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Kipp B. Cornell
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Kipp B. Cornell is a partner at Cunningham, Meyer & Vedrine where he focuses on civil litigation with an emphasis on medical malpractice matters.
He regularly defends doctors, hospitals, and multi-specialty clinics in their high-exposure cases. Over the course of his career he has successfully tried a variety of complex matters, from birth injury cases to orthopedic claims. He has successfully litigated cases in state and federal court as well as in the Illinois Appellate Court.
Kipp began his legal career as a staff attorney at the Illinois Supreme Court, where he conducted research and wrote briefs on cases the court was considering. While in law school he served as a law clerk for the U.S. House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee, Constitution Subcommittee.
American University Law School, J.D., 2003, magna cum laude
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Revneset är en udde vid den norra delen av Adventfjorden, där denna mynnar ut i Isfjorden, på Spitsbergen i Svalbard, 5–6 kilometer norr om Longyearbyen. På andra sidan av Adventfjorden ligger Hotellneset. Revneset är lätt kuperat och avgränsas av Louisfjellet i nordöst och Adventtoppen (786 meter) och Hjorthfjellet (928 meter) i öster. Rakt österut ligger Hanaskogsdalen med Hanaskogsälven. Där finns rester från det brittiska kolgruvesamhället Advent City. Det finns också där en försvarsanläggning från andra världskriget vid Hanaskogsälvens mynning.

År 1899 hämtade ishavsskepparen Søren Zachariassen ut flera ton kol från olika ställen vid Isfjorden. På sin väg till norska fastlandet våren efter berättade han om sina fynd av kol till ishavsskepparen Bernhard Pedersen från Tromsø, som med denna information fick ihop kapital till Bergen-Spitsbergen Kulgrubekompani. Detta företag ockuperade året därpå, 1890, kolfälten på Revneset. Bolaget tog kolprover och gjorde ett inslag i Adventtoppen. År 1902 köpte det brittiska företaget Spitsbergen Coal and Trading Company Ltd de lägre belägna kolfälten som Pedersen hade inmutat. En kolutvinning i Adventtoppen påbörjades med anläggningen av Advent City 1905.
Kolet höll låg kvalitet och driften upphörde därför på Revneset 1908.

Det brittiska företaget sålde sina anläggningar till De Norske Kulfelter Spitsbergen 1916, och 1917 flyttade Fredrik Hiorth och De Norske Kulfelter delar av anläggningen längre in i fjorden till det som blev Hiorthhamn.

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Denna artikel är baserad på artikeln Revneset på norskspråkiga Wikipedia (bokmål).

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Stuart M. Schwartz
Stuart Schwartz Clark Hill
Email: sschwartz@clarkhill.com
J.D., Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan
B.A., Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
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Pro Hac Vice - State of Wisconsin (Chippewa County)
Pro Hac Vice - Maryland Court of Special Appeals
Pro Hac Vice - Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Stuart M. Schwartz is a Member in the Construction Practice Group and the Litigation Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in construction law and commercial litigation, including contract disputes, employment issues, business torts, collection matters, post-judgment proceedings, lien and bond claims, landlord/tenant actions and other real property matters. Stuart was selected for appointment to the State Bar of Michigan's Character and Fitness Committee and has been recognized multiple times by Michigan Super Lawyers Magazine as a Rising Star in the practice area of commercial litigation.
Stuart received his Bachelor's degree in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and earned his Juris Doctorate from Wayne State University Law School. In law school, Stuart was awarded the Leonard I. Neiman Scholarship for the outstanding student in Property, Land Use, and Real Estate Financing and served as senior member of the Moot Court team.
Prior to graduating, Stuart also gained extensive experience in both Federal and State Courts, as a judicial intern to the Honorable Gerald E. Rosen of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and a clerk to several Oakland County Circuit Court Judges.
A former Collegiate Lacrosse All-American and Academic All-American, Stuart also serves as a volunteer assistant coach for the Cranbrook-Kingswood boys varsity lacrosse team.
Stuart resides in Bloomfield Hills with his wife and three children.
On behalf of two of our firm's largest clients, a multi-office and multi-practice group team of Clark Hill attorneys and others recently obtained a $7,300,000 non-dischargeable fraud and conversion judgment by summary proceedings against their opposition in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The ruling came after substantial briefing completed by Jordan Bolton (Birmingham – Litigation), Peter Jackson (Detroit – Bankruptcy), and Stuart Schwartz (Detroit – Construction); and a nearly two-hour oral argument session, led by Jordan and Stuart, and supported by Tim Lee (Detroit – Summer Associate). Substantial additional support was provided by one of our client's outside general counsel, Ronald King (Lansing – Litigation).
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Our client, Daniels Building Company, was the successful awardee of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs construction contract to renovate existing kitchen and food storage areas at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center in Battle Creek, MI. The procurement was set aside for award only to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses ("SDVOSB") approved through the VA's Center for Verification and Evaluation ("CVE"). After announcement of the award, a disappointed unsuccessful offeror filed a SDVOSB status protest challenging whether Daniels Building was actually a SDOVSB and thus ineligible for the contract award. Daniels Building engaged Clark Hill to defend this protest, which if sustained could have potentially destroyed our client's business due to its dependency on federal SDVOSB set-aside contracts.
The protestor alleged that, through two separate joint ventures with two different companies with no connection to the VA's procurement award, that Daniels was (1) controlled by a large company and thus no longer small; and/or (2) was controlled by non-veterans in conflict with the VA's regulations. The protestor also alleged that Daniels Building fraudulently obtained its SDVOSB certification by intentionally filing false information with, and withholding key information from, the VA. The Clark Hill team of Bret Wacker, Stuart Schwartz and Nicole Tersigni prepared, in the mandated 5 day response period, a detailed brief demonstrating Daniels Building is in fact owned and controlled by a service disabled veteran; and that the protestor's attempts to defame and discredit Daniels Building Company were without basis in fact or law. The VA agreed with Daniels Building that its joint venture relationships had no bearing on the ownership or control of our client, and that the protestor's evidence was not compelling enough to overturn Daniels Building Company's SDVOSB certification. Our client is now able to move forward with contract performance at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center.
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In a pro bono case, Nicole Tersigni (under the supervision of Jordan Bolton and Stuart Schwartz) successfully prosecuted our clients' primary breach of contract claim, and successfully defended our clients' fraud claims through summary disposition proceedings. In short, our clients hired the defendant contractors to remodel our clients' modest 900 square foot home, so the main level would be accessible to their severely disabled son. The defendant contractors took our clients' money, completed a portion of the work, then walked off the job, claiming fraud in the inducement. After taking a significant supporting role in discovery, and a lead role in getting the defendant contractors' counterclaims dismissed as a sanction for their discovery abuses, Nicole took a lead role in the briefing related to competing motions for summary. The Court dispensed with oral argument, granted our clients' motion on their breach of contract action, and denied the defendant contractors' request to dismiss our clients' fraud claims.
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Tuliszków ( Tuliszkow, 1943–1945 Tulischau) ist eine Stadt im Powiat Turecki der Woiwodschaft Großpolen in Polen. Sie ist Sitz der gleichnamigen Stadt-und-Land-Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ).

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Zur Stadt-und-Land-Gemeinde (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Tuliszków mit 149,4 km² Fläche gehören die Stadt selbst und 22 Dörfer mit Schulzenämtern.

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Recognition of the Republic of Hawaii – Mexico
Created OnOctober 13, 2018byDisruptive Host You are here: KB Home Treaties Hawaii Recognition of the Republic of Hawaii – Mexico < BackPresident Porfirio Diaz of Mexico personally signed a one-page letter in Spanish to President Sanford B. Dole on August 8, 1894, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico sent an... Read More
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President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico personally signed a one-page letter in Spanish to President Sanford B. Dole on August 8, 1894, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico sent an accompanying one-page letter in Spanish. The Secretary's letter was accompanied by an English translation.
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Very quick response to problem with inoperative sump pump. Arrived within 90 minutes of first call to Axberg. Service techs were very courteous, professional and efficient.
Kevin was a great technician! I will ask for him next time I need something done.
Kevin was super and did a great job of unclogging my basement drain pipe going to the main sewer line in less than 15 mnutes. I would give the company a higher rating if it wasn't for the $230 service charge to run a snake 35 feet down the drain. I had no choice as the water was backing up in the basement and I couldn't wait for the local RotoRooter serviceman the following day. I guess $230 is cheaper than having to replace carpet. I also didn't realize the local Axberg plumbing company was bought out by Black Diamond which is not local which is probably a reason for the higher cost. Lesson learned. I'll rent a snake for $50 next time at Home Depot.
Charles, we're sorry that you are disappointed in the price following such a great job done by Kevin. This is one of the primary reasons that our plumbers get approval before any work is completed – and it looks like you did approve the price before we did the work. Here at Axberg/ Black Diamond, we do still consider ourselves a local company, as we operate out of our location on 35th Street in Rockford, we employ Rockford residents like Kevin, and we are very active in supporting the Rockford community. Prior to teaming up with Black Diamond in 2014, Axberg did not offer plumbing services at all, so we also love providing another option to Rockford residents – especially one that can show up on the same day instead of making you wait when you're having an emergency. Thank you for giving us the opportunity and please let us know if there's anything else we can help you with in the future.
Had a backup on my main outlet at 7:00PM on a Sunday - someone was at our house by 8:00PM and the problem was solved by 9:00PM. Also appreciate the 1 year warranty on the service.
Good workmanship. Cost was more than than I expected.
Service man arrived in shot time.
Kevin did a great job!. He explained everything and showed what work he did. He was able to get done in one day.
They were quick, kept me informed of what was going on and cleaned up afterward.
Kevin was the technician that came to fix a leak in my pipe. He was very informative and his work was quick. I will most definitely be using the service again if needed.
Kevin arrived ahead of schedule, was very professional and courteous, and let me know every step of the way what he found and what work would be needed to be completed. The work was done cleanly and worked great. I'd recommend him for sure.
Employee did a very good job. Only complaint I have is that the cost was a lot more than expected.
Kevin did a very thorough job. He checked, doubled checked....then checked again. He didn't rush the job..he made sure it was done correctly.
I'm hoping this fixes the problem!! Thanks Kevin!!
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Reexamining Surgical Margins in Breast Cancer
By Monica Morrow, MD, FACS Melissa Pilewskie, MD, FACS Monday, October 8, 2018
Wider negative margins do not improve local control for ductal carcinoma in situ or invasive carcinoma when they are treated with lumpectomy and radiation therapy, our recent literature review shows. However, ambiguity regarding margin width in such cases persists, leading to high rates of re-excision.
Changes in our understanding of the biology of local recurrence (LR) have prompted a reexamination of factors determining optimal surgical margins in breast-conserving therapy (BCT). (1)
For many years, tumor burden was thought to be the primary determinant of LR, and the belief that large negative margins improved outcomes was a logical extension of that view. But it is now clear that tumor biology, rather than an arbitrary margin cutoff, is the major determinant of LR. The risk of LR varies with hormone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status. (2)
The consensus guidelines adopted in 2014 support a negative margin, defined as "no ink on tumor," for invasive carcinoma treated with BCT. (2) Since the guidelines were implemented, much progress has been made in decreasing the need for re-excision in women undergoing BCT. A similar review undertaken for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) treated with lumpectomy and radiation therapy (RT) found that a margin of 2 mm minimizes LR risk, likely secondary to differences in tumor growth patterns and the utilization of systemic therapy compared to invasive cancer. (3)
The consensus guidelines should be interpreted as meaning that re-excision is not routinely indicated, not that it will never be indicated. The patient, their tumor biology, and treatment variables influencing the risk of LR must be considered together when developing an individualized treatment plan.
Multiple operations to obtain adequate margins cause substantial stress for patients, have a potential cosmetic disadvantage, and increase healthcare costs. As new therapeutic advances for breast cancer become available, we must continue to investigate whether it is possible to de-escalate surgical approaches and reduce the burden of treatment on patients.
No Ink on Tumor
About five years ago, the Society of Surgical Oncology and the American Society for Radiation Oncology convened a multidisciplinary panel to develop a consensus guideline on the appropriate margin width for minimizing LR risk in patients with invasive cancer who are undergoing BCT and whole-breast radiation therapy.
The panel concluded that a negative margin of no ink on tumor optimizes local control and that the routine practice of performing additional surgery to obtain a wider negative margin was not supported by evidence. The new consensus guideline was presented in October 2013 and published in 2014. It was endorsed by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Breast Surgery, and the St. Gallen International Expert Consensus Group. (2)
The panel members, from 10 cancer centers across the United States, also evaluated the need for wider negative margins within subsets of high-risk patients. Younger age and triple-negative cancers were both independent risk factors for LR. But the evidence showed that tumor biology, not the extent of surgical excision, was associated with worse outcomes: LR rates were similar among women in high-risk groups treated with BCT or mastectomy. (2), (4)
Invasive Breast Cancer Margins: How Much Is Enough?
As mentioned, the no ink on tumor guideline has led to a significant reduction in the use of additional surgery after an initial lumpectomy. At MSK, re-excision rates among women with invasive breast cancer declined significantly, from 21.4 percent before to 15.1 percent (p=0.006) after early adoption of the guideline in January 2014. The use of BCT rose 13 percent over the same period. (5)
In another study at MSK, we investigated the effect of margin width on LR in patients with triple-negative breast cancer who received BCT and analyzed the results for 535 cancers treated. Seventy-one cancers had margins less than or equal to 2 mm, and 464 had margins greater than 2 mm. Notably, there was no difference in the five-year LR rates between the smaller margin group (4.7 percent) and the larger margin group (3.7 percent, p=0.11). (6)
The consensus guidelines should be interpreted as meaning that re-excision is not routinely indicated, not that it will never be indicated
Monica Morrow Chief, Breast Service, Department of Surgery; Anne Burnett Windfohr Chair of Clinical Oncology
A recent survey examined reoperation trends after an initial lumpectomy for breast cancer before and after the consensus guidelines in more than 3,700 women with stage I and II breast cancer identified in the Georgia and Los Angeles County, California, registries of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. The investigators looked at the rates of the final surgical procedure (lumpectomy, unilateral mastectomy, bilateral mastectomy), the rates of additional surgery after an initial lumpectomy over time, and reports from 342 surgeons regarding attitudes toward lumpectomy margins. While the 67 percent rate of initial lumpectomy was stable over time, additional surgery after an initial lumpectomy decreased markedly, by 16 percent (p=0.001) from 2013 to 2015, the time of the guideline's dissemination. Surgeons treating more than 50 breast cancer cases annually were significantly more likely to report a margin of no ink on tumor as adequate (85 percent, n=105) compared to surgeons treating 20 cases or fewer (55 percent; n=131; p<0.001), (7)indicating that there is still room for adopting the consensus guideline at lower volume centers.
DCIS Margins: How Much Is Enough?
The ten-year cause-specific mortality rate for DCIS is under 1 percent after breast-conserving therapy, (8)but optimizing local control is essential because half of all LRs are invasive cancers. (9) The risk of LR for this patient population is affected by age, extent of disease, symptoms, presence of necrosis, margin width, and the use of adjuvant therapy. (1)
Surveys of surgeons and radiation oncologists report a wide range of what constitutes an acceptable margin width, from no ink on tumor to greater than 1 centimeter. There is no uniform negative margin width reported in the literature that is associated with low LR risk in patients with DCIS treated with excision alone. (1) Multiple factors inform the decision for re-excision or radiotherapy for DCIS, including the growth pattern of the lesion, margin width, the patient's age, tumor size and grade, and the patient's comfort with recurrence risk.
For women treated with excision alone, the goal is to remove all microscopic disease to minimize the risk of LR. For women undergoing lumpectomy and radiotherapy, an optimal margin leaves a subclinical volume of residual microscopic disease that can be controlled by radiotherapy.
Optimizing Breast Cancer Therapy
Our surgeons describe what to expect and how to prepare for care at one of the world's leading breast cancer treatment centers.
As advances in breast cancer surgery and other modalities occur, we will continue to reevaluate whether we can de-escalate treatment approaches to lessen the burden of treatment for patients.
At MSK, we adopted the no ink on tumor consensus guideline early and conducted a study to confirm the benefits for our patients. We also pioneered the de-escalation of axillary dissection in women with invasive breast cancer and sentinel node metastasis (10)following evidence that found no difference in overall survival or nodal recurrence between sentinel lymph node biopsy and complete axillary lymph node dissection.
The diagnosis and treatment of invasive breast cancer requires a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach. (11) At MSK, the breast cancer team evaluates more than 4,500 new breast cancer cases and sees 3,300 surgical inpatients and outpatients annually. Our objective is to create the most effective individualized treatment plan for each patient to optimize outcomes, reduce the burden of treatment, and improve quality of life.
Monica Morrow, MD, FACS, Chief, Breast Service, Department of Surgery, and Anne Burnett Windfohr, Chair, Clinical Oncology, discuss MSK's evidence-based, leading-edge breast cancer surgical program.
Disclosure: Dr. Morrow has received honoraria from Genomic Health and Roche.
Pilewskie M, Morrow M. Margins in breast cancer: how much is enough? Cancer. 2018 Apr 1;124(7):1335-41.
Moran MS, Schnitt SJ, Giuliano AE, et al. Society of Surgical Oncology–American Society for Radiation Oncology consensus guideline on margins for breast-conserving surgery with whole-breast irradiation in stages I and II invasive breast cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2014 May 10;32(14):1507-15.
Morrow M, Van Zee KJ, Solin LJ, et al. Society of Surgical Oncology–American Society for Radiation Oncology–American Society of Clinical Oncology consensus guideline on margins for breast-conserving surgery with whole-breast irradiation in ductal carcinoma in situ. J Clin Oncol. 2016 Nov 20;34(33):4040-46.
Pilewskie M, King TA. Age and molecular subtypes: impact on surgical decisions. J Surg Oncol. 2014 Jul;110(1):8-14.
Rosenberger LH, Mamtani A, Fuzesi S, et al. Early adoption of the SSO-ASTRO consensus guidelines on margins for breast-conserving surgery with whole-breast irradiation in stage I and II invasive breast cancer: initial experience from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Ann Surg Oncol. 2016;23(10):3239-3246.
Pilewskie M, Ho A, Orell E, et al. Effect of margin width on local recurrence in triple negative breast cancer patients treated with breast-conserving therapy. Ann Surg Oncol. 2014;21(4):1209-1214.
Morrow M, Abrahamse P, Hofer TP, et al. Trends in reoperation after initial lumpectomy for breast cancer: addressing overtreatment in surgical management. JAMA Oncol. 2017;3(10):1352–1357.
Narod SA, Iqubal J, Giannakeas V, et al. Breast Cancer mortality after a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ. JAMA Oncol. 2015;1(7):888-896.
Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (EBCTCG). Overview of the randomized trials of radiotherapy in ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr. 2010;(41):162-177.
Guiliano AE, Hunt KK, Ballman KV, et al. Axillary dissection vs no axillary dissection in women with invasive breast cancer and sentinel node metastasis: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2011;305(6):569–575.
Moo T, Sanford R, Dang C, Morrow M. Overview of breast cancer therapy. PET Clin. 2018;13(3):339–354.
Having Breast Cancer Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Monica Morrow
Chief, Breast Service, Department of Surgery; Anne Burnett Windfohr Chair of Clinical Oncology
Melissa L. Pilewskie
Director, Strategic Planning and Research, RISE Program
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Two of Newcastle's key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services, the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES) and Awabakal Ltd, have formalised an ongoing partnership to improve employment and health outcomes for Indigenous people in the Hunter and Central Coast region.
The partnership will involve the development of specific recruitment and training opportunities in the health sector for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and closer communication between the organisations to improve their services, and the support and mentoring for Awabakal staff.
"Building partnerships with likeminded services is key to improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of the region," says AES Newcastle, Hunter and Central Coast Business Development Operations Manager, Leroy Wilkinson.
"Awabakal is one of the largest Aboriginal organisations in the Newcastle region. They have comprehensive primary health care services, Aged Care, social and emotional wellbeing Preschool and dentistry, so they're quite diverse in what they do for the community.
The AES office in Newcastle was established in 2006 and services a broad area that encompasses Newcastle and Maitland, and reaches as far as Scone and the Central Coast. Awabakal was established in 1973 (then known as the Newcastle Aboriginal Advancement Society) and has grown to become the largest Aboriginal community owned and run organisation in New South Wales, providing services to Indigenous people living in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens and the Hunter Valley. The new partnership between the organisations will primarily involve the AES assisting Awabakal with their human resources practices.
"Recruitment is what the AES specialise in; we can make sure Awabakal is getting the right people for the right jobs, and we'll also look at training opportunities, so we can forward plan for workforce development, succession and new opportunities," says Leroy.
According to Awabakal CEO, Raylene Gordon, partnering with the AES will allow Awabakal to improve its services while building capacity within the organisation and the local Indigenous community.
"My philosophy is that your organisation is only as good as your people. We've got over 80 staff and the majority of them are Aboriginal people; we're trying to grow our Aboriginal workforce and provide career pathways, and I think the AES can help us do that," says Raylene.
Raylene says that Awabakal have faced some challenges in recruiting local Aboriginal staff in the past.
"One of the issues has been with the way we advertise, the way we've written our jobs and the way people perceive the jobs. They look at the job description and think 'I can't do that'. Job security has been another issue, so I think partnering with the AES will help us to build our reputation in the community as well. So it's not just us saying 'come and work for us', it's another Aboriginal organisation vouching for us," says Raylene.
Awabakal have established partnerships with other Aboriginal services in the region, while the AES is also pursuing a long-term of strategy of partnering with other key Aboriginal services.
"These types of partnerships are evidence of innovation in the space; it's a show of strength across community to show that we can work together to achieve broad outcomes, and it's about that holistic approach which is the key to meaningful collaborative success," says Leroy.
For Raylene, a closer and more productive relationships between Awabakal and the AES will only lead to one outcome.
Cap: AES Business Development Operations Manager Leroy Wilkinson and Awabakal CEO Raylene Gordon.


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Another 'Shellacking' For Compulsory Unionism
But Big Labor Retains Control Over White House, Federal Agencies
(Source: November-December 2014 National Right To Work Committee Newsletter)
On November 4, voters in every region of the country sent two clear messages to Big Labor politicians on Capitol Hill: They are dismayed by what the politicians have done at union lobbyists' behest, and determined to stop them from doing more of the same.
In the U.S. Senate, union-label incumbents Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) were all defeated, and in three of four cases by unabashedly pro-Right to Work challengers.
Yet another Big Labor senator, Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, now trails 100% pro-Right to Work challenger Bill Cassidy in a run-off election scheduled to take place soon after this Newsletter edition goes to press.
Right to Work advocates also picked up open Senate seats previously held by forced-unionism militants in Iowa, Montana, and South Dakota. And Right to Work gained a net total of 12 U.S. House seats located in districts stretching from Maine to Nevada.
After Backing Big Labor Schemes to Corral Workers Into Unions, Senators Were Defeated
Why were Americans who went to the polls this year so angry with union-label politicians? It appears clear that, just as they were key sources of voters' displeasure when they shellacked Big Labor candidates in the 2010 elections, the so-called "Affordable Care Act" (ACA) of 2010, otherwise known as ObamaCare, and "card check" forced unionism were again major objects of public ire in 2014.
More even than President Obama or any other elected official, top union bosses and their arm-twisting union lobbyists are responsible for Congress's narrow votes to reconstruct America's enormous health-care system in late 2009 and early 2010.
In the fall of 2010 and again this year, voters punished vulnerable senators and representatives for doing what Big Labor had told them to do.
(In the presidential election year of 2012, the union bosses' $1.7 billion, forced dues-fueled campaign mobilization was able to get the Obama-Biden ticket reelected, but support for Right to Work actually increased in both chambers of Congress.)
American voters were also undoubtedly angry with union-label incumbents for having backed compulsory dues and Big Labor power grabs specifically aimed at making it easier for union officials to secure monopoly-bargaining privileges over employees.
Voters in Forced-Unionism States Show They Also Oppose Big Labor Monopolies
Mr. Pryor, for example, had voted in 2007 for the "Card Check" Unionization Bill that would have virtually eliminated secret-ballot voting for union certification and handed Big Labor a huge new weapon to force workers into unions.
In 2009, Mr. Begich, Ms. Hagan, Mr. Pryor, and Mr. Udall all voted to kill a national Right to Work amendment sponsored by then-Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), and thus forced hardworking Americans to continue paying union dues or fees just to get a job or keep their job.
And in 2012, Mr. Begich, Ms. Hagan, Mr. Pryor, and Mr. Udall joined with 50 other senators in voting to give the Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) a green light to rewrite longstanding rules for how Big Labor acquires monopoly-bargaining control over workers. The barely disguised aim of this rewrite was to make it far easier for union organizers to accomplish that objective.
Most of the 2014 Senate and House races in which candidates vowing full support for the Right to Work captured seats that had been held by union-boss lackeys occurred in states that already have on the books laws prohibiting compulsory union dues and fees.
However, when given a clear choice between a forced-unionism apologist and a supporter of the individual employee's freedom, voters in the currently non-Right to Work state of Colorado's Senate race opted against their Big Labor incumbent.
Right to Work advocates also captured House seats that have been held up to now by Big Labor politicians in non-Right to Work Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
"For years, polls have shown that citizens in every U.S. region, and not just in states that already bar the firing of employees for refusal to join or pay dues to an unwanted union, overwhelmingly agree that unionism should be voluntary," said National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix.
"The November 4 election results in state after state simply reconfirmed what scientific surveys have said all along."
President Likely to Keep Ignoring Election Returns
After a pro-Right to Work voter backlash wiped out his Democratic Party's House majority in 2010, and after Big Labor's machine fell far short of reinstating union-label Democrat Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) as House speaker in 2012, President Barack Obama didn't even briefly back away from his forced-unionism agenda.
And seasoned political observers do not expect the Democrats' loss of the Senate and their House caucus' apparently shrinking to a lower level than any seen since the 1929-30 Congress to sway the President from his chosen course.
During his first six years in office, Mr. Obama repeatedly expressed virulent opposition to Right to Work laws and tried to get the "Card Check" Unionization Bill passed.
After that measure failed due to intense and vigilant opposition by Committee members and their allies, the Obama Administration backed bureaucratic proposals designed to shove millions of additional workers into forced-unionism arrangements.
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Photograph by Michael George
On the route known as the Camino Frances, pilgrims dot a trail across the meseta, the plateau of central Spain. ''The Camino has no specific stopping point each day,'' Michael George wrote in his journal. ''If you are tired, injured, or fall in love with a town or a person, you can stop.'' Exploring on foot, he concluded, is ''simultaneously the simplest and most intense way to see the world.''
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Pictures We Love: Exploring Near and Far
By Alexa Keefe
As the year began to come to a close, we asked National Geographic staff who work closely with photography—through the magazine, Your Shot, News, Travel, and Proof—to choose a photo from 2015 that they just can't stop thinking about. There's no formula for what makes an image resonate—it can be a piercing gaze, the perfect light, or a tender moment that strikes a chord with our editors. Over the coming days, we'll reveal the 2015 photographs they found most memorable and why.
A villager in Aqbasty, Kazakhstan, bathes in an ancient hot spring piped into a bathhouse—one of the few water sources left after decades of irrigation and evaporation. Aqbasty used to be on the shore of the Aral Sea. Today it's seven miles inland. "Sins of the Aral Sea," June 2015 Photograph by Carolyn Drake
Whitney Johnson, Deputy Director of Photography, National Geographic Magazine
For half a decade, photographer Carolyn Drake focused her attention on Central Asia. With the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers as her guide, she moved westward through the "Stans" to the remains of the Aral Sea. Drake returned to the region for National Geographic to explore what was once at the water's edge. In an interview about the larger project, she told me, "I'm drawn to places that are off the track because I want to point out, 'Look, this exists too.'"
Horseback riders move around the Kicking Horse Reservoir during sunrise in northwestern Montana. "Montana Road Trip: From Flathead to Philipsburg" Photograph by Keith Ladzinski
Tyler Metcalfe, Associate Photography Producer, Travel
For the last year, the American classic novel Lonesome Dove has been making its way around the photography department at National Geographic. The novel chronicles the story of a group of cowboys as they drive a herd of cattle across the open plains of the west, from Texas to Montana. The book was recommended to me early in the year by a fellow photo editor, and as I began reading the book I also began work on a yearlong web feature covering the state of Montana. While I became immersed in the book, Keith Ladzinski headed out into the field to photograph for our project. I saw this photo, and the book I'd been imagining came to life. It exemplifies everything I love about the West: big skies, dramatic views, and the freedom to explore.
A custodian is silhouetted at center stage in the ballroom of the Palmer House hotel in Chicago. "Undiscovered," September 2015 Photograph by Marcia Mahoney, National Geographic Your Shot
Matt Adams, Assistant Photo Editor, Your Shot
When I started my job as a photo editor here at National Geographic, there was a lot of sudden change I had to deal with: moving to a new city, finding a new place to live, and starting a new job—all in the matter of a week. I knew about Your Shot but had never engaged with the community. Within my first month, I was tasked with running an assignment called Undiscovered. The theme fit me well personally, since I was in a new area trying to discover new surroundings and meet new people.
This image was an early editor's favorite for me. I love quiet moments in photographs, and the scene captured here worked exceptionally well for the Undiscovered theme. I thought about how we're all in a hurry to get to somewhere that isn't here. We all have goals, dreams, and new ideas we'd love to pursue as soon as possible. Sometimes it's a good idea to slow down and explore your environment a little more closely, to look for those small scenes that may go unnoticed. Document the details that everyone else just walks by or, as a kid from Chicago once said, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."
On the route known as the Camino Frances, pilgrims dot a trail across the meseta, the plateau of central Spain. "The Camino has no specific stopping point each day," Michael George wrote in his journal. "If you are tired, injured, or fall in love with a town or a person, you can stop." Exploring on foot, he concluded, is "simultaneously the simplest and most intense way to see the world." "Walking the Way," May 2015 Photograph by Michael George Photograph by Michael George
Elena Sheveiko, Photographic Coordinator, National Geographic Magazine
The Way of St. James, or simply the Way, is a centuries-old Christian pilgrimage path through France and Spain. The story inspired me like no other. Walking this road is on my bucket list now. I will not consider my life fulfilled unless I do it.
Discover more of our favorite images from 2015 in these related "Pictures We Love" posts:
In Awe of Creatures Great and Small
Seeing Science


Recipes for success – this is the new "holy grail", in search of which many of our colleagues have rushed. But as you know, the best is the enemy of the good. And in pursuit of success, you can simply lose the sense of reality and forget that the main thing in life in harmony. Therefore, communicating with dozens of Russian accountants, we came to the conclusion that for many of them, career growth is not so important as simply doing your own work well. And the latter is much more difficult than the achievement of personal success, career growth, and so on, "the sea of good luck and the dacha by the sea." Yes, you yourself will agree that good accountants are much less common than the best.
It is considered that advanced training is directly related to special courses or training from experienced trainers. This, of course, has good reasons, but in fact, far from always expensive courses, beautiful certificates and a few days outside work justify the expectations. As experienced accountants note, studies in the profession should occur all the time, and this can be achieved only in continuous communication with colleagues.
2. Learn from other professions.
Is the daily routine of an ordinary manager very different from an accountant's work schedule? Actually not much. So why not spy on how representatives of other professions organize their workspace and time?
You can learn time management from project managers – this is when you usefully spend every minute of the working day and still have time to drink tea with cookies. Sales managers can peek at ways of building communications (we are sure that an accountant is not a silent profession). Lawyers will tell you how to keep abreast of legislation, which services and news feeds you subscribe to. Marketers will advise an interesting forum, and system administrators will tell you what applications you can use at work, how best to choose an accounting system or an electronic document exchange service.
3. Bookkeeping is a competitive advantage.
Unfortunately, there are still people who believe that accounting is not part of the company's commercial activities. Yes, an accountant does not participate in marketing, sales or production, but this does not mean that he cannot make his work a competitive advantage for the company. The goal of your entire organization is to do something better than others. And accounting is no exception.
From the point of view of accounting management the same division as any other in the company. And therefore, for him to fully relevant issues of productivity and efficiency. Even if we are talking about the effectiveness of secondary, serving processes in the company. From the point of view of cost accounting, accounting is the same center of income/expenditure and, therefore, they can and should be managed.
Still, the work of an accountant requires a sharp mind, observation, and scrupulousness. Therefore, it is necessary to constantly train your intellect. And the best thing to do is on vacation. The easiest way is to read. Another nice option – to play board games, do needlework or drawing. And most likely, you already practice some of the above.


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Mako Tidal Turbines to help generate tidal energy in the Buka Passage, Papua New Guinea
Robin Whitlock
Australian companies Mako Tidal Turbines and Kleinhardt Pty Ltd have signed a cooperation agreement to develop a business case and funding plan for renewable energy generation in the Buka Passage, Papua New Guinea.
The agreement was signed with the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) and it will see a business case and funding plan developed for a renewable-based electricity grid for the Buka town, underpinned by tidal energy from the Buka Passage, a narrow body of water between Buka Island and Bougainville Island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea.
At almost four kilometres long, averaging 400 metres wide and 20-30 metres deep, the natural flow of the tides and currents has created a highly energised site which is ideal for tidal energy. Adding to the attraction of the Buka Passage for tidal energy development is its location in the middle of the thriving Buka town region, a trading hub and seat of Government for the Autonomous Region which has rapidly growing demand for electricity.
Under the agreement, Mako, based in Sydney, Australia, will survey the Buka Passage for its tidal energy potential and will establish a demonstration site in conjunction with local businesses.
Economic development adviser Kleinhardt, based in Cairns, Australia, will prepare a business case for an upgraded grid, as reliable and cost-effective electrical power will have a key role in all the economic development projects the company is helping to facilitate.
"The Buka Passage contains enormous energy potential" said Mako managing director Douglas Hunt. "In fact, our preliminary estimate is that at any one time up to 35 million tonnes of water is flowing rapidly through the passage between Buka and Bougainville Islands. With the Mako tidal turbine system, we are confident we can assess and tap into this energy to provide cost-effective and reliable renewable electricity to benefit the surrounding community."
Mr Hunt added that the Autonomous Bougainville Government has granted the project a two year exclusive mandate to bring together a group of leading renewable energy and storage technology providers to plan the region's first city-scale renewable-based electricity grid, with tidal energy from the Buka Passage as a key component.
Buka Passage, looking towards Sohano Island, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Initially, Mako will undertake detailed resource mapping of the Buka Passage using its proprietary systems and will separately install a tidal turbine demonstration site to provide electricity to a local shoreline business. The two companies will also identify suitable partners to formulate a business case for a renewable-based electricity grid to meet the needs of the 50,000 people living in and near Buka Town. Sources of funding will be investigated to ensure the electricity grid can be upgraded to meet the needs of a growing population in the region.
"The ABG is happy to give support to Mako Tidal Turbines to undertake studies of the Buka passage, to assess its potential for tidal energy generation, particularly as Mako has agreed to share all of its data with the ABG" said ABG Minister for Economic Development Fidelis Semoso. "If the studies find we can unlock this energy potential, then it will change Buka town and the living standards of the people. Therefore, we really support the project".
Mako Tidal Turbines is a subsidiary of Elemental Energy Technologies Ltd, an Australian unlisted public company which has been developing tidal turbine technology for over nine years. The company is based in Sydney, NSW Australia and has operations and projects underway in Australia, Japan, Singapore and Europe.
Kleinhardt Pty Ltd is a Cairns, Queensland based business consultancy providing economic and business development advice to the ABG. It offers hands on advice and direction to small, medium and large companies across a broad spectrum of industries and government instrumentalities, particularly tourism. Kleinhardt Business Consultants has extensive business experience throughout Australia, Papua New Guinea, South East Asia, the Pacific Rim, China, UK, Russia and USA.
The Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) was developed from the peace negotiations (Bougainville Peace Agreement) that concluded the Bougainville Crisis era during the 1990s and early 2000s. The purpose of ABG is to function as the official governing entity within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and to represent and advocate for the interests of Bougainvilleans in the national context of Papua New Guinea and in international affairs.
Image: Mako Tidal Turbines pioneering an initial range of small-scale tidal turbines designed to minimise shipping, installation and maintenance costs, particularly in remote locations (Photo: Mako Tidal Turbines).
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CLEVELAND, Ohio—The co-founder of liberal activist group Codepink took to the streets outside the Republican convention on Thursday to protest "war on women" issues such as equal pay and said that Hillary Clinton's history of paying men more than women shows that she is not a feminist.
Merrick Garland is no closer to confirmation as the next Supreme Court justice than he was at the beginning of April despite a sustained campaign by President Obama's personal advocacy group financed by some of the country's top Democratic donors.
Hillary Clinton's State Department paid men $16,000 more on average in annual salary than women, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
President Barack Obama has a women's sports problem. We know he loves male sports because he somehow manages to closely follow all the major ones despite presumably doing all the things presidents are supposed to do on a daily basis, such as attend cabinet meeting and lead the free world. But where is the love for the ladies?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending more than a half a million dollars to create a social media campaign that persuades mothers to tell their daughters not to go to the tanning salon.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) criticized Hillary Clinton's support for equal pay laws as little more than a handout to the trial lawyer lobby.
During her second official campaign launch over the weekend, Hillary Clinton made the case for her candidacy by reminding voters that while she may be very old, she is also a woman.
Hillary Clinton's expected presidential campaign is being built around women's issues, but women who have gotten in the way of her family's political goals in the past have often been subjected to her wrath.
The highest compensated employees of the Clinton Foundation are all men, according to a Weekly Standard analysis.


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Q: Exact value for a series I would like prove this equality
$$1-\frac{1}{n-1}+\frac{1}{n+1}-\frac{1}{2n-1}+\frac{1}{2n+1}-\frac{1}{3n-1}+\frac{1}{3n+1}+...
=\frac{\pi}{n\tan{\frac{\pi}{n}}}$$

A: The series is equal to
$$1-2 \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac1{k^2 n^2-1} - 1-\frac{2}{n^2} \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac1{k^2-\frac1{n^2}}$$
Now, we can evaluate the sum
$$\sum_{k=-\infty}^{\infty} \frac1{k^2-\frac1{n^2}} $$
by the residue theorem.  I will omit the proof; the sum is equal to
$$-\pi \sum_{\pm}\operatorname*{Res}_{z=\pm \frac1n} \frac{\cot{\pi z}}{z^2-\frac1{n^2}} = -\pi n\cot{\frac{\pi}{n}} $$
Therefore the sum is
$$1-\frac{2}{n^2} \frac12 \left (-\pi n\cot{\frac{\pi}{n}} + n^2 \right ) = \frac{\pi}{n} \cot{\frac{\pi}{n}}$$
as was to be shown.

A: It is equal to
$$\int_0^1 \frac{1-t^{n-2}}{1-t^n} dt = \frac{\pi}{n\tan(\frac{\pi}{n})}.$$


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In a Lonely Place (Paperback)
By Dorothy B. Hughes, Megan Abbott (Afterword by)
A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.
Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching "that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky." He prowls the foggy city night—bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out—seeking solitary young women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Where is the good life he was promised? Why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens to be on the trail of the strangler who's been terrorizing the women of the city for months...
Written with controlled elegance, Dorothy B. Hughes's tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution. A classic of golden age noir, In a Lonely Place also inspired Nicholas Ray's 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.
Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993) was born Dorothy Belle Flanagan in Kansas City, Missouri. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and worked as a reporter before attending graduate school at the University of New Mexico and Columbia University. In 1931 her collection of poetry, Dark Certainty, was selected for inclusion in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. She was married in 1932 and would not publish her next book, the hard-boiled novel The So Blue Marble, until 1940. Between 1940 and 1952 Hughes published twelve more novels, including The Cross-Eyed Bear and Ride the Pink Horse. For four decades she was the crime-fiction reviewer for The Albuquerque Tribune, earning an Edgar Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism from the Mystery Writers of America in 1951. The Expendable Man, published in 1963, was her last novel. "I simply hadn't the tranquility required to write" and care for a family, she later said. In 1978, however, she published The Case of the Real Perry Mason, a critical biography of Erle Stanley Gardner, and that same year she was recognized as a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
Megan Abbott is the author of eight novels, including The Fever, You Will Know Me, and the Edgar Award–winning Queenpin. She is also the author of The Street Was Mine, a study of hard-boiled fiction and film noir and the editor of A Hell of a Woman, a female crime fiction anthology. She received a Ph.D. in literature from New York University.
"It's something of an axiom that good novels make bad movies. But one of my favorite exceptions is In a Lonely Place....the novel is more groundbreaking than the film and that Hughes, who died in 1993, belongs in the crime-writing pantheon with male icons like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler….In a Lonely Place is a gripping story, but Hughes was too talented, ambitious, and grounded to play it merely for suspense….as Megan Abbott points out in her splendidly perceptive afterword, Hughes takes the gender clichés of noir and turns them on their head." —John Powers, NPR
"In a Lonely Place blasted my mind open to new ways of reading." —Sarah Weinman, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Crime was never Hughes's interest, evil was, and to be evil, for her, is to be intolerant of others...With her poetic powers of description, she makes that evil a sickness in the mind and a landscape to be surveyed." —Christine Smallwood, The New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog
"A tour de force laying open the mind and motives of a killer with extraordinary empathy. The structure is flawless, and the scenes of postwar LA have an immediacy that puts Chandler to shame. No wonder Hughes is the master we keep turning to."
"If you wake up in the middle of the night screaming with terror, don't say we didn't warn you." —The New York Times Book Review
"Bringing ...[Dorothy B. Hughes] back is no act of nostalgia. It is a gateway through which we might access her particular view of that road between our glittering versions of American life and the darker reality that waits at the end of the ride." —Walter Mosley
"This lady is the queen of noir, and In a Lonely Place is her crown."—Laurie R. King, author of the Mary Russell novels
"A superb novel by one of crime fiction's finest writers of psychological suspense. What a pleasure it is to see this tale in print once again!"—Marcia Muller, author of the Sharon McCone novels
"Lock your doors and windows before you start reading Dorothy B. Hughes superbly written In a Lonely Place, then prepare to lose some sleep. This spine-tingling classics rings chillingly true." —Jan Burke, author of the Irene Kelly series
"Dorothy B. Hughes was such a mistress of dark suspense that I always had to read the end of her books first to keep from biting off all my fingernails." —Margaret Maron, author of Three-Day Town
"In my rookie days Dorothy B. Hughes was the writer I most wanted to emulate. To me she had the sense of place and the narrative drive of Eric Ambler-tautened by a woman's edginess. To me she still imparts that delightful quiver." —Dorothy Salisbury Davis, author of In the Still of the Night
"Dorothy B. Hughes was in a class of her own. To be a female writer of hard-boiled fiction back in the 1940s was unusual enough, but to write a first-person narrative form the viewpoint of a male serial killer was breaking new ground by anybody's standards." —Max Déecharné author of Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins of Great Crime Films
"In Hughes's novel, however, there is not a drop of romanticism, not a touch of fantasy. It is a dark, cold gem of a book, a gem without a flicker of heat or light. One that cuts to the touch." —Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me and The Fever
"Hughes was a wonderful writer. There is nothing overdone with her dialog and descriptions. Dix moving through the night, stalking his victims, is suspenseful and chilling but written quietly and creating an atmosphere that makes the reader feel the night and fog about them as they read." —Mack Captures Crime blog
"Dorothy B. Hughes writes literary hardboiled noir taking on and matching Chandler, Hammett, Cain and Thompson at their game." —Rob Kitchlin, author of The White Gallows
Publisher: NYRB Classics
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Search and Rescue Team Aces Reaccreditation
May 18, 2017 | By Andrew Wice
Mia Goldman (SF14) and former tutor Lauren Brubaker share a laugh. (Photo by Kevin Lange)
It was a perfect spring day on the Santa Fe campus of St. John's College.
The sun was out and students lounged outside, enjoying the welcome heat and blue skies.
Across campus, at the Student Activity Center, several Johnnies zipped on warm gear in preparation for something quite different: a grueling, two-day, technical rescue accreditation process with the international Mountain Rescue Association (MRA).
As volunteer members of the Atalaya Search and Rescue (ASAR) team, they belong to one of two MRA-accredited rescue teams in the state of New Mexico. The team includes students, alumni and retired tutors, along with many members from outside the St. John's community.
ASAR originated in 1972 as a college activity and is now an independent organization. The St. John's campus remains its base camp, which is ideally situated for rescue training. Above the campus, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains tower, rising just over 10,000 feet.
The reaccreditation process, which happens every five years, ended in success this year and garnered the team a gold standard endorsement in all five categories: high angle (cliff) rescue, avalanche rescue, wilderness rescue, scree (steep slope) evacuation and snow evacuation.
Members of the Atalaya Search and Rescue team get prepared. (Photo by Kevin Lange)
It is a welcome validation of the hard and dangerous work: rappelling down brittle faces of granite cliffs and marching through snowdrifts takes a particular type of person.
Lauren Brubaker, a retired St. John's tutor and longstanding member of the ASAR team, muses on the merits of combining cerebral and corporal vigor.
"SJC is largely concerned with intellectual virtues, and ASAR with physical ones," Brubaker says. "I myself need to participate in both kinds of activities or I am not happy."
Mastering all aspects of technical rescue requires enormous dedication, and the number of hours that members volunteer speaks to the rewards of the task itself. Members often remain on the team, year after year, safeguarding adventurers from the dangers that northern New Mexico's four seasons of outdoor recreation bring.
Original member and tutor emeritus William Donahue has participated in many successful rescues. When locating lost hikers, he explains, searchers ask questions, piece together the clues that emerge and follow a clear plan of action.
"Where were they last seen? What did they plan to do? Do we know anything about their strengths and capabilities? We talk to as many people as we can. Meanwhile, there are certain things you do right away. You've got two or three most likely routes, so you send hasty teams out on those routes, have them sweep the trails, make a lot of noise."
The Atalaya Search and Rescue team treks through northern New Mexico. (Photo by Kevin Lange)
Rock climbers create their own dangerous equation: As they gain experience and confidence, they can get themselves into precarious positions. These high angle cliff rescues—dangerous, dramatic and, thankfully, rare—require the extensive advanced technical training that sets the ASAR team apart.
One positive development in the world of search and rescue is the prevalence of cell phones, which can often help rescuers locate a lost or injured person.
On the flip side, cell phones have also provided a sense of comfort to people wandering into unfamiliar territory without preparation. Yet when cell phones and GPS systems do fail, they can leave people in perilous conditions.
With a busy summer season ahead, the Atalaya Search and Rescue team will be ready.


Drive a classic or sports car on the circuits of UK and Europe, and share your driving passion with like-minded drivers in similar vehicles.
Join us at our upcoming Sessioned Day at Goodwood on the 3rd of July. Places are very limited as this is a rare noisy day 105db static/101dB drive by) so book now!
Mark Hales' racing career has provided a great depth of diverse experience in all kinds of different cars as well as an opportunity to develop the complex mental tools which are essential to an understanding of the track driver's art. The parallel career as a writer has given Mark the chance to develop effective communication techniques. The ability to express that understanding in an understandable and non-technical style.
Become a member of the Classic Tracks Car Club Premier and get access to all UK track days. You will also benefit from 20% discount on all car hire and receive a free enamel Car Club Premier badge.
All for £1,000 per annum.
We will be announcing our women-only track days very soon, if you're interested in hearing more about these sessions, please contact us.
For less experienced drivers, choose a novice-only track day, that is sessioned for novices. There is some comfort in knowing you will be on track with people of a similar ability, and you will all be learning together.
Do read our Classic Tracks novices guide to track days – it contains lots of tips on how to make your day fun, exciting and safe.


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● Most hacked passwords revealed in warning over cyber security Easily guessed passwords being used across multiple accounts have been highlighted as a major gap in the online security practices of UK internet users.
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● Five of the best: Italian restaurants in East Lancashire When surveys are carried out about the most popular kind of restaurant, the Italian almost invariably heads the list.
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Shortage of drivers: a holistic approach is needed to address a number of critical issues to make the profession in Europe more attractive
Press release Brussels, 27 September 2021 Shortage of drivers: a holistic approach is needed to address a number of critical issues to make the profession in Europe more attractive. Shortage of drivers across Europe is impacting supply chains, trade and the real economy as a whole. The British government's...
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Industry stands together in the call for Safe and Secure Truck Parking Areas
JOINT PRESS STATEMENT 16 September 2021 We, the undersigned associations, representing freight forwarders, logistics service providers, insurance companies, secure parking operators and road transport operators, underline the urgent need to move forward with the construction of new Safe and Secure Truck Parking Areas (SSTPAs) in the...
The new EC Mobility strategy contains a number of positive measures, but it does not fully address problems still unresolved in the EU road haulage market
UETR appreciates the new EC's Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy, containing a number of measures supporting the transition to a sustainable and smart road haulage sector. However, a level playing field and fair competition on EU Internal Market must be further addressed. Julio Villaescusa, UETR President,...
UETR welcomes European Council's conclusions on coordination on COVID
UETR welcomes the European Council's conclusions of Friday 2 October for COVID, "1. The European Council held an in-depth discussion on the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is determined to stand together in this difficult situation, and calls on the Council, together with the...
Europe needs predictable and harmonised approaches to travel rules under COVID – UETR in Joint Statement ahead of European Council
UETR together with other European Organisations in the joint statement calling on EU policy makers ahead of European Council to adopt a coordinated, harmonized and proportionate approach to restrictions, for level playing field in movement of goods to ensure economic continuity. Joint Statement: Europe needs predictable...
Landmark vote on the Mobility Package for a fair and competitive EU road haulage sector
Press release Brussels, 9 July 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Landmark vote on the Mobility Package for a fair and competitive EU road haulage sector UETR welcomes the agreement reached yesterday evening by the Plenary Session of the European Parliament on the social and market aspects of the Mobility Package. Julio Villaescusa,...
UETR welcomes the European Commission's new measures to support road transport sector amid the Coronavirus pandemic
UETR welcomes the relief package proposed today by the European Commission to help road transport companies to carry on at this very difficult time. These are concrete measures addressing a number of practical problems encountered by road haulers due to the pandemic. Provisions on the extension of professional certificates and licenses...
Brexit: border checks announced from 31 Dec- read UETR's view on POLITICO
The U.K. government has finally admitted there will be border checks on EU goods come December 31. Now operators have 10 months to minimize the damage. Full Article below: Customs checks "will inevitably follow" the U.K.'s exit from EU rules at the end of 2020, Cabinet Office Minister...
UETR acknowledges progress made with the vote of the EP mini-plenary on the Mobility Package
Brussels, 5 April 2019 The outcome is obviously a compromise, but represents an acceptable balance between harmonization and liberalization. In particular, the approval of specific rules on the posting of drivers is a step forward, against the risk of being faced with a regulatory gap for the...
UETR SG interview on The Economist on Schengen checks impact on road transport
Read UETR SG Marco Digioia's interview on the impact on road transport on The Economist's article on "Border checks are undermining Schengen". ...


Providing the necessary documents for a visa to Germany - our free service for those who purchase a trip through Pferdeland.ru. Therefore, the absence of the need to obtain an invitation does not reduce the cost of the trip.
If one or more participants do not have a Schengen visa valid for the dates of the tour you have booked, please provide the passport details of all those who need a visa to Germany and the method of delivery of the documents at the time of booking. If at the time of ordering you do not have passport data, you can add them later at any time.
You will be provided with a visa application for the German Consulate ("invitation") for the duration of the booked trip, a voucher with the list of services ordered and the coordinates of the place of residence and, if ordered, travel insurance.
Since the Embassy usually requires an invitation in the original, & nbsp; delivery of documents is carried out by mail (without surcharge) or through the courier service (surcharge of 60 euros).
Those who do not need a visa, receive documents from us (voucher and insurance) by e-mail.
Since & nbsp; the invitation must indicate that the trip is fully paid, the documents will be sent within 1-2 working days after the full payment of the tour. It is not possible to issue an invitation on the basis of a partial prepayment.
If you plan to stay in Germany longer than the tour you have booked, and would like to obtain a visa for a longer period, you should provide documents (hotel reservation, invitation, etc.) for the rest of your stay in addition to our invitation to the Embassy. Pferdeland.ru provides an invitation strictly on the dates of the booked tour.
You make an appointment at the Embassy to obtain a visa and collect the rest of the necessary documents on your own.
When making a trip to the equestrian camp for a child over 12 years old, coming unaccompanied, in consent to travel abroad, issued by a notary, indicates that the parents allow the child & quot;departure... unaccompanied".
For children under 12 years of age, arriving unaccompanied by adults, as a rule requires mandatory registration of services to accompany the airline staff. In this case, the consent to travel as an accompanying person indicates "representative of the airline so-and-so" (from which you have booked tickets to Germany).
Attention! The rules may change, find out the latest information about the rules of submission of documents on the website of the German Embassy.
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Here's Murrow: "A society of the wise does not need television. Democracy, I suggest, cannot do its work well without it. Supposing that freedom is more important than safety, then the tyranny of the wise is only less objectionable than the tyranny of the unwise. The choice we face is between a despotism of the ruthlessly ambitious, not of the wise, and of an intelligent democracy." In other words, citizens need to develop a form of critical literacy that allows them to encounter the political words and images on the television screen and not just see them, but see through them.
It's not television, per se, that's the problem. It's what we do with it ... or rather what we don't do with it, that we won't often take the time to be critical consumers. That's the same for technology in general. I'm trying not to be skeptical, but it looks as if tomorrow's Frontline (Growing Up Online) might be another doom and gloom look at new media tools. Hopefully there will be a range of opinions.
As in so many things, education is the answer.


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Shell/Russia: western knowhow is now a no-no in LNG project
Shell is counting the cost of its retreat from Russia. The tally could be as high as $5bn, it said on Thursday. That will not faze investors. Rival BP's writedowns could be five times as big. But Shell's exit could be more complicated. It may also have a bigger impact on Russia's future ability to exploit its energy assets.
Shedding a shareholding in a Russian company, as BP intends to do with Rosneft, is irksome. But it is simpler than walking away from operational assets. As much as half of Shell's expected $4bn to $5bn of writedowns relates to partnerships with Gazprom, including its 27.5 per cent stake in the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas facility.
The remainder includes a 10 per cent stake in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, $400mn worth of downstream operations and — as revealed on Thursday — up to $1.6bn of other items, such as unpaid contracts.
All that amounts to less than 2 per cent of non-current assets. It is less than a quarter of the writedowns made in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. But the relatively modest financial impact this time understates the significance of the withdrawal.
Though Shell was strong-armed into ceding majority control of the Sakhalin-2 gas project in 2006, its expertise remained crucial. Gazprom, which has focused on pipeline exports, has limited LNG knowhow. The Russian gas group will also lose access to advanced equipment if it is withdrawn by Shell in line with sanctions.
Shell will not cut and run. Safety is paramount, it says. The retreat will be made in stages. Even then, Gazprom should be able to keep production going if there are no big problems, says the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. In the medium-term, as equipment needs to be replaced, the project's performance could be still undermined.
The west's reliance on Russia for energy far outstrips Russia's dependence on western expertise and equipment. But when it comes to LNG, the dependence is not entirely one-way.
EY Germany to axe hundreds of jobs in post-Wirecard cost-cutting push
Central banks prepare to lift interest rates to 15-year highs as investor jitters grow
Bitcoin can still crack $50K if gold correlation continues — Chart


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Saudi Arabia registers first female lawyer
Saudi Arabia has registered its first female trainee advocate, paving the way for women to practise as lawyers in the kingdom where strict Islamic Sharia law applies, an activist said on Tuesday.
Saudi women on bikes (with restrictions)
A Saudi newspaper says the kingdom's religious police are now allowing women to ride motorbikes and bicycles but only in restricted, recreational areas.
The Al-Yawm daily on Monday cited an unnamed official from the powerful religious police as saying women can ride bikes in parks and recreational areas but they have to be accompanied by a male relative and dressed in the full Islamic head-to-toe abaya.
Saudi Arabia follows an ultraconservative interpretation of Islam and bans women from driving.
Women are also banned from riding motorcycles or bicycles in public places.
The newspaper didn't say what triggered the lifting of the ban.
The official says women may not use the bikes for transportation but "only for entertainment" and that "to avoid harassment" they should shun places where young men gather.
Saudi executes 7 convicted of armed robbery: Witness
Saudi Arabia today executed seven men convicted of armed robbery despite last-minute appeals by international rights groups that their lives be spared, a witness in the southern city of Abha said.
John Kerry holds talks with Gulf ministers in Saudi
John Kerry was on Monday holding talks with his counterparts from six Gulf monarchies on the war in Syria and Iran's disputed atomic programme, on his first visit to the Gulf as US secretary of state.
Saudi males use e-eye to track their women
Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements.
Grant Assad safe passage: Cameron
British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested on Tuesday that Syria's president Bashar Assad could be allowed safe passage out of the country if that option would guarantee an end to the nation's civ
Saudi gas truck blast kills many
A gas tanker truck exploded on a main road in the Saudi capital on Thursday, killing at least 22 people,
injuring about 111 others and leaving a trail of destruction, officials said.
The lorry veered
Saudi Arabia threatens to block YouTube over anti-Islam film
Saudi Arabia has threatened to block YouTube in the kingdom if Google does not respond to a request to deny access to an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, the official SPA news agency rep
Saudi calls for extraordinary Muslim summit
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Saudi Arabia has called for an extraordinary summit of Muslim leaders to be held next month to address risks of 'sedition' threatening Muslim countries, state news agency SPA reported on Sunday.
Olympics: Saudi sets rules for first women competitors
Saudi sportswomen, who have been given the go-ahead to compete in the Olympics for the first time in London later this month, must respect the ultra-conservative kingdom's rules, its sports chief said


At North Cascades Bank, we take great pride in being locally grown, born and bred right here in the North Cascades. We value our roots. That's why you'll find so many of us serving on local boards, participating in local events and sponsoring community programs throughout the year. We live here, we work here, and we play here. With a setting as beautiful and bountiful as North Central Washington, can you blame us?
Most importantly, we're as proud of our employees and their commitment to our communities as we are of our long-standing record of financial strength, service and integrity. When we say that North Cascades Bank is actively involved in making our communities better places to live – it's not just marketing, it's who we are.
North Cascades Bank is a community bank operating as a division of Glacier Bank of Kalispell, Montana. With locations in Chelan, Omak, Okanogan, Twisp, Brewster, Grand Coulee, Waterville, Wenatchee and East Wenatchee, we serve all of North Central Washington.
Chelan Valley Hope – our donation helped this organization secure a permanent location from which to deliver a variety of services to under-resourced individuals throughout the Lake Chelan Valley.
Lighthouse Christian Ministries – our donation helped fund the renovation of a building to house, among other services, a soup kitchen, medical and dental clinic, and food bank serving the homeless in the Greater Wenatchee Area.
North Central Education Foundation – for the past couple years we have been the main sponsor of a program that provides classroom project grants to teachers in Okanogan, Grant, Douglas, and Chelan counties.
Local Schools – we sponsor and fund financial literacy education curriculum in elementary schools in our communities.
Performing Arts Center of Wenatchee – we are the presenting sponsor of the Wenatchee Apple Blossom musical production in May.
Community Festivals – we support as many community festivals as possible by providing sponsorships, volunteers, and by participating in parades and events.
North Cascades Bank encourages all of our employees to volunteer their time with community based organizations. Being involved with local organizations helps us better understand the needs of the communities we serve, enabling us to be responsive to the things that are important to the people who live here, us included!
North Cascades Bank has given me such an incredible opportunity to live my dreams and follow in my dad's footsteps as a banker. After closing our restaurant and being a chef for quite some time, I took a leap of faith to find out what the banking world has to offer me. I did not have any banking experience when I first started working for NCB, but I could easily tell that I was meant to work for this company from the moment I walked in to this bank. From my first interview to where I am today shows that anything is possible with hard work, dedication, and believing in yourself. I started as a part-time teller and began moving up in my position to a full-time teller. However, I didn't stop advancing at just the teller level, soon I became the company's first ever Resource Banker and now I am a Personal Banker. Being a Personal Banker is the position that I've worked toward and desired for quite some time and I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for every single one of my NCB family members who supported me through my journey. They inspired me with their encouraging words and stories and I am incredibly grateful. North Cascades Bank has provided an environment for growth, advancement, and allowed me to build relationships with my colleagues and our customers. NCB is a great community bank that truly cares about their customers and employees and goes above and beyond to help our clients. This is a true reflection of our promise to be North of the Expected. It's a great company to start a career in banking and I wouldn't want to work anywhere else. I look forward to seeing where this journey in banking takes me and what NCB has in store for me in the future.
The moment I walked in to North Cascades Bank for my first job interview, I felt comfortable and at ease. I was greeted with warm friendly smiles and relaxed conversation. During the interview I felt a strong sense of pride and company loyalty. This was unlike any interview I have been in before; their choice was not only to add an employee but to add a member to their North Cascades Bank family.
Almost three years later, I share the same sense of pride and company loyalty I felt in that first interview. Every member of our North Cascades Bank team appreciates dedication and hard work; not only at work but in our communities. We encourage innovative ideas in an effort to streamline processes and continue growth.
In an industry built on compliance, North Cascades Bank has successfully managed to create an environment built on teamwork, accountability, community involvement, accomplishments, and fun.
I walk in the door every day knowing today holds a great opportunity to be part of something meaningful; not only to our team but the lives of our customers and community. I leave with the knowledge that North Cascades Bank has given me the chance to become part of a remarkable team, but even better, part of a family.
Nineteen years ago North Cascades Bank purchased the small community bank I was working for. I remember feeling anxious about how the change would impact my job. I soon realized my new employer shared the same priorities I have had through out my 37 years of banking, which is to provide exceptional, personalized customer service. I also learned quickly that with hard work and dedication a person could grow their career with the company and receive support and encouragement from supervisors and senior management.
I began my banking journey fresh out of high school as a teller. While working for North Cascades Bank, I have had the opportunity to transition from a teller to new accounts area, and was eventually promoted to a branch manager. In 2017 the bank made plans to develop a teller training program and hire a new trainer. While I enjoyed my role as branch manager and the interaction with customers on a daily basis, I thought training new tellers would be extremely rewarding. I applied for the Trainer position and I now lead the bank's teller training program. In my current training position I have the opportunity to share my banking experiences while at the same time mentoring and encouraging new tellers. I hope that after hearing the story of my journey, all North Cascades Bank tellers will realize the opportunities available to them and feel confident in knowing that there will be lots of encouragement and support along the way.


There is a misperception that bright and gifted students should be met with academic success with very little effort and that exceptional results should be well within their grasp if they try hard enough. Parents often perceive that giftedness programming is a place for accelerated and enriched learning and that keeping their children in a "normal" stream will stunt their potential. In reality, giftedness programming often exists to prevent bright students from floundering or underachieving in a more traditional stream, where their logical talents may be both a blessing and a curse.
During the early elementary years, being "smart" can lead to a great deal of success. Bright students see the big picture or the end goal quicker than many of their peers and they may very well be able to get to a solution in one single brilliant step. Rightfully so, these successes are praised, but could this have a negative impact on one's learning style?
When you reward a child for their successes the brain does not necessarily associate that reward with the fact that they produced a high quality result. Instead, you may unintentionally be encouraging a manner of responding that favours how quickly and seamlessly they can resolve the problems they are facing. Unfortunately, this may promote a manner of responding to test questions and projects that promotes rushing towards task completion and keeping track of all aspects of a task in one's head.
"The most strategic students I have met are those who have faced the greatest challenges"
The most strategic students I have met are those who have faced the greatest challenges. They had to develop countless alternative strategies to simply keep up with the pace of their peers or to show all that they are capable of. I have observed some remarkable techniques and outcomes from students with the most severe physical or learning disabilities imaginable. Many of these strategies I now teach to each student I work with.
In contrast, the least strategic students I have worked with are the bright and gifted population. It's not laziness. It's not disinterest. Instead, it typically a consequence of having been met with great success for many years by rushing into problems and completing tasks in one step or at the very last minute.
This approach can work quite well in the early and middle grades. The first signs of difficulty may emerge in the senior elementary years or during the transition to high school. Teachers begin to expect students to coordinate each stage of their approach more and projects begin to require work that spans many nights or a weekend of homework. Even the most talented thinkers can't keep track of all of these steps in their heads. They may, however, be able to envision the end result, which can reinforce old strategies that promote an attempt to get there in one fell swoop.
High school begins and the tendency to perceive work as being completable in a single step or with low efforts may continue. They may also begin to underestimate the amount of time necessary to complete work, which then leads to procrastination. Eventually marks start to take a hit and a student may: begin to believe they are less capable, lose interest in school, or begin to experience academic anxiety.
The anxious student may show a sudden increase in effort. Unfortunately, working hard and working smart are two different things. We have also learned that working smart and being smart are also not always related.
"... working hard and working smart are two different things"
A little over a half-decade ago I began looking for programming for these students. School based learning strategy courses did not always meet their needs, tutor centres focused on content more than the process, and I had yet to meet more than a handful of adolescents who were willing to work with their parents to develop these skills. So I created a learning therapy program targeting these exact needs.
I learned that bright students are more likely to connect with strategies if they make logical sense to them. My focus is to help them understand how the brain works and how they can "hack" their brains to meet its full potential. We then demonstrate practical ways to take advantage of this knowledge during note-taking, reading, project and time management, studying, and test-taking. Not every student will jump on board with every strategy, but everyone tends to find a few things that really work for them.
In the end, my goal is to teach bright and gifted students to think strategically. To pause and reflect on "what" they are being asked to do and "how" they should respond to that expectation. It can be quite remarkable how much can change by simply thinking about how to work smart rather than just being smart.
At FLEX Psychology we offer an ever expanding slate of workshops and group trainings. We are also available to support our students as they implement these strategies into their workflow. Keep an eye on our websites www.flexpsychology.ca and www.studentstrats.ca for more information or contact us to talk about how we can help your bright or gifted teen be met with increased success.