When traveling, you always want to get the best experience for the best value of your money, and a stay to Perth should be no different. Most travelers now tend to hire a car, as it gives them ease and convenience of traveling to wherever they wish within the city; there is a sense of privacy and comfort that makes every dollar spent on car rentals worth it.
You may now be thinking that no, affordability as a reason is impossible. But yes, hiring a limousine is affordable in Perth. If you are traveling with a group of friends, you can split the cost between each other, and each person's contribution tends to be quite cheap. You can visit https://allurelimousines.com.au to get an overview on their affordable limousine rental rates.
There is no other way to put it: apart from being luxurious and classy on the outside, a limousine is one of the most comfortable cars. If you are the type of person who likes to prioritize comfort, then hiring a limo around Perth is an excellent choice for you.
If you are in the city for a business deal, or if you've just had a stressful and long journey, hopping on to a limousine will give you your much-needed rest, while on your next ride.
If you are going around Perth on a road trip, going on a limousine will give you so much time to bond with your friends. The activities that you can do in a limo are endless: from having a glass of wine, to watching your favorite movie, or dancing with the disco lights, and even have a karaoke battle. There is no downtime when you are inside a limousine.
If you wanted to hire a limousine for your wedding, the bridesmaids and the groomsmen can have fun in their respective limos, while on the way to the venue. This experience can add to the photo value of your wedding.
If you are the bride or the groom, and you are riding in the limousine with your respective parents, your quiet and special moment is made even more memorable because of the extra special feeling and comfort that a limo brings.
4. It is a safe way to travel.
Even more importantly, your limousine driver is very familiar with the road conditions around Perth; hence, you have a higher degree of assurance that you will reach your destination safely. Most limousine companies in Perth employ local drivers. Thus, they have most likely mastered Perth's terrain.
If you are with your special someone, riding on a limousine makes the experience even more special. Whether you are on your anniversary date, a honeymoon, or if you are going to propose, there is no better and fancier way of having a great time together. You can enjoy a glass of wine, even dinner, and cozy up behind the limo while watching your favorite romantic movies.
6. You will arrive at your destination on time.
The limo company that employs them tracks most limousine drivers; this means that the limousine driver will get you to your destination on time, albeit safely. If you are hiring one to get you to an important meeting, wedding, or even to the airport to catch a flight, the limousine driver knows how to adjust your pick up time to ensure that you will not be late; this stays true even on unfortunate road situations like heavy traffic.
7. It is a unique and unforgettable experience.
Unless you are mega rich, then you won't get to be on a limousine every day. Hence, it is a good idea to try it out even once in your life, and especially while you are in Perth, as it is an extremely unique and unforgettable experience. Since not everyone will be able to buy their dream limousine in their lifetime, hiring one will help make your dreams come true, as you will know what it is like to be on a limo.
Perth is blessed with so much scenery, and you can enjoy these views while you are on the road. The beauty of the landscape gets even more attractive when you get to enjoy them while on a comfortable and luxurious limousine.
8. It is fun and hassle-free.
Hiring a limousine in Perth also means that there is a chauffeur to drive you around. Doing this will make your tour around Perth more hassle-free, as you will not have to worry about parking. The driver does this all for you. All you have to do is hop in, enjoy the ride, and hop off.
9. You will arrive at your destination in style.
It is a guarantee that hiring a limousine to drive you around Perth will give you a grand entrance. If you are the type of person who likes to look elegant and stylish at all times, hiring a limo will add up to your value of style. If you are looking to hire a limousine in Perth for your wedding, a limousine will always be the perfect addition to your bridal entrance photos.
10. The pay schemes of limo rentals are varied.
All over Australia, limousine for hire companies offers you a wide selection of options for booking and paying for your ride. This array of options makes your trip around Perth even more comfortable and smooth.
11. Your drivers are professional.
Most drivers for other car rental companies are professional, yes. But, this is not a guarantee with other vehicles. If you hire a limo, however, there is a higher chance that your driver will be extremely professional, and courteous, too. As above mentioned, this fact can be due to the extra training that they receive from regularly transporting VIPs, or from being used for extra special occasions.
As a bonus, your limousine driver will also dress and look the part; hence, they will look exceptionally well-groomed and professional. Therefore, you will not have to worry about your driver being under-dressed when they open the door for you, to a significant social or corporate event.
Other car rentals can also be extremely clean. However, again, this is not a guarantee. Since many other users have ridden on that car, you may never know if the seats are clean, or if someone has just recently spilled milk, or vomited on that seat. These horrible scenarios are easily avoidable when you hire a limousine in Perth.
Do remember that limousines are a luxury vehicle; therefore, the drivers are also required to perform extra care in ensuring that the car is spotless for the next client. The last thing these limousine companies want to experience is a celebrity who visited Perth complains that their limousine smelled like leftover food or wine.
13. Passengers of all ages will truly enjoy the limousine experience.
If you are looking for the perfect idea for your son's 13th birthday, you might want to try hiring a limousine to drive him and his peers around the city instead. Boys and girls of all ages will truly enjoy the experience of being in a one-of-a-kind vehicle. If you are a young adult, you can even hire one together with your colleagues for that office Saturday night out. Whatever the occasion, a limo ride can indeed make it a more memorable one.
14. It is spacious and can fit a lot of people.
If you are searching for vehicles to hire for your guests around Perth, you might want to consider hiring a limousine. When you choose a limo, you will not have to worry about hiring multiple cars, as you can fit quite a lot of people and even luggages. If your occasion is a wedding, for example, you can hire a limo to drive numerous guests to and from the hotel and wedding venue. Plus, your guests can get ready, and relax, without having to worry about destroying their outfits, as a limousine is more spacious than an ordinary van or minibus.
15. You can hold meetings in a limo.
If you are a businessman who is always on the rush, you can hire a limousine to and from your place of destination so that you can hold mini and quick meetings while in the car. Doing this can be practical especially if you are traveling in a big group of employees in your company and there are still things that you want to discuss with them before you reach your conference place.
16. A limousine can impress.
If it is your goal to dress to impress, a limousine is also a ride to impress. When you hire a limo for your first-time guests to Perth, you can impress them when they are picked up in a luxurious vehicle. Your guests will immediately feel important and will think that you did plan for their stay with so much attention to details, that you included a limousine ride to pick them up.
17. You can eat comfortably.
For many travelers, enjoying a meal while on the road is something that they wish. However, doing this can tend to be quite messy and can be an un-enjoyable experience. When you are in a limousine, yes, you can eat with ease and comfort. Most limousines are well equipped, such that there are holders for glasses and cups, and even tables for you to dine. If you are traveling with kids, this can be a very pleasing idea, as you will have fewer worries about spills that can spoil your outfit, and your day.
18. You'll know where your kids are.
If you are a parent, renting out a limousine service in Perth for your teenage son or daughter's prom night along with other parents is an excellent idea. Doing so will give you the peace of mind to know your kids actually arrived in their prom venue and will be driven back safely home as well. Prom nights have a reputation of teenagers trying out new things, and they can get pretty distracted, too, from all the excitement, so it is a good idea to have a chauffeur in a stylish limousine drive them back home.
These reasons can indeed show you that it is possible to travel in a luxurious fashion. You'll only live once, they say, so why not take a chance and splurge once in a while. After all, if you are with a group, the cost is not as skyrocketing as you think it will be. Plus, no amount of money will ever get to pay back the memories, comfort and fun times that you get to share with your travel group in Perth while on a limousine.


Design Your Own Cantilever Rack System - CMI Sales Inc.
Based on the length and weight of the intended rack shelf loads you can establish the column spacing for your cantilever.
Establish your cantilever arms under the intended load to prevent deflection, as this can cause damage to the product itself and has potentially undesirable side pressure on the cantilever arms.
To test your proposed columns spacing, place blocks or dunnage on the shop floor using the spacing proposed for the arms. Lower your product onto the blocks and evaluate the deflection. Adjust the width between the blocks until minimize the required arms while minimizing the deflection.
If you are intending on a longer row of connected columns be mindful of leaving sufficient space between your adjacent loads so you can safely load the racks with your forklift.
How to determine the right Cantilever arm length. The Cantilever Arm Length should always equal the product load depth.
Define the cantilever column height.
First consider the clear height in your building. Then make sure to check the lift height, clearance height, and lift weight capacity of your forklift. Depending on the cantilever style you will also need to factor in the height of the steel cantilever base (typically 6-12 inches). This base is usually considered your lowest level of storage.
Taking into account the height dimension of your load plus room to lift the load into place (4-12″), plus the height of the cantilever arm you will establish the elevation of each shelf. For safety sake you should design your column height to be taller than your top shelf to prevent your loads from being pushed off of the back of the shelf level.
Divide the "Load" weight and divide that by the number of arms it takes to support the load without any deflection assuming a uniformly distributed load. Uneven loading will signficantly reduce the Cantilever arm capacity and introduce potentially undesired pressures in your cantilever system.
Spacing your cantilever columns with bracing.
Different manufacturers offer different designs for bracing between columns but it is most common to specify the brace sets be the centre-to-centre distance between columns. The manufacturer will make the brace set to allow for their column dimensions.
CMI can assist with any concerns you may have. Some of the more common questions arise when the cantilever is being placed on an uneven surface such as gravel or asphalt, or requires engineered documents for municipal permits. Additionally extra care is needed if you are installing a double sided cantilever system or plan to add weather protection to it.


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Israel awards Bloomberg $1 million "Jewish Nobel"
The award goes to high achievers who "come to represent a fundamental value of the Jewish people"
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2013/10/21/israel_awards_bloomberg_1_million_jewish_nobel/
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has recognized New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the first ever recipient of a $1 million award popularly dubbed the "Jewish Nobel Prize."
The Genesis Prize Foundation said Monday that Bloomberg was the winner of the inaugural prize.
According to the foundation, the award recognizes "exceptional human beings who, through their outstanding achievement, come to represent a fundamental value of the Jewish people."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will present the prize early next year in Israel. The foundation says Bloomberg will then announce to which philanthropic cause he will donate the prize.
The foundation quoted Bloomberg as saying he was honored to be prize's first recipient. He noted his parents "instilled in me Jewish values and ethics that I have carried with me throughout my life."
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RAUL RETURN: Jimenez to wear head guard until he retires
Wolverhampton Wanderers forward Raul Jimenez will wear a protective head guard for the remainder of his career when he makes a return from injury.
The Mexican has been out since November with a fractured skull he suffered against Arsenal.
He has been back in limited training for the Molineux outfit and is now cleared to resume heading.
After undergoing tests on Tuesday, Wolves club doctor Matt Perry updated supporters on the club website.
He expects the striker to play a full part in next season's campaign and return to full training in July.
Dr. Perry said, "Raul was seriously injured six months ago on 29th November and underwent emergency surgery for a major traumatic brain injury and skull fracture (TBI) at St Mary's Hospital Paddington.
"Since then, he has been under the care and supervision of his neurosurgeon at St Mary's, Miss Sophie Camp, and Professor Tony Belli of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, as well as the medical team at Compton.
"His skull fracture has now healed well; he will wear a protective head guard to cover the area of bony injury for the remainder of his career, but it is adjudged strong enough for him to return to play with this protection.
"A brain injury such as a concussion can take weeks and months to recover fully and TBI will sometimes leave lasting deficits.
"It is wonderful to be able to say that Raul has made a remarkable and excellent recovery to date."
Raul Jimenez return from head injury must be cautious - Perry
It's music to the ears of Wolves fans who've missed the striker immensely this season.
Fabio Silva has looked raw after being thrust into the limelight at 18 years of age.
However, Dr. Perry urges caution for Jimenez's return, meaning Silva may be still called upon.
"He (Jimenez) has no measurable signs of deficit and is now at the stage when he can contemplate a return to the career he loves, but a degree of caution is still required," he added.
"Raul has been able to progress from basic fitness work into full competitive training from early March; only holding back on powered heading and aerial duels.
"He has now received the all-clear to start these activities and is physically as fit, strong and agile as ever.
"Further match-based rehabilitation will start in July and will be tightly controlled initially.
"This respects the fact that although his recovery appears to be total there is a big step from training to competition."
Dr. Perry would go on to thank those who saved Jimenez's career after that incident against Arsenal.
The Mexican international, who has scored 47 goals for Wolves in 110 appearances, was rushed to hospital after a collision with David Luiz.
"We are hugely grateful to Professor Tony Belli and Miss Sophie Camp with their guidance and advice on his management, and Miss Camp and her colleagues at St Mary's for the life and career-saving surgery in the few hours that followed Raul's initial injury."
Fianlly, the words all Wolves fans want to hear from Dr. Perry: "We hope and expect that Raul will be able to play a full part in Wolves' 2021/22 season."
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Deaths Linked to Cardiac Stents Rise as Overuse Seen
When Bruce Peterson left the U.S. Postal Service after 24 years delivering mail, he started a travel agency. It was his dream career, his wife Shirlee said.
Then he went to see cardiologist Samuel DeMaio for chest pain. DeMaio put 21 coronary stents in Peterson's chest over eight months, and in one procedure tore a blood vessel and placed five of the metal-mesh tubes in a single artery, the Texas Medical Board staff said in a complaint. Unneeded stents weakened Peterson's heart and exposed him to complications including clots, blockages "and ultimately his death," the complaint said.
DeMaio paid $10,000 and agreed to two years' oversight to settle the complaint over Peterson and other patients in 2011. He said his treatment didn't contribute to Peterson's death.
"We've learned a lot since Bruce died," Shirlee Peterson said. "Too many stents can kill you."
Peterson's case is part of the expanding impact of U.S. medicine's binge on cardiac stents -- implants used to prop open the arteries of 7 million Americans in the last decade at a cost of more than $110 billion.
When stents are used to restore blood flow in heart attack patients, few dispute they are beneficial. These and other acute cases account for about half of the 700,000 stent procedures in the U.S. annually.
Among the other half -- elective-surgery patients in stable condition -- overuse, death, injury and fraud have accompanied the devices' use as a go-to treatment, according to thousands of pages of court documents and regulatory filings, interviews with 37 cardiologists and 33 heart patients or their survivors, and more than a dozen medical studies.
'Marching On'
These sources point to stent practices that underscore the waste and patient vulnerability in a U.S. health care system that rewards doctors based on volume of procedures rather than quality of care. Cardiologists get paid less than $250 to talk to patients about stents' risks and alternative measures, and an average of four times that fee for putting in a stent.
"Stenting belongs to one of the bleakest chapters in the history of Western medicine," said Nortin Hadler, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cardiologists "are marching on" because "the interventional cardiology industry has a cash flow comparable to the GDP of many countries" and doesn't want to lose it, he said.
Stenting abuse is by no means the norm, but neither is it a rarity. Federal cases have extended from regional medical centers in Louisiana, Kentucky and Georgia to a top-ranked metropolitan hospital system in Ohio.
Asset Seizure
A doctor practicing at a hospital owned by the Cleveland Clinic, rated the premier heart center in the country by U.S. News and World Report, had his assets seized by federal agents in a stent investigation, according to federal court filings in April. The Clinic has not been accused of wrongdoing, and says it's cooperating with the investigation.
Two out of three elective stents, or more than 200,000 procedures a year, are unnecessary, according to David Brown, a cardiologist at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York. That works out to about a third of all stents.
Brown said his estimate is based on eight clinical trials of 7,000 patients in the last decade, which he analyzed in the Archives of Internal Medicine last year. Two cardiology researchers who have studied the use of stents say the number could be as low as about half Brown's estimate, and one said it is probably larger.
Costs, Risks
Even the low end of these estimates translates into more than a million Americans in the past decade with implants in their coronary arteries they didn't need, said William Boden, chief of medicine at a Veterans Administration hospital in Albany, New York. Boden was the principal investigator of a 2007 study known as Courage that found stents added no benefit over medicines, exercise and dietary changes in stable patients.
Unnecessary stents cost the U.S. health care system $2.4 billion a year, according to Sanjay Kaul, a cardiologist and researcher at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Patients who received them are living with risks including blood clots, bleeding from anti-clotting medicine and blockages from coronary scar tissue, any of which can be fatal, Kaul said.
Monica Crabtree died at age 64 after one of her arteries was torn in a stent procedure that led to infection, according to her widower, Gary Crabtree. He received at least $240,000 from a 2011 settlement of his lawsuit against her doctor, after a second cardiologist reviewed the case and told him the stent wasn't needed. Crabtree choked up speaking about his late wife and showed pictures of their 47 years together.
Worried Shaving
"It wasn't just a simple mistake," said the retired auto worker in Largo, Florida. "If the stent was something she really needed, I could have handled it. But it was a total loss of life that didn't need to happen."
Jim Simecek, of Medina, Ohio, said he worries every morning that a nick from shaving could bleed out of control. Simecek, who works at a Ford dealership, said he has to take blood-thinning medicine for life to ward off clots in the six stents he received from a Cleveland-area cardiologist who's under federal investigation for his stent work.
"It's as if your heart was open and somebody was sticking a knife in," said Rhonda McClure, 54, referring to eight stents she received from a Kentucky cardiologist who agreed in June to plead guilty to a federal Medicaid-fraud charge for falsifying records used to justify a stent he placed.
Patient Letters
Cardiac stents were linked to at least 773 deaths in incident reports to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year, according to a review by Bloomberg News. That was 71 percent higher than the number found in the FDA's public files for 2008. The 4,135 non-fatal stent injuries reported to the FDA last year -- including perforated arteries, blood clots and other incidents -- were 33 percent higher than 2008 levels.
The FDA declined to comment on whether the reports were a cause for concern. It said adverse-event reports tied to medical devices have increased overall due to agency efforts. It also said the data can contain incomplete and unverified accounts from reporting parties.
More than 1,500 patients have gotten letters from hospitals since 2010 alerting them that their stents may have been unnecessary. In Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Health System sent 700 such notices in April.
Stenting Decline
At least 11 hospitals have settled federal allegations of charging for needless stenting and other misdeeds in the catheterization labs where the procedures are performed. Federal probes of stenting practices continue in at least five states. In Louisiana and Maryland, cardiologists went to federal prison last year for implanting the devices and charging for them without medical justification. A third doctor has agreed to do time in a plea bargain.
"There is a huge financial incentive to increase the number of these procedures," said Jamie Bennett, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore who handled stent investigations. "The cases we have seen to date are just the tip of the iceberg."
Since Boden's Courage study, stenting procedures have declined by about 20 percent. Still, this July, a panel of experts convened by the American Medical Association and the Joint Commission, a hospital accreditor, named elective stenting as one of five overused treatments that too often "provide zero or negligible benefit to patients, potentially exposing them to the risk of harm."
Doctors are using fewer stents and choosing more-appropriate patients than they were a few years ago, according to John Harold, president of the American College of Cardiology, the specialty's main professional group. Harold said that "real-world clinical practice" and research indicates Brown probably overestimated how many people with coronary artery disease could be handled initially only with drug-based treatment.
He said there are examples of inappropriate use and the ACC is taking steps to "address and correct the imbalance" with treatment guidelines and by urging more hospital oversight. Cardiologists who've been accused of fraud or are serving prison time are "outliers" who don't represent the "overwhelming majority."
Lawyers for John McLean, a Salisbury, Maryland, cardiologist convicted of billing for unwarranted stenting, argued in a federal appeal last year that inappropriate usage is widespread and their client was prosecuted for behavior that's the industry norm.
Lost Appeal
They cited a 2011 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found only half of elective stent procedures nationally were appropriate under usage guidelines written by societies of heart specialists. The study found 12 percent were inappropriate, and 38 percent fell into the uncertain category of the guidelines.
"The study demonstrated clearly that a large number of stable patients receive coronary artery stents that are later found to be inappropriate or questionable," the appeal argued. "The same was true of the patients in Dr. McLean's practice." McLean's appeal was denied in April. He is serving an eight-year sentence.
Elective-stent patients typically see rapid quality-of-life improvements, including in their ability to work and be active, according to Ted Bass, president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, whose members specialize in cardiac implants. The Courage trial found stents, compared to medication and lifestyle changes, were better at relieving chest pain for as long as two years after placement -- a benefit that ended by 36 months.
First used in Europe in 1986, cardiac stents took off in the 2000s as cardiologists found them to be more effective in heart attacks than angioplasty. In that earlier technology, a small balloon is inflated to widen blood passages and then withdrawn. Stenting facilities, known as "cath labs," spread at hospitals and became profit centers.
Hospitals receive an average payment of about $25,000 per stent case from private insurers, according to Healthcare Blue Book, a website that tracks reimbursements. The federal Medicare program pays less. Doctors who implant stents earn a separate fee that averages about $1,000 and ranges from $500 to $2,850, according to Medicare and Blue Book data.
The procedure typically involves inserting the stent with a catheter through a small incision in the groin area or wrist and snaking it through to heart vessels. It usually takes less than 45 minutes.
Kickbacks Alleged
Stony Brook's Brown, and Boden, who led the Courage study, argue that many elective patients should be getting medical therapy before they risk stents. Only 44 percent try medication and lifestyle changes before stenting, a 2011 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found.
At least five hospitals have reached settlements with the Justice Department over allegations that they paid illegal kickbacks to doctors for patient referrals to their cath labs. St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland, paid the government $22 million without admitting liability.
Prosecutors alleged the hospital paid kickbacks to a practice co-founded by Baltimore cardiologist Mark Midei for stent referrals. His doctor's license was revoked in 2011 when the Maryland Board of Physicians found he falsified records to justify unwarranted stents.
St. Joseph told 585 of its patients they may have received unnecessary stents. In May, 252 patients reached a settlement with the hospital under confidential terms, according to Jay D. Miller, an attorney for the plaintiffs.
The hospital settled the government's case "to avoid the expense and uncertainty of litigation," it said in a statement. Spokeswoman Julia Sutherland said the hospital declined to comment on any patient lawsuits.
In an interview, Midei denied he stented without medical need. He took issue with experts who deemed many of his stents needless, and said disagreement among cardiologists on cases is common. Midei was not a party to the federal settlement. The government has said its investigation of the case continues.
In June, Sandesh Patil, a cardiologist practicing at another St. Joseph hospital -- this one in London, Kentucky -- agreed to plead guilty to charging Medicaid for a stent that wasn't medically warranted under the program's rules. (Although both hospitals were once owned by the same parent, the one in Maryland has been sold.)
Catheterization procedures multiplied at St. Joseph in London after Patil began practicing there in 2000, when the hospital had a different name. In that year, the type of procedure used for stents was done 210 times. They climbed to 929 by 2009, state data show.
Multiple Stents
Stenting income from Medicare alone was more than a sixth of the hospital's 2009 operating income, based on data from American Hospital Directory, a research firm. When Patil left London in 2010, catheterization procedures fell 34 percent from their 2009 high. Using the midpoint of the directory's price range for such procedures, the decline would have cost the hospital about $15 million. David McArthur, the hospital's spokesman, declined to comment on its revenues.
Rhonda McClure, one of Patil's patients, had her arteries catheterized 18 times by him and his partners over four years, according to her deposition and other filings in a lawsuit she and 361 other patients have brought against Patil, St. Joseph and other doctors who practiced there. She said she received eight cardiac stents. The defendants deny the negligence and fraud allegations against them.
McClure's deposition says a cardiologist who reviewed her case after the stents told her that scarring caused by "too many procedures" was her main problem.
Short Breath
McClure said she suffers from chest pain and shortness of breath, and has been told by her new doctor that she may need more stents and surgery to keep her coronary arteries from closing. She said she gets so tired she needs to sit and rest after walking down the stairs.
St. Joseph-London repaid Medicare $256,800 for unnecessary procedures and is cooperating with federal prosecutors, McArthur said. He said Patil was never employed by St. Joseph and lost his privileges to practice there in December 2010. Patil's attorney said his client had no comment.
Under his plea bargain, Patil agreed to serve 30 to 37 months in federal prison. He forfeited his Kentucky medical license for five years. In 2012, he told a family court judge his monthly income was $53,300.
"Thirty-seven months is nothing for all the injuries he done for money," McClure said.
Message Balancing
After the Courage trial shed doubt on stents' effectiveness for stable patients, stent-implanting cardiologists felt unfairly attacked and organized a campaign to "better balance the messaging," said Bonnie Weiner, who was president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions at the time.
The society hired a public relations firm and paid it more than $300,000 a year to help publicize the benefits of stents, according to the group's filings with the Internal Revenue Service. The firm helped launch a consumer website for SCAI, SecondsCount.org, which has published several articles,
including one under the headline, "For many patients, open arteries are better than closed arteries."
SCAI collected $2.7 million in donations for "public education" between 2008 and 2011 from stent makers Abbott Laboratories Inc., Boston Scientific Corp., Cordis Corp. and Medtronic Inc., its Web site says. Manufacturers' sales of cardiac stents were about $5.5 billion globally last year, down 5 percent from 2011, according to the Health Research International consulting firm.
High Median
Medtronic spokesman Joseph McGrath said grants to SCAI for patient education are "unrestricted," and SCAI is solely responsible for how the funds are used. Spokesmen for Abbott, Boston Scientific and Cordis declined to comment.
Interventional cardiologists, the specialty SCAI represents, earn a median income of $562,855 a year, as compared to $207,117 for family doctors, according to Medical Group Management Association, which surveys physician practices. The interventionalists ranked 13th among 118 specialties tracked by MGMA.
Michigan Death
Mehmood Patel, a Lafayette, Louisiana, cardiologist who went to prison last year on 51 counts of charging for needless stents, made over $16 million in one three-year span, evidence in the case showed. Prosecutors said he was driven by the desire to be the busiest cardiologist in town.
He unsuccessfully argued that he used his best medical judgment in every case and lost an appeal. Patel is serving a 10-year sentence in a federal penitentiary.
Jashu Patel, an interventionalist in Jackson, Michigan, billed $2.7 million for procedures in 2007, according to a U.S. Justice Department case against him settled in July. (He is no relation to Mehmood Patel).
The suit alleged Patel implanted needless stents in at least two patients, including one that led to a blood clot that killed an unnamed woman who had reported no symptoms of reduced cardiac blood supply. A stress test showed normal blood flow, and notes in her file said she didn't want interventions, said Julie Kovach, a cardiologist who worked with Patel and brought the case to the government's attention.
"It was appalling," Kovach said in an interview. "Patel coerced her into getting a stent she didn't need, which killed her."
Kovach said that when she told the chief operating officer of the hospital where Patel worked about the death, the executive, Karen Chaprnka, diverted the conversation. Reached recently by e-mail through a hospital spokesman, Chaprnka said she "disagreed with the allegations made by Dr. Kovach."
"He's their cash cow," said Kovach, now co-director of a clinic that treats congenital heart disease at the Detroit Medical Center. "They're not about to turn him in."
Patel and the hospital, Allegiance Health, agreed to pay the U.S. a total of $4 million to settle the federal charges. Kovach was awarded $760,000 as a whistle-blower under the U.S. False Claims Act. Allegiance disagreed with the allegations and settled the claims to avoid "lengthy litigation," it said in a statement.
Patel continues to practice at the hospital and must improve record-keeping to substantiate cardiology procedures, Allegiance said. In the settlement, Patel agreed to hire a consultant to oversee treatment of his patients and an auditing firm to monitor billings. He didn't return phone messages.
Cleveland Raid
In Ohio, Simecek, the worker at the Ford dealership, grew suspicious after his sixth stent from cardiologist Harry Persaud at the Cleveland Clinic's Fairview Hospital in 2011. Simecek said he went for a second opinion and was told he didn't need any of the stents. Now he said he has to take blood thinners the rest of his life.
"With the littlest cut, the blood starts running," said Simecek. "What if I am in an auto accident?"
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Persaud is under criminal investigation for health care fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, according to federal court filings. Last October, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided his office and removed financial records and patient files for procedures at three Cleveland-area hospitals. The government has seized $343,634 from his and his wife's bank accounts, alleging the funds represent the proceeds of fraud related to a "significant number" of unnecessary stent procedures.
Multiple, Elongated
The Cleveland Clinic found "problems related to the use of stents in some patients" at Fairview and reported them to the government, according to spokeswoman Eileen Sheil. She would not say how many patients were affected. Persaud resigned from the hospital staff last year.
At least 64 of Persaud's patients at St. John Medical Center in suburban Westlake received letters from the hospital saying they may have received an unnecessary stent between 2010 and 2012, according to spokesman Patrick Garmone, who said Persaud no longer practices there.
Persaud denied wrongdoing in court filings and said his stent procedures were proper. Neil Freund, his attorney in lawsuits filed by patients alleging unwarranted stents, said "it is our intent to defend these cases." He had no comment on the federal investigation.
In Texas, the state medical board's final order in DeMaio's case found that the cardiologist placed "multiple, elongated, overlapping" stents in patients in areas of "insignificant or only moderate disease." Peterson, the retired mailman, was identified only as Patient C in the staff complaint. No patient was mentioned in the final order.
Peterson was thriving in his new career in the travel business, his wife Shirlee said. He had a heart attack in 1997, which didn't crimp his love of travel and dance, she said. "He was an awesome man who never met a stranger," she said.
After his death, Shirlee Peterson said a friend told her she had a cardiologist who refused to do multiple stents.
"I do believe that Bruce was a guinea pig," she said. "That was the way it was done."
DeMaio said Peterson was extremely sick when he came to him. He said it was significant that the board's final order didn't use the word "excessive" in describing his stent work. That included 31 stents stretching for 14 inches inside the arteries of Patient B in the staff complaint.
"Any patient of mine who received a full metal jacket" -- interventional cardiology's term for such extensive work -- "would have been turned down by at least one, if not multiple surgeons," DeMaio said. He said he doesn't use stents as much these days because standards have changed and he doesn't see as many seriously ill patients.
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JANUARY 30, 2019--Students at Allan Hancock College will have fun while learning the latest about the college's student services, academic programs and student organizations during spring semester's kick-off event, Bulldog Bow-WOW. Sponsored by the college's Associated Student Body Government (ASBG), Bow-WOW will be held at both the Santa Maria campus and at the Lompoc Valley Center (LVC). The Santa Maria event takes place Wednesday, Feb. 6, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Student Center (bldg. G). The LVC event will take place Wednesday, Feb. 13, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in bldg. 1, upstairs.
For more information about Bulldog Bow-WOW, call or email Stephanie Robb at the Santa Maria campus at 1-805-922-6966 ext. 3734, srobb@hancockcollege.edu, or Christine Grelck at the Lompoc Valley Center at 1-805-735-3366 ext. 5215, cgrelck@hancockcollege.edu. The toll free number from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties is 1-866 DIAL AHC (342-5242); then dial the appropriate extension.


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At approximately 3:24PM CST, Blackfive's one millionth unique visitor crossed the SP.
The referring URL for the 999,999th visitor was Tammi's Road Warrior Survival Rules.
And the blog sending the one millionth visitor was...appropriately so, The Mudville Gazette!
It just seems like not so long ago that I received an email from Greyhawk asking if I wanted to join MilBlogs. I think I was fourth in enlisting in that outfit and my traffic went from a few hundred per day to a few thousand in only two months. I thought if 100 people visited Blackfive per day that would be a success. I almost can't believe how far things have come/gone in the last year.
Mr. (or Mrs.) one million and one came from the Swift Vets.
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Hadi: Perikatan to wait for next GE to 'topple' govt
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PETALING JAYA: Perikatan Nasional is working to become the government by winning the next general election instead of looking to topple the current government, says Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang.
When asked by reporters if there were plans to put Perikatan in government, as claimed by Arau MP Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim, the PAS president said "at least not until the next general election".
"Based on the influence we have now, we will ride on that," he told the press outside the Sentul police headquarters after giving a statement over several police reports made against him.
The Marang MP said PAS would see the government's actions and performance and the people's response to the government of the day.
On Sunday (Dec 4), Shahidan reportedly claimed that there were plans to "topple" the government and put Perikatan in power.
He was also quoted as saying Perikatan was working towards "ensuring the Cabinet would not last long".
On another matter, Abdul Hadi said Perikatan has decided on its choice of the Opposition leader and would make a statement about it later.
He also said that PAS would discuss with the respective mentris besar a suitable date to call for a state election in PAS-governed states.
Abdul Hadi also said he was ready for the next course of action after giving his statement related to his online statements.
He said the process went on smoothly, and he gave his full cooperation to the police.
"I'm ready for the next course of action, either in court or others; I am ready," he said, adding that he was not told if he needed to return for another statement.
His lawyer, Wan Rohaimi Wan Daud, confirmed that Abdul Hadi was being investigated under Section 505 of the Penal Code for making inciteful statements and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 for abuse of network services.
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Thunderstorms replace record-breaking mild new year weather
PA Reporter
3 January 2022, 2:24 am ·4-min read
Heavy rain and strong winds have hit parts of England and Wales as thunderstorms replaced the record-breaking mild new year weather.
The Met Office, which had issued a weather warning for thunderstorms for Sunday afternoon, said that heavy showers and gusty winds had moved along the south coast.
Heavy showery rain also led to tricky driving conditions in the southern Pennines.
Heavy showers and strong gusty winds are moving along the south coast this afternoon ⛈💨
Heavy showery rain is also affecting the southern Pennines bringing tricky driving conditions 🌨🚗
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— Met Office (@metoffice) January 2, 2022
Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge said: "The warning went out because we had a band of very heavy thundery showers that started off from the Isles of Scilly and made its way across the southern third of the UK.
"There was heavy rain in amongst it and some very strong winds with gusts of 40-50 mph along the south coast.
"There was also some lightning, not a huge amount, along the south coast area."
The heavy rain and strong gusty winds would have led to some "very difficult driving conditions".
Mr Partridge said it had been a thin band of rain but "if you were driving down the road you certainly would have had probably 30 minutes or so of really dangerous driving conditions, it was certainly pretty intense".
Forecasters had said the fast-moving thunderstorms could result in sudden flooding, lightning strikes and possible "localised disruption" to areas including the east of England, London, the South East, the South West and parts of Wales.
It followed a bout of unusually mild weather over the new year, due to warm subtropical air flowing from the Azores, which pushed temperatures to around 16C, rather than about 7C, for this time of year.
Cameron Holmes flies through the air on his jet ski at Blyth in Northumberland as Britain enjoys the warmest new year on record (Owen Humphreys/PA)
The Met Office said that 16.3C had been reached in St James's Park, central London, meaning it is "likely to be confirmed" as a record maximum temperature for a New Year's Day.
It came after overnight temperatures reached 16.5C in Bala, Gwynedd, north Wales, which provisionally makes it the warmest New Year's Eve on record.
The forecasters also said the warm weather would not last beyond the early part of next week.
A temperature of 12.7C, which is well above average for the time of year, was reached in Writtal, Essex, on Sunday but it will be "all change" for the first week of the new year, according to Mr Partridge.
Daytime temperatures are expected to plunge to 4-6C in Scotland by Tuesday when it will be 8-9C in the southern half of the UK.
The strength of the wind will make it feel cooler than these figures and northern Scotland will have to brace itself for "strong northerly winds which will be gale or even severe gale force" along with the chance of see severe snow showers.
People walking on Cromer Pier in North Norfolk (James Manning/PA)
Warnings for wind and snow are in also in place for northern Scotland on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mr Partridge said: "The combination of gales and snow showers is why there is a warning out for that part of the world.
"Driving conditions will be really dangerous because you are not going to see a great deal if you have got gales and snow."
Forecaster say that showers and strong winds may cause difficult driving conditions on higher routes.
Bus, ferry and train services could be affected, with trips taking longer or even being cancelled.
The Met Office warning states: "Frequent snow showers and gusts to severe gale force are expected on Tuesday, leading to travel disruption, particularly for higher routes."
Angus, Grampian, Highlands and Eilean Siar, plus Orkney and Shetland are among the areas that could be affected.
Areas above 200 metres could be among the worst affected, with the snowfall possibly reaching 10-15cm in places.
The weather warning adds: "In combination with winds gusting 50 to 60mph, perhaps 70mph on exposed summits, temporary blizzard conditions and some drifting of snow on higher-level routes is likely.
"Gusts of around 70mph on exposed coasts will generate some large waves and dangerous coastal conditions in a few places."
Tabloid hacks: Scream has always been a better satire of fame than of horror movies
It's best known as a franchise that takes a knife to the horror genre, but 'Scream' has been more consistent when it comes to poking fun at modern celebrity. As Wes Craven's seminal series returns with a new sequel, Adam White asks if Ghostface has anything on the absurdist derangement of being famous in America
Ruth Davidson says mental health history meant she almost did not run as Scottish Tory leader
The former leader of the Scottish Conservatives has revealed she almost did not run for the position in case her mental health history became known. The Tory peer told the Desperately Seeking Wisdom with Craig Oliver podcast she was concerned her medical history would come out when she considered standing for the role in 2011. Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links said she wanted to be able to talk about her mental health "on my own terms" so she could "own the way in which it was presented".
Distress signal detected in low-lying Tongan islands after volcano eruption, as first death reported
Regular contact with Tonga may not resume for weeks after confirmation the communications cable was cut in at least one place
Culture Secretary indicates BBC licence fee will be axed
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Recreational pot legalization sparks a boom in cannabis reseach
Dr. Mark Ware has devoted the past 20 years of his career to studying marijuana, and he can remember some "dark, lean" periods when he had to fight for meagre funding.
"There were times when I was told you couldn't even use 'cannabis' and 'research' in the same sentence," he recalled.
Now, Ware is the chief medical officer of one of Canada's largest pot companies, Canopy Growth Corp., which is conducting millions of dollars worth of research on the use of cannabis to treat conditions including anxiety, insomnia and pain.
B.C.'s marijuana cops not yet ready for action
That may be a relief to the 20 or so illegal pot shops still operating in Vancouver, however, lawyer Kyla Lee said they should be worried about City of Vancouver plans to use a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling against them.
B.C.'s new pot cops will not be raiding Vancouver's illegal marijuana stores anytime soon.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Public Safety, the Community Safety Unit isn't yet operational.
"It is too early to confirm operational details such as spokesperson, the reporting structure, the total number of investigators or other positions," the statement read. "The CSU is actively recruiting to fill all positions and a number of competitions are currently underway."
Canada: Illegal Vancouver cannabis dispensary operators risk jail time if they don't shut down
Submitted by Carlie Green on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 07:51
Illegal cannabis dispensaries in Vancouver have been warned once more to shut down or risk some hefty fines and possibly even jail time.
The warning follows last month's order from the Province of British Columbia for the dozens of illegal shops in Vancouver to cease operations. The City had previously filed 53 injunction applications against the illicit shops.
When the order was given in December, there was no timeline given for when shops had to be closed and owners were unsure of how the province would be enforcing the order, but the City's warning on Monday suggested that time is running out for those who have yet to shut down.
Vancouver's first two licensed marijuana retailers open for business
Vancouver's first legal pot shops are open for business, more than two months after marijuana was legalized in Canada.
City Cannabis Co.'s Fraser Street location and Evergreen Cannabis Society in Kitsilano have opened their doors.
Both companies had to jump through extensive regulatory hoops, even as illegal retailers continue to operate across in the city.
British Columbia has lagged behind other provinces in issuing non-medical cannabis retail licences, which must first be approved by the province, then referred to local governments or Indigenous communities for approval.
British Columbia finally has more than one legal brick and mortar pot shop
Two months after legalization, British Columbia finally has more than just one place to buy weed, writes Calvin Hughes.
Canada: B.C. Supreme Court orders Vancouver's cannabis dispensaries to shut down
This morning (December 13), the B.C. Supreme Court ordered all illicit cannabis dispensaries operating in Vancouver to close their doors or face penalties.
In April 2016, the City of Vancouver introduced a medical marijuana–related use (MMRU) model. All existing dispensaries at that time—approximately 100 storefronts—were given until the end of the month to cease operations or face "enforcement action".
Since then, the city filed 53 injunctions against cannabis-related businesses operating outside regulations—28 of those shops fought back and continued to provide patient access illegally, officially joining Team Black Market. The case, known as the "dispensary test case", was brought before the B.C. Supreme court in September.
Cannabis company says no mislabelled spray ever reached stores
A former Kamloops mayor and MLA who is now an executive at a Quebec-based cannabis supplier said his company is "extremely confident" a Thompson Rivers University student is incorrect in her claim to have used mislabelled pot spray — a product expected to undergo scientific testing to determine its contents.
Terry Lake, vice-president of Hexo Corporation, said his company's staffers noticed a discrepancy in their warehouse after sending a shipment of CBD spray to government-owned B.C. Cannabis.
Canada: British Columbia police officer raises concerns about online weed edible sales
Const. Derek Gallamore was shocked when his department in Delta, B.C., busted a woman allegedly selling weed-laced brownies with 40 times the recommended single dose of THC.
The sugary treat looked identical to a regular grocery store confection but packed a whopping 400 milligrams of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. He immediately imagined what might happen if a toddler came across the dessert.
"Being a parent, I looked at it and went, 'Wait a second.' " he said. "There were no warning labels for children."
In this Sept. 11, 2017, photo, a display of Creatos, Weed-Itz and Flavorblaster marijuana infused edibles in Washington, at a closed Ethiopian restaurant at a "gifted" marijuana event. (P. Solomon Banda/AP)
UBC's first Canopy Growth professor of cannabis science to lead research into opioid overdose crisis
Clinical trials exploring how cannabis can best be employed to help people with opioid use disorder stick to their treatment plans will serve as the initial focus of a new professorship out of the University of British Columbia (UBC).
An estimated 1,143 people died of a suspected opioid overdose in B.C. during the first nine months of 2018, reports Canopy Growth Corporation, a diversified cannabis and hemp company committed to building a world-class cannabis company one product, site and country at a time.
Leading the effort to address the opioid overdose crisis will be M-J Milloy, PhD, UBC's first Canopy Growth Professor of Cannabis Science.
From zero dollars to a million: BlissCo's first year plan in the cannabis business
Shawn McDougall moves around inside the vault with a blue bucket full of dried cannabis and pauses so each visitor can get a whiff of the aroma.
This type of cannabis is called Shark Shock, says the production manager of BlissCo Cannabis, a cannabis grower and processor in Langley. "This is one of the strains that has a lot of value for us."
The company opened its 12,000-square-foot production facility on Oct. 30 for a media tour. BlissCo is set up in an unmarked unit in a sand-coloured industrial complex next to the Golden Ears Bridge.


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Gahcho Kué officially opens
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Gahcho Kué, the world's largest new diamond mine in the last 13 years, was officially opened on 20th September, 2016. The mine is a joint venture with The De Beers Group of Companies (51 percent) and Mountain Province Diamonds (49 percent). The official opening of the mine was by De Beers Group Chairman and Anglo American Chief Executive Mark Cutifani, De Beers Group CEO Bruce Cleaver, De Beers Canada CEO Kim Truter, Mountain Province Diamonds CEO Patrick Evans, and representatives of First Nations and Metis communities in the Northwest Territories at an event that included 150 guests from across Canada and around the world.
This mine is expected to produce approximately 54 million carats of rough diamonds from around 35 million tonnes of ore over its lifetime.
A fly-in/fly-out remote mine site situated approximately 280km northeast of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories (NWT) of Canada, Gahcho Kué remains on track to reach full commercial operation in the first quarter of 2017. It comprises three open pits and will employ 530 people full-time, with the majority working a two-week in/two-week out rotation.
Bruce Cleaver, CEO, De Beers Group, said: "As millions of new consumers enter the middle classes in the coming years, consumer demand for diamond jewellery is set to see continued medium to long term growth. I'm therefore delighted with the official opening of Gahcho Kué, our largest ever mine outside of southern Africa, as it will help to meet this increasing demand.
"Allied to our major investments in production capacity expansion in the southern African region, the opening of Gahcho Kué positions De Beers and its partners strongly to capitalise on the industry's positive demand outlook."
Canada is the world's third largest diamond producer by value and the fifth largest by volume. Underpinned by a US$1 billion capital investment, the development of Gahcho Kué between 2006 and 2015 has already provided a C$440 million boost to the NWT economy, according to a recent socio-economic impact study conducted by EY for The De Beers Group of Companies.
More than 90 per cent of Gahcho Kué's economic impact will be delivered once the mine becomes fully operational, equivalent to a further C$5.3 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA) to the NWT. Including its supply chain impacts, the mine supported more than 2,700 jobs in 2015, with employment at the site representing more than 10 percent of employment in the NWT's extractive industries.
Kim Truter, CEO, De Beers Canada, said: "Our employees, our business partners and our community partners went above and beyond to deliver this world class asset ahead of schedule and under budget. All those who played a part from discovery through permitting, construction, commissioning and now first production can be proud to have done so in a safe and environmentally responsible way."
Patrick Evans, CEO, Mountain Province Diamonds, said: "Today marks the culmination of more than twenty-one years of commitment and support from our shareholders, without which today would not have been possible. I also recognize the support of our lending group and joint venture partner, who helped get us over the finish line. As production and cash flows commence, our singular focus is to repay our shareholders and business partners and to operate this diamond mine for the benefit of our employees and the communities they call home."


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Former University of Iowa President David Skorton reflects on 150 years of medical advances at Iowa—and explores what's next.
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In 1870, a group of 37 students— including eight women—and eight faculty members pioneered an academic enterprise that would span 150 years and benefit people throughout the state of Iowa and beyond. Today, the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine is a nationally ranked medical school, boasting more than 1,300 faculty—including a member of the National Academy of Medicine and two Howard Hughes Medical Investigators—and 608 students, half of whom are women. The college also is a research powerhouse, bringing in more than $245 million in external funding in 2020 alone to find better ways to treat and prevent disease.
Former UI president David Skorton, a cardiologist and the president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, lauded these accomplishments—and many others—this past fall during his distinguished virtual lecture. As part of the college's sesquicentennial celebration, Skorton reflected on UI health care advances and spoke about his vision for the future of medicine. In looking ahead, he touched on everything from training medical students to address racial biases and health inequities to using virtual technology to reach patients with limited access.
"Today's medical education system has to prepare learners to rapidly pivot . . . and adapt to address new changes to our nation's health as these challenges emerge," Skorton said in his talk. "As long as we continue on this nimble and creative path, we can produce a diverse health care workforce that is ready to eliminate health care disparities and create that healthier future for all."
The UI Carver College of Medicine celebrates its sesquicentennial throughout the 2020-21 academic year. Learn more at medicine.uiowa.edu/150.
Watch a video celebrating 150 years of the Carver College of Medicine.


At last…. photographic proof of the presence of wombats in our forest, after three months of speculation about tracks, scats and burrows. This is a species never documented here before (since 1862). We're excited and thankful for another amazing discovery on Savernake Station.


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Trade Policy and Tariff Retribution
Washington Insider- Tuesday
12/6/2016 | 6:02 AM CST
Finding the Right Ambassador To China
The frontrunner to be U.S. ambassador to China is Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a longtime friend of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Bloomberg reported.
A decision could come after Branstad meets with members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team in New York this week, said three people with knowledge of the matter.
Branstad is the longest-serving governor in US history. He was already scheduled to be in New York for issues related to Iowa economic development, his spokesman said. Now, meetings with Trump transition officials are expected to be added to that schedule.
Meanwhile, reports indicate President-elect Trump is expanding his search for secretary of state and plans to interview more candidates this week. They include John Bolton, a former United Nations ambassador; Jon Huntsman, a former Utah governor who also served as the ambassador to China and speaks Mandarin; Rex Tillerson, the president and chief executive of Exxon Mobil; and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
The Associated Press reported that, "According to two people close to the transition, Trump is moving away from two of the front-runners for the job, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee. ... Former CIA director David Petraeus is still in the mix, though both people close to the transition said Trump's prolonged decision-making process has left the door open to other options."
Given the apparent shift on the post of secretary of state, this is yet another indication that those currently on a list for a given post may not be the eventual person chose for that job.
CRP Focus Continues at USDA
USDA continues an acute focus on the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), mostly linked to the acreage cap on the program of 24 million imposed by the 2014 Farm Bill, according to contacts.
USDA has made some announcements already and more are likely in coming weeks as the agency seeks to keep the acreage level from exceeding the 24-million-acre mark. The cap is still at 24 million acres for Fiscal 2018, but there are contracts on around 2.52 million acres that will expire September 30, 2017, freeing up space for new contracts to begin.
How many acres are in CRP? That is potentially a good question. USDA's latest data indicates that as of September 30, there were 23.881 million acres in the program. While the official data for October is not yet available, the combination of expiring CRP contracts (1.66 million) and new entries under general signup 49 (411,000 acres) and other activities has resulted in "around 23.5 million acres" in the program as of October 1, sources advise.
CRP Pollinator Habitat limit: Identified as CP42 relative to CRP practices, enrollment in that practice is limited to a maximum of 100 acres per farm for contracts that were not approved as of Dec. 1, 2016.
CRP Grasslands: As announced earlier this week (link), contracts on more than 504,000 acres under the CRP Grasslands effort will have a start date of Oct. 1, 2017, putting them into Fiscal 2018.
Monthly tracking of CRP enrollments: USDA will track each month the level of CRP enrollments that come in, and is expected to offer Fiscal 2018 contract-start dates to keep the program acreage under the 24 million-acre level. USDA signaled this policy previously, but sources advise it will still be the agency's policy moving forward.
Washington Insider: Trade Policy and Tariff Retribution
The Washington Post is reporting this week that president-elect Trump on Sunday issued a "dramatic warning" to companies that they would face "retribution" in the form of increased tariffs if they move jobs overseas.
Overall, the new position was not a total surprise, since candidate Trump had set up a collision with corporate America and the free-market wing of the Republican Party earlier when he advocated an unusually isolationist position.
This time, he used a "string of early-morning tweets" to say that he intends to keep jobs in the United States by lowering taxes for companies and slashing regulations, two key components of his economic agenda. But he also warned that companies that send jobs offshore would face a 35 percent tariff on goods sold back to the United States.
"Any business that leaves our country for another country, fires its employees, builds a new factory or plant in the other country, and then thinks it will sell its product back into the U.S. ... without retribution or consequence, is WRONG!" the president elect wrote.
In addition to vowing to hit American companies with severe consequences if they imperil American jobs, he pledged to tear up trade agreements and tag products from countries such as China and Mexico with tariffs if those nations continue to take American jobs.
The Post emphasized that this week's comments set up a clash with Republicans who traditionally argue in favor of free trade and against excessive intrusion by government into the affairs of businesses. For example, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., a frequent Trump critic, argued that a 35% tariff would be passed along to American consumers in the form of higher prices.
A conservative advocacy group, the Club for Growth, said that it favors Trump's proposals on tax and regulatory changes but warned of the consequences of cutting off trade. "We think it's bad economic policy. It'll cost more American jobs than it saves," said former Indiana congressman David McIntosh, the head of the Club for Growth. "Therefore it needs to be stopped."
However, many Republican groups stood nearly silent on Sunday, potentially worried about drawing the wrath of the president-elect, the Post said. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobby, declined to directly respond to Trump's comments but signaled that it has not budged in its opposition to tariffs.
Last week, Trump traveled to an Indiana factory to champion a deal to keep about 800 jobs in the United States. On Sunday, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said that Trump would continue the extraordinary interventions, working on deals with such companies "on a day-by-day basis."
Although Trump would be able to follow through on some of his threats without congressional approval, for example, declaring China a currency manipulator and launching a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It's not clear whether he could penalize companies broadly for moving jobs overseas without congressional authorization.
Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think tank that regularly supports proposed trade deals, predicted that Trump would face legal obstacles if he tries to impose tariffs on individual companies unilaterally.
"This would be, in my way of thinking, a real intrusion of congressional powers over foreign commerce," Hufbauer said. "We've never had this kind of policy before, so he's on novel ground."
In his interview with ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," Pence rejected the idea that Trump will be picking winners and losers. "What the president-elect did with Carrier was simply reach out, one American to another, and just ask them to reconsider," Pence said.
On the stump, Trump espoused an aggressively protectionist stance toward international trade. Even some leading liberal Democrats acknowledged that his elements of economic message broke through with working-class voters and opened up the possibility of working with him on shared areas of interest. However, since the election, his advisers have softened some of his most heated rhetoric.
Still, Trump's social-media message on Sunday is being regarded as a new signal that the Trump who appeared on the campaign trail at raucous rallies and boasted about his ability to shake up Washington isn't going away. He added a clear threat, "Please be forewarned prior to making a very, very expensive mistake!"
So, it will be very important to see what the incoming administration actually does about trade, especially since most concerned critics likely will be Trump supporters who will express their interests forcefully. Thus, trade policy can be expected to continue to be controversial, and the coming debate should be watched closely as it continues, Washington Insider believes.


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D'Cota Dixon would pick off Brandon Harris errant pass as LSU began to drive the down the field in the final four minutes of the game to seal it for Wisconsin. Les Miles will hear many of the same questions he heard last November. Wisconsin will move into the Top 25 and try to avoid a letdown next week. Badgers have a brutal schedule ahead of them, but they cleared the first hurdle.


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Q: Induced emf confusions Suppose I have a simple ac circuit in which the ac source is connected to 3 resistors in series.After reading my 12th standard book I found that we can calculate potential difference across each resistor similar to as we do in a simple dc circuit. But here I am quite confused as I feel induced emf is much different from battery emf.Rectify me if I am wrong(and if I am wrong then please answer my this question-When the magetic field linked with a simple closed coil is changing an induced emf is set up but between which two point on the coil is this potential difference set up?)

A: You are correct that there are two kinds of EMF in the circuit: the EMF provided by the battery, and the "back EMF" in the other direction generated by the changing magnetic flux through the loop of wire that constitutes the circuit.
However, there are two big reasons why the back EMF is ignored here. The primary reason is that the back EMF is usually* tiny compared to the source EMF (i.e. the supply voltage). The back EMF $\mathcal{E}_{ind}$ from the loop of wire itself is found using the definition of inductance:
$$\mathcal{E}_{ind}=L\frac{dI}{dt}$$
In this case, we know that the AC current through the circuit looks like $I=I_0\sin(\omega t)$, for some low frequency $\omega$ (usually 50 or 60 Hz for grid power). Let's assume that the circuit is arranged along a circular loop of wire of radius $a$ (this is the configuration with maximum inductance per unit length, so it gives us a good "worst-case scenario"). Let's also assume that the wire itself has a circular cross-section with radius $b$ (this is fairly realistic). The inductance for such a wire loop can be estimated using the following formula**:
$$L=\mu_0 a\left(\ln\frac{8a}{b}-2\right)$$
If we insert the above two equations into the back EMF formula, we obtain:
$$\mathcal{E}_{ind}=\mu_0aI_0\omega\left(\ln\frac{8a}{b}-2\right)\cos(\omega t)$$
If our loop is 10 cm in radius and the wire itself is 2 mm thick (so it has a radius of 1 mm), then $a=.1$ m, $b=.001$ m, and by the above formula, $L=5.9\times 10^{-7}$ H. If we let $\omega=2\pi\times 60$ Hz and $I_0=1$ A, we get a maximum back EMF of around 0.2 mV, which is tiny compared to the usual AC supply voltage of 120-240 V.
As a secondary, more pedagogical reason, the amount of back EMF from the circuit itself depends on the geometry of the physical circuit. A longer loop of wire connecting the battery and resistors will generate a higher back EMF than a shorter loop of wire, and a more circular loop will generate a higher back EMF than a "flattened" loop. For the sake of simplicity, most textbooks use the "lumped-element model" to describe electric circuits, where wires connecting components are assumed to have zero resistance, inductance, and capacitance, making the physical circuit geometry irrelevant. In the lumped-element model, if you want to account for the properties of the wire itself, you insert them as an explicit resistor, inductor, and capacitor. Naturally, this makes the circuit much more complicated, so for educational purposes it is often ignored (since, as we have already shown, it's tiny and only makes things more complicated).

*The following discussion assumes that the AC circuit has a frequency that is low enough that the lumped-element circuit model is valid. At high frequencies, the impedance of most electronic components (including the wires themselves) drastically increases, and they all start radiating quite a bit of their energy away as electromagnetic radiation, so you can't really use the lumped-element model easily anymore.
**Source: https://www.edn.com/estimating-wire-loop-inductance-rule-of-thumb-15/

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Willson School
Willson School is an abandoned school along East 55th Street in Cleveland, Ohio.
Willson School was designed in the Commercial architectural style by Frank Seymour Barnum, Superintendent of Buildings for the Cleveland Board of Education, and constructed in 1903 on Willson Avenue. 4 The school was named after the street, which itself was named for Hiram V. Willson, a lawyer and the first judge of the Northern District Court of Ohio. 2 A street renaming scheme in 1905 changed Willson Avenue to East 55th Street.
A three-story addition with a gymnasium and auditorium was erected in 1927. 4 Matching the original structure, it was designed by George Martin Hopkinson, a Cleveland School Board architect.
Declining enrollment led Willson School to close in May 2005. 1
A replacement pre-kindergarten through grade eight school is proposed on the site of Willson School. 3 It has yet to be determined if the building will be rehabilitated or demolished for a new structure.
Kleinerman, Ellen Jan. "When a local school closes, neighborhood feels the loss." Plain-Dealer [Cleveland], 10 Jan. 2010.
"Willson, Hiram V." Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, 2017. Article.
"Cluster 11: Downtown – St. Clair-Superior – Hough." Facilities Master Plan Updates 2014-2019, Cleveland Metropolitan School District School, 2014, p. 13.
Keiser, Robert D. "Cleveland Architects Database." Cleveland Landmarks Commission, Jul. 2013. Article.
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ADVA is a company founded on innovation and focused on helping our customers succeed. Our technology forms the building blocks of a shared digital future and empowers networks across the globe. We're continually developing breakthrough hardware and software that leads the networking industry and creates new business opportunities. It's these open connectivity solutions that enable our customers to deliver the cloud and mobile services that are vital to today's society and for imagining new tomorrows. Together, we're building a truly connected and sustainable future. For more information on how we can help you, please visit us at: www.advaoptical.com.
Oscilloquartz is a pioneer in time and frequency synchronization. We design, manufacture and deploy end-to- end synchronization systems that ensure the delivery and assurance of highly precise timing information over next-generation packet and legacy networks. As an ADVA company, we're creating new opportunities for tomorrow's networks. For more information, please visit us at: www.oscilloquartz.com.
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Making a fellowship that keeps going forever may appear somewhat ridiculous at the same time, in the event that you take a gander at a few kinships, you will find that theirs is a kinship that keeps going forever. You can have companions so near you that they progressed toward becoming piece of your family. There are manners by which you can change your connections to make them thusly. It is never a simple undertaking and, you need in any case yourself. In the event that you are a narrow minded individual loaded up with antagonism and vindictiveness, odds are that you will never make great companionships; in any event not those that will keep going forever. You will understand that there is an example with regards to fellowships throughout your life; and it is dependent upon you to put a conclusion to this cycle. You should turn into the companion you need to have. As such, great individuals will be pulled in to you on account of your great fellowship qualities. You can't dispose of this cynicism in the event that you are not willing to change. You should need change for you to get it. It begins by conceding that you have not been a decent individual. With this you are prepared to start a procedure in which you can have great companions who truly care about you.
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Which are the top audiobook apps in India?
Jhumpa Lahiri once said, That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet." Over time, the way a book is consumed has changed. Earlier, people would pick up a book, smell the pages and then start reading it, but now we have audiobooks. Audiobooks are easier to carry around, and one can just close their eyes and listen to the entire story – anytime and anywhere. One do not have to worry about weighing their bag to carry a book or straining their eyes while reading it.
Here's a list of top audiobooks available in India where you can access over thousands of books under one platform.
List of audiobooks in India
Founded in 2018 by Rohan Nayak, Nishanth Srinivas, and Prateek Dixit, the app took to OTT platform to mix audio and books, together. Pocket FM is one of the most popularly used audiobooks in India.
Pocket FM generates 15 million active listeners monthly on its platform with a total monthly audio streaming on the app is over 3 billion minutes. Pocket FM includes Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, and other regional FM Radio including All India Radio. The app covers over 12,000 stories, daily podcasts, personal and other lifestyle contents too.
Audible is backed by Amazon. Audible offers over 200,000 audiobooks and 40,000 podcasts on its platform. On audible, people can download their favorite audiobooks and podcasts, which can also be accessed when offline.
Audible offers a monthly subscription for ₹199 post 30-day free trial. Launch of the Audible took place in 1995 and it is headquartered in New Jersey. Microsoft is also an investor in Audible with $11 million investment in 1999.
Later in 2008, Amazon acquired Audible for $300 million.
Founded in 2018 by Lal Chand Bisu, Vikas Goyal and Vinod Kumar Meena, Kuku FM has over 1 crore listeners and creators in which 18 lakh of them are premium ones. KuKu FM has over 6 crore listening hours and is among the top rated audiobook apps in India.
Kuku FM is available in 7 languages including Hindi, Marathi, Bangla, Gujarati and Tamil. The app has more than 10 genre like Love, Horror & Crime, spiritual etc. One can access over 10,000 bestselling books in the world and 1,000 audiobooks. Kuku FM adds one new book every week on their platform. Spiritual books like Bhagavad Gita, Ramayan & Mahabharat in different languages are also available on Kuku FM.
Kuku FM offers an annual subscription for just ₹399. The app boats about 1.5 lakh paid subscribers.
Headfone was founded in 2017 by former Facebook software engineers, Pratham Khandelwal and Yogesh Sharma. Interestingly, Headphone allows you to record your voice, listen stories and share audios. Apart from audiobooks, stories and podcasts, Radio stations too are available on Headfone. Headfone app also allow users to create their own podcast and download content to play offline.
While traveling, one can listen to horror stories, kid stories, motivational stories, shayaris and ghazals. Headphone also has Bible, Gita, Quran.
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