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Design Raid | Projects | Embassy of Finland, New Delhi by ALA Architects
Embassy of Finland, New Delhi by ALA Architects
Design Raid | March 31, 2020 March 31, 2020 | Projects
Type: Public Architecture| Refurbishment in Architecture
Architect: ALA Architects
Address: New Delhi
Program: Embassy
Photographer: Tuomas Uusheimo
Reima and Raili Pietilä won the design competition for the Finnish Embassy to be located in the diplomatic enclave in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi in 1963 with a beautiful and powerful competition entry called "Snow speaks on the mountains". After a lengthy delay, the project was commissioned in 1980 and redesigned based on the original concept. The Embassy finally opened in 1986 with the large single expanse of roof of the 1960's design broken up into six separate lateral buildings. The sculptural roofs – the most significant architectural feature of the embassy compound – resemble the forms of the snowy Lake Kitkajärvi near Kuusamo, Northern Finland. The facades are made of locally manufactured natural sandstone tiles, white plastered bricks, white painted concrete and oiled teak.
© Tuomas Uusheimo
Today, the embassy compound comprises the Ambassador's residence, the chancery, visa and consular services, the office of Business Finland, staff apartments, and a Finnish sauna around a large central garden area.
The renovation project completed in 2018 of has brought this masterpiece of Finnish modernism back to its original glory. The project consisted of a complete overhaul of technical systems, some functional updates and modifications, the construction of new entrance gates and a gazebo, as well as architectural works focusing on restoring the original spirit of the design and repairing earlier misguided maintenance efforts both indoors and outdoors. The new gatehouses were built by forming inward niches into the original compound walls. This solution was chosen to create a discreet but clearly independent architectural addition, and to not interfere with the original architecture inside the compound.
Renovation Project
ALA Architects was commissioned in 2013 to design the renovation of the embassy compound. The project was divided into two phases and took just over five years to complete. The first phase consisted of the transformation of one staff apartment building and the construction of one new gate house. The second phase comprised the renovations of the chancery, the ambassador's residence, the technical center, sauna, two more residential buildings, the pool and one gate house, and the construction of the second new gate house and a gazebo. The aims of the project were to revamp the existing reception and office facilities, and to improve the occupational well-being and living conditions of the staff members, the overall safety, as well as the energy efficiency and functionality of the buildings, also taking into account the harsh climate conditions and the alarming level of air pollution.
The most notable changes to the original design are the transformation of one staff apartment building containing several small apartments into contemporary office facilities and a few larger apartments, and the demolition of a wall separating one of the buildings from the rest of the complex to better follow the Pietiläs' original idea about a united spatial mass. Other modifications within the compound's existing buildings included the construction of a staff dining room and other staff facilities for the local employees. The change that is the most visible from the street is the addition of two new gate houses outside the compound wall, and the heightening of the wall itself. The only addition inside the embassy compound is a new gazebo housing a small gym next to the outdoor pool.
The original interior design is by the Finnish interior architect Antti Nurmesniemi. His team was also responsible for the design of the Embassy's custom furniture, custom lighting fixtures and large woolen area rugs, and for the further development of Reima Pietilä's sketches for fixed furnishings. Most of the other furniture was selected from the Finnish furniture manufacturer Artek's catalogue.
In the renovation project the original wardrobes and the sauna furniture were repaired and the remaining original loose furniture reupholstered and treated to reflect their original design. Photos from the 1980s were used to define the correct colors and materials in both refurbished and new furniture, textiles and rugs.
The rooms used for representation were carefully restored including their furniture, whereas the spaces with modified uses, also gained a new layer of contemporary furniture.
The original design also includes a large ceramic indoor bas-relief and water feature titled "Spring in the North" by the Finnish ceramic artist Rut Bryk.
The original landscaping and the design of the garden are by the Pietiläs' longtime collaborator, the Finnish landscape architect Maj-Lis Rosenbröijer. As part of the renovation project the somewhat dilapidated yard areas were thoroughly refurbished following Rosenbröijer's original idea. Some climate-specific updates were made to the plant selection and slight safety-requirement-based improvements were made to the paths crossing the compound. The installation of new irrigation and stormwater management systems also required some gradient changes.
Program: Restauration and renovation of the existing buildings: chancery, ambassador's residence, staff apartments, consular office, technical building, sauna and gate house, and two new gate houses and a gazebo, 4,400 m2 gross total
Sustainability rating: LEED Gold
Client: Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland
Collaborators: SCG Contracts India Pvt. Ltd. (main contractor), Sitowise (engineering), WSP Finland (project management), Annukka Pietilä (building inventory and specialist on the architecture of Raili and Reima Pietilä), C. P. Kukreja Architects (local architect partner), Jasleen Waraich Landscape Architecture (consulting landscape architect for the renovation)
Original design: Raili and Reima Pietilä Architects, competition win 1963, completion of the modified design 1986
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News18 Daybreak | US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in India Today and Other Stories You Need to Watch Out For
Today's Big Story
US-India trade war, E-commerce disputes and terrorism on agenda as Mike Pompeo arrives in India today
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will arrive in India today for talks with government leaders over a growing list of trade and investment issues that have cast a shadow over ties between the two big democracies.
The meeting assumes significance as it comes in the backdrop of heightened trade tensions between the countries, both of which are trying to promote domestic manufacturing. Pompeo will be meeting his new counterpart S Jaishankar and is also set to call on PM Narendra Modi.
On the agenda: Mike Pompeo in his address in Washington on June 12 had said that he will discuss the recent decision to terminate India's designation as a beneficiary developing nation under the key GSP trade program.
Following the move, India imposed higher tariffs on 28 US products, including almonds, apples, and walnuts and had also announced retaliatory tariffs to increase US import duties on steel and aluminium.
US-Iran tensions: Pompeo's visit comes amid soaring tensions between US and Iran with Trump on Monday imposing fresh sanctions on Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a string of military chiefs.
The trade wars between the two countries has impacted several countries including India as the US last year, had reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil imports. The recent drone attack on the oil tanker in the Gulf, which the US blamed Iran for, had once again left the oil markets in a lurch.
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Is the Italian coffee market ready for Starbucks?
Jonny Forsyth
Jonny is a Director of Mintel Food & Drink, focusing on creating 'big picture' thought leadership content such as what Gen Z and the metaverse mean for the food and drink industry.
April 09th, 2018November 17th, 2021
Starbucks is (finally) coming to Italy in late 2018 and is already disrupting this conservative coffee market. Just like Domino's Pizza and McDonald's before it, Starbucks is likely to defy purists by performing well in Italy because younger Italians are more open-minded than older ones about newer styles of coffee and are more globally-influenced in their habits.
After years of rumours and development, Starbucks will finally enter Italy in late 2018. It will open a 'Reserve Roastery' in a renovated 2,400-square-metre palazzo in Milan's financial district. If it succeeds, Starbucks could open 200 more stores in Italy over six years, according to Percassi, Starbucks' Italian partner.
Many of Italy's "old guard" write off Starbucks' chances before it enters: how can a US chain, renowned for milky and expensive coffee succeed in Italy, the home of the affordable espresso? Indeed, Starbucks faces huge competition from Italy's 149,300 bars* where Italians down espressos standing up (no sit and sip) and ordering a latte will get you a glass of milk, not a coffee.
A new generation of coffee drinkers
Despite the odds, Starbucks is more likely to thrive than fail. Italians mocked the entrance of US chain Domino's into the "home of pizza" in 2015, yet Domino's has since expanded as locals warm to a modern pizza experience. In the 1980s, locals predicted McDonald's would fail, yet it also thrived.
The past decade has already seen a growing demand for new coffee types in Italy, like caffé schiumato (topped with milk froth), caffè marocchino (froth and cocoa powder) and caffè alla nocciola (cream and hazelnut paste), as cited in Time magazine.
The past decade has also seen smartphones take off. Younger Italians have grown up more connected and inspired by global, not just local, food and drink trends. Moreover, 44% of 16-24-year-old Italians choose a new food/drink flavour based on travel experiences versus 28% of those aged 25+ — so Starbucks' will benefit from its global footprint.
Italian coffee brands position themselves for Starbucks' arrival
In 2017, Lavazza opened its first ever flagship store in Milan, which showcases Italian design and gastronomy, as well as both traditional and new coffee drinking styles. This means visitors will see cold brew and historic espresso recipes side-by-side. The store reminds Italian consumers that Lavazza can also be modern and innovative like Starbucks — and with a 100-year heritage to boast.
Lavazza flagship store in Milan – credit: wheremilan.com
Illy had already opened its luxury flagship store in 2015, described as "a contemporary art café", followed by a second store in 2017. Both brands likely recognised the growth potential of coffee shops, and that creating physical branded experiences is a great way to drive retail sales. This has been the big learning from Starbucks, which has built up a formidable global retail business by selling a visible high-street "lifestyle" brand. Illy's and Lavazza's merging of traditional and modern coffee culture can give them a competitive edge over Starbucks, in Italy and globally. After all, Starbucks' rise was inspired by Italy's coffee lifestyle and only began in 1971. Italian brands can therefore play on their heritage and native style to be more aggressive in growing their global in-store footprint.
Stimulating Italy's cold coffee revolution
If Starbucks gains a foothold in Italy, it will likely use this as a stepping stone into retail. Ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee launches are rare in Italy despite growing popularity in Europe, yet Starbucks' strategy in other markets has been to use Frappuccinos as a bridge from stores to retail.
Starbucks has also bet heavily on cold brew coffee in other markets and Italy is likely to be no different. Cold brew is a concept that few Italians are likely to understand at the moment and there have been no cold brew retail launches yet in Italy. But half of 16-34 year-old Italian coffee drinkers are interested in trying cold brew coffee and the slow brewed concept is likely to appeal to a nation which forged the slow food movement.
This means Italian coffee brands have a window of opportunity to create and market their own cold brew products, rather than waiting for Starbucks to grab the initiative.
*According to a Federazione Italiana Pubblici Esercizi 2016 report
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Our Complaints Policy
SAS Daniels LLP is fully committed to providing a high-quality legal service to all of our clients. However, if you are concerned with the service you have received or something goes wrong please do tell us about it. This will help us to address your concerns and to improve our standards.
If you are not happy you may want to complain and we will try to resolve your complaint quickly, fairly, confidentially and impartially.
In the first instance, please consider contacting the solicitor with whom you have been dealing to see whether your concerns can be resolved quickly and informally.
If this is not possible or you feel the matter is serious and/or not suited to informal resolution, please put your complaint in writing and address it to Michael Parnell who is the Risk and Compliance Officer at SAS Daniels. His postal address for correspondence is 30 Greek Street Stockport SK3 8AD. His email address is [email protected] He will then speak to the Group Head who has overall responsibility for the type of work you asked us to help you with. The first response to your complaint will be sent to you by the Group Head after consultation and discussion with Mr Parnell. If your complaint is about the Group Head then your complaint should still be addressed to Mr Parnell who will then discuss it with our CEO and Client Care Partner, Jeremy Orrell, who has overall responsibility for the operation of this policy.
Please help us by ensuring that you set out your complaint as fully as possible so that we know how to direct our investigation. This will speed up the process and help us to provide a response as quickly as possible. Please also let us know what kind of remedy you are seeking from us. Depending upon the circumstances, these might include any of the following:
An apology
Offering to meet and explain the service being provided
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We will send you a letter acknowledging receipt of your complaint within 3 working days of receiving it. We will enclose a copy of this procedure if you have not already received a copy.
Within 7 days of receiving your complaint we will write to you to confirm who will be dealing with your complaint, we will set out our understanding of it and detail any further information we may need from you in order to fully investigate your complaint. We will ask you to provide this information within a specified time frame.
We will record your complaint in our central register and open a specific file for it.
Once we have received all of the information requested from you, we will write to you within 5 working days to acknowledge your reply and to confirm that we are commencing our investigation. Normally this would involve us obtaining a report from the solicitor who has been acting for you; considering that report; reviewing the file and pursuing any further investigations which may be relevant. We would normally expect that the investigation process would take up to 15 working days. If it seems appropriate we will suggest a meeting at this stage in order to discuss and hopefully resolve your complaint.
If we do not invite you to a meeting we will send you a detailed reply to your complaint. This will include our suggestions for resolving the matter. This will happen within 5 working days of us completing our investigations.
If you are dissatisfied with our decision, you can ask us to review it. Any request for a review should be made in writing and should set out clearly why you believe the initial decision was wrong. Any request for a review should be made within 10 working days of the date upon which we write to you with our decision.
Any review will be dealt with by Jeremy Orrell as Client Care Partner unless he made the original decision. In such a case the review will be undertaken by another senior member of the firm who has had no previous dealings with the matter. A review would normally be completed within 10-15 working days of receiving your request and we will write to you with our final decision within 5 working days of completing the review.
If you are still not satisfied, you can contact the Legal Ombudsman at PO Box 6806, Wolverhampton, WV1 9WJ, Tel: 0300 555 0333 or by email at [email protected] about your complaint. Their website address is http://www.legalombudsman.org.uk. Any complaint to the Legal Ombudsman must usually be made within 6 months from the date you received a final written response from us.
In some situations (usually due to the absence from the office of the persons referred to in this procedure) we may have to change some of the time scales set out above and if this is necessary we will ensure that you are informed in writing and told why.
If we entered into a contract for the provision of services with you online you may be entitled to use the EU Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Platform at: http://ec.europa.eu/odr to assist in resolving matters. The Platform will direct you to various Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) specialists who are competent to deal with complaints about legal service [e.g. www.small-claims-mediation.co.uk] however we should point out that this firm does not ordinarily use such schemes and relies upon the services of the Legal Ombudsman to resolve such matters.
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Safety is not a set of slogans, tips sheets, personal protective equipment (PPE's) or engineering controls. Safety is an attitude.
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A lot of police vehicles can be found in Town theme, but it is noticeable that the designers tried to make each one different. Mobile police unit is available in this set in the form of a truck with the possibility of road block if necessary. This is not the first such truck, but previous differed considerably.
Van available in a set of 6681-1: Police-Van dates back to the begining of Town theme, the 1981 year. Even then, you could block traffic by police van with two cones of blue light and a standard roadblock. The second vehicle came out in the same year as a mobile unit, available in a set of LEGO-6450. This set, however, belongs to a small group of sets with audio-visual features. The vehicle itself can't accommodate much as it holds a big 9V battery, which powers the flashing lights and police sound. Although, it still contains two road signs. Unfortunately, I was not able to find the presentation in the original catalog where the vehicle would be entirety visible. I've found the presentation shown below only, where you can see the specific and unique road block barrier, which comes with this set along with a policeman.
Truck is very similar structurally to the camper van in 6388-1: Holiday-Home-with-Campervan set. At the front a brick with grill print to the radiator is placed. The roof is not hinged this time, you need to remove the upper brick to settle the driver. Title 'police' is visible from each side of the vehicle. The front at the a roof, side walls, and even on the back.
Whole side of the vehicle opens up on two wide hinges. Inside the vehicle you can find a large map and a computer. Mobile unit is able to communicate with the command center easly if necessary. At the rear of the vehicle a high antenna with a small satellite to strengthen the signal was mounted. Two police officers are responsible for the truck. One in black overalls and second in the black suit. Both in white caps with a narrow peak. One is the driver and second is an operator occupying a place inside the vehicle in front of the computer.
Truck in all its glory can be seen in one of my sceneries - Aeropolis.
That's not all, because in this set a large amount of accessories is present. You have to be careful to not to loose it alll!
In summary, this is definitely a unique design, even by way of the roof construction at the front of the vehicle or by barriers used here. A small truck may be helpful while blocking the road during the accident. Successor of this vehicle is his big brother - 6348-1: Surveillance-Squad released in 1994. This set offers a large truck to remotely conduct reconnaissance operations.
What can we find this time? A surprising number of 4 ideas! 100 bricks only, but we can make the police jeep with a barrier or alternative version of the truck with back flap. More interesting proposals can be seen at the back of the packaging. In time, they will appear listed in the bottom section of the alternatives. Undoubtedly, this is one of the most interesting aspects of old Lego sets giving additional hours of fun with set and a field for the imagination development.
Unfortunatelly, the roof is the best place for those barriers I've come up with. They do not fit inside and after all, a place for policeman is there.
What a lovely vehicle! I really like its shape! You said all what I think in your review! Just one thing, it looks odd with the two barriers on the roof. The only problem is the height, it's very nice but it can't enter in the 6386 police station (1986). However, the 6450 Light and sound truck can enter in the garage (but what an horrible sound!). I think that this type of police trucks are better than semi-truck. I have 2003 and 2011 ones but for me, these are too big, and even unrealistic. I think a police mobile command bus would be more reralistic (I may have to think about this... :) ). I find 1994 one also very odd, because of its 6W trailer.


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By C-HIT Staff | January 20, 2022
Infant injuries, wrong-site surgeries, objects left in patients following procedures, and a health care worker hitting an "unruly" patient were among the incidents cited in hospital inspections conducted by the state Department of Public Health. The new reports, which can be found in C-HIT's Data Mine Section, cover state inspections that were completed in 2021 with approved hospital corrective action plans. (You can find the new reports here.)
At William Backus Hospital, a pregnant woman suffering from drug abuse disorder delivered a baby who tested positive for fentanyl and buprenorphine. During the time that the baby was under observation for neonatal abstinence syndrome (drug withdrawal), a parent holding the infant fell and reported "that the infant's head may have touched the ground a little," the report said. Following the incident, staff determined that the baby suffered a head injury and was transferred to a higher-level hospital. The state inspector said that the hospital "failed to develop a safe plan of care for the infant to prevent a fall with injury."
The Hospital for Central Connecticut was cited for failing to identify that an infant was assessed when forceps were used in labor and delivery, which resulted in head injuries to the infant.
Medicare Penalizes 26 CT Hospitals For High Readmission Rates
By C-HIT Staff | November 4, 2021
Twenty-six Connecticut hospitals will lose some of their Medicare reimbursement payments over the next year as penalties for having too many readmitted patients, new data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) show. Nationally, Medicare is reducing payments to 2,499 hospitals, about 47% of all facilities, with the average penalty being 0.64%, according to a report by Kaiser Health News (KHN). This year's penalties were based on tracking patients from July 1, 2017 through Dec. 1, 2019, so the influx of patient care during the pandemic is not included, CMS said. In Connecticut, 72 % of all hospitals in the program will face a loss in CMS payments, beginning October 2021 through September 2022.
Data Show Decrease In Prison Sex Abuse Reports, But Survivor Advocates Say Fear And Ambivalence Persist
By W. Tanner Bryant and Jodie Mozdzer Gil | October 4, 2021
For eight months in 1995, LaResse Harvey says, she was held as a sex slave by her cellmate at York Correctional Institution in Niantic. In the 26 years since Harvey's assault, the landmark Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) was signed into federal law. The legislation gave prisoners several avenues to report sexual misconduct; required changes to buildings for added safety, such as adding doors with windows and installing more cameras; and mandated regular audits of each facility. But people incarcerated in Connecticut say they still face sexual abuse from other prisoners and guards and that reporting the crimes isn't always worth the consequences. "It does not work," said Harvey, who pushed for PREA in Connecticut after her release from prison and later co-founded the advocacy agency Once Incarcerated.
College Athlete Academic Progress Rates May Not Be "Fair Or Accurate," Sports Journalist Says
By Caleb Ogilvie | July 29, 2021
Almost all of the public universities in Virginia have at least one sport with a perfect academic progress rate among its athletes, but that may not be as impressive as it sounds. The NCAA says schools are required to report how well athletes with scholarships perform in classrooms using "a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete." But those scores may not be "a fair or accurate picture of [students'] academic progress," Dom Amore, a sports journalist for the Hartford Courant, said. Amore, a columnist and reporter who covers the University of Connecticut men's basketball team, said that to satisfy the NCAA, a university just needs to make sure its athletes don't fail required classes and don't transfer or drop out in the middle of a semester. "It's not hard to achieve a [score of] 1,000," Amore said. "You just have to make sure the kids go to class."
Amore said that some schools are likely at a disadvantage for APR scores.
State Police Take Another Look At Cold Case Murders Of Patel Family
By Sainabou Jobe | July 28, 2021
The violent murders of Champaben and Anita Patel, a mother and daughter from Windsor, have been a mystery since they happened on March 21,1996. But cold case detectives from the Connecticut State Police, with the help of the Windsor Police Department, are taking another look at the evidence now, Brian Foley, the executive aide to James Rovella, who heads the state Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, said. "Investigators from the State of Connecticut Cold Case unit had begun to give this case some additional attention pre-pandemic," Foley said. "Now that things have settled [down], the case and its evidence are again being reevaluated…The reevaluation particularly relates to the exploration of possible resubmission of evidence as DNA science has evolved a great deal."
The Patels' homicide is one of the cold cases listed on the Connecticut State Police's Cold Case website. Anita Patel, 32, was stabbed 14 times in her kitchen, and her body was burned due to gasoline being poured around her while Champaben Patel, 54, was strangled and her body was burned in her bedroom, according to the website.
Branson and Bezos Rides In Space: A New Era Of Innovation? Scientists Differ
By Sidhi Dhanda | July 28, 2021
Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos may be starting a new era of innovation. Now that these two billionaires have successfully gone to space, many people, politicians included, took to social media to ask why they're not spending the money to help poor and struggling people on our planet. "It's time to invest in working people here on Earth," U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted. But there are scientists, like Dr. Alison Farrish, who are worried that the public's views on the recent space journeys of billionaires will affect future opinions and budgets on space research. "My hope is that the public still sees value in scientific pursuits and the responsible exploration and study of space," said Farrish, a native of Tolland, Connecticut who is a postdoctoral researcher in space physics at Rice University in Houston.
A Flip Of A Coin, Now He's Editor Of His High School Newspaper
By Rodjae Smith | July 28, 2021
Caleb Ogilvie entered journalism by a coin flip — heads for yearbook and tails for journalism – because he was unable to make a clear decision between the two. Since joining journalism class in high school, his passion for the profession has grown and he is now editor of his school newspaper. He has expressed his joy in interviewing people and being able to write stories on particular individuals. "I enjoy seeing people's eyes light up when they are talking about their passions," Ogilvie said. Although he is still looking at colleges, Ogilvie does plan to continue to major in and pursue a career in journalism.
Meet The Next TV Commentator – Shimei Ricks-Cook
By Tori Matula | July 28, 2021
Introducing your favorite talk show host… Shimei Ricks-Cook. Ricks-Cook, 17, a senior at Bloomfield High School, dreams of being a talk show host or a commentator on ESPN. Ricks-Cook and his friend Kobie Washington created their own sports podcast at their school called Shimei and Kobie Unfiltered. They discuss professional sports leagues such as MLB, NBA and the NFL, Cook is the executive producer, creator and editor for the podcast.
A Volleyball Player, Matula Hopes To Compete On the College Level
By Shimei Ricks-Cook | July 28, 2021
Tori Matula, 17, of Milford, is a rising senior student-athlete at Joseph A. Foran High School. Matula has been on her high school girls' volleyball team for four years and would like to play on the college level someday. Though she does not know what she wants to major in in college, she still wants to have the college experience and adventure. Matula said her mother, Candace, is her biggest role model in her life. "She has battled cancer three times," she said.
Speaking For A Better Humanity: Smith Uses Journalism To Inspire Improvement
A miscommunication between friends has led 18-year-old Rodjae Smith to become a passionate speaker inspiring those around her to always improve in the face of adversity. The senior was once soft-spoken in middle school, but was forced into presenting two seventh-grade projects when her friends were unorganized and embarrassing her group with poor collaboration skills. Realizing it was better to boldly present a project than have it seem like the group was unprepared, Smith shed her quiet personality and used impromptu communication skills to have a successful presentation. "I think, most likely, there was a competitive side to me that liked the attention of speaking," Smith said. Today, the high school senior from West Haven, Connecticut, has been inspired by speaking her mind to use journalism to challenge readers' ideas by introducing them to new perspectives.


Home » Doctors » Dr. Albert Arteaga M.D.
Albert Arteaga was born in San Diego, California, and being the son of a Seventh-Day Adventist minister he spent his childhood years in various southern California locations. He remembers fondly his first years of elementary school in La Sierra, where he attended grades 1-4. That was the longest single block of time with home in one place.
Education was always a priority with his parents, in the form of selected reading material as well as in the example of his father who at a young age left his traditional home in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, to go study at the Adventist College in Montemorelos, (where he also met his future wife).
Another lasting impression for Albert came from his years as adolescent when his father was sent as a missionary to Argentina. From that, he says: "I was left with a love of empanadas de carne, soccer and using the Spanish language for its gift for description and double meaning". College years were spent learning at Andrews University and La Sierra College. Medical school training was received at Universidad LaSalle in Mexico City, and yes the name "sounded so nice" it was "borrowed" to use as a company name.
Upon graduating in 1976, the following 4 ½ years in internship, a year of mandatory social service, and 2 in northern Mexico. Experience was gained, and in repeating a cycle of family history, met a nice young nurse who later became Mrs. Arteaga.
In 1984, after completing a pediatric residency program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, he gained experience and being named the "most timid resident", it was on to starting a solo practice in the city of Fontana. In the following years, as the clientele was growing, the practice added new doctors and eventually more locations, resulting in the present number of 4 clinics in the Inland Empire. Albert, and his wife Maria, saw only two patients on their first day of being open for business (June 13, 1984), patient visits average over 100,000 per year.
LaSalle IPA was formed in 1996 and has grown steadily since.In 2001 the managed care contract for the White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles was awarded to LaSalle Medical Associates. In 2008 LaSalle expanded into California's Central Valley.
One of the accomplishments LaSalle Medical Associates feels the most pride in is its participation in the Healthy Families program sponsored by the state and federal governments. LaSalle has championed this program and today nearly 100,000 children have been enrolled by LaSalle.
Looking back over the years since opening the first clinic, Albert sums up his mission: "I wanted everyone to feel that going to the doctor's was no more intimidating than going to the grocery store, and I guess by now some of my clients have bought into the idea". The secret to making it happen: perseverance, pride, and teamwork, "I would not have had a chance without an education, and I would not be here without the support of my wife and the management team that supports our vision".
In 2012 Dr. Albert Arteaga, was selected as California's first-ever CDC Childhood Immunization Champion. He is one of only 39 people across the country receiving the prestigious honor.
The award given by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognizes advocates who work to make sure children are protected by immunizations. Nominations for the award are open to one individual from each state. Already, LaSalle's clinics boast a 91 percent influenza immunization coverage rate among its staff and medical associates, which serves as an example for its patients.


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In South Africa, new gated communities have begun branding themselves as "eco-estates," "game estates," "nature estates," and "forest estates." The marketing and consumption of nature has become prominent in the production and consumption of gated communities. A particular emphasis is placed on the use of native or indigenous plant species in landscape design. Suburbanites seeking to escape the increasingly mixed and threatening postapartheid city are offered a chance to reconnect with nature in eco-estates. Where largely white elites often feel a precarious hold in the new South Africa, natural heritage offers attachment to place. These natural landscapes are highly selective engagements with the local. Nature-oriented gated communities offer spaces that exclude problematic plants and people alike. Yet, while attempting to capitalize on this new gardening trend, developers have risked alienating conventional gardeners of exotic horticultural plants. The result is a strategic accommodation of different material expressions of landscape.


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Yokohama Tire, Subaru and Travis Pastrana are Taking Another Lap of America
Posted on: Apr 25th, 2019/Team Yokohama, Consumer News, Motorsports
The 35th running of One Lap of America will feature the Travis vs. Bilko show, courtesy of Yokohama Tire and Subaru of America. Yokohama is sponsoring the two drivers in the contest, which runs May 4-11, and Subaru Motorsports USA will provide a pair of WRX STI Type RA vehicles for a head-to-head showdown.
Nitro Circus ringleader Travis Pastrana and fellow Nitro Circus member Blake "Bilko" Williams, both Team Yokohama members and the winners of last year's Stock Touring division in a Subaru WRX STI, are back again…with a twist. This time, instead of being teammates, Pastrana and Williams are taking each other on in the eight-day, 3,379-mile race.
"Travis and Bilko are both super competitors so I'm sure they'll put on a show in this classic race," said Fardad Niknam, Yokohama's senior director of consumer product planning and product marketing. "They'll be on the new ADVAN A052 tires for One Lap 2019, so it'll be interesting to see who comes out on top."
"The WRX STI Type RA was designed to be track-ready without sacrificing comfort for the street," said William Stokes, motorsports manager for Subaru of America. "With One Lap demanding both serious track performance and long-distance highway driving, Travis and Bilko will definitely be putting their cars to the test."
"Last year's One Lap event was a blast," Pastrana said. "Bilko and I got a chance to experience the event and push the Subaru WRX STI and Yokohama tires to the limits. We decided at the end of last year's event that we had to do it again…but on different teams! This year is going to be even better."
Pastrana is ready. His co-driver this time is author and former Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell. "I'm going with the 'Lone Survivor,'" he said. "He's mentally tough and has experience behind the wheel."
Williams is going with his friend, Nitro Circus athlete and X Games gold medalist, Josh "Sheeny" Sheehan. "Last year was such an awesome time," said Williams. "I had a blast battling with the competition and also the on-going rivalry with Travis. I can't thank Yokohama, Nitro Circus and Subaru Motorsports USA enough for the support, and the crew from One Lap for putting on such a rad event!"
Pastrana and Williams' exploits will be posted at www.instagram.com/yokohamatire.
One Lap of America started in the early 1970s when auto journalist Brock Yates created the now infamous Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash – a flat out, no-holds-barred race from New York City to Redondo Beach, California. In 1992, Yates configured the Cannonball One Lap of America into the format it uses today: nearly 24 hours a day of driving with competitions taking place as time trials on race tracks throughout the country.
For details on One Lap of America, visit http://www.onelapofamerica.com/.
In addition to One Lap of America, the ongoing partnership between Yokohama Tire and Subaru of America includes support of Subaru Motorsports USA in American Rally Association competition. Following the conclusion of One Lap, Travis Pastrana will return to his WRX STI rally car – also wearing Yokohama tires – for the first time in 2019 at the upcoming Oregon Trail Rally.
About Yokohama Tire Corporation
Celebrating its 50th year in the U.S., Yokohama Tire Corporation is the North American manufacturing and marketing arm of Tokyo, Japan-based The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., a global manufacturing and sales company of premium tires since 1917. Servicing an extensive sales network throughout the U.S., Yokohama Tire Corporation is a leader in technology and innovation. The company's complete product line includes tires for high-performance, light truck, passenger car, commercial truck and bus, and off-the-road mining and construction applications. For more information on Yokohama's broad product line, visit www.yokohamatire.com, www.yokohamatruck.com or www.yokohamaotr.com.
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Yokohama is a strong supporter of the tire care and safety guidelines established by the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association and the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration. Details can be found at the "Tire Care & Safety" section at www.yokohamatire.com.
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One substantive point of disagreement between the Court and the C&F Board was whether Simmons' attitude toward her prior conduct was appropriate. "The majority of the Board thought that '[s]ome of the attitudes she expressed in the record and at the hearing signal that her acquired fame has nurtured not integrity and honesty, but a sense of entitlement to privileges and recognition beyond the reach of others.'" Simmons, 190 Wn.2d at 386.
To the contrary, the Court concluded that the C&F Board "did not give sufficient weight to the level of personal insight Simmons has demonstrated, and ... the Board erred in viewing Simmons' publicity and the pride she rightly takes in her accomplishments as negative factors." Id. at 399.
The Court compared Simmons' circumstances with those of a 2014 bar applicant with prior felony convictions who had served a 10-year prison term.
Simmons, 190 Wn.2d at 398.6 Although the Court disagreed with the C&F Board's recommendation in Simmons' case, it emphasized that "we do not hold that it acted arbitrarily," id. at n. 13, and further noted that "Simmons 'makes no allegation of bias in this case.'" Id.
The Court therefore did not "explore potential indicators of bias," id., noting "only that it is extremely important for the WSBA and the courts to ensure that they are sufficiently informed to make subjective judgments about applicants with histories of substance abuse, criminal convictions, and financial problems." Id.
Larger questions were raised about the process itself, especially when two adjudicatory bodies acting in good faith could apply the same factors and reasonably reach different conclusions.
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Lessons of Afghanistan
Don Flynn
A US soldier speaks with local elders about issues concerning the Now Zad area during a shura at the district center in Now Zad, Afghanistan.
Don Flynn on the folly of foreign intervention
To many on the left, the US-led intervention in Afghanistan was never anything more than imperial pique at having been dealt the blow of the 9/11 attacks. Other countries across the world might be expected to take massive loss of life in their stride if delivered from the bomb hatch of an American B-52, but the US itself has exceptional rights when it comes to avenging national grief.
The emblematic attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were provoked by a grievance that had more to do the grievances felt by a fraction of Saudi Arabians over the presence of infidel military forces in their own holy land, but any reprisal directed against Riyadh would have conflicted with the larger plan for US domination of the oil-rich kingdom. So, the alternative was to search for culprits in the more easily targeted land of the Afghans, where the dissident Saudi group had established its base.
The complaint against the Taliban government of the day was that it had 'tolerated' the presence of terrorist conspirators in its domain. This is true, but it misses the point that they were there because they had fought as a significant component of the mujahedeen movement that had resisted the Soviet-backed regime that had clung on to power in the country's cities in the 1980s. Back in those days, the then largely unknown Osama bin-Laden had the advantage of a CIA paycheque for the role he was playing as a hero of the Islamic resistance.
Enter Tony Blair
Having been securely lodged in the bosom of the Afghan opposition and approved for being there by the US security state, the task of dislodging the Al-Qaeda network was conceived as a military initiative requiring overwhelming force that would entirely reconstruct Afghan society. Would the rest of the world be on board for this if presented in these stark terms? The early signs of dissent from the prospect of decades of nation-building were stifled by the intervention of Tony Blair and the British Labour government, which proclaimed the doctrine of 'humanitarian intervention'. It was never hard to convince liberal opinion that the lot of the ordinary Afghans would be improved by some investment in the education of girls and the integration of women into the public life of the country. The long-standing problem, and one experienced with great bitterness by both the liberal pre-Soviet government led by Mohammad Daoud Khan and the cadres of the succeeding People's Democratic Party regime, was that support for progressive reforms was limited to the small, educated elite in Kabul and a few other large cities. In the countryside, where the great mass of the population lived, the measures were seen as conflicting with the conservative interpretation of Islamic codes by which most people abided.
On issues like this there is considerable convergence between the boundlessly optimistic outlooks of liberals and Stalinised communism: given the chance to enjoy the versions of liberation thrust upon them, the masses would come to accept progress and sing its praises. Maybe, but this never took any account of the ways in which the tangible benefits of progress seem to be syphoned away from the people, to collect in abundance for the urbanites, state bureaucrats and their hangers-on. Discontent against this outcome sustained the agitation of the Talib fighters who were able to maintain a narrative of the corruption of fundamental Islamic values by the forces behind the foreign intervention.
As Afghan society begins to brace itself for regime change that will doubtless exact a severe price from supporters of reform, with women and girls particularly exposed to the loss of rights, it is important to understand the forces in play. What is happening today is the inevitable victory of the countryside over the city when the social, cultural and economic gulf between the two has attained the heights of a nation like Afghanistan. The effect of efforts to modernise over the past fifty years by way of both Soviet and pro-Western interventions has been entirely counterproductive. Any trend towards the internal differentiation of rural society into currents favouring reform and those of conservative outlook providing the basis for progressive change being led by the countryside, has been suppressed by the logic of imperial policies which demand the peasants collectively bow the knee to whatever is demanded from them by the urban elites.
The post-9/11 intervention in Afghanistan was as gross a mistake as what is now universally accepted as the one that took place with the invasion of Iraq. To make amends for the prolonging of the suffering of the Afghan people, which is a consequence of the failed policies of the US-led alliance, the governments of the West must make use of whatever they have in the way of diplomatic resources to reduce the surge of vengeance on the part of groups affiliated to the new government. Above all, they need to put in place a refugee policy that can be depended on to provide safe havens for all those who were induced to follow the unwise strategic line being dictated by Washington's aspirants to global empire.
Don Flynn is Chartist managing editor and former director of Migrants' Rights Network.
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Thank you Families and Teachers!
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Selecting child care is an agonizing decision for most parents. We know from research that the experiences children have in their first five years of life are critical to their intellectual, creative, physical and social-emotional development. If that's not enough pressure, the search for child care often starts months before your baby is even born.
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Insect Detectives troll the back yard to locate and document exotic insects. Try your hand at this unusual craft and learn more about the insect world in your back yard.
three feet away from you right now!
But don't worry. It's not watching you with its eight spider eyes. It's looking for insects to eat.
Take your sketch pad and pencils and go find out who they are! Do you know their names?
Each bug you find has an important job to do. It's part of the ecosystem in which they, and you, live.
Can you figure out what it eats? What do you think would eat this insect? How do you think this insect is important to the ecosystem? After drawing them, take your pictures to the library and do a little research for fun.
The weather is about to change. Make sure your family knows before they head out for the day with a felt weather channel that predicts sunshine, rain and more with fun cut-out shapes and decoration.


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Day hike ends in tragedy for father and two sons
Posted on January 15, 2013	by Howard Meyerson
David Decareaux and his two sons. Photo from: inquisitr.
I don't normally make a practice of posting entire stories written by other authors or news services, but this one, which ran in a number of publications today, deserves to be looked at in entirety. What caught my attention is the tragic outcome of a simple outing in the Mark Twain National Forest that resulted in the death of a father and his two young sons.
That outcome was avoidable. Read it and let me know what you think. I look at this photo and see everyone's family. What a sad conclusion. Don't let it happen to you. Give some thought to the gear you might need the next time you head out on a day hike: a weather report, map and compass, rain gear, extra layer, fire-starter, food and water.
Enjoy the outdoors, but be careful out there.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — On a weekend trip that was a surprise anniversary gift for his wife, an outdoors-loving Air Force veteran ventured out with two of his sons for a hike on a remote trail. Clad only in light jackets and sweaters, the three apparently didn't know how rapidly the weather would turn ugly, and that proved deadly.
Searchers found the soaked bodies of 36-year-old David Decareaux and the two boys — ages 8 and 10 — on the Ozark Trail on Sunday, a day after Decareaux declined a passerby's offer of a ride back to the lodge where they had been staying, Reynolds County Sheriff Tom Volner said. The cold had killed them, he said.
Only the family's 4-month-old yellow Labrador retriever survived the hike. He was found near Decareaux, who died at the scene, and the two boys, who were declared dead at a hospital after hours of efforts to revive them failed.
The tragedy crushed Decareaux's father-in-law, Keith Hartrum, who described the family as tightly knit, "always on the go and adventurous."
"Dave was a great guy, a good father, son-in-law and husband," Hartrum told The Associated Press. "Those two boys were just precious — smart, very nice kids."
It was nearly 60 degrees Saturday morning when Decareaux and his sons set out on the popular trail that runs through a sparsely populated area of southeast Missouri. Decareaux was wearing only a light jacket, while one of his sons was clad in a fleece pullover, and the other a sweater, Volner said.
They were ill-equipped as the temperature sank into the 40s, and a storm that would drop 2 inches of rain set in, making the trail all but impassable.
Volner said there are no caves or other places of refuge along the trail. Although Decareaux had a cellphone and flashlight with him, both devices lost power at some point, his wife, Sarah, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday.
A passer-by spotted the hikers more than three hours into their journey and asked if they needed a ride back to the Brushy Creek Lodge near Black, where Decareaux's wife and their three other children — ages 12, 4 and 2 — were staying. But Decareaux declined, telling the man they could make it back, the sheriff said.
"They just missed their turn back to the lodge," the sheriff said. "By that time, their light played out. You don't have any ambient light down here because there are no cities or towns. When it's dark you can't see the back of your hand."
Officials at the lodge called the sheriff's department about 7 p.m. Saturday, concerned that the hikers had not returned. A search involving more than 50 volunteers on foot, horseback and in vehicles lasted until about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, when flash-flooding in creeks forced searchers to back off until daylight.
By then, it was freezing, and the temperature had dipped to the upper 20s by sunrise.
It wasn't long after that that the hikers' drenched bodies were found, their dog beside them. No autopsies were planned, and the deaths were attributed to hypothermia, Volner said.
Hartrum described Decareaux, who lived in Millstadt, Ill., as a doting father and spiritual man who had retired from the Air Force in recent years and was working with the Defense Department in a job he couldn't discuss, even privately. Karen Petitt, a spokeswoman at southwestern Illinois' Scott Air Force Base, said Decareaux worked there for the Pentagon's Defense Information Systems Agency.
Decareaux and his wife, Sarah, were married about 14 years ago after a chance meeting that was "love at first sight," said Hartrum, who lives near Waterloo, Ill. They made the most of his overseas assignments, using them to explore Europe over much of the past decade with his family, he said.
"They had a strong, good, healthy marriage," he said, noting the Decareaux was an experienced hiker "who just got caught up (last weekend) in a freak situation" that proved fatal.
Sarah Decareaux said prayer and her spiritual faith were helping her press on.
"We are a Christian family," she told the Post-Dispatch as she headed to a funeral home to make arrangements. "I know where they are now."
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Steve Schaibley says:
Very Sad! I worked in Yellowstone and the saying was always" Sunny now, Snow in 5 minutes!!" Always dress in layers!! I am planning a long distance hike of the NCt this summer, starting in ND and seeing how far I get!. Hopefully to Duluth at least, which is where my Father was raised.
Howard Meyerson says:
That's not unlike Michigan where the saying is if you don't like the weather – wait five minutes. Good luck on the NCT. I chip away at pieces of it here in Michigan. What state are you from?
I am from Bismarck, ND. So I am familiar with the terrain.Lived there my whole life and had no idea the trail was there until the Nimblewill Nomad did it in 09! He is my inspiration I am currently working in Park City, UT until April, then hopefully start the NCT by May 1st., depending on how much snow ND gets this winter? Who knows, maybe I will even make it to Michigan? Where are you from in Michigan? I heard the trail is very well maintained in Michigan?
I live in Grand Rapids, on the west side of the state, 30 or so miles from Lake Michigan. The NCTA national headquarters is located 17 miles or so east of here in Lowell, MI. The NCT chapters I know of here have done an excellent job of maintaining, marking building and improving bridges along the trail. I've worked with several of the groups over the years, writing stories about their efforts. If you get this far, look me up. Give me a shout.
Elaine Davenport says:
So heartbreaking. My thoughts and prayers are with the family.
Absolutely Elaine:
Robert Grisevich says:
Plastic lawn & leaf bags don't take up much room in a jacket pocket or day pack.
Robert: Absolutely true and they can and do offer some emergency waterproofing coverage and warmth by cutting the wind.
Pablo Cruise says:
Lawn bags are ineffective. Invest in rain poncho
As you said Howard, the heartbreaking tragedy could have been avoided with a little forethought and planning.
Brian Issing says:
As the Scoutmaster of Troop 48, in Germantown, Tenn., I read the wire article yesterday and was struck with how this could be a learning for my Boy Scouts. I even printed it to use as a Scoutmaster Minute at my next Troop meeting as we had hiked the OMT recently. As an active, outdoor Troop we just spent a very wet weekend in West Tennessee and many a Scout learned how unprepared he was. But what really hit home was seeing the photo of Mr. Decareaux and learning that he was a Boy Scout leader and that his sons were Cub Scouts.
Thank you for posting this story.
Brian: I had the same reaction to seeing their involvement with scouts. Glad to know that you are passing it on. Learning of the circumstances may help others down the road.
Fritz Seegers says:
My partner and I were hiking up a mountain in Glacier National Park one very hot summer in August at 90 degrees many years ago in August. Two hours into it the temps dropped. Fortunately we brought 2 light jackets that we put on. The sun was still shining but incredibly it started to sleat. We were incredious where were the clouds and the percepitation coming from? We retreated back down. Very cold but safe. Only later when we were miles from the peak could we see the clouds roll into the peak from the west that we were climbing and the wind blowing the cold rain, sleat and snow over the summit into the east where we were hiking.
Fritz: Sounds like you got off the mountain just in time.
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Why OKCupid sending users on bad dates was a good idea
Published: August 7, 2014 1.20am EDT
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Online daters continue to express outrage about the revelation that OkCupid has been experimenting on users by telling them they matched well with people they had nothing in common with to see if they still got on anyway. Many feel they have been treated like lab rats. OKCupid remains utterly unapologetic.
It would be nice to think that the dating site is the exception to the rule and that companies don't generally cross the line of decency by experimenting on their users. But nothing could be further from the truth. Most websites you use will try out some kind of experiment on you at one time or another.
These days it's pretty rare to go to a big website and not be tracked somehow, even if it's a charity. If you download a browser plug-in such as Ghostery you can watch websites as they watch you.
Lab rat culture
Ever since Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup, tech firms have been wise to the value of carrying out a type of user experimentation called A/B testing. It's at the core of many business plans in Silicon Valley and in tech clusters around the world.
The basic arc of any new start-up was, for a long time, quite simple. Entrepreneur comes up with a brilliant idea; entrepreneur does something like Dragons' Den to get money from venture capitalists; entrepreneur spends money on shorts-and-sandals-wearing software engineers to build product over one or two years; product is launched; entrepreneur prints t-shirts to help promote new product; new product dives faster than Tom Daley into product oblivion.
Historically most new start-ups fail and they fail because no one wants their product. This isn't really surprising, since technology experts tend to be just that – experts in technology, not in people.
But Eric Ries suggested a new methodology for startups: entrepreneur comes up with a brilliant idea; entrepreneur prints t-shirts. But if no one buys the t-shirt, entrepreneur doesn't bother building the product. This saves huge amounts of money and time which can be devoted to building better products that people actually want.
Ries wasn't the first to invent this method. Showing different kinds of adverts and getting people to respond to them is one of the marketer's stock tools. The statistics and scientific methods of psychology have been carefully applied to marketing since the 1950s.
The essence of the lean start-up method is to create a launch page announcing your new (non-existent) product. Start ups like Dropbox began with a simple webpage with a video describing their new product. At the bottom was a box inviting you to sign up as a beta tester. But there were actually two videos. When a potential customer arrived on the site, they were randomly assigned video A or B. Each would promote a slightly different version of the future product.
In the case of Dropbox the entrepreneurs thought that backing up would be the most useful facility and sharing was an also-nice-to-have. By counting how many people signed up as a beta tester they could measure what people wanted. In practice sharing seemed to get the biggest vote and backing up was almost irrelevant. In fact, they found that the users didn't really care about almost 90% of the functionality the engineers had invented so they simply didn't waste time building it.
Any company can use this tactic to find out what their potential customers actually want in a week or a month and can then go on to build something that will actually be loved. AirBnB continues to develop using this approach and even has a blog discussing the experiments and process. The customer as lab rat is such a common startup tactic that companies like landerApp now offer cut price landing pages with A/B testing built in.
For many, the use of lean start-up methods is a welcome application of scientific principles to the design of new products and services. This is what OKCupid has been doing with its users. I would personally prefer to use a product like OKCupid which is constantly on the look out for a new way to improve its algorithms and interface design over another company which is sitting back deluding itself that it has the ultimate (but untested) method. I don't use OKCupid by the way, I'm happily married. (My wife made me write that.)
A/B testing is a common aspect of most commercial and even not-for-profit websites, and we should be pleased about that. If the alternative is waiting until some entrepreneur magically comes up with the right product based on a guess then perhaps we should all be signing up for experimentation.
Perhaps the real revelation from OkCupid's testing is that its findings suggest that even bad matches could come together as happily as good matches. This implies that for the one in five relationships that reportedly started online, all that angst-ridden form-filling and hand wringing about profile pictures was not necessary. You may as well enlist a gang of orangutans to throw darts at passers by until they find you a mate. OkCupid does the service for you, producing less noise, less excrement and gets through significantly fewer bananas in the process.
OKCupid's honesty about the testing and openness about the results is a sign that it has matured as a company. Perhaps you should go out and print a job lot of t-shirts that read "It's OK, I'm a lab rat". You never know, they might sell and you could start a business.


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Parents have called for more information about how to handle swine flu after six more schools are believed to have been hit by the virus this week.
Whitley Park Junior and Infant schools have been hit by swine flu
Schools across Reading hit by swine flu
Whitley Park Juniors and Infants, Southcote Primary, The Hill Primary in Caversham, Ranikhet Primary in Tilehurst, and The Piggott in Wargrave are said to be among the latest to catch the bug.
Teachers are believed to have been struck at The Piggott and Whitley Park Juniors while children are said to be suffering at Southcote, Ranikhet and Whitley Park Infants. A sibling of a Year Two pupil at The Hill is thought to be ill. Last week Waingels College, Kendrick and Leighton Park schools reported confirmed cases.
The dad of a Year 10 Piggott pupil hit out at the secondary for not providing enough information.
He said: "All they are saying is a teacher has been confirmed as having swine flu but won't give any information as to whether or not they have been in contact with any pupils. The school is acting so irresponsibly."
A mum of two Southcote Primary youngsters said: "I think the school should be giving more information.
"It's not closing and has said if your child is ill then contact the national swine flu helpline rather than your GP.
"The helpline is not free from a mobile and I don't have internet."
And the dad of the six-year-old Whitley Park Infants sufferer said: "He had a headache, sore legs, sore throat, and he was groggy.
"We have three girls under five. The doctor told us to keep the girls in their bedroom and our son in his room. We only have two bedrooms, we couldn't do that.
"Our son has to stay at home with me but, due to our house being so small, my wife is staying at her sister's in another part of Reading with my daughters."
One parent, who did not want to be named, whose son attends The Hill said she was told on Monday about the possible link there. The poorly lad's brother had been taken out of school but she said: "I am really scared.
"Swine flu is everywhere now – the likelihood of it spreading is getting higher."
Piggott headteacher Hilary Winter said: "Following national advice from the Government, the school has remained open as usual, although parents have been asked to keep their child at home if they suspect they may have the virus.
"Parents were notified about the situation on Monday via the school's website and via text messages sent to their mobile phones."
Reading Borough Council spokesman Chris Branagan said: "We have received reports of one unconfirmed case of swine flu at Whitley Park Junior School and three at Southcote Primary School.
"Parents have been informed."
He added there were no reports of cases at Geoffrey Field Infant or Junior schools despite rumours.
Berkshire West PCT spokesman Elton Dzikiti added: "Schools would only be closed if the particular local circumstances warranted it, for example if a significant number of pupils or teachers become ill."
What should I do if I think I have swine flu?
If you are concerned, stay at home and call your local GP.
If the GP confirms swine flu by telephone, you will be given a voucher reference entitling you to anti-viral medication.
Give this to a healthy friend or relative and ask them to pick up antivirals for you from a designated local collection centre.
How dangerous is swine flu?
The vast majority of cases reported so far in this country have been mild. Only a small number have led to serious illness, and these have frequently been where patients have had underlying health problems. All UK deaths involving swine flu have been in people with existing medical conditions.
Which groups are at greatest risk?
Some people are more at risk than others of serious illness if they catch swine flu. They will need to start taking antivirals as soon as they are confirmed with the illness. On occasion, doctors may advise some high risk patients to take antivirals before they have symptoms if someone close to them has swine flu.
The risk profile of the virus is still being studied but it is already known that certain groups of people are particularly vulnerable. These include:
- Patients who have had drug treatment for asthma in the past three years
- Pregnant women
- People aged 65 years and older
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- People with chronic heart disease
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- People with chronic liver disease
- People with chronic neurological disease
- People with immunosuppression (whether caused by disease or treatment)
- People with diabetes mellitus
For more information about swine flu visit NHS Direct here or call 0800 1513 513.
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Today: it is no longer the newest and most luxurious Motel in the heart of Miami, but the rooms look neat and the reviews are good. The link shows a picture of a rehabbed sign that suggests the street view on the left may not be current.


Despite the great affluence that much of Westchester Country enjoys, homelessness is a growing problem that many residents struggle with. According to a Lohud article by David McKay Wilson, as of 2016, there were 1,750 homeless people living in Westchester County. This is an increase of 31 percent from 2010. Pelham students have decided to do something about this shocking statistic with the recent formation of the Midnight Run Club.
The club is inspired by the Midnight Run Inc., which is located in Dobbs Ferry. Midnight Run Inc. coordinates over 1,000 relief missions per year in which volunteers from all over go into New York City and distributes food, clothing, blankets, and personal care items to homeless people all over New York City. Members plan to give out supplies to the homeless in Westchester by visiting homeless shelters. They will be providing necessities, such as food, water, blankets, and other items that many people take for granted.
"During freshman year I attended White Plains High School and I viewed their chapter of Midnight Run as inspiration to start a chapter here in Pelham. I am looking forward to expanding this amazing organization alongside my peers," co-founder Bhakti Kulkarni said.
Club members are also planning on going to New York City to do the same. As of 2017, New York City has the most homeless people out of any municipality in the United States. That number, which is over 75,000, is 20,000 more than the next city, Los Angeles, California according to an article written for Forbes by Niall McCarthy. Students at Pelham felt they should take it upon themselves to address the growing problem.
"I told my friend I wanted to start a club. My friend formerly attended White Plains High School, where they had a Midnight Run club. They suggested we start one here. I have always been interested in helping people and starting a Midnight Run Club was the most fitting way," co-founder Madison Popovic said.
Madison Popovic and Bhakti Kulkarni run the club with Mrs. Lundy as advisor. For any Pelican interested in joining, this club meets in room 112 every other Tuesday.


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