In answer to this poll on the Association of Corporate Counsel website as of the afternoon of July 25th, 7 people had answered "Yes" and 32 had answered "No." htt Managers of law departments need metrics. That is my mantra and this poll does provide metrics. Having acknowledged the potential value of this poll, at the same time it seems to be riddled with problems.
What does the adjective "formal" add? I suppose it means that actions are described somewhere in some detail, people know about them, and the whole system has some official, departmental imprimatur.
Even if a law department has a "formal policy" to preserve knowledge, how effectively is the policy followed? Many people own dusty exercise equipment.
Does any component of knowledge management (KM) count and count equally? One department may specify in its outside counsel guidelines that law firms who represent the department must provide electronic copies of all documents produced. Would that alone suffice for a "Yes"?
Are enthusiasts of KM more likely to notice the poll and take the time to answer it? My hunch is yet, and survey methodologists have found that to be true.
Might a law department have multiple respondents? No individual from a legal department would know that another has responded. For that matter, a zealot (or a forgetful person) could take the poll more than once.
Finally, were all these methodological bumps smoothed, the ultimate question remains untested: To what degree does the implementation of a formal KM policy make a difference to the effectiveness of the department?


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Satsommar var ett radioprogram i Sveriges Radio P3 som sändes från Göteborg och som sändes mellan den 9 juni 2014 och 1 augusti 2014. Huvudprogramledare var Hanna Andersson och Rasmus Persson men även Anna Flygel och Niklas Mannheimer Ruberg figurerade i programmet kontinuerligt. Musse Hasselvall fick agera ersättare åt Rasmus under en veckas tid.

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Inscopix to Leverage its Brain Mapping Platform to Pursue Novel Therapeutic Targets in Parkinson's Disease
Inscopix today announced a new research effort that leverages its brain mapping platform and single-cell transcriptomics for a more nuanced understanding of Parkinson's disease (PD) and identification of novel targets for therapeutic development. The research will be conducted in collaboration with Dr. Evan Macosko at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a leading expert in transcriptomics.
The research builds on a 2018 study published in Nature by Stanford researchers that used Inscopix's miniature microscope platform to identify changes in neural activity patterns in brain circuits that regulate movement, in a PD mouse model. The model is characterized by the loss of dopamine neurons, a hallmark of the disease, and is routinely used in preclinical research.
Leveraging each organization's expertise, the research will determine whether changes in neuronal activity can be correlated at a cellular level with changes in gene expression that might result from the depletion of dopamine in the mouse model. The investigators hope that by combining the functional and gene expression datasets, they will derive a multidimensional and comprehensive understanding of PD and also set the foundation for the development of precision neurotherapeutics for the disease through the identification of novel, cell-type-specific druggable targets. The Macosko Lab and Inscopix will share rights to any discoveries made through the collaboration.
"Single-cell transcriptomics and brain mapping have each demonstrated the potential to increase our understanding of neurological conditions, such as Parkinson's disease, and bringing them together could help us make even greater strides forward," Kunal Ghosh, Ph.D., chief executive officer of Inscopix. "We look forward to expanding our research into PD with the Macosko Lab, with the goal of paving the way for therapeutic programs that can be de-risked at earlier stages of development."
PD has been selected as the first disease area for this pilot program to assess the potential of utilizing both brain mapping and transcriptomics to advance new therapeutic approaches. If successful, Inscopix and the Macosko Lab will assess the potential to collaborate surrounding additional neurological conditions.
According to the Parkinson's Foundation, Parkinson's disease affects over 10 million people globally.
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nVoke is Inscopix's state-of-the-art miniature microscope-based solution for simultaneous imaging and manipulation of large-scale neural circuit dynamics in freely behaving subjects. With nVoke, researchers at leading research institutions worldwide are pushing the frontiers of neuroscience and asking entirely new questions about how neural circuits shape cognition and behavior in health and disease. For more information, please visit: https://www.inscopix.com/nVoke.
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Inscopix empowers the development of next-generation therapeutics for difficult-to-treat brain disorders by enabling innovative research and predictive preclinical therapeutic development. Driven by a North Star of overcoming historic challenges in the field, Inscopix provides validated solutions for real-time mapping of neural activity in brain circuits. These objective, quantitative and in-brain assays are catalyzing unprecedented insights into disease mechanisms and have been shown to be more accurate at predicting clinical efficacy than animal behavior when testing a therapeutic candidate's capacity to bring the brain back to a normal state. Inscopix's partner and customer discoveries help decode the brain, inform deeper understanding of mechanisms of action and enable the screening of drugs based on efficacy. For more information, please visit http://www.inscopix.com.

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Should We Let People Do What They Want?
A couple of days ago I was watching "The Five", an entertainment show about news on the Fox News Channel, right after the A-Rod scandal broke. It appeared to me that some of them at least, were arguing for allowing athletes to enhance themselves chemically if they wanted to. The argument was that it's already here, lets stop playing games, selectively punishing people for not playing by the rules that no one is playing by.
One thing I love about writing this blog, is that in trying to use facts to express my opinions, I learn a lot. I was going to write a simple article about the negative effects of legalizing a dangerous practice, but I just learned it that steroid use is not hiding in the shadows. I googled "body building and steroids" looking for the hyper muscular look that characterizes body builders, and found a website talking openly about how you need to get started early and make sure you use the legal ones.
The ideology of modern day sportsmen to ride on an almost invincible winning streak is also one of the greatest contributors towards the popularity of muscle building steroids.
It will not be wrong to say that there is a drastic difference in the level of competition in the bygone days and today's times. The modern day athlete wants to develop a distinctive edge and muscle building steroids help him in his quest for success and glory. Furthermore, the audience is no longer interested in snail race, boring baseball games, low scoring matches, and average appearing sportsmen. Everyone wants to enjoy watching aggressive athletes, big hits & high scoring games, and intense competition right from the word go.
Well, my research is leading me in a different direction than I first thought. I don't follow sports, so I wasn't aware how pernicious the drug use was. I do know that the body building world is dominated by steroid use.
You can get pretty ripped naturally.
But there are certain looks that don't occur naturally.
Any woman can tell you the steroid look is not attractive. It's like women trying to be as thin as possible. Guys like curves. Women like men that don't have big ropy veins sticking out everywhere. The cartoon superhero look doesn't fly in real life. But I digress, the point is, in competitive body building the use of steroids is so overwhelming that a separate competition was started for natural body building.
After coming to the conclusion that the use is so widespread that the argument of any punishment is selective, what then? Should we legalize it and let the chips fall where they may? Should we entice people to play sports with large sums of cash, knowing they are selling the long-term health? You could argue, based on what the NFL is experiencing, that there is no difference for them. Football players end up physical wrecks, with bad knees, backs, shoulders and concussion related problems. Is that any different than dropping over with a heart attack at 50 from the 'roids?
Do we want this to go to extremes?
Well, let's try and play this one out to its logical conclusion. If it is legalized, then the use will come out in the open. Young people will want to emulate their sports heroes and parents, hoping for a future in sports for little Johnny will get him on the medical regime as soon as possible. The only saving grace to this potential nightmare is if they start too soon, it will stunt bone growth, so they at least will wait till optimum height is reached. In any case, in one generation, we will get to see the potential results from mass use in young people. Let's say by some miracle, this doesn't happen, and they wait till they get to the minor leagues to start. If everyone does it, it will be the guy who uses the most or best who wins. Isn't that a cute little arms race to start? And what would the ultimate end of that be? And don't tell me it'll only be professional athletes who will be doing it, we already know that isn't true.
The arguments about this mirror the arguments about legalizing drugs. We will get to see how that plays out here in America, as two states have legalized recreational use, along with many others who have legalized it for medicinal reasons. There are those who would legalize it all, on the basis of then it would be controlled and would take it out of the hands of the drug cartels, eliminating the crime that accompanies it. While I agree that in both cases, our attempts to stamp it out by making it illegal seem futile, legalizing wouldn't decrease the use in the slightest, and I can't see how it wouldn't increase it. We are not rational, intellectual creatures, weighing the pros and cons. We are emotionally driven, and there is a lot of drive to do the wrong things.
Many people wouldn't even say these things are wrong. According to the proponents, many people use steroids without any side effects. I find that hard to believe. If we are so concerned with any hormones or additives to our food, which may or may not be absorbed by the human body, how can we not be concerned with substances which so dramatically and visibly change the human body? While making them illegal isn't stopping anyone, it is at least having a dampening effect, and maybe that is the most we can hope for. At least until we stop paying athletes more than the scientist that might cure your cancer.
C'mon, does it get any better than that? I love what she says about "forced in gym class". Anyone who reads this would think I'm some kind of athlete. Anyone who knew me growing up would be astonished at that. As a teenager I actually said, out loud, and meant it:"If my legs were paralyzed it wouldn't change my life much, everything I love is mental." My, how times have changed! I was uncoordinated, had lousy balance and didn't like team sports. I still can't run well. If they had a way to have kids explore their interests in things like lifting, martial arts, yoga, non competitive aerobics, etc. Then maybe kids wouldn't be so anti gym. Gym should be about making you the best you, not about seeing who's the best at dodgeball, and humiliating those who aren't. Anyway, once you learn to love your body and what it can do, it changes everything.


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Abstract and Applied Analysis
On Asymptotic Pointwise Contractions in Modular Metric Spaces On Asymptotic Pointwise Contractions in Modular Metric Spaces
Synchronization of Switched Complex Bipartite Neural Networks with Infinite... Synchronization of Switched Complex Bipartite Neural Networks with Infinite Distributed Delays and Derivative Coupling
On the Discrete Spectrum of a Model Operator in Fermionic Fock Space On the Discrete Spectrum of a Model Operator in Fermionic Fock Space
Notes on the Hermitian Positive Definite Solutions of a Matrix Equation Notes on the Hermitian Positive Definite Solutions of a Matrix Equation
Sensitivity Analysis of the Matrix Equation from Interpolation Problems Sensitivity Analysis of the Matrix Equation from Interpolation Problems
Positive Definite Solutions of the Matrix Equation Positive Definite Solutions of the Matrix Equation
Existence and Uniqueness of the Positive Definite Solution for the Matrix... Existence and Uniqueness of the Positive Definite Solution for the Matrix Equation
Perturbation Analysis of the Nonlinear Matrix Equation Perturbation Analysis of the Nonlinear Matrix Equation
Solutions and Improved Perturbation Analysis for the Matrix Equation Solutions and Improved Perturbation Analysis for the Matrix Equation
Solutions and Improved Perturbation Analysis for the Matrix Equation
Abstract and Applied Analysis, Jun 2013
The nonlinear matrix equation with is investigated. We consider two cases of this equation: the case and the case In the case , a new sufficient condition for the existence of a unique positive definite solution for the matrix equation is obtained. A perturbation estimate for the positive definite solution is derived. Explicit expressions of the condition number for the positive definite solution are given. In the case , a new sharper perturbation bound for the unique positive definite solution is derived. A new backward error of an approximate solution to the unique positive definite solution is obtained. The theoretical results are illustrated by numerical examples.
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Solutions and Improved Perturbation Analysis for the Matrix Equation Jing Li School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University, Weihai, Weihai 264209, China Received 16 November 2012; Revised 2 May 2013; Accepted 7 May 2013 Academic Editor: Carlos Vazquez Copyright © 2013 Jing Li. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The nonlinear matrix equation with is investigated. We consider two cases of this equation: the case and the case In the case , a new sufficient condition for the existence of a unique positive definite solution for the matrix equation is obtained. A perturbation estimate for the positive definite solution is derived. Explicit expressions of the condition number for the positive definite solution are given. In the case , a new sharper perturbation bound for the unique positive definite solution is derived. A new backward error of an approximate solution to the unique positive definite solution is obtained. The theoretical results are illustrated by numerical examples. 1. Introduction In this paper, we consider the Hermitian positive definite solution of the nonlinear matrix equation where , , and are complex matrices, is a positive definite matrix, and . This type of nonlinear matrix equations arises in the analysis of ladder networks, the dynamic programming, control theory, stochastic filtering, statistics, and many applications [1–7]. In the last few years, (1) was investigated in some special cases. For the nonlinear matrix equations [8–12], [13, 14], [15, 16], and [17], there were many contributions in the literature to the solvability, numerical solutions, and perturbation analysis. In addition, the related equations [9–11, 18–23], [13, 24, 25], [16, 26], [17, 27–30], [31–33], and [34–36] were studied by many scholars. In [31], a sufficient condition for the equation to have a unique positive definite solution was provided. When the coefficient matrix is nonsingular, several sufficient conditions for the equation to have a unique positive definite solution were given in [37]. When the coefficient matrix is an arbitrary complex matrix, necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for the existence of positive definite solutions for the equation were derived in [38]. Li and Zhang in [39] proved that there always exists a unique positive definite solution to the equation . They also obtained a perturbation bound and a backward error of an approximate solution for the unique solution of the equation . As a continuation of the previous results, the rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 gives some preliminary lemmas that will be needed to develop this work. In Section 3, a new sufficient condition for (1) with having a unique positive definite solution is derived. In Section 4, a perturbation bound for the positive definite solution to (1) with is given. In Section 5, applying the integral representation of matrix function, we also discuss the explicit expressions of condition number for the positive definite solution to (1) with . Furthermore, in Section 6, a new sharper perturbation bound for the unique positive definite solution to (1) with is given. In Section 7, a new backward error of an approximate solution to (1) with is obtained. Finally, several numerical examples are presented in Section 8. We denote by the set of complex matrices, by the set of Hermitian matrices, by the identity matrix, by the spectral norm, by the Frobenius norm and by and the maximal and minimal eigenvalues of , respectively. For with columns and a matrix , is a Kronecker product, and is a vector defined by . For , we write (resp., if is Hermitian positive semidefinite (resp., definite). Let , . 2. Preliminaries In this section we quote some preliminary lemmas that we use later. Lemma 1 (see [39, Lemma 3.2]). For every positive definite matrix and , then (i). (ii). Lemma 2 (see [39, Theorem 2.5]). There exists a unique positive definite solution of and the iteration converges to . Lemma 3 (see [32, Lemma 2]). (i) If , then . (ii) If and , then . (iii) If , then . 3. A Sufficient Condition for the Existence of a Unique Solution of In this section, we derive a new sufficient condition for the existence of a unique solution of beginning with the lemma. Lemma 4 (see [38, Theorem 5, Remark 4]). If then (1) has a unique positive definite solution , where and are, respectively, positive solutions of the following equations: Furthermore, Theorem 5. If then (1) has a unique positive definite solution. Proof. We first prove , where is the positive solution to (5). Let By computation, we obtain Define Then is decreasing on and increasing on , which implies that According to the condition (8), it follows that . Note that which implies that is increasing on . Considering the condition (7), one sees that . Combining that and the definition of in Lemma 4, we obtain . By Lemma 4, (1) has a unique positive definite solution. 4. Perturbation Bound for Li and Zhang in [39] proved that there always exists a unique positive definite solution to the equation . They also obtained a perturbation bound for the unique solution. But their approach becomes invalid for the case of . Since the equation does not always have a unique positive definite solution, there are two difficulties for a perturbation analysis of the equation . One difficulty is how to find some reasonable restrictions on the coefficient matrices of perturbed equation ensuring that this equation has a unique positive definite solution. The other difficulty is how to find an expression of which is easy to handle. Assume that the coefficient matrix is perturbed to . Let with satisfying the perturbed equation In the following, we derive a perturbation estimate for the positive definite solution to the matrix equation beginning with the lemma. Lemma 6 (see [38, Corollary 1. Remark 4]). If then (1) has a unique positive definite solution . Moreover, . Theorem 7. If then have unique positive definite solutions and , respectively. Furthermore, Proof. By (16), it follows that . According to Lemma 6, the condition (16) ensures that (1) and (14) have unique positive definite solutions and , respectively. Furthermore, we obtain that Subtracting (14) from (1) gives By Lemma 3 and inequalities in (19), we have Noting (16), we have Combining (20) and (21), one sees that which implies that 5. Condition Number for A condition number is a measurement of the sensitivity of the positive definite stabilizing solutions to small changes in the coefficient matrices. In this section, we apply the theory of condition number developed by Rice [40] to derive explicit expressions of the condition number for the matrix equation . Here we consider the perturbed equation where and are small perturbations of and in (1), respectively. Suppose that and . According to Lemma 6, (1) and (25) have unique positive definite solutions and , respectively. Let , , and . Subtracting (25) from (1) gives Therefore, where Lemma 8. If then the linear operator defined by is invertible. Proof. Define the operator by it follows that Then, is invertible if and only if is invertible. According to Lemma 3 and the condition (29), we have which implies that and is invertible. Therefore, the operator is invertible. Thus, we can rewrite (27) as By the theory of condition number developed by Rice [40], we define the condition number of the Hermitian positive definite solution to the matrix equation by where , , and are positive parameters. Taking in (36) gives the absolute condition number , and taking , , and in (36) gives the relative condition number . Substituting (35) into (36), we get Let be the matrix representation of the linear operator . It follows from Lemma . in [41] that By Lemma . in [41], we have Then, Let where , , , , is the vec-permutation matrix, that is, Furthermore, we obtain that Then, we have the following theorem. Theorem 9. If , then the condition number defined by (36) has the explicit expression where the matrices and are defined by (40)(41). Remark 10. From (46) we have the relative condition number 5.1. The Real Case In this subsection, we consider the real case, that is, where all the coefficients matrices , of the matrix equation are real. In such a case the corresponding solution is also real. Similar arguments as in Theorem 9 give the following theorem. Theorem 11. Let , be real, the condition number defined by (36). If , then has the explicit expression where Proof. Let where , , , is the vec-permutation matrix, that is, It follows from (44) that Remark 12. In the real case the relative condition number is given by 6. New Perturbation Bound for Here, we consider the perturbed equation where and are small perturbations of and in (1), respectively. We assume that and are the solutions of (1) and (54), respectively. Let , , and . In this section, we develop a new perturbation bound for the solution of (1) which is sharper than that in [39, Theorem 3.1]. Subtracting (1) from (54), using Lemma 1, we have where By Lemma 5.1 in [39], the linear operator defined by is invertible. We also define operator by Thus, we can rewrite (55) as Define Now we denote Theorem 13. If then Proof. Let Obviously, is continuous. The condition (62) ensures that the quadratic equation in has two positive real roots. The smaller one is Define . Then for any , by (62), we have It follows that is nonsingular and Therefore for , in which the last equality is due to the fact that is a solution to (65). That is . According to Schauder fixed point theorem, there exists such that . It follows that is a Hermitian solution of (54). By Lemma 2, we know that the solution of (54) is unique. Then and . 7. New Backward Error for In this section, we evaluate a new backward error estimate for an approximate solution to the unique solution, which is sharper than that in [39, Theorem 4.1]. Theorem 14. Let be an approximation to the solution of (1). If and the residual satisfies then To prove the above theorem, we first verify the following lemma. Lemma 15. For every positive definite matrix , , if , then Proof. It follows from Lemma 1 that Note that , , and , we have A combination of (73)–(75) gives Here, we have used the result to derive the last equality (refer to [42, Problem 11. Page 312]). Proof of Theorem 14. Let Obviously, is a nonempty bounded convex closed set. Let Evidently is continuous. The condition (70) ensures that the equation in has two positive real roots. The smaller one is , where . We will prove that . For every , we have Hence, Using (70) and (71), one sees that Therefore, . According to (72), we obtain for , in which the last equality is due to the fact that is a solution to (79). That is . By Brouwer fixed point theorem, there exists a such that . Hence is a solution of (1). Moreover, by Lemma 2, we know that the solution of (1) is unique. Then 8. Numerical Examples To illustrate the theoretical results of the previous sections, in this section four simple examples are given, which were carried out using MATLAB 7.1. For the stopping criterion we take . Example 1. We consider the matrix equation where Suppose that the coefficient matrix is perturbed to , where and is a random matrix generated by MATLAB function randn. We compare our own result in Theorem 13 with the perturbation bound proposed in [39, Theorem 3.1]. The assumption in [39, Theorem 3.1] is The assumptions in Theorem 13 are By computation, we list them in Table 1. Table 1: Assumptions check for Example 1 with different values of j. The results listed in Table 1 show that the assumptions in Theorem 3.1 [39] and Theorem 13 are satisfied. By Theorem 3.1 in [39] and Theorem 13, we can compute the relative perturbation bounds , respectively. These results averaged as the geometric mean of 10 randomly perturbed runs. Some results are listed in Table 2. Table 2: Perturbation bounds for Example 1 with different values of j. The results listed in Table 2 show that the perturbation bound given by Theorem 13 is fairly sharp, while the bound given by Theorem 3.1 in [39] is conservative. Example 2. Consider the equation for Choose . Let the approximate solution be given with the iterative method (2), where is the iteration number. Assume that the solution of (1) is unknown. We compare our own result with the backward error proposed in Theorem 4.1 [39]. The residual satisfies the conditions in Theorem 4.1 [39] and in Theorem 14. By Theorem 4.1 in [39], we can compute the backward error bound By Theorem 14, we can compute the new backward error bound Let Some results are shown in Table 3. Table 3: Results for Example 2 with different values of k. From the results listed in Table 3 we see that the new backward error bound is sharper and closer to the actual error than the backward error bound in [39]. Moreover, we see that the backward error for an approximate solution seems to be independent of the conditioning of the solution . Example 3. We consider the matrix equation where We now consider the perturbation bounds for the solution when the coefficient matrix is perturbed to , where and is a random matrix generated by MATLAB function randn. The conditions in Theorem 7 are satisfied. By Theorem 7, we can compute the relative perturbation bound with different values of . These results averaged as the geometric mean of 10 randomly perturbed runs. Some results are listed in Table 4. Table 4: Results for Example 3 with different values of j. The results listed in Table 4 show that the perturbation bound given by Theorem 7 is fairly sharp. Example 4. Consider the matrix equation , where By Remark 12, we can compute the relative condition number . Some results are listed in Table 5. Table 5: Results for Example 4 with different values of . Table 5 shows that the unique positive definite solution is well conditioned. Acknowledgments The author would like to express her gratitude to the referees for their fruitful comments. 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Q: Minecraft 1.8.9 shield recipe not working I have tried both the new and the older shield recipe and neither one is working. I have tried different types ofv wood. Any suggestions?

A: You cannot make shields if you are playing on a version that is under 1.9
If you want to make one in the newer versions here is the recipe:

A: Shields are not in Minecraft 1.8.9. Shields are an upcoming feature in Minecraft 1.9, available in the snapshots.

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Alexander Horace Cyril Kearsey,  (17 December 1877 – 8 October 1967) was a highly decorated career British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War.  He was also an English cricketer, but his military career limited his cricketing appearances.  The son of Francis Kearsey, he was born at Burstow Hall, Surrey.  He was educated at Rottingdean School and Clifton College, before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Military career
After graduating from Sandhurst, Kearsey was commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment as a second lieutenant on 7 May 1896. He was promoted to lieutenant on 20 June 1900. Kearsey fought in the Second Boer War, being present at the Relief of Ladysmith.  During the operations in the Relief, Kearsay was severely wounded at Venters Spruit on 20 January 1900.  The following month, having recovered from his injuries sufficiently enough, he took part in action at Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz and toward the end of February, action at Tucela Heights and Pieters Hill.  Kearsey later took part in operations in Natal from March to June 1900, including at the Battle of Laing's Nek.  He also took part in operations in Transvaal Colony from May to June 1901 and operations in Orange River Colony from December 1901 to 31 May 1902.  Mentioned twice in dispatches during the course of the war by Sir Redvers Buller, he was also mentioned in the London Gazette in a list of soldiers and officers who had distinguished themselves in the conflict.  Weeks later he was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, with the insignia being presented by Edward VII on 14 March 1902. Following the end of the war in June 1902 he left Cape Town on board the SS Rippingham Grange, which arrived in Southampton in October 1902.

Kearsey was promoted to captain on 12 March 1904, while the following year he was transferred to the 10th Royal Hussars.  He then served in the Territorial Force as an adjutant from March 1908 to April 1911.  With the outbreak of the First World War, Kearsey attended the Staff College, Camberley, and was promoted to major on 11 November 1914.  At the start of the war, he was posted as part of the Embarkation Staff at Southampton, following which he proceeded to Belgium with the 1st Life Guards, 7th Cavalry Brigade.  He took part in the First Battle of Ypres and saw action at Neuve-Chapelle.  In 1915, he was attached to the staff of the 7th Cavalry Brigade, and August 1915 he was appointed brigade major with the 1/2nd South-Western Mounted Brigade, seeing action in Gallipoli.  He later commanded the 5th Dorset Regiment for months, till May 1916.  Following this, he was appointed GS01 with the 54th Division, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, seeing action at the first and Second Battle of Gaza, both of which ended in Ottoman victories.  He later commanded 1/5th King's Own Scottish Borderers, seeing action at the Battle of El Teb, during the course of which he was wounded.  At the time he was a temporary lieutenant colonel.  For his services in the conflict, Kearsey was decorated by the Kingdom of Serbia with the Order of the Karađorđe's Star, 4th Class with Swords and the Order of the Nile.  Transferring to the fledgling Royal Air Force, he commanded the Cadet Wing and was appointed staff officer, 1st grade on 28 December 1918.  During his life, Kearsey published a number of his records including, The War Records of the York and Lancaster Regiment, South Africa, 1900–1902,1903, which detailed his time with the York and Lancaster Regiment in the Boer War.  He also published records of the campaign in Egypt and Palestine during the First World War.  He later wrote a number of books analysing military strategy.

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Cricket
As a cricketer, Kearsey's batting style is unknown, but is known he fielded as a wicket-keeper.  While serving in the British Raj, he made his first-class debut for the Europeans against the Parsees in 1903.  He ended the Europeans first-innings unbeaten on 0.  In their second-innings, he was dismissed for 2 runs by Maneksha Bulsara.  His second first-class appearance came for the Europeans in 1905, in a repeat of his debut match.  In this match, he was dismissed for a duck by Jehangir Warden in the Europeans first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 4 runs by the same bowler.  Taking up position behind the stumps, he took a single catch and made a single stumping.  He later made two Minor Counties Championship appearances in 1913 for Buckinghamshire, against Berkshire and Wiltshire.  He did not appear for Buckinghamshire after this season.

Personal life
Kearsey married Frances Mitford, the daughter of Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale and Lady Clementina Gertrude Helen Ogilvy, on 30 April 1907.  The couple had one son.  Kearsey died in Wandsworth, London on 8 October 1967.  He had survived his wife Frances, who had died in 1951, by 16 years.

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External links
Alexander Kearsey at ESPNcricinfo
Alexander Kearsey at CricketArchive

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The villa is most strategically placed: away from the chaos of the cities but with easy access to Tuscan "musts". In fact, 95% of the symbolic Tuscan landmarks can be reached within an hour and a half by car. Within a range of 15/20 mins. by car there are many places of interest to visit - the Giusti Grottos with their hot thermal baths, the Monsummano caves, the Pistoia hills and mountains (skiing in the Winter), the Svizzera Pesciatina, innumerable Romanic churches, the Fucecchio swamplands (of great interest for the local flora and fauna).
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Well, why should med students want to hear from the greatest living medical professional?
by Matt Walsh
A bunch of med students at Johns Hopkins no longer want Dr. Ben Carson to speak at their commencement ceremony because he disagrees with gay marriage.
And this, my friends, is all you need to know about the current state of our society. Here's the score card:
Jim Carrey: Hollywood actor; slap stick comedian who made a few amusing films in the 90's; best known for speaking out of his butt in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"… Now loved and admired by many for making a Funny or Die video where he mocked southerners, gun owners, and Charlton Heston.
Dr. Benjamin Carson: Pediatric neurosurgeon; raised by a poor single mother in Detroit; became head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins by the age of 33; became the most renowned and accomplished physician in the world; best known for his pioneering work in the field of brain surgery and for being one of the first to successfully separate conjoined twins; has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and over 30 honorary doctorate degrees, among hundreds of other achievements; has saved the lives of countless children while advancing beyond measure our understanding of the human brain… Now hated and scorned for having a differing opinion on gay marriage. Along with being a black man and one of the greatest surgeons in history, he's also, according to internet commenters, a "moron" and a "bigot".
I don't think any further analysis is required. But I'll just underscore the insanity of this situation by saying this: Dr. Carson helped turn Johns Hopkins into one of the best hospitals on earth. He's not just an expert in the medical field, he's one of the preeminent physicians of all time. He's a pioneer on a historic scale. And these students don't want to hear from him because, why, exactly? Well because — although he's a hero of the professional discipline they wish to master — his opinion about an unrelated political matter made them sad. This is beyond stupidity. This is arrogant foolishness. The man was performing brain surgery on dying children when these twerps were still in diapers and now they reject him because of his view on gay people getting married. This is the sort of ruthless and mindless conformity demanded on the left. Utter and total obedience to their dogma is required, or you will be shunned. No matter who you are.
And, worst of all, they still go to bed at night congratulating themselves on their "open mindedness".
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I have a new obsession. Truth be told, I've been infatuated with this lover before, but he's just come around again and my passion has been ignited once more. I am of course talking about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Something about galloping around the fields of Hyrule on my trusty steed is so relaxing. I think the closest thing I've achieved to meditating this week is cooking food over the fire pit in the game: Add ingredients, listen to the happy song, reward, repeat.
There is little in life as stress free as fake cooking in a video game.
I'm not new to games. In fact, my husband works in video games so I definitely have exposure to them whether I like them or not. Now, I could go on and on about how video games are actually good for your brain- they teach hand/eye skills and spatial skills, they can even make you a better surgeon- but that's not we're talking about today. In fact, I really hate those stats, because it implies that we need to always be doing something to better ourselves. That every action must have purpose. I think that mindset is bad for us. Why must we always be on the treadmill?
Let's talk about playing for the sake of playing. Play is really important for your brain, and it's something that is sorely unappreciated in our workworkwork-all-the-time culture. Seriously- Ask what people do to unwind, and you hear a new list of work: "I'm running a marathon, and volunteering and working in my yard." All of that is wonderful stuff, and good for self-care too, but sometimes you just need to let your brain do something enjoyable that's not work or cleaning the house. Something that's just fun. Something that doesn't check a box on a list. For me this week, that's a video game. And I refuse to feel guilty about it. I've been feeling overwhelmed and this has been a source of joy and relaxation for me.


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'My Life In The FLDS Was Horrific,' Says Former Member
"My life in the FLDS was horrific," says Marrilynn, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who escaped nearly seven years ago. "I started being abused sexually between the ages of 4 and 5. I was abused by family members, neighbors and friends … Many times, I was told this is what God wanted, and, 'If you had been more obedient and more submissive, it wouldn't happen.'"
TELL DR. PHIL YOUR STORY: Are you involved in a story that has made the headlines?
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was led by Warren Jeffs until a decade ago, when he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. According to reports, members of the FLDS marry as young teens. It is also alleged that children are sexually abused by older men and have babies as young as 14 years old. Despite Jeffs being behind bars, some of his devoted followers are still active and dispersed across the country – and Dr. Phil, who has been deeply involved in covering this story for over 13 years, vows to continue until the alleged abuse stops.
WATCH: 'I Thought That The Physical Abuse Was Normal,' Says Former Member Of FLDS
In the video above, hear more of Marrilynn's story, including how she says she almost died due to physical abuse, and how her time in the FLDS affects her today. And, on Tuesday's episode of Dr. Phil, hear from Warren Jeffs' nephew and why he says he was kicked out at 15. Check here to see where you can watch.
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New students are often targeted with various scams. Here are a few that have happened in recent years. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Molly, Julia, Owen and Kim are just a few of the 3,500 students who made their offer and started at Cambridge University this year. They were really excited and told all their friends. But they didn't realise that a scammer was watching and waiting for them online.
This type of targeted scam has been used against University students all over the UK. It uses social engineering techniques to identify potential victims and contact them through social media channels before they arrive at University. Once in touch, the scammer goes to great efforts to gain their victims' trust. In reality they are running a confidence trick – befriending people, then stealing money for fake events as well as harvesting bank account and credit card details for use in future financial frauds.
To protect yourself from scams like this, review the security and visibility settings on your social media accounts to make sure that only the people you want to share information with can see your profile, contact details and postings. You can verify that events organised by the University, your College and Cambridge University Student's Union (CUSU) are legitimate by checking the details on their websites or through official channels. Most JCRS have a Freshers' Committee that organises student-led social events to welcome new students to Cambridge and an 'Ents Officer' who organises College-based social events throughout the year. There will also be a programme of more-formal welcome/orientation events during your first few days in Cambridge organised by your College and your Department. Colleges and Departments all have official mailing lists for students and you will normally be notified about events through these.
Each year scammers target new students, who arrive at University with large amounts of money in their bank accounts for their course and living expenses. One very predictable scam comes in the shape of spearphishing emails claiming to come from the Student Loans Company.
These usually encourage students to provide their password and financial details to ensure that their student loans arrive on time. They may use the Student Loans Company branding and may resemble official communications from the SLC. However, the SLC would never request this information from you in a direct email.
Fran wanted to earn some extra cash to help with term-time expenses and to build up some savings for her Summer travel plans. She found a part-time job she could do in the evenings that looked as if it wouldn't get in the way of her University studies.
Fran was asked to route payments through her personal bank account and deduct her commission before passing on the balance to the scammer. A legitimate business will not ask you to do this. Fran unwittingly became a 'money mule', laundering money through her account for the scammer. This is a serious crime that carries heavy penalties in English law. This really happened to some students at British Universities.
Cambridge University prohibits resident students from undertaking paid work during term, but some people look for temporary or part-time work to help cover extra expenses despite this. If you experience financial problems, it is best to discuss these first with your College Tutor. There are often College top-up funds, hardship and travel grants available to help students.
You need to be vigilant when dealing with people and websites online. Many people have been tricked by various scams that are prevalent today and which target students.
Staying safe online means that you need to put a few obstacles in place to lock down your devices to keep hackers, stalkers and spammers out of your bank accounts and to develop a keen sense of what is legitimate and what is not!
Peter had a momentary lapse of concentration that caused him a lot of unecessary aggravation and frustration.
Every year people just like Peter fall victim to scammers who use a type of malware called ransomware to encrypt computers, making files inaccessible. Their aim is to disrupt lives and businesses, and to obtain money by blackmail. They may offer to let you regain access to your files if you pay a ransom, but then might not even hold up their end of the deal. Both staff and students have fallen victim to this type of scam.
Ransomware is just one type of malicious software that spreads widely across the internet. Malware often arrives innocuously as an attachment to an email or bundled within a 'free download' from a website. The scammers will try to get you to open the file, causing the malicious program to activate.
Your best defence is to have an up-to-date anti-virus solution installed and active, and to be careful about which attachments you open or files you download. UIS offers free anti-virus software for all staff and students.


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Back on the Block
I think that it is clear now that people are no longer willing to accept politicians at their words. Politicians are learning to become accountable for their election promises and I hope that every elected person takes this seriously.
By Pim Kemasingki | Mon 3 Feb 2014
Tassanai Buranupakorn, 39, was reelected as mayor of Chiang Mai for another four year term on the 3rd November 2013, after resigning eight weeks prior to the end of his first term to mourn the death of his uncle, Member of Parliament Pakorn Buranupakorn.
The Buranupakorn family are heavily involved at major levels of public office in Chiang Mai. Uncle Pakorn was mayor in the late 90s before becoming MP; his other uncle Boonlert Buranupakorn was mayor between 2000 – 2007 and currently sits as Chair of the Provincial Administration Organisation; Tassani Buranupakorn, Mayor Tassanai's sister, acts as a member of parliament and Wilai Buranupakorn, Boonlert's wife, is chair and in charge of Chiang Mai's hundred million plus baht Thailand's Women Empowerment Fund.
With the city growing at a breathtaking speed and all the social, economical and infrastructural issues that comes along with it, Citylife talked with the mayor to find out what plans he has for Chiang Mai's future now that he has four more years in office.
Citylife: What is your biggest concern when it comes to stepping back for another term in office?
Mayor: Standards of politicians. I think that it is clear now that people are no longer willing to accept politicians at their words. Politicians are learning to become accountable for their election promises and I hope that every elected person takes this seriously. At the end of the day our careers rely on the trust we engender with the public. If I make false promises, then my career is finished. I am determined to not only complete any lingering election promises made on my first election over four years ago, but also to keep all new ones made this time around.
Citylife: But how are we to make politicians accountable? What systems need to be put in place?
Mayor: That is not my job; it is yours. The people have the power.
Citylife: What were your main pledges made for this term?
Mayor: Firstly I wish to install CCTVs throughout the municipality. It has been proven that up to 70 percent of crime is reduced due to the presence of CCTVs. This budget will be coming from our own coffers and we will not be able to cover the entire municipality area in my term, but I am going to make a start. We will begin with the old moated city.
Citylife: Are you anticipating a backlash over encroachment on personal freedom? Playing Big Brother?
Mayor: It is a choice we have to make, safety or privacy. The fact is that we are now a large city. People are coming to live here from all over the world. Society changes, people change and we need to ensure the smooth enforcement of law and order.
I also pledged to offer preventive health checkups for those who do not have coverage. It is good that people now have excellent medical coverage when they are ill; would it not be better if they didn't get ill in the first place? The 30 baht medical scheme does not cover this and the municipality will.
Citylife: One of the election pledges of your first term was to improve city parks such as the Railway Station Park, which frankly is a huge mess. What happened?
Mayor: Unfortunately the State Railway of Thailand has reclaimed the land so we are unable to spend any more money developing it. I am not entirely sure what they wish to do and our lease with them is expired. I can't comment on their plans.
Citylife: Everyone is complaining about the traffic. What are you going to do to alleviate it?
Mayor: Honestly, the people who complain – you and I – are the ones causing the problems. The people who are walking and cycling, they don't have a problem. There is so much that people complain about, yet they are unwilling to make sacrifices to achieve their claimed desires. If we want to solve traffic problems then you and I are going to be inconvenienced, let me ask you, is that okay with everyone? I don't think so, because even with small issues which we try to solve, they get blocked because when it comes to having to make personal sacrifices, people balk.
Citylife: Can you please be more specific?
Mayor: Okay, Nimmanhaemin Road: efforts were made to try to make it and its offshoot lanes one way traffic and to control parking, but many residents complained that it was difficult for them. Go and ask your group, the Rak Nimman Club. I am also trying to clear the riverbanks so that we can create long-term flood prevention measures, but when asked to sacrifice their decks and verandahs businesses won't do it, even though they are the first to get devastated by floods. We have tried to plant Chiang Mai's symbolic tree, the Flame of the Forest, along city roads, but businesses with awnings don't cooperate. Clearing footpaths is all great too until someone refuses to remove their potted plant, their sign, their tables. The list goes on. I am unable to forcibly remove these impediments, or I can actually be prosecuted. I must use the law…and the law takes a very long time. In most cases, many years.
Citylife: So, how can you be effective?
Mayor: I can do what I have the power to do. CCTV is something I can do. We can use it to control parking. People who are lazy and park illegally will simply be caught on camera and hopefully their habits will change. Slowly this will bring some order to society.
No one wants traffic; but everyone wants convenience. One is going to have to be sacrificed for the other.
Citylife: I know I have asked this of every mayor since I interviewed your now deceased uncle, then-mayor Pakorn Buranupakorn, in 2001, then multiple times with your other uncle, then-mayor Boonlert Buranupakorn, with no positive response, but is there any hope for public transportation here?
Mayor: When 90 percent of local taxes goes to the central government, and about another 30 percent of what remains goes towards administrative costs – garbage collection, personnel, etc. – projects which require vast sums of money such as this need government backing. Everything on such large infrastructural scales is controlled by Bangkok; there is no decentralisation. So, at this point, no.
Citylife: Have the demographics changed for the municipal area with the rapid expansion of Chiang Mai?
Mayor: Interestingly, our registered residents have slightly shrunken; many have sold their lands and moved to the suburbs! There are now 140,000 registered residents in the 40 square kilometre municipality area [10,000 less than ten years ago]. People who live in neighbouring districts and who come to work here daily, as well as non-registered residents, probably brings the number to around 300,000 – 500,000 daily. We know this from our garbage intake. The average person throws away 0.8 to one kilogram of garbage per day.
Citylife: What are you doing to retain the old Chiang Mai charm amidst such growth?
Mayor: We control what we can, for instance in the old city we control architecture, colours and heights of buildings, and we try to keep the old city as traditional as possible. What I can't control are the areas outside the municipality. One general zoning law governs the entire country which doesn't make sense at all when each province and city has its own unique quality. Pattani and Chiang Mai are different and should not be subject to the same sweeping laws. I believe in decentralisation. There are so many jurisdictions which are governed by Bangkok appointees.
Nimmanhaemin Road, for instance, is under the control of the Highway Department. I am elected, so my job is to please the people. You want an interview with me, I always give it; after all, you elected me…or maybe not. Someone moving up the bureaucratic ladder appointed to Chiang Mai doesn't care the way elected officials do, not only because they are not local, but because their careers are not dependent on the needs of the people they are supposed to serve. For instance, I want to do zoning to clear some areas of too many bar girls, but we are not the ones who issue the alcohol permits. There are too many outside agencies at work for our own work to be as effective as I would like.
Citylife: What can you do?
Mayor: I can create green spaces for our residents. The Kanchanaphisek Park on the corner of the moat near Suan Prung is now open and is green, clean, safe and has bathrooms. Unfortunately the orange vendors refuse to move, so I am still not sure what we can do about them. We have improved the 100 rai Rama 9th Park too, adding a fusal court and running tracks. If we can encourage more people to use it, then we can add features such as libraries, night lights for nighttime usage and all sorts of other activities. We received 20 million baht from the World Bank to improve the Three Kings Monument area, some of the money has gone into a feasibility study and the rest will be used to encourage cycling and walking and to attract tourism. I have already opened new museums there in the past two years, though unfortunately the old women's prison is not under my jurisdiction so that cannot be incorporated into our plan. Our garbage collection system is being greatly improved with the city's 300 tonnes of garbage being collected daily and we are focusing on schools to help educate recycling. [Ed. Stay tuned. Citylife will take a deeper look at this in a future issue.]
Citylife: You are obviously a huge proponent of decentralisation. Do you really think it will make a difference?
Mayor: The first prime minister in my childhood memory was General Prem [Tinsulanonda] who was never elected. That was 30 years ago. Now, with our current political crisis, we may be heading back to non-elected governance. I believe in the opposite. The chief of police for our region should be from our region, not sent from somewhere else. The governor should be elected and his actions accountable to the people of Chiang Mai, not Bangkok, and all the power needs to be given to the people. We would get so much more done if we had more local power. I work for you, I answer to you, that is how it should be.


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## Treebank Statistics: UD_Kaapor-TuDeT: Features: `Voice`

This feature is universal.
It occurs with 1 different values: `Cau`.

10 tokens (3%) have a non-empty value of `Voice`.
10 types (5%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of `Voice`.
9 lemmas (5%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of `Voice`.
The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: <tt>VERB</tt> (10; 3% instances).

### `VERB`

10 <tt>VERB</tt> tokens (11% of all `VERB` tokens) have a non-empty value of `Voice`.

The most frequent other feature values with which `VERB` and `Voice` co-occurred: <tt>Tense</tt><tt>=EMPTY</tt> (10; 100%), <tt>Number</tt><tt>=EMPTY</tt> (8; 80%).

`VERB` tokens may have the following values of `Voice`:

* `Cau` (10; 100% of non-empty `Voice`): mupinim, remusak, ajumukahem, amujengar, amuwɪr, amuɁe, eremuɁe, muhɪk, muwak, remupuʔam
* `EMPTY` (80): oho, uʔuta, ahem, ujan, ahota, apɪhɪk, araho, asak, matɪr, mujã


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A traumatized girl's online photos of her dead father and unconscious stepmother netted a 911 call from several states away, bringing police to her home for rescue.
It started when the 6-year-old girl couldn't wake her father and stepmother, she later told police. Snapping photos of the unresponsive pair, the girl posted them on Facebook from her home in Mount Morris Township, Michigan, just north of Flint. Her grandparent in Tennessee saw the photos and called police, according to the Associated Press.
Police arrived at the home in 21,000-population Mount Morris Township, to hear the girl screaming. She told them that the family dog was "chewing on someone's face," according to the Detroit Free Press. They found the family pit bull gnawing on the man.
The father turned out to be dead of an overdose, and her stepmother was passed out from same, police said. The latter is in a hospital in intensive care. The girl is with her mother, police said.
She is both a victim and a hero.
"Her actions, we believe, actually saved a life," Mount Morris Township Police Chief Terence Green told the Detroit Free Press. "This 6-year-old went through a traumatic event — and she saved a life."
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The Three Factors That Put Lower-Income Americans At Greater Risk From Extreme Weather
Tracey Ross Aug 19, 2013, 7:40 pm
As extreme weather batters communities across the country, a new report from the Center for American Progress details how these events disproportionately harm middle and lower-income Americans because they simply have fewer resources to prepare for and recover from such disasters. While many describe storms and other extreme weather as "social equalizers" that do not differentiate based on ethnicity, race, or class, the truth is that these events exacerbate our underlying economic inequities.
With extreme weather on the rise, and so-called "storms of the century" becoming part of the new normal, vulnerable populations will be at much greater risk from climate change. While it is impossible to predict all the ways an extreme weather event can disrupt a community, the report explains that many of our disaster-resilience and recovery policies do not even account for the ongoing vulnerabilities that low-income households experience.
By 2011, 46.2 million Americans — nearly one in six people — were living in poverty. Today, millions of households are affected as people cycle in and out of poverty. Data shows that over a four-year period, one in three Americans will experience a spell of poverty. When families lack economic security, an unforeseen crisis that causes financial hardship can jeopardize the ability of parents to pay the bills, put food on the table, and afford necessities such as child care or medical expenses. When that crisis is a natural disaster, families on the brink can be driven deeper into poverty. With extreme weather events on the rise, low-income families are at a greater risk than ever before due to their poor housing quality, environmental conditions, and economic instability. 1. Poor Quality Housing
Shoddy construction and the age of affordable housing — generally in less-than-desirable neighborhoods that lack quality services and are supported by suboptimal infrastructure — puts low-income people at greater risk from the effects of extreme weather.
Despite this reality, we cannot simply move millions of people to new and better buildings and neighborhoods. There is currently a shortage of more than 5 million affordable-housing units for low-income families across the country. As a result, many low-income families rely on substandard housing, including approximately 7 million low- and moderate-income families who live in manufactured homes or mobile homes. This is of particular concern as people living in mobile homes account for half of all tornado deaths.
Housing continues to be a significant issue for people of color and low-income disaster victims in the recovery period. Analyses show that housing assistance after extreme weather events often favors middle-class victims, particularly homeowners. Keeping housing affordable presents further challenges. After Katrina, more than 40,000 affordable rental units, out of a total of 86,000 such units, experienced severe or major damage. This created a situation where costs soared for those units that were available. The fair-market rent for a two-bedroom apartment rose 45 percent in two years.
Extreme heat is one of the leading weather-related killers in the United States, resulting in hundreds of fatalities every year. The intense heat waves in 2011 and 2012 took more than 181 lives and set temperature records across the nation. These temperature increases can exacerbate what is known as the "heat-island" effect, where densely built-up areas tend to be hotter than nearby rural areas. African Americans are 52 percent more likely than whites to live in such densely packed neighborhoods. At night, the temperature difference between a dense city and a nearby rural area can be as high as 22 degrees. Extreme weather events such as tornadoes and hurricanes require a rapid and large-scale clean up. After Hurricane Katrina, for example, 22 million tons of debris was removed and disposed of in Louisiana alone. Because of the urgency and the large undertaking, many unlined landfills that were originally closed because contaminants were leaking into groundwater were reopened and put into service. One study estimated that 1,740 metric tons of arsenic was contained in the 12 million cubic meters of demolition wood debris that was dumped in such landfills in the wake of Katrina in Louisiana alone, posing risks of contamination to groundwater.
3. Economic Instability
Following a disaster, one of the immediate concerns of families is food security. While many charities work to help in the immediate aftermath of disaster, food assistance programs work to help stabilize households. In the wake of federally declared disasters, states can apply for the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP), which provides replacement benefits for regular food stamp recipients who lose food in a disaster and extends benefits to low-income households that would not ordinarily be eligible for food assistance. Unfortunately, a large threat looms to the program as D-SNAP is funded through the traditional SNAP program: House Republicans have been targeting the program for billions of dollars in cuts.
Another critical concern for families living in poverty or on the brink of poverty is potential job loss. Overall, federal labor laws include more protections for salaried workers than for hourly workers when a disaster hits. "Non-salaried workers are really at the mercy of their employers," said Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute. "If the business closes because of the storm, employers don't have to pay non-salaried workers for lost wages. And if the business is open, but the worker can't make it into work, employers are also not required to pay for lost wages. And in most cases, they won't."
So what can be done? In order to address these vulnerabilities, the report states that investments must be made in resiliency to extreme weather. According to the National Institute of Building Sciences, every dollar invested in building resilience and reducing exposure to disaster risks saves $4 in disaster response and recovery. And yet, taxpayers spent nearly $6 for disaster recovery for every $1 spent to increase general community resilience over the past three years.
The report recommends a number of steps that can be taken to increase the resiliency of low-income communities and better respond to extreme weather events, including bolstering the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and Low Income Energy Assistance Program. Additionally, the report says the president and Congress should oppose proposed cuts to SNAP and D-SNAP and Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, should advise state and local governments in disaster-prone areas to develop plans for how emergency cleanups will be conducted.
By addressing the availability and quality of affordable housing, protecting communities against environment factors, and ensuring greater economic security, low-income communities will be better equipped to cope with an unforeseen crisis.
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I bought my Surface Pro 2 last November – third week after it was released in Australia. I only got it on the third week because I was on holidays in China when it was released and all the resellers ran out of stock when I came back.
I also bought a type cover 2 the same time. I really wanted to get the power cover and the docking station, but they weren't released back then. I thought I'd get the type cover for now and get the power cover and the docking station when they became available in Australia.
Guess what, I was still waiting when Microsoft announced the Surface 3 release date. I sort of got the idea, they will probably never come to Australia.
For me, a power keyboard is a nice-to-have, but I really want a docking station! Therefore, I have to look elsewhere. I soon found 2 possible alternatives (USB 3 docking stations).
Both of them have similar specs, The local retail price for the Toshiba one is around AUD $160 and Targus is around $180 (currently $1 AUD = $0.94 USD). I've decided to go for the Tagus one simply because the Toshiba dock is vertical with a stand, it will be harder to carry around (if I want to). The Targus dock seems to be more portable to me.
So instead of buying it in a retail shop, I managed to find a seller on eBay U.S. who accepts "Best Price". After bargaining the price back and forth few times, I managed to get a brand new one for $85 USD. with international shipping, in the end, I paid AUD $118, which I'm very happy about the price!
The Targus dock also comes with a DVI-To-VGA adapter and a HDMI-To-DVI adapter to cater for different monitor connections. Based on the comparison above, the Targus dock is definitely more feature rich. Since I've already bought a spare Surface Pro 2 power supply from eBay, I didn't mind the fact that I can't power the Surface with this dock.
I have no problems with drivers, all the drivers got automatically installed when I connected them for the first time.
Cameron Fuller wrote an article on his experience with Surface 2 RT: Using the Surface 2 RT like a Pro-fessional. In Cameron's article, he listed all the hardware accessories that he has purchased for the RT device. I'm guessing RT devices would always face compatibility issues because of drivers, I haven't been managed to find an RT device to test this dock with, so I'm not sure if it supports Windows RT.
So it is definitely a cheaper option to get the dock instead, not to mention you end up with only one device on your desk.
So now, even if Surface docking station has been made available in Australian market, I'd still stick with this Targus dock, simply because I can connect 2 external monitors.
The only thing I haven't tried is testing PXE through the NIC port on this dock. If someone has already tried it, please let me know .
Toddo97: For PXE, you could use a "USB to Ethernet" adapter that supports PXE and connect it directly to the Surface (or other tablet/ultrabook).
Not all "USB to Ethernet" adapters supports PXE so you´ll need to look for it specifically.
For me, I would not recommend going over a docking station from a different manufacturer than the hardware that I install since it would in most cases require more drivers other than the "USB to Ethernet" adapter.


Falling unexpectedly and receiving no timely help is a nightmare nobody should go through. Senior safety app fall tracker was created for the explicit purpose of tracking falls and informing the app owner when the device user needs help. Fall tracker can be configured at high sensitivity, medium sensitivity, and low sensitivity; the tracking engine can be customized to the user's lifestyle so false alerts are minimized. Fall alerts come to your email with the current location of the device.
Most smartphone users check their emails or messages at least once in a few hours. If they miss doing that it certainly points to something being amiss. Configure the Senior Safety App to alert you in case the phone remains inactive for a long period of time. Every alert is sent with the device location so that help can be rushed quickly. You can pick any time interval between 1 and 12 hours of inactivity for the alert to be activated.
There have been instances of robbers targetting seniors to steal their phones. Seniors are an easy target and often do not report the theft and the perpetrators go scot free. Enable the network change alert, this sends you the phone's location if the phone network changes (Sim card is replaced).


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ALIENS IN ROSWELL – AGAIN!
April 11, 2011 by Frank Lake
ROSWELL, NM – After the release of the FBI Memo that proves the existence of aliens – the town of Roswell was once again visited by aliens.
The FBI memo, dated March 22, 1950, details the appearance of crashed "flying saucers" in New Mexico that were recovered along with alien bodies. It was released on a new web site by an agency called "The Vault."
Aliens from Planet Zeeba and Planet Xinu were spotted in Roswell yesterday. John Malley, the head of the U.N. Panel of Extraterrestrials happened to be in Roswell at the time and identified the aliens.
"They made a visit back to Roswell, pleased that the U.S. Government is finally revealing the truth to the American people," Malley said. "Aliens were in Roswell in the 1948 and they were abused by the U.S. military.
UFO researchers had known about the memo for years – as did the aliens – but they were all happy that it was released to the public. The document is an authentic FBI memo written by special agent Guy Hottel, but the information is not actually new.
The aliens were seen dancing in the streets of Roswell. They were also reading about the FBI memo in the town paper:
One alien read aloud the text of the memo. He read it in English – which impressed Dr. Malley. Here is what the memo said.
"An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots."
The aliens, all between 3 and 4 feet tall, giggled at each other as the memo was read aloud. The memo continued:
"According to Mr. (censored) informant, the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers. No further evaluation was attempted by SA (censored) concerning the above."
The memo was released because in recent months several articles popped up on the internet saying this document is "proof aliens landed in Roswell." And the memo turns out to be the final nail in the coffin of the non-believers.
"Aliens were here in 1948 and they are here today. There is an alien invasion going on in the United States and around the world," Malley said.
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Again!?! Aliens had never left!!
WWN, you are my favorite news source ever because I know you guys deliver the truth! you rock! this article? proof of aliens! no question!
Roswell's Alien survivor video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLchQWOwe44
What do they mean again? I say thet never left.
I have paid attention to, thI have paid attention to, thank you for sharing!ank you for sharing!


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Take a trip to a quiet winter night in a forest. The small wood house placed at the midst of the snowy meadow surrounded with fuzzy firs. Snow falls silently and smoothly on the ground, covering it with light lambent blanket. It looks like the Christmas is near. Fly around this beautiful winter scenery and feel peace sense of joy and warmth. Imagine that you are a snowflake that is falling moved by slight wind. Try this screensaver and feel that all your troubles suddenly disappear.