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The working titles of this film were America, American Miracle, The Magic Land, This Is America and An American Story. According to modern sources, Man of Tomorrow was also a working title. The character of "Teddy Dangos," as played by Horace McNally, provides intermittent offscreen narration throughout the film. The picture also includes several documentary sequences depicting the manufacture of steel, cars and planes. According to a late October 1944 Hollywood Reporter news item, the film was cut from 151 to 122 minutes after exhibitors complained about its length. It is possible that some of the above-listed actors were cut out for the shortened version. According to records in the M-G-M Music Collection, the hymn "Lord Please Send Down Your Love" was performed in the film by black singer Leon Warrick. Warrick is also listed in the CBCS, but the song was not heard in the viewed print and was apparently cut for the shortened version. (Modern sources note that director-producer King Vidor wrote the song's lyrics.)
In his autobiography, Vidor related that he conceived of An American Romance, a picture that took him three years to complete, as the final part of his self-proclaimed "war, wheat, and steel" trilogy. "War" was represented by Vidor's 1925 epic The Big Parade (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.0405), and "wheat" by the 1934 independent production Our Daily Bread (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.3296). Vidor adds that at the time of the film's inception, he was considering joining the Army Air Corps motion-picture division, but finally concluded that making An American Romance, with its "arsenal-of-democracy" theme, would be the most effective way to serve his country.
In a modern interview, Vidor stated that he got the film's basic story line from a series of stories and recollections by Yugoslavian-born Louis Adamic, who had worked in the Minnesota iron ore mines around the turn-of-the-century. Vidor was also influenced by the lives of American industrialists Andrew Carnegie, Charles Steinmetz, William Knudsen and Walter Chrysler, according to his autobiography. According to a modern source, in 1941, Vidor wrote a three-page outline for the film and sent it to Adamic, who then wrote the first few sequences of the picture. Hollywood Reporter announced in March 1942 that Adamic was collaborating on the script with Vidor. Adamic's contribution to the completed film, if any, has not been confirmed, however. In the modern interview, Vidor stated that he used the town of Hibbing, MN, as the model for his screen town, although Hibbing was not specifically mentioned in the film. Modern sources note that from July 1941 to April 1942, many writers, including Norman Foster, John Fante, James Hill, Tom Treanor, Wessel Smitter, Ross B. Wills and Renata Oppenheimer, worked on drafts of the film's treatment. Smitter, Gordon Kahn, Frances Marion and Vincent Lawrence made minor contributions to the screenplay, which Vidor initially co-wrote with credited scenarist Herbert Dalmas. In April 1943, credited writer William Ludwig worked on a full rewrite of the script with Dalmas and Vidor. Robert D. Andrews contributed dialogue to the added scenes, which were shot in November 1943, according to modern sources.
According to the modern interview, Vidor pitched the story of An American Romance directly to M-G-M vice-president and general manager Louis B. Mayer, who in turn told the story to M-G-M president Nicholas Schenck, who then gave the final go-ahead. Spencer Tracy was Vidor's first choice to play "Steve Dangos" and was announced as the film's star in August 1942. In his autobiography, Vidor comments that Tracy symbolized "all that the character of Stephan Danahos [sic] stood for." Because of scheduling conflicts, Vidor was forced to replace Tracy with Brian Donlevy. Vidor noted in the modern interview that he had hoped to cast Ingrid Bergman as Steve's wife and Joseph Cotten as "Howard Clinton," but both actors had previous commitments. Hollywood Reporter reported in early 1943 that Ann Sothern and Frances Gifford were also under consideration for the female lead, and Philip Dorn, John Hodiak and John Craven were tested for top roles, but not cast. After a screen test, Vidor was persuaded to cast Australian newcomer Ann Richards (1917-2006), who reportedly came to America on the last boat to leave Australia after Pearl Harbor, as "Anna." According to Hollywood Reporter, Richards, who had had small roles in three earlier M-G-M films, was not cast until after principal photography had begun in April 1943. Hollywood Reporter news items add Richard Crane, Richard Derr and Edmond Breon to the cast, but their participation in the final film has not been confirmed. In addition, Hollywood Reporter notes that Donlevy's six-week-old daughter Judith Ann was cast in the role of baby "Tina."
In the modern interview, Vidor stated that certain aspects of the film's visuals were inspired by the paintings of American artist Charles Burchfield. Vidor claimed that he designed the film's color scheme to "follow the same progressive uplifting refinement" as its story line. A Hollywood Reporter news item noted that paintings and sketches used in the film were created by the Society of Illustrations and were featured in the October 2, 1944 issue of Life magazine. According to Vidor's autobiography, miniatures were first used for the final bomber assembly line sequence. Upon viewing the completed scenes, however, Vidor declared that they looked "unreal in contrast to the rest of the film" and arranged to reshoot "in an honest-to-goodness factory, using the actual detailed construction of a Flying Fortress."
According to Records of the War Department, Public Relations Division, dated September 28, 1942, Vidor requested and received permission to shoot footage at many different mines and factories in the Midwest, including the Ull-Rust mine in Hibbing, MN, the Duluth dock in Duluth, MN, and the Ford River A & O Rouge Plant in Dearborn, MI. 16mm background footage was shot at a blast furnace in Irontown, UT, according to the War Department records. Hollywood Reporter notes that second unit atmospheric and background shots were taken at Lake Superior, MI. Scenes were also shot at two U.S. Steel Corporation subsidiaries-the Carnegie Illinois Steel Works in Chicago and the Indiana Steel Plant in Gary-as well as at the Chrysler auto factory in Detroit, the Douglas aircraft factory in Long Beach, CA, and the Consolidated plant in San Diego, CA. According to a Hollywood Reporter news item, a steel mill in Hammond, IN, was also used as a location. The War Department records add that footage from an Army Air Force feature entitled Memphis Belle (see entry above) was to be used in the picture. According to an International Photographer article about the film, other scenes were shot in the Mesabi Range, MN. In the modern interview, Vidor recalled that some exteriors were shot in Wilmington, CA, near Los Angeles, and that for those scenes, actor John Qualen doubled for Donlevy. Vidor also noted that footage was taken during the Indianapolis 500 car race and was used as background in the racing scene. War Department Records from September 1942 include a long list of scheduled second-unit crew members, including director Gunther V. Fritsch, but their participation in the completed film has not been confirmed.
Prior to the film's October 11, 1944 world premiere in Cincinnati, Vidor, Donlevy, Richards, Walter Abel and Horace McNally dedicated An American Romance airplane in Dayton, OH, and participated in ten days of personal appearances and parades. In his autobiography, Vidor noted that after its Cincinnati premiere, M-G-M's New York office ordered that thirty minutes be cut from the film. Although Vidor expected the time to be taken out of the documentary sections, which he himself felt were too long, most of the cut footage came out of the dramatic scenes because the documentary sequences were already married to the music track. Modern sources and the modern interview note that the edited footage included a scene at the Indianapolis Speedway and a scene depicting a confrontation between Steve and his workers. Vidor recalled in the modern interview that head M-G-M editor Margaret Booth made the final edits. Despite some favorable reviews, the film, which cost almost three million dollars to make, did not do well at the box office. Displeasure over the studio's handling of An American Romance eventually led to Vidor's departure from M-G-M, the studio at which he had worked for twenty years, according to the modern interview. In March 1943, Hollywood Reporter noted that the Museum of Modern Art in New York was using the film's production as a subject for an exhibit about the making of a motion picture. Scripts, research material, shooting schedules and inter-office memos were among the materials presented.


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When taken at least 30 minutes before performing a physical activity, Cheque Drops give the body an instant burst of energy. Some may also find that it makes them feel more alive and able to perform the tasks at hand or that it improves their overall strength. Though some might think the steroid has a placebo effect, research shows that the substance really does affect the brain and give users the kick start that they need.
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Though most professional athletes won't admit that they used anabolic steroids, Dan Duchaine was one of the few who did. Duchaine spent several years trying to launch his bodybuilding career while still in college, but he turned to anabolic steroids after finding that he couldn't get the body he wanted through exercise alone. Duchaine spent several years working on his career and taking steroids before finding himself in jail. That experience led the former athlete to speak out on the dangers of prescription steroids, and many believe that Duchaine used Cheque Drops throughout his career. Others, including some of those close to him, also claim that legendary boxer Mike Tyson used Cheque Drops. Tyson supposedly used the steroids during his later years to gain more energy before entering the ring.
Summary: The users of Cheque Drops have a number of reasons why they use this steroid over the others on the market. One of the biggest reasons is due the steroid's half-life. Most steroids have a long half-life that leaves users dealing with side effects and problems for days or weeks after taking the substances. The half-life of Cheque Drops is just four hours. This means that users can take the powder or capsule before a competition and that it will leave their systems by the time they get home or back to the hotel room. Many professional bodybuilders even keep a jar of the powdered drops in the bags that they carry with them to competitions, but again – these are banned substances. We are strongly opposing the usage of illegal substances due to their side effects and status.


Keep this homemade Meatloaf Starter on hand, then cook up a delicious and quick meatloaf dinner in no time!
Hi everyone – It's Jack. The idea for this Meatloaf Starter recipe came to us at a local butcher shop near our home. It's a terrific little place run by a friendly and helpful husband and wife team, with a great selection of super fresh, quality meats at fantastic prices.
Throughout the store, the owners also offer free recipes cards—with meals made using the wonderful meats they sell. (Very smart marketing!) They also sell a small selection of jarred sauces and seasonings to help their customers create quick and easy meals with the foods sold at the shop.
During one recent visit to the butcher shop, Martha spotted a jar of meatloaf starter on the shelf.
Meatloaf starter is basically a pre-made seasoning sauce that you simply mix with ground beef, bread crumbs, and eggs (plus a few other ingredients) to create a quick meatloaf.
Challenge accepted — so I went about dissecting the ingredients, coming up with our own, new and improved version. And to honest, we both think our Meatloaf Starter really is better.
How to you make Meatloaf Starter?
Our Meatloaf Starter is a super flavorful mix of ingredients that are perfect additions to a meatloaf. It includes canned crushed tomatoes and fresh vegetables including onions, garlic, peppers, and carrots. Sun-dried tomatoes, molasses, brown sugar, both apple cider and balsamic vinegars, plus a bunch of other seasonings are also added before the mixture is cooked into an intensely-good, thick sauce-like consistency.
How do I use Meatloaf Starter?
This Meatloaf Starter recipe makes five "starter" portions — so you'll cook a batch of the starter once, then divide it into five portions to freeze to use later. Then, when you are in a hurry to make dinner for your family, thaw out a bag of Meatloaf Starter before you leave the house for the day.
When you arrive back home, to make your meatloaf, mix the thawed Meatloaf Starter with two pounds of 80/20 ground beef, eggs, and bread crumbs that have been softened with some milk, then bake in a loaf pan. We also added some ketchup on top.
While the meatloaf cooks, prepare some mashed or roasted potatoes, green beans or Brussels sprouts, and some garlic bread. Dinner is ready!
Can this Meatloaf Starter be canned?
Canning high-acid foods (such as anything with tomatoes) with lower acid foods (such as vegetables) can be tricky at home, so we always err on the side of caution and freeze our tomato-based sauces — and that is what we recommend for this Meatloaf Starter. If you would like to read more about canning please click here.
Place onion, garlic, both peppers, carrots, sun dried tomatoes, and parsley into a food processor and process until the mixture is finely ground (size smaller than grains of rice but larger than ground coffee).
In a 5-quart non-stick pot, add olive oil and over medium high heat, add the contents of the food processor and cook for about five minutes until soft and starting to caramelize.
Push the vegetables to the sides, then add tomato paste into center and cook for two minutes, then stir it into the cooked vegetables.
Add Worcestershire sauce and cook for another 3-4 minutes until the Worcestershire sauce starts to evaporate.
Add all other ingredients, bring to a simmer and simmer with a cover for 45 minutes. Use a heat diffuser under the pan to stop sticking and stir the mixture every ten minutes, more often close to the end.
The resulting mixture will be thick and grainy.
Cool then portion out (1 ½ cups each) into five quart-sized zipper seal bags. Squeeze out all air before sealing and lay flat to freeze up to six months.
To make one meatloaf, preheat oven to 350 degrees F with a rack in the upper third of the oven.
Mix bread crumbs and milk in a small bowl and set aside.
In a large bowl, mix 2 pounds of 80/20 ground beef with the 3 eggs and 1½ cups of the meatloaf starter. Add the milk-soaked bread crumbs and mix again to evenly combine.
Pack mixture into a 1 ½ quart loaf pan, mounding in the center and leaving a quarter inch ridge around the inside edge to catch the grease. You want to make sure there are no air pockets so add a little meat mixture, smooth and keep adding more mixture until you have used it all. Smooth out the top using wet fingers to avoid cracks, then spray the top with pan spray.
Cover a small sheetpan with foil and place a rack on top. Spray the rack for easy cleanup.
Place the loaf pan onto the rack and place into the upper third of the oven.
Remove from the oven and carefully pour out any grease.
Spread the top with the ketchup and place back into the oven for 15 more minutes or until the internal temperature of the center of the meatloaf reaches 155 degrees F.
Remove from the oven and let rest ten minutes, then slice and serve. Makes enough for 8-10 people.
Using 80/20 ground beef makes a big difference. We tried this meatloaf recipe once with very lean ground beef and it had a slight dry texture. The extra fat really helps yield a moist meatloaf.
This is a very good recipe! The only one I have ever tried that come close or equals my standard, (Google – Market Street Meat loaf if interested, though I have modified it a bit). That said this recipe has a different flavor profile but is excellent. For grins replace the green bell pepper with poblano or pasillia for an interesting change. It's not necessarily better but give a nice subtle change.
Great idea Dave! Thanks for the suggestion!
What a great idea… Will have to try.
Thanks Mitch! We hope you enjoy it!


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I have the coding for the change event, but I don't know how to code it to only call the Macro at a specific time.
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IFIM Business School, Bangalore, recently organized its annual fest 'NAMAN'. The two-day event, which was held on 9th & 10th of October, was a power packed one. Naman 2014 was inaugurated by Dr. Sharanprakash R Patil (Minister for Medical Education, Karnataka Government) and Mr. Arun (Wildlife SOS).
The fest offered a platform for all the participants to showcase their managerial skills and other talents. We offered different events for the participants:Management events like Best Manager, Finance, Marketing, Human Resource, Business Quiz and Strategy, were open for only business schools, while Cultural events like Solo Dance, Group Dance, Battle of the Bands, Fashion Show, Solo Singing, Photography and Short Film Making were open for all.
The Best Manager is the one event, which grabs everyone's eyeball. The theme of the event was 'GOD FATHER'. There were six participants in total. An aptitude test was conducted which included general knowledge, current affairs which was to test the IQ level of the participant in which they had to fill in their details. They also conducted debate and extempore competitions.
In addition, Finance was a major part of the fest. There were seven events in total. They started with a general knowledge quiz. The second section had marketing skill, which was to know about the participant's skill of marketing the strategies they have in mind. There were more events, which included general finance skill, hard-core finance skill, stock trading, virtual and floor trading, corporation finance, and Forex. They also had simple Accounting concept, which made the event more interesting.
This year Naman's title sponsor was Pepsi, we did a marketing campaign for them called "#mycanmyselfie". Home Catering Services, Wildlife SOS, Naturals, Rex Theatres also contributed to make this event successful. We promoted our event by doing a flash mob Forum Mall. We also gained media attention. A glimpse of the event was telecasted in News 9 on 10th Oct 2014. DSIJ and MBA Club India also promoted the event in both Print and Online Media.
"La Mode Model Hunt – The Search for Bangalore's Top Model" selected 4 students during the Fashion show event, as wild card entry in the final stage of their event. Ms. Parvathy Menon of IFIM Business School got selected for the same.
Naman 2014 saw students coming from both in & out of Karnataka. A total of 112 students participated in NAMAN 2014 from 11 different colleges. 22 students came from colleges outside Bangalore like Mysore, Karnataka, Raipur & Chattisgarh. The overall championship was won by Christ University, Bangalore.


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16.8% of the non-institutionalized adults 65 years and older have some trouble seeing, even with glasses or contacts. That number increases to 19.9% in adults 75 years and older.
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Digital Divide Traps 5 Million Families in 'Homework Gap'
Seven in 10 teachers make assignments that require Internet access, but many lower income students don't have a Wi-Fi connection at home, Pew Research shows.
Jim Gold • April 21, 2015
America's digital divide has caught 5 million families with students at home in a "Homework Gap," according to newly released figures from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
The Pew analysis of U.S. Census data found that 82.5 percent of the 29 million American homes with school-age children have broadband access. That's about 9 percentage points higher than average for all households, Pew noted.
Low-income households make up a disproportionate share of the 5 million without broadband access.
Pew Research Center shows the number of households with school-age children and their broadband access
Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, who has made closing the Homework Gap a priority, thanked Pew for doing its homework on the issue and explained the finding's significance:
"There was a time when doing basic schoolwork required no more than a little bit of quiet, a clear workspace, and a pencil. No more. Today, 7 in 10 teachers assign homework that requires Internet access. Kids may be connected in the classroom, but if they are disconnected at home getting basic schoolwork done is hard. Researching a paper and applying for scholarships and jobs is tough without reliable broadband access. … We need to bridge this gap and fix this problem because our shared economic future depends on it."
Later this year, the FCC is expected to begin overhauling the Lifeline Program, an initiative that subsidizes telephone subscriptions for low-income households, so that it would also cover broadband.
Almost 1 in 3 households with incomes below $50,000 and with children ages 6 to 17 do not have a high-speed Internet connection at home. This low-income group makes up about 40 percent of all families with school-age children in the United States, according to the Census' American Community Survey.
Only 8.4 percent of households with annual incomes of more than $50,000 lack a broadband Internet connection at home.
How do you think the digital gap should be addressed? Or should it? Share your comments below or on our Facebook page.
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Q: Windows XP service not sending parameters to .net app? I have created a Windowx XP service and pointed it to an executable of a C# application.
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Former Newspaper Editor Dies After Tragic Fall In Maine
Jess Tyler
Super sad news.
A former editor of the Boston Globe and Berkshire Eagle has tragically died after a fall from Mount Katahdin in Maine.
MassLive.com reports that Donald MacGillis got lost in the fog while out hiking with his nephew. MacGillis and his 25 year old nephew Paul called for help and rangers were able to talk them through locating a place to shelter until morning.
Unfortunately, during the night the 74 year old suffered a 50 foot fall. MassLive reports that Maine Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter airlifted MacGillis to the hospital but they were unable to save him. In addition to suffering injuries from the fall, he was also suffering hypothermia.
His son Alec shared a beautiful picture on Facebook:
According to Masslive, the plan had been to hike Dudly Trail which had previously been closed due to rockslides.
MacGillis was a very accomplished journalist. He ran the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, MA until 1995 and then was an editor at the Boston Globe until he retired in 2012.
The Boston Globe wrote a beautiful piece on MacGillis. Jane Swift, the former Governor of Massachusetts, told the Globe:
"He wrote beautifully, and as the daughter of a Catholic school teacher, that's something you come to admire,"
It seems like there have been a lot of hiking accidents this season. According to the pressherald.com, this is the sixth rescue from Mount Katahdin in Maine, including another one from last week.
Sending our thoughts and prayers to the MacGillis family.
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Community-Integrated Care to Children (PEDCIC).
ORGANIZATION: Crozer-Chester Medical Center is seeking a partnership with Widener University School of Human Service Professions/ Center for Education/ Child Development Center.
The goal of the Pediatric Education to Deliver Community-Integrated Care to Children (PEDCIC) program is to develop an additional set of curriculum and community based learning experiences for pediatric residents in order to prepare them to deliver efficient and effective care in a medically under served area. Through the PEDCIC experience Pediatric Residents of Crozer- Chester Medical Center Pediatric Residency Program will come to understand the particular primary care and public health needs within the pediatric population of America's third poorest mid - size city, Chester, Pennsylvania. Through cooperation and collaboration with community-based social service and medical service providers, residents will learn to be advocates and community leaders in creating effective partnerships addressing specific pediatric health issues in a high-risk pediatric population. The program holds true promise in empowering pediatric residents-with knowledge and experience in "community-integrated services"- to pursue primary care careers in the content of underserved.
Dr. Kathleen Reeves the Project Director of Crozer-Chester Medical Center contacted Noreen M. Nicholas, Director of Widener University Child Development Center, in May 2000. Dr. Reeves informed me about the PEDCIC Program and was seeking a partnership with Widener University Child Development Center and Center for Education. When asked why are you seeking a partnership, when Crozer-Chester traditionally trains their residents, Dr. Reeves responded that we are seeking Widener University support due to our positive rapport and relationship that we have with the Chester Community. The Child Development Center has been serving the children/families for twenty years. The Child Development Staff members have been providing workshops and training to community programs and are accepted in the Chester Community. The Center for Education has been training adults in early childhood education, elementary, secondary education and are seen as scholars in this area. Crozer-Chester is also seeking Widener University Faculty to design the residency program in the planning and development of the PEDCIC program, which will serve as a model of relationship building for the residents.
Children, particularly those raised in communities of socioeconomic hardship, are not only victims of infectious disease and traditional childhood illness. But also, in today's society, these children are much more likely to suffer from unintentional injury, impact of environmental risks and toxins, interpersonal violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. "Future efforts to improve the health of children and adolescents must focus on community-level outcomes and include multidisciplinary models of care (Perrin, 1992).
Several studies have documented the lack of opportunities for residents to gain experience working with the medically underserved (Hill, 1996; Haq, 1996). Laurie (1997) states "A population-based approach to practice requires learning how to gather information about the community in which one works- about the demographics, the sociocultural beliefs and practices that affect the manifestation of health and disease, and the natural history and the major health problems in the population."
Because each underserved community (or any community) has its own particular set of needs and priorities, we believe that the process of adapting the residency program must follow the process of other successful community/collaborative programs: Community representatives must be involved from the beginning of the process. The relationships built by faculty of the residency program in the planning and the development of the PEDCIC Program will serve as models of relationship-building for the residents. This process empowers faculty as well as residents, as they face the challenges of providing care where there are so many barriers to access and seemingly intractable poor health status. We believe that the graduates of PEDCIC, and other similarly constructed residency programs, will not only be better prepared and more likely to practice in underserved areas. They will also be more likely to stay in those positions, empowered by the experience of communitycollaborative programming and less likely to "burn out" from the challenges and complexity of patient care in a vulnerable population.
1. Design, develop and evaluate a Community Health didactic curriculum using input from key contact personnel from related community agencies from the target population.
2. Enhance the one-month block Community Medicine Rotation.
3. Augment the continuity clinic experience with utilization of the Community Care Plan process.
4. Provide Resident experience in a variety of innovative primary care settings.
5. To incorporate, in to the PEDCIC curricular, innovations teaching the residents the skills needed to be excellent educators within the communities.
6. Expand the education of pediatric residents about the acute and long term care of children victimized by abuse.
To understand the innovation and ultimate impact of this program on the future practice decisions of residents you must understand the residents' experience as a dynamic threeyear process of information gathering and relationship-building. The residents will receive a didactic curriculum developed with input from a range of communitybased service providers. They will also listen to updates and presentations from these same individuals on a regular schedule. Finally, as they develop patientspecific "Community Care Plans" they will communicate with these same individuals in procuring the complementary services their patients frequently need to achieve meaningful health outcomes. It is only by immersion in the home, schools, the courts and relationships with individuals in those institutions that faculty and residents, alike, can meaningfully impact child health status in the community.
Objective 1: Have each of the key personnel from the community give an introductory didactic lecture to the residents at noon conference, reviewing the history and functions of his or her agency. From the process, develop a 3 year didactic curriculum with input from the key personnel for the residents at noon conference.
Objective 2: We also will augment the current community medicine rotation with the development of the Community Medicine Handbook. This handbook will be a collection of literature from the medical community and the service sciences used to enhance the resident's educational experiences on the community rotation. It will be a compilation of information provided by both teaching faculty and key community personnel.
Objective 3: The Community Care Plan process will be developed similarly to clinical care pathways. The process will have an easy way to evaluate if a patient is high risk, which services may be in need, how to access these services and how to document the initiation and continuation of the Community Care Plan process. The process will easily be adapted for universal use in screening all patients in a clinical setting. Both the physicians and the community personnel involved in caring for the patient will provide specific documentation that will be included in the chart under CCP section.
Objectives 4: Assure resident placement in the hospital clinic, large and solo practitioner practices, college health clinic and health care in the juvenile care center, school based clinic, Regional Abuse Center, community based developmental clinic.
Objective 5: The PEDCIC Program will provide a four part workshop on how to teach professionals, parents and patients, as well as, how to deliver useftil, educational didactic sessions. All the residents will complete this workshop over their 3 years.
Objective 6: We have teaching faculty who have acquired additional training in the care of abused children. Currently, with the support from the institution, emergency medicine facilities, the Social Work Department and Department of Psychiatry, Children and Youth Services and the Chester Police Department, we have developed a Regional Child Abuse Center, which has begun to provide complete services for these children. This center will serve as a site to train pediatric residents, family practice residents, OB-GYN residents, case workers, social workers and other professionals in mental health and law enforcement.
A range of quantitative and qualitative data will be collected to evaluate the impact of,and outcomes from, the initiatives in this project proposal.
1. The initial set of outcome measures will be to evaluate the impact of the program on the residents themselves. A series of pre- and post tests (forced choice, closed questions) will be given to residents as they move through each program experience. Each objective will have its own survey schedule, some testing close to the specific component and some designed to test changes in knowledge and attitude over the full three years of program development and implementation. These project-specific surveys will be designed and analyzed by the Program Evaluator. The Residents will also be reviewed through a series of traditional tools including direct observations and service diaries.
2. Each of the participating faculty will be asked to answer similar surveys concerning their attitudes toward, and knowledge of, the new paradigms and roles as put forth in the Pediatric Education to Deliver Community-Integrated Care. The expanded role of the residents, as primary are Pediatrician as patient advocate, patient/family educator, community activist, etc.
3. Each of the collaborating agencies will be surveyed annually to determined their satisfaction and qualitative response to service collaboration.
4. All patient contacts will be recorded in the Project Database to provide an aggregate process evaluation of services rendered to the community. This date will be accompanied for each community-based service by some measure of health status or health outcome. These and similar health service or access questions may be generated by the residents themselves, leading to more complex research questions and formalized inquiry.
5. The Project Director and the faculty will record "significant events" in program planning, development, implementation and evaluation in the Project Log Book. A final Program Documentation Report will be produced following year three. The Project Documentation Report will be posted each year and at the end of year three as a project dissemination function.
1. Widener University Center for Education has traditionally educated undergraduate and graduate students seeking a degree/ teaching certification in early childhood, elementary education and special education. This partnership would open additional avenues in educating future pediatricians in current issues and services in early childhood education.
2. This partnership would serve as an outreach program and support for the Chester Community (Children and Families).
3. This "Community-Integrated model" would strengthen our positive relationship with community services.
4. Our faculty would have the opportunity to be actively involved in the research component of this project.
5. Our faculty would be seen as experts in specific areas of early childhood and current issues in the field.
6. Participation in this project would lead to research, publications, presentations to the medical community, etc.
7. Faculty would receive overloads and or release time to participate in this partnership.
8. This relationship with Crozer-Chester could enhance future partnerships/avenues of educating the community, families, organizations in the field of human growth and development, early childhood, special education, elementary school issues, etc.
9. The residents would participate at the Child Development Center as a field placement setting. The Child Development Center staff members, parents and children and university students, would receive support from the residents in the area of health and safety issues through workshops/ presentations.
10. The residents field placement at the Widener University Child Development Center would give them an opportunity to participate in a high quality child care facility. The Child Development Center is a NAEYC Accredited program.
11. The faculty will have the opportunity to collaborate with community sites in development of the curriculum and implementation of the program.
12. Participating faculty members will provide a one-hour lecture at noon conference attended by all of the residents to review their organization role and how they service the families of our community. The faculty will serve as a contact person for the residents.
1. The program is completely funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. The program will be funded for three years from July, 2000 to June 30, 2003.
2. The total cost $600,000 (3 year period).
3. Crozer-Chester has committed to financially continue this program once the grant commitment has been completed. 4. Indirect Cost to the University - Release time from Widener University for faculty to participate in the partnership. Faculty will present from noon until one o'clock, which should not interfere with their teaching schedule at the University.
Widener University partnership with Crozer-Chester would open additional avenues of training adults in early childhood and current issues in the field. Widener University participation in the PEDCIC Program would serve as an outreach and support to the Chester Community (residents, children, families and community). The communityintegrated model would strengthen our relationship with community services. The faculty would be seen as experts in the field of early childhood. Our faculty would have the opportunity to be activity involved in the research, publications and presentations to the medical community. Our faculty would receive overloads and/or release time to participate in this project.
This relationship with Crozer-Chester could lead to future partnership/avenues of educating the community, families, organizations in the field of human growth and development. The faculty will have the opportunity to collaborate with community programs in the development of the curriculum and implementation of the program. Participating faculty will develop and provide one-hour lectures at the noon conference which will be attended by all of the residents. The faculty will serve as a contact person for the residents. The Child Development Center will serve as a field placement opportunity for the residents in which they will have the opportunity to participate in a high quality child care program. The Child Development Center family will have the opportunity for the residents to share their expertise in the area of health and safety issues through workshops/presentations. The project is being completely funded by the Department of Health and Human Services for three years.
Lurie N. Acad Med 1996. Oct; 71 (10):1044-1049.
Perrin J., Guyer B., Lawrence J., The Future of Children 1992 Winter 2 (2):58-77.


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import React from 'react'
import { shallow } from 'enzyme'
import Diory from './Diory'

describe('<Diory />', () => {
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  })

  it('sets diory style from props', () => {
    const dioryStyle = {some: 'style'}
    diory.style = dioryStyle
    expect(getComponent().props().style).toMatchObject(dioryStyle)
  })

  it('renders children', () => {
    const component = shallow(
      <Diory style={{diory: {some: 'style'}}}>
        <div className="some-children"/>
      </Diory>,
    )
    expect(component.find('.some-children').exists()).toEqual(true)
  })

  describe('given an image, a <Image /> within', () => {
    beforeEach(() => {
      diory.image = 'some-image'
      getComponent = () => shallow(<Diory {...diory} />).find('Image')
    })

    it('sets image from diory', () => {
      expect(getComponent().prop('image')).toEqual(diory.image)
    })

    it('sets image style from diory', () => {
      diory.style = {image: {some: 'image-style'}}
      expect(getComponent().prop('style')).toEqual(diory.style.image)
    })
  })

  describe('given a text, a <Text /> within', () => {
    beforeEach(() => {
      diory.text = 'some-text'
      getComponent = () => shallow(<Diory {...diory} />).find('Text')
    })

    it('sets text from diory', () => {
      expect(getComponent().prop('text')).toEqual(diory.text)
    })

    it('sets text style from diory', () => {
      diory.style = {text: {some: 'text-style'}}
      expect(getComponent().prop('style')).toEqual(diory.style.text)
    })
  })

  describe('given a link, a <Link /> within', () => {
    beforeEach(() => {
      diory.link = 'some-link'
      getComponent = () => shallow(<Diory {...diory} />).find('Link')
    })

    it('sets link from diory', () => {
      expect(getComponent().props().link).toEqual('some-link')
    })

    it('sets link style from diory', () => {
      diory.style = {link: {some: 'link-style'}}
      expect(getComponent().props().style).toEqual({some: 'link-style'})
    })
  })

  describe('given contains onClick callback', () => {
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    beforeEach(() => {
      onClickMock = jest.fn()
      diory.onClick = onClickMock
    })

    describe('when not clicked', () => {
      it('does not call onClick', () => {
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        expect(onClickMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
      })
    })

    describe('when clicked', () => {
      it('calls onClick', () => {
        diory.some = 'diory'
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        component = getComponent()
        component.simulate('click', 'some-event')
        expect(onClickMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith({diory: {some: 'diory'}, event: 'some-event'})
      })
    })
  })
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The Victim Services Advocacy Program in the City of Wichita Prosecutor's Office provides victims of all types of crimes with support and information regarding the legal process. Two victim advocates assist victims of domestic violence, theft, financial crimes, battery, and DUI cases through the municipal court process, as well as on appeal of these type of cases. These advocates are COURT ADVOCATES, not community advocates. For a list of community advocates, please visit the crime page below that pertains to you.
Our number one goal is to provide quality assistance to victims of municipal court crimes so that they are included in the court process and their voice is heard in court, and they are connected with any community resource if needed. We do this by:
Providing immediate and sustained contact with victims to assist them with their participation in court proceedings,
Providing a network of advocacy services, including referrals to financial, legal, housing, and counseling resources,
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Improving community awareness of the legal process and the role of the Victim Services Advocates within the City Attorney's Office.
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Victims should be treated with courtesy, compassion and respect for their dignity and privacy and should supper the minimum necessary inconvenience from their involvement with the criminal justic system.
Victims should receive, through formal and informal procedures, prompt and fair redress for the harm which they suffered.
Information regarding the availability of criminal restitution, recovery of damages in a civil cause of action, the crime victims compensation fund and other remedies and the mechanisms to obtain such remedies should be made available to victims.
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The views and concerns of victims should be ascertained and the appropriate assistance provided through the criminal process.
When the personal interests of victims are affected, the views or concerns of the victim should, when appropriate and consistent with criminal law and procedure be brought to the attention of the court.
Measures may be taken whenever necessary to provide for the safety of victims and their families and to protect them from intimidation and retaliation.
Enhanced training should be made available to sensitize criminal justice personnel to the needs and concerns of victims and guidelines should be developed for this purpose.
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The sonic architecture and thinking within teeth of light, tongue of waves grew out of the discovery of paleoceanography, which is the study of the history of oceans in the geologic past. For centuries, the ocean has evoked a sense of wonderment and fear as a vast unknown space loaded with notions of the sublime and the exotic. However, in more recent times, global technological and economic shifts have caused new concerns and understandings of the ocean. Today's oceans reveal more about the consequences of human actions than ever before.
These texts become woven sonic objects, evoking a hybrid form of nature being brought into being, the ancient and the modern forming a mouth with which to speak of the ocean, after nature has been banished from it.
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The Tiniest Tiger Paperback
Children and adults will revel in this charming and brilliantly told tale of a forlorn and scruffy little kitten with a black stained nose and a striped tail that tries to find a home among the "big" cats that reside at the local zoo. Young readers will especially delight in this truly literary and fully illustrated lesson that advocates the protection of endangered species. When a stray kitten loses her way and is displaced from the only alley she has ever known, she squeezes her tiny body under the fence at the zoo and begins a long and tireless hunt for a home. Her search leads her to a tiger and into a lion's den by way of a cheetah, clouded leopard, puma, jaguar, bobcat, and an ocelot. She learns a lot about what she isn't, but gets no closer to finding a home until she is spotted by the zookeeper's daughter and learns that there is truly a special spot for every cat—even the tiniest tiger—under the sun.Book Reviews
A small business founder and owner since she reluctantly left college, Joanne was fortunate to sell off a specialty frozen line she developed to a private equity group.
During nights of insomnia while worrying about the woes of business ownership she wrote The Tiniest Tiger an educational fiction story that compares and contrasts the similarities and differences of big cats. Key facts are added to the illustrations to pique curiosity in the reader to learn about the conservation status of each cat.
The Tiniest Tiger was selected as part of the Kuder Galaxy, an e-learning curriculum in 10,000 schools reaching approximately 3,000,000 students.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of The Tiniest Tiger are being donated to conservation projects for endangered wild cats.
Joanne is currently working on the next book in The Tiniest Tiger series.


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The Future of Commerce: Customer Experience
Katrina Gosek
Sr. Director of Digital Customer Strategy
Scott Silverman
Scott Silverman Associates
Michael Krigsman
CXOTalk
Thank you to Oracle for underwriting CXOTALK.
What is the future of commerce and the customer experience? Katrina Gosek, senior director of digital customer strategy at Oracle, and Scott Silverman, principal at Scott Silverman Associates, tell CXOTalk about the importance of frictionless, fast service.
"I think consumers own the brand," Gosek says. "They have the ability to change how others perceive you as well. They hold a lot of power because they can jump from your site to another website very easily and very quickly. There are a lot of choices, so the key is to keep their attention."
"[In a store], you want to have the information you want on your mobile phone," Silverman adds. "You want to know quickly, is that item in the back room or not? If I don't see it on the shelf, don't take two or three minutes to go back and look. Tell me immediately or I'm going to lose my patience and go elsewhere. I'm going to walk out or I'm going to go find somewhere else to shop."
Gosek leads the Product & Market Strategy team within the Oracle Customer Experience (CX) Cloud Product development group. Over the past decade, she has focused on partnering with B2C and B2B online businesses of all sizes, industries, and geographies – from Top 500 companies to boutique vendors - navigating some of the most significant industry shakeups digital professionals have faced in recent memory.
Silverman has been active in the online and multichannel retailing industry since 1999, including 10 years as Executive Director of Shop.org and co-inventing "Cyber Monday" in 2005. He is a consultant that works with emerging technology companies where he helps them with marketing, positioning and building relationships with online and digital retailers. Additionally, Silverman is the co-founder of two digital retail conferences, CommerceNext and the Global E-Commerce Leaders Forum.
This video was recorded live at the Oracle Modern CX 2018 conference held in Las Vegas.
Michael Krigsman: Welcome to CxOTalk, coming to you from the Oracle Modern CX Conference. We're here in front of a live audience, and I'm speaking with Scott Silverman and Katrina Gosek, two top-tier experts. We're excited to talk with them about customer experience and the future of commerce.
I think, if we are talking about commerce and the future of commerce, we should start with a discussion about customers. The question that we have to begin with is, what's going on with customers today? How are customers changing and their expectations changing?
Scott Silverman: To me, the one word that stands out is "impatient." I feel that myself all the time, especially around fulfillment and delivery. If I see that it's going to take two days to leave the warehouse and another four or five days to get to my house, I'm outraged. Products available on Amazon, for example, that are now available in same day delivery or one-day delivery, it's really unbelievable, and it's fueling, I think, a lot of impatience.
Katrina Gosek: I would agree with that. I think there is definitely a sense that everything has to be right now all the time. I would just add to that that I think the other expectation on top of that is that everything needs to be frictionless. Payments need to be easy. Shipping needs to be easy. I need to find the information easy. I need to get what I need quickly. Yeah, I would say immediacy and frictionless is definitely at the core of consumer relationships these days.
Michael Krigsman: Customers are impatient, they're not willing to wait, and they simply want things to be as easy as possible. If they're not easy, they're going to click from your site to your competitor's site.
Katrina Gosek: I think customers own the brand for that reason. They have the ability to change how others perceive you as well. They hold a lot of power because they can jump from your site to another website very easily and very quickly. There are a lot of choices, so the key is to keep their attention.
Michael Krigsman: Scott, Katrina said something quite interesting. She said consumers own the brand. What does that mean, "Consumers own the brand"?
Scott Silverman: The days of the brand, from on high, managing, being the tastemaker, dictating how the customer is going to interact with them, that's so far long gone.
Katrina Gosek: If you look at all the different interactions you have with a company, I think the company's job is to own as many of those moments as possible. Whether you're interacting with a sales associate in a store or whether you're on a website or using your mobile phone to get information or searching on Google for the product, I think it's really the brand's job to own those moments because, if you don't, then somebody else is going to.
Michael Krigsman: Are we talking here about availability of information and about touchpoints? Are these the two key issues that you're both getting at?
Scott Silverman: You want to have the information you want on your mobile phone, like Katrina was saying, from the store associate. You want that store associate to be smart. You want them to recognize who you are if you have a past history there. It can be really frustrating if that's not recognized.
You want to know quickly, is that item in the back room or not? If I don't see it on the shelf, don't take two or three minutes to go back and look. Tell me immediately or I'm going to lose my patience and go elsewhere. I'm going to walk out or I'm going to go find somewhere else to shop.
Michael Krigsman: It's not just availability of information, but there's also a major technology component that feeds into this as well, like you just mentioned two things. You mentioned performance, performance needs to be there, and you mentioned mobile.
Katrina Gosek: I think the key is to really understand your customer and then use technology to unlock the relationship with them, the way I see technology playing a role in this interaction with consumers.
Michael Krigsman: All of these are, can we say, different facets of creating that and keeping that customer relationship going.
Scott Silverman: It's about selling solutions, not selling products. For the retailer, it's about using and building solutions and experiences, not like, "Oh, I just checked off the box. I'm now using this kind of product, and I've enabled that or implemented it in some way." That's, I think, a really backward way of looking at it.
Michael Krigsman: When you talk about building solutions, not products, or from the retail point of view, creating broader end-to-end experiences, why is this so hard?
Katrina Gosek: If you don't know your consumer, your customer, how could you possibly know what technology to implement to build a relationship with them?
Scott Silverman: I think what's often missing in the e-commerce shopping experience is not understanding the context of which the person is shopping or their particular intent. I'll give kind of a morbid example. Someone might be going to a department store and they want to buy a black dress. Well, they could be buying that to go to a cocktail party or they could be buying it for a funeral. Those are a completely different set of circumstances. I think, if you're face-to-face with someone in a store, you can size up what's going on.
When they're interacting with you with a digital interface, it's really hard. But, I think the technology is getting there. There are ways to get some little clues along the way so that you have a better understanding of that context and the circumstance of that customer when they're shopping with you.
Katrina Gosek: For me, it's more understanding what technologies your customers are using and then implementing an ecosystem that interacts with them. For example, if you know they are an influencer, let's say, track what they're doing on social media. Try to find a way to connect it to the store. Try to find a way to get them to write reviews to bolster the brand. Data influences some of it, but I think it also has to do with understanding the context and where your customers are interacting with you.
Michael Krigsman: Scott, you brought up that term "context." Katrina is describing a more holistic view of the customer. Does that cover what you meant by that context?
Scott Silverman: Context would be the example. If someone is shopping with you, are they in a hurry or are they browsing? How do you know when that interaction is happening? I think, the holistic view, you've got to take into consideration what they may have looked at, where they looked at it, what's their relationship with that particular retailer, to be able to have the right kind of interaction with that customer.
Michael Krigsman: How can a retailer maintain its brand through all of these very fractured set of interactions that customers have with them?
Katrina Gosek: If customers are trying to find you online, content is going to drive eyeballs to the site. So, make sure you're showing up in Google searches. But, more importantly, when the customer gets to the site, make sure you've got a rich--the term now that's being used is--lifestyle site: videos, reviews, information about the products, and different ways of representing the physicality of a product online. We're seeing AR and VR becoming more and more important.
For me, staying present in the digital landscape has a lot to do with the amount of content you're creating around your products and making sure it's consistent.
Michael Krigsman: What advice do you both have for organizations who are looking at this saying, "Yes, we need to do this! But, somehow it's not happening"?
Scott Silverman: Innovation has to be across the entire — it has to be in the DNA. It has to be the air that you breathe. It's culture. It's having leadership that wants to enable that and empowers people to bring up ideas. That, to me, is where innovation is really going to happen.
Michael Krigsman: What is your summed up, distilled advice that you would offer almost in a tweet?
Katrina Gosek: If I were to sum it up, I would say commerce isn't just commerce. It's an entire ecosystem of interactions, emotions with your customer. It's a lot more than just a shopping cart.
Michael Krigsman: Scott, it looks like you're going to get the last word.
Scott Silverman: Don't squander your advantages, would be my advice. Lean into them. If you have a passionate community of customers, find a way to feed that passion.
Michael Krigsman: Okay. Thank you, everybody, for sitting through this wonderful panel with these two excellent guests.
Katrina Gosek: Thank you.
Scott Silverman: Thank you.
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EUROPEAN FOREIGN POLICY SCORECARD 2016
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Scorecard 2015: B+ (15/20)
Despite being distracted by multiple other crises, the EU successfully defended member states that are vulnerable to Russia
Russia's aggression in Ukraine prompted Europe to re-examine its own security arrangements. Mostly this is done in the NATO context – at the Wales Summit of 2014, members decided to significantly boost defence in Eastern Europe; a follow-up is expected from the Warsaw Summit in 2016. Much security assistance to the potentially vulnerable European NATO members – such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland – comes from the US on the basis of bilateral agreements.
The question of how to apply the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act remains a point of disagreement. The act forbids NATO from placing permanent troops on the territories of the new members if security conditions do not significantly alter. Eastern European states claim that the act should be null and void, on the grounds that Russia has violated it and altered the security situation, but some Western members, especially Germany, still want to uphold the letter of the act. The solution that has been found – to rotate the troops constantly and pre-position equipment – is by and large satisfactory, although the border states would still prefer permanent positioning. Several European countries – Germany and the UK deserve to be mentioned – have promised to send or have sent troops to eastern areas. At the same time, Europe as a whole does not invest enough in defence – and this is a longer-term problem that needs to be dealt with.
The refugee crisis and ISIS-sponsored terrorist attacks in France shifted Europe's focus in 2015, making Syria a priority, and increasing tensions between Western and some Eastern member states over refugee inflows, but so far this has not affected EU determination to deter Russian aggression.
France deserves credit for cancelling the deal to sell two Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.
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It's been a good week since i've last posted here and well I've been busy 🙂 !
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My orignal plan was just to make one and then that lead to another and another and so I have added 18 New items to Minecraft!


Moving jitters are perfectly normal—especially if you're relocating your whole life clear across the country. But we've identified some simple ways to aid in your upcoming move and help you make yourself at home in your new home so you can focus on the exciting journey that awaits you.
Plan ahead. Make a moving checklist before the big day. Figuring out what needs to be done well in advance—and breaking those tasks up into easily manageable steps—can help keep you organized and on track, which, in turn, can keep stress at bay.
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Give yourself time. Don't expect to acclimate to your new home, neighborhood, city and state immediately. But don't worry. Many folks who have been where you are claim that it will happen before you know it!
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Varfinezhad, Ramin, Oskooi, Behrooz. (1398). 2D DC resistivity forward modeling based on the integral equation method and a comparison with the RES2DMOD results. , 45(4), 43-52. doi: 10.22059/jesphys.2019.260824.1007020
Ramin Varfinezhad; Behrooz Oskooi. "2D DC resistivity forward modeling based on the integral equation method and a comparison with the RES2DMOD results". , 45, 4, 1398, 43-52. doi: 10.22059/jesphys.2019.260824.1007020
Varfinezhad, Ramin, Oskooi, Behrooz. (1398). '2D DC resistivity forward modeling based on the integral equation method and a comparison with the RES2DMOD results', , 45(4), pp. 43-52. doi: 10.22059/jesphys.2019.260824.1007020
Varfinezhad, Ramin, Oskooi, Behrooz. 2D DC resistivity forward modeling based on the integral equation method and a comparison with the RES2DMOD results. , 1398; 45(4): 43-52. doi: 10.22059/jesphys.2019.260824.1007020
2D DC resistivity forward modeling based on the integral equation method and a comparison with the RES2DMOD results
فیزیک زمین و فضا
مقاله 4، دوره 45، شماره 4، زمستان 1398، صفحه 43-52	 اصل مقاله (417.87 K)
نوع مقاله: پژوهشی
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22059/jesphys.2019.260824.1007020
Ramin Varfinezhad1؛ Behrooz Oskooi 2
1Ph.D. Student, Department of Earth Physics, Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2Associate Professor, Department of Earth Physics, Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
A 2D forward modeling code for DC resistivity is developed based on the integral equation (IE) method. Here, a linear relation between model parameters and apparent resistivity values is proposed, although the resistivity modeling is generally a nonlinear problem. Two synthetic cases are considered for the numerical calculations and the results derived from IE code are compared with the RES2DMOD that is a standard software for 2D resistivity forward modeling. For the first synthetic case, a model of resistive block surrounded by a homogenous medium is considered in different depths from 0.5 m to 4 m. For the nearest case to the surface, the IE pseudo-section is similar to its counterpart derived by RES2DMOD but its RMS error is a large value of 13.9 %. Increasing the depth of the anomaly results in decreasing of RMS values to 5.4 % for the deepest case and it is in correspondence with diminishing of the nonlinearity effects of electric fields for larger distances from the sources. The second model is composed of four conductive anomalies embedded in different depths. Visual comparison of IE response with software is indicative of high similarity of them, and RMS error for this relatively complex model is 7.5%, which can be an acceptable misfit for a linear forward operation. A very simple inversion algorithm using linear forward operator is applied on a real data set of a landfill survey in Germany collected by Wenner alfa array to demonstrate its productivity for practical applications. Reconstructed model using IE method is comparable with the inverted model derived by RES2DINV software, and it represents a good similarity with the original model.
Forward Modeling؛ Integral Equation؛ Resistivity؛ RES2DMOD
Ramin Varfinezhad1؛ Behrooz Oskooi2
Forward Modeling, Integral Equation, Resistivity, RES2DMOD
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Tokyo - Conditions at Fukushima's Daiichi nuclear facility are deteriorating, with a sudden rise in the contaminated water level in tunnels at No.1 reactor, a halt to the cooling system at No.5 reactor, and fear of radiation spreading by an approaching storm.
Japan's Daiichi nuclear plant near Fukushima is facing yet more misfortune on Monday, with Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) saying a breakdown has occurred at the No.5 reactor at Daiichi.
A system used to cool the No.5 reactor and its fuel pool stopped working late Saturday causing core and fuel pool temperatures to rise. At a Sunday news conference, TEPCO noted the backup water-injection plan is in place, according to the Japan Times. A company official has stated the cooling breakdown would not lead to a rapid rise of temperatures which could endanger the reactor and its spent fuel pool.
TEPCO also said radioactive water levels at the No.1, 2 and 3 reactors' tunnels and basements have increased appreciably over the weekend, believed to have been caused by heavy rainfall.
During the 24-hour period from 7 a.m. on May 28, the basement water level at No.1 rose 1.1 centimeters, but the following 24 hours saw the water level spike 19.8 centimeters. Water at the No.2 reactor's tunnel rose 6.2 centimeters during a 24-hour period over the weekend and the No.3 tunnel rose by 4.4 centimeters during the same period.
Company officials claim there are no immediate fears of marine environment contamination, according to the Mainichi Daily News.
Typhoon Songda has been downgraded to a tropical storm but there are growing fears of radioactive materials spreading further into the air and ocean from torrential rains and strong winds associated with the approaching storm.
ABC News reports TEPCO has apologized for being unprepared for the bad weather. The plant operator has been attempting to pour synthetic resins over the facility to prevent radioactive materials from pouring into the sea, but the project is far from completion.


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ALL WE LIKE SHEEP
by Joe Sobran
Once upon a time, my father bought TIME magazine
every week, as I do now. He paid 20 cents per issue; I'm
paying $3.95. In my teens I bought paperback editions of
Shakespeare's plays for 35 cents each; now they cost
about five bucks.
I'm no economist; these are just some of my rough
indices of how prices have risen in my memory. Things in
general now cost ten to twenty times as much as they used
to. Don't even ask about groceries or cars. If prices
increased 1000 per cent overnight, we'd notice. Spread
over decades, it seems natural. We hardly notice, let
alone suspect mischief.
What's going on? Is America under the sway of an
enormous counterfeiting ring? That's one way to put it.
The funny money operation is formally known as the U.S.
The money supply is now managed by the Federal
Reserve System, which was created in 1913 and was
supposed to protect the dollar from inflation. It
obviously hasn't quite worked out as planned. Or maybe it
has, but the public wasn't let in on the real plan.
Somebody must benefit from the constant sapping of the
dollar, but don't look at me.
Originally the "dollar" was more than a piece of
paper with some president's face on it. It was a fixed
amount of precious metal. When paper money came in, you
could demand, and get, solid gold or silver for it.
Over time, the government took the dollar off the
gold standard, meaning that it was now just a piece of
paper. Most people were a bit foggy about that anyway,
since they were used to paper money and supposed it had
some intrinsic value. In fact, its only value now lay in
its relative scarcity; it was no longer a promise to pay
in precious metals.
All this would have shocked the Framers of the U.S.
Constitution, who authorized Congress to "coin" money,
not private bankers to "print" the stuff. The eventual
decline of the dollar is just what they would have
expected when the Constitution's prescription was
abandoned, which amounts to counterfeiting dollars with
the permission and encouragement of the government
Our forebears would have seen this as a moral issue
-- a government conniving in the defrauding of its own
citizens. But we accept it, take it for granted, don't
get riled up, any more than sheep get indignant about
being sheared.
The chief business of the U.S. Government today is
fleecing us -- through taxes, spending, creating debt,
and ensuring that we're paid in shrinking dollars. It may
look like a conspiracy, but I'm inclined to think it's
just the aggregate result of the doings of men who are at
once powerful and weak, venal and short-sighted, taking
the path of least resistance for men in their position.
And if the public puts up with it, why not? Are your
grandchildren going to be furious at having to pay off
huge debts bequeathed to them? Probably no more furious
than you are about the national debt you've been paying
off all your adult life.
I can't really get angry about it myself, even
though I sense what's happening to us every time I notice
another price increase. I almost admire the people who do
make a fuss about it, but there are so few of them that
they sound crazy, like Ezra Pound ranting about
"international financiers."
No, it's hard to make a melodrama out of a slow
process. The government is less like a bank robber who
storms in with ski mask and pistol than like a timid
little bank clerk who quietly, over the years, embezzles
a large fortune without setting off alarms or getting
caught.
That timid clerk may look like nobody's idea of a
criminal, but he may be an all-the-more-effective enemy
to trusting people just because they'd never suspect him
of breaking the law. Why, they assume he shares their
concern about the general moral deterioration of society!
Crime has no better mask than outward respectability. And
a man who sticks up a bank for $50 is more noticeable
than a man who embezzles a million bucks over many years,
while carefully fixing the books.
So when the government tells us it's protecting us
from the world's most ruthless criminals, we ought to
wonder if perhaps we need to be protected from criminals
a little closer to home. The chances of your being harmed
by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of
your being robbed by your own government? That's easy:
100 per cent.
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Beaumont, May 23. – Three persons were killed and a fourth, the driver of the car in which the others were passengers, was in Liberty county jail tonight charged with driving while intoxicated as a result a result of an accident two miles east of Liberty on the old Spanish trail late today.
The dead were Mrs. Irene KOEN, about 45, and her daughter, Miss Nelle KOEN, 24, both of Port Arthur, and Captain C. BREWTON, also believed to be a resident of Port Arthur and said to be captain of a tugboat, the Linders.
Jesse A. KOEN, about 26, son of Mrs. KOEN and brother of Nellie KOEN was lodged in jail and was reported to be in a dazed condition.