinations by type of file.
Thanks, Jonathan, for letting us know this.


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Canada's Gun Confiscation Program: Past is Prologue
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/ Posted on September 29, 2020 September 29, 2020 by NRAHQ
Under the Trudeau government's ban and confiscation program announced on May 1, over 1,500 firearms and devices listed in a government regulation immediately became a "prohibited" IMG NRA-ILA
U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- For observers familiar with Canada's long-gun registry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's scheme to implement his "assault weapons" ban is already giving off a whiff of déjà vu.
Under the Trudeau government's ban and confiscation program announced on May 1, over 1,500 firearms and devices listed in a government regulation immediately became a "prohibited" firearm or "prohibited device," as did "any variants or modified versions."
The law includes a two-year "amnesty" period ending April 30, 2022. A "regulatory impact analysis statement" released with the gun ban regulation states: "During the amnesty period, the Government intends to implement a buy-back program to compensate affected owners for the value of their firearms after they are delivered to a police officer; however until a buy-back program is offered, affected owners will not be eligible for compensation. An option to participate in a grandfathering regime would also be made available for affected owners. Further public communications on the buy-back program and the grandfathering regime will follow later." In the meantime, use of the banned firearm or device is almost completely prohibited.
The problems began almost immediately. The law had a much broader reach than advertised, as it became known that the RCMP was adding, as "prohibited," over a thousand firearms that weren't directly mentioned in the May regulation. Gun rights groups also questioned the validity of standards in the regulation based on a firearm's bore diameter or the muzzle energy in discharging a projectile.
It is now apparent that the government had no implementation plan in place at the time the May gun ban took effect, as it wasn't until August that private contractors were reportedly contacted for expressions of interest in administering the so-called "buyback" (Notice of Proposed Procurement" on "Compensation Model and Program Design Options for a Potential Buyback Program for Recently Prohibited Firearms," No. 202101502).
The Notice had an initial "Phase One" deadline of March 31, 2021 – almost a year into the amnesty period. Phase One covers the theoretical program design and the development of "compensation model options," but "does not include initiating the delivery of the buy-back program."
As of late September, no contractor has been announced and the details of the confiscation program and "grandfathering" option remain a complete blank.
A news source quotes a spokesperson's evasive hedging on the timing and whether the program will even be operational by the time the amnesty expires: "While it is the government's intent to bring a buy-back program forward during the amnesty period, it is too early to devise with a degree of precision the exact timelines against which such a program would run."
Another huge question mark is the economic fallout of the gun ban. One initial estimate of the "buyback" program cost topped out at a maximum of CDN$600 million. The "regulatory impact analysis statement" is less forthcoming, stating only that "the costs associated with implementing a buy-back program and grandfathering regime have not yet been finalized." It adds that the ban will have additional unknown costs due to the economic impact on small businesses, manufacturers, sport shooting, and hunting (hunting alone "contributes an estimated $4.1 billion to Canada's GDP as well as $2 billion in labor income, and supports about 33,313 full-time equivalent jobs").
Canadians have already paid heavily for one failed Liberal experiment in gun control. The notorious national gun registry that took effect in 1998 was promised to cost taxpayers no more than CDN$2 million. In 2002, the federal Auditor General's report predicted that by 2005, the costs to the Department of Justice alone would be 500 times that amount, over $1 billion. Besides the stupendous cost overruns, her report identified additional, serious concerns with the gun registry.
First and foremost, the federal Department of Justice did not "provide Parliament with sufficient information to allow it to effectively scrutinize" the program and ensure accountability, and provided insufficient information to explain "the dramatic increase" in the program costs.
Funding assumptions were "unrealistic," and the financial information disclosed did not fairly represent the government's program costs. The costs to comply incurred by provinces, territories, firearm owners, firearm clubs, manufacturers, sellers, importers, and exporters of firearms were not reported and not included.
Significantly, the program had become "excessively regulatory." This "excessive focus on regulation and control" was explained by the fact that some "Program partners believed that the use of firearms is in itself a 'questionable activity' that required strong controls, and that there should be a zero-tolerance attitude towards non-compliance…"
In the end, the registry – with no discernible public benefit-cost Canada's taxpayers at least $2.7 billion before it was discontinued by Stephen Harper's Conservative government in 2012.
Asked about the registry in 2012, Justin Trudeau could do no less than call it a "failure."
With a ballooning federal deficit and an economy struggling to cope with the COVID pandemic, anxious Canadians are right to be concerned about the Liberals' track record and the lengths to which they will go to turn Canada into their version of a gun control utopia.
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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the "lobbying" arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.orgwd
Laddyboy
As it is with American COMMUNISTS;
Gun control = PEOPLE CONTROL!!!!
musicman44mag
No, that would be legal now, but later it wont be. Start small and then grow it into what you actually wanted it to be in the first place. No guns at all only for the cops and the rich and privileged.
This is the picture that we all need to pay attention to. It is the playbook for anti gunners and what Liedn and kameltoe will attempt to do if they win. They know if they try and take our guns overnight their will be havoc so instead they will register and then tax and do everything they can to make it so we cannot afford to have guns. Learn how to reload, buy up as much as you can to arm yourself. Ammo and gun parts might become as valuable as food if this all goes south and for all… Read more »
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Tucked away in West Wickham, Bromley, Kent, between playing fields, a bowls club and a tennis club is Wickham Theatre Centre (known as Theatre 62), a thriving amateur dramatic group. For 57 years we have been producing a variety of plays from dramas to comedies to thrillers.
We perform five productions each year in our studio theatre, each running for six nights. We set ourselves high standards and have won awards in the Bromley Theatre Guild's Full Length Play Festival, including in 2018.
But Theatre 62 is about more than just acting. As well as the studio theatre we have a rehearsal room, a licensed bar and extensive wardrobe, scenery, props and lighting facilities. To find out more about what we do and how you can get involved click here
Our auditorium is equipped with an induction loop for hearing aid users.
There is plenty of free parking is available at the Theatre.
How are we managed?
A Board manages the affairs of Theatre 62. The Board are the Trustees of Wickham Theatre Trust acting together as the Board of Directors of Wickham Theatre Trust Ltd.
All the functions, responsibilities and activities of Wickham Theatre Trust are controlled and directed, supervised and managed by the Board. Particular functions, responsibilities and activities are allocated to be the remit of particular members of the Board. The Annual General Meeting usually takes place in May each year.
The Trustees for 2018-19:
Chair – Pieter Swinge
Vice Chair – Diana Quinn
Secretary – Pauline Wathen
Board members: Janet Clark, John Heather, Howard James, Christine Lever, Paul Newton, John Randoll
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11-year old Sidney Keys III has started his own book club titled Books N Bros to help young Black boys see themselves more in the media.
According to its Facebook page, Sidney started Books n Bros Book Club to make reading fun for boys particularly between 8-12 years old but welcomes young boys within the reading level of 4th-6th grade. Boys, especially African American boys statistically stop reading within this age group and we wanted to combat that stereotype and encourage literacy within the young African American community.
Books n Bros has a goal to focus on the bond of boys who are interested in reading African American literature that encourages Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Technology and more.
But it was a visit to a bookstore in the University City neighborhood in his hometown of St. Louis in August 2016 that changed his perspective. While visiting EyeSeeMe, a bookstore that focuses on African American literature, he had a moment and his mom recorded it on Facebook.
To date, it has over 63,000 views and has been shared over 1,7000 times.
"He hadn't seen [a bookstore] like that before and I certainly never had, so he was making himself comfortable on the floor, reading a book," Caldwell said in an interview with St. Louis Public Radio. "… When you get to a point when he is 11 years old and it was so shocking for him to relate to someone on the cover in a positive aspect rather than it be some negative urban story we see a lot."
The club currently meets once a month and the group decides on one book to read. Although still small, it is growing every month. You can also follow Books N Bros on instagram.
What are your thoughts on this idea? How can we continue to change the narrative and encourage more young Black boys to embrace reading more often?


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Kostel svatého Bedřicha se nachází v obci Bílá, v okrese Frýdek-Místek. Od roku 1964 je chráněn jako kulturní památka.

Historie
Kostel nechal v letech 1873–1874 vystavět olomoucký arcibiskup kardinál Friedrich Langrat z Fürstenbergu a její realizací pověřil Antonína Kybastu, hlavního arcibiskupského stavitele. Věřící z Bílé do té doby museli docházet do Ostravice. Jako inspirace posloužil kostel vystavěný v tzv. severském či švédském stylu pro světovou výstavu ve Vídni.

Původní kostel, k jehož vysvěcení došlo v roce 1875, byl o něco menší než ten současný. V roce 1911 se stal farním kostelem a došlo k přístavbě sakristie, kůru a věže. Zároveň byla celá stavba vyzvednuta na kamenný sokl.

Popis
Jedná se o trojlodní dřevěnou stavbu na zalamovaném půdorysu. Centrální obdélnou loď zakončuje trámový strop, na hlavní průčelí přisedá věž se štíhlými okny a jehlanem, zakončeným makovicí a křížem. Věž i střechu pokrývá ručně štípaný šindel.

Při stavbě kostela byla použita na české poměry neobvyklá konstrukce zvaná stavkirche, rozšířená především v Norsku v 11. století. Horní okna v kostela jsou vitrážová, dolní v roce 1945 nahradila křížová cesta, zhotovená leptáním skla.

Vnitřní sloupy byly vytvořeny z jednoho kusu dřeva, v prvním patře nesou galerii, v bocích se slepými arkádami. V zadní části je umístěn chrámový kůr s trojicí otevřených arkád. Varhany z roku 1924 pochází od Vojtěcha Káše z Brna. Ve střední části chrámové lodi přerušují galerie boční vchody s předsíňkami.

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 Bílá farní kostel sv. Bedřicha, farnostostravice.cz
 DŘEVĚNÝ KOSTEL SV. BEDŘICHA V BÍLÉ, zajimavosti.beskydy.cz

Bedřich (Bílá)
Bedřich (Bílá)
Bedřicha Bílá
Kulturní památky v okrese Frýdek-Místek
Stavby v Bílé (okres Frýdek-Místek)
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The objectives of this research are 1) to study the accounting and internal control problems by the Hua Diat Saving Fund Group in Meuang District,Tak Province, 2) to study the accounting and internal control cause problem of Hua Diat Saving Fund Group in Meuang District,Tak Province, and 3) to study the accounting and internal control the troubleshooting guidelines of Hua Diat Saving Fund Group in Meuang District,Tak Province. Questionnaires and interviews were employed to collect data from 5 people of the Hua Diat Saving Fund Group. From a study of the accounts of the Hua Diat Saving Fund Group, it was shown the three problems affect the Groups. 1) There is an education problem. Most bookkeepers taking part in the study only graduated from secondary school, and no knowledge of any accounts as a result, the accounting does not follow the format as an international standard as a profitable business, but the nature of the accounting work carried out by these bookkeepers. Places and emphasis on understanding and practice based on learning on the job. 2) The experience of the bookkeepers. Most bookkeepers derive their accounting capabilities and understanding from their daily practices, and 3) The frequency of accounting training was found to be at a moderate level ; hence, bookkeepers in the Hua Diat Saving Fund Group carry out their accounting work based on regular practice, rather than education and have no manuals or models to refer to, especially in the Hua Diat Saving Fond Groups. Furthermore, as a result, the accounting and financial statements are incorrect. In terms of the internal controls of the Hua Diat Saving Fond Groups, there and five factors that the members and focused on, these being : the control environment focus on the authority and responsibility within the group savings and efficiency in monitoring the performance of the assignment. Risk assessments focus on collection of receivables from loans. Control activities the division focus on functions to suit their abilities and skills of the community savings groups. Information and communication focus on documenting fully organized in groups properly. And monitoring focus on endorsed accuracy of financial information and the Board of Directors. Therefore, the internal control of the Hua Diat Saving Fond Groups majority, so no problem.


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Permission Culture Infects Texas: Rodeos Or A Mexican Restaurant, Who Can Tell Them Apart?
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Thu, Nov 12th 2015 11:12pm — Timothy Geigner
Just when you think you've heard it all, along comes a story so ridiculous it's hard to write headlines for it that do it justice. We can still try, I guess. For pure hilarious complications, it's hard to outdo the state of Texas denying Rodeo Austin, which puts on a fair and rodeo down south, a registration for its name because its name is supposedly too similar to El Rodeo Inc., a Mexican restaurant that doesn't appear to exist.
This all came about because a well-established rodeo fair that had previously been known as The Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo has since become better known simply as Rodeo Austin. The rodeo has a federal trademark registration on that new name and likewise sought to register it as its official business name with the state of Texas. The Texas Secretary of State rejected the application.
In its decision, the Secretary of State's office wrote that Rodeo Austin was too similar to El Rodeo Inc., a Mexican restaurant located – or at least once was -- north of Houston in the city of Conroe. In its rejection, the Texas Secretary of State wrote that "the only significant difference between your proposed name and the entity name on file is the geographic designation at the end of the name," and ruled the two names to be deceptively similar. Thus, Rodeo Austin would be required to get permission from El Rodeo to use its desired corporate name.
If this has the ring of trademark law to it, it unfortunately doesn't borrow enough from trademark law. A brief persual of the rules for registering businesses in Texas, and specifically what constitutes business names that are too similar to be registered or are deceptive in nature, leaves out any language about actual consumer confusion or competitive markets. This is one of the most important provisions in trademark law, one which disallows for the ownership of common langauge for every use in every industry. And it also has the happy benefit of putting the public interest in the forefront. The rules in Texas don't do either. Specifically concerning what constitutes deceptively similar business names which cannot be registered, the statute reads:
§79.37: Entity names are deceptively similar if on comparison of the names by the secretary of state there is an apparent difference, but the difference is such that the names are likely to be confused.
Be confused by who, exactly? Because it's difficult to understand how El Rodeo Inc. and Austin Rodeo are going to result in anyone heading to the bull ring for a burrito, or wearing a matador suit to a taco stand. The Secretary of State in Texas makes a big deal about how the foreign nature of words doesn't eliminate the potential for confusion or the similarity of the business names, which, fine, but if this all comes down to the word "rodeo", in Texas of all places, how can the state allow that word to be locked up for the purposes of registration?
Oh, and how about the fact that El Rodeo probably doesn't exist any longer?
Court documents place the restaurant at 2105 W. Davis St., Suite G in Conroe, at least as of 2004. But a Smoothie King operates at that address presently. Attempts to contact the owners of the restaurant for comment on this story at a phone number listed for El Rodeo in an online business directory were not successful, answered only by a voice prompt asking for a corporate access code. That same phone number is listed as the franchise phone number for Smoothie King's Conroe Location on the Smoothie King website.
The only confusion in this entire story appears to be just what the hell El Rodeo is and whether or not it currently exists. Austin Rodeo has filed suit to get the state to recognize its name, which it has had a federal registration for since the late nineties. I would expect them to win on the merits. The more important point is that we ought not let the permission culture bred by intellectual property propagate this way.
Filed Under: competition, confusion, restaurant, rodeo, texas, trademark
Companies: el rodeo inc., rodeo austin