I wonder how many blogs posts I have that open with me referencing the fact that I've not posted in a while. Probably a lot.
So as the title indicates, I'm going to summarize some of the major things that have happened in my life lately, as well as some minor things. You discern which is which.
My parents and sister recently moved. Same town, different home. Better home. Much better. It all happened so fast, though. Being the sentimental goof that I am, it's a bit sad knowing that the home I grew up in and have always called "home" is no longer home and I'm no longer welcome there as I always have been. Home is at another location now. Still welcome, but not the same.
Work has been incredibly slow. Lack of work means lack of income. Of course that means to bills going unpaid and all of the financial woes that go along with that. Stress, frustration, depression… it's the grab bag of emotional crap and each day I reach in blindly and see what pathetic state I'll find myself in next.
I normally stream on Twitch.tv almost daily, however this hasn't been happening mostly due to the stuff mentioned in the previous paragraph. I'll get back into it. It's just hard to want to entertain others when I'm so bummed out.
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Ereignisse

Politik und Weltgeschehen

Englisch-Niederländischer Krieg / Holländischer Krieg

 März: Der englische König Karl II. erklärt den Niederlanden den Krieg. Der Englisch-Niederländische Krieg ist der dritte Krieg in einer Reihe von Seekriegen zwischen den beiden Ländern im 17./18. Jahrhundert und weitet sich bald zu einem gesamteuropäischen Konflikt aus. Das Rampjaar der Niederländer beginnt, mit dem das Ende des Goldenen Zeitalters der Niederlande eingeläutet wird.
 6. April: Der französische König Ludwig XIV. erklärt der Republik der Sieben Vereinigten Niederlande den Krieg. In der Folgezeit marschiert er mit Truppen in das Land ein. Sein Vorstoß ist mit anderen Mächten wie Köln und Münster unter anderem durch den Vertrag von Dover diplomatisch abgesichert.

 7. Juni: In der Seeschlacht in der Solebay können die Niederlande unter Admiral Michiel de Ruyter mit einem Überraschungsangriff die Seeblockade ihrer Küste durch die englisch-französische Flotte verhindern.
 Juli: Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Fürstbischof zu Münster, marschiert in den Niederlanden ein und erobert mehrere Ortschaften, darunter die Festung Coevorden. Am 21. Juli beginnt er mit der Belagerung von Groningen.
 20. August: Der niederländische Politiker Johan de Witt wird zusammen mit seinem Bruder Cornelis de Witt von Anhängern des Hauses Oranien brutal ermordet. Den Brüdern wird die Verantwortung für die Kriege im Rampjaar in die Schuhe geschoben. Wilhelm III. von Oranien wird im Anschluss zum Statthalter, Generalkapitän und Admiral der Niederlande gewählt.

 28. August: Die Provinzstadt Groningen unter Carl von Rabenhaupt befreit sich aus der Belagerung durch Christoph Bernhard von Galen. Ab 1700 wird das Fest Gronings Ontzet zur Erinnerung an das Ereignis gefeiert. Rabenhaupt gelingt im Dezember die Rückeroberung von Coevorden.

Osmanisch-Polnischer Krieg
 August: Das Osmanische Reich betritt im Osmanisch-Polnischen Krieg mit einer Streitmacht von bis zu 100.000 Mann Kampftruppen unter der Führung von Großwesir Köprülü Fâzıl Ahmed unter Sultan Mehmed IV. das Gebiet der polnischen Ukraine und erobert am 26. August die Festung Kamieniec Podolski. Aufgrund innerer Zerwürfnisse zwischen dem König Michael Wisniowiecki, der 1669 durch die Masse des Kleinadels an die Macht gekommen ist, und den Magnaten, die den König zur Abdankung zwingen wollen, ist das geschwächte Polen-Litauen für einen erneuten Krieg völlig unvorbereitet, außerdem kann der durch das Liberum Veto in der ersten Hälfte des Jahres durch die Anhänger des Königs zweimal blockierte polnische Reichstag keine höheren Steuern anordnen, um das Truppenkontingent im Angesicht der osmanischen Kriegserklärung zu erhöhen.
 20. September: Das osmanische Heer beginnt mit der Belagerung von Lemberg. Die Krimtataren beginnen mit Razzien zwischen den Flüssen Wieprz, San, Bug und Wislok, in einem Gebiet, das die Städte Zamość, Lemberg, Biecz und Drohobytsch umschließt.
 5. bis 14. Oktober: Jan Sobieski führt mit einer bis zu 4.000 Mann starken Privat-Kavallerie einen "Kriegszug gegen die Tataren-Razzien" ("Wyprawa Sobieskiego na czambuly tatarskie"). Er kann damit bis zu 44.000 Menschen aus der Gefangenschaft des Krimkhanats befreien, die man in die Sklaverei auf die Halbinsel Krim getrieben hat. Sein Feldzug hat allerdings keinen Einfluss auf den Ausgang der Kampagne des Jahres 1672.
 18. Oktober: Der Vertrag von Buczacz spricht dem Osmanischen Reich Podolien mit der Festung Kamieniec Podolski und fast die gesamte rechtsufrige Ukraine den Doroschenko-Kosaken als Vasallen der Hohen Pforte zu. Zudem verpflichtete sich die polnische Krone dem türkischen Sultan einen jährlichen Tribut von 22.000 "Czerwony Złoty" zu leisten.

Weitere Ereignisse in Europa
 28. Februar: Herzog Christian von Liegnitz, Brieg, Ohlau und Wohlau stirbt. Sein Sohn Georg Wilhelm I. besteigt mit zwölf Jahren als letzter Herrscher der schlesischen Piasten den Thron. Noch zu seinen Lebzeiten hat Herzog Christian verfügt, wie die Regentschaft seines Landes nach seinem Tod zu regeln sei. Demnach fällt die Vormundschaft über den noch nicht mündigen Georg Wilhelm an dessen Mutter Luise sowie die drei Landeshauptleute der hinterlassenen Fürstentümer. Eine Ehrenvormundschaft wird an den brandenburgischen Kurfürsten Friedrich Wilhelm sowie den Fürsten Johann Georg II. von Anhalt übertragen. Da zu befürchten ist, dass  Kaiser Leopold als böhmischer Landesherr die Obervormundschaft über den verwaisten Prinzen Georg Wilhelm an sich zieht, um ihn dann katholisch erziehen zu lassen, wird Georg Wilhelm einen Tag vor dem Tod seines Vaters in das brandenburgische Frankfurt gebracht. Aus diesem Grunde darf er auch nicht zur Beisetzung seines Vaters am 31. März nach Brieg zurückkehren. In Frankfurt wird ein Haus angemietet und Georg Wilhelm nach einem Ausbildungsprogramm seines Erziehers unterrichtet. Am 23. August stiftet er den Orden vom Goldenen Hirsch.
 Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern, Erzbischof von Köln schließt mit dem Bürgermeister und Rat der Stadt Köln den Kendenicher Rezess zur Beilegung des Streits, nachdem die Stadt Köln an der Stadtmauer einen Festungsbau hochgezogen hat, der, da das Kölner Stadtgebiet exakt mit der Stadtmauer endet, in das Territorium des Erzbistums hineinragt. Die streitenden Parteien versprechen, künftig Frieden zu halten. Streitigkeiten werden ausschließlich vor dem Reichskammergericht in Speyer ausgetragen. Die Stadt Köln verpflichtet sich außerdem, die Fortifikationen abzureißen oder anderweitig Satifikation zu leisten.
 14. April: Friedrich Wilhelm III., letzter Herzog von Sachsen-Altenburg, stirbt 14-jährig an den Pocken. Nach dem damit verbundenen Aussterben der Herzogsdynastie in Sachsen-Altenburg wird das Territorium zwischen Sachsen-Weimar und Sachsen-Gotha aufgeteilt. Gotha, das den Löwenanteil des Herzogtums erhält, wird damit zum Herzogtum Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg.

Wirtschaft

 Januar: Die französische Monatszeitschrift Mercure Gallant erscheint erstmals.
 Die Privatbank C. Hoare & Co. wird gegründet.

Wissenschaft und Technik
 Der englische Botaniker, Arzt und Physiologe Nehemiah Grew verfasst das Werk Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants und begründet damit die Phytotomie, die Wissenschaft der Gestalt von Pflanzen.

 23. Dezember: Der italienisch-französische Astronom und Mathematiker Giovanni Domenico Cassini entdeckt den Saturnmond Rhea.

Kultur
 9. Februar: Am Opernhaus am Taschenberg in Dresden findet die Uraufführung der frühesten vollständig erhaltenen deutschen Oper Drama oder Musikalisches Schauspiel von der Dafne von Marco Giuseppe Peranda und Giovanni Andrea Bontempi statt.
 11. März: Die gelehrten Frauen (Les Femmes savantes), eine Komödie des französischen Dichters Molière wird auf der Bühne des Palais Royal in Paris uraufgeführt.

Gesellschaft
 Der osmanische Beamte Hacı Ali verfasst ein Tagebuch über den Feldzug des Jahres 1672 gegen Polen-Litauen.

Religion
 15. März: Der englische König Karl II. erlässt die Erklärung zur Gewährung der Gewissensfreiheit (Royal Declaration of Indulgence). Sie zielt auf Toleranz gegenüber den englischen Katholiken ab. Im Folgejahr muss sie wegen parlamentarischen Widerständen vom König zurückgenommen werden.

Geboren

Erstes Halbjahr

 13. Januar: Lucia Filippini, die Gründerin der Schwesternkongregation Maestre Pie Filippini († 1732)
 16. Januar: Francesco Mancini, neapolitanischer Kapellmeister und Komponist († 1737)
 17. Januar: Antoine Houdar de la Motte, französischer Dramatiker, Librett und Poetiker im Zeitalter von Ludwig XIV. († 1731)
 24. Januar: Albrecht Friedrich von Brandenburg-Schwedt, kurbrandenburgisch-preußischer Generalleutnant und Herrenmeister des Johanniterordens († 1731)
 26. Januar: Anna Mons, westfälische Bürgerin, Geliebte Peters des Großen († 1714)

 13. Februar: Étienne François Geoffroy (der Ältere), französischer Chemiker und Mediziner († 1731)
 21. März: Johann Georg Abicht, Theologe und Sprachforscher († 1740)

 11. April: Johann Christian Bucke, deutscher lutherischer Theologe († 1723)
 1. Mai: Joseph Addison, britischer Schriftsteller und Politiker († 1719)

 9. Juni: Peter I. der Große, Zar und Großfürst von Russland und erster Kaiser des Russischen Reichs († 1725)
 11. Juni: Francesco Antonio Bonporti, italienischer Priester und Komponist († 1749)
 13. Juni: Anna Maria Franziska, Prinzessin von Sachsen-Lauenburg, Pfalzgräfin von Neuburg und Großherzogin der Toskana († 1741)
 17. Juni: Charlotte von Hessen-Homburg, Herzogin von Sachsen-Weimar († 1738)

Zweites Halbjahr

 16. Juli: Barbara FitzRoy, uneheliche Tochter des englischen Königs Karl II. († 1737)
 29. Juli: Charles Lennox, 1. Duke of Richmond, unehelicher Sohn des englischen Königs Karl II. († 1723)
 1. August: Sebastian Edzardus, deutscher Philosoph, lutherischer Streittheologe und Missionar († 1736)
 2. August: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Schweizer Arzt und Naturforscher († 1733)
 16. September: Gustav Georg Zeltner, evangelischer Theologe († 1738)
 September: Antoine Forqueray, französischer Komponist und königlicher Kammermusiker († 1745)

 3. Oktober: Friedrich Gottlieb Kettner, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und Kirchenhistoriker († 1739)
 7. Oktober: Ernst Ludwig I., Herzog von Sachsen-Meiningen († 1724)
 12. Oktober: Albrecht Meno Verpoorten, deutscher Pädagoge und lutherischer Theologe († 1752)
 21. Oktober: Pylyp Orlyk, Führer der Saporoscher Kosaken († 1742)

 1. November: Wilhelm Chenu de Chalsac l'Aujardiere, preußischer Oberst und Abenteurer († 1731)
 10. November: Johann Adolf von Metsch, Reichsvizekanzler des Heiligen Römischen Reiches († 1740)
 22. November: Justus Falckner, deutsch-amerikanischer lutherischer Pastor († 1723)
 26. November: Ernst Wladislaus von Dönhoff, preußischer Generalleutnant († 1724)

 19. Dezember: Johann Christian Rindt, deutscher Orgelbauer († 1744)
 21. Dezember: Benjamin Schmolck, deutscher Kirchenliederdichter († 1737)
 21. Dezember: Johann Christoph Schwedler, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und Kirchenlieddichter († 1730)
 24. Dezember: John Wanton, Gouverneur der Colony of Rhode Islands and Providence Plantations († 1740)

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 Georg Andreas Agricola, deutscher Arzt und Botaniker († 1738)
 Domenico d'Angeli, italienischer Architekt und Baumeister († 1738)
 Rosamunde Juliane von der Asseburg, deutsche Adelige († 1712)
 Nicolas de Grigny, französischer Komponist († 1703)
 Sebastian Regondi, italienischer Steinmetz und Bildhauer († 1717)

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 4. Januar: Friedrich von Ahlefeldt, Herr auf Kohøved, Bienebek und Hald (* 1627)
 5. Januar: Men-Fort Gabriel, Schweizer Geistlicher (* 1608)

 3. Februar: Philipp Valentin Voit von Rieneck, Fürstbischof von Bamberg (* 1612)
 4. Februar: Anna Maria Martinozzi, eine der Mazarinetten und Fürstin von Conti (* 1637)
 28. Februar: Christian, Herzog von Brieg, Wohlau und Ohlau (* 1618)

 2. März: Christoph Gumpp der Jüngere, österreichischer Hofbaumeister und Hoftischler (* 1600)
 8. März: Daniel von Plessen, deutscher Verwaltungsbeamter (* 1606)
 14. März: Johann Wilhelm Simler, Schweizer Dichter (* 1605)
 22. März: Ludmilla Elisabeth von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, deutsche Kirchenlieddichterin (* 1640)
 26. März: Anna Persauter, Opfer der Hexenverfolgung in Saulgau (* 1624)

 4. April: Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg, Graf von Stolberg-Wernigerode (* 1593)
 13. April: Margarete von Lothringen, Herzogin von Orléans (* 1615)
 14. April: Friedrich Wilhelm III., Herzog von Sachsen-Altenburg (* 1657)
 21. April: Franz Burmeister, evangelischer Theologe und Dichter (* 1633)
 27. April: Kurt Reinicke von Callenberg, deutscher Soldat und Verwaltungsbeamter (* 1607)

 5. Mai: Samuel Cooper, englischer Miniaturmaler (* 1609)
 27. Mai: Johann Arnold Friderici, deutscher Mediziner und Botaniker (* 1637)
 28. Mai: Edward Montagu, 1. Earl of Sandwich, englischer Admiral und Politiker (* 1625)
 28. Mai: Richard Nicolls, englischer Kolonialgouverneur der Provinz New York (* 1624)

 12. Juni: Charles Paris d'Orléans-Longueville, Herzog von Longueville, Fürst von Neuchâtel (* 1649)

 3. Juli: Francis Willughby, englischer Naturforscher (* 1635)
 6. Juli: Johann Georg Reinhard, deutscher Jurist und Verwaltungsbeamter (* 1606)
 9. Juli: Daniel Colonius der Jüngere, niederländischer Rechtswissenschaftler (* 1608)
 21. Juli: John Underhill, englischer Puritaner, Kolonist und Captain in der Massachusetts Bay Company in Nordamerika (* 1597)

 20. August: Johan de Witt, niederländischer Staatsmann (* 1625)
 20. August: Cornelis de Witt, niederländischer Politiker (* 1623)
 29. August: Nicolaus Zapf, deutscher lutherischer Theologe (* 1600)

 14. September: Henri Charles de La Trémoille, führende Persönlichkeit der Fronde (* 1620)
 16. September: Anne Bradstreet, die erste amerikanische Dichterin, deren Werke publiziert wurden (* 1612)
 29. September: Johannes Müller, deutscher lutherischer Theologe (* 1598)
 17. Oktober: Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach, deutsche Dichterin und Malerin (* 1617)

 4. November: Lucas van Uden, flämischer Maler und Radierer (* 1595)
 12. November: Melchior Barthel, deutscher Bildhauer (* 1625)
 12. November: Jean Nocret, französischer Maler und Porträtist (* 1615)
 14. November: Franciscus Sylvius, hessisch-niederländischer Arzt, Anatom und Naturwissenschaftler (* 1614)
 16. November: Heinrich Schütz, deutscher Musiker, Komponist und Organist der Barockzeit (* 1585)
 19. November: John Wilkins, Bischof von Chester (* 1614)

 6. Dezember: Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro, spanischer Kolonialverwalter und Vizekönig von Peru (* 1632)
 7. Dezember: Richard Bellingham, Gouverneur der englischen Massachusetts Bay Colony (* 1591/92)
 12. Dezember: Charles Stewart, 6. Duke of Lennox, schottischer Adeliger (* 1639)
 15. Dezember: Johann Brunnemann, deutscher Jurist (* 1608)
 16. Dezember: Johann II. Kasimir, König von Polen (* 1609)
 17. Dezember: Giovanni Antonio Boretti, italienischer Sänger und Komponist (* um 1640)
 19. Dezember: Dorothea Diana von Salm, Gräfin von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1604)
 21. Dezember: Petrus Zander, deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Geistlicher (* 1619)
 29. Dezember: Francisco de Meneses Brito, spanischer Offizier und Gouverneur von Chile (* 1615)

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Martin Schram: Now we need political heroics
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in August 2022. (Joseph Bustos/The State/TNS)
By Martin Schram |
Our news screens were erupting with breaking news of yet another mass shooting. But this time the news that began with a barrage of bullets also became something special — a tale of battlefield heroics on the homefront of a nightspot in Colorado Springs.
A brave military veteran, Richard Fierro, had rushed toward the first flashes of light as he had been trained to do. He smashed the gunman to the ground and pummeled. Mercifully and miraculously, a horrific fatality count of five innocent souls never became 50.
A day later we saw yet another godawful newsbreak. This one should have sent scores of famous-name Republican veterans of America's political wars rushing instinctively and instantly toward the news flash. Yet it didn't. But it may not be too late for scores of Republicans to once again show they can be a Grand Old Party. After all, we know that sometimes it takes a while before words of political incitement trigger warped individuals to commit horrific acts. We still shudder at the tragic attack following the repeated political incitement slogan of "Fire Pelosi!"
Now we have heard what sounded sickeningly like another political battle call — and we are all smart enough to sense the danger that could follow.
Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's former secretary of state and CIA director, made precisely the news he wanted to make last Monday. In an interview with Semafor correspondents David Weigel and Shelby Talcott, Pompeo, a conservative Republican who used to be a Kansas congressman, issued a carefully politically calculated pronouncement about an individual most Americans probably think they never heard of: "The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten. It's not a close call."
Pompeo was talking about the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Indeed, he was so intent upon making his attack on Weingarten the headline of his story that he asked himself a question he hadn't been asked — just to attack the teachers union leader. He said:
"I get asked 'Who's the most dangerous person in the world. Is it Chairman Kim, is it Xi Jinping?' The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten. It's not a close call. If you ask, 'Who's the most likely to take this republic down?' It would be the teachers' unions, and the filth that they're teaching our kids, and the fact that they don't know math and reading or writing."
Pompeo did not just stumble into this populist name-calling demagoguery out of ignorance. He graduated first in his class at West Point, then went to Harvard to get his law degree. He's been traveling the country to see if he can generate his own groundswell of Trump-like loyal voter support if he chooses to run for president in 2024 against his former boss and others.
Indeed, Pompeo is trying to play the Trump demagoguery card well before 2024, just as Trump found a way to make headlines long before his 2016 campaign. Remember Trump got himself on TV by initially repeating his blatantly false claim that President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, but Kenya, which would mean he was never eligible to be president.
Now Pompeo is trying to lure Trump's base by demonizing the teachers and their union. But the Republican Party that once stood for patriotism, law and order, still has many prominent political leaders who understand that Pompeo's self-serving political PR ploy can spin horribly out of control. Pompeo's words can inflame any of the many warped minds who have access to weapons. He could endanger not only the teachers union president, but all teachers, in all schools, who go to work each day, are woefully underpaid — but represent the infrastructure that is building America's next generations.
On Wednesday, Weingarten appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," whose host, Joe Scarborough, was a former conservative Republican congressman from Florida who broke with his party over its support of Trump. Scarborough told her "It's not just an attack on you, it's an attack on all teachers."
"You and I both know the history of incitement," Weingarten told her host, "And what happens when you start with words that get increasingly demagogic — and what that then does. … Do we need to have a mass shooting every night? Every day? … This is intended incitement. … What I'm concerned about is what it does for teachers in classrooms. And for parents. And for kids. … What does that do in terms of bringing people together."
Perhaps the ultimate point is that Pompeo's attack on Weingarten and teachers must do just that. Pompeo's demagogic words must bring together all the sane patriots who still call themselves Republicans. They must unite to condemn his message — and tell Americans we must work with our teachers to help them build the infrastructure that will be America's ultimate bridge to tomorrow.
Martin Schram, an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service, is a veteran Washington journalist, author and TV documentary executive. Readers may send him email at martin.schram@gmail.com.
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Perhaps the most bizarre film at Venice this year, Moebius is also the funniest. South Korean director Kim Ki-Duk's (2012 Golden Lion Winner for Pieta) latest, is a shocking morality tale exploring the themes of family, desires and…
Amazonia (2013)
Sai is a capuchin monkey. As the pet of a young girl, for a reason unbeknownst to us, he is tucked away in a cage with a cuddly toy monkey for company and transported by aeroplane across the country, and the Amazon rainforest. Sai doesn't…
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Set in Germany in 1912, A Promise tells the story of Frederic Zeitz (Richard Madden), a young man from a humble background who begins a job at a steelworks. His boss is Karl Hoffmeister (Alan Rickman) who quickly takes a shine to the…
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Hayao Miyazaki's final film is an absolutely gorgeous one, but its daring story will no doubt divide audiences. As with all Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki animations, The Wind Rises is a stunningly drawn work of art, with such astounding attention…
Still Life (2013)
John May (Eddie Marsan) is a council worker with a particularly important job; to find any living relatives of solitary deceased people in the borough and, if unsuccessful, arrange the funeral and burial or cremation of these people. John…
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Tom Hardy is Ivan Locke, a family man who has worked hard in construction and is dedicated to his job. But he has made a mistake and as we follow him on a drive to London, we learn how that one mistake will change his life forever.…
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IBM Sends Jeopardy Supercomputer to Medical School
Author: Robert McMillanRobert McMillan
IBM's Watson may have trounced former champion Ken Jennings in Jeopardy, but now it's facing an even bigger challenge: proving that it can make money for its creators.
It's well on the way. Last week, IBM said that it was working with Citi to "explore how the Watson technology could help improve and simplify the banking experience," but for the past six months, Big Blue has also teamed up with health insurer WellPoint to turn Watson into a machine that can support the doctors of the world.
IBM isn't saying too much about what Watson will be doing at Citi. The two companies plan to build "the first consumer banking applications" for the supercomputer. WellPoint is a bit more forthcoming. In December, the health insurer said that it was working with Cedars-Sinai Hospital's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute to help physicians treat cancer patients.
Does Watson Choke?
There was one other thing we had to ask IBM scientist David Gondek: What were the chances that Watson would choke on-camera in the midst of Jeopardy?
That was a possibility because Watson wasn't connected to the internet. If Jeopardy had picked some area that the quiz show had not traditionally ever asked about, the IBM team could have struck out, even though they'd crammed Watson with things like Shakespeare, the Bible, song lyrics, scientific textbooks. Watson is smart enough not to hit the buzzer unless it thinks it's got a good shot at the correct answer, but it could have gone silent. "Our real fear was that we'd just have one of these boards where it was just a bunch of topics that Watson didn't have in its corpus," he says, "so we just wouldn't end up answering any questions."
That never happened and Watson clobbered the two former champions it was pitted against. But could things have gone otherwise? Has Gondek seen a Watson-killer category since Watson appeared on Jeopardy?
He doesn't really know. "I've probably seen about 200 games' worth of Jeopardy questions and studied them," he says. "So after the game I needed to take a break."
It turns out that training Watson to help doctors and financial services customers has a lot in common with cramming for Jeopardy. In both cases, the computer has to do two things that machines have traditionally flubbed. First off, there's natural language processing. That means figuring out what the question actually is. Then there's machine learning: understanding what facts are important for which question. In others words, you give Watson questions, it gives you answers.
"If we can parse the clue and understand what the question is asking about, and we can parse this text in our documents and understand what our text is talking about then we can try to match," says David Gondek, a scientist with IBM who has worked on Watson for the past five years.
But there are differences too. When Watson helps out Cedars-Sinai doctors, it's not engaging in a vicious death-match for Triva-God bragging rights. It's a collaboration.
"It's a very different situation. Because in Jeopardy we were kind of constrained in that you get a question, you get an answer, and that's it," says Gondek. "In the medical case, we think more about interacting with a medical professional.... that means that it's not just a question and answer."
The processing is different, too. The Jeopardy system was trained to answer quiz show questions, where the answers are pretty much black and white. Feed Watson a copy of the Bible, and it's pretty much good to go on Bible trivia questions. In business and medicine, there are a lot of different sources, and some of them are considered more important than others.
So IBM is working with doctors to ensure that it has the right data sources and that the different sources it's using – medical journals, papers and textbooks – are given each given the proper weight.
"We don't want to come back with a single answer," says Gondek. "We want to come back with a set of answers and our justification behind them.
"Watson will give you the confidence and say: 'I"m 90 percent sure of this, or I'm only 10 percent sure of this.' You can immediately see how that is useful in medicine or in finance. The other thing we can do is we can tell the user why is this answer here. What kinds of evidence do we use, what facts did we use, what were we sure about, and what were we not sure about? And were the documents we used from very reliable sources or from less-reliable sources."
That kind of context is hard to get nowadays using internet sources. Last summer, when Gondek was exploring the idea of using Watson for medical diagnoses, he ran into a San Diego doctor at a health conference in California. "He said nowadays when he is dealing with patients, he spends the first 10 minutes talking to them about all the diagnoses they found by doing searches," he says. "It's just human nature. They will focus in on the most severe or life-threatening one. They will have a few mild systems and will decide that they have some horrible cancer. And so he has to talk them down."
Gondek's dream is that Watson could somehow help doctors and patients get a better context on their healthcare – and help financial service customers get the same kind of weighted context on their investments. "What if something like Watson could get you more involved with your health?"
Emergency Medicine Resident Physician Iltifat Husain believes that Watson could never replace a doctor, but he says that it could be turned into a useful medical triage system, where patients tell Watson their symptoms and it figures out whether they need to come into the hospital for treatment.
There's a lot that Watson isn't going to be able to do, no matter how hard it crams, says Husain, who works at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He's taking about the very human act of getting a read on a patient: How does their voice change when describing symptoms? How do they sit? What do their eyes say? "One of the first things I learned about medicine once I actually started practicing as a physician was medical texts only provide you with 50 percent of the education you need," he says. "The rest you learn on the job."
WellPoint says its medical learning application is still a year away. In the meantime, Gondek and the IBM researchers are putting Watson through its own machine learning bootcamp.
"It's a little like sending Watson to medical school. We don't just push a button and instantly Watson can offer medical advice," Gondek says. "We need experts to show us what's important in the domain. We need experts to come up with test scenarios that Watson can learn from."
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'Collision' hits No. 1
It's a monster mash-up. Jay-Z / Linkin Park: Collision Course, a set of fused tunes by the rapper and rock band, enters Billboard at No. 1 after selling 368,000 copies, enough to unseat U2, whose How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb drops to second place with 288,000 for a two-week take of 1.1 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
It's good to be Jay-Z: The recently retired rapper has a No. 1 album and a new day job, heading up Def Jam Records.
Inaugural American Idol Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway bows at No. 3 with 250,000, just 10,000 copies more than third-season winner Fantasia's debut got a week ago.
Nas' Street's Disciple arrives at No. 5 with 232,000, followed by Shania Twain. T.I.'s Urban Legend makes its debut at No. 7 with 193,000, trailed by Now 17, Destiny's Child and Toby Keith. The only other newcomers to the top 50 are Josh Groban's Live at the Greek, No. 24 with 84,000, and Gerald Levert's Do I Speak for the World, No. 29 with 66,000.
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Thank you for inviting me today to discuss implementation by the Social Security Administration (SSA) of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program (the "Ticket to Work program") authorized by The Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (the "Act"), PL 106-170.
As you know, Mr. Chairman, SSA administers both the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. These programs provide benefits to about 10.5 million Americans with disabilities. The Ticket to Work program allows these beneficiaries greater flexibility and expanded choice in obtaining the rehabilitation, employment and other support services that they need to go to work and attain their employment goals.
I would like to express my thanks to you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Matsui, and members of the Subcommittee, for your hard work and support in making the Ticket to Work program a reality. I know we will continue to work together closely to strengthen the program in a way which will build on our early successful experience and expand the participation we have already seen in the program.
Commissioner Barnhart and I have been fortunate to participate in Ticket to Work program activities throughout the nation. I know that she has especially fond memories of kicking off the Ticket to Work program in February 2002 alongside the late Senator William Roth. Among the other Ticket events she attended that year was one in Representative Hayworth's district. In addition, senior agency staff have traveled throughout the country to help introduce this program to the American people. Today I would like to provide an update on the implementation of the Ticket to Work program, and touch on a few related issues.
First, let me briefly describe how the program works. SSA currently provides benefits under the SSDI and SSI programs to approximately 10.5 million Americans with disabilities. Under current agency regulations, an SSDI or SSI beneficiary with a disability receives a Ticket to Work if he or she is between the ages of 18 and 64 and has a medical condition that is not expected to improve in the near future. Approximately 9.1 million, or over 85 percent, of all beneficiaries with disabilities meet this standard.
A beneficiary who receives a Ticket to Work can choose to assign it to any EN that provides services within the community or to the State VR Agency. Together, these organizations are referred to as "Ticket Providers." An EN may decide whether or not to accept the assignment of a Ticket. The Act requires that an EN accept a measure of risk whenever it agrees to provide services to a beneficiary. ENs may only be paid based on their success in assisting beneficiaries to secure and maintain employment and move off the disability benefit rolls. An EN might never be paid if a beneficiary's cash benefits do not stop as a result of work. State VR Agencies are receiving approximately $2.6 billion from the Department of Education for the primary purpose of providing employment services to individuals with significant disabilities. VR agencies are therefore better capitalized than small or new ENs and incur less financial and actuarial risk than ENs serving smaller numbers of individuals.
payment system, the EN will also receive reduced outcome payments for each month, up to sixty months, that a beneficiary does not receive cash benefits due to work or earnings. The agency has provided up to four milestones for which an EN can be paid.
The Ticket to Work Act provides three additional incentives to encourage work activity by beneficiaries. First, SSA will not schedule a periodic continuing disability review (CDR) for a beneficiary who is receiving services from a Ticket Provider. Second, work activity by an SSDI beneficiary will not trigger a CDR if the beneficiary has received benefits for at least 24 months. Finally, an individual whose benefits terminated because of work activity can request that benefits start again without having to complete a new application for benefits.
SSA is implementing the Ticket to Work program in three phases. During the first phase of the program, from February through October 2002, about 2.4 million beneficiaries with disabilities in 13 states received Tickets to Work. During the second phase, which ran from November 2002 through September 2003, we mailed Tickets to approximately 2.6 million beneficiaries in 20 additional States and the District of Columbia. Then beginning in November 2003, we started releasing Tickets to the approximately 4.1 million beneficiaries in the remaining 17 States and the U.S. Territories during the third and final implementation phase.
Through February 2004, Tickets have been mailed to over 6.9 million disabled beneficiaries. By September 2004, the remaining 2.2 million eligible beneficiaries will have been mailed a Ticket to Work, and any eligible beneficiary who has yet to receive a Ticket to Work in the mail can obtain one by asking for it. To date, we have certified almost 1,100 ENs to participate in the Ticket program.
The Act calls for the Commissioner to enter into agreements with Program Managers to assist the Agency in administering the Ticket to Work program. Among the duties of our Program Manager, Maximus , Inc. , are recruiting, recommending, and monitoring the ENs selected by SSA to provide services; facilitating beneficiary access to the ENs; facilitating payment to Ticket Providers; and resolving disputes between beneficiaries and Ticket Providers under the program.
As of the beginning of this month, 40,441 SSDI and SSI beneficiaries who had received Tickets to Work ("Ticket Holders") had assigned them to Ticket Providers. Of this total, 36,525 (90%) were assigned to a State VR Agencies and 3,916 (10%) were assigned to other ENs. Approximately 30 percent of ticket assignments have been made in the last 5 months.
The first milestone payment was made by Maximus during May 2002. The first outcome payment was paid in July 2002. Through February 2004 we have made more than 1,600 payments to nearly 120 ENs totaling over $530,000 based on the work of 450 beneficiaries.
Section 101(d) of the Ticket to Work Act requires the Commissioner to submit periodic evaluation reports of the Ticket to Work program to Congress. SSA has contracted with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. ("Mathematica ") to evaluate the impact of the Ticket to Work program. Mathematica has provided a draft of its first in a series of evaluation reports. I will be happy to provide the Subcommittee with a copy of the final version of this report which we expect to be available shortly, and will also be happy to brief you on its findings.
Mathematica's preliminary findings are generally consistent with our experience with the program. Most beneficiaries who use Tickets to Work have assigned them to traditional State VR agencies. Ticket assignments to ENs have been concentrated among a few ENs, and the ENs as a group feel that SSA needs to move quickly to make the process friendlier to providers.
from the SSI and DI programs, so that beneficiaries work could be appropriately considered in determining theirs and their service providers eligibility to benefits.
The Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 identified four groups of people with disabilities as potentially "at risk." These groups are: 1) individuals with a need for ongoing support and services; 2) individuals with a need for high-cost accommodations; 3) individuals who earn a sub-minimum wage; and 4) individuals who work and receive partial cash benefits.
The Act requires the Commissioner to study the adequacy of incentives to Employment Networks in the Ticket to Work program for serving these four groups of beneficiaries. SSA formed an Adequacy of Incentives Advisory Group to help determine the best approach for conducting a targeted, in-depth analysis of the "at risk" groups. The Advisory Group has been meeting quarterly, and will complete its work this spring 2004. Last fall, the group issued an interim report, "Recommendations for Improving Implementation of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program (Regulatory and Administrative Changes)." The group will also issue a final report, which will propose projects to evaluate the effectiveness of adjusted incentives and recommendations regarding the most promising adjusted incentives.
The Ticket to Work Advisory Panel has been a valuable partner in studying the program and making recommendations for improvements. They too have been concerned about the balance between State VR agencies and other ENs, and about ways in which we can encourage more beneficiaries to assign their Tickets to ENs. They also advise us on ways to improve our public education of the program and how to market the program to both beneficiaries and potential ENs.
by work. They recognize, as do we at SSA, that the fear of creating overpayments is a powerful disincentive to returning to work that our beneficiaries face.
The Ticket to Work legislation required SSA to test a DI benefit offset similar to what is provided in the SSI program. Generally, SSI benefits are reduced $1 for every $2 earned over the $65 earned income monthly exclusion. Because there is no parallel provision for the DI program, DI beneficiaries are often reluctant to attempt work because of the abrupt loss of all cash benefits faced if they engage in substantial gainful activity.
Therefore, we plan to conduct a national demonstration project to test a $1 reduction in benefits for every $2 in earnings over a certain level in the DI program in combination with interventions that offer a range of ongoing employment supports, which may include some combination of employment services, health care services, transportation assistance, training, and other similar supports.
In addition, we plan to conduct a small-scale process demonstration of the benefit offset in four sites. We expect this project to begin enrolling participants this fall.
I would now like to discuss a number of initiatives we have already put in place on a number of fronts to improve our return to work services based on all the information that we have received. They include simplifying the payment process for ENs, increasing the pool of ENs, improving our wage reporting process, and jointly funding with the Department of Labor a new position to help people with disabilities increase their employment opportunities. I will discuss these in more detail.
Section 1149 of the Social Security Act, as enacted by Section 121 of the Ticket Act requires SSA to establish a corps of specialists devoted to issues related to work incentives. We have worked closely with Subcommittee staff to develop and implement this concept.
Commissioner Barnhart has expanded the pool of field employees who would be available to answer questions relating to return to work, while establishing a dedicated number of employees in each area of the region who will serve full time as Area Work Incentive Coordinators (AWICs), for a total of 58 employees nationwide. I want to thank the Subcommittee for its advice and guidance as we worked closely with you to develop this approach.
AWICs are the focal point of contact for advocates area-wide, and serve as ombudsmen. They monitor the area employment support workloads and work with the Area Directors to ensure that we effectively manage work incentive workloads. In addition, we have trained all of our public service employees, including staff in all local Social Security offices, on SSA employment support programs. AWICs work with other staff to develop any area training needs to maintain the level of expertise on work incentives for all direct contact employees and they are a ready resource for providing accurate information to those employees when questions arise.
Because many ENs found the payment process too cumbersome, we have developed a new, simpler process for paying them. Under the new process, SSA will pay ENs upon receiving a certification from the EN that a Ticket Holder is still working, provided that the EN initially submits return to work evidence. Prior to this change, ENs were required to send in evidence of the work, such as pay stubs, monthly. Now ENs have several options for requesting payments on either a monthly or quarterly basis without needing to submit pay stubs.
In order to attract sufficient providers of employment services and in concert with Maximus, we have conducted 90 Employment Network Opportunity Conferences across the country. We did this so beneficiaries will enjoy the degree of choice when selecting an EN that the Congress envisioned when the Act was passed. These events were attended by more than 8,000 individuals, representing 6,100 organizations. To date, 483 conference attendees have applied to become employment networks. In addition, Maximus has made presentations about the Ticket to Work program at nearly 300 events nationwide and delivered the message to 20,000 different organizations and 50,000 individuals through 250,000 distinct contacts. We will continue to seek out EN recruitment opportunities and process improvements so we may offer more choices for our beneficiaries who want to work.
Because we learned that the lack of upfront funding was a barrier to EN participation, SSA has developed an EN capitalization initiative that helps ENs locate and apply for additional funding to support their efforts.
Overpayments to beneficiaries with disabilities attempting to work are a major barrier to participation in the Ticket to Work program. Disability recipients who try to return to work deserve to know that their work information will be processed right away to prevent large overpayments that are a burden to the recipient as well as an important program integrity issue. Accurate and prompt wage report processing is critically important.
The Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-203) imposes a requirement for a work report receipt, and we expect that our current software, known as the Modernized Return to Work, or MRTW, and our PC-CDR processes that field offices have been using, should be able to fulfill that requirement. The issue of handling work reports is a major priority of Commissioner Barnhart, and we expect several new processes to have a positive impact on the problem, reducing both overpayments and the work disincentives caused by the threat of such overpayments.
In January 2004, we began a phased rollout of our eWork application for controlling and processing disability work activity and work CDR workloads. It replaces the stand-alone MRTW and PC-CDR that I have just mentioned. The eWork system automates and simplifies the processing of work issues in Title II disability cases; its key functional areas are workload management and control, case development, adjudication and decision-making, notices and forms, and automated mainframe systems inputs. In summary, eWork connects all of the separate pieces to the whole through an electronic interface usable by authorized personnel nationwide and work to minimize the occurrence of overpayments due to work. .
successful entry or reentry into the workforce. This includes access to housing, transportation, health care, and assistive technologies as needed to effectively participate in training services or for successful placement in employment.
SSA is also continuing to use the Employer Assistance Referral Network (EARN) managed by the Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy and the Ticket to Hire, a specialized subunit of EARN that matches employers with job ready candidates from the Ticket to Work program.
Finally, I thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Matsui, and all the members of the Subcommittee, for showing continued dedication to the Ticket to Work program. Thanks to that commitment, we look forward to providing more beneficiaries with the additional opportunities and tools they need to enter or reenter the workforce.
In addition, I would like to thank you for your work to pass H.R. 743, the Social Security Protection Act of 2004(P.L. 108-203). Because of the provisions in the bill regarding SSA demonstration projects, including ensuring that projects can continue to move beyond this December, we can move forward with our agenda of projects designed to provide alternative return to work services.
I would also like to acknowledge the valuable input we have received from the Ticket Advisory Panel and the Social Security Advisory Board. We are committed to achieving the goal set by Congress to improve access to jobs for Americans with disabilities. I believe, and I am sure you will agree, that the nation benefits greatly when all of its citizens have the opportunity to make the most of their talents. We look forward to working with you as we continue our efforts to make the Ticket to Work program a success.


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Q: For Each loop skips first item in array I utilized Ron de Bruin's Outlook email generator with a few modifications for .To, .CC, .Subject, .Body fields. I as well included some coding to attach invoice files to the email as appropriate.
The first group in the attachments list is skipped.
Sub Create_Email()
'For Tips see: http://www.rondebruin.nl/win/winmail/Outlook/tips.htm
'Don't forget to copy the function RangetoHTML in the module.
'Working in Excel 2000-2016
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim OutApp As Object
    Dim OutMail As Object
    Dim StrBody As String
    Dim Bundle As Variant, Group As Variant
        Bundle = Split(Worksheets("Extra").Range("G2").Value, ",")
        StrBody = Range("D5").Value & "
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                  Range("D6").Value & "
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                  Range("D7").Value & "
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                  Range("D8").Value & "
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        mola = Range("B2").Value
        maybe = Format(mola, "mm")
        real = Format(mola, "mmmm yyyy")
        nope = Format(mola, "yyyy")
        InvPath = ("U:\BILLREC\M & R EG Billing\Invoices\" & nope & "\" & maybe & " " & real & "\" & "Electronic Invoices" & "\")

    With Application
        .EnableEvents = False
        .ScreenUpdating = False
    End With

    Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)

    On Error Resume Next
    With OutMail
        .To = Range("C2").Value
        .CC = Range("D2").Value
        .Subject = Range("C5").Value
        .HTMLBody = StrBody
        For Each Group In Bundle
            pdfFile = "Group" & Group & ".pdf"
            .Attachments.Add InvPath & pdfFile
        Next Group
        For Each Group In Bundle
            xlsFile = "Group" & Group & ".xlsx"
            .Attachments.Add InvPath & xlsFile
        Next Group
        .Display
    End With
    On Error GoTo 0

    With Application
        .EnableEvents = True
        .ScreenUpdating = True
    End With

    Set OutMail = Nothing
    Set OutApp = Nothing
End Sub

The "Bundle" array is sourced from a vlookup on the workbook itself based off of the group number, in a ####, ####, ##, #### format.
Ultimately, it works except when the files aren't named with our standard naming conventions, or it's the first group number in the list.
If there is a single "group" number, it does not attach the files at all. (I presume this issue is for the same reason - that it's the first item in the array.)

A: Many thanks to u/barrow, who's suggestion allowed me to see that it was genuinely missing Bundle(0) in the item count.

You could try adding a quick sanity check with GetAttr just after
  InvPath is created - GetAttr just returns some file attributes or
  throws error 53 if the file doesn't exist. Try: MsgBox InvPath &
  "Group" & Bundle(0) & ".pdf" & " : " & GetAttr(InvPath & "Group" &
  Bundle(0) & ".pdf") If that doesn't throw an error then at least we
  can say the file exists

My solution was to concatenate an additional delimiter into the source cell for the split.  Thus Worksheets("Extra").Range("G2").Value would return the results of =CONCATENATE(","," ",VLOOKUP(Interface!A2,Data!A:D,4,FALSE))rather than VLOOKUP(Interface!A2,Data!A:D,4,FALSE). It seems like voodoo, but it forced the split to identify that first delimiter in Bundle = Split(Worksheets("Extra").Range("G2").Value, ",") and thus identify the first item within the collection.
Thank you, everyone, for all your assistance!

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Hello MarketClub members everywhere. In today's video update, I'm going to look at some of the big trends I see in the markets and analyze the power and depth of each them.
Let's begin with the major indices - it seems like eons ago that the world was going to h*ll and a hand basket with Great Britain's vote to exit the EU or as it was popularly known a Brexit. In a little over three weeks all the major indices have recovered and are trending higher. It just proves once again that the market eventually gets it right.
DOW (INDEX:DJI): All of Trade Triangles are green with the latest trend beginning with a weekly Trade Triangle on 7/08 at 18,011.07. The DOW is up 1.98% for the week based on the market close on 7/14.
S&P 500 (CME:SP500): All Trade Triangles are green with the latest trend beginning with a weekly Trade Triangle on 7/08 at 2,113.52. The S&P 500 is up 1.59% for the week based on the market close on 7/14.
NASDAQ (NASDAQ:COMP): All Trade Triangles are green with the latest trend beginning with a monthly Trade Triangle on 7/11 at 4,980.14. The NASDAQ is up 1.62% for the week based on the market close on 7/14.
Gold (FOREX:XAUUSDO): Two out of the three Trade Triangles are green indicating and sidelines position. The latest trend began with a red daily Trade Triangle on 7/08 at $1,341.69. Gold is currently down 2.76% for the week based on the market close on 7/14.
Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX): Two out of the three Trade Triangles are green indicating a long position. The latest trend began with a green weekly Trade Triangle on 06/08 at $19.73. ABX is down 3.90% for the week based on the market close on 7/14.
Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE:NEM): All Trade Triangles are green indicating a long position. The latest trend began with green a weekly Trade Triangle on 06/08 at $35.75. NEM is up 1.13% for the week based on the market close on 7/14.
Crude Oil (NYMEX:CL.Q16.E): Two out of the three Trade Triangles are green indicating and sidelines position. The latest trend began with a red daily Trade Triangle on 7/12 at $45.97. Crude oil is up 0.46% for the week based on the market close on 7/14.
As I have said before, do not get married to a stock or an idea. Markets change and when they do your thinking needs to change and be flexible, MarketClub's Trade Triangles can help you do that.


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WELCOME BRITTANY WILSON TO NCGA WASHINGTON, DC TEAM
Home News & Resources News Stories Welcome Brittany Wilson to NCGA Washington, DC Team
(Posted Fri. Oct 5th, 2018)
Brittany Wilson joined the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) and the National Association of Corn Growers (NCGA) on Sept. 28 as the receptionist/administrative assistant in the organizations' co-located offices in Washington, D.C.
In addition to various administrative duties, Wilson will represent the Council and NCGA by serving as the first point of contact for callers and visitors. Wilson spent time working in her current role as a temporary employee before officially assuming her new position.
"We are impressed with Brittany's organizational skills and her outstanding approach to teamwork," said Helen Elmore, USGC director of finance and administration. "Her upbeat attitude greets every visitor and every caller to our and NCGA's offices. In her short time here, Brittany has already proven herself to be of great value in maintaining smooth office operations."
Prior to the Council, Wilson worked as a regional director and a North Carolina state chair for Young Americans for Liberty (YAL). She also gained organization and management skills as a North American executive board member while working at Students for Liberty (SFL).
Please join the Council and NCGA in welcoming Brittany!


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Das Vertriebenendenkmal im Jubiläumspark Bad Homburg erinnert an die Vertreibung der Deutschen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und steht unter Denkmalschutz.

Das Denkmal
Das Denkmal ist ein Werk des Bildhauers Ernst Steinacker und wurde am 15. April 1989 im Jubiläumspark aufgestellt. An der feierlichen Eröffnung nahmen neben dem Künstler auch Landrat  Jürgens und Oberbürgermeister Assmann teil. Auftraggeber war der Stadtverband Bad Homburg des Bundes der Vertriebenen.

Das Denkmal besteht aus einem steinernen Sockel und darauf einem bronzenen Zylinder und hat eine Höhe von 2,7 Meter. Der Sockel trägt die 10 Wappen der nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg verlorenen deutschen Länder bzw. Provinzen (Baltikum, Berlin-Brandenburg, Danzig, Niederschlesien, Oberschlesien, Ostpreußen, Pommern, Siebenbürgen, Sudetenland, Westpreußen). Der bronzenen Zylinder ist in Segmente gegliedert. Diese zeigen Szenen der Vertreibung, Darstellungen aus der Berufswelt sowie der neuen Heimat Bad Homburg. Christliche Symbole verweisen auf einen Umbruch zum Besseren, Gottes segnendes Geleit und Versöhnungsbereitschaft. Insbesondere eine Taube als Zeichen des Friedens ist zu nennen. Die krönenden Blüten versinnbildlichen eine "gedeihliche, naturverbundene, aufwärtsstrebende Zukunft in harmonischem, christlichen Ausgleich".

Die Inschriften lauten:

Siehe auch
 Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Kirdorf
 Liste der Vertriebenendenkmale in Hessen (A–F)

Literatur
 Gertha Walsh: Denkmäler im Stadtgebiet; in: Barbara Dölemeyer u. a.: Geschichte der Stadt Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. Band 5: Aufbruch-Tradition-Wachstum 1948–1990. Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 157–158.

Weblinks

 Mahn- und Gedenkstätten, Hessen: Allmendfeld–Gelnhausen (BdV)

Einzelnachweise

Vertriebenendenkmal
Kulturdenkmal in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Erbaut in den 1990er Jahren
Vertreibung von Deutschen (20. Jahrhundert)
Bronzeskulptur in Hessen
Skulptur (1989)
Bund der Vertriebenen


I love it when I'm traveling and a familiar restaurant or coffee shop, as in this case, puts a location-specific item on their menu that you can't get anywhere else. On a recent trip to Hawaii, I stopped in to the Coffee Bean for a quick refreshment and was surprised to see that their menu included lots of local flavors, such as Li Hing Mui (spiced plum) Iced Tea and Lychee Iced Tea. If I had had more time, I would have tried to sample each and every one of them (the Li Hing Iced Tea was amazing), but one that really popped out at me was Coffee Bean's version of a Lava Flow. A traditional Lava Flow is a pina colada that is mixed with strawberry puree, giving it a pink and white swirled look that just might remind you of red hot lava. Coffee Bean's version didn't include the rum that the cocktail version does, but it was better than most Lava Flows I had at bars on the island.
The drink starts with a pineapple and coconut blended base, which was creamy and very flavorful. A few pumps of strawberry syrup were swirled in just before the drink was served, giving the drink the perfect pink and white color combination. The strawberry syrup was fairly sweet, but the combination was right on and the drink was a fantastic way to cool down on a hot Hawaiian afternoon. I'd love to see this drink – and the Pineapple Coconut Ice Blended base – end up on menus on the mainland one of these days! If you're visiting the islands, be sure to keep an eye out for this delicious drink.


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StatisticsKey Terms
4.3 Binomial Distribution (Optional)
4.4 Geometric Distribution (Optional)
4.5 Hypergeometric Distribution (Optional)
4.6 Poisson Distribution (Optional)
5.3 The Exponential Distribution (Optional)
6.3 Normal Distribution—Lap Times
6.4 Normal Distribution—Pinkie Length
7.2 The Central Limit Theorem for Sums (Optional)
8.2 A Single Population Mean Using the Student's t-Distribution
9.4 Rare Events, the Sample, and the Decision and Conclusion
10.4 Matched or Paired Samples (Optional)
12.3 Testing the Significance of the Correlation Coefficient (Optional)
12.4 Prediction (Optional)
12.6 Regression (Distance from School) (Optional)
12.7 Regression (Textbook Cost) (Optional)
12.8 Regression (Fuel Efficiency) (Optional)
13.2 The F Distribution and the F Ratio
A | Appendix A Review Exercises (Ch 3–13)
B | Appendix B Practice Tests (1–4) and Final Exams
Bernoulli trials
an experiment with the following characteristics:
There are only two possible outcomes called success and failure for each trial
The probability p of a success is the same for any trial (so the probability q = 1 − p of a failure is the same for any trial)
binomial experiment
a statistical experiment that satisfies the following three conditions:
There are a fixed number of trials, n
There are only two possible outcomes, called success and, failure, for each trial; the letter p denotes the probability of a success on one trial, and q denotes the probability of a failure on one trial
The n trials are independent and are repeated using identical conditions
binomial probability distribution
a discrete random variable (RV) that arises from Bernoulli trials; there are a fixed number, n, of independent trials
Independent means that the result of any trial (for example, trial one) does not affect the results of the following trials, and all trials are conducted under the same conditions. Under these circumstances the binomial RV X is defined as the number of successes in n trials. The notation is: X ~ B(n, p). The mean is μ = np and the standard deviation is σ = npq npq . The probability of the following exactly x successes in n trials is
P(X = x) = ( n x ) ( n x ) pxqn − x
expected arithmetic average when an experiment is repeated many times; also called the mean; notations μ; for a discrete random variable (RV) with probability distribution function P(x),the definition can also be written in the form μ = ∑ ∑ xP(x)
geometric distribution
a discrete random variable (RV) that arises from the Bernoulli trials; the trials are repeated until the first success.
The geometric variable X is defined as the number of trials until the first success. Notation X ~ G(p). The mean is μ = 1 p 1 p and the standard deviation is σ = 1 p ( 1 p −1 ) 1 p ( 1 p −1 ) . The probability of exactly x failures before the first success is given by the formula
P(X=x)=p(1–p)x–1P(X=x)=p(1–p)x–1
geometric experiment
a statistical experiment with the following properties:
There are one or more Bernoulli trials with all failures except the last one, which is a success
In theory, the number of trials could go on foreve; there must be at least one trial
The probability, p, of a success and the probability, q, of a failure do not change from trial to trial
hypergeometric experiment
You take samples from two groups
You are concerned with a group of interest, called the first group
You sample without replacement from the combined groups
Each pick is not independent, since sampling is without replacement
You are not dealing with Bernoulli trials
hypergeometric probability
a discrete random variable (RV) that is characterized by the following:
The experiment uses a fixed number of trials.
The probability of success is not the same from trial to trial
We sample from two groups of items when we are interested in only one group. X is defined as the number of successes out of the total number of items chosen. Notation X ~ H(r, b, n), where r = the number of items in the group of interest, b = the number of items in the group not of interest, and n = the number of items chosen.
a number that measures the central tendency; a common name for mean is average
The term mean is a shortened form of arithmetic mean. By definition, the mean for a sample (denoted by x ¯ x ¯ ) is x ¯ = Sum of all values in the sampleNumber of values in the sample x ¯ = Sum of all values in the sampleNumber of values in the sample and the mean for a population (denoted by μ) is μ = Sum of all values in the population Number of values in the population Sum of all values in the population Number of values in the population .
mean of a probability distribution
the long-term average of many trials of a statistical experiment
Poisson probability distribution
a discrete random variable (RV) that counts the number of times a certain event will occur in a specific interval; characteristics of the variable:
The probability that the event occurs in a given interval is the same for all intervals
The events occur with a known mean and independently of the time since the last event
The distribution is defined by the mean μ of the event in the interval. Notation X ~ P(μ). The mean is μ = np. The standard deviation is σ = μ σ = μ . The probability of having exactly x successes in r trials is P(X=x)= ( e −μ ) μ x x! P(X=x)= ( e −μ ) μ x x! . The Poisson distribution is often used to approximate the binomial distribution, when n is large and p is small (a general rule is that n should be greater than or equal to 20 and p should be less than or equal to .05).
probability distribution function (PDF)
a mathematical description of a discrete random variable (RV), given either in the form of an equation (formula) or in the form of a table listing all the possible outcomes of an experiment and the probability associated with each outcome
random variable (RV)
a characteristic of interest in a population being studied; common notation for variables are uppercase Latin letters X, Y, Z, . . . ; common notation for a specific value from the domain (set of all possible values of a variable) are lowercase Latin letters x, y, and z
For example, if X is the number of children in a family, then x represents a specific integer 0, 1, 2, 3, . . . ; variables in statistics differ from variables in intermediate algebra in the two following ways:
The domain of the random variable (RV) is not necessarily a numerical set; the domain may be expressed in words; for example, if X = hair color then the domain is {black, blond, gray, green, orange}
We can tell what specific value x the random variable X takes only after performing the experiment
standard deviation of a probability distribution
a number that measures how far the outcomes of a statistical experiment are from the mean of the distribution
as the number of trials in a probability experiment increases, the difference between the theoretical probability of an event and the relative frequency probability approaches zero
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