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What's Holding Back the Contact Center Industry?
Samantha Mehra Updated: February 12, 2021
Contact centers are like people: We're all at different stages, chugging along healthily but sometimes faltering along the way.
As we begin to look back at 2018, one thing is becoming clear: Not every contact center is created equal. While some are overhauling and optimizing their entire operations and adapting to the demands of modern consumers, there exist some (even those belonging to notable brands) that lag a step or two behind the speed of change. This is not a criticism – it's simply the reality, an industry-wide circumstance brought about by the learning curves and rapid technological changes to the customer service space in contemporary times.
All contact centers face barriers, and you certainly know your own intimately. Maybe it's staffing or high turnover. Maybe it's the budget. Maybe it's a knee-jerk reaction to the idea of change, or a fear of letting go of legacy call center technologies. Whatever your roadblock, it's good practice for contact center teams and customer service leaders to educate themselves on why, in a broad sense, some contact centers are being held back from reaching their full potential. It may also help us convey to the powers that be what is at stake if we remain static and disconnected from the realities and demands of the future.
Too Many Touch-Points.
Rightfully so, company leadership is looking at one thing with hawk-eyed scrutiny: The bottom line. That's fair enough, but the almighty bottom line is also affected by customers gained and lost. Along with sub-par products, poor customer service and slow or unresponsive customer support can spell the end of a customer's journey with your brand. Contact center managers know exactly what resources they need in place to improve the customer and agent experience, but often have to jump through a dozen hoops to get those resources in place (we can all appreciate how company protocol sometimes slows progress down).
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In order to move forward, company leadership should invest in a feasibility study of its procedures to ensure that there are not too many silos or touch-points in between contact center managers and decision-makers. Solid company infrastructure should ensure that those working in the customer service space can communicate their successes, failures, needs, and suggestions to the powers that be, and thus vastly improve the contact center experience for customers.
Short on Support.
If you've ever been on the receiving end of a support line, you know that moments of customer frustration can weigh upon you, even years later. Being a contact center agent, particularly if you are in a call center, is mentally taxing work, and can certainly take its toll if support, either managerial or psychological, is unavailable to you. As much as we'd like to have faith in humanity, and customers are entitled to feeling frustrated when ignored or delayed, call centers grapple with constant inappropriate and abusive calls on a daily basis.
Unfortunately, some contact centers still insist on a no-hangup rule (agents are penalized for ending a call) in order to improve or sustain metrics; and they do not offer moral or psychological support to front-line agents who live through some horrific experiences on the job. Just like in many industries, contact centers have their own workplace hazards, and a focus on best practices for dealing with them in a humane way will improve a contact center by leaps and bounds. The problem is so serious and widespread that petitions and movements to bring awareness to the subject have emerged.
Another way contact centers are dragging their heels? The culture in the workplace may be due for an upgrade, including the provision of psychological support resources. Added to this is a concerted effort to make work-life more fun for contact center agents who we know interact with a wide range of customer personalities every day. There are some basic, cost-effective ways of dipping your toes into a cultural change in the office. For instance, gamification has become a popular way of engaging contact center teams while also improving the bottom line.
No Money, Honey.
Contact centers are expensive, it's true. When you add into the mix contact center wish-list items (more agents, more social media customer support, more analysts, omnichannel capabilities, chatbots and other smart technology capabilities) the bill becomes exorbitant and the hand-wringing ensues. As Richard J. Snow of Ventana writes, "investment budgets are naturally a big issue. My recent research shows that for over three-quarters of companies 90 percent or more of their contact center operating budget is allocated to keep existing processes and systems running." Overhauling a legacy budget is also a challenge for those resistant to the idea of change, be it technology, investing in an expansion of the contact center workforce, or allocating funds for education and training for agents. But lagging behind the times will eventually frustrate customers, and agent turnover could reach an all-time high (both of which are, in the long run, exorbitantly expensive). For contact centers to move forward, they must do one thing, and soon: Weigh the cost in the present against the cost in the long-run.
At any stage in our lives on this planet, we find opportunities to grow, to better ourselves, especially in the workplace. This certainly applies to those keeping their contact centers buoyed in the larger customer service universe. By identifying and understanding our shortfalls, we can begin the journey of improving, growing, and thriving.
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August 29, 201110:53AM EDT
Greg Seltzer
AMSTERDAM — Borussia Mönchengladbach midfielder Michael Bradley is on the verge of completing a deal to join Serie A side Chievo Verona, MLSsoccer.com has learned.
According to multiple sources, the 24-year-old has already agreed to personal terms with Chievo.
Chievo would not comment on the situation to MLSsoccer.com, while attempts to reach 'Gladbach's press office to confirm the American had left for Italy to close the deal were unsuccessful.
Longtime suitors AS Roma also began enquiring about Bradley and a few other clubs in Germany, Italy and Spain were monitoring the situation to perhaps make a last-minute bid, but the Flying Donkeys apparently named the right price on Sunday night.
Bradley, who worked just two EPL matches during a loan spell at Aston Villa to close last season, has scored 10 times in 76 Bundesliga game since arriving at 'Gladbach on summer transfer deadline day in 2008. Should he complete the move to Italy, he could become only the second US international in the modern era to appear in a Serie A contest, following former Padova defender Alexi Lalas.
Following an 11th-place finish in Serie A last term, Chievo are currently slated to open the strike-delayed season at home against newly promoted Novara on Sunday, Sept. 11.

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Anyway.....so, I have my nose spray (once or twice daily); I have the ever-amazing nose shower that flushes gunk out (daily); and now I have nose oil, which contains a whole lotta stuff including citric oil (I smell lemony fresh now!), peanut oil, orange peel oil, and "terpinol," which I think is related to terpentine.
This concludes the lastest episode of The Epic Adventures of The Chronically Sinusitic. Thank you for watching!
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....for a report on our trip to the United Kingdom! Yes, in case my previous, late-night post about fermented oj didn't give it away, Ed and I are back from our wonderful vacation to England and Scotland. I'm in the process of journaling about it, and I will post part (if not all, I'm not sure yet) of my reportive ramblings here. So keep your eyes open, laddies!
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On Wednesday, my parents boarded their flight from Frankfurt to the U.S. I think I still haven't quite started to process that they have moved to Oklahoma. To them, Germany is home. To *me* Germany is their home, too. That new house that they build is gonna have a pretty solid German cornerstone to live up to.
Another bit of unpleasant reality..... On Wednesday, Ed and I let our landlady know that we are moving out by October 31st. She was really upset to hear this, and I thought she was going to cry. Which made me almost cry. And we haven't even been close to her, though I'd describe our "professional" relationship as a good one. It was still a sad moment, and all three of us agreed that there was no "good" time to break this news. At least she understood our reasons for leaving.
But telling her that we're moving...it's just one more step toward making it all seem real.
And I don't like it. I don't want to think about it.
*Addendum: Ed and I have been watching a lot of "Quantum Leap" online lately. At another time, perhaps I'll blog about how much I love this show and how I wish they'd make a movie of it or something. Anyway, I've been trying to figure out why my non-TV-loving self has been wanting to veg out in front of the tube so much recently.
And I think I've figured it out: I'm watching because I'm avoiding. I'm watching because I don't want to think.
This'll be somewhat general instead of specific to one book. In my effort to decide which books to move with us to Oklahoma and which ones to leave behind, I've been re-reading quite a few novels in order to determine their move-worthiness. So far, I have a pile of about 50 books to give away (I haven't re-read *all* of these, only the ones I really wasn't sure about) and counting.
Included in all the re-reading are all of my Dean Koontz books. Yeah, I've decided to give away a few of his novels...but I find myself keeping most of them. The ones I'm giving away are those to which I haven't had a strong emotional reaction, or those which have left me feeling like this-has-been-done-before. Some of his earlier novels have left me feeling this way, so those are the ones I'm giving away.
I'm keeping all of his later stuff, though, plus a few older ones like "Dark Rivers of the Heart"; "Lightning"; and "Servants of Twilight," to name a few. But his more recent works are the ones I really enjoy. In my opinion, Koontz has been reflecting a great deal of spirituality in his works of the last 6 or 8 (maybe 10) years. Hints of that have always been there, but now he has moved from the hinting stage to pointing directly at the fact that there is something more than this world that we perceive with our physical senses. I highly recommend Koontz to anyone who is looking for serious philosophy and broadening spirituality packaged within the heart-pounding, stay-up-reading-under-the-covers action of an incredibly good read.
As a writer....if I could write like Koontz, I would be satisfied.


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Shivambu's assault case postponed to February 2021
Floyd Shivambu and photo-journalist Adrian de Kock. Picture: Twitter video screenshot/@JasonFelix
The case relates to the alleged assault of photographer Adrian de Kock at Parliament's precinct on 20 March 2018.
The assault case against EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu was postponed by the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Thursday following the state's decision to deny court representations for diversion and mediation.
Shivambu's case has been postponed to 11 February 2021 for a trial date. The latest postponement comes after the case experienced delays because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He faces a charge of common assault for the alleged assault of photographer Adrian de Kock in the Parliament precinct on 20 March 2018.
The incident occurred while the media were covering the party disciplinary matter between then Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille and the DA at the Parliamentary precinct.
De Kock was among a media group taking photographs and reporting on the matter at the time.
The alleged assault was captured on video.
WC: Nyiko Floyd Shivambu submitted representations to the NPA, which have been denied. His case has been postponed to 11 Feb 2021 for trial. Shivambu is charged with common assault following an assault of a journalist in the parliamentary precinct in March 2018.
— NPASouthAfrica (@NPA_Prosecutes) October 29, 2020
Meanwhile, EFF leader Julius Malema and MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi have pleaded not guilty to a charge of common assault over an incident at the funeral of struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in 2018.
Malema and Ndlozi are on trial in the Randburg Magistrate's Court accused of assaulting police officer Lieutenant-Colonel Johannes Jacobus Venter at the funeral at 3.40pm on 14 April 2018 at Fourways Memorial Park.
The incident was caught on CCTV. The two have denied the assault and the trial continues.


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Open Letter calling on Czech Ministry of Culture to respect international law and withdraw partnership with Days of Jerusalem
Dopis česky zde.
Mr Daniel Herman
Minister of Culture
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
1 Maltézské náměstí
Prague, 15 June 2015
Case: Request for respecting international law and withdrawing partnership with Days of Jerusalem
Dear Mr Herman,
We are writing with regard to the controversial festival Days of Jerusalem to be held in Pilsen and Prague during June 2015. The Ministry of Culture is one of the festival's main partners. We request that you adhere to your respect for international law and withdraw your partnership with the festival.
The festival Days of Jerusalem is being promoted as a cultural and apolitical event. However, in promotional materials and in media coverage the festival refers to a unified Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel. Under the pretence of a cultural event the festival thus whitewashes the reality of Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem. The publicity also omits the illegal de facto annexation of Jerusalem by Israel. The festival can be seen as part of Israel's cultural diplomacy, because its partners include the municipality of Jerusalem and Israeli embassy in Prague. As confirmed by articles in Czech media and alluded to in a joint declaration by the governments of the State of Israel and the Czech Republic [1], the aim of the festival is to introduce Jerusalem as an Israeli city. The Ministry of Culture also referred to the Days of Jerusalem as a "representative and concise overview of Israeli culture aimed at international audiences" [2]. This aim, however, contravenes international law as well as the stance of European Union on this matter. The EU has never accepted annexation of Jerusalem by the State of Israel.
We take this opportunity to refer to the UN General Assembly Resolutions 181 and 194 that confirmed Jerusalem to be Corpus Separatum, an international city which does not belong to any particular state. In 1967 Israel annexed East Jerusalem together with the surrounding 28 villages illegally; and in 1980 it declared Jerusalem "eternal and indivisible capital of the State of Israel" – both acts violated international law and the relevant UN resolutions. The UN Security Council declared the proclamation as invalid.
The festival Days of Jerusalem deploys ostensibly apolitical means to manipulate the Czech public into accepting the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem. It is therefore unacceptable for the Czech Ministry of Culture to maintain a partnership with the festival. It is equally unacceptable for the Czech government to maintain support for the festival as expressed in the joint governmental declaration. The partnership and support are not in line with international law and with the stance of the European Union on this matter. Ironically, the partnership takes place under the label European Capital of Culture, co-financed by the EU.
As a democratically elected representative of the Czech Republic and Minister of Culture you have an undeniable responsibility towards international law. Partnership with a festival which introduces Jerusalem as an indivisible Israeli city jeopardises this responsibility and the credibility of the Ministry of Culture. Your responsibility extends towards the Czech public being manipulated by the festival organisers.
The festival justified its claim to appear on the official programme of the European Capital of Culture, Pilsen 2015, by stating that Jerusalem represents "the source of European culture values" [3]. Taking European values such as respect for international law and respect for universal human rights seriously prevents us from supporting demolitions, segregation walls and expulsions of the population as tools of illegal occupation.
We are convinced that the partnership between the Ministry of Culture and the Days of Jerusalem is highly inappropriate. We are therefore asking you to withdraw your partnership with the festival.
Thank you for your consideration, and we look forward to hearing from you.
This open letter is endorsed by the following signatories:
Jan Kavan, former Foreign Minister and former chairman UN General Assembly
Vladimír Laštůvka, former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies Parliament of the Czech Republic
Zuzana Uhde, sociologist
Roman Sikora, theater critic and playwright
Matěj Stropnický, journalist, representative of the capital city of Prague (Green Party)
Filip Outrata, theologian, editor and publicist
Milan Daniel, journalist
Vít Klepárník, political scientist
Milan Kohout, performer and university lecturer
Czech Young Greens
Czech Socialist Solidarity
On behalf of the conveners of the open letter:
Vojtěch Srnka, student of international relations
David Kocman, sociologist
Petra Šťastná, International Solidarity Movement Czech Republic (ISM ČR)
Zdeněk Jehlička, of the initiative Not in our name! – For just peace in the Middle East
Libor Von Schönau, the Czech Boat to Gaza – part of Freedom Flotilla heading now to Gaza with humanitarian aid
Shadid Bessisso, Palestinian Club in the Czech Republic
Jana Ridvanová, Friends of Palestine, Czech Republic
Prokop Singer, student of international relation and European studies at MUP
Naďa Kotaishová, student of journalism at AAU
[1] http://www.vlada.cz/assets/media-centrum/aktualne/joint-statement.pdf
[2] http://www.mkcr.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/zpravy/nosticky-palac-od-ctvrtka-ozije-dny-jeruzalema-v-praze–180721/tmplid-228
[3] http://plzen2015.cz/sites/default/uploads/150430_dny_jeruzalema_reakce_na_otevreny_dopis.docx
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By Emily Mee, news reporter
US fashion icon and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt has died at the age of 95, her son has confirmed.
The heiress, who was the great-great-granddaughter of financier Cornelius Vanderbilt, made headlines throughout her life and survived family tragedy.
Her death on Monday was announced by her son, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, in a first-person obituary that aired on the network.
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In a statement, Cooper said: "Gloria Vanderbilt was an extraordinary woman, who loved life, and lived it on her own terms."
"She was a painter, a writer, and designer but also a remarkable mother, wife, and friend.
"She was 95 years old, but ask anyone close to her, and they'd tell you, she was the youngest person they knew, the coolest, and most modern."
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She first married at the age of 17, leading her aunt to disinherit her.
Gloria Vanderbilt walks alongside American singer and actor Frank Sinatra
In a 2004 interview with the Associated Press, she said: "I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does."
She also experienced personal tragedy in 1988 when she witnessed the suicide of one of her four sons.
Carter, a Princeton graduate, killed himself at the age of 23 by jumping from his mother's 14th-floor apartment as she tried to stop him.
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She appeared in The Time of Your Life on Broadway and featured in the television shows Playhouse 90, Studio One and US Steel Hour.
The socialite was also a fabric designer with an enthusiasm for designer denim.
Her designer-branded jeans with their signature white swan label became a sensation, generating over $200m (£159m) in sales at their peak in 1980.
She later branched out into shoes, scarves, table and bed linens, and china.
Vanderbilt wrote a number of books, including a chronicle of her love life named It Seemed Important At The Time: A Romance Memoir, which name-dropped the likes of Frank Sinatra and Errol Flynn.
Gloria Vanderbilt with her son, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper
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Her aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, won custody when the judge closed the trial after a maid accused the child's mother of a lesbian affair with a member of the British royal family.
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Although the RiverBox could theoretically be used for various industries, Carscallen said that currently the company is focused specifically on the aquaculture industry.
For now, Carscallen said most of the interest for algae in the industry is for waste-remediation, although in the future the algae could be processed into feed.
"I think that remediation will be the first to take off, and as the total production scale of algae increases, there will be more interest in utilizing it as a protein and feed source. Feed companies could set up contracts where they have collection trucks that buy and pick up all the algae produced from smaller farmers and then bring it back to their processing plant," he said.
A lack of willing investors has been one of the main impediments to the development of a more robust algae industry, which currently puts most of its effort in developing algae for, high-value products like pharmaceuticals.
Investment was relatively high in algae production in the early 2000s, when biofuel development was looking promising amid high oil prices. When that industry crashed, many investors turned away, sticking only to established companies making high-value products.
"The majority of algae companies being funded are those that already have significant funding," he said.
However Carscallen said he expects investor interest to rise in the next decade or so.
"Within five to ten years, we will see a significant rise in investments in algae technology. There will definitely be a shift towards feed and other low-value product, as the high-value product markets, such as pharmaceuticals, become saturated," he said.


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package org.progress.web.exceptions;

public class PermissionsDeniedException extends CustomException {

    @Override
    public String getMessage() {
        return "У вас недостаточно прав для совершения данного действия";
    }
}

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Beaufortia /
J. de Korte
Ecology of the Long-tailed Skua, Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot, 1819, at Scoresby Sund, East Greenland. Part three: clutch size, laying date and incubation in relation to energy reserves
Beaufortia , Volume 35 - Issue 6 p. 93- 127
Energy reserves, gonad development and breeding of Long-tailed Skuas were investigated in East Greenland at Kap Stewart in 1973 and 1974, at Gåseelv and Ugleelv in 1975, and at Kaerelv in 1975. In spring adults arrived along the ice edge and on the tundra with maximal energy reserves, with testes of sub-maximal size and enlarged follicles close to the size at which rapid follicle growth may start. In paired birds the loss of energy reserves in the pre-breeding period decided how far rapid follicular growth proceded and whether none, one or two eggs were laid. In 1973 and 1975 oneegg and two-egg pais had similar energy reserve losses until hatching of the young, regardless of clutch size. Nonbreeding birds in 1974 lost their energy reserves at a faster rate than did breeding birds in 1973 and 1975, weights of laid eggs included. Timing of egg laying was correlated with the disappearance of snow-cover and the experience of the pair and not with body energy reserves. One – egg and two – egg clutches in 1973 and 1975 had the same average completion date (13 June). First clutches were completed between 4 June (Gåseelv 1975) and 5 July (Kap Stewart 1973) and replacement clutches until 14 July (Kaerelv 1979). Testes and largest follicles started to regress at or soon after (failed) breeding. In non-breeders regression started later than in early breeders. All breeding and non-breeding territorial birds developed brood patches, which started to appear in the first days of pair formation. In females, only breeding birds had full-size patches, which were attained at clutch initiation. Males attained full-size patches some days before or after clutch initiation and some of them also without eggs being produced. In early breeders patches started to regress between two and three weeks after clutch initiation, in late breeders within a week. In 1975 about 61 % of the incubation was done by the female.
Journal Beaufortia
de Korte, J. (1985). Ecology of the Long-tailed Skua, Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot, 1819, at Scoresby Sund, East Greenland. Part three: clutch size, laying date and incubation in relation to energy reserves. Beaufortia, 35(6), 93–127.


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Society's Child
Gas rationed, travel restricted in parts of B.C. after storm washes out highways
The Toronto Sun
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:57 UTC
© Rachel Berry
The British Columbia government is rationing gasoline and restricting travel in southern parts of the province after an unprecedented storm severed highways and cut supply lines.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Friday a limit of 30 litres of fuel per visit to a gas station is an important step to maintaining the supply as the province works to bring in more gas by truck and barge from Alberta, Washington state, Oregon and California.
He said the order would apply for 10 to 11 days, and he trusts that people won't be greedy and will keep critical services in mind as they focus on residents whose communities have been devastated by flooding.
The orders apply to residents of Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, southwestern parts of the province and the Sunshine Coast.
Non-essential travel has been prohibited on sections of highways 99, 3 and 7 starting Friday. Passage through restricted areas will be reserved for commercial transport of goods such as food, water and medical supplies, Farnworth said.
"As roads are repaired and the backlog of essential traffic clears, restrictions on essential travel can and will be eased. We will be releasing the details on enforcement in short order," he said.
"But my hope is that everyone understands the need for these restrictions and fully co-operates. In other words, if you don't need to be travelling right now, don't. Stay home. And if you can't do that, carpool or take public transit or work from home."
Record-breaking rainfall over 48 hours earlier this week stranded motorists and caused mudslides that severed multiple highways in parts of southwestern B.C.
The body of one person was recovered on Highway 99 near Lillooet and RCMP have said four people have been reported missing in the area where a search is underway.
An estimated 14,000 people were still out of their homes on Friday and about 4,700 had registered at evacuation centres, Farnworth said.
The rainfall caused major damage to highways and some, like the Coquihalla, will not be rebuilt for several months. Limited access has been restored to others with single-lane traffic permitted.
Transportation Minister Rob Fleming said Highway 3 from Hope to the southern Interior of the province had opened for essential travel and Highway 99 could be open by Sunday depending on whether crews can continue their work.
"I want to emphasize this will not be travel as we'd expect under normal conditions. Crews will be on-site with heavy equipment to continue to repair the roads. And until that work is complete, the traffic is going to be slow on these routes."
Agriculture Minister Lana Popham said 959 farms are under evacuation order and 164 remain on evacuation alert due to high floodwaters and inaccessible roads.
She said 25,000 hectares of farmland has been affected by flooding, including 15,000 hectares within the agricultural land reserve.
Thirty-five veterinarians are on standby and many of them would be coming from Alberta, Popham said. She said thousands of animals have already died in the Sumas Prairie area of Abbotsford, an agricultural heartland east of Vancouver.
Popham said tensions still exist between farmers trying to return to their properties and RCMP officers who are restricting access to dangerous roadways while also issuing permits in some situations.
"The conditions of the roadways are changing and very dynamic," she said. "So, Emergency Management BC has requested more engineers to come in from the military and that may allow us to move forward getting more precise information on the culvert system and the strength of the roadways that farmers need to travel on."
However, Popham said milk is now being picked up as the supply management system had resumed.
Earlier this week, the B.C. Milk Marketing Board had advised dairy farmers in Abbotsford, Chilliwack and the B.C. Interior to dump any milk into manure piles because mudslides and road washouts had made it impossible to transport.
Popham also said farmers would be eligible for disaster relief for the first time and that her counterparts across the country agreed at a recent meeting that support for the agricultural sector needed to include the impacts of climate change.
Henry Braun, the mayor of Abbotsford, said Friday that his city had reversed plans to build a levee to stop floodwaters and will now make emergency repairs to a broken dike by Tuesday. That is when up to 100 millimetres of rain was expected to drench the area already hit hard by the recent downpour.
Braun said that ultimately, the entire dam may have to be rebuilt to protect the Sumas Prairie, which suffered extensive flooding as water gushed in from the Nooksack River from neighbouring Washington state.
"I'm concerned about the Nooksack overflowing its banks again. And if it does, that water's coming right back through Sumas across our prairie. That's what we're trying to stop before the next rain event," he said.
Braun said 64 soldiers had arrived in Abbotsford as part of a contingent of 120 that is supporting the city's efforts as geotechnical engineers were assessing roads and culverts.
A military reconnaissance group had also been dispatched to the provincial emergency operation centre in Surrey, and more than 200 troops were on standby in Edmonton awaiting orders to deploy.
Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Friday that interim measures are being set up with the United States to move commercial goods to B.C.
"These interim measures are largely intended for Canadian domestic truck carriers that do not normally cross the border in the course of their business," he said.


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Il collaudatore è un tecnico addetto al controllo e verifica dei requisiti tecnologici ed economici di apparecchi, macchine, strumenti, impianti o costruzioni in relazione a un piano di lavoro o a normative esterne. Con  l'aumentare delle normative di sicurezza in vari campi, il collaudatore assume spesso un ruolo di importanza pubblica.

Aviazione

Sport automobilistici
Nell'automobilismo sportivo il ruolo del collaudatore è andato via via crescendo di importanza con l'aumentare della complessità delle vetture. In particolare nella Formula 1 moderna le squadre maggiori investono moltissimo in test privati per ottimizzare le prestazioni tanto da avere gruppi di meccanici ed ingegneri esclusivamente dedicati ad essi, motivo per il quale un collaudatore percorre complessivamente durante l'anno molti più chilometri di un pilota ufficiale, ed il ruolo è visto come il miglior ingresso nella categoria per un giovane pilota.

A partire dalla stagione 2004 le squadre peggio piazzate nel campionato precedente possono schierare una terza vettura nelle prove del venerdì precedente il Gran Premio, ampliando ancora di più il ruolo del collaudatore ormai ufficialmente "terzo pilota".

Terminologia dell'automobilismo
Professioni dello sport

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The Jubilee Heritage Group holds quite a lot of items about the history of the area, our mining heritage, buildings, environment and people. We have photographs, maps, documents and artefacts, and we are working on adding to our collections.
We aim to gather together as much knowledge and information as we can find and preserve it as a resource for current and future generations, freely available to any person or organisation. If you have things you think might add to our collection we'd love to borrow them, just to copy, note down or photograph, and we'll return everything to you very quickly. Or if you wish to donate anything we'll ensure it is safely stored.
Much of the history resource will be available on this website in the future.
We made a start listing some of our hundreds of items, working towards the creation of an online database. We still have a long way to go.
The weekend was a great success, with about 150 people engrossed in the collection of photographs and items, and many people brought in new images and artefacts, either given or loaned to us.
We had some offers of help with cataloguing the collection and doing new research, and we'd like a few more people to get involved.
Former resident of Mary Tavy, Gerry Sargent has very kindly donated his amazing collection of photographs, stories, maps to The Jubilee Group. Before moving away Gerry was well known as a local historian and he had accumulated a wealth of information about the social history and mining.
All this information and the rest of our collection will, in time, be worked into a Virtual Museum, which will be accessible by all.


OneDigital is introducing an opportunity this November to change the face of men's health awareness. We're kicking off a companywide Movember Movement by encouraging male employees to "Grow a Mo' to Save a Bro." Participants will kick off the month of November with a clean-shaven face, part with their razors and work all month to try and grow the best mo'.
However, it's not all fun and games; proceeds collected during this month's Movember Movement will go to the Movember Foundation – the leading charity that brings awareness to three health issues predominately found in men: prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health/suicide.
Across the world, men die an average of six years younger than women, and we want to help change this statistic. The causes are largely preventable and it all starts with a conversation – a movement – to bring awareness to men's health.
By encouraging participants to let their facial hair flow, (no matter the shape or style) our hope is to inspire donations, conversations and real change. Let the games begin!


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package io.aeron.samples;

import io.aeron.*;
import io.aeron.logbuffer.FragmentHandler;
import io.aeron.protocol.HeaderFlyweight;
import org.agrona.DirectBuffer;
import org.agrona.LangUtil;
import org.agrona.collections.MutableInteger;
import org.agrona.concurrent.IdleStrategy;
import org.agrona.concurrent.status.CountersReader;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.nio.MappedByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

import static io.aeron.CncFileDescriptor.*;
import static java.nio.channels.FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY;

/**
 * Utility functions for the samples.
 */
public class SamplesUtil
{
    /**
     * Return a reusable, parametrised event loop that calls a default {@link IdleStrategy} when no messages
     * are received.
     *
     * @param fragmentHandler to be called back for each message.
     * @param limit           passed to {@link Subscription#poll(FragmentHandler, int)}.
     * @param running         indication for loop.
     * @return loop function.
     */
    public static Consumer<Subscription> subscriberLoop(
        final FragmentHandler fragmentHandler, final int limit, final AtomicBoolean running)
    {
        return subscriberLoop(fragmentHandler, limit, running, SampleConfiguration.newIdleStrategy());
    }

    /**
     * Return a reusable, parametrised event loop that calls and idler when no messages are received.
     *
     * @param fragmentHandler to be called back for each message.
     * @param limit           passed to {@link Subscription#poll(FragmentHandler, int)}.
     * @param running         indication for loop.
     * @param idleStrategy    to use for loop.
     * @return loop function.
     */
    public static Consumer<Subscription> subscriberLoop(
        final FragmentHandler fragmentHandler,
        final int limit,
        final AtomicBoolean running,
        final IdleStrategy idleStrategy)
    {
        return
            (subscription) ->
            {
                final FragmentAssembler assembler = new FragmentAssembler(fragmentHandler);
                while (running.get())
                {
                    final int fragmentsRead = subscription.poll(assembler, limit);
                    idleStrategy.idle(fragmentsRead);
                }
            };
    }

    /**
     * Return a reusable, parametrised {@link FragmentHandler} that prints to stdout.
     *
     * @param streamId to show when printing.
     * @return subscription data handler function that prints the message contents.
     */
    public static FragmentHandler printAsciiMessage(final int streamId)
    {
        return (buffer, offset, length, header) ->
        {
            final String msg = buffer.getStringWithoutLengthAscii(offset, length);
            System.out.printf(
                "Message to stream %d from session %d (%d@%d) <<%s>>%n",
                streamId, header.sessionId(), length, offset, msg);
        };
    }

    /**
     * Return a reusable, parametrised {@link FragmentHandler} that calls into a
     * {@link RateReporter}.
     *
     * @param reporter for the rate.
     * @return {@link FragmentHandler} that records the rate information.
     */
    public static FragmentHandler rateReporterHandler(final RateReporter reporter)
    {
        return (buffer, offset, length, header) -> reporter.onMessage(length);
    }

    /**
     * Generic error handler that just prints message to stdout.
     *
     * @param channel   for the error.
     * @param streamId  for the error.
     * @param sessionId for the error, if source.
     * @param message   indicating what the error was.
     * @param cause     of the error.
     */
    public static void printError(
        final String channel,
        final int streamId,
        final int sessionId,
        final String message,
        final HeaderFlyweight cause)
    {
        System.out.println(message);
    }

    /**
     * Print the rates to stdout.
     *
     * @param messagesPerSec being reported.
     * @param bytesPerSec    being reported.
     * @param totalMessages  being reported.
     * @param totalBytes     being reported.
     */
    public static void printRate(
        final double messagesPerSec,
        final double bytesPerSec,
        final long totalMessages,
        final long totalBytes)
    {
        System.out.printf(
            "%.04g msgs/sec, %.04g payload bytes/sec, totals %d messages %d MB%n",
            messagesPerSec, bytesPerSec, totalMessages, totalBytes / (1024 * 1024));
    }

    /**
     * Print the information for an available image to stdout.
     *
     * @param image that has been created.
     */
    public static void printAvailableImage(final Image image)
    {
        final Subscription subscription = image.subscription();
        System.out.printf(
            "Available image on %s streamId=%d sessionId=%d from %s%n",
            subscription.channel(), subscription.streamId(), image.sessionId(), image.sourceIdentity());
    }

    /**
     * Print the information for an unavailable image to stdout.
     *
     * @param image that has gone inactive.
     */
    public static void printUnavailableImage(final Image image)
    {
        final Subscription subscription = image.subscription();
        System.out.printf(
            "Unavailable image on %s streamId=%d sessionId=%d%n",
            subscription.channel(), subscription.streamId(), image.sessionId());
    }

    /**
     * Map an existing file as a read only buffer.
     *
     * @param location of file to map.
     * @return the mapped file.
     */
    public static MappedByteBuffer mapExistingFileReadOnly(final File location)
    {
        if (!location.exists())
        {
            final String msg = "file not found: " + location.getAbsolutePath();
            throw new IllegalStateException(msg);
        }

        MappedByteBuffer mappedByteBuffer = null;
        try (RandomAccessFile file = new RandomAccessFile(location, "r");
            FileChannel channel = file.getChannel())
        {
            mappedByteBuffer = channel.map(READ_ONLY, 0, channel.size());
        }
        catch (final IOException ex)
        {
            LangUtil.rethrowUnchecked(ex);
        }

        return mappedByteBuffer;
    }

    /**
     * Map an existing CnC file.
     *
     * @return the {@link CountersReader} over the CnC file.
     */
    public static CountersReader mapCounters()
    {
        final File cncFile = CommonContext.newDefaultCncFile();
        System.out.println("Command `n Control file " + cncFile);

        final MappedByteBuffer cncByteBuffer = mapExistingFileReadOnly(cncFile);
        final DirectBuffer cncMetaData = createMetaDataBuffer(cncByteBuffer);
        final int cncVersion = cncMetaData.getInt(cncVersionOffset(0));

        checkVersion(cncVersion);

        return new CountersReader(
            createCountersMetaDataBuffer(cncByteBuffer, cncMetaData),
            createCountersValuesBuffer(cncByteBuffer, cncMetaData));
    }

    /**
     * Map an existing CnC file.
     *
     * @param cncFileVersion to set as value of file.
     * @return the {@link CountersReader} over the CnC file.
     */
    public static CountersReader mapCounters(final MutableInteger cncFileVersion)
    {
        final File cncFile = CommonContext.newDefaultCncFile();
        System.out.println("Command `n Control file " + cncFile);

        final MappedByteBuffer cncByteBuffer = mapExistingFileReadOnly(cncFile);
        final DirectBuffer cncMetaData = createMetaDataBuffer(cncByteBuffer);
        final int cncVersion = cncMetaData.getInt(cncVersionOffset(0));

        cncFileVersion.set(cncVersion);
        checkVersion(cncVersion);

        return new CountersReader(
            createCountersMetaDataBuffer(cncByteBuffer, cncMetaData),
            createCountersValuesBuffer(cncByteBuffer, cncMetaData));
    }
}


Prior to becoming a full-time administrator, Dr. Rose taught undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, research methods and social psychology. His interdisciplinary research draws on social, personality, consumer and clinical psychology. He has published research on topics such as narcissism, self-esteem, romantic relationship dynamics, and consumer behavior (e.g., materialism and compulsive buying). Dr. Rose also serves on the editorial board of Psychology and Marketing.
Dr. Rose is available to help students interested in social psychology, personality psychology, and consumer behavior.
Jewell, J. D., Rose, P., Bush, R., & Bartz, K. (2016). The long-term effectiveness of drug treatment court on reducing recidivism and predictors of voluntary withdrawal. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-12.
Rose, P. (2015). From a public university in the U.S.A., answers to three questions about studying psychology. In K. Vaidya (Ed.), Psychology for the Curious: Why Study Psychology? Canberra, Australia: The Curious Academic Publishing.
Rose, P., & Segrist, D. J. (2014). Negative and positive urgency may both be risk factors for compulsive buying. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 3, 128-132.
Rose, P., & Segrist, D. J. (2012). Difficulty identifying feelings, distress tolerance and compulsive buying: Analyzing the associations to inform therapeutic strategies. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 10, 927-935.
Rose, P., Toney Smith, S. & Segrist, D. J. (2010). Too cheap to chug: Frugality as a buffer against college student drinking. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 9, 228-238.
Rose, P. & Segrist, D. J. (2009). Excessive buying as a genuine addictive behavior. In A. Browne-Miller (Ed.) The Praeger International Collection on Addictions (Vol. 4, pp. 53-80). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Rose, P. (2007). Mediators of the association between narcissism and compulsive buying: The roles of materialism and impulse control. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21, 576-581.
Rose, P. & DeJesus, S. (2007). A model of motivated cognition to account for the link between self-monitoring and materialism. Psychology and Marketing, 24, 93-115.


When you're putting together a web site, the content for that site often presents one of the greatest challenges, especially if it's a site that includes hundreds of pages. Many people opt to purchase bits of content, or even scrape content from other web sites to help populate their own. These shortcuts can cause real issues with search engines.
Say your web site is about some form of marketing. It's very easy to surf around the Web and find hundreds (or even thousands) of web sites from which you can pull free, permission-granted content to include on your web site. The problem is that every other person or company creating a web site could be doing the same thing. And the result? A single article on a topic appears on hundreds of web sites — and users aren't finding anything new and compelling to fulfill their needs for content.
Highly distributed articles. These are the free articles that seem to appear on every single web site about a given topic. This content has usually been provided by a marketing-savvy entrepreneur as a way to gain attention for his or her project or passion. But no matter how valuable the information, if it appears on hundreds of sites, it will be deemed duplicate and that will reduce your chances of being listed high in the search result rankings.
Product descriptions for e-commerce stores. The product descriptions included on nearly all web pages are not included in search engine results. Product descriptions can be very small and depending on how many products you're offering, there could be thousands of them. Crawlers are designed to skip over most product descriptions. Otherwise, a crawler might never be able to work completely through your site.
Duplicate web pages. It does no good whatever for a user to click through a search result only to find that your web pages have been shared with everyone else. These duplicate pages gum up the works and reduce the level at which your pages end up in the search results.
Content that has been scraped from numerous other sites. Content scraping is the practice of pulling content from other web sites and repackaging it so that it looks like your own content. Although scraped content may look different from the original, it is still duplicate content, and many search engines will leave you completely out of the search index and the search results.
So you see, search engines are constantly updating their algorithms to detect duplicate content, therefore if you want your website to achieve a top search engine ranking, i would advise you to hire or write the content yourself. Your results will increase tenfold with original, topical & quality content. For advice on writing your own content, see Angela's post, Tips for Writing Blog Articles the Easy Way.
For more information on how you can increase your traffic and rankings, my article, Boost your blog with better content has some great advice to help you along. It was written with blogs in mind, but is just as relevant to any standard website.


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True Economic Liberty Means More Open Borders
There are two versions of David Brat, the upstart who defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Virginia Republican primary last week.
The first is a professor of economics at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia – a principled libertarian, dedicated to the cause of economic freedom.
Brat describes himself "a free-market guy", who believes the economy has been badly distorted by regulation. He runs something called the BB&T Program on Capitalism, Markets and Morality. He's passionately opposed to the mass surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden. His academic research focuses on the intersection between Christian theology and the market economy.
That's the first version of Brat.
The second version is different – an anti-immigration warrior for the conservative right. He ran hard against Cantor on the latter's support for amnesty for the children of illegal migrants.
In this campaign, Brat argued immigration "lowers wages, adds to unemployment, and the taxpayer pays the tab for any benefits to folks coming in." (Just as the asylum seeker debate is in Australia, the question of amnesty for illegals is a proxy for the broader question about how open the United States should be to migration.)
For these sentiments he received endorsements from conservative firebrands like Ann Coulter – Brat was a candidate "true patriots should support with everything they have" – and Laura Ingraham.
It's not easy to bridge the divide between the two Brats. There's nothing "libertarian" or "free market" about an immigration crackdown. Quite the opposite.
The great free market victories over the last few decades have meant goods and capital can move around the world freely. This has raised living standards for everyone, rich and poor.
The last remaining barrier to economic liberty is the free movement of people.
It's as much a barrier of political philosophy as it is a barrier of legislation. As Brat demonstrates, even some of the most hardcore free market advocates have a blind spot when it comes to immigration.
Yet what could be more respectful of the tenets of individual liberty than allowing individuals and families to travel across national borders to make a better life for themselves?
And what could be more inconsistent than claiming to believe in the morality of liberty but then placing the strictest of possible limits on that liberty?
On The Drum in 2011 I argued that to prevent migration is to prevent the most powerful way to lift people out of poverty. Migration is a big deal economically too. Opening the world's borders could double the size of the world's economy, according to one famous estimate.
Yet one of the doyens of free market thought, the Nobel-winning economist James Buchanan, said the hardest essay he ever had to write was on whether governments could justifiably restrict immigration.
There are two objections to larger scale immigration that you commonly hear from the intellectual right. Neither are strong.
The first is that increased immigration is incompatible with the welfare state. In this view, allowing large scale migration is great in theory, but we have generous welfare programs. There's a risk some immigrants might migrate with the goal of hopping on social security. This argument was made by no less an authority than Milton Friedman.
But it's almost comically easy to resolve the apparent incompatibility: cordon off welfare programs to new migrants for a certain amount of time. In fact, that's exactly what we do in Australia (with the exception of refugees, who constitute a small fraction of the total migration intake).
The second objection is migrants may not assimilate to the national culture. This is not helped by the fact that many of the loudest pro-immigration voices are on the left and espouse a woolly sort of multicultural utopianism. But the point of a liberal framework of laws is that people of different values, preferences and beliefs can go about their business while everybody's rights are equally protected.
And let's not overestimate the cultural consensus among those born in the developed world. In Australia the Lowy Institute poll has been recording remarkably low support for basic things like democracy for many years.
Yet somehow the Commonwealth endures. As it would with a larger – even vastly larger – immigration intake.
(If your concern is that immigrants might vote for illiberal policies – that is, undermine the liberal legal framework – note that immigration and citizenship are different things.)
Let's be clear – Brat is more philosophically coherent than 99 per cent of the politicians out there. Any defeat of an established Washington politician is a win. In response to Brat's attack on immigration, Cantor surged hard to the right on amnesty. Self-interest beats principle.
And even taking Brat's views on amnesty into account, American politics will be better off with him in Congress rather than a beltway native like Cantor.
Brat ought to be praised for his scholarship on the connection between morality and free markets.
But it's also time for politicians who proclaim the virtues of liberty to discover its connection with the free movement of people.
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Back in November, James Cameron revealed that the cast of Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 had wrapped filming, but it seems that the filmmaker was only referring to the performance capture aspects of the sci-fi sequels, as producer Jon Landau has revealed that live-action shooting is set to get underway in the spring.
Landau also went on to confirm that Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actress Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie, The Sopranos) has joined the cast of the sequels and will portray the character of General Ardmore of the RDA.
Avatar 2 will open on December 18th 2020, followed by Avatar 3 on December 17th 2021, Avatar 4 on December 20th 2024 and Avatar 5 on December 19th 2025. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Matt Gerald, Dileep Rao, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver all reprise their roles from the first film, while new additions to the cast include Kate Winslet, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Britain Dalton, Filip Geljo, Jamie Flatters, Bailey Bass, Trinity Bliss, Jack Champion, Duane Evans Jr. and Edie Falco.


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More Guitar Hero III tracks
Chili Peppers, Iron Maiden.
Updated on 26 July 2007
Neversoft has revealed four more of the songs that make up the line-up in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, due out later this year on PS3, Xbox 360, PS2 and Wii.
Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Suck My Kiss", ZZ Top's "La Grange", Iron Maiden's "Number Of The Beast" and Dragonforce's "Through The Fire And Flames" were identified during fansite ScoreHero's trip to see the game. Apart from ZZ Top, they're all "master tracks" - i.e. the original recording.
They join a list that already includes the likes of Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle", Heart's "Barracuda" and Beastie Boys' "Sabotage". For the full list, check out the ScoreHero thread on the subject.
Publisher Activision recently unveiled wireless Gibson Les Paul controllers for PS3, 360 and Wii along with a Kramer model for PS2, with removable faceplates to personalise the experience. It was also announced that Slash has motion-captured moves for and will appear in the game as an unlockable character.
More about Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
UPDATE: EA says it's investigating.
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"Excited about the possibilities of an online event."
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I was planning to share this post a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to add my support for the upcoming National Youth Workers Convention, by sharing news and promos that the NYWC planning team has been posting. Now with the National Youth Workers Convention just around the corner, it's time to get excited about the convention! So keep an eye out for a short series of blog posts that share news from NYWC, and some of my thoughts on the upcoming convention.
In this first post, Youth Specialties published this video a couple of weeks ago, sharing a few fun things you can do or check out while in Cincinnati, OH! Check it out!
Cincinnati a great place to visit.
There is still time to register and join us for this years, National Youth Workers Convention! Myself, along with a couple thousand friends will be participating in the 4 day convention taking place in Cincinnati, OH. Come learn, experience, and be renewed.
Click on the ARISE graphic below to visit the official National Youth Workers Convention website for all the details, lists of speakers, seminars and exhibitors, registration, hotel, and other news! And we'll see you in Cincinnati!
Jay Higham is a veteran youth worker of over 25 years; having worked with students in the local church and Christian camping settings. Jay is currently the Student Ministry Director at Hickory Church, located in Western PA. Jay has been married to Amy for 20 years. Together, they are raising 5 kids, (4 boys and 1 girl). Jay is an aspiring author, blogger, speaker, an avid YouTuber/vlogger, and social media junkie. He is passionate about student ministry, family ministry, and training with youth workers to love and serve their students with passion and excellence.
Your team is working so well and promotes this event with the wonderful way. I am sure this event will be good enough and this event is very helpful for the people. You share really mind-blowing information about this event.


The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is a private freestanding health science university widely known for its beautiful campus and close affiliations with key clinical partners throughout Milwaukee and all of Wisconsin.
MCW has over 5,298 faculty and staff. More than 1,700 physicians from the community serve as volunteer faculty. MCW has the 14th largest group practice and the 7th largest academic group practice in the nation. The college supports an adult (MCP) and children's practice plan (CSG).
To be a national leader in the education and development of the next generation of physicians and scientists; to discover and translate new knowledge in the biomedical sciences; to provide cutting-edge, interdisciplinary and compassionate clinical care of the highest quality; to improve the health of the communities they serve.
The Medical College of Wisconsin was originally founded in 1893 as of the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1913, the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Milwaukee Medical College merged to become the Marquette University School of Medicine. In 1967, the school separated from Marquette University and continued as a private, national, freestanding institution. Its name was changed in 1970 to the Medical College of Wisconsin and has approximately 13,500 alumni.
MCW has a strong research focus and has emerged as a major national center for medical research. The institution has experienced dramatic growth over the past 15 years. The formation of extremely strong basic science and clinical departments lead to continuous improvement in NIH ranking. MCW has $86 million in NIH funding, and remains in the top third of medical schools receiving NIH finding. In the last fiscal year, the College received $138 million in total grant awards for research from all funding sources. Annually, MCW faculty direct or collaborate on more than 3,000 research studies. Nearly 1,450 scientific papers by MCW faculty are published in peer-reviewed medical journals.
There are eight institutions in Southeastern Wisconsin that form the Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and MCW is the lead institution. The five-year award is being used to create a borderless, synergistic biomedical research enterprise that will accelerate the translation of research discoveries into new and improved medical treatments.
MCW providers care for approximately 500,000 patients, representing more than 1.6 million patient visits annually throughout the three teaching hospital affiliates, Froedtert Hospital, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW), and the Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
The Medical College Physicians (MCP) group includes 1,350 MCW physicians and more than 500 nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other health care practitioners that provide adult patient care. MCW faculty represent the top of their field, with 446 MCW faculty listed in Best Doctors in America®, more than any other group practice or institution in Wisconsin.
Children's Specialty Group (CSG) includes more than 350 pediatric specialists, 170 pediatric advanced practice nurses and physician assistants. All CSG physicians have faculty appointments within the Medical College of Wisconsin. CSG provides a critical link between Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin. More than 23,000 infants, children and adolescents were admitted to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and another 305,000 were seen in the hospital's specialty outpatient clinic urgent care sites.
The Medical College offers M.D., Ph.D., Pharm.D, M.S., M.P.H. and M.A. degrees. The College educates 820 medical students, 400 graduate students, and supervises 850 physicians in graduate medical education (residency and fellowship training) programs. Another 200 scientists are engaged in postdoctoral research fellowship training.
The Medical College of Wisconsin is growing to educate more physicians each year with new medical school campuses in Green Bay and Central Wisconsin. Through collaboration with regional civic, healthcare partners, the new campuses will train the next generation of family practitioners, general surgeons, and psychiatrists to bring quality medical care to widespread Wisconsin communities, where doctors are needed the most.
MCW-Green Bay opened its doors to the inaugural class in July 2015. MCW-Central Wisconsin is on schedule to open in July 2016. Once established, both campuses will target a class size of 25 students per year, employing a 3-year curriculum model. The campuses will blend the excellent educational resources that MCW provides with the opportunity to learn in a community similar to that where students will eventually practice.
The vision for the MCW School of Pharmacy is to prepare pharmacists to meet the growing healthcare needs of society. MCW Pharm. D. graduates will have the knowledge and expertise to practice at the "top of their license" and contribute to patient‐centered care ensuring optimal medication therapy outcomes by working as a team along other healthcare professionals. The MCW School of Pharmacy is anticipated to launch in 2017 or 2018, following accreditation, with an expected class size of 60-70 students.
Froedtert Hospital is a 524-bed academic tertiary care facility. It is the principal adult hospital affiliate of MCW. Froedtert and MCW form the only academic medical center in eastern Wisconsin, serving as a regional referral center for advanced medical care. Froedtert is a major teaching and research hospital with more than 1,000 medical, nursing and health technical students in training, and participates in over 1,600 clinical trials and research studies each year. In addition, the hospital is one of only two Level I adult trauma centers in the state.
The delivery of high quality, safe care is embedded in the culture and at the forefront at Froedtert Hospital. Froedtert Hospital ranks among the top 10 U.S. academic medical centers in the University HealthSystem Consortium's (UHC) 2015 Quality and Accountability Study. This is further demonstrated as Froedtert Hospital was re-certified by The American College of Surgeons in 2010, distinguishing it as providing the highest standard of care for severe injury and illness. Froedtert and MCW was named in 2015 as a Top 100 Hospital by Truven Analytics in the Major Teaching Hospital Category. In addition, Froedtert Hospital has achieved Magnet designation for excellence in nursing services by the American Nurses Credential Center's (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program.
The Birth Center is in the midst of a four-phase expansion project. The Labor and Delivery and post-partum and antepartum floors will be state-of-the-art on full completion, slated for September 2016, with capacity for about 4,000 annual deliveries in the 51-inpatient bed facility. The new unit has four private triage rooms, 12 Labor, Delivery and Recovery rooms, and three state-of-the-art operating rooms. The largest is equipped to handle the complex fetal intervention procedures.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW) is the pediatric hospital affiliate of MCW, and is the region's only independent health care system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. The hospital, with locations in Milwaukee and Neenah, Wisconsin, is recognized as one of the leading pediatric health care centers in the United States. It is ranked in nine specialty areas in U.S. News & World Report's 2015-16 Best Children's Hospitals report. CHW is home to a level 4 neonatal intensive care unit which cares for more than 700 critically ill babies each year. Children's provides primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers.
CHW is known nationally and internationally for many of its specialty programs including cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, cancer and blood disorders, gastroenterology, newborn and fetal care, and its Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. In 2014, CHW invested more than $102 million in the community to improve the health status of children through medical care, advocacy, education and pediatric medical research. Children's achieves its mission in part through donations from individuals, corporations and foundations and is proud to be a member of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
The Fetal Concerns Center operates in close collaboration with Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin. The partnership and proximity of the organizations provides convenient and coordinated access to the highest-level care for both mother and infant, producing consistently excellent measures in safety, quality and outcomes.
In January 2007, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin dedicated a new, $140 million biomedical and translational research facility. The research center is a collaboration of Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The 298,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art research facility includes space for bench laboratory research and vivarium space, as well as other shared service support space and administrative support.
The 168-bed Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center is one of the busiest and most comprehensive centers operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs. MCW faculty members conduct approximately $10 million dollars in research at the Zablocki VA. A major hospital affiliate of the College since 1946, the Zablocki VA admits 6,400 patients and records more than 533,000 outpatient visits annually.
Froedtert Health Community Memorial Hospital is a 202-bed hospital serving the needs of residents in Waukesha, Washington, Milwaukee and Ozaukee counties. The hospital specializes in cardiovascular services, women's health, cancer care, orthopedics and advanced surgical procedures. Community Memorial's Emergency Department is a Level III Trauma Center and the hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission as a certified advanced Primary Stroke Center. Community Memorial Hospital has a Level II special care nursery and delivers about 1,000 women per year.
Froedtert Health St. Joseph's Hospital provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient care to Washington County residents. It specializes in birthing services, cancer care, emergency care, orthopedics, surgical services and women's health. In 2005, St. Joseph's opened a new 70-bed hospital that earned national recognition for a design emphasizing patient safety and quality. The 143-acre hospital campus also includes the Kathy Hospice, Froedtert Health West Bend Clinic-South and Froedtert and MCW Specialty Clinics. A 16,000-square-foot cancer center opened at the end of 2012. Additionally, the hospital's emergency department is a designated Level III Trauma Center. St. Joseph's Hospital has a Level I special care nursery and delivers about 750 women per year.
As a pioneering leader in science and medicine, BloodCenter of Wisconsin (BCW) contributes to the discovery, diagnosis, treatment and cures for patients. BCW provides a safe and stable blood supply for 56 hospitals in 29 Wisconsin counties. They also provide testing and consultation services that help transform a unit of blood into a life-saving gift.
BloodCenter of Wisconsin's Blood Research Institute (BRI) on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus, houses its basic research programs. A $21 million, state-of-the-art research facility, BRI occupies 89,000 square feet. The facility includes 8 Core Laboratories that provide cutting-edge equipment and related specialized services in support of BRI research. Recent completion of an on-site GMP facility provides investigators with the ability to prepare stem cell-derived therapies for clinical trials. Housed within the BRI are the laboratories of 21 investigator-level scientists and approximately 120 research and administrative staff, including more than 40 postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, research scientists and research associates.
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has twenty-eight physicians, nine allied health professionals and seven genetic counselors providing all areas of subspecialty care including mental health.
Physicians practice at Froedtert Hospital, CHW, Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, St. Joseph's Hospital, Community Memorial Hospital, United Hospital System of Kenosha, Agnesian HealthCare, and local community clinics. Our patients deliver within the Froedtert and MCW Birth Center.
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical College of Wisconsin offers exceptional teaching, learning, and research opportunities for students, residents, and fellows. We are committed to prepare dedicated physicians and researchers who will provide excellent, comprehensive care to women of all ages and backgrounds.
Medical Student Education: To advance the skills of medical students, the Department has developed multifaceted learning experiences to address both rare and common obstetrical and gynecological concerns. With an established third year clerkship, medical students are immersed for six weeks participating in clinical rotations, simulations, team-based learning, and traditional didactic teaching to establish a rich foundation in treating women's health issues.Additional fourth year electives are available for students to gain valuable experiences in gynecologic oncology, urogynecology and pelvic reconstruction, high risks obstetrics, reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and women's health. Students participate in all aspects of management, including decision-making, surgery, and postoperative care.
Resident Education: Placed across three teaching hospitals, residents engage in an integrated experience bridging together academic and community training. To assure for a team-based approach to care, residents work closely with medical students, fellows and faculty, further advancing procedural experience. With the support of a one-to-one mentor, residents develop and complete an individualized resident research project, exploring various research methodologies and study designs.
Fellowship: The Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship is a three-year program fully accredited by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. With both research and academics in the forefront, clinician scientists are trained to excel in and advance care for pregnant women with medical, obstetric or surgical complications, which impact mother and fetus.
Medical Education Research: Educational research is a cornerstone in the preparation and advancement of today's physician. To address this requirement, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has a commitment to investigate and implement best practices when working with medical students, residents, and faculty.
Instructional Designer: A unique role within the Department, the instructional designer collaborates with faculty, the subject matter experts, to advance teaching, learning, and educational research as it applies to medical students, residents, and fellows. By incorporating principles of adult learning and diverse pedagogical practices, the instructional designer engages in the development and delivery of face-to-face and online learning experiences.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is highly committed in women's health research, spanning from gynecologic oncology to general obstetrics and gynecology, maternal fetal care, urogynecology and reproductive medicine. The Department has 4 research-dedicated faculty in addition to several research intense clinicians who form the foundation of this work. Research is funded by NIH, private foundations and the Women's Health Research Program. The Department's infrastructure provides grant and clinical trials management and IRB and regulatory assistance. The administrative team includes a research manager, four highly talented research coordinators, two nurses, one research assistant and a laboratory technician. The team is instrumental in supporting the NCI cooperative group oncology studies, industry-sponsored studies and investigator initiated trials in both oncology and Women's health. The Department has a robust tissue, blood and data bank. Research Coordinators assist with collection of snap frozen malignant and normal tissue along with whole blood, cord blood and placentas.
The department is engaged in many activities in the Milwaukee community. Some examples include education programs at Escuela Verde, a multi-community partnership around appropriate LARC use, and City of Milwaukee Health Department and Boys and Girls Clubs partnership on improving HPV vaccination rates in adolescents.