When you took your husband's name after marriage you simply presented your marriage certificate and assumed his name. The process was quite simple. Unfortunately the process for untangling yourself from his name is unfairly more complicated.
Your identification and records can't be changed back to your maiden name until you have either a divorce decree issued by the court or a court ordered legal name change order. If you expect your divorce to be wrapped up within three months it will be quickest to wait for your divorce to be finalized via the court. If, after divorcing, you intend to change to your maiden name, or any name you have legally held before marriage, request that the divorce order notes what name you would prefer to be known as post-divorce.
It may be as simple as notating your birth name and married names, and having it noted that you now want to be known by your maiden name. If you have a more complicated history of names, request your preferred name is notated and ask that the record also shows your birth and married names. If you don't have your preferred name noted on your divorce decree you can still change names by presenting other documents.
If your divorce is likley to drag on for more than three months and you can't wait that long for your name change, the only other option is a court ordered legal name change. The court process for legal name change typically takes three months. Legal name change can grant any name you want, so you may revert to your birth name, any prior name, or a new name altogether. Read our section on legal name change for more information.
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Christian Slater is going to make a comeback soon–I can feel it. The actor has several projects underway and is currently in Saskatchewan shooting the sci-fi horror, Stranded, directed by Academy Award winning director, Roger Christian. Man, what I would give just to be a PA mopping up Slater's ball sweat during the filming.
Slater, who recently appeared in the forgettable thriller, Playback (don't even get me started),will star in the upcoming horror as an astronaut a part of an Ark moon base that accidentally collides with a meteor. The crew quickly learns that spores from the meteorite can replicate cell structure, reproduce and mutate, causing everyone on board to fight for survival. Um, two Christian Slater's for the price of one? Hell yes, meteorite, do your damn magic!
Along with the gorgeous Slater (who has a thing for younger women–CALL ME), the film also stars Brendan Fehr (YAY! Roswell for life!), Michael Therriault, and Amy Matysio.
I honestly don't even care what this movie is about or who else is in it. It has two of my favorite things: Horror and Slater. I am already sold, thank you very much.


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Xiaomi Introduce Mi Note Pro with Snapdragon 810 and 5.7-inch display in China
Xiaomi had added the 5.7-inch Mi Note Pro with a Snapdragon processor to its portfolio of affordable devices early this year. The phablet is an enhanced variant of the Mi Note which was revealed along with it back in January. The former handset has finally been given a release date of May 12 and a cost of RMB2999 (close to Rs 31000).
The power-packed Xiaomi Mi Note Pro has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chip and 4GB of RAM. It offers 64GB of internal memory and a 5.7-inch touchscreen of 2560 x 1440p QHD resolution. Also, the Android Lollipop OS running this smartphone has been treated with Xiaomi's homegrown MIUI 6 software. There are two SIM card slots inside, both supporting 4G networks.
Moving on to the cameras, the Mi Note Pro has a 13MP main one integrating a Sony IMX214 image sensor and paired with dual tone LED flash. Perched above the display on the front is a 4MP snapper. All in all, the forthcoming Xiaomi device has the makings of a flagship with the advantage of the comparatively low price on its side.
The Mi Note on the other hand, makes do with 3GB RAM, a 1080p screen and a Snapdragon 801 processor. As for the choice of SoC in the Pro version, GSMArena notes that the company has handled its overheating issue by a smartly engineered thermal distribution design, unlike Samsung which chose to solve it by using Exynos instead.

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The following describes the basic process for a Customer to create an Order, and for the Supplier to fulfil the Order. The order passes through many stages in this process which are collectively referred to as 'the Order Lifecycle'.
As the order progresses through these stages, it will be managed by different user "roles" in ConSol. Users in an organisation may be configured to have more than one role. For example, in a very small supplier organisation, all the supplier roles may be fulfilled by only one person.
1. The Create Order process is performed by a person with the Job Originator role. The Job Originator outlines the basic requirements of an Order such as description, location and service period.
2. The Job Originator then assigns the Order to a Contract Administrator. The Contract Administrator is responsible for the Categorise Order stage.
3. The choice can then be made whether to go to the Pre-itemise Order stage (adding items and quantities without pricing) or pass the Order to the Scheduler to select a Supplier to carry out the work on the Order.
The advantage of the Pre-itemise stage is that only Suppliers who can deliver the required items will be available to select at the Allocation stage.
4. After the Allocate Order stage, in which a Supplier is selected by the Scheduler, the Order goes back to the Contract Administrator for the final Itemise Order stage where the contractually agreed cost of the items is displayed. At this point, items and quantities can be added or removed before the Transmit Order stage, in which the Order is sent to the selected Supplier.
5. When the Order is received by the Supplier, the person in the Supplier role of Allocation must Accept or Reject the Order.
6. If accepted, the Order is forwarded to the Supplier Operations role to update work progress before completing the Order.
The Supplier may request variations to the Order and/or an extension of time to complete the Order. These requests may or may not be approved by the Customer Contract Administrator. These are alternative workflows to the basic flow.
7. Once the necessary work has been completed for the Order, the Supplier marks the Order as Work Complete in ConSol and submits a Claim for payment to the Customer.
8. After the Supplier has submitted a Claim, the person in the Customer Verification role must approve the Claim. If the Verification role rejects the Claim, it will be returned to the Supplier to be adjusted as required, and re-submitted.
9. Once the person in the Verification role verifies the Claim, the Order returns to the Supplier side. The person with the Supplier Accounts role enters the Invoice number and submits the Invoice to Customer Accounts.
10. Lastly, Customer Accounts approves the Invoice for payment. If the Invoice is rejected, it is returned to Supplier Accounts to be adjusted as required, and re-submitted.
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Shelf Aware — Lauren Chater
A couple of months ago, I had the very great pleasure of interviewing Lauren Chater for a story in the April issue of Good Reading magazine. Before the interview, I read her debut novel, The Lace Weaver, and was transported in time, to a place I've never been — Estonia, during its occupation by Russian and German forces in the 1940s. Lauren told me that she wanted to novel to focus on the ways that women support and rely on each other during times of upheaval and trauma.
The story explores the relationship that develops between Katarina, a fiercely partisan Estonian farmer's daughter, and Lydia, who has led a sheltered and privileged life as the daughter of a Communist Party leader, in the shadow of the Kremlin. I'm not at all surprised that the book has been received to great critical and popular acclaim since its release.
I was thrilled when Lauren accepted my invitation to provide a guest post for Shelf Aware, and I'm sure you'll enjoy reading her responses to my questions as much as I did. She reveals her passion for reading and writing, shares some of her favourite titles, and provides a hint at one of her other major interests — baking book-themed cookies. Her blog, The Well-Read Cookie — Edible Art Inspired by Fiction & Folklore is a joy to read, and her Instagram posts are a visual treat, although she explains on her website that she can't take cookie orders just now because she's so busy with the release of her book. Perhaps you can enjoy a cuppa and a home-baked cookie or two of your own while you read her guest post.
Q. Lauren, how would you describe the work that you do and how you do it?
A. I write fiction with a focus on women's stories. I try to write the kind of books I love to read myself; books with complex characters, interesting settings and a hint of magic in them. I also love words and believe in their power to create empathy and promote change. When I'm not writing, I'm baking cookies and icing, decorating and photographing them for my blog The Well-Read Cookie, which combines my love of reading with my love of baking. In between that, I try to read as much as I can.
A. My debut novel The Lace Weaver has just been released by Simon & Schuster. It's an historical fiction story set in Estonia in World War II about two very different young women fighting to survive and preserve the legacy of traditional knitted lace passed down through their families. I'm currently working on my second novel, Gulliver's Wife, which retells the story of Gulliver's Travels through the eyes of Mary Burton, his long-suffering wife. And I'm always working on short stories, or fragments just for practise.
A. I keep most of my research books in my bedroom, where my desk is, so that they're within reach at any time! Writing historical fiction requires a lot of research as you can imagine, so I have a shelf dedicated to each book and I fill it with all the books for that subject as well as any interesting random books that might be useful. I also have a little shelf of writing advice books above my desk, so I can pluck one down at random if I'm feeling blocked and hopefully absorb the wisdom of someone far wiser than me like Margaret Atwood or Elizabeth Gilbert.
I keep my favourite fiction books out in the lounge area as I'm more likely to reach for them there. My kids also have bookshelves in their rooms filled with books they have been given by family members; my mother-in-law is a former teacher librarian so she bought them all the 'classics' before they were even born! Q. How are your books organised/arranged?
A. I arrange my books by author name and loosely by genre; eg. historical fiction, contemporary Australian, I have multiple copies of some books simply because I'm a sucker for a beautiful cover. My favourite editions are those cloth-bound ones which came out a few years ago. I haven't got as many of them yet as I would like but I love looking at pictures on Instagram taken by people who have the full collection. I live vicariously through those people!
A. Although I love all types of books, my time is very limited with young children around so I read mostly historical, magic realism and non-fiction or reference books which will help me in my work. Occasionally, I'll break the trend and pick up something like Graeme Simison's The Rosie Project or Michelle de Krester's recent book The Life to Come, just for the sheer pleasure of reading. It's like taking a mental break and I love it.
I also love poetry and I'm finding short stories very appealing since I can read them in between doing the housework (which I'm very inconsistent with, I must admit!) I don't feel so guilty if I'm reading a short story though and can usually stick to my self-imposed limit of one story per hour as a reward for doing the dishes or hanging out the washing.
A. My favourite reading place is slightly unusual; it's actually in the airport. Because I have young children who are often at home making noise and mess, it's very difficult for me to find pockets of uninterrupted reading time. When they're at school, I'm usually working on my writing so the best times for me to read are when I'm travelling. I'm one of those weirdos who arrives at the airport about five hours in advance because I hate the idea of missing a flight (it happened to me once, mortifyingly). To ensure that doesn't happen again, I now get there early, hurry through the baggage check then go and find a cosy seat at the gate and lose myself in my book. I also enjoy reading on planes. When people complain about nine hour flights I think: are you crazy? That's nine hours of reading time right there! I would kill for that.
Q. What books are you reading right now? Why did you choose those
books and what do you think of them so far?
A. I'm currently reading two books; an advance copy of Natasha Lester's forthcoming historical fiction novel The Paris Seamstress, which is a dual timeline story. I loved her first book A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald and this book is proving to be just as good. I'm also reading The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff, which I know came out some time ago but I'm only just catching up! It's incredible. Such vivid writing and such a fascinating, brave protagonist. I'm in love.
A. I have so many favourite authors it's hard to choose. The ones stand out most in my mind, though are Geraldine Brooks, Kate Forsyth, Alice Hoffman, Tracy Chevalier, Sarah Dunant, Isabel Allende, Lucy M. Boston, Neil Gaiman and Virginia Woolf.
Books… there are too many! My top three picks would have to be March by Geraldine Brooks, Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier and Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth.
A. I would save the first copy of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier that I ever owned, my signed copy of Stardust by Neil Gaiman (I stalked him at the Opera House to ask him to sign my book and then got so tongue-tied and starstruck I could barely tell him my name) and my original copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from the noughties which I saved for my children and read to them for the first time last year (see photo of my daughter holding it!) It was a very special moment to share it with them and they were enchanted. We have now moved onto The Chamber of Secrets.
A. What a fabulous question! I don't know that meeting my author idols is such a good idea; I tend to get nervous and excited around authors whose work I love. So it would have to be three characters, then. Let's see; how about Jane Eyre, Miss Havisham and Sherlock Holmes. That would be a fun party. It would be interesting, at the very least. I'd serve Jane Eyre some jam crumpets, probably unbuttered because she's quite a serious girl. I would make Miss Havisham some cookies in the shape of wedding cakes; I'm sure she'd love them. Sherlock would probably be satisfied with some snuff which I'd serve to him in a Persian slipper. I'd ask them to tell me all the dark secrets hidden in their pasts.
Find out more about Lauren via these links:
Website: www.laurenchater.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/laurenchaterwriter
Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_well_read_cookie
Shelf Aware — Susan Midalia


VMware has brought NSX microsegmentation to workloads running on Amazon Web Services. Also, at VMworld 2018, VMware said NSX security is now enforceable on Arista switches.
The vendor is making some progress with its services strategy, according to the numbers shared in its Q3 results.
VMware wants to simplify management of complex multi-cloud environments -- this time through the acquisition of third-party SaaS provider CloudHealth.
A North Korean hacking group is targeting cryptocurrency exchanges using Trojanized cryptocurrency trading software designed for both Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac OS, say researchers.
The newly-formed storage player has indicated that it will be business as usual for those partners of its acquisition targets.
A new channel partner ecosystem featuring systems integrators and digital agencies is forming around Algolia search technology; other news of the week.
Cisco has revamped the Cisco DevNet page for Webex Meetings. The development of additional Webex integrations should make the platform more attractive to businesses.
The new Cohesity SaaS app lets users view, manage and make changes to secondary data and applications across multiple clusters through a single dashboard.
Retail and finance remain the top cyber attack targets, but the second quarter also saw a spike in attacks against the manufacturing industry and an increase in remote desktop attacks, a report reveals.
Dell EMC composes its MX composable infrastructure story around SAS storage sleds that slide into in a single 14th generation 7U PowerEdge chassis, with OpenManage software.
The industry group has found that the channel is facing some constraints in its mission to grow.


The Jivox business deal took place on March 10, 2008. Jivox, the company that received the investment, is engaged in online video advertisement and intends to make the online video advertisement market stronger. Diaz Nesamoney, the founder of Jivox, was among the investors.
The Jivox business deal, announced on March 10, 2008, was valued at $2.7 million. The main investor involved in the Jivox business deal was Opus Capital. The founder of Jivox, Diaz Nesamoney, was also one of the investors. Nesamoney is an entrepreneur who was behind Celequest as well as Informatica.
A venture capital company in its budding stage, the company has been entrusted with the management of $1 billion. The main area where Opus Capital invests are companies that are highly integrated and committed to entrepreneurship.
Opus Capital is situated in California, which also happens to be the location of the company headquarters.
Due to high production costs, video advertisements have been accessible only to brand advertisers. However, the boom in video content advertisement is allowing the small, as well as medium sized, business houses to reach out to its clients. By making use of the money raised in the Jivox business deal, Diaz Nesamoney intends to route part of the finances to the improvement of the market of online video advertisements.


Schools close and delay operations as dicey conditions linger.
Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools announced that schools will be closed Wednesday as the county continues to thaw out from the large winter storm.
Wednesday will be an optional workday for staff at Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools but that workday would begin on a three-hour delay.
Durham County Schools originally said it would operate on a three-hour delay, but later decided to close schools for Wednesday.
Granville County also decided to close schools for Wednesday.
Wake County schools will be on a three-hour delay.
Josh Chapin takes a look at Durham County roads.
Franklin County Schools are also on a three-hour delay.
Chatham County and Halifax County reported schools will be on a two-hour delay Wednesday.
Wake, Durham, Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County schools were all closed Tuesday. Click here for the latest list of school closures.
Meanwhile, in Asheboro, animals at the North Carolina Zoo got a snow day Monday. Although the arctic foxes and polar bear looked right at home in the snow Sunday.
Click here for government, business, and church closings and delays.
Gov. Cooper declared a State of Emergency before any snow had even fallen in the Raleigh-Durham area.
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(2004) 5th FTW PHD Symposium, Interactive poster session, paper nr. 001 (proceedings available on CD-Rom).


This elaborate marble statue depicts American Revolutionary War General and President George Washington (1732–1799). Standing in stately repose before human personifications of wisdom and justice, the 16-foot marble figure in high relief on integral plinth was sculpted by Alexander Stirling Calder (1870-1945).
Alexander Calder came from a family of sculptors and artisans. Educated both at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (1886-90) and in Paris (1890), he was well-known for his public works. He also sculpted the Swann Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, monumental archways in Pasadena, California, and the Depew Memorial Fountain in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Designed by Stanford White (1853-1906), Washington Square Arch was dedicated on May 4, 1895. White's initial, elaborate plans included a pier sculpture abutting the arch, but these designs were never completed. His spandrel panels depicting War, Peace, Fame and Posterity remained unadorned for more than twenty years. In 1916, Washington as Commander-in-Chief Accompanied by Fame and Valor was installed at the Arch. Washington as President, Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice, sculpted by Alexander Stirling Calder, was installed at the site two years later.
Though Washington Square Arch has been cleaned and maintained several times over the past few decades, the marble sculptures continue to show signs of erosion. On August 16, 2001, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced that he would allocate $1.5 million to the restoration of Washington Square Arch. The City Council, the Manhattan Borough President, and several private sponsors have also contributed funds to the project.


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Academic journal article Canadian Social Science
Threat to Nigeria since 1960: A Retrospection
By Afinotan, L. Andy; Ojakotoru, Victor
The post-independence Nigerian state was faced with the intractable task of governing a multifaceted nation, comprised of 36 regional states which were divided along ethno-religious lines, up to 300 ethnic groups and a plethora of linguistic dialects, in addition to three (3) distinct religious groupings. The challenge of the post-colonial Nigerian state was the efficient administration and governance of a broad-based society with a multiplicity of interests, values, traditions and cultural inclinations. The culmination of an atmosphere of mutual mistrust and dissatisfaction from different regions of Nigeria came with the advent of the Biafra secessionist battle of 1967. Following the end of the Biafra conflict, the Nigerian society became characterised with struggles and resistance against the state system in various forms, with the gripes and disquiets of various groups coming to the fore in various, often violent ways. Making use of library research and content analysis methologies, the authors trace the sequence of crises faced by the Nigerian state since independence, with a keen focus on the Biafra War of 1967, the Niger Delta crisis (particularly, the botched Amnesty Programme of 2009), as well as the current threat of Boko Haram terrorism which has taken hold of the Nigerian society since 2009. The paper concluded that, for the high ideals of Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress to be attained in Nigeria, the State must deal with corruption, ethnicity, religious fundamentalism and security related crimes, while doing more to restructure the polity and enthrone free and fair elections.
Key words: Retrospection; Aggression theory; Post-independence Nigerian state
Nigeria gained its independence from British colonialism in 1960> and advanced t0 a post-colonial order which was replete with socio_economic and political quandaries inherited from the erstwhiie administration. The post-i"dependence Nigerian state was faced with fa i"tractable task of goveming a multifaceted nation, comprised of 36 regional states which were divided along eümo.religious Unes> up tQ 30() eümic md a plethora 0f linguistic dialects> ^ addition t0 ^ (3) distinct religious g"oupi"gs. As a "atio" which was artiScially instituted by the British colonial powers at th the key challenge for the state in the post-dependence era and beyond was patterning a diverse ^ of SOei0-economic and political exigencies stemming from distinct social ^"p^ i"to a si"gie state; each with and n0"_mutuauy exclusive interests, an addition t0 the constitutional function of evolving such inherent diffcre"ces into a practicable social contract.
Essentially, the main source of the leadership quandary faced by the state since the post-independence era lies in the fact ^ the Nigeria" natio" is devoid of a common sense of afflHatio" md a shared bond betWcen the various ethnic (CarenS! 1988) As stated by Carens, the establishment of a nation is determined by the sharing of commonalities in language, culture and traditions, by a range of national gr0ups which have engendered habits 0f cooperation among one another over time (Carens, 1988). The case of Nigeria presents a contrary paradigm. In a similar manner to other colonised sub-Saharan African states, the European colonialists amalgamated nations out of numerous ethnic groups, which proved ungovernable for a majority of post-independence leaders. The Nigerian nation is comprised of three major ethnic groups, including the Hausa/Fulani, Igbo, and the Yoruba, in addition to a myriad of smaller units. While the Nigerian state grapples with governing such a multifaceted society at the administrative level, at a social level, the divergence in views, values and interests between the various groupings has proved to be a source of inter-ethnic and inter-religious indignation. …
Publication: Canadian Social Science
Afinotan, L. Andy
Ojakotoru, Victor
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Q: Threadsafe memory manager: Data race in 320 MB buffer? I am working on a multithreaded VC++ (windows) program that performs some continuous simulation in the main thread. This simulation uses objects that get created in the same thread or in a loader-thread (both can be the case). The same is true for deleting.
I did this so the main thread would not block while very large objects (made up of a lot of other objects) get loaded and unloaded dynamically. This basically worked. But (for example) while the unloader thread is deleting one object after another continuously the new and delete calls of other threads take forever. This seems to be caused by some internal thread protection.
My next move was to reduce the number of new/delete calls by pooling those many smaller objects. So I wrote a primitive memory manager. The manager allocates a 320 MB buffer using malloc() and supplies allocation functionality to the other parts of my program using blocks of 64 bytes. Now I use placement new to create the smaller objects. The manager's alloc/free methods are entirely mutex(lock) protected.
What happens now is that it simply does not work correctly in a multithreading environment. Modifications of the custom managed objects get ignored and so on. I assume what happens is that the entire buffer is viewed as a single variable and as such must not have read/write data races. Is this the case?
Restricting access to one object while an entirely different one gets created/deleted is not an option as you can imagine. So what's the way to go in a situation like this?

A: The news and deletes are internally synchronizing onto a single Windows Heap-object.
The best solution i know of is using HeapCreate HeapAlloc and HeapFree directly, creating one Heap-object per allocator-thread and each time specifying HEAP_NO_SERIALIZE.
You have to make sure that the thread which allocated is the one which frees, ie you have to "give the memory back" to the allocating helper-thread.

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Is this the case?

No, I don't think so. All the memory is just a continuous address space. The CPU's not aware of variables, it only operates pages, cache lines, and bytes.
Possible cause: bugs in your memory manager. Maybe the objects it allocates overlap each other, or maybe you failed the thread synchronization (BTW, you should definitely replace your mutexes with critical sections, see CComAutoCriticalSection and CComCritSecLock ATL classes for convenient whappers - for short operations, they work by order of magnitude faster than mutexes).
Possible cause: bugs in your objects. Maybe your object write an extra byte after its address, but the heap rounded the allocation size so it works OK when each objects is allocated with HeapAlloc win32 API used by new operator.
Possible cause: memory alignment issues. Try aligning addresses of the objects you're allocating at least to 8.

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Q: find a value in a column every time typed-in, and find it in another sheet, and color it? I have two sheets;
In the first one ("codes") I have some labels that are numbers and strings together with a hyphen, like AA-01.
In the second sheet ("places") I have list of all labels in different rows and columns everywhere.
I need to write a code to ONCE receive a label in sheet "code", find it in sheet "places" and color it.
That should be something like onEdit, and once I get that label erased, I need the cell in the second sheet ("places") get back to white background again.
So this is like a live process; when I type in a label in first sheet, I want this process happen and it finds the value in second sheet and just color it.
I have made this, but not sure why is not working!
function color() {
  var targetSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName('places');
  var sheet       = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName('codes');
  var ToPlace     = sheet.getRange("F13:F300").getValues();
  var targetCell  = targetSheet.getRange("A1:Z").getValues();

  for(var i = 0; i < toPlace.length; i++) {
    if( toPlace[i] == targetCell){
      targetSheet.setBackground("yellow");
    }
  }
}

A: You are currently iterating through the rows of the codes getting Arrays of strings.
You are then comparing those arrays to targetCell which is an Array of Arrays of Strings.
You can doe something like this:
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Questioning Consciousness
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Re: Questioning Consciousness
by DrEvil » Sun Sep 26, 2021 12:07 pm
Yeah, that's true, but it's still constrained to very narrow fields. You can train an AI to be really good at recognizing cats, but it will be shit at anything else. The lacking piece is generalized learning, but we're inching closer every day. DeepMind thinks they know how to do it with reinforcement learning, and Google's goal has always been to make an AGI.
The problem is if we ever create an actual, honest to God AI, will we be able to recognize it? You can always make the argument that it's just really good at mimicking thinking without actually thinking, even when you can't tell the difference between a person and the AI. There's no test for consciousness.
There's also the problem that current AI models are black boxes. We have no idea what's going on inside them once they're up and running. They just take in information and spit out results, and every now and then they do something unpredictable, and we have no idea why (Google set up an AI to manage cooling at one of their data centers a few years ago, and it worked swimmingly, including doing things that were completely counter-intuitive, like raising the temperature in certain parts of the building. The engineers said it acted like a living thing. Same thing happened with AlphaGo, when it created new strategies that human players had never considered). That's not a big issue with an AI that tags your photos, but it might be for an AI that handles flight control.
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by Harvey » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:49 pm
DrEvil » Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:07 pm wrote: The lacking piece is generalized learning
The lacking piece is meaning. In my view the transhumanist agenda was never intended to arrive at technological transcendence, that is, to make people out of machines but was always intended to achieve precisely the opposite - to make machines out of people.
The unconscious desire of transhumanism is to make order where order already exists.
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
This he said to me
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Harvey » Mon Sep 27, 2021 12:49 am wrote:
I think it's more to make a different order, because the current order is pretty fucking shit if you think about it. You're born, you live for a few decades, probably with a big helping of suffering along the way, then you watch your loved ones die, or you beat them to it and they get to watch you die, and then it's over. You no longer exist and never will again, and the universe doesn't give a flying fuck. The end.
Most of it is just a different type of religion, with the small caveat that some of the things they preach might one day actually be possible. Some of those things I'm all in favor of (like fighting aging or expanding our abilities), but a lot of what they say is just delusional horseshit, like Kurzweil wanting to simulate his dead father, or AI gods magically curing all ills and ushering in utopia (although that's singularitarianism, not transhumanism, but they're pretty interchangeable).
To me at least it's infuriating that consciousness can exist in our reality at all, only to be snuffed out after a short while. The best you can hope for is some good times along the way and then it's bye-bye, off to oblivion. In that sense transhumanism is the one religion with at least a tiny shred of hope of fixing that. Probably not gonna happen, but it's at least conceivable. It's something you can actively work on and see tangible improvements, unlike all the traditional religions, which have been preaching the same thing for millennia with fuck-all to show for themselves.
I think that's what attracts a lot of the Silicon Valley crowd. It's a religion where you don't have to take things on faith, you can actually spend your billions on making the tenets of your faith more likely to come true. I don't think that's a good thing, because most tech-bros are insufferable assholes, but I do subscribe to the idea of the slow singularity. Not abrupt, revolutionary change with boot-strapping AIs, but more gradual changes that add up to revolutionary change at a pace we can cope with, or in other words, plain old progress.
We're already in the early stages, with the entire world becoming connected within a decade. Next up the entire world will merge with the artificial through augmented reality, and then that merging will over time become greater and greater until the two are indistinguishable. Along the way more and more of our ills will become possible to cure, and our lifespan will likely expand with it. The end result will hopefully be a reality where the inhabitants are happy and live good lives, but I doubt it will seem like a happy, good life from our perspective, but that's irrelevant, because we're not the ones living there.
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Bill Lerner
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Bill Lerner Talks About His Achievements as a Parking Service Expert
Bill Lerner, CEO of iPark, worked for many years to turn his business into the biggest privately-owned parking service in New York. Back in 1960, the company only owned a 25-car lot that has now increased to almost 150 facilities. iPark continues to develop as people's needs keep on growing. While iPark's achievements can certainly be attributed to sound decision-making and management, Lerner's openness to new ideas and philosophies in terms of business operations has been the driving force behind the company's consistent expansion. The American entrepreneur discusses his role as an innovator, and how these decisions have driven sustained success.
It's easy to think of innovation within a business as profound, game-changing revelations that completely alter an industry's way of thinking, but that is not always the case. "Evolutionary changes (slight shifts in business strategy or thinking) can often be every bit as powerful as revolutionary advancements," writes Parade contributor Scott Steinberg. "We often forget that all it frequently takes to get ahead is just a minor shift in tactics or perspective." For Lerner, this has often meant accommodating various trends and shifts that reflect on consumer's everyday lifestyles. "It's become essential to be technologically capable," he noted in an interview with Park Exec. "Our customer base has become primarily a tech community."
One particular example of Lerner's approach is the implementation of a user-friendly, streamlined online booking framework that became a major factor in the company's growth, especially in the New York City area. "The amenities our clientele enjoy in other markets have to be available within ours in order to retain their business," he pointed out. More recently, the rise in use of electric vehicles prompted Lerner to initiate a partnership with Tesla Motors, Inc. and CarCharging, resulting in the installation of charging stations at a number of iPark garages, with plans to eventually offer them at every facility. "I feel that 10 years out, more new cars will be electric than gasoline-based," he told CNBC. "There's going to come a day when you can't find a place to gas up in Manhattan." Regardless of what the future holds, Bill Lerner will continue to utilize his innovative business approach in the way his company operates, furthering its success in an ever-changing industry that relies on anticipating consumer's preferences on all levels.
Bill Lerner is the President and CEO of iPark, New York's largest family-owned parking garage entity. Upon graduating from the University of Colorado with a degree in Business, Billy officially joined his father's company, then known as Imperial Parking Systems, where he began to strategically redevelop its operational functions, eventually rebranding the business as iPark. Today, he personally oversees all technological transitions, placing the company at the forefront of the parking industry's ongoing evolution. A husband and father of three, Billy devotes his spare time to a number of charitable and philanthropic causes, most notably Billy4Kids; a nonprofit organization he founded that works to provide shoes for underprivileged children in communities throughout the world.
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Nord Stream 2 is committed to complying with the standards and guidelines of applicable international finance institutions including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards (PS), the World Bank EHS Guidelines and the Equator Principles. The requirements for ESIAs under these standards include some differences in scope and nature when compared to the various national regulatory requirements.
To address this, Nord Stream 2 has performed a number of additional studies and assessments that supplement the national EIA processes in order to ensure that the project is developed in accordance with the applicable international finance institution standards (documents provided below). These additional documents include a specific EIA Addendum for Russia and a suite of project-wide, topic-specific supplemental assessments as follows:
Area of Influence and Cumulative Impacts
The scope of an Area of Influence (AoI) to be addressed within the ESIAs as defined under IFC Performance Standard 1 is broader than provided for under some national requirements, and includes specific requirements related to cumulative impacts and consideration of Associated Facilities. To address this, Nord Stream 2 has developed an AoI Position Paper that defines the AoI for the project consistent with IFC Performance Standard 1, together with supplemental assessments that comprise: a Cumulative Impact Assessment and reports summarising the Environmental and Social impacts from Associated Facilities in Russia and Germany (the only countries where associated facilities have been identified).
Social Impact Assessments
Social impact assessments have been produced in Germany and Russia (where significant onshore project facilities are being developed) to supplement the EIAs developed.
Livelihood Restoration and Ecosystem Services
The onshore project facilities in both Russia and Germany entail limited land acquisition, within which no physical displacement will occur. Land acquisition in Russia is being undertaken on a willing seller / willing buyer basis and follows the requirements of Nord Stream 2's policy. In Germany economic displacement has been avoided and there is no requirement for, or impact on privately owned land by the Nord Stream 2 project.
Impacts to fisheries are unlikely to be significant offshore. Nonetheless, we have developed a comprehensive overarching Fisheries Livelihood Plan that sets out potential impacts and calculates compensation in all nine countries that have shorelines on the Baltic Sea, and not just those with a section of the pipeline in their waters.
To demonstrate our commitment to avoiding impacts to ecosystem services we have also performed an Ecosystem Services Assessment (ESA). The assessment found that the Russian section of the project does not affect the availability of services to beneficiaries due to the small footprint of the project in relation to the extension of and access to the ecosystems. In Germany, as the area of the onshore project facilities (Lubmin 2) is zoned for development and situated in an already developed area, no significant impacts to ecosystem services are expected.
Nord Stream 2's approach to the management of impacts and risks to biodiversity follows the "mitigation hierarchy." This means namely to anticipate and avoid, or where avoidance is not possible, minimise, and, where residual impacts remain, compensate for and offset risks and impacts. This has included avoidance/minimisation of impacts through the assessment of alternatives, including consideration of location/routing options and technical solutions, and development of bespoke mitigation controls as described the national EIA process and, specific to the project facilities in Russia, supplemented by a dedicated Alternatives Assessment study.
IFC Performance Standard 6 further includes requirements in relation to the categorisation of habitats and requirements for Net Gains and No Net Loss for Critical and Natural Habitat respectively. To address this issue, first a Critical Habitat Assessment (CHA) has been performed to identify any areas of critical and/or natural habitats that may be subject to residual impact by the project. A Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) has then been developed to provide a strategic set of actions which ensure that the project has a net positive impact on biodiversity. It does so by identifying the avoidance and mitigation measures committed to by the project and identifying offsets to address residual environmental liabilities in relation to critical habitat. Key aspects of biodiversity assessment and management are summarised below:
Russia: The onshore and nearshore pipeline sections in Russia cross the Kurgalsky reserve which is a regionally protected area with Ramsar designation. In recognition of the reserve's Ramsar status and specific sensitivities, Nord Stream 2 has undertaken a Site Integrity Assessment and a Hydrological Assessment to confirm that the project will not significantly affect the integrity or hydrology of the Kurgalsky reserve. In addition, and in line with the requirements of IFC Performance Standard 6, the BAP outlines an investment programme designed to achieve a net gain of biodiversity values in the Kurgalsky reserve.
Offshore pipeline route: Offshore, the pipeline construction plan has been designed to avoid sensitive areas and sensitive seasons. Baseline data collection utilised monitoring data collected for the existing Nord Stream pipeline where possible. The only potential significant residual impact to offshore Critical Habitat-qualifying features is from the clearance of unexploded ordnance, for which measures for minimising impacts are recorded in our Environmental and Social Management Plans. Nord Stream 2 is committed to delivering a biodiversity net positive impact for ringed seal and fish species in the Baltic Sea.
Germany: National legal requirements have been the main driver in the assessment of biodiversity impacts from the Nord Stream 2 project in Germany. Compensation for onshore and offshore construction is required in line with national regulations. The compensation concepts were updated following stakeholder engagement and include the purchase of ecobonds from an available eco-account, the implementation of a wetland restoration project and the upgrade of wastewater treatment plants. This concept was approved by the German authorities in January 2018.
Nord Stream 2 has carried out an extensive review of the status of indigenous peoples in the area affected by the project. The results are presented in an Indigenous Peoples Assessment, which concludes that the project does not interact with, or potentially impact Indigenous People. Nonetheless, Nord Stream 2 will endeavour to support and aid the preservation and enhancement of traditional traits and skills that could become lost with the natural ageing of these groups. This will be carried out on a purely voluntary basis and as part of the Environmental and Social Investment Programme. This includes preservation of the ancestral languages, which are listed as endangered by UNESCO, and the support of skills and crafts such as pottery and textile weaving.
Greenhouse Gas Assessment
The IFC Performance Standards and the Equator Principles require annual quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when annual emissions are expected to be above:
25,000 tCO2e (IFC Performance Standard 3)
100,000 tCO2e (Principle 2 of the Equator Principles)
For the Nord Stream 2 project, significant GHG emissions will only arise during the construction phase. These emissions have been estimated within the Consolidated GHG Report (see link provided below), which shows that the reporting threshold is triggered during this phase. In line with these requirements, Nord Stream 2 assesses its annual GHG emissions during construction in accordance with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Greenhouse Gas Protocol: A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (Revised Edition, 2004). See the Monitoring section for further details on annual GHG emission reporting.
Disclosure of this information, including via this portal, supplements material already presented to project stakeholders through Nord Stream 2's engagement programmes during the ESIA.
Cumulative Impact Assessment
Area of Influence Position Paper
Ecosystem Services Assessment
Critical Habitat Assessment
Alternatives Assessment Russia
Environmental Impact Assessment Addendum Russia
Consolidated Greenhouse Gas Report
Nord Stream 2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Social Impact Assessment Germany
Addendum to Social Impact Assessment for Germany
Indigenous People Assessment Russia
Social Impact Assessment Russia
Biodiversity Action Plan


• At 10:00 AM, Existing Home Sales for November from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The consensus is for 5.52 million SAAR, up from 5.48 million in October. Housing economist Tom Lawler expects the NAR to report sales of 5.77 million SAAR for November.
• During the day, The AIA's Architecture Billings Index for November (a leading indicator for commercial real estate).


This Insight is a part of the 2015 Public Sector for the Future Summit Report.
That sentiment shifted in the 1990s when state officials began pressuring MTA to decrease spending. HR as well as finance and operations were prime candidates for cutbacks. This was in part because other alternatives, such as reducing transit services, cutting back capital projects, and slowing compensation growth, would upset customers and unions; it also stemmed from a belief that with seven operating companies, MTA could manage finance and HR more efficiently. To figure out how to do this, MTA sought input from Booz Allen Hamilton, which recommended that the agency establish a shared services operation and consolidate the agency's HR, procurement, and finance operations. Staff expressed concern that the consultants had not created a compelling "business case" for the move. MTA therefore sought a second opinion from Accenture, which concluded that with a shared services center, MTA could eliminate 40 percent of its HR and finance staff and provide the same level of service.
With the start of the Great Recession in fall 2009, MTA saw an almost immediate $1 billion hole in its budget due to shortfalls in dedicated tax revenues. For most organizations, this would create a crisis, but for MTA, it was fortuitous and after more than a decade of planning and discussion, created a powerful impetus for change. In addition to allowing cuts to be made across the board in staffing and services, the upheaval enabled MTA's leadership to push for the BSC to become a reality.
From its beginning in 2009, the BSC group faced challenges. One was that before the organization was established, many operating agencies, knowing that the administrative functions that they now performed would soon be transferred to BSC, had stopped carrying out crucial tasks; as a result, as soon as BSC opened its doors, it was immediately struggling with backlogs. Also, because the agencies themselves determined which employees would move to BSC, the highest performers often remained at their home operating agencies but in different positions. This meant that the most knowledgeable and effective operators were not part of the new system. Making matters worse, 40 percent of MTA employees who performed the tasks that BSC would now undertake were laid off. This further diminished BSC's popularity.
In an effort to mollify opposition, BSC attempted to adapt to MTA's operating companies, but this created more problems and calcified the opposition. For instance, rather than establishing one payroll system for all MTA companies, BSC altered its approach for each operating company. "The result," Ring recalled, "was cumbersome [and] expensive" and very difficult for BSC to manage. BSC also did not create a common procurement system because the operating companies' leaders felt that any procurement consolidation would interfere with their ability to provide transportation services. The result was a disconnect between invoice processing (which BSC managed) and purchasing (which was not centralized), and many bills were sent to the operating companies and went unpaid. BSC became deeply unpopular with MTA's managers and rank and file, and soon "BSC" stood for dysfunction.
The discussions constituted one of many approaches BSC employed to counter the negative impression that BSC's early performance had created. Another was focusing on transparency by releasing as much information as possible about peoples' concerns and how BSC was addressing them. The organization also sent monthly performance metrics to MTA leadership and created a steering committee with the executive vice presidents from the different operating companies. This provided another forum in which people could voice qualms; it also helped BSC to address those issues and manage customers' expectations. Finally, BSC asked people to prioritize concerns and developed an "escalation process" to address the biggest problems first.
The dialogue helped BSC to focus its mission and get a series of "quick wins" that bolstered its credibility. For example, while accounts payable had been a huge problem for BSC when it began, the organization reported to MTA's board that by 2014, BSC was late on just 44 of 500,000 invoices (a 99.99 percent success rate) and that only 20 invoices had been double paid. Benefits open enrollment had occurred smoothly as well, and payroll, probably the most vital of BSC's functions, was, as Hibri said, operating "cleanly." Within 12 months, Hibri and Ring had made substantial progress; BSC was now seen as a boon, not a bane, to MTA.
When MTA's COO, to whom Hibri reported, resigned, a new reporting structure was needed and BSC was moved into the CFO's organization. As Hibri explained, this was like walking into the "lion's den." MTA (which was in perpetual deficit) and its leadership, particularly the CFO, were always looking to generate savings—including potentially making budget cuts at BSC. Instead, BSC's leaders argued that in a $14 billion agency, the greatest savings opportunities had to come from outside their 400-person operation. In fact, BSC even boldly requested $49 million to update the PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning system that they had been using, arguing that it could be used as a platform for long-term MTA-wide standardization and efficiency. After less than an hour of discussion, the CFO backed the effort. Based on BSC's success at delivering shared services, MTA soon consolidated IT and non-operational procurements under Hibri as well.
Hibri and Ring have already delivered on part of the goal of generating recurring efficiencies. In 2015, BSC will save MTA $18 million in operating costs and another $45.5 million in cost avoidance from not having to replace old legacy systems across MTA's operating companies. The IT consolidation will deliver savings of six percent on a $300 million IT budget, and next year they expect that figure to increase to seven percent. Procurement consolidation is on the hook to generate over $10 million in annual savings. And with PeopleSoft, MTA now has a common platform with cross-MTA data visibility. This creates the opportunity for further savings down the road.
Looking ahead, Hibri and Ring still have a long way to go to transform MTA's BSC into a fully "optimized enterprise." Nonetheless, they have already taken a critical step: by fostering an approach centered on facts, transparency, and "collaborative ownership," they have reshaped the organization's culture. As Hibri explained, they "needed to own the problem to fix it." Now they have to continue to seize that momentum and help move MTA to the "edge" of the "optimized enterprise" spectrum.


Information security professionals are preparing for the worst as this year's FIFA World Cup kicks off. The World Cup of football (a.k.a., soccer in the US) is set to take center stage in Russia. The tournament kicks off tonight between Russia and Saudi Arabia. While it's highly anticipated by football fans and hackers alike, security professionals believe that some sort of cyber-attack will occur on the 2018 FIFA World Cup football network, according to a recent survey.


Our aim is to provide you with the highest standard of professional care and to help you understand and prevent the causes and unnecessary reoccurrence of dental problems.
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To maintain a standard of excellence in all services.
To educate in the principles of healthy living and disease prevention.
To encourage and assist all staff in attaining the highest personal and professional standard of excellence.


A couple of years ago, The Man told me that his coworker had lost a food storage container to a work thief. Inspired, I immediately assembled Mr. Tuppy B. Ware. Thanks to a particularly giggly session between The Man, his sister and me, Tuppy soon had many adventures. Sadly, Tuppy has been shelved since then, but his glistening green eyes have let me know that the time has come to see more of the world.
I would like to introduce you to Tuppy, and will continue his story... in pictures.
I woke up here... I was in a very nice dish rack in a warm room, and suddenly it went black. I keep hearing someone referring to a "Mr. Finger" but am not sure of what that means.
I don't know what day this is. At least they let me out of the cage and are feeding me well. I'm a little startled by the position of the fork, though. Why did they stab the salad like that?
I have weird captors. They took me on a tour of the Whaley House, which is super haunted. Like I'm not already scared enough? Plus the whole fork thing???
I guess they felt kind of bad after the ghostie stuff, because we went to the candy store afterwards. I don't know how I'm supposed to eat caramel with no teeth.
This is something they call a mar-gar-ita. It's a fun word to say after you've had a couple of these.
Seriously? That's just mean. I have zero balance right now after that mar-gar-ita.
After they picked me up off the ground, we went to a store. I guess this is their way of showing me where Tuppies come from. I'm pretty sure the birds and bees would suffocate in there!


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Asterophrys ist eine Amphibiengattung aus der Familie der Engmaulfrösche. Sie umfasst zwei Arten, die in Papua-Neuguinea endemisch sind.

Beschreibung
Die Zunge ist groß und vollständig am Mundhöhlenboden angeheftet. Gaumenzähne fehlen. Das Trommelfell ist unsichtbar. Vorder- und Hinterfüße weisen keine Schwimmhäute auf. Praecoracoide fehlen.

Von verwandten Gattungen der Asterophryinae ist die Gattung an einigen Merkmalen des Schädelskeletts und der Muskulatur unterscheidbar: zum Beispiel Nasale fusioniert und rau (rugos), Frontoparietale mit einem hohen, dünnen Knochenkiel in Längsrichtung (sagittal), Squamosum dick und rau. Mit einigen verwandten Gattungen (Tribus Asterophryini) gemeinsam ist u. a. das gekielte Darmbein.

Beide Arten sind gedrungene, bodenlebende Froschlurche mit warziger Haut und im Verhältnis zum Körper sehr breitem Kopf.

Vorkommen
Die Gattung kommt nur auf Neuguinea vor. Asterophrys leucopus wurde bisher nur von der Typlokalität nachgewiesen: Regenwald am Stolle Mountain (Sandaun Province, Papua-Neuguinea). Asterophrys turpicola ist weiter verbreitet und kommt auch in gestörten Habitaten, einschließlich menschlicher Siedlungen, vor. Eine weitere, bisher unbeschriebene Art lebt vermutlich auf der Vogelkop-Halbinsel (Westpapua, Indonesien).

Systematik
Die Gattung Asterophrys wurde 1838 von Johann Jakob von Tschudi erstbeschrieben.

Gemeinsam mit den Gattungen Hylophorbus, Mantophryne, Oninia und Xenorhina bildet sie eine Gruppe nah verwandter Arten, die Tribus Asterophryinini

Nach molekularen Daten (anhand homologer DNA-Sequenzen) ist nächstverwandt die Gattung Callulops. Nach den Daten ist diese sogar möglicherweise paraphyletisch (einige Arten näher mit Asterophrys verwandt als untereinander), so dass die bisherige, auf morphologischer Basis aufgestellte Systematik wohl überarbeitet werden muss.

Arten
Die Arten der früheren Gattung Metamagnusia (M. marani und M. slateri) erscheinen hier direkt in der Gattung Asterophrys, ebenso die Arten der früheren Gattung Pseudocallulops (P. eurydactyla, P. foja und P. pullifer).

Stand: 7. Dezember 2017
 Asterophrys eurydactyla (Zweifel, 1972)
 Asterophrys foja (Günther, Richards, and Tjaturadi, 2016)
 Asterophrys leucopus Richards, Johnston, and Burton, 1994
 Asterophrys marani (Günther, 2009)
 Asterophrys pullifer (Günther, 2006)
 Asterophrys slateri Loveridge, 1955
 Asterophrys turpicola (Schlegel, 1837)

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Danny Sands, Chairman and CEO of Healthline, demos Body Maps. Body Maps is an interactive visual search tool that allows users to explore the human body in 3-D. With easy-to-use navigation, users can search multiple layers of the human anatomy, view systems and organs down to their smallest parts, and understand in detail how the human body works.


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Q: vb.net 2010 picturebox array help I am just wondering how i can create a picturebox array like i could when i copied and pasted another picturebox in VB6 and it asked me if i want to add them to an array. Doing so made them code like this:
picBox(0).enabled = true
picBox(1).enabled = true
etc etc..

But i am unable to do this using VB.net 2010! I'm sure there is a way to do that for each of my pictureboxs' on my form but i am unable to find out how!?
Any help would be great! :o)
David

A: You can declare a PictureBox() or a List(Of PictureBox) in the code-behind and add your pictureboxes to it in the constructor.
You can even populate the list by looping over the Controls collection of the container that holds the pictureboxes.


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Woman's Stroke Progressed in ED without Intervention ED capacity may have played a role in triaging, and this can sink the case.
Woman's Stroke Progressed in ED without Intervention
The patient needed to be evaluated by a stroke team and a neurologist promptly to decide whether any treatment was indicated or possible. Triage should be the same whether the ER was empty or overcapacity.
Hospitalists Face Worsening Malpractice Climate Related specialties have seen declines in their rate of malpractice suits, but hospitalists have seen their rate of claims remain steady or worsen slightly, while the severity of their cases has gone up.
Hospitalists Face Worsening Malpractice Climate
Dr. Adam Schaffer is a hospitalist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and was the lead author of a study on the topic, which was published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine in June 2021. Dr. Schaffer is also Senior Clinical Analytics Specialist at CRICO. He joins us now to talk about this research.
Response to Air Embolism Good, But Prevention Lacking
By Kathy Dwyer, MSN, RN, CRICO
Related to: Nursing, Surgery, Teamwork Training
A 55-year-old male suffered neurologic deficits secondary to an air embolism during a stent-assisted coiling procedure for a cerebral aneurysm.
Quickly recognizing that a problem is not going to resolve with ease, and seeking help from a second physician, is a key aspect of competent crisis management.
A key consideration in treating air embolism is preparedness and anticipation, including the use of a safety checklist.
When a patient suffers a preventable complication that leads to harm, the opportunity for the defense to prevail in court is narrow.
A 55-year-old male patient presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with worsening headaches and gait instability. A head CT revealed a large basilar tip artery aneurysm. During a stent-assisted coiling procedure, the patient's heart rate and blood pressure decreased. When the patient started to experience bradycardia, the neurosurgeon looked at the line and saw that it was empty. Air was discovered in one of the flush line bags connected to the angiography catheter. The flush apparatus was immediately disconnected, and the arterial catheter was aspirated with a syringe. MRI demonstrated bubbles in the aneurysm. The patient was started on 100 percent oxygen, and the surgeon consulted a second neurosurgeon regarding the complication. The procedure was stopped for approximately 15 minutes and the bubble decreased in size. The next angiogram showed that the bubble had reabsorbed. After the patient was stabilized, the decision was made to proceed with stenting and coiling, which was completed without incident. Following the procedure, the family was notified of the intra-procedure air embolism.
During the evening after the procedure, the patient developed a generalized seizure and was treated with Ativan, Dilantin, Decadron, and Propofol. He was comatose for approximately two days. Subsequent neurologic deficits included deterioration in mental status, need for assistance in walking, and difficulty with activities of daily living. The patient was discharged to a rehabilitation facility for six months. He died of lung cancer two years later.
The patient's estate sued the neurosurgeon, two interventional radiologists (an attending and a fellow), two nurses, two technicians, and the institution. Their allegations included an assertion that failure to properly monitor the flush bags led to an air embolus in the basilar artery aneurysm, leaving the patient with neurological deficits.
The case was settled in the medium range ($100,000-$499,999) against the institution.
Halfway through the stenting and coiling procedure, one of the flush line bags ran dry, allowing an air bubble to pass into the patient's brain and cause an intra-arterial air embolus.
An air embolism is preventable: the key consideration is preparedness and anticipation, including the use of a safety checklist. Preoperatively, the drip bags are set up before the patient enters the room. Pressure is applied to the bags in different ways through the use of a compression sleeve that "squeezes" the flush bags. Air will always rise to the top of the bag, so ensuring that the top of the bag is visible helps ensure that the air can be detected. The nurses and/or techs de-gas the bags and run the lines to get the air out. If it appears to be problematic, consideration must be given to discarding a flush bag altogether, rather than making multiple attempts to fix it.
The neurosurgeon responded immediately to the change in the patient's vital signs and consulted with another physician, minimizing risk to the patient.
Recognition and recovery from a complication can lessen the damage and signal to anyone reviewing the care that the clinician did all that could be done. Quickly recognizing that a problem is not going to resolve with ease, and seeking help from a second physician, are key aspects of competent crisis management.
An air embolism that causes patient death or serious disability is a National Quality Forum serious reportable event ("never" event) that Medicare will not reimburse...and a difficult case to defend in court.
When a patient suffers a preventable complication that leads to harm, the opportunity for the defense to prevail in court is narrow. Even a complication noted during the consent process is not defensible if the care is sub-standard. In the presence of clear negligence, strong indications that the adverse event caused the harm will bolster the argument to reach a settlement.


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The road up to the drab ski station at the top of Luz Ardiden wasn't built until 1975, and the Tour de France didn't visit it until another 10 years later. But that doesn't mean that the climb is anything but beautiful or that that hit has ever lacked drama when the Tour has visited.
The climb is deep in the Hautes-Pyrénées, along with its similarly illustrious neighbours the Tourmalet and Hautacam. It climbs out of Luz Saint Sauveur and passes the Solfarino Chapel. While on some climbs you can only see the next hairpin bend at the summit doesn't appear until you get close, with Luz Ardiden you can see the peak and what awaits you from the beginning of the climb.
With nowhere to go from the top, Luz Ardiden is always at the end of the stage and there's only one way up. The town of Luz Saint Sauveur is at the foot of the western side of the Col du Tourmalet. Depending on where you measure from, Luz Ardiden is between 12 and 13 kilometers, but after you leave the town and ride alongside the Gave de Luz you take a right and descend for close to a kilometre. The climb itself begins once you pass the Solfarino chapel and climb through the Gorge de Luz with views across to the Hautacam. You get some shelter here until Sazos, but this is where it starts to get tough as you exit the trees and hit the hairpins and the gradient rears up to a 12 percent maximum.
The Luz Ardiden climb isn't a regular fixture at the Tour. It didn't visit until 1985 and the logistics of getting the ever-increasing convoy of team busses, VIP cars and the publicity caravan to the top of a one-way climb and then off again means it's not always top of the list when the Tour's route planners are scouting things out. But the climb has had more than its share of drama. In 1985 it was the scene of the complex dynamics within the La Vie Claire team, the Team Sky of its day. The American Greg LeMond had finished third the previous year and team leader Bernard Hinault recruited him as a domestique de luxe to help him try to overturn Laurent Fignon who had finished on the top spot. LeMond was clearly stronger than his French teammate throughout the race but was held back by team orders to protect Hinault from attacks from the Columbian Luis Herrera, Spaniard Pedro Delgado and from the Irishman Stephen Roche. Heading over the Tourmalet, Hinault didn't have the legs to follow and had to let the group of LeMond, Roche and Delgado go. LeMond was denied permission from his team manager to go on the attack and take the general classification lead. Hinault managed to cling onto his lead and publicly pledged to support LeMond the following year. LeMond won in 1986, but the victory came despite frequent attacks from his teammate Hinault.
More recently, Luz Ardiden was the scene of drama when Lance Armstrong hit the deck after getting his handlebar caught in a spectator's musette. Armstrong had headed into the 2003 Tour looking less dominant than in recent years while his biggest rival Jan Ullrich seemed in the best shape since his 1997 victory. Armstrong going down in a freak crash was make-or-break time for Armstrong's 2003 Tour ambitions. He chased and caught the group containing Ullrich and Iban Mayo, before attacking and taking 40 seconds.
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The dream of a new Yacht Club in Sea Isle City came true when dedication ceremonies were held for the original clubhouse on Saturday afternoon, August Thirtieth, in nineteen hundred and forty-one. For several years, this had been uppermost in the minds of many individuals, the most vocal of whom was Mr. William A. Haffert, editor of the Cape May County Times. Mr. Haffert had published countless editorials strongly emphasizing the advantages that such a club could offer to the community in providing a high-quality recreational area, which would offer an inducement for desirable property owners to settle here. The editorials, along with letters from several summer residents, urged the Chamber of Commerce to initiate the promotion of a Yacht Club, but the suggestions went unheeded by the city.
One of the later editorials written on the subject indicated that if the Chamber of Commerce did not get busy on the project that most likely a group of citizens would, and this is precisely what did happen. Interest grew among the townspeople and finally one day a discussion among four men relaxing on a sundrenched, time worn dock of Mr. Dever's old boat house ignited the spark that ultimately resulted in the formation of the thriving club we know today.
The time was ripe for the idea to catch on and it was not long before the Mssrs. D'Alonzo, Hoffner, Kennedy and Berlinger had succeeded in securing the signature of thirty-five interested persons.
About the same time, the Chamber of Commerce, under the leadership of John Pfeiffer, awakened to the need and issued an invitation to a meeting at City Hall, for the purpose of organizing a new Yacht Club in Sea Isle City. At this meeting, to which influential individuals as well as the general public were invited, many enthusiastic men and women signed up as proprietary members, each pledging a hundred-dollar initiation fee. The name "Yacht Club of Sea Isle City" was adopted.
Theodore C. Wheaton, Jr. was appointed chairman of a committee of thirteen to complete the organization of the club, after which, with a final pledge of their support, the Chamber of Commerce withdrew, leaving all further responsibility to the new Yacht Club membership. Committees were appointed by Commodore Wheaton on the following Tuesday, for the purpose of drafting bylaws and to investigate methods of raising funds for building club headquarters. The choice of Mr. Wheaton as the club's Commodore was a wise one. This genial gentleman with an irresistible grin promoted the Yacht Club Idea through personal contact with the people, spreading his own enthusiasm as he went.
Channel, just north of the former railroad bridge." A crowd of two thousand spectators lining the banks were thrilled by boat races, aquaplaning, and a parade of boats. The following winter, on the fourth of November, a lavish formal dinner dance was held in the grand old Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia.
The turnout of more than four hundred guests was beyond expectations, and the affair was a roaring success, both financially and socially. Another supper dance, this time for the younger set, was held at Cronecker's hotel in July of the following summer for the benefit of the building fund. Now, with money in the treasury, the new club was formally organized with thirty paid-up proprietary members. The original charter was signed, in nineteen hundred and forty, aboard the "Adventurer," a magnificent seventy-five foot yacht recently purchased from the Floyd Gibbons estate by Frank Whaton, Jr. a charter member of the club. The original by-laws were drawn up by club member James B. Anderson, Jr., Esq.
George Straubmuller, Rear Commodore. James B. Anderson, Jr. was named Secretary and Thomas Hargesheimer, Treasurer. Trustees elected for three years were Berlinger, Carl Rumpp, and Edward Kennedy for two years; Commissioner H.E.F. Hawkins and past Commodore Wheaton. George Straubmuller and Clarence Pfeiffer were each elected to serve for one year. It was decided at this time that lots should be purchased from the city, at the tip of Venicean Road, past the Dever boathouse. It was also agreed that annual memberships should be offered at a cost of ten dollars. George Straubmuller was appointed to select the colors and style for the Yacht Club pennant, which became the official emblem used to this day.
A second annual motor boat carnival, the first since formal organization was held on Sunday, August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and forty at two-thirty in the afternoon. This was held in Ludlams Channel at the south end of Venicean Road at the site of the proposed clubhouse. Twenty-five hundred spectators were on hand to join in the excitement of the day.
In nineteen hundred and forty one, on February fifteenth, a second annual dinner dance was held in the beautiful Oak Room, atop the Bellevue, where a large crowd dined on roast turkey, and danced to the famous Meyer Davis Orchestra.
The young crowd again sponsored a summer supper dance at Cronecker's on August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and forty one, to augment the construction fund. This realized two hundred and eight dollars, and helped rekindle the enthusiasm which had waned during the winter months. It was now agreed to go ahead with the building plans, even though the financial goal of seventy-five hundred dollars had not as yet been reached.
Commodore Hoffner stressed the importance of getting the building underway, in order to keep up interest in the venture, and so, plans which had been drawn up by the architect Peter Getz were cut to a minimum and ground was broken for the first wing of the proposed clubhouse. A four thousand dollar contract was signed, authorizing Ocean City builder Hubert Pontiere to go ahead with the building.
At long last, just as the summer season was ending, Sea Isle's new Yacht Club, consisting of one large room, a veranda, and two lavatories, was officially dedicated, on the afternoon of August twenty-ninth. It was described as "as trim a landbound cruiser as the braid on Commodore Joseph P. Hoffner's cap," and it seems worth of mention, that it was purchased totally without indebtedness.
For this gala occasion, charter members, now forty strong, gathered at the club for luncheon, and remained to enjoy the impromptu regatta which followed, to mark the first of scores of social events to be held at the Yacht Club of Sea Isle City.
References: Old issues of the Cape May County Times, papers of George J. Struabmuller, Jr.


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