The death of the late Mrs R M [Arabella Clotilda] Collins which occurred at her home Tamrookum yesterday afternoon removes a member of one of the oldest pioneer families of the Upper Logan district. The late Mrs. Collins, before her marriage, was Miss Arabella Clotilda Bowles Smyth, younger daughter of Mr. Christopher Smyth, of Cork (Ireland) and her marriage took place in Ireland in 1879. Later in the same year Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Collins arrived in Queensland and after spending a fortnight at Mundoolun, the old home of the Collins family, they made their home at Tamrookum in the Beaudesert district. In 1880 Glenville Kingsley, youngest son of Rev. Charles Kingsley, the famous writer, was the guest of Mr. And Mrs. Collins, which led to his purchasing an adjoining property which was afterwards taken over by the late Lord Henry Phipps. On the death of Mr Grenville Kingsley, which occurred in 1898, by his expressed wish he was buried in the Memorial Churchyard at Tamrookum. The deceased lady was the mother of seven children–six daughters and one son. The last named, Mr. Christopher John Collins, died in 1910, and the daughters are Mesdames Henry Bruxner (Jelbyn, near Tamrookum), Colin Philp, J. W. Ralston, De Burgh Persse (Tabragalba, Beaudesert), Douglas Harris, and Douglas Fraser (Mundoolun). The funeral will take place at the private cemetery at Tamrookum tomorrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock.
'Collins, Arabella Clotilda (1857–1931)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/collins-arabella-clotilda-19735/text31030, accessed 25 April 2019.


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Social Safety Administration is a government company which is independent from all branches of the government. Social Safety Administration coverage for the Social Security insurance program when it began coated virtually the entire workers in the non-governmental sectors who are under the age of sixty five. Those that have been beneath such program were under Medicare as effectively.
Preliminary Utility – an application for the Social Safety Disability advantages may be filed in 3 ways, by a cellphone name, through the internet, or personally at your native Social Safety Workplace. If SSA approves the price agreement and no one requests administrative evaluation, the payment specified within the settlement is the utmost payment the representative may charge and collect.
In that case, your social security incapacity law legal professional will probably be in a position that will help you plan a case that will be introduced to the Administrative Regulation Decide. Nonetheless, there is a $25 payment to cover our prices when the letter is to inform the missing person of cash or property due her or him.
As soon as the individual reaches their full retirement age they will preserve working and their Social Security benefits will not be decreased regardless of how much they earn. When applying, you will first want to find out if you're eligible for Social Security Incapacity, SSD, or Supplemental Security Income, SSI.
A fee petition is a written assertion signed by a claimant's consultant requesting the fee the consultant wants to cost and gather for companies she or he offered in pursuing the claimant's benefit rights in proceedings earlier than the Social Security Administration (SSA).


We use Meraki MDM and Apple DEP. I have an iPad that was returned and needs to be reset for another user.
Internet search says to just reboot the iPad, hold down the home button, and magic. But this does absolutely nothing.
How can I regain control of our iPad?
I don't have any experience with Meraki MDM, but I do remember seeing that same message when a profile from Apple Configurator (the first version) was setup to limit what computers an iPad could communicate with. If I recall correctly a DFU restore should clear that.
yes it can, but it requires that you purchase a RDS CAL @$85 (US) and you have to install an app on the ipad that allows you to configure the ipad to use the RDGateway to directly log into the users desktop.
I'd say to contact Apple and talk the Enterprise Dept. There may be something they are able to do to help you get that device functional again.
Someone had a question similar to this a while ago. IIRC, you have to contact Apple support and be able to prove that you were the original purchaser of the device with invoice in hand. And then hope they decide to unlock it.
Apple has helped me with the same problem you're having in the past.


Have you ever stepped onto a paving slab and felt your foot go from under you? It happened to me a couple of times yesterday when I was out delivering Christmas cards. The readings this morning are, in some ways, a bit like that. They don't offer quite the firm footing that they appear to.
The prophet, it is true, is brimming with confidence in the imminent arrival of God's new order. Glory, like June, is "bustin' out all over". Healing and renewal are the order of the day – and not just for God's people but for the whole earth.
There's a rather different tone coming from James. He is writing for people who have lost that vision of a blossoming desert, or who still have it and want to know why it hasn't arrived yet. "Be patient", he tells them. "Do not grumble." Not much joy, nor much glory, in James's community. He's looking at grumpiness and impatience rather than healing and renewal.
And then there's the gospel…. No cheap optimism there. Not much hope, either. We start with John the Baptist is in prison. Not the best place from which to beginb. And he, too, is losing hope. Is Jesus really the "one who is to come", the one who is to bring in God's kingdom in all its glory? Has it all been a horrible mistake?
Looking at the world around us, we might be tempted to share John's anxiety. Serious talk about the possibility that Russian interference rigged the election in the USA: our own government managing to offend both the Saudis and the Iranians – and still failing to come up with a vision of "Brexit" which goes beyond slogans: a double bombing in Istanbul: and the Assad regime poised to take control of the pile of rubble which used to be one of the great cities of the Middle East. Where, we might be tempted to ask, is God in all this mess?
Where is the prophetic voice to affirm God's renewing, healing power? Where is the one who has come and, as we proclaim in the Creed, will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. And what, anyway, can we, an ageing, dwindling congregation do?
And be patient. James commends the patience of the prophets, who proclaimed a word from God that they did not live to see fulfilled. Be patient and be positive. Don't be afraid of going deeper in faith, replacing the certainties of a newspaper headline with reflection in the light of God's word. Don't be afraid to go from belief to practice. Seek courage and humility. Read, study, and live the words of Jesus. Another thing we can do is to stand firm for truth, to replace fear with facts when it comes to public discussions about immigrants, refugees, Muslims, racial diversity, and national security. We can also love our neighbours, particularly those who are "different", by protecting them from hate speech and attacks, acting in support of people who are afraid because they have been targeted, especially standing alongside parents who are worried about the safety of their children. That means watching, reporting, and confronting hate speech and behaviour — against all ethnic and religious groups, women, LGBTQ people, immigrants, and all marginalised groups — and surrounding people who are being attacked with our support, both as individuals and as a community of Christians.
In what is sometimes described as a "post-truth" culture, that won't necessarily make us popular, but as Jesus points out, John the Baptist chose to live outside the mainstream, away from the close-knit communities of first-century Palestine, as he proclaimed a new way of looking at the world. Paradoxically, that message drew to the place where he was both "establishment figures" – the Pharisees and Sadducees mentioned in last Sunday's Gospel – and people who were also on the margins, tax-collectors and other highly unrespectable people.


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Bruce County's Pat Jilesen elected as Director-At-Large at OFA Convention in Niagara Falls, 2014. Photo by Ray Baynton.
OFA Holds Out Hope For CETA
By Caryn CeolinOctober 24, 2016 2:39pm@CarynCeolin
A director-at-large of Ontario's biggest farm group is disappointed a massive free trade deal between Canada and the European Union will not be met by today's deadline.
Earlier today, Belgium announced it still couldn't back the agreement, because its Walloon region wants it renegotiated.
Wallonia is worried their farmers won't be able to compete with cheaper, Canadian agri-food exports.
But Patrick Jilesen, with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, says growers rely on open marketing in Europe — and all across the globe — to make sales.
"Anytime you lose increased market access, it's going to harm," says Jilesen.
But Jilesen adds Canada can still ink a trade deal with the EU, and that a compromise can be found before a signing ceremony set for this Thursday.
"This is an important trade deal for agriculture in Canada, and my hope is that this isn't a complete collapse. I think it's a setback, but my hope is that [Canadian negotiators] will get back to the table," he says.
It's not clear what negotiations may take place going forward, although EU President Donald Tusk is now echoing Jilesen's own sentiments that CETA isn't dead in the water just yet.
Jilesen is holding out hope.
"I believe that there still is a path forward here," he says. "Another delay in this process could be difficult for the agriculture economy in Canada, but let's just hope they get back to the table."
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Gun-Loving GOP Rep's Comms Director Quits After Just 2 Weeks
"Following the events of January 6th, I've decided to part ways with the office," Ben Goldey said in a statement to Axios.
'Daily' Host Apologizes After Radio Stations Blast NYT
'I FAILED'
Michael Barbaro apologized for DMing critics of the New York Times' Caliphate podcast.
Fired FL COVID Data Scientist to Turn Herself in After Raid
'CENSORSHIP'
Rebekah Jones says she's being silenced by Florida Gov. Ron Desantis for her refusal to manipulate COVID-19 statistics.
Texan Pleads Guilty in Saudi Envoy Plot
YEP, THAT WAS ME
Updated Apr. 21, 2017 3:22PM ET / Published Oct. 18, 2012 6:43AM ET
Nueces County Sheriff's Office, File / AP Photo
A Texas used-car salesman entered a plea of guilty to conspiring with Iranians to plan the assassination of a Saudi diplomat. Manssor Arbabsiar was arrested one year ago and now faces up to 25 years in prison. U.S. officials have labeled the plot as an attempt by Iran to carry out act of terrorism on U.S. soil. Arbabsiar has both Iranian and U.S. citizenship.
Read it at The Washington Post


I am going to give you a system that is going to help impact how your keyword research is conducted, how it's implemented into content, and I believe, impact the results you're going to get from that keyword research.
Essentially, there are four categories of search intent.
1) Navigational searches – someone searching for Twitter support or looking up Facebook.
2) Informational searches – who, what, when, where, how type searches.
3) Commercial investigation – someone looking for unbiased reviews or maybe looking through Amazon reviews or Yelp.
4) Transactional searches – someone at the end of the buying cycle looking for free shipping, or buy it now, or products near me.
I will give you a practical example of what I'm talking about as we walk through each of the steps you need to take.
This is like defining your head term. I have Googled 'beard oil' as an example. Once you have done that, you need to move to step two.
Simply click into the search box and look at what Google is showing. You can see here they are displaying 'beard oil reviews' and that is what? Commercial investigation. You get a star.
'Beard oil growth'– that is more in the informational how to.
Then here is your transactional and you maybe even could consider this navigational because they are trying to get somewhere specific on a specific site.
What does this tell us? This, you will see, play out on a lot of the head terms, and the head term is essentially something very broad, not very specific. Google does not actually know what your intent is, so it is kind of giving you a little bit of everything. You will notice that. It may be product focused. Here is some pricing, here are some products, there's advertising on the page.
The first result though is informational. It is saying 'what the heck is beard oil?' 'How does it work?' The very second one is kind of an eCommerce site. It is a little bit all over the map, and you will notice that Google does this with a lot of head terms.
You now want to hone in on your results for the specific category that you are going to try to make content for, and do keyword research for, and optimize for. In this case, we are going to look at informational. We are more interested in this article than we are of this product-focused transactional content. Let's take a look at a more specific informational keyword.
I have 'what does beard oil do?' Notice there are no ads. The results are all informational. There is a featured snippet here that is informational from the Huffington Post that result where it was ranking number one. It is the same one, but now they are displaying the information differently because of search intent.
None of this is complicated, but once you get this ingrained in how you do keyword research and how you match this up, it is going to make a massive difference. I'm looking at this– I see that these informational searches are probably the way I want to go, and I want to kind of match up with what is out there right now that is doing well in the top 10 and top 20 on Google.
Use Answer the Public— It is a free keyword tool. If you are not familiar with it, you should check out my free keyword research video. I tested out a ton of free keyword tools and this is one of them. I have put 'beard oil' into Answer the Public.
It is going to show me all the questions and propositions that are being asked around my head term, 'beard oil'. This is where you are going to get a lot more informational intent.
All that kind of stuff is in here. What I want you to do is export your list to a CSV.
We are going to analyze the keywords in bulk with another free keyword tool, Keywords Everywhere. If you have a paid tool, go ahead and use that too. I am just showing you some free options, so you have them. I just took all the prepositions and all the questions from Answer the Public, and then I pasted them into Keywords Everywhere. In my results, you can see one of the top searches is 'what does beard oil do?' People are asking about growth, things like that.
Create a keyword list that aligns– and this is key, that aligns exclusively with your search intent category. 'Beard oil near me', that is a mobile search. It has nothing to do with your search intent that you are optimizing for.
'Beard oil for sale'– That is transactional. If it was the 'best beard oils', that is commercial investigation looking for reviews. You are going to remove all of these keywords that are not informational.
Do not try to do too much with one thing. Hyper-optimize on informational search intent if that is what you're going for.
You are going to end up with is a list like this– These are the target keywords that I grabbed, that are informational.
I have removed all of the things we just talked about, the research ones, the commercial ones. All that is gone and this is what we are left with that has traffic.
This is where everybody tends to make a mistake. They take this keyword list and they hand it off to their copywriters. It is not the worst thing in the world to do. You are giving them a lot of direction, but you are not going to like the result you get, and I don't think Google will either. It is just human nature that they are going to try to shoe horn in these keywords everywhere, and 99% of the time it does not work.
What you are actually going to do is use the remaining keywords to create a rough outline. This is nothing groundbreaking. It is a very simple outline. I am telling my editor, "Hey, we're going to do informative content." Instead of giving them keywords, I am giving them the outline. You can see that I'm saying, "What is this?" This section is going to be 'what does beard oil actually do' and then I want you to kind of address why you would use it?, What's it made out of?. Then I am going to have a section on how to apply it, how often, how much, how long is this going to last me? Again, these are all from the keywords, but I am presenting it to the editor so that it is much more about just answering those questions and intent that the searchers have.
I am going to try and make one great resource that Google can look at and go, "Wow, if I send people here and they are in the information stage and they are gathering information, this would be an amazing resource, because it hits on everything." Because Google knows what they are searching too. Now you do too and you can match it to your content.
I have this whole list out, then down at the bottom, you will notice that I have the content and video suggestions.
You want to get the average content length of the top 10 results to kind of approximate the depth of your content. You do not need to be so specific, like, "I used SEMrush and looked at the top 10." They said that was an average. They had about 1,200 to 1,300 words. Don't get too caught up on it. Just use it as an approximation. If you don't have a premium tool like SEMrush, or something similar, you can literally just visit each of those pages, copy out the body content and paste that into a Google doc, and collect all that, and then get your average for free.
Hand the outline, not the keyword list to your editor. Don't even let them see the keyword list. You are going to get much better content back, and they are going to be writing for the user and not for keywords.
Make slight optimization changes before you publish. Tweak that a little bit to make sure that it is nailing everything that you want, but do it at that stage. You are going to have much better content. I promise if you implement this and you just start thinking about it, like, "Okay, wait a minute. This article is straying into transactional." It really should not.
Now could you have a CTA in this for a free trial of your beard oil if that was the case? Sure. In general, just do not try to mix them up too much. If you want to have one that is a review, then go all out on that. Have a staffer review 10 beard oils and give their take on it and that kind of thing.
Hopefully, this video gets you thinking in this mindset, and I really believe that it will help your end result. I know, it has helped mine. Hit me up down the comments. I'm very active and I usually try to respond to every single one. Subscribe, like, hit me up on Twitter, all those things, and I'll see you in the next video.


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Arch Mission teams up with Astrobotic to send Wikipedia and more to the moon
by Alan Boyle on May 15, 2018 at 5:37 pm May 15, 2018 at 5:57 pm
The Lunar Library will be stored as microfiche images etched on stamp-sized squares of nickel. A dime is set among the squares to provide a sense of scale. (Arch Mission Foundation Photo)
The Arch Mission Foundation is partnering with Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic to have a miniaturized library sent to the moon's surface aboard a lunar lander in 2020.
The Lunar Library will include a wide range of works — including the contents of Wikipedia and the Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project, a library of the world's languages. The text will be printed on 20-micron-thick, stamp-sized sheets of nickel, using a laser etching technique that can produce letters as small as bacteria. (You'd need a 1000x optical microscope to read the pages, but you wouldn't need a computer.)
"We're thrilled the Arch Mission Foundation has selected Astrobotic. It's humbling to think our mission to the moon will deliver something that could be read millions of years from now," Astrobotic CEO John Thornton said today in a news release. "Arch's Lunar Library will be a monument not only to human knowledge and culture, but also the first commercial mission to the moon."
Astrobotic is aiming to send its Peregrine lander to the moon on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in 2020, potentially as part of NASA's reworked lunar exploration initiative. Because of its miniaturized design, the Lunar Library could fit 30 million pages in a thin cylindrical container about the size of a DVD.
This wouldn't be the first library launched into space. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket sent the Arch Mission's micro-printed copy of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy into deep space, packed along with the Starman mannequin aboard Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.
Arch Mission also has plans to send libraries to Mars and other cosmic locales.
"Through massive replication around the solar system, we will be able to guarantee that the Arch Libraries will never be lost — even millions to billions of years in the future," said Nova Spivack, co-founder and chairman of the Arch Mission Foundation.
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Hampton School is regularly inspected and assessed by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), the body approved by the government for the purpose of inspecting independent schools in the UK. This page details the outcomes of the two most recent ISI inspections conducted at Hampton: the Regulatory Compliance Inspection in March 2019; and the Integrated Inspection (Educational Quality and Compliance) in March 2016.
Regulatory Compliance Inspection (RCI) reports issued by ISI are rather generic in nature. The 2019 inspection visit reported only on the School's compliance with standards. The standards represent minimum requirements and judgements are given as met or not met. Hampton School has met all of the inspection criteria and as such is judged to be fully compliant. The School meets the standards in the schedule to the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014 and no further action was required as a result of the inspection.
They would be justified in shouting their achievements from the rooftops.There is currently a real energy about the school and boys appeared to be genuinely happy.
One of the aims of the school is for Hamptonians to strive 'for personal success while supporting those around them.' If the boys who showed us around are anything to go by, they are accomplishing their goal admirably.
Hampton is producing young men of integrity. No wonder the head is so proud of them.
In summer 2015 over 700 Hampton parents took part in a survey, conducted by the independent marketing and research consultancy RSAcademics, on their views of the School. The response was overwhelmingly positive, with parents praising many areas of school life from academic standards to the breadth of sporting and co-curricular provision, as well as the 'well-rounded' and 'unpretentious' nature of Hampton boys.


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Anti-Semitism on Campus: A Clear and Present Danger [incl. George Saliba, Hamid Dabashi, Joseph Massad, Steven Salaita, MESA]
by Aron Hier and Harold Brackman
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/22568/anti-semitism-on-campus-a-clear-and-present
[Ed. Note: This is an excerpt from the report, "Anti-Semitism on Campus: A Clear and Present Danger," which can be accessed in its entirety here.]
PROFESSORS WHO MARCH IN LOCKSTEP AGAINST JEWISH RIGHTS
Colleges and universities are triadic institutions that depend on the professionalism and passionate commitment to education of faculty, students, and administrators.
Unfortunately, the many in the U.S. professoriate seem to be having increasingly difficulty finding the conviction to stand up against anti-Semitism including Jew hatred masquerading as "anti-Zionism."
At virtually all universities, Middle East Studies Departments, organized into professional associations like the Middle East Studies Association [MESA], have been transformed since after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War from an emphasis on regional scholarship to agitation and propaganda against Israel and often the U.S. As Professor Bernard Lewis has documented, these trends were cemented by Columbia Professor Edward Said's theory of "Orientalism" blaming all the Middle East woes on European, U.S., and Israeli actors. Lewis concludes that: Mideast Studies programs have been distorted "to a degree of thought control and limitations of freedom of expression without parallel in the western world since the eighteenth century."
It is important to note that this is not just an intellectual trend but a political one financed by Saudi and other Gulf State money as well as generous federal government grants. In addition to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, funders include Title VI Centers for Middle East Studies at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and others.
In the classroom, Jewish and Israeli students have been targeted for humiliation and ostracism. At Columbia University, a student's conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Middle Eastern Studies Professor George Saliba ended with him telling her: "You have no claim to the land of Israel. You have no voice in this debate. You have green eyes. You're not a Semite. I have brown eyes. I am a Semite." Professor Joseph Massad shut up an Israeli student taking his course by asking: "How many Palestinians have you killed." The Chair of Columbia's Middle East and Asian Language Department (MEALAC) wrote in an Egyptian newspaper: "Half a century of systematic maiming and murdering of another people has left . . . deep marks on the faces of Israeli Jews, the way they talk, the way they walk and the way they greet each other. There is a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of a culture." Former Columbia Anthropology Professor Nicholas De Genova chimed in with "the state of Israel has no claim to the Holocaust."
Mideast scholars—many of whom have carried over their hatred of Israel from that strife-torn region to American campuses—not only use their academic positions and memberships in departments and national and international professional associations to promote their extreme political agenda. When 500 so-called scholars called for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, Professor Martin Kramer, the president of Shalem College in Jerusalem and the former director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, told the Jerusalem Post: "I can think of no more dire threat to the academic freedom of Israeli scholars, than for their institutions to adopt any form of political orthodoxy. Many of the boycotters hail from the Arab Middle East. They wish to impose the same intolerant conformism that rules Arab universities on Israeli academia. The effort will fail."
Mideast scholars also exploit connections with scholars and organizations in other disciplines. Since 2007, the influential Modern Language Association (MLA) has featured pitched battles over divestment resolutions, pushed by its Radical Caucus, that have nothing to do with the study of modern languages. In January 2014, it devoted its entire opening session to a panel featuring papers skewering Israel. When Professor Barbara Harlow was asked why ignore the world's most egregious human rights offenders were ignored and Israel singled out, she responded blithely "Why not." Her response followed in the tradition of Professor Curtis Marez, president of the American Studies Association (ASA) which adopted an anti-Israel divestment resolution about the same time. His response to a similar question: "You have to start somewhere." Under a barrage of criticism, the ASA announced that, in the name of free speech, it would allow Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before its membership—but only if he billed himself as "Mr. Netanyahu"—not the Prime Minister of Israel.
While ASA had no scholarly credibility concerning the Mideast, over 100 librarians claiming such credibility because of their regional interest signed a statement announcing that henceforth they would not consider putting on the shelves books published by what they deemed "pro-Israel" presses. Commentary magazine rightly labeled this a step on the road to book burning.
When anyone speaks up against such politicizing of scholarship and teaching, the American Association of University Professors—over the protest of members such as Cary Nelson—decries such talk as a breach of "academic freedom" and the sin of Islamophobia. Steven Salaita was denied tenure by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne after the revelation of his tweets such as "too much of Israeli society is cheering the bloodletting in [Gaza] for me to make a firm distinction between the government and the people." In another, responding to the kidnapping of Israeli boys, he said, "You may be too refined to say it, but I'm not: I wish all the fucking West Bank settlers would go missing." In another, he asked, "At this point, if Netanyahu appeared on TV with a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian children, would anybody be surprised?" He also reposted this statement, in a context that left no doubt he endorsed it, on journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who has evidently been too critical of Hamas: "Jeffrey Goldberg's story should have ended at the pointy end of a shiv." Salaita not only sued the university but wealthy (Jewish) donors whom he accused of conspiring to deny him his rights. His anti-Jewish conspiracy theory resonated on the academic left.
A similar anti-Israel petition, distributed on the extremist Jadaliyya website, was signed by 500 historians, of varying degrees of professional reputation, only a few of whom specialized in the Middle East. Recovering leftist historian Ron Radosh entitled his analysis of their petition: "Historians for Hamas." Fortunately, the mainstream American Historical Association refused to move such a petition by a vote of 144 to 51.
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Mitch Daniels, Purdue University, and the COVID-19 Calculus
Tags: COVID-19, Mitch Daniels, Reoperining Universities, Teaching and Learning, Teaching and Social Responsibility
Post author:IvoryBlog
Post category:Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
This blog was initially inspired primarily by my sense that students and their learning had relatively little value in the decisions made in higher education. To capture this concern, I borrowed the subtitle of this series from E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful, transforming his "A Study of Economics as if People Mattered" into my "Higher Education as if Students Really Matter." But it would never have occurred to me that in slightly more than a year after I began publishing these essays, students would matter so little to some college administrators that there would be open discussion of how many of their lives might be sacrificed in efforts to protect universities from an economic catastrophe.
Purdue University president, Mitch Daniels, has emerged as the spokesperson for a new academic Realpolitik that is pressing universities to make such hard decisions. In an interview published by the Associated Press and in an op-ed in Washington Post,1 he presented his case for bringing 45,000 students back to his university's campus in the fall, despite warnings that this might contribute to the further spread of the disease.
Crises are moments when the real values of institutions are made visible, and the manner in which Daniels has responded to the pandemic reveals much about the new managerial culture that is emerging in academia. The particular strategy that he has proposed is open to serious challenges, but I want to focus at present on the values that are implicit in his defense of these decisions.
Daniels goes out of his way to avoid making his value system explicit. His Washington Post piece is titled "Why Failing To Reopen Purdue University This Fall Would Be An Unacceptable Breach Of Duty." But at no place in his article does he explain the nature of this duty or even indicate why it is important to keep the doors of the university open, except to suggest that this is what students and their parents would like to see. But identifying the implicit messages in texts is one of the things that humanists do, and I decided to imagine how one of my former students might use the tools that I had presented in my courses to get a fuller understanding of the significance and implications of his argument.
In my courses I have used Decoding the Disciplines to identify a series of crucial questions that historians automatically pose when faced with ideologically loaded texts. In my little thought experiment I have envisioned one of my former students applying these questions to Daniels' comment, particularly his assertion that, since most Purdue students are of traditional college age, "over 80 percent of our campus population is at near zero lethal risk." Here is my fantasy of what that student might learn from asking these questions:
Question 1: What is being foregrounded and what is being ignored?
Rather obviously, Daniels is focusing our attention on the 80% of the Purdue student body who are 18-21 years of age. Setting aside the fact that "near zero" is not necessarily zero when one is considering the approximately 36,000 students who are in this category, he is leaving in the background any non-lethal damage that the disease might cause in that population. More importantly, he is ignoring the remaining 20% of the student body, plus the faculty and staff of the university and those outside the campus with whom the student population might come in contact. The great majority of this large population is potentially vulnerable to the disease, but these disappear in Daniels' calculations. He also focuses on the efforts that the university is taking to minimize the spread of the disease during classes, but he devotes only a sentence to considering the role of students is creating a safe environment. Finally, he is concentrating entirely on the presence or absence of students in the classroom, not on whether anything might actually be learned under these extremely strained circumstances.
Question 2: What is being assumed?
Daniels is obviously assuming "a near zero lethal risk" among the core population, an assumption that is highly questionable given recent reports. Beneath that is the deeper assumption that scientists have already arrived at a full enough understanding of the virus that one can make firm assertions about the nature of the threat. And he takes for granted that university decisions can be made without serious consideration of either student behavior or the larger social environment within which the university exists. Finally buried in this statement is an implicit assumption that college is about credit hours and graduation rates, not learning and experiences.
Question 3: What values are implicit?
It seems clear from the issues that are emphasized in his comments that the efficient placement of students in courses and the image of the university and of its president are highly valued by Daniels. The absence of any assurances that students would actually be learning anything in this jerry-rigged and stressful environment suggests that this aspect of higher education has a lower position on his hierarchy of values. And there seems to be little importance placed on the well-being of those students who may have to survive a painful and potentially debilitating disease, let along those in the broader university community and beyond who might actually die because of the concentration of young people who can carry the disease without knowing it.
Question 4: Which groups in society stand to gain and which to lose if the author's position is widely accepted?
This is, of course, the most difficult question to answer from the text itself. Obviously those who depend on the university for their income are benefiting financially from this decision, although those who gain the most – highly paid administrators and athletic directors – are also those who bear the least risk. The low-paid staff, who are the most likely to die of the virus, are also those who will gain the least in dollar amounts, and the reopening of the university will prevent them staying home and depending on unemployment relief. The students and their parents will likely be able to avoid a costly delay in reaching graduation, although the real value of the education that is received for their expenditure may be significantly reduced. And, of course, the tax-payers of Indiana will feel less pressure to cover the costs of a state institution. This benefit will be experienced most strongly by the wealthiest Hoosiers. Indiana currently depends heavily on regressive sales taxes and gambling fees, but in the midst of a financial collapse an increase in income taxes at the higher levels would be the only real source of additional funds to cover the enormous losses that would accrue if the university remained closed.
Pulling back from this little exercise in pedagogical fantasy, I want to stress again that my point in all this is not primarily to evaluate the decision that Daniels has made, but rather to consider what such responses to the crisis tells us about what really matters at many universities today. On such campuses a concern for the real interests of the students and for deep learning was not at the core of decision making before the pandemic, and the present threat has not produced a major shift in values. At many of our largest institutions students pay tuition and create demands on resources, but whatever else happens to them or to anyone else in the university community is of secondary concern.
This is particularly obvious in the lack of attention that Daniels pays to students' lives outside their courses. For Daniels' safeguards to be effective, students must continually live up to the terms of the "Protect Purdue Pledge" such as wearing face masks and taking their temperature daily. But actually seeing that this happens seems to fall outside the range of the universities concerns. Daniels calls upon students "to demonstrate their altruism by complying" and challenges them "to refute the cynics who say that today's young people are too selfish or self-indulgent to help us make this work." But, given the failure of the laissez-faire policies of so many universities to deal with hazing, rape, and alcohol-related deaths, one does not have to be a cynic to view the assumption that students will universally respect recommended practices as yet another example of universities' willingness to ignore threats to students' welfare that occur outside the classroom. The assertion that young people are completely immune to COVID-19 is clearly questionable; the claim that they often ignore or even actively reject the advice of their elders is not.
Moreover, there is an implicit division in Daniels' statement between those people who matter and those who don't. The students have some value in his mental construct, presumably because they pay tuition and because, if they don't move smoothly towards graduation, their parents will create problems for the university. But, even if one accepts his assumption that 80% of the student body is absolutely without risk, the remaining 20% and virtually the entire faculty and staff are being exposed to the possibility of death or a devastating illness. He assures his readers that some employees will be allowed to work from home, but the very conditions that make this policy desirable mean that those who must work on campus are being exposed to a deadly disease.
In his argument that 80% of the student population Daniels mentions that "diabetes, hypertension, other cardiovascular illnesses or the obesity" make individuals more susceptible to the disease, with the implication that the relative absence of these health problems among the undergraduate population is a reason for allowing them to return to campus. But these conditions are all endemic in the population of Indiana, particularly among the low-income groups that will be providing many of the services to students in the fall. The invisibility of these individuals in Daniels grand scheme is just a continuation of business as usual in American universities. The image of his institution and its cash flow are part of his calculation; the fate of employees at the bottom of the pay scale who are forced to work under dangerous conditions is not.
Interestingly, Daniels does little to justify this potential sacrifice. His comments are suffused with "the show must go on" boosterism, and he tells us that "Our students (and, one suspects, their trapped-at-home parents) overwhelmingly are eager to continue their educations, in person and on campus." But, beyond arguing that it is necessary to satisfy the university's customers, he does not seem to have a language to explain precisely why he and the university have a "duty" to impose these risks on others.
One could certainly imagine an appeal to the crucial importance of learning in the lives of our students and of our society. But Daniels exhibits no interest in whether any learning will actually occur in the jerry-rigged curriculum and stressed-out student body of Purdue in the fall of 2020 or whether keeping the university open under these conditions really serves to make society a better place., As so many university administrator have done for generations, he just assumes that if the flow of students and faculty into the classroom is efficiently managed, something of value must automatically occur there.
None of this is unique to the COVID-19 era. For years many large universities in the United States have adopted corporate models that have focused on technocratic management, ignored learning, and exploited staff. Daniels' appointment is a perfect example of the abandonment of those values that were once associated with the idea of an "ivory tower" devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge. Unlike most previous Purdue presidents, he had virtually no involvement with academia between graduating from law school in the early 1970s and becoming president of Purdue in 2013, except for cutting state funding for higher education during his time as governor. But from his years in government and business he did bring a reputation for cutting taxes, starving Indiana's already meager social safety net, privatizing state functions, limiting voting rights, and smashing unions.
In carrying these experiences, values, and obligations into his new role as a college president, Daniels brought to Purdue the kind of managerial vision that is coming to dominate the culture of many universities, at least in the United States. Institutions of higher education are seen as creating value by producing the skilled workers, who will keep capitalism expanding. Students and their parents matter as customers, but as little else, and staff lack that value. The notion of preparing students to eventually develop as individuals or to play a broader role in society as citizens has disappeared, and the culture of the ivory tower has been replaced by a technocratic system for maximizing credit hours and minimizing costs. College presidents who think of themselves as the equivalent of corporate CEOs are apt to have not more concern for the real welfare of the students or staff than their counterparts in industry have for their workers and no more commitment to the welfare of the society as a whole than those who run cigarette or oil companies. Thus, in the midst of a major challenge to the cash flow of the institution, it is not surprising that such a leader would judge a pawn sacrifice to be cost effective.
Mitch Daniels, "Why failing to reopen Purdue University this fall would be an unacceptable breach of duty," Washington Post, May 25, 2020.
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Reporting directly to Donald Trump's personal lawyer, two operators waged a brazen
Two Unofficial US Operatives Reporting To Trump's Lawyer Privately Lobbied A Foreign Government In A Bid To Help The President Win In 2020
Reporting directly to Donald Trump's personal lawyer, two operators waged a brazen back-channel campaign that could thrust another foreign country to the center of the next US election.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesallah/rudy-giuliani-ukraine-trump-parnas-fruman
Two unofficial envoys reporting directly to Donald Trump's personal lawyer have waged a remarkable back-channel campaign to discredit the president's rivals and undermine the special counsel's inquiry into Russian meddling in US elections.
In a whirlwind of private meetings, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman — who pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into Republican campaigns and dined with the president — gathered repeatedly with top officials in Ukraine and set up meetings for Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, as they turned up information that could be weaponized in the 2020 presidential race.
The two men urged prosecutors to investigate allegations against the Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. And they pushed for a probe into accusations that Ukrainian officials plotted to rig the 2016 election in Hillary Clinton's favor by leaking evidence against Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chair, in what became a cornerstone of the special counsel's inquiry.
They also waged an aggressive campaign in the United States, staying at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, and meeting with key members of Congress as they joined in a successful push that led to the removal of the ambassador to Ukraine, after she angered their allies in Kiev.
Meanwhile, the two men — who both have troubled financial histories — rose to prominence in Republican circles, meeting with party leaders while injecting hundreds of thousands of dollars into top Republican committees and dozens of candidates' campaigns.
Posted by dajoki | Mon Jul 22, 2019, 08:29 AM (11 replies)
Have a seat. This is upsetting
https://twitter.com/WritesTruths/status/1150210979839565824
Posted by dajoki | Sun Jul 14, 2019, 09:18 AM (54 replies)
YES, COLLUSION Mueller Missed the Crime: Trump's Campaign Coordinated With Russia
YES, COLLUSION
Mueller Missed the Crime: Trump's Campaign Coordinated With Russia
The special counsel will testify before Congress next week. He needs to answer for historic legal and factual errors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-mueller-missed-the-crime-trumps-campaign-coordinated-with-russia
Ever since the release of the Mueller Report, countless commentators have implored everyone to just #ReadtheReport. The problem is not who is reading it—the problem is the report itself, and its many errors.
Robert Mueller made a significant legal error and erroneously cleared President Donald Trump and his campaign of wrongdoing on campaign coordination with Russia. Mueller's errors meant that, first, he failed to conclude that the Trump campaign criminally coordinated with Russia; second, he failed to indict campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates for felony campaign coordination (see in a concise timeline below); third, the 10 acts of felony obstruction in Volume II fell flat among the general public because it lacked compelling context of these underlying crimes between the campaign and Russia. On top of these errors, the former special counsel said he deliberately wrote the report to be unclear because it would be unfair to make clear criminal accusations against a president.
The bottom line is that the Mueller Report is a failure not because of Congress or because of public apathy, but because it failed to get the law, the facts, or even the basics of writing right. When Mueller testifies before Congress on July 17, he should be pressed on all of this.
The DOJ's initial appointment explicitly tasked Mueller with investigating campaign "coordination," and it is not too much to ask that he get the law of "coordination" right. The report stated that "'coordination' does not have a settled definition in federal criminal law. We understood coordination to require an agreement—tacit or express."
However, Congress purposely sought to prevent such narrow interpretations: in 2002, it passed a statute directing that campaign finance regulations "shall not require agreement or formal collaboration to establish coordination." The Federal Election Commission established the regulations for the implementation of the statute: "Coordinated means made in cooperation, consultation or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate," with no need to show any kind of agreement.
Outside spending for coordinated communications is an in-kind contribution, and foreign contributions are completely prohibited. And Congress made the criminal penalties unmistakably clear: "Any person who knowingly and willfully commits a violation of any provision of this Act" commits a crime. The Supreme Court upheld these limits in McConnell v. FEC with crucial observations about the functional role of suggestions, rather than agreements: "[E]xpenditures made after a wink or nod often will be as useful to the candidate as cash." This timeline is full of suggestions far more explicit than winks and nods.
As the Supreme Court acknowledged, this is not about bribery and quid pro quo; it's about outsourcing a consistent campaign messaging and expenses to known allies. It seems Mueller did not hire any legal experts with experience in campaign finance regulation. Given that this investigation was about campaign crimes, this appears to a revealing oversight with serious consequences.
In addition to ignoring these rules, Mueller also made a major organizational error: Volume I separates the events of Russian hacking from the actions of the Trump campaign. The entire point of a "conspiracy and coordination" investigation was the relationship between the two. The ongoing pattern of signal or invitation with response, of cause-and-effect, gets utterly lost in the hundreds of pages of details, the siloing of each character, and especially in the omissions and the errors.
Posted by dajoki | Wed Jul 10, 2019, 08:22 AM (37 replies)


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Raking In The Money: New Research Reveals Tradesmen Earn Thousands More Than University Graduates
By Chris Skoyles on March 28th, 2018
Remember that tough decision you had to make: go to uni or learn a trade? It turns out you made the right call, with recent research revealing that tradespeople earn more than scores of university graduates.
And we're not just talking about small change, either.
According to the research carried out by The Federation of Master Builders, brickies, plumbers and other skilled professionals were taking home earnings which dwarfed those of graduates by thousands of pounds.
Plumbers & electricians among top earners
Whilst site managers rule the proverbial roost, with average earnings of over £51,000, electricians and plumbers weren't far behind.
With the former taking home an average of £47,265, and the latter earning as much as £48,675, both outranked teachers (£37,748), accountants (£37,748) and architects (£38,228) as among the UK's top average earners.
This isn't exactly uncommon, either. Below is a list of the top ten trades netting tradesmen the highest average earnings:
Site manager – £51,266
Plumbers – £48,675
Supervisors – £48,407
Electricians – £47,265
Roofers – £42,303
Bricklayers – £42,034
Carpenters and joiners – £41,413
Plasterers – £41,045
Scaffolders – £40,942
Painters and decorators – £34,587
Compare this to university graduates, where even at the top of the list, the average pay is just over £42,000:
Pharmacists – £42,252
Dental practitioners – £40,268
Architects – £38,228
Teachers – £37,805
Chartered and certified accountants – £37,748
Midwives – £36,188
Veterinarians – £36,446
Physiotherapists – £32,065
Nurses – £31,867
Tradesmen in the south still command the biggest bucks
Whilst the type of trade is certainly an important factor in determining how much our hardworking tradesmen earn, it isn't the only one. According to research, location plays a significant role too.
In London, the average take-home for a bricklayer more than doubles, from £42,034 to £90,000. Not bad work if you can get it!
Money talks – a tempting proposition for new recruits
For a UK construction industry still in the grips of a much-publicised skills shortage, the research into tradesmen's average earnings perhaps couldn't have come at a better time.
"Money talks and when it comes to annual salaries, a career in construction trumps many university graduate roles," said Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the Federation of Master Builders."
Indeed, with salaries eclipsing those offered by many graduate roles, attractive earnings could well help sway young people who find themselves contemplating the next step in their career.
That's before we even mention the eye-watering level of debt most uni students leave with, a point not overlooked by Mr Berry.
"Pursuing a career in construction is, therefore, becoming an increasingly savvy move. University students in England will graduate with an average £50,800 of debt, according to The Institute for Fiscal Studies, while apprentices pass the finish line completely debt-free.
"Not only that, apprentices earn while they learn, taking home around £17,000 a year."
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APES & ANDROIDS and A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS: Originating in Brooklyn, these two psychedelic space-rock bands, which both originated in Brooklyn, will entertain their hometown audience tomorrow at 10 p.m. at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. Sixth St.; (718) 599-5103.
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Ian Vickery has vivid memories of his first helicopter flight. It was the morning of 8 January 1979, and he and his father, Ian Vickery Sr, had lifted off from an airfield in the far south of the Republic of Ireland in a four-seater "bubble canopy" copter.
But this was no joyride. Ireland had just suffered its worst modern maritime disaster: several hours earlier, the Total-owned VLCC Betelgeuse had exploded at the Gulf Oil terminal on Whiddy Island in the Bay of Bantry, killing 50 people.
Now Gulf had sent Ian Vickery Sr, a freelance photographer in the nearby town of Bantry, County Cork, to take aerial photos of what was left of the broken, smoking hulk of the Betelgeuse. His son went along as his assistant.
They made several flights that week, taking hundreds of photos of a scene of devastation.
The Betelgeuse had left the Saudi Arabian Gulf port of Ras Tanura on 24 November 1978 with 77,098 tonnes of Arabian heavy crude and 42,338 tonnes of Arabian light. Having berthed at an offshore unloading jetty, about 400 metres from Whiddy Island, it began discharging its cargo.
Shortly after midnight on 8 January, a low rumbling like distant thunder could be heard coming from the bay. Observers saw a small fire just forward of the Betelgeuse's manifold. It gradually grew, then suddenly spread at an "awful pace" until the deck was ablaze from stern to bow. The vessel was wracked by a series of explosions.
The vessel broke its back, and much of the oil still onboard ignited. As the fireball reached an estimated temperature of 1,000°C, the concrete unloading jetty crumbled. One witness described seeing "the whole sky on fire".
All 42 French people and the British cargo inspector on the vessel were killed, along with seven Irishmen on the jetty. Two French sisters, one of them five months pregnant, lost both their parents that night: their mother was onboard, accompanying her husband, the ship's baker.
The stern sank in 40 metres of water the following night.
The official inquiry into the disaster was scathing of Gulf and several of its employees for operational and safety failings at the terminal. It also heavily criticised repair work done at the ship's second special survey in Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore 20 months earlier.
But the tribunal judge, Declan Costello, directed his most damning criticism at Total, which he said bore "the major share of the responsibility for the loss".
Costello found that the 11-year-old ship had been inadequately maintained and structurally weakened and was "abnormally, seriously and significantly wasted due to corrosion" of tanks and parts of the hull.
"A conscious and deliberate decision was taken by Total not to renew certain of the longitudinals and other parts of the permanent ballast tanks which were known to be seriously wasted," he said. "A deliberate decision not to renew the tanks' cathodic protection was taken at the same time.
The welding of some longitudinals renewed at the dry-docking in Singapore "was improperly carried out and contributed to the potentially dangerous condition the vessel was in", the 480-page report said.
The "seriously weakened" hull was then subjected to "very large stresses amidships" by incorrect ballasting at Whiddy Island, leading to catastrophic structural failure. The Betelgeuse did not have a "loadicator" — a computer that would have helped calculate the stress on the 121,432-dwt vessel during ballasting. "Had Total supplied the ship with a loadicator — as it should have — the ballasting error would not have been made," the tribunal found.
The longitudinals buckled under this excessive stress and the ship began to sag in the middle. Its back broke in two places, rupturing empty ballast tanks. A spark, either from the twisting, tortured steel, or from severed electrical cables, ignited vapours in the tanks, triggering the sequence of events leading to the explosion.
The incident hit the small town (population at the 2016 census: 2,722) hard.
As for the 12-year-old assistant, he grew up to become a photographer (he still has that old Rolleiflex) and later a fireman. He is now station officer at Bantry Fire Brigade.
Both his sons have made the sea their life: one is a ship's engineer, the other an electro-technical officer cadet. They continue a long tradition: shipping is in Bantry's blood — first trawling, then tankers in the 1970s, when sometimes three VLCCs could be seen sitting out on the bay.
Gulf never reopened the terminal and the facility was sold to US company Zenith Energy in 2014. With its 17 tanks and 1.4 million cmb of storage, it holds a third of Ireland's strategic oil reserve. And once more VLCCs sit out on the bay.


This set of 1960s' Melaware cups and saucers are perfect for picnic hampers and camping.
Each one is in a different colour, pink, pale yellow, green and dark yellow.
In good, clean condition there is some fine surface wear and some light discolouration to the inside of the cups but nothing of note.
The pale yellow saucer has a crack to the raised section on the rear, (see photos) but nothing that affects its use.
Measurements: saucers 14.5cm in diameter, cups 6.5cm tall.


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Josh's Bright Idea
What is good poetry? I've been saying that good poetry possesses poetic virtues and I've been busy naming them and talking about how to recognize and balance them. However, Josh suggests a shortcut, which is to find out who would pay what price for which poem. In other words, if poetry has value, people will be willing to exchange other value for it. In our society the only large market I can see for poetry is popular songs.
As I continue to listen to country music (and get a lot pickier about it) I realize that in a song lyric, first of all, people want something they recognize (because recognition is our mechanism for detecting truth) and secondly they want to feel something, whether humor or pathos, and thirdly they want the sound of the lyric – its rhyme, its meter – to make the song memorable. It's difficult for me to observe but true that contemporary society has an extremely limited emotional repertoire and satisfies its desire for emotional complexity by writing from a perspective of brokenness. I won't write that kind of poetry. If I write about damaged people, I will do so from a perspective external to them.
An apt example of what people want in a song lyric would be the song Red Solo Cup performed by Toby Keith. A little raunchy when you hear the off-radio version but definitely fulfills the qualifications I mentioned. The subject is recognizable, the lyrics are humorous and explore sides of the question we don't exactly think about but feel as if we know deep down, they're clever, well-rhymed and metered (people love rhyme and meter but they want the words that rhyme to be the important ones) and they fit the music to perfection.
Another popular song with some merit right now is The Wind performed by Zac Brown Band. Here the music outperforms the lyrics quite a bit but that refrain, "My love will find you anywhere, anywhere my love," seems to call on tradition and contemporary openness at the same time.
For most people, poetry is preferred in a context rather than abstracted on a page.
Abstract poetry is a cultivated taste. It's enjoyed by those who are in some sense and to some extent cultured.
To everyone else, poetry that appears in a movie or story or song or game is going to be far more welcome and far more natural – and more valuable, as well, apparently. I suggest that giving poetry to children in context prepares them to appreciate it when it's abstracted. Failing an outward context, giving an inward context (in other words writing a narrative poem or writing quite explicitly) helps. The exception seems to be sex. People with no subtlety at all can apparently recognize a double-entendre miles away.
Soul's Knowledge Country Music, Literature, Music, Poetry, Songs, Value, Virtue, Writing
Evil Thefts and Virtuous Expansions of Power


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«Останній виліт» () — американський фантастичний бойовик 1994 року.

Сюжет
Військові льотчики чомусь почали виходити з покори. У повітрі, під час виконання завдання. І це жахливо. Летить куди потрібно, а потім раптом перестає слухати команди з землі і в результаті врізається в яку-небудь скелю.

У ролях
 Біллі Верт — Том «Бандит» Ватерс
 Стів Рейлсбек — полковник Глен Андерсон
 Елізабет Грейсен — Кейтлін Коул
 Річард Бредфорд — Моріс Вік
 Корбін Бернсен — генерал Морган Бреслау
 Тім Моран — Девід «Гончій Пес» Метьюс
 Тімоті Дейл Ейджі — Деніел «Ковбой» Райлі
 Френк Загаріно — Френк «Флеш» Тето
 Джон Проскі — сержант Вайтт
 Бет Тегарден — Лілі
 Патріція Сілл — Бет Метьюс
 Езра Гебі — Джоі
 Джастін Лорд — технік
 Хел Хевінс — офіцер Клайд Вебстер
 Джеррі Джіллз — контролер
 Джек Ейсман — технік
 Рік Айк Джонс — військовий поліцейський
 Беррі Цетлін — вчений
 Ентоні Дін Філдс — (в титрах не вказаний)

Посилання

Фільми англійською мовою
Фільми США 1994
Фантастичні фільми 1994
Науково-фантастичні фільми США
Фантастичні бойовики США

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A 30 y/o pregnant woman has a one week history of a slowly enlarging red lesion on her right thigh. She reports having gone on a camping trip about 3 weeks ago and now recalls that she removed a tick from the site of the lesion. An ELISA test is negative for Lymes. Upon further questioning, she also reports contact with poison Ivy like bushes during the same camping trip.
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As I've discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I'm redesigning my first-year seminar for its second iteration. In the original version of the course last fall, students individually completed frequent reading responses on the three books I had assigned. Teams of students produced Twines on each of the books. These projects enabled students to interact with each other much more than during in-class discussions of their reading responses, but but their interest seemed to flag as the semester progressed — though the class's 8:00 a.m. start time was probably also a contributing factor.
Whether the lack of interest was caused by boredom or sleep deprivation, I think my first-semester college students need to engage in a greater variety tasks. But as I mentioned in my previous posts, my choices are constrained by my course outcomes: interaction with peers, practice in developing higher order thinking skills, and exposure to cultural perspectives that are different from their own.
I am keeping the reading response technique; I use it in all my courses and it works well. The team-based Twine on An Ordinary Man seemed to be a success last fall, so I'll keep that also. The Chasing Chaos book and its associated simulations generated a favorable student response when I first used them in another course, so I'm somewhat confident the same will occur in the first-year seminar. That leaves the third book, The Big Truck That Went By.
The Chasing Chaos simulations might be a different enough experience for students to remain engaged while working on a second Twine in the last part of the course. The problem with this idea is that in the first iteration of the course, teams wrote their Twines on each book's protagonist. In The Big Truck That Went By, the protagonist is a U.S. journalist, and I don't think students will benefit much from creating a fictionalized version of what he recounts in his book.
Would it be possible to involve the entire class in the creation of a single Twine on post-earthquake Haiti? Maybe. This is a video version of what I'm thinking of — the player chooses from one of several roles but the storylines derive from an integrated body of content.
The tricky part is figuring out how to build in individual accountability and a means of assessing it. I could leave the organization of responsibilities up to the students as a lesson in project management, but I should probably establish some signposts before students begin so that they have something against which to measure their performance. Or perhaps the whole idea — which I really did think of as I was writing this post — is likely to be an abysmal failure. Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.


The doom-folk adventurer delivers a bounty for the dancefloor.
But her music proclivities are not resigned only to the elements that make up her doom-folk output or the work she did as a member of Berlin-based globalist dance music group Jahcoozi. Perera also DJs and when she does, it's all about bass music.
For her FACT mix, Perera delivered two hours of burners, including tracks from Jlin, Equiknoxx, Fractal Fantasy, Errorsmith, Suzi Analogue, RP Boo, Murlo and much more, a veritable banquet of some of the music dance music happening at this moment. Perera says this is what she wants to dance to when she DJs but that there are some deeper messages at the end, when she takes down the energy.


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ChilCaldicott
07/07/2016 08/07/2016 by Graham Head
I don't know. You wait and wait for an important, much-delayed report to be published and then suddenly, like buses, two come along together.
Yet tempted as I am by the thought of reading and commenting on all seventeen sections and twelve volumes of Sir John Chilcot's Iraq Inquiry report, I'm more taken by the latest offering from Dame Fiona Caldicott, our National Data Guardian for Health and Care.
In this context, the Review of Data Security, Consent and Opt-Outs has the compelling virtue of brevity, and unlike the work of the Iraq Inquiry touches only briefly on the errors of the past before bringing together a series of standards, recommendations and proposals which build a picture of what the future will be like. At least, that is, so far as the management of health and social care data is concerned.
Brief as it is, the new report, which will doubtless end up being known as Caldicott 3, actually examines two distinct aspects of secure data management. Like the last Harry Potter movie, it could easily have been published in two parts.
Caldicott 3a then, asks whether current health and social care data security is good enough and makes nine very sensible recommendations for improvement. These include recommendations on leadership and contractual arrangements; a revamped IG Toolkit; the use of tools to identify vulnerabilities such as dormant accounts and default passwords; changes to the CQC inspection regime; and the use of harsher sanctions regarding malicious or intentional data security breaches.
Alongside these recommendations are a series of basic Data Security Standards (such as Standard 8: "No unsupported operating systems, software or internet browsers are used within the IT estate.")
However I think it is in Caldicott 3b where the real interest lies. This looks again at the basis upon which information is shared and asks a series of key questions:
Do people understand who will have legitimate access to their personal confidential data?
When is the individual's specific consent required?
When can people consent to or opt out from information being used and when may this be overruled?
Are the current arrangements protecting people's confidentiality adequately upheld?
Do they allow for appropriate information sharing to benefit patients, service users and the entire health and care system?
These are major questions, and while the Report considers them in some depth, and makes a series of recommendations, in this area in particular it urges the Department of Health to consult far more fully before adopting its views.
Even so, I suspect it will be surprising if the Department doesn't adopt most of the Caldicott 3b suggestions. They include:
The continuing need for the service to make the case for data sharing to the public.
A revamp and a welcome, wholesale simplification of the current patient consent/opt-out model. Given the complexity and inconsistency of the current schemes for managing patient consent, this is long overdue.
A recommendation that patient opt-outs should not apply to the transfer of anonymised records.
Similarly, and perhaps more controversially, given the need for the NHS to ensure the money flows correctly, patient opt-outs should not apply to the use of identifiable data for non-contractual invoice validation.
Research uses should continue to require explicit consent.
There is also a focus on the role of HSCIC — or 'NHS Digital' following the organisation's rebranding — as the provider of linked anonymised data sets, although again it may take some time for that service to be delivered.
But there is more. Away from these higher profile recommendations, Caldicott 3b suggests further adjustments to how current systems are seen:
The Review considers that risk stratification for case finding, where carried out by a provider involved in an individual's care or by a data processor acting under contract with such a provider, should be treated as direct care for the purpose of the opt-out (and therefore should not be subject to the opt-out of personal confidential data being used for purposes beyond direct care).
This represents another welcome clarification. At the same time, the Review also notes that:
… some CCGs are using the same predictive tool for both risk stratification for case finding and risk stratification for planning. The Review suggests that these two functions are separated.
While this notion of 'separation' of functions may be a little vague at present, the intent is clear, even if the details remain to be worked out.
And finally there is a recommendation that could cause potentially significant adjustments to the current crop of integration projects:
The different successful approaches being taken at local level led the Review to conclude that an overarching, national, consent question should not be framed around direct care. A person can still ask for their health care professional not to share a particular piece of information with others involved in providing their care. This may be in relation to a local shared record programme.
(All quotations from p.26 of the Review.)
I feel I've barely scratched the surface, there is so much interesting material in the Review. Given that, I'm only too grateful that I decided not to look at the Iraq report instead.
This won't all happen at once. As I noted, the Review recommends further consultation before going anywhere near implementing these proposals. But it is a good start.
Which just leaves one final question. Did the redoubtable Dame and her team find any WMDs? Perhaps it's hard to say. But maybe, just maybe, the parallel announcement of the cancellation of the care.data programme suggests it is possible that she did.
Review of Data Security, Consent and Opt-Outs:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-data-security-consent-and-opt-outs
Iraq Inquiry home page:
http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/
Guardian Report: NHS to scrap single database of patients' medical details:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/06/nhs-to-scrap-single-database-of-patients-medical-details
Categories Blog PostsTags Caldicott Review, care.data, Data Security, Data Sharing, NHS, Risk Stratification
Population Health Analytics: Run the Numbers
The Times They are a-Changin'


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Q: Redirecting URL form I'm starting to study web development and as exercise I was trying to make a form for redirecting in HTML with javascript and PHP.
HTML

<title>FORM</title>

<form>
    <input type="text" name="url">

    <input class="btn" type="button" id="send" value="Send" />
</form>

JavaScript
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#send").click(function(){
var url = $("#url").val();
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "engine.php",
data: "url=" + url,
dataType: "html"
});

PHP
<?php
    session_start();

    $url        =   $_POST['url'];
        header("Location: /".$url.");

    session_destroy();
    exit;
?>

The main problem is that seems that the js isn't read. Futhermore I don't know if the PHP is correct. What's wrong?

A: There's no need to make an AJAX request if you want to redirect to another URL. Also, the way your doing it at the moment wouldn't redirect anyway.
Below, when your click function fires, it will get the URL from your input field, and re-direct to that page.

<title>FORM</title>

<form id="form_name" name="form_name">
    <input type="text" name="url" id="url">

    <input class="btn" type="submit" id="send" value="Send" />
</form>

A: you need to add id to input
<input type="text" name="url" id="url">

and also header() don't work in ajax
you need to use javascript for redirect
in php
<?php
    session_start();

    $url        =   $_POST['url'];
    echo '';

    session_destroy();
    exit;
?>

and put echo text into document with ajax respond function
also you can use a better way ( with out Ajax and submit form )
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#send").click(function(){
var url = $("#url").val();
window.location.href = url;
});

here is the best answer for you How to redirect to another webpage in JavaScript/jQuery?
UPDATE:
also you need delete , tags, here the html code instead of ...
<input type="text" name="url" id="url">

<input class="btn" type="submit" id="send" value="Send" />

A: So you think your javascript isn't being executed?  Does that mean you've debugged this?
If none of your javascript runs - including your ready handler, then the server isn't finding the js files.  If some of your javascript is running it's possible that an error is causing it to stop. You probably just need to do a little debugging.

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Sydney Secondary College used their $400000 of Gonski funding to employ additional teaching and support staff to assist at-risk Aboriginal and socioeconomically disadvantaged students.
The school employed a Norta Norta literacy teacher for two days a week and a Norta Norta numeracy teacher one day a week to provide more support for Aboriginal students.
A further two full-time learning support officers were employed to work with struggling students, supplemented by external mentors.
Gonski funding has had a profound effect on the education of a small group of Aboriginal students and other socio-economically disadvantaged students. Of the ten students considered to be most at risk of low achievement in 2015, all have improved, with eight no longer considered to be in the highest category for poor performance. Two Year 9 and two Year 8 Aboriginal students, who received mentoring for literacy and numeracy from the Norta Norta teachers, improved their overall grade average from a 'sound' to a 'high'. Another Aboriginal student improved his grade from a 'limited' to a 'sound' over the same six month period. A number of other students from disadvantaged backgrounds who received additional learning support raised their grade average by one place in many cases over that same six-month period.
What the continuation of Gonski funding means to Sydney SC Leichhardt.
Principal Melinda Bright says Gonski funding has been proven to help to close the gap in educational outcomes for the school's Aboriginal students and those from a disadvantaged background.
The discontinuation of Gonski funding would jeopardise SSC Leichhardt Campus's ability to maintain the successful interventions it has made in supporting students at risk of not fulfilling their potential, she says.


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5) Spectrapure basic ATO, water exchange module and remote pump (litermeter sold) - pm me, prefer to sell as package.
10) Bubble Magnus Curve 5 Skimmer - Offer?
Price and description update - going through my garage at my Apartment to find other random reef supplies. Will make a new thread when I go through it all this upcoming weekend.
5) Spectrapure basic ATO, water exchange module and remote pump with overflow protection controller. extremely underrated modules - pm me, prefer to sell as package.
3) Spectrapure basic ATO, water exchange module and remote pump with overflow protection controller. extremely underrated modules - pm me, prefer to sell as package.
Moving in 13 days, open to offers.
3) Spectrapure basic ATO, Liter Meter 3, water exchange module and remote pump with overflow protection controller. extremely underrated modules - pm me, prefer to sell as package.
Left over equipment update; If not local, shipping will be applied.
I received my package today. Quick shipping. It was well packed. My two toddlers enjoyed the bubble wrap. And the entire set looked brand new. Thanks a bunch. Great communication.
bump local pick up - OK . Can ship, you pay shipping. Open to offers, don't want to haul all this with me on the move.
can ship but you pay cost of shipping. need to get rid of this as it's taking up room in the new place.


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Home. News and Events. In the Media. GMHC Statement on Proposed Trans Military Ban
STATEMENT FROM GMHC CEO KELSEY LOUIE:
President Trump's assault on the transgender community continues with his renewed calls for a ban on transgender people serving in the military. With more than 6,000 transgender and gender non-conforming Americans proudly serving in our armed forces, the President's directive denigrates their service and sacrifice. GMHC applauds the two lawsuits filed this week by Lambda Legal/OutServe-SLDN and the ACLU of Maryland that are directly challenging the President's proposed ban.
"Previous studies have clearly demonstrated that transgender people are fit to serve in the United States military. We hope that the new study about the issue, announced Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, will reach the same conclusion and will allow transgender people to continue to serve and enlist. That is the only fair outcome and the only way to honor every person who serves in uniform."