Artificial intelligence may still sound like a distant future, but don't be fooled. Social media users are already living AI-fueled lives online, and studies show they're eager for marketers to take the technology even further.
A recent Weber Shandwick survey found that many more people view AI's advent as a good thing rather than a bad one — both for society and for themselves. Forty-five percent of respondents foresee a positive societal impact; just seven percent see a negative one. When it comes to their personal lives, 52% expect AI to benefit them; again, only seven percent said it'll make things worse.
But it isn't just consumers who see a brighter, bot-filled future. Business leaders are coming around, too. The same survey found nearly seven in 10 CMOs said their companies are using AI or plan to soon. A solid majority — 58%— believe companies, regardless of industry, will have to adopt AI by 2021 to remain competitive.
Today, the major front in the AI race is chatbots. Via chat apps like Line, Alexa, and Facebook Messenger, these digital assistants use natural language processing or decision trees to communicate with customers or act on their behalf.
Chatbots might not seem like a marketing must-have at first. But as with virtually all technologies, they're rapidly becoming more capable, and you might be surprised at how today's bots can benefit your marketing efforts.
To start, chatbots offer a new way to know your customers. For users, chatting with bots is like messaging friends. There are no service reps breathing down their necks, and they're not trying to pick the "right" survey responses.
But it's not just about accuracy. Chatbots generate richer data than simple page analytics. On top of click data and visit times, bots can gather intelligence on customer sentiments, needs, and engagement. That's essential information for turning one-time buyers into repeat customers, which costs five to 25 times less than acquiring new ones.
Get started while chatbots are still new and intriguing to customers. If you set one up, customers will be drawn to it, despite its commercial roots. Messaging app Kik found users who interact with chatbots spend 32 percent more time on the app than peers.
Then there's the ROI that AI provides. Remember that chatbots can gather deeper, more personal customer information. AI also provides previously impossible analyses without the overhead of a dozen marketing strategists. Instead, you might hire two strategists alongside a machine learning model. Some models — not all, of course — can be built for less than $10,000. The average strategist's salary is $69,500 per year. You do the math.
Frankly, the best-known AI experiment to date didn't end well. Last March, Microsoft launched Tay, an AI-powered Twitter bot. Twitter users, however, quickly realized they could put words in Tay's mouth. In less than a day, they'd trained it to parrot racist, hate-filled rants. Microsoft, even more quickly, took Tay offline. The lesson? Humans like to break bots.
To clear this hurdle, you'll need the right algorithms. Measure the accuracy of your bot's "brains" by how consistently it answers customers' questions correctly. Efficiency, in this case, doesn't always require complexity.
What do I mean by that? Well, a state-of-the-art neural network allows your bot to dig deeply into customer questions and eliminate specious results. But what if a simple linear model will work instead? Not only is it cheaper and faster to build, but it is also easier on your servers and reduces the possibility of bugs. A Porsche is great for racing, but it's overkill on a golf course.
To determine whether your algorithm has ample horsepower, test it with a small data set before setting it on your entire stockpile. Then, do it over and over again. Keep testing and refining it until the error rate drops below acceptable levels.
Another problem we saw in 2016 was a rash of bots that sounded, well, like robots. Because we're in the technology's early days, people are building bots without best practices in mind. It's like 2005 all over again, when the web was full of sites created by people who'd put no thought toward users' journeys.
Don't be afraid to get creative. The builders behind Poncho, a customizable weather chatbot, imbued it with the personality of a Brooklyn cat. Thanks to its fun, spunky vibe, Poncho boasts double the retention rate of comparable mobile apps. Lead the user with strong storytelling and resonant design elements.
It's easier said than done, of course, to entertain users while solving their pain points. But when a bot doesn't respond in a "human" way, it feels broken. Both strategic planning and creative execution are essential if the market is to shake the "dumb bot" stereotype.
The last pitfall involves using a bot backed by a decision tree to interact with human beings. Operating a chatbot with a rigid script is like arming salespeople with 10 Japanese sentences before deploying them in Tokyo.
To sidestep this mistake, use other AI tools available to you. Canadian AI company Maluuba, now owned by Microsoft, is using reinforcement learning to raise an increasingly bright chatbot. Although it's not yet ready for public showing, the bot doesn't simply send users to the web when it can't answer questions. Instead, it "reads" text, helping it communicate information beyond what can be programmed into a decision tree.
Your model should similarly improve with each interaction. Reinforcement learning is still a niche field, so finding the right machine learning expert for your bot is tremendously helpful but difficult.
As AI gains ground, expect it to become indispensable. Much as apps and social media went from curious gadgets to everyday necessities, so will chatbots and AI. It's only a matter of time. Will you be ahead of the curve, or will you be behind?
Vince Lynch is the CEO of IV.AI.


MIT Media Lab: Feedback from our SXSW party: Followup on the wristband thing.
Saying What You Mean to Say | Athene Donald's Blog: On the genderedness of letters of recommendation in science.
An Open Letter To the Nashville Tech Community – Martha Kelly: Developer's response to blowback ("horrible", "punitive", "hijack" etc. over her and others pointing out male=default language in tech editorial that was supposedly a community bridge-building reachout): new Nashville STEAM group, an encouraging, women-friendly tech space.
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Long Neck announces new album, Soft Animal, out 06/21. Listen to first single "Gardener" now
Andrea Quinn· June 3, 2022
New Jersey's own Long Neck has announced a new album, Soft Animal, due out the 21st of June. The announcement brings along with it the release of the album's first single, the earthy and ethereal (yes, it somehow manages to be both, simultaneously) "Gardener."
Long Neck's Lily Mastrodimos joined us on the Left of the Dial podcast this week to talk about the album, its influences, and the tender experience of writing and recording "Gardener." "I remember being in a new physical environment after a year of being trapped inside in Brooklyn . . . it felt like moss being pulled away from a pipe and letting water flow," Mastrodimos said of the affirming trip to London that encouraged her to begin writing the music for Soft Animal. The single reflects this cautious, careful re-emergence witn its lush violins, arranged and performed by Marlene Bellissimo, warm vocal harmonies from RN Taylor of Los Campesinos!, and Mastrodimos' own delicate but steady vocals.
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Soft Animal is out June 21st on Plastic Miracles in the US and Specialist Subject in the UK. You can listen to "Gardender" now, and if you need more Long Neck to hold you over, check out Lily's solo Left of the Dial studio session from last year.
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Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)(NYSE: CXW) may face a cash flow crunch if it continues to pay dividends to its shareholders after the indication of reduced business from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to use its private prison and detention centers, according to Fitch Ratings.
The credit rating agency put the private prison operator on a "negative" rating watch for a possible credit downgrade after the reduction of their government contract with the BOP. the Bureau reduced the number of contract beds to 3,600 from 10,800 on recommendations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to reduce future reliance on privately operated prisons. (Source: "Fitch Places Corrections Corp.'s 'BB+' IDR on Rating Watch Negative," Business Wire, August 23, 2016.)
"The loss of BOP income would effectively eliminate the company's small amount of retained cash flow after dividends, placing pressure on its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO) payout ratio, absent a dividend reduction," Fitch said in a statement.
CCA reiterated its dividend policy commitment of paying out 80% of its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO) and is expected to pay dividends of $0.54 per share in 2016, $0.56 per share in 2017, and $0.58 per share in 2018.
"The DOJ cited better performance at publicly run prisons, a decline in its prisoner population and excess capacity at publicly operated prisons as key reasons supporting its decision," the statement by Fitch said, explaining the reasoning behind the Bureau's decision.
Fitch said the probability of CCA losing the majority of its BOP contracts is high and in such a scenario, it would likely result in a one-notch reduction of the company's default rating to 'BB' from 'BB+,' unless the company cut its cost to mitigate the impact of lost revenues.
The company, in response to the BOP decision, said it was, "disappointed."
"These contracts represent approximately $131.2 million in annual revenues, or approximately seven percent of CCA's total annual revenue, at operating margins consistent with CCA's owned and managed facility portfolio average," according to a statement on the company's web site. (Source: "CCA Responds to the Department of Justice's Decision to Reduce Reliance on Privately Operated Prisons and Announces Investor and Analyst Conference Call," Corrections Corporation of America, August 19, 2016.)
The contracts at the three facilities the company operates for the BOP remain unchanged, with the statement noting that the BOP will determine whether to extend these contracts at the end of their respective contract terms.
Correction Corporation's shares were down four percent, trading at $18.52 in New York. They have lost two-thirds of their value in the past three months.


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Doñana National Park is a wetland / coastal reserve at the delta of the Guadalquivir River and a major site for migrating birds.
The park holds 360 species of birds, in transfer from or to Africa (on the same flyway as Djoudj and Banc d'Arguin). Especially noted are its wintering waterfowl, which number over 500.000.
The park also is the habitat of the endangered Spanish lynx, Adalbert's eagle, marbled teal and white-headed duck.
The site was extended in 2005 to include three more bordering areas: West Triangle, Flood plain of the Partido stream and Los Caracoles.
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Map of Donana National Park
Visit March 2008
Access to Doñana is very restricted: there are a couple of visitor centres at the park's edges, otherwise you have to join a guided tour. I started my visit at the primary Visitors Centre, in Acebuche. I quickly found out that I would miss out on the guided tours that are conducted daily from here: between Easter and September you have to pre-book a tour well in advance. So I went for a long walk instead, following the wood paved trails that guide you along the best places for birdwatching. I did see a lot of birds that are common in Holland (also on the same flyway) – waterfowl for example. I heard more twittering than I saw species, but that probably is the curse of birding.
I stayed overnight in the funky little town of El Rocio, which could easily vy for its own place on the World Heritage List. In El Rocio a yearly pilgrimage takes place in the week before Pentecost. The town is full of houses of the Brotherhoods coming from all over Spain. Sand covers its streets, which has the fortunate side effect that it slows down the cars. In the evenings, locals go for a ride on their horses. This is real cowboy country, more so than the American Southwest which it resembles. More authentic than Santa Fe, and with an even more 'oasis in the desert' pilgrimage church than San Xavier del Bac (near Phoenix, Arizona).
The next morning I went to the visitor center of La Rocina, just outside El Rocio. It has the same kind of trails as Acebuche, but I liked these even more. Highlight is the 'Arroyo de la Rocina', a stream where you can see lots of birds when you're very silent. Or where you can see and hear lots of birds fly away if they just hear you move. The ibises and the egrets are the easiest to spot, as they are big and not too easily scared.
A bit further on the surroundings change into the 'cotos', the most characteristic ecosystem of Doñana. It consists of scrubland, with heather and aromatic species such as rosemary and lavender. This area is inhabited by small birds and reptiles and very pleasant to walk in. Both the bees and me enjoyed all the wonderful smells.
Solivagant
2.0 UK - 29-May-18 -
A few extra points to those made by earlier reviewers about visiting the Donana WHS.
a. There are still unanswered "issues" regarding the inscribed boundaries of this WHS which create a problem if you want to ensure that you not only see its "natural environment" but also actually cross into the inscribed area. The 2005 WHC agreed a "Minor boundary modification" which was said to "bring the boundaries of the World Heritage property in line with the extended National Park; thus the total area of the World Heritage property will be 54,251.7 ha". The following map titled "Boundary as extended by the 29th session of the WHS" (sic) was then lodged with UNESCO. Nb the "shape" of the NW of the Parque around El Rocio – a straight line following the A483 to the coastal developments.
b. However, maps of the Parque Nacional (PN) which we saw at visitor centres did not coincide with these boundaries. These 2 examples of maps on the Web are the same as the ones displayed in the PN - first and second.
c. The "problem" area is the "panhandle" stretching NW from the La Rocina visitor centre. The UNESCO map doesn't include it, but the Maps of the PN do! Furthermore, all descriptions of the current area of the PN describe its "Superficie total" (which presumably includes the "panhandle") as being 54.252 ha i.e the same as the "extended" WHS!!! E.g from the same web site as the first map. How can the WHS have the same total area as the NP, have been extended to have the same boundaries as it and yet not include this "panhandle"? N.b The "panhandle" is clearly described as being a part of the "Parque Nacional" rather than the "Parque Natural" - if it were part of the latter then it could not, of course, be a part of the WHS.
c. The "panhandle" area contains nice walking trails (E.g the La Rocina trail described below by David Berlanda. See also.) and you will be able to see much of the bird life you would see inside the main NP area. But do they take you INSIDE the WHS? Depending on how important actually getting inside the WHS boundary is to you, then you could take the "risk" of limiting your visit to the "panhandle" or else look for other means of ensuring that you actually go within the WHS boundary as shown by the "official" UNESCO map!
c. Trips inside that "UNESCO Map" inscribed area are only provided by authorised concessionaires in special vehicles - at a cost. But here too you will need to check that any tour you are about to take actually goes inside the "official" WHS - their descriptions can be rather "vague" on the matter. The first 3 sections in the following link are, I think, the only ones which go into that area. I am not sure about the "WHS validity" of the 4th section titled "Other Itineraries"!
d. We took the "Itinerary North" provided by the agency "Discovering Donana" departing from El Rocio. It lasted 8 am to noon (Eur 30 pp. It does offer more expensive options for 4 to 6 people in smaller vehicles but there were not enough customers on the day of our visit for any of these to run). Even this only spends a relatively small time inside the "official" WHS. Using the "first" map above. it goes eastward from El Rocio along (but outside!!) the fence of the PN (albeit inside the "Parque Natural") before turning south through a gate into the PN/WHS (the brown coloured area) for a short distance - when it crosses the boundary fence again and runs along (but outside!!) it all the way to the Jose Antonio Valverde Visitor Centre (VVC. Which is itself situated outside the PN on its boundary). It returns through the PN the same way (but follows slightly different trails in the Parque Natural back to El Rocio). The tracks followed are clearly visible on Google Maps. But n.b - Google shows incorrect boundaries for the PN by including a large area NW of El Rocio which is not included in any of the other maps I have cited above and is, I believe actually in the "Parque Natural"!
e. The trip was "ok" - or as "ok" as one inside a noisy "all terrain" bus, viewing through window glass and with some 15- 20 other people can be! It takes you to 2 types of Donana environment - woodlands and marshes (but not the dunes which are in the south). The guide knew his stuff (and the bird names in Spanish, English, French, German and even Dutch!!). We saw all the birds one would expect plus (thanks to the guide) a few of the smaller, less common, rarities and "specialities" (e.g Marbled Teal). The guide claimed that, just the previous day, the same trip had a "glimpse" of a lynx in the forest area. If you are wanting both to visit inside the WHS AND birdwatch I would suggest taking it (or similar) to get a feel for the NP and its wildlife and then "doing your own thing" outside the WHS parts of the NP on walks or by car on another day (We only gave Donana a morning, plus an evening and a few midday hours in the town of El Rocio which was particularly interesting as pilgrims with horses, caravans, traditional musicians etc etc were beginning to congregate for the Romeria later in the week).
f. The VVC IS reachable by car on dirt tracks from the north (E.g Villa Manrique de la Condesa) - it has a car park for such visitors so, in the dry at least, it should be ok. You could walk/drive (albeit outside the PN) and get into the "Marisma" area.
g. An aspect which intrigued us is the almost total absence of any recognition given to the site's "UNESCO WHS" status when you are actually there! The boundary of the WHS goes right up to the "promenade" in El Rocio overlooking a lake – an ideal place one might have thought for a plaque. But there is nothing. And when you cross from the "Parque Natural" to the "Parque Nacional" again nothing - albeit that there are other signs at the crossing which could have shown a logo etc! Inside the VVC there are plenty of notices festooned with the Parque's other "memberships" (Ramsar etc) but I found only 1 showing the UNESCO logo. Our guide said that there used to be a plaque and even a certificate on the wall but he didn't know why or when they were moved - and neither did the VVC attendant. Perhaps they have been moved to one of the other visitor centres?
New Zealand - 30-Mar-10 -
As reported elsewhere, this is a difficult site to access. I reached the entry point at La Rocina by bus from Seville via the sand dunes of Matalascanes. From this entry I follwed the boardwalks to hides along the Madre de las Marismas.
I returned from El Rocio to Seville via Almonte, but another time I would avoid the summer weekends when the buses are full of people going to the beach.
Ian Cade
1.5 UK - 29-Oct-08 -
We visited on a boat trip from Sanluca de Barameda, (I think this now means that all the main routes into the park are covered in reviews here) it was an enjoyable trip that gave a good over view of the importance of the park. It landed once in the National Park (WHS) for an hour tour and it landed once in the Natural Park (WHS buffer zone) for a spot of bird watching.
Like I said I enjoyed the day out but I could only really guess at the importance of the site. From the various hides in the national park we only managed to see one horse and a deer from a great distance. I guess that this is what is normal for visiting wildlife destinations, being brought up on David Attenborough documentaries you sometimes get spoilt and assume you will see the main attractions every time. In the natural park we managed to see quite a variety of birds: Herons, Spoonbills and Flamingos. This was nice although ornithology would not be one of my big passions so I perhaps didn't get the most out of it.
The boat trip lasted about 3.5 hours and cost €17 (2008), it runs from the Donana Visitors centre in Sanluca which has some interesting exhibits on the park as well as some on the local sea faring traditions, Columbus and Magellan both set sail from here. Sanluca is also famous for its seafood and Manzanilla wine, though the town itself was nothing particularly special.
This was an enjoyable trip, mostly for the boat journey along the river. I am sure that the National Park is of great significance and is a key spot for many animals especially birds.
David Berlanda
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In our travel around Spain we have been to the National Park of Doñana, situated on the right bank of the river Guadalquivir at its estuary in the Atlantic Ocean, important above all for its population of birds, with 5 endangered species. It is also one of the largest heronries in the Mediterranean region and the most important wintering site in Spain for waterfowl.
The first thing to say is that if you want to enjoy fully your visit to the park, you have to book one of the guided tours, starting generally from the Visitor Centre of Acebuche (the most important of the five), with which organized companies bring you with a bus to explore the inner parts of the park and to watch birds. There is one tour of the northern part of the park and one of the southern; there is also a boat trip on the Guadalquivir from Sanlúcar de Barrameda that shows you the right bank of the river, included in the park, staying outside of it. But we couldn't do that because we didn't know before our travel in Spain in which date we could arrive to the national park, because our itinerary wasn't based on precise time planning.
If you want to visit places similar to those included in the National Park, you might visit the Natural Park (it surrounds the National Park in 4 sections and acts as a kind of Buffer Zone) that has 2 Visitor Centres and 7 Trails and you can access it without problems; however it is not part of the WHS, so it isn't the best thing to do for WHS collectors.
The main problem in visiting this WHS is that it is entirely surrounded by a fence (situated exactly on the boundary of the WHS) and it is forbidden to go inside the park because of the protection of animals living there. Only one small traffic road runs inside it going to a place called Palacio de Doñana, but it is closed.
If you haven't booked a guided tour you can view the WHS only from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a town situated on the left bank of the Guadalquivir, and from the road A 483, that starts in Almonte (in the municipality of which the western part of the park is located), running along the western border of the park. We chose this road and first went to El Rocío, a small vernacular village with a nice sanctuary situated on the north-western boundary of the park, from which, staying outside of it on some terraces arranged along a path (looking a little bit like a lakeside), you can see one of the marshes (or salty lagoons) of the park. It is quite a pleasant walk and the only place from which you can see a marsh on your own, although it is not the best way to watch birds. A very picturesque image is that of horses grazing on small "islands" surrounded by water.
From El Rocío you can also have a walk along two of the only four paths that let you go inside the park: the Raya Real Trail, 15 km long, of which 6 in the WHS along its northern border and 9 in the Natural Park, and the La Rocina Trail, 12 km long running in the narrow strip (that isn't included in the WHS) of the National Park comprising the stream La Rocina. However we decided not to do this trails because of the lack of time.
After the visit to El Rocío we continued with our car along the western border of the park and its fence. From here you can see on your left the typical and very particular vegetation of the park consisting of scrub woodland and maquis.
Finally we arrived to Matalascañas, a coastal resort full of modern buildings, even very big hotels, and of people going to the sea; this modern scenery certainly damages the authenticity of the park because the buildings are situated only few meters from the fence of the park. In the middle of this village, outside the National Park, there is a Dunes Park, in which you can walk on some paths. However, it is much better to go to the eastern end of the village, where are the other two paths going inside the park: the Dunes Trail, a short walk 1,5 km long, with much more authentic fixed (stabilized by vegetation) and mobile dunes, and the Beach Trail, running along the southern coastal border of the park for 32 km. We have been at the beginning of the two routes: it is a pleasant walk.
My review of the can sound a little bit complicated, so if you want to know more, go the web pages http://www.discoveringdonana.com/Doñana.htm. However this is really the complicated situation you will find if you would like to visit the park.
I quite liked the National Park because of its variety of biotopes but certainly with the guided tours our visit could have been better and however there are not really spectacular natural features. It doesn't deserve a long travel specifically to visit it but if you are in Andalusia it is really worthy to be visited, especially with the tours. I can't say if the Park deserves its inscription on the WHL because I haven't visited the inner parts of it, but they are certainly beautiful. However I think that the National Park and also the WHS could be larger and include also the Natural Park, that is similar.
In the photo you can see the marshes viewed from the terraces of the village El Rocío.
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Doñana National Park
Unesco ID
Natural landscape - Rivers and Lakes Wildlife habitat - Fauna
By ID
1994 Inscribed
Unesco Website
Good introduction to the park, describing the various ways of access
Forest fire in Spain threatens Donana (26.06.17)
Drying Doñana in danger of losing World Heritage status (15.09.16)
Doñana Wold Heritage wetland is under threat from illegal water use (01.05.16)
Spain's Supreme Court has ruled against plans to dredge a new shipping channel in Doñana National Park (06.03.15)
Strawberry growers are draining water away from wildlife-rich wetlands of Doñana region (29.06.13)
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Bird Migrations: Eastern Atlantic Migratory Flyway, Birds
Turtles and tortoises: Habitat of spur-thighed tortoise
Critically endangered fauna species: Iberian Lynx - around 84-143 individuals
Dunes: fixed and mobile dune fields (AB ev)
Seals: monk seal
River deltas: Delta of the Guadalquivir River
Guadalquivir River
Royal Hunting Grounds: Coto Donana was once commissioned and preserved as a hunting park for over 500 years. ... It was the favorite hunting reserve of Alfonso X, Ferdinand II, Charles V, Phillips II and V and also Alfonso XIII
Individual People
Charles V: was the favorite hunting reserve of Charles V
Atlantis: In 2011, a team led by Richard Freund claimed to have found strong evidence for the location in Donana National Park based on underground and underwater surveys, and the existence of what they characterized as "memorial cities" rebuilt in Atlantis's image (Wiki)
Miocene: The marshes result from a subsidence of the continental plate in the Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene, which caused a depression later filled by fluvial and aeolic deposits. (AB)
Named after individual people: The name of this land is consolidated a century later, with the construction by the seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia a palace for his wife, Dona Ana Gomez de Mendoza y Silva, in the heart of the mountain. The surrounding land soon begin to be known as the Forest of Dona Ana, Dona Ana Coto, etc. Until finally the name was shortened to know today.
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In general we dwell in homes that have been designed and built for a population which had a life-style which was poles apart from our own fashionable lives which although we have infinite fashionable appliances to make housekeeping a lot simpler we lack the time to dwell our lives in such a manner as to be most useful to our souls and that's the reason our properties are so vital because the very lynch-pin/hub of our lives - it should be a nest/retreat for the entire family that no matter what life throws at us there may be someplace to escape to which is both comfy and functional.
The key to taking advantage of an interior scheme is having the ability to place all of the odd ball assortment of furniture and mushy furnishings and photos that you wouldn't be with out in such positions as best suit both the looks of the room and your lifestyle so you should have not only a horny however functional room.
There is no such thing as a such factor as the perfect house. When you have been looking for a new property and decided on the one you are living in there would almost actually have been an area or some a part of it which you were not happy with however have been prepared to compromise on the premise that it fulfilled most of what you wanted.
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Will your driver's license ultimately be suspended? We can't tell at this point. The way we can determine this is by reviewing the actual police report from your arrest. However, at the Law Offices of Stull & Stull, we prepare your case for the best or worst outcome. In other words, we plan ahead for either possibility, prepare and hope for the best, but also have a plan in the rare case of the "worst" outcome.
If you do end up losing your license, but strategically control the DMV and courts to the extent available, you could, theoretically, end up being suspended for approximately 30 days. In this scenario, at the end of 30 days, you would be allowed to obtain a restricted license, which allows you to travel to and from work and to and from any court ordered rehabilitation programs or appointments.
The key is to coordinate the DMV suspension with your court case. It is a juggling act with the two agencies. However, if executed properly, it can benefit you greatly in the long run.
The key to making this process work is timing. We must coordinate the DMV suspension close in proximity to resolving your case. The problem that can arise with this strategy is that sometimes the District Attorney's office files your DUI case late and the DMV wants to resolve your case earlier.
The Law Offices of Stull & Stull are very experienced in handling this issue and making sure that your license is not suspended any longer than it has to be.


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Member Spotlight: Muhammad Sani Ahmadu, MBBS, FMCR
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Ahmadu
Muhammad Sani Ahmadu, MBBS, FMCR, is an associate professor and head of radiology at the College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri (UM), and a consultant radiologist/head in the Department of Radiology, UM Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.
Dr. Ahmadu earned his first undergraduate degree in human anatomy from UM where he also received his medical degree. He did his internship and completed his residency/fellowship training in diagnostic radiology at the UM Teaching Hospital where he served as chief resident. Dr. Ahmadu completed a visiting fellowship in neuroradiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He obtained a certificate in Leadership and Management in Health from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Dr. Ahmadu has been a member of RSNA since 2012 and currently serves as a member in the Global Learning Center subcommittee of RSNA's Committee for International Radiology Education (CIRE). He also serves as a reviewer for RSNA Case Collection™.
1. What or who sparked your interest in radiology?
I became fascinated in pursuing a career in radiology back in 1998 during my final undergraduate year in human anatomy while taking a course in radiologic anatomy. It was Professor Abdurrahman A. Tahir, my teacher and mentor, a renowned radiologist, who sparked the embers of my interest in radiology during those formative years. Professor Tahir's teaching methods, charisma and passion for radiology, and my interest in technology gave way for my core interest in a radiology career that I have continued to enjoy today.
Later during my radiology rotation, I further realized that radiology is the pivot on which other medical specialties rest when it comes to patient care. I also noticed that referring clinicians were coming to the radiology department for consultations with the radiologists to solve challenging cases and improve the health care management of patients. Throughout this time, I have been fortunate to come in contact with so many other mentors and teachers that have continued to shape my interest in radiology.
2. What has been the best professional accomplishment in your career?
Just as I was passionately encouraged, motivated and mentored to develop interest in radiology as a career, my best professional accomplishment is when I teach and mentor students and residents and see them excelling in their careers. It's always fulfilling for me to see a medical student develop interest in radiology as a career and to see a radiology resident succeed and qualify as a certified radiologist. It feels like I have "cloned" myself each time this happens.
3. What do you think is the biggest challenge facing radiology in the coming years?
In my opinion the biggest challenges facing radiology in the coming years are emerging diseases, like COVID-19 and emerging technologies, like AI, especially in developing nations with limited resources. The COVID-19 pandemic has really challenged and changed our perspective on many aspects of radiological management of patients, radiology education and research and has impacted on the way we interact globally. AI may seem to have tremendous contributions in patient care and management, especially in an era of increasing demand for imaging, but achieving global acceptability, affordability and maintenance of these emerging technologies may pose a challenge in the coming years.
4. What RSNA resources do you use/have you used to assist you with your professional development and in your daily practice?
Being an RSNA member has been extremely resourceful for me. The RSNA annual meeting has been invaluable to my professional development and practice. Through this meeting I have been able to meet with a diverse network of colleagues from around the world and that has tremendously added value to my professional development.
RSNA's educational resources like Radiology, RadioGraphics, RSNA Weekly, RSNA News, and RSNA Insider e-mails have greatly assisted me in my daily practice. RSNA's social media presence continues to be beneficial for me as a "social media doc" and a radiologist.
Reviewing manuscripts for RSNA Case Collection has helped me polish my research acumen on case reports. As an RSNA Committee for International Radiology Education (CIRE) member I have the opportunity to broaden my horizons on global radiology education and research.
5. When you're not working, how do you like to spend your free time?
I enjoy being with my family and friends. I also enjoy photography and writing about the importance of positive change on my blog.
Find Dr. Ahmadu on social media at #radiologistphotographer or at https://drahmadums.blogspot.com.


Our mission is to advance the practice, science, and business of improving patient experience.
Founded in 2012 with the belief that there can be a better way for hospitals, outpatient clinics, and other healthcare facilities to manage and obtain real time patient feedback. Quality Reviews has been an industry leader in building proprietary software to help healthcare provider organizations capture and analyze real–time patient feedback.
Since the beginning, our priority of providing industry-leading patient feedback software has guided us in the partnerships we form, services we provide, and team members we employ; and this is why we are confident in saying that we are the best partner when it comes to measuring performance on patient experience.
The very reason Quality Reviews exists is to move the way we currently collect patient feedback into the 21st century. Tackling this endeavor isn't easy, and we rely on our customers to provide us feedback on what we're building. The very same tools we use to deploy to patients, we use ourselves with our own customers. It's not uncommon that we bend over backwards for the partners we work alongside. We see our customers as partners, and we choose to interact with our partners with the highest level of respect, integrity and attentiveness. We don't take our partners for granted. We look to earn your business every single day.
Like you, we are clinicians. We play on the same team. We understand your environment because we live and breathe it every day. This unique combination of having the clinical background gives us the "voice of the customer" when it comes to building technology that truly enhances the delivery of care.
At the heart of the matter, patient care is everything, and we exist as a company to make it better everyday. We believe our experience as clinicians, combined with the problems our customers present to us, gives us the opportunity to think outside of the box and innovate to provide value to many. We've learned an enormous amount in a short time after having gathered millions of patient data points...the best is yet to come.
Does Quality Reviews integrate with my EHR System?
Yes, absolutely. Q-Reviews integrates with your EHR or ADT (Admission Data Transfer) system using industry standard HL7 messaging. Secure file transfer protocols (SFTP) and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are also available.
How much does Quality Reviews cost?
Our pricing is based on an annual subscription fee that is based on the number of patient encounters per year. Contact us for more information.
How is Quality Reviews customized for our workflow?
First, our implementations team performs an in-depth discovery workflow analysis based on your current processes. We compile a comprehensive workflow design document to ensure that every part of the system is built in accordance with your unique needs in mind.
Is Quality Reviews HIPAA compliant?
Yes, absolutely. The software is designed with access control, user authentication for system access, audit and lineage reporting. Security documentation and servers are housed in a HIPAA compliant environment.
Through a combination of web-based seminars and onsite visits to your practice or facility.
The implementation cycle typically takes four weeks – from the first kick-off call until the go-live. The process includes design, configuration, installation, and training.
We already use a CMS-certified survey vendor. Why should we use yet another survey vendor?
Because of service recovery. All of our clients use a CMS-certified CAHPS survey vendor. Yet they all use us as well because of the real-time service recovery tools that no other vendor can provide. Our clients use us not as a survey tool, but as a real-time service recovery tool that helps daily performance improvement. Executives justify their spend on Quality Reviews because our tool helps achieve a tangible return on investment by focusing on service recovery.
Our patient population is made up of mostly elderly people. Will they use your tool?
Yes, absolutely. With over five years' worth of experience and millions of text messages sent, our real-world data clearly demonstrate that the Medicare population (age over 65 years) use smartphones to give feedback through our tool. This reflects the most recent Pew Internet data (2018): 95% of Americans have a cell phone and 77% of Americans have a smartphone.
Ours is a mostly indigent patient population. Will they use your tool?
Yes, absolutely. With over five years' worth of experience and millions of text messages sent, our real-word data clearly demonstrate that patients in all socioeconomic categories provide feedback via smartphones. For example, one of our longest-standing clients runs a community clinic with a large homeless population – these patients provide feedback via Q-Reviews. Again, please visit the most recent Pew Internet data on mobile device usage and demographics here.
Yes, absolutely. At the top right corner of the screen, click 'Schedule A Demo' and we will get back to you pronto to set up a short conversation to learn more about your situation and get some input so we can customize a demo for you.
We operate on an annual subscription fee that is based on the number of patient encounters per year.
Disengaged employees have a tremendous and quantifiable impact on multiple measures of patient care.
As a leader, you've long been challenged by the dual pursuits of clinical and operational excellence in a highly competitive environment. Low employee satisfaction and high employee turnover negatively impacts patient experience. This disconnect is more often the result of a lack of meaningful employee feedback, limited learning and career development opportunities, and the misalignment of employee goals to organizational goals.
use data to help drive improvements at the level of the individual employee, teams, and units.
Quality Reviews, working collaboratively with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), created a crosswalk of Quality Reviews' questions to the nine patient satisfaction categories (see below) delineated in 2014 and 2019 Magnet® Application Manuals. This crosswalk was approved by ANCC in November 2017.
Staying on top of patient service issues is challenging even if you have a large and well-equipped patient experience team.
It's difficult to scale the effectiveness of real-time feedback, and if you're on a smaller patient experience team, the day-to-day challenges can seem overwhelming.
Keeping track of service recovery documentation can be burdensome. With paper and even email surveys, it's difficult to get a feel for patients' sentiment at any given moment. Delayed feedback means that staff aren't given the opportunity to course correct in real-time.
Q-Reviews has built service recovery solutions to allow your staff to respond and address patients' concerns in real-time.
You're under pressure to boost your institution's patient satisfaction scores, but lack the proper tools to assess the needs of patients and their families while in the hospital. Often times, administrators learn of a negative patient experience weeks, if not months after the fact rendering the opportunity for service recovery lost forever.
Q-Rounding is designed to give patients a voice while in the hospital without increasing the workload on providers or administrators.
A 10% no-show rate for one physician's practice can lead to over $100,000 lost revenue and productivity per year.
Unlike phone call reminders, SMS text messages can be documented and tracked. 97% of SMS texts are opened, and 83% are opened within 4 minutes. Most patients prefer SMS text appointment reminders and by automating appointment reminders, staff can free up time for higher value activities.
Paper-based patient feedback causes critical gaps in service. Low response rates and long response times of paper-based surveys put your health system at a huge disadvantage. Research shows that 60% of dissatisfied patients will not return to their hospital to receive services. Understanding the patient experience is important, but what really matters is being able to respond before it's too late.
We give you the power to identify problem areas quickly and respond to feedback immediately so that you can continue to deliver the best care at all times.
We help hospitals and health systems of all sizes deliver the best possible patient experience across all clinical service lines in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
We help outpatient clinics and physician group practices delight and retain patients by measuring and improving patient experience in real-time.
Your best new patient is your existing patient. By responding to feedback immediately, patients are more likely to stay loyal to their provider and more likely to recommend friends and loved ones.
We help ASCs improve the surgical, anesthesia, and nursing experience for patients undergoing same-day procedures.
Negative patient feedback has the ability to sabotage your OAS CAHPS scores and thereby lower your CMS incentive payments, all while damaging your brand. We give ASCs the tools to act on patient feedback and recover service in real time.
We help imaging centers improve the radiology experience across all imaging modalities.
The patient experience is increasingly becoming more important to the success of today's imaging centers. With more choices available to patients, imaging centers are faced with the pressures of delivering a high-quality, convenient experience with exceptional customer service. Our tool helps administrators respond to feedback in the context of imaging encounters which are distinct from other clinical settings.
We help urgent care centers in their mission to provide a patient-focused, consumer-friendly experience.
With the rise of convenient, retail-oriented urgent care centers, patients now have access to on-demand healthcare in diverse geographic locations. We equip executives leading these centers with the actionable data and tools to respond to patients quickly and efficiently thus fulfilling the promise of a quick, convenient, and pleasant experience for patients.
Today's PT patient demands effective, convenient physical therapy services wrapped in a pleasant overall experience.
We help PT providers properly assess patient feedback in the context of ongoing physical therapy care.
Patients requiring a blood draw want a quick, convenient, and hopefully painless experience.
We help laboratories deliver a better phlebotomy experience across networks of patient service centers.
Patients picking up prescriptions want their experience to mirror that of other retail settings: quick, convenient, and hassle-free. By assessing feedback in real-time, we help pharmacies deliver a better customer experience across their retail network.
Caregivers want the peace of mind that their loved ones are being treated with the highest levels of tender, loving care. Our tool gives caregivers that critical voice to advocate for their loved ones and to give staff the ability to make improvements in real-time.
We help both nursing homes and nursing agencies deliver better experience for patients and their family members.


Be it cricket matches or parties, the last two weeks have been a riot of activity – for Bollywood celeb watchers. When Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh tied the knot on November 14, they went from fairy-tale Italian wedding to glamourous party after party. This past weekend, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas tied the knot in Jodhpur, complete with fireworks and Hindi music that had choreographed dances.
On the one hand, this could be because of its watch Barbie-and-Ken get married kind of lure. On the other, it could be the start of an obsession with all things glitz and glamour. At the end of the day – this unblinking, unwavering fascination that the world has with celebrities, is it even a choice? Or are we compelled like magpies to stare at the glittering stars? We tore our eyes away from social media long enough to ask the experts.
For others, celebrities play the role of ice breakers – a person may refer to the way they speak, look, where they go in conversation – or stress busters. "It's interesting to know what is their life; especially following people like Kareena Kapoor [who you see pictured] with her son and the dresses they wear; Sushmita Sen and how she is managing her two daughters, and all these things. Just like that how is Madhuri [Dixit], how is she dealing with her husband now that they are settled in India with her sons," says Pooja Misra. She uses these 'light' stories to de-stress at the end of a long working day.
But there people who tend to get obsessed – and this may have something to do with their genes.
Animal DNA is hardwired to look up to the alphas, and in the case of humans this often means successful people in the spotlight. Add to that the inbuilt need for recognition, the fact that we learn through observation and media conditioning creates an almost-tangible dream, and Celebrity Worship Syndrome does not seem so far-fetched. The term was coined in the early 2000s by Dr Lynn McCutcheon and her peers, and refers to those obsessed with figures in the public eye. Dr John Maltby, in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease titled A Clinical Interpretation of Attitudes and Behaviors Associated with Celebrity Worship, explained the degrees to which the disorder can affect one.
Using a Celebrity Attitude Scale, one can measure a person's attitude.
Entertainment-social: Which basically means the person figures in your social interactions.
Intense personal: Where you often think of the star/celeb.
In the most dangerous stage, "the person can pose a threat to their object of affection, because they will try to see the person by any way [including stalking]. Once the celebrity will push them back, they will become depressed, and they will seek for revenge. Because they will feel the celebrity lied to them or manipulated them. They will feel rejected," she says.
In the case of singer-actress-YouTuber Christina Grimmie, for instance, a fan-engagement turned fatal in 2016 when 27-year-old Kevin James Loibl, who had what police believed was an 'unhealthy infatuation' with the singer, shot her at point blank range before turning the gun on himself.
Aamnah Husain, Psychologist at German Neuroscience Centre, explains that an obsession begins when a fan ascribes to a person, the actor, the characteristics of a particular character they play.
The constant news and social media presence of actors allows us to be voyeurs into others' lives while giving us a false sense of knowing or intimacy with them.
This 'sense of knowing' can have terrible repercussions. In 1977, for instance, when famed Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez died, there was a wave of suicides by his dedicated fans.
For many actors, it's the flip side of fame. You want to be loved and adored by people on screen and sharing every move, outfit and thought on social media is one way to draw people in; what it also results in is people connecting with the celebs emotionally. And this brings with it the burden of others' thoughts, feelings and opinions about their life.
For newly-married Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, for instance, it took a little while for fans to go from crying cougar (she is ten years older than him) to cooing awwww. [Now, of course, there is just excitement.
"Some people want to emulate the success of celebrity actors, others like to criticise them and feel a momentary moral superiority," says Husain. And that can lead to a feeling of emotional connect. Twenty-one-year-old Namirah Ahmad recently felt the disappointment that comes with extreme fandom. She used to follow Justin Bieber and Salena Gomez, who had an on-and-off relationship for years. Then came the sudden news that he was getting married to Hailey Baldwin. "Even though I fan-girled over him, I was so happy with his relationship with Selena. It wasn't jealousy or anything, but I was genuinely so happy – and when I found out he married Hailey …because I don't follow Hailey; I don't have a connection with Hailey, so I wasn't happy with this at all. And in fact, I stopped following Justin Bieber," she says.
Turns out having a soft spot for someone in the spotlight is normal – but take a break between the glitzy dances; moderation is probably best.


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With never-before-seen archive footage, witness the incredible true story of one of Britain most famous and inspirational sporting sons.
Considered by many to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, Sir Stanley Matthews' footballing skill, sportsmanship and pioneering spirit placed him light years ahead of his time.
A hero to fans of England, Stoke City, Blackpool and the beautiful game itself, across a stellar career spanning 35 years, that ended at the age of 50, Matthews, who never once entered the referee's book, was the first ever recipient of the Ballon D'Or, the first winner of the Football of the Year Award, and latterly, the inaugural inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame.
Yet, it was how he used his status as a global sports superstar, to defy the apartheid government of South Africa, and take football to the impoverished all-black townships of Johannesburg that truly secured his legend.
With never-before-seen archive footage, plus interviews including Sir Michael Parkinson, Sir Richard Branson and Gary Lineker, witness the incredible true story of one of Britain most famous and inspirational sporting sons.
"We shall never see his like again" Brian Clough
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When you have a family issue, there are many benefits to choosing a local family lawyer. In addition to supporting a member of your Evergreen community, you are also choosing a lawyer that is more convenient to travel to, being local to Evergreen, than if you were to choose a lawyer outside of the Evergreen area.
By hiring a reputable Evergreen family lawyer, you can ensure that your case will be handled in the most professional manner possible. And finding a good, experienced local Evergreen family lawyer will give you the comfort of knowing that if you should have another family issue in the future, your lawyer is right around the corner.


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HOME Legal Encounters International Law and Empire, Yesterday and Today
International Law and Empire, Yesterday and Today
The Institute of Law at Birzeit University organized on 20 April 2011, with funding from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, a legal encounter on the International Law and Empire, Yesterday and Today.
In the beginning of the meeting, Dr. Mosa Abu Ramadan introduced the speaker, Mr. Marti Koskimini, one of the most controversial international legal researchers in debates; he is professor of international law in the University of Helsenki and has worked as global professor of law at New York University/ Faculty of Law.
Professor Marti Koskinimi started his presentation on his research on international law that required five years of work to explain first the term "empire" and its relation to the Roman law and Christian ideologies. He also addressed the history of emergence of the international law attributing it to more ancient laws like the "law of nations", which addressed human utilization of property under the rule of nations.
In his presentation, he mentioned a number of thinkers and philosophers who played a key role in establishing the international law across history including Aristotel, Jean-Luc, Adam Smith and others.
He then addressed the details of the wars that took place between the Hispanics and the aboriginal populations of the two Americas explaining the type of relations between the Hispanics and these native people. In his presentation he explained how they organized their rights including the right to property, mobility and other rights.
He also explained the relationship between the Church, international law and the empire and the opinions and declarations made by the church during such wars and human cleansings.
Marti addressed the colonial wars in the nineteenth century and its subsequent theories of modernism and development in addition to the concepts of "sovereignty" and "rule of law".
Marti concluded his speech by explaining that the international law was born out of a normalized process to justify European control and expansion and that it is out of this law that mandate and protectorates systems were born in the League of Nations.
In the end of his presentation, Professor Marti thanked the audience and some interventions were made from the floor showing a great interest in the subject of debate.
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KCMO leaders still undecided on renaming The Paseo for MLK
By: Andres Gutierrez
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A heated debate broke out at City Hall in Kansas City, Missouri as leaders discussed ways to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a new name on the table for The Paseo: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on The Paseo.
It's the latest development in this ongoing discussion on how to honor the late Dr. King.
The current ordinance also bypasses the normal requirements regarding residents approval, which some city leaders have trouble with.
"I think that Dr. King deserves a street that is fully named after him and not just some sort of comprise that is watered down," Councilmember Jermaine Reed said.
"Out of those 11 letters, 10 are opposed to this, one is in favor. When you have that much opposition to simply push it through an ordinance without consulting with the people who are going to be effected pursuant to the ordinance that we have I think is a mistake, it's not very transparent," Kansas City Missouri Mayor Sly James said.
"I think that in the next few weeks we listen. We listen to where it's coming from in the community we make sure that as we think about The Paseo we're talking to people who live on The Paseo and near it we're hearing from those in the religious community so I think we have more work to do with it but I look forward to all of that," Councilmember Quinton Lucas said.
The conversation will pick back up at City Hall in two weeks.


When should the lawn be over-seeded?
Fescue is a cool season variety grass. It grows best during the fall, winter, and spring seasons when temperatures are more moderate and rainfall is generally more abundant. During the warm summer months, fescue will become dormant until temperatures return to moderate levels. As a result, many fescue lawns will discolor and brown out during periods of high temperature and drought stress. Fescue is also susceptible to diseases like brown patch during the summer and inevitably this will require that some of the grass be replaced. To prevent this, fescue requires lawn aeration and overseeding in the fall to increase lawn density. Creating a strong seed foundation will increase the chances of surviving the summer heat and many fungus problems. The best time to rejuvenate your fescue lawn in Georgia is during September and October. This is when both soil and air temperatures are at the optimal level for seed germination and it allows plenty of time for the young grass to mature before colder temperatures slows down plant growth.
Why should new seed be planted?
Unlike warm season turf grasses, fescue does not spread or reproduce naturally. New growth only occurs around the crown of the plant and not in the root system. Lawn core aeration and overseeding methods are important because seed-to-soil contact is vital to growing this cool season turf. The holes left behind after core aeration provide a place for seeds to settle into the soil and begin to grow. These holes allow air, water, and nutrients to combine, help young plants mature and also allow young roots to penetrate hard soils. In Georgia, clay soils become very compact and harden with each passing year. This inhibits the ability of both newly seeded lawns and established lawns to develop strong and deep root systems. Core aeration is crucial to healthy lawn maintenance and is recommended for all cool season and warm season grass types and varieties each year.
Double aeration consists of cross-directional penetration holes across the turf surface. This will increase the amount of area through which the soil receives extra seed, water, air and nutrients. After a period of heavy drought or turf disease problems, this process may be required to sustain more uniform seed germination rates or be recommended to loosen up compacted soil.
Why use a Certified Seed Mix?
Not all seeds mixes are created equal! Seed mixes are inspected by official inspectors and under the direction of State or Private Organizations. Certified seed mixes, grown in Georgia and surrounding states, should be checked to verify the origin, adaptation, breeding, seed condition, purity of variety, freedom from disease and noxious weed seed counts. Certified seed can be readily identified by the tag with an official emblem that is attached to the bag. WeedPro® Lawn Care only uses certified seed that supplied by trusted vendor and exceed all standards set by Official Seed Certifying Agencies.
Direct all traffic away from the seeded areas to avoid disturbing the seedbed.
Core aerated lawns have plugs of soil deposited across the surface of the lawn. These plugs will break down over 10 to 14 days and do not need to be raked off.
Keep the seeds moist! One should water newly seeded areas every day for 15-20 minutes until the seeds germinate. When the seedlings reach a height of 2 inches, one can adjust this schedule so that each location receives 20-30 minutes of watering three times a week.
Do not perform any lawn mowing on any areas with new seedlings until the plants are about 3 inches tall. When mowing, use a sharp mower blade to protect against pulling seedlings out. If some areas of the lawn become too tall, use a minimum mowing setting of three inches.
Do not panic if weeds start to grow in the seeded areas. These weeds can be controlled later and one should start removing weeds only after the new grass plants have been mowed twice.
If leaves fall and begin to mat down seeded areas, the leaves should be carefully removed (preferably with a hand blower).
Remember: Nature takes time! Depending on the type of seed, germination can be as short as seven days or as long as a month. Do not get discouraged and forget to water! The best fescue seed usually takes between 10 – 20 days to germinate.


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June Kitahara and Sarah Dinh.
by Erica Euse
16 April 2020, 4:51pm
How Asian Americans are fighting against coronavirus racism
Young people are speaking out about how hate is impacting their communities and overall well-being in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"After watching videos of random, innocent Asian Americans being attacked due to the rise of the coronavirus and the rise of xenophobia, I've learned to be scared of who I am," William Diep says straight-to-camera in a video testimonial he posted to Instagram in March. The 16-year-old recorded the short clip in hopes it would bring attention to the racism harming Asian Americans around the country. He is inviting young people to join him as part of the Virus: Racism campaign, a student-led initiative he started to unite his peers in the fight against bigotry.
Like Diep, many young Asian Americans around the country are struggling with the growing harassment and violence that has followed the spread of COVID-19. After the outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China in mid-December, Asians quickly became the target of misplaced anger and blame, which has resulted in harassment and violent physical attacks from New York City to Los Angeles -- adding another layer of fear to the already disrupted lives of young people.
"I have to constantly be aware of my surroundings and understand that I am vulnerable to the stigma against my community," Diep, who is Vietnamese American, told i-D. "I don't know if I will be the next person to be punched on my way to the supermarket to pick up a package of eggs."
Since mid-March, 1,400 Asian Americans have reported instances of hate crimes to the online reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate developed by the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and Chinese for Affirmative Action. "The discrimination ranges from verbal harassment to workplace discrimination and physical assault," Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian-American studies at San Francisco State University, and the lead researcher on Stop AAPI Hate explained over email. "In a large percent of the cases, people spit and cough at Asian Americans, which can constitute a hate crime and public health threat."
After Sarah Dinh, a 27-year-old medical student from Portland, shared the story of how two teenage girls covered their nose and mouth with their sweatshirts specifically when they walked by her at the grocery store on Instagram, a number of her followers responded with similar experiences.
"I was angry and heartbroken when so many of my Asian friends also shared their experiences with me," said Dinh, who is Vietnamese. "Some were far worse... some individuals got told to 'go die' or 'go back to where you came from and keep your coronavirus to yourself.'"
Anti-Asian racism has also resulted in extreme violence around the US. Earlier this month a woman in Brooklyn was attacked with acid outside her home, in what is believed to be a hate crime. And last month, a Burmese-American family of three was stabbed because the perpetrator thought they looked Chinese. And the FBI predicts these hate crimes will continue to increase.
"It is absurd how we became more divided during an unprecedented time where we were supposed to come together," said Rachel Huang, a 17-year-old student and Chinese-American from Flushing, New York, who added that she feels like she has a target on her back. "COVID-19 doesn't discriminate. Why should we?"
Just a few weeks after the first confirmed case of coronavirus hit the US, 19-year-old Barnard student June Kitahara got an email from her university about a racist message targeting Asian students that had been scrawled across a blackboard in the school's library on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. "Wuhan virus isolation area, keep out," it read in white chalk, according to a photo of the incident shared on Instagram.
"At the same time that I saw a video of a group of men in New York City attacking an Asian woman and calling her a 'diseased bitch,' I received that email from my college," Kitahara, a New York native and Japanese American, told i-D. "The rapid speed at which these attacks and incidents kept occurring was psychologically jarring… there was a surge of racists attacks surfacing both on the internet and around me."
With hate crimes making headlines and viral videos of attacks against Asian Americans being shared across social media, it's been hard to escape the looming threat of violence and harassment, even in quarantine. It also didn't help that President Donald Trump and his senior officials, until recently, referred to the coronavirus as the "Chinese Virus" despite the World Health Organization (WHO) warning that the phrase could fuel xenophobia and discrimimation against Asians. The non-stop threat of harassment has created fear around essential tasks like going to the grocery store.
"I am usually not a paranoid person. However, I have never been so terrified of wearing a mask in my life," explained Kitahara, who lives in Brooklyn. "A mask feels like an object that justifies the harassment that I am about to experience. If I wear a mask to go outside for groceries, I pair it with sunglasses and a hoodie to erase any markers of my East Asian identity."
While Asian Americans around the country are dealing with a harsh new reality, those like 31-year-old Pintrill co-founder Andrew Yung, are disappointed that some in the Asian community haven't been willing to speak out about racial injustice until it happened to them.
"I think this is a wake up call to many Asian people who are only now realizing that we are targets of racism in this country," explained 31-year-old Andrew Yung, a Chinese Canadian living in New York. "It took unfettered and indiscriminate violence against Asian-looking people for this to happen, not just violence that happens regularly to more vulnerable Asian communities."
The Asian American community in the US spans more than dozens of diverse ethnic groups, and Chinese Americans aren't the only people who have been victims of coronavirus-inspired hate crimes. According to a report published by Stop AAPI Hate in March, 61 percent of victims of anti-Asian hate crimes weren't even from China. But as we move forward, it's imperative that the fight against racism advocates for all communities of color and continues after the COVID-19 crisis.
"We need to recognize that this issue isn't an Asian-American one, but an American one," Professor Jeung said. "Asian Americans are rallying with other communities of color who are similarly racially profiled as threats and outsiders."
Young Asians around the country hope that despite the hardships they are facing, this is an opportunity for their community to unite and to build stronger bonds with fellow communities of color. During quarantine, civil rights organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Unidos US and the National Congress of American Indians have denounced racism against Asians, while young people of all races have expressed solidarity with hashtags like #RacismIsaVirus on social media.
"When we unite people of color together, then we get to recognize that all of our issues stem from the same root," said Diep. "When we look at the struggles individuals from different races go through, we get to understand that we all have faced the same issues of racism and prejudice, just in different forms."
Virus: Racism


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The aortic valve sinuses are located just before expansion of the wall of the ascending aorta, one over each of the distinct leaflets of the valve. The luminal diameter is enlarged and the thickness of the wall is reduced in relation to the regions that are located directly superiorly as well as inferiorly inside the area of the sinuses.
Functionally, the sinuses are important in maintaining the normal flow of blood into the coronary ostia and also the unblocked state of the valve leaflets during systole.
A thickening called the supravalvar ridge marks the superior margin of each sinus.
In the fully open aortic valve, the ridge is located superior towards the upper margin of the leaflets.
The ostia of the coronary arteries are located just inferior towards the ridge of the left and right leaflets.
The quantity of fibrous tissue inside the sinus is reduced as the quantity of elastic tissue is raised while rising superiorly.
Compared to those of the pulmonary trunk, the aortic sinuses are more prominent.
The interface in the middle of the LV and the ascending aorta, spreading out from the sinotubular junction in the aorta towards the basal valvular leaflets with their connection within the LV is referred to as the aortic root.
Approximately two-thirds of the circumference of the lower part of the aortic root is connected to the muscular ventricular septum, with the remaining one-third in fibrous continuity with the aortic leaflet of the mitral valve.
Its constituents are the sinuses of Valsalva, the fibrous interleaflet triangles, along with the valvular leaflets themselves.
The aortic cusps are strongly attached inside the root of the aorta to the fibrous skeleton.
A circular rim on the innermost side of the aortic wall, at the upper margin of each sinus, is the sinotubular rim that is the junction of the sinuses and the aorta.
According to their location in the body, the aortic cusps are named left cusp and right cusp, both of them anteriorly facing the pulmonic valve and posterior cusp.
The left coronary artery is produced by the left aortic sinus and the right coronary artery is produced by the right aortic sinus.
Generally there are no vessels that originate from the posterior aortic sinus, so it is known as the non-coronary sinus.
The intersections of the sinuses of Valsalva are marked by three equally spaced locations of minimal binding within the aortic root.
The junctions in the middle of the adjacent sinuses are associated with the intersections among the aortic valve leaflets, while each sinus is related to a leaflet of the aortic valve.
Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SOVA), a hereditary or acquired cardiac defect that is very rare and presents itself often during cardiac imaging as a secondary discovery.
Even though an echocardiogram is the regular imaging technique for such discoveries, cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is more progressively used.
If SOVA is diagnosed, CCTA is also a useful test for patients before surgical repair who are at low to intermediate level risk for coronary artery disease (CAD).
The need for invasive angiography is removed in most cases because CCTA can precisely point out CAD, which may be more dangerous in SOVA patients since their coronaries may be more difficult to involve and their aortic root may be more susceptible to injury.
Even though the treatment of choice previously has been surgery, the transcatheter methods have contributed to the range of nonsurgical alternatives for healing.


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H.G. Ajita Krsna Dasa
Ajita Krsna Dasa first met the devotees in 1986 while at IIT Bombay. He has been involved with the Philadelphia temple since 1999. He received initiation from Romapada Maharaja in 2011.
Current temple engagements include book distribution, preaching, outreach and organizing home programs/gatherings.
He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and has over sixteen years' experience in the finance industry with low-latency/high-frequency equity/derivatives trading systems. At present he works as a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase in New York.
Ajita Krsna Dasa is currently the course assistant for Religious Movements course.
H.G. Amritanjali Gaurangi Devi Dasi
Amritanjali Gaurangi Devi Dasi is a disciple of Jayapataka Maharaja and received initiation in 2010. She has been involved in various ISKCON Laguna Beach temple services since 2007 including assisting with the temple finance and accounting, fundraising, pujari service
and managing festivals. Both she and her husband have also served on the Laguna temple board.
Her undergraduate degree is in Mathematics and Statistics and she has a Master's degree in Business Administration as well as a Master's in Financial Economics. She currently leads the Asset Management division for the West Coast region of Quest Diagnostics.
Amritanjali Gaurangi Devi Dasi is the course assistant for the Vaisnava Sadachar and Community Development courses.
H.G. Lalita Manjari Devi Dasi
Lalita Manjari Devi Dasi was born and raised in ISKCON and educated in Gurukula. And she was initiated in 1991 by Satsvarupa Maharaja. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2001 and has been working in accounting since.
She serves as the Corresponding Secretary for the GBC College.
H.G. Nandini Radha Devi Dasi
Nandini Radha Devi Dasi is an active member of the LA temple congregation and a disciple of Radhanath Maharaja. She has been practicing Krsna consciousness since 1996.
By profession she is a Professor in the Biology program at California State University, Channel Islands, and also serves as the Program Director for the Masters in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics degree program. She holds a doctorate specializing in cancer biology.
She also regularly presents Krsna consciousness to her university students including taking them to the Govardhana Ecovillage each year as well as to ISKCON Chowpatty and the Bhaktivedanta Hospital.
Nandini Radha Devi Dasi is the course assistant for the Farm Communities course.
H.G. Nija-Dham Dasa
Nija-Dham Dasa has been associated with ISKCON for over six years. He received initiation from Vaisesika Prabhu in 2015 and is currently
engaged in book distribution at ISKCON Laguna Beach (including distribution on the streets, door-to-door, at public events and placing books in hospitals and motels/hotels).
He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, (Ottawa, Canada) and currently works as a principal engineer at Broadcom Ltd.
Nija-Dham Dasa is the course assistant for the Book Distribution course.
H.G. Radheswari Padmini Devi Dasi
Radheswari Padmini Devi Dasi is a disciple of Jayapataka Maharaja and serves at the Laguna Beach temple in various capacities including as a pujari, cook and book distributor. She also supports her husband in leading the Laguna temple's sankirtana team distributing books all over Southern California.She was initiated in 2006 and has been living in the USA since 2008.
She has a Master's degree in Mathematics from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India and currently works as a part-time Software QA
Analyst.
Radheswari Padmini Devi Dasi is the course assistant for two courses: Vaisnava Sadachar and Community Development.
H.G. Rasika Ramana Dasa
Rasika Raman Dasa is a disciple of Radhanath Swami and has been serving under Gauranga Prabhu. He is currently focusing his efforts on the degree programs that will be offered at the new seminary at Thane (Mumbai) and assists with organizing the residential courses and speakers for the GBC College.
Rasika Raman Dasa has an M.Tech in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from IIT Mumbai.
H.G. Premanjana Devi Dasi
Premanjana Devi dasi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). She works at a pioneer hospice care facility in Orange County, California.
She is assisting with the Child Protection course at the GBC College. Premanjana dd is an initiated disciple of His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami, and has been serving at ISKCON Laguna Beach since 2002.
Prior to her coming to California, she was a member of ISKCON Philadelphia congregation since 1992.
H.G. Shreeji Kumari Devi Dasi
Shreeji Kumari Devi Dasi and her husband are actively part of the ISKCON Laguna Beach temple congregation.
She currently works as a financial controller for a company in Aliso Viejo and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University.
Shreeji Kumari Devi Dasi is currently the course assistant for the Fundraising and Temple Administration courses.
H.G. Sridevi Radha Devi Dasi
Sridevi Radha Devi dasi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist – Supervisor (CEDS-S).
She works as a mental health therapist in private practice in Southern California, specializing in trauma, eating disorders, and substance abuse. She is also a clinical supervisor to therapy interns who are working toward state licensure. Sridevi Radha is assisting with the Child Protection course at the GBC College. Sridevi Radha is a member of the ISKCON Long Beach and ISKCON Laguna Beach communities.
H.G. Varangi Radha Devi Dasi
Varangi Radha Devi dasi is a disciple of His Holiness Devamrita Swami and received initiation in 2014. She has been involved in various services at ISKCON Laguna Beach and ISKCON Long Beach temples in greeting guests, outreach and pujari service. She has a degree in International Studies from California State University Long Beach. She has worked as an interpreter and translator (English and Spanish) for the court system and is currently working in the education sector.
She helps at the GBC College with grading the Action Learning Project and Vaisnava Sadachar courses.
H.G. Vraja Prana Dasa
Vraja Prana Dasa was introduced to the Krsna Consciousness movement in the year 2000 in Bangalore, India. In the year 2002, he relocated to the Middle East and since then has been serving in a Yatra, code named Mathuradesh as a Congregational preacher. His main area of expertise is in the Bhakti Vrksha method of preaching through which Mathuradesh yatra has found much success in becoming a vibrant Vaishnava community in the middle of a desert. He is also taking care of the Management affairs of the Yatra, as the Yatra Servant Leader. In the year 2019, Vraja prana dasa graduated from the GBC college and is appointed as the Zonal supervisor for the country where he is currently serving in the Middle East.
In the professional field, he is a qualified Chartered Accountant and heads up the Corporate Strategy and Risk function for a Government owned Utility company.
He is a disciple of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami since 2005.
He helps at the GBC College with grading the Action Learning Project course.
H.G. Madana Gopala Dasa
Madana Gopala Prabhu is Co-Director of ISKCON Communications of North America and serves as Director of Communications at ISKCON of New Jersey. He joined ISKCON in 1991 and has served as a teacher and preacher in various capacities in the US. He currently coordinates the New Jersey Project Advisory Committee which is working toward building a large, Vedic-style ISKCON temple, the first of its kind, in the New York-New Jersey Area.
He helps at the GBC College with grading the Fundraising course.
H.G. Smara-hari Dasa
Smara-hari dasa, joined ISKCON in South Africa in 1977 and since then attended regular Namahatta programs under the expert guidance of H.H. Partha Sarathi Das Goswami. Since 2010 he is planning and rolling out major festivals at ISKCONs temple in Durban. He also served ISKCON BBTI Global Executive Management as Special Projects manager in 2016-17. Since February 2016, he is a member of the Strategic Planning Support Team, a unit under the GBC Strategic Planning Team. He is currently the Director for Devotee Care in SA. With a Masters' Degree in Engineering he has over 20 years' experience in technology management, change management and the development and implementation of strategies.
H.G. Lal Gopal Dasa
Lal Gopal das currently serving as Temple President at ISKCON St. Louis, USA.
H.G. Govinda Priya Devi Dasi
Govinda Priya Devi dasi, originally from Mumbai, is a disciple of H.H Radhanatha Swami. She previously served in New Vrindaban where she co-founded the Gopal's Garden school and was a member of the congregational development team. She currently lives with her family in California where she organizes local festivals along with Vaishnavi study groups and retreats. She has been the Vaishnavi Ministry's North American Representative since 2018. She serves as a member of the GBC Strategic Planning Team and North American Council. She is a vetting officer for the GBC Nominations Committee.
H.G. Sanatana Dharma Dasa
Sanatana Dharma Das is a Disciple of His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaja. A Mechanical Engineering graduate from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Guitarist – Graduated from the Trinity School of Music, London. Inspired by HG Radheshyam Prabhu for his scientific presentation of the Bhagavad Gita, he dedicated his life to the serve the mission of Srila Prabhupada and humanity at large. Gives lectures which depict practical applications of timeless wisdom that are applicable to today's youth, corporates and leaders. Presently serving as the Head of Bhakti Yoga Club Kharadi, Project Development Head and Area Manager, ISKCON Pune (East- zone).
H.G. Vipin Bihari Dasa
Vipina Bihari Das is a disciple of HH. Radhanath Swami Maharaja. He helps in maintaining the GBC college course portal, communications, and organizing residential sessions. He lives in Pune, took training, and served 6 years at ISKCON Pune managing the temple's social media, communications, and organizing events. With a degree in Information Technology, he worked for 5 years as a Software developer at SAS R&D before joining temple and now working in the PMO of UST Global.