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Michael Gives His Best "Dead Poets Society," While Dwight Plays Vampire (Bat) Slayer on "The Office"
I've been waiting for weeks to see how Joss Whedon would work his mojo on The Office and, I have to say, I wasn't disappointed.
It's worth noting of course that while Whedon is best known for his work as a series creator on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly (and directed several episodes of each), he got his start as a writer on a sitcom (that would be Roseanne). So I was definitely intrigued to see what Whedon would do on a comedy series as a journeyman director.
Last night's episode of The Office ("Business School") lived up to every one of my expectations, turning in a dazzling episode consisting of three separate storylines and delivering the show's trademark blend of laughs and tears, sometimes at the same time. Kudos to writer Brent Forrester (who also wrote "The Merger" episode earlier this season) and to Whedon for crafting an episode that stands out as epitomizing the strengths of the series while also being its own memorable entity.
Whedon's episode looked and felt like a quintessential Office episode and that's the best possible compliment you can pay a director-for-hire, especially one whose style is as drastically different to The Office as Whedon's is. But instead, he nailed the talking head format, the documentary style, and, unlike other episodes, the actors seems completely at ease and in character the entire time. (I use the totally awkward Jim and Pam break room fiasco from "Ben Franklin," directed by The Office's DP Randall Einhorn, as an example to the contrary.)
But enough about the direction and onto the story itself. I have to talk about the bat and that the producers randomly decided that this specific episode, in which Dwight discovers a bat nesting in the ceiling space of the Dunder-Mifflin Scranton offices, would be directed by Whedon, especially given the running gag in which Jim tries to convince Dwight that he is carrying the "vampiric germ." Loved the white-hot garlic bread, the glare off of Angela's crucifix, and the flipped up collar at the end of the episode. Classic, especially given we are in one of the Sylvanias.
The bat was very well handled, a combination of live animal (seen in the close ups) and an animatronic one (in the group scenes), and it was hysterical to see everyone's varying reactions to the vermin: Karen hiding under her desk, Pam shrieking, Stanley putting his coat over his head and walking out, Kevin playing the hero, Creed just calmly sitting there without a care in the world (some really fun Creed bits overall this episode, in fact), and Kelly's horror at hurting the bat (which has a family and feelings) quickly turning to a scream of "kill it! kill it!" once it approaches her. But my absolute favorite has got to be Angela's reaction, as she stopped, dropped, and rolled on the floor (as if in a fire situation) before praying that the bat not come near her. (I also loved her little old lady plastic hair net later on as well.)
Michael was way toned down again after last week's manic energy in "Phyllis' Wedding," a definite plus. He's way more funny when he's a bit less over the top insane and just irritating and out of touch with reality. Here, he's asked by Ryan to participate as a guest speaker in his economics class at business school and Michael, in typical Great Scott fashion, completely misses the point of the exercise and tries to deliver a rousing Dead Poets Society speech to the class in which he rips apart one kid's textbook (worth its weight in gold, apparently) and throws candy bars into the audience, hitting one student in the head. His Q&A is hilariously off the mark and the whole thing shifts uncomfortably once Michael learns just what Ryan was saying in his introduction: that Dunder-Mifflin only has a few years left before it's forced to close its doors forever. Michael is cut to the quick and feels betrayed by "spazzy kid" Ryan, insults the entire "stupid" class and storms out after mentioning that "everyone thinks Ryan is a tease."
Ryan's punishment: he has to give up his big boy desk and move into the annex. Yes, the annex. You know, where they stuck Kelly and sad sack Toby? And that, my friends, is what they call comeuppance and it couldn't have happened to a better person than Ryan. It's about time the (former) temp got put in his place, especially after he usurped Jim's prime Pam-staring position in the office.
Speaking of Pam, I'm glad that the producers finally tackled the notion of her "art," by arranging an art show for her. I loved the expression on Kelly's face when Pam invited her to attend the show (blank indifference) and how Toby shifted awkwardly as he thought about blowing off his daughter's play ("what they do is not art") to go support Pam and "local art." Pam's art is, as Oscar's boyfriend Gil suggests, "motel art" made without honesty or bravery, which Oscar points out, are not Pam's strong points. Instead, they're slightly pathetic amateur sketches and watercolors of found objects, the office building, a lonely mug. And most importantly they point to the fact that Pam is completely out of touch with her inner self: her inner artist, her inner lover, her true self.
It's all underpinned beautifully by Roy's appearance at the art show (he shows up with his brother); he's not there to support Pam ("Your art is the prettiest art of all the art.") but to earn brownie points in his ongoing quest to win her back by becoming something--and someone--he's not. In the end, his whole appearance is linked more to the fact that he hopes Pam will stay the night at his place than making up for not appreciating her in the past. This will end badly, all around.
As for Jim not showing up to Pam's show? I'm glad he didn't turn up at the eleventh hour with or without Karen. It was only fitting that he not show up at all or even discuss the art show in one of the talking heads. Pam, after all, is not his priority right now. It shows from his failure to turn up at the show (or even offer apologies) to the fact that it's Karen, and not Pam, who is his partner in crime during his ongoing prank on Dwight.
In the end, I was incredibly moved by Michael showing up at the end to support Pam. For all of his faults, Michael really does love these people and wants to be there for them. He's practically glowing with pride about Pam's accomplishments and, in a rare streak of sensitivity, offers to buy her sketch of the Dunder-Mifflin building (complete with Michael's office window and car) for the office. Pam for once is speechless and just hugs Michael and doesn't let go. It's a beautifully real and tender moment in the show and echoes back to the talking head from Season Two in "Boys and Girls," when Pam breaks down after realizing she's never leaving Scranton.
Michael proudly hangs up Pam's picture in the office and everything actually comes together in this episode at this point: Pam's art, Michael's speech to Ryan's business school, etc. It does all come down to paper and people in the end. Wait, Michael's actually right in the end? Stranger things have happened at Dunder-Mifflin, after all. Just ask Dwight.
Next week on The Office ("Cocktails"), it's J.J. Abrams' time to shine as he directs an episode in which Michael and Jan make their ongoing relationship known at a cocktail party thrown at the home of the Dunder-Mifflin CFO, Jim meets Karen's ex-boyfriend, and the rest of the gang head out for some happy hour drinks.
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9 pm: Close to Home (CBS); Las Vegas (NBC); Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy (FOX); Watch Over Me (MyNet)
10 pm: NUMB3RS (CBS); Law & Order (NBC); 20/20 (ABC)
What I'll Be Watching
8 pm: Hardware on BBC America (11 pm ET).
It's the second season finale of Britcom Hardware, starring Martin Freeman of the original UK version of The Office, taking place at a small (you guessed it!) hardware store. On tonight's episode ("Celebrity"), the guys can't contain themselves when a D-list celebrity comes into the cafe, while Mike is injured during a footie match.
8:30 pm: Spaced on BBC America (11:30 pm ET).
It's the second season of one of the wackiest Britcoms ever devised. On tonight's episode ("Dissolution"), the gang takes Daisy out for her birthday and Marsha catches Tim kising Sophie, leading Marsha to suspect that all is not as it appears between Daisy and Tim. Gee, you think?
10 pm: Hyperdrive on BBC America (9 pm ET)
On the fifth episode of this hilarious space station-set workplace comedy ("Clare"), Henderson strays from the HMS Camden Lock's mission to assist a rather deranged astronaut. I smell trouble!
10:40 pm: Feel the Force on BBC America (9:40 pm ET)
It's the US premiere of UK cop spoof Feel the Force. On tonight's episode, Frank and Bobbins manage to get themselves captured while trying to alleviate a hostage crisis. Hilarity ensues.
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totally agreed. a MUCH better ep than the last few. I laughed out loud many times. Every time Michael threw a candy bar...hilarious!
Great scene w/him and Pam at the end.
When I heard Whedon was directing, was filled with trepidation (since my love for Buffy and Angel is tempered by my loathing for Firefly), but I should've trusted that the writer (Brent Forrester) would make it happen. This is the best episode in a long time and, as you said, the epitome of The Office: laughter ("I won't I won't I won't"), tears ("motel art"), and tenderness ("I'm proud of you").
Courage and honesty aren't Pam's strong points, and it's time she heard that. Michael really does care about people, and it's great when we're reminded that he's not only insensitive and clueless.
I was also glad Jim didn't show up at the art show. He saw Pam get back with Roy and he's--rightly--moved on. (I hope.)
Loved the ep. My question is -- what the hell was Michael going to do with a Chunky Bar? I mean, I get the Payday and 100 Grand and even Snickers, but Chunky? Hee.
I had very high expectations for this episode and they were exceeded! I loved everyone's reaction to the bat. Especially Angela's. And I was very happy that Jim didn't attend the art show or make a big deal of it. He may not be over Pam but at least he's making an effort to get over her.
I loved this episode!!!!! Def. agree that Michael's better when he's calmer than last week. I thought that they did a good job pushing the Jim/Pam story line forward this week without beating us over the head with it. Joss as always came through.
Stefan, how can you hate Firefly???
Annie, I'm sorry, I know many people love Firefly, but it never clicked with me. I never got the whole Chinese Wild West in Space theme. It seemed too silly. (And this is someone who totally bought the whole Buffy/Angel mythos.) :-)


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Because Songs Matter
STEPHEN FEARING—BETWEEN HURRICANES
Like so many bands I've come to love, I came across Stephen Fearing's music because of his (loose) connection to The Band. Fearing plays in a band called Blackie & the Rodeo Kings along with a guitar player named Colin Linden. Linden associated with The Band in the 80's & 90's and in 1987 he recored a good cover of "Chest Fever" which is a Band song nobody fucking covers.
So anyway, that's how I learned about Stephen Fearing. Blackie & the Rodeo Kings are a decently big deal to contemporary rock fans, their song "Stoned" is awesome (and they have a new album in the works), but Stephen's solo music has always had a stronger effect on me. On one live album he covered "Thrasher," a Neil Young song that nobody fucking covers. That live album So Many Miles best captures Fearing's strengths as a songwriter–it's just him and his guitar and the clarity of every word and the effortless combination of Canadian and Irish folk influences. The six minutes you spend listening to "The Longest Road" gives you a story it takes most people a whole album to tell. Between Hurricanes, something like Fearing's eighth solo album since his debut in 1988, is the best he's sounded in the studio. He's wielding metaphor like Richard Thompson at his fighting weight on "Don't You Wish Your Bread was Dough." Fearing's lyrical deftness is the attraction of the album. There's nothing flashy. It's like he's sewing a quilt only remarkable when your covered up in it and warm. He achieves a Sinatra-warmth, wee-small, spun out of delicacy and confidence. A combed cotton album.
Stephen Fearing – Don't You Wish Your Bread Was Dough
Stephen Fearing – These Golden Days
Stephen Fearing – Wheel Of Love
11 finely crafted songs. Go get em on CD from Maple Music (Canada) and digitally from iTunes. Visit Fearing's website.
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Ilinden – Preobrazhenie-oprøret, eller simpelthen Ilinden-oprøret fra august - oktober 1903 ( , Ilindensko-Preobražensko vǎstanie ;  , Ilindensko vostanie ;  , Eksegersi tou Ilinden ), var et organiseret oprør mod det osmanniske imperium, der blev forberedt og udført af den interne makedonske-adrianopels revolutionære organisation  med støtte fra den øverste makedoniske-adrianopelskomité. Oprørets navn henviser til Ilinden, et navn for Elias tid, og til Preobrazhenie, hvilket betyder Transfiguration. Oprøret varede fra begyndelsen af august til slutningen af oktober og dækkede et stort område fra den østlige Sortehavskyst til bredden af søen Ohrid.

Oprøret i regionen Makedonien ramte det meste af de centrale og sydvestlige dele af Monastir vilajet, der hovedsageligt havde støtte blandt de lokale bulgarske bønder,     og til en vis grad af Aromansk befolkning i regionen. Den midlertidige regering blev etableret i byen Kruševo, hvor oprørerne proklamerede Kruševo-republiken, som blev overskredet efter kun ti dage, den 12. august. Den 19. august førte et nært beslægtet oprør organiseret af bulgarske bønder i Adrianople Vilayet til frigørelsen af et stort område i Strandzha-bjergene og oprettelsen af en foreløbig regering i Vassiliko, Strandzha-republikken. Dette varede omkring tyve dage, før det blev nedlagt af tyrkerne. Opstanden opslugte også vilayets i Kosovo og Salonika.

Da oprøret var startet, var mange af dets mest lovende potentielle ledere, herunder Ivan Garvanov og Gotse Delchev, allerede blevet arresteret eller dræbt af osmannerne, og indsatsen blev afskaffet inden for et par måneder. De overlevende formåede at opretholde en gerillakampagne mod tyrkerne i de næste par år, men dens større virkning var, at den overtalte de europæiske magter til at forsøge at overbevise den osmanniske sultan om, at han måtte tage en mere forsonende holdning til sine kristne undersåtter i Europa.

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Austin Romine hits tiebreaking homer as Yankees beat Mariners
SEATTLE, WA - SEPTEMBER 8: Austin Romine #28 of the New York Yankees smiles as he rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run off of relief pitcher Nick Vincent #50 of the Seattle Mariners during the seventh inning of a game at Safeco Field on September 8, 2018 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) Credit: Getty Images/Stephen Brashear
By Erik Boland erik.boland@newsday.com @eboland11 Updated September 9, 2018 2:06 AM
SEATTLE — Austin Romine has never set the bar particularly high for himself at the plate.
Behind the plate, yes.
Standing next to it, bat in hand? Not so much.
"I know why I'm in there," Romine has said many times, referencing his defensive abilities.
But he also accepted a challenge thrown his way during spring training by new manager Aaron Boone, who essentially said this: Don't be an automatic out. Romine has been anything but in what has been a breakout season offensively.
Romine slugged a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning in the Yankees' 4-2 victory over the Mariners on Saturday night in front of 38,733 at Safeco Field. The game ended when Dellin Betances wriggled out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the ninth without allowing a run.
"I've sold out for my approach from the beginning and it seems to be working," Romine said. "So if something's not broke, don't fix it."
It's an approach, he said, that has him keeping things simple: "Staying up the middle the other way, making sure I'm swinging at good pitches."
That showed in the seventh when Romine stepped in against righthander Nick Vincent with one out and drove a 2-and-2 fastball the other way to right for a 3-2 lead. He became the 10th Yankee to hit the 10-homer plateau this season. Previously, the most homers for Romine in a big-league season was four.
"That at-bat he had, it's one thing to go opposite-field with a home run, but what was just as exciting to me was getting to that pitch," Boone said. "Some of the pitches he was able to lay off and spoil. The quality of that at-bat got him, finally, to a pitch he could drive, and he didn't miss it."
The Yankees (89-53) climbed within 7½ games of the AL East-leading Red Sox and stayed 3 ½ games ahead of the A's for the top wild-card slot. They moved 11 games ahead of Seattle for the second wild card and lowered their magic number for clinching a postseason berth to 10.
Andrew McCutchen, off to a 1-for-17 start in his Yankees career before homering Friday night, led off Saturday night's game by driving a 1-and-2 changeup from Felix Hernandez down the leftfield line for a home run. Hernandez, who came in 8-13 with a 5.55 ERA, left the game with tightness in his right hamstring after back-to-back walks to start the fifth. The former Cy Young Award winner allowed two runs (one earned) and six hits in four innings-plus.
Lance Lynn, who had allowed 19 earned runs in 18 2⁄3 innings in his previous four starts, pitched well, allowing two runs and three hits in six innings. Mike Zunino led off the third with his 19th homer to tie it at 1-1 and Dee Gordon blooped a two-out RBI single to left in the fifth to tie it at 2-2.
"The homer was really the only bad pitch I made all night," Lynn said of the first-pitch fastball Zunino hit out. "Other than that, can't complain."
Zach Britton struck out one in a perfect seventh and David Robertson struck out the side in a perfect eighth. After Gleyber Torres' sacrifice fly in the ninth made it 4-2, Betances — who again saw a slow-healing cut on the ring finger of his pitching hand open up and pour blood — escaped big trouble in the bottom of the inning.
The Mariners loaded the bases with one out on a leadoff double by Mitch Haniger, a hit batsman and a walk, but Betances struck out Denard Span and Kyle Seager to preserve the victory. The righthander, who extended his AL-record streak for a reliever to 38 straight games with at least one strikeout, had fanned Jean Segura earlier in the inning.
Betances called the bleeding "annoying" but not something that affects his pitching. "Once I got bases loaded," he said, "I just tried to bear down and make pitches."
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DOJ provides $850 million to public safety agencies amid COVID-19 pandemic
Tricia Rosetti, Content Marketer | April 02, 2020
The Department of Justice (DOJ) created the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding (CESF) program to help agencies address the outbreak.
The DOJ announced Wednesday that the $850 million CESF program, authorized by the recent stimulus legislation signed by President Trump, is available to help public safety agencies respond to the challenges caused by the pandemic.
The funds may be used to hire personnel, pay overtime costs, cover protective equipment and supplies, address correctional inmates' medical needs, and cover expenses related to the distribution of resources to hard-hit areas.
Grant applications for funding will remain open for at least 60 days and will be extended as necessary. Grant funds may also be applied retroactively to Jan. 20, subject to federal supplanting rules. The department plans to make awards quickly and has "the goal of having funds available for drawdown within days" of approval.
Applicants can find eligibility requirements, award information, and additional guidelines in the solicitation posted by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, within the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs.
"This is an unprecedented moment in our nation's history and an especially dangerous one for our front-line law enforcement officers, corrections officials, and public safety professionals," said Office of Justice Programs Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Katharine T. Sullivan in the announcement. "We are grateful to Congress for making these resources available and for the show of support this program represents."
Agencies that were eligible for the fiscal year 2019 State and Local Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program are candidates for this emergency funding. A complete list of eligible jurisdictions and their allocations can be found here.
Click here to learn more about the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program and here for more information about the Office of Justice Programs.


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Q: In UnderscoreJS, is there a collection filter for matching any of the key-value pairs? I've got a query where I need to match against any multiple values. The _.where method is really close:
Here's the _where docs:

where_.where(list, properties)  Looks through each value in the list,
  returning an array of all the values that contain all of the
  key-value pairs listed in properties.

 _.where(listOfPlays, {author: "Shakespeare", year: 1611});
 => [{title: "Cymbeline", author: "Shakespeare", year: 1611},
     {title: "The Tempest", author: "Shakespeare", year: 1611}]

I'm needing a .whereAny method:
_.whereAny(listOfMovies, {director: "Tarantino", director: "Scorcese"});
=>[{title: "Pulp Fiction", director: "Tarantino", year:1996},{title:"Taxi", director: "Scorcese", year:1983}]

Where it will return an array of objects that match any of the supplied key value pairs. Am I missing this method, or is there a simple way to do it?
Many thanks!
A more detailed explanation- I'm trying to filter a large list of objects with three checkboxes. Each item in the original data set has a property that corresponds to one of those three values. If you select checkbox 1 (value:Red), I will get a subset of the original data set containing only those items with key-value = Red. If you also select checkbox 2 (value:Orange), I will then need to query for both of those values, and so on.

A: You can use http://underscorejs.org/#filter so:
_.filter(listOfMovies, function(movie) { return movie.director == 'Tarantino' || movie.director == 'Scorcese'; });

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International Jury and Winners from Three Countries: Vernadsky Challenge V grand-final
On June 15-16, Noosphere hosted the fifth final of the Vernadsky Challenge engineering startup competition. The anniversary event took place in Kyiv, within the framework of the "AVIASVIT-XXI" International Aerospace Salon at the International Exhibition Center (IEC). During the two days we arranged many activities, including a panel discussion of the scientific and business communities, lectures from the finalists of the previous years Vernadsky Challenge and an exhibition of children's space drawings Noosphere Space Art Challenge. In the "AVIASVIT-XXI" expo zone there were presented booths of Noosphere stalwarts – FireFly Aerospace, Dragonfly Aerospace, FlightControl propulsion, SETS, and Earth Observing System.
The first day of the final was marked by a panel discussion on "Prospects for engineering startups in Ukraine and the world". The discussion was joined by:
Michael Ryabokon – Co-founder and Headman of the NGO "Noosphere Association", Ph.D.
Borys Davydenko – engineer and economist, Liga.net editor-in-chief
Dmytro Khmara – co-founder of space startups Lunar Research Project, Space Cossacks and co-author of MySatUA project, multiple finalist of Vernadsky Challenge
Olexandr Butkalyuk – famous Ukrainian engineer and designer, one of the Mars Hopper project founders, founder of the Club of Experimental Rocket Building
Max Gerbut – inventor and entrepreneur in the field of energy efficient construction, smart homes, IoT, 3D printing, specialist in marketing, physics, engineering, industrial design and business development
Serhiy Veretyuk – Noosphere Engineering School Director
Dmitry Gazda – CEO of Esper Bionics, Vernadsky Challenge 2019 winner.
In addition to the discussion on June 15, we managed to hold traditional "success stories" from the finalists and winners of previous years' competitions. The presentation by Dmytro Gazda from Esper Bionics was so successful that Mr. Dmytro received an invitation from Max Polyakov and Michael Ryabokon to enter the jury of this year's Vernadsky Challenge final.
The first day ended with the showrun of the film, created with the support of the NGO "Noosphere Association" and Max Polyakov personally. The "Unbreakable. The Way to a Dream" tells the story of a famous scientist in the field of rocketry and astronautics and a designer, the founder of practical cosmonautics Sergiy Korolev.
Follow this link to watch a panel discussion, as well as success stories of the Vernadsky Challenge finalists.
The second day and the culmination of the event were, of course, the pitches of the finalists. The stage was opened on June 16 with welcoming speeches by Michael Ryabokon, Noosphere co-founder, Volodymyr Sokolov, Chief Engineer and First Deputy General Director of the Southern Machine-Building Plant, and Oleksandr Kordyuk, Academician of NAU, Ph. D. Physics and Mathematics.
132 startups joined Vernadsky Challenge 2020-21l: 89 foreign and 43 Ukrainian. More than half of them are space projects. The top 10 participants from 6 countries (Canada, Slovakia, Sweden, Spain, USA and Ukraine) reached the final. The jury was more than international too:
Luca Rossettini – CEO and founder of D-orbit, who greeted the finalists with an inspiring speech
Boris Otter – President and Founder of the Swiss Space Tourism Association
Isy Goldwasser – CEO and founder of Thynk
Christian Ziach – Investment Manager of High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH
Eduard Maltsev – Deputy Dean of Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and Head of Presidents' MBA
Max Gerbut – inventor and entrepreneur in the field of energy efficient construction, smart homes, IoT, 3D printing, expert in marketing, physics, engineering, industrial design and business development
Serhiy Zakharchenko – Deputy General Director for Corporate and Legal Affairs of the Southern Machine-Building Plant
Nana Voitenko – Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor and Head of the Sensory Signaling Department of the Bogomolets Institute of Physiology
Dmitry Gazda – head and founder of Esper Bionics, doctor, engineer, serial entrepreneur, winner of Vernadsky Challenge 2019
Andriy Kolesnyk – Advisor to the Head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine
chaired, as always, Michael Ryabokon.
The final of the fifth Vernadsky Challenge was held in a "hybrid" format, so some of the jury and finalists were online, and some of them were on the main stage in Kyiv. For two days, the broadcast on YouTube and Facebook was joined by more than 1, 500 online viewers.
This format did not affect the fierceness of the fight in the final. So the jury had a difficult task – to determine the best of the best. And that's what their decision was.
3rd place in the Vernadsky Challenge 2021 and a development grant of 400,000 hryvnias was awarded to the BOROSPACE project from Slovakia. The authors have developed an innovative design of lithium-ion batteries, thanks to which the battery will not only save electricity, but also serve as a hybrid rocket fuel after the mission.
2nd place and a grant for development of 600,000 hryvnias was awarded to the Ukrainian project chaired by Pavlo Tkachenko – Provizio. The Provizio team has developed a device to measure intraocular pressure that helps delay vision loss. Provizio software notifies the doctor in real time about changes in blood pressure and informs him about available treatment options.
1st place and 1,000,000 hryvnias was awarded to the Medicsen project from Spain. The Medicsen team created a smart patch that opens micropores in human skin for the non-invasive administration of large-molecule drugs (such as insulin).
Watch the 2021 finalists pitches at this link.
This was the most international of the Vernadsky Challenge finals. Stay in touch with us, because the new season of our engineering startup competition is coming soon!


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Q: How to ignore js files on a specific subfolder? I have the following structure

I want to tell .gitignore to ignore js, map file types.
I tried the following
# =========================
# Web essentials auto-generated files
# =========================
TypeScript.Content/Scripts/*.js
TypeScript.Content/Scripts/*.js.map

But when I change the js file (or 'create' it) it adds to the list of pending changes...
Is something wrong?

A: It seems that the .js and .map files that you wish git to ignore are already present in the index.  You need to tell git to un-track those files:
git rm --cached TypeScriptTest.Content/Scripts/*.js
git rm --cached TypeScriptTest.Content/Scripts/*.js.map

Quote from GitHub help on Ignoring files:

Note that git will not ignore a file that was already tracked before a
  rule was added to this file to ignore it.


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Feeling Good about Doing Bad
The Love of Doing Bad
But there are real values involved as well. They have to do with competitiveness and selfishness. Do-Gooders usually value cooperation; Do-Badders love conflict. Do-Gooders tend to altruism while Do-Badders lean to selfishness. Still, values are not decisive here: there are those in the liberal camp who are intensely competitive and others who are shamelessly selfish. The essential distinction is about world view. We behave differently more because we live in different worlds than because we have different values.
Conflict and Cooperation; Selfishness and Altruism
Conflict. You and I may have the same values, but if we want the same thing, and there is only one of it, we are in conflict. When our circumstances are different, what is good for one may not be good for another, regardless of our values. But direct, head-on conflicts like that tend to be destructive. They lead, not to a zero-sum game, but a less-then-zero-sum game. There may be winners and losers, but even the winners may end up with less than they would through cooperation.
Yet sometimes it is possible to avoid such conflict and still satisfy the potential adversaries. Negotiators do this by attempting to find out what people really desire. It is often the case that a dispute is resolved by finding new ways to satisfy those desires. But that requires someone capable of seeing the dispute in new ways. It means an open mind, and anger tends to close minds. And why should we do that? Merely because that way everyone comes out ahead.
Yet it is not possible to say that competition is always bad. When society is so arranged that firms compete to produce better products and services more efficiently and cheaply, the result is a net gain. That does not mean that competition itself is a good thing, simply because it is usually easier to throw a monkey wrench into your competitor's machinery than it is to build a better machine yourself. As a general rule, it is easier to destroy than to build. So you need rules to discourage or prevent destruction and encourage construction. That is the main reason that laissez-faire does not work.
Selfishness. If we cannot avoid conflict, can we unequivocally condemn selfishness? We are all selfish to a degree, but we are not as selfish as the Social Darwinists (including most economists) imagine us to be. It depends on how inclusive our sense of "we" is. People who are totally selfish, who care about absolutely no one but themselves, are rare. Some extend "we" just to family and a few friends. Others expand their circle of community more widely, to nation, or race, or tribe, with some seeing all the human race as family. Some even go beyond the human and recognize kinship with the animals and all living things. World-views again.
But when liberals talk about cooperation and altruism, the Do-badders sneer that we are trying to change human nature, and that we are trying to prevent people from bettering themselves. This is nonsense. What we must insist on is that when people compete, they do so in constructive, not destructive ways, and when they try to better themselves, they do not do so at the expense of others. That way what is good for one is good for all. Nothing could be simpler or more sensible.
Not all conservatives actually love to hurt people. Most do not. But because conservativism tends to demonize the other, it is a perfect haven for those whose souls are steeped in hatred and cruelty. It provides them with a perfect cover: that of moralist. They can satisfy their lust for doing evil with the sword of a crusader against Satan.
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Mario Draghi became president of the European Central Bank on 1st November, 2011, at a critical moment for the euro. Banks – particularly banks in the Club Med countries (i.e., Italy, Spain, Greece) – were having difficulty rolling over their inter-bank lines. As the lines matured with little prospect of renewal, the banks were being forced to sell liquid assets. As these included bonds issued by Club Med countries, the price of the bonds fell and their yield increased. A surge in Italian and Spanish government bond yields was taken to constitute "the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis". The media were full of talk of "a bazooka" of some sort to bring the crisis to an end. In October last year such talk usually focussed on the expansion of the European Financial Stability Facility, a back-up fund with resources provided by all Eurozone member states and able to extend credit to particularly hard-pressed governments. A widely-held view was that the EFSF might need to exceed 900b. euros, or even 2,500b. euros, if it were to have the fire-power to meet the crisis.
In the event, negotiations for the EFSF have not got far enough, while its credibility in financial markets has been undermined by the credit rating agencies' downgrading of several member states. But Draghi has found a big, powerful bazooka and aimed it with precision. Between 4th November 2011 and 20th January 2012 the ECB's lending to banks has jumped from 580.0b. euros to 831.7b. euros, or by over 43%. The new lending has taken the form mostly of three-year facilities at 1%, which – on the face of it – are extraordinarily privileged loan arrangements for the banks. Further large expansion of such lending is to be envisaged. The banks have stopped selling government bonds, the yields on Italian and Spanish bonds have fallen, and the sovereign debt crisis is over, at least for the time being. This weekly e-mail analyses the effect of the Draghi bazooka on Eurozone M3 growth, because of the importance of money to macroeconomic outcomes more generally.
The Draghi bazooka: the background up to Draghi's appointment
Large-scale government borrowing from the central bank has potentially catastrophic macroeconomic consequences. The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 therefore proscribed direct government borrowing from the European Central Bank (and indeed from the central banks that together constitute the Eurosystem), because of fears that over-expansion of the central bank balance sheet (i.e., of the so- called "monetary base") could cause an inflationary spiral. The Bundesbank, one of the key players in the original design of the Eurosystem and the single currency, remembered the damage that had been to Germany's society by the Weimar hyperinflation of 1923.
The ECB's balance sheet expanded rapidly in the aftermath of the banking crisis of autumn 2008. In the years leading up to the crisis ECB lending to banks was typically about 450b. euros. It soared in the three months from October 2008, with heavy usage of long-term refinancing facilities (i.e., facilities expected to last six months or longer) mostly responsible. (They doubled from 334.3b. euros in October 2008 to 613.6b. euros in January 2009.) During 2009 the facilities, which became known as "the non-standard measures" ran typically at about 700b. euros, with the monetary base similarly at a higher level than before. (The ECB's measure of the monetary base climbed from 900b. euros in August 2008 to over 1,200b. in January 2009, and in summer 2009 the M1 money measure was expanding at an annual rate in the double digits.) Economists with a Bundesbank background – such as the ECB's chief economist, Jurgen Stark – were anxious that the non-standard measures had created a significant medium-term inflation threat. In early 2010 the ECB announced that the non- standard measures were to be withdrawn. The banks would have to repay their long-term borrowings by the end of June. As the chart above shows, the value of these facilities crashed by about 300b. in the middle of 2010.
Various interpretations of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis are possible. Plainly, governments that run large budget deficits, incur massive public debts and lie about the scale of their deficits and debt should not be surprised if they have no credibility in financial markets. The main cause of the surge in Greek government bond yields in early 2010 was that its government was financially irresponsible. Nevertheless, the timing of the yield surge was related to the ECB's withdrawal of the non-standard measures. In order that they could pay back their borrowing from the ECB by end-June, banks had either to pull in loans or sell securities, and the obvious securities to sell were those of dubious quality, such as Greek government bonds. By implication, a relationship holds between changes in the generosity of the ECB's credit lines to the banks and movements in Eurozone government bond yields. The ECB cannot lend directly to Eurozone governments on overdraft, but – by means of transactions with financial institutions that themselves hold Eurozone government securities – it can have a powerful impact on market conditions in Eurozone sovereign debt.
While Trichet remained president of the ECB, the standard line was that Europe's governments were primarily responsible both for their own solvency and for bail-outs of fiscal delinquents. The European Commission and the International Monetary Fund also became involved, and the press talked of a troika of responsible parties (i.e., the ECB, the Commission and the IMF). The emphasis was on the formation of a new fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (or EFSF), which could lend to fiscal delinquents and impose the necessary external discipline on them, with the ECB's knowledge and expertise, but without the ECB's resources. By autumn 2011 it was clear that the establishment of the EFSF was proving problematic. The Eurozone sovereign debt crisis intensified, with sharp rises in the yields of Italian and Spanish government bonds, and suggestions that even France might be threatened by the decline in market confidence.
The Draghi bazooka: after Draghi's appointment
So Mario Draghi became ECB president at a critical juncture in the Eurozone's history. The Eurosceptic press (mostly in the English-speaking world) daily announced, with good reason, that the Eurozone's break-up was imminent. As yields on Italian and Spanish government bonds climbed to around 7%, the value of the bonds declined. If these assets had been "marked to market", their loss of value would have hit banks' profits and capital, and further undermined their ability to expand their balance sheets. The Eurozone appeared to be caught in a vicious self-reinforcing downward spiral.
Between 1st November and mid-December last year much frantic negotiating about ECB strategy must have proceeded, almost entirely behind closed doors, between the various European authorities about how they should react to the crisis. It has to be assumed that the Bundesbank remained hostile to the re-introduction of the non-standard measures, although – I should say straightaway – I have no direct evidence that this was the case. At any rate, Draghi decided that the re-introduction of the very generous pre-2010 long-term refinancing facilities (for three years at 1%) could be justified by the gravity of the crisis. Last month 523 banks bid for their proportion of the extra facility, with the total bids coming to 489b. euros. Already the drawdown of the facilities has led to the leap in ECB lending to the banks from 580.0b. euros on 4th November to 831.7b. euros on 20th January, which was noted earlier. Rather impressively, the chart of these developments on the next page resembles a Grand Canyon. Evidently, although much of the 489b. euros has been drawn, another 100b. – 200b. euros remains available. Until now the peak level of ECB lending to the banks was in mid-2009, when it totalled 896.8b. euros, with the long-term element at 728.6b. euros.
Another tender for the ECB's long-term refinancing facilities is due towards the end of next month. Market rumours are that it could be as large as – or perhaps even larger than – than in December. From the banks' viewpoint, this is all a godsend. In late 2011 many banks in the Club Med countries were having to decide which assets to jettison as their inter-bank borrowings came up for renewal. That has now stopped. And what does that mean for the February long-term refinancing operation? The demands for inter-bank refinancing have now abated, which may seem to imply that the banks will want less cash than in December. However, everyone knows that the ECB must – at some figure or another – impose a limit on its lending to banks. Because the banks know that a limit will be introduced sooner or later, they are likely to bid for as much long-term central bank cash as possible at the next long-term refinancing operation. (The banks do not feel that any stigma attaches to using a central bank loan to finance their assets, if over 500 banks have already taken part in the exercise. Meanwhile, with an interest rate of 1%, this is very cheap money. Sure, the loans must be collateralized, but the rules on collateral are to be even easier in the February LTRO than in the December LTRO.)
Is it plausible to suggest that – at least in scenario planning – analysts must think in terms of 500b. – 1,000b. euro of loan applications at the February LTRO? By extension, that might take eventual figure for ECB lending to banks up to over 1,500b. euros in late 2012. If that happens, the Draghi bazooka will have a special, although very controversial place in the development of the single currency. With Italian and Spanish government bond yields dropping to more reasonable levels already, and the technocrats in charge of Italian public finances and a conservative government in Spain, there has to be a chance that the Eurozone will reach 2013 with much the same membership as at present (apart, presumably, from Greece).
But what will be the macroeconomic results of this approximate trebling of ECB lending to the banks in less than a year? What – to begin the discussion – will be the effects on the M3, broadly-defined measure of money?
Effects of the Draghi bazooka: why – in general terms – does it matter?
As I said at the start, the Maastricht Treaty forbids direct government borrowing on overdraft from the central bank. Why, more precisely, is massive government borrowing from the central bank so bad? The effect is to cause simultaneous expansion of both the central bank's assets and liabilities. Since the central bank issues legal tender, the liabilities are cash in the hands of non-banks and so-called "cash reserves" if owned by commercial banks. Cash held by non-banks is plainly money. Further, according to a familiar textbook account, banks maintain relatively stable ratios of their cash reserves (which traditionally did not pay interest and were a non-earning asset) and their earning assets. (The inverse of this ratio is the so-called "money multiplier".) The stability of the ratio between banks' cash reserves and their other assets implies that, if their cash reserves rise by x %, then their total assets and liabilities, including their deposit liabilities, must rise by x % as well. Since deposits can be converted into cash and so also used to make payments, bank deposits are money. In short, massive government borrowing from the central bank is likely to be followed by rapid expansion of the quantity of money as a whole (i.e., notes in non-bank hands, plus bank deposits) and hence by inflation.
The last paragraph is standard monetary economics. However, two major caveats need to be entered. First, although rapid growth of the note issue and banks' cash reserves (i.e., the so-called "monetary base") may result in similarly rapid growth of the quantity of money, it is changes in the quantity of money that have powerful macroeconomic effects, not changes in the monetary base by themselves. Secondly, while it is true that the ratio between banks' cash reserves and their deposit liabilities is stable in normal periods, during crises banks' propensity to hold cash (relative to assets, etc.) may change. In the Great Depression of the early 1930s – and again in the last few years – banks' cash reserves were much higher relative to their assets and liabilities than in the preceding periods of relative macroeconomic stability. It is not certain that an injection of extra cash reserves into the banking system will be followed by rapid growth in banks' overall balance sheets.
These two caveats have been of great importance in the last few years. The Stark analysis in late 2009 – that the non-standard measures were risking high inflation two/three years later – has been discredited by the fall in inflation that is now under way. (If Stark has paid more attention to broad money, and less attention to the base and M1, he would not have been so badly wrong.) Meanwhile the coexistence of sharply rising cash reserves at the banks and more or less static bank balance sheets (in terms of size) has dented the plausibility of the claim that any expansion of the central bank balance sheet is inflationary. In intellectual terms, the Draghi bazooka has been relatively immune to criticism because standard elements in the Bundesbank theory of central banking have not been convincing in the Great Recession. The Draghi bazooka is the kind of trick that central banks in Mediterranean countries perform. Almost certainly, the Bundesbank is shocked and concerned. It is well-known that a ban on government overdraft borrowing from the central bank can be circumvented by large-scale central bank purchases of government securities in the secondary market (as in May 2010, at the behest of Trichet, Sarkozy and Straus-Kahn, against the opposition of Mrs. Merkel) and/or by central bank lending to banks which then purchase newly-issued government debt (which of course is the Draghi bazooka). However, the Bundesbank is probably dismayed that – by adopting both of these two expedients since May 2010 – the ECB has broken the spirit of the Maastricht Treaty on such an extensive scale.
The Draghi bazooka and the quantity of money
A loan from the central bank to a commercial bank does not in the first instance increase the quantity of money. The quantity of money consists of monetary assets exclusively in the hands of non-banks and nowadays is dominated by bank deposits. A loan from the central bank to a commercial bank is between two banking system agents (i.e., the central bank and the commercial bank concerned) and, to repeat, does not have a first-round effect on the quantity of money. However, the second- and third- round, and subsequent, effects on M3 of the kind of lending on which the ECB has now embarked could be radical.
First, the immediate justification for the Draghi bazooka is that the inter-bank market had again closed on a large number of Eurozone banks. Because inter-bank lines were not being rolled over as they came up for renewal, banks were putting pressure on their non-bank debtors (i.e., the households and companies borrowing from the banks) to repay their loans. A loan repayment destroys money, because an existing deposit is used to pay back the bank loan. Both the bank deposit (which is money) and the loan are cancelled, and disappear from the economy. So the Draghi bazooka has stopped extensive destruction of money that would otherwise have occurred. (The same argument holds if banks' assets are reduced by the sale of securities rather than the repayment of loans. But there is the complication that the outcome depends on whether the sale is to another bank or to a non-bank. Only if the sale is to a non-bank, where the non-bank pays for the securities by running down its deposit, does the money destruction take place.)
Secondly, if the ECB's total lending to banks exceeds 1,500b. euros in late 2012 (as I argued above is implied by recent announcements), a very large increase in banks' cash reserves with the ECB is almost inevitable on the other side of the ECB balance sheet. Some banks may have been short of cash in the last two or three years, because they have been net borrowers from the inter-bank market. They have suffered continuous strain dealing with inter-bank loan repayments when they become due. Their plight may have made bank managements more cautious, even the managements of banks with a net credit position on other banks. But – because of the ECB's evident willingness to help the system – it is plausible than by mid- or late 2012 – the inter-bank funding strains will be much eased. Indeed, some banks may have considerable excess cash in their balance sheets. (If the ECB could stop paying interest to the banks on their cash reserves, this effect would be reinforced.)
Thirdly, to the extent that banks respond to the excess cash in their balance sheets by lending more to non-bank customers, new money is created in the usual fashion. Banks credit loan proceeds to a new deposit held by a non-bank and mark the new loan facility on the assets side of the balance sheet. The extent to which the process of money creation restarts in mid- or late 2012 is to some extent conjecture, not least because Eurozone banks are in general less well-capitalized than their American or British counterparts. (Remember that bank balance-sheet expansion is subject to both cash and capital constraints.) Nevertheless, it deserves to be emphasized that in some Eurozone member states M3 has been growing satisfactorily for several quarters. The chart on the previous page – showing the dramatic contrast in money growth trends in Germany and Greece – demonstrates the point rather nicely. It is also interesting that German and French regulatory authorities have begun to ask that the Basle III capital rules not be applied too rigorously.
The Draghi bazooka could lead to 5%+ annualised growth of Eurozone M3 in mid- and late 2012
My conclusion is that the Draghi bazooka is such an aggressive example of monetary easing that Eurozone M3 growth will run at an annualised growth of 5% or more in mid- and late 2012. The data need to be watched all the time and I may be wrong. All the same, a 5% plus rate of money growth would be consistent with better asset prices and stronger demand. I remain sceptical about the viability of the European single currency in the long run, not least because the heavy dependence of some commercial banks on ECB support (i.e., to fund their assets) is artificial. But – because the ECB has "printed money" on a big scale (if in rather esoteric way) – the day of the Eurozone's execution has been postponed once again.
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Passing Spirits
Whale Bone
8 1/4"H x 4 1/2" x 2 1/2"D
SILAS QAYAQJUAQ (Kayakjuak; Tagornak) E5-1324
Born : February 2, 1956
Place of Birth : Hall Beach, Nunavut
Resides : Ottawa, Ontario
Silas was born in 1956 in Hall Beach, Nunavut. He is the son of two artists, Joanisi and Martha Kayakjuak. He is trained as a construction carpenter. Silas learned to carve at an early age by watching other family members carving. He began to carve at the age of eight and produced his first serious carving when he was twelve. Natural talent, a keen eye for balance and movement in the human figure, experience of hunting and living on the land combine to give Silas' work an appealing warmth and charm. Silas moved to Ottawa in the late 1980's and has been carving full time ever since. Silas' work is in collections all over the world and has been purchased for presentation to foreign dignitaries, music conductors, and art lovers alike from all walks of life. In 2006, he was a celebrated craftsperson in the Canada Day Aboriginal Village in Major's Hill Park, Ottawa. Silas has participated as an active animator in the Inuit Activities Area at Confederation Park during Ottawa's Winterlude Festivals.
1999 Northern Rock, Contemporary Inuit Sculpture The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinberg, Ontario.
2004-2005 Miniatures INUIT Chalons-en-Champagne et Paris, France
2006 In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun : Sami and Inuit Art Hamilton, Ontario & Fenno-Scandinavia
2008 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2008-2009 Music and Dance Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2008 –2016 Mini-Masterworks VI, Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2017 Silas Qayaqjuaq - Twenty Years of Art The Snow Goose Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2018 We'll All Become Stories Ottawa Art Gallery/La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa
Collections :
The Eskimo Museum, Churchill, Manitoba
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Galerie Brousseau et Brousseau, Quebec City, Québec
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
Selected References:
Brandson, Lorraine E. Carved from the Land: The Eskimo Museum Collection. Churchill, Manitoba: Diocese of
Churchill, Hudson Bay, 1994.
Fox, Matthew. "Silas Qayaqjuaq Wants to Share Ideas with Other Artists", Interview in Inuktitut by Simeonie
Kunuk and in English by Matthew Fox en 1994; translated by Rhoda Kayakjuak, Inuit Art Quarterly: 10 (1), spring 1995 pp. 22-25
Gustavison, Susan J. Northern Rock – Contemporary Inuit Stone Sculpture from the McMichael Canadian Art
Collection, Kleinberg, Ontario, 1999.
Malaurie, Jean. L'Art du Grand Nord. Citadelles et Mazenod, Paris, France, 2001.
Hessel, Ingo. Arctic Spirit : Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum. Heard Museum, Phoenix,
Arizona. Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 2006.
Laugrand, Frédéric et Jarich Oosten. The Sea Woman. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2008.
Basciano, Rebecca. We'll All Become Stories. Ottawa Art Gallery, 2018


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Access: the basic requirement for participation in digital learning, consisting of having access to a broadband network, a capable hardware device and the appropriate software along with the ability to use them properly. In addition to having access in school, students need access at home and in public places to support anytime, anyplace learning.
Agency: the ability to learn through a process of exploration and discovery, and the capacity to express oneself effectively.
Competency based education: this education approach allows students to move at their own pace upon mastering concepts. Learning is fixed and time is variable. Models often include five principles: Students advance upon mastery; competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives that empower students; assessment is meaningful and a positive learning experience for students; students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs; learning outcomes emphasize competencies that include application and creation of knowledge, along with the development of important skills and dispositions.
Connected learning: an approach to learning that strives to connect and leverage all the various experiences, interests, communities and contexts in which learners participate in and out of school as potential learning opportunities.
Digital badges: an online representation of a skill that has been mastered or knowledge acquired. Badges can be created, defined by, and issued by a broad range of sources.
Digital disruption: the change that occurs when new digital technologies and business models affect the value proposition of existing goods and services.
Digital age literacies: the combination of media literacy, digital literacy and social-emotional literacies; the ability to effectively use a range of digital technologies.
Interoperability: the ability of systems and organizations to work together; in education, the ability for students to move freely across networks to pursue their learning objectives or for educational data to move across different networks.
Learning network: the combination of online and off-line infrastructure that can be mobilized by students to pursue their learning or organized by educators to support student education.
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Trusted environment: a technical and social framework that protects young people from harm while empowering them to explore, express themselves, pursue their interests and succeed in their education.
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Did 29-year-old kill older boyfriend?
Prosecutors are seeking a murder charge against 29-year-old Virginia woman Kristina Pongracz, who is accused of fatally injuring her 77-year-old boyfriend William Herchenrider last year. Pongracz is currently facing a charge of aggravated malicious wounding for the death of William Herchenrider. Autopsy results now indicate that Herchenrider's death was a homicide, Bedford Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Stephanie Ayers told CBS affiliate WDBJ.
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Herchenrider was found with serious injuries last May at his mansion in rural southern Virginia. Police say Pongracz, who was 28 at the time, beat Herchenrider with his own cane after he tried to break off their relationship and throw her out of his home in Goode, about 35 miles east of Roanoke. Herchenrider died in August after being hospitalized for several months. Ayers says Herchenrider's death was the result of "complications from injuries he received in the assault."
Ayers says her office plans to seek a murder indictment against Pongracz during a March meeting of the Bedford Grand Jury. During a hearing Tuesday morning, Pongracz's attorney Webster Hogeland indicated that he will seek an expert who can analyze Herchenrider's medical records, hoping to disprove the idea that Pongracz caused her boyfriend's death. The attorney is asking the court to pay for the cost of the expert's services, citing that his client can not afford to pay for the expert's work herself. Judge Jim Updike will consider the attorney's request at Pongracz's next court hearing, which is scheduled for March 14.


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Emily Hale Letters from T.S. Eliot, 1895-1965 (mostly 1931-1940)
Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 and Hale, Emily, 1891-1969
Emily Hale Letters from T.S. Eliot
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bc386j29s
1895-1965 (mostly 1931-1940)
Firestone Library (scahsvm): Box 1-14
Consists mostly of letters from British-American poet T.S. Eliot to Emily Hale (1891-1969), a teacher, actress, and close friend of Eliot's. Also included are copies of typescripts by Eliot, photographs, ephemera, and a brief narrative of the relationship between the two penned by Hale.
The collection consists primarily of letters by poet, dramatist, and literary critic T.S. Eliot to Emily Hale (1891-1969), a teacher, actress, and lifelong friend of Eliot's. Also included are a small portion of correspondence between Hale and others, as well as some photographs, ephemera, clippings, copies of typescript material by Eliot, and a brief narrative of the relationship between the two penned by Hale.
Emily Hale and T.S. Eliot first met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while Eliot was working towards a graduate degree in philosophy. They struck up a friendship, and Eliot expressed a romantic interest in Hale soon after. Though Hale did not initially share that interest, they remained friends and stayed in close contact after Eliot moved abroad, corresponding frequently for decades. The bulk of the letters were written during the 1930s and provide a detailed account of their intimate friendship, as well as Eliot's work and personal life.
Eliot often enclosed other materials in his letters to Hale, such as photographs and letters he had received from friends and contemporaries (including literary peers such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound). In a letter from December 29, 1930, Eliot addressed this practice, writing "I shall from time to time slip in a note or letter to me from my acquaintances, as these do I think to help make one's life seem more real to another person." A number of the letters also include handwritten annotations and corrections.
Emily Hale's friendship with former Princeton professor and literary critic Willard Thorp and his wife Margaret is also evident from letters between the three included with the correspondence. It was partially at the urging of Professor Thorp that Hale wrote a short explaination her relationship with Eliot to be included with the collection when it came to Princeton. It was also because of Emily Hale's relationship with the Thorps and their connection to Princeton that she chose to donate the letters to the University. T.S. Eliot was not initially pleased with this decision, and his opinions regarding this are discussed in letters to Hale between 1956 and 1957.
Collection is arranged chronologically by type.
T.S. Eliot, the noted modern poet, dramatist, and literary critic, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned a master's degree from Harvard University, which is when he met Emily Hale in 1913. The two formed a close bond, and when Eliot moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 to begin his PhD studies (eventually becoming a British subject in 1927) they remained in contact, establishing a robust correspondence that would continue intermittenly for years. In addition to his writing, Eliot worked as a schoolteacher and a bank accounts manager before joining the publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer (later Faber and Faber) in 1925, where he worked for the remainder of his career. Best known for such poems as The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, and Four Quartets, Eliot was the recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Hale, Emily, 1891-1969
Emily Hale was born on October 27, 1891. She was an actress and stage director, and taught drama and voice instruction at Simmons College, Milwaukee-Downer College in Wisconsin, Scripps College, and Abbott Academy. She met the poet T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) while he was at pursuing a graduate degree at Harvard, and maintained a lifelong and close friendship with the poet, corresponding with him and routinely visiting him over several decades. Out of his reminiscing of their former relationship, Eliot composed "Burnt Norton" published as the last poem in his Collected Poems 1909-1935 (1936). Hale died in 1969.
Gift of Emily Hale in 1956 (AM 15768). The letters were sealed until January 2, 2020, by agreement with Hale.
A handful of additional letters from T.S. Eliot to Emily Hale concerning the donation of the collection to Princeton were given to the library in 1957.
No materials were removed from the collection during 2019 processing beyond routine appraisal practices.
This collection was processed by Chloe Pfendler in November 2019 with additional help from the rest of the processing team and Alia Wood '20. Finding aid written by Chloe Pfendler in November 2019.
Some arrangement imposed on the collection prior to 2019 processing by former library staff.
Open for research.
Researchers may be asked to use digital surrogates of material if more than one patron requests to use a box at the same time.
All material written by T.S. Eliot remains under copyright with the T.S. Eliot Estate but will enter the public domain January 1, 2036. These materials may not be photocopied. Also, no self-service reference photography either with a camera, cell phone or tablet will be allowed of the Eliot materials. As such, no cameras, cell phones, or tablets are permitted in the reading room. For materials not written by T.S. Eliot, single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Inquiries should be directed to Special Collections Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no other information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Emily Hale Letters from T.S. Eliot; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
Princeton University Library. Princeton, New Jersey. Emily Hale Collection (C1249). Two additional letters from T.S. Eliot.
Letter, 1930 December 29. Emily Hale Letters from T. S. Eliot; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Actresses -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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Medicals Errors Were a Problem Long Before the Pandemic Overwhelmed Hospitals
Posted on June 22, 2020 by Sokolove Law Team
Looking at pandemics in the past, there's a strong possibility of a coronavirus resurgence.
Would hospitals be prepared?
To some extent, the COVID-19 outbreak caught everyone off guard, and so far, the public has been fairly forgiving of the costly missteps made by hospitals.
It's a tangled issue, of course, and some of the most fateful decisions made by healthcare professionals were based on incomplete information, faulty projections, and policies outside of their control.
Still, medical errors are not inevitable.
If the hospital response to a potential second wave of COVID-19 is characterized by the same failures as the first, it's unlikely the public will be so understanding.
What Went Wrong At Hospitals During COVID-19?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) surveyed hospitals in March to identify the biggest hurdles they faced in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
After gathering information from hospital administrators at 323 different facilities, the HHS Office of the Inspector General reported that the most common challenges were:
Accurately testing for patients with known or suspected COVID-19
Providing appropriate care to patients
Staffing shortages
Insufficient personal protective equipment (PPE), supplies, or durable equipment
Insufficient capacity to handle the increased patient load
At the time, the infection rate was skyrocketing, there was widespread uncertainty about the nature of the virus, and there was a severe global shortage of protective equipment and supplies.
Yet a Wall Street Journal examination revealed that many hospitals cut down on their supplies of PPE in order to maximize profit in recent years. It was a costly miscalculation. Without stockpiles to draw on, many healthcare workers and patients needlessly lost their lives in the early days of the outbreak.
Hospital management shouldn't be treating PPE like frivolous spending, trimming inventory to increase the bottom line. Being prepared for an emergency is their mandate, not quarterly profits.
It's a similar story when it comes to medical errors — there are steps that hospitals can take to reduce the harm that human error causes patients.
When hospitals fail to implement responsible policies, people get hurt, and the strain of the pandemic makes a bad problem even worse.
Common Medical Errors During COVID-19
When it comes to the common medical errors reported during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are 3 overarching categories in which these errors fall: Diagnostic, handoff, and medication.
Quickly diagnosing patients is one of the keys to maximizing the efficient use of hospital supplies, as well as the protection of patients and staff. Despite a lot of new knowledge about COVID-19 and its clinical manifestations, human error still contributes to inaccurate diagnoses.
Because of such mistakes, sick patients don't receive proper care and may not be isolated, which risks spreading the virus.
In cases where a healthy person is misdiagnosed with COVID-19, precious PPE, nursing hours, and physician attention is wasted while a long line of needy patients is forced to wait.
"Even before the pandemic, diagnostic errors (ie, missed, delayed, and incorrect diagnoses) had been one of the leading contributors to harm in health care," wrote lead author Dr. Tejal Gandhi in a recent article for the Journal of Hospital Medicine. "The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to increase the risk of such errors."
Gandhi laid out how the atmosphere created by the pandemic is likely to make the serious problem of diagnostic medical errors much worse. The biggest factors identified were:
COVID-19 is a new disease, and knowledge of symptoms and treatment is still evolving.
The decision-making of nurses and doctors is influenced by the compromised "physical and psychological safety" of the hospital setting during a surge of COVID-19 patients.
Staffing shortages and workarounds are common, putting staff in the position of caring for those outside their usual domain, without the usual safeguards of standard practices.
In especially hard-hit facilities, doctors and nurses are "experiencing epic levels of stress, fatigue, and burnout."
Summing up their worries, Gandhi and his team of researchers write:
"Decisions in busy, chaotic, and time-pressured healthcare systems with disrupted and/or newly designed care processes will be error-prone."
To help clinicians make more accurate diagnoses, the authors classify 8 common types of Covid-19 diagnostic errors and strategies to avoid them.
Handoff Errors
Even under the best of conditions, the "patient handoff" is a common site of miscommunication and medical errors. When care teams turnover between shifts, all of the proper information must be exchanged.
As Dr. John Rusher wrote in a recent article for the American Academy of Pediatrics, "When handoffs are not done responsibly, patients are vulnerable to adverse events and physicians are at risk for malpractice."
During the COVID-19 staffing shortages, hospitals were expanding capacity into pop-up tents and sports arenas, which greatly increased the chances of an improper handoff. To make matters worse, patients were often in extremely bad condition, making their transfer questionable in the first place.
At times, hospitals lost track of patients altogether. An emergency room doctor at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn recalled a harrowing story to the Wall Street Journal. A family member called to inquire about their mother. When the physician looked her up, he discovered that she had died two days before.
"This is happening daily," the doctor told the Journal when the pandemic was at its peak.
When a patient gets the wrong medication, or the wrong dose at the wrong time, the consequences can be fatal.
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices, a non-profit group focused on prescription drug safety, recently released information about frequent COVID-19-related medication errors hospitals are reporting, including:
Confusing labeling for Remdesivir: Vials of the experimental antiviral medication Remdesivir have labeling information that is hard to read and inconsistent, leading to errors in dosage.
Inexperience with bar code medication administration: Hospitals redeploying staff from one setting to another, as a result of COVID-19, has caused medication errors because of staff unfamiliarity with barcode administration, resulting in patients receiving improper medication.
Limits of telehealth: A patient's weight can fluctuate without a doctor noticing during a telehealth visit. This can lead to an improper dose being administered.
Incorrect drugs via ADC: When physicians give verbal orders, rather than entering a prescription into the health record, staff may incorrectly type the name of a drug into an automatic dispensing cabinet (ADC), where medications are stored. In the rushed environment of COVID-19, an increase in the use of verbal orders has resulted in the wrong medication being administered.
Missed doses: Room visits to sick patients were limited in order to conserve PPE, which meant that medication was not always administered at the proper time. Additionally, communication issues between nurses and respiratory therapists early in the pandemic contributed to missed doses.
Build a Better System for Everyone
The last few months have been a very difficult experience for everyone involved in hospital care: burnt-out staff, scrambling suppliers, frightened patients, and grieving families.
Hopefully, hospitals implement the recent lessons they have learned at great cost.
What can those in power do to make the system more resilient, more equitable, and better support their tireless workforce? The stakes are as high now as they've ever been.
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Berzon, Alexandra, et al. (2020, April 29) Miscalculation at Every Level Left U.S. Unequipped to Fight Coronavirus, The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on June 18, 2020, from https://www.wsj.com/articles/miscalculation-at-every-level-left-u-s-unequipped-to-fight-coronavirus-11588170921
Gandhi, Tejal K, et al. (2020, June 15) Reducing the Risk of Diagnostic Error in the COVID-19 Era. Retrieved June 18, 2020, from https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/222266/hospital-medicine/reducing-risk-diagnostic-error-covid-19-era
Institute for Safe Medication Practices (2020, May 14) Covid-19-Related Medication Errors. Retrieved June 18, 2020, from https://ismp.org/resources/covid-19-related-medication-errors Rusher, John W. (2020, January 9) Improve Patient Handoffs to Prevent Medical Errors, Reduce Malpractice Risk, American Academy of Pediatrics News. R
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2020, April 3) Hospital Experiences Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a National Pulse Survey March 23-27, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2020, from https://www.oversight.gov/report/hhsoig/hospital-experiences-responding-covid-19-pandemic-results-national-pulse-survey-march.
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