To meet the considerable challenges of a global, 21st Century economy, New York must adopt a strategic, market-driven, and accountable approach to economic development — one that recognizes both the unique resources of each region of the State and the key industries within the regions. To accomplish this, the Assembly proposes NY@Work, an agenda for economic growth that will create tens of thousands of jobs and spur entrepreneurship and business expansion throughout the state.
NY@Work overhauls the State's economic development bureaucracy and enacts major programmatic reforms. It also provides for comprehensive workforce education and training while laying the foundation for economic growth by ensuring that our children receive a quality education that will prepare them for the technology driven jobs of the 21st Century. By making wise investments in strategic industries through the use of existing resources, NY@Work also ensures that the taxpayers will receive the best return on their investment.
The Assembly provides nearly $525 million in State support for NY@Work, including $280 million in new capital investments across the State by reprogramming $250 million included within the Executive's Budget proposal for State Fiscal Year 2004-05 and calling for an additional $30 million to support the inclusion of the Educational Opportunity Centers (EOCs) within the State University of New York (SUNY) five year capital plan. In addition, it provides nearly $23 million in State operational support and redirects over $28 million in federal funds. The proposal also calls for $60 million in tax credits beginning in SFY 2005-06 for the support of new venture capital investment to encourage high tech business formation.
We must develop a strategy for economic growth and establish accountability measures to accurately determine the impact of the State's investments in academic research and development, other high-tech, research-intensive projects, and other business-specific economic development programs. Both the research institutions and the businesses that benefit from the State's investments, as well as the taxpayers who ultimately underwrite these investments, deserve nothing less.
1. Appointments The Governor would appoint six members and the Speaker of the Assembly and Senate Majority Leader would appoint three members to the panel, thus assuring input from different viewpoints and interests across the State.
2.	Professional Background Leaders from different sectors of the economy including manufacturing, high technology industries (such as biotechnology, nanotechnology and other emerging industries), labor, and academia would serve as members of the policy coordination board.
3.	Primary Responsibility The board's primary responsibility will be the development of a strategic plan for economic development based on a realistic assessment of regional economic strengths and weaknesses. This will be accomplished through a public process.
4.	Priorities for Funding The Economic Policy Coordination Board would identify those sectors of the economy with the greatest growth potential and establish priorities for funding, including a preference for small businesses and women- and minority-owned businesses.
5.	Complementary Role The Economic Policy Coordination Board's work will complement that of the Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research's Advisory Board and the new Economic Development Control Board and provide guidance and direction through the development of an overall strategic plan for economic development.
The Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) has not been accountable for its use of State economic development funds. They have not developed a comprehensive strategy that would serve as a blueprint for its economic success and spur job creation. A new model must be designed to move the State forward.
The State, first and foremost, must be responsive to regional economic needs when it determines what economic development projects it will support with limited State resources. Consistent with each region's strategic plan, key industries within the regions must be given priority in funding decisions. Within these key regional industries, small businesses and women- and minority-owned businesses must also be identified and prioritized.
The Assembly's plan would create a new control board to replace ESD's board of directors. This new board would be comprised of one member each appointed by the Governor, Speaker of the Assembly, and the Senate Majority Leader. The control board's decisions would require consensus with a unanimous vote required for action. The new control board, in conjunction with the Economic Policy Coordination Board, will provide the necessary structure for accountability and ensure a strategic focus in our economic development programs.
The Empire Zones Program, an Assembly Majority initiative which transformed the old Economic Development Zones Program, has been cited by both local governments and the business community as the most effective economic development program currently in existence in the State. Unfortunately, the current Administration has mismanaged the program and it has failed to live up to its potential. The Assembly recognizes the importance of this program and proposes sweeping reforms that will ultimately improve performance and accountability. In addition, the Assembly will continue to monitor and make recommendations to improve the performance of the program. The Assembly has called for a series of public hearings across the State on this issue as well as requesting an audit of the program by the Comptroller of the State of New York.
1.	Need-Based Eligibility It makes necessary changes to the eligibility criteria to ensure that only economically distressed communities are considered. It ensures that the communities in most need of the benefits offered by the program are prioritized for designation.
2.	Reconfiguration of Zones It requires zones to be reconfigured into three distinct, contiguous areas, as specified in the original program regulations, so that the economic activity generated will be geographically concentrated, thus helping to ameliorate the poverty and unemployment in the zones. It will also ensure that zone businesses are more accessible to workers who rely on public transportation and other public services.
3.	Accountability It requires ESD to assume greater responsibility for the actions of local zone administrators to ensure overall program accountability. It clarifies ESD's role in verifying the content of each zone's annual report so that the state-wide report accurately reflects the program's accomplishments.
4.	Enhanced Role for the Department of Taxation & Finance It enlists the Department of Taxation & Finance (T & F) in the effort to provide greater oversight and enhanced reporting. It also requires T & F to report on the true costs of the program and to decertify those businesses that simply changed their taxpayer identification numbers, without creating new jobs, in order to receive lucrative tax benefits.
5.	Creation of an Empire Zones Control Board It replaces the existing Empire Zones Designation Board and consists of three members: the Temporary President of the Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly and the Governor. The new Empire Zones Control Board will have the authority to designate or redesignate Empire Zones, approve boundary revisions, assess the annual performance of each zone, approve all rules and regulations governing the program, and terminate the designation of a zone.
1.	Local Accountability It holds local zone administrators to a higher degree of accountability by requiring them to follow-up and track all certified zone businesses on an ongoing basis throughout the life of the program so that information on the status of each zone business is current and accurate. This hands-on approach will also allow the zone administrators to offer timely assistance to those businesses in need.
2.	Enhanced Reporting It requires local zone administrators to report accurately on program performance, particularly on the number of jobs created as a result of businesses' participation in the program. It requires them to verify, through whatever means possible, information reported to them by certified zone businesses.
1.	Career Exploration This activity, which uses resources from the business community, colleges, and universities, is important at all grade levels and should be an integral part of the educational experience.
2.	Orientation and Education New York's higher education institutions play a strong role advancing research and development in technology fields and in bringing the results of that work to the marketplace. As the State invests in projects, our higher education institutions must reach into schools and communities and create new initiatives that begin the process of educating our workforce to meet the technology needs of the future.
3.	Technical Support To help school districts develop structured internship programs that can be credited toward graduation, the State will need to provide technical support.
1.	Vocational Education Resources will be directed to vocational education programs in high schools, as well as BOCES, that emphasize technology education and the integration of new technologies in traditional industries.
2.	Youth Apprenticeship Support for youth apprenticeship programs is an effective way to attract youth to apprenticeable occupations. It will ensure that individuals who want good-paying careers in the trades and other occupations accessed through apprenticeships are aware of those opportunities.
SUNY and CUNY community colleges are critical to the effort to prepare a technologically skilled workforce. Community colleges offer innovative two-year degree programs that are particularly sensitive to the needs of employers in the region.
A new program, "Experience and a Degree," will promote the use of internships and practicums as important ways to bridge from the classroom to the workplace by offering students the opportunity to get some experience, and employers the opportunity to get a job candidate with experience and a degree.
2.	Industry Alignment The campuses will be aligned with industry clusters to create specialized centers of excellence within the community college system focusing particularly on the needs of employers for technicians and skilled workers.
3.	Contract Courses This is a proven program that effectively uses matching funds from business and industry to create customized course offerings on campuses.
4.	"Experience and a Degree" Campuses will receive funding to create new programs that develop degree tracks integrating internships and work-study with other course work.
5.	Installment Payments The State will create a program that offers a payment option for low and low-to-moderate income wage earners who can gain job skill by taking career-related courses. The option would enable individuals to access classes on a "space available" basis and spread the cost of the courses over time through monthly installment payments.
1.	Internships and Work Study Funding initiatives that support the use of internships and work study programs at the post-graduate level will enable students to leave with a degree and some "hands-on" experience that gives them an advantage entering the workplace and gives employers a more productive entry-level employee.
2.	Installment Payments A payment option for low and low-to-moderate income wage earners who can gain job skills by taking career-related courses. Identical to the payment option proposed for community college students, this would enable individuals to access classes on a "space available" basis and spread the cost of the courses over time through monthly installment payments.
1.	Capital Funding Including EOCs in the SUNY capital program to provide for needed renovation and construction of new facilities will enable facilities to support technology instruction programs and continue to build their presence in community settings.
2.	Federal Support It is also important to secure federal funding through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program to support continuation and expansion of technology training programs at facilities and in the community.
3.	Basic English Instruction New York's immigrant population, which has been so much a part of the State's history, is an integral part of our current workforce. Many new entrants into the job market are workers for whom English is not their primary language. The EOCs and continuing education programs run through local school districts will provide literacy programs that contextualize instruction to the worksite, targeting the adult, working population in need of Basic English instruction.
1.	Ancillary Related and Supplemental Instruction Program (ARSIP) This program supports the classroom components of traditional apprenticeship programs. Its funding must be increased to meet the costs and additional demand for training in apprenticeships.
2.	Youth Orientation This initiative links schools and apprenticeships so that young people are oriented to opportunities in apprenticeable occupations. It is a simple but effective way to increase the number of individuals who look for careers in the trades and other occupations. Funding will raise the awareness of students about these opportunities and provide basic guidance material.
The Assembly's plan provides support to address the many capital needs confronting our emerging high-tech industries and our established, mature industries. It invests in high technology and biotechnology/biomedical research and commercialization projects and ensures the accountability of these investments. It also provides the necessary financial help to turn scientific innovations into commercial opportunities.
1.	Capital Support It provides support for projects at academic and other scientific research institutions engaged in cutting-edge research in the fields of biotechnology, nanotechnology and other advanced technologies. This support will leverage additional federal and private investment.
2.	Priorities for Funding It targets funding for those institutions conducting research with the greatest commercial potential and which make commitments to license discoveries to New York firms or promote the creation of new businesses which bring technologies from the lab to the marketplace.
3.	"Metropolitan Medical Matrix" Program (M3) The Assembly plan creates a new capital fund in the New York City region to provide support to develop and commercialize technologies emanating from the region's preeminent academic biomedical research institutions.
The Assembly recognizes that our investment in university-based research should be viewed as a complement to our investments in education, higher education and workforce training. Taken as a whole, these investments represent a comprehensive, unified approach to high-tech economic development in which the State's highly-skilled, educated and diverse workers share the economic rewards along with our high-tech entrepreneurs. The Assembly's plan also recognizes that those research institutions that are the beneficiaries of the State's investment dollars bear a justifiable and reasonable responsibility to ensure that the intellectual property created in their labs are patented and licensed to New York firms who hire New York workers.
1.	Strategic Partnerships It requires that the educational, scientific, and business communities enter into partnerships so that, in return for the State's significant investments in academic research and development, they are better able to devise strategies to ensure that each region is prepared for high-tech growth.
2.	Technology Transfer The Assembly's plan requires academic research institutions to have highly visible and active technology transfer offices, working extensively with the local, regional and Statewide business communities, located in close proximity to laboratory and research space.
3.	Educational Foundation It ensures that elementary, secondary and post-secondary students have opportunities to excel in mathematics and the applied sciences so that they can compete for the next generation of high-tech jobs in the State.
4.	Minority and Women Recruitment The Assembly's plan ensures that minorities and women are recruited through comprehensive outreach efforts and trained for a wide variety of jobs in the newly emerging high-tech industries.
5.	School-to-Work It ensures that the businesses created as a result of the State's investment in academic research and development have an opportunity to participate in school-to-work activities that provide important career exploration opportunities for secondary school students.
6.	An Independent Board It creates the Innovation and Accountability Board to assess the value of the State's capital investment in academic research and development. The board would also review all State supported high-tech programs and provide recommendations concerning the relative success of each program.
New York must take the next step and formulate a commercialization policy that commits academic research institutions to translating their innovations into jobs for New Yorkers. A critical element of a successful commercialization policy is establishing linkages between private sector investment capital and the innovations discovered in the labs of New York's research institutions or by individual companies.
1.	Technology Commercialization Capital Fund This fund will provide capital support for facilities that would be equipped with high-tech resources appropriate to different technology sectors, including advanced telecommunications, wet labs, and clean rooms. The State will promote networking among incubator/research park facilities and provide technical assistance in planning, financing and resource sharing.
2.	CAPCO This program provides tax incentives to institutional investors to capitalize privately-managed venture funds which, in turn, finance the creation/expansion of high-tech companies.
3.	New York Seed Capital Program (NYSEED) This initiative will spur individual/institutional investment in a fund which provides essential capital at the earliest and most critical stages of business formation.
4.	Capital Access Program This important small business program provides a loan loss reserve fund to help businesses expand, upgrade their technologies or meet other start-up or working capital needs through traditional debt financing.
5.	New York State Venture Capital Fund This valuable fund, which is administered by the State Comptroller, authorizes equity investments in independently owned small businesses engaged in high-tech development or manufacturing. The State will coordinate this program with the Office of the State Comptroller to ensure that qualified businesses seeking equity investors are able to find them, thus minimizing the possibility that these businesses will be forced to relocate to satisfy out-of-state investors.
Technology will continue to impact the workplace of the 21st Century. It will continue to drive our economy as each sector comes to rely more and more on technological innovations to remain competitive and efficient. As the competition for jobs intensifies with other states and other countries, it is clear that New York must invest in its aging workforce development, manufacturing and tourism destination facilities, as well as in our aging transportation network and former military installations.
Manufacturing is a vital component of the national and State economy. It greatly influences trade and prosperity despite the increasing emphasis placed on the knowledge-based and service sectors of the economy. However, manufacturing employment is on the decline. In New York, between 1981 and 2001, manufacturing employment as a percentage of total employment has dropped from roughly 17 percent to under 8 percent, a loss of over 600,000 jobs.
Recent studies and analyses have identified areas where manufacturing in the U.S. can continue to survive, and even thrive. While acknowledging that labor-intensive industries will continue to move to low-cost labor markets, success in manufacturing often results from innovation, investment in new products, new designs, new materials, and new production technologies. In the 21st Century environment for manufacturing, those industries that apply new technologies, generate new products, stabilize fixed costs such as energy, and have access to the educated, skilled and technologically sophisticated managers and workers will succeed.
New York State is particularly well suited to capitalize on these keys to growth, possessing a skilled and educated workforce, strong educational institutions, and an exceptionally powerful research and development capacity. Small, high-technology firms, especially, provide positive opportunities for renewed growth. Moreover, among older, more traditional firms, increased productivity, the application of new technologies, and creative partnerships among firms can also create synergies leading to renewed vitality. Finally, existing clusters of viable manufacturing industries continue to operate in the State and must be identified and encouraged.
The importance of the small manufacturer and niche markets needs to receive greater emphasis in manufacturing assistance programs. Outreach to the small business sector, building upon such successful programs as those run by the New York Industrial Retention Network, should be expanded.
Flexible manufacturing and small business networking should receive greater attention and encouragement. As a way of maximizing the impact of State support, economic development programs should focus on strategic industry clusters, rather than individual firms. Further, the State should assist in the creation of industry associations within these clusters to facilitate cooperation and shared problem solving.
Research and development activities directed toward manufacturing firms can help keep such firms competitive through the introduction of new products and manufacturing processes. New York should build upon existing State university-industry research alliances and initiate R&D programs that enable small firms, lacking an extensive R&D capability, to become partners of universities in the existing, large, State-sponsored applied R&D programs.
The ability of small manufacturing firms to enter the export market often makes the difference in the survival of such firms over the long term. The State should provide assistance directed toward stimulating small firms to take advantage of the export market, distinguishing between export promotion and the direct export assistance small firms may need.
Lowering the cost of energy is a major component in the strategy to maintain a viable manufacturing industry in the State. The Power for Jobs Program, first proposed in legislation by the Assembly, was created in 1997 as a temporary program to provide low-cost power comparable to what manufacturers would pay in other states. The Assembly's plan extends the program for three years while making some key changes. For example, the New York Power Authority will act as a purchasing agent for all participants both as a way to support the faltering electricity markets in the State and to secure the lowest possible prices for manufacturers.
A skilled and educated workforce forms the foundation on which a manufacturing economy is built. The Assembly proposal creates ManuTech 2004, a new program that focuses on employers adopting new technologies to retool existing facilities to upgrade their production processes. It will retain skilled workers in their current occupations, increase productivity, and maintain employment in industries and geographic regions where jobs are now located. The program will be administered through a partnership of labor, community colleges, and employers and will meet the demand for training at the workplace for employers adjusting to the requirements of new technologies. Traditional manufacturing, such as the automotive industry, as well as new and emerging industries, such as the semiconductor industry, will benefit from the program.
This Assembly initiated program provides vital financial and technical assistance to minority- and women-owned business entrepreneurs. It involves the participation of traditional and community-based lending institutions such as Community Development Financial Institutions and State and federally chartered credit unions and provides an entry point for participation in the Excelsior Linked Deposit Program. This program also supports a network of 22 Entrepreneurial Assistance Program (EAP) centers across the State.
This Assembly initiated program offers valuable technical and financial assistance to local economic development entities such as business improvement districts and local development corporations to design and develop commercial strips and downtown areas in economically distressed communities.
Small businesses account for eight out of every ten new jobs in New York State. While jobs have declined in the State over the last several years, the number of small business start-ups has increased.
The Assembly created this program in recognition of New York's rural communities' need for immediate help in developing the capacity to plan and organize economic development strategies that fully utilize their indigenous resources to provide rural residents with economic opportunities. The Rural Revitalization Program is designed to catalyze rural economic development initiatives by providing financial and technical assistance for growth of agribusinesses, expansion of farmers' markets, establishment of business incubators, and support of agricultural industry job training programs.
1.	Entrepreneurial Assistance Program (EAP) Centers These centers provide vital assistance to minorities, women, displaced workers, and persons with disabilities in starting or growing their small business ventures. While there are other programs that focus on small business development, EAP centers provide critical assistance to underserved populations and underserved geographic regions of the State.
2.	Credit Union Participation in Linked Deposit Program The Excelsior Linked Deposit Program (LDP) provides small businesses with access to capital through "linked loans." With the inclusion of credit unions in the LDP the State could assist more small businesses who have been turned down by traditional lending institutions.
3.	Incubator Assistance Incubators nurture young firms, helping them survive and grow during the start-up period when they are most vulnerable. Incubators provide hands-on management assistance, access to financing and orchestrated exposure to critical business or technical support services. They also offer entrepreneurial firms shared office services, access to equipment, flexible leases and expandable space — all under one roof.
4.	Loans to Micro-Enterprises through Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) CDFIs are private sector financial institutions that make loans and investments in areas underserved by banks — usually urban and rural communities. They include community investment banks, credit unions, loan funds, microenterprise funds and venture capital funds.
1.	University Based Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management Partnerships This initiative will serve to create a comprehensive, statewide tourism jobs development program. It includes an on-line education program that would be available at low-cost, and for which a certificate would be available. The universities would also provide research and technical assistance to the statewide network of Tourism Promotion Agencies.
2.	Tourism Matching Funds Program This collaborative effort between the State and local Tourism Promotion Agencies (TPAs) provides critical support for the marketing of out-of-the-way tourism destinations in remote locations, as well as support for the promotion of the State's most highly visible attractions.
3.	Motion Picture Investment Program Growing competition from other states and countries, particularly Canada, has led to the decline of the State's feature film and television production industry. The Assembly's plan proposes a fund to help finance independent films, increase marketing strategies, and provide enhanced film education.
4.	Cultural Marketing Collaboratives This initiative will encourage non-profit cultural organizations within geographic regions to pool their marketing budgets. A State match of up to 100 percent of the amount pooled for marketing will encourage groups to advertise and promote themselves collectively as a destination. By both pooling their resources and leveraging the State match, these institutions will be able to produce itinerary-based marketing materials to attract greater numbers of visitors to multiple destinations.
5.	Historical and Cultural Marketing Initiative This program targets out-of-State tourists through a marketing effort of institutions of historical and cultural significance. It would focus on marketing as tourist attractions those institutions linked by historical events that can operate synergistically, and promote themselves collectively, as thematic destinations for special interest out-of-State travelers. This program would be operated by a singular entity whose experience would enable it to promote the institutions as part of an overall historical story.
1.	The "Locally Grown, Locally Known" Program This program promotes and markets the State's bounty of "locally grown, locally known" agriculture products and assists in the development of new markets domestically and internationally.
2.	Agri-Development Program This program authorizes the New York State Venture Capital Program to invest in food processing companies, vineyards and other agribusinesses. It also provides funding for the construction and reconstruction of agricultural facilities and the purchase of farm equipment.
3.	Diversity in Agriculture Program This program authorizes the establishment of a micro-winery license at the State Liquor Authority to help small fruit growers expand their operations. It also allows New York State wines to be sold by the bottle at on-premises locations during official wine tasting.
4.	Getting to Market Program This program establishes a kitchen incubator/shared-use facility program to develop or expand food production. It also authorizes grants to local development corporations, municipalities, educational facilities, and not-for-profit organizations for technical assistance, business management and marketing, distribution and storage and retailing assistance.


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Finding Hope in the Face-to-Face
Jennifer Y. C. Edgoose and Julian M. Edgoose
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2017, 15 (3) 272-274; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2076
Jennifer Y. C. Edgoose
1Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
For correspondence: Jennifer.edgoose@fammed.wisc.edu
Julian M. Edgoose
2School of Education, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
What does it mean to look into the face of a patient who looks back? Face-to-face encounters are at the heart of the patient-clinician relationship but their singular significance is often lost amid the demands of today's high-tech, metric-driven health care systems. Using the framework provided by the philosopher and Holocaust survivor Emmanuel Levinas, the authors explore the unique responsibility and potential for hope found only in face-to-face encounters. Revisiting this most fundamental attribute of medicine is likely our greatest chance to reclaim who we are as clinicians and why we do what we do.
psychosocial issues in health care
We had nothing in common. She was from a small indigenous tribe in Mexico called the Triqui. We couldn't find a Triqui interpreter and my poor Spanish was no better than hers. Her face belied her age of only 17, due to years of work in the fields and suffering at the hands of an older man. She made the arduous journey north, arriving pregnant and undocumented, and now I was to be her doctor. Our worldviews were so different that even her way of expressing pain confounded me. I reverted to closed-ended questions about where, when, how, and why, but still felt lost gathering only incoherent answers and gestures. We struggled together during her gestation period and, despite being an experienced physician who can usually connect with challenging patients, I came to feel my heart sink every time I saw her name on my schedule. Toward the end of her pregnancy, tired of our inadequate words, I looked into her eyes and tried to give her hand a reassuring squeeze as we parted. Then, in broken Spanish, she asked me what I thought of the name "Edgoose." I was stunned into silence and eventually mumbled that my unusual last name would really not be appropriate for her expected daughter…
THE FACE-TO-FACE
The daily work of clinicians is conducted in face-to-face encounters, whether in exam rooms, homes, or alongside hospital beds, but little attention has been paid to the responsibilities and ethical implications generated by this dimension of our relational work. The term "face-to-face encounter," indeed, has been co-opted by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to mean little more than a billing requirement for goods and services such as durable medical equipment or home health care. Yet what does it mean to look into the face of a patient who looks back? We believe this simple act causes many of the frustrations of current clinical practice, but also many of its most precious rewards. These rewards must be better understood and appreciated now, when medical technology and pressures of productivity are diminishing face-to-face encounters.
Lithuanian-born French philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) offers a theoretical framework through which we can examine the essence of the face-to-face patient-doctor relationship. While his writings have been explored in the medical humanities literature,1–6 little has been written for practicing clinicians. Levinas's lens of the face-to-face can help us redefine our responsibility to patients and remind us why we chose this profession.
If we think of face-to-face interactions simply as those where a physician and patient meet in the same room to address health concerns, as if we were watching two people interact on a stage, we miss much about what makes these encounters so remarkable. Rather, to state the obvious, face-to-face encounters start when we look at a person who is looking back at us. We look into his or her eyes, but we do not see them in anything like the way that we see objects, or pictures (as, for example, we often don't notice their color). Once we have caught the patient's eye—perhaps saying hello or shaking hands—Levinas would say that we are now in proximity with them, that our lives are now linked.
The face is ethically compelling, Levinas claims, because within its finite perimeter there are an infinite number of possible responses. For example, a patient can respond to us with joy, fury, frustration, indifference, laughter…even love or loathing; or with a comment or insight that we could never have predicted. In this way, the patient is "Other" because he or she always resists our complete understanding: we can never quite know his or her thoughts, experiences, or what will be said next. As Charles Dickens wrote in A Tale of Two Cities, "every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." Thus, when we are in proximity with a patient, his or her face engages us, not metaphorically, but uniquely. It opens us to the Other and, as we'll explore next, serves as the fulcrum for responsibility.
This sense of otherness is not confined to first encounters. Those we have known for our entire lives can still surprise us. Thus we must be ready and able to respond to our ever-evolving sense of what the Other means. This ongoing and necessary readiness and ability to respond is, Levinas claims, a response-ability, the origin of our feelings of responsibility. We do not leave an interaction with someone with the sense that everything is wrapped up and finished; our doubts and uncertainties continue to bind us in this ongoing partnership. This is a foundational aspect of primary care's valuing of continuous, sustained relationships.
Although our codes of professional ethics suggest that there are rational rules to explain the extent of our responsibility to patients and protect us from personal liability, Levinas is saying something far more complex. He claims that we feel responsibility even from the smallest face-to-face interactions. Seen from this vantage, professional ethics seems more concerned with allowing us to ignore the more primal webs of responsibility that we feel.
This echoes Levinas's understanding of the Holocaust, in which he lost many family members. How could Germany, a highly advanced nation, commit such acts? He claims that Western ethics misunderstands the origins of responsibility. Since the Enlightenment, natural and social sciences have sought to catalog the world as knowledge and thus eliminate its Otherness. In the most extreme example, Nazis objectified Jews and other minorities to such an extent they were considered non-human, enabling genocide. To Levinas, in contrast, ethics begins when knowledge fails us. Indeed, history tells of many cases in which strangers (sometimes card-carrying Nazis) acted to protect people in face-to-face interactions. It could be argued that they had decided it was their duty to protect the vulnerable, but Levinas argues that the origins of our sense of responsibility are more reflexive and less cognitive. In this way, he reclaims the Judaic understanding that we humans are ethical before we are rational.
The sense of responsibility that Levinas describes is problematic for clinicians who try to maintain control of these relationships and focus merely upon outcomes. Certainly, we are expected to utilize our expert skills and knowledge to achieve well-reasoned diagnoses and provide evidence-informed interventions and rational advice. Yet, ultimately, the outcome cannot be assured, in part, because of the unknowable response of the Other. If we try to battle this, we will lose, as we are battling something inescapable in face-to-face interactions.
While Levinas's view of responsibility might seem exhausting when confronted with someone we think of as challenging, such as my Triqui patient, it also opens us to perhaps the most sustaining aspect of medicine if we affirm this response-ability of our work.
THE SAYING AND THE SAID
We physicians often root our hope in our patients' outcomes, feeling confident when they recover, but thus we leave ourselves open to despair when outcomes are not good. Yet if we take seriously Levinas's assertion that the patient is Other, then we can never know where each face-to-face encounter will take us, or where it will take the patient. In fact, it is the shared journey, the ever-evolving process, which offers both patient and doctor an opportunity to grow, learn, and discover. Therein lies hope for patient and clinician alike. Even in the face of bad news, the persistent Otherness of the patient and the resulting uncertainties that haunt our face-to-face interactions ensure that what will emerge is beyond what either the patient or clinician could have predicted beforehand. We can be surprised at the patient's response and even by our own, as previously unspoken words of regret, anger, forgiveness, or longing emerge in the space between us and shape the understandings of us both.
This becomes particularly clear when we try to help patients confront the huge unknown and unknowable changes of aging, sickness, and death. Levinas writes that, at times like these, the saying—the fact that we are interacting face-to-face—is more important than the said, the words spoken. The Levinas scholar Alphonso Lingis writes about being at someone's deathbed: "you have to be there … what you say, in the end, hardly matters…."8 In fact, silent presence, unobscured by words, may be the most powerful manifestation of the face-to-face.
These experiences only underline the untapped, unscripted potential of such encounters. The patient demands our presence and engagement. We are vulnerable to his or her agenda and to the unknowability of what is to come. The moments the clinician and patient share in the saying can lead to new alliances and understandings that outsiders may find hard to comprehend. In these profound moments, we bear witness to the relationship in an act of fidelity, not to the outcome, but to the Other. Our perspective shifts away from ourselves. It is here in this moment of deep empathic connection that many of us find hope and meaning that remains not only the patient's greatest solace but also the clinician's best remedy to burnout.
A FINE RISK TO BE RUN
While opening ourselves up to vulnerability may feel overwhelming, it is this stance that is essential to a fully embrace the responsibility of face-to-face interactions. Levinas writes, "Communication with the other can be transcendent only as a dangerous life, a fine risk to be run."9 In our willingness to be open to the unexpected, to be surprised, we must relinquish control and give the gift of curiosity, or even suspended disbelief. It is here that we find ourselves doing the unexpected that is beyond rational thought. It is here when I found myself saying goodbye to a dear patient dying of cancer. She weakly hugged me and whispered "I love you, Dr Edgoose," and I kissed her on the cheek and whispered back, "I love you too, Karen."
We physicians are immensely fortunate to be in a profession that is so rooted in face-to-face interactions, and yet much of the discourse in medicine seems to poorly understand this as an important dimension of our work, and of healing. We often lose sight of this perspective in our current world of endless electronic documentation; billing requirements and regulations; productivity-based compensation; and pay-for-performance measures. Even in an optimal telemedicine experience, we are still bereft of a complete relational vantage not fully knowing who else may be in the room and other important environmental circumstances. Without proximity, we lose sight of the ambiguities and uncertainties that are inescapable in the face-to-face, and the humanity and hope inherent in those relationships that can bring both patient and physician to new and unexpected ways of being. Thus, while the feelings of responsibility that emerge in face-to-face interactions can cause many of the frustrations of medicine, the mystery in each face is also a source of openness and possibility that can in itself bring hope to patients and clinicians alike.
…One week after our last visit, my patient delivered a beautiful, healthy girl. She named her Jennifer. I now teach and practice 2,000 miles from the girl who was named after me. She is now be about 10 years old and I hope speaks Triqui and English. Despite a vast divide in language and culture, her mother and I found mutual compassion and hope bound in the face-to-face.
Special thanks to Doctors John Frey, Will Miller, Mindy Smith, and our 3 anonymous reviewers for their editorial support and encouragement.
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Niri Te
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I have a question for you Clarke, how much ACTUAL, NO WAR GAMES, ASYMETRICAL combat time do you have? I have three tours in Vietnam. I have seen first hand what non explosive traps, made out of nothing but jungle can do. This was during a time when we had something nicknamed "Rice Paddy Radar" that was slaved into the 20MM chain guns on the tops of 113's.
As far as advanced imaging equipment, the flux vortex would not allow the weaponry to pick up the arrows in flight, not no, but hell no.
There is still a fair amount of ammo on the base, use your head. The "natives" and the "Rebels" have won a military victory that very close to eclipsing the one at the Little Big Horn, when it comes to the numbers of enemy killed. The RDA was in NO position to take ANY of their weapons, ammo, fuel, medical supplies, or anything else with them.
They can consider themselves VERY lucky that they were not ALL taken out into the woods and shot.
They left behind aircraft, ampsuits, lots of ammunition, the crew served anti aircraft weapons that guarded the base, (possibly PLASMA CANNONS, they HAD the reactors to power them), there was a TON of stuff left behind for the Na'vi to fight with.
When it comes to the Ikrans "Flinging" flex wings into the mountains, they definitely COULD, this is coming coming from a pilot with flight time in five figure numbers.
There is this thing called torque moment, and it would NOT take more than a few hundred pounds of pressure in yaw on the very tail of one of those ships to send it spinning. If they did it close to something made of rock, the aircraft is gone.
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Originally Posted by Niri Te
I have a question for you Clarke, how much ACTUAL, NO WAR GAMES, ASYMETRICAL combat time do you have? I have three tours in Vietnam. I have seen first hand what non explosive traps, made out of nothing but jungle can do
As valuable as that would be in the case of Iraq or another modern war, in the grim darkness of the future, the "game" changes significantly. Obviously you know far more about this than I do, but I was under the impression that the Vietcong did not have ambulatory tanks.
...Because that's what an AMP suit is. It's an ambulatory, nigh-bulletproof mechanized tank. (which happens to have a massive weakness in the form of a weak windshield, but that's probably quite easy to fix.)
More generally, a war comparable to that between the RDA and the Na'vi has never happened in human history, because it's always been squishy humans fighting. Here, it's not: the Na'vi are orders of magnitude squishier than the RDA's AMPs and the like. They will die to weapons that will not scratch AMPs or shuttles, or most any other vehicle the RDA throws into the conflict.
This was during a time when we had something nicknamed "Rice Paddy Radar" that was slaved into the 20MM chain guns on the tops of 113's.
Computing technology has marched on unrecognisably in 35 years. Apart from the fact that radar can't accurately detect man-sized targets, the control system for that device is going to be simplistic enough to run on my phone. A control system for a modern semi-autonomous weapon (e.g. drones) is literally orders of magnitude more intelligent.
So the arrow would not be visible in flight at all? That seems to be what you're suggesting, since a computerized system could take advantage of any sort of "vision" it likes, whether that's conventional radar, visible light, micron-wave radar, or infra-red.
There is still a fair amount of ammo on the base, use your head. The "natives" and the "Rebels" have won a military victory that very close to eclipsing the one at the Little Big Horn, when it comes to the numbers of enemy killed. The RDA was in NO position to take ANY of their weapons, ammo, fuel, medical supplies, or anything else with them. [Snipped a bit] They left behind aircraft, ampsuits, lots of ammunition, the crew served anti aircraft weapons that guarded the base, (possibly PLASMA CANNONS, they HAD the reactors to power them), there was a TON of stuff left behind for the Na'vi to fight with.
The vast majority of it will be completely useless to the Na'vi, and the humans will not know how to use it. (Since the only human who did know got himself permanently turned into a Na'vi) The vehicles, medicine, and smaller weapons cannot be used simply because of the laws of physics and biology. Also as mentioned, practising with it uses it up, which is obviously a really bad idea.
(And plasma cannons are not effective weapons in an atmosphere.)
Putting that few hundred pounds of torque through the Ikran's neck, as Newton requires, is not going to do it any favours.
You know, your ability to selectively misunderstand stuff is amazing. Like the Vietcong, the Na'vi would NOT be in AMPsuits, they WOULD NOT FIT!
To pick something up a small as an arrow in flight with all the magnetic chatter going on, would be VERY tough for the equipment to detect, and almost impossible for a human operator to notice.
Because of the limitations of the starships, there may not be ANY AMPsuits brought to Pandora, and even if there were some, you DON'T use arrows on them, you use the arrows on the soft squishy Marines.
There are others BESIDES Jake that know how that equipment works, if you paid attention at the end of the movie, there are several avatars holding Coax's on the parade of RDA being herded into the shuttle. If Trudy went rogue, it is entirely possible that OTHER pilots did as well, so there could quite possibly be a small cadre of pilots on Pandora as well. there were also non avatar humans with guns guarding the RDA being sent back, these were probably technicians, rogue military, and support personnel that took part in the deleted scene of the attack on the control room.
As for the anti aircraft defenses at Hellsgate, they would be used for incoming aircraft, not ground targets.
In the years that would transpire before another ship from Earth could arrive, Jake, and and the other humans would train the Na'vi in small unit tactics, IED's booby traps, etcetera.
From now on, I will only discuss this with other MILITARY COMBAT VETERANS.
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I don't think you'd need an army there just to defend a new base. Depending on precisely what weapons you have available, you might need as few as 5-10, if you play them strategically. (Whether or not the RDA can play them sanely is an open question. )
1. They can't get it started.
2. They don't have ****ing WMD or whatever you're fantasising about. Go pay 40k or watch Battle Los Angeles or whatever so you can have your "mehrens killing teh aleins for being difrnt" and leave Avatar alone; it's not the genre you want it to be - tough.
Unfortunately, Cameron broke my suspension disbelief fairly severely there. For instance, there is a moment where an ikran pulls a Sampson out of the air and smashes it into something. As good cinema as this is, I can't see any way it could physically work; the ikran should be far too light for it to be able to pull on the Sampson that significantly.
Unfortunately for you, that was toruk, and you fail to understand the physics of exactly how rotors work - if it's lost that vertical control, it can't regain it as easily as you believe.
Set up your base in the middle of an empty plain, and defend it with large-calibre, long-range weaponry. This would be the solution if you were planning a new base, but obviously some compromises must be made if you didn't plan that from the beginning. Although a question in the case of the big machines such as shuttles and buildings is, "Evicted by what?" Eywa does not have a mass driver handy.
Nobody meant physically. As soon as any marine sets foot on Pandora, they are going to be dead, to say nothing of how eminently detectable their arrival would be, and the VERY small cargo available to them. An ISV couldn't even fit a base in it, let alone any marines, weapons or vehicles at the same time.
The economics of mining unobtanium with antimatter-fuelled rockets do not work out sensibly in any model of economics I can think of. If cost is an issue, I can't really see why you would go at all.
We already dealt with that. You're already close to trolling here, so I suggest you leave it alone.
That is a rather interesting catch-22: how much should you practice when ammo is limited?
Did you of all people forget about the stereolithography plant? Or are you just trolling for the sake of it?
That really depends on what technology the enemy can throw at you. A bow and arrow is worse than useless against a tank, for instance. (And if the RDA fixed the glaring design flaws in the AMP's windshield, it would easily qualify as a walking tank.) Not only that, but if your enemy is particularly advanced (possibly more so than the RDA) they can just watch the arrow in flight, and find where it came from that way. In that particular case, the computer is incredibly powerful, and the Na'vi have no response to it.
No, it's not 'worse than useless', you still have options you don't with nothing. Learn basic English.
If they removed the ampsuit's windscreen, it would be unable to see where it's going. That's a big flaw, and one I assume even you would be able to understand why.
This is another thing that depends on precisely what technology the RDA has available. It is impossible to both hide from infra-red cameras, and be able to fire back, for instance.
INFRARED DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. Stop watching bad films. It's great for tracking someone running across an open area at night, but in this situation, everything would disrupt it and you'd get a mostly-homogenous image.
I was not aware you could read my mind.
I can read your posts, which are 100% invasion-fantasy bull****.
As valuable as that would be in the case of Iraq or another modern war, in the grim darkness of the future, the "game" changes significantly.
hurr durr 40k. what have I always said?
Obviously you know far more about this than I do, but I was under the impression that the Vietcong did not have ambulatory tanks.
If you don't want to see where you're going at all, yeah, kind of.
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE GOT THERE. How can I explain this to someone of your level of stupidity? There is no way, plausible or implausible, for them to land some massive invasion force there. THIS IS NOT 40k. There are no kilometres-long ships with drop pods and massive lasers, there is no teleportation technology or FTL travel. Deal with it or GTFO, because, quite honestly, I'm sick and tired of your continual bashing Avatar for not being what you wanted it to be.
So Jake has somehow lost access to knowledge as a human thanks to changing bodies? So the 10-20+ humans there are can't work things out?
No. Stop making such contrived failures of logic that even a six-year-old could unpick as being the fantasies of a Mad Editor who is bitter that Avatar wasn't some 'spess mehrens killing teh aleins' film.
Deal with it. Avatar isn't the film you wanted it to be, and is infinitely better than anything you could ever make, and going on about how you'd wipe out the Na'vi 50,000 different ways won't change that.
More generally, a war comparable to that between the RDA and the Na'vi has never happened in human history.
Good luck. I'm being totally serious here, since I don't think the experience you're looking for exists, and I presume I don't have to remind you of the mess at the start of WW1 that resulted from officers thinking war still worked the way it always had.
HNM, can you come back when we can discuss this without you insulting my intelligence, motives and integrity?
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"We are fairly flexible in that much of our to do list will depend on user feedback, requests and interest so we are encouraging our users to let us know which networks they use and we will attempt to accommodate them as quickly as possible" Ryan said.
AffClicks is integrated into Google's Adwords platform and regularly downloads PPC reports via the Adwords API. Integration into Microsoft's PPC service, Adcenter, is scheduled to follow in the second quarter of 2012. PPC campaigns and accounts can be managed directly from within the AffClicks GUI. To minimize a possible learning curve, AffClicks has been designed so that affiliates can work with a PPC campaign management interface that is similar to the Adwords interface with which they are already familiar.
In addition to the standard PPCcampaign management functions the AffClicks interface contains several additional features and that are affiliate-friendly. These include the ability to sort keywords, campaigns and adgroups by net profit or loss based on their corresponding commission data which is downloaded at regular intervals from affiliate networks. AffClicks users can raise or lower their keyword bids in real time, setting their levels according to the profitability of each individual keyword or delete them altogether if they are making losses. Users can quickly determine which aspects of their campaigns are cash cows - and which are loss-making or profit neutral - and adjust their keyword lists and PPC budgets accordingly.
"Our view is that the amount of traffic being sent to merchants - especially paid traffic - should be dependent on how well each merchant is converting for the affiliate and how profitable those conversions are. AffClicks users can quickly compare conversion rates between merchants separating the star performers from the money pits".
When commission is earned for a sale or lead it's important to know as much as possible about the events that led to it so that they can be repeated and scaled up. AffClick provides useful data such as how the visitor found the affiliate's website; which pages were viewed on it and what actions were taken such as which merchants' sites were visited afterwards and which search terms led to conversions.
"Up until now, once an affiliate had passed a potential customer over to a merchant, it's been extremely difficult to track what actions were performed on the merchant's site and which search terms were used prior to a conversion. AffClicks users are no longer kept in the dark on these matters" said Kester.
You may also want to check later and see which search terms are turning a profit so you can focus your SEO effort on the pages/products that are converting well. You may also choose to add new keywords to an Adwords campaign derived from search phrases recorded by AffClicks which have previously resulted in leads or sales . You can then drive more traffic, sales and leads using the new keywords.


According to Schimmel & Co.2), the oil distilled from the fresh flowers of Michelia longifolia, Blume, a tree growing in Java, is almost water-white, very limpid, and its odor reminds vividly of that of basilicum: d15o 0,883; aD - 12° 50'.
From the flowers of the same species Brooks3) obtained a dark product but does not record the method of preparation. It had the following properties: d 0,897; nD30o 1,4470; E.V. 180,0. It contains linalool (characterized by its boiling point and its oxidation to citral), methyleugenol (oxidation to veratric acid which melted at 179 to 180°), methylethylacetic acid (silver salt), acetic acid, also traces of a phenol that had the odor of thymol.


The asparagus season has started!
Spring spoils us with delicious fresh vegetables and German asparagus is especially popular every year.
In our restaurant or on our large sun terrace, enjoy white Beelizer Asparagus with traditional side dishes or let yourself be surprised by our kitchen chef with creative delicacies.


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OHA Board of Trustees approves $6 million for community grants
HONOLULU (June 29, 2017) – The Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) today approved $6 million in grants over the next two fiscal years to programs benefitting the Native Hawaiian community.
The 23 organizations receiving grant funding will help OHA meet its Strategic Plan priorities relating to housing, income, health, education and culture. The funds will be disbursed for fiscal years 2018 and 2019.
"After a thorough vetting by staff and our board, we are proud to announce the selection of these highly qualified programs to receive OHA grant funding," said OHA Chair Colette Y. Machado.
"We understand that of the many services we provide to our beneficiaries – including research, advocacy and managing our lands – these community grants are especially critical because they make a difference in the lives of individual Native Hawaiians and communities that need kōkua the most," said OHA Chief Executive Officer/Ka Pouhana Kamanaʻopono Crabbe.
The Fiscal Biennium 2018-2019 OHA community grant awardees are:
Hawaiian Community Assets, $470,000
To provide culturally-relevant, place-based financial literacy education, HUD-certified housing counseling and asset building products to low- and moderate-income Native Hawaiians to improve their capacity to own or rent homes.
Effective Parenting and Innovative Communication Inc., $92,000
To provide financial literacy training and matching funds for asset purchases for young people ages 14 through 25 who were in foster care. Eligible asset purchases for Native Hawaiians include obtaining stable rental housing (security deposit/first month's rent).
Habitat for Humanity Maui, $120,000
To educate the Native Hawaiian populations on Maui and Lānaʻi in effective financial literacy strategies with the goals of long-term economic self-sufficiency and successful homeownership.
Nānākuli Housing Corporation, $318,000
To provide financial and homeownership trainings to Native Hawaiian households with low to moderate income to increase their economic self-sufficiency
Goodwill Industries of Hawaiʻi, Inc., $720,000
To provide education and training and career support services, in partnership with University of Hawaiʻi Community Colleges, to eligible Native Hawaiians to improve their ability to obtain higher-wage employment, thereby increasing their economic self-sufficiency.
Young Women's Christian Association of Oʻahu, $280,000
To help Native Hawaiian ex-offenders and other low-income women establish economic security by providing experiential and learning opportunities related to employment, financial literacy and work/life balance.
Kualapuʻu Public Conversion Charter School, $267,849
The project empowers students and families to improve their overall health to address the disproportionate burden of overweight, obesity and associated negative health outcomes. The evidence-based approach builds on the success of a two-year pilot project in engaging students and families to increase physical activity and nutrition knowledge.
Mālama Kauaʻi, $170,000
The project will deliver a nutritious, consistent and culturally-relevant school meal program and strengthen health-related education within two Hawaiian public charter schools to improve the health and lifestyle choices of students and families.
The Salvation Army-Family Treatment Services, $180,000
The project aims to improve the health of Hawaiian women recovering from substance abuse and addiction and prevent obesity and reduce weight gain related to cessation of tobacco, methamphetamine and other drugs, by engaging women in Hawaiian cultural practices that support health and by providing information and skills to live a healthy lifestyle.
The Queen's Medical Center, $382,151
The purpose of this project is to implement a culturally-relevant, community-based program based on direct (physical activity, clinical assessment) and prevention services (education, research) to reduce the rate and severity of obesity among Native Hawaiians, to improve well-being and reduce the burden of cardiovascular risk factors.
After-School All-Stars Hawaiʻi, $490,810
The purpose of this project is to provide comprehensive after-school programs in five Title I middle schools to improve Native Hawaiian student proficiency in reading and math.
Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island, $250,638
The Mohala ʻIke Project will strengthen academic success for Native Hawaiian and other club members by skillfully instilling lifelong learning habits in the youth of five Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island communities (Hilo, Keaʻau, Pāhoa, Pāhala, Kealakehe) through culturally responsive, experiential academic support delivered by caring club mentors.
Educational Services Hawaiʻi Foundation, $258,552
The project provides comprehensive instruction utilizing culture-based pedagogy, combined with a variety of educationally enriching activities, designed to increase the number of Native Hawaiian students in foster, kith, and kinship care, to meet and exceed reading and math standards, to achieve yearly grade promotion, and to graduate.
Awaiaulu, $353,600
To train translators with a skill set for the future generations of Hawaiʻi and to translate an important historical narrative resource. This project builds on cultural and historical resources and provides cultural grounding with historical illumination in many fields.
Hui Mālama O Ke Kai Foundation, $133,638
To perpetuate Hawaiian cultural practices and educational methods while strengthening bonds within and between ʻohana for Hawaiians in the Waimānalo community and to contribute to the vision of "a board and stone in every home" and "a waʻa for every family".
Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, $189,720
To increase and perpetuate traditional knowledge and cultural practices around childbirth, Native Hawaiian wāhine hāpai and their kāne, cultural practitioners, and health professionals will learn cultural birthing practices, empowering families to give their child a strong foundation in life while strengthening the Lāhui.
KUPA Friends of Hoʻokena Beach Park, $97,741
To preserve and perpetuate the customary Hawaiian cultural practices of traditional ʻōpelu fishing as handed down to the fishermen of Hoʻokena and the greater South Kona region by reintroducing seasonal closures to allow time for regeneration of fish stocks and increased fish catch and to train a new generation of ʻōpelu fishers.
PAC Foundation, $73,810
To increase the number of cultural practitioners in the area of ʻieʻie basketry by providing cultural-based experiences through lectures, resource gathering, workshops, and promoting opportunities for the Hawaiian community to connect with their heritage.
PAʻI Foundation, $178,532
To perpetuate hula by providing instruction and creative spaces to Native Hawaiian kumu hula and hālau hula to continue to share and teach hula, to increase the number of Native Hawaiian ʻōlapa, hoʻopaʻa, and kumu hula, and to develop access to and interest in hula for future generations of Native Hawaiians to ensure these practices continue.
Hālau Keʻalaokamaile, $240,697
To plant and maintain a six-acre native habitat kīpuka, for use by Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and their students, which restores native flora and fauna, enhances the watershed, perpetuates cultural practices, and creates a template for sustainable restoration.
Hawaiʻi Forest Institute, $172,262
To tend, honor and grow a place of peace and safety for the native dryland lama forest of Kaʻūpūlehu, within a regional homeland context, fostering restorative kinship relationships between community and ʻāina, utilizing educational stewardship, traditional ecological knowledge, contemporary and institutional scientific methods.
Ka Honua Momona International, $500,000
A collaboration between Ka Honua Momona of Molokaʻi and Waipā Foundation of Kauaʻi to grow environmental resources, cultural practices and financial sustainability, ultimately ensuring abundance for Native Hawaiians and future generations.
Pacific American Foundation, $60,000
To restore, revitalize, and preserve the Waikalua Loko Fishpond; to inspire, educate, and practice the art and engineering of Hawaiian fishponds as a catalyst to restoring Kāneʻohe Bay and the near shore fisheries environment; and to help re-connect the ma uka to ma kai in the ahupuaʻa of Kāneʻohe.
Maui Island Trustee Carmen "Hulu" Lindsey unanimously re-elected board chair of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Nine trustees inducted at OHA investiture ceremony at Kawaiahaʻo Church
Board Chair Carmen "Hulu" Lindsey speaks at the National Caucus of Native American State Legislators
Office of Hawaiian Affairs announces name for Kakaʻako Makai property
Kāhea for Native Hawaiian businesses: Purple Maiʻa announces culturally rooted accelerator program


The date is set for the final Magic Door of the year on one of the biggest nights of 2016, New Year's Eve, and we can get you there!
We're giving one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to what's sure to be one of the coolest New Year's Eve events in the city as Magic Door returns to Boxxed with The Abyss.
It's been a superb year for Magic Door, with its main focus on throwing the most incredible parties in the country, 2016 has seen the explosive club night head venture to the likes of Croatia's Love Internation and Lunar Festival.
With parties this year featuring everything from hundreds of mannequins filling an entire room, to real trees in the middle of the dancefloor, Magic Door has continued to wow its crowds with its outlandish productions.
New Year's Eve will be no different with the team taking The Abyss to the max, with Digbeth-based Boxxed set to be transformed into a mysterious underwater playground. The party will mix nautical and pirate attire, making it one of the most extraordinary places to ring in 2017 in the city.
Spread through three rooms, one of which includes a disco caravan, will be blasting music so you can dance right into the New Year.
Residents Maxxi Soundsystem, Jukes of Hazard, Deano Ferrino all star in this spectacular event, with the special guests to be announced on the night and many more acts in support.


2. Click on the Action button.
The series of steps that the Billing Wizard goes through display in the panel on the left.
The Prev, Next and Exit Wizard buttons are available throughout the wizard so that you can navigate between the steps or leave the wizard entirely.
if we set a date of 03/30/2015, only the EXAM charge will be billed in the invoice.
(b) Invoice Date – Enter the date you want to appear on the invoice.
The Cutoff Date cannot be after the invoice date.
The T+E List is displayed, to include the totals of what is being billed (bottom of window).
You can make changes to a T+E by clicking on the Activity link. A common change includes switching the T+E between billable/non-billable by selecting or deselecting the "Billable" checkbox. Save your changes and return to the Billing Wizard tab. The Refresh button forces an update, if required.
6. Click in the Hold checkbox(es) for the T+E you DO NOT wish included in the bill you are generating.
The Invoice type / Bank ID displays.
Click on the Lookup button to select.
The Bank information is pulled from the file.
(a) The Please set Invoice Type: should be set to Interim.
9. Click on the Next button.
A Summary of detail relating to the invoice displays. The information cannot be edited here, it is for display purposes only.
10. Click on the Print Summary button.
Click on the Exit Wizard button to cancel.
Click on the Next button if everything is as it should be and you want to proceed.
11. Click on the Generate button.
A Report: Invoice will be generated and displayed to you.


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[How do I know if I'm running a nested shell?
Above link just says about the way to know if i'm using nested shell and if YES then how deep it is . But it is not i'm asking . I'm asking about the real meaning .


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Test methods
The Test Offer
Gaskets data
Flat gaskets
Stuffing box seals
Metal ring gastets
PowerPress 1 - EN 13555:2014 - determining mechanical dimensions
PowerPress 2 - EN 13555:2014 - determining leaktightness
PowerPress 3+ - determining leaktightness and mechanical properties
ASTM F 5 3149-15 – determination of m and y factors
ASTM F 38-00 B - determination of relaxation and creep
ASTM F 36 – 03 - determination of compressibility and recovery
Stand for the determination of leakage level in flat gaskets in line with VDI 2440 (TA Luft requirements)
Facility for the determination of leakage level in gland seals in line with VDI 2440 (TA Luft requirements)
Facility for determination of resistance and resistivity of sealing materials
Measuring arm
1. EN 13555:2014 - determining mechanical dimensions
A test stand for determining Qsmax, EG and PQR characteristics of gaskets in line with EN:13555:2013. The tests are performed at room temperatures and at temperatures increased up to 800°C . The tests may be performed under variable loads and temperatures. The determined parameters / coefficients may be used directly in calculations for flange-screw joints made in line with the EN 1591-1:2009 and …:2014 standards. The stand allows for conducting other tests, consisting in the determination of correlations between values such as: the variability of the material thickness, load and temperature.
General view of the test stand
Testing at the temperature of 800°C. The picture shows a heated seal and the face surface.
2. EN 13555:2014 - determining leaktightness
A test stand for determination of leak level in line with the algorithm specified in the EN 13555:2014 standard. Tests are conducted at room temperature under a variable load. The tests are used to determine the Qsmin(L) and Qmin(L) values. The helium testing pressure may reach up to 160 bar. The determined coefficients may be used directly in calculations for flange-screw joints made in line with the EN 1591-1:2009 and …:2014 standards. The stand allows for conducting other tests, consisting in the determination of correlations between values such as load, pressure and leakage. Continuous measurement of leakage is performed by vacuum method using a helium spectrometer.
General view of the stand for leakage tests.
A sample graph of the leakage and loading correlation.
3. Test rig PowerPress 3+; standards EN 13555:2014 and ASTM F3149-15 - determining of tightness and gaskets mechanical properties
New test stand used to determine the leakage level at elevated temperatures and to determine the mechanical properites of gaskets in accordance with the algorithm described in EN 13555: 2014-08. Also used to determine calculation factors according to ASTM F3149-15 used to perform flange connection calculations according to ASME Code p. VIII. The press combines the capabilities of both older PowerPress 1 and PowerPress2 sites. In addition, it is possible to test class NPS 4 class 300 gaskets. The tests - also leak-tightness (!) - can be carried out at room and elevated temperatures up to approx. 600 oC, under variable load. The values Qsmax, EG, PQR, ΔeGcI, Qsmin (L), Qmin (L) and m and y are determined. The helium test pressure can reach 160 bar. The determined values of coefficients are used directly for calculations of flange-and-bolt connections according to EN 1591-1: 2009 and ... / 2013. At the test rig, it is possible to conduct other tests based on determining the correlation of quantities such as: pressure force, pressure and leak. Continuous measurement of the leak is performed using a vacuum method using a helium spectrometer.
General view of PowerPress 3+.
A sample graph of the leakage and loading correlation at 100oC.
4. ASTM F 3149-15 – determination of m and y factors
New method for calculating flatness calculation coefficients for ASME Code s. S. VIII and European EN 13445-3 and EN 13480-3. The method is based on determining the gasket load characteristics - leakage level. Tests are performed on presses such as those used for tests according to EN 13555. The loading algorithm is changed.
5. ASTM F 38-00 B - determination of relaxation and creep
The method allows for the determination of relaxation and creep. The test is conducted using special instruments and the temperatures used are RT (Room Temperature), 100 and 200°C. Due to the characteristics and the structure of the test stand it is impossible to test gaskets, while it is possible to test material samples used in flat seals. The stands allow for performing tests of various materials – from soft elastomeric materials up to pure metal seals. The aim of the tests is to provide values regarding the rheological behavior of materials, mostly in increased temperatures.
General view of the stand.
6. ASTM F 36 – 03 - determination of compressibility and recovery
The stand is used for the determination of compressibility of soft materials used in the gasket structures. It also allows to determine the elastic recovery and the energy of deformation. Both the value of compressibility and the elastic recovery have a fundamental meaning in the process of flat gasket selection. The values provide information on the level of the gasket's ability to "adjust" to the face surface and about how will it behave in operation as well as the conditions of joint displacement in connection to the operation.
7. Stand for the determination of leakage level in flat gaskets in line with VDI 2440 (TA Luft requirements)
A stand used for the determination of leakage in flat gaskets. The results are compared with the requirements of the VDI 2440 and TA-Luft requirements and – if fulfilled – the laboratory issues a certificate of conformity with the TA-Luft regulations. After holding a clamped flange joint in a temperature dependent on the gasket material for 24 hours, the leaktightness test is conducted in room temperature. The pressure of the medium (helium) is 1 bar. The measurement of the leakage is performed by vacuum method using a helium spectrometer.
View of the stand after clamping and before applying the temperature.
View of the stand during a leakage test.
8. Facility for the determination of leakage level in gland seals in line with VDI 2440 (TA Luft requirements)
A stand for the determination of leakage in gland seals and the determination whether the seals are in conformity with the VDI 2440 requirements and TA-Luft air pollution control regulations. The laboratory issues certificates of conformity with the TA Luft regulations. The leakage measurement is made in temperatures up to 500°C and after performing an assumed number of up/down mandrel cycles. Also longitudinal stress on the packing and the pressure of the medium (helium) are preset values in the test. Continuous measurement of the leakage is performed by vacuum method using a helium spectrometer.
Przebieg badania uszczelnienia dławnicowego.
9. Stand for the determination of resistance and resistivity of sealing materials
A stand for the determination of resistance of sealing materials in line with the PN-EN 61340-2-3 standard. It is used to determine the value of resistance and the volume and surface resistivity of all materials, mostly those used in sealing technologies. The obtained data is helpful in the selection of gaskets in the process of design of machines operating in environments specified by the ATEX directive.
Resistance measurement of a fibrous-elastomeric material.
10. Measuring arm
The measuring arm is a portable coordinate-measuring machine used for mapping the shape of the measured element. The result of the measurement is a cloud of points, which – using computer processing – may be transformed into a precise 3D model. The arm is mostly used with client's systems to obtain precise information on the shape e.g. of the face surface and to resolve problems regarding the selection of seals.
Ramię pomiarowe podczas pracy.
EUROPARTNER® calculation software – an advanced tool for designing joints


For me, there always seem to be little things that trigger happy childhood memories. When my dad used to take me to Chicago, I remember this one time, he purchased me the tiniest little bottle with birds on it. I used to carry it in my purse, along with a pink coin bag he had gifted me from a trip to Canada. I had lost that bag long ago, but recently I found a little bottle in the store, and I couldn't resist the temptation... It smells just like my mom.<3 Maybe next time I'll grab a bottle of Love's Baby Soft, and that will complete my trip down a very fragranced memory lane lol.
What scents take you back?